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Attends the Courts of Anson, Union. Cabarrus, Stanly, Montgomery and Rowan, and the Federal Courts at Charlotte and Greensboro. TT . :R, Allen DENTIST, rsg- Office S. E. corner of Wade and Mor an streets (near the Bank.) 25-n. DOAirt J- D- I'KMBEHTOS. DARGAN & PEMBERT0N, ATTORNEYS AT LA W, WADESBORO, N. C. 1-Practice in the State and Federal Courts. J AS. A LOCK II ART, Att'y and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO, N. C. 3T Pra tires in all the Courts of the State. R. K. LITTU. W. 1 PARSONS. Little & Parsons, ATTORNEY S AT LA W, WADESBORO, N. C. t3F" Collections promptly attended to. SAMUEL T. ASHE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. tW Special attention given to the collec tion of claims. r. "a. walks a. A. BUKWELL. Walker & Burwell, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will attend regularly at Anson Court, and at Wadesboro in vacation when requested. CYRUS J. KNIGHT, ATTORNEY- AT- LA W, SWIFT ISLAND, N. C. Will practice in the courts of . Anson and adjoining counties. 31-ly HOTELS. WAVERLY HOUSE, CHARLESTON, S. C. This favorite family Hotel is situated on King street, the. principle retail business street, and nearly opposite the Academy of Music. The WAVERLY under its new manage ment has recently been renovated and refur nished, and is recommended for its well kept table and home comforts. Kates $2 and 2 50 per day, according to location of room. The Charleston Hotel Transfer Omnibuses will carry guests to and from the House. O. T. ALFORD, Manager. PAVILIAN HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. This popular and centrally located HOTEL having been entirely renovated -during the past summer is now ready for the reception of the travelling public Popular prices 2 and 2 50 per da v. Special rates for Comiuert-ml Travellers. E. T. OALLIARD, Proprietor. YARBROUCH HOUSE, RALEIGH, X. C. Prices Reduced to Suit the Times. CALL AND SEE US. JpURCELL. HOUSE, WILMINGTON, N. C. Recently thoroughly overhauled and reno vated. First-class in every respect. Loca tion desirable, being situated near all busi ness houses, Post-office, Custom House, City Hall and Court House. IUtis, $2 00 and $2 50 per day. Our motto is to please. B. U PERRY, Proprietor. D. J. GASHERIE, Proprietor. t2T Convenient to all the trains. A full stock of Groceries and Con fectioneries always on hand. ' CHARLOTTE HOTEL, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Newly Furnished and Entirely Renovated. Sample Room for Commercial, Travelers. Terms, 2.00 per day. Special rates by the week or Month. F. A. McNInch, Prop'r. "TENABLE WILSON, Manufacturer of Boots & Shoes. . Fine Goods a Specialty. Repairing solicited. Work done with neat ness and dispatch. Call and see him, in the post office building. 3-1 y. J. C. Brewster & Co., RALEIGH, N. C. muesaie and Retail. Orders promptly filled, and at the lowest prices. 23-ly Tm.i . lIVl'iV.lL'Ji ITWILL POSITIVELY CUKE Bad Breath. Nothing is so unpleasant as Breath, gener ally arising from a disordered stomach, and can be soo easily corrected by taking Simmons Liver Regulator. Jaundice. Simmons Liver Regulator soon eradicates this disease from the system, leaving the skin clear and free from all impurities. Sick Headache. The stomach imperfectly digesting its con tents causes severe pain in the head, accom panied by disagreeable nausea. For the relief and cure of this distressing affliction take Simmons Liver Regulator. Malaria. Person living in unhealthy localities, may avoid all bilious attacks by occasionally tak ing a dose of Simmons Liver Regulator to keep the liver in healthy action. Constipation should not be regarded as a trifling ailment. Nature demands the utmost regularity of the bowels. Therefore assist Nature by taking Simmons Liver Regulator, it is so mild and effectual. Biliousness. One or two tablespoonf uls wiil reiieve all the troubles incident to a biiious state; such as nausea, dizziness, dronsiness, diseases after eating, a bitter bad taste in the mouth, Alcoholic Poisoning. Simmons Liver Regulator will counteract the effect of alcoholic poisoning. By its use the torpid liver is aroused, the nerves quieted, the gastric disturbance corrected and intem Ierance prevented. . Yellow Fever. The Regulator has proven its great value as a remedial ageut curing the prevalence of that terrible scourge- Simmons Liver Re gulator never fails to do all that is claimed for it. Colic. Children suffering with colic soon experience relief when Simmons Liver Regulator is ad ministered according to directions. Adults as well as children derive great benefit from this medicine. Chills and Fever. There is no need of suffering any longer with Chills and Fever Simmons Liver Re gulator soon breaks the Chills and carries the Fever out of the system. It cures when all other remedies fail. Dyspepsia. This medicine will jiositively cure you of this terrible disease. It is no vain boast, but we assert emphatically what we know to be true, Simmons Liver Regulator will cure you. Bladder and Kidneys. Most of the diseases of the bladder originate from those of the kidneys . Restore the action of fhe liver fully, and lwth the kidneys and bladder will be restored. t-?Take only lhe Genuine, which always has on the wrapper the ""Red Z" trade mark, signature of J. II . ZEILIN & CO. Sold By All Respectable Druggists. 31-ly SCHEDULES. Carolina Central It. R. Comp'y. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Office General Superintendent, ) Wilmington, N. C, Dec. :10, lsfcl. f On and after Jan. 1, 12, the following schedule will be operated on this Railway : PASSENGER, MAIL, AND EXPRESS TRAIN. No. 1. Leave Wilmington, 6 20 p m Arrive at Charlotte, 5 50 a m .- Leave Charlotte, f Arrive at Wilmington, 10 10 p m 7 32 a m Trains Nos. 1 and 2 stop nt regular stations only, and points designated in the Company's Time Table. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAIN. Leave Wilmington at 5.40A. M No 5. Arrive at Hamlet at Arrive at Charlotte at 7.55 P. M ( Leave Charlotte at 4.15 a. m No. 6. Arrive at Hamlet at ( Arrive at Wilmington at 5.55 P. M Trains Nos. 1 and 5 make connection at Charlotte with A. & C R. R. for Spartan burg, Greenville, Athens, Atlanta and all points bevond. Train Io. 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 Sur't. Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Superintendent's Office, Raleigh, N. C, June 5, 1S79. On and after Friday, June 6, 1879, trains on the Raleigh and Augusta Air-Line Rail road will run daily (Sundays excepted) as follows: fto. 1 Leave Raleigh, 8 00 p. m. Cary, 8 31 p. M. Apex, 8 5.J p. M. No. 2 Hamlet, Hoffman, Keyser, Blue's, Manly, Cameron, Sanford, Osgood, -Leave 2 30 a. M 3 14 a: M S 37 A. M 8 54 A. M 4 13 a. M 4 50 a. M 5 41 A. M 6 02 A. M New Hill, 9 14 p. Merry Oaks, 9 30 p. Moncure 9 56 p. Osgood, Sanford, Cameron, Manly, Brae's, Keyser, 10 17 p. 10 44 p. 11 27 p. Moncure, . 6 25 a. M 12 09 a. M. 12 29 A. M. 12 48 A. M. 1 14 A. M. Merrv Oaks, 0 42 a. m New "Hill, 7 00A.M Apex, 7 23 a. ii Hoffman, Cary, i o a. si Ar. Raleigh, 8 30 a. m Ar. Hamlet, 3 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. WJNDER Superintendent. Cheraw & Darlington R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. President's Office, ) Society Hill, S. C, Feb. 2?, 1SS0. $ On and after Monday, the 2Sth 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 " Cash's, " Society Hill, " Dove's, " Darlington, " Palmetto, Arrive at Florence, COMING UP. Leave Florence at " Palmetto, " Darlington, " Dove's, " Society Hill, " Cash's Arrive at Cheraw. 10 30 A, M. 10 50 " 11 15 44 11 45 44 12 15 p. M. 12 35 44 1 00 44 2 35 P. M. 3 00 44 3 15 44 3 40 " 4 05 4 25 " 4 50 44 Close connection made at Florence with trains to and from Charleston and Wilming ton, every day except Sunday. B. D. TOWNSEND. Presidents Cneraw & Salisbury Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. . Until further notice, the trains on this road will run as follows: Leave. Arrive. Wadesboro, 7.15 A. U. Cheraw, 3.30 A. M Cheraw, 9.25 A. u. Wadesboro, 5.30 P. it Making close connection both ways at Che raw, with Cheraw & Darlington train, and at Florence with the Northeastern train. p. D. TOWNSEND, President. PERSEVERANCE. One step and then another, And the longest walk is ended: One stitch and then another, And the largest rent is mended ; One brick upon another, And th highest wall is made : One flake upon another, And the deepest snow is laid. So the little coral workers, By their slow and constant motion, Have built those pretty islands In the distant dark-blue ocean ; And the noblest undertakings Man's wisdom hath conceived, By oft repeated effort Have been patiently achieved. Then do not look" disheartened On the work you have to do, And say that such a mighty task You never can get through ; But just endeavor, day by day, Another point to gain, And soon the mountain which you feared Will prove to be a plain ! 4 'Rome was not builded in a day," The ancient proverb teaches, And nature, by her trees and flowers, The same sweet sermon preaches. Think not of far-off duties, But of duties which are near. And having once begun to Work, Resolve to persevere. FAME VERSUS LOVE. "It cannot be!" As these words fell from Helen Armstrong's lips she arose from her seat, an old overturned boat, and moved slowly toward the water's edge. For a moment her companion, a man of perhaps twenty -five, hesitat ed ; then he joined her, repeating : "It cannot be, Helen? Surely you are not in earnest. You love me, have you not said it? and yet you re fuse to become my wife !M "Edwin, I" "You did not mean it," quickly in terrupted Edwin Bennett, adding: "Come, darling, why should not we bo happy?" And he drew her hand within his arm. For an instant she let it rest there, then slowly but firmly she loosened his clasp, as she said : "For two years you and I have been friends. In that time did you ever know me to change after I had once decided upon anything?" "No, but " answered her compan ion quickly, while she, unheeding, grP on with-; "You know the one great desire of my life is to win fame as an artist. Could I do this as your wife?" "Why not, Helen? Would I not do anything in the world to help you?" came the proud answer, as Edwin Bennett bent his eyes fondly upon the fair face beside him. "No, Edwin; as a wife I could never hope to obtain fame. Marriage brings to women so many cares that there is very little time left over for other work. I should not make you happy. I should be constantly long ing for my old, free life." "If that is all lam not afraid to risk my happiness, Helen," answered her lover, a more hopeful look light ing up his handsome face. "Think how for five j'ears," con tinued Helen, "I have worked with the one end in view. My home, you are aware, has not been particularly agreeable. Uncle and aunt are kind in their way, and have always let me have my own will about painting, providing it did not cost them any thing. As for love or sympathy, you have seen how much they have yield ed to me." 4 'Seen and felt for you, Helen, God knows. And now that I will make your life, if love can do it, one happy dream, you will not; and yet you do not deny your love for me. " For a second Helen's eyes rested longingly upon the face "of the man who loved her so dearly; then into their dusky depts crept an intense, passionate longing, as they swept the horizon and noted the glorious splen dor of the setting sun, while she ex claimed : "Oh, Edwin! If I could only repro duce that sunset just as it is ! If I on ly could !" With an impatient sigh he turned away. "Always her arc, never me; per haps she is right after all. It would always stand between us." She, not noticing, went on with "If it would only stay long enough for me to catch those colors, but no, it is fading now." Turning, Helen found that her com panion had left her side, and stood a few yards away. "Edwin," she .called. In an instant he was beside her, everything forgotten except that she was the woman he loved. "I wanted to tell you how good Mr. Hovey is. It 6eems he was acquaint ed with poor papa years ago, when I was a baby, and therefore feels quite interested in me. You have heard how he praises my work, and last night he proposed" "Proposed !" exclaimed Edwin Ben nett, hotly. "Why, you don't mean to say that old man actually had the audacity to ask you to marry him?" "How ridiculous ! How could you think of such a thing?" answered Helen, a ripple of laughter escaping from between her pretty teeth, as she continued : "No ; he proposed, if I were willing, to send me to Italy for two years, he, of course, defraying the greater part of the expenses. He said when I bo came famous I could refund him the little amount if t wished. Was it not generous of him? Just think, two years at work among the old masters. What could I not do then? It would be such a help to me. My little in come would do, with care, I think." "And you would go ?" As Edwin Bennett asked this question a look of pain crossed hisi face. - ' "Why not?" J came the reply, as Helen raised her eyes questioningly to her companion. "You say you1 love me ; and yet you would put the sea, between us. Helen, wait; I will work hard and earn money enough to take us both abroad. Do you think I could deny you any thing? You should paint to your heart's content, from the old masters, or anything else you pleased. So long as you were happy, I should be. Perhaps I might turn painter, too, some day, with you to inspire me," he added, smiling slightly. "I do not doubt your love for me, Edwin ; but I shall never marry. I intend to devote my life to my art. As a wife it would be impossible for me to do so. j I should be hindered and trammeled in a thousand ways. Believe me, I have thought very eamestly of all this, and I " 4 'Helen, when I came to spend my vacation here at Little Rock, so as to be near you, I said to myself, Now you can ask the woman you love to be your wife, I and know that you have a home to offer her. For your sake I wish I j were rich ; but I am still young, and with the good pros pects I have, l do not see why I shall not be able before many years to give my wife all she can wish.". "It is not that, Edwin, I should not love you one bat the more if you were a millionaire," interrupted Helen, glancing reproachfully at him. "Helen , my 'holiday is over to-morrow. I must j have my answer to night." The words came somewhat sternly from between Edwin Bennett's lips. Mechanically, with the end of her parasol, Helen Armstrong traced on glittering y ellow sands, ' 'Fame versus Love." Then,j as she became aware of what she had done, she sought to efface them. Too late. Edwin Ben nett's hand stayed hers, as pointing to the letters stood out, he said, hoarsely : 'Choose!" For a second she hesitated, then slowly came the answer: "I accepted 3Ir. Hovey's offer this' morning. I am to sail in a week." Spurning her hand from him, Ed win Bennett cried out, passionately: 4 'God forgive you ! I cannot !" Then, without another word, he turned and left her. A faint cry of "Edwin" escaped her lips, as her arms were held out imploringly toward him. Then they fell to her side, and she, too, turned and went slowly across the 6ands in the opposite direction. If he had looked back and seen those outstretch ed arms, how different their life might have been ; but no, he plodded angrily along the shore, glancing neither to the right nor the left. Lit tle by little the waves crept up and Love was drowned, while Fame stood out bold and 'clear upon the yellow sands. Ten years ! have come and ' gone since Helen Armstrong and Edwin Bennett parted on the shore, and dur ing that time they have never met. Helen had won that which she had striven for. i She had become an ar tist of renown. Even royalty had been pleased to compliment her upon her art. ; For the last month one of Helen Armstrong's paintings had been on exhibition ai the Academy of Design, and crowds !had been drawn thither to see this last work of the celebrated artist. The subject was simple, noth ing new, yet visitors returned again and again to gaze at it. It was thejlast day of its exhibition, when a lady and gentleman, the gen tleman leading a little girl of perhaps three years by the hand, passed into the room wfcere the painting hung. "Oh! isn't it too bad there is such a crowd ; I wanted to see it f ' exclaim ed the lady to which the gentleman replied : j "We will look at the other pictures first and came back again ; perhaps there will not be such a crowd then." An hour dr so later the gentleman and lady returned; then the room was almost deserted, except for a few stragglers Here and there. It was just about time to close the gallery. For a few moments they stood in silence before the painting; then a little voice said : "Baby wants to see, too, papa." Stooping down the gentleman raised the pretty, Jdaintily-dressed child in his arms. After gravely regarding the picture for a second, the little one asked; "Iszaymad, papa?" "I am afraid one was, pet," came the low answer, as "Edwin Bennett softly kissed the fair cheek of his lit tle girl. Then his gaze returned to the painting. A stretchy of yellow sands, dotted here and there by .huge boulders and piles of snowy pebbles, against which the overhanging cliffs looked almost bleak. Gentle little baby waves rip pling in toward the shore, while ma jestic purple-hued, silver-edged clouds seemed floating en masse toward the golden, crimson-barred sun that flooded the sky and water with its warm light - In the center of the picture, where the beach formed a curve resembling ft horseshoe, was an old boat, turned bottom upward; some few feet off, the figure of a young man, apparently walking hurriedly away. Although the face was not visible, the gazer felt that the man suffered ; that the glori ous sunset was this day as naught to blm. Perhaps it was in the tightly clasped hand, the veins of which stood out like great cords ; or, maybe the man's apparent total disregard of his surroundings. To the right of the picture the figure of a young girl, trailing a parasol in the sand, as she appeared to move slowly in the opposite direction from her companion. Only a little bit of a delicately shaped ear and a mass of glossy braids showed from beneath the shade hat, but one could readily believe that the pretty girlish figure belonged to an equally attractive face. About half way between them, traced upon the sands, were the words, "Fame versus Love." "Is it not lovely, Edwin?" a ud Mrs. Bennett laid her hand upon her hus band's arm as she added : "Yet how sad it somehow seems! I can't help feeling sorry for them. I wish I cold see their faces. - I feel as if I wanted to turn them round." Clasping the little hand that rested so confidingly upon his arm, Edwin Bemett inwardly thanked God for the rift of his fair young wife, as he said; "Gome, dear, they are commencing to cbse up. Baby's tired, too." "Ess, rae's tired. Baby wants to tiss namma," lisped the child, hold ing out her tiny arms. Husband and wife failed to notice a laiy who stood near, gazing at a pain ing. As the pretty young moth er stfloped down to receive her baby's kissei, which the little ono lavished on ha cheeks, lips and brow, a deep, yearling look gathered in the strange lady'i eyes and she turned hastily away. "Oh, Edwin I" exclaimed his wife as they passed the silent figure in black. "Wouldn't it be nice if baby should grow up to be a great artist like this Miss Armstrong." "God forbid, Annie," came the earnest reply, followed by "let her grow up to be a true, loving woman, that is all I ask." The lady's hand tightened its hold upon the back of a settee as the words reached her ears, bat she did not move until they were out of sight. Then lifting her veil she went and stood before the paint ing that had won such fame. Tears gathered in her eyes as she gazed, and with the words, "I will never look at it again," she, too, passed out of the building, and in her own hand some carriage was driven home. Scorn shone in her dark eyes as they fell upon the costly works of art scattered in lavish profusion about her luxuriously furnished apart ments. Hastily throwing aside her wraps, she crossed over to a mirror. A very handsome face it reflected. Not looking the thirty years it had known. Helen Armstrong for it was she had heard of Edwin Bennett's mar riage; heard that he had succeeded in business beyond his most sanguine expectations ; beard that his wife was one of the loveliest and gentlest of women, and that Edwin Bennett idolized both wife and child. This day she had seen them. Then came the thought that she might have stood in that wife's place; she, too, might have had those baby lips pressed as lovingly to hers ; but she had put it from her. She had chosen Fame versus Love. If she could only go back to that day on the sands, how differently she would now act. Turning away from the mirror, she exclaimed, bitterly 'Too late, Helen Armstrong. As you have sown, so must you reap." Florence Revere Pendor. What the Deputy Marshals Cost. The amount appropriated for the payment of special deputy marshals at Congressional elections for the roar iRi and nrior vears is $112,600. Attorney-General Devens prepared a statement on the subject, showing th unnnintments for 1879. Bv this it is seen that the whole number of deputies appointed who served were s AQ5 Of this number 5.001 were ap pointed under the provisions of the law reiauug eiciusiciy ij cicvwyuo. and 493 we anDointed in certain dis- fmnfo Kir xrirt.no of th nnwprs conffir- red upon marshals by Section 780 Re vised Statutes, to appoint. uepunt with general powers to preserve or- Aaf an A Iroan Ubl uuu a - pointed under the general authority of the marshals were not entitled to the $5 per day provided under the election laws ior special ue Alahftma had 410 marshals. Arkansas 175, Florida 180, Illinois 215, Louisiana 241, Maryland tyo, New York 2,210, Pennsylvania 792, South Carolina 46. Texas 79 and Virginia 95. In the Southern States hitherto, the Republican deputy marshals have been election-runners, svna nrdit.irn.l nrtv And Tiaid by the public. Their aim is to help tho T?ormhlioAn candidates, and not to prevent fraud at elections, when that fraud works in favor of their party .--Neics and Courtei. A Word to The Striker. What is it that drives so many thousands of industrious men to leave off the work on which they depend for subsistence ? They do this be cause their wages are insufficient to support them, and because they hope by striking to compel their employers to pay them more. Why are their wages insufficient ? Because the enormous taxes which are imposed upon all the people of this country, and which, at last, fall with the rao8( crushing weight upon those who labor; with their hari3s, sb increase the cost of the absolute neces saries of life that workingmen are no longer able to procure them. Why are such enormous taxes im posed ? Originally they were imposed to meet the necessities of the civil war which was fought to maintain the unity of the country. In that war a million lives and many thou sand millions of dollars were sacri ficed ; and the sacrifice was cheerfully borne. In order to bear this enorm ous expense, taxes never before known in the history of the country were levied upon the people ; and, in addition to the money raised by taxes, an immense public debt was con tracted, the interest of which and the payment of which also had to be provided for by taxation. But has not a large part of this debt been paid ? Yes, a yery large part of it. The taxation has proved to be far more productive than was ever ex pected. So much money has been poured into the Treasury that in the short period of seventeen years a greater proportion of the debt has been extinguished than any one sup posed would be extinguished in fifty years. The Republican administra tors of the Government have made a great account of this premature pay ment of the public debt. They have been vain, proud of it, gloried in it, and have never had a thought about the terrible burdens they were laying upon the shoulders of the people. But is all the money which is rais ed by these awful taxes applied to paying off the public debt ? No ; it is not. Notwithstanding the enormous sums paid on that account, there is now in the Treasury a surplus of more than a hundred and forty mil lions of dollars ; and this vast surplus the Republicans are eagerly pervert ing to every kind of job, to every sort of useless and unjustifiable scheme , and to various dishonest purposes, such as a hundred millions to un necessary pensions, mostly fraudu lent. Moreover, millions upon mil lions have been stolen outright and divided in various sums among thieves connected with the Navy De partment, thieves connectedjwith the Whiskey Ring, in the Washington City Ring, and thieves high and low, limited and unlimited. But now when the pressure comes, and when the people in their distress es are crying out in agony, and even refusing to work because their work does not bring them a livelihood, do not the Republicans who control all branches of the Government, legisla tive, executive, and judicial, propose to lessen these burdens and leave the people a little of the substance which they have saved, notwithstanding their terrible extortions ? No ; they do not propose to do any such thing. They look with indifference on the suffering mass of laborers, those who are striking and those yet continue to work in the hope that they may be allowed to earn a livelihood. From their burdens they will not remove a hair's weight ; from their taxes they will not take off a penny. The only safety for the people is in turning the Republican party out of power. N. Y. Sun. The Jute Boom. Quite a boom in jute culture has commenced in Pamlico. It is claimed by some of our farmers who gave it a trial to some extent last year that it is one of the most profitable crops that can be planted. The sands of Pamlico, particularly those in the lower portions of the county, are well adapted to its growth, yielding in some instances as. much as forty tons to the acre, twenty five to thirty tons being an ordinary yield, and it sells readily for three dollars a ton. Mr. C. E. Burch of Vandemere dropped in to see us Friday. He is one of the most successful farmers in that section. He informs us that this year he put seventeen and a half acres in jute, and expects to realize some seven hundred tons or $2,100 as the result of his labor. It is a crop easily cultivated. Mr. Burch also in forms us that Mr. Jos. Morris has planted five acres, Thos. Voliva two and a half, John Wilson and James Credle five acres each, Morgan Midyett three acres and many others from one to three acres. We intend to allude more fully to this subject It is an enterprise we particularly wish our people to take hold of, and one which bids fair to supercede cotton to a consideroble extent What is wanted now is a jute milL Let us have it. I'anuico jLmerprwi More universally recommended than any proprietary medicine made A sure and reliable tonic, Brown's From Bitters, Four Very Rich Men. CXCLE RCJTS HATCH gives somx very BIO riaUHES THAT MAY BE TRUE. "Well, there are just four of them in the first class. First, Vanderbilt and his sons; second, Russell Sage; third, Jay Gould, and fourth, James Keene. I suppose you refer to men who have been directly connected with stock operations. Vanderbilt and his sons, who are all together, have got $300,000,000. I am sure that this is not overstated, for the $60,- 000,000 or $70,000,000 they havin the government loans represent their interest as it has accumulated. The next man is Russell Sage, who is richer than Gould. He is worth from $60,000,000 to $75,000,000. Gould is worth some $40,000,000, and Keene from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. These are prodigious figures. See what they represent of other men's losses, when you look at the present state of the stock market, and what it is tumb ling to. There is about $450,000,000 to $500,000,000 in the hands of four men, who have made it all around this Stock Exchange, out of the gambling propensities and the cred ulity of the people." "You surprise me in rating Rus sell Sage so high. "Well, it is a fact. He has been a cool, steady, strong man, playing no tricks, but scooping it in all the time. I may say for him that if you get his name to a piece of paper it is just as good as any obligation in the world. Gould has been the most dexterous of this lot. Keene represents his name. In character he is certainly a wonderfully keen man. The his tory of hi3 operations in Lake Shore and Northwestern would be a great subject for one of your letters. He took Lake Shore at 60 and got rid of most of it at a prifit of 100 per cent., and in the same way he took North western when it was about 40 and sold most of it at about 300 per cent profit, for it went up to 126 last year, and stands now at about 130. Vanderbilt now owns the railroad. Cincinnati Enquirer. Some Things I Have Noticed. I have noticed that when a horse gets up he gets up forward first and jerks his hind parts after him, while a cow will get her rear half up all right and draw her forward half up in place ; also, when drinking, a horse will draw in water rapidly with ev ery breath ; the cow, on the contrary, will suck in one continuous draught as long as she can hold her breath. I have noticed that sheep and goats are both butters, yet a sheep has to run a few steps backward before he can butt, while the goat has to raise himself on his hind legs to execute the same movement. One is called a buck sheep, the other a battering ram. They are tne only two animals I know of whose butt .ends are in front. A squirrel can run down a tree head first. The cat and the bear must get down tail first (if left to them selves). If your dog finds his way into your cellar and sees a nice steak he will steal it and run out, but if your cat gets in and finds a steak, she will sit right down by it and eat what she wants (if not surprised before). I have noticed that a leather strap buckled about the height of yourself around a young tree in a few years will be away beyond your reach, but if nailed at the same distance will never get any higher (only the outer shell runs up). Although turkeys are much more swift of foot than geese, yet in a week's drive a flock of geese will come in ahead; for geese you can drive at night, especially moonlight, but when evening approaches turkeys will roost. A man can stand on one foot in the middle of a room and pull on his shoe, while a woman must lean up against somethingj,o accomplish the same thing. A man holds the needle in his left hand to thread it, but a woman holds it in her right. In one thing I think every one will agree with me: Dress a man as a woman dresses and you will freeze him to death. Ex. A Crank who Wishes to Avenge Oul teau. A telegram from Corry, Pa., July 1st, says: "A strange crank passed through here to-day on the down express who professed to be on a divine mission to Washington to execute the cdm mand of God by avenging Guiteau's murder, as he termed it. He resembles Guiteau in personal appearance, and professes to be a distant relative. He said he had nev er taken any stock in Guiteau, until the night before he was hanged, when God appeared to him in a vision and commanded him to go to Washington and avenge Guiteau s murder. As to the manner in which this is to be effected he is in doubt, as God prom ised to reveal it to him upon his ar rival in Washington. He refused to tell his name or where he was from, but he had a ticket from Chicago to New York. He uttered terrible threats against Arthur and others. He is supposed to be crazy on the subject. When he learned that he was talk ing to a newspaper correspondent he refused to talk further, and said that it would all come out in time."-?-Washington Star. No Grovoda for Dlvorctv A woman who seemed to be full of confidence in her cause Thursday halted a pedestrian with whom she had a slight acquaintance, on Con gress street, and asked him if he knew anything about the law of divorce, and added that her husband had threatened to file a bill to procure one from her. "Are you mild-tempered?" asked the gentleman. "Mild as grass, " she replied. 'Have you ever clubbed him thrown tea-pots waved the botcher knife lugged the ax around or made threats?" "Never." "Have you cold feet?" "No." "Do you drink or swear?" "Neither one." "Do you try to make home happy f "I do." "Do you seek to boss him?" "Not at all. " "Are you choice of your company and economical with his money?" "I am." -r "Did you ever maliciously annoy him?" "I never did." "Did you ever talk against him to the neighbors?" "Never." "Well, while I am not a lawyer and therefore not posted, I don't see how he is to secure a divorce from you." "That's just what I say ! Ho can't do it! He may scold and threaten and tell what he's going to do, but he can't do nothing ! I'm glad I met you, for you've lifted a great load off my mind, and if William comes storming around again to-night as he did last night, I'll give him another choking I If I hadn't been able to handle him, he'd have made my lite miserable for a whole ten years past!" Detroit Free JYesa. Literal Answers. Literal answers are sometimes quite witty. "Will you kindly put my fork, into a potato?" asked a young lady of her table neighbor. "With pleasure," he responded; and piercing the potato, coolly left the fork extended from it. Again, we hear of a very polite and improetsive gentleman who said to a youth in the street : I "Boy, may I inquire where Robin son's drug store is?" "Ceartainly, sir" replied the boy, very respectfully. "Well, sir," said the gentleman, after waiting awhile, where is it ?" "I have not the least idea," said the urchin. There was another boy who was stopped by a middle-aged lady with: "Boy, I want to go to D --street.' ' "Well, madam' eaid tho boy, "why don't you go, then ?" i Sometimes this wit degenerates' into punning, as when Flora pointed pensively to the heavy masses of clouds in the sky, saying : "I wonder where those clouds are going?" , "I think they're going to thunder,1 her brother replied. Also the following dialogue : "Holloa, there ! how do you sell your wood ?" "By the cord." "How long has it been cut ?" "Four feet." "I mean how long has it been since you cut it ?" "No longer than it is now." A Simple Remedy. Dr. Hall says that it ought to be ex tensively known that ordinarily boiled rice, eaten with boiled milk, is one of the best remedies known for any form of loose bowels. Its ef ficiency is increased if it is browned like coffee and eaten at intervals of four hours, taking no other food or liquid whatever; its curative virtue is intensified if no milk is taken with ii and the patient, will keep quiet in a warm bed, then it becomes an almost infallible remedy. Greensboro Bugle. Some years ago a farmer living in the hamlet of K. found that some one was stealing corn from his crib. lie suspected a neighbor named 3am, and decided to arm himself and watch, in order to catch the thief. So he concealed himself near the crib, and in due time some one came and climb ed up by the side of the crib to help himself to its contents. Now the time had come. The farmer fired; something fell. It was Sam ; not shot, but terribly frightened. So soon as he could get breath, he exclaimed: "It ain't me, Jake!. it ain't me!" Chicago, Weekly News. . ' . Maj. L. W. R. Blair was shot and instantly killed at Camden, S. CT, on the 4th inst., by Capt. J. L. Haile, in a personal difficulty. Haile surrender ed himself and was released on a bond of $5,000. Charlotte Democrat. Physicians say it combines all the desiderata of every ferruginous tonic prescribed by every school of medi cine, ' Brown's Iron Bitters. Why is a beautiful and fascinating girl like a butcher? Because she is a "killing" creature. It takes three scruples for a drachm, but many a man will take three drams without a scruple.