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a . H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. Government by the Ieople.t-CleVeland. TERMS: 82.00 Per Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1886. NO. 31; . 1 : : L . ? - j 1 ij ii . Atson Times. Terms: Casli in Advance. One Year - - -Six Months . . Three Month $3.00 - $1.00 SO ADTEBTISING BATES. One square, first Insertion Each subsequent insertion Local advertisement, per line $L00 50 m in -Special rate given on appUcatlo for onger time. . Advertisers are requested to bring In their advertisements on Monday evening of each week, to insure insertion in next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. .John D. Pemberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. 5V Practice ourts. in the State and Federa JAMES i LOCKHART. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. IW Practice at all the Courts of the States P.. LITTLE. W. L. PAKSONS LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYS AT IAJW, WADESBORO, N. C. Collections Promptly Attended to. H.H. bePew (DENTIST, WADESBORO. N. C. Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. All Work Warranted. May. 14, .'85, tf. DR. D. B. FRONTIS, PJYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offere his Professional Services to the citizens "t odes5oro and surrounding country Of f ice opposite Bank. A. B. Huntley, M. D. J. T. J. Battle, VL D j Drs. Huntley & Battle, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Wadosboro, N C Office next to Bank May 7 tf I. H. HORTON, JEWELER, WADESBORO, N. C. Dealear in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guns, Pistols, &c. Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. d. a McGregor, principal J. Burnett, A. B W. Kilgo, A. B. Miss M. L. McCorkxe. r Assistants. The Tpring Term begins Jlonday, Jan uary 11th, 1886. Tuition In Literary Department, $2, 3 and $4 per month. Instrumental Music, f4 per month; ' t'ocal Music, f 4 per month. U?e of piano for practice 50 cents per month. Board, ;o per month. Contingent fee, $1 per year. For Catalogue apply to the Principal. Morven High School, JAMES W. KILGO, A. B., Principal. Z3T The Fall Session begins on the 3d of August 18S5, and runs through fire months. TUITION, TER MONTH. Primary, Intel mediate, Advanced $2.00 j 2.50 3.00 ! Board from $8 TO $10 per utt. For further particulars address the Prin cipal. WI A MURR, MCNUFACTURER and dealer in Store, Tin-ware, Sieet-Iri AND HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. When you go to Charlotte be sure to rail on S. M. TIM HONS, FOR Fine Mountain Whiskies IN THE Old Charlotte Hotel CHARLOTTE, N. C. YARBROUGH HOUSE, RALEIGH, U. ,C. PRICES EEDDCED -TO SDTP 1BE TDffES Call and see us. , : ; - A RAINY DAT. Now Just take a peep at the window and Oh, dear me! How cloudy and dark, and how dreary and gray! What a day! The rain eeems to frown As it come j pouring down; And the wet, muddy earth looks as crest as the sky. SodoL How could X expect to be happy afed gay, 6uch a day? When things are a dull and a stIU as a mouse In the house. Oh, dear, if I knaw Of Borce thing to do! The world looks as if it wre having a cry. co am i. I, only th sunshine would smite out again; And the rain, And the dark, gloomy clouds, and the mist, and the gray Go away Why, then you would see How merry. I'd be! If only the sua and the weather woukVtry, So would I. Sydney Dayre, in. St. Nichola. THE SQUIKE'S WIFE. Squire Clover listened in silence, but with a quiet smile upon his lips, to his old cronies' yarns of their various haps and mishaps in their younger days in trying to get possession of the girl of their choice. But after they had all spoken he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, and, proceeding to refill it, said : "Ay, neighbors, ye've told some pretty queer stories, but I'll warrant I can tell one that'll match 'em. I rather guess 'twould astonish these acquainted with my quiet, modest-looking wife yonder to know how it was that I thought of taking her for better or worse." ''Now, David-," expostulated Mrs. Clover, both reddening and smiling as she met her husband's quizzical look. "Why will you tell that silly story? If you hadn't cared to take me, you could have let me alone." "Ah, sure it is easy talkin'," said the squire, shaking his head with demure gravity. 'But when a girl an' especi ally sich a pretty one flies directly into a fellow's arms, what else can he do? That's what I'd like to know !" Laughingly declaring that "she'd stay to listen to no such nonsense," Mrs. Clover gathered up her work and ran away; rand her husband, after shaking his jolly sides with silent laughter,, un til some of thoe present were fearful that apoplexy would be the result, grad ually recovered himself and proceeded to satisfy the curiosity he had aroused thus: "I was a poor boy, as perhaps you know, with nothin' but a pair of stout arms and broad shoulders to push my way in the world with; but I had a brave heart, an' wasn't afraid of work, an' on the whole, ain't no ways dissatisfied with what my hands have brought me. "The summer I was twenty-one I went tot work for Sue's father. "Mr. Bean was a well-to-do farmer, and Sue his only child. He wasn't any ways stuck up about his property, but fie set a great store by Sue; anr, as he knew that some day she'd have as good a' farm as there was in the county, nat'r ally expected that the man who got her would be able to give as much as he took. "So I had no more idea of ever bein' Sue's husband than I had of flyin', and yet the very first time I set eye3 on her-1 knew, as well as I know now, that no other woman would ever be to me what she was. "I remember the day just as well as if 'twas yesterday. I had seen Mr. Bean down to the village the night afore, an' twas agreed that 1 come tne nexTafFeF noon. "When I come to the house an' a nice looking housa it was, with a broad piazza each side on't I was dubious as to whether I had better go in the side or back door. I finally concluded to take the latter. "As I passed by the kitchen window I : heard a voice singin', as sweet and cle3i : as a robiA, an' on lookin' in I saw Sue I standin' by a table, kneadin' bread, an' I j never see a prettier picter afore or sencc. "Ah, lads, ye may talk about girls at I the pianny, but they ain't half so much j to my mind as the one I saw at the ! moldin'-bcard ; the flour she was iftin' ! not any whiter than: her round, uncov i cred arms, and with as bright a bloom on j cheek an' lip as the roses that were clam- bering over the porch, j "Wal, arter starin' at her pretty face 1 as long as I dared to quite unbeknown I to her I knocked at the door. " 'Come in!' sang out a voice that set my heart to beatin' like a sledge ham mer. . "Lifting the latch I walked in. " 'Is Mr. Bean to home?' I stammered, Colorin1" as red as a boet, as Sue turnedlier black eyes on me. r 'Yes; father's somewhere, about, j '11 be in in a minute. Won't you talsc He a seat?' ; "In goin' across the room, I stumbled over a pailwhich so flustered me that 1 sat down in a chair where a large gray cat lay curled up asleep, and who, spit tin' an' clawin' at me, sp ang out of the window. jiJL . ; :V. , "I could see by the dimples that cams round ' Sue's pretty mouth that she had hard work to .do to keep from laughing outright. But she didn't 'pear to take any notice on it, and pretty soon old Mr. -Bean came in, an' then I began to feel more comfortable. J' ' , "They were real nice sort A folks, who treated their -'help . like . their own family, an' I soon began to feel at home. ' " . ' 'All but with Sue ; I couldn't seem to eay two or three words to her without blun derin', aa was always oin' some awk ward tning or other, whenever I went nigh her. '1 don't think rd hare felt quite so cay if I had known her opinion of me; for I wasn't a bad lookin' chap in my young days broad shouldered an' fctraight as an arrer with big hazel eyes an' brown hair, i full of crinkles as cm1ti mafple. "I hadn't been to Mr. Bean's long be fc.fe I fouid out that Sue had a beau. His name was Silas Peterkin, son of the store-lfeeper down at the village. 'Ue wasji white- faced v slimwaUtel feller, with little'handTan' fcettbat I'd been ashamed to own, but which he seemed to feci mghty proud of. "He used to come td 6ee Sue about twice a week, dressed in his store clothes, and lookin' as if he'd just stepped out of a band-box. "Sue never seemed to iict as though 6he had any partiq'lar likin' for Silas; but 'twas eauy seen j; that the old folks set great store by him" an' was mighty pleas ant at the idea of his steppin' up to their darter. "As for me, I never see him sittin' by Sue, .an' smirk in' up into her face, but what I felt as if I wanted to fling him, head first, out of the winder. "So matters went on until September, when Mr. Beftn gave A huskin' party. "We young fellers set to work with a will, an' afore sunset the corn was all husked and piled away, And the ba n j . floor swept clean for the dance an' sup ! per we was to have in the evenih'. "Pretty soon the women folks began ! to flock in, all drefsed in their best, a)" j lookin' as fresh an' bloomin' as a flower j garden after a shower. ! "But Sue was the prettiest of the hull lot, dressed in her white frock, with the pink ribbon tied a: Oind her waist. "Silas Peterkin, he was there,of Course, an'" as soon as i see him t went to the house. "As I was standin' on the back steps, out of sorts with myself an' everybody else, I heard a voice say : ' "'David!' "An' turning round, I saw Sue, icckin' as smilin' as a basket of chips. " 'Ain't you comin' "down to the barn?' says she. '"I ruther guess I ain't wanted,' 6ays I. "Oh, yes, you are,' says she; 'I want you.' "She looked and spoke so sweet that 1 was e'enamost a mind to go. But jest then I heard Silas callin' her ; an' mutterin' somethin' about havin' some tools to grind, I walked off. "I was most sorry for't, though, when I caught a sight of her face a3 she walked away with Silas, an' saw how sober it was. "Sittin' down on the back steps, 1 went to work ; the raspin' of my file soundin' a deal pleasanter to my ears than the fiddlin' that floated up from the barn down in the medder. "It had been uncommonly hot for a number of days past, but this had been the hottest one of all. Not a leaf moved, an' there was somethin' unnafral in the stillness of everythin' around. There was a strange look to the sky, too ; it was streaked overhead with purple an' vi'let, with a sort of yellow glare in the west. "Old Bose, the. dog, who had been wanderin' restlessly about for the last hour, now set up a mournful howl. . "When I went to fodder the cattle I found the poor critters huddled together in one corner of the yard,utterin' low bel lows of terror and dismay, their instincts warning them, as all these signs did me, of the tornado that was approachin'. "Goin' back to the house I shut every idoor and winder. - "Then thinkin' of the folks in the barn that was the most in danger of any thin' Iran down through the garden to ward the medder where it stood. "But I had hardly gone two rods be fore it came liftin' me off my feet an' hurlin' me against an opposite fence ! "I picked myself up an' hurried on. As I come in sight of the barn or, ruther, where it once stood the air was filled with dust an' flyin' shingles an' timber! "As soon as it cleared away a bit, I saw Sue standin' in a most perilous position right in the midst of it ! "I shouted to her to come away; and jest then the wind took her up as if she was but a feather, bearin' her directly to ward me. I opened my arms, an' she came right into them. "As she did so, one of the flyin' sticks hit one of my arms, makin' it useless; but holdin' her tight w".th the other, I took her to some low bushes in a little hollow between two hills. "The tornado was as short as it was violent, and though a good deal of dam age was done, luckily, no one was hurt much. "Sue escaped without a scratch. My arm was broken; but considerin' who nurBed me, you needn't waste any pity n m for that! v "I heard arterward, as 600a as the alarm was given, Silas Peterkin took to his heels, an' never stopped until he reached his father's door. "Whether he heard that the old man vowed, that he'd set Bose on him if he ever came nigh Sue ag'n, I can't say, but his visits ceased from that day. "I sent him an invite to .my weddin', which took place - a few 5 months arter but as he didn't come I'm sort of mis trustful that he " was afraid of another tornado Neva Tori Mies. ; ; J; The colleges of this country contain 18, 000 female students. t ; I v. : r How R&chel Came to Marry Jacob. This true story comes from an old sea board town in Maine : Jacob loved RacheL but Rachel wouldn't hare him. Jacob labored on," pressing his suit at intervals, and after each rebuff telling her he was bound to win her yet, and convince is very one she tared for him as much as he believed in his heart she did. "Very well," cried the indignant Ra cheL with a toss; of her bfead, "keep right on till you make folks believe that, and when you do I'll marry you!" Jacob did persevere,' but with small 6ucce5--, and at last began to lose cour age. About this time another suitor of Rachel's arrived home from sea, bringing with-hjun, among other exotics, a parrot of gorgeous hue ' which he presented "to Rachel, who forthwith had the bird sus pended from the sitting room window, whence she locked out afternoons when her work was done. For a day or two after his elevation to this dignity the parrot remained marvelously quiet, only casting an eve about as if taking in his new situation. On the third morning, however, no sooner did the neighbors begin to stir than he electrified each pa.-ser-by with the announcement: "Rachel's gono on Jacob; no chance for John Of course, the mare laughter this rai-ed the more vociferously the bird proclaimed the news. It spread like wildfire, and the parrot's audience stead ily increased. Rachel, meanwhile, went into hysterics, but however much this incomm'bded the family it made no im icsiioh oh the parrot, who, although threatened and beaten and relegated to darkness, waxed more and more furious witli desire to spread his knowledge. Jacob kept out of the way for a while, but there was no lack of couriers to hr?ng him information of the other fel low's discomfiture and the parrot's he roic defence of his cause. At last Rach el's father appeared, wearing on his weather-beaten' face an odd mixture -of frown and grin. "Look a-here," he said, "between that bird's screechin' an' folks a caeklin', that galTs a'most out o' her head. There's nothin' for you to do but go over there and try to fix up things as well's ye can. I guess most likely she ll see ye I do' no, folks can't always tell." The upshot -was Rachel married Jacob, who sticks to it that it was. the penetre trative wisdom of his rival's parrot that did the business, and denies to this day all knowledge of the way the parrot came by his speech. Boston Record. Life Studies by Lige Brown. Ihe brightest eyes have wept. The pocket is a poor savings bank. Even a tramp can accumulate real es tate. The "watch"-word .to bankruptcy "tick." Don't argue with a fool, or the listen ers will say there is a pair of you. Spiders are affectionate little creatures. The females eat up their lovers. When the poet sang of something that was "strong without hands," he proba bly referred to butter." Solomon had lots of wisdom, but he didn't know anything about the conven ience of a hip pocket. The tcajher who makes his scholars "smart"' is not always the one who im parts the mo t instruction. The heroism that can wear old clothes until ab!e to buy new is f aid to be the most lonely feeling on earth. It is said -that a vigorous motion of the jaws will cure nose bleed. No wonder the women folks are seldom troubled with that complaint. Dio Lewis says a man needn't sneeze unless he wants to. He most generally wants to, though, by the time the Bneezo gets fairly on deck. Before Boston goes entirely crazy over her female barbers she ought to pause a little between beans and ruminate up"oD the trouble Samson got into by letting a woman cut his hair. It is a well-known fact that a woman can never hit the thing she throws at, and yet the world is full of blue-nosed fogies who do not believe that everything has been ordained for the best. Chicagc Ledgzr. Products of the Desert. In the land of the Apaches 11 nature 6eems to have become spinescent. Mesquites and wild rose-bushes, with an undergrowth 6t brambles, cover whole hillsides. Cactus thickets make the ravines almost impassible, Mesquites and cactus Appear to have a marvelous adaption for drawing moisture from the arid soil; but the chief secret of their survival is perhaps their armature of thorns, enabling them to maintain a much-disputed claim to existence. Near Cerritos, in the Gila valley, a plantation of eighteen thousand young chestnut trees were destroyed by gnawing and browsing "veimin" in a single year. Cabbage there could ba raised only in a rat-proof hot-house, but the mala muger, a vegetable porcupine without any visi ble leaves, can freely expose itself on the open praiiie. The animal concomitants are equally safe. Tarantulas, centipedes, and steel blue, hornets multiply undis turbed. I Rattlesnakes ., thrive like wrigglers in a" mill-pond.". Coyotes (lit erally sand-dogs) survive where Dr. Tanner would perish. . Nay, like their congeners, the jackal and the hyena, they seem naturally to gravitate toward the barrenest regions of the habitable earth, to regions apparently, unable to promise them either shelter or food. -Felix & OtnoaldJ The Maryland State constitution pro hibits ministers from becoming members of the legislature.- ' LADIES' COLUMN. 11 What Astonished the Young Han. "I am a designer and an artist and something pf an inventor,'V said a ydun'g man wbaioddtS the corner oK State and Madison streets one sunny "afternoon last week, "and I am fanriliarwith the vast possibilities in arrangement and combination of colors and. form's. - But of all the exhibitions of variety .1 ever saw this takes the bark off the tree t never saw anything like it. For an even hour i hare been standing here, lost in amaze-' ment.w "TvTist do you mean!" inquired the Herald rambler.' , "Why, the women's bonnets. Bet I have seen 10,000 women pass this corner this afterncon, and not one of them wore a bonnet or hat or headdress of any sort like any other woman. I have a quick eye for such things, and if there had been any two alike I should certainly have no ticed them. Onee in awhile you see one that in some respects resembles some other one,but upon close comparison you find that they are quite unlike. The mar vel to me is, as it must be to any one who gives the subject a moment's thought, how so many things as simple as most of these bonnets are can be made with such an endless variety. What designers these bonnet-builders must be wonderful, truly wonderful." Chicago Herald. Eccentricities of House-Clean Injr. I once knew a brisk woman who used to loosen her carpets in the last of Feb ruary, so that she might take advantage of the first warm day, and whisk them out before the gaze of an astonished world. There was a tradition in her family that all carpets should be up and stoves down by the middle of March, and unless positively frozen up and snowed under, she fought it out on that line. She and her family arc long since dead, as might be ex pected, sacrificed not by Cleanliness, but "by a silly pride and an insane desire to be more ' 'forehanded'' than her neighbors. I have noticed that these women who are so forehanded with their house-cleaning are apt to be forehanded in their deaths. They seem to fancy there is some merit in thus forcing the season, and they plunge into the good work with all the enthusiasm of the ancient martyrs, laying up coughs and colds and treasures in heaven. o many women clean house according to tradition, instead oi common sense. They learned in their youth that spring begins in March, ana in 35arch they will clean house if they kill themselves and their families in the attempt. They remind me of that imprudent young man who attempted to scale the Alpine height refusing to listen to sensible advice, and shouting . "Excelsior" to all inquiring friends. These women, amid the snoW and biting winds of a lingering whiter, will expose life and limb, or at least fingers and thumbs, and backs," to get ahead pf their neighbors and have their house cleaned first ; they go pegging away up the win try Alps, in a lame, rheumatic, but de termined procession, waving their tack hammers and scrubbing-brushes, and shouting "Excelsior," till they disappear in a cloud of dust. They pay no atten tion to good advice, nor do they heed the roar of the awful- avalanche of dust and dirt, and carpets, and stoves, and soot that they bring down on their de voted heads; on they rush, and down from the cold, damp shades of their fire-" less, sunless parlors comes the last faint echo of their cries. Good Housekeeping. Fashion Notes. v. - I Sateens multiply in every important phase of progression. Pendants of jet edge high collars and cover vests in profusion. Crinkled seersuckers are shown with i block and jcquard designs Brilliant tcarlet has again become the fashionable color for ball dresses. The dawn of a silk era, as far as fash ion is concerned, has come upon us. Fans may be fastened to the shouldei with long ribbons which match the dress. "Lace crinkle" is a novelty. It has alternate stripes of seersucker and lace work. , Every material has embroidery, even cotton, and almost all these have box robes. Colored laces will combine with the silk foulards for stylish summer, cos tumes. Though large bouquets are fashion able, they are in no particular graceful or pretty. AH underclothes are tucked, as manj as fifteen minute tucks being seen or some of the very fine cambric under skirts. , Bioad strings of crape are to be won on Leghorn or very yellow straw bon fets, that will allow their being used s c.irfe. I The new spring hats are very high nd very low ; the bonnets are very large nd very 6mall. There is no middle ;round. ... . ..j. It is said 'that there are . to be more ich fabrics worn this summer than ever 1 efore, and if the modistes continue in . heir present course this prophecy will e correct. 1 Pearl fringes are made of Email and arge beads ; some represent the coral ringej and have pearl shaped drops at he end of each branch others have ; nother-o'-pearl sequins mingled with the icarls.- - " j--. " : ' - . ' I", "The largest literary work in the world is a Chinese encyclop?dia of 5,000 vol umes, a set of . which has recently been added to the British museum library. - Henry Watteraoa. The editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal is one of the best known newspa er locn in the country. V arp4 ssys of him In a recent Washing on letter to the Cleveland Len4r; Henry Watterson is one. of the most rsauie or newspaper men. lie is a good usical critic, can write a brilliant edi- orial on the spur of the moment, and has he capacity fdr an immense amount of work, and the e:ght of one eye is entire- !y gone. The other is very nearsighted, md when he writes of reads he gets his lead very close to the paper. Much of his reading has to be done for him, and his wife assists him a great deal in this way. He has an amanuensis in writing at night. He uses in his own writing a thick I glazed paper and a pen, and he writes a scrawl almost as hard to read as that of" Greeley. Special printers have to be kept in the office who can read his copy and his manuscript is often chopped up after it has been set up and carried about as a curiosity. When Henry Watterson reads he uses a magnifying glass. When lie works he takes off his coat and goes at it with a vim. He is a bundle of ner vous activity. He thinks fast, goes on ihe trot and steps hard. He has fits Of laziness in which he writes nothing. At such times he chats with his friends jind enjoys himself socially. He likes a good dinner and can play a good game of poker, though he enjoys the game for its excitement and not for the money inV rblved. He has icctured s6me and very i-uccessfully. He talks well, holds his hands at his side as he speaks, and one pf his favorite gestures is throwing beck , his head and brushing up the lock of hair which falls down upon his forehead. He has written some books, and he once said that he started out in life as a writer pf rdmance emulating Thackeray. His working habits Sonie time ago were to wake about ten in the morning arid take A j:up of coffee in bed. He would then write Jtwo hours, after which he would take a Sponge bath, dress and breakfast. This jwould be at one o'clock. At three he Would go. to the office and look over the organization of the paper. At tea o'clock at night he would return and run !the paper through to press. Henry fWatterson's illness may be somewhat due 'to overwork. He has worked too fast and eaten too fast during his lifetime. At times he has gone for two whole days without any sleep, and during the first three months when he was building up is paper he did not average four hour3 of sleep ut of the twenty-four. Interesting Autographs. "Cwp" makes up .a reliable letter from fTashington to the Cleveland Leader by devoting it largely to extracts from the autograph album of Mrs. Ogle Tayloe, for years one of the most noted society adies at the capital atid the cotifiddnt and friend of more than One generation of great men. Here are the productions of some famous people : BT GEN. SCOTT. A distinguished fair, with prudential care, To wrest a friend from ruthles3 Time, Has assigned a place his poor hand to- trace In heaw Drose or trifline rhvme. Thus, tho' the record of his sheathed sword Soon should perish or be forgot, This protective page shall outlive the age, And save the name of Winfield Scott. January, 1829. by fitz-obeen halleck, the poet. Let names of warriors and of sage3 On history's leaf eternal be ; A few brief years on beauty's pages Are worth their immortality. This volume of the heart permits ma To brave oblivion's withering power, Till she, whose name it bears, forgets me And what were fame heyond that hourf FlTZAjREENE HaLLECK. New York, Nov. 24, 1828. BY PRESIDENT JACKSON, t Let wisdom all my actions guide And let mv God with me reside, No wieked"thing shall dwell with me, Which may provoke thy jealousy. June, 1830. Andrew Jackson. BY CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL. Dear Madam I am too much flattered by your request, and feel too strongly the im pression made while I had the pleasure to Be received as a friend of Colonel Tayloe not to comply with it. Whatever cause may restrin me from at tempting to furnish anything worthy of a place in your album,nothing can prevent my assuring you that I am, with great and re spectful regard and esteem, your obedident servant, J Marshall. February, lezy. BY WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT, THE HISTORIAN. To take the pen when there is naught to tell No deeds of human glory Would prove me recreant to the muse I serve, The muse of history. Yet if I venture with a hand so rash To stain the page of beauty, 'Tis thou commandest, and I thus obey To obey is but my duty. William H. Prescott. Washington, April 4; 1846. BY DANIEL WEBSTER. My Dear Madame: I comply with your request and return your volume with a nam? which, I cannot have the vanity to believe, will in the slightest degree enhance its value. I am, with regard, your most obedient ser vant. Daniel Websteb. Mrs. J. M. D. Tayloe. .To Titles of Nobility. It may strike the superficial observev Of Oriental usages as peculiar that in "the Ottoman dominion there are no titles of nobility, no aristocracy or inherited titles. The suttan himself is no more, in the light of the Koran, than his meanest 6ervitor. The lowest slave to-day may become jgrand vizier to-morrow. In fact, many of the present ministers have arisen from the. humblest walks and avocations to their exalted positions. "Our poets of the East," says Saladin, to the lion hesvrted King Richard, 'say that a vaL liant camel-driver is worthy to kiss the lips of a' fair queen, when a cowardly prince is not worthy to salute the hem of her garment." . A Georgia farmer, who was carefully raising a nice litter of Berkshire pigs, couldn't account for the disappearance of all but jthrc?. One day he heard one squealing shrilly in the air, and saw a big buzzard sailing off with it. The fanner shot' the buzzard, and buzzard and pig both fell to the ground dead.' FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. . Queen Victoria's personal household, ifl which there are 1,000 persons, cots nearly 1,000,000 a year. It w& once customary to swear bj the beard. In the reign of Elizabeth of Eng Isnd, 'dyeing the beard was a fashionable custom. A race of hairless . Americans is threat ened. It has been estimated that already one-half the adult men of American birfu Iiting in our cities are bald, and baldness is extremely liable to be propogated jd the male line, and to appear a little earlier in each successive grneration. One of the first appeals of one nation to the others, as if they formed one com monwealth, was in the twelfth century ; and in the thirteenth century we find the good king, St. Louis of France, chosert arbitrator between Henry HI. of England and his' barons. In 1356 Edward III. made an appeal to "all Christendom" against John of France, as if a certain bond united all European people, The largest circus in Paris accommo dates only 7,000 people, while one in ancient Rome could hold over 150,000, where from 100 to 400 lions were let loose at a time. Augustus filled the arena' once with 3,200 wild animals, and one Probus got up a free fight between 1,000 wild boars, 1,000 stags, l,fl00 rams and 1,000 ostriches, nnd the occupants of the upper galleries the gods--had the right to shoot arrows and javelins into' the melee. The "Great Tun," of Heidelberg is on? Of the wonders of that romantic town, and is preserved in" the cellars of its half ruined castle. It is thirty and a hilf feet high, and twenty-three feet in diam eter, and holds 51,920 gallons. It cost fifty thousand dollars. It was last filled in 1769; but in view of the five hun dredth anniversary of the university, which take's place this year, the munici pality will fill it with "wine of good quality, to be sold at a remarkable price." The Shah's Harem. A letter from Teheran, Persia, to the London G lobe sftys: Most of the la lies of the harem have small separate estab lishments, "but all live in the palace,- the doors and windows of their rooms look ing out into a large quadrangular court. Some wives occupy suites of apartments, others have only one or two rooms. The shah's harem, like other well-conducted establishments of the kind, is shrouded in mystery, and the European ladies who have occasionally visited it cannot tell us much. These ladies visit the harem on certain holidays, when every inmate i gay and happy, and they therefore see only the bright side of harem life. There is, of course, a dark fide; but of this nothing certain is known to the outer WOTld, and the members of the harem are discreet, and do not blab. The shah is said to be rf kind master, and his wives speak of him with affection and respect.' (ain mmtcly the cause - of the accident. Extraordinary precautions are always ; -phis he was to do, and nothing, more. taken to prevent males from getting in ! A t)irf1 wa, 8cnt to tjie police station, fide, and the European ladies who visit : w.rc the dead were carried, to de the harem are, ori entering, examined B(ri,c ti,e fiai sc.ncr, tliere. Another re by eunuchs, who also inscribe the names i porter was (, tailed to visit the hospitals of the visitors and those of their attend where the wounded were, and to ascer ants. In 6pite of the great precautions la;n ilte at jgi,t their condition and taken, it has once or twice happened that cn mces for recovery. a man has been smuggled into the harem, and I lately heard a story of a laborer having been found on the roof of the women's apartments. He was advised to affect madness which was hardly nec essary, as fear had already made him idiotic and it was explained that he had1 got into the harem through an under ground water canal, in which he had been working. It speaks well for the -j shah that the man was let off scot-free ;' informer times he and several women j would have been executea there ana then. It occasionally happens that the shah ccmes into the women's apartments when European ladies are there on a visit. He then asks who the visitors are, what their age is, and makes some obser vations on their looks. He is not very complimentary ; and some time ago a lady was horrified at being told by his majesty that she was old. ugly and lean. The shah also occasionally asks other in discreet questions, and makes' some cyni cal remarks. Every wife has a separate yearly allowance varying from 200 to 2,000, and often receives presents cxT ceeding her allowance in value. Railroad Tie Plantations. Hon. R. W: Pbipps, forestry com missioner of Ontario, in a letter frorn Southern Kansas to the Toronto Gibe. writes: ' "One railroad board, here, knowing that the errow.nrr of wood, when set about in earnest, ii neither a slow i-or difficult task, has established in Kansa the largest artificial plantation of forest trees in North America. These rail way gentlemen themselves gave out the con tract for planting oyer a square mile of land with young saplings of the catalpu and ailantus; and their president, ob serving the success of their experiment, and impressed with its probable excellent financial results, has had planted at his own expense, as a speculation, as much more. These are j situated nea the littlb town of Farlington, Kan." Palmetto cockades, wnich were' worn in the Southern States, were made of blue silk ribbons, with a button in the centre bearing the image of a palmetto tree. They were also called secession cockades. Secession bonnets, made by, a northern milliner in Charleston, were worn by the ladies ' of that ' city on the streets immediately after the passage of the ordinance of secession. ' The total effective force of the Britisl regular army is 201,000. The President's Desk. The President's desk in the early morn ing presents a queer sight When tho Chief Executive Uys; aside his Havana to go to work, there are upon the table all sorts of things. Papers of every descrip tion, pertaining to almost every known subject under the sun, are there, and tho writing on the envelopes , is a study. People resort to every means to reach the President's ear and eye, and present their claims after their own style. "Personal' is always written on letters addressed to the President, but nearly all of his mail is gone through by Colonel Lamont and the under-RCcretariea, and the really per fonal or important letters sifted out and laid on the President's desk, and theso are legion. His desk is always neatly arranged in the morning, but it presents a sorry appearance when the day's work is done. The President receives a good many papers from callers durihg-theday, ; and these he lays on his; table. He 'is a quick worker, and in an hour generally has everything in order, and a majority of the eases either disposed' of entirely os properly referred. One of the mnt pleasant yet difficult duties he has to perform is appeasing tho autograph craze. . Doorkeeier Lcpffler I generally has a dozen or so autograph j' albums lying on his table. When tho ! President' comes to his office in tho morning Ltrffier takes in his lit t te load, ' and if the President appears to bo in a good humor he lays them on tho tabic, and the President, with a laugh and some remark nliout the craze, writes his signa ture nearly always this way: '' G rover Cleveland, March ST. IS4,, When the lnwks have all been signed Lieffler takes them to his desk and keep them until they are called for.- Tho President sometimes varies the way of writing his autograph, occasionally fol lowing tho date by "Executive Mansion" or "White House,-" but. never" putting "President" before or af.er his name. Wnnhingtoii Pi nt. j Reporting in Detail. . In an article on N'-w York city news . popcr rcj oi tci s, publiMied by Ytnith' . CompnuU) i, F.Mai'liall White nays: ' ; When ft great a ridnt occurs in the city, such, for instance, ih th crush on ! the Kar-t river bridg." after it was first i opened 10 tin- public,, when thirteen pcr ' .sons were killed, a number of reporters, j arc sent out to woikon the case. Each ' reporter is detail' d to give only one por tion of the account that shall appear in the next morning's paper.' For example :.Wh-n the East river bridge tragedy took place, one main was directed to obtain suc!i information as ; woflld enable him to give" the introduc tion to the sketch, and a general doKcrip'- tion of the t a;ic ii scene at the, time of ! its occurrchcc. There his work ended, i Another reporter. wa detailed to ascer- . Among five or six other reporters was divided the list of names of the dead and wounded who had ben carriell to their homes; and that list, which comprised names from all over New York Brooklyn and Jersey City, was al.solutcly verified by a personal visit to the home .of each j victim. Two reporters were sent out to ! interview as man v eye-witnesses of the tragedy as could be found, and to give eacj, man's description of the scene as jt appeared' to him. . The different sections of the article! were then'given to the city editor,-who joined them together in their . proper, sequence. In this way each paper the next morning had a long and a reason ably accurate decryption of the tragedy. The Schooner John G. Wbittier. A new schoener for the Gloucester (Mass.) fisheries launched recently, was christened the bohnG, Whittier. The. poet acknowledged the compliment by sending the owners the following lines: . " . o TO A CAPE ANN SCHOONER. i Luck to the craft that bears this namto of - .mine! ' ' . Good fortune follow with the golden spoon, The grazed hat and tarry pantaloon; And wheresoe'er her keel.-t shall cut the brine Cod, hake, and mackerel quarrel for her line. Shipped with her crew, whatever wind may blew t Or tides delay, my wish with her shall go, Fishing by proxy. Wotild that it might ' show At need her course, in lack of sun and star, i Where icebergs threaten and the sharp reefs are: -Lift the blind fogs on Anticosti s lea And Ava'oh's rocks; make populous the sea Round grand Menan with eager finny swarms, Break the long calms and charm away the (storms. John G. Whittier. 4 Oak Knoll, 3d mo.. 23, im. Father and Son. A few days ago a lino old" British , roldier, residing m Canada, but widely known and respected in two hemispheres, entered the prisoners ; dock in a court room and stood besids a handsome young man charged with forgery. ."Colonel," said the public prosecutor, "do you know the prisoner?" "I do; he is my only son, was the reply; then the stal wart figure and dauntless heart that had survived more than half a century of campaigning gave way, and the old xolonel fell dead killed by a degenerate son. The-denouement was' more sudden than is common, but only inf this respect did the tragedy differ from hundreds that hare been enacted iu New York and more that are now. having their dis mal course. New York Hour., - T .
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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