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THE O H I A GAZE Devoted lo the Protection of Home and the Interests of the County. Vol. II. Gastonia, Gaston County, K C, Saturday Morning, Mahcti 19th., 1881. No. 11. k Beal & Brumileld, f Manufacturers and Dealer in tars 1, CO Brackets, Cornishes, Wagons, Buggies, &c. Abo Burial Cases on hand of the best male.' Send orders and Tor prico list to BH.AL k BRUMF1ELD, Gastonia, N. C. CENTRAL HOTEL Spartanburg, S. C, W. S. LIPSCOMB, Pro. Kew home and furaiture, rorms carpeted wtectric bell, attentive servants, location eoatral. fare the very best. Tenrii, f 2.00 a day. $10.00 a week. 35.00 a month. Drammer stopping over Sunday ft. 60, Only a few yards fiom the iron bprings. ep25tcjan I. L. R. Wriiton, T. J.Moore,M. D ma & u.f Wholesale and Retail JDrwgi gists K.-W. corner Trade and Tryon sts., CHARLOTTE, N. C, And Dealers in a tuts. (Dil VARNISHES, DYE STUFFS, DRUGS. SEND YOLB ORDERS TO J.R.DDIN'S BLANK BOOKS SCHOOL BOOKS - AND - STATIONERY", CHARLOTTE, It. C. CHARLOTTE MaBBLE WORKS, W.G. BERRYHILL! - MANUFACTURER OF FOREIGN A AMEBIC AN MAEBLI, MOXVMEST8, HEADSTONES, TAB I ETC, MANTLES e- Trade Street,Opr. 1st Fresbyteriai. Church CHARLOTTE, V C. Oct tf New Model JJght-Rjnning, Noiseless, NoGeare, No Cams, No Springs, New aod Elegant Styles of Woodwork. Send for circular and price lists. Weed Sewing Machine Co., 239 Main Street. Hartford. Conn. O M. Veleo, Agent, Gastonia. roar2i XJUUX u WHERE WAIT EST 1HOU1 Where waiteet thou, Lady I am to love? Thou enmett not ; Thou knowest of my sad and lonely lot ; I look'd for thee ere now ! It is the May! And each sweet sister soul hath found its brother ; Only we two seek iondly each the other, And, seeking, still delay. Thou ait as 1 , Thy soul doth wait for mine, as mi no for 1hee; We cannot live apart; must meeting he Never before we die f Dear soul, not so; That time doth keep for us some happy years,'. That God hath portion d out our smiles and Thou knowest and I know. Tes. we shall mret ! And therefore let our searching be the stronger ; Park days of life shall not divide as longer, Nor doubt, ntr danger, sweet f Therefore I be ar This winter-tide as bravely as I may. Patiently waitinor for the bright spring day That cometh with thie, dear. Tis the May light That crimsons all the quiet college glnem. May it shine softly in thy sleeping-room; And so, dear wife, good night. A MORNI1SG CALL FROM A PAN J HER. "I suppose you're, wondering .why I keep that ugly old chest," said Mrs. R . "and I must own that it's not very orn mentul ; hnt it saved my life oticr, for - all that. I see ynu think I'm making fun of you but I'm not, in-teed ; and when ymi hear the story, I think you'll agree with ine that I have good reason to value it, iiglv as it lnos. this wns how it happened. W in n we first came out to India, my hnshnnd was sent to ma Ke the survey rf the NerhndlH Valley, one of tbe wildest bits in all Cen tral India ; and we really were, j'ist at first, the only white people within lorty or fifiy niles. And such a time as we hnd of it! If my husband had'nt been us strong as he is, and a perfect miracle of patience as well I don't know how he could have stood what he had to do. It was dieadfal work (or him, being up snnietim s for a whole night together, or having to stand out in the burning sun. when ti e very ground itself was almost too hot In touch. And as for the active workmen. I never gnw such n set always doing every thing wrong, arid never liking anybody to put them rigfit. When the railway was being made, they used to carry the eorth on theiHieads in baekets ; anil when Mr. R -served out wheelbarrows to them. they actually carried them on their heads in the same way ! I couldn't heldp laughing at it, though it wns terribly provokln too. And that wts just the way they all were ; if there was a wiong way of using anything they'd be sure to find it out. Even our butler, of khitmutgar, who was much belter than most of them, came one day and begged a pair of old decnnter-loblea that my husband was going lo throw away ; and when the man cxmo in the next morn ing, he had positively turned them into ear-rings, and went about quite gravely ith 'Port' in one ear and 'Sherry' in the otter! 'However, if the native men worried me the native beast J were fifty times wo.-kp. It wa no joke. I can assure ytu to be awakened in the middle of the night by the roar of a tiger close under the window, or by an elephant crashing and trumpeting through the jungle wi'h a noise like a mail coach going full gallop into a ho!-linnse. Well, as soi m as that wns over, the jncWn would set up a sqnaling and a whimpering like so many frightened children ; and then a dreadful native bird, whore name I have never found nut (I suppose because nobody could invent one tad enough for it), would break out in a succession of the most horrible cries just like eoraebo'y being murdered until the nois fairly drove me wild. And then tbeantsl but you've seen them for yourself, and I needn't tell yoa' about them. Bat all this while I'm neglecting mj story 'One day (it will be long enough before I forget it) my husband was oot usual at his work, aod the iwrse had gone down to the other nive servants at the end of tlie compound.' as we call tTiis big incloeore and I wi left alone in the house with my little Mionie yonder, who was then just about a tear old. Bat thia time I had got over my irst fearer and didn't mind a bit being left by myself ; indeed all the lower windows haviag bars across them. I thought that I was sife enough ; but I little dreamed of what was coming 1 "I must bave been sitting over my sewing nearly an bour, with tbe child play ing about tbe floor beside me, when sud denly I beard a dull thump overhead, as if something had fallen aposj the roof. I didn't think anything of it at the moment for ope soon gets used to all sorts of strange sounds in the Indian jungle ; but presently I thought I could bear a heavy breathing in the rext room but one, and then I began to feel frightened in earnest. I rose as softly as I could, and crept to the doorway between the rooms. This doorway was only closed by a curtain, and gently pul ling aside the folds I peeped through, and found myself within a few piees of the lurgest pimther I had ever seen in my lifel "For one moment it was just as if I had been frreen stiff, and then the thought came to me just as if somebody had spoken it : 'The big chest !' "I know that thi chest would hold me and mv ehild aJiy, 4 that I enntd lenve a chink of the lid open to let us breathe fur the over-lapping edge would save my fingers from the panther. In a second had it all clear before me ; but had the brute not stopped short at sight of the curtain, I should never have had a chance of trying it. Luckily for me, the Indian panther, savage as he is, is a terrible cow ard and suspicious as any detective. I've seen one go round and round a trap for more than half an hoar, before he made up his mind to spring at the bait. So, whil my friend was pnn'ing himself over the curtain, and wondering whether it was meant for a trap or not, I took np Minnie (who. poor little pet seemed to know there was something wrong, and never uttered a sound) and into the chest I crept, making as little noise as I could. I was hardly settled there when heard the ' sniff-sniff' of the panther com ing right up to where I lay, and. through the chink that I hnd left open, the hot foul breath came Ftenming in upon my face almost mnkirg me sick. It seemed to bring my heurt into my month when I heard his great claws cni ping the edge of the lid and trying to lift it up ; but. happily, tbe cMi.k was too narrow for his paw to en ter. But if the paw couldn't, the tongue could , and eonn he began to lick my fingers, riisping them so that I hardly knew how to bear it. Still, the touch of Minnie's little arm around my neck seemed to give me courage. But there was fur worse than this to come ; for the punt her suddenly leaptd right oo top of the chest, and bis weight pressed down the heavy lid upon my fingers, nr.til the pain wns so terrible that, unable to stand it any longer, I screamed with all my might. - "The scream wag answered-by a shout from just outside, in which 1 recognized my husband's voice. The pantlier heord it, too, and it seemed to scare him for he made a dash at the window, either forgetting or not noticing the iron bars; but just 89 be reached it there came lite crack of a rifle, and I beard the heavy brute fall suddenly on the floor. Then all the fright seemed to come back upon me at once, and I fainted outright. ''I heard afterwards that Mr. - B had happened to want some instrument which he had left at the bouse; and, oot wishing to trust it Lo the bands of any of he mitives. he came bock for it himeeif luckily, just in time for the bullet from hid rifle killed the panther. But, as you see, my Lund is pretty stiff yet." David Kerr, in St. b'ickala FICKLE LOVE. , The fickleness of the fntr has received a new illustration. Last summer, when Thos. De Jarnette killed his sister in a house of ill-fame in Daiiville. Va., hewaaergagtd to Miss Mary Allen Murray, of Milton, N. C, who visited him very frequently for "Viral months after his incarceration. De Jarnette was sentenced lobe hanged, but the Supreme Court granted him a new trial, which will he begun in a short tim. Recently Miss Murray has not been s constant in her visits to the prisoner. It seems that it the time of her engagement to De Jarrnette, Charles Gordon and Alexander Ronlmm, two young men of Milton, wre also rival suitor for her hand. About a week a.'O. rays a Danville Dis patch to the New York, Sun, the annouce nient was mude by the young lady and her Mends that she was to be married to Mr. Bonhuin, and that the marriage wns fixed for next Thursday night. Friday evening Mr Gordon went to see the young lady, aod she told him that she hid come to the conclusion that he was the only one she had ever loved, and she was willing to marry him. Gordon, although be knew that her mariiage with Bonhum was fixed for next Thursday night, proposed an im meiate solemnisation of the nuptials. Saturday morning he obtained the marriege license, aod this evening a magistrate, with witnesse. met the couple by appointment on a bridge which crosses tbe stream near the suburb of Milton, and there Miss Murray and G"rd'n were quietly married. D Jarnette is quite i I in his evil, whether because of t bis msm-if or kmg coiifioe ssenl is cot knows. ' " , SENATOR BROWN. St. Louis Globe. Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, is the only millionrire in the senate from the late confederacy. The souh has never been a good sprouting ground for millionaires, ond the few it has possessed have shown small aptitude for polities. Mr. Brown does not belong to the chivalry in any sense. lie started oot in life bs a poor schoolmaster, was but little thought of by the golden yonth whom he was engaged to indunt into the earlier .mysteries of the multiplication table and the nine parts of speech. He hnd a conrageons spirit, grpat energy and an aspiring-min'!. He worked his wny first into law.l'uen into politics, and, between fth' m. into- wealth. He is the richest man In his state to-dHy. and is wnrih not less than $3,000,000. This wouldn't perm a very great fortune in New York or San. Fran cisco, hut it makes the Georgia crockers lift their hots to its possessor, and ejve him :my office he may want. He is of medium Etamre. with an impreive bald .crown fringed with brown hair, nnd ftnwing chin whiskers us white as snow. He is possessed of a vast fuiid of common sense, and is exceedingly independent in politics. There are those who believe that he is the modern Moses who is to lead the people of the south out of the bonduge of b.mrbon democracy, but there reully seems very little reason to upret anything so desiru blr. No Moses can a lend a people that does not want to be li d. and there is no evidence that the southern whites ure anxi'iuU throw ff the shackles of demo cracy. " - OLD PEOPLE. Jacob's Foik, Cutnwbn county, bonsta of eight individuals residing near that post office whose combined aces are G88 years). Mr. G. M.: Ytider furnishes the Church Paper the names of the individuals : Charles Srance who claims to be 100 years old. a farmer by occupation. lle is the more feeble of the eight. Catharine Whitener, widow of the lute Daniel Whitener, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, now a pensioner. She is 83 years old, and yet sh daity cards at d spins, ahing a respectable etay's work. John 'Kjllian, a farmer by occupation. and for several sessions a memher of the North Carolina Legislature. He' ha; at tained tl.e age of 84. Miss Beltie Yoder, a maiden lady. healthy ai'd vigorous, cards, spire, and orks on the farm in the summer season. with ease and pleasure. Her age is 86 years... Mise Catharine, n sister of Miss Bet tie. She t a mute. Her age is 84 years David Yoder, a brother to the two lat ter, a widower, a farmer by occupation never osed tobacco in any form, is aged 82 years. Last, we present John Hurtzoke. a wid ower, a farmer, who has served as an tIJer in Grace' ckurch, at least 35 years, has at tained the age of 81 years. The aggregate of these ages, is C88. the average, 86. Besides these, there are 20 persons living around the above postefhVe hose ages range from C8 to 79 years. A NORTH CAROLINA INDUSTRY. During recent years the collection of mediciuHl and other plai ts has become a lorge nnd profitable.- industry in North Carolina. Tbe trade centers at Statesville, where an enterprising firm have establish ed one of the largest botanical depots in the woild. Their stock- com pr'sos 1.700 varieties of rools. lorhs barks, seeds. flowers, ond cnos te, nnd all sorts of plants for herbariums.' some of them peculiar to the flora i f the Stale, nrd othtrs found moftfahuiidHiitly tin re thon rlsewhere.- The qtinntiiirs now on hand vary from 50 'o 35.000 pounds of each kind. Thiy phv he collectors either in cesh or goods, and last eur they disresrd in this way of $41,000 worth of merchandise. Their rehouse have 27f.O0O square feet of ft oring. which will give sn idea of their capacity for tornge of the products they are collecting from all qnariers. Their shipment lal year amounted lo l ,8(!0.0()t) pounds. The cedlectors arc largely Cherokcvs. Mr. J. R'dwine. fiftv years old, of Salis bury North Carolina, Is the father of eigh teen children. Governor Hawkins i the twentieth gov ernor of Tennessee. Of the ex-governor ix are living. Three thousand crtgsg-'g recorded in Montgosaory county, Alabama, mostly for advances to farmers. One hundred and fifty graduates of Bal timore college of physicians and surgeons, just turned on toe worhl. A man seventv years olJ, Judge Weir, f Austin, Tex j. ha leen sen'enced to tbe penitcatary. for forgioz land titles. RELIGIOUS NEWS- The Lutheran church supports twenty Orphans' Homes in this ci untry. A suggestion has been made by Dr. Man gum for a " Preachers' Aid Society" in the North Curolina Conference. The Presbytery of OraDge will hold its 222d stated session at Chapel Mill on Wednesday, the 13tl of April, Universalists are reported as having o ly 33,572 members in the whole country. Their number is becoming beautifully less every year. .Mrs. Vuleliu Sione, of Maiden, Mass., gave, the past year, to educational institu tions of the Congregational denomination inrless than 81,039, 750. The report of the Pan-Presbyterian Council just issued gives the number pf this denomination in tbe world about 3,' 000.000 of communicants. The Smithfield Baptist church has called Rev. J. K, Howell to its pastorate, and he has accepted. Mr. Howell will also preach at Pine Level once a month. Dean (V. urch's memorial asking for tol eration for ritualism in the church ol England has received the signatures of no fe wer thun 3,538 clergymen. At?omeof the benevolent institutions presided over by Rev. Dr. Passavaot pupcr-hugs are eent out to be filled with flour lor tlie use of their inmates. In the "North-western Reserve." of Ohio, settled ty New Knglanders, for every four marriages there is one application for divorce. This is a startling state of affairs The Northern Methodist Church is try ing to found a Conference Seminary on the Manassas battle-groucd. A building has been offend, but they need SlO.OOO to bpiin. There are 111 students preparing for the minisiry in the Pincetnn Theological S'-niinary. Twenty-five of them ore from the South twenty being Southern Pres byterians. The Methodist "Year B,.ok" for 1881 shows 11,636 itinerant minis'irs, 12.475 lo cal preachers nnd 1 ,734,958 members in ihis country, with church property valued at $63,838,102. There was in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Sou'h, lost year an increase of 51, 000. There was this increase with "bot tom facts consider d aod with desertions in, d deaths subtracted. The death list of ministers of the Pres byterian church bus been very lurge since the meeting of the General Assembly nine months ago. It numbers 71, against 76 in the previous twelve months. v '1 A special meeting of the bynod of the Nortlurn -Disirict of the American Prov ince of the Moravian Church has been called to meet in Bethlehem Penn., in May, to consider important financial ques tions. The regulur meeting of the Synod occurs in 1883. Some of the Jews in this country are in favor of forming a svnod. Rubtti Wise and Rabbi Kohler support the proposition, but many oppose it. The Jewish Advance, of Chicago, does not think a synod would pro mote unanimity. It says : There are met. of ubility and knowledge iu the Jewish pulpit who will be certain to find support and co operation If they should think it necessary to alienate themselves from a synod cteed, provided such a thing comts into existence." The congrtgation worshiping in the chapel, Concordia High School, Clover, North Carolina. Rev. Prof. R. A. Yoder, pastor, recently purchased an excellent pulpit Bible, and a fine orga n for the use of li e congte.'ation, the cl apel services, aod the . Sunday school. This is a most ele-sirable acquisiljoiir and will contribute much to the musiaT service's, ai d cultiva tion of the congregation and pupils of the school. It is a pleasure to note sucb ad vances. Others will see and feel the good results and chime in as things develop. ' P?. .i i r - . e ., It is gaitit-reu iruro ine ninnies I'l me last session of the Norrh Carolina Con ference of the' Methodist Episcopal Church. South, that there ure in tlie conference 224 local preuchers and t7,27l members, an in crease during one year of 898. During 1880.1 95U infants and 2.229 adults were baptised, a decrease or lot! infanU and 1,149 adults. There ure 743 Sjuday schools, a de-cre-ase of 28 ; 4,760 teachers, a decrease ; of 145 ; 28 993 scholars, an increase of I, 749. During the year the churc i in the St ute contributed $3,210 10 for domestic and S5.02G. 50 for fortig nlstijus ; total S9.273. 36. Beans, tomatoes and cucumbers are ship-' ped by every steamer from Manatee county, Florida. The profits of co't n factor" in South Corolina range from 18 to 25g per cent, per annum. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. The tidal wave is going on with force and earnestness It is at the fall and will lead On to fortune, It has come in answer to the prayers of the beioic six thousand women of Charleston, who besought tbe Genernl Assembly to prohibit tbe traffic in spirituous liq'iors. The State is being warmly commended on all. sides for its re cent legislation on this subject. Of what great force is example ! Lan- caster closed the doors of the bar rooms some months since, and on last Monday our neighboring towns, Chester and Rock Hill made n similar effort. Imitating her exam ple, each held a municipal election on the 11th instant in which the issue wis square- My made between " license " and " no li cense. The habit of drinking whisky has grown to an extent in this State that has become truly alarming-. This is the true logic of facts sad truths at that. It is becoming a curse to our people. We hope they are now fully aroused to tbe imporiaoce of the hour and are taking a second sober view of the situation. The history of the past, filled with its desolations and gloom, is a lesson of severe instruction, but useful as a sign board to point out the proper road to travel A correspondent of the Rock Hill Her ald, hit the target in the eye, when he said : "We have yet to bear of a town having; lost trade by abolishing "license." Lan caster took this step last January, and ber trade the past year has been by far the largest in her history. Marlboro county, (in this State), has not had a bar-room within her borders for several years, and no town in the State, for its size, enjoys sudiatrude as Bennettsville, her county town, and it is also a noted fact that nowhere in the State are tbe people es pecially the poorest class s, black as well as white so prosperous as in this no-license town." He is only in error as to the date when the prohibition went into effect. It was on the 1st of May last. He might well have added that it bas been a subject of general remak that tbe late Christmas with ns passed off without a single rencontre, and the New Year tripped in with a glad heart to witness the smiling face of peace. Laneatter Review. Horrible Heroism is Texas. A hor rible story is reported from Dallas, Texas. George Arnold was bitten by a mad dog a year ago, and though he took every pre caution to extirpate the virus, bas ever since been haunted by the belief that he was fated to die of hydrophobia. He had a wife and several small children liviog on an isolated farm, and be . feared that he might suddenly lose his reason and harm his little babies. Not long since he had strange feelings that convinced hi n that his time had come. He procured a trace chain and a strong lock, and fastened him self scur. ly to a tree in the woods, throw ing the key away, out ot his reach. He previviously wrote an eflvetionate letter to I wife, telling her what he vas about to do, and that be preferred to die where he could injure no one. Two dnys alter his dead body was found still chained to tbe tree. There was all the evidence neeeseary to show the horrible dea'h from hydropho bia. The ground was torn up to the lull lutigth of the chin, the nails of tbe fingers wienched tiff and all the front teeth oot in scratching and biting the tree, aod every thread of clothing off the body. The body was dreadfully lacerated with these, the only weupons the madman could use. He had judged rightly what would have been the consequence had he remained at Jiome, and, knowing that there was no human skill that could have cured him, preferred death aloiie, and in that way, to doing harm to those so near and dear to him as wife or child. Arnold was originally from Talladega, Ala., where he married, and where his widow has many friends and rel ative. Sooth Carolina state medical association meets at Newbem April 8. A cotton gin manufactory is to be es tablished at Charlotte, X. C ' Scarcity of food for work animals comes up from all parts of the south. A gray mare muleL forty-three years old, died recently in Lexington, Ky. . Forty seven gin-houses have been buri ed in Alabama since August 3 1st. One hundred applicants for the e'erkebip of the railroad commission in Alabama. A colooy of Sweeds bave purchased 30,000 acres of land in Laurel county, Ky. On the line of tbe railroad between little Rock and Texarkaoa.there are 75 saw mills Within one week 30,000- acres of land were ukeo up in Jackson county, Arkan sas. A Bieckenridge Ky. ewe is tbe mother of four Umbs that were drepped tbe same dsy. v
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