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ILJl In CDevoled to the Protection of Home qn4 the Interests of the County. Vol. II. Gastcwa, Gaston County, N. C, Saturday Morning, April 16th., 1881: No. 15. r ON A O A ZE A i T. M. PITTMAN, ATTORNE Y-AT--LA W, : (opposite Court House,) practice in the Stale and Federal Cnwts and pa iji prompt attention to business. Will tie otitate loun.1. Charlotte. N. C , ifi Jiin 5 tf. CENTRAL HOTEL Hpai'tmibvirgr C W. S. LIPSCQ1VIB, Pro, New house and furniture, ro-ma carppted, electric bellb, attentive servants, location pentral. faro the very beet. Terms, 2.00 a rlu.f innn nelr. 3.5.(0 a month. Drummers .topping over Hunday $1.60, pnly a lew y aias iiom ine f ro opnugs. Sep'25tjan. - J,. R. Wiiston. T. J. Moore. M. I) Wholesale and Retail MDruggfists N.-W. corner '1'rado and Try on sis., ' CHARLOTTE, N. C, And Dealers in a in to, !)il FARNISHES, DYE SUITS, DRUGS, SEAD VOIR OHDEBS.TO J. Il.EDDIN'S BLANK BOOK SCHOOL BOOKS AND STATIONERY", CHARLOTTE. N. C mium GiiiEii. WHOLESALE G R 0 C E It S ' AND Commission Merchants. tj Special attention giyon to the pureh. aso and sale of cotton "fj C A RLOTTB, N. C. Hep 18 6 jut R . M , M ART IU ' HAS 4 WW V0T 1' ofiim . ir, Al his Old Stand, ?(o. 3, A;r JJue Street, mx,t door to the G.iiSeite Olflee 21 is friends urc rcsptctlully in viio to call mill ex amine tin m. Respectfully, dec25 tf . R, M. MARTIN7. JUNG'S MOUNTAIN ii q rr iz i., RING'S MOUNTAIN, X. C., Is the place to Blop for good "J Htsf attention - A good livery stullc is uttuched to the Hotel, lei mi moderate. Ii. II. IXJNG, Proprietor. Oct2 tf 1880. pnj TREES! 1881- A Fine assortment of FRIIT TREES, and VI N ES for tho Fall of I 80, and Spring pfissi, at low rates, at The Grange Nurseries, (Two Miles South of tfaribaldi, X. C.) M. II. HAND, Proprietor. tlT Send for Catalogue 3 aeplStf CI A ..Outfit furnished free," with full in V I "structiona for conducting the- most profitable business that anyone can engage n. The business is so faiy to letrn, and 9ur instructions arssosimplo and plain, that any one can make great pmfiita from the very start. No one can fail who's wiling to woi k, Women are as successful as men Boys and girls can ran large sums, Mmy have made at the business ever one hundred d llm-sin a single week. ' Nothing; like it ever known before. All who ongago are uprised at the ease and rapidity with which they are able to make money. Vou can on" gage in I his Vusinees during your spare time at great pro&t. You do not have to invest capital in it. We take all thoritU Thosowho need ready money, should writo to usat once. All furnished free. Address 'kc k Co., Augusta, Maine. E, hi-ANDREWS, Wliolosalo find It eta II QharUt, X- Q t.iy Tim followinir words lei I from the lipa of Frances Silvers', who wa9 lmn(;ed iu Moig uiton on the Jih of July, 1B33, fr the murder of her lnixhund 1 This dreadful, durk and dismal day Has swept my glories all away, My sun goes down, my duyn are past, And I must leave this world at last. Ph ! Lord, what will become of me? I am condemned you all now see, To Heaven or holl my soul must fly, AH jn ft foment when I die. Judge Daniel has my sentence pass'd, Th'.se prison wails I leave at last, Nothing to cheer my Jrooping head Until I'm numbered with the dead. But oh ! thnt Dreadful Judge I fear ; Shall 1 thnt awful sentence hear ; " Depart ye cur-ed dnwn to holl And forever there to dwell P" I knoyv that frightful ghosts I'll gpe Gnawing their llehh in misery, And then and there attended be For murder in the first degree. There shall I meet that mournful face Whose blood I spilled upon this place ; With flair ing eyes to me he'll say, ' Why did you take my lifo away f '' His feeble bands fell gent'y down, His chattering tpngue soon lost its sound, To fee his soul and body part It strikes with terror to ifiy heart. I took hie blooming davs away, Left him no time to God to pray. And il his sins fall on his heal) Must I not bear them in his stead ? The jealous thought that first ga"e strife To innke me take n.y husband's life, For mouths and days 1 spent my time I hinking huw to commit this crime. And on a (lark and doleful night 1 put his body out of sight, With thiines I triod hini to consume but time would not admit if done. You all see iiie and on me gazo. He careful liow you spend our days, And never commit this awful crime, Out try to serve your God in lime. My mind on solemn subjects roll ; My little child, God blues its soul ! All you thnt are of Adum's race. Let not my fuults this child disgrace. Farewell good people, you all now soa, Whiit my b.ul conduct's brought on me To die of shiune Hud of ilistTace Before this world if human race. Awful inueod to think of death, In perfect health to I my breath, Farewell my friends, L hid adieu, Vengeance on me tnut now pursue; Great God! how shall I be forgiven ? Not fit for caith, not fit for heaven, Hut little time to pray to God, Foi now I try that awful road. A. LITTLE 'MISTAKE. Miss Minerva Uluir, spinster, . on the slmdy side of forty, and her niece, Mins Marion Alexander, also single, but on the sunny side of twenty, sat in the pleasant Bitling-rooni of u ilcuatil country house, listening to the riinilile of the ufteino n railway train, which wasj'isl arriving at Hie station. 1 Mr. Harvey will b,e lure in u few min-. utrs. Marinii.' said hex uuut, ''und yu must be very coidml with him, unless you wish tcoff'iid in1'.' ' I wUli the train ha 1 had a collision! was Ihe rather vindictive reply, though a, sjy half fiiii.'e ahowjcd, thul the vioxii were hardly meant. ' Maritn-!' cried the other, somewhat sternly. ' You are pi si lively sinTuI to be so mulici .ius. Why slnmKI you hate a ueiitleinun you have never seen ?' 1 1 might in turn ask why I should love this gentleman I huve never sccoT' NJohndy asks you ta lave him.' No. But you wi h rae io marry, hirja Well, opolog'Zi'd the aunt, 'I would like to see you us well settled us yiu certainly would ha with Waller Harvey. The love can come u(ter wards. know you will like him.' - ' Why. Aunt Minerva, you have never met him yet yourself ' '. Not since he wag a little boy. But I have always known his parents, and tbey are worthy eople,' ' So were Marion Alexander', think,' ppuliegly said, the young lady. And jet yon see what a perverse scapegrace you have for a niece. " Even Miss Minerva's grim features bud to relax a little. But any further conversa tion was cut ofTby a ring at the (rout door. 1 He has come,' said iw Blair. ' Y',u must at least treat him civil y. Marion.' Indi'td, I will, aunty, for yoor suke,' said the tiirl, with a touch of eood feilieg. Miss Minerva went bur-ell lo the viaitoi in the hall. Mr. Harvey.' she tail to the dark beunlcd, bundfome young nun whoin the servant admitted ' it gives rae a genuine pleasure to welcome you to this house. I have known your lunuly so many years that you almost s-cm a friend.' ' Indeed, I hope to be one "as the frank reply. ' You rami let me send my niece to you,' Hid Miss Minerva, as soon as the new coiner was fairly seated. ' I "am Louse k.eeptr, you kuow, and cannot neglect my : duties, ond you will have a substitute whom you must leurn to like,' A slender, rustling figure was half posh el into the room, where it stood bowing with a semi baugMy air, Something like a smile was upon the young man's counte nance, mid he kept his eyes fastened upon the (fill's faee ; but she did not look up. wuiiini: in silence for him to speak. But he, two, seemed wordless, and ou!y gave Tent to an emnerrassed ' Ahem !' MisB Blair wondered a little, and frowned a little at her niece's behavior. But sb wisely resolv d t leave them together. - As soon os -be wu9 fairly gone. 'Ma rion 1' cried the young mm. The girl raised her eyes at once. ' Arthur, is it you? I I did not expect yon. I thought it was your consiu Walter who was coming." l would require a long discourse to ex plain all, my Marion," he answered. And I almost fear your aunt may overhear us." His arm went about her waist We will s'toll into the garden Arthur. There we can lulk without danger of being overheard." So they walked oat into the pleasant ground?, arid over the greensward, to the roots of a greut oak. tree, where they found c zy seats IJave yoq ever., told your aunt about me, Marion?' 'I could not, Arthur. She has been so wedded to the idea of ipy marrying Ihe s in of her early friend. General Harvey t that any opposition would have mmle hpr unhuppy. S.o I have left the matter to. time. But you have not yet tajd tpe how you c me to be here.' It is so wondrous strange. My cousin Wulter and myself are excellent good friends; and as he happens to have an attachment of his own, he is just us ad versed to being lore d into a marriage with a stranger as yourself. Jdiscoveied all this in the course of a convtrsation I hud wiili him ; and then I told him the story of our meeting, and our present relatione. The revelulion came j'ist in time, is, fathtr w.is even then urging a visit here Dbon. luin. Nothing was easier for me I hap to tak- his pluce end let Waller undertake more welcome j inni.' . ' And now that you fare here, sir. what can y u do.' ' Upon my soul I' crieil the young man, somewhat ruefully, ''I hardly know; I must try and ingraiiate myself with your aunt, end leave the rest to luck A li ng talk was followed by a long stroll ; u,nd, thus nearly two hours elapsed bifore they returned to the house. Aunt Minerva beamed upon them, a. most appro ving glance at what slip deemed the sice ss of her plans ; but slw startled them the next morning by saying : 1 have jist had a note from the Gen eral, your father, Mr. Harvev. . He will be with us himself, to-m,'irro rnorning.' Poor Ariuur tried hard to o moeal the consternation which this intelligence threw him into. Fortunately Miss Minerva wag in too complacent a humor to be very oli- serving. Come, Marion yau gha.ll read the note. I miuht make Mr. Harvey too vain, or I would give him a peep also,' Miss Marion in another room, read i.enerai iiarvey a diiici, wdicii ran as .1 I II t. I Ml . 1 follows : '( my son Wulter, usually si dutiful. flinuld disappoint me in our plan, I should del inclined, to udopt wy nephew, Arthur Harvey, who is a splendid fellow, and would, probably, do more to oblige me us he has not been spoiled by indulgence. I suppose my gentleman will have arrived before you get this. 1 have tukeo a sudden notion that he miy require looking alter ; und, us I have owed yon a visit, 1 will pay my debt by following this note to morrow moruing. biocerely your Inend. John Habvkx.' I supjHise,' said Marioo slyly, though she felt iu no humorous, mood, ''it you could. i'I get the son, auniie, you would not object to the nephuw, as would be alt in.. th.- lanuly. Wei!,' replied the aunt, after a mo ment s thought, i don t know how that might have hi-en if I had'ut seen Waltr Harvey. But I feel now that n o'ther young man couia replice liim. ISesides, Mai ion, I don't think he will be so un willing.' Poor Marion could only hang her head a d blush like the nuiliy girl sue was. What shall I do, M;rioiiT' cried At- ', thur, wbeo she tripped back Into th- par- lor. I feel inclined o run. a way installer.' 'T'''t would be so brawl' wts the rather a iccastic rej liiuler. ' riease, then, advise, or rather, com. ma nd rae Wi ll, then, p'w, hear your orders. Tiiig deceit makes ine feel mean and guilty io spite ol myself, and we must have es. plana! ion at all hfeSrda.' 'Marion r flvct d a moment. No. not now in the morning, on must face your tfticle, and then let the truth come out,' And then, won't there be a storm!' the young mnn said Well, we have raised it. and we must meet it Miss Marion replied bravely, 'And now let us dismiss the subject for to-day.' . But a'finngh they did their bst to be happy, a ne vonsness about the com ng ex posuie hung over them, and they were much too Test less for comfort that evening and lEe Ti?'- tnolming. """'"""' Il was ten o'clock before the train from town arrived, and two weary hoars passed after breakfast before the expected visitor arrived at the bouse. He was received at the door by Miss Minerva, while Marion and her bver re mained in the sitting-room Arthur made a virtue of necessity, and advanced to greet his ancle with as much heartiness and in nocence as he could possibly throw into his manrer. 'Why Arthur!' cried the General, this is rather a surprise. What could have, brought you here?' Bat he gave his nephew a wrm shake of the hand. ' Author 1'. cried the aunt 'Arthur I thought your son's name wag Walter General Harvey.' ' So Tt is, Miss Minerva so it is! But this y.iung man happens to be my nephew.' 'God gracious!' gasped Miss Blair, sinking hack into a chair. General Harvey began to comprehend that something was wrong. 'See here, Arthur!' he cried sternly, have vou been playing a trick T Why i r- you here, instead of my son whom I sent? ' Dear uncle, Walter would not come, for he is not heart free ; and he ?and I both knew t! at you wanted Marion in the family ; and as Wllrr waa not eligible, we thought that is I he ' 'Here he broke down ignominiously. There was a blank, ominous silence, Marion stole to Mias Minerva's side ? i Aiintie. tile witf'you' roost 'Ibrgive Arthur ae. Te are stich rfriejs. tfefidei 8tiedded,cdcmiirely, T'yoni said" if you couldn't have General Ilaivey's son, yon would prefer his nephew ' . General Harvey's and Miss Blair's glan ces met, and something like a smile passed iiver th ir fai es. 'I see how it is.' said he. 'We bBve been fighting iiature;"w1ch "is a bit of a mistake. I fancy we had better rectify it. And they diii so. NOTHING SETTLED, AND EVERYTHING IN A JUMBLE William Arp lHnrnvrra that Everything in tht H'arltt in Going Wrong, anil That Very Little of it Wait tver Hight Any hiyc Bunted Bunk, Etc. Atlanta Constitution There's nothing settled. Spring ond winter keen skirmishing around. The dead-. lock at Wasliiugtoa continues. Railroad stock are jumping up und down. M uey kings and corporation magnates bull heads awhile and then retire on a still-hunt while we, the people, look on and wonder und exclaim what is all this devilment going to do to us ? Farming- has began ubont in spots. The fruit is killed, in some orchards and left alive in others. The flood has parsed awny, but the wreck of it still lingers in the laud. The bridgrs have not been rebuilt and Ihe soil on many farms has been taken tfTuud left holes and pits which cannot be filled up. Fencis have not beeu lephiced, ond there'seui ugh rails in the gulf of Mexico tobuildacoiduroy bridge across il. Il woyJJ be' a good lime now to vote on a sttek hiw 'ferjee or tic-,fenee." We have worked hard for ten days hauling rock and building rock pens and filling 'em. It's double, double toil ai d trouble, but stiil we are rot untiftppy. We don t set on the bank and cuse at my hou.se. It don't pay- Corn is going to be ccin und wheat ' wheat this year, and, i,t becomes every farmer to be up and doing. If we don't uake a sur plug these railroads will suffer and be impoverished for want of freight. The stock ill tumble for want of dividends. The merchants will have do cntomers who caa pay for what they buy. Then the bankers will have no borrowers the; can trust. Says I to Mr. Dean, at Gadsden, who is a solid nierchaut and a close obserrer : Sup- P th" turns out in be a very poor crop yiar. iat theni' "ny, a:r, said lie, "the whole country- will be broke. The corn and meat aid hay and gnano that otcauiboats and railroads are pouring into this country n a credit will not be paid for. Everything depends on a good crop year more so than I fcave ever knowu." I went round by Ballon to get to Rome eighty milct to nuke twenty for the Rome aod atngito lio bad not sen repaired. Irs all right now, waiting for the next fnshet. Dalton is a lively plaee, and says ohe wou dent have a riv"er if she could That's all right. I reckon, for I like to see folks contented and happy, though I told Mr. Lewis I coulilent help thinking about the feller who wouldent have the corn be cause it wasent shelltd. But he needent care about rivers or anything else as long as he can keep that tub mill agoing. Six train loads of passengers a day to fetd, and he sets a good table, and everybody knows it. lie ia an old line whig John Qaincy Adams Lewis the only man I know down south who waa named for that president. There's thousands of G. VVs and T. Js and T. Ms and A Js and H. Cs and J. Cs. but the old Adams family wnsent very popular with our people. 'When I got to Rome I found a fresh sensation, for a bank hud busted and every man who lost by it thought his own case the hardest, and all f em were mad with the state for bagging the assets. The state is rich and they are poor and they want to know what rkht she has to a preference. You can nruue with the men abont it, but Mr. Speer had better keep clear of the women if be knows what's good for him. One good lady had 8G50 in there and when she heard ttit the bank was a little shaky, she told her has band to take it out, but he put on eeneruiis airs about it and said il would b" wrong it would show a lack of confidence that it was confidence that sustained banks and kept era from breaking. A few days after wards the bank broke and he went home a sadder man and got demoralized and went to bed sick and look on amazin, and woulden't eat and coulden't sleep and groanel and tumbled about on the bed and called for morphine an 1 finally bis wife told him to sit up a minute, and then she showed bim a package of money marked $600, and informed him ' she took the money out herself before the suspension' and he got well immediately, and danced all around the room, and kissed her forty times without stopping, and on looking at the package again, " Why." siys he, " this is only ?600, and we had $6j0." "That's so," said his wife, " I took ut $600 for us and left $50 in there for confidence. But you musent juke with 'em much ns yet. They are not in a joking humor. The pulpit text now in that town ' is "Lay up your treasure in H 'aven.'and one of the ministers a Ided : ' Where there are no pre ferred creditors.' Well, its bad, very bad, esjiecial'y on pocr folks, but there ate a heap of good people who dident have any to put in a bank, and I reckon we n ill huve to be eorry for them, too. I heard of a pour sickly woman who bad scratched up fifty dollars and pit it ia thereto pay her burial expenses, and when she heured it was gone s e got up nut of bed and said she couldent ufTord to die now, aud is sewing away to make some mote. Ao old acquaintance saluted rae so gaily I said, "You don't look like you lost any thing by the bank.' ' Loss the mischief, no, sir, I'm assetls; I owe cm aud I'm ei j )in ed from paying over. Aiu't il sple. did?' Having some business at Gadiden I journeyed to that little mari'imo city and was astonished at its prortss since I was there two lears ugo. The population bus nearly doubled. They haven't built any more falls but they have built mote saw luiila, aud. lots of new stores and dwelling homes and a steamboat and a hotel that would do credit to Rome or any other such town. It's a lively, prosperous city with fin; prospects. Bob Kyle used toowu the concern pretty much, but he dou't now. He has worked hard and done much to build it up and ought to be proud of his succets. It's astonishing how much one euergelic man can do for a pl ice. The ladies ure r j- icing over the speedy banish ment of whisky from that ceu .try. Ttie law Las been passed on the vote a d bet ore long the bar-rooms will be closed, ui.d a man n il! have to go out ol the country to BUji!,tiI&S 8a'e prohibited, both at wholesale and retail What ihey waul now ia for public opinion to susuin the law and give it a (uir test. It's a woman's movement to protect their husbands und sons, anil I wish the women all over the land had the right to vote on iliat q i s:io, if no other, for They are-more interested in it than anybody else. Gudideii is wide awaUe about making railroad connections with Georgia. Tiiey are hopeful of ihe Georgia Western and the Opclika road, aad then with the Coosa opt tied up to Mobile in a few years it would he a considerable city. 'I'he coal lu.it was I buri ed ia my j; raid iv st only ten em's a bushel, and that is ibout $2 5J a ton, ut d it come from a mice near the suburbs. Gadsden is proud of Gadsden, and when ynu ask about the populatiou by the las census they don't know exactly but wid tell you that hundieds have moved iu since the ctnsui was taken. I remembei arkimr Cousin John Thrasher about the popula tion of Tocwm City, and be said, the acron give 'em 700 but it wasen't half taken and two families and a nigger had moved in since. I do like to see folks aland np to their town don't you? Bill Aw. RELIGIOUS NEWS- From Sunday's Raleigh Observer. The Presbytery of Mecklenburg will meet with the Huntersville church next Wednesday. ' The Presbytery of Orange will hold their 222 1 stated session at Chapel Hill on Wednesday next.. Rev. Tl omas D. Pit's has been called and h a accepu-d the call to St John's Episcopal church, Wilmington, N. C. A revival is still going on in tbe Bap tist Church al Louisburjr, and witb in creased interest. The attendance U large, and a number have professed. Rev. T. E. Skinner will preach the an. nual sermon at the Warsaw High School at the close of the 8 ssion, and Rev. N. B. Cobb will deliver the address before the Pliilosophian Society of the same school. Statistics of the Moravian church in this country for 1880 show that there are 9, 561 communicants, an increase of , 70 j 1.G93 qnn-c lm nunicants, and 5,287 chi!-. dren, m iking a total of 16,471 members, a gain of 211. Riiv. Dr. Pritchard left Wilmington Frid.iy morning. His visit there proved a source f great gratification to his many Iriends iu Wilmicgton, and especially to the congregation of the First Baptist Church. Rev. Dr. W. II Bobbitt, the Presiding Euler, has charged tbe time for holding the Greensboro D strict Conference of the M-thodist Episcopal Church from the first Sunday in August tj tbe fifth Sunday ia July. Tbe British Methodist object to the proposal of American Methodists to intro duce doctrinal topics in the Ecumenical Conference. 'To this narrowing of the scope of the conference Ihe American Meihedisis are txpecUd to emnr. The Episci pol church of Enfield has or ditf d a handsome pipe organ, to cost $600. The instrument will be iu the church and ready to be used at the next regular ar ointment erf' tbe lector. Rev. A. S. Smith, wnich will be the next Sunday, The third International Sunday-school Cottteo'Vu will be held June 22-24 at To. rotito, . . Canada. Tbe meeting will be held io the pavilion of the Hoitieullura! Gar. del 8. Delegates from the United Statf 8 ond Canada will c mpose the convention, together with the executive committee and leeson. committee, The United Slates a r entitled to twice thtir repTe.-entation in Congress, In ali, fcCO aie Lt. titled to sit ia the convention. In 1593 English churchmen passed op and dewn the American coast. Rev. Rich urd Siymonr held the first church service in New England in 1607. Henry Hudson, auolher churchman, led the voyage of dis covery up the river which bears his name. Io the vicinity of Boston, churchmen Hk Thomas Morton, ol Merry mount, in 1622, tihd Rev. William Morrel of Weymouth, in 1623, and Ktv. William Bluckstune, tbe pioneer citizen of the Puritan metropolis wire ihe first coh nists, but they made do, advance against tl.ec m an of Winthrop, ' who had eventhii g their own way from 1 C30 oi,ward. Southward, under Sir Wal t r Raleigh, Virginia was colonized by cliutchim n in 1607, Maryland and the Curoliuas a little later. '' Baptism is tee S.st and mast impor tant rite of the church," said a Galveston Sunday-school teacher to a 15-year-old boy io bis class. ' It is, is it?" wug the reply j - where would you get anything to bap:ixs if it wu'u'l for marriage, hey ?' SMALL FARMS. -- -A farni-r's ambition sno ilj be to own smaller land tilles and better land; to owu a lss number of stock and belter stock, M re praise to him who raises one tlious i d Im.-licls of csrn from (en acres thai to him who raises the same fr mi twenty; and to h mi thitlVeJg five tos iuto mik ing a poaud of butter eich day, tban to niin who lias ten cows and gets a half pound from each ; and to him that in ikes year ling poikers we'yh as aujcli as his neigh bor's two-year-olds., tUin to that neighbor. As mucii as 2 12 bushels of corn, 50 bush els of whvat, 60 of oats, 70 of barley, 50 of rye, 9 of clover seed, have beo - reported from o. e acre. II gs have bjen made to weigh 4"0 pounds at cue, yt&r old Steeia 2 40J at three. Forty pouudd of wool have been sheared from oue sheep. Seven teeu pounds of butter have been mado Iron: one cow ia a wetfc. And the- closer a larmer gets to these riaults tbe uiore tba world owe him. Tbe crowing wheat in tho Stenii.fjh Valley, VY, wotusualty promtticjf. '"
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