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Devoted to the Troteetion of Home and the Interests of the County.
Yol. II.
,0-ASTONiA, Gaston County, N. C, Saturday .Iorning, i pkil 23 rd., 1881.
No. 16.
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ON
A
GAZE
T. M. PITTMAN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
(opposite Court Home,)
Practice in the State and Federal Counts
arid pai, prompt attention to business.
Will nc olitatt loans.
Charlotte. N. C , 16 June 5 tf.
CENTRAL HOTE L,
W. S. LIPSCOMB, Pro.
New house and furniture, ro' mi carpeted,
electric belli, attentive servants, location
entral. fare the very best. Terms, f 2.00 a
,day. $10.00 a week. 3o.uu a month,
..Drummers stopping over , ISunduy $1.60.
iOnly a few yards fi om the Iron bprmgs.
Sep25tojan I. -i -
L. R. Wriston.
T. J. Ifoore, S(. D
Wholesale and Retail
Mr wg gists )
N.-W. corner Trade and Tryon sts.t
CHARLOTTE, N. C,
And Dealers in
Quints. (Oils,
VARNISHES, DYE STUFFS,
DRUGS,
S E D J'OL1 II ORDERS TO
J. R.EDDIN'S
FOlt-
BLSNM00K
SCHOOL BOOKS
' AND- ' '
STATIONERY,
CHARLOTTE, W. C.
fiCHIFF- GRI'ELL
WHOLESALE GROCERS
' AND
Commission Merchants.
l" Special attention given to the purch
ase and sale of cotton
CHARLOTTE, XT. O.
Sepl8 6m
R. (VI, MARTIN
II AS A CHOICK LOT OP
CHRISTMAS (iUODN
At his Old Stand. No. 3, Air
Lioe Street, next door to the Gazelle Office,
His friends are respectfully
invited to call and ex
amine them.
Respectfully,
dec25 if
It. M. MARTIN7.
KING'S MOUNTAIN
IIOTKL,
ftiNGrs mountain, jr. a,
J&P'ta fhe place to stop for good TJ
flSy attention
A good livery MuLIe is utiuched to the
Hotel. Jeims moderate.
" L. II. LONG. Proprietor.
Oct 2 tf . -
1880- FIUIT TREES! I881,
A Fine assortment of FRUIT TREES,
and VI N ES for the Fall of l$8Q, and Spring
of 1381, at low rates, at
The Grange Nurseries,
(Two Miles South of Garibaldi, N. C.)
M. H. HAND, Proprietor.
3T Send for Catalogue 3
seplStf
(in Oufit famished free, with full in
V I Instructions for conducting the most
profitable business that anyone can engage
in. The business is so easy to learn, and
our instructions ars so simple and' plain,
that any one can make great profiits from
the very start No one can fai who's wiling
jo woi k, Women are as successful as men
Boys and girls can can large sums, Jinny
have made at th.e, business ever one hundrpd
dcllarsin a single week. N'tthjnif like it
ever known before. All who engage are
su prised at the ease and rapidity with which
they are able to make money. You can en
gage in this business during your spare
lime at great profit. You dojiot have to
invest capital in it. We take all the risk.
Thosewho need ready money, should write
to usat once. All furnished free. Address
Xaoa & Co., Augusta, "Maine.
E. M.ANDREWS,
TVholeaalp and "Retail
Charlotte, J. & vAy
IT Uf S9ME BIRDS HOPAXD OTUEKS
HAI.K.
A little bird sat on a twig of a tree,
A swinging and singirgasglad as could be,
And sh l iking his tail And nmoothing his
dress,
And having such fun as you never could
guess.
And as he had finished his gay little song
He flew down in the street and went hop
ping along,
This way and that way .with both little feet,
While his sharp little eyes looked lof
.some' hjng to .e,t.
A little boy said to him : ''Little bird, stop,
And tell me the reason you go with a hop,
Why don't you walk, as boy do and aien,
One foot at a time, like a dove or a hen F"
Then tuVe little bird went with a hop.hop,
. . hup,
And he laughed and he laughed as he
never would stop;
And he said: "Little boy, there are some
birds that talk, '
And some bi ds that 'hop and some bird
that walk.
"Uoe your y.es, little boy ; watch closely
and see
What little birds hop, both feet just like me,
And what little birds walk like the duck
and the hen.
And when you k.now that you'll kuow
more than seme men.
1 Eerv bird that can scratch in the dirt
can walk ;
Every bird that can wade in the water
can walk, -Every
bird that hag claws to cafh prey
wiife ican walk :
One foot at a tiu.e that is why tLey can
walk.'
"But most l&tle birds who can sing you
a song
Are so pmall that their legs are not very
strong
To scratch with, or wade with, or aU.h
things that's why
They hop with both feet. Little bey,
goodbye."
The exceptions to this ru'e ftro rani.
The rule is generally correct and so sim
ple as easily to be remembered. L. J.
bates is idb Awake.
PUVER TY AND PA TRIUTISM
Duly ViteiiHurd by One Who it Jtolh
, Poor and J'atrtotle,
Atlanta Coral nut ion,
There it an old man writing in the Coun
try Gentlmun anil he goes buck to 1 843
and says n e hud jist such u winter as this
one freea a ad annws and-fi tod until
Mav, and a schi.rching drought ull sum-
iner. and the (nrtners made nothing but a
few nubbins and poor people suff red and
cattle ilied from starvation, and he wurn
us to prepare for the wort.' Thats all very
well, and I am glad to perceive thai the
farmers generally are doing their best.
Corn ia crawling up to a d il'ar a bushel!
and lii.yiSl.5 ) and meat ia on the ri
and we've got hurdly any sed in the
ground and ( he harvest will be late, but!
still there is no use in boriowing trouhl .
May be it wont conie A few yeurs ago
the pe pie in niseis and Missouri thought
i hey were ruined, for the grasshoppers
came a 'on; and eat op their growing crop?
and dideni leave a greeu thing upon-the
face of the earth, but the farmers plowed
qp and p'anied again and the season hit
the 'ate prop j ist right and the v had an
abundant harvest. There is a pqwer of
e'asticjty about hum in nature. Its aston
ishing how readily we accommodate our
selves to uircuinstanctx. If we prosper and
make m ney we spend it according, and il
we have bat luck we haul in and pinch
ou selves, and scufflj thorough willmul
BufTering to extremity. Most of our wants
are fanciful and imaginary anyhow. The
late war taught us a lesson about that, aid
ycu can't scare the old p3o,de who went
through it very mucin The soldiers had un
awful lime, but it was a little awfuller on
he poor families wh i stayed at h rau and
had to feed and clothe a pussel of helpless
children. 1'tiere aint rnuch fun in d ling
without shoes, and hats, and flour, and
meat, and eqar, and boiling down salt out
pf smokehouse dirt and making coif e out
qf sweet potatoes atjd rye, and aweetning it
with aorgum. I remember when porn was
nundred dollars a bushel and cotton
cards with iqt handles or back w is a
hundred dollars a pair, and there wane it
but one milk cow in our county, and I
bought her for four thousand dollars, for
there was a baby on band and no rr,i:k
where it ought to be, and the little thing
had liked to hsve perished to death, in the
name of the fyord. Those were hard times,
sure enough, and when I think ol 'em it
seems like a sin for anybody to grumble or
complain about anything now. Good
health and peaoj is all I ask fir the bal
ance of my 8nblu nary life, and if we can
teach our children the aaine philosophy,
it's sch Hiliog enough to b;ep 'em ooqtented
and happy. Bit still wbett I read about
them fellera'up yqi ler abusing our people
for theii pitriotisni, and calling it treason ,
it sorter demoralize my natniuity, and I
oqtcU myself wishing so in J great trouble
would overtake 'em far a little while, just
to let 'em feel wnat sufT:rin and troo ile
is. The eTfrlmtin ysgabondt are qol
SHtlffli'd with ubusing as at home, b it they
rig up their hypocritical shows and bring
'em down here and insult as biore our
faces and ni ike our people pay to see it.
Uere's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin" a cruising
arout'diUpon wheels with a big ould houn'
dg foJIoviog ajong. and they picture
aluvery as ao awful brutality, and axe
trying to teach our children a lie and innke
'em believe their fathers were unleeling
monsters in the slmpe of men, and there's
fouls ejaough living to putronizt euch u
thing and piy the napudtot stand 'rers for
the privi ege of bein$ s!andred and iosalt
ed. Tl.iei show fellers are bad egs, and
I'm glad the people of UrilE.i throwed bad
egg at'tm. . It did me good ull over when
I read about .it. They've got sense und
indignation, and if ever I move a oy where
it. will be to Uriffi i. If slavery had have
been all that Mrs. Stowe wrote about it,
it would been amazing in) mdence for them
to say "It is take the. looking glass down
south and let em louk in and see themselvrs
and maljejeru pay for it," but what kind ol
qublushi ig ufTromcry is it when l hey mould
the mirror in a twist and 1o us some
thing thai looks like the dtvil incarnate
and say its us and make us pay to tee it
Where is Newt Tumliu T Where is John
Branson f Where is General Toombs ? Is
there nobody to rise up and ua.' language
and say something appropriate? Hurrah
lorUnfl'uti? 3 cheers for Griffin. When
s ie wants any more eggs let her draw on
me and I'll make the hens spile' em for a
purpose.
We had one good warm sunny day last
week, und me an I my little boy went a
fishing. I have to go sometimes to humor
the children j ist like fond p irents go with
'em to the circu. Fishing is a good thing
lor a m id when he is tired or has tbe'blues,
drives him a criand's'To ruminate and
ponder upon life an! trouble and his own
shortcomings, and it keeps hi n amused and
entertained, wheth tr li'i cilc'ies anyhinjr
or not. I don't believe in laziness, but I
do think it' goo l for a mm t have leistire
occasionally time to think. The good
bonk says "the wisdom n( a learned man
comet h by opportunity of leisure." II jw
c in he gel wisdom that holdeth the plow,
He giveth his mind to m ike furrows and
H ilillijM tn s jo tbe Uih.1 fud.ieri - And
8 with the carpenter and workmuster. Und
they who cut and grave S"als and watch" to
finish, their wo. k. The smith aiso 'whg
sitieth by the anvil and fijhteth wRI) the
heat of the furnace while the nois - of the
hummer and the anvil is ever in his ears
and eyes look upon the pattern of the
thing that he mild-th. All these trust in
their hauls and are wise in their work ufid
without them the city eunnot be inhabited
ibhl they shall not set on the judge's pent
nor be found where parables are spoken."
I reaond that must be the reason why so
many young men will pot go to funning or
mechanical einplnymeHt. They want lo
sit on the judges seat. That'll all very well
if there was seats enough for em all, but
there aint and so I think they had belter
draw straws for the seats and let the bal
ance try Standing or wuiking after the plow
awl ile. They can fiud time to go a fjshing
when the ground is too vytt to plow and if
there is any gum in em it will work nut.
A m in can watch the c ck and t'link too.
Fishing is just like human 1 i Ie. Most every
body hus got a honk baited with something
and there's ulways a pqasel of simpletons
ready lo bite at a werm whether thdre is a
hook in it or not. Tout's cumin' mi very
common, but ever and anon theres some
fellers going around with a seine or a dreg
mt who are not ai'sfiVd unless tbey gobble
up things by wholesalelike these corpor
ations and spculators and syndicates.
That aint I'tting fair and they shunt fish in
my creek if I cau help it-
Yours, Bill A bp.
A GOOD LESSOS FOR OUR YOUNG
MEN.
The semi-communistic idea prevailing
among a certain class of our young men
wlio fare for putting everybody out of posi
tion wh i wears spectacles and every b idy in
who can see without spectacles is fairly
put to rebuke by a striking1 ii cid 'iit in the
life of the late Cz ir of Riia. We tell the
Story as we Qtid it and sincerely ootnmend
it to our young men wha start out in life
with the maxim, " Te youug meu should,
rule :"
"Some of the stories of the boyhood of
Alexander II are new and moat of ihem
have been repeatel till they seem old in
deed. But in the light of recent circum
stances even 'hese assum? a fresh interest.
The Emperor Nicholas suhj-cied his
cliliren to the sara stern discipline to
whioa bis army nffijeis had to submit. Ac
cording to the usre ol the empire the
oong Alexander wtien yv a child duly en
tered the army in one of fie lower grd'H.
When fourteen years od h- was appoint, d
an Bluer in the G,u irds. A few days after
this promotion as be wai going to tbe
apartment he oeenpM in the imperial pal
ace he crossed a hall where were assembled
several high dignitaries. At the approach
of the Prince they rose and saluted dim.
" This mark of rmpect on the part of
these old military rnpn proved very flatter
ing lo the young officer, so much so indeed
that wishing again to et.j y the homtwe he
took 'necasion lo cross the ball seven!
limes again, but the generais having-bh-Jtited
h'tn one paid him no lurtlier atten
tion. Tais neglect did iwl uii (tie impe
rii! and imperious youth, who went and
ompliiii:d iif it lo his lather. The Empe
ror, taking him by the hand. ..inluc ed
him dgiiiii to the hall where tne general"
a ew-iO-ill conversing.. , . .. i
" "M.y eon said he in their pns rice, 'I
ma really pained to see that ynu so litile
cumprehe id the duties that your epaulettes
impose upon ou towards your superiors in
rank, and that you are lacking in respect
to men whose hairs are bleaclieddurnuj the
long years they have served the State. Do
you not keow that these men whose hom
age you seek are the very ones to whmn
you should render homage ? For it is to
these that your father owes his throne uml
his life ; and it is to their fi lelity, z;a! and
loyal services that you must luok lo aid
you in sustaining with glory the throne yiu
expeet to occupy. Bw, then, to those
noble old generals, and consider every m irk
of respect you show to them as an Imuor to
yourself. What you have done proves to
me that you are yet too young to wear the
epaulettes you have donned j I luke them
back. Do not ask for Ihem again until you
prove by your conduct that yon are fit to
wear them honorably.' So saying, the Em
peror detached the epnuiettes from hin son's
shoulders, warning him not to forget the
lesson."
Let him not boast who puts his armor
on but him who puts it. off with horor to
himself and a life of usefulness to his coun-
tryy - .
'"HIE MAN WHO BOASTS,
' The man who boaet-3 is twin born to a
l.:urt for neither of them can tell (he tru'h.
exc> by uccidenl, and yet it must be very
cmlortaMe to feel that what you do ii al
ways the very best thing that can be done
hy ulty one, and that you know j ist a little
nvirij U.&iMany living man. We arv ac
quitted with a tender-hearted gentleman
whose, i xpetiences were ulway-exceptional.
and vho has seen thuus .n ls of ihinii?
whic no mortd eye sive his own ever
looked up in. When he went up the RUi
it wal the clearest day that had been seen
for of full century, and when he traveled
civeffhe St. Gothurd he went thron.'h a
-stornjof hailstones, the least of which was
bitrgt tl,i,ui a hen's egg, und (he guid-'
who jlfus tl.ree--'Core years und ten, and had
been-4rer the pass more than 2 001) times,
deelarVd that he hud never in his life wit-
- H
ne8sei such a spectacle before. The old
gentletnan crossed the ocean in the greatest
hurricane on record, and saw more icebergs
than the oldest sea Captain in the serviee.
His children 'were'- all geniuses, - und - he
found a governess for them who proved the
most learned and accomplished woman it)
the world. " '
One day the poor man was stricken with
paralysis, alld we reared thill his happy
b.iasifulness was over ; but afier six week-.'
wo met him on the sheet an 1 he told u
that he hid been visited by eighteen due
tors, who ull declared thai (hat purlieu'ur
kind irf paralysis had never before made its
appearance. So tie lives on in the cheer
ful belief that he h..a the best of every
thing, and ever time we see him we envy
him. O tr to nhache is of the. uiindto.
sort, while his m ikes him feel as though
he hud a music-box in his in mtlt. When
our leg is broken it is only an usjly fruc
ture, but his is a comp tuud Iracture of a
compcuid fracture. We send for a doctor
to cure our ills, and he proves to be only
an ordinary M. D . but when he se. ks a
physician he finds a man who has taken
every known degree in every ktiiwn
science, and who cures the worst ctMSever
heard of. When our Iriend diis he will
probably come bick through some milium
j ist to tell us that his death was the ni'ist
mdtrlu death in the world, and that be
found, when he got up yonder, that they
had saved a choice little oorner for him
where he expects to be ino e coin'ortable
than anybody who ever entered the celes
tial regions. If all this is mere boasting
an 1 lying, then boasting and lyin are no
Ion or gross faults tut very comfortable
virtues.
flow beau'iful it is. M try, to think of
you clinf ing about me as tbe ivy clings
about the oak." Wouldn't maple be more
appropriate than oak, Theodore?" queried
Mary, with a sly twinkle in her eves." You
know what they get troin the maple."
Boston Transcript.
The monthly output of the Sod.ly mines
areragea 175.0QO babeU per mmih.
MEN AND WOMEN'.
Tbe Distribution ol the Sexes In DlflVr
ent Sections of the Coaatijr.
In popular tradition il has for a long
time been held that there was an army of
spinisUrs 411.000 strong in tbe good old
commonwealth if Massachusetts, and that
they nil yearn d for husbands and obtained
none, Populur tradition in this ease is
nearly correct. The stern figures of the
census show that the exact number of
sup rahu dent females in the Bay State is
66,062. Further contemplation of the
.citpsus tables reveals other facts concerning
the relative number of males and females
of the hum in kind facts which are stri
king in I heir way.
Tlie ti tal nuoibfi of aialee in the countrt
is 25 620 584. Tne females number 888,
2dS less. 'I hjs it is sad to recordon
bi hall of those who think, with Thomas
0 way, "Ud. woman ! lovely woman I
nature hi tii made thte to temper man ;
we hud been bnitte without you" or it
is pleasent to record on behulf of those
who think, with the same Otway, that
woman is "diBtructive, deceitful woman"
that there is a decrease in'percenlage under
the census of IgTO of 1.C82 on the 100,
000. Pennsylvania, it may be remarked,
contains 2 136,635 males and 9,516 more
fenitih s, which is an increase of 163 on
100 000 over the census of 1870.
Taking the sictioi 8 of the country it
is seen that in ev ry New England Slate
excep Vermont the females outnumber
the m iles, aial the excess of the latter i
the Green M"Unta n Sitite is only 1.300.
In the Middle States the females outnum
ber the males, excei t in Delewure. In the
Southern States the same preponderance
of fema'ea over males is also sei-D, except
in West Virginia, Florida, Texas und
Mississippi. It is tioticeuble that int .e
l)is rict of C ilumbia there are 10.000
more females (hun mules; but this is
doubtless d ie to the fuct that the treasury
department is in Wa hinglon. When the
West is reachtd the proportions change.
In every Western State (he males are far
in exciss of the females. For instance, in
Ohio ihey outnumber the females by 30,
091 ; in Indiana by 43,090 ; in Kansas by
7"4t-4 ; iti Nevada by 21,701, and so on.
From thh statement of the preponder
ance of the stX'S in the sections it w II be
seen that the females are in txc ss In the
older und more firmly settle 1 portions of
the country, while the further' .west the
relations ure s aught the greater will the
excess of males be found, and it r aches its
max mum it: those Slates and Territories
where settlement is most . recent and the
hatdfhips of life greatest. The Sjuth
presents the best ej ample of the normal
suite of the st j. s. It has comparatively
speaking few or no manufactories, immigra
tion or emigration, uud there the sexes ure
more nearly i qual, the females being
slightly in excels, In some of tbe Southern
Slutis. however, the increase of male popu
lation since the last cetsus is noticeable,
apd it is in the sections which have attrac
ted at ttlcrs and capital thut it ie most so.
Another point to note is tbe increase of
It-males in si me of the Western States an
iner use of over three pel cent, in Arizina,
six and a half in California, sixteen in .Moli
lalia, five in Kunsas und four in Dakota,
tins t-howing tlmt they are becoming
q nieled down into a settled life a mar
ijed life, so to speuk. Philadelphia Press.
BLACK AS NIGHT.
About seven miles west (if Foxburg."6ir
the B'ue Jiy penmsular, is a pluce called
B.illton, and among other developments
going on in this vincinity is a well that
produces black oil. This oil is so black
that even the glimmer of the b.ightest
light cannot be s en through a bottle
containing a sample of it. It bears a per
lect resemblance, in fact, to the substance
known as coal-tar and emits a powerful
oilor precisely like that ol spirits of tar.
The strike is ceitainly an utraonlinaty
one. and so far us we can ham nothing
like it hus ever beft re ben known in the
history of the oil trade. No other well in
or near I he vicinity has anything approach-
iiiij to it, I lie oil stems to be found in the
slate at a depth of about 270 feet, and what
is the more (lingular is that, although the
drill piS"S through the same kind id slate
and at the sume d p'b in adjacent wei's, uo
such yield has come from any other except
tbe on-: in question.
Just as sjoo as a country editor Gads
hiin-t lf the possessor of about five d 'liar,
he fetU so jubilant that he selects a quire
of oic- clean paper aud sharpeus qp three
pencils to write a double-lend -d leader on
'Solid F-iosperity " Kansas City Timet.
" I'm atraid that bed is not lorg enough
for joj,' said a landlord to a acveo-toot
iii,ii. Vver mind." hrt rer.lied. I'll
B . --r
ad l two more feet to it whee get in."
r
RELIGIOUS NEWS-
From Sn iid ay's Rileigh Observer.
The American Sunday School Union
will be 37 years old on the 12th of May,
and will hold anniversary in Chicago.
Dr Charles F. Deems is to deliver a lec
ture in Wilmington, on the 2 1st of April,
under the auspices of the Wilmington Li
brary Association.
The ministers of various denominations
contend in the Christian Union that church
attendance and church work have not de
clined in America.
With sunset Wednesday evening com
menced the Jewish feast of the Passover,
more particularly noticed in these columns
a day or two since.
The question of the authorized issue of
the revised New Testament cannot be set
tied until after the meeting of the convo
cation of Canterbury next month.
There is a converted Chinaman in North
Carolina, who is to be sent back as a mis
sionary to his people. The Durhom Meth
odist Sunday School has given $101 for
this purpose,
Mr. George I. Seney, (he New York
banker, has raised his donation to Erairy
College, Georgia, to 850,000. "He has also
given $50,000 to Wesleyao Female College,
Macon, Georgia.
Some 80 000 acres of land between Joppa
and Jerusalem, having been secured from
the Tuikish government, a colony is being
fo.med lor the persecuted jews of tbe con
tinent. Already a goodly number of fami
lies have established themselves npon the
land.
Bishop Simpson has been requested to
preach the opening sermon before the Ecu
monical Methodist Conference in London,
in September, on " Chrislain JJnion."
The programme, as agreed upon, covers
twelve days.
The Baptist church in Asheville, N. C,
has invited the Bapti t Sunday School
Board to hold its convention there during
the approaching summer ' Tbe invitation
h is been accepted, and the committees ap
pointed by (be two boards are arranging a
programme.
The Methodists of Cary are preparing to
build a church in that place. Heretofore
the aca.de my chapel has been used for ter
vices. They have the lumber for the new
church sawed and some of it already deliv
ered. They hope to have tbe church far
enough advanced to hold the District Con
ference in it in July.
The next Anglican Church Congress will
have an extended programme to fulfill.
Twenty-two subjects have been named,
among which are the following : " Connec
tion betweeu Church and State; Its Ad
vantages and Disadvantages." ' The Ex
tent to which Departure should be Allowed
by Variulion and Omission from the Usual
Form of Service." Toleration of Varia
tion in ' kitual." " The Revised Version
ol the New Testament."
There are. it appears, in the United
States no less than fifteen distinct Metho
dist denominations, of which the Metho
dist Episcopal and Methodist Epiecupa!
South Churches are by far the largest. Of
the fifteen churches, eight are Episcopal
and siren Presbyterian and Independent.
The total of communicants is 2,521,600,
which is estimated to represent a Metho
dist population of 14,083,400, or more
than twice the Roman Catholic popula
tion. - . '
At the Shaw Universi'y, the Boptist col
ored school at R ileigb, a medical depart
ment is to be opened next November, Tbe
dormitory for the some, a four story brick
edifice, which will accommodate about 75
studvnts is fur advanced towards comph
lion, and is notice-able as a fine building.
The principal edifice will be begun this
month. The site fr the building, an acre
of laud contiguous to the grounds of the
University, was granted by a vote of tbe
LgisU'ure of the Slate. -
There are 271.461 negroes in Kentucky,
There are over 200,000 Germane in
Tvxas.
An abundant fruit crop is anticipated
in southern aud western TVxxr.
A ihree-horned sheep is the attraction
in Washington county, Ky.
Floral fair f S 'Uth Carolina to he
held in Charleston Mat 4, 5 and 9,
Very innocent man, old man MiUboy la,
A frinnd tound him at his desk the other
day, absorhed in perplexing study. I am
writing my will,' the old nno said, "and
I want to fix it somehow so that the law
yers can get aome of the property," Bur
lington Hawkey.
The female plaintiff in a Western divorce
suit wii asked upon taking the stand and
prior to being sworn, if she believed in a
future life. " I used to," she answered,
but since I waa married I've bad all the
nonsense taken oat cf me,"