( L GAS TON! A devoted to the i-o tec lion of Jlofne and the Interests of the County. ... .,.,, TT ' II Gastonia, Gaston County, K C.? Saturday Mounino, July 23 1881. No. 29. ' LOiVG journey. he .v i .. Under this head the Fayettevillo E.ri M?r says : Last Tuesday Miss Isabelle js te, of ill 8 town, late teacher id one of the public aehooU'at Wilmington, took (the train of the C. F. & Y. V. Railway, bound for 8ar Francisco, . where she will take passage on n Pacific Bteumer for Tokio, tbe capital oftlie Japanese JSmpire. jBhe goes to fulfill an engagement to teach in' a female1 seminary iu that distant city. Her nieie, Miss Lena Leete, formerly of Fuf etteville, is a teucher in the 811 me school. The Jonrct'V io ten thousand milts in m ,tcn(, and with the aid of steam and with .uninterrupted progress day and night, will require a month in its per'orraunce. Site was acsnrapwied , to the depot-fiy J-many' Jrieoda-wbose bete wirhes accompany Dei jo her journey." IK1 GtfltEAU'S PHILOSOPHY. . 1.. . . . " if I bad another opportunity I would Dot try to shoot the President," said Uuit ,eau Friday. " I thought I had an inspi ration to remove him, but I see I must Jibve been mistaken. I thit.k it is ordained fcyvd;,tlwt ifce 'resident shall not be killed, awl foMliut riason I would not try It again if I hud a chajicu Ir it were not Jecneo by Cod that l;e should not be killed, bow could he be alive now? I lit Id 1 the pistol close to his buck, and my hand j was as sUady as iron, I fired point blank ij l bim, and nothing but Divine interposi tion ' could baved savtd him. He will not die,. I am convinced, and I am s rry I caused him so much suuYnng. Jt s no nee for aoy one to try to kill bim now, for jif I could not do it with the chance I had, fD bullet can do it. It is so ordained, uod je must abide the will of Heaven,'' Washington Cor. Baltimore Sun. PEATH FROM UGHT LACING. The Glascow Ncu-s says : The evils of tight lucing were shown at an inquest which was held last week at Kilburn upon the body of Mrs, Amelia Jury. Dr. If ill state that upou making a post mortem .examination be found that the stomach .contracted jp me middle by a m in band,' narrowing it one eighth of the usual s z; 10 there were virtually two stomachs, ntl this contraction was in a level with in leu tut ion on the liver, corresponding to ,where the stays tightly bound louud. The liver itself was flattened out, and waa driven down very deep into 1 he pelvis also, and there was no douot but what this ws also produued by tight hieing. The coroner said that he some time ago held un inquest where it was shown that the liver had been very serious'y injured through light Jaciog, and perhaps these oases wou'd act as a caution against the practices now adopted. SAD CASE OF REPENTANCE AND DEATH. Io London a poor man, carpeqipr, was charged with abandoning bis Imnily, ami was sentenced to twenty-one days' impris onment, with herd labor. While iu prison jie broke down at labor and was placed in the infirmary, the doctor tellin; him thut 4)6 bad heart disease and must be very careful," On his leaving pris in he sought bis wife and prom'sed amendmint if she would return to bim and would get a room I bis she 4d next day, aod on reaching the apartment be expressed his phasure at the comfortable horqe slie bad gut together, kissed bis children und, falling at hjs wife's feet, begge ler pardon, far his put rai deeds, abci swore to become belter in the future. As be continued kneeling a long 'jime bia wife became alarmed, and finding Vim rigid, called, jn a neighbor, und the poor fellow was found to be dead, haying (lied in that attitude. THE PRESIDENT AND HIS WIFE. .Two acts of President (Jar field will en dear Bin) forever to every mother and wife 'ii the land. ' His first' net after he had taken the s'ojpmn oath os President ol the Unitid State was to turo and kiss bis fcged and weeping mother. His first act fifter ho was wounred to the death was to dictate a dispatch Jo' bis wife ; "lie hopes you will come to him soon. He sends his love to yon." To her who ia a wife or a 'mbtjier lb.elp (wp deeds will appeal with touching force; and tht pathes ol Ibt words Jo bis wife can hardly fail to bring a tear to the eyes. "James was always a good boy," his mother said not long ago, and to pvfry one ixotpt the IxartlcM a;ij the toullegn ibare could be p finer praise thao Jhete simple wojds Thft( tie boy was father of tbe man we nil know. 1 he love e bore bis mother aod wife is a love woitbv of emulation and is natural in the iligbest degree. Tbe great master spirit of English literature says : " "Naturr b flne In krr nl hw 'Un flip It rndaauuM prwioua Iimuuhv Jt ttwrT ' AftrrtiM-ililnir It kivr," To those who to-day are sufTt-ring most the whole country offers its truest und most heartfelt sympathy, and could the shoulders ot many lessen the burden of their nfljiction, the volunteers would make their grief as light as air. Not to the wife and mother of the Piesitlent, but to the wife ami mother of a noble and devoted son and husband, a shining example ol Glial piett nnd devoted afivction, is this sympathy ifleied, ami to, day thousands of prayers Epnken through tears will be pnt forth in earnestness and feelinir on behalf of those who now most need them. Philadelphia P. ens. INGERSOLL ON STINGY MEN. I despise a stingy man. I don't see how it's possitile for a man to die : worth, five million dollars or ten million dollars iu a City lull of wunt, when be meets almost every day tbe withered hands of beugary and he white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all thut and hold in his hands twenty million dollars is pant com prehension 1 do not see how bo can do it. I should not think that he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber when hundreds of thousands were drowning in the sea, Do you know that I have known men who would trust flair wives with their hearts and homes, and not theii pocket-book not with u dollar. When I see a man of that kind I always think lie knows what is most valuable. Tnink of her asking you every day for a dollar or two, or to humbly beg 10 Gfty cents. "Wbut did you do with that two dollar I gave ynu f" Think of her being afraid of you. What kind of children do you expect to have with a beggar and coward for a mother? I tell you if you have but a dollar in the world, and yoq have got to xpend it, spend it like a king: spend it as though you thought it were a dry leaf and you were the owner of unbounded forests. That's the way 10 ppend it. I had rather be a beggar and fpend my last dollar like a King, iiian be a king and spend my money like a beggar. If it's got to go, let it go. Get the best you can for yourself. When you used to go courting how nice jou looked I Ah, your eye was bright, your step whs light, and you just put on tlu best you could. Oh vou know that it 8 insuff -ruble egotism io you to suppose that a woman is going to love always, looking as bad as you can, Think of it 1" Any woman on earth w II be true to you forever when you d your level best. .. THE TACK-HAMMER AGENT, He wns a pule-fuced young man 'from Cairo, and he hud been trying to introduce a patent tuck-lutmnw to the citizens of Detroit. His luck was poor. Some folks suw the do run him out of the yaid und grinned over it. Others rep' ied that they always drove their tacks with the ax. Another class wouldn't buy because tht re wa? no corkscrew in the other end of it. A widow drove him out of her yard be cause s'.e thought he said tavhariinier, and her tuxfswtre already too hiuh. Had C'aiiur hud the same luck he would also- have g drunk. He lay like a turtle taking his rest, wht n un fiicer found .in and pulled i-iin fn m the inddle and held him up a weary mile to the station. ''You have a patent tack-hummer, have you f " asktd his Honor as the iflk-er took his seat. "I have, and I shall be pleased to show you how it operates." "Never niitul that just cow. Con this ticktiiammer of yours walk out pf Detroit before night?" ' Yes, sir." 'And take you ulong ?" "Yes, sir." '"Very well, I'll give it a chance. If you have any money you'd better go und hire half a diZ'ii bout-blacks and brush-boys Io get the mud off your boots and the spots off your bick." " Then I can't show yoq my tack- hammer." No, sir. Show me your heels " Free 1 ten. SHARP EYES. The power of observation ia given to each person a'ike ; but ullhu,gh Ihey are 90 gifted, many 'ct through life seeing 0 mpu'tively little cf tht - which lies before llum. Toe world is full of beauty and it is also full of sufl'-ring ; their vision js blind to bth facts alike. Having eyes, they see hot and never know how much they hive lwt ol enj tyment the plcustire their is io alleviuting the sorrows of others. An observing p rson will ollenlimca find that which, to the ca-ul passer .by, seeipa to be naught, yet proves to be of great valqe wIk j; fceen eyes fall on it. The rich carburet ores in the mountains of Colorado were in plain sight of all who passed that way, and thousands were looking for some, thipg else or nothing at all, and did not see them. Sonii; man came along wbu used bisejes in the way ihey were intended by looking close at what was before him, and, behold 1 the riche s of the earth were bis. He also found that (here were plenty of men willing to help him in claiming the silver. Thus he nut only b -nefited himself, but others ulso, with his sharp eyes. Some persons will plod along through life und see literally nothing, while others walking in the same path will foil iw after, with an eye on the lookout for what might happen to be of use to him, and be rewarded for his patience. The first will wonder why he did not see and improve lhejcl)ance and mourn because he i so unlucky. It is so eusy to place the responsibility 011 the word "unlucky," uud it sometimes gets blamed for what is generally the person's own fault. But mens foresight is vert often faulty!' ai d many a poor mortal is teribly deceivid simply because be did not use his eyesight. This false world is full of deceit and eliums to caich the unwary when they are least expecting it. It gives intense sutisfuciiou to some people to think thut they have been able to guin an advantage over smiie one less sharp-sighted than themselves. A keen eye, whi'e it brings pleasure to its possessor by enabling "him' to see .niuch that would otherwise lis hidden, ulso shown him much of misery mid sift ring. Oilen their lies beneath the smiling cou.iteiiuuep, which is worn as a mask, a heart fillttl with pain and anguish a lieprt wellnigh broken will) its burden of sorrow, aching for a word of s mputhy to be spoken to give it rest, but which never comes. En joyment' and sorrow, pain and pleasure, walk hand in huud ; and those who can aid the one or lessen the other are to be envied, for they have their r. ward ; mid those who use u keen eye to add to the knowledge of others feel a gratification which but few understand. A FAMILY EPISODE. At 8 o'clock the other morning a wile followed her busbai.d down to the gate as he was Btartiog for dowo town, and kindly said to him. AVilliam, you keow how sadly J need a blue bunting dress.'' "Yes, dear," he remarked, "but you know how hard up I am. As soon as 1 can see my way clear you shall have the dress, and u new bat to boot. He patient, be good, and your reward shall be great." Forty minutes after that he emerged from a restaurant with a big basket and a fi-lipolc, bound up the rjver. In the basket was a chicken, pick loa, cake, fruit, pic and a bottle of liquid of a rich color, nnd he was just lighting a twenty oent cigar when his wife came along, . .."What 1 you here V he exclaimed. "Yes, I nm going to the market, Where are you going wliat's in the basket ? "I was going to carry this fish.pole around to a friend on Jefferson avenue, be modestly answered." "And that basket?" "This basket well I was going to take it to the orphan asylum as a present to the children, (t is a doi.atinn fn fl) six leading citiz ns." "William, I don't believe it." "jSh j Don't talk so mud," William, I shall talk louder yet!" she exclaimed. "1M bet you are going a fishing." "Mary, have I tver deceived you ?" be plaintively asked. "I never have. As proof of my siuceri y you can take this basket to the asylum yourself." 'And I'll do it," she promptly replied, an 1 she relieved him ol it." .'Mary, hadn't you" "No, 'Bir, I hadn't 1 You'd belter hurry up with that fish-pole, as Ilia muii-may want it, and be careful how you stand around in the hot tun." tjlie left bim there. He watched her tuke the car for borne, and then he returned the fish-pole and crossed the street, and said to an acquaintance. . 'Tom,, I'm suffering with neuralgia, and the ei,cii8iou is off till m t week. Too bad, but we can never tell whut a day may bring forth." There was chicken and pickles and other good thii gs on the table at dimi-r, but he never smiled. Even when his wife wished j ghe was as orphan, if that was the way they were fe.l, he never betrayed the gloom jn bis heart. It waa only when she liaiuh-d him the bottle be hud so carefully tucked into the basket, and he saw it labeled , Good lor Little Ohildi-en," that he n.ii.l : '.NJ.iry, il i.t an awful thing lor anile to get the impression that bvrliusband is a cold-blooded liar.'.' "It muH be" she replied as she took, the other chicken leg. Monroe Enquirer: .i an tarly hour Friduy. 8th, Mr. M. l. Myers, found lying ou a pile of loose cotton under tbe cotton weigher's p at form, tbe corpse of Mr John A. Harrison, of Ibis place, who had died there during the oigbt of heart diseuse. A ROM A TIC STORY. &H Antonio, Tkxas, July 7 Col. Albert O. IMlon, whose beautiful 20,000 acre ranch is out toward the Rio Grande war Laredo, lug been the Peter the Hermit nf the Texuns for years. He came to Tex as in 1844, u common soldier, By talent and courage he rose to the rank of Colonel, and Enully, in 1856, commandtd Fort Mucrue. Thai year he fell in lova with a beautiful Spanish girl ut A-h q iiti, New Mexico. The admiraiion oi tie; 'young people wtta muluul. und part ntal o' jt clioi 8 only intensified the alf ctions of the lovers. Finally, alter two yt-aia ol entreaty and dc votion, Col. f'elton won the consent of the p-riia f iln beautiful Spanish girl and they wt-rt? married. One duy the two, accompanied by the young wife's mother and twenty soldiers rode ou: to the hot spriiiiS, six miles from the. tort, to take a bath. While . in the oaiii, wincli is near the U10 tjrunil e an Indian arrow passid over tlieip heads. Then a shower of arrows fell around them and a band of wild Ap.iche Indians rushed down uj'on them, whooping and yelling like a band i f demons. Several of the soldiers Ml dead, pierced with, poisontd urrows. This friuliieofd Hie rest, who lired another shower 'nf :irroW"i, and the beauti lul bride 111 if 1 her mother dropped into the wutt r, pieroed by the cruel weapons of the A packs. With his wife dying before his eyes, Col Helton dashed up the banks, grasped his rifle, and killed the leader of tiir nivaue fiel ds. But the Apaclus were too much for the Colonel. Pit. recti w ith too poisontd arrows, he swam the river and liiil under an tiverhangin,' rock. After the suvugisl.ad let"', the C dotiel swum the river and made his way back to Fort Mucrae. Here his wounds were dressed, and he finally recovered, but. only to live a blasted life without lore.withnut htipe--with a vision of his beautiful wife, pierced with poisoned arrows, lying perpetually before his eyes. After loss of his wife n change came over Col. Pt lton. He seemed to think that he had a sacred mission from heaven to avenge her death. Jle secured the most unerring rifles, surrounded himself with brave companions and consecrated himself to the work of revenge. He was always anxious to lead any and all rx editions agajnst the 'Apaches. Whenever any of the other Indians were at war with the Apaches. Col, Polton wouM soon beat the head of the former. One day he would be at the head of his own soldiers and the next day he would be at the head of a band of Mexicans. He defied Indian arrows and courted death, Once, with a band of the wildtst desperadoes, he penetrattd a hundred miles into the Apache country. Tbe Apaches never dreamed that anything but an entire regiment would dureto follow them to their camp in the mountains. So when Col. J'ellon swooped down into their camp with ten trusty followers, their Henry rifles at the rate of twenty times a minute, the Apachis fled in consternation, leaving their w omen and children behind. It was then that there darted out of a lodge , a white women. "i-'puie the women !" she cried, m tl then she fainted and fell to the ground. When the Colonel juinpul from the saddle to lift up the wi man he found she wus blii.tl. How came yi u lure, women, with tlie.-e Apaelus?' luHsktd. ' I wus woundid and captured,' she said, 'ten years ago, Take ol, take me buck again !' . I 'Have you any relatives in Ttxis?' asked the Colonel.. No. My fat hi r lives in Albt quia. My husband. Col, lVlton, tu d my mother were ki let! by the Iinlians.' ' Ureal t!ot', Bella! is it you my wife?' 'Oh, Albert! 1 knew you would come,' cxclu.med the poor wile, blindly reaching her hands to clasp her husband. When I Si-v the Colont 1 he was rinding a nt-wspnpir to his blind wife, while in her hand she held a bouquet of Iriigant jessamines wWi-Jr'- Had gathered, T 3 : . -- . .. Dr. Johnson thought the happust life was that ol a m.m of bu-iiiuss with some literary pursuits lor his amusement, and that, in general, no oru couid be virtuous orhuppy wh'i w is not completely emp'ojed. j An old gentleman, when asked afur his health, rep'i-il: 1 I am setting quire Ue- ble, and cxiscise of any kind is almost Ioj much inr im ; last yeur 1 con 1.1 wulK en tin ly urouud the f quart', but now I can walk only half way round -and buck again." The fountain of coutent must spring up in the ir.ind, and he who has so little lnoKltdgo of hum in nature us to seek happiness br changing anything but his own disposition will waste hii life in fruit less 1 (Torts, and multiply ibe jriefs that he proposes, to remove. Roasted Alive. Swift and Terrible Punishment for a Double Crime, A dispatch to the Cincinnati inquirer from Atlanta, Ua., says; Last night, in Heard county. Dear Albania, occurred one of the most horrible instances of popular indignution. Jesse Waldrop was burned to us lies. Three months ago, in Randolph county, Alabama, Dr. John Mitchell, a prominent young physician, married Carrie Knight, famed lor her beauty and accom plishments. On the 29th of June, in the joy of their honeymoon, Dr. Mitchell, was walking up the road near his country home, when he beheld what almost paral jz d him with horror. His lorely wife lay before him a ghastly corpse. Her throat aw cut from cur to car, aod her body torn with the fearful clutehts of her murderer. It wus discovered that she had been vio lated and murdered. The neighborhood wus at once aflame with excitement, a: d search for the guilty wretch was at once begun. ; '-'-, Jesse Waldrop . had long been in the country, but there had followtd him ru mors of his bad character. He was seen on the road near where the corpse was found on the day of the murder. .In the death struggle the murderer had bitten his vic tim severely on the cheek, and left signs that one of bis front teeth was out, Wal- drnp had this peculiarity. With these evi dences, search for him was begun at once, and it wus found thut he had fled. Trained bloodhounds were obtained, and from the scene of the murder they tracked him sey- eral milts into Georgia. Here the pursuing party heaid that Wuldrop had passed. Gradually tracing him they arrived at Xewnan, thirty miles from Atlanta, where a ferryman described a man who had cross ed the night before,' and the pursuers knew thut AValdrop could Dot be far away. At midnight 00 tbe 3rd the parly reach. ed a house where thpy learned tint a man calling himself Owen had stopped. They demundid to be shown to bis room, und, rapping on the door, Waldrop came out. He was seized, and, afur a desperate re sistance, bound, lie denied all kucwieelge of the crime, und was taken to jail, though the fury of some of the crowd demanded his insUnt death. Next duy circumstances were collected so strongly pointing to biri that, trembling with fear, he coufeased all, and after detuiliug bis damning story, told of a life of crime which Tew police annals can equal. U-. conlessed to having five liv ing wives. When he confessed, passion rose so high that he was uoout to oe swung. when some one suggested that he ought to die on the scene of bis crime, and that hanging was too good lor bin). According ly was left in jail until night before ast, when fafty men, armed, but not dis guised, went there and demanded bim. The tiler gave him up, and the procession started- All along the route people came out to look at the prisoner and demand that he should die. Several times the ex- citiment grew so great that it seemed the crond would wreuk vengeance on the I wretch at once, but riding by bis side were relatives of the murdered woman, who guarded him and declared that they had reservid him for a special fate. Late yesterday afternoon the scene of the murder was reached. Nothing wus done rashly ; preparations for the exi cution were made with ghastly coolness. Waldrop was thinly tied and bound with wire to a stake driven on the spot where his victim was found, whin for the first time his digged courage failed. He pleaded piteously, not for life, but only to be ullowed to die by '.! e gallows or bjl'et ; but he cried to men of stone, and ot miduight one of the rela tive pf the unfortunate woman applied the torch to the pire whbh, saturated with oil, had been piled around him. II is screams rang out on the quiet country air, and the fl tines lit up the scene with lurid glare. The death struggles were horrid, but not a man stirred. Standing in a circle around the hnman sacrifice Hliey looked with stolid iiid fT. rencc at the hori id expiation of his crime, prom first to last the oflic rs made no t It'pi t to suve the prisoner Tor a It gal doom. If ihey had, it would have been fu tile, for popular passion was frenzied. Waldrop was 23 years old and a man ol good addrtss. State.-ville Ammauf. Henry fjliarpn, a youth about eight or ten J ears of age, who was subject to fjis, while playing near a branch with bis two smaller brothers, bis mother being absent from home, is suppos ed to have betn takeu with a fit and drowu ed last Tuesday the 5th. The family lived iu S.hnrpesburg township, tbiscouo- IJ iine incorporated companies and indi viduals are engaged in phosphate mining in the navigable streams of South Carolina. RELIGIOUS NEWS From Sunday's fialeigh Observer. Work on the - Primitive Baptist church here has been again suspended. Kev. Bepnett Smedes is enjoying a rest during the vacation, io the, Bine Ridge. Rev. Dr. Skinner, pastor -f,. the First Baptist church, js yet at Asbeville wijh his sick wife. In a recent actual canvass of 80 towps in Connecticut, 50,000, people were fouod who never attend church. - Bishop Lyman will next Sunday conse crate the beautiful r.c Episcopal churqb at Durham. Quite a number ot clergymen will be present. The 'JXQvJ)ti Deems has been elected, a director of the American Tract-Society, in place of Bishop Doggett, of Virginia, who recently died. The worji pf fitting np the interior of the pew eecood , Baptist church is pro gressing. The cburcb will have a seating capacity for about 600 persons. Rev. Dr. tPritchard will to-day preach at tbe Monumental Baptist church, Phila delphia. He will occupy Dr. Heo9on's pul pit there for Bix weeks. .The Sotuliern Presbyterian, peneral As sembly appointed a committee to examine Ibe ( revised New Testament aod make, a report to the nst assembly. Iu making a partial ..canvass of Anson, Mr. J. M. W. Elder,, colporter of the American ,ible Society, says be visited 953 families, white and colored, and fouqd 327 without the Bible. Rev. R. F. Bumpass, tbe new paster of the, Person .Street Jdethudist fu;ch, is hekl in marked esteem by bis congregating aqd has been tbe recipient 9! many , kindnesses at their bands. Tbe selection of a plan, for the new Met ropolitan Methodist church has not as yet been announced. It is understood that tbe new Methodist church in Norfolk is much ad nired by tbe building . committee, and may be adapted as a model. Designs arc also to be submitted by some eminent arch itects. It is the intention to hare a beauti ful church, A Southern Methodist paper hears it re- ported on good authority that Mr. Villiaoi It ...1... k:i. i..yi.Jp ,,:- lurgely to Vanderbilt University, proposes to contribute one-half or two-thirds the amount necessary to erect and equip suita ble buildings for the Nashville Female Col lege, under the cbarge of Rev. Geo. Price, D. D. The capacity of the largest church build ings io the world is as follows : St. Peter's, Rome, 54,000 persons; Milan Cathedral, 37,000; St. Paul's, London, .35,000; St. Sophia's. -Coostaatioople, 23,000; Notre Dam, Paris, 21,000; Pisa Cathedral, 18,. 000, St. Mark's, Venice, 7,000; Spurgeon's Tabernacle, 7,000; Talmage's Taberoaole, Brooklyn, 4,500. They lynched 108 meu in Arkansas last year. Rain is needed in many sections of Ala bama. Chattanooga wants a hotel tprcqloted people, The whisky of the state of North Car olina costs 12,000,000. The tobacco crop of Kentucky will reach 22,500 hogsh'-ads this year. - The city of Charleston, S. C, is paying considerable attention to her parks. A press associa'ion has been organized by the Republican editors of Kentucky. The net available receipts for publio schools in Texas this year will be about 815.000. Montpelier, tbe Virgiuia home of Presi dent Madison, will be sold at public sale August 28. There are in Richmond, Vs., 218 Smiths, male adults and female, prop.-ie.to or heads of families. John Veal, of Fayette county, Ky., rai.-ed one thousand five hundred busbelq of wheat 00 fifty acres, Bituminous coa. of excellent quality, over two feet thjek, has recently been discovered in Morgan county, Ky. Mr. A. Hopkins, of Tallahassee, Flori da, exhibits a radish fourteen inches long and eight io circumference. Ie.irn tbe value of a man's wo'd aod repressions, and you koow bim. Each nan bus a measure of his own for everything. This be c filrsyou. inadvertantly, in his words. lie who baa a superht'ive for everything wants a mearure for the gre J suia'f J

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