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Vol. II.
Gastonia,. Gaston- County, N. C.: Sat diay Morning, October 15, 1881.
No. 41.
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MY LITTLE WIFE-
Our table Ih spi-end for two, to-night
NO RlU'MtH our bount v Share ;
Tho damask cloth la snowy white,
The sei-vlco elegant imil hrbcht.
Our fhlnii inniint nnil rare ;
My Uttle wife preside.
And jjorfoct love abides.
Tho hread Ih sMnro. the butter gold,
The muffins nice and hut,
M'hiit though the winds wJtlMnttkw1d
Tho Willis a llttlo world unfold.
And tho storm is soon forgot.
In the nre-litfht'.s cheerfull glow
Ucams a Puradtoe below.
A fiilrer picture who hnth seen ?
Soft lights and shadows blent ;
The central llgure of tho scene,
he sits, my wife, my love, wy queuu
Her houd a Uttle bunt ;
And In her eyes of bluo
I rend my bliss anew,,
I watch her as she pours the tm,
With quiet, gentle grace;
With lingers deft, and movement free.
,tho mixes In tho cream for me,
A bright smile on lu-r face;
And, as she sends It up,
I pledge her in my cup.
Was ever inaa before bo blessed ?
I secretly reflect.
Tho pausing thought she must have guessed,
.For now dear Hps on mine are pressed,
An arm is round mv neck. - 1
Hear treasure of my life
(Jod bless her little wife.
Ovi-rltind Monthly.
Helen Hyde's Good Peed.
Yes.' said ttie doctor, solemnly, ' she
showd every indication of going into a
decline, Ii si, ' itlaxatiorj, change of hit and
scene that's what slie ought to have!'
Mrs. Durdat.el looked perturbed. 'Dear,
dear.' she si. id, ' what a iJiy. And she's
uite a pet of thine, too, dear little thing.
iSlie is very quick with her ne die, and
xeally ingenious and the wy she puts
trimmings on a dress positively reminds
one of Madum Antoine herself.' '
'The Seaside cottage would be the place
for her,' suggested Dr. Midland. You are
01 e of the lady patronesses, I believe,
and'
'.Yes, but the Seaside cottage is full,'
ouil Mrs. Dardanel. ' Not an inch of room
.unoccupied. I had a note from the matron
yesterday V
Ah, indeed V Said (he doctor, fumbling
with hid watch-seals. Uufortrjnate very.'
But,' cried Mrs. Dardanel, au iilea sud
denly occurring to her much bepuffed and
befrizzed head, 4 there is Airs. Daggett's
(farm, a fi miles further down the shore.
She takes boai'deta for five dillurs a week.
and I believe it is a very nice place. If
you think it advisable I will take a month's
board for the girl there. I really feel as if
.the dear littlt thing belonged to me.'
An excellent 1 'D, madam, an excellent
plan,' said the doctor, oracularly. 1 have
io doubt but that a month of sea air
'would inuke quite a different person of
her.' ;
Helen Hyde could scarcely believe her
tn ears when Mrs. Dardanel beamingly
announced ber intentions.
' The seashorej sbe cried, her pale face
flushing all over, ' the real sea! Oh, Mrs.
Dardanel, I kave dreamed of it all my life.
And for a whole -bright long summer
month ! Oh, bow shall I ever thank you !
' By getting well and strong as faet as
you ean,' said Mr?. Dardanel, real'y
touched by tho girl's innocent coti usiasni.
''And here is a ten-dollar bill for you,' she
added, with anile. ' Yon may need some
little trifle o' dress, or there may be a
drive or a picnic or on xcuuioo going in
which you will want to participate. No,
jou shall not give it back it is a present
from me, and I choose that jou shall keep
jt.
Helen Hyde's heart beat bigh with
delight when first she saw the Daggett
farmhouse, a long, low, red building, with
un immense s'ack of chimneys, a cluster of
umbrageous maple trees garlanding U
about with shade, and a door yard full of
eweet, old-fashioned flowers, while in full
sight of the windows the Atlantic flung its
curling crests of foam ujong the shingly
shore. Mrs. Daegett welcomed her warmly ;
she had been Mrs. Datdanel's houstkeepir
once, and knew the value of that lady's
patronage,
' I've just one room left, my dear,' said
she. ' Under the eaves of the house. It's
rather small, bat it's furnished comfortably,
end there's a fine view of the ocean. I
could have given you better accommodations
jf I bad received Mrs. Dardaoefs letkr a
day earlitr. But four young ladies, teacheis
in the Txwood institute, came yesterday,
and I'm sleeping on a sofa myself in the
parlor. But we'll make you as snog as
po-sible, and the very first good-siz-d room
that is vacatid you shall hare,'
And Helen was very happy in ber little
nook, from whose casement sbe could see
the sparkling plain of the sea, all dotted
with white sails.
Mrs. Daggett was a drivinsr, energetic
business woman. Farmer Daggett was a
vacant, boucst faced man, who invariably
fell asleep of on evening, with his chair
lipped back against the wall and every
available inch of the house was filled with
summer boarders, mostly ladies'. There
were only three masculine appendants to
the house, besides its master a sup- . nnu
ated clergyman, whose paris-hioners ' ed
together every summer to treat hii : six
week's vacation a literary man , iie
aspirations and small income, who hud
come thither for rest and opportuniiyjo
study np the ' skeleton ' for his next novel,
r,d old Mr. Mifflin 1
It was some time before Helen Hyde
tail ly comprehended who old Mr. Mifflin
was. A bowed, bent over little man, with
silver hair curling over the collar of bis
coat, a ruffl d shirt like the pictures cf our
Revolutionary forefathers, and dim blue
eyes which glistened from behind silver
spectacles, he shuffled in od out (o his
meuls after an apologetic fashion, and sat
all tho long bright afternoons under (he
maples, staring at the sea
' Who is that old gentleman ?" she at
last ventured to ask Mrs. Daggett. That
lady frowned, impatiently. ,
' It's old Daddy Mifflin,' said she. ' And
I wish it was anybody else !'
' Is he a boarder?' B9ked Helen.
' Well, he is and be isn't 1' rather ob
scurely answered Mrs. Daggett, who was
picking over currants for a pudding while
Helen sat by end watched ber. ' But he
won't be here long. You see, my dear, he
hiisn't any friends. When me and Daggett
can.e down fron Vermont and bought this
place we got it cheap because of old Mr.
Mifflin. We was lo give him the northeast
chamber, and they were to allow us so
much a month for his keep. It ain't every
body, ou see, as would r.e willing to have
an old man like thut around the place.
But he's harmless and innocent enough,
and I won't deny that the two dollars a
week helped along. - Bui now prices hove
gone up, and Breezy Point has got to be a
fashionable loculity in summer time, und
thiugd arc altered. And, what's worse, his
folks have left iff sending lie money.'
' I wonder why?' said Helen, with her
jrge dreamy eyes fixed pityingly upon the
old man, who sat in his usual place under
the maples, wistfully watching the sea.
' They're dend, p r'aps, said Mrs. Dag
gett. 'Or, p'r'aps they've got tired of
him Anyhow, it's three months since
we've heard a word, and me and Daggett
have made up our minds we can't stand it
any'longer. Ho we're going to put him
on the town. Lawy. r Buxall says it's
legal and right, and they can't xpect noth
ing else ofus. Squire Sodus Is to send his
covered carryall next Saturday, and old
Daddy Mifflin 'll suppose he's going for r
ride. And so things 'II go ( ft smooth and
pleasant.'
Smooth and pleasant !' Helen Hyde
looked across the grassy lawn to the little
old man witb.Lis mild, abstracted face, his
ruffled shirt front, the silver hair that
glisieneu in me nuMitiiu, .l.
claw-like lingers that slowly turned them.
selves backward and forward as he sat
there.'
' He owned the place once.' - .id Mrs.
Daggett, ' but his sons turned oi.t oid. and
he indorsed for Squire Sodas' ci c-io, and
lost everything. And here he is, i.-i his old
age, without a peonyTWhat is it, Beckj?
The oven ready for the pies? Yes, I'm
coming.'
And sbe bustled away, leaving Helen
alone. A sort of inspiration had entered
into the girl's heart as she sat there with
the briny smell of the ocean filling ber
senses, the rustle of the maple leaves
murmuring softly ov rlnad. She took
Mrs Dardanel'9 ten-dollar bill from her
pocket and looked long and earnestly ut it.
She thought of the little one-borse curryull,
which she and the girls from the Ixwood
institute were to have hired together to
drive ovir the hills and glens, all those
sweet, misty summer afternoons; of the
excursions to Twin It ck by steamer, upon
which she bad couuted ; of the new black
bunting drees, which sbe had decided to
buy. She must abandon all these little
darling exlravugances, if she iudulged this
other fancy.
' As if there could be any choice ebe
said to herself. And then she got up and
went softly across the grass and clover
blossoms to where "Daddy Mifflin' sat.
' Do you like this place ?' she asked,
softly.
It's hsme, my dear,' he answered, seem
ingly to arouse himself out of a reverie;
'it's home J I've lived hire for tiirhty odd
years, I couldu'l live anywhere else.'
But lb re are othe r place p.'eusautcr !'
It my be, my deur, it may be,' he said,
looking at her with troubled eyes through
the (Jon vex lenses of his glasses
' But they wonldu't seem the same to
me 1'
I leli u went back to Mr?. Daggett, who
was baking pies and rolls aud straw bent
shortcake ail at once !
Mrs 'Daggett,' said she, ' here are $10
which Mrs. Dardanel gave to me to do as
I pleased with. And I pleased to give it
to you to keep old Mr. Mifflin here five
weeks longer.'
' Mercy snkes alive !' said Mrs. Daggett,
l.e ain't no kind to ycu, is he ?'
No,' said Helen, ' but he is so old and
fieble and friendkss, and and please
Mrs. Daggett take the money. And per nape
by the time that is gone I shall be able to
send a little more. My employers are
going to pay me generouely in the city,
and I frei myself growing better able to
woik e. ry day.'
So Ilelto Hyde adopted the cause of
one even poorer and more friendless than
herself, and ior a year sbo paid the two
dollars a week steuuily, and Mr. Mifflin
never knew what a danger had menaced
him I
At the end of that time the old gentle
man's grandson cume from some wide, wild
region across the sea, a tall, dark -eyed
young man, with the mien of a prince in
disguise.
' My father hag been dead for a year,' he
said. ' And hie papers have only just been
thoroughly investigated, so that I have
recently learned, for the first time, that
there is au arrearage due on my gran
father's allowance. I hope he has not been
allowed to suffer '
'Oh he 'a all right,' said Mrs. Daggett.
' We've took excellent good care of him.
' You are a noble-heurted woman,' said
the young man, fervently clasping her band
' and I will see that you are no loser by
your generosity.'
' It aiu't me,' Baid Mrs. Daggett, turning
red aud white, for ILIen Hyde, now
spending her second summer at the farm
house, sat by quietly sewing in the window
recees. ' I'm free to allow that me and
Daggett got out of patience and was goin'
to put him on the town, but Miss Hyde
here, one of our boarders, she's paid for
him ever since.'
I beg your pardon if I have iutorfered,'
said Heh'D, blushing scarlet as the large
dark eyes fell scrutin'ziugly on ber face,
'but he seemed so eld and so helpless,
that "
' God bless you for your noble deed 1'
said Amuruse Munui, earueaitj .
But there was something in Helen's
manner which prevented him from offering
any pecuniary recompense to her. -
' My grandfather will need your cares
no further," said he. "We have been
fortunate in our Australian investments,
and I am prepared to buy the old farm
back agai i and settle here permanently.'
A lid when Mrs. Dardai el began to
think about getting her winter ball dresses
made up, she teceived a note from Miss
Hyde, which ran as follows :
"Dkar Mrs. Dakoaxkl : 1 am sorry to
disappoint you, but I cannot undertake
any more orders. For I urn to be married
next month to Mr. Ambrose Mifflin, and
we are to live at the Daggett farm. And,
ob ! bow prOUO X eUvulJ V if you would
come here and visit me next summer, when
the roses are in bloom and the strawberries
ripen. Ambrose is all that is nice, and I
shall have the dearest old grandfather in
law iu the world. Affectionately,
"Hki.kn Htdk."
And all this life romance had grown out
of Helen's mouth at the seaside.
LOCAL PAPERS.
A h.rge proportion of the people do
nothing to support their local papers, yet
reap the benefit every day of the editor's
work. A mau will say, " Advertising does
not pay in business," and yet the fact is,
that the town in which he does business
would be unkuown, the railroad over which
be ships his goods would be unbuilt, and
he himself would be unheard of, if it were
not for the newspaper, which he suys does
him co good.
The local paper is of advantage to every
man in the community, and when a man
refuses to contribute to the support of the
paper on the ground that it " does him no
good," he might just as well refuse to pay
his taxes for the support of the courts and
tho police force, on the ground that he
never breaks the law aud docs not ueed any
offiixrs. There are men who believe them
selves lo be hontst aud pious, who are do
ing business iu every community, and
every day appropiiating to their own use
the fruits of other nuW labors by rcjping
the be in fit vl the newsp.ipcr without con
tributing a ceul to iu support. Too much
credit cannot be given the weekly paper
for the work it has doue and is still doing '
for the benefit of this country. M namiii's
Printers' Circular.
Tbcy have the electiic light in Salem. J
George D. Bateman, of Perquimans i
county, was beaten so badly by a neighbor
named Griffin, recently, that he died in a
few days. i
BIIL A EPS BUDGET
Of Rural Observations and Horns
SDun Humor.
Written for the Constitution.
The earliest fires of the fall
Have liriffiitcned up the room,
Tho cut and dopr and children all
Huve hid old winter come.
The wind Isrunnimr at the nose
Tho clouds are in a slii ver ;
By day we want more warmer clothes.
At nitflit we want more River.
Persimmons and possumns arc getting
ripel The Mny-pops huve dropped from
the vines. Chesnuts and chinkapins are
opening and walnuts are covering the
groou. - Crawfish and frogs have gone
into wiuter quarters snakes and lizzirds
have bid us adieu. All nature is preparing
for a winter's bleep -sleep for the trees and
grass and flowers. 1 like winter ; not
six long months of snow and ice and
howling winds, but three months inter
spersed with sunny days and Indian suni
mersXorth Georgia is the place for me,
the region of mild and temperate climate,
of lofty mountains and beautiful valleys
and fast flowing streams. The region where
the simoon, nor the hurricane never comes
und streams do not become etagnsnt, nor
the munmito sing bia little song. I don't
want to be snow bound in wiuter, nor to
fly from a fierry hurricane in summer, and
it's cur bus to me that our northern
brethren dou't bid farewell, a long farewell
to such a country and settle down in this
pleasant land- I know there is no place
like home, and it's home where the heart
is. The Eskimo loves his snow house, and
the Mexican his lusbiander, but there is
reason in all things, and if this ain't the
best country on the continent there's do
sense in reason or philosophy. jJJut I'm
sorter glad we have had it to ourselves this
long I'm glad our people are getting
strong encugb to keep it for their children
that is, a pood share of it. I doQ't want
em to sell their pleasant homes for ever, a I
big pile of money unless they have got
another one iu view Tuere is plenty of
room for all who want to come, aud money
will turn a, wilderness into a 'garden.
Thousands of them are looking this way
now for deliverance from hard winters or
lor
profitable investments, and this
exposition is going to g-enile 'em ond take
the scare , and they will dare to look
round, and will price our lauds and analyze
our minerals anJ ioppect our water-power,
and peruse our forests, and while the north
is frozen up they will bask in our sunshine
and wonder that there was such a blessed
land so near and so unknowu. The expo
sition is iioirg to be a mighty hurmonizer
It will get up a union of sentiment and
social feeling. Our folks always did Appre
ciate northern intelligence and northern
energy. Long before the war when these
educated girl ustd to come south to teach
school our boys married 'em a9 fast as they
come, and pet 'em to roisinc children, and
Uiey made pood wives and good mothers.
Well, the war made the. yankecs so sick
and our people so poor their girls quit
coming, but of lute they are summering
it down here, ond our boys are beginning
to pice 'em cfT like they used to. Thej go
for 'em quick, and it's a pietty fair bargain
for there is money on one side and rebel
blood and independence on the other, and
that's a good compromise.
A clever girl was picked np the other
day by a young man of my acquaintance.
He was good looking and poor and proud
and she was a little over age and undersize,
and not altogether as beautiful as the Lord
might have made her if he bad wanted to,
but she was rich. Well, he took her in
out of solitude, and sbe took him iu out of
the wet, and it's ull right. I reckon it's all
right, and I hope they are happy. AVheo a
fresh murritd woman gives her feller a
check lor tweuty thousand dollars next day,
aud has plenty more behind, it's a sign she
is satisfied with bim, and if he aint satisfied
with Iht I shall always think he ought to
be. '
I bavent seen the exposition as yet. I'm
waiting until it gets in lull blast, and then
I'm going to take the family down in small
detachments. It's our show aud iu a cheap
show, considering, and may be it won't
happen again for many years to come aud
I think everybody iu reach of it ought to
go, especially the women and children the
women for pleasure und the children for in
struction. I thii.k I be railroads ought to
reduce the fare to one ceul a mile for their
sukes. Tney wouldeut loose by it for twice
as many would go and it wou'd make the
little folks so happy. Its no pleasure to me
to see a big thing aud go hotnj and tell
about it. 1 always feel a little uitau if Mr.
Arp aint ulong or Some el toe children.
When King Cvk's railroad is fioUiu-d I
W;iui hjiu lo furuish a long traiu of palace
cars and give us a free ride from Home to
Brunswick and furuish us with fish and
oysters wucn we gei mere ana lei our cuu
dreu Bee the oo.au auJ look aud gaz j aud
wonder. He can do it and make so many
people harpy- I'tit Mr. Seney wiP, if he
takes a notion, or gets on another spree.
Henry Grady invited me to a reception
lust night, I had a beadaclio but I thought
niHjbe it would hope me to he received and
so I took the street car and went out, and
shore enough he received me and mixed me
up with a goodly company of elegant gen
tlemen and he made everybody feel at home
in his new and splendid mansion. There's
more rooms and snuggeries and dodging
places than I ever saw in a house of its
size, and all the deekoratiotis are beautiful
and everybody so fine and new, I was
afraid to stand up or set down, but I
watched Howell and done as he done and
Howell he wanted to open a window but
was afraid of the trigger for be said some
thing might full on him, and I asted Dr.
Lawton what was them verses high up on
the wall in the dinning room and he said
he reckoned it was the bill of fare bat
Howell said it was some lines froa Burns
about
Catches his hens and puis 'em in pens,
Some lay eggs and some lay none ;
Wire, briar, limber lock,
Three geese in the flock. ,
O-U-T spells out and begone.
Well, there was newspaper men from
Boston to Galveston and all along the
country between, and they look smart and
thoughtful, and I coulden't help but ponder
over the power of their pens and the re
sponsibility that was on 'em to influence
peace in the land and good will among our
people.
Long life and health and happiness to
Henry and bis family. I didn't look in all
the closets but I hope there is no skeleton
there. Bii.r. Arp.
VARIETY IN YOUR FOOD.
There is no one standard for food appli
cable to all persons, whether as to kind of
food or quantity. Our tastes are more or
lets a matter of education. A taste edu
cated in ooe direction revolts at a taste
educated in another; Tomatoes, now almost
universally used In this country, were re
jected with lc athing a generation ago.
The French, who led efl io eating frog
Kesri, are now eating hone flesh tbeir
taste for the l itter having been developed
during the exigencies of ilie siege of Paris
The English have heretofore, turned with
disgust from corn (maize), which is a very
staff of life in this country, and, in some of
its forms of cooking, a delicious favorite.
It might be well for men generally to
have their- tastes broadened. Some per
sons are altogether too nice aud narrow in
their preft;rencet: for food. It should be re
membered that unused functions tend to
wards complete cessation. Forinetauce, one
of the beet preservatives against consump
tion is in the ability of the stomach to di
gest fat ; but the power to digest it mav
be lost by long disuse, the glands ceasing
to secrete the necessary fluid.
So, too, the quantity of food eaten by
Ulm'"" f " ..omn in (rood
heulth, too, aud in the same surroundings,
would be killed by what is essential to the
health of another. A hard-worktr in the
open air would starve if restricted to what
amply suffices for the man whose employ
ment is iu doors aud sedentary.
Life could uot be sustained in the arctic
zone without immense quantities of heat
producing food. An Esquimau will eat
daily from twelve to fifteen pounds of meat,
onejhird of it fat. He generates so much
internal heat that he always throws off his
coat in his hut, where the temperature
ranges fiom freezing down to zero, with an
outside temperature from thirty to seventy
degrees oetow mo tatter point. loum s
Companion.
PROFANITY.
From Gems of Thought.
Nothing is a greater sacrilege than to
prostitute the great name of God to the
petulancy of an idle tongue Jeremy Tay
lor. The devil tempts men through tbeir am
bition, ibeir cupidity, or their appetite, un
til he comes to the profane swearer whom
he catches without any reward. Horace
Mumi.
The foolish aud wicked prartice of pro
fane cursing aud swearing is a vice so mean
and low, that every person of sense and
character detests and despises it.- George
HWl(H,fOM.
Profane swearing has always seemed a
mint volun'ary sin M.-st crrieg people,
whin tl.ey do wroi g, count upon some good
lo be derived fiom thiir conduct, but for
pn fuin'v there is no excuse, . Halloa.
Pn famness is a low, groveling vice,
lie who indul.rs in it is no gentleman. I
care not whal his stand may be iu society;
I care not what clothes he wears, or what
culture he boat'?; dtspite all his r Sue
metd, the li:ht habitual taking of God's
name in vaiu betra s a coarse uature and a
brutal will. E. II. thapm.
BESULTS OF SEGLECT.
He who cannot find time to consult his
Bible will one day find he has time to bo
sick. He who has no time to pray must
find time to die. He who can find no time
to rehVet is most likely to find time to sin.
He who cannot find time for repentance
wil find an eternity in which repentance
will be of no avail. He who cannot find
lime to work for others may find an eterni
ty in which to suffer for himself. Hannah
Moore.
CVMMUMSM.
Lutheran Church Paper.
Communism is a bad principle. The
leveling idea is a false one. Leveling- is not
only wrong, it is impossible. Some men
will rise above Olers- Economy, industry,
and shrewdness will ensure thrift: Extrav
agance, idleness and incompetency will
bring poverty. But arrogance on the part
of successful men is just as wicked as envy
on the prt of unsuccessful men; and the
arrogaoce od superciliousness of the rich
and the great are responsible for much of
the communistic spirit that is abroad in the
world. Abate the former, and you abate
the latter. Let the rich be humble, and
the poor are more likely to be noble.
Charlotte is open to the fluids, bnt the
license tax is high.
The Scotland Neck bratich road is still
progressing rapidly.
The Baptist State Convention will meet
iu Winston in November.
Revenue collections in the 4th District
for beptember, $120,331.87.
One hundred Polish Jews are employed
at Durham, N. C, making eigarettes.
The S mth-Atlanlic States are cnpable
of producing all the frui',3 in abundance.
Paul Furr, of Concord, N. C, this year
netted $110 from half an acre plauted in
melons.
The yield of gold in the South-Atlantic
States to date is over twenty-three million
dollars.
Sheep-husbandry is increasing in value
and importance in the South-Atlantic
States. '
The Yoiktowo Centennial Celebration
commenced on the 13' b of October and
closes on the 2 1st.
Can yon afford to miss the grand display
of Southern resources at the International
Cotton Exposition in Atlanta.
The Scnppernong grape is the grape of
the Soutl -AtlaHic Siatts capable of pro
ducing a wine equal to the Tokay " of
Hungary.
The new depot at Xew Switzerland,
Ga. , is being built as rapidly as possible.
A number of Swiss and German residents
of Atlanta are arranging to build summer
bouses there.
The climateof the South-Atlantic States
does not run into extremes. Although the
warm weaiuer uegiua
er, the range of the thermometer is not so
bigh in summer as in the Xortb.
WIIA T IS AN INCH OF RAIN ?
An inch of rain is that quantity which
falling upon a level surface and not ab
sorbed or allowed to run off would stand
an inch io depth. The amount of water
falling upon an acre of laud when the rain
fall is one inch would astonish any one who
has given no thought to the subject. On
each square foot of surface there would be
144 cubic inches, aud on one acre which
contains 43,"00 square feet, would beJJ,
273,640 cubic inches, which reduced toim-
petial gallons, each containing 10 pounds
avoirdupoise, would be 22,6113 gallons,
weighing 226,230 pounds, something more
than 113 tons' weight to tbea acre. The
atnual average rainfall io this locality ap
proximates 50 inches, consequently each
acre receives about 5, 6554 ton8' we'6n'
of water io a year. This amount of water
would require a train of 565 freight cars
to carry it. If one bad to waier a 640 acre
farm at this rate it would require figures
like those of the distance to the nearest
fixed star.
With pleasure the friends of Clarcmont
College wttl learo that about 320,000 brick
have now been successfully burned, and a
considerable part already on the college
grounds.
Major R. W. York, of Durham, will
deliver the oration, on the laying of the
corner stone of Spona Lodge, No. 280,
A. F. M , at Asbury, Chatham county, on
the 19 h iust.
A fine large iron screw steamship, the
Barnesmore, 2 200 toaa burthen, rewntly
arrived at Wilmington. Her carrying ca
pacity is between 4.000 aud 5,000 baki of
compressed cotton.