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Devolcd to tie Protection of Home and the Interests of t?tc County.
Gastonia, Gaston County, K;0.3Saturday'Mokmno, October 29, 1881.
Vol. II.
No. 43.
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Tit VIS LOVB.
"4'liuro Ih true love, anil yet. you rimy
Jluvo HuKoiliw doubt about It;
(Til toll tliu truth, mill ("Imply s:ij
Tlutf Ufi'! I'ltwlt without. It.
tl'liertt is ii love l.tJj .true nud Hi 101
A lovo that falters aero?,
.It lives on fiUt.li unci sullen) wrontf,
,Hut lives and loves forever.
;8ucli love Is found but onee on inhjU
Tlio lieurt cannot repel it ;
from wbenco It conies or why Its liirtli.
The to$KUO may nover Ml It".
riilfi love is mine ,ln spito of all,
TlUt: lpvo I fondly eherlsli.;
JL'ho earth may Hlnk, the skli-jj limy fall,
This love will never perish.
ft is a love that cannot die,
But, like the soul limnorjul,
.And with It oleaves tlio starry sky
And passes through the portal.
Tlils is the love that conies to stay
All ot her loves are tleet inK ;
And whe,p they eoino just turju away-
It is but Ciujld cheating.
PUMKIK" PIES.
J'inkie wua balanced ou the toes of her
,
jelipers, upon the top of u. .cider-burrel,
I IK It 111.
. gathering hops, wnen 1 oib n;urrou urove
along with bi wagon, piled up with red
jwd jwllsw upples, and a big, lusciously-
golden pumkiu in" the corner, and slopped
ttt t lie gate.
.Pinkie iiinacdiu'.fcly hopped td her perch,
.and hid behind the barrel ; but Tom, com
ing up the walk with the pumpkin, saw
4he edge ol her pink dress.
Can't fool me, Miss l'ink Pendleton,'
.said he, rolling the guiding sphere, upon
the porch. '.I cm see through more things
.than u barrel. There's the. first' pumpkin
..of the season '
Pinkie scrambled p shook.nut her skirt
t d surveyed the (lutnpkiu, liull--wiM)ikr-.ingly,
fr m utider the brim of her hat,
,lurning..h.r bud uK)u Tom, who, however,
.only went off down the path, whistlin;;
.carelessly, and drove off to town with his
apples.
JPopi ,-and .Pinkie having indulged in u
,iieut little tiff the wnk before, had since
.amust d Ihemselvis by trying to freeze
,eueh other, very .unsuccessfully, it would
nerm imlninrr b : the Warmth of tC 111 PIT
.both could exhibit on the smallest provoca
tion. Aud this was the firft time Tom had
called hir since the li.et unpleasantness.'
' Did I ever!' said Pinkie, and glanced
,-over her shoulder 10 see if 'J'orn w.ts look
ing buA'k, whjcii, of course, he whs whereat
Pinkie turned scarlet and scowled, though
Tom was too far off lo see that. ' If he's
jtrying to make up,' she 'continued, ' what
.dues'toe be such a slick about it forj? dCx-
ects me to go two-thirds of live way, ol
.course ; men always do. But he begun the
row, aud if the .wants -to amice tip. k't h wo
jay so, -out owl out. Ste through more
,thnn a barrel ! Just hjin always insinu
.ating things.'
And d'inkie, thus foolishly fanning her
.anger, sat down on the step and kitkid her
,loes against a pick measure.
The bone of contention which hud served
Horn and Pinkie with .excuses for more
,than one squabble was u ge,)llcnin from
,from the city, who hub' spending the sum-j-ner
ut the farm owned by pinkie's brother-jn-law,
a comfortable, oldfashiomd h' nie
jatead, with clover-carpeted orchards, cool
,cd with dense shade, and haunted by the
gurgling murmur of a brock and the
slumberous hum of bees,
Perhups the boarder found an added
.chorm, though possibly a fleeting ore, in
Pinkie's spirited brown eyes and piquant
manner, Aud Pinkie why Pinkie would
have been coquettish to a mullein stalk
and never thqyght seriously of the matter
at all.
Why shouldn't she walk to church with
flr. llatherton and pin a red rose bud in
liia coat ? Why, then, should Tom loom up
Jike a cloud and cast cold water on Uer
.innocent auiusunent ? To be sure they liad
.been the same as engaged Tom and
Pinkie siuce the days they went nutting
.together and quarreled over tijeir gram
mar. But that was no rt asm) so Pinkie
.thought why she should not look at any
.one else.
To make matters a little worse, Tom
4iad a stylish young lady cousin visiting
.his house, whose compuny, Pi' kie had told
bim, Le do doubt found a very agreeable
substitute lor hers, a supposed fact she
.thoroughly rcsrntid, notwithstanding the
proverb aavs it is a poor rule that will not
work both ways.
But here 011 the porch lay Tom's gilt,
and (pn l .ably) peaci-ol) ring, for having
been unusually bitter at their last tilt, and
perhaps the scowl hud di parted fr ui
Pinkie's forhead ; her rye were growing
finder.
Young llatherton strolled around the
corner, with his straw 'iut tilted gracefully
.on one side, and a handful of curly wild
purple asters, which he presented to Piukii.
These,' he said, 'area much more fitting
offering to bi uuty than is a puinkin !"
JIc pronounml the woids scorulully ;
he hud witnessed Tomb's visit, and now
eyed his gift with much disdain, which
ut accountably nettled Pinkie.
'They are prettier to look at,' she
answered, ' but 1 don't suppoee Ihey would
do quite us well to cook.'
Tlie young man sin upged his shoulders
und uuntired nwuy indiflercjitly ; liis
allaniiy id" late wua growing rather
carelins and fitful.
And Pinkie was Inconsistent enough to
put the ustura in her iiuir, and then pull
Jjlfein out ufld throw ,then under the step.
Afler which method of relieving her feel
ings she picked up the pumpkin and
.curried it into the kitchen, and so made
(the discovery that Uiere us a scrap of
paper uttiK;hid to the bit of stem which
remained to the pumpkin. And this was
written oe the paper;
Come over tc-niorrow. Xorgiveness
and pumpkin pics caa oiace uu injured
spirit.'
'.flow like Tom!'
A small dimple found it-away to pinkie's
rosily-velvet cheek : and Pinkie's marriad
sister, Flora, a plump, white, and generally
sweet tempered little woman, came in and
saw it. "
'Have you and Tom made up?' she
askevi.
I haven't answered Pinkie.
' Are you going to ?'
J)on't Jinow,' perverse Pinkie return d.
' You area wry foojisli girl if yoUidon't,'
said Flora, ' and I will suy he is too good
fur ,,ou.
Pinkie scratcJud Jier rosy ear with her
hairpin, und smiled at the pumpkin.
' Vhat do you think,' she nsked, ' of a
man mppofii g lie could find balm for his
wrongs in pumpkin pies ?'
I should say,' answered Flora, if the
nan was Tom, you hud better make the
pies, and make 'em Osgood as possible.'
' Oh, you're so awful practical,' said
Pinkie, darting off with her chestnut mane
flying-'
But all the same, before next morning's
sun hud mounts veiy high in the heavens,
a trim little lady, neatly done up like a
brown-paper parcel, in a very large linen
apron, betook herself to the kitchen and
prow Icil about in the pantry, seeking the
sugar,. cinnamon, ginger and all the various
ingredients necessary in the manufacture
of pumpkin pies.
A sound of the wheels was heard in the
lane, und Pinkie tripped out to the porch,
Ihe nutinrg-greater io her baud, as an
elegant buggy rolled by, driven by Tom
Carroll, und Pinkie dropped the grater
suddenly arid caught her breath there was
tine istylih cousin beside him, the plume in
iier hut fluttering, and a faint becjeiu of
rose drifting up to iie "house.
Pinkie went buck to the kitchen and
shoved the pumpkin in a corner, and flung
the nutmegs under the table and the cin-
.namon after them, .pulled off beropron and
went into the house.
Mr. llatherton met her in the hall.
' Shan't we take. a ride. Miss Pinkie?' he
asked, wondering a little at the sparkle in
her cheeks.
All right J" said Pinkie, and dashed up
stairs for her habit, . ;
The shadows were falling eastward from
the trees on the lawn when Pinkie again
crossed it on her way to the luuse after
her ride, her habit gathered up in her arms
and a cluster of scarlet trumpet-bells io her
belt..
Flora, who was on the step, -iwstowed
as dur a frown upon her as her fair, plac
id countenance was capable of getting up.
' You've lost hiin now lor good,' was her
first re nark.
'Lost whom?' quoth Pinkie, starting
with wondering eyes ut her sister.
' Tom, of course Didn't he stop in wheti
lit came back ufter taking his cousin down
to catch the train and find you'd gone off
with Mr. llatherton?'
' And she's gone home f gasped Pinkie,
feeling suddenly guilty.
'Of course she's gone home ! She was
engaged to the minister, anyway j and
you've made u nice mess of it all now J
Flora (i m need away, Iool.iii indignant.
Pinkie Ml wed her.
IWt you think he will ever come
back T she asked, meekly.
Il'ml' said Flora. ' He may come to
morrow ; but only to see John about the
cider-mill, mind ou !'
Pmkie hud little appetite for dinner ;
even Flora's jan-pulTi hud co charm for
her ; and her usual archness hud so com
plcUly difappcand that Mr. Hallurton
felt culled on to bi come inj ured, and in
dulged iu a fit of sulks.
But the mod. rate bit or hope Flora had
held ou! concerning Tom's possib;e appear
ance next day comforted Pinkie a little,
nt d inspired her with a wcret nsoluliou.
IiOtig after the dinner hour was past, the
neat little figure, d-iie up in the big brown
cooking-apron. a?ain stood beside the long,
white kiubeu-tablei where a row of bright,
aeulloped pie-pans were shining. Spice3
perfumed tlio uir, and a dos jn eggs were
pilid in a cuke-pan.
The sun was fairly down when Pinkie
set her last fragrant, golden-comple.xionid
pie ou the window sill to cool, and stood
looking down at it, absorbed iu her own
ri flections.
' The queen of hearts, she made some
tarts,' diaulcd ft voice behind her j and,
before she knew it, she wua whirled uround,
apron and all, in some one's arms und
kissed.
' They're not tarts,' said Pinkie, when
she recovered her breath. ' Hut, oh, Tom,
bow iUd you happen to come back ? I was
afraid you wouldn't speuk to me any
more.'
'Oh.' said Tom, 'perhaps I wouldn't
have come, if I had not seen some one come
out on tlieetepa ttis morning, to see who
was going by, with licr usual curiosity, and
then bounce in like a little, waged yellow
jacket. I suspected which way the wind
blew.nnd I knew Flora would tell you the
truth when I eawe back 4 and when 1 saw
the pies just now I knew it was ail right'
'And now you'll stay to supper, of
course'?' said Pinkie.
' Of course;' saidTom. ' It would never
do to let all those pies waete their sweet
ness on the (deert atr.'
RESPECT WOMEN.
There fe notbifig ma1 ly, my dear boys,
in making light of women.' For your moth
er's sake, honor the seje. Never use a lady's
name in an improper place, or at oo im
proper time, or in mixed company. Never
make assertions that about her that you
think are untrue, allusions that yon feel she
herself would blush to hear. When you
meet with men who do not scruple to make
use of woman's name in a rectlees aad un
principled manner, shun them, for they are
'.he very worst members of the community
-men lost to every sense of honor, every
feeling of humanity. Many a good worthy
woman's character has been forever ruined
and her heart broken by a lie, concocted
by an unprincipled villain, but believed by
people of good principles who are too ready
to believe slander or condemc imprudence
and crime. The smallest thing derogatory
to ' 0. woman's character will fly on the
wings of the wind, and magnify as it cir
culates, until its- weight crushes the poor
unconscious vict:m. Remember this if you
ate tempted to repeat or listen to a scan
dalous lie.
HE CERTAINLY GOT II.
One of the most touching things we
have read in a long time is that story of a
robber and a poor lone woman, neur
Franklin, Indiana. The robber came in her
home at night and demanded her -money or
her life. She hadn't .much jtnotiey or life
either, but she preferred giving up the for
mer rather thau the latter, 60 she brought
her little store and placed it in his hand.
lie looked it overweully to see that
she didn't palm off any twenty-cent pieces
for quarters, and fucetiously told her that
he could credit her only ninety-four cents
on the trude dollur, chiding her for taking
them ut face value. ' Haven't you any
thing else of value ?' inquired the bold bad
burglar, looking about the scantily furnish
ed apartment ; ' a ohild's bracelet, ring,
anything will be thankfully received.' She
had nothing more, she replied with u sigh.
A Tlionght struck hita : ' Your husband
was a soldier was he not ?' She aekdowl
edged that he was, ami was killed in the
war. f Then he must have had a revolver,
he continued searching her countenance.
' Ah ! you grow confused, you stammer';
your manner betrays you. Get Unit revol
ver at once and give it to me.' In vain the
woman implored him to spare that harm
less trinket, almost the sole memorial of
the husband sheb&d lost. Site had pawned
many things when in distress, but had al
ways held on to that. But the robber was
unrelenting. Sobbing bitterly the poor wo
man went to a bureau drawer and removed
the precious, relic, around which clustered
so many pleasant recollect ions.
' Must you have it ?' she said, as she ad
vanced with trembling steps towards him.
' Ye. I must,' said the robber, extending
his band. Well, then, take it,' said she,
gently pressing the triggi r for the last
lime, thought she. Tin re was a loud re
port and the robber tumbled over dead.
The community ought to pei sion that wo
man. &itunltiy Night.
Last meek nt Kiba, Alabama, on ac
count of the extreme heat, Judge Clayton
held court under the large ouks on the
tquare.
The Tennessee historical society meets
on the second Tuesday in November.
The citizens of Columbus, Mis?., are be
ing called 011 for subscriptions to a cotton
factory.
WILLIAM ARP
INOVLGES IX A lEW VKMA IMS
YAHIOVS SVJIJJSC'JS.
ON
Written for the Constitution.
The raiu has come ut lust and everybody
feels better. The fuct is some of us eld
people, were about to cuve in from the long
drouth and the heat and the dust und it
did look like we couldent stand it much
longer. When a few wngotis were passing
to market the dust they raised looked like
old army times in Virginia, when you
could stand on a hill and trace the caravan
or the cavalry for miles and you couldent
tell a nigger from a white man nor a rebel
from a blue coat when you met em. But
its ad rigiit and it conu as soon us it could
according to nature. It don't believe that
hu:nan prayer will remove mountains now
a days, nor change the fixed laws of nut ure.
Elijah prayed for ruin und it come but we
have no prophets now and the age of mira
cles has ceased. If a man had that sort
of faith yes, if but he hasent. If he had
the will power to wrestle with the angel of
od and throw hita like Jacob did, but he
hasent.
A few years after tbe war there was a
long dry spell in these parts and the crops
were suffering and the branches dried up
an3 the niggers held shouting meetings and
prayed uik! groiufed to the Lord for rain.
Old Jasper was the preacher and he wus a
politician, too, and had changed tke name
of the church from the Baptist church to
the Constitutional Union church, and
Mose was another preacher, and Mose was
opposed to the new name, and some ol the
bredreu west with hira and it made a big
split and Mose wus ruled out, and every
Sunday he would set ou the door step and
hear Jasper preach, but he wouldn't go in.
By and by the drought got worse and
Jasper prajed louder and longer and the
women shouted und sweated and perfumed
the atmosphere nmazin, but no rain come.
At lust an oU woman, who was on Moses's
side of the war diclared in meeting that
the Lotd was mad with Bro Jasper lor
changing the name and that Mose must
come back to the pulpit and do rain would
come allure, and so the case was so
desperate they tools a vote on it and voted
Mose back ai.tl carried him up to the pulpit
and Mose he begun to preach and to howl
and take ou awfully und by and by the
niggers heard something away off like a
blast of powder in a rock aid they all
picked up their ears and looked at one
another. Mose he d indent seem lo luar it,
but went ou with his sermon. Suddenly
there was a low rumbling sound of distant
thunder, and the old woman who was
Mose's friend threw up her arms and
shouted glory, but Mose went on cxhortiu
and got . hilariius, and the thunder got
hea ier and the clouds gathered aud the
air got dark and the big drops fell upon
the roof, and all the niggers got to shouting
and bugged one auother aud ruu up in the
pulpit und gathered Mose and wallowed all
over him aud such a scene of fractic jubilee
was never 3 eu iu that house before, ''1
tole yer so, I tole yer sj," shouted the old
woman. "Jusper, I tole yer de Lord mad
wid yer. Glory hallelooyer. Mose is de
man. Muse de Lord's mat). Bless de
Lord, dia is de Baptist church. Jasper, oh !
Jasper, whar-is yer coutsitewsliun church?
Mose dun struck de rock, and de water
cum. Mose he is de man. Glory, thank
God." They all carried ou tumultuoiiply
for an hour or so, when the rain held up,
and from that day to tnis Jusper has never
dared to enter that church, fur the fates
and manifest destiny and the run of Iuck
was against him, but he told Aunt Dinah
that "de Ljrd didn't make it rain for
Mose, for de Lord was no respecktable
pus8on." Finally he moved away and
Mose had things in a swing. One night
he put something in a swing that didn't
belong to him, . aud swung round into the
chain, gang, which was bad, very bad
and the ouM women said, "de debil was
at de bottom ol it," and I reckon he was.
I believe in the power of prayer to bring
us closer up to heaven aud to duty, and to
enlarge our charity and cut dowu our self
love and to reconcile us to uffliction and
misfortune and enable us to suffer and be
strin g, but I don't believe it will change
the course of nature any uure. A man
on-lit to love his Maker and honor Hun
1 just like a god child loves aud homrs his
j parents, and that's enough reliiou to do
j the most of us.
j And row tiny say the suekus is coming,
j My little chaps have mentioned it to me
I teveral linns, and I nckon it is a coming.
I for the show pictures are stretched all over
) the town and they have seeu 'em, aud the
' I I l. . n..ll n f1 .1I1.I1 Utltl
llllll i'OJ Cil-H VUV MIO MUlll- V I'. .
! culled i'- soup, which w according to nature.
and the J verily believe that big lion is
going to tear that rhinoceros all to pieces
ami Hut everything on the pictures will
j happen and more too, aud they all kuo
that money is scarce and times are hard,
ond they don't beg to go, but somehow
they are mighty good and sweet and affec
tionate these days, and 1 haven't the heart
to tell 'em they can't go, and sour up their
little souls, and so 1 reckon they will have
to go, and though its a great sacrifice on
my personal dignity, I reckon I will have
to take 'em myself for fear of accidents and
nnd so forth. These yankees are always
sending down sometl ing to suekus, and
somehow they manage to get all we make
one way or unotlur and bring us in debt
besides. I do hope to goodness our Allunta
brethren will pay em back o e time with
the exposition and sorter shift the balance
of trude for a month or two. I want them
people np north to come down and see us.
I nut one of em the other day on his first
trip and he was selling safes and looked
like he was afruid something would fail n
hira tvery minute. He paw a little nig
carrying a pail of water on her head while
she wus muking a crow's nest on her fingers
with a string as she walked along and it
did tickel him Btnazin. "Weill vow,"
said he, "I never bee the like of that before."
When she came up he asked her how she
dij that an 1 she said, "dunno sir, ges does
it." Then he nsked her if she went to school
und she said, "aint gwine now," and be
wanted to know if we sent the colored
children to school. Not much said I
school ruins them. They was made for ser
vants, not schools. Work u.nkes em happy
and books makes em fools. And from tbe
shy way he looked ut ine 1 know he takes
me for one of the heathen.
Well, I suppose the feller who made up
that lie about Mr.' Cole's road has had to
swallow it. Nobody believed it but them
who wanted to. Up' here at Tuylorsville
they put up a fanerul notice on a cross-tie
and hung crape all over it, und some native
poet, who wus made and not born, wrote
an epitaph in scandalous rhyme. If I can
find him, I'm going to whip him that is,
when my back gets well, which I'm afraid
will be u long tinr, for it's powerful
weak. Bill Ari
Speaking; out in Dreams.
A correspondent of the Bichmood
Dispatch, tells the following in a letter
from one of the Springs :
An amusing incident occured on the cars
of the Virginia and Tennessee road, which
niu6l be preserved in print. It is too good
to be lost. As the train entered tbe Big
Tunnel, near this place, in accordance with
the usual custom, a lamp was lit. A servant
girl, accompanying her mistress, had sunk
into a profouud slumber, but just as the
lamp was lit ahe awoke, and, half asleep,
imagined herself in the infernal regions.
Frantic with fright, she implored her
LMaker to have mercy on her, remarking
at the same time, 'the devil has got meat
last." Her mistress, setting on the seat
in front of the terrified negro, was deeply
mortified, and called upon her "Mollie
don't make such a noise : it is I. hp not
afrui 1." Toe poor African immediately
eicluim.d, "Oil, missa dat you ; l 'St what
I ppected ; 1 alw'iys thought if eber I got
to ele bud place. 1 would see you." These
remarks were uttered with such vehemence,
that not a word w is lost, and the whole
coach became convulsed with laughter.
Heavy frosts in parts of Kentucky.
The Bithmcnd, Virginia, fair is not a
success this ear. V
Oranges are splitting terribly on the trees
in Florida.
General Jubal Early, of Virginia, is now
eighty years old.
Tke coal rinr around Knoxville, Tenn.,
remains unbroken.
Senator Lamar thinks the democrats
will carry Mississippi by from 10,000 to
30,000. .
A matrimonial fever has broken out in
Lynchburg, Virginia, and is raging fear
fully. -:
Daviess countv. Kv., has nineteen dis
tillertes, representing
over 750,000.
an investment of
Ttie ancient temples in Kgypt are
supposed to contain the oldest lim'Jjr in
the shape ol dowel pins, which are incor
porated io stone work, known to be not
less than 4.000 years old. These dowel
pins art .bought to h ive beeu made from
the tamarisk or shiltim wood, iu ancient
limes a sacred tree io Kypt, and 11 w
occasionally found in the v.illey of the Nile.
An historical drama, entitled ' One
llundud Years Ago," introducing the
characters ol Wushiintop, LaFayette,
Arnold and Andre, dressed in continental
costume, is being pnsciittd in BiehmonJ.
Va.
The annual expenses of the Polish
Government arem -re than one-thirJ large
than tlii'so ol the United Statis-
THE BOATMAN'S DAUGHTER.
In the memorable year 1814, when the
allied armies were concentrated about Par
is, a young lieutenant of dragoons was en
gaged with three or four Hungarians, who,
after having received several S'nart strokes
from his sabre, managed to send a ball into
his shoulder, to pierce his chest with a
thrust from a lance, and to leave him for
dead on the bank of the liver.
, On the opposite side of the stream a
boatman and his daughter had been watch
ing this unequal fight with tears of desper
ation. But what could an old nrarmed man
do, or a pretty girl of sixteen?
However, tbe old soldier for such the
boatman was had no sooner Been the offi
cer fall from his horse, lhan-hc and his
daughter rowed most vigorously for t he
other side. Then, when they had deposited
the wounded man in their boat, these wor
thy people crossed the river again, but with
faint hopes of reaching tte military hospi
tal in time.
"you have been very hardly treated, my
boy," said the old guardsman to him ; "but
here am I, who have gone farther still,
and come home."
The silent and fixed attitude of Lieute
nant S. showed the extreme agony of his
pains ; and the hardy boatman soon discov
ered that the blood which was flowing in
ternally from the wound on his left side,
would shortly terminate bis existence. He
turned to his youthful daughter.
" Mary,'' he said, " you have heard me
tell of my brother j he died of just such
another wound as this here. Well, uow,
had there only been somebody by to suck
the hurt, his life would have been saved."
The boatman then landed, and went to
look for two or three soldiers to help him
to carry the officer, leaving his daughter
in charge of him. The girl looked at the
sufferer for a second or two. What was
her emotion when she heard him sigh so
deeply, not that he was n signing life in the
first flower of his age, but that he should
die without a mother's kiss.
"My mother ! my dear, dear mother!''
said he, "I die without "
Hei woman's heart told him what he
would have said. Her bosom heaved with
sympathy, aDd 'uer eyes ran over.
Then she remembered what her father
had said ; she thougnt how her uncle's life
might have been saved. In an instant,
quicker than thought, she tore open the
officer's coat, and the generous girl recalled
bim to life with her lips.
Amid this holy occupation tlie sound of
footsteps was heard, and the blushing
heroine fled to the other end of the bout.
Judge of her father's sueprise, as he came
up with the two soldiers, when he saw
Lieutenant S., whom he expected to fiud
dead, open his eyes and ask for his de
liverer. '
, The boatman looked at bis child, and
saw it all. The poor girl came to him
with her head bent djwu. She wa3 about
to cicuao bersfcir, wlien tiie father, embra
cing her with enthusiasm, raised ber
spirits, and the officer thanked her iu these
prophetic words :
"You have saved my life; it belongs to
you."
After this she tended him, and becums
his nurse ; nothing would be taken but
from her hand. Nj wouJer that with such
a nurse he at length recovered. Mary
was as pretty as she was good.
.Meanwhile Master Cupid, who is very
busy in such cases, g ive him another
wound ; and there was only one way to
Cure it so very deep was it. .
The boatman's daughter became Madame
S.
Her husband rose to be a lieutenant
general, and the boatman's duughter
became as elegaut and graceful as any
lady of the Court of Louis Philippe.
IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIES.
There has been prepared at the Census
office iu Washington a bulletin showing
the extent of the iron and steel industries
of the country. The whole number of es
tablishments in 1SS0 was 1.005. In 1870
it wus 808. The percentage of increase in
the ten years was 24.38. The whole amount
of capital invested in the iron and steel in
dustries 1 f the Ui.ited States in 180 was
$230,971,884. In 1870 it was f 121.772.
074 ; iuciease. $109,199,810. or 89.68 per
cent. The total productiou in the census
year 1880 wus 7,2o5,140 tons. In 1870 it
was 3,055.-15 tons; increase, 3,009,925
tons, or 98.76 per cent. Twelve slutes made
over 100.000 tons each iu lieO.
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Allen county, Ky.. has a citizen who
kicks the be.m at 500 pounds.
Diplhcna is prevailing to an alarming
cxtei.t in Memphis, Tennessee.
Turkaloosa county, Alabama, farmers
have raised large crops of pumpkins tbia
year, .