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THE G&STONgi G AZETTE ZJcvolcd to Hie Trotection of Home a?J Me Interests of Me County. Vol. III. Gastonia, Gaston County, N.C., FiiiDvjf -Mokxing, October 27, 1882. No. 43. ,DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, Charlotte, N. C. PRACTICE LIMITED T0T1IE Ee. liar fc Ilu'oat. ' ' scp8 E.M.ANDREWS! JURXITLRE, C0FF1AS & CASKETS, -, whoiosale uud retail. CHARLOTTE. N. C ( (Noxt to Wittkowsky & Baruehs.) sop8 ,W. S. CHRISTENBURY, of Gaston oounty, with ALEXANDER & H ARRiS I CHARLOTTE, N. C. ' . Dealer In ' ,DRY (300DS, NOTIONS, CLOTIUNG BUU15. SHUtS, c 8hall always bo glad to servo my Gusfon and Lincoln triuuds. Cull una examine our took.. my J3UaaiES, .CARRIAGES, PHAETONS, SPRING WAGONS, &C. Xouis Cook Ma?it(Jacliciitiff Company, Water town SJtwy Ht(o?is, rClumbus Tit(ffy Company, Cortland Swing Wagons. COLLKUE SIltUET, Opposite Sander & ISluek woods, CHARLOTTE, N. C. " tjanl'83 THEMOD El MILLS?' 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I hear Jior roeklnjr the bnby, Her roo;ii l8.iic.vt to mine. And I fancy T toil t li; diniplor arms That round her nook entwine. As slm rocks and rocks the baby, In tho room noxt to mine, I hoar her rocking tho baby. Each day when tho twilight coinos. And 1 know there's a world of blessing and love In tho "baby-by" she hums, I can see tho rent less lingers Playing with "mamma's rings," Tho sweet, little smiling, pouting mouth Thut to her In klssimr chnim. As she rocks and sings to t lie baby. And dreams as sho rocks aud sings. I hear her rocking tho baby Mower and slower now. And I hear, she Is leaving her good-nf1 uu ire cyos, caeca UitU .urpw . From her rocking, rocking, rocking. 1 wonuer would sucsiarr, Could she know, through the wall between us, Sho is rocking oi. a heart V While my empty arms are aching For a form tliat may not press. Ami my empty heart is breaking In its desolate loneliness. I list to tho rocking, r acking. In tho room just next to mine, And breathe u prayer in silence. At a mother's broken shrine. For the woman who rocks tho baby In the room just next to mine. THE RED MITTEN. CHAfTif,,!. , It was the afternoon of a clear, sharp January day of 1861, and the company numbered fully two handled; there wcra men and women, boys and girls, flying and circling about, in marses, singly, by dozens and by twos and threes ovtr the frezen sur face of the beautiful Silver hike in Rock dale, a suburb of the flourishing city ol 13 . Among the crowd were m-my lads and Ints s who imagined they were fond of skating, and who came to Silver lake for no other reuson. It was singular, too, to note how much more gracefully the out ward roll," backward or forwai-d,,.can Ije accomplished by joining hands or being inkt-d together by a wulking-siick. These sticks, in some instances, proved no nop cm ductors to the sympathetic thrill thai' pervaded the magnets ut either end. The positive" iid nrirutive c nditions were fuily realized in the case of brawny John Ilorton and rosy-cheeked Abbie.Lu- thuti), the duughter ot.. the 'squirt .She, with lw.c uhiniQ CiUUiisL.fiVurp 'and frr sh. handsome fcev lit op wy a pair o! laufeij ing blue eyes, could huve led awkward John, on or IT skates, anywhere, with uu apron string or a thread for a conductor. Nut so with John. He could lead her no where; nnd the more the girl could balk and tnotaHz? him the i:ore she seemed to enjoy the skating and his company. Many a ludicrous figure he cut, and many an aftkward full he endured by her suddtnund unaccountable turns und shtflings, and her mirth and glee" were at the highest .at John's repealed fuilims to follow her diffi cult and tortuous wii. dings. John was over-grown and massive, bis twenty years of existence not having yet served to prop erly knit tcgelh( r atid round out the pro portions of his frunie. She was lithe und quick, uud as graceful as she was skillful in the use ol skates. Apart from the throng this afternoon John espied a little red mitten lying on the ice, where it hud been dropped by some one of the numerous children. Mis Ab bie saw it, too, and, as John, by one of his graceful movements essayed to stoop and capture the .rticle, she refused, to re lease his hand ; but, just as he bent for ward, the gave a wicked pull, and John, unbalanced, '..was sent sprawling a rod or two beyond. A peal of silvery langhtir was her sympathetic comment, as, with a graceful curve, she turned and caught the liDV thing in her hand. John blushed at his awkwardness, and held out his hand to receive the mitten. Bat the cuptor only held it before him, and gently moved away. "Won't you give it "to me?" he aeked;i "I will 6nd the owner." "I can Gud the owner j.iore easily tbab you. I can't trust you ; you would faltt and cruoh the poor thing in trying to de liver it." And she saucily laughed again. ",Yod inademe- lull," said -John,-in a grieved tone. "You are always doing tin se things. If I skated more and studied hss I'd soon be as much an adept as your friend Joe Staples, whom you are aUuys praising." "YouT Ha, hn, ha I As cruceful as Joe Staples T and the hdurity of the young maiden made J.)hn Morton's sluggish blood course through bis veins till his face was as reJ as the scarlet kerchief that eu circled his ueck. All the rent of that afternoon John was gloomy and silent, lie moved ar.mnd mechanically, or rutlier auU.uriticaHy, and Ins companion concluded to serve o- more tricks upon liiin. I he sport finished, the two wended their way to the house of Mr. Latham, John's fair companiM! failing - to rally him into anything like conversation. He answered her only io moiiosyllab'es, und seemed mc- rose odcI preoccupied. As he who about to take his leave, John said, seriously and a little sarcastically : ' Abbie, I'm going buck to college to mor row, and I h pe you will njoy the rest of the skating season in compuDiouship more graceful limn mine." . ''I hope I shall," replied she in the same tone. ''You must feel bod about some thing ; perhaps it's the mitten. ; you had better lake it, no, not now I won't give it up. If I ever think enough of you to "reDdei it, I'll send it to you by express." S.t wjtti a his coat dost resolutely tbj. . , homeward, resolved to waste no more 4nu w,ith skating girls, who .jiidged young men by the d xterity they exhibited in handling their heels. ..CHAPTER II. Among the earliest volunteer regiments that left for the seat of war io the summer of!8fil was the th Massachusetts, with Lieutenant Johq Horton as an officer of company B. Like hundreds of others he abandoned his books for the sword, apil had passed nighls and days in study and drill to .lit himself for his new position. Ilorton enjoyed the reputation among his fellows of being rather an anchorite. He was reticent, sometimes gloomy, aud, al th uigh he performed his duties acceptably, he hud thus fur failed to ehow any dis tinguishing qualities for a militury career. He joined iu few of the camp pleasures, sod wlieu not on duty, rending or 6t add ing, was hure to be seen in ubstract thought, wulking about the streets of the camp, or in the region of country immedi ately around. Chrit-tmas and New Year in camp formed one of the brightest sea sons to the bard worked soldier iu the years of the rebellion. Though, the quantity of useful uud useless articles dispatched from honiewusot all times great, the belli of contributions arriving ut this festive season sortly tried, tho,.carrying -capacity rf oil engngedU f " ' ttoit."-; privajea.iiyereisi ing- The flicei-tii iuc-i tiuunanKif to have an "ODeniiiir" in the coloiuli ooarters. and thither all ho were not of! duty rejmired. The evening was of coursi most ct joyuble, for nearly every one haj teceiv.d from home fome gift or token t remind him of a mother, sister or swee1 heart, sometimes of ull three. Ilorton w; present, cool, gloomy und indifferent.' Ill dill not expect any present His fanii was scattered, and many of those neart to him to whose lotirg- sympathy he wi.u'l naturully turn at this time had pass away, lie did not feel in a sympathetic ci si'Ptimentnl mood, and yet no particle envy entered his mind in witnessing the ei joyment of others. As the ninj'ir held u a small paper , box, however, und callt out "Lieutenant John W. Ilorton," tlii latter started and felt his face nglow in n instant. II- took tbe parcel, and iu spitk of entreaties in which not a few j ikes wert cracked- ut his expense, placed it in h pocket till the conclusion of the festivities, when he retired to the comfortable quart ters he shared with Lieutenant Carter. 1. Lieutenant II rton was puzzled and cut rious. After divesting fcijssel;' of his over coat he sat down, placed the box on the table, lighted the solacing dudeen, determ ined to approach and unravel the mystery as became a philosopher. Carter got de cidedly impatient before even the outer wrappings were removed, as Ho; ton coty ducted proceedings with a weighty deliber ation. At lust ilorton shook from thej were pictured at lenst.hall ui$ a oi im emotions that offect the human rcind, tbe principal one being surprise. CHAPlR III Tcr the next tbrne cvenin.s cur hefn was engaged in writing letters or rathe letter for no sooner was each one co- pleled than it was lorn io pieces and buri ed. Ilorton felt himself in a tight fix and hoped the enemy would niuke a demonstra tion on the camp, that he niU'ht cet out (I it. -lie had rather f- ce a hundred cann.i than undertake to acknowhdc the recep tion of that cfitteti. He knew that helm loved Miss Latham, cut his big, scnili soul had been terribly laii;rated by her ap parently he.irtli'ss behavior, and lm had concluded to tn come indirenl. not on:y to her but to all womankind. This iniM be another of her heurtlen tricks, but when Jack recalled her wotd. "If I ever think enough of you to surrender it, I'll send it to you," be felt the little witcu did eiitertln some liule regard for him. Still, as f helad vouchsafed no kind of message with Surrender of the mitten, he was at loesfiow to act. Write he could not. "If l iked Carter's nd vice," he reasoned, " "heuld only laugh, at me. Why can't thnqptoguey women let a fellow alone, anyfi" lie muttered to himself. "I washing to forget her and now she has opell all my wounds afresh. Ehe did it to btalize me, but I'll show ibe flirt and tbeljtfllfi eex thut I can't be tantalized." ADdeu Jack took from bis inner pocket an elopo, out of which he fished a little Hu n,v which be gized for a few dodjjf- Lm tcitazed 4i4 iuw . necj I Jack stood gilting into the darkness a fcgestion ol flishis lit up tho gloom, niiihe sharp repnrtof small arms broke tliJstillnrss. "Iiello !V here's for fun !" ex clined J ack , as he rushed for his accouter- mW lit j a wlpr oi If mfts. The long roll called the mm iuto nd in a few nwmeois the regiment rppared to receive the enemy. Being I the oa ;ers at bund, Lieutenant Hor ns ordered by the colonel to go for- waiwitb a detail of men and ascertain thtf oe state of affairs. Tbe pickets were retlting, the firing beicg answered by strf shots from the enemy ; no judgment oflflairs. The pickets were retreating, thlfirir.g being answered by struy shots fit the enemy ; no judgment of their nJbers could be firmed, but the panic stpen pickeis i( porti-& them to be 10-, Oljstrotig ut leust. Ilorton determined to k eowi and u certain for himself ibe fiber of the enemy. Hi had had little erienee of fighting as yet, and his posi- was by no means a pleasant one. In maneuver his excellent judgment was ved. for after studying the situation ns g ns it wus prudent he hastened to the unci and iotoiimd him that they consist- of not more tiiau u regiment cf infantry, ving directly for the camp. JA. hutkirmieh endued, the fight lasting I " 'atlOB pj - - i4'.Vi ra-c' '" by hi enccessTfaslily'pust.'e l " a'- B,ld w''8 M Iow b a bu!!e( tliti us:h the shoulder. TO litS CONCLUDED NEST WEEK. Where Slate Pencils Come From. A")' Jne who has children,' and who, uboul nrty times during a term, hears KroiliUitS about their pencils, their break ing or !)ss, will perhaps. be glad to know that tin supply is just about inexhaustible. There i: not the slightest danger that the world ill ever want fr slate pencils. The hind bhclt German ones huve been super ceded f late years by the round white one of clav slate. At the q nirry near Colle ton, 't., about thirty-five workmen pro duce )0,000 pencils daily, and it is pro posed. o increase the daily output to 10', 000. The blocks when quarried urtf sawed intD dices seven by twelve inches, split to a thiil.ness of a half inch and sm lothed by a phn.r, the block is placed under a semi circluf knife and after having bcn turned ove, the preicess is repeated. The result is i fifty-seven inch pencil. A particle of qmrU in the block would break all the pe.cils. They are pointed by a .grindstone tuned, hes rted and seut to market in box e;of a hundred. . : There is a tree in Jamaica ealleel the .'life tree." the leavers of which grow $Ve whH HOVOT.! fwwr lftllt. It ' buru- , J( MA.ed yening , poking up from a fashion paper. "Depends cm what par ty you belong to," replied his big brother, "but it's usijr.llj- red on the nose, black arouneltho eyes and dirt on the hands. That's good party color for alniottt nny caucus". If tu-kcyr. Hay fever is Mr. Berber's ideal of the superlative of human suffering. rerchantv Mr. Beecher nevt-r ploughed up an old pastuM field and run a fur row stmifrht through an old stump oou mining two uillion invisible yellow jackets, aud the creek half a mile away ami not a patch cf brush this side of it. Iliiirh'y, To clean and renew black siik, nse Ouo quart of soft wtUY nd an kid elove. lVil dtu to oue piut and then pome the cotxls with a piece of soft flannel aud iron on the wrong side while it is damp, and the silk will bo as stiff and glossy as new. For a ligh-colored silk use a white-1 The Story of a Headlight. A Thrilling EplHode in the Career of a Union Pacljlc Conductor- "Yes," said the conductor, biting off the tip of a cigar and slowly scratching a match on his kg. "I've seen a good deal of railroa life that's interesting and exciting in the twenty years that I've been twieting brakes and slamming doors for a living. "I've seen all kinds of sorrow and all kinds of joy seen the happy bridal couple starting out on their wedding tour yith the bright and hopeful future Hnrn . them, aud the black robed t .tin f , V- new-made jrthe idol rty rieiQ. on tha same train, anu ionbrry laagh of the joyous child is mingled witJL tha despairing sigh of the aged. The greet antipodes of life are familiar to the con ductor, for every day the extremes of the worh! are meetiug beneath his eye. "I've mutilated the ticket of many a blackleg and hamlled the passes of all our most eminemt dead-heads. I don't know what walk in -ifa is crowded with more thrilling incidents than mine." "Ever had any smash-tips ?" "Smash-iips ? Oh yes, several. Xone however, that might not have been worie. "There is one iucident in my railroad life," continued the conductor, run ning his tongue cnrefully over a broken place in the wrapper of his cigar, "that I never spoke of before to anyone. It has caused rte more misery and wratch edness than any one thing -&t has ever happened to me in my official career. "Sometimes even now, after the lapse of many years, I awake in the ni ht with the cold drops of agony standing on my face and the horrible nightmare upjon me, with its terrible surroundings as plain as on the memorable night it occurred. "'1' was running extra on the Union Iaciiio for. a .conductor who was an oLl -e&fiE bf.miflO, and who had gone south j i gb;;; 'j pajf-past seven, as near ijloug all comfortable one evening, with a straight stretch ot track; aneaa tor ten or niteeu mil.:c, running en time, and every body feeling lip-top, as over laud travelers do who are aeepiaiuted with each other and feel congenial. All at once the train suddenly slowed down, ran in on an old sliding and stopped. "Of course I got out and ran ahead of the engine to ce what tho matter was Old Antifat, the en peer, -had gone down, and was em the main track looking ahead to whe re, twinkling along about six or seven miles dowu the road, appf rcutly, was the heaellight of an ap preiaehiug train. It was evidently 'wild,' for nothing w.is due that we knew of at that hour. "However, wo had been miraemlously saved from a frightf ul wreck by the en gineer's watchfulness, and every body went forward and shook old Antifat by the hand and cried and thanked him till it was the most affecting scene for awhile that I ever witnesseel. It was as though we had stopped at the very vefcge of, a bottomless chasm, aud every boely was ,..-;,- oi- ,i,..j till it, was a kind of ,a . . cross between a : e- ial and a picnic. "After we had we waited about half an hour,. I should say, for the blasted train to come up and pass us, ami ap warentlv. she was no nearer, a cold, clammy suspicion began to bore . itself iuto the adamantine shell of my intel lect. The more I thought of it the more unhappy I felt. I almost-wished thut I were dead. Cold streaks ran up my back feillowed by hot ones. I wan ted to go home. I wanted to be where the hungry, prying eyes of the great, fl,,siMn'ntT work-dilV WOrlel COlllel not lttJ w see me. "I calletl Antifat t i one side and said something to him, Me woreftlyto himself and kicked the ground, and looked at the headlight- still glimmering iu the distance. Then he get on his engine and I yelled 'All aboard !' Iu a few momenas we were moving again, and the general impression was that the train ahead was side-tracked and waiting for us, although there wasu t a side track within twenty mile s except the oue we had just left. "It was I'ever exactly clear to the passengers w here we pas'ed that wild train, but I didn't explain it to 'them. I was too much engrossed with my sur ging thoughts. "I never felt my owa inferiority so i. i ,i;.i thut nieht. I never so 1UIICU aw " -- " , i fnllv r. .ilizeil what a mere si eek man SSd Ibe sUtT vault of heaven apd considered its illimitable space, where beyond and stretching on and on forever, countless suns are placed as centers, around which solar systems are revolving in "their regular orbits, each little world peopled, perhaps, with its teeming millions of struggling hu manity, and then other and mightier systems of worlds revolving about these systems till the. mind is dazed and aid. dy with the mighty thought ; and then when I compared all this universal mignihYience, this brilliant aggregation of worlds aud systems of worlds, with one poor, groveling worm of the dust, a little insignificent atom, only a poor, weak, erring, worthless, fallible, blind! groping railroad conductor, with my raia peacefully side-tracked in the ' ii r J . for the planet Venus to pas: t iraifiir ,s litl'lt main track, there was something about Ihfe whole somber picture that has over shadowed my whole life and made me unhappy and wretched while others were gay. "Sometimes Antifat and myself meet at some liquid restaurant and silently take something in memory of our great sorrow, .ijiit never mention it. We never tear open old rankling wounels or laugh over the night we po litely gave the main track to Venua while we stood patiently on the siding. ' -Boomer ing. Josh Billings on Courting. Courting iz a luxury, it iz sallad, it iz ise water, it iz a beveridge, it iz a pia s; ell of the soul. The man who haz never courted hez lived in. vain ; he haz bin a blind man among landskapea and waterskapes ; he haz been a deff man in the land ov organs, and by the side ov murmuring canals. Courting iz li e 2 little springs ov soft wa'er that steal out from under a rock at the fut ov a mountain, and run down the hill side by side, singing and elancing and spattering each uther, eddying and kaskading, now hieling under bank, now full ov sun, anel now full ov shad- tier, till bimeby. the jine and then tha go slow, I am in favor ov long courtiruj it gives the jiirties a chance to find out ereize,rmci iz jTti-eAr merino lambs. Courting iz Jlke- if f&w- berries anel cream, wants to be did slow, then you git the flavor. I hav saw folks git acquainted, fall in luv, git married. settle down, and git tew work in three weeks from date, This iz jist the wa sum folks lam a trr.de, and akounts for the great number ov almightey mean mecliauicks we hav, the poor jobs tha turn out. Perhaps it iz best I shud state some some gooel advise, to young men who are about tew court with a final view to. matrimony,' az it waz. In the first place yung man, you want to get ynre system nil rile, and then find a young woman who is willing tew be coujted on the square. The next thing iz tew find out how o d she iz, which )u kan do bi asking her, and sha wiU sa that she is 19 years old, and this yu will find won't be far from out ov the wa. The next best thing iz tew begin moderate ; say once every nite sin the week for the fust six months, increasing the dose az this patient seems to reqiu're it. It.j a fust rate wa tew court the giri's mother a leetle on the start, for there iz one thing a woman never despizes, and that iz, a leetle good courting, if iz dua strick y on the souare. After the lust year ju will begin tew like the bizzness. Thare iz one thing I always adise, and that iz not to swop fotographa of tener than ouc3 in 10 daze, unless you forget how the gal looks. OkasionaJly ju want tew look sorry, and draw in jure wind az tho you had pain ; this win set the gal tew teazing yuto And out what ails ju. Evening meetings are a good thing to tend, it will keep yure re igiouin tune, and then if the gai happens to be thare, fc ac cideuti shejcanjisk yu tew go hume with her. As a general thin t wouldn't -brag on uther ga s much when 1 waz courting, it mite look az tho' yu knu tew much. 1 f yu will court 3 years iu this wa awl the time ou the square, it yu don't sa it iz a leet'e the s ickest time iu your li;'o, you kan kit measured for a hat at lUj expense, aud pa for it Don't court for muun.s nor buty, nor relushuns, these things are just about tz ousartiu as the kerosene ile refining biasness, liab e tew git out ov repair and bust af any miuit. Queen Victoria invariably transact her public busines between breakfast and luncheon, and hardly once in a month does she concern herseu wiia j pnblic affair, at any other time.