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VOL; ASHE VILLI?, N. C, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1884. NO. 4. • g Sj -»v/r) The Songs MatWe $n* \£\ !, ■ / rfc ?! hi ^Sr iv inJtjf'ifEAU/ l ii? Ml • •Only a Fahsy lHfjssom,” Uijly a dmr of soap „ Left Ln the stair*" ;§y the hire# And j the o|*i mtHiPglides wit* .whirl : Adowrt the jiggL'd slo]»e. “I Sever (.'an I.%>'fi Another) 'SIjcsaid: “N >|>$e lmt youg Anil!the* youth l|>|ed on heif Jl'heii at her graceful figure, geatjjg g Then back to hef |*mderoi|,sh M|| “(),ijakey, Juni|Sfjhe Baby,"* , Ine t<?otsy-wiy|isy thing, f *» f fl AVhile I biuild ai fire and fwr* MM 1 steak | . *H f ' •! Am| s|«ii} tlie r.|»e, and m|dly | jggjg vljhe iiaujrowc^pwaftifc ring “L'dme;iijit<i> tlie|(|hrdeii, M|ud*'. it J And < nil the|p|e-|ilant I'afr, japR I'llilig tiie tatefeyou hoe life we^|i|[| Ami tbgethcr ni-ll plantsogieea^liS 1 seeds, ;-h| g KtrS Heir saucr kra'tt n< h and Hire. wjS g. •AVpMef by Cpice, the liual.|j|||| 1! cheeked hepbaggage tlA.^ v- ; , Anil, riding ov*j| ihe rails at fchej chattel! nie;|iiy in the i*r, And picked jAy |*xkets, §> i. ‘■We Never Sj>eJk, as We 1 Though oft yM go and But the reasons; plain, i(| you , know, g We Initlli piay feyiiue and v 4TO., • _ Tf, j Sr’^'^T5 Jtut the girlgS deaf and|Juniti;;r^;| iKiffcnfcV ••St-ethit My grave’s KepfCree^^hs i’lii tcretl of (j|4 neglei :t;| fg * Yiiu know' that tjhe, gravegof oh| |^.|i ! Jones, | a | f Beside tlie lnitlVs and old glieef • With a mun'erel eat is i|e< ke<ifcJ|!S :i — TfXtm SiftimllA A Chicago Clerk in§Dak4fttyg I Iff wty> haifijiefn clerk jit the feram counter in a fehiyago Mo# for years, was la^, sjJriiiji otiijred tluCSa-'f clerkshipol'43.>rge stor| in town, and hefiyjt his departure 4lpe Eldorado, aiM tyis lost sight oty.§jrjijil ■this week, w|fnj|ie a|»i>et£rcil_in $vM$ go. ami \yas$o changed Jlrorii ti^jifV ihinite dandle tlity he foijnerly ed to l>e, tli^f lilfdly a|tyUidy'| him. Hie has ; lirotf/.eif and {f4|iihy handed, iutd^ofe a i heiSted *hi|Qjh$d his clotty* v^erijdoid amlf greasy^Jl^jd lie was diisi'i||ra|e|d. 11|' asked / n ,;;is old jHisitaon^ityl' while* the- iii£yia|l-r Was talking,|| him. tlie|leinale|?|i|^.s gathered aroynd as tho|gh a ty.g||§->jd nian tyu| eo^ie'|n: Uni 'slore to^:^.J,*. The inan.igcV asked tiieli ietk 15 # „*ie liked it out i\ est, anil l|iw he -de Jo lease. jHegnd! Ins ; hands oinif"|;.j^is ill a store ?'[' >v nj\\ agi itTk i mij tficrc * fverytli|ing$' said ih£ iJUNm > l&.pj |-1 6m.i1 toiuil^ anil ' i;« s wiie ami M' Imt tlult jud to mv shu 1 C1: ♦> • InKs If.,ie a (ct i.g V_T_.„ n$dfllhe )ufIk eighf, sbfVi. w.<n nl>f thi' Iworst ilM.lf l • arty milk ian| aiders jUornjni around ■Mny ble, and h^ir.uiii e agij and kept a lmnlu r yaj run the tufsi. i 1 had With a leaiji\efu il on lung popei| swjw) JfT; and ;< »>r. ’ and Cjf l a< t > keep t&HPj j>ks sheets 4<|fyip_ hiti ltJpsfSnd t* > t*i k pities trade. tfc ,fii|j>rk haul goodsjfroth theVl||«>t, un|p||fj|;ih' ixnd *ell thiinJ 1 ha| and |Hittet* anijl juy ii *he butter£>vef. and Jhiack it.r ; ..Mars, greaic the|jbggjs anrfMatk'‘thedti^pits, w-eigh out Siads a» (gar irun. lCwSure l ward s'in §jhe hunhe6yaidt‘bu{^v;|;j:at, jdrawjsorgfluraj iyolai|es, le.aW/!V;;Jull (Over the st^re fe>r dalces) !<■ if-, t Vpn agerand glayla viol j pum pkeioicne sell c in the «p I thing. '1 ft in two wetltsi jand him on a jiuh.j In _ra, ico/and rf-' idii't M.-e She tirotiriijOTSice ' ' '* n 1 had ;Viitch Iditibn fc * , I had to dp dais, 1. }uti^^r;f=#ag Jri the ch>Wf Stindhysf teat h ijp j'SiiQday st^objj, art a|i libraria^jtgfijgiu*. [ day seht*/. bobks, rftn the pit jji> "tnd i «ociables, an «he Fourth of JtJNJflWas < ^^marful pindarai** «f I jflliy, | «» pcclakatidh of ladepettdf f*®4 at MjWFafift awaasr'-* vr:'i;vf * S - ,■ rk.’-a 1 ktw be • ‘ UHfwMi H Iwaiit Bi> 'Id position, I could ha\e Jst<)«xlfc"ork- I”11 tilt- proprietor made ■ me 1h»"' t his house anrj do all the 'chores, ~ 11 hail to wring out the j clothes»'idling day! and help hang them ott. id sleep in the h mse nights and watt a for Imtgjars. Then the >r wanted me to, go out and break a settef !dog _on chickens, and marry bs hair-lipped daughter who has a catarict or one eve and-a wen on her hea< 1, and 1 di ked. I was wi11 ing to do anythin n the line of business, and never shirked, when Ire made me brand j a lot of t .illi■ with red hot irons, or drive a feajier. or gi> and help him ar rest sonic her.e thieves, arid' I helped j lynch a. jiun once, and I considered it. part of ■ tiic* fusmess, but I couldn t marry tlir.t git. and; protect her from cyclones, and one hight I took passage; on a stock Irani and worked my pas sage to St. haul. |t), 1 do not want any tjiore wild west in mine, and it 1 can once m tc have my old [»oskion I will live anl he here.” He wasaiwirhis old position, and is the hapjuestman jin Chicago.-Peck's Sufi. i “Jist Afore.” ,^T\ what was it pf the world if he fay dy ing! Thev jas.-cd his humble door with careless thought as . the dai»i>s of death gathered on his brow, and the children on the corner never once ejeased their "noisy play as the shadow pf death flitted around the ojten door. ! “(’hloe !” ! Yes, she iv.p there. Old and wrinkled and black,jar J’c.irt aching, her eyes lull of tea*, she; sat by. his bedside alone. y ( - “(.'hloe*{ >\v Ion” ago was it ?” “Nigh '®eto fitly y’afs, Moses," she • whispered: -"Ik- .same - master owned us loaf; wi -worked togeder in de same cottcii lillds we prayed de" same ..prayisaif sut g de same hymns t >ged er in le kng ag ••At’ devhih'e.n?" “Dlad—all dead? It has bin twen ty y'as. stnee if- \,m e of de last one made cur hearts.-U-.it f.ister.” ••An we has Un alone” ■•Allalone, M-iss. Our ole hearts' has pai.ed and la lied fur de dead an’. gone,:ad we has sometimes cried out : come lame i h.ll'en—come luck to us : butiedc.nl can n it return." ••An’ le time h is been long ?" “\\-s,hone\. U e has bin pinin'an’ ldngin.' We has km ,m a journey an’ hbpin' fir de '-and j.fde road .” •An’ te ha, Ian p.. >' an' lowly?" -be s|iie.- Maitigoran’ c >ld have sheeu-d ctr h >ine tjur tii’ars an' y’ars, an' uc w tild h.iiu 1 ljy knows dat we am Upon airn.” . 1 . •■An' Lav, I'hhie. b/.egwine ’way to leave yoi ?" ••\es, Vlvse." ••Ail’ to nights "ill seem darker an' de da^-sfinger jW.ijuit I anygone. You,"II have audher rnenij’ry -t tnake de h'art ache—an»tl. r sorrow t > dim de poo’ ole eyes vid Par-. 1, wish de l.awd had callel >..-•, fast.'' ••No, n). Moses. What He doeth am for dtbe-t Men has told yott dar' was no' (lid." ••'Hut dif’.nm, tj'hloe ! l’/e got de teeliii' he;h in my heart, l’/e got sich lie.ne an’contentment dat lhn sinkin' awavilikea ch ie g-wine to sleep!" ••An'lien h ufed at a hereaf ter tijr de soul." ••it/e tuttin to it, ho whisj^rea,as hi; i n e lighted uj'. km see across itc dyrk v lley into \de glorious sun shiiiJ’lit’d‘ s|iCLTit world’ -An’ dr' am hapj,:nc>s an' rest for elwni sioh .s us" . ■ “.Come duser. Chine! lav your face fin nine. , I'ze driftin'—driftin’! de [lartin'.viil ills jm i' ole lxxly and dis lilack'Kin.: 1 /e. Uahm'- old age— sorrow,-huger an' jitim all liehind. De sunlight fiini ai r.i» ile \alley falls u;>oh your ace, .in' it an whiter dan snow. It tn de sii.nlii.ht of de here alter—ol Haven 1 Cluster. Chloe, I’ze drt%in’>—drain’*— A ntf as sfc held jlje hand of the dead and nxked ' > ami (j- > her face wore a smile of haj^ne*-. ;i •• Jii>t a fov "dayv .a.rre rue!” she whispered—‘'tsjiong nuiT t > tell era dat 1’aeole at jV»o'in ionelv aa’want to tome up <W so {ufl • An' de chill’ en wiifbe dat1, sod we'll all be young stgain, an Mo.es wifi meet me on de Uink^of de dfehef an tell 'em dot my nHh'itisneter wandered nor weakened frort an de ttials of a lifetime Dt tn>i( fate J*tw- t • 'fhe body of a m.,a with V pencil behind Mse«V» pa r ,.,f shears in hi* right band, aftd lies pockets fitk ! excayated at o,Tb* gitl with imoisfc iftjtHfe m noysagoodwin -* : ' i ■ ; . i .; •: f iVaai Shakspeare a Fraud ?.; The versatile and ingenious Mr. Ig natius Donnelly, of Minnesota, has joinhii tlie society of the chosen few who have made it their object in life to prove that Shaksjieare is it he stu pemlous huinbug of the world) the P. T. ljarnam of literature, thef jioetical Jacob, \yho from the jxjsterity of three centuries that has worshiped; his ge nius, has stolen a blessing ft'hat lie longed Rightfully to another. Donnelly lielieves that Bacpn wrote “Shakspeare,” and that he lfts found the key to the profound mystery which has baffled generations of critics and congregations of literary spies that have vainly tried to solve Sthe great puzzle, i ; | . .4 passage in Bacofl's wcjjrks (De Augmeptia, liook vi, chapter |) hints, according to Donnelly,; at “c|rtairi se cret^ o£ knowledge,” “removed from the capacity of the vulgar and* reserved to selected auditors or wits | of such sharpness as can pierce the vefl." He also sjigaks of “writing infolding hold ing a ijpintuple relation to the writing inf^ldejl.” In other words, Donnelly is said to maintain that Shajcsjieare’s plays are n it what they seem to lie, iiut a secret or cyiihyr histor| of hjs own times written by Bacon and to lie: translated by a key which Donnelly.; has discovered. » . Tor instance, in the first | part of ••Henry IV,” (act ii, scenes i| 2 and 4: and act iv, science 2 ) lie folind the; wotyls ^Francis,” “Bacon” (fwiee .re jeateili, «*S,’iih<jas” -(twiue' rjefieitted). ••BScon’s,”. ' son,” “master,” |“kings,’V -exchequer, St. Albant”—thef latter, as! is felkknown, beingthe nam| of Ba - eop's glace of residence, li act ii»f scene 4, he found the flame dFrancis”' (Bacon’|S lirst name) repeatect on . one' I urge twenty times; while irt i' scene in I the “Merry wivts act iv„ ycene i).\ the name “William” (.the first! name of Shaksjjeare) is rifjieated elevei| times in one short verse, as if liy one reiteration of these two names to rail attention to tlie fact that tluire was a ciphfcr in the: plats,' 1'he name of Shaksjjeare qc.'-, ciirs las “Shake" arid “sjrare” of, “fjt>hete,” or as “Shakes” an<| “peer,”' and these combinations are .'found in every one of the plays. It |ras upoij tljese'dews Mr.] Donriplly labored un? tij he? has discovered the fruit? and , worked out enough oft-he cipher-story tdshijw that the plays contain a; nar rative of Huron's own life, ahd a se? < ret history of the reign of ivli/.aliethj ; At; this interesting i and eventful ill or nietit Mr. Donnelly vvus called o!f t > .u'cept a nomination to C Ingress in the'l'hIrd District of Minnesota. It ap|iears that he would ratlujr run f ir Congress or go to Congress j than e.-S tublidi a cipher which he M j>erfectly stire Will jirove that tkicon |not. only Wrote “Shaksueare,'* hut n|ade thofc ifimpirui! tragedies jam! ubsufpa.s*>ejl comedies merely a medium for writing the history of QueenjKlizalujth’s reigrt. Sd lie has left a task Which w|mld make Donnelly as’ famous as ijlluksjxu'fc htiivfclf, to go ofT and kiss afl the ba hies and talk over the cnjls in the Third Minnesota Distric t, i p There is n ) acc milting fijr tastes jn this regard, but we stisjiect, if the truth Were known, that Ddnnelly’gi pretend ed discovery is a g aid deal jnore of a fraud and huuilm: was;—Detroit Dr re ' than |haksj)eafe .r T j: Washin\;ton, Septenrl>er 12 2.—The Jfott.’H Herald has published the fal lowing. which shows that Blaiine's state Hieutsabout jus first fnarriagjr was fr fon&ms: -Again Jjfr. Blaijne invites the confidence of 5^,000,060 of ]x>o jplei in one of hisi explanations ahd Ogajin with di^irrous results ho himself. it%) bv his letter it^ppears that Jie tparried fiis wife in Kentucky, June ^301 i8jo,, 4i|jpjsing 'WVttge perfectly legatf. firitil the winter of . 1851,! when ;he. learned that by the flaws of- Kentucky' flis'inarriage without a licence was In valid. This is the explanat|an. Wjikt 4re.' the factw1 -That by laws? of xUekions KepUicky, Ind. the JtepeaS its highest cou|t (3 Marshall, 362; 1. gush 64), Mr. i Blaine’s nfartiagef in l8jo, if then ma4e,iwas perfectly fal td.; A license was hot and Inever had been an indispensable requisite in that fatale- Not till Jjuly, 1852, jjtWo y^ars from that date, did an act of the Legis lature become a law making marriage Vvjki withm* a license. Whence towe those doubts? Js it possible that the efxrly marriage mayhems mythical ad the as signed iqsaft for the second |ae?" f "If: The young woman who [ sfejw* 3d* mi the n-x*, wquld nil is & stony CttAt at seeing hef lghcr ttSpm “piece Of; hBBf -knife. -■ • Km, s-M-it Jim Wild. J:Y 1SKE.T MAR I E. : Say,there} R’r’aps Sonic on yotrcha|>s 1 j . Might knaw Jjtn Wild? * AVell—rnou flense;: / tj Thar ain’t no sense In gittin’ riled! ; Jimwjasnjy chum ’ i'p oil the bar; • ; That's why I come I town; from up thar, Lookin' for Jim. Thank ye, sir! You Ain’t bf that crew—.' ; Illest: if yo'u are! _ Money?—-Not much; That ain't my kind; I ain’t no such; Rum?—I don’t mind, j iSccin’ it's you. ; VJ'ellvtliis yer Jim, I>id,jyo.u know him?— Jess-’bout your si/.e; Same kind of eyes;—• \Vfc*!j. that is strange; ; Why it’s two years Simje he came here Sick, for a change. Well, here's to us: I Kh? *v i l ne n—i you say: Dead?— That little cuss? What makes you star’— You over thar? Can’t a man drop ’S glass |n yer shop liutycpinjuu rar’? It yfouldp’t take D-4-n inqch to break Yo|i an<fvjjhur liar. | ;De«Jl, , Poor—little—Jim! Why, that was me, J JoijesanU Hob Ixe, Harry and lien— N<|account men; ' i Tltpn to take him / ^ w|ll, thar—Good bye N i| m tre, sir—I — 1 •* | Eh? 1 What’s that you say? Wjiy,dern it!—sho!— N'o? Yes! liyjoet ii s>ld! • Sold! Why, you limb, Yfm ornfery, j, Denied, old 1 .[mg-legged Jim! I F..I A Suffering Land. For twjelve m inths the province of Neiv Smith.Wales, Australia, has in>t Iteeri visaed l>y>a rain. For a wj> jle year the'heavens, like a canopy of brass have spiimed the suffering land, .'and the scorching rays of an almost tropi cal sun" have dried up the streams land pools and transformed the once fertile plains ipt > a desert. Sheep and cattle are dying by thousands, and ranchmen are in great distress. One ranchman lost 150,000 sf)eep and,15,000- cattle. Hundred cof then are already ruined, and a continuation of-the drought'will plungefthe entire province into! bank ruptcy.’ Nevey since the great drought of i8j6 has the country been called to pass through ;\|‘[>eriod of such dire dis tress. The brbad plains which a year ago were covered with a rich carpet of grass ten or ttwelve inches high, and capabje of sustaining millions of cattle, are now covered with light, dly sand to the depth of live or six inches, blown U;ere ‘ t>y int? win<i>. inc . suiuiicr streams are all.dried up, and tSe larger ones are no linger streams, but a series ofmulldy jwdlS following the course of the stream! i So scarce has water be come that cattle are often driven thirty or forty miles ;’to a pool of muddy wa ter which is drained dry loefiore they leave lit. At these few watering places; cattle| wild animals and such birds as ;the great envu; struggle-together for a, ‘chance to slake their thirst! Nor is this terrible drought the only difficulty with which the South Australian far-t mers have now to contend. Kanga roos and rabbjts have gieatly increased in number until they overrun the en tire land. It is said that often rabbits are so numerous that the plains for miles are alive with them, completely hiding the ground from sight. Sin.e tire draught has destroyed all herluge the mytaids of kangaroos arje driveh from the woods and thickets and forced to forage m ore openly for subsistence. JSo bold have they become that they Tie<i|»ently enter hohses in (search of fo xj. The condition of S >uth Aus tralia is indeed deplorable, j anrl the worst is n ot ygl, unless the winds change and the rains {all. The actual suflfer 1 ing thus ftarjhajs been eonhned to s|ock, but {the death bf so cattle an 1 the uuerd«ten*ction ojfcroi*. will entail a scarcity of provwioas which will yet ' loriegstyieriM tn/mwyU-S* J k He Ate His Family. “This talk about cannibalism in the Greely party is all bosh.” he said yes terday on the Postofhee ste]>s as he rublied his white plug hat on his elbow. “Suppose the living did eat the death— what of it ?” Nolxxly answered him, and he pres ently continued: ' “Ten years ago I was lost with my family in the-Rocky Mountains. When we had eaten our Ixrots and shoes and whatever else we could worry down we had to resort to cannibalism. The baby went first. We baked him, and a 1 letter dinner I never sat down to. Was there anything in that to raise a great fuss?” ■ ’ Three or four others were added to the crowd, and he went on : “In the course of six'weeks wife and I ate our five children. We had 'em stewed, roasted and warmed up, and I never relished my meals with keener zest. Bid the pajiers raise a great howl over it? Have I been ostracized from society on account of it ?” He mopjied his liald head and rublied his hat some more, and then said : “The time came when I had to eat my wife. She wasn’t as tender, and juicy as tin children, but the meat kept longer and furnished more real nour ishtnent. Nothing of her body but the right foot was left when I was rescued. Three days more ,and I would have lieen compelled to take my gun and shoot deer and elk anil rabbits and such game or starve to death.”, “Do you mean to say that game was plenty around ?” asked a little man, who had been breathing hard. “Yes, sir—woods full of it.”, . And you had a gun ?” sf - “Yes, sit.” . “Ana you ate your iamuy in ]>re ference to killing game?” “Certainly ; hunting was always very distasteful to me,” ■Then, sir!’ yelled the little man as he jumped up and down and plunged around—‘then, sir, I characterize you as a monster, and—lernrne get at him— iemnie hit him once!’ Hut the crowd held him back, anti the man with the white hat marched off up the street saying : “Well,‘well,! what a fuss to raise about my eating up a whole family ! Seems to lx; some very queer men in this town." The Stingiest Man in the ^Vorld. The old man who drives the stage over here is the stingiest man in the world. He always collects his money at the start, liepause several years ago a passenger from New York or somewhere died on the way over, and the old man never got his fare. He doesn’t pro pose to lose another fifty cents in that way. Passengers can do whatever they like, for all he cares, but he proposes to get his money )>efore they do it. d’he say he used to keeji a livery anti feed stable, where farmers who came to town put up their horses and fed them. X shoe factory failed at Haverhill, and the old man went over there when they sold the assests at auction. He bought a wagon-load of shoepegs, brought them h >me, and put them in an Pat bin. When a farmer put' up his horse the old man would give the animal four quarts of shoe-pegs and change fifty cents for them. It was a dark barn, and the owner couldn’t tell them from oats. Of course the horses wouldn’t eat any, and the farmer would get scared because they had lost their ap atites. The old man had a mixture which he recommended in such cases, and which he sold at fifty cents a bottle. It was harmless stu£i, and was made by stirring up thistle tops i or some thing of that sort, but it had a great reputation,»for the horses would be given a dose liefore they started, and another when they got home, and, hav ing had nothing but shoe-pegs all day, they wefe hungry enough to eat their own heads off by the time they got a taste of oats: “The credit of the ap petite was given to the medicine, of course, and the old man got a big rep utation as a horse doctor, and made a mint of money out of his thistle-top soup until the sh >e peg business was discovered, when he quit the livery business and went to driving stage.— Chicago later- Ocean An honest rustic went into the shop of a Quaker to l>uy a lnt, for which twenty shillings was demanded. He offered two 'dollars. ‘As Hive,* said the Quaker; 1 c mn ot afford t > give it thee at that price. ‘As you live.’ exclaimed the countryman. -Then live more moderately, and lie hanged to you!’ i -Friend,’ said the Quaker, ‘thou shall hare the hat for nothing. I have sold the hat for tjwenty years, and my trick was never f >tmd out tdl now. One Meal a Day. Dr. George Fordyce, the anatomist and chemical lecturer, was accustomed to dine every day, for more that twen i ty years, at Dolly’s chop-house, in Queen’s Head Passage, Paternoster (row. His researches in comparative anatomy had led him to conclude that man, through custom, eats oftenerthan nature requires, one meal a day being sufficient for that noble animal, the lion. He made the experiment on himself at his favorite dining-house, and finding it successful he continued the following regimen , for the above term of years: JVt 4 o’clock, his ac customed dinnner hour, he entered i Dolly’s chop-house and took a seat at | a table always reserved for him, on I which were instantly placed a silver ! tankard full of strong ale, a lxottle of port wine and a measure containing a quarter of a pint of brandy. The mo ment the waiter announced him the the cook put a pound and a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and on the table some delicate trifle, as a bonne bouche, to serve until the steak was ready. This delicacy was sometimes half a broiled chicken, sometimes a plate of fish ; when he had eaten this he took a glass of his brandy, and then proceeded to devour his steak. We say devour, for he always ate as rapid ly as if eating for a wager. When he had finished his meat he took the re mainder of his brandy, having during his dinner drank the . tankard of ale and afterwards the bottle of port. 'l|he doctor then adjourned to the Chap ter coffee-house in Paternoster Row and stayed while he sipped a glass of bran ,dy and water. It was then his habit to take another a the London coffee house'and a third at the Oxford, after j whtohfte returned to his house in Essex. ; street, where he gave his lectures on j chemistry. He made no' other meal till his return next day at 4 o’clock at 11o\}g>s.-*—Nitwcastlf Chronicle. - A Burlington Idyl. As the shades of evening enveloped the huge tree tops in silence and hushed the melodious song of the fresh summer leaves, a young couple entered [lark on Fourth street, and reclined upon one of the comfortable and elegant benches prepared for the accommodation of youth. The sweet tunes of the early katydids and the frolicsome pranks of the frogs in the adjoining fountain made the occasion one of extraordinary in terest. “Ah, my l>eloved Cecilia," be gan the young swain, “how happy will we be when the church has pronounced its blessing upon our union. Verily, 1 love to thing of the scenes of our fu ture home where you, my dear, shall 1* the queen and I the faithful vassal: When, oh when my dearest love, wilt thou be wholly mine?” An enchant ing blush passed over the freckled fea ture of the adorable Cecilia. She hesi tated, she stammered, but utterance failed hef. The faithful lover slowly passed his arm around her waist to sup port her at this trying moment. Tim idly she moved away, but Walter, think ing only of his future happiness, pur sued her. A close embrace—a pierc ing cry—and he vanished- Cecilia loosed at the disappearing form of her Adonis, and mtirmered sweetly: “Blast him, it was only a pin ! Does the fool think I can hold my red sash together with my hands!” The results of this accident are sad. Walter will never more (all upon the fair freckled-faced Cecilia; and the loving maiden will never forget the hasty departure and Walter’s cry of anguish. (The poeti cal expressions in this item are Chica go property.)—Hazokey c. How New-Yorkers Spend The Summer. > It is said that the Manhattan Beach and Oriental hotels took in about $i, 500.000 during the summer. The Manhattan Beach railways earned about $250,000 and carried about 800.000 passengers without a single ac cident occurring. There was sold on an average, a car load of wine at'Man hattan Beach every day. Counting 300 baskets or cases to the cat, this would make for the season about 30, 000 baskets or cases, or 360,000 quart bottles. Gilmer’s band gave 250 con cerns, and entertained audiences, rang ing from a single person in a rain ktorm to 30,060. The leader has writ* ten his autograph for 2,000 young la dies, and has promised to do so for 720 young men. At the Manhattan Beach lathing j»vjlipn_ 4^,000 people spirted in the water, during the sea son. The baggage man handled over 25.000 parcels for guests of the two ho tels. 'Fhe most interesting fact is that 1 the cost of keeping grass on the front i lawn has been about $5 a yard for the summer.—Ntw- Y&rk Herald *" Painting it Red. A citizen who was waiting at the corner of Jefferson avenue and Wayne street.yesterday was accosted l»y a man. I about 27 years old, who said he want ed a little information. When told to drive ahead he asked : “Almost every paper I pick up has something in it about somebody paint ing the town red. I don’t see any red around Detroit to s[>eak of. Do they paint the buildings, or sidewalks, or what ?” “My innocent friend,” replied the citizen, “the terms does not refef ex actly to jxiint and brushes: ^f you should come in here to clean out De troit, or if you were going on a high oldsprtJe.or if you intended to raise an excitement, you would slant your hat over your left ear, spit over your right shoulder, anil announce in a loud voice that you were going to paint the town red.” “Because red is the color of.blood— fire—lightning—red-hot times, eh!” “Exactly.” - “Kind of a figgerative expression !” “Just so.” “Well, I.’m glad I’ve found out, and I’m much obliged,” said the stranger as he walked away. Two hours later he was conducted to the Central Station by two officers,. tour-fifths drunk and a tough case to handle. 'He had a black eye, a bloody nose, a bleeding ear, and had l>een rolled in the dirt until he was a sight to see. When the Captain asked the charge the prisoner replied : I “Red paint, Captain—put ’er down red paint. Been all around paintin’ er town red. Town been all around j paintin’ me red. Whoop! Lively old town ! Lively old red ! Got painted till ’er can't rest! Put 'er down red paint—more’n a bar’l ofit 1”—Detroit * Free Press. <* ...Tobacco. J Tobacco is now grown in eighty-sev en of the ninety-six counties of North 1 Carolina, but it is a staple in j>erhaps | not more than a dozen of these. Rockingham, Person, Caswell and Granville constitute the flower of the tobacco belt, each raising in 1879 about 4,500,000 pounds, and this year the crop in each one of these is estimated at 5,0^0,000 to 5,250,000. The whole acreage of the State in 1882 was 64,482, and it is estimated that at least,70,000 acres are in culti vation this year. The whole tobacco crop in 1882 Amounted to 32,275,792 pounds. All the leading authorities now agree that the crop of 1884 will approximate 65,000,000 jiounds. Hut the licst feature in the raising of tobac co there is, that North Carolina leads the tolueco State in the average prices obtained for the leaf. As shown by the census the average price paid for North Carolina tobacco is S14.10 ]>er hundred ]>ounds. Deducting 89.33, the actual cost of production, there a net profit of $4.77 is left to the pro ducer. The White Hurley district in Ohio yields an average profit of only $4.30, while Pennsylvania gives $4.13, Connecticut 83.89, Wisconsin 83.53, New York 83.12, and so on down the list. 'I'his annual profit to the North Carolina farmer of more than 5 1 ]>er cent, would indicate that the growing of tobacc ) is the most profitable agri cultujal work done on a large scale in i America.—Ex., ' ■ The average price obtained for tobac co at the Asheville Warehouses the last season was over 820.00 per cwt. Pith and Point. FROM THE “OHj. CITY DERRICK.” A little girl was trying to tell her mother how beautifully a certain lady could trill in singing, and said: ‘<), mamma, you ought to hear her garg let She does it so nicely.’ ; •Do you know what the board over the cow’s face is for?’ asked the Colo nel. ‘No,’ responded the Major, ‘un less it is to keep her blushes from be ing seen when the rtiilk man works the pump handle.’ ’/ A San Francisco showman is adver tising a troupe of educated flies, ff he will send one on here to teach others how to walk around'the edge of a milk pitcher without falling in, he will gain everlasting fame. •That Husband of Mine’ was lying upon the lap of a young married wo man on the train the other day when a base-ball dude and would-be masher leaned over the seat, read the title of the book, and then looking around in monkey pantomime, simpered out: •Oh! where is he?’ ‘Minding his own business, I hope,’ was the crushing re ply
The Exlavigator (Asheville, N.C.)
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Sept. 28, 1884, edition 1
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