The Greensboro patriot [April 8, 1874]

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W. IB. IF-A-R^IRAAJEL
Walcb-Maker,
Jeweler & Optician,
t.reensboro, >. <'.,
Ha. constantly on hand
a splendid assortment of
fashionable Jewelry,
aud some splendid
H.ilcA.. onil tttxlcs,
Which will be sold Cheap tor <.'iu.li
Professional Cards.
MLNDENHALL & STAPLES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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■« North
Iftiuln, Clocks, Jewelry, oewuig. Ma-ebiues.
sud Pistols repaired cheap and "" short
notice. Call OffnA. Ih» Express Offlce,
South Elm Street. 10-1/
17" An aanorted stock of Guns. Pistol..
Cartridges, 4c, always on hand.
TlLXwiLsnNr
LIFE & FIRE INSURANCE WENT,
Greensboro, N. C,
'•, p EPRESENT8 Hrst-clas* Companic*
I£\, with an aggregate capital of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
and can carry a full lino at lair rales,
tyOffice, up stairs over Wilson A Sho-
' nt siqiervision
.*.«,'.
I ., ,,i.„IGuilford, R«W- Ur., B„lk/under 1 beellici
rVnrsTtbe. Stoke., Ran- ,
Hi-". 1'. S.l'c.i'.it and "'
aitn.tion givea lu
the Sl.le, aud to
1IIOS. B. KKOGH,
BALL & KEOOH,
ATTORNEYS A T LAW,
, n Lindsay tluilding,)
1.1 KNSBOKO, N- C
I .'. I V
1 ll.KS
SCALES & SCALES,
Attorneys at Law,
Grrenshoro, N. C,
It Slate andFederalCourts.
- . , - mil aiteml lb* Probate
0 County nt Wentworth
• ry 11 th.Janl5*»p
RALPH QORRELL,
,l(orucj and loun«ellor at Law,
sNP
SOLICITOR IN BANKRUPTCY,,
.riensboro, N. C,
'11.1. pra,ti.e lit ll.ecouru.of Alamanee.
W. II. Ill I.I..
who will at all times lie glad to wmit °"
all who desire either
,f curt .HOUM. Life or Fire Policies.
mar 14:ly
N. H. DJITiiJioM. CIIAS. E. SHOBICR
SflLSOX ML SIIOBER.
B A :N K K R S.
GREESXBORO, X. C,
(South Elm Slreet, opposite Express Office.
BUY and sell Gold and Silver, Baal Note.,
iSlate aud Government Bond., Kail Ko.il
-! Stock, and Bouds, die.
iy Receive Mouev on deposit subject to
SIGHT CHECK; and allow iiiloreM
In kludiipoii iimede|Hi«iuolCUKKE>Ci
„r Sl'EClE. .. ,
DlMCOiint Ilu»ine»» I nl>^',i
ollections made at all vmswt points.
Sept. 1 "th, ly
■W. A.HOB-NEY,
Ode to the Granger*.
BT run w. I.IICB.
Ye .talwart, itnrdjr aons of toil,
Provider, for the nation—
Ye hardy tiller* of the soil,
True noble, of creation,—
Will ye be ruled by middlemen,
And triumphed o'er by strangers t
Enroll yonr name, with freedom', pen !
Swell np the lirt of Granger.!
Ari.e ye all! throw off the yoke!
Awake ! e.ich gallant farmer ;
Discard *he shepherd', crook and cloak!
Gird on the warrior', armor 1
Graap firmly now the .word of right-
We're used to toil, and dangers:
Monopolies will pnt to flight
Before the valiant Grangers.
Ye mighty host, to arms! to arms!
Come, aid our ranks' expansion !
Why shonld we drudge upon nur farmers'
Have we not earned a mansion T
But what eare we for Tain displays T
We're nature's free rangers;
Bat we'll not own the tyrant's sway—
We're freedom-loving Grangers!
Then rouse, ye toilers in the fields!
We are not servile vassals !
With troth engraven on our shields
We'll storm the tyrant's castles :
We'll east the foes of Justice oat—
Disperse the money changers,
Then raise one long, triumphaut shout
In honor of the Grangers.
Then down with railroads and canal.
Controlled by modern NBROS !
And down with Roman-like cabals!
Advauee, ye gallant heroes!
We're Emperors of Field and Farm,—
Our thrones are naught but mangers,
Bnt justly wields a mighty arm,
The Brotherhood of Graugers.
knew these human hydras had DO J brother knowing the threat wonld
mercy j they dreaded their retaliat be executed, went to the house one
. ing Teug;eance. For these men day and while Stephen was sitting
would lollow their children while at on the bed side baring bis wound
' work, and whip them Irom one side dressed, through the orack ot the
. of the field to the other; they would | house Richard shot bim through
compel them to stand iu the yard j the heart. It is said that the man
during cold rainy nights, till the. ner of men's deaths frequently
' little creatures were frozen beyond resembles their lives; the fate of
the power ot speech; and sometimes
; their wives shared no better fate.—
the Lewises seems to confirm the
fact; they were heartless tryants
[TO BE CONTINUED.
A fine colt belonging to Stephen! while they lived, aud as tyrants
Lewis, once did some trifling mis- deserve, they died cruel and bloody
chief, when the owner enraged shot. death
it dead upon the in-t.mt. Any !
thing, man or beast, that {dared to I
cross them, i>eriled its lile. They I
neither sheltered themselves under;
the stroug arm of law, nor i>er >
mitted others to. do so; they neither j
gave nor asked merry. Yet these
■MM men were unfailing friends,
when they chose to protect. Their .
Railroads in the Southern
States.
The following table shows the
number of miles of railroads that
were in operation throughout the
Southern States in 1873, and the
pledge was suro as any thing human number of miles built in that year:
could Ue ; if they threatened death ToUl mMe8 Mile. bnilI
or torture those threatened always
thought it prudent to retire to the Virginia,
very uttermost parts of the earth ; North OM*M,
it they vowed protection, their pro- - §2E£"" "•
tege felt secure. Some of their re- 1 Florida,
mote relations are still in this | Alabama,
J.l. SCAI.KS.
\Y 1, [iiril sniUKaudolpa, and
,urt ..I North Carolina.
11 it,, |>..mil and Circuit courts
es.ii the Western District
. v in eases la li.ukrupt-iiecous.
.nd WATCH-MAKER, JEWELER AMD
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s I .
■ ition given lo
■ lb
romnihted to bis care,
above nmued courts solicit-
Court HOMO. «p 30-ly
II. IJ Hard.
DiUard, & Gilmer
ATTOKN i;vs AT LAW
and
soi.il run;- IN BANKBUPTCT,
1 o| Greensboro, opposite
v House.
Slate slid Federal Court.. 1
OPTICIAN,
No.11 South Elm Stmet, Oieeasboro, B.C.
HAS a beautiful .lock of Watches.
Clocks, Jewelry, Plated Ware, Pis-
J,,o. A. Gilmer. > tols, Cartridges, Nolions, &.: All rep.ir
ing arranted. A largo and tine stock of
«;out Pens, dec 2f.:ly
1)i:.l< I !< E
ill, .1,011 given to matters iu
-. - arising under Ialsr-j
ill District Court of Western
Sorth Carolina. Collection, in |
I . |eral ' ourle swIieHed. in great var
1*72. 20o:ly. ecououiv ami
, .. 1 1. a ,111:11 r. cAi.uwiu.1..;
-' OTT A I'.*..DWELL.
1,HI KNSUORO, N. C.
«• 1 , in the Superior Court of
. ic. l.'..ii.lolpli, Davul-
II san, Iredell and Meckleii
Ihe Sipiiuie Court ot ilie
,,, Federal Conn si Greensboro
e, in HaaKmptey, and in coons ;
J. A. PRITCHETT,
CABINET-MAKER.
Furniture Jlealer and Undertaker,
ANSOl'NCES to ill- cilizi ns
Greensboro sud Guilford County
%
thai In* i« br-itrr ]>rr>par^l
thiui nw lo jTuvidf them
II UM 11 HI:
■ty—neleclftl with a vi*
in milt the timen.
now
with
NAWH1 WISE.
BY CHARLIE VKRNON.
CHAPTER I.
couutry ; they are among our most
worthy citizeus, but they never
tamely submit to insult. Some iu-quire
how such meu as the Lewises
could ever intermarry with other
families; who would uuite them-selves
to such cold hearted creat-ures?
While such characters are in some
respects to be abhorred, yet there
is about them that has iu all ages
been attractive. Ladies are ac-cused,
because liu-v fall in love with
tops, of wanting common sense, ami
of loving vanity rather than sub-stauce.
The accusation is false.—
Except the love of a Christian for
his Lord, the love of a woman is the
purent anil truest thing 011 earth;
sweet as the iuceiise of heaven, soil
as the airs of paradise, and confid-ing
as the lamb; it scorns the little,
the vile and" the treacherous. The
About forty years ago there lived , t)>mirj|s „t noinaii'B affection despis
the shrubs of odor and In-auty, to
entwine closely ami eternally
around high forest, trues that are
exposed to howling storms and the
thunders of Jove. The tires may
be rumjh crooked, bat ihen they ate
trees. Find u man of great intel-lectual
power, of iron will, Of reck-less
daring, but unshaken fidelity;
in such yon Bnd s master magnet
around which women's hearts col
Rut how
1 ■ 1 i/treti lo I'-ans
- 1 itheE iwcuritien.
el. Il.lv.
I RU) meiHtred lo funil
notice. COFFINS of any
id.ha
AVt
nptly attended
1 inm
.•tyle and fiiiifh,
ve^line l»*?ar** lot the u-e of the mbite.
Al' ordern for Furniture, Olli •.- <<r Metnlic
ut iiH'deralf
D. A. A, R. F. ROBERTSON,
Surgeon Dentists-
Having asaooia
*tttl themselves
in the practice of
VV. DENTISTRY,
j . — res|M-ctfully offer
* -—- ilirir prolessioii-
Vff?f^ .-rr> a|M.rvice.tothe
? ^t~\ ilti/ens of
y y\ *•* 2" Greensboro,
"^ and the snrronn-
11, One or the other of them
. he I.11111.I al their office^ on
urnei up siairs, ei.trance East
j referonce given, if desires,
I'spe, live natrons during the
..1 lilt.on vests. 213:tf
cases prti
f money ) charges.
Anv marketable produce taken iu exchange
I for work, if delivered al :iiy shop on Favelle-viile
slreel.
Work csref'llly parked Slid delivered at
I be depot r'm oj i ft. .Ian, I,
J. ini.DSHII'MK.
frwDOji 1
is tipt'iieil
nd the
ut ihf
Bin
Reupwlftilly inforniK ha
public ^enenilly that he h
Vlclrer Itrick huildiug a
FLOUR,
OBAIN,
BACON,
and a
General toninilsaloii Business.
Liberal advancements made on Consignments,
ami prompt attention paid 10 BBBM.
Greenslsiro, .Ian. 1st, 1S74.
Jan. 7, ly.
A UT STUDIO'
PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE MILLION
C-: Garrett building—
. 1 li; i oulkes' Slore.
1,. W ANDREWS,
l.reeusboro, N C.
17, l-C'-l ly ■
JOB WORK
«M K\ III V Dr»rrlpllon.
1 lecutxJ in th©
\ ERV KK*»T STILE,
■I N. A York prices, at the
Patriot Job Office.
U'l. Houston A «:*>.,
. Wholesale sad Retail Grocers,
* '>/1 . ■' .Sf.,(,'rrrn*6oro, .V.C
Specie lion given to Sugar, Ccffee.
Salt Union. Latd. Fish, Snufl
I m, Leather, Flour. Meal, Soap
icco, and a general routine o,
feb Illy.
(-*
^ajaoro Boo/c S/i
CJ.
\
"•»«. — -.0-
Chas, G. Yatejf,
MiM Htl 1 RKB OF
Tin, Mu'ot Iren&i'oppfrWare
VMl iti:« M in Dry Goods, Hats, Boots and
Sh... - W 1 v\ are, Liimpa. Crockery,
QnMMVIflB. Stovea, and aav
■ .- kienwmllT. Nu. VI South Elm
Strwi ..-1 ■■!... N.(T. Goods sold low foi
jan 19: ly
J. «. s, on
\\ hob sale mill Retail Dealer in
STAPLE AM> FANCY GROCERIES,
I. rf, " wdrn and Tim It'.re.
.\ 111] 1 • Market St.,Greensboro,N.C.
I .1-1.I I full stock of goods in
11 .1 sells st lowest market rates
01 liarter.
Jan ■•! U
FREDERICK DETMERISO,
Boot & Shoe Maker,
j On Davie Street, near Presbyterian Church.
BOOTS and Shoes mad- to order in the
shortest notice, st the lowest terms.
The best of leather, and s good til gusran-
, i«t let 19: ly
HC. Mil.I.IS.
CONFECTIONER.
North Elm Street, opposite Court House.
Has in addition to his regular line of
randies, nuts, fruits, tors, dec., a full
stock of SPRING TOYS,
Baby Carriages
Doll Carriages, Ac. Fresh trailsand con
fectioneries received weekly, mar Illy
W. SIKES & SONS,
GRO C E RS
AND
PROVISION MERCHANTS,
(Caldwell Corner, Greecsboro, H. C.)
^nd Dealer/ in
DRY GOODS, Groceries, Tinware, Wood-enware,
Sugar, Cite-, MolaM«».Flour,
Ural, Bacon, Lard, die.
Our goods are all fresh and new, reeeutly
purch.sed, especially lor ibis market, and
will be continually added lo as the want, of
the community may demand.
Quick wile, and .stall profits is oor motto.
Giro ns a call. *-b lifcly
00.000
tbl - ..c.
« iiiie Pine aalnalea.
l>y JAS. SLOAHeV 80NB.
Crap Cnka MolHsaes
For sale hv
JAMES SLOANS bON'S.
March 11, 1-71.
Ne
where Kew dalem now is, in the
county of Randolph, North Carolina,
a very open and warm hearted tnau
by the name of William Adams.—
The family was not rich, bnt was
what our people call yood livers ;
they were honest, amiable aud kind:
they knew neither the luxuries nor
vices of high life. Their fat ma sup-plied
enough, lor their own tables,
aud surplus -sufficient for a brisk
trade with Fayetteville. The wild
forest hills and immense glades iu
the neighborhood, afforded bounti-ful
quantities of game: while Deep
River abounded with the finest fish
At that time, the inhabitants were
bv no means so thickly settled as
At present; trading as a regular
business was unknown, except a
few merchants. The people were
somewhat rnde, still however, hos-pitable
and kind.
At William Adam's lived Xaomi
Wise. She had early been thrown
upon the cold charity ot the world,
and she had received the frozeu
crumbs of that charity Her size
was medium ; her figure beautifully
formed ; her face handsome and ex-pressive
; her eyes keen, yet mild;
her words soft and winning. She
was left without farther to protect,
mother to counsel, brothers and
sisters to love, or friends to asso-ciate
with. Food, clothing and shel-ter
must tie earned by the labor of
her own hands,not such labor, how-ever,
as females at this day perform.
There was no place for her but the
kitchen, with the prospect of oc-casionally
going into the field.—
This the poor orphan accepted wil-lingly.
She was willing to labor, sha
was ashamed to beg. She lived iu
au amiable family, still hers was a
hard lot. Thethousandcomforts that
parents can find for their children,
are never enjoyed by the fatherless.
Fanaticism may rave over the chains
of the African ; the pity of sixteen
States can be poured out for the
southern negro, great meetiugs are
held to move on emancipation; but
who pities the Orphan f May the
Lord pity him, tor man will not.
At the time of which we speak,
neighborhoods were nearly distinct:
all that lived in the same vicinity,
generally bearing the same name.
To account for this, we have only,
to recollect that most of our settlers
migrated from Pennsylvania and
Virginia; and the families generally
came and settled together. Physi-cal
force being frequently necessary
for self defence, such families made
a kiud ot treaty offensive and de-tensive.
Sometimes however, the
most deadly feuds broke out among
themselves. Such was the case
with the Lewis family, that settled
on Sandy Creek. Old David Lewis
probably came from Pennsylvania;
at least an old gentleman by the
name Buchanan, told the writer so;
Buchanan was personally acquaint-ed
with the Lewises. David bad a
considerable family of boys, all of
whom were noted for their gteat
size and strength. This was iu
every respect a iiecnliar family,
peculiar in appearance, in character,
and in destiny. The Lewises were
tall, broad, muscular and very pow-erful
men. In the manner of fight-ing
very common at that time, vis:
to lay aside all clothing but panta-loons,
and then try for victory by
striking with the fist; scratching,
gouging, and biting, a Lewis was
not to be vanquished. The family
were the lions ot the country. This
eharacterwaseminently pugnacious.
Nearly all of them drank to iu-toxication
: when a person insulted
one they all listed and made it the
occasion of quarrel as a Yankee
does gold dust in California. They
rode through plantations; killed
their neighbors' cattle; took fish
from other men's traps; said what
they pleased; all more for conten-tion
than gain. Though the op-pressed
had the power, they ware
afraid to prosecute them; they
lect by natural attraction.
Mississippi,
Louisiana,
Texas,
Kentucky,
Te11110.au,
Arkansas,
Total
1S73 1873.
1.:. 11 :. 39S
1,280 8 17 1
1,3*3 a ISO
8,2014 210
475 7
I.JO'.'.I r, 110
1.0KI 37 0
5C00
1,330 4 219 7
1,390 7 201 0
1,018 4 973
093 4 140 0
Against Dogs.
Our 500,000 dogs furnish one ot
the most important economic con-sidering
now affecting the State. Iu
the first place, they militate against
the mutton crop annually to the
How Merrtweathar Triad to
Scare Mrs. Merriwesther,
and Failed.
Merrlweather lives in one of s
row of houses which, ss Is generally
\VZfSX3E2& ?T HtLC^V^SSSSS, IJ, they cost at an average of twen- h« saonU »». un u.ni.»>k.r
00, enough to run all onr common aud dre88ea ta nig nig'h,^wtn[
^rrji". \^£k\*F2 '"T 8tealal,!e npon the roof while ihe slept. ]
surplus; thirdly they day annually tied a nail to a string, laid do*
through hydrophobia, at least 120
persons, which (at 5,000 each—the
15,310 4 847 9
can a pure and good woman love a
wicked man ! Nonsense, thou puri
tan ! She dues not love his wicked
neon, but his soul. Did not the
Saviour love a wicked world, though
he died to destroy its wickedness!
Then a woman will love a wicked
man hotter than a good one, will
she t No, she will love a good man
much the best, other things being
equal. But you make daring deeds
of wickedness the exponents of
man's greatness. I do no such
thing. I make actions that require
power, energy, and firmness, tests
of greatness; that such actions
should be tainted with evil, is a blot
that mars them iu no small degree ;
but still they are great actions.—
There are some philosophers in the
world that would make all great
actions cease to be great, when they
cease to be good; the.v would make
their greatness directly as their
goodness. These are evidently two
different qualities, the one measur-ing
the action per 8a, the other it;
moral character. Genuine love is
ns follows; woman loves the power
which is able to support and pro
tect, and it that power lie good she
will love it the more ; man loves the
gentle, confiding one that leans
upon him with confidence and trusts
him with her destiny: if she be
good, he will her the more. This
may be grossly misconstrued; but
fools mil not see, antl the wise can
see our meaning, it is therefore plain
enough. We will hazard an axiom
or two while 011 this point. No wo-man
will or can really love a man
who is intellectually her interior.—
No man can love a woman that has
not confidence in his fidelity and
protection. If a powerful man be
true to his wile, she being what she
should, she will love him though he
stain his hands iu blood, and be
guilty of the foulest deeds known
in the. catalogue of crime. But this
is an unpardonable digression, let
ns return.
But few of the Lewises died natu-ral
deaths Stephen Lewis was
most unmerciful to his wife, he fre-quently
whipped her with hobble-rods,
and otherwise abused her al-most
beyond endurance. Finally,
by aid of Richard, a brother ot
Stephen's, she escaped from home
and spent several months at an ac-quaintance's.
Iticbard at length
told Stephen that his Wife would
return if he would promise never
more to abuse her; this he promised
upon the word ot a LEWIS. He
therefore told him to come to his
house on a ccrtaiu day, ami he
would find her. At this time ap-pointed
Stephen went, found bis
wife, and took her on his horso to
convey her home. On the way, he
made her tell the means ot her
escatieaud the agents employed;
the agent as we have said was his
brother Kicnard. Stephen went
home, kindlv told his wife that he
should henceforth treat her yery
kindly, but that to Masted to
shoot the scoundrel Richard, hap
nenine to observe his approach, aud
conjecturing the object, fled np
staiis with his gun Stephen en-tered
the house and enquired for
Richard; not learning from the
family, and supposing him up stairs,
he started up, and as his head came
in view, Richard shot him but did
not kill bim. Stephen was carried
borne, and lor a long time was un-able
even to sit up ; still swearing,
however, that when he recovered,
he would shoot Richard.
AWarning to Bald-headed Men
Krickbaum read somewhere that
Dio Lewis advertised men with a
tendency to become bald to have
holes punched iu the tops ot their
hats. And so wheu Krickbaum
purchased his new winter hat he
had a small sheet iron plate per
forated with large holes and set in
the crown. That was on Tuesday.
Ou Wednesday Mrs. Krickbaum
got a uew hired girl, who saw the
hat on the chair in the diuingroom,
and imagined it to be a ltatenfeol
ander of some new kind, and re
moved it to the kitchen. When
Mrs. Krickbaum came down stairs
at noon to see how dinner was get-ting
on, she found the gill Straining
the boiled cabbage through the
sheet iron ventilator in Krickbaum's
hat, swearing in the Ballyhudhccn
dialect because the holes were so
big and the colander so limber.—
That night wheu Ki ickbauui wanted
to stuf'r tor the lodge he began to
hunt lor his hat, while Mrs. Krick
bauin sat still and trembled. But
when he became exasperated and
commenced to pick up the chairs
ami j.un 1 hem down haul so as to
relieve his feeling*, she began to
cry, and revealed the whole horrible
truth to him. It may have been
done in quicker time, bnt doubt it
We say that there may have been
in former ages some hired girls who
packed her trunk and pelted down
staiis, and was hustled into the
street quicker than Mrs Krick-baum's
hired girl when Krickbaum
began to expostulate with her, but
the fact has not been pioved. He
wears an nn|torforated hat now,
and will probably be entirely bald
by New Year's Day.
average price paid by railroads for
the very poorest grade of brakse-men)
a mounts to a further sum ot
$000,000.
Here is a direct expenditure of
nearly seven aud three-quarters mil-lions
for dogs, not to mention the
fines, costs, and more remote and
sentimental damages resulting from
lawsuits about dog fights and con-sequent
severance of friendships
between the owners of the combative
curs.
Add to this the annual expendi-ture
in the city for old boots, cham-ber
crockery, paper weights, boot-jacks,
aud such other articles as
may be most readily utilized of
moonlight nights, and it will occur
to the most prejudiced friend of the
dog that he is an animal wherein
retrenchment could be practised to
advantage in these economical days.
Capitalized, our dogs represent a
waste of a80,000,000, and invested
at compound interest, ouo year of
tlieiraggregateworthlessnes8,would
pay oft the national debt beforo
lOOO.-Sf. IJOUU Globe.
What Manufacturinij Does.—There
is many a city and town that will
Appreciate the following:
One manufactory employing a
hundred men will support au ad-ditional
live hundred people. Three
hundred families will disburse an
nually, on the average, 180,000 or
175,000 in the aggregate. This
money will be drawn into the town
from "the outside, where the manu
factnred goods are consumed, and
the interest of this $75,000 at ten
per tent, would be $7,600. These
hundred families, too, would require
a hundred houses, thousands of
pounds of agricultural produce, and
thousands ot yards of cotton and
woolen goods, thus giving health
and impetus to every branch of
industry. ^^^_^______
The writer of the following in an
Kvensville paper has beeu laid ou
the soft side of a board and pnlver
ized ice poultices applied to his head:
« But the fates were propitious, and
notwithstanding a slight fall ot snow
iu the forenoon, by uoontide the sil-very
ravs of a shy and coyish moon
landscaped the bine Islanded bosom
of heaven and empurpled the dis-tance
most lovingly. And yet shy
and modest was the pale winter Lu-na,
and night upon her ebon throne
surrounded bv a brilliant retiuueof
courtlv and bejewelled stars, has
many admirers at the proper party
hour.*1 ^__—^___
Louisville has unwittingly commit
ted itself to a grand temperance
reform bv voting to send drunkards
and editors home instead of to the
lock up. Not even the most con-firmed
inebriates require -second
treatment. They gradually come
out about the third day a little more
Irnld and with a scared look abont
the eyes that tells cf the chastening
influence of a good Christian home.
A Spirited Oirl.
We have fallen npon a piece of
newspaper (apparently about 1837)
iu which is mentioned the following
incident respecting a spirited girl of
seventeeu years of age in Illinois.
She was an heiress to an estate
valued at ten thousand dollars, and
ran away with a young man who
paid his a Idresses to her, taking
with her au acquaintance ns a
bridesmaid. Her guardian, believ-ing
her lover to be wholly unworthy
ot liei, refused his consent to her
maniage; so she went off to lie
man ied at a distance from home,
on the farther side of the Mississippi.
When the party reached that river,
the ice was running furiously, mid
any attempt to cross would be lull
of danger. A hoot being procured,
the young lady, in momentary ex-pectation
of being followed by her
guardian, wished instantly to push
from the shore, and ail embarked
on the perilous voyage. The party
had nearly reached the head of an
island, about a third of the distance
troin the opposite shore, when the
currant became nmi .■ rapid, the
cakes of ice very large, and their
situation extremely dangerous.—
The lover, excessively frightened,
and forgetful of everybody but his
own dear self, bawled out in the
most piteous accent : "Oh, I shall
be drowned ! 1 shall be drowned !"
—and bitterly reproached his lady-
Jbve as the cause of bis probable
death.
She uttered not a word—her cour-age
and presence of mind seemed
to increase with the peril. A tre-mendous
cake of ice fairly capsized
the boat, but it was so large that
all got on il. The lover rendered
her no assistance at all. It bore
them to the head of Ihe island, and,
as good fortune would have it, the
stream between it and the Mis
souii shore was frozen over, and
they crossed without difficulty.—
They reached a tavern near the
river, and after chenging their wet
garments and liecoming warm at a
good fire the lover hinted to the
young lady that it was time for
them to have the knot tied, as the
magistrate had arrived for that pur-pose
and was iu the next room. She
gave him a most withering look of
contempt, and declared she would
never unite her destiny with one
who was selfish and cowardly. It
was in vain that ho attempted by
entreaty and argument to change
her resolution—she was immovable,
and replied to him with scorn. A
few days atterwards she returned
to the house of her guardian, thank
ful that she had escaped marrying
a man whose only object was her
fortune. Her lover returned to this
side of the river also, but such
showers of ridjcule and contempt
were bestowed upon him that he
found it best to decamp, which he
did, leaving behind him a host ot
unpaid demands. The story has
this moral,that young ladies should
be careful with whom they attempt
to run away.
down on
the cornice, leaned over and tapped
the bed-room window with the nail.
Mrs. Merriweather meanwhile was
not asleep, bat she followed him np,
shut the trap-door in the loft, and
went back to bed. Merriweather
concluded to give it up turn in, bnt,
to his dismay, the trap wouldn't
open. To make matters worse, a
policeman, who had been watching
him, felt certain he was a burglar,
and began to practice at him with
his revolver. The manner in which
that old man dodged about chim-ney
s, clad in that simple robe of
white, would have done credit to n
performer on a flying trapeze. At
last he came to a trap-door, and
finding it had been opened, be went
down. On entering his bedroom he
saw a man turning down the gas.
As soon as he shouted "thieves P
the man also shouted, and the wo-man
in the bed gave a wild and
awful yell. Then the man turned
up the gas and seised a pistol, anil
as Memweatherdashed down stairs,
be perceived that he had got iuto
the wrong house. As he flew to the
parlor and bid under the sofa, the
other man woke the whole neigh-borhood
with a rattle, and in ten
minutes six polioemen came in, and
after a search, dragged Merriweath
er out marched him to the station
house. When he came out in the
morning, he walked home in a pair
of turnkey's pants, and began to
eat breakfast without asking a bless
nBeihsur XmpewSaBt Suit-An
other SaNaASoUsw Bass In
tbsOlreiittOoTirtoftbe
Unites! State*.
Edward W. Scott, a aMtsen of tha
lute of Sew York, saes tbsOover
nor of the State, Pubtts Trassercr,
Raleigh ft Augusta Air Line Rail-road
Company, aad th* city of Ral-eigh,
ia the United States Circuit
Oourt
The bill recites the charter of Ue
Chatham Railroad Company (now
the Raleigh & Augusta Airline
Railroad Company) and the amend-ments
thereto—the fact that the
State subscribed t249.e00 in bar
bonds in the payment for the stock
in the said corporat»on—that the
city of Raleigh subscribed ttfl.OOO
to the capital stock of aaid corpora
tion, and deposited with the Public
Treasurer tv.ouo of the city's bonds,
and received from him 019,000 of
the State's bonds, which the said
city turned over to the said company
in payment of Its subscription that
the complainant is the hssnar of
•21,500 of the said bonds.
The bill further shows that pur
snant to law, the Chatham Railroad
Company mortgaged its real and
personal property to the State of
North Carolina to idemnify the State
from the payment of the whole or
any part of said bonds.
The bill farther shows that $20,-
000 of Raleigh & Oaston Railroad
bouds, and •14,000 City of Raleigh
bonds still remain in th* Treasury
as security of the State bonds is-sued,
and that the Public Treasur-er
has refused to pay the interest
on the bonds held by the complain
ant.
The complainant asks that the
Court may decree:
That the Governor shall enforce
the lien and sell the Railroad under
the mortgage, and that the bonds
of the city aud Raleigh & Gaston
Railroad Company, now iu the treas-ury,
may lie put iu the hands ot a
receiver that the interest may be
collected aud applied to the pay-ment
of the complainant's debt.
"It never rains but it pours."—
Raleigh Kew*.
ing ; and when Mrs. Merriweather
inquired if his muttered ejacula-tions,
"Fool!" and "Idiot I" referred
to her, he said she might wear them
if they fitted her. He will prohably
not play any fresh practical jokes
on Mrs. Merriweather soon again.
A Tax on Bachelors.
A member of the French assem-bly
proposes to levy a tax on bache-lors.
They are to be compelled to
pay |8 a head, and .'{"> is the age at
which a disposition to confirmed
celibacy may be considered settled.
The revenue to be derived from this
source is supposed to equal two mil-lions
of money. We do not know,
of course, what may be the feeling
of French bachelordom regarding
this matter. They will probably re
taliate by pioposing n tax on babies.
The most maligned classes of per
sons in the world are undoubtedly
bachelois and mothers-in-law, and
the serious question is suggested :
If there were no mothers-in-law
wonld there be any bachelors, 01
wouldn't every man then be his
own father t The United States,
from its very name, is a conjugal
country. And yet the eligible
maidens sigh for fashions beyond
the simple tastes of their grand
mothers ; the ineligible lament the
frivolities of the giddy headed : the
divorce court is never idle; antl
things generally are mixed. It will
not do to tax bachelors in this re-public.
Levy a tax on extravagant
daughters and ambitions mammas,
and bachelors will soon be as dif-ficult
to liud as a volunteer during
a military draft.
Georgia Mining Industry.—The
Columbus Enquirer says: However
it may tie in the "cotton belt," there
is no doubt that in the mining re
gions of Georgia and Alabama new
enterprises are now being fast un-dertaken,
and capital from other
States being invested. We hear of
quite a number of iron furnaces
stiu ted,of close prospecting for coal,
and of old gold and copper mines
being re-worked, that had lain idle
aud unproductive for years.
What is Honey f
An English writer asserts that
"honey proper is not lonnd lo tlow-en;
that the sweet juioe found
there is collected by bees and after-wards
converted by them into honey
proper -marketable and presenta-ble."
He claims that the sweet
juice gathered by bees and deposi-ted
duriug the day in the comb, is
re swallowed ere it is manufactured
iuto honey ; that the juice is not
houey when gathered, more than
cream is butter before it is chnrned.
He adds:
For the sake of others who may
wish to see for themselves, let me
suggest a veiy simple exepriment.
Some warm summer morning put
a strong swarm into a hive -full or
half full of empty comli—say at 7
o'clock, a. m. Weigh hive and bees
before the latter begin to work.—
This swarm will probably collect
five pouuds of crude honey the same
dsy before 7 o'clock, p. m. Remove
the liees into another hive, and ex-tract
the honey. It will be found
crnde stil', and as unlike houey as
cream is uulike butter. No process
or amount of avenoratlou will re-move
its cuideness It will mold
aud In-coine sour. I have never
seen it crystalize like pro|ier honey.
If this is not conclusive evidence,
put another swarm iuto another
hive with empty combs. It may
collect the same weight of crude
houey i 11 the same space of time ;
but let it remain in the hive, and if
the bees be prevented from gather-ing
more by rain or artificial means,
for thirty-six hours, all the crude
stuff will lie changed into honey
proper, and stored away on the out
sides ot the combs. When bees
come home from the fields, they
empty they sacks in the first empty-cells
they can llud, aud go back to
the field for more ; hence on lifting
and examining a hive at the close of
a hard day's work,we fiud the clear,
limpid but crude fluid gathered that
day, among the brood combs, there
for convenience, to be re-swallowed
and stored away at night.
The father of Dorabella recently
found that little girl's chubby hands
full of blossoms of a beautiful tea
rose on which he had bestowed great
care. "My dear, "he said, "didn't
I tell you not to pick one of those
flowers without leavet "Yes, papa,"
said she; "but all these had leaves."
His
Wherever unselfish love is the
mainspring of men's actions, wher
ever happiness is placed noton what
we gain for ourselves, but on what
we can impart to others, wherever
we place our highest satisfaction in
gratilying our fathers and mothers,
our brothers and sisters, our wives
and children, our neighbors and
friends we are sure to attain all the
happiness which the world can bes-tow.
^^^^_^^__
Said a professor in a college to a
notorious laggard who was once, for
a wonder, promptly in bis place at
morning prayers, at the appointed
time, " I marked you, sir, as punct-ual,
this morning. What is yonr
excusrF "8-s-sick, sir, and could-n't
sleep," was the reply.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beccber
makes this sensible reply in the
Christian Union to a query as to
whether it is wicked to dance : " It
is wicked when it is wicked, and
not wicked when it is not wicked.
In itself it has no more moral char-character
than walking, wrestling or
rowing. Bad company, untimely
hours, evil dances, may make the
exercise evil; good company.whole-some
hours may make it a very
great benefit.
A veteran officer observes: "I
never place reliance on a man who is
telling what he would have done
had he been there. I have noticed
that somehow this kind of people
never do get there."
A negro named Squire Flack, on
Wednesday of last week.was lodged
in the Rutherfordton jail for an at-tempt
to comnit a rape on the per-son
of a colored gitl about 12 years
of age. ____.,—
8now from twenty to thirty feet
deep, and solid as loe, is still lying
in various parts of California.
A newspaper imp is responsible
for the following: "Cure lor bedbugs
Feed them with salt water; this
will make the bugs dry, and while
they are after a drink, move your
bed into another room."
A negro philosopher, discussing
the relations of the ritceSjSaid: You
know de turkey, he rooat on de
fence, an de goose he roost on de
ground. You pull de turkey oft de
fence, and he will get np agaiu.
You craps bis wings, but somehow
or uudder he gwine to get back ou
do fence. Now you put de goose on
de fence,au he will fall off; he don't
belong dar. De turkey am de white
man. Heezo down now, but is
gwine to get up agin. De nigger is
de goose He better stay whar be
b'longs."
Plain speaking. A iural Ken
tucky ps'ier says: "This village
may be set down for its fall quota
iu the penitentiary', a few years
bent*, unless parents do something
to check the bellward course
some of their children."
'•Mis.- C ." said a gentleman
one evening, "why are ladies so
fond of officers I" "How stupid I"
replied Miss C . "is it not natu-ral
and proper that a lady should
like a good offer, sir I"
"Paddy," said a joker, "why don't
you get your ears cropped; they are
entirely too long for a man t"—
"And yours," replied Pat, " oogbt
to be lengthened; they are too short
for an ass.
of
Methodists thiuk about doing
away with the itinerant system,
which in the opinou of many has
outlived the conditions which made
it effective. Its principal use now is
to prevent preachers from getting
acquaiuted with theircougregations
The whiskey war iu Ohio is dam-aging
the whiskey trade of Cincin-nati
about 020.000 |>er day. The En
quirer says: "Distilleries in this city
which lorroerly turned out four hun-dred
barrels of whiskey per day are
uow rnuuing but sixty. Effect of
the crusade."
The bridge over the Kentucky
river on the Southern railroad will
be the highest on the continent. It is
275 feet above low water and has a
span of 1,230 feet. The towers, e
rected by John A. Roebling years
ago, cost $100,000 and rise 360 feet
above low water.
From French papers it appears
that the scheme for a submarine
tunnel nnder the Straits of Dover
so far from being abandoned is tak
ing practical shape and will soon be
actually begun.
Tbis is how a country exchange
pots it: "The sad iff.ti t« ot malii
mouy wore, never more terribly de
picit-d ttuii tin Mini day, wheu a
meek-eyed man who bad been mar-ried
about a year patroled the village
street all day trying to swap a meer-schaum
pipe for a second-hand cra-dle.
A Topeka lady sums up the first
three years of her experience in mar-ried
life as follows: "The first year
be called me 'dear,' the second year
•Mrs. AV and the third year, "old
sorrel top.'" i