The Greensboro patriot [May 6, 1874]

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Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1874. {New Series No. 321.
Business Cards.
Watch-Maker,
Jeweler fc Optician,
Orceasboro, tl. C,
Ha. cou.uiitly on hand
a splendid ansorlment ol
Faaliiouabl. J.welry,
and aom. splendid
Watchtt and Clock*,
Which wlU be aoUJ Cheap lor C'aah
I.tv-live and locals fifty per
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.« „,~ks, IT; Magistrate.'
..._„-, •:.. Administrator, no-
- -.', 50—in advance.
, doable column adveitiee-
Professional Cards^
, MhS|,KMIALL. JOHSN.STanW.
MENDENHALL & STAPLES,
1 I'ORNEYS AT LAW,
it i. i: * * «©HO, "i.e.
lb* Courts of Guilford, Rock-
,,, Forsythe, 810k", Rnn-
. .,;-... U. S.Circuit and
- Special Bll»flt.»S given to
paru ..1 the State, and to
......-North of Court House.
I-Br
»iu-li". Clock., Jewelry, oe ,Ma-i-
liiuea.aiid Piatola repaired cheap anil oiisliort
notice. Call opposite ihe Express Office,
South Elm 8treet. }?-•▼,
CT An aaaorted atock of Onna, Pistol.,
Cartridges, Sic., always on baud.
N. H. D. WILSON,
LIFE k FIRE lNSlRANCh AGENT,
Greensboro, N. C,
REPRESENTS tirst-clase Ompsmet
with an aggregate capital of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
and can carry a full line at. tair rat's
ry-Ofnce, np stairs over Wilson or Sho-bcr's
Bank, under tbe efficient supervision
W. II. IIII.1-.
who will at all time, be pled to wait 00
all who desire either
Life or Fire Policies.
mar 14:ly ,
,,,,.. -IIKIS. a. ««oom,
BALL & KEOGH,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
■-. re> Dan Lindsay Building,)
OHSNSBOM, N. c.
,,,. j.LaoaiM.
SCALES & SCALES,
Attorneys at Law,
Qrawaafaoiw, N. C,
1 ,1; \( I II.Kin the State.ndFederalCourta.
\ M Scales will attend the ProbaU
,'!nm Coonty at Weiitworth
tl idayofevery mouth.
73-lj.
N. H. D. WrLaoM. Cms. K. BHOBE*.
WI1>0\ *. SHOBER,
BANKERS,
0RFESSH0R0, .V. C,
(South Elui Street, opposite Express Office.
TJL'Y and sell Gold andSilrer, Bank Note.,
JJ Stale and Government Bonds, Kail Road
8tocka and Bonda, Ac.
CT" Receive Money oil deposit subject to
SIGHT CHECK; and ■J^WWMj
In Kind upon time deposits otCUKKr-nt. 1
or SPECIE. .. ,
Diacount Jfunliieiie »»«r>*rl
ollections made at all accessible points.
Sept. lfitMy
Don't Stay late To-Night-nr
At-axia.
The heartb of borne la beaming
With raya of may light.
And lovely eyes an gleaming,
As fall the shades of night;
And while tby atepa are leaving
The cirelea pare and bright,
A Under voice half grieving.
Says—" Don't atay late to-nigbt.
The world in whioh thon moveat
la buay, brave, and wide;
The world of her thon loveat
la on the angel aide,
She wait, for tby warm greeting,
Tby emile U her delight
Her gentle voice, entreating,
Saya—" Don't stay late to-uight."
The world iacold, inhuman,
Will apnrn thee in thy fall;
The love of one poor woman
Outlasts and abamea them all,
Thy children will cling round thee,
Let fate pe dark or bright;
At borne no abaft will wound thee.
Then—" I>"u't atay late to-night."
1IVIM BARKER,
A Thrilling Story of tke Earl) Settlement of
RANDOLPH COUNTY. N. 0.
BY CHaRLIK VCRNOM,
AUTHOR OF NAOMI WISE.
groves of Ida, and having sailed j be a good and useful citizen, unless
thence with his allies, treasures and he lias knowledge of his country's
was tempest tossed for seven ' traditions, and sympathy with the
upon the Mediteranean in " genias of the people."
Fabulous history not only con-cerns
affairs of states, bat also every
thing that pertains to man. Upon
it in some measure, depend the
shape, structure, aud size of the
son
quest ofrHesperia or Italy ; that by
the wrath ol Jnno and «e#ce North
; winds he was driven to Carthage,
1 where he laid the foundation of that
hate that led Hannibal to Cannae ;
that finally be landed in Tiber laud bonse, fastening of the doors, posi-
■ ■ 1 •_*• «•_» • i. 1.. ..I' link tiinlii mil r>a-u nf rim iilrit Kis o and planted the germ of empire,
and that Bomnlus, a descendant ol
nis, and son of Mars was nurtured
by a wolf when an intant, directed
by vultures when founding the city,
and takeu away like Elijah when
his work was doue. llence the
Roman believed himself a true de-lta
of the bedSjOolors of the clothes,
arrangement of the plantation, num-ber
and kind of horses, cows, hogs,
chickens, and inded every thing.—
To show aud prove the theory, we
will bring forward tacts. Through
all this portion of North Carolina,
it is universally admitted to be a
scendaut of Venus and Mars j he sign of some misfortune, if chickens
thought his nation to be the darling crow upou the roost in the dusk of
of Jupiter, aud the special delight, evening. Many years ago we were
of all the gods. Often was Rome romping with several other children
ou the briuk of ruin, totering on in the waning daylight, wheu sud-tho
verge of annihilation, but the | denly my old nncle bid us stop in-never
despaired, the rememberance stantly and come in ; we with one
of Mars and Venus, the virtue of accord begged to know why, aud
Eneas aud the nurturing wolf were informed that the chickens
nerved her to the combat. These ' were crowing and that something
early traditious shaped her destiny, was about to happen. Alarmed
moulded her torn, and determined at the intelligence we ran in and
the energy of her enterprises; upou huddled rouud the fire, but our
this fabulous history the seven- curiosity was aroused as well as our
hilled city rested the'beams of her fears, and we requested the kind
lonndation, upon the same inward old man to tell us bow it was first
spirit Hortensius and Tully relied fouud out, and how the chickens
for the effects of their inimitable knew more about such things than
ami Camillus nrged men did. Drawing his chair a little
u-d.
lhllard,
AT i ■ 1BNEYS AT
.In... A. Qila
Gllmer
LAW
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4HL.1I ITORS IS BANKRUPTCY,
;;. „ . t Oreenaboro, opiwsite
Heubow lluus.-.
IE >• .'. and Federal Courts.
,' attention givan la mailers in
id causes ariaina under Intar-
1 Court of Western
I Nurlh Carolina. Collections in
-. .licited.
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„, S0OTT. W U.I KR r. IAI.IIWXLL.
HI 0 IT A IJI.DWELL.
CiUEENSBORO; N. C. w
WATCH-MAKER, JEWELER AND
03rJ,±'JL03LAJST,
No.ll 8outh Elm Street, Oreenshoro. N.C.
AS a boautiful stock of Watches,
Clocks, Jewelry, Plated Ware, Pls-
H in the So|.erior Cmirt of asl^ CaMfMgea, Notions, 4c. Ali repair-
(i
JT
K.
I.AUinanie. Randolph, David-
Kowan, Ireoall ami Meckleu
I >u|.irme Court of the
I . I. ral CouM »i Greensboro
llankruntcy, and in courta
un givan to l.ans of money
and .tbel seeurlliaa.
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D. A. k R. F. ROBERTSON,
Surgeon Dentists.
lac warranted. A larije ami fine stock of
" Oot* Pens, dec tf-Vly
J. A. PRITCHETT,
CABINET-MAKER.
Furniture Dealer and I ndertaker,
ANNOUNCES to the citizens nl
Greensboro snd Guilford County
that he is better prepared BOW
than ever to provide them with
niiMiiiii:
FtirntlKre
view to
-
■ fffrl
fe
<S»
. s*/i*..^
i ii i il
»' i„. fonnd »i Iheir othce on
:i\'s, corner up ataira, etilrai
, refrrenoe given, i
... live pntrona
.1 fifteen yeara
Having assocla ,„ ^,,,1 variety-selected with
ted themaelvea ^jonomy and to suit the time.,
in the practice of
DEHTI8TBY,
reauoctfaHy offer
their profession-al
>«r\ i.'es to the
citiiana of
UreenabatOi
„d the surronn- - „, ,„ [uruwK „ tw„ h„u
. rvVrimia ..f auv style and flni.l
am prepared H
ice, COFFINS ot
""'l- "", andJiavA'line hearse for ihe use of the pi
oa r-aai A|. ^j^ fr Flirnj„ire- CottaH »r M
f desired, '"" P"""I'".V «"nJed la.
ublic.
elalic
at moderate
uring the ebarges.
2i:ttf
\ K'T .-;TI"JJIO
PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE MILLION
/ . un and see- in Gurrctt building—
\ er l)i Foulkee' Stare.
1.. W. ANDREWS,
Oreenaboro, N. C.
; pea iy
J O B W O R K
OfBVBBI Dt-»rrlpilo-i,
Rxeeoted in th«
VTltV BEST STYLE,
ind ;ii Nt'w York prices, at the
Patriot Job Office.
Any marketable produce tak^n in exchange
for work, it'.lelivere.! si my shop ou Fnyetle-viile
slreel.
W.rk earefbily packed and dallvend at
Ihe depot Free oj Charjr. Jan.7,-ly.
J. IIII i.»iii:i'ii:it.
HI. Houston A «'o..
Wholesale and RoUil Qrocara,
I nf Mariai Si.,Orrtn«oi>ro, N.C
iii.,u given to Sugar, Coffee.
- Salt II.. MI. I.ard, Fish, Snuff
Iron, Leather, Flour. Meal, Soap
co, and a geueral routine o
fob illy.
Respectfully informs his friends and the
Sublic genera'ly that he has ojiened at the
(elver Brick building a
FLOUR,
ORAIN,
nAcoy,
and a
General Commission Duslness.
Liberal advancements made on Consignments,
and prompt attention paid to same.
Greensboro, Jan
Jan. 1, ly.
1st. 1*T4.
V It
sboro Book $
V
Chas, G. Yite$,
o•«-» '~ «, c- /
■• w i ..it KKK ur
llii. shr<i iron As. Copper Ware
VKI) ill l1' i Goods. Hats, Boots and
W ...i \\ sre, Lamps, Crockery,
vV .. Rrn ..r..s, Btovaa, and as-srally.
No -Jl South Elm I QOOTS and Shoes made to order in the
N C G is sold low for ' JJ sh-rtesl nolii-e, at ihe lowe-i terms.
FBEDBRIOK DKTMKRINO,
Boot & Shoe Maker,
On Davis 8treet, near Pr-shyteriau Church.
.1.
The best of leather, and a f
■led.
od fit gnaren.
teb 1U-. ly
)au l'J:ly
M . M'OTT
\\ holeaale Bun Retail Dealer in,
- : IPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES,
. H".,ooVa anil Tin ITare. 1
- Market St..(ircen9boro,N.C.i
:,.in.I a full stock of goods in
d aalla at lowest market rates
l.< II. < :■ ■<■< Is-taKll.
J j. Family Grocer and Confectioner,
S'-•-'. (irrena/'oro. .V. C
hand a full line of
■:';;"^.T£$£ PROVISION MERCHANTS,
>■ nn, Candy, Daaiwd Fruits. »nd )
HC. WILLIS,
CONFECTIONER,
North Elm Street, up|msite Court House,
HM in addition to his regular line of
caudies, uuts, fruits, tovs, *lc., a full
Htock of SPRING TOYS,
Baby CarriaRr**,
I>*tll Catriagos, dtc. Fr«th fruitiand con-fectioneries
received weekly, mar 11 -ly
w.'TIKES & SONS,
GRO GERS
. j Groci i ea of every description, also)
. ■tC,i^..rs,;Tobacco, Pipes
I Snnffever kept in Greensboro. New
M1. arrh ing every week.
;•-'- ly.
I lurker, lloll & Co.,
\ i gbt Block. Oreenaboro, N. C.
country produce and Groceries
and Western Bacon, Lard,
I lour, Meal, Corn, OaU, Sugar.
I DM, llolaanea,
I H-Aeatead Eyqi a Speciality.
I i.sij Fish daily—except Monday.
K) MI market pticea for country
Barter or Cash, and aell aalow
i.ncusauial. Bp.8S-ly.
(Caldwell Corner, Greensboro, N. C.)
And Dealert is
DRY GOOD8, Grocerie., Tinware, Wood-enware,
8ogar, Coffee, Molaesea,Flour,
Meal, Bacon, Lard, if.
Our -goods are all fresh and new, recently
purchased, specially for this nn.rk.-i, and
will be continually added to aa the wants of
the community may demand.
Quick aale. and small profits is our motto.
Give u. a call. fob 19:1 y
XTew Crop Catba Molasses
Xl For aale by
JAMES SLOANS SON'S.
March 11, 1074.
CHAPTEB L
" Kone ol your fables here, give
us the plain truth or nothing."—
" There is more truth in the world
than can be learned, and what's the
use of spendiug time for nothing.
Sow gentle reader just stop, and
let ns have a talk on this subject;
perhaps we may both learn some-thing.
Aud first, I will ask you a
question. Is it » fa** i""' y°nr
grand-father shouldered three
bushels of corn with one hand, and
split four hundred rails in a single
day f '• Yes sir, that he did, for I
heard mv lather say that graud
inul her has told him of it ofteutimes
when he was a boy, and that she
used forever to tell the boys of it,
when they did sorry work." But
do you believe such tales t " In-il.
e'd this is ■ mere trifle to some
things my great grandfather did.—
In coming to this county, he walked
one huudred aud twenty miles in a
day, and next morning out ran an
Intliau chief."
Thus is it, our people cry out
against a name and pursue the sub
stance. No people are fonder of
the fabulous than we, noue delight
more to hear the stories and legends
of other days, none believe them
more readily or search for them
with more avidity. We all have a
few great exploits handed down
from our ancestors, all can tell a
lew daring adventures and hair
breath esca|>es, and all have the
most implicit confidence in our owu
narratious This is very natural.
History has inscribed upon her re-cords
no nation, that has not a
fabulous period; all aucient and
modern people have had their heroes
and heroic times, their myths and
fables, their times wheu men were
greater than any of their descend-ants,
their dark periods of adversity
wheu men's souls were tried.
To the curious, the philosophic,
the student of nature, or the gen
era) reader, no species of Literature
is more interesting than this ; it is
a fair index of the people in their
infancy, it is an exhibition of their
unsophisticated self, an earnest of
all that we may look for in their
future career. Nations are not more
differeut iu government, laws, and
religion, than in their fabulous his-tory,
aud if anything prophetic is in-voked
iu a people's progress it may
be fouud in their fabulous preten-sions.
The Chinese, the oldest na-tion
upou earth are taught that
their nation has existed from crea-tion's
morn, that the Omnipotent
established their goverumeut and
made the royal family of better
materials than the cotnmou people,
and tiny firmly believe that their
first king held direct cotnmonica-tiou
with the Deity. These are
simple, ticrhaps some would say,
silly traditions, and yet they are
more influential on Chinese manners
and progress than all the laws and
religion of the state. The people
believing their government eternal,
look with contempt u|>on all other
nations as upstarts aud mushroom
pretenders; believing that God es-tablished
them, they think he cer-taiuly
gave them the proper form
ot reiigiou, hence they treat our mis
siouanes as demagogues, fool or
hypocrits; thinking their kiugs to
be a superior race, they adore them
as above humauity, obey their
tyianuic maudates with slavish
servility, and worship them as gods.
From the influepce of these little
traditions the ]>eople are improvi-dent,
unambitious, self-conceited,
ignorant, corrupted, aud almost be-yond
recovery. The church in all
her branches, is now making a corn-bind
effort for Chinese reform ; mis-sionaries
to teach aud preach have
embarked from every christainized
shore, both truth, zeal and energy
are met by native superstition as
yet uuconquerable; salvation's flag
waves over Chinese soil, but her
truths have not yet been able to
bear down the effects of Fabulovi
hiiitvry.
Rome is another example. A
siugle tale of fabulous history fmiiul-ed
ber oapttol, nerved her army
with invincibility, and bore onward
ber standard ofempire fromGranges
to T.mle, from Ethiopia to Scan-dinavia.
The Romans were taugbt,
that after "r-if alto* ealmine Troja,"
after I [ion had tumbled from her
deep foundations and the Trojan
state waa destroyed -Eneas, second
only to Achilles and Hector, fonght
his way through the Greeka, carried
his father and household gods to the
eloquence, .
Venus' promise to .«oeas as tun
most affective appeal to his soldiers
when the fate ol Rome depended
upou a single engagement.
nearer and laying bis pipe in the
slock hole, he began as follows :
" When my father first came to
this country, he settled near Deep
river about twelve miles east of
lroGur.eReoce.nien;Wshe mWale *no e«ffo£rt2.to Se^J£Js-aV^sa>S^ii F^ nQ other
extend her domimow beyond the ^ (w mileg except
te/m.nus of a smal at, te she «onght and wefe withjn
neither the gold nor hotm e of the ^ m.^ w< ^m ^ nor
world, she made no effort to reduce meeting bouses, nor any thing ex
the human race^o *^{*ȣ ^f ur , ^
labored in cows, bogs, Ctc.
Athens and Sparta, what they were,
the uucqiialcd wonders of men ; ber
valor suffered nothing iu compari-son
with the brightest examples of
fame: Thermopylae, Marathon aud
Plattca are fields ol glory, unsur-passed,
but the heroism that plant-ed
their laurels sprang from a
source fat higher than fugitives and
wolfiugs. The Athenian was moved
by au impulse different from »»y
other mortal, supen.ir excellence,
genuine applause and pure form
moved him in all pursuits; the
temple of Theseus, the Odeoo and
the I'artheuon of" pure l'ctitelicon"
were but dim emblems of Grecian
aspiration. But why so different
from the Roman t their origin was
not dissimilar, their position in the
same vicinity, their climate nearly
the same. We answer that their
fabulous history was very different,
and that this is the great shaping
About the middle
ol the neighborhood we made a
large pile of wood, with the agree-ment
that whenever the Indians
should be seen in or about the set-tlement,
that whoever saw them
should as soon as possible set fire
to the pile aS it warning to all.—
This little precaution having been
taken, all want to work to clear
fields, build stables aud arrange
whatever might be necessary.—
Things had thus progressed for
more than eighteen months, wheu
my brother in passing uear the pile
met a strange white man, who
seemed very friendly and asked a
great unuiy questions, but would
give no account of himself as to his
name or destination. The occur
rencc was soon kuown over the
neighborhood and occasioned con-siderable
uneasiness, and the same
evening it was particularly uotioed
that the chickeiu crourtd u\toa the
ST'^^r^wSred *£ ■
were under the special protection
of Minerva, who sprang full grown
and well armed from Jupiter's head ;
Minerva was a virgin Goddess that
piesided over the arts, sciences,
arms, honors and every thiiij? high
and noble ; they were taught that
she had defended them in their
early days, that the stale pros|iered
as she was honored and her favorite
pursuits cherished; and that should
they turn to the ways of selfishness,
she" would abandon them. These
myths were the effective director1
Of their pnisiiils, the tins.-.ii in-fluence
that made Greece the I md
of heroes, eloquence and songl
that tutied the lyre of Home*;
nerved the, heait of Achilles and
thundered I'killippin from the
Bema. Nearly all nations have
been lounded,apparently by chance;
the founders had no idea of the
ork they were accomplishing;
About au hour after dark my sister
ran into the house with the terrible
uews that the pile was on flie ; in-stantly
all the doors were bolted
and propped and my father took
his station in Irout in order to fire
the alarm gun if an Indian should
tie seen about the house; having
held his gun for some time and be-coming
weary, he tore off some
hooks from the wall and nuiled them
over the door to lay his gun upon,
and this was the origin of gun
racks over the door. Prior to this
time houses had latches on the out-side,
but they >vere now placed with-in
with a string attached, iu order
that the inmates might be appraised
,i an enemy secretly attempted to
to gaiii admission. During all that
night we kept watch, but no Iudiau
was heard ; in Ihe morning search
was made but no enemy could be
found ; a deep calamity, however,
hail fallen u|>oti the neighborhood:
they were fugitives, outlaws dar- «—"g£Z&*firofon.
ing adventurers, or Quixotic heroes ^UK/Bgmg
iu search of exploit; such founder. «™ ™LV«*Wt-« could be
have generally been renowned for V*£P? ,a th('
something, " mighty hunters "l.ke ***■£• "^
Shared: inventors ol alphabet. f.^Xut
lib. i'Ji....... lw.nl mreressors us tue House, aoour.
For ths Patriot.
Shall the Farmers Organize ?
You say, perhaps, the Grange
movument is a good thing; but you
don't see any necessity for it in
your old country.
Now, if you are satisfied to see the
19,000,000 working men and wo-man
of the country rise early in the
morning and work as late at night
as their strength will hold out,
wearing coarse clothes, and often
eating coarser dinners, and growing
poorer and poorer, while the office
holders, professional men, middle
men and moneyed monopolists, are
living at their ease wearing " scar-let
and fine liueu and faring
sumptuously every day," and grow-iug
richer and richer—Don^ or-ganize.
If you are satisfied to see the
workiug men receiving less than
$1 per day, and that in dirty rag;
while the President of the U. 8.
spends his time with fast horses,
fast men, and faster women, and
receives for his services $137 iu
Gold per day the year round ; and
Congressmen $22 >ier day in Gold
—work or play—and the more play
the better for the people—Don't
organize.
It you are satisfied to see the
greatest rogues aud rascals of the
lantt bribing their way into office
and then stealing thousands or even
millions of the people's money, as
they have done in Ala., Miss., Ark.,
S. ('.. N. ('., and many other States
—Don't organize—Don't let the
people know it.
If you are satisfied to see petty
officers steal the people's money from
school districts all the way np to
the Treasury department at Wash
iugtou—Dou't organize.
If you are satisfied to see farms
receive from one half to one fourth
what the consumers have to pay
for their bread and meat and com-pelled
to pay from two to four times
as much lor their supplies as it cost
the manufacturers to produce them
—the middle Ben gobbling np the
ballance—Don't oroanize.
If these working people are per-mitted
to lake time enough liom
their work 10 read a little and think
a little and inecf once or twice a
month in the " Grange" and talk
ovt-i A hat I Ley have learned alsiut
the t.tiin. the market, and the pub-lic
office*, and learn to act in cou-cerl,
in buying and Selling, it wont
be long until they will be able to
educate their sons, and daughters
who are to lie farmers' wives, as
thoroughly as lawyers, teachers, or
preachers are.
They will soon lie building neat
and comfortable houses and barns.
They will soon lie seen wearing bet-ter
'clothes, driving good horses,
aud riding in good carriages. They
will soou hurl robbers, purjurers,
thieves and back grab takers from
office and put honest men iu their
places.
They will lop off many unneces-sary
offices and reduce tbe salaries
of others to something near a work
ing basis. They will agitate and
agitate until they work retrench-ment
and reform nil the way up
from the school district to the very
dome of the Capitol at Washington.
They will diguif'y labor until they
make it not only honorable and
ri'siiiM-iable but as piolitable as the
professions or offices.
These working people must not
be permitted to know how things
are carried on at Washington city,
Raleigh, Greensboro, Jefferson city,
Harrisouville, or 'hey will keep up
this agitation until tbey teach office
holders that " honesty is the best
policy" and that tbey (the office
holders) are their servants—not
their masters. P- C. H.
Harrisonrille, Mo.
like Cadmus: bold aggressors as
William the Norman; orsectanatis
like our pilgrim fathers. In a few
years their deeds have been mag-nified,
and a thousand incidents
added nntil there is a nucleus of
Fabulous history; and the char-acter
of that history will depend
both u|>on the character of the
tounder aud the genius of those who
arrange the materials. Now in re-gard
to this tradition, wo hazard
the assertion, that nothing except
Religion, exerts BO much influence
upon a nation ; for the influence is , pr-.t,|ing tue rain-crows caweu in
not only universal but irresistible., # ^(h(k chickeM „omd
Iu every land the,,e » a kind of un- |^--^ ine88. ^ h t
distance from the house one ot Mrs.
Barker's shoes was fouud, close by
it a bloody handkerchief different
lrom anything known in the settle-ment,
aud a few yards farther on, a
letter from a merchant of Pbiladel-ie
early i»rt of the
with ber husband in
midnight her ab-sence
was discoved, but no window,
door, nor other means of escape
could be found by which she Seemed
to have gone out. The family con-sisted
of herself, two sisters, three
small children and her husband;
Mrs. Barker was a woman of more
than ordinary strength of body as
well as courage of mind, and was
not only the lite of her own home,
but of the entire settlement. The
intelligence of her absence fell like
ihuuder U|HIU the astonished neigh-bors,
a deep gloom rested upon
*ed der-curreiit or popular belief, upou
which law and church ministrations
are engrailed, and whenever they
oppose this belief they are over-thrown.
This is the " ge.mis of the
people," the characteristic
the wise only can enfant
The "old tali s" ami
which
bend.
traditions of
the United Stales are very different
lrom those of England or Frances
aud so are out manners, laws and
institutions, nor could their laws
aud institutions live in this country
at all; if we were disposed to obey
a king, we could by no means sup
port the customs of the old world
The early traditions aud hreside
talcs ota peoP'e are the roots of
state: the branching fibers that
ramify through and through the
popular soil; upou these r
At a tableau exhibition in Au-berne,
N. Y., the following vegetable
poem was produced:
'•Onion garden bed reclining
Beets a youth his aching head;
Cauliflowers! Lo, weed, confront me.
Lettice hence, he sadly said.
Carrots ont the stoutest manhood,
Peas my wearied soul doth need;
Bean O! strife for me hereafter.
Else my heart would go to Baas,
It may make the above a source
of some amusement to our young
readers to know, that some change
in the orthography, without much
effecting the tound, will make the
sense of the plaintive writer more
intelligible. ^^
>hia to Wm. Gatliu, of Jamestowu
Va. Except the above not a trace,
trail, track, nor sign ot any descrip-tion
could be fouud, and all hope of
recovering the lost lady was given up
( To be CoHtinued.J
aud
A widow lady who started a
boarding bouse for telegraph opera-tors
in this city lately, found her-self
at the end ot the month bank-rupt
in purse and miuus ber two
daughter--. Her guests had dtsap-ared
also, leaving behind them
,is trunk a tree may grow butcau-, JJ old Saratoga trunk containing
not be engrafted; long before we | tw0 bars of pig lead, a dozen tomato
know any thing of law or religion,, (.a„S- and a badly-worn Bible. On
our mothers has moulded our brails | tl|P ,iv.|eaf of the book were several
by bertraditiou aud nursery ballads,
into an unchanging form, but be-ing
au inhabitant ol the same State
we are to occupy, the little in el-lectual
man thns iormed, is just the
creature to imbibe the great doc-trines
ot state. A child nursed bj
the lullaby of Germany or fed by
he traditionary lore of Erin, neither
has appetite nor inclination for the
meat of American politics; a child
raised in those countries, is develop-ed
to wit their institutions and not
Zn, and no man ever did or will
(.notations from tbe Latin poets,
such as » Three of a kind beat two
Datr,• " Play the ace to win," "Cop-per
on the deuce," " Take it sweet,
with a little lemon," &c.
Among several other item3 of
ceneral intelligence, a Missouri pa-per
meutions the following: "The
State Senator from this district is
"While journeying by rail," says
a traveler in an English paper. "I
witnessed the following incident
One night, just after I had scram-ble
into my sleeping berth, I heard
loud and angry voices proceeding
from the rear of the car. 'I tell
von this is a sleeping car, and you
can't come in without a ticket
•Begorra, I bad a ticket.' 'Where
is itr 'I've lost, it 'If you really
had the misfotune to lose your tick-et,
perhaps you can remember your
lierth.' There was an iuterval of
silence, Paddy evidently employing
his thinking powers. 'Ocb, byjabers
he exclaimed at length. 'I was
tiorn on the 26th day of October
1*18" _______
To Cure a Felon.—Tbe following
simple recipe for the treatment of
one ot the most common and pain-ful
of the numorous afflictions of
humanity is worth testing. As
soon as a felon makes its apper-ance
apply a poultice ot equal parts
of saltpetre and brimstone, mixed
with sufficient lard to make a paste
and renew as soon as it gets dry.
A few applcations will effect a cure.
The inflagationists in Washing-ton
saythat on Monday Gen.
Grant had drawn up a message to
Congress giving his reasons for
approving their bill, and then o
A Manly Letter.
The following letter from the pen
of Col. R. F. Armfleld, whom report
announced an Independent oaodi
date for Congress in the 7th district,
may be commended to the pious
consideration of candidates gener-ally,
not ooly tor Congress but for
other positions :
STATKSVILLK, N. C, I
March 21st, 1874. )
J. W. Toda\ Eta. :
Yours of the 17th instant if re-ceived,
in which yon fay that yon
heard it reported at Wataaga Court
that I was an independent candi-date
for Congress against all or auy
person or persons whomsoever, and
in opposition to any candidate to be
recommended by the Conservative
party I and that yon had contra-dicted
it. Yon did well to contra-dict
it I am not only not aa inde-pendent
candidate, or an opposition
candidate tor Congress, but am no
candidate for Congress at all I The
idea that I, who bare always cen-sured
bolters and disorganize™ more
than almost any other man in the
State; who have always held, aa
you kuow, that no man has any
claim upon tbe party which gives
him the right to press his own name
tor office ; I, who have always ex-pressed
my abhorence of the inde-cent
and selfish ambition of those
among us who even pressed their
supposed claims upon the party
conventions : that I, iu advance of
the action of a convention, or after
it had acted, should allow my name
lo be run in opposition to, or with
out tbe approval of, the voice of the
party as expressed in its proper
convention, is something which I
am sure no man who knows me
would ever believe of me. I am
sure you know me too well to harbor
such an ungenerous suspicion of me
for one moment. No, sir; I am not
even an aspirant tor the nomination
of the convention. I have not the
vauiry to think that I have any pe
collar fl-ness for Congress, and I
think it would be very immodest in
me to think or say that I was the
man for that high position. I do
not feel that my party owes me
anything, and I have always pro-posed
to do what I could lor tbe
party,withoot looking for or expect
ing auy seilish reward ; and though
I have always obeyed the summons
to the fight, 1 have never yet gath-ered
with the camp followers when
the battle was over to strip tbe slain
and divide the spoils. It is true,
sir, that upou a proper occasion I
might remember, like Othello, that
"I bad done the State some service,"
and how. "when a bearded and a
turbaned Turk smote a Venetian, I
caught the uncircumcised dog by
the beard, and smote him thus." —
But it is no time to talk of such
things, when spoils are to be di-vided
; besides what I did I did for
my party, liecause I believed that
the interest of my party was the in
terest of my conntry. I have not
worked as a hireling, waiting for
the sun to go down to receive my
wages. Let those who think it con-sistent
with modesty and self-re-spect,
become independent candi
dates for Congress, solicit tbe nomi-nation
of conventions, or prompt
their friends to put their names for
ward—but I will do none of these
things. I kuow that my name has
been mentioned in connection with
the nomination, but not by me, nor
auy one prompted or solicited by
me, nor shall it ever be. If such
an honor were to come unsought, of
course I, or any other man, would
be deeply grateful lor it; but to
blow my own trumpet, or work the
wires to get it, would involve such
a loss of self-respect as a seat in Con-gress
could not compensate for!
I have writteu this letter in haste,
in reply to yours just received, and
I want you to make just such use of
it as tbe circumstances may require.
If the report which you heard at
Watauga is confined to a few, and
has not spread widely, please read
my letter to Iuch of my friends as
you meet who have beard the report,
so as to counteract it, for I would
not uunecessarily bring my uame
before tbe public; but if the report
has general currency, aud canuot
thus be counteracted, then you are
at liberty to publish this letter,
hastily written as it is, in the news
papers, for it speaks nothing but
the truth, and I am determined that
my name shall not be used as " An
apple of discord."
Yours very truly,
R. F. ARMFIKLD.
B fha OfBonra and Frienda of
the tele Oanaw la North
OaTOlina.
The vacancy caused by the resig-nation
of tbe Rer. P. A. Strobel,
Diafpfot Superintendent for the
Aa.if.ffr, Bible Society, has bean
fitted by my transfer from the field
of Middle aad Bast Teonessee, to
which I waa unexpectedly called five
years ago. The many and strong
des formed In my new home, where
I had a rich experience of the Di-vine
goodness, and my devotion to
the important work opened to me
(here did not cause me to forget my
native State, where I had spent
many years in labors of lore for the
public welfare; and now I return
to renew attacoments which neither
dme nor distance can weaken, and
to devote myself to that cause whioh
lies at the foundation of all indi-vidual
and national prosperity, and
in which I cau co operate with all
races and sit classes.and with every
branch ot theChureh ofJesus Christ.
God will bless and honor those, aad
Only those, who honor His Wood.
And it is through the Ministry of
this Word alone that society it to
he improved, good government se-cured,
and the wilderness and soli-tary
place made glad.
That department of this Ministry
ever which I am now placed la com-mon
ground to all denominations:
and I, therefore, coufldetly appeal
to all who love tha Lord Jesus
Obrist and the supremacy of Hie
revealed Truth, and to every one
who would promote tbe public wel-fare
to unite heartily with me In
efforts to deepen and widen tbe in-terest
in that administrative system
which is the chief instrumentality
of tbe Church for the publication
and disseminatiou of the written
Word.
The American Bible Society, fos-tered
aud watched orer as its Agent
by the Church in America,haa hith-erto
proved faithful to its great
Mission, has been most abundant in
useful labors, and is now engaged
iu operations of immense extent and
importance ; and I cannot but hope
that its representative in this good
old Stale will continue to meet with
a cordial reception from every class,
and that the Auxiliary Societies
which cover the whole territory
will be actively supported by the
communities in which they are lo-cated.
It is my desire, tbe Lord willing,
te visit every part of the Stale; but
in the mean time, the eyes of the
Snperiuteudeut should rest con-tinuously
on the whole field in one
view, aud therefore he should be
able to look and operate through
others, aud to regard all local offi-cers
and tgesta of ihe Bible System
as his assistants, aud himself as one
of a united band. The responsi-bilities
and trials of my position are
very great and I deeply feel tha
need of sympathy and aid on the
part of every one who loves the
Bible Cause; and I would res|>ect-fully
call upon Ihfi nflhwirg of Aux-iliary
Societies, and upon a'.l others
who ore able to offir suggestions or
to furnish information important to
my mission, to put themsolvee iu
communication with me aud to co-operate
iu uuceaslng efforts to sup-ply
our people with the Word of
God, and to extend liberal aid to
tbe American Bible Society in its
vast and glorious work at home and
abroad.
For the present my address is
GreeoslMiro, N C, aud due notice
will be given of anv change.
„ C. H. WILEY,
Dial. Sup,. AUK. Ilikk Society is ST. C.
Growth ofthe West.
In 1830, according to the census,
the Atlantic Slabs out-numbered
the rest of tbe Union in population
by 5,430,578. In the next decade
excess dropped down to 4^!15.885,
which in 1850 ls-came 3,316,632,
and in 1860 dwindled to 324.361.
The boundary line was theu passed,
and so decisively, that, according
to the ceusos of 1870, the population
account footed up as follows:
n.ere.ens
*>,07t,7*»
Atlatic States
Other States and Territories
Exceee over Atlantic Stale. 3,401,111*
The State of things is now far the
first time represented iu Congress.
It is to be observed, however, that
all westward ot tbe Atlantic States
is by no means "the West." Geogra-phically,
Ohio is much farther east
of "tbe West" of to day than Maine
formerly was east of Ohio.
.harvard, and a thief, and JggH^ * S-"=» *
bhee can Afinndd uss iinn oounrr office any time |%**£££ witn ws veto!
during business hours."
A young married lady of our
town." somewhat inexperienced in
the ways ot gardeniug, planted out
her sass patch early this spring, but
was told by ber mother that she
had planted her beans wrong. Not
being entirely satisfied aboul the
matter she watched her patch with
a great deal of anxiety, aud suie
enough when they made their ap-pearance
tbey were wrong, and had
come up wrong end foremost,—the
bean on top. but determined uot to
lose an early mess of beans she
carefully puiled them up and set
them oiit with the other end down.
She has concluded that the bean
business is a fraud.— rTiiuto- Sf»
fine.. .■——————
A German saloon ke*i>er in Mil-lersburg
says: "Ven I goes to mine
bet 1 sleeps not goot I dreamt in
mine head dat I bears dem vemens
brayin and tinging in mine ears dot
Jesus loves me. Dot bothers me
to I got right straight np and valk
on de floor and take anndder glass
of beer" _______
"And did yo¥heaThlm call her my
dear, or anything liketbatr aaked
tha lawyer. "No, sir! of course not:
why she waa hie wife," anawered
the lady witness.
A Cure/or Oonmmption.—A cor-respondent
writes as follows about
thesaniteiy powoi of a rery well
known plant: 1 have discovered a
remedy lor pulmonary consumption.
It has cured a number of cases
after they had commenced bleeding
at the lnngs and the hectic-flush
was already on the cheek. After
trying this remedy to my own sat-isfaction,
I have thought philan-thropy
required that I should let it
be known to the world. It is the
common mulliti, steeped strong
aud sweetened with coffee sugar,
and drank freely. The herb should
lie gathered before tbe 5th of July,
if convenient. Young or old plants
are good if dried iu the shade, and
kept in clean paper bags. The
medicine must be continned from
three to six mouths, acordiog to the
nature ot the disease. It is good
for the nriuary vessels also It
strengthens the system, and builds
up instead of taking away the
strength. It makes good blood,
aud takes inflamation from the
lungs. It is the wish of the wri
ter that every periodical intbeUuited
States, Canada and Europe should
publish this receipt tor the benefit
of the human family. Lay this up
and keep it in the house ready for
lite.—Chriitain AdrocnU.
There are yet 1,200,000,000 acres
ot public lauds in the eouuti > that
sre' unsurvcyed, but after deduct-ing
swamp lands, deserts, moun-tains,
railway «i»l other grants, n
is estimated that ihe whole amount
of arable lauds available for settle-ment
cannot exceed 350 or 400 Bil-lions
of acres. Last year nearly
four millious of acres were takeu by
homestead settlere, aud the esti-mate
is that before a century
elapses, all the arable lands ot the
country will be absorbed.
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