The Greensboro patriot [August 26, 1874]

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Business Cards.
W. ' B. FAREiAE,
Walin-.Uaker,
Jeweler A Optician,
fareell.boro, \. < .,
Ha. TfwTffffHJ on hand
a .plaudit! a».-ortment ol
fashionable Jewelry,
and some splendid
DaUUa ami dodcM,
Which will be ... .1,1 Cheati lor Cult
- , si.
tyWst.he., Clink., Jewelry, v»iniiU»-
tw. -nty-live and locala fifty per eMmMj41ld p,,,,,,, r,|lllir,.,, cll^, „„, ™ .hort
iH-ti.-e fall opposite llie ExpnM OtlW,
Soulb Kim Wirwt. 10-lr
IT An n-M.ilril-:,,. 1. oiMJiirn*, Pistols,
('artridjcf-, Ac, alw.r - on hand.
- x week*, $?; MayiatratM'
. •--.«. $.".; Administrator*' no-
. *.t..*iU—i/i ad ranee.
■ - lor lionhlt* column adrvrtiac
Professional Cards.
r. Mt MO" II \i i.. JOHN N. STAPLES.
MENDENHALL & STAPLES,
A'lTOUNKYS AT LAW,
«. it i: i: > > u o K o, n. c.,
< MI il.tr Court,of Guilford,Beak-
David. Forajthe. Stokes, Ran-
Alamauce: also, U.S. Circuit aad
Special attention given to
i . parts ol lb* State, and to
ki | ley.
r/f-i lour North of Court.Houee.
!i lv
TWOS. B. KKOOH,
BALL & K.EOGH,
ATTORNEYS A T LAW,
tin, new Lindsay Building,)
I1KBKN8BOBO, N. C.
.1 I2.li
N. H. D. WILSON,
LIFE k FIRK INSlRlNCKALFiXT,
Ore»*n«lM»ri», N. C.,
REPRESENTS fott-elui ConpMiiw
with an af^rr* gat*1 ' iMi-i of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
■ and can carry a full linn at lair rate..
CyOrHco, up .lair, over Wilson or Sho-
■ bar's Bank, under the efficient supervision
of
W. II. HILL,.
who will at all times !.,■ glad to wait OD
all who desire either
Life or Fire Policies.
mar 14:ly
M -> MIS. J.I. SCAI.KS.
SCALES &. SCALES,
Attorneys at Law,
i; oro, N. C,
1)l:\l I II Kin Iha Slate andPrderslCourts.,
I.Sealea "ill attend llie Probate
r !. i | bam Count}' at Wentworth,
M I .v■< i every month.
I ly.
II I) J A. Giloisr.;
Dillarel, &. (xilmer
( H:NI:YS AT L.AW
and
SOLICITOIJS IX BANKRUPTCY,
• On iiuawuro, op|.«ite
Benhnw House.
1,1: \i I :, I. in Slate aud federal Court..
■.on given lo matter, in
, - arising under Iniar-
N. H. D. WILSON. CIIAS. E. SIIOUKK
HIIAOV A. MIOIIIll, BANKERS.
GREENSBORO, AT. €.,
(South Elm Street, oppo-ite Express OtB.-e.
BUY and tell Gold aud Silver, Dunk Note.,
State and Government Bands, Kail Uoad
St(.:k. .ml Bond., &c.
ty Receive Monev on depoeil unbjeet to
SIGHT CHECK; ainl allow uii.ri'si
In kind upon Inaedeposit.ofCURilENCY
or 8PECIE.
DLcount IliiMiiioNw I*HI»CT!
ollections made at all iccfSstUe points.
Sept. 16th, ly_
W. JL. HOaiSTEY,
II
II -ll
North Ca ;
i-;.'.
Cowl of Weateru
ina. Collectiona iu
aolioited.
205:ly.
I KVI M. sflTT. V/aLTBK P. CAIJlWat.l..
NI Oil A « VI.DWELL.
liKKKNSBORO, N. C.
\\' I I !,.., ,,i'i III. Superior Curt of
ll ■ \ imancr, Randolph. David
- I .ytli, Rowan, livilell and Meckl.n
A ... ,n llie Supreme. Court of the
■ 1 • :.,:il Court at Green.DON
i itteiition given lo L-ana
Moi ,r lecurltiea.
WATCH-MAKER, JEWELER AND
03PTICIAN,
No.ll South Kim Street. CnnMUuro, X.C.
HA8 a beautiful »tock of Watchou,
Clocka, Jewelry, Plated Ware, PII-tola,
Cartridgea, Notion., Ac. All repair'
ing warranted. A lar^e aud line atoek of
Gold Fen*, dec STnly
M. IIOIIMOII aV I n„
Whole.ule and Bntail Grocer.,
l«i< Cor«fr,i,'a«i Marcel 8l.,Qrttnittro, A'.C
Special attention given to Sugar, CcOee,
■ w.
111.
i, Bankruptcy, aud in court. |>follMe,j Sa|t ^Saum, I.ard, Kiaii, SnuU
Candv. Irou, Leather, Pluur. Meal, Soap
iu»y Tea, Tobarco, and a general routine o,
Oroceriea. febll.ly.
lulIN A HARBINGER,
\ I I O US E Y AT LA VV,
aUERKSBORO, A'. C.
\\' 11,1. .1:1.■ml promptly to all bu.inoaa
M I ;n hi.hand..
- ut i Elm Street, over Dr.
July 8-ly.
\i. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON,-
Surgeon Dentists.
Haviux awttofiu
ted themaelvea
in 11." Him-not* of
DtNTlaTBY, |
r« -])Hctful!7off«r -
llirir prolfN*ioD-al
M'lvji'fHio tho
eittseu of
Uievnaboro,
aud the anrrouD-'
T,. One or tin* other of them ,
■ be found at their office on,
- corner ui1
Street.
reference pivc-n, if desired,
reajiectiTv ptttront during the
e -'t tin,. :i jean, a.I3:tf
F. G. CAKTLAND
Oeneral Agent for the
FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE
JOB WORK
"ll BVBBt De.rrtplloa,
I \i ruled in the
» ER1 BEST STILE,
it Ni■« York priota, at the
Patriot Job
THIS haa been long t«»ted a. a first
claa. and thoroughly reliable Kuuiily
Machine, doing In-.ivy us wellaathe line.t
of work, is the only 'i having the le-veraable
feed and can he fnrniaked aa a
aide or back fed Machine. I'ho price,
.tair., entrance East | are ao reduced aa to bring it within roach
of all who need a n..t-c!a.v,
JMIA-CHIZSTE.
Cluba of three or i are allowed a .til
rTRTIIKR SEDUCTION.
which can be ancertaineil by application
at thi. ornce.
Order, promptly filled and .atisfactiou
a-TJA.jH^jrVjN TEED.
I'lU-.s : S.10, ««0. »7i and upward.
Liberal arrangement, will bo luade
with reliable pat tie. to Ml •■ agents,
P. G. CABTLAND,
Jnlv H, ly. High Point. N. C.
Office. mi IIVIII I <i I i;
Chas. G. Y«ta».
■I \M nil I'Kf.a OK
■ iii. Mini 11 unit Hopper Ware
VDrytl 1.. Hal.. Boon aud
V,. ,,■! v\ :.!., Lamp.. Cn.-kery.
1 . ■ . i.r .lies. Siove., and aa-
. 21 South Elm
■.:■• «>ld low foi
J.
ia ih*
ut|th«
- Ware, Grot •■>>'■
rmtlj N<
N.c Go
Rf>|KK'tfulIv inf.,ni.- l.i- friend* i
oublic grnerailr that ha ha* opem-d
■elm Brick buildiup; a
FLOUR,
OBAIS,
BACON,
and a
.1. «.
. i
»fOTI
I and Retail Dealer iu
STA1LI AMI KAXCY GROCERIES,
PlooaV. sad 7T» Hare.
■I Market Si., Greensboro, N.C.
Ht.n-k of goods in
jaallhly l.fiicral ( ommixsloii llusliif.s.
Liberal advaneemeiit. made on ConsigllBMalS,
. and prompt alteution paid to *ame.
' hand a full
1- al lowest market
artel
.: l\.
rate.
"W3S4I. COLLINS
< ibiiiri Maker, ladrrUker.
Wheel-Wright,
A
• I'avi.-andE
-., ful
> ramors Sneete, .v. c.
Mitalii HH'I Ctut Burial Catet,
iliuil and HoM-wood foSlna,
Ii can be fnrnianed and delivered
■ ... hours notice.
Hearse always la readiness.
mug ol Buggies, Carriages, 4c,
t"?' Country produce good aa caah
fob 1:1 j
I oii.ooo U h.t,. pine ShlaalM.
X lor sale by JA3. 8LOAN8' SONS,
Green.boro, Jan. bit, 1874.
Jan. T, ly.
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'•«•:XSHIIKO, T*"
FREDERICK DETMKUING.
Boot & Shoe Maker,
On Davi. street, near Presbyterian Chorea,
BOOTS and SI ■ made to order In the
.h-rie.! notice, at the I..We.t term..
The beat of leather, and a good til ^uaran.
"d- leb lU:ly
HC. W II.I.is.
. CONPBcnONEB.
North Elm street, oppo.it,. Court Haase,
Has in addition lo hi^ regular line of
candies, nuts, fruit., toys, *e- a full
stock of 8PR1XG Ti'iYS,
Baby Carnages,
Doll Csrrisgee, *c. Knew fouls and eon-tectioneriee
received weekly, mar 11-ly
rvisaalntion,
Holt A Co.. is
mutual consent.
334-3*
The firm of Tarker,
Ihia day disaolved by
This July 14. 1-74.
J. VV. 8. PARKER,
W. H. HOLT.
T. R. TAYLOB,
His First—Beat Friend.
TH« WiriOW Til HKR »OM.
The following touching verses from the
Dublin fteeassa—wonderfully psthetio in
their simple fidelity to one of the noblest
relstion. and emotiona in hnman nature
—represent an Iriah mothers measage to
her emigrant Mm in America, by •"other
emigrant just about to sail, and will Uud
appreciative echo in all kiud hearts:
Remember Denis, all I bads you aay :
Toll him we're well and happy, thank
the Lord;
But of our troubles since he went away
You'll mind.avick, and never aay a word.
Of cats and troubles, sure, we've all our
shsre.
The finest summer isn't always fair.
Tell him the spotted heifer calved In May ;
She died, poor thing; but that you
needn't mind ;
Nor bow the constant raiu deatroyed the
bay;
But tell biin Ood to us wa. ever kiud,
And when the fever spread the ocas-try
o'er
H ia mercy kept the " sickness" from
our door.
Be sure yon tell him how the neighbors
Ciiue
Aud cut the corn and stored it ic the
barn ;
Tw.uild be as well to mention them by
name—
Pat Murphy, Ned McCabe, aud Shatuus
Cam,
And lug Tim Daly from behind the bill;
And My, agra I— Oh, aay I miss him
still.
They came with ready hands our toll to
share;
Twa. then I uiisscd him most—my own
light hand ;
I felt, although kind hearts were round
me there, •
The kindest heartbeat in a foroign laud,
Strong hand ! brave heart I one aev-ered
far from me
By many a weary league of shore and
sea.
Ami tell him she was with us—he'll know
who;
Mavouineen, hasn't she the winsome
eye. f
The darkest, deepest, brightest, buuuiu.t
blue
I over saw, except in summer skies:
And such black hair ! -it ia the black-i
.1 hair
That ever rippled over neck so fair.
Tell him old I'incher fretted msny a day,
Aud moped, poor dug! 'twas welt he
didn't die.
Croaohed by tho roadside, how ho watch-ed
the way,
Ami sniffed the travelers as they passed
him by—
Hail, rain, or sunshine, sure 'twas all
the aame,
He listened for the foot that never
came.
Tell him the house is lonesome-like and
cold,
The fire itself seems robbed of half its
light;
But may be 'tis my eyes are growing old.
And things look dim befoie my failing
sight.
For all that, tell him 'twas myself
that spnn
The shirta you bring, and stitched
them every one.
Give him my bleaaiug ; learning, uoon,
and night,
Tell hi in my prayers aro offered for bis
good,
Tlint he may keep his Maker still in sight,
And lirinly stand as his brave father
stood—
True to his name, his country, and
his God,
Kaithful ai home, and steadfast still
abroad.
notice at the store to-morrow ; sod
(iriak aa ranch as be wanted, ■a nd
by tliM day week we can bate the . be would not touch a drop ou any
'breakdown.' But see, there's Mrs. 1 consideration while be was out. I
Moreton calling us to sapper." fooud him down MGreen Lake, and
Aa they moved off, tbe brother
regained
" I'm afraid, Pass, you hardly
mean what you nay about ibis bonne
wanning- You won't like tbe roogb
company you will meet. Valoour
Dupre would laugh at them.''
" I'm not so sure of that," said
Julia with ablush. "Bat, if be did,
he'd better stay at New Orleans,"
and she gave a saucy pout, which
was not becoming to her. " Uow
have engaged him to go up with
my next San Antonia train. So
tofllght. Thedogwascbaswlelose
in shore, Ins pursuers only retiring
sfter getting among the breakers.
Cuon examination of Carlo after
his uovel venture, Mr Carsou fonnd
.L.
Our Little Ones.
or the warehouse of Moreton, Le
Roy and Co., consisted of three
rooms. One, goodsised, in the ceu
; tre, serred as parlor and dining.
ever, don't let us talk nonsense room, while two smaller ones, at
We have come here to make a home ] each end, were partitioned off aa
aud tho first thing we must do is to I bed-looms for tbe brother and sister,
get the goodwill of our neighbors. { A rough portico ran the whole
If wc don't have this house-warm- j length, both front and back • tbe
[.ing, the people may think we con- euds of tbe back ones were boarded
sider ourselves too good to associate , up, aud opposite J ulia's room was
with them. I iutend, at first, at a little shanty, which served as a
least, to be as out and out a Texan ! kitchen, and which she coald reach
in my ways and s-H'ech as tho very | without going out of doors, a thing
oldest 'Texyan' among them." . j much to be desired in tbe tenacions
" A very sensible resolution, | soil of Lavaoca prairie, which clings
young lady, aud nothing more than like putty, aod, in rainy weather,
ho'" be here until tb.t"is "ready to I 2? .Wa "LlTl!TZ* ,Mhe<1 ln
start, and it wedon't keep him busy , bitten off Tr.il". "?*••*" P""'1
hunting, we-M have him drnnk for , piSLXZg5?££
The new bome,wbicbw« within. l^»e
1
8:t0b",t,eW,tb the "0*,S °*
stone's throw of Mr. Moreton'*, and
From Peteraou'a Magazine.
THE CAMANCHE RAH),
BY MART BAYABD CLARKE.
"How about this house-warming
I'uss f said Edward Le Boy to his
sister Jnlia. "Moreton thinks we
ought to have one, 'a regular break-down
dance,' as he calls it. Every-thing,
you know, will be finished by
Saturday."
Edward and Julia were orphans,
the children of an English merchant,
who had settled in New Orleans, and
tlied there, apparently a millionaire.
But just as bis estate came to be
settled, np, one of tbe financial con-vulsions
which used to prevail peri-odically
iu this country, overthrew
half the foitnoes in the nation, aud
with them that of the late Mr. Le
Boy. When all the debts were paid
nothing was left but some wild lands
in Texas. Thither, after consulting
with his sister, Edward determined
to go. lie chartered a small schoon-er,
stocked it with goods, aud, land-ing
at Lavacca bay, proceeded to
build lhinsell a bouse and store, iu
the meantime residing with one of
his father's old lriends, Mr. More-ton,
who had been an inhabitant of
tho place lor several years. All this
was a generation ago, in the early
days of Texas.
Julia, though bred in Inxnry, and
highly educated, adap'ed herself
cheerfully to frontier life. She was
a girl of spirit and sense, and frank-ly
accepted tbe inevitable. It was
wonderful how soon she fitted her-self
into this new groove. She as-sisted
Mrs. Moreton at housekeep-ing,
or worked with her needle, or
looked alter the plump baby, or
played with the elder children ; and
all the time was as happy and mer-ry
as possible, going about singing
snatches of songs and operas, as if
she had not a care in the world.
On the present occasion, her brother
had found her sitting on tbe end of
the wharf, helping Mrs. More-ton's
two little boys to catch crabs.
"A house warming," she exclaim-ed,
"Oh, that'll be splendid. When
will it be I"
" It will take time to get out the
invitations, or 'spread tbe news,' as
Moreton calls it He will put up a
I expected of you," said a voice be-hind
them, and, turning, they saw
•' Old Mr. Moreton," as he was call-ed
in Lavacca, who had been lor
two weeks absent, looking at a tract
of land up in the interior.
" Here are two of tbe oldest 'Tex-vans'
about, Miss Julia, both of
whom will tell you that you couldn't
do better than to carry ont your re-solution,
and be an out-and-out Tex-as
girl. Could she, Big l-'not !'"
•• Well, I dun know." replied his
coiopauion, gravely. " She don't
look tit ten for this country, squire ;
it takes a pretty strong spent to
stand a 'ooman's 'ile in Texts !"
" And that's just what she's got,
or I'm mistaken,'' replied Mr. More-ton.
"Miss Jnlia," he continued.
"this is uiy old mend, Big Foot
Wallace, so called on accouutof his
small feet; he is the greatest beau
in these parts, and I've brought him
here to give rou a chance at him."
" Come, squire, none o' your chaff
now. It'snosich thing, young lady.
I cauie over her to nut 'nition for my
tramp up to San Autone," replied
the squire's companion, with an
earnestness that amused both Ed-ward
and his sister.
" Not a bit of it, Miss Julia: don't
you believe him ; he came just be-cause
I told him there was a pretty
girl here." said Mr. Moreton, who
seemed to take pleasure in teasing
him.
The twilight is so short in Texas,
that it was quite dark now. It was
not until they entered the house,
therefore, where a large fire of mes-qitit
wood was blazing on the hearth
that Julia could distinguish the
features of the person who had lieeu
introduced to her as "Big Foot
Wallace."
A glauce at his feet showed that
he well merited the toubriifliel by
which he was known, although his
tall and muscular frame, and his
long limbs would have carried off a
much larger foot lie wore tight
fitting buckskin pantaloons, cow-hide
boots of rnsaet leather, a vest
made ol calfskin, tanned with the
hair on, and a short Mexican jacket
over which was a bright colored
Mexican blanket worn poncho fash-ion,
while the broadest of sombreros
was pulled low over his bushy eye-brows,
underneath which his keeu
gray eyes shot rapid and furtive
glances at all around him.
Fine ladies were "Big Foot's" de-testation.
He growled at every one
that he encountered. He "had no
notion," he said, "what was the
good of a woman's coining to Texis
who couldn't rough it like a man.
Them as kin cook, aud wash, and
don't mind taking it turn at the
corn-field, when the weeds is a push-ing
off a fellow's crop, is all very
well; them as can't, or won't, had
better keep off n the prairies. You
ain't the sort fur Texis," he said,
solemnly, to Jnlia, after looking at
her attentively for four or five min-ntes.
" You cau't work, and no-th-en
in Texis works 'cept the women
and the oxen, and they has to work
harder here than anywhere else in
the world."
"If Mrs. Moreton can staud it, I
think I can," said Julia, laughing at
his earnest solemnity.
" Don't follow," he replied, with-out
smiling. " She was fotch up
here, and knows bow to'conimodate
hereself to circumstances; if she
can't git beef, she'll do with veni
son."
" Well, I think venison is better
than beef."
" Maybe, for a while, long's its
new to you ; but I'd like to seo bow
you'd make out if the Injuns was to
come down, and 'stroy all this settle-ment,
and leave you nothing to be-gin
on agin."
" She'd do quite as well as I would
Wallace," said Mrs. Moreton. laugh
ing; for I certainly shouldn't know
what to do in such a case."
"Maybe not, till you was tried;
but your mother did. I knowed
her when Jim Powell, your father,
was turnt out by the Injuns, and
she had nothing bat a skillit left to
begin housekeepiug on again. It
rnus in root blood, I tell ye, to
scuffle with hard times You ain't
of much force now ; lint, if you was
lint to it, voti'd show yer grit."
" And so will Miss Julia, I'll war-rant,"
said Mr. Moreton.
" Maybe so; but then again, may-be
not," replied Wallace, sturdily :
aud be arose and went out to attend
his horse—a duty he uever delegat-ed
to another.
" There goes the best man I ever
saw for the prairie, and the worst
for a settlement," said Mr. Moreton,
aa the door closed after Wallace.
" As long as there is a drop of li-quor
to be had, he'll have it, if he is
in the settlement; but you might
send him from here to Chihuahua,
with a forty wagon train, loaded
with whisky, and give him leave to
collects on the floors, aud hardens
as to require to be scraped off with
a spade.
As the dancing was to be in the
now houae, it was decided that the
furniture should not be pnt ioto it
until after tbe entertainment.
Wallace proved an invaluable as-sistant
in preparing for tbe recep-tion
ot the guest. He not only
brought in stores ot prairie chickens,
wild tnrkies and partridges, but waa
one of the most successful fisher-men.
As Julia marked tbe profuse
preparations of this kind, saw tbe
skill with which Wallace dug tbe
trenches for the barbecues, and
watched Mrs. Moreton and her old,
black cook, aunt Aggy, beat np the
eggs, aud prepare for a grand cake
and pie-bakiog, her doubts as to
the possibility of providing refresh-ments
vanish, and, with her old
nurse, Charlotte, she rolled up her
sleeves, tied on an apron, and seri-1
ously set to work to help. There j
were but two other families at that
time living iu Lavacca. and tbeir ,
isolation from tbe rest of the world |
drew them closer together than
mere neighborhood could have done
in older settlements. So all took
part in the preparations.
"Don't you think I am learning
to live in Texas!" said Julia, sauci-ly
to Wallace. i
She bad just stuffed some turkies
and was helping him to place them
over a bed of glowing coals in one
of the trenches.
"This here I call play-work, young i
'ooman. I'll tell you this time two
years whether yew are fit to be a
Texyan. Wait till you've had a
bout with the Injuns, and a spell o'
tever-nager, and has a rigler fit of
Texas fever on ye. that's held you I
six months."
"A six months' fever !" exclaimed
Jolt*, "I thought it was healthy
here."
"I's never healthy wbar meske-1
ters is," replied Wallace, doggedly.
"I'll take my oath of that. Not but
what you kin have Texan fever any-wliar
in Texas."
"What kind oi fever is it? Not
yellow-fever, that don't last bat a
day or two, and I've had it ouce."
"No, It's not yellow fever, nor
scarlet|fever it's jest simply another
THE STARS.
Oh, ye chronometers of time.
That thickly stud the dome of bins,
How high ye are, how bright ye shine
In the br >ad Held, of ether bine;
Oft in the lonely hours of night,
I lift to you my wondering eyes,
To feast on garniture so bright,
In love devout aud uiut. surprise.
Ye shou'ed o'er our rising globe.
And greeted it with loud acclaim,
Down from your high and ealm anode,
And still ye shine and sing the same
And may yon thus forever ahine,
When greater orbs withdraw their
Hefct,
To cheer desponding hearts like mine
Till tho lsat hour of time tskss light.
For your bright beams tori all that love
And ]>eaee reign ever more with you,
In all the shining realms above
Aa nothing on the earth can do,
Aud each one ol your mighty boat
That in auch wouderous beauty shine,
Round creation's boundless coast
Will thus forever speak through time.
And ye bright sentinels of esrth.
That posted, puard so far away;
Our little world, and from its birth
Have watched it rolling on ita way,
Oh. withdraw not from onr view,
Bnt in tender pity In every elime
Shed down your light, aa falls the dew,
So long as yon have leave to akiue.
Then all like llowers will hall yonr rays
And from s love that', warm and pure
When the sun withdraws his scorching
Maie,
Will open wide tbeir hesrta to you.
And In the rosy hour of morn.
Before your light from earth's with-drawn.
From grateful hearts to you'll be borne,
Their warmest love by Aurora'a dawn.
Vor all on earth that's pure and holy,
Mu-t even love Ihe faithful siara
That shine In the dark, and there ouly,
To baniab all our doubt, and fears.
Bntofall that gild the upper dome.
The richest, brightest, purest gem
Thst smiles upon the earth we roam,
Is the sweetest star of Bethlehem.
Loved cynosure of Christian even.
The brightest of night's diadem
Lift up our hesrta above tbe akies,
lutu your pure and holy realm.
Where peaee aud joy forever reign.
And grief and sorrow ne're can coma
To mar our joys or gives us paio.
In our loved father's happy home.
: birds;" and sure enough, nearer
observation proved him correct.
Tbe cotton hang pendant from the
i boil, three to four inches in rolls, aa
large aa a fall grown Bologna sau-sage,
five rolls to tbe boll. I looked
in amazemeut, and could scarcely
believe in the reality of what I saw.
I asked bow much cotton will
these ten acres produce. I was
answered promptly, one hundred
bales, or a bale to each row of four
teen stalks. This, be continue.],
was tbe average production last
(ear. I continued by desiring to
now bow much to the hand could
be picked in one day aud was in-formed
for grown men 4M lbs. of
lint (there being no seed,) or one
bale, was regarded au easy daily
task. Now, gentlemen, if what I
have said is true, are we not rapidly
approach iog a new epoch in cotton
culture f Five years will suffice to
spread universally over tbe cotton
erea of tbe South this wonderful
productive species—and if it should
prove lasting aud not subject (aa
many new kinds have proven) to
deterioration, it would uot be au.
reasoooble to estimate the American
crop of 1880 at twenty millions of
bales—which could be more easily
raised and saved than a crop of
three millions at the present time.
What mighty changes will necessar-ily
follow. I leave for solution to
more fertile imaginations than my
own. One thing is certain—the
poor will rejoice over all tbe earth,
when a full suit of cotton clothes
can be bad at fifty cents. This will
be one result—and babies can come
along without apprehension as to
material to wrap them in.
A New and Wonderful Kind of
Cotton.
Oustavc Adolphns, a correspon-dent
of the Chronicle and Srntinel,
who has been ianimating down in
Southern Georgia, and a few miles
beyond the Florida line, tells a won-derful
story about a new kind of
cotton which he thinks is destined
name for pare laziness, which is the ,0 nt aH otuers t0 flight, Bnd revo.
disease of all Texyans." lutionize the entire cotton culture :
" If that's all I have to dread," | , ^^ „eVerA\ mi|e8 over the line,
said Julia, picking up the empty to ^ a uew smedaMaolcotton, and
tray, on which she bad brought tbe » „,„„,.,, yoa of mv astonishment
tnrkies, "1 think I'll get along ; and wueu . .)re(ijrt an entire revolution
I'm not afraid of the Indians; they'll in the prPRprit growth of that arti-liardly
come down on us now that c|e growing out of this Asiatic
Lavacca is getting to be such a set- gpecieK, now being raised upon a
tlemeut. At least, so Mr. Moretou ; aaml| 8Ca|e ,(y Mr. Myack Belly-say8-"
I mingcr, at Soap Floating Springs.
•'Phil Moreton knows a heap in frlorrda, six miles from tbe Geor-more
'bout some things thao I do ;; ^ ,ilie TWO years sioce Mr.
bat there's nary a man in Texas, gyaek received, in a letter from bis
the States, nor Mexico, that knows brother in law, Mr. Michael Grigie,
more 'bout Injuns that Big Foot gjx ^^ They were obtained in
Wallace. You're a smart gal, I see the far.fametl Cashmere Valley, in
that; but take old Big Foot's ad-: Ontral Asia, two years since—this
vice, aud learn bow to shoot, and bo being the third year of cultivation,
scurry like, and mebbe Geo. More- j regn|tjng jn ten acres the present
ton will keep better watch ronnd
these digginsthan he's a doing now;
for I kin tell yoa the Injuns is con-siderably
riled, aod they may be
down on you any time."
"Then I'll learn to shoot"
"Well, ef tbe 'squire aud your
brother ain't agin it, I'm agreeable
to laming of you how to shoot. I'll
fix a mark np agin tbe boat-house
doore, and then If yonr bullets fly
wide they won't kill none of the
'squlre-s cattle. But I must get a
ligbt fowling piece for you ; my ri-fle
is too heavy. I'll borrow one ot
Mr. Moretou."
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
season. I at ouce suggested a name
which was prompted by its similari-ty
to oar orange tree, and the own-er,
Mr. Hyack Bellyminger, being
pleased with the same, it will here-after
be known as the Asiatic Or-ange
Cotton. This cotton tree, hav-ing
now its full growth, is about
eight feet high, and will about
match in size at tbe butt end the
leg of an old fashioned split bottom
chair, tapering gradually to the top,
and is ot very enormous strength
and elasticity, and which enables it
to sustaiu the heavy weight of fruit-age
to which it is subjected. It is
planted in hills, lifteeu teetequi dis-tance,
to give room for its spreading
brauches, which run out on all sides
six or seven feet Tbe leaf is the
only feature closely resembling our
common plant I must reserve,
however, for another letter much
that I desire to say, and speak on-ly
of the grown bolls. They resem-ble
very much in size and color, a
large green orange, only much lar-ger,
and are attached to tbe limbs
by a strong stem, from one to two
inches in length. When open, it
ADog Among Porpoises
The Cape Maj Daily Ware tells a
story of a Newfoundland dog:
" While with bis master during a
stroll on the beach, the master no-ticed
a large school ot fish running
in close to the breakers, lollowed by
a great drove of porpoises, that were
rolling and pouncing through the
water iu apparent excitement with
the grand chase after the frightened
finnies. The dog Carlo, noticing. -
"he rumpns, and being encouraged ! contains at the base of the boll ta
by bis master to venture outamong small cells, four or five seed which
he sea pigs, gave a shrill bark, and might be mistaken for small buck
started ouIt^gracefully •■ ■ «1"K <* »BOt- ?"" •"*! In PLckLUg'r **"**
oort floating over the billows. On- tbe seed in the bur, which, of coarse
ward he plunged, and upon reach- avoids the necessuyot ginning, and
,nK the p?rpoia« he set up a terri- is thrown, as picked, into packing
ble vetoing, to tbe consternation of machines, so that each day I gatb-tbe
sea pigs, for dog barking among ering is compressed into bales the
he sea resident- is an unusual thing.; same evening. ***J**J"
Carlo uow plunged, first for one or two hundred yarda of this field I
p.Ciee andtoenfoc another, and , asked Mr M. for a ■»■* g-j»MB
£> excited the whole company that i a few white eranee, aa it seemed to
r grand charge was made and me there was m ■■■■■»■ ™"
Carlo was obliged to beat a re-1 ber of thera perched about on small
2S which he did i. great h*ste, trees. " You will not havewy use
followed by scores of the «»em,,' forage," he rei>lied_" What you
inmoiM, saortiag and tumbling sea is the few open bolls of cotton,
aboutevrdeoUy much delighted at and you are not rlone in supposing
putting the Nswfcundiaiid stranger them to be oar beautiful
A Wonderful Oil Well.
Tbe Titusville (Penn.) Herald of
July 23d, thus describes a wonder
fnl oil well that has just been open-ed:
"Tbe road leading to the Parker
well from Petrolia is in moderately
good condition, and soon after leav-ing
Central Point the traveler ob-serves
the words, 'no smoking |>er-mitted
here' in conspicuous places.
After about two and a half miles
ride the top of a bill is reached,
where a loud roaring noise is dis
tinctly heard, and, eighty rods
further on brings ns in sight of the
well. A dense fog or mist enve
lopes the derrick, engine bouse and
tanks, while fully one thousand per-sons
are there gazing on the won
der of Armstrong county. The der-rick
has conspicuously placed upon
it, in large letters, 'Boss Well,' and
'Creswell City ' There are 250-bar-rel
tanks, one of which is full. Three
dams one below the other catch the
drippings; and tbe rivnlet beyond,
we are told, lor ten miles a circui-tous
rout to tbe Alleghany river, is
covered with oil. There are two
two inch pi|>es connected with the
well, one ot which is shut complete-ly
off, and out of tbe other flows a
steady stream of oil with immense
force. There is no perceptible in-termission
in tbe flow, and as it
gnshes into one of the twelve hun-dred
barrel tanks, tbe foam and
spray envelope the whole surround-ing
atmosphere in a dense mist
"A trustworthy ganger informed
as that he had gauged the well three
times since the stream was turned
iuto tbe l.L'OO barrels, tank, and he
found it doing 1,750 barrels, and he
estimated the leakage at least to be
fifty barrels per day. He further
stated that in bis opinion the well
started off out of two two-inch pipes
at tbe rate of 2,500 barrels per day.
He also claimed that although this
was almost incredible be believed
that If tbe full stream was turned
on now it would do at least 2,000
barrels.
"The well is claimed to lw the
largest ever struck in the lower
region. A fanner walked up to us
and offered to sell his adjoining
farm of 100 acres for $100,000, which
ten days ago, for farming purposes,
would not have brought fl.OOO i
Tbe surveyors are at work laying
out Creswell City."
The Game of Yswker.
This ill bred game ov kards is
about 27 years old. It waa fust
diskovered by tbe deck bands ou a
lake Eiie steam Boat, aod banded
down by them tew posterity in awl
ita juvenile beauty.
It is generally played by * |>ersoos
aud owes moch ov its abeorbiugueas
tew the fact that yu kan talk, and
drink, and chaw, and cheat while
tbe game is advancing.
I have seen it played on tbe Hud
son Biver Bailroad, in tbe smoking
cars, with more immaculate skill
than ennywbare else.
Ifyon play there.you will often hold
a band that will astonish you, quite
often 4 queens and a 10 spot, which
will inflame you to bet 7 or 8 dollars
that it is a good band to play poker
with, but you will be more astonish-ed
when you see the other feller's
hand, which invariably consists ov
4 kings and a one spot
Yewkerie a molatto game, and
don't compare tew old sledge in
majesty, enny more than tho game
ov pins does to a square church
raflle.
1 uever play yewker.
I never would learn how, out ov
principle.
I was originally created close to
the Goanektikat line, in Nu Eng-land,
where the game of 7 up, or old
sledge, was born, and exists now in
awl its pristine virginity.
I play old sledge, tow this day,
in lU natiff fierceness
But I won't play enny game, if I
know my eharakter, where a jack
will take aa ace, aod a ten spot
wont coont game.
I won't play no such kiud ov a
game out ov reapekt to old Connek-ticat,
mi natiff place.
Two little girts are l__
Two UtUs beys seat asabta lbs fa.,
Twe little bird, saa kaild a las seat,
Two little areas eaa love ssetber boat.
Two little poaioasaaat ge fc, a saae. j
Two Bills pockets bss my littls man.
two little eyas lo open aod close,
two little saws aad oae little aesa,
two little elbows, duaplsd and awex,
Two little .hoes, oa twa little sset,
Two littls lips aad one little chin,
Two littls eheeks with a rase shot in;
Two littls shoaldars, shabby and strong.
Two little lags ranalag all day loaf.
Two little prayers does aay darling asp.
Twins doss ha kneel by my side sash say,
Two little bided heads, soft and brown,
Two little eyelids cast meekly down—
And two little angels guard him ia bad,
" One at the foot, and oae at tho Bead.'
8r~^Z. "*" °^' ~ *• ***"*"
A touohing Story.
A drunkard who had run through
his property returned one night to
his unfurnished home. He entered
his empty hall. Anguish was gnaw-ing
at his heart-strings, and lan-guage
was inadequate to express
his agony as he entered hia wife's
apartment, and there beheld the
victims of bis appetite, his loving
wife and a darling child. Morose
and sullen, he seated himself with-out
a word ; be could not look up
then. The mother said to the little
one at her side :
" Gome, my dear, it is time to go
to bed."
And that little baby, as she was
wont, knelt by her mother's lap,
and gazing wistfully info the face
of her suffering parent, like a piece
of chiseled statuary, slowly repeated
her nightly orison.
When she had finished, the child
but four years of age, said to her
mother:
" Dear mother, may I not offer
up one more prayer t"
" Yes, yes, my sweet pet, pray."
And she lifted up her tiny hands,
aud prayed:
" O God, spare, oh, spare my dear
papa."
That prayer was lifted with
electric rapidity to tbe throne of
God. It was heard on high; It was
beard on earth. The responsive
" Amen" burst from the father's
lips, and hia heart of stone became
a heart of flesh.' Wife and child
were both clasped to his bosom,
and in penitence he said:
" My child, you have saved your
father from a drunkard's grave."
Trifles ! Trifles ! Trifles !!
"Don't" said tbe pony to the
flies; and he shook bis bead and
lashed his tail about and away they
flew.
" Don't, I say," he cried again,
moving to another place, where he
hoped he should lose them. And
so he did for a minute or two, but
no longer. There they were—in
his eyes, on bis nose, at his ears,
and all over him.
If be could have eaten them all
he would, or kicked them into tbe
next country he would, or galloped
them ont of tbe world he would ;
but there was no doing anything
with them. As he moved they
moved ; and every time he attempt-ed
to graze, tbey settled themselves
on him, or buzzed in a clond round
his head as regularly as if they had
come by invitation.
" Oh dear!" he sighed at last,
what is to be done ! I can bear my
master's whip and spur, I can stand
being worked half to death over
the country, and with a heavy cart
—those are evils I make up my
mind to; and if that yelping cur
comes behind me I can give bim a
reception that Bends him flying;
but as to these torments contempti-ble
as tbey are—too small to be
met effectually—I verily believe
they'll be the death of me I"
Ah ! BO it is in human lite as in
pony life. Great triala can often be
bravely borne, when petty annoy-ances,
by their number aod per-tinacity,
vex and worry tbe soul.
It ia not always right to be too
determined on having all our rights.
It is better to • give a little" than
to quarrel. If one " smites you on
tbe right cheek," it is better to
" turn tbe other alao" than to strike
back. Quarrelsome children are
very likely to make quarrelsome
men end women. " Leave off con-tention
before it is meddled with,"
is a divine direction.
The Chinese have a saying that
an unlncky word dropped from the
tongue cannot be drawn back by a
coach aud six horses.
Nothing is rarer than a solitary
lie; for lies breed like Suriuam
toads; you cannot tell one but out
it comes with a hundred young ones
on its back. _
Half hearted service is poor
service. " Aud whatsoever ye do,
do it heartily as to tbe Lord, and
uotnnto men."
It is not until we have passed
through the furnace that we are
made to know how much dross was
in our composition.
Do to others as you would have
them do to you.