The Greensboro patriot [August 18, 1875]

              THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. C,
BY DUFFS Ar ALBRIGHT,
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Business Cards.
R. H. D. WILSON,
LIFE k FIRE INSURANCL AGENT,
Gr*yni»boro, N. C,
REPRESENTS firit-clftM CompaolM
with an aggregate capital of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
and can carry a full line at tair rate-,.
lyOflice, up .ta.ru tm Wilson & Slio-ber's
Rank, under tliocincieut supervision
W. U. HILL,
who will »t all times be glad to -ait on
all who desire either
Life or Fire Policies.
mar 14:ly
N. H. 1). WILSON. CIIAS. E. BUOBBB
M II.MCV * 8IIOHER,
B A N K K U S.
GREENSBORO, K C,
(South Elm Street. opposite InM Dlti"-
Bl.'Y and sell Gold and Silver, Hank Nous.
State and Government Bonds, Kail Koad
Slocks and Bonds, &.
Forty Years Ago.
How wondcroiis are the changes, Jim,
Since forty years ago,
U hen gals wore woolen dresses, Jiui,
And hoys wore pants of tow ;
When shoe* were made of calfskin
And socks of homespun wool,
And children did a half-day's work
Before the hour of school.
The girls took music lessous, Jim,
Upon the njiinuiii^-wheel,
And practiced late and early, Jim,
On spindle, swift and reel;
The bojs would ride hare-backed to mill
A dozen miles or so,
And huiry off before 'twas day,
Some forty years ago.
The people rode to meeting. Jim,
In sleds iustead of sleighs,
And wagons rode as easy, Jim,
As baggies now-a day*,
An oxen Answered well fur teams
Though now they'd l»e too slow,
readily consented, and we set out need} momentary pang, (hat I no
together We had not ridden many
miles when George suddenly recol-lected
a commission he hud nudei
taken for a friend which would re-quire
his attendance at a public
land sale on the following day.
Exacting a promise that he would
not delay his visit longer than ne-cessary,
and having given minute
directions as to the route, I con-longer
felt solicitous, save that my
memory should one day be vindi-cated.
She for whom I had gone to pre
pare a home had already found one
iu heaven. The tidings of my
calamity had broken her heart.—
She alone of all the world believed
me iuuocent; and she had died
with a prayer upou ber lips that
Professional Cards.
r. MI -.in MI ILL. Joua H.STAVLM.
MENDENHALL & STAPLES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
a it 1: 1: \ s « «»it o, (I.e.,
ID (Courwol Ouillbrd, Book-inebi
. Forsylbe, Stokes, Kan-m,[
; .1 B. Circuit and
il attention given to
parti c.i lice State, and to
[ j V rice,I C'uurt^House.
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1. (I -, ,1 J.I. SCSI.K8.
SCALES & SCALES,
- Attorneys at Law,
• 1. ,N. C.„
1) 1'. cleralC'oiirta.
.ttend il.• Fiohsls
I • il Weulworlli
I'eTerj month.
ISFBeeeWe Money on deposit subject to j.-,,, .„.„,,],. iiTe,i not half eo fait,
SIGHT CHECK; and ''l,0"'.",'V"rv
in Ulnelupon lime deposits utlLKKLACl
''"iSunt llusine.- l*»,~r| ! ollectioos made at all accessible points.
! Sept. 16th,_ly
/^°OTOl00k S/(
^*CHAS. 0. YATES."
%
'«. 'MfSaOBO, «*'
.In A (Jilwer.
Dillard, & Gilmer
ATTOKNEY8 AT LAW
.,.,.1
-HI.11 ITORS IN BANKHUPTCY,
1; . neboro, opposite
... House
PRAI 1:1 1. - ■ ■• • •• ci Federal Courts.
■ . ■ msttei in
Bank 1 irising under Inter-
Cuurt of Western
ua. Collections in
iled.
IU5:ljr.
W. Ti. FAKiRAB
WATCH MAKER.
JEWELLER, OPTICIAN
A.3STT3 E3STC3-I^^"VEE,
Greensboro, X. V.
Has constantly ou head a splendid assort
ment of Fashionable Jewelry, and MODI
splendid iratrhti anil Claries.
Which will be aiold Cheap tor Oaveh
iyWatches, Clucks. Jewelry, Sewing Mi-
-nor Court of chhiee.and 1'istols repaired cheap and on short
>> I,'. 1-„l„lpl„ David- notice. An assoricci -t... ikof Guns, Pistols,
and Mecklen- Cartridges, ic.,.always on hud.
Court of the Mar. U ly.
ll\l .1. -.red 1. w vl.ll.K V. I Al.HWKLL.
SCOTT A (U.IIWKLL.
1 SSBORO.N. C.
Bu| erior Ceurt of
so 1 Si •
.,i I irccu.boro
v. and in courts
"'"•*• cn.wi.l, lirn-l, Ti.i 1 I .V ■
a. vv 1. 11. OBBOOXT.
TOURGEE -v GEEGOBY.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
t cKl.i.N. ll.cKlc, N. C.
may be hud in any of the
11 i - c 1 North Carolina.
A 8 '" 1 - Sank.
i ; 1-71 ly.
llllll 1.1.. lc,II.\ V. li.vKUIM.l K
GORRELL .v BARR1NGER,
ATT CUt N L'Y S A T L A W,
GREENSBORO, A'. V.
\\ . I .;i»;- uf AlaniMii:,',
(iinltccril, Haiulolph,
Any bl
Gi'I'i'ii-lxirii Wauoil
WORKS.
If you want a g I substantial wagon go to
ml plantation wag-pin
or I lllluble skein axles on
hand or made to order. Also Blackemkhing
and general repairing dime on short notice
and in WOrknjumshlp mantier. Workshop
uear the Uepot. J. A C. LEWIS
fob. 10, ly.
UDELL, RAOAM .\ t'O.,
Wholesale Dealers in
GENERAL MEROHAHDISE,
Greenxboro, A*. C.
Jan. 10, 1875-ly.
3M. A.. SHER/I^A.ISr,
Greenxboro, iV. 0.
CONTKACTOK AND BUILDER
PLANS, BleTstlons and Bpeeifieations
of the most uiodern and approved
Iheir hands w',11 be styles, furnished at moderate prices.
i rouptly attended to.
H • ' -: Uoaie. N
Jan. 1, lbTi:liin.
TB W
. lain Mendenball Building
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JEWELERY AND WATCH
ESTABLISHMENT
To the People of iirein$U<ro and nrrOemoTiao
Country:
Having opened in your midst a first-class
Watch-Making and Jewelry Store, 1 re-
,10. W. GLENN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Greensboro, X. C.
\\ ; in the Courts of iho
Special attention give, to %£3Z5?^m7^* j<Ai~£&i»e».
Having served a long apprenticeship
with one of the most celebrated Waten
and chrouometer makers In the country,
v. •» ii ■■ u a af v " I n«d having hail Thirty Yeais Experience
\» . .A. il I. u ,1 .• fc . ln ti,iK uuBinesa, I confidently believe 1
ATTORNEY AT LAW, cou give Entire Satisfactirn t., all who
W.cnlvv.irtli N (' j may entrust their work to my care.
\\ . ill worth, i>. O. |, <jJaU keep conslantl>. „n u,„„| a Go,„i
1) MUCK n the Courts Of Kecking- Assortment of Gold and Silver Watches.
in. iMiili.. i, I and Stokes, and in t ho Clocks, Jewell y of nil kinds, Spectacles,
istricl Courts at silver and Plated Ware, and Everything
in my Line. Fine Qold Kingi. and Hair
Soon- forty years ago.
O, well do I remember, Jim,
The Wilson patent stove.
That father bought and paid for, Jim,
In cloth our gals hail wove ;
And how the neighbors wondered
Wind we got the thing to go,
They said 'twould bust and kill us all.
Some twenty years ago.
Yes, everything is different, Jim,
I'r.iiii what it UBed to was,
For men are always tampering, Jim,
with Ood*l great natural laws,
But what on earth we're coming to.
Does anybody know f
Feu everything;has changed so much,
Since forty years ago.
i a i
shori
tySpecial attention given to collec-
■ I claims. upll-ly
J)r. It. K. I.ri'sjory
RESPECTFULLY
OFFERS BIS
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
I of lireensboro.
Ii:i< ill. SAME AS THOSE
I by other Practicing
ml of the City.
B. A. &. R. F. ROBERTSON,
Surgeon Dentists.
llav ing ussocia '
tod themselves
iu I he practice of
s.. . DENTISTBY,
respectfaUy olfer
~^y their profeesioB
• -^ al services to the
<* .V \,> citizens of
* y_^ -• *■ - i.i. snsboro, I
I the inrroun-
" i ft the other of them
• their ort.ee on
■ . I-. entrance East
■
■ ren, if desired.
,""" is during the
•.'i:i:tf ■
^Vivi. COLLINS-Jewelry
Made to I Irdcr.
My Store is the Hook Siorc of C. 1). Yates,
under the Bellbow llcinse.
Old Gold and Silver Bought or Taken in
Exchange. JOHN CIIAHBEBLAIN.
(Ireensboro, N. C, Feb. 9, l-7:,-ly.
w. <'. I'Olfllli A CO.,
li KUUGIST8
APOTHEC-A.K-1E £3.
i.I.l EX8SQBO, \. i .
feb. 17, 1875-ly.
Ck>
JOB WORK
Oi I \ Ht\ DeacrliHlon,
Executed iu the
\ i K\ BfiSX STYLE,
And at New Yurk prices, at the
Patriot Job Office.
s GREENSBORO
n-.li ami Blind I'mtory.
STKXL* .V DKNNV, Proprietors.
Is now prepared to turn out on .-kort notice
all kiudsof
Blinds, Doors, Sash,
WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES
TURNING, PLAINING, AC.
Cabin*?! Mabtr, I'ndrrtakfr. iufactanythingiubuildiugline.Al.tr..
ol seasunetl lumber always on hand, which
will be deresed and sold on reasonable terns.
Mar. 4-jv. Wheel-Wright,
.-. .unore Strsets,
'/'.'- ■ I, V. ''..
1.WA1 lineol
U :.llllll :iii<| ItoscMoOfi L'olliiis,
Bed and delivered
■
1in readiness. srriage*, Ac,a
ity.
- . .H1 as cash,
feb lily
CHAS. G. YATES,
DIALS! IN
STAl'LK DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
Stores, Castings and Imn.
House Funii- . and Manufacturer
OF TIN, SHEET IRON i'IPF.8, &C.
Established In Oreensboro
26 "2"EA-ILS AGO;
Goods sold litaivnavk for lath or Barter
Oct. 1, 1-71 ly.
CT NOW.
A Juryman's Story
We had been out twenty-lour
hours, and stood eleven to one.—
The case was a very plain one—at
least we eleven thought so.
A murder of peculiar atrocity
had been committed, aud though
mi eye had witnessed the deed, cir-cumstances
pointed to the prison-ers
guilt with unfailing certaiuty.
The recusant juror had stood out
iiuiii the urst. ile acknowledged
the cogency of the proofs, confessed
his inability to reconcile the facts
with the defendant's innocence, and
yet on every vote, went steadily for
acquittal.
Hia conduct was inexplicable.—
It could not result from a lack of
intelligence, tor while he spoke but
lit I If, his words were chosen, and
evinced a thorough understanding
of the case.
Though still in the prime of man-hood
his locks were prematurely
white, and his face had a singularly
sad and Ihoughtftil expression.
Ile might be ouc of those who
entertained scruples as to the right
ol society to inflict the dea.h pen-alty,
liut no, it was not that, for
in reply to such a suggestion, he
lninkly admitted that brute men,
like the vicious brutes they re-semble,
must be controlled through
fear, and that dread ot death, of
supreme terror, is in many cases,
I he only adequate restraint.
At the prospect of another night
of fruitless imprisonment, we begau
to grow impatient, and expostu-lated
warmly against what seemed
an unreasonable captiousness, and
some not over kind remarks were
indulged in as to the propriety of
trilling with an oath like that un-der
which we were acting.
"Aud yet," the mau answered,
as though communing with himself
rather than impelling the imputa-tion,
" it is conscience that hinders
my concurrence iu a verdict ap-proved
by my judgment.''
"How can tliat bet" cried several
voices at once.
"Conscience may not always
dare to lollow judgment."
" ltu. here she cau kuovr no
other guide.''
" I once would have said the
same."
" And what has changed your
opinion !"
" Experience."
The .speaker's maniiei was visibly
agitated, aud he waited in sileuce
the explanation which he seemed
ready to give.
Mastering his emotiou, as if to
answer o,ir looks of inquiry, he
continued:
Twenty years ago I was a young
man, just beginning lite. Few had
brighter prospects and none bright-er
hopes.
An attachment dating from child-hood
had ripened with its object.—
There had been no verbal declara-tion
aud acceptance of love—no
formal plighting of troth; but
when I took my departuie to seek
a home iu the far West, it was a
thing understood that when I hail
found it and put it iu order, she
was to share it.
Life in the forest, though solitary,
is not necessarily lonesome. The
kind of society afforded by Nature
depends much ou one's self. As for
me, I live more in the future than
in the present, and hope is an ever
cheerful companion.
At length the time came for the
final payment of the home which 1
had bought. It would hencefor-ward
be my owu ; in a few months
my simple dwelling, which I had
spared no pains to reuder inviting,
would be graced by its mistress.
At the land oflice, which was
some sixty miles off, I met my old
friend, George C. He, too, had
come to seek his fortune in the
West, and we were both delighted
at the meetiug. He had brought
with him, he said, a sum of money
which it was his purpose to settle.
I expressed a strong wish to have
him for a neighbor, and gave him a
A i
J\. The undersigned represents
several Good Insuran-e Companies, call ami cordial invitation to accompany me
take out a policy upon yonr life, also upon , home, giving it as my belief that
»onr bouse, and not have to.regret it after . . he could nowhere make a better se-
^^■■.atoXfcllSSs^ |lection than iu that vicinity. He
tiuued my way homeward, while he the truth yet might be brought to
went back.
1 was retiring to bed on the night
of my return, when a summons
from without called me to the door.
A stranger asked shelter for him-self
ami horse for the night.
I invited him iu. Though a
stranger, his lace seemed not un-familiar.
He was probably one of
the men that I had seen at the land
office, a place at that time very
much frequented.
Offering him a seat, I went to
see his horse. The poor animal, as
well as I could see by the dim star-light,
seemed to have been hardly
used. His panting sides bore wit-ness
of a merciless riding, and a
tremendous shrikiug at the slight-est
touch, betokeued recent fright.
On returning *o the house, I
found the strauge. had gone. His
absence excited no inrprise; he
would doubtless SOOL -eturn. It
was a little singular, ho«^ »r, that
he should leave his watch up the
table.
light.
All this I had heard, and it had
soothed as with sweet incense my
troubled spirit. Death, however,
unwelcome its shape, was now a
portal beyond which I could see oue
angel waiting to receive me.
I heard the sound of approaching
footsteps aud nerved myself to the
expected summons. The door of
my cell opened, aud the Sheriff and
his attendants eutered. He had in
his hand a paper. It was doubtless
my death warrant. He began to
read it. My thought* were busy
elsewhere. The words '• full and
free pardou,r were the first to strike
my preoccupied senses, They af-flicted
the bystanders more "than
myself. Yet, so it was, I was par-doued
for an offense I had never
committed.
The real culprit, it is beedless to
say, was none other than he who
had sought aud abused my hospi-tality.
Ho had been mortally
lunded in a receut affray in a
At the end ot an hour, my guest [ distant city, but had lived long
Dot returning, I went again to the : enough to make a disclosure, wlrch
stable, thinking he might have i had been laid before the Governor
found his way thither, to give his | barely in time to save me from a
personal attention to the wants of i shameful death, and condemn me
his horse. j to a cheerless aud bur.leusome life.
Before going out from mere force | This is my experience. Myjudg
of habit—for we were as yet un-1 ment as yours in the case before us
visited by thieves or policeineu—I j leads to but one conclusion • that
took the precaution of putting the j of the prisoner's guilt! but not less
stranger's watch iu a drawer iu j confident and apparently unerring
which. I kept my own valuables. was the judgment that falsely pro
. I found the horse as I had left duced my own conviction.
him and gave him the feed which We no longer importuned our
he was now sufficiently cooled to , fellow juror, but patiently awaited
eat, but his master was nowhere to ; our discharge on the ground of our
be Been. j inability to agree, which came at
As I approached the house a last,
crowd of men on horseback dashed \ The prisoner was tried aud con
up, and I was commanded in no victed at a subsequent, term, and at
gentle terms to "stand !'' In anoth-; the last moment confessed his crime
er moment 1 was iu the clutches of: ou the scaffold,
those who called me their " prison-
Genuine Comfort
. While travelling, a few years
since, I was detaiued some days in
one of our Western cities. Mv
room overlooked a laue or alley
way, in which were several houses
occupied by the better class of ar-tisans,
and I became much inter
ested in oue of these ; so much so
that no sooner did I hear a glad
shout from a little voice than I
, knew it was meal-time, and " Dad-dy
iras coming," and I took up my
point of observation in harmless
'•and admiring scrutiny of the well-governed
house. Ou the way iu
the father raised the rejoicing child
in his arms and gave it two or three
resounding smacks; another one
, had crept to the door-sill, and this
was lifted also, and its little cheek
laid teuderly upon his shouluer,
which was hunched up to bring it
closer to the father's. By this
time, the wife had brought a bowl
of water and a white, course towel.
Then she took the childreu down,
applying also sundry pats, now ou
the shoulders of the little ones, and
now on the broad, fatherly ones:
and while the husband gave a last
rub ot tho hard, rough hauds, he
stretched out his neck and kissed
the-pretty, girlish wife, who would
be hovering near him. They said
grace; they dined at the plain,
wholesome board, and more than
once I fouud myself wafting them
a benedictiou with the tears in my
eyes. It is so brutish to pass with
out a word of recognition of the
great Giver. The husband was a
grave man, aud the wife a lively,
cheery woman, neat as a new pin,
and very chatty. I thought them
wonderfully well matched, for there
was no moroseness in the man nor
levity in the woman. Aud wheu
Sabbath came, aud the little house-hold,
dressed in all their finerv,
baby and all, went out to church,
it was a sight to behold.—7/eraW
o/ Health.
1 was too much Btnpefied ill first
to ask what il all meant. I did so
at last, aud rho explanation came
—it was terrible.
My friend with whom 1 had so
The Race Question.
A Lesson from the U. S. Census,
If the negro leaders had a par-ticle
of discretion they would"not
hesitate long before precipitating a
lately set out iu company, had been conflict of races in any part of the
found murdered and robbed near South. Thej ought to know that
the spot at which I. but I alone, j„ s„ch a conflict, their defeat would'
knew we had separated. I was the be inevitable. Leaving out of view
last person known to have been a calculation of the aggregate white
with him, and I was now arrested population iu the two sections com
on suspicion of his murder. I t,i,,<>c], let us look at the statistics
A search ol the premises was im- , of lh(. Southern States alone. The
instituted. Tho watch following table, made up from the
was found iu the drawer in which njntu census, shows that there are
I had placed it, and was identified
as the property ol the murdered
man. His horse, too, was found in
my stable, for the animal I had just
teed was no other. I recognized
him myself wheu I saw him iu the
light.
What 1 said I kuow not. My
confusion was taken as an addition-al
evidence. And wheu at length
I did command language to give an
intelligent story, it was received
with sneers of incredulity.
The mob spirit is iuhercnt in
man—at least in crowds of men.—
It does not always manifest itself
iu physical violeuce. It sometimes
contents itself with lynching a char-acter.
But whatever its form, it is
always relentless, pitiless, cruel.
As the proofs of my guilt one af
only three States in the Union
wherein the negroes have a ma-jority,
and only two where on a
square division of the races at the
polls the negro majority is large
enough to be fairly counted upon :
POPULATION IX 1^70
li hit'. C.ih.reil. Moj.-rit'i.
521.384 475,510 45JSH
3(3.116 r2S,2G9 139,940
{17,057 91,688 ^.:«;s
638,626 545,148 93,784
l,09S,6Ui 222£10 776,483
368 '• 364.S10 "9,145
3S2.S9* 144.201 ■01,305
678,470 391,550 887,880
2-9,607 415314 '126447
936418 322,331 513,788
712,089 253,475 158,614
12,089 512.841 199,24-'
17,9d0 406,053
Alabama,
Arkansas,
Florida,
Georgia.
Kentucky,
Louisiana,,
Mississippi
N. Carolina,
S. Carolina,
Tennessee,
Texas.
Virginia,
WeetVlrginia, 424,033
"Negro majorities.
Delaware, Maryland and Mis-ter
another came to light, low mut- ao„ri are no',^jn tbe t u; w\
tenng gradually grew into a clamor icausethp ^ votp , t ,
ot vengeance, and but for the Arm-; enonen
ness of oue man—I wonld doubt-negro
to be considered.
_e
South
; Carolina and Mississippi are the
less have paid the penalty tor my , on, Statps jn w)lich tn„ „ s
supposed offense oil he spot. j CRn' counf „„ „ oritv Sllflidell,
It was not sympathy lor-me that; f0raniractjca, ,,nrpoge. Bnt ul
actuated my protector^ His heart goeh a*eonteat as their conduct iu
Warren county and their proceed-ings
in tho last Legislature, are
likely, sooner or later, to bring
about, what would their numbers
avail them against the courage,
skill, discipline and desperate in-trepidity
of the Anglo Saxons fight
ing for their homes and all they
hold sacred f Besides, it is not to
be sup|iosed that the whites of the
contiguous States would be idle
witnesses of such a couflict. The
means of transportation from one
State to another, are convenient
and rapid.
The negroes cannot be too often
nor too solemnly warned that the
white people, like themselves, are
here to stay. They do not intend
to be hewers of wood, nor drawers
of water. They do not intend to
abandon their homes, nor to be
taxed out of them. There is a
limit to the right of taxation, and
the negro leaders and their allies
have already reached the boundary.
—Jackson, (Miss.) Clarion.
was as hard as his office; but he
represented the majesty of the law,
aud took a sort of grim pride iu the
position.
As much uuder the glance of his
eye as before the muzzle of his
pistol, the cowardly clamorcrs drew
back. Perhaps they were not suf-ficiently
numerous to feel the full
effect of that mysterious reflex iu-liueuce
which makes a crowd of
meu so much worse and at times
soniucu bettir than any of them
singly.
• •••••
At the eud of some months my
trial came. Itcouid have but one
result. Circumstances too plainly
declared my guilt. I alone knew
they lied.
The abseuce of the jury was brief.
To their verdict I paid but little
heed. It was a single hideous
word; but 1 had long anticipated
it, and it made no impression.
As little impression was made by
the words of the Judge which fol-lowed
it; and hissolemu invocation
that God might have that mercy
upon me which man was too just
to vouchsafe, sounded like the hol-lowest
of hollow mockeries.
It may be hard tor the condemned
criminal to meet death ; it is still
bardei lor him who is innocent.—
The one, wheu the lirbt shock is
over, acquiesces in his doom aud
gives himself to repentance; tbe
heart of the other, filled with re-bellion
against tnau's injustice, can
scarce bring itself to ask partlou of
God.
I had gradually overcome this
feeling, in spite of the good clergy-man's
irritatiug efforts, which were
mainly directed towards extracting
a confession, without which he as-sured
me he had no hope to offer.
On the morning of the day fixed
for execution I felt immeasurably
resigned. I bad so long stood face
to face with death; had so accus
tomed myself to look upou it as a
An Extraordinary Rexiue.—Tbe
Charleston (West Virginia) Courier
says that during the flood in Coal
Kiver, Mrs. B. Harless, who resides
on a farm near that stream, with
her husband, saw that her little
child had fallen into the rushing
torrent. She immediately, with a
scream of anguish, leaped into the
river to rescue the child. Attracted
by the scream the husband rushed
up and plunged in. The mother
bad succeded in catching hold of
her child. The father, after watch-ing
for a moment, saw his wife rise
to the surface, when he swam to
her aid and succeeded in briuging
her aud the child to the shore alive
and safe. ^^^^^^^^^
Tbe old bachelor is often rather
to be pitied than laughed at. It is
really cruel in the girls to speak ot
him as "Old Bald head" merely be-cause
he has no heir.
Quarrels After Marrige.
A wise woman has this to say of
quarrels, both before and after mar-riage:
"IYople talk of lovers'
quarrels as rather pleasant episodes
—pmbably because they are not
quarrels at all. She pouts; he
kisses. He frowns; she coaxes.—
It is half play, and they know it.
Matrimonial quancls are another
thing. I doubt seriously if mar
ried people ever truly forgive each
other after the first falling out.—
They gloss it over; they kiss and
make up ; the wound apparent I v
heals, but only as some horrible
wounds given iu battle do, to break
out again at some unexpected mo-ment.
The man who has sneered
and said cruel things to a sensitive
woman never has her whole heart
again. The woman who has uttered
reproaches to a man can never bo
taken to his bosom with the same
tenderness as before those words
were spoken. The two people who
must never quarrel are husband and
wife. One may fall ont with kins-men
aud make up aud be friends
again. The tie of blood is a strong
one, and affection may return after
it has flown away, but love, ouce
banished, is a dead and buried
thing. The heart may ache, but
it is with hopelessness. It may be
impossible to love any one else, but
it Is more impossible to restore the
old idol to its empty niche. For a
word or two, for a sharpening of
tho wits, for a moment's sell-asser-tion,
two people have often been
made miserable for life. For what-ever
there may be before, there are
no lovers' quarrels after marriage."
A Honey Fountain.
They have everything on a grand
scale in California. The trees aud
mountains are gigantic jiatterns.—
Their vegetables and fruit grow in
conformity with their surroundings.
In California they can make two
bites of a cherry, which would be
mincing matters auvwhere else in
the world. Even the California
bees bnild big and make honey on
a large scale. There is a hive ou
eastern slo|ie of the San Fernando
range, in Los Angeles county,
which men have tried several times
to capture, and have asofteu failed.
It is iu a rify which penetrates tlm
rock to a depth of one hundred and
sixty feet. The opening is thirty
feet long and seventeen feet wide,
with two passages. The bees come
and go iu solid columns about oue
foot iu diameter. Etlorts have been
made to descend to the store ol
honey in the rock, but the men were
invariably driveu back, and one
man lost bis life. The hive has
been knowu for four years, and it
is estimated that there canuot be
less than eight or ten tons ol honey
in it A man who lives iu a cabin
not far Irom the spot gets more
honey thau his family can use from
the leakage. It flows out of a small
aperture iu the rock like a spring
He has a honey fountain at his
door.
An Immortal Donkey.
The Cincinnati papers recoid the
death iu the grounds of the Zoo-logical
Society, in that city, of the
heroic donkey that whipped an
African lioness last March. The
circumstances of the battle are
given iu detail. It seems that a
boy who was leading the donkey
stopped in front of the lioness'.,
cage to look at her. In a moment
the lerocious beast burst the bars
of I he cage and attacked the little
donkey, seizing him by the dank
and tearing him. With great sell
possession he reached for the back
of the lioness with his teeth and
gave ber such a grip that she let go
her hold and retreated to her cage.
In tiiu commotion that ensued the
donkey again got near the lioness,
wheu she once more hounded for
him, but he met her with his heels
aud turned her topsy turvey. But
the wound he received in the first
encounter was more serious than it
was at first supposed to be. Every
possible effort was made to save
him. but medical skill proved un-availing
and he gave up the ghost
last Tuesday. The fame of that
donkey will be great, and w ill inure,
it is to be hoped, to the beuolit and
honor of his race. Truly " the bot-tom
rail has got on top" in these
days. The jackass has become
king of the beasts.
How the Sun Moved a Bridge.
During the recent building of a
bridge in Holland, one of the tra-verses,
four hundred and sixty feet
long, was misplaced on the sup-ports.
It was an inch out of line,
and the problem was how to replace
it. Experiments proved that the
iron work expanded a small fraction
of an inch to every degree of heat
received. It was noticed that, the
night aud day temperature differed
by about twenty-live degrees, aud
it was thought this might be made
to move the bridge. In the morn-ing
one end of the pieces was bolted
down securely aud the other end
left free. Iu the heat of the suu
the iron expanded, and toward
night the free end was tightened.
The contraction then dragged the
whole mass the other way. For
two days this experiment was re-peated,
and the desired place reach-ed.
The contraction aud expansion
of iron bars by fire heat has fre-quently
been used to move heavy-weights
over short distances. Bro-ken
walls and strained arches have
been brought into place by simply
heating irou rods till they expanded,
then taking the slack by screws
and nuts, anil allowing contraction
by cold to pull tbe wall or roof into
place. _^_^^_^__
The Esquimaux have an ingenious
way of killing bears. They sharpen
tbe ends of a piece of whalebone a
foot or more long, then bend it
double, and wrap it closely in fat
meat, which is exposed to the air
till it freezes. These treacherous
pellets are thrown to the bear,
which bolts them whole. They
thaw in his stomach ; the berrr
whalebone straightens, and the
sharp points pierce his vitals when-ever
he attempts to move.
I was reminded of a story which
Roberts Toombs, of Georgia, tells.
It has been related once iu the
Commercial, but will bear repealing.
During the financial crisis of 1867
a countryman came to Toombs with
a tale of distress " We must
have more money," he said " or we
are ruined."
•'How iu the devil are you going
to get more money!'' asked the
profane Toombs.
" Let the State Bank print it,"
replied the countrymau.
" Well, wheu that's gone what
will you do ?" asked Toombs.
" Let the bank print more," re
plied the countryman, who had
ideas of his own on finance
"But how is all this money to be
redeemed J" asked Toombs, tbiiikiug
he had his rural frieud coruered al
last.
"That's the point," answered the
countryman ; "you see I'm agin to-demption."—
Cincinnati Commercial.
"The first disturbance ever ere
ated in the world," says the Chicago
Tribune, "was occasioned by the
devil fooliug about a woman." Yes.
but the woman was more to blame
than the devil. If Bhe had pulled
that apple and eaten it ami gone
on about her business without say
ing any thing about it, the chances
are that the newspaper would octet
have gotten hold uf the affair and
the wot Id woflld never have been
any the wiser. But nothing would
do but she must go and --make a
blowing-hoin of the thing," and the
first thing she knew her hunband
was thrown out of employment,
with hardly money enough to buy
a chew of tobacco. Aud evei since
there has bceu the devil to pay aud
uo pitch hot.
A rustic youngster being asked
out to take tea with a friend, was
admonished to praise the eatables.
Presently the butter was passed to
bim, when he remarked, " Very
nice butter—what there is of it,"
and observing a smile, he added,
" and plenty of it—such as it is."
A Newfoundland dog saved
twelve .persons during the recent
French floods, but was drowned in
attempting to save a thirteenth.
There are 2,150 cubic inches in a
level bushel, and for corn iu the
ear you must give three heaped half
bushels, which equals two level
bushels, making 4,390 cubic inches.
Recently two inkstands and a pen
were dug up at Pompeii. The pen
is of metal, and made almost simi-lar
in shape to oor quill pens; so
in the writing liue the moderns are
not so far ahead after all.
"Isn't the republican party re-sponsible
for the rain F—lI'ittiiuurg
Commercial— For the reign of cor-ruption
in Arkansas, Mississippi,
Louisiana, and South Carolina !—
Yes; of course it is.—Memphis A c-alanche.
"Figures," says the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle, "do not
lie." They certainly do not, and in
this they offer you an example
which, were it not for the utter
want of capacity on yonr part, yon
should endeavor to follow—Courier-
Journal.
Our Little Ones.
The Listeners.
Two city boys lost their way in
| the woods, aud late at night took
shelter iu a solitary inn.
At midnight they awoke, and sit-
Bag up in bed, heard some one talk-ing
in the next room.
The boys pnt their ears to the
wainscot, and distinctly heard a
voice say—
' Wife, get the big kettle ready
tomorrow, for I mean to kill the
two young rogues out of the town.'
The iioor boys shuddered.
' O dear this innkeeper is a can-nihal!'
they whispered softly to
each other." ' What shall we do r
After a moment's thought, they
got out ol bed, aud sprang out of
the window, hoping to escape that
way. But one of them hurt his
loot so badly in jumping that he
could go no farther; and besides,
the great door of the yard was
locked.
tv> they crept into the pig-sty
vith the little pigs, and lay there
trembling till morning.
Iu the morning came the in^
keeper. He opened the sty do
sharpened a knife, and called out—
• Now, you little rascals, out with
yon ; your hist hour hus come.'
Both boys set up aery ot horror,
and begged on their knees to be
spared.
I'he man was surprised to liud
them iu the pig sty, and asked them
why they thought him a murderer.
i he boys sobbed out—
• Because we heard you say in tbe
night that yon would kill us this-moi
lung."
The . the inkoeper laughed and
said " •
•<>. you silly hoys: I never
mean! you. I was talking of my
litlle pigs, whom in joke I kiwi
call my little rogues out of the
town becaiise I bought them iu the
town. Hut so it always Is with lis-teners,
as tin- rhyme goes—
' 1'ul your ear todoor or wall.
You will bear no good a'all,'"
My Father Knows the Way.
Walking down W street one
morning I saw a blind boy standing
on the side walk, with his bead
bent forward as if eagerly listening.
Stepping up to him, I said :
" Shall I help you across tl„.
street, my little friend I"
"Oh, no, thank you ; I am Whit-ing
for my lather."
" Can you trust your father 1"
"Oh, yes; my father always
takes good care ol me, leads m.
the time, and when he has my hand
I feel perfectly sate."
'• But why do you tool safe f"
Raising his sightless eyes, •with
a sweet smile and look of pen
trust, he replied :
"Oil! because mv lather knows
the way. He can see, but 14m
blind"
This little blind boy preached a
sermon lo me. Do we, with our
hand in our Father's, feel perfectly
safe! We are poor, blind children,
vet do we not often rebel against
the way the father would lead us.
and seek to go another way which
si ems best to us I Because wc feel
the thorns sometimes, nnd are
pierced by their sharpness, we try
some other path, which seems to
our blinded eyes to lead to pears-and
test, liut the Father can see,
and shall we shrink from the path
helms narked out in wisdom and
love—that path which, though it be
one of trial and Buffering, will best
lit us lor heaven '
Though a heavy cross lies lieiore
us, though the burden seenss too
heavy tor our weary frame, aud our
Weakness, cries out, " Father, save
me from this hour," stay we not
with our Buffering Lord and
Saviour exclaim : "Yet tor this
i-.in-o came I unto this houi T
l-'atliei glorify thy name.'
Then, even the burdens will seem
precious, as means of drawing'us
mto closer sympathy with our Ixud.
and wc shall be able to tejoice that
we are counted worthy to sutler.—
Av.ili'-in Messenger.
What Attracts
li is not your neat dress, jour
expensive i your ringed
angers that attract the attention of
men oi sens,-, [t is your cbaric
ih. y suidj . Il y ou are tiiiliug and
fast in your conversation, no mat-ter
ii you ere as beautiful as an an
gel, you have no attraction for
them. It. is tbe true loveliness of
youi nature that wins and coutjn
uo- to retain tin-affections of the
heart. Young ladies sadly miss it
who labor to improve Hie outward
looks while they bestow not a
thought on their minds. Fools may
bo won by gewgaws and the fash-ionable
by showy dresses; but tho
wise ami Substantial are in
eaughl by such traps. Letmoder
ty be your drees. Use pleasant and
agreeable language, and though
you may not be courted by tho fop
and the tool, the good and trulj-great
will love to linger by your
side
The damage by the recent floods
in Indiana in fourteen couuti,
estimated at 812,000,000.