The Greensboro patriot [May 14, 1879]

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Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1870. New Series No. 578,
The llrnvk.
Bat yi fU rday this brook in bright
And branqail as the clear moonlight
Tbftt wooa thepftlm on Orient shores ;
Hut now ft hoar*., dark fttreftm it pours
Impetuons o'er Hi dftrk bed of reck.
And. almost with ft thunder-shock,
It »tls into portents] (Iww ftnd fleet,
That darh whit.- foam round oaf feet -
A raging whirl of waters rent
AH if withangry d.-.- :.:•■■.'•
A !.:>.; I -t in the Bight -"I'l by,
f ■ anvil and flirr sky.
| wo silao I- shook,
.feed Its fury on the brook.
The evil geains -.if the tUst
i. itbin if- qotte tsisoin passed,
A. I tbi refore i« II tbftt a quiet tide,
Which u-ed fta lovingly to glide
A« thoughts through spirits sanctified,
Hbowi now > »l ir: of waters rent
Ai if with angry discontent.
1 knew of la'e a creator.) I rlgbt
U< ax Hie clear moonlight,
The tendorest and thskJcJea: near!
I r sent ft loving part
To act on earth across whose life
A sudden passion swept in strife,
With wild, unhallowed forces rife-
It *tirrod her nature's Inmost deep
That nevermore shall reet or sleep j
R morse it* rngged bed of rock,
i' er which for eye with thnnder-shock,
The tides of feeling, fierce »nd fleet,
Are dashed to foam or icy sleet,
A rftging whirl of witers, rent
By rimetbing worse then discontent.
-P»ni H. Hayne.
ROMANCE OF A DISH-TOWEL.
•How happens it, Tom, that you newer
married ?' asked Harry Stanhope of bis
friend, Turn Meredith, as the two sann-ti
rod slowly along Broadway one fine
after!.
■Becan o 1 could novor And any wo-man
who would have me, I suppose,'
anawi re I Tom laughingly.
■No MHO to toll me that, old fellow," re-
I Harry. 'Girls are not so foolish
decline taking a good-looking man
• von, with plenty of money;yet here
I are, marly thirty years old, and no
re pro»i>ect of settling than yon bad
i n yours ago. Now, if it were me, why
ia very different. A doctor,
'ruggling into practice, is scarcely
usidered "eligible" by the mateh-mak-
.mmas, to say nothing of their
ily-wiso daughters; but they are
ready und eager to smile npou yon,
yon might as well make yonr
choice."
•Thank yon,' answered Tom, still
laughing. "When I find a young lady
who can come np to my grandmother's
ird of domestic virtues, 1 will
invite hex to become Mrs. Thomas Mer-edith."
•And what was yonr grandmother's
peculiar doctrine on the subject /' in-quired
Harry.
'I preanmo she had more than one,"
Tom, 'lint this she particularly im-u
my mind. 'Always look at
dish-towels/ she would re-
:irk with much solemnity. 'No matter
r w I si e plays the piano, or Bings,
v languages she can speak,
unless you see that she
:• t iwela, aud plenty of them,
liaheel lie snro that a
8"' f wot dish-towels
to bo the wife of
in! this definition of
• ■", but presently
■
ible truth in the old
a all, bnt I don't qnite
. n these days, you can
I yung ladies'that
vi' never seen a dish-towel.
I think of it, i promised to intro-i
to my cousins. There are
of them, all bright, pretty girls,
i I think it doubtful whether they
i fulfill yonr grandmother's ro-menta
as a wife. Still yon may
J thorn pleasant acquaintances, and
like I will go there with you now."
'Agreed,' responded Tom, and the
tw friends found themselves in the
r f Mrs. Benshaw, Harry's aunt.
rc.iith, let mo introduce you
...v cousin, Miss Violet Renshaw.'
1 turning quickly ho was surprised
sight of the tiuy creature, so nn-stera.
There was noth-senl
and little that conld be
beautiful in the almost
I ut something indeacrib-
D the clear, gray eyes,
cheetnnl curls that c'lus-tl
0 bioad low brow.
time for observation,
I : i and Adele claimed all
• Harry monopolized
: » (rank, brotherly way, qnite
rmal and ceremonious
■ : ler sisters.
yob think of my thrco
might offer
a hand aud
-ry s natural question,
*" ■' r .11 ■••■reonce moro -in .t.he
resa my admiration by
»h it were possible to
'■''.! into three separate and
■ tale that I
I enslavers
Tom with much eolem-lt
even waiting to dis-
' their dish-towels are in
'» order?' retorted his friend.
laughed.
Iiave a presentiment that I shall
■ • revere 1 grandmother's advice
laU, when the import-
't meeting my fate shall or-whom
be had just seen. It mnst bo
confesned that little Violet oecnpied
bnt a very small portion of his thoughts,
which were filled with Ida and Adele.
■But I donbt if either of them over saw
a diah-towel," was hia concluding reflec-tion,
aa he reached his boarding-house.
Weeks passed on. Tom was devoted
in his attentions to tho M'.aeoa P.ensliaw.
Humor had assigned him first to Ida,
then to Adele, and waited with impa-tience
for tbo timo when the engagement
should be publicly announced.
Meanwhile, almost every day brought
some pood and sufficient excuse for him
to call at Mrs. Itenshaw's pleasant
home; a new poem, tho latest song, an
invitation for a drive, or a plan for some
eicnraion. Of Violet he saw leas than
of the other sisters, though they were
very friondly, and he treated her with
somewhat at toe eamo brotherly frank-ness
as Harry.
One lovely Jnne morning, he present-ed
himself at Mrs. Itenshaw's at qnite
an early hour, intending to invite the
three sisters to pasa the beautiful sum-mer
day in a long country drive.
He noticed that there waa some delay
in answering his ring, which was not
usually the case with Mr9. Renshaw's
well-trained servants, bnt at length he
heard a light footstep in the hall, and in
another moment the door was opened by
Violet. She had a broom in hor hand,
and a dusting-cap covered her bright
cnrls, bnt she bade him good-morning
with as much cordiality as usual, and
invited him to enter, adding—
' Please walk into the dining-room, for
I am jast a weening the parlors.'
Secretly wondering, Tom obeyed. As
he turned the handle of the dining-room
door, there was a sudden rush, a haaty
bang of a door, and a hurrieJ exclama-tion
of 'Oh, Violet I howoouldyou?'and
he fonnd himself in the presence of the
fair Adele, though for a moment he
scarcely recognized her in the slovenly
dressed girl, with disheveled hair, who
stood by the breakfast-table dabbling
the cups and sauoera in some greasy
water and wiping them on a towel which,
to say the least, was very far from being
spotlessly clean. She colored and with
some confusion of manner said—
'Ah, good, morning, Mr. Meredith. So
you have come to And ns nil at work
this morning. It happens that we have
for our three aervantea brother and two
sisters. They received this morning the
news s>f their mother's dangerous illness,
and mamma at once gavo them all per-mission
to go home. Wo supposed we
could get a woman who sometimes doe»
extra work for ns, but she was engaged
for tho day, so we ore obliged to do the
best we can, ourselves. I assure yoa,"
she continued, with a little laugh which
Tom before had often thonght pretty
and engaging, but which now sounded
false and affected, 'that I am by no
means aocustomed to such work, nor have
I any desire to become so."
'Cannot you allow me to assist you ?'
asked Tom politely. 'I was brought up
on a farm, and have ofteu washed dishes
and made myself generally metal about
the kitchen.'
'You !' exclaimed Adele in such an as-tonished
tone, that Tom could not for-bear
langhing.
'Yes, certainly; why not?' ho in-quired.
'Oil—I don't know—only I thonght—
you never did anything,' stammered
Adele; then endeavoring to seom at case,
she said hurriedly, 'Yes, if yon will help,
please take this heavy tea-kettle into tho
kitchen, and sot it on the stove."
Tom soiled tho kettle, and, throwing
open the door leading to the kitchen,
was crossing the room toward the stove,
when his progress w*4 arrested by the
sudden appearance of Ida from a store-room
beyond. If Adclo looked slovenly
and disheveled, what shall be said of
Ida? An old diess, dirty aud torn, slip-pers
run down at tho heel and burst out
at the sides, no col'ar or ruffle, very lit-tle
hair instead of the magnificent tress-es
he had BO often admired, ond what
there was hanging uncombed about her
face, no wonder Tom stared in blank
astonishment.
A heavy frown took the place of tho
usual smile, as she onrtly bade him
good morning. Tom muttered an apol-ogy
fur hia intrusion as he deposited his
burden on the stove, and turned to re-trace
his steps, just as Violet entered
from the dining room. She did not see
him, but, addressing Ida, said—
'Run away now, Ida, dear, and dress
before callers some for you. I have al-ready
sent Adele np stairs, and will fin-ish
tho dishes now I have done my
sweeping.'
'You have beon long enough about it,
I hope," muttered Ida ungraoiously,
but nevertheless availing herself of her
sister's offer with much alacrity. 'Here
are the dish-towels, Violet,'she said, ex-tending
several greasy, blackened arti-cles
to the young girl.
Tom hail been meditating an escape;
not an easy affair, as the sisters stood
directly in his path; but at the word
dish-towels he involuntarily stopped and
glanced around. 'No wonder my grand-mother
cautioned me,' was his first
thought as the soiled towels met his
sight, and he hastily approved the look
of disgust which crossed Violet's face
as she quietly laid those aside, and,
opening a drawer, took from it a plenti-ful
supply, soft, dry and clean.
•No, indeed,' replied Tom. 'I will
take myself out of tho way, with apolo-gies
for my untimely intrusion, unless
you will really let me be of some aer-vice.
And believe me," he added earn-estly,
with an admiring glance at the
neat little figure tripping so lightly
about the kitchen, and mentally con-trasting
hor with her two sisters, 'you
will make me very happy by allowing
me to help yon."
'Oh, very well,' said Violet, smiling
and bluahing a little as she met his gaze.
'If you are really so much in need of
employment, I will try to provide some
for yon, Suppose yoa Bet these dishes
on the lower shelf of the closet, as I
wash them—then I oan arrange] them
after they are all done.'
Tom obeyed, and was rewarded by be-ing
allowed to bring a hod of coal froas
the cellar, and do various other little
errands, all the while he was noticing
theneatneas and dispatch with whioh
Violet worked, and was especially ob-servant
of the olean, dry diah-towela,
and the skill with whioh, when done
using them, she washed and scalded and
hung them to dry.
Hedeolined the invitation to dinner,
given by Mrs. Renshaw, when she
came and found him assisting Violet,
and made his way direotly to Harry's
clfiTe.
•I have made my choice at last, Har-ry
I* he announced : 'it ia one that would
suit even my grandmother 1'
'Might I inquire who ia the fortunate
damsel?" asked Harry, laying down his
book; 'and how are you sure of yonr re-vered
relative's approval.?'
Tom told his morning experience, con-cluding
with 'if she will only accept me,
I shall be the happieet man alive, and
all owing to my dear old grandmother's
advice."
A FAMOUS DUEL.
Ida and Adele had both disappeared,
and Tom ventured to renew hi* offer of
then remember it for the rest of assistance to Violet, who started a little
o.I suppose," observed Harry; as she for the first time noticed his pres-rineiple
of 'marrying in haste j enoe. But she recovered her compo-ling
at leisure." Well, I hope sure at once, and quietly answered, as
s will not be the cause of | she deftly filled the dish-pan with clean
rophe; but I must leave I hot ends—
as I have a patient in this
ran hastily up tho BtepB,
■' '" himself, Tom siuntered elow-
: •-, thinking of the young ladies
'No, thank yon, Mr. Meredith. I
shall do very well without assistance.
My sisters have not left much for me to
do. You had better walk into the par-lor,
and they will soon join you,'
Sew Orleans Heauties.
Mr. Edward King, an accomplished
journalist, who has visited all the chief
cities of Europe and the Eait, thus
writes of the women of New Orleans :
One thing may be said of thia city
without danger of contradiction, and
that is, that the prettiest women in the
world—my feminine readers naturally
exoepted—reside here. Nowhere else
does one see such delicate, ethereal
types of beauty, nor suoh robust, en-during
charms as some of the Creole
matrons possess. The American ladiee
fade earlier thaa their French sisters ;
perhaps they lead more earnest and ex-cited
lives | and they also raise larger
families. It is not at all uncommon •••
see a mother who may still be called
young, with six or seven children around
her. The girls of New Orleans are like
the roses of this strange Southern oity ;
there is s peculiar fascination in their
bloom, and one expects it to last always
—when, suddenly, it is gone I At a
matineo, in a theater, or at the princi-pal
churches in the Americas quarter,
there are a great numbers of interest
ing and piquant faces usually to be seen.
Christ Churob, or the First Presbyte-rian,
where the famous Dr. Palmer
preaches, aro the bouses of worship
where ladies of distinguished beanty
do most congregate. And in carnival
season they are to be seen at the balls
and parties during those mad days just
before the capital puts on the ashes and
sackoloth of penitence and goes sadly
and qnietly through Lent. At the grand
ball given by tho "Mystio Erewe Co-mus"
in the Varieties Theater, several
years ago, I saw 2,500 ladies gathered
together. It would not have been an
exaggeration of the truth to say of any
one of them that she was beantiful. The
girls of French parentage do not receive
so elaborate an eduoation as is given to
tho American young ladiee, but they
are generally blest with one or two ac-complishments
and understand the art
of conversation to perfection. If they
are a little narrow and prejudiced in
their views, it ia because they have
not e:. • >yed great opportunities of travel,
and because they have been taught by
their parents to resent the loss of the
old system, with its grand and irrespon-sible
ways of spending money and mak-ing
merry in elegant fashion.
A Woman Lawyer.
Lavinia Qoodsel, who has attracted a
good deal of attention in Wisconsin by
drawing up a bill to the State legisla-ture,
providing that no person ahould
be refused admission to the bar on ac-count
of sex, and securing its passage,
seems to be possessed of nnnsual ener-gy
and of decided talent for law. She
owes her success and reputation entire-ly
to her own unaided exertion. Some
time ago she waa employed on a fashion
journal, bnt conceiving that she could
do something better, ahe resigned her
position and went to Janesville, Wis.,
where her aged parents resided and
needed her assistance. Arrived there
she determined that she would not set-tle
down to washing dishes and making
over gowns, as most women do. She
bad long had a fancy for law, and had
convinced herself that ahe possessed a
business head. Therefore she began to
study law; kept at it for three years,
applied for admission to the circuit
court; parsed a brilliant examination,
and was admitted. She gained her first
cases, and one of them having been ear-
. ' .. . , . .. pistol, but each time discharged it right
lied to the supreme court, her right to f . ,; , ... , ,. ? ,
, , .. a • j » i tnlo 'he ground and thus drew hufire!
plead there was denied on account of, _. . ,, . ... . , .
_,.,,, His bsll struck the ground each time
her sex. She reviewed the supreme ..,,., . ,. ,,; ... ... . , . , i about five feet from me, in a direot ur.e
judge s opinion in a legal journal, and ... . . ,. ', _.
..I u is ■ u- • 4 j i with my body. My strategy s.ved my
got the better of him in argument, and ■
then went to work npon the legislature,
with the result already known. Some
A teller !>.«■ Gel, J. p. if. (Ulkerar, «ilr.
in. Ike 11.11,11, eftke Mrrllwc.
The Capital, Don Piatt's trenchant
metropolitan weekly, referring to the
duel, many years ainoe, between Daniel
of St. Thomas Jenifer of Maryland, and
Jesse A. Bynum of North Carolina,says
that the parties, after six or seven inef-fective
shots, made friends over a bottle
of wine.
Thia ia an error. They never recog-nized
each other afterward. In 1866-7
party spirit ran very high in Congress,
and eaoh party had its reputed Hotspurs,
game-eooks, bullies or fire eaters. Mr,
Wise, Mr. Peyton, Mr. Jenifer, Mr. By-num,
Dr. Duncan of Ohio, and Mr.
Hannegan of Illinois, were the repre-sentative
men of this class. The7 adopt-ed
a sneering, scathing, denunciatory
style of debate; were freqently in a
snarl, and had more or less to do with
every altercation that occurred.
Bynum was a small, sallow, shabbi-ly
dressed, insignificant looking man, a
trained cross-road politician, who would
speak for hours in a loud voice, indulg-ing
in slang phrases and indiscriminate
abuse. He eame into Congress imme-diatelv
after a desperate affray in Hali-fax,
N. 0., in whioh he shot down two
or more of his assailants, and took his
place immediately as one of the fire-eaters
of the Jackson party, t
Jenifer was the reverse of Bynum.
He waa a delicately formed, but hand-some,
intellectual looking man, with a
pollened air and courtly manner, of an
old Maryland colonial family, always
elegantly dressed. He waa, in fact, a
bean and a ladies' man; waa an ultra
politician of the Clay school; often made
severe bnt not rude remarks, and was
reputed to be always ready with bis
hair-triggers. The famous pistol need
in the fatal doel between Commodores
Decatur and Barron was in his keeping.
These two gentlemen had several
"spats" in debate, and it had come to
be a settled opinion that sooner or lat-er
they must have a meeting, and that
one or both would fall.
One day they had a sharp altercation,
and when the House met next morning
both their chairs were vacant. Messrs.
Wise, Peyton, Duncan and Hannagan
were likewise absent, and the whisper
circulated that they had all gone to
Bladensbnrg. The excitement was tre-mendous.
They were both said to be
dead-shots; were backed by men not par-tial
to compromises; wonld never quit
the ground as long as the paniw, ,wMj
stand up; and there was a probability of
perhaps a general melee, and three or
four probably be killed. Our sergeant-at-
arms, Col. Dorsey. a brave old BOI-dier,
with very tender sympathies, got
on a "bender" on the strength of it.sent
his depnty down town and bought np
all the crape in the oity. The House
was completely demoralized. Mr. Cam-brelenghad
resolved it into committee
of the whele on some bill of details.and
the members were gathered everywhere
into excited groups. Fifteen or twenty
had posted for Bhuidensbnrg. At length
about three p. m., one of the little side
doors opened and Mr. Bynum, looking
even much smaller than nsnal.slipped in
and took his seat, whioh was near by.
Jenifer U li'ad, was the feeling that r»n
through the house. No one ventured
to approach Bynum at that awful mo-ment.
The man who had jnst killed a
fellow member was too much a subject
of awe, of pity and sympathy for con-ference.
The Maryland delegation
formed a separate knot, and were seen
whispering together, hats in -hanJ.
Howard and Thomas, Cost, Johnston
were in the act of leaving the hall when,
lol another side door opened aud in
glided Jenifer! He took his seat in
silence. There was an instantaneous
stillness—the various groups ceased
whispering—every eye was fixed upon
the two dead shoti. Were they phan-toms
or were they men? It could hard-ly
be realized that there they were in
their aoonstomed seats, not injured, not
even singed by powder. And then,there
waa an overpowing sense of ridicule,
aud a universal laugh, and the two
champions sneaked away.
Wise and Peyton were the advisers of
Jenifer. Hannegan and Duncan of By-num.
iSome days after I said to Bynum:
"My dear fellow, you have often told
me that if you were forced by the op-position
into a fight you would kill yonr
man. How did Jenifer escape?"
"Simply," said Bynum, "because I
did not fire at him."
"Did not fire at him I Why, yon ex-changed
three snots!"
"The d—d fellow shot at me three
times, but I never fired at him."
"What do you mean?"
"Why, Hannegan came on the ground
drunk ten minutes behind time and the
instruments he brought were mere side-arms,
not dueling pistols. Duncan asd
Hannagan had a good right to object to
further proceedings, but as they did not,
and the other side were spoiling fo r a
fight, I took my position. We held our
weapons perpendicularly and were to
raise and fire at the word. Jenifer was
an expert, and I knew my only chanoe
was to draw his fire. I never raised my
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Let me tell you a Dutch story right
here, becenae it comes from a Dutch-man
in the eastern part of Pennsylva-nia,
and must be a true story. The
Dutchman was never ashamed of his
religion. In hia neighborhood there
was a skeptic, who said :
"You oan't believe anything yon can't
understand."
Some of the people asked the Dutch-man
if he would not have a conversation
with him. He said :
"Yea, if you tink beat."
"Have you any objections to the
neighbors coming in I"
"No, ahuat as you tink best."
So they made the appointment and
everybody was there. The old gentle-man
came In, and laid by his hat, and
waa introduced to the akeptio, and
he began anduCSij bv saying :
"Well, now look here, I pleafs the
Bible—what you pleefs ?"
Said he:
"I don't believe anything I oan't un-derstand."
"Oh I you must be one mighty smart
man. I waa mighty glad to meet you.
I ask yon some questions. The odder
day I was riding along the road, and I
met von dog ; and de dog he had von of
his ears stand up in this way, an de
odder von he stand down so. Now, vy
vas dat ?"
Now that was very unhandy just then,
very unhandy. He either had to prove
that the dog did not have one ear stead-ing
up and the other standing down,
or else say he did not believe it. So he
said :
"I don't know."
"Oh ! den you are not very ahmart
after all. I ask you anoder question.
I see in John Smidth's olover-patch de
clover come up BO nice ; und I looked
over into the fields, and dere vas John
Smidth's peegs, und dere came out hair
on dere pack; and in de very same
olover-patch was bis sheep, and dere
come out wool on dere packs. Now, vy
vss dat?"
Now that was as had as the other,
because the same perplexity arose. He
had to prove there was wool on the back
of the pig, or hair-on the back of the
sheep ; and he couldn't tell why, and,
therefore, he had no business to believe
it. Finally ho said :
"I don't know."
"Veil, you are not half so shmart as
yon tink you are. Now I ask you an-oder
question : Do yon pleef dere is a
Cod?"
"No, I don't believe any such non-sense."
"Oh, yes I I hear abont you long
ago. My Bible knows all about yon. I
know all about you, fpr in my Bible
He aays : 'The fool says in his heart
there is no Ood, 'but you big fool, you
blab it right out."
Americans the Wives of Peers.
The following American ladiea have
been married to British peers or the
sons of British peers since 1815: In
1825 Mrs. Patterson, eldest daughter of
Richard Oaton, of Maryland, to the
Marquis of Wellesley; in 1828 Louisa,
third daughter of Richard Caton, and
widow of Hir John Bathnrat Hervey,
Bart., to the Dnke of Leeds; in 1836
Louisa, second daughter of Riohard Ca-ton,
to Lord Stafford; in 1845 Mary,
daughter of John MoTavisb, of Balti-more,
to Hon. Henry John Howland,
brother of the late Earl of Carlisle and
the Duchess of Sutherland; in 1850
Elizabeth, sister to the late Oen. Wads-worth,
of Geneseo, to Hon. Sir Charles
Augustus Murrsy, son of; the Earl of
Dunmore; in 1852 Ellen, daughter of
Edmnnd Dwight, of Boston, to tho Hon.
Edward Turner Boyd Twistleton, son of
Lord Haye and Sele; in 1874 Miss Je-rome,
daughter of Leonard Jerome, of
New York, to Lord Randolph Churchill,
son of the Dnke of Marlborongh;?in
1876 Miss Consnelo Yznaga, of Now
York, to Viscount Manleville, and in
1877 Sophia, daughter of S. Wells Wil-liams,
of New Haven, to the Hon.
Thomas George Groevcner, son of Lord
Ebury. If to these should be added the
names of American ladies wedded to the
grandsons of peers, baronets or knights,
the list would be considerably extended.
Horrible Scene In itxss.
A desperate affray has taken place at
the house of J. P. Holloway, in Erath
county. Deputy Sheriff W. H. King,
with three citizens, Mr. D. Rcbermon,
J.T. Ross and Eli Kesh, were charged
with a warrant for the arrest of Rusk
Holloway, and reached the house in the
midst of a prayer-meeting. Busk Hol-loway
refused to surrender his arms,
and in a moment the e ffleers were sur-rounded
by enemies. Busk commenced
shooting, and Robertson fell dying after
escaping from the house. The fight
now amounted to a regular battlo. The
voioe of prayer was hushed in the whiz
of bullets and tho bang, bang, bang of
guns and pistols. In the meantime the
smoke of gun-powder and tho groans of
the wounded and dying ascended to-gether.
Keith snd Ross, in tho midst
of a shower of bnllets, ran quickly
around the opposite Bide of the house.
Ju r. t £3 he reached a small tree Boss fell,
pieroed by a bail. Rut with his six-shooter
still in his hand the" Jo?<ned vic-tim
rose to his knees, clung to the t/C?
with one hand and tried to shoot with
the other. At this moment old man
Holloway and his daughter appeared on
the scene of carnage, and hastening to
where Boss lay clinging to the tree, de-manded
the surrenderor his six-shooter.
Roes replied that he might have it pro-vided
he would let him take ont the one
remaining cartridge. Holloway and his
daughter, the eyes of the girl flaming
and her long hair floating on the south
wind, which blew away the smoke of the
fight, then seised the pistol of the wound-ed
man, and by main force wrenched it
from his hands, enfeebled as they were
through loss of blood. The old man
then, like a veritable flond, placed the
muzzle of Ross' own pistol against the
side of the wounded man and fired.
Ross with a groan fell over dead, h:s
murderer coolly extending the lifeless
body on the ground, and besmeared in
blood. King and Keith escaped, and
the bodiea of Robertson and Ross were
shortly afterward found whero they fell
by a jio.se of citizens. The murderers
were subsequently arrested.
Lands in the South.
A Southern paper commenting on tho
large migration of people from the North
to the West in order to better their con-dition,
wonders why they do not come
Sonth, and declares that "in Maryland
and Virginia, abounding in all kinds of
land, both rich and impoverished, we
claim we can hold our own on our poor-oak
soils, cither against Kuropo or the
West; all that is required is sufficient
capital and intelligent application of
means to ends. Our lands are cheaper
than either in Europe or tho West; our
grain is worth more here than in the
West, and the difference is more than
sufficient to justify the expense of the
improvement of our impoverished soils.
Our most impoverished soils sre defi-cient
in only a few of the ingredients of
fertility, and oan bo bought np and kept
up very cheaply with judicious husband-ry.
It is only by such husbandry, on
small farms, with mixed products and
the added thrift, with the duo amonnt
of capital, that tho advantages which
the Weet has over the Atlantic States in
its ability to pro-luce aud deliver grain
cheaply. Wo can bring our land up to
the fall value of the best Western lands,
and at tho same time niak-i the interest
on all our applications. The thing has
been done and is being done daily. Ia
the agricultural sections of Maryland,
Virginia, East Tennessee, North and
South Carolina and Georgia, whero
these cheap lands exist, tho climate is
the best in the world;cattle thrive with-out
stabling, there is little waste land,
and labor ia cheap. This country, more-over,
presents advantages over the far
West, as already long occupied, having
churches and schools and railroads,
canal and water communications—sum-mers
longer, winters shorter, tempera-ture
more moderate."
A SAD STORY.
Tie ~f.li.rlI., ot » Ywws* t*t> l.e«.U In •
Hloodr Affray Krlwrrs Her llroik. r and
llrlm.er— llralk of Ike l.edv-Tke Kslkrr
i« Killed erases Uttmntmt s»s.seesw lier.
West Baltimore, Md., has been the
scene of a tragedy which was the after
result, of another less fatal tragedy,
which occurred on Baltimore street a
short time ago, in the basement of a
large wholesale cloth house ; the pri-mary
cause of the whole being the se-duction
and death of a young and inter-esting
girL The first act of thia trag-edy
which has already censed two lives,
occurred on the 231 day of last Decem-ber.
U. nw.xij B. Hinds, a young man
in the employ of Robert Moore * Co.,
was visited npon that day by William M.
James, an intimate companion. Hinds
at the time was in the basement of the
bnilding, and thither James repaired.
As soon as he saw Hinds, he accused
him of the seduction of his (James')
sister. Hots words followed, and James
drew a revolver and began to discharge
load after load in rapid succession.
HinJ: who was also armed, drew his
revolver and returned *he fire. Each
man emptied his pistol, and it was "re-tained
that Hinds waa shot in the left
temple just above the eye, over the
right eye and in the right hand; and
James onoe each in tho left breast and
left arm ; neither dangerously hurt,
and both were soon going about their
usual vocations.
Miss James' delicate situation first
became known to her family by or about
the date above given, and her lover's
refusal to consummate matters and save
her fame by marriage, brought about
premature illness, and ahe breathed her
last on the loth of March. With hor last
breath she called upon Hinds to come to
her, but he persistently refused to re-spond
to the summons, and his heart-lessness,
it is said, as much aa anything
else, sent her to an early grave.
The fearful sequel to this tragical
story, was enacted a few days sinoe.
Mr. James, the father of the nnfortu-nate
girl, oame face to face with Den-wood
B. Hinds. Without any prelim-inaries
James drew a revolver as soon
as he caught sight of Hinds, and opened
fire. Hinds immediately returned the
fire, and several shots were tired by
both parties in rapid succession. H inda
received a wound in tho fleshy part of
the arm, and hia brother Harry, his
companion at tbo timo, was slightly in-jured
by a shot, also in the arm. Mr.
James fell back dead, and was fonnd to
have received a bullet in the head, one
in the throat, one through the lungs,
and a fourth in the right chest. Hinds
was put under arrest.
life.*
After this affair the professed duelists
and fire-eaters lost prestige at Waahing-
"'"«" I~''. " ton. which they have never recovered.—
acumen and learning, and declare „' ., 1 JV. O. Picayune.
of the ablest lawyers in the State admire
her
her to be a born barrister. She is rep-resented
as entirely feminine, notwith-standing
her profeesion, and one of the
bsst of women in all the duties of life.
There are 6,000,000 Free Masons in
the world.
A loan of f-2,000,000 for extending the
Northern Pacific Railroad 100 miles,
from Bismarck to the Yellowstone, was
fully subscribed to.
Always beet when rare—Family broils.
Fall of Meteoric Stone.
A large aerolite fell in Chicago, explod-ing
with a report like that of a cannon,
and doing a great deal of mischief. The
meteor looked the size of a child's hoop,
or some thirty inches in diameter. Two
bushels of fragments were found after
the explosion. No one was hurt, but
the electric fluid set fire to a building
and did some hundreds of dollars' worth
of damage. It also entered the library
of Colonel Nutt and played many eccen-tric
pranks there. It destroyed a tele-phone,
dashed the globes off chande-liers,
burst a gas meter and blew ont
all the window panes on the floor. Three
minutes before the accident Colonel
Nutt and his wife were talking through
the telephone to a friend at some dis-tance.
Had they continued in contact
with the instrument their death would
have been almost certain. Pieces of the
aerolite are described by the local news-papers
as being like clinker or slsg,
dark outside but almost white in the
centre. It is a very rare and nestable
thing that a meteor should fall and light-ning
strike at the same moment and the
some place. Sailors, indeed, generally
feel safe from lightning when they see
"lire balls" or bolides either at the
yardarms or close by elsewhere.
A Remini-ceiicc of the War.
Mr. Sanford, of Alabama, to illus-trate
a point in a recent speech in the
House of Bepresentatives, said he had
heard of an incident which ocenrrod on
a battlefield in North Carolina. Two
brothers, one wearing the blue, and tho
other the gray, had by a strange coinci-dence
shed their life-blood on the same
battlefield. A tender father's hand
gathered their remains together
buried them in the same grave, over
whioh he raised a shaft bearing on the
northern face tho name of him who hail
worn the blue and on its southern face
the name of him who bod worn the
gray. On the western face was the in-scription—"
Erocted by the loving hand
of a father over two boys, equally
loved"—and, on the eastern face, the
inscription—"Who was right and who
Something for the HOIK.
As the kite season is now at its height,
boys will be interested to know that a
man in Rochester has succeeded in mak-ing
a kite which dispenses with that
troublesome adjustment—a tail. It IB
ma le after a Holland pattern, and the
Rochester Expregt thus teilB how to
copy it : "The shape of tho kite is
what the boys call diamond. The cross-bar,
which in a tall kite of diamond
pattern is straight, should be made of
hiokory and bowed by connecting the
ends with a taught string. It should
then bo placed at right angles with the
perpendicular stick and fastened secure-ly,
the bend cf the bow being back-ward
from tho intersection of tho sticks.
Ran a string around over the end of
each stick and cover the framo with
light tissue paper. For a fonr-foot kite
the perpendicular stick should extend
thrco foot below poiut of intersection
with tho bow and one foot above it.
The bow should bo one and one-half
feet long on eaoh side of the point of
intersection, with the perpendicular
stick. The belly cord should be united
at tho point of intersection, and at the
same distance down the perpendicular
stick as the arms of the bow extend on
each sido of tho perpendicnlar stick.
The band is. attached at only two points,
the point of intersection an 1 at a poiut
below, in the four-foot kite mentionod,
one and one-half feet below tho point
of intersection. Tio these two strings
together and attach tho captive cord,
balancing it so that tho captive oord
shall bo exactly opposite tho point of
intersection, or at right angles with the
perpendicular stick frame. The face
and °' l'■"' hite is then convex, and the back,
of course, concave. If at first you
Jon", succeed, try again. It is fun for
all sorts of boys. This form of kite is
sometimo3 very eccentric and as game
as a wily fish."
A Horrible Death in a Rolling- Mill.
A terrible accident occurred at 1 roll-ing
mill in Cleveland, O. William Ra-leigh,
a waiter boy, was standing in |
was wrong shall be decided before that front of one of the rolls through which
Mr. John Bright, addressing bis con-stituents
at Birmingham, England, said:
"The government are imbecile at home
and turbulent and wicked abroad. I
leave them to the judgment of their con-stituencies
snd the heavy condemnation
of history."
great tribunal to which both have gone.
I, their father, will not decide who was
right and who waa wrong.
Restoring a Memorial Shaft.
When the Federal troops entered
Sonth Carolina at the close of the war
they took possession of s memorial shaft
which the State proposed to erect to the
memory of General Htonewall Jackson,
and it is now in charge of the wsr de-partment.
In response to a letter from
Representative Evins, of that State, the
secretary of war writes that he will
make no objection to its return to Gov-ernor
Simpson.
James L. Dumphrey, a Reading (Vt.)
hotel-keeper, on getting ont of bed in
the morning, said that he wonld die be-fore
night He made his will, dressed
himself ss he desired to be buried, and
then reclined in an easy chair, with a
pipe and a Bible, to prepare for death.
The astonishing part of the story is that
he did die, an attack of heart disease
garrying him off.
a bar of red hot iron was being rnn.—
When the iron is at the right tempera-ture
the bar is very pliable, but by
becoming chilled it tskes all sorts of
fantastic forms, and flies and twists
about in every direction. The bar
wrapped itself abont the boy and encir-cled
him in its folds, literally burning
his body in twain. It was several min-utes
before ho conld be extricated.—
Meanwhile, the iron was searing his
flesh, causing the most horrible cries of
sgony from the helpless sufferer. In a
few moments after he had been released
he died in terrible agony. His clothing
was completely torn and burned from
his body.
Systematic vaccination has rarely had
a more complete vindication than was
offered by the health returns of New
York city lost year. Oat of 27,'»00
deaths but two were due to smallpox.—
A solitary cose last week was the first,
or nearly the first, daring the current
year.
ITEMS Or liKNKit VI. ISTERKST.
Bich gold veins lav beei toa
Wilkes county, (ia.
Lightning struok a team of six oxen
in Alabama and killed five of them.
The Maryland agricultural
now ont of debt and has sixty
dents.
The New York elevated railway n
with such great success a- to
a third track.
Baltimore's fire department bis a
horse which has been ia aotiv
for twenty years.
New Uxos, to tho amount t 1180,-
000,000 a year, have boon ic
France sinoe the war.
One-fifth of tho population Of V. ' -
mond, Va., are Baptists. There I
tho city nino churches of white Baptisl
and ten of colored ones.
The adoption of American
caused Eaglsuil's export trade '
oiate alarmingly, and 11
fears among her financier.-..
Although there were only twelve
dred American exhibitors at
exhibition, the Uuited Btatot
-.),') -;nz«s. a larger 1 1 ■■
other eonntry.
The attendance at South Car '
schools during tho past year, was II
239; of whom 63,131 were ooloi
54 US wero white, an ineraase 1 !
over the returns of the prev .
The colored citizens of Ball
siro teochors of their own
colored schools, and pro] ...
test case to compel the boar I of 1
tion to appoint a colored pe.l .
There is now a channel Iwenl
feet deep ttirough the Missi-ves,
from the lighthouse to the
water of the gulf, and a 11.
channel for the same dial
width of two hundred and thirty (
Tho Marylaud fish eommissa
secured f>0,001eggsof land! eki
—a fine fish which grows to a ■
half a dozen pounds—and the y
when old enough, will bo djetnbul
tho various lakes and atrcai
State.
Texas journals s-c rail.
appeals for farm hands. I
promiae abundantly, but in
tions the apprehension is thai
not be hands enough to galhi 1
Oasi oonuty alono piomisej
1,000 farm laborerB, "with 1 1
hoe- and hominy to feed t
The dairymen of Mir ■
od an association for the pnr]
testing the milk pradua ra of I
try from unscrupulous city d
do not conduct business lu el .
manner, both aa regards pa]
era for their milk and adulteral
same after it reaches tho city.
The Massachusetts li
passed an act permitting w imen to 1 '
lor members of school e .-
tho towns and cities of that Htat
become a voter it will be . 1 r
the women to go Uiroagh BUC
forms of registration 11s ..-. I
for men, and to pay a poll-tax,
Massachusetts is ?J ] I ■
On the 15th of April a heavy
storm visited Northern Nl a 1
spring season is a month lul- r tin
Lake George was covered wit!
inches thi-k. People snl teams cr
ovor Lake Champlain on the ii
somo parts of Saratoga the
roads were impassable fro
Liverpool has snffere I, an I (-''.II
fere, from a terribly In^'i 1 .'••
mortality. During the p..
Ill of every 1,000 iafanti hoi
the laorongh have died an I- rot
age. This proportion di 1
230 per 1,000 in the five yean, IHi
to 200 in the morn
1«7.". H.
Mr. Ojorge 11. Hb^kslager, a •
known citizen of Funkstov,
Virginia, diod suddenly 1 . : ' ;,. .'
had been plowing in a I
land and the plow struck a roc!
relsoanding, struck him in the
in tho vioinity ol tho largo!,!
causing a paralysis of the
most instant death.
As aa instance of the 1, •
rod by fl'h hatohing, I)-. \\ ro. R 0 ;
hart, owner of extei.
hemsrle sound, N. C , three
hatched in a house of bis own
IOO.OOO and 500,000 slnl, ■
them in the Water near hia
This year his catch has b
hile that of others OS t! " •
below the average.
In Missouri tho lar. 1», I .
shops of railroad oompan 1
oeat law, aro to be enaeased 1 j
ties in which they are Bitu .t' 1,
State board of equal.7...!
the road bed at so much
connty courts then to certify I
rectness, and the county [far
it passes to collect the tax.
An ecoontric German of I:
his will, just offered for pr.!. itc, wan a
his "children aot to dis] u-themselves
concerning any I '
will or sue each other; as .-.
they would bo tkroa n •
money foolishly, as happen
this country." Neverth .
his heirs are dissatisfied, 01
contest.
TIME SOT TO BE I
Mark that awift arrow bow .1
How it OQtrnD* the follow 1
L'ae all tcrsnaeiuna DOW,
If thou canst call it Lack, or -'.ay c.
That w»y it weut, but Ih
No track ia left Lebi:. 1.
Fool' UJ thy lt(o. an.) the fi .! 1
uf all the time th. .11 --1 >t away
I'll bid Ibee fetch tiol feetordey,
And it shall be too bard a ta.-k to do.
betides repentance, who!
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