The Greensboro patriot [January 28, 1880]

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Established in 1821. GREENSBOKO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1880. New Series No. 614.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.
405 persons injured, 45 fatally, on
Massachusetts Railroads last year.
Indian Cliict Ouray,and Ms crowd
were initiated the in ways it civiliza-tion
ou their arrival at \\ aslnngtou
by being vaccinated.
Senator Garfield, of Ohio, worked
three months on a canal when a
young man. That's nothing. Lots
of men have, worked years on ca-nals
and don't brag a bit about it.
At the installation of Gov. Willz,
of Louisiana, a salute of 37 guns
was in- il As 38 is the number
they must have been in doubt about
Maine and lefr one out on her ac-count.
Eastward the star of Chinese
emigration takes its way. The past
year there were 5,124 arrivals of
Celestials in San Francisco and
8.748 departures for the Flowery
Kingdom. They no "muchee likee
Melicau man "
In the recent trial of the Rev Mr.
Hayiii'ii, at New Haven, Connect!
cut, lor murder, eleven ot the jurors
who wanted to acquit were so ob-stinate
that the one who wanted
to convici could do nothing with
them, and after a fruitless attempt
for four days the jury had to be
discharged.
Business got dull with Levi
Craig. a tombstone cutter, at Evana-ville,
[ltd., so he went out and mu-tilated
ninety stones with the hope
in getting a job of repairing. But
they appreciated his industrious
tendencies so little that they arr-st-ed
him and sent him to jail.
While a ship canal across the
the Is: hums of Darien is being dis-cussed
and will probably be accom-plished,
Capt. K.HU, ot Mississippi
jetty lame, proposes to build a rail
road across it wide enough to pick
up a ship ou one side, cargo and all,
and roll it over on wheels to the
other side in a few hours, lie has
been to Europe and met with much
encouragement from capitalists over
there.
A late writer informs us that the
population of the globe, estimated
at 1,300,000,000, is ruled by twelve
Emperors, twenty live Kings, forty-seven
Princes, seventeen Sultans,
twelve Khans, six Grand Dukes,
aix Dukes, one Vice King, oi.e
Nisam, one Radis, one Imam, one
Hey, and twenty-eight Presidents,
besides a large number of Chiefs ot
wild tribes, but he don't say a word
about "inoihers-in law," who figure
somewhat conspicuously, we imag-ine.
Somebody said Dr. Hall, of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
of New York, received last year
$10,0(10 in marriage fees. The Dr.
says this is true, with the exception
ot asligbt inaccuracy ol about (9,500,
as JjtHI would covei the total mil
nilicence of the members of his
congregation whom he had spliced
during the year. They put on style,
but giving big marriage fees is not
their forte.
Miss Meeker, daughter of the In-dian
agent who was killed by the
the Utea, called on .Mrs. Ouray, at
the hotel iii Washington last week,
Mrs. Ouray, received her in style
ami was arrayed in the elaborate
costume Ol her people—a blanket
with a red bonier, the effect of
which was elegantly set off by a
choice selection of leathers artisti-cally
adjusted in a waterfall which
she had borrowed from some female
whom her friends had scalped. The
two ladies became friends and Miss
Meeker told Mrs. Ouray that she
would forgive the gt title savages of
Lara. O's lamily lor murdering "ier
la: her.
Mi J. 1!. Hunter, who has been
interviewing (be Uranville county
farmers at their homes, tells us in
the Torchlight that W. A. Lums-foul,
at Knap of Reeds, last year,
worked Ihiee hands and twohorses,
and cored 5,000 pounds of line yel-low
tobacco, besides making his
home supplies. Uis tobacco sells
lor 030 Thai gives biin a clear in-come
ol*l,otMI.
\V. M. Blackwell, Bsq , of Oxford,
has a farm of .">»(• acres, .-ells a hoise
of his own rearing every year
makes plenty ol oats, corn and
wheat, and sells pork or bacon:
gives his hogs salt and ashes to keep
off the cholera. He sells 4,000
pounds ol tobacco. He has twenty-two
acres in clover, and keeps bis
gati's, fences, &c., "in apple pie or-der."
••Indeed," says Mr. Hunter,
••he is in every respect oue of our
model farmers, and his success is
the best evidence we can give to
substantiate our position.
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SLEEP.
T John O. S»ie haa written > good many
funny poenm in bin day, bat nothing for
genuine wit and hnmor to aurpaM hia
"Slwp:"]
•' God bleha the man who firet inT«nt«d
»!eep I
8o Sancho Panza aaid, and so aay I;
And blese him also that he didn't keep
IIIH great discovery to himself, or try
To make it—as the focky fallow might—
A close monopoly by " patent right!"
Yes, bless the man who first invented
sleep—
1 really can't avoid the iteration—
bat blast the man with enraea loud and
deep,
What.-'.-r the raacal's name, or age, or
statiou,
Who lirsr invented, and went round ad-vising.
That artificial cut-off—" early rising !"
" Riga with the lark, and with the lark to
bed,"
ObBervaa some solemn, sentimental owll
Maxims like these are very cheaply r.aid ;
Butereyuu make yourself a fool or fowl.
Pray just iuquiru about their rise ro fall,
And whether larks have any beds at all!
The " time for uoneit folks to be abed"
la in the morning, if 1 reason right:
And he who cannot keep his precious head
Upon his pillow till it'a fairly light,
And so enjoy his forty morniug winks,
la Dp—to knavery—or else he drinks.
Thompson, who sung about the " seasons,"
said
It was a glorions thing to rise in season;
lint then he said—lying—in his bed—
At ten o'clock A. M.—the very reason
He wrote so charmingly—the simple
fact is
His preaching wasn't sanctioned by hia
practice.
"Its doubtless well to be sometimes
awake—
Awako to duty and awake to truth—
Hut when, alas ! a nice review we take
Of our best deeds ami days we hud, in
aootb.
The hours that leave the slightest cause to
weep
Are those we passed in childhood, oi—in
sleep.
'Tis beautiful to leave the world awhile
For the aofl visions of the genlleni^ht!
And free at last from niortnl care and
guile.
To live as only in the angels* eight—
In sleep's>weet realms cosily shut m.
Where at the worst we ouly dream of sin.
So lot us sleep, and give the Maker
praise.
Like Ihe lad who, when bis father
thought
To clip his morniog nap by hackneyed
phrase
Of variant worm by early songster
caught.
Cried "Served him right! It's not mt ail
^uprising.
The worm was punished, sir, for early
rising."
Greensboro' 35 Years Ago
We print the following article
from an old issue of THE PAT-RIOT
published thirty-five years
ago, giving a description of the
town of Greensboro at that time.
It may serve to refresh the memory
of many of our older inhabitants.
In some future issue of the PATRIOT
we will give statistics of the city
showing what it is noic. We are
lookiug forward to a brilliant future
for the old town—indeed in less
than two years we expect to be
second to no city west of Raleigh
in commercial importance.
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"Some people at a distance, and
of limited information, may think
(if they think about it at all,) that
Greensboro' is ' no great shaki's.'—
I5ut such must kuow; that to many
hundreds ol busy men, and notable
matroiis, and bright girls, and
sprightly youths, Greensnoro' >s
the very centre of the world: in West-em
phrase, "they dou't live any
where else."
We propose to set down some
»tati*ticit of the Town ; premisiug,
that our recollection is liable to fail
in much that may be worth noting.
The main streets leading east and
west, north and south, are each
settled a mile in extent; the in-termediate
sectious are remarka-bly
well filled up with improve-ments;
and all occupied mechani-cally.
aiinmercially.profetrionally and
othei wise, as follows :
Two Churches—Presbyterian and
Methodist. A few members of
other denominations, and a con-siderable
sprinkle of Anytbi.'iga-rians.
But in all truth it may be
noted, that while we are occasional-ly
pestered with the presence of a
tew graceless scamps—the settled
population of the Town have a well
deserved reputation for good morals
and correct deportment. The ears
of the passenger Hie scaicely ever
ass,'iled by the souud of ribald
language or prolane swearin,? in
our streets.
Schools. " Edgewoith School"
for young ladies lias been lor sev-eral
years in successful openttiou,
under the proprietorship ot Gov.
Moiehead, and at preseut in t ne im-mediate
charge ot l'rol. Mot gau as
principal. •' Greensborougb High
School," an institution of e levated
order for the insti action o .' youth
in the classic and higher 1 iranches
ol learning, under the ge neral su-pervision
ol seven resident trustees,
ami employing four ii istructors
within iis walls. '• Greet laboHMgh
Female College," erected under the
auspices ol the N. C. Coi iterance of
the M. L. Church, has t his spring
made a beginning wide' i promises
a long course of usef nluess. A
boarding and day Schc ol for girls,
of less pretensions, bi it equal in
uselulness in its spber ?, in charge
of Mrs. Dare. Besides, a Common
School during a port ion of each
year.
Oue Masonic Lodge,- —and a large
number of odd fellot rs, not yet,
however, initiated an d organized,
but who are anxiously looking for-ward
to the time of establishing
the lodge, provided the ladies can
be persuaded to join.
Four Hotels, with four clever land
lord«—one of whom is a lady, and
it is enough for hospitality to say
that she is the widow of the late
Christopher Moring, Esq.
Oue Cotton Factory, furnished
with two steam engines of 25 and
15 horsepower, running 2,500 spin-dles
and 26 looms: with a Wool
Carding machine and other useful
machinery attached.
Eight Dry Goods Stores, with an
aggregate capital estimated at
about $100,000.
One Hat, Cap, Boot and Shoe
Store.
One Drug aud Apothecary estab-lishment.
Five Confectionaries, including
two licensed Groceries.
One extensive Coach shop, be-sides
two others kept up principally
by the mail contractois.
Two Wagon and repairing shops.
Seven Blacksmith shops, includ-ing
two constantly employed by the
nail contractors.
Five Tailor shops, including three
Merchant Tailoring establishments.
Several Milliners and Mantau-makers,
who hold honorable rauk
in the cabinet of the gay queeu of
Fashion.
Two Cabinet Shops.
Three Saddle and Harness maker
shops.
One Watch-maker and Silver-smith.
Two Tiu and Copper shops.
Two Tauneries.
Four Shoemaker shops.
One Hatter shop.
One Chair-maker shop.
One Turner and Bedstead-maker
shop.
One Barberand Hair-dresser shop.
Two Ilou.-e Painters, (one sign
and ornamental.)
Two " boss" Brick-layers resident
in town and several others con-stautly
employed.
A number of House Carpenters
always employed, but none resident
immediately in town.
Oue Printing office and weekly
newspaper.
One resident Dentist; seven prac-ticing
Physicians, including two in
the drug store ; six practicing Law
yers; seven Clergymen.
Oue Captain ; one Colonel; one
Constable: eight 'Squires; ••any,
quantity9of Majors: the Sheriff
and two deputies ; a splendid Mili-tary
Company ; a Band of Music ;
one Brigadier General; one Judge;
oue ex-Governor; upwards of three
hundred children " within the mean-ing
of the act" establishing com I
mon schools ; and more pretty girls
than you can shake a stick at.—
Moie young elm trees, a .stronger |
jail, meaner court-house, aud fewer i
loafers, than any other town of its
size tu the State. Whole troops ot ,
well fed lazy negroes ; dogs enough
to wake the Seven Sleepers, when
they make only half a turnout oil
voices at one of their nocturnal coa- j
certs; other live stock in proportion.;
And we don't know how many peo-ple
in all—estimated, however, at
between fifteen hundred and Uccnly-fire
thousand, exclusive of transient
persons: rather nearer the former
than the latter estimate, we should
say.
This is a proper place to remark,
that our Towu has attained to its
present prosperous state, through
the exertions of its laboring and
business men, who compose a large
majority of its population. Through
them alone can our prosperity and
our happy state of society be con
tinned. Few citizens of Town, poor
or rich, Bre above icork; and il any
person of such description under-takes
to sojourn here, he soon Buds
himself without society. So let it
ever be.
Two Like Murders in One Day
[Prom viie New York Sun. 1
The murder of a young woman in
this city in » house not of good re-pute—
for it seems hardly possibly
it could have been a suicide—aud
of another woman m a similar house
in Chicago, at noon of the same
day, luing to mind the assassina-tion
of the frail but beautiful Helen
Jewett in this city many years ago.
Richard P. Robinson, a young
man of intelligence and lair charac-acter.
was indicted and tried for the
murder. He was defended by
Ogden Hoffman, and the defence
was piobably the greatest effort
that eloquent advocate ever made
The evidence against the prisoner
was stronger than has served to
send more than one man to the
gallows ; but under the influence ofl
Mr. Hoffman's oratory and the liber I
al lint sound charge of the Court, j
the jury rendered a verdict ot not I
guilty.
Up to that time the popular sym-pathy
had b;-eii warmly with the
prisoner ; hut immediately after his
aequital the tide ot feeling beg..T
to set against him, and he was com-pelled
to leave the city. Almost
every one then spoke of him as
guilty. He went to Texas, where
be assumed another name; under
which we knew ot his visiting New
York, a white-haired old man—as
late as 1856} but he was not iden-tified
except by a few near relatives
and persons to" whom they made the
fact known.
The Senate Exodus Commit-tee
in Session.
^B»S*-*»a. B. Wall, Ne.ro, aay. about
Worth Carolina—•• A poor, Uod For-amKen
Country." A< .
On Wednesday last the Senate
Exodus Committee ot which Sena-tor
Voorhees is Chairman, exam
ined one O. S. B. Wall, the negro
President of what is called "the
emigrant Aid Society" at Washing-ton.
This man Wall knows "how
to tell a lie."
He said that the exodus front!
North Carolina to Indiana was ben-eficial
to the negroes. Nor'h Caro-lina
was, to use his words, "a poor,
God forsaken country, with a soil
that won't sprout black-eyed peas."
The emigrants would do better in
the West. His principal charge of
ill treatment referred to the payment
of farm hands in store articles. But
bethought that the Indiana people
were more willing aud able to help
the freedmeu than are their old
masters. There wasuoKuKluxism
iu North Carolina, but in one over-whelmingly
Republican District the
negro votes had been cast out.
When reminded that the counting
machinery in that District was in
Republican bands, he averred that
it made no difference; that was a
good District to get away from.
The instructions in the circular
soliciting aid for emigrants, to the
effect that the negroes would do
well to leave North Carolina before
the ecu.- us takers used their names
to swell the representation of that
State, were merely incidental. The
main purpose of the exodus was ,o
better their industrial condition,
although to reduce the repiesenta-ti
not the South aud helptheirparty
North would bejdesirable also. He
knew nothing about negroes going
to Indiana merely to remain in that
State until after the election, but
the origiual intention had been to
go to Kansas, and when their two
agents, Perry and Williams, got to
Washington last fail, they diverted
the tide of emigration to Imliauaon
the streugth of the representations
made to the Washington Society by
J. H. Walker, an active Republican
politician at Terre Haute, that
there was a great demand lor farm
laborers in Indiana, and that the
colored people would be well treated i
there. The witness estimated that
2,500 or 3,000 negroes from Noith
Carolina had passed through Wash-ington,
principally for Indiana.
The committee then adjourned
until l-'riday. By Senator Win.loin's
request, Gov. Hendricks, ol Indiana,
and J. B. Maynard, editor of the
Indianapolis Sentinel, will be sub
pusned as witnesses. U. S. Marshal
Durbey, lion. John C. New, Joseph j
S. Mtdill, editor of the Chicago:
Tribune, and Mr. Alden. of Boston, |
President of the Farmer's Aid
Society, will also be summoned.
Programme t'^r a Union Meet-1
ing in the Western Part of
the Beulah Association.
[Biblical Recorder, Jan HI]
There will be a Union meeting at
Friendship church, Stokes county,!
N.C, commencing on Friday be,me
the tilth Sunday in Kebruary lH&f,
which will observe the following ar-rangement
:
Introductory sermon H o'clock,
a. m., Rev. H. A. Blown.
Essay, Imporiaii f Sunday
schools, J M. Mai tin.
The duty ol churches to their
pastors. Essay, T. Ii. Lindsay.
The importance ot having good
meeting-houses. Rev. R, Goiirley.
Chief obstacles to the progress ot
the gospel, Rev. II A. Brown.
Covetousness, Rev. P Oliver.
ConBecratiou, Rev. J. B. Richard
son.
Influence of secret prayer, Rev.
James Vernon.
In compliance with the request of
the Union meeting at Reidsville the
Executive committee have made
the above arrangement lor the breth-ren
of the western division ol the
Beulah Association. We hope the
brethren will prepare their subjects
well, meet promptly, and make this
an interesting and profitable meet
ing. As the Assocation embraces
so much territory, and the churches
ate so mnch scattered it is thought
In -t to have two Union meetings
within our bounds. Let each church
of the western division send at least
one messenger to this meeting, and
let each church instruct its reprr
•rotative to state to this meeting
what it. will try IO raise this associa-tional
year for missions within the
bounds of the Beulah Association.
F. H. Jones.
Chairman Ex Com.
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain
Lectures
BY norm.AS JKBROLD.
Jf r. Caudle joins a club,
larks."
the Sky
Senator Lamar's Condition.
[Special Dfcpaub M The Philadelphia T.n..*.l
Senator Lamar's friends are almost
utterlv hopeless about him. So
many days have passed without
bearing from him that they feel
assured that he is not growing any
better aud that either his public
life is euded or his days of useful-ness
are gone.
Fire at Roxboro. N. C.
[Danville, VS. Tunes, January -J.t.]
Roxboro, the county seat of Pel
son couuty, was the scene ol a most
destructive fire ou Sunday night
last, about I o'clock. The store-house
of J. D. Long A Co.. tin-drug
store of Lpng& Mitchell, ihe
store-honse of S. P. Sattertield & Co.
and the dwelling house of John
Jones were all entirely consumed,
with most, of their contents The
store bouse of Alexander Foosbee
was saved by tearing dowu a wood-en
building between the store aud
the dwelling of Mr. Jones, though
his stock of" goods was seriously
damaged by being removed to the
street. J. D. Long & Co., wi re in
sured for $4,000 ; Long & Mitchell,
and S. P. Sattertield A: Co., had but
little insurance, and their losses aie
heavy ; John Jones had no insur-ance
at all. The tire originated by
the bursting or turning over of a
kerosene lamp near an oil tank iu
the drugstore of Long ii Mitchell.
"Well, if a woman hadn't better
be io her grave than be married !
That is, if gbe can't Le married to a
deceutman. "No; I don't care if
you are tired, I shan't let you go to
sleep. No, and I won't say what I
have to say iu the morning ; I'll say-it
now. It's very well for you to
come home at wbat time you like—
it's now half past twelve—aud ex-pect
I'm to hold my tongue, and let
you go to sleep. What next, I won-der?
A woman had better been
sold for a slave at once.
"Anil so you've gone and joiued
a club! The Skylarks, indeed ! A
pretty sky lark you'll make of your-self
! But I won't stay and be ruin-ed
by you. No : I'm detvrmiutd ou
that. I'll go and take the dear
children, aud you may get who you
like to keep your house. That is,
as long as you have a house to keep
—and that won't be long, I know.
'•How any detent man cau go aud
Spend his nights in a tavern !—oh,
yes, Mr. Caudle ; I dare say you do
go for a rational conversation, I
should like to know how many of
you won!.i care for what you call
rat tonal conversation, if you hail it
withoti: your filthy brandy-and-water,
yes, and your more tilthv
tobacco-smoke. I'm suie the last
time you came home, I bad the
headache tin u week. Bat 1 know
who H is • In s taking you to de-struction.
It's that brnte, Pretty-man.
He has broken his own poor
wile's heart, and now he wants to—
but don't yon thiuk 01 it, Mr. Cau-dle;
I'll not hue i:n pi.ii e of mind
destroyed i>\ the best man that ever
trod. Oh, yes! I know you don't
care so long as ,\ ou can appear well
tu all the worid,—but the world
little thinks how you behave to me
It shall know it though—thai I'm
determined.
"How any man can leave hisown
happy fireside to g 1 and sir and
smoke, and di.nl,, and talk with
people who wouldu'l one ol 'em litt
a linger 10 save him from haiigiug
—DOW any man cat leave his wile
—and a good wife, too, (hough I say
it—for a parcel of pot-companions
—oh, it's disgraceful, Mr. Caudle;
it's unfeeling. No man who had
the least love for his wife could do
it.
"Aud 1 suppose this is to be the
case every Saturday f lint I know
what 111 do. I know—it's no use.
Mr. Candle, you calling me a good
creature. I'm no, such a fool as to
be coaxed 111 thai way. No; if yon
want to go to - eep, you should
c. me home iu ( luisMaii time, aud
not at hail past twelve. There was
a time when you were as regular at
your fireside aside kettle. That
was win n you were a decent man.
and didn't go amongst Heaven
knows who, dunking aud smoking,
aud making what you think your
jokes. 1 never heard any good
conn to a man who cared about
joke. No respectable tradesman
does. But I kuow what I'll do;scare
away your Skylarks. The house
serves 'iquorafter twelve ol a Satur-day
; and if I dou't write to the
magistrates, and have the license
taken away, I am not lying in this
bed this night. Yes, you may call
me a loolish woman ; but no, Mr.
Candle, no : it's you are the loolish
in.in ; ui worse than a foolish man :
jou're a wicked Ode. If you were
to die to-morrow—and people who
go to public houses do all they cau
to shorten their lives—I should like
to know who would write upon tour
tomb stone. 'A lender husband ami
an affectionate lather!' /—I'd have
no sach falsehood toid of you, I cau
assure jou.
••Going and spending your mon-ey,
and—nonsense ! don't tell me—
no, if you were ten times to swear
it, 1 wouldn't believe that you only
spent eightee'.i-peuce on aSatlllday.
You can'i i" out all those hours, and
only spend eighteen pence. I know
better. I'm not quite a fool, Mr.
Caudle. A great deal you could
have foi eighteen-pence I And all
tho Ciuo married men ami fathers
ot families. Tin- more shame lor
"i m ! Skj :..i k.-, indeed ! They should
call themselves Vultures; tor they
can ouij do as they do by eating up
theii innocent wives and children,
Ei'gl'teeii-jience a week! And if it
was only thai.—do you know what
fifty two eighteen pences come to in I
a vrai '. Do >ou ever think ol that, 1
and see the gowns 1 wear) I'm:
am ! can't, out of the bouse money,
buy myself a pincushion; though |
j I've wanted one these six months.
>',—not so niuc'.i as a ball ol cot '
; ton. But what do you care so you
e . get your braudy-aud-water 1
1 litre's the girls, 00—-the things
tbej want! They're never dressed
like othei people's children. But.it's
all the same to their lather. Ob, I
1 jes! So be can go with his Sky ,
I laikn they may wear sackcloth lor *
j pinafores, and packthread for gar
ters.
"You'd belter not let that Mr.
Preltj man come here, that's all ; or,
rather, you'd bettei bring him once,
\, >. 1 should like to see him. He
1 wouldn't forget it. A man who, I
ma] say, lives and moves in a spit-toon.
A man who has a pipe in bis
mouth iis cuiiBtati! as his Iron! teeth.
A son ol tavei'i king, with a lot of
tools, like you, to lauj.,1 at what he
': think- his jokes, ami give Lim con-
'.-. quence. No. Mr. Caudle, no ; it's
! uo use jonr telling me to go to
sleep, for I Won't. Co to sleep, iu-deed
! I'm Bore .:'.-• almost time to
get up. 1 hardly know what's the
use ol coming to bed at all now
"The Bkylar'is, indeed! I sup.
I
pose you II be buying a "Little War-bler,'
and at your time of life be
trying to sing. The peacocks will
sing next. A pretty name you'll get
in the neighborhood ; and, in a very-little
time, a nice face you'll have.
Your nose is getting redder already;
aud you've just one ot the noses
that liquor always flies to. Xoudon't
see it red f No—I dare say not—but
/ see it; / see a great many things
you don't. Aud so you'll goon! In
a little time, with your brandy ami-water—
don't tell me that you ouly
take two small glasses; I kuow what
men's t wo small glasses are; iu a
little time you'll have a face all over
as if it was made of led currant
jam. And I should like to know
who's u> endure you then f 1 won't,
aud so dou't think it. Don't come
to me.
"Nicehabits meu learn at clubs!
There's Joskins; he was a decent
creature once, aud now I'm told he
has more than once boxed his wife's
ears. He is a Skylark too. Aud I
suppose, some day. you'll be trying
to box »iy ears. Don't attempt it,
Mr. Candle ; I say, Don't attempt it.
Yes—it's all very well tor you to say
you don't mean it,—bnt I ouly say
again, Dou't attempt it. You'd rue
it till the day of your death, Mr.
Caudle.
"Going and sitting for fonr hours
at a tavern ! What men, unless they
had their wives with them, can find
to talk about, I can't think. No
good, of course.
"ICighteeu-pence a week—and
dunking brandy and water enough
to swim a boat! And smoking like
the funnel of a steamship ! And 1
can't afford myself so much as a
piece of tape! It's brutal, Mr
Caudle. It's ve-ve-ve—ry bra—tul."
"Aud here," says Caudle,—"here,
thank Heaven ! at last she fell
asleep."
Will the C F. & Y. V. R. R. be
Built Through Stokes?
[IJanbury Reporter, Jnn.SS.]
We answer that it will, if built at
all. True, there arc a lew old croak-era,
who, being moved with envy or
a niggardly selfishness, had rather
see the road stop at Greensboro, or
go to hades, than see it run through
Stokes, but the road, it it passes
Greensboro, will be built on the
Brace's X Road aud Walnut Cove
route, for the following reasons:
First, because it is to the interest
of the State, the great moving pow-er
iu the mailer. It is to the inter-est
of Fayetteville and Greensboro.
It is to (lie interest of every stock-holder.
It is to the interest ol all
who wish to see the road completed
at. any time iu the near future, to
unite on this-line. It is to the
State's inter**', because it will <le
velop more of her wealth than any
other lioe. It will build up Fay-etteville
and Greensboro—North
Carolina cities—aud give them an
importance no other line can give.
It is to the interest of the stock
holders because it will furnish mil
lions ol tous of Irou, Coal aud Lime,
for freight, that no other hue can
furnish, and will insure the building
of blanches from Daubury and
Madison, which will act as feeders
to this line, aud make it ihe best
paying road in ihe State. It is to
the interest of all who wish to see
the rood built to act in concert on
this line, because it takes money to
build a road, and this line will lur-nish
nearly or quite double as much
as any other.
Remember Croaker, that by
your abominable selfishness you can
only delay or prevent the road he
ing built, but cannot turn it just
Where your whims may wish.
Journalistic Longevity.
[Sew York Time, j
The Athencenum in its obituary
article on William Uepwortb Dixon
says: "The gentle intellectual ,-x-cuements
ot literary ease are con-dacive
to longevity, but the severe
s'raiti ot incessant literary toil ex-hausts
the strongest nerves and
shortens the worker's days." This
ought to lie tine, it is so plausible,
bnt the exceptions are altogether
too numerous to admit of its un-qualified
acceptance. No sort of
literary toil is lnoie wearying and
incessant than that of the journalist,
and it is to Dixou's career as a jour-nalist
that the Athena-am more par-ticularly
refers. It may be, in these
daya of telegraphs and special corres-pondents
wbeu what would have been
extraordinary feats of enterprise
twenty-five years ago, are now the
daily commonplaces of journalism,
and when the newspaper man works
hard and fast, and under a constant
tension of mind, that the business
i« unfavorable to length of days;
but the lives of the blunders of
most ol the world's gnat journals,
many of whom are still with us, or
have only lately dropped out ot the
ranks, do not point that way Jos
eph Gales, who was lor 63 years
Connected with the .Xational l'ntelli
genccr, lived to Ihe age ol 74; Ins
lather, the Joseph Gales ot the
Sheffield (England) Register, and
later of the Raleigh (N. C.) Register,
was 81 when he died. Greelev,
lived to be lil. and Bennett, the
founder of the Herald, died a' 77.
Bryant was 84 at the time of his
death; Saumel Bowles, 52; Henry
J. Raymond, !!•: Delaoe, ot the
London Times, 62; and De Ville
messant, of the Paris Figaro, 07.
Ot living journalists, we have Thur-low
Weed at 88; Baldwin ot the
Worcester Spy, at 71), and Storey,
ol the Chicago TIINM, n' 01. The
average ol all thi se ages j (is years
and five mm lbs. I'ln Blcians lell us
that the average lifaol the profen
sinnal man is 50 veins; that ", the
farmer (i.i. Longevity and journal-ism
evidently go hand in band.
Complete mortalit] tables ol tbe
profession might, and doubtlees
would, show ;i shorter average lite,
but the twelve eases cited, selected
011 no other ground than the fact
1 hat they happen to be 1 mong the
beat known ol modern journalists,
are a sulBcienl nrool that severe
literary toil does not necessarily and
per *c shorten the worker's days.
[Co
being iiliiuioiui..I,
iin.l ill.-II l.\ Il .-I .-
Distressing Casualty.
lu.ill.-Ki Ii* from ateroarue Ks plosion.
[1-laiiville Register, ./an. XI. |
At a bite hour Monday night,
Jan. llith.'a messenger arrived in
Danville with the intelligence ol a
most distressing casualty which oc-curred
at the residence id' Mis. Mary
C. May, ii widow lady who resided
near Mt. Hermon church 111 Pittsyl-vania.
seven miles Irmn Danville.
He came lor a physician and could
give but few particulars, only say-ing
that Mis. May, her daughter
Miss Kate May, and Mrs. Nannie
llerndon, had beeu severely it not
latally injured by a lamp explosion,
Yesterday morning, additional
air I mote painful intelligence was
received here. We learn**! from a
gentlemau who passed the scene ol nf
ihe disaster early iu the morning.
nhout l.aif pMl 10 o'clock Monday , ,„.,. . ,.: L.
night, and her daughter Mina Ka*e
Maj die.l about two* bourn later.
Mrs. Herndon, who waaalao boroed,
wan Htill living, but bei injuries
were very net pre.
VVe could fci'i no facts a.» '*» how
tbe explosion occurred. It seemi
That no one vras pre—Dl at the time •;•. iDsllih«rtw]
except rli** three ladiea, aad the> •*■
w*Ti* fooud by a negro man Rhortly
afterwards, tin- c.otrieN being nearly
all barned off tbe two \UM iiibse
qnently died. The house did not
catch liii*. DOI diil any of iu-- furni-ture.
HO tar as we have heaid.
Fact* About Women.
J, W. Forney's, Prugwn, JMI, 17.)
At it Ban KranelMSo >>al mwqoa, for Hu
Frmneiwo like tbn ic-i "i th. world i*
tripping the ligbl fautMtifl vrry ind -
ouflh juni in.*-, ii.t-v bad vliatthryi i
tin? "M'.fin Qnadsilltj " To j^v-- <t DC I
to ilii-. afcDca Mt- fi-ill WMilavkauod ■
i* wtu in progrewi, in i
bowaror, ov«rj no*
In Imitation of lightning It was, in
wonl, nothing IWH ttuui I!M "Storm
Gallop, which !>-■ Roaa n»rd to do ao
grandly »t tin- tbeatro. Ii in Hi's .1
pifity idea for lbs hallrooai,
If yon pat a horamhoc «»v. r yoor door
or anywbeie foi good lock, bo inn that
th* pointM urn npwanln. Otherwia* the
boreflflho* bringi bad lurk SM HAT author*
Itiaa ^n Mopemition, and it 1- woll Io
iH-arkcii to iht-111. Latterly thera baa been
a yery rage in boraarihoefi, end th>- advice
cornea appropoa They ;iti» made with nil
niiri" of beantlfu] deeoral iona. and in gold,
•ilver, ami brou.ee. The dowel botai -
[a the faTiirite dovico foi handing ovei
th»» fbotllght* and aending \» "the dearest
^ul in ilif world." Ii iaalarming to
think that parhapa one-half .»f iheoc in
numerable hnracmhori. are on the »alln
the wrong way nii"«it, and thai inntriad
ol protecting Ihnir fair n«tir-i- the* are
at ir.iri ,ri^ all IIM- *r v I 1 M|>III(* in I ID* neigh*
borbood.
People HI China are not only nlluweil
to commit inicide l»ul the) even advi rtiac
tin Lr determination beforehand, •.tating
when and when the* intend to effocl
their purpuae. At !■ .t-i Ihe Koovhow
/•VriiVti ti-.li (if» yonng widow who hn.1
promlead Io bang heraalf at a certain apot
on tbe lath o| leetmoiith, rather than
3 .• i i" ttif wiabi i <>f "ln'i inhuman pai
enta." and marry again, Theaaeriflca waa
actual*} couaommaied in broad <ln\li)(l)t.
The girl "duly banged bereelf in the pre-aence
of an ,i«>. K.;. i ■! crowd of i;
MIHI ndiiiirera. Tbr tragic •■ n inony ww
preceded by a reception ol hiaitoraona
platform erected tor the occasion, after
which the poor young creature mounted
M chair, placed tbe n pe round in r - in
neck, it ml I'l'itl'ftfe; M tin.*, adten lu Iln» un*
aympatbetic world, laum ■ I into
eternity "
"Poarteeu bnndred wivea" bavt
tioued .lu'l,!' -< iiM.-f. of Mnnmoutfa i
ty. New .!• !*••->. '<> ^n»- li*|aor liceneei
unlj to kefperaofaummei note -. Funny
ladiea! The1 - . I na*e their own bua
l».i: di From • li « v. -1 f r •- fupei met
it doen not won. them n particle that
fit I n peopli - huHOatida should ilum 11."
intoxicating cup. 1 •« that they
wi.ling to do
f|oora wbi< ing - ■ ■
'I lt'111-..Tnl- DIM gO I Bll -' ■■
.1- retorts] at <1 drink tin m*H-l\e-
* • d**ai bttbbi. . to u'- I
i nets evi i am a a i i -•■ i<! [>•. iucipl<
I., policy 1
1 u l».. • ' -' >
ton, f'. C . a lim ''ir ■■' !.'»<<! I.tr run-.-.
wi rp- <.f |tn»J— -. v. bo g ■
serwea* jialuliouali b H il
soon t ..I om frraduato.
lllflle'I.T » »f Dm
Orave of Gen. Lee's Daughter.
Oifoid Toichliabl |
The ernve of Annie Cusiis Lee,
daughter ol thadeadhero (ien. It.
E. Lee, is located in tbe northwest
Tnia sad and painful affair should corner <d White Sulphur Spriugs
be another warning to persons who i Cemetery, in Warren County, under
nse this esplosivi
llaid for lights.
and dangerous ihIIH gravet- hliaass
la'notic c
a i" dar tree. Above
in en erected bj the p.
zens of Warren a beauiilol mono
ui'-.ii oi nauve gre> grauite, upon
«liich i" inscribed :
Am...-1'. Lee, daughter ul I ken.
A eorra.pond«il "f th. Raleigh 'H.*-w,
wiiuniC from Wuil*k«r'a Dspol, on Wil- .
■nil „•'•':. and W.ldon Kailroad. nud< r dale
of .l:i, y. li-.h any.: " On j.»i.nl..y, Mr. K. 1.. and Mai > Lustis I.
Goo. Wlnie. a vonng nwrehant of tbi. -• J;,., n B| Arllbgtou, Jui.e Is:,,
;>lace. -old to Mr David Lnn«. a. tamer, i ,,_. ( |)|( j (. ,„,. w ■.,... Sulphur
nft««n grain, of B»rpfcl» thin.i.g il _.;;_ w ,,,,.„ ,,,.„„., N> fj(
i-..;'.i. aud died at u
M«inob«nidu»,»MiUt«ut.forquii..n.. Spring*, Warren county,
Mr Lane mad" the morphine Inlo pill*. ] October -O'.h, lo02.
.■A.. i,f wlnrli li>- \.!':u' - :-"l (•• his nine | ,, .,. ;^l;,ls^^.^^»™^..^-t^::Ir:::":":I,. iu a very itiort ume. |