Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-11-11
The Poor Customer.

I" How much butter 2"
Zone half pound if you please
'And sugar ,"
Half pound.''
"And these oranges"
I" Half dozen, sir"
You go by the halves to day-we what else =?
Be speedy, ma'am, you're keeping better customers
waiting"
Half peck of Indian meal. and one fine French
ROLL, said the woman, but her lip quivered and she
turned to wipe away triCklIng tear.
looked at her straw bonnet, all broken at her ia
ded shawl, her thin STOPPING form, her coarse gar
ments-and | read poverty all-extreme poverty.
And the paid, pinched features-the mournful hut
once beautiful face told me that the Injuries were
not for her. An invalid looked out from his narrow
window, whose pale lips longed for the cool. fresh
orange, for whose comfort the tea and the butter,
and the fine French roll were bought with much sac
rice. And him sip the tea, and taste the dan-
ty bread, and praise the flavor of the sweet butter,
and turn with Frightening eye to the golden fruit
And heard him ask her. kneeng by the smoky
hearth. to taste them with him. And as she set the
broken pan edge, TO bake her coarse loaf, heard
her say" By the by, when Pm hungry" And. "by
the by when the white lids of the suffer closed
in sleep, saw her bend over him with blessing in
her heart And she laid the remnants of the feast
carefully by, and eat her bread unmoistened.
| started from my reverie-the grocers hard eye
was upon me-
"You're keeping better customers waiting"
Oh | wanted TO tell him how poverty and perse-
cution-contempt and scorn, could not dim the hearts
fine gold, purfet by many trial that, that woman
with her little wants and holy sacrifices, better
in the sight Of God, than many trumpet-tongued
Dives, who gave that he might be known of men.
Olive Branch.
THE HORSE THE UNITED SrArEs.-The Boston
Transcr pit says:
The first horses brought into any par: of the terri
tory at present embraced in the United States, were
landed in Florida by Cabeca de VEGA, in 1927 forty
two in number, all of which persisted or other
wise killed. The next importation was also brought
TO Florida. by De Solo, in 1889 In 1903 the French
introduced the horse into Canada In 1609 the Eng
fish landed at Jamestown. in Virginia, having seven
horses with them. In 1892 Francis Higginson i'm
ported horses and other domestic animals in the Colo
MES OF Massachusetts Bay. In 1928, the Dutch
Company imported horses into New York In 1850,
the French of Illinois in possession of considera-
bic number of horses.
According to the census returns for 1850 there
were 4335. 1853 horses in the u States, exclusive of
those in cities which were not returned. The four
and half millions of these animals in the United
States constitute proportion of one to five inhabit.
ants. New York has horse 10 seven persons
Pennsylvania, one to six and siN-tenths Ohio, one
TO four Kentucky one to three free inhabitants. In
Ohio and the new States of the Northwest the in.
of horses has kept pace with that of the popu
lation.
The number of horses in the United States is more
than three times large that in Great Britain A
recent report in France shows that there are in thai
country 5000, 900 horses.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH SURGERY.-Sr Ashley Coop
er on visiting the French capital, was asked by the
surgeon IN chef OF the empire how many time he had
performed some wonderful feat of surgery. He re.
piled that he had performed the operation thirteen
times "Ah but Monsieur, | have done him one
hundred and sixty times. How many times did you
save his life p continued the curious Frenchman at
he locke into the blank Amusement of Sir AstIey
face. "I,'' said the Eng'ishman, "saved eleven on
! of thirteen. How many did you out of one hun
bred and sixty ," All, Monsieur. lose dem all
but the operation very brt'dnte" 1t is hard to-
a man who has seen England and France both IN mo
ton TO forget this story.
/ THE CLERKsHIp OF THE HousE.-All the stories
in the newspapers upon this subject are unreliable
| So far, Col Forney is the only avowed candidate
for the position and it is we'll understood in vel
informed (Democratic) political circles that con
siderable majority of that gentlemans party IN thu
House have already Signited their intention to sup
port him. So we hardly anticipate that his re cleo
ton will be seriously contested. Washington Star
The report SO industriously circulated that tn
carpet for the east room in the Presidents mansion
at Washington, was purchased of a foreign house
is untrue. An order for all the carpeting requre
In refurnishing the White House was given to A. /
Stewart s. Co., of New York city. and supplied b.
their capital and enterprise and machinery alone.
The order for furnishing heating, apparatus
sufficient size and power to warm the house was CIV
en- to Walworth & Mason, OF this city, and by Their
is now heing executed.
The China and glass ware was supplied by Messrs
Haughwout & Daily, of New York city, and wa
manufactured and decorated at their own establish
ment in that city.-Boston Post.
STEAM SAW MILL FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale his STEAM SAW MILL
situated on New Kver Onsow County. She is new and
order with tyy0O a