The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-16


er Williams ?-Hayttord Press.
ELECTION, THURSDAY NEXT, THE 18TH OC-
ToBER-In less than week. the elections
for Governor and Members of the Legislature
will take place throughout the State We
hope there will be full turn out at the polls,
as the coming elections are of great impor-
lance to the people Let no one be indffer-
ent let every vote be brought out and cast
for those who favor speedy reconstruction
of the Union upon the best terms we can
get. We cannot have things our own way,
at present, and cannot prosper in the condi-
ton we are in Once back into the Union
we can regulate State matters to suit our
selves and make safer calculations for the
future.
Let all true conservative Union men rally
to the polls. on Thursday next, and show
their strength Salem Press.
SYNOD. The Synod of the PRESBYTERIAN
Church commenced its session in this city on
Wednesday, a large number of Ministers
and Lay delegates are in attendance, and Il
good deal of interest is manifested in the
proceedings. Rev. R. Chapman, Moderator :;
Rev. Jacob Doll, Stated Clerk Rev. F. H.
johnson and Rev. Mr.. Beall, Temporary
Clerks
The Sessions have been well attended,
and were very harmonious and pleasant.
Rev. G. W. McPhail, D. D., was elected
President of Davidson College, in place of
Rev. DR.. kirkpatrick, who, it will be remem-
bered, resigned to accept a Professorship in
Washington College, Virginia Charlotte
Times.
INDIAN SUMMER.-There are days which
occur in this climate, at almost anv season of
the year, wherein the world reaches its per
fiction, when the air, the heavenly bodies,
and the earth make harmony, as if nature
would indulge her offspring; when, in these
bleak upper sides of the planet, nothing is TO
desire that we have heard of the happiest
ATTITUDES and we bask in the shining hours
of Florida and Cuba; when everything that
has life gives sign of satisfaction, and the
cattle that lie ON the ground seem to have
great and tranquil thoughts. These halcyons
may be looked for with little more assurance
in that pure October weather, which we dis
tinguish By the name of Indian Summer
The day UNNECESSARILY long, sleeps over the
broad hills and warm wide fields. To have
lived through all its sunny hours seems Ion
gevity enough. The solitary places do not
seem quite lonely At the gates of the for
est the surprised man of the world is forced
to leave his city estimates of great and
small, wise and foolish. We creep out of our
close and crowded houses into the night and
morning, and we see what majestic beauties
Oa1ly wrap us IN their bosom. Cities give
not the human senses room enough. We go
out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the
horizon, and require so much scope, just as
we need water for our bath.
There is the bucket of cold water from the
spring, the woodfire to which the chilled
traveller rushes for safety-and there is the
sublime moral of autumn and of noon.
THE DOC DocToR's SEcRET.-Good food,
dainties, and want of exercise, are the de
struetion of parlor dogs They become fat
with increasing age, and contract various
diseases. At last the day comes when Il dose
of prussic acid must finish the business. or
that medical practitioner must be called in,
who will by a severe regimen restore the
dogs health and appetite. An ex-kennei
man in our neighborhood made a very COM
Portable income by this peculiar line of prae-
tice. He diyulged the secret of his system
a few days before his dissolution to the es-
Unable clergyman of the parish 81 ALWAYS
tied EN-" said this canine Abernethy, :" to a
crab tree at the end of my garden, for a
week, and gave Fem nothing but water
When I fetched them from their mistresses,
they refused to eat what should have been
glad to get, and when they went back they
would eat what I couldn't have touched
I've had some dogs twice or even three times
year, out l always cured 'em at last. One
OF 1hem was as good three pounds year
TO me- was terrible fond of him, but he
never LOOK to me; and when he saw me
coming for him to bring down his fat, he
would waddle away, and howl enough to
wake the dead Dogs havnt got no graft
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