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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1873-07-12
WESTERN tlAHYLAND HOTEL.
EMMITSNCEG, FREDERICK COUNTY, ND.
y. G. ADELSHERGER Proprietor.

vINIIIS first class Hotel is r.
| well provided in all its : r ,r.,r. !.
department an1apaFtmcntS izi; IY....it..t IL
for thc accommodation Of
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1873-07-12

THE LADIES
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NlnIc'n 90 iw
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-09-04
BROWNS BURDEN.

The Boston Traveller says: Brown
our insurance friend, was told by his
wife, on Saturday, to be sure and
bring home at night something nice
to eat. So he purchashed couple OF
watermelons. Not owning paper
mill, the dealer could not do them up,
and Brown took the market-basket,
containing their Sunday dinner, be-
tween his teeth, a water melon under
each arm, and started for the cars.
First one melon slipped pack, while
the other went forward, and while
balancing them by an ingenious sys-
tenn of jerks, the basket got swinging
and nearly pulled every tooth out of
his head. Brown retired to a door
way and readjusted things, and COM
ing out, started on his way, with the
consciousness of being late for the
train. Oh! how slippery those water
melons were They lurched and slid,
and rolled and revolved on their axes
until Brown thought they must be
alive. Then man passing by, who
saw Brown doubled up, and trying
while half seated on the sidewalk, to
bring equilibrium into play once
more, offered to help Brown. II So
Brown stood up and the man push
ed one melon frontward and the 9TH
er backward, and everything would
have been all right had he not pushed
the latter one too far back, so that it
slid out from under Browns arm,into
a tub of eggs that luckily stood on
the sidewalk and prevented the mel
onfrom being broken. Brown left it,
however, after paying for some dozen
eggs,a also not taken by him, and start
ed afresh, with but one melon He
was now obliged to run, and present
ed truly pitiable sight, as the small
children remarked who were fighting
over the abandoned fruit. Finally he
reached the depot just as the train
had started, put the basket on the
asst platform, tossed the melon on
after it, jumped on himself, saw the
melon bound down the steps on the
other side and burst on the track, and
then went home and told his wife
he could not find any decent fruit in
the market.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-09-04
EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS

The forthcoming report of the
commissioner of education will con
tain the following significant passage
upon American illiteracy: "Who
can speak boastingly Of American in
telligence with a knowledge of the
fact that over II per cent of the adult
males Of the country, who are essen
TALLY all voters, are illiterate, and that
nearly one-fourth of the adult females,
over % per cent, are in the same con-
dition. But the amount of intelli-
gence in the country is tested by the
capacity to read and write, and is
not limited to the adults. The cen
sus does not give those under ten who
cannot read and write or cannot read
but we may make an estimate on the
basis that the same percentage holds
good In the case of those over ter
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-09-04
THE BAD BOY AND THE GOOD

There was once young and lovely boy,
whose mother parted his hair down the
middle, and occasionally hit him in the
back with fatiron. There gwas Ealso
bad, wicked and deDraved boy, about
whom I, at that moment, do not recollect
any further particulars. These two were
brought up together, and simultaneously
received a present Of sovereign apiece.
Oh, how that bad, wicked and dcpraved
boy kicked up bis heels! the good boy
smiled the while graphically and slob-
bered. The bad boy then went straight
way and laid out bis good money in all
manner and kinds of nasty and indigest-
| ible nesses-hardbake, c0coanut (he
bought fourteen of these), bulls eyes.
stick licuorice, tamarinds and Australian
beef. The boy fell to and gorged hideous-
I ~ upon these things, and SO exhausted
his little capital, coming to the good boy,
when it was all gone, with long and pit
iful face, "Ah!' said the good boy, chad
you not SIP Mt your sovereign thus foolish
ly, you would have had it now as have
mine. Instead of buying hardoako-a
thing [ myself never touch, except when
it is given to me-you might have be-
slowed five shilljngs upon the Society for
Supplying Wooden legged Tnfdels with
Worsted Slippers. Instead Of Buying co
coanuts, you might have dropped another
five bob into the donation box OF the
Hospital for Paralized Shakers and, in
stead of wasting the other ten shillings
in the way you have, you might have
done | don't know what that was good
and kind and noble" The bad boy, con.
founded, turned away his head at this,an
wept bitter tears. Then the good boy
went out for stroll, feeling ever so much
gooder for having said what he had, anc
on his way accidentally dropped mis- owl
, sovereign down sewer grating Punch
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-09-04

years, and We find that out of the
3s,558,971 Of the population of the
United States Of all ages, ~, 1875, 799
or 81 per cent. of the total popula-
ton must be excluded from any esti-
mate which would ascertain the num-
Der who are able through reading and
writing to exchange information with
others for the guidance of their
conduct.'' sHoaG 9aslI aaai iI.#F
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-09-04
THE LOG HOUSE OF NORWAY.

A correspondent, who has beer
having a week of uninterrupted sun
shine near the North Cape, gives us
some description of Norwegian houses
which may interest our readers. eye
may suppose" he says, "that log
houses were born on Plymouth Rock;
but I find the most convincing evi.
dence that they existed in Norway
centuries, perhaps, before Plymouth
Rock was known. A yet more inter-
esting fact-at least to me-is that
the fashion has not changed. I'm
provements there have been in many
ways, but the log house of Norway is
the most fashionable,pe because
the most comfortable, house. In re-
gions far removed from timber, and
where stone and lime and clay abound,
even there the log house obtains uni
versal preference. During my trip
mp and down this long line Of Norwe-
gian coast,I have had many opportu-
mites to examine the old as we'll as
the lew constructions. Let me tell
you first of the old. The logs are
squared and nicely dovetailed at the
corners. Grooves are then cut, with
the broad axe, on both the under and
upper surface. When the log is fnal-
ly laid to it's place, this double groove
is filed with moss, and moss is after.
ward caulked into the log seams.
The partitions are built with the
house, and in the same thorough man
ner as the outside walls. The houses
are never more than two stories high,
and the roofs are steep and heavily
timbered. A covering of slabs is fit
ted, round side down, to the roof tim
bers and over these slabs comes one
or more layers of birch bark. Then
comes heavy timber coping along
the caves and up the roof at either
end. On this is laid sods of rich
earth well packed to a thickness of
about six inches, and these, in this
moist climate, furnish an abundant
grassy finish. The only essential diff
ferences between the old and new
Norwegian styles Of house building
are in the substitution of red tiles,
and occasionally of slate, for the sod
roofs, and the casing of the timber
which forms the body Of the house,
with thin boards, for looks sake.
Within year the town Of Namsos,
about one hundred miles north of
Drontheim, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire and it is now in
course Of rebuilding. Here, notably,
the work of building is going on upon
considerable scale, and the two
modes appear side by side. A few
finished buildings there are, which
would hold high rank, among the
best Of our American country homes,
IN architecture while in a comforta-
Die exclusion Of cold, we have net a
country house, Of whatever material,
that would bear rigid comparison
with the poorest OF them. Double
glazing Of window sashes-outsideI
and in-the packing Of window and
door frame with moss, and a careful
papering Of every room, are some OF
the means taken to prevent any cir
culation Of the frosty air. For win
ter comfort, combined with the ut
most facility for every conceivable
ornarhentation, commend to me the
Norwegian log house"
TTDTT(t A TNTnET CtT1 a Tr,Yc,rUT<,r,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-09-04

The stebbns Lot situated on the Old Plank
Road, now Prairie Avenue Kenosha, embracing
three lots and containing 2H or acres OF land
is offered for sale at a bargain. There are two
barns, hennery, good well and cistern on the
land.
The property will be sold for 81 900 cash. Apply
to John Il. Shepherd, Winnetka, III. avis
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29
THE POOR OF THE SOUTH.

Under the caption Of "more foolish talk
about poor white trash" the Baltimore Sun
indulges the following comments, provoked
by an article in the Brooklyn Eagle, which, in
noticing the death of Minister Orr, could not,
it seems, while conceding the need of merit to
which Judge Orr was justly entitled, suppress
a characteristic sneer at the South. The Sun
says:
"While the Brooklyn Eagle has rendered
Just tribute to Mr.. Orr's mind and charac-
ter, we regret that an intelligent and inde-
pendent paper should fall into the mistake
that any considerable class Of poor whites in
the condition assigned to that class by igno-
rant and prejudiced partisans, ever existed in
the South, or that all political opportunities
were concentrated in its 'aristocracy.' In no
part of the United States was there before the
war, as little of that poverty which involves
want as in the Southern States. The fertility
of the soil, almost spontaneously producing
the means of subsistence, the mild and genial
climate in winter-in many parts of the
South being rarely more severe than the
Northern autumus-and the sparse popula-
tion, all contributed to render extreme pow
erty comparatively unknown. There are
probably more poor people, that is, people in
need of charitable assistance, in the city of
New York, than there were in all the South
ern States put together"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.

Governor Moses has appointed j. B. Fer
guson Trial Justice for Chester county.
Camden has eleven licensed bar rooms
and a temperance newspaper.
The depot of the Airline Railroad at
Spartanburg is approaching completion.
The Federal soldiers heretofore stationed
at Unionville, have all been removed.
The stand of cotton in Chester is said to
be the best known for many years.
Mrs. T. R. Gaines has opened boarding
house on Sumter street, in Columbia.
Reports from all parts of the State show
that the taxes have been paid up clean and
promptly.
The Phenir mentions the arrival at Col
umbia, within the past few days, of several
tons of public documents.
The gas works at Greenville, which have
been lying idle for several years, are to be re-
paired and put in operation again.
Seven colorcd persons are held tor trial
at the next term of the Inferior Court OF
Charleston, on the charge of murder.
The Ledger denies the report that no jury
or witness warrants have been paid in Ian
caster county since 1867. Claims of this
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29

the State, the freight on bale of cotton from
this point to Charlotte-48 miles-is only 80
cents while, as am informed, from York
Vile to Chester, only 81 miles, it is rs cents
per bale.
OUR LITTLE TOWN,
A bantling of only six months growth, is be-
ginning to make some show. There are four
store houses, and two others will soon be erect
ed. Our merchants are wide awake business
men, and are already drawing some trade from
the mountain farmers of North Carolina.
We hope soon to have a church and hotel,
and then we will apply to be incorporated as
a city-perhaps. There is nothing like blow.
ing, if 'tis jud;ciously DONE
THE KINGS MOUNTAIN IRON ORE BEDS.
This valuable property is now attracting the
attention of both northern and southern cap
italists. General Joseph R. Anderson, Pres-
dent of the Tredegar Iron Works, Of Rich
mond, and some capitalists from New Jersey,
have paid us visit, and carefully examined
these ores and seem highly pleased with them 4;
and we have good reasons to hope that they
will soon pass into the hands of company
who will develop and use this property, which
has been so long locked up for want of cheap
transportation, and thus add something to the
prosperity of our section.
A RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
On Yesterday, as the train from Charlotte was
moving off from Blacks Station, Mr.. Samuel
Jeffries, highly esteemed citizen of Union
county, attempted to get into the cars; and
in doing 80, was caught between the passing
car and platform by the side Of the track,
and painfully injured. 1t is not thought that
his injuries will prove fatal.
Feeling that we have occupied enoug h of
your time, we will wish you good night, hoping
that the ENQUIRER may live thousand years
and never dabble in politics; but devote all
its energy and talents in assisting to develop
the material and social interests of the State.
FARMER.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer
FROM BLACKS STATION.
Blacks STATION, S. c., May %, 1877

Blacks STATION, S. c., May %, 1873.
Dear Enquirer Thinking you would not
object to hearing something from the Air
Line section of the county, have concluded
to give you a short letter, by way of letting
you know that we (that is, some Of u.s. are
trying to take the advice of the ENQUIRER to
let politics alone, and 60 to work to develop
the resources of our county.
Our farmers are evidently doing better
farming this year than I ever knew them to
do. They are buying better implements, and
applying more manure-both homemade and
commercial-and there is a general disposl-
ton to plant less acreage and cultivate and
manure more highly.
The negroes and whites have both tacitly
agreed to drop politics and 60 to work. This
is as it should be, and if we had done this at
the close Of the war, what. an immense amount
of suffering and anxiety would have been
spared to our county. Let us try to make
amends in the future, for our want of foresight
in the past. Let us 60 to work and build up
schools, colleges, manufactures and churches,
and we will thereby secure an intelligent pop
ulation and an improved system ofagrlculture.
THE AIR LINE RAILWAY.
This important link in the Piedmont route
from Baltimore to the Southwest, will be COM
pleted by the 1st of July. 1t is now in ope-
ration from Charlotte to Greenville on the
east end, and from Atlanta to the Tugaloo
river on the west end, leaving gap of only
forty-6ve miles and on this portion the track
laying is rapidly going on, the grading and
bridge work being done. The direct railway
communication thus given to our people with
Charlotte and the North, and the cotton Sec
ton of the South, together with the low rates
of freight, has given an impetus to the indus
trial class of our county. As an illustration
of this, was informed by one Of Lindley q
Co.'S agents, that he had sold and delivered
$1,000 worth of fruit trees at this station, and
the trade in fertilizers and agricultural i'm
plements is considerable. This station, too,
comes in for its share of the cotton trade of
the county, there having been over one thous-
and bales of cotton shipped from this point
since last fall. AS an example of the advan-
tages of this railway to the upper section OF
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
The Wheat Prospect.

Inc WHeAC frOspccIs
- The papers of the great grain-growing
districts of the West continue to report that
the spring has been most favorable for the
putting in of wheat, and that a greatly in
creased breadth has been planted. The crop
will probably be very heavy one. The
plants are remarkably thrifty, and the prin-
cipal danger seems to be that they will grow
too rank, so that much will "lodge" and be
injured and destroyed by wet weather about
harvest time. 1t is altogether certain now
that the export demand for American wheat
will be very heavy during the coming year.
Farmers, therefore, need feel no apprehensions
of dull market. Their wheat will be all
wanted at good prices. Their chief trouble
will arise from insufficient transportation.
The St. Louis Democrat publishes large
batch of correspondence from all parts OF
Missouri, Southern Kansas and Iowa, which
predicts large and excellent wheat crop, but
short crops of oats and corn.
The French Republic.
-Thiers has resigned the presidency of
the French Republic. When his resignation
was offered in the Assembly, it was the occa-
sion of great excitement among the members.
He addressed the Assembly, urging the def
mite establishment of the Republic. Opposi-
ton to his resignation was manifest, and a
motion was made that his resignation be not
accepted, which was rejected by vote Of 1868
to 339. The resignation was then formally
accepted. The Assembly is divided into two
parties, known as the Left and Right. The
Left supported the policy of Theirs, and on
his resignation being formally received, they
endeavored to secure postponement Of the
election of his successor, but the Right insisted
upon choosing President at once. A vote
was taken, and resulted in the election of
Marshal MacMahon, who received 800 votes.
The Left abstained from voting. He has sig
niGed his acceptance of the office. and order
prevails. 1t is thought that whether MacMa-
hon presides as President Of the Republic or
Emperor of France, he will fearlessly perform
his duty, and give to the people what they
absolutely need-a stable government.
The Modoc War.
Gen. scho6eld officially confirms the
report that part Of the Modoc warriors have
unconditionally surrendered. Gen. Davis re-
ports that he will push the pursuit Of Captain
Jack and his party, and hopes to end the war
soon.
The band which surrendered comprised
fifty men, women and children. The few
horses they had were gaunt and weak, and
scarcely able to bear the women and children
as they rode into the camp. All the braves
wore portions of the Federal uniform, and all
entered into the camp in funeral procession.
There was no noise among the soldiers, and
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Joseph A. Mclean, Judge of Probate-Ctation-
w. d. Russell, Applcant-Bartholome
Fuller, deceased.
F. Happertield- the Dead
Porter u Steele-At Cost.
William Lynn-Valuable Land for Sale.
J. N. Davis, Admnistrator-Rich Gold Mine for
Sale.
Carroll, Clark 4 Co.-It is Unpleasant to Dun
Only for the Cash.
T. w. Clawson, Deputy Messenger-In Bank
ruptcy-First Meeting Of Credters-In the
Matter of Thos. Whitesides.
T.. Nj. DobsOn & Co.-Fish-Sundries-Co and
Sugar-Fine Family Flour-Wheat Bran
Vinegar-Bacon-Felloe Saws-Mattocks-
Cash-Whisk Brushes--Hand Bellows
Hardware Umbrellas Hats--Brass
Bound Buckets k-Crockery-Shoes-
Gents Hats-Baskets-Chamb Set.
Col. A. Coward. Principal-King's Mountain
Military School.
J. Harry Clawson, Assignee-In Bankruptcy
Notice to Lien Creditors-In the Matter of
Stephen P. Sutton.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29
JOB PRINTING.

Having determined to devote more atten-
ton hereafter to job printing than we have
done in the past, we would inform the public
that our office is now we'll supplied with new
type of the latest styles, and the best ma
chinery in use; and with a choice stock Of
inks cards, papers, &c., We are prepared to
execute as good work as can be done any
where ir the United States. Orders for
Ball Tickets, Freight Billheads,
Bank Notices, Labels,
Bonds and Coupons, Law Blanks,
Bill Heads Law Briefs,
Business Cards, Letter Circulars,
Certificates of Deposit Letter Headings,
Certificates of Stock, Memorandum Billheads
Checks, Note Circulars,
Deposit Tickets, Note Headings,
Drafts and Notes, Programmes,
Envelopes, Policies, Fire& Life 1ns,
Election Tickets, Shinplastels,
Festival Tickets, Wedding Cards,
willreceive prompt attention, and satisfaction
as to quality of work, guaranteed in every
instance. Particular attention given to fine
work in colors.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

- The Postmaster General gives notice that
the sending of indecent postal cards subjects
the offender to fine of from 81 900 to $4,000.
- The Masons of New York have decided
to receive the remains of the late Russian
Minister Orr upon arrival.
During the past week forty thousand emf
grants landed at Castle Garden, Gin New York
city, which is the largest arrival ever known
in one week.
The police of Cincinnati recently arrested
a gang of dog-fghters. 1t was discovered
that the mouths of the dogs had been cut on
each side nearly up to their ears, in order to
enable them to get fuller hold of each other.
"A number of firms, all lumber dealers,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.


Ten thousand postal cards were sold at
the Wilmington post-odice in less than five
hours one day last week.
An itinerant phrenologist who had been
lecturing in various parts of the State, was
arrested in Wilson by New York detective
last week, charged with receiving stolen goods.
Col. D. Wyatt Aiken, of South Carolina,
Deputy of the National Grange of the Pat.
rons of Husbandry, will address the farmers
of Guiford, at Greensboro, on the 9TH Of next
month.
Joseph Baker, charged with killing ne
gro near Charlotte, in February, was tried in
the Superior Court of Mecklenburg last week
and convicted of murder. The jury was com.
posed of whites. Notice of appeal was given.
Rev. w. S. Colston, residing near Green's
boro, fell speechless while experimenting
work on his farm, on Wednesday Of last week,
and died next day. He was in his 5Sth year,
and had been for many years minister in
the M. E. church.
Miss Nancy Hilliard, of Chapel Hill, has
been stricken down with paralysis, and is
speechless and helpless. Many man in and
out of North Carolina, once a rolicking stu.
dent at Chapel Hill, and remembering Miss
Nancy as his landlady, will hear of her af:
Fiction with regret.
- During tho recent term of the United
States Circuit Court at Asheville, the official
conduct of Nathan Scoggins, U: S. Commits.
sioner from Rutherford county, was investi-
gated, and he was dismissed from his position
by Judge Dick. Scoggins was charged with
having accepted bribes to influence his official
action.
- The duty of electing the Mayor Of Will
mington devolves upon the Board of Alder.
men, the Aldermen being elected by the peo.
pie. The new Board had long and spirited
contest over the choice of Mayor, continuing
for several days, which, on the forty-ninth
ballot, resulted in the election of W. P. Can.
aday, Democrat.
On Wednesday night of last week an al
tercation between two negroes in Charlotte
Robert Smith and Charles Moore, resulted
in the killing of Smith. Moore made his es'
cape. His wife was arrested for aiding and
abetting in said murder, which fact she con-
fessed, whereupon, in default of bail, she was
committed to Jail. The murderer was arrest
ed in Chester on Saturday night last, and has
been committed to jail.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-05-29

"dreamers, "drummers" and "smoke-hollows,"
owing to their habit of telling dreams and
predicting from them the future. The latter
appellation is derived from their principal
prophet, Smokehollow, character who has
now an assemblage of 1000 of the different
tribes encaped on the Snake River, in Idaho,
about 500 miles from Portland.