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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-31

The Petersburg lnder thus describes
touching Virginia scene: "Whiie
Deputy Sergeant Charles johnson was
on visit of business at the fair
grounds yesterday morning, he had
the misfortune to be quite severely
. bitten by savage dog on the premi-
ses. His frat impulse on freeing him
self was to shoot the dog, and, draw
ing a revolver, was about to put his
purpose into execution, but the young
lady mistress of the canine pleaded so
earnestly for the life of her pet, that,
despite the smartings of his wounds,
his heart relented and he spared the
lie cs the brute for the sake of the
pretty advocate
The Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette says
''Henry CLARK and family, consisting
OF q wife and FIVE children, arrived in
the city, yesterday, in o very destitute
condition. The family walked the en-
tire distance from Louisiana to this
city in about six weeks, and. are on
their way to Ohio. The party occu-
pied portion of the sidewalk the
greater part of yesterday, and con-
siderable sum of money Was raised to
aid them on theirljourney."
A little boy was asked about the
story of Joseph. and if be knew what
wrong his brethren did in disposing of
him, when he replied, 'I suppose they
sold him too cheap"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-31
Piedmont Airline Railway.

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Danville, Richmond and Danville X. " N.
&. Division, and North Wteteln H. C, Il, ".
GOING NORTH.
STATIONS MAIL ExpRlss
Leave Charlotte.... 7.lOPM 625AN
Leave Salisbury.... 9.5OTM S84AM
Leave Greensboro..... l. 40 A Ii IL IL III
Leave Danville.. ....... 4 81 A M 1871 N
Leave Burkville... 8.44 Am 640PE
Arrive at Richmond. .12.4br n 9MI IA
Leave Richmond...... 2soPM SLOAN
Leave Burkville.. 594rM 828AM
Leave Danville ....... 10 Al T III 1871 III
Leave Greensboro. 2.15A AM 4.(OpM
Leave Salisbury. 81 AN 622rM
Arrive at Charlotte. z 20 AN SG(A N
GOING EAST.
Leave Greensboro. / 45AN N II II A nj
Leave Company Shops 8 SO A N Arl2 POI NJ
Leave Raleigh..... 05 A
Arriveat Goldsboro. II (5AM
GOING WEST.
Leave Goldsboro. t0IM
Leave Raleigh. 755TM
Leave aveCompanyshops 10 05 NJ 2.lbPM
Arriveat Greensboro. I. .3OAM 380pN
North-wes.e:s X H.. Salem P.sch
Leave greensboro 3.4Op nj Arrive 1O. 40 m
Leave Kernersville 8 90 a m Arrive & IN . N
daily both ways over entire
iensth OF road. Express dali, between
Company Shops and Charlotte Snnds1s
excepted. g. E.ALLFE Ger. TickefAot
T MFR. TAtcn1. En- on eer and Gen.
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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-31

REG to announce that their stock OF
~ READY MADE CLIO III ING, CLOTHS.
CASSlMEKES, VESTINGS, SHIRTS, FIN.
ISH1NG GOODS,
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-31
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We havo all the Latest STYLES. and re.
ceiye additions to our stock almost daily.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-10-31
OVER COAT

we are displaying the
latest styles in Blue, Black and brown
Beaver, Blue and Black Cloth, ChnchiIla
and other styles at low prices.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
The Awkward Age"


A wise and sweet woman sucoests
as a sovereign remedy for the uncom
tortableness of that which we are wont
to call ''the awkward age" in boys and
girls-that time when they are too
large to feel like children, and not quite
sure enough Of themselves to feel like
adults-that. we should always treat
even the smallest children with the
courtsey and consideration we show to
grown up people, and then they will
never feel at loss as to their reception
thus quite escaping the uncertain and
uncomfortable awkward age" There
are few things more important in the
right development of a human creature
than self respect. But how is a child
to learn to respect itself if it is alone in
the sentiment-that by no one else is
it respected! More harm is perhaps
done children by snubbling them than
by week indulgence We have all
seen homes where the slightest ex-
preston of a childs idea on any point
under discussion was greeted :. with
'Who asked you what yoaS thought?'
or with some sarcasm such as, "Ah,
now, we shall have the matter settled
Miss Experience is freeing her
mind J. 1t is SO. difficult to hit the
right. mean. We do not. want our
children troublesome to visitors-grown
up people do not care to pause in their
talk to listen to the unconsidered opin-
ions of thirteen But suppose we try
experiment Of respectful attention for a
while ? Would not the. young folks
stop talking. until they had. something
to say, quite as surely if they saw that
their words were listened to with atten
ton as if they felt that their voices
were but beating the air?
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
Auv1aTls1Ne aAT1s .
A Good Deed Brings $1,000, 900 to Q r.eri.a
Nan.
We fnd the following in a jackson.
vile (Fla.l paper of recent date

| We find the following in Jackson
vile Ola. paper of recent date:
More than twenty years ago Major
Waldo A. Blossom, who is now in
jacksonville, was resident of Wash
ington. While there chance cast in
his way young man named Larilner,
IN whom he became deeply Interested
Larimer had been led astray by the in
fluenoe of wicked associations, and was
utterly dissolute aud dissipated-to all
appearance a moral and physical
| wreck. -;
1t is more than probable that Major
Blossom discovered redeeming qualities
IL the young man, notwithstanding the
depths to which dissipation had brought
him, for the "Good Samaritan rescued
him from the gutter, gave him pleas
ant home, assisted him by counsel and
the aid of fine social influence to make
himself a new man. After the refor.
nation was effected, the young man re-
turned to his parents, who resided in
Colorado, and for a number of years
his generous benefactor heard nothing
of him.
In December of last year, Major
Blossoms, attention was called to an
advertisement in Boston paper over
the signature of Larimer, inquiring the
address of W. A. Blossom. He RESI-
ponded to the inquiry, and soon re-
ceived a letter from the parents of bis
former protege in CASTILLO county, Col,
informing him that their son in dying
mad willed his property to him in
gratitude for the kind deed of years
agone. !:.. ...-".,s. -,... J.. -
The letter which feelingly alluded to
this act, gave the sequel to the re-
formed mans life. He applied himself
vigorously to business after his return
to Colorado, became, an honorable and
useful member O. society, and in a few
years amassed large for,une,l all of
which, valued at S1,O00,O00, will fall
into the possession Of Major Blossom
next June. i s...i'.::. -:
No act of genuine charity is ever
lost Somewhere in the conservatory
of good deeds the plant will put forth
its blossoms and shed its perfumes,
perhaps in the balm and. brillisnce of
the, Eternal. Morning, perhaps in the
subdned light and murky atmosphere
Of the mortal life.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14

Gin all the actions that man per
FORMS: some part of his life passeth
We die with doing that for which only
our sliding life was granted. Nay,
though we do nothing, time keeps its
constant pace aud flies as fast in idle
ness as in employment. Whether we
play, or labor, or sleep, or dance, OF
study, the sun posteth, and the sand
runs. An. hour of vice is as long as
an hour. of virtue. But the difference
which follows upon good actions is
infinite from that Of i'll ones, The
good, though it dimiuishes our time
here, yet it laysupa pleasure for eterni-
ty, and will recompense when it taketh
away with aplentiful return at last
When we trade with virtue, we do bu,
buy pleasure with expense of time. 81
it is not so much consuming of tins
as an exchange, or as man sows hit
corn he is content TO want it awhile
that he may at the harvest receive i
with advantage. But the bad deed
that we do here, do not only rob us 0
so much time, but also bespeak a tor
ment for hereafter; and that in such >,
life, as the greatest pleasure we coul,
there be crowded withal, would be: tn
very act of dying. The.one- treasure.
up pleasure in lasting life, the othe
provides us torture in a death eternal.
TOwen Fsltham.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
Advantages Of Crying.

A French physician is out with a
long dissertation on the advantages of
groaning and crying in general, and
especially during operation. He. con
tends that groaning and crying are the
two grand operations by which nature
allays anguish; that those patients who
give way to their natural feelings more
speedily recover from accidents and
operations than those who suppose it
unworthy for man to batray such
symptoms of cowardice as either to
cry or groan. He tells of man who
reduced his pulse from 1926 to 50 in
the course of two hours by giving vent
to his emotions. If people feel at all
unhappy about anything let them so
to their rooms and comfort themselves
with loud booho, and they will feel "a
hundred per cent. better afterwards.
In accordance with the above, the
crying OF children should not be too
greatly discouraged. If it is systemat
ically suppressed, the result may be the
81. Vitus' dance, epileptic, fits, or
some other disease of the system. -
What is natural is nearly always useful,
and nothing can be more natural than
the crying of children when anything
occurs, to give them either physical OF
mental pain. Probably most persons
have experienced the effects of tears in
relieving great sorrow. 1t is even
curious how the feelings are allayed by
free indulgence in groans and signs
Then let parents show more indulgence
to noisy bursts of grief on the part O
children as well as persons, and regard
the eyes and mouth as safety valves
through which nature discharges hel
surplue steam.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14

A SCENE FROM LIFE. "A young man
entered the har-room of a village tavern
and called for drink. NO. said the
landlord, "you have had delirium tire.
mems once, and I cannot sell you any,
more" He stepped aside to make room;
for couple of young mer. who just
entered, and the landlord waited upon
them very politely. The other had
stood by silently and sullen, and when
they had finished BIZ walked up to the
landlord, and thus addressed him:
Six years ago, at their age, l stood
where those young men now are, Il
was man with fair prospects. Now,
at the age of twenty-eight, l am a
wreck, body and mind.a You led me
to drink. In this room formed the
habit that has been nay ruin. Now
sell me few glasses more and your
work will be donel shall soon be out
of,the way; there is no hope for me.
But they can be saved Do not sell it
to them. Sell to me and let me die,
and the world will, be rid of me; but
for heavens sake sell no more to them e..
The landlord listened, pale and trembl
ing. Setting down his. deeanter> he
exclaimed, "God help me, this. is the
last, drop 1 will ever sell to any one!'
And he kept his word.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
ice, this time low, intense, address

hers,
F'Maggie, can you, explain away thil
sickening mysterys find to nay utter
decentralization, that Ned is to b.
married, and not to you. And yet the
cross came to me in his hand writing
| All over Maggie's face famed the red
surges. Her lost treasure found by
Ned Morrison, and sent oh, SC
nlaliciously Ito George Wayland.-
And then glddy, binding rush Of
happiness almost choked her.
20, George! I lost it somehow, some
where. never knew. Do you think,
really, ! could have so--so-"
Her tears. yelling thick and fast, al
most checked her. .-.
But this cross, Maggie, that Won
have on?" t~
1t came in a. blank letter one dav.
two, or. three weeks after I lost
mine, and supposed you wanted to
get rid OF me. You know what you
said"
,Wayland looked utterly, thunder
stricken.
81 have mine at this moment, I have
been as true as steel. See!"
He three back his overcoat, there
was the tiny cross attached to bis
watch cham.
"Ob, Georgcl" :. d:
"Maggie, my own darling!"
1t was utterly incomprehensible to
them, but they loved each other, and
what did they care?
That evening, when all the family
with the two guests, were sitting
around the. fire. Jim Carroll asked
Maggie if she ever received the little
cross he sent her, and then 1t was. as
plain as sunshine, although none of
them knew of Ned Morrisons theft,
nor in their new blissful happiness did
they care.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
The Coming Girl.


| She will be of some use in the world
will cook her own food, will earn
living, and will not die an old maid
The coming girl will not wear I'll,
Grecian bend, dance the German. 10
more all possibilities of knowing how
to work, will not endeavor to breal
the hearts of unsophisticated young
men, will spell correctly, understand
English before she affects French. will
preside with equal grace at the piano
and the dashboard, will spin more
yarn for the house than the street. will
not despise her plainlv-clad mother.
ner poor relation, or the hand of an
honest worker, will wear a bonnet
speak good, plain, unlisping English,
will darn her old stockings, will know
how to make doughnuts, and will not
read the Ledger oftener than she does
the Bible. - &. ..:
The coming girl will walk FIVE miles
a day, If need be, to keep her cheeks in
glow will mind her health, her physi
cal development, and her mother will
adopt costume both sensible and con.
ducive TO comfort and health will not
confound hypocrisy with politeness :.
VIII not place lying to please instead
OF frankness; will have the courage TO
cut an unwelcome acquaintance will
not think that refinement is French
daplicity, that assumed, hospitality
where hate dwells in the. heart is. bet
Ter than cutspoken condemnation ; will
not confound grace of movement; with
silly affectation; will not. regard = the
end OF her very being to have q beau {:
will not smile and smile and be william
still. ."z:...
The coming girl will look to reason.
not to Paris. for erfashions twill not
aim to follow a foolish fashion because
milliners and dressmakers have derreed
1t; will not torture her. body, skriyel
her soul with puerilities, or. ruin it
with wine and pl easure. In short, the
coming girl will, seek to glorify her
Maker and to enjoy his works. Duty
Will be her aim, and her life a living
reality.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
The Printers Devil.

When Aldus Manutius set up in
business as printer in Venice, he
came in possession of little negro
boy. This boy was soon known all
over the city as ''the little black devil,"
for, at that time, negroes were not often
seen in Venice, and some of the most
ignorant people believed him to be
either an embodiment or an emissary
ofSatan, who aided Aldus in the work
Of bis profession. One day Manutius
desiring to dispel this strange and
spreading opinion, displayed the young
imp publicly to the poorer classes maxi,
ing this short and characteristic speech:
'.Be. it known to you and all Venice,
that I, Aldus Manutius, printer to the
Holy Church and the Doge, have this
day made exposure to all of the prin-
ter's devil. And if any think he is not
like us, flesh and blood, they may come
and pinch him, and they will find that
though he is black, he is human"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
The St. Louis Republican. n strono

The St. Louis Republican, strong
Granger supporter at, one time, is re-
sponsible for the following: -. -:
"A Woodson county Granger has
bought a. pillow through the State
Grange for $l7.1l. He could have
bought the same pillow at home for
$3.50. But who cares for 1891,
when monopoly is to be broken
down!
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
.sRnttifat.aml
FORGET / LOVE THEE.

Thou bidd'st me crush It out, and 1--we II down.
Stamp out its mern'ry from my aching brain;
ForgetI loved, remove the thorny crown 20
That presses on my brow with maddening pain.
~ Efe,E e 4 ~
Dost think there turks within the human breaAt
80 little Of the holy hre OF Love
Thst words can quench it Thinkest thou that rest
- Can come with years, or cen in realms abovdf
I'll tell thee, thou hast never felt the IRE -.
= OF loves imprisoned flame, or til wouldst kno
That hope deferred, the unattained desire, ft
But fans the ember into brighter glow.
Forget love thee! Almost bid me oess -tliz
To dream Of heaven as bury thought Of thee;
Dost think my heart never beat in peace 30 g
Apart from thine? dost think that thou art frsa.
tell thee while we hold our earthly ewsy, -'Sa-l
My very pulse shall beat response to thine; -
Ay, more, when from the earth we pass away,
Thy spiri q haunt shall still be sought by mine.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14

The world is full Of men who will
cheerfully .t'boss. a job" for dollar and
half day,when five dollars day for
actual work would not be the slightest
temptation for them
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14
The Valus Of SunAowers.

We would call the attention of far
mers at this time to the value of sun
flowers as CROP, and enumerate some
of their values and uses. In the first
place, the flowers abound in honey, and
furnish food for bees. The. seeds con
tain oleaginous matter, and yield oil at
the rate ot.one gallon to-. the bushel,
which IS but little inferior to olive oil.
One acre will produce fifty bushels of
seed. 1t is also valuable food for hor-
ses and poultry. 1t has been used for
bread by the American Indians and
also in Portugal. The leaves are ex-
cellent fodder fer cattle. The stalks
while growing may be utilized as bean
poles where they are scarce and diff
cult to be obtained, and dry, may, be
used as roofing, Or set up against a
fence to form a. wind break. They
contain large amount of potash, and
are excellent for ,,Aindling. The seed
has also been recommended for fuel
The reputation of the growing sun
flower to absorb lniasmatic vapors and
preventing fever and ague, is well
known.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14

2 A Canadian matron, one hundred
and eight years old, is still able to
devote much energy to bringing up
her little boy, aged ninety three.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14

Children fed on New York milk re-
CURE no chalk mixture.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14

~ REEN's MANSION HOUSE,
" ALEXANDRIA, VA.
JAMES GhEEN, PROPRIETOR.
Is rst-class hotel, in every respect The citizens
Of the valley having bushes in Alexandria or Washing
ton and travellers going North South will find this
agreeable resting place the route it does not
require the early start by several hours from Wash
ington Baltimore Cars and Steamboats, leave Al
ekandra for Washington return every hour from
A. NJ. to IN P. NJ. Jan TT
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-05-14

George Wayland, on his way home
from hard days work, stopped in the
post office in the far off Western city
for the long delayed letter from. Mag
gle Carroll. 1t had been fortnight
now, since he had received the last, and
a worried sort of feeling took possess
sion of him at,the delay. -,
Was Maggie i'll 2 away from home -
or-George hated himself for the ugly
thought that more than once fitted un>
hidden across his mind-Morrison's
heirship to along disputed estate, that
Maggie could have changed her mind I
Yes, it was barely possible and that
was all, George decided; and when the
mail was at last opened, and: the, rush at
the boxes was lessened somewhat, and
George actually saw there was one, for
him, be felt,it was very impossible. Il.
But he shook with surprise and sick
fear to zee Ncy. Mor,ison's handwriting
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-03-01
THE rnoNrrrn or TEXAS.

In the tier of counties lying on the
west line ofsTexas, or rather the line
westward OF the settled portions Of
the State, live u singularly hardy and
adventurous ~ ple. They are men
who have heard the whoop of the
bloody sca'pers, who have been SO long
winked at, by the local authorities o
Texas, and who have SO long been fed
by the bounties of the General Gov.
eminent. Now, to-day it is question
between these scalpers, and settlers,
OF lie and all that is desirable OF
tolerable. We have been unsparing
IN our denunciations of the parsimouy
policy of the General Government,
in its dealings with this question.
We have complained that General
Grant has sat serenely in the chair of
state, at Washington, all careless and
unfeeling, while the poor defeuseless
settlers, upon our extreme Western
border. have bcen butchered with im-
punity. Aud indeed twas hard. but
now we have o Dem ocratic Legisla.
ture, elected upon pledges TO afford
adequate protection" to these peo-
pie, and the empty treasury is flung
in the faces OF the men whose wives
and daughters are serving out cap
tivity with the savages, compared
with which, death IN Its most revolt :
ing forms would lie preferable, and
whose helpless little innocents have
been butchered before their
eyes fand this same Dem>
ocratic Legislature, can stop and
count dollars and conts, in bill of
costs, upon move which is TO correct
such state OF things at this. Is it
good Democracy? Is it even passa-
bIe hone sly? Ne, no, a thousand
times no ! WLora az the pledges of
the Legislators, where The platform,
and where the l1gari Tor either? 1t
certainly makes u great difference as
TO Ehelhtra m.n is IN OF out. We
trust that LX cai,ve Prerogative, will
be sire. chci as lar As possible in the
direction o. cur suffering borderers.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1874-03-01
gnsiis,inci Ailments.

There are many distressing symptoms Of difeas,
the causes Oi which are pncsria n. Dth'li 3, neI
vous IL ilaiOn, mcn'al stupDr, and headache, fo
iustance, may ~ ssibly be sJmptomatic Of chTOni,
diselse In some particular organ " IN large ma
iorty Of c,scs, ~ least, iiey arise lrotn Indigestion
and morbid conditions oi the liver ard bowels eR
few doses Of llOsieiicr's Stomach ~ Ter. vii
usually effect complete cure. hut rhould the tyml
toms &c oily mitigatcd wthout he ng entirely r
moved, by a brief course nf the remedy l,t II be
continued until evoIy trace ~ di ease has va
ish, d. Byspc,4A II wonderful miulc II ifni
ti'cs with startling sCcnr ti'r iudi All ~ uf heart
disease, rim discHee. ki1n"y di-ra-c, aud u biii
Oxen other fightin' nnenis, sud The dugt " have
folemnly anuOnrced TIE Aisiri cC ~ one or other
OF these complaints, half Il doses Of The Rit.
ters Will in mot case, explode iher theories OF
C lrng the patient,