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Middletown transcript., 1875-12-18
KNIGHTS or PYTHIAS.

DAMON LODGE, No. IL Meets every Friday
evening at 8 o'clock. Lodge room in the
Town Hall.
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OFFICERS OF CITIZENS NATL
BANK.

DIREcroRs Henry Clayton, B. Gibbs, B.
r. Biggs. John A. Reynolds, James Culbert-
son, e. G. Fenimore, NJ. E. Walker, J. B.
Cazier, Joseph Biggs.
PRESIDENT Clayton,
CASHIER. R. Hall.
TELLER.-John s. Crouch.
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was su0 uEet udyS VI autumu, Tue
air was balmy as summer. crickets and
katiedids chirped in the foliage around
Ainsley Hall; some Of the trees were
decorated with brighter huee. the spires
of Washington loomed brightly through
the silvery mist. that hung Ger the
city. the moonlight kissed the peace
fully flowing waters of the Potomac,
and played hide and seek through the
Jessamine vine, that trailed it's sprays
Of white blossoms round the portico, On
the floor, at the feet Of a lovely maiden
this was Clara Ainsley the heroine
Of my story. M
Instantly she took in the whole scene.
and her heart gave joyful bound, Ar
a low warbling, like a birds, fell on her
ear.
Breaking of spray Of the sweet
flowers, radiant light played Ger the
young face, springing to the mossy turf
below, she was soon in the bower with
her lover.
"Wby were you la:e tonight. Clars?'
said Mortimore Dare, as he drew her
down beside him.
Been out riding with that Percy
fellow, eh |! little one 7" be added play
fully. holding her of. and earnestly
scanning her face; that suHused with
bushes then turned pale under the
steady gaze.
mo Mort, ! have not been out this
evening. you know l cannot help being
in Hsrry's company; we are under one
guardian, and reside in the same house. !
| am sorry. if | disappointed you!" she
said with down-cast eyes. and her
plump hands folded, half listlessly 10 |
her lap. but Gusrdie would have
me sing to him and finish game Of
chess with Harry"
IF you disappointed me. o! Clara.
l cannot stand this any longer; you
know how it hurts my feelings. and it
is nothing but heartlessness on your
part"
20 Mort! how could you speak so p
said Clara, her blue orbs bedimmed
with tears"
There now. little one, forgive me.
| will try and not do SO again"
"How can l do otherwise, knowing
how true and noble you are"
Poor little Clara. God knows what
We are, be alone can judge US right"
be murmured, stroking her golden
sreases.
"Why do you say poor little Clara 2
D! Mort please don't talk so!'
He needed not her words but again
repeated: Poor little darling" still
'moothing the moon-kissed tresses. that I
ell in bright waves over bis arm and
llmost vailed the fragile form from
REV. ..Clara. what would you do il
was to leave you. prove utterly false
0 this trust you have placed in me ?"
"Oh! you cannot mean it Mort. tell
pc you are only testing my faith don't Z
it gazing in that way. look at me,
peak to me? ?" She sobbed clasping |
er hands tighter.
Az Dare met the imploring eyes Of !
lara. deep sigh escaped bis lips.
Would to God deserved this bound {
- faith, ! only wish that were all 8
ut answer me, what would you do?"
For moment she looked vacsntly in 4
is face. her eyes were dilated. and b
pr apart; while the roseate vail she
ID worn. was driven away by tho C
Alor akin to death her hands relaxed, .
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I. o. o. F.

=, Coon SAMARITAN LODGE, No 9. Meets every
Thursday evening att o'clock. Lodge Room
in Cochran Hall, No. Q, Cochran Square.
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STAGE LINES

Stage for Odessa. with q. s. Mail, leave.
shortly after arrival of the l0.43 am and 7.5s
mail trains.
Stages for Warwick, Sassafras and Cecilton
leave shortly after arrival of the l0.43 n
train ~ ~ y ~
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POST OFFICE.

OFFICE HoURs.-Opens at 8 80 N and
closes at 8 p % every day except Sunday
Mails for the North close at 7.30 q N, and
2.45 p m.
Mail for the South closes at 10 Is q n.
Mails for Odessa close at l0.23 N and 7.30
pm. N
4 Nails for Warwick, Sassairas and Cecilton
close at % N.
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DIRECTORS OF TOWN HALL co

JIM. Coz, Pres; Samuel Pennington, Sec.;
J. r. Hall. Treas; R. A. Cochran, Jas Gull
oertson, Jas. H. Scowdrick, VIM. d. Barr.
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Criminal Storp.
Written for the Middlctown TRANSCRIPT.
CLARA AINSLEY.
BY LILLE BELL .

Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips
The days, asthrough the sunset gates they
crowd.
And summer from her golden collar slips,
And strays through stubble fields, and
means aloud.
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2Stldalttoup Artftorp.
CORPORATION OFFICERS.

TowN COMMISSIONERS E w. Lockwood,
President; j. R. Hall, Secretary; L. ?. Nc
Dowell, j. H. Walker, L g. Vandegrift.
Assessor &C. E. Anderson.
TREASURER. Hanson:
JUsTlC. or rHEs EsPEAcE.-DeW.C. Walker.
CoNsrABLE AND PoEicEMAN.-Vacant.
LAxpLreHrER.-F. @. Schreitz.
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MIDDLETOWN LIBRARY AND
. READING-ROOM.

e W. Lockwood, Pres; J. r. Budd, Sec'y !;
Rooms in TRAEscRIPr Building. Reading
Room open every day until 10 o'clock, p m.
Library open on Wednesdays and Saturdays
from O'Clock to 5 p m.
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Save when by fits the summer air deceives,
And, stealing hopeful TO some sheltered
bower,
She lies in pillows of the yellow leaves,
And tries the old tunes over for an hour.
Alice Cary.
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NOTARY PUBLIC.
John A. Reynolds.
TRUSTEES OF TIE ACADEMY.

Hon John P. Cochran, Pres. Henry Davis,
rreas Samuel Pennington, Secretary; James
Kanely, B. Gibbs, R. T. Cochran. n. Williams.
PRIHcrpAL OF AcADEMY.-T. 8. Stevens.
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DELAWARE RAILROAD.

Passenger trains going North leave at TAG
m and 8 OIL p m. going South at 1898 M
and 7.56 p m. Freight trains with passenger
car attached, going North, leave at $40 p m ;
going South, at 30 m.
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DIAMOND STATE BRASS BAND
Meets for practice every Monday evening at
8 o'clock.
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AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
PrNINs. AGRICULTURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL As
ISOLATION WIN. R. Cochran, President; J. T..
Budd, Secretary ! VIM. R. Cochran, Chairman
Of Board Of Managers. Annual Meeting third
Saturday in January.
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THE ONLY ONE IN TOWN.
Also, q large stock Of
BOYS CLOTHING
SUITS TO ORDER

on hand. Besides ether Clothing at Low
Prices. We alse make
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and guarantee good 6t. Give us call a.
the oldsstand, Lock wood's Corner, before you
60 elsewhere.
s. 3. ESTES & CO.,
Middletown, Del.
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Meets 10
8 o'clock.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01

The Scilly Islands have been entirely
oflate years, and mainly
by the efforts of one energetic, benevo-
lent minded man, who devoted his life to
their improvement. These islands are
part and parcel Of the Duchy Of Corn
wall. which as most people are aware,
has for many centuries been the peculiar
sppanage Of the Prince Of Wales as Duke
OF Cornwall Upto about forty years
ago they had been let for very long and
successive periods to the once celebrated
family Of Godolphin, now represented by
the Duke Of Leeds, but when, in the
reign of William Nv, the lease expired,
an application was made for a lease by a
gentleman Of large fortune, whose father
had been member of the great London
banking house Of Smith, Payne Il Smith.
Mr. Augustus Smith was well known to
William Nv, who had, indeed, been under
considerable obligations to his father, il
is said, and the lease was at once made
as desired The report has always been
prevalent in Cornwall that the new
lessee Of the Scilys had in h'g youth
been disappointed in love in q manner
which determined him on perpetual
cehtaey. Be this as il may, he never
married. He entered Parliament, passed
about FIVE months in theyear in London,
and the remainder Of his home in scilly,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01
MEMPHIS BsTENN: TUESDAY EVENING. JUNE l, 1875

where he created, at Tresco Abbey, one
Of the most unique, romantic, and luxnr-
ioHs retreats whichthe world can show.
But selfish enjoyment was BY no means
his aim. He desired to reform the
rugged and eccentric population which
had drifted to the shores of his little
kingdom. The task proved almost as
hard as the similar work which Lord
George Hill, with untiring patience, un-
dertook at Gweedore, in the wilds OF
Donegal 1t was only by dint Of most
judicious admixture of 6rmness and
eosxing that Mr. Augustus Smith
gradually made progress, and at
length completely succeeded. He
lived to enjoy for many years
the result of his WoFk--to see an
industrious, energetic and thriving popu-
lation around him, whose children went
out to the mainland and to the colonies
TO make their Esy-for he fought against
overpopulation-tbe equal of any work
ingmen in the Queens dominions. At
his death, about three years ago, Tresco
passed to his relative, Mr.. Smith Dor
rien. Under Mr.. Smiths management
the Scillys have probably quadrupled in
value, and will form splendid addition
to the revenues of the Prince of Wales,
when they once more geturR to the
Ducby on the expiration Of the lease.
Mr.. Smith first taught the people to aP-
preciate their neighbor-the Gulf
Stream, which brings them balmy
breezes long before they reach Northern
and Eastern England, and thus Seilly
gradually became an important pur-
veyor Of early vegetables for the Lon
don market, and C0veut Garden put
thousands into the pockets Of the people.
Good comes out of evil, and Mr.. Smiths
unlucky love affair has been the making
of Seillv. E.. .-ft.-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01
Portrail of Pocahentas.

The Richmond Journal says that DR..
James Beale has deposited in the State
Library Of Virginia portrait Of the
Indian Princess Pocahontas, to whom
many of the leading Virginia families
trace their origin. The paper says this
portrait makes Poeahontas a very pretty
woman of about twenty years Of age,
and clothed in the uppermost toggery
prevalent in the ration of her father,
King Powhatan. The portrait deposited
by DR.. Beale is au exact copy BY the
elder Sully, made in 1890 Of an original
portrait Of Pocahontas, painted between
the years 1916 and l6l5, during her visit
TO England, in company with her has
band, John Role. The remains Of the
original portrait were in lS43 in posses
sion OF DR.. Robinson, in Petersburg.
Thomas Rolfe, a son OF Poeahontas, was
born at Plymouth, England, in 1916,
soon after his brother arrived there, and
his mother died at Gravesend in 1917.
Her son, after his arrival at man s es-
tate, returned to Virginia end married,
and died leaving an only child, John
Rolling, whose daughter, Jone married
Richard Randolph, Of Curles, iu the
county of Henrieo, State Of Virginia.
Ryland Randolph, son of the latter, pro-
cured from England the original por-
traits OF John Rolfe and P6eahontas
and placed them where they hang for
many years in his mansion at Turkey
Island. Mr.. Randolph died in 1884,
when both pictures passed into the DOS.
session Of Thomas Boiling, of Cobbs, in
Chesterfield county. These pictures are
named in an enumeration Of the estate
Of Mr. Randolph, recorded in Henrico
county court in 1884.
-
n -, ~ r.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01
mo. 1903.
NOn-Resident Notice.

In the First chancery Court of Shelby county.
Tennessee-R. O. Brinkley vs.. Madison W /.
II Jones ct al
IT APPEARING FROM THE BILL WHICH
Il issworn to in this cause that the defend-
ant, Madison W. Jones, is nonresident Of
the State Of Tennessee; that he is indebted to
comp Plainant in the sum Of SLIGO 80, evidenced
by judgment in the Chancery Court of Mem
phis, with interest from February 5, 1870, and
attachment having been issued and levied on
the property of M. W. Jones; it is therefore
ordered that be make his appearance herein,
At the Courthouse in the city of Memphis,
Tenn, on OF before the first Monday in July,
1876. and plead, answer or demur 10 complain.
ants bill or the same will be taken for con-
fessed as TO him and SGT for hearing exparte,
and that copy. Of this order be published
once week, for four successive weeks. in the
Public Ledger. T
This 2Sth day Of May, 1876.
A copy-Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, C. and M.
BY E. B. MCHESRY, Deputy G. and M,
T7-8(SQ-e5
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01
mo. 1882.
NOn-Resident Notice.

In the First Chancery Court Of Shelby county.
Tennessee. W.. IL. Goodlett ct al. VS.. j, A.
Anderson. administrator of e. B. Spencer,
deceased. and others.
1T APPEARING FROM THE ALLEGA-
4 TIONS Of this bill, which is sworn to, In
this cause that the defendant, B r. Maclin,
Is indebted to complainants in the sum Of
Sll75, with interest from January 8, 1870, evil
deneed by open account. and attachment hav-
ing been Issued and levied on the property Of
said b. H.. Maeliny also that said b. X. Mac
lin, B. ], Maelin, A. W. Maclin. W. Il. Tom
linsOn, L: ii. Maelin and the heirs Of Victoria
Henry formerly Victoria Maclin), whose
names and places Of residence are unknown
and cannot be ascertained after diligent in
quiry, and who may perhaps be interested in
the property involved in this suit. are nom
residents of the State of Tennessee il is there
fore ordered thatthey make their appearance
herein at the courthouse in the city Of Mem
phis, Tennessee, on or before the first Monday
in July, 1875, and plead, answer or demur 10
coInplainants' bill, or the same win be taken
for confessed as.to them and set for hearing
ex parte. and that copy of this order be pub
lished once weak, for four successive weeks,
in the Public Ledger.
This 2Sth day Of May, 1875.
c0py--Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, @. and NJ.
BY Il. B, MoHEERY, ID. @. and NJ.
WILSON \ BsARD, Solicitors for Plaintiff.
p 77-83-S9-95
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SUMMER RESORT.
Bon Aqua Springs,
HICKMAN COUNTY, TENN.

FTIHIS WELL KNOWN SUMMER RESORT
Il will be open 10 visitors Tune 10, 1873.
A thorough analysis Of these remarkable
waters will be ssnt Gu application. By mail.
and will exhibit In detail the estimate placed
upon them BY the highest chemical and msli-
cal authority In the State.
The Springs are located eight miles from
Bon Aqua Station, on the Na'hville and
Northwestern railway. Every convenience
and amusement will be provided for the en-
tertainment of guests that can ho found at
any similar resort. Location elevated anu
unsurpassed in romantic beauty. trrrh
Elegant new hacks have been bnilt BIZ the
company ana win promptly meet every train.
You leave Memphis on the morning train
and arrive at the Springs before night same
day.
Ed, Doutaz. formerly Of the Overton Hotel.
will have charge Of the Table.
Rates Of Board, $40 per month. Usual re-
duction for children and servants.
Railroad fare from Memphis to the gpringz
and return. Sl2. Telegraph and Express fa :
cilities perfect, We invite correspondence.
NJ. J.. SELDEN, PRECEDENT.
W. g. PATrEsOS, Secretary. GOA
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01
Saturday, June 10. 1875.

within legal hours. the following described
property. situated in Shelby county. Tennes-
see, to-Wit: In section i, range 4, in the
EleVentn Surveyors District. and in the
Ient5 Civil District Of Shelby county: Begin-
ming 81 chains and so links north OF the SOUTH
west corner Of an S0-aere tract Of land con :
yeyed BY Julian and Virginia Bradford 10
Albert Jarman on the 18th day Of November,
lsl0. at stake with cow-Oak pointers marked
rs and running thence north chains and 10
IS links to. the center Of Wolf river; thence
south Sl14 degrees west 100 links; thence south
IA degrees west 400 links; thence north T5IL
degrees west 800 links; thence north l2k de-
gFees west 900 links; thence north Il degrees
east 4oO linksi thence north 3l1z degrees east
10 links; thence north IS degrees west 800
linksi THENCE south Ga degrees west 400 links;
thence aorth % degrees west 200 links; thenee
north II degrees west 40i links; thencs south
20 degrees west $50 links; thence north Is
degrees west $50 links; thence south ~ de-
grees east 800 link: thence south So degrees
west $50 links; tbenee north 57% degrees west
700 links theneo north lsh degrees west 600
links; thence north 40 degrees west 100 links;
thence south Is degrees west $50 links; thence
south 75 degrees west 20 links, opposite the
mouth OF Saunders creeS; thence up said
creek south degrees east 100 links; thence
south 90 degrees west go links; thence soath
Al degrees west $50 links; thence south 2llz de-
grees west 1903 links; thence north 81 degrees
west E0 linksi thence south 5715 degrees west
4oO links; thence. north 81 degrees west 90
INKS thence south 10 degrees west 600 links
70 Il. Shelton's north line; thence east s.
chains and 70 links to the beginning; contain
ing 92H acres.
Terms Of Sale-Cash.
This May 2S, lb75.
3. A. COLE, c. and NJ. .
By r. ]. BLACK. D. G. and NJ.
KoRrRECHT, CRAFT SCALES, Attorneys.
7-S3-S9-a5
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Attachment Notice.


W. z. Mitchelll Before r. B. Miller, Jus
VS.. tice of Peace of Shelby
Thos. B. Tate. county, Tennessee.
IN THIS CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT
j having been sued out under section 1856 Of
the Code Of Tennessee, and returned By the
proper oficer levied upon the property Of the
that the defendant Is Justly indebted to the
plaintiff in the sum Of - by note. and
that defendant Is a nonresident Of the State
Of Tennessee; II Is therefore ordered that de-
fendant make hispersonal appearance be-
June, 1875, at II m. at my Office, No. l66 Main
street, Memphis. Shelby county, Tenn,
and defend said attachment suit, within the
time prescribed by law, OF the same will Be
proceeded with ex parte; and that a copy OF
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This li;h day Of May, 1875.
\ 6l-IS-Ig-s5 n. B. MILLER, J.P.
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mo, l906.I
NOn,Resident Notice.

In the First Chancery Court of Shelby eountv.
Tennessee-B. P. Anderson, Comnaissienef
Of Revenue. vs.. John sadarans ct al. 7
1T APPEARING FROM THE BILL.
the defendant, John Safarans, is a
non-residents Of the State Of TENNESSEE; Il
is therefore ordered that be make his
appearance herein. at the court house In
the city Of Memphis. Tenn, !, on or before the
first Monday in june, 1875, and plead. answer
will be taken for confessed as 10 him. and set
for hearing ex parte; and thst copy Of this
order be published once o week for four sue
cessiye weeks, in the Public Ledger.
This 7th day of May, 1875.
A copy-Attest:
EDWUND A. COLE, C. andM.
By E. B. MoI1KSRY ID. @. and Nj.
joys JOHNSTON, Solicitor for complainant.
E0-66-T2 "a T7If
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01

GRAIN RAIsERs REFUSE 10 sub
NIT 10 the wasteful and imperfect work ef
other Threshers. when posted on the east supe-
rioTItV Of this one. for saving grain. saving
time, and doing fast. thorough and economi-
cal work. Hal Isqrr ..w -I.
THRESHERMEN FIND 1T highly adyan-
tageous 10 run a machine that has no Beat
ers" " Pickers," or Apron" that handles
Damp Grain. Long Straw, Headings, Flnx,
Timothy. Milett and all such dificult grain
and seeds, with ENTIRE EASE AND
EFFECTIVENE ES3. Cleans 70 perfection:
saves the farmer his thresh bill BY EXTRA saw
ing OF grain, makes no Litterings" re-
'guires LESS THAN 0ER-HALF the usual
Belts, Boxes. Journals, and Gears; easier
managed less repairs; one that grain raigeTs
prefer TO employ and walt for, even nc
advanced prices, while other machines
are "out Of jobs"
12 horse " Mounted y Powers, also
n speciality Of eepaFRtoFs "alone,"
expressly fer STEAM POWER. and
20 match other Horse Powers. -
II interested in grain raising, or threshing,
write for Illustrated Circulars (sent feel with
full particulars Of sizes, styles. prices, terms,
etc, NICHOLS, SHEPARD 4 co,
ig-l65kW battle Creek. MickioGn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01
SPECIAL NOTICE.



It the hight Of folly TO neglect precau-
tionary measures for the preservation Of
health, when they Become necessary in cO1se-
quepce of hurtful influences. Among th sse
Influences are the unavoidable inhalation
of malarious or fetid air, exposure in bad
weather. unhealthy occupations and habitual
late hours, all Of which tend to produce dis
ease. To guard against their effects vigor-
GUS and regular discharge Of the bodily fune-
Bitters is the tonic, Of all others, best calcu-
lated 70 perpetuate bodily Yigor and regular
ity. The experience Of denizens Of unhealthy
localities, outdoor laborers, employees In
manufactures. and late workers Of all kinds.
has shown that a wineglassful Of this pleas
ant safeguard taken at regular intervals inn
parts an amount of stamina and power of re-
sistance 10 disease afforded By no ether pro-
tective and remedial agent. The nervous, the
weak and the dyspeptic, derive inealculable
benefit from its use, and pronounce II the best
preparation OF its class. eOd-77-72kw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01
MANHOOD.
BTANMOOD RESTORED,

A VICTIM OF YOUTHFUL IMPRU.
IA dence, causing premature decay, ner-
yous debility, ETC., having tried in vain every
which he will send free TO his feliow-suferers.
Address J. II. REEVES, Is Nassau street,
New York.l ~. e0d.lG
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-01
A CENTENNIAL ODE.
E, WHITMORR,
Publisber and Proprietor.

Of Nokesville. Prince William county, Va, a
very learned and venerable Presbyterian min
iiter, about eighty.three years Of age, ap-
peared recently in the Baltimore Methodist
Protestant. Heis son of the Rev. Stephen
B. Balch referred to in the note subjoined
which accompanied his lines. and therefore q
nephew of the second signer of the Mecklen-
burg Declaration CT Independence:
raE 10Th OF NAY, 1775.
This day one hundred years ago,
Our fathers met in Charlotte town
To make our Independence known
Of England's Parliament and crown.
The day, methinks. in brightness shOne.
And bslmy breezes freely play'd
In correspondence with the deed
That Meeklenburg immortal made.
1t was the month when nature blooms,
And crimson flowers their leaves unfold;
But freedom is more sweet than plants,
When Spring has all their tints unrolled.
For when our bands too tight become.
And when our chains Oppressive feel,
Wemust lie down in seryitude,
--0rmake to God our last appeal.
So thought the aires Of Mseklenb1rg,
Who on TO Charlotte epurred their steeds
To sound the tocsin Of alarm
That once had reused the drowsy Swedes.
And Scots that knelt at Bannockburn.
And welded their lOud-sounding bows
Against invaders Of their soil.
Where now the peaceful Carron flows.
Should freedom, like the tabled bird,
In its own scarlet splendor die,
That bird will surely live again,
10 start beneath our azure sky;
And perching on Mount Vernon's toz1b,
Pour forth It's ever charming voice,
To bid as rend oppression's chain.
And then In our tree land rejoice.
Our fearless sires Of 'seventy-fve.
Have paid the debt TO nature due;
But may their sens like roebucks clinab
Their green hillsides and mountains blue
No curfew bell must toll the hour.
Al which 10 queneh domestic free.
Sous will protect the InRlesides
Defended by their noble sires.
The Meeklenburg declaration was de-
termined document, and, of course, not
laden with verbiage. IL was drawn BY
Ephraim Brevard, who graduated in l168
at Nassau hall, 10 new Jersey. ne nrst
signed it as chairman OF the convention,
Its, second signer, according to DR..
Foote' 3 sketches Of North Carolina, was
the Rev. Hesekiah James Balch, na.
tive of Hartford county, near Church
Hill, Maryland. he was graduated at
Princeton College in l766 in the same
class with Oliver Ellsworth, Chief Justice
Of the old thirteen, who died 1907, and
Luther Martin, native ssof New Jersey
who plead his first cause at Snow Hill
Maryland, and died in 1926. Ramsay
the historian, was at college at the same
time With these gentlemen, but not in the
same class. In 1853 the reverend signel
left the neighborhood Of Church Hill
and became pastor Of the Poplar Ten
Church, near the towp Of Charlotte, N
c., and died l776. The congregation il
still increasing. His parents were from
Wales, and be was brother 10 Stepher
B. Of Georgetown, d. G.
7. B. BALCH.