Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-12-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THIS u nm QUESTION tha. troubles q
Frersch Justice Of tho Pcaca A droyer
ard butcher in the market adjusting
their accounts went 10 tavern 70 diac
together. During the mea: the butcher
took from his pocket . bank notc of 100
francs value. wherewith 10 paw tho
drover, but in handing It over let II fail
III a dish Of gravy. He snatchei il ont.
and holding it between a thumb and
foreinger, waved i. to aud fro 20 dry il.
The droyer's dog accepting this move
ment ~ a friendly invitation, and liking
the smell OF the saturated note, made
spring at it and swallowed it. The
butcher was furions "Givs me nv
money" he demanded. "kill the dog
and open him." Not by q bIanked
sight, replied the drover; "my dog is
worth more than 100 francs" Then
owe you nothing. Your dog has col;
lected for you before witnesses. "Mv
dog is not my cashier. And besides.
where is your receipt?" "The Justice
will have to settle this" "Iet hin,."
And now for weeks the Justice has
been seeking law or precedent for such
a case, and the townsmen have been on
tho verge Of q riot over it again and
agun.
AT REUNION OF THE original Aboli-
tionists in New York, the story was told
about an attempt to break up the meet
ing at the Broadway Tabernacle fifty
years ago by Capt Isak Rynders. Tho
captain, who is now about 50 years old,
says the story told was not true, and
says" got mad at Garrison because
he was an intidel, and he made some
blasphemous remark about Jesus Christ.
He also used some insulting language
about President Taylor. would not
listen without protest to their blasphem-
GUS language. did jump on the plat
form and grab Garrison by the collar,
and did say to him, If you say that
again will throw you of the platform.
and would have done it.. I was not
afraid of anybody in those days. l had
no gang with me, and ~ for any organ
lied attack on the meeting there was
none, except what was done by ma
| alone"
| A NOTABLE DRuNKARD who recently
died III Paris i'll his sevcnticth year kerl
a record Of his potations for half cen
turv, so that mankind have al orportun-
,ty Of estimating the amount OF abuse
which phenomenal organization is able
10 endure. His daily allowance OF wine
was four bottles, SO that in fifty years r.,
emptied total OF $1,000 bottles. He
could never eat until he had taken 4
dram of absinthe, aud sas he had three
meals day he must have swallowed
81, 750 drams OF that poison during the
fifty years. But in addition to all this
he found it convenient TO drink daily
about twelve small glasses Of liquor or n
total Of 2l9, 900 glasses in the half century.
His oldest acquaiutances declare that
they never saw him perfectly sober. A
fine career certainly for this nineteenth
century of grace
| a CHICAGO uAcgMAs, who has pleas
ant face and winning ways, has, accord
ing to the Chicago Herald, gained
$40, 900 from his business in the past ten
years His eye falls on country ma.
getting ont OF the train 10 make his first
visit to the city. The hackman engage.
TO show the stranger around town for q
dollar. Ere they reach clothing stora
he has persuaded his customer TO buy q
new suit Of clothes, and then the two
nnst necessarily go to a bhomakcr's n
get boots TO match. And 80 the hack
man trots his man around until the cit,
grateful TO the man who has taken ~
much pains with him. In the evening
the hackman goes tn the traders ard
draws his commissions.
THE cEsscs OF 1880 gives the tosa
population Of Austria and Hungary a
81, ,7o6, ZIG, of which number -. IA, ~
belong to Austria and Is. G4o OG2 I.
Hungary. Divided into natlonali,ies
the population Of the two countries cnsI
. sists, In round numbers, OF l0.oc1. %
Germans, 1000, 600 Czecha and Moray
ians, 6, 900. 900 Magyar, 4, 2O0. .DD Servo
| Croa.s, 3, 30o, ,0Oo Poles, !. 200. 900 Ruth
eni2ns, 2, JO0, O00 Eoumanians. ,2p. .fs'
i, Slovenians, aud CSC. 900 I.aliana. Gas
sitied according TO their religious ;ele.s
, there are g, 753. .lG9 C.sholics of il'
Roman, Greek. and Oriental Churches
3. 40. 600 Orthodox Greeks. 2.lo0.W.
), Protes.ants oi the Helvetic confession
40. 600 pYosestanfs of the AugsbuYi
:. confession, aud l, ,64D. go Isr.elits>.
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