The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-04-20
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ANlUINU I'LL LAO1AlNULJ'
Ashe county, which has never been ac-
cused of being backward in the matter
of sensations, now comes forward with
something new, to-wit a case of Bias
phemy," which came up for trial at last
weeks court. and the parties submitted
and paid the cost. Commenting on it, the
Wilkesboro Chronicle says:
This is the first case Of the kind on
record in this section. so far as we can
learn. The parties loaded up with the
liquid extracts of corn and went to mill
pond on 'Hoss Greek" on Sunday and
baptized each other as best they could
under the circumstances. Their loud
shouting and praying disturbed the neigh
bors and they were indicted for bias
phemy. Blasphemy is not statutory Of
tense in this State. but it is common
law offense. It would probably be good
thing to make blasphemy statutory Of
tense for the accommodation of our neigh
Dor county which delights in getting UP
something new.
The Wilmington Star grows facetious
over the skeleton of a prehistoric woman
dug up recently in excavating a cliff on
the Tennessee and North Carolina Rail
way.
"She wasn't very tall female, ex-
plains the Star, "only nineteen inches in
length, but all she lacked in length she
made upin teeth, being equipped with
200. There seems to be a Superf1uity in
these figures and rather crowding the
mouth of a Undetermined woman. But if
it be true that part of the domestic dut-
les of the Indian women is to chew the
meat to make hash for their husbands,
what a little level she must have been
for her liege lord"
"a
The writer of an obituary note in a
Kentucky paper warmed up to his work
as he proceeded and closed with this
gushing sentence:
"She was waited into the gloom of eter-
nal night at o'clock in the morning.
The Wilkesboro Hustler thus learnedly
discourses on a Wilkes county mans mat
rimonial difficulties:
THE course of true love never runs
smooth, as William Hendrick will tes-
tify. 1t seems that he and girl in An
tioCh township were engaged. They were
in town the other day and he spent about
SIS for clothing, etc., for her. In the
meantime her mother raised objections
to the marriage. Hendrick had papers
issued for damage to the amount Of $40
-$25 for the money he had spent on her
and SIS for mental anguish. The officers
went down there to get her but the old
woman bluffed the whole crowd and he
came back minus. The girls name is
Mary Vaughn. Hendrick, though young
man, has been married three times-two
of his wives having died and the other is
divorced. He is determined to get mar
ried, however, and says he knows where
there is a girl who will have him that he
does not love the Vaughn girl 'nohow.
Mr.. j. Gordon Coogler, South Cardinals
poet laureate, GOGGLES upon spring, in his
usual pretty style, as follows:
Spring is here. The rays of the morn
ing sun kiss the dew from the lips of the
budding rose. The little violet sense
of love doth bring, as We gaze on its ten
der leaves. the sweetest gift of spring
From the valleys and hills to the very
heavens above the air is filled with the
sweetest notes of love. On the hills
bedecked with flowers fair and grasses
green we behold the grandest picture our
eyes have ever seen. The woodcock ham,
mers on the bark of the maple log, while
into the lazy streamlet leaps the frog.
The rabbit plays in the sand beside the
lonely mill, while the watchdog is heard
across the distant hill"
Chatham county has business woman,
of whom the natives boast nightly. The
Citizen thus records her DTowess:
Near Cumnock there is a Miss Rich
ardson who is a blacksmith, and also a
wagon maker. a master of the trade of
wagon making lin fact she does the
wagon making, both wood and iron work,
for saw milling business"
The Franklin Times tells of "a good
one" that happened to two or three of
Louisburg's young business men and en-
bryo spectators:
"They were interested in the cotton
market and teiegraphed to Raleigh for
quotations. In answer to their question,
How is the market today?' the man at
the other end of the line replied: This
day 1900 years ago. Christ was crucifed.
Not until this answer came did our
friends realize that it was Good Friday,
and that the markets were closed. 1t
cost them just forty cents to learn of the
cruciixion of Christ"