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Year: 1874

DozIER's CAsE.-It is perhaps ungener-
GUS to call for severe punishments upon
convicts, for all err and all hope for mercy,
hut mercy should not be allowed to defraud
justice. 1t frequently happens, too that
mercy to the individual is cruelty to the
mass of the people, as well as injustice to
the dignity of the State.


In our last we alluded to the case of
Austin Dozier, who had been tried and
convicted of receiving goods knowing them
to be stolen at the present term of
our Superior Court. The case was not IN
its particulars of special aggravation, but
there were circumstances that rendered it a
fit subject for example and precedent.
The evil associations connected with the
store, the long suspicion that had rested
| upon it and the almost absolute impossi-
| billty of convicting person from that
| section of our town, combined to render
the case of grave Importance, one that
should be made an example and whose
punishment should have been such as to
spread terror among those guilty of like
practices, and when we consider the rule
of law that imposes heavy penalties upon
offences of difficult detection, it seems that
SIX months in the county Jail is totally
inadequate punishment.


1t is difficult for Judge, however, te
sympathize fully with a community indig
nant at constantly recurring crime, ant
perhaps it is well that he should not, ant
hence we have nothing to say in regard t.
Dozier's sentence except that, in our opin.
ion, it is inadequate and will have bu
little effect towards the prevention of lik
crimes in our midst. A negro, and wors
still, white man, whose store is com
mon receptacle for stolen goods, is ours
to any community and when caught shoul
try term in the penitentiary.
Year: 1874

A THREAT-We heard on Monday du-
ring the municipal election that promi-
nent Rad made use of the following remark,
hoping thereby to influence the vote of our
Hebrew population: "The Jews have for
saken the negroes and now the negroes
ought to forsake them, meaning, we sup
pose, that the negroes ought not to deal
with those who voted the white man S
ticket


This is game that two can play at. The
vote of white man will not in the least
interfere with negro trade, for there are
not enough radical merchants to supply
their demand, and the white people should
see that no merchant is injured by having
the boldness to do what he thiuks is right.
We are glad to say that we heard of nc
Hebrew merchant in our community who
was influenced by the threat.


If this is the plan the radicals propose, it
may be well for the white people to draw
lesson from it to guide their future ac-
ton.
Year: 1874

THRsPIAN CORPS. The Tarboro Thes-
plan Corps gave an entertainment at Rocky
Mount on last Monday night. We are
glad to hear the good accounts that have
reached US concerning its performance.
We take the following from the Roanoke
News:


The Tarboro Thespian corps gave most
entertaining exhibition at Rocky Mount on
last Monday night. A large, intelligent
and appreciative audience turned out to
witness the performance. We were not so
fortunate as to be on hand but had a rep
resentative. This Troupe is meeting with
deserved success, and it will soon compete
very favorably with any in the State
Tarboro should certainly feel proud of this
attractive company of Thespians. Wish
we could give Monday nights performance
more extended notice.
Year: 1874

OsTRAcIsM.--A gentleman of our town
asked his servant man, "why it was that
he always voted against him even in mat
ters that involved nothing effecting him or
his race" His reply was, "because sir l
am bound to. There are some men who are
our leaders and if one of us does not vote,
or votes in a way they don't like, he is
thought no more of than dog, and none
of the colored people have anything to do
with him."


If white men encourage such sentiments
as these among the negroes there should
be no room to complain if their race treats
them in like manner. .--- -s-.---
Year: 1874

MEMORIAL On account of the extreme
bad weather, We presume, and the absorb
ing interest felt in the election last Monday,
there were too few at the Memorial meet
ing, appointed to take place at the resi-
dence of Mr.. n. NJ. Lawrence, to transact
any business. We regret that there will be
no memorial services this spring, but would
suggest to the Edgecombe Association that
it appoint committee to collect funds as
soon as practicable and build suitable
monument to the memory of our fallen
braves. Surely this much is due those who
fell for the cause of the South.
Year: 1874

II. MORRIS & BRo.-These gentlemen
call the attention of the public to their
stock. They are holding forth in the
handsome new store, recently built by Mr.
R. H. Austin, where they are ever willing
and ready to show their goods to any who
may wish to examine,
Year: 1874

ToRSADo.-A violent wind passed over
the section of our county in the neighbor-
hood of Little Creek church on last Satur-
day week. Large trees were torn up and
one or two houses had their tops blown
off.
Year: 1874

CoTToN CRoP.-From the best informa-
ton we can gain great effort is made for
large cotton crop in Edgecombe this
year, and, if there are good seasons, we
may expect more than average yield.
Year: 1874

A Young man named Samuel Eich-
oltz died at his lodgings at Washing
ton from lockjaw. A short time ago
be ran a rusty nail into one Of his
feet, the wound giving him much
pain for several days. The pain
ceased, and he thought be had quite
recovered. He walked out into the
garden adjoining his lodgings, gather
ed some flowers, and carried them to
his house. While on his way back
be suddenly felt the cords ofthe back
Of his neck commence dra awing his
head backward, and he became aware
that his jaws were setting. He re-
marked in a laughing way, but too
true, that be was getting the lock
Jaw. His relatives made light of the
ermark, and supper was announced
shortly after; but when Mr.. EichOltz
tried to drink some tea from saucer
he found he could not get the saucer
between his teeth, and even then it
was only thought be was suffering
from the effects of cold However.
they at length came to the sad con
clusion as to the nature Of his dis
ease, as his jaws were set to open no
more.


The nearest physician was scnt for,
but the case was a hopeless one, as
spasms had already set in, and they
continued more frequent and severe,
until they were incessant, when death
stepped in and relieved the poor man
from the most horrible sufTerings, not
excepting hydrophobia, on earth.
Deceased was only thirty years OF
age, AMI had been married but few
weeks.
Year: 1874

1t is very strange that out of the
many who travel across the conti-
nent, desirous of seeing everything Of
interest, that there are so few who
will take the time and trouble to see
this most wonderful and beautiful
sheet of water. The size of the lake
is about eighty miles from east to
west, and about one hundred miles
from north TO south. 1t Is the great
reservoir for all the waters that empty
into the surrounding valleys, without
any known outlet, except what the
rays of the gentle summer sun draws
up to the cloudy strata of the
heavens. The water is exceedingly
SALTY, more so than any body of
water in the world, and its buoyancy
is fully 1000 per cent. more than that
of the ocean. In the crudest manner
the MoFmons make 6 pail of salt from
three pals of water; and the buoy
ancy is very perceptible in bathing,
when the o. dinary swimmer finds he
can float as easily and securely as
walking on the ''sure and frmest
earth.'' Sinking is impossible. The
water in the lake sgradually rising,
and the estimates have put it at ten
inches each year; butno means have
been taken 10 measure it until about
two months since, when granite
monument was erected at Black
Rock, a short distance from the
shore


The lake as a thing of beauty is al
most unsurpassed The water at
times is of the deepest green at
others of the deepest blue; and, vary
ing from the shallow to the deep
water, from the lightest TO the dark
est shades, and at all times like, the
grand ocean. The seagull and the
pelican scale just overhead, riding
gracefully the waves upon the smooth
or rolling surface.


When the sky is cloudy and the
air dark with heavy clouds, you look
across the lake at the widest part,
and it will remind you OF old Allan
tic, as you may have seen it from the
Jersey coast. 1t was about the mid
die of September when Mr. McCun-
dy from New York, and the writer
saw the lake when a gale was rolling
in the breakers on the shore not un-
like the waves at Long Branch, when
the winds were blowing from the
east. When the winds are still and
the summer sunshine was resting
quietly upon it, it is ike mirror,
with its islands rising up fromit quite
abruptly, several thousand feet, cloth
ed with verdne, making indeed, a
lovely sight
Year: 1874

The Providence Journal refers to
the careless facility with which cler-
gymen often perform the marriage
ceremony for any man who comes
with woman on his arm and fee
in his hand, and it was a mistake 10
repeal the old law which required the
publication of the banns Of marriage.
An exception to the custom to which
il alIudes is as follows: This matter
is brought to our notice by the very
proper conduct Of clergyman Of this
eitv who was waited upon last week
by two candidates for matrimonial
felicity, and in the course Of the in
auiries which he deemed it proper
to make be readily discovered that
the man was under the influence Of
strong liquor, and be told him that
he would not marry him. Why
noti' stammered the expeetant BRIDE
groom. Because you are drunk;
come here sober and l will decide
Wheeler ! WI marry you or not; but
in your present condition you srs
not ft to enter into solemn engage
ment.' The man refused to leave
tin the ceremony was performed, but
+ te nfd 'ial the minister belonged
TO the church militant, and be made
basty retreat with boot close be-
bind him. Doubtless be found some
body to marry him."
Year: 1874

Many q person has watched with
anxiety aud care a pet canary, gold
finch or other tiny favorite, evident
ly in state of perturbation, plucking
at himself continually, his feathers
standing ali wrong, always Gdgeting
about, and in every way looking
very seedy. In vain is bis food
changed, and in vaiu is another
saucer of clean water pur intn his
cage, and all that kindness can sug-
gest for the little prisoner was done /;
but still all is Of no use, be is no but
ter-and why because the cause of
his wretchedness has not been found
out, and until it is other attempts are
in vain. If the owner of a pet in
such difficulties will take down the
cage and cast his or her eyes up to
the roof thereof. there will most like
ly be seen mass of stuff looking as
mnch like red rust as anything and
from thence comes the cause of the
poor birds uneasiness. The red rust
is nothing more or less than myriads
of parasites infesting the bird, and for
which water is no remedy. There
is however a remedy, and one easily
procurable in a moment-Gre. By
taking a lighted candle and holding IL
under every part OF the top Of the
cage, till all chance of anything be-
ing left alive is gone, the cure
is complete. The pet will soon
brighten up agaiA sfer his
''house-warming, @-d viii in S
cheerful and delightful way thaAk nis
master or mistress over and over
again for this slight, though to him,
important assistanee.-Land and
| Hdter
Year: 1874

Sleepless people-and there are
many in America-should court The
sun. The worst sporilc is laudnum,
and the very best, sunshine. There
fore it is very plain that poor sleepers
should pass as many hours as posi-
bic in the sunshine, and as few as
possible in the shade. Many women
are martyrs, and yet do not know it.
They shut the sunshine out of their
houses and hearts, they wear wells,
and carry parasols, aud they do all
possible to keep of tie sublest and
vet most potent influence which is to
give them strength, beauty and cheer
fuIness. Is it not time to change all
this, and get color and roses in our
pale cheeks, strength in cur weak
backs, and courage in our timid souls Z
The women of America are pale and
delicate they may be blooming and
strong, and the sunshine will be q
potent influence in their transforma-
ton. VIII they not try it year or
two and soblige. thousandsof admir-
erS
Year: 1874

The bronze statuary just now so
popular is manufactured by q simple
enough process. Over the clay mod
ell is poured a coating Of plaster Of
Paris, which having been allowed to
set. is taken of in sections, thus af-
fording a hollow mold Of the figure.
From such a mold is produced a
stuceo duplicate, either Of the enti-e
statue or Of such portion thereof as is
intended to be cast at time, aud on
this again is formed a second mold Of
greater thickness and solidity for the
reception Of molten metal The ma
terial used for the final mold is com
position Of stueeo and brick dust.
This IS applied in a plastic state
10 he stucco model, from which its
inner surface takes the form of
figure. Were statues cast solid, it
would only be necessary to separate
mold from model, and run metal into
the former until the interior was
filed. This, however, would involve
absure wastd IN the case OF cast
ing the drying Of the mold occupies
some weeks. On removals from the
kiln the mold is buried in day earth,
only the aperture flor receiving the
metal and the veBt-hole for the es-
cane Of air being visible
Year: 1874




A wealthy man condemned to
death will arrange with his jailor TO
buy him a substitute for q certain
sum Of money, to be spent upon the
poor wretch's interment and preser-
walton Of his body. Should be have
parents, so much is usually paid to
them IN compensation for their sons
life. Cinnamon Invariably help to
support their parents; flial respect
and devotion is the great Chinese
virtue and religious preeept, in which
they rarely fail Regarding death as
inevitable, he makes the best Of
bad bargain, and eunningly and
comically gets paid for dying. The
wholesale destruction Of life in this
country is greatly the result Of indif
fereace. Hence the massacre OF Eu-
ropeaus, so terrible 10 us, seems to
them a matter Of little moment, and
they cannot comprehend why we
should make such a fuss about it.
They regard our indignant protesta-
ton very much as we might treat eur
irate neighbor whose dog we had
shot Temple Bar.
Year: 1874

AN Irishman on board a ship was
ordered by one Of the officers to go
below and fetch q jug Of water just as
the ship was about to sail. The man
hesitated to go. because, as be says
the vessel being about to sail, be was
afraid he should be left behind.
Year: 1874

AS the semi-annual bridal season is
at hand, it is time to plea for q reform
in weddings. Every year this sacred
est of all occasions is turned more into
a mere opportunity of display, and for
replying to some fancied social obliga-
tion. Instead Of the time when a few
of the closest friends gather to witness
the solemnest compact human beings
can frame, it is chosen as the moment
for bringing together the larger part
of family's social circle, to show the
bride in her bridal garments, to prove
how many flowers and refreshments
the family can afford and, with shame
be it said, to exhibit to criticism and
light comment the previous tokens that
should have come with tender regard to
the maid on the eve of her new life.
A wedding must not be uncheerful, but
it must certainly be solemn to all who
realize what it is. On the one side it
is renouncing old ties, promising to be-
gin with faith and hope and love, new
bho uhUIlOo CAloUOuCOs vi UhO
other it is sthe acceptance of sacred
trust, the covenant to order life anew
in such ways as shall make the happi-
ness of two instead of one. Can such
an occasion be fitting for revelry Is
it not wiser, more delicate to bid only
the nearest friends to a marriage cere-
mony, and leave the feasting and frolic
for subsequent time? We are sure
there ale few girls, if they reflect on
the seriousness of the step they are
about to take, will not choose to make
their VOW merely within the loving
limits of their home circle. All our
best instincts point to the absolute
simplicity and privacy of wedding SER
vices only a perversion of delicacy
could contemplate the asking of crowds
of half-sympathetic or wholly curious
people to attend the most solemn of
contracts. Let there be as much party
making, rejoicing and pleasure taking
afterward as hearts desire but let the
solemn VOWS be made in the presence
only of those nearest and dearest.
Year: 1874

Matilda Fletcher thus describes a
farmer 3 wife who is not only beautiful
and wise, but posses: es several cardinal
virtues in addition


"The most beautiful woman I have
ever known was farmers wife, who
attended to the household duties for q
family of four, and also assisted in gar
dening and the light farm work and
yet I never saw her hands rough and
red, and never even saw a freckle on
her nose. Impossible you say how
did she manager / never asked her,
but she had some envious neighbors
who went slouching around with red,
scaly hands, sunburnt faces, and hair
matted with dust and oil, who let me
into the dreadful secret. They inform
ed me, with many an ominous shake of
the head, that she was just the proud
est mink that ever lived that she actu-
ally wore india-rubbe1 gloves when she
used the broom and scrubbing brush,
and always when she worked outdoors !;
that she also had a bonnet made of
oiled silk, completely covering the
head, face and neck, leaving only aper-
lures for seeing and breathing, thus
securing perfect freedom from sun,
wind and dust. Did you you ever hear
of such depravity? She also fastened
her dishcloth to a stick so that she need
not put her hands in hot water. For
the same reason she accomplished her
laundry work with a machine and a
wringer. And then to see her in the
afternoon tricked out in fashionable
white dress, with a brightcolored rib
bon at her throat and rose in her hair,
entertaining in the parlor, as though
she was the greatest lady in the land,
was more than their patience could
endure.


"And her husband he had such a
satisfied expression that it was perfect
aggravation to ordinary people to look
at him. He deserved to be happy, be-
cause he encouraged and helped her to
cultivate beauty in herself, her family
and her home; and L don't know but
her success principally belonged to
him, because he bought all the new in.
ventions that could Tighten her labors,
and all the delicate and pretty things
she needed to adorn her home, and il
she was sick he wouldn't let her touch
work till she was we'll and strong.
Strange as it may seem, at such times
he actually devoted himself to her with
as much care and tenderness as he
would if she had been the most valu
able horse on the farm p
Year: 1874

Prairie dogs look very much like red
squirrels, with their ears cropped close
as a hens, and their tails cut off to
three inches long. They live in houses
or holes in the ground, and usually in
+" towns" where large numbers are
found.


Each family has house to itself /;
and such houses They dig holes in
the ground, sometimes quite deep and
very crooked, and at the top they make
mounds about the size and shape of an
inverted bushel basket, leaving fun
nel-shaped hole in the middle for the
doorway. 1t is hard to get hold of
them, for they always run to the
mounds at the first Inclination of per-
son approaching, and, if shot, they fall
into the house out of reach; but if not,
they dive down in very amusing
manner. At times they are real play
full, and will chase each other around
for while, then they set up on their
hind legs and make chuckling noise
like laughing, or stand on their hind
feet and give squeaking challenge for
another race, and off they go. I have
often stopped my oxen and sat on the
pillow to watch them in their antics, and
always with increasing pleasure. 1t
took me some time to learn about their
ears, for they are hard to get acquainted
with. Sometimes I thought they had
none ; at others that they did, but kept
them laid back like cross horse when
| was near. But after q while they
seemed to lose their fear, and would
play all sorts of pranks when was
within few feet of them,
Year: 1874

The case of a pupil teacher who has
been charged with causing the death of
boy through giving him blow on the
side of his head, is one which has ex-
cited considerable amount of interest.
We draw attention to the case. with no
idea of moralizing either on the neces-
sity of corporal punishment or on its
effect, or on the tendencies of boys to
be tyrannical, or on the Importance of
keeping all corporal punishment In the
hands of the head teacher. Our de-
sire simply is to convey warning as
to the possible-we may say probable
effect of ga box on the ears"
Many people, otherwise humane, ap-
pear to imagine that a box on the ears
is light punishment, specially adapted
TO the construction of young children.
They also appear to think-at least
they act as if they thought-that the
projection of the out ears suggests ear
pulling as modified form of punish
ment. The same persons who will
strike children violent blows on the
head with the hand, open or closed,
would think twice before they struck
with cane or pointer the outstretched
hand of a child {; and they might pos
sibly object to sound fogging ad-
ministered in old schoolboy fashion.
But, of the three modes of punishment,
the blow on the head is infinitely the
more dangerous. The bones of a
child's head are much more capable of
being injured by blow than are those
of an adult person, aud the ear itself is
one of the most delicate and delicately
organized parts of the whole human
body. A man would be considered
brutal who hit child's eye so as to de-
prive him of sight, or his nose 80 as to
disfglre him. 1t is no less an injury
to make child deaf, or TO cause I'M ury
to the brain, or to give rise to assesses
in the ear, or to injure the outer ear
and all these are accidents not un-
common in connection with ear boxing
and ear-pulling, as practiced. We are
certain that much Of the cruelty perpe-
trated in this way is done from sheer
ignorance if it were otherwise, no
words could be strong enough to stig-
matize it's barbarity. Even now, if
people considered for moment, they
would see that the head is the part of
the body where blows are likely to do
most speedy and permanent injury. A
servant giving child boz on the ears
would, in our estimation, have done a
thing justifying instant dismissal.
What mother deserves who is guilty
of such an action, we leave to her wn
conscience.
Year: 1874

Man does not need that which he
calls excitement. What healthy mind
most Graves is placidity to do its work
in perfect calm, without any stimulus
except that afforded by perfect bodily
health. Mind and body healthy. each
will give all the stimulus the other
needs without resort to artificial means.


Mental dissipation and physical de-
bauchery are alike disastrous in their
effects alike breed a fierce appetite
for more, an appetite that will not be
appeased except by deeper and deeper
draughts, which finally rain body


mind, and soul. Unfortunately, this
appetite is fostered by our theatrical
performances, novels of the day, and
social gossip, so that religion ESQ ter
ribly assailed by scandal just now,
Legislative enactments, social phlloso'
phy-all seem powerless to effect a
cure. We are sometimes disposed to
think that the only way is to let the
disease run its course, until the poison
eliminates itself from the body politic.
Society, as at present organized, may
die of the disease, or perhaps 1t may
survive to enjoy better health after
ward. Let us pray for better health !