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Year: 1875

That dilapidated concern across the
river on Third street called bridge, was
again one day this week, in dangerous
condition. We understand enough
money has been spout in repairing it
during the past few years, to have aided
very materially in building a good sub
stantial bridge, one that would accomo-
date the travel, and not discommode navi-
cation.
Year: 1875

ARM BROKEN.-Mrs. Greenwood, who
resides on the east tide of the river, had
her right arm broken Friday morning.
She was engaged in a shed in some duties
about the cow, when the animal turned
suddenly, and in getting out of her way
fell with the above result. Mrs. Gree1i-
wood is the mother of Mrs. Buck, the
teacher in the primary department of our
schools.
Year: 1875




The other day a Selma woman
wanting some lead to stop hole in
the wash boiler, set copper revol-
yer cartridge on the stove TO melt the
bullet. She says she was just sloop-
ing over 10 see il il had melted when
the earthquake came along. Her
only consolation is that when she
grows old and has to wear spectacles,
she will only need a pair with one
Of her eyes went away with the earth
quake TO look for the transit.-Mont.
gomery Journal.
Year: 1875

young couple were occupying rus
tic seat in Union Park one evening
this week. and from the expression Of
the masculine representatives face il
was evident he was ''goner"- "-drifted,
as it were, over the great psychologi-
cal Niagara of affection, and was even
then being whirled about in the frothy
whirlpool of sentiment. The swim
ming swans had no charm for him; the
eagles were as nothing, and he did not
notice the big white bear.


oh, do be mine" he said. attempt
ing to draw her little nearer to his
end of the seat.


She made herself rigid and heaved a
sigh.


''Ill be a good man and give up all
my bad habits" he urged.


No reply.


ell never drink another drop" he
continued.


Still unrelenting sat the Object of
his alteration.


& "And give up chewing"


No response.


''And smoking"


Gold as ever.


''Anp join the church,


She only shook her head.


camp give you a diamond engage
nent ring" he added in desperation.
Then the maiden lifted her dropping
eyes to his, leaning her frizzles on his
shoulder, and tremblingly murmured
into his ravished ear
good"


And there they sat and sat, until the
soft arms of nigbt-that dusky nurse
of the world-had folded them from
sight, pondering, planning, thinking
she OF the diamond ring, and he of
now on the earth he was to get it,
Year: 1875

The direct mail route between this
city and Shallotte has been discon-
tinued, under an order received from
the Postmaster General. The mail will
hereafter go to Smithville, and from
there by a mail carrier to Shallotte.
Our friends in this section of Brun-
swick will consequer tly receive their
mad one day later than formerly.
Year: 1875

A flow of words is no proof of Wis
dom.


No lady can appear perfectly un
ruff1ed.


The more girls are pinned back, the
more forward they seem.


A wise man aims at nothing out OF
his reach.


Keep cool, be virtuous, and you
will assurdedly be happy.


If you want to be ''swel' OF the
first water, get the dropsy.


Elongated farmers faces are not SO
common now.


We would willingly have others
perfect, and yet we amend not our own
faults.


Those delicious stewed oysters again
in thirty days or SO.


When man is brute, he IS the
most sensual and loathsome of all
brutes.


The peaches in market are yet few
and inferior.


Tt is an extraordinary fact, consider
ing the intense heat of the month past
that no fatal cases of sunstroke have
been reported in this section of the
country.


The springs of action form the cur
rent of affairs that runs to the sea of
destiny and make the haven of distrac-
ton or destruction.


The chain gang, which has received
large accessions lately, has been doing
good service on the streets for several
days past.


'.Lemme die now," be gasped. i've
lived to see a woman git thirty -one
yards of cloth into one dress, and I'm
ready to pull stakes now"
Year: 1875

Within the scope of our country en-
braced betw cen the lakes and the Gulf
of Mexico, the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, there is not in this arear city,
town, village or hamlet that is so fear
fully accused with dogology as this
Identical city of Will mington. A fair
estimate in making an average to place
to the credit of each family two dogs.
It is surprising to note the rapid in
crease and puzzles the brain to COM
prehend from whence they come. The
sneaking, thieying cur, with his mar
rative closely tucking under, nosing
around the dila pidated starved coun-
try edition, prospecting around,
looking for some sympathizing sreci-
men of humanity to notice him, and
administer and opiate to fill out the
cavity so prominent in his launches.
The big shaggy quadruped, minus
father and mother, with the ear-drop
trickling down his SCARED and hideous
yisage, are the living commentaries,
which appeal strongly to war of ex-
termination as the only infallible rem
edy with which will give peace and
quiet during the hours when the city
should be wrapped in slumber and re-
DOSe
Year: 1875

are always full and accurate. The Review OF
the Markets is accepted by the mercantile COM
munity as the true index OF the commerce of
the city while its repor other markets are
full and reliable.
Year: 1875

in this the hour of her humiliation
than was she in the day of her
pride and her power. Each blood
stained field each track Of dexastas
tien, each new made grave of her
sons fallen in her defence, each
mutilated form OF the Confederate
soldier-her widows tear, her or
phan's cry-are but so many cords
that bind me to her in the midst
of her .desolation, and draw my
affection closer around my stricken
country. When I raise my voice
or lift my hand against her, may
the live thunder rive me where /
standt Though I be false in all
else, will be true to her. Though
all others may prove faithless 1 will
be faithful still. And when in
obedience to the great command,
Dust to dust my heart shall re-
turn to that earth from whence it
sprung, it shall sink into her bosom
with the proud consciousness that
it never knew one beat not in
unison, with the honor, the inter
ests, the glory of my country"
Year: 1875

New York, Dec, 2.-The mate of
the Sunnyside gives the following
details of the disaster. He had not
got over fifteen or twenty feet from
the steamer, with his lifeboat
full of people, before it capsiGed.-
A terrible scene then ensued.
There must have been eighteen
persons in the boat. The mate
SWAN ashore, but others. that were
saved swan back to the steamer.
In all probability, all that were lost
were drowned from the capsizing
of the life boat. Their shouts and
cries for aid must have been heard
for long distance. AS quickly as
possible I took a boat from the
starboard side, and with our hea6
waiter and deck boy, tried to get
around to the people in the water,
but the heavy ice prevented our
doing so. Cries for help continued
about ten minutes, then all was
still. We launched the big boat
from the upper deck, which was
even with the water, the vessel at
that time being 200 feet from the
shore. l took the boat with the
second engineer, and finally reached
the capsized boat. She was bottom
upwards, and a man lay on her on
his back, with his feet in the water
and ice, nearly dead. We took him
on board the steamer, put him in
the pilots room, and covered him
with blankets.


l head a noise on the ontside of
our port wheel house, which was
only two feet out of water. We
worked the boat through the ice
to the spot where the cries came
frona and found an elderly lady,
who groaned with paiA. She was
lying on ice about five feet from
our wheel house. Her body was
partly in The water, her arms hold
ing her up. She was still alive.
With great difficulty we got her in
the boat. took her to the steamer,
put her In the .vheeiman' room
and covered her with blankets, but
she died about two hours after.
We then went to work to construct
a rope ferry from the steamer to
the shore. At this time at least
sixty persons were crowded togeth-
er on the hurricane deck The
wind was blowing bard and the air
was bitter cold. We got the line
ashore and succeeded in getting all
off safely, after they had been on
the deck for two hours. To do so
we placed them on the boat and
pulled the boat slong by the rope.
On reaching the shore they clam
bered up the rocks and made their
way to farm houses in the vicinity,
where every attention was given
them.
Year: 1875

Il was one day in the early his
tory of Detroit that John Snow was
born. He would probably have
weighed nine pounds If there had
been any scales in the Territory to
weigh him on. AS there was no
way to weigh him he went his way
unweighed. (Patent.)


When John Snow had crawled
over the pioneer logs, rolled in the
mud and eaten johnny cake until
he was fourteen years old, his
mother died. If his father had
been Ike some men he would nave
put weed on his hat, engaged a
cheap housekeeper, and continued
business at the old stand without
any interruption. But he wasn't
like some meu. He married a
cousin who had two or three chill
dren big enough to fight John, and
his father became his uncle.


In dne time John Snow had
sister. No, he hadn't, either. 1t
was a girl, but he didn't know
whether she was step-sister or a
cousin or a half-sister. Some said
that the girl would be his grand
mother if she lived long enough,
and he was almost discouraged.
In about two years more boy was,
born, and John figured and figured
until he made out that he was
halfunele to his step brother, and
that his step brother was his own
uncle.


While John was off on fishing
excursion at Lake Superior one of
his half brothers married and John
came home to find another baby.
He wanted to know what relation
he was to this youugster, and he
marked the fence all over with chalk
and could not reach any satisfactory
conclusion. It rather seemed to
him that he was a quarter brother
or a step-uncle, but there was the
fact staring him in she face that the
child's step-uncle was also it's step
grandfather, and it might be it's
own cousin for all he could make
out.
For two or three years John
Snow moped around among the
Indians and fur buyers, and then in
a fit of desperations married one of
his aunt-step- mothers daughters
and became brother in law to his
cousin half brother, son-in-law to
his aunt step mother, and the same
to his father step-uncle. He might
have lived on and been happy if
the public had let him alone, but
school teachers went on and made
out that he was his uncle's aunt
and his step-mother's grandfather,
and that he was no relation to him
self, and he pined away and died.


1t ism t great big four story
with basement and bronze trim
mings, but John Shows weather
beaten tombstone was unearthed al
the Detroit eastern hay market by
some diggers Saturday, and It is
well that his fate be known.-De-
tTOH Free Press.
Year: 1875

opth


The editor of the Atlanta
Herald, n paper Of wide influence,
published at the central city of
Atlanta, in Georgia, publishes with
a cordia! endorsement a very man
ly and outspokcn letter on the in
llation craze from Senator Bayard,
Of Delaware. In this letter, writ
ten at the request of the editor to
expose the fallacies uttered not long
ago in Georgia by Pig-Iron Kelley,
Senator Bayard, after simply and
clearly stating the case between
the wild advocates OF an irredeem-
able currency and the loyal deci-
pies of the sound old Democratic
doctrine of Hard Money, points
out plainly to the Southern people
the true pathway Of escape from
the financial troubles which now
oppress not them only, but the
whole country, and appeals, in the
most earnest aud noble language,
TO the personal honor and integrity
of the Southern people against
the demoralizing influence Of the
demagogues who, after insulting
and trampling them under foot,
now seek to corrupt and to dis
honor them.
Year: 1875

OUGHT TO DO WELL.-The fol-
lowing private letter fully explains
itself. The author ought to succeed
in any country:


IDAHO CITY, May 18th, 1875.


DEAR FRIEND FRANK:-I shall
soon set out to look for "green fields
and pastures new." What are the
chances for inferiority to keep the
wolf from the door at Silver City?
/ can work in the mines or in tin
shop; scribble little for a news
paper, collect bills, drive stage, cook
square meal bachelor style, play
the gentleman of leisure and lie like
"a lawyer! Can these qualifications
be turned into food and raiment in
your locality? Please answer as
soon as convenient and oblige yours
truly, y
Year: 1875

OF more serious trouble, but up to the
hour of going to press their predictions had
not been verified, and it is hoped will never
be. 81 !,


Our reporters visited the der9.s in the city
In the hope of gaining further information
of the Alarming visitation.


The watehrnan at The Danyille depot was
Year: 1875

The world is all dark or the world Is all


bright,


Just as we choose to make it,
Our burden is heavy, our burden is light,
Just as we happen to take 1t;
And people who grumble and people VINO


groan


At the world and its every proposal,
Would grumble and groan If the world were


their own,


With the sun, moon and stars at disposal.
1t Is all very well to have beautv and health,
But If ugly and sick we must bear 1t;
1t is all very we'll to have oceans of wealth,
But we find, ii we must, we can spare IL;
But healthy and wealthy, or sickly and poor,
We are wise TO be Careless and happy"
Aud gracefully try all our ills to endure,
Though we try till we're hairless ana


cappy."
Not all can be noble, not all can be great;
But our lives with Gsd's love we can leaven.
And whether of high or lowly estate
'Tis the same to our Father in heaven.
The world may seem dark or the world may


seem light,


As we cling to the old, old story;
And cheerfully work, with our lamps burn


ing bright,


Till we enter the portals of glory.
Year: 1875

One by one the fancies of our youth are dispelled. Bayard Taylor knocks away another prop. We used to read in schoolbooks that "the tides in the bay of Fundy rise thirty feet" and an old wood-cut represents them as coming in like an extemporized Niagara. "The spring tides rise sixty feet (which height, in fact, the people confirm, but gentle and gradual rise of sixty feet is no more imposing than if it were only six Sometimes" was informed not by those who had themselves seen the thing, but who knew others that had-"there is bore, or watery wall, at the height of the spring tide,, which appears to have face of three or four feet as it rolls in. As for the frantic flight of pigs and cattle, taught their danger by experience, I verify don't see how it could take place for pigs and cattle of ordinary sanity would have no earthly reason for wandering down the shores of red, slimy mud at low tide. The people tell, it is true, of an immense tidal wave, five or six years ago, which came at night and swept far inland over the meadows, carrying bridges and houses before it but this seems to have been a phenomenon without precedent in their history. The great rise and fall of the sea in the bay of Fundy is sim. ply an inconvenience-nothing more.
Year: 1875

For the last two weeks, says the Read ing Eagle, son of Allen Rogers, a wood-cutter on the Blue mountains, aged eleven years, about three miles from Hamburg, has been in the habit of leaving his fathers house every morning about pine o'clock, and not returning till noon. The parents of the boy have questioned him several times ss to where he went, and the boy would reply, to play with 8 neighboring boy named Springer. One day the father watched his son, and followed at a short distance, and when about half mile from the house, the boy entered . piece of thick sprout land, in from the road some two hundred yards, where he seated himself upon large rock, and in less than ten minutes the father was mortified on seeing 8 monster blacksnake crawl upon the rock and put it's head upon the boy's lap. The father states that the snake was the largest he ever saw on the hills He states that it was easily if teen feet long and as thick as his arm, which is well developed. The boy had taken bread with him and was feeding the snake, which at intervals would stick large tongue out as if hissing for more to eat Then it would coil itself around the neck and body of the boy, and play with its neck and mouth with the boys hands. $.: \. y

 The father had often heard of snakes charming children, and that if they were disturbed while they were in the act, they would kill the child. As the father turned to leave his boy with his deadly companion, he turned back, and the a of itself and raised its body at least four feet from the rock and looked in all di- rections, and then it returned to the boys lap, and the father returned home and awaited the boy IS return, which was, as usual, at noon. When told that he had been playing with the snake, the boy said that the first morning he met the snake he liked to play with it then he took it food, and eIwas so much ] pleased with his companion that some thing told him that he must meet the snake every morning. One morning he said he WAS late, and when he reached the place tn, snake was standing up, and it came out t0 meet him, then followed him to the rock. There is something very strange about snake charming not only children, but I have read of adults coming under their charms. There is certainly some truth in the fascinating powers of snakes. '.aa & .A

 The father and two of his ,neighbors went to the place with guns, and at the usual time the snake made it's appear ance, when all fred at one time, killing the charmer. On taking 1t home MT Rogers found the above measurement to be nearly correct
Year: 1875

We do not look for a sudden revival of

 business any longer, says Dr. Holland l in ScTi bner's Monthly. If our diagnosis of the case is correct, there can be no sudden cure. We of this generation will hardly live to see the country genu- inely prosperous. Great masses of prop

 erty are to be abandoned.a The capital stock of multitudes of corporations will be sunk, and their property will pass into the hands of bondholders and credi-

 tors, at such price that they maypos- sibly be made remuneratively useful.

 Hundreds of millions of invested funds will practically cease to exist. The things in which these funds have been l invested cannot be used, and they might just as we'll have been thrown into the | fire. Thus the means of living have been enormously reduced among capi- talists, and more men need work to do than used to need it. With this fact on one side, we find set over against it the other fact, that, of the multitude who

 had adjusted their industry to the con ditions of war, only part are needed

 under the conditions of peace. Teus,

 twenties, tifties are to be counted out of the mills, the factories, the shops, and sent either into idleness, or into some other field of industry. In other words,

 our national industry is to be read justed. va

 The cities and centers which have grown so rapidly will naturally cease to grow. The larger cities will grow, per

 haps, as London grows, by their attrac

 tion for men of wealth, but the men of enterprise will not crowd into placea where there is no work or reward for them. The boys will stand by their fathers farms better" than they have done, and hundreds of thousands of men and women who have left the farm and the farmhouse must return to them. 1t is pleasant to reflect that 8 living can be won from the ground, and that agric!ll- ture holds a certain cure for all our troubles MT. Greeley's old advice, "Go West, young man," was based upon philosophy whose soundness the people of this time cannot question. The tendency in his time was to overdo busi- ness, and that tendency went on, to the distressing results of which all of us are the witnesses and the victims. Y It is pitiful to see men and women lying idle. It is pitiful to see them in great masses thrown out of employment

 We wish they could be made to under stand how hopeless the situation is for at least half of them-how necessary it is that they should seek employment in agricultural pursuits, in lives of indus try adapted to the present circumstances of the country-in anything and any place except that which is proved to be insufficient for their needs. This change must come, and the quicker it comes the better for them and the better for the country. Let us leave nothing to the political doctors. They cannot help us with, any of their schemes, except by giving us an honest financial system. Even this cannot work the miracle of making people consume more than they want, and of supplying work where it IS not needed. ,e The American people are not lacking in shrewdness, patience, adaptiveness, and industry, and the good time will come, though it is likely to be long delayed. E.JJ A. E
Year: 1875

How to keep the butter sweet until en tirely used up is so simple that it should be known by every one. It merely has to be kept cool and from contact with air. So soon as received, carefully take out the head, driving the hoops tight after so doing. Then make brine of pure salt and water, strong enough to bear an egg, and cover the butter com pletely, after sufficient quantity has been taken out for present use. Cover the frkin also with the head and over all place cloth. If the package be kept cool, the contents thus covered will be found as good when the last quantity is taken out as when first opened and whatever flavor it possessed when open cd it will be found to retain to the last

 Whenever quantity is cut from the fir kin, sll that is necessary will be to dash over it little cold water, to remove the brine that may adhere to the surface.
Year: 1875

A Boy BAn1ooN1sT. They organized 6 balloon ascension for village festival in France, and the ballooIist determined to take up with him his little boy, aged eight. The boy was in the basket and the father was making some final pre- parations before entering, when the boy cast loose the last cord that held the balloon and went it alone. He has not been heard from since.