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Year: 1879

student of Oxford. once got out of sorts.
have read the account in the College reports,
He called on doctor and told him his tale,
And the doctor advised him to drink some good ale.
With such prescription he'd no wish to quarrel,
And so to have plenty he just bought barrel:
To his room he then quietly smuggled his prize,
And carefully hid it away from all eyes;
The medicine was good and it made him feel prime
So he frequently took it, regardless of time
In this way the last of his ale was soon reached,
And to make matters worse, he himselfwas mpeached
For a Janitor on a particular round


Got scent of the ale. ard the barrel was found
This thing was contrary to all college rules
Could not be excused in our commOlest schools.
He reported the sinner without loss of time,
For i'll this ancient place twas an unheard of crime
A summons was sent, which the culprit must heed.
But they never supposed excuse he could plead =
He said that the barrel was found as described,
But the ale by his doctor was fairly prescribed.
If that is the case, you must state to this board
Has your system been strengthened or fully restored
He said 81 will leave you to judge in the case,


And hope you will find ME deserving of grace:
When first tried my strength on the barrel, fOunt


Twas beyond me to raise it an inch from the ground
But now can carry it just where please.


And do it, in fact, with the greatest of ease.


Said the chairman, Why this is wonderful case
And although you have broken the rules of the place
Your reasons are good and convinces the board


That they must for this once, full pardon accord
SEC.


SMYRNA Auoust oSth 1879
Year: 1879

TABLE ORNAMENT.-Sew coarse flannel around
goblet with the stem broken of, put this shapely
uone upon saucer of water, wet the flannel and
sprinkle over as much flax seed as will adhere to it.
Inc flannel will absorb the water from the saucer
whlch should often be replenshed. In about two
weeks the flannel will be concealed i'm a beautifnI
verdure, which will vie with any table ornament.
Year: 1879

Those gentlemen who oratorically insist
that the South is growing more solid every
day are wiser prophets than the best of us
ever dreamed. Her crops this year will
amount to 100000 bales of cotton, 100000
hogsheads of sugar and 600,00O,0OO pounds
of tobacco. This is is half million bales oi
cotton more than she has ever raised before
twice as much sugar and 100000 pounds
more of tobacco. This is a kind of solidity
all sensible men desire to boom and tell,
tale of reconstruction which is not only
most gratifying, but also token Of increas


ing prosperity and goodwill.
Year: 1879

A boy eleven years old committc
suicide in Philadelphia on Friday
afternoon. His name was William
Zehler and he lived with his grand,
mother. His grandmother left the
house to visit neighbor, and during
her absence he locked the door and
went into the cellar. There he piled
up a number of blocks, and, standing
on them, tied rope to a joist. After
adjusting the rope to his neck, he kick
ed the blocks away. His grandmother
returned iii about half an hour, and
after searching the house, she descend
ed to the cellar and found the boy
hanging dead. His knees touched the
ground. The only cause assigned for
the suicide is that the child had lately
h--n reading religious books, which
Interested him deeply, and he had
been heard to express desire to 60 to
heaven.
Year: 1879

A few days ago an insurance agent ol
this city, cnll.d on carpenter to ac'
company HIM TO Newport, to assess the
damage done to house by a fire hat
occurred Il few days previously. On
reaching the premises the carpenter
was nearl y frightened to death by the
vigilant watch dog, while the agent,
being out oi danger, on witnessing his
trepidation, laughed till his sides fair
ly shook. Fortunately the lady of the
house interposed when the threatening
demonstrations of lowser wer, checked,
and the carpenter felt that he had been
given new lease of life. Being invited
into the house, after informing the
lady of the nature Of their business,
they proceeded to ascertain the damage
sustained by the fire, which they found
to consist OF burnt place in the floor
some three or four feet square, which
had already been repaired at cost less
than the carriage hir. of the agent,
counting his time and that Of the car
penter as nothing. OF course the agent
was ldu tIidb VIC lDos wac INV BiCdtoi, 1,
at the same time he must have felt in
dignant that the party had put him to
so much trouble as to visit the house to
estimate the cost in 80 small matter.
In fact the agent and his appraiser
must both have felt that they had been
sold. To make the matter worse as they
we're about leaving the dog made
anothrr violent demonstration against
the carpenter, Indicating clearly that
he did not like his looks. Hereafter
persons sustaining such tritling loss by
ire should not call on the insurance
company for damages, or if they do so
it would be- policy to chain their dogs
or at least prevent them from attacking
the appraiser, il they wish to obtain a
liberal award at his hands.
Year: 1879

MAJOR THoRNBURGH's DEATH.


Major Thornburgh started back to the
wagon tram after giving his final order
to Captain Payne to charge the hill, and
to Captain Lawson and Lieutenant Cher
nv to cover the retreat. He must have
been shot dead when barely halfway
there, as his body way one of Captain
Lawson's men life extinct, and lying
OH his face.
Year: 1879

Only a bundle of old yellow paper
tied together with a faded ribbon,
these are all that may be left to re-
mind the gray-haired creature that
tearfully bends over them of one on
whom the grassy sod may have moul-
dered for years, or whose affections,
trified with by her, have found q
peaceful dwelling place in a more con-
slant heart. This tear-stained packet
is all that connects her present with
the past, and az she pores over its con-
tents, the frosty clasp Of years is re-
laxed before the burning word of love,
only to be clenched tighter as stern re-
alities now draw the curtain of regret
before all the alluring promises of the
long ago. From these faded lines, the
chord Of memory runs back to the
time when they grew fresh and glossy
beneath the writer's hand, mute mes
sengers from the burning heart that
breathed its love upon the page.
But why touch the chord when every
note awakens longing that can never
be grati6ed, for who can recall an
echo from the past2 Fold them up
carefully, they are the tomb of your
own dead hopes, mOuldering slowly
into nothingness. Peace, peace to
their ashes?
Year: 1879

For those who have an abundant
supply of ice this may not be mat
ter of much moment, but for poor peo-
pie who may rarely use ice except in
sickness, and to whom the expense is
not insignificant, the following hints,
from an English source may be use
full: "Cut piece of flannel about
nine inches square, and secure it by a
ligature round the mouth of an Ordi-
nary tumbler, so as to leave cup
shaped depression of flannel within
the tumbler to about half its depth.
In the flannel cup so constructed,
pieces of ice may be preserved many
hours; all the longer if a piece of aans
mel from four to five inches square be
used as a loose cover to the ice cup.
Cheap flannel, with comparatively
open meshes, is preferable, as the wa
ter early drains through it, and the
ice is thus kept dry. Wien good fan
mel with close texture is employed,
small hole must be made in the bot
tom of the flannel cups; otherwise it
holds the water and facilitates the
melting OF the ice, which is neverthe-
less, preserved much longer than in
the naked cup or tumbler. In a tum-
bier containing flannel cup, made as
above described, of cheap, open fan
mel, at 10d. GO cents a yard, it took
ten honrs and ten minutes to dissolve
two ounces of ice, whereas in a naked
cup, under the same condition, all the
ice was gone in less than three hours"
Year: 1879

A writer of "reminiscences in Aus
tralia, in the Boston Commercial Bull
letin, tells the following story: One
OF the stories told me by driver as
we jolted along had relation to the
depth OF the mud which covered the
road. "You see, young fellow" said
he, Il was driving along, keeping
well to the right of the road, where
the mud was shallowest, for | knew
that l had a heavy load which would
prevent the coach from floating, and
besides none of my horses could swim.
l had just got to about where we are
now when l noticed what l thought
was a hat moving along on top of the
mud just little ahead o me on my
left. could not make out what it
was at first, but at last l seed it was a
hat, and l felt kind O. frightened.
Not that I'd be frightened at hat,
but what l was frightened at was that
the hat was moving along in the same
direction as myself without any visi-
bic means. Jingc, thinks l, now
here's a 60; what the deuce can it be?
By and by came up abreast of it
and then got little ahead of it. Then
| seed there was face under the hat;
jingo if it wasn't a mani"


"'Hallo, FRIEND says l, what are
you tramping through the mud in
that way for? Come along here and
I'll give you a life in the coach


"'What would l get into your
coach for, and leave my own horse?'
he cried. And sure enough he was
riding horse, for 1 saw the ears Of
the animal just ahead of him sticking
out of the mud, but the horse being
tired was swimming low. Yes. the
the mud was very deep that day."
Year: 1879

An aeronaut calling himself Count
Henri de Gilbert was to make an as
cension in CINCINNATI. He stepped
into the basket when all was ready,
and then leaned over the edge to kiss
his wife. Then he kissed another wo-
man, and 50 heartily that his wife was
furiously angry. The balloon was cut
loose, and as it went up Count Hem
ri saw his jealous wife and the
other woman fighting. The spectacle
disturbed his presence OF mind, and
he permitted the balloon to collide with
a chimney. A rent and collapse were
followed by quick decent, but the
Count was only a little bruised by the
fall. His feelings, however, were Sc
riously hurt.
Year: 1879

The New York World says the
concern OF the country at large in the
"negro exodus" is simply the loss
which that exodus may infiict upon
the cultivation or gathering of the
growing crops. The reports now
make it quite certain, we are glad to
say, that no loss worth reckoning has
so far been done to the cotton crop.
The sugar crop in Louisiana Is not
grown III the region affected by the
flight of the negroes. If, therefore,
the press reports from the Southwest
are as trustworthy as they seem to
be impartial, the exodus has really
affected nothing at all, and the agents
in the Northern States who are cOm-
missioned to magnify it for political
effect have not succeeded in doing
to every honest interest in the land
what they designed to do, and they
may be safely left to fall out and tell
the truth about each other, after the
manner of Republican politicians in
the South, political witnesses from
Louisiana and the like.
Year: 1879

A farmer in Pennsylvania will not
allow partridges to be killed on bis
plantation. He states that recent
Investigations made by him prove
cOnclusively that they are the hest
protection the wheat crop could have.
In the craw of one he found over a
huLdred bugs of the most destructive
kind to the wheat crop. His crop is
excellent, while those of his neighbors
have been ruined by bugs.
Year: 1879

Tea has been raised as far north as
Missouri by a farmer named J. F.
Fulbright. 1t is of the Young Hyson
variety, and said to be as good as i'm
ported tea. The seed were procured
from Georgia, and the plant is easily
raised. growing about three feet high
and is covered thick with leaves,
which have to be gathered just be-
fore frost. The experiment ought
to be tried here in Tennessee. When
we drink our own tea we shall have
no fear of adulterations, and besides
save a large revenue that we now
send abroad to enrich others.


We clip the abo-e article from the
Memphis Evening Herald. This ex>
pertinent of raising our own tea is
well worth trying. After landing at
our large seaports but little of this
article leaves for the interior in a
state of purity. If it can be raised
in Missouri, why not in Tennessee?
In this way, as the Herald says we
cannot only get pure article, but
keep a large amount of money at
home. In addition to the reasons
given for raising tea in this state, the
seed have been used for the cure of
chills, and we know a druggist who
has sold them for a number of years
for this purpose. In these days Of
government protection to quinine
monopolists this is no small item.
Year: 1879

The following proposition from
Tennessee appear i'll the Philadelphia
Record:


l see ID your paper statement that
Prof. King, the aeronaut, is preparing
for an ocean tri p in the air with
balloons. | have once proposed to
propel and guide Prof Kings balloon
at Nashville, Tenn, but from some
cause he treated the proposition with
silent contempt. You may state in
the Record that | am unable to get
means to put my flying machine in op-
Grafton, and means alone prevent me
from navigating the air successfully.
| have my invention patented III the
United States and Canada. | fully
believe that | can cross the briny deep
and explore the north pole, carry the
mail and all money matters from point
to point l will say this to the man
or men that will furnish me the means
say two or three thousand dollars
to start it. He or they shall have
my patent as collateral surety till they
are paid 50 for each one they furnish
me. l am ready to give any further
information | can on this subject.


can take Prof. Kings balloon and
cross the ocean, or any balloon that is
sufficient to bear me up long enough;
but | want my balloons made more in
the shape Of cigar, so | can place my
machine and sitting car under it. and
my propelling and guiding power on
top Of it. This is principle that is
as true as any other principle; but
science has failed to reach it, and there
fore it is condemned. Once under>
stood, it is quite simple. l can navi-
gate the air on the bird principle, with
out ballon; but l cannot carry so
much freight. AS soon as 1 start the
balloon, and get the means, l will start
the pleasure cars. Will you be so
kind as to publish this truth, for good.
dare you to test me.


j. j. PENNINGTON.


Henryville, Tenn, June 3, 1879.
Year: 1879

Out in Nevada a few days since the
train was stopped by crickets. They
got on the track in such numbers that
the driving wheels of the engine on
striking them would whirl around
without going forward an inch. The
train men had to get out and shovel
them off the track. This is equal to
grasshoppers, but it is hoped that they
will not prove so destructive to vege-
tation.
Year: 1879

beautiful young wife on the North
eide has expended much ingenuity in de-
V.slng scheme to keep her husband
at home nights, and 1t proved very effec-
tuaI. She t1atters her Hege lord about the
ex9uisitely dainty proportions of his feet.
ana induces him to wear boots two sizes
700 small tor him He is on his feet all
gay long in town, and when he gets home
a. night she has soft chair and a pair
OF cool slippers for him, and by the time
nc, with great drops of agony pearling
his brow, has got off his boots, he comes
to the conclusion chat there is no place
like home after all, and has no desire to
go down town to the lodge or sit up with
a sick friend.
Year: 1879

stewed Corn II remove the grams from
the ear by scoring the ear with a sharp
knife; then using the back of the knife
to rub off the kernels. When corn is even
old, by doing this the tough skin on the
grams remain on the cob. take twenty
tour ears and remove as above the kernels:
Keep the cobs, which l put In water,
lust enough to cover them, and / let them
boil q half-hour,; it is in this water I put
my corn kernels adding a tablespoonful
OF cream, q teaspoonful Of butter, and salt.
with little white pepper. If this recent
Is properly followed out it will be found
to be the most wholesome and the best
way Of cooking rather indigestible
vegetable.
Year: 1879

MAYOR COOPER CHRCKED.-Judge Van Brunt,
In the Supreme Court OF New York, rendered
decision late yesterday afternoon In the case of
the writ Of prohibition which he issued some
time since enjoining Mayor Cooper from pro-
In his decision he declares the Mayor has no
power to remove Wheeler; that, as in passing
upon the existence OF sufficient cause for re-
moval, the Mayor acts Judiciously, and that
the writ OF prohibition will lie In the case of an
officer acting judicially who exceeds his juris-
diction. the writ In the case at bar must abso-
lutely be made.
Year: 1879

TIE STATEMENT Is MADE that General Sheri-
dan fought the battle of Winchester on inform
alton furnished by southern woman who sent
IL to him wrapped In tinfoil, WHICH the negro
who took it concealed in his mouth, This Wo-
man, 1t is said. was rewarded with position In
the Treasury department..
Year: 1879

Col. John w. Forney, while In st. Louis the
other day, en- route to Kansas to attend the Old
Settlers anniversary celebration at Lawrence,
was interviewed by the Globe Democrat. Being
asked about the next Presidential race he said:
with us In pennsylvania, as here, Grant is the
updoubted choice OF all the people. met him
In Europe last year, and noted the admiration
he was awakening there by his simplicity and
quiet demeanOr, which were but prelude to
the mysterious hold he has upon the people
here The Globe Democrat Is right In its inter-
probation OF public sentiment, and Grant is
right when he laughs at the idea that he should
be chosen, as he will be next year. He might
declare himself President In perpetuity or in


Il have been among those who at first shrunk
from the idea Of third term; but when re-
member that the American people were willing
1rgton, three terms to Jefferson, three terms to
jackson, and three terms to Lincoln had exi-
gency arisen such as now. no more fear that
the little man who saved the republic and re-
publican party and preserve his integrity.


WHAT GRANT SHOULD DO.


"There is only one thing" unused Mr.. For
livery, "that would like to see Grant do; that
is, should he resolve to take the republican
nomination, would like to see him declare In
adVanee give the southern people
tory example he set at AppomatOx In 1865. To
say to the southern people: you have terribly
sinned, but unutterably suffered. You belong
to us. We will make you love the union more
and more as we show you fresh kindness every
day. We implore you to make and improve
your states like Kansas, Illinois, Minnesota
magnificent savannahs, not In words only, but
in deeds-by encouraging free speech, q free
press, fair voting and universal education. En-
courage home industry, and IL the south did all
these things, young man, before the close of
the nineteenth century the south would be the
rival of the west In robust prosperity. as In the
time past, when 1t was master OF the whole
nfrV nd 1odf in mi IDOL
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-A special from Sails
bury, n. c., gives the reply OF Gen. Sherman to
an invitation to attend the proposed grand re-
union OF survivors OF the federal and confed-
crate armies, to take place on the 2sd OF Octo-
Der next, In which he says: "The time is too
remote for me to make promise, but 1 assure
you that 1t would be most agreeable to me per
sonally and socially to meet you on any suita-
PIE occasion. There Is no use in my mincing
terms. Whenever and wherever the honest
men OF North Carolina meet to allay sectional
and party an1mosities and to cultivate feelings
OF fraternity and respect for their fellow-citi-
zens OF the United States, it viii be to me most
tempting to come. would far prefer therefore
TO come alone than as before with q vast army
leaving desolation behind. But must not be
construed as asserting to the proposition that
confederate and Union men were alike worthy
OF acelebration for the terrible history OF 1851
.; would much prefer to come on some civic
occasion when all are absolutely equal and
alike Interested In the present and future glory
OF our common country. When we may all
meet on common ground In North Carolina TO
celebrate some revolutionary event, or to en-
courage some modern enterprise. ft Will give
me great pleasure to come to salisbury, TO Ra-
leigh, to GuilfOrd Court House, or any other
place In the old North State"
Year: 1879

is one that yields its owner a good profit
through the whole season. But he must
supply the cows with what they need in
order for them to be able to keep up their


product. When their butter gets light in


color he must make it gilt edged by
using Wells. Richardson 4 Co.'S Perfected


Butter Color 1t gives the golden color of
June. and adds FIVE cents per pound to the
value of the butter
Year: 1879

When your system gets out of tune anc
you feel completely played out, it is pretty
certain that you need medicine to act on
both the Kidneys and liver for these i'm
portant organs work together in freeing
the system of it's waste. and keeping W
the tone. Then take Kidney w ort. fol-
this is just what it does, for it is botE
diuretic and cathartic.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chiis, no use of
headache ,or any of the ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-wilI
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Blacking
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in its line. DIFF
Year: 1879

HOWEVER willing the people
might be to surrender corporations,
and all the aiders and abettors of
corporations, to the revengefnl pas
sIons of the Sand Lot, there are
two conspicuous surrenders to cor
porations in the new Constitution
on which we propose to comment
at some length. We allude to the
chapters which relate to cities of
over one hundred thousand inhabi-
tants and which create the Board
of Railway Commissioners. The
fiction involved in employing the
plural number when special and
demagogic legislation with regard
to San Francisco was contemplated
was unworthy of any legislative
body. There is only, and there is
only likely to be, one city of one
hundred thousand Inhabitants in
California. The chapter on cities
was intended as sop to the Sand
Lot Cerberus, and we think we can
make apparent the fact that tre-
mendous and disastrous innovation
on existing institutions is cloaked
by il.
Year: 1879

that, if its sessions exceeded one
hundred days, the members were
not to draw pay in excess of that
period. That was our point.
Every citizen would doubtless sit
contentedly under Conventional
eloquence during the whole Sum-
mer solstice, but few of them
would care to pay the pro rata of
SO a day for the individual mem
bers during the time in excess of
that stipulated by law. Our con-
temporary seems to have over
looked the fact that the Conven-
tion, with it's work ratified or it's
work repudiated, by the people, is
separate proposition. Should the
people ratify the new Constitution
the oppressed Taxpayers would
feel obliged to pay 152 members $40
day for 81 additional days. Should
they repudiate the new Constitu'
tion there would not be even u con-
structive obligation to deplete the
State Treasury to that extent. TO
the statistics as to the number of
days occupied by the Constitutional
Conventions of New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, our answer is
probably complete in the assump-
tion that there was no limit of
time as to those bodies in the acts
calling them. If the new Consti-
tuition is ratified we shall have TO
pay each member of the Conven-
tion $40 day for 81 days, and be
thankful that they did not extend
the period to $40 days. II it is de-
feated, we shall have to pay
nothing.