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Year: 1872

Thomas BALL.-Mr. Thomas is pre-
pairing to make the dancing party on the
evening of the 4th, the most pleasant af-
fair of the season. The advertisement
will be found under the proper heading.
Supper will be served at the New York
Hotel, and two additional instruments
added to the celebrated string band"
Year: 1872

FOURTH OF JULY.-The Ninety sixth
Anniversary of our National Independ-
ence comes on Thursday next, and will
not pass unhallowed by the citizens of
Weaverville. Appropriate exercises at
the Theater, including an Grafton, will be
one of the features of the occasion, and
dance at the same place in the evening,
will wind up the days festivities. We
will lack but four years Of completing
the first century of our existence as a ma
ton, and as the years roll on, and our
National Life begins to be counted by
decades and centuries rather than by
years, the observance of its natal day
should serve to keep fresh in remem-
brance the patriotic deeds which gave
our country its existence. We hope to
see every one who can, participate in the
ceremonies in Observance of the day.
Year: 1872

ACCIDENTAL defective plank on the
Fast Weaver bridge, near the slaughter
house, came near causing serious acct
dent to party of young men who crossed
with Il team last Sunday morning. The
plank had been broken some time pre-
vious, and should have been replaced
with sound one, and on this occasion
brought everything to a halt by throwing
one Of the animals down. Three of the
party were thrown out, receiving a few
slight bruises Better look next time,
young men.
Year: 1872

THIS YEARS AssEssMENr.-The as
sessment of this county is completed and
the assessment roll ready for the Board
of Equalization, which meets next week.
Through the kindness of deputy assessor
Peter Paulsen we are enabled to give the
following statement of the assessed val
ne of the property in this county:
Year: 1872

We wish to call the attention of ALL m
Gebted to this office, that the present Janua-
srv we wish to settle with ali~those that we
are owing and those owing Us. We have some
accounts of long standing on our books, that
are perfectly good. but through thoughtiess-
ness and inattention they have not been SET
tied Frolnsthacolleetion of many small ac-
counts due us, we shall be able to pay large
ones; and We trust that no one showing Ihe'r
Indebtedness, will hesitate to come forward
and Pay Up.
Year: 1872

s3y- We learn that our young men, acting
on the old maxim that in the "rme or peace
prepare for war, contemplate organizing Il
Fire Company in Van. BuTsn, Our town has
been highly favored in escaping the terrible
calamity of fire. But this state Of security
need not always be expected; and we trust
tour citizens will give this matter careful con-
sideration and when called on, act according
ly. Some definite action will be had soon and
we shall know then what is contemplated
and will refer to this subject again ., q
Year: 1872

@ sEy- See new advertisement of DEcHERD
Bios For fresh Drugs and Medicines and


Everything else in their line that is the place


to 60. 1t is almost a pleasure to take phys
lie composed by such clever aud reliable gen
-teman And ono thing you may be sure OF,
you'll not get anything that will kill with
.ou, knowing it, for they know their business,
Year: 1872

s3y- For nearly a week past Van Buren has
been cursed, with a street peddler OF soap
which is nothing more than sharp" game Of
chance" BY buying a small piece of COM
mon bar soap you are ailowed TO draw an en-
yelope, which may or may not contain from
81 to $40 in it. We contend even If within
the pale of the law, that he has no right to oc
cupy the public streets, but should be made
TO rent rooms and do business on his own
premises. 1t is a nuisance in more sense than
one, and the Mayor should see that it is abat-
ed
Year: 1872

Ex3- To the clear-hcqdcd local of the
Memphis Aspeql we are indebted for
tins i'om n F3S.E.6


The publisher OF a newspaper de,
pending as he does IN a measure upon
his subscription list for support, natural.
ly expects each family who desire to read
his papcrto subscribe for it, If they can
afford it. Subscribers themselves, as
well as publishers, find the, newspaper
borrower first class nuisance, for he of
ten borrows it rs the owner is about to
read it, retains it at certain times when
he misses it, and too often, if he returns
it at all, the paper is in such condition
that no one OF sensibilitics would care to
read It, If there is anything to which
the advice of Polonius to his son Laer-
Year: 1872

Weary hearts weary hearts by the cares OF


life oppressed.
Ye are an FIRING in the shadows--ye are sigh


ing for q rest;
There is darkness in the heavens, and the


earth is bleak below,
And the JOYS we taste to-day may tomorrow
" Weary Heartsl God is Rest. 'ltii
Lonely hearts lonely hearts, this is but a
Ye are pinins for repose-ye are longing for
what the world hath never siven-Kneel. and
And your grief shall turn to gladncss-if you


lean upon His love.


Lonely Hearts God is Love.
Restless he rts restless hearts ye are toiling
And the flowers of life all withered, leave but


thorns along your way;
Ye are wa'ting-ye are waiting till your toll


ings all hall cease,
And your ev'ry restless beating is sad-sad
Restless Hearts, God is Peace.
Breaking heart' broken hearts! ye are DESC


late a. d lone,
And low voices from the Past Ger your present
In the sweetest of your pleasures there was


bitterest alloy
And stArless night hath followed on the sun


set Of your joy


Broken Hearts God is joy.
Homeless hearts homeless hearts through


the dreary. dreary years. -
Y are lonely, lonely wand'rers, and your way
- Is wet with tears
In bril hit or blighted places, wheresoever you


may roam,
Ye look away from earth-land and ye murmuI


where is home?"


Homelesa uaorfs God ia Home
Year: 1872

At first there is something strange in
seeing so many halfnaked men pulling
| themselves coolly about in the Seine,
but there is an innocence and simplicity
in the whole proceeding which divests it
of any idea Of improperly. Here, for
instance, are three gentlenes and two
ladies, all in bathing dresses, and all
giving themselves the air bath, which
their limited costume renders agreeable,
before taking their swim together. The
boat stops in midstream; little ladder
is hung over the side, the gentlemen all
go in like frogs, one after another, head
first; the ladies 90 in more like ducks,
with sort of flutter and rush upon the
surface, and so they swim merrily round
the boat, laughing and chasing one
another, and every now and then climb.
ing up the ladder to rest.


At Bas Meuden there are a number of
covered boats which may be hired, and
within the Gipsy like tents at the stern
the ladies make their toilets, while the
gentlemen make theirs in the bows.
But here, also, are islands with conve-
nient, bushy shelters, and bathers of
both sexes take advantage of them in
the absence of bathing houses or better
cover. Then there are pretty villas
upon the river bank, which suggest
to the occupants a bathing place of
their own. AS you walk along the
bank you meet, for instance, lady
charmingly dressed, tripping down her
garden, out across the road and down to
the waters edge. In second some.
thing is apparently unlocked, the becom
ing morning costume sinks in heap at
her feet, and reveals an equally dainty
but very different form of attire, in which,
having kicked off the slippers from her
stockIngless feet, she plunges into'the
stream, and kisses her hand from the
middle of it to her husband, who is
standing admiring her from the balcony
of his drawing room. Afterwah her
maid comes down with large wrapper,
and she runs home like dripping Naiad
with her children, who seem 10 have had
their bath, all trooping and laughing
round her. There is a great deal OF
swimming learned from boats, the swim
mer having cord attached to his or her
waist, and being upheld and directed by
a man in the boat. The whole of these
aquatic performances which appear to
be confined to the small bourgeoise, is
conducted with the most perfect inno-
cence and propriety Whole families
come and splash about for the real en-
joyment of the thing and the performers
seem far more decently clothed than
those in the LIE Roi Carotte.
Year: 1872

OF course, in talking of old maids We


do not include women OF large fortune


who may be anything they please Nc


woman with few thousand year will


have TO complain of opportunities Of


changing her condition, want of position
or want of respect; nor Will she be the
first to occur to the distracted mother s


mind, whose dozen children are taken


with the measles at once, as the person
to come and help in the nursing and sit
up with the baby. People with money
are always supposed to have something
to do. Importance implies a certain
sort of occupation. But strength is rel
alive No woman without certain in
dependence and force of character is fit
to be an old maid. There are feeble
women who might make passable wives,
but who make deplorable old maids;
they are wretched single, and impart
some of their wretchedness to all who
have to do with them; they trail for want
of prop, and lie huddled like some un
lucky creeper, an unshapely heap, for
want Of the vigorous stem that should
hold it up. Such women cannot believe
that they are to be married some day.
Somebody to love, to be afraid of, to
look up to, to swear by, some duties i'm
posed by necessity, do strike the OBJ
server as such necessity for their we'll
being, or even creditable existence, that
the lifelong attitude Of expectation,
however hopeless, is almost justified.
Women of this character have probably
had many opportunities ofsettling in life;
feebleness in girlhood not seldom takes
an attractive form; but perhaps no one
to compel them to decision; and there
is wanting to this temperament the
powers of falling genuinely in love, as
we'll as OF coming TO liked resolve.
Life is all expectation with the feeble
woman; she recoils from q final step,
and would as likely as not still slip out
of an engagement which she had stimu.
lated all her small despairing energies
to bring to a point The beauty who, in
vulgar phrase, has overstood her market,
does not make an amiable old maid,
She feels her life has been mistake,
and is soured accordingly. There is
something in the possession and con-
seiousness of beauty which interferes
with the frank bestowal of the affections
The woman who is made to understand
BY all the werld that she is handsome,
acquires a notion of duty to her claims
which supercedes and puts the appeals
Of the heart ont Of eountenance. She
is afraid of wasting her sdysntsges, and
asks herself at critical moments, Can
do better" For brief year or two all
the world lies within the grasp of her
elated fancy. When the niece in the
piay asks heF amt why she has never
married, the answer is, W dear, vas
very cruel thirty years ago, and nobody
asked me since" Such reverses sharpen
alike features and temper. The ladies
haunted by these regrets are bugbear
to their kindred; even their kindnesses
hare 2 sting in them; there is something
irritating 70 tnem ia othe7 people's sue
cess and happiness: the trials Of mar
ried life would have left them more
amiable.
Year: 1872

In the death Of James Gordon Bennett at the ripe
age OF seventy-sx years American journalism has
lost one of its most famous representatives 1t may
be said with truth that one OF his compeers was
ever widely known, his name having spread all
over the globe, and being synonym of press enter
prise and aulacity. During his long and eventful
career, American journalism has grown to be a far
more able and powerful institution than in the early
days OF the famous paper which he founded. The
history OF his career is in some respects history Of
the American press; and hence, though his death
occurs at a moment crowded with exciting events
OF domestic and foreign politics, IL canuot fail TO
produce profound impression in every part OF the
country,
Year: 1872

On Saturday the most successful OF American
Journalists died. James Gordon Bennett finished
his long and peculiar career Few men have been
more malgned than he. Few have fought harder
for their position, and few have shown more ability
and energy In their work. In Judging or Mr. Ben
nett as q journalist, 1t must be acknowledged that
he Ia the father OF the American newspaper such.
He It was who first gave news and fresh inOrma-
tion of all kinds that prominent place 1t holds
In the journalists mind. And this was his
great work. He created the news depart


influence, Affecting all and every side at different
times. As man he was generous and kind to u
remarkable degree. Though often accused OF the
contrary ne was uniformly liked by the men under
his employ. TO no one man can 90 many news.
Year: 1872

The death Of so prominent journalist as James
Gordon Bennett will excite the reflections on his
remarkable career which belong to the case. lie is
the acknowledged founder Of the modern style of
newspaper. Before his time it was podding, dull,
sleepy, sow-coach affair, almost Indifferent to pub
fishing the news even when 1t Tell into its lap He
took 1t and infused new life into 1t, made a new
agent of IL, sent the blood coursing freely through
Its veins and 1t at once became q necessity to
civilization. AS man Mr.. Bennett challenged
hosts of enmites, all OF which he has long outved
There was end to his enterprise. Money flowed
like water when news was to be bought for the
public, The founder OF the NEW YORK HERALD has
earned n name that will last long while.
Year: 1872

ored member, and / can not believe


even yet that he will go.


I wish to say that I don't believe,
as mony do, that the Governor will
use the power put in his hands by
the Republican party to break it
down and destroy it. I believe
he will give us IL fair trial and open
chance, and that is all l ask, and all
the Republican party asks.


In conclusion, let me say that !
have made great sacrifices, both Of
means and time, and even social
friends, for many who are now op-
posing me. / see those that I have
sustained in trying hours fail me
now. [ see the white inen-not all.
but some Of tho white mcn--in
this convention who know that if
it went into nominations they would
probably place 1T the head Of the
ticket my humble sell, preparing to
bolt. This is the unkindcst cut OF
all. They may 60, but by the
E .ernal I'll follow them no further.
Year: 1872

The London Standard comments upon the
sending the Grenadier Guards band to the
Peace Jubilee, from politco-muscal point of
view, as follows:


1.-The government of this country, in order
to further the ends of gigantic sensation,
have dispatched the Band of III. NJ. Grenadier
Guards across the Atlantic. The purpose of
their engagement is to take part in what is
most slngularly termed the ''World's Peace
Jubilee and International Musical Festival
Our government has evidently fallen into
the trap of a cute impressario, and, misled by
the TACT that other nations had agreed to
SEND representative band, consented far too
reaully that one from the English army should
perform Tor the benefit of private specula-
tor rather than for the advancement of the
art. There can be but one opinion as to the
undignifed nature of the whole proceeding.
and it will be difficult in future to refuse sim
liar offers.


letter from the solicitors of the Euro
pean agent of this monster undertaking states
that it has been entered into with no idea of
making profit but to ''aid in removing some
what OF the prejudices that engender ill-feel-
ing, and to create a better understanding be-
tween the nations of the world through the
common medium of art" No doubt the
promoters are the best of men, but is not
such statement slightly hyperbolical, and
suggestive of Banum and A. Wards ''world's
exhibition of wax figgers," with his moral
reflections thereon? If this ''better under
standing be the real desire, what an oppor-
tunlty of settling our differences with Amer-
ca have we not lost by proceeding to Geneva
instead of Boston! Fancy our negotiators
pleading their cause, with musical accompan-
lments, before tribunal animated with such
universal benevolence
Year: 1872

1T Is A MARK of the unsuccessful man. that
he invariably locks his stable door when the
horse has been stolen. This sort of wisdom
never thinks about bodily health until it is
gone. But just as much as any disease has be-
come seated, the power of the system to resist
and throw it off is weakened; hence time is all
important. For dyspepsia, all diseases of the
liver, stomach, skin and kidneys, and all that
begin in vitiated blood, do not wait until the
trouble is confirmed, but attack it by timely
use of DIR. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
BITTERs. jy20-d4wt
Year: 1872

An afflicted patron of intelligence offices
thus gives vent to his emotions: Earnestly
solicited-A person of culture and aesthetic
taste, to preside at the kitchen range, where
there are only two in family. Salary, what
ever such superior mortal could deign to
ooh
Year: 1872

Here is novel without fiction, con-
densed into reliable space, and told off
without any fuss The New York Times
says:


We heard a pretty little incident the
other day, which we cannot help relat-
ing. A young lady from the South, it
appears, was wooed and won by ply
sician living in California When the
engagement was made, the doctor was
rich having been very successful in San
Francisco. 1T had not been six months,
however. when, by unfortunate invest
ments, he lost his entire heap"


This event came upon him it should
be added, just as he was making ready
to claim his bride What does he do !
Why like an honest and chivalrous
young fellow as he is. he sits down and
writes the young lady of the unhappy
change that had taken place in his for
tunes, assuring her that if the fact pro
duced any change in her feelings towarC
him, she was released from every prom
ise she had made to him. And wha
does the dear good girl do? Why, sh
Year: 1872

takes lump of gold, which her lover
sent to her when in prosperity, as a
keepsake, and having it manufactured
into a ring, forwarded it to him, with
the following inscription engraved dis
tinctly ON the inside;


"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to
return from following after thee; for
whittier thou goest I will 60 and whith-
er thou lodgest l will lodge; thy people
shall be my people and thy God my
God I; where thou diest [ will die, and
there will [ be buried the Lord do so
to me and more also, if aught but death
part me and thee


We may add that fortune soon again
smiled upon the young physician, and
that he subsequently, returned to the
South, to wed the faithful girl. Nay,
more, the happy bride and groom pass
ed through our city, not long since. on
their way to the home of the latter in
the Golden State. Reader, this is al
true. Young ladies who read the Bible
as closely as the heroine of our incident
seems to have done, are pretty sure tc
make good sweethearts and better wives.
Year: 1872

On Wednesday last, at Pleasant
Plains, Sangamon county, ILL.,, died Pc
ter Cartwright, the oldest ordained men,
Der of the Methodist Church in the Unit
ed States, at the advanced age of eighty
seven. There are few people in this
country but have heard or read Of this
eccentric, energetic, WARM hearted old
border preacher, who, for sixty-eight
years, devoted himself to the cause of
his Master, laboring in season and out
of season, and never in all that time lift
ing his hand from the plough or pausing
to look regretfully back. In many of
his prominent characteristics he was the
counterpart of the late Father Taylor.
There was the same irrepressible zeal,
the same bluntness, the same sympathy,
the same hate of sham and can't. There
was no fear, save the fear of God, in him.
There are those living who have seen
him s'clean OUT crowd of the ungodly
who had congregated to disturb the gath
erings over which he presided, and yet
it was always done in the way of duty,
never of anger. Many of our readers
will remember the story which even now,
occasionally, goes the rounds of an anon
ymous itinerant preacher ON Western
circuit. whom fighting blacksmith un-
dertook to fog, in fulfillment of VOW
registered to that purpose, but who was
most ANONYMOUSLY thrashed and made
to repeat the Lords Prayer. The story
was true one, and the representative
of the church militant, on that occasion,
was the Rev. Peter Cartwright. He was
rough and uncultured, but his eloquence
was genuine, and reached the hearts of
the humble and unlettered pioneers of
those early days better than the more
polished utterances of greater pulpit
lights could have done.


Peter Cartwright was born on the first
day of September, 1855, in Amherst
county, Va. His father was a soldier
in the Revolutionary army, and after the
declaration of peace, removed with his
family to Kentucky, which was at that
time almost wilderness. settling in Lo-
gan county. Peter grew up wild un-
manageable boy, fond of cards and gam.
bling, dancing and drinking, and espe
cially given to horse-racing. At the
age of seventeen he was converted at {
Methodist camp-meeting held near hi'
fathers house, and two years later, hav
ing attained considerable reputation al
an exhorter, was permitted by license t.
exercise his gifts in that direction. III,
was soon famous as the ..boy preacher,
and before year had passed was widel,
known for his eloquence and success


From the beginning he was bitter op


ponent of slavery. and said many thing


in the course of his ministry unrebuked
which would. in the mouth of a North
Year: 1872

A REMARKABLE HORSE. - When a
brave man dies, or one who has rendered
his fellow being service, it is fitting to
mourn for him, and recount the many
good acts in his life which have made
him so useful and so beloved. Why
not use the same propriety in grieving
for some noble animal, which, by his
constant faithfulness, has endeared him
to all who knew him? We do not
think it beneath the dignity of man
to be attached to so grand an animal as
horse, and it certainly is natural to
mourn for him when he is gone. We
know of a case recently where the death
of horse created real sadness to the
family of which he was an active men,
Der. He had safely carried his master
through many of the hottest battles of
the war, and had been twice wounded
while in the service. Even in his old
age he could not hear the beating of a
drum or the sound of band of music,
without proudly lifting his head and
assuming an attitude of interest and im-
portance. He was twice stolen by the
enemy, each time breaking away and re-
turning to his own camp, once having a
strange saddle blanket on, and bearing
evidence of having forded the river to
reach his old friends. During trans
fer on the Mississippi, when many horses
died for want of food, he gnawed into a
barrel of bacon, and when found, the
grease was running down the sides of
his mouth in most suspicious manner.
The soldiers being pleased with SO plucky
a horse, tried him with 'hard-tack, -
which he seemed to relish as much as
the bacon, and was fed with the same
during the whole trip. They also taught
him to drink whisky. and much to their
shame, got him so ''beastly" drunk that
he ran away with, and nearly demolish-
ed his master. Many "reminiscences
such as these were often told of him
after becoming sedate old family horse
Those who recognize the ''Old Charley
of our sketch will be sorry to learn O.
his death about two weeks ago he will
long be remembered as an honest anG
trustworthy friend as man ever possess
ed.-Quincy (W) Wing.