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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS J. D. COLLEY & CO., VOL. I. WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS. LORENZO SMITH &BR0., -OF— WASHINGTON, GA., ABE OFFERING FOB THE FALL TRADE GincinnatiBuggies AT $50 TO $75. Columbus Buggies AT $100 TO $160. Buggies and Carriages of prices. other Also makes and grades at various STUDEBAKER WAGONS At $65 and $70. TENNESSEE WAGONS At $60 and $65 WEBSTER WAGONS $60 to $75. THREE 3-4 WAGONS -A-T SS-5.J. One-Horse Wapo, vitli Seat, Own Make, at $40. KEMP'S MANURE SPREADERS, GfRAIF DRILLS, ALBION SPRING TOOTH HARROWS, WINDMILLS, And a General Assortment of Agricultural Implements Also Single Harness from $9 up. Double Harness, parts of Harness, Hubs, Spokes and Rims. A Good Buggy SHarnesslor $S0. Our pricos are guaranteed to be as low as n:;y similar house in the South. Give us a call. Correspondence solicited. O. M. MAY, WASHINGTON, GA., GROCER, AND DEALER 1» - The liberal patronage which I have ob¬ tained from the people of Wilkes and adjoin¬ ing counties, I intend to hold by continuing to sell my goods at the very lowest prices, and by fair dealing in all things. Also C. M. MAY & CO. Will carry on a General Mercantile business at Double Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga. 25 CENTS WILL ULTY A AND HIS DISEASES. Book of 100 pages. Valuable to every owner of horses Postage stamps taken. SENT POSTPAID BY Rev York Revspaper Union, ISO WORTH! ST.i NEW YORK. THE AU&USTA, ELBERTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD. In Patience. if thon livest evermore alone, Poor and forgotten and in thy silentpiaoo? What if for bread thou gettest but a stone, And in thy garden no rose lends a grace? Still in thy soul the souls of all the flowers Will fill with perfume all thy dreaming hours. What if the stars are far away and cold, And Love hath no last kisses for thy lips— If thou hast found misfortune overbold, And joy’s sweet sun hid ’neath a cloud’s eclipse? Still, some stray gleams must keep thy desert fair, And wandering breezes lift thy heavy hair. No soul but hath some sun, or star, or moon, That keeps itself a sacred thing of light; As brooks go rambling thro’ the rose-rapt June, Some joy will seek thee in thy darkest night; Some hallowed dream will be fulfilled and sweet; Some buds will open at thy patient feet. Seek not to wrench from Fate the hoarded prize ; Seek not to bend grim Fortune to thy need, Save by the upturned glance of loyal eyes, Save by the heart that can in silence bleed; Stand in thy God-appointed place, upright, And thou shalt yet be the viotor in the fight. —Fanny Driscoll, THE GAMBLER’S WIFE. “ What new beauty have we here, Carl?” I asked, taking a small colored picture from among the mass of papers, pamphlets, wrapping paper, etc., that covered the table and floor of the library and which would have told plain enough to all acquaintances that Carl was at home once more, after this, his longest ramble in foreign lands, without the corroborating testi mony of cigar smoke or the lounging in the old For this brother of mine never spent j over six months of the year in the .beautiful country home of his child¬ hood, giving the other six to whatever place or people promised- most enter¬ tainment on short notice. The last three months had been spent in Paris, so I conjectured the little gem of art I held in my hand was a French beauty; the' pure outlines and exquisite com¬ plexion looking most life-like as they smiled up at me from the tinted card. But notwithstanding the great beauty of contour and feature, there was a frightened, almost haunted look in the dark eyes that told of tragedy, or least anticipated it. “Who is she, Carl? The eyes affect me strangely, with their wild, fright¬ ened look. There is a reigh of terror in them equal to the one her ancestors passed through. I almost see the shadow of the guillotine in their velvety depths.” “ Let me see; ah, my little sister, may you never know so hard a fate as this poor girl encountered and suc¬ cumbed to. No, she is not French—a Russian—but married to a French¬ man.” And Carl took the picture from my hand and placed it on a small easel above liis desk. “ I will tell you about her, Louie, if you have an hour, and I will tell I told “ It was while Tom Barnes was with me last June, and when we left Vei sailles for Paris, that I first saw Madame Literre—though I think the name an assumed one. We had to run to prevent being left, I remember, and Barnes, out of humor because of it, plunged his face into his book and left me to my own resources. “As soon as I was comfortably set¬ tled I, as usual, began scrutinizing my traveling companions, and to try to imagine who and what they were. There were four besides ourselves in the carriage. One, a quiet, middle aged Englishman, who was soon asleep in his corner. The two who sat next myself were evidently husband and wife, though he paid her none of the attention and politeness usually ac¬ corded in public, even if dispensed with privately. He was a pale, quiet man of twenty-five, perhaps, richly but quietly dressed, and seemingly tak¬ ing no notice of any one around him. The wife, too, was pale, and much as she looks there in that little picture. Her dress though simple was perfect, and evidently the production of some first-rate artiste. Her whole style proclaimed her at once to belong to the higher order of society. “She seemed to be suffering, and frequently put her hand to her fore¬ head; and I observed upon the deli¬ cately-formed, ungloved hand a costly diamond. It was a beauty; and I en¬ joyed looking at the flashing gems as she caressed a small English dog that often looked up at her with affection¬ ate recognition. “The other passenger I could not make out at all. He was elderly, com monly dressed and with scant gray hair ar 1 heavy whiskers. His pierc¬ ing eyes were frequently placed on the silent young married couple, and then he seemed as utterly oblivious of them as they of him. What was his nation¬ ality? Was he with them or a stranger like myself? I could not tell. And LINCOJLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1&82. the more I looked the more uncertain I became. I thought, too, there seemed an effort at disguise. He kept his face watclifulness of the quiet young lius band that he at times eyed so very persistently “We sped along over the beautiful road, each absorbed in his own reflec tions, broken only by an occasional low sigh from the lady, and soon arrived at our destination. The train stopped and as none of my companions showed any disposition to move first I aroused Barnes from the depths of his romance and we left the carriage. “ Dinner over, we went to the thea¬ tre, and afterward, by the persuasion of a friend, to a private gambling house. I was greatly surprised on en¬ tering to see my elderly traveling com¬ panion seated at the table, his eyes and manner keen as ever, and deep in a game of rouge et noir, It was early yet and very few people were present; but every sound was hushed, and the game went on in dead silence, broken only by the voices of the dealers call¬ ing the result of the games, and the rattling of the gold as it was raked from one to another, The old man seemed in luck for the time being and won every game. I thought a gleam of satisfaction shone over his face as the door opened and our other travel¬ ing acquaintance from Versailles—the quiet, careless husband—entered and sat down to play, “ I did not play that night, and my whole attention was given to those two. The young man lost from the first deal. Kouleau after rouleau was swept from the table by liis watchful old opponent; but still he played on. The large sums he lost and his pale, excited face deeply interested me, and I stayed on and watched him until late at night, when he left the room, his last Napoleon gone. “ After supping at a coffee-house I went hack to my room at the hotel, but for some cause could not sleep. ThteJieat was oppressive and my room small; besides, the game I had been watching had excited me strangely, and I only fell into a troubled sleep near morning. “ I was awakened about daylight by voices in the adjoining room—those of a i» aa and woman, evidently. The man’s voice was low and and the woman seemed to be. crying. I could hear enough to understand that she was refusing him some re¬ quest, for his tones became loud and threatening, and at last I heard him U t If you refuse me, you seal my ruin and your own. T have no more gold, and I must have the diamonds to retrieve myself.’ “ Hysterical sobs were the only answer he received, and he continued : ti < Something tells me I shall win to-night, and I must have the ring.’ “ ‘Never, Charles ! I cannot give it up. It is all I have left. It was my mother’s and I will not let it leave me.’ “The man’s voice was so choked with passion that his words were in¬ articulate, but with a burst of wild anger he left, slamming the door after him. The woman’s sobs became lower, : her crying ceased, and I fell into another nap, not waking until near 10 o’clock. “I saw neither of my gambling ac¬ quaintances that day, and the night found me again in Monsieur Carlo’s rooms. The old man was again on hand—not satisfied, I thought, with his winnings of the night before—and again I saw a gleam of satisfaction cross his face as his victim of the pre¬ vious evening came in and got ready to play, “‘Make your game—the game is made up ! ’ cried the dealer, and was about to deal the cards when the young man who had just entered called out in a loud voice : a * Fifty Napoleons upon the red! ’ “ Seeing he placed no money upon the table, the croupier paused a mo ment, then said : it t Sir, you must stake the money.’ “The gambler started and turned paler than ever; a long, shuddering sigh broke from him as he felt first in one pocket and then in another, and finally grasped his hat .and fled from the room. The playing went on for a while longer, and then one by one they went out, leaving only the at¬ tendants, the old keen-eyed gambler and myself present. Something—an undefinable feeling of interest in the unhappy man who had left the house in such despair a short time before— held me there; I must see if he re¬ turned, “ Suddenly the door opened and he ran in, as if fleeing for his life. I shall never forget that sight, Louie. His face was ghastly, liis dress dis¬ ordered, and he trembled as though with ague. As he rushed up to the table, in the strong glare of the lights, I saw great drops of perspiration standing on his brow. He thrust his hand in his pocket and tossed a ring down before his opponent. francs. . ‘“ Ttere i“ Now k cover my stakes * h0 ” ’he a " d cried. ' ’ “ I instantly recognized the beauti ful diamond as the one his wife had wom in the car8 > and the conversation 1 had heard that morning came back to my mem ory, and I knew my fellow brave ^ ers were the man and woman I had heard disputing in the early mom- i ing hours. But he had succeeded in j overcoming lier determination, for he had the ring, and my heart ached for the poor wife as I wondered how he had obtained it. M < Bed! I bet on the red!’ again shouted the young man; and in a mo¬ ment the croupier called ‘Black wins!’ and the ring was no longer his. ‘ “ With a wild cry the wretched loser fled from the house; and completely unmanned by what I had seen I re turned to my hotel, hoping the young man would soon follow me. “I found them all—travelers, pro prietor and servants—wild with excite ment over the murder of the beautiful Russian lady. An hour before her maid had gone to her room and found her deluged in blood from a wound in her head, and dead. The husband had been in and left some few moments be¬ fore. I went up to her apartment and to the bed where she lay. Her exquis¬ ite face was fairer than in life, for it had. lost the unhappy look and seemed at peace. As I turned to leave the room I saw this picture among a heap of things turned out of a man’s travel¬ ing case, and appropriated it. Probably the husband had tossed it there in his search for some valuables to risk at the gambling-table. “The miserable man took his life before he was apprehended for his crime; and the old gambler who, first in one disguise then in another, had followed the easily-duped victim from city to city and won many thousands from him, left Paris before the husband and wife were carried to their last resting-place in the beautiful burying ground where his forefathers slept. “ Louie, this is why I refused to play, even with Howard, last evening. I j have never touched cards since, and 1 j never can again.” . —San Francisco The Grandeur of TTo»t<m. When you want to get the grandest idea of a queen, you do not think of Catharine, of Russia, or of Anne, of England, or of Marie Theresa, of Ger¬ many; but when you want to get your grandest idea of a queen, you think of the plain woman who sat opposite your father c. at the table, or walked with him arm in-arm down life’s pathway; some¬ times to the thanksgiving ban¬ quet, sometimes to the grave, but always together—soothing your petty giiefs, correcting your childish way¬ wardness, joining in your infantile sports, listening to your evening prayers, toiling for you with the needle or at the spinning wheel, and on cold nights wrapping you up snug and warm. And then, at last, on that day when she lay in the back room dying, and you saw her take those thin hands with which she had toiled for you so long and put them together in a dying prayer that commended you to the God whom she had taught you to i trust—oh, she was the queen! The | chariots of God came down to fetch | her; and as she went in all heaven rose up. You cannot think of her now without a rush of tenderness that stirs the deep foundations of youi soul, and you feel as much a child again as when you cried on her lap ; and if you could bring her back again to speak just once more vour name, as tenderly as she used to speak it, you would be willing to throw yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers lier, crying : “ Mother, mother!” ! Ah! she was the queen—she was the queen. Now, can you tell me how many thousand miles a woman like that would have to travel down before she got to the ballot-box ? Compared with this work of training kings and queens for God and eternity, insignificant seems all this work of voting for aldermen and common couneilmen and sheriffs and constables and mayors and presidents ! To make one such grand woman as I have described, how many thousands would you want of those people who go in the round of fashion and dissi¬ pation, distorting their body until in their monstrosities they seem to outdo the dromedary and hippopotamus! go¬ ing as far toward disgraceful apparel as they dare go, so as not to be ar¬ rested by the police—the behavior a sorrow to the good and a caricature to the vicious, and an insult to that God who made them women and not gor gons; and trampling on, down through a friv.olous and dissipated life, to tem poral and eternal damnation.— Dr. Talmage, nr® WASHIXGtoX hoxvhext 1 . The Pragreu of the Work on It—History of the Monument. Dto«tag about the Washington monument, . a ^correspondent , . at . the .. nat ional capital says: The monu ment has now cached a height of 800 feet > and il 13 expected that about fort v feet more wil1 be before - tbe s f® son end3 - Tbe height of the structure has been about doubled since the work was resumed, a couple of y ear3 a 8°> after so long a delay, and is now a httle over one-half what it is be when completed, the highest structure in the world. Its height, when completed, is to be 550 feet. The monument board, after the work was resumed, two years ago, determined to make it the highest structure in the world. They studied up on monu ments, churches, towers and articles of sort, and found it to be perfectly sa ^ e and bbe 7 W ^1 push it up to 550 height. It is hoped that the work may be completed within two, or ’ furthest, three years after the - Few people are aware that the site of this monument is one proposed by Washington himself for a shaft of this nature, yet such is said to be the I fact. It is said that General Wash ington suggested to Major L’J ’F“*ant, the originator of the plans for the city of Washington, that at the point now occupied by the mon¬ ument there might with propriety be erected a monument in honor of the war of the Revolution. This was never done, but when the site for Washington’s monument was sought this was hit upon as most suitable, and thus the wisdom of the father of the country again honored. The date of completion of the monu,' ment is of course a matter of uncer¬ t ainty a s yet, but it is probable tha| hundred years will ha elapRl between the date of the uft agitation of the subject and the com. pletion of the monument. In the Congress of the United States ordered a bronze statue of Washing¬ ton to be erected where the residence of Congress should be permanently fixed, and directed the minister at the French court to employ an artist to perform this work, but by some means it never was done. A few years after the project took different shape, and in 1799 resolutions for the erection of a marble monument to Washington were passed by Congress, and the family requested to permit his remains to be buried under it. The permission was granted, but the work was never begun. A number of other attempts were made in the same line, but with¬ out success, and finally in 1833 a few men, disgusted with the slowness of Congress, undertook the task them¬ selves, and atter obtaining about $®D, 000 in $1 subscriptions, began the work in 1848, the corner-stone being laid July 4 of that year. In the next six years 156 feet were laid and then the funds gave out. In 1854, during the Know-Nothing excitement, a band of masked men visited the monument, gagged the watchman and taking the slab of African marble sent by the Roman government, broke it in pieces and threw in the Potomac. In 1855 a number of members of the “ Ameri¬ can Party ” forcibly took possession of the monument, ousting the old board. In ’59, however, the old board again took charge, by the direction of Con¬ gress, and as a first act re¬ moval several courses of stone laid by others when they were in con¬ trol. It was not until 1876 that Congress persuaded itself to as same the work, and then it was found necessary to strengthen the founda¬ tion, so that work was not begun until 1880, since which time it has been pushed until the present summer, when, owing to the slowness of the contractors in furnishing the stone, work was suspended. It will now be pushed forward again until cold weather stops its further progress. The monument is fifty-five feet square at the base, and when completed will be 550 feet, and it is said the highest structure in the world. It is of white marble, each course of marble being two feet in thickness. Its top is to be reached by stairway and ele¬ vator. On the interior face, observ¬ able from the stairway, are stones fur¬ nished by the United States, some of them bearing inscriptions. Michigan sends a block of copper ore, Nevada one of silver, with the words “ All for our country.” Joseph Perkins Beach, a son of the founder of the New York Sun, is en¬ gaged in preparing a genealogical re¬ cord of the Beach family. He has the names of 2,573 Beaches, descendants of two brothers who came to America in 1630. The waiters ought to succeed in a strike, for they usually carry all before them. The Goat-Herd Who Became a Great Sculptor. The story of the early life of Law son, the eminent sculptor, is full of in terest merest to to „ working orkln , men and their fam ilies . His father was a miner, as were mos (; o£ inhabitants of the beauti {ul vaUey among the mountains in which he spent his childhood. Sta¬ denly one morning in June an alarm p e u m irnated to the Village that an accident bad occurred in the mine, Immediately the road was filled With 0 f people, and among them wag a p^y 0 f between twelve and fourteen, who was ashy pale, his legs trembling that he could scarcely move but ^j$rertheless strained evei ie mouth of the p ft. T1 into the mine, aru p ft ^who Png were ft were drowned. Trank ' had died four years befof that time his fath nd Pen everything to eac 4 ither was in the fl 0C J though t: “What I wil htotm too!” Ali| f .' -.work t 0 so ^ acci hours. Fr; hardest. Hi alyzed by e down sensei knew Mnifl carried his® he awoke® at J® j QJ JM there formerly enjoyment. Heins to work and carved out the SgureJof the two dogs in the wood. He was^ himself pleased with the likenesses, and having finished them brought them home with him and laid them quietly on the table in the house of the shepherd whom he had been employed to assist. “ What!* 1 exclaimed the man; “ why that is ‘Bru no,’ and this is * Snap;’ do you mean to say that you have made them?” “Yes,” said the young artist, “ 1 have indeed carved them both myself, and I did it on purpose for you, as I thought you would be pleased to have a likeness of your two favorites. His master, the squire, had a number of fine horses,and the youth very much wished to make a likeness of one of these—a beauti¬ ful Arab—but he found it difficult to obtain the requisite opportunities of observing the animal. He most fre¬ quently saw it merely as it quickly passed h;m with its owner on its back. But he persevered and succeeded. When he had accomplished his purpose he was one day standing at the gate of the park, comparing his work with the original; and, looking with satisfaction on his production, he exclaimed: “ It is really like.” “ Like what?” asked a voice just behind him. It was his master’s. This was the turning point in the youth’s history. This gentleman had business connection with Liver¬ pool as well as a large estate in Wales, and he was so much pleased with Law¬ son’s skill, and tho promise which it showed, that he soon after arranged that he should remove to that town and pursue his studies ■ under the di¬ rection of a sculptor there. In Liver pool he experienced many difficulties and not a few real hardships, but ho persevered and in the end was .re¬ warded. The JDyek “ Head Hunters.” The Dyaks of Borneo, who have re¬ sumed their old pastime of “head hunting,” are the aboriginal inhabi tants of the islands. They are closely amed to the Malays, but are described as being more simple and honest and morally superior. They are somewhat taller than the Malays, well propor¬ tioned, and with straight, coarse, black hair. Of late years they have gained the reputation of being industrious, docile and faithful, when kindly treated. They were formerly notori¬ ous for their daring dt eds of piracy, and especially for indulgence in the peculiar pastime styled “head hunt¬ ing.” Impressed with the belief that every person beheaded would become the slave of the hunter in the future world, the Dyaks were eager to decapi¬ tate as many persons as possible, and thus became the terror of their foes. There are now over 2,200 convicts belonging to the Texas penitentiary, 487 of whom are confined within tho walls ; the remainder are on farms and railway* PUBLISHERS. NO. 6. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. ~~~~ The persistence of the magnetic property observed in certain tree§ is attributed by M. Larroque to the transportation ...... by lightning of - small „ particles of iron held in suspension with other matter, which makes up what is known as the dust of the air. English ants do not, as those of warmer dimates, lay up food for the winter, hut, as Sir John Lubbock re¬ marks, “they do more, for they keep during six ftxonths the eggs which will enable them to procure food during the following summer, a case of pru¬ dence unexampled in the animal king¬ dom." When a glass stopper sticks'in the bottle pass^^tripof woolen cloth itbackward^^BMrard. see- 3aw ’ This fnctibn heats and (HHsthe neck tc expan d, so that the stopper becomes loose. On this prindple of expansion by heat a tight screw may be with¬ drawn from a metal socket by sur¬ rounding the latter with a do® in boiling water. These are the concluaicmsofP E. Wooltty on the physical EMM ™ m mf Skum the soil in a dense and a louj lUtfi it of is water desired in to iacrssaat^ sod 4$fl a g|ed at, but a loose J LiS ■ ‘ . • . . s§ it. A'- Asa * r; :~ ^ -Vm® ~ take either in vinegar, Or me wift* wato*. Persons who suppos _ fering from heart disease bee have pain in tne region o£ $h or palpitation, seldom ixaveai of that organ. In nine cases a they are sufferers frgm dy nothing more. Congestion lungs is most frequently cai sudden change from ventilated room, or railroad c horse car, to the cold air outside, out being protected by sufficient cloM ing ; hence many persons thus seizljl drop dead in the streets. Hot drinks are specially hurtful to the stomach. They cause irritation of the nerves of the stomach, and conse¬ quent mild inflammatiot of that or¬ gan, so that after a hot drink the stomach is red and congested; in time a debilitated ’condition is set up. A temperature of 100 degrees also de¬ stroys the active ferment of the gas¬ tric juice—-pepsin—and so leads to indigestion. If the stomach is at all disordered, hot drinks give rise * much griping pain, and in many ci to vomiting. In cases of diarr too, hot drinks only increase it, w cold ones tend to lessen it. Curious Investigations. M. Mentegazza, an Italian gist of note, has studied with great care all the contractions which suffer ing produces in the human face, and endeavored to arrive at an exact dis¬ tinction of the phenomena of real from those of simulated sorrow. In regard to feigned grief, he says that the ex pression is nearly always exaggerated relatively to the cause of the grief; the visage is not pale and the muscular disturbance is intermittent; the skin h;is its normal heat; there is not har mony in the mimicry of grief and one sees certain contractioilSj cer tain re¬ laxations> which are wholly wanting in real ie£ the lse is fre cnt) ia consequence of the muscular move¬ ment; a surprise, or any object which vividly attracts the attention, suffices to make the tragic mask immediately fall off; sometimes one succeeds in dis covering among the tears, the sobs and the most heartrending lamentations the presence of a chuckle, which ex¬ presses, perhaps, the malignant pleas¬ ure of practicing a deception; and lastly, the expression is very eccentric or is wholly wanting in concentric forms. Washington is growing very rap¬ idly. The permits for building issued during the last year were 1,739, repre¬ senting an outlay of $2,468,986, which is $500,000 more than for the preceding year. Honors come by diligence; riches ipring from economy.