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A >1*1 THE LINCOLNTON NEWS n jh - ? .i -> a* * : b. GOLLEY & CO., VOL. I. WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS. LBO SMITH & BR0„ -OF WASHINGTON, GA., ABE OFFEBING FOB THE FALL TRADE GincinnatiBuggies AT $50 TO $75. Columbus Buggies AT $100 TO $160. Buggies and Carriages of other makes and grades at various prices. Also STUDEBAKER WAGONS At $65 and $70. TENNESSEE WAGONS At $60 and $65 WEBSTER WAGONS $60 to $75. THREE 3-4 WAGONS A.T «39. One-Horse Wagon, witli Seal 3 Own Make, at $40. KEMP’S MANURE SPREADERS, GRAI a DRILLS j ALBION SPRING TOOTH HARROWS, WINDMILLS, And a General Assortment of Agricultural Implements Also Single Harness frofln. $9 np. Double Harness, parts of Harness, Hubs, Spokes and Rims. & Good Buggy&Hamess(or $ 80 . Our prices are guaranteed to be as low as any similar house in the South. Give ns a call. Correspondence solicited. O. M. MAY, WASHINGTON. GA., GROCER, AND DEALER IN GENERAL IEECHA1ISE, The liberal patronage which have ob (ained 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. tVill carry on a General Mercantile business at Double Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga. MERGIERS STORE A First-Class Store in Every Respect. A full stock of General Merchandise always on hand. / J. IV. 3iereier. T. H. REMSEN’S STORE! FINE TINES and WHISKIES. GENUINE MONOGRAM. THE AUGUSTA, ELBERTON AJ? D CHIC AGO RAILROAD. ESTABLISHED 1872. - - • •STM LOWE & BRO., RETAIL DEALERS D* FINE LIQUORS OF ALL SORTS. AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF PM CAROLINA CORN APPLE AND PEACH BRANDY, FINS WINES, HUM, GIN, ALE, BEER, ETC., ETC. ETC., ETC. TOBACCO A! CIGARS. WASHINGTON. GA. AUGUSTA ADVERTISEMENTS. BOUT. H. MAT. A. B. GOODYEAB ROB’T H. MAY & CO.’S GRAND EXHIBITION or And PLANTATION WAGONS. ALL SIZES. The largest and most complete assortment of One and Two-Horse Vehicles ever shown in this section. All first-class work, and will be offered for the next sixty days at prices way below their value and lower than can be duplicated. Do not lose this opportunity. On exami¬ nation this work will prove to you that it cannot offer. be purchased elsewhere at the prices we Calf Skins, Sole and Harness Leather, Rub¬ ber and Leather Belting, Trunks, Bags, Hubs, Harness, Spokes, Wagon Reins, Axles, Trace Chains, Cash Fbicbs. Harness, etc., at Lowest THE ROAD CART (PATENTED.) The safest, lightest and most easy riding two-wheeled vehicle ever produced. Of all the road carts made, nse and experience has demonstrated these to be the best. The Adjustable Balance is a most valuable fea ture of our Road Carts. Buy no other. Price $ 50 . N. B.—We warrant all the vehicles we sell. Remember our prices are the lowest. ROB’T H. MAY A CO, BBOAD STREET, Opposite Georgia R. R. Bank AUGFUSTA, GA. ORDER, YOUR Saw Hills, Cane Hills Christ Mills, And Plantation and Hill Machinery Engines and Boilers, Cotton Screws, Shafting, Boxes, Mill Pulleys, Gearing, Hangers. Journal Gudgeons, Turbine Water Wheels, Gin Gearing, Judson’s Governors, Diss ton’s Circular Saws, Gummers and Files, Belting and Babbit Metal and Brass Fittings, Globe and Check Valves and Whistles, Gnages, Iron and Brass Castings, Gin Bibs, Iron Fronts, Balconies and Fence Rail¬ ing. Geo. R. Lombard & Co.. FOREST CITY Foundry and Machine Works, NEAR THE WATER TOWER, 1014 to 1026 Fenwick Street, AUGUSTA, GA. ^“Repairing promptly done at Lowes prices. CENTRAL HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA. MRS. W. M. THOMAS, Pbopmeteess This hotel, so well known to the citizens of Lincoln tod adjoining counties, is located in the center of the business portion of Augusta. Convenient to Postoffice, Tele¬ graph office and Depot, and other induce¬ ments to the public such ns only first-class hotels can afford, LINCOOTTON, GA., FRIDAY, .JANUARY 5, 1883. Sotnc Time-. “Some tilnV’ the bine-eyed maiden cried Some timal’ll be a rich man’s bride; I’ll have his gold when he is old, And grandly in a coach I’ll ride.” “Some time,” the brown-eyed maiden cried, And, blushing, turned her face aside, “(God grant it me !) I’ll married be To him whom heaven shall provide.” The blue-eyed maiden Bad her way, She married one both rich and gray, And when he died she took his pride, But that is all she took—they Say; A handsome lover came one day, And bore the brown-eyed maid away, He was her life, and she—his wife; What more is there to ask, or say ? MYRTLE’S GUARDIANS. The tall, scarlet dahlias nodded in the breeze; the old watch-dog lay asleep in the bland, yellow sunshine in front of the stone sun-dial; and the late-blooming Noisette roses, that gar¬ landed the verandah columns, flung a subtle perfume on the air at Cedar Lodge, while in the great drawing¬ room (“saloon,” Miss Dorothea Braba¬ zon persisted in calling it, as her mother had called it before her) the tide of argument raged hotly. And all about little Myrtle Mono¬ gram ! Myrtle herself sat in the corner, her hands clasped so tightly that the tur¬ quoise and garnet rings cut into her flesh, her cheek varying from pale to pink and then back again, while her large, startled eyes turned first to one, then another of the disputants. Major Brabazon, with his coat but¬ toned tight across his chest, sat up very straight in the arm-chair in front of the table. “I say it’s all nonsense about sending the child to boarding-school,” said he. “She can play ‘Annie Laurie,’ can’t she, and ‘Wearing of the Green?’ And she worked me a pair of slippers last fall, and isn’t that enough accomplishments for any girl?” Miss Dorothea Brabazon nodded her cap-strings vehemently, as she struck into the discussion. “And I say she shall go to boarding school !” declared this ancient lady. ‘Nobody’s education can be called properly finished until they have been to boarding-school. I went to boarding school myself when I was eighteen.” “Humph!” sneered the major, who had never been taught properly to appreciate his elderly sister. “And do you suppose yourself to be a model women, eli?” Miss Dorothea tossed her head, but thought it best to ignore the query. “I will leave it to Mr. Julian,” she said. “Well, agreed!” snorted the major. “We’ll leave it to Mr. Julian !” And Henry Julian, the third guar¬ dian of Myrtle Monogram, who had sat quietly pulling the ears of a silky King Charles spaniel, all this time, looked up, with the least suspicion of a smile at the corner of his mouth. He had not been exactly pleased when he first learned that old Judge Monogram had nominated him as ono of Myrtle’s guardians, at his death. “I know little about girls,” he said, crisply, “and I care less. But of course the Brabazons will look after her— isn’t she their own niece?” , But Major Brabazon and Dorothea, his maiden sister, had never agreed on any subject yet, anil Myrtle Monogram was no exception to their general rule; and at last the contest between them waxed so fierce that Mr. Julian was called upon to throw’ his decisive vote into the scale. “To be, or not to be—a school-girl!” said he. “What does Miss Myrtle her¬ self say ?” Myrtle was silent, coloring deeper than ever. “She agrees with me!” cried the major, triumphantly. “She’d rather have a governess at home.” “I hate, governesses ! ’. flashed out Myrtle. “There!” saul Miss Dorothea, “And I cant endure the idea of school!” added Myrtle, bursting into tears. “Eh?” said the major. “I don't see why I’m to be bothered so !” sobbed Myrtle. “Other girls have . a little peace of their lives, and why shouldn’t I ? Oh, dear—oh, dear! 1 wish I could go for a gypsy, or he a Daughter of the Regiment, or go down a coal mine, like Joan in the novel, or—” “Afvrtle D^hfa Mono™ s^erelv are vou er-.zv*” ' said said M Miss s .Dorothea, severely. Bless my soul, said the major, breathing very short, and staring as if his eyes would burst out of his head; “I’m afraid my sister is right. Myrtle needs a good, strict course of boarding school. I and Dorothea have spoiled her> ” “Speak for yourself, brother,” said the old lady, acidly. “Yes, of course, she must go to boarding-school!” Myrtle had dried h#>r tears now—she was looking curiously at Mr. Julian. Would he not interfere in her behalf? Wouid he allow her to be exiled thus in spite of herself? “Then,” said he, slowly, “it is un necessary for me to say anything. The matter may be considered as settled, A majority vote has been east in favor of the school project. “I m afraid so,” and “Oh, certainly,’’ uttered the major and his sister, in one breath, and Myrle got up and ran out of the loom. “A pretty little child,” said Mr. Julian, laughing. “But a spoiled one, I’m afraid,’’ sighed Major Brabazon. “A sadly thoughtless creature,” re marked Miss Dorothea, shaking her head. “But now that you are here, Mr Julian, you will finish out the matter with us ?” And Mr. Julian, who liked the great linden trees of Brabazon Court, the sweet breath of the Noisette roses, and the atmosphere of sleepy, golden balm that surrounded its wide verandahs, assented without more persuasion. Major Brabazon rode to the nearest town and bought Myrtle a big trunk and a turquoise locket; Miss Dorothea set herself to work to prepare her niece’s wardrobe properly for Madame de Parega’s fashionable establishment at New Orleans; and Mr. Julian en¬ deavored by argument, coaxing and adjurations, to reconcile Myrtle to the prospect. “You’ll like it, when once you are there,” said he. “I am quite sure that you will.” “How do’you know that I shall?” pouted Myrtle. “For I’m quite sure that I shan’t!” “You will have the society of other girls of your own age,” he reasoned. “I hate girls!” said Myrtle. “Cross, envious, backbiting things, with not an idea beyond Lawn-tennis, crewel work and china-painting.” “You will be gaining an education.” “But what is the use of education ?” persisted ob&tlhate Myrtle. “I couldn’t chalk out a career for myself, like a man, if -I had ever so good an educa¬ tion. All Bcould do would be to sit at home wiki folded>hands and hair banged on inVLorfhead, waiting for some young man to be good enough to ask me to marry him.” Mr. Julian couldjiot help laughing. “Myrtle,” said he, “you are a strange little girl.” “Yes, I suppose I am,” said she, meditatively, “or else I should - be de¬ lighted at the prospect of boarding school. Six hundred dollars, payable in advance. I don’t believe Madame de Parega is worth it. Oh, if Uncle Barney would only let me have six hundred dollars to build a yacht to sail on Clear River, or to buy Red Roderic, the roan hunter, that old Mr Sedley will have to sell at auction next week!’’ , “I don’t think that if I were you I would dwell on these things,” said Mr. Julian, repressing a smile. “A young lady—” “There it is!” sharply interrupted Myrtle. “A young lady! Oh, why didn’t Providence make me something else ? I would almost have been satis¬ fied to be a plow-boy. Plow-boys don’t have to go to boarding-school.” Julian looked earnestly at her. He was trying to share Uncle Barnabas Brabazon’s original opinion that it was almost a pity to cramp such a regal nature into the orthodox world of any “Establishment for Young Ladies.” Myrtle was odd, strange, abrupt, but she was original. And he missed her when at last she was sent away, sobbing as if her would break, with the big trunk packed full of dresses, frills, French boots and laee collarettes, and the pretty turquoise locket at her throat. “It’s too bad to break that affection¬ ate little heart of hers,” said he. “But she must be educated, yon know,” argued Major Brabazon. “And she was really’getting entirely beyond my control,” added Miss Doro thea, regretfullv. Harry Julian stayed, as he had promised, for the Mount St. Richard fox-hunt, and for the fishing; but it was dismally lonely after Myrtle Mono¬ gram was gone. It had never seemed possible to him that he could so miss a child like that. Seventeen, did Miss Dorothea say ? No, it never could be possible that Myrtle could be seventeen. Before the stipulated month of his visit was out, however, Myrtle Mono I ro,1 our aine <Wbnmg ' ! | room, one windy, tempestuous Novem ber night, her French kid boots all burst out, the hem of her blue foulard j gown in tatters, her curls tangled, and a resolute glitter in her eyes. “I’ve run away !” said Myrtle. “I’ve ; ( > oine baek.home on foot, and I’d sooner die than go back again! But—but— why do you all look so pale and trou bled? What is in that, letter? Why are you not glad to see'me?” And she threw herself, white and terrified, into Aunt Dorothea’s aims. “My dear—my dear,” said the good old soul, who was shaking like a leaf, “you have flung away your last chance —an education that might fit you to be a governess. This letter is from the lawyer in New York. Those mine in vestments have turned out the merest bubble, and you are as poor as the waitress in the kitchen. Oh, Myrtle, Myrtle !—and to think of the six hun dred dollars that you have wasted by this mad freak !” Myrtle had rallied herself by tills time. Still and pale, she stood looking at the faces of her guardians. “Shall I go back ?” she asked, in a strange, repressed tone. “Shall I ask Madame de Parega’s pardon? Oh, Aunt Dorothea, I will, if you tell me to! I don’t mind being poor myself; but—but—I must learn to earn a little money t 0 support you and Uncle Bar ney. Mr. Julian-Mr. Julian, tell me what I am to do!” And fftie fainted in the old lady’s arms. “Poor thing—poor thing!” sighed Aunt Dorothea, “she is tired out. Walked all the way from New Orleans. Why, that must be forty miles! And to hear such news as this at the end of it! My poor Myrtle—poor, petted, spoiled child! Tell me, Mr. Julian, is there nothing left of Judge Monogram’s money ?” And Mr. Julian answered, with knitted brows and compressed lips : “Nothing !” of The sullen, gray dawn the chill autumn morning had scarcely pene trated the crimson curtains of the snug breakfast parlor the next morning when Myrtle crept softly in. Mr. Julian, sitting at a desk full of papers—strict economy was now the order of the day at Cetlar Lodge, and the library fire was interdicted—glanced gravely up. “Myrtle!” he said. “My poor child!” But Myrtle was calm now, and com¬ posed. “Please don’t pity me, Mr. Julian!” said she. “I—I begin to think I have deserved it all! But advise me. Do you think Madame de Parega will re¬ ceive me again, after I have set her authority at naught ? Or would it be better for me to learn telegraphy, or short-hand writing, or some of those trades by which I can more promptly support myself and the dear old uncle and aunt who have been all in all to me so long? I am not an heiress any longer. 1 must be a working-woman now.” “Come here, Myrtle,” said Harry Julian, with a strong quiver in his voice. “Little Myrtle, don’t look so white and frightened! I am a rich man. I have money enough to make up your losses half a dozen times over. I would have done so without a word to you if Miss Brabazon had not spoken out so unadvisedly. And I would lay it all at your feet, sooner than that you should suffer a single pang of grief like this ! “It is very kind of you,” said Myrtle, coldly ; “but of course I could not ac¬ cept it at your hands.” “Will you let me finish?”said Julian, with a certain arbitrariness which Mvrtledidnot dislike. “Will you let me speak out all that is in mv'heart? Will vou let me tell you that I love if vou d'earlv, were* and have long determined. it possible, to win * vou-tomake vou my wife'”’ ' Myrtle colored-an intense glow of happiness came into her eyes, and then the long lashes drooped. “But I am only an ignorant novice,” said she. “And am poor, and have no lon " er :ul >' fortune.” “All the same,” he answered, taking both her hands in his, “I want you. No woman in all the world can ever be to me what you are—my Myrtle, my heart’s queen!” “Yes,” she answered, softly; “your ! Myrtle!” “And you love me?” “Yes.” So Madame de Parega, who wrote a , scandalized letter to Cedar Lodge con¬ cerning Miss Monogram’s many short¬ i comings and backsliding*, never got her truant pupil back again-and Mvr tie lost one fortune only to gain An other. And Major Brabazon was de lighted, and so was Miss Dorothea. “Only,” she said, “it does seem that Myrtle is such a child!” “Xever you mind,” said the major, chuckling. “Because you weren’t mar rk , a at sevent een, it doesn’t follow that uo bod y else ean be.” And Miss Brabazon was silenced by ^ Hnanswer able argument. ---- , ... The mining accidents in Pennsly vania, during 1881, resulted in three hundred and twenty-eight deaths, or about one for each working day in the year. To put it in another shape each 265,046 tons of coal cost a life. There were in addition one thousand and six j persons injured whose wounds were not fatal, or one for each 61,346 tons mined. Nearly one-half of these casualties resulted from falling roofs and sides of the mines, only eight per i cent, from gas explosions, MARTYRS OP A FASHION. jfUllaaa trt Bird. Wa^htered On.a«r„. tu* itai. »r Fa.bianawe «•»«». A reporter for the New 1 ork Mail aar ^ Fxpresi ascertained lately that ^ u ^- v half a million birds are imported ' n fo* s country in a single month for ^ ie P ur P ose °f using their feathers to decorate the hats, which on the heads of women, seem to the unsophisticated eye the chief charm of the costume, "There are about half a dozen firms in that city whose average import of birds * s a million a year. A well-known importer of feathers said that the great popularity of birds’ breasts for decorat in g iadies’ hats and bonnets has made the feather business one of the most profitable in the countrj. “IS e can Purchase, said he, “the feathers of the most beautiful birds in Southern Eu r0 P° for P rioes v ’ hich - vou would seem ridiculous. The only expense we have are the custom house duties, which are very small. The amounts we receive for a feather range from two cents to fifty dollars, and for breasts and wings the same. They come to us in cases and are packed in salt. “Yes, there is a fasMon in feathers as well as a fashion of feathers. A few 7*™ the , lon * 084110,1 . . . P , lnmes wore at a P remiuIn and sold for almost fabu i° us P r ^ ces > now they are eompara , tively cheap, although an exceptionally fine feather will always bring its value. Fashion now prescribes a multitude of small feathers, giving the effect in trimming of the entire plumage. It is thus that we utilize the skins. The South American humming bird, than which there is nothing more beautifu on earth, is the favorite. One tiny bird will bring us from $5 to $ 10. Be¬ sides these there are the toucans, the aracarie, thrushes, ravens, wrens, larks, alectors, curassows and blue¬ birds. They are all killed for the same purpose—that of adorning women. In South and Central America the birds are usually shot by the natives and are purchased by our agents. In this ease we are compelled to prepare them for the market ourselves. The manner in which Nfe make them marketable is very peculiar—too pecu liar in fact for vou to publish, because it is the secret of our trade. We are more careful ia dressing the American birds than they are in Europe, and in consequence thece is some difference in !>«<*. A South humming bird dressed in Jersey easabt City is more valuable than a p’ f rom Algiers. In this city we employ womaUp doaU. the work attending the dressing for , market; It is sometimes with erable difficulty that we can get a ; sufficient, number of girls to do the work, for it is not of the pleasantest. and the smell from the birds is not particularly sweet. It requires also a very delicate sense of feeling to flay them. The flesh and skin are so close together in a male bird that sometimes the most expert taxidermist destroys a really valuable specimen by not paying the proper attention to the strength of the skin’s resistance. there is . also the cleaning of , the f °f 1 ^ J* ^jetthetards they clot4ed W1 h blood 4hat bas plU ^ after th *J \ have been kllled ’ 14 re< l llires the : greatest care to remove these blood without damaging the color of , the feather. I suppose you under stand that the plumage of the most . brilliantly colored birds fades very , easily and quickly after its death. It is because of this that the fashion of dark shades has received so much en couragement from us.” Action of Queen Makea. Queen Makea, of the South Pacific one day called her officials together ami said: i “You constables directed to i were put down drink ; you wink at it. In truth, j of . use , iatevcr . except to J’ 011 are no " ’ eat on feast days and share fines! I am a woman. Let the staid, middle ^ " omen of this vilia « e be enrolled i 88 a P olioe force ^ l ,erha l ,s th< T " m 1 have some regard for my word.” rpb ' s nove l plan, so says, illiam Wyatt Gill, in Sunday at Home, has been 411014 fo r some nionths, and .so far , succeeds remarkably ^ w ell. Nothing esca l )es ^ ie ejes of. these a\ omen-con tables. The drunkards are. in great consternation; several of them have turned over a new leaf. One day a llr » nkon 011 horseback was sur- 101lnded > bllt slloce « lod in boa4il >g the women with a long whip. Next dav, now perfectly’ sober, he unwisely showed his face, and of course was heavily fined. A striking outward re formation has been effected. A day or two ago a good old man said in his prayer, “Lord, we have been told that suc h a pj an W as never before hit upon j n any p ar t 0 f the world. Are„we in this matter sinning against Thee.? Any W ay, let the strong drink that ocea s b>ned the murder ot my eldest son be j, u t down effectually. May Nga inn’s i prayer be answered !” PUBLISHERS. NO. 12. And More Left. A d ° ZOn t*™ a g° a farmOT into Detroit with a load of potatoes an( j so j t j tj iem to a grocer. A dispute arose as to the quantity. The farmer f e jt himself cheated out of two bushels and he left the grocer with a black eye . qhe grocer was a man wjjo mean t to keep even with all men. ^ e therefore took his affidavit to whip that agricultural toiler within an inch 0 f j,j s life, and the longer he vyaited the madder he got. At the end’ of a month, seeing no prospect of catching the farmer in town, the grocer pro cure u a horse and buggy and .drove dut t o the farm to have it but. When within three miles of the place he en countered a man on the highway and inquired ; Stiver “Can you tell me where old liv es?” ■ “les; going to buy cattle of him „ ? • “No, sir; I’m going to pound him out of his boots!” “I guess not! I’m old Stiver’s son, and you’ve got to whip me first!” The grocer jumped out and a battle resulted. He polished the son off, but it was a tight squeeze. He had not gone half a mile when a man who Was husking com near the fence bailed Min with: . mp - “Did you have a fight down there?” “Yes.” whipped?” , “Who “I did.” “Well, that was my brother f y were fighting, and maybe you IM you can mash me, too!” " A second fight took place,'and proved a draw. The grocer vt&s Mm%#hat discouraged, having several locse teeth and a nose as big as his flirt, ibut he drove on to the next house. A strap¬ ping fellow about 27 years old wa»cut ting wood at at the gate, and the grocer drew up and asked: Vi “now far is it to 8tivw*srw ? A “Which Stiver T % % &..*#• “Why, the old liar Stiver’s.” “Stranger, the man wl way of my old dad- ii pounded,” remarked Jjxe pMI a third fight was sooft,^ This time the grocer, ha - brus Mng the hair, he asked:-. “2° 1 , ar toug lt " 1 . ^* “Another? Whr tfinrt "mu i ihrrr ^ thMe at home who „ )uld tun* »,marong twratvjpea»*!-wJ ' in ba^>mS% The ^ orov*.slowly city md went to foT ;i f mistake was not waiUng cate h tlie fl j d m{ul home some time when all the boys were off Bshing.-Detroit Free p ress Tiro Curious Courtships i One of the most enrious <SBses of courtship recorded happened alxffit. thv. close of the Seventeenth cettturf. The daughter of a Berkshire baronet, who disdained the numerous lovers who at tempted to win her affection, finally fell in love with a poor attorney, when she met him for the fimt time at a wed fW len §' 0 in ^f^g that She he must give a satis- 0 ^ ’ faction for injuries received at his hands. She appeared masked, and gave him-the choice of either fighting marrying her. * His or second, who was also unaware of the woman’s ident ity or the cause of her strange conduct, advised his principle to marry her. After the ceremony, during which she still wore the mask, they drove to her rich home, and after withdrawing a few moments -she returned, ’ and at onee captivated her husbandry her beauty and tasteful dress;. This man, Benjamin Child, was afterward made High Sheriff of the town. “The History of Women,” an English work puWished j n 1872, details various methods of courtship then practiced in some of the European colonies of America. It has this .curiot^i state¬ ment, which beaux ;iud belles will find it difficult to believe; “When two Pennsylvania lovers meet w(th any remarkable opposition from their f r ] en j s they go off together 'on-horse u ac ' Kj the lady riding before and the gentleman behind her. tn situation they present* themselves before a Magistrate, to whom she declares that she has rah away with her lover, and has brought him there to be married. So solemn an* avowal the magistrate is not ^t liberty to reject, and they are married accord¬ ingly-” * Three hundred J^ar gives a spacious and elegtuit,|e^ence in the Azores. Servant wages .arc 2 to $5 a month; one cent a pounil buys the finest grapes; meat ami cjikkens cost about50per centl less than here; fish is excellent anti aFmndanf, hnd vege¬ tables are plenty and cheap. Over l.tWff,000"carriages are made in the United States every year.