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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS.
J. D. COLLEY & CO.,'
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Cincinnati Buggies
AT $50 TO $75.
Columbus Buggies
AT $100 lftl60.
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grades at various prices. AJso
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TENNESSEE WAGONS
At @60 and $65
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$60 to $75.
THREE 3-4 WAGONS
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Also Single Harness from $9 up. Double
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WASHINGTON, GA.,
GIR©C5fS! H j
AtfD DEALER IN
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(aiiied from the people of Wilkes and adjoin¬
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and by fair dealing in all things. Also
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at Double Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga.
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Calf Umbrellas, Lap Robes, Blankets,
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$ 10 .
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ATJGrUSTA. GA.
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NEAR THE WATER TOWER,
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LINCOLNTON. GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, J883.
Fallow.
I like these plants that yon call weeds—
Sedge, hardhack, mullein, yarrow—
That knit their roots and sift their seeds
Where any grassy wheel-track leads
Through country by-ways narrow.
They fringe the ragged hillside farms,
Grown old with cultivation,
With such wild wealth of rustic chirms
As bloomed in Nature’s matron arm 3
The first days of creation.
They show how Mother Earth loves best
To deck her tired-out places;
By flowery lips, in hours of rest,
Against hard work she will protest
With homely airs and graces.
You plow the arbutus from her hills,
Hew down her mountain laurel;
Their place, as best she can, she fills
With humbler blossoms; so she wills
To close with you her quarrel.
She yielded to your ax with pain
Her free, primeval glory;
She brought you drops of golden grain;
You say : “ How dull she grow3 !—how
You oK, selfish story.
■sssss: zzzzt
But leave her for a year or two,
And see! she stands and laughs at you
With hardback, mullein, yarrow!
Dear Earth, tho world is hard Is please
Y’et Heaven’s breath gently passes
Into the life ol flowers like these,
tnd I lie down at blessed ease
Among the weeds and grasses.
—Liccy Larcom,
A SHARP DODGE.
The morning was cool and clear:
the birds sang and twittered in the
banches of the elm trees! a gentle
breeze wafted the scent of the June
roses in at the open windows; and
Lydia Grey, feeling singularly happy
md content with life, went singing
.low-n stairs and into the kitchen,
where her mother sat by the table,
peeling potatoes, to fry for breakfast.
Mrs. Gray did not speak as her
laughter entered, and Lydia, made
wise by experience, saw by the expres¬
sion of her face that a storm was com¬
ing. She continued to sing, however,
feeling prepared to meet the blast, no
matter how severe it might be.
Mrs. Grey waited until the breakfast
was on the table before she uttered a
word. Then, as she took her seat be¬
hind the coffee-pot, she asked,
sharply:
“Lydia, did I see you hanging over
the front gate, at eleven o’clock last
night, with John Forsythe?”
“I don’t know, mother,” answered
Lydia, calmly. “You might have seen
me, though; if you had looked. I was
there.”
“And not ashamed to confess it, I
s'pose ?” !
“Not at all ashamed to confess it,” ;
said Lydia. |
‘ If you suppose that 111 ever give 1
my consent to your marrying John ;
Forsythe, you re mistaken,’ said Mrs. |
Grey ; “and the sooner you send him
packin, the better 111 be pleased, ihe
man who marries you must bo able to
,
give you as good a home as this. You -
shan’t throw yourself away on a pov- j
erty-stneken district school-teacher, ii
I can help it. I’ll allow he’s good
lookin’, but good looks won't make the
pot boil.” i
Lydia’s face flushed.
1 “John is an orphan,” she said, “and
has had his own way to make. I honor
him for his struggles to get an educa¬
tion. He may not have any money,
but he’s worth more in my eyes than
any other man I’ve ever seen,” and
she buttered a hot roll with consider¬
able energy.
“Seems to me you stand up for him !
pretty earnest,” said the widow, with I
a grim smile. “But I don’t calc’late ;
you’re quite so foolish as to throw Seth :
Naylor over just yet.”
“Seth Naylor !” ejaculated Lydia, in
a tone of contempt. “I let him know
mv mind long ago!” |
“But you could get him back easy
’nough,” said Mrs. Grey. “He’d need j
only a word to make him come (lyin' j
over here. He’s sensible an’ shrewd, ;
an’ you might go further an’ fare j
worse.”
“Perhaps,” said Lydia.
“An’ it do strike me,” said the widow,
“that a man who goes about filling his j
pockets with stones an’ dirt, an’ lies
for hours on a rock, starin’ at it, must
have a soft spot in his head some¬
where.”
“John is intensely interested in ores
and minerals,” said Lydia; “and if he
finds pleasure in examining rocks and
why . j
picking up stones, should we ob
ject? It is a harmless amusement, j
certainly.”
“An imbecile amusement,” said Mrs. j
Grey. “I wonder at a girl of your !
sense upholdin’ sech folly. But it’s
plain to bo seen that he’s turned your j
head with that big yellow moustache
of his. You ought to be thankful that
vou’ve got a mother to look out for
vou ^ y ou qj neV er marry John
* ith consent.”
“Perhaps not,” said Lydia, rising
from the table, “and I’ll never marry
Seth Naylor with my own.”
“We’ll see about that,” said
widow, as she took the skimmer and a
bag pail and started for the dairy. “I
expect to see you the mistress of Clover
top Farm yet.”
Lydia smiled to herself, thinking how
unlikely it was that such a thing would
ever come to pa;s. She loved John
Forsythe too well to give a single
thought to marrying any other man.
And Seth Naylor, a rough, uneducated
fellow, who was thoroughly uncongen
ial to her- what a contrast he was to
J °’rhe
hanging over the front gate
continued to be of nightly occurrence,
in spite of the wrath and chagrin of
Mrs. Grey, who appealed in vain to
Lydia’s sense of decorum.
“The whole neighborhood will be
talking about you, next,” the mother
“I’ve grown callous to what tlie peo
pie of this neighborhood say, mother,”
answered Lydia. “They can talk as
they choose. It is too warm to sit in
*- m .*
V\ OU.fl let me entertain John in the
parlor, which you won’t. And that
gate was made to hang on,”
“Hang away, then!” said Mrs. Grey.
“But you shan’t marry John Forsythe
if I can help it! Why, he wasted the
hull o’ last Saturday, pokin’ round my
three-acre meddcr-lot with a spade. I
guess he got half a bushel o’ stuns.
He’d oughter hire out to clear land.”
Lydia said nothing in reply to this,
but a peculiar smile, which her mother
could not understand, stole over her
face.
Early one Saturday morning, a few
days later, John Forsythe walked into
the dairy, where Mrs. Gray was skim¬
ming milk, preparatory to churning.
“Ho you want to sell this place, Mrs.
Grey?” he asked, abruptly.
“Don’ no as I do,” said the widow.
“It’s the only home I’ve had for twenty
live years. An’ I couldn't get notifin’
for it. The land’s ’bout wore out.
Still, if I had an offer of fifteen hun¬
dred dollars for it, I’d snap at it.”
“I know somebody who’ll give you
that,” said John. “Five hundred, cash
down, and a mortgage on the place for
the rest, due in two years, with inter¬
est, at six per cent.”
“It’s a bargain,” said the widow.
Y.Tiere’s the man?”
“Here!” said John.
“You?” exclaimed the widow. “I
didn’t know you had five hundred
cents.”
“I’ve got the cash ready for you,”
said John; “and if you'll let me drive
you iuto Sedgewick this afternoon,
we'il have Lawver Saunders make out
the deed.”
“I suppose I’ll have to hold by un¬
word,” said Mrs. Grey. “But you’ll
11( _, ver b e able to pay me the thousand
within two years. IIow can you save
anvthing .'-That’s on forty ‘lookout,” dollars a month?”
my said John,
“Youneedn’t worn-about the amount
of mv salarv. You have the farm as
S( , curitv> ; aat \ vou ean live on it tin all
‘
j, ia Fve no lise for the house , vou
'
know> unless x gpt a wife toput in it »
“Folks can't say ho ain’t clever,”
said Mrs. Grey, in telling her daughter
a little later of this offer. “I’d have
hated to leave the house right off.
But what puzzles me is Iris having that
five hundred dollars put by. He must
*ave been awful savin’.”
Lydia smiled, but said nothing. She
might have enlightened her mother on j
the subject had she so chosen; but she
preferred to keep her own counsel.
A week later. John paid a second
visit to the dairv.
“You said l couldn’t marry Lydia
until 1 had a home to offer her as good
as the one she’s had with you,” he said.
“Now you can't say I'm not- able to do
so. She needn’t make any change at all,
>' ou s 00 -”
see ’” said the ' vWow * tersel >'
So J 0 "' 11 con? ' nt to our en ^ e -
ment ? , smd John T
’
“I suppose so, since you're both so
set on it.” said Mrs. Grey, on whom
John’s five hundred dollars had pro¬
duced a marked impression. “Lyddy’s
so stubborn-headed she wouldn’t think
of changin’ her mind if I preached and
argvfied all night; and I don't want her
talked about.”
“Neither do I,” said John; “and I'm
glad to have the matter settled. I’ll go
up and tell Lydia about it now, if you
have no objection.”
"Go, if you want to,” said the widow.
“Like as not she's looking for you—
bangin’ over the gate, perhaps, while
the bread’s burnin’ in the oven and the
cat - s on the l)rcak f as t-t a ble.”
The wedding was set for the middle
of October; but, to her mother’s sur
prise, Lydia began no preparations for
it.
“Why don't you begin your shop
pin’?”, asked the widow, who had a
natural longing for a cruise among tho
dry goods stores of Sedgewick. “There’s
no time to be lost. You’ll have to be
pretty smart if you expect to get sewed
up by the middle of October. ’
“There’s no hurry,” said Lydia.
quietly.
“That money you’ve got in bank will
come in useful ’nough now,” said he
mother. “Three hundred dollars will
buy you a good set-out.”
“Better than I need,” said Lydia. “It
would be sheer extravagance for me tc
spend that much.”
“But you’ve got to have some finery;
said her mother,
“I shan’t want much. I’m pretty
well supplied now with clothes.”
“There’s no call for you to be stingy,
Your Uncle Mose left you the money
:for ™ 7 Do f/ ° u re -
thC ‘ W Said 809 a And T 1 want
t0 f 6 y0U wel1 Bet out Girls don>t
get marned , more , n onct, as a rule, and
best make the most of the
C
1 “ !5Ce ’ f 1 " , Lydl T . \ “ T5 * ere . ? t! . “ e
enough yet to buy and make double
what I’ll get.”
And though her mother fretted and
scolded about the delay, and began to
think her daughter had grown parsi¬
monious, Lydia continued to put off
going to Sedgewick to buy her wed¬
ding-clothes.
* * * * *
Who were those men prowling round
with you in the Creek Medder this
morning, John ?” asked Mrs. Grey, as
she met her future son-in-law, one
evening in August, coming' up the
garden path with Lydia, whose face
looked unusually bright.
“They were gentlemen from the
city,” answered John. “I sent for them
to decide as to the quality of the coal
on this land.”
Coal on my farm!” exclaimed Mrs
Grey. “I never suspected it.”
“My farm, you mean!” said John
“I knew long ago that there was coal
on it.”
“Then you’ve played me a very dis
honest trick,” said the widow, angrily,
while her gray eyes flashed. “You got
from me, for fifteen hundred dollars, a
bed of coal that you’re likely to make
yield as many thousands—perhaps
more.”
“All's fair in love and war, yon
know,” said J ohn. “I had to get Lydia
by fair means or foul.”
“And she upholds you in this swindle.
I dare say,” said the widow, glaring at
her daughter.
“Yes, she upholds me,” said John,
with a peculiar laugh and a queer look
at Lydia, who was laughing, too. “But
I’m not all bad, my dear to-be-mother
in-law. I’ll deed the farm back to you
as soon as the wedding is over, and
we’ll share the profits. You can make
me superintendent of the mine, at a
handsome salary. I believe the coal is
of the best quality, and there'll be
plenty of work to do.”
Mrs. Grey’s face cleafed at once.
“That’s square enough,” she said.
“To be perfectly candid with you,”
said John, “I haven't any money to
begin the work. Lydia tells me you
have eight thousand dollars in govern¬
ment bonds. Now, there wouldn’t be
any risk in using that in this venture.
You’re sure to double your money in
two months.”
“I’ll sell the bonds at once,” said the
widow, eagerly. “And you shall have
that five hundred dollars hack to¬
morrow, John.”
“Oh, as to that, said John, “you can
give Lydia three hundred of it. I had
only two hundred laid up. so shelielped
me out with the money her uncle left
her.”
Mrs. Grey looked from one face to
the other; her lips compressed in a
peculiarly sarcastic smile. She thought
she saw very clearly now why Lydia
had put off getting her wedding finery,
and had “needed so little.”
“Well, that was a sharp dodge!” she
said, at last. “It takes a district school¬
teacher to think up such things. 1
believe, after all, you’re smarter*n Seth
Naylor, John.”
“Of course I am,” said John, com¬
placently, as he put his arm about
Lydia’s waist. “But you give me too
much credit, for here is the prime
mover in the whole wicked plot-,” and
he kissed the demure little face of the
widow's pretty daughter.
Florence B. IIaleowele.
Origin of a Familiar Phrase.
The oft-quoted saying, “Those who
live in glass houses should not throw
stones,” originated at the Union of the
Crowns, when London was, for the
first time, inundated with Scotchmen.
Jealous of their invasion, the Duke of
Buckingham organized a movement
against them, and parties were formed
for the purpose of breaking the win¬
dows of their abodes. By way of re¬
taliation, a number of Scotchmen
smashed the windows of the Duke’s
mansion, known as the “Glass House,”
in Martin’s Fields, and, on his com¬
plaining to the King his Majesty re¬
plied : “Steenie, Steenie, those who
live in glass houses should be careful
how they fling stones .”—Memoir of
Alexande. 1 . Seaton ..
The gift of Mr. Pfiul Tulane to
Louisiana for educational purposes is
expected to yield -an annual income of
bout §50,000.
\
JP -EARLS OF THOUGHT.
Duty never frowns but unon those
who shun her. On those who follow
her she smiles.
Lift :
is a battle. From its earliest
dawn to its latest breath we are strug¬
gling with something.
Every day a little helpfulness. We
live for the good of others, ff our liv¬ .
ing be in any sense true living.
i
fnere wL! always lie something that j
we shall wish to have finished, and be
uevertheless unwilling to begin.
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual
meanness where, although both parties ;
intend deception, neither are deceived,
We cannot be too much on our
guard against reactions, lest we rush
from one fault into another contrary
fault.
We must distinguish between felicity .
and prosperity, for prosperity leads
often to ambition, and ambition to dis
appointment. j ;
He who swims securely down the i
stream of self-confidence, is in-danger
of being drowned in the whirlpool of
presump* ion
Foppery is never cured; it is the bad
stamina of the mind, which, like those
of the body, are never rectified; once a
coxcomb, and alwavs a coxcomb.
What real good does an addition to a
fortune already sufficient procure?
Xot anv. Could the great man, by
having his fortune increased, increase
also his appetites, then precedence
might mignt be oe attended attended witn with real real amuse- amuse
ment '
Beautiful is old age, beautiful as the
slow-dropping mellow autumn of a
rich, glorious summer. In the old man,
nature has fulfilled her work; she loads
him with her blessings; she fills him
with the fruits of a well-spent life; and
surrounded by bis children and his
childrens children, she rocks him
so Uy away to a grave to which he is
o. u\.et wit essings.
Tile Fish.
Speaking of the disappearance of tile
fish from waters in which they were so
plentiful a year ago, Professor Baird,
Chief of the United States Fish Com¬
mission, said, recently:
“liese fish belong to the western
edge of the Gulf Stream and inhabit
the water lying about seventy-five to
one hundred and twenty fathoms be¬
low the surface. Last year they were
seen in such abundance that our men
could have taken twenty thousand
pounds if necessary. Suddenly in the
spring they began to come to the sur¬
face alive, give a convulsive struggle,
and then lay on their backs dead. They
are now c xtinct for ten thousand square
miles. They could have been killed by
three known agencies—heat, cold or
gaseous exhalations. The first is im¬
probable, and no gases could well have
been liberated without an earthquake,
which would have been accompanied
by a tidal wave on shore. There were
during last winter a large number of
icebergs liberated from the Arctic re¬
gions. The cold water from these
would naturally descend and probably
formed a sub-current at the swimming
level of the tile fish. Those to the
south of the section we visited have,
no doubt, escaped and will be discov¬
ered in due time.”
While cruising south of No-Man’s
Land and Martha's Vineyard this year,
Professor Baird’s steamer passed
through ten miles of menhaden or
moss-bunkers, a fish which was sup¬
posed to have disappeared. Professor
Baird also alluded to the fact that, in
the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of tons
of fish are sometimes killed by the
“northers." lie therefore thinks there
is reason to hope that the tile fish may
reappear in its old haunts.
How She Became Rich.
The Dowager Duchess of Calleira
not long since bestowed two splendid
estates on the Pope. The way this old
lady became so rich is curious. The
late Duke possessed a fortune of 300,
000,000 francs, which would by the
ordinary course of revolution go to his
only son. The heir, however, in his
father’s lifetime, declared that he in¬
tended to renounce the world. Instead
of retiring to a cloister, as he would
have done in the middle ages, he went
in his twent ieth year into the territory
of Nice and applied for a situation as a
village schoolmaster. His father re¬
garded the thing as a mere freak, and
sent his son every year 300,000 francs.
The young man, however, sent this
sum every year to Paris, requesting
that it should be expended on the poor.
After three years the Minister-of In¬
struction, finding out who the school¬
master at Nice was, appointed him to a
high official post, and his father dying
about the same time lie became Duke
of Ualleira and the owner of immense
wealth. He declined the post, and
allowed his mother to use the fortune
Without interference, content with his
position and income as a teacher at
Nice.
PUBLISHERS.
NO. 13.
i •‘THE MESCHJAXZA.”
An Account of a Grand Scene ortho Revala
tion at Philadelphia.
Balls, regattas, any form of amuse
ment that could be devised, were held
at every point of British occupation,
but the story of the Mesehianza at
Wharton’s country seat Southwark,
the 18th j>f May, 1778, reads like a
page of the “Arabian Nights.” From
the Green street wharf, then the only
one 0 f an y s j ze a p 0 ve Vine street, the
brilliant company embarked at half
past 4 in the afternoon, in a “grand re
gatta” of three divisions. Three flat
boats, each with its band of music,
preceded them; an avenue of grenadiers
awaited them at the fort below Swedes*
Church, with light horse in the rear,
Here a square lawn, 150 yards to a
side, formed the area for a tournament.
Two pavilions held on the front seat
seven young ladies dressed in Turkish
costume designed by Major Andre, who
acted as stage manager, while their
turbans were the articles to be be
stowed u P° n their several lights
en knights, in white and
retl mounted cn gnyly-caparisoned
horses ’ foUowed b v esqnires in the same
-
colors, entered to the sound of turmpets,
herald proclaiming their challenge
the “black knights,” whose entry in
black oran 8 e was V**. 33
in S' A11 the forma of a knightly toum
ament weEe faithfuU y foUowe<L Four
encounter \ e f h * ith a
took p ace. All then ascended a
fll S ht of ste ^ lea * n 8 mto a Profusely
decorated hall, where the knights first
received their favors from the ladies,
and then drank t€a to ^tore their
we akened energies. ■ '
Tlw ball room awaited themt fe8toon .
^ with floxver3 reflected from agfaty
flve mirror3) borrowed ftom ^ eiti .
i:enf . lusters between . Danc ing
aad magnifieeat fire vorka copied
tbe evenin g. Up to midnight four
roomS( each witb its sideboard
freshments,.had served to keep up the
spirits of the company, hut as that
hour sounded folding doors, skillfully '
concealed, sprang open and displayed a
saloon 210 by 40 feet, decorated with
flowers, brilliant with wax lights, over
300 of which were on the supper-table?. J
while twenty-four slaves in oriental’
dresses, with silver
lets, served the throng. Major Andre
wrote of it as “the most splendid enter¬
tainment ever given by an army to its
general,” the whole expenJb having
been home by twenty-two field officers.
The only American gentlemen present
were aged non-combatants, but fifty
young unmarried American ladies and
many more married ones were present.
One month latter, the rebels, supposed
to have been rendered hopeless, marched
in and took possession, many of the
gay knights having barely time to es
cape. Later on the American officers
of Washington's command made a great
ball for the officers of the French army,
and at first refused to invite the Mes¬
ehianza ladies. Second thought in¬
cluded them, but in the fear that they
might lack partners, lots were drawn*
and even- means taken to prevent un¬
comfortable feelings, though privately
the memory rankled for many years
afterward .—Our Continent.
Bees Briifii Out of Their Buisiness.
Among the latest victims of foreign
competition are the bees of Russia,
Under the baleful influence of the free
importation of a spurious kind of wax
called ceresina, manufactured im Aus¬
tria, the native industry is dwindling
at a rate which threatens it with ex¬
tinction. Of ceresina, which bears the
same relation to genuine wax that oleo- -
margarine does to dairy butter, no less
than 1,000,000 pounds are annually
imported, chiefly for use in the manu¬
facture of t apers, which figure so prom¬
inently in all Russian churches. The
price of wax has fallen under stress of
competition with ceresina from thirty
to seventeen roubles per pound. At
this priee bees are regarded as hardly
worth their keep, and in one district
the honey crop has iallen from 15,000
to 6,000 pounds per annum. By the
new tariff an import duty of a rouble
a pound has been imposed on ceresina;
but, according to the Moscow Gazette,
it will have to be raised to ten roubles
to give the poor bees a chance .—Pall
Mail Gazette.
In a recent paper Dr. Drysdale, of
London, showed that it could no longer,
be a matter of doubt that humanized
lymph should be entirely abandoned in
favor of calf lymph for vaccination, 1
as
has been done in the United States.
Several physicians of wide experience
testified in I860 that animal vaccina¬
tion was a perfect preservative against
small-pox, but the lymph taken from
human subjects very often fails to
protect.
It will require an expenditure of at
least §5,000,000 by the Italian Govern¬
ment tt> make goad the damage done to
roads, bridges, and jmblic say'nothing buildings by
recent inundations, to of
aid to the sufferers.