the carolina watchman vol xl third series salisbury n c february 5 1880 no le hesteb dark's trial yesterday she had been a gay romp jog roung girl without a care or trou ble now tlioro was a sorrowful thoughtfulness on the sweet face a line of anguish drawn about the pret tv firm looking mouth • oi : 1 wish 1 had never met ern est she cried burying her face in lier hands and throwing herself down on the lounge in tiie cold moon-light c,l eral 1 ery sweet with honeysuckles nt niiiltillora roses the words had scarcely escaped her lips when a step sounded on the walk and a cheery voice said ! i n evening little hester ;'" then ui a lower tone as the dark face bent i ver iters and the haudsonle stalwart man took both the little hand in his "][,/ little hester isn't she she shook her head in weary de jection not mine not my promised wife have you forgotten yonr promise 1 fes t-v she lifted her white tear-staiucd face and sad gray eyes to his i you in ve forgotten yours ernest she sai.l her voice resolute and sol emn despite its thrill of pain and ten derness no 1 am not yours i canuot i.e do not ask me why — you know oh ernest god knows 1 love vou and have been true to you ; but our dream is over i will give yon back yonr ring and to-night we must say good-bye forever todear old davs i will never marry any one ernesl ; i will always love you and pray for vou hut we must meet no more and then she closed her eyes to keep out the sight of his pained face the face ofthe mail she loved above everything inearth but could no longer trust — he stood silent and thoughtful lean ing against lhe vine wreathed portico hia features blanched with despair lis lark e'o piei t eyes full of anguish u be gazed down ou the drooping lace for a long time he did not speak but when he did there was a world of tenderness and prayer-like entreaty in the low rich voice hester darling don't drive me from y..ii don't doom tm to desper ation if you desert me i will goto tht had without hope look up let me see your sweet eyes ; you can't care for iih as i do for you oh hester hester i love you so devotedly ; how an 1 give you up won't you trust me a little longer 1 do try to resist temptation god knows i do but i believe last night god's hand was a,_-nin_t inc darling/can't you trust aie onci won .*"' he put his hand under her chin and lifted her face close to his own so lundtome and eloquent with its deep earnest pleading but she put off the caress gently almost lovingly and h in a wistful but resolute tone : ernest 1 have trusted you i live believed in you since i was a ild have always been looking for d to t'ie time when you wou'd stand ip before the world a sober reformed luan as the happiest proudest mo k'nt of my life 1 would not care wgivenp my own happiness for yours but 1 cannot think ol leaving my old gray luti red father and helpless lil tie wothcrs for a man who does not es wm my ],,%•.• above the wine cup and fiord lable ernest if yon try you '"" 1 what is right god has placed v destiny into your own hands 11 w with you whether you will be a lauora oh ernest it is hard t wc must part w put out her hand and touched llls cold as marble ; for a moment he e-a it in a vice-like grip then drop ped il d said in a voice husky with motion and cold despair wi are right hester i am a mrctch unfit for your lover i will 5 away and never trouble you again he turned off but her pleading eyes ned his anger hester darling "' 6*ve me pray for me i am going ay to try to be a man say god 188 you and that you won't forget aie b od bless and help you my best nc 1 will never forget you ; i will ra.v for you every hour she said in intonate whisper with her arms £*•* hia neck then she withdrew * us embrace and turned away lenext moment she was alone with r(^»lud heart kneeling there in the moonlight — too wretched for the relief of tears she felt that her gay happy girl hood had slipped away from her for ever ; tiiat she was a woman with a j woman's grief upon her — and a wo ! man's strength gathering and growing j t combat it tiiat night as she j i prayed in the silence of her room an electric current of strength seemed to how into her being life seemed sud i den ly to broaden before her selfish aims and hopes dropped from her and i j a new impulse was born within her soul before the crumbling altar of1 j her fallen idol she consecrated her | life anew father brothers and god she would live now for them soshe ; began her new life the life of duty j sweetened by the feeling of hei n'g of u-e to others — the life of work of self forgetting none of tiie loved ones at home knew or even thought of the weary aching heart siie carried about with inr in her every-day work no one dreamed that the sweetest hope of all had faded out of her life she was to them always an ever present help ready pains-taking even cheerful;1 j filling their lives with happiness their | home with sunshine her mother had ; died two years ago since which time all her cares and reponsibilities had fallen on hes.er's young shoulder — they had weighed heavily too but she had hitherto been buoyed with i the thought of ernest's love she had had his pleasant visits to look for ward to to make her troubles bright er ler hard monotoous life less bar rep now this was all gone but be cause it was all gone because this bright dream had faded must she sit down with folded hands and bay there 7s nothing i'or me to do ; no hope no goii in tl e future my life-dream is over my heart is broken !" no no her brave loving heart did not break there was father and there weie brothers bex lester eugene and jamie ; she would do all in her low er to make them happy and good so with the tenderest care she stud died the four brightyoung faces around i her and tried with all a woman's skill to make them contented with j their humble little home she insti i tnted little games of amusement little i home reading clubs ; sweet simple al ! lurcments about the fireside thus in-iking home more attractive to rest less wayward little hearts iler greatest ambition was to make | her father happy her next that her brothers should grow up good useful intelligent men and her last that she might earn something with her pen to assist her father and educate the boys their little home and farm was mortgaged her father was growing old too aid to work ; the boys were young hester saw that she was need i . ed — felt that something must bedo ne so she went to work in earnest appli ed her cf with energy to her studies tried and tried and tried again ; did not stop for onc failure nor two nor three but kept right on and would not give up owing to her limited education she experienced many difficulties some of which seemed almost insurmountable ; bill to hester dare's dauntless spirit there was uo such word as fail one i day wlu-n wearied and almost exhaust ed by her many cares and trials theie came a letter from judge lindron of fering his heart and hand he was i rich ; he could help her father he could assist in educating the boys hester did not write unit night but sat in earnest thought it was a great , temptation greater than onc can im agine who has not felt the stings of poverty aud looked hopelessly into the troubled anxious face of a dear i gray-haired father watching the fur ; rows growing deeper day by day on ! his brow that night she had seen i him turn trom the coarse food that '< was all they could afford with a dis ' relish he could not hide that mor ning she had heard rex say with his sweet thoiightfulncss looking away from his old patched clothes : father ; you must take my money ; these clothes will do me this winter she felt as if she would do anything to save them from this bitter galling poverty but now when she had it in her power to sweeten the bitter dregs she topped and with a woman's con s mentions temples asked is it right is it right to barter my soul for gold my heart's purity and freedom for such pleasures as the world can give ?" when she thought of her father free from trouble and hard work thought of her little brothers graduating with honors at the highest institutions in the land making proud the heart of her fond old father she felt that this was worth the sacrifice of herself ; but ' conscience pleaded no and woman's delicate sense of right and honor re volted at the idea cf doing such a ■■ wrong even though good might come ' of it so she put away the strong temptation and sat down and wrote i judge lindron declining with thanks his proposal then she turned back | to her own gray life of duty and so time went by until ten ■ years had passed since the girl of sev j enteen put away her love-dream and : parted from her lover in the moon light and felt out of the ashes of her desolation new hopes and aims spring to life and the woman hester has at last realized some ofthe hopes that . were born in that hour her father sits in an easy-chair free from anxie ty ; the boys have all received good1 educations and bid fair to be useful men each has now his work that he i.s doing well they have come out irom the hard life of toil into the i brighter broader paths of work un clouded by anxiety or goaded by ne cessity debt no longer hangs over them they can enjoy the luxuries of rest and reading music and occasion ally a trip out into the world of change i and progress tiieir home has many comforts aud some luxuries and it is all due to hester she has the joy of knowing that her hand has brought the blessings by the energy and strength of her own mind she has ' lifted herself and those she loves up from the depths to which poverty and misfortune had sunk them it was a long weary struggle but at last light i came she succeeded in getting lier ; book published ; it chanced to strike the mood ofthe hour and brought her money and fame but her famous ' book i.s not her best glory her pure unsullied life has been keyed to a high ' er note than the finest page she has ever written ; her best story is that she has lived out in her own home do not think i have overdrawn her character or made hester dare more ofa heroine than you or i can be — she was simply a woman and had a woman's faults trials and proneness to stray sometimes into bright and flowery but forbidden ways — was just as liable to make wrong steps and j had to struggle just as hard and as of j ten against temptation as any one it i.s in the power of every one to find and use the key to her success for her diligent application was that kev and we believe that god has giv . i en every sensible man and woman a j work to perform and has put it in the power of each to live grand beau ' til'ul useful lives but hester's story is not yet ended ' one summer's evening when the air was heavy with the perfume of sweet june roses and the glow ofa golden sunset bathed the earth hes ter dare came from out of her pretty | home to watch the changing cloud ; shapes i she stood her delicate face flushed with admiration her gray eyes full of beautiful thoughts until the wreath ing clouds had faded into sombre masses and she was alone with the deepening twilight the spell of the past came over her i tears gathered unconsciously in the eyes that still looked out to the dark ' en ing west from seventeen to twenty-seven { had been a long long time but through it she had silently borne her j life-cross had put away the wo man's yearning tenderness and sought to fill its place with strength for work i and duty no other love had taken i the place of that she had veiled out ' of sight but of late when her ! duty to others seemed in a mcas 1 ure fulfilled the old dull ach i ing had begun — the tender revert . ing to the past the memory of tones j and looks that had filled her young1 life with sweetness it came over her now with over mastering power and all her soul was filled with longing useless now to her seemed the crown of success she had won j oh ernest ernest she cried in low thrilling tones of yearning and tenderness as she stretched her arms out towards the purple distance the passionate invocation had been heard a step approaching on the velvet sward paused and a tall man trembled with emotion as he caught his name breathed by the woman he loved and reverenced then he stepped forward eagerly my darling i am here you have redeemed my life it belongs to you take it he held out his arms entreatingly ; a moment after she was clasped in their embrace and was listening with grateful joy to the words that told her ' of his long struggle with himself ina far western land how fieree had been ! the trial and only the memory of her face as he had seen it last her part ing words had enabled him to gain | the victory over evil tendencies but i13 had conquered at last and then he ' had gone on the true way and made him a reputation — a name for honor and industry and ability he had achieved a competence too and he had come back bearing the highest cre dentials from the best men among whom he had lived and worked and who wore glad to testify to his high standing his stainless integrity and his business capacity i owe it to you my darling he said as they sat in the light of the rising moon had you taken mc as i vvapj i would have ruined both our lives until i found that cither you or wine must bt given up and felt what life would he without you i didn't realize the dangerous gulf i stood upon and i could not have struggled as i have done to free my self from the enslaving habit your resolute calm refusal woke me up from mv charmed sleep i thank god my darling that you were so firm and brave that alone has given me strength to redeem my manhood and we repeat thank god that a firm brave woman can stand up amid the ruins of her heart the jeers ofthe world and be true to herself her conscience and her god li-'aii moore miscellany there has been a separation bet ween an up-town lover and his sweetheart she presented him with her photograph which he on his bended knees swore he would always wear next to his heart wliile making his last sunday eveniug call he pulled out his handkerchief from his back pants pocket when in the photograph fell at his lady's feet she says he is eith er a liar or his heart is not in the right place the editor of tin macon telegrapli is in trouble about the boom in nails lie says that unless a collapse of the sharp tricks of the iron trade come soon politicians will be hard run in the past six months the price of nails has risen at the mills from to 5.30 per keg and mighty mean nails at that — brittle as glass — will break and break any carpenter's neck who trusts them to uphold a staging now with nails at five dollars and a half per keg who is to meet the expense of nailing lies to the counter after the standard practice of par ty newspapers they will have to float round loose as 100,000,000 worth of foreign sugar is anually imported into this country the sorghum movemeut is of importance in the cane rowers convention recently held at st louis mr belcher the official analyzer reported the tests of sorghum had been encouraging an.l surprising one association in peabody kansas has invested 550,000 iu this industry an other at crystal lake 111 made forty live thousand pounds of excellent su^ar this season ont of inferior juice from hugely unripe canes both congress and the state legislature will doubtless be asked to give attention to this indus try which however is able to take care of itself how to capture coons daniel taylor of vance township goes up head on the coon question a few days ago while vis iting his nets in the mill pond he paddled his canoe along side an old stump about two hundred yards distant from the land and looking in saw two large fat raccoons lying in the hollow sunning themselves he took a string from his pocket and making a running noose slipped it over the head ot one of them and drew him out and killed him with a stick then seizing the other by the hind leg he drew him out and dis patched him without getting a single scratch a notable fact a raccoons arc terrible fighters and never attempt the possum business when in close quarters both coons were very fat and doubtless had been en gaged in the fishing business kinston journal ok ave ok gkn lee's daughter - the grave of annie custis lee daugh ter of the dead hero cen r e lee is located in the northwest corner of white sulphur springs cemetery iu warren comity under a cedar tree above the grave has been erected by the patriotic citizens of warren a beautiful monument of native gray granite upon which is in scribed : annie c lee daughter of gen r e and mary custis lee horn at arlington june 18th 1839 and died at the white sulphur springs warren county x c october 20th 18 b iyi vt and truo are ull lits wavs w in mi tu.aven adores aud earth obeys rabbit skins are packed in bales some what like cotton it may seem strange but it is so mr moore told us he had a large jiihi.tity of otlier furs on hand but he gen erally sells each shipment delivered on board the cars here during the years of 1872 73 74 and 75 he shipped from this point 34 000 dozen or 407,000 rabbit skins who will dare say that greensboro is not a good market for rabbits and rabbit skins > we arc told that the fur is clipped by the manufacturers in the northern cities and used cor making hats and for other purposes while the skin proper is used for making glue and nnilcilagc the next time you lick a postage stamp just think of the rabb it skin stuff you take on your tongue — greensboro patriot almost perpetual motion a motor which the inventor declares when once started will run till it wears out all day yesterday the small rooms of al bert pietrowski at 20 spring street were crowded with visitors who had gone thither to see the new motor that was advertised in the sun on monday mr pietrowski is a pole he is an engineer by profession and has been in this country sixteen years lie has devoted his leisure hours to the elabo ration of his invention the model that he exhibited yesterday consists of a pair of hollow metal wheels four leet in dianiter which revolve on the same axis but in opposite direction the moving power is in nine metal balls placed within the wheels so as to bear the rim down at first and then gravitate toward the axis where a side groove runs the balls oil to a grooved radius of the wheel revolv ing in the opposite directions four balls merc placed in the grooved radii ofthe first wheel and four in the radii ofthe second and when momentum had been gained the ninth ball was added to give additional power to the axle of the wheels which is vo the axle of smaller grooved wheels that regulate the speed ofthe machinery the shafting is applied ive me a cast iron wheel sixty feet in diameter said mr pietrowski and i will show you a motor of oul.orse power that requires nothig to keep it in operation it will continue to run until the material wears out several of the engineers who witnessed the working ofthe pietrowski machine yes terday were sanguine in the opinion that fur all practical purposes leaving out the engine of the locomotive and the steamboat it will be found of great value the exodus fever has struck newberry s ('., and colored people are leaving columbia register mr edwin 1 con nor of cokcsbury committed suicide at that place wednesday by shooting himself through the neck with a pistol death en sued in about two minutes mr connor was quite a young man being not more than 34 years of age and was a son of hon p a connor formerly a member of the legislature from abbeville county a curious libel suit is that brought by one myers in indianapolis against a journal of that city for calling him a negro onc ofthe republican papers suggests that under the fifteenth amendment it is no of fense or insult to call a man a negro and he cannot claim damages therefor but myers answers that the negro is hated persecuted and ill treated in indiana and that a man who is supposed to be guilty of having ne gro blood in his veins in that state is there by practically prohibited from ever holding oflice or being treated civilly in fine he claims that life as a negro in indiana is unendurable and sues the libeling journal for 50,000 damages proposed new coin there seems to be a prospect ofthe introduction of several new coins into general circulation a favor able report has been made on a bill creating three new coins specimens of there coins have been struck off at the mint they are the stella the 25 gramme silver dollar and thegoloid metric dollar the stell is a four dollar coin of six grammes of gold three-tenths of a gramme silver and seven tenths gramme copper it is a larger coin than the fire dollar gold piece and very bright looking new berne democrat : a gentleman in formed us on saturday that he had just received a letter from beaufort which said that a party of gentlemen were out a day or two since on a hunt over on the banks and that they had just returned with ten deer as the result ofthe sport th sentinel savs one of winston's tobac eo warehouses turned out f 20,000 for its propi vols last year news items the end in maine the fusiunixt legislature adjourned to sett summer and the members on their way home boston january 28 a dispatch to the herald from augusta says : the fusionist legislature after a prolonged secret session j this afternoon adjourned to meet on the first wednesday ia august next many mem bers will go home not to return here before that date others will go back to their dis tricts for instructions as to going or remain ing out of the state house legislature and others will take their seats among tlicir lie publican brcthern some of the counted j in members will go home others will con ! test the seats of their rivals in the capitol for the purpose of getting the pay usually i voted to defeated contestants two pusion i ist to-day appeared in the republican liouse and numerous others have expressed their | intentioit to follow them to-morrow fusion governor smith and mr talbot speaker of t'ie fusion house will leave for home to ! morrow acolsta january 29 seven fusion 1 senators and twenty-two fusion represen ts ves took seats in the regular legislature ! to lay a id were cordially received new hampshire vs louisiana an original bill has been filed in the su preme court ofthe united states in which the state of new hampshire is complainant and the state of louisiana is defendant the ol.jcct of the bill is to compel the pay ment by the state of its rightful obligations wliich it has repudiated the bill sets forth the history ofthe indebtedness of louisiana on which it has defaulted and recites the acts assuming to provide for the payment of the same it then petitions the supreme court for an injunction against the state of ficers of louisiana requiring them to ap pear in the court and answer the premises and abide by the said order direction and decree as may be made against them in the premises and as shall seem meet and agree able to equity and good conscience the case will be argued by the attorney-general of new hampshire and by eminent associ ate counsel it is in accordance with the idea that was suggested some time since as being the best method for a hope that the state of louisiana could be compelled to filfill its obligations the state of new hampshire of course stands forward as the representative of citizens who are the hold ers-of louisiana bonds a terrible storm a million ih.lltrs worth "/' property de stroyed panama january 13 early in december the cocoa valley was visited by heavy rains and the water rose until many yards above the highest freshet mark designated by memory or tradition and the inhabitants along its coast were driven from their homes the river rose until over three miles wide and went raging through the valley carry ing all before it several small villages were destroyed and sonic lives lost when the streams subsided everything had been destroved in the way of crops and movables of all sorts ; cattle goats horses are all gone the cocoa farmers visited their haciendas in boats trying to gather the crop which had been left on the trees they had to go arm ed in order to protect themselves against the immense snakes gathered in the branch es of the trees which had been driven down the valley by the force ot the waters the loss is estimated at one million dollars horrible negro insurrection in peru panama january 10 — a revolution of the negroes has occurred in the department of chincha and some horrible butcheries have ensued excited at a report malicious ly circulated among them to the effect that the haciendadas were about to establish slavery on their estates they met together to the number of fifty or i.\ty and broke into several haciendas in the valley murder ing the proprietors and some of the princi pal employees sacking and setting fire to the premises they were partially dispers ed on the 2d ult by the prefect of lea who attacked them with a small force kill ing four of their number later news from pisco states that the numbers of the negro bandits had liecn greatly increased by fresh arrivals from ganite and the surrounding sugar districts their total force is various ly put down at 00 400 or even goo on the 24th they attacked the town of chincha alta but the inhabitants repulsed ihem star a little ten months old child of wilmington became in the p;i^t few days verv fretful and no one could handle him without his screaming as if from intense pain on tuesday night however the moth er of the little fellow discovered 1 1 ; i t a small blister had made its appearance on the un der part of the left thigh which upon ex amination presented the appearance of hav ing been caused by a splinter or other for eign sub-tai.ee this discovery caused anx iety and a physician was immediately call ed in when in a few minutes after lancing a fine cambric needle about an inch and a quarter in length was extracted graham hillsboro and greensboro three good baptist churches on the north i aro lina kailrord are without a pastor the famine in ireland an appeal from the lord mayor of dub lin terriblt privation all over the land london jannary 25 at saturday's meeting of the dublin mansion house 1 relief committee bo application for re lief were received and o't grants were made amounting to 2,685 the total amount so far granted is 8,340 j.">ihl were received from washington ai.d 1,5(10 from new york the lord mayor of dublin has issued an appeal through the london press in behalf of the mansion house relief com mittee stating that that committee is uot connected with any other organisation and that it consists of representatives of all creeds an.l al shades of politics the | appeal states that evidence accumulates that there is scarcely a county in ireland in which terrible privation does not cxi>t in some portion though it is more severe in the western counties and in the north west and southwest seaboards the lord mayor fears the public of london does not realize the gravity of the crisis or that unless prompt assistance be given tens of thousands of people mnst die of starvation he cannot think that if they did they who gave hundreds of thousands to avert a famine in india would lave given less to the dublin mansion house fund than liad sydney or melbourne the lord mayor states that 8,000 have already been distributed out of the 20 000 received but that this is a mere drop in the ocean of need he fears a recur rence of the disaster of h.7 when abundant assistance was forthcoming but too late to save life apropos of the maine muddle the nv tion recalls the kepublican doings in louisiana in ir when two radical fac tions were contending for the mastery one being headed by casey president grant's brother-in-law theie was a dispute over the returns as canvassed by two rival canvassing boards and two legislatures were in consequence set up — one the pinchback and the other the warmoth legislature the pinchback party thereupon got an order from durcll the cnited states judge at midnight directing the cnited states marshal to seize and hold the state house and ad mit no one to seats whom he the mar shal did not think entitled to them the marshal took cnited states troops accordingly seized the stale house and admitted no one but members of the i'inchback faction and ti.e legislature thus organized was promptly recognized by telegraph from washing by presi dent grant in person previously to this wariuoth's senate had been prevented from forming a quorum by casey's lend ing the cnited stati s revenue cutter lo carry oil a number of he senators out of reach of the sergeant-nt-arms thev were kept on board several days but casey was not dismissed i'm his con duct in ti7'i there being another dispute about the legislature kellogg the re publican governor determined to orga nize tl.o legislature himself with cnited stales troops which were promptly fur nished him for thai purpose general de trobriand went into the house read a letter trom kellogg telling the house it was an illegal body and exptdled from the chamber such persons as were pointed out by general champbell kellogg general of militia general de trobriand then had the roll called and seated such persons as he thought proper with the aid of a tile of soldiers these were kepublican methods in those days at the south ; they are stal wart methods now at the north when ever eiicuiiistances require their use — raleigh obeerver siir.i v fkiexos moving a call signed hj over two h ling citiwna of columbus ohio business men manufac turers and bankers was issued for a conven tion of secretary sherman's friends through out the state to assemble in columbus two weeks hence with n view of organizing clt.l r iii his inter t in the state the call * ing as it 1 ■ - irom capitalists and friend of the administr itiou is regarded as the preliminary move toward placing the ohio delegation to the national convention solid for mr sherman thr friends of lhe sei retary are decidedly jubi ant and a gath ering imilar to a state conv ation .-. antic ipated the first nation hank nf xew york ia a pet of secretary sherman's it made a deal of money lasi year nn 1 th wonder to outsiders was bow the thing v a done sen ator beck who is a long-headed scotch man and who k one of tie i i men in con gress says that he has official evidence to show that thirty-seven millions of govern ment money was handled hy thai link and the interesi on it at the same time was drawn l»t the bank when tbe senator makes good his declaration and clears up this matter there will be a rattling of dry hones somewhere raleigh obsener the pet die herald anys mr benjamin dunlap one of anson's respected and be love i i itizens fell dead at bis bon in that c un on the 25th while studying a sun day chool lesson he represented anson . mtj in the mat !..-_: uture before and unci ince i he war