Carolina Watchman

              the carolina watchman vol viii third series salisbury v c july 12 1877 ' no 38 the plot of echo bridge this shall end !" , i speaker was judge hay ward's ac complished and beautiful daughter myra uul she stood among the flowers that al moi _\ concealed one of the balconies of i fair home and looked upon two per sons sauntering aimlessly through the gulden below r li was night and the moon bathed the garden in * weird beauty k i did oot invite him here that he might tall in love with that doll-faced girl at his side yonder she eontinmed with rising indignation as bhe elenehed her white hands till the delicate nails geared the nalms she has infatuated him stolen him from me despite my cherished plans and fondled hopes 1 will not submit to it ! i would not be a woman if 1 did not resent this trickery and punish yes punish both of them father would not have brooked a rival in his courting days 1 i i will not stand idle beside this de feat and strike no blow for revenge speaking thus the impassioned beauty watched the occupants of the garden saw them traversing the flower paths like lovers and heard the confused murmur of iou gentle voices myra hayward had been reared in the luxury found among the wealthy homes of the earth an onlj child her slightest wishes had been gratified and she had grown to dazzling womanhood petted and almost thoroughly spoiled by an indul gent father besides her and under the same roof her orphan cousin babette had also been reared they had the same playthings sang the same songs and trod the same paths until niatiirer natures formed then they separated myra the dark haired beauty develop ed into the salf-will capricious maiden fond of coquetry while babette the gol den was as gentle as the lily that bends to kiss the limpid brook din ing one of her visits to some friends the judge's daughter encountered cyrus whitney a young lawyer of prominence and three acquaintance resulted in his coining to the aristocratic home i'm several weeks prior to the date of our story the vistor had dwelt beneath the judge's roof loved passionately by the spoiled child ot luxury and trusted by the gentle cousin the rivalry on myra's part had grown into the galling bitterness of hatred sin had never mentioned babette to the visi tor before his arrival and he was surprised to tind that she had such a lovely relative perhaps the young lawyer had fathom ed the depths of myra's scheming for he showed a decided liking for babette and the jealous one was not long in discover ing that her planning had but produced a lover for the girl she hated the discovery had given birth to a blighting passion before that time with all her coquetry unknown to her heart revenge perhaps you will condescend to keep your engagement with me to-morrow night !" she hissed still looking at the couple in the garden cyrus whitney all the stars that shine above ine cannot tell how i hate you to-morrow night that hatred may be revealed unto you there is no one to warn you a moment later the balcony was de serted and the lovers had passed from the garden with face still flushed by the words which cyrus whitney had breath ed into her ear among the flowers babet te stole to her boudoir while myra tossed restlessly on her pillow her mind a cal dron of passion and revenge babette deftly slipped a ring from her linger and hid it among her keepsakes in her little treasury saying in a low voice : cousin myra must not see it for sever al days if i can keep the secret so long she will laugh when she discovers that she brought ine a beau poor confiding unsuspecting babette she did not dream of the terrible days that were to pass before myra should see the betrothal ring true to his promise cyrus whitney rode beside myra hayward on the follow ing evening their destination was the home of one of the beauty's friends sev eral miles away and the amusements there wen to be dancing and ecartc there was an unwonted flash in myra's eyes as she looked upon the handsome nan who tilled a saddle so gracefully at dm bide and grew vivacious as they can tered over the road echo bridge as their steeds struck the planks of the bridge that spanned a ep dark gorge if you have not been made acquainted with the delightful echoes of this region mr whitney a rich cat has been withheld " i hen i have missed the pleasure was the reply though your cousin babette has described it myra started bit her lip and toyed half ycngefully with her riding whip when we return we will call out these wonderful echoes she said when the night is quite advanced as it may then be the sweeter and more prolonged are the sounds one needs to be ride rapidly across the bridge and the rattling of hoofs and planks makes the music wilder t'yrus whitney seemed pleased with l e idea of awakeuing tho slumbrous echoes of the hills and gorge and said upon their return he would ride like a trooper across the bridge myra shivered and turned her head away to smile for satisfaction perhaps lier mind went back to a few moments be fore the start from the mansion when she had whispered to the cunning yellow man who had led her horse to the mount ing block : do not fail me dick were her words and he had answered : never fear miss the moon became obscured black cloud hid its disc and threatened a storm and the night became as dark as erebus such was the hour when myra and her escort set out upon their return they were hearing echo bridge as a dark ligure turned from it aud ran toward the mansion not far away he fled like a robber who has been surprised at some nefarious work for the sound of hoofs were already awaking the echoes of the hills once or twice he paused and listened over his shoulder then darted forward again aud at last became lost among the slave quarters attached to the estate lc was yellow dick ! 1 wouldn't see it for the world he muttered with a shiver as he crept into \ a cabin he was evidently frightened for he crept into one corner of the untidy room and covered his head with a blanket as if he would keep certain sights aud sounds away ln the meantime myra hayward and the man she hated had drawii rein on a knoll a short distance from the gorge we will court the echo now she said with a dash ol triumph in her tone the bridge is just ahead and if you will dash across i will follow when you shall have gained the other rise from its summit you can hear the echo of your horse's hoofs and when i have joined you i will tell the story that is linked to the gorge he beared her bowed and with a smile told her that he was off the next moment myra beheld him dart from her side with the impulse of a rocket and heard the iron hoof beating the hard road — then she held her breath and grew pale through excitement a minute had not elapsed when there was a cry that seemed to quiver the clouds of darkness that hung low over the chasm myra did not hear the dull thud that quickly followed for the awful shriek was echoing everywhere and her soul was lull of it it was not repeated for it seem ed the death cry of a human being the silence that followed was almost palpable myra heard the beating of her own heart and at last urged her horse forward on the very edge of the bridge she rode ; tliere she drew rein and listened myra gazed into the terrible opening as if seeking the horse and his rider ; but darkness seemed to stretch to the anti podes and revealed nothing then she raised lier voice in loud cries for assistance the echo sounded every where and at last startled the inmates of the mansion beyond the knoll assistance came and when the planks had been replaced the beauty crossed the bridge the excitement that prevailed is indescribable the judge and his laborers wereflitting hither and thither with lanterns cursing the hand that could perform such a dia bolical act while myra in an apparently fainting condition was borne to ber cham ber the judge believed that some vil lain had attempted to take the lives of his daughter and the young man and declared that the guilty party should be brought to justice the boldest in the party shrank from a descent iuto the darksome gorge but the judge's money overcame their fears and they went down by and by a shout came up we have found him !" judge hayward started dead he asked with many misgiv ings and waited breathless lor the reply breathing that is all thank god bringing him up it was a mighty work — the rescue of cyrus whitney from the rocks and waves at the bottom ofthe chasm but the men proved themselves equal to the task and at last the mangled body of the lawyer was laid at the judge's feet tliere was a plentitude of bruises contusions aud bones and the soul seemed about to re linquish its tenure of life cyrus whitney was borne to the judge's house and a surgeon sent for babette the pale faced girl listened on the top of the stairs to a discussion of his injuries by the group of men in the hall below anil then crept dazed almost wild to her room myra with her door ajar and with flash ing eyes listened to the same words that caused her cousin such anguish i knew he would not survive she said shutting the door i said last uight that i would put an end to the love mak ing that has been going on in this house and it i have not kept my word let the hand of heaven blight my beauty my sweet cousin babette you must hunt an other lover now and let him be one for whom i never schemed the days that followed were terrible ones to the teuauts of the judge's man sion babette grew thinner than ever over cyrus whitney's couch aud while long watching wore her to a shadow she saw iiim slowly recovering he is going to live !" myra exclaimed one day tho fates are against me ! if god and the doctors save him my second blow shall kill the last word had scarcely left her lips when the door swung open and her ivv sharlotte jacob's fork swaunanoa john's seuppernoiig lewis fork smith's little tennesse south catawba little iu johnston south yadkiu little in brunswick south little in pasquota'k tennessee little in orange tuckasege little in cunibeitd tar little in alleghany toe little in mont toxaway little yadkin trent lockwood folly uwbarrie lower little upper little lumber valley mayo waccamaw mehirrin wautauga middle little white oak mills yadkin mitchell's yeopim eight soukds albemarle currituck bouge pamlico core roanoke croatau stump fifteen lakes alligator little black mattamiiskeet bertram's north west cattish pungo catharine pheips ellis scuppernong east waccamaw loug twenty islands brant j ull shoal dell hatker's bouge hog bachelor holyday's collington judith cedar leech's durant marsh eagle roanoke great swan goat smith's mountains more than 0,000 feet above the sea-level balsam cone 6,671 black dome 6,707 black brother 6,619 blackstock's knob 0,.1s0 big craggy 6,000 boiling's pyramid 6,348 big c.'italuche 6,159 cat tail peak 0,011 chimney peak g,:2._4 clinginan's dome 0.000 cold spring 6,132 devil's court house 0,010 double spring 6,380 grassy ridge bald 0,230 hairy bear 0.010 long ridge 6,259 luftee knob 0.2:1 mt alexander 6,447 mt buckley 6,599 mt collins 6,183 mt curtis 0,503 mt gibbs 6,501 mt/guvot 6,336 mt hall-back 0,403 mt henrv 0,:.7:i mt hardy 6,133 mt love 6,443 mt leconte 6,612 mt mitchell 6,711 mt ocona 6,135 mt safford 6,535 potato top 6,393 roan 6,306 richland balsam 6,425 rocky face 0,031 rocky trail peak 6,438 raven's knob 0,2:10 sam's knob 6,001 , spruce ridge top 6,076 trimmer knob 6,188 thermometer knob 0.157 ed as he came into the garden aud caught sight of the shaggy and highly-perfumed visitor the goat bit off another mouthful of the basket and regarded him with a mis chievous twiukle of his eyes you won't go hey ?" exclaimed bur dock trying to kick a hole in the enemy's ribs i'll show you wheth " the sentence was left unfinished as the goat just then dropped his head ou bur dock's shirt bosom aud before he could recover his equilibrium he had been but ted seveu times iu seven fresh spots aud was down on his knees crawling around in a very undignified manner to the hor ror of the family aud the infinite glee ot the eleven young bobliuks next door look out he dou't hurt you !" scream ed mrs burdock as the goat sent him flyiug iuto a suovv pile when burdock had got his bald head out of the snow he was mud all over his clothes aud tried to clutch the brute by the horns but desisted after he'd lost two front teeth aud beeu rolled iu the mud don't make a living show of your self before the neighbors advised his wife come iu pa and let him be begged his daughter golly dad look out he's comiii agiu shouted his son enthusiastically then burdock waxed profane and swore three-story oaths in such rapid suc cession that his family held their breath and a pious old lady who lived in a house iu the rear shut up her windows and sent out the cook to hunt for a policemau or a missionary bun for it dad advised his son a moment later when the goat's attention seemed to be turned away burdock sprang to his feet and follow ed his offspring's suggestion he was legging it in superb style and the chances of his reaching the house seemed excellent wheu the fragrant brute suddenly clap ped on more steam gained rapidly and darting between his legs and capsized him into the ash-box ' his family dragged him inside another candidate for rubbing arnica and a bless ed haven of rest the back of the house has been her metically scaled and burdock now pro poses extending an invitation to the mi litia regiments of boston to come down aud practice marksmanship olf the roof promising to furnish a live goat for a target and a silver-plated napkin ring as the first prize the goat still holds the fort from the orphan's friend prof kerr's report geographical we had determined to take issue with prof kerr in regard to some innovations iu his nomenclature but while we thought the matter over the printer came with the proof of an article which mentioned a visit to jamestown and we were aston ished to see in print that we had actually been to jerusalem ! we immediately de cided that the supposed innovations were only typographical errors let us there learn what we can from the report and hope for accuracy in a future edition we are surprised to know that while nature has given us boundries on the east and west our state-lines are unknown ex cept by dim tradition on the north and south and that the true lines sometimes vary as much as three degrees from the supposed lines prof kerr says : it is i highly probable that the only portiou of the state boundry which is known or as certainable with any thing like accuracy is the eastern or oceanic and a small part of the western surely the legis lature ought to have appointed a comniis | sion to ascertain our boundries or to have ; elected a geographer as we suggested j last week to make au accurate map so much needed by travelers aud for use in our elementary schools prof kerr's map is by far more nearly accurate than any other a good geographer could by co operation with intelligent citizens with the state geologist and with the u s coast survey prepare a reasonably cor rect map in two years then the geogra phy ofthe state could be studied with in terest aud advantage iu the absence of such a map we have from all the sources of information at our command prepared a list of our rivers sounds lakes and highest mountains we print them here with the hope of receiving suggestions and corrections for a complete aud perfect list : ninety rivers alligator moccasin ararat mulberry black nantahala boy nolechucky broad nottaly caney new hope cataloche neuse cashie north east catawba north west cape fear north chatooga newport chowan new in onslow dan new iu wautauga deep ocoua luftee elk pacolet eno pamlico fisher's pasquotank flat perquimans french broad pigeon first broad pungo green reddie's haw rocky in cabarrus hiawasse rocky in chatham hyco second broad i dom pedro i and victor hugo prom the fenages franco-american the following is a new anecdote about the emperor of brazil : he recently paid a visit to victor hugo after a long interview in which the two celebrities conversed upon divers topics the emperor asked permission of the poet j to repeat his visit requesting him to fix a day '•! receive my friends every day said hugo politely and we have dinner at eight o'clock after the lapse of some da.vs.~nne even ing at about half past seven o'clock t in door bell of the poet's house was rung and a gentleman in dress coat and white cravat presented himself whom shall i announce said the servant dotu pedro de braganza replied the visitor as yet there was nobody in the parlor the host was informed ofthe arrival i have come to dine with you said the emperor in democratic style soon the guests sat down to table the repast was charming dom pedro gave some very curious traveling impres sions victor hugo for his part spoke with that simplicity so full of warmth of which those who have not the honor of being intimate with him have no idea when the emperor took leave of his host it was rather late the latter said to him smiling with his tine and arch smile sir i could not possibly tell you how happy 1 am that we have no sovereigns like you in europe and why said dom pedro because replied victor hugo both myself and my friends would be very much puzzled to find an - thing bad to say of them dom pedro burst out laughing and took leave of his friend like a good natur ed and sensible man governor tilden speaks at li bt father pale and excited stood before her you are going with the barn wells to cuba to-morrow he said myra started father not a word guilty thing that you are was the ktcarn rejoinder but an hour since yellow dick accidently shot himself and i have listened to a confession from his lips that has torn my soul and almost torn me from my kin you will uot re turn from guba until i send for you which will uot be until babette has been married beneath my roof myra hay ward i curse the hour that gave you to my arms !" she sank back speechless and the father left her to the sting of remorse years have passed since the terrible tragedy of echo bridge the golden haired girl is the wife of cyrus whitney and the woman who de liberately planned the awful event we have recorded was lately driven from the capital ofthe belgians by order of the king a beautiful wild uupriucipled ad venturess !" married in tiie dark jackson mich letter to the st y herald the mary e knox case has been dis cussed by the herald and other journals as one of the most curious cases on record and yet the dust covered legal records of : michigan tell ofa case still more singular j — miss knox was engaged to it young j mau named merritt the day was set for the nuptials they drove away together and were married and now merritt vows that he was not the bridegroom she vows that he was but cannot prove it and both make out a pretty good case one may well argue that he ought to know whether he ever married a certain i young lady or not and the said young lady may well argue that she ought to know the man who rode to the clergy man's with her stood up beside her made his responses in due form and drove her back home these arguments are what mystify the knox case now for one still more singular : about twenty years ago there lived in central michigan a curious old benedick named duds worth — at the age of fifty he married a girl of twenty and when the burden of sixty years bore him down his wife was only half his age pods-worth was noted for his peculiarities but the cli max came when he found himself on his dying bed lie was worth about 30,000 and he hadn't i blood relative living so far as he knew he wanted to leave it to his wife as the pair had lived very hap pily but yet he could not leave it with out displaying some of his peculiarities iu the provisions of his will some old men display a mean spirit when making their wills and draft in a provision cutting the wife olf with a shilling if she marries again this old man wasn't of that stamp his young wife was good looking viva cious fond of society and it was folly to suppose she would mourn for her late departed any great length of time therefore mr dodsworth turned heel ou the custom and said in his will iu case my wife celia does not take unto herself another husband within thir teen months from date of my burial all bequests otherwise made in this will are to the state of michigan to be used for building and furnishing a home for old women whether celia was pleased or displeas ed at this provision deponent saith not but the old man had not been under the sod more than six months when the wid ow was said to be looking out for another man if it was singular for the dying dodsworth to urge his wife to marry again it was still more singular that he should desire the ceremony to be perform ed uuder the following circumstances viz and it is incumbent on said celia dodsworth that in taking a husband the marriage ceremony shall be performed in the big barn on my farm on the ii — road it shall take place at 10 o'clock in the evening on the main floor without lights of any description with all doors shut and a free invitation shall be extended to all the clergyman shall stand in the stables and the bride and groom on the main floor and the principal parties shall be dressed in black throughout the widow announced her intention to fully obey in spirit and letter the will was probated and the twelfth month had scarcely passed before she issued an invita tion for the public to attend a wedding at the big barn tu who the groom was to be no one could positively assert as the widow had been keeping company with a widower a bachelor and two young men and as far as any outsider could judge she loved one as well as the other beiug good looking and talented aud having a fortuue behind her it was not strange that she should have a number of suiters she seemed to euter into the spirit of the affair with zest as also did tiie minister ; and to further mystify the people in at tendance the bride entered the buru alone at oue door the groom aloue at another aud uo one knew that the minister had arrived until his voice was heard in the stables there were at least 200 people present aud each oue understood that eveu the striking of a match would break the will many jokes were passed and confusion existed but at length the minister an nounced that all was ready the cere mony was gone through with aud at its conclusion tho affair having beeu a pro found success a rush was made for the bride ; she was kissed by a hundred men c denounces republican fraud but is hopeful ofthe republic by telegraph to the news nud courier j new yokk dune 12 — governor tilden made a brief speech at the reception of the manhattan club to-night after al luding to the departure of governor hen dricks to-morrow with his best wishes for a prosperous voyage and safe return he said everybody knows that after the recent election the men who were elected by the people president and vice president of the united states were counted out and men who were not elected counted in and seated i dis claim any thought ofthe personal wrong involved in this transaction not by any act or word of mine shall that be dwarfed or degraded into a personal grievance which is in truth the greatest wrong that has stained our national annals to every man of the four and a quarter mil lions who were defrauded id the fruits of their elective franchise it is as great a wrong as it is to me and uo less to every man of the minority will the ulti mate consequences extend evils in gov ernment grow by success and impunity they do not arrest their own progress they can never be limited except by ex ternal forces if the men in possession of the government can in one instance maintain themselves in power against an adverse decision at the elections such an example will be imitated temptation e\i-ts always devices to give the color of law and false pretences on which to found fraudulent decisions will not be wanting the wrong will grow into a practice if once condoned in the world's history changes in the succession of gov ernments have usually been the result of fraud or force it has been our faith and our pride thai we had established a mode of peaceful change to be worked out by the agency of the ballot-box the pie tion now is whether our election system in its substance as well as form is to be maintained this i the question of questions until it is finally settled there can be no politics founded on inferior questions of administrative policy it in volve--the fundamental right ofthe peo ple it involves the elective principle lt involves tin whole system of popular government the people must signally condemn the great wrong which has been done to tbem they must strip this ex ample of every thing thai cau attract im i itators they must refuse a prosperous i immunity fo crime this is nor all the people will not be able to trust the au thors or beneficiaries of the wrong to de vise remedies but when those who con demn th wrong shall bave tin power they must devise the measure which shall render a repetition ofthe wrong forever impossible if my voice could reach i throughout our country and be heard in j its remotes hamlet i would say : be of good cheer the republic will live the institutions of our fathers are not to ex i pire in shame the sovereignty of the peo ple hall be rescued from this peril and re-established sue ful wrong never appears so triumphant as on the very eve of its fall seven years ago a corrupt dynasty culminated in its power over the million of people who live iti the city of new york it bad conquored or bribed or flattered ami won almost everybody into acquiescence ii appeared to be in vincible a year or two later its mem bers were iu the penitentiary or iu exile ! history abounds in similar examples we lnu&t believe in the right and in the future a great and noble nation will not | sever its political from its moral life aud was then carried home a distance of a mile and a half in a big arm chair now comes the mystery when the la dy was set down at her own door the widower the bachelor and the two young men each claimed to be her true and law ful husband none of the crowd could say who was the lucky man the minister was at sea and the bride herself seemed to have doubts the widower was the man of her choice but in the confusion he could have beeu hustled aside and he did affirm that an attempt bad been made to choke him and get him out of the barn the bachelor vowed that she had prom ised to marry him as also did both young men and each one was sure he held the widow's plump hand and was legally married to her the four men had a tight but that didn't mend matters the crowd ducked two of them in a creek but that didn't decide the question just how it would have terminated had not the widower been a mau of nerve no one cau tell as the other three had al ready appealed to the law when the wid ower stepped in and took his place as hus band and settled with the others for 2,000 each one of the young men now over forty years old and having all the wife he wants she weighs 230 pounds is living in this city and during an interview had with him to-day he solemnly aud earnestly assured your correspondent that he was legally married to the widow dodsworth that night iu the big barn another of the parties lives in clinton connty anil he has time and again asserted that he is the woman's true and lawful husband so help him god the bachelor is dead but were he alive and kicking he would renew his oft repeated protestations : i married her by gum and by gum i ought to have her hold thk fort last monday afternoon the eleven bob olink befys surrounded and caught an enormous shaggy strong-smelling wick ed-looking goat ofthe masculine gender turned him loose in burdock's garden nailed up the gate and then went home and flattened their eleven little noses against the back windows to watch for coming events before his goatship had spent three minutes in that garden be had managed to make himself perfectly at home pulled down the clothes line and devoured two lace collars a pair of undersleeves aud a striped stocking belonging to mrs b and was busily engaged in sampling one of bui dock's shirts when the servant girl came rushing out with a basket of clothes to hang up the saints preserve us !" she exclaim ed coming to a full halt and gazing open mouthed at the goat who was calmly munching away at the shirt shew ! shew ! shew there !" screamed the girl setting down her basket taking her skirts in both hands and shaking them violently towards the intruder then the goat who evidently consid ered her movements iu the light of a chal lenge suddenly dropped his wicked old head and darted at her with the force of of an erie locomotive and just one min ute later by the city hall clock that girl had tumbled a backward summersault over the clothes basket and was crawling away on her hands and knees in search of a place to die accompanied by a goat who butted her on the bustle ground every third second it is probable he would have kept on butting her for the next two weeks if mrs burdock who had been a witness of the unfortunate affair had not armed her self with the family poker and hurried to the rescue merciful goodness anne do get up on your feet !" she exclaimed aiming a murderous blow at the beast's head and ; missing it by a few of the shortest kind of inches it was not repeated owing to the goat's suddenly rising on his hind feet waltzing towards her and striking her in the small of the back hard enough to loosen her linger nails and destroy her faith in a glorious immortality when mrs b returned to consciousness she crawled out from behind the grind stone where she had been tossed and made for the house stopping only once when the goat came after and butted her head-first in the grape arbor once inside the house the door was locked and the unfortunates sought the solitude of their own rooms aud such comfort as they could extract from rub bing and growling while the goat wan dered around the garden like satan in the book of job seeking what he could de vour and the eleven little boblink boys fairly bugged themselves with pleasure over the performance by the time burdock returned home that evening aud learned all the particu lars from his arnica-soaked wife the goat had eaten nearly all the weeks washing half the grape vine aud one side out of the clothes basket why iu thunder didn't you put him out and not leave him there to destroy everything he demanded angrily because he wouldu't go and i wasn't going to stay there and be killed that's why !" answered his wife excitedly wouldu't fiddlesticks he exclaimed making for the garden followed by the entire family get out of there yon thief !" he shout from the wilmington star the teacher mr j m lovejoy the gifted and en thusiastic teacher who died last tuesday at raleigh has done an important work for north carolina he was devoted to his profession and like paul magnified his office he was a good scholar a con secrated man of one-work and a true friend in many sections of north caro lina and in others states there are men tilling important places who were taught by him and who will sorrow sincerely when they learn the eccentric but con scientious teacher and friend has taken up his abode iu the silent halls of death mr lovejoy would have rather presid ed over his school and been surround ed by my boys as he always proudly referred to his pupils than to have been governor of the commonwealth he looked upon hi profession as one of great responsibility and honor he was fully imbued with the sentiment of an euglish writer that it was a delightful task to rear the tender thought to pour fresh in struction over the mind so breathe tiie enlivening spirit and to fix the generous purpose in the glowing breast nor did he labor iu vain we know eminent and gifted men who stand in this hour greatly indebted to him for patient and wise in struction mr lovejoy had a great deal of poetic ardor — had something quite akin to genius in its scintillations lb published a few brief poems dm ing his life aud he has left in manuscript a long patriotic poem called shadow iu which the confeder ate war is treated we never examined the manuscript although invited to do so ou several occasions we hope it will be published the faithful teacher has fallen before the great reaper death he should be buried iu the new cemetery at raleigh be side the stream that winds through that romantic spot ; for he expressed the wish for such a resting place in hi poem entitled a day ou the hills anj when i die place me beside the biook where flowers come up to see each others pleasant faces and the bee through fhe lon day sink's in the glad sunshine great god the stars the earth the universe are thine wilt thou not grant this huiubie prayer of mine f n b — not having the lines before us we doubt if they are correctly arranged although we give we think the exact language — ipsissima verba