the carolina watchman vol v t iird seme salisbury n c december 24 1874 no 62 whole no ( v guilty or not guilty she stood at the bar of justice a creature wan and wiid ; in form ton small for a woman in features too old for a child j for a look o warm and pathetic was stamped on her pale youug face it 8"eined long years of suffering must have left that silent t'ace your name said the judge as he eyed her with kindly lo«.k yet keen j is — mary alcguire if you please sir and your age ?" l am turned fifteen well slary and then from a paper he slowly aud gravely read you're charged here i am sorry to say it with stealing three loaves of bread you look not 1 i '■< e an offender and i hope that you au show , th charge to be f-dse now fell ine are you guilty of this or no ' a passionate hurst of weeping | whs at first the sole reply but she dried her eyes iu a moment aud looked iu the judge's eye i will tell you how it was sir i my fat er and mother are dead and my little brothers and sisters were h ngry and asked ine for bread at first f earned it fur them by working hard all day but somen iw times were hard sir and the work all fem away i cou d get no more employment ; the weather was hitter cold the young ones cried and shivered — little johnny's h t four years old — so what was i to d sir i am guilty but do n«*t condemn i took — ch waa it stealing ? — the bread lo give to them every man in the courtroom — gray-beard and thoughtless youth — knew as he looked upon her that ihe prisoner spoke the truth out fruin their pockets came kerchiefs ut from their eyes sprung t.ars and out from old faded wallets treasures hoarded for years the judge's face was a study — the strangest you eve saw aud he cleared his throat and muttered something about the law ; for one so learned in such matters — so wise iu dealing with men he seemed on a simple question sorely puzzled just then but no one blamed him or wundt-red when at la.-t ihese words they heard the sentence of this young prisoner is for the present uefered !" aud no one blamed hi in or wondered wtien he went to her and smiled and tenderly led from the court room mary the guilty child story of aa eventful life laikyus wus a man of infinite adven ture he was one of uharles lever's heroes in real life as the younger son of a lieh scotchman he got a deal of learning and a little lucre a few years of life on the continent added to the former and swept away lhe latter w bile lie wa lu ii g royally ou has principal he seems lo have amused himself wiih plotting dire destruction lor the crowned heads uf europe hi carried a musket under gai ib ildi and is said to bave be longed to m zzi.ii's sec rut league tbe spies of europe knew him he grew accustomed to being escorted across fron i tiers by two policemen he was withal only an anateur conspirators plots fascinated him he declared that he never meant to do any king harm and indeed his schemes always failed per haps be t>lt that be was to reign himself but wi antic pate \\ hen larkvns came home accomplished and p nniless from his waudri ings his relatives bougln him j an unu commission hi sailed fur india to ' join his regiment arrived there be soon j wearied of the routine sold out of thej service riid started for central asia | i here his fortune culminated he tell into the good races of a heathen poten tate administered his government for him and finally freed him from all further care j | in tbe matter by making hiui.elf rajah he succeeded to the palace lhe harem and tte treasury of the man he had ex celled and jed a life of barbaric magnifi i pence alter six years of solitary splendor he wearied of the cares of state he decamp ! ed ai nighl and betook himself and i truiikful of diamonds to loudon his family naturally killed the fa ted calf in his honor but he quarreled with ihem soon and bade tbem good by forever j ] this mado dependence on them impossi j ble when soon after an unlucky specu i lai ion robbed bim of the spoils oi his rajahship his beggary ami outbreak of tbe franco-german war were coincident j he was snon fighting as major larkyns ' ong i eral b turbaki's stad bravery gave i i li i in the cross of the legion ot honor and then at metz a wound he limped through the campaign which ended at sedan was captured with his pro ton , monarch he fades out of view as a ! prisoner of war at sedan and reappears as a soldier of fortune at salt lake city in tbe winter of 1872 thence he wan dered to honolulu back to san francisco and into a frisco jail the failure of the man who had cashed his fictitious drafts to prosecute bim set him free the ex-king became a coal-heaver as a day-laborer a stevedore as a clerk as a translator as a correspondent ho worked to gain money and regain reputa tion he was well employed at calistoga : when the end came a jealous san francisco husband hurried thither with l»rkyns letters to his wife in his pocket j and his pistol iu his hand he called \ laikyus to the door and the doomed man came there was a cry of throw | up your hands i au oath a flash and tbe • dull thud of a bullet and the man of the world went out oi tbe world the wages of his sin were death he might have done much bul be preferred to enjoy much : and this was the ghastly end of un odd life among the queerest of the queer crowd that will rise from california soil when the last trump sounds will bs tbe : late larkyns california paper i annette's plot bt sudob clabe annette vance was a bom mischief maker she could see nothing wro g in promoting petty squabbles between her friends it made ihem so uncomfortable while the variance lasted and ridiculous when all was discovered to be a mistake that annette found capi tal fun iu it but nothing afford d her quite so much amusement as getting up what she called harmless quarrels be tween lovers that iu her estimation capped the climax of enjoyment not ihat annette was malicious or wicked she would have shrunk from intentionally doing harm to any one she wa merely thoughtless willi all her fondness i mischief she could be a true friend and such she was to nora giiffiii who had come to spend a month with annette who hud been her school mate and irom whom nora had no secrets not even her engagement with justin grey the current of nora and justin's love had run so smooth lhat annette half blamed herself that nothing hud occuired to lipple its surface such a courtship she felt must be quite insipid ; hence she resolved to do someihing to break iis mono tony this she deemed a mere act of friendship lovers happiest moments are when ihey make up bui how are they to make up ' it they never quarrel a littlo tiff between nora and justin from annette's standpoint was essential to their complete ft licity annette's plan was simple and soon ma tured on her list of friends was a young gentleman of pleasing manners agreeable person moderate capacity and unbound ed admiration of the sex he deemed it every woman's due to be paid court to and every man's duty to accept her decision v unit complaint such in brief was percival blythe whom annette lost no time in introducing to lur friend confident that he would not be slow to improve the new opportunity thus thrown in his way nor were annette's expectations at all disappointed ; though percival had tact enough to avoid giving alarm by proceed ing too rashly at first he was politely attentive but did nothing to lead nora to suspect that receiving ins atteuiions she was doing aught inconsistent with her engagement to justin grey a fashionable ball was to come off and am cite so managed that percival was lo be nora's escort an arrangement to which the latter readily consented for mr blytne was altogether the most agreeable gentle man she had met since her visit to an nette and if she must go to the ball she preferred going with him no for annette's plot it was to wiite a letter to jnslin grey inviting him to the ball intimate that nora and herself had talked the matter over and hinting that nora though dy ing to see him and longing for li's pre sence on lhe coming occasion had hesita ted tn ask him away from bis business to gratify what he might regard as a girlish whim whence continued annette i have taken it upon myself to urge you to come yon cau take the afternoon train and be here iu time ; and the morning train will take you back iu season for thai provoking business of yours about which j nora makes such a might bother 1 i need not mention how agreeably surprised j she will be to see you nor make use of i further persuasion to induce your coming j knowing as you now do nora's wishes j it would be akin to rudeness not to respect them annette gave the letter to her uncle george iu whose house she dwell to put iu the post and kept her own counsel what a nice little breeze there'll be she churckled to herself when justin j pomes and finds nora all ready to go to < the ball wiih percival blyihe and that 1 gentleman doing his killiugest to make an ! impression ? won't there be a scene !" annette wail-d patiently for the even ing of the ball she was sure justin would come he was too devoted to nora to slay away after an intimation that j she desired hij presence as the bom at which she expected justin's arrival approached annette be : came nervous she knew his impetuous temper and was quite sure to what length ' it might carry him she dressed and ' came down early feeling it safe to be in i the way to explain matters should things i be in danger of going too far strange justiu is not here she i<aid to herself it's past time for the train it must have met with some delay ah i there's the whistle now had nora been apprised that justin was coming she would scarcely have tar ried so long in her dressing gown as it was she had not yet made her appearance when mr blythe entered there has been a terrible apcideut be said the afternoon train from the city was throwu ffom the track and most of the passengers are either tided or wounded an extra train brought on those who es cuped then god have mercy on me i shriek ' ed annette for i am guilty ot justin's murder what's all this ado ?" cried uncle george coming in at the moment oh uncle i uncle i she sobbed forgive me that letter what letter ' the one i gave you to mail yester day bless me !" exclaimed uncle george — i fear i must ask your forgiveness here's tlie letter in my pocket i really forgot all about it biess you indeed !" cried annette j throwing her arms about bii dtck m i > seventy thousand victims furtlier accounts ofthe horrible massacre of christians of long king china the missious catlmliques pnhlishes the following letter from mgr puginieri vicar apostolic to eastern tung-king — i hasten to thank you for the interest you bave manifested in our cause by publish ing several articles on the persecution of tong long the readers of the missions catholiijnes must have been touched by the terrible misfortunes of our christians and will not have omitted to ask the di vine master to restore peace and prosper ity to his church in china we count much upon the prayers of the citholic world i will not conceal from yon that i consider that the present feaiful erisis in tong-k.;ng will prove evemually very favorable to the catholic religion god will hear the prayers of our many rs the massacres of christians and the pillaging and burning of their villages commenced i*i my mission and thence spread into that of mgr gauthier how cau i ever describe to yen the horrors we have wit nessed and which we were utterly una ble to prevent ! the litlerali freed from all restraint excited by love of pillage and drunk with blood abandoned all restraint and their wrath knew uo bounds armed with lances guns and even can nons tbey threw themselves followed by numerous bauds of lawless men upon the christian villages none of which were strong enough to defend themselves they killed men women and children without distinction sparing neithei those who asked for pity not those who refused to do so a schoolmaster seeing the lit terati coming look refuge in church and tin-re prostrate before the altar implored the mercy of god the murderers ar rived they seized him in the sanctuary and scalped him lie still continued to pray and they at last cut his head off among them were several old men wo men girls and even children three priests 20 missionary students and 10 catechis'e or scholars ot mgr gauthier met with the same fate about 70,000 christians iu both missions wire totally ruined and dispersed tbe majority were killed in the sack of the villages ; many were ordered to apostatize and on refusing to do so condemned to death a great many are still hidden in the mountains living there ou roots and herbs others bave taken refuge with pagan fiiends over 30 presbyteries 200 churches 300 villages containing 14 000 tamilies and 10 convents of ae naiuite nuns have been pillaged and burn ed the material loss lo the missions is over 400,000 francs and that of tbe christians exceeds 1.5,000.000 francs tbe lahor before us is immense we have first of all to bring the dispersed christians back to their villages and they are nearly naked and without money moreover their houses being burned we shall bave to help to rebuild them i estimate that each mission will require at least 300.000 francs to put it to rights and where are we to get the money ? we trust iu providence aud entreat the aid of god through the intercession of his latest martyrs tne rev john murray the founder of th universalis churches in the united states began bis ministry iu gloucester mass on nov 3 1774 on nov 3 1s74 the hundredth return of that day was celebrated in that town with much enthusiasm the church was decorated with flowers and leaves and an old barrel organ the first used by lhe congregation was placed near the pulpit slaughter of thieves — a few nights siuce a firmer living iu charles county maryland near the tit mary's line was awakened by the furious barkiug of his dog and when taking his gun and openiug tbe door of hs hoase he beheld au object sus pended in tbe air near his corn-house he tired and a inau fell to the ground three nogro men were euga_*vd iu stealing his corn aud for this purpose a lever had been put under the corn-h<*use the man killed sat on the end of the leaver which enabled the other two men to enter the house aud put out the corn as id e man fell the lever dropped and ths house fell upou the two men killing them both a faithful government agent — dr j j molt late collector of this tbe sixth district in turning over to his successor went out nf office with a clean balance sheet paying every cent let the governmeut stick a pin there this is encomium enough for a faithful officer — american r c conference the north carolina conference of the methodist e church south met in ral eigh on tbe 2d of december and after a very harmoniuus and important session of six days adjourned to meet in wilming ton in the fall ot 1875 the following is a 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64,50 postage paid odlll £__»* we do hope that all our readers will renew their subscription to the watch man before the first day of january next those behind should p»7 p promptly we don't want to strike off any names j te don't twant to put out any claims but we shall be compelled to do both if our mends will not comply with this re ftcst beply to the conquered ban ner bt sib h nouohtqn bart enoland gallant nation foiled hy numbers say not that your hopes are fled ; p that gloriooi flag that slumbers one day to avenge your dead p it widowed souless mothers p it sisters mourning brothers — purl it with an iron will *"' it now but keep it still t1*itik nut that its work is done ep it till your children take it ne-aeaiii to i ail aud make it * their sires have bled and fought for j ' their noble hearts have sought tot ak and l_ught for all alone all sl'ine ay shame the story ri e,e deplore the stain — 0d»,n alas f.,r england's glory fte-dom called aud called in vain nrl banner sadly slowly a!*m ■ t gently for t is holy i"1 thu day yes furl it sadly t ones more unfurl it gladly ured bannsr hewp it still hillsboro district — l l heu-i <« pe hilsboro-ii p cole alamance r s webb chapel hill & haw river w h ' • . m piiishnro — c c d dson yanceville - john tillett deep river t c moses leashing — j w denkina person — v m jordan durham - j j renn plat river t j g*mis greensboro district — n h d wilson i h greensboro — w h b'bhitt north guilford s ii helsaback south guilford z rnsh thomasville _- high point — p l h*-ft trinity — b craven davidson c h fillips 4 b f bum _~# randolph — j w lewis winston j f 11 i:raa_t stokes — j r svrogga madison — l e siacy wentwi.rih — w c it ■■■ trinity college b raven pre t agent for trinity college v a sl agent for greensboro female colic — j a cunninggim salisbury district — d r bruton i j salisbury — l w crawford salisbury circuit t l triplett & li 1 goode mooresville — t a coon statesville j w wheeler statesville circuit j n somer mocksvihe l shell w c wilson uj iredell m l wood alexander h f wiley wilkes j c smith yadkiuville — h t n nephenson mount airy — s m davis surry — w b mniiesh sauiatou mission — a m long shelby distiict l s burkhead p .*_. shelby h t hudson shelby circuit j w north double shoals s 1 peeler souih mountain mission — j c crisji cherry mountain c a gault riiibeifordton — s l>ard columbus mi-sion — n norton marion — j t harris upper broad river mission no wiih tington morganton ; j s ervin lenoir ; g w lvey happy home ; j c hartsell newton ; d may rock spring ; j w puett south fork ; c m anderson dallas ; p f w stamey liiicolnton ; r g barrett davenport f.-uiale college v m robey prest charlotte district j s nelson i r charlotte tyrou street — p j carrn " calvaiy mission — w s ii -._. sou;h charlotte — p greening p.nevime w d lee pleasont grove — t h edwards monroe — c m pepper monroe circuit — m w boyles concord — o j brent concord circuit — m c thomas mount pleasant — m v sherriu 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mission — w h cucnii-pj jones s a hooker lenoir — j n andrews newbern — w c gannon craven — d culhrelh b<aufort j il wheeler caneret — j mahouey straits to be supplied by g w h . '•• sou washington district w cloas p k washington & greenville ar v-n and vv h call warrenton j w shack/on warren s v boyles roanoke r 0 burton tarboro f d swindle williamsion j johnson plymouth k jamesvilb w 8 ii columbia w u waikins bath l l nash matuniuskeet miles foy i h h :' •#£• portsmouth di ocraeoke j m l cap haiterj-s to be suppled b _• ditoa kissing him over and over again well i am glad to get out of the scrape so easily said uncle george who had expected a sound blowing up annette threw tbe letter in the fire and ran up to nora's room where she made a full confession and received for giveness when she came down she mid mr blvthe that for reasons the sufficiency of which he must take on h»r word she aud nora had changed their minds about going to the ball mr blythe was much too gallant to insist upon reasons from a lady and politely took his leave we have nol heard of any mischievous prank of annette's since let us trust that her cure may be permanent adam and eve over oain there was aii ' oldcouple who earned a poor living working hard all day in the fields see how hard we work all day said tlie wile and it all comes of the foolish curiosity of adam and eve if it had not been for that we should have been living now in a beautiful garden with nothing to do all day long yes said the husband if you and i had been then instead of adam and eve all the human family bad been in para dise the count their masters overheard them talking iu this way and he came to them and said : how would you like it if i took yon into my palazzo there to live and gave you servants to wait on you and plenty to eat and drink oh that would be delightful indeed ! tbat would be as good as paradise itself an«weied husband and wife together well you may come up there if yon think so only remember in paradise there was one tree tbat was not to be touched ; so at my table there will be one dish not to be touched you musu't mind that said the count ob of course not replied the old peasant ; that's just what i say when eve bad all the fruits in the garden what did she want with just that one that was forbidden ? aud it we who are used to tho sea i lies t victuals are supplied wi h enn ugh to live well what does it matter to us whether there is an extra dish or not on the table very well reasoned said he count we quite understand each other then perfectly replied both husband and wife you come to live at my palace and have everything you can want there so i long as you don't open one dish which there will be in the centre of the table it j you open ihat you go b.ick to your former i way of life we quiie understand ' answered the peasant the count went i:i aud called bis ser vant and told him to give the peasants a i apartment to themselves wuh every : thing they could want and a sumptuous dinner in the middle of tbe table was to be an earth eru dish into which bu was to put a little bird alive so that it one lifted the cover the bird would fly out he was to stiy in the room and wait on ihem and report to bim what happened tbe old people sat down to dinner and praised everything they saw so delightful il all seemed look ! that's the dish we're not to touch said the wife no better not look at it said the husband pshaw there's no danger of wanting to open it when we have such a lot t dishes to eat our fill out of returned tbe wife so they set to and made such a repast as they had never dreamed of before by degrees however as the novelty of the thing wore off they grew more and more desirous for something newer and newer still i hough when they at first sat down it seemed that two dishes would be ample to satisfy them they had now seven or eight aud they were wishing th^re might be others coming there is an end to all things human and no others came tliere only remained tho earthern dish in the middle of ihe table we will just lift the lid up a little wee bit said the wife no don't talk about it said the hus band the wife sat still for five minutes and then she said if one just lifted up one corner of the lid it would scarcely be called opening it you know better leave it alone altogether and not think about it at all tbe wife sat still another five minutes and she said if one peeped iu just tbe least in the wcrld it would not be any harm surely and i should so like to know what can the couut have put in that dish i am sure i can't guess in the least said the husband and i must say i can't see what it can signify to him if we did look at it i no that's what i think and besides how would he know if we peep iu 1 it would not hurt him said the wife no as you say one could just take a look said the husband the wife did not want more encom age i ment than that bat when she lifted one side of the lid the least mite she could see . nothing she opened it the least mite more and the bird flew out the servant rau and told his master aud the couut came down and drove tbem out bidding them never to compuiu of adam aud e ( any more . *__«►* i air line r r — a mr fisher of un known fame has been appointed receiver ' in the interests of the bondholders the '< history of this road with its smart prac j tices teaches the old truth : tbe way ■ of tansgressors is hard some l divine sympathy from christiaa at work there is no warmer bible phrase than this touched with th feeling of our in firmities the divine nature is so vast aud th ■ human so small that we are apt to think that they do not touch each oth er at any point we might have never so many mishaps the government at washington would not hear of ihem ; and there are multitudes in britain whose troubles victoria uever knows but there is a throne against which strike our most insignificant perplexities what touches us touches christ what annoys us annoys christ what robs us robs christ he is lhe great neive centre to which thrill all sensations which touches who are his members he is touched with onr physical infir mi'ies i do not mean lhat he merely sympathizes wiih a patient in collapse of cholera or in the delirum of a yellow fe ver or in the anguish of a broken back but iu all those annoyances that come from a disordered nervous condition in our excited american life sound nerves are a scarci'y human sympathy in the case we mention amounts to noihiug — your friends luagh at you and say that you have ihe blues or the high strikes or tbe fidgets or tbe dumps but christ never laughs at the whims the no tions the conceits the weaknesses of the nervously disordered christ probably suffered in the same way for he had lack nf sleep lack of rest lack of right food lack ot shelter and under this his finely strung temperament must have become as we saj ) nervous chronic complaints — rheumatism pneu ralgia dispepsia — cease to excite human sympathy but with christ ihey never become au old story he is as sympa thetic as when yon felt the first twinge of inflamed muscle or the first pang of indi gestion when you can not sleep chiisi keeps awake with you all the pains you ever had in your head an not equal to the pains christ had in his head ail ihe acute sufferings you ever had in your feet are not equal to the acute suffering christ had in his feet by bis own hand he fashioned your every bone — strung every nerve grew every evelash set eveiy tooth in its socket and your every physi cal disorder is patent to him and touches his sympathies __» some old cities ninevah was fourteen roib-s long eight miles wide and foriy six miles round with a wall 100 feet high and thick enough for three char iots abreast babylon was fifty miles within the walls which were seventy-five feet thick and 100 feet high with 100 brazen gates the temple of dianab at kphesus was 420 feet to the support of the root — it was 100 years in building the largest of the pyramids was 481 feel in height and 8.03 feet on the sides the base covered eleven acres the stones are about sixty feet in length and the layers are 208 it employed 3.50,000 men in building the labyrinth of egypt contains 300 chambers and twelve halls thebes in egypt present ruins twenty seven miles around and contained 350 000 citizens and 400,000 slaves the temple of delphos was so rich in dona tion that it was plundered of 50,000,000 and the emperor nero carried from il 200 stain'es the walls of home were thir teen miles aroii d a young slave — a young man writes when ill two years ago my physician gave me opium and not recov ering health being unable to sleep i con tinued the use of the ding till now i cannot quit it without il i become almost delirious pray what shall i do /' well if you cannot quit it you must do as those who bave oilier habits do — chewing smoking drinking - who cannot quit thesi you must continue to wear tlie chains death will come to your re lief one of these days though it seem a pity one should di a slave in his chains i cannot quit ir your master is indeed a tyrant but some brave men would rather die than remain a slave and are you a coward ? you are not alone in your misery half tbe men you meet are also slaves they have no hope ; even though they may have a desire to be free habit ! habit ! 0 thou cruel tyrant to hold so many in a hopeless bondage 1 when o when may thy power be bro ken ! but we bow our necks in abject submission we love the master who cruelly treats us we are slaves we will not be free ! — science of health statue of the great stonewall — the statue of man wall jackson exe cuted by tbe late mr foley the well known english sculptor for lhe city of charleston is now nearly completed at the m.inor foundry at chelsea near lon don the general is represented as standing with a drawn broad_word in his right band the hand rests on the sword hilt and tbe point of the weapon is placed upon a piece of rock at the side of the figure he wears a horseman's short tunic girt by a broad belt and buttoned close on the chest and lose trowsers wih riding boots the defect work says tbe athenaum is in the face which likes vivacity and even poetic suggesiiveness pating fob loyalty " — the city of concord n hi belied its name some time in the early part of the late war by permitting a mob to destroy a democratic newspaper office for exp-ession of disloy al sentiments recently the taxaw inhabitants ot lha city have bad to pay for the loyal fun suit for considerable damages consequent upon the amusement having resulted io favor of tbe disloyal newspaper