The Greensboro patriot [December 4, 1872]

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THE PATRIOT
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Established in 1824. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1872. {New Series No. 249.
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Professional Cards.
II. iiillard. Jno. A. Gilm.r.
M .J i -v F. Smith.
Dillard, Gilmer A Smith,
AT I OKNEYS AT .LAW
.,,,.1
BOLICITOK8 IN HAKKUUrTCY,
Ofios mr Hunk ot (Jreen-boro, nppo.it.
Billbow House.
PKAC RCE in Siste and Federal Court..
Bpecial stlention given to matter* in
Hankl uptey, and caueea arieing under Inter*
:,.,] Kevenue. in District Court of Western
District of North Carolina. Collection, in
btsteaad federal Court, solicited.
.1 IM W, I-:-'. 2U5:lv.
A LITTLE WOMAN.
In a little preeions diamond,
What a splendor DIMU tbe eves!
In a little lamp of sugar
How mncb of aweetnOM ll«a!
So in a little woman,
Love grows and mnltipllea;
You recollect the proverb says—
" A word uuto the wise."
A peppor-corn ia very amall,
Bat seasons every dinner
More than all other condiment*.
Although 'tia sprinkled thinner.
Joat so a little woman la,
If love will let yon win her,
There's not a joy in all the world
You will not find within her.
And as within the little rose,
You'll find tha richest dyes,
And in a little grain of gold
Much price mill value lies ;
As from a little balsam
Much odor does arise,
So. in a liitle woman,
There's a taste of Paradise.
The skylark and the nightingale,
Though small and light of wiog,
Yet warble sweeter in the grove
Than all the birda that sing ;
And so a little woman,
Though a very little thing.
Is nweeter then all other sweets,
Even flowers that bloom in spring I
A Talking-Machine.
An ingenious piece of mechanism
is thus described by the Baltimore
Sun:
The machine is necessarily intri-cate
in structure to produce the
sounds of the human voice, bnt the
patient inventor has been measura-bly
successful. A bellows worked
by a treadle answers for limps, rub
be.r pipes for the glottis, while a
tongue and lower jaw, all worked
in unison by tlelietite machinery,
put in motion from levers under the
operator's hunds, produce the
sounds of the human voice iu a
high, low, or medium key, as desir-ed.
Mrs. Faber, the wife of the in-ventor,
sat down to the machine as
to an Kstey organ, and played opon
it. The instrument was first car-ried
through the scale of primary
sounds, articulating the vowels
from the recesses of its glottis. It
was made to laugh ■im. ha, li.i!'—
'bo. ho. ho!' 'he, he, he!' &c,which
it did like the demon in the play.—
Then it was called upon to pro-nounce
female n,tines—'Jo-sepb-i-na,'
'Wil-bel-mi-nu,' -Oar-oli-na,'
'La-la,' 'Ma-rv,' &c, uttering the
words by syllables as written, bnt
slowly, in response to the touches
of the operator's fingers upon the
The Bankrupt Lai ^WeOWorn-oat Country.
We pnbUsbed twTTeek. ego, » ttfig*£«•"»ft **
extract from the Statesv.lle Assert- Uwe heaYd Ir _&_??_2!***
«-, in relation to the L7wW.!_e^_L,_____-!
Act, to which we added our opinion
ZSb.HUTSl n£ oamrmtioa £
as to the effect ol the discharge in -____*_!» ,,ttle *own ~«
Bankruptcy
Bankrupt
ar discharge in perssveran
. upon a judgment, and imSfSttSS l-uSl _ft m *lL,hat tim* off«red • »»-* of
the hen by virtue of it. It was in .. E-ffl?S ._f!s__5* » *"■■"■ °o»«" for i.t return
A Notable Watoh.
-ln
TJ,eK*w 0r,«*,,« n»« of the
30th ult., lias a sensation about
General Lafayette's watoh, preaent-
™to h"» by George Washington,
which was stolen from him in Ten-noasee
when he visited this country
la 1824. The Governor of Tenues
substance, that tbe bankruptcy
would discharge the judgement debt
and consequently there could be no
lien under it; and that tbe bank-rupt
would take his homestead free
from such encumbrance. Our opin-iou
is based upon the ruling of
Judge L»ick, as we understand it.
Another ruling has recently been
made by Judge Dick that is of great
importance. He holds that the re
versionary interest in the home
stead lands is exempt to the bank-i
rti]it. This is uuder the laws of N.
, C, chapter 121. Acts of 1869-TO
The exemptions'in bankruptcy in
I North Carolina, will therefore stand
A homestead aud tbe dwelling
and buildings used thereon, not ex-ceeding
in value the sum of 91,000.-
00;
i The reversionary interest in the
Homestead lands.
The exemptions, it it will be seen,
productive and as valuable a
they ever were. Read what a little
energy will do:
" Mr. James Hood, of Clear
Creek, tells that be settled many
years ago on land naturally thin
aud worn out by long cultivation
in a loose way. He has never used
artificial manures, and yet be esti-mates
that his yield ot wheat this
year, in bis orchard was twenty-five
bushels to tbe acre. This fact
shows tbe tbe folly of seeking a new
country. What is the age of oar
oldest land in comparison with thst
of tbe rich fields of England, which
have been in cultivation over 1,000
years, and yet yield each year more
abundautly than tbe pracediue
yeat T
discovered.
i p. MKMIKNIUI.I.. JOHN N.STAPIJCS.
MENDENHALL & STAPLES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
lillKi:.\»IIOBO, If. C. |
Will practice in tbe Courts of (juilford, Rock-im,
Davldaofi, Foreythe, Stoke., Ruti-ihil[
ih HIHI AUinauce : aleo. li. S. Circuit and
District CooMa. Special attention giveu to
collection, iu .I) parts ol the State, and to'
cases in Bankruptcy.
ty OBcs on. door North of Court Hoo
Jsn. «:ly
RALPH GORKELL,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Greensboro, N. C,
17 1 I.I. practise in the courts of Alsrua
dsnn, Juilford Kandolph
r Ko
Davidson, (luiU'ord aud Kandolph, and
Bankrupt courts. Oilice, No. r> Law Kow on
West Sliloof Court House.
Prompt attention gives to collecting, iad|~' " "";'. * "*"
all other business coDUuhtod to his care.
April -J7, irCi:ly
Walter Clark. J. M Mullen
Clark & Multert,
Alloi-iicyw A-t I^JIW,
iiA1.1[■• ,\x, jr. c,
PRACTICE nil the Court, of Halifax,
Hartin, Northampton ami rMifccomli
counties. In the Supreme Court of North ■
. id in the Federal Conn..
tV Collections made in all parts ol North
Carolina. mar I4:ly
* . i. BALL, TIIOS. n. KF.OGII,
BALI. & KEOGH,
ATTORNEYS A T LAW,
I rp stuira, new Lindsay Building,)
oasBKSBoao, N. C.
Jan U ly
D. A. k R. F. R0BERT80N,
Surgeon Dentists.
llaviug associa
tft\ themselves
in It
Bill Arp on the Situation.
We extract a part of the letter,
aud leave it to speak lor itselt, only
remarking that Mrs. Arp is enti-tled
to the first position iu the po-litical
government of the Arp fami-iy:
"Baltimore Convention, and O'-
Conor, and Alek Stevens, aud a
limited supply of votes, has beat
us. Well, we still live. I'm not
going to bed about it. Old Glee-ley
ain't no kin to me. Grant ain't
neither, and that's what's the mat-ter.
I talked for Grceley, and writ
for him, and voted for him, but I
never did hanker after him.
made such an everlasting fuss in
like to run away.
You see Mrs. Arp wasn't rekonsil-ed.
She was a Straight, and when
she ain't rekonsiled, things ain't as
plassid us a silver lake around my
house. I don't mean that times is
hot or desperate, but to say the
least of it they are peculiar. A
man likes to hav his bed and his
board sereen. Don't he I So yon
.sue as my wife was a strait it didn't
e me to be very crooked.—
And I wan't—at borne. She's a
good oman, and shc'l endure every-keys.
Some very loug aud difficult "mount to between 92,000, and 92,-
»w0.
Iu view of tbe fact that an effort
is being made to reverse the dec-is
ion our Supreme Court, making the
Homestead good against old debts,
we advise every debtor to go into
bankruptcy, wipe out all bis old in-debtedness,
which hangs like a
heavy weight about his neck. Then,
with real and personal property ex-empt
to him to tbe amount of 92,
000 and upwards lie can start life
words were pronounced, such
Mississippi, Philadelphia, Balti-more,
ami even Constantinople.—
In its proniinei.ii inn the maiichine
showed its Vienna origin by a
marked foreign accent. It was
made to count and speak iu three
languages—German, French and
English. It was particularly hap-py
in I in man. For Freuch a mask
was put over the mouth-piece, and
tubeS connected with the uose so as
to produce the peculiar nasal toue i",ew an<1 keeP "•«• w'th the grow-necessary
iu accurate French pro- '"K prosperity of this great conn
nnnciation. It said: "Jfistffoir*, try—.Jrew North State,
comment roiu portes rout T Mercie UNDER Tin? BANKRUPT ACT
cy, though they lacked i>erfect dis-tinctness
iu articulation, and were
delivered slowly, with a painfully
hollow and monotonous tone. It
said: "I was born iu Vienna iu
1841, and my inventor was Profes-sor
Faber;" aud at the conclusion
apologized for its imperfections by
saying: 'Thank you, gentlemen,
for your attention. I hope you are
satisfied with the little talking ma-chine.
You must not expect too
much of uie. My modulation is not
perfect, because I am a machine. I
essanes • • • • not to exceed
in value the sum of 9500.00.
All the wearing apparel of such
bankrupt and that ot his wife and
children.
The uniform, arms and equip-ments
of any person who has been
in the service of the United States.
Such property as is exempt by
the laws of the United States Jrom
attachment or seizure or levy on
execution.
UNDER STATE LAWS.
Personal property of the value of
thing aud never grunt nor groan, fm, verv *£l and l*£* J;herefore 9BO0.W, to be selected by the bank-
. . . .. • ■ \T * UlU YOU "(MM - .\.>. -\.ht'ii rim*
&?«&£
but she won't compel imse worth a -
cent. I told herl had no pertikler
u-e for Greeley aud that he was a
darned old infatyated humbug, but
that our paper belonged to the
great unterrvlidc, uns.itistide.trans- '
morgrilide Democratic party and'
must keep iuto line. She sed some |
remarks about paiiers lyin by the
day aud by the week, aud about
selt-resiicct and independence and
the like, and I grew meek like Mo-bid
you good-bye. Adieu." rupt.
11 h.- practice of ses, iu a few miuutes." •
SouTSaW. ■2£"42 u,i,.'ke8 tbe |,ape"r■'•"a*";
-'tln-ir ptofce.iou-it0,al") TRUTH' for a motto and
-> nl servicesio the work up to it. I told her it would
y-yfi A-^ citizen, of \m a dangerous ex|M!iiment, but
aml'lli'e'e'u'r'ro;;.,. 8,,e "S" '* ,,as "PVer l"'''" "'<•<>
try. due or the other of thorn IJ**- '' ' wasent aleered the little
be found st their office on Arps would perish to death duriu
up »iairs, entrance Bait the experiment I would try it. Old
lory reference given, if desired JJ,,i"lk ■•?■ »'" ca"'' '*> worsted for
he has tride lyin lor 20 years aud it
won't pay. He says it would be
from respective patron
past twelve or fifteen yoara.
daring ih«
•A3:if
Concerning Collars.
A correspondent urges the geu-eral
introduction ot wooden collars,
for the following reasons:
1. The present huge CollarobokeS
the horse in the snminer and chills
him through the lungs iu the win-ter.
2. A collar made olwhite bass or
other light, tough wood, would
never heat, gall or chill a horse.
3. Experience has demonstrated
that a hard, wooden surface, pol-ished
and kept clean, is the safest,
coolest, best and healthiest collar
ever used.
4 They will only weigh one-third
as much as ordinary collars, and
unite haines and collar in one. >'o
rough surfaces are worked up; uo
STOP AT THE
VAHBOROUGH HOUSI!
Kalelgh, Is. C.
Ii W. Ulacknfll. Proprietor.
Smith's New Hotel.
KKIDSVILLE, Jf. C.
Hn.rd l.^O Prr Day.
| ).iii.iiur:i ol out Friend, and the Piib-
■ Solicited.
uisr 7:tf
sweat is absorbed to cook or scald ;
an episode in the press, a kurositv, i fresh air passes around the collar,
something like a elephant or au evaporating the moisture and keep- u,t'r"'K tllc Ilamo « Jesus,
eklipseor John Robinson's Great ing the skin dry ; hair is not chafed "ur.viiig with the feet to the
OiretM." _^_^___ ami fretted, and the horse's health '
■ =^ I is freed from the encumbrances of
Somnambulism on a Train. ' collar disease. As illustrations of
Tha - ■- u,™ „e .v_ ,s.i.- : tne superior quality of a hard, non-ssit-
au.i.tt, goHneesotsh.he^Tfoililowing .t1hrilnl-ing absorbent surface on a horse's 8holll(lel,s> be „rt.H<.11(s tba t,)1|()w.
ing instances : During the war it
was found necessary to remiive an
equipment factory iu the South
five hundred miles. The number
of collars for 1 be teams employed
were m.-ulli n-nt by forty, wliich
were made of wood, polished aud
tied ou by ropes through each end.
At the end of the tiresome journey,
all the horses aud mules that used
the ordinary collars were severely
galled, nearly ruined, aud lor a
uufit for ser-aoeoaot
of a lady that stepped from
adying train ar. night, while asleep,
• "lout rrieudiSBd Pub-la"JJ"f,Dfd uuhu"-:
in- vl lnle the train bearing the ex-
Hablef connected with the Hotel cursionists to Greensboro was run-
1. W. SMITH,*: «. ; ujl t lul, eU tatTO1 AuK„sU
L1 •'"'_ and Atlanta, Ga., the wife of Mr.
ri,t\n:Rs IIUTKI. j Joseph Holder arose from her seat
PIIIN llouNe IN pleasitnllilocal- in the car, and going to the plat-ed
mi Baal street near the Court form, deliberately stepped off the
!!:;;;::'l:!,li:;i.,"er^,iu"" ^ «.»«■ ,*»****, ** —
THE TABLE asleep at the time, soon discovered
yi supplied w,.h the best the mar- '.,,r abl»»«»i a"d began searching , loug t>me r«.„,ainetl
i 1111* t'AV lilt' llt'I' Iillt llllillkln •>• (•■..! " ...
Burial With the Feet East-ward.
_ A correspondent asks : "Can you
give any information iu regard" to
the custom of burying tbe dead
with their lares to the east, how
far this custom extends, aud upon
what tradition or idea it rests 1"
In reply we copy from Chambers'
Encyclopaedia :
The custom of venerating the
east was perpetuated by the early
Christian church from various cir-cumstances
mentioned in the sa-cred
record. It was said that
Christ had been placed in the tomb
with his feet towards the east, and
at the day of judgement he should
come from the eastward iu the hea-vens.
From these various circum-stances,
the building of churches
with the chancel to the east, on
and
east,
were introduced as customs in the
church It is a curious instance of
the iiivertency of popular custom,
that iu Scotland, where everything
that savored of ancient usa"ge was
set aside as impish by the reform-ers,
the practice of burying with
the feet to the east was maintained
in the old churchyard, nor is it un-common
still to set down churches
with a scrupulous regard to east
and west In modern cemeteries,
in England aud Sotlaud, uo atten-tion
appears to be paid to tho old
punctilio, the nature of the ground
alone being considered in the dis-position
of graves.
the car for her, but unable to hud
her, he supposed she had been
, thrown off the car aud probably
killed. The conductor was imme-diately
informed of the circum-stance,
but could uot be detained
vice: while those that wore the
wooden collars were ungalled and
ready for work as usual. Several
planters, also, beiug uuable to pro-cure
collars during the war, made
them of wood, and conducted their
ket Hilordi
THE STABLES
Are ■nctlw»rgeoftti«ftil ami attentive hoat*
itiH and IHP pmina urv ttparvU iu auy ron-pec,
to n'nd.-r L-n.sis ooufortaMe.
cil to the l'lalil.-r
plied with the boat
uciiinu tune. JUT. rioiuer and sev
M-i„n„.,„,,Mvanc«, can be Holder was found, after having m"V'"'^ more con,forta,,Ie
1
than
-i..t.-.1 with Good Teams. been several days and nights iu the ; <• . h2,. V3*8 gloves
u low. ,f „„i i.,wor than anj j woods. When discovered ah« «-,.» ' ,or lU Protection. (This every far-
' ' almost starved and^frozen She I *? ^" """^
stated to her husband that she
uier»is always sup- -...- Unwth ni Hmu oo k. .1, ,„ „-. ! '"em ot - "«- » behii'd fine0' IfeaWdSlsd i" ! S*ff*» ™ZL?* -"*«-
eral young men laid to their mules aud horses.
...cly Proprietor. and yoke are
Iron bows are
factured at Baltimore.
(i. The ox bow
I V N \ TT « F I tuonKht she was at home aud mere6 I ',r°°f t0 ,he point' J l U L 1\ H U U S fc, iy sapped out ef the house. How : ","5E? uf?' t
Mai. sir..,, Salisbury, N. C. •"• escaped U-iug dashed to pieces ' in V U"rd ^^}£* {onn'1 a 'llace
uooueisble to tell, as the train I -" horae. colIar*- ahe^ are manu-
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL. was running at the rate of thirty
TV 1.1IV DELICACY IX SEASON °,r for,-v lniles P« »onr at the time
she stepped off the platform of the
1 >as*»nger« ami Bscgags Conveyed Fr«» car. She was, however, found tin-
CU"'C ' * lll'WOV PmnrieLr L'"'t' i"0' ****** " KnXeh 0t btai>*> L. s. ui.woN.iropnetor^ up0n her iiersou.
CKXTRAL HOUSE u '
KO. l toe U US STREET IIo'r to Bore Hole* »» Qlau.—\u\
Richmond, Virginia, „.r?.^!..too,.wl,1.cat *•"• *'»"
Tanning Sheep-Skins With The
Wool On.—About every six weeks
we have au iuquiry as to the best
method of tanning sheepskins with
the wool on, for use as door-mats,
. rugs, &c. Here are the directions:
hard steel tool will cut glass with , Tack the skin upon a board with
great facility when kept freely wet the flesh side out, and then scrape
T,'.; f'Tr
rl',-*i"'L'"ir5ing' *' W'tb camI>hor dissolved in turpen-' with a blunt knife: next rub it over
.JMIHIO,.,, wiX*8. V&Ti icuor.' l\m\ A,dri!' ",ay bo U8ed' or even ' harU wi,h I'-l^rized chalk until it
and Cigar*. IfealaataU hour, oiaton ' uaua "lone. A hole may be . will absord no more. Then take
jtyle. l). j. MccoHMtcK, jead'l.Y enlarged by a round file.! the skiu from the board, and cover
??i r*««»r-_ The ragged edges of glass may also ' it .with pulverized alum : double
B. 3ST SMITH be thus smoothed with a flat file.! half way over with the flesh side in
[Formerly of Guilford.j * ''lat wln<low glass cau be readily ' contact; then roll tight toge.her
(iroeer&CommissionMerchant 2?«il tM!-""!
1"a": by ; and keep dry for three days, after
UucVv \ P °nant ' ,e »ld of this solutiou. In short, ! which unfold it and stretch it again
the m.«t !«..»,!- g]aaa cau be . on a board or door, and drv in the
L)Ka! X£JZS%£%S)l^f^L^*** f8 wood, air/amfirwilfbe'remiylbr "use".-
i '. v. t, j l*. h.juore, tobac.-'i, ,
1.. or a specialty. nov 13:3mpd
the use ofcutting tools kept con-, American Artisan.
i stantly moist with camphorized oil! _____
lot turpentiue.
Multitudes axe starving in Corea
A Warning.—Under the head of
'■epizootic warning," the Baltimore
Sun gives the following paragraph
to its readers:
A man by the name of Becker,
who resides ncary Quarryville,New
Y'ork, owned a couple of horses
that had the distemper. In clean-ing
out the mangers, tbe other
day, the virus came in contact with
a flesh wound on bis hand. In a
short time his hand and arm be-came
so terribly inflamed and swol-len,
they bad to be amputated.—
Soon after the amputation he died
Persons owning horses cannot ex-ercise
too much prudence in this
respect, as the matter from this dis-teinper
is rank poison to tbe human
.system. ^^^^^^^^^
Sa»safra».—It is said that an oila-ment
made of sassafras chips and
lard is death to all vermin, and was
much used in hospitals during the
war. It is also said that bedsteads
made of sassafras wood will never
be infested with bugs, and that it
bows tor cattle, or the parts of their
stalls nearest to them, and the poles
ot hen-roost are manufactured of
this wood, the animals will
not be troubled with lice —
We presume the ordor of this wood
may be sufficient to warrant some-ting
like the results of which he
siieaks, on tbe same principle which
camphor or cedar trunks will pro-tect
garments from moths.—Farm-er's
Gazette.
So many people are leaving Italy
for the United States that the Gov-ernment
is at last provoked.
From the Ralaigh Hews.
The Insane Asylum
The Report of the Board of Di-rectors
and Superintendent ot the
Insaue Asylum of North Carolina
for the official year ending October
31,1872, is before us. We take the
following extract from tbe Superin-tendent's
report:
The total number ol admissions
since the opening of the Asylum on
the 22d day of February, 1866, is
993; the total number of discharges
for tbe same time is 760; of whom
244 were cured; 88 improved : 167
uuimproved, and 267 died, leaving
uow uuder treatmeut 233.
Upon the whole number of ad-missions,
the per centage of dis-charges
has been 76.53 ; of cures,
24.77 ; of improved, 8.86; of unim-proved.
13.81; of deaths, 26 28.
Upon the whole number of dis-charges
the per cent age of cures
has been 3210; of improved, 11.-
57; of unimproved,21.97; of deaths,
34.34.
At the date of my last report
there were in the Asylum 127 males
and 118 females. Of the numerous
applications for admission, we have
been able to make room for only 24
males and 19 females. The high-est
number at any one time was
130 males aud 120 females; lowest
number 118 males and 112 females.
The whole number under treat-ment
during tbe year wae loliuales
ami 138 females, making a total of
289. V
There have been 32 males and 23
females discharged during tbe year;
of these 9 males aud 5 females were
cured ; 8 males and 1 female im-proved
; 9 males and 5 females in
a stationary couditiou, and U males
and 12 females died.
UjKin the whole number in the
Institution the per centage this
year of discharges was 19.09 ; of
recoveries, 4.82 ; of improved, 3.12;
of uuimproved, 4.82 ; of deaths, 6.-
23.
Upon the number of admissions
during the year, the per centage of
discharges was 127.90: of cures,
32.55; of improved, 20.93; of un-improved,
32.55 ; of deaths, 41.86.
Upon the number of discharges,
the per centage of cares was 25.45;
of improved, 16.36; of tin improved,
25 45; of deaths, 32.72.
Of admissions during tbe year,
the cause ot disease is reported to
have been meutal in 12 cases, phys-ical
iu -.'. and unknown iu 9. The
form was Mania in 43 cases, Epi-leptic
Mania in 3, Melancholia ia 6,
and Dementia iu 8.
but no trace of it was
The Ttmes says:
The years passed on, and with
their lapse men's recollection of the
circumstance faded away. Lafay
ette died in 1834, and for a space
of forty-eight years the stolen watoh
bore an unknown history. At the
end of that time, but a few days
ago, a gentleman residing in this
city, while visiting Louisville, at-tended
an auction sale at a junk
shop, where, strange to relate, he
found among the articles offered a
watch, which, upon examination, he
discovered to be tbe long lost watch
of Lafayette.
Suffice it to say that be eargeriy
purchased it, and as quickly form-ed
tbe resolution to transmit it to
the family of General Lafayette,
now residing in Paris, pending
which transmission, however the
gentleman has brought it to bis
home, and has consented to its ex-hibition
for a few days at E A. Ty-ler'tfjewelry
store, on Canal street
The Watch is open-faced, of gold,
with a double case, and may be re-marked
as of a peculiar appearance,
being of ouly ordinary sire, but
uearly as thick as it is wide. The
outer case bears upon its surface
carved figures, in bat relief, repre-senting
the picture of Mars offering
a crowu to tbe Goddess of Peace,
who is surrounded by her emblems,
while over sll appear the stern im-plements
of war, hung high out of
reach. On the inner case appears
the yet clearly legible inscription:
• "G. Washington
To
Gilbert Mattiers de Lafayette,
Lord Cornwallis's Capitulation,
Yorktown,
Decb'r 17, 1771."
On the covering of the works is
seen the maker's name—E. Halifax,
London, 1759.
be Pfkideatisl
lraat%nd Wil
The Presidential Election.
The returns of tbe
election show that O
son electors have been chosen by
thirty 8tates, having 294 votes ;—
aud Greeley and Brown electors
by seven States, baring 7a votes-amajority
for Grant and Wilson of
222 votes.
The following are the Grant and
Wdson States: J»
Maine, 7
New Hampshire, S
Vermont, 5
Massachusetts, 10
Rhode Island, 4
Connecticut, 6
New York, 35
New Jersey, 9
Pensylvama, 29
Delaware, 3
Virginia, 11
West Virginia, 5
North Cs«wW, 10
Sooth Carolina, 7
Florida, 4
Alabama, 10
Mississippi, 8
Arkansas, 6
Ohio, 22
Indiana, 16
Illinois, 21
Michigan, 11
Wiseonsin, 10
Kansas, 5
Iowa, 11
Minnesota, 9
Nebraska, 3
Californi, 6
Oregon, 3
Nevada, 3
Total, 294
Tbe following are the Greeley and
Brown States:
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Flour Without Millstones.
A machine for making flour with-out
the rise of millstones, has just
been started in England. Tbe grain
is crushed by one thousand little
trip hammers attached to the prop-er
machiuery to produce the result
desired. The new machine is very
cheap and does up its work in a
most scientific manner. The flour
produced is said to be far superior
to that obtained by gringing. A
pounding mill costing one thousand
dollars, will prodnce as much flour
every dav as an old fashioned mill,
costing $5,000. The new mill is
very simple. When a hammer is
out of order you can replace the
same for a tew cents. For four
thousand years millers have pro-duced
flour by griuding tbe grain
with stones. The new idea gives us
a new departure. What results it
will produce in this country remains
to be seen.
Industry of Birds.
Some curious statistics about
small birds have recently been laid
before the House of Commons. The
thrush is said to work from 2:30 iu
the morning uutil 9:30 iu the even-ing,
or nineteen hours. During
this time he feeds his young 206
times. Blackbirds work seventeen
hours. Tho males feeds the young
44 times and females 55 times per
day. The industrious titmouse
manages to spread 417 meals a day
before its voracious offspring. Ac-cording
to oue naturalist, their food
consists largely of catopillars.
These statements, and a hundred
more quite as curious, were made
in au eloquent plea for a law to
protect amall birds from being
snared and shot. Unfortunately,
although the speech seems to prove
that they are really the allies, in-stead
of the enemies of the tarroer,
the old prejudices against them
were strong enough to defeat the
bill.
An expedition
gainst the slave.
is organizing a-
The Largest Bee Hive in the
World.
In Los Angeles county, on tbe
eastern slope of tbe San Francisco
range of mountains, and in the im-mediate
vicinity of the Learning
Petroleum Company's oil region,
there is the most wonderful collec-tion
of wild bouey in existence.—
The hive is located in a rift, which
penetrates the rock to tbe depth
probably of 160 feet. The orifice is
30 feet long and 17 feet wide; four
passages.
Tbe rift was discovered to be tbe
abiding place of a swarm of bees
that is represented as coming out
in a nearly solid column one foot in
diameter. Certain parlies have en-deavored
to descend to the immense
store of honey collected by these
bees, bnt were invariably driven
back, aud one man lost his life in
the effort. Others have, at the ex-pense
of ranch labor and money,
built a scaffold 125 feet high iu the
hope of reaching a place whence
they could run a drift into the rock
and extract its well-horded sweets,
bur. finally ceased their work.
Within four years tbe bees have
added not less than fifteen feet of
depth to their treasure, as ascer-tained
by actual measurement, and
it is thought that at the present
time there cannot be less than 8
or 10 tons of honey in the rock.
A man named D. Bropby lives in
a cabin not far from the spot, and
obtained from the melting of tbe
honey, by tbe son's heat, more than
enough for bis family requirements.
All through that region immense
stores ot wild honey are found in
trees, in the rocks, in uearly every
place where its industrious manu-facturers
think—for bees seem to
think—that it is secure. Tbey cou-sume
a very small proportion, as
the climate enables them to keep
np operations nearly every day in
the year, and flowers of some sort
are always in bloom. It must be a
very severe season indeed, when
the little fellows are not seen abroad
in vast numbers, busily engaged in
their melitluous work.—San Fran-cixco
Commercial Herald.
Maryland,
Georgia,
Louisiana,
Texas,
Kentucky,
Tennessee,
Missouri,
8
11
88
13
12
IS
Total, 72
New Tax BUI. .
For kissing a pretty girl one dol-lar.
For kissing a homely one, two
dollars. The tax levied in order to
break up the custom altogether, it
being regarded as a piece of inexcu-sable
absurdity.
For every flirtation ten cents.
For every young man who has
more than one girl, five dollars.
Courting iu the kitchen, twenty-five
cents.
Courting in the parlor, five dol-lars.
Conrting in romntic places, five
dollars and fifty cents thereafter.
For a girl giving a young man
the mitten, three dollars.
For every young man giving his
girl tbe mitten, five dollars and cost
of suit.
Seeing a lady home from chnrcb,
twenty cents.
Faiiing to see her home, (five dol-lars
and cost.
Birmingham. Ala., is soon to
have several large iron furnaces in
operation. The immense mineral
wealth of that city is attracting
capitalists from Europe and tbe
North, and very soon we may ex-pect
to see a manufacturing city
spring np there surpassing any-thing
of the kind in tbe Southern
States.
A New Railway Line.
A narrow-gauge railway line of
considerable pretensions has been
projected slong the Atlantic sea-board,
and charters have been ob-tained
in three States, with author
ity to consolidate, providing for a
line of three feet gauge from Norfolk
to Charleston by way of Wilming-ton,
N. C. It is the ultimate inten-tion
to extend tbe line to Washing-ton,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and
New Y'ork, and both northern and
southern capitalists are said to be
interested in the enterprise, and it
is added that surveys will soon be
begun. It is the expectation to
build tbe line in a very substantial
style, to stock it well, and to make
a running time of thirty-five miles
an hour, which is at present an im-possibility
on most of tbe southern
lines, in consequence of their being
chiefly single-track roads, poorly
built, little patronized, and deficient
in means to provide adequate roll-ing
stock and other facilities. As
tbe southern lines are chiefly of
gauges from five feet to five feet
nine inches, and, therefore, have
all the expensive character of the
wide gauge without the great busi-ness
requisites to make it pay, it is
obvious that a first-class narrow-gaugfj
line, well maintained, would
be a great desideratum on the south-ern
seaboard. It is not presuma-ble
that existing monopolies any-where
in such a country can be per-manently
maintained.—Netc York
Evening Post.
Ahore the World—A flpoag-in
the Clouds.
Basse! Fuller, tbe young balloon-ist
who made such a suoeesaful as-cension
tress ROOM last Sjdarday,
describes bis trip as fafpwtffor (he
readers of the Osrvwr\
I stepped into the carat 4 P. M.
and The beantituT uSe^DaSS
"Chenango" mounted nusjeeticaOy'
into the upper regies*. I leoked
around me: the scene bad changed.
Westward I could see OoeidaLake,
looking like an Irregular-surfceeof
silver. I looked below; the earth
had become eae vast jstaia, the pre-dominant
color of which was green,
laid out in squares, interspersed
with glittering, crooked streams,
and the tints of tbe forest, which,
at this season of tbe year, are of a
reddish brown. In a circle of
about one hundred miles I could
see cities and villages—fairy places
tbey seemed to me, however, some
of them looking no larger than my
baud. Ia a very few minutes no
living objeohawas distinguishable.
I passed th_mgh a. great white
cloud. On tterging from it T1
the earth again, ft see
fecUy Itfel: every object bad
ed. I heard a faint whistle from a
locomotive in the great gulf below.
_Jh|Aellojn turned around. I had
enuged currents of air, sad was
still rising. I looked at my watch,
(it was ten minutes past 4,) and
noticed that it was snowing. In
five seconds I was above the snow
again. The balloon tamed, and I
had mounted, through another
thick range of clouds. I bad com-pletely
lost sight and hearing of
the earth ; all was silent. The sun
was shining brightly above; below
me, forming an irregular concave
surface, were great pearl-colored
clouds having tbe appearance of
rocks loosely raid together. This
view was enchanting, but I eonld
not long enjoy it. Soon I felt a
ringiug sensation in my bead. I
seemed to be suffocating. My
breatb came short and hurried- I
attempted to open one valve. I
noticed that the valve-cord was stiff
wiih ice. Tbe valve refused to
work, aud 1 knew that it was fro-zen
; hut something must be done,
sod that quickly. I wonnd both
tbe valve-cords around my arms
aud sat down, bringing my whole
weight to bear upon them. I heard
something snap. Little drops of
Ice came through the balloon, strik-ing
against my face, and I knew
the vulve was open. Tbe gaa es-caped
with a whizziug sound, and
I knew that I was descending. I
came down very rapidly, breaking
off one side of a small apple-tree,
aud tearing the balloon badly, on
the farm of Mr. Reese Jones, near
New Hartford, lauding at twenty-five
mmntes past 0. Plenty of as-sistance
was at hand. I ceuld
hardly walk for a moment, my feet
were so badly chilled. I cut from
the valve solid pieces of ice half an
inch thick. I carried no ballast,
anchor, or rope on this trip.
A Corpse Gets Out of the Cof
fin and Speaks to the
Watchers.
A few days since a young lady of
Crbana, Ohio, who bad been ill a
short time, died, and tbe body was
prepared by sorrowing friends and
attendants for interment and plac-ed
in a coffin. Tbe night before
the day of tbe funeral a number of
young lady watchers were seated
in a room adjoining that in which
the coffin had been placed, when,
greatly to their consternation, the
figure of tbe dead girl appeared be-fore
them and spoke faintly. When
tbe honied attendants bad some-what
overcome their fright, seeing
that tbe supposed corpse was really
a thing of life, tbey took measuies
to care for their fnead so starlling-ly
restored to tbem, almost from
tbe very grave, aud she received
proper attention, and is uow likely
to recover.
Little ifew^-A lady correspon-dent
says, in praise 01 undersized
male humanity :
"It is a well known fact that
more intellect, wit, amiability and
loveable qualities have been
found to exist among what are
termed 'little men,' than have ever
been discovered among the large,
sinewy, bony, laxy, stupid lords of
creation."
That is some comfort anyhow.—
A truly great man, according to
tbe idea of au old lady, is one who
"is keerful of bis clothes, don't
drink sperets, ken read tbe Bible
withont spelling tbe words, and eat
a cold dinner on wash-day without
grumbling."
Beecher says Woodhull emptied
a slop pail on his head. That's all.
The first Presbyterian church on
this continent was at Behobotb,
Md., in 1690.
Marriage—An altar on which a
man lays bis pocket-book, and a wo-man
her love-letters.
A Dumber of unemployed Boston
girls are going West.
How a Camel Goes Through
the Eye of a Needle.
The passage from tbe New Tes-tament,
"It is easier for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle than
for a rich man to enter tbe King-dom
of Heaven," has perplexed
many good men, who read it liter-ally.
In oriental cities there are In
the large gates small and very low
apertures, called metaphorically,
"needle's eyes," just as we talk of
windows on ship board as "bull's
eyes." These entrances are too
narrow for a camel to pass through
in tbe ordinary manner even if un-loaded
; when a loaded camel baa
to pass through one of these en-trances
it kneels down, its load is
removed and then it shuffles
through on its knees.
"Yesterday," writes Lady Duff
Gordon, from Cairo, "I saw the
ccmel go through the eye of needle,
that is, tbe low arched door of an
enclosure. He must kneel and bow
the bead, to creep through; and
thus the rich man must humble
himself."
Cancelling Registered Tobaooo
Stamps.
WASHIHOTOH, November 19.—
Upon the petition of several large
tobacco manufacturers to be allow-ed
to use a band-stamp to imprint
their respective names upon regis-tered
tobacco stamps, instead of
writing tbem, tbe Commissioner of
Interual Ueveuue has so far modifi-ed
the existing regulations as to al-low
that privilege, provided such
Stamps are so made as to give a
fae simile impression ot the hand-writing
of tbe manufacturer of his
own or bis firm's name as written
iu bis or their ordinary transac-tions.
Direct application to the
Commissioner must be made to use
such a hand-stamp. At the same
time samples of the facsimile im-pressions
proposed to be used must
be presented, which are to be kept
ou tile in the Commissioner's office,
together v. ith tbe applications ana
a list ot the names of tbe manufac-turers
to whom such permits have
been given.
The Latest in Suicide.—Tbe latest
novelty iu suicides comes from
Cleveland, O., where an individual
who bad drawn a blauk iu a lottery
went to his death after the follow-isg
unique and elaborate prepara-tions
: He first procured a loaded
revolver and connected it with
clock-work, so that it would be fired
oil at a certain time. lie then got
into bed, and, after placing the pis-tol
behind bis ear took a dose of
chloroform. Under tbe influence of
the narcotic be then went asleep.
At tbe given time the clock work
pressed tbe trigger, discharging the
pistol and launching the slumberer
into eternity. This device is an ac-cession
to tbe plain self shootings
and hangings of ordinary suicide,
and in its mechanical merits seem
neater, if not quieter, than tbe guil-lotine.
-mmm^———m—.
Carlotta Patti holds a strong hand
at euchre.
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