The Greensboro patriot [February 12, 1873]

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THE PATRIOT
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AT GREENSBORO, N. C ,
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The Greensboro Patriot.
Established in 1824. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1873. {New Series No. 258.
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Business Cards.
J. A Pritchett.
I.'abinet-Maker
Furniture D«tU«
Undertaker
|l„uli
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I percent, additional.
Weekly change. 33 par east. asMhieaaL—
i-.u'i. (Spa cnil. additional.—
IvortisemsnUi changed quarterly when
ordered.
ryobiiuaries, oni ten linn, charged as
advertiseotenUr—payable in sdvsnce.
Professional Cards.
II. Dillard. J«o. A. Gilmer.
Murray P. Smilb.
Dillard, Gilmer & Smith,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
ami
SOLICITORS IN BANKRUPTCY,
,,i.-r liiink *'f <Jrwiisbom. oppottitw
li.-IiiHi.V HoUM*.
PRACTICE in State-»i.il Federal Court*.
■UMlt-M jfiTMi to mattirs iu
taiikruplry. Mid CMWM ariiiiu>/ imoVr Init.r-
,| KfVfiiue, HI I*i*trict Court of Western
S'ortll Carolina. CuUeclious in
_u ,■ i I ederaJ Cotiltl nolicitwl.
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U 1'. MiM.KMiAi.i.. JOIIN N.STAHLJW.
MENDENHALL & STAPLES.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
«. ic 1: 1: >■ * u o it o, N. c.,
Will practice in llic Courts of Guilford.Kock-
,111. Davids FofSjthe, Stoke., Ran-uid
Alsiuance: also. I,". .S. Circuit and
i.ir- Special attention Kiveu lo
pvli "I lb- BUM, and 10
II uiki uptey.
. .., - <;.*>.1 North . f Court House,
fi \j
RALPH GORUELL,
\lloriicj aiid Councilor .it Law.
ANNOUNCES to th« citnens ol Grant
boro and Guilford Connty that h. is l>el
tar prepared now than ever to provide them
with
UNDERTAKING.
Ha ia prepared to furniah, at TWO HOURS'
NOTICE, Coffin* of any style, and haa a
fin. HEARSE built expreealy for th. use ol
An" orders for FURNITURE, COFFINS,
Ac..promptly attended to at mod.rat. cbargaa.
Any narketable produce taken in exchange
j for work. fab 22: ly
WIVI. COLLINS7
Cabinet Maker, Undertaker,
and
Wheel-Wright,
Corner of Davis and Sycamore Street*,
Qreetuboro, N. G,
A LWAYSkeepsa full Hue of
Metalic and Catt Burial Cit.srs,
Walnut and Rosewood Collins,
which can be furnished and delivered
within two hours' notice.
A good Uearae alwaya in readineea. A
good line of
. BED-ROOM FURNITURE
on hand or made at abort notice.
Repairing of Buggiea, Carriages, die, a
specialty.
CS" Country produce good as cash.
few lily
Greensboro N.
in 1
|l„\ lilsou, Guilh
la 1 Unoe, N
. mil House.
.-,,-. H i„ collecting
< -» cobinrirfed lo hi* care.
•::.i-".ii>
C
rts ,f Alnmance.
;1 Bod ltaiulolph. ami
■ Law Bow on
J. E. O'Sullivan,
Tin Plate & Sheet IronWorker,
DKALKK IN
Pl.ulahed, Japanned * Stamped
TIN WAKE. STOVES,
PUMPS Li liiniiiL-Koda, ic; Stencil Plates,
BRASS CHECKS,
in Mtnj.llT
.!. If. Mullen
Clark & Mullen,
AttomeyH A.t I .aw,
HALIFAX, N. C,
I III VI I ICE iu all ibe Court.
M.Li tin, Northampton and
f..r Hotels, SaliH.na. A,
, Gas Pitting, itooting. Guttering.A
! exwilletl.
1 M*milianta are invited to examine my at -^k
before purvhaaiug elsewhere. * pm %&itj
A J. HKOCKMANN,
Manufacturer of Cigars,
SOUTH ELM STREET,
KEKI'S conataiilly on baud a larRe Bti*k
of I he finest cigars, of Havana and do-mestic
leaf; also tineat branda ot Smoking
III ill.' ■.n|,r,.|iie Court of Moffll
i 10 the federal Courts,
■vtioiia made in all [ nris of NortL
mar 14:ly
n . .. mil. Tims. n. KEOOH,
i:\l.I. .v KEOOH,
ATTORNEYS A T LAW,
1 p ataira, new Lindsay Building,)
0BKCXSB0KO, N. C.
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1 M.tiCALKS. J't- SCiLKS.
SCALES & SCALES,
Attorneys at Law,
Greensboro, N. C,
IaltACTICEin the Slate audFederalCourta.
A. M. Scalea will allend the Probatei
irl ol Ko. kinghan County at W.ntworth
!-• Moudayeferery luouth. janli:Cmp]
i 111- -in irai , •"-■ «•"■■ ———————a —" a.
''. "*'"*_, Tobacco, Snuff, Pipea. Cigar-Holdera, and
Edgecombr ^.l^,^ tUtk of muaical iuatrumenta.
He keep, conatantly manufacturing cigar.,
and can promptly fill order, on aborleat no
lice. jan 25:ly-pd
Watch-Maker,
Jeweler & Optician,
Creenaboro, N. C,
Haa conatantly on hand
a splendid assortment or
Fashionable Jewelry,
and some splendid
ll'.i.'i-'.rj and Clocks,
Which will be sold Cheap for Catah!
D. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON,
Surgeon Dentists.
Having aaaocia
. ,1, ,j y tod themselves
►VA*. -'»/'-■ in the practice of
■ h Oi /■^J'l DENTISTRY,
V*^=' nsfiB__ *" res|Mxtfully offer
rrfM?rrr'"r tlieir I,r"(eM'0D-i-,
■ T '"^ al service* to the
If ? ■"' VVi citizen, of
y y4ts.-*>* V Grooiiaboro,
aud the aurroun-iiiiuiy.
One or the other of them
can always be found at their office on
Lindaaj 's corner up stairs, entrance East
M irkot Street.
S:il i>l.n-lory rtl'rri'iice givon, if desired,
friit 11 ruepeetive patrons during the
reive or fifteen yearn. 213:tf
STOP AT THE
VVHHUHUIGH HOUSE!
Kalcigli, N. C.
!i W. Blaeknell, Proprietor.
Smith's New Hotel.
! _TWatches, Clocks, Jewelry, SewingMa-chinM,
and Pistol* repaired cheap and on short
notice. Csll opposite Ihe Old Albright Hotel,
. East Market Street. 10-ly
I tf~ An aasorted stock of Gnns, Pistols,
I Cartridge*, 4c, always on hand.
DAYID SCOTT,
Jeweller and Watchmaker,
North Elm St., East aid* of the Court House
Will Work for Half-Price
Iu repairing Watches, Clocks and Jewelry.
april ■-'.'.:ly
HEIDSVLLLE, N. C.
Board I.0O l'rruay.
, 1 _, ol nut Friends and the
Stables
mar ~ 11
r phis House
1 rd in Kasl
Puh-lic
Solicited.
I nilh the Hotel
.1. \V. SMITH i CO..
I'i.ipri stor.
.♦.\Tr.lfS HtlTEI..
Is [>liii«;iiill.t ln«;il
Streel near the Conn
foi the reception o
- .,::.! rravelers.
THETABLE
- if plied Witt, t li«' bust the m»r-
1 iiia.
THE STABLES
An-1?', liai ge i-t. :n«-l"ul and attentive host-la
an "pari'd in any nm-
1 .1. 1 jsaeata r-nnfurtahle.
, TH:E sj^tt
Attached t.. the rumor* in always -up-plied
with the best Wiuea, Liquor, aud
LIVERY STABLES
H.1.1 ,i-- :> been atUehed (o this Hotel,
and umrtieii wishing frnTjrano—. can be
A- 1 iitnoiLiiiil with i-ood 'l'eains.
( v Prices as low, il'nut l«-wi-r than any
: botel in town. JOHN X. HKESK,
Propri»tor.
N. H. D. WILSON,
LIFE & FIRE INSURANCE AGENT,
Greensboro, N. C,
REPRESENTS flr«t-cla*» Compsniec
with an aggregate capital of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
and oan carry a fall line at fair rates.
i QTOffice, np stairs over Wilaon dr. Sho-wer's
llauk, under the efficient supervision
of
W. II. llll-l-who
will at all time* be glad to wait on
all who desire either
Life or Fire Policies-mar
14:ly
Ghat. 6. Yates,
MASl-FACTl'RfcB OK
Tin. Micii Iron ii Copper Ware
Ml dealer 111 Dry Good*, Hats, Boots and
noes. Weed Wave, Lamps, Crockery.
..n.li.ias- Ware, flrocei.ea, Stoves, ami as-aorted
ti«»ls. generally. No. 21 South Elm
Street, u>esnsuoro,K.C. Goods sold low for
cash, or barter. jan 19:ly
DUYDEN HOUSE,
Main Street, Salisbury, N. C.
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL..
EVERY DELICACYIS SEASON
Pgers and Baggage Conveyed Fret
ol Charge.
C. S. BKWON. Proprie tor
I.KXTIUL HOUSE
NO. lliid MAIN STREET,
Richmond, Virginia,
mRANSIENT Board, with Lodging, |1
X INtrday. Hoard per week, $.',.
•applied with the Finest Liquors
Meals at all hours Oyater*
fj style. D. J. McCOKMICK,
July HOilji Prot.rietor.
As
For the Patriot.
CHILDREN.
Tho' the task of the day may weary,
Yet eve brings a season of bliss, •
When the children com. ont to the gate
way
And welcome m« home with a kiss.
They always have something to ten me
A. *oon as I enter the door,
That gives me a nerve when at labor
And soothes me when labor is o'er.
And when I ait down by the hearth *tone,
As I gsze on the bright, glowing flsme,
The children all gather about me,
And sweot voices whisper my name.
And the little soft arms that encircle
My neck, at the close of the day,
Is a token they do not forget me
When the day's work doth call mo sway
HENRY.
J ami attempted with snch earnest-
; ness to become acquainted with bis
1 new suns and daughters that he set
i the whole one hundred and twenty-
"Bishop!" exclaimed Potts.—
''Bishop, what Bishop I"
"Well, you see, there were fifteen
of Mrs. McGrath and eighty-two
five and the Uins to crying, while children,and they shored the whole
his own original fifteen stood j lot off on old Potts. Perhaps you
around and joined in the chorus.— , don't know him F
Then the Bishop went out and sat | The Bishop gave a wild, unearth-on
the garden fence to whittle a ly shriek, and went into a hysteri.
stick and solemnly think, while cal fit, and writhed upon the floor
Mrs. Potts distributed herself as if he bad hydrophobia. When
around in twenty-three places and he recovered he leaped from the
BISHOP POTTS.
BY MAX. ADELEE.
Bishop Potts, of Salt Lake City,
was the bnsband of three wives,
aud the happy father of fifteen in-teresting
children. Early in the
winter tho Bishop tleteruiiued that
his little ones should have a good
time on Christmas, so he concluded
to take a trip drown to San Fran-cisco
to see what he could find iu
the shape of toys with which to
gratity aud amuse them. The good
Bishop packed his carpet bag, em-braced
Mrs. Potta one by one, and
kissed each of her affectionately
aud started upon his journey.
He was gone a little more than a
week, wheu he came back with tif-1
teen beautiful month organs in his
valise Cor his darlings. He K«t out
of the traiu at Salt Lake, thinking
how joyous and exhilarating it
would be at home on Christinas
morning wheu the whole fifteen of
those mi HI tii 01 cans should lie in
operation upon different tunes at
the satne moment. But just as he
entered the depot he saw a group
of women standing in the ladies'
room, apparently waiting for him.
As soon as lie approached, the
whole twenty of them rushed up,
threw their arms about his neck
and kissed him, exclaiming :
'•Oh, Theodore, we are so-glad
you have come back ! Welcome
home! Welcome, dear, dear Theo-dore
! Welcome once more to the.
bosom of your family!" and then
the entire score of them fell upon
his neck and cried over his shirt
front and mussed him.
The Bishop seemed surprised
and embarrassed. Struggling to
disengage himself, he blushed aud
said:
"Really, ladies, this kind of thing
soothed the children. It occurred
to the Bishop while he mused out
there on the fence, that he had not
enough mouth organs to go around
among the children as the family
now stood; and so, rather than
seem to be partial, be determined
to go back to San Francisco for one
hundred and forty-four more.
So the Bishop re-packed his car-pet
bag and begau again to bid
farewell to his family. He ■ tender-ly
kissed all of Mrs. Potts who were
at home, and started for the depot,
while Mrs. Potts stood at the vari-ous
windows and waved her hand-kerchief
at him—all except the
woman with the warm hair, aud
she, in a state of absentmindedness,
held one of the twins by the leg
and brandished it at him as he fled
down the streets.
The Bishop reached San Francis-co,
completed his purchases, and
was just about to get on the train
with his one hundred and forty-fonr
mouth organs, when a telegram
was hand him. It contained infor-mation
to the effect that the au-bnru-
baired Mrs. Potta had just
had a daughter. This induced the
Bishop to return to the city for the
purpose of purchasing the addition-al
organ.
On Ihe following Saturday he re-turned
liome. An he approached
his house, a swarm of young cnil
dren flew out of the front gate aud
ran toward him, shoutiug:
"There's pa I Here comes pa !—
Oh, pa, but we're glad to see you!
Bally for vm !" etc.
The Bishop looked at the chil-dren
as they flocked aroutid him
and clnng to bis legs and coat tail,
and was astonished to perceive that
they were neither his nor the late
Brown's. He said :
"You youngsters have made a
mistake; I am not your lather,"
antl the Bishop smiled good-natur-edly.
"Oh, yes, you are, though!" —
screamed the little ones iu a gener
al chorus.
"But I say I'm not," said the
Bishop, severely, and frowning ;—
"you ought to be ashamed of your-selves.
Don't you know where the
little story-tellers go i It is scan-dalous
for yon to violate the truth
in this manner. My name is
Potts."
train and walked back to San
Francisco. He afterward took the
first steamer to Peru, where he en-tered
a monastery and became a
celibate.
His carpet-bag was sent on to
his family. It contained the bal-ance
of the month organs. On
Christmas morning they were dis-tributed,
and in less than an hour
the entire two hundred and eight
children were sick from sucking
the paint off them. A doctor was
called, and be seemed so much in-terested
in the family that Brig-ham
divorced the whole concern
from old Potts and annexed it to
the doctor, who immediately lost
his reason, and would have
Encourage Tour Mechanics.
The Atlanta. Conitit%tvm has the
following on this subject, which ia
full of good sense,and we commend
it to our people. Oor mechanics
are one of the most useful and in-dustrious
classes ot our people, and
do us much,or more, towards build-ing
our city than »ny other :
Do not send abroad for help; if
you have work to do, when it can
be done in yonr own town. Eu-courage
your own honest, indus-trious,
faithful mechanics. They
need all the work they can get.—
By such a course you keep money
at home, assist the worthy, and
have just as good work performed.
It is the way to make your town
prosper—to support your own
schools, churches and press. Where
there is a disposition to send a hun-dred
miles for an article that, to
say the least, could be manufactur-ed
as well at your own door, there
! will always be little or no business
; done in that place. The churches
will be thinly attended and all
kinds of labor extremely dull.—
Wherever machanics are the best
»uum u.iki- butch-eredthe
entire family if the «_. i employed, prosperity is seen ; the
haired woman aud the oldest boy
had uot marched him off to a Inna
tic asylum, where he spent his time
trying to arrive at an estimate of
the number of his children by cy-phering
with an impossible combi-nation
ot the multiplication table
and algebra.
social virtues predominate, and
kindly, brotherly feeling is experi-enced,
which is the source of uu
speakable happiness.
Whatever you have to be done,
look around and see if your me-
' chanics cannot do it. If you have
a bouse to build, or a shoe to tap,
or a saddle to be made, tiu ware to
: mend, a house to paint, or a pack
of cards to print, just look among
your home folks before you send
1 abroad, and if there are none in
town capable of doing the task, it
will be time enough to look else-where.
It ia a wrong idea to think
nothing is serviceable that is made
at home We know of many an in-stance
where men have refused to
purchase work made by their
neighbor, and sent to a distant city
for the articles which they needed,
and paid a third more for them,
when behold they have been manu-
> factured aud sent away to sell by
the same neighbors of whom they
refused to purchase.
Let the motto of all be, "I will
encourage my own mechanics." In
i turn you will be encouraged also —
A mutual feeling of good will and
kindness will spring up in your
midst, and prosperity will bo ob-
1 servable iu every street and in every
dwelling.
"Yes, we know it is," exclaimed
, well enough-it is teberestiog the oiSY<lren-«we know it is} sod
B must t>e __ . fcv— ;« «.... ....«.» t«..»
N. II. D. WILSON. CHAS. E. SIIOIIKI
WILSO.% & MIOIlllt
BANKERS.
OREENSB0R0, N. C,
(South Elm Street, opposite Express Office.
BUY end aell Gold and Silver, Bank Note.,
State and Government Bonds, Kail Koad
Stock, and Bonda, dec.
Csf Beoeive Money on depoait subject to
SIGHT CHECK; and allow interest
in kind upon time deposit.ofCUKKENCY
or SPECIE.
lli-ionni Business l"*»per!
Collections nude at all accessible points.
Sept. 16tb, ly
B. 23". SMITH,
(Formerly of Gailford,)
Grocer&CommissionMerchant
Charlotte, N. C.
DEALER In all kind ol oonntry prodnee,
such as grain, flour, meal, bacon, lard,
butter, eggs, poultry, fruit*, liquor*, tobacco,
die.
Flour a specialty. nor 13:3mpd
and all that; but there
some kind of a—that is, an awk-ward
sort of a—excuse me, ladies,
but there seems to be, as it were, a
slight misunderstanding about the
—I am Bishop Potts."
"We know it, we know it, dear-est,"
they exclaimed in chorus,
"and we are so glad to see you safe,
safe at home. We have all been
right well while you were away,
love."
"It gratifies me," remarked the
Bishop, "to learn that none of you
have been a prey to disease. I am
filled with blissful aereuity when I
contemplate the fact; but really I
do not understand why yon should
rush into this railway statiou and
hug me because your livers are ac-tive
and your digestion genx!. The
precedent is bad ; aud it is danger-ous!"
"Oh, but we didn't!" they ex-claimed
iu chorus. "We came here
to welcome you because you are our
husband."
"Pardon me, but there must be
some little—that is to say, as it
were, I should think not. Women,
you have mistaken your man !"
"Oh, no, dearest!" they shouted,
■'we were married to you whilo you
were away."
"What!" exclaimed the Bishop,
"you dou't mean to say that—"
"Yes, love. Our husband, Wil-liam
Browu, died ou Monday, and
on Thursday Brighatn had a vision
in which he was directed to seal us
to you ; aud so he performed the
ceremony at once by proxy."
"Th th-th-th th-thii-thuiider!" ob-served
the Bishop, in a general sort
of way.
"And, darling, we are all living
with you now—we aud the dear
children.''
"Children ! children !" exclaimed
Bishop Potts, turning pale ; "you
don't mean to say that there is a
pack of children, too f"
"Yes, love ; but only one hun-dred
and twenty five, uot couutiug
the eight twins aud the triplets."
"Wha-wua-wba-whatil'yoii say f
gasped the Bishop, in a cold per-spiration
; "one hundred and twen
ty-five ! One hundred and twenty-five
children aud twenty more
wives! It is loo much—it is aw-ful
'." and the Bishop sat down and
groaned,while the late Mrs. Brown,
the bride, stood around in a semi-circle
and fanned him with her
bonnets, all except the red-haired
one, and she, iu her trepidation,
made a futile effort to fau him with
the coal-scuttle.
But after awhile the Bishop be-came
reconciled to his new alliance,
knowing well that protests would
be unavailing; so he walked home,
holding as many of the little hands
of the bride as he could convenient-ly
grasp in his, while the red-haired
woman carried his umbrella aud
marched iu front of the parade to
remove obatrnctiona and to scare
off small boys.
When the Bishop reached the
house be went ronnd among the
cradles which filled the back parlor
and the two second-story rooms,
so is ours; that is, our name, too
since the wedding."
••Since what wedding 1" demand-ed
the Bishop, turning pale.
"Why, ma's wedding, of course.
She was married yesterday to you
by Mr. Young, and we are all liv-ing
at your house now with our
uew little brothers aud sisters."
The Bishop sat down ou the
pavement and wiped away a tear.
Then he asked :
"Who was your father f
"Mr Simpson," said the crowd ;
"and he died on Tuesday."
"Aud how many of his infernal
old widows—I mean how many of
your mothers are tlafre f
"Only twenty-aeven," replied the
childreu, "and there are only sixty-four
of us, aud wo are awful glad
you have come home "
The Bishop did not seem unusu-ally
glad; somehow he failed to
enter into the enthusiasm of the oc-casion.
There appeared to be, in
a certain sense, too much sameness
about these surprises, so he sat
there with his hat pulled over his
eyes aud considered the situation.
Fmaliy. seeing that there was no
help lor it, be went to the house,
and forty eight of Mrs. Potts rush
ed upon him, and told him how the
prophet had had another vision in
which he was commanded to seal
Simpson's widows to Potts.
Then thellishop stumbled around
among the eradles to his writing
desk, where he felt among the gum
rattle for his letter-paper, aud then
addressed a note to Brigham, ask-iug
him MS a personal favor to keep
awake until alter Christmas.
"The man must take me for a
foundling hospital," he said.
Then the Bishop saw clearly
enough that if he gave presents to
the other children and uot to the
late Simpson's, the bride (relict of
Simpson) would probably souse
down ou bim, fumble among his
hair and make things warm for
him. So re-packing his carpet-bag,
he started again for San Francisco
for sixty-four more mouth-organs,
while Mrs. Potts gradually took
leave of him in the entry—all but
the red-haired woman, who was up
stairs, and who had to be satisfied
with a screeching good-bye at the
top of her voice.
Ou his way homo after his last
visit to San "Francisco, the Bishop
sat in ihe car by the side of a man
who had left Salt Lake City the
day before. The strauger was com-municative.
Iu the course of the
conversation he remarked to the
Bishop: ,. ^
"That was a mighty pretty little
affair np there at the city ou Mon-day"
"What affair f asked Potta.
"Why, that wedding; McGrath s
widow, you know—married by
"You dou't say so," replied the
Bishop. "I didn't know that Mc-
Grath was doad."
"Yes; died on Sunday, and that
night Brigham had a vision in
which he was ordered to seal herjto
the Bishop."
What "Credit MobiUer"
Means.
A correspondent asks the mean-ing
of the words "Credit Mobilier."
(Several Congressmen have asked
the same question.) We presume
he wishes to be informed concern-ing
the original derivation aud use
of the term. We will endeavor to
explain it. The "Credit Fonder"
has long been the general title iu
France for associations that ad-vance
money on lauded or immova-ble
securities. The "Credit Mobil-ier"
was the name given to a pow-erful
corporation, organized in
France in 1852,for advancing money
on movable property. The name
was adopted evideutly with the
purpose of affording a ready defini-tion
of the object of the association.
The "Societe Generate de Credit
Mobilier" became a great aud profi-table
enterprise It bad special
privileges under its charter. It as-sisted
materially iu the construe-1
tiou of railways and the promotion Vaccination.
of mining schemes. Among other; . . . ...__.
enterprises in which it was notably The following briejextract is from
interested were tho Government «.«-**»j?._»fc*___! ■**
loan on account of the Russian «» ?"? Surgical Journal upon the
war, the Grand Central Railway | --bject.of vaccination. The Jour-
Company.and the General Omni "»' «« - ™0" Ugh medical anthoiity
bus Company of Paris. At one i ■ «hl8 «___i ■■* *e add ,t,,a'
lime it advanced 250,000.000 francs ; _• prevalence of a malignant type
and at another time 375,000,000 «*■"■*•___ ___, "____S
francs, to the French Government. ™ nnwo*te.l degree of professional
Its business was so great it. 1855 « „.'"'?n..,° 1.1"'8ubJect
!.:
!
that it declared a dividend of 40 per
ceut. on its capital. While it was
manifestly the means of doing
much good in France, it eventually
failed.
The introduction of tho terms
"Credit Foncier" antl "Credit Mo
bilier" into America are due to Mr.
George Francis Train. He estab
Foncier" witl
The following propositions are of-fered
as matters of belief, aud some
of them as matters of recoru :
1st. Without vaccination, one
death in ten from all cases would
be the result of small-pox.
2nd. Without vaccination nine-teen
out of twenty would have
small pox.
3rd. Without vaccination, sixty-
^whierTMr-nwlSl •=■"l~2«=»-* Omaha lands, pox would lie tatal
about the country some years ago.
He gave the name of "Credit Mo-bilier
of America" to a corporation
with universal privileges, which
was organized in Pennsylvania.—
It was appropriated by Messrs.
Oakes Ames, Duraut & Co. to serve
as the party ol the third part in the
famous "triplicate agreement," by
which the managers of the Union
Pacific Railioad let out the con
tract of building the road lo them-selves,
in payment lor which they
modestly took the road itself, all
the United Stales bouds, all the
first-mortgage bonds, etc., at a prof-it
of over 1,000 per cent, on an en-tirely
fictitious Capital This is
what "Credit Mobilier" means, in
the modern American and Congres-sional
use of the word. The title is
not inappropriate. The transac-tion
was literally a Credit on mova-bles—
the United States Govern-ment
furnishing the credit and the
money, and Messrs. Oakes Ames &
Co. taking the movables—that is,
the securities and the profits.—Chi-cago
Tribune.
Domestic Happiness.
Sir Samuel Romilly in his auto-biography
gives a touchiug picture
of his domestic happiness. He says
•'lor the past fifteen years my hap-piness
has been the constant study
of the most excellent of wives; a
woman in whom a strong under-standing,
the noblest and most ele-vated
sentiments, and the most
courageous virtue are united to the
warmest affection, and to the ut-most
delicacy of mind and heart ;—
aud all these intellectual perfec-tions
are graced by the most splen-did
beauty that human eyes ever
beheld." Romiily's affection aud
admiratiou for this uobls woman
endured to the eud, and wheu she
died the shock proved gieater than
his sensitive nature could bear.sleep
left his evelids, his mind became
unhinged, and three days after her
death the sail event occurred w4ich
brought his own valuable lifewo a
close. ____^^___
An editor asked his subscribers
to pay him that he might play the
same'joke on his creditors.
4th. With vaccination, not two
per cent, of the persons will take
the small-pox.
5th. With vaccination, the per
centago of death from smallpox is
only about eight of the two [icr cent,
who will take it.
Cth. A larger per centage of those
who have had small pox will have
the secondary disease than those
who have been vaccinated. This is
to say, vaccinia is a better preven-tion
of varioloid than smallpox is.
"th. Humanized virus is more
likely to take than the origiual vi
ins from the cow.
8th. Humanized virus, whether
it takes or uot, does not produce
such severe constitutional ay tap
toms as primary cow virus doea.
9tb. It is not proved that either
humanized virns or primary cow
virus is the better in its protective
effects. ___a
10th. There are certain, individ-uals
who do not seem susceptible of
variola. .....
11th. There are certain individ-uals
who do not seem susceptible of
vaccination.
12tb. The taking of small-pox
after vaccination is no proof that a
second vaccination would have suc-ceeded.
13th. A successful re vaccina-tion
is no proof that the individual
re-vaccinated would have taken
small pox.
Computing" Interest.
We give a rule for computing in-tere8t,
and it is so simple that every
banker, broker, merchant or clerk,
should post it up for reference.—
There being no such thing as a
fraction in it, there is scarcely any
liability to error or mistake. By
no other arithmetical process can
the desired information be obtained
by so few figures :
Six Per cent.—Multiply any giv-en
number ot dollars bv the num-ber
of days of iuterest Besired, and
divide by sixty, the result is the
true interest on such sum for ruch
number of days, at six i>er ceut.
Eight Per fait—Multiply any-given
amount by the number ot
days upon which it is desired to as-the
interest, and divide by
Making a Fortune.
BY MARK TWAIN.
Samuel McFadden was a watch-man
in a bank. He was poor, bnt
honest, and his life was without re-proach.
The trouble with him was
that he felt that he was not appre-ciated.
His salary was bnt four
dollars a week, and when he asked
to have it raised, the president,
cashier and the board of directors,
glared at him through their specta-cles,
and frowned ou bim, and told
him to go out aud stop- bis inso-lence,
when be knew business was
dull, and the bank could not meet
its expenses now, let alone lavish
ing one dollar ou such a miserable
worm as Samuel McFadden. And
then Samual McFadden felt de-pressed,
sad, aud the haughty scorn
of the president and the cashier cut
him to the soul. He would often
go into the side yard, and bow his
venerable twenty-four iuch head,
and weep gallons and gallons ot
tears over his insignificance, and
pray that he might be made worthy
of the cashier's and president's po-lite
attention.
One night a happy thought struck
him, a gleam of light bnrst upon
him, aud gazing down the dim vista
of years with his eyes all blinded
with joyous tears, be saw himself
rich and respected. So Samuel
McFadden fooled around aud got a
jimmy, a monkey-wrench, a cross-cut
saw, a cold chisel.a drill, and a-boat
a ton of powder and nitro glyc-erine,
and those things. Then in
the dead of night he weut to the
fire-proof safe, and after working
at it for a while, burst the door
and brick into an immortal
smash, with such a perfect suc-cess
that there was uot enough of
that safe left to make a carpet tack.
Mr. McFadden then proceeded to
load up with coupons, greenbacks,
currency aud specie, and to nail all
the old change that was lyiug any-where,
so that he pranced out ot the
bank with over a million ot dollars
on bim. lb then ietired to au un-assuming
residence out ot town,ami
then sent word to the detectives
where he was.
A detective called on him the
uext day, with a soothing note from
the cashier. McFadden treated it
with lofty scorn. Detectives called
on him every day, with humble
notes from the presideut, casheir
and board of directors. At last the
bank officer got up a magnificent
private supper, to which Mr. Mc-
Fadden was invited. He came, and
as the bank officers bowed down in
the dust before him he pondered
well over the bitter past, and his
soul was tilled with exultation.
Before he drove away iu his carri-age
that night it was fixed that
Mr. McFadden was to keep half a
million of that money, aud to be un-molested
if he returned the other
hall. Ho fulfilled his contract like
an honest man, but relused with
haughty disdain the offer of the
cashier lo marry his daughter.
Mae is now honored and respect
ed. He moves iu Ihe best society.
He browses around in purple and
fine linen anil other good clothes,
anil enjoys himself first rate. And
olten now he lakes his infant son
OU his knee and trlls him of his
early lile, and .instills holy princi-ples
into the child's mini, and
shows him how, by industry and
[>erscverancc, and frugality, and ni-tro
glycerine, and monkey-wrench-es,
and cross-cut saws, aud familiar-ity
with Ihe detective system, even
tile poor may rise to affluence and
respousibilty.
rMstteAssMTiUsl
Tobaooo InUro-t at Ws*t«rn
North Oaroliaa
The following is iu reeypon-e to a
note of inquiry addressed oy ■• to
Mr. 8. C. Bhelton, and old Virgin-ia
farmer and tobaeeo niter aod
manufacturer, who now resided near
this place:
ABHEYILLB, N. O Jan. 13th, 1873.
Meun. RoUint 4 Aw ;
GBHTLBMXN.—At your request I
make the following statement in re-gard
to the tobacco interest in Wes-tern
North Carolina. In the year
I860 I commenced the enterprise
by planting about two acres on my
farm near this place. The quality
was good, and the crop equal in
quantity to the new land of Vir-ginia.
The next year, 1870,1 planted a-bont
30 acres and other gentlemen
of enterprise also planted small
crops. The yield for the connty
that year was about 50,000 pound*.
This I bought and it was manfao-lured
and sold in the same markets
and in competition with the stock
produced in Virginia, and the old
tobacco counties ot this State. A
sample of my own crop of that year
was exhibited at the State Agri-cultural
fair aud was awarded first
premium.
The next year, 1871, my crop a-mounted
to 40,000 (lorty thousand
pounds,) while others as far as I
could ascertain to about 200,000
pounds.
Samples of my crop and that of
Mr. W. B. Smith's were exhibited
at the Richmond Va.? Fair, and
took Ihe two first premiums offered
by the Yirgiuia State Agricultural
Society.
I shipped alwnt 130,000 pounds
of the crop of 1871, to parties in
Virginia and manufactured about
40,000. The rest was bought and
manufactured by other parties.
From the best information I can
get, there is half million pounds for
sale now, in the counties of Bun-combe
and Madison alone, the pro-duction
of last year, 1872.
The quality is excellent, and
for tho most part will bring a good
price.
The counties of Cherokee, Macon,
&c, all West of Asheville, as well
as part of Yancey, are aa well adap-ted
to the production of this staple,
as Bnncomlie and Madison, and
perhaps better, and there are thous-ands
upon thousands ot acres in
each of these counties, of as fine to-bacco
land as I ever saw iu Virgin-ia,
aud when ouce developed will
be a source of untold wealth to
Western North Carolina. I am rery
truly yours,
8AMTJEL C. SHELTON.
The Richest Boy in America.
The late Edwin A. Stevens in-vested
largely in real estate in Ho-taken.
The increased value of that
propci t y has made his son immense-ly
wealthy:
The boy docs not aecm to realize
that be ia heir to an estate worth
$40,000,000, aud that in four years
more he will probably be the richest
man iu the world.
When he reaches his majority,
the interest on his fortune will
amount to a larger sum than the
salary of any crowned head in Eu-rope.
It would be realy difficult to
compote what the Stevens estab-lishment
is worth in five years more
A large number of leases of valua-ble
houses and lots at nominal
rents, will then revert to young
Stevens, and he will be the sole
possessor of bonds and other secu-rities
which are now valued at t4,-
000,000. Should he live to the age
of his father, and he be as lucky iu
his ventures, his wealth will be
greater than Roschilds'. The lad
however, seems to be unconscious
of his destiny. He may be seen
daily playing in front of the castle
where his father passed his mature
life.—Trade Journal.
The Prenoh Heir.
Though the sceptre be now a
phantom, sacred precedent requires
that the real bauds to grasp that
shadow must be duly designated.—
It is not likely, however, that any
deviation will be made from tho
line of imperial descent established
long ago, by the mushroom Empe-ror
By the pleibucite of November,
1872, the imperial dignity conferred
on Louis Napoleon was declared
hereditary iu his direct and legiti-mate
heirs; by a lenattu ootuultum,
adopted iu December of that year,
Priuce Jerome Nai»oleon was de-clared
tho legitimate heir to the
throne, in default of other issue.—
Tho son of Napoleon III, the Prince
Imperial, was born iu 1856 and be-came
heir to the dignities of his
lather. By the xrnattu cotuultUM
adopted April, 1870, as careful pro-vision
was made for the succession
as if the Empire was a permanent
institution. It was decreed that
the imperial descent should be from
male to male of Napoleou's legiti-mate
heirs, iu the order of primo-geniture-
Napoleon could adopt
the children and legitimate descend-ants
in the male line of the brothers
of Napoleon I., in default of male
heirs ; and, in default of legitimate
or adopted heirs, Priuce Jerome
and his male heirs were to succeed
tothe throne. Now that throne is not
a s|iecially valuable property; but
such as it is, Napoleon Eugeue-
Lonii Jean-Joseph Bonaparte, now
nearly seventeen years of age,seems
to have the best Bonapartist claim
to it.—-V. ¥. Tribune.
Why is the alphabet like, cutting eerjnln ^^ be
e first teetht Because it is taught, WJJ jf^^ ^ u_e reqmr.
ed, at eight per ceut.
Ten PerCent.—Multiply the same
above and divide by thirty six, and
the
yer (torture) when young.
Why is a hungry boy looking at
a pudding like a wild horse 1 Be-
.aso he would be all the better if I the result will show the rate of in-he
had a bit in his mouth. I terest at ten per cent.
Why is your father's mother like
the tallest soldier t Because she's a
granny-dear.
Women like to marry men by the
name ot William so they can have
a Will of their own.
"Fan bim with your boot," is said
by those familiar with the subject
to the last thing iu slang.
" Lor-a-massy, exclaimed the old
lady in tho witness box, how should
I know anything about a thing I
dunno anything about I"
Mrs. Rachel Stanley, of Virgin-ia,
has 330 decemlants to a cer-tainty,
and several States to hear
from.
The people of Wyoming don't
know whether to call their female
judge a justicess of the peace, or a
justice of thepeacess.
An Old Anecdote Revamped
A London detective put his head
into an omnibus one day just as it
was starting off, with the following
remarks:
"Passengers will do well to look
out for their pocket-books. There
are two members of the swell mob
in this 'bus."
Thereupon a grave looking old
gentleman, with eye-glasses and a
gold-headed cane, hastily got out,
saying :
"If that's the case, I won't go in
this 'bus."
He was followed by a clerical-looking
gentleman, who re-marked
that-be "wouldn't ride in
such company."
And then the detective closed
tho door and shouted out to the
driver:
"All right; drive ou ; they've
got out."
We don't mean to be unkind ;—
bnt really the story is an old one,
and we have no excuse for publish-ing
it except that Senator Patter-sou's
pathetic speech the other day
ubout leaving public life with
pleasure if things were going on ia
this way, and then Brother Har-lau's
following him out with re-marks
in a similar tone, recalled
the circumstance.—V. T. Sun.
Double Surpriu.—A. wife of near-ly
ten years having given her ser-vant
a holiday, was ntteuding to
culinary matters herself, and hear-ing
her husband coming in the
kitchen, thought she would surprise
him as soon as he eutered the door
by throwing her hands over hia eyes
and imprinting a kiss on hia brow,
as in the days ot the honeymoon.—
The husband returned tho salute
with interest, and asked as he din-engaged
her hands. "Mary, dar-liug
where is your mistress t" The
wife discharged " Mary darling"
the next day, and has adopted a
new plan of "surprising" her hus-band.