The Greensboro patriot [January 28, 1874]

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Established in 1824. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1874. {New Series No. 307.
Business Cards.
"W. IB. S'A.K,R,A.I^
Walch-Maker,
Jeweler & Optician,
Ureeuaboro, N. C,
Which
Has constantly on hand
a splendid assortment of '
Fashionable Jewelry,
ami some splendid'
H'ulcnea and Cludca,
will be wold CJhou.ii for < '11..I1:
Professional Cards.
,i MI M i„ JOHN S. SI M'I.KN.
LNHALL & STAPLES,
><;\\:\ S AT LAW,
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■ C..MI-- run >ii. u.K-k-r*
Mulches. Clock*, Jewelry, hewing Ma-ehines,*
ad Pistola repaired cheap ami on i«li«»rl
notice. Call opposite tli« Express Office,
Booth Elm Street. 10-ly
l-tV1" An Hmted KtrK-k of Guns, Pistole,'
Cartridges, Be., always OS hand.
Cabinet Maker, Undertaker,
ami
"Wheel-Wright,
Corner of D-wfa MM! ByoMnon Sti#rtt*t
Qrcentboro. S. C
ETC A™.Sk,cp,afu,l,in«of
Canes,
- .1 the Slate, Mid to
North of Court House,
i IIOS. ti. KBOOH,
HALL & KEOGH,
ATTORNEYS A T" LAW,
■ A Lindsaj lUiiUling,)
i XSHOKO, N. c.
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,i i.s. .1. I. SCAI.KS.
SCALES SL SCALES,
Attorneys at Law,
Greensboro, N. C.,.
I, Si aeaiidFederalCourts.
1 the Probate
laiu County i.i Wenlworth
! .■, . M LI...;.III. jauluttiop
H'uliivl and ItoM-wood L'OIUIIH.
which eun In, lurniahed and delivered
within two hours' notice.
A good Bean* always in readiaeea. A
good line of
BED-BOOM FURNITURE
on hand or made at abort notice.
Picture Frame*
Made on short notice, from either Gilt,
Walnut or Mahogany Moulding.
Repairing of Huggies, Carriages, Ac, a
specialty.
ty Countrv produce good as cash,
feh l:ly
Law,
i:\l.l-ll GORRELL,
iiiinicj and ( oiiiiMllor at
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tOlt IN BANKRUPTCY,
Greensboro, N. C,
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Dillard,
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' Giluior.
& Gilrner
; . HtN \.\ S AT LAW
IN IIANKIMTTCV.
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D. A. SL R. F. ROBERTSON,
Surgeon Dentists.
ii t\ ,: _; a.>si>c:a
i.-il i lirniHelvoa
in ilit> prat in- of
DKMlhTRY,
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IIAYII1 SCOTT,
Jeweller and Watchmaker,
N-.rth Kim St.. Baal lid* of the Court Hoot
Will Work for Half-Price
In repairing Watches,Clock) and Jewelry,
■pril £>:1;
X. II. II. WILSON,
UFr.'&HR.IINSlKANl 1GEX1,
Greet ilmro, S. «'..
!.ri:r..-;.N rs Hmt-cia u .> u •>
with all aggregate •.MJ..IL,: of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
and ran earn a full lineal lair rates.
I i Office, ;;;■ atairaovei \\';.-...i & Sho-
Der'a llaiiU, uii.In theelli,-iein au|iorviaion
M. II. Illl.f-.
who will al all times be glad to wait on
all who desire either
Life or Fire Policies.
mar 14: ly
Chas. G. Yates.
MANtTACI IKIIU OP
Tin. Sbeel lra>n*Copi»«)r Ware
VMi dealer in Ury C.....U. Ilata, Boot! and
Shoe., Wood Ware, Lamps, Crockery,
uid Ulaaa Ware, Grooer>a, Moves, andaa-sorted
Goods, generally. No. Sl South Elm
Si i. GreeueborOfN.C. Guode aold krw lor
nib, or barter. ian l'.i:ly
N. II. I). WILSON. CHAS. E. SHUIIKK.
nil.Mli & Ml OH I It.
BANK 1<: K S ,
GREENSBORO, -V. ft,
(South Elm Street, opposite Express Omee.
BIV and sell Gold and Silver, Bank Notes,
State and Government Bonds, Bail Hoed
Stocks and Bonds, dec.
IV K" ••>•" MoiieV oil deposit subject to
SIGHT CIIKCK: and allow ialeresl
in kind upon lime deposits of CURRENCY
OT SPECIE.
L>i*,c<)iiiit Ifiisim-HN I'ni>or:
ollcetiuns made at all aeecssJUe iwints.
S,|.t. Ii'-rli. ly
..i tin
PLASTER'S HOTEL.
t'hls UOUMC i« i>lea«inltj l.»<-al-
1...-I Street near the Court
ail) for ttio recepti on o
- ..ML I; avelers.
Til K TABLE
tppl . .1 « >th the best the mar-
THE STABLES
Mid illTtllllvr IM'HI-
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«tn < uiul'oi table.
i r uuifi - IB olwaya nop-
'in- iK-ftt Wiius, Liqnon and
LIVERY STABL.ES
attache«l tu tins Hotel,
i-sltinj; roiivevancea, can !»•■
4.(HMI Iraui^.
mil lower than :»">■
JOHN T. KKESK,
Proprietor.
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE MILLION
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WATCH-MAKER, JEWELER AND
< ipnCIAN",
fla.ll South Klin SI lot. Greensboro. N'.C.
AS a beetatifnl etook of Wateken,
I locks, Jewelry, Plated Ware, l'is-ila,
Cartridges, Notions, Ac All repair IT
warranl A large and tin
Gold) I'ens.
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J. A PKITCHETT,
CABINET-MA K E R .
Fii.n'ititic /ir-i'ri- mid / ndrrtaker,
ANNOI'NCI - • itizena "t
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The South.
BY FATIIKH ).\,N.
Yes, give me the land
Where the ruina are epread,
And the living tread light
On the heart of the dead ;
Yes, gi. ,• me the land
That is blest by the duat,
And bright with the deeda
Of the down-trodden joat.
Yea, give me the land
Where the battle's red blast
Has Hashed on the future
The form of the past,
Yea, give me the land
That hath legends and lays,
That tell of the memories
Of long vanished days.
Yes, give me the laud
That hath st,,ry and song,
To lell of the atrife
Of the right with the wrong ;
Yes, give tue the land
With a grave in each spot,
And names in the graves
That shall not be forgot.
Yes, giveme the land
Of the wreck and the tomb;
There's grandeur in graves—
There's glory iu gloom :
Tor out of the gloom
Future brightness is horn :
As. after the night,
Looms the sunrise of morn.
And the graves of the dead,
With the grass overgrowu.
May yet form the footstool
Of Liberty's throne ;
And each simple wreck
In the way-path of might,
Shall yet boa rock
In the temple of Kight.
wooden road at a mncu lower figure
than I have done.
Perhapa the greatest satisfaction
in building one of these roads is the
Wooden Railroads
As wooden railroads are begin-ning
to attract attention we insert
the following wliieb we find in the eafie wiu, - w^ . ^ changed
Newben Time*, as a matter of in-'.
terest:
I >r..\i; SIR :—A nhort description
ot the wooden railroads, as now in
us,- iu Canada, and I Ibink also in
Ohio, may be interent'iig to many
to an iron road, as its traffic in
creases; the iron rails taking the
Mr. Calhoun aa a Prophet -
The Currency.
Oh the 22d of March, 1838, fol-lowing
np his ideas, he said:
" I now undertake to affirm poei-a.
iWfr ■"*. ***—* *» *■—.»»
place of\he wooden ones by simply ' Jb
f
at l ™u te "»««di "hat here
laying them so that their laces are ' Sr2LA b»t
f
8Ugge8ted' "•»? ? paper issued by Government with
the simple promise to receire it in
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OP AT THE
WHBUROIGH fitOUSKlJ.
Ualeigb, X. C.
<•. IV. Blatknell, Propfctor.
I to t'aililsb. ;i
(uli'INS ..I any siyl.
andOiaTftaJfine hears.-1..1 the nee
Al' orders f, . r'uruiture, C. tt;
, H-. - i i.iinptly attended t...
charges.
Any market ible produci '. ■• n in
t'„r work, ifdelirered at my s!n.|
eiile street. , . ,
Work carefully packed ai-.l delivered at
the depot Free o/ Cl.ar.je. JaB.7,-Iy.
I return my tlianks la the public for the
very liberal patronage bestowed lor the past
-.'li years, and pledge a continued aabrt to give
satisfaction. ■ _
Regular Eating.
IIalf of all the ordinary diseases,
says Dr. Hall, in his Journal uf
Health, would be banished from civ-ilized
life, iiittl dyspepsia become
almost nnknown, if everybody wo'd
eat inn ilu-iee :i day at regular
times, Httil not an atom between
meals, the intervals being not less
than five hours, that being the time
"to digest a full meal and pass it out
of the stomach.
If a person eats between meals,
the process of digestion of the food
already in the stomach is arrested,
until ibe last which bus been eaten
is brought into the conditiou of the
former meal : just as, if water is
boiling and ice is put in, the whole
ceases to boll until the ice has been
melted and brought to the boiling
point, and then the whole boils to-gether.
But it is a law of nature that all
food begins to decay after exposure
to heat and moisture for a certain
time. If a meal is eaten, and in
two hours another, the whole re-mains
undigested for seven hours,
before which time the rOttebiug
process commences, anil the man
lias bis stomach full ot carrion—the
very idea of which is horribly dis-gusting.
As, then, all the food in the stom-ach
is in a slate of fermentive de-cay,
it becomes unlit lor the purpos-es
of nutrition and tor making good
pun blood. Small wonder it is
that dyspeptics have such a variety
ot symptoms and tubes, anil com-plaints
in every part of the system,
for there is not one drop of pure
blood in the whole body; hence the
nerves, which feed on this impure
and imperfect blood, are not prop-erly
nourished, and, as a conse-quence,
become diseased. They
'complain' they tire hungry—and
like a hungry man—are peevish,
fretful, restless. We call it nerv-ousness,
and Ho one ever knew a
dyspeptic who was not restless,
fidgety, and essentially disagreea-ble,
fitful, fretful and uncertain.
The Stomach is made up of a
number of muscles, all of which are
brought into requisition iu the pro-cess
ol digestion. But no muselc
can work always. The busy heart
is iu a state of iierfect repose one
third of its time. The eye can work
twice in a second, but this could not
bo continued five minutes. The
hands ami feet must have rest, and
so with the muscles of the stomach.
They can only rest when there is no
work for them lo do—no food in
the Stomach to digest. Even at five
hours' interval, and eating thrice a
day they are kept constantly at
work, from breakfast until the last
meal is disposed of, usually 10
o'clock at night. But multitudes
eat heartily within an hour of bed-time;
thus while oilier portions of
the body are at rest, the Stomach is
,,' i;.-; I laboring until about daj li^lit,
and made lo begin again tit break-
| last time No wonder is it that the
stomach is worn out—has lost its
i power of action. Many girls be-
1 come dyspeptic before they are out
I of iheit teens, in consequence of be-ing
about the house, and nibbling
at everything they lay their eyes on
that is gootl to eat.
use iu Canada, and I think also in i flngh_ ^ VOodeu whwled^care f."1*? Iss,ne<! b>' Government with
Ohio, may be interesting to many be used until completed worn ' ^"'T I"""-"* S ""£* " in
of your readers as it is especially ou, p D rjLARK 'JJ g ' a" ,t8 "nes, leaving its creditors to
suited to a thinly settled and well New Berne B C Jau 6 1874. take it or gold and silver, at their
wooded country, such asoars, either ' ' ' ' option, would, to the extent that it
as a main line, or as a feeder to an
iron line already laid. All attempts
at wooden railroads iu our State,
are simply the old strap-iron road,
minus the iron bars, and as the car
wheel and rail have not beeu
adapted to each other, the abrasion
of the latter has rapidly rendered ■gj'^JltomeBS
them unfit for use. The construc-tionjof
such as have come under my
observation, has been to lay 3 by i
or at best 1 by 0 scantling on cross-ties
from 3 to 4 feet spcrt, securing
the rails by treenails. The cars
used are provided with the ordinary
iron wheel, which splinters aud
wears the surface of the rails to
such an extent, as to render them
unsafe for use in a few months,
while the originally light construc-tion
unfits the road for any mote*
except animal power.
The new style of road resembles
thisiu nothing but the use of wooden
rails. The roatl bed is first gradetl
as thoroughly as the expected traffic
will warrant. On this crossties are
laid every 8 or 10 feet. The rails
are logs as large and long as can be
conveniently handled. These are
roughly squared, and each crosstie
is notched into the rail and secured
by a wooileti wedge. The Upper
surface of the rail is dressed to pre
sent an 8 inch lace and the. inner
edge sufficiently to give a linn bear-ing
for the llange ot the wheel.—
After the rail is iu a position the
earth is firmly tamped under i:s
whole length: The joints are made
by halving lite rails together and
securing tlu-ui In holts ami treenails.
The wheels oft he ears are four feet
in diameter, and are tnadcol wood,
either built solid to the center, or
•vitb spokes the former being gen-erally
prel'erieil. They are made
of four thicknesses of two inch board
two oi which .lie laid so us to pre-seni
the end of the fibre to the rail,
the other two do this as much
Woman in India.
ami
as possible, but for the sake ot
strength are laid at right angles to
the first. The llange and centre
are*of cast iron, aud are bolted to
the « heel. The axal is ol iron, and
the beating the same as tbose used
on the ordinary railroad except that
they are usually inside the wheels.
The engine is made as light as con-sistent
with the work to be done,and
its weight rests entirely on the dri-vers
which have an eight inch tread,
and are furnished with vulcanized
nibber tires. The friction ot rubber
on wood being much greater than
that of iron, ._'ives extraordinary
traction with a weight too small to
crush the rails. It may seem incred-ible
to thosewho have not made an
investigation, yet it is true that
on just such a road as ibis a speed
Of30 miles an hour has been made.
The only trouble reported of these
toads, is that on a very sharp curve
the iron llange is apt to wear the
outer tail, but in our low country,
where there would be but few
curves, this could be effectually
remedied, by having an iron rail on
the outside of each curve, without
adding material!] to the cost of the
road.
The gauge ju!o| ted is so far as I
have beard, I feet 8J inches, and I
can see n\> reason why anj other
•dioiild be used ; with the inside
bearing any narrower otic would, to
say the least, be inconvenient.
Having thus roughly sketched an
Outline Of the road and rolling stock
I will close by comparing the cost
of an iron road with thai of one ot
this sort, wliieb Is capable of doing
as much work, each to be 20 miles
long:
[BOB ROAD.
20 miles at 918,0000 9260,000
1 engine, 12,000
I passenger car, -1,500
II freight ears, 11,000
$300,500
WOODEN ROAD.
30 miles at 91,500-900,000
1 engine, 5,000
2 passenger cars 1,500
L'O freight cars, 7,000
ixehange
fjyette-
ANXUAI. EXPENSES
Interest at 10 per cent.
New rails, repairs (^0
men at tlSOper annum)
Fuel.
9103,500
930,050
3,600
1,200
Interest at 10 per cent,
New rails,
Repairs (10 men at 9180
per auuuui)
Intel,
959,850
910,350
b'00
1,800
800
BlUMHBIlDBaB.
upectfully informs his friends and the
sib icgeoerally that he baa opened al the
JOB WORK
••I I.I Kill Description,
I leeoted in the
VEBV BEST Mi 1.10.
■ fork prices, ... t!„-
Patriot Job Office
public geneiai
M.Iv.r Brick building a
FLOUR,
GRAIX,
BACON,
aud a
OPBSiml € oiuinlKNlon BUSIDCNN.
Liberal advancements made on Consignments,
and prompt attention |»id to same.
Greensboro, Jau. lei, 1874,
Jan. 7, ly.
Horseflesh is still consumed in
large quantities iu Paris. During
the tirsl six months of 1873, 5,180
horses were sold for eating The
heart, liver, brains, and tongue are
eaten like those of the os. The
horse purchased for the market
bring 925 to 930 in gold. This new
trade increases the value of used-up
horses not diseased, by more thau
920 each. So that the wealth of
France is increase by about SO mil-lions
by the use of horseflesh as
food.
Some one suggests, with most
excellent gootl sense, that the im-mense
doorplates worn by ladies on
their belts might be utilized by en-
! graving thereon the wearer's name,
: age, residence; fortune, or cxpecta-
: tious, and stating whether her heart
i is free or engaged.
913,010
If we put interest at 0 par cent.,
instead of 10 percent, we have 944,-
230 as the expenses of the iron
road, and only 99,470 for the
wooden road. Of course such ex-penses
as Kngineers, Conductors,
etc., would be the same for both
roads.
My estimates are founded not on
theory or supposition, but on the
figures of men who have actually
constructed, and operated such
roads. In some cases, 1 have added
to their figures, where 1 thought
them too small for our country-—
The estimates favor the iron, rather
than the wooden road, for Tra.it-wine
gives the average cost per
mile of all the roads in the South-ern
States, as 930,000 instead of
918,000, while a writer in '•En-gineering"
puts the cost of the
Dr. Dull, of Calcutta, in an article
on Indian Womanhood, most
graphically aud thrillingly portrays
her pitiable condition. Our limits
.allow us to refer to only a few of
She is compelled
at the age of ten vents, or earlier,
to marry the husband her father
selects, and her marriage is a signal
for immediate seclnsiou. Of course
the poor cannot shut up their wo-men,
bnt as soon as one grows rich
or respectable he begins to hide his
female relations from public view.
A high wall and an inner apart-ment,
exclusively for the use of
women, proclaim his rising fortunes.
Away from the street, all respect-able
females must live in dingy,
prisou lite apartments, with the
smallest possible number of doors,
which through their narrow bars
admit no sight seeing bat such as is
afforded by the firmament, or a
stagnant tank, or an ill cultivated
garden.
It is thought improper for a bus-band
to have any social intercourse
with his wife during the day, aud
she is never suffered to eat with
him. Thus deprived of personal
liberty, seldom conversing with
strangers of her own sex, and never
with men, no furniture to care for,
no clothes to make or mend, no
fancy work to interest them, no
tnnsic to practice, no letter to an-swer,
no books to read, they are
doomed to an extremely dull, mo-notonous
and uninteresting life.—
Much of their timeis spent in drows-ing
and sleeping, in smoking and
chewing ttw betel not, in playing
cards and other games, and in
quarrelling and abusing each other.
If a stranger, meeting a respect-able
Hindu, should inquire for the
wife and family ot his new acquaint-ance,
it would be considered as au
insult, never perhaps be forgotten,
and not easily forgiven. Hence,
under this system, there are millions
of mothers, bnt not a single wife,
in the noble, Christian sense of that
term.
And yet the very goal and acme
of misery is reserved for widow-hood.
For this state there is no
pity, no compassion, no sympathy.
It is believed to be a curse, inflicted
for some pre eminent guilt, con-tracted
in some former birth —
Widows are regarded and treated
as accursed by the gods, and he
who helps to make them suffer sup-poses
he is furthering the purposes
of heaven. As soon as the husband
dies, the widow, though she may be
l only a child of seven years, or un-der,
is divested of her ornaments.
and rtlie is not allowed to retain
them, even as precious memorials
of the past. She must wear only
coarse garments, and feed on the
coarsest and scantiest fare, never
eating more than one meal per day.
She must not even lie upon a bed.
Two days in a month she must main-tain
a strict fast, and not even
moisten her month by swallowing
her salvia. One ceases to wonder
at the thonsands who annually pre-ferred,
in days gone by, the short
lived agonies of the funeral pile to
the lifelong agonies of dishonored
widowhood.
It is estimated that the number
of railroad ties in present use iu
the United States is 150,000,000.—
A cut of 200 ties to the acre is
above rather than under the aver-age,
and it therefore has required
the product of 750,(Mi0acres of well-timbered
land to furnish the sup-ply.
Bailroad ties last about five
years, consequently 30,000,000 ties
are used annually forrepairs, taking
the timber from 150,000 acres—
The manufacture of rolling slock
disposes of the entire yield of 350,-
000 acres, and a full supply of 500,-
000 acres more every year. It ap
|>ears, then, that onr railroads are
stripping the country at the rate of
1,000,000 acres per annum, and
their demands are rapidly increas-ing.
Paste which will keep unchanged
in warm or damp weather may be
made in the following manner. Put
a teaspoonful of powdered alum in
two quarts of water, and let it boil.
Mix a pint of flour smoothly into a
pint of cold water, and stir it into
the boiling alum water, continuing
the boiling and stirring until the
floor is cooked and the whole is
clear like starch. Add to this
about half a teaspoonful of essential
oil of cloves or cinnamon, strain
through a wire gauze or perforated
strainer, and bottle in wide
would circulate, form a perfect pa-per
circulation, which could not be
abused by the Government; that
it would be as steady aud nuiform
in value as the metals themselves,
and that if by possibility it should
depreciate, the loss would fall not
ou the people, bat oa the Govern-ment
itself; for the only effect ot
depreciation would be virtually to
reduce the taxes, to prevent which
the interest of the Government
would be a sufficient guarantee. I
shall not go into the discussion
now, but on a suitable occasion I
shall be able to make good every
word I have uttered. I would be
able to tlo more ; to prove that it is
within the constitutional power of
Congress to use such a paper in the
management of its finances, accord-ing
to the most rigid rule of con-struing
the Constitution.''
Thus we see that the great South
Carolina statesman foreshadowed
the present national currency, which
has proved to be one of the greatest
of national blessings. But for that
currency this country upon coming
out of the late civil war would have
been reduced to a degree of help-less
ruiu the bare idea of which is
painful.
Mr. Calhonn did not then dream
of so large a national debt as we
now have. He, however, suggested
the Government credit as the best
basis for a paper currency. lie
seemed not clearly to see how
enough of that curreucy for the
wants of commerce was to lie atloat.
His idea was that it could be paid
out by the Government to its credit-ors,
and was to be received again
by the Government in duties and
other payments from the i>eople.—
Circumstances he never anticipated *-ur """•'y rrmting
afforded the way and the basis for The editor ofthe Port Koyal Com-supplying
the country with a na-1 merrial, a Republican pa|ier,but one
tional paper currency—all his pre-dictions
with regard to the credit
and convenience ol which have beeu
completely fulfilled.
The Difficulties of Water-melon
Culture.
" Can the watermelon be success-fully
cultivated on sandy soil, in a
rural town of 4,000 inhabitants, and
a Theological Institute located near-by
containing 120 boys studying for
the ministry t~ This question ex-cited
considerable comment and
load discussion among the agricul-turists
present at the meeting of
"The Hayseeds" in Cleveland, and
nearly an hour aud a half was spent
in discussing the same. Au old
green grocer who had raised early
and late vegetables tor the market
for twenty years of his earlier life,
said he could raise melons ou top
of a barn, or on a billiard table
even, let him pick the locality and
his neighbors. It was not so much
the soi I uor season that the melon
depended upon for its perfection, as
it was the peculiarities of the in-habitants
of the country round a-bout.
Where there was en excess
of colored citizens, it was almost as
impossible to raise a paying crop of
melons as it was to keep spring
chickens unless they roosted at night
in a Herring's safe. Then again,
colleges have had a bad effect upon
the melon crop, and even a minis-ter's
family of seven boys has been
known to blight a large patch in a
single night. In sections ofcountry
where these drawbacks exist, the
speaker had learned that the only
method lo insure a full crop of
melons was to station a man by
each melon from the time it was the
size of a hen's egg until it ripened.
This was expensive, but the result
was always gratifying. As the
fruit grew in size and approached
ripeness, the speaker had some-times
found it necessary to station
two guards over each large melon,
and even then, in committees where
a too great fondness for these lus-cious
products existed, he had
known of the iusides of a large wa-termelon
being stolen and de-voured
when two men with clubs
were seated ou a shell or rind, en-gaged
in friendly converse.—Dan-bury
Xetei.
: tate from issuing free pssssi Oosv
t-reesnen and others heretofore
I jMtag these paasss have received
circulars from the different Pennsyl-vania
roods notifying theaa of the
fact. ManyoftbepiincnpulraSroada
oftheWest have agreed amoogtneas-selrea
to issue no more free tlninf,
and have so notified Cocsgraaaaae**.
members of state Legislaterea, sat
others concerned. As well remark
ed by a prominent Pennsjlvanian,
most of those who have been ac,
tomed to free riding over MM
roads have less claims on the
[Mirations and are better able tat
pay than those who are not ao favor-ed.
There are parties incapable of
writing twenty lines, claiming the
passes on assumed journalistic con-nection,
whose railroad, erprsss.
sleeping car and other passes would
fill a good sized trunk. But perhaps
the smallest exhibiton of deadhead-ism
extant is to see members of
Congress daily traveling free ia the
five cent horse cars of Washington.
Clean Teeth
If you will only keep your
clean they won't decay, The won-derful
dentifrices which are sold at
fabulous prices are greatly inferior
to a simple mixture of soap and
prepared chalk, with a little some-thing
like orris root: but the essen-tial
articles are soap and chalk.
The druggist will prepare you
enough tor a quarter of a dollar to
last a long time. When you go to
bed, with a broad, soft tooth-brash
go through the month thoroughly.
If disposed to a bad mouth, you
may repeat the dose in the morning.
But the principal article for keep-ing
the teeth clean is a toothpick, a
soft goose quill, which yon mnst naa
after eating, no matter though it ia
a piece of apple, aud it convenient,
after the pick use a mouthful of
water to riuse from between the
teeth what the toothpick may have
left.— I)in Leicit in To Day.
Mr. Calhoun was oue of lhe great-est
statesmen this country has ever
produced, and time only proves the
wisdom and forecast of his giaut
mind—Richmond Dinpiileh.
The Salary Orab Question Set-tled
at Last—It will be seen by
our Congressoual reports from
Washington that the Senate substi-tute
for the House bill iu relation
to salaries has been passed by the
latter body by a vote of 226 yeas to
25 nays. The bill has now only to
receive the signature of the presi-dent
to become the law ot the land.
So the question of the salary grab,
so far as Congrssional action Is con-cerned,
is settled at last. The act
provides that "all moneys appropri-ated
iis compensation to the mem-bers
of the forty second Congress in
excess of the mileage and allowances
fixed by law at the commencement
of said Congress, and which shall
apparently as sincerely opposed to not have been drawn by the mem-the
frauds and extravagauces of the , bm of ,ai(, Co,lgre8g respectively,
State government as the Conserve, t or vbi(.b bavi ^n drawn ^^
in.. . h....t. oi . I, ... .i ..'<•. i. In A i .<... _ *
The
The Salary Bill-
Senate substitute for the
House bill repealing the act of last
Match incteasiug salaries was a-dopted
by the House on Tuesday,
as reported in our telegraphic news.
The vote iu the House. 220 lor re-peal
to 25 against, fairly indicates
the influence of public opinion on
the present Congiess in this mat
ter. An approximate statement ol
the amount saved by the passage of
this bill is as follows: Vice Presi-dent,
92.0(H): .Speaker of House,
9'J.ooo ; seventy-four Senators* at
92,500 each, •185,000; 293 Repre-sentatives
at 92.500each, 9742 500 ;
ten Territorial Delegates, at 92,500
each, 925,000 : Secretary of Senate
and clerks and employees in his of-fice,
912,350; Clerk of House of
Bepresentatives and employees in
his office, 911,310 ; mail Barriers
and fore- in document room, 92,-
520 : amount saved annually in sal-aries,
99.S2.092. Prom this, how-ever,
must be deducted the amount
to be paid for mileage to Senators
and members, the Old mileage rates
having been restored. The fifteen
per cent, increase allowed to the
entire host of committee clerks aud
oilier employees in the Capitol, a-mounting
to over $100,000 yearly, is
also repealed by the act as now
passed by both bouses.
The salaries untouched are those
of the President and the Justices of
the Supieincnie Court.— iVii. Atar.
tm
mouthed jars, which should be cork-ed
to keep out dust.
i ive sheets are.bas written to a nnm
her of treasurers of wealthy North-ern
States to ascertain the expendi-tures
for public printing last year,
with a view of comparing them with
ours. He has received replies from
the States of Iowa, Massachusetts, I
l'ctmsy h ania, Ohio aud Maryland.
The sum total of the cost ol public
printing in the five States was
9.385,1,'15.95. The total amount ap-1
propriated by South Carolina was |
liecn returned to the Treasury, are
hereby covered into the Treasury
of the' United States and are declar-ed
to be the moneys of the United-
States absolutely, the same as if
they had never been appropriated
as aforesaid." However, tbose
who have turned over their extra
pay may congratulate themselves
that the act is fully legalized, and
those who have held on to it may
ease their telling popular verdict
9450,000.00. or nearly 979,000 more j B„aiII8t the republican party. In the
than the five wealthy States com-bined.
Iu Iowa the printing cost 9121,-
(H1H, including the publication of the
laws iu all the papers of the State,
which expense, the Treasurer says,
will row be avoided by abolishing
the custom.
In Massachusetts the sum paid
was 989,700.30, including some ex-traordinary
working amounting to
about 120,000.
event of this verdict what will be
the party policy of General Grantt
He will be free to follow the will of
Ibe people on their "new departure,
and from present indication he is
getting tired of the dictatorial and
capricious radical leaders of the
republican party.—-V. Y. Herald.
The Washington Chronicle does
not relish an article receutly pub-lished
in the Virginian, iu which
Iu Pennsylvania the amouut paid , '"""' irty l "'. ,UB,. "gB - "
._.,.--' ' Hughes is called '.he Simon Gil
was ai'•»•;"•■'.*' „ .it our State. It says :
II Maryland^ only Democratic ! "A>'J«""?~.»"»« ««■*
State beard from, ,he cost was only ^ wU^&a^ti.^tj-
" The aggregate population of the.se opinion a very good "'»"•"
tiv,. Staters between nine and ten l '" dtee0«£i Arnolds,, treason,
millions, Xore than twelve times ! «""!' >/'•>'* "«*». « "1J ?,d "*"
greatter ban that of South Carolina, , reminded by a com,,aniou._that the
tahncdrpthreop^erty^more^thanSthirt^j tune^* ^^^^^^^ i(>i'usc()| I|I(I(.(M,mI(.nr(< YeSi ^
gregate assessed valneHif
rty raon
that of this State.
In Texas, when the stage is
crowded, members of the Legisla-ture
are thrown ont to make room
for the honest yeomanry.
The national debt of Italy has
reached the respcctablo amount of
9807,472,020, aud they all feel cor-respondingly
blessed.
A lady wished a seat. A portly,
handsome gentleman brought one
and sested the lady. " O, you're
a jewel," »aid she. " Oh, no," ho
replied, " I am a jeweler. I have
just set thejewel."
Paris is now enjoying a curious
street exhibition ot tame pigeons.
The owner has a portable pigeon
house, which he plants at a street
corner, the Hock being at liberty to
remain in or out. Having taken up
his position, the exhibitor blows a
trumpet, and off fly the whole fiock
a quarter of a mile or so, settling
eventually on housetops aud win-dow
sills'. Another peculiar Wast,
and back they co As they ap-proach,
the Frenchman holds tip a
small red Hag. That red Hag is for
one particular bird, which knows
his color, and settles upon the staff
as the showman holds it horizon-tally.
In like manner are blue,
white and parti colored held up,each
one of whicli seems the exclusive
property or signal of a particular
bird, and on which that especial
bird,which meantime has been wait-ing
on some, window legde or house-top,
settles. ^^^
Who says the Chiuesc are not
civilized? Wooden nutmegs can-not
beat the following, which is
well authenticated : Adulteration
of tea has become so common in
China that out of 183,000,000
pounds which passed through the
British customhouse in 1872,during
the month of July alone, "a sanitary
commission found 10,000,000pounds
utterly unfit for human consump-tion.
In a single chest a magnet
brought oat forty-three per cent, ot
the whole in bits of iron colored
green." ^^^^^^^__
The Ohio State penitentiary last
year cost 9152,103, while from con-vict
labor and other sources its re-ceipts
amouuted to 9174,450, leav-ing
a balance of 922,228.
The late John Stuart Mill was a
precocious boy. He began Greek
when three years of age, read a
good deal of Plato at seven, and
began to write what he called "Con-stitutional
History of Rome" by
the time he was nine years old. He
began logic at twelve, and went
through a complete course of polit-ical
economy at thirteen, and he
was a coustant writer for the
Westminster Review at 18.
An enthusiastic angler writes
that some of the hot springs of the
Yellowstone region are situated so
near to the margin of the Yellow-stone
lake that a person might stand
prni the rim of the spring, extend his
fishing rod into the lake, catch
trout weighing from one to two
pounds, and cook them in the boil-ing
springs without removing the 11,550,000, and over 1,300,000
fish from the hook.
lion, and wc ask that paper to re-member
that wo are not half so
harsh in our denunciations of
Hughes the radical, as was the
Chronicle aud other Radical papers,
on Hughes the Democrat.— aVcr-foOt
Virginian.
The Xext Cotton Crop.—A. can-vass
having been made of the pre-vailing
estimates of the coming cot-ion
crop among members of the
< 'otton Exchange. 124 estimates are
j found to give an average of 4,100,-
1000 bales, the estimates ranging
from 3.700,000 to 1,000 000. A cot-ton
merchant of New Orleans,
familiar with the subject, says that
the estimates published last week
of the number of bales which will
lie received at the |Kirt of New Or-leans
will reach before June 1st,-
1,200,000 bales; liefore July 1st,-
" bales
-.V. Y. Journal
A worthy Quaker thus wrote: "I
expect to pass through this worltl
but once. If therefore there be any
kindness I can show, or any good
thing I can do to my fellow human
being, let me do it now. Let me
not defer or neglect it, for I will
not pass this way again."
by September lat-er
Commerce.
A young man at Austinj Nevada,
the other day made a serious mis-take.
He bought a nice dress pat-tern
for his sweetheart and a pair of
red flannel drawers for himself. He
delivered the wrong bundle to the :
young lady. Result: a broken
heart and a ruined frying-pan.
Buss, to kiss: rebuss, to kiss again:
IMuribuss to kiss irrespective of
sex.
Billy-buss to kiss the hand in place
of the lips:
Blunderbuss to kiss the wrong
jierson:
Ginui buss to kiss all promiscu-ously:
! Krebuss to kiss in the dark.
"Ah, Jemmy," said a sympa-thizing
friend to one who was just
too late for the train, " you didn't
run fast enough." " Yes, I did,"
said Jemmy ; " I ran fast enough,
but I didn't start soon enough."
A man in North Adams had
among other property a fine pig,
valued at about 930. This man
owed a small sum to another party
in town, who conceived the idea of
collecting the debt in this wise: He
got a third man to present the
debtor with a small pig, valued at
about 93; and as the law allows
a man bat one pig, under circum-stances,
the creditor attached the
best pig and got his pay.