The Greensboro patriot [June 16, 1875]

              THE PATRIOT
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The Greensboro Patriot.
Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 1875. I New Series No. 378.
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N.H.D. WILSON.
LlFK ii FIRE 1NSI RANCr; AGENT,
Greensboro, N. C,
REPRESENTS i;r»t-clam Companies
with an a-urcc^1" »ptttd of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
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I'. • I . .1 MIX N.Sl AlI.KS
MENDE HL& STAPLES,
EYS AT LAW,
U II ECUIORO, N.C.,
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M \ ii i) WnaoH. CHAS. E. SIIOBKK
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GREKXSliOKO, N. 0.,
(Booth ElmBtrM, opposite Kxpr-s. Oific.-.
T>i;V ami .-II Gold a...l Silver,Bank Notes,
£) Siat- awl Government Bond., Kail Koad
St„vks anil B0«bl, Ac.
O- ReoeiT. Money on depoail _«ni.|«t i"
BIGHT CHECKi and ■"•JJ.JggEgS
in kind upon ii-' fcporflooRJOBlBRCl
" Ti;'.,'!;,...! BMk« »?»»»••■;,
ollec lions made at all accessible points.
Sept. tOth, ly
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^CHAS. 0. YATES."
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iLES &. SCALES,
Attorneys at Law,
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Juo. A. Qilmer.
, ... ird, & Gilmer
Y-. \T LAW
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Court at I > nsboro
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tana ••: money
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POI IMJBE 8 GREGORY,
ft rTORNEYS A T L A W.
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i JOHN \. BARBDfOII.
UOUUELL& liARBINGEB,
AT iiHi-JEYSAT LAW,
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* Courts of
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Wentworth, N. 0.
[I - of Rocking-
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■ Districl Courts at
"W. Ii. Irr-A-^KAA-IR,
WATCH MAKER.
JEWELLER, OlTIClAH
A-HSTID ENGRAVER
Oreeiisboro, X. ('.
llu- somtaatly on h»nd • apli idid aawrt-niHiii
of Pashionabla Jewelry, and mini-sp
eodid PTa* lei and ClorAtf.
Which will 1>.' -old Cheap lor C'u»h
rf Wat.li", Cloeka, Jewelry, SewingMa-cliiiiM.
an.l Pistoli repaired eheap and on ihorl
notice. An assorted stink of Qons,Pistols,
Cartridges, fco., always on hand.
Mar. 14-ly.
C1 n-fiisboro Wa«on
( WORKS.
If you want a ^ood .ubatuntial wagon go to
J. A C. Lewis1. Koail ami plantation wag
on with limb pin or Thinible ikeln axles on
hand er made to order. Aim lllaekemitbiug
and general repairing done on abort notiie
and in workmanship manner. Work.bop
aeai the Depot J-* <-'■ LEWIS,
feb. 10, ly.
ODELL, RAGAE .\ t-'O.,
Wholesale l'ealers in
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Giten-iboru, N. C.
Jan. 80, 1876-ly.
2M. A.. SHERMAN",
trretHxborOj .V. ('.
CONTBAOTOB AND BUILDER.
PLANS, KJcvations ami BpMificatiODH
nt the ir."*.i iinfiliTii and -.pprOTed
itylw, furnished at moderate prices.
.Jan. 4,18".'i:l«iii.
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SIONAL SERVICES
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I 1 i > lit] I SAME AS THOSE
Uj olber Practicing
i the < ii;i.
D. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON,
eon Eentists.
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in the praotioe ol
DENTISTRY,
n oectfnlly offer
fi -,I.in-to
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■:is of
Greensboro,
and ilir enrroun.
■ or 1 he "i uei of them
i ■ their office i ■
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if desired,
an dni ing the
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CablBfl (udiTlaker,
Wheel-Wright,
Con Sycamore streeta,
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JEWELERY AND WATCH
ESTABLISHMENT
To tht PcopU of UrtinsKoro and turnmndiny
Country :
Having opened in yoai midst a lirst-claBS
WrtUli-M.iUiiitf and Jowidry Stun', I re-
-]i.-rtittily ;isk a sliare of your patronage.
Having Hervwl a long apprentlot - ;
with one ol tu« most cclebraUd Watch
and chronometer maker* in the country,
And having had Thirty Yvam Experience
Ln tliii bnsinoMi I confidently believe I
OM give Entire SatiMfactiru lo all who
in;iy ciitriiHt their work to my care.
1 tnoll k«'i-)i eonstaatlj on bnod n Good
Aeeortmenl of Gold and Silver Watches.
clocks, JewtUy of all kinds.Spectncloe,
Silver and Plated Were, and Everything
in uiy Lino. Fine liuld King* and Hair
Jewelry Hade U> Order.
M> S:,ir I* the Itook Store of CD. YatcH,
under the Benbow House.
Old Gold and Silver Bonght or Taken in
Exchange. JOHM I HAMIUIKLAIN.
Qraeneboro, N. C, Feb. 9, ltJ75 ly.
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APOTHBCARIES.
6BEES8B0R0, -V. C.
feb. IT. i-:.viy.
JOB WORK
OlFVKHl Deaerlpllon,
t.xocuted in the
%'CUV BE»»T STYLE,
And at New York prices, at the
Patriot Job Office.
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QREEHSBORO
ash and Blind Fucfory.
STKKLK A DKN.NV, Proprietors.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
/..'/..' PlIlM* and
'" ■ 0/ llu: Art.
l.. W ANDREWS,
! '■■.,. aaboro, N. C.
W74, So. 17,'73-ly
Ii* now prepared 10 tin a out on short notice
all kiud. of
Blind*, Door*, Sash,
WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES
Ttnomra, PLAINING, ,\C.
Ia fact any ibing in bnllding line. A larg- lot
leasoned lnmber aiway - on I.and, wbicb
will kw der».eil ami fold on reasonable term..
Mar. 4-|v
CHAS. G. YATES,
DBAI U IN
STAPLE PRY UOODS, GROCERIES,
Stores, Castings and Iron.
He - Furnishing Good*, and Manufacturer
OF TIN. SHEET IKON PIPES, 4C.
BatahlkAad En tireeu.boro
26 YEARS -A-O-O;
Quods fobl Reasonable fur Cash vr Uarler.
Oct. 1, 1871 ly.
ACT NOW.
The undersigned represents
wvera! <:,,,.il [nanraiiee Companii ^. call and
lake "in a policy UJH.U your life, al>o upon
yoor honae, and aoi bave i" regrel it after a
while. CHAS. G. YAIES, Ajf-t.
Greensboro, N. C, Sept. 10, ltfTI-ly.
If We Knew.
If we knew, when walking thoughtle-a
Through the crowded, dnaty way.
That some peail of wondrous whiteuess
Cloee beside our pathway lay,
. We would pause where now we hasten,
We would oftener look around,
I.crt our careless teet should trample
Some rare jewel in the ground.
If we knew what forms are fainting
For the sbails which we should fling,
If we knew- what lipn are jiarcbiug
For the waterwe should bring.
We •• mid baste with eager footsteps,
We would work with willing bands,
Bearing cooling cups of water,
Plautiug rows of shading palms.
If we knew what feet were weary,
Climbing up the bill of pains;
By the world cast out as evil,
Poor, repentant Magdalones:
We no more would dare to scorn them
With our Pharisaic pride.
Wrapping close our robes about us,
Passing on the other side.
If we knew, whan friends around us
Closely preaa to say. " Good bye,"
Which among the lips that kiss us.
First beneath tbo flowers .bunId lie,
While like rain upon their faces
Fell our bitter, blinding teats,
Tender words of lore eternal
We would whisper in their ears.
MY HUSBAND.
BY JUNE HOSE.
Every girl, in her school-clays,
thinks and dreams a great deal
about her future husband—tier
ideal, rather, of what lier husband
will be like. 1 was no exception to
the rule. Being a blonde, of course
[pictured to myself an Adolpbna
with hair black us mid-night, eyes
lustrons as twin stars, a Grecian
nose, flowing moustache, matching
the hair in color, a graceful lot in. n
bewitching smile, and, as fitting
companion* for his personal charms.
an easy hauteur, (whatever that
might be.) and unrivalled conver-sational
faculties.
My eighteenth birthday passed,
my education was pronounced
" .'inished," and I was " introduced"
to the fashionable circle in which
my parents already revolved, and
became, as I was an heiress, the
belle of the season.
Of course, blessed with ordinary
good looks and intelligence, and
(what was of more account to the
multitude) an extra ordinary sliare
of this worlds goods, I did not
lack admirers, grave, gay, rich,
poor, talented, foolish, all aspirant*
to my hand ami—fortune. Rut
among them all I did not see the
Ailolphns of my youthful dreams.
There were Mack-haired men with
blue eyes, black eyed men with
Grecian noses but blonde complex
ions, men with witching smiles but
no dignity, men who figured to ad-vantage
in conversations, but whose
forms were stumpy and awkwartl.
None ot them were realizations of
the husband of my dreams. So
the end of the winter inund me
Mill '• not engaged," and I had
earned the title of •• fastidious".
We selected the sea shore- for our
summer residence, anil 'twas a
" hop'"—elect, you may be sure, or
I had 'tot attended—there I met
him. He was all my wildest flights
ot imagination had aspired lo, and
—he was a nobleman, a baronet!
Sir Osborn Rurleigh.
It is his name, his high standing
aristocratic name, to which 1 have
given a whole exclusive line. Was
not he exclusive ! Shall not his
name be, also t
What American parents ever re
sisted the charm with which title
invest the bearers! My English
suitor of noble liueage took mama
quite by a storm, and papa, thought
expressing a preference for my
second cousin, Jack Holaway. red
whiskered and "lanky," though he
was, soon yielded his assent when
he saw how mama and I had ar-ranged
mat lets.
September found me busy with
my trousseau, for in October, dear
Osborn anil I were to be married.
Papa was to settle half a million
ou me as a wedding gift, and we
were to make the tour to Europe
before taking up our residence in
Lord Rurleigh's baronial mansion.
He had shown us letters of intro-duction
from persons of great
eminence, and I felt proud indeed
of the conquest I had made.
Only Cousin Jack Holaway did
not join in tlm many congratula-tions
I received. "Jealousy," I
said to myself, yet I ielt a little un
easy, nevertheless, for I had always
liked Cousin Jack, and valued his
good opinion.
We were to be married in church,
and tunst have ushers. I asked
Jack if he would serve
" No, thank yon," he said dry ly.
"Very jwlite in you to refuse,
Mr llolaway," said I tartly.
" You refused me cue; whj may
1 not return the doubtful compli-menf
V he answered, ami walked
away.
"What impudence!" ere he was
out of hearing. And he turned
back.
•• Impudence is not confined to
me alone, cousin : there is Some one
whom yon cODsidei very • near and
dear' to you who possesses a large
stock."
" What do you mean, sir 7" I ask-ed
with dignity.
"You would call me ■jealous ami
interested' were I to name him, yet
I will say, earnestly to you, and
with sufficient reason for saying it:
put your husband elect to the test
before he is your husband "
"What test?" now dare you
speak so?" I demanded with a
quiver ot hysterics i:; my voice, for
I knew Jack Ilolawaj's character
too well to doubt his sincerity.
"Take care you do not marry a
faithless fortune-hunter.
1HAPTEK II.
Try as I would to banish them
from my memory. Cousin Jack's
■ words of warning haunted me day
and tiight, till at last, 1 said, in
desperation, " I will put Osborn to
the test."
Now I truly loved and trusted my
handsome lover, and smiled at the
i thought of his proving mercenary
I —he so noble and so good! Yet,
to make " assurance doubly sure,"
and at the same time mortily Mr.
llolaway by proving him an ■• old
croaker," 1 hit upon a plan that
should show the truth of my gal-lant
knight's protestations that " he
loved me lor myself alone."
Some two or three persons having
been taken into my confidence as
assistants, the little drama of the
" Love Test," as I called it, began.
My father met Sir Osborn Bur
leigh, iext time he called, and de-sired
a few moment's conversation
with him.
"Afterward," said the old gen
tlenun with a smile, "if yon wish,
you shall see your young affianced."
The baronet's expressive face
spoke volumes of impatience that
the interview should be over as
quickly as possible that he might
hasten to her side.
Motioning him to a seat, my
father commenced by saying quite
abrubtly.—
" The It.dy to whom you are en-gaged.
Sir Osborn, is not my
daughter."
"Sirf said my lover, his lace
palling and Hushing by turns.
" No: even a relation,'' continued
my parent.
" Explain, if yon please," gasped
Sir < taborn.
'• A young lady to whom I shall
presently have the pleasure of in
trodacing you, the danghter of onr
housekeeper, by her mother's con-fession,
is really the child of myself
and wife, while she whom we nave
always supposed to be our offspring,
is only the housekeeper's daughter
The wretched woman changed the
children at their birth, and at this
late day confesses her crime. I
need scarce!] mention to you, Sir
Osborn, the fact that I shall do
nothing more pecuniary for the poor
deal girl you have honored with
your choice, and so lifted above the
degradation into which she would
otherwise have fallen at the event
of this dreadful story. I should
not feel justified, now, that, she has
usurped my rightful daughter's
claims and privileges for so long a
season, in assisting her father, ex-cept,
it may be, with a few hundred
dollars to defray the expenses of
her Irosseau and marriage, the lat-ter
of which it wouid not uow be
advisable to celebrate as magnifi-cently
as we purposed. I well know
that, although of noble birth your
betrothed's unfortunate change of
circumstances will make no differ
ence in your feelings towards her,
and her romontic history, by ex-citing
your pity as well as love,
will strengthen your attachment."
" I— I-■"' said Sir Osbotu, faintly,
and then buried his face in his
hands, saving, " let me think."'
When he raised his head again
he was more composed, and said,—
" Yon have rightly judged, sir,
that notwithstanding her changed
fortunes, my heart will ever be
faithful to her I have asked to be
my wife;" he paused, and I who
was listening at the door, grew joy-ful
because he was proving himself
so true. " Rut—"' (Those ominous
'huts!' Why can't the baleful
word bo bandished from all Ian
guage '.) " But I come of a proud
and noble line of ancestors, whose
blood has never yet united with the
plcbian stock. Uow could I dare,
sir, to tiike home to England, and
present to the aristocratic society
ihen, a wife who claims for her
moiher a servant !"
•■ Veiy true, said my lather, but
if yon love your wife, what people
say of her will count for little with
your lordship."
My lover shook his handsome
bead and sighed.
"Ah! sir. distinctions in rank
are very marked in England. I
could not marry a housekeepers
daughter. Explain this, if you
please, to poor little miss, and con-vey
to her my earnest condolence.
11 would be better I should not see
her I think."
He rose to go, a deprecatory
smile on his lips. Just then I lie
door-bell rang furiously. There
were heavy footsteps in tlie hall be-low,
and I heard my Cousin Jack's
voice answering some gruffer tone.
Several men ascended the stairs
and met Sir Osborn coming down,
a frightened look on his handsome
face.
"Ah! I thought so—the very
one," said the foremost man.
My lover drew out i pistol.
'- Lei me pass, or I'll blow j n
brains out,"' be cried, excitedly.
'• Two can play at that game,"
said my Cousin .lack, presenting a
revolver to the baronet's head.
" We arrest you in the name of
the Commonwealth for murder,"
said a voice, and I heard the click
of baud cuffs.
Then I knew no more, for, with
the dreadful knowledge of my
lover's guilt, my senses left me.
The sudden transformation of my
comedy into the direst of tragedies
; quile. upset my nervous system,
, and for weeks 1 raved in un-couscious
delirium. The daj which
: had been set for my man iage
dawned on me, an invalid, and a
prisoner. Tor it was only too true
what that rough man on the stairs
hail said—the lover of my dieams,
my accepted suitor, was—a mur-derer.
In an English highway rob-bery
he and his accomplices had
murdered the true Sir Osborn,
stolen his letters and pa|iers, and
agreed among themselves to make
capital therefrom. The handsomest
" pal" had been chosen to carry out
the nefarious scheme, viz : the'mar-
Irying of one of America's rich
daughters, and dividing the money
so obtained amongst them. One,
however, growiug impatient, had
informed the authorities of the
whole transaction, thus clearing up
the ^Burleigh Disappearance Mys-tery,"
as it was called, and at the
same time saving me from taking
an irrevocable step that would
blight my whole existence.
Cousin Jack Holaway resoluted
and generously refrained from any
air or words of an " I-told-you-so"
nature, when next we met. The
baronet's name was never men
tioned between us again, I being
too kind, to make the unpleasant
allusion. With my lover's rejectiou
of me, as the supposed " house-keeper's
daughter" contempt had |
kindled in my heart for him, aud i
with his subsequent disgrace and
exposure, love died forever in my
bosom as far as he was concerned.
Was it love ? I wonder, as I sit
calmy writing this, my story, five j
years later. Certainly "it was not ■
that all absorbing feeling I have to
ward him who looks over my I
shoulder with laughing face and i
tender eyes, commenting and criti- •
■sizing at this moment—my red- j
whiskered, " lanky" Jack—my hus-band.—
Warerly Magazine.
A Wonderful Invention.
An invention has been patented
by a Philadelphia gentleman, by
which he claims to convert water
without the aid of fire or chemicals
into a motive power greater than
that of steam, and which, by ex-pel
inietit, has given 1 k tons pressure
to the square inch, while a still
greater capacity is claimed for it
with proper machinery, and it is
■ion explosive. By a mechanical
contrivance, Mr. Keely, the in-ventor,
changes water from au un-elastic
fluid into an elastic fluid,
which can be called by no better
name than cold steam. In other
words, he obtains from water, with
out using fire or chemicals, the
power now obtained from water by
lire and called steam. It is said to
be a wonderful invention by those
who have seen il tested, wlio state
that it accomplishes all that is
claimed for it by the inventor, and
believe it is destined to work a
great revolution in the world—a
greater revolution than that made
either by the cotton gin, the steam
euginc, or the telegraph. These
tests have been made before scien-tific
experts, who* pronounce it
practicable, as indeed the original
and often repeated experiments of
Mr. Keely prove. He first dis-covered
the principle he has de-veloped
in his motor while attempt-ing
to make a power-saving water-wheel,
aud a few years ago applied
the power to running stationary
engines. To test the power that
had been obtaiued, Mr. Keely then
made cylinder of drawn copper, en-cased
this in wrought iron, aud
placed around both steel nands
close together, making a powerful
cylinder. The power was turned
on, and the cylinder was torn to
pieces in an instant. Then a three-horse
power engine was built, and
finally a fifteen horse. These eu
gines have been run in Philadelphia
every day for a year, it, is said,
without the use of lire, and without
the use of chemicals, at a cost of
not one cent. The fifteen-horse
power engine has been rnu twenty-three
consecutive hours with power
manufactured in less than five
minutes. The advantages claimed
for it over steam, in addition to ob
viating the cost of fuel and delay
of taking it. are thus stated :
The smoke stacks of steamboats
will disappear, their boilers be taken
out. and the great danger of fire
ami explosion will be removed.
Its applicability is also said to be
even greater than that of steam.—
These statements come well au-thenticated,
and if correct it may
prove to be a more wonderful dis-covery
than that of steam, while
its application may be far more
universal-
Money Spent for Drink.
Mr. Dawsoa Burns semis to the
London Time* a really remarkable
statement as to the amount of
money which the people ot the
United Kingdom spend on their
drink. They bought last year L'O.
205,906 gallons ot alcohol in dis-tilled
spirits, 2,092,660 in foreign
wines. 54.t>9'J,3L'(> in mall liquors,
and 750,000 in cider, perry, and
Rritish wines, the amounts given
being alcohol, not in liquor. For
this quantity, all of which, except
perhaps the alcohol in malt liquor,
may bo takeu to be either mere
waste or luxury, they paid in 1874—
For srdenl splrl -. £41,574,131
For foreign wines, !'-■- -"
For mall liouor, 7t(t,932 I"-1'
For cider, perry, and British wine, 1,1
£188,469,048
Mr. Burns thinks that all of this
could be retrenched, but at least
one half—a sum equal to the wl
taxation of the kingdom—could be I
saved without diminution in the j
happiness of the people, and with
great improvement in its morale.
It has been suggested that for
the purposes of identification, as in
the case of criminals, for example,
it is only necessary to get a distinct
photograph of the palm of one
band, taken in strong oblique light,
so as to bung out the markings
strongly. This will be found a
map, it is said, which is never alike
in two persons: no disguise short
of actual disfigurement can do
g way with the difference.
From the Baltimore Sun.
President Grant and the De-mocracy.—
Hon. Montgome-ry
Blair on the Third-Term
Letter.
THE DEMOCRACY AND IBE PBKBI-IH-'.
Nt Y.
The publication of the President's
third term letter has been followed
by puohcationsin New York and
elsewhere, asserting, on the alleged
authority of Hon. Montgomery
Blair, that Gen. Grant had almost
daily visited Mi. Blair's house iu
18fi7-'ti,S to consummate uegotia
tions looking to bringing him out
as the Democratic nominee tor the
presidency in 18IW. These state-ments
were brought to the atten-tion
of the President. He prouounc-them
entirely untrue, ami said that
he had never entered into auv ne
gotiations with Mr Blah with any
such object in view, and never en-tertained
any such idea.
Mr. RIair's attention was subse-quently
called to the matter, and he
said the publications alluded to
were made without any authority
from him. He returnked, however,
that when iu the BU turner nf S867
he brought forward Geoen.1 Grant's
name as a suitable | > son to be
nominated for the presidency bj
the Democratic party he fell thor
oughiy satisfied that it met with
Gen. Grout** approval. Mr. Blair
says that the late Gen. Rawlins,
who, as is well known, was the bos
om friend of Gen. Grant, was at
this time thoroughly in favor of
• ■en Grant receiving'tbe Democrat
ic nomination.—Gen. Grant was
not al this time in sympathy with
the Republican party or with its
leaders. He had an intense dislike
to Mr. Stanton, and had before this
time fold President Johnson that ii
Stanton was to remain in the ca'oi
Det he did not Want to stay in
Washington, but would like to re
move "te army headquarters. Mr.
Blair says be was very much sur-prised
when, after all this, Gen.
Grant did conclude the bargain by
which he became the nominee of
the Republican party.
In regard to the third term letter,
Mr. Blair says it does nut alter the
situation a le particle; that of
course Geu. Gram doe* not want a
third term ii be eannol get it, but
if the chance is presented ,.> him.
he will clutch it »ith alacrity. He
looks upon G i an I as, by odds, the
strongest man in the Republican
party, and his strength will be
much greater if, as is almost cer-tain,
the Republican party be de-feated
in the elections this Fall.
Then, w hen the Republican Con-vention
conn- together quarrelling
will ensue between the friends of
Blaine, Morton, BristoH ;,m! other
aspirants, and Ibe end of it will be
that the Convention will settle up-on
Grant as the most available man.
"Grant," says Mr. Blair, -is a very
able man in his way. He is not a
Btatesmanand is destitute ofculture,
but his ability is undoubted. 1
have often talked to Sunnier about
him, and tried to impress this upon
him. But Sumner never though!
anything ol Grant, eve:: long
before his quarrel with him."
Mr. Blair says that the President
has an extraordinary capacity for
discovering the meaner side of
men's natures and by taking advan-tage
of this he attaches tbem to his
fortunes.
Methodist Missions
The Board ot Missions of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
at the recent meeting in Nashville.
made the following appropriations
tor the nesi yeai :
To the China Missiou 87.500
To Mexican l L.300
To Indian mission conference 9,000
'1.1 German mission 4,500
To Western 2,000
To Denver 3,000
To ..os Atigelos .'S.uOii
To Columbia _ l.noo
To Pacific ;i 'alifornia 5,000
To • lotiila .i.oiiii
To Brazil mis-i HI :-
orgauized) 1,000
To meet tiiis appropriation and
to provide for the further eularge
rueiit of the mission work ot the
Church, the Board assessed$100,000
among the several annual confer
enccs.
An Ingeniotu Arab.—A gentle
man who rode his own mare in the
course ot an eastern tour asked his
Arab a'tendant if he was quite
sure she always got her allowance.
••(Hi. yes." he replied : "my coun-trymen
otten steal from one an
other, and rob their friends1 homes,
but I can always find out if yoni
mare has been cheated." •' How f"
•• I always put in some pebbles
with the barley—seven or eight—
and eount exactly how many I pur
in. The mare rwver eats the peb-bles,
and if anj one Btealstbe bar-ley
be is sure to take two or three
pebbles with it. If 1 liud the lob-bies
short in the morning] have
hard words, and they cannot tell
iiow 1 know, so they give up cheat
ing her."
The i apaw, or " forbidden fruit,"
grows t" the weight of tluee pounds
or more in Florida. It is of light
yellow color when ripe, aud has a
similar to a musk melon.—
The juices of this tree tend to
separate the fibres in meat when
immersed therein, and the vapor of
the tree answers the same purpose.
The toughest joints of meats, poul-try,
etc., are rendered tender by be
ing hung among the branches.
Josh Billing's Philosophy.
A large share ov the happiness
in this world that we brag so much
ov is made up entirely ov the arts
we use to make others think we are
happy.
Vittles and drink are great hu
manizers—starve a man and yu ha.
got a fiend, fill him tip and yu hav
got a ti-rtledav
I never kuu a man yet who lived
hiz wits but what spent his old
;e al somebody elses expense.
It is a grate arte to be ablo at all
mes to tell leas thau yu kuo.
Geuius without energy ir. as bad
ph as a luxuriaut hop vine without
euuy pole.
Suspishun, a little ov it, iz a good
iking euuft for a fello citizen to hav.
but when he haz got so much ov it
that he kaut see a not hole iu a
board feuce without smelling a rat
he iz bad off.
Energy is what wins. Menny
meu tail to reach the mark bekause
the powder iu them ain't propor
shuned to the lead.
Wit makes a very good gravy,
but it is too rich lor a stiddy diet
Men will plead guilty to rashness.
and even hatred, but "the most dil
acul. thiug for them to admit iz a
blunder.
When i see a well-behaved child
lallwnsgiv the mother kredit for
u ; i almost want to kiss the moth
er lor the child's sake.
Good nature iz the only kind ov
an excuse j kn„ „v i,,r jmpudense.
1 like a borne) better than i do a
pissmne; i like them bekause they
have got one sharp end to them.
If there iz ennythiug that i really
hale it iz a literary pedant who
haz swallowed a diksiouary whole,
and bekause he happens to feel full
thinks he is intelligent.
Poor Dear Hannah Ann.
It was a great many years ago
that the story was first told of Miss
Hannah Ann Sterry, an nncoin
monly mature virgin who had never
been persecuted with masculine al
tentiona because ol the vigorous
manner in which she shunned the
lace of man. it was related that
Mi. I neophiltis Wimblebec, an ad
vancrd bachelor of themildes: poa
Bible depot i nieut, occupying single
quarters in the neighborhood of
Hmm, , A iii's apartments, called
on i he spinster one afternoon to
boriOil a match. Hannah Ann
was no! easily fooled, folding her
ai uis on her level breast, she backed
I'heophilus Whnblebrc into a
corner and thus addressed the in-vader:
-Match! Oh. yes! Great
match 'lis you want ! You don't
want no match, and you know you
don't. You've come over to'me
cause I'm all alone -to hug and
kiss me—that's What you've come
for ; but you novei Hindi do it iu the
world unless you're stronger'n I
am'—and then the addetl in a
softened tone, " and the I.oid know.
you are." A friend of Hannah
Ann's reading a letter from a pub
lie man the other day in which the
writer said: " To recapulate, I am
not, nor have 1 ever been, n candi
dale for renomination ; I would not
accept a nomination if it were ten
deied. unless it should come under
such circumstances as to make it
an imperative duty, circumstances
not likely to arise"—laid down the
paper with a sigh and remarked,
"Ah, how much that reminds me
of poor dear Hannah Ann."
The other day, a written notice
was struck up in an uptown board
igg house, announcing "Accom-modations
for a few more guests,"
and ending with : " N. B. Players
on brass instruments needn't apply."
An artesian well has just been
completed in Milwaukee, Wis.,
which proves a success. It is 1040
leet deep, 170 feet of which was
bored through uiaguesian limit rock,
and 101 through sandstone. The
watei .lows at the rate of 6000 gal
Ions a day.
The icports were not admitted to
the late lecture on dies* reform, by
Miss Agnes Purge. Of corsets ail
right. We learn that the lecture
was about sew, sew, and the lady-did
not hang on the outskirts of
bei subject, but struck the trail at
once and carried it up. She np-hraided
tight laeets. and—a hem—
anggested suspenders for—Hose
business is it, anyhow ?
A Philadelphian named Keeley,
claims to have discovered a vapor
which is far mor- powerful than
steam as a motor, costs nothing, OC
cupies but little space, and will
move steamers around the world as
cheaply as sailing vessels, and will
reduce freight to one half rates.
A bed of ore has been discovered
near 1'oii Scolt, Kansas, much like
Dickie iri appearance and 80 malic
able that it has been hammered
into hoi -'• l. ■ nails.
There ia a good deal ol disc
going ou just now ot the question,
How to seep a hotel. We should
.ay that a good way to keep a hotel
wi aid be never to part with it.
A C< fin .'"ii man died and they
put him on use, but he awoke in the
night and yelled out: "Why don't
you pu* some more wood in thai
Btovef"
] lora Temple is still alive and
well, but has quit her fast habits
and lives soberly. She is over thii
ly \ears of age,
A professor of physics, in one of
his lectures, said, '-The air, in it-;
relations to man, kisses and bl-.s -
him, but it will not obey him."
•■ That description suits my wife to
a T!" involuntarily exclaimed ai
auditor.
The best preparation for the
teeth—A good dinner.
Never make a wooden leg of oak;
oak always produce a corn.
" Thieving in the outskirts" is
the latest for "picking ladies'
pockets."
Our Little Ones.
Shut the Eyes Tight.
Little narry had been qo
and mother was obliged to be very
careful of bis diet. One ol
orders was that he was to eal noth-ing
but what she gave him.
One day, little Jennie came in
eating a piece of cake. Oh ! how
nice it looked to the little bun
boy, who felt, as you do when
are getting better, that he
to eat all the time. He kn
just asked his dear, obliging I
sister, she would gladly give him
-the biggest half." Bui
sail, "Oh•Jennie, you musl
right out with that cake, ;,,..,
keep my eyes shut tight, so i ^*
want any."
Now. that was a grea i impU
for a boy only seven years old.—
Some big boys of Beveute i ould
not have done so well. I > arc
far from shutting tie ■ i
when temptation to taste
things is before them. The!
suffer their eyes •
straight iuto mischief.
"Turn away mine syi -
holding vanity," is an e
prayer—"look not upon the
when it is led," and your will lie
be likely to till a drunkard's ._,
So many boys think. -V.
the harm in looking f h ■
here they are made prisoners bj"
Satan. The "eye-g ite"
most important points he
II he can pin your eye l ■■•)
on some charming bul
object, be gets a s.
ovei you. Yon have beard bow
those dreadful snakes chai
birds and rabbits with the
mj; eyes, until at last thej ll
down powerless in tbeii
coils.
Do uot stop even to look a4 b
tat ion, but turn your fact
flint the other way. Shul
mind's eye tight as wi
will help those who bl BJ '
flee from temptation.
Not a Paying Hu outs'.
"1 OU do Ho! „ .:
I lo*piled by yoil. H ' i.
said B gentleman ,tO a I
one day.
"I haven'! prospered bj
the man. "It's a
doesn't pay. If I had g'iveu
the time to some
Which 1 have spelil I;I II
gel a living with,ml v
be a man ol propel tv a
ter. instead ol the home
1 am."
He then told bis ll
ended by saving :
••I have been i Wice
I have made .!'• M
soits ol miseiic* iu m •
will tell you, my B
is iu beiug what i am."
Men can steal anr uionej
us of our reputation,
can defraud us of what wi
Honesty.
There is a hoy. in St. I
» rote to a police offii.
"Dear Captain, I am
you that I bioke a pane ol
a lamp post on Twenty-thn ■
between Can and Wash si ■
Sunday, April 25. I ■■
a bal . and the policema
DM, but he COOld nut CM •
I hope thai twenty, -five ■ ■
pay for the glass, and [ pri .
that I won't play be
any more."
Tliore was a room a jth i
ners, in each cornel Ml
fore each oat sal sei en oi
and on each cat's
I low many cats in ■
Don'! despise or ; , .
a little boy or girl jus i
On UOl weal Dm I
a warm, brave heart has beeir foiim
wrapped up in ra
Always put your saddh ti
right none.
An unlawful o.iih it bette
than kepi
An honest man- word
as his bond.
A man may ho
tin- wrong time.
An hour in the moi:. -
two in the altei DI
An ounce ol moi
a pound ot book look
Don't ask the Lord
"g irmenta DI ,, .
renovating old clotlu
Don't linger when
lies dreaming." Waki
tell her to |
Don't stand still a
way to Heaven. Spil ito i
board* ,-,..
Don't worry about
business, A littli
sometimes eommi
11 n't atten
enemies at one ■ Yon
bnsim -- ■
Don't imagine I
rect all the i-\ ila in
grain ot sand is not promini
desert.