The Greensboro patriot [January 26, 1876]

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The Greensboro Patriot.
Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1876. | New Series No. 409.
Business Cards.
R. H. D. WILSON,
LIFE ti. FIRE INSURANCE AGENT,
Greensboro, K. C,
REPRESENTS first-class Companion
with an aggregate capital of over
THIRTY MILLIONS DOLLARS,
and ran carry a full line at fair nit.".
tyOfflce, np ktairs over Wilson A Sho*
ber*a Bank, under the efficient aapervibion
of
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who will at all timca be glad to wait on
all who desire either
Life or Fire Policies.
mar 14 ly
bsional Cards.
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JOHN N.siAi'i.ts
tofcNDEflHALL & STAPLES,
VI KiKM.i 8 AT LAW,
4. Ill E N«B© BO, M.C.,
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:,. MOW..., Ran- WATCH MAKER.
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iiwuiion gisen >« JEWELLER, OPTICIAN
Muie, .ud to ^jsjjj BISTCB-E/A-VEI^
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Tl'iUNKVSAT JL.AW
Mil ; ITOBS IN BANKBCPTCT,
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. jl« , f»( ■ leral Ci.urta.
Greensboro, N. C.
Han constantly on hand a
splendid assort
Iry, and some
1 Jilln. Ai . !l•illIa,i.s..r.. me,m i-iiii ,ir'a,sliiiouatiliei'iJ**Iw splendid llat'-ht* it ml Clocks.
Which will be wold Clieiii, lor CUMII
ryWstcbrs, Clocka, Jewelry, Sewing Ma-ablnMfAnd
Pistols repaired cheap and on short
notiea An assorted stoekof Gnus,Pistols,
Cartridges, dto., always on bund.
Mar. 14 ly.
. ■ | li» matters lu
>,i ising under luter-
I ,,l' Western
Collections in
2d5:ly.
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Gri'inslioi it Wagon
WORKS.
Il you want a good substantial wagon go to
J. & C. Lewi.'. KoK.l and plantation wag-ons
with linch pin or Thimble skein nxles on
hand or made to order. Also lllackstnilliing
and geueral repairing done on short le'tiee
and i:i workmanship manner. Workshop
■ AI in: P. iiiwitu. neartbe llepot. J. &. C. LEWIS,
leb. 10, ly.
ODELL, HAGAN & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers in
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Greensboro, N. C.
Jan. 20, 1875-ly.
NI'OTT A CALDWELIs
. ORO, N. C.
. i' ■ i a •.,...- ii '■) lor Court of,
>\ v. Randolph, Devid-
,n, Iredell and Meckieti
8 prema Court ot the.
. Court at On '-ueboro
, :i courts
I siren t"i>auHi.t money. VEff
iN JEWELERY AND WATCH
ESTABLISHMENT
.It). \\ . GLENN, To the Feoplt of Gmiuloru and turroundiny
ATTORNEY AT LAW, couniry.
;•.„(.,•,//.. V n Having opened in your midst a first-claa*
Watch Muking and Jewelry Slore, I re-hpcctfully
aak a bbare of your palronsgs.
Having aervcd a long sppronlioeship
with one of the most oalsbrstsd Walch
ami clironomeier makers in (he country,
and having had Thirty Yeats Experiem l
in this btlsiness. I conlideutly beiievo 1
can give Entire Satisfactirn to all who
may entrust their work to my calo.
1 shall keep i (instantly < n hand a Good
. I .nits of the
\ > attention given to
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Wentworth, N. C.
11 HI- of Hocking- Assortment of Gold and Silver Watches,
I and stokes, snd In the Clocks, Jewelly of all kinds, Spectsoles,
and District Court, at Silver sad Plsted Ware, and Everything
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In By Line. Fiue Gold Kings and Han
i given to collec- Jewelry Made to Order.
apl4-ly My Store is the Hook Store of C.I). Yates,
itider the Benbow House.
i. K. I\ Uresrory Old Gold and Silver Bonght or Taken iu
BIS
PROFt^SIONAL SERVICES
of Gremuboro.
• I"! - THE SAME AS THOSE
i : ai ^ tl bj otbpr fracticiDg
ilie City.
T«>ll> I. It IRRINUER,
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KE8PECTFULLY Exchange. JOHS CHAMBERLAIN.
Greensboro, N. C, Feb. 0, 1875-ly.
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GREENSBORO, -V. C.
fob. IT, lSTo-ly.
F^-IJXJ 1875.
arm. u. BO«.AKT,
Tf Dealer ill
Fancy and Staple Dry Goods,
R ",,ph'Shoes, Hats, Notions, and Gente
indswillbe !• tunisliiii" iroods.
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0. A. & R. F. ROBERTSON,
Surgeon Dentists.
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UK attrinna
tttl tbemwli M
in ih.* practice of
1»KN riSTRY,
j, ^ renpect fully offer
I heir profewion-
-" -> ;ii sen le*M t<» the
S^> citizoDa »>;
QreonsborOi
and t hi* ■arrooD*
b< :• •'!' then
■ their office on
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* * l ti, if ih'sired,
■"twu patrons during the
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vV-JVE. COLLHSTS
f^UIiu; >I a !, c r , t nderlakfr,
Wheel-Wright,
(i,l.l Fellow //.■" Building.
After aretirement of a lew- months it is
with the most happy feelingsthsl I again
resume business. 1 oordiaTly invite mj
i; any friends and former enstomers to call
and examine my ENTIRELY \K\V slock
which ie now ready tor inspection.
1 shaU receive new ^oods every week to
which your attention will be called.
Respectfully,
Apiil I.., 1875-ly WM. 1!. 11UGART.
JOB WORK
OlEVEHl lies, rlpllon.
Executed in the
VEKY BEST STVLE.
And at New York prices, at the
Patriot Job Office.
GREENSBORO
lush mill Klinil I tlrlori.
smore Btitsts,
•■ ' » ' •' Burial Ca$tt,
A
STKKI.K SI DENXV, Proprietors.
Is now prepared to turn out ou short notice
all kiuda of
Winds, Doors. Sash,
WINDOW AND DOOR FRAMES
TURNING, PLAINING, &C.
In fact any thing in building line. A large lot
..: seasoned lumber always ou Land, which
w ill be derssed and sold on reasonable terms.
Mar. 4 IT.
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Uul.LU and ({o.rwooii roinns.
v '■'. and delivered
: readiness,
irriacea, *c, a
'• .- cash.
fob I ly
^CHAS. D. YATES.'
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lUl'M.S Hill Nnrariiea.
SOI I HERN AND
- A e , for the
I stock ot
rStPl ,-ll ill the
Beatrice,
. i - ■ i' wning, I
minenl'.
- Mlirellt
ementi t" larg
, •' ' a'ion.
J.yAN LINDLEY,
Greet tboro, N. C
N. 4» 4 io;, I nl,a 'lolnss.s
Je by
EH .-.LOANS SON'S-aM"*
Hurt IlimUer
MAMl'A MAKER,
I ''■■■ lling on the
E|iiacopal Church
- .- d to s.w all who
'i utli their patronage.
CHAS. G. YATES,
I'KAI.KIt IN
BTAPLE DRV GOODS, GKOCKK1ES
iStoces, Castimjs ami Iron.
Houxe Furuifhiu*; Goodn, and Mauutiu lur-T
OF TIN, BHBST IKON PIPES, AC.
l->tab!irilied lu (irt/en>>boro
26 YEARS A.G-0;
Qoeds sold Reaaonallc for Caih wr Jlarlcr.
Oct. 1, 1-T4 ly.
Groceries,.
I RESPECTFULLY AN-nonnee
to the citisens and the public
generally that I have on hand a full line
ot' Groceries! whieh I offer very cheap for
cash . r barter. Call and see me before
purchasing elsewhere.
Respectfully.
Ang. 19-ly. W. B. YOITNG.
Be Careful what you Say.
In speaking of a person's faults,
Pray don't forget your own ;
Remember those withihomes of glass,
Should seldom throw a atone.
If we have nothing else to do
It'll talk of these who sin.
Til better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have nn right to .judge a man.
Until he's fairly tried ;
Shnnld we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have fanlts, and who has not t
The old as well young ;
Perhaps we may. for aught we know,
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell yon of a better plan,
And find it works full well;
To try my own defects to cure
B, fore of others' tell ;
And though I sometimes hope to be
No worse than some I know,
My own shortcomings hid me let
The faults of others go.
Then lei us all. when we commence.
To slander friend or foe.
Think "f the harm one word may do
To those we little know.
Remember curses, sometimes, like
Our chickens, " roost at home;"
Don't speak of othuis' faults until
We have none of our own.
" the
best,
as I
ASecond Hand Pinnn
FOR SALE
very cheap at JAM. SLOANS' SONS
April 24,1S7G.
DEB.
The solemn bel! was ringing tbe
mill girls in by broad sunlight one
noon, when there came a knock at
the door, and behind it the young
:;111 > of whom I heard. Deb was
startled by the knock, and frigbteu-ed
by the young lady. It was uot
oitcu that visitors camo to Brick
alley and it was still less often that
Brick alley, had a visitor that
knocked.
This was a young lady for whom
Deb's mother did line washing.—
Dili's mother wiped her hands and
placed a chair, and the young lady
sat down. She was a straight lady,
with strong feet, and long brown
feathers iu her hat, and Bolt brown
gloves, upon her hands. She had
come, she said, will) that Cluny set,
she found she should need for a
parly this very night; indeed, she
was in so much haste for it that she
had hunted Deb"s mother up—which
was a matter of some difficulty—as
she never had the least idea where
she lived before, and how crooked
stairs were '. But the lace was very
yellow, as she saw, and would she
be sure to have it done at nine
o'clock to night f and—
And then, turning her head sud-denly,
the straight young lady saw
poor crooked Deb iu her high chair,
with wonder in her eyes.
" I wonder if I frightened her,"
thought Deb : but she only wonder-ed,
and did not speak.
" Is this you"—
" Yes," said Deb's mother,
eldest. Fifteen. I'll try my
ma'am; but I don't know
ought to promise." She spoke in a
businesslike tone, aud turned the
Cluny lace—a dainty collar aud a
pair of soft cuffs—about in her
bauds in a business-like way. A
breath of some kind of scented
woodstruek iu a little gust agaiust
Deb's face. She wondered how
people could weave sweet Biuells
into a piece ot lace, and if the young
lady kuew; or if she knew how
much pleasatiter it was than the
onions liiat .Mis. McMahoney cook-
-d lor dinner every day in the week
but Sunday, upon the first lloor.—
But il gave her quite enough to do
to wonder without speaking.
" Fifteen !" repeated the young
lady, standing up very straight,
ami looking very sorry. " How
long has she been—like—thai 1"
'• Horn so," said Deb's mother ;
• she has jest set in that chair ever
since she's been big enough to sit
ti! till. Would you try guru ou
these. Miss !"
" But you never told me you had
a crippled child!"
The young lady said this quickly.
"You have washed for me three
years, and you never told me you
had a crippled child !"
" Yon never asked me. Miss,"
said Deb's mother.
The young lady made no reply.—
She c.une and sat down on the edge
of Deb's bed, close beside Deb's
chair. She seemed to have forgotten
her Cluny lace. She took Deb's
hand up between her two sof',
brown gloves, aud her long, brown
leathers drooped and touched Deb's
cheek. Deb hardly breathed, the
feathers, and the sweet smells of
swilled wood, and the young lady's
sorry eyes—such very sorry eyes!
—were so close to the high chair.
•'Fifteen years!'' repeated the
young lady, very low, '• in that
chair—poor little girl ! But you
could ride," said she, suddenly.
- I don't know, ma'am." said Deb.
" 1 never saw anybody ride but the
grocer and the baker. I ain't like
the grocer and the baker."
•• You could be lilted, I mean,"
said the young lady, eagerly.—
'•There is somebody who lifts you t"
" Mother sets me. generally," said
I>eb. " Once, when she was very
bad with a lame ankle, Jim Mc-
Mahoney set me. He's first floor,
Jim McMahoney."
•I shall be back here,"said the young
lady, still speaking very quickly,
but speaking to Deb's mother now.
'• In just an hour I shall come in an
easy sleigh, with warm robes. If
you will have your daughter ready
to lake a ride with me, I shall be
very much obliged to you."
The young lady finished her sent-ence
as if she knew what to say,
and so said the truest thing she
could think of, which is what we
are all iu danger of doing at times.
'•Well, I'm sure?" said Deb's
mother. •' Dabitra, tell the lady"—
But Dabitra could uot tell the
lady, for she was already out of the
door, and down stairs, and away
into the street. And, iudeed, Deb
could not have told the lady—has
never told the lady—can never tell '■
the lady.
If all the summer skies, and the ;
gold of summer sunlight, aud tbe
shine of summer stars fell down j
into your hands at once, for you to
> nn to paint scrap-books with,
should you know what to say ?
Into the poor little scrap-book ot
Deb's life the colors of heaven drop-ped
and bliuded her on that be-wildering,
beantitul, blessed ride.
In just an hour the sleigh was
there, with the easiest cushions,
aud the warmest robes, and bells—
the merriest bells—and tbe straight
young lady. Aud Jim McMahoney
was there ; and he carried her down
s\i: i.- Io " set" her. And her moth-er
was there, aud wrappad her all
up in an old red shawl, tor Deb bad
no " things" likes other girls. The
young lady remembered that, and
she had btonght the prettiest little
white hood that Deb had ever seen,
and Deb's face looked like a bruised
day lily bed between the shining
wool, but Deb could not see that :
aud Mrs. McMahouey was there,
pariug ouious at the door, to wish
her good lock; and all the children
who did wonder; and the grocer
tinned iu at the alley corner, aud
the baker slopped as he turned out,
aud everybody stood and smiled to
sea her start. The white horse
pawed the snow, and he held up
Ids head—Deb had never seen such
a horse—and the youug lady had
gathered the reins into her brown
gloves, and the sleigh bells cried
for joy—how they cried—and away
they went, and Deb was out of the
alley iu a miuute, and the people in
the alley hurrahed, aud hurrahed,
and hurrahed to see her go.
That bewilderiug beautiful, bless-ed
ride! How warm the little white
hood was! How the cushions
sank beneath her, and the fur robes
opened like feathers to the touch of
her poor thin hands! How the
bells sang to her, and the snow
drifts blinked at her, and the icicles
and the slated roofs, and sky, and
the people's laces smiled at her!
" What's the matter f" asked the
young lady; for Deb drew the
great wolfs lobe over her face and
head, and sat so for a minute, still
ami hidden The yonng lady
thought she was frightened.
" But I only want to cry a little,"
said Deli's little, smothered voice.—
" I must cry a littlt first."
When she cried a little she held
up her head, and the shine of her
pretty white hood grew faint beside
the shine of her eyes and her cheeks.
The bewildering, beautiful, blessed
ride!
Streets, and a crowd, and church
spires were in it—yes, and a wed
ding and a luneral, too ; all things
that Deb had seen in her high chair
in the daytime with her eyes shut,
, she saw in the sleigh on that ride
with her eyes opened wide.
She was very still. The yonng
lady did not talk to her, and she
did not talk to the young lady.—
The horse held up his head. It
' seemed to Deb to be flying. She
thought that he must be like the
awtnl beautiful horse iu Revelation.
She felt as if he could take her to
Heaven just as well as not, if the
young lady's brown gloves should
only pull the rein that way.
They rode and rode. Iu and out
of the merry streets, through and
through tbe singing bells, about
and about the great church spires
—all over, and over, and over the
laughing town. They rode to the
river, and the young lady stopped
' the white home so that Deb could
look across, aud up and down at
! the shining stream nud the shining
bank'
" There is so much of it," said
' Deb, softly, thinking of the crack
i of it that she had seen between two
| houses for fifteen years. For the
! crack seemed lo be very much like
1 fifteen years in a high chair, and
the long, broad shouldered, silvered
river seemed to her very much like
this world about which she had
' wondered.
Tiny rode to the mills, and Deb
trembled to look up to their frown-ing
walls, and to meet their hun-
[tired eyes; but some of the girls
j who wore the little pink bows, and
! who knew her, came nodding to
:. look down out of them, and she left
1 oil' trembling to laugh ; then, iu a
I minute, sho trembled again, for all
1 at once, without any warning, tbe
great bell pealed the time just over
; her head, and swallowed her up in
I sound. She turned pale with de-lighted
terror, and then she flushed
j with terrified delight.
Did it pray, or cry, or laugh .
: Deb did not kuow. It seemed to
her that if the white horse would
carry her into the great heart of
that bell, she never need sit in a
chair at a window again, but ride
and ride with the young lady. It
seemed to her like forever aud for-ever.
They turned away without speak-ing,
and rode, and rode. Daylight
dimmed and dusk dropped, and
see ! all the town blazed with lights.
They rode and rode to see the lights.
| Deb could uot speak, there were so
many lights.
And still she could not speak
when they rode into Brick alley,
aud Jim McMahouey and her moth-er,
and the children who did not
wonder, came out to meet her aud
take her back to her high chair.
She was too happy to speak.—
She need never wouder auy more.
She could remember.
But the young lady did not want
her to speak. She touched her
white horse, and was gone in a
minute; aud when the bell rang
them to sleep that night—for the
yonng lady torget to ask for her
Cluny, and was too tired to go to
the party—I am sure I cannot tell
which was the happier, she or Deb.
Third Term In North Carolina
What the Office Holders
bay—Where the Op
position Is.
[Letter in New York Sun.]
RALEIGH, N. C, Jan. 1.
It is realty wonderful to note how
strongly the third-term movement
has developed in this State within
the past month. The Federal
offlc holders are all for Graut. Un-til
Bishop Haven was so outspoken
in Boston a short time ago. many of
this class were silent ou the subject.
The leading lights here of the move-ment
for the President's reuomina-tion
are first aud foremost es-tiov.
Holden, impeached Radical, and
present Postmaster at Raleigh, and
Dick Badger, who was, until 1871,
one of the most violent Democrats
iu the State, but suddenly became
a convert under the influence of
Holdeu aud a Ring which then
held the reius of the State Govern-ment.
Badger is now V. S. District
Attorney, and has still higher polit-cal
aspirations. R. M. Douglass,
U. S. Marshal, formerly Grani's pri-vate
secretary, has some religious
scntplcs about supporting his for-mer
master for a thirtl term ; but,
beyond the patronage of his office
Robert wields no political influence
iu the State. Thos. Settle, who
was President of the Philadelphia
Convention, is a strung third-term-ist.
His associates on the supreme
bench of this State are nun commit-tal.
The colored people in the State
who do not publicly favor, do not
oppose a third term.
• • • . .
The respectable classes amoug
the white Republicans are not at all
in favor of a third-term or of third-termers
; and when the Slate Con-vention
meets, should the question
be mooted, there will be a row. At
any rate, it is sale to say thirtl
term or uo third term, at the next
State election North Carolina will
go Democratic.
The First Steamer that Cross-ed
the Atlantic Ocean.
Hit Him Hard.
Gen. Butler was counsel in a re-
I he following nice little story we ! cent libel suit against the Boston
find in the Tuscumbia Nor* Ala- Herald, and secured for his client a
oamian: "If Keeley realiresevery- j verdict ot oue dollar iustead ot the
thing he claims for his miraculous I $10,000 he sued for. The Herald
motor, and lifts the Earth off its I now gets even with bim for some of
axis, and takes it whirling through his flings at it by reproducing this
•pace by the aid of a pint of water, | chapter in history : "In the course
he will uot occasion much more | of the recent libel suit Ben Butler cannot make something out of noth-r
™![P«w ,.^"_'(: *e aPPearance ol tried to ascertain the value of the I ing. She manufactures milk from
HeraId, which reminds us that he i materials yon give her (or that
had an opportunity to learn its ! purpose, just as the carpenter builds
price some years ago, when a I you a house from the materials you
political irieud o f
FARMER'S COLUMN.
Proper Care and Pood for
Milch Cows.
If you expect your cows to yield
milk liberally, you most feed them
on something better adapted to the
secretion of rich milk than such dry
I fare as might possibly keep non-producing
animals alive. Yon must
I feed them on something they like
: and will eat heartily. Of the ele-
I rncnts of rich milk there is little iu
i ordinary dry fodder ; and the cow
cannot create milk ; she can only
combine and bring together in the
form of milk such of its elements as
you provide tor her. To expect
anything more would lie as unrea-sonable
as the miller who put no
wheat in his hopper and looked for
fine flour at the tail of his mill. It
should be understood that the cow
the first steamer that crossed the
Atlantic Ocean:
[ The Savannah left Savannah,Ga.,
in May, 1819, for Liverpool, with a
supply of pitch pine in lien of coal,
; which could not be had. She was
a sailor also, and nsed but little
steam until she neared the coast of
Ireland, when she fired np with the
Georgia piue knots, producing a
pillar of fire by night and of cloud
by day, that demoralized the whole
British nation.
When the .'ire and smoke were
first seen, an English Admiral sent
his cutter to the relief of what he
thought was a ship on fire. The
more the gallant tars strove to
reach the burning vessel to rescue
its people, the more they would not
be rescued, but kept puffing right
along like the devil, which it was
thought to be, going straight to
Liverpool, where it created a com-motion
from thence to Johnny
GroatB' House.
On learning that it was not the
devil's boat, or that his majesty
was not aboard, the British Admi-ralty
took possession of it and held
it lor weeks, feariug that it was to
be used in rescuing England's ter-ror,
the Great Napoleon, from St.
Helena. The English nation was
as much afraid of Bonaparte, and
prayed as earnestly for deliverance
from him then, as their Continental
neighbors formerly prayed to be
delivered from the Turk, the Devil,
und the Comet."
Touching the Right Key.
We do not know where we have
seen more sensible and timely ad-vice
than the following from the
Baltimore Gazelle :
"It is idle to talk about a revival
of busiuess and a return to specie
payments while we are spending
the enormous amount of money we
are now spending for the mere pur-pose
of government. While every
sound business man and merchant
is endeavoring to cut down his
expenses, the gentlemen who are
conducting the government at
Washington are increasing their
outlays aud eiiie.ivoiiug to bind the
|ieople by raising false issues—sec-tarianism,
foreign wars, schools —
iu order that they may continue
their career of plunder. The policy
for the Democratic party from the
very Grst day of the session is to
go strait ahead aud cut remorsely
upon the right hand and the left.
Let General Grant endeavor to set
church agaiust church, Mr. Morton
wave his bloodstained banner, the
work for the Democratic party to
do is to save the people's monej.
Cut down the appropriations le-morselcssly,
but judiciously, aud
send them to tbe Senate and to
the President. This is the work
the couutry expects to see done,
and done quickly. Let Mr. Randall
go ahead."
How Tobacco Must be Sold.
Special dispatrh to thellaltiuioie Gstette.
Washington Jan. *.).—Recent seiz-ures
by Supervisor Foulke, in the
New England States, of quantities
of plug tobacco were yesterday the
subject ol consideration by Commis-sioner
Pratt, Deputy Commissioner
Rodgers, and Mr. Kimball, chief of
the Tobacco Division. Relief was
asked by the parties whose g Is
had been seized on the ground that
their construction of the law was
not a violation of the statute. The
iuterual revenue authorities, how-ever,
sustained the suporvisor, and
the result is of great importance
not only to retail dealers of plug
tobacco, but to the manufacturer
and wholesale dealer, as the custom
ol permitting the sale of a portion
of plug tobacco is to be discontinu-ed.
The Commissioner decides
that strict conslructiou of the law
requires that all sales of tobacco
must be made iu stamped original
packages.
To meet the demand for small
quantities five aud ten pjunil cad-dies
or boxes must be supplied by
the manufacturer, or must lose this
part of their trade. Internal reven-ue
officers will at once be instructed
to give notice to all interested in
this decision, and the custom also
of detacuiug plugs and cutting
them up for convenience in Belling
small pieces is to be abolished. II
the enforcement of this construe
tion is obnoxious to the manufactur-ers
they can have recourses to the
fount of every blessing—Congress.
Couldn't Fool Him.—A friend of
ours had a birthday recently, aud
while speaking to a German mu-sician
of his abseut friend with
whom he would have like to re-unite
on the joyous occasion, the
man ot music asked how old he
was.
"Thirty-one," replied our friend.
"Dirty one! Oh, nix. You is
more as dot."
" No; I was born in 1814 "
" 1844 ! Ah, now I hate got you
putty goot," said he iu triumph.
"How sol"
" Because yon dold me more as
five years ago dot you was born in
1844."
"Now is the time to get up clubs,"
remarked oue of our editors the
other day as he was attacked by a
dog.
h i s came
to us with the proposal that we
should favor old Ben for Governor
and name our own price. Our an-swer
was that if Ben or his friends
wanted the Herald to support him
they could buy the concern for its
full value. He may remember the
price mentioned then, but its value
has been increased since by lighting
all kinds of shysters, swiudlers aud
frauds."
A Warning lo Cigar Dealers.—
Washington, Jan. 11'.—The Commis-sioner
of Internal Revenue iu a
letter to Supervisor Folke of Boston
relating to the practice among ci
gar dealers ot pasting caution uoti-ces
with their own names as propri-etors
over the caution notices origi-nally
affixed to the boxes by the
manufacturers of the cigars in such
a manner as to completely hide the
same from view, says: "The deal
er or any other persou who covers
np aud conceals the manufacturer's
label from a cigar box renders him-self
liable for each, such removal to
a penalty of 830, and you are here-by
instructed to report all cases of
this kind to the District Attorney
for prosecution."
A Startling Fact.
A casual remark in a Raleigh pa-per
catches our eye. It is that Col.
8. D. Pool, Superintendent of Pub-lic
Instruction, says "there are two
hundred and thirty thousand white
children i-i North Carolina, and
only Htteen thousand of these are
attending the subscription schools
And outside the school centres in
the State there is not an average of
a hundred children to every county
going to school." Well may the
amazed reporter exclaim : "Think
of that ! Shall old North Carolina
twenty years from to day he peo-pled
with numbskulls? We all
are to blame. Let us take hold and
do better.''
Indeed we must do better than
that. Rouse up, North Carolinians
all! Send your children to school
as long as you have a crust of bread
and a whole garment to feed and
clothe them with. Give your child-ren
clothing lot the miud, which
stands tbe "car and tear of the
wasting years.— Wilmington Star
Tin- lad that one Chinaman has
been naturalized in California, and
the report that two or three others |
have formally declared their inten-tion
to become American citizens,
has excited extraordinary iuterest
aud no little apprehension iu that
State. According to the San Fran-cisco
Bulletin, if Chinese naturaliza-tion
is to go on, it is within the po-litical
possibilities that, within five
years Irom date, 10,000 Chinamen
may be marching up to the polls iu
S.in Francisco to vote, and not less
than 70,000 iu the State of Califor-nia.
The Chinamen in that State
eliga'ole to naturalisation are con-siderably
more in number thau one-half
the white votersvand it all who
are now iu the State should be nat-uralized
with,in five years the choice
ot Governor might depend upon the
will of the heathen Chinee, the
great majority of whom, as it is
well known, retain iu California
their native enstoms, bearing a
weakness for soft hats aud cowhide
boots. But as out of the immense
emigration from China duriug the
past twenty years only one emi-grant
has as yet developed into full-blown
American citizen, it is not
probable that Ah Sin will be elect-ed
Governor of the Golden Slate
at any early day.—-Vnr York 8tm.
lllaiiu.- -Ex Spcakerlilaiue'sfath-er
and mother were members ol the
Catholic Church, aud their children
five sons and two daughters, were
all brought up in that laith. Two
of Mr. Blame's nieces, daughters of
his sister, became nuns. A cousiu
of his, the Rev. N. II. Giliespie, is
a professor at Notre Dame Univer-sity,
in ludiana, aud another cousin
Mother Angela, is the mother supe-rior
ol tbe convent there, anil auth-or
of a series of Catholic readers.
Mr. Blaiue was a Catholic iu early
life, but ol late years has practical-ly
discarded his religion.
Only $">0.000 a year—$4,16G.GC a
mouth—$138.87 a day—$5.78 an
hour—rain or shine, in light or in
darkness, sleeping or waking, iu
prosperity or i n adversity, from
January 1 to December 31. That's
what the country pays Ulysses
Grant for dead-beating aud spree-ing,
frolicking, horse lacing, tobac-co
puffing and third-term plotting,
from ocean to ocean, and from
Long Branch doggeiies to Rocky
Mountain gambliug-hells. I t s
cheap for soch an article, isn't it I
Stand np to the rack,ye unresisting
American bond slaves '.—Raleigh
Sentinel. _^__^^__
There is a kiud of grim humor in
the address of a devout deacon to
his newly-settled pastor, as he gave
him the usual welcome: "The Lord
keep you humble, aud we will keep
you poor."
A night or two ago, a Vicksburg
woman was trying hard to get her
drunken husband home, and her
words aud actions were so lender
that a citizen halted and said :—
" Well, all drunkards' wives haven't
your disposition." " •Sh, don'
anything," she replied in a whisper.
" I've got to call him pet uames to
get him home, but wait till he drops
Into the hall—be around then.
During a dense fog a Mississippi
steamboat took a landing. A travel
er, anxious to go ahead, came to
the unpertnrbee manager of the
wheel and asked why they stopped.
" Too much fog, can't see the river."
" But yon can see the stars over
head." '• Yes," replied the urbane
pilot, " but until the biler busts we
ain't goin' that way." The passenger
weut to bed.
There are now eight pin factories
in the United States, which make
47,000,000 pins daily. In addition
to these the importations of pins
reach L'.I.OOO.OOO daily. As these
aie all easily sold, it is safe to say
that 72,000.000 of pins are lost
daily, or 00,000 every minute.—
Where they all go to is the wonder.
A cockney tourist met a Scottish
lassie going barefoot toward Glas-gow.
"Lassie," said he, "I should
like to know if all the people in
these parts go barefoot!'' "Part
on 'em do, and part on 'em mind
their own business," was the rather
settling reply.
Mrs. Gen. B. C. Wood, eldest
daughter of Zachary Taylor, died
lately iu Freiburg, Germany. The
other living children of Taylor are
a daughter in Winchester, Va., and
Gen Richard Taylor, of Louisiana,
who was a Confederate officer.
The women ol Ontario, Canada.
have presented a petition to the
Legislature, praying for the aboli-tion
of the liquor traffic It bears
8,720 signatures, the first two being
those of the late Governor and the
wife of the Prime Minister.
The National Republican Con-vention
of 1851! was held at Phila
delphia ; that of 1800, at Chicago :
that of 1804, at Baltimore ; that of
180S, at Chicago, and tint of 1*71',
at Philadelphia. The West feels
itself entitled to the next one.
Minnesota is to have a State ine-briate
asylum for which the liquor
Bellurs will have to pay, as the So
preme Court has sustained the con-stitutionality
of the law imposing
a tax for this purpose.
"I don't have to go to the news-papers
for my whiskey news,"' she
remarked confidentially to a friend,
"I can always tell it by his breath
the moment be gets into the bed."
In 1832General Jackson appoint
ed John Manifold postmaster oi
Muddy Creek Fords, 1'ork county,
Pa., and Johu Manifold has been
postmaster there ever since.
A huge petrefaction, formed al
most entirely of serpents in various
positions, but making a solid mass,
has been found near the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio Itailroad.
"Is that clock right, over there '."
asked a visitor the other day.—
"Right over there," said the boy ;
" 'taint nowhere else.''
Why is a lawyer the most ill used
man iu our social system f Be-came,
though he may drive his own
carriage, he must draw the convey-ances
of other people.
A lady wished a seat in a crowded
hall. A handsome geutlemau gave
her a chair. "You are a jewel,' sin-said.
"Oh, no; I'm a jeweler; I
have jnst set the jewel"
The widow of the late Ex-Presi-dent
Johnson is dead.
One in every forty of the popula-tion
of Durham county, England,
has been convicted of drunkenness
within a year.
supply him with. If you supply-bad
materials he cannot build such
a house as you desire. If yon sup-ply
a cow with poor aud scanty
food, she may give you, aside from
quantity, more milk than you de-sire,
mute thau is for your iuterest;
because, in that case, the milk
comes not from the food you give,
but from her own body ; so that in
the end yon will either lose your
cow or will be a loser by by her
constant diminution in value. A
R is,- farmer wishes every animal to
increase its value.
Milch cows should be fed often.
Four times a day is not too often.
Their -stalls should lie close aud
« at in for cold weather, but so con-structed
that pure air may be ad-milted
at the discretion of the
keeper. It is well that their quar-ters
should be partitioned off from
tho-e of other stock. The with-drawal
of milk twice daily abstracts
a great deal of heat from their
bodies. The loud of fattening oxen
is more heating. Hence the rea-sonableness
of warm stalls for milch
cows, but cool quarters tor oxerl
while feeding high and laving ou
fat.
Cultivating the Vegetable
Garden.
It formerly was more common
than now, but tbe practice is not
obsolete, of making a vigorous show
iu tbe Spring, of "making gardens,"
expending much care and labor iu
dividing the allotted space into
small beds, and carefully smooth-ing
out the passage way be-tween.
Unfortunately, this vigo-rous
commencement is sometimes
followed by after neglect, which is
made the more probable from the
fact thai in a garden thus divided
all the work must be done by baud
labor.
There is much gained by arrang-ing
the small liuils and many ol
the vegetables in long rows. In
the Ami place, space is saved, but
more important than this is the
gain from being able to use Die
horse in cultivating and plowing the
ground. On this subject theNe.s
Yol i; Tritium ~.:\ - :
"A member of the Horticultural
Societv of Mnskingtim county,Ohio,
remarked at a recent meeting that
'if farmers would have their gar-dens
large enough to cultivate with
a horse they would be inoreeuc-
CeSRful than they are with spade
and hoe.' Which suggests the prac-tice
ol a distinguished tanner of
our acquaintance, who, instead of
surrounding his garden with a fence
anil a row ot bushes, locates it in
open space, wiih sufficient margin
of mil io turn on. He finds that
the labor i.l tillagi'is very much
less with such a plot than under
the ordinary system, while the veg-etables
and small fruits can be ap-proached
from tbe nearest point
when a mess is desired for culinary
use. lb- thus avoids also fence
corners, which in most farmers'gar-dens
are very likely Io lie neglected,
and are kept clear ol weeds only at
the Co,is' of ii good deal ol eternal
vigilance." — Westi m Rural.
ihio Farmer.
Sleeping Place for Hogs.
Il is a rude looking affair. It
cost l,ur little money. Twenty live
cents invested in nails and two
days' labor covers the entire cost.
The material is the remains ol an
anciei'i granary, and the plank
frotn a worn out stable floor. The
roof is a load of wild grass Irom the
bottom. It is ten by twelve feet,
and five fei I high, with a small door
in the soulli. .ist coiner. The walls
an- double and the Bpace of lour
inches between them smiled with
straw. The cold wind cannot find
even :i worm hole lor entrance. \\ e
located il in the back pail of the
orchard on a dry piece ol ground.
The ground is the lloor. It is a
homely, pi imitive looking structure,
but I doubt not, if tbe hogs could
give us their opinon, they would
say it was the most comfortable
buildu . fai iu And it e ■
tanner in the State Ol Ohio had
such a sleep,eg plin e for bis slore
boos ii would in the aggregate save
thousands of dollars the present
winter. Besides, I inink it will be-come
band] in fallowing time nexl
March. D. N. A.
The Raleigh Newt says that tbe
value of fat tiling utensils
reported at tbe Auditor's office for
this year, is seven millions eight.
three thousand nine bundled and
three dollars. This includes farm-ing
utensils, tools of meehanie-.
household and kitchen liirniture,
provisions, anus toi muster, wear-ing
apparel for owner and family,
and libraries aud scientific iustru
incuts.
Wilmington Review: Mr. Win.
II. Sneeden, aged63 years, a i
dent ol Wrightsville Sound, in this
counts, has aover been on a railroad
ear, and has only been on a steam-boat
once in his life—thai tim<
in" on an excursion down the river.
lie has furthermore never I
away front his home over ninety-sit
hours at a time.
There are ' 1,333 blind men am!
s,s77 blind women in the United
State*