The Greensboro patriot [May 21, 1879]

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OTJB COTJNTBY FIBST A. 1ST X) A.L-WA.YS,
Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1870. New Series No. 579,
I hf Defense of I.iicknnw.
gland, not for a season, (I j banner
of BiltalD, but thou
loated in conqoerwg battle or llipt to the
crj !
Sever witb mightier glory than when we had
reared thr e en high,
it top of tho roofe in the ghaetly aiege
of I.ncknow ■
II ro' the Haft or the halyard, bat ever we
raine-l t',efl anew,
:i the topmost roof e.ur banner of
■ and blew.
Aw. • ,■■. | I - r. ::.'■ tOMBJ times,
* day
,i (filial underground thun-
.- eebo 'I away,
Park lb™ the *nn ko and the imlphnr like ao
rum l Sends in tlielr bell—
bf>l i T-.-k'*. ahot, volley on volley
and yi.! npoa yell —
iv mi all tiie dt feiiaes our mvriad enemy
tone? where ia it' <> it yoo-
'innrd 'he II xlau !
Wa'e-gato ! Binrm at the liailey-atonn,
and It ran
and nwaying all ronnd na. as ocean on
' very aide
rd heaves at a bank that ia daily
drown i! by the tide—
f thoaaanda that if the; be bold enough
win -ball escape ?
:: or be kill'd, lire or die, they ahall know we
are euld:ers and men !
ul>e arm at their leader*—their maaaea
arc xapp'd with onr grape—
X»ar<l they reel like the wave; like the
wave flinging forward again)
.< ing aud foil'd at the lart by the handful
I bey eoukl Dot subdue ;
• I. \. r n|«n tl.a topmoat roof onr banner
of Knglaiid Mew.
i iu.otl.er wild morning anotbxr wild
earthquake out-tore
ean from our lines of defonae ten or twelve
good pace* an re.
■I ni-n. high on the roof, hidden there from
tin- . !.; nf tho aan—
m on lb,, b aoh, crying ont ;
i ■ I illow me I"
M^rt bun be falla ' thou another, and him,
too. and down goea he.
they IH , ii bold enough then, who can toll
I 'it Iho tiaitorj had won ?
I raftera and doors— an embra-
' make way for the gun 1
•rue it with grape! It iaoharged,
ud we lire, and they run. '
:r Indian brolhera, and let the dark
are bia duo '
to Iho kindly dark face* who fought
within, faithful and few;
ight wiih the braveat among aa, and drove
them ami .mote them and r-lew,
up in tie topmoat roof our banner
. India blew.
Hark, cannonade, facillade : ia it true what
waa told by the aoout 1
and lltvelock brea'ini thoir way
through the fell mutineere!
pfbroeh of Korope ia ringing again
I lea the garrison mt.r . jouiaui
- Ilighlandera answer with
oonqoerii;: cheers.
1 ilh from their holoa aud tbeir hidioja onr
i H1..1 children come out,
'Hie white facew of Have-
• ; I fitsilesfs,
■v.ir-hardeii d baud of the High-
: »ili. Iheir leu - '
1 laved .'- we are aaved !
ii :t you ?
rof 11 tveloek, saved by tho
I
m have bold it for
if the old lan-
- New Poem.
LHMGED HER MIND.
arnest, Olympia,'
■ M irtin shook her pret-rlsand
looked an resolute
tie, straight-featured
■■ illy urn in earnest, Mr. Vi-lee
there in one young lady ia
who can resist the attractions
mhe Hull aud your wealth I'
--, MISB Olyrapin made him a
■ c nir'.esy—graceful, but under
-'.incea, n^gravatiug.
Vming bowed eoldly aud
iway. Olympia watched him
• a the broad graveled path and
liind the hodge of glosay-
!, with n smile dimpliDg her
• • n pretty little creature, freeh
-nmed rose, with eyes
ammer «ky when noou
: prime, nud a plump-
. male yon think
ilir.
>nt at her sewing aa
I the family sitting-i
1 iDijiiiringly, 'has Mr.
I have refused to be
shrieked Mrs.
! young man who
■ newspaper in the
v np, bat Olym-
. ami apparently
'urn her mother's
slipped through the
h window into the
- of the old cedar
r the garden.
r.ieIf was scarcely cer-had
done right or
!-• the master of Q ldes-pietryatthebot-
.ouewillfnlnoec--
knew what else.
I- think.
!:ad foiiowed her
too eager to plead
think aught of policy.
• •'igerly, looking
, thero oouldbe
■ i f irymir refusing George
-
Link Ml" she queftioned,
• '■■■ enntmnod, 'is that you
Olympia—my darling
neyou 1OT»1I'
' amid Mis Olympia,
Tery resolntely. 'Get op on* that graTel
path immediately, Conain OliTer, and
don't make a greater fool ol yourself
than nature baa already made yon I'
'Olympia, do yon mean to aay'
•I mean to say that I'm no more in
love with yon than I an with the atone
wall yonder, and if yon don't cease im-portuning
me at once, I will go back
to the house !'
So Oliver Sandi retreated signally
discomfited in this short, bat eventful
passage at arms; bat little Olympia,
sitting down in the shades of the cedars,
had a good crying fit, she herself did
not know what fox.
But her troubles were by no means at
an end. Jessy Vining, George's cousin,
sod ber ever special and darling friend
had her ssy to enunciate yet.
'I think it is a great shame, Olympia,
for you to treat George as yon have
done,' she said solemnly.
Olympia shrugged her dimpled shoul-ders—
how pearly they looked under the
soft white muslin of her dress—and
panted.
■Jlow have I treated him ?' she de-manded.
'Ton have encouraged him and led him
on, and then, just when he had cause
to fancy his hopes nearest their fruition,
yon have coldly jilted him.'
Olympia crimsoned; she had not seen
her conduct in just the same light be-fore.
'I am not bound to marry every man
that asks mo to be his wife, 'she rejoined,
a little doflantly.
'No—yon are not bound to be true
and just and honorable. If a man pats
his heart at your feet, yon have a right
to trample it down and go on yonr way,
smiling and radiant as ever.'
'Jessy r pleaded Olympia, seeking
refuge in tears, 'how conld yoa be so
unkind t'
'I am not nnkind; I am only truth-ful
I'
'But I did not love George I'
'Then why did you treat him as you
didf I toll yoa, Olympia, you have done
a very wicked thing I'
Bnt Olympia's store of argument fail-ed
her, and she only cried and ran away
and declared within herself 'she never
would speak to that hateful Jessy Vining
again.' t
And so the summer days rippled on.
'Dear heart!' croaked Grandmother
Martin, 'what does ail Olympia ? She's
getting as thin as a shad and as pale as
the city gals boardin' over to Squire
Taylor's who rub chalk on their faces.
She dou't eat nothin', nor have no more
spirits. We don't have to scold her no
more for UughUT too load—and I think
she'd ought to drink herb tea or bark
sirnp or something.'
'It's only the hot weather, grandma,'
said Oiympia,
'I'll make you a bit o" tea that would
make a corpse get out of iU ooffio,' said
Grandmother Martin.
'I won't drink it,'said Olympia, de-fiantly.
„
"Do let the child have her own way,'
said Mrs. Martin, 'she'll be well enough
when the fall comes I'
Bat it was not the weather that was
stealing the roses from Olympia's cheek
and tlio roundness from her figure, but a
troubled and nnrestfol heart.
For Olympia found ont all too late,,
that she was in love with George Tining,
the man she had so haughtily discarded
in tho glow and pride of her youthful
beauty.
Mr. Vining had left tho village a few
days subsequent to the defeat of his
fondest and most treasured hope, and
G.ildescombo Hall was temporarily
closed, greatly to the chagrin of all the
marriageable young ladies of the vicin-ity.
No one, except his cousin Jessy and
Olympia herself, know positively the
reason of his sndden departure, and no
one could conjecture the probable length
of his absence.
But oue evening Grandmother Martin
came into the sitting-room, full primed
for a gossip with several other old ladies,
who might easily havo saved the village
the expense of a newspaprr.
'Wal, wal.'' said Grandmother Martin,
taking a pinch of rose-soented snuff.
'Wonders never will oease I' Mr. Vi-ning's
come back to Goldesoombe, and
he's married I'
'Married?' echoed Mrs. Martin, while
Olympia bending over her work, grew
as pale aB a sheet. 'And to whom?'
'I don't know exactly; bnt it's so, for
Dnncan Peel's wife, she was down to the
depot, this morning, to meet her hus-band's
cousin's darter, from Boston,
that's coming to make her a visit, and
she saw Mr. Vining step off the car, and
help a la ly off, and the Goldesoambe
carriage was there to meet 'em. There I'
'Hut that's no sign he's married,' per-sisted
the doubting Mrs. Martin.
'Wal. Duncan Peel's wife saya he is,'
persisted Grandmother Martin; 'and
there's a lot o satin damask cnrUini
come down for the north drawing-room
at the Hall, and if that don't mean a
wife, I'd like to know what does I'
Olympia oonld endure it no longer.
"he rose and left the room, harrying
through the green village lanes aa if
ished Jessy. 'What has happened,
Olympia r*
•Nothing,' Olympia answered, 'ex-cept
that I am the most miserable girl
in all the world I I refused your cousin
George, and I loved him all the while,
and now—now—now he ia married.'
'Married? Oonain George ?'cried Jes-sy.
'Who told yon M?"
•Every one is talking of it—bow he
returns this morning from Hull with hia
bride, and'
•Stop,' said Jessy, laughing in the
very face of her friend's hysterical tears,
'come here, Olympia.'
And she threw open a door, through
which Olympic could see a spectacled
matron of fifty, sewing industriously at
the end of the hall.
'That is the lady who came with
George from Hnll this morning—> new
housekeeper for the Hall. Bhe stays
here nnder mamma's direction nntil to-morrow,
when she takes possession of
her new quarters at Gjldeaeombe Hall.
The servants there are very faithful, bnt
they need a head, and Mrs. Bigham
comes very highly recommended. How
oonld the gossips of the village possibly
construe, that staid matron into a bride
for George Vining I' And Jessy laugh-ed
merrily at the thought
'Then he is not really married ?' fal-tered
Olympia, with the soft red flushes
coming and going on her cheeks, and a
light, vivid as the bine glitter of a sap-phire,
stealing into her eyes.
'No, nor likely to be, unless'
'Unless,'chimed in the voice of Mr
George Vining himself, coolly walking
in from another room, the door of which
was slightly ajar -'unless Miss Olympia
Martin will consent to be my wife; oth-erwise
I shall remain an old bachelor to
the end of the chapter.'
'George I' Olympia had sprang np
with a slight shriek. .
•Whioh is it to be, Olympia ?' he de-manded
playfully, pitting both her
hands in his, *a ernsty baohelor or a gay
wedding before the oaks at Goldescombe
turn yellow with the October frosts I
The decision rests with yon. Olympia,
tell me, do yon love me ?'
And Olympia, the tears scarcely yet
dry npon her cheeks, confessed that she
did!
Jessy Vining was delighted at the un-expected
tnrn that things had taken.
'But for all that,' she said demurely,
'if a yonng man comes wooing me, I
shall tell him the trnth at once, and not
risk his constancy by letting my fate
depend on a second courtship !'
Stuart's Portrait of Madame Itouaparte.
Since the death of Madame It jnaparte
mention has been made of hei portrait
—three heads on one canvaa-by Btnart.
That picture is at present in the rooms
the Maryland Historical Society. For
a long time it remained in the studio of
Stnart, who would not give it np—
who, in fact, ordered it to be taken to the
garret of his house, where it was left
with many other portraits that had met
with the same fate. Toe reason for this
is not generally known. Although Stu-art
was slow in finishing hit pictures,
he conld tarn them off very rapidly if he
saw fit to do so, bnt he had a habit after
working a picture np to certain point,of
leaving it for a time and working on
other heads. This procrastination some-times
extended through years, particu-larly
when sitters were crowing in upon
him. The friends of Madame I! mapar to
had seen enongh of the piotnre to make
them impatient to have it finished, for
it was very beautiful; and one of the
most nrgent was her hnsband. Bona-parte
deemed it an insult to be so treat-ed,
and when the two came together—
B >naparte and Stuart, both men of vio-lent
tempers—the breach was so widened
that it could not be bridged over. Stn-art
thought the remarks addressed to
him by Bonaparte were impertinent,and
the result waa that B jnaparte conld not
get possession of his own or his wife's
portrait on any terms. Tears after this
occurrence, Mr. Patterson, Mis. Bona-parte's
father, went to Boston to sit to
Staart for his portrait. In the course of
conversation with Stnart the portrait of
Mrs. 1! mnparte was mentioned, when
S'.nart had it brought from the garret.
Mr. Patterson was delighted with it,and
Stuart, though he oonld ill-afford to do
so, gave it to him—"not," says Miss
Stnart, who related this incident
"that he did not value his work, bnt to
show the world that he valued still
higher his position aa an artist." The
portrait is really throe heads on one
oanvM—front, three-quarters and pro-file,
each beautiful in itself, and the
three together made a charming picture
—one that has rarely been equaled.
American Products.
A correspondent of aNewTork paper,
writing from Germany, says that trade
on the continent is very bsd, tho poorer
people are in serious distress, and capi-talists
are earning less and less by their
investments, the limit to the profitable
employment of money seeming to have
been reached in many branches of in-dustry.
There is also great uneasiness
in Germany and Holland on account of
the growing favor in which American
there were a .pint of restlessneaiI to her prodnct(l „ held ,nJ the MHaH, in.
anxious footsteps, nntil she reached the
little cottage where Jessy Vining lived.
Jessy wns at the window, and called
to her : 'Olympia, Olympia, come in I
Why, how palo yon are I'
'Am I ? It is because I am tired
walking !' bravely asserted the girl, aa
she sat down besido Jessy in the pleas-ant
room and tried to smile.
'Bnt yon have been crying, Olympia I"
persisted her friend.
At these words, spoken in a aoft and
sympathetic voice, Olympia'a tears flow-ed
afresh, and, losing all her self-com-mand,
she sobbed alond, on Jessy's
shoulder.
'What is the matter ?' cried the aston-crease
in their sale. American stoves
and hardware are largely sold in these
countries, and now 'American bntcher
shops' are being opened in Amsterdam
and elsewhere, which will sell American
meats exclusively. Holland finds that
its butter trade with England, which
has been very extensive and profitable,
is menaced by American competition,
the bntter fnmiahed from this country,
while leas esteemed for quality than the
Dutch article, being cheaper in price
and more salable iu the present bard
times. ^
Some Nevada mines that nBed to go
down are going np.
$«0,000 for a I'i.tnrr.
Harper't Weekly in an account ac-companying
a handsome view of the
private art gallery of the late A. T.
Stewart—which, by the way, is the finest
in America—says that by far the moat
important picture in the collection is the
great Meiasonier, for which Mr. Stew-art,
ahortly before his death, paid the
sum of gflO.OOO. It was called by the
artist "18(17," and has been frequently
spoken of aa "A Charge of Cuirassiers"
—a very inappropriate and incorrect ti-tle.
Io reality the painting is the result
of tho embittered feelings of the great
French artist, imprisoned in his atelier
during the siege of Paris, and the title
he gave it was expressive of his anger
and emotion against the Germans. The
history of this remarkable work from
the time of its first conception is ex-ceedingly
interesting. Iu the early part
of 1870 Meissonier bethought himself
of recalling to Europe, through the
magic of his art, the era of 1807, when
the French had triumphed with splendid
victories over the German hosts. CJD-scious
of his ability in a certain line, and
his weakness in another, he did not at-tempt
a battle piece, bnt at the same
time chose a subject which shonld recall
a moment of bitter military humiliation
to the Germans. Tnis was connected
with the battle of Friedland, the paint-ing
depioting the enthnaiasm of the
French cuirassiers when at the review
that took plsce the day after the con-flict,
they galloped past the emperor and
hia brilliant staff. Patriotism inspired
Meissonier with the determination to
make this his greatest piotnre, and the
canvas he chose was eight feet long by
flve wide—a tremendous size for a man
whqae painting havo been, with few ex-ceptions
quite small. The enthusiasm
with which he worked, combined with
the marvelous dexterity of hia hand,
gave such promise of singular excellence
to the preliminary sketch that the pic-ture
was already a aabject of conversa-tion
in artistic circles before the first
line was drawn. At this time there was
detained in Paris by the siege Sir Rich-ard
Wallace, of England, a well-known
connoisseur in art. Tnis nobleman be-came
one of the moat enthusiastic ad-mirers
of the picture, which as yet waa
nothing more than a rough sketch. He
asked Meissonier his price, and the art-ist
demanded 200,1)00 francs in gold, or
about $40,000, one-half of whioh was to
be paid down in advance. The terms
were accepted, the monoy was paid, and
Meissonier began to paint. Those who
ha<Mho prlviUge of seeing the picture
in its immaturity were charmed, and did
not hesitate to pronounce it the crown-ing
work of the artist's lifo. I a the
sixth year it was completed ; and Mos-sonier,
feeling that he had far excelled
what he proposed to do when he made
the bargain with Sir K chard Wallace,
wrote to him that ho thought he ought
to receive another hundred thousand
francs. This the nobleman refused to
give, and when Meissonier insisted, he
resigned the picture, which was at once
sold to Mr. Stewart. There was some
feeling in England about the matter,
but the blame, if thero be any, must
rest npon Meisionier, and cannot in
any way be thrown upon the American
merchant.
Rewards of (.enliis in Olden Times.
Homer was a beggar; Plat us turned a
mill; Terence waa a slave; I'o-'hius died
in jail; Paul Borghese had fonrteen
trades, and yet starved with them all;
Tasso was often distressed for five shil-lings;
Bentivoglio was refused admit-tance
into a hospital he had himself
erected. Cervantes died of bnnger; the
celebrated writer of the 'Lnsiad' ended
his days, it is said, in an almshouse, and
at any rate, was supported by a faithful
black servant, who begged in the streets
of Lisbon for tho only man in Portugal
on whom G xl had bestowed those talents
whioh have a tendency to erect the
spirit of downward age, and Vagelas left
his body to tho surgeons to pay his debts
as far as the money would go; Bacon
lived a life of meanness and distress;
Sir Walter Kaleigh died on the scaffold;
Spencer, the charming, died in want:
the death of Cjllins was through neglect,
first causing mental derangcaient; Mil-ton
sold his copyright of 'Paradise Lost'
for fifteen pounds, in three payments,
and finished his life in obscurity; Dry-den
lived in poverty and distress; Otway
died prematurely, and through bnnger;
Lee died in the steeet; Steele lived a
lifeof perfect warfare with bailiffs;Gold-smith's
'Vicar of WakeDold" was sold for
a trifle to save him from the grip of tho
law; Fielding lies in tho burying ground
of the English factory at Lisbon, with-out
a Btone to mark the spot; Savage
died in prison at Bristol, where he was
confined for the debt of eight pounds;
Butler lived a lifo of penury and died
poor; Chatterton, the child of genius snd
aud misfortune, destroyed him.
Bread and Itutter.
Dr. Hall, in his Journal of TZeal'h,
gives the following bit of wisdom:
'Bread and bntter are the only articles
of food of which we never tirefrom early
childhood to extreme old ago. A pound
of fine flour or Indian meal contains
three times as much meat as one pound
of butcher's roast beof, and if the whole
product of the grain, bran and all, were
made into bread, fifteen \ er cent, more
of nutriment would be added. Unfor-tunately,
the bran, the coarsest part of
which gives soundness to tho teeth and I
strength to the brain, is generally ex-cluded.
Five hundred pounds of flour j
give to the body thirty pounds of the i
bony aliment, while the same qiantity
of bran gives more than 125 pounds.
Tins bone is lime, the phosphate of
lime, the indispensable aliment of health
to the whole human body, from the want
of which multitudes of persons go into a
general decline.'
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HMton'-i Sight Art School.
Warp* for May treats its readers to
an account of the art schools in Boston,
and says that the free day drawing class-es
proved so successful it waa resolved
to open one at night for the benefit of
mechasjica. When the experiment was
begun, after vtry brief public notice that
it would be tried, nearly a thousand
men, women and children registered
their names for entranoe within a week,
and many more were turned away be-cause
the rooms provided could not ac-commodate
them. Among these thou-aand
persons enrolled ninety-six distinct
occupations were represented—the old-est
pupil was fifty-live years of age, and
the youngest fifteen—but, aa might be
supposed, earpenters and machinists
were the most numerous. Very few who
attended had ever had any instruction in
drawing, however, so that all were start-ed
upon about the same order of tasks.
The teachers also had something to learn
respecting the boat method to be adopt-ed.
The Kensington Btyle of outlines,
plaoed on the blackboard, was the flrat
rindertaking for the tyroe. Improve-ment
began at once, and then twigs, oak
leaves, and plaster easts were brought
into play. To enoourage quickness of
execution, after outline and shadow
bad been fairly well grasped, a very
pretty aud poetio dovice was adopted.
The path of knowledge was strewn lit-erally
with flowers: rose-buds, tulips,
petunias, and callas, were brought for
the students to draw from; and the gen-erous
interest which the whole study
roused among the citizens appeared in
the readiness with which certain florists
and the Horticultural Society sent flow-ers
gratuitously for this purpose. List -
ing only a single evening, they had to
be copied in the two hours devoted to a
lesson, and it must have furnished a
pleasant stimulus to the workers to make
the flowers live again on paper, amid the
expiring perfumes thrown out by the
actual blossoms aa they slowly faded. It
was a gentle agency for discipline, which
worked very well. One pupil insisted
on depioting the usual models with
coarse, heavy lines, even applying these
to the blossoms. Seeing this obstinate
trait, the teachers flung a pot of lilies at
him by way of punishment; that is, they
plaoed lilies-of-the-valley before him as
a model. The pupil was baffled, ft was
clearly impossible to represent lilies-of-tbe-
valley by means of heavy lines, and
from that hour the fanlt was completely
cured. How perfectly symbolic of the
whole culture of art that an nndiscern-icg
eye and prejudiced hand should be
conquered by a Oelirato little flower 1
K\|"-ii-iii' Diplomats.
Our diplomatio service embraces
twenty-eight envoys extraordinary and
embassadors plenipotentiary or minis
ters resident at different foreign capitals
who are supposed To be necessary t >
maintain our foreign relations upon a
dignified and amicable basis, protect
our citizens abroad, and sco that no alli-ances
are entered into for the ruin of the
greatest of republics, and they csrtainly
cost the country a good deal of money,
007,000 a year, besides discount on ex-changes,
which are very heavy some-times.
Of tho twenty-eight representa-tives
two places are vacant, with minis-ters
leisurely going on to them; minis
ter Maynard has lately been visiting his
Massachusetts kinsfolk, and has just
sailed for Philadelphia on his return to
Turkey; minister Stonghton is traveling
for his health; minister Lowell has ap-plied
for leave of absence and is coning
home; minister \ ;yei is everywhere ex-cept
in Paris; minister Seward is.or was
recently, in Washington.on trial by Mr.
Springer's committee; minister Marsh is
sick and nnable to attend to buainesa;
minister Fjeter is coming home to look
after his candidacy for the I'uited Statea
Sjnate, and minister Meredith Kiadis
doing heroic unpaid duty in (l.-eece, re-compensing
himself in waltzes with the
Oneen of the Hellenes.
A Prudent 0|iera Singer.
Signor Caoapanini, who has just de
parted for Europe, is not only one of
the best, but oue of the most industrious
and thrifty of tenors. Daring the re-cent
operatic season he aang on eighty-two
occasions. In conversing with a
friend just before he sailed, he remark-ed
that his rule was to save aud to in-vest
at least SI,000 per month of his sal-ary.
This he invests exclusively in
United States government stocks or
British consols. He baa S70.O0O thus
invested. Said he to a friend: 'This'
(putting his hand to his throat) 'will not
last always; and while it is good, 1 must
make it earn enongh to support me com-fortably
when it fails. With $10,000 a
year, which 1 hope to have before long,
I can live elegantly in Italy. In Lon-don
or New York I oould not do it as I
would like.' S-gnor l'oli, onr Irish
friend and basso, is also a good business
man. He has not saved quite as much
Campanini, but is thrifty and jareful,
inverting his earnings in governments
and consols, and preparing for the down
grade, which all mnst descend, musioal
or unmusical, provided they live long
enongh. ___^__
Not a Pleasant Place to Reside.
According to Humboldt, the oldest
town in the world is Jakutek, five thou-sand
inhabitants, Eutern Siberia, It is
not only the oldest but probably, also,
the coldest. The ground remains al
ways frozen to the depth of three hun-dred
feet, except in midsummer, when
it thaws three feet at the surface. The
mean temperature for the year ia l'l 7
degrees F. For ten days in August the
thermometer goes as high aa eighty five
degrees. From November to February
the temperature remains between forty-two
and aixty-eight degrees below zero.
The river Lena remains frozen for nine
months of the year.
Mexico, the Paradise of Robber..
The country that Montezuma ruled
and Oortei eonquered is the paradise of
robbers. Every variety of the craft
thrives here, from the petty thief, who
steals one handkerchief, to the daring
highwayman who makes a swoop npon
a convoy of dollars and thinks little of a
fierce fight with its escort. In every
city in the land, when darkness shrouds
the streets, the robber and assassin ia
sues from his lair with knife, sword and
lasso. The broad glare of day even ia
not always a protection. The press fre-quently
directs the attention of the au-thorities
to the boldness and frequency
of the robberies committed at high noon.
There ia scarcely a road in Mexico two
milea from a city that ia not infested with
bandits, and the traveler is generally
obliged to go well armed. Honest men
who have anything to lose are always
careful how they walk the streets at
night. Iu the City of Mexico aome years
aince a band of midnight robbers called
Ease bad oes, itbo, tallow, kept the
city in a frenzy of fear, and plied their
nefarious calling for long months before
tardy justice overtook them. They de-rived
their name from the habit of strip-ping
stark naked and anointing them-selves
with oil, making their seizure and
retention almost an impossibility. Dawn
in the purlieus of this city, in the
thieves' resort, I am told, the banker
sits at the monte table with a long Cata-lan
knife, pointed as a needle and keen
as a razor, and warns the eager crowd
that if any cavaliero pretends to mistake
the bank for his stake, he will pin his
hand to the board. Crimes which in any
other country would form the subject of
comment for weeks here pass compara-tively
unnoticed, and as often go wholly
unpunished. Innumerable are the sto-ries
»of robberies which one hears, some
of them of thrilling interest and roman-tic
character.
Tue low-caste Mexican is peculiarly
fitted for the trade of an assassin and a
robber. A few dollars is a fortune to
him, and a stab ii a small matter. It is
easier to kill his victim and despoil him
at his leisure than to take the chances of
sttacking a man who may perhaps offer
a successful resistance. A Imoet certain
of absolution from his priest, who ranks
but little higher in the scale of civiliza-tion
than himself, he is always willing
to barter his ready steel for the sake of
the few dollars that will enable him to
give free rein to his sensuality or to woo
the fickle goddess at tho monte table.
'El cuehiUo no sritna ni truena' (the
knife makes no noise), he says. Living
npon little, breakfasting on a annbeam
and diuing on a paper cigar, to borrow
an expression, the lepero is constantly
tempted by his want and laziness to the
commission of orime. The very sight of
a pulque-shop, of whoae tempting bev-erages
he lacks the mesns to parlako,
or the fragrant aroma of the market fry-ing-
pans whose contents are not for him,
are sutli^ient incentives to a robbery
for which the lonely roads offer a safe
opportunity.
I .il. liinr Terrapins.
That choice dainty, the terrapin, is
caught iu great numbers along the
shores of tho coast counties of Maryland
and Virginia, and are generally taken in
the autumn, when they commence dig-ging
down into the mud, where they lie
torpid during the winter. The hunter,
walking slowly along the bank, looking
closely with practiced eye, presently sees
a round spot of mud softer than the sur-rounding
marsh. Into this he thrusts a
long pointed stick until he strikes the
back of Master Terrapin, when nothing
remains but to dig him up from where
he lies, as he thought, so securely. Iu
the spring and early fall they are caught
with nets in the deeper pools where they
abound.
For the Almighty Hollar.
The frequent accidents in coal mines
from powder explosions may be attrib-uted
to a pernicious practice prompted
by the cupidity of the outside foremen.
They purchase blasting powder in large
packages, and iu order to obtain the
price for the return of tho tins in which
they bay it, when emptied, sell the pow-der
to miners in canvas or paper bags.
Tho miners conveying powder in this
manner have not only to risk its explod-ing
by sparks from their own lamps, but
the risk iB doubled whenever they pass
another miner with his lamp glaring
from the point of his hat.
A gentleman of Hoston has made an
offer to the farmers' boyB of York county,
Maine, which will doubtless stimulate
interest in agriculture, and aid in train
ing a class of enterprising young farm-ers.
He offers prize*—the flrBt of 8100,
the second of 350, and five prizes of t'10
each—for the largest crop of Indian corn
on lots of one-eighth oi an acre each, to
tie grown by boys under seventeen years
of age, who are to report all particulars
to the president of the farmers' club in
the oounty. Tho boys are not allowed
any help, except in plowing.
The Cremation Society of England has
met with a serious check. The home
secretary, Mr. Cross, has refused his
sanction to its proceedings. lie will
not, therefore, permit the practice of
cremation either at the society's works,
'now in progress at Working, or else-where,
until a general or special act of
Parliament shall have beer, obtained
sanctioning it,'
A man went home the other evening
aud fonnd hia house locked up. ' i .-ttiug
in at the window with considerable diffi-culty,
he found on the table a note from
hia wife: 'I have gone out; you will
find the door-key on one side of the door-step.'
^^^^^^
'There's music in the heir,' moaned
the yonng hoaband as he reached for the
paregoric bottle.
Martial Law In Riisala.
The emperor of Russia baa issued s
ukase, putt ing the six chief districts of the
empire under martial law. At present the
universities of linaaia are the chief foci
of nihilism. Of these there are seven
leading ones—at 8t. Petersburg, Kieff,
Cherkoff, Odessa, Cazan, Warsaw and
Dorpat. The nkase provides for the
'provisional adoption of exceptional mea-sures'
of an extraordinarily despotic
character. Military governors are pro-vided
for the several districts, and all
the civil authority ia subordinated to
them. They are given absolute control
of all educational establishments, of the
oonrts and of the press, and are to have
discretionary power to arrest, try by
court-martial or imprison, exile or ban-ish
all suspected persons. Thus these
subordinates of the rzar are invested
with the power of life and death, with
the control of the baatlle, and can nae
their powers toward every subject of the
empire, high or low. Tbia is done un-der
the pretext oi suppressing a revolu-tionary
tendencywhich has chiefly grown
out of the impatience of the educated
class as of Ruaariaatthe despotism already
exist ing in the empire. It has only been
a few years sine*) the czar followed op
the emancipation of the serfs by estab-lishing
the rudiments of a oonatitational
government, which he promised to ex-tend
and strengthen, and now already he
ia found emulating the ayatem of the Ring
of Birmah or the Khan of Bokhara,
('often Transportation.
I u the active and intelligent competi-tion
of our cotton manufactures with
those of England it has been found that
a certain considerable percentage of loss
from wastage and filth can be avoided
by direot land transport from the gin-houses,
the difference in freight between
aea-carriage and railroad carriage being
mach more than compensated by the
economies thus effected. Tue railroads
will be able to profit by this to a con-siderable
extent—how much ean be in-ferred
from the enormous quantity con-sumed
and the freights already divided.
Thus, from the (ftiTial report of the
National Cotton Excbsnge of America
we learn that the total cotton taken for
the Northern e msumption from Septem-ber
1 to March .1], 1879, has been 1.0SS,-
:> bales, against 918,002 bales for the
same time last year,an increase of 87,17:!
bales, or more than nine per cent. In
1878 there were 788,010 bales carried by
water and received by the cotton spin-ners
from ports. Tu 1878 there were only
r.:ni,li;:.i bales. BJt whilo ia 1070 the
overland shipments were only IWi.MS
bales, in 1879 they have increased to
:M5,712bales,an increase of 1111,780 bales
or 77 per oent. A freight rate of a cent
per pound would make the value of this
inorease 3290,000 to the railroad com-panies.
An Example for Inventors,
Toe remark of the English builder,
Mr, Frederick Smith, that everything
about the American thumb latch "proves
that brains were used when it was design-ed
and made," sails out from sn old friend
of the inventor the following account of
the circumstances nnder which the in-vention
was made. Mr. 1'.lake,after tell-ing
how hia previous businesc—the
manufacture of tooth brashes—had
proved unprofitable, said: ''I found it
aa necessary to invent something. Go-ing
to the city of Now Haven I went in-to
a hardware store and asked the sales-man
to show me the worst made article
of general use. Ho at once banded me
a Norfolk latch. I bought it, took it
home,aud in a short time made the pres-ent
latoh. Iu the first yoir I sold 110,-
000 dozen." ^^^^^
I'.ih .tine In the llsiuls of Jews.
A most striking commentary npon the
power of money and the wealth of the
Jews is shown by tho statement that
I'.aron Kithschild is practically sole own-er
of the land of the I! ble, having re
ceived from Turkey a mortgage upon
the whole of Palestine in retnrn for a
loan to the porte of 200,000,000 francs.
As it is scarcely possible that Turkey
will ever be able to repay this loan
It ithscbild is virtually the possessor of
tho land of his fathers. This circum-stance
recalls the oft-mooted subject of
the return of the Jews to Palestine. It
is stated that a large number have al-ready
gone to Jerusalem, engaged in
business and are doing ranch toward
reviving the ancient commercial power
of that famous city.
The Speech Writers of Wa«h!nirton.
A Washington correspondent says
The 'original speech writers,' a class of
literary gentlemen who make a living
by fnrnishing speeches to order to mem-bers
of Congress, hsve been quite busy
of late. Ono of these gentlemen fur-nished
six speeches on the army appro-priation
bill. He has already got one np
on the disputed points in the legists
tive bill, and baa orders for four more.
These speeches are among the best that
will be delivered on the bill, and, be-sides
being well-filled with flowers, are
stored with facts and more information
than a new Congressman conld gather in
a month.
\i i iiiiiiihitiiin of Intel i .1.
A Boston merchant witb a turn for fig-ure*,
and withal an uncommonly shrewd
student of social problems, has been cal-culating
the growth of the immense for-tune
now concentrated in the hands of
Mr. Vanderbilt. Presuming the great
railroad king to live twenty years, and
reap annual harvests of interest on hia
present vast property no larger than the
modest rate of seven per cent, would
yield, he says that in 1889, Mr. Vander-bilt
s estate will be worth £120,000,000.
It seems incredible, bat the figuring
does not appear faulty.
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ITEMS OF HERGRAL IMTIIrsT.
The total amount of lumber cut Lit
season is set down at 4,834 311 H I feet.
President Qrevy has recently signer]
pardona for eight hundred communists
in France.
There are over -l.OOO.ilnO acres of pub-lie
land in Alabama subject to entry or
homestead.
The Michigan legislature has appro,
priated I12,0o0 for tho purpose of
opening an agricultural college f<
girla.
Tho mayor of Wyandotto ( ty,
aas, has issued a proclamntiou intended
to check the colored ereigrnlii n to that
plate.
At one-half oent clear profit per yard,
the thirty-three cloth OOtporatiofUi of
Fall, River, Mass., wonlJ n"t about
31,900,000.
Tue first comptroller of the treasury
decides in fsvorof theelaimof the
of Georgia for 872,0CO, expenses
Creek and Seminole war.
The settlers along the Texas frontier
are well pleased that tho legislature InB
made it a penal offense for sjai
to inclose the public lauds.
Ssven hundred violabrrs of the n ve-nue
haws appeared before tl.e I
Statea court at Nashville, Tenn., and
most of them accepted amnesty.
Hereafter all new railway ;
ears and thoae undergoing repairs will
be provided with safety heaters carry-ing
water for the purpose, of estiagniah*
ing fires.
The Missouri legislature has a i.ovel
proposition before it to punish voter*
who stay sway from the pods tiir.v elec-tions
in succession with forfeiture of
their right to hold any Din JO in tho
State.
Tho indications, according to the New
Orleans Prrri (arrcnl, are that the m-gar
yield of laat year will reach .
hhds, or an increase of To per oent., and
the molasses MI 8,000 bbls., or a falling
Off Of :< .IHMIbblS.
H. P. Tador, the traveler on horse-back
to Patagonia, has arrived at Tus -
enmbia, Ala. He is accompin.icd by
Dr. LouiaH. Ayme, who joined him at
I.ynchburg, Va., and who goea to Pate-gonia
aa a scientist.
The members of tho legislature oi
Msine, from 1872 to 187:1, ar- called
to disgorge, in tho matter of . lot
mileage illegally paid them, the tn|
oourt of the State having reeenl
sided that the payments in qni stion w re
not warranted by law.
There has been a gene:el cutting down
oi rents in New York this spring, and
many brownstone fronts that were, for-merly
occupied by wealthy familii s, mo
now rented as first and lea
boarding houses. The "flat"
has been greatly overdone, and
of them stand empty.
During 1878,ia the Dotted 81 il
Oauada, 1..T77 horses started in 1
running races, winning a total i I
.'I9."> in money aud plate. 'Jin- Duki f
Magenta wou tho largest ami mil,
925; Bramble next, $12,385; ' I ray Alice
least, >In; Dank won tin »!
bor of races, fourteen.
Thero has been a great Oath
monstration and display of aaen
in 8 >me in honor of the Vtrgi
aa a protest against the allege1
gioua teaching ol the I'rotestiitit mill
ter, Dr. Kb', etti, who had posted l
bills announcing a disc
'•OlorytoOod Only."
Another coachman his married I. <
employer's daughter. J.u.iivA.W eta,
coachman and waiter for the '.
Wm. 'fownsend, a wealthy N v V rk. r,
privately married the eldeel Mi I
send in January last,near Nyael
alliance has just been diaooveri d I
seandallzation of tho yonng la
ily.
The tobacco cases at NOT Orl
have been compromised by the p.irl
in tho ring paying cousider.ibi.
the government, one of tin m ]
high as."10,0(;i). Since the i
made thero has been a mater
in the revenne from tobacco i„
era in that city, the increase
to SlO.OoOper month.
Tho military governor of
burg baa ordered all gunmak* :
lists of their stock to the city 0
i.'ant, and to sell only to pi
senting special authorization,
penalty of confiscation of tl
prohibition of trade. Private per*
possessing arms can only r I
by special permission.
iu Miss A. M. Hiogleton'i b . r • .
in Nashville, Tenn., Taomas I!
treated several friends, and, n
psy, waa locked in by M sa
who attacked him with u-lik ol wood.
Her brother, A. M S ngleton, t at
Baker, slightly wonnciug hil
returned the fire and killed
Tue ocroner"B jury returned a
jnetiliable homicide.
A man named SU Oemi
quitted or the murder of ■
New Orleans. Another party
for the murder, and on the bet
denies appeared as a witi
when ask'd who had tir- i'!. ■
confessed that he had. \ . 1 -
bad declared upon their oaths Hint
(iemes was innocent, h i
takes advantage oi it and ia fl
The legal obatnMtiona 1
removed, work has been ream
great suspension bridge bail
York and Brooklyn. The «
each as big sronu 1 as a man'i b id •
complete, and one thousand mi
soon be employed in pushing
upon the suspended roadway. 11
still require two years.at least, to hi
the bridge to the poiut of opening 11
the public.