The Greensboro patriot [February 11, 1880]

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Scott, Small & Co.,
ORKKNSBORO, N. C,
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NOTIONS, FANCY GOODS,
0LOVE8, BUTTONS, HOSIERY,
RIBBONS, ALPACAS, SHAWLS AND
SMALL WARES GENERALLY,
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Slate that ihey carry a
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ORDERS SOLICITED FROM CASH PURCHASERS
an-l Merchant* in Gootl Credit. «
()'ir (erma *nm» a* any rirat claw honM in
New York.
Good! ordered of IM not tuttimgeiiker in -/uali-fy
ur friCt 0M he returned at our erj*n»t.
y.tur orden ■oliettad.
J. W. Scott & Co.
GRKENSHORO, N. C,
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GROCERIES of ALL KINDS
TIN WAKE, CROCKERY,
CLA88 WARE, WILLOW WARE,
Oils, Rope, &o„ &c,
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Staii- ilmt llior lmmlle FLOCK and
1,'ORK in large quautiti**.
Orders solicited fur car load*- or smaller
quantity.
All kind* of marketable produce laken from
merchants in payment of good..
fa** If yon hav. anythiug to Mil, or want
lo (my or exchange auvlhlug for good* call on
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CHARLESJ). YATES,
Bookseller l Stationer,
DEALER IN MUSIC,
FANCY GOODS, &.C.,
OBBBHSBOBO, N. C.
The Amen of the Rooks.
Though blind with age, forth Beda went
with zeal
The tidings of salvation to proclaim.
Through town and hamlet, gnidzd by a
boy.
The | .■■!:■• father wandered, fall of love.
And preached to dying men tba word of
life.
The boy once gaided him into a Tale
O'erstrewn with rooks and empty heaps
<>f Ktune,
And *her«* in wantonuesa, not malioe.said:
" Moat r^v'rend father, many men are here.
And wait to hrar the word of gospel truth."
The blind old man arose with joyfol baste.
Loose him a text, explained it and ap-plied,
Kxhortvd, warned, rebuked and comforted
Bo loving that the tears rolled down his
cheeks
And gently hid themselves in his gray
beard.
When in conclnaion then, as it is fit,
He prayed the prayer the Saviour taught,
and Maid :
" Thine U the kingdom, thine tbs power,
and thine
The glory nnto all eternity."
There burst from oot the vale a mighty
shoot:
"Amen, most rev'rend father," and
" Amen !''
The boy was frightened; kneeling down,
with Bhame
He to the holy saint confessed the sin.
11 Son," said the father, " haat thon never
read,
WheB.men are silent rocks and stones will
cry f
Mock nevermore, 0 BOD, the Word of God!
A two-edged eword it in, and quick, and
sharp,
And powerful. And if the heart of man
Should turn to stone, defying truth and
love,
The rock with human heart will throb
aloud."
From the German of Roteyarten.
GREENSBOKO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1880. New Series No. 616.
Editorial.
A tull ..-.-■ i r m.-■. r of the
SCPIOOL BOOKS
i"<l in Otiilf »rd and ailjoiniiii: Countie* al-w-.
v- in -toi-k. Conutry men-bant, furniehed
at >*voiab!e price*.
I keel, a!*o a full eupply ot the book* rec-on.
ilielKle.i by til*- State Board of Education,
au.l approved by the Comnii**ioiierH of Guil-fonl
County, for use in the Public School*,riz ;
HOLMES' SPELLER,
HOLMES READERS,
HOLMES' ENGLISH GRAMMAR,
HOLMES' HISTORY,
MAl'RY'S GEOGRAPHIES,
REYNOLDS' COPY HOOKS,
SANEOKD'S ARITHMETICS,
WORCESTER'S DICTIONARIES;
-old at introduction and exchange.
••THE BALBH ALMANAC"
by tb. grot.*, dozen or *iii«lr tefj,
Thomas' Jet Black Ink
I am sole Agent, at
retail.
\ i.iitfr»a!f and
Pack and Boyder*!
AMERICAN CLUB 3KATES,
id a variety of otsttr styles, trom $li26 Io
[a
J.'» s pair.
nil with my Hook Siore 1 air..
CIRCULATING UHtlRY,
-H of whic-h I offt-r to the public at eery
lb, 1880.
THE IMPROVED
TENNESSEE WAGON
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January
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CHEAPEST and BEST in the Market.
Sold and Wimntad by
J". & C. LEWIS.
Jiill 7, l-.-0-fini Greetl.boro, N. C.
1 88 O.
IWOI'LD r«nppelfnlly invito the atten-tion
of ibine wiahing to Imy goods in
my line to an inspection of my ]ire»en:
■took, an I am offering a great many good*
nl
REDUCED PRICES,
notwithstanding Urn recent advance in al
most every claaa of good*. Mr atock con-sist*
in part of a large ami well selected
stock of
Dry Goods, Notions.Hosiery, 4c.
Dress Goods, Mlks and Satins,
I -p. .ialty. All wool tine black and col-or,.!
Cashmeres, the beat assortment in
this market : Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
Hat* : a large lot of ladies' lino Trunks;
Carpets, Ladies' Cloaks, Shawls. Ac
Ladies wanting a nice pair of Merino
Veals should not fail to see my styles bo-fore
buying.
Also a good assortment of Cents* Red
and White Elatinel Shirts and Drawers.
\V. R, MURRAY.
Jan T, l-v<0. Greensboro, N. C.
FURNITURE,
CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, ETC.
■ kin the city.
W R FORMS A HRO.,
'• '■■ ;! <■. Gfeensboro, N. C.
John T. Humphreys.
Of the I'nivctsities of Berlin, Prussia and
Madrid, Spain.
Late Naturalist and Entomologist to the
(Depart of Agr.) State of Ga , Cor. Mem.
Buffalo (N. Y.) Acad. Nat. Sciences.
Mineral lands examined and analyses of
ores furnished.
Insects injurious to the Farm, Garden
and Orchard, determined, with the most
effectual methods for their destruction
given on application.
Minerals, Insects, Reptiles and Arch
Relics desired. Office hours 9 to IS A. M
daily. Greensboro, N. C.
Give me Three Grains of Corn,
Mother.
(This powerful anil pathetic piece, was
suggested by many of the painful inci-dents
of the memorable Irish famine of
1+16. The title was the last request of
au Irish lad to bis mother, as be was dy-ing
of starvation. She found three grains
of corn in a corner of his ragged jacket,
and gavo them to him. It was all she had.
The whole family were perishing from
famine.]
Give me three grains of corn, mother,
Only three grains of corn;
It will keep the little life I have
Till the coming of the morn.
I am dying of hunger and cold, mother,
Dying of hunger and cold ;
And half the agony of such a death
My lips have never told.
I am gnawed like a wolf at my heart,
mother,
A wolf that is tierce for blood—
All the livelong day, and the night beside,
Gnawing for lack of food.
I dreamed of btcad in my sleep, mother,
And the sight was heaven to see—
I awoke with an eager, famishing lip,
Hut you bail no bread for me.
Row could 1 look to you, mother,
How could 1 look to you
Forbroad to give your starving boy,
When you were starviug, too f
For I read the famiue in your cheek,
Ai.d in your eye so wild,
And I felt it in your bony hand,
As yon laid it on yonr child.
Tito Qneeu has lauds and gold, mother,
The yiteeu has lands and gold,
While yon are forced to your empty
breast.
A skeleton babe to bold—
A babe that is dyiug of want, mother,
As I am dying now,
With a ghastly look in its innken eye,
And famiue upon its brow.
What has poor Irelsnd done, mother,
What bris poor Ireland done,
ri. it the world looks on, and sees us
starve,
Perishing, one by one T
Do the naa of Euglaud care not, mother,
The great men and the high,
For the suffering sous of Erin's isle,
Whether they live or die t
There is many a brave heart here, mother,
Dying of want aud cold,
While only across the channel, mother,
Aie many that roll in gold ;
There are rich aud proud men there,
mother,
With wondrous wealth in view,
And the bread they Uing to their dogs to-night
Would give life to mt and \,*i.
Come nearer to my side, mother,
Come nearer to my side.
And hold me fondly, as you held
My father when he died ;
Qnick, for I cannot sco yon, mother.
My breath is almost gone;
Mother! dear mother! ere I die,
Give me three grains of corn.
Queen Victoria as She Is.
[London Letter in the Chicago Times]
I bad as good a view of her Maj-esty's
leatures as possible at a dis-tance
ol about thirty paces in a rail-way
depot not too liberally lighted
with gas. She is not so tall as she
looks HI the photographs and stand-ard
paintings. She isdecidedly be-low
the ordiuary height, not so stout
as I have ofteu heard described, but
wli.it 1 should call one of the "com-fortable"
build. Her Majesty was
dressed in very deep mourning, with
an abuud'iiice ot crape. Her bead
covering was a sort of crape coronet
hat; her dress was long behind aud
looped up in trout, and covered with
crape.aud she wore,as well as I coald
discern, a black cloth jacket, square
cat. If she carried any jewelry it
was ot the simplest description ;
none of it was visible, and one of
her hands was ungloved.
I.^or Sale,
BEST OR LEASE.
The House and L t, Corner of Edgeworth
ami West Market Street* is fur sale or lease
or rent on favorable terms.
Apply to GEO. DONNELL,
Or W. C. PORTER,
Jan. 2B. at Drng Store
Good for our Young Men.
There are quite a number of yonng
unmarried voters in this town. They
weut solid for the Dry Ticket ! Not
one "wet" man in the crowd. Good
for our young men. Youn/ ladies,
when a Cliuton boy asks you to
have him you may be sure his breath
is all right.—Our Monthly.
Blessed is the young man that
breathes a pure breath. We pray
to be delivered from spice, nutmeg,
cinnamon and sassafras, especially
when used to conceal the oder of
decayed corn.— Orpkan'i Friend.
The Chatham Jln-ord informs us that
three brothers from "■Fi/miMyroa found
wives in that town where the " supply
of pretty girls is inexhaustible."' We re-cord
this for the especial benefit of the
hoys.
A Word to the Boys.
Remember, boys, that you will
not always be boys. The day will
corse when, if you live, yon will be
men and the playthings of the boy
must be pot away and the weapons
of the man taken op. Life is a bat-tle
in which the most daring, perse-vering
and determined succeed and
the weak and irresolute fail. In
boyhood yon lay the foundation up-on
which you build for manhood.
Then you establish the traits of
character that distinguish you in
after life whether for good or lor
evil. Sometimes the good boy
makes a bad man, rarely ever a
bad boy a good man. There are
certain rules which all boys should
observe, and by the observance of
which they lay the foundation of a
noble, honored aud useful manhood.
" Honor \ our father and your
mother,rtorto them yon owe yonr be
ing and all you are or ever can be io
this world. If you knew the sleep-less
nights and the long weari
some days they have bent over you
in sickness and in health, and
thought over yonr welfare and hap-piness,
oh ! with what an intensity
of love you would love them, and
how it would be the delight of your
heart to honor them.
Father! Mother! What other two
names or words in all the language
ot men have in them such a world
of meaning as these. Mother, next
only to God, and greater than the
anpels ; sweetest, fairest, dearest of
earth's treasures; never cold, never
indifferent, never thoughtless ; al-ways
your friend, guardian and
protector—before even you saw
the light of the day till the night
of the cuilin gathers around yon.
In health and in sickness, in pros-perity
or adversity, in sorrow or
joy, in shame or glory she is al-ways
your unflinching friend and
companion. Love ber as you would
be honored of men and not cursed
of God.
Respect the aged. The boy
whose heart beats with the right
impulses always stands reverently
in the presence of tbe aged, whether
they be clnd in the shabby garb of
poverty or be arrayed in the robes
of the rich. Be kiud and respect-ful
to them and lend them a sup-porting
hand as on feeble limbs they
totter to the grave of rest. They
were once young aud bonyaut like
you ; you may sometime be old aud
feeble as they.
Honor the pulpit, for it is the
place from which God's ministers
speak, whether you believe in the
particular doctrines 'he minister
teaches or not.
Speak the truth, for it is easier to
do it than to lie. The truthful boy
or man always commands respect,
the liar never. A character ft r
truthfulness is better than the pos-session
ot wealth without it, for
wealth may vanish and leave yon
bankrupt, while your reputation for
truthfulness will always command
yon friends.
Be honest, not because " hon-esty
is tbe best policy" but be-cause
it is right. The poet hath
said " Au honest man is the
noblest work ot God," which- he
might well say, for a dishonest man
is not a noble work at all but a dis-grace
to God's masterpiece of crea-tion.
Be gentle, loving and kind to
your brothers and sisters, tor yon
are not only ot the same llesh but
the same parental heart tendrils
that twine about you twine also
about thrill, and rudeness to them
would paiu the hearts that love
tbem.
Be. kiud to dumb beasts and cause
DO suffering to them. They were sent
to be used but not abused by you.
Remember '• the good man is uier
cifnl to his beast," a mercy which
is all the more obligatory because
tbe beast cannot speak aud protest
against cruelty.
Be respectful to those who are
intrusted with the administra-tion
of the law, tot thus you
houor the majesty of the law itself,
the duty of every good citizen.
Be thoughtful, considerate and
gentle among your companions, aud
never oppressive to the weak. The
tyrannical, bullying boy nearly al-ways
grows np a cowardly, bluster-ing,
despicable man.
Be fair and candid in your deal-ings,
truthful aud sincere, upright
aud honest, preferring the daylight
to the darkness, and so act that you
dread not the gaze of the whole
world, and then you will not only
be considered a magnificent, noble
boy but grow up a good aud an
honored man.
The Financial Question.
All the indications so far iu ('on-
Eress go to show that there is not
inch disposition to tackle the floan
eial question, the Republicans play-iag
mum and the Democrats evi-dently
not cariDg to agitate tbe
question. ID this we think they
both show good sense, for, for all
practical purposes, tbe status of the
nuances is now as good as any leg-islation
could make it. Business is
evideutly reviving, confidence is
being restored, and business men
look forward with hope to the
future. It the attempt weie made
tc,institute new financial measures
it could only have the effect of un-dermining
confidence and would be
productive of much mischief aud
perhaps disaster.
Theoretically Mr. Bayard is right
Iu bis hard money "-iews, his being
tbe old Democratic doctriue, but
practically, paper money has be-came
a part of the currency of this
country, and it will remain so for
years to come. The legal tender
character of the Greenback will
remain, for it is the ouly feature in
it that gives it any value as a cir-culating
medium. Without that it
would cease to be money, and would
be to all intents aud purposes of
trade worthless.
But whatever the individual
opinions of members of Congress
may be they are chary about com-mitting
themselves oue way or the
other on this question aud believe
in the policy of " masterly inactivi-ty,"
which is, in our estimation, a
very level-headed policy, for the
present at least.
The N. C State Guard.
We learn from the Raleigh Ob-server
that Gen. Johostone Jones is
sodn to be in Raleigh, aud that
BtdjM are to be taken, it is under-
8t;»d, to revive a proper interest in
tha N. C. State Goard at all points.
Something in the way of a revival
is badly needed by our white mili-tary
down this way.— Wilmington
Htm:
We have no objection to any sort
of I* revival" if no money is wanted
from the State Treasury to pay lor
the revival. But peaceful tax pay-ers
do not want any more " mili-tary"
forced upou them until the
next war, which they hop,- will
never come. The ofllceot Adjutant
General, iu this .State, should be
abolished. If white military Com-pauiefl
are supported and encour-aged
by the State Treasury, the
same aid will have to be extended
to negro Companies—aud every
gootl citizen should oppose thai.
Let candidates lor office truckle to
propositions to scatter puLlic
money, but let good citizens aud
those who have to pay to support
the State Government refuse to be
lead by unnecessary suggestion and
propositions lor appropriations.—
Charlotte Democrat, Feb. Ii.
We heartily endorse every word
uttered ley our esteemed friend of
the Charlotte Democrat. We have
too much military uow a-ilays. Let
the organization be disbanded, uu-dei
a special order from the Gov-ernor.
The " troops" can return to
their homes and pursue their usual
avocations in peace. If you want
to be a Colonel, Major or Captain,
you have only to stop at the Var-borough
UouBe when you go to
Raleigh. That '• settles it."
The Black Douglas.
Whs the Son of file *' Little f.lanl " la
a Radical.
Richmond State, Feb. 2.
Stephen A. Douglas, Jr., is lee
luring iu Illinois, aud trying to ex-cuse
himself lor having disgraced
thu memory of his father while re-siding
in North Carolina by turning
Radical. The reasons he gives are
well-known here not to be the true
oues. His motives were entirely
sellish. He went to the strong side
for office, and got it, too, while
making himself particularly obnox-ious
to the people of the South, aud
falling very low in his moral con-duct.
In Mattoon last week he
said :
"I am a stalwart Republican.
Naturally enough I could be expect-ed
to feel a warm affinity for the
Democratic party. Every associa-tion
of my boyhood, and every atom
ot respect for my father made it so.
After the war I weut to North Caro-lina
to settle tbe estate of my moth-er,
which did not require much
work, for between the ravages of
tbe war ana tbe bankrupt courts
little was left. When I went there
I was prejudiced in favor of the De-mocracy,
and considered myself a
most enthusiastic and loyal Demo-crat.
On the principles of that old
party, I believed, rested the true
foundations of our Government, and
in tbe party that had always advo-cated
them I expected to see them
perpetuated. As time wore on aud
I made the acquaintance of De-mocracy
as interpreted in the South,
I wondered how the word came to
be so rflectually lost. It was the
course of those who misrepresented
themselves as Democrats that con- said : and too little is left to those
a
verted and made me a Republican.
However, I still claim to adhere to
the three great principles on which
my father based his political creed.
These are: First, loyalty to the
country ; second, hard money; and
third, the sovereignty of the people.
The idea of this third principle is
that the majority shall rule. This
is disregarded in the Sonth, and
therein is a cardinal piinciple of my
father's Democracy constantly be-ing
set aside. At least 40,000
fraudulent votes were counted
against us in North Carolina. Be-fore
the election, Vance, the Demo-cratic
candidate for Governor, ad-mitted
that if Judge Settle, his op
ponent, received 98,000 votes in tbe
State, which were the figures claim-ed
tor him by his Republican sap-porters,
he i Vance) was defeated.
Tbe Republican vote was 110,900,
ami the Democrats made theirs 123,
309. I would be willing to swear
thaliu r.iy own county 000 more
votes were returned than there we'e
voters in the county. I knew lue
people of the comity thoroughly,
had canvassed it several limes my-self,
aud knew exactly what the
lawful vote ou„ht to IK-. They turn-ed
out the graveyards, and bad
them all back again before the polls
closed. The people of North Oaro-liua,
and, in laet, must ol tin-south-ern
States, ate purely local in their
polities. They will often take mare
interest in the choice of a donstable
than President. In that campaign
the intetest centered iu the contest
for Govt niof. Little comparative
ly wass.,1.1 about the President, be-cause
the people did nor take so
much interest in thai branch ot the
contest. Yet ibe Democrats con-trived
to put Tlldeu's vote several
thousand ahead ol their candidate
for Governor, n hi -Ii evi ry man in
the Stare I,nous uttisl have been by
fraud."
S|>eakiii;_' of the candidates for
President, Mr, Donglassaid: "The
people of the South want Grant.
They havt confidence iu him. Thev
believe thai h ■ will furnish the pro-tection
that the Republicans need.
They do not say jtist how they ex-pect
hitn to regulate things, but
they think he can and v. ill do it.
Blaiue's opposition to the • Force
Bill1 injures him with the Repub-licans,
and, while they admire htm
for his bold utterances and gallant
course, yet they want Grant. Grant
is their man. Every Southern man
who has a difllcnlty with another
and gets worsted has a respect lor
his successful opponeut. That is
the case with the feeling for Grant.
He Dever does or says anything
that anybody can make a handle
of, and seems always to do just the
right thing without any parade or
osteutation. Just take that Dennis
Kearney. Everybody stood back
in amazement at the boldness ol
the demagogue ami Communist,
and actually fell apprehensive that
lit: would lead the laboring people
of the country to do some dreadful
thing. But when Grant reached
San Francisco and Kearney sent up
his card, Grant quietly sent it back
with instructions to say ' that if
Kearney represented a political par-ty
he did not wish to see him. If
he was simply one of the people he
could attend the reception.' That
settled Kearney. He has been
steadily gliding into obscurity ever
since that time. Grant never Hops.
The Soars believes he can tie dust-ed,
and will stick to him."
|?pttfltnnttm&
sub-indicative touches which leave
the heart ot the reader or tbe listen-er
the luxury of a gentle freedom.
The roaster of the tragedy dotb pro-test
too muob. Something of tbe
same fault there was in Canon
Kingsley—that is to Bay, in bis
prose; but when he wrote verse, he
usually got rid of the " false gallop,"
so much may the velvet tetters of
the necessity for perfection of form
do tor a man. Considering the rhy-thmic
flow of much of Dickens's
ptose, it is a little curious that he
did not write more verse—especial-ly
considering how well be did it.
But the fact is that he was bis own
bond slave and victim in this and
in some other matters. The letters
are full of tbe tokens of eager insist-ence.
He coaad not wail for the
effect he wanted. Wbeu once he
had tasted power in a given way,
he was not patient enough to make
fresh experiments with his own
gifts; or rather, when he did hap
pen to make any such experiment,
he dropped it npon the first signs of
failure; which with him would mean
lack of strongly expressed admira-liou
from others, or a falling off iu
tbe sale. He once or twice tried a
dreamy manner, aud dropped it;
but it is in the highest degree pro
liable that if he conld have waited.
and tried again and again, he would
have found both the means of dis-cipline
and a great source of power
in that vein. He shows, to the
very last, a hankering after it, and
Ins letters are often those of a great
dreamer.
The Average Agesof Animals.
The average of cats is fifteen
years ; of squirrels and hares, seven
oteight years; rabbits, seven; a
bear rarely exceeds twenty years .
a dog lives twenty years, wolf
twenty, a fox fourteen to six-teen
; lions are long lived, the
one known by the name of Pom-pay
living to the age of seventy.
Elephants hare been known to live
to the age of 400 years. When Al-exander
the Great had conquered
Poms, King of India, he look a
great elephant which bad fought
valiantly for the King, and named
tiim Ajax, dedicated him to the sun
and let him go with this inscription :
"Alexander, the sou ot lupiter,
dedicated Ajax to the Sun." Tbe
elephant was fuuud with theiriscrp-lion
350 years after, l'igs have
been known to live to the age of'JO,
and the rhinoceros to L'9; a horse has
been known to live to the age of till,
but average U5 or .'10: camels some-times
live to the age of 100; stags
are very long lived ; sheep seldom
exceed tbe age of fO; cows live
about 15 years (Javier considers
ft probable that whales sometimes
live 1.000 years. The dolphin and
pot poise attain the age ol 30; an
eagle died at Vienna at the age ol
104 ; ravens have frequently reached
the age of 100; swans have been
known to live to the age of300. Mr.
Malerton has the skeleton ol a swan
that attained the ago of 200. Peli-cans
are long-lived. A tortoise has
been known to live to the age of 107
yeai s.
Premature Reading.
I Charles F. Adams, Jr ]
When I was young, I remember,
my father, trom ft conscientious feel-ing,
I suppose, that he ought to do
(.something positive for my mental
and iiiotal good and general wetbe
tic cultivation, made DM learn Pope's
••Messiah" by heart, aud a number
of other masterpieces of the same
character. He might just as well
have Hied to feed a sucking baby
Dickens and Thackeray—Ten-1 on roast beef and Scotch ale ! With-out
understanding a word of it, I
learned the "Messiah" by rote, and
derness and Pathos.
listthew lit.*-.- »,inCoBiempor'j Review.
There was leuderness in Dickei s,
but it is too often marred by the
tendency to " work up " to a given
point. Though he had the indus-try
of the artist, he had not the gen
tie receptive patience. His pathos
has not the "dying, dying fall"
which softly bleaks the heart—
though people cry over it. There is
more heart-bieak iu Thackeray's lit
tie ballad, " At the Chinch Gate,"
than there is in all Dickens. This
may appear it hard saying, and in-deed
one can overbear the remark
that Thackeray never makes you
c/v. iledoes not, and Dickens of-
■•:i does. The references in these
litters to the cases, at public or pri-vate
readings, in which men—some-times
it is a stranger, sometimes
hfaeready or Landor—are made to
Cry by the pathos ol the writing,
are striking, as evidence of the value
Dickena set npon his power in this
respect. No doubt it was great,
even with men of flee temperament)
and it was usually exercised lor
good ami useful purposes; but, ut-ter
til, the capacity to make one
cry is a somewhat crude test of pa-thetic
power in a writer. A better
criterion might perhaps be found by
seeking answers to such questions
as these: la not that the truest
and highest pathos which effects
you most when you are alone f
whic-h. whether it makes you cry or
not, affects yon as much or more
upon the tenth reading than npon
the first! I* must be admitted,
however, that there is much uncer-tainty
iu criticism of this kind. We
havegrown over fastidious and too
self conscious in these matters. Bat
if we cannot cry over 1'aul Dombtij
or V.if(/e Sell, as Landor and Jeffery
did, we can fiud plenty of other
things in Dickens to stir the foun
tains of tenderness and pity. Only
they are almost obviously iristauces
iu which the author did not aim at
pathos at all. There w?.s too much
insistence in him—there is no brok-en
wriring in tbe more intimate por-tions
of these letters. Too much is
I have hated it. aud its author, too,
tiom that day to this, ami I hate
them now. So, also, I remember
well, when I was a boy ol from ten
to fourteen—tor 1 was a consider
able devourei ol books- being incit-ed
to read Hume's "History of Ku
gland." and Robertson's "Charles
V.," and Gibbon's "Rome" even, and
I am no: sine Imight not add Mit-ford's
" Greece." I can't now
say it was time thrown away ;
but it was almost that. Tbe
first thing in trying to stimulate a
love for reading is to be careful not
to create disgust by trying to do
loo much. The great masterpieces
ol human research and eloquence
and fancy ore to boys pure nuisances.
They can't understand them ; they
can't appreciate them, if thc\ do.
Win II 'hey havegrown up to them,
and are ready tor them, they will
come to them of their own accord.
Meanwhile, you can't well begin
too low down. The intellectual,
like the physical, food of children
Can't well be, too simple , provided
only it is healthy and nouiishitig.
Weather Predictions
I New York .Sun]
The man who can say "I told yon
so." this time, is Mr. Henry G. Vt»n
nor ol the Canadian Geological Sur-vey.
As long ago as Jan. '£!, he
predicted iu a published letter that
there would be a heavy snowfall on
I-'i -h l'or.') occasioning deep driftsand
railroad blodkades iu Canada and
tbe northern part ot this country.
People interested iu weather science
will now watch with curiosity to see
whether his other guesses prove eq
ually s.-i.iud. He predicts another
heavy snowfall on Feb. 16, and still
others on March 17 and 21; in tbe
latter month be bids us look out lor
more snow than in any preceding
month ot the winter. According to
Mr. Venuor, we are now to have
tour, perhaps more, pretty cold days;
then warm, rainy weather until the
middle of the momh : aud between
l-'eb. 20 aud Feb. -o very severe cold
weather.
Hall's Juurnal of Health.
Not Enough Sleep.
As a people, we do not get enough
sleep; we do not get enough rest •
M will not take time for such
things ; hence our nervousness our
instability, our hasty temper, and
premature giving out of the stamina
of life. Half of us are old at three
score, the very time a man ought
to be in bis mental, moral and phy.
weal prime. Half of our wives, es-pecially
iu the farming districts, die
long before their time, because thev
do not get rest aud sleep propor-tinned
to their labor. Niue times
out of ten it would be better for all
parties if the farmer should get up
aud light the tires and prepare
breakfast for his wife, she comiuc
directly from her toilet to the break-last
table, because it almost always
happens that she has to remain up
|x> set things right, long after her
husband has gone to bed, when
really be baa nothing to do after
•upper but go to bed. This is a
monstrously cruel imposition
wives aud mothers.
on
The C. F. & y. y. R. R.
What he , !,«,,,.„, Hm,r<H|laSa„.
this •feat ,UM, WoSf "'
We do not hesitate to as^rt that t!,„
Cape rear and ladkin Valley Railroad is
one or the most important works of Inter-nal
Improvement that has ever Wen in;
dertaken iu North Carolina, and Its e.rlv
completion „ ...,„.,. T ,|..,2r,4,,|,. o,-„
are pleased to learn that tha grading- is
loogrewiug rapidly, the weather during
this winter thus far having 1,,.,,, .„ fHV„r
K
able for such woik. During the twa
months of December and Jauuary onlv
ail days have been lost from active work
I.ieie are now 'JTsj convicts emplove.1 be-tween
the Gulf gnd Gr ■bom One
stockade isi located nine mil... from Green.
born and the other near the old Staler
plan, about seven mile- fr„„, Mallhe..;
\ Roads, and the distance between the
two isseventeeu miles. Til. force, ,.r eon
viola la squally divided at the two, 135
being at e.ch stockade. The entire dia
tenee from r ayette-. ill. to Qreensboro
ninetv-eight miles, and the oar. run regu
larly forty-seven miles to the Gulf. From
this place to OreenslH.ro, a tltsranee of
tiiiv-one miles, more than halfthe road is
graded and ready for the cross ties and
rails, the distance now graded Wing
twenty-eight miles, leaving onlv twentv-tbreo
miles to be completed This will
he done by the first of September at the
farthest, and then Ibe entire for,-,. ..ill i,„
[ nl to work on the route between Greens
bora and Mt. Airy.
We are pleased to le.ru that these con-victs
ar« humanely treated: thai while
they are autde to do good work they ar.
wall fed and receive proper medical treat
ment whenever si.k. They are remark-ably
healthy, very few ever being on tbe
sick hst, ami not on., ha, died fi any
disease alnoe tbe fir,t oflaal April. Those
having them in ".barge ioaaift pablic
commendation for their humanity totheso
wretches, for generally eonviete employ-ed
on public works are not treated like
human Wing*.
President Gray is doing all that be can
t" push forward this great work to an
eaily completion, ami is laboring Intelli-gelitly
and energetically. It is deeply to
1 gretted thai tba Company bars not
been abi.-1., obtain the fifty -thousand dol-lar-
appropriated to this road by the last
Legislature. The Stale own. three fourth.
ol ibe stock in thoroad, ami this was
preserved for tbe State by the liberality
of certain public spirited gentlemen i
rayetterille, who advauced their own
money to pay certain creditors of lbs
road who had Obtained judgments ami
weie about to sell tl„. r.,-,,1. ,,, which
event I be State would have lost her entire
.lock amounting t„ oTel ■ million ofdol-
.ars. These judgments were Iben tin.hr
the control ol loose Fayetterille gentle.
man who had advanced their money t„
save I ha road from being sold, but still
the lodgments were in existence and the
road could W sold at any time. Tba last
Legislature, therefore, very properlj pass-ed
an act authorizing tbe public treasui
ei to buy for the Mate fifty-thousand dol-lar,
of the first mortgage bonds or Ibe
road and thus supply tbe Company with
"irrlcient money to satiafj those jodg.
-eM,. The Tieasurer ha,, however, not
yel i aid tin, money, and Ibe roan is still
eiiciimbeie.1 with the judgments, and a.
lot.g as tho road i. no eacambered it la
ilesa to attempt to place the bonds of
the Company upon tba market, and this
is the reason why the iron has not yet
1 B bought. If tba Company bad l.-eti
able to obtain this fifty thousand dollars
last year, the judgments iroald have bean
paid, the bond, of Ibe road sold, tbe iron
bongbl when it was just half the pur.
that i' is now. and by this time tho cars
mid be running regulaih to Ore Mill.
ie hoped that tha Company will baabla
io get this money at an earl) day, and
ii , great Stale work soon be finished,
Census Enumerators Districts.
There have been frequent enqnir-ies
of late as to the size of the dls-trlcta
over which each enumerator,
acting tnuler the supervisors of the
census, won't! hare charge. Prom
a letter of instructions to tbe sup.
■r\ isots now in the press it is learn-ed
that "in general, every town,
township, military district, 01 other
permanent civil divisionoi the coon
try should lie constituted an enu-meration
district, ii the estimated
population thereof exceeds seven or
eight hundred Inhabitants. The
only reason which this office could
recognise as sufficient for making
such a civil division a part of a
larger enumeration district would
be the Impossibility ol securing a
competent and trustworthy euum-erator
within its own limits.
"The enumeration districts must
be nude small enough to secure the
completion of the canvass within
the limit set by the census law, vis:
during the month ol June. To this
end, supervisors will be expected to
exercise their best judgment in good
laitb. Compliance with the law in
this matter will be insisted ou."
A Large Fleet of Idle Ships.
The New York Tribune says that
at the present lime there are 58
steamers, 30 ships, 404. barks, and
00 bugs in that port, which is the
largest fleet of vessels ever known
to be in that barber at any one tune,
making au aggregate tonnage, ex-clusive
o| steamers, of 370,000 ton-.
Shippers ban reduced freights to
the lowest tioiiit ever known, and
yet it is impossible for even the
regular lines ol steamers to get
cargoes for sufficient ballast.
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