The Greensboro patriot [January 20, 1885]

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M W SITHE^GREENSBORO PATRIOT.
■ III REAGAN llll.l..
? Reagan Interstate commerce
I the House i.v a very
Siu-ii legislation
a class of measures
•solete. It is based
upon a theory which experience
to be false. All practi-
■vperimeut in transportstion
• ' •• that attempts to
arbitrarily on genera]
plea inns! fan, and that they
oduce the results aimed
., are sure to cause con fusion
ijurj to nil the interests con-
.(il.
In the Ilcagai. bill, principles
issuined to be true which can-
't be conceded. The principle of
Igher charge tor the shorter
is, for instance, condemned in
facts, the truth being
service of railroads to the
• would be greatly reduced.
area of business curtail
the} »iic prohibited from
ungbanl rates at a mini-in'tiu
in the many cases in which
arrangement alone lenders
the carriage ol cheap freight nossi-liie.
rhere is hardly a probability
tint a will pass the Senate.
in i:\roi it w.i. M INI i \<n KI.S.
"There shall be exempt from
and license fer a period
ire, the capital, muchin-
"ir\ and other property employed
■•in the manufacture of textile fa
s. leather, shoes, harness,
'•saddlery, bats, flour, machinery,
cultural implements and fur
'•'in t lire, Mai other articles of wood,
I Btone ; soap, stationery,
'■ink and paper: provided that not
Hi.in five hands arc employed
'in an\ erne factory ."
Who » ill introduce such a bill in
North Carolina Legislature!
If unconstitutional, amend the con-
-titnt
Tin: AH roi \i>\ i:it i NM„
This IS a pettj art when it is ap
, to petty concerns, but when
applied to great affairs it is
,: t of all arts. It is vulgar
when it i- id in a vulgar
*a\, but in the hands of a man
Ssses the audacity ol geni-beconies
sublime. Advertis
• n ule great generals out of
>\ ho had no generalship, sates-i
it ofcommonplace politicians
--ml editors out of bar-stonecutters,
school boys and
- - i « J I
The ait of advertising lies at the
Success in every undertak-
. business or politics, in pro-i
or trade.
We can recall two recent instances,
by way of illustration, but as sue
I to be attained, it might
deem personal.
-I OAR I OH DM: CENT » POUND.
Dr. I'eter Collier, formerly chem-
• 11» Agricultural Bureau at
Washington, makes the startling
isition that sugar can be made
ndance from sorghum for one
i pound. Such an achieve-ment,
m any close approach to it,
i In- of immense importance
people of this country. No-nhcre
in the world, except, per-iii
England, is as much sugar
eaten in proportion to the popula-is
in the United States. Our
consumption is i!,;$00,000,-
unnds; Europe, with six times
as many people, eats only about 7,
io pounds. Leaving out the
of refining the nw sugar
when we have bought it, which
I add from aquartcrto a third
price, and saying uotliing' of
i.iMxytoo gallons of Byrop and
molasses we use. our annual sugar
- about 1100,000,000. Seven
eighths of this money goes to for
ii Dr. Collier's proposi
tii.n is sound, we need no! jM.v 0VW
*_>IM>OI,.IMIII ,,i «25,000,< a year
sugar; and even cent of
should go into the pockets ol
American farmers. Sol only this;
in ti we should be able to pro-
: • -ngar than we need, to
undersell the growers "i eane and
ll in other countries, and
to build up a large export trade
thai would still further enrich the
American agriculturists, refiners
ami merchants.
What Dr. Collier says is entitled
eal weght. No one has eon
tribnted so much as be to the solu-tio
the practical ditliculties in
the waj of making sugar from sor-ghum.
In 1879, while as yet his
famous experiments were only fair
|y begun, the whole product of this
commodity in the United States
lesstbau 12,500 pounds. Yet
scientists had been wrestling with
the problem lor thirty or forty
,. I.asl year, directly as the
n-sult of his discoveries, the amount
was 1,500,000 pounds—M increase
of one hundred and twenty live
fold in live years. The New Vork
Chamber of Commerce lias invited
him to expound the theory An
important service to the country
may thus be performed.
MIIKRETHI.; LAW Is IMPOTENT.
The trial of Madam Gloria-
Hughes, in Paris, has resulted in
her acquittal. She was charged
with the murder of one Morin, who
had brutally defamed and slander-ed
her. The homicide was admitt-ed.
The prisoner conducted ier
own tlefeuce, pleading provocation,
a plea unknown to American juris
prudence.
Tho result was a triumphant ac-quittal
by the jury, which has been
hailed with satisfaction in all civil
ized countries.
Cowardly, malignant and secret
attacks upou the family and the
marital relation are immeasurably
more calamitous aud cruel than
the killing of the body, yet against
which the courts atl'ord no protec-tion
and can furnish little redress.
The law is condemned when the
goiltyescape.
Society generally demands pro-tection
against such outrages and
persecutions as that which drove
iIns woman to the revolver, and so
ciety will at once vindicate its civ-ilization
by refusing to condone
private vengance
Against the swift slander that
undermines family peace, blasts
the houor of woman, poisons their
lives, overwhelms them with un-deserved
shame, what defence or
protection exists f The slow pro
cess of courts which are hampered
by technicalities; the dextrous de-vices
of unscrupulous shrewd prac-titioners;
the delays which every
knave can throw in the way of his
own conviction ; demonstrate the
inadequacy of the only pretence of
redress which the law proffers in
such cases: and combine to goad
ihe outraged, persecuted, humiliat-ed
victim on to lawless methods of
vindication and revenge.
In such cases, where the law has
proved impotent, does the popular
judgment approve the breach of
law which is the last desperate re-sort
ot a hounded, wronged and
maddened woman for whom the
courts have no relief.
Gresl llaior Among *Vc*t Point Cadets.
There is considerable surpiise
over the result of the semi annual
examination at the West Point
military academy just ended. A
large number failed to pass. Five
were sent back from third to the
fourth class, and the fourth class
lost a quarter of its whole member-ship.
The first class is a small
one, having only thirty nine mem-bers.
The second class stood the
ordeal well. It numbers 82 mem
bers, and is the largest second
class ever at the academy. The
sons of United Senator Butler, in
the third class, and of General
Williams, the fourth class, were
among the found wanting. The
Ohio colored lads are doing fine,
Alexander, of the third class,
standing nineteen in a class of 70,
and Young, in the fourth class, be
ing about midway in a class of 70
members.
GBKEXSHOKQ, X. C, TTJESlMY. JANUARY 2
Till. (>| || MAN MANUEL.
ICoLT.C. Kullc-r in N'owtukr'i M-nihly.;
In the Pall of 1.S08, a horrible
crime was committed in the County
ol Cumberland in this State. A
colored man by the name of Mainor
had been shot, and instantly killed,
iu his own house, at a dead'bourof
the night; suspicion fell upon a
colored man by the name of John
Manuel, and he was at once arrest-ed
and imprisoned upou the charge
of murder. Jacob Manuel was an
intelligent man ot about thirty
live years of age, and had. up to
that time, borne a good character.
It was alleged, that, being moved
by jealousy, he had gone to the
cabin inhabited by Mainor, had
stealthily crept upto the house, aud
thrusting his gun through tho
cracks of the log hut, had put a
heavy charge of buck shot through
his victim's head.
I was at that time practicing law
in the town oi Fayetteville,andwas
applied to by the "old man Manuel,"
Jacob's father, to undertake the de-fence
of his son.
The old man, was about seventy
years of age—very tall, straight
ami spare—of a red copper color,
with thick, bushy, white hair, neat
ly. but coarsely dressed, and had a
stern but rather sad expression of
countenance. He was of more than
Oldinary intelligence, was quiet,
easy and even dignified in his man-ners,
slow and deliberate in his
speech, anil showed that he hud
Buffered, and that he ™«M "suffer
and be still » The old man told me
the story of his life, how born to
the hard lot of a " free negro," be
had struggled; how pinched by
poverty and without friends, he
bad toiled and starved to provide
even the barest necessaries of life
for his family ; how his wife had
died many years ago, leaving him
with six small children; how he
had striven to raise them in credit
—how some of them had wandered
from the right road: how he had
tried to bring them back to virtue,
and how he had failed. All this he
told in his artless, slow, deliberate
way. Bo then added with some
emphasis—'"Jacob h -been a good
boy, God /.."".s, and I do not beliece
him guilty of this crime."
Through sympathy and pity for
the old man, 1 undertook the de-fence
of his son. Soon I became
interested in the case, and exerted
mvself to the uttermost. The trial
c..me off, the evidence, though
ma* dy circumstantial, was terribly
Strong, and Jacob was convicted ol
ir.1 iler,—about twelve o'clock at
night th- jury Bled into the Court
room, and by the dim light of a few
candles, they solemnly delivered
their verdict of "guilty in manner
and form as charged in the bill of
indictment."
The old man was standing by me
at the time: he showed no teeling
and made no sign, he merely whis-pered—••
Cod (note*,and I knoir he
is not guilty."
Jacot) was sentenced to be hang-ed—
an appeal was taken to the
2(>, 1885.
the next halfyear would roll round,
the old man would appear again,
and the same things as related'
would occur. At our office, tho ex-ecutive
chamber and the peuiten
tiary, he was always expected, and
never failed to come, at his set
time. Every one who met the old
man pitied him ; his beiiof in his
son's lnuocence, his perfect reliance
upon a providential interposition
in his behalf, and his entire and
thorough and uuselfish devotion to
bis boy, won for him the profound
respect of all who knew him or bis
story. And so the " old man Man-uel
" came and went: and the years
rolled on.
GOT. I lolden had gone out of of-fice,
Gov. Caldwell bad died, and
Gov. Iirogdcu was in the last year
of his term. It was Christmas eve,
dark, cold and chilly, as I sat by my
office fire; my partner was at the
desk writing; suddenly, I do not
know why, it came upon me that 1
could then secure the pardon of Ja
cob Manuel.
I put on my overcoat and said to
my triend, "Captain, lam going to
the Governor and get him to par-don
Jacob Manuel."
1 weut to the Executive office,
found the Governor in, and said to
him, " Governor, 1 have come to
ask you for a Christmas present. I
have come to ask you for a mail's
life—poor Jacob Manuel is wasting
his lite iu prison and his poor old
father is dying of his grief. Par-don
the boy, and make the old fa-ther's
heart glad, once more before
he dies, lie cannot see another
Christmas; make this, his last, a
happy one for him."
The Governor sat musing for
awhile, but I could see that, the
word in season bad been spokeu.
He soon called his Secretary, bad a
pardon written, signed it and han-ded
it to me.
1 sent a messenger, on a fleet
horse, to tho penitentiary, the con-vict's
garb was stripped off, citi-zen's
clothes were put on Jacob
Manuel, a small sum of money, due
him as a reward of good conduct,
was given to him, and as the clock
struck twelve that night, he gently
knocked at the door of his father's
bumble cabin. The old man open
cii the door and saw him, but he
would not welcome him, ho would
not touch him ;—"Jacob," he said,
•• have you escaped from the peni-tentiary,
or do you come as a free
man I" "Father," he replied,"!
am a free man; 1 am pardoned."
Then the old man fell upon his
sun's neck, ami, for the first time,
he wept. He sat all night with
Jacob's hand elaspetl in his own,
and all he could say was "Thank
God ! Thank God !'
The next morning the neighbors
gathered in and found that the old
man was rapidly passing away;
the revulsion of feeling had been
too much for him. In a short time
he died : died from an excess of
joy.
Kind hands provided for him de
cent burial, sympathizing friends
followed him to the grave and thus
' Pen. Ink. and Paper.
boaruMVcl,™|rnf £?" "B° ,!,e
nosed on » 0| tlK' l'l'ri"(> 'ui-regular,
and\E 8I*""« ««*
It had, moreover,0. i.t' 'cl ,''less'
legible. PollowK? "t'fnt of "*' "8
brief interval when,,,18 •can'e a
been taught to adini, '"*',first
open-banded models, Kc,0|'y', b
allowed to develop wh!..")"1 "?,s
herent individuality In?" .'"
might possess. We all kn,sm'"
meu of forty or fifty today ,w°
handwriting is clear as print081;
beautiful as the work of the '{1
copyists. But this reign of goo..
(a»,*5E«5.sga-*fla2-.r.
*V«iM»gt—»i Religion.
t D. Rein i„ ,|„. Ki.i.,-,,,.,,1 Kc-unler.
The.Moral of Whirling.
. !I>r. Tahnat* in Frank Lealis'a Sunday .Mataiint
-\s l lead, a lew days ago, of the '"r *••>«■«>•.'
death of the Rev. Kichard M . It is a prevalent notion that a
Abercrombie, Hector of St. Mat- Propensity to whistle indicates an
mew s i rotestaat Episcopal church | indolent or trivial nature. When
CBHBKAE, NEWS.
* 100,000, to lei him exhibit his
relics and trophies.
—The residence of Judge Bond
—The Chicago AVir.v asserts thai
writing became an essential part
of the curriculum of fashionable
schools, and teachers even adver-
Siiprcmc Court, the judgment was passed away a most devoted father,
Cleveland's Ailuiliiistration as Governor.
1> ii. Uov, Hill'- inaugural ;i i n> -
It may be safely asserted that
the administration of Governor
Cleveland for the two years past
has more than met the just expec
Cations of the people aud made its
lasting impress on the auuals of
the State. It has been brilliant in
its sterling integrity, safe in its
true conservatism, hold in its effort
for reform, faithful in its adher-ence
to pledges and vigilant in its
opposition to corruption. Its
straightforward and businesslike
conduct, united with aud unques-tioned
honesty of purpose, has won
for it and for himself the warm ap
proval of bis political friends, the
sincere respect of his opponents
and the unswerving and unselfish
support of independent citizens
everywhere. That be may meet
with the saiue degree of success in
the greater office to which he has
been called in the earnest wish of
all the citizens of this State and ol
every lover of good government.
Death of Myrt Clark Galnea.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines died in
\,\v Orleans lasl week of pneu
monia. hhe'waa in her 78th year.
Her long litigation to recover prop
ertv alleged to be unlawfully With
held from her by the officials ot
Louisiana made her fa nous
throughout the country. She was
„1(.t with a bitter resistance,
a mighty attempt being mad
to prove her an illegitimate c
and not lawfully empowered to IU
In 1870 the city government of
•""■a
of
affirmed—anotbersentenee; the day
for the execution was again set, and
then, to save the man's life, there
remained only the hope of a par-don
or commutation of sentence.
Through the kindness of Sheriff
Hardie and others, who sympa-thized
with the old man, petitions
for pardon were signed, and by the
old man presented, in person, to
Governor Hidden,' who granted
several reprieves; but Governor
Holdeu went out of office 11111! his
successor, Gov. Caldwell, declined
to further interfere with the exec.11
tion of the sentence. The day for
the execution was rapidly approach-ing.
I felt then and 1 feel now, that
though the circumstances relied on
for conviction, vere strong in them-selves
and strangely well connect-ed,
yet the man was not guilty-thai
he was about to be offered up
as another victim upon the altar
of circumstantial evidence. But
yet as the day drew near, as the
preparations for his execution were
almost completed, 1 felt that all
would soon be over with poor Jacob.
Not so. however, with the "old
man Manuel;" he never doubted, he
never abated one jot of heart or
■The Old Man Manuel
1> 1 1 (lii|iOikr-. In -p.1111.
Earthquake shocks began on
Thursday, December 26, and con
tinued with more or less violeuce
for the space of ten days, levelling
whole towns and cities and causiug
the death of over two thousand
people. The provinces most affect
ed were Andalusia, Malaga ami
Granada. The towns of Albania
and Santa Cruz were complete
ly destoyed and many of the in-habitants
perished in the falling
ruins. A mountain near Periana
disappeared from view. At Zaf
farraya, a town near Loju, fifty
persons were killed. Sixteen
houses were destroyed at Lanjaron,
and numerous houses were demol-ished
and lives lost iu other vil-lages.
Fifty corpses were found
at Ventas de Tain Arranza.
style, at their owu residences, ladies
who are dissatisfied with their old
fashioned way of writing." This
Euglisb model is very square, very
regular, imposing aud stately as
Britannia herself, and iu its perfec
tion almost wholly illegible.^ But
English, Italian, or Yankee/tt is
a melancholy truth that the baud
writing of many educated women,
if deal, is positively ugly, and if
graceful, is commonly blind.
"Ti8 true 'tis pity, and pity'tis
'tis true." For this failure to com
bine the beautiful is but oue more
of the evil consequences of baste
and slighting with which our time
is crowded. We look at things too
much from the point of view of
necessity, aud think they will "do"
if they barely serve their purpose
of usefulness. But beauty is a
higher end than use, after all; and
why should not the less be iuclud
ed iu the greater? If weare to give
our correspondent pleasure by the
charm of the sentiments or the
grace of the phrases or the bright-ness
of the chit chat which we send
him, why not decpeu that pleasure
by the beauty and clearness of the
pages which contain theml
That legibility and beauty are
natural companions is shown in the
old Roman inscriptions, in the
pages of old German hooks, in the
missals and manuscripts which are
the treasures of modern libraries,
in the Arabic scrolls, and letterings Oue, James, stltdli
on tiles and fries*. One need not | Temple, London, am
know a word of the languages to
which these belong to see that they
aie as legible as they are beautiful.
Modem haste threatens to banish
c.digraphs as an art. The work of
the type writer has already made
the scrivener's elaborate and ele
gant handicraft a thing of the past;
and to their necessities must, of
course, be pardoned the scrappy
and unfinished script of most pro
fessional writeis. But the laity,
young women, matrons of leisure.
have no excuse for a graceless or
unreadable hand. It is as unlady-like
as any other infraction ofcour
tesy.
We are glad that the old fashion-ed
eustom of sealing litters with
wax has been revived of late. Of
course it is no longer a necessity,
as in the old days when few men
could write, and the seal was the
substitute tor a signature, a certi
ficate of the genuineness of the
document. But it is a pretty and
tidy way of securing a letter, pleas
anter to a fastidious person than a
gummed envelope. If, however,
the writer will not take the time
and trouble to drop the wax prop
erlyand stamp her signet n itli care,
she can at least refuse to use the
sham seals that come ready made
and are stuck on to hide the ad-hesive
flap.
The perfect paper, ink, and pens
of our time lend their aid to the
writer's service, and leave only
practice and determination tort
I land w
-—• -putii
■arty lite, corresponded" wi5"the 55*this SSt^^SSC I theloeTd
great lexicographer, Samuel John- baa been granted to those o us! ur„ Z,t vir ,'',,'V,,-n'1, ,,ot
H«O;sntaant d„ m later years was the as- who cannot smg much Vough armed'me, .m ,h^ ""'"* "? llmslor of C||rjst.s Mj 8fe we mj bt |ose o * J» rmed me11 am at the scare is
£^"rc^'» Philadelphia, we attempted the customary sopn am ropriatio , hv , "«, "< "« .."
55, maternal ««*•» had I now base, we revel in the sounds I local militia ' 'i"'' ''"' ""'
-.~;v P*n franciaeojudge has de-cided
that Chinese children horn in
1 this country are entitled to adinis
BHM to the public schools,
—The Topeka [Kansas) Slate
Journal publishes an interview
with James I-'. Legate, in which he
denounces the Morv that he tried
to sell St. John out. as - ., cold
blooili-,1 forgery."
— Dr. W. II. ( ,,|,.. democratic
Congressman elect from (he third
letter «*'.'!man ami showed me a I the. whistle that makes the good
\\ ashing1*-'» President George eheer, or the good cheer that makes
father, thajwd written to his [ the whistle, we have aov no time
Use to "instruct iu the Euglish I of one of bwe* him for the loan i lo analyze. This kind of music is
Washington s*unscript sermons, j a" inspiring accompaniment of
ularattendantsh's wife were reg- I work. I^-t two masons be busy ou
while residing in'" bis ministry ; the scaffolding, theirstrcugth alike
The President vvb'delphia. j their hods and trowels alike the
nicant, notwitlistaiiot a coniuiu ! p»e who whistle* will better set the i C'lgi'essiomil district of Uarvla
pretty stories to the et all the bricks and rear the truest wall. '• dJ""g at bis residence in Balti-alter
the close of the Jry, and J»o not rob us of any of our helps. ! ■Ore from erysipelas
sacramental Sundays had ".on on "hat the world wants is au aug-to
the habit ot retiring froi in [mentation of diversions and enter
church while his wife remainethe ! tainments; uot less skip and romp
communed. Upon one oecasl j and curveting, bat more. Cod has
Dr. Abercrombie alluded to the ill »» objections, or He would not till
happy tendency of the example o|he kitten with play, or the lamb
those dignified by age and positiou th frisk, and the dog with face
turning their backs upon the cele i,B bark, and send the uight wind
bration of the Lord's supper. The i wlnl the gable with mouthful of
discourse arrested the attention of i w,th . We know not why women
Washington, and after that he i »'*■«• tl'-eir cares, should be de-never
came to church with his wife I gallant rnrejae, and yet an an-on
communion Sunday. Dr. Aber-1 den it. B*-has for ages forbid
crombie, iu a letter which appears , women may .us something that
in the fifth volume of Sprague's l'""'" tp skate, Y„„ jonot want
"Annals of the American Pulpit," ! or walk too fas.,|lre of „rcai.H
mentions that he did not find fault ] lm,,>, and you finis. h„J y
with the sermon, but respected the I Of prohibitions by st^,,. |0||R |js't
preacher for his moral courage.
There is a story about Washing
ton being found iu the woods in
the winter time in prayer by the
owner of the house which he used
as his headquarters at Valley
Forge which 1 would like to believe
if it were not so improbable, and if
it had not been first pat in print by
the eccentric and not very accurate
Episcopal II blister, Morgan L. i privilege she shall not be denied if
—saint Boses Catholic church at
lama, was entered for the second
time within a year. Sunday night
by burglars, and ■., golden chalice
and other valuable gold ami silver
accessories taken, amouiiti
to*li00.
ting in all
"Wlii..UinK girl- and crowin.
Always ivme to -..ma had %M
There are times in a won,
when a psalm tune does nowfl
particularly appropriate, ah
carol seems too formidable to i. —TheSeoreti
tack ; the former is too grave anoaaed to ord r
the latter too jubilant; and nothing 1 (;0I
on earth is consonant with the cir
cuinstane.es hut a whist e. That
—The House committee on rivers
and harbors will give for the Mis
sissippi about W.ooo.oon. instead
ol the *10,000,000 asked for, and
toe Missouri river about 9S00.000
instead of #1,.'loo.ooo asked for.
—Mr. Gladstone's health is pro
nounced to he greatly improved.
—Fierce storms prevailed Sun-day
on the coasts of Great Britain,
many lives were lost.
—The English Court ofCham-en
has made a perpetual injunction
forbidding the publication of Lord
Lytton's letters.
Wecms. John Potts,of 1'ottsgrove,
had several sons and daughters.
1 law at the
was a Judge
ot the Coin i of Common Pleas in
Philadelphia at the beginning of
the war of the devolution, and be-ing
a Ton eventually went to Hal-ifax;
Jonathan, another son
; studied medicine at Kdiuburg, and
' espoused the cause of the colonies,
and was the medical director of the
middle department; another son
I was a (/uaker and neutral, and
owned the house at Valley Forge
which is still known as Washing
ton s headquarters, and the three
we have anything to say about it.
Soon after going on board the
steamer we noticed a little pewter
instrument that hung to "the boat
swain's jaeket. On such a simple
thing you would not suppose a man
could make more than one or two
sounds, hut that little instrument
can play a hundred tunes, and at
its call cables, cordage, rigging,
sails, colors boats, and anchor re-spond,
and all the crew By swiftly
from capstan to ratline. After
eight days of headwind U0 heird
the boatswain's long, keen, re-sounding
whistle. It meant that
the wind had changed ami the sails
were brothers of the grandmother | must go np. There was in that
pewter whistle more music than in
any harp we have since heard, and
when it fell down again from the
boatswain's lips we re-examined it
to see where all that chirrup and
glee of sound and shrillness of
blast could hide themselves. Thus
we sail on in life and sometimes
into the teeth of a headwind, and
of the writer of this article. With
a capacious and comfortable house
at his disposal, it is hardly possible
that the shy, silent, cautious Wash
ington should leave such retire
meiit and enter the leafless woods
in the vicinity of the winter en-campment
of an army and engage
in audible prayer. The alleged
scene has been often produced by ; it is tough navigation,
the pai.ter and engraver, but Hear
it is only a myth.
Uau.1,.11'. south?™ Welcome.
S. V .Sim.
The Southern journey of the
lion. Samuel J. Kandall was mi
dertaken merely for business pur
poses, but it has become a sort of
personal and political triumph.
Between twenty and thirty South
ern cities have honored him with
cordial receptions or invitations,
and throughout the South his visit
seemsto have excitedextraordinary
interest and enthusiasm.
tie, dangling to our neck, Beoms of
no use. Everything is against us;
but after a while there is a change
in the moon, ami the wind that
was adverse wheels around in our
favor. Then we take up our whis-tle,
and, all hanilsou deck, the sails
rise, and the port looms up III the
distance. If at such a time we
make more noise with our mouth
than we ought to, charge it notjto
us, but charge it to the boatswain's
whistle.
How Docton Diner.
The prevalent notion that promi-tribution.
Handwriting is an ex
At Priego, in the province of prwsion ofebaracter, as dress or
Cordopa, the shocks came while speech is, and, like them. I
the theatre was crowdeil with peo-ple.
A terrible panic followed.
Many persona jumped from the
galleries and from the windows up-on
the crowd below, receiving fatal
injuries. Harrowing scenes are
1 be a tribute to beauty', and not
alone a sacrifice to utility. A well
cooked beefsteak would remain a
well cooked beefsteak whether it
were served on a cracked kitchen
plate or a fine china platter.
The kindly feeling of the South- n(M|t tr.llU,rs ;ir,. jllst ,,,„ lul.„ „,
enters lor Mr. Randall may be in te„ (|s wliat js tll(. niilttt.r whell
part explained by their obi grati- ^g js ()ut (|f 0|,(|erj „,„, t(, ,,,.,,.
tiideforhisstaunch8ervicesmtheir;gcri|ie t||e fj-fct remedy, calls to
behalf in the days ot Grai.tisin, , mjml ^ saying •'Who would
and in part by the instinct ot uos-; W(-j . fat Mieu ;||llst |lillisef 0(! fat.-
pitality, made still more generous . Jf^ tr.l(|l>rg .„eso wls,s hoB- (loCH
by the unjust attacks and asper- j{ ^.^ j,.,.,^,, ,|iat trade gets out
sions of those of bis opponents who , of slj,,Iie, Tht! responses of prcsi-can
see no good in him because | (|pnIS „f chambers of Commerce
of War has re
court martial to
i- Maxell's charges against
pajGarliiigtou.
Feb. i'i'eetors ot the Worlds
lers' da\v GrleailS have set apart
drummer?,6, commercial travel-
-An etfefJE !»"«»"»«« of
Pittsburgh lo , ".'
purpose of havir?,uS made in
the temperance'lo"i-y for the
permanently in thli8 Murphy,
Church of Gospel Ten1., locate
—Prof. Sillinian.ol V;('^ ""'
died Wednesday- lie 0CCI
prominent place among the'*,
ty of Yale since be assumed
chair vacated by his distinguish
fathei in lS.il. lie was ouejof tin
best known of American physicists.
—A sensational suit has been
commenced iu the Circuit Court in
.Milwaukee by Iteubeii F. Slierman
a rich farmer ol Waiikesha County,
against Merrier F. Spalding, owner
of tho Capital Hotel at Madison,
Wis., chinning $25,000 d-iniages
for an alleged alienation ol the III
lections of the plaintiff's wife. ()«
ing to the standing of the parlies
tin-scandal attracts more than us
Hill attention.
Till. I \I.H Of Till: DAY.
—The first bill introduced in tin-
Ohio Senate after the opening ol
the session was a bill lo abolish
the October election.
—Grover Cleveland will be inau
gurateil on March I, which Ibis
year fulls on Wednesday . .i- u did
in the years when Jefferson. Jack
sou and Buchanan were inaugurat-ed,
thus making Wednesday a good
Democratic day without robbing
Ihe Republicans Ol the credit at
tached to "Black Friday."'
—Should Senator Bayard aceepl
a cabinet portfolio, the indication-.
are the people of Delaware will
witness a Senatorial struggle nil
equalled in intensity and bitterness
since the tainous contesl ol 1871,
when the two brothers, Willard
aud Gove Salisbury, fought for
supremacy and were beaten by a
third brother (Eli, the present Sen
atorl
libild
o iu
it of
New Orleans offered Mrs Guinea a
million of dollars in settlement^ o
her claims against
the eiW- »be
felt that her claim was worth man.
times more than this, and declined
he oiler. Finally, after twelve
vears her judgment was placed
at about a- million dollars, aud by
that time lawyers and brokers and
speculators bad got away With al-most
the entire claim. M rs. Games
awaited the Governoi s action.
Just before the sun went down ;
on the d iy preceding that appoint- ,
ed for the execution, as 1 sat in my
office, thinking that Jacob Manuel j
would never see another sunset, the .
'• old man " came in, and delivered
to me a paper from the Executive
office. It was a commutation of
Jacob's sentence flOin death to im-pusoninent
for life in the peinten j
tiary- All the old man said was i
•• (ii)d has saved my boj -"
Shortly alter this I moved to |
Etaleigb. I never lost my interest :
iu Jacob Manuel, and soon my law
' in-
'or
regularly, every half year, the " old
' man Manuel," travel stained, weak
and weary, would knock at our office
m<
was little better than a
Litigation bad eaten up
reaonrcea ami her expectations
Her judgment against the city ot
New Orleans is an appeal in tne
Supreme Court ofthe L nited States.
She passed away without enjoying
fhe fruits of ber_arduous labors.
_A cyidone swept through
Jones and Baldwin counties, Geor-
Sunday night, destroying
in houses, barns and
aud mules were
pauper,
all her
partner begau to leel as much i
(crest in the case as I did. F
o
Manuel." vei
aud wearv, c-flr
door, and, after the usual saluta
tions, would simply say, " I havi
... I...-. ik.... . ,i tin
e
the
fright. Piteous cries were heard
iu the ruins for twenty four hours,
but it was impossible to render any
assistance to sufferers.
Similar tales are told of the dis
aster in Albania, where a thousand
houses are in ruins- The inhabi
tantS in the day time wander about
their ruined homes, risking their
lives iu their endeavor to save
something from the wreck. They
remain at night in an improvised
camp of carts, tents and sheds.
Three hundred and fifty corpses
have been discovered at Orenas de"
writingt
Steppe* »"* '■'«'" i"'t '" T'"'e-
Just before the night express
train on the Alabama division
the Fast Tennesse, Virj
Georgia Railway reached Randolph
Sunday night Engineer Sisco con
eluded" to stop and cool a hot jour
nal. He had scarcely shut off
steam when just ahead of him be
saw a huge obstruction on the
the future, that the Southern peo-ple
mostly concern themselves iu
welcoming Mr. Kandall. Where
the South is most prosperous and
- >f ' active, where emigration is most
iuia and encouraged, and where the indus-trial
progress is most conspicuous,
Mr. Randall is received with en-thusiasm
and honor as the repre-sentative
of that economic policy
under which industrial develop-ment
has been encouraged in the
in the
production is the remedy. St.
Louis thinks liquidation is the
cause, and he remedy is a restora-tion
of confidence—that is. bad
health is the cause of sickness, and
the remedy is to get well. Miune
fied. No one who liasever "water-ed
stock" «oiild consider such sei
vice maddening. This well iR prob-ably
not the well of truth Ullde
filled.
—With a view to relieving lien.
apolis finds in cheap wheat and too Grant Vanderbil! recentlj bought
in as a preferred creditor his
swords, medals and valuable x'wr
much lumber the cause of all our
woes, ami sagaciously suggests as
track. He applied the air brakes , Forth, and under which,
and stopped the train just as it view of an over increasing nuiiiler
struck the obstruction. The train of Southern, men, the South can
' in-the
remedy good crops—which will
make wheat continue cheap. He
troittbinksovei production 01 grain,
manufactured articles and slocks
is the cause, and a reduction of the
hand is the remedy,
cause of
trou-rnirs.
These, together with the
mortgages, deeds, &&, held as ^.
enrity for his $150,000 indebted
ness he proposed to turn over to
Mrs. Grant, with the simple pro
vise that tbe relics referred to be
placed after the General's death in
■ surplus on I
Bey, and 250 persons there are now i wrec|jers had driven fence rails in- : grow to the greatness wnicu ier i i^iclitiiona-l finds the suffering from injuries received, j ,0 ., cattle-guard, between which resources and the energies oilier n|(1 j„ irn.KU|iiri|y of crops, and the anappropriatedepartmeiit in Wash
The town of Albuqucros was com- j twenty-five cross ties had been | people seem to mark out for ben remedy in "time, temperance and | ington. This proposition was nut
gia.
dwellings,
fences. Horses
blown away. Several persons were
innjuurreedd,. obuutt mno» 'l>iv•e">* "~"Y™lo~stS.
The noise of the cyclone was beard
distinctly eight miles away
come to see my boy. One or
other of us would always go with
the old man to the Governor s ot
Bee, and make a fresh appeal for
Jacob's pardon ; but in'vain. All
that could be done was to give the
old man a permit to enter the pem
tentiary " to see his boy.''
I am told that the old man would
go out, give his hand to his son,
and follow him about, as he was
a: nis tasks, never speaking to him
or anyone else, unless he was ad
dressed ; but would never take his Thompson,
eves off his boy. When he could i
remain no longer, he would Silently
pletely destroyed. Many people
perished.
To add to tbe horrors of tbe sit-uation,
terrible gales of windswept
over the ruined towns, completing
the work of devastation. No dis
aster of like nature so terrible and
1 destructive as this has occured on
' the Peninsula since tbe Lisbon
earthquake ot 1755.
Desperate Men towed by a Woman
Two desperate colored criminals I
confined in the Goldsboro jail Sat
nrday night succeeded in breakiug j
down the inner door, and were at
work on the outer, when Mrs. |
tbe female janitor,
drew a revolver and
commanded them to stop. Her
piled. Had the train struck the
obstruction it would have been
burled over an embankment seven
t> five feet high.
-mo k by January Lightning.
Lightning struck the Methodist
church at Camel, 111., I
night,
front
persons
time
the
tore
and
At Birmingham,!!! Alabama, tlie i|K|llstrv- Kansas City thinks
protection caused to many menu-facturing
establishments, and these
caused too many railroad" and sc
curities, and the excess and depre-ciation
of these caused disaster—
which is a beautiful instance of
putting the cart before the horse.
Steel rails went to £85 per ton in
heart of an iron country which al
ready aspires to rival Pennsylvan-ia,
a motto in honor of Mr. Ran-dall's
coming read : "Welcome the
Champion of the New Rebellion,
the New South Against the Old
South." M The new South welcomes .Mr.
acceptable to the Grants and Mr.
Vanderbilt modified it, leaving it
still ;i clear gift of $ 190,000 to them.
Mrs. Grant declined to aceepl the
generous offer, though General
Grant was willing. She wrote a
very curt note to tin Railway King,
declining peremptorily, and so the
matter ends. den. Grant still
■ol) the little articles he I courageous action checked them,
hid brought for his comfort, shake and by the time other help came
his hand and quietly depart. As I the men were completely cowed.