The Greensboro patriot [May 28, 1879]

              THE PATPIOT.
PU3LISHED WEEKLY AT
GREENSBORO, N. C.
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P. F. DUFFY, Publisher and Proprietor.
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The Greensboro Patriot.
°UE COtTlTTEY—FIRST -A-isrx) ALTVAY3.
Established in 1821.
WEDNESDAY^SMAY 28, 1879.
New Series No. 580.
Josephine Id Napoleon.
Farewell, farewell, yen, forevsr;
-'ii its fetters break,
I wos I now *a^h !:' Uei rer
' | ireke,
for .•: whom II'-
.
• ry,
I afa ■ | weary nay.
I would at ■ •■ r Ii.:'.
. . - - -. rt-barafngf
c mtroL
row,
tool lest,
11 1.1 i 'Trow
tfa -'.
I i tl - dimmer, dimmer,
to I urn,
all ' Ifcat fe Bunt r
. turn,
ratal ntirul'or*
,: i I - iman'e heart.
tin ■<-■ nj that lumbers,
Br pride wouM Bay depart!
. Ti* love is irrrthlen
wi.. n ita warmth and tralh are dead
lying, rhangelean,
I in when oarthy shrinei ir« fled.
' ' 01 :!.-- Bleeping fountain
bitter water, flow,
i ion the bearing mountain.
With .tf pent up Bros of WGI!
I had strangely thought that never
More on earth I'd ho deceive,!;
. and Imped on over;
of ebel eved.
' I obi r-Uod,
A : the ; ride my nature knew,
At thy feet have long .1:100 perished,
I'it to Bod thee, too, untrue!
Though no heir to fame and eplendnr
I bare bronght yoor kingly line,
V.t »l .: wealth of Ion I render—
DO are thine!
■' rev pi or ol.lafjou;
may think it no mean thing,
blood Bhail give the nation
... u
Brm and steady,
1 renonnee my faith in Uv <■.
for full long I've known thee nady
I" recant thy vowfl to me.
in wel 'Ui thy ooontry'a glory
Ihy 1 ..' •.. ■ ugly aonl;
I rilHanl rtory
PI it, pi ideetgoeJl
to be in to morrow 1" continued Mm. mansions about it. Now, with a junk-it
come over and talk j shop on either aide, and a'row o( sailors'
boarding-honeoe opposite, it lookod like
the wreck of a flno old frigate aground
irthed by a China Hunter.
"There, didn'l I tell yonso, Mr. Freke?
re :~ a find I |>o yon see that large
late on the upppr shelf ? Old Imrnt
•liinn, ns I am alive, of tlio finest kind,
real beauty I Who would ever
1 x, ected Bnch a thing in a house
ia? All dusty too ; 1 .hurt snp-
■■■ it, or eare for it in tho
sat. People ..I this sort never do.
Well, I rail this Inck."
in herhands by this
"••it rer to examine
1 ittom, regardless of
. when n elear
I ■<■ y ntlered
• y or pardon, bat did
' - imped. Mr. Freke,
'. Ilia
le; certainly
I him to enter a
len and rifte its
use of guilt
to his face.
stood ■girl
white apron
• '. and thick
r twisted round
1 f which looked a
1 l.rnwu eyes.
Ity girl, and a lady
1 ' testifled Hint, as
session with
■ ted lh« e unin-
' '. Women
tally do on such m ..] 1,^
iid, with her pleas-
"We km eked several
ible I., make any
tnred to
saw fbis ennuis old
r, an i I couldn't resiet—
iy I ask, or is it of any
roaf II not, I might
buy it, il yonr mother were
It'i 11 queer old thing,
' ' ..leh it,
■ this.''
y annt—Mrs. Marsh,"
la Iy, briefly. "I don't
1 to part with it."
lationto linger invoice
tly HLO expected
.
• 1 r.ie?
Fltinl r.
■ to."
• at home." Tho tone
|i ilite, luit still
re and snr-
Proke feel so un
Hunter apparently
lin ome day when
went on. "It is
1 What ate
I : do yon know? I
il. Ii. They stand
11 y Bagen," said
p uearir.
D of yoar aunt's?"
Iher. Alloume;
ty"- taking tho plate
nwilling firgers.
very impertinent
late without per-
•1 we were; lint
It was all my fault;
' asked tho nn-
"I ulionM BO
'■-■'<■ bad nothing; name or residence." That
i! I-'truth ia, that I am Nothing conld be more indefini
inathat I cau-
' it wherever it in."
'.'■' winning, and Baby's
' f itself. liirbara
y girl's name, but
r liirbara, not even
had utUe tolerance for
' I 1 "iiseuso of any kind.
• "Rtby," and the crisp
med to suit her better than
> Bn.tr one could.
vour aunt would likely
with her about it ; or perhaps, Mr.
Freke, you will come for mo if the Hol-mans
arrive and I am detained I"
"With pleasure."
Raby's face clouded a little.
"I do not think my antt will sell the
plate," the said, in rather a oonitraiced
voica ; "but she Will probably be at
home."
"Wo can but try," lenghod Mrs. Hun-ter.'
(iood-afternoon Mies—Miss Marsh,
and thank yon ever BO mnnh." She
swept down tho walk. Mr. I'roke
paused.
"It is very gnod of you to take so
ranch tronlde for us," he said, in a tone
whose sincerity Haby recognized. "Very
probably yonr aunt may not care to sell
tho plate—I should not myself if I
owned snch a one—but if Mrs. Uanter
gives me the commission, I shall cer-tainly
come, for the pleasure of making
another call upon you." He lifted his
hat as he spoke, and with a courteous
bow followed Mrs. Hunter down tho
path.
"That's a real gentleman," solilo-quized
Raby, as they drove off. "And
she—I don't know. She's pretty, and
her voice is pleasant, but somehow
there's a difference. I don't think I
like hir—qnito."
Mr. Freke did drive over next day.
He was received very grimly by Annt
Habina Marsh, whom he found in-trenched,
as it wore, in front of her cor-ner
cupboard, and resolved not to cede
her plate or listen to any arguments
whatever on the subject This refusnl,
I sooth to say, eansed no particular grief
to the disloyal messenger. Ho cared
little for the plate, but a good deal for
the chance of another chat with ltiby,
who was more piqnantly pretty than
ovtr, in the effort to hide her amuse-mont
at her aunt's grim and defiant man-ners.
Ernest Freke made one more call at
the old house before he went back to
town, but only one. "I could fall in
love with tbat girl," he said to himself
as ho drove homeward ; and be made a
little pictnre in his mind of Riby in a
fresh morning dress, pouring ooff«o at
tho opposite end of a dainty breakfast
table for two, with sunshine streaming
through an open window behind, and
tonehing with glints, of gold all that
beautiful hazel hair of herr a pretty
pictnre. Ernest Freko was half artist,
and his imagination naturally conjured
such scenes ; but he shook his head. Ho
could not afford to marry (that point
was settled long ago), unless, indeed—
Hat here he shook his head again. The
chances were against his falling in lovo
with a girl who had money. He conld
not do without the money, and ho would
not do without tho love, so he dismissed
the idea of marriage. He was an hon-orable
young fellow at heart, however,
and ho would not go again to see Baby.
"What's thonse?" he told himself.
"Better not." But Mrs. Hinter and
her guests becamo wearisome to him
after that, and presently ho went back
to town and to his bnsiness, in which he
immerse,] himaelf. P^r a while Biby's
face floated before his eyes; but the
image dimmed as months went by, and
in time would probably have faded out
altogether, had it not been recalled odd-ly
and unexpectedly by the following
circumstances.
He was passing one day tho shop of a
taxidermist, nn elderly man, with whom
he had somo slight acquaintance, when
he heard his name called.
"I>ld yon want me, Mr. Milch?" put-ting
his head in at the door. "I thought
I heard your voice,"
"Oh yes, Mr. Freke, I did want you
very much, and I ventured to call and
stop you," replied Mr. Ilalch, hurrying
out from an iuner room. "Excuse me ;
I just waited to put on my coat. It's
about Mrs. Morpeth's will, Mr. Freke."
"And who was Mrs. Morpeth?" asked
F.rnest, soating himself on a wooden
bench.
"Mrs. MurpeUi, sir 1 Why, you must
know, 1 think, or at least you will know
her house, tho one with the queer steps,
in l>ann street—the It tiled House, as
the neighbors call it."
"Oh, that queer, handsome old honse
next to tho junk-shop ? I do remember.
I have often wondered who lived there.
And what did Mrs. Morpeth do about a
will f"
"Well, that's just it, sir. I'm in a
great difficulty. Mrs. Morpeth left me
her executor, sir, and I don't know
what to do about it. You neo, sir,
thpre's a good bit of property—a very
good bit. She was clever, for a woman,
very clover. Aud she bonght np real
estate here and there all over tho city.
And there's the Bailed House aud what
it ho!.!s ; fifty thousand dollars, I should
say it was worth, at the least ; somo
folks think it will foot up sixty."
'That's a nice sum indeed. Hit what
is yenr difficulty I Who are the heirs?"
"That's just it, Mr. Freke—nobody
can tell, sir. It is left to— But I hav<)
a copy of the will here ; I'll show yon."
The document, briefly drawn, bnt in
strict legal form, devised all property
of every description of which the tes-tator
might die possessed "to tho child
or children of my niece Either I,e liaron,
eldest danghter of my sifter Either
I'latt. I do not know their present
was all.
indefinite.
"Are thero no letters or papers in the
honse to give a clew I'
' I haven't lit on any, sir. Hat then
I haven't searched regular. C'juld you
spare time to step round thero with me,
Mr. Freke ? I should be very grate-ful."
"I couldn't to-day, but I might to-mor-row."
So the appointment was made.
The Bailed Honse had been a stately
mansion in ita day, with other stately
in the mud of some ignoble harbor. In-side,
it held a mine of riches for the cu-riosity-
lover. Nothing had been added
and nothing taken away for a century
past. No papers were to be found, how-evor,
and as one receptacle after another
was vainly searched, the littlo tixider-mist
grew disconsolate.
"Why, Mr. Freke, what is it? what
have you found, sir?" for his oompan-had
uttered a sudden exclamation.
There, on the shelves of a buffet
which he had just opened, wero ranged
in splendid row platters and dishes and
cups of magnificent India ohina, blue,
crimson, snd gold, with on each the
same little shield and monogram", in
sharp, gleaming lines of oolor, which he
had last seen in faded tints on the old
plate in Mrs. Sabina Marsh's cupboard
months before. It was certainly tho
same ; he recognized it instantly. But
how came it bore ? And what was the
link between this rich and lonely dead
woman and Mrs. Marsh and pretty Baby
in thtir quaint solitude and baro pov-erty
?
He made no distinct explanation to
the puzzled executor, but advised him
to defer advertising for a little ; and the
next day bnt one found him at tho gate
of the old honse again. No bright girl
faco smiled a welcome this timo ; Biby
had gone back to her school-teaching,
and Aunt Sabina, grim as ever, received
him.
Her distant and suspicions manner
gradually thawed as she discerned the
mean ing of his questions. Mrs. Mor-peth
was her annt, her mother's sister.
Her grandmother's namo was I'latt, and
her mother was tho Barbara HoMsworthy
Hagen of tho china monogram. Yes
her mother did marry a Lo Baron. He
was a Frenchman. He did not live very
long after the marriage. Did he turn
ont badly? 8he could not say—it
wasn't for her to speak ill of her own
father, bnt the family took offense, and
never would havo anything to do with
her mother afterward. No, sho never
saw her aunt, and she never wanted to.
In her opinion, they treated her mother
shamefully. Baby's mother was older
than she, two years older. She was
dead now, and so was Mr. Glenn. Haby
was the only child. Prove it 1 Why, of
course she could ; but why should she?
Everybody knew about the Marshes
and the (ilenns-every body that had
any business to, that was. And pray
why did tho gentleman ask all these
questions ?—what concern was it of hi",
anyway?"
.So Haby was the heiress.
There was a great deal of confusion
in Ernest Frcke's mind after this. He
gave his best services to proving Baby's
title and putting her in poeseesion^of lier
great-anut's bequest, snd for this end
it was needful that they should meet;
but these interviews were of a strictly
bnsiness character. Ernest kept them
so. "I won't make up to a girl, now
sho is rich, whom I deliberately turned
away from when sho was poor," he said
to himself. B.by was not a little ag-grieved
by this turn of affairs. "He
won't even let mo thank him comforta-bly,"
she told her annt. "He just bows
and goes as ay."
After awhile she and Mrs. Marsh came
to tho city, and then they met oftener.
There were plenty of people to show
attention to a yonng and beautiful heir-ess.
Mr. Freko was al>vays encounter-ing
Miss (llerru at dinners or at parties.
After awhilo ho oeasoi to fight against
the new and sweet iuflnenoe which had
come into his life. He asked Baby to
marry him, telling her the manful truth
about himself, and leaving her to jndge
tho matter.
* I don't think yon wero to blame--
much !" pronounced Baby, lifting her
soft eyes with a look which sent a thrill
to all his nerves. "A man can't always
marry a girl,even ho liko3 her. And you
hadn't seen mo but three times, you
know. It was much moro honorablo in
you to stop than to go on a little longer
and make me like you—more."
This "more" was irresistible It
caused an interruption.
' There's one thing I would like so
much to do," resumed Baby a little
later. "You'll help me manage it,
won't you, Ernest 1 I want to send Mrs.
H inter one of those big plates, like that
old cracked one which she wanted to
buy. Do you think I might, and will
you take it to her ? It is a sort of debt,
for if she hadn't como curiosity-hunting
that day, I might never have seen you,
or heard of Annt Morpeth or her will,
or"-
"Bless tho old plate, then I" inter-rupted
Ernest Freke. "Send Mrs. 11 in-ter
a new one, by all means ; but that
old one we will have framed, and hang
np on our walls, and keep always, won't
we, Biby?"
And they did.—Harper's Bazar.
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The Topeka (Kansas) CommonvmUh
relates a sirgnlar occurrence on a rail-way
train on the Missouri, Kinsas and
Texas railway, which the courage of the
conductor only prevented from turning
into a terrible calamity. It says: A
passenger train came rattling np tho
valley between Parsons and Emporia
with Dave Dunham at tho throttlo and
Johnny Haley at the furnace, jnst as it
has every evening for tho past six years.
As engineer and fireman these two boys
have Btood sido by Bide on this run Bince
the spring of 1873, and have not only
regis.erod 'on time," bnt have, by their
striot attention to the rules of the road,
gained the confidence of their employer!
and the friendship of many people living
along the division of the Missouri, Kan-sas
and Texas.
As the train pulled out from the low
land on tho Neosho and struck the prai-rie,
tho conductor noticed a enddei
change in speed, but thinking the boyi
might bo 'lifting' her a little to meet
the grade, paid no attention to it. Ths
grade was met and passed as thongh n>
grade was there, and then down the hil
she started at a terrible rate. As she
skimmed along the passengers began to
show signs of nervousness as they sa»
farmhouses rushing along as close to-gether,
apparently, as in a Kansas town,
and the conductor too began to think
all was not right at the'steam end.' As
the speed increased at every revolution »f
Hie wheels, onBhions, lunch baskets, bul-dles
and babies flow around the car like
mad, and now the thoroughly frightenid
pssscngers appealed to the conductor o
stop the train. By this time he realized
the danger himself, and knowing that a
Santa l'e freight train had the 'right >f
way' at the Emporia junction, and that
it would be certain death to reach thero
ahead of time, he jerked the bell-ropent
thongh a town were on fire. The bell
sounded tho alarm, but as no response
came from the whistle ho realized for open. Their present form was ,
the first limo that he was on a runaway | them in Europe. Lu-go peacock fans
It is only of late years that fans and
parasols have come into general use
with all classes of society. Before 1880
their use was confined to the luxurious
classes. To a stranger visiting our
oonntry in Bummer the universal use of
jana still seems a national feature, and if
he be a clerical dignitary invited to
preach, be will find it embarrassing in
the extreme to address the fluttering
congregation before him. Of the cheap
fans of China and Japan exported by
millions, costing 'little or nothing'to the
oouBumer, but remunerating thousands
on their way from the Oriental manu-facturer
to onr own Unas, we will not
speak; our business at present is with
fans of price and fashior,. On theso in
Franco alone abont 4.CU0 workmen are
employed. In one department, not far
from Paris, 1,501 persons earn their
bread in cutting out, ornamenting and
polishing the sticks of fans. Those are
made principally of ivory, bone, horn,
mother-of-pearl, ebony, olive wood, eto.
Work of this kind is done entirely by
hand in France with tiny saws made out
cf watch springs. The silk, paper, vel-lum
or linen part of handsome fans is
chiefly prepared in Paris, and many ar-tists
in these days of decorative .art do
not disdain to take their share, like Wat-teau,
in ornamenting them. Yet, after
all, our handsome fans lack an indescrib-able
artistio tomethinrj which distin-guished
the fans of the seventeenth oen-tury.
The earliest use of fans was probably
in Egypt, where they seem to have
known everything abont twenty centn-rios
in advanoe of our own civilization.
Fans of peacock feathers, mounted on
long handles, may be seen on Egyptian
sculptures, carried before priests and
princes. Ia India, in Persia, and in
Greece feather fans were used, especial-ly
those of peacocks' feathers. But the
Romans mounted wooden ones, and
Ovid speaks of them as part of tho toil-ette
of young girls in his day. The ear-liest
known Chinese fans do not shut or
Recollections of the Madison Family.
A correspondent writing from Presi-
dent Madison's old home Virginia
says : 'The character of
Jerusalem of To-day.
A traveler to the Holy Land writing I
of Jerusalem, says: Tho only public I
Madison's buildings in the city worth speaking of
s, onir't ? 7l ZTth °' diBp0- ^'•"tbecuurchea.ofonokind.ndau.
nrZhT " Calla,1 ,p'ril' ■" """"."oasaruletbesearequiteasun
m^.nf',TK teTj—'y "Dy ^P^e^relyastheprivatohouses.
maatrea. of tho White House. Her bus- ! The church of the II >ly Sepulchre the
hand was cold.
train, flvo coaches from tho engine.
Whether it was tho small anionnt of hit
life insuranco policy, or the safety of
the passengers that urged him on, will
were then used in church to cool the
brows of great ecclesiastical dignitaries,
while tho fan as wo now use it was car-ried
by the dandies of tho court. 'It is
remain an open question, but it is raor- a littlo instrument,' says an old French
ally certain that he was not many seconds
in passing through tho coaches, scaling
the iron rail of tho mail-car and laniing
on the coal-pile near the locomolive,
which was writhing uDdcr tho pressure
of sixty-five pounds moro of steam than
was necessary for celerity, comfort a
couvcnieu.ee. Ho says as he struck tin
water-tank and rolled down into the cai
tho engino was going so fast that th)
telegraph poles along the road lookcl
like a 'picket fence.' It took but a mo
tnent to pat on tho nir breaks, rovers!
the lever, and slow her down and tinl
himself within 200 yards of an opei
switch at tho Santa Fe crossing, anl
that the rnn of eight miles had heel
mauo in less than eight minutes. Whci
tho train stopped the fireman jumped
from tho engine and ran down tho traci
toward the city, and the engineer, aris
ing from tho floor of the cab, explainrl
that jnst as they neared the Neosbi
grade Haley, the fireman, acensed bin
of having reported something discredit*
bio to him to tho division superintend
ont. This ho stoutlydenied, whereupoi
Haley assaulted him with a coal-pict
and a hand-to-hand scuffle ensuod. Il
the melee tho throttle was thrown oper,
and, going at the rato of a mile a minute,
they 'fought it out on that line.' Thi
fireman fled to the sheriff to protect bin
from tho infuriated passengers, whei
they learned the cause of the imminent
danger to which they had boen exposed
while tho engineer was pnt under a sm-gcou's
care, as his wounds wero serious
The condnctor was equal to the emer-gency,
however, and mounting the loco
motive ran the train through on time.
memoir writer of that period, 'which
opens and shuts with a jerk of tho hand.'
it rapidly replaced the large fan of gay
feathers which hung to tho sido of a
lady by a chain in Catherine do Medici's
time. A oentnry later, in 1673, thenum-ber
of fan-makers in France became so
great that they formed themselves into
a guild, and great artists did not disdain
to devote themselves to what was so
deoorativo and pretty. The most costly
and beautiful wero painted on vellum,
with the delicacy of miniatures, and
their monuting became very beautiful
and luxurious, mother-of-pearl being
largely employed for it. The Spanish
prineesfos who intermarried with the
later I,mis' and Dauphins of France in-troduced
tho Spanish custom of intri-guing
with the fans, which has a lan-guage
of its own in tho history of gal-lantry.
Illble Errors.
Here is a bit of information which will
do for that conventional scrap-book
which is the property of every well-reg-nlatod
household. M iny editions of
the Bible havo been published during
the last three hundred years, and into
not a fow of them somo peculiar errors
have crept. What is known as the
•Breeches liible" (Geneva 1660) was so
called because tlenesis iii., 7, was trans-lated
: 'Tiiey sewed tig leaves toither
and made themselves breeches,' intend
of 'aprons,'as iu the Koglish version
now nsed. In tho 'Treacle H.ble (1668)
Jeremiah viii., 22, was made to read : 'Is
snarlish, expert, capa-ble
for public business, tractable to MB
superiors ; but he made no impre sion
on tha publio. A portrait of Mrs. Mad-ison
reveals the secret of her strength.
She has large, brilliant eyes, with a
trace of mischief in them ; her arms are
bare, and show full health ; thero is an
Oriental turn to her nose, which other-wise
is rather vulgar ; sho wears a lace
turban and her hair falls in ringlets
around her forehead. She was 0 native
of North Carolina aud was brought up
a strict Quaker in Philadelphia. It does
not appear that she had any particular
accomplishments, neither dancing, mu-sic,
painting, nor foreign languages.
She was christened plain Dolly Payne.
While qnito young (ho married Mr
Todd, a Philadelphia lawyer. He kept
her rather out of society, but she was
known before his death to bo strikingly
handsome. He died while she was al-most
0 girl, leaving her with one son ;
her father was also dead, and it is the
tradition that she and her mother kept
a boarding-honse in Philadelphia, to
which came several membors of < I ingress
seeking board. Madison was one of
the richest. Hit disposition was too
oold for matrimony, and he married, no
doubt.becanse the widow Todd supreme-ly
fascinated him. He was at the time
forty-three years old. Our Constitu-tion
had then been in existence abont
five years, and Madison was regarded as
one of the most useful men uuder it.
'At the time he married, Madison
already had one of the moBt distin-guished
reputations in tho country. 8he
stepped at once out of a plain Quaker
family into tho control of a great Vir-ginia
mansion. When the oapital was
removed to Washington C.ty, which was
a mere wiIderno3s filled with brambles
and alders, Mrs. Madison at once demt n-etrated
hor capa«ity to take hold of eo-ciety
and give if form. Her husband
went regularly to his < Dice and took
very little interest in social things, bnt
he gave her the fullost freedom. He
adopted her infant son, John Payne
Todd, who became the bother of Madi-son
and the ruin of his wife, and yet
Mr. Madison loved him. Madison left
his widow well off with a large estate
and a nice house in Wimhinuton »ml
more than one hundred slaves, beside
stock aud stores iu plenty. Payuo Todd
went throngh everything.
Practical Edaeatl
Iu some of the journals of tho day
which do not have tho fear of the politi-cian
continually before them, a lively and
useful discussion is now going on in re-gard
to the grave defects of common
school education in not adapting itself
pliantly enough to the real needs of the
educated. Tho 'lower education,' it is
contended, is as important in somo very
essential respects as the higher, and. as
a rule, it is wcefnlly neglected. A lady
has recently written to a London news-paper
to say that in tho village near
where she lives no woman among the
farm laborers' wives knows how to take
care of her home, how to cook or to look
after her children; and she mentioned
several instances iu which tho poor
children bad died from this inexperience
and ignorance. It is to be feared that
an inquisition into tho knowledge of tho
details of housekeeping, sewing and
nursery management posscsred by tho
fair girl graduates of our female high
schools, with all their mastery of ologies
aud isms, would reveal a state of desti-tution
and poverty mnch moro shocking
•here no'treac'le iii (Wead/'eto, instead'jtban that aiscl"scd iu "■» chronicle of
great central point of interest in the
city, is neither impressive in sizo nor
fine in style. Its exterior is almost en-tirely
hidden from view by the mifera-ble
structures snrronnding it on every
side, while its interior is so divided iu
its elevations, so cut up into chapels and
sub-sections, and so cluttered np with
tawdry fittings of one kind and another
as to cnHreljdestroy whatever of grace
of style and harmony of proportions it
once may have possessed. The much
talked of Mosquo of Omar, which occu-pies
the site of Solomon's Temple, and
claims to have Jacob's sacrificial stone
within its walls, has a magnificent dome,
some really beautiful windows, and some
flno ornamentation, both inside and out;
but the budding as a whole is not ex-tensive
in scale nor grand or pleasing
in design. Besides, there is considera-ble
cheap imitation decoration observa-ble
in many parts, which detracts great-ly
from its dignity and effect when ex-amined
closely. The other notable
mosque, that of Aksar, standing also on
the old Temple platean, oovcra a good
deal of ground, but that is alwut tho
most that can bo said of it. It is neither
lofty, massive nor graceful, nor in any
way particularly attractive to my way of
thinking, at least Tho Armenian
Church of Ht. James comes next in sizo
and importance, but in any other city
than Jerusalem it would not be likely to
attract attention; mnch less be regarded
as an architectnral lion. It has, howev-er
some furnishings that are nniqno to a
western eye. There are two Jewish sy n-agogces,
also, whose conspicuous domes
—one green tho other white-lead tho
visitor to expect something worth flee-ing
when they are reached. Such an
expectation will not be realize.?, howev-er.
One is quite old, the other compar-atively
now, but both are barren, dreary
places, poorly furnished, decorated in
wretched taste, and exceedingly dirty in
every parr.
A Business Hoy.
One of the orange sellers on the Cam-pns
Martins found a bad specimen among
his fruit and carelessly tossed it away.
It struck an old woman in the eye, and
she made such a fuss over the accident
that the man gave her a dozen oranges
to go her way in peace. She had scarce-ly
left, when a sharp looking boy about
twelve years of age slid up to the fruit
seller and said:
'Say, are yon going to hit any more
old women tc-lay?'
'Wby.no—not if I can help it,' was
the reply.
'If you are, give me a chance,' con-tinued
the lad. 'I'll bring my mother
down here and you may hit her in both
eyes for half the oranges you gave that
other woman, and if that isn't fair yout
can have a shot at dad and me.'—lie-
Iroit Free Preit.
Dbtmsiag Tragedy.
E. W. Palmer, a citizen of Virginia,
was killed by Dr. Craighead Cibell, 1
young physician and nephew of Hon
0*>rgeC. Cibell. Cabcll and Palmer
wero returning on horsoback from Pitt-sylvania
circuit court, at Chatham, to
their homes near Callauds, and both
wero moro or less under the influence of
liquor. Whilo riding together on tho
road they got into a dispnte abont
something, which led to blows, when
Cabell drew his pistol aud shot Palmer
through tho head. The latter reeled
and fell from his horse in the road mor-tally
wounded. Cibell then, with the
exclamation, 'Oh, my (lad, what have I
done)' dismounted and rendered Palmer
all the assistance in hia power. Two
men traveling on the read found Oal el
bathing I'aimer s head, the latter being
in a dying condition. Palmer lingered
until night, when he died, and Cabell
WSB arrested. He is a popular yonng
physician, well known throughout that
section.
The Broken Bank ofSeotlanil.
If Britain ever desires to adopt some
figure symbolical of utter ruin, Bmodel
of the (1 lasgow Bank will meet every
requirement. Since October, 1878,every
shareholder has had to pay $2,600 for
each SS00 share.. At tho next call those
shareholders who own $6 000 worth of
stock will have to pay out 8113.000 moro.
Twenty milliona of dollars must be
squeezed out of these unfortunate men.
The stock was held by 12.260 persons;
4."si of these were completely ruined by
the first call.and now the rest will be nt-terly
bankrupt when the second collec-tion
is made.
It makes an editor mad as fury to
read how the subscriptions are rolling
in to the fonr per cents., while be
hasn't had a new subscriber in six
months.
of 'balm,' and in 1608 tho word was
changed to 'rosin ;' 'balm' was first used
in 1611, The 'Vinegar Bible,'printed
in Oxford in 1717, by John Basket, de-rives
ita namo from the heading of Luke
xi., which was made to road : 'The
parable of tho vinegar.' The book had
many other errors, from which it baa
also been called, after the printer's
namo, 'A basket of errors.' In 1681 a
Bible was printed in Ivigland, and in
17-1- another appeared iu Germany, both
of which made tho soventh command-ment
read : 'Thou sbalt commit adul-tery,'
tho word 'not' being omitted.
It has been very appropriately colled the
•Wickod Bible.'
The Czar's Lave Affair.
The Czar Alexander has recently bern^
m ule the theme of a love adventure,
whiefa the gossips of St. Petersburg aver I
to be founded on fact, if not entirely true.
For eight or ten years he has boon de- I
votedly attached to a yonng woman of j
high birth, conspicuous beauty, and rare ;
accomplishments, and his attachment, |
as is usual in such cases, has boen fully
reciprocated. Ho loves her still, and
his conscience has lieen sorely troubled
that he could not relievo her from the '
dishonor of being his mistress. He
could not marry her for reasons of state, ;
even if he had not another spouse. In this '
quandary, he has called upon his spirit-ual
advisers to contrive some method by
which she oould appear to bo his wife
withont being actually such. How it ,
was arranged is a mystery; but it nai
been by some diplomatic and theologi-cal
hocus pocus.
Misa Flora MrFiimsey. Tho general
education of the day certainly cannot be
said to be perfect in its motho.'a or the
best possible means to the end sought.
We teach boys book-keeping when we
expect them to become clerks;Latin and
Oreek when we intend them to enter tho
learned profesaions; but what do we
teach girls who are to become mothers
and housewives, or, it may be, who will
need to become domestic servants? A
London comic paper recently published
a clever print showing a maid-servant
applying for a place, and with the fol-lowing
conversation for its legend: 'La-dy—
Yon havo not beon ont to service
yet, therefore, you have no character?
Applicant—No, mnm; bnt I've got three
school-board certificates. Lady —Ah,
well, that's something. Are they for
honesty, cleanliners, or f Applicant
— No, please muni, for literatoor, jog-raffy
and free-hand drawin'. The satire
is true enough to bite.
A Stricken Conscience.
About four years ago the premises of
Mr. (iibbons, a corn dealer, near Alton,
in England, were broken into, and a
cash box containing £165 was stolen,
but no trace of the thief was discovered.
A few days ago Mr. (I ibbous received a
package from Australia, which was
found to contain the long missing cash
box. In it was a letter Bayicg that the
writer had committed the robbery uuder
The Knglish ( humpion.
Of Brown, who has just won tho grand
six-days walking contest in London,
beating Corkey, the ex-champion, the
only thing that can bo said is that ho is
a marvel. He beat all previous records
at the end of everv hundred miles ac-complishing,
for tho first tirao iu the
history of pedestrianism, ISiK) miles in
three days, besides having six snd a half
miles to spare. Thronghont the race he
was remarkably fresh, fnll of fire and
never showing the effect of tho terrible
trial. Ho had an attack of gidduvB',
but this did not at all result from weak-nesfl
or from overexertion, as was proved
by his reappearance on the track.
During the last hour and a half Brown
and Weston wero the only men ou the
track. Brown walked with an easy,
swinging gait, showing not the least sign
of stiffucs.". Every few minutes he
would break into a brisk run, occasion-ally
challenging Weaton, and always easi-ly
paving him. As ho went round the
track ho was greeted with hearty cheer-ing
by tho immenso ranltitnde cround.
Ho would respond to the enthusiasm by
increasing his speed, continuing this for
a long time.
Browu is undoubtedly the most mar-velous
pedestrian who has yet appeared.
His physical condition ia abrolutely per-fect.
Ho has a round, pleasant face,
full of rich blood, which contrasted in a
mnrked manner with the thin, jailed
look of the ethers. Ho litttodid he show
any signs of fatigne that it was believed
ho might have continued easily several
days longer. When the band began
playing for tho last timo tho immense
crowd pressed cloro to the rails, and,
cheering, cried 'Go on!" The pedestri-an
then sprang into a swift rnn, with a
faultless action that will long bo the
wonder of pedestrianism.
Brown covered 542 miles and some
laps, being twenty-two miles greater
distance than has ever been walked in
the same space of timo by any man.—
Hazaol walked ltil miles, Corkey s7.t,
and Weston, tho American, only 143.
mm OF GHTCRAL INTEREST.
Berlin's popnlation/numliera 1,1
030.
Newspaper advertising 1 ;
than circulating !
There are six Virginia
tnckians in the United BUI
Kiperiments with the eli eti
tho New York post. 61M prow .
successful.
A fire in Wadley, cv. Ihi
tral railroad, destroy •'. 0
residences and a hotel.
A bill before the Mist
requires overy person curving a p
to pay a license tax of ore ,1
ally.
Lightning struck a barbo 1
on a farm near Dallas, 1
and fatally injured a y ml
McPherson.
The President has issti
tion warning all person 1
ing Indian Terrifc 17, 1
specly punishment fi r 1
The daily consumo:
Now York city and 1! ml nl
preaches InI.HOI quarts, |
885,000,000 ere Invested I
that industry.
Conrtncy, the famous
is growing fat. ho weighs a
snd flays ho has had enougl
and means to stick to bit •
pouter hereafter.
A colored family 11 al \ [
Long Creek, N. C, reeei 1
a bee tree, and partaking of Ihn *.l 1
honey were poisoned. 8
of tho family died.
Ibe Confederate monni Inn:.
bn», (la., was unveiled in the ; n
of lO.Ciio people from diffi n nl
of (icorgia and Alabama,
Cilquitt delivered the tddrei
Texas has been delugi 1 wil ' •o.!-,
aud tho railways II bare
been seriously damaged. At Houston
tho water rose eight, en f. |
hours and carried 1 IT all Ii • hi
A New Yorker rank, s a bu 1 -3 of
ridding hotels of 1,l|
and claims to have ti:l.<:. !
year. Be eaptares them alive 1
them to the rat pits f, r $10 pel
Ired.
Tho governmental report
during the year ending nun
exports excelled the im|
country by tho enorn. ..
831,122—an excess of 1 rly
over tho Bame period I
AtJorcev General JieJ !. - '. '
decides that a voter 111 \ :.
Woman's Memory.
A woman will go on a shopping tour
in quest of a score of dissimilar ar! leli a
The ribbon must lie ten fingers and a
half long and half a finger wide; the
carpet must be like Mrs. Spriggina',
only that she wants hcr'n brown where
Mis. S.'s is green; tho first knot in the
string she carries in her pocket is the
width of the window curtain; the second
right at any time beibi
tion, anil beforo the delil
made out by the treasurer, t . |
treasurer the oapitatii n tax.
Shad have this year I
great cumbers in the \Y
Arkansas. It is the only river
into the (loll of M JI 1
ti.-h is found, and they 1 .
pnaranea there bat t ..• 1
It iporll from all pur!, of tin
Bro to the eft ot that on in
has fully returned. :-;
workshops of all kind
the spring of 1870 as thi v I ivi
for five consecutive yeai , I
tal is ra'ro than abundant, Of
there neither is, nor ii ! ki
lack.
A Georgia Senator, Ii ivi '
disgusted with the low 1
baa engaged in the ';
reports that he eaughl
thirty two, on 1 carry ng them lo
tow, found a ready pm
they netted him a c .:;j 1 ,
lam. Ho then <■.
reft of timber of sixty sti 1. ,
nine hundred and sixty 1* I,
that it netted but thirteen d
The internal n 1
hasd.oi.lid Ibatdruggist
ject to special tax on so
or spirituous liqaors wbii h II
clusively in tho preparath 11 <-r 1
up of medicines,xior si
special tax ns reetifll - •
keeping a still or distil 1 ■
for use exclusively in In
etc., employed in maki: p 1
cines.
A firm inSfatesvill , -. 1
year nearly fa ill ■ m
of medicinal plants, •
Western North C.ir :
a firm in Bakersriilc
last year, and have red
forgot'! worth, to be Hlle.lt 1
: season. Some of the r r.- I
I nseful medicinal plants 11
1 Htate.
Tho Methodists wil! !. Id
] camo-mc'-tings this yen-.
; eighth will bo held at
knot, the length of Snflie"s rkirt; the
third knot, of the pictnre cord, and the
whole string tho distance around the
center table. Besides these she has
bnttonfl to bny, cotton to select, silk to
match, and heaven knows what not; she
will come home at night withont having
made a single blunder, with a full saeh-el
and an empty pocket-book, and ex-press
packages will be arriving for a
week to come. But tho strangest part
of this strange, eventful story is, that
she can also tell you eff hand the OOS-tbe
pressure of misfortune. With the tume of every lady she saw during her
aid of the money he Lad made his way 1 tour, either on the street or in any of
to Australia, where, by good use of the t the numerous shops vieiUd. Can a man
surplus snd by honest industry, he had ; do this?
made for himself a competency. The ' ■
box contained the original amount stolen, j In an English church the plan has
«. J 1 TTT. ,.~ ■ I with interest at the rate of fifteen per ' ^^ adopted of throwing verse after
_° <"Ti!ll°!l.^'l!!-.t™1.'!n.50I: ! <*nt., and the writer, whogavo no name | *•"• <* » hymn that is to be sung by
or address, asked to bo forgiven, and | the congregation in largo type upon a
wall by means of a magic lantern. This
has already been found to please tho old
bourne Argui. as well as the young, and by its meBns
the objections to singing of having no
book, or of having left the book at home,
or of oyo-isjj tiring fine type, are annihi-lated.
-'
ernmentof the earthquake at Mianeb, on
the 22dof March, SSJB that twenty-one tted ,
villages were totally destroyed, and nine ; ^migLt be acknowledged in the Mel-hundred
and twenty-two persons, two
thousand six hnndred and sixty sheep,
one thousand one hnndred and twenty-five
oxen, one hnndred and twenty-four
horses and fifty-five camels wore killed.
The Masonic fair held iu Baltimore
proved a grand success and netted tho
handsome sum of 818.C00,
Kansas, beginning June 2t; I
ninth at lb onet, N- b., 1
tieth at Sewickly, Pa., I
tj-Boeond at Summit (Ii
lorty-third at fjrbena, Ohio,
tho forty-fourth a*. \ ■•
gust 16.
A correspondent wr■'>-- ': -.- Mi
Mo*-ador, Morocco, A
13,000 personi bare
town from hunger. Tl
dying lying in evi r- strcel
the town. Tho di ad w re
more than one «pan Jeep
soon uncovered the cart'
holies. The small-pox. ehi I
phoid fever SUCCeedtd I sell t! cr.
LorenzoRichmond, a pr 1
lawyer of St. I. mis, e •
lost 1'ubraary, but only n
cause of the rash act has '
Ho bad been involved in a
with a Bervait and WUH C 1
marry her. Tho silly a I
the family into which 1 he had b
xnitted should give a p irty I
her to their friends. The y
rather than endure this ignoi
an end to his life,
•■m