The Greensboro patriot [November 26, 1879]

              Established in 1821. GKEENSBOKO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1879. New* Series No. 606.
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In Mfcmoriam.
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i my pain.
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ief to bear,
- tnd adore.
r heari -I ■ pave t'» Hie,
i [in—d away,
d while here,
. .i> well they may.
have been.
i in was r\ er bent
lu uloquent.
I in her face,
ti d feeling,
. and grace.
1 IT i:i thy charge,
uteri .1 trust,
- bi» gold,
. eping duet.
on i.tul bloom,
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'.-»■ purity,
i . e'i i depart.
in ti oat,
MI true,
ui -I ^low
i'Vfi new.
.■ melody,
■ i be last
r nl breast,
l'\ e paased.
red
and kind,
■ i ; eart,
mind,
vt sex,
• ry grace,
• more iciined
i race.
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iiritj ;
u III play,
bow in blew
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pure
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v wrong
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md pi -..i <-.
,• ute delight,
Ti .i*t,
dowers bloom,
i ■ ! take re.-t.
it il lilt ■ n -infiu,
I in\ Lead,
hers,
.: ts of dread.
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1M en iM-forr,
. be
e int t<t no moro.
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■ ■i : remain,
me till death.
our must come,
BUD above,
-, dew,
: bow we love,
to linger hero,
l>lv «i g ief and woe,
H ith dear Allean,
I li »i lot IDg ago.
MARK TWAIN ON BABIES.
A. S[i..-(li Which OccnMioncd
Hoar, ui [.iiuylilcr.
• me a Long.
- . I Mr South.
■ make me u snug,
r. i.
-i music eouod along
witli wail vi woe,
I-- tear.
I i me ^ bj mn,
- -ui; uml dim.
. ;. .iiir heart—
ret ■ epiog there—
Hi.HI child «'l art,
.. last despair,
Dark .,i..l low,
IUI Ol' w.»o ;
ui iij tone
a t!.l u* a moan.
aah m.' a nong.
i darkly bright;
loVl stal SWeepe along
i,:ni\ - of the in^ht,
g ,i sweet,
- drear, or dark, of dim,
tolliaveu'shjiun.
During General Grant's visit to
Cbicugo, on November 13th, a ban-quet
was tendered bim by the Army
of Tennessee, at the Palmer House.
It was a grand affair, prominent
gentlemen from nearly every section
of the country being present. Dur-ing
the evening the usn .1 toasts were
drunk and respouded to in an able
manner. A feature was the humor-ous
response ol Mart Twain to ihe
toast, "The Babies—As they Com-fort
UB in Our Sorrows let Us not
Forget Thetu in Onr Festivities,7"
was responded to by Samuel L.
Clemens (Mark Twain) in a humor-ous
and highly appreciated satirical
eulogy of the product of the cradle,
it was greeted on all sides with
laughter, IM caused considerable
merriment. He said:
"Babies.—as they comfort us in
our sorrow, let us not lorget ih"iu
in our festivities. [Laughter.J We
haven't nil had the food lortune to
be ladies. | Laughter.] We haven't
all huso generals or poets, or state*)-
in. li, but when toasts work down
to babies, we stand on coniuion
grouiiJ, lor we luivi- nil been there,
lor we have all been babies, [Laugh-ter
and applau-e.| It is a shame
thai lor thousands of years (be
world's bauquets have ignored the
baby, as if he didn't amount to any-thing.
If you gentlemen will stop and
think a uiiuuie.il you will go back 50
or 100 years to > our early married lile
[laughter] and contemplate your
lirst baby, yoii will remember that
he amounted to a good dial, and
even something over. You soldiers
all know when that little fellow ar
rived at family headquarters you
had to hand in your resignation.
|Laughter.] lie took entire com-mand,
you became his lackey, his
mere body-servant, ami you had to
stand around, too. He was not a
commander who made allowances
lor time, distance, weather or any-thing
else. You had to execute his
order whether it was possible or ;:o,
| laughter,) and [here was only one
torm of marching in his manual of
tactics, and thai was double quick.
lie treated you .\ ith every sort ol
insolence and disrespect, and ;he
bravest of you didn't date to say a
word. You could lace death at the
stunning ol Douelsou and Yicks-burg,
aud give back blow lor blow.
[Applause] But when he clawed
jour whiskers and pulled your hair,
and twisted your nose jou had to
take it. [Laughter.J When the
thunders of war were sounding in
your ears yon set your lace toward
batteries and advanced with steady-tread,
but when he turned on ter-rors
Ol his wat whoops you ad
vanced in Ihe other direction [laugh-ter,]
mighty glad ol the chance, too.
When he called lor soothing syrup,
did you venture to throw out auy
remarks about certain service being
unbecoming an officer and a gentle-man
f [Laughter | No, you got up
aud got it. If heotdered his pap
bottle, did you talk back f No. you
weut to work and warmed it. You
eveu descended so tar iu your
menial service as to take a sup at
that warm, insipid stuff yourself to
see if it was right; three parts
water to one ol milk, a touch of su-gar
to modify colic, and a drop of
pepi ermitit to kill the immortal hie
coughs. I can laste it »et [Roars
of laughter.] And how many things
you learned as you went along.
Sentimental young lolks still take
stock in that beautiful old saying
that when a baby smiles in his sleep
it is because angels are whispering
to bun. Very pretty, but too thin.
[Laughter.] BIOiplj wind on the
aiuui.tch. My friends, if the babj
proposed to take a walk at bis usual
hour at halt past two in the morn-ing,
didn't '.on rise up prompi and
remark, with a mental addition
which wouldn't :...|.rove a Sunday
school book much, that it was the
very thing you were about to pro-pose
jourse'lf! Oh, yes, you were
under good discipline, and you went
fluttering up and down the room in
vour undress uniform. You not
"only prattled undignified baby talk,
but jou tuned np jour martial
voice aud tiied losing -Bock a by-baby
iu the tree.top,' lor instance.
What a spectacle for Ihe Army of
the Tennessee [roars ol laughter,]
and what affliction for Ihe neigh-bors,
tco, lor il isn't everybody
within a mile that likes military
music at 3 o'clock ill the morning.
When you had been keeping this
sort of ihing up two or three hours,
and your little 'velvet' bad lnti
mated that nothing suited_bim like
exercise and noise, "go on,"" did you
May t He simply went on, until
vou dropped into the last ditch.
(Great laughter.] The idea that a
baby dou't amount to anything.
Why, one baby is just a house and
front yard by itaelf. One baby
can turuish more business thau
vou aud vour whole interior depart
meat can attend to. He is most
enterprising, irrepressible, brimiol
of lawless actix uies. Do what you
please, jou can't make him stay on
his reservation. [Prolonged laugh-ter.]
Buflicient unto the day is oue
baby. As long as you are in your
right mind don't you ever pray lor
twins. |Hoars ol laughter.] Twins
amount to permanent insurrection.
|Laughter.] It was high time lor
the toast-masters to recognize the
importance of babies when 1 think
what is iu store for the present
hope it may, will be floating over a
republic numbering 2O0,00O,000.Ac-cording
to the settled laws of in-crease,
our present schooner- of
State wi'l have grown into a politi-cal
leviathan or Great Eastern, and
the cradle babies of to-day will be
on deck. Let them be well trained,
for we are going to leave a big con
tract on their bauds. [Applause.]
Among the three or four million
cradles now rocking in this land are
some which this uation would pre-serve
for ages as sacred things, if
we conld know which ones they are.
In one of these cradles an nncou-sciousFarragutof
the futureisat this
moment teething ; think of it. Iu
another a future renowned astrono-mer
is blinking at the shining milky
substance with but a languid inter
est in the poor little chap, and won-dering
what is to become of the
other one they call a wet nurse. In
other, a future great historian is
lyiug.and doubtless he will continue
to lie till Ins earthly mission is end-ed.
[Laughter.] In another a Iu
ture President is busying himself
with no profouoder problem of
State than that what in the mischief
has become of bis hair. So early
and iu mighty array in other cra-dles
there are some 60,000 future
ollice-seekers getting ready to fur-nish
him the occasion to grapple
with that same old problem a sec-nnd
time. And still one more era-die
j somewhere under the Hag the
future illustrious commander in-cbief
of the American armies is so
little burdened with his approach-ing
grandeurs and responsibilities
as to be giving his whole strategic
mind at this moment to trying to
find out some way to get bis own
big toe into his mouth.'' • • •
Oov. Jarvis' Speech at the
Colored Fair.
Gov. Jarvis delivered the opening
address at the Colored Industrial
Exposition held in Raleigh last
week, and in it gave our colored
friends some practical common-sense
advice without any attempt
at display or flourish. We print it,
yiud commend it the consideration
of the colored people who will all
be bem fitted by it, if they reflect
upon it and follow its frieudly sug-gestions
:
MY COLORED FRIENDS :—When
requested some week or mote ago
to open this, the first Iudustrial Ex-hibition
ot the products of the color
ed race, I consented with pleasure.
I did uot expect to be so much
gratified as 1 am at the display
made here to day, for it far exceeds
what was expected. In the few re-marks
1 shall make I shall point
out as plainly as I cau the great
work before you aud your race. I
do uot kuow better how to begin
than by quoting a motto I saw iu
one ol your balls to-day. It was:
"God helps those who help them-selves."
He helps in this way, that
whenever in this life a man is fouud
trying to live up to his duty, and
is true to himself, honor aud truth,
that man. rich or poor, black or
white, educated or iguoraut, will
have fiieuds to advise and friends
to help him.
Iu the providence of God your
condition from that iu years agone
is changed. You are freemen in the
Bight ol God, of men
voted for a ticket bis people did not
like. He was, as the result, ostra-cised.
I make no comments, but
tell a simple truth. If you apply
the same social ostracism to one of
your race who does wrong, it will
be the best preventive to wrong-doing.
The best means therefore of
preventing wrong-doing is by draw-iug
lines in yoar own race. I ask
you to practice this principle. I give
another incident to urge this mat-ter,
lu Hyde county, a colored man
returned from the penitentiary. He
was made a preacher. After a few
months occupancy of the pulpit he
went back to the penitentiary.
This brought a reproach upon the
congregation and the neighborhood.
It was rather an encouragement to
crime. If they had closed the doors
against him, it would have deterred
others from doing wrong, ne that
doeth right shall be blessed of bis
race, and he that doeth wrong shall
be accursed. I repeat that I am
gratified at this exhibition in all its
departments. The stock display of
hogs and poultry is better than that
made at the State fair. I am truly
glad to see it Every farmer should
try to raise his owu meat aud bread.
When you make your money dou't
throw it away. Buy a home, adoru
it, educate your children. Then jou
will feel you have something to live
and to work for. I assure yon that
whatever I cau do, as an individual
and official, lo make 'he next ex-hibition
a greater success than this
one, shall be done. I leel an inter-est
in the good work the colored peo-ple
of North Carolina are doing.
Report from the United States
Treasury-built
steamers,at a fixed maximum
and minimum price, the amount to
be expended being regulated by
annual appropriations. Tins poli-cy,
be thinks, would enable the
United States to control the prou-table
commerce with those coun-tries
now almost monopolized . by
Great Britain.
Interesting Statiatioa.
The total sum contributed by the
people to pay the Government's
obligations and to meet current
expenses, since the year 1865,
amounts to the enormous sum of
W.107,888,823.
The total sum paid to the Gov-ernment
since its foundation, dnriog
a period of seventy-seven years
pflor to the war, amounted to but
^,062,680,518.
'.Tba averaga anuual cost of the. *Q« aaag |tj.
vern men t to the people before
tjie war was $26,671^06.
The average cost since has bees
•374,849,204 per year. ■ 0
The cost of running the GoreSr-ment
for the year 1861 ww ijr>
per capita of the whole population.
The cost of running the Govem-per
capita for the last twelve years1
since the war has been 89.10 per
annum. ' "
The interest bearing publtedebt
in 1805 was 82,221^,018, inHad-iug
legal tender treafJorSr -joteat '
Amount of interest bearing pub-lic
debt June, 187U, was 81,970,414,-
700.
Amount of interest'hearing legal
tender treasury not« retired "albee
1865,86,000,950. :- ,"*; V1
Increase of coin bonffed debt
since the war, 1866, 8*47,716,700.
U JI ars is about the
i a telegraph pole.
shall
aud of the
law. Y'our destiny is therefore in
jour own keeping; it belongs to
yourselves. You may be told that
in some place you can Auil a laud
where yon can live without labor.
Believe it not, for it is indeed a true
saying, that lie only succeeds who
works By this alone can any one
succeed. No man of h-s means is
going to support you in idleness.
You will find in North Carolina as
genial a home, as promising a future
as auy where on God's earth. It af-i.
ids me particular pleasure as the
Executive of vour SMte, to say that
a. this time, iu all sections of our
State, from the monntaius to the
sea, in every county, the most amic-able
relations exist between the two
races. There is no reason why
things should be otherwise. So far
as I am concerned I feel a deep and
abiding sympathy for the colored
race. So long as I am Governor the
pool est colored citizen shall have
equal justice with the richest white
Right here, where your forefath-er
were bom, lived, died and sleep
their last sleep, you will find the
place to stay aud work out your
destiny. (Loud cheers.) But your
destiny is with yourselves. "Vour
best interests will b'.- promoted by
gettlng homes of your own, to dwell
iu. 1 wish every colored man had
his own home, and bis owu piece of
ground. '■ wish to tell you that
th'-re are tuauy grades of character
iu the while, as iu the colored race.
There are mean white men, who
will cheat aud swindle you ; but let
me advise you, that there are plenty
of white men who will uot. Be
honest yourselves and deal with
honest men. When you need ad
vice, as you surely will, go to some
one you know to ask for it. »ou
will need the advice, and for a time
vet.
* Another practical thing is this. I
take it that I uow speak to the bet-ter
class ol your race. I hope there
are classes among you. Every
people has such distinctions and so
must you. The lesson must be im-pressed
that if you wish to lift your
race up as uear the plane the white
rare occupies as i>ossible yon must
make such distinctions as to char-acter.
This is not the place to talk
politic.-, nor wil 1 do so, but I will
nSrSA&'S JrivevouaniH-strationin pointA
flag, U 111 atill aurvi-en, and let us colored man m an eastern county
IcinanclHl Kxhibit ol Ihe Depart*
uniii—Hi pnri of Hie l*oaliaa»*
tei*-<i enerul.
WASHINGTON, November 18 —
The report of United Slates Treas-ury
Gilflllan, made public to-day,
speaks ot the fiscal year just ended
as one characterised by great
transactions in connection with the
refunding of war loans, and with
the resumption of specie payments,
after a suspension of seventeen
years. The report;ahows the ag-gregate
of gold coin and bullion,
aud silver coin and bulliou, includ-ing
standard t' .er dollars in the
Treasury, has increased from 801,-
452,000 in 1876 to 8114,464.000 iu
1877, 19 9163,969,000 in 1S7S, and
to 9222,807,000 iu 1.S79. The de-crease
in the the aggregate note
assets, includiug credits in depoaj
tory banks ou other than loan
account, has decreased ftonj 998,-
41.1,000 in 1870, to 888,Y73,O00 i,<
1S78, and to 859,699.000 in 1879.
The most constant influence in the
decrease of the note balance is that
which proceeds from the purchase
of silver bullion for coinage. Since
resuuiptiou the Treasury has been
deprived by the receipt of coin paid
for bullion, of United States notes
amounting probably to seven per
cent, of the anuual revenues. This
percentage is greater than the mar-gin
betweeu the public receipts and
expenditures, and apart from other
influences, it would in time reuder
the balance iu the Treasury first
exclusively metalic. and then exclu-sively
silver. This decrease of
notes in the Treasury will continue
until the limitation or cessation of
the preseut silver dollar coinage.
The silver bullion on hand decreas-ed
during the year from 99,634,000
to 84,299.000.
The statement of assi tsand liabili-ties
of the government, October81,
1879, shows the following aggre-gate:
Assets 9274,867,574, liabili-ties
8123,820.530; amount available
for resumption 9151,047,044. At
the close of the fiscal year ol 1879
the aggregate amount ot U. S.
notes in circulation was 9346,681,-
000. Of such notes, of all denomi
nations,there were redeemed during
the year 964,1074100. The total
coinage of the standard silver
dollar is 845.200.000 of which
amount 132,203,000 in the mints
and iea.ury offlues, and 913,002,
000 is in circulation, the laid r be-ing
28J per cent, of the total coin-age
as against 26 9 10 per cent, of
the total coinage in circulating at
same dale last jear.
Treasurer Gilfiillan says that the
rapid appreciation of silver bids
fair to solve the silver problem for
this country, and expresses the
opiuioii that if the present influ-ence
continue in operation silver
may recover nearly all its former
relation to gold,
Accompanyiug the report aie
statements ot the assistant treasur-ers
at Boston and New York,
showing tranactions of their respec-tive
offices.
The report of the Postmaster
Geueral, made public to-day, shows
that the total receipts of the Post-office
Department for the fiscal
year ending J .:ie 30, 1879, were
830,042.000, and the total expendi-tures
833,449,000. Excess of ex-penditures
over receipts 83.407.OtMl.
The expenditures were 8801.209
less than last year and the receipts
8764,405 greater. The estimates
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1881, show a deficiency to be pro-vided
for by au appropriation of
8771.000. Estimates lor the Star
service for the next fiscal year
contemplated largely increased
mail facilities in the State of Ken-tucky,
South Carolina, North Car-olina,
Teunessee. Georgia, Florida,
Mississippi and Alabama. This
service has alieady been advertised,
the contracts to begin July 1, 1880.
The Postmaster-General recom
mends the enactment of a law
authorizing contracts tor carrying
tbo mails between the United
States and the West Indies and
South American ports in American
GOSSIP AND NOTE BOOK.
The races at Jerome Park on elec-tion
day recall an incident related
In the Life of AUxamirr H. Xtepkeiu,
of a Georgia school master of the
name of Dullie, who was a paeacber
as well as a teacher, and to tan. lat-ter
character he wielded the trickery
and took his dram, in all respects
like the rest of his brethren. He
was a great politician, and tooc a
lively interest in all the local affairs
of the county. One Friday after-noon,
when there was to be next
day a horserace at the county town,
one of the competitors in which was
one of his political leaders, he ad-monished
his boys iu the following
fashion : "Boys, I huppose you know
that there's going to be a horse-race
in town to-morrow. Now, boya,
don't you go to it. But, boys, if yon
do go, dou't you bet. Whatever
you do, don't you bet. But, buys, i
you dv Uot—win'' what T tell von
it you do bet, be sure to l»et ou
Abercrombie's mare !"
teUanwius.
The Glacial Period and the
Deluge of Noah.
[From the New Orleans Democrat.]
Last night an interesting lecture
on the deluge of Noah was deliver-ed
at the Academy of Sciences, be-fore
a scientific audience, by Prof.
Fontaine.
The Professor, in starting, said
that be was about to advance a pro-position
which was entirely antag-onistic
to all theories at present
considered, and he was donbtful
himself as to its correctness, for al-though
he had established it as far
as possible by facts, OUB might be
mistaken as to facts.
He contended that ;he deluge of
Noah and the glacial period were
the tertiary
cloudless si
mild, gentls an
er, and that rain Was
the earth being moistened ihy tha.
miau whM ds^ouidnAni.aifht. B*
reierred to the san signs ia the re-metas
•«* tms and plants of that
|s9ffM*w«e«^nS been fowad. They ,
weswailsftbeaam.tbickneas. Tha **?*****S&*"?XX*
stone, and pshbiea, whiah ware the. ^^LSTL wriulV
ia a pilastiec *atUaties,, aalhloowwwedL.nnoo raia «VWt*J*Jfl 52™.
■arks and qo abrasions except so oh
aa wsT^'araoe 0y tha aertiWa wp-beavati
ui ihe world whan the glacial
wav* passed over it.
The glacial epoch, he said, was
one universal, instantaneous np
bearsi. aid rending asunder of
the world, when ooMaa sank and
rnaaotmus were raised. The distur-bance
was of short' duration, and
after it subsided it left tne world in
if-fir Sana I condition. He contend-ed
te»»- fc occurred after the birth
of Adaq, aod to maintain bis pro-position
oited bis experience and re-search
to show that ail the remains
of plants of that period which were
fbnnd Vans' petrified, elosptmg
somofsw which were unhedged ia
tertiary clay- This - petrifaction he
attributed to the'che-raioal composi-tion
of the wave which'had swept
over »aa earth: and that it had de
loasd the.earth after Hie. advent of
Adam ha was satisfied, because of
the many so-called preadamite re-mains
found above thetertiary layer
Which he had examined none were
entitled to be classed as soon. They
were all of a later period.
The Professor gave some very in-teresting
views regarding the great
convulsion of nature and its effect
oa the formation of the world. He
was listened to througheut with an
tion which msnii.sted the in-torVst
nf his nadienee in the sublect
which he was handling, and their
appreciation of his efforts.
The domestic economy of Liberty
Hall, the Georgia home of Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens, is peculiar.
It is probably the only mansion in
the country where the domestic and
social arrangements areenlireTy un-affected
by the sickueaa or health
Of the master of the house. Visitors
come and go, partake <>l bis Hospit-ality,
make themselves at home
whether be be able to receive thetn
in person or uot. Almost every train
that stop, brings guests and
beats away departing. Dinner is
served at one, and ail who happen
to be present take their places at
the board. Later visitors take su|>-
per, and early on"s breakfast, and
the breaktasttable always brings
new faces. Mr. Stephens' own habit,
is to rise at nine, and after dressing,
lobe lolled iu his easy chair out
upon the piazza, where he usually
calls lor a game of whist—an amuse-ment
which has become a habit
with him, and helps to solace many
an hour of suffering. After an hour
or two, he returns to bed, and rests
till dinner, when he rises and takes
the head of his table, that being the
only meal he takes in the dining-room.
After din'-'-r, conversation
and whist are iu order, and at seven
he goeB to bed.
The ouly inau living who was in
Congress fifty years ago is the Hon.
Peleg Sprague, of Maine, now
eighty eight years old. aud entirely
blind. He was in the United States
Senate lrom 1829 to 1835, wheu
Webster, Clay, Calhoun, aud Ben-ton
were members of that body. He
was judge of the United States Dis-trict
Court of Massachusetts from
1841 to 1861.
In 1864, 520 barrels of pork would
pay President Lincoln's salary for
one year. In 1879 it takes 4,761
barrels of pork to pay President
Hayes' salary one year.
In 1865 it took 7,290,900 barrels
of flour to pay 6 ]>er cent, interest
on the public debt of 82.000.000,000.
In 1S79 it takes 13,333,338 barrels
ot floor to pay 4 per cent, on the
same debt.
In 1865 it took 833 bushels ol
corn to pay a mortgage of 91,000.
In 1879 it takes 2,499 bushels to pay
the same debt.
In 1866, after the war, 1.000
pounds of cotton would pay 8500
rent for a plantation. In 1879 it
takes 7,143 pounds to pay the same
rent.
The annual income of the Church
of England is 936,000,000. The
church has 16,000 religious edifices
including 30 calhedrals,10.000 glebe
houses. 31 Episcopal palaces, and
1,000,000 acres of laud, much ol it
iu good condition for tillage.
the stomach. Don't kill the mole.
Birds—Each department loses
several millions annually through
Insects. Birds are tare only enemiee
to contend against them vigorously.
They are the great caterpillar killers
and agricultural assistants. Chil-dren,
don't disturb their nests.
Lady bird—Never destroy, for
they are the beat friends of farmers
aod horticalturists, aud the.'i pre-sence
upon aphis-ridden plants is
beneficial.
What a Boy Thinka of Parental.
The following will lie read with
universal interest by all of the mas-culine
race, since they can well re-call
the period when they were
boys:
Parents were born to be a great
trouble to their oflanrnig^Kbntt-l
whip iseb, an* nrotfrer tooaHhe kit-ten
away sad t ante,.and
went and
day. Sfc*
And
He told
airs and
ot tlMxxiservee, so I aud
RECORD O.^ EVENTS.
[Compiled up to Nov. **■ 18r9-I
Capt. 8. W. Hah, a former Wa.'*r «tr»««
commiaftion merehaulof Wilmlngti.-'i. haa
removed to the PalmetU Utal<v*iid ••
now located in Charlwlou.
The reeeipto of ootion for the pt-rt of
Wilmiaglon. forone day alone, Wednes-day
19th. were 'A03S bale*, and one-half of
that number went to oae Una, aa the Star
aaya.
Dr. Wiseman, of Farmington, Deri,
county, aava the Salem Treat, has lost
thirty tix bogn and mgs from the cholera
this rail, aud •eeeral of his other pigs are
•iok. Cbaa. Bahnaou. of earns place, haa
lost four hogs from the name disease.
MDOIK
■a-ioe informs the DfJuurrthi am Rttonirr of
the death of Mr. Wn. Lea, a much re-reeT*
cted gentlemen and a derated chris-tiaa
at the ripe age ef 7S ysara. He was aw::-_u-
On last Friday, say. the Bab-mi >•—,
of the fclth, a little chlM of BJrV Warrrng-
1*0.0* rrioodaUB, bailrord ooaorj, BUM
led to set a rraiu of ooen aa Its torn,
distressing It very much. Tb.sbtM was
•god get .grata ooca ay IU aoas,
ilhgir'very i
-to Kesnarsrille, bat, raHka* *» get
there, was brenght te Salaam, warn
aln was extracted ay Dr. Bui n Ma.
> delight of all eoBwerBed. £$**«;
A Remedy for Diphtheria.
IMPERIAL ROSSIAM LEGATION. I
WASHINOTON, NOV. 10, liS7'J. |
EDITOR N. V. Herald:
In view ol the increase of diph-theria
in sevt-nl places of the Slate
of New York I hasteu to communi-cate
to you lor publicity a very
simple remedy, which, having been
used in Russia and Germany, may-prove
effective here. Out of several
others, Dr. Lerrerich, who made ex-tensive
cxpei intents in the applica-tion
Ot this remedy, has used it in
twenty seven cases, eight of which
were Ot a very serious nature, all of
which had a favorable result except
ill one ease, when the child died
lrom a complication Ol diseases.
For children of one year be pre-scribes
ihe remedy, for internal use
every one or two hours, ns follows :
Natr. benzoic, puT.S-Oauiv. iu aq.
distillat aq. menth. piper, ana 40.0
syr. cort. am-. 10.0
" For children from one to three
years old lie prescribed it from
seven to eight grammes tor 100
grammes ol distilled water, with
same syrup: for children from three
to seven years olQ he prescribed ten
to fifteen grammes, and for grown
persons from fifteen to twenty-live
lor each loo grammes.
Besides this be uses also with
great success the insufflation on the
diphtheiiai membrane through
glass tube in serious cases
three hoars, iu light
times a day of the natr. benzoic
pnlver. For grown people he pre-scribes
for gargling a dilution of
ten grammes ol this pulver lor 200
grammes of Water.
The effect ol the remedy is rapid.
After I *eiit.v four or thirty-six
hours the feverish symptoms disap-pear
completely and the temperature
aud pulse become uurmal. This
remedy was used also with the same
success by Dr. Biahain ISraun aud
Professor Klebs.ui i'rag; Dr. Sena
lor. in Cassel, and several others in
Russia and Germany.
Hoping that the publication
through your widely spread paper
Will prove beneficial in the United
States, I reuiaiu, yours. VI ry truly,
N. SlUSlIKIN",
Minister of Rossis to lue U. S.
lib taWtT«anwryi **.
ftSm-aMW-ianyy fajrisnwailiflttchad
37,jceote
urokT aMire'cloth.,
low to know wnannnra
I had no paaenas to
round W-sjant«eorgo
all boUer,.ear Pd cut
ofaerrj tree in the g
it, too: If I was an
what V4 do. Baa
would go to a desolate. South
Island aud stir. up tbe gnats ana
monkeys and things, fry'toadstools,
sax oranges a spell, wad we'd make
a ship and sail aremwd the world.
What's tha wee of drying in one
place. I told aaetbes*we day when
she wouldn't giro me ten oeata, that
I meant to go whaliu* and 1 hope*
a whale would swallow me as one
did Jonah, and tneai she wouldn't
never see me again, for I can't swim.
She aaid I. wouldn't be likely to
make such a visit, for I would turn
tbe whale's stomach nrighty quick
after I got there. Wastrtahs bully t
If I were a parent I kniow what I'd
do—I'd keep still and m.'ud my own
business, and let my children have
some fun. There's Tom Cutts lives
with his aunt, and has a btilly time.
He goes wood chucking on Sundays,
has no beet c4oU*es, crawU under
the canvas of every circa* tent,
earn. monT -*,— —•■ •----—.-'j-r--
:_ .k. .t.iib when he likes, and al-ways
has his pockets lull ot pea-nuts.
He says he wouldn't be both-ered
with parents if he conid have
them for nothing, and he thinks if
1 hadn't any it would be money >n
my pocket. Them's my sentiments.
—Fox.
. 90th: Th. hrldga, rnn
. aaVa, over Moafi* Crftk, brake
oa. day hast week, ewawaa wala af
awdamwiVatarSslaf
!w#S.?CS.5rtha^;
i fern a4lenlll.il 11
• WWewantf
dawahaaiaseaw W
'fiarte.
John Wesley at Work.
[From tbo Sunday at Home.]
AB he travelled to aud fro odd
mistakes sometimes happened. Ar-riving
at York, he went into the
church at St. Saviour's gate. The
rector, one Mr. Cordemi. had often
warned his congregation against
going to hear "that vagabond Wes-ley''
preach. It was usual in that
day formiuistersof tbe Establish-ment
to wear a cassock or g»»n,
just as we everywhere in France
BBC the French abbe. Wesley had
on his gown, like a University iu.au
in a University town. Mr. Cordeaii,
not knowing who he was, ottered
him bis pulpit. Wesley was quit.'
willing, aud alwavr ready. Sermons
leaped impromptu from bis lips, and
this was an impressive one. At its
close the clerk asked the lector if
he knew who the preacher was.
'•So" "Why, sir, It was that vaga-bond
Wesley !" f'Ah, indeed Tsanl
the astonished clergyman; -well,
never miud, wo had a good sermon."
a
e very-cases
ihreo
—Contentment is the most preci
ous jewel of human life; and the I
way to attain it is, the surmounting
difncilties by curbing vicious inch
uations, fierce, unruly passions, aod
inordinate apjietites, in overcoming
temptations, aud in bearing injuries
with patience.
What Not to Kill.
Tbe French minister of finance
has done a good deed iu causing a
placard to be posted which it would
he wise for citiseiis ol all c*.uuti.es
to na^e before their eyes. It tells
larmers, tpoitsuie.i. boys and Others
what creatuies not to kill, as lol-lows
:
Hedge-hog—Lives mostly ou mice,
email rodents,'slugs and grubs—
animals huittul to agriculture.
Don't kill the hedge hog.
•road—Farm assistant; he des
troys twenty to thirty insects per
hour. Dou't kill the toad.
Mole—Is continually destroying
grubs, larva-, palmer worms, and
insects injurious to agriculture. No
tiace ol vegetation is ever louud iu
Lord Lyons maintains in Paris
the liberal style of entertaining
that he practiced while British Min-ister
al Washington. In Paris he
has a fine house, furnished by his
government, and 930,000 a year
salary. Tbe last tour ruleis of
France have all liked him. Iu the
early days ot the republic he was
supposed to have been skeptical as
to its stability ; be did not even
take the trouble to have new pass
|>orts printed with the words,
"French Republic." v\ hen Xhiers
c.tine I" dine, with lmu there was
some little question as to tne cere-mony
to be observed. Lord Lyons
Determined, at bast in one respect,
to accord royai honors to his guest.
In announcing dinner, the major-dome
bowed to M. Tuiers, and said,
"M. le President de la Repnblique
est servi " The little old man there
upon gave bis arm to Madame
Tuiers, aud the twain, as though
they had been Cesar and Li- wile,
led the procession to the dining-room.
aa, Owats, esaaraa.
OaarV-^ OOi-^r SOU
Bur, Ska
Hi i«oi ce*t. m. a
Th. maniacs leek.'**.
tardshj, and was qalta aa .
etrsWs tn than tmrt. wbsw.
many waxaa a^iairars aa4 l>isaUa. ,
fit. John Bfirtoo 1s stW lWinr la Psr-ftoa
be th* iruut l*asitn« «Vssa HiUsbono to
Ro^lhua-o, at th* advatpftxl age at 9b, in
full ptwsasaloii of aH his faonliiog. Until
rr< ently.be has llvM it fsyW* Ordinary,
a noted pltce fi>r ovar a century, -■rhwrsj a
uiai^U'tician, Oak, in /nil health U p.»iiit
ed out as lh*> j'lara when* a L'*alpany •>(
Itritrsli «>id.«*n tfafllfrl tlMdrarsSMfitnins;
the revolution. Mr. ilnrftoti aoa livoat
th« V\'iliiaiiMon Ditto**., H Spot alaveet
MOJUIS holed. Tin- Uutham mt&rdtf tails,
the above.
Ou le*l Saturday Kith. sayH the Win
nton Sentinel, Maine one etiteirrd Ms* an*
inent where ,If*»n»v» Rigg* was sleepii ; and
\f\o r^arVt*. i»n*Wi*tin*y ihe rmrrfje wsre
found io a ntahiV helm BIDS* to 1) fi. H#-u
Kiii'k. and on SuiHitiy Dijrht Deputy Hherifl
BabDson in.on* a raid on tin- baru anil
captured a aegro who eras taken h
Kf.u.niien Best, Johnson andClrosiaui <>a
MV day. end llic proof wan so • Var
against liiiii that In- P/as sonI to jail to
await trial al the m-xt term of our ooort.
WiuMwri .Sr'i.fi/.W.'JiMh : The resident**
of Rev. Mr. Baldwin and Jno H> > »i srara
entered lust Thursday bight l>y BOBM un-known
pari>fj*. bui proTed rather a
Waiter-haul, *H 4,i't nothing lias been miss-ed
with tbe exception of a buneh of k»-\s
by Mr. Read. K.itnnla> eTOaiog Mr.
Joseph Be) nard li*d a l»t of tine eandlea
stolen from hi* cnsjnter while attending
tnriuticH in his green honae. Mr. A Bidoe,
who live* near ClooSBSonaTillp, bad a
raloable horse stolen from ass stable last
Wednesday aight. The thief aaanl (tartlet
in purMtiit and tnrnrd the animal IOHHO
and BMlle K<»«N1 UIM eocap".
Whooping eoagh has broken onl in the
Oxford Oiphan Anylum, and Mr. Mills,
tlio Stiperintetideii', hsl iasBed ft raid
from which we take tbe liiM paragraph,
a- follows- Whooping COOgh hat unei-pectedly
appeared at tbe Orphean A*>Ium,
haviajt been hroogbl by a late arrival
lioni Ofaowan oonntj We are Isireed t'»
meet it at the beginning of winter, and
v..tn a large number oi feeble children.
We shall try to give them heathfnl f I
and comfortable clothing and to pn
thcDi agaiiiHt the w. at her. JadlcioBS at-tention
and carvt'ul DOreing wilt also
mitigate tl.x dieeafcC as tar an possible.
"The 'patafnaJ gnvr-niiuent' trouble*
itself about eery small matters " remarks
the Oxford TonUigkt, ufTaeedar, 10th
when it reviews tbe work *>f V. a '
■slsaiouei Lassitei «li» IHUIIOI over Isaac
Kvann, itjnuth, on. the charge ol selling
a nint of whlskej for a goo tube and tin
eenta, t" one -'«)*• Uaraide, forsserly a no-t'-
lioUi ' iiioonniiiiii-i," lut now apt
BJ ii %[ revs tie Info, m< r, Tentinionj s as
conflicting as to tbe truth <»f tbe charge.
but tl.r evidence was abnndaal thai the
young fellow never I. id any wbie-U
bis possession eaceid this pint, whicb had
been presented t-* utm bj an oldef broth-er.
Wilmington Afar, Itfth : We regret to
learn that M> W. H. Penny, who roeidi i
at In-* plantation in Bruoewick county,
about M\ milcit fr"ni this oily, met with
iiuiM. a -i-vcit! .tnd probably fatal aaei-denl
yesterday afternoon, about iltVi
It appears that be w*-, engaged In »
tiing a pair ot aar-loekn for bis - aii>«-. ne-
• "K * pocket-knife for the purpose, when
tbe blade broke, a portion of i pern trnt-lug
one of bis wiiiit and severiD|
an«-r>. The extent of the'lnjorj w„
atlirit raaJhtod, '"'t the blood eontinned
t<> Uow III sack « quantity, Mi L'eanj in
the meaotime hecoumgao weak that be
bad to bo assisted to his I ed, thai it was
•l«*c.ded to send a no Manger post bai
thwaity attti a doatar, and one ot oaf
promii «nt physicist.!! soon a:;.-, ward
started b>r Mr. Pennyt residence
Basaftuaatagentlefaaa is well kno\«i. in
this city, -btic he hat t»o BJ •hret
engaged In buainosa.
The London World msya: "It in
beeMBiog tbe fubioo at diatin
waiabed weddiugn in Paria i<-r page
boy* to be imbatitntpd for tTi.les
ajajds. Th*-y ar** all <lteKSe-ii alike,
moatly in red or blo« »elvel or
satin, wiUi Mlk hro*:i.ii»^s ami K"l(-
buckleH; ftod, lor tn* ir bofliD«M,
have to atteml on the brid», carry
her prayer book ami homjuel, sn[»
port her train ami veil and g'-htrally
lie at her buiiiini, all lh« d»y.
Voong lirotbera <.ri"Htiv*H under
twelve yearn of ajr* au- oaoafly se-lected
for til** ofBee."
" Astottiebed Bogliabmon—"flol
course there's a bel. What wo«W
the halphabet be without a bel.
- ird
Its
i bs I ■ owing sonvrrset •••" **** »
ii, « N-w Vork I* -■■-•■ ■ tr duriii
,f,i renvass f"r govern* i in thai i
,»r with a DuaWr of otbe,» » i- - i
I , . | Ah ■ .. WSN ' --
trfc«L. -• . -
... . t » •• l ■ *' lie ' ' I;' Y ■■ . .y. ar.
Rt.frlitnbaiafi -- vents *- ettthiney,
I . : | > tbv bsck plallvi ai
w, ..i K os ■• ' • Vaiei aud( »;■ «*•
■landing th*r*-.
•'Aw—what m ib** maitaw *"
"tlecaf ish -top. snewsred '.;.'* ; .. -.
(ir- nan.
Y-.-a - BUI • I v - ''
-It*, nne u Who'll K v - | r • ■
was uSs reti}
"Jans K- y I
• ^ sli •'• "■
"llh t*-N-e. '!-» ■"■ Sleetll
ckney
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H-.-I'
ipwuSs
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d to I - seal, si pei ■
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