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J -Td:crlTMZZ"K- CHARLOTTE, N. C., tfRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1881. I twenty-ninth tolusie ndjsiber i'478 ' THE Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor Terms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar for six months. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. " Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. as second class postal matter, according to the rules of the ir. U. Department ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., CHARLOTTE, N. C., office corner 5th and Tryon Street,) Tenler bis professional services to the public, as a prnctical Surgeon. Will advise, treat or operate in all the a Here: t departments, t)f Surgery. March 5, 1881 , ly Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, fl&s on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Median", Family Medicines, Paints. Oils, Varnishes, Dye. Stuffs, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1879. DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist and Pharmacist, Keeps a full line of Pure Drugs and Chemicals, White Lead and Colors, Machine and Tanners' Oils, Patent Medicines, Garden Seeds, and every thing pertaining to the Drug business, which he will sell at low prices. March 28, V879. J. P. McCombs, M. D., iffers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night Office over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 18, 1878. DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. . Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15. 1878. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. March 18, 1881 ly A. BURWELL. P. D. WALKER. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. "Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office adjoining Court House. Nov. 5, 1880. T. M. PITTMAN, Attorney at Law, Opposite the Court House, Charlotte, N. C.,) 'Practices in the State and U. S. Courts, and gives ; prompt attention to business. Will negotiate loans. May 28, 1880. y WILSON & BURWELL, Wholesale and Retail Druggists, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything per taining to the . Drug Business, to which they invite the attention of all buyers both wholesale and retail. Oct. 8. 1880. HALES & FARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keep a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles, &c, which they sell at fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c., done promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to 8prings' corner building. Tnly 1, 1879. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Byrupa .Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Giass Seeds, Plows, &c, which we offer to both the Wholesale acd Retail trade. All are in vited to try us from the smallest to the largest buyers. Jan. 17, 1880. j. Mclaughlin, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, &c, College Stbbkt, Chablottb, N. C, Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. XST Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. Nov. 1, 1880. HARRISON WATTS, COTTON BUYER, Corner Trade and College Sts.t up Stairs, CHARLOTTE, W. C. Oct. 24. 1880 ly DR. A. W. ALEXANDER, Dentist, Office over L. R. Wriston & Co.fs Drug Store. I am working at prices to suit the times, for Cash. With 25 years' experience I guarantee entire atisfaction. Jan. 18, 1878. . Notice of Dissolution. The firm of J. McLaughlin & Co. is this day dis solved by mutual consent W. W. Grier having withdrawn. The business of the firm will be set tled at the office of J. McLaughlin. j. Mclaughlin & co. Not. 1,1880. Learn a Trade. Boys, one man with a trade is worth a thousand without one. The hosts of young men in every city who apply for employment aud fail to get it for the reason that they cannot truthfully af firm that they are educated or especially fitted lor any particular business, constitute a potent argument in favor of reform. Un der the apprentice system, we should have lewer ignorant mechanics and incompetent business men. A trade is a fortune in itself. SHERIFF'S SALES. I will sell for cash, at the Court House door in the city of Charlotte, on Monday, the 2d day of May, 1881, to satisfy Executions In my hands for County and State taxes, the . following described iracts or .Land and City .Property, viz : One Tract of Land in Paw Creek Township, ad joining the lands of David Norment. Cyrus Hutchison and others, known as the property of i nomas Kenny. . Also, one Tract of Land in Charlotte Township, adjoining the lands of J. C. Dowd, the Trotter Gold Mine and others, known as the property of 1 nomas Kenny. Also, one Tract of Land in Paw Creek Town ship, adjoining the lands of S. W. Beattv. A W Neill and others, known as the property of Julius A. King. Also, one Tract of Land in Charlotte Township, adjoining Abram Palmer and others, known as the property of Thomas Furguson. Also, one House and Lot in the city of Charlotte, adjoining the property of Jennie Beckwith and others, known as the property of Ann Young. Also, one House and Lot in the city of Charlotte, adjoining the property of H. W. Tatum, F H El liott and others, known as the property of T. J. Sprinkle. Also, one House and Lot in the city of Charlotte, adjoining the property of W. M. Wilson, Walter Brem and others, known as the property of Julia A. McMurray. Also, one House and Lot in the city of Charlotte, near the Carolina Central Depot, adjoining the property of Mrs. P. M. Murray and others, known as the property of J. L. Hardin. . M. E. ALEXANDER, Sheriff of Mecklenburg, county. April 1, 1881. 4w House and Lot FOR SALE. I offer for sale the House and Lot located on the corner of Graham and 9th streets, known as the Col. Ben. Alexander premises. The House is two story and contains six rooms and a kitchen, with a good Well of water. For further information apply to E. C. DAVIDSON, Or F. H. Glover. March 25, 1881. 3w Sale of City Property. By virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, I will sell at Public Auction, on Saturday, the 16th day ef April, 1881, at 12 o'clock M., at the Court House door in the City of Charlotte, that HOUSE and LOT, situate on Tryon Street, adjoining the property of John Wilkes, Dr. Bratton and others, being part of Lot No. 68, known as the Fullings property. Terms of Sale One-third of purchase money to be paid on day of sale, balance in two equal in stallments at six and twelve months, with interest on deferred payments at the rate of eight per cent per annum. Title reserved until purchase money is paid. S. M. HOWELL, March 18, 1881 4w Commissioner. NOTICE. Havinsr been anDointed the Executor of W. H. Clark, deceased, I hereby notify all persons having claims against his estate to present the same to me before the 1st day of April, 1882, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of a recovery. .Parties indebted to said estate art: nolihed that prompt payment will be required. WJI. TODD, Executor of W. H. Clark. April 1, 1881 6w 1881. SPRING STOCK. 1881. We are daily receiving our Spring Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES, Which will be more complete than ever before, and comprises the best brands and latest styles. Ladies', Misses'. Childrens', Gents', Boys' and Youths' fine Boots and Shoes a specialty. Lower grades of all goods In our line in variety and all prices. Full stock of STETSON HATS, and soon to ar rive a pretty line Straw Hats. Trunks, Valises and Satchels, all sizes and prices. Call and see us. PEGU AM & UU. March 4, 1881. CONFECTIONERIES, GROCERIES, &e. Cakes and Bread. C. S. HOLTON. at the Rising Sun Store, oppo site the Old Market, still keeps a large assortment of Confectioneries, &c, and a good selection of choice Family Groceries all of the freshest and best quality. tfread. ana (Jakes. His Bread is considered superior by all who use it, and his assortment of Cakes is fine. CW Wedding Cakes and Cakes for Parties pre pared in the best stile at short notice. Give me a trial when you need anything in my line. C. S. HOLTON. Jan. 14, 1881. Just Received ! 1 CAR LOAD White Corn, 1 " " White Virginia Meal, 1 " " Silver Drip Syrup, 1 " " N. O. Molasses, 2 " " Flour, 1 " " Bacon, 1 " " Choice Apples, 1 " Vinegar, 1 Mott's Genuine Apple Cider, 5 Cases Bananas and 10 Barrels Oranges, And a full stock of everything else in the Heavy and Fancy Grocery line. We respectfully solicit the inspection of both the Wholesale and Retail Trade to our stock before purchasing elsewhere, as we are sure we can make it to your interests to do so. DAVIDSON & BEALL. Feb. 4, 1881. E. J. HALE & SON, PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, 17 Murray Street, New York, Invite orders for School, Miscellaneous and Stan dard Books, and for all kinds of Staple Stationery. WRITING PAPERS -Cap, Letter, Note and other sizes. BLANK BOOKS, of all Grades. ENVELOPES, all sixes and colors and qualities. SCHOOL SLATES, best quality, all sires. Fl :te and Lead Pencils, Pens, Inks, Mucilage, Ac. E. J. HALE & S"N. Feb. 18, 1881. The Sunday Law in South Carolina. ; It is not generally known, or it has been generally forgotten by reason of its non-en forcement, that there is a law on our Statue Book, puuishing by fine, the violation of the Sabbath day. Any person of the age of fif teen years and upwards is liable to a fine of one dollar for doing any kind of work ex cepting works of neccessity and charity, on the Lord's day. It goods are exposed for sale on that day they are forfeited. No sports or pastimes are allowed, and any per son offending in this matter forfeits one dol lar. Every person, on pain and forfeiture of one dollar, is required to observe the Sabbath by exercising himself on that day in the duties of piety and true religion, pub licly and privately; and unless he has rea sonable and lawful excuse, he is required to attend public, preaching on that day. and when he gets in church he is required to re main there, orderly and soberly, during the time of praying and preaching. Nobody is allowed to travel on Sunday, unless in go ing to and from the place of religious wor ship, or in visiting the sick, or unless the traveler is belated the night before, and then he can only travel to some convenient hotel, or place of shelter. If the occasion for traveling on Sunday is extraordinary and urgent, and does not come within the ex ceptions above, you must get written per mission from some trial justice before you are allowed to travel. No publie house is allowed to entertain guests on Sunday, ex cept lodgers and strangers, and any keeper of a public house who suffers a person to remain on his premises, lounging about, drinking or idly spending his time on the Lord's day, is liable to a penalty of one dol lar for each idler, and the idler himself must al?o pay a fine of one dollar. Any person who employs a servant is forbidden to com mand, cause or encourage such servant to work on the Sabbath, under a penalty of one dollar for each offense. Families are permitted to dress meat on Sunday, if they happen to have any to dress, and public houses may dress and sell meat, for such as cannot otherwise be provided. You may buy and sell milk on Sunday before nine o'clock in the morning and after four o'clock in the afternoon. No one can be prosecuted for violating this law unless the prosecution is commenced within ten days after the offence was committed. Zar.cister 8. C. Ledger. One of the Old Presidents. President John Adams thus wrote to his wife concerning the ceremony of his inaug uration: "Your dearest friend never had a more trying day than yesterday. A solemn scene it was indeed, and was made more ef fecting to me by the presence of the General (Washington), whose countenance was as serene and nnclouded as the day. He seem ed to me to enjoy a triumph over me. Me thought I heard him say: Ay ! I am fairly out and you are fairly in ! See which of us will be the happier !' When the ceremony was over he came and made me a visit and cordially congratulated me, and wished my administration might be happy, successful and honorable. In . the Chamber of the House of Representatives was a multitude as great as the space could contain, and I believe scarcely a dry eye but Washing ton's. The sight of the sun setting full-orbed and another rising, though lesa splendid, was a novelty. Uheif J ustice 1111 worth ad ministered the oath and with great energy. Judges Cushing, Wilson and Iredell were present, with many ladies. 1 had not slept well the night before, and did not, sleep well the night after. I was unwell and did not know whether I should get through or not. I did however. All agree that, taken altogether, it was the sublimest thing ever exhibited in America." Fkance. While the French people have always answered liberally to the call of their Government, whether - monarchical or republican, for a loan of their money, their last response for a loan of two hundred mil lion dollars surpasses anything known in the history of financial negotiations, lhe rate at which this last loan was asked was three per cent., and the sum total offered by the banks and the people was six thousand million dollar. There is nothing like it on record, and if it in any sense is an expres sion of confidence in the Republic, no bet ter test of its permanency could possibly be offered. A SnEKWD Sheriff. A mob of sever- eral thousand people collected in Los Ange los, Cal., and threatened to lynch a man ar rested for murder. The sheriff, a man of rare tact and presence of mind was equal to the emergency. He mounted a conven ient barrel, and addressed the crowd as fol lows: "Fellow Citizens: I see before me a large number of men who would like to. see the murderer Hunt hanged. Now, I pro pose, as a preliminary to the act of retribu tion, that we take a collection for the widow and orphans of the murdered officer Gillis. I will lead off with $5, and here is my friend, Joe Manning, who will cheerfully go through the crowd and gather up the con tribution." The effect of the speech wa9 remarkable. The surging mass began to dissolve and scatter, and in a few moments not a corpo rals guard was left. How much money Joe Manning secured is not known. B-if Ladies will be interested in the news that a glass dress is being made for Fanny Davenport in Pittsburg. It will be a fail toilet evening suit, and the process of mak ing is such as to give the work the appear ance of French satin, only that it is much more brilliant. The dress will have a long train of woven glass, and it will be elabor ately trimmed with glass lace. To make what is called the glass cloth from which this suit will be made, the glass is first spun into threads and then woven. The progress of this age is wonderful. . The Dajucer of Monopoly' From the Philadelphia Record. Ex-Go v. Washburn of Maine, himself the President of a Railroad Company '.made some pretty plain talk'on Railroad Alonopo- I a1 . 1 j - l l r iy mo otuer uay a & neanng oeiore a com mittee of the Legislature ol that State. His remarks remind the Portland Argus of the speech of his brother, Hon. E. B. Wash burn, exposing the first step in the Credit Mobilier scheme. Amongst other things, ex-tjrov. Washburn said: "And now, gentlemen, all we ask is jus- uuu in mis miner,' mat me monopolies in this State shall not discriminate against the smaller enterprises. The time has oome in this country, when the large corpora tions are devouring the smaller ones pro perty centreing in the hands of the few. The gigantic railroad monopolies are con trolling the price of property and prodtfee by pooling freights and tariffs. One small railroad company after another is being swallowed up. The giant monster centrali zation is fast destroying the liberties of the people, and we may see one railroad after another lose its identity. It is true we be come alarmed. The people in many of the Western - States . are already legislating against railroad monopolists; they have been forced to it as a matter of self-preservation. The railroad monopolists have be come so strong in this nation that they can elect Legislatures, Congresses and Presi dents, and control them, too. They frame the laws of the land, and the people have a right to be relieved. They demand it at the doors of the legislative halls, and they will have it and that speedily. If they cannot get it through legislation they will appeal to that mighty and omnipotent force which always prevails under like circum stances. 1 am no alarmist or extremist. I am interested in railroads ; but I am com pelled to accept the awful truths which are forced upon me. The tendency of legisla tion at the present time is toward the de struction of the smaller enterprises and cor porations and in the interest of monopoly. The great middle class is being crushed out of existence, and society is being divided into two classes the very rich few and the dependent and pauperized mass." When accused of making a Democratic speech, Mr Washburn replied : "If equal rights and justice are Democratic, then commend me to Democracy ; but I hope the Republican party has not so far forgotten the principles of freedom as to render my remarks other than Republican doctrine." TlieWife! Only let a woman be sure that she is pre cious to her husband not useful, not valu able, not convenient simply, but lovely and beloved; let her be the recipient of his po lite and hearty attention; let her feel that her care and love are appreciated and re turned; let her opinion be asked, her approv al sought and her judgment respected in matters of which she is cognizant; in fhort let her only be loved, honored and cherish ed, in fulfillment of the marriage vow, and she will be to the husband, her children, and society, a well-spring of pleasure. She will bear the pain, and toil, and anxiety, for her husband s love is to her a tower and a fortress.' Shielded and sheltered therein, adversity will have lost its sting. She may suffer, bnt sympathy will dull the edge of sorrow. A house with love in it and by love we mean love expressed in words, and looks, and deeds, for we have not one spark of faith in love that never crops outis to a house without love, as a person to a machine; one is life, the other is a mechanism the unloved women may have bread just as light, a house just as tidy as the other, but the latter has a spring of beauty about her, a joyousness, aggressive, penetrating, and prevadmg brightness to which the former is a stranger. The deep happiness in her heart shines out in her face. A New Pacific Railroad. Another grand highway has been con structed across the North American conti nent, and for a second time hare the tire less railway builders riveted the Atlantic to the Pacific, for on the 8th of March, at a point called Deming, in New Mexico, was driven the last spike connecting the Atchi son Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad with the Southern Pacific This important event has attracted but little attention, and yet it is only of secondary importance to the com pletion of the first transcontinental railway, that excited the admiration of the world. This new line traverses the great Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and will de velop their great mineral resources, and will also no doubt be the backbone to the system of projected railroads into Mexico. Although this road makes the distance from New York to San Francisco about three hundred miles longer than the other route, yet the running time of the two roads will be nearly the same, on account of the Southern road having better grades. To give an idea of how rapidly this new road has been constructed, we see it stated that over five hundred miles were built in the past twelve months, and for several weeks at the rate of two and three miles a day. A Lady. The lady does not lose caste because she makes her own clothes, and is obliged to economize. A "lady" is a wo man who clearly understands and consist ently practices the refinements of a highly civilized existence, and the most real dis tinction between a lady and a woman who is not a lady, is that one is more civilized than the other, and more determined to preserve the habits of a high civilization, both in her own person and in all thoso over whom she has authority. These hab its are not simply habits of expense ; it is cheaper to remain sober than to get tipsy, and yet is more lady-like to be sober. It does not cost more money to speak good English than bad, or to be gentle than rude; yet a lady from preference, speaks correctly and has gentle manners. Men, Women, and Suicide. Men everywhere are becoming more weary ot the burden of- life; Authorities on sanitation and vital statistics telLns that, of late years, life (the average human life) has been considerably prolonged by greater at tention to the means of preserving health; yet concurrent with this improvement, there are a greater impatience of life itself and a greater desire to escape its burden. Women are less prone to commit suicide in Europe than men and extensive investiga tion on the subject has convinced Signor Morselli that the tendency to suicide in creases with age more strongly among the unmarried and widowed than among the married of both sexes. The following table curiously illustrates this fact. Among a million of persons of each class- in Europe generally, in so far as the returns enable him to compare them, the following . nam oers comuiea suiciae: Married men with children Married men without children Widowers with children Widowers without children Maried women with children Maried women withont children 205 470 526 1,004 45 158 104 238 Widows with children Widows without children Women cling to life more strongl y than men, and that in the most wretched condi tions. A childless widow would appear to be far more desolate in the world than a widower similarly situated, yet she bears her loneliness better; doubtless from reli gious restraints, or from possessing a larger measure of that hope which springs eter nal in the human breast. Contemporary Review. hi a Boys and Cigarettes. Physicians and moralists alike are pained by the spectacle, growing more common every day, of pale-faced lads, ranging in age from sixteen to twenty years, who are puffing their little lives away in cigarette smoking. Day and night throng they the streets, where the peculiarly offensive odor generated by cigarrettes made of cheap pa per and bad tobacco renders their smoking as obnoxious to others as it is hurtful to themselves. Every evening before the doors of the theatres they raise a cloud of smoke that is equally injurious to their own rickety constitutions and to the noses of their victims. Doubtless, also they carry their pernicious habit into their homes when they are old enough to do so without risk of the spanking that they , deserve thus still further doing harm to themselves and making other people uncomfortable. The cheap cigarette is a modern inven tion, a peculiarly vicious one. Twenty years ago when the cigarettes all came from Cuba and were wrapped in rice paper, smoking them did no great harm. More over, being made of Honradez, or some brand of equally strong tobacco, only a boy of stout stomach could smoke more than two or three of them at a time. But to meet the boyish demand cigarettes are sold now days both cheap and weak. They are made of mild bad tobacco, and, for the most part, they are wrapped in ordinary white paper. Rice paper wrappings neces sarily increase the cost, and the boy who wishes to prove by the ordeal of smoke that he is not a boy but a man, much prefers the article that he can get the most of for his money. Moreover the boy does not know the difference apparent to the sight between rice paper and ordinary paper, any more than he knows that while rice paper burns away with scarcely any smoke at all, com mon paper burns with a loul smoke that cuts like a saw into the chest and throat. So he spends pocket money on cheap cigar ettes and makes everybody around him un comfortable while he smokes himself away into an untimely grave. The dwn of a better civilization is visible and Arkansas is entitled to the credit for it. The Legislature of that State has passed a bill making dirks, Bowie knives and pistols contraband goods, not to be car ried or dealt in, excepting only such arms as are used in the Army and Navy of the Uni ted States. This may be carrying prohibi tory legislation to an nnwarrantable and impracticable excess, but it discloses a healthful change of sentiment, and in a quarter where it was least looked for. The more it spreads the better for the coun try. J " 1111 "ytvt Dangerous Opiates. The increase of the opium importation in the United States is very marked. In two years it was equall ed two-fifths. This shows a steady increase in its use. Opium is the most enslaving drug in the world, as it is the most insid ious and lasting. Morphia, hasheesh, ab sinthe and alkaloid, are all becoming more and more in use, and their victims are in creasing in number every month. In other words, the narcotic habits of Americans are becoming more unmistakable, and one of the prevailing diseases that all physicians have now to contend with is narcosis. It is said that the hyperdermic use of morphia is very greatly abused, and medical men are be coming much more cautious in employing it. Several State medical societies have considered the matter, and have guarded its use by resolutions. tT Forty-six years ago Paul Dilling ham, ex-Governor of Vermont, took a boy into his service to do chores for his board, and allowed him to use his library and at tend the village school. His name was Matt H. Carpenter, the late distinguished Senator from Winconsin. Vennor's predicted snow storm came sure enough March 30. . Out West nothing like it was ever seen, and the cold was fearful. At New York the wind blew at the rate of 50 mi'es per hour, while the snow was quite deep. At Chicago it fell to the depth of ten inchep. , Poor' Aaron Bnrr' r" Jieminucences of a man who lost the iZVai-, ' deney by torn vote, ..,T Yi- , There are not a- few: old pe.oploin.-N'ew.. York city who remember when the name of ' i' Aaron Burr was used to frighten them in- ' doors at night and to 6care them into iem- . porary quietude. . Though Hamilton was not less of a roue than Burr, and carried his' social entanglements even into his bmcial 1 life at Washington, his death wiped nway' u the clouds that had 'hung about hiin and left Burr enveloped in the . blackest ' oblo- -quy. Bereft of friends and home left child less by the awful fate of his only daughter, Theodosia, the last years of his life,!,fat Brighton, Staten Island, were sad beyond expression. His physician, Dr. Edgar, has often told me of -those days, and even he was moved to tears as he spoke of the soli tary 1 old. man- who had. qnce ruled the Senate, came within oBe vote of, the Presi dency and almost carved an empire Out of the Southwest who dragged out the days beyond four-score in proud loneliness, ask ing no sympathy and despising the world ' that had forgotten him and who died and gave no sign of repentance. For want of a balance wheel, he just failed of being, the one great man of his day. The house in which Burr lived, after he had married Madame Jumel, still stands at Washington Heights, on the Harlem River, little changed since Washington, from its upper windows, watched the smoke of Brit ish and Continental guns, and since, before that, its mirrors shadowed the fair form of. Mary Phillipse, its owner, who rejected the addresses of the Virginia militiaman, Col. George Washington, and married Capt. Morris, of the British army. Hamilton's home, the Grange, is still in existence, though shorn of its former glory, and on Jayne street the frame house to which he was taken after his duel with Burr, and in which he died, is the home of a half-dozen families. But the house at Richmond Hill, which stood near the present corner of Varick and Charlton streets now a third rate neighborhood disappeared fifty years ago, and gave place to . the solid brick houses of substantial burgherp. "' It was a magnificent country seat, embowered in thick woods, and there Burr entertained American statesmen and foreign visitors with royal hospitality. His country seat proper was at Yonkers. So long ago did the mansion at Richmond Hill give way to the march of improve ment, that few are living who remember it in its best days. Some few there are who , can still give personal recollections of the place and its owner, and two of them have just come to the surface as lively and chat ty as they were three quarters ot a century ago. They are women, of course. Mrs. Rachel Jeroleman celebrated her ninety second birthday, in Brooklyn, on Monday, surrounded by her eight children, twelve grand-children and fonrteen great-grandchildren. When a child she used to play in the woods attached to Richmond Hill, and, with the other children used to scamper away in mortal terror when the master of the mansion passed through the grounds. By a singular coincidence in the same city, on Thursday of this week, another sprightly matron, who was contemporane ous with Burr, Mrs Sarah Wilkes . Banta, celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday. Born in New York in 1782, before peace had been made with Great Britain,' she has lived there until a few years ago, when she went to her daughter's home in Brooklyn! Her father owned twenty acres adjoining Burr's farm at Richmond Hill, and the old lady has pleasant recollections of the' offi cers of the French fleet dancing on the. green there and singing French' songs in the years that closed the last- century. Those were the days when eligible lots on Broadway codld be bought for $25 and on the Bowery for $15. Mrs Banta gives Burr the came character as is given him by other contemporaries, but doe not deny that in wpite of his moral obliquities he was a great favorite with the ladies. When he kept , opf n house at Richmond Hill there was not a belle in New York but felt herself hon ored by an invitation, from 'naughty," handsome Col. Burr to attend his regal en tertainments. Burr seems to have been the Rot-co1 Conkling of his day, Cor. of Wash ington Post. - Well Bone. A gentleman from New York, who had been in Boston for the purpose of collecting some money due to him in that city, was abont returning, when he found that one bill of $100 had been overlooked. His landlord, who knew the debtor, thought it a "doubtful case," bat added that if it was collectable at all, a tall, raw-boned Yatkee, then dunning a lodger in another part of the house, would "annoy it out of the man." Calling him up, therefore, he introduced him to the creditor,, who showed: him the . account. "Wal, 'squire, 'taint much use try in,' I guess. I know that critter. Yott ; might as well try to squeeze ile out of Bun ker Hill monument as to c'lect : a debt ' o' him. But, anyhow, what do you give- me . s'posin' I do try?" , . . "Well, sir, the bill is $100. I'll give you . yes, I'll give you half if you collect it." "'Greed 1" replied the collector; "there's no harm in trjin', any way." Some weeks after the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and, in walking up Tremont street, happened to encounter his enterprise ing friend. , "Look'ee here 1" said the Yankee, L had considerable lock with that bill of your'n. ,p You see, I stuck to him like a dog to a root . but for the first week or so twant no use, not a bit ! , If he was at home, he was short; f if he wasn't at home, I could get no satisfac- -lion. By and by, says I, after going six- . teen times, I'll fix you ; so I sot down on the door-step and sot all day and part of the evenin', and began airly next clay; but about ten o'clock be gin in. He paid me . my half, and I gin him up the note V
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