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Afrrrtisemsnts not specified as to time, published tan til ordered out, and charred accordingly. All advertisements considered due from first l»ii lion. # One lack to eonititate a square. roSTKti TWO riCTOMS. BEFORE muuai. My Maggie, my beautiful darling, Creep into my arms, my sweat, Let me fold you wain to my bosom So close I can bear your Mart beat. What! these little lingers been sewing? One's pricked by the needle I see { These hand* shall be kept from such labor When once they are given to me. All mine, little pet, I will shield yon From trouble and labor and care, I will robe you like some fairy princess, And Jewels shall gleam In your hair. Those slippers you gave me are perfect That dressing gown fits to a T. My dfarilng, I wonder that heaven Should give such a treasure to me. Eight— nine—ten—eleveu! my precious, 'lime flies so when I am with you— It seems but a moment I've been here, And now, must I say it ?—Adieu 1 AFTER MARRIAGE. Oh, Mag, you are heavy '—l'm tired; 00 sit in the rocker I pray; Your weight seems a hundred and ninety, When you plump down in that sort o way; Ton had better be mending my coat sieve ; I've spoken about it before, And I want to finish this novel, And look over those bills from the store. This dressing gown fits like the d—l; , These slippers run down at the heel; Strange, anything can never look decent; 1 wish you could know how they feel. What's this bill from Morgans ? Why surely It's not for another new dress ? Look here! I'll be bankrupt ere New Tear, Or your store bill will have to grow less. Eight o'clock ? Mag sew on tbis button As soon as you finish that sleeve— Heige-ho! I'm so ducidly sleepy, I'll pile off to bed I believe. The Wilmington Star collates the following notable parts of a conversa tion between Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, member of Congress from Mississippi and a reporter of the Atlanta Herald: Kepsrter—" You say that you think it possible that) New Hampshire will go to the democracy in the next election— do you think it likely that the demo* crafcs will elect their next President?" Mr. Lamar-rl know it to be quite certain that there is an overwhelming majority against the administration in the country. Ido not imagine though that this majority is within the ranks of the democratic party. It exists under different names, as separate elements, and is controlled by distinct influences. On the one isssue of opposition to the present administration—its centralizing tendencies, its corrupt practices aud its incompetent rule—this - majority is agreed. On other issues it is divided Into elements, more or less antrgonis tic. If this loose and diverse majority can be harmonized if, in oth words, the elements can brought to be lieve that the points of union are more essential than the points of difference * the tulmiffiitrfliffll will be swept from power on the tide of a humiliating defeat?" What do yen of the democratic tidal wave ot last year? Won't that be strong enough to sweep the'administration from power?" Mr. Lamar—" Certainly, if the union of parties which produced that result can be kept nnbroken. The victories were not strictly democratic victories. They were not achieved by the demo cratic party, as a party, bnt by demo crats. conservatives, liberal republicans and anti-administration men, fighting pr the time under the democratic flag, Just as the democrats in the Greeley , fought under the liberal re publican flag. Tney wen allies of the democratic party, not converts to its doctrines. It is all important for as to realize that it was a triumph achieved by co-operation, not by conversion. These allies thotogh friendly still to tne democratic party, and hostile to the present administration, are not bound indiseolubly or even securely to ours. If they are content to fight the next fight with us,we will whip it. If they are driven off we will loose it. Reporter—" Do you think that this harmony will be maintained?" Mr. Lamar—" lam hardly prepared to answer that question. The great liberal and conservative elemeuts would like to see the democrats in power, I think, provided it would show some difference to liberal opinions, and some appreciation of liberal leaders. There is a pungent apprehension through the minds of the whole liberal or conserva tive party, that as soon as the demo crats get into power they will inaugu rate ' Reactionary' legislation, and will throw the liberal leaders overboard. I have already heard a point made ou the defeat of Schurz. Now, we are all glad to have Gen. Cockrell in the Senate. He is an cble and patriotic man. But Schurz was undoubtedly the leader of the liberal movement. He was the most brilliant, daring exponent it bad. He led all the great republican captains out of the ranks, and joined them to the democratic party. Ho organized the revolt, as far as it is in his power to or ganize anything. Added to this, he was one of the very ablest statesmen that ever sat in the Senate; and is as pure as he is able. There is no man who did more, none who did as much the liber- als aaj, towards the disruption of the radical party, and the consequent dem ocratic triumph, as Carl Schurz, And yet, (they say distinctly) the very first thing the democrats do when they get into power is to throw Schurz con temptuously overboard, without giving him even a complimentary vote. This sort of work, if persisted in by the dem ocrats, will, the liberals and conserva tives say, drive these party Iriends back iuto the the republican ranks." Reporter—"You seem to be very cer tain that victory will be the result of a opmbination of all of the elements of opposition to Grant?" T Mr. Lamar—" I am. Look at the auspices under which we go into the canvas. In the last canvas, we had as a nominee, a man whose nomination disappoint'd Schurz and the other lib- Aral leaders, and who excited a revolt in the democratic camp. The every department of tlicFederal Government ins in the hands of the enemy. Not only this; an overwhelming majority of the State governments were in their hands. Now, .we find the new canvas openlpg with a-vast majority ot all the office!* directly dependent upon the elective principle under control. We havnffcarried over two-thiids of the States, and in a decided majority of them have control of both the Execu tive and Legislative Departments. The revolution has gone further; we h ve a large majority in the ouly branch of j. the Federal Government that is direct- 1 ly respondent to tlie elective principle. House of Representatives, the only cfeMnel through which the popular lift of 4j}is country is poured into the Fed erafpovernment is democratic ani is ■ completely inour hands. Now, if nothing is done to disturb i the alliance under which these victories ' were won, they-can be repeated, and ■ repeated with an emphasis that will startle the most sanguine, it is impossi ble to predict the result." i Reporter—" Do you think Grant will r try a third term?" 1 Mr. Lanear—" I do. I think that he j is now a candidate for re nomination. I An immense rSort will be made to de . feat him in the nominating convention r but this I have no idea can be done» We may eMPt pretty ceAainly on bav ! ing Grant to rtta against in the Centen l nial canvas." i Reporter—" This harmony being se i cured, do yon think the damocraU can i carry the country?" Mr. Lamar—l think they r can ELECT CHAELKS TEAKCM ADAMS, f or Judge Davis, ot the Bupreme Court; > either of them with a large degree of certainty. Eitbrr of these men can «on i solidate the whole opposition vote, t They could carry the liberal coneerva i tive element without trouble, and the . democratic organisation leading this, • can carry the conntry. I think either . of these men could be elected by an i overwhelming majority. It is probable ! that Blaine eonid be elected by the , same influences. He is an Immense r power, and possibly the ablest man in . the republican party. I see that the i democrats of Philadelphia gave *»»"« a i forma) banquet the other day." i Reporter—'- Do yo think a straight GRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1875. and pronounced democrat can be elect ed?" Mr. Lamar—"lf is possible that Thurman, Hendricks or Bayard might be elected. These gentlemen have the entire confidence of the democracy of this country. Either of them would develop its fullest strength. If they can carry the liberals there would be no doubt of it. This might be well done by a proper platform. In this matter of the platform we have a ScyJla and Charvbdis to between. We must have no more O'Conner move ments. On the other band -we must not by trotting out dead issues, drive off our allies. With all the elements of opposition combined, we have a cer tain victory. Without that lam afraid the democratic party is not strong enough to carry things." The reporter asking him why he didn't deliver a speech when rose to do so during the John Young Brown ex citement in Congress, Mr. Lamar re plied by relating what happened at a splendid banquet in Washington, lie said: Mr. Sam Bowles, of the Spring field Republican , rose and peeping over his wine glass in a wicked way, said, ' Mr. Lamar, we want you to repeat to us right now and here the terrible speech you were going to fulminate against Hoar in the House during the John Young Brown discussion I" Now there was a startling proposition tor me. I wasn't mad with (he pleasant people in front of me I had no reason to hurl a storm of indignant remark* at their heads. Besides I was not in a rage about anything, and 1 really didn't have any indignant remarks at haxd. I was in a dilemma—l knew that I was in a brilliant company, and that no half way manners would do. Right in front of me sat Gail Hamilton; I didn't know it was her at that time but I did know she was a very bright woman, for she bad just dropped the wise and witty remarks that "John Young Brown should not have been censured for pre varication, for lying is the cohesive power of society." Iu her presence I didn't dare to attempt to build a vehe ment speech on a basis of good Humor, and rare wine, and I didn't know what to d). I replied, however, that I would first illustrate my position, by an illu sion to a well-known book, and then if the party insisted on a rehearsal of this undelivered, an hence, famous speech, I would do my best to satisfy them. '•You will remember," I said to them, " that once upon a time a friend met Mr. Thackeray, and says tb him, 'Mr. Thakeray, the book of Vanity Fair closes leaving Becky Sharp half bidden behind a door, with a long keen knife gleaming iu her hands, and her eyes a flame with jealously and passion, bent upon a man sitting with his back turn ed to her, writing at a desk. Now, I want to know, what did Becky Bharpe do?' 'My dear fellow,' says Thakeray tapping him on the shoulder, " that is exactly what I have always wanted to kuow myself.' •" You can very well imagine that I was not troubled with any more re quests to reheatfe my unborn speech." A LITTLE ABSEKT-MlXDED.— Shortly alter the Southern Canada train from Toledo to Detroit pulled out yesterday afternoon the conductor came into the front car on his accustomed round. His face wore its usual bland expression, but there was a far-off look in his eyes, and he gazed over the heads of his pas sengers as he smiled to himself and muttered unintelligible things. But when be punched a bole in a $6 green back and stuck a 60 cent scrip ( in a man's hat-band, the question of bis san ity was seriously considered among the spectators. The matter, however, was explained when a lady asked what time the train reached Detroit, and Murray beamingly replied. " Eight pounds and a halt, ma'am." As it is Murray's first daughter, a little absence of mind is certainly excusable in view of the hap py event .—Toledo Blade. A DAKBCRT BOT HAS FUX. — Robert Collyer says the children must bare less study and more fun. He is right. There is the boy in the family across the way. Last Thursday afternoon he put a dead mouse in his mother's work-basket, at tached a split stick to the tail of the next door eat, set the vinegar faucet up in business, palmed himself off as a ghost on the hired girl when, she went down cellar after the butter, besmeared bis father's choice bantam rooster with bine ink, and Anally wound up the enter tainment by tying the boiler to estrange dog's tail, and slipping down in the slush and hurting his bade. His exas perated father hardly knows which to hunt up first—the strange dog with the boiler, or Bobert Collyer. HMTH CABOLIJf A CKNTBNNIAL UKIitBBATieN OF THE OTKCK LRNBPBO BRCIiASATION •» INMPSNDBNCI, PROGRAMME. One hundred guns, at sunrise, and ringing of city bells, under charge of the Artillery Committee. To march at 10 o'clock, A. x., Grand Procession, through the principal streets of the city, undercharge of Chief Marshal and thirty Assistant Marshals, as follows: Millitary Companies. Fire Com[»nies. Masonic Lodges. Odd Fellows. Knights of Pyth*as. Good Templars. Patrons of Husbandry. County Organizations. Other Associations of City, County, State aud Citizens. Press Organizations. Ysrious Centennial Committees. Accompanied by Yaries Bands of Music, and their own Special Banners, » Emblems and Insignia. The Procession will be formed in the following order: Military Companies on both sides of South Tryon street, right front resting in fh>otof Central Hotel. Fire Companies on West Trade street and on Church street, opposite Fireman's Hall. Grand Lodge, County Organisations, other city, county and State Associa tions, and Citizens' and Press' Organi zations, on East Trade street. Masonie Lodges, Odd Follows, Knights of Pythias, and Good Templars, on North Tryron street, from the Square to be followed by Band of Music with Military Company, to be assigned by Chief Marshal as guard of bouor or es cort. In carriages, the following: The! President of the United States, Govcr.ior of Teunessee and staff, Governors of other States, Governor of North Caroli na and staff, Uulted States Senators and Supreme and Superior Court Judges of North Carolina, Mayor ot the city, aud other iuvited guests, orators and reader, accompanied by committees. Parade to be through principal streets, to arrive at the Speaking Grounds at 12 o'clock M. After the various compa nies and organizations, Ac., have been arranged by the Chief Marshal and As sistauts, the Centennial will be bpened with prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. liobt. Hall Morrison, D. D, after which reading of the Mecklenburg De claration of Independence by 1 there will be, at 8 o'clock r. a Grand Barbecue. After which Military and Fire Company display. At night, at 7 o'clock r. Grand Torch ;Light Procession with Chinese Lanterns, Emblems, Transparencies, Ac., tbc. After which addresses will be delivered from the Stand in Inde pendence Square, on the site ot the original Declaration of May SO, 1075, corners of Trade and Tryron streets. There will be general illuminations of the house* on principal streets. The Celebration to conclude wlib a Grand Pyrotechnic Display, Consisting of beautiful Emblems, Figures, Mottoes, Jto., Ac., appropriate to the occasion, under charge of the Artillery Commit tee. The Chief Marshal, with thirty As sistant Marshals, to be hereafter an nounced. Approved and adopted by Central Executive Committee, March 14,1875. Da. JOSEPH GRAHAM, Chairman Executive Committee Tooe. W. DXWKT, Secretary Executive Committee. March 86,1875, ratified and adopted by General Committee of Arrange ments. Us GOT EXCITED.— OId Mr. Throop. up on Eight-street, is as good as be is! corpulent, and has a way of singing hymns in soft undertones as he goes along the street. Yesterday morning he was picking bis way along the slip pery grade down Division street, sing ing, aa usual, and he Just flnlshed the line, "A charge to keep I have," when he felt a terrible eoncnssion, and the air was (tall of hats and spectacles, and red handkerchief*, and Artie overshoe*, and old Mr. Throop blended his hymn into "Dog gone the'didledy dad briuged infernal old trap to the gol dinged Pikes." And of all the people who helped hfan up and handed him bis unngs, not one could tell what be meant by those remarkable phrases, and we don't believe he knew himself. Bur lington Hawkeyc. Aa«L»R SKBTCfe. PUFFIN AN UNDERTAKER. " I've taken your paper for twenty-six years," he commenced, as he reached the bead of the stairs, says the Detroit Free Press, "and now 1 want a puff." He watt a very tall, slender man, had a face which hadn't smiled since 1842, and his neck was embraced by a white cravat, awl his bands were thrust into black gloves. " I've got a new bearse, a new stock of coffins, and I want a local notice," he continued, as he sat down and sigh ed, as if ready to screw a coffin lid down. "lly dear sir," replied the man in the earner, "I've met you at a great many funerals, end your general bear ing has created a favorable impression. You sigh with the sighers, grieve with the grievers,/ on extra occasions you can shed tear* of even though you know that you can't get 10 per cent, of all your bill in six mouths." "Yes," sighed the undertaker, in stiuctively measuring the length of the table with his eye, and wandering to himself why editors' tables woron'toov ered with crape, with rows of coffin nails around the edges. "Death is a very solemn thing," con tinued the corner; "but still,, it is an occasion when one can appreciate a neat tiling. I've seen you nib your knuckles against door-posts and never change couutenance, I've seen yon list en to eulogies on men who owed you for twenty years before their death, and you looked even more solemn than the bereaved widow; I've seen you back, your hearse up to a door in such an easy, quiet way that it robbed death ot half its terrors. All this have I seen and appreciated, but couldn't write a puff for you." "Why not I" he demanded. •W many reasons. Now, you have a new hearse. Could Igo on and say: "Mr. Sackcloth, the genieal undertaker has just received a fine new hearse, and we hope our citizens will endeavor to bestow upon it the patronage such en terprise deserves. It rides easy, is handsomely finished, and those who try it once will want no o£ber. Could I say that?" "No, not well." "Of course I couldn't Yon si) call a grocer or a dry good* man 'a genial friend,' and its all right, but you aren't genial—yon can't be. It's your busi ness to be solemn. If you could be even more solemn than you are, it would be money in your pocket.' 'That's so,' he said, sighing heavily.' 'lf it was an omnibus, or a coal cart or a wheelbarrow, I could go on and write a chapter on every separate spoko, but it isn't yon see.' He leaned back and sighed again. 'And as to your coffins, they are doubtless nice coffins, and your prices are probably reasonable: but could I go on and say: 'Mr. Sackcloth, the un dertaker, has just received his new styles in spring coffins, all sizes, and is now prepaired to see as many of his old customers as want something dura ble at a moderate price.' Could I say thatr Another ligh. 'I couldn't fay that you were holding • clearing out sale, in order to get ready for the spring trade, or that, for the sake ot increasing your patronage, you bad decided to present each customer with a chromo. I couldn't say that you were repairing and repainting, and bad the most attractive coffin shop in Detroit. It wouldn't do to hope that people woul patronize you, or to say that all orders sent in by mail would be promptly filled, and that' yonr motto was qniek sales and small profits.' Ha pat on the look of a tombstone, nod mode no reply. 'Ton see, it yon had stores to sell, or dealt in mackerel, or sold fishing-tack les, everything wonWl be lovely* Yon are an undertaker—solemn, sedate, moarnAil. Yon revel la crape, and ypu nevsfr pass s black walnnt door witbont thinking bow mnch good coffin lumber was recklessly wasted. The tollinf bell is music to yon, and the dtv hall flag at half-mast is fist on your ribs. We'd like to oblige yon, but yon see how it is.' 'Yes, I see,' he dghed, and he fersed in procession ana moved down stairs, looking around now and then to see is the hearse was Ju*t thirty-four feet be hind the officiating clergyman's fear riagc. The Art Bchool at Weimar, in Ger many, has lately added to the number of its professors the celebrated painter Of animals, Albert Brendei. This artist BOW stands very high in the particular department of art to wliicb be has de voted himself. His pictures ot sheen, especially, are strickingiy true to life, una are the results of prolonged, untir ing practioal study. NO. IX | A CBKSTBKVIILMAII ASSIST* ANT Vesfst Fellswfa nnr Newspaper sflssrs. (Philadelphia Times.) We have added a man to our staff. He. is the -Chesterfield of the editorial corps, and occupies the first room sev eral doors from the * chief editorial re treat. He is of Hibernian persuasion, has bright red hair, strong, sinewy arms, and airs himself with coat off and sleeves well rolled up. He sports a cane, that is always handy, of solid hickory, huge dimensions, and loaded at the butt. He keeps two pets of the English bull-dog breed, with a litter of well grown pups in coner to keep up the supply in case of accident, and it is a fancy of his to keep a brace of loaded blunderbusses leaning against his chair. It is. his business to do the detectable part of the editorial work of the Times. He receives the short-haired women and long-haired men, who flock to every new paper with piles#! manuscript up on their favorite hobble*, said to be "Just the .thing for an independent Journal," and he welcomes the large growing ftmily of Colonel Mulberry Sellerses who have a patent method fbr paying fhe National debt, and for mak ing money plenty for everybody with out earning it—all of which they could demonstrate to tlie satisfaction of any one by publishing forty or fifty columns in an independent journal. He abo greets the crowd that comes with the scandal of the streets and gin mills, and insist upon publishing it anonymously "to break up the Riugs" and restore the oity to law and order. With all these, and others in the same useful line, abounding with information that haa hitherto been entirely unappreciated, our new Chesterfieldian man has to deal, but he acquits himself with wonderful satisfaction—Now and then there is a little confusion in his office— a chair or a table is broken, or a win dow smashed, and once in a while the dogs are seen pawing bits of silks and bugles and such things, and pantaloon patches out of tlieir teeth, and the pups do occasionally play with an ancient reticule, or a grandmother's fun, or an odd shirt-dickey, but upon the whole the department is a success, and we can confidently commend it to all onr brethren incliued to an independent Newspaper venture. X VT in HOHOI. [Rocky Moontaln New*.] An atrocious tragedy was committed In Toquerville, Utah, last Thursday, which, for some unaccountable reason, was not reported b) telegraph., Rich ard Fryer, who has lately labored under the hallucination that he waa a second Jesus Christ, entered bis house in the evening and fonnd Thomas Batty a friend of the family, lighting a fhc in the grate. Believing that Batty waa an emissary of the devil, who was try ing to burn his premises, the lunatic rushed for a pistol and shot him through the head. Mrs. Fryer, paralyzed with fear, crouched in a corner, and waa shot through the heart by her demoniac husband. The next thing be did waa to go to a cradlo where his infant qjrfld was lying asleep, aud deliberately blow its brains out. This waa the crowing act ot the almost unparalleled tragedy. Fryer then sallied forth into the village, armed with a revolver aud a gun, pro claiming himself the Lord, and saying that he bad alain the devil and aovernl of hia imps. The Sheriff, being unable to arrest Fryer* and fearing that still other Hvea might be sacrificed, killed him with a shot from a navy revolver. Batty, Mrs. Fryer, the babe, and the slayer of them, all were buried on St. Patrick's Day from the same bouse. rataiii rioht». [Profeuor S, & MortrJ Only the female spider spin web*. Tbey own all tbe real estate, sod the males have to live a vagabond life under stones and in other o&scuTb hiding places. If tbe* come abont the boose so often as to bo*e the ruling sex, they are mercilessly killed and eaten. The spider's skin is as unyielding ss the shells of lobsters and crab*, ant} is shed from time to time in the same way to accommodate tbe amimars growth. If you poke over the rnbbisb in a female spider's back yard, among her cast-off corsets yon will find the jackets of tbe males who have paid lor their sociality with their lives—trophies of her barba rism as truly as scalps show the savage nature of the red man. —- There is in tbe United States J56 firms and corporations eugaged in the silk manufacture, with an aggregate capital of $16,000,000 and with a force of 10 651 operatives. New York has 6i of these establishments, New Jersey 80, Couneticut 22, and Massachusetts 12. ■ !' . t ',