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SALISBURY, H. C. JANUARY, 3L 1878.
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OUir WINDOWS IN FLORENCE. basis of his astronomical system The
leaning tower of Pisa is looked ou by
AMEicici s-v espucius : his tomb: GALILEO: travellers as a curious-Droblem. and er-
, &
haps Galileo did not know why it was so ;
!i 1. 1 A. t f 1 . A
Airs. Browning made the house in which m" Jsl Iar enougn lor mm to
i a. - ? i l : j
W.id,d in Florence famoit hv M "l":uuieui8 wuu nuung uouies.
Bl.V . - j 1 , . - ...
-Coni Guidi Windows." Mrs. Jameson anu u llie tower uever 8ervea auy ueuer
wrote in the same house. And, wonder- IrPf enougb to that it leaned
l.I TT 1 . s
l tnrplate. I had Mrs. Browning anart- Iur mm' 116 Knew 100 mncu Ior ms own
, o r -, - 1 1 , ., . . . ,.
'mentandMrs. Jameson's table when I lur ue roeu luat au inveuuouui
' was here ten years ago ! But Casa Guidi
is not so well placed for sun -light as we
The steps were of woodt and they and the
railing are ricketty with age, but they had
held great men, and were not to break
down with me. The tower was not lofty,
but, being on a hill-top," it commands the
whole horizon : and such a heaven above
and such an earth beneath, sure in no
other clime and land may the eye rejoice
in. Not fair Florence only or chiefly is
the glory of this scene: though not a
Idoiue or tower or palace in its circle of
splendor but shines at my feet in tins
brightest of sunlight: but Tuscan-, cov
ered with vineyards and olives, rich in
corn and wine, ten thousands of villas
crowning and studying the hillsides and
plains : the Arno rushing among the walls
of the city and coursing through the fields
beyond : and the whole circuit of moun
tains on which the sky rests for support
I 4.1. ' A. . il jl . t4 Ilia tiiwu In (Mrini4)i finUinf ilff
"-Kill- rf-l.n.mn: anu W1? 01 lueiu P?-.' Flu.uo,
, ilU'") " j
wishedj-and Ave therefore sacrificed the
sentiment to the .advantage of Jjeiug at
home 4in mine own inn." It was certain
a great man was a sham, and the great
man became his enemy and caused the re
moval of the Astronomer to Padua. Here
he was Professor for eighteen years.
WJien he had perfected his first telescope
I t.jr . 1. St i ir 1 e xi... a. r
lv a nlcasant guidance that led us to the "riWK ,lw euice auu' ,,u,u U1C wr
hotel Jcla VilU, where we have found de- "ie Cathedral of St Mark, looked into the
Hatful quarters. If tl.e windows lack neaven8 and dered the moons of Jupr
theromaneo of poetry jind art, they look
ter. This was in 1609. He was now 54
. 1 .j . 1 years old. The fame of his discoveries,
out upon waters, bridges, towers, domes, I" v TV- ,C8
nt thai tether inalr a nnnornmii of opinions of the world, were abroad in the
Wrno! hi8toriral v interest. If the earth' Science contended stoutly against
, . on ., , . him. Superstitiou came to the aid of
, t.i. :i t. i k ..mi science and made the fight bitter. How
volume luigui cusiiy . uu mauc w luiiu
i- 1... : 14. 1 sorely the good man was tried, in thefif-
, lcf0u.,. n , w ftm fi. teu years that followed these. brilliant . To the stars he went and walked
memories sujrsested by the view trom the I ...... . ; ... .
window at which 1 am writing these lines
the great world of Europe and making,
with their sister Alps, the bulwark of
Italy. Yet it was not this view that
Galileo studied from this old tower. He
did not even look that way. Ad astro,
The sun has justgone down. An Ital-
. ian sunset in its highest glory is now be
. fore us;' Serried ranks of clouds are on
, lire. They are reflected from the swollen
' bosom . of the Arno, which glows and burns
with the last light of day. All the West
is tilled with broken and dissolving rain
bows: piles . of purple and orange, and
brilliant ml hues and violet rays, are
heaped up there in masses of rich color
ing,a great heaven of leauty and glory,
in which the fading clouds float like is
lands of the blest in an infinite sea.
The house is fu an open Ktrmrre, 011
which stands one of the oldest churches
iu Florence. Within it are the ashes and
the tomb of the man whom Americans
will never forget, Sthough they regret that
they Jiave such cause to reniemler him
On a marble slab in the pavement of the
high altar, is this inscription :
SVIS M LXXI-S AMERIGO VESPUCIO
rOSTEKIS:
He was one of those few fortunate men
who get more fame than is their due.
JVuierico Vespuci "followed in the wake of
Columbus, and having stumbled upon the
coast of the Western-Continent, left his
name on the whole of it, and it remai'us
to this day, and will to the end of time.
More fitting would it have given the hon
' or of the New World's name to Columbus,
; as it certainly belongs to him. And here
in Florauce they not only build a tomb to
'Americas and treasure his bones, but they
' point to the greatest celebrated gnomon
' of the Duomo as the greatest astronomi
cal instrument m the world. e are.
told that this fine meridian was traced as
early as 1408 by a physician of Florance,
a great philosopher and astrouomer ; Tos-?,
canelh, who corresponded with Christo
pher Columbus, communicated toliimjhe
results of his penetrating researches into
astronomical science, and pursuaded the
7 gieat navigator to try the western pas
sago to India ! Thus the "Florentines
would intimate that-the discovery of the
Western World is due to the scientific
researches of their citizen. Dr. Tosca
nelli. Therefore, with profound conipla
cency, they garnish the sepulchre of Amer-
kiis Vespuel and put the laurels of Colum
. bus on the brows of Toscanelli !
Across the Arno, which flows beneath
our windows, we see many hills covered
with villas, palaces, convents and church
es : but a little tower in the distance, more
than anything else, attracts my attention
whenever I look out on this splendid
scene. From the stone on which Jacob
dlept, a ladder seemed to reach from earth
to sky. And from that lone tower the
old astronomer, the prince of seers, by
the aid of his telescope, was wont-to bring
the heavens very near. On itjheold
man Ktooil to make' those observations
which we study with no less wonder to
day, than 1iis unbelieving cote in pontiles
did in 1G40. It is well to revise one's re
collection of facts when there is a new
association by which to fasten them. If
you are familiar with MiltonV Paradise
Lost, youSvill readily recur to the lines
in which he yvrites tht Satan's shield
''Hung o'er his shoulders like the moon
whose orb -
Through the optic glass the Tuscan artist
views-
At evening from tho top of- Fiesole,
Or in Val Arno, to descry new lauds,
Ki vers or mountains, iu her spotty globe.''
The Tuscan artist was Galileo, to whom
Milton came when the astronomer was old
and bind, a prisoner here, under the ban
of the Inquisition, waiting for death to
come and take him above the stars.
Galileo was born at Pisa, only a few
hours from Florence, Feb. 15, 1'Aii. Neith
er you nor I believe in the'transmigration
of souls, but we are entertained by strik
ing coincidences. It is asserted that Gali
leo was born theiganie Hay and hour when
Michael Angelo died ; and when Galileo
died, the.year was signalized by tin-birth
of Isaac Xewtou ! The world never knew
three other men, in such , a succession, of
such 'transcendent genius. Galileo was
but a boy of eighteen wiiei, in his parish
church, he saw "the chandelier swinging to
and fro, and was led to think of a pendu
lum whose vibrations should be a meas
ure of time, lie was only twenty-live
discoveries, his published letters reveal, j among them, familiar with their paths,
Aud when the Jusuits pretended that re- 1 nor losing ouce his way, he .was at home
lirioir would be overturned if it were I when farthest from the earth in quest of
proved that the earth revolves around the ! worlds till then unknown. Wonderful
sun, the old astronomer for he was now , old man he was ! How patiently he bore
three score and ten was ordered to pre
sent himself at Rome and answer to the
charge of teaching doctrine opposed to the
the greatest of all afflictions to one who
pursues the stars ! How sad his fate to
lose the light of those heavens in which
faith of the Church. Into the hands of by sight he lived !
the Inquisition he now was thrown. It
is not certain that he was put to the tor-
Milton was young when he came to
this blind old man. Milton was blind
TURKEY INT TUG MIDST OF WA K.
Correspondent of the N Y Tribune, 15th.
Constantinople, Dec. 21. As long as
Plevna held out, even, the most despond
ing of the people had lingering hopes that
in some way the tide of war might be
turned back. Since the surrender of the
place, however, every spark of hojie has
died out, and I never saw such "despair
and such hopelessness as that which now
exhibits itself amoug the mass of the peo
ple. The' curse their rulers and their
generals, and are ready to siuk into leth
argy in the belief that -what is fated has
been revealed by the events of the last
three months. The iieople have learjfed
to regard Osmau Pasha as the one hero of
the whole nation, and every household is
bereaved in his loss, as if it were a death.
They feel such a regard for Osmau Pasha
that they impute to the Czar a similar ad
miration and recount to each other stories
of the generosity shown toOsman by him.
An old Turk gravely told me of the whole
scene of the surrender. Perhaps you
would like to hear it. Osmau Pasha was
on a litter, having commanded the arniy
all day with a bullet in his leg. Thepzar
kissed him on s the forehead, aud said to
him, "You have done nobly." At the same
time he took from his own breast the
Grand Cross of St. George and pined it
upon that of his valiant enemy saying:
ture, though a sentence in one of his let- j before he was old. And Milton saw more
ters seems to strengthen the idea that he 1 of heavenly things alter he was blind
was. Probably he was a man of such than before. I hojie-that both of them
. . . . . ." . ' a 1. in: ii... :
sensitive physical organization that he , now, eye 10 eye, are uenoming uie invisi
could not face the instruments of torture; ' hie. Iiien.ei's.
and without hesitation he admitted that i
the earth stood still, rather than to go
upon a wheel himself. That he did sign
a written retraction of his opiuions is quite
certain. But it is not certain that lie said
rose from his knees, as he is reported and
generally believed to have said. Be that
as it may, we know that his recanta
tion was not believed to be sincere, and
he was condemned and consigned to im
prisonment. The intercession of friends
procured Jiis release, and he was ordered
to remain in duress, under the watch of
the Inquisition, at Arcetri, adjoining
Florence, where the Inquisition was flour
ishing, and abundantly ably and willing
to roast a heretic at a moment's warning.
The Galli family, to which Galileo be
longed, had property there, and the villa
which he rented, and where he passed the
remaining ten sad years of his life, still
remains,- and the tower that bears his ilT
lustrions name. To his house men ot
learning and fame made pilgrimages, to
sec the man who had revolutionized the
system of worlds. H toiled on in his
forced retirement, writing out those-works
which could not then be published for
fear of Rome, but which have since be
come tho property of mankind. Milton,
young and ardent poet, quite as uncon
scious of his future as Galileo was of Jus
at the same age, came- to Arcetri, and
looked upon the glorious old man, who
could not see hinv now, for at the age of
74 he lost the sight of those eyes that had
often looked into tbe mysteries of the
skies. He closed them here in death Jan.
8, 1G42. The men of Florence gave him,
as he deserved, a royal burial, and his
sepulchre is among them, iu the church of
Santa Croce, with an epitaph- that cele
brates the greatest astronomer of any
age.
Galileo's instruments are carefully pre
served ami kindly exhibited in the freat
Museum of Natural Science in this City.
And when you have looked at, not through,
his telescope, which is a very poor affair
compared with what we have in our mod
ern , observatories, and have seen the
wonderful preparutions in wax of anatomi
cal subjects, giving the minutest exhibi
tionsjof the internal and outer parts of
the human body", the most complete and
perfect thing of the kind in the world,
you may go, asl have gone to-day, to the
hill of Arcetri, the tower of Galileo, to
the house aud room in which he labored,
suffered and died. Ou no other height
have I stood aud been so profoundly im
pressed with sublime associations, as to
day ami there. Leaving the carnage at
the foot of the last rise of the hill, I walk
ed a few rods up through a narrow alley-,
aud came suddenly upon space on the
very summit, au ancient, rustic, ram
bling stone building, a farmer's place ap
parently, with a rude tower on one cor
tier, crowned the hill. I came to; the
door, and a smiling Italian peasaut wo
man asked if I would see the iuterior.
Stepping into the court of the house, I
found on the walls marble tablets covered
with inscriptions recording the facts re
specting the great astronomer's residence:
tlneare that had been taken to preserve
it as it was iu his day. All arouud were
memorials of him and the noble families
with whom he and his history are con
nected. I passed up a flight of stone steps
iuto the study of Galileo ! His micros
cope, his books, his manuscripts, his por
trait painted from life, his bust, letters
to him from illustrious men, the chairs in
which he sat, the large table at which he
the abandoned homesteads. People stop
to look at the soldiers and the fugitives,
aud if your eye rests a moment on tha
crowd of spectators yon cannot fail to de
tect among them representatives of a doz
en nations Persians, with their black
wool hats, East Indians, Greeks, Armen
ians, Jews and Bulgarians, English,
French and Italians. Serenely sailing by
both soldiers and refugees, come foreign
ladies dressed in the latest shade of green,
cut in the latest Paris style, but held re
mote from mud in true Pera fashion, and.
dashing on horse-back through the throng,
comes a brilliant Circassian aid-de-camp,
holding high a hugh envelope in lieu of
apology for having bespattered with mud
every one on the street AU the various
classes mingle on the streets to form the
Babel, but each race fsdistinct, and - has
its distinct degree of uncivUization and its
own views of its rights and duties. Each
race seems as if it would be separate from
every other to the end of time.
A BIRD-COMBAT.
That trim, gentle-looking, drab-colored
bird, erroueouslj' called turtle-dove, by
dwellers in the Uuited States, and gener
ally deemed so utterly innocent and pure
that to kill it for the table or any other
use, is branded as heinous in the extreme,
is not so inujffitnt after all. Its soft, dark
eyes are a sIAvja ; its sober, Quaker garb
is calculated to deceive ; its timid move
ments are not to be trusted. When once
it has been insulted by one of its kind the
dove becomes as ciuel and outrageously
heartless as any murderer can be. Some
years ago I witnessed a fight between two
female nioaniug-doves which for utter
barbarousness could not be exceeded.
was angling iu a brook for sun-perch, half
prone on a grassy bank, lost in a brown
study, with a cigar between my lips, when
I Imppened to see a dove alight ou
gnarled bough of a plane-tree a few yards
distant. Immediately it began to coo in
that dolefully plaintive strain so well
known to every lover of Nature, and was
soon joined by a male, who perched him
self within a feet or two of her. I espied
their nest, not yet finished, iu the fork of
an iron wood tree near by. The birds
made very expressive signs to each other
with their heads by a series of bows, nods,
and side wise motions, of which I under
stood enough to know that some intruder
was near perhaps they meant me. The
fish were not biting any too well, but the
grass was fragrant, the sound of the wa
ter very soothing, and the flow of the
wind steady aud cooling, so I did not care
to move just to humor the whim of a pair
of billing doves. It proved, hdwever, af
ter all, that I was not the cause of alarm.
Another female dove presently dropped
like a hawk from a dark, deuse mass of
leaves above the pair, and struck the first
on the back with beak and wings. A
tight ensued, witnessed with calm inter
est by myself and the male dove.
At first the combatants struggled des"
perately together on the bough, tiercel y
bea ting each other with their wings, and
plucking out the feathers from breast and
neck, all the"time uttering low, querulous
notes different from anything I had ever
! before heard. Pretty soon they fell off
THE WELBORN MINE. -
As we are always glad to chronicle any
new enterprise in the county, we submit a
few interesting facts about the above
mine.
Ths Welborn mine is about eight miles
from Lexington and four miles from Lin
wood, on the North Carolina railroad.
Three shafts have already been sank to
a depth of 60 to 70 feet, and the vein grows
larger and richer as they sink. Even
while sinking the ores pay working ex
penses, and this certainly speaks well for
the mine and its management. The mine,
we are informed, covers one and a half
miles of vein, and good judges claim that
it promises to equal Gold Hill in its palm
iest days? ' ; "' 1
As an evidence of enterprise, and thrift
too, Mr. Welborn has put up a large mill
house, a ten-stamp California battery, a
30-horse power engine, an amalgamator,
a store-house, and other buildings.
We do not wish to decoy capital by ex
aggerated statements, but if by calling
attention to practical tests and to facts
which can be shown at any time, we shall
induce capital to come in and help the
few enterprising men of our county to de
velop our rich mineral resources, we shall
feel that we have done well.
Much can be said in commendation of
the gentleman whose name this mine
bears ; he is prominent in schemes of
enterprise and improvement. DavidaoH
Record.
PARENTAL DEVOTION.
One of the most remarkable instances
on record of parental devotion aud of suc
cess in keeping secret a family affliction
may be found in the family bf a citizen
A STEAM SLED FOR THE NORTH
POLE.
At a recent meeting of the London
Association of Foremen Eugineers and
Draughtsmen, Mr. Daniel Cartmel, late
Chief Engineer of H. M. S. Discovery, and
now of H. M. S. Cleopatra, read a paper
on "Polar Exploration, with Suggestions
for the employment of Steam Power in
Effecting it." The author, with the aid
of several charts and diagrams explained,
in the first instance, the geographical and
meteorological characteristics of the arctic
regions, and then advanced to the subject
proper. Mr. Cartmel, from his exper
iences during the expedition of Captain
Xares, came ,t the- decided conclusion
that 8ledgiugby manual power t was a
hopeless method of attempting . to reach
the North Pole, and since his return Jhas
been bosily engaged in devising a steam
sledge for that purpose. This contrivance,
as described by the inventor, consists in
THE HICKORY MURDER. THE PRIS
ONER GONE TO BURKE COUNTY.
The deputy sheriff of Uniou-county
boarded the Statesville train .yesterday
morning with Hoke C. SccresU accused of
the Hickory murder,and expected to de
liver his prisoner to the sheriff of Burke
county yesterday evening.. The bodies
ot the woman and child were fonnd near
Hickory but in Burke eountj ; hence the
trial will come off in Morganton andot
in Newton, the eounty seat of Catawba
county. Secrest is a stoat, portly look
ing man of about tweulystweyearsofage,
and has the appearance of a bold and
reckless character but so far as is known,
he has never been, accused of any offence
against the law, previous to this time.
. The weman was a native of th is county, '
having been born jlrpyJidenc,townshiiw tft
and is of respectable parentage vAa pre
viously stated her name was Maggie.
Ezzel. The affair has created much com
section of tlieLState. Charlotte Observer.
iU general outlines of a flat-bottomed ment in the city, aud is pronounced the
boat with two stern wheels, the midship naost horrible that ever transpired iu this
cross section being a parallelogram. It
would be constructed of steel plates lined
with wood, perfectly rigid, aud capable of
standing the roughest usage. The l oit
sledge, as it may be termed, would be
highly polished as to minimize friction,
whilst the bow would be stayed and
lengthened to the fullest extent, so as to
resist concussions. Of course the steam
power is intended to be concentrated as
much as possible, whilst the steering
wheels would be driven directly from the
crank shaft. The proceedings closed with
a vote of thanks to Mr. Cartmel, who also
explained that the sledge might be warp
ed forward with rope, aud capstan, when
desirable. Here is a suggestion for Cap
tain Howgate and other members of the
who is keeping a drinking saloou iu the American Arctic Colony, now trying to
western part of the city. Twenty-seven reach the North Pole. Scientific A men
years ago he kept a house on Western con
About that time a number of houses
Frexcii Protestantism. The latest news
from France is that the Government Corn-
row.
in the vicinity were destroyed by fire in
the night, including his residence. His
wife, in a delicate condition, suffered
much from fright, and subsequently gave
birth to a rooustrosity an offspring with
out any of the better senses of a living
creature, except that ef sight without
toes or lingers; deaf, speechless, without
the least spark of intellect or instinct.
Twenty-seven years have passed, and the
family have kept this creature in the
household, secreted iu a room, and only a
few of the neighbors besides, who areon
. 1 . I.a! I 1 1
me most innuwce reiauous, uave Known woud makJ the Fretfch church very much
j. ii i. 1 e .1 I
01 its existence, n eais wnen ioou i akin to the Anglican Church, as at present
placed to its mouth, and is kept in a congtituted, with Broad-churchmen, High
cleanly condition by the most constant churcnmen and Low-churchmen, all with-
care. A long uearu lias grown on its lace. irt ita i;.w irtv hrHiv latino- tho.
1 M.LA t . J Itlll a - m j -- - - - '
it is about tnree ieet in lengtn. ucrawis others anfl makiug the interior of the
about some, but moves witn great dim- huroh a jJCene of gtrife and uncharitable-
. mi 1 B I
culty. inat sucn a creature nas nveu so 4 time of trial seems to await the
long is singular. That a family, instead old iIugueilot church.
of placing it m some asylum, hasenaurea
its presence iu their midst, and nurtured Baltimore Tobacco Men, Meet.
it m assiduous privacy through all ot these Baltimore, Jan. 23. The leading to
years is a strauge and affecting incident bacco men iJell a meeting, to-day, and
of parental devotion. Cincinnati Commercial.
The' Washington Star gives this excel
lent advice to young men : "The panics"
aud the culmination of the ever-impend
ing crisis in their depression of the var
ious professioirs and trades seem to have
overlooked the farmer. Plentiful crops
of wheat, corn, oats and potatoes, as well
as of business suspensions, bankruptcies,
defalcations and suicides, have marked
the past year. More wheat by fifty mil
lion bushels has been produced that in
any previous year. Corn, oats and po-;
tatoes flourish iu great abundance. We
Can send more than a hundred million
bushels of wheat across the ocean to bless
the starving Turks, the bellicose Russian,
and the snubbed and fuming Englishman,
and to fill our own pockets with gold, or
silver, or paper, just as the wisdom of our
Solons shall determine. The time has at
last come when Quesnay's maxim that the
flr lnlr tn vrmr nitii n trv ill RJlfpfl I
. , . . . 1 the bough, and came whirling down upon
pinnnf U (n m iin.ioil !l m:in llk Villi. . 1
1. ... t - , i k i.ii
Thia Rtnrvithnm.lrhlv hnltPVPll bv maiiv i.u..huu.. w.u
, , . , , . .1. with constantly-increasing fury, their
lurKS wnom e wouiu cajji-ui jioui witn .
ai,fin int,.lliWnr. U shows ilow ; eyes lainy iiasiug lire, aim nauug uu
little even the best informed of those ed
ucated here know of the great outside
world, whose coldness and cruelty they
weep over as does a boy of eighteen on his
thrusting with their beaks like swords
men. Blood began to show itself about
their heads, and in places their necks
were quite bare of feathers. When at last
of them became so exhausted that
, , . . ., ' further struggle was impossible, the other
people have trust worthy sources of m- ; , , , . . , ... , ,
- - . vi a i-.n. i,nf proceeaeu to rawe us scanu upou its neip
formation, and thev do not know what 1 . . .
sources are trust worth It will tiardly
be believed that none of the official news
papers have noticed the fall of Plevna at
all. It is in all the other papers of the
city, of course, but the only official hint
that Plevna has fallen, is the bulletin is
sued by the War Otiice to deny the death
of Osman Pasha. Those who rely on the
less opponent, and would have quickly
made an end of it had I not interfered
The vanquished bird was minus an eye,
and was unable to tly for some minutes
The secret of the battle was jealousy. The
male sat by, and watched in a nonchalant
way until it was all over, when he very
lovingly strutted up to the victorious
Armu Gazette for military news are still " , ' , .
. , 4 . . . tone. From that day to this I have re
electing daily that there will be news A
that the place holds out. Until then they i'"" " - r ,
..uL.. fi.. .rh- and whenever an opportunity oftered,
JCtlOlr tllCH VVO VII lilv I V"l to Wl IIIV H U-M
. . . 7 A I .1 .
mission will maKe a report, wmcn win earin is me soie prouueer 01 weaiiu may
bring affairs in the Reformed Church to a be appropriately quoted. Lot our young
crisis I he sujrffestien ot the commission is men men uecome norny nanueu iarmers
that the Orthodox pirtion of the Church since from the soil all treasures seem to
should alwtte the rigidity with whick they now.
hold to their Creed, and allow the Rationa-
iisiic panv in iiie uuri.-n 10 liivc a iiuiinutii I .... . , T, ..T , - . ,
l. . -- , . . II hat thai say of I n. e heard him
I 11', EM llllli IVFIH Irtl 1.1.1 I'll, I .. . a , , .
tr ' " uar it. inH lie. ilwIiVf bjiniv tlniT. ire U'Pl'i
remaiu wiiiun mu imiu 01 inu vhuiuh, in,., , j. i i i e -li.
. , . , a "duel amang 'era taking notes an7 faith
lUUUIt HUlUlilU niUOIV ill mai I -r
antagonistic doctrines, and tle formal unity . , '
m T , , i -ii annlviuff the 1 reaaurer for license
I --k citll liia forriiiaiu in tin j V-rri AttAV
jw ii mo avsvii liir o in ii a o i.'iu i iii vva
paying his $1,(KJ0 for selling two brands,
he said ; "This is high., but to. tell you the
fact, Mr, Treasurer, we have never sold a
bill in North Carolina that we didlnot get
the money for, aud I can't say the samO
for other States that we sold more largely
in.
This is significant of the fact that we
"tar heels" call for what we want and pay
for what we get. 7?7. Observer,
ROYAL MARRIAGE.
King Alfonso, of Spain, is United to Mer
cedes, the lhird Daughter of Duke De
Mon tpensier Magn i Jicen 1 1 resen ts.
Madrid. Jan. 23. The marriage of
Alfonso and Mercedes, the third daughter
of Duke De Montpensier was celebrated
in Atocha Cathedral with great splendor.
Preseut: Queen Christinia and King
Francisco, the King's grand-mother and
father; the special ambassadors from
France, Austria, Russia and England, the
apostolic delegate, the Count and Countess
Horse Stealing in Wayne. Oa Friday
resolved that the agitation respecting the hist Mr. D. II. Hooks hud his horse stolen
reduction of the tobacco tax should cease, from him in this town, together with the
or the tar be reduced immediately, or, buggy harness. On Saturday morning he
at least, that Congress should give some learued that the horse and thief were cap
assurance that when the tax is reduced a tiired by Mr. J. C. Atkinson near Prince-
rohiire would be allowed for stock on ton. In resastiH ' arrest the nero was
baud.
BACK TO THE HOMES OF THEIR
THE HOMES
DADDIES.
knocked down by Mr. Atkinson with a
gun, and we learn is .still suffering from
the effects of tbe Wow. -The thief
proved to be John Green and .both horse
and negro were brought here Saturday
e v en i ng. (rdUlsbe ro Messenger..
Christians are like the several flow-
i .i.i
ers in a garden, mat nave eacn oi
them the dew of heaven, which, being
shaken with the wind, they let fall at
ber killed in every Circassian outpost fight,
and say, after reading each record, of Rus
sians left dead, "May God increase the
numlier of them."
We have at last a sign of peace. The
government has officially warned the peo
ple not to speak of Russia as the Bear of
the North, ou the ground that such lan
guage is disrespectful, and countrary to
the rules of courtesy in vogue among civ
ilized nation
have sped a two-ounce arrow full at the
breast of the bird, widow or no widow.
When properly cooked by parboiling,
stuffing, and baskiug, a dove is a choice
bit for the table. While on this subject
I may add that in the Southern States of
our country doves often cougregate in in
numerable swarms, like pigeons, and
do great damage to the pea fields, yet even
there the prejudice against them is so
The fact that quite a number of persona
have emigrated from this portion of North
Carolina, and the upper part of South
Carolina, within the last month, to seek
homes in Texas and other western
and southwestern States, has leen noted
of P uris, Sena. ton and Deputies ana other I from time to time in this paper, always
dignitaries. The Pope, the Kings god- with the prediction that thev would re
father, sent by the apostolic delegate a tnrn ghortlv, if they still had money each others roots, wlttreby they are
wedding ring blessed by His Holiuess, emn,gU to return, and regret the step they jointly nourished, and beeoBie nouT-
amiarose ot diamonds ior me Viuecu had taken. They have bejrun to wrae :si,aM ltfM. ,.t1,af -ItnnMn
...... I - I I311CIO "1 UVU vnnt. --- wiii
Duke De Montpensier gives his uaugnter yc already, a correspondent writes
25,00(1,000 francs in addition to a great tliat several nf the young men who left
quantity of diamonds and wonderfully Marlboro county, S. C, some weeks ago
rich trosseau. Alfonso givs his queen Texas, have returued to the homes of
several suits of jewels and his portrait set their daddies and are loud in denunciation
in brilliants. There are great prepara- f their folly in disbelieviuj: the reports
of the press jid disregarding the advice
of sensible people. These young men re
port Texas to le crowded with men seek
ing to gain money by any possible means,
when he took his seat as Professor of wrought, paper covered with the drawings
Mathematics in the University of Pisa ! that his own hands had made all just as
his native nlace, and there ni.nh those if he had stepped out of his study and as-
........ 4 tl..,4 .-.in iNiiiilc si trnrt or Knriiif
Those who knoiv Turkey v J " " ' - . --o
- 4 4 4l. .... . mi it I f i W ! I !lt Tll4ni
say that this is a sure sigu that peace is . . , T t j- v i
. , i i xt i i From A nnletons1 Journal for February.
nearly concluded. Meanwhile measures 11 m , ;
are being taken to make a hard fight for Prussian Religious Statistics. The
Adrianople. We were fairly amazed to Cologne Gazette gives the following statis-
r Snleiman Pasha's troons beirimiinir to tnVpn from the last census that of
land here day before yesterday. The long- December 31, 1875 as to the religious be
est way around is the quickest for them. - ijcfd 0f the people of Prussia : Of the 23,-
The streets present a peculiarly 742,404 inhabitants of the kingdom 16,
Babel-like aspect just now. There are G36,990 returned themselves as belonging to
negro soldiers, and Arab soldiers, and the Evangelical National Church ; ot these
Koord soldiers men speaking half-a-doz- 13,26,620 are of the United Church, 2,905,-
eu dialects in any brigade. On the streets 230 Lutherans and 463,120 of the Reformed
these fellows, worn down by hardships in Church. Of those who arc not of the Nation
the field, merrily tramp, along with the al Church there are 40,030 Lutherans 35,-
long, swinging step that shows they know 030 Reformed, 3,710 Moravians, 2,620 Irvin
how to march. Through seas of mud are gites, 12.210 Baptists, 14,030 Mennonites, 2,
plodding wearily long files of refugees, 083 Anglicans, Methodists etc., 8,625.840
haggard attd hopeless, women with chil- Roman and Old Catholics, 1,450 Greek
dren on their backs and others handne at Church, 4.S00 German Catholics, 17,880
their skirts, men overloaded with mighty Free Thinkers, etc., 333,790 Jews, and 4,674
tions for the festivities. The celebration
will hist five davs. 1 here will also be a
six weeks' season of Italian opera. The
Queen also received from her sister, the
Countess of Paris, a magnificent set of ftml that our Carolinas are blessed with
jewels. advantages foreign to Texas. These
vounir men warn their former associates
A Lucid and Satisfactory Explanation. to id 8UCh mistakes as they have made.
w
For nine years we have searched all the I Char. Observer.
quaint and curious volumes of forgotten
lore to learn, if happily we might, some
thing of the true inwardness of the craw
fishhow he conies into the world, why,
and how long he stays and what for.
Nothing satisfactory, however, concerning
the character and habits of this interest
ing bird could le fonnd, until last even
iug, when we encountered the following
iu the Popular Science Monthly for Feb
ruary :
A sinzularly interesting discovery has
beeu made by Reichenbach, with regard
to the embryo of the crawfish, tie finds
that the "food-yelk" of the egg is not
merely absorbed by the embryonic cells
by a passive process of diffusion, but that
thes latter actually devour me yenc-
It is at last lawful tor ih i colored mili
tia-man to make a fuss aud show his fine
feathers in the streets of Ohio cities and
towns and villages. The Democratic Leg
islature now in session has passed a bill
striking out the word "white" from the
militia laws where it had beeiTplaced bv
the heretofore Radical law-makers. An4
now, so far as we are advised, the man
and brother is as free in Ohio a in North
Carolina. What Yankee &tate is to be
next? Rd. Observer.
Money Bate i England,
LoN'nox, Jan. 23. Street rate is ld.
and nominal at that. It is believed that
clobules in precisely the same manner as the Bank of England minimum rate, which
is now 3 per cent, win ue reuueeu ai a
discoveries in physics which lie at
cended the tower. I went up after him. volls of bedding anil household ware Jroiu vf various other beliefs.
an amoiba devours diatoms or desmids
The cells throw out psuedopod like pro
cesses, and with these develop the yelk
globules and drag them into their iuterior,
where tuey undergo digestion.
The Mecklenburg crawfishes are recora
mended to cut this out and paste it in
their hats. Char. Observer.
meeting of the directors to-njorrow. The
discount houses are said to hold very
large amoantr of money, which they are
unable to employ on any terms. 1 he un
certain states joUUcal affairs check all
rbusiuess.
More than ever do I feel thatasir
dividuals and families we must stand
in kind but determined opposition to
the fashions aud follies, as well as the-
open sins of the world, if we would
live fur Christ. We niut have the
courage and independence to rise, de
cidedly above the four of the religious
world around usTand live "as seeing
him who is invisible." J. W. Alex
ander. -
The world is made brighter an
better by the pure lives and benevo
lent labors of a large number; of very
humble individuals. The apostles and
martyrs of the Church of Christ are
few in number-tUe great discoverers of
new systems of philosophy may almost
bexxmuted on our Martwi Luther
one George Fox, one -John Wesley,
one-John Howard and one George
Acabody. There is ouly one sun in
the heavens, but there are many-stars,
and how beautiful they are So in
the work of the world. IX. is made,
wiser and Lappier by ihe many hum
ble and alnaoit obscure persons who
toil on from day to day., unknown and
unblazoued, to instruct the ignorant,
comfort the mourner, restore the sick
.and reform the vicious.