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' C iBlbvajthrouglil.the busy town, r -Lighter than thistle down, ' Ihhttf than dust by roving bee or bird, frUi thei blossouiiug lily's gol pen frown, p . ; - .' ; vj?drue idly here and there, -Oft as the Riminier air About men's doors; the sunny stillness. - piilyaword! ' -Bat s!ai p, oh iharpecthaa a two-edged - iT picixe, and sting, and scar, , Tie Mart whose peace a breath of blaiuo r 1 fcoald mar. ' Ouly a word, a little word that fell fUiheeded as thetfew That from the darkling bine Of sunfmer midnight softly steals to, tell ltshd of Ringing brook and star-lit dlK ! 'InJyutider noisoiuo stixet, . , - Where, pale w'ith dust and heat. The little window flower in workmen's ": Jf4 Iroming Ih11- . Uplift ti greet the kiss it knows so wellr ! A wonl a drop of dew ! Bat oil, its touch could life's lost hope re new, f T-ilary Kelly lJoutellc, in Sunday Af tcrnook. H - !r PUBLIC EXECUTIONS Tojialse pleasure in witnessing suf feringin any foifm is not brutal, using . tin; term with pi'eciion, for brutes can wlnifest nothing worse' than indiffer en:e it, is inhumane, cruel, , barbar ,om. Jrather ttian, alas! inhuman. Civilization, Christianity, brings i the rednejmcnt that draws out the tender ektevimpatfiiea df human nature and represses. all that is akin to barbarity. Vithbut these-modifying and meliorating-iuflnencesi man gloats over hu plia figony. andjrevels iuulood. The 0 deligjit which savages. take in the mil' ti Iation of their kind, and in the iiir . .flicti&t. of the eitrernest torture issuf jncient proof of these Assertions, -f. Dijty; may reduire the setting aside, jorthe bearing up agaiiist, the gentler otpns of huAianity and they can be set aside how easily. Physicians call d in the practice cf their profession tsefe sujiering;Jn all its forrai, ac jquir the stoicism - which Vcan regard Biich (sights unmoved ; with them it is ;repression, and not loss of sy m pa thy, l and hecessary to success in their deeds of mercy Soldjers at first t ' oil from . the' sights and a sounds of the battle field, but soon learn to sleep among j the; peid and L dying, or rush on to 'MrnageobHvious to aH A;eHngs ) ? P?fy ! witli 'them duty requires the ! sa5rjfice, or rather the abeyance for the time, of the1 more delicate" affecT tions pf the soiiirUelieved iitthe ne sy which requires this insensibil jttumanjdistress none? aretriore Hf pi thahl these toLisharetlie griefs of those who writhe under the load of orrpw aud pain " - 'S- 'bfHen no; all-mastering call of QMty .demands it, he who brings him- witness; suSering first regards j .it with indifferance, then takes pleas- i irejin the sight, and soon finds delight j ;in its infliction. The Godlike' nrinci- ple that inflicts no pain wantonly, nor rrjany, djstress without j pity, his history confirms. 'oespierreih discharge of his duty member of the Criminal Court of ;Arra5, was called to condemn a prisr oner to death. He resigned his office in ueuce.and advocated the ab- jion,pf caa1 punishment. In less & ten 'Years.- bra "ffradiml nropss 41'. . " ' O " I Pi soul-hardening from witnessing SnV huiariity, an4; participating in it, he Mcome to demand from the AsserrV ofFrance estab(islinyntof that lpinal cour ,wlyclipily became 1 terrible, revolutionary - tribunal. f led the Jacobins in the conderariaT months public safety, with' powers above the Conven tion, instituted the reign of terror, and sacrificed the Girondists, say in 'P! . ! . of 'ahws me jciiuiis in revuuiuuiia when to live is a crime Successful- he destroyed Hebert' Danton, and other wretches only less savage than i . , , j - , . , luraself; became leader pf the bloody iriunivirale am master of -France, that France in which "terror was the.' thon. a : member of the Convention:- Was always foremost at the beck of ' , . - ' j Robespierre to move for blood, and became a very champion of terror, 8 commissioner of Lyons, wheu the guillotine hattdulled from unceasing ua L:i-il:.;-.i ' ttvt n, aim uic utiuu Ji.aui"ju uiuiuct was all too slow, he with his jassoci- ates ordered grapeshotjto hew. down, Hundreds at a time. 'And tins was Couthon, in his early manhood noted for amiability of disposition 'ahd de voting himselfto deedi of charity. Extreme illustrations truly, but just; and accurate in ; following the steady and rapid course of demorali zation from unnecessary familiarity with human .woe. "- -i ' Shall the lessons of j history and of experience be lost upon us? jWitUin'T a ivv uiu.iL.is nSi lu.uimiii wtruMua many criminals have paid the extreme ..rii.:- -tL .k-v ,.Lr.i.i I F..v u.U aj.iu i..CBu.uu.... I ho In iv nr I ho Shtn nrnvtriAu f hir ov- I at ex ecutions of victims of the law by hang ing shall be private, unless the prop er officers of the county in which such executions are to take place shall le cide to allow the public to jwitness them. So far as has been noted these executions have beerr public. jThe ef fect is in the hichest dejjree demoral izing. Those Svho attend to behold the terrible spectacle jtif a human be ing Jannched into eternity, (those ex cepted, always, who are called thith er by duty) are of all persons those whose brutal propensities need to be curbed, not stimulated. ' No! man- - i - shall we say no, womian can jwitnessj such a scene from a mere instinct of curiosity and not be the loser in the finer impulses ofJiis being, j- Does it tend to deter from! crime? No .one, thought fully j regarding the subject can believe it. , It gratifies that same instinct which crowds the Spanish amphitheatre to witness the agoniet of the maddened beast as he rushes on to his death or that raises the shout of exultation; when the mat adore is borne lifeless from the areua. And this in a Christian land 1 Does it maguify the law ? With open cars the assembled throng listen to -the wretched victim's denial of guilt, liis profession of conversion, his assurance b a. bleseecllimmortality ; with eager eyes theyifakein each hor rible detail of the occasion,! witness his dyiug agony and! then depart with what Impression The courage ous manner in which he meets his fate constitutes him a hero ; the denial of guilt on the threshold (if eternity makes him. to them, a slaughtered innocent; a criminal, not he, but a saint of glo ry. The crime is lost sight ofin con nection with the penalty. : The glam our of cou rage and of piety , is . be- witchingly mixed ;, in the depraved imagination with the dying throes and the lifeless firm. It . It has in a tenfold degreej the,cvil influence which the 'reading of tales of desperadoes and assassins has upon weak minds. It is high time that Christian men and all men of high moral feeling were exerting themselves to prevent these degrading spectacles. ?N. C. Presbyterian, T: ITaeii to Stop. A gentleman and lady were pass ing out of a church j together when the former asked bis; companion how she liked the sermon She spoke in complimentary terms of it; adding however, "bttt he pas&ed bysomevery good itppping-placeajfe p-rj It was just criticistn. How often alas, a really ,c xcel lent discourse is de- priveu tf the efiect that it should have by neglect of ; the preacher " to take auvan;age 0t jy if gppa jBtoppmg-i Place? , .,.r lion of lhe Kipg,r.aiid in a few in had proposed lhe fommittee of j ... . 0AKSH1TU. . , . sneet -hung" at caugut - into .ivhatem m ttclt I ltd the' Ksmnitit t I i : . .. . . . I i , - 1- ! n 1 Bessie Oaksmith died aged 21 years. Corinne Oalcsmith died J'olv 4tb, 1879, aged 19 years. ' ' " f i ' aged 9 years.' 1 Pauline Oaksmith ; died July 4th. 1879, luiiuitti uaAsuiiiu uivu uuijr n, tviV) aged 7 years. . .. . j? , 4 v wfM ; ; The Hevbernian pays the following ten- der tribute - ! Theira'ari; licncefortli . inseparaW;e, and will take i their plaeesaniong thc briglit n,Mnea nd pemones. HPoet4&vUi 5ing pf - 't - hd their sad story wjH be told many and many a rear after we shall have passed away. but n"owhere, and at no time will their untimely fate touch a more tender chord, or awaken a deeper sympathy than it has here in New bern, and in Carteret county and indeed throughout the State, 1 i 1 i i j tic iiitrjr were kiiuwii, utsnuvvti iuiu a j)- prcciated. Their future wonld have be- longed to North Carolina and she will keep their memories green. - It was our privilege to have received the last poems which they sent to the press ; one of which would have appeared by nat ural course this week. In now, we find a strange significance in every, line. . MY LIFE. BY BE8SI OAKSMITH, J une, 1879. Like a sfngle gem. of the crystal dew, A drop of the rainy showers, A gleam from a star inllie jut her blue, A bud in a world of flowers. Like a leaf from one of the numWrhss trees, A flaKe m a drift of snow', A ripple in all of the rippling seas, A b,ade h tbc s fieJds " Like a single ray from the pale sad moon To lighten the gloom of night ; Or a golden beam from the sun at noon Or the son;j of a bird in flight. Like a fleeting grain of-thejdesert sand, - A flash of the ocean spray, A simple shell on thejonely strand, A rainbow fading away : Such, such is life and though lowly, these Have each their mission and part, The dew and t he rain, the flo'ers and t he trees, The ocean the human heart. And like all of these in life's; surging throng, . There's a simple place for me, A note or a chord in dear nature's song, To BweLl her great harmony. SIC miR AD ASTRA. et conixsE oaksmith June, 1879. Oh, the crosses that are carried Which the world can never know Oh, the hopes by sorrow buried, Where Lethe's waters flow ! Oh, the idols crushed and broken, Along life's thoroughfare Oh, the burdens all unspoken, Whose ashes moulder there ! Ob, the tasks in secret taken For God alone to see- Oh. the patient faith unshaken, Through years of misery ! Oh.the vain endeavors wasted, The sacrifices lost Ye who life's joy have tasted, Know not the heavy cost ! Oh, well for the children! of sorrow, As they tread the lonely track, That the shadows of to-morrow, Have never yet come back. We know in the great supernal, God watches us one and all. And gathers with love eternal, Our treasures as they fall. He garners them in His keepimr, However we faint and die, And the end of earth's sorrow and weeping, Is immortality. i am. oaksmitii's account of tiie disaster Holltwood, Carteret Co, N. C, ) July 8th, 1879. Dear Friend : Your letter of yesterday is received. You say truly that "only God can give us strength to bear such a calam ity." You inclose me a printed report ot the disaster and ask if it is correct. My agony is too great to dwell upon the hor rible scene, but justice to nLy dead daugh ters compels me to make the cCbit, ando say that the report you send is entirely er- roneous. I will state all that it is essential now to know. AH the facts are known only tor God and myself, i was' the only one in the boat who could I swim, or who had ever before confronted peril and death. Hence I waj. net panic ttriclen, and had a dreadful realization of all that was coins on. AH the Itsroism displayed in the fearful struggle was by my noble daughters Bessie and Corinne, who lost their lives in heart rending efforts to save their two younger sisters. 'Whatever I did was my plain simple duty, arid God knows I feel that I did it poorly enough.. I had the responsi bility of oil, and hoped to the last to save them all. The saving myslelf never entered my mmd : my whole thought was to save my children, and I say it , with submission, that but for my efforts riot been saved. one would ; have The accident occurred in this way : I was steering the boat wiih a :yoke, and when half way across between fort Macon and Beaufort she steered wildly, and jt en trusted the main sheet to my son Randolph, 17 years of age, charging hirivto kep it clear arid watch the sail, ready tp ibe' I charged the moment the sail passec When we got him to "let fly" the wind.' He hauled the sap aft my dad ghter "shifted seats' quietyythe boom sw ung? over the c . tauw i uuu i tuc iiu ku &iiun i n.1111 -iiir hi no i mnct vith nj'. i.i. .1 :. ;i 1 . 1 i;'. - - - ... ! j I I ! 1 ' i; j i ' - f :' -I 7 ' ;':st:ii' ;j -A x -. XX ; !'. I : -- i r.rl x r x f i . P , . - . ... . -. . x , v - f . .i- bterv- y 7. - : j ; . ;. ; IX . . 7 ' j- I' - l '' . .. .!.--.,' ' : 7 -,..77 . . j.. - . '.- ...-.! i :-7.':i pull : j mmmm-J ii IIIIIMI ! I Mill "mIIIIII 'i "... .MaJMjM ' " 'l sheet "hung" or caught cause boat yaw moment. "Look hit for the little childreneach take uuc auu tuu" iu me iwai.. illY UUIT "WJg for pill. Bessie todk; her sister Mildred, Cornuej our -beautiful. Pauline' and!, IU, dolph his littla.broiher Stanly. It was an . instinctive act guided; lit ;mf first -order. ! A1hf Ui fi,Fd betn Sinki US4 j ilS ick to the boatI cried, J'stick to I the boa. Up! to this moment my children u. tiiiu a.., iji&lu. XK. hi 1 111 va. n wiiii v airfv vnaavw 1 . m 11 t ,n v "'ci , uiwcicu, ; .,rA ue suspense in vrnicn we are now 115 w ntpanid;Strfeken,1iutwere T" Ootdoae by' a BoyT " ' ' ' " fully cajm andliquiet: f if - - " '- - .;- on!her nort sie. , As she, settled" In. ' the .'t j A lad in Bostonfhefl8niall for his water, fim capscs pon needless toTccounj, jf-ars, worked as errand boy for fourgeu she rolled completely oyer, . her mast and . tlemen who do bnsiness there. One day sail going' undprjbr,' which - told " me that' ' the gehtlenien were chafing him about the water, waslveii 15 jfeerdeep 'As slie being lo small, and said5 to hittr, Vod rouea pver, tne girs wit out oi tue boat on the itarboaHl sidetSe two 'eldest eacht? holding adittljd sister. I went with them,; amaU.? ; -i ' ' and helped tilemj to get hold of the boat !' The little fellow looked at them. "Well," again. Manuipu sun uoiuing oiamy, ieil saiu ue "as Binau as i am i can uo some over on the pqrt sijle, arid was rolled undfr tiling which none of you large men can the! boat, WhUh, jj being relieved of our do.n ; weight! came, j to the Surface , and hung a rapmenb keel Mp. Telling Bessie arid Co- j rinne to hold jiard on the gunwale, I rolled , ipe Doai up dv: ncr Keei, goc nanaoipn out arid up on the! side of the boat, greatly ex- hausted, but still holding Stanly; charged him nojt to let: go of him, and to cling to the lx?at. J then swam round on the other side of the boat and found that ray daughters j had all, lost their hold, got the two eldest once more back, telling them that I would go for the little ones. I was clinging to thej sten to get a breath for my task when Bessie and Corinne turned round and saw their little sisters being swept away. They uttered one shrickt and threw, themselves rtff nnli BtrmrtrlitA trt irf tn thorn Af th!a instant! I realized that the boat's anchor had i gone to the b)ttom and was holding her. Pknew then that 1 unless I could i get the boat clear of ier anchor, or assistance soon came, Uevould be lost. I got two boat who stilt heeded my voice, I told the lit tle! onc-a to cling to the gratings and Bessie " 'I fend Corinne t Put the oars under their arms and 4 keicp hedes up and arms down." Corinne answWed cheerfully, "All right, papa,"j and called out to the others, "Keep your heads up and arms down, and keep quiet." j i j I then swam'against the current tothebriw of the boat, which was six feet under water, held by her cable, and went down and tried jiri vain to cast it jadrift. I had thrown off jmy coat and Ivest early in the struggle and had no knife. j Tiie weight of my body on the bow, pressed down by the current, bore it further down, and I felt the boat again rolling over, j I let go my hold and came to the surface,; steadied the boat again, en couraged my; son t3 hold on to his little brother and flic boat to the last, and look ing for my daughters, saw them drifting away, but apparently safe. At this mo ment, while holding on to the boat to recov er myself, I saw t-ome canoes or boats in the distance, apparently fishing. I raised my Voice for help. The men appeared to look, but did not pome. Could I have got the boat clear from her cable in time, I believe I could have savdd my daughters. I wasted much strength in that vain endeavor. Had I not don so I might possibly have got one of them to tfie shore, but after they drifted 20 feet by tiie stern, it was impossible for me to. get either back to the boat. It re quired all my! strength to swim to the bow against the current when I made my vain effort to set the boat adrift for their rescue. My aony was so great that I could not endure it, arl4 I started to swim to my daughter where we should all doubtless have perished together, which would have been better for me were it riot for the living When I saw jtlje boat whic h rescued us com ing round the point of marsh. My reason told me that the chances for saving my daughters w'cfrs greater with my help in that boat than out of it, and I waited in till she! came, and directed the kind friends who! were in her where to search. The rest is all known. We i ,;.: . Ifound my daughters all floating ex- jcept Bessiejbut near where I saw her last hvas M ildred lvinsr hleless with her arms .iacross an oar. The truth was very plain to ine t be poor! child had lost her hold upon the grating and Bessie, my noble eldest daughter, had deliberately given up her only support, put her drowning young sis ter across t no oar, and died as she had lived, from jdevotion to those she loved. Corinne had done the same the grating was g n e, but close to the drowning form of her little sister Pauline, was Corinne's oar, w die her body was found some dis tance away i My eyes alone could read all this as I helped to lift the three inanimate forms into the boat which rescued us. The world has never seen greater devotion than this of my two rioblc eldest daughters, i; jlfour anchor had not gone to the bottom, or th boat w'hich carae,to our aid had reached us ten minutes sooner, all would have been saved. My son Randolph dcs not know how to swim ; he never before con fronted peril, and had he lost his hold on the boat after 1J last; dragged him and his little brother on jtb her, when I was away from him,jlie would jiave doubtless perished. He did his duty but he wishes no praise j to which1 he ial not entitled .The crown of he roism "belongs! to my beautiful daughters; B.K8i( aridiCorinne, "who perished to save ineir iitue sisters. : b :l have ad one to blame if there was any huma n accountability 1 1 take it all upon; r i ' ' i . : 1 i : : - ! i , : ----- - i ii. i. ( expecting hourly that poor Bessie's remains "IDbV U6 lffOIKTht tn n ialmiidfiil l...n.JJ scription. Ve are very grateful for altthe evidences of profound sympathy that pour in npo'a us from every 'quarter.', 4 4 f ! 'iU-1 iFaithfullvVon 4 I APPLETOK dAKSMITHt iTo 8. M 'Carpenter, Eol XwlernllL C. -I 'M w L,. never win amount to mucn ; ou never can i do ranch y-bnsinesa Ll:joaare:- too "Ah ! what is that tn said they. ! l don't know as I ought to tell you," he replied. But they were anxious to kuow, ana urgea mm to ten. "I can keep from swearing," said the little fel- low. There were some blushes on four manly faces, and there seemed to be very little anxiety for further information on the point. Exchange. If the Sahara is Flooded What t The only important objection which has thus far been uged;. against; the undertaking has arisen in the appre hensions expressed by a few scien t,sts that the evaporation produced by so large and so shallow a body of water, exposed to the - tropical sun, Would be sulficient to deluge North- E(irope with inceSsant rains, and to IieviuvTC iiiaici lazi ly iiic ic.upciaiuiv 111 , all the countries north of the Alps. MAJ ...... w. A 1 Mn. I I .. . I . A AH.. HA .M It has even been feared that i the winds freighted with moisture on crossing the cold summits of the Alps, would precipitote vast volumes of water aud produce a degree of cold which would give Denmark jand Northern Germany a semi-Arctic cli mate and, produce a glacial epoch farther north. Is it not probable that all such apprehensions arise1 out of a misunderstanding as to the topo graphy of Sahara and North Africa? The entire region to be flooded is practically shut in by mountain-chains on all sides. The Atlas mountains on the north, lifting their snow-clad peaks in some instances 12,000 feet, afford a sufficient bulwark for the protection of Europe from increased humidity. The only possible north ern ly outlet for air currents from El Juf would be across Tunis in a north easterly direction over the widest - part of the Mediterranean. Currents moving in that direction, if they reach ed Europe at all, would touch the shores of Greece after they had lost most of their humidity. M. de Les- seps, attt r a careiui examination oi the question, is convinced that it would result in the general improve ment of the climate of Europe rather than to its detriment. The advan tage of the increased evaporation to North Africa cannot be overestima ted.' The snow-clad cliffs of Aban, lying to the east of the proposed sea, and the Kong mountains to the south, would bring down upoii the parched desert grateful rains, which, with the assistance of cultivation, would in time, no doubt, redeem thousands of square mills from the desolation of the sands. Scribner. The great meteor which fell in Era raett county, Iowa, on May 10th, is indeed a great curiosity. We notice that a piece of it weighing 500 pounds has been taken to New York and has been thoroughly examined af. the Government assay office. The result is thus given. The metal ic portion, separated as far as possible from the poky part, gave 83 5-100 per cent, metalic iron, 1 1 per cent, nickel, with a trace juf co balt. The rocky part contains crystals of zircnm of small size, and was prin ninnllr made on of that mineral in granular form mixed with sulphide of iron and nickel, besides carrying silica, allumina, lime aud magnesia. The whole -makes up a composition not found anywhere on earth, though its several ' parts are well known to geologists. Zircum, however,; is a rare mineral; and when found in large, clear crystals is of considerble value. It is strangely singular how mucn uie vyd, reads as if the Post .was Wv with a pair of new, auspendens hates m I ,!,cu reau:7 M ? toS-PWfc.: ari.fc(t-toM;italti..g .boat some row in the South. t . ' . rr.J A tri. -n y . . r T - . jiunaerca tna Matter of Bullion. I Twa miners sat down in the wild- erness of Southern Utah a few months since to munch their bread and then puipuc v uieir wanuerings ana uieir i oi searcb)twealth;They were "nros- i I i mi, . , - . I pecfors, - who, having left the beaten tr-ck of treasure-ssekers, wandered I off,' to the amusement of their fellows . We had better et Wet into th mountain . country. saiu , nis i 1 1 . 1 . 1 I AS 111 snolfo hia frml cfrti!? enmo I tl. b;U :u j I rr. 1 i on die rocks and picked una small. I yellowish piece of stone. of What's that?' said Tom. as he saw with what feverish earnestness his l 'Dard' examined the ni. . 'Efrad! I think it's horn silver V They were out of provisions and ibM. thorr ,nA m-o :u which to pay the fee for securing their a nnn.ttnrm n K:. .t- - .tr- - o j lit sufficiently to show that ii vein of ore 1 existed, they offered it to Mr. Ben Morgan, of Pittsburg. who is onera- tine smeltine works a few miles be- fi ' . ' . fun Tb ntrr f,. ftio nnn Hill MIIV A Vf S VlUlvVVI I Mr. Morgan sought the advice of the Sunorintendent of the Ontario mine. Tosether they carefully examined theJ new 'find and, unfortunately for the , " m jrenial Ren. ther decided it waa not I II.AIll Ml.T. IMM A .t Aim A.. .M ' I '1. A . . . . . . mlnaM AAntimiAfl ta f Mm. IrAi n 1- O J I , , iii. but soon again were stranded, when I 6 1 1 uuc ui tiieui wiuie iu inu x.iai. iiicuus c ! t r:K r: ,i- , , , , , . 1 J J 1 I posed nnds, and besought tnem to try . - , ' . ; ...... . 1 I uieir iuck uiicb uiure. viji uiuw. i . 1 : . . . , importuning they invested enough , money to give the miners a good start, when the development of the mine procueu rai,.uiy. ruur were su suuk uuu a iiuuiuer vi .uie. ujc- . diate gallenes run which connected the shafts. The work was pushed solely with a view to show the magni tude of the deposit. It was the mar- vel of the whole country. Conserva live old engineers measured the ore bodies actually in sight, taking noth- irtg for granted, and made numerous analyses in all parts of the mine to determine its richness, and the most cautious calculated the silver in sight as worth $27,000,000. Jay Cooke, hearing of this prize, secured an op- tiori of a one-half interest for $2,- into the comparatively lever country wve,AUpei snutu and Bob.Tay-,;, whfre ninths ofsearchins bad reveai: .fSm- ' ed uothing, r i - M while Mr.:jaylor is the RepubUcaS, Jim, 500,000 for a short time, and hasten- who is to fill the pulpit of the Bed-in"- eastward he induced a number of ford Avenue Reform church during Englishmen in New York to invest, and they took it at this price, the four original owners declining to sell tlw remaining half at any price. This la tlia nntD flm Aimnna 'FTnrn SllveJ I ... f xr -n t i w i Mmo 'nr'Nom ItnnnnM 'nrnnnn whip l kUW ' v " ' " " I , . r . i . i i a town has in a few months clustered I , , . . , . i i the U.ah Sonlhern railroad will t nc enmmar h otIpik p1 npnrv three I blJIADUIIIIUVI -' - J I knnraul nlna P.fhhurn TnA.!6 The New York Evening Pod, in speaking of the glorious Fourth in that city says : "A stranger who reads the New Yark journals of to-day :e . , . A . . . , i nifir vms fiinkiiKT intn a state ot b:ir-4 barism. One crime seems to beget another with terrible precision, and each day brings fresh additions to the cycle of atrocity. The'annals of guilt, voluminous and ghastly as they are, comraouly present pauses or breath ing ispaces, so to call them, between eacn special act of wickedness ; but there seems to be no stop, no hesita tion, nothing but one headlong rush of desnerate villainy. s The mind has scarcely time to recover from the hoi ror of oue dark deed beforct is stun ned by another. Night is made hid eous by the endless round of violence and blood. Veiled homicide stalks through the city unchecked with each ointr down of the sun ; and the sol emn stars look down every uight on some new ain that makes the heart ache for humanity; and wonder in deedhc race is going straight on to destruction. I B.U UI.OI 1 va-aw UR. A8HBEL SMITH. Somo old "r" .. "wuniy Will read the folio wine item with; necnllar interest. Dr. Smith was a brom,-'pt: ' plrysiciau here 40 vears ami. TT . ' r man of splendid abilities and of Wh ! toned Character, and at one time rep- resented the "Lone Star" at Wc coart ri ureal jiri tain : c-- ... -1 j M i TUB JEXA8 L.EQ1SLA- TURE.In the , Texas HoSft of ruTa egates last Saturday, an altercation j ana "ghl occarreoV , bet ween liepre-w Renublicft leader of the House. Dr. Smith kiek- . " .-, . .. 'r"TV-rr'.ii wueu omitn nai lowed to Bpcaker. Cochrane r v a rinlu TtI,,ct:.K. " lit UOll UkiUkL - f : .7 wic vTovernors nosinnn nt mv na vnn n ,. - A Labqe Meieor. On the 10th. May last, a wonderfdh meteor fel "P00 nd owned by Col. H. C. Per- tnis city'-in iiimnictt' county, AOWa " was seen ta tall by a num- WT m people living near by. f It pen- etnited the hardearth to a deptli of . . nueen, xeet. it was aus out. ana s I ' ti l . . m m ' - V V tne subject of a law- suit amuuz me iiarues who recovcrea i ii - ... " a naiural Phenomenon it is per- ,f II i A 1 . . . A naPs ine raost interesting ot any ever . ,. oa ine co"ent. a ne ae- touauon was neara one nunarea miles . - ,u eve arecuon. iia weignt IS V61 PUJ - " w peculiar in llS aarac- ter and of a rare type, known among ..:.i:c. ct i m ,euu"c men M ojwpoM. Afit. Kruie vwy. I ha fllll .AAAIind nf Hia .trillin. rC nvuvuuM Ul bite kllllUK VI 9 the Prince Imperial do not relieve the . j ; j- rr , ' ; bad conduct of Talent. f!nrev nnH fhn w , - -reiuainuer 01 me smau escort, incy , j .1 11 . mt did not art like resnlnfe kaMipk-. x , , , , , like brave men would have acted. On - " wvaw.w.w . .1 . 1 1 j ., . . . , me unipr nauu uie jrrince oeuavea welu He ninet - wounda d A wprfi 1. . f , timonv showa tfaat he was darjDg and 5. He had gone OUt rith . tre and select a camp for the army. England has done well in the honors she has shown to the dead Prince, who fell in her service.- Wilmington Star. - ; Rev. Dr. Moras. The Brooklyn Daily Times of a recentrdate, alluding to the brilliant "leave taking" extend- ed to liev. Dr. Porter, of the Bedford Avenue Reform church, on the eve of his departure to the Old . World, has this fq say of Dr. Mora n, formerly of this city ; "The Rev. Dr. R. S. Moran, the absence of Ifr. Porter, next spoke, referring in glowinglerms of the work accomplished by Dr. Porter. Wil- mmgtpn Star. - Ill . 1 . .! i rooaoiy tne most unprontaoie war - 1 .1 . . . J . 7..1. kiiav-Tas cw naticvt ta me uuius n ai - - . . . in which England is now engaged. "f'f n.ng L Pn"C'.p,eS ":vo,T' . , . .1.1. "TI . . . proviueu iue ug.iauwu v,o- tonous, mere never was a uigner pnuc paid. - Thus far the cost is estimated in money at $75,000,000, and in lives at 2,500, and the war is not yet ended. There; can never be any satisfactory indermnfy .obtained. If such a war is j popular with the English taxpayers l . - . ..... then they are easy to please. Wil mington Star. ' ; Lincolnton Progress: On examina tion of Professor Kerr's" Geological ; report tot ' 1875, we find ' that the snr-j vey of the Carolina Central .Railway j discloses the following comparative heights above the ocean: Charlotte,' 725 feet; Catawba River, 570; High; Shoals Station, 1,001 V TLincolntonj 866 ; Shelby, 874 ; George .Laves, near Rutherford ton, 1,117. t J It transpired in an investigation: before the New York legislature that ; the Ni Y., Central railroad carries ; twenty carloads of milk into thegreaf city every night, eachTcar containing; 200 cans of nearly fifty gallons each; The company receives four-and-a-half cents per gallon for? transportation. I The iTarboro yA thinltsXori running a 5c counter, on. which will ' be plawl the acc.unts of delinquents: . t . ; V K -" " . It w.U ram tljc 6c bUHne.; , ii 1; ' ; ii- .i i 1 H1 i'f v Ii hi.- ;i' i5 i "1SH i I 4; f :;4 r 1 i fl' 1 m 11 4 it ii H h: M "ff! Jrvj r !-- j ami lim t i': F- .t t'-t- f" m I .