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$3.50 4 $5,119 $3.89
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7.50 -f 11.99 - 15.69
9.99 13.59 1S.99
11.25 16.59 25.99
20.50 25.59 40.99
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JAMES M. GRAY,
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'ney and Cbunssllor at Law,
SALISBURY, X. C
OmcoiO ;tlie Court House lot. nest doo
toSqnhie Ilauglitoh. Will practice in alj
we uotirts of jtho State.
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KERR CRAIGB,
iEaii HsMerson,
Attorneys, Counselors
and Solicitors.
F SALISBURY, N.C
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POETRY.
The Old Choir Gallery .
I clirub the wiDdios gallery stair,
So often troiTBefore. -
And bike the old familiar chair, 1
Ah me Lby right no more, I
But iM-offered now with -courteous care
ly place iu days of yoro. :
I scan the faces of the choir I
In tain ith sadened heart
I search the tattered Sacred Lv re" !
And find the solo part, :
She sang with almost heavenly fired
Defotion, AVed with art. t
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Unconsciously, Ij turn my face : ;
As if again to see, " i
That fair form M the olden place j
one useu so sort to be, !
Amid, the various ''means of gracen-L
Sweetest evangel, she. v . i
: ' i.;
The parson from pulpit high F ""
Expounds the Holy Words ; ;xJ . -
The organ pours fdrth Imrmouy 1
By bo almost unheard cr .' .iiZk.
BoUt-DiasicVgweU kut prelcliefVcry
Grow faiut, wlule JUle ifcird, 1
F S ; F ' i i -
A voice all tender doth rjteo '
With low, delicious tones'; 1
Accordant thrills uiy heart ; surprise
And joy o'erwhelm its means,
And, dimming with glad tears my eyes,1
Its old allegiance owns.?
As now her presence near I. feel,
TI10 air with peifumes rare
Is filled, that round me snbtly steal.
as waueu irom uer imirr
And I with passionate appeal,
Would clasp the vision lair.
In vain the pleasant past Co moro
Doth o'er me glamour shed j
The fond, fair phantasy is o'er,
The brief illusion sped ;
Nor memory's magic can restore
The days that long have fled.
COMMUNICATED.
For the "Watchman,''
Instrumental Music in Church
was to have been the burden of this com
municatiou ; but 8iucethen, it has seem
ed to ue as out of my province to offer
gratuitous advice in this matter: And
the more especially: so, from being well
aware! of the fact that
j FREE ADVICE
is never taken or acted n ; for it posses
ses he striking and very singular nature
of invariably goiug in at one ear aud out
of the other.w And yet the disposition to
give face, unsought advice, is soi universal
that-with the exception of those whoaeZ
advice none are wholly-.exempt from the
failing. But as I never, knowingly, for-
f .-it uiy word, I will redeem it in this iu
s ti c "by furnishing a siibstitute"-i-au
at'.empt at humor. I hold that i
IjAUGiiteh, I
not the silly -simper, the conceited giggle
nor the malicious cackle but the hearty.
uncontrollable roars and screams that
shake up one's wholo being, from "centre
to circumference,'! ranks next to music as
a crusher of "care and evil thoughts. Iu
this theory--! am well supported : for the
great Carlyle says : "The man who Can
Dot laugh is nly fit for treason, strata
gems and spoils ; and his whole life is
only a treason aud a stratagem." As Ser
enade aud I, -conjointly, have sufficiently
abused, laughed at and admonished choirs
and congregations in the matters of music
I now call special attention to
THE CHOIR LEADER,
who being soprano, is necessarily of the
feminine gender j and who bears the same
relation to a choir that the first E comet
player does to a brass band or the first
violin player to an orchestra, aud with
out whom the remainder would be "void"
though possessed of "form." For "melo-
dy is the essence of music," while bar
inony can only sbe viewed as a very de
sirable and important accessary. There
fore, in treating the case of such an im
portant factor, a careful diagnosis is iu
dispensible ; because with, a clear view
aud successful treatment-of her case, it is
pretty certain that evej thing else 'fwil
be lovely.''
I raaka no pretence of originality in the
following "pen-pictures" of the severa
kinds of sopranos, but merely transcribe
from memory, the observations of a "par
ticular friend" of mine iu New York.' He
giys :
! THE IDEAL MODEL SOPRANO
is a ram avis who conscientiously lends
tho congregation in the worship of God
attends to prayers and sermon like any
other mortal 1 is prompt and faithful in
attending service and rehearsals j aud;
while she Is firm and duly self-apprecia
tivels neither- arrogaut nor capricious
The Sopranos have much to try their tm
pers, -and usually jnake matters even by
sorelr trvinir otheTrs This one never re
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sents anything! F
i THE REAL MODEL SOrRANO
is pretty and amiable. She dresses in charm
inir stvle. outshines all in hair arrange
ineut aud wears the most cunning little
bonnet of auy in church. Site kuows how
to use her eyes well, whether black, blue
or haiel. - She is fond of music aud jhas
preferences, 4iut never urges them tith
obstinacy, though the careful observer
will notice that she generally has them
gratified. And why t Because she is
such a charming little ceaxer,
and ,tne
choir j director, being Human, iiasasoitj
.niif .n tiU lirf AfnrfiOTPr. she wins i
;i.A-M-ni.t. i,rf l.xr im.tMidinff todote
on the music he composes for her. When
i. ffl ,mc. !. Inn nn in his eves,
i. nnnUl,wl. nnd feels himself a
monster not to do precisely as the sweet
songsr desires. .When not engaged in V
these tricks, , she flirts a little with the '
tenor.- The alto never thinks much" of
trie soprano. Once in a while this "mod-1
el makes a mistake, but she acknowl- j
tl, ru reaauy, mat sbe is excused at
oce. By and by, a young man, who has
Hitherto only escorted her to the door, 4
comes a few times into the choir with her.
She don't care much for him of course
w uiuij, wuj uu. j u uuro witicu is very useiui.
e likes an independent life too well! j Here are the orangeUe lime, tree lem
Afler a while, the young man becomes on, cocoa, plum, aud A vnrietv f - ot!ir
more regular in his attendance ; and be-
inn n i it. t - 1 ' I
.UuUB la me cnoir gooa manners
mUKM llPr Air. tiv him aa I.a n4- i- 1 '
. " J uo ut JJUb 1CC1
embarrassed. Her neat little mnff ia on
ler lap the while; It is very handy you
know ! ' V .
At this dangerous stage of afliirs,the
director, if prudjenW begins to look for an I
other soprano. F So when this "model"
ad resigns her ' position.aridl becomes
UrsrTarung Man," Tie is prepared for the
event. ;-- .
THE G1GGLIXG SAPUASO
is very young, and spends most of her
time in laughiug. To make a blunder in
ler singing, "fills her with irrepressible
mirth. Very ofteu during a pause in the
services, the congregation is startled by
an audible titter, which is easily traced
to the giggling Soprano. '
THE .GRIM SOPRAXO, i
is a lady who dresses with great primness
in very depressing colors. She holds her
selPaloof from the rest of the singers and
casts a gloom over the whole choir. She
usually sings-right well, but will neither
resign, die nor get married. Every one
says "she is very much of a lady," but
nobody enjoys her company.
THE EXPERIENCED SOPRAXO,
is a terror and a scourge. She has sug
n "ever so many" churches for, lo ! these
many years, ihe nrst condition toner
acceptance of a position is to "have her
own way." She is correct and prompt iu
her performances, and views the other
singers with mingled disdain and compas
sion, Her voice is sharp, wiry and a trifle
cracked, but she evidentlv thinks herself
to be in tho plenitude of her vocal pow
ers, and, in every way, superior to her vo
cal companions. In technical ability site
really is ; and also in pretension and med
dling.
THE IMPUDENT SOPRANO.
This creature usually sings' with vigorous
energy aud often with good taste, aud is
popular with the congregation. Iu the
choir, however, she is a besom of destruc
tion. To be associated with her there, is
to be tied up iu a coffee bag with a scorp
ion. She knows in her own opinion-
far more than the whole choir, director
and onramst combined. She wants to
sing all the solos, and is bitter towards
any other singer who attempts one. As to
other Sopranos, and altos as well,- -she
is pitiless. She never says a kind word
of any vocal sister. She refuses to siug
the music selected by the director; and
if he insists, 6he declares he is no gentle
man." Then she runs with a garbled
story to the minister or music committee,
aud assumes the airs of injured innocence
geuerally. She is generally spoken of by
choir members as "A Tartar," which is
an ps2eision upon a remote and, coin
paratively, inoffensive people iu Asia.
She effects great intimacy with the clergy
man and his family. By her constant ef
forts at predomiuauce iu the choir, she
acquires a masculine style of behavior,
which she imagines to be dignified inde
pendence. She thinks the other singers
are intended, by Providence, as mere ac
companists t her own singing, and is
vehemently opposed to any music not cal
culated to show off her ability exclusive
ly. She is altogether, a mysterious dis
pensation of Providence, like house-flies,
hydrophobia and small pox.
THE WORTHY SOPRANO
is the educated christian lady who adds
to her correct deportment, urbane man
ners and refined taste real ability and
skill in music. Such a vocalist a church
is loth to lose ; and when a soprano re
tains her position for years, it is an assur
ance that she is one of this noble class of
women. To such it is desecration to ap
ply even the name of "model soprano."
She is far superior to such a title. Her
value ishigher than rubies, above
price." . '
I am done. My only design in "putting
up" these three articles has been to amuse,
enlighten, stir-up aud spur-up; and I am
always ready to "do so some more."
Respectfully,
Memoriter.
letter from Hon. John II. Smyth.
UNITED STATES MINISTER RESIDENT TO
LIBERIA.
For Liberia thero is a future-that may
be glorious, but full of responsibility.
Hero are broad lands, a short distance
from and beyond the coat, well watered
by the St. Paul's and Mesurado rivers,
rich in flora and fauna, so rank is vegeta
tion that- with neglect of all the soil for
but two weeks or a month the sweet
smelling flowers, shrubs and grasses
cover tho land. Here the agriculturist,
thenf must not be idle, for tho price of
rich harvests, such as Africa affords, is
i-vigilant industry.
I Here ia the palm, rich in its variety of
oil extracted, so valuable for commerce,
indispensable for home -consumption,
so palatable the cabbage it yield, so
valuable in fibre for thej nets and lines
with . which the finny fribo aredecoyed
and ihe ropes and elbthiug niadobere-
from. - . v i
Here is the tall and?s.ender coc'oaaut
gracefully bowing ito fiinged top-no less
to the rude blasts than the1 gentle zephyrs,
affording fruit delicious to the taste and
trees that are constantly iieldinff of their
m . . ' . "1 ....
iruits in abundance without the care and
uLicutiou 01 man.
Here is the dwarf-likfc Coffjee tree, ever
green, freqnerftly in blossom, the perfame
rof which is sweet. tearlV v iVrmlnrin'.' n.
. M -M s O
berry, the most, delicious of " Its kind
know to Ikn.Piireo t'i ' .- '
' Here are the plantMrassadeJin
edyo, supplying the lieed of flour, meal
or potatoes, and better adapted for tropi
cal food.
Hero sport upon highland and lowland
the gazelle, water deer, ml deer, bush
cow, hippoppotaraus and elephant in
marsh, and on the seashore the terrapin
Land green turtle.
Here are precious ores i hoarded in the
womb of earth. Here are, all around,
medicinal plants and gums exndiug from
trees for the cure of those! "ills to which
flesh is heir."
With all that is beautiful, all that is
useful spread around iu prodigal abund
aud by a beneficieut God, not all, nor
any of this abundauce is! designed for
the outer world, for auy other race, save
as it is received from the bauds of tho
Negro.
Many of the race in exili have, in bit
ter moments of sore oppression, cried
out, "Too hard to bear ! Too hard to
bear!" and believed themselves the most
unfortunate of men, looking for no haven
of rest, no vine and fig tree this side of
heaven.
When they were despondent they knew
not there was a reserve for them, a land
guarded from their enemy lby malignant
fevers and diseases which kill him aud
others but iu which the j Neogro aloue
cau safely live and flourish.
Aud beyond this protect ivo belt which
snrrounds Africa, cert a iulyi which guaid
Western Africa, are found j tho flower of
womanhood and the pride of our man
hood the intelligent and stalwart Mand
ingo who accepts Islam, a guarantee of
liberty and equal ty to tho a;.fve here
and hereafter, piotects froni drunkenness
the schollavly Foulah, the - energetic
Sernculie, and the shrewd and; diplomat
ic Soosoo,. aud those of other tribes uo
less in nobility of blood and virtues.
Tho responsibility is with the Africo
Liiberian to have perfect amity between
himself and his heathen brother by tho
exercise of the largest charity for his
faults, that Christianity and civilization
may displace superstition! and heathen
ism; a , responsibility that assimilation
by marriage shall begin and continue; a re
sponsibility that shall induce the Afrieo-
Liberiau and his friends abroad repre
sent faithfully and honestly to the Negro
iu exile the condition of Liberia, and to
discourage the coming of emigrants, how
ever anxious they may be to come, who
cannot willingly, from a conviction of
duty to the race in Africa, sacrifice com
fortuble homes, and tho now enjoyed iu
the United States.
The products spoken of, the beauties
and utilities in vegetable nature refer
red to, the "paragons of animals" men
tioued, which constitute not only these
but various other tribes of Central Africa,
must be sought, this laud possessed, not
without privation and safferinff. This
laud must be sought with a purpose
never to look back and a desire that when
death comes their dust shall mingle with
that of the fatherland. This land must
not be sought with a hope that your
richest products of learning and rarest
skill of labor possessed, j will be able,
however exerted, to accomplish the work
of civilizing and evaugfelizihg our broth
ers, but with a determination to throw
the bread of effort on tho I waters to bo
seen and gathered in the future, because
racial allegiance canuot bo thrown off
but with the sacrifice of self-respect and
of manhood.
The Irish Question.
"Boycotting" is bow also used iu Ire
land to compel unwilling persons to join
the land league and subscribe thereto.
ireiitleman who has a few acres on the
o - .
borders of the county iu which Dublin
is locatedf received a letter! waruiug him
to join the league before . Saturday or
take tho consequences. The most recent
development ia "Boycotting" is in coun
try towns, where shopkeepers aud even
peddlers are required to produce tickets,
showing that they aro members of the
league, oa they will not jbe allowed to
buy or sell. Even Grangemen in the
same places are obliged j to join the
league rather than lose their business,
property or lives. The rganization be
flailtr mom nerfect in its details.
Th. luH-nmnbition of arms ia the country
;a ntnl- with much apprehension,
rw i.Ahw in Dublin nnul es SUO rcvolv-
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vy saw s ;
kly to different parts of the
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country
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POLITICAL.
j?..- CUBRENTCOMMENT. : v
i The principal charges ; are against
South . Carolina, Mississippi, Louisi
ana aud Florida, and jit is not usually
asserted, yer believe,1 that - the ' pic
turesquely portrayed "political out
rages; which - crop out inFthose States
are more than loca and partial m
their operation or effect. But some of
the Southern States have a bad repu
tation, and v Mr. Hayes insists that
they are blacker than j they are paint
ed." It is tme, no doubt, that the be
lief prevailing in ,the' North that the
rights of certain classes of citizens in
is what stands ia the way of an ob
literation of sectional lines in our
political contests; but we know that
political abuses arc not confined to
he South, and we do not believe that
he means which the President pro
poses will work a permanent cure.
The President is evidently in favor of
denying to both Senators and Repre
sentatives the seats to which they are
presumed to have been elected by im
proper practices, and he pledges him
self to "prosecute uusparingly" all
persons who have been engaged in
depriving citizens of the rights guar-
eed to them by the Constitution.
But the election laws are themsel ves
defective. They are not so framed
as to ensure fair elections. And with
a large body of members of the llepub-
ican party no election unfavorable to
hat party is likely to be regarded as
air. For such abuses as exist the
cure will not Jbe found in harsh leg
islation and wholesale persecutions.
Charleston News & Courier, Dan,
The United States as a Mediator
Between Chili and Peru,
PANAMA.Noveml er 23. The last steam
er trom the South brings a full report
from Peruvian sources of the proceed
ings of the peace conference at Arica,
Three sessions were held, all on board of
the United States steamer Lackawanna,
on the 22d, 25th, ami 27th of October.
The first was occupied iu the work of or
ganization, exchanging credentials, ar
ranging the method of procedure, aud
also iu receiving a formal statement of
tho demands advanced by the Chilian
government as the necessary conditions,
not only for the restoration of peace, but
for tho continuance of ! the conference.
The second and third sessious were
taken up in discussing those conditions
which, rejected by the representatives of
the Peru aud Bolivia conference, ended
without a satisfactory result, Hon. Thos.
A. Osborn, United States Minister to
Chili, presided throughout. He made an
address imploring tho representatives of
the belligerent'powers to labor earnestly
to bring about peace, aud hoping iu the
name of his government that their efforts
would be successful. The American min
isters to Peru aBd Bolivia were also
present. Tho members of the conference
were Messrs. Altainirano, Lillo and Ver
gara, on the part of Chili; Baptista and
Carrillo, Bolivia's representatives ; Gar
ciary Garcia and Arenas, representatives
of Peru, aud three ministers of tho United in Chicago preaching among the lower . , 1 . . , -
States on the coast. Osborn's address orders of the Irish, he was set upon and . an.d the Sreat d.cPth of earth nowcov
was followed by a speech from Altami-j abused heartily. The people threw erig the remains of the vegetation inr
raeo, iu which he acknowledged, on be- stones at him, hoot him, call him names, j dicates a vast lapse of timesince it
half of the government of people and Chili,
their gratitude for tho disinterested ef-
forts of the United States to put an end
to the war.
Another Negro Exodus.
Columbus (O.) Special to Chicago Times.
Hon. George Williams (colored), mem
ber of the Ohio Legislature, has just re
turned from New York, whither ho went j
for consultation on a project looking to
a new exodus of colored people from the
Southern States. Mr. Williams says a
partvof capitalists iu New York have
purchased over half a milliou acres of
land in New Mexico, partly agricultural,
ana iiieiru s uuiia u.owu,.uS
to send trustworthy agents among South-
orn negroes for the purpose of culling
i . ..I. . . i a. : .
good material to form colonies on this
land. The negroes chosen for this pro
ject will be men of some meaus, sound
health, and, in a word, men inspected as
for an army. Land is to be sold to those
colonists at $1.25 per acre, and time giv
en them to pay for it, and assistance in
the way of reduced railroad rates will al
so be arranged. The paities engaged in
this scheme are enthusiasts, and say that,
inasmuch as the colony lauds are iu near
ly the same latitude as South Carolina,
tho emigrants will be enabled to cultivate
cotton and other semi-tropical crops with
which they are f- "
mate t18 coiou v umo
people can have an opportunity oi laoor-
,
, ing. educating their children
and making
jred men to
them all it is possible for colore
l . l! , r i. ir.
become unuer iiivoraoj auw., i.
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W Iliams leaves ior .ew ex.co u..
f I ... a. . 1 . . t ... . .1 a -i'
' - weeK to luspevb uicav ian3,
' Bouxo" TJR6sPE9Wi.tl F',e K-1
publican party in power i witli Garfield
President ; with . the ' ; pemocracy , dc-,
moralized and defeated r with ilia f!hini
forgetl iut.-.peaitentUjty wltb good ; Aoerlcna (GaF) RwjordcttV - ! -
money j with unlimited credit ; with the j ; , ' F. S -
bestaand an ;tho world rvitbn
thousand miles of rail f,wiU moun- t . F
t ia a in.kVi.-? of a certain portion f Leo county 1
mums ua - m uiii uuu i. i l. a a niiii iiuuuinin
bfUhoriindW,
Seldsjlwith iron enougWor the wlmle-
world s with tho best svstem of eommer-
cial schools ; , with telegraph; wires reach
ing to every city aud town, so that no two
citizens are an hour apar$ ;J with the tele
phone that makes; everybody in the city
live next door, and with th$ best folks in
the . world, how can tre help prospering
antil the continent is filled with happy
homes jixncinHati Cvmmerpiql -i
3:
j msrjBLtiNEOTAi
x J
,, . : mi, vuc oniuj: 1IVUI UI9 IUU BfU)( SOU a
For Liberia. A small company of f . , " . . . . t
t ' . i a. x- ' v-a i xt it . i xhant.froin his strangely musicat voice
emigrants left New ork, November 1st, J.,A , , . . .
t i i ti i i 4 .j VU"11 set a hundred sisters swaying their
on the bark Liberia, sent by the Amen- i,,,.. j . :V
e - . . . . j bodies to and fro and as many brothers -
can Colonization Society. As no debt is vnani:-A : , A ,-.
... ..... . . Kcepihg time to the weird rhvthm wit h
incurred beyond the ability to meet, the if- f , . , . . , A. f. ;-. . .
. , - i beating feet ; in awful interest the ser- '
number of persons-thus aided is in pro- 1 mnn - ,.
. . i .. . . Vion would grow, a medley of declama-
portion to the amount contributed. Ev- nnA .J. ...
1 , .. - &.n. 0 . ' .. ' tion and recitation, uutil one witd, deaf-
ery donationof Sou to the Society will . ' .. ' . . -
J .. - .. .J t "S cry brings to a climax the ecstatic joy
pay the passage of a worth v emigraut, 0i,Aa j .
1 i.--ai in tln sh0Qts and, trances aud moamngs.
T . . .v Y... luu BJU, .
clearing his land, building a house and !
talnnfintv o xi tr 5 f 1 1 e 1 1 a1 fuv n n I nuila-
liaUUUg ft Vlxirr- VI lilt o i xJ . l 1 UUU tllxvtlw
cal attendance for six
rival.
months after ar-
A Mouse in Her Pocket. A short
time since an elderly lady of this city
startled the household with a pierciug
shriek and the information that thero was
a mouse in her pocket. Some oue rushed
to her rescne, hastily assisted her to di
vest herself of her wrapper, firmly grasp
ing the mouth of tho pocket to prevent
the escape of the dangerous animal. The
garment was then turned .over to the man
of the house, and he, armed with a club,
proceeded to the back yard to dispatch
the offcuder. The pocket-was opened
gradually, but no mouse appeared. Fi
nally, gainiug courage, ho veutured to in
vestigate, and found the cause of all the
excitement to be a pocket tape-measure,
from which the spriug had become de
tached and had unwound with a whirr,
Xeicburyport (Mass.) Herald.
The Philadelphia Becord thus refers to
an industry which must become in the
near future one of the most prominent iu
the South : The Vicksburg JleraUl an
nounces, with justifiable exultation, the
projection of a cotton factory in that city,
backed by energetic business men with
adequate capital aud credit. It calls at
tention to the fact that no southern cot
ton factory has failed to yield satisfactory
results to investors. Vicksbnrg is iu
the centre of the cotton belt, and has rail
and water communication" with the rest
of the world. I takes a great deal of
money to start a cotton milt; but we do
not know of any field of investment in a
ready-made business which offers greater
inducements to capitalists than cotton
manufacturing iu the sections where cot
ton
grows.
Beechcr on Moody's Perseverance
In the course of his Friday evening
lecture-talk, Mr. Beecher said that it
was sometimes necessary to be importu
nate iu supplicating favors of God.
What he meant by being importunate ho
illustrated by the following story , about
the evangelist Moody; When Moody was
' &c, uutil finally he began to get tired of
j it and determined to see the Bishop. He
accordingly weut to the Bishop's house,
knocked, aud tried to get iu ; but tho
people inside, on one pretext or another,
refused to admit him. Moody was a de-
termiued man, and made up his miud
that he would get in in spite of them. So
he called regularly every day, and when
he had knocked aud been refused admit-
tance, sat quietly down on the doerstep
and waited. Ho did this day after day,
until crowds begau to gather, and finally
. lA -ri i
he was told to com inside, aud was au-
mittedlintothebishop'snresence. 'BLhon.',
j. ., ..os,noPffun.. r am trvinir to
vnnr nfUni to make them clean
Lit
Md neat and honest and industrious;
bat ingteail of listeuing to me they stono
j , 1110 BamC8. Xow. i want von
to interfere and put a stop to this.' Tho
bishop was a good, God-fearing, pray ing
man though he was a Catholic bishop,
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and tho result wa3 that he aud Moody
got dowu. on their knees and prayo l.
Moody praying first and the bishop fol;
lowing him. Moody said ho never heard
a sweeter, prayer than
tho bishop's.
When they got through and rose up the..;. b fae dai,y usc of
,Wt think i iv people will trouble vou
r. -
any more anu rney uiu nou ow, mar,
and they did not. 'Now. that.' .
j ; ia Mr ieeci.er, 'that sitting down n
;the tloorgtep, day after day, until hefhe immediate effects are, however '
forced them to let him in, that's what I . Qnythincf but p.casiDjJ to the beholder. ' .
..n l.Snr iniiwirtnn.iti-
van " " t. 1 I
J John Bull will send for Aamerican beef
until ho finds himself confronted with a
huntc oil me uinu oi u iciiiiweicor
Theu diplomatic relationship between tho
two nations will-cease
w Idolatry In Gcoriria. ; Fv'
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An ImaV a D Treacher Set Up
' a Colored Churclu ''
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: w ""& poiuis. i4WU liar
ber, a colored preacher of the Baptist do-1
nomination, had in his charge a member
ship numbering perhaps, three thousand,
making up hisTour churches. He was a
typical specimen of the tegro, and wield
ed almost an absolute power, body and
soul, over his large congregation.1,,Brod--
der Barber", word was Jaw and rosr ! ; 5
bm ui4 iuiiuiTo.8, an; uoue. ever uareu
j to question his authority or dispute his
sway. Vehement, inagnetio and power- ' '
f nl AM A Ct a M aa f.nm -1 . ? 1 - - Z t- ' . 4 ' "
Last summer the preacher died and hi .
friends and followers refused to be com
forted. He was honored with burial lights
beyond precedent, and such a funeral was
indeed "seldom seen." The deeds and
memory left by the good pastor were not -sufficieut
for his members and not com
forted with these they have set up a sort
of graven image, so to spcakj of Barber,
which is placed above the pulpit of his
principal eh urch. The image itself is the
work of the crudest art, made of white
and black cotton cloth, stuffed with straw
aud painted with charcoal. To an unbi
ased critic it looks more like a scarecrow
set up to frighten hawks' than anything
else; but a devout member informed the .
writer it was a very striking likeness of
the deceased. Wo marvelled somewhat
at the strange thing with another brother .
of this church, and asked him its object.'
Ho gave us toanderstaud it was a remem
brance r of the beloved deceased, and said
"although Brudder Barber is gone, wo .
still has do shapes of him wid us.";
Rev. .1. Rumple has been doing acapi
tal workfor, the county, of Rovarr HU
history of that county is vale able and in
tercsting, and we hope will be printed in
pamphlet or book form. The articles aro
appearing in the Salisbury Watchman.
Charlotte Democrat,
A French savant has made a care
ful comparative analysis of the statis
tical table of suicides for France and
Sweden. - He finds that they establish
two laws, viz; That widowers cpr.v.-
mit suicide more frequently than mar-'
ried men ; and that the existence and
presence of childreu in -the house di
minishes the inclination to tuicido
both in men and in womcu. T
During a recent boring for water in
the Wimmera district, Victoria, a tree
was passed through for a distance of
six feet at a depth of 250 feet.- Sev-
eral fruit stones were brought to the
J surface. At some period of the world
: history a grove of trees is supposed to
ft, i tl . hf-rpem-.n nf-
flourished.
A German scientist recommends par-
afline as an efficient means of protect-
;uff woot arajnst damp, acids and al-
firsfc w,WfW
, . , .
and then covered Wlth a olntion of
one part of melted parafliiie in six
j parts of petroleum, ether or bisulphide
1 cf carbon. The solvents evaporato
' qujcfciyf leaving the paraffine in the
f l, i . . , ,
1 pores of the wood. Great care should
.
. "Ken in n.cuseoi me preparation.
as all of the substances nieiitionfldara
1 rsneciallv inflammable. - .
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At a recent Berlin bird show sever
al canaries were exhibited which at-
traded much attention on account of
thc ptf-.,. colors of their plumage.
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Snmt wpri trrren. others red anil lio-lifc
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brown, and others of a soft gray tint,
while all differed more or-Iess from tjio
lirht . yellow of the commou biid,"
jri,ege variations of color '.were nro-
1 ?epper in the food of the birds.
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first, and the birds appear to like it'
.for the feathers: soon b?gin to fa.I.
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giving the br'.d the appeartnco 1 1
i. but jn 6hort time uew f&itbV
ers appear, ha viii j the
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