North Carolina Newspapers

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I Call and examine ray Stock and Vrice bei' fire lorcbaBing, I.williell tl :l prices. -f- r -1 , T V i? d rltw- -ml Miimates for any desired work Ini befiwnwhed on application; at next doo to J. DMcNeelv'aMore Salisbury, N.C., March 9, 1881. 21Jy. j i R. R. CRAWFORD & CO. i ' i AUK SELLING ; PORTABLE - i FASH- AND FACTORY SPEAM EHSIBEiL . ALSO-' atmnr J t and Caps. r ai-so miM RIFLE PflWDIE Efa WfYfrhnn MJn nrnnn Oj oar own and rorelga maKe-aud From the Ftfiest to the Cheapest ' ' 'Hill Horse Eakes,u&;0. Salisbury, Jan. 0, 1S31. ly -4'i - Z BvVace. W. II. Bailey. ; ; jYANCE & BAILEY, ATTOiNYS AND COU2ISELLCRS. CIIA11LOTTE, If; rC. Practice in Snprttue Court of the Criled State,! Supreme Court of North- Carolina, Fedrril Coiirli', afid Counties of Mecklt nbnrp, ...Labarrua, Union, Gaalon, Rowan and David- on. f 40lGce,-i'wo doors east of Indepen "dence Square. - 33:tf .H.'MccoRKLE. TIIEO. F..XLVTTZ. McCORKIiB & KLUTT, I ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS, - - r . -i . - t -i . Salisbury, N. G. :,lOffice on Council Street, opposite ih'e Couit Houe. 37:6ra .EERUCRAIGE, 7 L. n. CIXMEST. CRA1GE & CLEMEMT, , SALISBURY, N. C. 1S81. "'IF ATT01LVEY AT LdW, 0i vxisbury;n;c., Practiccs in the State and Federal Courts.; v . 12:Cm anfl: HenisrsQB, . A-ttorries, Counselor l ; - f ind Solicitors. . StALISBUItt, N. C LJsnaay221879 tt. ORDER fcl $1.50 f?.M I. 00 . 4.60 4.50 4.00 .00 1.60 ."3 II. S5 16.15 J3..S 8.S i r?2a tii?v9 . ;r rr wesjaw f'- . : . ! i' HIS bill naps I, I' Fll.3. Speech of Senator On the tjxveiuxg of the - GovEUKOtt Caswell. At Kintton, X.0-Aua. 3d, 1881. fyl 'Pi i J th'tlAn J-i.k .AlSArtm differs from that of all thefr conUiiHra-4.P?,.PpAl .""f d, brighter gcmn rie. The existiug nations of Europe grew 1 thn John Locke, tl.eir author. : He gave op fronrkrous tribes. Tlley irere I to !U tk Uie profoundest lea rnlug and acorus planted, and, apringinR from the .,BeTTt n?edl'?- .-ft1"1 thelfir?ni earth a tender shoots, grew slof ly amid of d .ff? Tt(i the dangers of unprotected, iminatrfrity ;hum?in appearances laid it, well. , It was iuio tall4iud sereliaut pbsiti.,iis iit-the I .loU!d1 Peratdi !and world's forest. Uv tedious an4 painfuri'!110 ,d V88 or M Pjodiccs to degrees they attained to their1 present s clasU Uh its proTisions.. It was so tried, strength and seated their civilization. ; Tl.ci.ie?lcan colonics, on the iontrarj, S ""S0"0": i 5,fMwt weie transported 4s liairgrownV thrifty vd .not know either, wiiat was. wanted saplings into the fertile soil of fb is new by or adapted to distant people whom he coutiueut, where they took rootso quick-i&w f5!h h ?nOT ly and kindly that their natural growth .rant ofthe facUhat govern meats, it nn was accelerated rather than intVnpted rCed by extraqepu circumstances, V.v tl, ti,v i.mnl.fc Jmrtliftm grow and develop, naturally, fitting them- the leaniiuff, arts, sciences and! civiliza- f tion, such as they were, of the parent soil. -They-passed tlu ough no iufiuicyUio child hood,uch asfthe acoru-plauted nations' endured ; hnd unless we speak ly 'eom parisouvitU thcniseifes itr niayp be jsaid they bad ufgrowth'r no primitive no he roicage. Certainly they had 119 mythic "agc,dnd no miraculous fable adorn or j disgraces 4hir origiu. . It cannot be said of tlieui that any wolf suckled their God begotten founders, as is said of -iome, or tha-t they came of an infamous' conjunc tions between the outcast Scy t bia i witches, and the iufroal fiuiid,' as Avas. the; boast of the Huns., More simple and iuore glo rious far was. thonativity of the colon v of North Carolina. . ' ' : 1 ' l -; , o -people vio evejLMyajxded the earth, had a moreiouoraldc or illustrious paren tage. She was cucei vtd iu the bwu of the most remarkabli and iiccoiupHstied man of his ago of our English speaking race. She was born off two of the noblest -and highest passions that animate the hnnian heart patriotism and religion. Sir WaJ ter ILtieigli, k fitting out his expedition', whiclj landed on Koauoke Island. in 1538, was actiiitted chiefly by the desire of sti-engthetiiiig his country in itsj terrible contestwith the Spaniards, "wli'qj; threat ened the domination of tlm world, and of pnpagatjug what seemed to liim that purer lortu -of the Christian which was then strnggling for a religion footing upon the earth ; and however , much the baser dross.of wild adventure aiwl per sonal gaiu may have adulterated these nobler motives, with Raleigh and his as sociates, there can be no doubt that the higher predominated. The meh them selves were of the best yeomanry 'and gentry of old England, hardy , adventur ers, pious, much enduring, faithful and brave j and they were filled with the new principles which were then stirriug all Euroiie with the thirstier civil aiid reli gious liberty. Raleigh has perhaps no superior in British annals, take him all iu all. He was at once a' soldicrj 'states- 'man, historian,' scientist, navigator and piet,"and whilst therojwere doubtless, timing tluit great age, of Elizabeth, sol diers as brave and skillful, statesmen as profound stud wise;;' historians as fluent and accurate, navigators as bold-, scien tide men as learned, and poets who sang as sweetly as be, yet that island so ricli iu the genius of its children, did not theu possess una uas never since possessed, a man who combined all these capacities with so much of excellence in each. ' . Such were the men and such their lea der, wliom we claim as our founders. Virginia and, North Carolina justly avow that they are the offspring of these dar ing and patriotic spirits that they Were conceived - and brought fourth ;bv the greatest men of a'grcat age -Further into this early story of onrs do not propose to go. Of the renewal and perishing of Raleigh's colonics ou Roanoke, ; of the subseqiieiit stream that poured into John Smith's settlement on the James, and . finally overflowed iuto North Carolina through Durant's! Neck, of the English who came iuto the Capo Fear country of Clarendon, of the! Swiss under. DcGraflenreid of the Germans, Lutherans and Moravians." Scotch High landers, Scotch -Irish; nnd Huguenots all of whom in time came' to compose the early population of our'Stato of these I cannot speak. ur can I tell at sncn a time as this" of their' slow and steady growth, of tlieir deadly struggle with sav ages, their conquest over the forest, the mountains, the rivers and sea, ; all of which had to be subdued before comfort and civilization were assured. If X had the time and the learning a much! more intei-esting and instrnctive theme for roe would be the history of their efforts to work , out the problem of self-government and to: frame a system of laws suited to secure the freedom and promote, the wel fare and happincsjs of a people ir! the wil: derr.ees. - No" portion of human- history go well deserves the study of those 'who Talue the well being of race as this, and no otherState in this grand constellation of free commonwealths, furnishes more serious aird instruct ivo, lessons on the principles of government and the issues science Vrbuilding law tipon the basis upou which their liberties depended, and of actual experience 'and making govern- never -was there a poople In such circum uieut oWvons'ly" responsive to the popn- stoncupplied with' an 'abler, more lar wants, than: does i North-, Carolina. V. zelVu and more patriptic.,baud of. lead-. Our story will show beyond any doubt . crs. The great Burke has -said that a i lit? n nr-ooleV laws must be so founded sacred 1 veil should be thrown over tho autl jhat ini theoretical systems, however; Z. is.Vauce i s learnaiy conceivca or eiauorateijr piann- f wn urst icuiur nuui -"o "i-puwutew wu rvroiouon. This the people Mid ,t .. 'i " -h ; .- j-'w-twiBgi iMiaT mars an er , ! ine experiment maae pj; me u)ru wmcn wo can imuuisb -sicaier pi wo pur owe. i nu u the flnt monnmeot Pronrietors With the 'Fiindaru'ental Con titution foe the goveruroeut of CArolina- is fall ottesUmpDy in thw behalf. Ett- aua ? uoa 01 man - ever prye-n wives to people ras the kiu of animal fits; itself to the Jncreasing size 'of its bones and muscles. The Ideal specula tion of the, scholar did not meet the wants I of the unlearned settlers in the North Carolina forest, and after a fair trial they cast it out as unfit. r V ' : i ; One thing leads to another like thing. So it came-to pass that the work of other and more practical men than John Locke be'xah to be subjected to the same scruti ny and share the jsame fate that he did. The opinion soon came to prevail that men so far distant ns the British Parlia ment .could not rightly understand to make laws for the squatters in our forest abd that British ministers could not always know best when to npprovo or disapprove of such as the colonists made for-themselves.In short, - they " had al ready discovered the virtues of home rule and so they began to look back for those ancient rights and liberties which had been contended for a , foretime by the men' of their blood. In each of these they ; oit ud the germ of a great principle, to which as British freemen they, believed themselves entitled, and the extension and application of which to these colonies would be for. their" healing. Tney learn ed from Magna Charta to hate the domi nation of strangers and favorites, aud also from that instrument and from the history of Parliament all the way back to the WitenagemoteVor assembly of the wse men of the Saxons, that the power t4 impose taxe? can 'rightfully be conferr ed only bjrthose who impose them. No sdutage or aid" shall be imposed in our kingdom conceded King John, at Runny- njede, unless by the common council of oor Kingdom." "Xo Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized, or out lawed, or banished, or any ways destroy ed" .' k unless by the legal juilgraent of his peers, or unless by the law of the land," he says again, in the XLVI article.. They learned also of the great writ, by which men are rescued fr-om illegal imprisonment of tneuulaw ftil tyrauny ot quartering soldiers in pti vjite houses, and the oppression of deny ing men. a trial by their peers of tho vic inaga,' and of substituting ' therefor mili- tarv courts and other extraordinary tri bunals. i All of theso things, and many more of like nature, began to be talked over and dwelt upon in the cabin homes of North Carolina a century and a half ago, when the times began to ' dawn towards the morning of1 revolution. r Our sturdy fa ther's began to wonder how it was tljat what was good for Eugland, so good ns to bo r worth the shedding of so much blood, was nut also good for her distant children j and to ask how the English people could make such struggles to free themselves from particular : species of despotism and then turning about inflict those very wrongs upon their Owu off spring. . England was, in fact-, defying a great political truth so often yet 60 un availing! taught by history--that a free people cannot inflict slavery on their de pendent communities without sapping Ijhe foundations of their own freedom ; that such subject communities can indeed only be kept contentedly as integral por tions of an empire when permitted to share fully the privileges and intitutious of the dominant State. The great - seminal principles which constituted the basis of British freedom and prosperity, had beeu denied these American colonies. ' , .... . r With a strange, want of logic, the Brit ish people contended that none of their race were entitled to self-government ex-, cept those who dwelt iu the parent isle. That these principles were the apt aud natural methods of free government, is proven by the nniversal tendency of the people to apply them, and the denial of them produced at once an angry discus sion. This discussion was ono of tho most remarkable known to political history, both in methods and results. ' Never before the era of universal print ing and the postoffice, nor perhaps since, have the great masses of the people been made-so thoroughly acquainted with the beginnings of; govei-nment, , JJow far is then the fact apparent to eerjone that or jatoue of Wrriemberance ? erected to the logie of our forefaheii waai as. tri.i inr. ion of our State,' And the bnrden umpbahi as their arnis.Ko man can l anjd the expenses hare borne by the good read the history of that! period which ina- and patriotic citizens of Lenoir The neg mediately preceded Lhe oufbreak of bos- lect of providing monuments or memoxl tilitics in North Carollnaand study the als of oar public men,, the speaker con political literature of that day without a detuned in l-rigioroas terms, as at one un feeling of- sorpriso andf thi profonndest wse and unpatriotic If we are not OTond admiration "for the ability' and learning uupiajeu in oeuaa oi r niowinoi cause. The ; addresses, argtiinent 'phamplets, essays, letters, &c., of j Samuel Johnson, State and commemorate them. r -James Iredell. Joseph Hfws, William 4 j To-day, said the speaker, we have done Hoojier; Morris Moore, jCornelius Harnett , a good work. Let us carry that work and many others will stand 'comparison forward. Then he thanked the audience not only with the public men of any oth-, er colony i bot- withithp' rJaders of any J other cmmnnity of our blood, 7 strug- gling for political rightaand independence. I I here is a forces clearness, logic and ac- uov. Jarvis was then introduced by curate acquaintance with history, as well by Mr, Qox, and made'a ringing address, as familiarity with principles of law and He aunouced his regret at the failure to all current topics pervading them ; that . have the military parade. He announced we are not only not prepared to find, in that the ceremony of unveilging would that age, but are scarcely able to equal theu take place. The choir then sang the in this, with all of its Advancement. j "Star Spangled Banner," and the corner Prominent in this brilliant array of 8toue was duly laid by Grand Master H. statesmen and soldiers, who then control led the destinies of North Carolina probably his many-sided qualities con sidered, the most prominent was' the man to whose memory We honor this day Richard Caswell. j He was one of the most remarkable men who figured in that exciting period. He ; was born iu the State of Marylaud on the : 3d day of August, 1720, just one hundred aud fifty -two years ago ithis day. I have not been able to learn iu what part of the State of Marylaud was his birthplace, nor have I been able to learn anything con- nnrnSnl.!. fimilr ,,w. H,n"H.,.f. W.i."Ol tilC llUn tS VI 1 le, ISCWUf- i : business, young CaswcU was at au early- age thrown upon his own resources. The effect of this misfortune to the fa ther proved, it seems, anything but a' misfortune to the son ; it served but to give us another instance of the uses of ad versity in the development of genius. Shielded no longer by the providence and wealth of his father, the genuine man hood of the youth was .brought out. Ob taining letters of introduction from the Governor of his native State, at tho ten der age of seventeen yearsCaswell boldly set out southward to seiek his fortune. Iu those days there was wo going west, the riircctiou now universally taken by adventurous youth ; the! French claim to all that vast region beyond the Blue Ilidge, and the fierce hostility of the In dians, iucited by Freuch influence, effect ually barred that way to fortune. Arriv ing iu North Carolina he presented his letters to the royal Governor Johnson, J ty as accessory before the fact in con aud by his aid obtaiued a small place iu ! nection with the explosion at the po- one of departments of jroveruinent. How he conducted himself here, aud the capac ity for business he displayed, history does not inform us; but we may infer that his conduct was eminent ly satisfactory to his superiors from the fact: that about: the period of his majority he was made a deputy surveyor of the: colony, then au office of considerable importance. Again iu 1753 he was by appointment of the rivyal government made clerk of Oraue county court. His appointment gave signal evidence of his ability and integrity. ; Senator Vance then reviewed tho his tory of Gov. Caswell at much leUgth, paying the .highest conjplitueuts to tho virtues of that noble mail, virtues which shoue always with a steady light, aud won for him the love and regard aud ro spect, not only of the people of his own day aud generation, but of us his descen dants. , The part Gov. Caswell itook in securing the independence of the State and the Colonies was pictured to! the audience iu graphic language. Thcj part taken in bv ithe Ashes, the this glorious work Kenans. the Hoopers, the Moores, the Caswells, the Lillingtonsi the Harnetts, ' ry accepts the excuse of insanity, they and others was described The descrip- j must so state in their verdict, aud the tion of tho battle of M ware's Creek was ' prisoner would be sentenced to con vigorous. The results of that battle and tineaient for life in the lunatic asylum, its influence on tho struggle were also i Such a law would be a protection to described. The part taken by North Car- j society and would work no real in olina in the war of tho revolution, with justice. the privations endured, the sacrifices made Are not drunken men insaue when aud the heroic efforts made by them, all thev commit crime, and ought not were given the attention of the speaker, who went on to say that North Carolina furnished by far the largest contingent in all the continental armies operatiug in tho South. But historians of other States have but too often appropriated for their own troops the honors du to North Car- " I"." w J T i- r. v n, : . , . 1 terest is apparently felt in the result. olma. Every North Carolinian can right ; " "I r J . . . . .,. ,va i , - , t i i ! A great deal of political significance here learn a lesson. Let us record oar , " g-" r .i i-. Iseemsto be attached to it as indica- deeds, aud let not other historians per- i . . , , . ; . , . v . ting the breaking up parties herein vert these facts. i r lir I North Carolina. In our opinion there The important part that Gov. Ciiswell j wjjj no gucn consequence. Parties took in the civil affairs of the State was ; yfill not be affected to any great ex described at great length, aud with an ' tent by the result, whatever it may elaboration of detail. HiS;.social quaji-1 be. Party lines will hereafter be as ties were of tho highest order. He was iIipc have been. Every Democrat for years. Grand Master of Masons. evcrr field, in every department. our people loved to honor and trnst him. j At all times, in all places, ho did his duty, found him at the post of duty, for he Was stricker in harness. Ho wag, in truth, the foremost figure jn our State during for ourselves, others will not be proud of u. xuis uacKwarancss Is not iBodesty. We- should magnify these services to the and closed. V " A choir of ladies and gentlemen of Kin- ston then . ang the "Old North State The great audience joined heartily in this.' F. Grainger according to the Masonic rites and ceremonies. MISCELLANEOUS. Peath of Bishop Haven. Syra cuse, N. Y., August 3. Intelligence of the death of Bishop E. O. Haven, at Vortland, Oregon, waa received in this city to-day. Another Texas RAiLitoAD.-Gal yeston, August 4. A special to the ews Austin, Texas, says the icmw uuu ? crier n icam ranrouu ui- ed yesterday provides for a line from Sabine Pass to a point on the Interna tional and Great Northern, a quarter of a degree south of 31st parallel, a distance of 200 miles. Capital stock is $4,000,000. Leo Hartmann, the celebrated Rus sian Nihilist, is on a visit to this country. He arrived at New York last Friday, and at ouce encountered the interviewer, who wanted to know what he thought about Nihilism. If thev keep after him he will probably turn his attention to blowing them up, and let the Czar rest for awhile. Convicted. Liverpool, August 4. McGrath and McKevitt were yester day found guilty of causing the ex plosion with intent to endanger life and with intent to damage the town hall. McGrath was also found guil- lice station in May last. McGrath was sentenced lo penal servitude for life and McKevitt for 15 years. Attempt at Train Wrecking. Two attempts were made to wreck the passenger trains going South on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta road last Monday and Tuesday. Both were made a short distance below Fort Mill, but on both occasion the engineer saw the obstructions in time to stop. Somebody had placed the cut-offends of iron bars across the track, and in proof that it was done with a view to mischief they were ' placed some distance apart, so that j but for the extreme caution of the en gineer in sending forward after find ing the first in anticipation of the others further on, serious damage might have ensued. Charlotte Ob server, The Atlanta Constitution says, Rep resentative Bransom, of Bartow, yes- j terday, introduced a bill to send all murderers, who were acquitted on the ground of insanity, to an insane asy- ! luni for life. Under this bill if a ju- such offenders to be put out of the way of sober people. Our North Carolina election to day is attracting great attention in -1 1 4 T U M.infn iIllh in. Iu will vote as he chooses and wil re- j ' m - ak a ft a main a Democrat. So will the Re- publicans. -Xcics & Observer. - Baisamf wnich is much admired for its pur- fume, cleanliness and dandruff eradicating propert ie.- jlyU-agH. f ;d i Bl-Metalism. t . - t 1 Probability 611$ Adoption t the Civ- tlized Countrut of Europe and f America ,-- . reporter of the WashinHon PoW naa an interview twith ex.Snatnp Howe, recently j returned from . the Paris ; Monetary c Conference. 1 Mr. Howe said that although no direct re sults had been reached, the confer ence! had een of value in that it had brought the question of bi-metal ism prominently before the public and ex cited public interest in it. As to the attitude of tbej conference he said; "The Belgian representative was there as a strong monometalist j so' also were the representatives of Sweden, Norway and Swatzerland. The com missioners reprcsentiiig Russia,' Aus- triaV Italy and 8pain inclined strong ly to tti-metalisra. The attitude of Great Britain was the principal ob stacle we had to! contend with. Her representatives were in favor of the double standard, but were inhibited froni committing the nation to it. The Ministry' opposed bi-metalism, and they did it, noti because they do not favor the double standard, or because they want to keep sil ver out of the coin age, but because they havebther im portant business; before them, and feel that they can put the coinage question off to some future day. The matter, however, has beeu the subject of dis cussion in the financial and commer cial circles in Great Britain, and a strong sentiment has been found in favor of bi-raetalism." "With regard to Germany," con tinued Mr. Howe, "her representa tives pointed to the action taken by her in 1873 in adopting the single gold standard, and said they did not see any necessity for impeaching the propriety of that move. Still they are not opposed to silver, and are on ly waiting for England. If the lat ter country comes to adopt the dou ble standard they will join with her willingly and gladly." Mr. Howe stated" further that the gold coin held in reserve by the Bank of France was even less than one third of the entire metal ic reserve, as had been stated ; also that the pros pects of Italy's placing her new loan, on. which she proposed to resume spe cie payments, were good. As to i the probability of a general return of the nations to the double or bi-metalic-standard, Mr. Howe ex pressed himself very hopeful. His attention being called to an opinion expressed soon after the last moneta ry conference, by one of the United States Commissioners, that the United States should not wait for other na tions to take the initiative irrthe mat ter of a return to the double stand ard, he said: "I would be unwilling to see the Uuited States start off en such a course alone, or even accompa nied by J? ranee. It would-be a boot less step unless we were sure of the co-operation of England and Ger many," - .j A Fool's ForgerieK. A colored man who first called him self John Kerns, afterwards Joe Cor nelius, and again John Btirton, was arrested and jailed yesterday oh the charge of forgery. He presented yes terday morning in order for $20 at the store . of Alexander & Harris. The order was very awkwardly writ ten and badly spelt. It was signed J. C. & W. W. Banson. The firm took the order but declined paying it until they saw the gentlemen whose signatures were used, both highly respectable young men of the county. Mr. Alexander, of the firm, went rouud to the store of W. W. Pegram, where he found the same man presenting a similar order sign ed "truly your friend, R. A. Tor reuce." The orders wert compared. The hand writing is identical, and the form almost so. It was clear that they were most unskillful attempts at forgery. The man was arrested and taken before Justice Davidson by whom he was committed until Satur day when he will be tried. The gen tlemen whose names were signed will be notified. An old negro who saw the man being taken to jail handcuffed said : "This is what 'tis ter have cdication en no brains." Char. Observer. Millions at the Mint. Arrival of a Great Consignment from the Hew York Assay OJice. aa.aaaBBa Over $5,000,000 in broad, salmon colored bars or bricks of gold, occa sionally darkly tinged with a copper like coating, arrived yesterday mor ning at the United States Mint. They came in one hundred wooden boxes, about two feet square and a foot deep. An express wagon, with several cus todians, carried them, and they were rolled and dumped into the weighing room like so much lead,- To the men in the mint the daily handling of fab ulous sums of the precious metals be gets an iudiffer-nce that puts it on par with the commonest merchandise. Not an ounce of it, however,' is free from the closest scrutiny while; with in these walk All honghlt man, nay walk in from the street and stand at a stepj before the open door prthei fay AInltlM SaUfeAaM. ...t. t Sjm. - - jww vauu, wnere c-iiv.',UUU,-000 is stored with but a single official in sight, U would need hat the slight est alarm to have a score of men with loaded weapons in their lands stand- In nn thm mmf TTnlll.. e. ." . a - f jv. uuimu iureign minis no display of armed protection of the ' treasure is made, but the precautions are neverthelese complete. The large' consignment yesterday came from tho assayer's office In New Yerk. Each box contained a "melt," or in other words the entire refined crucible, each varying in quantity,. mi s,ci; uiaik was UUraiKTCtl. X Utt - men who do the heavv work ahmmI - the boxes; took off the paper rmp pings and piled the bricks upon the avo Ino TUon l..l. t t t aucu me tiers wcigneu lueoi and tarried the bricks into the vault. The entire weieht was Sfifi flfin T ounces Troy, or over eleven tons. Tho actual net weight valuation was$5, 104,4G6.31. Jf anyone could count thirty dollars every minute and keep n up wimoui stopping it would take within a fraction of four montfis to count this amount in coin. - In the mint.all the counting 1 is , done by weight and measure. Piles of various kinds of coin are measurrd.and lfthv are the requisite number of. inches - i t - ... - . eacu way ana me weight corresponds, the number aud value is set down far more accurately than'if the ' luoiicy had been counted by the deftesC fingers- . ' . . "' The London News exposes the ar tifices practiced on American drink ers of French wines, and its story U altogether in accord with oiir own information. We understand-. that a gentleman recently ordered from t 1 Paris a lot of a iavprite brand of r champagne which is sold in quanti- V .! iL- TT ci...... ... ! ues iu uie uniien oiaies.ji is -corres pondent replied that not a bottle had 1 been exported from France to Ameri ca in years. All in the trade-here were spurious. - The News siys "the Americans have begun to awake to the fact that it is better for them as -well as cheaper to drink . theiriOwu California ports, sherrien and clarets, than to pay large prices - for heavily -adulterated foreign wines. Little or none of the so-called Bordeaux sold in New York )ias much in common with the genuine vintage of the Gir-' onde. A little of the real wine is mixed with a great deal of ordinary grape juice and water, a "body" is imparted to it by the addition of some Spanish wine, and the whole is often further diluted by California wine palmed off upon the ingen uous American as veritable Bordeaux. This blending process is sometimes donein France and sometimes by agents in New York. Americans, in conse quence, have grown suspicions of the high-priced French wines which they have hitherto preferred to their own " productions, and are turning instead to the growths of the California vine-. yards." f It is quite true that the penchant for foreign wines is giving place to a preference for our native product, and the reason is doubtless that sta ted above. When it shall become fashionable to drink pure wines, and look with disfavor on the adultera ted stuff . vhich is palmed off under French names, the excellence of our native wines will be appreciated on every side, and not only California but Virginia and North Carolina as well will profit by the change. We have excellent wine makers, and pro duce quantities of pure and health ful wines. Let them be brought for ward and supplant the spurious arti cles that prevent their sale and use. Be Economical. Look most to your spending.. No matter what1 comes in, if more goes out you will always be poorr The art is not making money, but in keeping it; little expenses like mice in a barn, when they arc many make great waste. Hair by hair, heads get bald ; straw by straw the thatch goes off the cottage ; and drop by drop, the raiu comes in the chamber. A barrel is soon empty, if the barrel leaks but a drop a minute. When you begin to save begin with your mouth' many thieves pass down the red lane. The ale jug is a great waste. Jn all other things keep within comjwse. Never stretch your legs farther than the blanket will reach, or you will soon be too cold. In clothes chooso suitable and lasting stuff, and not tawdy fineries. To be warm is the main thing, never mind the looks, A fool may make money, but it needs a wise man to spend it. Remember that it is easier to build -two chim neys than to keep one going;. - If you give up all to back and board, there - is nothing left for the savings bank, j Fare hard and work hard whUe you' are young, and you will have ar chance to rest wheii yon are old, -