Charlotte Messenger.
Churlote, N, October flth. 1886.
OCR CHURCHES.
Bt. Michael'* (P, E.) church, Mint St. Ser
T}®* JA. M„ and BP. M. Sunday School
«t. 4 P. M. Rev, P. p. Alston, Pastor
'L U hutch, South Graham St; Services,
« ? i nod BP. M. Sunday School at
*0 A. M Rev. S. M. Haines, Pastor
First Baptist church. South Church St: Ser-
Sires at II A. M., 8 P. M. and S P. M. Sunday
School a; 1 P. M. Rev. A. A. Powell, Pastor
Ebeneter Baptist church, East 2nd St. Ser
vices at 11 A. M., 3 P. M., and 8 P. M. Sun
•»y School at 1 P. M. Rev. Z. Hauohton,
Poster.
Presbyterian churh, corner 7th and College
Nervlccs at. 3 P. M„ and 8 P. M. Kunrlav
Nrhool at in A. M. Rev. RP. Wyche. Pastor
lln - ’’ In;, el (A. M. E. Z.) Mint St; Ser -
vices at H A. M., 3 P. M„ and 3P. M. Sun
day School nt, I P. M. Rev. M. Slade, Pastor
Little Rock (A. M. E. Z.l, E. St
h.'Tvs, . .it 1! A. M. 3 P., and BP. M. Sun’-
r'nst''' : ’‘‘‘ ' *’• **• R ev - Wj». Johnson;
J-OPnl Matters.
r>ur subscribers will please look
out for us. We are likely to be
clown the Wilmington road any day.
Be ready for us. City subscribers
jiledsc be ready for us also.
*1 any one tires reading the Mes
senger, we hope they will pay up
before stopping the paper. We
have no apology to offer that we
know of.
The speaking by Rowland and
Jones on the public square last Tues
day night was the dryest affair ever
witnessed here on such occasion.
But an ordinary crowd out, and it is
said that Jones got the better of the
discussion.
A panoramic exhibition has been
going the; rounds of our city this
week, in fact this has been a very
busy week. Cotton coming in at
the rate of 300 bales a day, an opera
troupe, a circus, &c.
Many, many of our patrons con
gratulate us upon last week’s paper
and say it was the “best of all.” We
thank our friends of this assurance
of their endorsement. We knew
we were about right.
Don’t fail to read Col. W. R.
Myers’ card. He declines to be a
candidate for the State Senate on
the mongrel democratic ticket. Col.
Myers is a good republican and does
not care to injure his party and him
self by allowing his name used on
such a ticket.
Frost was reported here last Tues
day morning. It seems to be doing
much damage in western counties as
tobacco raisers have not yet cured
their crops.
The republicans of the 2d Con
gressional district are still divided,
one faction fighting for Mr. O’Hara
the other for Mr. Abbott, while the
democrats will support Mr. Sim
mons. It cannot be said who wilL
be elected.
On and after next Monday the
train on the west end of the Carolina
Central road will leave this city at
7-35 o’clock a. m., and go to Ellen
boro, thirteen miles beyond Shelby,
arriving at this city 5.25 p. in. on
return.
The judges appointed last Mon
day by the county commissioners
for the approaching election for
Charlotte township are as follows:
Ward I—Thomas1 —Thomas Grier, F. W.
Ahrens, W. R. Talifero, C. A.
Frazier. Ward 2—W. M. Wilson,
C. F, Brem, R. E. McDonald, W.
R. Hinton. Ward 3 —J. C. Bur
roughs, W. W. Ward, J. M. Goode,
H. Baumgarten. Ward 4 —D. W.
Oates, R. Barringer, D. P. Hutchi
son, W. H. Miller.
Rev. A. A. Powell informed us
♦his week of a family living near the
city which we think is the oldest in
the county. The mother is no
years, daughter 86, son 78, and his
wife 75. The mother has been blind
several years but enjoys good health.
The other members ot the family
are healthy and as spry seemingly
’.j one in her teens. Mr. Ezekiel
Erwin is the gentleman's name.
They are all members of the First
Baptist Church of this city-
Elder Powell is making substantial
improvements on bis church. He
has erected a tower to the front of
the church, the base of which serves
as a vestibule 8 It. by 26 ft. long.
The bell house proper is Bxß feet.
The entire height of the tower is
100 feet. His new bell is now in
the tower and calls his members out
at the proper time for service. The
weight of the bell is 1000 lbs. The
tower is covered with slate. The
First Baptist is now second to no
colored church in the city.
There will be a moonlight canvas
entertainment given at Little Rock
Church next Thursday and Friday
nights. 14th and 15th. The enter -
fainment is given for the benefit of
the church, and it is hoped the
triend i and well wishers of the
church will come out. A band of
music will b<- there and riffreshments
cheap and plentiful. Rev. Mr.
lohnsoti is doing a good work in
this church. Arrangements will be
made for the accommodation of all
in the church yard.
We take this method to return
thanks to Miss Susie Black, of
Yorkville, S. C., for a list of sub
scribers and thetash.
A southern company has the con
tract to build our street railroad.
We are to have the cars running in
six months.
The engine at the cotton compress
exploded last Monday evening, about
six o’clock, and Mr. Moses Caldwell,
the fireman, was scalded to death.
Chapel last Sunday nigJhi
voted for the return of Elder Slade}
with only three dissenting votes, /
The collection at Zion Church last
Sunday week was for church ex
penses—sll6.27. The old church
is not dead vet.
The circus is in town to-day, and
as usual many strangers and strange
things are on the streets.
A blue cross mark means your
time is out and you will please re
new. The paper must be paid for
in advance.
We are having most excellent
weather and lovely moonlight
nights. We need a little rain now
to lay the dust, then all will be
happy.
A dozen years experience has
taught us that the way to run a news
paper is to hew to the line and let
the chips fall as they may. If any
one is hurt badly they will certainly
ye 11.
Mr. Frank M. Martin passed
through this city last Saturday for
Winston, where be expects to teach
this winter.
Miss Lucy Bragg, of Petersburg,
Va., arrived in the city last Monday,
and is expected to teach the Episco
pal parochial school which opens
next Monday at St. Michael’s.
Some men at times do things so
little that they sink into insignifi
cance, but then, nature has so ar
ranged that water seeks its level.
We acknowledge receipt of com-1
plimentary ticket to the Virginia I
State Fair to be held in Richmond j
Oct. 20-22.
Col. G. T. Wassom will please
accept our thanks for a complimen
tary ticket to the Industrial Fair to
be held in Raleigh Nov. 8-13. We
| are coming with all our neighbors.
An election was held in Georgia
on Wednesday for Governor and
members of the Legislature.
A letter from Rev. A. F. Goslen j
a few days ago has been misplaced, j
In it he tells of the success of his ;
churches. Within a few weeks time j
he has added 115 members to his !
Wadesboro church, and it is in fine j
spiritual and financial condition. He
has a small mission near town, and 1
has recently added over 30 mem-1
bers to it. !
G. L. Blackwell, of LincomVt
' ton, has returned from the Kentuc-'j
ky Conference, where he attended 1
as fraternal delegate from the North |
Carolina Central Conference. Black- j
well is an able young man and bids
fair to make his way to the top j
round. He sends us a lengthy;
poem written by himself on his 25th ;
birth day and dedicated to his moth
er. The poem is a good one.
We propose early in the future to
say something about the general ,
condition of our people and our idea !
of certain classes and certain sec- 1
tions being in the advance or be- 1
hind othes. Our columns are open |
and if any one chooses to take a ‘
hand in the fray let him prepare.
The special delivery system was j
introduced the Ist of October, 1885. ]
Up to the first of the present month
there were delivered from this office ,
I 237 special delivery letters. The j
i special delivery letters must have j
the special ten cent stamp in addi
j tion to the regular postage, and is j
I required to be delivered immediately j
i( the party is in the city.
It It Right?
We make no pretensions to know ;
the law, but ask is it right for a po- I
lice officer to arrest a man and lock
him up in the station house without
a hearing before any one? It.seems |
that a person might be taken before
the mayor, chief, or some one, and |
allowed chance tor bail, the same as :
before going to jail. It may be ex
posure of ignorance, but in large
cities one is taken before an officer
before locked up.
They Come Down.
Col. Myers refuses to run for the
Senate on the McNinch-Sims-Gor
don-democratic ticket, and Mr.
Batt Harry refuses to run for treas
urer. Tin- way of the transgressor
lis hard. The Ha!lot speaks of the
ticket in this way:
“ The Independent-Democratic-
Whiskey : Ring-Double - Rectified-
Personal-Liberty-to-get-drunk-when
-you-please partv lias, after great
labor, brought forth the following j
sickly child.’’
There are 12,000 saloons In New York
1 City, and 4,600 in .Icraey City, Newark
1 and Paterson, making (6,000 saloons in
[ right of Trinity »pire.
A Colored Taper.
Do we need a paper here?
Must it be honest, plain, free, and
manly?
Must it express the opinions of its
editor or be a slave?
The pulpit and the press are the
powers of the world to mould public
sentiment. Let the intellect and the
morals govern these mighty powers
and ride rough-shod over dema
gogues who would impede their
progress. Then on. Lav on Mc-
Duff.
Col. Myers Declines
Mr Editor: I have noticed,
through the city papers, that I have
been nominated by a convention at
Gaither’s Hall, and subsequently
ratified by a convention at the Court
House, to a seat in the Senate. Not
having received any official informa
tion of the same, I beg, through
your paper, to decline the nomina
tion. Thanking both conventions
for the, implied, compliment, &c.,
I am respectfully,
W. R. Myers.
Mr. Editor: We hear that Mr.
W. R. Myers will not suffer his
name to be run on the mongrel
ticket commonly called independent
ticket. If we republicans are to
support this ticket iu a body and
not run one of our own, we would
suggest that the committee com
posed of liberals independents and
republicans put at least half the
number of colored republicans.
Then we will support it cordialy,
provided that some one or two of
the candidates are colored republi
cans and provided furthermore that
these independents pledge them
selves publicly to support the whole
ticket, nego and all. Until this is
done we say away with the whole
thing, it is a fraud and a sell.
Republican.
News.
Hon. Robert Smalls has been re
nominated for Congress in the 7th
S. C. district.
A colored lawyer is said to be
among four persons convicted of
perjury, in New Hanover county.
The Knights of Labor have nomi
nated a candidate for Congress in
the 6th Virginia district.
The Republicans of Nebraska in
State convention passed a resolution
demanding the next legislature to
submit a constitutional prohibition
amendment to the people.
The 3d Louisiana district republi
cans have nominated J. S. David
son, a colored gentleman, for Con
gress.
The colored people of Mississippi
will open their second annual fair at
Jackson, Miss., on the 10th of No
vember, and as they have made
good crops in the valley, it is ex
pected they will have a line exhibi
tion.
In the recent Senatoral contest in
Atlanta, 3,290 votes were cast, Rice,
the prohibition candidate, receiving
233 majority. He carried tile city
by 108 majority, and every precinct
but one. This shows that prohibi
tion is not yet dead in Atlanta.—
Progressive Parmer.
An African princess is living in
Hanover county, Va. She is four
teen years old, and lives in the fam
ily ol an Episcopal clergyman who
was a missionary to western Africa
sonic years ago. She is soon to re
turn to her native land to marry the
king, and with her American educa
tion she is expected to prove a use
ful queen.
A Good Templar Rupture Settled.
Boston, Mass., Sept. 30. —In
1876 a rupture occurred between the
American and English grand bodies
of Good Templars, caused, as claim
ed by the English, by the question
ot the admission-of colored people
into the order. Since that time
there have been two international
courts, one mainly American and
the other mainly English, each hav
ing branches. Overtures for the re
union of the two sections resulted in
a conference in this city during the
present week, between representa
tives of each section, at which the
matter was (ully discussed. It was
decided that no applicant for mein
bership could be rejected by a lodge
on account of race or color, nor
could lodges deny visitations on
such accounts.
Several other matters were dis
cussed and harmonious action was
taken upon them all. It was re
solved that the two Supreme Courts
—the R. G. W. l.odges—should
each hold its next session at Sara
toga on the fourth Tuesday of May,
1887, the two bodies to meet sepa
rately to complete unfinished busi
ness and then meet unitedly and be
come one body.
Purple pond lilies from Japan are the
Coral clones of the hour. The Japanese
lily does not attach itself to any object,
but floats around in the water. The leal
aprings from a little air bulb tba; sub
bunt the plant on the surface and the
root* find ncurithmsnt in tha water.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Twine of Wood Aahea.
In a bulletin recently issued. Dr. R.
,C. Kedzie, of Michigan, given the mano
rial value of ashes, as ordinarily found
upon the farm, as follows:
Hard wood ashes, per ton 120 o<f
Leached “ “ 10 40
Soft wood, unleacbed, per ton 18 OJ
Corn cob, “ “ 80 00
Tannery, per ton 4 60
Soft cool. “ 40
Hard coat, “ 16
One hundred pounds of ash, says Dr.
Kedzie, represents the mineral matter of
eighty-five bushels of wheat, eighty-five
bushels of corn, or one ton of timothy
hay. Eleven tons of goosberries, grapes,
blackberries, peaches or apples would
contain only one hundred pounds of aah.
Several tons of cherries, plums or rasp
berries contain only one hundred pounds
of mineral matter. But, small aa is the
amount of aah, it is still indispensable for
the production of these crops, and must
be present in the soil in available form
before profitable cultivation is possible.
Ashes of mineral coal are nearly value
less for manure. The ashes of wood and
of land plants of every kind are of value
for manure on every kind of soil which
has been reduced by cropping; but the
greatest benefit is shown upon sandy and
porous soils. On these light soils, crop*
of every kind, but especially root crops,
and corn, will be benefited by a dressing'
of wood ashes, also fruit trees and fruit
bearing plants.—OrcAoni and Garden. ,
a
Trope Vines from Catting*.
No kind of wood will more easily grow,
from the eye than the grave vine. For
this reason the rapid propagation of new
varieties is a very easy matter. The nur
seryman uses single-eye cutting! in green-;
houses, and this is a vary good way
wherever bottom heat can be furnished.’
But all this trouble and expense are not'
needed, provided the right course is
taken and enough buds or eyes left on
the cutting. Even nurserymen do not
rely entirely on the single-eye method. 1
It is only used, in fact, for new varieties
when wood is scarce and it is desirable to
increase the vines as fast aa possible. Cut
tings set in the open ground should be
prepared early in the spring, leaving two
or at most three eyes on a piece. The
lower part must be cut off square at the
bulge where a bud has formed. Then
remove this lowest bud with a sharp knife
so as to make a clean cut. Leave the
top eye just at the surface of the soil,
which must be packed around the lower
part very closely. Plant in rows
three feet apart, and run the cul
tivator through once a week to
keep weeds down. Plant cuttings
six to eight inches apart in the row,
and keep down weeds with the hoe. If
the season is fairly favorable four-fifths
of these cuttings will make strong
rooted plants by July 1. There is
no need of being discouraged ebout
those that at this time show no signs of
putting forth a shoot. Pull one up and
you will find the bottom calloused and
fine, white, thread-like roots from it. In
such cases the shoot will usually start
from the eye below the surface. Where
the first eye starts and grows the one be
low it also grows. In the fall or next
spring one of these sprouts must be cut
off, and the other trimmed down to a
single eye. By this method farmers and
others can easily and cheaply supply
themselves with as many grape vines aa
they wish, end of the best varieties.
Four-fifths of all the grapevine growth
of the previous season must be cut off
this fall or next spring, and It can
usually be had for nothing. A few very
hard-wooded and close-jointed grape
vines do not root easily. Eumelan and
Delaware nre samples of these: but it is
only necesary to take a little longer cut
ting and plant at an angle of forty-five
degrees in the ground. This will keep
the bottom of the cutting within reach
of the sir and warmth. No manure is
necesssry; in fset, it is positively hurt
ful. Its heating forces the buds too
rapidly, and may cause the bottom of ths
cutting to rot, instead of putting forth
roota.— Cultiratcrr.
Recipe*.
Apple Piddeno.—Pulp of two o»
three large baked apples, white of out
egg, one cup powdered sugar. Beat tbs
ingredients half an hour and serve with
boiled custard poured over it. This is
very nice.
SqtiasH BrsouiT.—Two cups of sliced
squash, one cup of yeast, two tablespoon
fuls each of sugar, butter and milk.
Salt to taste. Knesd with flour like
bread and set to rise over night. Bake
in a quick oven in biscuit for breakfast.
Baked Potatoes—Peel and slice very
thin and then let stand in cold water
half an hour, which hardens them; put
them in a pudding dish, with salt, pep
per and one-half pint of milk; bake for
an hour, then add a piece of butter tha
rise of an egg.
Kaw Tonatoe*.—Peel with a sharp
blade, slice and season on tba table with
sugar, salt, pepper, oil and vinegar:
sprinkle bits of ice between the layers
when you diih it, draining off tba water
before seasoaing. The colder raw toma
toes are the more delicious they will
; nrov*.
PotTED Fish.—Cut a fish twelve
inches in length into four equal part* ;
. rub a little aalt ou the end of earh piece,
and place the pieces in an earthen pot;
•4d whole apices and eider vinegar to
effver the fiah when the pot is nearly full.
Tie on a paper cover and over this put
au earthen cover to keep in all the (team.
Bake in a moderate oven for three hours.
Fiah cooked in this way it delicious and
will keep two weeks in a cool place and
longer in a refrigerator.
Cirlaaltias of tha Member Sevan.
The fraquent recurrence of the numbei
■even in the Bible seems, eays the Cin
cinnati Inquirer, to indicate that then
are associated with it certain events, thet
it may be termed the prophetic, repre
tentative symbolic number consecrated
in the holy scripture* and the religion of
the Jews and other nations, by many
mysterious events and circumstances.
The old testament informs ua that God
completed the work of creation in seven
days and set apart the seventh day to be
a day of rest for all mankind.
The slayer of Abel was to be punished
seven-fold and the slayer of Lamech sev
enty and seven-fold.
Os every clean beast Noah took into
the ark by sevens and took with him
seven souls when he entered the ark.
After seven days the waters were upon
the face of the earth. The intervals be
tween sending out the dove the second
and third times were seven days, and in
the seventh month the ark rested on the
mountains of Ararat.
In Pharaoh’s two dreams he saw seven
well-favored and fat kine and seven iU
favored and lean kine and seven ears of
torn on one stalk, rank and good, and
seven ears blasted by the east wind,
which was followed with seven yean of
great plenty and seven years of famine.
The children of Israel were com
manded to eat unleavened bread seven
days and to observe the feast of un
leavened bread; seven days shall there
be no leaven bread found in yonr houses.
The seveuth mouth was signalized by
the feast of trumpets and the celebration
of the feast of tabernacles.
Sevan weeks was the interval between
the pasaover and the pentecost
The seventh year was observed aa the
Sabbatical year, and the year succeeding
seven times seven years as the yeer ot
jubilee.
Seven days were appointed as the
length of the feasts of tabernacles and
passovsr.
Seven days for the ceremonies of ths
consecration of the prioste.
Seven victims were to be offered on
any special occasion.
When Abraham and Abimelech wanted
to confirm an oath they took seven ewe
lambs of the flock.
Jacob served Laban seven years for
each of bis daughters.
Delilah bound Samson with seven green
withes and wove the seven locks of hit
hair in the web. 1
Seven priests, bearing seven trumpets,'
passed round the walls of Jericho seven
days, on the seventh day passing around
seven times, and it fell.
Nebuchadnezzar bad the furnace heated
seven times hotter than it was wont to
be heated to burn the three Hebrew chil-1
dren, and was driven from among mec
to the beasts of the field until Sevan timer
parsed over him.
Elisha commanded Naaman to wash in J
' Jordan seven times and be cured of hit
leprosy.
Ths sluggard is wizer in his own con
ceit than seven men who can render a
reason.
In the new testament the Saviour com
manded to forgive an erring brother noi
until seven times, but seventy times
■even if he repented.
In Revelations of St. John we read o*
•even churches, seven spirits, seven stars,
■even seals, seven lamps, seven golden
candlesticks, seven angels, seven vials
and seven last plagues.
Ths General’s Scarf Pin..
It la related of General Yon Manteuf
! fal, the late German Military Governor of
Alsnce. who hated all that was French,
that he once at a public dinner engaged
in a dispute with a French diplomat who
maintained the superiority of the French
workmen over the artizans of all other
nations. “A thing so ugly does not ez
ist that the skill and genius of a French
man cannot make it a thing of beauty,"
hs said. Angered by this contradiction,
the old soldier pulled a hair from his
bristly grty mustache, and. banding it to
the Frenchman, said, curtly: “Let him
make a thing of beauty out of that, then,
and prove your claim." The Frenchman
took tha hair and sent it in a letter to a
well known Parisian jeweler, with a
statement of the cssse and an appeal to
his patriotic pride, giving him no limit
of expense in executing the crier. A
week later the mail from Paris brought a
neat little box for the General. In it was
a handsome little scarf-pin made like s
Prussian eagle, that held in its hands a
stiff gray bristle, from either end of
which dangled n tiny gold ball. Oaa was <
inscribed Altaoe, tba other Lorraine, and
on the eagle's perch wars the words:
‘You hold them hut by a hair."
According to *n old belief, it was it g
posed that devils could at aoy moment
lesnme whatever form they pleased that
would most conduco to the success of
ley contemplated enterprise they might
kave in hand; and brnce the charge of
miag a davit, so commonly brought
igaiust innocent and harming fs tons in
'timer year* eta easily b* tradstvc-cid
Curious Fiots About Papers.
Two editions of the American News
paper Directory are published this year
by George P. Rowell & Co. One is
dated 1776, and you can almost hide it
under an old-fashioned copper cent. It !
contains in sixteen microscopic pages s
list of the thirty-seven newspapers tha*
were printed in the United States ol
America 110 years ago. Seven of them
aro still alive. It is the other and the
larger volume which is more immediate
ly adapted to tho needs of 1880. The
contrast is impressive. Almost os big as
an unabridged dictionary, with nearly 1
2,000 pages crammed with matter inter
esting to every newspaper man and to
every newspaper advertiser, it is in tho
fullest sense a dictionary to the American
press of to-day.
There are now published in the United
States 14,160 newspapers and periodicals
of all classes. The net gain of the year
has been 566. The daily newspapers
number 1,216, a gain of 33. Canndahas
679 periodicals. There aro about 1,200
periodicals of all sorts, which, according
to the ratings and estimates of the editor
of the directory, enjoy a circulation of
morothans,ooocopiescaeh. Thcincrease
of the wsckly rural preg«, which com
prises about two-thirds of the whole list,
has bean most marked in States like Kan
sas and Nebraska, where the gain ha
been respectively 24 and 18 per cent.
Kansas alone shows the greatest gain in
daily newspapers. Tho weekly press is
gaining in Massachusetts,while the mag
azines and other monthly publications
arc losing ground there. The tendency
of such publications toward New York-
City, as the literary centre, ia shown by
the establishment there of not less than
twenty-three monthly periodicals during
the year.
There aro 700 religious and denomina
tional newspapers published in the United
States, and nearly one-third of them are
printed in New York. Philadelphia, Bos
ton, and Chicago. New York is fai
ahead in this respect, but Chicago leads
Boston. Three newspapers aro devotod
to the silkworm, six to the honey bee,
and not less than thirty-two to poultry.
The dentists have eighteen journals, the
phonograrhers nine, and the deaf and
dumb and blind nineteen. Tbere art
three publications exclusively devoted to
philately, and ono to the terpsichorcan
art. The prohibitionists have 129orgam
to the liquor dealers’ eight. The women
suffragists have seven, the candy makers
three. Gastronomy is represented by
three papers, gas by two. Thero are
about 600 newspapers printed in German,
and forty-twe In French. The town!
which have most French periodicals are
New York, New Orleans, and Worcester, I
Maas.— four apiece. There arc more
Swedish prints than French. Two daily
newspapers are printed in the Bohemian
tongue. The toughest names are found
among the Polish, Finnish, and Welch
press, for instance, the Deien-wtUy and
the Prejaeiel Ltali of Chicago, the F/Wy
tualta in Sinomnl of Ohio, and ths
Y Water of Utica, New York. There is
one Gaelic publication, one Hebrew, one
Chinese, and one in the Cherokee lan
guage.—Poper World,
Chinese Diplomacy.
Prince Bismarck complained not long
ago ot tho way our Foreign Office inun
dated him with dispatches, but even the
writing powers of Downing street would
not be a patch upon those of Chinese
stateamen. A masterly policy of inaction
ia tbere studied to perfection, and it is
rare that any case ia settled until reams
of paper have been covered in thrashing
out ever; detail. A Chinese dispatch
must bo written in a certain stereotyp'd
form, and in acknowledging a dispatch
you must begin by quoting in extenso
ail the documents to which you are re
plying. This system of reproducing all
tho previous correspondence proves very
cumbersome as the case gradually do
velope. Like a iady’a letter, however,
tho pith of a Chinese communication
generally Mrs in the postscript, and a
practiced hand will grasp the meaning 3
nt a glance. The Viceroy of a Chinese
province peruses some hundreds of these
documents every day, and attaches a
minute to each in a business like style
which is not excelled by our best organ •
ized departments at home.— Hmeteen'h
Century.
Americans buying Estates in Europe.
Wealthy Americans aro following the
example of Mr. Winans, the Baltimore
millionaire, in the purchase of important
in Europeon countries. Lately
two is.ends, l.oppcn and Kalven.'in the
north of Norway, were purchased, by an
American for the sum of ♦.’>,ooo, which
waa considered a very small amount for
the property, as it affords good sporting
sod fishing opportunities. Loppcn is
about eight mile*, aud the smaller island
three miles in circumference, and tho
•hooting consisted of pyper, snipe, ptnr
migtn. wild geese and wild fowl of every
description, while in addition there wav
any amount of sea fishing. The dim t*
waa beautiful in summer, and the scene- ■;
very grand. Ancient estates are alw>
rapidly coming rn the market in r ut;
land.--"-Nan hrnniro Chronicle.
God’s presence is enough for toll and
enough for rest. If he journey with us
by the dey, he will abide by us when
nightfall comes, and his companionship
will be sufficient for direction on the road
and fee solace and safety in the evening
e*M» ffftrierwi.