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Home and Democrat. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Correspondence of the Home and Democrat. New York, April 17, 1882. Editor Home and Democrat: On Fri day evening I had the great pleasure of listening to the speech ol Gov. Vance on the Tariff, delivered in Checkering Hall by invitation oi the Free Trade Club, and before a very large audience. It was not the same speech delivered by him in the Senate a few weeks ago, but, like that, not only abounded with forcible facts and strong arguments, but with many amusing touches of humor, each oue of which was indeed an argument, for such in ever the quality of Gov. Vance's jokes, which, whilst relieving the dryness oi such a sub ject as protection, are only brought in to uiufeirabe anu euioreu a puiui. iub at tentive audience showed its warm appre ciation by frequent and enthusiastic ap plause. I had abundant reasou to feel proud of my countryman and gratified at his reception. He wus followed in an admirable speech by Professor Sumner, who fills the chair of Political Economy in Yale College. Both speeches were a treat. One of the startling events of the period was announced on Saturday, viz: the pro posed retirement from business f the great dry goods house of A. T. Stewart fc Co. During the life time of Mr. Stew art, who died iu April, 1S76, the firm not only bought for cash, but always kept from one to three millions on deposit in bank. Bat the new partners, Judge Hil ton and Mr. Libby, are said not only to have bought goods on credit, but to have been borrowers from the banks of a mil lion or more, with Mrs. Stewart's endorse ment. They are all very rich, and can afford to retire. It is understood that the business has been constantly falling off since Mr. Stewart's death, caused by the formidable opposition of rival houses, such ai Arnold & Constable, Lord & Taylor, Macey, &c, but more perhaps by the in sult to the Jews, in excluding them from Stewart's hotel at Saratoga. But no doubt you have more particulars by tele graph than 1 have time to write to you. The N. Y. correspondent of the Cincin nati Enquirer Bays that there is not one of the large hotels in this city that has not cleared $60,000 a year (or two years past. The Fifth Avenue more than any other; next theAstor; then the Windsor, the Brunswick, and the Hoffman. Their beef bills amount to from $1,500 to $3,000 a month, each, being the largest item of expense except rent. The butchers are often creditors of a hotel to the amount ol $10,000; and some of the butchers in Washington market are worth a million. There is a "National Meat Supply Com pany operating in Texas and this city. They propose to kill their beeves out there and bring the carcasses here, instead of transporting the live animals. A change which would seem to have many ad vantages, supposing that their refrigera tor cars will bring the meat here fresh. The President of the company, inter viewed by the World, thinks that "inside of twenty years Texas will feed the greater part of the country." He says there are "some big ranches there, some larger than the State of Rhode Island. To go around oue you would ride one hundred miles. From the gate to the front door of the house on that of Capt. Dick King is fifteen miles!" Shocco Jones threatened to shoot acro.-s "Rhode Island and Providence Plantation" the next time he wanted to fight a duel there, standing himself in Massachusetts and posting his antagonist in Connecticut; but it would require a gun of longer range to reach across this Texas planta tion. The question of constructing a tunnel under the channel that separates England from France, is deeply agitating the peo ple of the former country. It appears to be taken for granted that the thing is feasible, but it is opposed ou the strange ground that it rait;ht open a way for France to invade England! Of all im aginable notions this seems to me to be the most absurd ; for a regiment of men could defend the English mouth of the tunnel against an immense array, coming as the latter necessarily would by a dozen men abreast; or, in cae of war it would be easy to erect a wall at the mouth, which would effectually stop the march of an enemy. The danger, and difficulty, and expense of such a work are the real obstacles, but these do not seem to appal the English mind. The distance is but a few miles, readily passed now in steamers in an hour or two, but so roughly that it is universally dreaded. A London wine house, that of Warre Brothers, which has existed since 1670 212 years has gone into bankruptcy. "The Weekly Newes," the first English newspaper, was issued in London in 1622 by Nathaniel Butter. Before that year, individuals and clubs obtained their news through "News Letters," for which they paid large sums, keeping salried reporters under pay to collect the news of the day. "The aristocracy, living four or five months in the year in London, were anx ious, when they were in the country, to know what was going on at court, in the coffee-houses and theatres; and in order to keep themselves posted up in the gossip of London, they retained the services of a news-writer, who made it his business to collect all the chit-chat of the day, and to put it together in as presentable and pleas ant a form as his skill would permit. These news-writers were sometimes retired cap tains, sometimes printers, sometimes men who made this work a profession by itself. A peer kept his own special correspondent, and paid him a handsome salary a good deal more than he paid his chaplain, and perhaps as much as he paid his falconer; but the general plan was for a bench of magistrates to club together for a letter, and this letter was read in the private room of the magistrates before they took their seat upon the bench to deal with poachers, shrews, and highwaymen. Na thaniel Butter was one of these news writers, and apparently a very popular and busy one; for the demands upon his pen were bo great that, instead of writing his letters, he hit upon the idea of collect ing and arranging all the news of the day, printing it in a single eheet, and posting it into the country upon a fixed day of the week. That was the origin of the Weekly Newes. The Weekly Newes was a success. But the poorest paper that is published in a county town to-day, with its police reports, its market reports, its selection ot local news about the mayor or the borough reeve, about surveyor and the superintendent of police, is far superior in all respeots to the Weekly Newes or f&e the Public Intelligencer of the seventeenth century. The most sparkling paragraphs you find in them are paragraphs about mermaids in the Thames, or upon the Goodwin Sands, and the paper they are printed upon would not now be thought fit for a street ballad. Out of London there was not a single newspaper, and even in London there were not many." Somebody says, "The first half of life is passed in longing for the second, and the second half in regretting the first." The following fable of a Philosopher and a Flea is amusing, and a moral : L A philosopher, having been bitten by a flea seized and was about to despatch bis foe, when he reflected that the little id sect had only acted from instinct and was not to be blamed. Accord ingly he deposited the flea on the back of a pass ing dog II. This dog was the poodle of a lady, and she was very fond of the pretty animal. On his re turn to the house his mistress took him upon her lap to caress him, and the flea embraced the op portunity to change his habitat. III. The flea bavin? in the course of the night engaged in active bust o ess operations, awakened the lady. Her husband was sleeping peacefully beside her, and in the silence of the chamber she heard him in his dreams whisper with an accent of intffuble tenderness a name ! The name was that of her most intimate female friend ! ! 1Y. As soon as it was day the outraged wife hurried to the house of her rival and told the rival's husband of the big, big d iDg discovery she had made. He, being a man of decision, at once called out the destroyer of his household's pvace and ran him through. V. The widow, when her husband was taken home to her upon the medium of a shutter, was no terribly bmitten with remorse that she precipi tated herself from the fourth story window. VI. The other lady convinced her husband that he had wronged her by entertaining any sus picions as to her fidelity, and becoming reconciled with him, seized an early opportunity of poison ing him. Vil Inasmuch as the jurors of that country aad never hearu of "extenuating circumstances," and the Chief Magistrate thought that he could put a murderer to belter uses than noi guillotining him, the guilty woman was duly decapitated, and the sole survivors of the tragedy were the Philoso pher and the Flea. m Associate Reformed Presbytery. The First Presbytery of the Associate Reformed Synod of the South met at Sharon church, York county, S. C, last week. Dr. Robt. Lathan, of Yorkville, S. C, the last moderator, preached the opening sermon from Jude, 3rd verse: "That ye should contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints." There were 20 ministers and 18 ruling elders present 38 in all. Rev. J. L. Chalmers, of Winnsboro, S. C, was elected moderator. Committees were appointed and papers referred. Sessional records were reviewed and approved by the moderator and clerk. All congregations were required to report what talary was promised and paid. Mr. VY. VF. Plaxco, a theological student of York county, preached a trial sermon on Acts 2:3 : "Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day." An overture of synod relating to union with the United Presbyterian Church of North America was postponed till fall meeting in September. Rev. J. P. Marion, of Chester, demitted his charge, which was accepted, and by his own request he was granted a certifi cate to connect with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. His former church will be supplied. Back Creek, Mecklenburg county, was selected as the next place of meeting. A letter of condolence was written to Rev. I. G. McLaughlin, relating to the loss of his wife and four children. Presbytery approved the liberality of certain missionary societies and individuals in raising funds to build a church in the city of Tampico, Mexico, Rev. N. E. Pressly, missionary. After reading and approving the min utes, adjourned by singing, prayer and apostolic benediction. Statesville Land mark. An Interesting Case. On the 10th of March a negro boy, on the farm of Mr. Sowell Whitley, accident ally received a wound in the head from a small pocket pistol, the ball entering the brain immediately between the eyes, and ranging obliquely to the right, making a very small wound. Dr. Herring, who was called to the case,found the boy in a semi comatose condition and completely para lyzed on the left side of his body. Both sensation and motion completely lost, the median line being so exactly marked that to pinch the left side of his nose made no impression, but to pinch the right side made him wince. The doctor probed the wound two inches, and found the boy's brains oozing out, 1. f t with the understanding that as soon as death took place he was to be informed, and the location of the ball found by post mortem examination. The boy is now living, and able to walk about with a stick. Sensation has been restored, and some little motion is perceptible in the muscles of his thigh. The wound has healed, and all pain lett his head. His arm and shoul der are perfectly helpless, but he can dray; his foot along and stand upon it to make his next step. He laughs with the right side of his mouth, can put his tongue out straight, and sees much better with his right than his left eye. The query for the profession is, where is the ball, and will it kill him ? Toisnot (N. C.,) Sunny Home. ISir A family in Pennsylvania is suf fering with trichinosis. . The disease was contracted by eating ham that had been boiled, but which did not become thorough ly done. The mother, Mrs. Lutz, died suddenly, and other members of the family are on the eve of death. An account Bays that the meat was about half-cooked, and the swarming trichinae could be seen with the naked eye. A portion of muscular tissue cut from the dead woman has also been obtained for an examination, with the aid ot the microscope. A thin portion of it held up to the light exhibited every indication of being filled with trichinae. It will be understood that the trichina? are sufficiently destroyed in case the meat is cooked done, and the disease comes from eating meat entirely raw or merely-half cooked. In both of the receut instances, the ham had been boiled but did not get cooked. The South use a considerable quantity of Northern meat, and as no one can tell when the trichinae are present, it is proper that every precaution should be taken. Whenever a ham does not seem to be properly cooked, it had better be put aside. Discovery of a Mink Under the Ca thedral at Moscow. Vienna, April 15. The Press says: "Trustworthy mer chants from Moscow report that eighty workmen employed on the Uspanski Ca thedral were arrested on Holy Saturday in consequence of the discovery of a mine under that edifice, in which it is intended that the ceremony of the coronation of the Czar shall take place." Shaf lotto loao aad &'oaofirat Shairiotte, H. N. C'NEWS. Gov. Holden has been sitting np, but does not walk about. He converses pretty freely and without difficulty. There is a man in Neuse River town ship who has an Alderney cow that on last Friday gave birth to three calves. Gov. Jarvis will address the societies of the Rutherford College at the Commence ment in the latter part of May. It is thought the encampment of the State Guard at Charlotte, May 20th, will be a great success, if good arrangements can be made as to transportation. The residence of Dr. Edward W. Wil kins, near Gaston, was burned Friday evening, with furniture. Loss about $10, 000. Bird Lancaster is our foremost farmer. He planted cotton between the 25th and 30th of March. He now has hands chop ping out. Wilson Advance. The Howie or Stockton Gold Mine was sold at auction on last Monday at the Court House door in Monroe. Mr. J. C. Bates bidding it off at $7,000. The sale will be confirmed. A hail storm passed through the North Western portion of this county one even ing last week. It is said that, iu some places, the hail was from two to three inches deep after the storm passed over. Shelby Aurora. There is an English colony at work in the swamps And jungles of Martin county, and the Goldsboro Messenger report them as making marvelous progress iu clearing, ditching and cultivating the lands. No manure needed, the lands yielding 50 bush els of corn to the acre. Death from a Gun-Shot Wound. Julius Sowers, the young man who was shot iu the knee by the accidental dis charge of his gun more than two weeks ago, and in whom systems of u-anus manifested themselves tci days later, died last Saturday, after three or ic w days of intense suffering.-Statesville Land mark. Shot at. A few nights ago Mr. John W. Atwater, of Williams township, was aroused from sleep by hearing some per son moving about in his house, and, upon opening the door of his bed room to see who it wa, he was shot at by the burglar, who immediately rushed from the house and escaped. Fortunately Mr. Atwater was not hit. Chatham Record. Medical Society of North Carolina. The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Medical Society of North Carolina will be held in Concord on the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th days of Mayf 18S2. Arrangements are being made with all the railroads in the State to pass members and visitors at reduced rates. The State Board of viedi cal Examiners and the State Board ot Health will meet at the t-ame time and place. The Lenoir Topic says Rev. John B. Powell, pastor of Lower Creek Baptist church, Caldwell county, was preaching to his congregation last Sunday morning, when he paused, gasped and tottered. Members of the congregation ran to his assistance and he was carried from the church and removed to his dwelling, in ten minutes after reaching which, he died. Portraits at the N. C. University. The Dialectic Society owns the following portraits: Jas. K. Polk, Gov. Swain, Dr. James Phillips, Thos. L. Clingman, Chief Justice Ruffin, Gen. Wm. R. Davie, Win. A. Graham, Willie P. Mangum, Gov. Manly, Geo. E Badger, Giles Vlebane, Dr. Charles F. Deems, Dr. Wm. Hooper, Judge Archibald D. Murphy, Gov. Owen and Gov. Rencher. The Philanthropic Society owns the fol fowing : Judge Gaston, Dr. Francis L. Hawks, Gen. Bryan Grimes, John H. Bryan, John Branch, Dr. Joseph Cald well, Judge James Grant, of Iowa, Gov. Wm. Miller, Hon. R. R. Bridgers, Wm. R. King, of Alabama, Bartholomew F. Moore, John Y. Mason, James C. Dobbin, Dr. Elisha Mitchell and Chief Justice Manning, of Louisiana. AD estructive Frost. For the past few days there has been quite a change in the weither, until Monday of last week at noon we had been enjoying warm, Kpring-like weather, but on that day it began to turn cooler and fires and winter clothing were comfortable, and next morn ing it seemed as if winter had returned, for there was a heavy frost and some ice, the thermometer indicating a temperature of two degrees below the freezing point. We do not now know the extent of the damage done by this frost, but it is doubt less very great. It is feared that nearly all the fruit is killed, the wheat much injured, and many garden vegetables des troyed. Our people are consequently much disheartened. Chatham Record. The Carolina Central to be Ex tended. Inlormation has reached this place through a private letter, that Presi dent Robinson has agreed to proceed, at an early day, to extend the line of the Carolina Central Railroad from Shelby to Spartanburg, S. C, with a view of meet ing the Greenwood, Laurens & Spartan burg road at that point. Work has al ready been begun on the latter road and we hope to see Mr. Robinson's promise put into operation at no distant day. If this connection is made the Carolina Cen tral will become one of the best paying roads in the State, besides giving our people another outlet for trade. The in formation alluded to comes from a reliable source and we have no doubt but what the proposed extension will be commenced as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. Shelby Aurora. The University Normal School. We learn that Hon. M. A. Newell, Super intendent of Public Instruction of Mary land, who will superintend the next Uni versity Normal School, and Professor Edward P. Moses, superintendent of the Goldsboro Graded School, who will be the assistant superintendent. of the University Normal School, met in Richmond on the 10th inst., according to agreement, to complete the programme of the Normal School. Death of an Accomplished Lady, a Native of North Carolina. Galves ton, April 16. The News' Houston spe cial says: "Mrs. Maud J. Young died here to-day. Mrs. Young was a daughter of Col. M. Fuller, and was born on Nov. 1st, 1826, in Beaufort, N. C. She was a lady of varied literary attainments. She was the authoress of 'The Flora of Texas,' and also a work on botany, which is re garded as authority." !3tf A letter carrier in Meriden, Con necticut, whose wife Las inherited sixty thousand dollars, still goes his rounds, al though the postmaster has several appli cants for his place. NEWS ITEMS. Cotton is in full bloom at Gallie, Florida. The plants are from three to four feet high. Winter oats are heading out in north Texas, where the crop prospect is very fine. Forty thousand acres of land in Arkan sas have been secured for an Italian colony. A wheat field near Dalton, Ga., will yield 30 to 40 bushels per acre if no acci dent befalls it. The Chinese residents of South Boston, Massachusetts, have organized a Masonic lodge. New Orleans has a colored sisterhood of the Catholic Church devoted to the educa tion of young girls of their own race. The Comptroller of the Currency has de cided to issue a new five dollar national bank note with a portrait of President Garfield. In the suit for libel brought by the Rev. William D. Hinman against Bishop Wm. H. Hare, in New York, the jury rendered a verdict for $10,000 for the plaintiff. At Milwaukie, Wis., Mrs. Ladosch found her grand-child eating a white powder. She tasted it to see what it was. It proved to be a patent rat poison, and both persons died. A. T. Stewart & Co., of New York, an nounce that they have determined to dis continue their dry goods and manufactur ing business, and offer their stock of merchandise and mill properties for Bale. There is now a theory that diphtheria may be prevented by artificial vaccination. The diphtneretic plant, which appears on the membranes, may in time be cultivated and used for inoculation. The San Francisco Chronicle says the veto of the Chinese bill will result in sending solid Democratic delegations to the next Congress from California, Ore gon, Nevada, Colorado and Washington territory. An eastern paper has figured out that Jay Gould's stock alone, amounting t $54,000,000, gives him an income of $3,240,- 000 annually, $270,000 a month, $9,000 a day, $375 an hour, $62.50 a minute, and over a dollar a second. The Perry (Ga.) Home Journal says that at an early date there will be a chicken fiht in Perry. All the cocks will be placed in the pit at once, and the owner of the last one to leave the pit takes all the other chicken as the prize of the victor. A party of French peasants arrived in New York on Wednesday, having eight bears, which they design using for work on a farm in the West. They passed up Broadway, and in crossing Wall street the animals attracted much attention from the bears congregated there. ISF" The Tichborne claimant is sawing wood and unloading limber in the dock yard at Portsmouth Va. He weighs about sixteen stone, as against twenty-five when he was first sentenced, but is in good health, and thrives on a prison ration a quarter larger than that allotted to the other prisoners. A recent fire in Pittsburg, Pa., destroyed the residence of a Mr. Friend so quickly that the family barely escaped with their lives, but by some queer accident a chest in the attic containing Mr. and Mrs. Friend's wedding suits fell through into the cellar, and has there been found under neath the rubbish with its contents un harmed. A small boy of five months in Kings ville, Ohio, son of Mr. J. N. Kinnear is said to walk and talk "like a little man." Indeed, the correspondent of the Cincin nati Enquirer asserts that its mind is as well developed as the average child of twelve years old, and that he "has thought and discretion of mind, and shows re markably rapid developments of mental faculties seldom witnessed." It is related that having tested the gen erosity of Mr. Greeley to the utmost, the late Mr. Vanderbilt wanted another loan. "Can't do it," said H. G., "you owe me too much already." "Only a hundred dollars for six months." "No, sir." "For thirty days." "No, no, no; you might die." "Who ever 'heard of a man borrowing money for thirty days and then dying?" Horace handed out the amount; the argu ment was too convincing. Some time ago, while Mr. Charlie Barks dale was catching his chickens, having sold them, one of them, a hen, run into the wood pile, where she was permitted to remain, and she did remain, until oue day last week, when she was ac? cidentally found with her wings fastened between two pieces of wood, was still liv ing and had been in the wood pile for thirty-days without food or water. At last accounts her respiration was normal, pulse improving. Jonesboro (Ga.) News. In conversation recently Gen. Francis E. Spinner told how he adopted that mar velous signature of bis. "It was when I was practicing law in Herkimer county," he said, "years ago well, let me see it was in 1830. Judge Osborn was my law partner. I was scrawling with my pen at my desk one day, and wrote ray name several times in that manner. Osborn happened to see it. He said: 'Hello, old Fishhooks, I'll bet you can't do that again.' 1 said, 'I bet I can;' and I did. I adopted it as my signature then, and I have written my name that way ever since." One of the most marked traits of the Chinese is their worship of ancestry and obedience to parents, which are in utter contrast with the American character. A "China boy" was recently arrested for stealing a $150 watch from his mistress in San Francisco. His excuse was that he had received a letter from his father in China, ordering him to send $55 to bring his brother from Yokohoma to San Fran cisco. As he had no money, and regard ing his father's commands as imperative, he felt compelled to take the watch. He seemed to regret his arrest chiefly because he could not comply with his father's re quest. SEP" The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle ut ters these words of sense and truth: "If there is a true man in the North to-day who regards the South with feelings of contempt or hatred, we do not know it; if there is a trne man in the South who is ashamed of what is past, or believes the cause is Most or sleeping,' we do not want to know it. We doubt if there be one person in this country now, who does not recognize that the spirit of 'the lost cause' that energy, that genius and that chival ry which made Manassas possible, and Appomattox necessary is every day work ing to make the condition of the South more influential in the nation, and the strength of the Union more powerful be fore the world," Small Amounts. From correspondence of 44 H." in the Fayetteville Examiner. There is a notion among people outside of the South, that pennies do not circulate there that Southerners are too proud to handle anything below a nickel. It is true that there have been Southerners of that stamp, but they have died out, the war killed them off, and all are now ready to subscribe to the injunction, "take care of the pennies the pouuds will take care of themselves." The most thorough scor ner of coppers that I remember was that erratic genius Joe Seawell Jones, or Shoc co Jones, as he was generally called. Silting with him one morning at Bunhar's Hotel, some forty-odd years ago, a little chap offered him a papei for one cent. "I don't know the coin," 8i. id Jones, con temptuously. But, poor fellow, he came to know baser metal than copper. A thorough good fellow, a man of much cultivation, and of elegant manners, every body liked him, and trusted him, and lent him money. Having exhausted his own considerable patrimony in high living (not "riotous living,") he continued to live upon his frieuds, and was said to have run up a bill of five thousand dollars at Gadsby's Hotel in Washington, where he kept a suite of coomx, and dined and wined his troops ot friends when they visited the capital. But that sort of life had to come to an end, and when it did, and Shocco had to "seek new fields and pastures greeu," he turned up in Missis sippi, with several heavy boxes which he asserted contained specie belonging to a North Carolina bank, whose agent he pre tended to be, and for which he entered upon uegoiiations for some large financial operations. In the mean time he hired a couple of men with muskets to guard his specie at the hotel. Their virtue was not proof against such a temptation, and so they took an opportunity to open one ot the bxes and found, not specie, nor even copp-r, but old type metal. The bank agent's negotiations weiv of course brought to a closo by this discovery. Notwith standing this unfortunate contretemps, Jones remained in Mississippi till his death, many years after. Poor fellow ! "the world could have better spared a better man." How he managed to live, I never heard, but probably others fared as Gadsby did. But if Shocco Jones "did not koow the coin," I have my boy ish recollections of an honest old gentleman in Pittsboroogh who did. I refer to Winship Stedman, the postmaster in that town "sixty years oiuce," who not only kept a keg of cents but keg of half cents also, to make exact change, without which he would not let a mau leave his store or the post office. At that lime the postage on single letters was 5, 10, 12, and 25 cents, according to dis tance, and when one had to pay for a 12 cent letter the good old gentleman was prepared to give the exact change for a 20 or 25 cent Raleigh Academy due-bill, the circulating medium of that period, printed by Joseph Gales, on paper made at his mill on Crabtree, and signed by Vm. Peace, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees. It Is a long time since I have seen a half cent, and I believe that coin is no longer made perhaps because the race ot men so exact in their honesty as Mr. Stedman has died out, and it would not be worth while to make a coin for which their degenerate eons have no use. I am not sure but that I have heretofore written some, if not all, of the above to you. If so, should I not follow the exam ple of Mr. Macon whom, at about my age, he found himself repeating, and closed with the remark that "it wa9 time to quit?" - Minute Workmanship. The Salem Museum, Mass., has in its possession a cherry stone containing one dozen silver spoous. The stone is of the ordinary 6ize, the spoons being so small that their shape and finish can be distinguished only by the microscope. This is the result of im mense labor for no decidedly useful pur pose, and there are numbers of other ob jects in existeuce the value of which may be said to be quite as indifferent. Thus, Dr. Oliver gives an account of a cherry stone on which were carved 124 heads, so distinctly that the naked eye could dis tinguish those belonging to popes and kings by their mitres and crowns. A Nu remberg top-makes inclosed in a cherry atone which was exhibited at the French Crystal Palace, a plan ot Sebastopol, a railway station, and the "Messiah" of Klopstock. Pliny, too, mentions the fact that Homer's Iliad, with its 15,000 verses, was written in so small a space as to be contained in a nut-shell. The greatest curiosity ot all, however, was a copy of the Bible, written by one, Peter Bales, a chaucery clerk, in so small a book that it could be inclosed within the shell of an English walnut. trP A Washington letter says: "The rage for congressional commissions seems destined to know no limits. The last effort in thin line is to create a commission of five colored men to inquire into and re port upon the material, intellectual and industrial progress of the colored people of the United States since the war. A bill to this effect has been in troduced by Mr. Hawley in theSenate. It appropriates $15,000 for the salaries of the commissioners. There are several of the smart colored politicians here already lay ing their wires to get a place on the em byro commission. Several impecunious ex members, to whom $3,000 would be a God send, think it wrong that the commission should be limited to colored men." There is a farmer in Franklin county, Pa., who, until a few days ago, never heard of Garfield's assassination. On his recent visit to Chambersburg he was asked to sign a petition for Sergeant Mason's par don, and on inquiring who Mason was it was ascertained he was entirely ignorant of the whole case. The man said he lived in the country and had never heard the subject alluded to by his neighbors. It is needless to remark that he does not Bub scribe to a newspaper. Hence his dense ignorance. - IIT" A young woman of Idaho answer ed an advertisement of a firm of marriage brokers, who soon afterward sent her a bill of $26.50 for advertising, threatening, if she did not pay it, to publish the letter. She preferred to pay the bill.. Young women should never deal with such agen cies. They had much better remain single until their love is demanded by the spon taneous outburst of a manly heart. SCT"" While a man was sitting in the crotch of a tree to saw off a limb, &t Sagi naw, Mich., the crotch split as the limb fell, letting him down into the opening and then closing on him. It took an hour of chopping and prying to get him out of the trap, and several of his ribs were broken by the squeezing. 6. A Hurricane of Hail, Wind and Rain. Kings of the Forest Laid Low. On Monday certain sections of this county were visited by a storm ot hail, rain and wind, that surpassed in severity anything of the kind for many years. The storm was felt throughout the county, but in some places the early vegetables in the gardens are ruined ; glass in the win dows broken and the fences from the bot tom rail scattered in every direction, bo far we have heard of no person being killed, but accounts have come in stating that several have been cut and bruised. - The wind, where the storm was the vnnrrTit tn have attained a velocity greater thau one hundred miles a minute. A gentleman informed us yes terday that between here and his place, a tree has been blown down, the top of the tree not resting on the ground, but high enough for his top buggy to pass under, yet as high as this is the wind on Monday lodged rails in the top. Several houses have been blown down. The damage done cannot well be estimated. Seventy five or one hundred miles of fencing is thought to have been blown down. Near iggias' X Roads, about 7 miles from this place, Mr. John Pitt had a two room negro house blown down, chimney and all. Several persons were in the house at the time. Three of them were children under two years, another was a girl nearly grown, sick in bed. All ex cept the girl were injured. No bones were broken, but several bruises and flesh wounds were inflicted upon all. One of the little children was knocked Benseless and remained in that condition for hours. They are all doing well now. The girl who was not hurt was oiown so we are told) into the woods quite a considerable distance. The hail stones, which were said to be exceedingly large, was all that hurt her. Near the same place the large stables of Mr. J. K. Bulluck were blown down. His mules had just been turned in the lot. A gust of wind about this lime blew down the fence and all the mules but two took fright and ran off. The two went into the stable, one was killed outright and the other was so injured as to be useless. The hail at this place was said to be an inch deep. Grange Hall, at Dr. Nobles', was blown down and then blown to pieces. The windows on one 6ide of the Doctor's house had nearly every glass broken. Some of the slats to the blinds were also broken. The glass in the windows of all the other houses in the direction of the storm, were broken, ihe fields overstrewn with fence rails and the roads were ren dered impassabie by trees. In the lower part of the county, near Peuny Hill, Mr. Eli Warren's dairy was blown down. On Capt. Jas. R. Thigpen's farm several buildings were unroofed, and the glass in the windows on one side of the house broken to atoms. Fence rails scattered all about. Capt. Thigpen says he never saw any thing to equal it. Near Old Sparta the storm raged worse in a belt of country about one hundred yards wide, carrying every thing before it. Col. Elias Carr had one house demol ished, so did Mr. C. C. Vines who lives near by. Near Rocky Mount Wm. Worsley had his stables wrecked and a mule killed. Twelve miles west of here the window lights at the Parker, Guilford, Moore and Hargrave places, were broken out and nearly all the fencing blown down. Mr. Moore had two miles of fence blown down from bottom to top. The general direction of the wind was from the Northwest. Here it was a little East of North. Tarboro Southerner. Mr. Best and the Midland. The Newbernian announces a new idea in re spect to the future prospect of the Mid land. It seems to dismiss all expectations of profit from a connection with the West ern N. C. Railroad as exceedingly doubt ful even if Mr. Best should again come into possession. The new idea upon which the Newbernian enlarges with evident satisfaction is that ol building feeders to ' the Midland running out into the counties lying on each side of it. Mr. Best and his associates contemplate such an improve ment, in which we are told he is warmly supported by the citizens of the counties referred to, who will also give substantial aid to carry it out. tap" A great multitude gathered in Atlanta, Ga., to see an incendiary fire. Mr. Joiner had announced that at a certain hour he would burn Mr. Shehan's house. The police stretched a rope to keep back the crown and the Fire Department was on band. When the appointed time came, Joiner poured kerosene oil over the floors of the building, and piled some bundles of paper in the basement. Shehan forbade him to do it, and threatened him with legal punishment; but he would not stop, and his match soon set the structure ablaze. The police did nothing, and the firemen simply prevented the flames from igniting the adjoining buildings. It may be well to add that there had been cases of small pox in the house, and' the destruction was by order of the Health Board. 13F" The Baltimore Morning Herald says: "A number of our shrewdest citizens have great faith in the North Carolina gold and silver mines. They have ex amined them and believe that in richness some of them will even surpass the mines of Utah and Colorado. They are in a belt that follows the general course of the mountain range running through North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, but in the last-named State deflecting towards the West. Some very rich mines have been found and worked in Guilford and Davidson counties, North Carolina. The copper mines of that section are rich, but nothing like so productive as those of Lake Superior, one of which has yielded a return of $22,000,000. When the southern gold and silver mines are worked properly and have greater access to railroads, they will be exceedingly profitable, and will be a source of wealth to many Baltimoreans. In the North American Review for May, Carl Schurz, treating of "Party Schisms and Future Problems," presents many well-considered obser vations which cannot fail to interest in the highest degree that larce and growing class of citizens who refuse to be influenced by obsolete party cries. "Days with Longfellow," by Samuel Ward contains personal reminiscence of the beloved poet just deceased, extending over a period of forty-five years. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in an article entitled "What does Revelation Reveal?" seeks to prove that the objections brought against the Bible by modern unbelievers are based upon a misconception of the true intent and scope of the sacred volume. Lieutenant-Commander Gor ringe writes of "The Navy," with abundant knowledge of its needs, and with a degree of frankness almost, if not quite, unprecedented in the naval service. W. H. Mallock, the well known English essayist, in the first of a series of 'Conversations with a Solitary," very ingeniously contrives to put the advocates of democracy and modern progress on the defensive. Finally, Qail Hamilton contributes a paper, "The Spent Bullet," in which science, the pulpit and the law are with exquisite wit taken to task for the part they re spectively played in the Guiteau-Garfield tragedy. Comparative Cotton Statement. """" The following is the cotton statement for the week ending April 14 : 1882. leg! Net receipts at all United States ports during the week, Total receipts to this date, Exports for the week, Total exports to this date, Stock at all U. S. ports, Stock at all interior towns, Stock at Liverpool, Stock of American afloat for Great Britain, '32,642 65364 85,634 101 647 2,842,579 3,629 044 734,741 WgJ 102,209 m'S 873,000 863i000 221,000 298,000 Liverpool Cotton Circular. Liverpool, April 14. The weekly cir cuiar of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association says : "Cotton closed quiet on Monday. It re-opened with fair demand on Tuesday. The demand increased and rates are generally repeated. American was in improved demand ; good ordinary and upper grades advanced l-16d, in sea island sales were small and prices un changed. Futures opened firm and rates generally improved l-16d. ' . . m Future Deliveries. The Post's cotton report says : Future deliveries opeued 3 to 4-100 lower, but advanced 9 to 12-000. At the third call fhere was more disposition to sell. The sales establish a decline of 1 to 2-100. April brought 12.35; May 12.42 and 12.44 June 12.58 and 12.57 ; July 12.72 ; August 12.88; September 12.47; October li.jj and 11.80 ; Novemberr 11.60. ' The World's Cotton Receipts. The receipts of cotton at all the interior towns is 25,891, receipts from plantations 19,032, crop in sight 5,109,131, total visi ble supply of cotton for the world 2,949, 679 of which 2,021,924 is American, against 3,023,148 and 2,455,648 respectively last year. Storm in Louisiana. New (Means, April 15. A special to the Times-Democrat from Morgan City gives the following account of the damage done by the storm of v ednesday night. On Beer's Island a sugar house was blown away; on the lower Atcbafalaya the dwellings ot P. Caland and Mrs. Moore were destroyed; on Little Wax bayou the bouses of John Fraraen thal, Louis Kolk and Jean Fit were swept away and much other damage done. At the Alice plantation near Jeanerette, a colored church was driven over to the west side. At Cyremont a negro church was blown down; at Will's landing place a warehouse blown over; on Bayou Boenf a large house seen floating during the storm was found next morning lodged against a bridge, but the occupants had disap peared and it is supposed were drown ed. The house of Eugene Tomilco and a cooper shop were also found against bridges. The residence of James Peni son floated 3 miles ; Reany Penison's store with its contents was swept away. The kitchen and all of the cabins except three were swept away from the Kandly plan tation. James Simmins' residence with its contents is a total loss. Orelon Contours' residence was destroyed and the stores of Alex. Penison and Jules P. Fellot were swept away all cabins occu pied by colored people were carried away. Efforts are being made to get a boat to go to Bayou Boeuff to aid the people. At Lake Kalourde everything is gone. KNITTING YARN. Blue. Brown, Red and Slate KNITTING YARN In Hanks, at BARRINGER & TROTTER'S. April 7, 1882. Piedmont Patent Flour. 100 Barrels, just received and for sale by SPRINGS & BURWELL. April 7, 1882. NOTICE! Our friends and customers will please note the fact that we have a representative in the North ern markets buying our Stock of Spring ard Summer Goods. We will have open in a few days a complete stock of Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, Dress Goods, Notions, Hosiery, &c. We desire to call your attention especially to our stock of Black Goods, viz: Cashmeres, Tamise, Buntings, Brillianteens, Nuns' Veiling, &c, which will be complete in every particular. Reserve your purchases till you inspect our new Stock. BARRINGER & TROTTER. March 10, 1882. K ALSO MINING. We invite your attention to JOHNSTON'S PATENT STANDARD DRY SIZED KAL SOMINE and FRESCO PAINTS, knowing that they meet the wants of Painters, House keepers and others throughout the country. They are carefully prepared from the finest selected raw materials ; all of the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated, and they are offered for sale in a finely pulverized condition, simply re quiring to be mixed with water, to fit them for use. They are made of the PUREST WHITE, and in gradations of all the leading and fashionable Tints, Shades and Colors ; thus adapting them to all tastes and uses. The advantages of our pre parations a e manifold. They are ready for immediate use, requiring no experiment whatever, as the color and quality are determined before they go into the hands of the consumer. They can be mixed and used by any one. They can be applied with the greatest ease and facility, and when dry will present a smooth, rich, and even surface, which will not rub or scale from the wall. If used according to directions, they will work well upon an absorbent surface ; hence the neces sity as heretofore, of preparing walls to stop their suction, (except in extreme cases,) is over come. They will save the waste of materials and loss of time common with the old mode of mixing to produce desirable tints, etc. They will keep for years, without change in color or quality. They are the only cheap and available prepara tions for the purpose in the market. WILSON & BURWELL, April 14, 1882. Sole Agents. MACKEREL. . A nice lot of Mackerel in Kits, from Boston, just received at - J. MCLAUGHLIN'S. March 24, 1882. We pay special attention to the retail trade and use in the preparation of prescriptions SQUIBB3 MEDICINES a fresh supply of which we have just received. WILSON & BURWELL. Jan. 6, 1882. Trade Street. WOMAN. A remedy; fob her only. Cheaper than physicians' bills, and to be used by women exclusively. It is prepared for them only, and is specially adapted to cases where the womb is disordered, and will cure all irregularities of the "menses," or "monthly courses," whether acute or chronic, by restoring the discharge. This great boon is Dr. J. Bradfield's Female Ke gulator, and known and recognized as "Woman Best Friend." Prepared by Dr. J. BradfieW, Atlanta, Ga. Price: trial size 75c; large size, $1.60. For sale by all druggists. April, 14, 1882.