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DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA, V, JDNJ5SDAY, JAN. 6, 1886.
NO. 34
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J. W. Gbaham. Taos. Roffiv
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Practice in th counties of Alamance,
Caswell, Durham, Guilford, Rockingham,
Person, and Ounce' ;, ,
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bain, Person, Wake andOianvUle.
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ral Court, ; '
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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t ; DUBI1AM,N.C.
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EIGHTY-FIVE EIGHTY-SIX.
0 shall we grieve with tb sod Old Year,
- O shall we mourn for the year that is
' dving? .
0 shail we bring to the new crowned King.
Our paeans, dead grandeur, defying? -
Here's a song for the New and a tear for
the Old; - . .
O friends we may not thus sever ' .
The years in their flight, be they Lanpy or
sad; - '
They're Companions Fate lino! forever.
The New nay not lose all the jovs of the
Old. ' .
And the Old may not cast all its burdens
On thelight-benring wings of h new-com-ing
heiij ... - '
Each has iUtwn sorrowJ and 'guerdons.
The griefs of thejpast and the joys of the
past. "
In our memories still mav vet linear'".'
But each year has its death and each year
has its births, ,
Marked out by Eternity's finger.
And in the New, in the days to be bora.
Where Destiny's veil is unlifted,
There hover new hopes, new sorrows and
joys
W'nich Time fur our trying has sifted.
So let us weep low for the year that is irone
auuKiuisiuguiw lor me year lliat is
, nearins;
In the merciful hauds of the axcient of
DATS
Leave all ournewhopingand fearing!
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-J. f '
Fighting Randall Over the Rules.
Members mar protest as much as
they please that no personal eijjuifi
cance attaches to the proposed cliange
of the House rules, but we fear it is
a mistake. We confess that it looks
very much as though the whole busi
uesa was inspired by the haters of
Mr. Randall and the proposition to
change is prosecuted chiefly by his
impiacaoie enemies. posed in its
nakedness, it is claimed by some to be
simply a mean effort to humiliate one
of the most loyal Democrats, and.
erhaps, the ablest public man of the
Union; and if so the transaction from
beginning to its present stage is ex
ceedingly discreditable to those en
gaged in it.' If many of the men who
are seeking to degrade Randall pos
sess one whit of his statesmanship or
practical sense; if they hare discov
ered one-half of bis courage and pa
triotism, the country has failed to
note the fact and; excepting a few
personal organs, tbe Democratic party
places implicit faith in the fealty and
soundness of Mr Randall. It is no
discredit to Mr. Randall that the
Washington Pott hps systematically
and incessant! subjected him to dis
courtesy and abuse. But it is a con
summate piece of assumption for that
journal to impinge the personal or
political integrity or anr Democrat
of high and honorable repute, and it
is a ridiculous pretension for it to
pose as tbe organ of the national
Democracy so long as it continues it
indecent assaults upon the ablest of
that party's leaders. The most humi-
iatlng spectacle, however, that is
presented to our subserration, is the
concurrences of one or two Southern
jouanals, which, suppressing the com
monest reeling or bumamty and for
getful of the memorable battle against
their own degradation and enslave
ment fought and won by Samuel J.
BandalJ, assist and applaud every
savage and vindictive thrust made at
the courageous and generous defen
der of Southern equality and Anglo
nnxon superiority. Lynchburg (Va.)
Newt. .
fritish Spoliations.
Speculations in England are ad
verse to the success of any plan to
give Ireland Parliament of its own.
It is said that Mr. Gladstone would
not be able to carry out the plan
with which he was credited because
of tbe incurable split in , his party.
But there are others who hold that
be will be able to solidify the Liber
al onon anv plan he mar propose.
It Is not probable, to say tbe least,
that the Tones will be able to hold
oflke many months longer. It will
then devolve upon the opposition to
rorm A Ministry ana it is almost cer
tain that Mr. Gladstone will have to
be Invited to assume this grave re
sponsibility. There will scarcely be
any other Alternative. I no lories
will be almost certain to bo defeated
anon some measure ana not neces-
narily Irish, for England ha a com
plex policy snu a great many inter
ests to be consulted, llie Irsn may
not find it to their interest to support
mo Aone in mo uuiuv.mu bihi
furJun policy, and so a few of the
t'arncllite uniting with the labcrftl
would drivs the Ministry from power.
In that event it would bo inevitable
that Mr. Gladstone should be called
upon to form a new Ministry, as be
is the only man in opposition who
could Tally the forces and give A
guarantee of anything like a success
ful term of olGce.
In tbe meantime Mr. Farnell is
the uncrowned King of Ireland,"
and hold the balance of power in the
British Parliament. He can kill and
he can make Alive. It is in bispow
er to defeat the Tory Ministry and to
rive the Government to the Liberal
or tice una. He u an able, cauti
ous. wel noised man, and will use
bis great influence for the prosperity
and glory of bis own people, no uonui.
Wii Star.
Thomas Stevens, who tfartaJ from
San Francisco to ride upon A bicycle
around the world, ho arrived at
Teheran, the capital of Persia. His
U the most noteworthy cycling tour
of lhi1irt century of cycles.
During the recent parliamentary
Wions in England. Queen Victoria
showed her sympathy for the Tories
in many ways.
Presidents of the United States in
Succession, and Their Various .
, Opponents.
W. in the Home
First Washington crime the good
and the great ;
Then the Federalist Adams became
ruler of State
Defeating Tom Jefferson an . old
Democrat, '
Who wanted the chair in which Wash-
' inton sat. - ' -Then
Jefferson a second time offered
t . his name, ' . ,
And defeated John Adam at his own
little game;
And again was elected in 1804,
Over C. C. Pinkney by 'quite a large
score.
John Madison then followed in 1808,
ollowed by Clinton and Piukney at
a very slow gate;
He again was elected in 1812
Leaving poor De Wilt Clinton laid
up on the shelf,
n 1816 Monroe entered the ring
And knocked out the Federalist,
poor Rufus King,
n 1820 be again took the chair,
Beating John Qnincy Adams in the
race "fair and square,
hen John Quincy Adarai in the
year "twenty four"
Beat. Jackson and Crawford and
Clay to bo bu re;
But Old Hickory came to the front
, is the year twenty eight
urned the tables on Adums and set-
tied hi Me; -
And again was elected in the year
thirty tr:o
Over Clay, Wirt, and Floyd, and
beat the whole crew,'
Next Martin Van Buren in the year
thirty six,
Left, Harrison, Webster, Manguts,
and Whito in a fix;
hen Harrison in 40 our ruler was
made.
And back in his "own cotu"Van
Buren was paid;
But he in a month, from from tbe
sceue passed away,
And left President Tyler, the seep-,
tretosway.'
n the year 44 James K. Polk took
the chair,
And beat Clay and Buraey the ambi
tious pair.
Zach Taylor in the year 48 then was
chosen
Over Smith, Lewis, Cass and Martin
Van Buren;
But he, poor old fellow, did not live
quite two years ;
So left the office for Filmon with all
' of it cares.
n the year ol 52 Franklin Pierce
made it hot '
For Hale, Webster, Broome, Troupe,
and old Wiufield Scott;
fe carried the day, as you plainly
can note
By almost the entire Electoral vote.
n 57 Buchanan then took his seat
And Fillmore and Fremont and Smith
met defeat.
OlJAbc Lincoln cext in the year
sixty one,
Mid the storm clouds of war his
reigning bfgun,
Leaving far in the rear Stephen Doug
las and Bell,
And Brcckenridge also the story to
tell
Jo then best McClellan in the year
- sixty four
By a popular vote of four hundred
thousand or more.
le lived until April in the year sixty
five;
And but for Wilkes Booth might
have been alive.
Andv Johnson tbcnv followed and
0
filled out the term.
Though they tried to impeach turn,
he stood his ground firm.
Tbe Radx they accused Mm of cban
ing his coat,
And they fulled of their purpose by
only one vote.
Ulysses S. Grant in the year sixty
eight
Beat Horatio Seymour by the de
crco of fate;
And again took hi seat in seventy
three,
Beating O'Conor and Greely as slick
as coul 1 be,
Adding Hendricks and Jenkins,
' Brown and Black
Coining out clear ahead tt the whole
yelling pack;
Now Rutherford Hayes la seventy six
Piavcd on old Sammy . Tilden his
-juggling tricks,"
In the raco too, was Copper ind
Walker and Smith,
But their hopes like poor Sammy's,
proved only a myth,
For the Rad were determined the
country to rule,
Or send the whole bullion away
down to liool.
James A. Garfield took his scat in
March eighty one;
But in just about six months his short
, race was run ;
He fell by the hands of old Guiteau
the crank;
Giving the office to Arthur, the next
one in rank,
Thank Heaveu at last in the year
eighty five
From Radical rule we have had a re
z i
' prieve, . . "
And Grover Cleveland, with . his
mighty arm, . ; '
Will shield the whole country from
' POLITICAL HARM. .
A Somewhat of a Fraud.
We have received another bulletin
from our state bureau or department
of Agriculture so called. This deals
with certain insects (the-invisible)
that pry into upon plants the in
sects and their parasitacal tendencies
were discovered by other scientists
than Dr. Dabney and assistants. But
our purpose is to call attention to the
following introductory to the last
circular :
In addition' to beinz a chemical
bureau, this Station has been , made
by the law a bureau of information
for the benefit of the farmers of the
Slate. Every farmer has the right to
pply to the Station for any informa
tion which science should supply, and
if the Station has no expert in the
special department of inquiry in its
immediate employ, it will take , due
steps to secure the information de
sired from some of its corresponding
scientists. In addition to informa
tion on all agricultural chemical sub-
ects, including the composition and
value of fertilizers, the production of
fertilizers, composts, dec. at home,
and our resources for making the
same, the analysis of sous, marls,
mucks, waters, minerals, ores, feed-
ing-stufi's, and the examination of
seeds, for which we have apparatus
and experts have been perfected
whereby examination of botanical
material, such as grasses, weeds, un
common plants, of insects injurious
to vegetation, or diseases or domestic
animals, etc., as mentioned in para
graph 2-4, section 2189 of the Code,
can be made through the agency of
the Experiment Station. -
I his as the introductory states we
Iways suppoxd was theobjuct of the
aw creating this department. And
this so fur as we have heard has not
been tbe object of the bureau. -For
the farmer except worthless circu
lar nothing has been done. Tarboro
Southerner.
Tho Heritage of the Southron.
Fancy a country of varied surface,
mountain and plain, hill and dale,
symmetrical klupes and rounded
knolls, broad savanna carpeted with
perpetual green, and breezy upland
purpie wiin rising ana euiug buds.
a land vocal with the song of bird
and tbe murmur of rippling streams,
where rurrowed held maKe generous
response to the appeal of tbe husband-
man, and rore-t or primeval growth
keep guard over measureless areas of
soil never yet touched by the plough
share; a land or flocks and herds, or
fruits and flowers, of grain and grais:
a land fruitful of whatever is needed
for the sustenance, the ' comfort and
happiness of man, tor his highest
physical, intellectual and moral de
velopment; a land of soft atmosphere
and element skies, of bold rivers and
broad estuaries; a land of kindly
hearts and hospitable homes, of brave
men and beautiful women; a land
consecrated by noble deed and illus
trious with immortal names; a land or
pure hearthstones and undcfiled
sanctuaries fancy such a country, we
say, and, if you b a dweller in this
fair land of tbe South, look Around
yon, and, beholding ali that you have
lanced, lift np your heart in grateful
recognition of the good Providence
that has placed you To the midst of so
many bleings. The original legend
on irginia's Seal of State shonld be
the daily remembered motto of every
southern mau: Deus hases nobis otia
fecit. Et.
F.JEiVa DATJGHGTERS.
7r . ' - V
' A te-tain paper says the best wives
in tt V world are farmers'- girls. We
believe it is true. Net but that many
mcchnic' s anf merchant's and bank
er's i'.As make good wives and excel
lent comen. But the rule is that far
mers gins are heaitnier, Ireeher,
fairer, more useful and sensible than
any other class '-of joung women.
What is a girl good' for who has no
vigor of body, whose waist is like a
wasp's, whose lungs are cramped ln
tuiall" their; proper size. whose spine
is crooked and diseased, whose nerves
are as weak as a splccoy old woman's,
whose . physical organization is so
weak and unstrung that every wind
gives her a cold, every change in the
weather a neuralgic attack, every ac
cident a hysteric fit and every spider
that sets foot in her pathway a fran
tic terror?
What is a girl gooi for if she has
no useful information, whose hands
can serve no useful turn.who can neith
er make bread nor butter, nor clothes,
nor wash, nor nurse, nor mend?
Wives live to some purpose, or ought
to. Theirs is a great mission. ' They
have noble service to' preside over
the interests of the thousands of
homes that dot our country. The
dress, the comfort, the' taste, the
health, the happiness, the intelligence,
the virtues of our homes, sre not a
little i their keeping.- All the in
terest thai cluster around the fire
side are confided to them. Not the
politicians at Washington, not the
professors in our colleges, not our
men of commerce in our seaports, not
the bankers in our cities, not the
merchants in our shops, not the
men in our professions, not even our
ministers of the gospel, have commit
ted to them a grander or holier charge,
o! have in their keeping interests of
greater importance than the wives of
our country. Our civilization, our
intelligence, our virtue, our progress
in all that is great and good, depends
as much upon our wives as upon any
claas of tbe community.
Ibey ahoold;" ThenV b3 healths,
strong and useful They should
know how to do something that will
be of service to their families. To
eook, to wash, to make, to mend, to
pickle, to preserve, to cure, to nurse,
to instruct, to please, to bless, to en
tertain, to serve, to encourage, to
cut; to knit and sew are some of
the offices devolving npon a wife. If
she knows not all of these- things,
she must fail in some of her duties.
If she cannot put her hand to some
of these services, she cannot fulfill
her mission. To do these things she
must be well stocked with common
tense and useful information. To em
broider, to finger a musical instru
ment, to paint, to read French, and
nurse flow-pot and lapdogs, is a small
Eart of a wife's mission, To go into
ysterics over the lost novel, to weep
over a newspaper doggerel, to study
the fashion-plate, to feast on the Lady
B ok as though it was solid food, to
snuffls over love stories and be de
lighted with coxcomb literature-
are accomplishment of a very ones
tionable character in a wife. ' Half a
grain of common sense sprinkled in
to a few hours of useful occupation is
worth more than all or them. Uecause
farmers' daughters are freer from
these fooleries, are sounder in health,
are trained to more useful employ
ments, is the reason why, as general
rule, they make better wives. All
trua accom il. Aliments are to be
prized: but the first and best and
ever to be esteemed accomplishment
is to be useful. This always makes one
agreeable, always makes one honor
ed. When usefulness in joined with
intelligence, virtue and graceful man'
ner. it consummates the character
of a good wife. Mobile RtgUkr.
In Paris, last rear, there were 80,
70 births and 72,735 deaths.
One of the Faroe island has been
swallowed up by the sea.
An extensive iritttn of railroad
is shortly to be commenced in China.
The total value of the trade of
India exceeds f 230,000,000 annually.
Tbe Missouri Cremation society
ha 400 members, twenty-five of
whom are women.
A crazvnuilt shown in New York
actually i put down in cold figure
as worth 13,000.
From C0.O0O to 65.000 people cross
the Brooklyn bru!ue every dat in the
car, while about 11,000 walk over.
Two death have been caused In
Enttland this seas in by the trame of
football, and quite a number or brok
en limb are reported.
A Georgia man ha kept A bale of
cotton lor twenty years, winning mat
each year would see tne article atine
price which he thinks it is worth.
AU the fruit and other tree In
banta Barbara. Cal.. are betas dug
op and Luglish walnuts punted in
tbelr stead. I he crate U rapidly
rprcadmg.
There are now three clerks and
messenger to to every United States
.Senator, and it cftU I1U.0W to I12,
000 a year for the delivery of the
Senate mail.
late made great progress in North
Carolina, as in other Southern States,
and it is highly probable- that Mr
Jamais one of its partisans. It is
wrong to accuse him of drinking
cocktails without positive evidence
oi tne tact. . .
AFTER MANY YEARS.
Tobacco culture enters largely In
to the 'agricultural industry of the
United States, for the amount raised
this year wilt doubtless not fall short
of 500,000,000 pounds. As ft is one
of the leading . money crops, and as
maiy of onr readers ire - inter
ested in it either directly or indirect
ly, it may not be out of place to give
a few points in regard to its early
history and its nse in ancient times.
Tobacco derives its botanical name
(nicotuina) from Jean Nicot, who in
troduced it into France. It is' some
what uncertain whether its nse as a
narcotic was known in the East be
fore the discovery of America. When
Columbu first put foot on the soil of
the New World he found it extensi
vely cultivated here, and its cultiva
tion then extended far North of the
regions in which the plant appear to
be indigenous. Meyen, iu his "Geo
graphy of Plants," expresses the
pinion that the smoking of tobacco
of great antiquity among th
Chinese, because on very old sculp
ture he has "observed the very same
pipe which are now in use." Mey-
and cannot be received as
t i not improbable that the smok
ing of tobacco baa been long practiced
n China, but it is not certain. When
tobacco was introduced in Europe tome-lookikg turkey buzzards, so fat,
from America it soon became ex-1 nd fearless that they scarcely
tremely prevalent amongst all Ori- m"nout one' wj Jne7 "ehe
Tt. .A:.-. fcayengers there, and it is lorbidden
bacco was found by Coltimbug to be I I eot out there about 4 o'clock in
practiced in the West Indies, where tho afternoon. Haifa dozen scantily-
I clad, evil-lookine. sturdy rascals
rolls, wrapped in maixeleaf. It has
- - uu uiilii ii i n t'M in riiw ii si in sii .iica auinH
been prevalent from unknown anu- noder tha ihed With them were
quity amongst tbe American Indians I several half-naked boys and flea-in-as
far North as Canada. With them feeted dogs. It was not long until
it even bad a religions character and tD "bouu of vaqueros and the tramp.
. . ... . .. , ing of hoofs heralded the approach
was connected with their worsh.p and 0f a drove of cattle And. a Vew mo-
with ail their important transations . menu after, twenty-five or thirty wild
Thus the Calumet, or pipe of peace,
wis indispensable with them to the
ratification of a treaty, and smoking
together has a greater significance of
friendship with the Indians than eat
ing together has among nations. On small, agilo ponies. The corral-bar
thUiubject Wilson, in his 'Prehis- ere put up, the ponies tethered, and
. . . n .,... r the vaqueros and the butchers, climb
toncMan, says:In the belief of , th- enclo8io3 fence
the ancient worshipers, the Great .winging the nooses .of their long,
Spirit smelted a sweet savour as the snaky rope lassos over the
smoke or the sacrea plant ascenaea heads or tbe doomed animals,
to the heavens; and the homely im- Two lassos were deftly thrown, at tbe
plemeot of modern luxury was in sami lis taut almost, over the horns
their hand a sacred cause, from of a steer, the corra'-bar were drop
J arris is Solid.
New York Sun.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Philadelphia Press, returns to a sub
ject that was more tamed about t wen-
ty-nve years ago tnan now i
"Mr. Cleveland's Minister of Bra
zil, ex Gor. Jarvis. of North Csroli
. ' r . t: .1...
na. write, iron atiu u uo i. wuug
levons in the language of that coun
try three days each week. Rather an
expensive schoolin,r-il0.000 a year.
and Uncle Simuel pays the bill. Of
. - - - a
course It Is not necessary for many oi
foreign Ministers under a Democratic
Administration to speak the langu
age of tbe countries to which they
are sent. Signs and motions will get
liquids, but in Brazil there is no sign
for a cocktail, and poor Jarvis is
alhtrst. He must learn the language
up dia of exhaustion."
It is not necessary that any minis
ter to a foreign country should speak
the language of the country for tho
purpose oi aiscnarxiDz we viuuiw
duties.
Our Philadelphia contemporary is
also mistaken in saying that, the
Unitod States have to pay for the
Portuiruess lessons which Gov. Jar
vis is now eettinir. Tho United States
r him tnr heimf Minister, and if
he chooses to devote a large part of
his salary to studying Portuguese
that 1 hi affair. .
By the way, how doe the Vew
know that Mr. Jarvis is A drinking
man? The temperance cause has of
SICKENING SLAUGHTER..
HOW CATTLE ARE KILLED IS VENB
ZUKLAA, SOUTH AMEHICA.
Dr. Ditmars, of the National So
ciety o f Microscopiats, believes that
he has found in the tissues of ani
mals that had been killed while suf
fering torture, or frenzied by fright,
cnanges that rendered them dan
gerous for uso as human food. It
wouia do well it that could be made
such a deep-rooted conviction in the
public mind that tho slaughter . of
animals for food would be rendered
as nearly painless to tho victims as
possible. But it is to be feared that
the effect spoken of is not sufficiently
certain or deadly, to force considera
tions of humanity as necessary for
self-protection. I once witnessed the
vied with each other throwing at the
poor brute's remaining eye until it
also wo knocked out At length they
got tired of torturing hint aad . went
for a fresh victim, leaving him sUnd-.'
ing there, in all his agony and fright
and fever, for nine or ten hours, un
til daylight the next day, - when it
would be time to kill for the market.
Cook. ,
TARRING A RAT.
' ..r ..
Rats are
Conello, and Venezueia.and have ever
since felt regret that the mee t killed
mere was not transformed into an
agonizing, deadly poison, of which
the butchers could have been com
pelled to cat largely'.- To have seen
them suffer would have been a great
delight. : ' -
In that hot climate, where there is
no ice, meat ban to be killed from
day to day for immediate use. The
abattoir of Pureto Cabello is some
distance outside the town, between a
thicket and a great bare flat on
which stagnant water lies in the rainy
season. In the edge of tba.thicket
is a corral, or enclosure made with a
fence composed of the trunk of small
trees laid lengthwise like rails. Some
twenty rods in front of it is a mas
sively constructed, stone-paved shed,
with hpfiv nnst fWnlr hi. 1.1 Ail in
en's authority, however, is greater as the Erouna at short intervals around
botanist than as art archaeologist, it. Around the base of each post
the ground is trodden down in a basin
and soaked deep and black with
blood. On the ridge-pole of the shed.
on the fences near by, and on the
ground are hundreds of black, loath-
wonderfully clean an
Imals, and they dislike tar more; per-
haps, than any.; thingj2lse, for if It
once gets on their Jackets they find it
most difficult to remove. Now, I '
had heard it mentioned that pouring
preliminaries of the butchering of I tar down at tha" entrance Of their
some cattle for the market of Puerto, holes was a rood remedv: also nlao-
o . .
decisive.
ing broken pieces of glass by their
holes was another remedy. But these
remedies are not effective. The rats
may leave their old holes and make .
fresh ones in other parts of the house; -they
don't however, leave the premis
es for good. , I thought I would try
another experiment one I hal no. '
heard of before. One evening X set
a largo wire-cage rat-trap, attaching
inside a most seductive piece of -
strongly-smelling cheese, and next
morning I found to my satisfaction .
that I had succeeded in trapping a
very large rat, one of the largest I
havo ever seen, which, after I had
besmeared him with tar, I let loose
into his favorite run. The next
night I tried again, and succeeded in
catching another equally big follow,
and served him in the same manner. '
I could not follow these two tar-be- "
smeared rat into their numerous runs
to see what would happen ; ' but it Is
reasonable to a&ume that they sum
raoned together all the member of '
their community, and by their crest- .
fallen appearance gave their comrades '
silent indications of the - misfortune
which Lad so suddenly befallen them,
or that they (lightened their brethren -away,
for they one and all forsook
the place and fled. The experiment
was eminently successful. Erom that
day in 1875 till now, 1883, numer si
ancient though it IsTTia'
tirel v free from rats. andTTr
that there is no remede$
7
t
4?
.uuB.iuir ueaaus wun great Kianuii i . i:
eves and wideenread horns, dashed PUB' " Juu " 'uur
path
out of a narrow path in tbe thicket
into the open. There they were quick
ly rounded up ard hurried into the
corral by the vaqueros mounted on
They never came back to the
again. ChomberU Journal.
house
A POUND OF TOBACCO PRE
SENTED TO EVERY JURY :
IN THE DISTRICT OF -
COLUMBIA. : . t
-There are peculiar customs in con-'
nection wita ths administration
of the courti of the District of Colum."
bia, relics of the old Maryland laws;
bntone which strike the ordinary
observer as the most peculiar is that-
which the hallowed vapor rose with as ped, and the excited beast came which requires a winning party to a
fitting propitiatory odors as that charging nut at a fellow who had civil suit to pay for the tobacco that
which perfumes the awful precincts place! himself inviliwrly before the tha jury which tried the cue is sup-,,
of the cathedral altar, amid the my- opening. Before the long horns could posed to have nsed during the hear;
steries of the church's high and holy reach their object one of the lasso?, ing of the case. Now, It happens
days." that had been adoritly cost around a sometimes that not one ol the jurors
Tobacco seed were hrst carried to i snubbing-post, tautened o suddenly i uses tobacco in any farm, and yet tne
Europe by Uonzaio uernanues ae that the steer near r turned a some, pound or tobacco, or its equivalent.
Oviedo, who introduced it into Spain, tault and came down hi side, upon has to be paid the foreman of the
where it was first cultivated as an or- the ground, with a stunning crash, jury the instant a verdict has been
namental plant, till Nocolo Menardes I0 a moment he was up, standing as rendered. As litigants or their at
extolled it as possessed oi meuicmai ir dazed and trembling in every limb, wrncys are not in tne naou oi car
virtues. It was first introduced in III. was as handsome as a picture I ry'mg so much tobacco in their cloth-
taly in 1560. There is no reference Ui long limbs were sharply and lithe ing, for custom requires a pound be
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to tne use oi tooacco m onaaspca, i a mose ol A deer; bis body, sinning given tnoiwyeron ue wiumug hub.
yet it U certain from other evidence Mark mahogany in color, was slender las toon M the verdict is recorded,
that it was well known in Eneland I and well formed- bi hod was car-1 hand the foreman of the jury, $1,
in his time. It was first recommended riej high and proudly bis eye- blaz- which is jnst as good as tbe pound of
for medicinal purposes and it virtues led with mingled raze and affright. I tobacco. Sometimes a Jury will try
were greatly exagerated, but it soon Suddenly be made another rush at a. several cases in a day. ir they do
became A general arttclo of luxury. I raan. the second lasso carried mean-1 they will get SI for each case front
The Popes Urban VIII. and lnno- Uyie to a more advanced snubbing, the winner, l be juries put ail their
cent XL fulminated against it tne post tautened, and agnia -he went tobacco money together, ana at the
thunders of the church s the priests nia . .ir ith another somersault end of the term divide it among them.
and sultans of Turkey declared smok-1 ,,i .mfl ,(. -,;,s .nnthpr crash, selves, reserving a sufficient sum to
in ir a crime. Sultan Amuret IV. ue-i Af,iwiin . mnweharv of those buy for tne ioremaa or tne jury a
creelng a punishment of death to all mart rushes, and they woikcd html cane, sorao kind of a present forth
offenden. burin tbe early part of .i-k-ntil thev had bailiff who attend the jury, and A
the 17th century there was a law in bim drawn up to one of the slaughter bouquet for the judge who holds the.
Rusiiatocutoff the noses or ail wno oogta at the etlze of the shed, with hie couru - . ." '
smoked. If such a law was inforced LM nPar to tha blood aoakrd Tha jury has legal claim for the
in America to-day this would bo a P.rth. Thcr. at the first snuff of pound of tobacco in every case, but
nation of noteless people King hi., hloo.1. ho heeama almost mad I there is no case recorded where tbe
James Lot England issued a "Coun I : tormr. hat Mean waa boneless, tobacco has been refused and a test
terblaste tobacco," In which he de- with much skill thev cot another case made, un the criminal side or
scribed Its at as "a custom loath- .nnti Utfhad on his hna that drew the courts the judges can, if they de-
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some to ino rye, naicnw mi iuo uov, nt brow wnhin A WOt or tbe post. I imp"" uuu. i munu. vi wbw
harmful to tn Drain, aangcrous to Then the Ioawcs wer thrown offend co instead oi dollar, ado penalty
tho lungs, and in the black, stinking .h. butchers' fun be?an Thev had for wife-beating is from 10 to 100
m . t-l!. .L. I ' . ' . " . . - . .i..T 1 .1 . Ill
lume lliereoi nearest resemuiiiiE ic I ntKnt or limo to n.n. ami thrv nro. i pounus oi tooacco unuer tnej oiu wws.
horrible Stygian smoke ol the pit that Poed to enjoy themselves. Some The old laws, however, are seldom, if
is bottomless." All opposition, bow- uoUD. $osi n,ey wamteit to train ever, entered, for most or them are
ever, was in vain. It use increased .er.midi to tu the thiirh and supplanted by modern ones. Under
and has continued to increase to tne hMi r th rriM.l hn.fn. He the former the courts can piercsA
present day, and it Is now mote pre-1 fuucht etna kicked at them with All red-hot Iron through the tongue of
valctit than at any former time, and u, mi-i,f m ,r,nni itk na ct. 1 every one who blasphemes tne
the luxury of th rich and the poor, I fort .nl In Hinuin i iu.n.!i at I Creator, but thev do not do it. There
or civilized nations ana savage tnoes. cngth stood tock still, moaning, and Is, however, just as good law lor it as
Country Homes endurcfl tho torture, until the dogs there is to hang persons in this Dis
ir( liro.1 r M,a mtrt lint IliO tnetl I iriCU SOmB OVeriCaiOUl vuruuaui
1. 1 inked the enforcement of the law the
The Contested ElectlOa ll Ohio- fcredso keenly and showcMt so first time Robert G.Ingersoll lectared
Laii,.iiii.. m mii h i i,! m I in Washinzton city, but no attention
The Supremo Court announced its I. u,,- Oneof thcra took a great wu paid to the request. Kwa under
decUon In tha Hamilton count con- stone, colnff close to the steer's stood at the lime tnat woi. Aogereou
tested election cases last week, rcver- bea-i, burled it down w ta wen cruel
. . . . accuracy of aim aad devilish force
sing tne aecuion vircu. voun oneoftho long,
oi tnat county ana giving cerHncaire njrinhof,, The horrible agony
of election to the Democratic candi 0f it made the beast roar and bellow,
dates for Senators and Represent- And th men how they did roar
!.. Va AoMAnn ta .nnnunced I With I All filter and cninymebt. i nen
in the mandamus nroccedinir brought another fellow picked . up a snarp
would be delighted with a prosecu
tion of this kind. For doing the
slightest labor on Sun Jay, under the
old Maryland law. from ft. to 50
pound of tobacco was th penalty.
A husband and wiT at Lelpsle,
n.rffl.ntf n a mail . 7.!11arV AjAnt1tf
byth Governor and Secreury of stone, and, taking careful aim. threw annouDced ta their friends through
StaUtowmpelClerkDaltonto StS"tJl!?J teHeSkMrf1111 paper that A
a relura of tb election abtrat from one of the steer s eye. The exeeii .iMtL; Itsi ti. i
Hamilton onuoty to the Secretary or ent throw was loudly appiauuea oy '-
g,ate ' I the scoundrel's comt anions and they been born to .them. ' .