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ADNKiITIJjfcMENTS.
QRAIIAM IIIGII SCHOOL.
REV. D. A. LONG, A. M., Principal.
BENJ. F. LO>'J. A. 8.,
REV. WM. W. iSTALEY, A. 8.,
MRS. SALLIE BOYD.
Session opened Ansmst 38th, 1871, closes
May 28th, 18?5. Board §8 to $lO per month,
(everything furnished.)
Tuition and incidental expenses, $3.50 to
©4.50 per month.
J- A. LO3STG-.
Attorney & Counsellor at Law,
YANCEYVILLE, JV. C.
GRAHAM GRAHAM,
Associate Counsel,
"g~f: bason,
Attorney at Law,
GRAHAM N XV* .
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GRAHAM, N. C.,
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I Tim FAKMEn FEBdItU ALU
j My'l I' d rides through hispalaee gate,
My lady sweeps along ill state;
The sage thinks long ott,many a thing,
And die maiden muses on marrying;
The minstrel harpeth
j The sailor ploughs the foaming sep,
' The huntsman kills thjifcpod red deer,
And the soldier e'en fear; ,
But fall to each wittier befall,
j The farmer he most feed them all.
Smith hammcrethjsfeerry 1 ed the sword,
Priest preachetfi pure the Holy Word ;
Dame Alice worketh broidery well,
Clerk Richard tales of love may tell;
; The tap-wife sells her foaming beer,
' Dan Fisher fisheth in th 6 mere ;
| And courtiers ruffle, strut, and shine,
! While pages bring the gascon ivine ;
But fail to each wliate'er befall,
I The farmer he must feed them all.
1 -■■■ '"-a '•• ' ,
Man builds his castles fair and high,
I Wherever river runneth by;
Great citic> rise in every land,
I Great churches show the builder's hand;
1 Great arches, monuments, and towers,
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers.
Great work is done, be it here or there,
And well man worketh everywhere ;
But work or rest wliate'er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all.
A MIM.ION DOIjIj j% K TBMPI-E,
Air (irH-vn from Ihc Wiy nn*J Artificially
!, 1
tSr"l l in Wiutcr mid Cooled in Sum
mer Wlial n Orcnl Joiirualint did.
Dr. Hall's new Presbyterian Church
on Fifth avenue. New York, is, briefly
described as follows:
The new edifices strikes the eye very
pleasantly. Although massive and ex
pensive, everything is plain and neat.
It is at Fifth avenue and Fiff y-.fi f.h
Street, fronting 200 feet on the latter
and 100 on the former. The front, on
Fifth avenue, has two towers, the main
tower rising 300 feet above the side
walk, 14 feet higher than Trinity spire.
The other tower is IGO loet high. The
main entrance, with four double door
ways, is between the towers, and is
approached by a stone porch 40 feet
broad, with steps. There arc also five
side entrances. There are two oilier
toWers, that at the northwest corner,
100 feet high, being an air shaftto sup
ply the church with fresh air, the air
being taken at the top, to have it pure
and free from (fust. The principal en
trance opjns into a vestibule 45 by 1G
feet. The auditorium is 100 feet deep
on the main floor, 136 feet deep on the
gallery, 45 feet wide, and GO feet high,
with seats for 2,000 persons) The pews
are arranged in concentric curves, every
seat commanding a full view pf the pul
pit. The ground floor and galleries
are inclined as in a theatre. There is a
finely carved canopy over the pulpit,
and above ttils is a gallery for the choir
and the large organ.
.The ceiling is ot wood, with hand,
somely decorated panels and moulded
ribs. There are twenty-four large and
twenty-four windows. Each
window has two sets of sashes, glazed
with staiued glass. Gas jets have been
put between the sashes, so that at the
evening services the stained glass may
be seen both inside and out. The space
between the two sashes is a large ven
tilating flue, drawing the air from the
church through the perforated panels
Of the wainscoting, the current being
increased by the heat ot gas burners
within the space. Every gas burner in
the church is hidden by ornamental
glass work, and supplied with ventila
ting flues, giving a mellow light very
j pleasing to the eye.
The air tower at the northwest cor
! ner supplies pure air, which is drawn
by a tan in the cellar at the base of
the tower, and is worked by a ten
horse power utoam eugine. Ten feet
above the floor of the tower, inside, a
perforated water pipe extends around
the walls, making a shower to cool the
air in the summer and free it from dust,
if necessary. The entire cellar floor
can also be sprinkled, to cool the air.
The tan is of iron, seven feet in diame
ter, and can make 220 revolutions a
minute. The entire cellar is an air and
heating chamber, into which the fan
delivers the air, the, ceiling being cov
ered wi;h a network of steam-heating
pipes. Before the air enters the audi
torium it passes over the steam
pipes, and is warmed. The warm air
eaters the body of the church through
movable slats under the benches of eve
ry pew, and every person iu the pew
can have warm or cold air at his feet,
as he choses. When the cojd air is
forced into the anditorum it enters fifty
feet above the heads of the congrega
tion, so that there can be no drafl. The
steam for heating Is generated in two
fifty-horse power boilers.
The bellows ot tbe organ arc worked
by a hydraulic apparatus, the water
being supplied from a tank in the prin
Jj GRAHAM, N. C., TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1875,
cipul tower, 125 feet above the side
walk, a powerful steam pump forcing
he water from a cistern in the collar oj
the tank, which holds G,OOO gallons.
Near the tank are the fire hose, through
which the entire building can be delu
ged in a few minutes. The cellar walls
arc double, with a space between to
exclude dampness, and alj the drain
and water pipes arc thoroughly ventila
ted .
In the rear of the main auditorium is
a hall ten fefet wide, with twe wide
stairways leading to the galleries,
, Next to the hall, in the rear,.is the chap
el or lecture-room, 75 by 45 feet and
25 fpet high, with a largo gallery on
one end and ladies' parlors on the oth
er, having accommodations for 700 per
sons. There is also a trustees' room
and a minister's room. Over tiio lec
ture room is the Sunday school room,
with three galleries. There are also
several large clasa rooms and a librarj.
Over tho class roams is a flat f>r the
assistant sexton and his lamily. Ail
the pews, gallery, fronts, organ case,
.and all the interior joiner's work are of
the best wood, polished.
The building committee are James
Frnscr. It. L. Stuart, the Hon. John A.
Stewart, Harvey Fisk, Robert Bonner,
and Moses G. Baldwin. A large part
ot the. 1 * 1,000,000 outlay has already
been raised, Robert Jbonner alone hav
ing subscribed SIOO,OOO.
Iltll UAHIMWAV.Ii
The most successful temperance or
ganization in California is that of the
Dashaways. It is entirely independent? |
having no connection with any of the
large orders. It was formed at an ear
ly date in the history of San Francisco,
by a-knot of old volunteer firemen of
precisely the same type as those who
once "ran with the machine" and mann
ed the brakes in Baltimore. Becoming
disgusted with themselves after a pro
longed spree, they made a sudden re
solve to "dash awuy" the cups from
their lips, and in their engine-house was
developed the nucleus of tlie present
j society. .Their association is 0110 of
mutual benefit, and grants financial aid
to sick members. They own a large
hall, and a most- lucrative piece of prop
erty, in great demand for public purpo
ses, and have founded a Homo for the
Inebriate, while their Sunday evening
meetings, fcr a period of fifteen years,
have been sustained with uncommon
interest and vigor. This is chiefly ow
ing to the fact that their Sunday eve
ring platform is open to speakers on all
topics, except politics and theology. It
is sought and occupied by leading phy
sicians, lawyers, journalists, and gen
tlemen devoted to special pursuits.
Tnere is always a press of liuch volun
teer speakers, and able ones, too. There
is a musical occupying
half the eveuing, which is by no- moans
discreditable, and rcr.dings by leading
actors often vary the exorcises. The
hall is always crowded, and the Dasha
ways roll of membership is constantly
increasing. Perhaps some of the tem
perance organizations in this county
might profit by the encouraging experi
ence of the Dashawa/s of California.
We shall live, soys the Tribune for
several years to come in a rainy season
of "centennial'' claims. One hundred
years ago almost every part of the colo
nies was animated by the same patriot
ic spirit, aud local pride, stimulated by
local tradition is now unusually active.
Thus the people of £ast Westminister,
Vt., assert that the 'first blood,' of tho
Revolution was shed within their limits
011 the 13th of March 1775, wlieu Wil
liam French and Daniel Houghton were
shot in the court-yard by Tories, thu«
securing a monument which ha* been
erected to their memory by the State.
This bears the name% of the pair of pro
to-martyrs, and epitaph copied
from the headstone of William French.
"Here William Frencn, ,his body lies'
For Murder his Biocd for vengeance
-cries: King George the Third, his Troy
crew' Tha with the ball his head shot
through; For Liberty and his Country's
good. He lost his life and his dearest
.blood." They were noble men in those
days, but just a little shaky in their or
thography, to say nothing of their poet
ry. And yet this doggerel is serious
enough: It is impossible to laugh at it,
for it contains all the elements cf an
epic. Most of us have at times had our
"heads shot through" with a ball, met
aphorically only of the leaden kind.
William French had probably dischar
ged something of that sort at the Troy
crew; there was a good deal of the loqd
and strong expression flying about in
those days.
Although a woman's age is undenia
bly her own, she docs not own it.
THE IIACKnAN IN I'OIH'I'.
>-■ "Your name is—is —what?" asked
the Court.
"Davey, sir; George Davcv."
"And you work at—what?"
I s - "Drive hack."
"Ah, lial" smiled his Honor, acquir
ing suden interest; "this is worth twen
ty dollars to me. You arc one of those
men who stand on the edge of the walk
at depots and shout 'llax!' at people."
',l have to git passengers, sir."
"Don't sass mo back, Mr. Davey—l
know all about you I Only the other
day, as I returned from a May-day par
ty in the country, there were one mill
ion five hundred and sixty-five thou
sand three hundred and ninety-two of
you on tho curb stone' and every one oi
you yelled 'Hax l' at trie. One seized
my satchel, another grabbed at my coat,
and anpther pulled me backward by
the coat tails. I believe you are that
irian
'• 'Deed, sir, I haiiiU^
"Well, it's barely possibly that I am
mistaken; but here's a charge that you
were lying on tho walk drunk "
"I wasn't sir; I was sitting up along
side a house."
"Thai's too fine a point to argue.
Were you drunk ?"
"Only a little sprung sir; only a little
sprufVg." . ' '
"That's just as bad in the sight of
the law, and I ought to fine you $700,"-
"Grashus! but I could.'never pay
that." ' .•
"No; my object would bs to keep
you in prison all your days."
"Oh, lot up on a feller," pleaded the
prisoner. "This is the first time and it
shall bo tho last. I've a large family,
sir, and they need my wages to get
their bread."
His Honor took a long time to think
and then replied :
" It's wrong to let you rnn oft*. The
citizens will condemn me, and the
newspapers will blow at me, bul I be
lieve I will give von a show. Yon may
go, but I shall keep a watch over yotu-
You must mend your wav& right off.
Instead of yelling ' Hax! at a man do
you smile and softly whisper: ' Sir, can
I have thcplsasurc of conveying von to
some designated point?" Promise me
this?"
The prisoner promised, and was al
lowed to disappear, limping sadly with
a sore heel.
The Shelbyville (Tcnn.) Gazette
says: "There is a weed growing in one
or two of tho gardens of tlii.s place
which in possessed of wonderful and
valuable curative properties as regards
that terrible disease, gravel in tho blad
der. It is claimed by those who have
given it a thorough test, and know
whereof they speak, that it will cure the
worst case of gravel in twelve or twen
ty-four hours; that it will give almost
instant relief, and will dissolve the
worst gravel in twelve hours; that it
has been tried in hundreds of cases and
was never known to fail in effecting a
speed)- and permanent cure. In one
case in this couuty, where it was ad
ministered, and under the observation
of an old and regular practicing physi
cian, it passed from the bladder of a
patient, within twelve hours after it
was given, three tablespoonsfui of grav
el and sand. It is good alike for man
and beait, and is a splendid diuretic.
There is a goodly quantity growing in
the garden of .Mr. L. W. Barret, in this
place. It is known here by the name ot
'gravel weed.' aud was brought to this
country in tho summer of 1834, from
Morgan county, Alabama, by Mr.
Thomas Knott, an old citizen of thi9
county, who now resides near this
place.' v
IIIJIEME HBKNSBV.
Two brothers named Gafi have estab
ed a mammoth hennery in Colorado,
ten mile# from Denver. It ooverii four
acre*, which is laid out like a village
with streets and avenues, along which
arc built long rows of houses of various
designs. Ilegular families of heus are
assigned to these houses, and it is tonnd
that they quickly domesticate them
selves, without troubliug their neigb
bors. The population of the village is
about two thousand, divided closely into
social cliques of Brahma*, Cochins,
Shanghaes, and Dorkings, and the chief
products are eggs and spring chickens.
Sundays included, the industrious ma
trons of the village turn out daily from
forty to fifty dozen of eggs, which are
sold in Denver for from thirty to fifty
cents a dozen. The brothers Gaff ex
press but a single regret, and that is
that they did not found their colony
fifteen years ago, when eggs brought
five dollars a dozen, and a spring chick
was worth a pennyweight of gold dust.
STATISTICS OF DOMESTIC AN.
inu-N
An English professor lias reported
some carious statistics in regard to : the
proportion of live stock to the popula
tion in tho most prominent countries
in the w,orld. It appears that Great
Britain has one cow to every twelve
persons, a sheep for everybody, and
one pig for every six. Franco has a
like proportion of sheep a double share
comparatively of cows and only .one
pig to every six persons. The Swedes
have a cow between three and one-half
of them, a sheep between two and three
quarters, and a pig to a baker's dozen.
There are as many feheep as there are
Norwegians in Norway when they arc
all at home, and two and one-half of
them—the Norwegians—are entitled to
a cow; they can have only one-eight
eenth of a pig eac'i. Denmark lias a
cow for three persons, as many sheep
as persons, and a pig for four and three
quarter persons. Prussia with her uni
prmity, has an equal number of cows
and pigs, one to every five inhabitants,
besides a sheep apiece all round. Aus
tria has a cow to six persons, and a
sheep and a pig to every five persons.
SwUzland urns up to the Swedish
standard on cows, one to three and one
half persons, and has a sheep for five,
and a pig for every seven and one-half
persons. Omitting the records oi niauy
smaller countries it is interesting to
know that we Americans have a cow
for every four of us, a sheep apiece, and
a pig to every one and one one-half.
Harper's Weekly.
A SOFT THING FOR CONFEDERATE
GENERALS. —GeneraI Colston and Gen
Loring, ex-Confederate soldiers, both
high up in the 6ervico of His Majesty
of Egypt, are making character as sol
diers and great credit as explorers of
Africa. The former is now in Upper
Nubia, and the latter in Ceutral Africa,
and both "marching along." And that
reminds us of what tho Bulgarian priest
of the Greek Church, who was here tho
other day, said about our Confederate
generals whom he met when travelling
iu Egypt. He spoke particularly of Lor
ing, who seems to have impressed him
most favorably. But lie spoke in terms
of condemnation of his apostasy to ids
religion, and told us what wo didn't
know hefo:e, that in accepting office
from the Khedive they had to giro ill
their adhesion to the religion of Ma
hoinet. Loiug gets SSOO a month and
lives like an Egyptian magnate —his
establishment |pcluding a very respect,
able harem, without which he would
be a nobody with no pretensions ill re
spectable society .—Meridian (Mist)
Mercury.
Idaho City brags on a pair of boots—
maue in that town. They are supposed
(o beat any boots ever worn. They are
of fine leather, with gohl-tipped toes
and heels of gold. These boots arc to
be worn by tho high sheriff on the
streets of Idaho ucxt Fourth of July,
when there i* to be a festival celebrat
ed. After the boots have been broken
in by the slier id they are to be sent 0
the Centennial exhibition in Philadel
phia of 1876. Tho boots are valued at
SIOO in gold, and there is just a possi
bility that somebody may walk of! with
them before the time of the exhibition*
111 that case the greatest boot manufac
turing city in the country will never
seo the finest pair of boots ever made.
And now tl»e Bt. Louis Democrat»
which has been very loyal, . begins to
kick in the traces.- Listen to It: "There
is even in New England States a body,
of vote! s powerful enongb to briug ov
erwhelming defeat or complete victory
to cither party, who are sincerely at
tached to Republican principles, but
utterly hostile to the policy which has
recently prevailed in the Be publican
party. That policy they regard as at
war with Republican principle. Tho
word, enemies of the country/ they
think, are not the Democrats who hon
estly hold false opinions, but the creat
ures who use Itepublican professions to
enable them to plnnder the conntry—
the Jobber* like Butler and Cameron,
and the carpet-baggers who beg for still
harsher measures to kelp them in pow
er.
A BKWABD OFFERED.— A' Wabash
avenue man suggests that if Mrs. Moul
ton will take out a patent on her mode
of kissing an outsido man in such a way
that he will not kiss hack, he will pay
SIO,OOO for the right to use it In Chica
go alone. 110 thinks the demaud among
married men with kissing wives would
be "6imply immense." He forgets tljat
perhaps the wives wouldn't use the
patent even if their husbands bought
and made them a present of it.
NO. 16.
A WORD THAT WAS WO* IJT
OKOEK.
T ltf Charleston News and Cotfrier
prefaces its report of the Southern Bap
tist Convention by the recital Of the fol
lowing incident that occured during a
former session of the Convention in
Charleston, jDr. Mcll was President of
the Convention at the time:
When the Southern Baptist Conveu
tiou met in Baltimore, in the yew 1868,
the fraternal message of the Northern
Baptist Convention was discussed, and
the venerable Dr. Welch, of New York,
had the floor, and during a fraternal
and conciliatory speech, in which he
was endeavoring to show that he did
not censure his Southern brethren
harshly for their course during the war,
as Southerners, he observed: ♦* Why,
brother President, if I had been living
in the South, such are the impulses of
my heart, that I should, no doubt, have
been one of the leaders of the rebellion I"
Instantly, at the utterance of the last
word, down came rhe President's gavel
sharply, and Dr. Mcll said, in his firm
est but most courteous tcnes, "the
Chair rules that word out of order on
tljis floor.".
" Why, brother President, what shall
I call it then, sir?" meekly asked Dr.
Welch.
" The chair will not presume to dic
tate, sir, but be insists upon Ids ruling,
that the word 4 rebellion,' in that con
nection, is out of order. He shall bo
hold unless you appeal from the decis
ion of the chair?" Do you appeal sir?
" No, brother President, I do not
appeal," responded Dr. Welch meekly,
and there were not a few staunch adhe
rents of the late " so-called Southern
Confederacy" present, who inwardly
rejoiced that any respectable body the
word " rebellion" could be ruled out of
order.
Tne VINKMHD HnOOTISfG.
Mr.. Carruth, the Vineland editor
Who was shot through the head by Mr.
Landis; still lives, and his caso is
markable in the annals of surgery. His
hommpa'hic doctors, who were called
in tho case to the exclusion of one of
the most celebrated surgeons of Phila
delphia, have g'ven him but one medi
cino from the beginuing. They have
administered arnica internally with tho
view to prevent inflamation, and not
attempted any surgical operation. Tho
orifice of tho wound is fact contract
ed, and the use ot the probo is consid
ered, injudicious. The ball is supposed
to have lodged near the eye, upou the'
skull, and should it becoaie eurysted'
there is hope that the patient may re
cover. That he still Jives and is con- .
scious is either a marvel of nfeture or
a triumph of medical skill.
There is an isolated monastery in
Turkey inhabited by twenty-three
monks, who have not seen a woman
since infancy. One of them is described
by a visitor as follows: "He had never
seen a woman, nor had he auy idea
what sort of things woineu were, nor
what thev looked like. He asked me
whether tbey resembled the pictures of -
Pansgia (the holy virgin) which bong
in- every churcb. Ho listened with
great interest while I told hint thai all
women were not exactly like the pic
tures he had seen, and that tbey differed
considerably one from auother in ap-
Itearance, manuers and understanding.''
Exchange.
CosisriiPTiox IN PHILADELPHIA. —
Philadelphia loses 2,200 of her inhabi
tant* every year by consumption. The
papers of that city attribute that large
mortality from the source of the defect
ive drainage and the brick sidewalks,
which latter atoorb and give off inois-
I aire like a sponge. The persistent ens- '
' torn of washing pavements is condemn
ed by the press' as greatly destructive -
of human life. The Pliiladelpliians, it
is well known, are prepetuelly washing
their front door-steps and pavements,
deluging the poople with spray.
Princess Galatzin, of RussU, has in
vented a new bridal veil, which flta on
the shoulders and looks liko mosquito
Wings. Under the hallucination of love
the bride-groom Is supposed to think
the wearer more angelic than ever.
Miss Xiles, tho new-made bride of
Gen. Bodeau, is the half sister of Eugene* Ipyj
Sue and one of the twins ireutioned by
him in the " Wandering Jew."
r An * invention is reported ( rom Par
wbicb, it is said, is likely to do away
with tbe nse of matches.—The inven
tion consist' of an electric battery snail
enough to be carried in one's wnistcoa
spocket, and nl fi\« cents.