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i I XI f X 1 X .. . . - , i.. .... . ' , . " ' - . -. VOL.1. THE CONDUCT OF LIFE. . Jie it good that we do, let us Jo it,; ..' ; ' - Giving soul and our strength to the uVl 4 L-t 4is pierce the hard rock ud pae through it, . ' Aud compass the thing that we need, t,loe fate, ns a daik !adr hang orer, "', And corer our head from the light 7 C ' Does hate tnock the heart pt the lover t V " Mnat tirroug be the victor of light f. I j :-' -'."'- "-' ,Yet i fate there ! freedom for each one ' . To make or to mar, as he will ; - - And tlie Loha bf ill fortare thai reach one -May maim, hut they. oeVer fchali kill. . . Kver onward and upward puriuliiff . ' The aim that U thinefor the day, . '"""AddiDg strength to thy strength by thy doing J I ; pti ahait gam it, Dor faint by tne way. And tLoagTj thou art burial jkb small things Iiv thy utnoet m tltAi. a)4 it aii tilings. ' Thou still shall he uolde and free. . Duet thou Tore f let it te with full measure ; 1 Nor roiugja 'with colduess or hate Of others the joy f thy pleasure, Tke jwisslou that crowus thy estate. Be to every man just ; and to women Be gentle, and tender and true ; For thy own do thy best ; but-for no mau l)o less than a brother should do. . ' So living thy days full to number, In peace thou shall pas to the grave ; Thou shnlt lie down and rest thee, and slumber, Delored by the good aud the brave. . Tlutleyt Magazine. THE JUDGE'S STJRPBISE. I From the Fratcico Argonaut.. The day was bitterly cold ii Virginia City, as winter days most generally are in that Alpine town, and, though the sun was briglit, its rays were as cheerless and chill j a most as 'moonbeams.'. "Wild jrusts whis tled through the streets, breathing icicles and frost in their furious course, and driv- dug- every living thing away to seek shel ter from its biting, penetrating breath. And j yet not every one' was housed and sheltered from the pitiless gale, for ho who had work to do or. business to transact was .summoned bv inexorable dittv to come forth to his post, or else, when the day of .reckoning came, abide by the consequences. Of thi'se luckless exceptions, Abe Dt-nuing, the baker, was one. In sunshine or storm, bail, rain or snow, people must eat ; eat, In fact, alj the more voraciously because it does bail or snow, as if to . perpetrate an unseasonable joke- upon the baker, who, especially in appetizing weather, must sec to i t th a t his c!to 'T grs lard era be t ro per yiTurernriuTt STSuT VTtP tionsvf kis'tivcn. : ' Ji'en sucli cold weather as this dittnot .deter Mr. Denning from attending to the wants of his customers with the assiduity and attention .characteristic f his class. AVhile disappearing iuto a enstonter's house with nil arm fill of bread, a girl of some fifteen years of age emerged from a miner's cabin close by, and, first casting wild and hurried glances around her, ruslied to the baker's cart, and had just abstracted thcre- .. from three loaves of bread, and was carry ing tbem off, when the baker returned and caught her in the act. Unfortunately, an officer was passing just at the timejand the baker, on the spur of the moment, and without giving the " case that consideration which ho otherwise ruiht, gave her in 'custody on a charge of theft. jThe girl, without any attempt" at expostulation or explanation, burst into an ao-ony tears a sufficient evidence, pi rhaps. ' thatJdie was but a novice, after all,-iu the art of stealing. . . 'Oh !" she exclaimed, "don't take tne 'ia this way. Let, mc wrap a shawl arouud inr bend or the people-will know me." Th officer, consenting, accompanied her into the cabin, while the baker drove away, ' telling the policemen he would be in court next ilay, to prefer tho charge before the police jndre.' . ; " - The officer, on entering, found no one ! in thecabin but threejchildren the young est about three years old, a"nd theeldest six. The hut was cold and cheerless; there was no fire. The two elder children, alarmed at the presence of ther officer, ex Libited discolored i eyes and faces, which bore evidence of suffering and reoeut tears; while little Willie, tho youngest was cry in and inappeasable, moping aimlessly around the cabin, looking into tho empty - closet, and putting lib? little Lands me chanically into the empty; dishes on the table. "What made yon gteal the bread, my -v BokoI th officer. At mention of the word "bread" little 'Willi looked tear fully and piteonsly in the man's face. The girl hogged the little fellow frantically in her arms, covering, him with-tears aud "Ob, my poor little'brolher V she cried, Tbitterly. "What will become of yon now!" This man is going to take your .Lena away ti-. t,o threw bis arms around "ter neck, as if to detain tier by force; while 1, otl.Pr two children screamed piteously. Tbe officer "sospecting the actual state . Tjf affairs, began to investigate. "Is there no coal, or nothing at all to f in tliA lionReT" said he. v Tin bread- nothing to cat !" H" W "v I r - tn1iorl tbfl frirl. wrinffinir her hands; ami poor Willie and therest of ns have had rmthino-to eat since yesterday morning." Here the officer went away, saying that - 1 . . i i he would be back again in irbuoiiinnt:. "Is the man gone for bread f.-asked the oldest of the children. ,lT TT.R1-Mollie. dear r said Lena "I 6Wt know what he Is gone for. He's not ' a bad matt, anyhow, fr he hasn t arrested - me, as 1 thought be woula. In a very few minutes tho officer re ' turnedjwitu bread and greceries, not for getting some cakeaand condimenta fnrih smallest chrildren ; while another man it his heels carried a tig sack of coal on Lis "acts. . : i At sight of the bread the children scream ed with delight, and while Lena cot np large slices of bread, aid helped the chil dren and herself the two men set to work and made a large J fire in the stove, the giow oi wincii soon diUused warmth and comfort through the cabin Then then they cooked the meat, aud made lea. and spread a steaming meal on the table for me four orphans, -while they carved and attended to. their wants till they were fully satisfied. " . :' Happy, happy childhood, whose pre- rogatives are innocence, mirth 'and. jr ! ni i -t i . .. .. ue ceuuren, alter their dinner, li.l67t Imik like the same children at all; Their faces were bright and joyous, happy and. Land some; and in. a ff-. minufta the"v were rpiiryttjg'ijud ta(rnii?mTif!!rpg py as li luey baa never felt the pang of hunger.. ( V - 'f.4And now," ssiid the officer, delighted at seeing the children so happy, "sit down, Lena, and atfswer me -a Jew questions. Have yon no father or mother f, "We have mother," was Lena's reply. "She died alout a year ago, ami father went away to Eureka, to work, about eight months ago, and we hain't seen him ever since:" .1 "What is your father's name!" "Dawson Jim Dawson." 'And he has sent vou no inmicr no thing!" . j "Nothing. Never heard of him since he went away. But when he was going he left lis a bag of flour, and lots of gro ceries and things j-as much as would last us for six months J and said he'd be sure and be back before the provisions were all out." m "And you rotno letter from him at all !" ! "Not one," 'replied Lena, with a deep ! ,lor Dawson hud written to his chil dren, however, but, postal communi cation beiiig at that time very irregular and uncertain in j tho Silver State, the children did not receive bis btt-rs.- "Well, I must go now," snid-the officer, after a pa.tse, "but I will call lor you to morrow, and you'll have to accompany me to . the police office fur I must do my duty you know. Good bye." Ami Lena Daw son was left alone wilh her little brothers and sisters. She felt sad and lonesome after the departure of her kind benefactor, but the buoyancy of childhood soon gained tho ascendency, and before bed time the orphans were as L.-iimv as anv rrour of little children in Virginia City. of the bread and the destitute condition of the children got abroad. Jim Dawson," n miner himself, was well known anil opu- lar among the miners, and the case created such sympathy, and elicited so many remi niscences ami commentaries that quite a crowd Was attracted next day to the police court. Judire Moses presided. Theiude bore the name of being upright ami honest, kind and benevolent and if fault he had at all, it was thought to be a some what " uncompromising rigor in the dis charge of his official duties. It was hard to say how the case would go. After the transaction of some preliminary business, the case was called. The baker sw ore to the stealing of Le' bread, and identified the defendant as! the thief. The officer testified to 'the famishing condition in which he found the children, but aid not a syllable about what he had done to re lieve them. Poor Lena stood trembling before the judge. - Thereupon a miner rnstled through the crowd and stood be fore the bench, eyeing the judge with a deprecating look.' "I declare to the AI mightv, jedge," said he, ""I never knowed the state of Jim Dawson's children, and if I did " he dropped a twenty into Lena s trembling hand, j "You jest knowed as niuch about it as other folks" exclaimed another miner, excitedly, walking up and putting another tweutv into the girl's hand with an indig mint air that flung back any latent suspi cion that he knew anything of the chil dren's distress aiiy more than anybody else. . J Here Long Alec, a miner so called on account of his height and size slid timidl v aud bashfully up to Lena's side. "Leeuy," he said in a half whisper, "Lotd yer pina fore," ami he slipped twa twenties into her apron, ami then slid liacH (bii)U toe crowd into a corner, and, holding his hat to his face, glanced timidly amnnd, to see that he was completely ouf of eight. Then came Wabbling Joe, who' was far more basufnl than even Long Alec, out pot on a bold face, ami laughed ami talked loud to make believe that he was not bash ful at all. "Jedge," said i Wabbling Jae", laughing and nodding familiarly at the court to ids arm that functionary of possible rigor, in the trial of the case in hand "jedge, let the girl slide. She ain t done nothing but what ton or I would do if we was bun grv !" And oor Lena was once more the recipient of another present The Court held.dowu his head and sraied gravely at Wabbling Joe's defence of the accused ; but immediately recover ing his gravity, said : "Gentlemen, I appreciate your liberality and generous sympathy for the young offender, ami am particularly .impressed with the ino-emous defence made ly my friend. Wabbling Joe" here a good natured laugh escaped the whole crowd, as if to put the judge its good humor "but," continued his honor, "whatever might bo the sympathy of the court for the sad condition of the accused, there is a public duty to be performed, and the case must therefore proceed. "What is your name, my girl!" asked the Court, FAYETTE VI-LLE, "They call me Lena Dawson, sir," was Aoe reply. ;"Call you Lena Dawson I And I sup pose ieaa IJ.uvson is vour name, is it not: observed the imbre. m . . "No, sir, it Ain't " 11 U I, returned tho girl. rlly father died when I was onlv thtee- cars cii, anl toy mother trot marrie. to . Jlr. Dawson some, time afterward. My proper name is Madelino Y inters.' but they call me Lena, for short." "Madeline Winters! . Where were yon I In .... iorn i nsKetl the jmlge . "Iti Kansas Citv, sir. was the rcnlr. "In Kansas City !" echoed tho court, in a voice o; still deeper gravity than before "And what was vour mother's maiden name, do yoii knowt . f "Madeline Moses, sir," responded Iena. 'Mla.telme Moses ! My tiodj my Ood ! She.was.ny itir !". , , Jinlgw Mose i, pyercrri' " wither inToti o?Twea Lis head on ttie iesk wlitle aT tor rent of tears flowed down his face. Just asf the crowd, in oledience to the dictates of delicacy, were emerging from the police court, to let undo ami neice indulge the sacred joy of mutual recogni tion, Jim Dawson appeared at the door, having just returned from his prospecting tour in l'ureka, and, with an innate sense of propriety that did honor to his acquaint ances, who were all rejoiced to see him, was quietly permitted to. join his relatives inside. X7. S. Grant Jr's Broken Enffajement. Tho version of Miss FYood's friends is that the' former and her mother went to the mountains with the underlanding that young Grant should join "them in a day or two. Instead of doing so he wrote to say that he was sick and could not come until the nest day, neglecting to add that his malady was sickness of the bargain. The next day he wrote that his illness con tinued, and he must again postpone his coming. And so it went on from day to day, until tho story 'reached 31 iss Jennie's ears that Ulysses was industriously flirt ing with other women 'down here." Then she got out the sal volatile and wept, and said ho did not care for her, and wanted to marry her only because of her money, and she vowed he sho'uld never have a tingle silver brick, not even n solitary wad, ami she broke off the cngigemeut. The ver sion of young Grant's friends is that the wedding was the' f.uiev of the old folks and that thev talked their children into the engagement, while their own inclina tions were not over ardent. After obli gingly and filially plighting faith they separated. Ulysses going Kast and fall- imr denrrntel v in ln' uilli another fill 'Alter siou for months w ithont i weakening its force--io fact, fighting it out on that line all sumiuur. according to the family pro verb he resolve 1 to come here in the fall and state the case fairly. This, thev sav, was his sudden errand here, and he per formed his duty. i Which version is correct it is hard to determine at present, society here being very much divided noon the question, and oniv 'certain or tne one momentous laci that the iou h-t-ilkeil-of engagement is off. ! San franciscu Chronicle. Bajcckoft, the Histokiax, Cele- IIKATF.S 1 WO INVENTS. ) bi.nil.iy last the venerable George B.tr.croft "celebrated, at .fv lork, the anniversary ol his eightieth birthday and the completion of his great work, the "History "of the Lid ted Slates, from the Discovery of America to the Inauguration of the Federal Constitu tional System in 1789." The tenth vol ume of the original edition, carrying the history to the end of the revolutionary pe riod, was completed and published in 1S74. Mr. Bancroft then devoted a year to a careful revision and condensation of the whole work, which was isssned iu 187G,in six volumes, as tne centennary euuion. His later labors have been devoted to the history of the formation of the government oi me uniiC't otaics net ween uie vears 17S3 ami 17S9, an. I it is this work, as rounding ami completing his history,' of which the copy was-ready to be" given out to the printers on Saturday last. The his tory, which was la-gun in 1825, ami has just been bronght to a. close fifty-five years later, has won for Mr. liaucroit Hie Ugliest ret utaliou as a historian, and altliougu it has not escaped criticism as indicating ins Northern bias ami as dicing, scant justico to sme of the ablest of tho revolutionary statesmen and soldiers, it will probably continue to !e the stamlant History oi me United States for many years to cotye. Bolt. Sun, Oct 5. The Reichsbank tf Berlin does not seeiii pleased at the b'eavy drain of gold tawhich it has In-en sutje-tel, and rt resorts to a wood many obi familief "lodges" in onler to check "it. The government has raised the rlte of discount to 54 per cent. The bank gives out that silver ought to be ta ken on draft and check as well as gold, and its aents intimate to merchants that if thev contribute to the drain of gold they must "not expect the bank to accommodate them so liU-rallv. A Hamburg t tanker who bad an onler on the Iteichstiank for one million marks wn-ut ui person to the bank to receive tb coin. It was paid out to him a niece at the time. This icminds Kme of the system resorted to by the maim -ers of the obi "wildcat banks ju this country, who, when they expected a "ruu for coin, used to provide a cartload of dimes picayunes ami levies," and pay iheiii out over the counter, in the sure hoje that the receiver would Ikj exhausted In-fore the bank vaults gave out. TheGerman bank's singular proceedings have naturally cause.: a good deal of alarm, the more su us the urotortioii which silver bears to jold is not EtateJ io its ret urns' of coiD. 2at7. Sun 2ST. C.j THURSDAY, About Hon. Thccaaa II. Uexitaa. " From the Char!! Democrat, 3 Nett Yokic, Sept. 2i, 1SS0. Editor Charlotte Democrat ; It u a (so as m ell as a generous J;.:u injunction, to speuk no ill'of tho dea-t, Yet there are occasions in wjicli thn may be, and ought to Le, disregardeiL'i I think one bf these cases srises from ib recent remarks hi the Democrat and other";. ;) ptri in regard to Mr. Benton lapse fioci integrity whilst a student at Chapel Hil'i some seventy five or ci5hty years a.$nA I'tsee that you doubt the fact, nod iuijVje" the charge against him to jealousy Mthe part'of bis College mates. ; But tht , -t or his guilt on the occasion cannot lc ecesfully dis puted. Yon well knoc" .at a pure and truthful genllemany 4 friend and neighbor, Jnlg "Xi', X lie had a happened thus: Jd,gv 'jrben "a little rnut of a boy," ns he expressed it, found lienton at the University when ho enter ,,! rt..n and took a fancy to the small one, shov- ing him kindnesses which led to au inti macy. On one occasion, observing that Benton had been much depressed for a day or two ho venture! tttask the cause. ili...n ...... .. i. i : t ii..... v n iinvcjii'u iivtri a o.iki iviiiini. a. Whereupon, with strong feeling, he said, that being called npm for payment of some College lines, which be hai not the nionev to meet bnt was in daily expectation of receiving from home; he had takeu from the trunk of his room-mate money which be had known was there, expecting to be able to return it before its absence should bo discovered. That in this he had been disapiointed ho had been j suspected, charged with tho abstraction, and had con. fessed it. He was expelled from the So ciety, ami left without graduating. I be lieve it is a well known fact that in after years, when Mr. Benton had become su eminent man, senator in Congress, 5ce.. the Society "expunge!"' its res4ilutiin of expulsion, and lit is said, though that h mot so certain, that Col. B. bade them "go to h1." This is not the only iiiipntntion ntmn the integritvtif Col. Beutn. If I rccolU-ct aright, his colleague, Mr. Barton, his bit ter enemy, openly charged him, on the fl or of the Senate, peil:ajs forty or more vears ago, with having withheld money collected fr his clients in Missouri, unn perhaps other -pccudillocs, and defied him to resent the charges, either personally or by suit for slander, or by sKech in the Senate. But it seemed that in this case I? ...... .... ....... l.n m.nr ..f ... 1.. Nothing ever came of itio fur. as I know'. Ilarton was nick-named Jiule-Ued," from Col. Benton,, an d'thir lAloroP hi his fce or ijair, ot lioth.. All them things occurred in tho early ifo of Col. Benton. It is far more plea sant to record that his later years were listingnished for integrity and domestic I virtues ofthe highest jnrlert as well as for great taleiits ami valuSle public services. His earlv faults, were blotted out by an irreproachable nfter life. . And the moral deducade from all this, which makes it iusliriablo to detail it, is, J that as every -fond parent expect, his or her son to be Fresi.lenf, or Congressman, and Constable, or at bast to be a camli- late for some such oflices, they should be careful to instil into his mind the neces sity of integrity in all conditions, for they may be sure that the Uv's sins will find. him out whenever ho comes befoce the world as a candidate. It is well known that Col. Benton was particularly indite and attentive to North I Cafolinians with whom 5o came in contact I either in Missouri or in Washington. Io Judge T he was in the habit of sending interesting and valuable public tlocninonts. I am under the impression that thev met oncost the Virginia Springs, when it is not likely that any ullsion was made bv either to the Chapel Hill nffair. Our Sen- ator Ha v wood once told me of the strong regard nlwavs manifested for him by Col. Benton--attentions which, were of great service to mm, a young senator aun man, rrom an old and eminent Senator. Indeed, he and Silas Wright, the giant Senator from New lork, took sach a fancy to Mr. Hay w6ol that they desired to make hun Constitutioa which reqnirtsl them Vo pro-Vice- Presideut of the Lnited Spates. tect this fund as a sacred trust, and yet ir. Note. Judge Toomcr, we presnme, is thn (rentleiiuin alluded to bnur csteeme! correspondent. who-f Ss tV Chapel Hill a .1 with Beuton. He was au old man when w first remember of Seeing him in Fay etteville, but he w as well kftown as a gen- iinin.iii ni irrc i ii!ii-.n:ioiH 1111'iniLV. kinii- hearted nnd charitable towards all men. When riiling his Circuit os Superior Court Judge, wc remember of hearing it said that he allowed no one, not even his man-servant, to cuter his bed-room before nine o clock iu the looming, so determined was he to have a quiet morning nap. 1x7. Democrat. Retorted Sale of a Newspaper. I The New York Sun enrt: "We learn that Mr. Jay Gould has completed the purchase of the World newspaper of this city, and is now its proprietor. The suin paid for it to Thomas A. Scott, of Pennsylvania, its previous owner, is not told, bnt it is under stood to be considerably less than Col. Scott paid forlt when he loiight if of Mr. Muuton Marble. I he selling unco at that time was 3400,000." The Great Eastern is soon to depart from Liverpool for New Orleans on her initial trip in the cotton trade. 1 he offi cers and crew are to have a publio welcome on their arrival at New Orleans. If a groove is made in a hen roost and filled with a mixture of Urd aud sulphur, the fowls will Dot be troubled with lice. OCTOBER 14, 1880; Dr. "Worth. Speh. On Tuesday Oct 5th; Dr. J. 31. Wortb Public Treasurer, 'addressed tho people at Greeosboro. The snbsunre of his remarks Te find in the Patriot, as follows: . . . the Doctor ea arising prefacod. Ids re -ft mark a uy saying, that Le was a native of Guilford eoowty, raised among her people, and though oil his life taking an active interest in public j affnirs,; and sometimes holding puhbd jKJsitionft, he was not a f eech-uiaker in the ordinary acceptation of tho word, in fact had never made a speech five minutes long in his life;- aad wonld not attempt to make a speech mow. Those who knev bicu would not exect it from him. His province as Treasurer of iNortu Cnrolma wss to ?eI in iigures ot figures of speech and it was fi nrea and cold, solid .'jets fc proposod to dcu). n now. ' I d.Ja ts ovnTidatn. firct ble way to coutrasrthe adniinisation "of tho Kopuhlicans dunnj? tho time thoir ha. I control of the'tstato and thai of the Dem 8,"? ""."nie into w-ersub milting the cold, unvarnished figures as taken from the books In his office to veri fy Lis statements. novr the! figures stakd. 1 i He then read from the record the cost to tho tax payers of the Legislatures from lSGS t tho last special term. Tho mile age au1 per diem ran : 1SGS-D 1S70-71 S430.05S.CO 2I2,$93.3.S lG9,30a.SO 109;234.S0 81.S23.40 L !S72-73 '74 '76 1S79 '80 including the special SCS.-IOIl 71,293.80 He called attention to the fact that the one term of tho Legi.-laturc of 1SCS to ISG9 nnler the Radicals cost twice as much as the succeeding term under tho Democrats an l six times as iiincli as the last term mentioned. I In the two vears from 1SG3 to 1770 the Radicals swnt S2,09G,94.52, while the Democrats in the four years since the elec tion of Gov. Vance, when thev had exclu sive control of the State government, spent 1 40,712.03. j Out of these two millions or more IfPnt by the Kaibcals. there was not an inm ran tmug.it, nor a line ui.tde bn our internal improvements, while the iK-mo- ctats hal paid out of the two millions one hundred and forty-six thousand seven hun dred and twelve dollars exoendu t bv them I THE FO&LOVriSO SUMS i For, iron, interest ou bonds . and support of, con .jQa .11 jstern N . C. ra "5"rr,rjwr Fr Western Insane Asylum 180,000 For colored Insane Asvlutu at Gldsboro I 42,500 30,000 Cape anl Yadkin Valley .railroa! For Normal schools, white and black t 12,000 For Oxford Orphan Asylum G.000 20S.3S9 03 For outside lunatics As against this sliowing by the Deino- crats the onlv thing he found when he en- tered his otlice that the State had gotten for all the money' the Radicals spent was it was lefield uild a a little red book! ul eu M. S. Lull was State printer1, telling how to build school house. That's all. I I THE SCHOOL FCXD. The Doctor next called attention to that I plank in the Republican platform which professes such devotion to tho" causo of popular education and produced the figures from the recotd to show the arrant hypo-J crisy of their pretensions iu this respect. Tit? FUiURKS. From 1SG0 to 1S70 they collected S32S,- 501.12, and out of this sum they expended for the children, iu w hoso interest thev manifest so much concern, the insignificant sum of S33.9S1.SG, the balance of S2S9, C09 2G having beca invested in bonds that were known to le worthless, ami other wise squandered, jand all this in the face of tLo j,.,,,,, fjct uat hy ,jJ0 provisions of the Constituti.n this was a special fund for that purpose, and thev put their hands --...-...I nni ..,. . fti,w ih,.t with their oaths registered against tlieiu they divert! it from its purpose and sqnan dered it. t Utitmst what they aid not do, with wual : I llie iJemocracy uas uone aituougu pari oi that time they were only in partial posses sion of the Government and let the people i uin iiivn iuiviivg .. real and pretended friends of education. moi:e figures. The Democrats expended in the cause of popular education in 1871, S174.753.20 I56.377.SG 2I7.155.G0 '72, '73, '74, 75, 76, 77, '73,i 79, 297,391.8.5 334,103.14 289,213.32 324,2S7.i0 j 32G,040.S5 (Tb expenditune lu escaped us a we took th not.) Footing np a grand total which shows L.wr th Democratic party of tho State stands on the question of popular ednca- lion, and sets at rest forever the bald pre tence that the Republican party has been the esnecial friend of popular education. These figures the Doctor continued car ried their owu comment with them in lan- emtur more forcible than any ho could rnm.p. and sol plain that the humblest could understand them. COMrROMtSIXG the state debt. r Ho they took op the 6ubject of tho corn- promise of the Stall debt, theliOuest debt, which" Le fonnd oa entering npon hn office o ue witu; accrued interest 5io,uu7,uuu, .which must be paid or da;ri promised It cnn!dot le paid; so they went to" work" to compromise.' it, and did eo. .Up to this time SG,SOO,000 of the lionds have been taken in'and cancelled and he was con fident that in a short while the remainder wonld be taken io. . . , v As to the.Secial tat bonds, they, with the accrued interest, would now equal the bona juls debt, and there was a Constitu tional amendment to bo submitted to the pple forever forlndding.nny Legislature from paying, any of ihi debt unless sub mitted to the people and endorsed by them. He then referred to tho charge ruvle by Radical s;i-nkers that the sVile' -of the Western North Carolina Tailroad was a frsu.l, and showed tht It ras not only a squn-e. hnnca-ttrasv;,- i-Je ia - the lightof Ur:"aKei r2 WTU.ir.ou wTOT'iir wisest heads and most patriotic ineii in the State, who ad vise-1 - it as the best thing that could Ik done for the Slate, and their judgment is sustained by the fact that tke work of completing that road is now pro gressing rapidly with every prospect that it will be completed wiihiu the time speci fied iu the contract. The speech throughout commanded the utmost attention. Mitchell County. I havo lieen in twenty-two States of the Union and have seen no where a county in which a living can be made s easily as in Mitchell coun ty. I have been in Buncombe, Madison, Henderson, Wilkes, Burke. McDowell and other mountain counties of North Carolina. I have also traveled through the moun tainous sections of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and I am very sure I have never seen so tiuea mountain region as this county affords. The Soil is marvellously rich, and I would want no better fertilizer for many of our eastern farms than the natural soil of this county; eveu tho -very tops of the mountains are as wch as the alluvial deposits of Bed River or the Tri- luty or Brazos bottom j of lexas. I saw lands on whih had been grown, I was told, fifty bushels of corn to the acre, cul tivated exclusively with the hoe. Bro. J. W. Avers, who has a fine farm on the Roan Mountain, has said that he can pjck out ten acres of his laud, and if a mau will cultivate it as he prescribes, without a pound fertilizer, and does not make a thou sand bushels of com ou the tea acres, he will give the lan I. And there is water everywhere ; i really seemed to me the higher I went the more water I found branches, creeks or small rivers are t be fon:ll everv few hundred . i.l lina iroou iMura"eai -u7iT.t -.r.l:n. fat enough to slaughter., runuiug in the 3 wimxIs, nnd the cattle were generally fat, but of inferior breeds. T. li. Pritcluird in Bib. Recorder. The Star has mentioned more than once that ' the Radical managers w ere not too tr,v.il I., trv inr mot Into or to resort to anv scheme by whicli the people could be robbed of the right of choice. The Star months ago mentioned that it was not tm- probable that the Legislatures of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey (all lorn, onneciicui inn ew uersey tan Republican), would bo called together by the Governors (also Republicans) and tho Presidential electors tie thus appointed. Presidential L lectors lie thus appoints Therein no Constitutional barrier, although there may be some btate law that would prevent such a procedure. The Richmond Disptitch of Tuesday says: The Cincinnati Commercial quoted the I other dav for the lcnefit of Senator Couk- Hug (at tin. time in Cincinnati), th he point of a Idler that paper bad received, to this effect: " 'You attach to much importance to Indiana. We shall win without that Slate. The election of O u field and Arthur in cer tain. Senator Coal-liny is about to render h i". conn try a supreme sere ice. He ca n a u I will carrv New lork for the Republican ticket and save the campaign. This he will do irrespective of Indiana. 1 hat meaus we guess 'indeed, we can not imagine it has any other meaning that Senator Conkling w ill cause the Leg islature of New York to be convened and Garfield electors chosen by that body ! 'Wc for one. defy hts malice anl bis trickery, 'and his arrogance, and daro him to do this villainous act. It would insure the election of Hancock." Tho moral effect would prove disastrous we must nope io iwaoicai success, iub people-will not stand everything. 11 if Star, Oct. 7. AxoTriEit PnoMixEXT Republican Oct for 11AKCOCK. ijen. Isaac t . wumny, of Rochester. N. i., a classmate of Grant I at West Point, general tinder him iu the war. United elates marsnai oi me norm- em uistrici oi .ew lorK during tns ao ministration, professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in Rchester Lniver sitv, and long a leader of the republican party in western New 1 ork, has published a letter declaring nis purpose io support. Hancock. It is astonishincr how conndetely some ...A..T 1. m L.I.a.I lit tl.oie Airn d"l"lU viiU lw uvu zwts tboubts. A nrom nent candidate. Lo n tliA u l.iiiA of bid mind to noli ih mpt a oroininent church member, who remarked that his church had just got a , , ; - . . . . ' new organ. 4I hope it will support the rerular nominees." was the absent-minded reply. That roost excellent man and efficient officer, Mr. A.J. Partin, chief clerk to the Slate Auditor, died suddenly in Raleigh ou Tuesday night, of heart disease, dying iu ten minutes after the attack. e snected and aVmired him and feel his death as a pcrsoual grief. Durliam liccordtr. NO. 2 The Colcred. Conundrum 1 The- colored people of Ncrth. C..r : : held their second tste f.'r ct IU" "rU last week 'end there was a Jrgf, cr and interested attendance. TL;"ci'!' was a great t:proveir.?r.t in all r. u opoa that of the year l.'cf :rf, and t'. , - conclusively -the incrfalr icterc:t -the negroes "of thU sec'.ioa cf tie 1 are taking ia agricaltare cad lis ti;. . ; . pursuits. . It show?, moreover, lie h isdom cf :L .' people ia steadily rcliug tla cvt:.::c3 that have liiurf isid STia Kea r:. ?s .: t! c r.i by the emissaries of Re pi -i rt r ; to abandon their oi ! a.-ic''.: their foitunes it! ceT sr. cf They have preferred to ali ; are. prospering and to rrr -r liccondng tKe varart N- scruptilons p 'rrl ?- contented &r, .! ' tcr tho co-e', i.i ail f. other race, so fr as tie ship s re concerned and is' assured to the honest ga: bor. 'And v l.at is true cf North Or ! - U trneofolher sections of tie Soalb. V.2 re ever the negro is disposed to tLrive !y L: industry there is no let ci Liuvlrar.c? 1 1 his disptsition. Wherever tie Piari; cf discontent prevails, it has been l-realli I into him by wicke-1 advisers. WLcrevtf there has been an exodas cfttecokrel ppuIstion, It has lccti Instigated fr pur poses, at the very mention of which tla name of philanthropy is JULonnreJ. As Mr. Conkling said in Lis jpeecli at New Yoik, ' the black mac wxtti ts tc maiu by the graves of bis fathers. R It is trne; and Leavy, indeed, tLe responsi bility of those who, likeHbe New York Senator, by fal?e lights and evil course's, would lure Lun awsy. - n ashmj::n i tit. Oysters as Brain Food. According to 3Ir. Frank BacklanJ, a great deal has to be sat I in a physi logi cal view iufaTorof the oy-ter as an article of f).l. .There is an average cf sbct has two and a half onnces of meat to cTrry twelve ounces of shell in each oyster, & r. .1 its constiuents include mach phop!. ate of iron and osmnzone, or creative matter i ; i tlar to essence of meat, and alo a cerir.in quantity of gelatine or raucilaginons t:r:- ter, anl another niaterial cf aLicli L' S phate is the main ingredient. It is tl..' principal brain-giving fvx1 that cia le taken, an.l hence is so largely cse 1 by those fond of literary pursuits, and m t. manner has liecome an almost t5.-e-:..l elemer.t of diet to iotcllectrwri men. s.Midnw forth that, when tie sci potations were more than nsaally ri.'d and lioisterous, the students were in the Litis of rehearsing their debates over oyster snjv pers. Louis VIII, who-died in loved oysters so well, and thonglt 53 msch of his cook for the savorv manner in wlivh he furnished them up for the royal table, that he invested the dvf de cuisine with a patent of nobility and mado him a hand some annual allowance. t TLe tnerabers fu the College of the Sorbonne were invited by Louis XI to come everv veax to feasl tlp0a 0 tioa' emj thi vn upon oysters, nntil, on one occasion, a dis hed theologian came to an nnl.me.y by drowning in the river Seme &f;er the symposium, had conclaJed. PKOsrEttiTr aSD Consumption. TLo London Economist, commenting on tLo drain of gold from Europe to this country-, wtiicn xas ainaay severely a-txiea ie banks cf Franco and Germany and re duced the Bank of England reserve 5-7,- 500,000 lower than it was a year ago, sa ya that further drafts of specie to this coun try will probably be required, ba. mean while our con'.iuued good harvests aro stimulating os to increased , imports. rica," tho EcstijmUt add?, " a ct. n trv in which personal expenditure p.avs a larger part in iufiuencing trade tlan ia this or in any old-settled country. It also a country iu which the immediate re sults of good times pro.! nee a quicker effect on "Trade than here. There is k3 inclination to save in a new country in which the rate of profit is Ligb, than fa an old country in w hich the rate c f prc.t is low, anil in which saving i?? so to si?, j hereditary, and is known to be ti e t anchor of business lite, lie &Id exp eri ence repeats it-elf ; what has Mne ea-ily I goes easily. e bare Leard cf tr.i: samus icmu- op to 1-Tge f:g-res in woolen gools, in articles for petsoual r.?f in silk, and in other articles cf laxury. Monev s worth, rather than money, :i what America soetns likely to take." In other words, the whole people share tls country's prosperity. Bat it is a pity tl: our people cannot imitate tte tLruiy wars of older countries. -li i'. Sun. A Fact xx Astronomt. Yoncg llr. Latehours was sitting on the poacu te other night w atching a 17-year old girl try ing to keep awake long enough to see t e morning star rise. They talked a:rcr. - rar. -l wish I was a star, Le ing at his own poetic fancy. "I wcu.i rather yon were a comet, s-e so J, crcas- I V. I1U kPSTL It'lb LUIdUUU u.m . - . . t . 1 7 I mm j m - rwnyr ueiinw irain, - - 1 takinr? her unresisting I own: and why 7 be repeated, nspc-nac uy . i . . . . t -.i i i: "Uti, sue saia muu a iwh,, that fell upon Lis soul lite a tire l a cold oil c.otn, -ix-caue .d wa v.. onlv come abound once ertry CTlcc-.j La". ..iS it- .1:1 . .. .. i.i .i . ... . ' i (irei years: nv ' -. . .- until l e was half way to the fict grp, when be turned around and shook h.i t tlm bonse. and lunttered ltween Lis teeth that "it would 1 e a then en: re-j longer than that lefrre leaaetwd I again." Rut by that tune tue p r c ; 1 was in bed and soasd a.eep. i.a-r-v.
Fayetteville Observer [Weekly, 1880-1919] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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Oct. 14, 1880, edition 1
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