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- ws a . -ROOKY HOUNT- MAILf- " A 1KDIPBNDENT " ' 'Weekly .Tamily Newspaper ! J.H. & W. t THORP, Tm.lSHItRS HD PROPB1ETORH. Lii&MCSiraftil TERMS ; $2.00 per Annum, in Advance MOUNT, N. C., SEPTEMBER 21, - ., ' , - ' . : " - I "flolf jl Btoifmcol" niowtj yw - -- . !T ' - -. : : u i ; . - -- - - . r, .!,,.,- 1 ie!Limi4.Joia.otti.i.sia.oe -T. -. - -- - . fgr'""-!!i!!-ffli!:S -- -- i t - r ---- --- -- 1 otagiiiM, ,; liiMhM jmjmj - -,!--.. '"' i ; , -- J . I aW OoUaaaw... Iu.oom.oi .Hum ).oo is.se r:-r - - jl. ii. rr" -. rrr-rr-. - w ' - - -' ' 'l'rrrr - ir J ooiuma....... a,,jio .o)m-,I hjwmm ... - - . My lite u like iht summer rose, That open tolue morning sky" Bat, are the ajadee of evening doee. Is eoetteced on the ground to. die Bat on the roes' bumble bed The sweetest dm ot Bight srsshed; A if ebe wept enoh waste to aeef Bat none shall weep tear for me. 'J My life k fike the antasan leaf, Tbet tremblee fat the moon' pele nj ; I ta bold bi frail, Ita date ie brief, Keeeleee, tat eoon to peea wy. 'r' Yet. ore thet leei ebeil fell end fede. The pereut tree ehH moarn It thtde ; Tie winde bewail the leeilete tree j ' . Bat none, ehall breetbe t eigb for ine, ' My life ieUke fhe print Whloh foot ? - Here left oa Tempe'e deeert etreod ; Boon ae the rieiog tide ehell beV Ibui trck eball anieh from the aand, 1st a griertng to effaoe All rrstige of tbe bnmao raoe, '' do-ltietloae thore lood moan the aea j Bat hone iSiell e'er lament for me. THE REGrLAR DETECTITE. Wkm Ho Own te Heetoty m Hew Be Pays ike DrH Heeie IaUrewlBt fact. dreia. k corroepondent of tbe World, writing or tue auteoure ajutern, gives the fol lowino ictortsstuiir luciaentH Itis varrbard to make the deteotive tmiU'rutand that be owes mythirig to Hocit'tT. lug moral senee n aerer oul- tirated, He qnito as often prerente a criminal from reforming ai he prevents justice from overtaking bum (Japtain louiig oiioe told dm of several oases where "(he stupid indisaretion of the officer had loaded society with outlaws. One was that of the well known, One eyed Thompson, who early in his oareer was saved; from the dutches of the law by some friends, who raised a sum of money for mm and sent turn ont West. He settled in a thriving town, on tbe border, and, chungiug his name, made a moet praiseworthy effort to become a usef ul member of society. He opened a store, won tbe respect of tne towns people, was actually oiadeaeleotman, and was in a fair way to live long and die honored for bis many virtues wbra sud denly he turned np on the streets here again. " Halloo," says Captain Young, thought you had ' squared it - and out West." - t " Xms ; I thought so, too, " says Thomp son, " But it was no ass ; one of your men did my business for me I It seems that this detective, sitting on the verauda of tbe new hotel, opposite to the store which the reformed man had opened, "SBOtted him."' "Well. I'm blessed if there isn't ' One-eyed Thompson I' " Some of the people guessed not Oh, no I that was Mr. Simpson, a respected and prominent citizen. "Oh ho I it was, eht If that isn't 'One-eyed Thompson,' the burglar, then 1 11 go back and loin tbe church I " All up." save Tliompson : 44 I'm done for. Here I am, captain. It was nn ..f num in .in f k nt Atf.i m.11 ; Andjo well fixed was he that taybe ' came the most noted lawbreker of his day. , --. . It is the easiest thing in the world to hunt a man down when he is trying to be honest with bis own reeoru against .. him. . . .. There is a ease -on record of a young man in a prominent dry goods house in thiB city who, in a moment of tempta ' tion. forged a check on his employers. It wai a peculiarly painful affair.' - The lad was well connected, and when the - deyeotives'-Btade the discovery it, almost broke his parents' heart. However. after some tronblei the matter was eompro- . jnisde The father paid the money, and some raiki (ration of sentenoe was effect- ed. . With the stain upon him be started - dut to redeem oharacter. il He poald. After wandering alwut for some time he obtained a situation in Mew Orleans as entry clerk, and at the end of the year saw a fair prospect of achieving soooess. - His employers had confidence in him, and he had made numerous reputable ac quaiuUnces. ' ' v One day, while on the sidewalk auper - intending t ute aUlprhesC 'of .some goods, . one of these New, York men came along. " halloo f' yon here?" S-t-j, ' Yes," said this young man with' his heart in his month. , """ . " ' . , " 'TTiat are yon doing!" seema - incredible. ', The officer went straight into the store. vt One week later tha young man was in 'NewYork. Ml - v-r !-.- f iM God knows," he said, "I tried as hard as jmynodj-ocruld to be honest, but it's no use t" , - -Of oourae a detective who bad the slightest notion of bis obligation as a man to society, la mr nothing of his dnty m an officer, would not have made this mia- . take, - ; w . '.j And., that reminds me of another cam which ougl t to teach even police offl- .1 cere that discretion and kindness are not ' without fruits ever this rjuaiiMsftV ( Everybody ' to the force 'remember Johnny Masai He was a pickpocket, ' and belonged to a-mob-that ..worked on the west side. Ho w he got into the com pany of these people it would be bard to -r tell. But he was an adroit and rather amiable thief that scarcely " ever caused i- the force any trouble. It was customary in the days of the metropolitan police to look -up all the pickpockets and "guns " whon there was toj a great oelehration ,or prooeesion.rf They were ' ! merely firdered to the Central office, and ' there kept until the city was restored to its usual quiet, Johnny Maas only need ed to be told to go te headquarters Id re port himself there promptly. He was a I .yonng-maa, ratter slight, m bnUd,and , somewhat taciturn. - Jo Uie surprise of the snperintendeiit, be came to the office one afternoon end inquired when all tbe special men would - be in.- He was told be could see them " in the morning. When the moming '. ' came he was there. After the roll was called the superintendent saidi " " Kow, Johnny i the men are all hen if you wan - to speak to them." ! ri He got up- from the eomer In which he was sitting, and wringing out his oap with his two hands, proceeded to address -them in faltering and abasbed manner: ; "Well, you- see I've concluded" to square it. - You've been pretty rough on me for some- time, and I've got a sister that's .got -the heart. disease esad she's took it inter her head that she'd live bit longer if as howl'ddo the right thing, and I told her I'd make a try of it ; and if you men '11 . gimme a . hand why I don't mind makin" it ago. I don't want to git 'the cholera no more, and if tue gat "ill ha a brtrldrjgtf err my ao oonut lamrwUlin'.'' arm t' i-'t,"t All the men went up and shook hands with iini. and' it was agreed that he shouldn't have " the cholera " .unless he broke' through h& resolution, j ' About a year after that, in the dead of severe winter the' superintendent was coming through.4 Crosby' street".'' into Bleeoker, and he met Johnny Muss. The fellow was dressed in a thin, bombasine ooafcT HeTwaS eollarleea, end his feet were out, and be looked hungry, pinched and wretched. ' - y. i i " I'm glad yotiVe kept your word, Johnny, But it's going pretty bard irith you, I suppose, to be honest?" . " Awful hard, sir," said Johnny; " but I told her I would, and I did. " V Thais right, Don't you go back of you? worn, wwegr n out. torn jsave better times "by-and-Dye." vDo von see that bank overttheref1 said tha young maW, porutiag to' the marble building in Bleecker street. "Well, (here iut meney enough is that place to make me go back. I'd rather go cold and hungry and not be knnd- m a wouiu. The next summer one of the hotel pro. prietors at "Long Branch sent up to the superintendent for a man to keep an eye on Mie uueves that bang around a water ing-place. "I can get you a Jnan," said the superintendent, thin kin? of Johnny " but I'm bound to tell you he's been a tnier. Then I dou't want him." Then the superintendent told the story i nave tola, oniy ne tola it Better. " Send him down," said the landlord. " A chap that'll do that ought to be heloeJ" It was (25 a week to Johnny, and it made a man of mm. During that season there : wasn a robbery oommitted at the Branch. Johnny stationed himself at the railroad depot, and when he saw a former pal be warned him off. "It's no use, he would aay, " I don't want to pipe none o you boys, and 1 am t gom to do it if you stay away. II you oome here it 11 be awful rough on both of us." And to tueir credit it ought to be said that they always went back. Thirty Years Ago. The English seamen and marines of thirty years ago, says Prazer' Maga zine, came quite np to the descriptions in Marryatt s novels, t ew could read or write; a man able to do so .then was soon known to every one as a " noble fcholar can read and write beautiful. " (how often we have hoard the eulogy !), and the " noble scholar " in question read and answered the letters of the whole mess, and perhaps the one next bis owiw and was very often a rather dissipated character, finding himself often in trouble. A portion of the men theu were the most lovable, the grand est, finest, biggest, most warm-hearted grown-up children that oould be -found in the -world. One-third perhaps-of every ship's company were of this class, another third were of a negative order, and the remaining third were simply worthless. ;, With the first set yoh oould do. almost anything. You might scourge them when they behaved badly, it did them no more moral harm than a whipping does a child : their feelings oould be worked on until the would cry; yet tttoir courage and endurance were limit Hq .Lira Uny werftJ-Ae- vereiy treated, they loved tbe hand that so treated themt Xbey feared- nothing, literally nothing'; fear was a word they did not know, One who would lead them thev woald fotlawi to the death. When out of a ship and under no restraint, thej'wfre quite "helpless, Spending what money they had and getting afloat again the first opportunity.! 1 -.','' .- "What the grasshopper Did. The commissioner -of tatintica til Minnesota gives tjie following figures of damage dose toyiiue peste in ' that State till', aaum TlA MM tllM ti'lt i Tllilt.)!. ff imioUiitof lose lo buabiU were made- 4y the espeative, farmers, themselves,, and: in many cases n0J ddribt exeeed the lose actually osueed fry grasshoppers. ' "rne; wueairop u aiwt ui tuena oooou-iee butJT is, tnteJ4Sre4iirealy ;.ie?nib ettect of beat from rust aol,aJet from Bail. The grand totals-givetby the tables are as follows : Acres wheat damaged or - destroyed, 240,417 bushels wheat-lost on same, 3,646,802 ;, acres oats damagedvor-de-stroyed, M, 13 ;1 bushels oats lost on same,. 1316, 733 ; acres ooro damaged or Jestroyed, 84.13$ ; bushels corn lost, an same, 738,l4iW;- - ..-' 14 t-Vll.... ' ft.a.. A ladv who can talk tmetrr.' fine arts. and moral philosophy till the Stars drop, had the misfortune yesterday afternoon to spill some ink on her white dress. It left an ugly spot, and she flew to chem istry for relief. First she. set tha drip ping inkstand on a Jneyble-top" fable,- and the ink- left ita mark there, of course then she flew for a towel, " and bathing it in tartaric acid, proceeded to rub out the stain o. her ; $xwtA 'She pkeed the towel over the table, whereupon the acid shook hands with the time in the marble: and mined itk polished snrJace. Then the towel F'V Ue bandsomel Brussels earpet,. and ; away with the' beautiful oolora in- tfaati Jkt last report the original ink spot was master , of tbe situation, and bald ita own on the dress. '-When mosquitoes beoome troublnkome in tbe boose, whether at night or during the day, take some Persian insect pow der, which may be obtained of any drug gist,.' and 'bum it slewly upon . fkre shovel of live coals- so as to make s ranch smoke as possible. Walk slowly through the rooms and passageways, and tbe mosquitoes will speedily disappear. This is an infallible remedy. The smell of the powder is peculiar, but not part norunriy nnxieasant. 'Those who o&jeo to it have the option of being bitten in preference,. j - Aieedote of Sir Tim. Sldner SmlUi. I once heard an anecdote of this dis tinguished British naval officer which is worth repeating. ' When in bis eleventh year a year b- lore ne enterea tne navy as midshipman our hero formed a strong attachment for a girt soman of about bis own age, who was stopping at tbe old hall in Sus sex, and the gallantry which distinaruish- ed him in after years was not wanting even at mat carry age. Among tbe many accessories to the beauty of the place was a orped, deep lakelet of clear, shim mering water, which particularly at tracted the attention of the embryo ad miral, and from the margin of which tbe anxious; entreataes of his parents ouuia not restrain bun. .. . It was the custom of the ,, paternal Ssaitb, every evening, to summon, his household to prayer, and the members tnereof were called together in the primi tive fashion of tbe sounding of the horn. One summer evening the horn was sound ed in the nmml manner, bnt in answer to repeated blasts, no William Sidney nor mary Anne appeared. rne father be came alarmed, and caused the horn to be sounded louder and louder, but without avail, , The young absentee heard the horn plainly enough, but he did not obey the summons, Decanse he oould not. In short, he was ire a situation extremely nautical, and if it was pleasurable to 'him, it oertaiuly was not to those who finally gathered around to behold. .The boy had launched a large wash tub upon the lake, and having embark ed with his fair cousin, he had, by means of a long pole, sec himself well out from the shore. Whether he paid more at tention to his lovely companion than to tbe navigation of his frail bark, or not, we cannot say, but, from some cause of inattention he had lost his pole, and when tbe household reached the shore they beheld the tub in the center of the deep lake, with not a breath of air to move it landward, its only motion being a revolving -one." The future here of many battles stood with bis arms folded. while bis more timorous companion crouched low down, wailing with terror. - The situation was truly perilous, for a very slight motion would have been suf ficient tp overturn the tub, and those on shore were totally at a loss how to bring tue ir&u crait, wilii its precious Duraen, to land. Not one of them could swim. Night was drawing on apaoe, and the situation was becoming every moment more critical ana dangerous. At length, however, he who had created the difficulty proceeded to overcome it. When he had sufficiently enjoyed the glory of tbe situation he hailed those on the shore, and directed them to give one end of the string of his kite to his favor ite dog. This having been done, he called tbe dug to the tub, and thus gain ed a tow-line, by means of which his first command was safely towed to the shore, where the relieved parents quick ly snatched the rescued pair from the stranded bark. The father was so deep ly affected that he oould not. speak. Not so, however, William Sidney. " Now. father." said the vonng hero. T guess we'll go to prayers. " They did bo to prayers, and it may well be imagined that the prayers on that evening wore unusually heartfelt and sincere. The .Confederate Currency, The Louisville Commercial contains a letter from Blanton Duncan relative to the manufacture of the paper, money used in the South during the war. - He says that, upon being authorized furnish the money no paper was to be found And engravers were not to be had. A paper mill was started at Nashville, and he was compelled to engage intelli gent newspaper printers who had Jiever worked a day at this other kind of print ing, and a number of intelligent boys'. ''my foreman, a frenchman of rare abilitypcommnnoed their instruction as fast as I oould have presses cast in the foundries, and rollers nud other mate rials oo' strncted The establishment was not in fair Working order until March .1, 18H2. ' - My work was to supply tbe bonds of $100. and $1,000, and tbe notes of So, $10 and $20. . The vignettes were of the most primitive style and ugliest workmanship. ; They were so bad that ther defied counterfeiting. As a. gencrslble the likeness of some ef the 1. . . 1 1 . a I uruiuuieua men wew pnweu on--ine . piu. That of Mrs. PiokenSj.oJSouth Carolina, was placed by me on the 81 notes. When Richmond wai threatened, in May, 1862, by McCtellan, the secretary sent for me, and requested me to move to a safer position whence I could supply the necessary currency in case of the fall of Richmond and the capture of the other establishments. Columbia was selected by me, and the train which carried off my materials and printers also conveyed President Davis' family to North, Caro lina.,We'"' left while the gmis were thundering in the great battles," In November, 1861, currenoy was only worth eighty-live cents in gold. In May, 1862, it was at sixty two cents. In Nir vein hr, 1862, forty-five to fifty cents. In July, 1863, it had gone down to six teen cents. 1 la November, 186"3, it was at sight cents, and in May, 1864, it was at five cents. From that period to the termination of the war it fluctuated, go ing up oupe to six- cents,, and only failing entirely as a medium in the last two months prior to the capitulations, when every one saw that defeat was inevitable. jite...utsU. Venrer's Pride Denver, (Col) has s heroine. It isn't every town In this prosaic age that can affordLone, and Denver.. iajrond,--of eourse. - Tbs other evening a lady - of that place was sleeping in one part of ber; house, an invalid gentleman, -who was the only other occupant, lodging in another quarter. - During the night she heard a noise at her window.- She did not- screajn V Murder r " Thieves 1" and rouse the whole neighborhood. Neither dia sn taint. Due just wmpiy went to a dresser in her room and got a long, sharp butcher knife. As the rob ber, for snob, it was, was entering the window, she -attacked him with this weapon, -and after- catting and slashing at him awhile ended- by giving him a ooep stao in we cnesi cna sent mm oaca- j w.ird to tiro ground. Here he was pick ed up and earned off by hi eonfnder- I atemach to the disgust of tbe polios of Denver, who are on the lookout for the burglars with which the town ia infested. I Capt. Kldd's Treasure, rr: A few months ago a member of the New York Historical Society read before that association a very interesting paper in which he took occasion to deny the assertion that Kidd, the pirate, ever buried any of his treasure on this conti nent. There are in the possession of Squire Gardiner most positive evidences of tne tact tnat fuoo -did bury treasure on this very island, that the treasure be came treasure-trove, and that the colo nial government became possessed of the same through John Gardiner, son of the first David of that name, in the rear 1699, only a year or two before Kidd's execution. Some time in that year Kidd landed on the island and buried a chest containing gems, gold, silver, and fine oloths valued at many thousand pounds sterling. He came to Lord Gardiner and ad vised him of the fact. As soon as Kidd's fleet was out of sight the proprietor manned a small sloop snd sent a trusty messenger to the seat of the colonial government with the request that a commission might be sent to investigate. The commissioners came and in the swamp on the northwestern oorner of the island they found the chest. It was opened and an inventory taken. The contents were, among other articles of value, 783 ounoes of goldr850 ounces of silver, a number of diamonds, rubies, pearls, and other gems, cloth of gold, silk, and satin. The original Earl Bel lamont's inventory is here, properly signed, attested, and indorsed, and I have no doubt that among the r cords kept at Boston will be found a duly cer tified entry of the "-find." One dia mond which dropped from the package was found after the departure of the commissioners and is now in the posses sion' of the family of Gardiner Green, of Boston, and a little square pieoe of - 1 . 11 A t ! T. ciotn oi goia, a parr oi tnat wuiou once served as the - coveilet to a baby's cra dle, is preserved by Mrs. Gardiner, of uardiner s island. Another piece is neld by the Kimball family, of Flatlanda. At one time during the Revolution a part of the British fleet lay in Gardiner's bay, between, the . island and Orient point, and - the officers frequently came ashore for amusement. The oaken floors of the old mansion bear witness to the fact that one of their recreations per haps on rainy days when they oould not hunt deer and turkey was quoits. From the marks on the planks it is plain that the disks they used were Spanish milled dollars. JThe First Finger King. An amusing myth is, in Frazer'i Magazine, told of the origin of the finger ring. When Jove released Pro metheus from the bonds by which he had been confined he condemned him, as-a sort of penance perhaps somewhat after the fashion of a modern ticket-ofr leave to wear upon his finger as a ring a link of the iron chain that had bound him to the Caucasian rock, in which was set a fragment of that rock itself. In that way, so the fable goes, the custom of the finger ring originated. There is every reason to believe that this nse of the engraved stone began with "the Greeks, and from them was copied by their servile imitators, the Romans. It is every way a convenient and a natural one, and our grandfathers' custom . of wearing their seals at the fob," as it was called, or hanging from the side pocket, was a recurrence to old Assyrian usages, which did not long hold its ground. Notable Intentions. The first mention in history of the nse of steam as a motive power is as follows: Hero, a mechanic of Alexandria, i.gypt, about fifty years anterior to the birth of Uhnst, invented a machine in which a motion of continued rotation was im parted to an axis by the reaction of steam issuing from lateral orifices in 'arms placed at right angles to the revolving axis. This, we believe, was the first machine that was ever put in motion by steam. The first actual model of a steam carriage of which we hare a written ac count, was constructed by a Frenchman named Cugnot, who exhibited it before the. Marquis de Saxe in 1763. The first passenger steam car was put upon the Stockton and Darlington railroad, Eng land, September 27, 1825. Professor Morse patented his invention of the tele graph in 1837, but the first line in oper ation, from Washington to- Baltimore, was not completed until 1844. New Sign of a Hard Winter. ' " Neit ' winter's gwine to be a might bard one,, el yon b leive me, said a vickeburg steam dow rouster .on the ele vator recently. ' Why so ?" a reporter asked: " Look at de min-keeters." - -. " Well I" . ;V . Y'ever see 'em so thick f " ; ." They are rather numerous." ' And dey don't sing a bit. " "Maybe they're out of music The throats of tbe little warblers out of order. Their little songs melt away in the dis tance, as it were ; the sound is refracted, and " " - - - " Well, I don't know n tiffin "bout dat boss, but I tell you's gwine to be a hard winter.When you see so many skeet ers not singing a bit, but jest gettin' down right square to business, you may shuns for a bard winter. - Dat's my Sign." X: - .- -- - - - ,- - . - . About Corn Flesr. An Englishwoman was recently tried for murder -on the charge of having caused the death of her twin children by feeding them with "corn flour" after being warned by tbe physician that it j would not sustain life. Tbe woman was aoquitted,but tbe occurrence baa called fortb. much oomment. An English ph cannot be ) too widely known that "corn flour," it is called, is pure staroh, prepared -by washing out of maize flour the nutri tious portions with alkalies. When the flour presents an extremely white ap- sacrifloed, arid ; children fed on snob substances are simply starved. When "oorn flour " is cooked with milk, that will supply soma of the nutriment that is lacking ; but those who have the oars of children should, understand tbe nature of the flour itself. - THE THREE R'S. Wkmt Ike B.j. Uu, el Hrheel mm West Tkey MkealS I-emre-A RefereiKtlee Waatml, It is practically true, however it may be denied by school teachers, that with what has been called the progress of education, and tbe reduction of teaching to a scienoe. of which there are instruc tors, and for which theru are colleges. there has been a neglect of those ele mentary brandies of knowledge which to the unscientiao mind are the founda tion of all acquirements those popular ly known as "the three R's, " reading, writing, and arithmetic. Boys will know some Latin, and even some Greek, will be well up in Euclid, know some thing of physiology, chemistry, and geology, nave even some inkling of con stitutional law, and international law, and yet be unable to read aloud a lead- iug article, or a page from an "Tfi""''i book, intelligibly, not to ssy dearly and with good emphasis. They will be equally unable to express themselves in writing so that their meaning will not be mistaken ; for as to grace or force of style, we shall not be so presumptuous as to ask for those. They will be unable to go quickly and surely through a little arithmetical calculation, or even to keep an exact account of their receipts and expenses. It id, however, chiefly in the two former respects that the young peo ple of the day are deficient. The spirit of trade prevades the whole time so much that some ability to " cipher is found in almost every boy who has not -the fortune good, or bad, who shall say ! to be born with strong tendencies to literature and to art. But in reading and in writing our boys and girls, of whatever grade m school, of whatever position in society, are, as -a whole, lamentably deficient. How many boys does any reader of this article know who oould take it np and at sight read it off aloud as if., he understood it, and itaJraeihod promised well for a time, but it way to give his hearers pleasure I How many boys who oould write in a plain and handsome hand a clear account of any transactio . at which they have been present i very few indeed, if any, we are sure. Now, these aooompuslunents ore of great importance ; and if they may not be said to be at tbe very foundation of all sound education, they are at least not inferior in value, for the benefits they oonfer, the refined pleasure they give, and their efficacy as means of cul ture, to many of the fancy branches upon inch much time and trouble are ex pended while these are neglected. For, Dogberry to "the coTrtrary-notwithstand-ing, reading aud writing do not oome by nature. It was by daily training that the many good readers of the past end of the nassinir (Feneration were made, and the good handwriting, and the simple, clear expression of the same period came in the same way. we ore sure that the more intelligent and the bettre edncatotl the parents of pupils are themselves, the more willing, or even desirous, they would be to have the school' .curriculum simplified, to have the miniber of: brSKcli- i es taught reduced, and to have more at tention given to daily and thorough drill in "the three It's. N. Y. lime. . A Han and his Baby. In the .first place, he was a homely, good-natured looking body, dressed in common clothes, and having the appear ance of one who did rough work for e living ; but such a heart as he had, such unlimited patience aud ingenuity and j illity I He was traveling in the cars with his wife and three small children, the youngest a baby, cross, homely, and with a perversity which made one be lieve in Vital depravity, bound not to be amused or good-natured whatever was done for him, but the father did his best, and his best was worthy of beholding ; he dived into one pocket and out of it iuto another ; he brought forth strings, knives, nails ; he made a rabbit of his pocket hankerchief ; he made his already homely face homelier still by the most comical contortions of nose, mouth and eyes ; he put bis hat on the back side of his head, he pulled it over his eyes ; he played peek-a-boo behind the corner of baby's cloak; and at last "he plucked a. feather from soma unknown plaoe aud blew himself black in the face in order to keep it floating in the air for the bene fit of that remarkable baby.- The last I saw and heard of him he was -trying to sing that child to sleep with the words, j'g. joy, jig, joy, repeated over and over, accompanying each word with, a swaying motion of the body. Opposed to Wooden Pavements. TheJoumof of the Society jofAHa objects tq pavements -of wood, and very rationally, because that material is porous oomposed, in fact, of bundles of fibers and therefore absorbs and returns wet very freely, foul wet especially. The .fibers of the wood being necessarily placed vertically, the upper ends fray out, are abraded, beoome like painters' brush stumper and are about as per manently dirty; or they break up like the wooden handle of a chisel which has been often struck with an iron hammer, or a wooden mallet when used upon an iron chiseL At all times wood is wet or damp, more or lees, except during eon-: tinned very dry weather, and ita struc ture is such that it admirably adapts it 1 to receive and hold, and then to give off in evaporation very foul matters, whien taint the atmosphere and consequently injure health. Absolute cleanness ana dryness are prime conditions in pave ment wood la the extreme contrary of this; it is necessarily dirty soon after use, and is almost continuously damp. -AH They Want. : z ; An aired minister of the M. K. church. we are told, died not long ago in Ohio. who, to his dying day, wore no buttons on the back of bis cost, because, wheal young. remonstrating - with a newly -converted sister for wearing jewelry, saying that it was seedless, and that a Christian should be restricted to what was useful. His eoat bad tuetal buttons, and the girl at onoe replied by asking r " nt wW gnl are thMe hnU tons at toe bottom of your warn r - no saw the point, called for a pair of soia-to-s, . eat off the appendages and -restricted himself forever after to buttons in front. Au apostolic writer also takes exception to broidered hair, pearls, and postly array. ; Artificial Raising ef Trent. In addition to its regular salt water fishing business ... on the coast, Long Island has- gone most extensively into rout raising in the interior. All over the island large and expensive ponds have been and are being built and stocked, and the value of the ponds of the present day shows the industry to be one of the moet important on the island. The ponds range in size from three to one hundred acres, and are valued at from $3,000 to $50,000. Near Patchouge there ia one pond of eighty acres that is said to be worth fully 1DU,UUU. The present valuation of tbe trout streams, which have been con structed and improved within the past few years, esceeds one million one hun dred and seventy-five thousand dollars. A description, of one pond will answer for the rest. 'It is divided into what is called the spawning raoe, the feeding ground for the young snd similar ground lor trout of larger growth. When, tbe young appear they are protected from tue older ones try screened gates, and their pta6e of location is known as the nursery. The bottom ef this, land, in fact, all portions of the stream, is cov ered with an ingeniously Constructed network of wood, and pebbles are so laid along the ground and floorings as to secure a perfect drainage. The sides are built of stone nnd cement, or of wood, as may seem best, and the whole is so covered with a network of wood, that, while the rays of the , sun are de barred, there remains a free passage for currents of air by which the water may be sufficiently well oxygenized. Artificial propagation ' was, in the earlier days of artificial ponds, the re cognized method for stocking them. The eggs were loroed from the fish as was the milt, and after having been im pregnated artificially the eggs were de posited carefully in suitable locations aud there they were hatched. This was discovered soon tl at the fish thus handled were of no further use for pro pagation, and also that the young thus procured did not acquire either the size or peculiar brilliancy of oolors which are the points of value in speckled trout. Observing those very serious defects Mr. Furman, trout raiser, resolved to try another method to return to na ture's rule for propagation as for as might be possible in au artificial stream. For this purpose be constructed -bis hatching ground in such a manner as would, he believed, be most acceptable to the fish, and when the spawning sea son arrived he plnced them in the hatch ing portion of his stream, shielded from the other fish. There he found, as he bad expected, that the eggs were de posited naturally and as naturally im- regnated and cared for. The adult fish were then returaod to the lower portion of the stream with tbe .others, and the nursery was fitted for the care of the young. There they remained until they ma grown BurhYieutly to lie free from lunger of being eaten by tbo older nab. and the separating gates were drawn and they were permitted to join them. The voracity of trout is astonishing. They will eat vigorously, even when so hit as to leave little space for food, aud even theu they will, if permitted, con tinue eating until their very eyes are bulged out by the fatness within. In one little stream they have been fed with four hogsheads of food per day, and jumped greedily for food after that. . Life as It is In California. ... A Sun Francisco correspondent of the Tribune writes as follows : Not even the prolific soil and auspicious climate ef California can maintain on a large scale or for a long time the all-pervading ex travagance in expenditures which here obtains. The whole scale of living is pitched too high, while that of work is pitched too low. There are too many diamonds, too many five hundred dollar gold 'watches, too many two hundred dollar silk dresses, too many horses for which five hundred dollars and upward have been paid. My meaning may be more elear when I state that in an ex tended tour from the Mexican boundary to the British possessions, covering more than 3,000 miles by land, I have seen less than fifty white men in the fields at manual labor. A few I have seen driv ing a reaper or team, but the agricultural hand labor, in field and garden, like a large share of the indoor work, is done by Chinese. At the same time I have counted no less than fifty race tracks. most of them with spectators' stands and appurtenances uomplete. Nowhere are the women as expensively dressed. Theaters thrive even in the little towns. A liquor shop is tha first plaoe of busi ness established in any settlement, and is generally the best fitted and patronised. Those of San Francisco are the most showy and oostly in the oountry. The practice of drinking seems to have fas tened itself on all classes. No" one, I am told, can be elected to any popular office who does not practice the habit of promiscuous tippling. It is said that one of Senator . Jones claims to tne gratitude of his constituents arises from h procuring the new twenty-cent coinl to h minted, as thia ftnfthlee a ffMiue. 1 to be minted, as this enables a gentle man to invite bis friend to drink at the minimum rate. ! I might-add that the liquors drank are mostly from the East, though much of them from abroad, sin gularly enough, the excellent native wines and brandies being ni 4 Tbe larder Mania, There must be a strangely sad state of affairs in New York, according to the Sew York Hrrald, which rays: Murder in the slums of New York is beooming so frequent that killing must soon be looked on in the light of a slight offense. It is certain that the tonga element of our population no longer look upon murder as anything more than s venial sin against public morality. : On the slight est provocation the knife is broughtNk'to requisition, with the most deadly resujNst. Something most be done by the courts to stop this wholesale, cowardly assassi nation. If every, ruffian caught in tbe act of using or attempting to nse deadly weapons were punished to tbe utmost limit of the law these murderous brawls would soon cease. It is only by tbe adoption of severe and constantly en forced rale of puniahment in cases of murderous assault that this evil can be effectively ebeeked. , A Printer' Epitaph. His nee s form plaoe no Imposing stone To mark the bead, where weary, it ia bun-; ... Tie nucter dead I its amnion being daoe To be dietribaied to duet leera. . rhc body's bat type, and bead, "Of marr- Whoee impress iatbe apirit'e deathless page ; Worn out, the type is Uwown te pi again; lite impression lWee through an eternal age. Itei of Interest out of "bole oloth Mosquito Made bars. Discouraging To fish all ' day and get nothing bnt mosquito bites. A man of parts the hair dresser ; and also the judge in the divoroe courts. New York baa at last found something to be proud of the metropolitan burglar. When you get into hot water go to your friends ; you'll find them cool enough. Lucifer oould not have been very proud when he entered tbe business of making matches. A correspondent sends us news of tbe failure of a liquor bouse, under the bead of " A brandy smash. " Where ten men will oheerfully lay down their lives for a woman, only one will carry her a scuttle of coal. If New York rightly appreciates her rifle team she will make special police men of them. - Each oneof them can take care of a thousand yards or so. John Knox is going to have a monu ment erected to his memory in Hadding ton, Scotland, to cost ever so much money. Washington may yet get his. Oh that the preacher were wise, that he would oonsider the latter end of his sermon, and put it a little nearer toe first end particularly during the hot weather. Congregationalist. When a man wants to be mean and show his littleness, he builds his garden fenoe so high that no neighbor s oow can more than look over it and feel her mouth water at sight of tbe cabbages. A man in Colorado put bis hand into a box containing hay and was bitten by . a rattlesnake. . He drank four bottles of whisky and died. The question is; which killed him, the whiskey or the snake f You're always off at nights, Lean- dor," said Mrs. Spilkins reproachfully the other evening. " Yes, my dear," re plied Spilkins. " You'll remember even when I first proponed, vou considered me a pretty good off er.' A maii hameoTllarber (but not one lv nature) made a vow many years ngo that he would not cut his hair until t iny was President of the United Htts. tie liv ed a barbarous hermit life, aud the other day was found deud in his bed. . Iu this day of poetic obituaries, we hall perhaps be excused for exhuming the following from the dust of former decodes :" Oh ! befehe gone, aud am tthe tteul ! Aud u I left here all alone Oh. eruel fate, thou want unkind To take ehe fore and leave 1 hmd! Of the original oedars of Lebanon only seven now remain. They cover a space of not over half a mile upon the moun tain side. They are more than a thou sand years old. Indeed, it is believed that some of them were planted by Solo- ' mon. - . Nothing is so discouraging to a young lawyer just as he waxes eloquent alpiit angel's tears, weeping willows and tomb stones, as to be interrupted by the cold blooded judge with, " You're off your' nest, bub ; this is a case of hog-steal ihg." " ' Agnes Meyers, a young lady living at San Buenaventura, has just starved to death, owing to the burning of her throat by s solution of potash which she took by mistake, the excoriation being so dread ful that she was unable to swallow any thing but ioe-water. " I haven't eaten a mouthful in two days," said a tramp, " and my wife and three children are starving at home." " I would give yon something," the phil anthropist replied, " but I have nothing smaller than a five dollar bill, " "I will change it for you," said the tramp. Dear Laura, when you were a flirting young miss, and I was your dutiful swain, your smiles could exalt the summit of bliss, your frowns oould o'erwhelm me with pain ; you were dear to me then, love, but now you're my wife, it is strange tbe fond tie should be nearer ; fprwhen I am paying your bills, on my life, you seem to get dearer, and dearer 1 " Gov, Leslie of Kentucky recently ap pointed as aid-de-camp on his staff a boy thirteen years old ; and later he has add od to his staff a son, aged six months, o George T. Duff, the assistant secretary -ef State. The baby ranks as oolonel, and the governor declares that he is more ornamental and fully as useful aa any adult whom' he oould have chosen. A correspondent at Minneapolis in forms us that tbe wheat crop in Minnesota is magnifloent. Tbe grain is large and. well tilled, weighing from sixty to sixty five pounds to the bushel. Nearly all the counties .report their average to be twentv-nve bushels, so tue acre, xne g from twenty five to . F . . . , . - , forty millions of bushels of fine wheat, besides other grain. . New wheat now sells readily at $1 a bushel, - ; 7 The Xile Gossip. A Cape May correspondent writes : There are gossips most abominable , of aJi who bang around tbe hotel doors or stroll tbe piazzas ; but they, generally ""ff -mi'.; timif'TC""1""" nengaaa. .They . have marvelous insinnationa to throw out, dresull al . chargeno macr, ... and many a woman's fair fame bangs upon their smoky breath. ' : Your model masculine gossip is tail and scrawny, with small, watery, blue eyes. At times -they assume a greenish cast, when the . fever is at. ita height with him and he has found a new victim. He steals along the corridors with oat-like tread and bis . ' eyes roll to and fro; bnt you cannot hold his gaze. . The sneaky eye drops when it meets an honest look. He isn't a . drinker ; nothing excites hun. His head , is ever dear, and bis temperament, like ' his soul, is bard and cold. ' He will get - -the best of you in a bargain. Tbe greed -for gain is hie ruling passion nextt-j.- gossip ; but his dutch is tight oera"..i lar, and his wif u lias to beg bard for Ucr uager pittance. . '""..a
Rocky Mount Mail (Rocky Mount, N.C.)
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