ROCRY:-M'CITjMcr. : MAI ROCKY MOUNT MAIL, ROOKY MOUKT MAIL. AH IHCIFINDEKT JU. AirnUaSng Eaton Weekly Family Kewipaper. J. H.V W. L THORP, , PVSLtlBKU AD noPSIROSC. ' " . fM f . . SUBSCRIPTION TIMS j- . $2.00 per Annum, la 'Adrane -v-.y aw ;!. ':.' Oil WW at.u OUB COUHTBT, RIGHT OB WBONG j El WB050, TO JU ' BET BIGHT Carl Bohvn. i.ll.!tl .( t,.0" W U i.oo!.so:i.f'it ".! w.w 'Jt.W.KM.V inc r W. L. THORP, Editor. ItOCKY MOUNT, N. C.,APEIL 14, 1876. VOL. IV. NO. 51. v:. Sri, A. 1 TkM KqaM. ... rv itM H. nil in i m " J 7 ft ' ' ,, Earth's Noblemen. Wt1 of that bud that tUl lb hoi, Aaddrwrfroa earth iMrato- , BM btm bxbxxl i th life fend, - Whil. ear ds sr. puuac o'r. -Jbnrmrw ante riant far larpaMiDf lb farmftr'a purs, fall other pursuits star MsM saw fruits, Tfst often produce snub wars. 7 eovf Ml th statesman's lot, ; BUfl eUmortng for hit cisas; Har hi. that Dhta fw itorj'a righto, " J . , At seta rsdoaMsd pass. . ' io risk hav w ob toarterous a, fear Mot tosspot whelm And wa poiim Without rsdreas, ' WhUlaberugatthhlaa. , Tb fruitful Add tn bottntiea jUlda, A rfah reward tor toil) B our th trad lo plj tha apala. And daiply plow thasoih, Wa walk abroad ' aarpat sod, .. And dowaraai M oar fact, . . Whoss odor rla to soant tha skits A tribute pur and sweet. To all wa fir tha stasis ta Bra, Aa bratbarahara with brasher, And was folnJltb holy will That bid. n lev aaeb othar. ',' Ob, Ufa aaoara from falls, and para, ' To thaa our lora olinga ever, With an It Slight and fond dIight- " Toobaog from tb, no, nararl u,.': :. " i M'': X A WOKDIBTUI. WOLJ 8T0BT. T A Laarbaw baaaewr la CTaamJa am. n Rar raw Wmumtt n run. Bararml Hm Traa tunuatl by Hmn Watraa. Th Ottawa Tree Pre print tba fol lowing Boeoant of an aaTentnre dt au. John A. Ounn, in the towoabip of Blake, Qoebeo: .- , . ' I set ont in eompany with two In- - diana to aaeertain il any treapaasea had been onmmitted on a limit owned by oni Arm, Ilia aaid limit being northeast of - the Oaiinwt riwr, and running parallel with tba Daierre. The district ia M markable only for it monritainona ohr aoter, tba range being called Mont Diablo, ox Derii'a noantain. I took mj hone along with me ao long a a beaten track enabled me todtf eo, when I tied him vtp,-fbi eontinned the journey on - anowshora. Wa had gone only about four mile, when one of tha Indiana, very running and experienced hnnter, solemnly warned me to turn back, a there were unmistakable indication! of woWea being in close proximity ; bat, ' not heeding the roioe of the daaky aon of the forest, I made rp my mind to keep oa my way, a it ia a principle of - min aemr to look back until my work Ait aeoomplished. Ob the present oooa- " aion, howeTer, my eon tempt for the pro ' photic word of the Indian oame near oosting me doarly. Approaching the foot of the mountain, I beheld full in Tiew, and only abort distance away on small eminence, pack of wohrea, twenty oeTtn in number, derouring the raruaina of a doer. Thia wa rather an unpleasant position to be in, and the only reooursa for safety was retreat or to climb a bee. The former I decided on without much delay, but on turning bout I found -that the two Indiana had gone. I saw to my re-rolTors aa my beat friends immediately, and found ail right. I determined to live as long aa I could, and to sell my life as dearly as possible. I began, the retreat, howerer, with all the haste that my physical powers were capable of, but was soon alarmed by hearing the howling of the wobras in " pursuit. I hay always prided myself on my flertneaa of foot, as I hTe seldom met my equal, but in this race with ' woiYe I lost sronna Terr fast. I quiok ly realised thai the attempt to escape was vain, for at the rate of going I could not hold out long.'and therefore, belier , ing that prodenca was the better part of Talor," I eonoladed to climb a tree, and Iboogh it took me a very few mo ments to reach a eouTeuiant bough, I was none too quiok, for th pack was - nigh on hand, anxious for a fresh dish aiUr disposing of the dee. ' They drew " up in line, about ten yards from th tree, and considering me opporonuty a good one, I commenced to blase sway at thm with 1adW efleoL no lea than I. four falling in answer to seven shots. This destructive fire did not abate their fury in the least, and I proceeded to draw my second revolver, when, unfor tunately, it oanglit in a twig and was - jerked out of my band to the ground. I . now felt my predicament a worse on than ever, fearing that they would re ' . main and starve me out, or.' until I should become benumbed with the oold and fall an easy prey to the ravenous pack. My buffalo oat I had left in the - cutter, and, being very thinly clad, I ' began very soon to experience the affects of the oold. The wolves, i oeiieve, real one. and as thev ' leasrnar. thev be ran to gnaw it Clown. had been in many a tight place before, in whalenshirig and other perilous posi Hons, and flatter myself I have never I been much of coward;, but on the present occasion, with a hungry pack of . wolves methodically at work, one after' the other, gnawing nwsy the tree on ' which I had taken refuge, I began to feel loose about the jaw, and my spirits , -went down to forty-flve-JFahrenheit. - -"However, an idea occurred to me ; I de . " eided upon plan. Taking out my knife 7 1 cut the longest limb I eould reach, and . leaving a book on the end of itloanght ' hold of a lanre cedar tree about ten feet - off, and a th wolves continued gnaw " ing, and my perch got more sad mora unsteadv. I culled on the pole and drew , ' th tree over toward the cedar. - With a , drsmrate exertion, and alter V minntea of Jeep anxiety, I sneooeded in " gaining theoedar, and took Tip a safe nnmtion smonir iUbrcnches. The wolves uttered a fierce howl and took their de parture, but I did not venture to descend from my porch until the last sound from them was faintly heard from the distant . . .hill. On reaching the plsee where I had loft my horse, I found that he had 'got frifrhtrf-ned and had gone. I was about staking out in pursuit, when I eopied the two Indians, who were en d . avoriiig to secure two young moors, which, thev hsd got into s kind of ore- vft.wo st Ci bae of high rock. I tarncd in with them, and w succeeded ' 1 3 1- -1 .l -. .. ,1 I..H.HI, hAil I ' ... . - 1 .w-lih,l - Thnv walked no to the I . r . r, 1 17 .. . . . , raow-wj , r , :tt MBjtimran. nr tn- rMw.n nili) t -.rtnmiii, wnniTnurfflr an ft tnn -v .-.--.-j. y. ,. i team, wnies to torn rwurnwr obtk. insinsr. au acpoinsea dv foot of the tree, which was a very smau I 0axtle that six members of last year's barr of war. It reduees the one. and as thev could not reaon me oy i II in takinff them alive and nnhnrt. The Indians had courage enough to go back and skin the wolves. - Mr none I found at the jobber's shanty, about seven mile The BeMne of the M Donner Psi-ty." Baaders of Bret Harte's Gabriel Oonroy " will remember the following r iooc noie wmon oocurs m oonneooon ( with the author's description of scenes V. inJStarvatlon Camp r - - Vi fear I must task the incredulous tentiosrtu what may, perhaps, prove the most literal and thoroughly attested fact of this otherwise fanciful chroniole. The oondition and aituation of th ill famed 'Sooner Party then an un known, unheralded cavalcade of lmmi granta tsrrrrjg in an unfrequented pass of the .Sierras, was first made known to Captain Tonnt, of Naps, in dream. 1 be Spanish records of Uali fomia show that the relief party which succored th survivors- was projected upon this spiritual information. " : , In the thorough scrutiny to which everything relating to the heroic acre of California has been subjected, there are. probably, few beyond th moun tains who are not familiar with the details of the above expedition. - There are many in the East, however, who will be interested in Uaptain zount s own version ot this strange occurrence, a related by him to the late Bev. Dr. Horace BmshneiL We quote from Nature and the Supernatural " : As I sat by the fire, one stormy No- vember night, in a hotel parlor, in the Napa valley of California, there cam in most venerable and benignant look g-person, rith- his wife, taking their seats in the circle. The stranger, as I afterward learned, was Captain lountfm man who oame over into California, as a trapper, mora than forty years ago. Here ha has lived, apart from th great world and its questions, acquiring an immense landed estate, and becoming a kind of acknowledged patriarch in the country. His tall, manly person, and his gracious, paternal look, as totally unsophisticated in the expression as if be had never heard of philosophic doubt or question in his life, marked bun as the true patriarch. The conver sation tamed, I know not how, on spiritism and the modern necromancy, and h -discovered a degree of inclina tion to believe in the reported mys teries. His wife, a much younger and apparently Christian persoh,Mntimated that probably he was pretlisposer) to this kind of faith by a very peculiar experi ence of bis own, and evidently desired that he might be drawn ont by some In telligent discussion of his queries. At my request, he gave me his story. About six or seven years previous in a mid-winter's night he had a dream, in which he saw what appeared to be a oompany of immigrants, arrested by the snows of the mountains, and perishing rapidly by cold and hunger. He noted the very cast of the scenery, marked by a huge perpendicular front of -white rock cliff ; h saw men cutting off what appeared to be tree tops, rising out of deep gulfs of snow; he distinguished the very feature of the persons, snd the look of their particular distress. He woke, profoundly impressed with the distinctness and apparent reality of his dream. At length he fell asleep, and dreamed exactly the same dream again. In the morning he eould notxpel it from his miad.. . Jailing in, shortly, with an old hunter oomrade, he told hint the story, and was only the more deeply impressed by bis recognizing, without hesitation, the scenery of the dream. This comrade came over the Sierra, by the Carson valley pass, and declared that a spot in the pass answered exaotly to bis description. By this the unso phisticated patriarch was decided. He Lnrnediately collected eompany of men, with mules and blankets, and all necessary provisions. Toe neighbors were laughing, mean time.at his credulity. "No matter." said he. "I am able to do thia, and I will, for I verily believe that tha fact is according to my dream. The men were sent into the mountiins, one hundred snd fifty miles distant, di rectly to the Uarson valley pass. Ana there they found the eompany, in ex actly the ecdUion of tbe dream, end brought in the remnant alive. A gentleman present said: ''Ton need nave no doubt of -this; for we Csli tornians all know the facts,, snd. the names of the families brought in, who now look upon our venerable friend as a kind of savior." These names he gave, and th places where they reside, and I found, afterward, that the Cali fornia people were ready, everywhere, to seoondbla testimony. Scribner for The Centennial Bine Team, 8ootoh Elcho Shield team ell who are ahla to so to America to participate in the Centennial matches Intend to shoot for places in this team, and at least nine other first-class shots are ready to coro nete. ' No f hot. a resident of Scotland, who can go, has held back. The deputa tion of the Irish rifle association, which Inlr-Hanw) Maior Leach in recrard to the organization of an man team Dy mat imntleman. included nearly all of the 1875 international team.Oapt Mildmay, aecretarv of the national nfle tion, thinks the action of the Irish team daflnitelv settled in the negative the Question . OI uie national -mgaauuu representation, though Sir Henry Hal ford has not yet received reply from rvj Oildersleeve to bis eommunioation asking that no team should be accredited . . . i 1 .1 : 1 unices unaer sue suapio-w w uw uauww rifle association. - '- A Kew Trial. In July, 187. Chicago merehsnt named Staaden, having "heavily insured bis hardware store' and removed his stock, saturated the floors with oil and heaped them with rags, men piacea aer .mU kwa of nowder on the shelvne. attached trains and lighted them. This mt nnnn. on a crowded street, The fire was fortunately discovered and ex. tagnished. Staaden was oniy orougnt to trial last winter, and sal to need to a veer's imprisonment. He has secured a new trial, and will probably be set free. A gtory f . Dknlel Drew. Hundreds of storMs have been told tbont Uriel Darie-Drew's wsv of do ing businesSr-ere i on I heard mi Wall street some time ago that will do as s specimen. Once while sitting in his office Drew was approached by cleric! looking personage, who intro dnoed himself as a clergyman from a town up tb Hudson. Unole Daniel wanted to know what he could do for him. - Well, I thought Mr. rew,"aaii the parson, "that you might pnt me in tne way or making little money. u Thinkin' . of buyin' some sneers, ehr "Tea, sir, Tve got something saved op, and if yonll be good enough to tell me what la best to do to increase it you'll oblige me very much." well, now, rt t una a reeky, ye know, but p'r'aps ef ye tried a little Erie" '' Thank you. Mr. Drew, thank yon. Now, will you be kind enough to tell me a good plaoe to buyt Ton see, I am not acquainted Mown here at all." Drew sent him to one of his own brokers, rho bad orders to sell Erie right slang, and when the parson waa leaving the good old man said to him : "Now, don't ye go an' tell any of the folks id thsre that I've been arivin' ve any pints, for I don't want 'em to be oomin down here an apeciusun . . The narson ordered soma Erie, nut un the margin, and went home, and in leas than a week svery one of his neighbors who oould command a thousand dollars had come to New York and bought Erie in the same place. But they were all surprised to find stock falling instead of rising, and when mora margin was called for the dominie oame down in hot haste to see Mr. Drew snd find out what was the matter.' Mr. Drew, my dear sir, how is this I Ton told, m Erie was" a good thing to buy." - . "WelL" said Unole Daniel, with his Egyptian mummy smile, " it ha turn ed out poortv bad, that's a fact. But of course I don't want y to lose any money., , Let's see; how much ara y outr - . : "' Th dominie named his low. and Drew told a clerk to fill a check for the amount. It war handed to-the visitor, who became quite profuse in his thanks. As he was leaving the office, however, he stopped and said : ." Mr. Drew, some of my brethren have also lost large sum in ILne." . "Seems to me, answered Mi. Drew, I told ve not to say anything about that pintM EJyHo the folks np your way. Lots of 'em's bean down yer buy In', an' I fear they haint made no thin'. Sorry, but it haint my fault, for I told ye not to tell 'em." They had been buying the stock that Drew was' selling, and the check to the clergyman was only a small part of what he had made. out of the -clergyman's friends. Beorgauixing the United States Army. The committee on military affairs of the United States House agreed upon a bill .to reorganize the army, it being Bepresentative Banning's bill, with some amendments, and ordered it to be reported favorably to the House. It does not reduce, the -present effective force of the army, but reduces the num bar of infantry regiments from twenty five to twenty, sad the cavalry from ten to eight, thus reducing th number -of infantry officers fifty-five and of cavalry officers ill teen, snd increases the six of the com rniea and resriments. IA does away with the regimental organisation of the artillery, reducing th field officers of artillery seventeen. It consolidates the quartermaster and commissary de partments into one, designated as the department of supplies, making a large reduction of officers, : It provides for a board to examine offloers and for the dis charge of all worthless and inefficient officers, and for an examination of the condition of retired officers. All officers who lose their places under the bill are placed upon a list of supernumeraries, and are permitted to resign with one year's pay for each eight years of ser vice, or remain in service to perioral such duty at they may be assigned to. It provides for the education of non commissioned offioars snd soldiers by the commissioned ofnoers, and for the promotion of mm-ooramissionech officers to commissioned officers. It abolishes the office of judge advocate, fixes th pay of first sergeants at 4U per month, makes tha heedomartera of the ffenaral of the army at Washington in time of peace, ana provides mat n may act a secretary of war in tha abeonc of the secretary or temporary vacancy in the office. . It provides that sutlers andpost trad ers shall be first elected by a oounml of the adnimiatration, approved Dy th de- 1 V ill. general of the se ore- staff ot ail general offloers, and requires the general of the army to report reforms to Con gress annually and to lookrta economy m all branches of the army. The bill is approved by the testimony of many o the offlonrs of the army. It is a re duction of about two hundred officers, and proposes reforms which, it adopted, will, a Washington dispatch says, it ia olaimed, add greatly to toe efficiency of the army. - - , - - Pobonoat Trees. . The leaves of the gumbo trees, which grow in the West Indies, when eaten by any animal, will cause all its hair to drop out, and I have seen horses and cows both without a hair in man or tail from eating its leaves. The manchenillo tree hi auite common on some of these islands, and is very poisonous. .The wind blowing through it directly upon a person sensitive to poison will take effec ui a few moments. The smoke from it burnintr wood has the sumn ir 't. 1 saw a horse which had takou slieiwr under-one of these -bees during a show'-, whose hair waa taken o.'I wuerever t ie drops of rain from it bout hs had ton li ed him, and years afterward had this mottled appearance. A Binn who slept under one of them in ml.l ! y was awak ened nearlv unoonscious, rm:W the effects of a powerful naro. Vr C:-hji known sevorni caxsoi seve two deaths froa eating Cm, with this tree; : , j-Fsshlen lUtet,; . Ball gloves are worn very long, often reaching to the elbow, J?"ealber trimmings of all varieties will be worn until midsummer. The Bubiria polonsis furnishes graceful model for this leading garment, which buttons in the back. : : - Fringes were never more elegant in design and finish than now. Graduated fringes, woven very wide in the center and narrow at the sides, are seen on handsome tabliera. ' Small crochet buttons, both in black and eolora, and smoked pearl ones are in style.. . , w The Byron collar, which the manufse tnrers are trying to introduce, has not proved successful. The English eollar with ends sloped off and the upright eol lar with ends slightly pointed and tolled over are popular. - ; Flowers are hrviahly used for evening toilets. - Waists of evening dressss are laced at tha back; are generally high on th shoulders, with low, neari anspea rom padoux or high necks, as the figure re quires. The sleeves are either very snort or else reaon to tne eioow. Cameos are in unusual demand, 'with't a nreferenoe for ancient deaums. The Toque bonnets, with small brim and loose crown, are worn; some, in deed, have no brim. long curled feather being fastened all around the crown. They have tulle strings attached to tha back of the bonnet, brought for ward and loosely tied in front. Combs, not very high and forming square rather than oval band, designed in an open pattern, are adapted to" the present style of wearing the hair. . Bunting dresses of creamy tint wfll be popular this year for seaside wear, as will be bin bunting ones for yachting purposes. Expensive sets of underclothing eome in ecru or rose colored silk, elaborately trimmed with Valenciennes laoe. Visiting cards of medium sine in nn glsaed Bristol board, with English script, is the popular style. Bright colored plaids, intermixed with grays, are brought oat in spring woolen fabrics for house dresses snd children's suite. Vvl"' --'v.- - Whitby jet is the only jewelry appro priate for deep mourning." The heating eomb is a new invention for drying the hair after the head has been washed: it is also claimed for this contrivance that it keep th hair glossy, prevents its falling out, and is in many ways' a benefit. White is this season known in several shades: blano roee also called month of Jane e white, overcast with pink; blano creme, a creamy white, and blano mat, a dead white. ' Fans of Russia leather remain fashion- . 4 Thought for Saturday Night. To bear ia to conquer fate. " j The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little. --- . Poverty persuades man to do and snffer everything, that he may escape from ft." . . - Devote each day to the object then in time,. and every evening will And tome thing done. . - . f. - TT'rid is vice which pride itself in clines every man to find is others, and overlook In himswllr- - ; - 1 : Suffering beoomes beautiful when one bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility, but through greatness of mind. Lost wealth may be replaced by in dustry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. There is no less merit in keepin g what we have got than in first acquiring it. Chance has .something to do with the one, while the other will always be the effect of skill. ! Socrates, when informed of some de rogating speeches one had need concern ing him behind his .back, made only this facetious reply: " Let him beat me, too, when I am absent" The akeptie.twhen be plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from th shipwreck, will find that the treasure which he bears about him will only sink but deeper in the abyss. Over the time thou hast no power; to redeem a world sunk in dishonesty has not been given thee; solely over one man therein thou hast s quite absolute uncontrollable power; him redeem, him mak honest,' - It ia at th approach of extreme dan ger when a hollow puppet can do noth ing that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant born who listens only to himself and I ... toows nothing d .compacts. I auneocvinced. both by faith and ex perience, that to maintain one's self on this earth ia not a hard hip, but a pas time, if we will live simply and wisely, a the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the mora artificial. Manis subject to fate solely in-himself, not in others; he soon hardens his mind against all fear, and prepares it for all events. A little philosophy enables him to bear bodily pain, or the common infirmities of flash; by philosophy sncnewhat deeper, he can conquer the Otxnsry jBverses of fortune, the dread of iAame, and the last calamity of death. ; v A Mexican dreus. Ik o euriout thing is a Mexican circus. One. at Puebla, came np from oil Mexi co The managers have eome sections of eaiivas, and with these and such pieces of lumber as they can f k up is the town ia which they eiL .t, they construct a sort of tent or corn. The patrons of the show must provide their own seats. Each eabellero r ny ba seen going to the show with a r .iorite on one arm snd a couple of cl - or stools on the other. The advanoe : t spurns the regular printer's ink, d ? instead a muslin poster, on which is printeA an advertisement of the eircus. The per formance consists mainly of tnmbl ng and horizontal bar exercises, though an Ajilicatt. d pony and some trained- dogs are wonderful athletes, and Vj treats are well worth soeiiig. SPECIAL AGBICUlTCJtiL FBJZE8. tls.S Cbnaaas Car f sMe f.sarsss mm tmri sTRls The only department ef the Canteu- nial exhibition in which special prizes have been offered to any extent Is the agricultural. These prizes will not be swarded by the Centennial corn mission, but by Individuals, -and in the agri cultural department jure according to the corrected list just furnished by Chief Landreth, as follows : $1,000 by th Jersey cattle club for the beat Jersey herd ; $1,000 by th Pennsylvania agri cultural society for general prises ; $1,000 by the Memphis cotton exchange for the best bale of cotton from any of the States of Mississippi, Arkansas, Ala bama and Tennessee : KAIU by Messrs. B K. Bliss A Sons for ths best display of potatoes io pecks ; $100 by Messrs. D. sndreth A Sans, for th best dis play of vegetables st a stated period $76 by Chief Landreth, of the agri cultural bureau, for the best essay on forestry ; $50 by Messrs. Henderson A Sons, for the best essay on th cauli flower, and $60 by the same firm for the best, essay on the cultiva- tios of celery ; $160 by tb Fhibv delphia produce exchange for the best eneess: uou tj tne northwest urn dairymen's sseociation for the best but ter and obeese ; a prise by th National dairymen's sasociation for the best cheese t $160 by the Pennsylvania poul try society for general prizes ; $100 by the New York ibrssf Vd Stream tor dog price: two $50 cups,' one by the Chicago tUid and another by C. a Westoott, for dog prises a prise by the $200 by the proprietors of the "Ameri can food for Osttle " in four prises of $60 each for each class of horses, cattle, sheep and swine, the owners being re- ?uired to oertify that they have used the cod, and a silver cellar by Frank Roan for the best Dachshund or German beagle, of any age. The New York agri.- eultural societyoffers free transportation to and from Philadelphia for all first class prize animals from that State. Karion't Dinner Party. A British offloer was at one period of the Revolutionary war dispatched with a nag of true to Ueneral alarion. What was his surprise on being con ducted into Marion s presence to behold in our hero a swirthy, smoke-dried little man, with acaro enough of threadbare homespun to cover his naked rjesel- Hav ing recovered a little from his surprise he presented his letter to General Marion, who perused it, and soon settled everything to his eat isf action. The officer took Up his hat to retire. Oh. no." aaid Marion. ' it is now about our time of dining, and I hope, sir, that you will give us the pleasure of your oompany to dinner." At mention of the word dinner the British offloer looked around him, and to his great mortification oould see no signs of it - , - "WelL Tom." said the general to one of his men, " come, give us our dinner. " The dinner to which be alluded was no other than a heap of sweet potatoes that were snugly roasting under tha em bers, snd which Tom. with hispine- stiok poker, soon liberated from their ashy confinement, pinched them very now and then with "his fingers, especial ly th big ones, tor see whether they were done - or not -Then, having cleansed them of . the ashes, he piled tome of the best on a large piece of bark and placed them between the British offloer and Marion on Abe trunk of the fallen pine on which they sat A New Hampshire Town aTeetiag. Space would faQ me to tell half the oddities of election customs in this State, writes a Concord correspondent. They oaU an election a "town meeting." and that's what, it really is, for the whole town turns out in the morning and gathers in the town hall. At nine o'olook the three selectmen 4ake the platform and announce that the eleotion of a moderator is in order. Each party makes a nominatiouHtnd if the town is close there is a division tha Democrats going on one side of the hall and the Republicans on the other to be oonnted. Either side, if dissatisfied, can demand a ballot, and sometimes the whole fore noon is consumed in getting organised. When they get a moderator they put it to vote how long tha polls shall b kept open. Sometimes they close the poll for representative at one or two o'olook, and keep on voting for the general ticket until six. Usually all voting in the eountry towns ceases at three, but there is nothing to prevent keeping the boxes open until midnight, and this is occasionally done in the cities. If there are three candidate for representative. and neither gets an absolute majority, there is a second ballot had and often 11 third ; or if night comes on, and the fanners want to go home to'milk, they postpone the business until next day. The town, being s petty sovereignty in such matters, can do as it pleases. JWfcrs to Bay. - ' A Vermont" lady '' sends a protest against an article which appeared in the columns of a city paper advising people to go to the city to purchase their goods. . She thinks country merchants should be encouraged; that their judg ment and taste in the selection of goods is better thaa the average housewife's; that the time and trouble ahe takes in going to the city to do her own shopping gives poor returns; that ahe might bet ter give the merchant a list of what ah wishes, and get him to purchase for bee, than go herself; that the practice of de pending upon neighboring cities for shapping facilities tends to make towns suburban, and keepa them from retain ing their diatinotive character as coun try villages; that tbe ladies of her town who make their purchases in large cities do no better, so far a ahe eaa learn, thaa those who bay of th eountry Soer chant Sheeoocludes thus: "I agree perfectly with what you say about buy ing by the quantity, but we eaa do that without going to cities; and just think of the loss of trade to eountry dealer and the personal discomforts husbands and children if women, on the strength ef your advice, fie to tha city stores to spend their money this spring. M0SET IJ COAL DIET. Mvtaw a Pnabsi that baa Feasted Mas, a - $ Mot aa Haw a SsnM. l11,0" theTXSBBtmntry. ssys Fotts- ville (Pa.) correspondent of the b.ar to rj seen mountains of coal dirt. It has been piled up ever since minhur begun. Thousands upon thousands of tons are packed away in the mountain gorges. It has always been considered useless and valueless. Coal operators damped the dirt along the streams, in th hopes that spring rreanetsjiouid wash it away. portion- of tba upper section of bohaylkill canal waa thrown out of because the expense of dredging ooal dirt from th bottom wa too great, and the oompany accordingly abandoned it - Suddenly all this aooumnUted'.noal dirt ha been brought to a market value. and every ton of it is worth money to the steam power manufacturer. - Buper intendent Wootten is one among twenty inventors who have been considering his great problem and trying to solve it Few scientific man have ever wit nessed these Immense mountains of coal dirt without asking th question: " Can not this staff be put into some shape to be burned I" At least twenty different parties and oompsniea have been organ ised for the purpose of making a fuel out of the dirt that would burn. In nearly every instance th partiee took the dirt, mixed it with ooal tar. lime or other material, and then pressed it to gether in lamps o molds. The stuff would never burn sstiafaotonly. Tb ooal tar, eta, would ignite, but after that the dirt' would appear like dead cin der and. emit no heat at all. - One man took a preparation of buck wheat meal and mixed it with the coal dirt Afterward it waa pressed into blocks th shape and else of brick. Samples were shown to Superintendent vt ootten try the inventor for mi After thinking a moment the inventor was asked whether he had ever consid ered that the flour alone would cost much more per ton than the best anthra cite ooal I The reply wa "no" that he hadn't thought that far. Air. Woolen labored considerably, and at last oame to the oonolosion that the only way the dirt eould ever be used sat- isfactorily would be to burn It the aa other ooal is used either by locomo tive or stationary engine. . The trouble was it would not burn, bees use it was too ODmpact, and would smother rather than ignite. For fifty years that has i . i : . . , i . . ut bu vita una grtw impediment, ana scientists eould not overoom it Final ly, however, Mr. Wootten thought of in troducing a steam blast through the coal from the bottom, in the hope of penetrating the masa and supplying plenty of air. He built a furnace apecial ly for it, and placed it under a station ary engine boiler. Instead of using grate bars, he employed a perforated iron plate for the fire to rest upon. A pipe from the boilefoonveyed the steam, and the necessary pressure supplied the blast, and this stroke proved to be th key note of the entire coal dirt problem. It burned freely, and threw out an im mense heat The oldest dirt was used to see if it possessed burning qualities, and it was found that it was consumed freely, the same as the best of coal. It waa next.tried in the furnaos of a looomotiv engine, and was found to burn equally well. The other day whan the wind was blowing st s velocity of fortv miles ner hour, a ocal dirt burnina! engine took np a train of one hundred oars through the valley with the same and with aa little la boras an engine burning the very best anthracite ooal. This certainly ia regarded as great revolution ia the ooal and iron eountiy, because it transforms at least a million of tons of heretofore useless eoal dirt into a fuel -worth at the very least one dollar per ton; and provides away to. consume all eoal dirt that may come to tb surface in the future. The Drying Biters ef Europe. It is a well known fact that as the set tlement of a oouutry beoomes general, and the forests are cleared, or the open eountry brought into civilization, the effect is quiokly seen in the diminished water supply of rivers during the sum mer - - In Europe this diminished water sup ply is yearly more felt " Attention is again called to the subject in Austria, and a circular, accompanied with a re port, has been addressed to the scien tific societies of Europe, by the Vienna academy of science, inviting them to unite in oDeervanons tor th oe termina tion of the oauses of the decrease of the water in springs, . rivers snd water courses. For a oertaia number of years the wa ter of the Danube and other large river bar been diminishing. The Austrian engineers' snd architects' union have ta taken np the same question, and. hare my ipolnted x nyarogtatia eomaanBon m Ueot facts and prepares report Two collect facts and prepare a report. members will observe the Danube, tbe Elbe and the Rhine; and two others will study the meteorology of the subject, aftd the influence that the Alpine-gle-oiers and torrents may bear upon it The commission regards the destruc tion of the forests as the prime cause of the disastrous decrease of European wa tera, and urge an immediate adoption of to remedy the evil. (Bteanlal Race. ' Major 3. D. Ferguson, secretary of the Maryland jockey dub and also se cretary of the running meetings of the Point Breeze Park Association ol Phila delphia, announces the em trie closed, with th following ' nominations for the Cuntennial races : -rr - Inaugural swe'patakoa, for all ages twrnitj-one. Reform club stakes, for thre year -old Allies twenty-one. Grand Exposition stakes, for colt and fillies, three year-olds twenty. - Leamington stakes, for two year -old twenty. Philadelphia club cup sweepstakes, for all ago twenty-three. v International handicap stakes thirty en. -' - - . Association stakes ten. " Centennial stakes eevnnteer. Ladies' stakes sixteen. . " ' . Total 179. Tb first mseting oocurs Jon twet,ty IateVest, r a .9 lark Men who go out for i are apt to snake it a "swallow.' Naturally enough " Troth Js stranger than notion," because it is sot. Au com- . An observing man has discovered that the sua sets just before early candle lighting. - One cent per bushel make a difference of $10,000,000 in the value of the annual crop at corn in the United States. . i Little Harry, five years 'ol4..,;was ealled to see the new baby. After a mo ment's contemplation, . he turned to his expectant papa with : "We didn't need that" , " . -Tha Ohkeao Times wants to knew 1. Items ef Is M w fellows whose grandfathers fought -in the Bevolutioa' are not going to have our expense paid to the On ten- , nialt . - ' A Fitohbavg ' woman applied to the wu mstseeis for help. They sent be . a bag of meal, but ah scolded at them, sayingt "What is a bag of meal to fat two huge hogs with A man - who contracted a debt of $1,113, promised to pay it in two install ment. Last week he forweided $11, and promised to send th other $13 aa soon as th times got better. - A Drominent broker hsd on his office door the following interesting legend ; " If you owe me and cannot pay me employ some one who wants to owe me, ' as he can find me in thirty minutes." As an evidence of hard times it msy be mentioned that a young man in New ; Tork State wrote to every bank in De troit offerinsT to "be your kasheerfor $30 per month and board ' and no bank oould give him a plaoe. ; John Harrop, aged eleven, has been indicted for willful murder by a coroner's jury at Boston, Lincolnshire. He had quarreled with another boy named White, aged ten, and had pushed him into a pit, where he left him to die. Widow in Ifidis are Bow permitted to marry again, instead of being burnecu This will have a tendency to increase th list of widows in India; but no doubt manv of them.1 after hving with a second husband a few months, will yearn fur a restoration of the old law. A prudent Caioago mother of wealth and respectability has brought up her , accomplished and beautiful daughters to do washing and ironing. When ques tioned a to the cause of this somewhat unusual proceeding, the prudent-mother replied : "Oh, it is always well to pre, pare for sny emergency. Perhaps some of the poor children mayTnarry an Italian count" In the town of Hartland, some twelve or fifteen years ago, lived An old fellow who was not noted lor ms ionanoss ior good books; he liked good liquor better. An agent ealled one day and asked if the house was supplied with the Bible. "Oh. yea," he-said, " they always had it" The agent was a little incredulous, snd decided to see it The-eld -man searched the boose through, and at last produced a few stray leaves,-saying, " he had no idee they were-vo near out of Bible." Mrs. Fitch's Diamonds. The revenue authorities are puzzled to know what to do with the khedive of Egypt's famous gift to General Sher man a dauguter. , , . r .i - The- diamonds arr- looked np in the big vault in the sub treasury. They were placed there in Jane last, and unless they are taken away before next June, they will be classified as unclaimed goods, and sold by auction to pay the duties and storage. If this should happen, the money, after the de duction of the official chargea, would be paid to Drexel. MorganJtjDo-, hi whoso name the diamonds are oonBigned. The trouble ia that Congress in authorizing r IAaut. Fitch to receive the present to his wife, neglected to relieve, him from the payment of the duties. . The neck lace and earings which compose tbe gift were first raid to be worth $250,000, but experts have since appraised them at 875,000. The duty on this amount would be about $10,000. Gen. Sherman feels that he is too poor to pay this, and he is unwilling to appeal to Congress for an exemption of the payment of the duties. Neither the secretary of the treasury, the collector, nor any of his deputies are disposed to exercise their power of granting a free permit for the diamonds, and the Turkish ambassador, who has the official prerogative of receiving them ia his name, will not ask -for their re- lease, beoaose tha khedive is only recog nized by his government as a Vassal. A Goat Story. 1. .. Fob -some time past the clerks at station in Louisville have been annoyed -' bv goats that infest that immodia'e hf -'V corny, nut sausueu mm urn utmu i i devilment these sly rascals are guilty of thev ehew all the tags on the cotton . . bales cent there for shipment, thereby cans ng s g-ft deal of tmnble iu.liip- J ping the cotto). The other day. tbe clerks surrounded about a doses of the goat And succeeded in driving them into- . T a box oar alongside the platform and fastening the door. That, night there : . . waa a carload of goats going north, i -hitched to a freight train. The ear was, left at Indianapolis, snd the next day the door was thrown open and the goats V rushed out and made a raid through the , " town, upsetting and butting.' cierks, hands, boxes, bales, etc., as they oa.-. eaped. ' Not being apprised cf the ship- . meat by way bill tbe Indianapolis clems chased them, al Lover town, endeavonn g to catch tbem, of coarse believing ths eompany would have to pay for them as , "tost freight" if they Were not eeugut. By night all were caught snd put back in the car. . A dispatch was sent to the station man in Louisville t M Send oa -your way bill. ; Got all the goats." , A dispatch went oaox iu repij : r - , -want any. Let'em go," The race in .. Indianapolis is said to have beta very exciting. ; Locrr His Ltfs. A local wit of La fayette, Art, undertook to fool 'lir. V, estbrook one dusky evening into, the belief that a ping of twist tobacco timt he pointed at Uie doctor's head war. a pistol. He sueoeeded admirably, k I was shot desj before ha ooull eihuj that it was ail a joke. T as..-. .