North Carolina Newspapers

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OBTT-srx thousand persons' in Iowa can neither read nor uriteyand one third of them'are voters. More than five times the usual amount of grain has been sown "this year in some parts of California. At Forsyth, Ontario, some rascal twice destroyed the church organ ; not favor ing the innovation. Hon. Tl P. Walkeb, United States Senator from Wisconsin, in 1854, died suddenly of apoplexy. Advices from the Southern States show that planters will prepare to plant more cotton this j ear than ever before" ; The condemnations by the French Military Commissions of persons in the Commune is thus far 5,624 ; liberations, 20,910. V : Joseph Whittle was badly torn by lions, while performing at a circus in Frankford, Pa. He is not expected to live. - - Thb petroleum springs of San Fer nando, in southern California, are yield ing at the rate of" twenty barrels of oil per day. : ; -'T) English authorities fix the population of China at 300,000,000, nearly ten times what the United States statistics show in -this country i . ' . The grain coming East is enormous, and lake captains are. making contracts at 13 cents per bushel for corn to Buffalo, and 18 to Oswego. Two persons were killed and twelve in jured hj the fall of th6 wall of a building in which a hegr6 festival was being held in Fredarick, Md. ' ' ' x - A BrLii was introduced into the . New York Legislature to punish by a, fine of $1,000 newspapers publishing the adverr tisements ot abortionists. G ENERALS Sheridan and Auger have been instructed by the War Department to use extraordinary Seffbrts to put a stop to the raids of Mexicans in Texas. , ; Congressmen Houghton, Sargent and toffhlan were flenounced and burned in effigy in San Francisco, for their con nection, with Yerba Buena scheme. The Sacramento Union predicts that, within fix years, the wine product of California, will be 64,546,875 gallons per annum, valued at 819,364,002. The Selectmen of Granby, Mass., of-: fered a premium of a dime for wood chuck heads, and the boys brought in 1,115, which surprised the Selectmen. A stay of execution has been granted in the case of Charles Marlow, who was to have been hanged at Maysville, N. Y., for the murder of William Bachman. The Pennsylvania Labor Reformerso have called a State Conventidn, to be held in Williamsport, on Tuesday, May 7, to nominate candidates for State offi cers. ' .-V ' ; Letters from the West state ithat per sons usually ploughing at the niddle of March,, were this year shivering at that time as they gazed upon their frozen fields. . 'At a meeting of iron manufacturers at Pittebirg, all sizes of iron were in creased in price three-tenths of a cent per pound, and nails twenty-five cents per keg. , - News from Mexico is interesting.5 The revolution apjpears to be in a very bad case. From almost every quarter new? of the triumph, of the government troops is received. President Grant has signed the act to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to (acquire homesteads on the public lands. ; It is stated in mitigation of Feiee can nibalism that only boys from 12 to 14 years old are now eaten by educated persons ; only the very lowest class eat men and women. ' A TiABOE, number of printing firms in .London nave yielded to the demand en forced by the strike of the compositors, for higher wages and a limitation' of the day s work to nine heurs. The IJ. S. House Ways and Means Committe have voted in favor of fixing a consolidated .tax of 65 cents per gallon on whiskey, and a uniform tax of 20 cents per pound on tobacco. The negotiations lately pending be tween Mrs. Fisk and Jay Gould, through one' of the executors of the late James Fisk j Jr., resulted in the transfer of the New York Grand Opera House to Mrs. Fisk. v; A resolution was offered and .ordered to be printed in the Ohio Senate, asking the. Ohio members of Congress to sup- A ' . 1 1 i pon a proposiuou to construct a canal around Niagara Falls, on the American side. ; - ; After a protracted trial of cunduranffo in the cancer wards of the Middlesex Hospital, in London, the medical au ' thorities of that institution have arrived at the conclusion that the drug has no enect whatever on cancer. At the Kbode Island election, the Re publican State ticket, except the Lieu tenant Governor, was elected. The Sen ate stands 26 Republicans to 11 Demo crats, and the House ef Representatives 53 Republicans and IS Democrats. M. M. Villemessant and Vitu, editors of the Paris Figaroy have been acquitted of the charge of libelling General Trochu, and found guilty of insulting a govern ment functionary. They were sentenced to three months' imprisonment and a fine of 3,000 francs. z j A labge proportion of the population of Milwaukee is composed of thrifty, fru gal, industrious, productive Germans, each of whom owns a little land about his house, arid sports a pig or two, and sends his troop of children to school, and lays up money on S9 a week. j .. i j At a meeting of citizens of Washing ton a resolution was adopted requesting the people of the United States to meet in their respective towns and cities ion a day yet to be fixed upon to give ex pression to the loss sustained by the world in the death of Professor Morse. " Wisconsin has Just passed a law for the punishment of. drunkenness with more than ordinary severity. Hereafter the inebriate is to be considered a crimi nal, liable to imprisoument for two months, ot for as much longer a period as the costs of s the action remain un paid. . ' , 1 Propessoe Watson, of Ann Arbor, reports the discovery in the constella tion of Virgo, of a new planet. It shines like a star of the eleventh magnitude. Its position is right ascen sion, 200 de grees 55 minutes declination. It is mov ing slowly west in right asdension, and north in declination. 'J Mazanares, in Spain, near which the rails were torn up and the trains stop ped and robbed by banditti, is within about one hundred miles "of Madrid, in the province of Ciudad Real, which has two handred and forty-five thousand in habitants on an area of about live thousand square miles, . a population more than half as dense as that of the State of New York. j 'About-400 farmers interested in the milk trade met in New Yprk to devise means to protect themselves from the rapacity of dealers and middlemen. ; It was stated that the dairymen receive 3 cents a quart for milk, while the con sumer pays 10 cents a quart for milk and water 3,000 cases of the latter being added to th 10,000 cases daily brought into New York. The Earthquakes ef History. It is estimated by geologists that more than one-eighth of the entire surface of the globe has been bubjected to the dis turbing influence of earthquake shocks.. The most.disasterous one of which there is any record was the third destruction of Antioch, from this cause in 526 A. I). Ac cording to the great historian, Cribbon, 250,000 persons perished at this time, as thousands of strangers increased the pop ulation of the. city, thronging to the festi; val of the Ascension, which occurred at that time. The earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which buried the cities ot Pom peii and Herculaneum are too familiar to require allusion. Of the most disasterous of modern catastrophes of this sort have been those of Lisbon, in 1755, and of New Madrid, in Missouri, in 1811. The former commenced on November 1. A loud rumbling, was followed alrnost immediate ly by a fearful shock, which demolished) thei principal buildings of the city, and in the short time of six minutes it is estimaj ted that 60,000 persons were killed. The , tide on the seacost ran out rapidly, leaving the bar perfectly dry, and as rapidly an enormous wave thirty feet in height rushed in again, sweepihg everything be forjit. The mountains in the neighbor-, hood were shaken violently, deep fisures rentMn the valleys, craigs 'toppled over, and rocks were hurled into the abysses, bearing everything with them. Thou sands of people rushed for safety to the garble quay which had just been construcj ted at an enormous expense, when sud- denly it sank, carrying its' load with it, and over the spot the water stood 600 feet deep. All the shipping of the har bor was sunk instantly, and hardly a ves tige of the life and prosperity of the famed capital remained. The most important of the earthquakes which have ever occured in this country, of which we have any record, was that of New Madrid, Mo. Over three hundred miles ot country, from the mouth of the Ohio to that of the Sti l?ionnia frau onI o q n V in nriflnlatinncu lakes and fissures being alternately formed and filled up. . These shocks were both perpendicular and horizontal, the , latter being by far the more disasterous in their effects. The incessant quakings were kept up for several months, and the loss of life and property was enormous. The City of Caracas, in V eneznela, was overwhelmed in 1812, and 12,000 citizens buried in its ruins. All the Central and South Ameri can volcanic regions have frequently of late years been subjected to these shocks. and cities destroyed and thousands of lives lost. In the Carribbean Sea they are common occurences, and their consequen ces often appalling. ; : ATeick. One of the oddest April-fool tricks on l ecord, is that perpetrated by Isabellas. Me was m Marseilles and des titute of funds, but anxiously vearnecl to go to Paris. It was the first of April and an idea struck him. He filled two vials with brick dust and labeled them as containing poison to be administered to iwjai luiiiuj u jjuh tunc , where they would be discovered. He was promptly arrested, and with great mystery. Al explanation was. refused him. He was at once placed en route tor Paris, and conveyed there with great exf pedition. Carried to the palace as a traitor, he explained the jest. Tbe vials were examined, and he was released amid general laughter. The Telegraph and Its Inventor. On April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Mass., Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born.! He was .a son of the Rev. Jede diah. Morse, D. D., pastor of the First Congregational Church, leading light of the Orthodoxists of the day in their fight against New England TJnitarianism, and author, too, of that many-volumed series of text books from which the parsing generation studied geography, His historical works, also, are numer ous. , He was a graduate of Yale in 178a: .';!.:'': Of course the invention of the tele graph was, like all the greatest things, in some measuie a growth, but the wprM has recognized Prof. Morse as at least ;the contributor of the greatest share of the origination, and the one successful promoter of its .realization. His first idea was to pass a strip of chem ically prepared paper in contact with the wire decomposing the. chemicals so as to form marks of different lengths which should form a sign alphebet. Next lie thought of the action of elec tricity upon a lever "as a mode of using pens and ink, but this he abandoned for the indenting steel point' on the end of a lever which is now in use. In 1835 he completed a rude apparatus, all made by himself, with an experimental wire of half a mile in length around a room, but hits only transmitted in one; direction. By 1837 he had ready ah improved appa ratus which he exhibited at one of the rooms in Ithe University. This year he went to "Washington, filed his caveat, and asked for a Congressional appropri ation: for a line thence to Baltimore. The session passed without action, and he went abroad. England refused him a patent, Wheatstone halving in the mean time I i got ! to work : in. France he ob-1 tained a brevet cTinventivn. But he met with little encouragement abroad, and came back to straggly through poverty and ridicule for four Ibng, years. At last came the cl6se of the session of '43. On the evening of March 3, the Professor gave fup in despair, returned to his hotel "broken in spirit and bank rupt in purse," to stat for New York the next day. "At the midnight hour of tbJe expiring sessioni" by a vote of 89 to 83, thei bill was "passed, and in the morning the inventor! knew the dawn which follows the darkekt hour. But there were more, difficulties. The first plan was of buryiag the wires in lead pipesl Ezra Cornell devised a ma chine drawn hj oxen, vhich opened the trench, laid the pipe, an! closed it again ; but the expense was great and the plan failed otherwise. It is b dd that Cornell saved him confession of I lilnre by "acci dentally on purpose"" sn ashing the ma chine against a rock. 3nly $7,000 of the appropriation then remained ; but Cornell suggested the ule of poles, and on the 27th of May, 1844, 4i What God hath wrought ! " flashed the praise and victbry from Baltipioret, Wellington. The first information givemby- the tele graph was that of the nomination of James K. Polk for the presiuency by the Baltimore Convention. f A llogePile of Pa On tbe 31st otMarch, X871y the United States House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling on thefeecretary of the Treasurv to furnish an estimate of mm , - - the number of pounds, of paper that would be required to replace the na tional bank circulation; also the number of pounds made up into greenbacks, fractional currency, and bonds, with the cost thereof. The repert of the Secre tary in response to this inquiry uas just been made public. It states that it would require 5,603,224 sheets of paper to replace tho nationalbank circulation, which, at 18 pounds pjr 1,000 sheets, tbe weight heretofore usea, would be 100,858 pounds. Thej average cost of the paper used for the circulation of national banks r? 78' cents per pound," or a total cost of S78,669.24l The number of pouuds of paper manufactured into legal tenders or greenback notes is given as 206,637 pounds, 'costing $175,341.45; manufactured into fractional currency 316,176 pounds, costing $243,406.94; manufactured into bonds, 110,o7e$ pounds, costing $91,387.63; manufac tured; into internal revenue stamps, 78,062 pounds, costing $36,689.14; making a total of 812,608 pounds of paper, at a cost of 55625. 494. 4U. There is a reserve of paper, to be manufactured into 'greenbacks, fractional currency. bonds, and revenue stamps, amounting to 257,183 pounds, costing $204,812.36; so that the grand total of paper used or to be; used in the paper money is 1,069,- 791 pounds, costing $830,306. 76. A Submekge Bridge. Mr. Halsey of New Jersey ill report favorably from the sub-committee having charge of the matter to the U. S. House Committee on Boads and Canals the bill incorporating the New York and Brooklyn Submerged Turbular Bridge Company, whose object is to lay a tUSmel or tubajunder the East River, between the cities of New York and Brooklyn. The bill authorizes the laying of a tube of wrought iron 2,640 feet in length, 60 feet in breadth in the clear, and 24 feet high, at a cost of 2, 500,000. The tube will accommodate not only foot passengers and vehicles, but also railroads. The tolls allowed are to be one cent for foot passengers, three cents a head for cattle and horses, five cents for single wagon and horse, twelve cents for , double wagon and horse, and twenty-four cents for loaded double wag ons. J Mr. Halsey will report an amend ment that the tube shall be so laid in the bed of the river as not to obstruct or in terfere with navigation. Thb Spaniards are again agitating for tne recovery of Gibraltar. Naturally it is galling to them to find that their principal fortress should be, in the pos session of the foreigner, but it is not probable that they will succeed in r per. gaming it - Arthur O'Connor, The trial of young O'Connor for his assault upon the Queen has iust been held. A medical examination was made of the prisoner, and the report of he officer seemed to render it unlikely hat the plea of insanity be sustained. The seport says : X The boy is a slight, delicate lad, 18 years of -age,, pale, and strumous-look- mg : nis general expression oeing caim, houghtful, and intelligent, tha eyes par- icularly expressive of determination, earlessness, and enthusiasm. The men tal capacity is good. He answered all questions respectfully and to the point, and was quite consistent in all his state ments, and particularly as regards his motives ior commuting ine onenoe. -tie stated that he had had a good deal of sickness, and was a long time a patient in King's Colleere Hospital, whers his bot was operated upon by Mr . Partridge. He stated that his life had not been a happy one, and that he would gladly sacrifice it for the good of Ireland ; that he was a gentleman by birth, and would eel insulted if any one spoKe disrespect- ully of his great uncle Feargus O Con- nor : tnat in ere was no msaniry in ins amily, although .Feargus O'Connor was thought to have1 died mad ; that he had read a great, deal, but not sensational novels, as they were not to his taste. He further declared! himself a republican, sympathizing strongly with the Irish people ; he thinks it an honor to be a sman, the murder of the Manchester policeman justifiable, and, being grieTed that the Fenian prisoners are still unre- eased, feels that since peaceful meas ures have failed, any violence is justifia ble in oider to effect their release. He said he was -a free thinker in religion, and believed in God, but not undenom inational religion or clergymen. He de clared that he was not unhappy at the bought of being punished, but that his efforts to release the Fenians have failed. " Dr. Bond, as the result of his examinat ion, certified that he was perfectly sane, and this opinion has been confirmed, af- er a lengthy interview by Dr. buther- and. The lad had at first contemplated the use of firearms against her Majesty, but considered that as the Prince of Wales would come to the throne, and the monarch still remain as an institution of he country, it would be better to at empt by intimidation, to gain the imme diate object he had in view. The boy had been ifi ill-health, and we know that Feargus O'Connor died of general paral ysis of the brain in an asylum. But for all this, so far as the facts are on record as regards the , boy himself, there is no evidence of insanity in his case. Served Her Bight. The following incident in the life of Mile. Aimee,the opera bouffe prima donna, is related by a United States officer, who vouches for its truth: In 1S69, .Mile. Aimee was playing a successful engageT ment at Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Among her many admirers was a wealthy planter, who resided some distance from the city. who had bestowed many a --costly present upon her, and received many a shower of Aimee's smiles in return, une day, wmie out shopping, her eyes encountered a rnacrnifieent diamond necklace. This she bantered her adorer to present her with, which he promptly promised to do, bat on nm r me urice auu uuumi; w uo 7.000 milreas nearly f,uuu ne coneiu a j ded it too costly, and so informed Mile., at the same time telling her that he had offered the jeweler 5,000 milreas, which T il ? T le was willing to pay, dvli me jeweier re fused to sell at that price. Aimee being determined to have the jewel, visited the owner and explained the situation, at the same time paying him 2,000 milreas (&V 240 with instructions to the merchant to let the planter have it on paying the other &5.0U0. On his next visit Aimee coaxed him to make one more trial to ob tain for her the coveted necklace. He did so, and secured it, but just as he was leaviner the store a confidential friend en- tered, to whom he showed the costly pre sent, at the same time telling him who it o , . . was for. His triendpersuaaea mm to take the necklace home to his wife, who loved and cared for him. He did so, and Mile. Aimee lost her $2,240. Capes. The rage for capes, says a fashion journal, seems to have reached its height, and may be expected wholly to subside. Double capes and sacks with capes have been imported m light cloths, in the fashionable gray and brown tints richly braided or embroidered and bor dered With fringe.. Ihey are also made in easnmere ana even in bilk. . uresses are made with -small pelerine capes, realv or simulated, and linen polonaises are completed by large capes, which take awn-- nil idea, of dress from their armear- ance, and make tliem look like traveling wraps, nothing more. The cape is the only addition which the past four years have made to the street costume.1 Two skirts and a jacket, or the skirt and' the polonaise comprehend the list of modern ideas tipon this subject. Oeakge GEowbfa in Caltfobnia. A California paper says that the average yield of California orange trees is set down as l,oou ioreacn tree, it i,uuu oranges be assumed to each tree, how ever, and seventy trees be assumed to the aero, the product of 70,000 oranges results : Calculating that these' sell at $20 per thousand, the result of $14,000 for an orchard of ten acres is given. Cut ting off one-half to allow for all conting encies, $7,000 still remains as the off spring for a single crop. The" proceeds ofLa recent crop at Los Angeles are re ported at 20,000, whilej $500 included the entire outlay due to pruning, taking care of the ground, and so forth. A Detroit dying, man grasped a watch and held it so firmly that after death the fingers could not be unclasped, and the watch was buried with him. A Sons 111 Suns:. h Dead thistles on the morning wind, Still sending forth their white-winged seed Bare boughs nbore, dry leaves below ; A brook half choked with rotting weed. The scene and I two well agree ; This dreary day is kin to me : ' "Tia Autumn in my heart as welt, ' Bat fain Td dream of Spring. " Dear Hemory 1 wake for me again The song Hope used to eing." , i . - - .. . i , "Nay wait! you hare not caught the tutfe ; Hush I you are out of tune : j ind now you're changed the words, I mia The sweetness of the rhyme. , t . j Ceaf, Memory ! try that strain no mere, ' The iaj's old witchery is o'er P Ah I 'saddest of our Autumn thoughts, ! j The mocking dream of Spring, As Memory vainly strives to wake The son;; Hope used to sing ! ' Facts and Fancies. i A late flood in Oregon drowned 1,000 coons. i - A millionaire is worth about two' ton - of gold. , There are about 2,400 disorders inci dent to the human frame. Some one signtcantly defines war at being murder set to music. j English speculators are beginning to ship paste diamonds to South Africa. . The great lakes swallowed up 110 l:vea and $10,000,000 worth of . property last year. . : ., j There is a Mormon society of fifty members among the miners at Scranton, Fenn. . I The largest city1 park in the world is in Philadelphia. It contains over two thousand acres. - I The Cleveland Leader says that potato bugs are healthy, and will poll a full vote this summer. A country editor says that when he looks at a woman's head he is puzzled to tell which is switch. A public choolsteacher near Aurora HI., dislocated his shoulder while "cor recting" a big pupil. 'Absence makes the heart grow fond erof somebody else," sensibly adds a young lady friend of ours. j A San Francisco tobacconist gives a copy of tne morning or evening; paper to every customer spending ten! oents for cigars. L- Between 10,000 and 11,000 operators men, women, and children at the Leeds flax mills are on a strike for nine hours'. work as a day's labor. , j The largest lake in the world is Lake Superior, which is truly an inland sea, being four hundred and thirty miles long. and one thousand feet deep. A wedding took place at La Crosse, a day or two ago, at which ' the bride was given away by the city, and the city was mighty glad to get rid of her.' j ; A lot of five hundred house sparrows has been imported into Louisiana, in orJer to try-then ua exterminators ,jf the cotton worm and caterpillar, j Five hundred million , of dollars is said to.be ..the combined capital of the banking houses of the Rothschilds in London, Paris, Frankfort and Yienna. A cautious old, bachelor, who knowi that the present is leap, says : jlf yon meet a young lady who is not very shy, youl had better be a little 'shy yourseK." An editor describes a rival as a 'wasp ish traducer who subsists on ginseng, sassafras and goose eggs, and: wears snrigs of pennyroyal in his boots in summer." , j . The only way to keep all yourj friends and make no enemies is to speak well of people when names . are mentioned to you, but never to epeai of any one to a third party. j The clear, balmy moonlight nighte are cutting down our young people like sheep, Says an exchange. Twentyeight couples went under at one' sitting, Sun day evening. ' ; A'large volcano has suddenly 'sprung up in Mexico on the Chickuahua road, about a hundred miles from Vera Crua. No volcano has been observed before so far from the sea. " . j The Indianapolis Commercial says a poor man who owns a potato paten in the suburbs of that cityi cannot be down at night without danger of getting up rich in the morning; A gentleman in Cleveland has been making experiments in extinguishing . the flames of petroleum, and hasf found 'r that sand and aqua ammonia thrown on the flames will quickly extinguish them. "Poor thing," ob3erf ed a tender-hearted Bridgeport lady, in speaking; of the death ot a young friend, " 'she had just got a forty-dollar set of furs, and beauties they were ; but she don't need such things now. n Saxe says that Vermont is famous for four staples, " Men, women, maple su- gar and horses. The first are strong, the last are fleet, the second and third are exceedingly sweetf and all are un commonly hard to beat. The New Jersey Register has this : " Mr. Scott, hae you any ambition to be President ? " " President of what ? " " The United States, of course." " No, sir, the term is too short. I might take a lease on it for ninety-nine years." There is consumed annually, in tha United States about 500.000 tans of bu- ll A 1 1 5 gar, wim a consiani ana steaay inerease. Of this enormous quantity but a small percentage is from the sorghum or the maple tree, nearly the whole being cane sugar. . , , v j " Susie," said a teacher to one of her pupils, you shouldn't make faoe3. You'll grow up homely if you, make fa pes. " Susie looked thoughtfully in the teacher's face a moment, and then inno cently asked, "Did you make faces when yuu wao a uiuc gui r m. I! I t li s I si if i 4 t ' i . . - V.