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' lie was adinittetl to the bar in 1851 and in 1853 he was appointed United States District Attorney I ttji4I)elaware,ibut resigned in 1854 i pud vrent to live in Philadelphia, ! where he remained till 1856, when i ! lie: turned to NYilinington, where ) he Vmaijied thronh the civil war, L I'iaHisinjj: Jvisprnfesttion. 4 1)1 the winter of 1868 '69 he was i leted to the Senate to saeceed lUs I'.it her.and wan re electeil in 1875 ! aii.l 1881. . Iii l876 he was a mem fibirjof the Electoral j Commission. Is Mr Bavard is: the fourtu of his I fUtuilv who have served in .the I Seiiate. -His 'crandfather. James Axil ton BayanL was elected tu th Senate from-Delaware in 1804 and served till 1813J when President 'i 4 . . . r 0 . - iuauison appoiuTea mm one oi me ! (EJommissitmers to negotiate the .Treaty of Ghent j lU unele. iBichard II. Bayard, Ws elected to - the Senate from Delaware inj 1836 and again in 184I Uis father, Thorn an A. serv e( ii the Senate from 1S51 to 18691. DANiI15LMANNING. : ' ;Mr, Maiming! was born in Al baiiy; X. 'M August 16, 183U His pamitage was . of lfih, English tm'd;Dutuh exrrautiou. He was a poor boy, ami his early opHrtuni tie4jfor schooling were very limited. At. eleven years of age he went to I w;ork;a.s4Ui onice boy at the estab 1 rah men t of the Albany Atlas, which wast afterwards merged in the Al ! baiiy: Argun, with which paper he , has ever since, iu one capacity or another, been connected. In 1873 he assumed som charge of the Ar-, gus am was electeil president of - the eompjinvwhich position he yet f holds, though he has doue little or no writing for some time. , I lie was a mem tier of the Demo ciratic State Convention ot 1874 ed Samuel J. Tilden that hioiniiia foriCiovernor, and was h delegate to tbje St. Louis convention of 1876 that nominated . Mr. Tilden tor President. He has been a member of the Demottratic State Committee MinVe 1876 anil was I elected chair mabfin 18811 which! place he now HMi Tin - I-:. was warmly interested in the nomination (of Mr.' Cleveland for; President at Chicago last July, and it is generally conceded that I'e showed great skill in the cn i Veiitiou as the head of the New York delegation. ' Mr. Manning has been active and successful out side f jouruidisin and olitios. He lias long beeii director of the Al j lahy - and j Susquehanna Railway ' Company, and is president of the : "Xittional Commercial Bank, of Albany, of which be was first di i'Ctor and then vice president. : ;' ' LUCIUS Q. C. LAMAR. vj -Mr. Lamar was born at Oxfor Vutnam wunty, Ga., September 17, 825, aud received his early school ing;iu his native town.; He gradu ated at Emory College, Georgia, in ;H45. He studied law at Macoti, Oji ami was admitted to the bar ritv- 1847.. He moved to Oxford, ? Miss.; in 18-49, and was elected to ' Adjunct Prot'essor of Mathematics lit ; the Mississippi State Univer ! iity, Dr. A. T. Bletlsoe, etiitor of th- Southern Keeiew, being" the . H-.Miior pntfessor. lie resigned! ,111 J85t and went Jto Covingtou, Ga., Where he devoted himself to the j,ravtice of law. In 1853 he was ilecled to the Georgia Legislature, Miid the following year returned to Mississippi, whefe he settled on a idaiitatioQ iu Lafayette county. He was elected to the Thirty fifth and Thirty-sixth Congress and resigned r iu (860. He entered the Confmler nti armv iu 1861 as lieutenant c -; ul of the Nineteenth Mississippi ? volunteers, and was soon promoted to; the colonelcy. Iu 1863 he was sent to Kussia by the Confederate rvfrii!iieiit on an imiorUnt dip ' -L'niiatio mission. He returnel to ; Mississippi at the close of the war, and in 1866 was elected Professor ..rf Political Ecouomv and SKsial Scieucj iu the' University of that SNitK A year later ue w wu feVrwl tothe Professbrship of Law. - u.i Mi.tH.l to the Forty third i n.n.rnd mid ro elected . to !: the UL.Ttv fourth In the winter of . 1876-77 he was elected to the Seu ate, where he has since served. i AUGUSTUS H. GARLAND. iiJHr. Garland was b,rn , in Tijdon t counfy, Tenu., Juno 11, 1832. The FjSliViig yr his parens moved i it' . I,."-:.- rhr htf has made totAikausas, where htr i...m ever since, and which istfate hej has represented m the ; fM U-t:........!...... 1X76 1.W " -:h': .V.L-..i.a College. in-Kentcky. : He I . , r-- . M admitted to MUM" T" ;,r .1.:. vv'MMhinirton. ArK., 1 rTOlU Ui ..arents had sre his te pic? t-: ,rvi He WriiriuallV BCltictt, ; WSovedl to Little , Boc.. woe- t a dfl"i!te to !: ,- Oinveution that ' paU the or- S ssiou iu 1861, -nd Hviis aiso'a niember of Jlie Provi- ..r...i..v.tu f!nnirress tuai HHffiiUate Congress, bejg. the M the test oath case ! ' tTi bwVers in the Supreme when be was elected Governor of Arkansas without opp.nition, and at the expiration of his term was elected to the United Statea Sen ate, again having-no opposition, and -'succeeded 1 Powell Clayton. He has taken biglf rank as a law yer from the day he eutered-the Senate, and has for some time been a member of the Judiciary Com mittee. He is of medium height and speaks with clearness, del iber ation, and force, f WILLIAM C. ENDICOTT. i William Ctowuinshield Eudicott, Mr. Cleveland's Secretary of War, was bom iu Salem in 1827, and is the sou of William Putnam Endi eott and Mary, daughter of Hon. Jacob Crowuinshield, who' was a representative to Congress. He at teuded the Salem schools, and was graduated trom Uarvanl College in the class ot 1847. He married his cousin, a daughter of George Peabody, aud has two children, a sou and daughter. Judge Eudicott studied at Harvard Law School and read law iu the - offiw of the late Nathaniel J. Lord He was admitted to the bar about 1830, and a few years later formed a partnership with the late J. W. Perry aud continued with him un til his appointment by Governor jWashbum to a seat on the Supreme Bench iu 1873. This x8ition he held nntil 1882, when he resigned on account of his health. Iu 18S2 he made au extended tour of the Continent. He was a member of the Salem Common Council iu 1852, 1853 and 1857. wheii he waselecred president-of that . Board. He was City Solicitor fr.un 1858 to 1863. He is a member of the Historical Society. iuid of the. Board of Over seers of Havard College. The coming Secretary of War is a di. rect clescendeiit frem Gvernor Johu Eudicott. Politically Mr. Eudicott is of Whig antecedents, his affiliation with the Democratic party dating from the Bell Everett campaign of 1860, but he has never been an active politician. Last fall he was the candidate of bis party for Governor of the State, but did not himself appear. iu tie cauv.iss, and received a comparatively small vote. As a lawyer and a judge Mr Eudicott holds high rank, aud personally he is a gentleman of the highest char icter. ' WILLIAM C. VILAS. Mr. Vilas was born at Chelsea, Orange county, t., July 9, 1840. Wheti he was 11 years oM he went to Wisconsin, where a few mouths after he was eutered as a pupil of the preparatory department of th University of the State. In 1853 he matriculated iu the freshman class of that institution, and was graduated there in 1858 After taking his academical degree he studied law in Albany, N. Y., and was graduated from the lsw school of that city in 1860. After his ad mission to the. Supreme Court ot New York he removed to Wiscon s n, where on his birthday, July 9, I860, he made his first argument before th Supreme court of that State, In the same year (1860) he became a partner with Charlea T. Wakeley, a lawyer of good stand ing. Ujon the outbreak of the war Mr. Vilas entered the army as Captain iu the Twenty third Wis cousin Volunteers,' aud rose to be major and lieutenant-colonel. He resigned his commission and re snmed the practice- of the law Jan. 1. 1864. In 1862 Gen. G. E. Bryant joined him in partnership, aud in 1877 his brother, K. I', v lias, aiso became a partner in the firm. The Supreme court of Wisconsin ap pointed Colonel Vilas one of the revisers of the statutes of the State in 1875, and the revision of 1818, adopted'by the State, was partly made by him. Iu 1879 Mr. Vilas refused the use of his name as a candidate tor the governor ship of .Wisconsin. He has per sistently declined office, but went to. Chin igo as a delegate to the Convention of 1884, which honored him with its permanent chairman ship. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY. Mr. William Collins Whituey of New York, was boru in Couwa3, Mass., in 1839. General James S. Whitnev, his father, was a promi nent Massachusetts i Democrat. Mr. Whitiiey was graduated from Willistou Seminary, at Easthamp ton, Mass., and then, in 1863, from Yale College, where he was chosen to deliver the class oration. Mr. Whitney was next graduated from the Harvard Liw School, aud, coming to New York, entered the office of Judge Abraham B. Lawrence, then engaged iu private ..rwti,. He acquired a large practice soon after bis admission to the bar.' For several years he was counsel for some of our lite liisur foinnanies auu other connira He is a &n in law of U. S. Senator Payne, of Ohio. His pol- aetivifv began during the campaign against the Tweed nug in low ami otx, tioii of Mr. Tildeu was attiacteil to id ttUilif ies. ! T.. i7? Mr. -Whitney was the candidate for District! Attorney on tt. AihiIIo Hall ticket, but owiug thM Democratic vote being di iA, the late Beni. K. Phelps iMttMl to the office. Mr, Whitney was .one of the priucipal organizers oi mo wuu.j Th first city office teld by Mr. Whituey was that of school trustee for the Twenty nrst waru. v Auirust 6, 1875, Mayor Wickham Hpp.iuted him counsel to the ror Miration in the place ofE. Dela Mitiith. removed. Mr. Whit uey as tvrice re appointetl to this iMsition,.wuiouuo "t ...K-r 1AS2. while bis term had f rui ., 1 uearly two years tq run. . i v.itiilnff makes a fat man learn ing roller skating bo mad as to have the uauu come u ride clash ou the cymbals every time he sits down real bard TH Stock Law la Buckingham. TheUw goes into effect on the first day of April, 1885. It makes it the duty of the mag istrates to- resister all descriptions of live stock taken up or impound ed, and such register kept open for insection. ; - Every person taking up or im pounding live stock ball file a de scription with a justice of the peace in the same township, aud may demand 25 cents per head for each day the said stock is kept, aud may retain the stock nntil all said charges are paid. If the owner refuse or negleut to redeem the stock in, twenty days after a de scriptiou is filed; then after ten days written notice posted in three or more public places, in same towuship, t e stock shall be pub licly sold to the highest bidder and the proceeds go u paying the costs and damages, and the balance to the owner, or if not known, then to the county treasurer to he ap plied ? to building and repairing fences. A uy person suffering damages from stiKjk at large may recover double the sum of damages by ao t ion against owner of stock. Any erson unlawfully rescming or releasing impounded shall be deemed guilty oft misdemeanor, fined not over $50 or imprisonment not more than 30 days. Giese are included as stock. The County Commissioners in erecting the- fence shall in those townships or districts where there have been no taxes collected for building fences, forthwith levy and collect an assessment not over 25 cents on the $100 valuation ot real estate in said township, but this not to apply to any district, town ship or territory now under the stock law, or where contract has been . made tor building a fence. The fences in Weutworth aiid Ore gou townships shall become the property of the county.' ""' It provides agaiust owners of and along the line who object to the fencing, after two days' notice to them, condemns their fencing and assesses damages. The Commissioners shall appoint three or more freeholders to super intend the fencing. , The World Fair. Rock Valley (Iowa) Retfetor.) North Carolina has covered eve ry irieh of her allotted space with her products and haudiwork, that is interesting, aud i the most at tractive to visitors of all the ex hibits. Nearly eviry leading in dustry of the State is represented and' all so ingeniously classified that the visitor never becomes con fused. There are rich specimens of copper ore and ingot coper, masses from her mouutains of coal, and some of the richest marble aud building stone to be found in the entire exposition. Lately it has been ' determine! I that the entire seacoast and for miles inland 'a un derlaid with the richest deposits of phosphates, which are easily ob tained anil easily! reduced. This industry is attracting . much atten tion at present, aud the amount realized from the sale of phosph ites alone is an immense income to the State. Gold and silver mines have leen known in North Carolina from the time of the Smith. and her numerous aud valuable mines' are represented . by huge masses of quartz rock ' ore aud sulphides, showiug some of the richest de posits of the precious metal to be found in the world. Au artistic and convenient pagoda near the south end is covered and orna men ted entirely with bright spark ling mica, which abounds in grutt abundance iu that State, ami is shown in great transparent sheets like tin. Iu i;I ass cases within the pacoda are shown beautiful stones of great value, samides of rich ore, nuggets of silver and gold, one or the irold specimens welching over eight ounces; aud tin ore containing 68 per eeut of pure tin, which abounds in abundance in that State. The display of granite, marble and building stone is esie- cially fine and is of almost evert .... r hue. mere are cases oi rare mui. an curiosities consisting of kettles, dishes, pipes, weapons, etc., all made from solid , stone. The wine industry is shown in two large cones of bottles containing several hundred each, tne quality of which isivouehed for by good judges as equal to any iuiporteii , article. Simples of all j the cultivated grasses are shown, the clover and V. lt! limoiuy iiitauuug a irouigiou gfowth. This beixg one of the best to bacco growing States in the Union, extra fine samples are expected. This is the home'of the celebrated "Golden Leaf," ja variety raised only here, and very valuable, the entire crop beiug greedily sought fur by manufacturers for wrappers to the choicest plugs. Iu one case are samples from a lot that sold at au opening sale! recently in that State for $30 perHiuud. This is not, however, an ordinary price, as its intrinsic va $150 per pound North Carolina ue is omy aooui The rice crop of nearly equals in value the wheat crop of Iowa, and is the best growu ou the continent. In a beautiful pavilliou In the cen tre is the display of grains, vege rah!.. and fruit, the wonderful growth and excellent quality of which commaud the admiration of visitors, while it is worthy or no- tice tuat Norm uarouna iook uret premium on apples at the centeu nial. r f? . :. i- Ou 'each side are vast piles of cotton! and woolen kimhIs or one finish and -xtra quality, " the pro duct of her factories. The honey exhibit is a mouutain of sweetness, the quality said to be equal to the iwt California comb. ,The silk In terest lis rapidly Coming to the front iu North! Caroliua, and the exhibit ot cocoons aud floss will miar with the best. Ouratten tiou was called particularly to a large j pyramid, of medical herbs, GREENSBORO, N. C, TUESDAY, SEARGH 17. 1885. containing over 400 cf the 460 va nrties iu use. , No Sute iu the Union carries on to so great an ex tent this busiuess as North Canili na, experts ! making it a life bust ness of gathering for the markets of the world these medicinal plantsJ Wallace Bros., at Statea ville, make a s)ecialty of supply ing dealers withj geuuine goods, and the State was awarded first premiums and medals at Paris, Vienna and the ceuteucial for medicinal herbs, j j Of forestry" there are 300 sped mens.shown, one! of which, a cy press, is 42 feet in circumference. An e.Iegaut octtagon is constructed at the north end, into which a sam pie of liearly every variety ot ua tive wood is worketl. A single white-wood plank masured 6 feet and 1 inch across aud is withont a defect.' , -..'Ii ' . i j l - ' i - . . Another leading feature is the turpentine and rosin product, all ot which is 1 iugeuionsly displayed by means of a geuniue distillery, and every tool used, iu the uiaiiu. faeture of j tar, j turpentine and rosiu. One thousand trees will yield 250 barrels of pitch er year, or 70,000 m Minds, which, when dis tilled, provinces 500 gallons spirits tu iKMitine, 50,000 Kunds tar, aud 18JHX) oiinds rosin. The fish interest is well attended to by 8. G; j Worth, Esq., the effl cient fish i commissioner of the State, at ItaVigh One hundred and thirty-two j,( speeimeus are shown, of j which 86 are foisl va rieties. Brook trout are abundant in 25 counties. ;AU the iuland lakes aud streams Uibouud in fish, besides which there are over 1.500 private fish ponds, all built in the State! within the ; last four years,1 and the right of individual owuer ship to fish and oyster grounds is recognized iu the ! North Carolina laws.) Thr shad j fisheries are the! largest and most productive in the! woild, the! eutire ; -atch commaud ing an average price of 10 cents iter pound. I The shad seinew used are more than a mile long and con tain seven miles of ropes each, re quiring four steam engines to shoot and haul them, The income from! the fisheries alone is more than a million dollars a year. The. North Caroliuians . in atteu dance are large, handsome, educat ed gentlemen, well' posted in the minutest affairs: of their St ate j who take pleasure in interesting visitors in ! their: wonderful collec tion. - . H I , lietug Over tbe War. ' I ' AtlanU Constitution.) The past mbuth has been prolific iu discussions of the war aud its conduct on the Confederate side. From General Sherman's speech on Davis to Grant's paper on Shi lob there has lieeh constant firing all along the line, - . I Three j things! appear to ! have been settled by this discussion. First, that Gen. Lee satf the i - hopelessness of! tbe fight he was making long before ho was in hon or permitted to nheathM his sword.. Moved to prevent the useless sac" rifice of brave men, he nrged on Mr. Davis ! the imp rtauce of en couraging the peace sentiment in the North, and of ending the Strug gle whenever he could get honora ble terms. j: . j - j Second, j that j the opposition to the policy of Presideut Davis on the part of the! Governors of the States was mnch stronger than bus been generally thought. . It tran spires that Gov. Vance formally threatened the Confederate Secre tsry of JtVar to call on the North Caroliua tnops: to resist what be believed to be unconstitutional ac tion of tiny government on Caroli na soil, and that a meeting of the J Uovernors i of toe tecemug states to formulate some concerted opN sit ion to the policy of - the Presi dent as actually agreed on. j Third, that Shilob, one of the decisive j battles of thei,war, was lost when !Albert Sidney Johnson fell that Grant would have been routed had Johnston livedjo puh to its conclusion the victory be had won. , . !j" Fourth; that the war is over aiid the smoke of battle lifted forever from this fair continent, and that the soldiers who fought the war was ami nirhttug wnen tue war over, and watch now with little pa tierce the politicians groping among the embers with tbe hope of. stirring them luto name once more. !' 1 !; . If ' ' '.' i She Cost Her Weight Is Gold. Taflson SUr.1 Mrs. Jesus Castro, aj aged Mex ican ladyJ uow residing at Ameri can-Flag, iu jthe Santa Catiliua mountains, is jterhaps tne only wo man who. literally speaking. ever cost her husband her weight jn gold. It is said that in the early giMd digging uaysot uaniornia sue was a resident of Sonora, iu which state she was born and fcrewj to womanhood. When about the age of seventeen a paternal uncle, but a few years her senior, returned with his companions, gold laden. from the El Dorado of the; west and became desperately enarmored of her. Be sought her hand in mariiage and! was accepted,. but tbe church refused, because ol the near iwlationsbip existing betweeu them, to solemnize the marriage. Persuasion; being in vain, ; he tried the power of gold to win the church his way, aud succeeded only by the payment of her weight iu gold. I She at the time weighed 117 Nnuds, land! against her in the scales the glittering dust was shoveled.- Her afllanced husband till had sufficient of this world's goods to - provide a comfortable home and they were inarrjeft They lived happily together and she bore to her husband eleven children. In the course of years he died and she roamed again, Mr. Castro beiug her second husband. The ! almve is a fact and not fiction, i as; living witnesses can prove, ! , - - ' . Know. ; - I" " There is a great variety in the quality and fibre of the snow as it falls at different temperatures, in quiet, or carelessly worried by the wind. Mlail is the coldest corn,w declarer an ancient rone How ever that may be, by the chaff that is driven in our faces we know that they are tlireshing up youder this afternoon At some other time it is not chaff, but heavenly grain (such as the horses of the Homeric deities may have munched), that is lavishly, scattered abroad. To walk Uon such snow is very like attempting to walk in a bin of wheat, and a dry, erauuehing sound attends" each -footstep. Sometimes it snows not flakes, but little fasces of crystalline fagots sometimes, a.lso, miniature -snowballs, well packed, ready made foi the sport of the invisible sprites of the storm. Again, by the fineness aud softness of the flake, it a pilars that the old traditional goose-wife, who lives iu clouds, is plucking only the down from under the wings of her flock ; shn isiiotsoJminstakiug aud fas tidio;itft: aHTAimes. -Occasioiially I am reminded thVt there is a lapi dary in heaven, who I takes the rough gem of the snow,' aud by se cret dexeterity cutting, pnlishing and engraving causes it to wear a thousand lovely forms and devices. IVrhaps thse are the ! "BeaaUful thinrs made new. for the surprise Oftheekyehiltlren." which Saturn promised there should be on his regaining the empire of the skies Or it may be that these crystal stars aud wheels,, in all curious fantastic rariatious, are experiments in pyrotechnies, froz en fire-works, in which tbe rockets are made to take only descending curves.' I sometimes please my self with imagining that when these equisite fragments come to a com rami resting place on earth, by some recondite law of attraction or cor resMndeiice, they fit j themselves together, point locking into angle and side! matching side. Might not an ear divinely gifted detect a faint musical report when these morning stars of the snow celebrate their union t. "And they all sing, melting as they sing, of the mys teries of tlieuumber six, six, six." With unadvised haste the Muse gave out the following : ' "Six petals has the lily stainlee-white. And six tie wandering blossom of the anow; If these their constant order could forego. Sun, moon, and stars would break their sacred plight. : , But scietico appears, raising the question whether the know crystal iuvarialdy sings I he songs of sixes, invariably follows the laws of the lily's inflorescence. The snow which falls in these obvious cr.ts talline patterns is of j t he lightest and most diaphanous ' quality A broken i branch lies' uon : the ground, completely covered", with this delicate counterpane, yet every twig aud bud is still 'plainly detin ed. I have a fancy that 1 would like to see half blown crimson roses inclosed,1 bnt not concealed in such a cool ' white -shrine. 1 Tbe season which most regard as forbiddingly Hscetic has : it not its touches of refinement 1 and luxury f Some times, for several nights in sueces sion, there will fall a light film of snow, not adding, practically, to that already niton the ground, yet sufficing; to remove all stains a ml blemishes of the day Thus. Na ture takes care of her complexion in winter, so renewing it, from morning to, morning, that it still presents an infantine softeess aud smooth uess of texture. High Life and Low Necks. Washington Letter of a St. Lonis OirL And how, Mamie, there is one thing I must tell you. You know you declared that my three party dresses were all indecently lo in the heck and that you' would blush to see me wear them. !My poor in uocent! How little you know what goes on in jthe social world here. Why, I have taken but every sin gle platting of lace ! which you basted in, leaving them all very low except the blue cre, and the bertha of lilies of the valley. 1 left in that, as they cost so intici from Mine; 'J?, and were so pretty The black velvet is! simply corded at the tip you know, with a trill of black chenille fringe for sleeves. My arms look well in "that, and as every one here goes extremely de collete,!!! am not a bit conspicuous. On the contrary, they thiuk me old-fashioned. Mrs. John D. is very fascinating, and her neck is mnch admired by the ladies who are not in the B. set. You know they are mortal ! enemies. You would i'shrink into ! nothing with your mauvaise honte poor child, if you' could see the women sittiug ou satin Turkish cushions, j sipping ices or Russian amovar,in scandal onsly low dresses, while the diplo matic gentlemen lounge against a screen (or door way behind them, looking down sheepishly all the while, i Sometimes ii feel scared and want to-go home, but I have made up my mud to see, the great iuaugurol ball, though, r i Railroad Extension. An act has s been passeil by the Legislature, authorizing the board of Aldermen of the city of Wil iniiiirton.nv and with the consent of the board of audit and Finance, to either snbsenbe for the stocK ot the C. F. & Y, V. Railway or to nnrchase the first mortgage bonds of the company to the amouut of t'25Q O0U. This subscription oy Wilmington is to be expendeil in extending the railroad from Fay etteville to Wilmington. Charlotte Observer : Since the bill chartering thn Spartanburg & Shelby railroail passed the Legis lature it is proK)8ed to build a road from Liueoluton,on the Caro Una Central Kailroad,to Winston, aud from there to Danville,-. Va. where it will connect wilh the Vir r, Midland Railroad, thus m i k ing auother route N-rth by way of Shelby.t Lincoiuton, atorgauiuu and Danville. --. Why the Wind Chases. . Caswiri Maguine.1 That the changing of the direc tion of the wiud is due to the shift. ing of the situations of greatest ueat ujHin the earth is sudstanti ally proved by the fact that in cer, tain regions of the earth's surface, where the situations of the great est heat and cold do uot alter tbe directien in which they lie jto each other, the wiud . does not change, but always blow iu the sama-direction from one day to an other, nd all tbe year round This occurs iu the great ojeu space of me ocean, where there is uo land to get heated 'up by the sunshine of the day, aud to get con! by 'the scattering of the heat at night, -j In those spaces for a vast breadth of many hundred mile the suu shiues dorn day after day upon the sur face of the sea,' heating the water most along the midocean track which lies most - immediately I be : neath its burning-rays as it passes' across from east to west. ! ) j j This midway track of the strong est sunshine crosses the wide ocean as a belt or zone, that spreads some way to -either side of the qua tor. Throughout this midway track toe cooler and heavier air" on either hand drifts, in from the north and from the south, ami then rises up. as it becomes heated by the suu, where the two currents meet. jln both instances, however, in conse quence, of the spinniug round of the earth, the advancing wind hc quires a westward as well as an equatorial drift, fhe air current, as it approaches the midway eqiia torial zone where tbe onward, movement of the sea covered sur face of the earth is performed with the velocity of a thousand miles an hour, does not immediately acquire this full rate of speed, and lags back upon the ocean, so that it ap pears as a drift towards : the west as well as towqpls the equator.! Ou the norp side of the equator! the wind blows all the year round from the northeast, and on the i south side from the southeast both in the Atlantic and Paci tic oceans. These steady and unchanging ocean wuuH I are - called the trade winds, ou ocdouut of the great ser : vice they render to ships carryiug! merchandise across these portions In sailing from! En! of the sra. gland to the Cape of Good! 11 ope eutire length ot the thiongh the Atlantic ocean, ships, before they reach the equator have to p iss over a broad space, where strong winds are always, blowiug steadily 'fromv the nortlieasjt. That is the region; of the northeast trades. The then traverse a space near to the equabtr itself, where the northeas wiiki ceases to blow, ami i where the air is vepy still and calm, and they afterwards come to a region south of the equatorj where strong wimis are contiuuaiiv oiowiugj irom souineast. iuhi is iue re ;iu o (he sou theast trades. 9ume Boston Lawyers' Incomes. r! fBoaton Sunday Globe. J I j There's Judge lloar- I suppose he must have an income from his legal practice that amounts I to at least $20,000 a year. easy, lie is somewhat of ii old fog, in tlie matter or cuarging. tie is aj ver light charger. Indeed, he is too jdd fashioned altogether for bis owu giMsl. -jUe is probably as able a jurist as ever lived in Massachu setts, yes, oriin New England, anil is by all imIus the ablest man at the bar now. -1 tell you that his charges are so moderate that many Corpb rations go to him for opinions wlnjn they don't really ueed them. Judge Hoars opinions are not "'cheap77 in any other way, though and yon cau pin your faith to them every tiuie. 1 1 - ' !''' Judge William Russell, ot Bos toii, also fiiliis fortune frieudly to hnn. I doirt know whether or mot gMd luck ever threw tier prover bial old slipper at the judge,' but I guess she hits him with about 3J, 000 every year He can buy uew shoes instead of the "old slipers " The venerable Sidney Bartlett, the Nestorj of this bar,' used j to mike over 9 100,000 a year, though it was : not! all derived iron) uis purely law practice. I should say that at least halff it came out of what might be termed his purely lirpfessiona'l business, and the bal ance from his investments, -mostly in1 railroading. Ue is 'pretty wealthy, probably worth $1,500,- (KW)to 82,01M),0(M). , I l if Peleg VJ, Chandler used to have a i good sized law practice1, j too, probably averaging over $50,000 a yeaiY He is not so active in the 'protessionj for he must be almut eighty years old now. Still I know that sbmelof the leading j lawyers hereabouts consult him upon im portant legal matter. Uis son, Parker CjChanuler, does a pretty giMHl bnsiiiess, ranging troin $25, 000 to $30,000 a year. He does not go into court much, but you know that those who are called -ofliee lawyers" are Abe ones jthat make ! the most, iu .consultations, ad vice,. &c. ! ! 1 h -j Then there's George O. Shattuek, Who used to be Chandler's partner. 1 gues he must do a law business of aUnit $25,000 a year, m besides uiiking a good many extra dollars iu railroads, lie is fairly rich now, and lias ah excellent income.; i. . - j The tinder ot the -j valoable tin mine! at Spearfish,! Dakota, bears the rare and radiant ha tne of John Johnston. He is also editor and proprietor of the Dakota fteg iter. His editorial experience pe ! culiariy fitted him for the priva tions of a miu'ng camp, and bis training. as the owner of a country weeklv. in running down cart wheel, dullars and delinoueut snbsceibersJ tih1el him o locate tbe! "tini" tie has just sold a quarter interest iu the mine br 5iou,uuu. . Her waste Is enormous. ? i Well hen, why don't you get her ft pair if corsets!" 'Oh, you don't uu of derstand me. Nothing; can stay her extravagance,73 The Saewfatl the Sierras. . j' ! f (Virrlnia(TT)Chrooio.l !; : The snowfall on the Sierras has been very light the past winter. At the Summit and Cisco the greatest average depth - falling at one time this year has not exceed - i. Ma a a ei six left, 1 lie average Tali in former winters has been over t wen ty feeei. In the wiuters of 1807 7C8, when Cisco was tbe terminus of the Central Pacific Railroad, the snow fell to a depth of over 80 feet..This was before the ; snow-sheds were built-wheu the" railroad company had over one thousaud men, em ployed In shovelling snow from the deep cuts betweeu the Blue Canon Hud Cisco. The passenger trains at that time consisted of only two coaches aud oue baggage car. and were drawn the laet eight miles from Emigrant Gap to Cisco by eighteen teu wheel locomotives over 800 tons of metal drivf og a snow plough as large as a two stoiy house in front of tbem. At that time the line of the road wouud through a trackless forest over for ty miles in length, stretching from lrucKee on tbe east to Alta ou the west, S trains- frequeutly beiug brought to a standstill by fallen trees obstructing the track; Of the vass forests that then covered the sides and crowued the summits of the Sierras along the line of the road scarcely . a vestige now re mains.! Since the building of the road a swath over tweut miles in breadth has ' been mowed through the ancient forests boning ' the track, whose dark receses,obscured by thick foliage, had never eve u been ! penetrated by the rays of the suu before the advent of the iron horse.) The decrease in - the suow fall is siid to date from that event, and "(is mainly attributed to the fact pf th it Krtiou of tbe country being;eutirely denuded of timber. A Talking Piano. " IS, Y. World. 1 .. A piano which gives an imita tion j of the human voice bis re cently beeu brought to this coun try by the Societie Anon de Vi en ne. ! it was exhibited yesterday aftenioon at the Belvidere hotel. The principle of its construction is differeut from that of the phouo graph, , voicing the ideas ot the operator instead of reproducing the Words. The piano is made to ulterf sounds and words more or less intelligibly by mechanical con trivajice in imitation of all the separate organs of speech in! man. A bellows from' behind sends the force! of air into the larynx, where the primal -sound is produced by the vibrations of a thin piece of bone. The sound coming from here is modified at will. Tbe lips and tongue are made of Indian rubber and tbe lower jaw and tongue are moveable and thus able to control the sounds which are produced. To supply the place of a nose, .direc'ly underneath the mouth aud in connection with It s a lemon shaped chamber, to which a rubber tube curved upward forms an outlet. When the air is driven through the nasal sounds of the instrument are produced. A series of stops daced directly in front of the vocal conis in the lar; ox, and tinder the -control of the oper ator by eda Is, regulate the pitch of the sound. The key-board by which it i ,oerated consists f fourteen keys representing four teen distinct . letters or sounds. The others are formed by combi nations. The tone is uecessarily hard and Tough, but the euuucia atioii is surprisiugly distinct. The piano was invented in 18GI b. a resident of Vienna, and though it has Keen widely exhibited through out : Europe, this is its first up pearauce in th IJniteil States. ML1! I- Prank Leslie's Sunday tllaazlne For April is a particularly interest ing number, and he who does not find much iu it to please him must be very hard to suit. It begins with the opening chapters of Far jeoh s new storj, "L ve's HHrvest," which promises to be equal to the other stories of this favorite writer. Three additional chapters ot Mrs. Farmer's "What She 'Made of Her Life" are gi veu,and also three of the juvenile story, "Pens Perplexi ties.7' Adelaide C. Waldrpn con tributes a beantifut sonnet, "An Easter Lily," and there are other fine poems. The Rev. pr.lA A. K Taylor has a characteristic article ion: "The Bad Boy as a Moral Be foriner,7' and the Eev. Dr.- T. D. Witherswon a beautitulj)iie on !The Alnhine Uorn." Mrs. Alex a odor's '"Sisterhood of Spinsters'! is a pungent, thougli good natured, piece - of satire. The Veterian Thomas Powell contributes "A Personal Remiuiscence of Sophr and Meiidetssohu," aud Chernbini and Mercaiiante are tbe subjects of the "Sacred Musicians" series. The "Glances', at- Bible History" and "Christ Teaching by Parable" 5,re continued, and both very! interest ing: and the venerable coutenance of the Be v. Dr. Prime, a represen tative religious journalist, accotn piiuies a facsimile reduction of the first page of the New York Obiter rer, which he has scfrloiig edited. These are only a small portion of tlie Contents and, indeed, the bole number is exceptionally good. Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, 53, 55. and 57 Park Place, New Yorkf at 25 cents -a number, or $20 a year, postpaid. I . , j : 1 - 4 ;f ; i MaJ. SulherllB Resigns. I Y IMartiiswflls CVa ) Herald. J Because of the enfeebled condi tiou of his health,--which for two weeks has been very much worse, the physieiaus of Maj. W T. Suth erliupresident of the Danville and New Biver railroad company, have advised himlto give npi all work and to fake la rest which ho has long needed. Acting oil this ad yice Major Sutberlin snbroittiHi his resigtistion as president of the road, and called a meeting of the direc try.to cousiiler its acceptance and to elect his successor. Waifs ot Wltlclsnw . A couple of miners struck a rein of gas at a depth of I six feet in Ohio the other day. They bored into a book agent's grave. Worth, the great Paris dress maker, is coming over to this coun try to lecture. We hone he is not coming with any biased views. ! Poor Charlie sighed and said : "My favorite flower, my dear, is tbe forget me not.7' - "And miue," she said, "is mari-guld," and then oor Charlie knew the game wa up and got. s - ! Mistress ."Bridget, I don't like the idea of having all those men djwn stairs.'7 Bridiret "Divil n man here, mum; they all be giuUe. mm; but 1 will ax them up shtairs if y loikes;7 V f - 1 'T - " i The grasshopper has proportion- , ally one huudretl and tweuty times the kicking power of a man. A gas company seldom imposes ou a grasshopper. The soulless corpo ration knows whom tot oppress. "What amused me; most at the ! opera." said an Arab, chief, who bad been takeu to hear "Faust,? "was one of the- musicians In the ' orchestra, seated a Uttle higher than the rest,- who performed on nn invisible instrument with a stick." . . - 1 A new version : - Sunday school teacher "W hut is meant by the word-. quench not the spirit fn Bright schofitr "Please, ma'am. my father says he guesses as how -it means, don't put too much water -in it." - j - - -ivw "What is a curiosity, ma" asked little Jamie. "A curiosity is some thing very8trange, my son." 4fItN pa bought you a se I skin sack this winter, would that be a curios ity f 1 "No, my sou, that would be a miracle.77 . f . v "So, Mr. Blank was hereto day?" Servant Year sir.7 ! "And you told him what I said, II suppose t" "Yes, 'sin" "Did be take nm- brage T77 "I didn't notice, sir but if be did he'll bring it back. He's a very particular irentleraan. vou know," ; . i ii : i "Does your husband sleep sound f" asked Mrs. Cobbs in the course of a call unou Mrs. Dobbs. ! Wei I; I should -say 1 I don't bo I lieve ydu or anybody else ever heard such a sound. It's enough to stop an alarm clock." 1 i "I trust the current of ray dis cnurse last Suuday was uot suffi- , cieutly formidable to hojielessly engulf yoir,". jocosely remarked ft young Detroit . clergyman to f a lady member ot his congregation the other eveniuff. "Ob. no I lit was quite shallow enough tor com fortable waiting, thank you." v "Where did you go to church this morning f" inquired a London ; husnand : of his wife. rxo St.-' Paul's." How did you enjoy the servicer "Not at all. ; That odi ous Mary Anderson was there. ! "How did that affect you I" I "Af fect me! Every person was star- . ing at her. -1 miitht just as well ' have left my new bonnet at home." Not long si rice a man about forty, looking profoundly sad, stepped into the morgue in Pans to claim tbe body of a triend aud relative. Jacques Dubotse, recently fished up out of the river , "Have you any means of identifying the body 1" the tiian in charge inquired. I Yes, sir.77 said the applicant, he is easy enough to tell. He was deaf" ; Destructives Fires at Tarboro an4 New berne Loss About fl 05,000. Two more fires have occurred j! which cause heavy destruction of ! property considering thesmalluess of the towns where they occurred, ij A nr? at Tarboro on the 10th A. Inst, burned ten stores and four dwellings, causing a loss of over fo0,000, on which there was an in suratice ot $30,000. The fire origi nated in au eating-house owned by a iiecro, and was accidental, i i I Early on tbe same morning there was a fire -at Newberne i which raged from 1 to 4 o'clock, burning about thirty buildings, including the Central Hotel, aud causing a loss of $114,500 insurance about $40,000, iiearlyall in northern compauies: The fire was iu I the heart of the city, ana for hours, ow ing to tbe fact that, a brisk gale was blowiug, threatened the whole towu. - i .i The Mistress of the White House. Evsmtelwt.1 jj In looks Miss Cleveland reminds one of Anna Dickinson ; perhaps because she wears her hair in the same styled Yet there is nothing man dsh about her, and in private she is rather too modest than other wise ner voice is clear and her articulation distinct, making her a fine speaker. She has giveu frc quent lectures at the Elmira Female College, which have leen very ular with the young ladies, name is found in the last cata !P Her ogue in the faculty as lecturer on medi aeval history. 4 The country may congratulate itself uko having so iiitelliirent aud public-spirited a Christian woman in the White nouse. 1 4 . The Rabbles Foot Charm, j j i; (From a LcwWii UW Letter. 1 ! ' f The carrvilig of a rabbit's foot as a charm to ward, off the spells of evil-disposed ersons is not confin' ed to the darkey alone. Almost every young man! inthis neighbor! hood has one in his pockets "Do you carry a cabbit's foot V I askeil of a friend "Yes," be replied. "I have carried one ever since I was ft small boy. Palso c irry a buckeye and a potato in my pocket What j fort Why, for luck. At least ; that is why I carry, a rabbits foot. The buckeye and jtotato are to keep off disease." ' ,! Do many young men carry rab; bits' feetr ' . , ! U "Oh. yes, and the girls too. I have tw rabbits' feet, tied to-, gether with a blue .ribbon ad "highly iierfnmeilf that my sweet heart ga.vo--.me. iny are hii iuc go for presents now." j i: 4: ..-.If : i ; 4 '-4 ' ffi'1 it , i ,"t: T 1 i I I 'if'" - -i i