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' A h&I A lkM
. cot Mmban with tb dMd.
AM thara bath atpt for many rM
j,1" wU. urow bad.
tt I. bar not fnr.mil.. W:
xVor I Or, i
' i: ' And drid th Urs I wept.
' " II- j !
Mif l?drliBT waywaHfoa "
-1 i J "! w.lerin bar tb roach Una.
- i And iu bncht beam, still ehaer my baart.
, : rA.? ?nU U faan that riaa. ,
i : 7T,th fMr iwwt liht that horara atUI
memory's aadiJBinad akjaa.
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! t wanna and cbaara aJlka my baart.
aya. taniia it ta iu anra f i
i i,TUl Up with ma u o'ar.
: My mother a Jora Oh. may
,y iu tint 1 hope to walk .
, J"' I am called away from earth
- , And to a brifhter clime.
, IT.! : .
For there decendeth with ita rayi
' U. hat tlune to bright and clear.
Through every coming night anvi day,
: An inftaeoee that doth cheer.
A radiant light that never aets
- Bat bright and brighter glowa.
Uilding the paths where I should walk
; r or eomion ana repuev.
- T.S
Oh. how those memorial throng me no
As on I pree my way. !
-f Erer rrowiag more sweet and tendar
v; A With the closing of day. .
' - Oh menroriea of my sainted mother
1 Brighten ever onto me. ,
r Hothing eomes to me that's better.
-; i Nor can there ever be.
: t 'g or I not eare ether name
, Like hers now greets min ear:
Or makes in ma sach reTerenoe, ,
I And love that's so ainoera.
How eoald 1 fail to see or know
Tha lore she bore for m,
And how ehe labored for my weal
, And. that ineeesantly.
She was indeed my dearest friend
i In helplens infancy, , ...
i And cared for ma both day and night.
Sotlng each breath I drew with care.
And ewredM soothed each pajn. -i
hUe from my heart she chaesd all fear
That o'er my spirit came.
i j ; Tin.; ! .
And oh bow fondly in her arms
I) id she in love carets
Folding me closely to her breast
While axking tiod to bless.
And go with me through all my days '
In sorrow and in joy.
And shield from every snare of life
Her darling little boy.
IX.
And oh what (oy It gaTo to her
- When first on her I smiled
1 In kind regard for what she did
For me. her helplem child.
How bright the hopes she then indulged,
. When I a man should be. "
I crowed, she laughed, till by and by
We both were in a glee.
-:f ; ,; i'x.".' ', ; .
She was the first to bold my hand
Wbenlbefan to walk.
, And heard with pride and sparkling ayes
My first attempt to talk.
No other one like har was pleased
To see my powers expand.
Or was so ravish with deiight
When first she saw me stand.
it
XI.
I never knew her love to tail
But ever with good intent
She stood by me when in the wrong
But urged me to repent.
She seemed alone far me to live
That she the more might love.
And by example try to lead -
re endless bass above.
' ? ! XII.
She nursed me ever on her heart
Mo matter where she went.
And pcured her Meetings on my head.
Nor was she then content.
But with great patience bore with me
In all my waywardness, -Yet
oft rebuked, with good advice
And tearful tenderness..
: -ih " ' , J-xni.' i.-1!'";-Yea,
from the very dawn of life
Up to, ami when s man.
She labored as few mortals con Id
i To keep me in the Tan.
And still while moving to look up
' And every hour employ.
To make a fortune and a name
I That nothing could destroy. '
; f i XIV.
But alas for me, my mother died
I Many long years ago.
And floods of tears for her I've wept,
I And ftilkfbr her they flow
When I remember her last look ,
I w hile she lay faint and weak. .
And died in trying me to cheat
Joy words she scarce could speak. '
Mil XT.
SJfor can I e'er forget those words.
The last she ever spoke,
hay sank into my inmost heart
Ana there nave taken root.
Bet now I can but weep for her.
W hose love so oft I crossed
Rot dreaming of the wrong I did
Till 1 my mother lost.
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V v WMMmm miMm n, wwii BVW Mill
fd hasten fart and fall
wwa ib aurrow at ner laet,
And there for pardon call
For everything that I hare dene,
-That caused to her a pain.
Orgrief to spring up in her heart.
Or tinged her cheek with shame- i
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i . XTII. r I i
Hence her last look and loving words
. Shall not be feet on me,
IU keep the path she bade me tread
In all humility. :
And if I can do as she did, -
Here aU the good l ean I f
And be just what she wished me be
An honest Christian man.
I ! XTIII.
Y ml with what strength X may
While life remains with me
I will obey her but request
And from all folly flee,
For I am sure she loves me still
.And hovers ever near.
Numbering each heavy sigh I heave
aim Dotuing up each
For still she comet to me in dreams.
And with affection true,
Oft sweetly whispers in mine ears
W hat she would have me do.
For she lives and will forever. ; . .
And that without a change
For love bke her soul's inuaortal.
Nor can any it estrange.
:k- .-r .
I now see. can feel and know
Her love did ne'er contain
The slightest atom of deceit
ur ever thought of gain.
But flowed as free as it was strong.
: JS'er sparkling pure and bright
And steady as the polar star
- Through every storm and night-
l i' xxi- v-
A mother's love's a mighty deep,
A sea without a shore
That out and on will erer sweep
. rorerer and forever mora.
Her deep afeotiesi knows ne change.
There s nothing eaa it mere -From
any child that she has reared
. Or turn from it bet love.
' S '. ' .' XXII.
' ' Along the ingratee path it shine
w ua undiminished ray f i
An orb of light that never sets M
Ipon his chequered way. j
And when disgraced she'll not disown
Tho' aU the world forsake.
But cleave to him while lit shaH laA
Or grief her reason take.
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Ko other heart like her 'a forgives, ji
J No hand like hers foraeoth - i :
Can lead the wayward back again ' ,
Te virtue and to truth. ' f "
Her, words alone have power to start'
i New hopes within the breast : '
aw i ue aueu onug oaoa again
' Sweet peace with joy and rest.
I
xxrr.
i Her love a a fortress and therein
I r I H bve in calm repose
Through all the bitter storms of life
" ' Till life with n. .h.ll
Knceuraged by her hut sweat smiles
Ana toe load words the spoke i
1 To meet her in the better land
Nor do I care tow soon I'm called '
' rrom earth s inclement eume
If I at death but go to bless -
Ana with my mother shine.
xo least Lharaavi
re'
on love.
. n mmtw wumw wiu
Int every Pleasure la inereaaed
On that bright and golden shore.
The commencement season is
heralded every year by jeremaids
from the moralists." It is the fash
ion of the day to underrate the no-
anirements of colleee trradaates
and the nractical advantaces of
edncation. The pessimist stands
near the platform and with cynical
smile and patronizing manner as
snres tho blnshing: candidates for
academio honors that they will now
have a chance to let a practical
world know of what stuff tbey are
made. What has gone before is
juronile by-play : the class room
examinations and toe honor roil
are not decisive tests of merit; the
hot at the foot of the form is more
likely to give a better account of
himself than the valedictorian be-
a e a i . .1
cause ne nas jess to uniearu suu
has better health; and their suo-
cessin life will depend upon the
readiness with which - they can
adapt themselves to the every day
couditions of practical life. With
fine irony the critics insinuate that
the main obstacle to the college
graduate's progress is his owu t4big
head" inflated with injudicious
praise and false hopes. The young
men are warned that the colleges
are spoiling a great many excellent
farmers and capital business men
and turning out scores ana nun
dreds of third and fourth rate law
yers, doctors and ; ministers. . In
cIwmI the moralists seldom stop
short of tho generalization that the
colleges while making more pre
tensions than in the past are in
reality doing .less t and less every
year to equip and train young men
for the battle of life.
Now we have no sympathy with
these dismal reflections. In our
judgment the colleges have never
done better work for the cause of
higher education than they are do
ing to-day ; and the body of grad
nates emerging from them every
summer is better disciplined and
more thoroughly trained than the
collegians of twenty or fifty years
ago. Every college graduate who
has grown old enough to plume
himself upon his reminiscences
knows that this is so. When be
receives the annual catalogue he
finds that the course of instruction
has been broadened, that the en-
trance requirements have been
raised, that! the class room work
has been systematized, and that
studies are . more thoroughly mas
tered and digested than in his
own day. When i he returns at
commencement
demic haunts
time to his aca
he I sees a better
; laboratories and
stocked library
observations that were sorely need
ed in his time ; geological and bo
tanical collections to illustrate stu
dies that were formerly barren of
interest; and j countless agencies
for diversifying instruction and
making it at once more interesting
and more practical. He finds the
collegians themselves more self
possessed, better informed and
manlier in bearing than the boys
of twenty or fifty years ago. If he
is honest in his judgment and does
not allow his own disappointments
or bitter experiments to -color his
thoughts, he cannot help acknowl
edging the improvement in institu
tions, processes, work and men.
There is,1 indeed, no respect in
which the progress made in higher
education is more; unerringly dis
closed than in the' collegian's own
consciousness j of his limitations.
The well-worn gibe that he thinks
he knows everything and is not
good for much until he has knock
ed about long enough to get rid of
his conceit is a stale calumny. The
graduate ot the college ' is more
modest than
the graduate of the
public school
or high schools He
knows that he has only learned a
few things;. that if he is to excel in
any one branch of study he must
make it the work of his life ; that
what he has acquired in the class
room will not be of , much practical
value to him 'in after life ; and the
most that he has i done is to find
out what one thing he can do bet
ter than another, i He has a more
definite sense of his own limita
tions and capacity than the old
time collegians had. This is of it
self a great practical gain. The
yonng men emerging from our col
leges to-day have ! fewer illusions
and more closely calculated futures
than most of the old boys, whose
leathery faces now light up with a
fine glow when jthey are reminded
of . the plans aud dreams of their
youth, had jn their owu day of
graduation. The world's working
force is recruited: with the best
material when the valedictories are
spoken in this leafy month of June.
If there is one tling that the col
leges are succeeding in doing bet
ter than ever before, it is teaching
American youttt bow to work, how
to bring itself to bear, how to make
the! best use of such power and
capacity as it has.
A Sbaweref Mineral Water.
, Aaherilie Citiaen.1
We are informed that during a
munuer storm, mougn uot a very
severe one, which i occurred on the
upper waters of Cane Creek on
Thursday, the rain . water which
happened to have; been caught in
luos, cecv was louna to be so im
pregnated with sulphur as to at
iract general attention, it was as
distinct both to taste and smell as
that of the strongest sulphur
spnngs. we Know of no explana
tion, i Electricity evolves sulphur
ous odors in the atmosphere as any
one woo nas Happened to be near
wnen me lightning struck will have
experienced at the time. The pas-
sage oi a stream oi ngutning, a
strong current of electricity, in
8tantly generates acid gas, made
sensible to dairy people by the
sudden coagulation of milk. This
explains why "thunder turns milk
to clabber ;" the milk absorbing the
wu iiji a suu uiua uuagmaung.
isut wny it should act on water as
it appears to have done in this in
stance is beyond ou rken.
' ip.
Aesjulred TarUa.
Since the use of locusts as food
has been mooted, many expressions
of disgust at inch an idea have
been uttered. But apart from un
reasoning prejudice there is really
nothing to justify repugnance in
the case. The locust is a pheno
menally cleap feeder. It is built
up entirely on sweet and whole
some vegetable juices. It must be
infinitely purer as an . article1, of
diet than many things which most
people eat habitually. There is no
foulder feeder than the hog, for ex
ample, and the domestic fowl is
scarcely more 1 particular. Crabs
and lobsters aud shrimps fatten
upon nameless abominations, and,
moreover, all these crustaceans are
exceedingly ugly in appearance.
A dish ot soft-shell crabs looks
very like a dish of large spiders.
There is no essential difference be
tween eels and snakes. And Chaa.
Lamb thought that the man who
af . 9 & - A.
Urst swaiioweu su oyster wu rot
ter entitled , to Horace's laudatory
verses tut robur et a$ trrplexeia.
than he who first tempted Fate
by going to aea The truth is we
are all governed largely, by -habit
and acquired taste in eating and
drinking. Sturgeon' roe it assur
edly "caviare to the general" ori
ginally. The first taste of it is dis
couraging, and few would take a
second probably but : for the force
of authority in such matters.
The Australian native extracts
from the bark of a tree a huge fat
white maggot, which he devours
with exceeding gusto. The Esqui
mau's month waters at the appetiz
ing odor of decomposed seal meat
and whale blubber; The Fiji
Islaibder until quite recently re
velled in the human form divine,
nicely baked in an oven, with the
face neatly blacked -and all the
crackling well browned. Out of a
decent respect for the prejudices
of his contemporaries he called his
favorite dish "long pig." In South
America they eat great lizards,
and find them toothsome and deli
cate. In Africa baked monkey is
accounted good, though somewhat
too like a "Christian child9 for the
unemancipated Western taste. In
Egypt dervishes are found who
make a practice of digesting live
scorpions and venomous snakes.
Rats and mice and snch small deer
have commonly been used as food,
from the markets of China to those
of Paris during the siege. The
people who live on the shores of
the Indian Ocean make a food of
the gigantic cephalopods, one of
which Victor Hugo immortalized
under the name of the pieuvre. In
Borneo, crabs which stand two feet
high and look perfectly horrible
are eagerly devoured, tn short.
there is scarcely any living organ
ism which has not at some time
and in some parts of the world
been used, as food by . men, , and
when the latter decline to eat the
creatures themselves they very
often do it at one remove by feed
ing upon animals that eat the re
jected organisms.
Men of the world and such as
honor science wisely endeavor to
overcome hereditary and acquired
prejudices against strange articles
of food, and such organizations as
the Ichthyophagous Club do some
good in this direction, though the
strength of prepossessions and an
tipathies is very great, and doubt
less takes time and experience to
remove. To a young Irish girl a
terrapin stew might easily appear,
a thing of unutterable horror and
detestatiou. ! Just - so in Central
Africa the custom of nudity has
reversed things until the women
regard the putting on of clothing
as immodest. Instead of the taking
it off. It will probably not be an
easy matter to introduce the locust
as a regular artiele of diet in this !
country, but the few who have con-!
qnered prejudice, like Dr. Hart-
man, of Westchester, Penn., may
in time see the frnit of their teach
ing in the regular importation and
marketing of the insects Already
the California Indians prepare
them lor food and , preserve them
as winter provision, and those who
have tasted them in that condition
say that they are palatable and
nutritious. Of course, ; however,
the taste must be acquired, and it
is useless for any one to try to
force it.
Souse Fnsnown OM Malda. - U.
North British Advertiser.!
Elizabeth of England was one of
the most illustrious of modern sov
ereigns. Her rule over Great Bri
tain certainly comprised the most
brilliant literary age of the English
speaking people. - Her political
acumen was certainly put i to as
severe tests as that of any other
ruler the world ever saw. Maria
Edge worth was. an old maid. It
was this , woman's writings that
first suggested the thought of wri '
ting similarly to Sir Walter Scott.
Her brain might well be called the
mother - of the Waverly novels.
Jane Porter lived and died au old
maid. The children of her busy
brain were "Thaddeus of Warsaw"
and "The Scottish; Chiefs. which
have moved the hearts of millions
with excitement and tears. . Joanna
Baillie, poet and play writer, was
"one of em.? Florence Nightin
gale, most gracious lady, heroine
oflnkermann and Balaklava hos
pitals, has to the present written
Miss" before her name. . The man
who should marry her might well
crave to take the name Of Nigh tin.
gale. Sister Dora, the brave spirit
of English pest-houses, whose story
is as a helpful evangel, was the
bride of the world's sorrow only.
And then what names could the
writer aud reader add of those
whom the great world mav not
know, but we know, and the little
world of tho village,, the church,
the family know and prize beyond
all worlds!
The PiTerlte for 188.
The slimsy, uncrushabh) girl. in
the white mull is the favorite this
year. ;
rTlTCElSrSBORQ.'H- C, TUESDAY, JUKE 23, 1885.
. A, theory Bwggeeteel.
v r Baltimore American.
! The verdict of the jury in the
Cluverius case was reached speedi
ly. Afterj considering together for
but fortj minutes they found him
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The testimony tor the defence was
chiefly to prove the previous good
character of the accused, and de
nials thaihe worea'mustaehe
which went to the question of iden-
tiflRfltioh-i-and 'denial that the.
watch key fonnd on the reservoir
was his. Giviug to these contra
dictions their fall value, they fail
ed to answer the strong points of
the case made by the prosecution.
- The theory of suicide was unten
able, because Lillian Madison could
not have climbed the fence at the
reservoir.1! Her canvas sack was
thrown Into the river a half mile
from the reservoir. If she had
gone to the river to throw in her
baggage,! would she have walked
back and climbed the fence to
drown herself In the reservoir I
Would she have uttered the scream
that one of the witnesses heard f
No. She did not kill herself. - She
was-killed byr somebody either
Cluverius or somebody else.
It seems to - be proven beyond
reasonable doubt that Cluverius
had held relations with the-unfor-tunate
girl which placed her in a
helpless i condition. She was on
the eve ot becoming a mother, yet
had been able to conceal this tact
np to the time of her visit to Rich
mond. That she and Cluverius
met in Bichmond by appointment
is proven by many circumstances.
The! torn note alone fit 'evidence
enough, f What was the purpose of
this meeting in Bichmoudf To
provide the girl : a secret place
. here she could pass a few weeks
in retirement and seclusiou. The
letters written to r account for her
absence by a pretended engage
ment at Old Point prove this. The
humble dwellings of the Belle Isle
iron workers offered a promising
place, and thither they went to
gether on the morning of the fatal
night. They were seen by many.
If murder had been in the heart of
Cluverius at that time, he would
not! have been seen in public with
her. He would have decoyed her
out at night on one of the high
bridges over the.rnshing river, and
there hurled her from the height
to death and this would, perhaps,
bare looked like suicide. But the
visit to Belle Isle was a failure.
The girl was uot satisfied. They
visited another place with similar
results. Then the girl thought
that she would go and throw her
self on the mercy of her friends,,
the Dunstans, and entreat them to
conceal H her i shame. They were
seen to go out late; in the evening,
enter a street car and go to Reser
voir street, on which the Dunstans
lived. In the morning she . Was
found , drowned in the reservoir,
and her red shawl was found hang
ing over the Dunstans' gate. What
do these facts point tot They in
dicate that a scene occurred at the
crate. The noor girl, when she ar
jived there, felt her heart fail her.
She could not enter and tell the
story of ; her ruin.; She turned up
on her companion and reproach
ed him keenly. She implored him
to marry her and save her from
disgrace. During her excitement
she threw her shawl lover the
gate. ' Her gloves were cast aside.
Her agitation was J intense. Her
voice rose. Her lover, fearing that
she would arouse the house, drew
her away. ' They forgot the shawl.
They walked together up the lonely
road, and the man who was engag
ed to be married to another woman
realized that be had an injured,
desperate, unmanageable woman
on his hand that the thought of
killing her entered his mind. They
walked on together. She bad
ceased to reproach him. and was
now tearfully entreating him. She
would follow him wherever he ask
ed. They reached the end of the
road. A dim light showed the gap
in the fence. This promised con
cealment. They entered, and were
alone in the lot. But the high.
level bank showed Cluverius that it
was a reservoir whose deep waters
would otter a better concealment.
She ascended the bank with diffi
culty, for the hill was steep. There
he paused irresolute for a moment.
He t dreaded j to ' strike the blow.
Their conversation was renewed.
Other plans were proposed to her,
but she saw safety only in one, and
that was for him to marry her. lie
took her fiercely by the arm. She
uttered a piercing scream that wa .
heard two hundred -yards . away.
Therfhe struck herand in her del
icate condition she fell like one who
is shot. Full of horror and fear,
he caught her up, lifted her to the
height of the fence aud let her tall
on the slope of the bank. She
rolled down, not quite dead, and
clutched her hands full of the slime
of the bottom.
Tbeu all . was silent. Cluverius
was alive ou the bank. There was
the canvass bag,, which had been
brought but Jn expectation of her
staying at the Dunstans; He pick
ed it up, hastened to the river and
threw it in. ' It was found several
miles down the .stream, '.Then he
returned to his hotel, and left for
home by the past midnight train.
I Perhaps it happened la this way,
i i fc
The President, on the 15tb
appointed John A. Young post
master at Charlotte, vice W..W.
Jenkins, suspended, and Archibald
H. Boyden at Salisbury, vice Jas.
H. Ramsey, suspended. These re
movals were : made for offensive
partisanship, j ;
. Mr. Albert j Kramer, of Dor
ham, is making , the first shipment
of leaf, tobacco J from North Caro
lina to Germany. Ue is shipping
eighty five hogsheads of leaf, the
weight of each being about 1,350
pounds Through bills pt lading
are optaioea Tor this from Durham
to Bremen."
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;.,,;.irV r Historical. -
! i i -:.CVwYoim8u.r
Mr. J. M. Jones, of i Worcester,
Masa desirea. information on the
following points: I: f .
Who was responsible for the
non-exchange of prisoners in: the
year 1861 1 Did the rebel Govern
ment ever refuse to exchange white
prisoners, man for man i i Were
any colored prisoners ever -exchanged
at any time during the
war 1 . Why " was not Jefferson
Davis tried V ; ;r I
We answer these questions in
their order. The Administration
of Mr. Jjincoln was responsible for
tho non exchancre of prisoners in
the year; 1864. Vrhe President had
entire control of the subject. Gen.
Grant advised against exchanges,
on the rround that by sending
back to the . Confederate armies
healthy, vigorous men, and getting
starved and sick ones in exchange,
the disproportion in strength of
the two sides would be diminished
and the Confederates would there
by be titter enabled to continue
Uirfrir.. Upon ;this theory the
Aanxinlotrstion acteu, ana iney
alone were responsible for the act.
We do not think the rebel Gov
ernment ever' refused to exchange
white ' prisoners ; and as for the
colored, there never were many of
them that 'could have been ex
changed. Very likely they might
have refused to exchange them ;
but on this subject we have! no
positive knowledge. - 1
Jefferson Davis was not tried be
cause the Administration, Presi
dent Johnson being at the head of
it, thought it better not to try him.
He was arraigned in May, 1867, be
fore the United . States Circuit
Court at Richmond, on the charge
of treason, and in December, 1863,
a nolle prosequi was entered. This
was entirely an act of policy on
the part of President Johnson.
Had he so willed, ! a trial would
have taken place; but we think
that the most patnotio and Intelli
gent men will now agree that in
every respect it was wiser that
there should be no trial, and that
Mr. Davis should be, released.
In our judgment it is a great
glory of the United States that,
after an unequalled civil war, there
were no prosecutions, and, above
all, no executions for treason.
Am Ant I-Prohibition Mob.
Trouble which has been brewing
for some time over the enforcement
of the prohibitory j law in Maine
culminated last week in Spring
vale, in the organization of a mob,
armed with revovelvers and stones,
and attacks npon a number of
houses, irr which windows were
smashed aud other damage was
done. The gang went to the house
of William II Frost, about a quar
ter of a mile from the village, and
sent a shower of rocks through the j
windows, accompanied by a volley
of bullets from revolvers, fired in
reckless disregard of the sleeping
family within. Taking "the direct
road to the village the mob next
stopped at tho house of John W.
Frost, a trial justice. Here shots
were fired into the house, where
women, children and au old niau
were sleeping. Fortunately no one
was' hurt, but the windows were
demolished. The house of G. H.
Roberts was next visited. Here
also the windows were swashed
aud the furniture damaged. The
residence of Wilson Cheney, a
prominent clothing dealer, was also
treated to a volley of rocks. The
final effort of the mob was made
against the office of the Advocate.
The editors of the paper sleep in
the office. . A perfect ftisilade was
kept up and bullets rained iuto the
room. The editors' only offense
had been the publication, without
comment, of the liquor trials. By
what seemed a miracle they escaped
injury. The raiders then disband
ed. .)
Remember that this happened
in the God aud morality Republi
can Stato of Maine. Editor Pa.
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Does Habit Make Decency U Dress t
What is it that constitutes de
cency in dressT Clearly nothing
but habit. The custom of the par
ticular society . or subject matter
concerned in " ordinary language,
convention. 'This seems strange to
some people, but. it is most certain
ly true that there is no absolute
rale as to what drapery is or is not
decent. : Even in the same society
the i couditions . vary enormously.
Use and custom alone determine
the. becoming.. A Turkish lady is
shocked if a strange man sees her
without a yashmak and a mon
strous bundle of wraps. So con
ventional , is this covering of the
face that a Mussulman peasant
woman surprised in the field will
often, veil it with her only petti
coat. '.;
Travelers tell us that a well-bred ,
African woman blushes to be'seeu
for the first time in clothes. The
unusual use of clothing appears to
her. scarcely decent. Custom, habit
and convention decide the matter
among ourselves. ; A pure cottage
girl in Connemara, who sleeps in a
room with men and never. owned
stockings, .would feel uneasy in
the ball dress of a princess. The
princess would almost suffer death
rather than share her cottage for a
week. If the daughters of Leoui
das went to a drawing room at
Buckingham palace iu their Spar
tan tuuics, they would probably
cause : as .'great a . flutter as they
would : feel ,; themselves. Ho one
would expect a hospital nurse to
do what hundreds of innocent girls
do in .a. pantomime : but the dan-
sense, again, would hardly submit
ta the unsparing revelations of a
surgical i ward.' Honi eoit is the
sole and . paramount rule ; but then
this depends on certain conven
tional practices being respected.
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A young son of Mr. M. Pivett,
of Goldsboro. fell from a tree strik-
ing a fence and was killed.
The wives and daughters of the
lower classes in England usually
work in mills and factories, and
have very, little time for the cares
of home, or for preparing the raeal ;
therefore, cooking among taese
classes is a terra ineognua, ana
knowledge is confined to sucu mat
ters as roasting a joint,- frying a
chop, and boiling a potato. - The
breakfast or tne wonting uijco
consbits of bread and tea, and, per
haps, occasionally a little bacon.
But in middle class families, whilst
there is very little variety, the
cooking is admirably done. The
joints are well roasted, and so cook
ed as to retain tne strengtn, tne
flavor and the juices of the meat.
The plants are brought to the table
at all seasons of the year thorough
ly hot; the meats and. vegetables
in covered dishes, and. are served
and eaten while palatably warm.
; The English consider themselves
very extra vgaut in their expend!
tares upon the table. Compared
with continental nations, their self-
accusation holds good. They will
spend more than either the French
or the German,' aud will have less
variety and less delicious food, but
their mo?t lavish extravagance
would be deemed great economy in
most American houses. The con
tinental nations look upon the En
glish as most wasteful in their
kitchens, but the English tre as
much more economical and saving
than the Americans as the French
and Germans are more economical
and saving than the English.
The French and the Germans
calculate every meal, and the num
ber of mouths to be fed. When tho
meal is served, especially among
the French, nine times in ten there
is nothing whatever left, but every
thing cooked is eaten. Each day's
food is provided day by day. This
leads to great economy. All things
are bought small in quantities ;
even in England all vegetables and
fruits are bought by the pound,
and the amount needed for the day
or tne meal carefully calculated,
and only that amount is cooked or
served. : 1
The servants in all English fam
ilies live almost entirely . upon
cheaper kinds' of meat such as
may be boiled or stewed ; and .they
make their " breakfast on bread,
bacon and tea, and usually their
supper consists or uremi, cheese
and beer. f
It is estimated that tho living of
each member of a middle class fam
ily costs $2.50, iucluding children
and servants. jThis estimate would
not cover the exiteuditures for
wines, which are deemed a neces
sary part of the English dinner and
supper table; Lighter and cheaper
wines are much more used than a
score of years j ago. When 1 was
first iu Eugland port wine was to
be found on every table, whereas-l
now it is only occasionally offered
to guests. Sherry still holds its
place, but light clarets and Rhine
wines are gaining favor, ana are
becoming common on all English
tables.
: .
Curing Rhenmatlsn with Celery.
A German correspondent of an
Euglish paper writes as follows:
have bad a severe attack of in
fluuimatory rheumatism, aud was
healed in two days' time by a soup
made of the stalks and roots of
celery ; therefore I desire to make
this simple remedy known through
the "columns of your valuable pa
per, for the benefit of all sufferers
from gout or rheumatism of any
form. I was induced to try it by
seeing the following notice : Num
erous cures of rheumatism by the
use of celery have recently been
announced iu English ' papers.
New discoveries or what claim to
be discoveries of the healing vir
tues of plants are contiuually be
ing made. One of the latest' is
that celery is a cure for rheuma
tism; indeed, it is asserted the
disease is impossible if the vegeta
ble be cooked and freely eaten.
Tho fact that it is always put on
the table raw prevents its thera
peutic powers from being known.
The celery should be cut into bits,
boiled m water until soft, ana the
water drunk by the patient. Serve
warm with pieces of toasted bread,
and the painful ailment will soon
yieldt . Such is the declaration of
a physician who lias again aud
again tnea tne experiment, aua
with uniform success. At , least
two-thirds ot the cases named heart
diseases are ascribed to rheumatism
and its agonizing ally, gout. Small
pox, so much dreaded, is not half
so destructive as rheumatism,
which, it is maintained by many
physicians, can be prevented by
obeying nature's laws in diet.
Here in Germany we boil the root
and stalks, as the root is the prin
cipal part of it, aud afterwards eat
it as a salad with oil and vinegar.
I received such immediate benefit
that I am auxious to let all the
rheumatic sufferers know of it. ;
Minister Jarv Is.
' Bntland. (Vt,) Herald.
Ex Governor Jar vis. of
North
Carolina, was accompanied -to the
State Department to receive his
credentials as Minister to Brazil,
by Senators 'Vance and Ransom.
When he was about to be sworn,
the clerk said, as usual : . ''Hold up
your right hand, Governor 1" To
which Gov. Jarvis replied. "Oh,
no ; I can't do that, for some of my
Northern friends, a few years ago,
made that impossible." Then turn
ing to the Senators of his State, he
said with much fervor; ''Gentle
men, this is the grandest and most
magnanimous country on the face
of the earth. Twenty years ago
we were doing our best to destroy
this government, but tailed. Now,
instead of expatiation or apy other
punishment, you are Senators of
the United States, and I am going
abroad as an official representative
of our country at a foreign court.
There is nothing like this in his
tory." ; ' '! H: .: j
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Articles et Feed.;
The Loudon Telegraph insists vjl
everything that crawls, flies, swiraL
or runs . la good for food. . . It may
be so, but still we confess to pref
erences which can't easily be in
vaded. We always read , of the
Southern clay eaters with a sickly
sort of interest, and readily admit
the right of . the negro to make; a
supper off a handful of tortuous
angle ; worms if they happen to
snit his taste, but. we do not care
to be present at the feast. Doubt
less fried rattlesnake is toothsome
if one has been brought up on that
kind of diet, and we choose to take
it for granted, without personally
trying tne experiment, tnat rattle
snake eggs are delicious and have
a decided musky flavor, j Epicures
may smack their lips over the nu
tritions grasshopper otihel
u,, uub. as ior us. our teat i.
. too simple to reiiah maea Uitnu-
There is one dlab, however, never
on the bill of fare, which every
man at one time or other unwill
ingly eats namely, crow. Profes,
Bor Riley, of Washington, says he
likes the taste of the bird, but we
have a strong impression that the
great majority of those : who have
indulged in this luxury will pain
fully admit that eating crow lis
very disagreeable work. i
f f Prohibition In Georgia.
Reports submitted to the Geor
gia temperance convention, recent
ly in session in Atlanta, from all
parts of the State, indicate a rapid
growth of sentiment iu favor of
t !Lfi ... . a 1
proniDiuon anu a rising entnusiasm
of the masses for temperance. Res
olutions were adopted petitioning
the Legislature to pass a general
local Option law at its session next
mouth, so that iu every county in
the State there can be an -election
on prohibition. Of the 133 coun
ties ; in ' Georgia, twenty have re
stricted ' the sale of . liquor i and
eighty have absolutely prohibited
it. It is thought that more than
half of the thirty-eight counties
where the sale of liquor is now un
restricted will' be carried for pro
hibition if the Legislature passes
the law; asked for. The resolutions
declare that temperance must uot
be mixed with politics, and in the
election for members for the State
at large of the executive committee
two Democrats and two Republi
cans were chosen. There were
several negro delegates iu the con
vention, and resolutions were pass
ed to thoroughly organize the tem
perance movement among the ne
groes; throughout the State. The
convention was the largest I and
most I representative body of the
kind ever held in Georgia. I
j Railroad Notes.
i-The
tviimmgton cs weidon
Railroad Company has. purchased
the Midland Railroad, running from
Goldsboro to Smith field. We learn
that the price paid for the road and
franchise is G0,000, less that the
cost of the iion j
Goldsboro Argus: The Com
missioners of Greene county have
ordered au election; to be held at
Suow Hill on the 25th of July for
the purpose of taxing the county
$30,000 to aid in building the pro
posed j Goldsboro, Snow llill&
Greenville Railroad. !
- Shelby Aurora: The survey
ing 'party of Capt Ramseur has not
yet reached Shelby, but are expect
ed in a few days. The route from
the Air Line to Shelby would furn
ish jus competition; in freights and
add ! much to our prosperity. It
Would prove an excellent feeder to
the Air Line and give us a South
ern outlet. Shelby is ready to aid
any railroad enterprise. Railroads
help to build the country. .
1 The Morgan ton Enterprise says
there was a larga. railroad meeting
at Black Station, on the Air Line
Railroad, in South Carolina, on the
10th. Col. Samuel C. Tate, U I.
Davis, Esq., and Prof. W. E. Aber
nethy, attended as delegates frpm
Burke and these gentlemen came
home very much enthused for the
project of building a railroad from
Shelby by way of Morgantonj to
Cranberry or some other Northern
couaectiou. These gentlemen Ire
port that our Southern friends
'fmean business" and, the ohly
question is one of route. Ruther
ford, McDowell and Mitchell have
made large county subscriptioaaj to
secure the building of the railroad.
C. H. Wells, in the Manufactur.
ers I Record, writes the following
about North Carolina railroads i
(f A correspondent wants to know
'what railroads are being pushed to
completion, and N the number of
men employed mi each, in North
Carolina.' There are several roads
now under construction. The Caie
Fear and Yadkin Valley road is
being extended from Greensboro to
MtJ Airy, and about 300 men are
employed. The short cut on the
Atlantic Coast Line, from Wilson
to Fayetteville, gives employment
to'nearly 1,000 men. The Western
North Carolina railroad has 140
men at work between Nantabala
and; Murphy, and the Asheville &
Spartanburg has 200 odd hands
now working. Tbeso are the prin
cipal lines now ? being constructed
in the old North State. The Cape
Fear, & Yadkin Yalley road is being
constructed in the old North State.
The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley
road is being built almost entirely
by local capital, and is prospering
splendidly."
il Mr. Geo. M. Carr, the travelin g
correspondent and ed i torial con tri
butor of the Western Sentinel, has
been honored by the Government
with a position as postal clerk ou
the! Wilmington & Weidon Rail
road. -" - ' . n
: j The Caucasian notes that many
fanners in Duplin are posting their
land against i hncklelerry pickers.
They are forced to this seemingly
harsh measure in self defence, to
prevent a complete demoralization
of farm labor during the huckle
berry season, i . f
. - w sm Aavsuseej.
8TATB MEWS. .?;-.!
fadge Ruffln's health is report
is improving.
died'j.TrArv.nMiL. oi,.l..'T;
-RaleTjOth 'K?
000 graded st have
v a tir6 a 25,.
Judge We RVnildinir.
Ederton, last week,w d . .
The State Guard enci .
will be held at Asheville ou .
30th. ."V
Mr. J. J. Jones, postmaster at
Milton for seventeen consecutive
years, died on the 17th inst.
Gen. D. H. Hill will return to .
North Carolina , to spend the re
mainder of his days with relatives
and friends. f v ' '
Henry Davis, one of the vie
, . Prof. J. de Bernier Hooper, as
sociated with the University of
North Carolina since 1S37 hashad
a stroke of paralysis.
W. E. Skinner;- clerk of the
Superior Court of Chowan county,
died on the 9th inst, at the ad
vanced age of 75 years. He was n
good man. ; j
. Gov. Scales has commuted the ,
sentence of William Black, who
was convicted of murder at the
last term of Jones Superior Court1
and sentenced to be hanged ' on
June 26tb, to imprisonment for
life.
, Mr. Hale, who goes to Man-
Chester as consul, has sold the .
Fayetteville Obterver to Mr. Geo.
LI. Haigh. Mr. Haigh has been
conducting the business for several .
months. Mr. Hale will correspond
regularly with the Observer,
The Raleigh Register says that
from the outlook it is thought that
there will be at least two thousand j
persons in the citato who will be
entitled to pensions under the Con
federate pension act There seems
to be more widows than soldiers.
.Crop Wotea. i
Lumberton Robesonian : All
signs point to bountiful crops this
year. Small grain is better than
was expected. i ; :
Concord Times: Prospects are !
air for a good corn crop. There is j
a good stand of cotton, and it is in
good growing condition. The 1
oat crop is almost a total failure in -some
sections. Wheat is under the
average. : "
Fayetteville Sun : Cotton in
nearly ever section of the county is
ooking well. Corn is a good stand
nearly every where, and has a good
color. Small grain of every kind 1
is uot an average ! crop and cannot ' !
possibly be.- potatoes are in very 1
good condition, j - y y T
Henderson Oold Leaf: As the
season advances the fact becomes j
apparent that a considerable por- J
tion of the acreage of wheat nmL
oats in this locality will produeo'a
better crop than was anticipated ;
earlier in the season:. Corn and ,
other grain crops are looking well.
Waynesville Netcs : Mr W.
H. Crisp, our obligiug correspond
ent in Graham county reports a
fine outlook for both corn and tn
bacco crops in his section. The
farmers have increased the acreage
iu tobacco about one third. 'The
corn crop throughout the western
counties is looking very fine and
could not be more promising than at
present. The wheat crop general
ly is a failure. - ;
Wake Forest College.
The commencement recently at
Wake Forest College was a grand
success.-- An audience of 2,000 per
sons was in Win gate Memorial
Hall. Addresses were delivered
by seven members of the graduat
ing class of fourteen, W. W. Hold
ing, of Wake Forest, delivering the
salutatory, and A. T. Robertsoo, of
Iredell county, the valedictory.
The diplomas were presented by.
Rev. Chas. E.JTaylor, president of
tho college.
An address was made by Rev.
Dr. Thomas E. Skinner, who, in
behalf of the board of : trustees,
stated that every dollar of J the
large endowment fund was safely
and 'excellently invested, and if
desired could be at once realized.
He declared that it was the opin
ion of the trustees that the condi
tion of the college was more satis
factory than ever before. He call
ed special attention to the fact that
this was the fiftieth anniversary
of the birth of the college, which
in 1835 was founded by. Rev. Dr.
Samuel Wait He said the trus
tees had decided to create a new
chair that of chemistry ; and that
it was also decided to give frtje
tuition to all clergymen of what
ever denomination. This announce
ment was received with great ap
plause. : ";.' ' ;! '
From Twenty -Six. to SeTcnty-Three.
i The ages of some notable women
are as follows: Mme. Adam, 49;
Miss Alcott, 52; Mary Anderson,
26 ; Miss Bateman, 31 ; Sarah
Bernhardt, 41 ; Mrs. Besant, 38;
Rosa Bonheur, 63 Miss Braddon,
48; Miss Cob be, 53; Eliza Cook,
67 ; Mrs. Craik, 49 ; Miss Gordon
Camming, 48; Lady Eastlake, 69;
Miss A. B: Edwards, 51 ; Miss M.
B. B. Edwards, 49; Empress En
genie, 59; Emily Faithful, 50;
Helen : Fauci t, 69 ; Mrs. Fawceft,
38 ; Mme. de Gasparin, 72 ; Mrs.
Gladstone, 73; Arabella Goddard,
.47; Julia Ward Howe, 60; Mrs.
Kendal, 46; Jenny Lind, 64 ; Mrs.
Lynn Linton, 43 ; Pauline Lucca,
45 ; Florence Marriott, 48 ; Helen
Modjeska, . 41 Florence Nightiu
gale, 65; Christine Nilsson, 42;
Mrs. Olipbanr, 67; Ooida, 45;
Adelina Patti,42 ; Mrs. Mark Pat
tison, 43 ; Eliza S: Phelps. 41 ;
Princess Ratazzi, - 52 ; Christina
Ro8etti, 55: Mrs. Stowe, 73; Ellen
Terry, 37 ; Mrs. Weidon. 48 ; Mrs:
Henry Wood, 65 ; Miss Yonge, 62.
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