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'J , ; . v -r .H.UtJi. ; k - f , - , , - . -ij.utf. ifcci.i-.M. ;i f i i i.w. f s : ! : . t ...... cor and F U1 Elizabeth City Directory. D B. JA3. H. BUTT. PhTsician. Att-,nii. offlce practice. Cor. Main and Fearina bireuta. w 0. 0. POOL, Attonieya at Law. lumce, Mam Btreet. -t TV a It H. McINTOSa, PhjeioiaJL Office, w. REED. Attorney at Law, Manteo, Koanoke Island , Dare OorintT. TAME& L. BALL, Attorney and Connseloi wj ai pa, umce, eaat aide Koad three d hi i from Main. Btrnet, . j T Q- ETHEUIDaE & HBO., Drr.g, Chomi. J . caH, faint?. OUh, eto. Bouthaut corner K'd and Miii Htreetn. ' ' 5 DR. JAMES N. BUTT, Drugs, Chernil,, Paints. Oil, eto. 3outhweot coraex Fearing and Road Sireeta. T. jBUrrER, Book and Job Printer. Oabo- Lly ias Office. Main Stree t. PWS MELICK. Bookn, Stationery, Peri- oilicalw and Fiiniittire. Water Street. P1LEMON JOHN. Notary PabHo. Office in Cabouniax Building. DU- R O. JENKINS, rhyaloii Main Street. an. Office. on THE ALBEMARLE BANKING HOUSE, ' few doors went of the Nokth Carommam Building! r I A3I8 L. SMITHSON. Practical Honne J. Painter, Road Btreet, near Main. ALEEMARLE HOUSE, T. D. Pejcdletos, Proprietor. Corner of Main and Road ; rUreetg. j .. - ' r ' . W. BROWN, Groceries. Liquors, etc., ' T V alno Bowling Alley, Main btreet, near the Market. 5 , OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. ELIZABETH CITY. Charted Election on the first Monday of May. Meeting of the Board of. .Commissioners, aftornooli of the first Monday of each month. Mayor. It. Krmlforil. (!inraii'n!i(.w .Jittxz Triicliott, W. F. Martiii. A. U. V Li! comb: C. 15. Brotht-m. John Wo 4 ' Treanit-vr Ch o. W. Boll. A tt.orni y J. L. Ball. Clerk--v'ni Kiaucs. ('onrira.le ilonroo Whedbpe. . roHimlsttr-W. 1. Viiex- JURCHE3. JlefhodiBt,; Baptist, Episcopal, and ZIon opioroifk Horviood iu eauh every Sabbath, '.LODGES. AfHonfce Ludqi -N ). 11. 1. O. of O. F. I Meets evibry Thursday evening. TalolI Encampment No 8. I. O. O. P. Bleets off t!ta second and fouxtU Tuesday-in eicli moiith. ! .. : On.vND Uniied Order or O. P. Meet alter- ' hata '1'lnubil.iy nights. UASONIC, LoDOK meets on every Monday Lilit. , PASQUOTAIfS COTJITTY. Flicr'iT Jiiliri T Trioo. ' ' CA'-k -.npqrior 0urt -Milw Commander. Trensi rer TliTininK ' n'ies. ltiV'S; r a S Tji'.'msH P. Wiloqx. HiiivMo:' K:i !cr Tk' y. J!;i' In i A. : F. StalToiii, Emanuel Davis and li. It. J'.llllrtOTI. Attorify W. F. Pool. . lieprot oiitative VJ-. 3. Mnudon. TJPESIOR COURT. . Miriidsv ' fter tho first Monday In d ' Ootob;-.r. County seat, Elizabeth COXT'SHfrSSIOIiAL DISTRICT of Vii- G V" '-ti.- of Psqnrtank. 1 ii. I'uniiu.'li. T)m. 'i'yrn;!!, "i .VVa-liing;.on.- Beitie, Uerl- I. Chbv.Rii, Mii tinGitt FT?:3T ; JUDICIAL MirtinGiU-a. Pitt audPaiulioo DISTRICT. Ih corri- M 'f the 0 unities of Pasquotank, Curhtiii . . it-'.0i:l"ii. Perquimans, Chowan Gii'.-c. 'lViroll Hyde. Dare. Ju 'troH Hon. Milii-: L. Enre. of Oak-sville. S ilii r $. I'. Whedboo. ot Elizabeth Cit- Profe SSicna! & Business Cards. c, a. vobh. w. r. hOIj C. & W. F. POOL, Attorneys at Law. Efizabcth City, N. C. Practice iii all the C irts of the First Judb cial Via not. Collections made iu auv part ol the iStatfu Prompt attention g.veu to cases ii. the Sii 'rMlnfci Court. c V. GRAN DY, Jr., "I .-' " Attorney at Law AND GENERAL COLLECTOR, Elizabeth City, N. O. Offio4Noirth of Main Street. THE bemarle Ban AT. ElizJibe tJi City, N. ( T a JtOIiNTON CONROW, President R. F. OVERMAN, Caahier Board I - of Directors i TnoHNffoN Cos ROW, D. W. C. G Btjsh. F. Maktis, W. UoLXOWXLIk i'ALKM s .rouN. D. C LlPPLNCOTT, Dealf Et?!.ango, Ri'ht Drafts. Gold and Silver etc. GuverumeiH and other Sejurities. THE Al bemarle House3 C. ALBERTS0X, Troprictor. Elizabeth City, 'N. O. Thi HOTEL is centrally and pleasantly located, is large, com . jdions and elegantly fitted tap for the comfort and convenience of guests! . ' . , . Spot ial attention is paid to the traveling rublicj Care is taken to supply the table witS the best the market afTords. . i f . . .' ' Terms S2.00 a Day. THE ALBEMARLE SALOON. . . i . .if. j . . ... . - This elegant establishment In the Albemarle House, is now under the control of ! JOHN DETRICK, ! Of Norfolk, who proposes to keep a finst-class Lager Beer Saloon, 7- Keeps! New Ark Sparkling Cider, and D.r Parker's Qates Co. Apple Brandy, and dia pensea the ehoio8t of Jeiicaoies in this line.' The celebrated HEEByif Thomas Beck 4 Sons will be kept, . : and pure Oil na ou.bi wulftkr -aides r good uqaurs, cagms, or Ciaiwuag "a may M OeeTrea.' i T'-n'h I Mu'ch ahi rmsT r Cl-i i! ii; : i Al V caateTteaeaUtNfa aarr aaaa. The Bride's Story.. "i bat a country las4 1 i ft 'M was now fifteen years ago, I liyed where flows the Orerpfook through meadows wide and low ; There first, when akiea werp bending bine and blopsoma bowing free," I saw the ragged little by ihat went to school with mo. His homespun coat was fryed and wornrwith' patches cr.yered o'or, . ' His bat ah, such a hat as tliat was paver een before. The boya arid girls, nhen firet he came, they thonted in their gloo. And jeered theXraggod little boy who went to ohool with me. . ' -,K His father was a laboring man, and mine waa highly born , Oar people held bottthtm and Ms in great contempt and nisorn ; . . They said I should not etc such a Lf., p to own a playmate The bright eyed, ragged little boy who went to school with me. v i : let spite of all the joers around from children better drenscd, ' ' V My heart went out to meet the heait that beat within his t ceast ; His look was fond. Lis voice w fnv' inA . strange as it may be, loved the ragged littlo boy that went to school with n.e. -. . ; ; .j vi For yearg they had forgotten him, but when again we mot, -' i 5' i c . ' His looks, his voice, his gentle ways, remained m mr mory j ot ; . They saw alone tho man of mark, but I could 1 only see That bright ej ed, ragged litt!e boy that went to echod with me. ' ; - . . He had remembered mc, it seemed, as I re- - ' mombfTod bim, Nor time, nor lionore, in Lis mind the cherr ished paxt eoald dim ; 3 ' K Young Jove had grown t older love, and so to day you ste 1 . , ; , wcil tho ri;:gfd httlo boy who went to school With rue. .,-''"'. BORN A CRIMINAL c' The Stoiy of Connecticut's Most Awful ., Crime.' Ouo of the mopt atrocious crimes ever perpetiutfil in ibis country in early dys, and indeed racking vitu the mosi horrl-! bio e ver known in the United States, was the innrdt r of the Mallory family,' fit Waa!iinton, Conn., abont ten miln' ti,m tho town f Litchfield, in the year: in tho month of December, 779 a ragged, penniless, . wandering stranger appealed to the charity of old Mr. Caleb JLtllory, resident of the town of Wash iiigton, for a night's lodging and a meal of victuals. ,3Jhe person thus appealing v as not over' nineteen years old, and t. longh ltwgo for Lis age, had a counte nance that made hiniseem younger than he really was. . .- t ; - j ; j In auswer to Mr. Mal!ory's questions, world, nad that lie was entirely rneid lt 83and homeless. r The old man's kind heart was touched by this tale of woe, and he readily prof- li'red the shelter of his house as a home for the' yomig man as long as he might desire to avail himself of it, an offer which Davenport promptly accepted. -At this time Mr. Mallory and his aged wifo bad living with themhree orphan grandchildren two gitls named Eunice and Eliza, nnd a boy namnJ David-the offspring of. Cuptain Eben M;dkry5 the, old man's ' only son, wiio had been lost at sea. - ... . . ... . , :. His kind entertainers were, of course, unaware that ' the one whom . they thus accepted as, temporarily at lelwt, a lnein- bt r ol their family, was a porij criminal ; one whose instincts were entirely per v rtedto evil, and who haf iever. in hi3 short life, given any Bigiiol the possession ; of any 1 moral perceptioijs whatever. Barnett Davenport had been born of parents iwho, if not actually criminala themselv.es, were certainly wicbedly indiflFerejit as to whether" their son became -one .or not. They - lived near New Haven,; and, from his earliest youth Burnett jtrf-teiid 6l - attending school and receiving.' any moral training from, his parents, was permitted to as sociate unrestrainedly with tho worst boys of the town. il He-was from, early years unprincipled, profane and lmpiops. lit; fore he was Bine years old he was an expert in cursing and swearing,- and an adept in mischief. At eleven years ha bogun to piifer ; at thirteea he stole money.; at fifteen ;-he entertained thoughts of murder, and rapidly waxed harder and bolder in wickedness. M; Not withstanding his eviliustinets andhabit8, he managed to behave pretty well for a couple of month's, while living with the Millory family, and quite won the kind hearts cf the old folks, who could scarce ly have treated him better had Tie been their own son. There is-reason to be lieyo, however, that during this time e watt, with bae ingratitude and diaboli cal cruelty, planning iu his mind almost horrible crime nothing less .than the slaughter of his benefactors,'. that , he mitjht possess hirnself . jof. their most valuable effects. . On the night of February 31780, Barnett Davenport :deemied , that the time had coma for the execution of his infernal purpose. He slept iu a small room off the kitchen, at the back' of 'the' house, while Mr. Mallory and his wife occupied ' the front room on the second floor, over the parlor. The boy David,' seven'years old, had a bod in. a little bedroom adjoining tho apartment of his grandparents, and his sisters .were in the back room on the, same floor.- From this arrangement it will be readily seen that it must have beea easy for Daven port to make, unobservedly, all the pre parations necessary, , when the , chosen time came, for the awful butchery he conk m plated.. At !a little jafter mid niglit on tho data stated, while there raged Fivb a' terrible storni: that there was gmall ilanger of any person being aboard to hear any extraordinary noises which might ariso in the house, Barnett Davenport arose from his bed, dressed himself, and made ready for his crime. He had been for two days making a great pile of pine shavings, "in a shed outside the kitchen, under the pretense of building . a nice' cupboard" for Mrs. Mallory. These shavings be now car ried in and strewed About tho floor of the parlor, the kitchen and, the. ditang rtom that lay between-then, and' over "them he poured a gallon ol turpen ' Then putting on an old pair of over alls and a jacket to Keep ms cioimng from Ittiuff staindNl with hEpod,i,he armed himself witba ki eat ktfotty club Of green hiekorv wood, and ascended the stairs "to the apartments where, the, oh folk In those days locks upon inside doors wr Kubinin ivsoid tru wiv bSooiBei and the Mallory residence was no exception, to the general rule of omission of such .1 . .1 - -1-- -U o" IVJn vrciiritv."' To enter ine cuauiucr ',lf hi his bed. Lrft had IIO ,UBM fiittr a. word, for in an instant the hpnfp.dor. tlio.assasMn osa.noiiuug ty, ; . 1 :i. k .if i!'tnmJ iJ Talfortni . i . -I i II - - - BUBBBUBBBBa- nuge club, wielded by the ftnrdy vil lain, descended upon his head, cracking hia skull like an egg shell. The old woman had been awakened the same mo ment, and, before a- second blow could be aimed at her, gave one cry of terror. It was her last. The next inrtant she was stretched by the ride of her hus band. To make assurance doubly sure; the-murderer's heavy club descended again and again upon the heads of the ld couple, dashing out their brains, and finally he drove deep into the throat of each the blade of a big carving knife which he had brought from the kitchen. ' At this moment he heard the voice of little David calling from the next room. . "Gran'pal Oran'pal what is the matter? What are voudoinff I" As nearly as he could, D-'-rrrrort imi tated the old man's tHluninna tiitrVi purlieu voice, caning in response: ooy, come here,", and planted himself close to the door, with the dripping knife in his hand. A moment more, and the Jittlo fellow, with jnothing on but his nightgown, bounded into the room, only to have his throat clutched by the assassin's powerful hand as he crossed the threshold. When th U ' had been choked so that he could not cry out, Davenport transferred his ciutcn to poor Davy's long brown ring leis, araggea his head back and with one slash of the keen knife cut his throat irom ear to ear. Now all was still. j.ne murdprer, grasping again his club, warned on tiptoe to the door of the lit tle girls room and looked in. They had awaaeneu. Jie Hesitated. Then, inrning Dact into the room where his bloody work had been done, he fastened ine door upon the children, by bracing n cun:r against it, so that not even a strong man could have opened it from the inside. l0wrhejoceeded toJ,gatber the uooiy ior wnicn he Had done the horrid deeds already stated. Out of an old wicw some pieces oi Bona silver plate. From a bureau drawer he took '0 in goldand silver. In the pockets of the oldcoupIe he found a silver ohnot lw VJ. . T . m - watch and about twenty or thirty shil lings iu sdlyer.X The gold wedding rings, once massive, 'but now worn thin, he lore irom the fingers of the dead. Thor ougmy he searched the apartment, but uis waa ail tnat ne could find worth car rying away. First he put the plate in a pillow slip, and carried it out into the yard, pocketed the other valuables, and then proceeded to fire the house. Roll ing the corpses from the bed upon the floor, he tossed aside the bloody feather bed upon which they had reposed, and fiom beneath drew two large straw beds, the contents of which he scattered about the floor. - Then he drew into the center of the inflammable pile some brands from the open fireplace, saw the straw kindle, and quickly rau down to the floor beneath, where in each lfyom he touched hia -candle to the turpentine, soaked- ahavinga.- In- au instant the whole house was abla&t, Vy - Before showever glaring - )ight shining" through the windows of adja cent bouses had alarmed" the neighbors, Barnett Davenport had escaped in the darkness, carrying with him, tho bag of silverware ; '.J w Jt. Good as had been his arrangements H for a conflagration, its progress was less s,peedythan he doubtless hoped it; hquI1 stone, 'and' inside it' "was very solidly built. - .. Four young men who happened to be sitting up in a neighboring hous9 were the lirst to arrive at the flre. The flames ou the first floor were so furious that they could not dare to enter there, but they placed against a window on the secouel floor, where the fire did not yet Seenied to have reached, a long, stout pole the well sweep " and two of them, climbing up thereby, entered the window. The room into which they thus--came was that of the boy-David. They found no one tkere, Then they dashed open the' door leruding ' to the room of the old folks, and amid the burning straw and blaring furniture they diicovertd the corpses of Mr. and Mrs.H Mallory and the lad. - Two only of these they were, able to rescue the old man and the boy and these not without ie ceiying severe burns. Then the fast ad vancing flames drove them out. " They aro all murdered 1" ., cried one of the young men from the window, sending a thrill of horror through the littlo crowd of neighbors- already gathered below. The bodies handed down seemed to prove the truth of the averment. Their gli,a$tjy wounds Jpokedjlouhly horrible by the fierce glare ef the flames. ; Thef drandidl shock 'bfid the effect of temporarily pa'ralyzingHhe energies of thpse who gathered about those fright ful evidences of a crime infinitely more tetrible. than anything the quiet little town had ever known before, and no at tempt was made for some minutes to cbj'ck the fire. Those few minutes were suJSoient to put the fl.iraes beyond the possibility of control. Suddenly the noj.se ol breaking glass and an agonized shriek resounded from the back part of the house. .The crowd rah around there antl saw at one of the wintlows the face of the eldest of the two sisters. She was screaming for help with1 her head thrust out through the window sash, and the fire already lighting - up behind her. The younger sister could not be seen. : - Ho ladder was ootainaDie, and tne " well-sweep, upon being brought around to this window, was found to be several feet too short, as the ground behind . the house was lower than in froiit. .v - ' A score of voices called to the child, Jnmp out I" .." Jump out of the win- terrified to know what was said to her. Men ran in all directions seeking lad ders or poles long enough to reach the 'child, but before any could be found, th smoke overcame her, Bhe sunk down outf'of sight, and in a few minutes more thi beams, having been burned through, th whole floor was seen to sink down into the first story," which was by this time a huge furnace, bearing the poor child with it, beyond all possibility of human aid. Suspicion at once fell upon Barnett Davenport. . An intuition of. his guilt seemed to pervade the entire com-muaiiy'-i' mm ...-- . i On the afternoon of tne next day a armer, four miles f rem town, found hidden the woods, near tne ban&s oi a little creek,' the "blood istained overalls and jacket. These he--not yet Know iag of the murder of , the Malloryjamily -j-brought inj Cashmgtoti deeming that his discovery would make a great excitement, but on arriving there ne learned of the, appalling events of - the night before, and found himself the pro prietor of but a second-class sensation. People, were not slow however, to sur- f jmiStT the facts I connecting the crime with these gory evidences of guilt. ISoms one remembered having , heard Davenport speak once of giving inNew TTottoti tirS strftioditwav Swift riders iwereispatchfid thither Jto ehcompaBS USES nilCDV DllwUiU MV W v uuu - Tli a . mflM was a wise one. for within 8te days ejefter, Barnett Davenport did. by .a. bircuitots , route, reach , .New Haven, and .there was found in the com-ntn-v nt an. evil woman named Collier. I wltjwbombft, bad formerly .been ac Ininintad. He was promptly arrested. I'mt 1 1 njlnav m fn ir 'fVta Vfn M arid 'the watch were' round upon rum, ' . . . . . . a 1 1.- . ! .lnn.1 piate was now auu it ww uiuccu ra-as vei.wiai.ue aauih ami j, ii . i . i :i ' 1 t ii . ghtTs "oonfinetnent In prison, tirt-weer. When "lie waa brought . to realize with what horror everybody viewed his crime, and how be was loath ed as a monster, even . by the vilast wretches, remorse overcame bim, and he made a full confession, telling how the crime was perpetrated as it has been set forth- and making known the spot in the woods, a little to the west and soTth of. Litchfield, wh.TG ho hid buried the stolen plate, and where it was toon recovered. He was held in jail at Litchfield, and there tried. Had he been taken to "Washington and allowed to fall for a feW minntes into the hands of the in furiated people of that town, the for mality of a trial would never have been necessary in his case, but they of Litch field, while not less determined that he should have the utmost punishment, were minded that it should be inflicted by due process of law. And so it was. ewas tried, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be hanged, and on the first Friday in May. 1780. was haneed at Litchfield, in the presence of a larger cod course of spectators than had ever before assembled to witness an execution in New England. A Wonderfnl Cure. She came from Detroit. Mich. and her great pride was beiric an invalid. Sho lost no opportunity in stating that she tamo to Minnesota -to reenperate. She did not hesitate toenter into conver sation with any pt-rsou she came iu con tact with, giving advice, rclimat.ilogical or physiological, to invalids, and seek ing tne same from those of rob lift con stitution. Her conven- at ion wan always preiaceo wim tne introductory inquiry, so common to visitors : Did you come nere lor your health? She thus ad dressed a stalwart, ruddy visaged young man at the dinner table of the Metro- pobtan a few days since, and the follow ing conversation ensued : "Yes, madam, I came here probably me weaKest person you ever saw. i had no use of my limbs, in fact my bones were but little tougher than cartilages. Iliad no intelligent control of a single muscle, nor the use of a single fitculty. " " Great heavens ! " exclaimed tho as tonished auditor, and you lived ?" - " I did, miss, although I was devoid of sight, was absolutely toothless, unable to articulate a eiogle word, and de pended upon others for everything, be ing completely deprived of all power to help myself. I commenced to gain im mediately upon y arrival, and have scarcely experienced Jn sick day since ; hence i cau eouooienliousiy lecommend the climate." "A won dm fnl case!" said the lady, but do you think your lungs were affected I" "They were probabTysourid, but possjseeil of so little vitalify that but for the most careful nursing they must have ceased their functions." I hope you found- kind friends, sir Indeed, I did, madam : it is to them and the pure air of Minnesota that I owe my life. My father's family were with me, but unfortunately my mother was prostrated with a severe illness dur ing the time of my prostration." ; How sad I Pray, .what was your diet and treatment?" . V"My diet was the simplest possible, consisting only of milk, that being the Lreaiiucii s, i uepeiiueu eiiurnj ujiuu mc life giving properties of Minnesota air, j and took no medicine except au occa sional light narcotic when very restless. My improvement dated from my arrival. My luib.H soon became strong, my sight and voice came to mo slowly, and a full set of teeth; regular and firm, appeared. liesaarkable, miraculous I burely, sir, you must nave been greatly reduced in flesbi," , - MadamL I weighed but nice pounds. I was born in Miunesota. Good day." . . , . , Timely Kerosnee Dangers. The Xcieritific American says : It will be a prudential measure to keep a sharp watch on any kerosene oil that is being used.. There, aro largJ numbers of rascally or ignorant dealers who sell a compound containing gasoline and other light products which will readily nasn at one Hundred deg. and oiten au ninety deg. As it is the gas or vapor from the oil that explodes it is hardly necesf ary to point out the danger of keeping a material in the hoisfi which, during the intense heats of summer, will reach a state when such explosive gas is freely evolved. " : Of course, in the confined limits of vessels and railway cars, the perils from kerosene are greatly augmented; and where inspections by government of ficials, as in the case of steamboats, may carefully be made, we think that such should include a most rigid. investiga tion into the kind and nature of oil em olovr d. There are. of; bourse, crctau . Kinds of Kerosene in tne maraet practi cally as safe as sperm oil ; but, on the i other hand, the poorer and more dan gerous grrtdes are cheaper, and hence are used both through ignorance and cupidity. ,The steamboat law is ex tremely explicit on the subject of ex plosive compounds, and it covers ail 1 . .. .. , - i , j, cases, wnetner tne material is uarreieu for freight or innocently contained in the cabin chandelier. It distinctly states that " no products of petroleum shall be used on any steam vessel lor illumina ting purposes that will ignite at a lower temperature than one hundred and fifty deg. J;ah. The penalty for carrying dangerous explosives is $5,000 fine, or three years' imprisonment,1 or both.' The law is certainly stringent enough, and it remains for the authorities to en force it, otherwise some frightful confla gration anoard a steamDoat may oe tne result of their neglect. Wementionsteamboatsmoreespecialiy because at this season of the year they are almost always crowded, and an acci dent, even through panic alone, may easily assume ery serious proportions. Kerosene, we think, has no place on railway cis ; it does not give: an ade quate light for reading at night, nor is it in any respect, save, perhaps, in point of etpense, an advantage over the time honored caudle. In case of a collision or cverturn of the cars, the breakage of the lamps and spilling of the oil have often produced a fire and a panic, and will do so again if the companies persist in allowing its use. How an Editor Figured.' A loauacious agent with a - Grecian nose, long hair, and a diamond pm, called at the office with a patent f astener, by which a clothes line " would be, set in order in two minutes instead oi twelve, This saves you," said the agent, " ten minutes every week, five hundred and twenty minutes every year, and just eighteen days in fifty years. At three dollars a day you have fifty-four j dollars that this fastener is actually worth to anv man who expects to live his time avand I only charge yon four dollars, leaving vou fifty dollars clear gain. This mathematical demonstration turned the scale. The editor decided to pur chase the 'clothes line fasterer. 1 "Just consider that one fastener," : he re maiked to the scent. "It's worth fiitv-four dollars." he continued, bland ly ; "but seeing it's you, take it along for forty. We owe you four i dollars, and that leaves thirty-six coming to us. If vou haven't' cot the money with you, you can' tend it by draft- "or postoffice order.! or pay it in circus tickets we are not going to be hard on you."The peddler was somewhat dazed. MRS. CUSTER O CHICAGO. A Savrcwfml Party Oaiaa; B ! Datkataw ... A party of ladies, in whom a deep in tercet is taken jast now, arrived in this city, gays a Chicago paper. They are Mrs. General Custer, -Mrs. Colonel G. W. lates, Mrs. Captain A. E. Smith, Mrs. Calhoun and Miss Emma Reed AU tlie.se ladies except Mis- lteed are the widows of tho gallant officers mas sacred by the Indians under Sitting BulL Mrs. Calhoun, wife of First Litu tenaat Calhoun, is a sister of General Custer, and Miss Heed is his niece. Mr. Reed, step-brother of the general, and Mr. Richard A. Roberts, brother of Mrs. Yates, have charge of the ladies. The ladies were all attired in deep mourning. They received no callers, took supper in a private parlor in the hotel, and left the same evening on the Michigan Cen tral railroad. Mrs. Caster, Mrs. Cal houn, Mrs. Yates, and Miss Jteed will henceforth ' reside in Monroe, Mich., while Mrs. Smith will find a home in the interior of "Sew York State. 1 The party left Fort Lincoln, traveling by boat and carriage to Bismarck, where they were the guests of J. W., Raymond. A special car conveyed them from' Bis marck to Fargo. Remaining overnight at the latter place, they left there and reach ed St. Paul, where the remainder of the day was spent with some very intimate friends. They came to this city over the West Wisconsin railroad. There are now no widows of officers at Fort Lincoln. but the widowed wives of twenty-two soldiers remain there, mourning togeth.' er their terrible bereavement. Mr. Roberts, the brother of Mrs.' Yates, had accompanied Custer to within seventy miles of where the engagement took place, when his horse gave out, and he was obliged to remain behind, after ward joining Reno. He returned to Fort Lincoln with the wounded of Reno's command. The steamboat. Far West, which had penetrated a long way into the Indian country, started back to Fort Lincoln with forty-one wounded soldiers, three of whom died on the trip. The boat made the trip of 900 miles on the Yellowstone and Missouri, in forty-four hours, not thirty-four as heretofore published. " " f; r Mr. Roberta says that . Reno's men gave the dead of Custer's command as decent burial as the circumstances would admit of. ; They had but two-spades, and while those were being used i in dig ging graves, the soldiers were scooping in the dirt upon the dead V with their plates, cups and case knives, some claw ing it in with their hands. ; The graves of the officers were all carefully marked. They were buried as they felL A stake, hollowed out in the center and - tightly plugged, was driven out of eight at the head of each officer's ."grave. , In tha hollow of each stake ' waa: deposited a small roll of ' paper ' ripcm which was written the name of the dead One under neath. Corresponding ? numbers were prepared and are in the keeping of Cap tain Nolan, of the Seventh regiment. The number was also burnt into each stake before being driven into ,the" earth. . . ' ' . ii " . ; The Railroad Business Overdone. At Long Branch, says Gath, in one of lul I a lai im mmm k l " Pullman has three residences that I know of, . here and in Chicago, and at the Thousand Isles of the St. Law rence, i . " He will want to g6t them all together on one small lot beiore , many years pass," said the auditor. " Why, do you think the railroads will throw off on him ?" . " Yes, their diminishing business will not permit of any such incubus. ; It is hardtimes with all railroads. . They are just beginning to meet questions of mo ment , bluntly, and this Mr,. Gowen, president of the Reading railroad, goes to the core of the question when he says that too much competition has made it well nigh impossible to earn dividends. That had already been said by Mr. Devereanx of the Columbus and Cleveland railroad. " The open lakes and six lines of rail to the West gives too much outlet for the crops. Before the war we had single tracks on every rail road ; now Vanderbilt has four, Scott three or four, Garrett two or three, and the Erie, and Chesapeake and Ohio are also in the field, with .the. Grand Trunk flanking all around to the North. Low rates are a necessity of such an abun dance of communications. Passengers in America now pay the cheapest fares in the world. Ten dollars for excursion tickets from New York to Cincinnati and back ! The closest economy must fol low such prices. The Pullman cars, art very heavy, and mashjvp the road beds thay bring no revenue to the .hauling company, which must also Keep them in repair. They cost from $17,000 to 850, 000 apiece, and weigh from twenty-five to fifty tons, while, ordinary cars weigh only, twenty tons. . Tbe.Erie railroad ran one Pullman car whicn cost $oa,uuu the Orange County by name. Every scratch of that cabinet work cost your pocketboOk to repair it. Now, the bulk; of the Pullman cars will require to be rebuilt very soon ; they run about eight years, and then, such is their condition, they must be wholly rebuilt. There are between two thousand and lour thou sand of them, perhaps.' The capital of the company is, say, $12,000,000.. When- that construction account is made up, and the railroad companies proceed " to fret about repairing; o. her people's cars and carrying extravagant " riders, the hey day will b6 over. ... ' j ' I : Something Wrong. : . ' A man, a sachel, an umbrella,- and a great deal of puffing entered the central depot at Detroit, according to the Free Irre88. and asked it tne oagmaw ' train had departed. -. : 't I Just out of Bight, was tne reply oj an official. . Didn't they know I was coming in f inquired the stranger. 1 guess not : oion t near any one say anything about it." , P "That 8 strange, mused tnetraveier. " I live out here nine miles, and yester day. ,1 sent, in word by one of the sauarest men in our town that I'd come in here this morning and go out on the Saeinaw train, l m nere to the min ute, but where s the tram i " Gone, as I told you before," replted the official. - U - '?:' 1 "Something wrong here something wronsr " said the man. shaking bis head. " If your train can't connect with a man after he's walked nine miles it goes" "to show bad management. I think I'll seo some lawyer about it"' ' V4 ; i'U, , ..... ' ' ' t- tufy:i ' Power of Co-operation In Animals An energetic scientiho gentleman m England recently gave a leeture to a pro vincial audience on the power of OQ-opn. eration id animals.- xte took as his ex amples the bee. the beaver, and " the buffalo. His audience' werey much. pleased, and the elderly country clergy man with whom he waa staying seemed especially delighted. But it is not easy to realize to the mind the horror which AIM, W UW UVAAV. " . . 1 a. . ... . . came into tne oreass w iBB wierauij'""" w, oiuo;iir,m. ... ..t gentleman when, sitting in the count y he mounted id -the nest of the unsus church to listen toa sermon from" hi pinAiBgifcectrf-Tben' he applied a host he heard that' good man iUrtstrate- matotuto thef hornltsf ind.the Hornets the wonderful wisdom of Providene byi applied trAelves to John, .who in representing the bee, the beaver and thr ?tantlj,dspppf d is flteworsand made buffalo as all three working -together in hcta to get it of doprawThe horneis, some foreign land in .harmuions and. gt -the jworsl of it,.for the, barn, ww ystenmtio combination. ' v " burned, with all its oontents. : 1 -. ... . .jj Church Revenues.' ' 1 There Hi no eslablished 'church in France. , All religions are equal by law, but only Catholics, Protestants and Jews are paid out of the public treasury. Out of 36,000,000 as many as ninety-eight per cent.' (over 35,000,000) are Cath olics. There are 581,000 Protestants, 49,429 Jews, and 84,000 members of other religious denominations. " The an nual State payments are: , To Catholic prelates and clergy, $8,301,659; Catholic churches, temioftries, etc., $2,041,080; Protestant ! clergy,". 8283,000; Jewish rabbis, $37,800; Protestant and Jewish places -of worship, $16,000; making a totAl of, $10,679,720. In-England and Wales, with a population of one-third less than that of France, the total an nual revenue of the bishops and other clergy amounts to $18,960,425, which is almost double what is paid in France to the clergy of all denominations.! The difference is 'that in France this pay ment is made out of i the tax -rained .pay ment1 of the, nation, while, in England and Wales it comes from property and ratings as secure to the clergy as their landed estates, are to the nobility and gentry. Moreover, nearly one-half of the peopld of England and Wales, who do not belong to the Established church, voluntarily support their "spiritual pas tors nd masters," as in the United States, by pew rents, fees and voluntary contributions. ; The British achbiehop and bishops receive princely annual in comes. For example, the archbishop of Canterbury, $75,000; his grace of York, $50,000; the bishop of Loudon. $50,000, "and tho bishop of ; Durham $40,000. Each of the oiher twenty-six bishops re ceives on the average about $25,000 a year, with i a rent free "palace" and grounds hi the country and a fine man sion in London for residence during the six months of the Parliamentary session in. each year,'' archbishops and bishops sitting1 in the Upper House as spiritual lords. Just now the see of SL Albans has been created and a proposed bishop ric of Cornwall is c-n the tapis. ' After that about a dozen more sees will, be es tablished,! " So the temporalities jof the Church of 'England flourish exceed ingly 4 : n-:..;.t , , : j ' . . ; A Great Blast. 4 ! '-"' , Gen.. Newton, ,ays that the blasting out of the bottom of th6 Hell Gate ex cavations in New York harbor will prob aoly'tike place about the middle of Sep tember.'j It "will require' about 50,000 pounds pf explosives to do the ' work. The materials Used will be nitro glycer ine, rend rock and dynamite according to the nature of the rock to be- blasted. Instead of placing the explosives in sev eral large masses it is to be scattered fover the rock in small charges. Holes have been drilled in; the rock columns thai .support the roof the number .vary ing acceding? to. the height of J,he col umn. ', These ,are to be charged with the explosives, and then it is to be exploded by -means of electricity. The blowing Hip is to be done, in three sections, and AT . rtr a. - 1 - sue eneut win do to crumote tne pillars and allow the roof to sink in. f ,The great opinion that the whole mass Is to be hurled into the air at one grand blast Is erroneous -Beyond a few beau tiful jets j of water shot into the air, and Will-be Been --W be ail u.prepaxttarAUBT water is to be let in and the chambers filled, thus forming what is called in en gineering parlance " a wet tamp." The water will con tine the force of the numerous blasts, and enable them to act with greater force. After the explosion it will be necessary to do considerable dredging in the way of hauling out pieces of rock. ; This wiil take several months, but wall probably be completed by next spring. ; The persons operating the blast wui occupy a position,, oOO,. or 400 feet away, j , j The improvements wid deepen the channel about thirty feet, and allow of the"passage of the largest vessels, where before only crafts of high draft could go. It is expected that the ocean steam- rs will take this route, as it is shorter than the Sandy1 Hook route by about eighteen hours. ! - Imprisoned in a Mine, i bury and 'Clifton, England, an extra ordinary accident happened at tber Clif ton' Hall" colliery. Four hundred and twenty men and boys gwere employed in tha underground works of the pit, which is one ,of the deepest in the ' district. The cause of the accident was the col lision of, two , cages meeting midway 'down the, shaft, which cut out all com munication with the head workings," and 330 men and boys were in consequence imprisoned for nearly f prty hours. r Men were set 19 work to clear out Cue shaft, and eventually one of tBe'uf fell into the dibhole at the bottom of the pit. Jt was hot until nine o'clock the second day, however, that communication with the men below would be opened. The scene in .'the -.v iu-kings during the long night's waiting wns very exciting. Men were kept in very fair order.by two ex perienced undeilookers who happened to be below at the time of the accident. They were quite unaware of the nature Of the block in fihe shaft or of the means which were being taken for their rescue. But assurance of safety was maintained by the fact that the ventilation of the pit continued jperfecL As many, of tne men were slenderly provided with food they became raven ously hungryand when in the course of the same day 1 supplies of bread and cheese were sent down into the mine, a scene , of au exciting, description took place.- The food was served out to the men from the cabin window, but in their excitement, and impatience , the men broke into he cabin and helped them selves." ' ' y. itL ' r: ' " " , .. To the .Memory of Castor. The' following' i joint resolution com plimentary fo the memory of General Cnster, adopted by th-t Legislature of Tex is, was received by the Uuited States House pj ; epre8entatves and entered in tlia journal: ',. . " . .: i -t ' .Whereas GeherAT George "A. Cnster has eifdeafeil lif mself to the people of the frontier of Texas and elsewhere by his bold ktnd dsBbing operations against the Indians; j and whereas the news of his late sudden death while in discharge of, his dangerqus 4 duties is received; therefore be it';'. . I .' ' j ' " Kexolved , by the Legislature of the State of ' Teias, that we tender our sin cere condoietjoe. to the family of the de eeaseJ afad'tp the people of our surler iugiJrofclier'ntidhat.the governor be roquefitOft; to fcirwar a copy of this joint resolution, to our senators and members of Qongress iwith the request that the same" be spriead upoii the Journals of CongressV'arid' a Wpy the same be forwatde! to the family of the deceased, t't I i ' ' e ",. 1! 'i mis 'Mr.1 Iiooly(wa8 troubled with a 1 nest of hornets in th up in bis l)arn and John -amiled ip hetthought how easily , they ctuldbeidisposed of, and went into his honse. Johii,,had .prepared, rags. " r . t -. , - ' A ,.A.l TVfc.rt tVino nvmtiA Grasshoppers In the West. The damage done by the grasshoppers on the northwestern, western and south western borders of Minnesota is incalcu lable, but the amount of crops destroyed so far is inconsiderable, counted as a whole, although hundreds of industri ous, hard working settlers have lost their all, andhave nothing left to live upon. The Pioneer Jres concludes au edito rial article on the subject with saying that "a great part of the region west of and including Jackson county to eastern Dekota and south through western Iowa, is covered with devouring hosts, and our reports indicate that the entire crops of this regiou are being Swtpt away, and that many of the discouraged settlers are temporarily leaving. We re cord the sad fact as 6 matter of news which it would be usele s folly to at tempt to conceal, for it might as well be Understood now, that the Northwestern States have got to fighf these grasshop pers to death and get rid of them at any cost or they will make a desert of the whole region west of Lake Michigan before many years. . English Hotels. Louis J. Jennings, in a letter to the World, describes the hotels and lodgiug places of London.' He says that the hotels generally patronized by Ameri cans are Long's, Claridges, Fen ton's Miss Edward's, the Brunswick and the Laugh nm; and that their bedrooms are close and ill-ventilated, the charges very high, and the cooking in three of them bad. A man and his wife cannot live in them for less than 20 a week. Nowhere in England can the comforts of the best American hotels be had. "You cannot wink without being charged for it." As to lodgings, " no one knows anything about the perfection to which the art of robbery has been brought who has not passed through the hopper of a London lodging honsa mill." The extra charges usually amrtunt to more than the regu lar price of the rooms. Some of the restaurants are good and moderate in prices. 1 A new and large one furnishes a meal for three shillings and sixpence, or about a dollar in our currency, con sisting of soup, fish, two entree, a joint and ices, all of the best quality. ! How Pins are Made. A snappish, voracious little dwarf of a machine pulls the wire, bites it off by inches incessantly,, 140 bites a minute, and just as it seizes each bite, a saucy little hammer with a concave face hits the end of the wire three taps and " up sets " it to a head while he grips it in a countersunk hole between his teeth and lays it sideways in a groove, where levers and springs, playing like lightning, point the pins, and whence they are dropped into a box. The pins are then polished, and two very intelligent ma chines reject every crooked pin. An other automaton assorts half a dozen lengths, and a perfect genius of a ma chine hangs the pins by the heads and transfers them to sups of paper, and by one movement sticks them all through two corrugated ridges in the paper, when the work is finished. The pin machine is one of the nearest approaches to the dexterity of the human hand that has been invented.- It is about the A Destructive Insect. In 1865, says the Paris Figaro, France was visited by an insect, about one fourth the size of an average flea, and which will consume, this year, a sum of -1 on rrn nnn e t e . -a iiw,uuu,u' 'J ui 1 Annua iui us uiauiieuM ance. The expense will augment anntt ally if some means are not found ofjriaa tering it 3 mandibles. That infinitesimal Gargantua has received from the savants the Greek name Phylloxera, which means leaf dryer doubtless because the part of the vine iattacks and ex hausts is the rbotvo that the leaf be comes dried up. In ten years from its appearance thispest has totally destroy ed one-thirdOf the French vineyards, that is toay, 600,000 hectares (two and a half acres each) out of 1,900,000, and, at this moment, it is causing the disap pearance, of 12,261,000 hectolitres (twenty-two gallons each) of wine, which at the average price of llf. 40c the hecto litre; repre-ents the 139,775,000 francs. Whence comes the insect ? The savants have tho candor to avow that they can not say. j - : Immigration of July. Official returns' made to the United States bureau of statistics show that during the month ending July 31, 1876, there arrived at the port of New York 9,793 immigrants, of whom 5,736 were males, and 4,057 females. Of the total number arrived there were from Eng land 1,401, Scotland 357, Wales eighty five, Irelaud 1,105, Germany 2,241, Aus tria 522, Sweden 625, Norway 494, Den mark 234, France 321, Russia (chiefly Mennonites) 1,680, Italy 169, Poland 125, S.vitzerland ninety-live, Spain eighty-two; born at sea .three, and the balance from thirty-three other countries and islands. ; . The idea of making Paris a seaport ; in oilier words, of rendering the Seine navigable for sea-going vessels is again coming to the surface. The river at Paris is only between sixty and seventy feet above the level of the ocean, and the distance iu a straight line 120 miles, although, following the conrse of the stream, it is 210 miles. The problem is how to lessen the latter humber and make a greater depth of water. It ap pears that to dredge . out seven feet would need an expenditure of 13,000,- 000 francs, and an additional three feet would require 11,000,000 more. It is stated, moreover, that the average size of French vessels is under 300 tons. Dick Swiveller has been playing a cornet at a boarding house in Virginia City, but his landlady promptly pro cured his arrest on the charge of dis turbing the peace. Her. boarders had left her because they had not slept well. The local chronicler avers that a man who lived two blocks away testified that he had once got out of bed, supposing that the noise was made by a cow that he had lost a few days before. A second boarder didn't like the music, and had frequently gone up in the canyon and lain down in the old tunnel to get some sleep. i ' ' , A book agent who started out to can vass .for " The I Tribulations of the Martyrs," was kicked out of five offices the' first day, and nertrly scalded by an irate women whom he interrupted in her 'culinary duties. Now he says that the tribulations of the martyrs amount to just nothing compared to his own, and he wants his name added to the list when, a new edition cf the book is printed. . - John; Man go van, a farmer of North Easthope, Canada, came hoc from market and going to his room cat his throat with a razor. He then went to another room where his father was and slapped him on the back, when the old man turned around and -was horrified to see his son with a frightful gash in bis neck.' A neighbor who was there thrust a handful of feathers, into the cut and f-.tanched the flow of blood. Of the champagne drank in the United States three quarters is bogus. THE WORLD'S INDUSTRIES. Hw I n Ik KahlbltUa MacaatlaB for a Ma Days' VUItPrrBaiai far Each Day. ... -y v Most people who viit the Exhibition lose a great deal of time, and go over the same .ground again and again, fcr want of a clear comprehension of the time and labor required to see tho in teresting features of the fair, and of a prearranged profrramnie to gwidt tlir movement!. Thus it happens that many find the time allotu-d for their stay exhausted and themselves obliged to leave before they have gbne through the wholo Exhibition iu even a curnory manner. A New York Tribune corre spondent ventures to snggest s plau for those who may wish advice on the sub ject, which, if followod, will give to each department about the proportion of time which persons of average good taste, without special hobbies, will want to bestow upon it The plan is anauged for nine days. It might, erhnpH, lc squeezed into a week, nut it -wojild l,operuiig the large -wooden doors and much better to lengthen it to two weeks; and if a thorough study of the Exhibition is intended, at least a month will be required. The nine days he would employ as follows, observing that the programme contemplates stenrly woik from nine o'clock in the nioniiuj until six in the evening, with a short inter mission at noon for lunch C ? . First Day. Eoter the grounds at tho Belmont avenue gate. Buy aguidlnk with a map, if you have Dot ulrrady provided yourself with one. Walk across the plaza to the Public Comfort build ing, and there take the cars and iunke the circuit of the grounds, to get a cor rect idea at the start of their appearance and topography. Leave the cars t tb terminus of the road, close by the east ern end of the Main building and spmid the forenoon iu the American section, not forgetting the two galleries wlitire the educational exhibits are placed, from which a fine view may hn obtained of the interior of the immense strnctnr. In all cases the American section should be seen first, as a preparation for tho examination of the foreign sections iuid for a comparison between home and for eign manufactures. Lunch at 0110 of the cafes in the building. Go next to the Art gallery, and devote two hours to the pictures. This is about as long as any one can spend at a time si eiug painting without getting so fatigued a to lose the keen edge of life apprecia tion. At about 3 :30 o'clock walk to tlxeT glen near by and hear the marine band play for an hour. Visit the German and Brazilian pavi ions, the Moorish villa, the little Irench house of iron and tales, the Japanese bazaar, and the Swedish schoolhouso, which ara all (.near to gether. I - Second Day. Begin with the Art gal lery, and spend most of the forenoon there. Visit the group of French build ings east of the Art gallery, especially works. Look iu also at the. IWikerX , building and the Empire Trftasijortation ' ijuie ouuumg. opend the restxu the day in the Mam building, iu thyioreign sections east of the trkuHeptrf those of Mexico, the NetherlandslJrazil, Bel gium, Switzerland and France. Third Day. Devote the forenoon to the part of the Main building west of Austria, P.uasia. - Luxemburg. Spain. Portugiil, Turkey, Egypt, Tunis, Den mark, Japan, China, Hawaii, Chili, Peru, thef Argentine Republic and tho OraugeFree State. In the afternoon seeiiro eastern half of Machinery hall and the Shoe and Leather building ad- A""A.(5. Fourth Day. Finish the Main build ing, visiting the sections of Great Brit; am, .Canada, the British colonies, Swe den, Norway and Italy. This will oc cupy the whole forenoon. Lunch in Machinery hall, and giVo the afternoon to completing your survey of the con tents of that buildiug.' Before leaving tho grounds, and after the bnilding closes, visit the Turkish and Tunisian coffee houses and tho various Oriental bazaars in the grounds near by. Fifth Day. Give the morning to'tho Art hall. At noon take thr rars to-the foot of George's bill, luuch at tho res--taurant there, and devote tho afternoon to seeing the numerous buildings in that part of the grounds the State headquarters, the Spanish, English, Japanese, and Canadian buildings, the glass factory, the Chilian building for amalgamating machinery, tho Campbell press building, etc. Sixth Day. Explore the Photoraph building and the Carriage house ; cross the high bridge over Landsdowno ra vine to Horticultural hall. . The whole afternoon can be profitably spent in the Governrnent building. Toward evening visit the Brazilian cafe, the Newspaper pavilion, the model of Paris, and the outdoor government exhibits of guns, ambulances, postal cars, etc., and the lighthouse. - ' Seventh Day. Agricnltural hall with its appendages tho Brewers' hall, the cheese factory, and the Wagon, annex " will furnish abundant material for the day,. The midday meal can be taken- at one of the caf in the hall. On the way out of the grounds ride across Belmont glen on the elevated one track railway. Eighth Day. Look through the two mineral annexes to the Maiu building first; then walk through the building and up Belmont avenue to the Woman's pavilion and the kindergarten school, where the rest of the forenoon can be spent. If you wish to make the rounds of the restaurants, lunch at the Grand Southern, close by, visit the Kansas Colorado buildiug and the New Eng land cottage. Devote the ret of the afternoon to the music in' the glen or to the organ and piano concerts in the Main building, aud to seeing such parts of the grounds as have not yet been satisfactorily explored. Ninth Day. The last day should al ways be devoted to. a moro thorough ex amination of such objects or depart ments as the visitor's tastes may lead him to desire to give more time to than he was able to do during his systematic survey of the fair. His duty done and the whole Exhibition gone through (hastily it is true), the visitor, may now give a rein to his inclinations An as cent of. one of the towers id the Main building, by the elevator, could well bo made on this day. . In whatever department 01 the fair the visitor may be whether among pio tores, machinery, manufactures, or agri cultural products he should so arrange his movements as to see the exhibit of one country before going to that of an other. The opposite method ofVi ht seeing that of wandering aiml. ssly along the principal aisles and stopping to look at such objects as are particular ly novel or brilliant, without ascertain ing what country they came from is utterly destructive ef the invaluable educational influences of the Exhibition and makes of it a mere raree show. : Pt.rasa-wt. A Sea Francisco xjarjer.iiA plengant reading while one is enjoying post-prandial cigar 'Here is a para . . -'fc-- graph: A Chinaman died of smallpox while lying on a heap of tobacco thdt was afterward used in making cigars. ' " : 1 '' " ' A hundred years ago.wheii you called on ft girl she kissed yon good-bye. Now if you Hueget any tumpr of the sort her father c-dN yon iut the library, and aks you whut you Are worth. Are we nation ) and is this progress ? f , ACHtrOF TIIF. 1101 SK. a r tScrae la lb l'alir4 Mtotr Ilan.v Dnailkta ; a Hrrt'lrr. Even a staid and sober body like tho United States House of Representatives will have its fits of boyish fun, especially as a Jcngthy nessiou draws to a Closo. A , correspondent descriU s a scene iu the House as follows: For the first time this aesaioa . the' Ilnuoe enforced a ' 'Call of the House." It wan done to punish the fUlibustering of the Republi cans who declined to vote that they might leave the House without a quorum. - Their filhbuiUriiig was in- -tended to defeat a proportion of the fc Democrats to -amend the rules so as to1 allow the investigating committers to re port at any time, , The call being order ed, the speaker commanded the closing of the doors, which was done at once, aud, as the day was intensely hot, tho hall soon became suffocatingly hot. ' Later on some relief was afforded by closing the inner summer eloors only. Otherwise the chamber promised to be come a blacthole of Calcutta. The ser geant at-arnis was furnihhiHl with the'-, list of absentee aud sallied forth into the committee rooms, restnm auts and lobbies in pursuit of tho delinquent who comprised both politicnl parties. The first batch of captures iucludud M r. Charles Walker, of tho Elniira disttiil, a Democrat, and Mr. Thornbiirgh, of Tennessee, a Republican. They wero. . arraigned at the bir, made their, t xcust amid great nproarand disorderly nierri- -nient, and were tlis 'barged.. !:. The farce w as continued with the sc-verul succeed ing batches brought iu by tho serges u' ' at-arms. ' The galleries - were crowded with person of loth sexes, who enjoyed the fun hugely, although in one instance the excuse of a meinber was twitted by a word of interjection to a somewhat lu delicate expression that caused a suddeu ! cessation of tho smiles on the faces of the ladies and temporarily checked their apparent intcret-t iu tho proceed-. ihgs. All classes of members wore sib- jected to tho ridiouln of -bing presented At the bar. r Tho sergeant-ut iuium wkm inexorable on arraiguiug the -dignified , elderly lawmaker who has been in Coti gr)83 for many years, as .wed as tho younger, less oeromouiou aud friHky, C6ngre8Sioual'tledgling.? Tlfu scone at times beggured description for. its wi'd-" fies8 of fun aud tumult and dixonler. . Whon one nervous metnlH-r, trembling as he stood to render his exciifii, was about to bo discharged, Mr. Cx, of New York, moved to amend " without pay-' ment of fees." The nervous geiit-h-mai', . thinking he was to bo -mulcted pecuni arily bt'fore he got away, was made t-till mortfneryous, especially as soiuebnilv -wanted to kuow ou what grouiids Mr. Cox asked exemption for tho culprit. "JOa what grounds ?" answered Mr. Cox, quickly. "Why, on publicgrounds, Of e ursn." ! ,J r I'lio Hpuse had hardly got over ib' outburst -at thi witticism, when Ilr; Roberts, 'of Maryland, being auked by' dozens of voices to speak 'lond-r, wa iuvited to go up on' the clerk's lit nk, where he got even with his toruientir:j by, gesticulating for five minutes, in dumb show. When at last he got seri- ous and his voice at the same timo he Uon: " Them, tu im aiiuiit; wo know what is the matter," or words of similar import. . The shout of laughter I might have been heard at the other end of the avenue. The sergeant-at-arms hero ef Tiied Mr. Davy, of tho Rochester district, doing the gallant to a couple of. ladies iu the gallery. ; He was taken into custody, forthwith, dragged from tho com puny of his fair friends, taken dowu stairs aud thence to the bar of the House like his predecessors. He ? was excused, of eourse.as they all were, without penalty; but as, in thi instance, it had been made apparent that Ir. Davy had ro- ', ally answere.l the roll call, his colleague, Mr. Baker, of the Oswego district, move 1 facetiously that, out of justice to Mr. Davy, the sergeaut-at-arms should restore hlin to the iplace from' which Iks had taken him. This proposition pro- voked another shout of laughter, and directed every eje to the pair of blush ing and forlorn damsels iu the gallery, iiud so the fun went on for several hour 1 until the Democrats proosed aud tlio Republicans accepted a compromise on the matter in dispute, when. the . doors . were thrown open and the momlM-rs wero released from their Turkish bath. Power of Bearing Heat. It is generally supposed that tl o human frame cannot endure great heat, and, if exposed to it, will sink into ex h.tustion. This is true iu hot cliinafcof, to which pooplo have uot ; bon - accus tomed. But in this case the effect may . bo due to influence from vegetation", or to some disturbances of nature. It tv certain that artificial heat far greater than the heat of the sun is in the torrid zone may be borne without special suf fering or harm. Men in iron establishments work with out inconvenience with the thermometer constantly at one hundred and twenty -degrees, and iu pita for making the Bes semer steel at one hundred and forty de grees. . In Turkish baths the shampooers are often busily engaged for four or five hours in succession, with the tempera tnre at one hundred, and ten degrees. In : the ; Red sea steamers the stoke- . hole marks one hundred and forty five degrees, and in enamel works the opera tors are compelled daily to endure a heat of three hundred degrees. The elastic power of the body to accommo date itself to extremes is wonderful. , Revenue of . the , United States. A statement prepared at the United States Treasury department shows tho receipts from specific sources of revenuo for the year ended with the thirtieth of Jane, namely: . I .' Tola! from splrita taxed al seventy and ninety cents per gallon ... . 151, 390,453 Total from special taxes on recti fl - ers, wholesale and retail liquor dealers, manufacturer of stills and still worms and "stamps of . vanona kinds. ..... ..t. ....... . From tobacco of all kinds, together with special taxeo-. ............ 5,035,802 39,793.275 9,571. 2H0 4OG 698 . 6 51H.4H7 4(j9,2i2 From fermented liquors, including the special tax...'. .... ..... , From banks and banker' deposits and circulation a From adhesive atampa.... ...... From penalties From articles and occupations formerly taxed bat now exempt. 09 310 Total.... .....i,.l.;'...J... tll7.23ff.62r. tot $6,691,471 more thah the receipts of last year. ' ! t African Snperstitlon. The king of Dabomy has invoked the protection of his gods against the Britit-h commodore's sbipsv' As his manner of toiicg so. eomewoat curious, it may 1 t':roW some light on i the character 01 aTfT - ft AfrlcairEative in its pristino punty - 1 1 ri A I. - 1 1 describe- tha nrdcfss. . s An imitation of a ship in woodxecuted in the mof t elementary deas of naval architecture, Las been placed o'h "nionnd, and about eight hundred r bine hundred DHtiyes h.tvesbeen parailed; before it. A think v -Is then administered lo each mar, and; a. fording to Ws attitude after imbibiu.", the chief priest decided whether .he was t be sold as a slave or offered up us a criflce to appease the gods. - . c
The North Carolinian (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Sept. 6, 1876, edition 1
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