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oi VII THIRD SERIES - i mm -- ; 'i if mill i ! iii hi ij ill 111 iii ' ' i 1 1 1 1 1 1 i ' i ii i j i Hi i nut i "nil ii i i i in'm'i ?""' ii' i'mii '"'n i h'iiiii I : 1. i - . r r 1 1 i r- 1 1 eklt J. J. BKUNER, Ed. ahdPropr. T. K. BRUNER, Associate Ed. ' gt BSCKIPTIOS RATES '. . - pertear.6.:;:;:::::-"::! S ADVERTISING RATES: ,rh. one publication, . i ... .... . -Dae Uuvn) publications, nartrutesrinonttoorayeaT; ....SI 00 .... 1 60 From the Advocate. HISTORY bF THE SUN. , : BT E. X PERKINS. Summons. HOWES, Non-resident: fake nonce ruat nie loimwiDg sum- i ..fonf nf Attachment. Vl5v linfn -lCnnani ' ;rfEKI0R COURT, -L Rowan fJnuntw. 't fmnpr ftTwl ThUHr "4 i" . . radinrr uniier inn ffliUnUTrs, , against . . . ; ' . .- STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, r fa Sheriff of liotran County, Greeting: ' VbC ARE HEREBY COMMANDED I: in the name of the State to summon Howe, defendant in the above tioo t appear at the next Term of the rior Court of the County of Rowan, at 1, Court-Rouse in Salisbury, on the 6th LiUt after the 3d Monday in March, 1876, An and there to answer the complaint of j tvhh J .-Meroncyrand V tump iVMeroney, lim Meronev & Brother, plaintiffs in jTKIIHj. J - - lr.j.l Jl And you arc lunuer i-ounuanucu fv the said defendant that it he tails nsm'er the complaint within the time witii-fl lv law, the said plaintiffs will take lament against him for $464 50, with in ierAt on $459 24 since, 1st September, 1874, il for all costs and charges in this suit in srml. .Witness, J. M. Horah, clerk of our a r.Mirt. at office in Salisbury, this the dnv.bf -Februjary.-A. D. 1876. 4. M.-liOK.AII,- Chri Sup; Court lioican County. (WARRANT OFj ATTACHMENT.) fciffm County In the Superior Court. Thoma J. Meionev and Phillip P. Mero- iinlni- firm nam rvT f orrtnor brother. Plaintiff, . AGAINST ' Kmhi Howes. Defendant.- - STATE OF "NORTH JAROLINA; To the Sheriff of Jimran County Greeting: IT "appearing oy the affitlavittn the officer Vranting this Warrant, that the plaintiffs unentitled to. recover from the defendant 50-with" interest since 1st Sept., 1874, . i n -fl t I .1.... .(... 1 . .-. . . n . , n . - (Ilr'iU allU llliy. me uuvc u.unni auuiv Howes, departed fVrim this State with intent ta defraud his-creditors, and is about re moving his property from this State : .You ire forth with commanded to attach and iafcly keep all the property jf the said Amos Howes in vour -Count v, or so much thereof umay e suffleient to. mtisfy said demand, j wirh costs'and expenses. 2tCt;lC J. M. IIORAII, Clerk. ifo F. II. CRANFORl), Xon-reidint Defendant, : ' Yoii will "lake mtice that the following jtimmons has been issued against yourself ami others, together. with a petition to sell Land for assists, to wit : ROW AX COUNTY- In the Superior Court. John Wi.- Maunej-", adm'r. default 1 of Wilburn Cranford, - ; wjainxt J Summon in. Cranford, Scott Cranford, fofltelief. Margaret M. Cranford, and Wil km Cranford. Utm OF NORTH CA ROLINA. Tfiihe Sheriff of Rowan County, Greeting: VOL', are hereby commanded to summon 1 i H. Cranford, Scott Cranford, Vfarga- fettJl. Cranford, and Wilburn Cranford, the fiendants alove named, if they be, found within your countv,!to appear at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court for the Monty-of Rowan, within twenty days after j the service ef this summons on them, exclu- Like all oilier crested things, there mint hsfe been a time when the sun wss not. The malerala of which it h composed once formed ajmrt of that Chaos which draped the nniverse with one immense'soHtode,! athwart which bo rsy of light had erer! flashed, to 'dispense its glwm, or to relieve Us monotony. ' i- ?uiUl fiat ent frth ML there be light I and at once particles of matter begsn to forsake their bid associations, to reject former sffinitieR, sndj to forn new compound around that point which the Creator had indicated as the centre of gravitation. : At first a small bright! spot, no larger tnan the head of a pin, appesred, whirling on its own axis, and dashing ; along through space with an inconceivable velocity. It grew to the size of an apple, bright, sparkling, hissing as it went, while the elder intelligences of creation gsred with, wonder on the new phenomenon in nature j : i Still spinning around, j still rmrfiing on through space, stHM flashing with increasing brilliancy, it grew in balk and gathered variety uj mineral, ui oecame as laree bh a man's j head ; then many feet in diameter : then a mile; ...v... uiuu uiiicb. iiiuiii ereir'H am roil ed on it continued to glitter, and flash, and roar, and increase, until it became a tremendous globe of light, one million! foor hundred and ten thousand nine hundred and ten times as large as me eaniy ; ' Having now become an obiect of such mas nitude in the universe We mnst chsnge our de scriptive pronoun from U to him. He now be came, by hi widespread influence, the great anchor ot the family of planetfl, that had form ed around him. and are held to their places by the "powerful cable of gravitation." These planets the sun takes with him on a circuit, which has the star Alcyone as its centre, and though he travels four hundred thousand miles per day, he will be over eighteen millions of years in completing a single round. No tele grain has ever announced whether or not his tirst round has been completed, or, if not, when it will be ; or whether he is in his first, second, third, fifth or fifty-fi&h round. All great characters who are independen- enough to hine by the light of their own gen ins, are subject to the malicious efforts of en vious individuals'who plot to obscure their brightness. There is a . little globe, thi-teen times smaller than the earth (the moon) that is very frequently throwing itself before the face of the sim, to prevent his looking his fiar daughter, earth, in the face. But insignificant impudence never succeeds beyond spasmodic efforts, attended by fruitless results. , There are, however, certain secret enemise not so well accounted for. In the year A. D. 360 the sun becarrre suddenly eclipsed, to all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, for a whole day. Darkness was total, except the light of the stars. In 536 he was obscured, and continued sor fourteen months In 626, half the disk only was visible for eight months, in 9S4, his light was diminished for two months, complete darkness came on by day for six hours. A jSimihar occurence was observed again in June 1241. June 1547, the solar dink appeared blood red for three days. But in spite of all these troubles, the sun is still the great, grand, undiminished light dispenser and guide of his family, oit the great circular path leading through the trackless regions of immen sity. '"' ' 1; j Some suppose that the sun has another class of enemies, that instead of trying to obscure his brightness, pelt him with great nieteorie mis sles. Hence those enormous, explosions that occasionally take place on the' surface of the Disturbances that agitate many thousands SAUSBUBY.m. C., APRIL 13, 1876. -, 110 27 A' FIGURES. The following figures are taken from a mas terly speech of Hon. M. J.j Durham! of Ken tucky, recently delivered ; in Congress. They show how the expenses of government have in creased from year to year, and whati we have paid and are now paying for the privilege of being ruled by a Radical Administration : From March 4, 1788, to December 31. 1791, . - 1702'-.,; : 1793 sun. of m i Yea square in a few minutes. From the nature of these great outbursts, it is morecthan probable that the sun Es as great for noise as for light. An explosion that wilt sweep over forty thousand miles liya minute, cannot be a silent affair, but must be' attended by shocks, compared with which- our heaviest thunder claps are but as the faintest whisperings. How long the Snn will endure this meteoric pelting, science and Revelation fail to indicate. It may be essential ton his brightness, as our enemies often do us cood.l)v calling forth a disolav of our virtues. ........ As it is customary po describe the character of the heroes of whom e write, we msy add that the Snn has ever furnished us with the finest, example Of energy, benevolence, and im partiality. 1 Asa creature ; of i perseverance, ne never Kfe'of the ilav of such service, and answer pauses in the discharge of the duties assigned toe eflrimlaint. a conv of which will be de posited in the office of the Clerk of the Su perior Court for said County within ten Java from the date of this summons, and let thein take notice that if they -fail to answer the. said complaint ; within that time, the Fawmii will apply to thcCourt tor the re lief demanded in the complaint. - Hereof fail not and of this summons make dae return. Givea unrlfr niv band and seal of said Court, this 13th day of March, 1876. t J. AI. HOliAU, I ,Clerk Supr. Court of Rowan Countv. 1- 23:6t:fU 1 - - Dt:iE t ouiviv In the Superior Court. Plaintiff. Joseph MeDaniet and wife Eliz and Martin . Cochran. eir at Law, him. but acts to day with the same undiminish ed vieor that he did six thousand years ago, in dispensing livht and heat for the comfort of the teeming millions that inhabit the pianeu re volvinz in his domain. His benevoieHce is characterutic, in as uracil . t I .1.1 a J . it,:. I!J aim- Aft. tnat wnue in pisiiew uraw uicir it" our - a plies perpetually from him, they nave never mpii known to eive Dactc anyunnz in reiuru, except the songs of praise that .arise from the . f . . ; a various choirs tnat mnaoii inem. ThoJmnartiahtv of the sun is also very nota- Klo. He noursa flood of golden light upon me evil and the good, the ungrateful as well as those who give I thanks. The small and the ercat. the humble and the proud, all share alike i i uiint m m i i rreai luminnrv. c AvUei no better conclusion than to advise a intoiiiaont twiners to stndv anF imitate tne character of lirui great dispenser of light, life and liberty. 1794 -1795 1796 1797 1798 -'A 1799 1800 ! 1801 1802 ' ! 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 r 1811 1812 , 1813 1814 1815 181& 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 ,1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843, (to June 30) 1843- '44 1844-'45 1845-'46 1846- '47 1847-'4S !848-'49 1S49-'oO iSoO-'ol - 1851-52 1852- '53 1853- '54 1 854-' 55 1855- '56 1856-'57 1857- '58 1858' 59 l859-'60 J860-61 1861-'62 1862- '63 1863- '64 1864- 65 1865- 'G6 1866- '67 1867- '6S 1868- 69 1869- '70 187(K'71 1871- 72 1872- '73 1873- 74 1874- 75 i 4 $1,919,589 52 I, 877,903 68 $1,710,070 26 3,500,546 65 4,350,658 04 2,531,930 40 2,833,590 96 4,623,223 54 6,480.166 72 7,411 69 97 , 4.981,669 90 3,737,079 91 4,012,824 24 4,452,858 91 6,357,234 62 6,080,209 36 6,984,572 89 6,514,338 85 7,414,672 14 5.311,082 28 5,582,694 86 17,829,498 70 28,082,896 92 , " 30,127,686 3a 26,953,571 00 23,373,432 58 14,454,699 92 13,808,673 78 16,300,273 44 13,134,530 57 10,723,479 07 9,827,643 51 9,784,154 59 15,330.344 71 II, 489,459 94 13,062,316 27 12,653,095 65 13,296,041 45 12,660,490 62 13,229,533 33 13,864,067 90 16,516,388 77 22,713,755 11 18,425,417 25 17,514,950 28 30,868,164 04 37,243,214 24 33,849,718 08 26.406.948 73 24,139,920 11 26,196,840 29 24,36 1336 59 11,256,508 60 20,650,108 01 21,895,369 61 26,418,459 59 53,8011569 37 45,227454 77 39,93,542 61 37,165,990 09 44.049.949 48 40,389,95- 56 44078,156 35 51.144138 42 56,312.097 72 60.333,836 45 65,032.559 76 72,291,119 70 66,327,405 72 60,010,062 58 62,537,221 62 456,379,890 81 694,004,575 56 81t,283,r.79 14 1,214,349,195 43 385,954,731 43 200,216.571 38 -229,307,251 47 190,851,647 96 164,053,273 84 158,141,401 08 153,037,356 15 180,223.971 32 194,217.210 27 171,529,848 27 HONEST MEN IN OFFICE. SILVER j RESUMPTION. From the Baltimore Gazette. The various financial measures pro posed in Congress j have all either been directlj rejected by! vote, or else have alien hopelessly into disfavor : and only the silver resumption scheme retains any vitality. It wil) probably go into opera tion, and will be productive of some good, but it cannot be regarded as step to ward specie resumption. - The reason of tbi is that specie- itself has depreciated, arid is worth no more dollar tor dollar than paper money -at least there is very slight difference, and the values fluctuate. Gold alone is the standard. Silver is not recognized as money, but as merchandise, like zinc and copper, more valuable bf course, but not money. To redeem depreciated paper money, therefore, inj equally depreciated metal, is certainly not resumption of sp3--4 cte payments. j. L he causes of the depreciation of silver are chiefly the immense production of it by the "Jionauza mines, and the aban donment of the silver standard in Ger many, One of the causes lot the financial troubles in Germany was the silver stand and ot mouey. The recent adoption of the gold standard in the German . empire has demonetized about 250,000,000 of silver, and converted it thereby into mer chandise.: 1 his, of coure, must lie for a considerable while as a dead mass, for the uses to which silver can be profitably ap plied are comparatively few. It is prob able that silver will fluctuate in value, remaining, however, considerably below its old coin value until its cheapness opens or extends its i uses in the arts. That may, in return, enhance its price. The shipment of silver bullion to India and China, where it ia still money, will also enhance its value, and in time it may so nearly return to its old coin value as to be serviceable as a standard of value. But there are, nevertheless, some rea sons why silver may be profitably used to redeem the i lactioiial currency, and if limited to that will accomplish a certain good. The amount of silver' now on hand in; the treasury is nearly sufficient to redeem the fractional notes. The val ue of the silver is so near the value of the depreciated paper that the seigniorage of the coin and the paying. of the. expenses of printing the fractional currency - will make the silver resumption of the frac tional currency raljier a profit than a loss to the government! The extent to which Europe is now drugged with silver from the causes alieady mentioned it is very improbable that the silver coin will bu drained out of l his country. There is, however, one important practical consid eration. The ust-ulnes ot silver coin is in proportion to it stualluess. . It is more important to call iu the! ten cent and fif teen cent notes, than those of lwenty6ve and fifty cent.'1. It sec in 3 therefore de sirable to call in the ten cent uotes first, and to tollovv litis up with the twenty- fives, and last of all the fifties. The moral effect of this will be of more value than mere financiers and fetalisticians are pt to consider. For after all, hope and confidence and credit are importaut fac tors in money questions. The politico- economical and mathematical -considera- ions may be largely outweighed by the merely emotional ones of hope and fear. Fear is the most i npoitant element in all nhd NORTE CAROLINA IN CONGRESS. DfiESS. ! I know of thousands ofl parents who Major Englehard, of the Wilmington have received from God a child, and then Journal, gives .the following as some of they turn the young immortal into a dress maker's doll ! As if God had not made the little creature beautiful enough, they must overload it with silks and laces, and then torture its freedom into the thongs find screws of arbitary fashion. This overdressing of the body strikes into the heart. How can a stop be put io the crop of fopa and fashionists if chil dren are to be trailed into foppery and eoxcombry from Jlheir cradles ? How ean oar children be taugh self-denial and spiritual-raindedneis while under the ar tificial wrapping of jpride and extravagance. his observations upon the House of Rep resentattves : MESSRS. SCALES AND YEATES. On Thursday last two of our Represen tatives made their first speeches of the session in the House. General Scales, who was a member before the war, had been heard there in that chamber, but Major Yeates "flashed his maiden sword." It was a proud day for North Car olina. General Scales spoke from manuscript, a well considered, able and convincing argument, upon the abuses of the gov emment, especially in its treatment of the Indians. Temperate, considerate, well written and well spoken, the speech is justly regarded as one of the best deliv ered during the session. It has added greatly to bis already leading position in the House. Major Yeates took the House by storm. Laboring under severe indisposition, and securing the floor in the latter part of the day, after the members were worn down from many hours of continuous discusions, he began under serious difficulties. Ris- mg superior to uiem, uowever, in a lew tion committing: the .Democratic Dartv to minutes he filled the vacated chairs and the Pennsylvania Pemocratic platform on secured undivided attention from tne mem-1 the financial question. bers, the lobbies and the crowded gal leries- Impetuous in manner, clear and forci- The Raleigh Nfws says : They have ble in statement, and conservative in sen- 1 four whale fisheries between Morehead timent, he arraigned the Republican party City and Cape Lookout, a distance of fif in one of the most masterly speeches ever teen miles, and each crowd of fishermen heard m the House There was a freshness iu the manner a gun shaped something like a carbine and matter which won the attention and and so heavy that a weak man can bard- sympathy ot all, and the speaker was ly bring it to his shoulder, and they are continually interrupted with the most also furnished a bomb lance which when rapturous applause. The fact that the struck into the whale goes off like a shell, Chairman forfrnt to stnn him at the end and armed in suehi manner these fiaher- of his hour, and that no one raised the meu go out in row boats and make war point of order, is a compliment seldom ou the whales. Jt is generally in bad paid to a speech, when so many are de- stormy weather that these whales come sirous of being heard, and a speaker's in and lie under the bites of the Capes. time u watched with such a jealous Washington, April 3. A snecial to the Times says, a renewed effort will be made by a "combination of Democrats and Republicaug to pass some kind of currency bill. Chittenden and Williams Lof New York have! taken the rratter in baud. 1 The river and harbor appropriation bill have 4een prepared. It appropriates about a million les than a year ago. Bright of 1 ennegsee intends if he can be recognized to-day to propose -a resolu tion committing the Democratic party LAPLANDER, BABIES AT i F CHURCH. , ; I want to ! tell you how the mamas : away up in Lapland keep their babies, from disturbing the ministers . on Sun day. Poo babies ! I suppose it is grow ing bad style everywhere to take them to church. And I suppose, too, the ; minis ters are privately as thankful as they cart be. But the Lappy mammas don't stay at home with theirs. The Lapps are a" very religious people. They go immense distances; to hear their pastors. Every missionary is sure of a large audience, : and an attentive one. He can bear a pin drop that is, should he choose to drop one himself-jhis congregation wouldn't make so much noise as that upon any consideration. AH the babies are outside buried, in thej snow. As soon as the fam ily arrives atl the little wooden church, and the reindeer is secured, the papa Lapp shovels a snog little bed in the snow, and mamma Lapp wraps baby snugly in skins and deposits it therein. Then papa piles the snow around it, and the dog U left to guard it, while the parents go de corously to church. Oyer twenty or thirty babies lie out there . in the snow around the church, and I never have heard of one that suffered or froze smoke dried little . creatures, I suppose they aro tough ! But how would our soft, tender pretty, pink and white babies. likV-it do you think ' -Wide Atcake. The Charlotte Observer calls the atten tion, of its readers taihe fact that deeds eye. These two speeches have done much to add to the hue reputation already ac quired by our North Carolina delegation. ludeed. in both Houses no State has more reason to be proud of her represen tatives. "'"When our people learn to ap preciate her public men as they deserve, we will find that their influence will be extended and the State will be the gainer. stationed at thee fisheries is armed with I and morteaees are worthless until thev are recordedjin the office of the Register of Deeds. Our contemporary cites a case of considerable loss arising from the neg lect of this important matter. A citizen of Mecklenburg county had given a mort gage to a neighbor upon certain property for a considerable amount. The neigh bor laid the instrument carefully away at home, where no harm could befall it, and a few days ago executions, were ob tained against the mortgagor for all that he is worth if not more. Upon learning of this the mortgagee remembered that the mortgage had never been registered, that all of these judgments came in before it, and that he was out the whole amount of money which he bad advanced on the mortgage. See that your deeds aud morN gages are registered. Summons. HOW JOHN BUN Y AN GOT OUT OF PRISON "V WU are Kprii.T- -nm m o n Tilr. anmmnn Wil Bunyan was, in his day, quite a controversial writer, and was very severe upon the Quakers, ..mil he learned that throuzh the intercession nf that sect he obtained his release from prison. It isHi somewhat note worthy tact, now well au thenticated, that Charles II. liberated Quakers kt. i -r t. - ... t u -w I ami fiiriians iruiu'. l-uiiuikhkiii, .wivugti tv,' ttuu wiie oaraa rosier, joseuu i . - , r..-t- eltndwifti v.v,4auath on.i artt.,h personal intercession of the Quakers among "".ttelVendants above 'named, if they be whom was Richard Carver, who was the mate wlrwilh nr,1n,nnA.v .,o, uf ihn I of the fishWlf. vessel wnicn couveycu uie inS -at ""I uiiumt. tii' ui' iv u w i , - vr i a . . a m ait 7 iT the Clerk of the Superior Court for the lb France, alter the ramous Dauieoi vvorcesier, ntr of Da tit. r!tiun tn-Jntv Aon oftor fhi 1 1751. This honest Quaker sailor, after twenty "frviei. .rt k,-.. . . I r, -,l .mr. annesled to the kin? in tin a "uiumou im xueiu, caciubui- in i iy"v- -i -r t - . .u.uJ t such service, and answer the com Defendants. UIE OF NOUTII CAROLINA. TaVie Sheriff of Datie Countv Grcchna : )non, and let them take nctice that if they I gerB) who passed for iii . lwer the paid complaint within that from their creditors. . 'yiat'iiM nnr nnt f r na Aiintrrw flrt ; - p"v muu v tuio summons maKe ?om. Given under inv hand and the ;n kikair nfthcuut vhn were !n orison j "i omii Miriipc. hi ii miisHiT inn i t j 1 1 1 iifinuii xii v . . . . ..v - Jacopv'of which will be deposited iu the When the fugitive king fled for his life, the cef the Clerk of the Superior Court foresaid ail0r conveyed him on shore. The vessel was n tan 11 a frnin ths H u to df t nlfc I nnl iVkl Pnnle. coalladen. with two Dassen- . 'f'tlorw. arwl l.t ik, t . U. r,rt',,.a that if thor I - i.. rvtaaaA fnr inrrlianta runninv 9VIT The fugitive kins and Iord Wilmot were landed at Fecamp, in Nor mandy, upon the back of a Quaker, and the veemel recrossed the Channel to Poole. When the honest sailor appeared before his -Majesty!, the king "xpressed astonishmentthat he had not! previously? sought some reward. The sailor replied that tie had merely done his duty, and God had rewarded him with peace of mind. "And now, sir, I ask nothing for myself, but at your Majesty! will) do the same, for my friends that 1 did foryou: set the poor, pious sufferers at ,Iiberty, that you may have "that' peace ! and ! satisfaction that wsys follow good actfon4' King Charles ihere upon pardor.ed four hundred and seventy one Quakers, and many Independents and Baptists amonjj (hem John Bunyan. An inspired writer says When the wicked rule, the people mourn' VV. W. Belsnap, late Secretary of War, has, it seems, beeti guilty of malfeasance in office, by selling, or allowing a mem ber of his family to sell, a post-tradership at one of the forts on the Western frontier for a consideration. There was a third party iii the transaction. The amount paid for the monopoly of the post-trader ship was $40,000, of which the Uelknap family received one half. j - It is sad to believe thai such corruption should exist in high places, or with those placed in positions of power and influence, not only on account of the disgrace brought upon the nation by such conduct, but also on account of the demoralizing effect which it will have upon the young men of the country, j The frauds aud j corruption . recently brouzh to light in investigating the wins- m a V a V 1 ky frauds, the Lmma Jlioe anair, ana several other astounding developments, are almost enough to make honest people believe that rascality is the rule, and lion estv the exception, among public men. There are so many rings, clans, cliques, and secret orders extending their ratnth cations all through society, and working iu secret, that) a great many, very unfit men find their way into places of trust and profit to the great detriment of the public good, and to the shame aud mor tification of all good men and women who earnestly desire the welfare of their country. v The moral and religious elements o the country should use their influence to place men in office who are not connected avitli these combinations, winch are so ta the liberties of I the Deo Die, "-'e : J and men who have the moral firmness to scorn corruption. Messenger of Peace. , ' Wthe CourMhis 21st day of February IStai) n t no-WARD. Clerk I la tl - Superior Court of Davio County. ! if ti --iBte it appearing to me saiisuicuon i ort th1 Martin Cochran. one of the I , u--wve uauieu. is a non-resident m ,, and tliat the place of bisredenee is j 'tBi -R 1 ordered that service of the! "ions be made by publieation for six suc- w eeKK in the "Carolina Watchmsn," a i$ :P-iper published in the town of Salisbury. . ' )f IH7R . A. v ta .ay a. a m m vr ;v A ! tt. B. IIOWARD, o. s. c. A RETROSPECT. Let's see how we all started after tho war ended. We were poor and proud to a begin with. The men who had been rich met uj with good fellows who knew them when thry were rich and good fellows who had speculated and eaten dirt and made good piles of money now thought it an honor to offer to lend it and the quon- ! dam rich accented the loans as if sure 1 enough it wasjan honor to the good fel- i lows to offer it and this made borrowing fashionable and so we started and all I thiusrs besran to look like old times and everybody seemed "doing well.'. Nobody had any idea that anybody else was bor ' rowing money except themselves and the t men that didn't borrow but toiled on in The New York Tribune comments on Connecticut : "The Democrats will make as much fuss over it as the Republicans did a few weeks 4go over New Hamp shire, and on thel whole with about as little reason. The Presidential contest is noi to be decided this year by the skirmishes which occur before the parties have set their leaders m the field. The candidates are tu be the platforms, .and till the candidates are up, the field shows little but chaos." Horn Anil pntindPiirfi Art mnui a a a i l i r -iv nf enternrise nnd nrosneritv. Tho palcUed clotues and uvea irom tiano to r r . r r j. - . u : r . l financier may prove conclusively that mouwi were ; conaiuereu P"r buumw this silver redemption of the fractional creatures and quite beneath the level of A i.i ro.i.nt;An the ordinary run ot manamna. aai VUllCllkl UVt HU Uvlll CUvVlw I OUVIUUlluli , - : . 1 ... ...11.. J.... ,1 ....... ,! l...A n..1 hut tliM npnnm at Iro-f w I nnt nefPnt Hua.wy uy uny uswuru ouiucwuc.o il.Jr rnnrln-ioM-U,wl when thev P il. borrowed capital began to explode and ver exchane-inir for oaner at the face val- be wbo,e country has been going off like f -iU tt it will Iva a rrnnd effect ' a crazy shotgun ever since. It now be - - e - - I , . ... . i on busincsei The old traditional values come 9 m mis cenienniai year io loiicn r .; u,;il r-m Ji., nrl nnl. n ' plain bottom and realize that we are very J C v V. S mi a ui Mini uiiva av''av aia - sreneral wilUjiot thitik that the silver is ' poor and must live accordingly and not i .i .-in ii.:..i. .i .- borrow or ffo in debt and best ot alt not neap, iu-y win viiiun. imii iiic papv:i IO, vet I JUk kir M'l.ia w rpnp.t d w..rtl. Pfl ' oe asuameu oi me worn, we uo uui u the moral and educating effects ! ",,eI " wo are cauS'" " Baltimore Sun. The Supreme Court Decision on (he 7?- forccment Act--Ifs Effect on a Mary-' land Case. r In the United; States Circuit Court Judge Bond and Giles, the April term for which commericed yesterday, a long pending case under the enforcement act was deeidef in accordance with the opin ion of the United, States Supreme Court, delivered a week; ago in Louisiana and Kentucky cases.j lhe Uourt gave no opinion, but Judge Bond simply ordered an acquittal entered, and sustained the demurer tor the reason given in the opinion of the Supreme Court, that the laiw did not specify that the offence was committed on the negroes because of their race, color, or previous conditions of servitude. PROTECT THE BIRDS. Birds are the natural enemies and de- stroyers of bugs, caterpillars and worms, the ravages of which insects are very destructive. Nature never provides an evil without a cure, and has in this par ticular ordained that the birds shall de-. 8troy these destroyers. The citizens should therefore guard them all they can, by attracting the birds about them. Buud neat latie bird houses and put them in the trees abont the city. Teach the boys to protect the birds as their best friends: instead of encouraging them in stealing their eggs and young and de slroying their nests and finally killing the patient birds themselves. Charlotte Observer. When a man detects a missing button after getting on a clean shirt, no one in the house is aware ef the fact. Ho takes off the shirt and puts on another, quietly smiling all the while. He never speaks of it to a soul. Danbury Neves. except in in favor of hard money and gold rederap- without it. Then the centennial vear of tion. The experiment of silver resutnp- BUre prosperity will begin and while we 1 I - a. . . ft'.. mm ill k-m nana. tion is certainly not a costly one. The blunder, should! it turn out to be one, will involve very; small amoatits aud tho thing is worthy of a trial. may not prosper taster ti win De a prosi perity that is sure and steadfast because it is honest in the sight of God and hon est in the sight of all men. Raleigh News. Laying the Piping. Last Thursday Mr. Atkinson, engineer in charge, com menced laying the piping that is to con vey water from the top of the South Mountains to the Asylum. 1 he water will be brought four miles and will have an immense power when it reaches its destination. The citizens of Morganton are thinking: of1 purchasing: piping: and conveying the water to the-town. We would then be as well prepared for a fire as the city of Augusta, Ga , and insuring would be a work of supererogation, j The St. Louis Times thinks it 'now settled that U. S. Grant was not raised to the r presidency. The presidency wan lowered to U. S. Grant. Dr. Redfield. the ern ; correspondent rell-informed South-, of tlie Cincinnati! Comniercial, says that the colored people are showing signs of disgust with the Republican patty, and that a great chango in the colored vote would not surprise him. : Old and New Washington. The Notorious Major Merrill Summoned beore the Military Committee. The developnients at Washington con tinue to widen and swell until they threaten something like a dam-disaster. Tl buonmoa u nntatinit oliAllipr far Pron. v. w 1 u. v u . ,. .....a .......v - . .... omv's sake. i wouhl not be better to WASHINGTON, March JO.- 1 hat era. J i. I 11" T ' I "II 1 C . I .a .s. : .i... .i. :i. .1., ' neni soiaicr. mh or iuerrui. who iounu u puuisii ine iiiiiuvciii. luan mo gxi'i-ri 1 -1, fin latter being few5 compared with the for- profitable to arrest persons m South Car- " va-B i j a- fiirms of JMux, and drew pay irom governmeni Uniforms and Danoeb. The color of soldier's unifornr is shown to be not so much a matter of taste as of vital importance. Exper. The person who visits Washington now, iencc proves that men are hit in battle accord defaulting teljer of The remarkable discovery of a boiling lake in the ieland of Dominica, has ex cited much scientific interest,; and inves tigations of the phenomenon are to be made by geologists. It appeal s that a company exploring the steep and forest covered mountain i behind the town of Rosseau came : upon this boiling lake, about 2,500 feet above the sea level, and two miles in circumference, j On the wind clearing away lor a moment the clouds of.sulphrous steam with which the lake was covered, a: mound of water was seen ten feet higher than the general surface, caused by ebulition. The margin of the Indeed, there aro so many land piracy now, and so many pirates practicing them, that it brings to mind the passible utility of the plan for im proving public! morals suggested by -a Georgia judge. ; It was that there should be a man hung in each county and town aud that he should be elected to be hung for being the meanest tnan in the county or town by the citizens having the right to vote. It will be seen that mean men would at once proceed to lead such lives as would save them from election, and that there woild be a wonderful im. proveraeut in public morals. The diffi culty in Washington would be that the number is so great that the hanging of one would make a slight impression upon the vast society of rascals. Still, it would do some good even there. There would be no certainty in the matter as to who would be elected, and that might induce some to' be a little moro circum spect than ordiuarily. Richmond Dis funds while receiving his pay as Major of Cavalry, is to be examined by the Mil itary Committee of the House, lie is so innocent that he asked the chairman to day why he had been summoned. "If it is to get my views on any intricate sub ject, I wish you would tell me now, so I can study and enlighten yourcommittee." Gen. Banning blandly informed him that he would be heard at length on the situ ation of affairs in South Carolina during the Ku-Klux ri.t. Merrill turned his back and slunk away, with the phantom of a court martial and possible dismissal frotnjhe service staring him in the face.: N. Y. Sun. The man who has once learned what a very small part he plays in the world, And how few neOule watch him as he plays it; is likely to be a more genuine earnest fellow; thereafter. The convic tion of our own insignificance is a profita ble sensation to every meal a fact to take with us to office, street, or church, or to meditate upon our pillow. A Successfci, Diver. A gentleman accidentally dropped his umbrella over board at the wharf, foot of Priucess street yesterday morning, when it sank to the bottom. A colored man volunteered to recover it for a quarter of a dollar aud his offer was accepted. Upon coming to the surface it was found that be had not only succeeded in zelt'ne the umbrella, but W w - had also brought up a bag, which, upon beint? unfastened, was found to contain a journal, ledger and blotter. At last ac counts we learned that one of the booki had been left at the First Natioual Bank. They were recognized as belonging to a firm in business here some vears ago. Wil. Star. r 1. Ml . it ot a classical turn, win at once recur 10 the Ode in which Horace deplores the nxurv and degeneracy of his own age. In that be draws a beautiful picture ol the splendors of the architecture, the pro fusion of the flowers, and stately porticos, to which, in. a fine antithesis, he contrasts the customs ot the ancient Komans under the austere Oato. The observer who compares the n0w Washington with the old will not faili to see how happily the poet's benutiful'verses describe the exis ting condition of affairs in the capital of the republic. The most prodigious and costly changes liave taken place. The government has expended vast sums on the public buildings, and the famous liner to the color of their dress. Red is the imost fatal : the least fatal, Austrian gray. The proportions are: Red, twelve; rifle green, aeven ; brown, six ; Austrian, bluish-gray, five. The sugar crop in Cuba exhibits an im mense falling off from that of, last year. The activity of the insurgents in tho central department has had its effect, where the ruined sugar-houses and burnt cane-fields arc all that remain to the Span iard after the eight years' .struggle,- with- the insurrection. AiChinaman iu San Francisco vras rudely pushed into the mud from a street crossing by an American. He picked ".I uti 11 Ol t l .?.p -J la r I I .l.".t.- . . ring, wun "poss cnepneru at us neaa, 1 inmseit op very caimiy, snooa 01 some 01 has spent millions in real estate specula- j the mud, bowed very politely, and said, tions uader the. name ot necessary im- with a mild, reproving tone to the - often provements. tin looking critically at der, flou Christian, me heathen; good these, one is reminded still further of the I by ! ' lament of the poet, when he sang that , in the better days of Rome the revenues of individuals were small, but those of the State were ample. This u gesta itself at once in Washington as having, once been true of this country, but now it has been curiously reversed. The govern ment, if we may be pardaned the phrase, is "hard up ;1 the office holders take their portfolios, or heir desks, poor men, and suddenly blaze out in all the splendor of Secmcs de la; Plnscho himself. What goes into the Jpockets of these people A: pretty little Ohio school niarm tried to whip one of her pupils, a boy of fifteen, the other day, but when she commenced opneratin ke coolly threw his arms around her nect and gave her a hearty kis. She went straight back to he; desk, and her face wa4-'juat as red Tarboro has the unenviable repntatiou of containing within its limits the prem inoi fiend of North Caroljua. II iS name lhe Belknapsj the Babcocks and the like ; is Crockett. ' To euro a child of an iu. comes out of the revenues of the repub- j firmlty to which all children aro subject lie. Altogether the Washington of old the brute had recourse to the most jay, times, in its simplicity and honesty, was age! cruelty, a specimen of whieh was better than lie new, with its pomps and conipelliiig it to put its tongue ou a. hot vanities and spoils and splendors andcorj- stove and hold it tuere in writhing agony. raptions. Ifprfolk Landmark. i Patriot. fetr II - I ; B. P;Roger.the defaulting teUer of cauied by ebulitioh. The margin of the .to- of our o wji nsignifi cance ,s a puta- eenu a tne jnrs -f- iantrwui itpV and cQptig it lo JuVitsiigue ou t. hot 1 8?i Gi?' R0 WELl & CO.. New the Fulton Banlfiof Brooklyn, who ran lake consists of beds of sulphur, audits ble sensation Jo revery meala fact to Ihey weraires iized as elou .u to Deuer p dors Ld corf stove aiid hold ii therein writhjugagony.. ! i f 'p!rtof 1M,lBl"i"i,l away with $25,000, was arrested today overflowing fottud exit by a waterfall of take with us to office, street, or church, or firm in business here some years ago-) Landmark. , i -I: Patriot, Z ' ;-" ofSvTSg?"' at Ka.xville.: 1 great height. j ' , ' to meditate upon our pillow. Wd. Star. rupt.ons. rjoiKiMnamarK. : j. ' " . .. W-:. ".1 1 i- i i. M..r - h . m - - ; ' . ' M's i ' . -: - mm.