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THE FACE AT THE WINDOW. BY VIRHSIA i TOWXSEXD, i Bhe opened the window and stood there a juicnt dusting the sashes, and look inff out on the bits of grassy slope beneath the road beyond. A face just about to slip into its twenties, with its fine bloom of youth, its bintof somejerfected charm of refinement and womanhood which the years to come would bring out tnere a delicate face, with soft, bright coloring of cheeks and lips, and wide blue eyes, which had seen little of life, and that little not its briehtest side. As Ruth Aldrich stood . there, she caught the sound of rolling wheels coming lown the roadih the crisp air of the pleasaut May morning, and a moment after the carriaee rolled pass-a r i , . ' 1 '.l i handsome carnage, wuu us b-uui giujo, and its coachman in livery, and the lady sitting inside, wrapped in her India shawl and costly lace hat, which saw the light this morning for the first time since it was boxed a couple of weeks ago in Paris, looked out and saw the pleasant picture of the girl standing in, the window, and their eves met a moment, and both had their 'thoughts. 7 Ruth Aldrich drew a long sigh as the Carriage rolled out of sight. "What did it mean that some people had to have long struggle with poverty all their lives?" 6he wondered. "What did Godjneau by lavishing his gifts so bountifully on one, an'l denying everything to others? It seemed very hard, very cruel." The girl's heart was swelled up a mo ment with a hard, bitteirseuse of injustice. tVhy did He close np her youth in Hbcse thick walls, and set this house of poverty at all the gates of her life? It was mak ing her old before her time, but then she did not see as that mattered much. A little smile, full of bitterness and pain, creeping now across the red sweetness of her youth. She was sick of this life, with that dreadful sickness of heart and soul which came over her at times. Such a beautiful world as it was, too! full of light and grace, warmth and beauty. Her youth stung with passionate longings, for all these things. What had 6he done, that they should be denied her from the begin ning 1 Her soul was hungry; she was greedy for knowledge, life, change; and money wouldbring all these. It brought them to the woman who had gone by in her luxurious carriage, with her liveried footman. Ah, if only a few crumbs from the heapen banquets of that fair womau's life would only fall to her own lot ! What did one know of care and denial; and the brooding dread hanging over and darken ing every moment of the other's life, the one sitting there in her pampered ease, . and looking out with an idle curiosity at the strange faces which met her as she . rolled past ? And yet, if Ruth Aldrich had been born in an atmosphere of ease and comfort ; if the books she craved, the pictures she loved so, the life, grace, color, had sur rounded her from her birth, she would have been a lady, too gracious, and sweet, and-bountiful. But the wolf was at the door, with its dark, fierce, hungry face ; it had always been since she could re member. There seemed no chance but it always would be. So you see that this poverty had been . intertwined with all the childhood of Ruth . Aldrich ; it had been at the bottom of all the sordid shifts, the constant denial, the long misery of her life, that she had grown I to regard it as the one evil in the world, just as riches seemed to hold all its hap piness, and light, and joy. Wealth was theoue thing that brought with it all freedom, peace, gladness; through whose channels flowed 6trong, and full, and ieet, the wine and the juices of human life. - Poor girl! It was not strange, when you came to think of it, that Ruth Aldrich had arrived at this conclusion. She was the eldest of the three children, two of them having been, invalids from their birth. Her father was one of that class of men who seem to have been born for no earthly purpose in the world, uuless it be to serve a a victim for all sorts of shrewd impositions. Many men h ied their hands - at plucking John Aldrich, until he was too bare to tempt further effort. In fact, hadthe man owned the Indies at the star., it, would have fallen through his hands like water through , a seive. Few men have started ia life with fairer prospect. of (success ; no man could make a more disastrous failure, iu whatever he set his nanus to do. The truth was John Aldrich fended himself a genius, thau which he could not have made a greater mistake. His head was always full of inventions wat were to - revolutionize society, and confer inestimable benefit on mankind. But all his schemes Licked practicability, bis only merit being that he believed in them with absolute faith himself, and could talk well about them when he found listener. ' ' One after another of his inventions in Mechanics had fallen to the ground, but man's enthusiasm had not waned with bis years. He was now in his sixties, dry, wizened, old, feeble. His fortune and be came of good stock, and had a fair one at the beginning was all wasted away, As he was a fine penman, heTiad for years Managed to keep the souls and bodiesof u ianiiiy- together by getting one fdtua Uou and other as copyists and book -keep- erj but the salary had always been small, and the woTk Intermittent. The wife of Aldrich was just the wo man such a sort of man ought never to have taken. Energy, shrewdness, force might to some degree have compensated for his shortcomings) but these were not in her. She had been . a beauty in her youth. Care and disappointment, cruel enough to have tried the finest and strong est nature, shrivelled hers into a narrow, fretful, nervous, brokenrspirited woman. Mrs. Aldrich still clung to the memories of "better days ;" gathered their faded remnants around the forlorn present, and brought up her family on a handful of axioms of gentility, which had proven current in the social circle where she had moved once, admired and petted.- But this was starving nourishment for the youngi bright vigorous' souls given her of God. Still, Mrs. Aldrich tried to live up to her light, only pity being that it was such a farthing candle to guide her through the mists and murk of the world, where the poor tired feet stumbled so of ten. You can imagine with the data I have given yon . all the strains and sordid shifts, to which Jthe family were reduced to make both ends meet ; or, if they could not do that, to keep their foothold in the world together. It is the old story, always pathetic and pitiful, in its countless rep utations of pride and poverty. These twain always lay down with the poor lit tle forlorn family at night, and rose up with them in the morning, and followed and buntedythem through all the day, and crept a dark boding spectre through all their dreams. If yon smile or sneer over this, then be sure neither your mind nor heart is to be envied. But I come to Ruth Aldrich, who is the figure in the foreground of my story. Standing there in the little front parlor, 6he 1 fears a shout of small, rough '-'voices at the gate. It is almost nine o'clock then, aud she must go to the treadmill agaiu. She does not always look at the work in just that light, but at-the best it is hard enough steering those dozen coarse boys through the alphabet and the rudiments of geography and arithmetic. For sever al years ago thisgirl found out there was something for her to do in the world, an without any friends or any opportunities she set herself at that which presented it self in the quiet old inland town, whose life-pulse beat steadiest and strongest in its manufactures. Of course, Ruth could not go into the factories to work, so she set about teaching a boys' infant school, and managed to bring together in the dark little front basement of their cottage a dozen small, clumsy, tow-headed ur chins. In this display of energy, Ruth Aldrich certainly showed her jrain. She had a fine, strong soul, alert and 'hungry for knowledge and opportunities; but the cold iron grasp of the spectre lay .heavily upon her. The family would have disin tegrated long ago, if that little school of Ruth's had not formed the attractive force which held: it together. Yet it was mis erably insufficient to meet the demands of each day, for clothes would wear out, and grocers' bills would fall due ; and, as the years gathered upon him, the eyes and hands of John Aldrich grew feeble, and work grew less. Then there was the quar ter's rent. The thought of that was the terror of Ruth's life. She reflected some times, with a smile that was -pathetically at strife with the youth of her face, that there would be some day a roof to cover them all, for which no landlord would ever come to demand the rent. Of late, things had been growing from bad to worse. Quarter day was drawing near, and, strain every nerve and dollar as they might, the money would not be ready at the time. Then the grocer's boy was surly for the month's bill hung due. If it were not for the rent, they might weather the storm j but there it was, and there was Rob, with his delicate, intellect ual face. Ah, if that boy could only have training and a chance, what latent power there was in him ! And there was Grace, with her dozeu years, and only two be hind Rob; a fair young child, that only constant watchfulness and care had brought over so many birthdays. And there were the old father and the worn and faded mother. Yet the sunshine of that May morning came through the open window, with its overflowing warmth and beauty. It show ed the little parlor to the very best ad vantage, with all its shabbiness, and' its air of faded gentility. Ruth looked arouud it, with some sadness working and work ing in her face. Then the great tears j swelled iu her eyes, and she felt their warm, salt plash upon her lips. Was there no end to all this t Must the trouble which began at her cradle go ou to her grave t If she could only see her way out of it somewhere ! If the prince, brave, and strong, and noble, who- stood in her thoughts, the knight without fear and without reproach, as he does in the dreams of every maiden among her twenties if he would only come and say, with his strong, tender voice, "Dearly beloved, I will lift you out of this ! come to me !" But then there were the others. She could not leave them, each face coming before her, a sad, pathetic reproach in it the oldworn face of the father ; the pale one of the mother, with the hunted look in its eyes ; Rob and Grace, with their delicate, bright, childish faces. JNo; there was no such happiness - for her in the world. If her hero came, she should haye to shut 'him out also. . And thW4"vras nothing lying before her but' the same narrow, contracted, hopeless life, draining slowly the springs of her life, its dew, and its honey ; the same doll roujine, teaching the neighbors' big, slow, lubberly boy, and meanwhile Rob wanted a pair of shoes, and Grace could not go outside of the garden gate in her shabby winter dress. Just then the town clock rang. Ruth Aldrich wiped her cheeks, and carried her heart down stairs to her work once more." Mrs. Richmond leaned back in hercar rige with something inJier eyes which had not been there before she caught sight of that girl's face in the window, with the sunshine in the soft hair all about it. It was strange how that face, seen as in a vision, had gone down into the very quick of Mrs. Richmond's soul, and stirred up the mem ories which had lain long in the mould of the years. They came back thick upon her soul now the old, warm, juicy, vital days of her youth, the old light and color, the old scent clinging to them. She drew off her gloves from her delicate white hands and look at them with her mouth in a kind of a quiver, and a light growing all over her face, that brought back again its vanish ing girlish youth. Not that there was any sign of decay in Mrs. Waldeu Richmond's face, only the full ripeness of youth. She was far up in htr thirties now; but no body would have believed that, looking into her lace as the stroug light tell upon it like something it loved. A rare face, with eyes that were, perhaps, its highest beauty, eyes of a dark, brilliant hfizel, a clear, chief-tinted complexion, and a deli cate, high-bred mouldiug of features. The light now, which gave that rare, subtile softness and tenderness to her face, did not come from outside; it had its springs down deep in the woman's nature. All the little peevishness and weariness which at times settled about the mouth were gone now. Her first youth, her old, careless, dreaming, golden girlhood had come back, and filled the proud woman's soul, as the waves fill the sands when the tides come in. She was sitting in her carriage no long er, among the rich dark blue cushions with the crimson grays and the liveried coachman ; she was wandering among the roses and currant bushes of the dear old home ; she was in the wide, pleasant rooms of the old house, with its ample chambers and its wide passages ; she was singing with the birds; she was out in the quiv ering and flashing of the sunshine : those long, sweet, lazy, happy days that came now, with their still feet and smilling faces, slipping across all the years, and took her once more straight into their hearts, into the very home-throb and heat of the dear old times. There are old faces, gay and wizened, there are old, dried withered lives to whom this youth comes back, sometimes stirring the whole soul with the old heat and fire ; and the light comes back wide and strong into the dull eyes and among the thick wrinkles, and the faded, sunken mouth will quiver and melt, and for awhile the old heart will be revived with the juices of its youth. Everything that heart could desire seem ed to have fallen to the lot of Mrs. Walden Richmond. She was the wife of one of the richest and most influential men in the part of the State whei-e they resided. Walden Richmond had inherited a for tune, and had added to this an hundred fold by his business sagacity and foresight. He was not an ordinary man in any 6ense. He had that kind of personal influence which belongs frequently to a strong will and a certain magnetic power of manner. People who were brought in contact with him liked the man, and he had some na tive generosity of character which always made him kindly and thoughful with in feriors. He had been sent to Congress from his own district several times, and every office which it had to confer of in fluence and position was at the disposal of Waldeu Richmond. Not an old man yet, but well iu his forties. Like his wife, he did not look his years ; a handsome man, everybody 6aid, with his brown beard and hair, aud his bright keen, pleasant face. The Richmonds had no children. If they ever regretted this, neither admitted it to the other. Both husband and wife had costly tastes, and their means warrented the indulgence of them to their heart's content. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Normal School Debating Society to Have a Celebration. At the commencement of the session a Normal School Debating So ciety was instituted. Its officers are : A. D. Brooks, President ; Dr. R. H.Lewis, Vice-President ; F. D. Winston, Secreta ry ; W. G. Burkhead, Critic; and J. D. Mclver, Censor. The society meets twice each week, and has an interesting debate on some educational topic. At the end of the session there will be a society celebra tion, when the folloing programme will be carried out : Oration, Salutatory Will. G. Burk head. Essay TV. G. Bradshaw. Debate TV. S. Temple, C. TV. Corriher, J. M. TVeatherly, and R. D. Kerner. Essay George R. McNeill. Valedictory Oration F. D. Winston. 'STICK, TO- DAD. "A fanner's . boyf , writes us : tll .am tired.of fanning and want to come to town to make a living ; for iriyself. What ' do you' think 'f it!?1 -; .f w en, we tnint you are a tool u , you don't stay on the farm. The city is over run now with 4' dead beats" and tramps', and if you've got a dead, sure thing, on making "bread and meat" on a farm,' you'd better stay rightwjjere you are, .and '.dig potatoes, than come here and go to the work-house and pick: rock.'' Stick: to dad. Stay on the farm!' you are worth more to the State and country at large than all the one-horse, mutton-head ."professional gentlemen" that are living from: hand to mouth in this city W slate.rt Yon stick t6 the plow, the mower; the reaperV freeze that farm like a flybiistcr to a negro's lips ; raise corn, wheat, hay, rye, barley, oats, potatoes; chop wood, maul rails, burn brush, curry mules, feed oxen, raise stock, and iustead of hanging around the street corners, dependent upon lunch houses to keep sand out of your craw, you'll be at home on your farm living a life of "independent happiness," while thousands of "nice young men," too pret ty and proud to work and too lazy to steal, will be lighting out "over the hill to the poor-house," mirciless beats and lazy sub jects of utter dependence upon public charity. Young man, if you know which side of life the butter is on, you give up the foolish idea of coming to Louisville to "make a living for yourself." Twenty uve acreo ot ground and a chap like you to till it is worth more to the countrv than the biggest bank in the city and the smartest capitalist we know of to run it. You stay where you are. Follow the plow, and engineer the docile, williug mule that pulls it. Our word for it, any young, healthy, stout farmer's boy who will give up his chances of "a dead sure thing in life" and come to town on an uncertainty is not smart enough to take care of him self, and should be arrested and sent to a lunatic asvlum for a darned fool. Stay where you are. Louisville Courier Jour nal. LABOR. The man or woman who is above labor, and despises the laborer, shows a want of common sense and forgets that every ar ticle that is used is the product of more or less labor and that the air they breathe and the circulation of blood in the veins, is the result of the labor of the God of na ture. Washington and his lady were ex amples of industry, plainness, frugality and economy ; and thousands of others of the wealthy labored in the field and kitchen, in olden times, before folly su perceded wisdom, aud fashion drove econo-1113- and common sense off the track. The necessity imposed on man to labor is un questionably a great blessing, as much as many are opposed to it, and others flee from it. In those countries and districts of country where the greatest amount of labor is required to obtain the necessaries of life, we find the most vigorous, healthy and athletic inhabitants. Where nature has done most for man, in providing for his bodily wants, we find him most destitute of the solid comforts of life. In the high lands of Scotland, on the mountains of Circassia, amidst the hills of Norway, the people are happier, by far more robust, and more energetic than in effeminate Spain or im poverished Italy. In our own country, rock-bound New England, the long range of the Alleghany Mountains, . and their numerous spurs and valleys, support a hardly race of men. A Hard Times Note. A curious illus tration of the effect of the hard times have had on Wilmington, Del., says the Commercial of that place, "is found in the business done in money order department at our postoffice. In good times, when the shops here were generally busy, the postoffice received more money to be sent away than came to it, a great many men from other places having work here and sending a portion of their earnings home to their families. Now the balance is the other way, the office receiving about $100,000 annually to send away and pay ing out about $118,000. Some Wilming ton mechanics have obtained work else where, and are sending home money to their families here, while money is actual ly reaching here from England aud Scot land to maintain natives of those coun tries here, or to enable them to return to the old couutry. This is certainly a con dition of affairs we are not likely to be proud of nor to take comfort in." DonH Box Your Children Ears. The drum of the ear is as thin as paper, and is stretched like a curtain between the air outside and that within ; and thus having nothing to support it, and being extreme ly delicate, a slap with the hand on the side of the face, made with the force which suddeu and violent anger gives it, has in multitudes of cases ruptured this delicate membrane. As the right hand is almost always used, it is the left ear which is stricken; this aids in accounting for the fact that the left ear is more frequently affected with deafness than the right. Gen. Howard does not get away with the Indians as fast as he did with the funds of the Freedman's Bank. With four hundred Indians, it required seveu hours to capture a squaw. WORK OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE. The following is from a special dispatch of the 30th ult. from Columbia ' -to; the Charleston Nevp m$j(frurUr y .. ; The Teport.that Cbllectos iWortbington has been urrested cannot be rerified here, as all the members: of the committee deny and disclaim any knowledgof such an ar rest having been e fleeted ox contemplated. The truth, apparently.istJiat Worthington lias been subpoenaed aa a witness by the committee, and will arrive here to-morrow morning.-? , vT, Ex-Governor Moses was before the com mittee again to-day, -.and. it has leaked out that the budget ojfi papers , referred to last night, as shaving ( been, recovered through his agency, are even more valua ble than was at first supposed. They con cerned certain thieves who have hitherto escaped the hands of the law, but whose footprints' hitherto supposed to have been deftly concealed, are here given as plainly as that which Robinson Crusoe saw in the sand. Names may not yet be given to the public, but the committee are elated over the acquisition of the treasure which has thus been washed to their feet, aud they will certainly give a good account of its US3 before, perhaps, another week be past. The language of the great head cejiti cr of carpet-bagism was "let no guil ty man escape," and this good advice is likely to be followed out by the commit tee to the everlasting confusion of both himself and his many friends of other years in this State. The cry, this morning is, still they come, the probably being ex-Senator Y. J. R Owens, who is reported in the streets to have been captured near the Canada line while trying to make his way over the border, and who is now said to be en route for Columbia, in company with a friend. The rumor of his arrest, however, lacks confirmation, though it is said to have originated in the State-House. To Distillers of Braxdy from Ap ples ou Peaches. The following infor mation is official : 1. The distillers must register his stills with the Deputy Collec tor. 2. He must give notice of his hi ten -tention to commence work. . He must have his stills surveyed by the Deputy. 4. He must give a bond, in amount equal to double the tax on the amount he can distill in fifteen days. 5. lie must keep a record of the hours he works, and amount of material used. 6. He must have the brandy he makes gauged monthly, and must pay the tax on what he makes. 7. The tax is 90 cents per'gallon ; no other expense. Payment of Tax To be made on or be fore the tenth day of each month, and at the time of making return for the preced ing month, or on all brandy gauged du ring the period for which such return is or should have been made, and in default of payment within twenty days from such tenth day of the month, the amount of such tax is to be reported for assessment Statesville A merican. "ITS UFFEIGNED THANKS." In the Postal Convention, recently held, Col. Jones, of the Charlotte Observer, offered the following resolution : "Resolved, That this Convention has re ceived with pleasure a communication from His Excellency, Hon. R. B. Hayes, President of the United States, and re grets that the unfortunate condition of the country preveuts his being with us, and Convention tenders to him its unfeigned thanks for his efforts to restore peace and quietude to the country." And what was the result ? Why, the resolution was unanimously adopted Yes, a convention composed largely of delegates fairly representing the hiyhest type of Southern manhood, unanimously tenders to President Hayes "its unfeigned thanks for his efforts to restore peace and quietude to the country." Extreme Dem ocratic organs will please crow d on a lit tle more steam. Wil. Star. Big Sale of Prints. New York, August 2. The announce meut that Townsend, Mouthort &. Co., auctioneers, would sell seventeen hundred aud seventy-five case of Richmond prints, calicoes at trades sale at their salesroom, 79 aad 8 Leonard street, to-day, by or der of the agents of the manufacturers, attracted a large number of dry goods merchants from all the principal cities of the Union, to the sale. The auctioneer stated that instead of seventeen hundred and seventy-five cases as advertised, he would sell about twenty-two hundred cases of goods. The sale was then begun, and the bidding was lively and spirited About twenty -two hundred cases of gray and fancy prints known to the trade as "firsts," averaging about tweuty-nine hundred yards to a case, were disposed of for six to six and a half cents per yard, the average price being six and three- eights cents. One hundred aud sixty -eight cases of "seconds," about twenty-nine hundred yards of each, were sold at five and three-fourths, and five and seven eights cents. 1 lie demand was so great that two thonsond more could have easilv been sold. Harper's Weekly says there are "unmis takable signs of wide aud deep dissatis faction in the Republican ranks, ' and that "it isundeniable that discontent and indignation may lead to sullen inactivity, which may defeat the Republicans in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York." Jackso, Miss., August 1. Gov. Stone was to-day re-nomlnatcd. Portland, Oregajt , August 1 .The grand jury indicted Stiles for - perjury. Stiles was the swift witness against Sen ator Grover before the Senate investiga tion committee. 1 Two thousand troops are at Scrantou. There have been ninety arrests. Busi ness Tias been resumed with Comparative quiet. - : ', ' - Dispatches about the 'strike have clos ed. They come to the War Department direct As a national affair, it may be regarded as over. i , The puth is the peaceful section; the North the " turbulent one. Troops are leaving the south to garrison the North just as the Republican party disbands in South Carolina and Mississippi. The New England idea of overthrowing the Southern system of labor, by armed con flict aud unfriendly legislation, has re sulted in such an upheavel of Northern labor that it amounts to a revolution, hints of anarchy, and has banished peace and confidence from many homes and counting houses. Even in Europe, the foreign bondholder, who gets twice as much interest ou our Government secu rities as he cau from the monarchies of the Old World, trembles in his boots. The profits of the war, in and out of Con gress, are rapidly perishing. Here and there a man can be found who enriched himself at the expense of the people; but the bulk of shoddy fortunes has withered like Jonah's gourd. The bondholder, here and abroad, who bought his securities at from thirty to sixtv per cent on the paper dollar, and who insists upon pay ment at par in gold, still soars aloft in fancied pride of place; but even he may have to share in the cominou calamity, since it has been demonstrated that the whole fabric of the East and West is cor rupt and rotten; aud if such masses should organize, under universal suffrage, there is no telling what the consequences may be . A vqus tar Ck ro n icle. Don . Inquiries from Abroad. His Excel lency, Gov. Vance, received a letter re cently from a prominent minister of the Baptist Church at Still River, Massachu setts, making inquiry in regard to laud and many other things in this State, such as persons would uuturally desire to be informed of who contemplate emigrating to a new fetate or territory. The letter states that a number of formers and me chanics of good moral habits, and with means to purchase and improve lands, de sire to seek homes in some portion of country where thejT can enjoy a more equable climate than that of New England. That they had had their attention direct ed to Florida, but the writer is of opinion that North Carolina, would be preferable, provided they can be satislied on the poiitfs iu regard to which he writes for informa tion. The writer, Rev. Daniel Round, in timates an intention of visiting the State if he cau make arrangements to do so, for personal inspection. lialeiyh JWirs. We have recently had a similar letter from New York. Persons having lands for sale, or knowing where large bodies of lands can be obtained, are advised to report them to us. Does Farming Pay f In conversation with a distinguished citizeuof this State yesterday, this thought was suggested by him. He said many people think farm ing does not pay, but when you consider. the enormous interest our farmers pay in oue way and another, it is astonishing that they have anything. When a man fails at everything else he goes to farming, aud buys everything on a credit, and bor rows money at a high rate of interest, and because he does not make money he thinks there i$ no money in farmiug. This is true, and when we think of the matter we can at once see that thoe who fail to make money farming are the men who bon-ow money at from 12 to 15 and sometimes 20 per cent., or purchase guano that sells for $40 per ton, at $60 on a credit, and other articles in like pro portion. There is no business that a man cau engage in that can stand this pressure, aud it is just as' certain as fate that he who undertakes it will meet in the end, the sheriff or bankruptcy. There is not in our knowledge a fanner who attends to his business, who pays cash for what he buys, without paying interest for it, that has failed since the war. Men who bor row money break in almost any kind of business. The men who lend it get rich. "Pay as yon go" is a good maxim, and ap plies to fanners as well as other men. Atlanta Constitution. A Case of Sunstroke. Mr. Samuel R. Bell, who was engaged at work on a new building beiug erected on Fourth, iu the neighborhood of Nixon ptreet, was overcome by heat yesterday, about 12 o'clock, and fell to the ground, upon which he was standing at the time. He was taken to his home, near by, and a physician sent for,, who, after some diffi culty, succeeded iu restoring him to con sciousness, and at last accounts lie was reported to be improving. We under stand thanjt was a very severe case, and that Mr. Bell made a narrow escape. ITU Star. " A little negro girl had a stroke here lnrt Saturday. 4 A check mate A liberal husband.- The Easter prayer of the hen flNow I lay me." s A figure of speech- an exhortation to for-ty-tude. The army worm is in the cotton fields of Mississippi. fPfefry4 nearly all men are, benevolent . when it, don't cost ,much,i4Tomx Jopea ; never has seen poor Johu.SmithjBuffer but 1 he thinks Sam Rogers ought to h.ejp lumij; The brick monlderaPare on'a strike in Memphis, for twenty-five cents-' advance on the price paid' during tLV astve J years- - -t- .H-J moJ ywJ l j-t-.i , The boa,m of directory of -fhe PennsyK vania lilbWesterday, f decided fopass the usual quarterly -dividend on the stock of thg company. The board considers it advisable to use its available cash in re pairing the recent damages to its pro perty. . Munificent Gift. Saratoga, JulyZl. President Vanderbilt has presented the employees of the New York Central and Hudson River railroads one hundred thou sand dollars, to be distributed ratably ac cording to their positions on the pay-rolls, iu recognition of theirTorbearance during the late railroad troubles. During the month of June there were exported from the United States 2,832,116 yards of colored and 7,855,309 yards of un colored cotton goods, which, wittf other cotton goods exported, are valued at $939,831. During the past fiscal year the total value of cotton goods exported was $10,160,984. During the preceding year the total amounted to $7,722,978. The Raleigh Observer t a reporter? of which paper has conversed with a gentle man who is just from Washiugtou'City,. states upon the authority of this gentle man that Col. John II. Wheeler has made his will, bequeathing all his library, man uscripts, See., to the North Carolina State Library. It is stated also that Colonel Wheeler's forthcoming history of North Carolina, bringing it up to the present time, is now ready for the press. A Washington doctor who knows the President well, says he wilt not be bull dozed, and will let his party break up if that will pacify the country. Onlyli lit tle jvhile ago he said to a gentleman who was iutimating that he was too friendly -towards the Democrats : "Don't you know that if it had not been, for the action of thirty or forty conservative Democrats the couutry might now be in the midst of a revolution, and I should certainly not be here. Do you suppose I can forget that fact r Gets a Good Office. Mr. Juo. L. Bailey, of this city, who has been in Washington for the last two months, looking around, for some vacant chair, has at last a good, comfortable seat in the agricultural de partment under Gen. Le Due, with a sal ary of $1200 a year. He thinks it is far better to sit there and distribute turnip aud cabbage seed to the constituents of the members of Congress than to waste his energies in Guinea, the consulship to which country wasffered to him a month ago. He is to be congratulated upon his success. Char. Observer. . Ever since 1873, railroads in this country have been going into bankruptcy,' and this is going on at a rate which few people suspect. The New York Herald states that during the six months ending the 1st July, foreclosure salesimve been ordered of fifteen roads, with a capital stock of over forty-seven millions. During that time thirty-two roads, representing near ly fifty millions of stock and over seventy-five millions of debt, have been sold ; and receivers have been appointed for sixteen roads, with stock and deGtamoun ting to over one handled and fifty mil lions. " Ilints-to voting journalists fromthe Philadelphia Ledger: "Style in writingis a medium for imparting knowledge, for expressing thought and opinion, for com muuieating information; but" of what aise is style to the writer who has no knowl edge to impart, no information to commu nicate, and, of consequence, no foundation on which to base suggestive thought or authoritative opinion ? His style ij mere sound, signifying nothing." Mr. Beecher, says the Augusta 67 ran icle is always clever, bright,smart and elo- quent. His latest sermon amounts in this: The workingman has my profound- . est sympathy, but he must not disturb tho dividends of the rich; he is an interesting animal, but preferable at a distance; lie must eat bread and drink water iu order that Brooklyn millionaires and their Oily Gammon preacher may fare sumptuously and laugh and grow fat. "You couldn't," shouted an irrepresible, as a batchelor visitor finished a eulogiuui on cremation by an expressed- wish that, rather than be "coffined, cribbed, confined, he might become the subject of a Hindoo suttee;" "you couldn't, you haven't got any wife !" "That's no matter," growled the eolonel as he beat a hasty retreat (tho eolonel is alo not connubial), " that's no matter, plenty of men would beghjd to end mo theirs for the occasion." ThccoK onel has no card tor our suburban kettle 0"m next week. Boston Advertiser. I i 4 ft if , 01 ! ft u - 1!
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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