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. v . . TPf- -'W . pom r r- - 4 v . -w. i ii i i -1 p i ; v 'k i , ' . t!i , i if ' ' i 'i i r -i i'i -vi 4 '111 1 1 . 1 1 1 . 1 r-u VOL. Vin.-THIED SERIES ; .fl - . ; - BMJHSDJ -,K0 4i Btt-FACE 'ATM MOW. BT VIRGINIA Fi TOWXSEXD. Descending from"lier caniage, a little trhile later, at her own door, Mrs. Rich mond Raid to her husband, "Ah, Walden, I have been no happy to-day ! I feel a though I wanted to make some other heart liglitand gla.J I ddn'tant'tkeep all the Wessing to myself." I think, of all the good words she had said to-day f these Trere the best. - "My darlfng, you har'n't ftfawered her husband, and he looked at her with -the smile in his eyes, th smUe of fifteeikyears ajo, fihe1 thought. Jane' day just at twilight, with the jsweet breatfi of blossoms and the droning of in fects in the goldea. Mr. and Mrs. Kichraond had jost come np from supper, with the little company of guests who were to leave them in the morning en route for itzerlaud and the Alps. It had been a Biiltrv dav. and the bright, merey party scattered now on the veranda taking in v mr long draughts of the fresh, cool hillside air. 24Come, now, llichmond, you'd better think it all over at this late minute, and conclude to take the next steamer with us. There's time yet, and there are thf Una onrl thp. Rhine and all tlie snlendor of the summer in Switzerland. You'd better go with usf" remarked oue of the guests. "Or at least," ehiraed in the voice of a 4fldy who stood by his side, "you'd Ivgtter consign Mr9. Richmond to our care for the next five mouths." "Margaret can always do as she likes," answered Walden Kiclimona, turning to his wife with a smile. "It is not too late vet." Hut all the timelie was assured what her answer would be. ' At that moment a servant cauie np to Mr. Richmond. "There is a young - girl who wishes to see you a moment in pri vate," lie said ;.and the gentleman made some apologies to his guest, and went in to the house. A young girl on the lounge in a simple brown hat and dress, her fingers were working nervously, and her heart throb bing so loud and scared that it almost chocked. her... She looked, up as the geu- tleinan entered. He saw a young, sweet, girlish face, the cheeks flushed, and the the brown eyes wistful and frightened. You are Mr. Richmond,' she said, and the words seemed to come hard and slow. Hfi wii a kind-hearted man : he pited he young girl's embarrassment. Yes," -lie answered iu his kindest tone; "I un Btand you have some errand with me." u Yes ; it is about the rent, sir. I am Miss. Aldrich. We occupy the cottage you Rave lately bought. I came to ask you it you could wait awhile longer for the rent," the words panted out half incoherently; but if you, could have seen the mouth tremble, and 4ieard the frightened, plead ing voice, Vou would have pitied the girl. In a moment it all flashed upon Walden Richmond. This was the face that his vife had seen shining at the; window on that never-to-be-forgotten day. A fair young, delicate face, to whom he owed much, the man thought. He pitied the girl sincerely,. "Poor young thing," he thought, to have te come to him on an errand like-thisr And,-thenrwhat singu lar co-incidence it was ! What would Margaret say V Walden Richmond answered in his gentlest voice. ' "Do not give yourself sny trouble about it, my child. I am in no hurrv for the rent." The kindly tones, 'the sudden relief were. too much for., the strained nerves. Ruth Aldrich looked up into the man's face with a look he would Tiever forget. "Ah, sir, I thank you," she said. "It was so very hard to come and ask you.'' Then a quick trembliug all over the face, snd, dreadfully frightened and dreadfully ashamed, the poor child burst into a great obbiDg and weeping those hard, tearing, convulsive sobs, that always tell you what pain and suffering lie behind them. They melted the heart of the man who heard them. "Why, my child, has it been so terriblea. thing to come to me , Did you fancy I was the traditional landlord, hard and grim, merciless and grasping ? Well, at least it's a comfort that you will be nndeceired now." Poor Ruth ! She tried to answer over and over again ; but the sobs would come nd choke up the words, and all she could do was to sit still and cry. It was not strange either, when you came to know The family prospects had grown drearier audulrearier during all this pleas ant June month, which seemed the coldest and darkest of Ruth Aldricb's life. The J'oung face grew thin, and an old, hunted, Worried look came into the dark eyes as the days went on and household purse grew thinner. There was a cood deat of sickuess in town at that season, and a falling off the school. Ruth lay awake night af je night, when the sweet face ought to we been drooping like a lily in the soft dews of slumber, turning over in her mind nie plan by which they- might be able to Bieet the rent,' but no light came' to her. 2 "MSd feTRuih that God had deserted ! wein. She wished sometimes that they fQld all die together and get away from pi terrible world . where "there was no ?e5 nor comfort without money. In the dead night site would spring np suddenly out of her light, restless sleep, with a - - - - i L .. - - - ' - - . sense of some awful terror hanging" over her, and wring her hands, and then the dreadful truth would come "back b her shrinking heart. There was none to help the girl out of this darkness which bore down so heavily on the spring-time of her years. Her mother always went down in perplexity, tears and hysterics at such times and the children were too young to com prehend the strait, and her father dream ed over his invention, which followed the way of all its predecessors. There was the rent, too, staring Ruth day by day in the face; the roost terrible fact of all those she had to confront, because, it was the heaviest debt. At last the girl grew" desperate. Noth ing less than being this could have driven hen to the determination.-, of seeing the landlord, telling him the facts, and "be seeching him to wait for the money. Three times, already, without Mrs. Rich mond's knowledge, the agent had called for payment ; and there seemed nothing left for Ruth to do but this thing, the very thought of which was bitter almost as death to the proud, shy, sensitive girl. She revealed her project to none of the family ; she put it away from her all day, so that she could go steadily through her round of school duties, and when the night came she had put on her hat, and walked the long two miles. And, still not daring to pause a moment lest her heart should fail her, she had walked straight to the door and asked audience of the rich man. Do you wonder that the reaction came at last! Ruth Aldrich will never forget that walk, nor how the river shone and spark red on her way, nor how once or twice she stopped and wondered vaguely whether it would not be easier to lie down under that cool, smooth curtain of waters, than do the thing she had set her heart to do. Mr. Richmond, with that singular com bination of strength aud gentleness, which give him Iris power over others, succeeded at last in soothing the girl ; then he step ped out of the room, and, calling his wife aside, told her what the late summons meant. The lady's heart was stirred with a great pity. She left her guests and went to the sobbing girl. Ruth had grown a little quieter by this time, aud Mrs. Richmond was gracious and sweet and tender "as an angel would have been," the girl thought. "I felt assured, my child, you would do me some good the first time I looked on your face," smoothering the little, hot, trembling hand Mrs. Richmond had taken in her own. Ruth's great perplexed eyes, the tears still across them, looked at her in blank ainasement. Then Mrs. Richmond told her of the morning drive and sweet face which shone on her from the cottage window, and the magic it had wrought in her thoughts and feelings. Ruth listened in awe, wonder, delight. Smiles came out on the flushed lips and hot cheeks, and a great pleasure shone all over the sweet face. "So you see, my child, that you are not the only debtor," said Mrs. Richmond. "If I had known, I should have come to you before." And so Ruth was won into telling her own story ; all the privation and pain, the dark days, the darker nights, the strug gle and the terror of the wolf with the fierce eyes and lean face watching always at the door. .Mrs. Richmond had been born and nur tured in every comfort, and for years her life had been swathed in luxury. She re garded poverty as a terrible thing, but always associated it with iguorance and vice; anything like this struggle with pride and misfortune by refined and deli cate peoplehe had never conceived pos sible. Her own-cxace and crandeur seem ed to jeproach her. She cried with Ruth as she listened to her story, aud pressed the soft, warm hand-closer in her own. I have no time to tell you all: the kind and pleasant things she said, made doub ly5 so by her manner ; and when 'at last she could leave her guests no longer, and the stars had come out and filled the blue furrows of the sky with their golden sheens, Mrs. Richmond ordered her carriage and sent Ruth home, and she kissed the girl at parting, and said to her: "Go home now, my child, and sleep soundly to-night. Never think of the rent again, only that you have friends who will not forget you." Ruth wondered, as she rode home that night, if there was under all those stars another heart so happy as hers ; and then, what a story it was to take into the lone ly, saddened household to put new life and comfort into it ! There was to be no more fear of rent day ! " "Ab, my dear," said Mrs. Richmond, with a little, swift start of surprise and pleasure, "it is just the most delightful idea in the world." It was one day right after dinner, and the two, for a wonder, were quite alone to gether. M,r. Richmond had just been placing before bis wife a plan which had suddenly entered, his mind that morning, setting the Aldrich family in the old home stead. ' "the exd. Take off your undershirt saturated with, perspiration, and vipe down your chin. A CHICAGO GIRL'S GRATITUDE. 'Will you do something to oblige me V shyly asked a beautiful young woman of a timid gentleman acquaintance she had just made at a sociable gathering on West Adam street the other evening. 'Anything that I can in honor, Miss Smithy.be replied, blushingly. 'Well,' said' she, eeme into 'the back parlor, where it is-dark, and sit on the sofa with me, and let me rest my head on your shoulder, and you pretend to whis per in my ear, only don't blow, because that tickles and I canH laugh, for this new dress is very tight; and when'.anybody looks, you can draw your arm away I forgot to say, I wished you to put it around my waist IU pretend to blush.' 'But, my gracioas, honored Miss,' stam mered, the young maa, after hastily dirf fl ing four into 1877, and finding that it wasn'tleap year; 'my 'goodness, before all these people and I am already engaged and your father must weigh .' 'Hush, I know what l am up to,' replied the artless girl. 'I am engaged, too, to that young man talking to that waxen faced thing with somebody else's hair ov er there. I want to stir hi in up to bring him down to business nistke him come up to time, that's all.' The young man said that a load had been lifted from his bosom, and aided her to the best of his ability; so well, indeed, that in three quarters of an hour the betrothed got his girl into the library, demand an explanation of her shameless conduct, was softened by her tears, called himself a brute, asked if she could forgive him, and promised to behave better in future. And how did the young girl reward the young man who had helped her to the happiness? Why, she never sa:d a word to him all the evening; in fact, never mentioned him, except to say to her reconciled lover, 'Alonzo, could you have been so stupid as to think I could see anything to admire in such a mutton-head as that T O, wo men, in our hours of ease. Chicago Tri bune. BIRTH PLACE OF EDWIN M. STAN TON AND JXO. A. MURREL. Interesting Letter from Col. John L. Brtdger. Tauboro, N. C, Aug. 6th, 1877. Dear General: As to the nativity of Edwin M. Stanton, he was born in the up per part of Beaufort county, not far dis tant from the place that the father of Gens. Howell and Thomas Cobb lived before he emigrated to Georgia, though Mr. Cobb lived in Pitt county and left before either of his sons were born. My recollection, or rather impression is, that their mother is a native of Pitt, but I am not certain. Now, if there was no great difference iu Cobb and Stanton, Srs., there certain ly was a wide difference in the Jrs. The late Confederacy had no more unrelent ing enemy nor one who showed his bitter ness of feeling plainer than Stanton, as is always the case when one finds himself arrayed against his native place. How different with the Cobbs, whose memory will be forever cherished as long as the Confederate struggle is recollected. I take no -pride in the memory of a North Caroli nian who used his very great ability as an organizer to overrun his native land. He belonged to that class of men who seemed to delight in punishing old friends. There is but one of that name in this section and he is a Republican. He is not a bad man. That is all I know of the Stautons that you do not know better. But I will add a few remarks about another gifted man who was born and raised within 1 miles of where I am now residing, who in geni us far surpassed Stanton, and I believe, was fully equal to him in executive abili ty. I presume you are getting restless for the name of the man and will laugh when I give it to you. His name was John A. Murrell, the most gifted, and in his day, the most famous of all American robbers. All that is left of him is his name in the field where his family resided, it is still called the Murrell field. He left here with his wicked mother after the death of his father, who was a pious man and a min ister of the Gospel. In other days, I knew parties who were their nieghbors and de scribed the future-robber as a very bright boyT, but who was so exceedingly bad that his father after having exhausted all the virtues of the rod, us d to keep him tied daily in his room to keep him out of mis chief, but the old man died and the moth er trained him to wickedness, so the old neighbors used to say, and for that task she was well qualified, for it was said that she had only one virtue, gnd that was the virtue of womanhood. Is it not Strang that she should have had a good reputa tion where a wicked woman would have been expected first to have fallen, and where so many other good woman have fallen. History takes hitDyup an unknown emi grant, I think, in Buncombe county, where his mother was engaged in playing a Yan kee trick on a Yankee peddler, that John might do the stealing, &c. His headquar ters was an island either in the Mississip- l pi or Arkansas River. He had a band ! extending from there to the James River, so tradition says, all engaged in stealing negroes and horses, and carrying them, generally, South to sell. Now why I say he was of unrivaled executive ability ; he never chose a man who played talse to him and the business was so well mang- ed as for notreto te betrayed;' nutfl A'de-' tectiVe won his 'confidence and' betrayed Mm. I ad nclmed toVWnk (hat'l oaght to be ifthamed of this episode upoaarob- ber, but he was a manfor all that. Your friend, ' h nv:. joHk Lv BarWxfiar J.i . .!.!! !;,:. ... r, ,f;i. tu.iS: GOV. VAXCEiTO GOV. PORTER, , (::::'; Uit , J.I ,f .' t j,'tU , ; t Gov. ytee(.''oiT.Gliiiaf4-jayf. the New York flimej has sen the jldlow-, ing letter) to the Governor of Tennessee; EXECUTE JKPi.KTMEXT, STA-X. O- t North Pbolcta .Baleigb,, Jury 27. Mt Deab Sin; :It is omcialiy reported to me that two men, lately citizens (I grieve to say) of this' law-abiding Com monwealth, named respectively ! William Reece and Noah Reece, fecentlyimade a hastv visit to Union countv, Tenn mi oof, and, disregarding the rights of hos pitality and the county of States, return ed into North Carolina mounted, William on a mule and Noah on a gray horse. Close upon their heels came one Barrett Ray, from said Union county, Tenn., who made oath in due form that said mule was his property, and that said William had obtained possession thereof by certain carpet-bag methods in direct contraveu tion of the eighth commandment. At the same time and place came also one Robert Love, of said Union county, Tenn., who made a similar affidavit in regard to said Noah Reece aud the gray horse where upon the said William and Noah were ar rested and lodged in the jail of McDowell county, N. C, to await further proceed ing. I have the houor, therefore, to await your Excellency's pleasure in the premises, and to assure you that it will afford me no little pleasure to intrust upon a pro per requisition these erring sons of North Carolina to the correcting hands of your judiciary ; aud with assurances of very high personal and official regard, I am, dear sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servent, Z. B. Vaxce. Gov. Porter promptly sent a requisition for the two "erring sons" of North Car olian. From the Wilmington Star. That society is becoming more corrupt iu the North is the statement of papers and travellers. We do not wonder at this. When we learn what is the prevailing cus tom in what is known as "society" we are not surprised. What prevents worthless adventurers-from finding their way into reputable society T Where are the guards t We find the following in the August num ber of a leading New York magazine, the Galaxy: "If the young American will reflect, he will see why some families consider it hardly judicious for a daughter to go alone with a gentleman to whom siie is not be trothed on a drive iu the public" streets and parks, on an excursion down the bay, or to the opora at night, topping off the en tertainment tcith a little supper, and reach ing the homestead in the small hour, where she perhaps let herself in tcith a night latch key! This is of an exaggeration of the custom that prevails in the majority of families." How can there be purity where such customs prevail T How can parents and guardians tolerate such a bitter "school for scandle J" We laugh at French cus toms in regard to the young how they are shielded and chaperoned. But that is far better than the above license. Secretary Schurz is reputed as refering in a late conversation to the fact that at the close of the civil war it was predicted that should the Northern section of the repub lic ever become the scene of internal vio lence, or a foriegn war threaten the coun try, the South would avail itself of the opportunity to re-open the domestic con flict. Mr. Schurz is said to have added that the late aspect of affairs seemed to him the moment when such a course was possible, "but the South has come forward with offers of men and money to put down this violence and maintain the suprema cy of the government." Charlotte Obter rer. Is Mr. Schurz correctly reported f We had heard of no such tender by "the South," and do not believe it was made. "The South" would probably have re s ponded to a call of the President, but is it probable "the South" officiously stepped forward in this case and made a tender of "men and money ?" What "South" has got "men and money" to offer in a case of such doubtful propriety. Interesting to Municipal Authorities. Some time ago a man named Godwin was picked np by the police on the streets of Raleigh and thrust into the guard-house, where he was made to sleep upon a cold floor and without any covering. He was sick at the time he fell upon the pave ment, and the subsequent ill-treatment which he received at the hands of the po lice caused his death. His administrator thereupon brought suit against the city of Raleigh, laying damages at 85,000. The Superior Court allowed $2,000 and the city appealed to the Supreme Court, which rendered its opinion last Monday, sustain ing the judgment of the court below. Judge Reade, in delivering the opinion of the court, compares the guard-house in which Godwin died to the Black Hole at Calcutta. The case is of interest throughout the State, and should serve as a warning to municipal authorities. Charlotte 06er- ver. The Georgia constitutional convention last Friday, by a vote of I6frto 16, passed a section of the new constitution which re pudiates certain alleged bogus bonds is sued during the Bullock administration. What u a Bemsterethfjetterz-The Ques tion is'Y SfteVarVlAt isW&H ference between a' registered letter and anf ttfeVTThV dfffefWg4s -IttitfcMKfe-lered tettef doeaTne4 go irfflianlai! proper. It passes froni tJand-tolftmi Vmftid6-fhe mall ik)utW,' eWysjslfibc haridi ft tasseW being 58iftrd M'slgn receipt tif ltxA pitting tl-eVettt6 !ief W trahsfti1 Tne person -nbldgthe lait reiptWthOTa!waysirfbre WoWM bilit VesWnpon the man Who ha fc!gto& a tecerpt for the gisteied1 package rand who is not abWia1 produce th package or" a receipt from somebody else for ik The safest ykf tbsend money Is by mbneyJ order.' Where it' does not go to a money order office it should always be senfr in a registered package. Money ought not to be sent in an ordinary letter under any circumstances. There is no possible way of "tracking" such a letter. A very pretty story is told in the Pitts burg Commercial. A young lady from the South was wooed aud won by a young California pLysician. About the time the wedding was to come off the young man lost his entire fortune. He wrote the la dy a letter releasing her from her en gagement. And what does the de,ar, good girl dot Why, she4akes a lump of pure gold which her lover had sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake, and having it manufactured into a ring forwards it to him with the following inscription engrav ed in distinct characters on the outside : "Entreat me not to leeave thee, or to re turn from following after thee, for whith er thou goest will I go, and whither thou lodgest will I'lodge ; thy people will be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest will I die, aud there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee." "We may add," concludes the Commercial, "that fortune soon again smiled upon the young physician, aud that he subsequently returned to the South to wed the sweet girl he loved, and who love him with such undying affection. Reader, this is all true. Young ladies who read the Bible as closely as the heroine of this incident seems to have done are pret ty sure to make good sweethearts and better wives." The decision of Judge Cox, lately, at chambers, that the officers of a corpora tion, charged with concealing its assets, are as much subject to examination under supplementary proceedings iu regard to the disposition of its property as an indi vidual under like circumstances, is a most righteous decision. It would be a sad day for North Carolina if our Courts were to hold otherwise. Honesty and fair dealing arc as incumbent upon corporations as upon individuals. Corporations are as much accoutable to their creditors for the application of their assets to their debts as individuals. We are glad to see that in the eyes of Judge Cox no divinity doth hedge around corporatious. Bal. Xetcs. THE SOUTH. The grand old South, with her planta tion manners, was, after all, the great conservator of civilization in the United States. "She kept the lamp of chivalry alight in hearts of gold." She preserved the monuments of civil liberty. She ad justed the true relations between capital and labor. She produced wealth like the over-flowing Nile, which enriched her self and poured her treasure into every vein and artery of the commercial North, building up Bpleudid cities, making opu lent corporations and individuals, and creating the possibility of every industri ous man earn in 2 a generous living. She kept society pure and the government un sullied. Alas! how have crazy fanatics and fools changed all this ! The war made upon the South and her institutions has brought forth dreadful fruit. The revela tions of the past few days demonstrate that the fabric of society, East and West, has dwelt upon a slumbering volcano. Wealth has been concentrated in the hands of the few ; poverty is the burden of the man-. A privileged class has been established, whose chief duty seems to be griuding the faces of the poor. Hard times have followed the big drunk of war and speculation. Confidence between man and man has been well-nigh destroyed. The granaries of the Union are bursting with plenty, aud yet myriads of Gods creatures are hungry for bread. We do not care to taunt our brethren of the North in the hour of calamity ; but they should know at hist that the day of tribu lation has arrived. Augusta Sentinel. Startisg in the World. Many an unwise parent labors hard and lives spar ingly all his life for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children a start in the world, as it is called. Setting a young man afloat with money left him by his relatives is like tying bladders under the arms of one who cannot swim ; ten chances to one he will loose his bladders and go to the bottom. Teach him to swim and he will never need the bladders. G i ve y our ch ild a sound education and you have done enough for him. See to it that his morals are pure, his mind cultivated, and his whole nature made subservient to the laws which govern man, and you have given what will be of more value than the wealth 0 the Indies. . ' I II . i . , i iii. Our readers, to fully appreciate the feelings which have prod need this lamen table outbreak among the railroad employes,- must put themselves in their places. Here is a hard-working, faithful man, who has served his masters many years; he has a family, and can hardly "keetlle wolf from the door1' trlth his wages; be knows that the rood has de targe profits, and he sees that these In-the form of dividends, watered stock and high salaries have gone into a few hands. In these profits -he has had no share. Shfldenly, during a bad year, he gets a comfnunication signed by the president, wboT enjoyrng the millions made from these formerros.har hhismairViiges must be reduced! ten perentHchftbt see how bread is to come tol hi-familT with such pay.' He has been tod "long in the service to easily find another: place. Indeed, it may be that all places are filled in any occupation which he could follow. Burning with the sense of injusticend desperate, he is easily influenced by the wild and reckless men who are always seeking to lead workingmen astray. He tries a strike (which he has a perfect right to do), he becomes a unionist, and Com munist, a rioter. The transition is easy aud natural. If he reflects at all, he knows that the financial ill success of his road has not been due to his ueglector failure. It has been owing to the foolish auibitiou of its President iu building branch roads, or the greed of speculators in watering its stock, or to similar causes. Had lie ever enjoyed a share iu its prosperity, he would be willing now to accept a portion of its misfortunes. Under such feelings and convictions, an outbreak is inevitable. The strike will be worth all it has cost, if it will change all this and tend to put labor iu a more-reasonable relation with capital, and thus avert some of the dan gers which have just showed -their front so formidably. New York Times, Hep. In Nashua, N. II., a thing has happen ed not wholly new under the sun. A young man of Nashua fell in love with a girl who disliked him. He gave her a ring worth $10 on condition that she would keep company with him a week, suppos ing that he could win her affections iu that time which sets iu a pleasing light the Arcadian customs of the Granite State. Ho failed, however, and then hired ber as his true love again this time for a mouth and for a silk dress worth $35, throwing in another ring before tne expiration of that time, only to find that he was turned off with contempt when the contract came to an end. This curious lover was then guilty of the inexpressible meanness of de manding back the rings and dress, which the girl refuse! to give him. CAPTAIN SIR LAMRTON LORRAINE We confess to a liking for the sturdy English ways of the bold, decided man whose name heads this article, and who remembered in an important juncture that he was something more than an English man ; that he was an Anglo-Saxon. His name 6hould be rAnembered with respect wherever our grand old tongue is spoken, whether beneath the cross of St. George aud St. Andrew or beneath the flag of the Union. When two Americans, captured on the Virginius, were marched out by the butcher Burricl and ordered to be shot, he intervened and saved theirlives. Here is the way one of them tells the in cidenL: "We knelt down, an the orders were criven: Prime heavy : aim, one,' when the word 'halt' came from the lips of Captain Sir Lamb ton Lorraiue, who had mean while approached and unwrapped his sword, which was wrapped in the British flag. He threw the flag ovr Pacheco and mysdf, and said: 'I am not an American citizen, but an Anglo-Saxon, thensame as these gentlemen, and if one hair of their heads is harmed I'll blow Santiago de Cu ba to 'ell!' 'You blow Santiago de Cuba to 'ell,' said Burriel, why, inside of half an hour I will have you where you will never see daylight again.' 4 Yes, Gen. Bur riel,' said Capt. Lorraine, in teu minutes I may be in Moro Castle, but my ship lays out there (we could faintly see the tops of the masts); and (pulling out his watch), if in forty-one minutes I am not alioard the Niobe the ball opens. You can do as you like; you cau release thee men, or let it be.' The order for release was given, and in a few hours the prisoners were on the. American ship Jnanita." Good for you, Captain Lorraine! Such events as these, if they do not vin dicate the universal brotherhood of man, at least prove the brotherhood of the Anglo-Saxon race. Raleigh Xetcs. Loom Hing, a brother of Ah Wing, a Baltimore laundryman whose pigtail was pulled by an Irish soldier last Wednesday, deposes and says: "Sloja man say nolliug only comee upeep 'n mylee blulla hip urn foo; mylee blulla say nolling, doee uolling; Mellican man 'e welle dam foolee ; Ah Wing say 'Mellican man'no kille China man ;' he no mine ; my blulla kly find po liceman takee 'nn wash'ous alle light now!" The Irishman's testimony took the form of invective : "It's a purty pass that the country's comin' to when a free American citizen, an' a sojur to boot, that cum tu fite fur ye, kant have a bit uv a shindy wid a haythen Chinee without go in' to the lockup for it." Repairs on the Methodist Church have begun in earnest. The roof and rear wall are being torn down. The church will be enlarged and otherwise improved. The congregation wili-worsnip in tne fresby- terian Church while their church is under repair. The pastors will alternate. ft A Mf vor Put-Rt fyj determined to kill haifjhe jiij nd tan their hides with tfie bark of the other half. It a uiideliNI-tliatlhe4adics who trow tawy will nfervtranarry,, have not the remotest idea &k itiifcels word. in-frator io.ilio.WiWiau's, RighU Con eatioB isaiintlyidering; tones, "If Ete wore! feweuped$rs than Adam I'd like to know it. Tlierpresfcnsty'voXTioVling up the drcsa revtal oalx one, f tockjog, and we 4njpe-gentiemen m mU7)m saed : with Janajitf rnithei iWMh, quantity n , J4 on rthstrcet J ii lookj at Ajady Very intently you "are impolite but if you meet her in a waltz you may hug her all you please, no matter whose wife she is. a. The man who thinks "'tis sweet for one's country to die' should4aketbe Con sulship of St. Paul da Loando, on the coast of Africa. It is vacant -now, and a Consul dies there every"-two or three months. Every Qotymuui&t is a traitor to the government he lives under, aud should be dealt with accordingly. The promulga tion of his doctrine is a sufficiently overt act, and they should be stamped out un hesitatingly I Every Communistic meet ing should be broken, up, Indianapolis Aeic8. The London Lancft culls attention to the danger ef disease the causes of which are-sometimes concealed in the ice which Is used to cool drinking water rnr summer. U is a mistake to suppose that -tfatcf pu rifies itself by the act of freezing!; often it spreads the germ of disease i . As an, evidence of American enter prise, Uisliqp Marvin states, in his letters from the East that the street railroad in Bombay, India, is owned by an American company, with all its rolling stock im- .1 i . - Y" V poneu iroin ew xoi k. liorooay t ne says, is outstripping Calcutta in growth. Secretary Schurz lias addressed a circu. lar letter to every employee of the Interi or Department outside of the department building, enclosing the President's circu lar prohibiting employees from taking any active part in politics. The Secretary says, it is expected that every employee will conform his condition to the requirements of the President's order. Nearly all the lawyers of St, Louis, without exception, enrolled themselves in militia companies during the late troubles. A reporter of the Globe-Democrat, calling atteution to this fact, remarked that the moral effect of it would be to drive the rioters to their holes without striking a blowT as the lawyers of St. Louis were universally known to charge." be "great on the A scrupulous Boston lady, who abhors slang,-when asked at the boarding-house table why her husband was not down to breakfast rejdied, bashfully, "Oh dear Willyim was upon a a neck last night." "A whatt" stid her interlocutor. ' "A b-bosom," she exclaimed, coloring to the roots of her hair. 'A which?" said he. "A a a bust!" she whispered behind her napkin. Tlie Potato Bug in Germany. The Co logn Gazette says- that from careful ob servations aud inquiries made since the burning of a potato field in the neighbor hood of Cologu it is evident that the ob ject of that desJtrufctixfe. process has been completely attained. There is no further trace visible either of Colorado beetles or of larvae, neither above the soil nor-below the surface. There is reason to believe that not one beetle has escaped. Listen Boys. We heard a gentleman, who has occasion to employ several boys and young menrsay yesterday, that when . he sees a boy or young man, whojrorks for small wages, constantly smoking ci gars, it always creates in his mind a sen timent somewhat akin to a suspicion of their honesty. This is true boys, of ma ny men who are noticing your habits; they dou't ppeak of it, perhaps, but -you. sometimes apply to such men for employ ment and are refused and you areat a loss to account for it, when, if the facts were known it is owing to their having obser ed you indulging in habits thattheyjenow j-our income does not justify. Raleigh Xetcs. " - - m 1 11 . - Another Snake Story. v From tbe Oil City Derrick. "Is the snake iitor in 1" "Amid the slings aud arrows of outra geous fortune he never forsakes his pvt. Behold in me the snake Editor." "Well, I've killed a rattler." . " "How long was it 7" "Nine feet four." , " W-what ! lcascthnn ten fbet This, pa per is no receptacle for miserable fishing worm stories," and the exasperated editor seized the visitor bjr the throat and shut off from his iusides the breath of heaven. "Yaas," gurgled the poor wretch, "but it had eighty-seven ra " "Nq back talk !" yelled the editor,' "we want no rattlesnakes less than fVo:u ten to twelve feet in length," and JIie snake killer was dashed to pieces on theiliuty pavement below.