North Carolina Newspapers

' g ' I lie are .1 AMiM 1HT ; li y mil - ' VOL IX. THIED SERIES SALISBURY. IT. aiIlAECHl-lytlSTa ' i ui; . ; A II f II II II II , v i v - I l I III I I I I 1 1 II II II II II ". . ri ,m i ... ...!:--: - . . . A T I ' b 1 . 4 . . . " " i -I i : I 1. Jlr. Vekxonv N. Cn March, 4, 1 878. t i i I)earWatciimak:-I wonder if chrou.c inactivity of wiHd is not the cause of the iivfed and shrivelled and sluggish con- ','L... nTiiressiHir. that there is nothins hin.' i !it .ii. r 1 thU country worm wnuug or LuiKiug i '"-They would not think' bo, if they could reul in a lettefin the New York "Tri Imui"" t."Observer," written by llayard 'favlor or Iienauis Prime, front the limits of 'old Kowan. lielieve me, 'the.se men i.ive charmed you with letters from lands possessing ,,ot half -the interest of ours. Moreover, if Tavlor and Prime could-iind ....n.ino- here worth wntinc about, it -xvniild Ihj a sure evidence that their tame i vii"n - '.;utpr-wi iters was com nlctelv undo- wived. Jiv all the laws of literature they - ut.V.iihl. in 'that case, iesiffn their pen and their laurels tojMincbody else. The rt li wmnnt indito a beautiful sonnet 4-irn.l tn fivra a butterllv or a : snail? t aviuiv'"v .. - - f titd essayist who cannot enliven yu oven I nt win' fin t.Htn n themn as dorrs, And catsi the enistolarv correspondent who could notwrite a letter worth reading from one of the sand-banks iit mid-ocean; 'any writer, in short, who has not talent suf ficient to wrife on anything, no matter liovrsinall and in significant, in the hea vens above, the earth beneath, or the - wa ters under the earth, is no writer at all. . Vance could take a horse-back journey through this "dull and uninteresting" re gion to-day, and dclivev aniostfaciuating lecturo uion It in lioston next week. Our State Geologist, Prof. Kerr, would Iteonly too happy to get up here audi look around awhile, and tell you what treasures you nave-un.ier your loei. jym oh I If Ii;1.., n t.A I '..i.llli'f he paint lYAivoi. iTn..f,. lift.- like,' you would have to laugh and cry, iiii in u a .ns in a m. &m a 111. ui w m m a -w " I get angry and -pleased, all on tnc -same page! . . . , Don t tell me tins is mere tancy ami liosh. . .What did -Dickens find to write nlKiut in the back-allevs, the tumble- down tenement lanes, the hospitals, the poor.liouBes and cellars of the seorned, squallid and poverty-stiieken quarters of Londou f What did Cervautes find in an old erav reader of chivalricromanees ami . . 1 -1 . 1 . nM.i I a big.oeilieu .iamsu easnilt5 u mil did Addison write about but these same, glories of earth and sea and skyj these samo beauties ot nature we gaze upon t with stupid unconcern t What did Slrakes- pearo describe but copies alter the Ada m itio model; these same ummi and women you daily associate witW What supplied . the ceaseless nver or ei ucu.ee 111 which S.T. Coleridge and George lladger hab- ituallv conversed but the ve-rv subjects we are accustomed to regard as trivial viuul unworthy of notice? ..tUierilge, the noted talker of tngland, could eutevtaiiKHnd delight his friends nfter dinner for hours and hours. It was one' 11 nbroheu stream of conversational eloquence and absorbing interest. It en-Ki-otiscd and captivated all hearers, llow- ,ing freely forth from the exhaustlvss stores of his vast and varied learning. Then there was the m.-igtcul potency of tl'.at sunerior tact of delivery, so rare an en .l,va"LWn iik rt ifn i-tMil.iilt Itnlii Ml' ti 1 1 lit I le d linwl as nothing less than genius, and of smh enraoturous control over the ea-er IU) IIH'lll III I mwufl Mitlil tin iw -' I crowd. that hung upon the charmed lips as to sway them liko the sceptre ot a niouarcn. And what Demosthenes was to the- Athenians in public assemblies he was to the Enclish over their convivial table he could talk folks into anything, Georiro Iiadirer was the (.'oleridjre of North Carolina.' Eminent as ho was at the bar, his powers in cominoii couversa fion weTc not less remarkable than his forcu'sic ireuius. Meetin' you on the street or in his-oltice, at any time when not pre-oecupied by business, it was won derful how this "old man eloquent" was listened toiii silent awe; how fascinating was his discourse oij .every theme and oc casion; how uis most learned legal asso cmtes paid him the deference of attention ns naturally as if it were his birth-right, aitd how impossible it was tor eyery body not to accord it to him. Now this mental activity of Coleridge . and liadger was irrepiessible, and wan bound to have vent in lingual expression as surely as the fountains beneath tlie hills must burst forth and roll sparkling down the declivities to gladden the heart of man and boast, and to clothe their bUst shores with rich carpets of luxuriant verdure Addison was no talker; but it was no more trouble for linn to write U paper lor , m -spectator ee. o w .u l8 Tho' sini pie and -enial style of his essays, which will eyer be tjie envy aiuthe p;it- tern f young authors, soon caused each issue ot that periodical to Ih5 awaited with w.l ..a u.t .. 1 . 1 n.a.l mi.rii nvrin.T.I1i.lf Ir was equally soueht after and -perused by the titled and aristocratic men of leisuro and by the clubs oJ' restless and intellect ual literal ti. It created a fashion and a rage for periodica l essavs; audther com petitive enterprises, such as the "Guar dian," the "llambrer" and tho "Adventu rer." spnimr up as fruit from tho seed planted by the pure-minded and iniiuita ble essayist. llw.L-oiic i.-itin nnnn lio ct n (rr of niitlinr- shin when the public mind was sated with blood-and-fhuuder romances; glut ted to its till with tho Johnsonian style of novel-writing and the Ciceronian fram ing of sentences; wheu it longed for orig inality both of manner and n afenal. He slaked that feverish thirst for a change from the hidden depths of a fountain so exhaustless and delicious that we cannot cpeak of his works only ;n, terms of glow -ing enthusiasm and unfeigned respect. Well do I remember "Tiny first nud acci dental acquaintance with this musician. An old raireed copy of "Nicholas Nickle- by," minus thertitle-iagc and the name of tne author, happened to fall into my hands when 1 was a boy. 1 had read such books 1 as"Ivanhoe." and "Charlotte Ieniple,"aiul "The Children tf tlie Ab- ley," and "Thaddeus of Warsaw," and "llandy Andy " and tho "Three Span iards," till I thought all novels must be cut out after one or tho other of these patterns. A pernsal of the mysterious W Y u JSi Z i "' "r Till II! MlllO TOIrl I" ftfhfl I iit-v.4-isk-.l while alternately laughing and -sveep'ing . :: , o.i i, - i-.-ti. oer tnc tortunesot Nicholas and $mik , "that there is a w riter of such originality AMiose name 1 do not know r7 Yoi -may be sure I never ceased ennuirincr till I found out who wrote that book, mr till I had found and read his tther works un- dera ft-eling of hero vrr1iip for the great pcn-painler of Kn":lan3. When he died. i dear friend 6S by wj; Uddde when Tl was .rale, -and rend to riie the account of his decease; and I listened with moisten- va3 kin 4o the whole world. i.; i.t .-t.i i: wnu whcju iron ms paiace window a fellow lying on : the ' grass iu tnc uisrance reading a book, and lau'rh- iug, hooraing anoVcutttng up enough cu- nous an lies to excite -toe suspicion mat he was dementetl. Summoned into the loyal presence, and asked what -book" he was reading, he replied. "Don Quixote." II is demonstrations proved that was the book he was not sent to the mad-house. How many have read and been affected - y tiiat booic.in, tno same way I Just thirtyjrears afro I, firsts heard my grandfather read aloud to the family the loitign letters of "Irenams" in the "New vwk Observer." Since that date, I have read many hundreds of his letters somo from little hamlets in tnrtwifX)antry all interesting alike. Would that letter- to the South, and excite interest and iu fuse life into our dear old land. "Tin pen is mightier than the sword." E. P. II. From the N. Y. Observer. NATIONAL MUSEUM AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. BY MUS. LUCY E. SAX FORD. The National Museum was established bv the Government in 1842, and consist- , t B1MC:nionaMiiM.tati liv the Wilkes " " ------ Exploring Expedition. -It was transfer - red from the Patent Office to the care of the Smithsonian Institution m 1853. It has been increased by all the collections , , . . . ., "-" "J i to Pavy, 1 reasury and Interior Departments, and those of -the Smithsonian Institution, At tlc cof,e of tJie Centennial, tlfirty-four f . j coioniC8 tiicre 01 u,c gocinments ana colonics incie representee! sent it tneir cnoicestenmua, ir . . ' . 0 .1... i . ii .11 .uauj scries m tue gcoiogy, uietuiiiurgy, erhnoloc'v. amrsreneral resources of those 1 . hih ami several private collections were aiso sent, me centre uniiding ot tne Smithsonian, with its two stories and gal- leries, and the west wing and gallery is full. Tlie basement nud large armory buildins are crowded from floor to roof with unboxed specimens. Prof. Baird, Assistant Secretary, and in part creator of the Museum, says i "We -have speci mens enough now to cover nine times tho soace we have, and are receiving at the rat4'. of ten boxes daily." For many years the Smithson fund was more than half spent iu caring for the museum. It is on ly within' the last two- years that it has Keen 1111 v re 1 even 01 mat exoense. it is 1 t 1 1 J r a Tl : ... , ,,,,1.1 ' r., O ,f ulH, il,,u - U p. M. It is urged that the government should provide room for and bike care of ;t. separate it from the Smithsonian In stjtute, and make it, iu fact, the National Museum. Tho centre building is devoted to ani mals, lUhirds, and stones. On tho ta ble that runs through the centre is a croc odile from Florida 14 feet long, and oppo site a walrus from near the North Pole of about the same length. There, too, is the elyptodon, with its bony -armor, 1) feet long ; tho longest now found la about one foot. A cast of the Himalayan tortoise, ( feet wide and 8 long, from India, now extinct'; the cast of tho skeleton, and of the restored, gigantic Irish elk, now ex tinct. It seems to havo lived in Europe, as early as the tertiary period. Cast of a kangaroo lizard, 25 feet long, hind legs 15 feet, forearms feet found iu New Jer sey The cast of the macatherlum, 15 feet long. In a case are two musk oxen, now extinct in the East, but found rarely in Northern America, a small and homed an imal with a dense covering of long silky h iir ; also A u rock's or European bison, which!seem to have existed before the Q j. of it- It &uld be extinct, but the Russian government, by strict laws, preserves a I herd T, gWhnens of fish. The I ' saw-fish has a body notavnlike a shark, alMiut 8 feet long, but the noso extends 4 feet, like the blado of n sword, with strong and trenchant tooth on -each side. This easily saws fish in two, nud indeed severe ly wounds a whale. Tho devil-fish has deen considered fabulous, but in 1873 one attacked a fishing smack, throwing its arms across it. The arms wero out, and were W foe pa length Tho one in the museum has eight arms of 8 feet in length, with suckers oivthe. arms. There are 72,000 birds. There are eggs not so large as ft pea, and one from Mada? gase ir 12i Inches long, 33, inches iu larg est circumference, capacity 10 pints or 150 hens' eggs. There are 500,000 insects, The Suscan meteorite, brought from Arizona, weighing 1,4.00 lbs., Pvof, Baird considers one of tho wonders of the Mu seiiui. In the west wing arc somof the Cen tennial presents. The Lambeth copy of q io of the pedestals of the Prince Albert Memorial ; U. 8, directing tlie onward course of America; fivo figures of heroic- size and a bison ; tho terra cotta pulpit md fo copied from Palestine, covered I wjm Very finely carved our Saviour' life 1 a terra copy Also ot " - ' 1 . - , ,i...is u Gethsemaue irom vaiesiiuo i cuuo jww study. In a glass case is ancient Jloman and Pomneiiau pottery, and vases anu pitchers from Cyprus from Gen. Cesnola. The second story of the central build- ing devoted to ethnology; in which' there are 50,000 specimens. There is but little of the popular element here. Nino Chi nese figures in costume of the different ranks. "The Haidah 'Indians' excel all other aborigines ; from them a painted house front, carved pillars, and high and dry on a shelf, a dug-out canoe, GO ft. by 8 ft., with two Indians in costume. From Central Alaska is a coat of armor plated in Chinese coins, proving commerce be tween the two countries. Here is a bolt to which Columbus was chained iu St. Domingo, and a part of the first steamboat. Egypt has some heavy stone cuttings, casts of statues to isis and Osiris and a a small sphinx, also cast of Canopns stone, and the best the cast of -Tarn's stone, six feet high, two and a half broad and top arched. It has a trill incual inscription, and is more perfect thanjykejjgiet Japan is very beautifully represented : the stirrup even of a saddle is in-the most elegant work. But this collection marks an era in the world's history. It was a present to the President of the United States from the Tycoon of Japan in 18G0, when the first Japanese embassy caiue, wondering and wondered at. There arc relics of Sir John Franklin's and of the Frobishcr expedition that "wintered at Frobisher bay several hundred years ago." There are many Indians in costume, and bona fide casts, by Mills, of prisonors of war, sit perched on the different cases, to the number of 64. Perhaps tho most in teresting South American object is a hu man head prepared by the Jivaro Indians, Peru, and held by the owner in much veneration. This room is for the scholar. It offers' material to study man iu every age and land. Here is a finer specimen of archaeological remains of North America than in any other nruscum, and of the Western Esquimaux thaji in all other museums in the world. Of the Stone Age there are many relics from the grottoes and caves and caverns in the liuestone rocks of Europe. Indian graves iu the Island ofOmotepee, Lake Nicaragua, have been found between successive vol can io formations and the rifled content arohere. There are heaps of extinct shell fish along our coast, remains of feasts in long gone ages, and in the jovial time many a knife was lost and here they are. The pre historic inhabitants of Unaloska, of whom the natives have no trnditiou even. The ancient inhabitants of New Zealand and Australia, the pre-hlstorie ago of Japan, are all represented by their implements here. The stone objects fan lid all over the earth, and strangely alike, are to-day used by the inhabitants of Terra del Fuego and the Pal Utes. Archadogists divide the Stone age into Paheolithic (old stone) ancWseolithic (new stone) age. In the old stone ages the stones were merely chipped or flaked. The chipped series chiefly comprises arrow and spear-heads, cutting and scraping tools, saws, perfora tors and digging implements. They were made in this country of homstone, jasper, chalcedony and quartz, in Europe of Hint; they are triangular, leaf-shaped, poiuted sharply, rough and ugly. In the Neolithic, or New Stone age, the stone is ground, often polished and some times ornamented. Tho perforators and arrow tips finely and sharply pointed; there are hammers, chisels, adzes, axes, mortars pestles, wedges and digging tool, all of stone. From Peru are oval or horse collar shaped, and some of thoni carved, objects, weighing four lbs. each ; they are puzzles to archaeologists iu Europe and America, But the pipes were tho "most romarkable of all, some of them aro so skillfully executed that modern artist find no little difficulty in reproducing them." They are swill, but in form of animals, birds and human heads. The National" Museum has the fiuest calumet pipe ever discovered! "It represents a bird, with a strongly curved beak, per' haps an eagle, which stands on a high pedestal, showing in front of it an inverted human face. The bowl rises from the back of the bird," From the more recent native inhabitants of New Zealaud, but made with these stone implements, is a very handsome palm wood lox, a lady glove box in size, carved in perfect scrolls and dots, used by ladies of rank to keep feathers in j also tho prow of a war canoe very well carved. Herodotus tells us that, m, c, 520, "a tribe in Thrace lived in dwelling built on platforms, supported by piles drivon in the water, and connected to the land by narrow bridges." It has been found by recent search that the habit of erecting buildings in the lakes was' widely spread over Europe, probably as protectiou against wild beats. In the Museum is au ideal representation of one of those lake villages, andT6oa Jide lacustrine relics of horn and bone and flax and vegetable products as found in the lakes; also an ideal representation of an ancient village in cleft of rocks, Flint, horn and bone implements and ornaments from the caves of Dordogne and SabUre, also flint imple ments from other caveg, rnd from Den mark and Great Britain, Here, too, is a cast of that bono of con tention, the Neanderthal skull. In the gravelly loam of Neanderthal grotto, two usu lie, coycreu ...v. " - illustrations of foun1 and hrw out a ,mniau. "qstmlon80;;it weald have been lost to scit . leet below the surtace, some workmen tmiitji nni tniAir nil r n iiiitiimii hw imim 1 hi . science had . imt PnHrot seen and saved a part : 01 it. 11 nau a inui" wj tiji 1, 1 who decided it to be of an ordinary height. i a 1... .. -. ' rorv rtnwArflll ltodilv. bllt with slight t p f TI 1 thinka it the nnst I alM.Uke discovered, but concludes it is not the connecting link between man and the ape. STEWARTS HOTEL FOR AYOMEN It is now announced that the "enterprise Rtarted by the late A. T. Stewart," te'ex tensive hotel for working women, Is to, be. opened about tlie middle, ( tins month. Jt is said to have been me origTuall' pnroose of Mr. Stewart to build on a i large scale J -i. --21 .". 1 tenement houses on a plan which he con sidered au improvement on MPeauody'a tenements. He subsequently elianged the plan and started the working ' wen's hotel project. , . , . , u This magnificent building,, wlncIi'coy ers the block on Fourth avenue' iietween 32d and 33d streets, contains 502 sleeping rooms and eight reception rooms, besides extensive parlors and dining roomsy The whole building Is heated with steam, lighted with gas made on tlie premises, and watered by an artesian "well. There is a library of 3000 volumes, and every convenience by way of desks and writing materials. The building surrounds a large court, finely paved, in the centre of which will rise a superb fouutaiu forty feet high. At the four coruers of the fountain curb are bronze candelabra, sup porting ornamental lamps. It is sbited that the regular charge for boarders, according to the present plan, will be $0 per week, and theiuaxlum $10. This would place its comforts out of the reach of a large portion of the young wo men who arc without homes; but it was not designed as a charity, but to provide a pleasant home for respectable women en en"ared in the finer mercantile pursuits, together with artists, teachers and stu deuts. A limited number of transient guests, women who have occasion to come alono to the city, will bo accommodated at ordinary hotel charges. Although this leaves a class, and the most needy, un provided for, we hope that the opening of this establishment may prove such a suc cess and bo so beneficial in its operation as to incite philanthropists to devise more liberal things for the homeless working women of New York, THE POPE'S SOUL. Prayers have been offered in ltoiuan Catholic churches, all over the world, -for the jvo.fr of the Pope's soul. It is strange that any Christian should bo in doubt about the soul of a good dead man. The Pope was one of Hie best men who ever sat iu the chair. He had his faults. He was very inconsistent. For an infalli ble person lie made many and great mi takes. But he was not a great criminal monster liko some of his predecessors. As the church goes, ho was an excellent man, and died in tho odor of sanctity. If any lloman Catholic has left behind him a fair representation for godly living, the late Pope certainly has. But the church is praying for tho repose of his soul. The Roman Catholics are sure the Pojk has not gone to glory at present, and they arc praying that it may be well with him by-and-by. What is their idea of a future stater And viTiy do they pray for tho souls of the pious dead f Their notion of a future stato is very far from anything revealed in the Holy Scriptures. The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness and do immediately pass into glory. The penitent thief ou tho cross believed, and the Lord assured him "today shalt thou be with mo iu Paradise." If the dying Pope had received an assurance according to hm faith it would bo "To-day thou shalt be in purgatory." Tlie Pope and all his peoplo believe that tho souls of tlie faithful go into a stage of purification where they must un dergo penitential purgatorial fires, and when the last remains of sin have beeu by these pains purged away, the soul is transferred to the abode of tho blessed in glory, The duration of this process of purgatory varies according to the nura ler of sins to be purged, and the number of masses said by the priests for tho soul As these arc said by the priests for pay, it is evident that the length oftho purga tory varies greatly in individual eases. For the Pope these prayer aro said by all tho churches, everywhere, and by many of them with all possible pomp and cir cumstancc. We may therefore well be lieve that the faithful will be sure of his speedy passage through these gloomy re gions into the brighter and better abode of the spirits of the just mado perfect. Purgatory js an inventfou of the priests, who make monev out of it. It is the grand eugine by which the ignorant mul lifcinlfi are held iu subjection to wen who are supposed to have the power of deliv cring the sotil from the torments of peni tential tiros. HEEL POWER OF A DARKEY, Part of a negro boy's work in Cumber land, Md., is to build a fire every morn ing iu a large furnace. Tho weather was cold a few days ago, and, after puttiug a match to the kindlings, he crept into the furnace to get warm. The door swung Shut behind him, and fastened. Tho firo blazed up rapidly; there seemed a certain ty of cremation for tho hid. He yelled but nobody heard him. The flames be gan to scorch him, and he was almost suffocated. A despairing kick unhinged the door, however, and he crawlett out, singed and scared. ! A Louisana, paper gives; the following testimony .to tlie. beneficent working of a Sunday, Jaw in that State? ai follows it. or . j On tlw first, Sonday ml last Not mber 'the orduiance.of jthtiUcj Jary closing ai, places; oft business ilea! Sundays and fceepin&i them closed Coring ; the -entire 'day, became a Jaw Utrouhout tbe,paiuh4 The town.couacils of -Odeloasas, Wash ingtou,. Grand Coteau and' Ar maud v die adopted the ordinance simultaneously with the Police Jury, andthus for the, first time in our history Lindry had- a Sun 'day law. ' Irf the5 country' its effects have beenf most beneficial- "Heretofore planters' found it all but1 impossible0 to rge their employees to! ork: Saturdays any howl They Would come 'to town, ' anoT. spend Saturday ihit general debaacbaadveW but illy prepared to go to work on Mon day. Now they spend Saturday in town. There is no inducement for them to ro uiain over till Sunday, so they go home Saturday evening, and on Monday are rested and prepared to go to work. A A man may ride over our public highways all Sunday now and not meet a drunken man. Six mouths ago he would have met them by the dozen, even between this point aud Washington, screaming, whoop ing, cursing, yelling and running races, endangering the vehicle, life and limb ot thoTjuiet traveler. In Opelousas the effect of this ordinance has been marked indeed. Previous to its adoption our streets were filled every Sunday with a promiscuous crowd of. idlers, loafers and traders; some buying ; some selling, some getting drunk, and creating almost a pan demonium by their yells and screams. Of all days it was the busiest and requir ed the most active and unceasing vigilance on the part of our town coustable to pre vent violations of our town ordinances. But what a change this ordinance has produced ! There are no crowds of loafers and idlers hanging about the streets, no buying, no selling, no getting drunk, no rows, no arrests, no work for the consta ble. Nor has this chance affected busi ness in Opelousas the least. Our commer cial houses arc doing just as heavy a busi ness as they did before the ordinance went into effect. People, both black aud white, from the country, instead of coming to town on Sundays, come in and transact their business on Saturdays, henco Suuday is now what the Christian dispen sat Ion intended it to be, a daj'"of rest. Nor docs the present ordinance intend to M . . . t ill -V, 1 anect it rurtner than this, it has no smack of the old blue laws of Connnecti- cut about it, as some of our coteraporaries seemed to think at tho time of its adop tion. It forces no man to any peculiar ob servance of the Sabbath. It merely bus pends business that day, and then leaves every man to spend the day as he sees fit aud proper," THE GOVERNMENT'S CREDIT. Unprecedented Demandor United States Jionds. Nkw York, March 14. Tho stated de mand for government bonds from leading cities is steadily incensing. Since Mon day orders have been received from Cin cinnati amounting to $250,000, and equal ly large sales, were made to financial in stitutions in Cleveland, Chicago and St Louis. 1 he orders from tho West are generally divided into small amounts. and are believed to be chiefly for invest ment bv persons who have formerly de posited in savings banks., A heavy deal er in government securities states that within the last two or three days over 81,000,000 ot bonds have been, sent to Boston, and that correspondents wrt t hoary drafts upon saving banks in that city during the last week for re-invest ment in goternment bonds. Some sav ings banks of this city are disposing of a portion of their mortgage. to secure more available assets. Two of these institu tions invested yesterday 250,000 each iu rovernment securities at a aincle bank This dealer stated that over $10,000,000 worth of bonds change! hands last week in this city alone, an .amount unprecedent ed in any single week since the time of the placing of the 4J per cents on the market. A letter received yesterday from prom inent St. Louis bankers stated that there was a growing distrust of savings banks and of real estate securieties in the west. The unusually low prices of United States bonds had stimulated the demand prin cipally. Iiridtje JeIlHHtliemarlHtJe Enterprise. New Bki xswick, N. J., March 14. The new wooden bridge across Rat i tan river at this point was completed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company late last night, and the first through train since Saturday's fire passed over the river this morning. The now structure is nine hun -dred feot long and cost $200,000 and was put up by five hundred men iu little over four days- Ax Act op KiN'nxKss Revai:dej. In December; 1873, a young lady of CooperstownTPa, met on a railroad train a lady who was very ill, aud she kindly ministered unto her, taking oare of h ;r and accompanying her to her place of desti nation. When they parted the sick wo inau ottered to reward the young lady for her kiudness and attention, but she would take nothing. The old woman wrote down tho name and address, nodding familiarly to her, and said: "You will be paid some day." The younglady nev er saw her strange acquaintance again, but the sum of $00,000 has recently been bequeathed to her. The old woman had no relatives in this country, and left all her money to the girl who had befriended her. ' ttrsv York Marcu 14.TIie ftrtfof tlie newfutreiH dollars made their appearance on Wull.Btreeti thhv norning. Being iu limited amount, tlie supply, was soon ex hansfed. Hie desire to obtain them asto keiis'bein general arid buyers paying a fraction above par in gold. v ' ,1a ' " 1 1 ; ' ' ' I LETTER PKOM 8 ALISBURY. --Ttit .- : - c.t ' , ICiTespondenoc or Tie R&letgb Observer.)- , Sausbuht. N C, March 6, 1 M3. , Messrs Editors: Where shall the DoWo-i cratic 1 State. Convention be held t The .xrvauvo onuaiLtec, ' wnica meets 1ft Raleigh on the 27th inst. will fix the ti hie' i-.t.ii.,j and place. The claims of Salisbury ftrfe p ecoad tM place in the State.' We uJ- pose the eemmittee will not select Raleigh for the reason the last ' Stete tnveh tion was held there. Then should it conclude to come west of Raleigh, we think Salis bury is the placer Greensboro has had a convention since Salisbury, and Charlotte is too near the South Carolina line. So then, in poiut of location, Salisbury has many advantages. From all points west delegates will arrived by the W. N. t?. Railroad. Salisbury has first-class hotels and good boarding houses. Its citizens are hospitable, and will cordially welcome the convention. We have a splendcd hall (Meroney's Opera Hall), which we have no doubt the citizens will furnish fixe of charge to the convention. Besides the hall wo have one of the largest and best arranged Court rooms in the State. Let the convention come to Salisbury X. Thlo is all true and well said. Let the convention be held here. HEAVEN'S SWEET MISSIONARY. Schenectady Union. A growing flower was given to a sick girl. In trying to bike care of it tho fam ily made changes in their way of living. First they cleaned a window, that more light might come to its leaves; then they would open thowindow, that fresh air might help the plant to grow. Next the clean window made tho rest of the rooin look so untidy that they used to wash the floors and -Hie walls and arrange the fur niture more neatly. This led tho father of the family to mend a broken chair or two, which kept him at home several evenings. After the work was done, ho stayed at home instead of spending his leiusnre hours at the tavern, and the money thus saved went to buy comforts for them all. As the homo grew attrac tive the whole family Joved it better thau ever before, and grew happier and health ier with their flowers. Thus the little plant brought a blessing. Ikath of a Well Known Authoress Xew York Correspondence Baltimore sun. JThe death on Monday, in tho neighbor ing New Jersey village of Norristown, of the venerable Miss Maria J. Mcintosh, deprives literary and social life in this country of a writer whose influence was always on the side of tho lettered refine ment, sectional justice and the purest of morals. A daughter of the late General Lachlan Mcintosh, of Sunbury, Ga., sho came to New York when she was just passed her thirtieth year, and since 1835 has been the best uativo novelist of the Appletons. Totig Fair. From tlie Journal of Commerce, Woom.KAK, N, C, Feb. 20, 1878. Editor of the Journal of Commerce: A, B aud C wish to carry a cylindical log; A and B walking abreast "tote" with a handspike, while C sustains the hind most end. Query: At what point should the two former lift in order to secure a just distribution of the weight ? A Readekv Reply. If the log is of uniform dimen sious and weight, and is exactly horizontal the handspike supported by the two must bo just one-third the distance from the end at which they lift, to give a uniform load to each of the three. MUTINY. Baltimore, March 0. The crow of the British Bark Gypsey Quecu, hence for Newry, Ireland, mutinied 3-csterday morn ing below Sandy Poiut, alleging that the Bark was uuscaworthy. Capt. Payne re turned to Annapolis Roads aud signalled the Naval Academy for assistance wheu a lieutenant and a squad ot marines was sent on board and thccrcw(ten in number including second mate nud boatswain were arrested and placed in irons. Capt Vayne'statos that the vessel isseawoj thly but the men who had received their adr vancc wanted to leave-the ship. He wil ship an additional crew to work the ves sel nod keep the mutinous ones iu irons until his arrivaHn Ireland, where they will -be tried for mutiny. Horseflesh eating, far from declining, has so increased iu Paris that last year 10,160 horses, asses, and mules were cut up for food. Iu the capital there are up ward of sixty horsemeat shops, beside many iu provincial French cities. A comparison of the 10,160 equine animals eaten in 1877, with the 2,102 of 1807, il lustrates the steady progress of hippopha gy. St. Ililaire and his friends would no longer have to give their horseflesh bou quets for the sake ol iut reducing this food; many people now are glad enough to eat it. Jeff Davis. It is im uncnoY thfn to hear sonic one speali asljQ way of Jeff. Davis. There jed JbfkgM of blind partisans who,hjm or , different reasons, and wersMalfcayat t&dr during the war tottttMbtttetretttilsna to him. Since the war; an8iUr ur hounds who always HGi the windward and can. C4 AOuwisdwu utility in defending tbofwMwholiriit rewards to WstrilraU;'aVrW4n'elir?;ln1i ders wheahis'n stand ready.tonai W Wi 2pVi of Ids cliaracter. JJu i wo aaksfi id TO , . " KS-r f xYA ol,unu 8Utu , eousmeratiou lor otner6 as he f f . nf rti tl nMNfiqMi ?dargrat?R but the 'Statesman' PaVlota,iuA,Woral't Kero BtM m&ntMX: The Romans have fronx time2 imniemo rial been addicted to playing intlfe loV tcry "the number" of any distinguished personage upon his death. There was a' rush at all the royattottery offices in the city to play the numbers of the late Pope7 7, 32,58,86. Seven indicates the date of his death, 32 the length of his pontifl cate, 58 the Pope himself, and 8G the yeara " of his life. Not n single one of the above numbers was evolved by the wheel j nevertheless it is believed that they will '' wiu soouer or later, and they willcontinV4 ue the favorites during the remainder of the present year. The Government has ne objection, having already reaped aii unusually rich harvest from Ihe popular indulgence in this belief. Coffee was served at the polls in UticaV ast Tuesday. The ladies of the various Christian temperance association labored unceasingly in every ward, serving re- resh meats to candidates and voters now sandwiches, now biscuits, now cake, now pie,' now crackers aud cheese, always cof-. ee, and never whiskey or beer. At tho various polling places 5,725 cups of cof fee were handed to politicians aud voters, during the day. 'There was good order everywhere, and very few eases of in toxication were reported by the police,' This isa temperance measure as novel as it is practical. And the bonds continue to ruse, and gold continues to lay down. Gold was to 1 go up with a rush, and bonds were to come down with a crash ou the passage : of the Silver Bill so sjiid the "great New x York dallies." And -"gold won't go up, . and bonds won't come down. And tho "great New York-dailies are explaining why. 1 he explanations are all verv well in their way, but the way is. about., as. valuable as the predictions. Ilal. P&Vt The Hillsboro Recorder has presented' to the people of-the State the following splendid little chapter on our Governor.4 The people will respond to its every sen- f timcnt with a most heartj' AMETff, Gov. Vance commands not only the ap proval but also the affections of the peo- pie. They love him because he is sincere ly good and honest . as well as wise and 4 great. u : , While out hunting during a- Late storm a Texan encountered a herd of bewilder v , cd buffaloes numbering 100 grown ones and 40 calves. -The snow lay on tho ground to the depth-of one foot. He wasr alone, but after several day si-hard, work he secured the entire lot in a natural cor-i a ml in the bend of a stream, and proceed-. ing to the nearest town, said them toaq enterpi king dealer for $500, ' r n The silver bill Is not as bad, now it is law, as it was said to bo by its enemies; For instance, the Washington Star op , posed it, and now it says : - . "It is probable that whatever else may -happen from the silver bill, it will sto'p the shrinkage of values, and epcciallyV tho downward tendency in real estate." "Women lwivo the mastery of color, said Sir Joshua Itey nobis. But when ra woman wears a green skirt with a brown ; overdress, and a purple necktie, with a bow of yellow riboii in her hair, and a blue bonnet, with a salmon -colored feath- er aud red flowers on it, and a drab veil over her face, then color lias the -mastery of tho woman. Ix the Pex for Life Yesterday even- 4 ing Mr. II. M. Worth, Deputy Sheriff of .-, Randolph county, arrived iu thecity witb i Lewis S. Keen, tho sixteen year old boy, n convicted uf arson, sentenced to be hanged, and whose death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life in the Peuiten- , t'uxry.-llalci'jh Oltserrcr, , ji "6r. Pennington. A person notorious, in Radical politics of Alabanpvduring thq ' rare iierformaucc under the reign of re-? construction, and well knowa in North Carolina also, has failed toseeure are-ap- , xintment to tho gubernatorial honors of Dakoto. President Hayes has made a Mr. Howard, of Michigan, an ohl "Kansas Jay hawker," Governor.. A Pittsburg editor has beenfoundguilty of libel and sentenced to pay a fine of ouo. t'loUsnnd dollars and bo imprisoned for one year ; and thusthe grim question of how he was to get through the summer i-v solved. Sparrows and editors are watched over. !, Wilkins has quit the study of !f:uiy now. Ite was frijhti ned ne.irlj to death 4 " by a bullrush. llic.buH rushed right sit him, and the fe nce abut jjcveujy rli s . yards off. y