North Carolina Newspapers

VOL IX.-THIRD SERIES SALISBURY. N. C, JULY U, 1878. NO 38-..' . . , Ears forthe Deaf. y Wizari qf mexlo pauk will Ml'Al ,,I.-V1 I:PK11IMF.T 111 i. kdison. aTbarrel, and I haven't got a cent." The New York Graphic says : There was a laugh at this, Edison an- It Was yesterday noon that a few of Mr. i nounced from the other end of the stoop Flison's enthusiastic assistants and that he had found them. We moved 'ends gathercdaround him at Meulo twenty feet, and their white flag jvas just iark to witness the first trial, in the pre- visible through the distant trees. ienc of witnessess, of the new ear'trum- Salutations were exchanged over the two t which the inventor had evolved troui mea ofHntervening ground, and an op r inner consciousness. ! portunity was furnished to all present to ' il n tlift ' Grauhic 10me two months ago the fact that he was eneaeed in the construction of a highly f r-tnimiet. and our read- will recall the letter in which he . Ti promised, without hesitation aim nf reserve, that -he would make an ear tube by the use oi wuicn vim ue As Mr. Edison ifi him- .aii lil hear. neh so deaf that he nears. only wnen quuc ( o deaf tha . - ar ana wu 1 and with considerable vigilance, me ntmost confidence was reposed in his pur Trf,w and his marvellous success in ueei oping the 160 inventions which now st . i . omo nn tlA bonks of the Pal tand ia VkAhka of the Patent Office generated a wide belief that he oould really do what he had set. his hand todo.j This confidence seems now to be justified and realized. - As Mr. Edison and his friends stepped imtof tiro long laboratory where his won ders are born, to the open porch at its front, looting south, they bore half a dozen edrrtrumpets with them. These instruments looked externally much like the ordinary car-trumpets, ouly they were live or six feet long. "i stood : here the other day," said Edi jToii, turning his eager gray eyes upon the Uraphic "and I put one of these to my in nis iiuuig - ear. I heard several things very distinct- I y. I heard a child cry. I heard the ui t rumen t tick down at the station, 1,000 feet away; and one curious, soft-grindiug wiund that I could not identify till 1 fol lowed it np found it to-be a cow biting off and chewing grass 2,000 feel distant two fifths of a mile." Tkere were present on the porch, Edi tion James Redpath, famous for his Kau nas and' war letters; Uriah Painter, a noted Washington journalist; W. K. Ap- I .lehaugh, president of the Phonograph Company: Charles Bachelor, and several other gentlemen eager to see the experi- , menu, lliey Had waited ior a pieasani day. They speedily arranged a series of sig nal to express "I hear, "and- "I do not hear, by waving the Hand in a peculiar; wa.v- - I Thcn'Mr.,I'ichelor and Uriah Painter took one of the ear-trumpets and went ' IforTIi across the field to a store 00 feet distant. One of them then said : 4lDo you hear iue now t" "Ye!" shouted they in the porch, with a laughing accompaniment, for the voice wa distinctly audible to all- with the naked ear. 1. "Io you hear this !"' he repeated, in a lower tone, Rcavcely audible. - Again he was answered in the affirma tive. The question was repeated over and over till the ear-trumpets had to lie used At last came to the ear of the listeners, ! "I am whispering now; do you hear me t" j Mr. Painter was fiOO feet distaut, yet liis whispers were perfectly distinct. Bache- lor walked away from him fifteeu feet and . jsignaieu mat lie could not,, with trie un- ; aided ear, hear his companion's wlrispers, f Miispers, which were audible to us in the Jwch. Ah 600 is to 15, so is Edison's pr-trumpetto the upaided ear 20 to 1. j Hut tho experiments were scarcely be- t"" ' Bachelor and Painter walked off across ue neius until they were a mile distant, phey crossed many undulations- Hp hill, 1 Jlown dale, now vanishing, now reappear- ng, till they finally stood forth on a hil- 'Hk in plain sight, -but diminutive and bny-like iu size Signals were exchanged, "All ready' One at each end put the" trumpet to his np, sometimes it went down, and some T' ! times it went sidewavs. but it, never, br car "Perfectly distinct!" said Kedpath. le ay, "John Brown's body lies mould- ung in the grave." Then he spoke towards tho figures on he distant hill, "I heard that distinctlv. low loud are you talking?" ! in an ordinary tone of voice," came-j his elbow, aud reached back with the np n respmse to the man with the trumpet; ' per prt of bis arm at about right angles .1 m . wouiu speak in a I Then we tried it all around. It seem- (l very strange and uncanny to hold a fversation .In an ordinary voice with a f n a. mile off," without a speaking-trunw "and no wire or electrical assistance liatever. "This1s.really teleeranhinir without .1 ilegraph" exclaimed Kedpath. as we could plainly see with ouropera- asses that the man on the fiill had his "mpet in position," Mr. Edison step "d to the front of the norch nnd KnnL'ft t them clearly, but in a voice that could ararcely have been heard 200 feet off. I "9 a "die further off and get in range." I e waited awhile and chatted about e phonograph and the telephone, and jughes, which Edison declared a "straight tap from the principle ofhis carbon iphonc, when at last Mr. Rednntl. M : "I hear them." But we could not see them anywhere. They had vanished. "lie says, 'Mr. Kedpatu repeated, "now tk. nrn.. .1ionnf.nf. A.n. 614 This ear-trumpet, or Jitelescopophon," as ft is called, is internally a curious com- Itinntion nf funnels centflrinf in a ehflm- ami ra,iiated by wires. Mr. Edison before Christmas hopes to complete ior tKe use of partially deaf, people, a small' but somewnai complex instrument., nuicu, when connected with a thin wire to the ear; will enable any one to near every . . .-. whisper oft the stage of the largest thea tre. The Graphic asked permission to de scribe and sketch the ear-trumpet for the Graphic, but was refused permission at present ou account of some delay of the patents. But the country and the world may be assured that our sketch "does not in any way exaggerate the merits of this latest inveutiou of this marvellous man a device which seems likely to make the deaf hear, and which will certainly open new methods of communication to supplant the telegraph and telephone, y "You are going away for a summer rest, I hear," said the Graphic to the gray-eyed inventor. "If I can get away from this shop," snid he : "The proprietors of White Moun tain Ilotclshave generously placed that re gim at my disposal," he added, laugh ifig: "They even offer to place a locomotive at my command. If I can get there I shall talk ten miles from one peak to another with my telescopophon." AX OLD BOY'S COMPOSITION. WHY A (Hill. CANNOT THROW A STONE. From The Educational Weekly. If a girl was to practice for fifteen years she chould not learn to throw a stone itl aml accuracv nave youever wondered why it is? We have, Jfc wag oue of the first anJ mogt knot. . plvsioi02icai problems which presen- ted itself to-our youthful mind why our big sister, when she tried to throw a snow- . ball at us, almost invariably sent it career- t-e to of the jlou8C while Ave. in turn, could pop her in the ear about t.-er time. ,It maybe that wo took a moan advantage of this discrimination of nature. in our Whalf and against our sis- ter, and it may be that wo improved the opportunity to take her fore- and aft whenever she came within firing distance. But that is neither here nor there. As time passed on, and we increased our stock of observation we saw that other fellows' sisters labored under about the same disadvantages hat onrs did in the matter of throwing any sort of missile. As near as we could generalize their mo dus operandi of awkwardness for such we are compelled to call it we found that they swung the arm back over the head with a vertical motion', as though it were hung by a door hinge on the top of the shoulder, or much as we may imagine thebld Roman catadult operated when firing stones at the enemy. When the - arm had swung as far as the hinge would allow, it Wiis brought forward with the same vertical motion, and with as much momentum as the thrower could raise, and, at some undefined poiut iu the arc thus described, the hand let go the mis-. Rile. While executing this quick move- went, some .girl gave a Jittle feminine whoop, or, mayby, a half whoop and a half squeal; others did not. Our sister iumned and whooned. both - hut. th she was a bad thrower. .As we stated at some undetiued point in the arc describ- ed by the forward motion of the arm, the missile flew off. Sometimes it went any manner of means, hit the thing it was intended t.w-i.inm - nt i, - rf t- j.r, whoop or no whoop. Now, the point of difference between : a girl's throwing and a boy's we found to be substantially this : The boy crooked with his body, and the forearm at an angle of forty five degrees; the direct act of throwing was accomplished by bringing the arm back w ith a snap, like the tail of a snake or a whip-lash, work ing every joint tiom shoulder to wrist, and sometimes making your elbow sing as though you had got a whack on the crazy-bone. The girl threw with her whole arm rigid ; the twy with his whole arm relaxed. h Why this marked and unmistakable difference existed, we never learned until at a somewhat advanced period, we dove' into a book on physiology, -and learned that the clavicle or collar-bone,"' in the anatomy of a female isonie inches long er, ana set soine degrees lower down, than-in the masculine frame. This bone interferes with the free action of the shoulder, and that's the reason she can't throw. We have developed a pet theory ofouown, however, and that all-wise and beqeUeeut Providence, foreseeijj" that there would be rolling-pins, stove hooks, pot lids, and hot water in the world, Bet the women's clavicle down a hitch or two foF the safety of the men. Its lucky for all of ns that women can't throw. OUTDOOR SPORTS. The season has now arrived when out door sports arc appropos. The caterpillar has left his den, the mosquito has turned over in bed and ottered a warning shriek, and big green worms are skylarking around on shade trees, and betting on their chances of dropping down behind a man's collar. An interesting lawn game is played as follows : At the supper table the wife remarks: . fiff'Jamesj'EWSM $10 to fix up any Bum iner silk. Don't go away without leaving it." James makes no reply, but manages to Blip out of the house unseeu. He is steal ing softly across the lawn to jump over the fence at the corner, when his wife comes rnshing out and exclaims : "James ! James ! see here !" He begins to squint into a cherry tree and talk about moths. "You walk back here and hand over that cash, or I'll send for my mother to come and stay all summer!" According to the rules of the game, he turns and looks at her, and mutters to himself: "That wilts me !" "The idea of your skulking offlike that!" she continues ; when he advances, hands out the ."X," and, if he can couvince her that he had as soon give her $20 as $10, he wins the game. Another outdoor game is played be tween 10 o'clock-in the' evening and mid night, in order to avoid the heat of the 6un. It is played together by married people. Nine o'clock having arrived, and the husbaud not having reached home, the indignant wife nails down the windows, locks all the doors, and goes to bed feel ing as if sheould smash her partner in a minute and a half. Along about 11 o'clock Charles Henry begins to play his part in the game. He is suddenly seen under the kitchen window. He seeks to raise it. He tries another and another, but the sash won't lift. Then he softly tries all the doors, but they are locked. The rules of the game allow him to make some re marks at this juncture, and it gcnerall1 begins to rain about this moment: As he jjets under the shelter of the garden rake, he muses: "Nice way to treat me, because I found a stranger on the side walk with a broken leg, and took him to the hospital." As the rain comes harder, he boldly climbs the front steps and rings the bell. After about ten minutes the door is open ed, a hand reaches out aud pulls him into the hall, and the game goes on : "0 you vile wretch !" "Jarling, whaz mazzer whaz iz it, jar ling !" ' "Don't darling me. Here it is almost daylight and I've shivered and trembled and brought on a nervous fever which may carry me to my grave !" Jarling, I found a leg on the side walk wiz a broken man, antl !" This game is always won by the wife. Detroit Free Press. IN THE LAND OF THE SKIES. New York Sun. Southwestern North Carolina is aptly termed the land of the skies. Marion, McDowell county, is the centre of an am phitheatre of mountains. From twenty five to thirty cloud-capped peaks are in sight. The most prominent is Mount Mitchel, 7,700 feet above sea level, and 1,700 feet higher than the White Moun tains of New Hampshire. Clingman's Peak, twentyrfive feet lower, pierces the sky like a pyramid a few miles away. Mount Linville, Grandfather Mountain, the Roan, Hickory Peak, Table-Rock, and the famous Bald Mountain stand on the horizon like grim sentinels. The scenery is magnifticeiit, and certainly unsurpass ed this side of tho Rocky Mountains. From the top of the Roan the tourist catches a glim pa of nine States. The mountain ridges of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama face him on the west. On the north the Peaks of Otter are reared above the tobacco fields of the Old Do minion, aud the rock-ribbed Alleghanies mark the southeastern boundery of West Virginia. The mountain spurs of Geor gia and of the Palmetto State stretch away to the south, and the red gold belt of North Carolina is spread to the east. Bright seams of verdure mark the fertile valleys'of, the Yadkin, Catav b 1, Broad, French Broad, Great Pedee, W.aerce, and Savannah rivers. " Springs gush from the ground beneath the feet of the tourist sending their waters to the Gulf of Mexi c6 by way of the Tennessee, Ohio, und Mississippi rivers, and within a stone's throw a purling brook starts for the At lantic ocean by way of the Yadkin, Wa teree, and Sautee. It is a country of vast water power. There are cascades at near ly every turn in the mountain roads, and crystal streams filled with speckled trout irrigate every section of land. The coun try is fairly settled. Grass grows luxuri antly upon the slopes, and the valleys qniver with golden grain. The piping of the quail and whirring of pheasaut8 are heard, and rabbits, foxes, deer, bears, aud wolves art killed by the hunter. Before and After. "Save me, doctor, and I'll give you a check for a thousand dollars." U The doctor gave him a remedy that soon eased him, and he called out : "Keep at it, doctor, and III give yoa a check for five hundred dollars. In an hour more he was able to sit up and he calmly remarked : "Doctor, I feel like giving you ; a fifty dallar bill. , fri When the doctor was ready : to go, the sick man was np and dressed, and he fol lowed the physician to the door, and said. . "Say, doctor, 6end in your bill the first of the month." Jft When six months had been gathered to Time's bosom, the doctor sent in a bill araountiug to five dollars. H &a? i press ed to .cu t i t down to th ree, "ana after so doing; he Rued to get it, got judgment, nnd the patient put in a stay of execution. What think you would be the result if the earth should stop spinning around the 6un ? Were you ever near a large and intricate machine when one of its w heels became clogged or broken near enough to hear the grating, jarring crash ? astron omers show that precisely similar effects only on an inconceivable grander scale would be produced, if our earth oue of the wheels in the universe machine should certainly cease its revolutions. In other words there would be a general clash aud crash of sattelies planets and systems. 'What we term financial crises are due to the same. One of the wheels in the finance machine becomes clogged, per haps shattered. The terrible Wall-street "crash" which follows is communicated to every part of the financial mechanism of the couutry. But analogies do not stop here. There is another mechanism tho most intricate of all sometimes called an organism because it generates its own forces the human machine. When one of its members fails to per form its office, the whole system is thrown into disorder. Members before consider ed unassailable break down under the un natural pressure. The shock comes aud Utter prostration is the result. Repara tion can only be effected by the restora tion of the impaired parts, and the re-adjustment of its levers the physical for ces. There is one part of the machine more liable to disorder thau any other the liver, the great balance wheel of tho machine. The liver being the great depurating or blood cleansing org.m of the system, set it at work and foul corruptions which gender in the blood, and rot out, as it were tho machinery of life, are gradually expelled from the system. GOVERN YOURSELF. Unless you can exercise a good degree of self-government, you cau hardly expect to govern others. It will not al ways be an easy matter for you to exhib it perfect self-control, but you must aim to do so; and if you can succeed in so governing your own feelings as never to appear angry or aunoyed, you will find no difficulty in governing your pupils. do not mean that you should be entirely regardless of the conduct of your pupils, but 'merely that you should not allow their errors to cause you to lose your pa tience, by exhibiting some sudden ebu lition of passion. You know how ready some people are to take offence and show anger. A faithful servant, who had long borne the abusive words of a petulant master, finally said to him that he could no longer tolerate his captionsness, and that he was determined to leave his ser vice. "But, Peter," said the relenting master, "Peter, you know that I am no sooner mad than pleased again." "Very true, master," replied Peter ; "but I also know that you are no sooner pleased than mad again." So it is with some teach ers, they allow feelings and expressions of auger and pleasantness to follow each other in such ludicrously rapid succession, as entirely to impair their iufluence. Teachers Assistant. Diversification of Industries. The excellent address of Governor Col quitt, at Triuity College, printed in the Observer a few days ago, has attracted the attention, among other Northern papers, of the Troy (N. Y.) Tunes, which is pleas ed to note such "a gleam of good sense" as is contained in the remark that "our pursuits must be diversified ; far less than 70 per cent, of our population must be given to agriculture; the mechanical trades must be multiplied among us and our children must fill them."" The Southern newspaper press has, from time to time, since the war, urged some such policy as this. The South is prob ably diversifying her pursuits as fast as possible. As the Augusta Constitutiona list says, when it pays to do so. some men generally enter into that scheme which needs development. When money be comes abundant again, we feel assured that Southern enterprise will not be lag gard iu any particular. As it is, we hear of improvement everywhere, with the limited means at command. The diver sification of Southern industry isnecessa rily a slow growth, but it is a sure one, and may be all the better for that fact. It is a w ise proverb that he who builds solidly labors long under ground. eigh Ob. -Ral- A BLUNDER. Bat for Gen. Ewinjr of Ohio, and hi implacable opposition to evervthinir bnt the wildest kind of financial theories, the advocates of a sensible greenback policy wonld by this time been in no? session of all the legislation they have claimed as desirable for the country. The Senate under Mr. oorhees' lead, oassed a bill makinggreenbacks coveriible at once with gold into the new four ier cent bonds. and also receivable for duties after the 1st of October. This measure, had it become a law, would have had the effect of destroying gold as an article of mer chandise, and forcing it -immediately into the channels of business, swelling the volume of currency from one to two mil. ilOns of dollars, givirigna,"witU the ireen- backs, National Bank notes, silver, and fractional currency, more than $900,000, 000 of circulation as large an amount as the interests of business require and grea ter, measured by its purchasing power, than we have ever had. This legislation was all sensible greenback advocates de sired, and all that a sound regard for tho stability' of our finances could have war ranted. And yet, by the most extraordin ary personal efforts, Gen. Ewing secured its defeat in the House, which, but for him, would have passed it. As there was no reason to apprehend opposition from Mr. Hayes, the entire responsibility for the defeat of the bill rests with Gen. Ewing. This being the case, we are not surprised that the General's friends com ment on his career in Congress in terms the reverse of complimentary, and that mau 3- of them regard it is a total fail ure. Washington Post. THE EIGHTH DISTRICT IN THE SU PREME COURT. Iu the Supreme Court, Tuesday, con sideration of appeals from the eighth ju dicial district was resumed as follows : M A L Neely et al vs J A Neely et al, from Rowan : argued for the plaintiffs by W H Bailey and Johu S Henderson, and for the defendants by Kerr Craige. S F Lord and wife vs T J Meroney et al, from Rowan ; argued for the plaintiffs by J M McCorkle aud John S Hender son, and for the defendants, W II Bailey. John S Henderson vs Lemly and Shaver, administrators, from Rowan ; argued for the plaintiff by Kerr Craige, and for the defendants by J M McCorkle aud W II BaPoy. North Carolina Gold Amalgamating Company vs North Carolina Ore Dressing Compnnj et al, from Rowan ; argued fin the plaintiff by John S Henderson and Kerr Craige, and for the defendants by J M McCorkle and W II IUiley (Chief Jus tice Smith having been of counsel iu this case, did not sit at the hearing). Char. Observer. Elsewhere we refer to the triumphs of some of our youth as being very gratify ing to us. We are equally well pleased to observe that our most gifted novilist, "Christian Reid," as she prefers to be called, is still winuing honors abroad with her pen, and we trust is also win ning something more substantial than praise. She writes exceeding good Eng lish limpid, graceful, scholarly English and we are pround that she is a true North Carolinian. The Philadelhia77mc thus notices her last novel : "Christian Reid always writes pleas antly, if not very profoundly, her style is fresh and easy, her characters are nicely drawn, aud plots, reasonably well con structed, are worked out with a fair amount of skill. Her latest production, "Bonny Kate," is a good specimen of her work, and is a very pleasant bit of -summer reading. It is a story of Southern life, plantation life, a trifle rose-colored, perhaps, but not the less agreeable on that account, nor the less likely to find favor with the majority of her readers." Even Greater than the Mammoth Cave. Glasgow; Ky., June 22. Another won derful cave has been discovered near this town. In another direction called the short route the avenues are very wide, aud a span of horses can easily be driven a distance of eleven miles. Three rivers, wide and very deep, are encountered on the long route. One of them is navigable for fourteen miles, until the passage be comes too narrow to admit a boat. This forms the third, or river route, which has to be explored in a boat. The cave is wonderful beyond description, and far surpasses in grandeur the Mammoth or any cave before discovered. Several mummified remains have been found iu in one of the large rooms. They were re posing in stone coffins, rudely construct ed, and from appearances may have been in this cave for centuries. They present every appearance of the Egyptian mum my. - Bruce, the negro United States Senator from Mississippi, gives very wise coun sels to the men of his race on the subject of immigration to Africa. He warns them against it and declares that the best coun try for the negro is the United State. He says: "We believe that, clothed with all the powers of citizenship, we are able to "paddle our own canoe," and, indeed, if we fail to so do successfully, under jnst and proper laws, I do not know but that it is about time for us to sink." Experience is a dear school. The Crotcn Trince'M Son. Kcw York, June 28.-A special cable to the Graphic from Berlin says: "Prince Bismarck has proposed to the Emperor and to the Imperial Crown Prince that, as a stroke of wise policy, the eldest son of the latter, Prinee Frederick William Vic tor Albert, should be sent on a visit of six monthsto the. United States, accom panied by a numerous retinne. At the iamily council held at the palace the oth er day, Prince Bismarck was present and he strougly advocated the visit, giving as the principle reason the good effect it would have in strengthening the amicable relations of the two countries, gratifying American Germans, and promoting a hos tility to socialism that would have an ex celhmi reflex action in Germany. The visit will probably take place immediate ly, if the decision upon the proposition be favorable." Disqualified as Voters. At the last meeting of the board of ma lslrates of Mecklenburg county, a resolu tion was passed requiring that a registrar of each towuship be furnished with a list of those who are disqualified as voters by the recent act of the Legislature re lative to tins subject. . The portion of the act which relates thereto, is as fol hws : "The following class of persous .111 .1 -v suau not ue allowed-to register or 'vote in this State to wit: Third, persons who upon conviction or con fession in open court, shall have been ad judged guilty of felony or other crime, infamous by the laws of the State, com mitted after the first day of January, 1877, unless they bhall have been legally res tored to the rights of citizenship in the manner prescribed by law." The matter should be attended to at once, as the registration books will be shortly opened, Cliar. Ob. The latest sensation is the confession of Eliza Pinkston, John Sherman's special friend. She coufesses she lied throughout for the promise of $500. What 4vill Sher man do t If the Jenks should now go back on him he would be poor indeed.- Anderson and Eliza have blabbed. Ag ues alone remains true. Wil. Star. Eliza Sherman says that John Pinkston no, John Pinkston says Eliza Sherman that's not it either. Pinkston says that Sherman gave her five liundred dollars to swear to the lie' that the Democrats mur dered her husband, and maltreated her; tat it was in fact the work of colored men. But John paid her the money, $450 of "which she loaned to a Republican "stateman" and lost it. Fifty to four fifty, Sherman managed it to get thai mo ney back in that way. J?af. Ar. Growlers.--There is a class of men in every community who go about with vin egar faces, because somebody feels above them, or because they are not appreciated as they ought to be ; and who have a con stan Lqnarrel with their destiny. 'These men, nsually, have made a very grave mistake in the estimate of their abilities. Wherever this fault-finding one's condi; tion or position occurs, there is always a want of self-respect If people despise you, do not tell it all over town. If you are smart show it. Do something, and keep doing. Society never estimates a man at what he imagines himself to be. He must show himself possessed of self-respect, indepen dence, energy to will aud to do, and a good sound heart. These qualities aod possessions insure him position and re spect. Something for Them to do. The N. Y. Herald thus alludes to women holding office : "All the strong-minded ladies bless 'em of Washington are in favor of lady constables. We have often remarked here in New York that our constables are not ladylike. We would rather be arrested by a lady than a nasty mau. When ar rested we would struggle. If she boxed our ears we would kiss the cruel, but sweet hand. If she lugged us off to jail in her arms -wewould be bad again as as soon as possible. Ophelia, do not sui cide, but be a constable. Juliet, step down from the balcony, escape the nurse aud lecome short-stop iu a base-ball club." The following is the official vote of the Gtilteruatorial and Congressional election iu the 7th District, for 1876 : Bobbins Dula Vance 808 513 1067 1011 1454 2356 2163 1286 676 1284 849 Settle 352 154 875 70 J34H 1239 1250 1042 301 149J 1112 Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Davie, Forsyth, Iredell, Rowan, Surry, Watauga, Wilkes, 607 516 ) 81 1013 14U0 2354 2161) 1 : tm HKJ 337 138 811 697 14i 1207 1201 W!) 236 1434 1073 : Yadkin, Robbins, Vance, 13724 13467 9649 13467 10072 Robbins' maj. 257 The Com to de M , says Figaro, mar ried not long since sn African negress" from the Congo district, whose head is adorned with a fine growth of wool. Her French maid, when tlie Countess is en gaged at her toilet, now anno'inres, "Mad ame i carding herself.' Did. Xou Know 2f? There are 72 national'' cemeteries for the Union 320 local and post cemeteries. The larg est of these are at Arlington, Valtbe for- ? mer homestead of General Rli4 piT . .! jwith 15,547 graves Frederick; VsJ with Marietta, Ga., 10,000 graves; New Orleans. iJa-'.li'JU Si-aves ; Yjcksburfr. mm ty'l 012 graves; Chattanooga, TtuuKffiii graves; Nashville, Temu. Memphis, Tenn., 13,953 graves, Jefferson' Barracks, 8,601 graves. The i national v-r cemetery, near Richmond, Va:, hasG47& ;. graves, of which no less lhaa 5,i59 are of unknown dead, mostly of prisoners. The first bale has come, and cwjc. ' It 1 came from Southern Texas, and passed uirougu uiarlotte on its way North, . Tuesday, the secoud instant, by the Rich mond and Danville Railroad, consigned to a firm in New York, instructed to for ward it to the Paris Exposition. This cotton must have been out of thelKdl by J une twenty-fifth. First blooms will now retire. Bolls will not stand much show, after this. Ral. Xeics. t The elevated railways of New York city, says the Scientific Amcrkan, ha realized all the predicted objections for the few weeks the cars have been running, and public sentiment points to lowering and putting them under the streets in stead of over them. Those now uuder the. ' the streets give entire satisfaction.- ' Some people believe they can think fas-' ter on railroad trains than anywhere elser the theory being that the rapid motion quickens the action of the mind. Some influence of that kind may have affected a man and woman who met for Ike first time while traveling from Elmira int Pennsylvania. Thoy sat in the same seaty fell into conversation, were irresitibly at tracted tow ard each other, and at the end of seven hours were married. "Isit becoming to me," asked she, as she paraded in the costume of one hun dred years ago before her husband. "Yes, my dear," said lie meekly. "Don't you wish I could dress this way all the time!", she asked. "No, my dear," he replied; "but I wish you had lived when that was the Btylc."1 A large colouy of Germans has settled in Tyler county, Texas, where they are putting in a farm of 90,000 acres un der one fence. The residences of the col onists are built together in a towu plat as in Germany. They have witlr them doc tors, merchants, blacksmiths, &c., aud are perfectly indppendent. The Camden (Ala.) Banner, of June" 27th, announces the death of Rev John Miller, D. D., of Wilcox county, that State, and contains a column and a half tribute to his memory. This gentleman was a native of York county, S. C., and a brother of our fellow townsman, Dr J M Miller. Charlotte Ob. It is a great mistake lo suppose that' the farmer needs less education for his. business thau the merchant. Farmers, must read and think more study up ther markets and crops that are suited forcer tain markets, giving thought and atten tion to preparing nd marketing crop af ter they are raised. A few prominent journals display a lu dicrous previonsness in their excitement about candidates for the Presidential race of 1830. Their far-reaching solicitude U equal to that of the good mother who put a stock of soothing syrup, rattles, etc., among her laughter's wedding outfit. Washington Post. A Wisconsin editor illustrated the pre- vailing extravagance of people nowadays by calling attention to ihe costly, baby carriages in use, while when he was a ba by, they hauld him by ther hair of his head. "Christian Reid's" last work has won a large measure of popular favor. It 1 pro nouncedly competent critics a charming novel, not only as to style but as to plot, as well, and ranks higS among her previ-' 011s productions. Char. Ob. '. Two Irishmen were traveling when they stopped to examine a guide post. "Twelve miles to Portsmouth," said one-. Must six miles apiece," said the other. And they trudged on apparently satisfied at the distance. At a recent farmers7 meeting iu Massa chusetts, a speaker gave a receipt fur making farming jwiy, as follows: "Have but one business, aud get up in the morn ing and see to it yourself." Farmer depend too much upon pork for their winter's meat. Why not iatteu a young steer, and plenty of poultry I Iu killing leef let your neighbors combine, each buying or trading for a jwrtion. Tom Evans says that wit'i two Pres byterians on the Supreme Court bench. t of North Carolina the lawyei 4 hsd letter rub up on the shorter catechism and 1st poetry alone. "I ; : . t t. 1 'in : ! ) !i' i-i St 1. 1- I I r 1 'HI I r .11 ?! 1 4 i