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S i ? i - i i ? I . 4 ? VOL IXr-THIED SERIES SALISBURY, . C., OCTOBER 10, 1878. HO 51 EKLY DAYS OF DAVIDSON COLLEGE. IN'TEHESTIXG SKETCHES OF THE MANUAL LABOlt EXPERIMENT. ( KUtract from a Serie of Article onTrea- hyteriamsm in ion - - jiruir "-V- C- Presbyterian." MY KEV. J. RUMPUS. Setting aido those who worked at trades, such as cabinet making, etc the whole number of stadents was divided in to two great detaehments, or classes, for work. A1U A. Jw tlie Mewaru wuu.u, :. .. i,wt of hi trumpet, that echoed j through the leafy .-UleaTofJhc grau old oaks, and penetrated - to tne juniubi cesses of each dormitory. Class No, 1, would assemble tumultuously ou the Cam pus, to be led or sent to the field, and as- ' w.rUed to the desired labor, to continue theucefortti tilM2 M. At one o'clock anoth er riiHng blast would waken the sleepy echoes, and fortH ito the bright saushine aodiquivering heat class o. Should pro . coed. For this work the- students would . be credited to the amount of tensor fifteen dollars per session, according to age aud working capacity, on theirjboard-bill. As board was worth about six dollars per month a first-class worker would earn about one-half of his board. Bnt'the sys-: tern was a failure, and the college -farm ' was found to cost more , than it yielded. Many-causes consjired to produce Uiis re sult. Semi-compulsory lalier on a large Wale is always uumofi table. To yield a profit, labor must Imj either cheerfully voluntary, or fully compulsory,, 'Hie iteward could neither chastise nor dis miss' Ins laborer. Audit was soon dis covered that the young men held strictly to the theory that lalior was a curse, and that they had come there to learu how to evade the curse5 as soon as possible. Ex perience proved that three hoursof hard tana work in the mornhig begat such fa tigue and drowsiness as disqualified them for study in the afternoon. The after noon labor, would be even worst; for the evening studies. Between faithful labor and liard study, lift would become a bur ben, souring the spirit, and repressing die elasticity of youth. Nor could they help -regarding themselves as under the eye of an overseer, though the office was-disguised under the name of steward. To cheat hiui out of their labor became almost an instinct. Besides there was "fun'1 in overreaching him, trying his temper and i displaying their own adroitness. It was not a very difficult task, by an awkward stroke, to break the handle of a hoc or mattock, or to drive an axe into a,"con vellient,, stone. Selecting a good stout stump, yet green, it was" comparatively easy to drive a plow full tilt against it, and then "something was sure to break." It would require an hour or two to repair ; -these fraetures, and of course the laborer must superintend the repairs. That was so much tinio' gaiued to rest! Au old T habitue of the hill once assured the writ er, that he thought there was a bushel of clevis-pins, open-rings and bull-tongues under the college chapel where they had ; been "lost" by boys who were expected " to use them next day. But the "fun" par excellence, was iu hauling wood from the clearing. Four boys with four horses aud a wagon would go for a load of wood. r When the load was on, each boy would mount a horse, with a good switch in has hand, and then away, Gilpin-like, a fray went wagon, horses, boys, thunderiug along like a herd of buffaloes. If any chance tree or.stniup was in tlta way, so mucfTtlie worse for the stump or the wagon-wheel! When they pulled up at the . college, it was a fortunate event if a doz en "sticks" were left on the wagou uuspiH ' ed. Tradition says that while the trum pet called them from refreshment to labor, the college bell was used to call them from labor to refreshment. Upon a certain c- i casion a pig was coaxed and inveigled by an abundant supply of com to allow him self to be-tied r with one end of a rope, while the other was attached to the bcll- ( -clapper. While the corn listed and'the pig's appetite was unapprised, the stu dents inarched -solemnly to their work, and began, like Cincinnatiis to cultivate the soil. Scarcely, howcver,-had they grasped the handles of the plow and hoe, before the pig's appetite was appeased, and he moved gently oil'. Soon he found his conrse arrested bv some uuaccustom- " ed obstruction, and in terror began to urgo wildly hither and thither. At each r surge the clapper came into furiou3 con tact with the bell. The boys all chose to consider this as the signal to "knock oft," 1 v and returned in all possible haste to their rooms to "wash for dinner." But theirs ' was a short lived joy. The blast of the stcward's auexorabfe trumpet re-called them to their desert ed furrows and aban doned hoes,t and all went back "sadder - and wiser" boys. if any one who can say "quorum pars should deny the literal truth of these stories, I ean only say, they were tradi tions when the writer was there, six years after the Manual Labor System was de funct, dim. traditious, whispered under . icuij oaKd 01 mo campus, in the cool Rhade of the evening, when a new gener i -ation of students rejoiced that their lots j were cast in better days. Doubtless there were juany exaggerations and addi tions needed to construct a yarn that would make admiring Freshmen open their eye in mute amazement. Still these stories have about them a vraisem blanee that almost challenges belief. They illustrate the beauties of Manual Labor Schools. The experiece of four years suf ficed to show that the habits and tastes of the true lover of knowledge : can. no more be blended at that period of life, with the habits and tastes of f the farm laborer, tlian he tastes of Miss in Uie par lor can be made to coincide with those of the maid of all work iu the kitchen. And of all persons in thev world- to detect the incongruity' commend its to the bright, quick-witted youth of a college. He would infinitely prefer to "chop logic," than to wield; a clab-axe against the, trees. To extract the cube root of any quality in au infinite series, whether increasing, de creasing or converging, is stimulating to his intellect, but - to extract the roots of nettles, briers, or the ever-recurring sas safras, is increasingly aud infinitely de testable. To dig a Greek root from the most remote branch of a verb in mi is pleasant employment compared to the sensation experienced-when a recalcitrant root of some sturdy oak or hardy dog wood returns iu full forceagainst the tibia, after its elasticity has been tested to the utlnost-by the advancing plow-share. .. And yet, whatever may have been the J pracatical defects of the Mauual Labor Systetp, iu the Providence of God it sub served a valuable purpose. Indeed Ji is questionable whether the college could have been established without it. - The system constituted au attraction aud a watch-word, without which the first agents might have failed to engage the at tention and enlist the sympathies of the people.- Many would be disposed to aid iu the establishment of u college, where they foudly hoped their sons could "work their way through j" who would otherwise have been less willing to contribute. Nor was there any intentional deception ; for its authors were bona-fide believeis in its entire practicability. In the next place the failure of the ex periment practically settled the question, whether as a rule, literary, study and rough farm labor could be harmoniously blended ; aud proved that it v;is poorly worthwhile to mar the progress of the zcalou student for the paltry sum of $30 per annum ; and that he had better earn if need be,jat exclusive - labor, enough to enable him to devote himself to exclusive study. - In the third place it dissipated the pop ular dream of a cheap and at the same time thorough course of culture. .The tvo are incompatible. . Education is a luxury and a privilege, aud costs money. Auu the higher the degree of culture, and the greater the facilities enjoyed, the more expensive it becomes. The expenses must be met somehow. They may be met by an en biwment, or by funding scholarships, or by friendly lieueficiary aid. Or iu the absence of these helps, J the courageous, youth, who has the stuff that meu are made of iu him, may slowly und painful ly push his own way, by alternate labor, teaching and study, and be all the better for the effort. Many have already done this, and with a suitable college accessa ble to him, any youth who deserves an education can wiu it for himself, unless he is encumbered by burdens greater than the care of himself. Authorities : Article ot Rev. II. II. Banks, In South A VantiCj iTadltlons and Personal 'Recollections of Dr. 3. R. B. Adams. The newspapers of the State gener ally stand upon their own bottoms and have no favors to ask of public men. Toact the part of t he precocious puppy -which "speaks for the bread," the most of us would regard as rather beneath the dignity of the profession; and the editor who bestows undeserv- ed praise upou any man for the pur pose of winning hi& gratitude, or to pave the way for the asking of a fa vor, would soon find himself minus the respect of the fraternity asvell as that of the public at large. Char. Democrat. Among the many martyrs to tie cause of humanity, during the awful scourge that has been desolating and impoverishing the South, there is none whose-death has excited more comment or caused profoundcr regret than that of Col. Butler P. Anderson, President of the Howard Association at Memphis, who died at Grenada. He was a most faithful and gallant soldier during the late war, and was one "of the most conspicuous workers among the sick and the dying until he fell at the post of duty and on the field -of honor." A public meeting was held in Nashville some two weeks ago, and a. committee was appointed to prepare a circular appeal to the Bar Association of the United States for donations to the fund for the sup port of the orphan children of Col. Anderson. A noble cause that' will be responded to no doubT promptly by the legal profession throughout the country. Wit. Star. A COIN DEPOSIT? Money to Be Paid Out by the . Govern ment for Bullion at Cfiarlotte. .Col. C. J. Cowles, assayerand melt- er at the United States assay office, in this city, has received instructions from the treasury department for adding to the assay office the feature of a coin deposit. This is in accordance with an amendment to tne sunary ctvu appropriation bill, known as Patter son's amendment.- This isAvhat those interested in the development of mines in the Atlantic Gold Beltj amlmore. especially those who have been operatiug mines them selves have been contending for ever since the United States branch mint here ceased to be a mint of coinage. Hitherto all gold in the form of bul lion had to be shipped to Philadelphia at a considerable expense for express charges before the coin or greenbacks could be obtained, or sold here at a price which would repay the purcha ser for the expense and trouble of shipping to the same point. The shipping expense was never less than one per cent, and sometimes more. Under the arrangement, which has just gone into effect, the operator can bring his crude gold to the assay office and, without any delay, receive its full-value in silver or greenbacks, only one-tenth of one per cent, being reserved as charges for assaying. Accompanying the instructions to the assaver for conducting this branch of business, was an order permitting him to draw at once upon the treasury department for $5,0 X) to be used in exchange for gold. As much more will be forwarded from time to time throughout the year, as is need for this purpose. It will be, however, some little1 time before the assayer is ready to make the exchange, as the details of the new arrangement have not been perfected. In speaking of this effect of the new feature of the assay office, Col. Cowles said that among the advantages which have already been referred to iu this article, it .would result in increasing the business of the mint ten-fold with in the coming year. He called atten tion to the fact that the coin deposit must not be confounded with the sub treasury, which Congress in a bill, amended by Gen. Vance, had con sented to have established here. This matter is still under consideration in the treasury department, and' will doubtless be acted on within the year. A sub-treasury would afford still greater advantages. Char. Observer. GOLD AS MAILABLE MATTER. Under the law of Congress admit- ting merchandise into the mails as third-class matter, the postmaster general recently issued an order that gold should be considered as mailable matter. These directions are, how ever, according to the statement of the Washington Post, causing considera ble dissatisfactioii among postmasters, and several have protested against being compelled to receive gold. The responsibility incurred in its carriage and delivery is greater than they wish to assume. Although its loss does not fall upon the government, but upon the sender, the disapperance of a package of gold at any poiut be tween the forwarding office and its destination would cast an unpleasant cloud upon the wohle line, aud the great temptation would render such d.shonesty at least possible. The com paratively large quantity of gold that is presented for mailing shows that persons are willing to take the risk, Land place implicit confidence in gov ernment employees, although the present- mode of nniling it is not as safe as a registered letter. The opin ion of the department is that it must be considered mailable matter and received and forwarded, notwithstand ing the general desire to the contrary. -Char, Observer. Mamma (who lias been, screaming at the top of her voice for over ten minutes, to Johnny, who has just crawled down from the hay-loft) "You naughty, naughty boy, why didn't you answer me before?" Johnnyvery innocently)- "Really and truly, mamma, I didn't hear you tilj you called free or four times." Puck. NORTH CAROLINA IN 1773, BY JOSIAH QUINCY. . Slatwille American. ' " fTlie soils and climates of the Car olines differ, but not so tnncli as their juhabitants. The nnmber of negroes aD(j 8avcg ig rauch less in North than I in South Carolina. Their staple com j moditjr is not so valuable, . not being :in M great demand as the rice, indijro, &c.t of the South. Hence dabor be comes more necessary, Jtnd he who has an interest of his own to serve, is a laborer Jn the field. Husbandmen and agriculture increase in number andJmprovements;v - "'Industry is up iathe woods at tar, pitch and turpentine; in the fields, ploughing, planting, clearing, or fenc ing the land. Herds and flocks be come more numerous. You see hus bandmen, yeomen, and white laborers scattered through the country, instead of nerds of negroes and slaves. Health ful countenances and numerous fami lies become more commou, as you ad vance north. Property is more equal ly diffused in one province than an other, ami this may account for some, if not for all the differences of char acter in the inhabitants. However, in one respect I find a pretty near re semblance between the two colonies : I mean the state of religion. It is certainly high time to repeal thfrlaws relative to religiou, aud observation of the Sabbath, or to sec them better executed. Avowed impunity of all offenders is otic sign at least, that the laws want amendment or abrogation. Alike as the Carol inas are in this re spect, they certainly vary much as to their general sentiments, opinions, and judgments. The staple commod ities of North Carolina are all kinds of naval stores Indian corn, hemp, flax-seed, some tobacco, which they generally send to Virginia, &c. The culture of wheat and rice is making quick progress, as a spirit of agricul ture is rising fast. The commerce of North Carolina is much diffused through the several parts of the province. They, in some respects, may be said to have no me tropolis, though Newberne is called the capital, "as there is the seat of gov ernment. It is made a question which carries on the most trade, whether Edenton, Newberne, Wilmington, or Brunswick. It seems to be one of the two first. There is very little inter course between the Northern and Southern provinces of Carolina. The present State of North Carolina is really curious : there arc but five pro vincial laws in force through the col ony, and no courts at all in being. No one can recover a debt, except be fore a single magistrate, where the! sums are within his jurisdiction, and offenders escape with impunity. The people are in great consternation about the matter; what will be the. conse quences is problematical." This extract, from the memoir of Josiah Quincy, found in Jones' De fence, page 93, is very curious and interesting to us now, more than a century afer a similar man, from the same quarter, would doubtless make a different report now about many things. What has become of the towu "Brunswick," above nien tioned that competed with the other towns for trade? In a Gazetteer of 1825 it is put down in Brunswick county, 30 miles up the Cape Fear riv er; this is about the distance ot VV il minston. It is not given in an old geography of 1795. The greatest violinist iu the world in now in New York. He spells his name Wiliieliuj, which we learu is pronoiincwl Wilheliny. There is no doubt about his greatness in the fiddling way. He is greater even than Ole Brill. He gave his first concert iu New York on Thursday uightioan immense andience, aud the enthusiasm was tremendous. The excel lent New York correspondent of the Phil adelphia Times telegraphs : "In many particulars his triumph is even more remarkable than that of Uu binstein. He won it almost instantane ously, for the andience was completely conquered before he had played a dozen measures, and it is a conquest which seems to have no qualifying exceptions Farmers are making money whatever. The verdict is unanimous that! , we he is so far before all other violinist who gradually, siowiy . . have visited thU country that he stands ' are sure that this reaction, all things alone. The extraordinary beauty of his j considered, has grownjn, wealth and tone and the brilliancy of his execution ' jg to:ly better off than ever. The lit areuot more fascinating than the el" ' tjfi town8 may suffer, but the country qnence of his expression, the sympathetic wealthier daily. Grif.n character of his music and the syrapathet- fa ic nature of the man hiuJ&elf." AP. A SPLENDID TRIBUTE. Heroism of the Southern People in War and in Pestilence. From the London Standard. The younger among us cannot per haps remember the keen, warm sym pathy with which the English of 1861 '65, witnessed the heroic struggle- maintained by their Southern kinsmen against six-fold odds of num bers aud odds of position, resources, vantage ground, simply incalculable. Even those who from sympathy : with the Northern States vvere nufaYprable to the cause of a"great nation revolting against a real tyranny could not but feel proud of our near kinship with that incomparable soldiery so des ignated by their enemies which, on fifty battle fields maintained a contest such .as no other race has ever in mod ern times maintained, and at last, when all hope was gone, held for six months, with 45,000 men against 150,000, a slender line of earthworks thirty mile3 in length; who marched cut 28,000 strong, and after six days' retreat in face of a countless cavalry and overwhelming artillery and in fantry pressing them on all sides, sur rendered, at last but 8,000 bayonets and sabres. It is this people, the flower and pride of the great Euglish race, on whom a more terrible, more merciless euemy has now fallen. There can now be no division of sym pathy, as there is no passion to excite and keep up the courage needed for the occasion. Yet the men and wo men of. the South are true to the old tradition. Her youth volunteer to serve and die in the streets of plague stricken cities as readily as they went forth, boys and gray haired men, to meet the threatened surprise of Peters burg as they volunteered to charge again and again the cannon -crowned hills of Gettysburg, and. to enrich with their blood, and honor with the name of a new victory every field around Richmond. Their sisters, wives, mothers and daughters are do ing and suffering now as they suffer ed from famine, disease, incessant anx iety and alarm throughout the four years of the civil war. There may be among the various nations of the Aryan family one or two who would claim that they could have furnished troops like those which followed Lee and Johnston, Stuart and Stonewall Jackson; but we doubt whether there be one race beside our own that could send forth its children by hundreds to face in town desolated by the yellow fever the horrors of a nurse's life and the imminent terror of a martyr's death. HARD TIMES. Times aie hard. Everyone says so. They said so last year, they said so five years ago, they said so ten, twen ty, thirty years ago, in fact, we never knew the time when the public failed to vote unanimously that the times were hard. If you ask our merchants they will tell you they sell few goods on credit. If you go in the country you will see the crib full of corn and fields with cotton. You there see in dustry unsurpassed by any country in the world. You find the most improv ed machienery for ginning cotton, and it is common to hear the steam engine whistle in the "country as in towu. You see young men whose fathers and mothers went to meeting horseback, now dash up to the meeting house with a red buggy with his sweetheart by his side, with a ticd-back dress and kid gloves. The most casual ob server will tell you that the stock of the country was never in better con dition, and that there are finer horses, bigger and fatter mules, and more Berkshire hogs in the country than was ever known before. In the coun try yon see new residences built upon the most modern style with modern conveniences. We know of houses erected in the country that are supe rior to many and equal to the best in A FACT TO BE REMEMBERED. A Wall Street, New York broker laid a wager the other day that Chris topher Columbus discovered the con tinent of North America, and of course he lo3t. It is surprising how many intelligent persons entertain the same error. Knowing that he dispnvoi-ln number of islands in the Western Hem isphere, they thought that he must, of necessity, have discovered this conti nent also. Tliey forgot' that he died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his achievements, beiieving, Cuba, Terra Jrrmv and the other lands . he ' had found to be remote parts of Asia. Amerigo Vespucci, after whom North and South America is named did not discover this continent proper either. The land he discovered lay near the equator, and he too, wa3 deluded with .1 . tne notion that it was a portion of Asia. John Cabot was the discoverer of North America (some time in May 1497), which he likewise supposed to belongs to the dominions of the Grand vnam. e sailed along the coast for 300 leagues, and went ashore without finding any human beings, though? he believed the country in habited. It is remarkable that the three great discoverers of the West em World should all have been Ital-l ians Columbus having been born in Genoa. Vespucci in Florence, and Cabot presumably in Venice. 'The birth of Cabot is uncertain, as are his age and place and time of his death. But the fact that the license granted him by Henry VII. calls him Kabet to, Venetain, would seem to deter mine the question of his nativity. The discovers had a sorry fortune. Columbus, as we are aware was trea ted with the blackest ingratitude by the King of Spain. When the offi cers of the vessel in which he was car ried a prisoner to Spain offered to re move his chains, imposed upou him by royal order, he -replied, "I will wear them as a reminder of the gra titude of Princes." He died, as every body knows, neglected, in extreme poverty of a broken Jieart. Vespucci had many trials and died poor, and Cabos or Cabotta, fell into such ob scurity that no lone can tell where or when or how he died. Surely the auguries attendant on the birth of the Western World were not favorable and in a superstitious age might have led to the belief that its history would never be marked by good fortune. BAD As"th1TfEVER. If we have not yellow fever, the cholera, or the plague in this city, we have the evil among us that makes more misery, destroys more live, aud imposes a heavier fax on property, than a year of pestilence. Wheu David was offered the choice of his people being smitten with- the pestilence or by the sword, he chose the pestilence as beinz more directly the minister of God's displeasure, aud he said let me fall into the hauds of God and not of man. The trouble with us is we are in the hands of men, and dreadfully bad -men at that. There are g' od laws made to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors, be cause, their use is the most prolific source of our crimes, disease and deaths-: and especially of our enor mous taxes. But the men set to exe cute these laws have in the first place given about ix thousand persons full permission to sell, a number far in advance of the wants of the people, and then, in addition tolhis vast" li csnsed army, our authorities suffer five thousand men to sell without license : so that, with or without the permit, and in all cases with the knowledge of the officers of the law, we have a standing army in this city of more than 10,000Tnen dealing out the destructive element for the ruin of our people. These are the men who are doiug more injury than the yellow fever would do if it were now to burst upon lis. Since the first of May the number of hotels in this city has increased bv 1,600 and more! They are mostly mere grog shops, but the Excise Board, under their oath, declared these hotels necessary, and gave them the legal sanction of the State. How much longer will an op pressed and overtaxed community subr mit to these official outrages? N. Y. Observer. Death of the Govisrnou's Moth er. A telegram received in this citv yesterday announced the death of the mother of Gov. Z. B. and Gen. R. B, Vance, at the residence of the latter on the Swannanoa river in Buncombe county. Mrs. Vance was a very aed laoy, ana has lor 'several months past been declining rapidly. , Indeed, the Governor has several times been called from his official duties to attend at her bedside. She died in the full en joyment of the hope held out by the uiiribimn rengion ot a blessed immor tality beyond the grave, and leaves behind her the increase of a quiet de-" ,wlw -uuan nie. Utar. Observer Od. 5th. Children are children aud kittens are kittens. A sober, sensible old cat that sits purring before the fire docs not trouble herself because her kitten is hurrying and dashing hither and thither in a fever of excitement to catch its own tail. She sits still and purrs on. People should do the same with children. One of the difficulties of homeeducation is the impossibility of making parents keep still; it is with them, out of affection, all jvatch and worry. - The Murder Cane at Jiock Hill, S. C. The Yorkville Enquirer of October .Td gives the following probably correct ae : count of the unfortunate occurrence by which Mr. P. M. Murray, of this city, lost his life '.Charlotte Dem. "On Tuesday afternoon of last week, 1 M. Murray, a building contractor of Char lotte, X. C, was shot and fatally wound ed at Kock Hill, by lieury Kroner, a car penter, whose home is in Wadesboro, N. C From what we can learu respecting the affair, L. C. Murray, a brother of the victim of the rencounter, and Hrtiner met on the day in question near I lagan's bar room, wlien Jirnner offered an apology to L. C. Murray for a remark he made con cerning hitn at some previous time. The words were overheard by 1'. M. Murray, who approached and entered into tjie con versation, which soon became a quarrel be tween thrpartie, during the progress of -which L. C. Murray strnckBiuner. P.M. Murray then threw Itruner on the ground and commenced heating him. At this juncture several pistol shots were fired by L. C. Murray and limner, it not being definitely stated who fired the first shot, though it is thought L. C. Murray did, endeavoring to hit Bruner, whom 1 M. Murray 'was at that time holding dowa and beutiug. When the parties were separated, it was found that Bruner had esca(ed the pistol-shot directed at him, but that ho had shot P. M. Murray while Murray was on him, inflicting wounds in the breast aud bowels. The -wound hr the breast was slight, and that iu the bowels, which produced death, was uot discovered until several hours after the'altercatiou. Mur ray died iu the afternoon, andhisreniaius were taken to Charlotte for interment. Bruner was arrested and committed to jail in this place." Murder Will OuL The old saying, "Murder will out," was straugely verified iu bring to light the ev idence of au awful tragedy near the city of 'Bridgeport in thus State, last week. A man and his little soil were fishing in a streaiirTalled Cedar Creek, near to the beach. In running about the boy came upou au old shoe to which was attached a stone by a small pieceTbf string. At tempting to put his foot in it lie encoun tered an obstacle and called his father. The man took it to remove the obstruc tion, when he found that a human foot was iu the shoe. , Appalled by tho sight he immediately returned to the city, leaving, the ghastly object where found. He in formed the people at onee. The matter was kept secretby the authorities, who despatched an 'officer to the place. On his reaching there he found the tide had covered the beach, and ho was obliged to return. The next day he again repaired to the spot and found the shoe and its gastly contents as described. It was brought to the police office, the leather cut open, and the flesh taken out. I proved to be a piece-of corned beef. Sub sequent investigation developed the fact that a man named Edwards had been fish ing there for crabs a imP used the corned beef for bait. Wishing to use it another da he put it in an old shoo and attached the stone to prevent its. being carried away by the tide. It was a dreadfully narrow escape from the unearthing of an awful tragedy. The policeman and the man who made the discovery are both se riously ill. Danbmry Stirs. In a recent oration a Vermont speaker rather lost track of himself and reniirked: "When we pass one of these, mile-stones of life, it behooves irs tt stop jSod take' our soundings, and seo where we are dnttmg' ' " ?: - i F f : i- I , ir' t I I 1 -I 1: 8. t if' p. ft.