illean. ;
lDJIU - O. - H
There flow'PS T 7' Xi . "
botliold aud new,
-..,1 liiirli
Wmlliomit off jto i oa. , i ? r f . , . ?
MB- D I .
I liaufilii ypu then ft paragon , ,
ninnV gait, and form :
iteinof raucendaiit wwrth
'Site! women r," " ,
.. Vuom wi well personified
ill the virtues of yoar race; . ?
Vte beaaty, ore, and modesty, t r
Jeitfued qaJeir-like in your face! ; . .
t - ; if.:v r I i' . - -'''
Vein's, I'm'sorf could never boast, .
Of tirtues, so sublime j ; ; -"
Ot dwHition half, so sweet, -
Orilicart M warm a thine. ;
Yuaicemed all others to excel!
Perfection4. counterpart,
While rod have grown so dear to me--
Va only have ue heart,
Ohl tiiose sleet lips and glowing cheeks,
And sparkling eyes of blue, -TUlwim
u glofy 'ueath shining locks
Of s rich jgolden hue;
Ttit Mte shadows are eer dancing,
Oa a bowfm white as snow, -Tlit
jiweltllike wavelets on the ocean,
Aatln-y ftly qnvvard flow.
Ob, happy then, Allean, was I,
While tutting by yourside;
Sordid I deaiii that grief would come,
Or pood lie me denied : -
Bat thought that joy would be my guest,
Abdkiea be ever bright,
Xor one dark storm swjeep o'er my path,
My peace jou earth to blight.
But years hive passed, 'aud once more
Utaud where thc.ii we met;
Bat oti, hoW changed Allrau hath gone
My eyes are growing wet ; . ! '
for the blessed iiimurieii of that night,
('iiiethronguig round me fast,
kid like ghi)KjMy spectre haunt my soul.
Nor will they take their flight.
0h,Uu7an,my eler dear Allean !
Vitbout hee I'am poor ;
I hare no hfart, 1 have no hope.
If here w4 meet no more.
For I have found no other one,
Ttat I can lve like thee,
Awl via othF heart Tin sure like thine,
O'erflowsSwith love for me.
Iknee, heavy carp sits1 on my brow,
At it hatljt 'done for j ears ;
While atiguish rends my bleeding heart,
And liaths iiiejoft in tenrfl.
Ob. khat 2i tool wjas I that night,
To love,- and iiot to Iy
Fnm thy sft, sweet, alluring smiles,
: Aud livt ntent, or diel
But you pal iiHHUi hns lot no ray,
-hiiR- tirsi ho wmcmI the seal ;
Korean 1 jtiru inythonglitt away,
Otw( inonient, dear from thee !
BatM coiitilautlis the flowning waves,
t'imie tu embrace the shore,
So tli warm springtide of my heart, ;
Flows to ih-e ever more !
Oh,vhow sadly th0 rough winds Wow,
Androt; fnnd ieye, .and nuKin,
Aithcy go fiow-ly niurmuriiig by
Alone, alne ahtmei ! -'
Hoyr djan'd the sky there are no flowers,
, The eartlj is stripped of green,
Aud every tiug m?euis fading out,
tint Love for thtie, Allean! -
Bat 6h. my love, iiiv unchannuc love
" WiHuerer grow cohl or wain,
i tlnj .l.1..jt i..iiL ! t. 1 .1. ..i:f.
ui niiyuitJrii wiiii rucii uruain ui iiir,
Alike iu jpy and pain.
VesU'll rciprniler thee Allean
,bet, iynly frieml,
Wkm uienJory is my sweetest joy,
And will be till Hfe's end.
Bnt fast that hour is hastening on,
JVbeo wefll bp viUl away, ;
Byond that bourn whence none return,
To ao eternal day ; ,
TVre to hloni in perenial 3outh
iJubed in $ glorious sheen,
;0f that bright glory niigels wear,
And All are likel Allean. V
For tae Watchman.
THE BttE LAWS OF XEW ENGLAND.
The ."tmfli of historv" cannot be vin
dicated neither can it be mirenresentetl
-lX Tioleii
-
Ty assiiiling those who, do not
Ptc with
i'ou m oniuionror who can-
't accept as facts, what yon recklessly.
a't"'?a! any proof whatever, declare
Q jfte piu teaching of history.
do ifot help the cause of truth by
kg in fficlfa; wayas to vilify the
,1Tigna lernno the death There is
niuch trne liberality of thought and
Dtiment ip this age to make a style of
ntr0very like thisither very popular
r8sfijLrMen are always apt to
Ht, aiH itU good reaon, that a
y$ whh cauiiot be sustainel without
itenjerat appals to theprejndices
pasHiojp of race, sect, or education,
fiot have; much foundation to rest
Kofraiiaiys etlucated ami liberal
p1! prions are in the habit of think
"fr theinselves. Their religions, po
fal, and JiUtorjcal beliefs and convic
V dnwml not so much upu. the
n,lu, tbirthj education, and associ-
n'lo f?n w,,at ihty believe to bo
nW aftc-havjng; investigated these
jotioiu fJr , themselves. Of course, so
l01 ofjrt,,oue1,t RI,A airy
ripults iiTliarm to individuals.
M; 4fd inaccurate thinkers 'and
"XMresof fXl...: - . . ... : .
it i i ' '1 ,lutm anu lunueuty. uaz
(LjiW n,e" to honestly strav form
tJi-?h rtan liypocritically and ph
LallJ, tOilWrPIif. Ita l,n.,. nnA nfu
y"jvl6' Ter ifoundatiousTof rrfr
. . v tmu t int iiiniu iimn null
r-,"rri'aul earnestly enjoins it
, .-.-'i-i.. Bf
r Winlnnl of tlie night, Allean,
F wKof and I firt met,
5Af St I'll ne'er forget!
upon us 'fto prove all things; and
fast that which is good." S I :
But notwithstanding what I have-just
sad, it by no means follows that there is
not still a great deal of prejudice existing
in the world. ''. '10 "L ' 1 ; ' V ' ' :
Much of the controversy of .the day is
as bitter and virulent-asi ever. -Perfect
courtesy and fairness in discussion is not
often found. 'And passion and- prejudice
are still quite as often the weapons em
ployed by controversialists as reason and
argument. !
Tour correspondent, "More Anon," lias
given it as his opinion, that the Puritan
Blue Laws are 'largely: a- myth,7 and
seems to think, that if it were otherwise,
the persecutions of the Puritans might be
accounted for and excused by the fact
that they themselves "had been perse-
cuted in Encrland by "Bonner,
Laud,
ClavcrhoBsoaud Tayror.w I think other
wise. Admit, that iu England the Puri
tans were uiijustly ! ersecuted and pun
ished for their opinions' sake,ought uot
that alone to have tanglit them to be tol
erant of others Tj Ought they jto have
punished as a crime in other men, what
they themselves maintained to be their
own just right and privilege t The truth
is, toleration was not what they wanted.
Their consciences compelled them not
ouly to practice themselves what they
believed to be right, but at all hazards to
enforce their opinions and practices upon
others also. Wilberforce Hist. Amr.,
Ch. 51. They did not ask for tolera
tion, but for the utter overthrow of the
Church of England, the mere existence of
which they themselves were nuwilling to
tolerate. Even John Milton dooms the
bishops of the English Church, "after a
shameful life in this world to the darkest
and deepest gulf of helh" ( This language
was mild in comparison with what was
loudly expressed and published by the
leaser lights of. the Puritan faction. If
Puritans were compelled by Queen Eliz
abeth to attend the Parish churches, the
Puritan Parliament of 1G45 sentenced to
one year's imprisonment 4any one, who
for the third time, made use, publicly or
privately, of the Book of Common Prayer
Uudoubtedl the Puritans were full o
zeal and religion, not only in old Eng
land, but in New Euglaud. "It is pleas
ant to believe," says Bishop Wilberforce,
"time there were amongst tnem many
whose, whole heaits were governed by si
strong personal religion; whilst it is as
plain, that their consciences we-ro often
scrupulous, and their self-will in religion
great of their earnest piety abundant
records are .preserved.", Hist. Amr.,
Ch. 07. -
But from the-very beginning, iit Mas
sachnsetts, they declared the "composi
tion of common-prayer and ceremonies to
be a sinful riolationrf the icorsJtip of God
and that- archbishops, bishops,, arch-
v.W ... " ...i . j . .... .n
iieHKons, hiki me iikp, were mere inven
tions of msjn, to the great dishonor of
Jesus Christ; plants, not of tho Lord's
planting, which all should certainly be
rooted up and cast forth." Synod of
Cambridge, 1649. The Presbyterian
ministers were denounced as the "ushers
of persecution," "popish; factors," and
the like. Willi. AmrCh. 72.
As early .as J 631, lit was ordained, "that
none should be admitted : to the freedom
of the Plymouth Company but such as were
chosen members, who had certificates
from their ministers that they .were of
orthodox principle ; and that none but
rtmrVstiOuldvote "at elections," or act as
magistrates, or jurymen.". This extraor
dinary law, which: permitted none bnt
a select class of comm unica nts f to rote ' or
hold office, continued in j force until 1684,
and was not then Voluntarily relinquish
ed. . Art. New England, Encyclo. Brit.,
Ed. 1803.1 t Persecution for opinion's
Siike began very early. Before the year
J tKK,5"4 1 hey had expelled 'from among
thenrsome, whose principles and conduct
they disapprove!, in their xeal to pre-,
serve the unity of the faith," as one of
their eulogists says. Ehc. Brit., Art.
Ed. 1803. .j : - ,
"To s;iy that men ought to have liber
ty of conscience," siiys Ward, a great au
thority among the j colonists, "is impious
ignor ance." "Keligion admits of -no ec
centric notions. Bancroft, chap. X -quoted
by Wilberforce. ! So they ban
ished those whose opiuion3 they disliked.
Among, tlie'ones who were banished, was
the celebrated Koger Williams, who was
chargedby the magistrate with holding
such sentiments as these: "that there
should be an unlimited toleration of all
religions ; and that to punish a man for
following thedictatesofhisconsciencewas
persecution. H Art. New Eng. Encyclo.
Brit. Ed., 1803, 1 (Two brothers, mem
bers of the English CHurcfi, ventured to
uphold in their own house, for such as
would resort unto jthem,( the common
prayer worship." But Mieh an enormity
they were not long; suffered tocoutinue,
for a disturbance arising among the peo
ple "upon this occasion," the brothers
were called before the magistrates, and
so handled as to be induced to leave the
colony forthwith.' Wilb. ATiir. - Ch.
74. . It was , judged sufficient reason
to expel . household from the town of
Salem, that its head wasf liy , confession.
"a dam ried quaker." Ib. 75.
I T1,o
icy" did u0t stop pt banishment.
j Fines,
im prison men t, stri pes and-e ven
itself were resorted to, for "God
ir-iui . -y-t - j
'forbid, f say tney, "tnat our loye 01 trutii
Ahould be so cbTd that we should
tplerato ; error." Convicted Anaban-
tistswere finetl ' twentyi pounds,or I
"whipped unmercifuUy." AbBence fron ,
the ministry of tbe word" was treated in
like maimer. , But the Quakers were the
most severely handled of all. Fines were
levied on any who liatbored' the "accur-
sed sect ;"' whilst "Friends" themselves
were sentenced after the; first conviction
to lose one ear; after the second, another; .
and after the third to have , the tongue
bored through with a red-hot iron."
Many Quakers were even put to death on
account of their religion, and the perse-
cution did not cease nntiPKing Cliarles
ll put an end to it iu 1661. The bare h' ed the ,'Blue Code? Tour cor
toleratiouof different forms of worship resiondent "P" in the remarks' with
was condemned amongst the colonists as . which he prefaces the article, which he
unquestionable sin." Wilb. 77. They clipped from the Philadelphia Presbyte
not only banished "heretics," but a law rmii, has no shown much discrimination
was passed! in the year 1637, that none or firuessj although ho has not intended
should be received to inhabit within the i d0 anyjwrohg. Hd says lie looked
inrisdietion but such as should be allow- ,
ed
by some of the magistrates ; and it was ati2 all reference to any of the denom
1. nn.lmtiwul. tlmt ifferinir from tlfo iuations of Christians mentioned 1 in it.
fully
eligious teuets generally received in the
country, was as great a disqualification
as any political opinions whatever. Art.
New Eng. Encv. Britt. Ed. 1803, vol.d , M mhicmjjIw wnoie. v nen we consia
ofSup. j after a jcareful perusal of the article in
From a mistaken zeal for the purity of question, flmtjonly two classes of.Chris
the faith Gov. Winthrop strove to exter- tians are j mentioned in it at allTthe
miuate opinions whick he disapproved. "Puritan" wlio' are lauded, praised1 and
For this purpose, iu 1636, a ; syuotl was .
couveued at Cambridge, to whom eighty
erroneous opinions were preseuted, which
were all condemned," and shortly there
after a few of the leading characters who
had embraced these errors were banished,
and several others were censured for se
ditious conduct. Kucy. i Brit. There
was no such thing as liberty of the press.
A respectable bookseller at Boston was
convicted of a libel for publishing "Left
lie's Short Method with the Deists."
Wilb. 112. ' : -
The witchcraft delusion and atrocities,
of which Salem, Mass., was the scene iu
1697 is too horrible to narrate. Suffice;
it to say, that during the ' prevalence of
Lthis fanaticism aud reign, of wickedness
twenty persons lost their lives by the
hand of the executioner, fifty-live escaped
death by confessing themselves guilty,
one hundred and fifty were put in prison,
and more than two hundred others
accused. The Hev. Charles W. Upham,
pastor of the First Congregational
Church, in Salem, Mass., in a volume of
"Lectures on Witchcraft," delivered in
1831, says that "Dr. (Cottony Mather,"
who is still regarded as ouc of the early
Puritan' ornaments, aud who urged on
the prosecutors," contemplated the witch
craft delusion as the instrument in pro
moting a revival of religion, and boasted
of the success with which it was atteiided
as such." Wayleii's Ec. Kern. 67.
The Plymouth colonists, very soon af
ter their arrival in the country, enacted
a code of raws, which is undoubtedly
genuine, and it is a very remarkable fact,
that they did not adopt the laws of Eng
land as the foundation of their code.
They professed, that their leading ob
ject in migrating to America was to enjoy
liberty of conscience, and to support and
transmit pure to posterity the religion of
the Bible ; and finding in this book the
leading principles of good government,
and asy stent "Of laws for tho general reg
ulation of human conduct, they adopted
it as "their principal code of law, and de
clined, as an article in their bill of rights,
that no man should suffer but by an ex
press law, sufficiently published ; yet in
case of a defect of law, in any particular
instance, by the word of God? Art. New
Eug. Eiicy. Britt. Sup. Ed. 1803.. The
magistrates, however, had it in their
power to decide what was meant by the
expression,, xord of God f which very of
ten signified in their mouths all the er
rors which they absely .took to be the
word of God.
A historian, evidently quite frieudly to
them, says that "this code of laws became
marked tcillimany additional capital crimes,
unknown as such to those, of England
and smaller offences icerc multiplied with
rimrous exactness. As this severity had
for its Object ' an exemplary purity of
morals aud religion, tchich should extend
to ererii personam society, it of course
reached the more private actions of its
members, and included all the relationship
snbsistinq between them. Their capital
offences; were idolatry,, witchcraft, bias
phemy, murder, bestiality, sodomy, adul
tery, mau-stcaling, bearing false witness,
conspiracy, and rebellion, cursing or snn
ting a parent, unless when neglected in
educations provoke! by extreme and
cruel correction, relnjllions and stubborn
conduct in a son disobeying the voice
and chastisement of his parents, aud lit-
inn in notorious crimes, rape, and arson.
Other offences were also! made capital,
uponji second or third conviction and
the degree of tho offence was in some in
stances increased by , the circumstance of
its being committed on the Sabbath (t. e.
Sund.iv. In the iuferior classes of
V f ..... -i " ' i:
crimes, were many peculiar to the sitna
Hon of the colony, especially with regard
to sumptuary regulations,1 aud the en
forcing o iudnstry. In these there are
strong proofs of the disposition which
prevailed of showing respect to particu
lar descriptions of families by distinction
in their favor. ; Their punishments twre
a resemblance to the geueral rigor of their
penal code and' were sometimes even in
eases lejt to the MscreUon, of their
judges? Art.! New Eng. Encyclo. Britt.
Ed. J803. j : j: f " 5 ' ?
T AUe authority adUs, that there
"wa ft laf n tho uVject of torture,
"Jen is apiain ratner upon tnevolnm
111 which it w recorded than upon the prac-
Xlce OI country. And tb law also
luimitted of a freemairs being sold for
RCl ';t uisciiarge ins aeuts." t
, Such lavts as these, are characterized
veIT mildly when they are merely styled
"." j lhey contain the evident
germs of very extraordinary provision
afterwards found in the compilation: of
oUl Puritan Uiws and usages maccura te
r the article "with a view of eviscer-
hut as thele seem to be handled with
about equal justice, or rather injustice, if
3 ou please I have concluded to submit
appiovea altogether; and the "Episco
palisuis? for . whom .the, author of the
Presbyterin''s article has not a single kind
word to say, but by innuendo it not in
direct ternks violently and rather coarse
ly assails thenij it is astonishing that "P"
himself could not see the injustice that
w ns being done to a very respectable and
influential! denomination of Christians.
"1" is beggiug the question when he
6ays, "well informed men everywhere
now regard the Blue Laws of Connect
icut as never having bad an existence, as
a code? Who ever said they did ! The
rearquestibn is, did these laws ever real
ly exist substantially, in any form, and
were they ever enforced at any time in
New England t! I venture the assertion,
that no intelligent man, who has ever
taken the ains to investigate the matter
at all, will; thiuk of denying that the laws
summed up iu the "Blue Code" did have
a real substantial existence and operation.
To deny that these laws existed, as a code,
is one thing. To deny that they ever
existed at Jail, is something totally dif-
KM'enr : -
i
It is only lately that men have had the
boldness aiid te meritv to deny the gen
uineness of the
"IJIue Laws," and the
decry and discredit
arguments! which
them altogether are about on a par with
that whichj makes Lord llacon the author
of Shakspcjure's plays, and casts a doubt
upon the question as to whether Homer
was a real ih istorical character. W.
i, :-:
T()"BK COXTINL'KI).
Do TiiKj Lawveks Totk Praties ik
Theiu Pockets? In the trial of Hac-
cisilupii, at Kichmond, for stabbing his
wile, the follovftdgetttertaining testimony
wa interjtii ted to relieve the monotony
of the hiw.i Wei qnoto from the Dispatcv.
tin the subject of laucies, Dr. JIcGuire
SJiid "ifieu lean" imagine anvthing, since
they carry buckeyes in their ijocktrets
and wear liver-pads. '
1 he commonwealth s Attornev Have
j-ou never known an Irish potato to lie
carried in a pocket for cure of rheuma
tism 7 i !
Dr. McGuire I have known a lawyor
to do that.) j
The Commdnwealth'tt attorney said it
had Iteen i recommended to him bv a
lawyer.
The Asheville Journal Kays : There was
one of the jmost remarkable feats of the
day performed; in Yancy couuty last week.
A four year old son of K. A. McMahon
swallowed sx shoe hammer, handle aud all.
It caused considerable excitement at first,
but the child, not seeming in pain, the
fears (of the result) were alleviated among
the friends; of the boy. Two days after
wards the hammer, with the iron handle
attached, Was found, the boy having pass
ed them oft without any injury, aud no
doubt unconscious of the particular fact.
The hammer allnden to was a toy ham
mer, handle three indies long, hammer 1
inches long and about the size of a lead
pencil, the; handle being about half the
size, of a No. 2 lead pencil. The boy is
doing wellj f , r
There is j one jolly Republican in the
House who is too full of bonhommie to be
a good hater, ill's name is Boyd, and he
hails from j Illinois. Tle Dispatch's cor
respondent says :
"He gaye his attention first to the
Greeubackers, whom, he said, iu the last
campaign promised the poor people that
it should ni in greenbacks for forty days
and forty nights, aud then told a capital
story alwMit the mermaid, which made
wicked old men shake their sides. Going
over to thej front of the Democratic side,
he paid, with inimitable good humor, that
he wanted ito give the South some good
advice. Pointing to a member from
Mississippi; he said, I, want -you people
down in Mississippi to raise more corn aud
cotton and tess cussediicsM ; aud turning to
a member from South Carolina he said, and
you down j in ifSputh Carolina to rai&e
more hams and less Hamburg. Even
when he talked about the bloody shirt
there was rippljjjnse, and the Democrats
cried Go on,' when his time was out.
Of the co
ored exodus the . New Orleans
Picayune sa
rs: "For a time it seemed as if
this movement! was general, and serious
fears were felt tliat it might disorganize the
labor of tbej State and jeopard its industrial
lotcrests-. We lieheve these fears were the
product of 'an exaggerated estimate of the
extent of the mbvemeht. From what we
can learn thfe impulse has spent ito" force;'
V t I
teb, Wasiiisgtox, April 28. The agri
cultural reports for April show that all
I'lasse Ctf f:irm inirmli Mma Mit of win
ter quarters in t unusually, good, condi.
r. . 7J , - "'B -
thA lmrrn in frlm ennt .wl ' T
t.llfi I infra in f!if cnnili nn.l -Acf ' 'T '
losses ftom SO-callfHl hn rhtilern. nm r-'
f ..... . O .4 m
. . - o 7 . "
ported m some counties, but iu the most i
of these cases the mortal itr n mK.i.iv
be traced to bad sanitary conditions and ,
wj wuuc-ti t,u uuu sanuai
to deficiency of feeding.
Hold on to the idea that the South does
not play the role of revolutionists in de
manding the repeal of the Act whicli
legalizes the presence of troops at the
polls. '-, Liberty and the military are in
compatible. . If the ballot is to be deter
mined by the presence of the bayonet.
tneu iarewell liberty. The result is :al-
readv recorded. Better for the Sonth and i
the Nation to be in chronic rebellion than a
to admit that the decision of their will is
to be announced at the dicta of arms. ? If
this be treason, make the most of it. -Hillsboro
Recorder.
Investigations by treasury agents in
New York lead to the conclusion that the
government has been defrauded of
000,000 annually for several years by un
dervaluations of imported silks. Gov
ernment examiners and other employees
arp involved with the importers. Prompt
and decisive action is to be taken. .
The political mathematicians are al
ready at it figuring out the result in 1880.
The Cincinnati JUngnirer has it down
nicely. The solid South for the Demo
cracy, with Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio,
will make the President, and no need to
ask any favors ofcNew York or, the bal
ance of the country. That settles ft for
Mr. Thurnian aud a Michigan Green
backer. : s :. ' '- '" ' . .; -
A Radical paper wishes to know what is
to be done if. tieneral Grant declines , the
nomination. ' To which tlie World repljs:
"Not a supposable case.4 General Grant
neverwas known to , decline anything , ex
cept a bull-pup, and that was because the
charges on the aninjal had not been pre-
a
pant. t-rf
Mr. Ed. Graham Haywood, Jr., of Ral
eigh, has a position iu the treasury de
partment at Washington, and Mr. C. L.
freeman, of Henderson county, has been
appointed on the crpitol police force.
This is learned from the Washingtou cor
respondence of the Raleigh Observer.
That was a clever bov who, when he
was given $2 to dig up his aunt's garden
hid a two-bit piece iu it aud then told all
the boys iu the neighborhood. The next
morning the ground was pulverized two
feet deep. San Francisco Post.
The Illinois -Legislature has sat over one
hundred days? aud has accomplished the
election of General Iogau to the Senate
and the sending of a newspaper reporter to
jail. Like "Buttercup" they mixed those
children np. ISoston 1'ost. t
There are C2 students at the University
boarding iu clubs at not over $7 per
mouth. They say they live well and are
satisfied. They employ some good lady
to attend to the cookiug for them. One
of the number is appointed Club Master
or Treasurer. The rest pay their inouey
and have no further care.
Salem Press: We very much regret to
learn that the dwelling of Jacob Yokely,
Esq., of Davidson couuty, wa consumed
by the on the afternoon of Friday last.
Tin? lire was accidental.
. : I :
John Brown's Body, Etc.
New York Letter, April 25.
Friday night the great hall of the
Cooper Union was the scene of anoth
er meeting for the aid of the negro
emigrants, but the Rev, II. H. Gar
nett, Thurlow Weed and the ; rest
could not get up much excitement or
collection, though they drew "blood
curdling pictures of "colored murders"
in Mississippi. Fred Douglas was
declared to be cold aud Hays evasive,
which sounds very truewith regard
to the cold water man in the White
House,' if not in Fred's case.
There were letters from Wendell
Phillips, Lloyd Garrison and Mayor
Cooper's private secretary read, but
still the svmnathv and the tales of
blood failed to awaken the brethren.
Then a colored brother rose in the
midst of the akemby and proposed to
sing in grand Jchorus the grand hymn
of liberty, "John Brown lies mould
crig ' and then there was a mur-
mer of enthusiasm. But the brother
when he started the hymn, got it just
one octave up too high, and squealed
in a falsetto. The rest tried in vain
to ret out some music on the higher
register, but the thing was so comical
that the whole assembly got to laugh
ing and broke up.
Southern Prisoners in Xortii
ern Jails. Frequent complaint has
been made of persons sentenced by the
United States courts in the South to
imprisonment in the penitentiaries in
the North are seriously and often per
manently injured iu health by reason
of the rigor of a climate to which they
are unaccustomed. To-day Mr. Vance
introduced a bill in the Senate pro
viding that all persons sentenced to
imprisonment by the United States
courts shall be confined in the peni
tentiaries or jails of the States in
wheih the courts are held, -if said
States; will furnish the necessary ac
commodations. J
How Farm Animals Passed the Wix-
A ;T. Jtatar Xt. w rtFinjv tWsaxd
C. jb, Claiwsop, o'neof ttc iatls"licrin''!nle'1'
.geui9u citizenof, the-State, is thejy ofSce in this citjr -reports! tbatH H1
Alun LTJ. . . . . . ' I A
viiiuc (UUl UHIS lair Trt turn h m nn( I
fnrtnn ' TT - . : I
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. --- ww vu.m .IIIU uu a (
fortune.' He took out papera fbr a
- wui. uu. pa Deri ior zli d m.i
1. - if ,6-a LIK U' i -
patent in January ,1878. and ever s rice mo?lth at lean
loriiine. ; ne took out pa pera for :
e
that time Kis Father. Mr. H. F. Claw-1
son, has been perfectine the work. He
has just completed a full sire model
which he'will send to the Northern
manufacturer at an early; day and be-
gin active operations at once. The
workmanship is most . perfectly done
and looks more like apiece of art than
trbiwk m.J.:.. . .rrV..- 1 t
tobacco machine.
invention is capable of fillingr48 bass
of tobacco each minute, or 28,000 in
ten hours. ' It' fills the bags with ac-
curate weight and can be regulated to
Slllf ann n m 1 Ti 1 I
machinery is complete in every re-
snect and will lw n inienoni.in 1
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cessity to manufacturers of Kra,mlated
tobacco. Mr. Clawson will have the
machines on the market in three
mouths. Now if the business men of
Haleigh will go actively to work and
establish a factory in Raleigh and start
it with one of Clawson's machines it
will be a mote in the right direction.
-Red. News.
A Compliment to Mr. Steele.
A Washington special dispatch to the
Kansas City Times, one.of the liviest
and best edited papers in the West
says of Representative Steele's speech,
"out of the great number of speeches
rlolifOforl in tU. U. iL. s. I
Vw J". "c Jawu3C ,ue lwo aP'
propmtion bills, that made by Steele,
of North Carolina, was the best of
any member from the South. It ou2ht
'M v T' ?" tt"d
ch,Id Nor,, South, Et,nd West,
"" ttUU uianiy : courteous-
ly sarcastic, cutting wherever it touch-
1 1 I i i i i - . . I
frl libP a nnlieharl hln.lt nf il.v k 1
1 w wic ouar-
r 8iee, Ane vindication ot ins
State was truly patriotic and states-
,ua" ,nce ine retirement oi lar-
. Townsend from Congress, Steele
'"mo ltci i iui uuu iiuiuor. xi e
is one of the most popular members
in the House, everybody likes him
personally, even the most bitter Radi
cals admire his open, blunt and can
did manner." And closes by saying
he is the head ot his delegation.
Death of Princess Christiana,
of Sptin. Madrid, April 29.-The
death of Princess Christina, second
child and sccoud daughter of the
T.. 1- TV Tf x 1 . i.l
j-zuKe xst) iuouipensier. anu sister ot
the late Queen Mercedes and cousin
- - ' i
of the present King of Spain, occur-
red in Seville at 3 clock yesterday
afternopn. King Alfonso goes to Se-
ville to-day. The remains wiirbe
placed near those of the Queen in the
escurial. The court will go into three
montlis' mourning
Wilkesbarre, Pa! dispatch of the
29th : Music Hall was crowded to-
night at the benefit given the rescued
miners. Addresses were made by
Mayor Loomis, Rev. Dr. Smith and
others. The miners were on the stage
clad in their working dress, and en-
. , & , ' . ,
acted again the scenes that transpired
, , . " r
under ground. Ihe, receipts were
conn I., 1 1 i i . i
over 200, which will be divided
.
among the .men.
.
The excess of exports over imports
of merchandise from the United States
during the last month aroountel in
value to $24,198,963, against $34,-
088,707 in March, 1878. Theexeess
of exports of goldand silver coin and
bullion in March last was $1,810,240
against $704,986 in March, 1878.
Making waistcoats at fourteen cents
each, chevoit shirts at four cents apiece,
heavy overalls fifty cents per dozen,
and woolen trousers at ten cents a
nair are some fiuts cleaned bv a soci-
etv of ladies who are investigating
the condition of the sew
Cleaveland, Ohio.
ins: women of
feome or the white people ot Kansas
are already protesting against negroes
emigrating to that State. They are
very willing for the darkey to be sent
to Conerress from the South, but not!
from a Northern State. We hope the
negroes will continue to move Xortlu
Charlotte Democrat :
. uij(eniiure. jitoniy requires tt4U ir . . . ,
four girls or boys ,p attend Z the fTT'k
machine and these will accomplish as gf from Stark ville, M.ss aySS lm;
much as thirty able bodied men. The , morn,nS of 24th Uargeu
-The
of the; United : State ''
w - . 1 . JF . ...
IH
ttniounted to S.8i32.92. th
lflrtrocf X J.J. - ' ' ' 1 ;
mo?ut, aV Jean since, the mint wa ;u !
ab?lish1 - ' OoL Cowlea thinks that
lM tor the year1, commenein X
January the 1st will aggregate $50
and perhaps morens the amonntf atH
is f creasing eVery ! month:5 1 Since the
assayer j was coristitutedlC sub-treasnr-
er Pf llf United States, treasnry noea4
Pf r SpWJ.ai -?feJSP?l!
Without nilV PTIuinoa in 1,1' J -M
H &o4 . The! -tasry attach Jf al
me,nt 1S, an important addittbn to the H
assf opctv Charlotte Obicrter.
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e;ng,n? to JorUan MoorepvH
1UB.Iues je mues soutlr of this citr
L J. J 1 "t
Waf hu!ned to ground. Suspicion.;1
,ar&est er made Wre m aiiy 'one s
HINO OP A NEQIIO Hinv ' H
, v u .icgju jiuuieu uonnson. .
Spfncer who was in the employ of
Moore jind whp was arrested fpr the l -crime,
put on examination he was ac-i
quitted! Last night MooreV other""
mammoth barn, containing wagons,' J '!
provender, agricultural implements;
&e., w4s discovered iiTflames.r , ,This j '
time the incendiary was caught andUj "
prpvedjto be a negro, named- Nevlin - n.
Porter.! He confessed and otto in"' (
plicated Johnson Spencer and otb
ers. To-day about 100 men heard
hisi confession and hung him to a '
tree." 1 - I ' ." ' " ' ' $" j
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Go to the limirr. PolItA nnl. ,,i
whit nr hUnV I .um -LZ , .i
hn - wltin. U a -
LiJ tL rr .L i..
""I" M walked to the right ;
hand oi the pavem.ut. she would not ., 1
WUlcA w',tU K . .'
wak hr4rin tho rKf h,nA :mmluf"
1 j h " , 4 iu . ,
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oiltrht fr hnve f7r.no TV I...
nrrv5w ftf thp Jn,;da rtf h,-J
ment unles3 he or fihe ia beariug toM
rictht UnA nttA UL
Lnd whlto.nreaehpr. mld.t w.'tb J :
priety, mention this law or the rve ,U4
mcnt and road from their pulpits, and M
save unpleasant collisions. Go to the '
rightalways, either in walking,' ridng,:
or in transacting business. Charlotte
Democrat.
Asheville Journal On Sattmlav'.'
LVGn;n; iasL jame-Sumner. nndr tt
the influcnce of benzine, meandered
toward his home six 'miles sou" til of u i
,a L r ni..MMw i. i
I -
a . u-:n
J' I
Uii.1 ivuraa anu liic a n n nun nuati 1 1 w , a
foiling " Ahoui four m'.U from town! l.V. I
he followed a small pathwar: scarcefr1 f
vi8ible, along the Spartanburg and 4
Asheville llailroad. On reaching : '
Deep Cut he slipped! and fell forty ,
feet to the r0adbed, breaking threfl- '
or four ribs and bruising himself se- 3 f
merely. His groans and, cries were -
"ef"1 ...fy Mrs- West who lives near ,
- she and i daughte disigtrd-
'inS therein, crried hiiiji ' with great '
difficulty to heir house, where he ia -
now doing very well under medical ' "
treatment.
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No man can go to Raleigh, or pass
Al s , t i i . i
through Ilaleigh. or eat a meal at a , ;.
w f, . . , . , . tt. ,t ,
Raleigh hoteL without getting hisi '
s 1 J, r .? i i i
name in one or both of the luileigli (
i ' n' :a . rl'
dailies.; It may flatter some people to
4 their names' in printout it is ve-.
ry distasteful to many geiiileroen toba
hcpldel about in ubliceyery time
they leave home. If rogueiever hava i
an idea of breaking into a ma.u'rf
hoPse they will carry it nto effect
w!en they see it announced that he U
awaX f001 home. Charlotee Xaaa- f
crai. :
maclnne will not opeiata
this year in diarlotte. It Has heen
moved by the owners, Messrs. Strat-
ton & Emerson, to Columbus, Ga.,
L ' i. . ... t -
where there is Jess eomiietitiou
than
here. Mr. Y. H. Bailey ha
had tho
sum of!$32 stolen from his residence
night bifore last. He offers, in anadver-
ti.scment published eisewhere,a suitable
re-ardfor evidence to .convict the
thief. 4 Charlotte Observer.
Mrs.;
Sarah C... McRorie, of States-
most excel lent Christian ladyf 4
hnlle, a
died la4t Saturday of cincer of the "V
breast.
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