North Carolina Newspapers

VOI XLTHIRD SERIES. IlIESTEB DARK'S TKIAL.V jfetferdajtliehad been a gajyromfi- jnglyoung girl, without a care or trow-, 'bj j" INow ttere was 9, sorrowful th jaShtfulnesa Ion the "sweet! face, a Kill of anguish drawn about the pret ty firm looking mouth. I'M I Ijwish liadAerwetErjii iiefjhands arid throwing herself do wir on ne lounge fn the cold moon-lighted gailerjTjswejJtwtht ttiS iiiultiflora roses, t The words had scarcely escaped. her lips, when a step soil ruled on the walk f aud .a cheerv . voice said : : . 1 ! fjGood evening little Hester 4" t hen jniflpwer tone as thedark face'bent ; ovef hers, and the handsome stalwart j niaji took both the little hands in his: j ?J Jittle Hester, isn't she tf' j She shook her head iii Wary de- f j Vjot mine, not my promised wife ? iave you forgotten your promise, lies- torfl he lifted her white, tear-staiued accj and sad gray eyes to his. Tou huve forgotten yours, Ernest' she said) her voice resolute and sol- ; emo, despite its thrill of paiii and.ten 1 dercss. "No, "I am not yours. J cansot be. Do not ask me why you know.! Oh, Ernest, God knows I love you, and have been true to you ; but our ream s over. I will give you back your ring, and to-night we must say good-bye forever to dear old days, I vrjll never marry any one, Ernest ; I will always love- you, and pray for youj but we must meet no more," and theuj she closel her eyes to keep out ihe tight of his pained face the face rof the man she loved above everything ! on earth, but could ho longer trust. He'iitood silent: ami thoughtful, Jean ing igainst the vine'-wreat lied portico, Jiis! eaiures blanched with despair. liiscark,e'6iuei t eyes full ofanguiah, i lis i 5jfazcd down 011 the drooping I JiwciitFor along time hetTld not spHIc, but When he did. there was a world of tenderness and prayer-like entreaty, in tlji low, rich j voice. j ' , ' j 'Hester. darling, don't drive me ,froi)u.-' Don t doom me to desper jtipiUt Jfjrou desert me, I will go to the, j tho u tjhope. Xook upilet , nie pee your sweet eyes j you cant care jor- a9; Id far lyol' Ohf Hester; Hje8e: I love you so devotedly ; how caftl fjive you up?. Won't vou trust me a" little louger? I tio try to resist j tenblion, God knows I do, but I i believe i last nicrht sGotl's hand was jaljist me. Darling,edn't you trust jae once more He put his hand under her chin and nc-r iaee l close io ins nwn. sr TO e!a n& elogn entVitlf its deep, .earnest pleading : but ule, mit off the cares. pently7 almost lovingly, and l4p. wistful but resolute tone: ;Jrest, I have trusted you. I ejfUlieved in you since I was a iH Jjye always been looking for Hd t!e time' when you would stand . J it : . j W. P before the world a sober, reformed "AWias.the, happiest: proudest mo- uy. life.' ! I would not care puiy own happiness for yours, 5tl0?ttIl'nk"f,ensn,y Vt'fS'LCtf-lather, and helpless little a -2 . for a rn.in wli.i A . i y t i rf ' ,r ' - vv- tiiyw uo 1 tart Iffble; Ernest, if you try voi Oil What is riirht. find i v tie feiny into your .-6wn hands . if n uJsMth f. e iifcv j va ii 1 1 i UV A 'ora Oh! Ernest, it isJiard, vf pusf part. eoiotioa and A nenn i s r vw air ritritr ' w-w ooraF - - n a fTOuhfit TorJVour: lover, l!wtli ITand never trouble you again." Vnfito0 but her pleading eye! i'Js.Mger'Hestcr, darling, iVejniejaytft me; km goiny; L, l?n.tb- a man. Say God lind that you won't ibret Ji;p yqu, my best, JiearL-kneeiin?; there in-Js fjut oiit her hand land touched LtciMli'f i tr' .. ! .1 wwwuou, greater man one can im- eyes- Vjf Sarble; tor a moment he agine who has not felt the stitU of enin PedW1 V.,?eT,,ke SrWthen drop-1 poverty and looked hopelessly; into ' From 1 prarf " - . i y0U' W j ' sue woum ao anytmng to ;ana looKsunat naa nlleU her young by the hind leg, he drew him out and dis- .f -.jT 79 veryhour' she said in save them .from -this bitter, galling' life with sweetness. It came over her j patched him without getting a single scratch jtjj8?11 whisper ; with . her arms poverty; but now, when she had! it in now with over-mastering power, and j a ftWe fact, (as raccoons are terrible rm! ueck. fTheu sne jdreW her power to swecteS the bitteriegs all her soul was filled' with longing. ' fiShffVnd nevf attempttlie -ssum- fWuM'rwKi- - i V ' . , V ? 'V, -f.--.j !u' :v TT . i . j - I business when in close quarters. Both coons tiTi?j"tmow stopped, andvith a womanucou-- Useless now to her seemed the crown r , , A i , , , at WTt'lJiJri- ; i v , .V . n I -i -t '" . J4 i; . . i were nrery fat and doubtless, had been en-r liJ j"i omn shewas alone with scientious gcruplef, asked, f'ls it right?: of success she had lraJ.d in the tkJ.irir business Kinston the mbohlighttoo wretched for Jhe relief of tears, v ,T i Ih-- ' She felt that4her gay happy girl hood hadlipped away from her for ever; tlmt-.he;::Vtt a wonjansgriejrupon her-7-and a wo man's strength gathering and growing t combat it. That night j as she prayed in silence j?f her room, an electric current of 'itfength seemed to flow into her being; life seemed sud denly .to Broaden before her selfish aims and hopes dropped from; her and a new impulse1 was born witjbinher su;iBefore the:-crbHnEiltar of "her fallen idol, she consecrated her life anew; father, brothers arid God, she would live now for them, f So she ' began her new life, the life of. duty, sweeienea oy tne teeling of being of. 1 , - 1; . . v...- uu, ; wtlx her ., her evy-day work, ... v.viwi .uc ui an naa iaaea out ot Her lite. She was ' to them always "an ever present help," sits in an easy-chair, free from anxie ready, pains-taking, even cheerful ; ty; tke'boys have all received good filling their lives with happiness, their educations and bid fair to be useful home with sunshine. Her mother had men. Each has now his work thatie died two, years ago, since which time ' is doing well. They have come out all her cares, and treppnsibilities had from the hard life of toil into the fallen on Hester's young shoulder. j brighter, ; broader paths of work, uri They had weighed heavily too, but clouded by anxiety or goaded .by ne she had hitherto been buoyed with cessity. Debt no longer hangs over the thought of ; Ernest's love. She them. H They can enjoy the luxuries of had had his pleasant visits to look for- rest and reading, music and occasion ed to, to make her troubles bright- ally a trip out into the world of change er, her hard, raonotoous life less bar-j and progress. Their home has many ren. .Now this was all gone, but be- comforts aud'some luxuries. And it causo it was all gone, because this ( is all due to Hester. She has the jpy bright dream liad faded, must she sit ' of knowing that her hand has brought down with jfblded hands and say, ' the blessings. By the energy and "there's nothing for me to do ; no hope, 1 strength of her own mind, she has no goil iu tie future ; my life-dream . lifted herself and those she loves up is over, my heart is broken !" Ko, no, from the depths to which poverty and her brave, loving heartdid not;break. misfortune had sunk them. It was a There was father, and there weie ' long, weary struggle, hut at last light brothers , Rex, Lester, Eugene xand ' came. -She succeeded in fretting her Jamie; she would do all in her pow- er to'make them happy and-gobd. So, with the tenderest care she stud died the four bright young faces around her, and tried with all a woman's unsullied life has been keyed to a high skill to make them contented with er note than the finest page she has their humble little home. Shej insti- ever written ; her best story is that she tuted little games of amusemenf, little has lived out in her own home, home reading clubs; sweet, simple al-1 Do not thinlcJ have overdrawn her lurements about the fireside thus character, or made Hester Dare more miking home more attractive tp rest- of a heroine than you or I can be, less, wayward little hearts. She was si;nply a woman, and had a Her greatest ambition was tq make woman's faults, trials, and .proueness her father happy, her next that her to stray sometimes -iito bright and brothers should grow up good, useful, flowery but forbidden; wayswas just intelligent men, and her last that she as liable to make wrong steps, ajnd might earn something with her pen, had "to. struggle just "asliarcl and as pf td assist her father ' and educate the ten against temptation as any one. ! boysv Their little jhome and j farm It is in the power of every one! to Avas mortgaged," her father was growing find and use the key to her success, oldtoo aid to work ; the boys were young. Hester saw. thatshe, was need- ed felt that son etliing must bet! o ne, so she went to work in earnest, appli- ed iiene.t with energy to her studies, the power of each to live grand, beau tried and tried, and tried again ; did tiful, useful lives. -not stop for one4 failure, nor two, nor But Hester's story is not yet ended. three; but-kept right on and would not give up. J . Owing to her limited education she experienced many difficulties, some of wh5sU secraed almost insurmountable, but to HesterDareV dauntless spirit spirit there was no such word as fail, j One day when wearied and almost exhaust- J ed by her many cares an5ltials,theie came a letter from Judge Lindron, of- fering his heart and hand He was rich; he, could help her father; he could assist in educating the boys. ' Hester did not write that night, but ' sat ur earnest thought. "It was a great .gray-h'aired father, watching the fur- rows growing ueeper clay by day on life-cross y had pat ;away4 the wd h is bro w. That night she had . seen mn's yearning tenderness, and souglit him turn from the coarse food that relisft he could TOt-uide'iiat-nor-jthe place of that she had yeiIed"otjt nng she had heard Rex say, with his of sight But Jof ;late. when P her sweet thoughtfulness, looki ng away duty to others seemed in a meas from his old patched clothes : 'Father, 1 ure "fiilfiljedthe - old dull acli;- you must Jake, 7my ! money) , these clothes wil do me this winter." I She it right to barter my soul for gold." r t from trouble and hard wprV thought of her little brothers graduatiuff with' graduating With honors at the, highest institutions in the land, making proud the heart of her fond old father, she felt that this wasworth the sacrifice of herselftut .oonscience pleadedoo'andwoniaii's delicate sense of right and honor re volted at the idea of doing such a wrong, even though good might come of it; so she put away thef strong temptation and sat down and wrote Judge LindroD, declining with thanks his prop6sil. Then sJie. turned back to her own gray life oTduty. v . And o . time went by, until ten years had passed since the girl of sev .10 . j & uvi uponHM .nerrjiopes auu aims spring to life.- And tie woman, Hester, ha, uv iiusL reauzeu some 01 ine nones mat were born in that hour. Her father book published; it chanced to strike the mood of jhe hour and brought, hW money and fame. But her famous book is uot her best glory ; her pure, for her diligent application was that key, and we believe that G eu every sensible man and God hasglv- woman a i work to perform, and has put it !in One summer's evening, when the air was ' heavy with the perfume bf sweet June roses, and the dowofa! golden sunset bathed the earth, Hes- ter Dare came from out of her petty home' to" watch the changing cloud- shapes She stood, her delicate face flushed with admiration, her gray eyes full of beautiful thoughts until the wreath- ! ing clouds had faded iuto .sombre massesrand she was- alcine with the ' deepening twilight. The spell of the past came over her, tears gathered unconsciously in" the inai sun iookcu out to tue aarK- west. , l f seventeen to twenty-seven bfecn a T Jong, loner, time.but through it she had silently borne h4r to fill its tdace with strenirth for wnr' ing had-begun the tender reverti- ing to ;the past Jthe memory of toneb "Oh, Ernest, Ernest," she cried in mX3.hearts ; purity, and freedom for low,, thrilling tones of,yearningf,and pleasures as ine wpnu can give vr ;. letmerness; as sjie" stretched her arms Wherr she thought of her father free out to ws the burDle distance. I ' ' SAUSBUBYMTf C!FEBRVABX&Vj u.'-Z ', . . f ;i ,. .... .4 .. . -,?"! 7 ;' i-3 -'l5' " M i.. iHi-citii-it' J. j The 'passionate invocati6tf liad leei ; lteardja step approaehlnff on the velvet sward with eraotioa aa he. Icaught 'his name breathed by-thei woman he. loved and reverencedi Then he stepped forward 'digerly;2' V 4s ,fi I "My darlingI ani here; yoohave de?ndtnSy lie.iXt belongs to voui iaKitr-- He held but his arms entreatingly j a; moment Rafter: - shVas'clasped in their' embnicelnd wasTIistemnwith grateful joy, -to wjords that told her ofihis longtrugle;!with himself in a ir, western landhoV fierte;had been the trial, arid only the'memofv of her fcue iv ha had conquered at last, and then he had gone on tl.4 trne Way and n.ade him a reputation a name for honor and industry and ability. He had achieved a competence too, and he had C()tne back, (bearing the highest cre dentials from the best men amonc whom he had lived and worked, and who were glad to testify to his high standing, his stainless integrity and Ins business capacity.) j"I owe it! to you, my darling," he said, as they sat in 'the light of the rising moon. "Had ypu taken me as I va., I would have ruined both our lives. Until-1 found that either you or wine must be given up and felt hat life would be without you, I didn't realize the dangerous gulf I stjmd upon,! and I could not have stfnggled as I have done to free my self from the enslaving habit. Your resolute, calnj refusal woke me up from my charmed sleep. I thank God, my darling, that you were so firm and brave. That alone I has given nie strength to redeem my manhood." .And we repeat, than U God, t hat a firm brave woman caii 'stand up amid th ruins of her heart, the jeers of the wirld, and be true to herself, her conscience anjil her God. ! " Leah Moore. J 3IISCELIANY. , Thcrc has been a oparnt iM bet w een an" up-towii loyer and. hfs sweetheart. She presented him prith her, )hotograph, which he on his bended knees, swore he would alwrays wear next to his heart. While making his last Sunday' evening call, he pulled out his handkerchief from his back pants poeket, when lo ! the photograph fell at iis lady's feet. She says he is eith el nliaror his; heart is not iu the right pl$ec. j ; j The editor of th( j Macon Tehyrapli is in trouble about the loom;ih hails. lie says that unless a collapse oi the sharp tricks of theTiron trade cqnwsnon; politicians wilt bo hard run. In the past six months the Prif e or" nails his risen at the mills from $2. 10 to $.3.30 per keg,! and mighty mean nails at that brittlo as glass -will break and break any carpenter's neck who trusts them to uphold a staging.! Now, with nails at ive dollars and a half per keg, who is to mt the expense of nailing lies to the counjer," after thestandard practice of par- j ty Newspapers? round Idose. They will have to float As 100,000,000 worth of foreign sugar is aoiually imported iuto this country, the sorghum movement is of importance. In the Cane Growers' Convention, recently bold at St. LouiL, iir. iielclierthe official analyzer, reported the tests of sorghum had! been encouraging "and surprising, Onaswtion ,in PealMMly, Kansas, ha UT other at Crystal Lake, lit., made fbrtyj five.thousuud pouuiU jof excellent sugar this season ont of ii inferior juice, from largely, umipe ! canes, j Uoth Congress andj the State Legislature will doubtless be asked to giveatteutiou to this indus try, which however,5 is able to take care of itkelf. i 1 How to Capture Goosa. Daniel Taylor, of Vance township, goes !up head on the cooni question. X. few days ago, while vis iting his nets in the mill ond, he paddled his cianoe along side an old stump, about two hundred yards distant from the land, and ooking in saw two large, fat, raccoons lying in the hollow sunning themselves. He took; a string from bis pocket and making a running noose, slipped it! over the head of one ofjthcn) and drew him out and killed mm wiiu a suck, men, seizing ine oioer Jourild. grare of Annie CasthT Lee fcaffh-: terof theekdhertvdenl . 1 1. i!ll lli ' IT". .r. . 1 . f 1? White Bulpliihr Sprints Cemto:uiwvaliZi: feonnfy hnderft cedir1' treeAW the arefrasbeeii erected by the' patrioiic IciHxetisfbfWarreii a beanttfal mbnnmt P 1 fnr;wcitv iipou' which u in- senoeu: i.'V-. j "Aunie fC. Lee, daughter of Gen. R. E. find Mary Custis Lee: 4 t u'B6ni af Arlington, Juhe 18th; 1839 and died at'the Whita' Snlhlin;4 Warren county X C;:' October ofltf'l irfetandtroeare'aUnlsWs,' 11 ,a " bom beaveA adores and earth obeys. - IJV skimj are, packed in. bales- tome Hf ?iiP11' It may seem strange but I1 i8-?- Mr, Moore told us he had a large .$.uPti,f other furs on hand, but he gen erally sells each shipment delivered on board 15 b"ei During the years of 1872,' 73 '4 anq. 75 he shipped from this point 34,- yuu dozen, or 407,000 rabbit skins. Who priu uare say mat Mreensboro is not a good ?iarket; ff?" and rabbit skins? -We are told that! the fi;r is "clipped" hj the manutacturers in the Northern , cities and ted for making hats and for other purposes, while the skin proper is used for making glue and mulcilage. The next time you Jick a postage stamp just think of the rabb it skin stun" you take on. jour tongue. Greeiitboro Patriot. Almost Perpetual Motion. A Motor Which, the Inventor Declares, When Once Started Will Hun Till it Wears Out. j All day yesterday the small rooms of Al bert Pietrowski, at 26 Spring street, were crowded with visitors who had gone thither to see the new motor that was advertised in the Sun, on Monday. Mr. Pietrowski is a Pole. He is an engineer by profession, and lias been in this country sixteen years. He has devoted Ids 'leisure hours to the elabo ration of his invention. The model that he exhibited yesterday consists of a pair of hollow metal wheels, four feet in diamter, which revolve on the same axis, but in opposite direction. The moving power is in nine metal balls placed within the wheels so as to bear the rim down at first, ami then gravitate toward the axis, where a side groove runs the balls off to a grooved radius of the wheel revolv ing in the opposite directions. - Four balls were placed in the grooved radii of the first w heel and four , in- the radii of the second, and when momentum had been gained the ninth ball was added, to give additional poweiv To the axle of the wheels, which ii also the axle of smaller grooved wheels tiit regulate the speed of the machinery, the shafting is applied, i "Give, nie a cast iron wheel sixty feet in diameter," said Mr. Pietrowski, "and I win show you a motor of 300-horse power, that requires nothig Ui keep it in operation. It will continue to run until the material wears out' ; Several of the engineers who witnessed the working of the Pietrowski machine yes terda were,. sanguine in the opinion that for all practical purposes, leaving out the engine of the locomotive and the steamboat, it will be found of great value. ; : The exodus feyeria struck dewberry, S. C, and colorpd people are leaving. ; Columbia Register: Mr. Edwin D.Con nor, of Cokesburyeommitted suicide at that place Wednesday by shooting himself through Uie neck;wZtb. a pistol. Death en sued in about twft ; minutes. Mr. Connor was quite a young man, being not more than 24 years of age, and was a son of Hon. F. A. Connor, formerly a member of the Legislature from Abbeville county. i A curious libet suit is that brought by one Myers, in Indianapolis,' against a journal of that city, for calling him a negro. 6ne of the Republican papers suggests that, under the fifteenth amendment, it is no of fense or insult to call n man a negro, and he cannot claim damages .therefor; but 'Myers answers that the negro is hated, pcrsecoted and ill-treated ia Indiana, and that a man who is supposed to bcguilty of having ne gro blood in his veins in that State is there by practically1 prohibited from ever holding office or being' treated ;civiHy." In fine, he claihis that life, ns a negro in Indiana, is unendurable, arid sues the libeling journal for $50,000 damages. Proposed New Coix. There seems to be a prospect of the introduction of several new coins into general circulation. A favor able report ha? been made on'a bill creating three new coins.5 Specimens of there coins have been struek off at the mint. They are the Stella, the 25 gramme silver dollar, and thegoloid metrie dollar. The "stelP is a four dollar coin, vf six grammes of gold, three-tenths'of gramme silver, arid seyeri tenths gramme copper:- It is a larger coin than the five dollar gold piece, and very bright looking. ' New Berne Democrat; A gentleman ia formed us, on, Saturday, that'he had, just receivea a lener .., .u.u., w ...cu . 8Ubstnce. Tliis discovery caused anx that a party of gentlemen were out a day or waS iediatd j call- two since, on a hunt over on the banka, and )en ia a ftw miirotes after lancing; tnat tney naa jus, reiarnru w.u. w. ' - w..a m as the result oi tne spon. , The Sentinel savs one of . Winston's tobacr . J co warehouses turned out 120,000 . for its : i propik-tors last year, ' - - 1 . --,! -? - . s . NETV8 ITEMS. 1 f Th-nd in Maine; -' f TA FutiohiU Legislature Adjourned to Xext J Sumner and On iftmben 10k Their Way i , BosTOX, January 8. A. dispatch to the ITW from'AustA sajs : Th Posinist Legislature after a prolonged secret session this afternoon adjouraed to meet on the first Wednesday la August next. Many mem- oers will go home not To return here before th' daef h5'n go bk to theW dis- ing out of the State House Legislature, and others will tike their seats among their Re- pnpnean brethern." Some of the counted in members wilt go home ; others will con- test the seats 6f their rirals in the capllol for the purpose of getting the pay usbally voted to defeated contestants:' Two Fusion is to-day appeared in the Republican House an3( numerous othem hare expressed their intention" to follow them to-morrow. Fusion ( Gorernor Smith and Mr. Talbot, Speaker of t i Fusion House, will leave1 for' home lo morrow." ; Auodsta, January 29. Seteri' Fusion Senators and twenty-two Fusion Represen titlves took seats in the regular Legislature tm day aid were cordially received. &ev Hampshire vs. Louisiana. An original bill has been filed in the Su preme Court of the United States in which the State of New Hampshire is complainant and tlu: State of Louisiana is defendant. The? object of the bill is to compel the pay ment by the State of its rightful obligations which it has repudiated. The bill sets forth the history of the indebtedness of Louisiana on which it has defaulted, and recites the acts- assuming to provide for the payment of the same... It then petitions the Supreme Court for an injunction against the State of ficers of Louisiana, requiring them to ap pear in the court and answer the premises and: "abide by the said orderdirection and decree as may be made against them in the premises, and as shall seem meet and agree able to equity and good conscience." The case1 will be argued by the attorney-general of New Hampshire and by eminent associ ate Counsel. It is in accordance with the ides; that was suggested some time since as being the best method for a hope that the State of Louisiana could be compelled to fjlfill its obligations. The State of New Hampshire, of course, stands forward as the representative of citizens who are the hold ersof Louisiana bonds." A Terrible Storm. A Million Dollir Worth of Projterty De- ttrjycd. Panama, January 13. Early in December the Cocoa Valley was visited by heavy rains and the water rose until many yards above the ! highest freshet mark designated by memory or tradition, and the inhabitants along its coast were driven from their homes. The; river rose until over three miles wide and went raging through the valley carry ing all before it. Several small villages were destroyed and some lives lost. When the streams subsided everything had leen destroyed in the way of crops and movables of all sorts ; cattle, goats, horses are all gone. The Cocoa farmers visited their haciendas in boats trying to gather the crop which had been! left on the trees. They had to go arm ed in' order to protect themselves against the immense snakes gathered in the branch es pfc the trees, which had been. driven down the valley by the force ot the waters. The loss is estimated at one million dollars. Horrible Negro Insurrection In Peru.: 1 Panama, January 10. A revolution of the negroes has occurred in the department of Chinch a, and some horrible butcheries luve ensued. Excited at a report, malicious ly circulated among them, to the effect that the haciendadas jv erq about to establish slavery on their estates, they met together to the number of flfty qr sixty and broke into several haciendas in the valley, murder ing the proprietors and some of the princi pal employees, sacking and setting fire to the ptemifcs. They were parti ally dispers ed orij the 22d ult. by the Prefect of lea, who attacked them with a small force, kill ing four of their number. Later news from Pisco states that the numbers of the negro bandits had liecn greatly increased by fresh arrivals from Ganhe.and Jic surrounding sugar districts. Their total force is various ly put down'at 300 400 or even 000. On the 24tn ttay attacked the . town of Chincha Alta, tuf the inhabitants repulsed them. K I' ,Star: A little ten months old child of Wilmington became, in the past lew days, very fretful, and no one could handle him without his screaming as if from intense pain.' On Tuesday night, however, the moth er of the little fellow discovered tliat a small blistei had' made its appearance ohJ the un derpin of the left thigh, which 'upon ex araination, presented the appearance of hav ing been caused by a splinter or other for- Cftmbric necdje about an inch ah a I1,. ' quarter in IcngUiwV "4 - t i OrabamHUIsboro and Ureensboro, three good BapMt ehurches I on the Xorth Caro- UnalUiirof-a, are witnoai a pastor. . ..'. y . - u 4 . t The Famine in Ireland, Vj An Appeal from the Lord' Mayor of bub- inwi j. mauon au over ile Land. ' h Losdox, January 25. At Saturda;a meeting of the Dublin Mansion House relief committee 80 applications for; re lief "were received and 55 grants lirere made, amounting to 2,(S5. The total amount so far granted is 8,oM0.Vk$00 were received from. Washington Wfcd 1,500 from Xew York. ; ; -The lord mayor of Dublin has issued an appeal through the London presT in behalf of the Mansion House f relief cbm tnittee, stating that that committee Vs not connected with any other organization, and that it consista of representatives of " v.wuo auu K1IBUUUU5UI H11 ICS. 1 no appeal states that evidence accumulates that there is scarcely "a county in Ireland in which terrible priviction does not exist ia some portion, though it ia more seteVe in tlie western counties and jTn the north west and Bouthwest seaboards. sThe lord mayor fears the public of London does not realize the gravity of the'ertshr, or that unless prompt assistance be given tens of thousands 6f people? most die of starvation. He cannot think that if they did their rlirt rr fa liMrwlrlo iKa,...., .1 . -y ..uuu. v.vto f kuuuvaius; to avert a famine in India would have given less to the Dublin Mansion House fund thau hadSydhey" or Melbourne.' The lord mayor states that 8,000 miye already been distributed out of the 20, 000 received, but that this is a mere drop in the ocean of need. He fears a recur rence of the disaster of 1847, when abundant assistance was forthcoming, but too late to save life. : Apropos of the Maine muddle, the Nr. -tion recalls the Republican doingg in Louisiana in 1873, when two Radical fac- tion s were contending for the mastery, one being headed by Casey, President Grant's brother-in-law. There was a dispute over the returns, as canvassed by two rival canvassing boards, and wo Legislatures were iu consequence set up ouo the Pinchback and the other the Warmoth Legislature. The- Pinchback tuercupuu got an oruerirom uureu, the United States Judge, at midnight, directing the United States marshal to seize and hold the State House, and ad mit no one to seats whom he (the mar shal) did not think entitled to them. The marshal took United States troops accordingly, seized the State House, and admitted no one but members of the Pinchback faction, and the legislature thus organized was promptly recoguized by telegraph from Washington by Presi dent Grant in person. Previously to this Warmotlfa Senate h;ul been prevented from forming a quorum by CaseyVlend ingthe United states revenue cutter to carry off a nnmber of the Senators out of reach of the Sergj-ant-at-Arms. Tliey were kept on board several days, but Casey was not dismissed for his con duct. . ;. - In 187", there being another dispute about the Legislature, Kellogg, the Re publican Governor, determined to orga nize the Legislature himself, with United States troops, which were promptly fur nished him for that purpose. General do Trobriand went iuto the House, read a letter from Kellogg telling the House it was an illegal body, and expelled from the chamber such persons as were pointed out by General Champbcll, Kellogg1 geueralof militia. General de Trobriand then had the roll called, and seated such persons as he thought proper, with the aid of a file of soldiers. f These were Republican methods ! in those days at the South; tbey are stal wart methods now at the North when erer circumstance! require their nsev--JiaUiyh Obterrer. Siiekmax's Fkiexds Movixo A call signed by over two hundred leading citizens , . . . w, tn-oj U1(U( IUMIUUK turtrs and bankers, was issued for a conven tion of Secretary Sherman's friends through out the State, to assemble in Columbus two weeks hence, with a view of oruanizinir clul s in his interest in the State The call, emanating aa It does from capitalists and friends of the administration, is regarded as the preliminary move toward placing the Ohio delegation. to the national convention solid for Mr. Sherman. The friends of the secretary are decidedly jubilant, and a gath ering similar to a State conr ntion is antl ipated. . ! The First National Bank of New York ia a pet of Secretary Sherman's. It made! a deal of money last year, and the wonder to outsiders was how the thing was done. Sen ator Beck, who is a long-headed Scotch man, and who is one of the best men in Con gress, sys that he has official evidence to show that thirty-seven millions of govern ment money was handled by that bank, and the interest on it at the same time was drawn itj tne bank. When the Senator makes good his declaration and clears up this matter, there will be a rattling of dry The I'ee Deo Herald "Mr. Beniamin T Dunlap, one of Anson's respected and be loved citizens, fell dead at his bon in thit county on the 25th, while studying a, Sun day thool lesson. .He represented Anson county in the Sta legislature before and ouccince the war. j . I