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VOLUME XXIV; SALEM, N. a, SEPTEMBER 28, 1876. NUMBER 39. I 1 i I - I I. H-lll 1 " ' '" I 4 r THE SINIa The day is come for the ship to sail, and for John to geloses, And hiaaised mother is fretting with the bairnie on her knee; Th? morning meal is scarcely touched, and the wife : in still for sorrow, For her good maa will soon be gone, ane she. will be ; lone to-morrow: Black clonds are lowering in the sky, but between them streams the sun, With the light of hope in the dark time that for her is just begun. j Ob, may his heart 'keep aa true as hers, and the ship in safety run ! ' f And now they are waiting on the beach, and John with uDeasy breath, , - I; fearing to say the sad farewell farewell, the shadow of death ; I They hare little to say, and little know of writing m tne docks, I But though they hare lack of words they can talk to each other with looks ; -They can feel the heart in the hand, and read what is written in stss ; ... They can tell of their Joys and their sorrows in kisses and in sighs. And so can they speak to each other without the words of the wise. - ,v r ? There is the good ship, the Mary Ann, at her moor ings in the. bay ; And a boat is grating on the sand, and ready to sail away i To the waiting ship wi h John and his mates. Ah, there's the signal gun ! And the husband turns to Uss his wife, and t each other run ; It is over at last, and her good man is with the tars: She will, weeping, watch the good ship go till - oars ciouas niae i ne spars : And then for long lonely nights by the seas below the tilent stars. from Bclgravia. For a lone the reason of the-t k STRANGE STORY. It was in the autumn of the year 1782 that a surgeon in Boulogne of the name Etienne Lefebvre receited a letter, not bearing any signature, requesting him to . j repair on the following day t&g country " r house which was situated on the -road leading to Calais, and to bring along such instruments as would be required for performing an operation. .- Next morning, sure enough. on the stroke ot nine, a carriage drove up to his door. The doctor made no hesita tion, but at once took his seat in the car riage. As he was getting in he inquired 'of the coachman where he v was to be taken to ; but the man "appeared not to know 05 did not choose to tell ; but, as he spoke in English, Lefebvre said to himself," So it is an Englishman to whom I am summoned," and he accord inclv prepared himself for an exhibition of eccentricity on the part of one of that nation which even now is so little under stood by continentals. At length the carriage Rtopped, and the doctor hastened . into the house. . , He was received at the entrance by fine looking young man of about twenty five years of age, who requested him to walk into a large and handsome room on the hrst floor. His accent showed him to be an Englishman, and he said : " Monsieur Lefebvre, pray be seated. I have entire confidence in you ; only listen to me. Here is a puree containing ' one hundred guineas, 'which, I offer you as a fee for the operation you ! are asked to perform, no matter what the result may be. In case ot vou refusing compliance with my rexfuest you see this pistol ? It i loaded and you are in my power. As I hope for salvation, I will blow your j brains out?" i " Sir, I am not to be deterred from do ing what I consider proper by any fear of your pistol. But what do you desire? ' What am I expected to-do !" i " Ye'u must cut my right leg off." " With all my heart, answered the surgeon, thinking that this was a char - acteristic specimen of those mad English; "and your hand, also, il necessary or de sirable. , However, unless I am greatly mistaken your leg is perfectly sound. I saw you . walk down stain with the greatest activity.' What can be the mat ter with your leg? ' " Nothing ; but it most come off." "Well, M. Lefebvre," replied the Englishman, taking up the pistol, "I ... will not fire upon you, and yet I will compel you ;to cut off this leg. What you refuapto do .to oblige me, through Jove of gain or fear of a bullet, you shall do through hnmanitv." " How so, sir?" : - " I intend to shatter my leg with this pistol, and that, too, before ymr eyes," answered the Englishman, who accord ingly seated himself, cocked the pistol. and then took deliberate aim at his knee- joint. Lerebvre rushed forward to : prevent 1 S . -mm nim, outline .bngiumman coolly ex claimed: '' .- . " Do not come near ; if you, do, I fire -ow coolly answer me this question: Do you wish to prolong my suffering np1 ABUlv r ' sire. She was inflexible. tune I could not discover her opposition to a marriage which she herself confessed would make her haonv. until at last one of her sisters revealed the fatal secret to me. Susan was a marvel of beauty, but she was so unfortunate as to have lost a leg, and she : had conse quently condemned herself (to eternal celibacy. My resolution was quickly formed, and I determined be to like her. Thanks to you, my; dear Lefebvre, my wishes were soon accomplished. I re turned with my wooden leg to London. I hastened to gain information of Miss Black. The report had been spread, and I myself had taken care to write to my inenas in ingiana to tne same enect, that I had had the misfortune to fracture mv leg, and that amputation had been found absolutely necessary. Every one ex pressed the greatest concern at may mis- iortune. fcusan tainted on the urst occa . & . dm sion oi my presenting myseit. tne was tor a long time; inconsolable, but at length she consented to become my wife. It was , only on the morn ing after our marriage that I con essea to ner tne sacrince ov means of which I had at length been enabled to gain ner consent to be mine. The avowal increased her love, j Ob I my excellent friend, had I ten legs to lose I would give ohem all up for the sake of my beloved Susan. So long as I live rely on my grat itude. If ever you visit England do not fail to come here, so that I may make you acquainted with my wife ; and then me whether or not I was out! of my tell senses. Youfs, faithfully, j j ABTHUlj OXLEY. In the year 1793, during the reign of terror, the surgeon ot Boulogne, having been accused of being an aristocrat by one of his younger professional brethren. who envied him his practice, was obliged to take refuge in London in order to save his neck from the! guillotine. 'Being without employment or acquaintances, -J he inquired lor the residence ot his former patient, Mr. Oxley. j He was 'directed to it ; and on arriving at the house he sent up his name, and was immediately- ad mitted. In a huge arm-chair, seated be fore the fire, with a bottle of wine beside him, sat a portly ! jeraonage, "whose ijze was so great that it was with difficulty he could rise to j welcome his visitor. " Welcome, Monsieur Lefebvre," ex claimed the huge j Englishman. ' Do not be offended at my receiving you in this manner, but my cursed wooden leg won't allow me to do anything. You have comepiioi doubt, my friend. to see if, in the long run, you were not right. THE SOUTH PASS JETTIES. I out their surplus, and the few desirable lots remaining are in the bands of specu lators, who are holding for higher price. in view or these Jacts, the presence in the city of swarms ol country merchant from the southwest, north ana northwest is easily explained ; they are attracted Wlutt has awe 4m mm tha. mm wfcat . " slil mm Tmr. New Orleans Picayune. From the conjmencemerit, Capt. Eads has energetically prosecuted the work of constructing the jetties and extending not only by the chance of seeing thecen- . . n i r .V I i " ji " bucui, miu piling, ui&uress-worK vi wu- wuuui exporuuon ana atvcnaiog to DuS- lows and stone, ietcj, until nearly all the water of the pass is now confined between them. They h4ve yet to be raised, with additional mattresses and stone, above high-tide mark where low, but some twe weeks ago ther,o had been obtained at the pass mouth' and through its bar, a deeper channel than has ever existed at the mouths of the Mississippi river since its discovery from twenty to twenty- one ieei ueptn, at average nooa uae. oi water. ( I - We have hri Tecord' of twent fee depth of water even at high tide, at the mouth of southwest pass, which now dis charges nearly.jif not quite, one-half of the whole river, or fully four times more than the discharge! of south -pass; and the fact of its obtainment by jetty con centration at the mouth' of south pass, and the deepening j of the gulf bottom outside in advance, furnishes all the proof needed that it is entirely practica lness, but also by the inducement of cheap freights as well as cheap goods. inereiore tne gratifying sight is ence more presented to New Yotkersof boxe, bales and bundles piled up on the side walks, of lumbering trucks and busy express wagons, and all the signs of an active fall business ; and though cars are detained and pedestrian n. rendered dif- OCUU and dangerous, there are smilea tead of growls as the dawn of better days become apparent. y Don't Belong to Oar Tarty. The old KnickerVoker magasine, under the editorship of Louii Gaylord Clark, was iamous twenty or tnirty years ago for itsout-of-th-wiy anecdoUa. Among them was one concerning a party which existed in one ot the southern states about the time of the first election of half-inch boiler pU, and the wait was the same as upon the steeL One table spoontull placed upon three tbicknewes of the best boiler iron aud exploded with out any Upf lug, wiUJperforate allthree. It is claimed that the new explosive Is equally, if not more, efficient for rock splitting or blasting, and exhibitions of iu rowers for this kind of work are to be made before long. Remarkable Afeewer la TWEED C1CCUT. mt Mas TrauU FACTS A5D FAXCIES. aUive: vbea I am a fugitive seeking an asylum Meteoric Mwtdem. Frees Vetera. " A fall of 'meteorites, we learn from Aftonblad, took place on June 2Slh, be tween eleven and twelve o'clock in the morning, near Stalldalen, a station on the Swedish central railway, in the northernmost part ot Orebrobua. Sev eral fell, some oa the ground and others in a lake. Two were found, one about the site of the fist, and weighing four and a halt pounds, the other smaller. Eye-witnesses stated that a loud whist ling was first heard in the air from west to east, and a light was plainly diitio giAf table; although the sky waa clear and cloud less, thereafter two very shsrp reports were heard, the second succeed ing the first after a momentary interval, followed by several others lem sharp, re sembling thunder, after which the fall ing stones were observed by eight or ten persons; and, finally, there was seen in Gen. Washington to the nreaidencv. ble to obtain and I to maintain a deep J!1 "John Jones party." channel at the moulh of the Mississippi 4 The said Jones after whom the party riTPr i nor tqat. is' nnw aaran tahtvi i vi epeBu. es Ae mtmmm m JV VSVAWIIOUVU I 1 . . m mm ... . I sV DVU . PUVs. UUesUS 7 sUC V T PSTU 1U As the question of the practicability PiOl.Df?. rrewa leilow, with a good deal the ,at - wbirlinar smoke, not verr hirh of obtaining a! deep outlet to sea by oiainndor yanxee cunning;" in shot t, up. A meteor was observed imulu- means of jetties may be considered as Pff5 the requisites of a rowem- neou,y at fctockbolm and at other settled the maintenance of which-is J?1 pomicun, exwpt wrsonal TOpulanty. pljlw At thirteen English miles scutV but a question of cost the probable re- J.0 1.Tl1?)me thl?. Uttr deficiency, wejlt 0f jjnkoping it was seen high up among vou. " You shall stay with me ; for you are really a wise man. You will console me. Do you know, my dear Lefebvre, that had it not been for .this abominable wooden Teg rendering me useless 1 should have been admiral ot the lilue. - 1 spend my life in reading the newspapers and in . m . m , 11 1 curses mat I am. trea nere wnen every body else is up and doing. Remain here; you shall comfort me. "Your charming! wife can doubtless do that better than I can." M r1 " Oh. as for that, no. Her wooden leg prevents her from gadding about and dancing ; so she has,1 as a resource, given herself up to cards and scandal. There is no possibility ot living alone with her ; in other respects she is a good enough wo man. I was an unutterable fool. It I had my leg back again I would not part with the paring of a single nail. Between ourselves I must have been cfazy ; but keep that to yourself. men would reap the unrivaled position. The problem of of which he was well aware, especially in a contest with a popular candidate for congress, John Jones early avowed him self as the peculiar and devoted friend of Gen. Washington, and on this safe ground, as he thought, he endeavored to place hi rival in opposition. In order to cairy out this object more effectually, he called a meeting in has. county, of'au thoe friendly to the electioa of Gen. Washington." On the day appointed Mr. John Jones appeared and was, on the .cut-andlried motion of a frendly adherent, made chair man of the meeting. lie opened the proceedings by a high and carefully stuaied eulogium upon the life and ser r it it! i . .v: i topak of himself as his early patron and most devoted friend. II concluded his remarks by a proptmition to form a party, to be called "The True and Only Sons of the Father of his Country," and for that object he submitted to the meet ing a resolution something like tne fol lowing : " Besolved, That we are the friends of Gen. Geerge Washington, and will sus tain him in the coming election agniqst all competitors." " Gentlemen," said Mr. Jones, after reading the resolution, " the chair is now about to, put the question.' The chair man hopes that every maa will de clair his sentiment either for or against the resolution. AH thotte in favor of the apet transportation, and resolution will please to say "Ay." tne j benefit of it. New A thundering "Ay!'' shook the evive and prosper beyond very walls cf the building, s The united voices were uae me sou no oi many waters." ." Now, gentlemen, for the oppostion," said John Jone. "All those who are contrary-minded will please to say " Ne." rtot a solitary roice was beard, lne dead silence seemed to confuse Mr. Jones very much. After some hesitation and fidgeting he said : suit ot such an outlet upon the commer cial interests of New Orleans may be considered. - j It is now conceded that grain in bulk can be more cheaply transported to Eu ropean markets byjthe Mississippi river and gulf route than overland via our Atlantic ports, and just as safely, so far as heating or other jdamage is concerned, as by any other route. In point of fact, grain can be delivered at Liverpool, or elsewhere, via the Mississippi river and gulf rente, in better condition than by any of the overland routes. The obtainment of a deep navigable channel through " an open river mouth," will, therefore, be followed by the devel opment of an immense grain trade in this direction. The othejrexportable products of the Mississippi valley would, in great part, also seek this route to Europe and South America to a very large extent, particularly when it is remembered that the increase of products in the valley is far greater, annually, than the increase of the already deficient and more expen sive means ot overland transportation. A new route is needed and is indispen sable. I The vessels engaged in the Mississippi river exports trade would, of course, bring return cargoes of foreign goods, and these- would be transported to the interior by steamers, barge lines and by rail. All of the interior cities in the valley would avail I themselves of thexe facilities for chea all would rean Orleans would revive and prosper bevond anything in the past, and her business in the sky, and then sank down in about ten seconds toward the horiaon io the west. It had the appearance of a large pear a foot long, which, notwithstanding the bright sunshine, left behind a clear, shining streak of six or eight tVet in ap parent length, which finally broke up into a multitude of star-like sparks, litre no noUe was heard. According to a communication from the Stockholm meteorological bureau there is reason to believe that the phenomena rose from the "knlblixt" (foudrt dotmlairt) which generally appears as a luminous round object, and often, on approaching the ground, assumes a lengthened form and a blinding white color, and bursts asun der, commonly with a loud report. As all who observed the meteor, both in Stockholm and Sodennanland, saw the luminous appearance in the same direc tion, nameley, west-noi thwest, it is probable that the light proceed td from the main mam or the meteor situated at a very great distance. The phenomenon observed here (at block holm) must therefore have been so tar an illusion the object instead of being, aa most pro !le estimated, within a few- thousand eet, being actually at a great distance. Later information shows that the phe nomenon was visible over a great part of Middle fcwsdso. la- It wae frond in July last that Tweed was in Santiago de Cube, haTiav psvae3 there from Havana. General JouTtllar was applied to by the American consul to bare Tweed secured and seat to the Lnited Futea. General Joavellar was quite willing, even la the absence of an e i tradition treaty, to blire the Ameri can government in return for their cour tesy in Arquette a case some years arrv. Tweed, howeter. was apprised u Fasti. ago of his impending danger and sailed for Viro, Spain, July 27tb, oa board the sailing vessel Carmen. Mr. Cashing thereupon notified the Spanish jpvrn ment of the fact, and tbaad thra willing UwrsstTvs4 eadsvcura lUCuha, or deliver him op to the American coo auL Every precaution waa tairn by the Spanish .government to secure Tweed's arrest la any port of Fpaia, or en any coast-line by which he might arrive. Severe orders were given to the Waal authori'lea, especially thojss of Tiro and the Gallk-ian coast. Oa September 6th, the Carmen hove io sight off Ytxn, and waa immediately boarded by the go vern meat of PonUvldra. The gover nor at once reco-nited Tweed from pbo tographa which he had ia his possmkn for some time previous to the arrival of the fugitive Tweed was entered on the ship's papers ia the came of Secor, and waa accompanied by a maa giving his name as William Hunt, who is said to be his nephew. . Both wtte Immediately secured and thrown into the calaboose nnder a strong guard", but were subse quently transferred, by order, to a for tress i n Vigo, under the command of the captain-generaL The first arcrvtary of the American legation has reqote4 the extradition of Tweed, and he will coaee quently he handed over t the Ameri can authorities. Gorrnt: "We are ocly we enjoy the good will of othera, Tbtxjc is a maa la Nrwart so'dc that when be attrade charch he oorerke the pew farthest from the pslpit, ta save the Interest oa his money while the eel lectors are passing the plate Sot eeatrttm- It ten yean the screw pro-peC! ha entirely replaced the paddle la traaeei- untie cst lotion, live wvigtt ox mans e nines hij .diminished oo-fcai& the steam pressure eaadrapSed, aad the eocumaptioa f otsU ha decreased two thirds. Asrcrcrr Daoirxi: Arcotdlnf to a German analyst the coapnsitieo ct an old brofij wrcaa. $mrjomrd to b abol two thousand years old, ha been ascer tained to be ninety parts copper aad tea parts tin, proving that tin was know to the ancients. Wonderful Stories by Dr. The celebrated chemist," Dr. Dora sis. full benefit of her how to obtaiu and maintain a deep navigable outlet to sea. may safely be considered as solved. Its realization is only dependent upon a con tinuance of j work -the application of the means necessary to complete what has been so well begun. The Railroad of the World. Dr. G. Stuermer, of Bromberg, Trus- bir, youi are mad," answered the doc w in aespair; . dui nave your own way I am ready to do as vou wish." " Everything was ready for the epera- tKn. As soon as the doctor took up his instruments, the Englishman. lighted his cigar, anu aeciarexi tie would smoke until the operation was conclued. He ke uiswwu, .iiie uitfiess lee rested !u oon the floor, but the Englishman still smok- ea on. The operation, had been per formed in a most masterlv manner nml thanks to Dr. Lefebyres skill and atten tion, the patient soon became perfectly recovered, although, of course, he had to be supplied with a wooden leg. He rewarded the surgeon, whom he had learned to esteem mwre and more every day thanked him with tears in his eyei for the great obr,jratiftn under whicQ-'he had laid him, and in a short time started for England. . , About two months after his patient's departure the surgeon received the fol lowing letter from England : jnciosei you win receive a token of my - boundless gratitude a bill of ex change on my banker in Paris for C. r.iui e xr i i , . i ',vv iraucH. iou nave renaeieu me the happiest of men by ridding me "i nmo wuiuii .was . an oostacie in the way of my happiness. Learn then the reason of what you termed my mad ness. You assured me that there coWd be. no justifiable motive for so singular a . mutilation, x onered you a wager, and I jvu wcic ugiib iu rei using It. AI - ter mysecondietum From the PW i I m . AItUlVO became acquainted with Sussan Black, "ie most accomplished and facinatinu of "wincu. i sougnt ner nana .in mar r'age. '. Her fortune and family were such as met with the entire approbation of my parents. As for me, I thought onlv t her charms. I was happy enough to pain her affectionsr-a fact which she did norattempt to deny ; but she at the same ume nrmly refused to become my wife:, in vain did I beseech her to do so ; In timu oaa ner relations ail second my de She Knew the Beast. Dfttroit Free Press: "You see this hoes, don't you?" called out la woman about forty years old as she drove up to a Grand River avenue blacksmith-shop yesterday. I The smith came out ana repnea mat his sight was good, j I ... "I want a shoe on tnat nina root ngnt to once," sbercontinued, and she jumped down and had the horse almost out of the old wagon before, the smith reached the curbstone. She led the beast into the shop, sat down oil the bench and pre pare 1 to take a smoke, and as the black smith took down a shoe she observed : " No fooling now. j. I want that shoe to stick to that foet for a whole year. You can't impose on me 'cause" I'm a wo man." I I - After the hoof had been prepared the horse suddenly became restive, dancing around and bothering the shoer so that he fould not proceed. II " You don't seem to have had any ex perience with horses," remaiked the wo man as she rose uoi and laid her pipe aside. " I know this beast from Dan'l to Besheba. and vou iust eit back a little. Tne smith retreated a few ftet and the woman caught the ihorse by, the bits, gave him a. two hundred pound kick in the-riha and veiled i "Wfma! Charles Henrv eit around there stand over and take ;that and this and some more I Now come up and toe the mark 1" I I Charles Henrv kicked the anvil off the lock as she kicked his . ribs, but she icked the hardest, and when! the horse- shoer sluck his head intathe shop the horse was half over a bench, but as meek as a lamb. , i r ga" "Now purceed' said the woman, as sne picaea up ner pipe. ; w-u w tme to foolinu- around me and achin' for o .... , a row, he 8 laying up sorrow lpr nis gray sia. has collected statistics showing the railroad construction of the world during the year 1875, and jthe total number of miles in operation at the close of the year. With correcjtions of the Uuited Slates and Canada made by the New York Railroad Gazette, the summary of which is as follows :j svaSAsr. Europe.. AKHIK Africa Nnrth A mprirft Ontrml Amrrlr anil W. tonlh Am-rica....... . A up t ml a ... . i lo 1-75. 4.374 a7 nlir. Tmal a I the end of li7.'.. l.74 7,M I.4M 7..T7 M7 3.7l 1.7. hairs. Of Rufus iChoate's wit a volume might be compiled. Of a party in suit pesaid: "Why doesn't he pa the money Le has ill rot T much of a villain that he wouldn't if he could, and so much of a bankrupt" that he couldn't if he would." Dt a very crooked flight of stairs he said, " How drunk must a man be to climb those stairs !" Of one of his female' clients he Total-: i. . KV-'tH Germany at present leads European countries in the mileage of its railroads. Great Britain held first place at the be ginning of 187?, bit during the year Germany ! opened 1L493 miles of nad, against 2oO m tireat itntain. trance opened 573 miles of! road ; Austria, 467 ; sweeden, vjo ownwrianu, oo; iuuy, 196; Denmark, 130 Russia, 81 ; 1'ortu- gal, 69:,? and Belgium 62. The total mileage m the principal European coun tries is as I follows i uermany, u,6tZ Great Britain, 16.6OT; France, 13.414 Russia, 11,525; Austria, 10,792; Iwly, 4.777; Spain, 3,602; Sweden, 2,46-j ; Belgium,) 2,167; jSwitzerland, 1,293; Holland, 1,011. lnj proportion to .area, Ttlo-Miin haa t.h p-fft&tcrtt mil wsv mile age of any country in the world. Great Britain stands next tin oraer, ana in pro portion to her population stands first in the scale.; Itussia, m proportion w fr immense1' area, has the least railroad de velopment ot any European country. Forty-eight ana one -nan per cent, oi me railroad mileage in the world is in Eu rope. I . North America has forty-three and a half per Icent. of thk total milage of the world, and the United States alone forty and a half per cent, tne numoer oi miles in the United, States is 74,183 ; in Canada,,' 4,837, and in Mexico. 37. Thpr were constructed m the united States in 1875, 1,545 miles, llm l more than was constructed iu any oiber country, though when the area is taken ' in suit jnto consideration the progress whs not y back near great as that ot Germany, and He ig go . thafc nuinber ot other Gentlemen, do vote. The chair cannot decide a disputed question when nobody voles for the other side. We want a di rect vote, so that the country may know who are the real true friends of Gen. Waihington. Upon'this appeal one of the audience arose and said : " I perceive the unpleasant dilemma in which the chair is placed, and in order to relieve the presiding officer from bis quandary I now propose to amend the resolution by adding, after the name of Gen. Washington and John Jones tor congress." ' .The amendment is in order I ac cept the amendment," id the chair man, speaking very quickly ; " and the chair will now put the question aa amended : "All those who are in favor of Gen. Washington for president and John Jonc-s for congress will please say Ay." "Ay ay I " said John Jones and his brother, with loud oices, which thsy had supposed would be drowned in the unanimous thunder of the affirmative vote. The "chair" squirmed and hesitated. " Put the contrary I " said a hundred voices at the same moment. "All those op po-po eed." said the chair, " will please say No 1 " " No o e ! " thundered every voice but two in the whole assembly, and those were Jones' and his brother's. Then followed a roar of laughter, as Car lyle says, " like the neighing of all Tat tersall's. "Gentlemen," said Mr. Jone, " the chair perceives that there are people in this meeting who don't belong to our party; they have evidently come here to agitate and make mischief. I there fore do now adjourn this meeting 1 Aa English Estimate ef American dost rial rrogresa. Douglas Calton, one of the EnlMi judges in the group for railway appliance at Philadelphia, writes as follows to the London Times : I last visited the United States in 1856. The progress made in the interval of twenty years is very marked. The stimulus aforded by the demands and expenditure on account of the war, assisted by the protective system which has been adopted, has developed and 'nursed every variety of man u fact- ure, from iron rails to i ansiaa fancy article. The advocates of the protective policy aay it should be called nationality, not protection. Without discussing the wisdom of the protective policy, or bow far it has been Instrumental in aggravat ing the present stagnation of trade, it is certain that it has Ted to the erection of a large number of factories and of numer ous iron and steel works, and to a rapid development ot manufacturing industry, as evidenced by the great increase in late years ot the amount of coal raised. Thus, while the total amount of coal raised in the United State in 170 was about 32 000,000 tons, as com pared with 113,000, 000 raised in Great Britain. the coal raised in the United Stale in 1874 waa 59.000, 000 tons as compared with 125,000,000 raised in Great Britain. Ot the coal thus raised in 1874, only about 500,000 was exported from the United States, o which about -iw.wu ions was export ed to the Dominion of Canada. The coal-fields of the United States cover ao area of 196,000 roisrs, and the coal la, in mot case, easily accessible; iron ore is abundant. The rate of wages for un skilled labor varied io the works which I visited from ninety cents a day to a dol lar and twenty cents equivalent, at the preent rate of exchanging, in our money tn three shilling six pence, or four shill ings seven pence. The ware of carpen ter, joiners, blacksmith,- and fitters varied from one dollar and City cent to two dollars and seventy-five rents L in our money, from hve shillings six Dora ma, bowed in the follow in manner, la a recent Ireture, how extreme meet: Egrs ran be cooked by the extreme of cold as well as by the extreme of heaL Batter can be made like ivory, ao that it can be turned. We may by the areney of this solidify many of the other liquid robstancea, and, indeed, many of the gaseous, but a more intense degree of cold is used, and we employ laughing ga. This laughing gas, which i heavy, is the carbonie acid we have shown: when squeezed forcibly by the pump it br comea aa beautiful and pellucid a liquid as carbonie acid, and II allowed to re main produce a most Intense degree of cold. We can, bowe var show the liquid. Let me ask you to observe, prior to making tnat experiment, a very curioasly interesting one in regard to tb spheroidal state of matter, we have here a rlasB lamp, and we place over thla lamp a plauna dUh. In the platina di we p'.ac some of the mixture of sr. lid carbonic ackl, and io the mkldle of it introduce the mercury, and we shall Cod that the mercury woeJd freete, showing that we have a cold at least forty degrees below aero. We usrd to make an ex- Kriment such as melting lead intensely t and then putting the hand in and lading it from one vessel to another; for if, ia lieu of Ui, you take a quantity r melted iron you can plunge your hand into It with impuoity, an wsrtaoen have even been able to walk oa a bed of melted iron. Take a pokrr and put it ia a hot coal fire, ret it very hot, and you may lift il er wipe il on the tonpe with impunity. "We may have It so hot that the vapor actually protects us. ' Here we shall have a more extraor dinary illustration of it, for we cannot only make ice but can freeie mercury. We will fill this little thimble with mercury, and as soon as it U intensely hot we will introduce the mixture, and will show this curious illustration and attempt to fresae the mercury. Those wbo make tVe experiment of the heated lead please remember to bav the !d intensely hot and you will fnd that il give out cold. Startled rTateaen. e.. pence to ten ahillinessix pence. The day is at least ten hours long; these higher prices are moreover counterbal anced by the use of machinery, guided by unskilled labor to an extent much ex ceeding that generally in use in this country. Notwithstanding the stagna tion of trade, I observed several new works in course of erection. Although there is nt so large an amount of new rail way in construction aa was the case in 1872 and 1873, many line are substi tuting steel for iron rails. The rails now used in the United State are almost all being manufactured in that country, and it ia not probable that England will be less than countries. Revival of Trade in .New York. "New Tort Herald. - In alj the down twn streets where the hPATv wholesale houses are situated on said, " She is a sinner no, not a sinner, Broadway, Church.j Leonard, Wrorth and ii i r .iih i m .in r pnanr . i.-iv e n n ,a o nia. i 11 ir ia n una .mirw. u tnat mere is a grnum i ujuikum " umwiciru . . is in the city at last (plosive: " Two ounce of the stuff wss I vn" agreeable saint !" He defined the law yer's "vacation" as f'the space between the question put to a witness and his an swer." Of the . homely chief-justice bhaw, " I venerate ; him as the Indian ooes nis leg, curiously carved ; 1 ac knowledge thaOie is ugly, but I feel that ne is great. : ui tne constable wno re peated the word "having" many times in his return, " He has greatly over- woraea tne principle." for several weeks revival of business ? h .porters, commission nouses, j-o bers, ull representatives and auction firms agree in this,! and say that while othpr I revivals since 1S73 have been merely spasmodic, the brisk trade inau gurated this season jhaa continued with out abatement ; that the stock of goods throughout the couhtry are very limited, and thai the, manufacturers havs sold A 7(ew and Powerful Explosive. There is apparently no end to the in ventions of ex plosives and motors of great force. The latest is thai discovered by a party in Petrolia, 1'a. Its workings have not been kept a close secret, but have i 1 1 - i i. : v.: ,i l r i .t oceu puuHcijcxuiuiiru wivrc isijErnui i ,, . - i eringi of .people,, .and from the printed which the manufacturers of the United State have admitted, and the energy wkh which they work, make it manifest that not only can we no longer expect to obtain a market for our manufactured goods in the United State, but that we must be prepared to find the manufactur ers of that country competing with ua In evenr market to which ws and they have access for all our principal rqanufuactre, such aa iron, cotton roa. etc it ts roost important that England should thoroughly appreciate its true position in matter. Mrs. Rooty, of this county, ba a child five or six years old that has bsea sick with sore throat for several weeks, and one day last week it seemed to die. It had no pulse so far aa person preseot could discover. It was laid out tor dead and a coffin made. The person sitting, up with the corpse grew sleepy, and were noddinr, when suddenly the child threw aside it grave clothe, got on from the table where it had been laid, and went to the cupboard ami got something to eat. As soon a it mw that aom one waa awake it called loudly for milk. Such was the superstitloo that no on would for some time touch . or go near the child. The mother came in, and alter some hesitancy caught her haod, and the electricity seemad to retor her courage and convince her that it waa no boat. She got the m'uk for the ehild. After eating it waa placed In bed. It sm that this sudden txhibitia n strength wss a freak of nature, fur ia four hours the child waa dead. JjrTO feir (V. C) Had. Tna Why was doubled, up by th. cramp and yelling at the rata of a emil a a: Leal, aa the father and mother stool over the crib with the laadaaaas baUia between them. No, Mariar," h said gently but firmly, "you pour it ot; that child's growing ao much lke jour mother that I can't trust myself." Jorx Sir a it Mr ix wofabJpped hi wife for her great nental power, and be ascribed to her wonderfal genius several of the bMt section ef his philosorhlcal works. The truth is thai si told bias, in echo, bis own thoughts that h had ErtvioaOr told to her. Ilia death was atened by his mournieg for her. WBrrnia ent thla little verse to aa , autorrarh collector la Eaiiand : Tiwk tsaa mrmmmt to mm n3, T's t aT. Oms fmm SJ- mm tmrnmi. mm still W. il iri mm r fmmtmm U, Tmm s Salts' s4 tVa as7- . A fCxrTtnc writer ears every inaa can aay "oo" several oath before It caa say yea." An eld bachelor who ha been rejected seventeen t-me aay this hablofayiog"no"Uff rj ahe can ear Mye clings to the fenul iafaat uslll after she bsxome twenty-aevea years cf - A wostast la Council BluS. Iowa, ha old out her husband for a briodl cow, calf, and 120 to boot- A former wl. from wbom he tad Peeo twice citottt, coaxed him to return to hi allegianc. and the secood wife, actuated by a rpirtt of accommodatkm snd agricultural enter prise, coojeated to a separation for lb consideration named. Gcobox F-UOT aay that a young man's eye Irrt open to the world whe be ia la kv This la not always so. Usually it U when he ha gone awsy from home and had his wahleg sent rut for the first tlrae, and finds amoeg it when it la returned aa old stocking with two stripe about the Uf and locg Doogh to pull up around hi neck. The time-botsored custom which Ger man student have of rwadJiag taesa elTea up until they are InruinrraUe to anything lews than a shot from a kropf gun. and then trying to acraUh each othsVa nose with sword point. Is show ing sign of falling Into disrepute. At Darmataat, oe of the arxalled duel having taken place, the goverBmetit of the university expelled one of the com batant, suspended the other, toevther with the ssKood, and broke up Lb so ciety of which the warriors were member- It ia id of the nice old maid that she moved through the world la a rtUIJ. ttatoesquskiadof way, xaaklnr the des pair of all th men who loved her pr hapa the more because ah waa unattain able ; and now when old she U th . with iust th diCerenc between the Uy when it tod up la it Cm young bloom, and th lily when U I droopicg to ita fall between wax, fmh, bioreny, rosy, and wax. faded, yellow, and with all the bloom robbed Tocr g er old she is aiwara c4 the aame apintoal type virginal, uotroubled by drraaia, uo tooched by the arrsw ia any directksa, with a few, very few aSrctiooa. A wo toaa whn the love cf man never warmed ; the cares of a child ever thrilled ; the modest tml, the priest ant nua; la the a-orld, but not of it; rsUionlea and pure but a statue, not a woman. CLAVDE AD nt'LlSE. Our Trade Tf 1th Chlaa. Our trade with China waa a ful- rarorr. reports of the public experiments we have the positive assurance of it being a real ity. The new invention is claimed to be an explosive with a force or one hundred per cent, greater than nitroglycerine ; and what is a most impottsnt considera tion, is that it can be handled with com parative safety, the great fore being de rived from mercury, wnicn is now nere near as susceptible to friction aa nitro glycerine. A correspondent of the Titus ville Herald, writing from Petrolia, give the following account or recent public put into a smau tin pepper box and placed upon a steei piate nau an men in thicknew, said to be capable of resisting a pressure of 175,000 pvrunds to the square inch. When exploded, a bole the size of the box was made through the Tlta with the edges as square and clean as though made by a drill. Three .ex J gres among penmen t were aiterwaraa made upon ; uermany. lira voir rra Srzpcx.once a Prussian official, ha received the first formal per mission for fire burial. Th bodies l his two children are to be subjected to incremation and the ash be sent to their parent. The question of crema tion is said to have made decided pro- the educated claatea ox 1.,-,-- mmm Wlfs S..HM mm t tmr niw as swrsi - r Claude Aventine, a aurreoo assistant In the navy, while la-sane committed suicide at the Mountain House, South Orange, N. J-, a wek ago to-day. IU was under the hallucinatioa that hat wife, Pauline, aged twenty-three year, wa dsvi. and a letter directed to a personal friend explaining tfcat M wa awing hi aaself that be aainght xoeet her " oa th other ahore." The letter waa tiled with word cf the tenderest devotion lo her, and he requested that a preserved roa the had riven him talght b buried with him. He insisted taat her spirit was calling and beckoning hita from th other aid. He took lisoa InteroaUy aad hTwdrmKally. and wa dead when aoufht in h:a room. Jleaatias Pauline wa la Portland. Me-,worrving because her Claude had re mained ao long away from her. She wa a partial stranger therend a Claud had bea away for aoen time, and ah wa unknows) to her landlady, that peraoa suddanly tamed Pauliae out of th hou fbr ooa-payment of board. The news ef ber hosLand'a death, reaching her at the swyy time, ah became tamoe, and oa Thursday took th ferryboat fbr Cap 13.0ce.C31 1 Elixabeth, and tpraovertoard, eutwa us ia three I rescued, wrinrine ber band aoa moaa- lag. "Oh! my hualstad, my nustsuxi. Sh waa cared for. On her persoo wa a letter breatnlng great devotion to Claude. Il saja ah baa gts to ioia him on th heavenly ahore, where tSer The motto for th week on a lit tie I will be no more IitkiU or pain. to ce- girl'eSarKlar-achool card waa, Gt thre J sire that Ur diaoond rtEg taay b behind n, Salaa." There were ronse-1 placed em ber fereicger. th asm f. nrer berrie la to garaen, dui ao wa Isr- ner dear wuooe piacm i a oj bidden to pluck them. Pluck them she for they were married, and that ah did. "Why didn't you,- asked her may be dressed in her whit cornier mother, "when you were tempted le drrsa ber dr hulrd liked so well and touch them, aay, Oct the behind me. have her hair cocbed aa ah always wore Satan T" M I did." ah said, earn ally, I lu SL leve hex lov for her babe aad "and he rot behind ue, and pushed me I bera Mr. Lawrroce to take car cf bia Into th buah. I and nvar 1st hka k&ow this atorr. lows: 1T3 IS?.. 1175. Total U Ihr Tn ax roar. 1873 l74 1S75 ,177.151 . i.cr.iM i,4a3 Total la thr yar - Balance of trade against years, fi3.5M.482. The above firure were furnished ia a special report by Hon. IL Ik Bristow, secretary of the treasury. . i I i I . . ... i
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Sept. 28, 1876, edition 1
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