WILSON ADVANCE.
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NEWS OF A WEEK
GATHEKEli FROM ALL PAETS
OF THE WOBLD.
HE Ul, Tl I E'AE, EVERY WHEEL,
I'eiicillhi'j i and Gleaning
The Smithfk-Iil Herald 13 enlarg
ed and improved. i
Tin bill to provfd , - for -the er
forniiinces of the duties 01 the office
The cost of governing the Dis
trict of Columbia is about $2,150,
000 a year. j I j
Georgia incueased her cotton
manufactures in 1882 more than
one iiiilIionlolI:irs.
A hotel was '-'urued in Milwauk
ee last week in which between 60
and 73 lives were lost. ' ; 1
A much more useless bill could
i "be introduced in the legislature
than one to forbid ;the sale of toy
pistolx. . . '1 j-' : ' .1
Chivalry is a strong point with
Pennsy lvania editors. One of the
oldest of them is out in a valiant
defence of the right of girls to whis
tle ; 1
Rev. W. P. Blake, Pastor of
the Baptist church in Weldon, has
been appointed Missionary to the
Creek Indians. lie will leave in a
short while or his new Held of la-'
bor.
In the city of Brotherly Love two
butchers were recently arrested for
selling the meat of hogs which died
from the bite of a mad dog. They
should be put in prison and ted on
sneh meat. I T i
If the Legislature was as iiuani
mous 011 the dog question is the
press is the dog would not be long
; without a taxable value, and the
meaner the dog toe higher thesv,il-
J Tie would l)tt.
Mr. Pinnix has introduced a bill
in the legislature to jensioii the
Koldiers of North Carolina who lost
' limbs -und eyes in the Confederate
service. OM soldiers,- w-ho were
wounded in battle will look anx
iously lor its passage. . ;
Mr, S.G. V0rM1, ' the fish com
missioner, proposes the coming sea
son to do an iunnese work in hatch
ing shad fry and stocking our waf
ers with foo.l nsli. . H propose 10
hatcli 20,000,000.youngi fish, instead
Of 0,0)0,000. : ' I '
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There was, some years , ago, a
gentleman living near j Ilillsboro,
Japer coitn ty, G i.whoe n iin' we
learn, was cnmpara'Me with that of
Pr,iiseGMl Barebones.' It was
Younger Pimger Ou.yonde.r Stand
farther I Oxii 'Jo'm lulxote Pilgo
lie lgpetli. ! i
In Caiiulen X. J. a few, days ago,
occurred a "purring" matcli. Purr
ing means shin kicking, j Two men
kicked eacli other's shins with heavy
brogans for 2:Q a side, f The men
were greatly bruised, their lower
limbs swelling up enormously. Thi
is one of the past-times of the higldy
civilized "North."
Some North Carolina towns might
'.profit by the example j of (Vdar
Rapids, Iowa, which, although con
taining a population of only 15,000,
has expended in, building improve
ments, during the past year, more
than $G57,000. and added nearly a
million dollars Ut its iiiaiiufactur
ing capital.
There is a strong movement
aiuuig the whiskey dealers, hav
in view the reduction of the "pur
chase tax". They will demand
t'vf. their purchases be put upon
a footing with the purchases of oth
er merchants. They are now tax
ed more than nine (9) per cent,
more than other merchants. .
Our thanks are dne lor an invi
tation to atteud the forty-eighth
'university ' of tli PliiIomathsiau
and Euze.iaii Societies of Wake
Forest CollegO! which, will be cele
brated February 16, by a 'public
- debate, on the query, "Ought for-
I'igu iinigratum to le prohibited!"
From the suggestive;y entitled
Tombstone Eoitank we cl:; the
fallowing paragraph: "
"ue trust the Arizouale; : e
will not have an eeouomical r' -i
-. . . .
iiKe tuac 01 Nevada and rt :se to
have a chaplain. , We kn
ii-y
lu ayers wm no no gool, t t j
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, think; some of the menilers wc
neer liear ; a nnuuster pray 1 i
they were not , elected to" the K J-!
islature. ' ' . i
A prettv cirl' in ; llii-limoiiil
V
S married last Sentemlwr. a
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Yankee Naval officer, against lu r
CitWr's R-ishes. Now she sues
for rtvorce, and fairly , hates the
;t llow. Wilmington Star wiys
f ere is 4 morai in this. ' Perhaps
; bat thre are i U'trfv of pretty
i ready to jump at any pair of
inaerllne lr r-o.n ; i ' -
Bine breeches
f :ioul,Ier-',;.
One Year
Six Months..
greased "moustache,- and wa
VOLUME 13.-
Joseph Sailer, a Philadelphia ed
itor, died on the 15th. He had
beeu in business tor 37 years and
daring that time had taken but one
holiday. - '
. From the report of the Superin
tendent and board of directors of
the North Carolina insane as3ium
we learn that during the past)
year fifty persons were admitted
and fifty -six discharged. Two hun-j
dred and seventy-eight remained
under treatment at the close of the '
year. The cost of running the
institution and keeping it in re
pair is about fifty thousand dollar
a year. Six hundred and eighty -j
three insane persons are reported
outside of the asylum. f
The following is a listsof the"
officers elected for the University
commencement 1883: Ball IMana
gers J. C. Roberts, chief;! S. W.
Dick, L. J. Battle, J. L. Borden,
S. C Smith. Eepresenativesi: Phi
Society J. A. Bryan, W.T. Dortch,
Jr., J. R. Herring. Di. Society J.
B. Harris, Z. B- Walzer, J, C. Slo
cumb.. Marshals M. B. Hamer,
chief; Phi. Assistants T. B.t Cher
ry, H. L. Bobbitt, AiC. Tat4. Di.
Assistants W. D. McNeal, S. A.
Hollornan, S. B- Turrentiue. In
troductory Orator H.H. Williams.
A Kentucky belle, Miss Belle
Moseley, lias kept up the reputa
tion of her sex for fickleness and
inconsistency. She bail two lovers
one fiamed Hamby and on named
Rosenburg. She agreed to run
away with Hamby to get married.
They did flee to Springfield iTeun..
but there the young lady" changed
her mind and telegraphed Rosen
burg to come for her. He went
and came back with her and they
went to Honkiuville and were mar
ried. 'A variable, and changeable
creature is 'woman always." V
A pretty girl is in great trouble
in Vienna, and all because of a
kiss. Seventeen years old and very
attractive, says the reports, she
the other day had to seek advice at
the Ear Hospital; and in dojng so
would oulv confine her sorrows to
the professor in chief. Her story
was brief. She had a lover who
had been awv, but had returned a
few days before, and in the pro
cess of greeting her had kissed her
on the ear, and from that moinerft
she had been quite deaf on one
side. The' professor examined the
injured organ and found that the
drum had realy been ruptured.
The bill to providu for tlW ver
toi manceof the duties of the office
of President in case of the ivjmoval,
death, resignation, or inability both
of President nnd Vice President,
has passed the Snnate. It enacts
that, in case of the removal, death,
resignation or inability of both the
President and.: Vice President ot
the United States, the Secretary of
the State, or, if there' be none, or in
c isi'. of his removal, death, ' resig
nation, or inabilitv, then another
member of the Cabinet, in this or
der of nrocedeiiee: Secretary of
the Treasury, Secretary of War,"At
tornev General, Postmaster Gener
al, Secretary of the N avy, Sescretary
of the Interior shall act as Presi
dent until the disability is removed,
or until the vacancy is otherwise
awfully tilled.
: Chicago Marriages.
The daily 'record of marriage li
censes granted in Chicago, with
the names and ages of the brides
and grooms, as published i in the
newspapers of that city, furnishes
material for some interesting social
statistics. The uaines of sixty-one
couples are given in last 'Friday's
Chicago "Tribune, which is about
the ; daily average.. The ; figures
show that the marrying ag? in the
Western metropolis is mucli below
that of the Easteru cities. ;Of the
sixty-oue "grooms twenty-two are
nuder the age of 25, and six of
these have jnst attained their ma
jority. Twenty-two of the sixty
one brides are nnder 20. nine of
them being only; 19, five only 18,
one but 17, and one only 16 years of
age. There are ten grooms in the
list who are over 30 years of age,
bat only one bride who confesses to
be so many summers. It is a cu
rious fact, however, that three
brides who give their ages as 50
years, take husbands younger than
themselves, one of the grooms be
ing four year's bis wife's junior,
one niree, aim uur, who jwuj,-
pr than his snouse. One bride of
' ' L?l,.l.i,rliiiiul vmn nf mra
! . 4 unsituuiuauu j . ..... - -
Ts this disnanlv m tue ages oi
iples due to the scarcity of mar
;eable women in the west f '.
licit Til:s.
3o you have got twinsat
r house?" eal.l Jlrs. Eezrjui-
- little To::irr-y Sanraelson
muni, t-.ro of 'em.'
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SOME BIG THINGS.
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THREE RAILROAD KINGS.
A VERY LARGE BOY.
FORTEESS MONEOE IN SIZE.
READ AND BE MADE WISE!
The three biggest railroad kings
W. H. Vanderbilt, Jay. Gould
and John W. Garrett.
- The biggest fraud by which
Eutherlord B.. Hayes was put in
the White House.
Master Warner, of Atlantic, Iowa
is not yet 4 years old, but he weighs
nearly 400 iHuiuds. j
. The biggest diamond in New
York city is worn by Dock Com
missioner Jacob Vanderpoel.
Mr. Jacob G. Rupp, near Camp
Hill, Pa., has a corn stalk that
measures 14 feet 1 i nches.
The greatest navy in the world is
that of England. The most invisi
ble one is the United States Navy.
The highest range of mountains
is the Himaiayas, the ineau eleva
tion being estimated from 16,000
to 18,000 feet. . j
Kentucky has no great water
lakes, but it has great whiskey dis
tilleries, and the natives do not
feel the' lost of fresh water much.
Thii biggest royal eater since the
death of the Emperior Maximinus
is Cetewayo, King of the Zulus.
He ate thirteen pounds of steak for
dinner.
The greatest cornet player is Le
vy. He measures fifty-six inches
around the chest, and is said to
have the largest lungs of any musi
cian in the world.
The best record in six day ' go-as-you-please
racj is that made by
George Hazel, who covered C'JOJ
miles iu Madison Square Garden on
March 4 of last year.
The largest diamond cutting
house is in Amsterdam, where they
employ 400 men. The famous
Kohjnoor diamond was cut there.
The cutters make from $7 to $12, jj
ana even ?14 a aay.
The largest suspension bridge;
will be the one now building be
tween Brooklyn and New York
The length of the main span is 1,
595 feet 6 inches. The entire
length of the bridge is 5.989 feet.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's
new locomotive Jumbo has seven
feet driving wheels,' and has drawn
a train from Philadelphia to Jersey.
City,-a distance' of ninety miles, hi
eighty minutes.
Mr. John Sayeiyof Danielsvill
tia., recently killed a large haw
It measured 4 feet 10 inches 'from
tip to tip of its wings, and 5 inelii-s
from the tr of the front 'to the tjip
of the back claw. . . '
Jumbo is t lie firgesfc elephant In
the civilized world. lie is 1 1 f V t
.6 inches in height.., .-The ineasuu
. of his ears when outspread is 15
feet, and lie can reach upward 6
feet wiih his trtm!-. -
Probably the biggest feet :ue
those of a Chicago girl named Liz
zie Mer:z. They are said to mei s
ure 16 inches" seach. It is repirt.
ed that she once kickedta man a d
fractured his 'spine.
Fortress Hon roe is the largi st
single fortification in the wolrd. t
has already cost the Govern mt :it
3,3,000,900. The water battery is
consider J one of the finest militav
works in the world.
The loftiest ictive volcano is Pp
H',atejetl (smoking mountain), 11 r-
ty-fiw miles southwest of Puel ),
Mexico. It is 17,784 feet a bo e
the sea level, has a crater thi e
inilesi in circumference and 1,0 0
feet leep. f
The longest span of wire is ud
ibr a telegraph in India over ffie
river Kistiiah, lietween Bezomh
and Sectangum, It is more tlnn
6,009 feet long, and is stretched le-
tween two j hills, each 1,200 tfet
high. , j
The largest uniy-ersity of Oxford
in Oxfonl, England. - lt,msist89f
twenty-five collegs and five bau.
Oxford was the seat of learning jin
the time of Edward the1 ponfessif.
It claims to have been otiuded by
Alfred. f
The largest ship Ls thel Grfcat
Eastern. She is 683 feet long, p
feet broad, and 60 feet deep,' being
22,927 burden, 18, 915 gross 'and
13,344 net register. She wan -built
atMillwall, ou the Thames, an wis
launched Jau. 31 1857. L I
.The most extent-ive park ispet-r
Parkjintlieenvinmsof Copeaiingne
Denmark. The enclosure 'ona:ns
alout 4,200 acres, ;v is divide! by
n small river. The largest pie sure
ground in the country is IV-rn '
' Pnrk. Philadelphia, which t ou :.;a.s
2,74 ) acres.
Orange
Sussex ct""
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WILSON, TpftTII CAROLINA, JANlRY 20. 1883. j 1 --NUMBER
on
the glole is Lake Suterior.
It
1 400 mius long. 160 milel wide
at
s greatest breadth, and has an
ardi of 32,000 square mild
Its
feet,
mdin depth is said to be
anfi
its grea depth
kbont
fath-
orris
Its surface is 635 fee
above
th
sea.
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Josepk Bakerf of pjancaster,
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has a tomato thkt measures 17
hes in circumference 5J in diam-
etir,
and weighs 2i ponnds. Four
tquiatoes very nea ly as large as
tl is one have grov a on the same
st ilk, and the unite I weight of the
fi re is lOJpoonds- Dhey are of the
F iterson variety. t
The largest tunne ia the world
h that of St. Goth's rd, on the line
c ! railroad betweei Lucerne "and
J ilan. The summ t of the tuuuel
i 990 feet below the f urface at Aud-
etmatt, and 6,600 fe?t beneath the
ijeak of Kastelhori of the St.
dothard group. Tl e tunnel is 26$
ifet wide, aud 11 feet 10 inches
from the floor to tlia crown of the
arched roof- It is 19 miles long
li miles longer than the Mt. Ceuis
tunnel. j
I The most extensive cavern, is the
Mammoth Cave, in Edmoudson
county, Ky. It is near Green river,
six miles from Cave.
City, and about
twenty eight miles
from Bowling
Green. The cave consists of a suc
cession of irregular (chambers, some
of which are large, situated on dif
ferent levels. Some of these are
traversed by navigable branches of
the subterranean Echo Eiver.
Blind fish are found in its waters. ;
; The largest trees : are the mam
moth trees in California. One of a
grove in Tulare county, according
measurement of the State Geo-
igical survey, was shown to be 276
"eet high, 106 feet in circumference
ht base, and 76 feet at a point 12
eet above the ground. Some of
he irees are 376 teet high and 34
eet in diameter. Some of the
trgest that have been felled indi
ate an age of from 2,000 to 2,500
hears.
The largest inland sea is the
Caspian, lying between Europe and
Asia. Its greatest length is ibO
miles, its greatest breadth 270 miles,
aud its area 180,000 square miles.
Great Salt Lake in Utah, which
may be properly termed an inland
sea, is about 90 miles long, and has
a varying breadth of from 20 to 25
miles. Its surface is 4,200 feet above
the sea, whereas the surface of the
Caspian is 84 feet below the ocean
level.
The largest empire of the world
is that of Great Britain, comprising
8,557,658 square miles, more than a
sixth part of the land of the globe,
and embracing nnder its rule nearly
a sixth part of the population of
the world. In territorial extent the
United States raiiks third, contain
ing 3,580,242 square miles, includ
ing Alaska; in population it ranks
fourth with its 50,000,000 people.
Russia ranks second ; 8,352,940
! square miles.
The highest monolith is the ob
lisk at Karnak, Egypt. Karnak is
on the east bank of the Nile, near
Luxor, and occupies a ,part of the
site of ancient Thebes. The oblisk
is ascribed to llatasu, sister of Pha
roah Thothines IH.i who reigned
about 1600 B. C. Its- whole length
is 122 feet, its weight 400 tons. Its
height, without pedestal, is 108 feet
10 inches. The height of theoblisk
in Central Park, yvitbout pedestal,
is 68 feet 11 inches ; its weight is
about 168 tons.
The Chinese wall is the largest
in the world, ft was built by the
first Emperor of the Tain dynasty
about 220 B. C as a protection
against Tartars. It traverses the
northern boundary of China, and is
carried over the highest hills,
through the deepest Valleys, across
livers and every other natural ol
staele. Its length is 1,250 miles.
Including a parapet ot. 5 feet, t-e
total height of the wall is 20 feet.
thickness at the base 25feet, and
at the top 15 feet. Towers or bas
tions occur at intervals of about 100
yards.
Among the mast remarkable na
tural echoes ia that of Eagle's Nest
ou the banks of Killarney, in Ire
land, which repeats a bugle call nn
til it seems to be sounded from a
hundred instruments; and that on
the banks of the Taha, between
Bingen and Coblentz, which repeats
a sound teventeen times. The most
remarkable artificial echo known is
that iii the Castle of Simonetta
about t'vo r-iiles from plilan. It is
oecasioiinil by the existence of two
parallel v il' j c f cor. silk -able 1 ngtb
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CHILD INCUBATION
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THE CHICKEN PROCESS
AS
. APPLIED TO INFANTS.
A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
A It TIFICIA L JXCVBATIOy.
The immense success which has
attended the artificial incubation of
chickens in Fi ance recently attract
ed the attention of Dr. Taveruief,
a learned and ingenious physician.
He was attached to a hospital for
foundlings, and was annoyed at the
large number of foundlings who
died within the first month of their
life. The majority of those admit
ted to the hospital were weak and
sickly, and he resolved to try what
'artificial lucubation" would ac
complish if applied to infants. The
doctor constructed a child incubator
on precisely the model of the ordi
nary chicken incubator. It was a
box covered with a glass slide, fur
nished with a soft woolen bed, and
kept at the temperature of eighty
six degrees, Fahrenheit, by the aid
of hot water. He selected as the
subject of his first experiment a
miserably made infant, one that had
come into the world at an injudi
ciously , early period. This infant
was placed iu the incubator, provi
ded vith a nursing botrie, and kept
in a dark room. To the surprise of
the doctor it creased to jcry on the
second day after it was placed in
the incubator, and although it had
previously been a preteruaturally
sleepless child, it sank into a deep
and quiet sleep. The child remain
ed in the incubator for about eight
weeks, during which time it never
once cried, and never remained
awake except when taking nourish
ment. It grew rapidly, and when,
at the expiration of sixty days it
lwas removed trom the incubator it
presented the appearance of a
lealthy infant of at least a year old.
Delighted with the success of the
experiment, Dr. Tavernier uext se-
ected an ordinary six-months-old
infant addicted to the usual paius
and colic, and'extibiting the usual
fretfnlness of French iufants. This
:hild conducted itself whila in the
ncubator precisely as its predeces-
sor had done. It never cried ; and
t grew as if it had made hp its.
lnind to embrace ' the ' career of a
protessional giant. After a six
week's stay in the incubator, it was
it moved and weighed; during this
brief period it Jiad doubled its
weight. It had "become su strong
md healthy that it resembled a
child three years old, and it could
actually walk when holdine on to a
:oHvenient piece of furnitnre.-
These t wo experiments satisfied Dn
Tavernier of the -ist advantages
of artificial child incubator. lie
immediately proced d, with the per
mission of th- an horities of the
hospital, to const!" ct an incubator
of the capacity of 400 infants, and
in this he placed every one of the
infants, who weiv iu the hospital on
10th day of F yruary last. -With
the er"tio: of one, who died of
congenital hydrocephalus, and an
other who was reclaimed by. its re
pentant parents, the infants were
kept continuously in the incubator
for six months, when they were re
moved in consequence of having
outgrown their narrow beds. The
result will seem almost incredible
to persous unfamiliar yvith the rep
utation of Dr. Tavernier, and have
not seen the report made to the
French Government on the subject
by a select committee of twelve.
The average age of, the infants last
February was eight months and
three days; the youngest being
less than twelve.hQurs old, and the
eldest not more than eleven lueuths.
Their average yveight was sixteen
onn ds, only one of the entire 36 J
having attained a weight of thirty
two pounds. At the end of six
months of artificial incubation tho
average weight of each infant was
twenty-four pounds, and there was
not one who wnld not have lieeii
supposed by casual observer to
be at least threJyears old. In other
words, six morbus of artificial incu
bation did as puch in the way of
developing Di Tavernier's found
lings as three fears of ordinary Iifa
would ! have f3one. TI.e inf ::.t
were strong r id 1
tI -r : t" ev w; ke I
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Hit.
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the-' i;ct;
S '.ve i c
t!.ri
It
:en
rill
iu its erection : and if we include
the work done under Pins VI., three
and a half centuries passed before
it was complete, during which time
forty- three Pojes reigned. Ttie
dimensions of the church are ;
length of the interior 613$ feet j of
transom from wall to wall, 446$ feet;
height of nave 152$ feet ; of side
aisles, 47 teet ; width'of nave, 77-89
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feet: of side aisles, 33 feet j cir
cumference1 of pillars which sup
port the dome, 250 feet. The height
of the dome from the pavement to
the base of the lantern is 405 feet
to the top of the cross, 448 feet
The dome is enriched and strength
ened by six bands of iron. . A stair
way leads to the roof, broad.' and
easy enough to allow a horse.and
team to ascend. The- annual, cost
of keeping the church hi repair is
30,000, scudi. '",-', .-. j
An Old Man's Sorrow.
The following is said to be Btrict-
ly true : Iu the lower part; of this
county lives-auold man a widower
65 years of a ee. It was' known
that the old gentle man was anxious
to marry,' and a feminine-looking
gent of the neighborhood, with the
view of having a little fun, arrayed
himself in female attire, and called
on the old gentleman, passing off
lor. a young lady who was known to
him by reputation but, not person
ally. ,;She professed to be enamored
of the old fellow, and; it was not
long before a tender , chord i was
stirred in his breast, and but One or
two visits had been made him' be
fore a proosal of marriage was
made and accepted. At the appoint
ed time the old gent hprrowed a
buggy of a neighbor and proceeded
to the residence of his dhlcinea's
parents, and when his business
was made known their astonish
meut can better be imagined than
described, as they knew nothing oi
the joke that had been played ou
him. The old gentleman eu his
part, refuses to be disenthralled says
he knows a woman when Jie pees
one, and is satisfied that his visitor
was one of the fair sex, and that
foul play has been to separate, t lie'ni
Monroe Express and Euquirer. I
Passing Strange..
According to the' latest reports
of the f abduction" case in St. Louis
it wovld have been greatly better
for Miss Garrison if uothing had
ever been said about her mysteri-
tous disappearance tor - nearly a
! weeK. l uere was a gauziness
about her story ot having In-en; ac-
l.costeu oy a man on ner waj ro ine
-oiiveiit, who tlirew a chloroformed
i handkerchief over her face, and of
1 !,er baving remained unconscious
Hmtilsoe found herself in a strati ge
fbouse, where she was kept for ijan-
som until her whk The woipau
! who ,;e;r tin- .use tens a .imerent
; s:l s Miss Garrison
came to her .house with a yojing
man who represented her to bc-his
wife, and that they staid there, and
went out regularly to a restaurant
for their meals for several dinsjun-
til hearing that the police were hfok-
i S .voiuig lady, ( the house-
kI' J ""ed ner our rue uack
way!. It. is strange that -nolipdy
has been prosecuted b.y'Miss Garri
son's rich family, and that partie
who had leeii arrested . were dis
charged without examination. The
whole business is very strauge, and
looks suspicious. V i
Heavy Damages.
The verdict of the jury, in the
famous seduction case at Brooklyn,
ordering Henry Fleming, a wealthy
young Sew Yorker to pay $75,000
to Miss Alice Livingston, of Totn's
River, N. J., has greatly, surprised
the social circles ot New York- and
New Jersej.. "Seventy five thou
sand dollars for a ycung girl's .vir
tue ! Did ever you hear the like P
is the universal - exclamation.
And perhaps there may be cause
for Vtimazement, msidcring jthe
rather speckled. chara'ter ot the
plaintitnau set, . Miss Livingston
is a neice of Judge Livingston, and
has $50,000 in her right. Her moth
ers naine is Blis4 at present, but
she has changed it so often (by di
vorce) that thereis no telling wbat
it will be next ' week. Fleming is
president of the New York Oil Ee-
nery; a short, fat coarselocking
millionaire who does cot carry tl:3
."EeSainj' process ir.tr L:3 ots V.l
cr character. lie sr-ra V t I
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SHEEP HUSBANDRY
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DEOVE OF WORTHLESS DOGS
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
GOV. JARVIS' MESSAGE.
TilE LEGISLA TUBE SILEXT.
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That, sheep husbandry' ; would
soon become one of the most profi-
table industries I of the State if
properly protected, there is not the
least doubt, and our citizens cannot
be too often or too earnestly urged
to demand of the legislature such
protection, as is needed. We ap
prove of and adopt the following
article from the ! Wilmington lie-
view ou this subject :
, "Wo have, read,j"says that paper,
"the message of Governor Jarvis
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to the Legislature with a great
deal of care and interest, aud regret
to see that he makes ho suggestions
to that body in regard to the droves
of worthless dogs within the bor
ders of the Statej!and the almost
total prohibition ot sheep -husbandry
through their ravages. There
is not a doubt that, if it. were not
for the slaughter by dogs, the busi
ness of raising sheep would be one
of the niost profitable and pleasant
among the agricultural interests of
North Carolina, iand we wish that
his Excellency had seen fit to make
allusion to it in his otherwise able
message. It is !a suliject which
members of the Legislature will not
be apt voluntarily to take up. In
asmuch as many of their constitu
ents possess one or more dogs, and
it is alKut as dangerous to meddle
with one of the family as with the
pet canine.' He .(may suck eggs,
kill sheep, swarm iwitb fleas to hop
upon every passer-by, or to,be cov
ered with inauge until he is offen
sive to the eye and smell, but he is
the pet of the owner, though a pest
and a nuisance to th ueighlwr
bood. There ought to be some
remedy for this intolerable and ex.
pensive nuisance devised, and it is
within the proyiuee of the Legisla
ture to see that something is done
to protect the sheep raising indus
try. Iu the present condition of
things it is simply imjKissihie to
pursue the busipess with any pros
pect or hope of success, and every
farmer kuoirs that to invest money
or time in an atternpt at sheep hus
bandry is literally to throw money
to the dogs.: Many -have invested
in the enterprise and all have failed,
and until some n-tliod is a lopted
which will effectually put a stop to
the ravages of rhe;-.e mangy ''curs ill
will Ik' worse than useless to at-
tempt any improyi'MM'iir in this im- J
portant Uusiiie's :. . Manny- sugges- j
tions have been made as to tue U-st
way to remedy this evil, all of which
arer perhaps snseepiihle of improve,
Tiieut. ' .The, F.iyetteville IJ.rtmimi't
in a receiSt. '"article, ; discusses the.
rplet'ioll at e ),n-iderahle ientli, and
its opiuiixis are well worthy of cut
sideration. . That ; paper'cl.ums that
dogs should lie Mibjcet to taxation
and a.-ks if a d g is ' a sacred ani
mal th.it lie !iotiM Ue exemi. fr:nn
the same burden - placed on other
animals f lores, hogs, cittle and
sheej a-e taxed. Why then
should : not .log be taxed! e
are answeied that dogs are not
property. If they are not property.
then they belong i man, and' it
is not unlawful to kill every dog.
This is a consequence from which
dog owners will; recoil. We say
then let ti e w1m"c race of dogs Ik?
treated as projierty, and if the I iw
does not hold thiem to lie property
in the full se-ie Of the word let the
law be cliaiig'd The leisbiture
of North Carolina is competent to
make the change1. The cbnsequcqee
of that change would be that dogs
would have to -be listed for taxa
tion, and the county commissioners
of eiich county would fix a schedule
of valuations' for; the whole trilw.
Bat that is not all. Not only ought
the dog to be treated h jproperty,
bat every deg iot kept ; coiirihel
strictly on the premises of hU own
er,' should be treated as a nuisance
and taxed as such. Is a dog at
large not a nuisam-e f (oinmoii
sense replies in the afSrmative.
These loose dogs go about the coun
try, wcrryir cattle, killing sheep,
' t:r j '3. r.v. I fl.tyisg havoc
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the people on this question. If the
Legislature waits for the unlettered
people of the State to dictate to
the Legislature, we shall drop fur
ther behind than we now are in the
race for improvement. It is a sad
fact that the white population of
North Carolina are the most illiter
ate of a!l the States of too Union,
Our State Legislature ought to
seek to relieve us of the opprobrium,
and should neglect no available
source of obtaining means to edu
cate the people. ,
The bill might be carefully guard
ed, and made so light iu its opera
tion as to lie easily borue For in
stance, let every family 'have .one
dog exempt from taxatiou,providiug
he is confined to the premises of
.'."' ' . . . .
nis owner. Let the tax on banting
dogs and others going at large be
very small, say one dollar per head
We see no reason why a bill in this
form or something like it would not
be readily borne by the people. If
the operation of it was found bene-
flcent, it might be continued with
such improvements as experience
might suggest. If it did not oper
ate satisfactorily it could be re
pealed." A. Hall Robber Arrested.
George W. Wheeler for the last
eight months in the railway mall
service as iostaI clerk from Greens
boro to Winston, was arrested
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Tuesday for robbing the mails, on
a warrant sworn out by Bradbury
Williams, United States inspector,
lefore Charles Brietz, United States
commissioner, otoaiem. lne writ
was put in the hands of W. G.
Bahnson, chief of police of Wins
ton, who arrested him. The prison
er was , takeu befor Commissioner
Brietz to await the arrival of Uni
ted States Attorney Boyd. He was
bound over for a preliminary exam
ination. . The reports of losses over
Wheeler's route thus tor heard from
amount to 300. Other losse are
lteing sent iu daily. The robberies
commenced the 7th of last October,
and consisted of numerous eases of
rifled registered matter. He was
caught by means of sending decoy
letters over his route. Wheeler
rifled some of these decoys, ofter
which he was placed uuder the
strictest 'surveillance at both ends of
the route, resulting in the recovery
of portion of the missing decoy
money, which the inspector traced
into Wheeler's hands. George W,
Wheeler, is highly conuected, being
a brother of Dr. W. H. Wheeler,
of Salem district. Ketcu-Ohterxer.
Wilson Collegiate Institute
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On aeeomit of tbenppearance of.
small-nox in Wilson during this
Christmas vacation, deterring his
former pupils from ' returning !U d
new ones from "coining to Wibon,
and lecaiisi of hi.-i desiro t ietc
bis l:ii.e tir the Churcn llinory
uj)on which he ha lee-) engaged
Neveralye. th, Prof. llaK.ell had de--ided
to isusjieiid thi exeicises oJ
vhol'-stiniu from tliet'Jl.i instair,
The 1 vst day f the pivseut Messioii,
till the id of next September, and
Jiien. with t lie eiinjssion of Provi
deni-e t i o- peii l.u- school cxclu-
rively ttr females; but r.io local
iiii!s and patrons have niadi such
earnes slicitati mt to' Mrs. 1 witty
aiitliiss Haiiimo to rt uaiu acd
contium te vchiug ueir c't sses that
these two w'ell-knoii, exjerieiict"l,
and :uliu Liable teachers have con
sented to ca tv on, uniler their
own rp posilulit.v. at the institute,
duri ig tho Spring Session, a school
for voting ladies and small boys.
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In the Legislature'Mr. fcicott,
of New Hanover, introduced the
following resolution in regard
to moving the State capitol
from Iialeigh to Wilmington,
but the chair ruled that it
would require a constitutional
amendmen-:
Whereas,' The State capitol
has been located at the city of
Raleigh for the past century,
and the side-walka are still im
passable, and are getting annu
ally in a worse Condition, and
the streets are paved with a
lake of mud and water, which
renders them an. eligible loca
tion for the American bull frog,
Therefore be it'
Resolved, That the capitol of
the State of North Carolina be
removed from the city of Eal
e: 'h to the city of Wilmington,
r-? n tl.if! i are in ex-
f t ( i r-rts re-
tr-
c:
Liberal Dooounta wUl h bi4 for Uuvvr
AdrnumaeaU ad for Ooatnctt by the Yetr
CMh moat aoeampaiir A4ywttaeDnu
Wttlew rood inferno to ttvga.
day Reading
WHAT DR. heeMS, OF NEW
YORK, HAQ TO 8AY.
READ IT AND BE PROHTED.
Mfi CZA B AXD THE BA BE,
On the 17th of March, . 1855, I
was coming from Petersburg, Vn
to, my home in North Carolina, In
the car was a geutleman with New
York papers Itearing the Intelli-
geiice or the recent ; death of
Nicholas, Autocrat of all the Run
sias, De was goue. A man of
great stature, of iron wilt, ot . vast
energies, a born king, ruling ttlty
millious by his simple wortl, he had
bowed to desf iuy and death, nnd
dropped the sceptre which Hwaed
au empire. He had died Mt u vru
in which he was the nuwt conspicu
ous aud importatp lerM)ijage ninong
men, at nuch a juueture iu unalrs
as will draw an arresting hue m-ron
the page of human history, lie hud
brought thousands iuto fortified
towns, and stretched teuts and
camp fires along miles of hills und
valleys. The stritle of his ambition
had in ade troops of orphan ch ildren .
and thrilled the nation with woe.
He was kuown to all the world, t
and his history, his words, hisdeeds,
his policy, were the study of all who
read or thought. Rut he had pine.
Europe stood still and held its
breath as the curtain dropped ittou
the collossal uctor on a stage tremb
ling with ihe thunder of artillery
and red with the gore of the gallant.
And then the cabinet of all gov
einmeuU, aud the traders umii thei
marts of the busy nations, liegau
industriously to calculate the proba
ble effects of this great departure
ujion all the 0eratioiis of inaiiklnd ;
aud Rustla was 'preparing to bury
uthe father" with mi Hilled burbaiic
pomp aud civilized splendor. '
I waa not indifferent to the im
portance of such an event as he
death of the Emperor; but it stir
red my heart very little. It tea
far off.
Twenty miles further, south I
heard of another death. Iu this
case it was a babe, only ten months
old. lie was heir to no great estate
or title. He was known to very
fow, and very few had any. Interest
in him he had never uttered a
' word. He was in no one's' way..
I His life made no gt cat promise. He
bad always been delicate. He was
tt 1UHrlv st1.iiiir.llt. tv tit do
felloe," as his father whs fond of
calling him. He was dead. How
sad, bow very sad a thouglit was
this to mel He vat "our little
Vcorgf.'', ' AW the .S ntates of Eu-n(M'-
might have died and my heart
felt no patn. But this was a near
grief. This was the flr-t departure
from the little flock. Thero was uO ;
pomp at his funeral He l.iy c:dm
and lovely in his lit'Je c1hm Imau
tifiilly dead. His Irot hers and bin
little sister stood iii the nn e whicli
the flrt invasio.1 i t se i ivi-oi.le
feet makes in a faintly. A lew
friends went from the huuibie hnuc
of the Itereaved Bving to li e hiiiii
ble resting place f the shrouded
dead. No retinue, iiopluuu's, no
emblazonry of ostentatious Morrow,
maked the child's lcmoval to hi .
last home. But he wa our babe. '
How l;ttle thisigbt hi imrtlier bf
the grand griefs of a Euroieaii epi
pirel Her Uttlo kingdom wan dark
ened. While we had read accounts
of the slaughters which marked Ihe
Crimean campaign, and shuddered
at the desobi. ion they must have
brought thousands of homes, uouo
of the i trilling leports had e4
crated and agonized us liUe the
sight of our own dead. No thing I
ever read, or saw, or felt, transfixed,
me with nucli cold pain an the kimf
or the little hands nld"d mer Hu
breast of our serene aud brcathleHs
boy. They wpre beautiful liaud.
How often I bad admired them u
lie clapped them when his earnest
grtjse liad brightuel into
smile and broadened into infantik
glee I How often had they pressed
tlieir soft little alm umu my acU
ing beail, ami buried their lift '
dimples under my chin! Death
bad not discolored -flu lovely fleh,
but bad made it cksarcr and fluer,
as if it had been purged of all taint
of corruption. And so I could hard
ly believe him dead. But '-en I
stooped Ui kL those hand tor
list time, tbeymet my lip with
mh sa unexpectel chill Hurt I felt
fTi ' r a. It was as though I had
' i Fiabtjcd In the heart with a
- - "tl: '. r.
, l law different the far and
I A - trter of : century lien
' t ! atb stwl this writ
t (' 1 babe today ba
-it im thao any lif-; ;
' v ' '! the streets
' tJfM the fsner--ie
Lis death I
' : ti t.;k t,tn' f
, :,'ow I know at (
; , ryt.:;,athiKewitU;tbei
j n j ; su comes luio
"l -'u.-e with qui?''
t: .-i is a baby.. . '
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: !.-"-' i c-rtal Kvjy --
rt"? cf a rcntury
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