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"eaeg . 'w' , . ,, B it , , ,, . , , , , - . ,. - , , ' HHHBHHBHHHHHB HHNIHHHHMHflHHMHflHHHHSSSiMBMflMiH lli Miirfiesb()ro 1 , Enoi iiirer0 :i t- ' II:. .- 'I : - . , tW.n i :-, i .:. ;.V , i - - i ; ' i . r - .',;j,'f- ,i,,H j I ; - i : .- .r , . -i-; ' " - , ' , : "1 j 1 1 . . - - 1 ' ... . ' ' . f . ! U . ' -4 -I ; ' " "V ; - E. L. 0 WARD, Editor andProprietor. The Organ . of the Roanoke and Albemarle Sections. SUBSOEli'TIpN,; $ per Annum, to Advance. VOL IL r t, MU11FREESJJORO, N. C, TIIURSDAY,. APRIL 5, 1877. NO. 23. 1 . -.-11 Jl " 1 "" I - i " 1 ! ... . : t , , . 1 I ' MO YE JON. The bright, sunny rills keep on flowing r. v Along by the banks and the braes i And not one Stniiineir blossom stops growing. No matter how dark are the days- -, The clouds, too, keep saUing and lifting. To let the bright sun arrows throtglf ; Thus nature by changing and shifting. : Keeps mOTing with plenty to do. ; ' j- .. Stand still, and you miss the bright places That wait fonyou further along ; Stand still, and the booming oasia Will comfort you not with its song. More on with the grand working army That labor with purpose of soul ; , Move on, and the air will grow balmy. Ana victory be yours at the goal. if , Step back and there's small hope of winning, For courage $rue fleetness must lend ; Step back at the Very beginning, And where will you be at the end ? Go forward, young sowers, at dawjijmg, With gladness and hope to the field ; (io forward, -for sweet in the morning, To labor for Autumn's rich yielL (Jreat worlds in their ormts are movm. And planets unpeopled keep pacf , ; While in contrast, all living and loving, Dumb life adds its mite to the race. Then why, in this busy creation, j That moves without rest or dela. Oh, why. fair young souls of the nation, Should man be the laggard to-day ? Pistols for Two. While the old frigate Br andywine 1 .v ttt Gibraltar, the American Consul Mr. Sprague, came on board with a Qiaii who wished to join the jship, and, after some consultation, said man was ieeived bv the captain as a sort of ,,aWorfi hA havinsr kffreed t6 work for Ms passage and board, and some slight consideration besides. His name was Joe Lattit, and he was a regjilar speci iii ! r yo, atiTkllfncr "Vankete: but he dressed well, and,, was remarkably good-looking, though there was in his race a peculiar look which indicated that he preferred fun to sound sense, allowing, however, that th(! fun had some sense to it. " . j The moment I placed my eyes upon ' the man I knew I had seen him before, aA whon I had. an ODDortunity to speak with him, I found that he had been a performer of legerdemain and ventriloquism in the United States, and there T had seen him He had traveled through England, France and Spain, with his implements of decep tion, and had just brought up at Gi braltar when our ship came in. He brought his whole kit . on board in a large chest, which he got permission to stow in the bread-room, where it would be kept perfectly dry. He had quite a , "pile" of money, which he! placed in I the purser's hands for safe keeping, ut he would tell none of us ljiow much But he was liberal and opejn-hearted, and it was not! long beforej the' crew blessed the hour that brought him on board, for he was the very jsoul of wit and humor. At length our ship went to Port Ma hon, and here our Yankee tars were at home. One pleasant morning o f "J of us went on shore, and Joe Lattit was among our numbers. Joe Vff as dressed in a perfect shore-going rig, and ap peared a gentleman of vcjanseqence. Near the middle of the forerloon a few of us entered k cafe, and the jonly occu pant, besides the keeper, was a Spanish officer, . evidently an infantry captain, from his dress. We called for wine, and had it serjved upon th& one at which he a tapie next to officer sat, Joe seating himseif so j that his back came against the back of the officer ; but he did not notice' when he sat jdown how close he would be. j ; Our laugh J and jest ran jhigh, and just as Joe said something more than usually funny, he threw himself back, and thereby hit theJ Spaniard! with such force as to cause him to spilt a glass of wine upon bis bosom. Tiie fellow leaped to his ljeet, and Jbefore Joe could beg pardon for the unintentional mis hap, he commenced a torrent bf oath and invective, partly in Spanish land partly in broken English. His language was so abusive that Joe's temper Was up in a moment, and instead of, asking par don, as he had intended. . he i surveyed the ravinmah'from head t6'foot, and then said r- .rr.;,-y'. r I G6 on, sir J " STour language is beau tiful, very beautiful for a gqntleman." "Ah! you j call me no genteelman, eh?'! uttered the officer, in a towering paksionr"" 1 ':-.-T T" V - "': ' r ' "If I were goingo call you any thirjg, I should call you .'a jackass!" calmly and Iconteniptously ! returned Joe." : ' v 'f- ; ;: ' - .' r Aha-a-ah !f half-growled the Span lard, rolling his black eyes wildly and furiously. Nclw, by Santailarie, you hall answer for that. I am a gehteel man !" But youyou orieleetle cursed puppy l Ah-a-klii Now you shall fight !" Joe would have laughed the matter off, but he found that the - captain was determined to fight, and at length he resolved to accomodate him. JThe keep- n oi.: jne cate caned me on one side, Jind informed me 'tht the officer was Captain Antonio Bizar, one of tlie most notorious duellists of the place; -that he, was always quarrelsome when: under the influ,ence of liquor, and. that his companions,; always 2 leftdmilone, rather than have a fuss with liimr 'Not five minutes before ?you came in," added' the; keeper, 1'four of his fellow - officers left him, because they saw he was ripe for a fu$s. r So you haU better get your friend away.", . 1 I ptiUe Joe. away, and told him all that had just been told me, but he only smiled; and assured me that there was nothing to fear. I' felt , sure at once from, his .very manner. that he had some safe fun In his head, and I let him go. "My name is Joseph Lattit, sir; a ci tizenf the United States, -and General of the Order of Sublime Darkness," said Joe, pompously! turning to the Spaniard. "Your name, Sir?" '"Antonio Bizar, Captain in Her Most Catholic Majesty's seventh regiment of infantry. 1 But your office, sir ? I don't comprehend." "O, ! you wouldn't know if-1 should tell you. I am simply general of a body of men who have sold themselves to the gentleman who burns sinners and heretics ..down here." And Joe pointed most mysteriously down to wards the floor as he spoke. The Spaniard 'smiled very bitterly and sarcastically, and thereupon Joe took up two large knives which lay upon the bar, and tossed them, one af ter the other, down his throat, making several wry faces as they took; their passage downward. The fellow had evidently never seen anything of the kind done before, for he wa3 astounded. 'Now sir,' said Joe, making one or two more grimaces, as though he still felt the knives somewhere in the re gion of the diaphragm ; "you will wait here until I go and bring my pistols, and you shall have satisfaction. Will you wait?'? "I can procure pistols," said the of flcr, forgetting his astonishment, and coming back to his anger. "I shall fight with my own I If you are a gentleman, you will wait here." Joe turned to us, and bade us wait for him. "nere! here! O, Criezl" cried the keeper, "where be mine knifes?" "I'll pay you for 'em when I come back," said Joe, and then he beckoned for me to come out. I did so, and he took' the knives one from his bosom and the other from his sleeve and told me to keep them until he returned. It seems that Toe found a boat ready to take him off to the ship at once, for he was not gone, over three-quarters of an hour, and when he came back he had two superbly-mounted pistols with him. He loaded them with nowder in the presence of the Spaniard, and then handing him a ball, he asked him if he would mark it so he would know it again. The fellow hesitated at first, but at lenirth he took it with a mad gesture, and bit it between his teeth. "I shall know that," he said, "unless it is battered against your bones." "Now select your pistol," said Joe. Tne man took them both, and exam ined them, but he was satisfied that they were both alike, and both good, and he told Joej he had no choice. So our stew ard Dut the balls in, and rammed them carefully down.. The whole Dartv now adjourned to a wide court, back of the cafe, where twelve paces were marked off, and the combatants took their stations. I trem bled for poor Joe, for I saw not yet how he wuld make fun of this. "Count!" cried the Spaniard, impa tiently. ! " ; "One twothree !" The captain fired first, and with a most deliberate aim. Joe fired into the air. Then the latter walked deliberately up to his antagonist, and taking a bullet from between his teeth, he handed it to him. i ; . "You can use this next time," said Joe." ! .; ; " , The officer looked first at Joe's teeth, and then at the ball. It was surely the same one he had seen put into the pis tol, and now he had seen his foeman take ic from his mouth. He was unmis takably astounded. "Come," j cried Joe, "let's load again." ? "San Pablo!" exclaimed Bizar, ".you use some what you call him some trick; he? By San Jago, I shall load the pistol myself." f ' : ; ' "Do so," said Joe, calmly, and as he spoke he handed over his powder-flask. t The Spaniard, poured out an extra quantity of powder, and having poured It in the pistol; he called for the ram mer, j He then - put in the same ball he had used before- $Iean while' Joe had been loading his own pistol. "One moment," said Joe, reaching out his hand. "The caps are in the butt of your pistol. Iet me get them"." " ' 1 The fellow'passed over his pistol, but he kept his eyes upon it. Joe opened a little silver spring at the end of the butt; and, true; 1 there were some per cussion caps there; He took out two, And having capped his own pistol, he gave t. a toss in the, air, catching it 'adroitly, jis t Came down, and Jhen handed back the other to the Spaniard. I had watched Joe most carefully, but I saw nothing out of the way. And yet he had changed pistol with his foe. 'Now;" sidch he jVll:, put a ball into ; my j pistol, land then we'll be ready.". J 4 - w t . i ...... 1 - He slipped something in which looked to me like a cartridge, but no oxie else saw'itv J ""('. -' ' I ;: - - Now," cried the Spaniard, "let's see you hold this irVyour mouth."7" Again they took their stations, and g hey were ready. ' "O n 3 two three ! " And thd Spaniard fired first by aim, Joe filing into the air as before. And again J oe stepped forward and took the self-B 9 me .bullet from his - mouth and handed it to his antagonist. The fellow was completely dumiounaea, and so were the rest. j'You no fire at me !" gasped the cap tain. ,; j , . 1 "I'll fire at you next time!", said Joe, in a tone of. thunder. "Thus far I have only shown? you that powder and ball can have no effect on me. Twice have you fired at me with as true a pistol as ever was made, and bothrtimes have I caught your ball between ray teeth, while I have fired in the air. I meant that you should live long enough to know that for once in your life you had seen, if not the old fellow himself 0 (Dointine: meaninsrlv downward), at least one who is in his employ! The old gentleman will like the company of a captain of Spanish infantry, and I'll send you along. Come, load up again 1" But the astonished Spaniard did hot seemed inclined to do so. A man who swallowed carving-knives as he would sardines, and who caught pistol-balls between his teeth, was not exactly ( the man for him to deal with. "While he was pondering upon what he had seen, Joe took a handful of bullets from his pocket, and began to toss them rapidly down his throat, and when these were gone, he picked up half-a-dozen good- sized stones and sent them after the bullets. i "Holy Santa Marie!" ejaculated the Spaniard, while his eyes seemed start ing irom their sockets. "Wnat a man. By my soul, 'tis the devlU" And as he thus spoke, he turned on his heel and hurried away from the place. After he was gone, Joe beckoned for me to give him the knives. I did so, and then saw him slip them up his coat- sleeves. When we returned to the cafe he approached the keeper. "You want your knives?" he said. But the poor fellow dared not speak. Joe put his hand to his right ear and pulled one of the knives out; then from his left ear he drew the other one. The keeper crossed himself in terror, and shrank trembling away. But we fin ished our wine, and having paid for it, turned to go. i "Here," said Joe, "I haven't paid for the use of the yard yet." And as he spoke he threw down a piece of silver upon the counter. MNol no I nor' shrieked the poor fellow. "O, crie don't leave your money here, don't !" 1 Joe picked it up and went away laughing. When we were alone he ex plained to me the secret of bis pistols. They were a pair he had used in his legerdemain performances and such as all wizards use to perform tricks of catching balls, etc. The main barrel of the pistol had no connection whatever with the nipple for the cap; but what appeared to be a socket for the rammer wag, in fact, a second barrel to be sure, smaller than the other, hut yet as large as the bore of any rifle-pistol and With this secret barrel the priming tube con nected. So the apparent barrel of the weapon might be filled with powder and ball and no harm could be done. i When Joe returned with! his pistols, of course he had both these secret bores loaded with blank charges, and then the other load was nothing but effect in ap pearance. At the second loading Joe had charged the secret barrel of his own pistol, while the Spaniard had been fill ing up the main barrel of !his. Then, of course, it became necessary to make an exchange, else Bizar neverj would have got his weapon off. As soon as Joe got the other pistol into his possession, and made the exchange which j we spoke of at the time, he had only, to press smartly "upon a secret sprjng on the side of the stock, and he had the whole charge which, the otherj had put in, emptied into his band. So! he had the marked ball to dispose of as he chose. Ever after that, while he remained in Mahon, Joe Lattit was jan object of both curiosity and dread ! on shore, for an account, all colored to' suit the ex aggerated conceptions of the cafe-keeper, had been spread over the city, and the pious Catholics there j! wanted noth ing to do with such a man; only to be sure and keep on his good-humored side. H i 1 A number of very interesting old manuscripts, supposed to' be written by some monk of the Soloveisk Monastery, near Archangel, and. said to throw new light upon the history of the religious sects of u8sia, were recently iouno Dy a Russian antiquary in one of the book stalls at St. Petersburg. ' i 1 . , m Oriental Carpets and Greek Archl- lecture. few years ago, the carpets were al most all highly reprehensible. To say that! they were barbarous would be to pay them a compliment, for no barbar ous people ever made such crudities of line and color as the old "Brussels" and "ingrain" I carpets shown us; though the "ingrain" designs were ofte:i better than those bf the more ex pensive kinds. This was because fewer tricks were played with the warp and woof in the cheap carpet; and the de signs were more evidently structural. The objection to all the carpets of the former time, cheap and dear alike, was, that the jpatterns were too defined; whether "set" or "flowing" they could not be made to blend with what was placed upon them, but pushed them selvies so impertinently to the fore, that the jcarpet became the chief thing in the room, instead of being, as it should be, onlyv a background for the rest. Of latel years, there has been a great im provement in the designs of all carpets, from the most expensive Wilson to the cheapest ingrain. In the richer sorts, dark, soft tones with patterns if pat terns they can be called of spots and stains, that now appear, j now hide, but are never in the way, are to be bought in many of the shops. Some of the best English carpets are as thick and soft as the best of; Persian make, and the de signs, when they are not too daring, or when the makers are content with copy ing the quieter Eastern patterns; are a great improvement on the older manu factures. But one may as well spend his money for an Eastern carpet out rig it, as buy one of these English car pets. There would be the certainty of getting a design that had no taint of South Kensington in it, and that would be sure not tebe the same through any sq dare foot Of its space. For jone thing Eastern art is valuable to us; "jit rebukes at every turn our scientific lqfve of pre cisibn and symmetry, shows us the charm of irregularity, and teaches us how to make two sides of a thing alike, while keeping them quite different. Whether we shall ever get this into our blood, I "don't know. It is an essential principle of all the best decorative art; and necessarily so, because all such de sigp is as far removed as possible from mechanical assistance, and has no other rule or measure than the eye act ing through the hand. No twof Ionic capitals of Greek workmanship even in the; same temple are al ike in anything, except general size and character. No more are any two Doric caps alike, nor any two mouldings of any style, nor any two successive feet of any Greek oriiamen't. The notion instilled into our minds that the Greek architecture is all monotony and repetition is of England or German origin. The MoundBulIders and their Pred j ecessors. - . The earth of this continent shows us that before the Indians there has been a jpeople whom we call the Mound builders that is, mounds were thrown upjhere by men whose bones we find in them, lying among rough tools and utensils, and after the mounds we name thi race, who perhaps, were not a dif ferent people from the Indians. But for these mounds we would not know of the men who built them. They are mentionedjin no history, human or divine. What was there before the Mound-builder ? I would speak of what must haye been long before his time of early, though perhaps not earliest man in North America. We must know this early man by our ex perience of his; traces. New observa tions of fact and the ideas they have awakened in myself are put forward, so that you may judge of the reason ableness of the conclusions. And here any boy will afford a competent illus tration of the evidence. Almost the first thing that pur boys do is to throw stones. It is one of their ways of say No. There is I more than one parallel beiween savages and our boys to be maintained. Just as the state of mind of J the adult savage is paralleled by that of our children, so we must expect that so common a weapon as a stone is to bur boys mbst be extensively used by! savages. And this, in fact is what we! do find. There was also a time when this stone throwing was the oc cupation of grown men of our own race. Stones were used in the warfare of jthe Celt and the Roman. We re member that David, a Semites, used a pehble from tie brook. And we shall finji that men of other races, and before David, resorted to the same weapon for all the purposes which in David's time, and with his race, were partly served by metals. There is, then, not only a parallel to be drawn between our boys anl savages in! certain ways, but there exists one between these boys of the present and our meri of the past. Just as, when cutting into the crust of the earth, we find the remains of animals and plants which once inhabited its former surfaces, jthe simpler forms be low, the morei, complex above, so we find the remains of man's tools and im plements in the clays and gravels of the la$t geological period of the globe, and with a like sequence in their character. The oldest and lowest forms of tools t m are simplest; the newer and nearer to the present surface, the more; varied and complex. , We have seen the sim-: plest weapon man could use would be a stone. Even now a wagoner with broken cart looks around naturally for a stone to pound with, and so mend bis ways. He picks up a stone on occasion ancestors did on most occasions. as his r or me moment ne is in tne stone age. And he uses what the earliest man must j have un doubtedly used, a stone just as it is. There must have been a time when men picked up such stones as came in their way at the moment with I which to throw at animals, to break their food, to injure their fellow men, j Such stones, unaltered by use, can no longer be indentifled. Popular Science Monthly. Tl 4.1 ' a a 1 St. Isaae'a Church, St. Petersburg. By all means mount St. Isaac's, even if you have to stay in all day after wardjj for in no other way can you form an adequate notion either of the prodigious audacity which planned a vast qity on a wet bog, and at the mercy of both river and sea, or the extent, and symmetry and picturesqueness of a city which the Moscow people, sneer at it as ihey may, find only too successful a rival as the residence of the Court and as the seat of Government. This St Isaacfs Church, builf on piles forced deep down into a yielding morass, and contipualiyxrequiring repairs, from ah awkward habit of slipping, has already cost tnree million sterling, and to an impartial mind is hardly worth the money. It is a four-square building, approached on? each side by a grand flight of steps, and supported by a mag nificent peristyle of columns sixty feet bighj granite monolyths from Finland. Therje. is a central cupola, richly gilt, and supported by thirty granitej pillars, the whole surmounted by a golden cross three hundred and sixty feet from the ground. The capitals of the col umns are in bronze, and there is much metal ornamentation on the exterior or in the shape of bas-reliefs, statues, and busts, a mingling of materials, which, to me seemed infelicitous. Imposing, however, as the exterior undoubtedly is, tjie interior is yet more striking to an eye aucusiomeu 10 me austere sim olicity of Protestant churches. The walls are of polished marble covered with! pictures, many of which are in ex-i quisite mosaic' The roof is painted in fresco. The iconostas, or screens, which in Gfeek churches separate the body of the (church from the sanctuary, are adorned with columns of malachite and labia. lazuli, andprotuse gilding everyH where gives a rich and splendid effect. Roughly described, St. Isaac's is a sort of dwarfed St.. Paul's without nave or choir, and the Restoration Committee might do worse than study the decora tion of St. Isaac's as a possible model for their own cathedral. Pleasure as an Incentive to Mindy. Coming now to the influences of con-! ! I oentration. we assign the first place to intrinsic charm, or pleasure in the act itself. The1 law of the will, in its side of greatest potency, is that pleasure sustains thef movement that brings it. The whole force of the mind at the moment goes with the pleasure-giving exercise. The harvest of immediate pleasure stimulates our most intense exertions, if exertion serves to prolongj the blessing. Ho it is with the deepen ing of an impression, the confirming of a Dent or dies: tne associating 01 a oonple or a sequence of acts ; a coin ciding burst' o : joy awakens the atten tion and thus leads to an enduring stamp on the mental framework. xne mgraimug eiuuieuuy 01 . me pleasurable I motive requires not only that we should not be carried off into an accustomed routine of voluntary ac tivities, such as to give to the forces another direction, as when we pace to and jfro in aj flower-garden ; but also that the ple&sure should not be in tense or tumultuous. The law of the mutual exclusion of great pleasure and great intellectual exertion forbids the employment! cjf too much excitement of any kind, when we aim at the most exacting of all mental " results the forming bf nief adhesive growths. A gentle pleasure that for the time con tents us, therej being no great tempta tion at handj is the best foster-mother of our efforts at learning. Still better,' if it be a growing pleasure ; a small be ginning, with j steady increase, neverj too absorbing, is the best of. all stimu lants to mental power. In order to have a vet wider compass of stimulaj mi ra ji i Hiori, without (objectionable extremesj we migm Degin on me negative eiue, that is, in pain or privation, to be gradually remitted in the course of the! studious exercise, giving place at last to the exhilarajtion of a waxing pleas ure. All the great teachers, from Soc rates downward, seem to recognize th necessity of putting the learner into a state of pain;t0 begin with ; a fact that we are by noj means to exult over although we may have to admit the stern truth that is ! in it. Popular Xcience Monthly. j Dr. Schliemann's wealth is estif mated by thqse who have the means of knowing at hat less than $3,000,000. j J. P. Hasler, the defaulting cashier of the Carlisle (Pa.) Deposit Bank; handed himself in the garret of his dwelling. NEWS IN BRIEF. r Pluck Wl 11 Carrv r man whr n rnlrrt carfiwyi;npt. -J . . L j I ifj-The Illinois penitentiary contains over 1L50O convicts, j t I H-Londc h dispensed last year about $34O0i3,OO0 in charity t IpEtigland has about 100,000 miles of te legraph wire in operation. j I -pTnerel are twelve miles of shelving for the books in the British Museum. 'IT New Haven is organizing a fruit- growing colony, for I Southern Califor nia. H-The Kothschilds have five family mansions in Paris, valued at 100.000.000 r-A new style of postage stamps of. the tbltee pent denomination is to be U sued in. May. J . 'j-j-The palary of the president of Switzferlahd has been increased 1 from $2J0 to 12,700 a y ear. s4-Kknsa:f anticipates a very large emi gration inj the Spring from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. ' ILL A 1 i sh p rancn 01 oiu.uuu acres has t been urveyed in Menard county, Tea exas to a Tennessee breeder. I ownshlp (Pa.) boasts of a very young, g andfather, viz., Nathan' Rae, Who is not yet 35 years of age. 1 jTbey have a man in San Francisco Who i jdis tingui3hing himself by eating naccarpn !by, the mile. He disposed of the first mile in 22 minutes. "pThere fs at the present time in the Mexican treasury, the sum of seventeen cejits n specie. It has slipped Into a crevic3, and cannot be got at. 1 !--Colonel Delancey Kane proposes that the jfirst trip of the spring season of th Pfelham Coach to the suburbs shall be made on Tuesday, 'May 1. j -Mr.j Wm. E. Dodged of New YorkJ is sa d tc he the heaviest timber hnd owner 1 irk the United Spates. He owns land in j tie Sc uthL the West and Canada. The pew Democratic Idaily at San ancascq Is edited by an Australian. lalndexl since November, but hurls the spiritlof '7G atall Returning Boards; I A very old married couple named Mjnoi, I live at Fall River, Mass. The hkisbaud is more than one hundred years of agje, aiid the. wife eighteen months younger. J j !-The shock from the-flring of the 80 tpfi giin ajt Shoeburynes3, England, re ceht'y i jcaused bottles to fall off a glasn shelf : n the window of a house sixteen nills llstknt. i j i-fKahsis derived a revenue of $$9, 120 8Q( frm its railroads on stato tax alone kluiing the last year. 1 The assess ment of rfailroad property amounted to (j t-pFpur factories at Huntaville, Mo , are I prepared to -handle three million piqunds df tobacco this year. Nearly double I that amount finds a market at Hhntiville. Al l Sail Francisco clerk paid $33 a nth for his rooms, ate $3 dinners, and 8(noked 23 cent cigars. The firm over hauled I his accounts, and found them $ 21,000 short. jj-iTherffi is talk in London of setting u jCIcOpatra's needle in Northumber land averiUe. To remove the obelisk ffom Alexandria and re-erect it will cost .at least $35,000. . :;:4-The Irish organizations of Balti nlore pave sensibly resolved not to waste their money on a St. Patrick's day par ape, this year, but give what they vfould have spent in that way to the poor. I . t ; . .-, . I tit' curious flsh is found irk Wallqw's California, which are blood red Fliake, in; i color, very fat, and are of superior delicacy to salmon. There are only four kriowri lakes In the World where thee f fish are found. , I ! i t The oldest Duke In Great Britain is the Duke of Portland, aged 77; the youngest the Duke of Montrose, aged '2. I The pldest Marquis is the Marquis o DonegJ.l, aged 80; the youngest, tho farquia c f Camden, aged 5. f j Mr. liemas Barnes's loss inft hln Iriwspaper venture is computed to be $100,008. J The price paid for the privi .leire of killing the Brooklyn Argus in ad- hrlncei pf its natural dissolution is vari reported at from $8,000 to $35,000 . ;oi43ly Th e match of the national rifle as- tationTfor the Centennial trophy Is nouncefl for September, and notice 3 Deen issued to ioreign nne teams. e captain of the Irish team .respond- t it is uncertain, whether it is possi- blb to raise a team to shoot for the tro- rphy this season.-.- The Health and Police Committee fthe' Sab Francisco Board of Super- sorslhate just laid out the future Chi sel burial grounds, a short distance yond the naii-mue tract, parallel witn int Lopos avenue. This will be. -the ird time the Chinese have been com- lled to remove the bones of their dead termed m this country. On the Southern Pacific Railroad, mllaa lanntVi xf San Franfitfn la Cfifii alunique piece of railroading, where the ftrackUaftjer passing .through a tunnel, Winds around ne mountain and crosses iteelfl dirjectly over the tunnel, thus yiniirig a height of 78 feet on 3,795 feet jof rail. About 100 miles further south tbe road uns through one of the largest Ituhhels 1ft America, that of San Fran- IdlscoJ 6,9$7 feet In length. 1 jJThe 1- II Great and Little Dismal the richest lands of North Carolina, a Jargej portion of which, by a moderate lohtlav foj draining, could bo made equal to the! most fertile of Louisiana. Ttiese lands belonff chiefly to the educational tundi dug are ot no present vaiue to it. r: ' t -.-r . i 1. a. v. Aovernor vance is anxious wuavc mem Vimlripdi and has directed a bill to be feepared for the leglsrlatur oti the mb- 1
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