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PATENT IMEDICINES. THE ERA. A REPUBLICAN WEF.KLY NEWS PA PER THE CENTRAL ORGAN OK THE PARTY. PU nLI8irETF.vnRYi TUT? RS I A.Y. (SEE.RATT OP XTROCRIP-Hrov ontiiis'pa6k.V4 ' V. M. RKOWX, Manager. OrFicKovctr ih North Carolina Iiok corner of Favetteville and Mor u ui s:reoU, tirt door south of the State lloiic RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: - l a o-" One year, -Six months, ... Three month 4, jr-Is variably Advance. -6. tammmmmmmmmmaammmm PitOSPKCTUH. VOL,. IV. RALEIGH, M.'C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1875. NO.36. POETltt utitlivr a rul Cha mniom uj A mrr ( r.prclu fr KljUlh Year. THK ALDINE, The Art Journal of America, ISO MONTHLY. men A nnisnifw-ent conception wonderfully carried out." The necessity of a popular medium f..r the representation of the produc tion of our Kreat artists, has always Uen recognized, and many attempts i,4v txen made to meet the want. 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Little they know, or even think Of the work there is in shedding ink Ry the busy wielders of pencil pen, Generally known as newspaper 'Jotting,' Mn General,' 'Spices of Life,' 'Variations,' rumors rife, 'All Sorts of Paragraphs,' to am use, Market reports and marine disasters, Huffs of pills and patent plasters; Now at the theatre in white cravat, Claw-hammer coat and open hat : Then to the prize-ring, where you write Sickening details of a bloody fight Rack to the city just in time To report the sermon of some divine; Steamboat collision, smash-up of trains, Election returns to lotheryour brains ; Agents dramatic, with long-winded story, To write up his star to theatrical glory ; Deaths and marriages, murders, rows, Balls and parties, minstrel shows, Stock speculations, bubbles of air, Tossed about by bull and bear ; Praising the limb in the dancer's pose, And next the calves in the cattle-shows. Pencil in hand at the racing course, Taking the time of a trotting horse ; Jotting down each stroke and catch Made in a famous base-ball match ; Now of a street row taking a note And then of a row in a college boat. These aro a few of the many things At which the tireless pencil swings. The grateful bachelors were' so overpowered that they offered t: give Maria a dower. j 14 Ah ! Monsieur," she replied, af ( fectionately, how can I leave j you ? You may aerain be attacked and I Dv robbers." f " But we will not, nevertheless, sianu between you and happiness," they replied. "Here are thirty thousand francs you have saved iOur lives, and richly deserve the money. If you choose to live in this house with your husband, we will repair the lower part for that purpose, and you can also be hired to keep our room neat as at presen t. ' ' Henri married Maria, and they accepted the dower and the house. Years passed, and recently the real facts of this midnight robbery came to light. Both of the old bach elors were dead, and had willed Maria another thirty thousand francs. The brave girl did not re fuse it. It turned out, however, that the robbers were not plural. Henri acted as the burglar, the blood was from a Iamb killed for the pur pose, and the whole was but a ruse of the lovers to open the hearts and purses of the two old misers. A Gorg-eons Ganiblinjr House. The Washington Star publishes a long article giving a minute de scription of John F. Chamberlain's New Capitoline Club House at the capital of the nation. It is, says the Star, the most elaborate and spac ious gaming-house and restaurant in the United States, and cost $90,- -r , ! 000. Mr. Morrisey's Saratoga club Yourhot te'-n house is nothing to be compared T M. A ; A. , Willi 11 US IU IIS gance. It is the same house for merly rented by the English minis The Lady-Bugs. Three pretty lady-bugs were creeping about on Jeannie's hand, and two were poking their mites of noses in and out of Lulu's fingers, hoping to find something to eat, when, all of a sudden, Jeannie cried out in what seemed to them a tremendous voice: Know Thyself. J ' If we knew I half as much of man on this continent a iAgassiz has taught us of turtles, ord his son lias taught us of echinodertiia. we sbeaks Dr. Oliver Wendell Hoi mo in his last essay on "The f Ameri canized Kuropeah." This being true, it would seem as if some of r ; t i .- I . S . 1 -t r- ,Job WotfK executed at short no- "wbuu in siyie unsurpasseu.Dy anv simitar esiauiisnmeni in t DC State. RATES blf tAD ViiRTlSINCi tuo square, one time, - $ " two times, , - , -" three times, - Contract advertisements taken at proportionately low rates. 1 00 1 M '2 (Ml The Nevada Silver Mines. As there are many that don't un- MISCELLANEOUS. A Brave Servant Girl. E T II E E , KN K K A I. OlM MISSION MERCK A NT in all kinds of P R ODUCE. AT.SO, Fresh and Salt Fish, Oysters, pins. Game, Poultry, Eggs, root of Church Street, NORFOLK, VA. P. O. Box, 53.K Terra tc. 30-tf A , 8ECOIVD rt ati Mf Organ, doable bank HAND MASON AND Of If ;l T AW vw 9 AvV l. hr.owx's. Some years since two wealthy bachelors lived in the vicinity of Paris. They had a young maid-of- all-work named Maria De L.aFont. Maria was a sweet, pretty girl, and lively and piquant in her manners although modest in the extreme, and this was the reason that the two brothers kept her in their employ. They knew that she was frugal, eco nomical, and dressed in the most moderate manner imaginable. One day Maria surprised her employers by informing them that a young ar tisan residing in Paris had asked her hand. They strove to dissuade her from accepting the offer of mar riage, but she told them that she could not be happy unless she be came the wife of her dear Henri. So it was arranged that she should quit the service of the two brothers at the end of the coming month. One day during this interval the two brothers sold some valuable real estate which they owned jointly, and the sum realized amounted to 10G.000 francs. It was all in bills on the Bank of France, and was paid too late for deposit the same after noon. Night came, and as the old bach elors seldom had such a large amount in the house, they were con siderably concerned lest robbers should attempt to rob them. Their fears were strengthened by the nu merous burglaries that had recently taken place in that vicinity. The residence of the old men was some distance from the main road, and stood near the river Seine. It was a lonely, gloomy location, and on the night in question the winds swept through the tall arches sur rounding the mansion with doleful and moaning cadence. About midnight the old men re tired, but scarcely had they fallen asleep when Maria rapped at their door and informed them that rob bers were at work below. Both the bachelors were terribly frightened, and while one com menced to bar the door, the other began removing a tile from the hearth to hide the bills. ' You have a gun," said Maria, " take it and shoot the villains." But the two trembling men paid no heed to her advice. Cowards !" said the brave girl, scornfully; I wish that I were a man for five minutes !" Just then there came a heavy crash from the apartments below. The brothers crept beneath the bed, where they shivered and cringed, unable to speak from terror. 44 We shall all be murdered in our beds," said the girl. 44 We will be found by the police in the morning with our throats cut from ear to ear, Peste! fools, give me that gun." She seized the double-barreled gun that laid upon the shelf, and started down stairs; while the two fright ened men watched her without say ing a word. Presently, bang! went the gun, and a groan was heard. Bang! went the second barrel, and a screech of pain resounded through the house that caused the blood of the brothers to run cold. A brief pause ensued, and then Maria came tripping up stairs, but her face wore a determined, satisfied look. She asked for powder and ball to reload, which were furnish ed, but before she finished loading, footsteps were heard retreating from the house. No one slept in the fiouse that night, nor were they again molest ed. But at early dawn, going down stairs, a pool of blood on the hall tloor showed that one robber, at least, had been seriously, if not mor tally wounded. And it was plain to see by the bloody path in the earth, that the victim had been dragged to the river. Gore marked the whole distance, and the police I were at once put on the alert for the arrest of the living thieves and the recovery of the body of the dead one. But all efforts proved vain, and the bravery of the young girl was discussed far and near. derstand the situation in fact, very few that do says a San Francisco correspondent, writing of the silver mine excitement, I will give you a brief synopsis. It is well known that for the last three years nearly all the work done in the mines of the Uomstock ledge has been what is called, in mining parlance "dead work," that is, the pay ore having given out, it became necessary to sink shafts, run tunnels, and grope through hard rock in search for the vein lost or exhausted as the case might be many contending that the pay ore or vein had been entire ly worked out and exhausted. This wras a pretty general opinion, too, and so, when dividends ceased and assessments succeeded, the stock went down take Ophir, for instance as low as eight dollars per share, and all others in proportion ; but there were some who believed there was more to be found, and that class was largely made up, I confess, of superintendents, secretaries, and officers of the companies, who would be out of situations turned adrift it the previous opinion was adopt ed ; at any rate the work went on. They delved, bored, blasted and asse-sed, until even the most san guine began to lose hope. Then one day, when down, the Lord knows how deep half way through the crust, and where it began to feel very much like the thing we read of (so hot men could only work an hour at a time) a shout came up from the bowels of old mother earth. They had struck it. This was in Crown Point, I think, and up w ent the stock from three dol lars per share to $2,000. How was that for high? There's where our Senator Jones made his strike. He was superintendent of the mine, and Mr. Alonzo Hay ward was his brother-in-law. They are both worth from twelve to fifteen mil lions each now. The mine paid a big dividend, and continues to pay a lair one still, but the stock' has settled back to a fair value. Of course, striking such rich ore in the Crown Point encouraged, and the pick was swung with renewed vig or, and the stock assessed with pro portionate energy. The signs began to indicate something good. There was a splendid 4t prospect." ' She show's the color " is a mining phrase, and you heard it in the street. Peo ple began to prick up their ears and buy stock. Those who had money and faith bought a good deal of it. California and Consolidated Vir ginia began, especially, to show ore. The stock crept up gradually from twenty dollars per share to fifty, sixty, and to eighty and ninety dol lars, and there it hung for some months ; but one day it jumped, and it kept jumping, and in thirty days or thereabout it and California got up to eight hundred dollars,and it fluctuates from seven hundred to eight hundred dollars. A great many poor people bought this stock on representations of their mining friends, and of course they are rich now. Messrs. Flood & O'Brien, as the firm is called, although the part ners are Flood, O'Brien, Mackay, and Jim Fair, as the latter is called all, especially the latter, are ex perienced mining men, experts. These four men bought up about two-thirds of the mine, and of course are worth millions. They are the power in the land, richer than any other 44Ring" here. The advance in the value of their stock from Saturday morning to Monday morning was only eleven millions. These men are estimated to be worth unitedly from sixty to eighty millions of dollars. They are all Irishmen all plain, unassuming men, and just as much so now as when they were not worth a dollar. will roam With a frightened kick: of all their little legs at once, away flew the lady-bugs, while Jeannie and Lulu extended their arms, point ing in the direction where the poor little things' house was supposed to be burning. "Oh. don't tell them that!" im plored Kittie; 4'it is n't true and ?n lady-bug don't believe you.'7 "No, indeed !" said the" pretty bug, who was sitting up for com pany on a big leaf near Kittie; "no, indeed ! this is my house ; our houses scarcely ever burn up ; they fade and wither, 'but they last as long as we do. Come back, come back, my dears, and don't be fright ened so easily." Upon this the fly-away lady-bugs wheeled around, folded their wings, aid floated softly down upon the grass, near where some lovely fringed gentian flowers wTere talk ing to six fat, round, droll-looking toad-stools. They were rather low company for the refined, delicate flowers so the lady-bugs thought and they hastily crept up to Kit tie, and skipping upon the big leaf, made themselves quite comfortable and happy. The new baby-moon rose up in the quiet sky, and the tall purple bells nodded and waved a graceful welcome. In the west the sun was going grandly to rest, trailing clouds of glory after him. The children sat down close to the big leaf, and Jeannie, who was a curious little puss, said: "Lady-bugs, tell us, won't you, where did you come from ?" "We do not know," they an swered ; "and where we are going, who can tell? We live out our lit tle lives in the warm sunshine, and turn peacefully over on our backs and die when our time comes." "O h," said all three little girls, and they had not finished think ing about it when their mamma came to take them home, give them each a large bowlful of bread and milk, hear them say their prayers, and put them in ttieir pretty white beds, so soft and sweet. When they were gone, the fairies came flying through the moonlight, and car ried away the little scarlet lady-bugs. A Good Suggestion. A saving woman at the lieall of" the family is the very best savings bank established one receiving de noslfs dailv and hnnrTv "trtfk should be most) fortunate." So j costly machinery to manned it. me iuea ux saving is a pleasant one, and if the women would im bibe it at once, they would culti vate and adhere to It, and when they are not aware of It, would be ter. and in which the Prince of Wales lodged whilst staying with us. The Star gives also an interest ing description of the games and gambling utensils. Poker is one of the games played, but difficult to learn, for a young man of fortune, resident here, told the reporter "that it cost him $20,000 to play it, and he had not learned it yet." We are tho pnpr.cv rlevnrl tr iha ctnrlo rf splendor and el e- animal life might to greats advan-1 laying the foundation of a sectiritv cage De curectea to a pursuit that in a storrnv timn nnrf hpltr in i iL " : . rainy uay. rno woman who sees versed in these point out the dif " gaming" and fact we are green not well enough sorts of things to ference between 44 gambling." In enough to Deiieve tnat tnere is no difference at ail. At least it will be very hard to tell where the differ ence is, for we know that if young men can lose $50,000 at poker it mat ters little whether you call it gam bling or gamjng to play poker. As our police autnorities have been kind enough to be very severe, in drafting the Morrill bill, against our innocent pleasures, for instance, of enjoyment on Sunday of a glass of beer, ore, whilst they 'have omitted every allusion to gaming, gambling, and keeping houses of prostitution, we take pleasure in directing atten tion to the existing law for their benefit. For wTe declare openly that, if it is the intention of our authori ties to deny us our innocent pleas ures, they shall not practice without punishment their vices. Either you shall be liberal towards us, or you must stop gambling arid keeping houses of prostitution. Let us alone and We will not trouble you, as it is not our province nor intention to preach morals to our fashionables. 1 Vash in g ton Se?it in el. A Post-Office Romance. About A story is told of two pretty Bal timore girls, who were out rowing on the Lake of Lucerne, and when the barge of the King of Holland came along, instead of trailing oars and respectfully falling behind roy alty, they actually raced. The King was evidently amused with this ex hibition of American independence; and made a sign to his oarsman to let the young ladies go ahead. Com ing to the quay second, he told his coxswain to moor the victors' boat, and said "He knew they were Americans." A Wisconsin man recently killed six skunks In one day. After inter viewing the first one he became reckless and so kept on. two months ago. Mrs. Lucile Thomson, a handsome young widow, arrived in San Fran cisco from Washington in search of employment. Her husband was an officer in the army, and had fallen upon the field of battle. She brought with her letters of intro duction from prominent officials in the First Assistant Postmaster General's office. Her years were on the sunny side of thirty. She was a prepossessing blonde, and withal a well educated lady with a vivacious tongue in her head. She had served as a clerk in one of the departments at Washington, but her health failing, she threw up her position and came to California, hoping to regain in its salubrious climate her health and strength. She applied in vain at the mint and at the post-office in the city for something to do. A prominent official, whose voice had once been heard in the halls of Congress, in terested himself in her behalf, and endeavored to secure some light-occupation for her, failing in which and as a last resort the young widowr started out as a 'boqk-cmvasser. She solicited subscribers with but indifferent success for a volume en titled the "Life of Secretary Chase." She again visited the post-office, and after securing a subscriber there was advised by the deputy postmaster to drop Secretary Chase and take up "Boyd's Postal Guide." She took his advice and met with great success, capturing a sub scriber in nearly every mercantile and banking house which she vis ited. In one of the offices visited by her she met an elderly bachelor named Watson of the firm of Wat son Brothers, thewellknown salmon f lackers of Oregon. He was a mil ionaire, and needed only a wife to make him entirely happy. He immediately made love to the for lorn book canvasser, and within twenty-four hours after they had met had popped the question, which was accepted. They were married on the following day, and on the last trip of the Ajax to Port land the newly-wedded and happy Eair went home. Another lady as undertaken to finish the work begun by the happy bride in con nection with "Boyd'3 Postal Guide." No False Modesty. une visiting iiiesiaumry in .rans finds none of that contemptible mock modesty which prevails to so considerable an extent on the Amer ican shores of the Atlantic. Where a statue exhibits nudity, there is no attempt at concealing any portion of the anatomy. I had curiosity to watch the faces of visitors who wrere inspecting these specimens. Often were they young girls, and in no in stance did they blush or show evi dence of discomposure. They seem ed to comprehend perfectly that it was a work of art, aud nothing else, upon which they were gazing. None of the lady visitors at least, those of them that were French had for such exhibition any of those avert ed glances, the strained pretense of being offended, the color of a false modesty, mounting into their faces, which one, under similar circum stances, sees so often among our American women. In this direc tion, true modesty is on the side of French woman. She then looks a nd acts as if she had no knowledge of evil ; while her sister seems to be tray the fact that she is in the pos session of full information. In this respect we have a good deal to learn from French and English women, and which, when learned, will be of great service to our American fair sex. There is not, perhaps, any particular merit in the case of these French women, for the reason that they are brought up among art sur roundings, in whose case nature, wnen betrayed, is without conceal ment. The galleries, the parks, the public squares, the monuments, pre sent to these women innumerable specimens of nature given without any attempt at concealment. See ing always such things, they present no novelty. They are put up for the education, a portion of the daily life of the women, so that there is never a time when they are other than commonplace in their exist ence and characteristics. concerns the welfare of the human race almost as much as ai knowl edge of tortoise. or sea-urchins. 44 Few subjects,"! Dr. Holmes in forms ns, would repay investiga tion better than that of human de velopment and health, at different ages and in the (two sexes, in the different regions pf America." Un fortunately for usj, while the study of marine life has enlisted the de votion of very superior minds, the question of human development has attracted the attention of a host of charlatans and half educated theorists who have confused the world with a raa$s of pureiy men dacious or half-digested utterances upon the subject If a thorough and intelligent investigation of all the phenomena partainin to the race in . A m erica would, i as Dr. Holmes declares, repay the inquiry, let us hope that (some of obr wise men of science, our cool, balanced, large-brained meb, will take the subject up, and pursue it-rat least far enough to generalize the great mass of facts that have already been collected. Let the ' human family gtand in as much reverence with these savants as fossils and the lower organisms. to her own house has a large fleld to work in. The best way td make her comprehend it is to have an ac count kept of all current expenses. Probably not one woman in! ten has an idea how much are the) ex penditures of herself and family. Where from one to two thousand dollars are expended annnally, there is a chance to save something if the effort is made. Let tho housewife take the idea, act upon it and she will save many dollars perhaps hundreds where before she thought . it impossible. This is a dutyj yet not a prompting of avarice,' but a moral obligation that rests upon the woman as well as upon! the man. Means to jget Rich-. Ten or twelve years ago tljere was a miner working in the upper levels of the Comstock at $4 per day. He lived in a'littleeajbin down the can yon, did his oVn cookinjg, and whistled softly, t There's. a good time coming, bojfs." To-day that miner walks abqut the streets of Virginia City, as cordial a$ in the olddays ; he dresses no better than any ordinary gentleman of Virgin ia, and eats no better food, than a conscientious editor ought to have. And yet, as his fortune is rated in the stocl list daily, he is so rich that, were iiistocks.turnpd into money, he couldj lend Scott that $70,000,000 he Wants and have enough left to live Comfortably upon. ne couiu, unaiutu, go uown ana open, at his own j expense, the Da rien Canal ; or should his fancy run that vyay, hecouldadvertise to-morrow that the Government through him had determined to resuine im mediately specie! paymentjs, and pretty nearly make the promise good. He could endow a college in each State of the Union with $2,000,000 each, or could build a double track narrqw gauge railroad from San Francisco to Newl York, and solve at once! the problem of cheap transportation. There; is no telling, indeed, what he might do: but what he will do is apparent The gorgeous and energetic sov ereign of Egypt Is as gallant, it would appear, as ho is liberal and progressive. He has presented jMrs. Fitch, daughter of Gen. Sherman, with a magnificent necklace and ear-drops, whose estimated value is $300,000. This was done In recogni tion of the General's services in ad vising him how to reorganize and equip his army during a visit in 183. The following is a descrip tion : " The necklace is formed of a double row of solitaire diamonds, consisting of about two hundred stones of exceptional beauty and brilliancy, and pendant from the lower row are pear-shaped stone's of great size and rarity. The larger brilliants will weigh from eight to fourteen carats, and all are set in the French fashion, a la Goutfe de' Uau, and dazzle the eyes like sun shine filtered through cut -crystals. The ear-rings aro composed of a number of the larger sized dia monds, arranged to match the neck lace. Both are contained in h su perb jewel case of velvet, ancjl sire accompanied by a congratulatory letter from the Khedive." enough. He was here when! thirty feet of ore near the surface! was a big mine. At 1,500) feet he has found it three or four times as wide. He believes at 4,000 He will strike it 500 feet wide, and get rich, and he is going for it. Virginia Enterprise. Love as a Power. There was a panic in a Paris street over the conduct of a magnificent retriever in front of the window of a dealer in picture frames. He jumped, yelled, barked, tried to throw himself through the glass; and he was mad, of course. They were about to kill him, but a phi losopher interfered. It seemed to him that all these eccentricities of the dog had relation to a portrait in the window So it proved. AH this was joy at sight of the portrait of a lady. That lady lived in Mar seilles, and the dog had been stolen from her many months before. Strange chance to find his way home by the picture placed there casually to exhibit the frame. With all our grand talk concern ing the duties of life and its noble aspirations, we must admit that love is the lever which moves the world. At first it surprises one that love should be made the prin cipal staple of all the best, kinds of fiction; and perhaps it is to be re gretted that it is only one kind of love that is chiefly depicted in works of fiction. But that love it self is the most remarkable thing in human life there can bo no doubt. For see what it will con quer! It is not only that it pre vails over selfishness, but it has the victory over weariness, tiresome ness and familiarity. When you are with a person loved, you have no sense of being bored. This humble and trivial circumstance is the great test, the only sure and abiding test, of love. With the person you do not love you are never supremely at your ease.: You have some of the sensation of walking upon stilts. In conversa tion with them,' however much you admire them and are Interested in them, the horrid idea will cross your mind of What shall I say next?" Converse with them is hnot perfect association. But with those you love tne satisiaction . in their presence is not unlike that of the relation of heavenly bodies one to another, which in their silent revolutions lose none of their at tractive power. Love is sufficient unto itself, finding pleasure in mere existence. Ueath of the Emperor of China. The death of the Emperor pt Chi na is an event which will occasion a good deal of solicitude among the Western nations until the question. of succession Is definitely settled. The only fear of the deceased Em peror's rule was th danger that he would not pursue the liberal policy of Prince Kung, during the Regen cy, after assuming control-of 'the Empire, but his two years' reign seemed to be an: assurance to the contrary. Now the. uncertainty takes a new shape, and! the question is, into whose i hands lare the destinies of China to fall? Fortunately, Prince Kung was again all-powerful at last accounts ; and if it le true that there is to be another Regency it Is more than likely that hejwill againjbethe Regent. He is tne only person about the imperial j palace at Pekin who seems able to rule the Empress Dowager and the i Em hire pit the same time. His policy is acceptable to the Western Powers, and it will A Good Diamond Story. The Boston Transcript tells this gli ttering story : j "A lady blazed all over with dia monds at a Fifth avenue party last week. On each shoulder she) had four stars, the size of a dollar, made of diamonds. 7 Her hair was thickly set with diamonds; there was i dia mond bandeau on her browj she had diamond ear-rings, andsajdia mond necklace. Upon the sides of her I chest were two circles of) dia monds, from which were deepened lines and curves of diamonds reach ing to her Waist, upon which she wore a diamond girdle. Onj her skirt,; in front, wero large pea cocks wrought in lines of diamonds. There were rosettes of diamonds on her slipper?, and. diamonds large and small, ail over her dress land person j wherever theyt could be placed. This lady's grandfather was a cartraan, her father, a pawn broker, and her hu.sband-ivcll, he lives 'upon the father. Rqt it doesn't matter. The old geh tie man is worth his millions, and still follows his business, and adds to his store, lie is never present at thos parties, though. lA Stkaxgf; Story. They tyll strange story of a Paris watch maker for true, and if true, li Is a striking instance of the power of the imagination over , the hutnan frame. Fredericks Stlebmannjhad worked at a watch twenty years. It was a new movement, new wiirks and hisown invention.) He prf'fect ed aud set it agoing, imagined that his soul had passed from his body into that watch, and said: "When the watch stops 1 shall die." It beeti running a long, time. had and be srratifying to learn that he has Vknn ro! naf jto1 Tn tVio nffirv h hf'M during the mlnoritfrirthe'Tatfe neror. As the brother . of tfie dt M'M1 M a 'ctor, Out for ceased Emperor's father and i tho most powerful, man .in the Empire, he may have no mean pretensions to the throne itself, especially - if Toung-Tchi died without issue ; but wo trust there is a. real; prince oil tender years w ho is i to succeed to a t nominal uignny, ailu piai. irrmce Kung may again : become tho Em peror of China in everything except the name. He is a (most enlighten ed statesman, as statesmen go Jn China, especially if he Is the real ruler for a nominal emperor. 1 i - Stlebmann,: was very' particular about winding it regularly The idea that his life had become subor dinated to tho watch grew stronger. One day lately the watch sfiowed signs of Irregularity. It ran 'Iflrst too fast and then too slow liHtiicb- llediq not ii . watch maker to see what could be done for the ; watch. "The watchmaker knew nothing about that particular watch, and could not prescribe for it. The watch stopped and sure enough Stiebmann was dead.'1" When is a ship like a railroad track? When the cargo's on it. A Learned Judge. A District Court in Texas has jnade a decision worthy of the sharpest days of spe cial pleading. The respondents were indicted for stealing onions. This fragrant fruit! was converted while growing in a garden, and had not been detached from the soil pre vious to the taking. It' wasf field by the Court that whlle .growing the onions were a part of the realty and not an object ; of larceny, .while as soon as detached ( they were in the possession of the respondents; never having been in the possession of the complainant after becoming personal property. I Hence, the.r& spondents were simply, guilty of trespass on real property. J ess bo; . f a Minn ?. Sit paiicISet-jLay and Lie. The two words "si t'V and 'set" are ( tod often .mistaken ,for , each other. . When a grammar class Is asked,1 for the first time. If It Is right td say- hen set,"; the "court 6ts," one-half of them perhapswilljvote one; way, and.-thc .other iialf the other. The court "means the Judge or judges; the Judge sits, court sits, thei Jury sit?, hens eit, birds ait. Setting;henJ is wrong; hens are not'setters" or .pointers. Set re quires an objective case ; we feet a chair, but we sit In it. There is a similar difficulty in the use of lie" and lay.". In families whoso hens "set," everything, "Jays," and all "lay abed.'?, The quoted words are wrong.3 Lay, means' to place, and requires an objective, as "the; hen lays an. egg." "Now :i lay me." We should say the bookiies on the table ; he lies abed ; lies low ; every body lies, if you please, but nobody lays unless ne nas somemmg w lay. Ji. Mt(f.9. u
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Feb. 25, 1875, edition 1
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