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THE. ERA,: PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. (SEE RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION ON THIS PAGE.) ittoi i rHPUBLICAN WEEKLY N EWS PAPER TUE CENTRAL ORtiAN OF THE PARTY. A- t V. M. BItOWN, Manouer. Job Work executed at short no tice and in a style unsurpassed by miy similar establishment in the State. " 4 unoK over the North Carolina Book i..re, corner of FayetteviUe. and Mox- an street, first door south of Uio Ktate lltiie. ir-w-. BATKS OF SUBSCRIPTION : RATES OF ADVKUTISINO . One square, onetime, - - $ 1 00 two times, - - l CO " " three times, - - 2 00 Contract advertisements taken at proportionately low ratos . dno year, Six mouths. Three months, - f2 10 - - - 1 05 - . 55 VOIj. v. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1875; NO. 12. r-ISVARlABLT lit ADVAHCK. -tfc ... UIUECTORY. l ulled kuum JrernmU I 'iyiS. Grant, of Illinois, Presl- ll7iurv Wilon, of Mas V. PrealdenU Kntnn FUhofN. Y..Sec'YOf Bute. Hja.uin II. Bristow. of Kentucky, , rAArv of the Treasury. William W. Belknap, of Iowa. 8ocre- RoUsson, of New Jersey. --rLirT of the Navy. 'ISiiobua Delano, of Ohio, Secretary l&virmU of New York, A V! ffii Jewell, of Connecticut, Pont n,"ttr General. supreme Cwrt f ! Mc.rrio K. Waito, or ouio, cniei justice. Nathan Clifford, of Me A hmo. Justice. N. All II. M way no, ui y Stinuel F. Miller, of la., uid Davis, of 111., wri.hfn J. Field, of Cal., UilliamM.Stroui5.ofPa.. " Ward Hunt, of . Court meet first Monday in Decem- U t. at Washington. c. i(ereentHtleii In Cngre. S. Merrimon, of Wake. , lt. W. Ransom, ol Northaniinn. IIOI'HK OK RKPRKSKTiTATIVfcX. i.i iittrict JewJie J. Yeatm. , J. A. llvman. i.1 ?s -til A. M. Waddell. Joseph J. Davis. A.M. Scales. Thomas S. Aahe. W. M. Bobbin. Robert B. Vance. I'niletl states C4urt. 1 lie stated terms of the U. 8. Circuit l pintriet Courts are as follows : 1'nitad Ntato Circuit Court Eastern PMrit-t North Carolina Held in Ral lirt Monday in June and lastMon .Uv in Noveinlier. 11. L Bond, Circuit Court Judge: nKloiuv. Baltimore, Md. tin.). W. Brooks, DUtrirt Court Judge, Ki-trrn District; renid. Elizabeth City. V. s. ManduU, J. B. Hill; off., Raleigh. X. J. RiJdlek. Crv-uit Court Clerk ; i.tfit-e. Kaleltfh. KASTKRN DISTRICT COURTS. Klizaheth City, third Monday in April gn.l OrXolter. t'lerk, M. B.Culpepper; resl., Ellz. NV-lrn, fourth Monday in April ait. I (H-tolier. i 'irrk.Oen. E. Tinker ; resi., Newbern. Wilmington, timt Monday after the fourth Monday in April and Ovtober. rit-rk, Wm. Larkins; resl., Wilming ton. Marshal, J. H. Hill, office, Raleigh. I.tri-t Attorney, Richard C. Badger; n-oileiM, Kaleigh. AxnUunt, W. II. Young, Oxford. I'. s. rllUTIT COITRT WK-STKRX DI9T M. L Ilond.U.S. Circuit Court Judge, UHltimore, Md. K..U rt P. Dirk. U. S. District Judgo, WtMern District ; resi., Greensboro. KUrt M. Douglas, U. S. Marshal; i.tlu-f, i;reenlon. circuit and District urt in the WiMeru District are held at the same tiuiH. irensl-.ro, lirnt Monday in April mill Ot-tolttT. Clerk, John W. Payne; re-.I., Greens lro. Mteville, third Monday in April and i Mor. C Icrk, Henry C. Cowles ; resi., States ille. Ahtvill.,first Monday after the fourth Monday in April and October. Clerk, K. K. Hampton; resi., Asho ille. VirvilS. Lusk, U. S. District Attor iiv ; rsiiltiii"e, Asheville. A-vMMaut, W. S. Hall, Greensboro. I Hilrl State Internal Itevemie. I.J. You iu,Col lector Fourth District, Hu e, ltaleigh. f.uvrriiiufnt of North Carolina. KXKC17TIVE DEPARTMENT. ' Curtis II. Brogden.of Wayne, Governor. J"lm It. Xeathery, Private Secretary. K. K. Arintield, of Iredell, Lieutenant iernor, aud President of the Senate. II. Howfrton, of Rowan, Sec of State, l.iid A. Jeukins, of Gaston, Treasurer. A. l. Jenkins, Teller. W. Hain, Chief Clerk, 'hii Keillv, of Cumberland, Auditor. Win. P. WVthorell, Chief Clerk, s. I. Pool, of Craven, Supt. of Public Instruction. J"hu c. Oorman.of Wake, Adj. Oen'raL T. L. Hargrove, of Graiivillo, Att. Gen W. C. Kerr, Mtvklenburg, State Geolo- trUt. Tl. K. Puriiell. of Forsythe, Libra'n. Henry M. Miller, of Wake, Keeper of tlie Capitol. OOVKRNOR'h oounciu Thfl Seretarv' of State. Treasurer. Au.iitor and Supt. of Public Instruct'n. iiuard of Education. I Governor. Lieutenant Governor, d ietary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Nurintendeiit of Public Instruction ! Attorney General constitute the Mat to,tnl of Education. The Gover '"r i President, and the Superinten iHtt of Public Instruction, Secretary of thu Ibmrd. Supreme Court. lli hniond M. Pearson, of Yadkiu.Chief Justice. Kd i ii i . Rend p of Person. Asso. Justice. in. It. ifcxlman, Beaufort, " W. P. Hynuiii, Mecklenburg," i . . . : . fcl C. UUIIIUIU, TazHwell U Hargrove, of Granville, Re rter. W. . lUclev, of Wake, Clerk. 1. A. Wicker, of Wak, Marshal. Meet in Kaleigh on the first Monday i ii J miliary and J une. An peri r Court. Samuel W. WaUs, Judge Sixth Judi cial liintrict, Franklintnn. J. C. L. Harris, Solicitor, Raleigh. Wake CouMty titrernmcaU Commissioners Solomon J. Allen, Chairman; Wm. Jinks, A. G. Jones, Wm. D. Turner, J. Robert NowelL Sheriff S. M. Dunn. 'i f SuperiorCourtClerk Jno. N. Bunting. Treasurer David Lewis. Heirlster of Deeds W. W. White. Coroner James M. Jones. ! Surveyor N. J. WhiUker. City Ctrenaeif. Mayor B. C. Manly. Aldermen IXnt If fard Jaa. McKee, John Armstrong. U. J. IlamllL .Second Wurd-J. J. Kowell, W. IL Martin, Stewart Ellison. Third, WardV. F. Fescud, Jr., John C Blake, Win. C. Stronach, R. II. Bradley, J. t'.K. LUtlc. J-lrurtJi H aril II- C. JnnM. Jmmevt TT J ones, J am ea II. Harria. VA Ward- Mr. jj jenung, j. Kuffln Williams, R. ix. j ones. Treasurer Leo. D. ITeartL Clerk and Collector George II. Wll- ; Marshal-tPC. Manly.; ,r POETRY. The Nun and Harp. What memfrj red her pallid facer What poas ion stirred her blood 7 W hat Ude of, sorrow and desire Poured its forgotten flood Upon a heart that ceased to beat, Long- since,' with thought that life was sweet When nights were rich with starry dusk And the roao burst iU bud 7 Had not the western glory then Stolen through the latticed room, Her funoral raiment would have shed A more heart breaking gloom, Had not a dimpled convent maid Hung in the doorway, half afraid. And left the melancholy place Bright with her blush and bloom. Beside the gilded harp she stood, And through the singing strings Wound those wan hands of folded prayer In murmurous preludings. Then like a voice, the harp rang high Its melody, as climb the sky, Malting against the melting blue, Some bird's vibrating wings. Ah, why of all the songs that grow Forever tenderer, Chose she that passionate refrain Where lovers, 'mid the stir Ol wassailers that round them pass. Hide their sweet secret? Now, alas, In her nun's habit, coifed and veiled, What meant that song to her ! Slowly the western ray forsook The statue in its shriue, A sense of tears thrilled all the air Along that purpling line. Earth seemed a place of craves that rang To hollow footsteps, whilo she sang "Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine." Harriet Prescott Spoffoud, in Sept. Atlantic. MISCELLANEOUS. Have a Home. It is the doom of all men to die. It is the destiny of most men to be married. We have a few words of . f f ..... kki.. are not yet murneu, uuu, vuu.u mw-m a v y-h a 1 mr m w - w V r IITI .mm r. m. Ilina I. Win in;. iuauv jl hw less anu wasieiui uuw ui uicu wwu- .,i 0,lf1 na f, r i.: I whether they spend every cent of might not be a pile of boughs, we plan commensurate with the ex L1 : 1 . A go a great .deal further than our tent of wealth at his command. At seen so mucn 01 nearc-renumg mis ery resulting from such views and habits, that we are moved to say something on the subject. Every . . . i. r families reduced, almost in a single i:..iik aay, irora wuiiormuio io pcuury nuu want. nc 1 lUn tin nnt I tr atrh- mimhlPiM in Wall Street ... .1 where millions are made or lost in I w uivv" II""-" " I K.,f n noroAna In the middle and common or In dustrial spheres of life. A young man gets married. He has no vicious or bad habits. He earns good wages, ample for his support, but he has never put by anything, and he has nothing by inheritance. He has a pretty and well educated vouner wife; but her parents were only able to furnish her a fair, ordinary outfit. The young couple begin their married life hopeful, contented and happy. The husband sobers down, is a little more steady and industrious, and he earns a little more money than when single. This slight increase in his income, however, is not more than sufficient to meet his now in creased expenses. He does not get ahead any pecuniarily. He goes from month to month, and from year to year, paying all his liabili ties promptly, and gradually In creasing his income as he improves In experience and skill. Still the outgoes keep pace with the income, and increase step by step, corre spondingly with It. Children grow up, making home still more cheer mi and happy. But children, though they aire not! bought, cost some thing. The habit .of lay ng up mo ney, whichheiitwbud ,ap& father did not form.. when single he has never established slpcoJ 1 'There has never beep any'TOvenle op-, portune. Uinetor begtons J V since he, got married. -. Tb good Wlfd has id ways' been iprttdeht and economi cal alyvays, seifHdenying bui'.boys and glrh iiaye jxiapiy wantsi and it takes a good Idt of money to supply even their necessities, f!;-)1,1 ' : .Thefamllyi, practice ..economy. They are happy. In themselves, and they dq not liav6t much cotrrpriy.' Bui suddenly thenjljralksih among them an uninvited guest. They have never seen him before, and at first they do not fully recognize him. His features are harsh, and his name is Death! He lays his hand on the husband and father. He prostrates him on the bed for a few days, and then he bears him away forever. Up to this time the family have never known want, yet they have accumulated nothing. There is hardly money enough on hand to defray the funeral expenses. And then what a dreary prospect lies be- fore them ! The children, who have been so happy together, must be separated from their mother and fmm wiph other. One coes to one place, and another to another, to earn a scanty livelihood, or to sub- sist on cold and meagre charity, Home exists to them thereafter only in memory. From the freauencv with which events like these come under our own observation, we think that hardly a sun rises over this city that does not look upon a new picture resembling that which we have drawn, and at least equal to it in desolation. Our object in this ar- ticle is to recommend to young men just entering upon the business of life the adoption of such a rule of expenditure and saving as will ef- fectually guard against thepossibil- itv of such a calamity to those who may nereauer P dependent, upon them. The rufe is very simple, and it consists in always laying aside a certain per centage or proportion of yonr income, no matter what the income is. The "Seven Stars." Early in the days of our child- hood we learn one important fact that there is a " man in the moon Ami Qiraiorhtwav wa niYVHvnl tn ask &.ava -af a v Tf 9 J v w our mother a number of pointed nnpatlnna nhnnf. thft matter. She nftHsflM our vniithful nnrlosifcv bv telling us that he was placed there long ago, for stealing a head of cab- bage, and thcrd he has ever since been kept at hard labor " pulling hmnrhM of trees, as they are trimmed off by the axeman, preparatory to burn- log them out of the way. And when we look at the moon, and see a dark figure upon its disc, some- t m' u o i HiUlUVUl t iiiitui nuu uxrai ii ii nu- , , , . ... , , , ditional dark spot, which might or mmnHiHWH iihiikvh uihhuji v i uuu. mothers we believe thestorv: and. having believed it, we secretly re- snlvp. in nur minds' never to com- ' m i i r . i mit ' a !tneil. Jess a similar iau; should be ours. And thus the silly y r'ZZ engine in lorgmg anu lormmg me . - . -t - l,aii.ic 1 n . K t 1 ll 4 n f Af Iha ' ' mon m OVmUYViiai, n.c " .. ... . t the moon," wmcn tney tea ineir 11. n(l.n-n .nl I 4Ua cniiuren as our wuuihs icii ic story to us, wiui mis uiucrcuvc, however, they believe the story themselves, while our mothers do not. Here it is: Very long ago seven little boys took it into their heads to have a feast after the manner of their fath ers, and they went to their moth ers, praying for permission. Their mother refused them; after which they decided to rebel, and have the feast anyhow. They procured a little white dog to sacrifice; and, having placed it upon the fire, they commenced dancing around, as they had spen their fathers do on mo- men to us occasions. While they were thus engaged, they were sud denly caught up by some invisible power, and carried off through the air. Their mothers heard their cries, and came forth from lodges, only to see them mount higher and higher, until they took their place among the stars in the sky, to dance on forever and ever. When the Indian mother, tells this story she points out the seven stars of the Pleiades ; and the em bryo warrior trembles to think what an awful fate might befall the youth who was so thoughtless as to disobey his mother.; Thnro la vlnlent excitement In South Africa over tho attempt of GreatBritain toformaSouth Afri- can Dominion. The Dutch repub- lics, the Orange , Free State and Transvaal refuse to go under the British flag, and will probably of fer resistance to annexation, should the English authorities endeavor to force them into sunjeciion. ine hardy Dutch settlers, who have es tablished many republics in the wilderness, will certainly have the sympathy of all true Americans in their contest for liberty. pxctuxnge. i The Gay Banker. Sketch of Wm.C. Ralston, of California. William C. Ralston, tho late President of the Bank of Califor nia, was in the receipt of the liber al salary of $50,000 per year for his services. Mr. Ralston was born in Pennsylvania, and at the time of his death was 4o years of age. He was of medium height, compactly built, with a erood breadth of shoulder, a high, capacious fore- head, thin, firmly set lips, an oval, well-shaped face, good features, a steel-gray eye and a great expres- 8ion of concentration and extreme (mental activity. He was a shoe- maker in early life, but soon went to California, where he became in i terested in speculation?, and also held a clerkship in a bank. Subse quentlv he went to Panama as the agent of Garrison's steamship line, About 1S52 ho returned to San Francisco and establ'sh 3d a bank- ing house with others, under the name of Garrison, Fritz & Ralston, This firm was afterwards dissolved, and he became a partner in the firm of Bonahue, Kelley & Co. i About lSGl heorganized tho Bank of California, with O. Mills aspresi dent and himself as cashier. Mr. Mills was already connected with a bank in Sacramento, and his time was largely taken tip tnere. Mr. Ralston became the head of the Bank of California, though nomi nally its cashier. All its great en- terprises were conducted through him. and even when Mr. Mills was present, business men always went to Mr. Ralston for consultation. About two vears ago Mr. Mills re- signed the presidency, and Mr. Ral- ston became the real as wen as I nnminfll head of the bank. It was v through his business abilities, al- most entirelv. that tne DanK at- tainei its ereat influence and De- ftiame so potert in all commercial, financial, ana even political anairs. In 1807 the bank reached the zenun of its influence, and was men tne most nowerful corpomtion west of the Rocky Mountains ; Mr. Ralston was the most popular man in California. Hjs munificence had won him friends, everywhere, His career is full of instances where u una fr f..in,ri mon who on , the verge pf His mode of life financial i wtic ruin. was on a Belmont Valley he built raKiuiiiiiii aiicr tic wui m self a house, costing, it isestimat- ed. Sl.000.000. and supported it with i . i .. ..ii ... r ionn nnn TIT.. au uauum uuimy ui ow,vw. xxo house would accommodate one ous were imiut-nuc. ...aiuuu. hor ocenUH his hosuitallty. His stables are built on a magnificent and extensive plan. Some years ago he had some difficulty with the railroad which leads to Belmont Valley a distance of thirty miles, and then provided himself with a light buggy i and having relays of horses stationed along the road, drove every day to aud from Sau Francisco in less time than the train could make. He was the last man at his office at night and the first one in the morning. He was known as a good liver and won many friends by his generosity and hos pitality. Mr. Italston in 1S5S mar ried a brilliant and accomplished niece of J. L. Fry, of San Francis- co, by whom he had several chil- dren. Keseiiting an Injury Savage nations have curious ideas of revenge. An unintentional wrong provokes anger as readily as a deliberate injury, and may incite retaliation. A case of this sort happened recently on the borders of Assam. Jut aerosn the frontier of Assam lives a wild tribe of Dow las. They are very suspicious of their English neighbors, and are constantly on the lookout for insult or encroachment. A party of Brit ish subjects passed the border, part ly lor an exploring tour au m t ! A.A..M.M,t mrr ai 1 mm Mur UU81UCM ... cougn, anu couiuiuijicww mcu- ease to the natives. It spread among them extensively; and not a few cases were ; fatal. They, re sented the misfortune as a willful wrong, and would not be iersuaded that It was accidental.' Determined on revenge, they hmstered fstroug war party, and made a raid ,wr the border, inflictin$rallvthe injury in their power on individuals and villages under British protection: It is thus possible that a war may come from a c.tsc of whooping. cougn. Those Girls. The Saratoga correspondent of the New York Commercial tells the fol lowing story : They were two .Madison avenue girls real beauties. They were talking beneath the trees of Claren don Park, and we were sitting in dishabille at our window over head eavesdropping. "Eavesdrop ping?" Yes, gentle reader, for that is the privilege of knights of the quill. They are not as other men. The sanctity of quiet tete-a tetes is not sacred to them. They are. bound by the oaths ol their profession to tell all they can find out of everybody's business, and the more unscrupulous they are in getting hold ,pf; something to tell the more worthy they are to enter the scribbler's heaven. One of the young ladies aforesaid was a blonde, the other a sort of half-and-half that is to say, she hat; light, hair, but not too light, complexion ditto, but eyes as black as charcoal. She was the gayest little maiden I ever saw. It seemed as if she could hardly contain herself. She began to speak as follows : "Nell," said she, 'I'm going home to-morrow." "Going home to-morrow ! What for, pray ?" "Because I can't belutve myself." "Well, out with it, Jennie. What have you been doing?" "Lots of things." "Well, give us the first." "You know Frank Kennedy, Nell ?" "That soft, simpering follow, who always tells you how lchawm 1112 "Exactly. This morning I saw him coming, and I made up my mind to take him down." "And what did you do V" "I put my diamond brooch in a chair, pin upwards, and asked him to sit down." "He sat on it, of course, and what then?", "lie jumped up and yelled, 4Oh my!'" "4 What's the trouble?' I asked. 'Nothing in particular ; only I thought of an engagement at this very moment; you mus.i excuse me, And off he went ; and would you. believe it, Nell, the brooch was sticking to him ?" "That was awful. Jennie," and the two girls giggled , together for five minutes. Nell broke the spell by demanding "what next ?" "Why, you see, I was talking with that young sprig of a clergy- man. the tev. om .rareons. we . - rr -w-m. T T . had nearly talked each other to I ,i ii. ...U.,. IhaI. . i 1 1 K o m 5 f ueaui. nucn an iuta uum ac he made some remark aoout mos quitoes. I was on ray native hiath and at once began to tell him my experience - at Itockaway 'Did thev bite verv hard ?' inquired the Itev. Thomas. 4I wish, Mr. Par f m m sons,' said I, 'you could see my legs andjudge for yourself." That was a horrid speech, ,J en nie. How could you say sucli a thing ?f " Whv. Nell, it . ironed out be fore I knew it." "And what did Mr. Parsons say "He blushed clean to the eyes, and I ran away Hints to Youiig Gentlemen. Don't stay later than eleven o'clock when yon spend the even ing with a pretty friend the wisest and wittiest man in Christendoin becomes a bore after that hour. Don't believe any woman to be an angeL If you feel any symp toms of that dist ase, take a dose of sage tea and go to bedsit is as much a malady as the small-pox, and it is your., business to get over it as quickly as possible. An angel, indeed ! If you don't find out pret ty soon that she lacks considerably more than the wings, we are mis taken. , Don't make up- your mind about any creature in : a .belt rjbbort and velvet rosette vihput first' askjng 3'our sister's; advice. Depend upon it, one woman can read another better in flve.mfntes. than you can in five years. ,. . And above all, idon't think that you must keep your -lady-taik and your' gentlenianTtalk4 in ; separate budgets labelled and assorted, uu-. less you? want the girls to laugh, in their sleeves at yonr wishy-washy amentallsm ' Talk ; to! ! them io a frank, manlj? way as you would toan inttlligent gentleman. Dpn?t suppose, because-tney, are womeai, they don't know; Anything. - n All" honest men can bear watch who cannot ing. It the rascals stand it. ) The Old Bachelor's Many Iilcssings. A crusty old bachelor once made m his win m lavor or certain young ladies who had rejected him. "To them," said he. 4 I owe all my earthly happiness." Sensible old bachelor. So he did, to be sure. Nothing ever stood in the way of that man's pleasure. He might smoke like a factory chimney, drink like a fish, tumble into bed at any time of night in any stage of intoxication, and entertain the wickedest men in New York, if he so desired. He could kiss the chambermaid, and chuck the kitch en-girl under the chin, and call Sally, the cook, " my dear," and no one had any right to find fault with him. In these respects, a married man i3 dreadfully trammeled, according to bachelor notions. Think how comfortable he is at home, too. No domestic annoy ances whatever. Yes, it's a blessed life, that of an old bachelor ; and its ending is so happy, too. When he really has smoked and drank himself into gout, or apoplexy, or something else, and his boon companionsfturn their backs on him and go where it is livelier, and tho hired nurse at his bedside watches him dying, with her experienced eye, and thinks him very slow about it, and wonders whether she will be able to get off unseen with that suit and those boots that just fit her Jim, when he actually is' dead ; when At' i" m mere are no tears in any eyes, no lingering pressure in any hand, no soft kisses from any trembling lips, andiic knows that not a daisy will be planted on his grave; then, of course, this blessed old bachelor feels grateful to the women who did not marry him, for all his earth ly happiness. He has reason. Mary Kyle Dallas. Power of the Mind. . A young man in Brooklyn went Into a drug store, with a dolorous countenance, and with a deep sigh, asked for fifty cents' worth of strychnine. The druggist observed his mood and quietly seemed to fill his order in good faith, but in reality gave him a harmless potion, which the young fellow swallowed with a theatrical flourish, exclaiming, as he did so. that his affections had been blighted, and he "had taken the poison to get even." He would not live' to be so used ; life was a blank, and so on. The drug gist told him there were not fifteen minutes life in huff, and that he was already beginning tofadeabout the eyes. At this information the youth sank to the floor, and the per- spiration streamed from his fore- head. He was becominsr Verv sick. bodily and mentally, and actually appeared to be dying. At this juncture the medicine-man himself became alarmed at the effect of the dose, and examined the jar from which he had taken the potion. It was sugar of milk, sure enough; perfectly harmless, yet was produc ing spasms. What was to be done? As a last resort the disconsolate youth . was informed that he had taken no poison, but in place of it a harmless dose, a bushel of which would not kill him. This Informa tion put a stop to the dying busi ness in short meter. The Datient revived instantly, got up, and walk ed out of the store, with a round oathj declaring that he would yet be even with the world at largo and somebody in particular. A physi cian who was present said that, un less he had been undeceived, the youth would have certainly died In a quarter of. an hour. Pharmacol Journal. 'John Paul s notel experience: "an I have a room .?!' I modest- , . - iy asK alter registering my name. Clerk looks at me a moment, takes in the treneral unrwtpntatinnsniRas of,my apparel at a glance, turns away and attends to the swells who get credit of Bell instead of buying for cash Of Porter, chats with the ypung men whom he knows for a few minutes, pauses to tell some old gentleman with a bald head the lastr brilliant . bon mot apropos of the Beecher trial, and When every body else is roomed and he has settled Uho pen right behind; his 'ear, then he calls the smallest bell-boy in the office and turns to me with 'Show this gen- tlemanup Co 993!" And by this time I feel so humble about it that T Iinw 'fn MhA 'lwll-hpv nml Inrdr round for hia hii and wonder how J Pm to find No. 4)03 to show him to. The Lovo and Devotion of Wo man. " He was in the habit of getting drunk and beating his wife, and had often been known by the neigh? bors to striko her before the time of tho fatal blow." Substantially like this runs some police report in almost every number of tho great daily ianersof Pur large cities, llie unreflecting reader s irom sucli a paragraph with disgust. He regards it as low anU vulgar. And low and vulgar, m the extreme, Is tho conduct of the husband which is thus tie scribed. But how about tlic wife whoso .wretched life has Ihxmi ended by an act of brutality and violence on the part of another? In miDy an in stance it has been hers to practice a patience which was long-suffering and untiring, and a forbearance re alizing the dlvino command : "Whosoever smitcth theoonjtho ono cheek, turn to him tho other also." No fiction narrates a love, a devotion, a submission surpassing hers. Painters have not illustrated and poets have not sung higher Christian qualities in woman than are sometimes found to adorn the habitations of the lowly, amid ab ject poverty, and where vice and brutality are encountered. If love led to tho fall of our first parentis it can be said, on tho other hand, to have illuminated tho darkest abys ses to which human nature has cvrr descended. A Fancy Iog Story. Mr. Ed. Walsh, a well-known farmer, residing about ono milo south of this vilage, had a hen and a nice clutch of chickens this spring. One day the hen dropped aud died, tho little chicks became orphans and were a pitiable sight to behold, clustered round the dead mother. The dog in question, a black shag, seemed to take quite an interest In the little things, kept an eyo on their operatic movements, and when night came gathering-them together from weeds and undcr- bush until he had tho entire clutch collected in a corner of tho fence. He then laid down outside them, and if any tried to'escapo from the' guard! anship of thefr singular protector, he took them gently and tenderly in his mouth and replaced 'them, sometimes using his feet and caudal appendage to keep them together. In the morning ho liberated them. and repeated the same thing every evening until they became quite ac customed to hfc guardianship, and would nestle securely between his legs and on his back; and this strange scene was repeated night afteirnight for several days. At length Mr. Walsh was obliged, on account of garden seeds, to house his htfiw and chickens, and tho dog for several dav siminni Inconsolable, howling and whining around the barn door. But at length he iorgot the entire . if. it .(.?.!... occurrence, anu so uiu toe cuu bs. Ozaukee Advertiser. A Night with a Kattlcsiiake. While in Houston county, last week, a gentleman informed us that In the early part of last month, a little child, four years old, daughter of Mrs. Nancy Haskins, was sleep ing on a pallet spread on the floor, which was made of puncheons. During the night the child was very uneasy, and called its mother, who was in the same room, frequently. At one time the child cried that a rail had fallen on her finger aud mashed it. Tho mother, supposing the child was dreaming, paid no at tention to it. When daylight came a sight appeared to her gazo that Chilled her blood. By the sido of the pallet was a rattlesnake some three and a half feet In length, and id the mouth of which was tho child's thumb. The noise made by the mother staTtlcd: the snake, which glided through tho crack. On examination of tne cnnus thumb It was found to bo lacerated very much, and torn by tho fenj?';.' of the snake, the eiiect oi wmvu was soon visible on the child, ami at one time it was thought Impossi ble to save its life, but it was saved, we learn, by a remedy of Dr. Nix-, mm At A ...-4- YT on. oi mat cuuhvi wmv " Ijnade into tea and drank, and used also as a poultice. The snako was killed by some young man thesame morning. Derer Tenn.) llecord. A little girl up in Gallon has de- vcloped parts as a dentist. She tied a string to lier little brother's tooth, tied the other end to the stove leg, ami th on touched a rctl-hot COid to the little victim's nose. The tooth came out.
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Sept. 9, 1875, edition 1
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