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rHEfujtodicnoM nn BLUE MDG-E BLADE. VOL. IV.-NO. 1. """ H Wm MB assWanssssssM H M 1 SONS. Blow, blow, thou winter wind ; Thou art not so unkind As mu'i ingratitude ; Thy tooth in not so keen , Because thou art not seen, . Although thy breath is rode. Smite, smite, thou tempest fierce Thy lance doth not pierce As thankless hearts of scorn, Who oft at princely feast Bowed to the golden priest, Now of bis splendor shorn. Freeze, freeze ..thou bitter sky, That dost not bite asnigh As benefits forgot ; ' Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friends remembered not Boar, Xpar,bouf sing sea ; B wetter thy song sbalt be Thin ruthless words of ill Tbat seek to rend fair fame. Or smite a soul with shame, By keen, malicious skill In The Cloak Room. There was mistletoe everywhere at Harbingdon Hall ; it had even found Its way Into the cloak room, where the gaselier was full of it. It was Christmas Eve, so of course the mistletoe had a right to be there, but I don't think It ever Bun? over anything more fierce looking that night than the face of Colonel Ver schoyle, a great tall soldier like, brown-bearded, brown-faced hero from Abyssinia. C61onel Vivian Verschoyle, C. B. and V. C. had done his country good service, and laurels had been amply heaped upon him. His handsome face was bronzed as it ell could be, but all the. mischief , the frlcau sun had done his complexion, ad not spoilt the beauty of those dark deep eyes or the perfect symetry of those noble features. All the girls about Harbingdon had laiicii w 11 ugtvt j 1110 inn uuc a 1 ah vv ui shiped ; but their adoration wa short ived ; it died away with a faint strug mi nn r twr n nn r r ri r a r r vr 11 n o limit gle wnen iney nearu me gaiiant uoio nel was engaged to be married.' It was all up with our hero then 1 Abys sinia was no longer an interesting top ic of conversation, and I don't think the Colonel was considered " so handsome as he had once been. There was a grad entertainment at Harbingdon Hall on Christmas Eve, and Colonel Verschoyle and his fiancee were at it. - - r The evening was more than half over and the Colonel was in the cloak room standing under the mistletoe, looking with great dark angry eyes into the glowing fire. Let me tell, you this brave warrior was very much. put out just then, and about as augry as he could be; you could see ha had a hot temper, and that something had occurred to render it hotter than ever. The Colonel was a man who would not stand being tritled with in the most shameful manner; Ire was there to learn the cause, and he was waiting for Enid Vavasor to come and render an explanation. "Meet me in the cloak room in a quarter of an hour," he said to her in a low, determined, hard voice, as she was whirled away in a waltz, by a tall dashing young ofllcer, whose name the Colonel did not know, and whose un commonly handsome face he had not seen until just a few minutes before, when he had caught sight of it in the conservatory, amid orange trees and camellas, In very close proximity to the lovely laughing lips of Enid Vava sor. 'The storming of Magdala was noth ing to the fierce war in the heart of Vivian Verschoyle as he witnessed that kiss. This great, strong, noble-hearted man had given all his pure true love to that girl, and she had made a fool of him. She was long in coming. He pulled KMimielfr nl Kfa (Trout taurntr hnai-rl 1 ri his restless impatience, and yet he had not made up his mind what he was to say to her, though ho felt that a girl who could act as Enid had acted that uight, was no fit-wife for him. , He was.bitterly dissapointcd in her, for he believed her to be all that was pure and womanly, having a lively aversion to the fast, free "girl of the period-" iney uau been engaged anout a month, and her father's estate joined Harbingdon, where Colonel Verschoyle was now staying on a visit to Lord . Wenborou'gh. &MU. vavasor was .the only girl in a family of nine sons, most of whom were in the army, and she was the very idol of her doting parents. Ha! she comes now-rand Vivian Verschoyle turned his haughty face to wards her as she passed through the - door of the cloak-room. A little mischievous smile parted her coral lips. For a momeut she looked about to laugh outright, but she con trolled herself, and looking up with dancing light in her blue eyes, she asked ; "What is the matter?" Now onr Abyssinia hero did not ex pect this effrontery, so he came to the point at once with soldier-like brevity. "Enid Vavasor, you are a coquette and I wont stand it"! I will not be trifled with!" Of course he meant to say much more and make a longer speech, only aqj pretty face looked so mocking that he ( stopped short in abrupt attempt. 'She came 'a step nearer, and for some minutes they stood there under the great bunch of mistletoe together. "What have I, done?" she asked. The lovely laughing eyes were raised inquiringly to his, but as he felt the spell her beauty was casting over him, he grew more fierce. "What have you done? What you shall never have the chance of doing again made a fool of me !" he thun dered forth, , his generally clear voice thick with passion. Remember, the Colonel was madly In love and bitterly disappointed, and the storm in his breast as 1 told you be fore, was even hotter than the storm ing of Magdala. " I don't see how it cau be," said Enid with provoking calmness, going up to thfire-place and putting her tiny white-slippered foot ov the fender "If you havo been made a fool of , as you say, you must have made yourself one, Colonel Verschoyle." 1 he pretty lips once more wreathed themselves in that mocking style, and he was beside her In One -fierce stride. Enid," said he, "you know you have done wrong ; you have played with me long -enough, but it ends now. Look here. She looked up all sweetness and sur prise, but I think she shrank a little as she met the blaze of passion in his eves. "Look here," he continued. "Since you have found some one else to kiss and flirt with, you can let me go have been miserably mistaken ; but It can't be helped' now, only we had bet ter part. You have shown me plainly enough this evening what you are." "What am I ?" she asked simply, f "A j flirt!" he exclaimed "a heart less flirt, and we must part." "Oh yes, If you wish it, I suppose we must," said Enid; "but you have said a hard thing of me a thing I have never heard before ; and I w ould not stand it now, only I see you are very angry and don't quite know what you are saying. 1 never flirted in my life sir!" ! The sweet eyes looked into his, but he was too irate to see their sweetness. "You let that that fellow kiss you in the conservatory!" he cried. "What more would you have, or do I need, as a proof of what you are ?" The color came into her cheeks. "Oh then you saw that, did you ?" she said, and she gazed down thoughtfully into the fire.' "Why did you allow it?" lie demand ed. " Because t.'h, bwctaec 1 fflre-ritni, she replied ; "and then you see, I stu pidly let my maid put a sprig of mistle toe in my hair to night, and so I sup pose he couldn't help it." She was laughing now, and her face was flushing brightly, until it looked lovelier than lie nad ever seen It be fore. Almost roughly the Colonel seized her round white arm, and the laugh died away on her lips. "Let me go," she said ; "you hurt me ; please remember you are not in Abyssinia now, and English people have feelings." . "Then where are yours, pray cried, -"Enid Vavasor, answer !" he me. why hae;you trifled with me?" JX1S-Tip9 HC1C WIllCC 111! B LI yyil CSSCU passion, and though she struggled to free her at m, he held it still. "You told me you loved me," he said hoarsely. She smiled faintly as she replied, "I told you the truth, Vivian'" "Then why have you been false to me?" hei asked. -'Enid, cease this mockery, Inu tell me what you mean by your c-jmduut this evening?" he ad ded, stomping his foot until the whole room shook. "Oh, dear, you do frighten me so!" said Enid, shuddering and looking pa thetic. "I wish you would be more considerate, and not treat me as If I were a great strong man like yourself, and could fight it out." He let go her arm with a contemp tous exclamation. She had tried him very much, and as he said to himself, that he was not a man to be trifled with, and I think it was wonderful he kept as calm as he did. "There is nothing more to1 be said then ; we had better part now, and let the world think what it will of us," he said in a low cold voice ; and Enid, who was watching him keenly, saw how deeply he was roused. For a moment she hesitated, and a look of contrition passed over her face ; the next instant her lip curled with the old expression cf laughing deris ion. . '-'The wdrld will wonder when they hear that Colonel Verschoyle has jilted Miss Vavasor,' she said. "They will never hear that, and you know it. There shall never a word go forth against yon from my lips,'' he said sternly. "Then you give me up? May I go away now?'' she asked, like a child who had just been reprimanded. "Are we to say good-bye here?" A little white gloved hand was otter it: . i: .. . ... i. : . i ed to him, and the sweet young face was raised towards his, but his heart was growing bitter against her and her playful coquetry ; so he did not take the outstretched hand ; he only bowed low and said, "That is the best thing we can do." Enid Vavasor's eyes rested upon him for a moment as if she were about to speak, and he watched with a heart, the quick fierce throbs ofwhleh told him she had only to say "forgive me," and she would be his once more: but Euld did not say it ; for after that one long wavering look she simply bowed MOHGANTON, N. her young he d with its crown of holly and went away, and, Vivian Verschoyle was left there alone under the mjlstle toe bough in the cloak room. Not long alone, for presently the door was c-pen-ed quietly, and when he turned, per haps Expecting to see Enid again, he came face to face with the dashing young officer, the cause of all this trouble a young man with skin as brown as Ver schoyle's own, for he had but lately es caped from India's sun and -had been but two days on English ground. In less than a quarter of an hour af terwards you might have seen Colonel Verschoyle with a very different ex pression on his countenance hastily searching the great drawing-room, his handsome features glowing and a bright color tinging his brown cheeks. He was looking for Enid Vavasor, but he could not find her among the merry makers and dancers. Presently how ever, he caught a glimpse of something white in the conservatory, amid the orange trees, and he was there in a mo ment. He threw himself beside her on the sofa, imploring forgiveness in tones of earnest entreaty, as though he al most feared to be denied. But it was a very sweet young face that smiled up at him, with large loving eyes as he caught her to his heart, saying, "Enid, Enid, my darling, you should have told me that he was your brother." Two Wirrs. Recently two buggies stopped in Lit tle Rock and two gentlemen jumped out almost simultaneously and went into the the hotel, leaving two ladies in their respective buggies. One of the men came out in advance of the other, and by the uncertain light thrown from the hotel was led aside from the actual fact in the 1 ittle matter of getting into the right buggy. In a word, Mr. J. got in with Mrs- F;, who were as totally unknown to each other, so far as acquaintanceship is con cerned, as if one had died ten years ago in Africa and the other hadn't been born. As married men often do, Mr. J. drove some distance before speaking. Finally lie remarked : "I've got a corn on my toe the one you persist in puttin? yonr foot on, too that hurts about as bad as the com mon run of things generally do." The ladv was very much surprised, and rather haughtily replied : "You've been trying to pick a quar rel with me all day, and now to make the matter more exasperating, you change your voice to an unnatural -ffrowl." . - It s you, madam, yoa have changed. My voice is natural- I am not trying to assume anything. You screech like an old gate." " on are an old fool." "Give my teeth here ; you shan't Wear them another minute-" "Teeth ! teeth ! What iu the world do you mean t" But just then driving through a flood of light, the parties recognized that they didn't recognize. "Madam," said Mr. J., stopping the horse and straightening himself up, "I hope yoa will excuse me, but I would like to know how you come in my buggy ; and furthermore, I'd like a lit tle intelligence as regards the where abouts of my wife. What have you done with her, madam 1" "1 don't know what you mean, sir. Get out of my-buggy !" "lour buggy; vvnat maaam, you are beside yourself !" "Yes, and beside yourself, which fact I deplore to such an extent that I will be forced to call the police." "Police ! police !" was shouted lustily, and when Officer Dailey came to the spot the woman insisted on the man's arrest. The buggy was driven back to the hotel just in time to meet another bnggy, the occupants of which had a similar experience. Sagacity of Aulmals Overrated. It is next to Impossible to shake the public faith in the value of the observa tion of the lower creation. We know hy experience that our barn-door fowl3 will with infinite composure retire to rest at ten o'clock in the morning in case of an eclipse, yet that knowledge does not prevent the public from as suming the possession by birds of mysterious sources of information on the Subject of weather which are sealed to us. Dogs are supposed to have some intuition which warns them of ap proaching death, and many a heart has been tortured by accepting as a fore warninz of dissolution a dog's com plaint against the moon for unreason able brightness. The fact is that ani mals in general are far less wise than we think, even in the matters that come directly under their ken. Observations of phenomena on the part of a man who. bv noticing the influence of changing coudition upon various objects, animate and inanimate, be comes weatherwise, are far more trust J worthy then that kind of feeling, which, like pain iu an old wound, warns birds or animals of the approach of wet. Although curious it is, indeed, to see how far animals are from pos gesing the kind of knowledge we are most readv to assigu them, that of things they may eat with impunity Quite recently Lord Lovelace under went a serious loss in consequence of a herd of cows eating some ewe-clippings indiscreetly placed within their reach. Cattle continually mistake the kind of food that will suit them, es pecially when they are strange to the district In which it grows. After a time they will find its noxious quali ties, and are. It appears, able'to trans mit the knowledee to their descendants C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1879. As he sauntered into a Virginia street saloon, his mind was not occupied by his dungaree overalls or Cardigan jumper, neither upon the remain of a slouch hat on the back of his head, or the massive brogans upon his feet, for he was intent upon more vital matters. although to look at bis cheerful and in different smile yoa weald never hare thought it He loungt d to the bar and said in an absent sort of wa : "Let's have the DottTe Charley." But the young ma the white jacket said with equal sie : "What on, Mike f "Fwatan!" "That's what I said." Aint m credit; mil f.r Shrink- V I demanded the tie,iri. Mike, standing back frn the bar and viewing the white jacket with dignified indignation. ' . ' i "No it aint," and impassively the white jacket polished a tumbler and carelessly glanced out the window. "Fhwat!" ': "I said your face .'aint good for no drink here." ' Mike thrust his bands into his trou sers' pockets, breathed hard, walked to the f artherest end of the ; room, sup pressed his feelings and returning mildly addressed the white jaeket : "Charley, didn't Oi pay ye two but Oi owed ye day afore yUterday V "SO you did," replied the indifferent white jacket. "Well, luk at that now , . Silence on the part of the unmoved white jacket, which curled its mous tache and picked up a newspaper. - "An' ye'd not trust a man far a dhrink f what pays his debts loike thatf "Give it-.up, Mike, yoa'v stood me up for three drinks on thi' strength of that already. Two-bits pay four-bits tick don't go in this shop." , . - , "Bad scran till ye!" roared Mike, dashing his fist down on the walnut "If Oi'd knowed that Oi'd niver paid ye ! Gor daDg it, and didn't Oi bring ye back a carkscrew that was 4 worth two dallers?" . . "Yea ; it belonged here, though and you borrowed it." . "Av course, Oi knows ; that, but moightn't Oi have kip it? Sure ye don't know how to trate a dacint man that spinds his money here an' acts honest wid the house!: Come now t;nariey," pieaas Mine suaaeniy, "gie a poor divil wid the shakes a wee dhrop. Oi'm sufferin' wid the agee. -"Not a smell," replies the imvassive Mike bounces out of the house, picks up a rock and threatens the windows so boisterly that he is seized by an officer and taken to the calaboose raving, The Avalanche. It was the most awful sight I ever wituessed. The head of the avalanche was already at the spot where we had made our last halt. The head alone was preceded by a thick cloud of snow dust; the rest of the avalanche was clear. Around me I heard the horrid trissing, of the snow, and far before me the thundering of the foremost part of the avalanche. To prevent myself sinking again I made use of my arms, much in the same way as'when swim ming in a standing position. At last I noticed that I was moving slower; then I saw the pieces of snow in front of me stop at some yards distance ; then the snow straight before me stopped, and I heard on a large scale the same creak ing sound that is proiiuceu wnen a heavy cart passes over hard-frozen snow in winter. I felt that I also had stopped, and instantly threw np both arms to protect my head in case should again be covered up. I had stopped, but the snow behind me was still in motion ; its pressure on my body was so strong that I thought I should be crushed to death. Ihis tre mendous pressure lasted but a short time', and ceased as suddenly as It had begun. I was then covered up with snow coming from behind me. My first impulse was to try and recover my head, but this I could not do. The avalanche had frozen by pressure the moment It stopped, and I wa3 frozen in. 'Whilst trying vainly to move my arms, I suddenly became aware that the bands as far n "litn yrirta had the faculty of motion. The conclusion was easy ; they must be above the snow. set to wort as wen as i couiu ; it was time, for I could not have held out much longer. At last I saw a faint glimmer of light. The crust above my head was getting thinner and it let a little air pass, but I could not reach it anv more with my hands; the idea struck me that I might pierce it with my breath. After several .efforts I suc ceeded in doing so, and felt suddenly a rnsh of air towards my mouth ; I saw the sky again through a little round hole. A dead silence reigned around me. I was so surprised to be still alive, and so persuaded at the first mo ment that none of my fellow sufferers had survived that I did not even think of shouting for them. I then made vain efforts to extricate my. arms, but found it impossible: the most I could do was to join the ends of my fingers, but they could not reach the snow any longer. After a few miuiites I heard a man shouting. What a relief it was to know that I Was not the sole survivor; to know that perhaps he was not frozen iu and could come to my assistance ! I answer. The voio- approached, but seemed uncertain wnere to go, and yet it was quite near. A sudden exclama tion of surprise. Rebot had seen my hands. He cleared my head In an In stant, and was about to try to cut me out completely, when I saw a foot above the snow, and so near me that I could touch tt with my arms, although they were not quite free yet. I at once tried to move the foot; it was my poor friend's. A pang of agony shot through me as I saw that the foot did not move. Poor Boissoult had lost sensation, and was perhaps already dead. Robot did hi9 best; after some time he wished me to help him, so he freed my arms a lit tle more, so that I could make use of them. I could do but little, for Rebot had torn the ax from my shoulder as soon as he had cleared my head. I generally carry an ax separate from my alpenstock, the blade tied to the belt and the handle attached to the left shoulder. Before coming to me Kebot was lying nearly horizontally, and wag not much covered. Nance found Be vard, who was upright in the snow, but covered up . to the head. After about twenty minutes the two last named guides came up. J. was at length taken out ; the snow had to be cut with the ax down to my feet, before I could be pulled out. A few minutes after one o'clock P. M. we came to my poor friend's face. I wished the body to be taken out completely, but nothing could induce the three guides to work ny longer, from the moment they saw that It was too late to save him. I ac knowledge that they were nearly as in capable of doing anything as I was. When, I was taken out of the snow, the cord had to be cut. We tried the end' going towards Bennen, but could not move it ; it weftfc straight down and showed us that there was the grave of the bravesfcguide Valals ever bad, and ever, will have. The Wrong Handkerchief. "': He purchased a bottle of the prcpara tlon, and tryingit on a pair of last year's trouser's found that he had not been de ceived. for it did subdue polish, and re moved "all dirt and stains." Airing them until they were free from the tell-tale odor of renovation, he put them on, and with-the satisfaction of practising an economy that would the sooner make all his own the being of his choice, hurled to her home on South St He found her pJtul and full of mis. chief, and the merry laugh with which she greeted his tumble over her little brother's whelbarrow in the hall, show ed her to be what he tenderly called, high-feather. From baudinage they got to romping -wtiwrnratrlrrg MrirffrMlfereMcr iVotif hia pocket, she darted off leading him a cha.-e around the chairs and things. They laughed and ran, and ran and laughed, when, with sudden spring, he snatched the handkerchief. But on the instant his laugh ceased, the flush of joy deepened to the peons redness of embarrasmcnt and distress, and bauds and haudkercief were thrusd convul sively behind him. Something hud torn and his thoughts flashed back to the preparation. But the wayward girl would, see nothing of this, nor the passionate anxi ety w ith which he strove to keep hii face toward her. She could net be de nied, and, catching a glimps of a white hemmed corner peeping out beneath his coat, clutched it with all the grip of her little hand. With an awful calm in his face, he protested "lie would give up and play no more." . . r JSot she, and laughed a little saucy laugh, and tugged away at the corner she held. "You may as well yield, and give it to me," she said. "I I cannot!" he desperately re plied, as he felt Ids collar slippingdown his back. Another pull, and his whole shirt- front disapeared, and so did she from the room, and he from the house. String Around the Toe. A young lady in Manchester, Eng, who found it impossible to rise early enough in the morning to be at her music teacher's in time to take her les sons, acceptethe proffered services of a gentleman friend, who offered a some what novel suggestion to overcome the difficulty. He proposed that she should tie a string to her toe (presumably the great toe) at night when she went to bed, and hang it (the string, not the. toe) out the window. When it was time for her to get up he, on hia way down town, would stop under her window and pull the string- This plan was put into operation with the consent of the lady's mother and the toephone was found to work admirably. Like the course of true love, after a time it failed to ran smooth. It was through no fault of the lady that trouble arose. Her toe was always bound with the cord ready for the young maa to ring it from the other end, and her dreams were blissful scenes in which she was led to Hymen's altar by a string at tached to the identical toe, while Cupids innumerable, with toes by the hundred, flitted through her vision, shooting with golden arrows at toes suspended by silken cords. Neither did the young man prove recreant to ' his trust. He took pleasure in performing his self imposed duty, and each morning the lady's dreams were disturbed by a tug at her toe. The trouble came from an other quarter- The rector of the church the young people attended heard of the toephone, and, holding it was an "act of impropriety," refused the youue man the sacrament. The Bishop of Litch field has been appealed to, but he de clines to interfere, and the toephone in ventor is still debarred the sacrament and the young lady's toe is recovering from its frequent dislocations, while her music teacher daily scolds her for being late. Aja Iadlaa't OraUtad. l'here resides In Wichita, Kansas, a widow by the name of Mrs. A. H. Gib-on. She is of slight stature, and very quiet and retiring, and with her daughter carries on the profession of milliner and nffutua maker. During the late visit of the Indians to that town, and as the sons of the .forest were in single file passing along the streets, a Cheyenne brave, suddenly broke ranks, and, rushing , into the store where Mrs. Gibson is employed, put his arms about Mrs. Gibson, patted her with his hand and In broken En glish gave expression to great Joy and satisfaction. All the ladies In the store were, of course, nearly fright wt of their witawten t3iirii6tXT? age kept reiteratirys: "Good jquawj Heap good squaw The sequel is not uninteresting. Previous to the great Indian massacre of 1862," Mrs. Gibson, then Mrs. South worth, lived alone on the Minnesota frontier. One day a squaw came to her house and made herj understand that she wanted soup, after obtaining which she carried it away to the woods. For several days she came regularly on the same errand. A. few days before the bloody massacre, In which so many settlements were wiped out, and In which so many men, wom en and children were ruthlessly butch ered, two:or three Indians with two squaws came to Mrs Gibson's and asked for diftner. After the meal one of them told her that they must bind her In secrecv and that no harm could befall her. Of course, she could only Submit, and as she was being carried to her destination during the next day daw. the burning homes, fleeing settlers and scenes that will never be effaced from her memory. They kept strict watch over her for two weeks, after which two squaws took her to within a few miles of a fort, forty miles' dis tant, put her down in the road and told her when dark came to go in, which she did. From the squaws she learned the soup she had dally made was for a sick chief, Monoway, who recovered, and who had determined to save her and hers. When she returned to her home the next spring, after sev eral months' absence, she found every thing just as she had left it. ISot a cow or even a chicken was missing, but everything had been cared for, fed and protected during the lo winter by some Indians who bad boon detailed for that purpose, and who Immediately relinquished everything to , her peace rat -poe siMftrrmnftiiW&St was one of the party, and, spite of the time intervening, immediately rec ognized her, and expressed his satis faction as related. A Mineralogists Labor Lot. There is one science the value of which it is very difficult to make a Highlander comprehend, and that is mineralogy. He connects botany with the art of healing; astronomy with the guidance from the stars, or navigation ; chemistry with dyeing, brewing, etc but "chopping of bits of rocks!" as he calls it tins hits. always been a my stery. A shepherd, while smoking his cut ty at a small Highland inn, was com municating to another in Gaelic his ex perience of "mad Englishmen," as he called them. 'aThere was one," said the narrator, "who once gave me his bag to carry to the inn by a short cut across the hills, while he walked by an other road. 1 was wondering to myself why it was so dreadfully heavy, and when I got out of his sight I was deter mined to see, what do you think it was? But I need not ask you to guess, for you would never find out. It was stones!" "Stones!" exclaimed his companion, opening his eyes, "stones!" Well, well, that beats all I never knew or heard of them ! And did you carry it? "Carry it! Do you think I was as mad as himself ! No! I emptied them all out, but I tilled the bag again from the cairn near the house, and gave him good measure for his money?" The Trade In Iriah Hon. Everywhere upon the coast of east ern New England may be found, about ten feet below the water mark, the lichen known as carra green, the "Irish moss" of commerce. It may be torn from the uneven rocks anywhere, an d yet the little seaport of Scitaate, Mass., is almost the only place in the country where it has gathered and cured. This village is the great centre of the moss business in the country, and the entire Union draw its supplies from these beachse. Long rakes are used in till ing bis marine farm, and it does not take long to fill the many dories that await the lichen, torn from its salty, rocky bed. The husbands and fathers gather the mosa from the sea, and the wives and daughters prepare it for market. Soak it in water and it will melt away to jelly. Boil it with milk and a delicious white and creamy blanc mange is the result. The annual pro duct is from 10,000 to 15,000 barrels, and it brings .V).000 into the town, which sum is shared by some 150 families. Its consumption in the manufacture of lager beer is very large, and the entire beer interest in the country draws its supplies from the Scituate beaches, as the importation from Ireland has almost ceased. According to Mayor Doyle, the net debt ol Providence, R. L, U (9,132,450. The receipts of the city treasury last year were $5,115,696, and the expendi tures (5 568,243. The valuation of the citv is U7 C40.500 against 1117,874,800 in 1877. WHOLE NUMBER 157. NEWS IX BRIEF. Canued frnit Is an important Item, In South American commerce. ' Brazil gets most of its foreign agri cultural products from Portugal and other European countries. - The number of emigrant arrivals at Castle Garden, New York, last year was 7U.SU2, against 63,& in ISTi. -Unions are largely Imported from Brtill to -V-- 'al. They are aakt to be superior to the American onion, , SUtlstics show chat then are 834.- 743 children in Franco betweea ins ages of 6 and 13 who do not attswd school. ' At auction. In Havtnnah.a cargoof white pine of 165,000 feet was sold, for . export to the West Indies, for per ' thousand 'ejt. v " . ? " .-.-w-jinr Lew U 6mlt thu artfbt&aSit of Rochester, N. Y., ha had plant mad for an otwervatorr at that oily, and ex' pects subscriptions of $5000 to onablo him to build It. The value of the entire amount of gold la the world is estimated at nearly " $7,000,000,000. It might all be contain- ' ed in a block 17 feet high, 38 feet wide, ana bo teet u lenctn. The receipts of all kinds of grain at . Philadelphia for 1878 were nearly 19,000,000 bushels. In exoesa of 1874, when the totals were greater than -during any previous year, n A decision has justvbeen rendered in St. Louis that the cl Nnot be held responsible for damages en a person is run over by Are con glea while hastily answering an alarm, c - A sixteenyear-old boyVtyl a four- North Adams, Mass., several days ao, and just after the ceremony a sheriff put in an appearance to take them home. Ives Statue of Roger Sherman has been received in Hartford, Conn., from Rome, and will be placed in position over the east entrance to the Capital building opposite the statue of Governor TrumbulL ... ' The telegraph at Holly,' Michigan, ' stepped out to get a bucket of coal the other night, and, while be was gone, some one stepped in and stole his stove. His thoughts were indescribable, but he said nothing. , , :, :t The Russian Government has con ferred upon Mr. F. D- Millet, a oorree- , pondent of the Xeto Tort Htrald during the RussoTurkish war, the insignia er. the Orders of St. Stanislaus and Stanhe of the third class. The report or the mortality of New Haven, Conn., for the year 1878 shows that there were 1441 deaths, of which 1 1C77 were of white persons, 50 of these being males. Of the whole number, 743 were born In Connecticut, i - 'V A violent shock of earthquake oo- rtarfui on a rtMVtnt fiundav at lra4. rone, Sicily.' The congregation lna chnrcn was panic-stricken and.rushed ' to tii doors' -1 wo Women were crushed . to death, and twenty persons were ser iously injured. On November 11, the occasion of the ninth birthday of the Prince of" Naples, the heir apparent to the Italian throne, he was taken by his mother, Queen Margherlta, to the Hall of-the Kive Hundred, in Florence. He was enthusiastically received by 8000 child ren. Another mysterious disappearance of a picture is reported. Of M. Jean Paul Laurens' picture, "L'Exhumatlon du Pape Formose," which was hung in the French galleries at the Paris Exhi bition, no trace can be found, in spite of the most careful researches. M. Laurens intends to bring an action against the managers. In 1828, New York, with a popula tion of 169,000, had thirty newspapers. It was estimated at that time that the United States had one paper In every 13,800 of population; England, one in 48,600; France, one la 65,300; Prussia, one tn 43,000; Austria, one In 400,000; Russia, one In 672 000: Sweden ana Norway, one In 47,000; Portugal, one la 207,000; Spain, one In-808,000. The son of King Theodore of Abys sinia, who was taken to England alter - the fall of Magdala, is being educated for the British army. He is a slender and dusky youth, and haughty and shrewd as becomes a descendant of the Queen of Sheba. He likes hlEngllsb life, admitting that a spring mattress and ulster In London are preferable to a mat and bare legs and a blanket In Abyssinia. Dr. Buchner, a personal friend of the late Princess Alice of Hesse, says that the laticr expressed a presentiment some days before she was taken sick, that she would die on the approaching anniversary of her father's death, and that she contemplated death with the utmost fortitude and resignation. Only a few weeks ago the Princess was sitting by the djlng bedside Of Dr. Buchner's wife, to whom she was devotedly at tached. Miss C. Moore who died In Kings ton recently, was the daughter of Thomas Moore, one of the merobai.t citizens of Boston who composed the famous party which threw-over the U-a1 in Boston harbor, December 16, 1774, and, singularly enough, she died on the anniversary of that event. She was the only person of the second generation present at the centennial celebration of the tea party held in Boston, December 1, 1874. The Committee on the Sumner Me morial In Boston, finding that a balance of $750 is still in the treasury, after paying all the hills connected with ti.o placing of the statue on the Public Gar den in that city, have decided to join with the trustees bf the estate in erect- 9 ing a mausoleum over the grave of Sum ner at Mt. Auburn. The structure win be simple in style, but of a sufficiently solid appearance, and, the ornameota tion will be in keeping with the gener al design, Iu xpense being estimated at about three thousand dollars. The French Court of Cessation con sist of flfty-slx members, nd their salaries aggregate 210,000, The firs president has a salary of $6000 a year the three other presidenU each receive $5000 a year; the forty-five counsellors $3600 eaeb, and the six functionaries called procureurs general and advocate general much like public prosecutor receive salaries varying from $3600 to $6000. The several courts of appeal are estimated to cost $1.207,260 there being 28 first presidents, Mother presi denU, 617 counsellors, 83 procureurs general and advocaU generals, and 61 substitute.
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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Feb. 22, 1879, edition 1
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