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I 1 1 1., i , i Weekly er a BROWN, - Man-au ki:. Bate of Advertising: 8- One square, one time, - time ft 00 1 60 2 00 two times, 8 " " three times, ' - ,,TOne vear. in auvan ( .six month, in adve no A square hr tho width of a column, and ono inch deep. 3 Contract jvdvertisemonta taken n Three months, in - (Xf ! at proportionately low rates. Professional Cards, not exceeding one square, will be published one year for CO1 -One year, in advance, - mi Six months. 1 00 Three month. 50 Vol. 2. RALEIGH K 0.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 16. 1S73J No. 80. THE 'WEEKLY ill f on General Earlj-. II will te remembered, that, dur-: ..tjje parly Winter, General i food pi'nin in Kaleigh, wa3 compli- at u iln a serenade by our titi u am! in response thereto paid a 'Aliment to North Carolina for the As he was speaking to .North - .1 ri ! .11 rrua tiniansol .orcn uiruiimans, uu v - heard the gallant Hood felt tf fal for his coniplitnentary re- rks, irnpcctive of parties now, ma: nv'iviti" during the war. ,-t (k-nend Juhal A. Early, of r'Ir.iii, ovt r-Viiin of himself and ictj-sarily jesdous of the funic of ..rjnia must iwds reply to the V irk- of Genera! Hood in a tone P-a jK-rcilious disparagement of at d 1 . A I mtvici'Soi orin Carolina in wie f.jrturwte wntcst, and falling .fconi' palpable errors n-garding hiorv of the V irginia cam I;tr;il Kufus lumnger, now a iniiii tit nu-mberof the lU)ubIi- V rty of isortn Carolina, wno a o s;icuous iart in me laie miiimand'nir a brigade of th Carolina cavalry in Virginia, t ttrreet in pleasant tone Is the mistakes of his late 1 v tl.- in arms, and everybody n ...;ktd Genera! Barriuirer for n i ly vindiciition of the history .1 ' 1!.. . .....1 . 1 1 1, honorable men thought the iut.1 r amicably at an end i not so General Early. He skick at tlie gallant lJarnnger & , unmanly inueJ.does and r - .1 i t. . Ut.cull itti Kir nersoiiui uiuivk: it- jirJing the polilic-al iKj&ition Ilufus Jarruifrer has en fit to assume thiwar, and thus Early pro- tiM himself a vain brairart and ;ok-rant fool. i.n me xj-a. io-iay, ai)rears a k'.tiT from BarringtT in reily to tie personal strictures of Early, itrthat sanguinary hero of battles iV; and fossilized old fxl of other dtjf) who has no inconsiderable anit-er of disciples and imitators mn in our State, is pretty roughly lAudled very appnpriately pun Uhed. This aier has ne, i cted no oeca- infurc-omplimentingthegallantry f our own people in the late eon- Ixt of arms, and it has ever put the valor of the South alongside of the tcioisni of the North, and together toIJing up a picture of American favery for the admiration of man kind unrivalled in the history of the world; for when the sections iivided in 'Gl monarchical Europe iretendetl to see verified "her long ianding prediction that the Ameri ca Republic would not-last. But the soldierly qualities displayed on ta sides amazed A,uroiean spec- titors; and governments shuddered t the bare tlought of the past pos- ikilityof conflict withsuch military iill, indomitable heroism and ir- rjbtifle power. ! But when the war, extending over a Kriodof four years of hard fighting, had ended, and these pow &Iul conflicting lorcesicame back IKiicvfully together umler the old gvernment, the Union restored the Republic strengthened, the Civilized world stood speechless ith admiration, astonishment and veatthe completeness ofthetri- nph. and the ierfect harmony if hkh characterized the peace Grant R&quercd at Appomattox. Then was that the Government of the t'nited States took its stand at the t ry h;r.d and front of tho Nations it the .Earth; and the peace we have achieved and the Union now jtstored, based equally on Confed erate valor and Federal heroism jiial'engcs not simply the admira y. of the world, but eomjjels the t'pa'lo( all nations, j However much to be deplored in a!! its fatal aspects and mournful iiemories, the war of the sections jill prove of lasting good to the meriean people, and future gene- fttior.s will come to look upon the i "ict as a blessing to them : and However much sectional prejudices W weigh at present with the Heeds and participants cf the one sie or theother, the im partial pages history will show no distinction, t win record the deeds of both federal and Confederate soldiers as Bfike brave and patriotic all Amer ans,and all the sons of Liberty. So also of the political differences hich obtained between Confeder- yeas well as Federal soldiers after e war. The Earlvs South and North r , toay .seek to defame gallant men ho bore a conspicuous part in the nflict of arm?, but the future his 'trian will draw no line of merit Jtwcen the Confederates at tlie South, who, became Conservatives Republicans, or the Federals who .hercd to the old party divisions, j the North, after the war. ,.To have been a Confederate sol does not make it impossible jjr one to be a Republican, for there Jf nothing incompatible or Incon fstent In the two positions JUiirLE Mosbyand Wickham r,ucral r.arringer cf Virginia, Barringer of North Carolina, Longstreet of Louisiana, Xor to li;ive been a Cnnft-riprntA soldier does not make it impossible for ono to be an ill-mannered, snap pish, snarling fool : Example Early of Virginia. Tlie Colored People. The colored people of the South becomingly "observed the first of January, the- great natal day of their freedom and independence. It is proper and appropriate that they should observe theanni versary of their emancipation, and it is gratifying that time has so softened the prejudices of the white people of the South that there are few found now to make light of this observance, and none to feel that it has any sig- nificance of humiliation or disaster to the Southern people. , The relations of the two races at the South, are upon the whole, pleas ant, and daily growing better, for the colored people have demonstrat ed that they are worthy of the free dom thrust upon them and appre ciative and grateful for the privil eges of full citizenship accorded them through the action of the gen eral government. The future of the colored race at the South is bright and hopeful, and the cultivation and growth of good feeling between the races on the in crease, and altogether satisfactory. Ix-t the colored people persevere in the determination to make of them selves good and useful citizens, and for themselves a history not unworthy of the country and the people among whom their lot in life has been east. Let the white people of the South whom the colored people have faith fully served for two centuries, and who know, understand and feel for tho colored race as no other people can know or sympathize With them, lend every encourage ment to the shaping of that history the colored people of the United States are called upon to make for themselves. The interests of the white and colored races at the South are mu tual one and the same. The ele vation of one is the elevation of the other. .The depression of one car ries down the hopes and the inter ests of both. The conduct of the colored people of the South from the day of their complete emancipation to the pres ent time challenges the admi ration of every unprejudiced man, and during the war, when the fami lies, homes and properties of the Southern people were committtkl exclusively to their care, fills the minds of all our right thinking people with gratitude to the colored people. Their behavior through out the entire period of the war was marked by affection and loyalty to their masters, and for this alone they are entitled to the fullest care and protection the white race at the South can bestow uion them. Suddenly transported from bon dage to freedom, and the fullest rights of American citizens thrust upon them, it would have been most remarkable had they not been intoxicated with Liberty, but their j i excesses were comparatively iew, and their conduct in the main ad mirable. They have shown to the world that they are neither ungrate- ful, unworthy nor unmindful of the duties and responsibilities of citi zens of a great Republic. Through the mischievous and de- . S tP XI signing artinces oi unwonny men they may have been led to abuse at times their privileges of suffrage, but altogether they have shown a remarkable appreciation in the ex . . i i i ercise or ineir newiy acquireu rights, and have cast their votes generally with a foresight as keen as hitherto exercised by the white race of this country: and the man- - w j ner in which they have adhered to the Republican party under all cir cumstances and on all occasions de monstrates the fact that ingratitude is not one of the crimes of their race. In the cause of education the col ored people have displayed a zeal and earnestness it would be well for the white people of the South to imitate, and notwithstanding all the disadvantages of their position they are educating themselves and their children to an extent simply, wonderful. The influences of education and the efforts of the leading men of their race together with the exam ple and assistance of the white peo ple have begotton within them a thrift and the desire to accumulate property, which indicates the pro gress, usefulness and respectability of the race in a measure exceeding Ihe highest hopes of their most san guine and earnest friends. As the guardians, so to speak, of I the colored people, the white people of the South have high and responsi ble duties before them ; and as the architects of their own fortunes, the colored peopie; have a.correspond-t1 - rj Ing duty to tHcmselves, their white t- ' 1 neighbors, their country, and the I World. Therefore the immediate political friends of thef colored people of the South would urge them to industry, thrift and economy ; to place them selves under the influence of reli gion and edocation; practice mo rality and sobriety, and so train their young in the ways of industry, morality, tenrperance and religion as to leave orif the- "sands of time" the "footprints" of a race; which, released from " bondage, speedily became good and worthy American citizens. f Toward their former masters the colored peoplfc of the . South cannot manifest too "much kindness and good feeling, ftnd the highest hopes of the colored people lie in their cul tivation of pleasant relations be tween themselves and their white neighbors and friends. Good faith 'in all their contracts, and the fullest return of labor for the wages paid them is a principle that ought tgi take deep root in every colored ! man and woman of the South, and the strictest honesty and most rigid economy should characterize them as a race strug gling for a name and position among the peoples of the Earth. Western North Carolina Rail road. The present management of the Western North Carolina Railroad was beautifully illustrated the other day when three young law students on their way to Raleigh to stand be fore the Supreme Court were left at Hickory Tavern by a most infer nally mean Conductor who made haste to run off -leaving them to walk thirty miles to Statesvillo un der severe fatigue and then to drive in private conveyance, to Salisbury on Sunday over a bad road and at great expense in order to reach Raleigh in time for their examina tion Monday! The present management of this road is illegal at best, and this ac tion on the part of one of the offi cers seems as if the management is determined to fender itself infa mous. Public opinion is beginning to sustain Governor Caldwell in his efforts to rid the road of the curse of its present illegal managers, and the voice of an outraged public calls loudly for the suspension of Con- uuctor i'atton. mere may be ex tenuating circumstances in his case not warranting the hardship of dis missal from service, but he ought, to say the very least, be suspended, for a time, without pay. . The Commonwealth. Daniel R. Good loe, Esq., issues a prospectus for a Weekly of the above title, to be published in this city at the office of Messrs. John Nichols & Co. . - The Commonwealth will be a sixteen page paper, a,nd it will take an independent position in politics, occupyiuggreund high above party. Mr. Goodloe is well known as a good writer and independent think er, and will ; doubtless afford the public of all parties an opportunity for some profitable and wholesome reading. Price three dollars a year. The farming interests of the State are sadly neglected, and only par tially understood. Our people read too little in the leading agricultural papers of the conntry. Capt. Jas. R. Thigpen, of Edgecombe, thr best farmer in the State or the South, has for four years published an agricultural monthly which every farmer in the State should read if he would improve himself, and farm understandirigly. Our farmers will have to read the papers and post .themselves in the sciences and economies of the day if they would successfully compete with those who keep up with the advances and im provements of;j modern agriculture. ; Tin: Editor f of .-the. New Berne Liberal and Df. Leach, of John ston, as if to 1 illustrate the good manners of "all the wealth,'1 "all the virtue" and all the intelli gence" of the Estate, are engaged in writing doicn each; other in .a man ner characteristic; of. the literary bullies and journalistic shoulder hitters of the North rather than the Southern gentlemen they are and pretend to be. f The Party of Intelligence. It would seem that the Conserva tive members of the Legislatureare wanting in sufficient intelligence to know or remember to what day they adjourned for recess; and some doubtless wonder whether they are to meet again! at all. This speaks well for the party of " all the wealth and intelligence " of the State. Plow deep fin breaking your land; plant xeet but cultivate shallow, is what the Era knows about farming, ; Establishment of an Orphan Asylum. That noble order of Universal Charity, the Masons, have taken the initiatory steps te the establish ment or an urpnan Asylum in North Carolina; and the Grand Lodge of this State has donated its splendid building, at Oxford, St. John's College, and five hundred aonars in money to that praise worthy undertaking. Mr. J. II. Mills, Editor of the jjioneai icccoruer, has been put in charge of the work as Superinten dent of this Orphan Asylum, and his first appeal to the people of North Carolina is published in the Era to-day. To that appeal, and the proceedings of the late Grand Lodge of the State-touching the matter of establishing an Orphan Asylum, the attention and earrfest consideration of the people of North Carolina is invited. The people of our State have been criminally remiss and cruelly inat tentive to the condition, necessities and wants of the poor and the or phaned. Especially negligent and heartless have the people of North Carolina been of the orphans of Confederate soldiers. All remember, that, during the war, a pretended effort was made to establish an Orphan Asylum at Wilson. The location was made, the building purchased and solicit ing agents put out to gather funds from .Currituck to Cherokee. Our people contributed liberally, and were assured that, no matter how the war might terminate, the Or phan fund would be safe as it was so invested in Europe and else where as to be beyond the possi bility of loss. The war ended adversely to South ern hopes. Where is the Asylum for Confederate orphans? What became of the money contributed? Where is the property purchased for the Asylum? The property passed back into the hands of him who had received his price for it, a present from the Trustees ; the money was all lost by the failure ok the Southern government, and there is, has been, and, there will be no Asvlum for. or care taken of the children of men who died in de fence of and in obedience to the men of urouertv and means in North Carolina. But no such failure will character ize the effort to establish the Orphan Asylum at Oxford. The Masons in donating their building and money are in earnest and moved by good faith. Mr. Mills in his appeal is in tarncst ; and the people of North Carolina who contribute to this In stitution will see and enioy the fruits of their good works. This is a matter that might very well claim the attention of the Leg islature, and an appropriation of five thousand dollars should be made by the State at once. The people of North Carolina will ap prove such action. The matter in all its objects and details is committed to the people of the State who have the money to perform good deeds with, and to them the Era commends Mr. Mills and his noble undertaking. Centralizing Tendencies. When the message of the President was first received, wo took occasion to denounce, in strong terms, the proposi tion it contained, in i'avoi of the Gov ernment's obtaining control of tho tele graph and making it apartof the postal svstem of the country. So long as the Government is in the hands of the political party in power and all its officers and agents are or tne same stripe ofolitics, such a proposi tion amounts to the same thing as pro positi ? to dace the telegraph at the dis posal and for the sole use of the Radical organization. !'or if such a measure is carried out. no message could be sent orrfippived without tho permission of Radical officials. No information fa vorable to the Conservatives or hurtful to the ltadical party no political intel ligence of a private nature, no matter how important it might be. could- be transmitted by the wires, unless with the consent and approval of the Govern ment! .All the nlans and purposes of their opponents would thus be mailo known to the Radicals! Raleigh News. Here is acumen for you ! Here is wisdom and common sense! Here is intelligence the result of the icealth the Conservative party claims to monopolize. Can't the law prohib iting the circulation of indecent nublications be made to apply to K. . such childish-nonsense and pamby mamby silly stilt? as this? As well say that the Post offices in the hands of one Political party would prevent theother from --transmitting itspo- l litical intelligence. Busincsssccretsand iersonal mat ters as sacred, important and valua ble as any political intelligence ever transmitted, are daily sent over- the wires, and no one dreams of a reve lation by -telegraph operators. So it would be under Government management; men of all political parties, as now, would operate the wires, and in this busy age no one would be found to have so little to do as to be going round tapping the "postal telegraph for the mere grati fication of learning what was going on in secret political circles. Even the Ku Klux leaders could send, with perfect safety, their mes sages to the heads of Klans for the reassembling of their " ghouls." The opposition of the Conserva tive press to the postal telegraph comes from a " wink and a nod" conveyed through that great centra! organ of Democracy, the New York Tribune, and arises, in great part, from the opposition here at the South to giving poor women remu nerative and suitable employment. It is- known that thousands of our poor girls would be employed in the postal telegraph service, and this the aristocracy and gentlemen of all the wealth can't stand. If the proposition is made to give a poor girl a place filled by some lazy-whisky-guzzling-lubber-favor-ite of thearistocracv ,the cry is raised, " WOMAN'S RIGHTS" CEN TRALIZ ATION ; " but . whea these same girls are driven to the hoe and the plow, nobody says a word.. Away with such contemptible things calling themselves men ; and down, everlastingly down, with a party of such wretched knaves and misbegotten fools. Sustaining the Monopoly. The organ of the Democratic party of the country, the JVeiu York Tri bune "took snuff" on the postal telegraph proposition, and all the little " second fiddles " of the coun try " sneezed " : The organ of the Democracy, and the exponent of Conservatism in the United States, the New York Tri- bune, is well known, to be in the in terest of and controlled by that great monopoly, the Western Union Telegraph Company. All the Con servative and Democratic papers now opposing the postal telegraph proposition, are, by inference, in the interest of the same grinding mo nopoly. What is the objection these. heav- 1 Jl-.JA. ing patriots ana conceueu states men urge against the proposition to take goveriment charge of all tele graph linessand give the country the advantages of a postal and cheap system of telegraph ? " CENTRALIZATION " and " DESPOTISM ! " In all the countries of Europe the telegraph is under government con trol. Now. let us look at the Drices: Under the "centralized despotism " of Belgium, messa ges of ten words are sent anywhere in the kingdom for ten cents ; in Switzerland for ten cents; Greece eighteen cents; France from ten to twenty cents ; and in all other countries from fifteen tb twenty-five cents, according- to distance. In Enarland the uniform rate of twenty-five cents is r charged for each message of twenty words sent anywhere within the United King dom, which includes free deliver ence within a distance of one mile from the telegraph office. All these countries, mind you, are under "centralized despot isms." The people of those countries pay from twenty to five, times less, for the privilege of living under "cen tralized despotisms" than the peo ple of the United States pay. under a Republicon form of government. If it is shown, therefore, that the "Despotism" is cheaper and more favorable to the people by twenty times over, than the "Republic," why, then, the people will say, "give us the " centralized despot ism." And if these organs of mo nopoly, a Radical monopoly at that, can find no better argument against the postal telegraph than the old wolf-cry of "despotism'W'centrali' zation" they may as well give their cries to the wind, for the people are not only disgusted at their false hoods, follies, and lies, but neither apprehensive of " centralization " nor afraid of such a "despotism" as would come twenty times cheaper than a Republic sougtit to be moved and controlled! by the Archimedean lever of a licentious Democratic and Conservative press. The public roads of the country are the main courses of agricultural transportation, and the Subject of good roads is one that ought to en list every firming community. The Legislature of the Shfte would do well to take the subject of the county roads in hand. TiiE-?a is constrained to say, that, in any and all things Presi dent Grant has done in regard to the muddled affairs of Louisiana, it is perfect, and does sustain and stand square by the President. The merchants and manufactur ers of Raleigh ought to insist upon the thorough repair and restora bridges tion of all the roads and leading to the city. The education of the masses is one of the appeals of the times to the intelligence and interests of the people of North Carolina, ; Our State. Miltox wants a bank. Eggs thirty cents in Newbern. Small, pox. near Friendship- in uumoru county. s Tiiey are arranging the furniture in tne new Uoldsboro hotel. The police of New Berne are all coioreu men with one exception. Good northern apples sell in Wil m ing ton lor one dollar per peck. niR3. MCMean conducted the en tertainmerA at the Newbern theater. President Stanly of the New- pern road has resumed office duties Tiifc Baptists intend endowing riTinity couege in tfie sum of ?l0O,0D0. ,;;Mrs. McAbee in Polk county wane ousy about iier house fell dead row comes a pig nine months old in Polk county that weighed 310 pound. The platform at Eureka station is still bespattered with the blood o Andrew Strong. John Lea of Caswell has leased the Exchange Warehouse in ?!7;ou of Lewis & Richmond. A book styled "Poor Lizzie Lee" unfit for respectable families is hawked about in Wilmington. r ERELL) & UrO. OI UlllltOll in Sampson county, turpentine distillery Durnt, loss $300 to f40U. A music teacher who was once private pianist to the Emperor of Aus tria dwells in Charlotte. ihe Wilmington Journal says that the peanut crop in that section will lall snort this year nearly halt. Professor Neave of Salisbury is giving lessons to the Durham brass band. Ihe band has twelve pieces. The Charlotte Democrat is twen ty-one years old and was long a free man before it reached two tens and one. A Miltonian 50 years old has never been to but 4 weddings. Three of them his own. The fourth ffis daugh ter s. The New Berne papers teem with tombstone locals cf Clavpoles marble yard. Effect of too much bier on the brain. 1 Coxfere:n-ce of the M. E. Church (North) meets in Charlotte to-day, liisnop u. V. jMcuabe ol Chicago pre siding. Doll. Atkinson of Milton has live bull pups lor sale that he warrants to "fight a circular saw or no sale, Price 10. A gun fell and went off and killed a little son of Joe Pointer in Per son county. bo says the Alilton Chronicle. The President has pardoned Da vid Hauiseur who was in for eight years at Albany penitentiary lor ku kluxmg, Mr. Kamseur is oi Cleaveland county, and the dispaphes had his name spelt 'Kainsnaw. Davy Richardson of Boon Hill went to blow oil" what he knew about the New Year.' His thumb was not so bsidly scattered A hat it can't be preserv ed in a bottle. But his gun was burst into forty pieces. John Pierson and family on Reedy Fork in Guildford were run out of their house at night by fire and didn't have time to take their wearing apparel with them. Tho house destroyed. So says the Patriot. Hillsboro Itecorder says : Forty negroes left this county within the last few days for Some new El Dorado in the South or AVest, and it is said that a hundred or more have gone from Cas well in the same direction. . We reckon brother Bobbitt of the Advocate hardly ever reads Bailey of the Danbury News. We see he copies his article on the " wheelbarrow" and credits it to our brothers of the News. Thev didn't mean it that wav, brother Bobbitt. A negro in Cabarrus worked one mule this year and made ten bales of cotton and 400 bushels of corn. Mr. Wallace of same county made by him self 4,000 bushels of turnips with corn, fattened 5 eleven month hogs and got 1,400 pounds of pork. The Fayetteville Eagle says : We regard Merrimon as the best and truest representative man yet put in the U. S. Senate from the whole South. " The at tacks on Judge Merrimon and his sup porters by one or two newspapers are perfectly contemptible. Brother Mills of the Recorder says : " Mary Mag-da-le-ne, don't pro nounce it Magdatene, the poor woman has been too much persecuted already." lie also says : Mr. Preble of New York was in Rome when Elder Gioja baptized an aged lady in a large tin tub. His heart was moved to give 60 to provide a better baptisterj'. The Charlotte Observer says: A curiosity in the shape of journalism has been shown us. The Meteor, a small newspaper published by the patients in the Lunatic Asylum at Tuscaloosa, Al bania. The Editor, local, contributors, compositors, and pressman, are all lu natics under treatment. J-ucus anon lu cendo is the motto of the paper. A little daughter of. John Philer in Cleaveland county, .ten years old, during a recess at ElBethel Church, was playing running around the Church, and as she ran with all her might in one direction, a young man was running in an opposite direction and meeting her at the corner his knee struck her in the breast killing her in stanth'. So says the Banner. Month of November Revenue for Six States. Supervisor Perry has furnished us this morning with tho amount of inter nal revenue for the month of November '72, in this Supervisory District, from the State3 of Virginia and West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia and Florida. The amount is as fol lows from each State : Virginia and West Virginia, $597,951 57 North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, ' Florida, The aggregate amount, 152,101 31 13,557 32 34,948 58 10,910 73 309,469 51 The old Pilot -Where are ins Heirs ? Where are the heirs of Benjamin Craig, the old Cape Fear pilot in 1797 ? The Adjutant General Townsend of the United States Army writes from Wash ington City, dated' Jan'y 4th, to the Sec retary of this State as follows : "I have the honor to request any information which you may be able to furnish rela tive to the surviving heirs of one Ben jamin Craig, who appears to have been appointed a pilot on Cape Fear Kiver about the year 1797." Let the Fayette ville papers noise this item around. TwigS. ; - j. ; . An expensive wifo makes a pensive nusoana. .5 ui a new pui tne patentee snvs " there is hot a lazy hair in its head." Engaging rhotorrrcphcr i 44 Just look . - & little pleasant, Miss ! . Think of 'im I" Miss Jennie Ixe t ublielv mwhidM F. II. Case on Royal steet in"Mobile last wees. - - . t . - i An epitaph on a Montmartre tomb stone reads: "Oh, my dear; Henry, come and rejoin me as oon as 'conveni ently possible. " '; I " When I put my foot down I'll have you to understand," saj-s Mrs. No- Joker, " there's something there." 'On investigation it turned out to be a No. 11 shoe. . .,:!.' . I - Eggs are si x t-ents a dozen in Colum bus, tla., but they are the kind osed for suppressing miopuIar public speakers anu irescoing tue snirts of traveling J It ' O An Omaha doctor, who I tried to work a steer tinder the saddle, now writes to tho local papers tnai he is un able to prartice, owing to sickness in his own fannlv. ' Iar-rHigj are'5 now fastened to the ear by a wirew, aud an addition to domestic noise Sunday morning is in the shape of " Mercy, me! jwhere is that screw-driver? ' ! The President has directed tho Sec retary of State to prepare immediately an Executive order in effect prohibiting persons holding United States! commis sions from accepting ollico understate authority. j i ; . The Columbia Union Kays: Mr. Pettingill has a clipping machine at his livery stable, which is a curiosity, at least in theso parts. He can take tlie hair off from a horse slick and clean in a short time. ! " Piy the poor teacher." ! Teacher. And what are tho four .quarters of the world r" lirst 1'upil " .l'leaseL teacher. air, earth, lire and water." Second Pupil (eagerly) " JS o, teacher; Mat thew, Mark, Luke, and John.'; A rural gentleman standing over a register in one of our stores attracted general attention to himself by observ ing to nis wife, "Mariar, I guess I'm agoin' to have a fever, I feel isuch hot streaks a-runnin' up my Iegs.'f After a Vigilance Committee at Vis- alia, California, had taken Mr. McCrory irom lait and hung him. that polite or ganization passed a resolution of thanks to the Sheriff and his deputies for their enorts to avert the hanging. The Vermont Legislature has pass ed a sensible act, punishing with a line any person who points firearms at another person in sport. If any injury results, the facetious sportsmah is liable to imprisonment lor two years. -Polccatscentede'm is the Ibrief but touching Latin motto over a little grave on the Western prairie, where, in tjie springtime," the daisies bend lovingly lo earth, as if communing with tho sepul- tured dead beneath. A man buried his clothes there. The Washington correspondent ot the St. Louis Ilenublican saVs: The special agents of the post-ollice depart ment have all been reappointed for the year 1873, including Robert A. Long and 1 ho in as JJ. I.ong. father: and son. both stationed at .Salisbury, Js, HJ. -A family in uangor, Me., possesses a bit of we-Ming cake twenty-two years old. it was sealed up to await the re turn of a brother of the bride !who was expected home in a few weeks, and though the ladv died fifteen years ago. the cake was kept intact until the other aay, when the wanderer returned. Evansville, Ind.. drug clerks laugh and grow obese over physicians' pre scriptions of this style ; " J gallon tur- pontin, 4 botel uv Peridavis pane Cil ler, 2 ounces nv, camphor, 1 botel of garglen oil, 10 cents uv asivity ; to be shaken, and taken inside or out, it don't make any differunts which." I know the evidence of homicide on on which I was convicted is false from beginning to end and is manufactured, and, I believe, tho prosecution know it, and the District Attorney knew it, and the eetinsel for the prosecution knew it, when he summed up the case.; I hope your Honor will make the sentence as brief as possible. (Close of Stokes speech.) I A party of rulDans on King street Saturday evening amused themselves by deliberately spitting upon the dresses of ladies walking in front of them, dis figuring the promenade toilets so out rageously that the ladies, in some cases, were compelled to take refuge in stores and invoke the aid oi the clerks to render their appearance presentable. " Police !" Charleston News. "What do yon call that?" indig nantly asked a customer at a cheap restaurant, pointing out an oniectthat he had discovered in his plate of hash. " Wristband, with sleeve button attach ed, sir," said the waiter briskly. " Well, do you consider that a proper tiling for a man to fine; in his hash ? " asked the customer, in wrath. " Good i heavens, sir!" cried the waiter, " would you ex pect to find a ten dollar silk umbrella in a fifteen cent plate of hash V -There was once an old woman who, in answer to a visiting aimoners in quiries as to how she did, said : " Oh, sir, tho Lord is very good to me; I've lost my husband aud my eldest son, and my youngest daughter, and I'm half blind, and l can t steep or move aoout for the rheumatics; but I've; got two teeth left in my head, and, praise and bless His liolv name, they're opposite each other!'' It has been said that this old woman was thankful for small mercies. i The Lexington (Ky.) Press says : At a prayer meeting and feast among some of our coioreu oreinern, a iew days since, Brother Tom was called on to prav. uuring nis enort ne asuea tne fjord to tell him who stole nisnng, wnicn lie often repeated. One old brother, at whose house the meeting, was be ing conducted, shouted at the top of his . .... . . voice, iirotner, oon i pray aooui tne hog, but about the Lord.'' During the course of the evening3ie lost hog was found under the bed of Hie brother wlio desired the prayers offered to the Lord, cooked and ready lor the least Josh Billings makes good resolu tions for 1673: That 1 will live within my inltum if i have tew get trusted tew S wmtVnrdarned iuckl miss it. That i will lead a moral life, t - . - rrt : : ll . 1 . 1 . 1 . A u Ann. even ll i go lonesome ana ioso a goou lonesome and lose a good deal of fun by it. That i won't smoke cigars, only at sumbody else's expense. That if a man tells me a mule wont kiki will beleave what he sea without trieing it. Finally, i will search for things that are little, for things' that are lonesum, avoiding all torchlite prosses huns, bands of brass music, Wimmins' Right Conventions, ' and grass widders generally. A 3Iicliigander wants to Know Henry Worras of JSpilante, Michi gan, writes to the Secretary of State to send him a copy of the official vote in this State, last August. Henry has bet one hundred dollars on Gov. Caldwell's majority and the fellow won't pay him till he sees the thing published. . Ob, my Henry. f Fist-, ' ' 1 - 1 v ! , Sky In Champagne, France, nac, born babes are washed in Champagne winv. and, alter paptism, mo iirsi luuig the little stranger ta-stes, us it enter home on return from church, is a glans of tho oldest Champagne wlno which the ;'""' W en n procure. Lzir iitrxe Uiqqage inudcr have a hard ti.ue. ; Ono. was fretted to desper ation the other night by a nervous old man who kept fooling and fidget- ting about, and Ugging mm ior ma baggage. . The luggage master ft nallv preached him in thr vordn: VM inter, it's a pity you wasn't born an elephant instead o"f a iackans, then ye'd have yor trunk always under yer nose." I DtSr Amon a the peasantry in Cfiina, it is said, they ascertain the exact hour of noon bv opening tho lids of a cat's eyes. At the exact moment of 12 o'clock, the pupil looks like a black liue ; but an the suu descends it gradually widens to a pretty large oval at Bunset. From sunrise to noon tho pupil is gradually narrowing up to 12 o'clock again.' So they av half past 12, 1, 2, or 3, accord ing to the width of the aperture, their accuracy depending upon experience. $5?" Talleyrand, the great VmcA- raan, when soarcuy a iweivcmomn oki was lamed for life bv a fall. Tho head of tho house of Talleyrand must he a soldier. A cripple couldn t bo one. ll was told him his birthright would Ihj transferred to his younger brother. "Why so?" asked tho boy. "llccauso vou area cripple," was the cruel anwer. That embittered his life. From that moment he bwcamo a cvnie. a heartless debauchee sparing neither man nor wo- man that stood in his path or pleasure or interest. U hy should he spare ? i i A San ' Francisco father re- ceutly brought his daughter Fannie, a aged sixteen, before a police court, ask ing her committal to tho industrial school, and as the girl appeared to bo; greatly in need of ho mo salutary re straint the application was about to bo granted, when the budding las accom plished an eiiectuai May oi proceedings, by producing proofs that she had been married two years before. Ino old ma ns eyes fairly hung out on steins when " e realized that tho little gin no nau no n busily thrashing for ho long had all tho time been another man's wife. ESy J Jf. Dirr hammer, a had- ingand wealthy lawyer in New Orleans, after marrying a colored woman, com mitted suicide tho 14th of last month. Among the curious benueathments in tho will that -ho left was tho following: My body I give to my friend anil phy- sician, Dr. Joacinn liorue, ior scienuuo purposes. My head lie will keep. What he does not want of my body 1 want to bo buried in tho Potter s 1 lold, accord ing to my verbal instructions, thoro lo bo taken in tho; poor man s iuncrai wagon ; this ior tne reason mat j. was al ways opposed to pompous luneruis. 3- Old Jfr. Friend of Topcka (Kansas) has for livoyears been hunting his little son that tho Camauche Indians stole and has spent over live thousaud dollars in tho seaich. Ho has just re covered him. The boy was stolen from his father, John' Friend, in Llano Coun ty, Texas, iulSOS and was then eight years old. Tho Topeka Commonweal In says of the boy : Notwithstanding his long captivity, ho is a bright, intelligent looking 'boy in the face, his walk and actions being thoso Of an Indian, and he talks Camanche like a native brave. The mother of the boy died leforo hU capture. Tho joy of his father and friends will bo boundless on recovering their long lost boy. , jEij It saved them. A merry party of ladies and gontlemen out sailing on the St. Lawrence among tho Thous and Islands. They were out in a yacht until a late hour iu the evening and it grew so dark you coum scarce Distin guish an object on the water.' A dark object suddenly looinod up before them. It was a largo steamer, coming rignt on them. All tho young ladies screamed with terror savo one: a slight rustio wa3 heard in her dii uction.. She handed a roll of paper to one of the gentlemen. As quick as thought he' had lighted a match and it was ablaze. Tho Steamer saw it and changed its courso. She had sacrificed her bustle to save her own fair life and that of her companions. CSV- Tins was the last of llupn. tho Illinois editor of tho Belleville Zeit- . m A. a- I t l t-S-t.. ung, as tne reporter iouiiu inui oaiur day dead in hisoflice door with tho ropo around his neck and tho other end fastened to the upper sill of the door: When found he was in full dress, except ing his coat and hat, land was supjMmed to have been dead two hours. lie faced north and his leet rested nruily ou tho lloor. He purchased tho rope with which he hung himself Thursday after noon, at tho store of Mr. Huckc, and to insure its working I well soaped and greased it. lie stood upon a chair to admit the Tope, anu, wncn mi was renuy, stepped from it. At. the inquest tho fact was developed that he was covered with small-pox pustules, and it is supposed that the ureau oi tins uisbsimu icu nun vo put an end to his life; Lieutenant Jleale is a gradu-i ate of West Point and when tne lato war broke out he was an ollicer In the-1 second regiment or dragoons and sta tioned at Fort Leavenworth. He cast his fortunes with the Confederacy: A few days ago Captain E.;L. Berthoud, who has Charge oi engineering iiariius on the extensions of tho Colorado Cen tral railwa3' and who knew Jieaio in his better days before tho war aoci-. denlly discovered tills man shove-ling dirt amongst a gang of workmen on the railroad grade m mo mountains. Greatly changed though he was, Bert houd at once rocognlr.ed him, ana was greatly astonished at finding a mau who had before occupied so hlg.i a position, and who at one tim had every avsnue of success and rapid elevation open to him. laboring with a shovel to earn liia daily bread. After the recognition, Mr. Bealo told Berthoud tho story oi his vicissitudes, and tho latter, who knew well the man's superior capacities, at . . . . . . . i i i onco tooK aim t uoiuwi u wufnu , him a responsible position in the engi neer corps of tho Julcsburg road. C-2T Tlie wit and humor you 'finsl in thA Bible. For instance. Job, when the low lived fellows pretended to com fort h m. didn t call them asses, uui iia nut it more deftly. Jlesaid: "Among j- hil9'S& ties they w re jfte:J anouicr """t "J-"- - ,T theprophetaof Baal. They aro clam oring to their God to neip tuem. The scene (1 Kings, AViu, zu, Z7,) wakes up all Elijah's sense or too ridic ulous, v Shout louder i , ie is a gou, you know. Make him hear I .remap- he is chatting with somebody, or he is off on a hunt, or gone traveling. Or marbe he is taking a nap. onout away i Wake biraup!", imagine, me priests going through their antics on laa anar, while rjujaii iwuiuari" , style at bis . leisure. . ll ait. - .ueecner ever said anything that convulsed hia audience more thoroughly than tho prophet must have oono'tho jews around him, I should like to hear it- , Paul shows a dry numor more mau once, as in n. vr.t .-.. J haven t you iareu as wcu tut mo umci churches ? Ah I there is ono grievance, that you haven't had mo to support. Pray do not lay it up against me H 1 .; : !!, 4 -t . - i ,vi. ---. rj si -1.!
The Era (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Jan. 16, 1873, edition 1
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