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I J L - " I , , ' . THE "WEEKLY ERA. M. BItOWN, - - Makaoek. I Kale f Subscription. Weekly One year, in advance. f2 00 TgE weekly ml, 7 73 a,tea of Advertising. 5 1 SquV$ 3 00; 5 00 TO 00 six montns, 1 00 2 do Three months, 50 1U ilrt 00 3 do 4 do 5 do i Col' n i do 1 do 7 001 U OOj .Ji-iuOj 24.00 3o 00 .1 00 ,J5 00! 17 001 2H ftO' 4J0 00 10 O0 18 00 IS UV ftTOU'V) 00 12 OOj 18 00 20 OOj 35 00 , 40 00 20 00 25 W)l 30 00 50 OOufct) 00 30 00 40 001 50 i)0f 80 OO.iSO 00 1 - 2 m's.3 n's.: m'a.1 Li tn. j r i $ 7 00:110 00,1 mil tw rk Job Trixtixu: Job Work neatly and promptly executed, of every style j and on the most reasonable terms. J Orders solicited from all parts of the 1 State. ' ! Court Blanks a specialty. j - i ! EUUCATIOXAL. vol. m. RALEIGH, JT. O, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1873. jJEa-Transieilt advertising fan do turn per square for the first and viktt cents for each subsequent insertion. NO. 8 POETRY. Raleigh Female Seminary, I RALEIGH, IV. C- K 1. HOBGOOD, A. M., . . , A. F. REDD, A. M., J Principals.. IR. L. VON MEYERIIOFF, of Vien na, Musical Department. Tlie imposing new building with its improved School apparatus and recent ly purchased musical outht will open on j 1st of September, 1S73. The Faculty has lieen largely in creased. The'Music I Apartment is in -charge of Professor- Von Meyerhotr, a pupil of Riibenstein. The Professor is a iriiliant performer, has succeeded well The Irish Patriot Exile to His Wife. Nye as Judge A Story of vadn's Ex-Senator. Ne- j Joseph Brewnan was engaged in the j Irish Revolution of 1848. He found himself an exile in New Orleans in 1850, and it was then and there, con nected with the editorial staff of the J JScayune, that he wrote the following ; exquisite lines. The fact that he fell a j victim to the yellow fever before his I wife reached American shores, lends a melancholy interest to the lines as sad, J a they arc touching: teacher of Vocal and Instrumenal f Come to me darling, I'm lonely without Music in this State, A pply for catalogue. 4 2m PEACE INSTITUTE, IlaJelffh, X. C, AVrj Ji. IiUn WELL, Principal. Jolin It. Harwell, A. M., ) Associate S. J. Stevens, A. M., )' Principals. I'mf. A. nanmann. Instructor in Vocal ; and I nsttu mental Music. The Fall Term Commence Kept .lot, 43. - or;eircuUr containing- full particu lars as to terms, course of study, Ac, in I dress Rev. R. BURWELL, t SOX, July 2. 3 2m Ka'eigh, N. C. Greensboro Female College, OnEKNSHORO. rs'. C rpiIE FA LIj .SESSION will legin on 1 the 27th or A u. Mist next, under the presidency of Rev. T. M. Jones, D. I., the former president. The Faculty will consist ,r Professors W. C. Doun, A. M., V. F. Alderman, A. M and F. J. Hahr, with a lull corps of accomplished lady teacher. For circulars containing fuil information, apply to the president, or to ; J. A. CUXINf'UIM. i Sec. II. Trustees. reensloro, July 8, IbTX 5-5tpd thee, Day time and night time I'm dreaming about thee; Nighttime and day time in dreams I behold thee, Unwelcome the waking which ceases to fold thee. Come to me darling, my sorrows to lighten ; Come in thy beauty to bless sod to brighten ; Come in thy womanhood, meekly and lowly; Come in ffiy lovingoess, queenly and holy- - " Swallows shall Hit round the desolate ruin. Telling of Spring and its joyous renew ing. And thoughts of thy love and its mani fold treasure, Are circling my heart -with a promise of pleasure. Oh! Spring of my spirit, oh! May of my hOKOIll, Shine out n my soul till it burgeon and blossom ; The waste of my life has a rose-root within it. And thy fondness alone to the sunshine can win it. like a song HOTELS. THE OCEAN HOUSE, 1IEAUFORT, C. NAM. It. STIJEET, Proprietor. rpiUS HOUSE is never closed and -A. has the ad vantage of bciii'4 always ready for the reception of guests. Passengers land at the Hotel Wharf, within a tew feet cf the House. The Tabl Is supplied with all the delicacies of land and sea. The Rooms are delightfully ventilat ed, airy and plesaut. Tho Servants are well trained, olite - and attentive. Amusements. A Hand of Music foi Figure which moves through the even. j Features lit up with a rcllex of heaven. Eyes like the skies of poor Erin, our ! mother. ' Where sunshine and shadows are chas j ing each other, Smiles coming seldom, but child-like j and simple. And opening their hearts from the eyes of a dimple: ; Oh ! thanks to the Saviour that even thy j , seeming. Is left to the Exile to brighten his I dreaming. j j You have leen glud when you knew I j was gladdened ; j Dear, are you sad now to hear I am sad j dened? i Our hearts ever answer in tune and in j time, love, t As octave to octave, or -thyme unto ! rhyme, love ; I cannot smile, but your cheeks will bo glowing; You cannot weep, but my tears will be flowing ; l-ill- m-miii,,. II, . I; 1 ..... I U . . I . ... -1 ... ' X ..i u'lll i,At linmp lion I wliull harn 1'ieasure uoats Tor sailing, visiting ttie Q- - i And I could wot live, without vou bv my side, love. . . . . . . - .. . moil i iia suri-uatning grounds ami for nsning; i i i i Forney's Reminiscences. When James W. Nye was a very young man, not more than thirty, he was appointed one of the Com mon Pleas Judges for his native county of Madison, N. Y., and gave great satisfaction by his popular manners, jer.sonal courage, and large humanities. Nye was always a favorite with the old Democratic leaders of the Empire State, especi ally with Martin Van Buren and William L. Marty. Although an extreme- Democratic partisan, his ready humor and instinctive gener osity made him the center of a con siderable following. Few men sur passed him in private conversation or public speaking, as those who enjoyed his society and heard his speeches during the war need not be reminded. Rut to the incident I intended to relate : When he be came judge of the Madison courts, he one day visited the county prison in the character of an inspector .and was surprised to find among ihein- matesA Jad of twelv or- 4hirtwT years of age, sent there to await his trial on a charge of theft. Struck by his youthful appearance, he ask ed him whether he was guilty of the 'Charge laid against him, to which the boy replied in the affirm ative. He said his father and his mother were miserably poor, and that in desperation he had broken into a corn crib and supplied the family with corn. Relieving from the lad's manner that he was worthy of being reclaimed, he called on a neighbor and had him bailed out to make his appearance at court. At the opening of the sessions the lad and his surety were on hand, and the young judge appealed to the District Attorney to enter a nol. pros., which that officer sternly decli ned on the ground that the accused had confessed his guilt, and that the end of justice must be vindicated. "Well, then," said Judge Nye, "I will state the facts to thejuryand take the responsibility." The jury was impanneled, and the case came on. and the District Attorney presented the facts with much feeling, after which the Judge said that he would simply state what he knew of the case, without calling counsel for the defense. After relating what he had heard in the jail from the lips of the boy (and you may be sure he did his best to correct the emphatic fresentation of the officer of the aw,) he turned to the jury-box and declared that he did not believe there was a man of the twelve could coolly vote to send this young- crea- Teaching the Austrians to Take Greens in "Theirn." A Telling: Hit. Bent alf Vienna Corresp. Baltimore American. The warm weather has had its effect on one branch of Americanism on exhibition here. A month ago the impression was very general that the American bars would do a very poor business on account of the high cast of their drinks, as well as from the fact that a half gallon of beer could be had for the cost of one of their fancy glasses. They were then occasionally drank as a matter of curiositv. and several Germans could be occasionally seen at one of their tables with a solitary cobbler" or "cocktail." each tak ing an occasional suck through the straw, and discussinsr its merits. It was a mere tasting process each, according to German custom, pay- i ing his share of the expense. Yes terday, however, they were throng ed with visitors, and the colored waiters, who are decided objects of curiosity, were kept busy fillingW ineir oruers. 'inese waiters are a sharp set of fellowsrnosfc o'Uifi torn New York ' and are of shades, from the coal black to the yellow pine. The fprmer tell many amusing stories of their experience, and they seem to enjoy the inspec tion that they are constantly sub jected to. Thev have picked una! little German, but are each provided j with a price list, which they hand ; to the customer, and he points out j the article he desires. The follow- j ing is a list of the plain American! drinks that our German friends are beginning to learn to like, which t are served up. smothered in crush- I ed ice, at 30, o0, GO and 80 kreutzers, or at ,30 and 40 cents in American currency, under the title of " Amer ican mixed drinks:" Apple jack and cock tail-Jersey, brandy and soda (English), brandy champarelle, brandy crusta, brandy fix, brandy julep, 'brandy punch, brandy sangaree, brandy sling, brandy smash, brandy sour, brandy toddj Baltimore egg-nogg, Boehm & Wiehl's favorite claret cup, claret cobbler, claret punch, claret sanga ree, catawba cobbler, catawba punch champagne punch, champagne cob bler, champagne cocktail, egg flip, eye opener, French cocktail, gin cocktail, gin julep, gin crusta, gin punch, gin sling, gin smash, gin sour, gin toddy, bock cobbler, John Collins (English), Indian wigwam punch, Jamaica rum punch, Jamaica rum sour, Knickerbocker, lemonade (plain), lemonade (with a stick), lemonade (fancy), milk punch, Metropolitan punch (U. S. A.), poussecale(New lorKstyie), pousse The recent death of John C. Tuck er calls to mind a speech which he made in the house of representa tives some years ago a speech that was full of tingling wit and deliv ered in the happiest manner. General Banks had been elected governor by a combination between the free soilers and the know noth ings, and it was naturally supposed that in his inaugural address there would be some reference to the issue of the campaign. But the, adroit governor omitted airmention of the anti-slavery question, as well as of the native American policy. A ceri to print ton thnnsnnd ennies of the address, when instantly Mr. Tucker got the floor and spoke as follows : , "T risp. Misther Soaker, to second thp motion nfthe honorable gentle man to print tin thousand copies of his excillency's speecn.' xou may wonder, Misther-r.why I, f whq am nayther- -ZT?"?? ooteetical friend ofi his 'excTnency, Uihould dU,his.- ;lVi- well known that Jus excineney nas risen to power by a coalition between the anti-slavery and native American parties or as -they are sometimes called free soilers and know noth ings. And this puts me in mind of a little story. "There was a bishop in Dublin who engarged a paiuther lo make a large picture lor the caythadral. The subject chosen was the crossing of the lied say by the Israelites. After a suitable time the picture was completed and hung in the cavthadral, covered with a broad i and heavy curtain. A great crowd ! of people assembled to see the pic ! ture un veeled. The priests entered in procession, the organ sounded i and the singers sung. All faces ! were turned in anxious expectation i to the great curtain. When it was j dhrawn aside nothing could be seen but a vast expanse of M ather reddish-green wather. The bishop in ' great rage turned to the painther 1 and said : 1 " 'I thought I asked you to paint Israelites crossing a picture of the the Bed say?' "'Thrue for you, that's jist it,' said the painther. " 'But where are the Israelites" asked the indignant bishop. painther rone ow.' said the and a Bathing-House within a few feet of the House. Promenades may be taken along the wide verandahs, or on the 1'romenade Itoof tf the House. The Proprietor spares neither atten tion nor expense to make the stay of his guests happy and full of pleasure; and not charge is made for ice-water sent to rooms, or for any trilling extra attention. To Invalids henlTV-r theerv panacea f health. Terms moderate. Sp--ial ariaugc ments made with laniiiie. K IV-rs toall who ha e ever Ikm ii guests at the t iveaii Hoii-m. .Tiik'Namk. 1" not confound tho i fc-eati Willi the " Atlantic " House. IUu.i;i.ti PjiltK. Th- lollowinu i;.in- for I'ctiiru Ti-k-4s ikimmI for the x-asonlare niadeon the Sorth Carolina Kail road: K.ili-igli to Moieiiead City and re turn. $ S tl't 1 1 illlni t- Morchf-ad C'ilv and return. " 11 10 10 Morehcad City and ;1ooiii like the sun of to- Come to me darling, ere I die of my sorrow. Rise on mv morrow, Strom;, swift and fond which I seak, love, ; With a song at your lip, and a smile on yonr check love ; i Come, for my heart in your absence is dreary; Haste, for my spirit is sickened and wearv; Come to the acms which alone -an caress thee ; I Come to tho heart which is throbbing to press thee. ' ture with a blasted reputation out ; cafe (New Orleans), pectoral (Cuban) upon a cold and heartless world. port wine sangaree, pine apple It is needless to say that an in- punch, port wine flip, portereet stantaneousacquittal followed. Af-' ohlesrm cutter, sherry and bitters i ter the adjournment of the court the ' (plain), sherry and egg, sherry cob- ' juuge sent ior me ooy ana louna bier, Shanghai Saratoga, soua cock- " 'Well, but where are the pursu ing Egyptians?' "'They've gone amllterf said the painther. "With similar disappointment the friends of his excillency stand now. If thev ask 'What has become of the Curry-Corub, Card and Brush. There is a world of comfort and downright luxury in a good scratch, both for human people and for do mestic animals. Posts and bars for rubbing should be put up in pas tures and barnyards, and kept mod erately rough so as to take hold of the skin. ; But our principal object in this present writing is to insist upon a more free use of thecurry-comb and brush, upon horses and cattle, at all seasons. The stable implements are not used as often and regularly as they should be by the generality of farmers. A good dressing down of the horse each morning with the curry-corno ana brush is lully equal in health giving powerand elasticity movement, to quarts of oats. It is a grateful attention, repaid many fold by the animal which is the sta ted recipient of it. But while bestowing this care up on the horse as most persona do, kndwing its beneficial effects, they xtrg$nei4ily seem to forget that OXhti and cow are :qjjalljr Jieneflt tedbya daily application - of the card. There is no room for doubt on this subject with those who have been accustomed to bestow this attention to the diary and working stock. A free use of the card gives repose to the animals, enables them to enjoy and digest their food in quiet instead of raking their bodies against posts, trees and fences, as opportunity offers for al laying the irritation produced by an accumulation of dust, hay seed, and other irritants common to the stable and barnyard. Even young colts, calves and yearlings are great ly benefitted by the use of the card, while its daily use is a step in the breaking or training process by which the services of the animals are made more readily available when properly matured for labor. It seems absurtl to scrub a fatting porker, but those who have prac ticed it concur in its utility. One reason why hogs like to immerse themselves in pools of stagnant water, is found in the fact that their bodies become encrusted with dirt, causing an itching which the pool they seek allays. Tnis irritation renders them -restless, and retards the process of fattening very mate rially. This can be prevented by an applicatian of soapsuds, aided by a splint broom commonly used for cleaning stables and cross-walks. A liberal application of suds and a good scrubbing daily will allay ir ritation and give that repose to the animals which is essential to steady and rapid accumulation of fleshy and fatty matter. The labor of First Ijove. Why do people take to loving one another ?or likintr, the custom ary and safe preliminary to loving? And how does the first'love come ? Through what mysterious process ao young joiks pass by steps rapid or slow, according to their circum stances, and their own idiosyncrasy out of the common world the quiet, colorless, every day world, into that strange new paradise trom which there is no returning. No, none ! We may be driven out ot it by an angel with a naming sword, out into the wilderness which we have to till and keep, changing its thorns and thistles in to a respectable, ordinary garden. We may pass out of it calmly and happily into a new earth, safe and sweet and home-like, but this par ticular paradise is never found again, never re-entered more. Why should it be? All lifo is mere progression, a pressing on and on; and death itself Is but a higher de velopment into a more oerlect life. Yet, as taoihIrojoolisi-Eitr It wholly forgotten, one can imagine f even a disembodied spirit fitting gloriously before the great white throne, recalling with a tender sweetness the old earthly heaven which was first created by that strange state of mind, that intoxi cating idealization of all things within and without, as if every thing were beheld with new eyes, the eyes of a creature new-born, the condition which silly folks call " being in love. " It has its silliness no one will de ny its weaknesses and madnesses but it has its divine side, too ; cheif ly, then, and not till then, comes the complete absorption of self into some other being.dearer and better, higher and nobler than one's self or imagined so which is the foundation of everything divine in human nature. If men or women are ever good at all, ever heroic, un selfish, self-denying, they will be so when they first fall in love, yid if the love be worthy, that goodness will take root and grow. As a tree is known by its fruits, so a noble love, be it happy or un happy, ennobles a whole life. And I think no friends no parents es pecially, true as tender, generous as wise can see two young people standing at the enchanted gate, without a prayerful thankfulness; aye, thankfulness, for it is the gate of life to them, whatever be, the end. A Word About Names. nayger?' the answer is: 'He's gone ' preparing and applying the wash, as the words Woman Suffrage. Morehcad Citv and Jr. cnb.ri 'return. 1 1 iilt Point to Mori head City and retlll 11, !.f.iUtoi t return, .Salisbury t Morehcad City and retm II, h.u .tle I.. return, liiTII Tieket Nor;h Carolina 14 40 lo 45 Morehcad and 1G 50 Citv VJ W s in the Atlantic and Kail road (giMni Tor the x-aoii rare t'tt e Ikillara from oldslMro Moiehead City, Ilea u fort Harbor.) Trai.i.-. leave Uoldslmn. daily at li'.W, . in. ' 5 3m NATIONAL HOTEL, i:aleiuii..n. v. IN CAI.I.INi; ATTENTIOX to this, IIoiie, it is with the ardent hoj that I may hive a iileral share of travel, i anil I promise to endeavor to make it , worlhviof patronage. Kate i-! jday. First Floor, ji.V) " Sett i id Floor, 1T.00 i J. ?t. III.AIH, July 15. 5 lw. Proprietor. that lie and his parents were very destitute, but that he was naturally bright and intelligent, ambitious to i learn, in good health, and had pre ! viously borne an excellent charac j ter. (Jov. Marcy was at that time i Secretary of War, under President 1 James K. Polk. To him, therefore, I as one of his closest friends, whose I lead he had followed in the Demo- crath. party from ! Judge Nye wrote, a ! the story as I have tried to tell it, j i and asking him to secure for the I . , T . 1 lad the appointment of cadet at i 1 he Providence Journal-, paper ; the niiIitary academy. In answer, of highly conservative tone and an- , Gov 3I that he ro?ntte(i i tecedents-says: "Whatever views j his inability to comply with this: we may entertain as to the right of j roquost . that the possible vacancies ""-'- at West Point had been tilled in advance both by the Congressmen ! and the President from his list at J large; but that he had it in his i power to send him to the Naval ; Academy at Annapolis. The lad : i was accordingly entered among the ' i acolytes of that admirable institu tion, and, by good conduct and close application, rose rapidly in the ; service. JJunng the war no was one of the ablest of Admiral Farra-; gut's captain, and it was always ' very agreeable to sit by and hear ! happiness as a citizen In view of the tcom aml cifidence of his j ! country, relate this simple story, ! woman to me sunraire. ; are eertam thinirs to be iaid in re gard to it which will not be perma nently put aside by a sneer, nor j overslaughed by ridicule. It is all l nonsense to say, on the one hand, ' that either man or woman has a ' natural right to vote; it is just as 1 futile to say that a woman, because ' she is a woman, and without re I iranl to her interest, pecuniary, so- i cial,and olitical, in the welfare of: thceommunity, shall have no voice 'in deciding questions which affect her -Kx-ket, her civil rights, and her tail, St. Croix fix, St. Croix sour, St. Croix punch, whisky cocktail, whisky punch, whisky julep and old Kentucky whisky sling, whisky smash, whisky sour. The champagne punches and cob blers are a florin and a half each, or seventy-five cents in our money. The plain drinks, which are equal ly as numerous, range from twenty his first vote, to forty cents each, and forty kreut letter relating: i zers and un wards. Fifteen per cent7. of all their receipts, however, is lo go to the Exposition fund. The American restaurants, of which there are two very large ones, have become the favorite resort of the English, and are doing a prosperous business. As the Exposition will continue until the 1st of November, more than four months longer, and over,' listner r-paKer. n iney asic, then, 'What has become of the 1 know nothings?' 'Why they've j gone under,' Misther Spaker. ; The roars of laughter from all I parts of the house made the rest of ; the speech inaudible. at least once a day during the mild er portions of the season, will be amply renumerated in the increas ed weight of the animals when the slaughtering season arrives. The Cireat Mystery." The body is to die. No one who passes that boundary comes back to tell. The imagination visits the j land of shadows, sent out from some Only let a woman be sure she is window of the soul over life's rest precious to her husband, not useful, ! less waters, but wings it way back not vaJuable..Ji)t conveniently sim- (.without a live leaf in its beak as a The Wife. Here is the best tribute to woman we ever read : pie, but Iovelydbp'edi Jet her token of merging life beyond the, teel that her cares and love are no ticed, appreciated and returned; let her opinion be asked, her approval sought, and her judgment respected in matters of which she is cogniz ant; in short, let her only be loved, honored and cherished in the ful filment of the marriage covenant, and she will be to her husband, her as everybody must cat and drink on children, and society a well-spring the grounds, the value of these pri-' of happiness. She will bear pain, vileges have not been over-estimat- j and toil and anxiety, for her hus ed by those who were scrambling ! band's love is a tower and fortress. lor them. Taking Kef "reshiiieiits. (From the Dai. bury News.) FRENCH'S NEW HOTEL, COt. COITUiBT A. It CNBICtl ITS., NEW YOKK, oX.Tllfc KlIMIl'EAX 1'I.AX. It I (' II A It D I. I K i:cii, S..11 ..! the S.ite ( IticiiARU French, of Kit o. h"s lintel, has taken this Hotel, newly line I npaiut entirely renovated the aine. t'rnt rally located in the nrsiXKs-s vai:t of the cv.v. I.AKIKS" AMI liKXTLKMKS's DlXINO lUiONS ATTACH Kl. IT Sill C. C. WILLARD, EBBITT HOUSE recent national legislation, it must tie difficult to argue that the infu sion of feminine influence could, by any osibillity, weaken the mental or moral standing of our legisla-. tors. There are a good many wo men who will have to pay an ad ditional amount of tax in conse quence of increased salaries of the memU-rs of Congress, and there would seem to 1h no injustice in their having tin- right to say what they think as to the fitness of those proposed as the recipients of this not modest remuneration." .-Threescore and Ten. "When I was a boy," Dr. Chal mers remarked, " I used to think threescore and ten years a very suf ficient sjiell of this world. 1 won dered how Anybody could grumble at so libera! an allowance of life; and indeed, for my own share, 1 would no more have hesitated to give up my claim to the mid ten years than the gold sellers do at the and especially the success which had crowned his efforts to save his protege from a life of shame and set him forward in "the path of honor able distinction. The rescued boy tiecauie in after years a brave and brilliant seaman, and Nye grew from a county judge to Governor of Nevada in 1SG1, and then a Senator in Congress when the Territory be came a State, beginning his term in lSGo and closing it in 187:. So that it may be said that in this case at I least the best way to help oneself is ' to help our fellow-creatures. The Cincinnati Time and L'ln on irfe says: When l'oe wrote his Charleston balloon hoax he attempt ed partially to obviate, on paper, the difficulty of maintaining are quired altitude without loss of gas or ballast by the use of a very long rope, which should trail upon the ground or water. Whenever the balloon sank, it was, of course, re- diggings to throw the odd ounces j lieved of the weight of that portion into the bargain. That, I say, was - - i I i A r WASHINGTON, 4vS 3ui I. V. PITTSIIOKO 1IOTKL, lMttlor-o. CTltMtlit&m Co II. II. HIKKI Proprietor. IV. C. ot the rope which rested on the in my bOVhOOd, When 1 Was too far ' eartii. e note me same nppaiin.ua off from what I was dealing so gen- adopted In the it rapine balloon pre- II. C. ECCI.KS, Proprietor, CENTRAL HOTEL, CIIAULOTTE, T. C. March 7. 1S73. 171 tf r CAIIDS. T. P. DEVEREl'I. IU V. llAtHIKR. UADGElt & DEVKHEUX, Solicitors in Bankruptcy, i:li-v in Stronach Building, second door Xor ii ' Yarborough House, Will attend to all cases of Bankruptcy. Mr. Badger will attend all the terms of tho IHstrict Courts. No extra fee charged ior consultation. May 13, lf?7 47 tf. JOHN ARMSTRONG, No. 1 Fayette vi LI.K Street, 'it A LEIGH X. a, it O o ic i i i-: ii , AinVlilank Book Manufacturer. Newspapers, Magazines, and Law Books, of every description, bound in the very best style, and at lowest prices. Old numbers of Supreme Court Re lorts taken n exchange for binding. U . Jf . H. SMITH. "EO- V. STRONG. StMITII & STKONG, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, ; nalcil"! X. C. erously with to be able to under stand anything about it. I know better now. Threescore and ten might have suited the Israelites very well when they were wander injr in the wilderness ; but I am ; decidedly of opinion that Moses, when stating the limit, in his pray er printed in the Book of Psalms, made no allusion to us. In fact, the period in itself is objectionable, in asmuch as it is not a jteriod at all, but more like a semi-colon. It is not even an even number which is odd ; resembling more a half-way house than a final resting-place. It makes me uncomfortable to hear people talking of threescore and ten, as if they thought it improer to fly in the face of Moses." Wit from the lNilpit. ' It is related of a certain New England divine, who flourished not mauy years ago, and whose matri monial relations are supposed not to have been of the most agreeable kind, that one Sabbath morning, while reading to his congregation, the parable of the supper, in which occurs the passage: "And another said; I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them ; I pray thee have me excused. And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore cannot come," he suddenly paused at the end of this verse, drew off his spectacles, and looking around on his bearers, said, with emphasis: "The fact is, my brethren, one woman . can draw a man farther away from the king dom of heaven than five yoke t of oxen!" narinir for Professor isc. It is not the first time that imaginative litterateurs have helped along the cause of science. An experienced husband in La fayette sent two switches home to his wife, from which she was to make a selection, but before doing it he changed the tags, putting the $2o one on the $10 switch, and vice versa. After a critical examination by herself and lady friends, the choice fell upon that labeled $2o; and she decided to keep it, notwith standing her husband's plaintive protest that he could not afford to pay out more than $10 for such an article. When the train draws up at Stam- j j ford, five minutes for refreshments, ; j it is easy to distinguish the experi- j i enced traveller from the rest. He ! I has already got out on the platform, j and is either on the close enough to it. i the speed of the train becomes less than he can make, he springs off and dahes madly for the saloon door, through it and up to the coun ter, giving his order for coffee while moving, and snatching up the risrht article the first time. He -knows iust how much time is re- , quired to make five minutes, and j when it is expired he is out on the ! i platform picking his teeth and talk- j , ing about real estate. Alas, for the j inexperienced traveller, such is not ; his record. He is inside the car i : when it stops, with twenty persons , ahead of him. He jumps down on " ! the platform in time toseethe mass ; 'surging in the door, and then it suddenly strikes him that he may I be too late, and under this inspira ! tion he throws himself into the struggling gang. He doesn't reach the table. He and the other inex- ; perienced travellers form the out- j j side line, and shout their orders j through the openings, and receive i ! what is handed them with thank- i fulness and what dexterity they can muster. Such a man will perspire, I and choke, and paw, and jaw du-; I ring the entire live minutes, and in ! that time may get down two-thirds ! of a sandwich, one-third of a piece 'of custard pie, and more or less of j the coffee, and then get out of the ! door just in time to catch hold of the car rail, and be pulled on by the brakesman. And when he has reached his seat and is scraping the rest of that pie from his boot, and drawing cold air into his throat to allay the pain of the scald, he will think up things about the keep er of that restaurant that would make the hair of a saw-horse stand Shielded and sheltered therein, ad versity will have lost its sting. She may suffer, but sympathy will dull the edge of sorrow. A house with love in it; and by love I mean love expressed by words and deeds, for I have not one spark of faith in love that never crops out ; it is to a house as a person is to a machine one is life, the other is mechanism ; bottom tpr or the unioveu woman may nave Dreaa Just as soon as just as light, a house just as tidy as the other, but tne latter has a spring of beauty about her, a joyousness, a penetrating and pervading bright ness to which the former is an entire stranger. The deep happiness of her heart shines out in her face. She gleams over. It is airy, grace ful and warm, welcoming with her presence she is full of devices and plots and sweet surprises for hus band and family. She has never done with the romance and poetry of life. She herself is a lyric poem setting herself to all pure and gra cious melodies. Humble household ways and duties have for her a gol den significance. The prize makes her calling high, and the end sanc tifies the means. "Loe i- heaven, and heaven is love." closelj' bending horison. The great sun "comes, goes in the heavens, yet, breathes no secret of the ethenal wilderness. The crescent moon cleaves her nightly passage across the upperdeep, but tosses overboard no signals. The sentinel stars chal lenge each other as they walk their nightly round, but we catch no countersign which gives passage to the heavenly music. Between this and the other life there is a great gulf fixed across which neither foot nor eye can travel. The gentle friend whose eyes were closed in their last, long sleep, long years ago, died with rapture in her wonder stricken eyes, a smile of ineffable joy upon her lips, and hands folded over a triumphant heart ; but her lips were speechles-;, and intimated nothing of the vision that enthralled her. What a Fool a Hen Is. Trite Heroism. The man who walks the streets with unrufHed brow mid peaceful heart, though his business is ruin ed, his prospects beclouded, and his family reduced to want, who main tains his integrity amid the peril ous, temptations of the hour, and bravely, hopefully struggling against these stern adversities, born by an unyielding providence, is a hero. And in yonder room, where that pale-faced girl, through long weary days and dreary nights.with aching eyes and wasting frame, bravely battles off eaunt starvation. or flouting infamy, with no other weapon than a trusting: heart and little needle there is one of God's great heroines. The story copied below, from the St. Albans Messenger, comes from North Hero, Vt.: " A hen belonging to Mrs. Mayo, of this plaee, hatched a brood of chickens. They took the chickens away, but the hen persisted in re turning to her nest. Below the nest, in a grain house, a cat produced a litter of kittens. The cat leaving her charge a few minutes, biddy sets herself very composedly upon the kittens. Puss returning, a fight ensued, in which puss was victori ous. Afraid of what might happen, puss remained in charge until com pelled by hunger to go after food, whereupon biddy resumed the care of the kittens. Puss returning, and having a vivid remembrance of what she suffered at the first en counter, concluded to allow biddy to remain. This she did until it was discovered that she had smoth ered some of the kittens, when the latter were removed, and given over to their rightful guardian." Probably many of our young folks, when reading their Bibles, notice that nearly all the Scripture names have a meaning.. Thus, Aaron means " a teacher ; ". Abi gail "her father's joy;" Japhet "the persuader" or "orator;" David the " well-beloved ; " Icha bod, (born at a time when Israel had just suffered severe defeat) "the glory is departed ; " and so on, the parents giving each child its name in token of some particular feeling, or of some occurence that had taken place at or near the time of the child's birth. It is the same with the American Indians and other uncivilized poe pie of the present day, as may be seen by reading any newspaper statements in regard to our West ern Indians, where we see mention of such names as Sear-face, Mud-in-the-eye, Little-Bear, Ited-fox-tail, etc,; etc. But, perhaps, it has never occur ed to some of you that the English, and other now polished nations, were once uncivilized, and choose names in similar ways. Thus many of our common surnames were de rived from tho occupation pursued by membero of the family years ago ; as Woodward and Forester, each meaning " a man who con trols and takes care of woods and forests," and Smith meaning at first only " an armorer, " but after wards any worker in metal. " Other names are derived from tha places which had long formed the home of certain families, as the names of Kamsey, Lindsey, and Whittlesea (or Whittlesey,) the termination ea and tv being the Effect of Tobacco. The use of tobacco has so much extended itself in the present gen eration 1 bat wo re nil obliged fu make ad.,vii .i i'.roins-l w. o;i the ancient controversy between its friends and enemies. We cannot form a reasonable opinion of tobae co without bearing in mind that it produces, according to circumstan ces, one of two entirely distinct and even opposite classes of effects. In certain states of the body it acts as a stimulant, in other states as a narcotic. People who have a dis like for smokinsr affirm that It stu. pines ; but this assertion, at least so far as the temporary consequences are concerned, is not supported by experience. Most of the really brilliant conversations that I have listened so have been accompanied by tobacco smoke : and a irreat aeai ot the best literary composi tion that is produced by contempo rary authors is wrought by men who are actually , smokimr while they work. My own experienceis, that fry-rTm)deratfc smoking' acter as-a ?iiieasant .stunulus udod the, brain, while it produces a tempora ry lassitude ofthe muscular system, not perceptible in times of rest, but an appreciable hindrance in times of muscular exertion. It is better, theretore, for men who feel these effects from tobacco to avoid . it when they are in exercise, and to use it only when the body rests and the mind labors. Pray remember however, that this is the experi ence of an exceedingly moderate smoker, who has not yet got him self into the general condition of body which is brought on by a lar ger indulgence in tobacco. Onto other hand, it is evident that men engaged in physical labor find "a muscular stimulus in occasional smoking, and not a temporary las situde.. It is probable that the ef fect varies with individual cases, and is never precisely what our own experience would lead us to imagine. For excessive smokers, it appears to be little more than the tranquilizing of a sort of uneasiness, the continual satisfaction' of a con tinual craving. I have never been able to ascertain that moderate smo king diminishes intellectual force ; but I have observed in excessive smokers a decided weakening of the will, and a . preference for talk ing Rbout work to the effort of ac tual labor. The opinions of medical men on this subject are so much at variance that their science only adds to our uncertainty. One doctor tells me that the most moderate smo king is unquestionably injurious, while others affirm that it is inno cent. Speaking simply from self observation, I find, that in my own case tea and coffee are more perilous than tobaccOr Uses of IJisulphide of Carbon. Until the year 13-jO, the only in dustrial application' of bisulphide of carbon was the "dissolution and vulcanization of India rubber. Since that time it has been applied to the following uses : 1. The com plete extraction of the fatty matter from bones used in fabrication of bone black. 2. The extraction of oil from gruin ami tlivv. 3. Thfc removal of sulphur from earth in which it is contained, and also bitu men from bituminous rocks. 4. The scouring and elimination of greasy substance from wool by the Seyferth and similar processes. 5. The extraction of the soluble prin ciple of spices. G. The fabrication of yellow prussiate of potash, and of sulphocyanide of ammonium, for making Pharaoh's serpents. 7. The preparation of Greek fire ; a solu tion of phosphorous in bisulphide is used for filling inflammatory rockets or shells. 8. For silver pla ting; a small quantity placed in the bath increases the brilliancy of the deposit. 9. For the destruction of. vermin. 10. For filling glass prisms, on account of the brilliancy of the colors of its spectrum. 11. For driving by its vapor all classes of engines with of without expansion. The Age of the Earth. Th new method "o(JoMf ctaing the age ofthe earth, whichlsa'nrps- ent topic in German scientific cir cles, attempts to determine approx imately the time at which the fiery liquid earthball for tho first time covererd itself with n sol it I crust. This is done by -, www, f-the difference-, of the hmgwtand the shortest dlainvter or the 'earth: Ac cording to the calculations or New ton and Huygen this would !o 1-578, if the rotation ofthe earth had always been completed iu twen-ty-fourwhile, n faf t, iJaJfiQiint to 1-298, whicliis equivalent to a rota tion time of seventeen hours and sixteen minutes, which must once have been the earth's time of rota tion. It Ls,, however, probable, for reasons which heed not beJ gohtMn to here, that' at the time Ihe'i'arth tras covering itself with a firm crust the time of rotation was al ready mean between tho original and the present time. That a re tardation , ofthe. rotation tl!M has taken and isteTill taklwg pTrtowisnau as good as proved, ulthough.for merty-tt was strongly lubted. f)t all heavenly bodies, it is the moon whom, astronomers know best, and have most exactly calculated from her movements. Now. the eo-elli- cients of tin' macular acceleration of the moon's course, as found om-Uio one hand from the oldest observa tions of eclipses, on the other from theory, are at variance, and there are differences which ought not to exist in the calculations of so well observed a body. Agreement can only be obtained when it is sup posed that during the two thousand years which have passed since the Greeks first calculated the eclipses, the rotation 'of the earth has beep retarded 0.01197 seconds. There ,exists no difficulty about the causps of this retardation, which is, perfect ly well explained by the tide. From the cypher thus found, it is easily calculated how much time will be required to cause a retarda tion of nearly four hours, and the result is that since the firm crut of earth formed itself, wore than two thousand millions of years have elapsed ! Iesi ruble Qualities in a lig. Of all the desirable qualities iu a pig, a vigorous appetite is of the first imHrtance. A hog that will not eat U of no more use than a mill thatt&'ill not grind. And it is undoubtedly true that the more a pig will eat in proportion to his size, provided he can-digest and as similate it, the more profitable he will prove. The next desirable quality-is, perhaps, quietness of disposition. The blood is derived from the food, and flesh is derived from the blood. Animal force is derived from the transformation of flesh. The mote of this is , used in unnecessary mo tions, the greater the demand on the , stomach, and the more fopd will there 'be required merely to sustain the vital' functions; and the more frequently flesh is transformed and formed again, tougher and less palatable it becomes This quality, quietness of dispo sition, - combined Vwith a sinull amount of useless parts, or offal, has been the aim of all -modern breeders. Its importance will! read ily be perceived if we ussumo that seventy-five per cent, of the food Is ordinarily consumed to support the vital functions, and that the slight . additional demand of only one-sixth more food is required for the extra oflal parts and unnecessary acticlty. Such a coarse, restless animal would gain in flesh and fat, in proportion to to the food consumed,, only half as fast as the quiet, refined animal. To assu mo t hat a rough , coarse, sav age, ill-bred mongrel hog will re quire one-sixth more food than a quiet, refined, well-bred Berkshire, Essex, or Suffolk, Is not cxtrnVa- gant. Harris. Saxon for Island ; and the names of Walton and Walpole, which were taken from the fact that, in early days, those families lived near the great wall which the Romans built in Britain a great many long years "go Some very old names are sup posed to be derived from the names of the various heathen divinities, as Thorburn, which means the "burn" or brook of Thor, one of the gods of the ancient Danes and Norwe gians. Probably all English might be traced back to similar sources. Would it not be well for our boys and girls, who are study ing English history to pay particu lar attention to all the odd names they meet, and see if they can find out or guess at the origin ?IJx. Curious Antipathies. The Lutherans are proud of their straight on end. Snobs. SION H. KOGEKS, Attorney at Law, K A LEI U II. J. ravetteville Street, iro aquares Soutk of Yarborough House, I'rv-tiee In the Federal 'onrts. half and State 49 3m. On dit that certain New York compositors are by no means sorry that George Macdonald.the Scottish poet and novelist, has returned to his native heath. No living writer of any eminence so alters, cuts up, interlines, deletes, and generally slashes and transfigures his proofs. The worst of it is that each correc tion is for the better, which leaves less room for grumbling. A clergyman in Davenport, Iowa, exchanged pulpits with a pastor in another city a few Sundays ago, and meeting at the railroad crossing they had a brief chat together. They carried satchels just alike, and when the car-bellrang each caught up one and started for the train, to find, on reaching their destinations, that they had exchanged satchels and sermons. Surgical Examination. At an examination of the College of Surgeons a candidate was asked by Abernethy, "What would you do if a man were blown up with powder?" "Wait until he came down," he coolly replied. "True," replied Abernethy. "And suppose I should kick you for such an im- fertinent reply, what muscles should put in motion?" "The flexors and extensors of my arm, for I should knock you down immedi ately." The candidate received his diploma. The word does not exist in France, because they have not the thing, The snob is the child of aristocrat!- cal societies; perched on the step of the long ladder, he respects the man on the round above him, and despises the man on the step below, without inquiring what they are worth, solely on account of their position; in his innermost heart he finds it natural to kiss the boots of the first, and to kick the second. -Taine's English Literature. The convent of San Domencho in Puebla, Mexico, which for two hundred years was the seat ofthe inquisition, has been converted into a Protestant church. A new "Nonconformist" church is being built in London. It will accommodate 2,500 people, and cost r275,ofA. Foley Hall, who wrote the words and music of "Ever of Thee," had been wealthy and enjoyed a good social position, it is said, became dissipated, was jilted, wrote the above named song, and received 20,000 for it ; afterward committed forgery, and was arrested and con fined in Newcastle Prison, where he died of a broken heart before his trial came on. A Brooklyn man took his boy up ! stairs to whip him, as demanded by his step-mother, but his tender feelings prevailed, and he told the urchin to take his coat off, hang it up, and yell lustily as if he were being whipped. The boy obeyed orders, but spoiled his chances for similar clemency in future by tell- j ing his experience to the whole ! neighborhood. The pardon bv the Presdent of Itev. John S. Ezell, a ku klux prisoner, from the Albany Peniten tiary, is highly satisfactory to the Southern Baptists, and is one of the little amenities that will help to bridge the "chasm." At the recent Literary Fund din ner in London, Mr. Tom Taylor, the dramatist, said that during his twenty-two years of official life, his literary work was chiefly done in "the invaluable three hours before breakfast." The Episcopal Bishop ot Alabama has succeeded in all but two cases in bringing up the minimum salary of every married clergyman in the diocese to $1,000 a year. " Gracious marsy me!" exclaimed an old lady in a witness-box, " how should I know anything about any thing I don't know anything about?" Over 1.300 personsin Geneva have. joined the Liberal Catholic order under the lead of Pere Hyacinthe. There are two hundred thousand African Methodists in the United States. In love, the deceit generally out strips the distrust. Rochefoucauld. Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. Bulwer Lytton. Love at two-and-twenty is a ter ribly intoxicating draught Ijuffini. I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more. Lovelace. Love, one time, layeth burdens ; another time giveth wings. Sir JP. Sidney. Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. Balzac. Gold does not satisfy love ; it must be paid in its own coin. Madame Delaly. How shall I do to love ? Believe. How shall I do to believe ? Love. Leighton. Love as if you should hereafter hate, and hate as if you should hereafter love. Chuo. large numbers, and justly, so, if the statement is accurate that nearly one-half of the Protestant world has adopted their form of faith. In this country, they rank third or fourth in the order of denomina tional Strength. We Can Under stand, therefore, why a prominent Lutheran should manifest the en thusiasm he does when he writes of his church that she is the oldest of Protestant churches, and, in a cer tain sense, the mother of them all, "Embracing the north of Europe, ithe Scandinavian Kingdoms, the German States, with millions of her children in Russia, Hungary, Po land, France, Holland, and in al most every part of the globe where Protestantism is tolerated, she speak es in more tongues, and min isters in more nationalities than all ; the others put together." it seems certain that in some cases the dislike to particular ob jects, and even sounds, which we are wont to ascribe to affectation, is very genuine and deep-seated. Acer tain clergyman, we are soberly in formed, always fainted when he heard a certain verse in Jeremiah read ; and another case was even still more unfortunate, being that of an officer who could not stand the beating of a drum, and eventually died of it. One man who- would fall down at the smell Of mutton, j as though deprived of life ; aiiother surnames ri,iH nnt.Mt, a single strawberry: and another's head became fright fully swollen if he touched the smallest particle i of hare. Orfila speaks of a painter named Vincent, who was seized with vertigo when ever there were roses in the room. Boyne himself, in spite of his phil osophy, fell into a syncope when ever he heard thesplashingof water. The Duke d'Epernay swooned at seeing a leveret, though a hare took no effect upon him which is as much to say that he was frightened at a pony, but not a horse. Perpetual Paste. The Journal of Applied Cfiemislry says : Dissolve a teaspoonful of nlum in a quart of warm water. When cold stir in as much flour as will give it the consistency of tjiick cream, be ing particular to beat up all the lumps ; stir in as much powdered rosin as will lie on a dime, and throw iu a half dozen cloves to give a pleasant odor. Have on the fire a teacup of boiling water, pour the flour mixture into it, stirring well all the time. In a very few minutes it will be of the consistency of mush. Pour it into an earthen or china vessel ; let it cool lay a cover on ; and put it in a cool place. When needed for use, take out a portion and soften it with warm water. Paste thus made will last twelve months; Rev. John Lythe, an Episcopal minister, preached the first sermon ever delivered in the State of Ken tucky. This was in May, 1775, un der the shade of an old elm on the Kentucky River, near the boiling springs. His congregation was com posed of seventeen hunters and ad venturers. The first Episcopal parish was organized at Lexington in 1796. The editor of the Starks Herald is in a bad fix. In view of the new postal law he revised his mailing list and cut off all the exchanges he didn't want. The next week, the other papers having cut off all the exchanges they didn't want, he was surprised to find his postoffice box empty! Kennebec Journal. ' Leigh Hunt concludes an essay as follows : There is no one thing more lovely in this life, more full ofthe divine courage, than when a young maiden, from her happy childhood, when she rambled over home when a mother anticipated her wants and soothed her little cares ; when her brothers and sisters grew from merry playmates to lov ing, trustful friends; from Christ mas gatherings and romps; the summer festival in bower of garden, from rooms sanctified by the death of relatives; from the secure back grounds of her childhood, looks out into the dark unilluminated future away from all that; and yet unter rified, undaunted, leans her fair cheek upon her lover's breast, and whispers : " Dear heart ! I cannot see, but I believe. 'iiie beautiful, but the future I with thee!" past was can trust Nature won't be robbed ! How many limes have you heard the old saving? Experienced fathers and mothers urge upon youthful sons and daughters that they snouid have a regular hour for going to rest at night, and that hour be an early one. so that b.v an abundance of sweet sleep they may not fail of the best measures of physical and men tal growth. Hours of sleep, not the sleep of exhaustion, are the hours of accumulation. Some one asserts that the greatest- preachers have invariably been great sleepers. Does the fact that the pastor some times finds himself compelled to write late into Saturday night to finish his sermon, explain the lack of force in his pulpit efforts on the Sabbath? One of a minister's first duties is to himself, by rest, and in all ways to keep himself in as whole some and perfect a frame of body, and hence of spirit, as it is possible for him to acquire. Time is in God's hand, and He stretches it out wide, and we think that we are lorgottenand that He has forgotten to be gracious. Wait upon the Lord. Trust Him. Do good. And be not discouraged. Is your child vagrant? Pray for him; work for him ; and then wait. Afar off may be the turning, and yet it may be there. Ere long you shall see it though your eyes do not be hold it now. Do not give up your hope. Wait patiently for your child that is possessed of a devil. President Tuttle, after careful in vestigation reports that in the case of 2,442 pastors of all denominations, wno died between A. u. Io7o and 1850, the average age was over sixty- one years. "The Acts of the Apostles" are supposed to have been written by St. Luke, though we believe there is nothing definitely known about it. A mendicant in New Orleans poked out the eye of a lady who refused to give him alms; and the justice before whom he was taken wanted to know: if his counsel moved for a new trial. The word Kentucky is of Indian derivation, and its sig : itlon is, " at the head of the ri . . i ." ' The first grass widow was Mrs. Nebuchadnezzar, an ancient Queen of Babylon. ' A clergyman was recently an noyed by people talking and gig gling, lie paused, looked at the disturbers, and said: "I am al ways afraid to reprove those who misbehave, for this reason: Home years since, as I was preaching, a young man who sat before me was constantly laughing, talking and making uneouth grimaces. I paused and admin istered a severe rebuke. After the closed of the service a gen tleman said to me: 'Sir, you .have made a great mistake. That young man was an idiot.' Since that! have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave tliAnselvcs in chapel lest I should repeat that mistake and reprove another idiot." During the rest of the service there was good order. An Emperor of Germany coming by chance, on a Sunday, into a church, found there a most mis shapen priest "pene jmltentum 7ia turo?," insomuch that the Emperor scorned atid contemned. But when he heard him read those words in the service, "For it is He that made us, and not we ourselves," tho Em peror ' checked his own proud thoughts, and made inquiry into the condition and duality ofthe man: and finding him, on examin ation, most icarnea ana aevout, ne made him Archbishop of Colon, which place he did excellently dis charge. Fuller's Holy Stale., 1 There may be sensibility without much taste, but hardly much taste without sensibility. Taste is, in a great measure, acquired, cultivated, an art; sensibility a native endow ment. It may .be developed, strengthened, educated, but not ac quired. Genius produces, sensibili ty admires, taste judges or decides. In a recent sermon on the words "These are they who separate them selves," Mr. Spurgeon uttered his views on the question .of commun ion in tho following hearty fashion: At the Lord's table I always invite all Christians to cdme and sit down and commune with us.'.' . v. . A limn that ilnn't know onny thing will tell It the first time ho gets a chance. Billings. t , A-
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