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; Job PiuTjWo:Wobi Woiic'l neaijy
nd promptly zecatt, of every styli i
nu a io . most reasonable terras.
Orders solicited from all parts of.lh
.State. . , -.-:.'
Court Blanks a tpecialty. . .
EDUCATIONAL.
V The Old Canoe. n" ,
t .... . v
Vhere tlie rocks are gray and the-tohor
is steep," -1 y
And tJie waters below-look dark aad
1 defter -
Where -the 'rnsed-pine, in its lonely
" " pride, . .... ... -
Leans gloomily over the murky tide s
Where the reeds and rashes are long
; - and rank.
And the weeds grow thick on the wind--
ing bank ;
Where Hie shadow is heavy the -whole
day through.
There lies at its moorings the old canoe.
The useless paddles are idly dropped.
Like a sea-bird's wings that the storm
has lopped.
And crossed on the railing, one o'er one.
Like the folded bands when the work is
done ;
While busily back and forth between
The spider stretches his silvery screen,
And the solemn owl, with his d all
. I " too-boo."
Settles down on the side of the old canoe.
xne BieraUMirsunK 4a its mimy ware,
BoU slowlr awav in Its lirlnir crave.
-And the green mow creeps o'er Its dutt
decay, -tHi-ing
its moLlerine dust away.
Like the hand that plants o'er the tomb
a uower,
Or the ivy that, mantle the falling
tower ;
While many
IIox GiEixjy-WrcLs, -Secretary
of the Navy. i . i , ,-, i ' .
rement t from - the
Winslow has been in
Jived almost in
home" in the High
iS. brave and patriotic
away, , Honor edin
trymen. his memory
win ever dt. t veretl by the Ameri
can people ; . :u though ' 1 ' -
-ine hr
i.avyAd
ill healf
seclasioi
lands, vw4. ,
spirit pas?
life by hisco;
lie de fyrhted in the blare
l!iis
Of arms, and
bore
Uimself, ft 'hia most' tender years,
like one . " ' '
Conscious tl ? 'nobleneJs', ' -'i "
- Vl'MwhiHffto.'iCfiroijicle.
r. ; j.H; 7k the- reprepreseptHtiyes , of '
v-rious iToiesiant enurcnes
i iv
- -w , .. I ' ' aaaw- - mjwouvii IVS CllOOb UUrj
i iuLWLumiA. t.M veksui, I Springs up o'er the stern of the old
- - iiAoiuuiu, u. I cane
The Preparatory Department opens
oememier ju.
The Columbian College opens Sep
tember 17.
1 be MedU-al College ojHns October 6.
The Law School opens October 8.
For catalogues, containing full-particulars
in rvgard tt terms and courses
of instruction, address
JAUK3 C. WELLING, LL. D.,
aug S. 8 toctS. President, Ac.
lI2ACi: INSTITUTE,
' avlele:b, !V. C,
IUv. Ii. nUJlVELLt Principal.
John B. Rurwel), A. M., Asociate
8. J. Steveim, A. M., ) Principals.
Prof. A. Bauinann, Instructor in Vocal
and Instrumental Music.
Xlie Fall Term Cotumencea Sept.
lfct, 1S73.
lor circular containing full particu
lars as to terms, course or study, ttc,
addresa
Kkv. It. BUR WELL A SOX,
July 2. 32ni Raleigh, N. C.
Raleigh Female Seminary,
It-rVLliIIGUI, rv.
IF. P. IIOIKibOD, A. M.t l, . ,
'A. F. UK I D, A. M., I Principals.
Db. L. VON MEYERIIOFF, of Vien
na, Musical Department.
The imposing new building with its
Improved School apparatus and recent
ly purchased musical outtit will open on
1st of September, 1S73.
The Faculty has Ieeii largely in
creased. The'Music Iepartnient is in
charge of Professor Von MeyerholF, a
pupil of Rubenstein. The Professor is a
brilliant icrformer, has succeeded well
as teacher of Vocal and Instrumenal
Muic in this State.
Apply for catalogue. 4 2m
canoe.
The currentless waters are dead and still.
But the light wind plays with the boat
at will, .
And lazily in and out again
It floats the length of the rusty chain.
Like the weary march of the bauds of
lime,
That meet and part at the noontide
chime;
And the shore is kissed at each turning
anew
By the dripping bow of the old canoe.
O, many a time, with a careless hand.
I have pushed it away from the pebbly
strand.
And paddled it down where the stream
runs quick.
Where the whirls are wild and the ed
dies are thick.
And lauehed ns I leaned o'er the rock
ing side.
And looked below in the broken tide
To see that the fac- and boats were two
That wsre mirrored baei from the old
canoe.
But now, as I lean o'er the crumbling
side,
And look below in the sluggish tide.
The face that I see there is graver grown,
And tho laugii that I hear has a soberer
tone.
And the hands that lent to the light skiff
wings
Have grown familiar with sterner
things.
But I love to think of the hours that
sped
As I rocked where the whirls their white
spray shed,
Ere the blossom waved or the irreen
grass grew
O'er the moldering stern of the old
canoe.
LAW SCHOOL OF THE COLUM
BIAN UNIVERSITY,
The exercises of thta school will be
resumed on the Vth of October next.
Professors TYLKliaml Kexnkdy will
continue reiectively to direct thestud-
les ol the Senior and Junior Hashes.
A special course of le ctures on the
DilUculties Encountered by Youug
Practitioners in Legal Professions, and
tbe Beat Means of Surmounting Them,
will be delivered by Ukorob F. Apple-
- . a.
BY, 1J., oi me v a.Huuigiou oar.
A lt-Oraduate course of one year's
Instruction in Legal l'ractice baa been
established in connection with tbe
school, open to tbe attendance of all who,
havinz attained to a theoretical Jtnowi
edge of the law, may wish to perfect
themselves in the details or its practice,
including ofhee work and methods of
Judicial procedure in all kinds of courts.
The exercises of this department will
be conducted by the Hojf. Charles C.
Nott, Associate Judge of the United
States Cou rt of Claims. Price of tickets,
for the whole course, $25. 8 toe tit.
HOTELS.
FRENCH'S NEW HOTEL,
cat. niTUMST a kw chbicn sts.,
NEW
YOllK,
0N THE EUROPEAN TLAX.
lit
C1IAIKD P. I'llENCII,
Son of the late Col. Richard French,
of French's Hotel, has taken this Hotel,
newly fitted up and entirely renovated
the same. Centrally located in the
US IS ESS PART of the City.
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Dining
Rooms attached. 2 3m
THE OCEAN HOUSE,
SA3I. IL STREET, Proprietor.
THIS HOUSE is never closed and
has the advantage of being always
ready for the reception of guests.
Passengers land at the Hotel Wharf,
within a lew feet of the House.
The Table is supplied with all the
dellcactaa of land and
Thr Servants are well trained, polite
and attentive.
Amusements. A Band of Music for
daily evening Hops ; a Billiard Saloon ;
Pleasure Boats for sailing, visiting the
surf-bathing grounds ana for Ushingj;
and a Bathing-House within a few feet
of the House,
Promenades may be taken along the
wide verandahs, or on the Promenade
Roof of the House.
The Proprietor spares neither atten
tion nor expense to make the stay of
bis guests happy and full o( pleasure ;
and no charge is made for Ice-water
seut to rooms, or for any trifling extra
attention.
To Invalids he offers the very panacea
of heakh.
Terms moderate, Special arrange
ments made with families.
Refers to all who have ever been guests
at the Ocean House.
Tub Name. Do not confound the
" Ocean " with the " Atlantic " House,
Railroad Fare.
The following Rates for Return Tick
ets (good for the season) are made on the
North Carolina Railroad:
Raleigh to Morebead City and re
turn, " $ 8 C5
Uillsboro to Morehead City and
return, 11 10
Greensboro to Morehead City and
return, 13 50
High Point to Morehead City and
return, 14 40
Lexington to Morehead City and
return, " 15 45
Salisbury to Morehead City aud
. return, 16 50
Charlotte to Morehead City and
return, 19 00
Return Tickets on the Atlantic and
North Carolina Railroad (good for the
season) areee Dollars from Goldsboro
to Morehead City, (Beaufort Harbor.)
Trains leave fioldsboro dallr at 1:30.
p. m
-3m
Admiral John A. "Winslow.
In another column will be found
a telegram announcing the death of
Hear Admiral John A. Winslow.
This brave officer was born at Wil
mington, N. C, in 1811, and was
conHequently sixty-two year old at
tho time of tils death. feince child
hood ho has been a resident of Rox
bury, now known as Boston High
lands, Mass., of which State his
father was a native, being of the old
Puritan stock of WinsTows. He
entered the navy in 1827, being in
debted to Daniel Webster for his
original appointment as midship
man. The expiration of his last
cruise was in May, 1867, he having
therefore passed over forty years in
the service of his country. He was
in active service on the sea about
nineteen years, having cruised on
the coast of Africa, the Pacific, the
coast of Brazil, and the Last Indies,
besides having commanded navy
yards on two occasions. During the
war he was frequently heard of in
connection with important expedi
tions, and won high praise from his
superiors for gallantry. He was
with General Grant in the Vicks
burg campaign, and was seriously
wounded before the capture of that
place. Upon recovering from his
wounds he took command of the
Kearsarge. The noble fight which
resulted in the destruction of the
celebrated rebel privateer Alabama
is a matter of history, and covered
the winner of the brilliant victory,
then Captain John A. Winslow,
with laurels, and secured his early
promotion. The quiet determina
tion of the man is iuny snown in
his reply to Captain Semmes' letter
when blockading, the Alabama off
Cherbourg. Semmes wrote a letter
to the Maritime Prefect, requesting
him to inform Captain Winslow
that he considered the latter's con
duct in pretending to lie off and
blockade him in a neutral port as
an insult, (!) and that he intended
to come out and drive him off.
Captain Winslow replied, "Let,
him come out and try it." J
The modesty and worth of Cap
tain Winslow is well illustrated in
his report of the engagement made
to the Secretary of tho Navy:
U. S. Steamer KearsageJune 19.
Hir: I have the honor to inform
the Department that the day subse
quent to the arrival of the Kear
sarge off this port on the 14th in
stant I received a note from Captain
Semmes begging that the Kearsarge
would not depart, as he intended to
fight her, and would not delay her
but a day or two.
According to this notice the Ala
bama left the port of Cherbourg this
morning at about half-past nine
o'clock.
At tweniy minutes past ten A. M.
we discovered her steering toward
us. Fearing the question of juris
diction might arise, we steamed to
sea, until a distance of six or seven
miles was obtained from Cherbourg
breakwater, when we rounded to
and commenced steering for the
Alabama.
As we approached her within
about twelve hundred yards she
opened Are, we receiving two or
three broadsides before a shot was
returned.
The action continued, the respec
tive steamers making a circle round
and round, at a distance of about
nine hundred yards from each other.
At the expiration of an hour the
Alabama struck, going down in
about twenty minutes afterward,
and carrying many persons with
her.
It affords me great gratification
to announce to the Department that
every officer and man did his duty,
exhibiting a degree of coolness and
fortitude which gave promise at the
outset of certain victory.
I have the honor to be, most re
spectfully, your obedient servant,
John A. Winslow, Capt.
frum-Uthe countries in the world
em traced in what is called the
Evangelical . AHia-cp- -xrVl
t-ly l. the building of f'c.Tuunj;
Men'a Christian Absociatlon, Jn
New -York city;., All: Churches are
admitted to representation ; who
hold to the following thological
dogmas :
1. Divine inspiration, authority,
and sufficiency of the Holy Scrip
tures. 2. Bight .and duty" of private
judgment in their interpretation.
o. aiib unity unit tnuiiy oi tne
Godhead.
4. The utter depravity of human
nature in consequence of the fall.
o. lhe incernatlon of the Son of
God.
6. Justification by faith.
7. The influence of the Holv
Spirit.
8. The immortality of the soul.
9. The reserection of the body.
10. The final judgment.
11. And the divine institution of
the Christian ministry.
This is not intended to be a new
church, but an alliance of all the
churches which hold in common
the foregoing tenets of Christian
faith, with a view to harmonious
and united action for the conversion
of the world.
iVt the present meeting the dele
gates are expected to discuss the
lollowing subjects : Christian union.
Christianity and its antagonisms,
Christian life. Protestantism and
Romanism, Christianity and civil
government, Christian missions,
foreign and domestic; Christianity
and social reform, Papal infalibility,
old Catholicism, Catholicism in
Switzerland since the last council.
Evangelization of Roman Catholics
in France, Protestantism and Ro
manism compared in reference to
modern civilization ; the German
Empire and modern Ultra m on tan-
ism, Roman and Reformed doc
trine of justification, religious lib
erty, Rome's appeal to educated
Pu
Lblie School Question. 4
Sketch of Jay' Cooke. " v
Jay Cooke was born at EortWi
O., August 10, -1821, of a good M
Pilgrim family, his lineal ancestor,
Francis Cooke, having come over
in the Mayflower in 1620, and erect
ed the third house in Plymouth-
He was educated at home W
father, Eleuthoros Cooke, the lead
ing lawyer of Sandusky county ana
first grand master, of. Ohio
Masons. - Poverty assailed the wjn
ily, and at thirteen the boy, jesolv
ed to earn his own living,, soasht
and obtained a-clerkship with a
Mr. Hubbard ,' in. ,8andusky. He
soon attracted the attention of nis
brother-in-law, William G. Moore
head,.who employed him as book
keeper in Philadelphia... He sub
sequently entered the . service of E.
W. Clark fc , Co., or that city, the
largest domestic exchange banWAS
firm ia the country, , He became
a partner t when.. t wen tv-one yenxi
f!d. iind remiripd in ihtJoi olii-i
11V n.i,u wti avoiiifht to Dnng in ii
petency, naving gradually attained fwhether Papal or Pagan, Jewish Or
the leauinar Dosition In it. ' 1 u.i,n)n :,rri,a Ani wnhfonno
wne? nineteen .year or afce policy must; therefore, be to make
From the Independent
The Methodist and The Christian
Adtqcate do not always agree,. but
theyjspoke one voice last week upon
the sfchool question. We have not
read any better writing on this sub
ject for a long time than that which
is contained in their editorials.
They commit these twpr strong
Journals to the position which The
Independent has for; a long time
held that the teaching Of our pub
lic schools most be entirely secular,
and that religious instructions; and
ofteef ranees cannot be enforced in
institutions maintained by theState.
The Advocate says i ' ''-iU '
. If, because 'a majority (whether
of the State or the school .district)
may be Protestant, it is, therefore,
riht for that majority to force their
religion Into the public v schools,
t en, by a change of the thatercter
- the majority, those, pf another,
cCtJ.0r.f4R rwouid have tne same
bring in their - religion
. lint'
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CHEAP JEWELRY.
England Town u that
A 'New
Makes It Watch-chains . by
1 ' tlie Barrel, and Orders Crowd-
Attleboro Letter to the Boston Com
m 1 mercial Bulletin.
Protestant ministers effectually to
meet the intellectual demands of
the age.
Doubtless good will flow from
this convention. The discussion of
these important subjects will elicit
much truth, which will tend to dis
sipate error. It will be seen from
the Achedule .of. subject, thai
sidernble thought will be"glven to
the differences between the dogmas
of the churches embraced in this
alliance and the Roman Catholic
Church. This is probably a sort of
theological necessity, as that church
is not a member of that alliance,
is very powerful . in numbers.
wealth and influence, and denies in
toto, the Divine sanction to any and
all Protestant denominations. As
the ICathoiies that all faith and
doctrine and practice which differs
from them is heresy, and that all
Protestants are heretics, it could
not be reasonably expected tnat a
convocation of Protestant divines
of all sects could, in the discussion
of tho things which they believe in
common, necrlect their united be
lief in the heresy of Roman Catho
licism. This would be too much
forbearance to be hoped for from
even sanctified human nature.
Although the writer of this ar
ticle is not a Roman Catholic, and
has been brought up in the Protes
tant faith, he has always believed
that Christianity as taught by the
former is much better than heathen
ism, and that it would give more
attention to practical piety than to
sectarian controversy. The union
of so many Protestant Churches is
certainly commendable, but if all
Christians could unite it would be
far more glorious. Wash. Chronicle.
wrote me nrsc money article eve
published in a Philadelphia paper,
and was engaged as financial editor
of the Daily Chronicle. In 1861 the
firm of Jay Cooke & Co. vas formed
between himself and JMr. Morehead,
and now commenced his successful
ly patriotic efforts to relieve thk
government, harrassed by the re
bellionofall financial truble. Id
the Spring of 1861 Cooke, without
compensation, procured a large
number of subscribers for the first
government loan. He then Dlaced
a war loan of several millions fori,
the State of Pennsylvania at par.
Mr. Chase, noting his ability, ap
pointed the firm to one of the 400
special ageneis for a loan of thirty
millions. Jay Cooke & Co. return
ed one-third of this. This led Mr.
Chase to select Mr. Cooke as special
agent to place the hve hundred
millions of five-twenty bonds au
thorized by Congress. It was a
monstrous task, entailed an enor
mous outlay, and brought little
profit, though an immense reputa
tion. to the master mind who ngi
neered it. His efforts were always
equal to the vicissitudes of the
war and counteracted the
dreadful depression of the currency.
When Mr. Chase resigned in June,
1864, and gold rose to 185 per cent
premium,, from 83, in fifteen days.
Jay Cook's shoulder was put to the
wheel, and early in 1800 two Hun
dred millions of seven-thirty bonds
were. placed in Europe, and were
subsequently increased to nearly
five hundred millions. The gov
ernment had to spend three mil
lions a day, and with it saved the
Union. s Jay Cooke provided the
monev. His operations since the
war are a part and parcel of the his
tory of the day, tne mcst recent and
the public schools simply institu
tions for promoting secular learn-
in sr. leaving religious' instruction
wnere God has placed it in the
fomily and the Church. ;
The Metiiodist says : ; .
Few Protestant Christians would
wish the religious interests of their
children to be tampered with by
the crude young men and women
who generally teach in these schools,
and who are likely to be unsettled
if not whimsical in their own relig
ious notions. The few hours of daily
instruction in these schools are not
more than sufficient for the barest
elementary teaching of the techni
cal secular knowledge which is in
dispensable to the civil education of
the child. We must reserve the
religious education of our children,
therefore, for our homes, our
churches, and our Sunday-schools,
and wo ought not to be willing to
trust it anywhere else, even if we
could.
That is precisely the truth that
we have often tried to tell. The
policy which these leading Metho
dist "journals unite in advocating
is the only one upon which our
present system of public education
can possibly be maintained.
Royaity" from a New Point
of View. We have never, says a
Western editor, associated much
with royalty, partly because mon
archs of. the present day are not
proper companions' for a virtuous
young man, and partly because
none of them have come to this
countryi animated by a craving
anxiety for our Society. But we
have seen a great deal of kings in
the theatres, and we have never
been more thankful that we are a
republican who can
, "Attleboro jewelry" has become
the accepted name for the cheapest
class of imitation goods, and it is
true that some houses areengaged
in line, in which rings, pins braces
lets and other 'baubles'? are turned
out by the bushel, and sold, by the
gross, at figures which make one
wonder how, calling the material
nothing, enough can.be realized to ;
pay for, the. labor .t necessary. But
for every "house so engaged, AttJe
bora has several devoted to higher
classes of work; and more than one;
.wbignd inoUl olti alo--f
and : it is butHustice 4oJsayt that
Providence, which, by the way.
makes more "Attleboro jewelry
-1
If God is not to be silent to us, no
more must we be dumb. If he
graciously speaks, he as graciously
listens. He is the hearer of prayer
and to him shall all flesh come,
with their confessions, their peti
tions and all the sad details of their
sorrows and their sins. It is ours
O blessed and priceless privilege, to
lay our petitions on the steps of the
throne as well as wait and near the
answer of the king. But even then
it becomes us to demean ourselves
as to tnose wno are coming to a
king. If our petitions may be
large, let our words be few and well
weighed. . Let them not outrun the
sense, outrun and overshoot the
real conviction and inward feeling
of our souls. Here, of all the places
in the world, let us beware of the
words that are mere words mean
ingless, hollow words. Better be
silent altogether than thus to trifle
with the holy majesty of heaven.
To believe in prayer and faith,
and then to ask for money, is more
of a reproach than to believe in
prayer and faith, and yet to expect
a pure atmosphere in our dwellings,
and food to keep our bodies alive.
It is an impracticable religion that
expects prosperity in the churches
to educate ministers and to es
tablish missions, and yet get along
without money ; and men ought to
be ashamed of themselves to expect
results without means. Sow spar
ingly that is good gospel truth. If
we do our work God will do his.
Religion does not consist in wish
ing or hoping, but doing. We have
too many theories, we want more
practice.
If God had not done so much for
us already we might question his
intentions concerning us, but after
the goodness and the mercy he has
manifested, surely he will, go
through with it, and ; perfect the
work which he has begun; He has
spent too much to relinquish jt now.
Spurgeon.
A big nose
nobby.
may be justly called
trirnntn hfinir t.h rnxtici nation of
tho firm in tha ftimniN Rvndlft jtn possibility be placed
nf whiVh nrPYPi Mnn-iii - fc Co.. than when we have
and Morton. Bliss & Co. are the?
other partners, and through whom
the Alabama difficulty has just been
happily terminated, , A man of
1 1 ! 1 llli IU hi illri'o
widest streams, the misfqrtuttf) that
has now, it is to be hoped tempor
arily, befallen him, must be de
plored by thousand of beneficiaries,
and is indeed a matter of national
regret.
Jay Cooke & Co.'s l'lan of Set-
tlement.
The main features of Jay Cooke &
Co.'s plan of settlement, as comple
ted, are as follows:
The members of
the firm surren
der all their partnership and per
sonal DroDertv. Mr. L. A. Rollins.
late United States Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, yill have the
management of the estate, as trus
tee, thus saving costs and expenses.
Dividends will be made whenever
the trustee has cash in hand suffl
cient to be divided, beginning very
soon after the agreement Is appro
ved by the creditors.
The creditors surrender no rights
they now possess, but merely accept
the advantages of the trust created
for their benefit, and the debtors
can gain nothing except the surplus
which they hope to secure by an
economical and judicious winding
up of their estate. Full powers are
given to the trustee, but he is to act
under the control of a committe
representing the creditors, consist
ing of S. M. Felton, late President
of the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore Railroad, William
C. Houston and Dell Noblit, Jr.,
President of the Corn Exchange
Bank of Philadelphia.
Negotiable certificates' of the in
terest of any creditor in thb trust
estate -will be given by the trustee.
After all the debts are paid in full.
the remaining property will be re
assigned. It is understood that the
firm do not propose to call a general
meeting of their creditors, as they
have been doing business in three
different cities, and creditors are so
scattered as to render such a meet
ing Impracticable. ' They have,
howeyer, addressed a letter to each
creditor, so far as known, submlt
tiner their DroDosition. 4 Arrerail-"
or failing to receive such notice, caty
examine the papers at the office Of
the firm, in Philadelphia. New
York, or Washington.
never by any
upon a throne
observed that
every movement of a king is always
heralded by a flourish of trumpets
and roll of drums. This would
conaitute an insuperable objection
w0al be very disagreeable if there
werea'man hired by the govern
ment to execute the chromatic scale
upon a brass norn every time we
went from the bath-room to the
front parlor, or to plunge about
wildly through variations on the
trombone whenever we crossed our
12-8 or took a drink of water. It
would be equally horrible if, when
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we went to tne neaa 01 me stairs 10
call to the hired girl to put break
fast on. an uproarious fiend in the
yard should rattle out the long roll
oa a drum. So, upon the whole, it
perhaps better that things are as
t.eyare.
Not long ago two friends were
sittincr toiretner enaed in letter
writing. One was a young man
from India, the other a female
friend, part of whose family resides
in that far-off land, me iormer was
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writing to nis moiner miiiuia.
his letter was nnisneo nis iriena
offered to inclose it in hers, to save
r.nstacre. This he politely declined,
Having : " If it be sent separately,
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it win reacn ner sooner man ji seni
through a friend, and perhaps it
mflv save her a J;ear." His friend
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TTr lOUCneu Willi 111s leuuw
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vo-ard for his mothers ieeungs,
and felt with him that it was worth
naving the oostaere to save nis
mother a tear.
Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, said:
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" There are moments mat are worm
more than years. We cannot help
it; there is no proportion between
?Dace of time in importance nor in
value. A stray idea unthought of
five minutes may contain the event
of a life. And this all-important
moment, this moment dispropor
tionate to all other moments, who
can tell when it will be upon us?"
We learn that Maj. Bobbins made
alioooins' political speecn ai
irin iirfc. Wa do not believe tne
npnnlfi. at thft nresent period, icei
noli tics 'and if
they do, they are fully competent
to think for themselves. Major
Bobbins is now drawing $20 a day
from thp TT fi. Onvprnraent. which
is paid by the" people,; and can af-
lord to use nis time in speecn mak
ing, provided he can get people to
tcaste their time in hearing his
windy remarks. The people work
for their money : Major Bobbins
g asses ior nis : stales.-American.
' There lived some fifty years or so
ago a set of great table-talkers, wno
were asked to dine because of tneir
livelv conversational nnwprs. NOW,
if this be in any of you, never waste
it' in mere pleasantries, but say
something worth the saying, and
aim at the highest results. Remem
ber Jesus was a mighty table talker,
as the evangelists took care to note.
Spurgeon.- - . . (
The sense and comfort and
strength of that life which Chrntf
gives are received by faith,
these are according as faith is.
faith be weak, so are they. As
grows, so do they.
How dangerous 1 to defer those
momentous reformations which the
conscience is solemnly preaching to
the heart! If they are neglected,
the difficulty and indisposition are
iiicreaseing every month. The
mind ia recediner. degree alter de
gree, from the. warm and hopeful
zone, till at last it will enter the
Arctic circle and become fixed in
relentless and 'eternal ice. John
Fo&ter.i , i-f
A skeptic who was trying to con
fuse a Christian colored man by the
contradictory passages in the Bible,
asingt how it could be that we
were in the Spirit and the spirit in
us, received the reply: "O. dar's
no puzzle 'bout dat. It's like dat
poker ; I puts it in de fire , and it
gets, red-hot now de poker's in de
fire, fire's in de poker.'? A profound
theologian could not have made a
better reply. ' 4 1
"James Jenkins," said a school
master to his pupil, "what is an
average?? t;;
"A thing, sir," answered the
scholar promptly, "that .hens lay
eggs upon." .... . .
,,Why do you say that, you silly
boy ? asked the pedagogue. .u
"Because, sir," said the youth,
"I heard a gentlemen say the other
day as a hen would lay, on an aver
age, a hundred and twenty eggs a
year." ' - " '
Sage; Comment. Som e one tells
a story of a steamboat passenger
watchiner , the revolving light of a
light-house on the coast, an ex
claiming, "Jupiter! the wind blows
that light out as fast as the man can
strike it."
than Attleboro itself, can show no
nicer work, no. more attractive de
signs, no more enterprising business
firms, and no workmen more skiii
ed than this quiet little - New Eng
land town.
- The shops of Attleboro deserve
something more than a passing no
tice. As a rule they are large, light,
airy, and well arranged, and sup
plied with every posible conve
nience for carrying on , the work.
Situated in a village, with no high
buildings in the vicinity, gives them
an amount of light in each story
imoosible to obtain - in a crowded
city, and a cheerful look which
must have a great attraction for the
operatives. And 01 these, too, a
word or two must be said.
The operatives comprise both sex
es, the erentlerin the majority, prob
ablv. although not greatly. Glan
cing through the various factories,
and pausing to speak with one here
and there, the visitor is struck with
their intelligence on many subjects
not connected with their work, and
to notice that in their work, which
is mostly of a light and unlaborious
kind, they seem to take real inter
est and pleasure. Inquiry develop
ed the fact that the women they
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are ail canea "gins- ior snori
make from $ 1.50, to I 2 per day,
with not a few exceptions, where
thev work by the piece, in favor of
figures considerably higher. The
men make from $2.50 .to $3.50, with
the same exceptions in the matter
of piece work, and very notable ex
ceptions in the case of engravers,
who must be very skilled in the
use of tools, and some of whom
make very handsome wages. In
considering these figures, it must be
remembered that the locality is a
New England village, where living
is comparatively cheap, any where
are lacking those one thousand and
one opportunities and temptations
to spend money which the city of
fers. Oa $1.50 or $2 per day .the At
tleboro girl can not only live well
and dress neatly, having the com
forts of a good home, but lay up
sotn&t in into the barga. rWlU
her sister in the city, recieving the
same or more pay even, barely lives
along from week to week in a boarding-house
which has not the least
symptom of being homelike, works
in close, crowded and uncomforta
ble quarters, and finds it difficult to
lay up anything against a rainy day.
Compared with the working-women
of the great cities, the girls whose
nimble fingers fashion the jewelry
of Providence and Attleboro are
much to be envied, and it is to be
hoped that they realize their advan
tages. 1
"Attlboro jewelry," we mean the
cheap article technically so called,
sells to an extent and to an amount
in value which is astonishing. Pass
ing through one of the shops with
the proprietor, and noticing a man
at worrk upon a lot of silver rings,
we expressed our surprise, not
knowing that any demand existed
for such goods.
f "Any demand," he answered,
with a smile at our ignorance.
"Any demand ! Of course there is.
That is part, of an orde for two hun
dred gross that I received from one
firm in the West a few days since."
Think of it. Two hundred gross
of silver rings. Think of the twenty-nine
thousand fingers that they
are to adorn ! And yet this was on
ly one order, and didn't seem to
strike the manufacturer as being
anything unusual or out of due
course.
Then there was the article of
brass chains, coated with a film of
gold so thin that the oder of the
Upon this material, which looks aa
wen as the best gold and wnicn,
owing to its superior ductility,
works much ' better, an immense
amount ; of taste, - Ingenuity and
labor is expended; both in the gen
eral designs and in the decoration,
and while some of the styles are a
trifle "loud" and startling to suit
tastes so inclined, many are as re
fined and artistic as anything that
one Would see in. our fashionable
jewelry establishments, Where high
rents plate glass, and "style" gen
erally, bring the prices of goods up
to a figure all out of proportion to
their real value. .
. -A favorite class of work just now
is that in which the backs are made
of gold. The front, say of a pin or
ear-ring, is struck- up 4tf a die in
the usual : way, f from stock plate
whose surface is 18 carat gold.' ; Up
on the back of this a 'thin 'plate of
1 carat gold is -soldered, and thus
1 an edge . upon -i which - the . baser
meuidotfs uoi aear at .all- Js50
cured. J .When : nicely 'finished, as
mucn 01 mis wore is, oniy ran ex
pert can tell it from pure gold, and
then hot by any appearance ' of any
cheaper materials, but by the fact
that the superior ductility of the
stock enables the manufacturer to
work it by methods which would
be impossible in gold.t
Heat '-of the Moou.
.tit.
A Jiew Uniform for the United
States Army A Larjro Force
of Operatives at Work.
A Philadelphia paper says the
clothing depot of the Frankfort
arsenal is now engaged in making
a new uniform for the entire stand
ing army of the country, number
ing in all departments, aoouc oo,-
000 men. Over six hundred opera
tives, mostly women, are constant
ly engaged in this work. Opera
tions have been in progress since
the close of the last year, but more
active since last June. Orders for
the work are received directly from
the War Department, and the ma
terials for it aire all purchased from
manufacturers in Philadelphia.
Five buildings, each three story
brick, and so arranged as to form a
hollow square, are used in these
operations, and the depot grounds
present all the animation ot a gov
ernment workshop.
A Parisian dentist, who has a
small villa in the outskirts, has
raised upon a mound at the bottom
of his little garden a summer-house
built entirely of human teeth.
From a distance it looks very nice,
butclose, certainly rather extraordi
nary. A snort time since tne den-
1st sent his servant into tne country
with orders to put the house in or
der and clean the summer-house.
Five days having elapsed and the
servant not returning, his master
Ost patience, and made his way to
the villa. There he found his man
diligently occupied in cleaning the
summer-house witn a tootn Drusn 1
' Poets have so long sung of the
coldchaste moon, pallid with wear- 1
iness' of her long watch upon the
earth, (a "-: I ing to the Image used
alike! by Wordsworth and Shelley,)
thatt8eems strange to learn from
science that the full moon is so in
tensely hot that no creature known
to uaf could long'endure contact with
her heated surface. Such Js the
latest news which science has
brought us respecting our satellite.
The news is not altogether unex '
pected; in fact, reasoning -- had :
shown, long before the fact had been
demonstrated, that it must- be so.
The ; astronomer knows that the .
surface of the moon i3 exposed dur-
ing tne long tunar aay, lasting a
fortnight of our terrestrial time, to :
the rays of a sun as powerful as that
which gives us our dailv hpafc.
Without an atmosphere to temper '
th sun's heat as oun loen5t. in-
deed, .by-impedlc- .tite lcPf"t,
the cloud-vail whch thesun raises
from; our oceans-the moon's surface '
must become Intensely hot long bes-
forelthe middle of the Iunr rl v: ' .
Undoubtedly the yv&qt of an at-
mosphere causes the moon's heat to
be rapidly radiated away In to space.
It is our atmosphere which causes a
steady heat to prevail on our earth. :
And at the summits of lofty moun- ,
tains, wheretheatmosnhere is rare. ' '
although the mid day heat is in
tense, yet so rapidly does the heat
pass away that snow crowns forever
the ; mountain height. Yet. al
though the moon's heat must pass
away even more rapidly,' this does
not prevent tne neating of the
moon's actual surface, any moie
than the rarity of the air prevents
the Alpine traveler from feelln-
the action of the sun's direct heat
even when the air in shadow is Icil v
cold. Accordingly, Sir John Hers- 1
chel long since pointed out that the -moon's
surface must bo heated at '
lunar mid-day, or, rather, at the
time of lunar mid-heat, correspond
ing to about two o'clock in our af
ternoon to a degree probably sur
passing the heat of boiling water.
Popular Science Monthly for August.
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Flowers Imbed r in Ice. A
ucedrby. one of. the ice-making'
machines built lately "In Philadel
phia. It was a cake of manufac
tured .ice, in the centre of which,
completely inclosed by the translu
cent materials was a bouquet of
fresh flowers. Every leaf and flow
er was perfectly visible, while the
brilliancy of the color wasenhaneh
ed by refraction.
One hundred Miles an Hour.
A scientific journal says: The
highest railway speeds in the world
are attained in England, and the
highest railway speed in England,
is attained on tne ureat Western
Railway, and this speed may be ta
ken roundly as fifty miles an hour.
Mr. Stirling has run with one of his
reat outside cylinder express en
gines and sixteen carriages at seven
ty miles an hour on the Great
Northern ; on a level orslightlyfal-
ing gradient ; and we know that
the Yarmouth expressed on tho
Great Eastern sometimes has reach
ed; the speed of sixty-four, miles
an hour on the Brentwood bank.
On two occasions, some years ago
in Ireland, we ran 14 miles in six
teen minutes with a powerful en-1
gine and a train of but two carriages.
Mucn 01 tne run was done at over
curious and beautiful effect was pro- ! 65 miles per.hour. Oa .th -llo-tan.
i'Ct -rT nnp rZ tho iPo.tnakltiiyT.i A (1 4. .1 T tt.u.j
aiiu iunujr iuau, mieu oiaua,
the fifty-four miles between Spring
field and Worcester were run dv an
engine with 16 inches cylinder. 22
inches stroke, and 6 feet driving
wheel, In fifty-eight minutes. Much
of the run was done at nearly sev
enty miles an hour. Ou a first-class
line there can be no queston, there
fore, but that a speed of sixty five
miles an hour may be available with
safety. We believe that it would be
possible to lay a permanent way so
well,and to maintain it in such excel
lent order, that trains might travel
on it with perfect safety at 100 miles
an hour. Miles upon miles of such
track are now to be found on most
of our great main lines, but it is
not to be disputed that nowhere
can 100 consecutive miles of per
manent way.in perfection be found ;
and as a chain is no stronger than
its weakest link, so a few hundred
yards of bar track would spoil, for
the purpose of traveling at 100 miles
an hour, a whole line.
A young lawyer lately concluded
his argument in a case of damages
for injury done by the defendant's
pigs with the following burst: " If,
gentlemen of the jury, the defen
dant's pigs are permitted to roam
at large over the fair fields of my
client with .impunity, then yes,
then, indeed, have our institutions
been made in vain."
The opposite counsel said, "you
can score one for that."
A crowd of quarrelsome people
were dispersed from the front of a
residence in a very singular and
sudden manner one night. A stran
ger visiting the family slipped into
the crowd unperceived,and extend
ing an inverted hat, announced that
he wTas making a missionary col-,
lection. Two minutes later he stood
there alone, with not a single mem
ber of the turbulent mass to be seen
in any direction.
brass almost come through it. The
quantities of which are made sur
pass all belief.
"I always like to have two or
three barrels of that pattern on
hand," said one maker, " because"
then, when orders come crowding
in upon me,- as they often do, I on
lv have to finish it up and send it
off." ,
Think of watch chains by the
barrel.
The question is often asked.
"How is this cheap stuff sold ?" To
be sure, it is seldom seen in jewelry
stores, and would find but little sale
there if it were. The great agents
in disposing of it are the prize-package.
men, the .95 cent and $1 institu
tions, and the country stores, espe
cially the latter. It has becomes a
regular and staple article in ; the
"notion" line, and especially favor
ite one with storekeepers, because
of ease of sale, and margin of profit.
For a pair of sleeve buttons, for in
stance, which cost the manufactu
rer perhaps ten cents, which he
sold for fifteen, and which having
passed through a number of hands,
with a profit added by each, have
cost the storekeeper fifty, he will
modestly charge a dollar, and make
a clean cash profit ot one hundred
per cent, and more, in actual
amouut. than he would realize, all
expenses considered, from the sale
of a barrel of flour. Although each
will sell but little, when we remem
ber how great is the number of
country or "general" stores, how
universal is the taste ior personal
adornment, and how cheaply it can
be gratified, it is not surprising to
find the dealers in "Attleboro jew
elry" doing so prosperous a busi
ness. iU -
But we must not forget that the
great majority of the houses in this
pleasant town devote their energies
to the manufacture of work of a
much higher class work which,
arristocratically, is equal to the best
gold work. It is largely what was
described in our Providence letters
as a "stock plate," the meaning of
which term was there explained.
If you desire to know whether a
woman is constant, persevering, and
capable of pursuing an object to the
end, look into her work-basket. If
you find there two, three, or more
unfinished pieces of work, each one
of which has become soiled from
lying around, ycu may safely con
clude thatne is fickle.
The following elegant notice of
the change of weather appears in a
paper : "The sun is swinging up the
circle again, and will soon cross
into the overcoat line from the re-
Sions where lighter clothing and
am and eggs tell us the condition
of the atmosphere."
A parent writes that he ia annoyed
and pained by his young son stav
ing out at night, and asks a remedy
for this rapidly growing evil. There
are. several remedies. The most
effectual is to compel him to wear
patched clothing.
There are experts on all manner
of subjects in these days of litiga
tion. A woman testified the other
day in a turkey case, and declared
that she knevv "these turkeys by
their walk, ' their countenance, and
their manner of roosting."
A citizen of Connecticut, recently
introduced to a newly married man,
congratulated him warmly, and
said, "Ah, these Litchfield County
girls make clever wives : I've had
three of 'em." ,
An orphan, under age, married
his female guardian in Illinois the
other day, and was compelled to
get her written consent to his mar
riage before the wedding could
take place.5 -
A young Irishman told a sweet
Cork girl (flesh and blood, not made
of stopper) that the following was
" u a A h u r,
phonography :
A good-hearted but partially deaf
old lady is much disturbed by the
talk about the Kickapoo Indians.
She doesn't see why any body should
kick a poor Indian.
The Doors are Open.
If anything can touch our Sym
pathy, it is the sight of an honest
Democrat struggling to shield the
rascality of his party behind his re?
spectability. We feel like taking
tlie deluded man aside, and telling
him that his efforts will be love's
labor lost. But we have tried the
experiment so many times that we
have concluded to let the faithful
follower of Democracy pursue its
shadow until he gets tired, and
stops of his own accord. When he
drops from sheer exhaustion then
we shall pick him up, advise him
calmly, and do our best to help him
across the threshold of the Repub
lican party. There are thousands
of honest men still left the Demo
cratic party. They live in hopes of
seeing it once more restored to its
Jefiersonian days. They refuse to
believe it lost beyond redemption,
and so cling to its sinking fortunes,
in hopes that something will turn
up to bringabout the radical change
they desire. They forgot that tne
days of miracles have past; that
the elements or power, honenty,
and patriotism, which once lm-
arted glory to Democracy, have
ong since departed from the old
shell, and are found to-day impart
ing vigor and purity to the Repub
lican party. Occasionally this fact
dawns upon some honest, well-intentioned
Democrat, and he makes
haste to enroll himself under the
banner that represents his old time
principles. There is still room for
more. The doors of our party are
continually open and all who be
lieve in justice, equality, and an
honest administration of the Gov
ernment are invited to enter. We
have but little room for office hun
ters, but for the men who desiro to
labor for the good of the nation we
have some reserved seats in the
temple of Republicanism. 7 Winston
Republican. .
A Bennington daughter, whose
domestic nature is equal to ' her
natural simplicity, was invited by
an Advent exhorter to Join his sect.
ret her white robe ready, and pre-
Sare to ascend. "I can't," the mal
en replied; "father and mother
are going up, and somebody must
stay to see to the cattle."
China has abolished the kotow.
We don't know what It Is, but we
are glad it is abolished, for we
never liked it. s lA
"How "I prize you, my Uearl"
said the jimmy to the safe door.