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News IjBIG-B ! VOL. XIV-NO. 104; RALEIGH, N. O. FRIDAY M!ORNlNG JANUARY 3; 1879. $5.00 PER ANNUM Just where intoxication begin a baa always bo a delicate poiat, eapecially ia the courts, which Lara been for many yea wrestling unsuccessfully with the great question Does lager beer intoxi cate ? In a lae trial, however, a legal luminary baa abed a flood of light upon the subject by giving it aa hia opinion that a man ia not drank uoless ha ia unable to And hia way home.' Georgia propoaea to issue certificate of indebtedneaa of very low denomina U m and receivable for taxes. It ia ex pected that these certificates will circu late aa ourrency. If they are issued with this object in view they must be regarded aa "bills of credit," the iaaue of which is prohibited to the States by the Federal Constitution. The trouble in BreUhitt county, Kentucky, which hare caused ao much trouble and bloodshed there, now seem to be about ended, by the presence of sumed their away again, sndriSipro bable that the lawless men who hare terrified the country will meet condign punishment. . The debt of Tennessee is at present uuu, ana Dears so heavily on taxpayers that actual repudiation has been suggested aa possible. It is said that the Governor, when the Legisla ture meets, will recommend that the debt be scaled at sixty centa on the dollar, with 4 per cent, which will prob ably be accepted by Ihm Lg?slature and the bondholders. In commemoration of the death of William Cullen Bryant, the New- York Historical Society held a meeting Monday evening in the Academy of Music. Among the large and brilliant audience were the President and Mrs. Hayes, Vice-Presideut Wheeler, Secre tary Everts, Attorney-General Devena GeaeraJ Sherman, and many other prominent persona. The memorial address was delivered by George Wil liam Curtis. A resolution of thanks to the orator, proposed by Preaident Barnard and seconded by Rev Dr. R. S. Storrs, was adopted. After the meeting a reception was given to Pres ident Hayes at the residence of Fred erick de Peyater. UENlJllTIOJf. Equality of Vreenbaeka and Cold No Exeltemeut la New York Might Demand for Cola By Telegraph to to ewa. Nkw York, Jan 2. In an interview with a representative of the Associated Press to-day, General Hillhuuae, United Mates Sub-Treasurer, atated that re sutnptiou, ao far as the working of hia cilice was coo corned, had been attended by a mot gratifying aoccese, and that there appeared to be no demand for coin, the payments thereof in exchange for paper being very inaigoificant. Up to two o'clock the Sub-Treasury had received over fSOU.OUO in gold, in ex change for which was issued legal teodcra and certificate a of deposit, while on the other hand it waa estimated that t e disbursement of coin for the day would not amount to over $25,000. The Chamber of Commerce 'to-day adopted resolutions felicitating the com munity upon resumption, congratulat ing Secretary Sherman upon the success of hia policy, in recognizing the action of the city banks in co-operating with the Tieaaury, and thanking Congress for the establishment of the national banking law. A resolution was also adopted calling upon Congreae to avert the danger attending the adoption of silve as a measure of values, by amend ing, the existing law so as to further limit the coinage of the ailver dollar aud its use aa a legal tender.1 Copies of these resolutions were ordered to be sent to the Senate and FTouse of Repre sentatives, and also to Secretary Sher man. PaiLaSaxruia, Jan. 2. The resump tion of specie payments in thie city caused no stir whatever. Inquiry at the prominent back a shows that the demand for gold up to cojn to-day waa very limited. Chicago, Jan. 2. There ia little in Chicago financial circlea to mark the advent bf resumption day. The prin cipal event of importance at the Sab Treasury has been a largely increased demand for 4 per cent. Government bonds. The demand for gold is confined to very few cases, the majority of ap plicants preferring currency." At the Custom-bouse duties are being paid in greenbacks. There ia no flurry at the bank?, and no general or even percep tible inquiry for coin over the counterr. Caleb Cashing Illness, By Telegraph to the Newe. Nxwburypokt, Jan. 2. Caleb Cash ing haa failed rapidly during the last 24 hours, hi stomach now refusing all nourishment. His friends are hopeless, fearing the end is sear. Desperate Thievery. By Telegraph to tbe News. Boerox, Jan. 2. A bold attempt was made laat evening to rob the jewelry establishment of N. G. Wood & Sod, n Washington atreet. Robbers en tered the atore by breaking through the skjlight and bound and gagged the only inmate of the place. Ilrotherly Date, not Love. BTetegrapU to if Hewa. Ntw Yobx, Jan. 2. J no. and Ed ward Wjnoe, brothera, ware found by the Brooklyn police fighting this morn ing. Johns skull w4l fractured and he ia in a dangeroua condition. His brother is under arrest. The British Iron Trade. Bj Cat to to U Haws. Loxdox, Jan. 2. Great excitement Las been prod uced in the engineering Uadea, regarding m reaolatioo of the Ixndon Iron Trades Employers' Asso ciation, to Increase 'the 1 number of working boura, Tbe employers' VVaao- iaiion will meet Tuesday next to ar rcge the preliminaries for the re sumption of uTtyseven and a half hour as the weakly a acta of labor. . District meetings of operative engi r eera have been arranged to pronounce me opinion f thi workmen . xu.Uha. i qi atron of resistance. Gutaide trade of -tbo "Union stand a l I : .1 : very large number of non-societTtaeb, and it appear - iron! '.wfcat Umpired yesterday at . the , informal meeting of wqrkmen, that the following precedent made in 1871, when the non-unionists, for the most part, acted ,wth the unionists, the former will adopt a polioy of resistance. It is stated that the decision of the employers will dev pend to some extent on the result of an arbitration on the proposed reduc tion of five per cent in the wages of the iron workers, which has been com menced at Darlington. An award of the arbitrators is expected to be re ceiven by the end of the present week. 8 that the Iron Trade Employers' As sociation will have a decision' before their conference neit Tuesday. The Amalgamated Society of Engi neers has, according to the last annual report, a quarter of a minion pounds aterling in hand. It is recognized as a Union which numerically aud finan cially leads all other trades unions of the Kingdom: ! HEW KXUCAND GItEKMIAC K. -XJacjr IXsMit in 2 is t iw liir tisalt Inharmonious Action. By Telegraph to the News. Boston, Jan, 2. About one Lua died delegates of the Greenback paity, from the several New England States, met here to-day to discuss the beat meiho.i for conducting Jbe campaign, and Alexauder Troupe, of Ne Ha ven, called the meeting to order. 8. C. Bancroft, of Pea body, Mud., waa made chairman, and Noah D. Payne, of Providence, Secretaiy. After an address by Cail Hour, of Worcester, who favored a nuaueial system similar to that of France, a resolution favoring the forming ol aome greenback organization, in which all the New England S ates shall be represented, waa adapted. There waa a lively disenss on of a second resolution to the effect that a committee of two from each State be appointed to report a plan for the or- gauixatiou of a New Englaud Lague The labor element destrod soine re cognition in the name of the organiza tion. A proposition being made to call it tne National Greenback L.a rartT of New isngland, the secon resolution was finally adopted, but the vote by which it pitsed was reconsid ered. Wendell Phillips made an address, in which he said he had endeavored to form a labor party, but it could n.t be done, and he waa glad of it. A motion to reconsider was then lost. The Convention adjourned till two o'clock. Chooalng Bulgaria's Baler. By Cable to the News. LoHDOir, Jan. 2. A Vienna despatch to the Times says : " As the time lor the election of the Prince of Bulgaria approaches fresh candidates make their appearance. . Prinoe Vogorides, who, although belonging to a Greek family, claims Bulgaria descent, has been put forward, and it would not be surprising if an attempt should be made by the Porte and the Greeks in Constantinople to set up Prince Vogorides against the Russian nominee. But Prince Don doukouT Korsakoff, the present Russian Governor of Bulgaria, according to all accounts, has tax en care to be the master of the Bulgarian Assembly and make it elect whom Russia pleases. The Assembly has uot ben elected by a direct vote oi tne population, out uy an indirect election, and cars has been taken that a large proportion of the members of the Assembly should bo persons holding official positions under the Russian government. Prince Bat ten berg ia said to be a candidate, put forward by Russia, but there are those who belisve that some one else is kept in reserve. The Glasgow Bank Again. By Telegraph. Loicdon. Dec. 31. Developments re apecting the settlement of the affairs of the City of Glasgow bank are very un- favorable. The liquidators made a pre liminary report to-day of the result of their labors thus far. They have re ceived 691 893 up to yesterday from the shareholders, upon whom rests the burden of paying the debts of the bank. Of this sum $56 372 represent payments on second instalments. It now begins to be feared that a greit majority of the shareholders will be found to be utterly unable to pay even one-tenth ofthepartof their share of-indebted-neas. The secretary of the bank, who has been imprisoned in the Glasgow jail since he and the manager and di rectors were committed lor trial, has given to the Lord Advocate much im portant information concerning tne transaction of his fellow-officers, and on their trial at the, approaching assizes he will be used as a witness for the Crown. He has been liberated ad n ierim for this purpose. Public feeling is very strongly excited against the di rectors, and their condemnation is thought to be certain. Their families are plunged into deep distress. Nuot Down In the Street. Bj telegrapk to the ews. Cin'cihnatti, Jan. 2. A special dis patch says, at a late hour last night, a man named Anthony Doemeer was walking up Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, klich., on hia way home, when a sleigh containing three men came tearing along at a rapid rate. When opposite Doemeer one of the occupants drew a' revolver and fired. The ball entered Doemeer1 left thigh and taking an upward course penetrated the lungs. The wounded man sank to the pave ment while the aleigh dashed on. One of the party crying out:, "How 'a that for happy new year 7" J A policeman hearing the ahot, come to Doemer's assistance. A surreon probed 'f&r the bullet unsuccessfully. Internal hem orrhage set in, and the man will prob ably die. English Commercial Fall ores. By Cabla to the News. LomxJJf. Jan. 2. The number of business failures, officially announced in the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, during the year 1 $78,. were 15,069, of which 2,643 were in the financial and wholesale and manufac turing branches of trade; 12,416 in the retail trades, professional pursuits, builders, publicans, 'working- classes, etc.. against 1.272. and 8.860 under re JWCtiv headings in 1877. showing an J increase of 4,037 failuiea last year over WANIIIH-GTOX. E.atet News from the Capital Another Robbery-Examining Books or Revenue Colleo- . tlons. By Teiejrraph to the News, VVashikoton, D. C, Jan. 2. Ten thousand dollars was stole a from the safe of the Disbursing Clerk at the Government -printing office to-day. That amount had been drawn for pay ing employes and purchasing material. The safe'door was left open and ' the robbery was accomplished with com parative ease, t , The Internal Revenue Commissioner has issued a circular to Collectors, ar. nouncing that immediately after the cloee of tLe present fiscal year, an ex amination ot all collectors' officers will be made, to ascertain whether the pub lic business has been accounted for ac cording to law, and whether the public funds have been duly accounted far. The President haa received a copy of the resolution passed by the Teller Committee requesting him to furnish to the committed all information in his possession relative to any violation of the rights of citizens of the State named tdT'aihuaT message. The President has sent the resolution to t ie Attorney General for response. To meet the mconveniecce to mer chants caused by the discontinuance of the. issuing of eo:n certificates, it has been determined to issue such certifi cates for the special purpose of paying customs duties until Congress can act upon the matter. Secretary and General Sherman left here to-Ei2ht for Cleveland, Ohio, to attend the funeral of their brother, Judtre Sherman, in that city on Satnr- day. Subscriptions to the four per cent loan to-day were larger than ever bo- fore. This is probably on account of the recent circular allowing: coin mis sions on subscrii tiou for said bonds Up to 2 o'clock this afternoon subscrip tions ankn elated about VJ. 000,000. The debt t.tatruent issued to-day shows an increase during December of $1.233, 78o; coia in treasury $224, boo i:cuirency 4,olo,5o0: currency held for redemption fractional currency 110,000,006: special deposit held for re demptiou of certificates of deposit $34,- 515,000. The copying cleiks of the Attorney General's office have been engaged for several weeks copviag reports ol L. S Marshals, District Attorneys and others in coutn Uarouna and .Louisiana, in regard to the alleged Southern out rages. These copies were made to be transmitted to the Senate, in reply to a resolution of that body, adopted on the the 9th of December, calling upon the President for copies of leports of United States marshals and other affi davits relative to the recent elections in South Carolina and Louisiana. Sinco the adjournment for the holidays, the Teller investigating committee havinir passed a resolution call ing upon the Pies'deut and Atton ney General for information upou the same subject the Attorney General will probably forward to the. committee the copies already made to be sent in response to the Senate resolution. These documents are copies of reports from U. S. Marshals and other in the States named, reporting outrages, nearly all of which were published dur ing the campaign preceding the recent elec'ions. The Rail Road System of Our Ktnte. Correspondence of the Kxws. As is well known, the design of the projectors of our State rail road system, was that there should be constructed a great trunk liue from Beaufort? harbor to the West, with feeders running off from this main line, thereby building up a large seaport and making the rail roads constructed in the State conduce to building up the State. We all know how signally their plans have failed, and this failure has not been because these plans were unwisely laid, but be cause the legislature of North Carolina has act sd without wisdom and fore cast. We find now that the line jot read from Morehead City to Charlotte, from Greensboi o to Danville and from Wil mington to Shelby are under the con trol of a foreign corporation and are managed so as to divert both travel and traffiofrom the State, or in direct au isgonism to the interest of the State. The lease of the N. C. Central to the Richmond and Danville was most un wise and ruinous measure. The result is that a close connection between the N. C. Central and the Haleigh & Gaston cannot be had. . A man reaching Ral- . . . . 3 a. a e:gn at noon to-uay, muse lay over un til to-morrow morning before he can continue his jou ney. We understand that the same difficulty exists at the intersection of the Air ' Line and the C. C. rail road. There are, as ve under- staud the matter, three or four con fii ting rail road interests in the Slate, each working against the other, and all working againai the interest of North Carolina ad tending to divert to other States, travel aud freights. which should pass through our State to mar kets .within out State. All of this state of affairs might have beeu prevented by wise . action in the past. It may be too late now to recov er some of the giound lost, but not all of it. We understand there are ample grounds for canceling the contract of lease of the Central to the R. & D. If so, this ought to be done at once and that road gotten under the control of the State and private stockholders. We thiuk also that is entirely practi cable for the State to control the Atlan tic toad, and by that means control the entire line. Tnis is a measure of incal culable importance to the State and ev ery honorable effort ought to be made to accomplish it. lne Western exten sions to the Georgia and Tennessee lines should be pushed to aa rapid com pletion as possible, and then with a reglar line of steamers from Morehead City to England, and would have laid the foundation of great prosperity as a State. The Carolina Central and Wes tern roads should be controlled in the interest of Favetteville and Wilming ton and made feeders to those pla ces We are free to admit that there is some force in the assertion that travel and trafiio will seek natural ohannels, and that men will ship their produce to the beat market and buy in the cheap est, but we insist at the aam time that it is within the power of wise legisla tion to open up markets and divest trade. We BOO the towns of Virginia and South Carolina have diverted lrom prominent points of trade in our own State ha balk of our trafiio. In many instances our trade built up their mar kets instead of their markets attracting our trade. They opened the channels and the current naturally flowed into them. -With a more accessable if not more commodious harbor than Norfolk, there is no reason why cotton should not sell for as much at Morehead City as at the former place, and if the prop er facilities are offered, capital will go there and to W.dmiugton and cotton find an outlet to ' Europe from those points. We believe it would be to the1 interest of the State to get control of the roads referred to above and put the tariff ot freigats so low as to force pro ducts to tneje points, and if the general government cannot be induced to do it, pay such an. amount of subsidy as would secure a regular line of steamers to Europe. These may be regarded as wild and impracticable measures, buj in our opinion tney are feasible. With out bold and.darfrijg enterprise no great results can ever be accomplished. As a people we have been too slow and timid. We let opportunities slip out of our hands while , we are considering wnetner we snail Improve them. When the waters ar troubled we let some one elt-e step in before us. As. the matter cow stands, with our railroads contrij'lea as they now are, Nor Ji Carolina ..is very much in the condition ot -Jioad, a country culti vatfd by an impoverished native popu lation fr the b.'uent of "absentees." Out" vast reductions are all poured into the markets of other States to build up and enrich other people, while our own towns are uupain'ed and unpaved, with their streets lurmshinsr excellent pas tutage tor s'ock. lue neeu m our ljeyislature is men of brai'is and nerve, who will dare to wrest our State and her improvements from the hands of foreign corporations e want men who rfrill ignore the dead issues of a dead past and act in the liv ing present, comprehending its mighty issues aud interests and proving them Selves competent to dis':haige the respoT3s;bilities wljich devolve upon them. in tu;s c .iiri ctiou we desire to say fuither, that one of th j ir aVst bar riers to our prosper tv is tlu exmition ate chart.es for loc.il 1 -tig.) is. On this subject we can give ficts and tiuies, and are very much inctiiitvl t do so From all local points ou our roi.ds there is a feeling ol indigna'iou at iha extor tionate charges. We do not mean to say that the charge for. local freights should be pro rata of through freights V e admit that where there are comp-t ing lines and bulk is uubioken the charges may very properly be made less thau-for local lreigh.s, but the d tier ence uow made is out of reason. It is alto true that our roais, or rather the roads belonging to others, running across our State and which we are compelled to use, charge entirely too much for travel. We do tot mean to say that they can afford to carry pas songers as low as roads in some sections, but six cents a mile is entirely too bigl ve oeneve lae roaas wouia mane as much, on account of the iuciease of the iucrtaso oJ travel, if they would charge three ctn s instead of six. A man prospecting for laud or looking out for a place to settle, can travel all over the North and West for a mere son but when he comes to North Carolini Le must bring a young b'.nk with lura or he will soon be out of monev. We' think this is a matter which the Legislature should regulate. There is uo doubt no wbut Leg.slaturt'S have the right to regulate railroad charges, and the people demand it. We believe the men who own toe stock in thes" n;ids would heartily approve such action on the part ol our legislature. V e do not advocate action iu the ut rest of the people as against railioids, 1 -i t in the interest oi justice aud iigur, and as a means of advancing the general pros perity of the Sta'te. L. No IWer Capital nes lli'iu Polite Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 2d, 1879. Editors News I note in your val uable paper of yesterday, a note as to the morality of the young gentlemen in our city Postoffice, which was well said, and they are certainly an example to other young men in the particulars mentioned ; but wi'l you allow an "old man." who has traveled much and been in many of our large cities North, South, East and West, to say that he ventures the asseition that there is not an establishment in this whole country where there is uniformly more polite ness and courtesy to those who have business with it than these same fine young men always extend to tne nu merous customers they deal with every day. Politeness is now so rare, and especially so in public and government establishments, that when met with, as it is in onr Postoffice, it should be spe cially commended. No young man ever started life with a better capital than politeness. Old Man. Interesting Discoveries, Washington Post.- The lake dwellers are a9 interesting in their way as the cliif dwellers, and a new village of them has just been dis closed by the shrinkage of the waters of the lake of Bienne. Here they have left their footsteps on the sands of time in the shape of stone hatchets, flint lance-heads, arms of copper, etc. The experts declare this to have been the age of copper, sand witched between the bronze and stone ages. In the skulls small pieces have been trepan ned, which were used as amulets. Oc casionally, as a happy thought, a bit of an infant's skull was put inside the heads of the dead to protect them from dantrer bevond death. Shall we be half as interesting to the people of the fu ture as these are to us ? And when they dig us up, with our good clothes and our decorative art, and count our bones and measure our skulls, and otherwise try to accouut for us, what soit of showing will get? Just now, prohibly, the paper collar is the most expiessive index ol uvinz uion. . , ' An Iuiporttt.it Meeting. Charlotte Observer, No publication, of vy kind whatever, could have as great innaence upon tne Northern mind, in convincing it of the exact social and political status of the South, with reference to Northern men who have settled here since the war, as will the publication of the pro ceedings of the meeting of Northern Bottlers which is called to take place in this city on the 15th inst. We con scientiously believe thit this meeting will be fraught with great results to the South; in the very uature and con stitution of the b ;dy it cannot be other wise. Every Southern man should feel a personal interest in it, aud every .Southern news-paper should forward the entei prise by .every legitimate weans in its power. Will our Southern brethren generally give.it still further of their aid and luntierice ' the: revised scrifturus. Completion of the New Transla tion ot the New Testament Difficulties of the W ork-Au- eedotes and Traditions of Scrip tare" Translations The various English Versions of the Bible. London News. i The revisers of the authorized trans lation of the New Testament are to b coT'gratula'ied ou having completed their second and final revision ot the work. The labor of conscientious translation is never slight, and the toil is not altogether lessened ;by being shared. It is easier for one translator or revisor to make-up his mind than for twenty-four p rsons to make up twenty-four minds. Let it be supposed that all the twenty -four are agreed that a certain received rendering will not stand and to suppose : this is to suppose a great deal. Then come the different views about the jnccessary emendation. One will not do because the style in which it is couched, though lucid enough, is not the style of the old version which is being amended. Another rendering may be disputed On those delicate points of scholarship in which Greek of every epocri is so un commonly rich. A third version, per. haps, is accurate but clumsy. How are all the many minds of many men to be reconciled ? The difficulty becomes greater when we remember that many American scholars collaborate with English Hellenists and divines. It is needless to say that while all these troubles would perplex revisors if they were merely amending such a transla tion as the "Plato" of the Master of Balliol, they beset revisors of a sacred text with vigor many times Increased. Doctrine as well as scholarship is at stake, and we know how bitterly the two are at variance. In the fine old times, just before the reformation, the Greek of the Greek Testament was de clared to be a heretical language. The Greek text did not always fcally wi:h the Latin; therefore the Gjek was wrong. round the various translations and editions of the Bible has cryetalized a romance or a mythology. Every one is familiar with the usefnl superstition of mediae val copyists, who believe that t" make a blunder in the writing out of the Apocalypse was to commit an un pardonable sin. The Alexandrian copy ist, who worked at writing in a spirit of commercial enterprise, did! not look so close. If the early . fragments of Homer on papyrus are any test of the accuracy ot common copyists, iney were more reckless than the most reck lessly ingenious of printers Words are invented by the copyists out of pure indolent stupidity, and the task of keeping the text pure has been one to turu gray the hair of many generations of commentatoiB. The myth about the miracul u" agreement of the so-called seveuty translators wteptuagint was probably of Jewish, fi ranee, wjj?ri" Hach member of the seventy prodOS CoverIe aiate version, and all the versions w?8. and 1 all the versions vf?. equally correct. The story of the naitic manuscript ai.d its discovery not less interesting than the fortunes of Villoison's "Marcian A." The fata libellorum, the romantic fortunes of al the books in the world taken together, would uot make so moving a tale as the adventures of the bocks of the Bible alone. The record is not yet closed and no ore cau be absolutely certain that older and better manuscripts than auy yet known may not be mouldering in a cellar in Mouut Athos or neglected in some corner of the Vatican, or hid den away in a monastery of the Arme nian or the Coptic rite. BLLKXAl" FinOlSORDER Regard ?ns: Army Officers in rt ashington Modified by Sec retary Thompson, An order modifying the celebrated order issued by Gen. Belknap, when Secretary of War, was issued Monday from the War department. The for mer order prohibited officers of the ar my from visiting Washington except by permission of the adjutant general, to whom the cause and lengtn or time ot the visit must be given. The follow ing is the new order: "Office-rs of the army visiting the seat of government on leave of absence or who': may be stationed there are at liberty to advo cats or cooose. either verbally or in writing, any pending measure of legis lation touching military arlairs: hut leaves of absence must not be; granted to enable officers to visit the seat of government for the purpose of lnflu- eucine legislation. Officers absent from the seat ot government may ,send to Congress, or to members thereof, eith er directly or through military channels, any petition relating to pending legis lation on military matters. The Future ol Afghanistan. Gen. Brown, the British commander in Afghanistan, seems to have little oi the diplomat in his composition. He has been telling the Afghan chiefs the truth, wi.h all a soldier's bluntuess. They are to look: no longer tothe ;Ameer as their ruler, but must turn to their future mistress, the Empress of 'India. There is an admirable directness about this statement It fuMy dispels what ever ot uncertainly aipiomauy may have thrown around the futuiebf At ghanistan. That country is to become a British bulwark: agaiust nussian ap proaches to Iudia in the one certain and Dractical way by annexation to the British dominions. All other sup positions are destroy ed by Gen. Brown's addres. Our immense Uruin snipmenis. During eleven months of the present year the receipts of grain at thj .Aiiau- tic ports have beeu 5435,071,618 bushel-, which i. more thaa oU per cent, great er tnan tucsj oi any previous receipts for anyone year bein- 154.932,011 in l7(i. Tue t,ieat buik ol ib g'aiu was snipped Jrom the West, aud it , is to retain this vast trade that NewjYork is used to prevent the success iff oris beiug made to , seud money if the Western grain toEarope by the Way of New Oileaus aud tne joules. Gold or Paper. The Washington papers t 11 a 'good story to show how little people caiefor goltl wueu they know they can have it just as well as paper. Oue of the city banks that nad ueen paying out gold for some time was entered by a darkly f r ;m one of the Southern btates, who handed up a five dollar check to be cashed. 4 "Gold or greenbacks?' f&aid the busy cashier, laconically. "Gold, mat? Wiia-.'s dat you say?'' 'said Sambo, his eyes extending till the whites alone were visible. "Do you want gold or greenbacks for your check?" explained the cashier. Dis chile takes de gold, boss, every time4"- i wo sinning Dits were banded out m shape aud size very "like the little yel low pennies, but each stamped $2.50 Sambo's face fell as they dropped into his palm. ''Is these yer $5 ?" "Yes, that is $5 $2.50 each." Sambo walk ed out slowly, stopped on the side walk a moment, re-entered and said. ' I say, boss, if you jess as soon Ise take de paper Ise more use to it, and I lose these yere little fellahs, sure." Events in the St ate. CatAVEX. Nutshell: Col. Hancock went up to Kinston Friday to inspect and review Co. K., of the 1st Reg't N. C. S. G. He speaks very highly of the company and says' that it will b) sec ond to none in the State. . Anson. Charlotte Observer: Judge Ashe has been quite ill at his home in Wadesboro, but at laat accounts was recoVering. ' He will, however, not be abje to be present at the opening of the SupremeCourt Monday next. Watne. Gold'shoro Messenger: "On Saturday night last, a white man named Pace, while intoxicated, was robbed of about $175 in one ef the many disrepu table negro dens near the market. Thanks to the vigilance of Mayor Griswold, two of the three thieves were arrested and are now in durance vile. A party contemplates starting a tobacco factory here in Goldsboro dur ing the present year Mr. Rufus Morgan will leave us in a few days for San Diego, California. Shelby Aurora : Petitions are be ing circulated for signers, in various portions of this county, asking the next Legislature to pass the stock law. . lhere have been only 226 marriages in tnis county since cue 2d day oi De cember, 1877. .. .Several of our farm ers are in favor of having an Agricul- ' tural Fair in this county next Fall we learn that some ot tne people who have left this section and gone "West" are very anxious to return to the ''Old North State." It is thought that the Magistrates, at their meeting next Monday H will orga izi aa. Inferior Court for Cleaveland county. Fobstthk. Salem Press: Judge Cloud has gone to Florida Winston's Military paraded their town in full dress Wednesday afternoon THe festival for Oxford Orphan Asylum, Friday evening, at" Tise's Hall, derived gross proceeds we are told, of $80 The Week of Prayer, with nightly ser vices, commences in the Moravian Church Sunday evening. The moun tains visible from several points near town, show quite plainly their white mantle of snow... ...The band wagon, tilled with generous hearted citizens visited the county alms house, Thurs day, carryihg with them abundance of Christmas cheer to the unfortunate r poor. 'klenburo. Charlotte Observer : and rer,L t,.men have besrun to pay the Sfaotr'Kepntly declared by the W"?vBT7"eznent rer,tabune from them, but tflfefcC3ited by J" aJ ior tne year 1818 V. &r protest. The presumptionsmafc28opose to contest the right of the SStfipfciiE pose the tax under the existing Cr8 Thrt loss bv fire in Oharlntta dnririV the last year has not been over f 1500, according to the estimate ol an insu rance man Ladies will sell tickets for the amateur theatrical performance on the night of the 10th of January for the benefit of the Lee monument An emigrant ticket agent reports that a great many more persons left the State year before last up to the first of January than emigrated last year The city marshal reports that there has been moie stealing in Charlotte during the past three weeks than during the whole year. Chatham. Record : The dead body of an old negro, named Isaac Jroe, was found, last Friday, in the woods, be tween Haywood and Moore'js Mills, on Haw River, with the legs half eaten by hogs, and the clothing nearly all burnt Isaac was an odd character, having lived the life of a hermit! for many years past Oh last Friday night the negroes on the plantation Of Oliver McMath, Esq., had a quilting, and two of their number becoming icti imed with liquor had a fight, in which one of them stabbed the other iu the side, inflicting a very dangerous wound. . . . ; Dr. John A. Hanks, met with quite a painful ac cident on last Friday. As he entered his yard his feet slipped on the lrozeu S.leet, and he fell he.iviiy, breaking his left arm near the shoulaTer. . . .Uur Register informs us that during the month of December he ii-sued thirty licenses, 14 for whites, and 16 for ne- gross, wnicn indicates an unusual de gree of briskness in that line of busi ness. Many Facts in Small Compass. The number of languages : spoken is 2,065. The number of men is equal to the number of women, lhe average human life is about 33 years; one- quarter die before the age j of 7. To every 1,000 persons one rarely reaches the age ef 100 years and not more than one in ouo win reacn tne age ot ou. There are on earth 1,000,000,000 inhab itants. Of these 33,333,333 die every year, 81,834 die every day, 3,789 every haur and 60 every minute. :The losses are balanced by an equal number of births. The married are bo longer lived than the single ones, i Tall men live longer than sho't ODesi. Women have more chances of lite previous to the age of fifty years, but fewer aft'ar, than men. Tbe number of! marriages is in proportion as 70 to joo. Mar riages aie more r requeue alter tne equiuoxe1, that is, during the months of June aud December. Those born in spr ng are nioie robust than others. Births' nd deaths are more frequeat by n;ght th vi by day. I'exas a Jiueep-Kalsidg . State. According 10 the Galveston News, Texas had iu Jan. of the preseut year 3.674,700 ehe- p, ranking as! the third wool-producing State in the Union, although having only about 10000 less than Ohio, aud about half the number of California. Nueces country alone has 606, 000 sheep; apd here the rem a kable fact is presented that th most southerly ' county j of the U.iitf d States is . the b' tuner sheep i ! : county of the Luaon. me adjoining county, Sarr, has 184,000 eheep, and these tw counties nave more sneep thnGoO!gia, South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana together more than tbe conjoined States of New flamp shire, Vermont, Massacnusettr and Khode Island. Griffin's Free School Feast. Newborn Nut Shell. . The regular annual feast to this school took place Saturday, the 28th of December, 1878, and long will it be remembered by the many boys and ' girls wh i were made happy en the occasion. By the kind liberality of a number of our citizens, a most bounti ful feast was given to' these children. At the ringing of the bell 53- boys and girls promptly responded to the call; and after singing that beautiful hymn, "King out the Bells for Christmas," and a blessing being asked, each one . was furnished with one of Capt. Gray's famous wooden plates, and then . the work began in earnest. The long tables were lined wilh all the substantiate, confectioneries, oakes, eto , aud every one pirtook to the full extent of his ability. It would be dif ficult to have found a mo e happy set of children, and perhaps without this feast many of them would have had little or no enjoy meet for Christmas. At the foot ot the table was a hu&e holly tree, full of beautiful red. berries and loaded down with presents. After he good things in the eating line had beeu disposed of, a distributiou ef the Christmas Tree presents were made, anii -the hBarta of many a poor child was made glad iu receiving a handsome toy or tome more useful present in the way of clothing, shoes, etc. Doubtless these little children, irum the bottcm -of their hearts thanked the kind do nors, and particularly thanked Mrs. Hannah Harrison, Mis. Jane Uugbes, Miss Mary Oliver, Mrs. Nash, Miss Boyd, Mis, McLean, Miss Jane and Miss Mary Eliis, Miss Mary Huberts, Mrs. Richardson, and Miss .Daves, of Baltimore, who were present and did all in their power to make it a pleasant and happy time for the children. This school has been in uninterrupted optr ation for forty years, except for a few months after the close of the war. Previous to the war it was handsomely endowed, but the great bulk of prop erty was lost by the failure of several of the State banks. Tbe number of scholars who are now taught free of all expense, averages forty, and we learn from Mr. Willi.nu . -H. Oliver, who has charge of the prop ertv. that be will bs enabled to keeo up the school without any iuterruptio i so that forty. or fifty children have an opportunity at all times to receive a good education free of education free of Moses Griffin, deceased. -r - THE CUltE FOR ;OSSIT. A Vice that is Well Ni-W I ni- versal Culture lite Only ft re Antidote. Everybody must talk about some thing. The poor fellow who was told hot to talk for fear that the people would find out that he was a fool, made nothing by the experiment, lie was considered a fool because he did not taUc on some subject or other. Every-, body must have something to -ay, or give up society. Of course, the topics of conversation will relate to the sub jects of knowledge. If a man is inter ested in science he will talk about tei nee. If he is an enthusiast in art, ho will talk about art. If he is familiar with literature,, and is an intelligent and persistent reader, he wjll naturally bring forward literary topics ia his con versation. So with social and religious questions. ."Out of the abundauoe of the heart the mouth speaketh." That Of .which the mind is full, that .with which it is furnished, will come out in expresSipo- The very sRfile reason why the world is full of gossip Is -4ii those who in- dufge in it have n itliing eieeju mem. lhey must interest themselves iusol thing. They know nothing but what they learn from day to day in inter-, course with and observation of their neighb rs. What shese neighbors do, what they say, what happens to them in their social and business affairs, what they wear, these become the questions of supreme interest. The personal and social life around them this is tte book under constant perusal, and out of this comes that pestiferous conversa tion which we call gossip. The world is full of it,, and in a million bouses, all over the country, nothing is talked of btlt the personal affairs of neighbors. What is the cure for gossip t Simply culture. There is a great deal of gossip that has no malignity in it, Good natured people talk about their neigh bors because, and only because, they , have nothing else to talk about. Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and, th. young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all tompta:ion to iu- dulge in it. It is low, frivolous, aud too often a dirty business, mere are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors make enemies hv t for life, lo many persons it de generates into a chronic dis.use, which is practically incurable. Le5 the young cure it while they may. The Pope and the Catholic Car dinals Courier Journal. The Pope p. eposes tj have a full Sacred College of Cardinals, which for some years has fallen short of the pre scribed number, seventy, owing to the repeated inroads of death. When full the Sacred College coutaius six Cardinal Bishops, fifty Cardinal lViests aid four teen Cardinal Djacous-. A large num ber ot the Cardinals are now very old, and the mortality has baea heavy of late years, notwithstanding nuny new Cardinals have been created; The Popo will nominate twelve new members of the College soon, and it is rep jrted that Ireland, England and the Uuited States will be drawn upon. Aa Irishman will be appointed to fill the late ardiual Cullen's place at Dublin. i rant's Idea. N. V . Fun. Two years in Europe have turned the. head o Grant, aad made him a confirmed believer in strong govern ment and ai imitator of the usages of kines and einper rs.. He hardly con cealed this partiality f jr imparial gran deur in his interview with Prince Bis- uia.ck 'when he sub-.tanli illy ex-. pressed the opinioa that obedien-jo was the first duty of th'3 subject, and re sistance to hereditary tyranny could not be puuishad with too much sever- ty. He had establisied a sort oi sho.idy c m.-t before he4 went abroad, and he will coniM bick lillad with the notion of set iig up 8 )untriiug inre ike the genuiiu arncie. llo will ex pect the Uipublic m party to accep. , him a id to apir vo- hi coarse ambi tion. fievy's Champion joke shirt factory, JtaleigN. 0. i -1 I no preoouiiig yer. ' , , i - . , : : .
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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