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News
ALEIGH
V0LXV.-76.
RALEIGH, K C, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1879.
$5.00 PER AM0AL
OLD WORLD NEWS.
UIIILLAIDH P1BOLR THE WI.V
acBorniE uoLot rr.
laWniMla War In Zulalaad -Th
A fflksnla tan Treaty Stg-nt-d
ErvBtllosi f .EUm.
London. May 3o. Parol won the
r the Kom Gold Cup; Alche
mist second, and Primmwe third.
The Krl tIre-yesrs-old filly raco
run for lb lk Stakes at the Epnom
iiunmer meeting resulted In a victor
for the favorite. Lord Falmouth' bay
filly. Wheel of Fortune, the winner of
the thousand guinea at New Market at
the tint spring meeting. W. I. Anson's
bay tilly, Coromandsl II. got second
place, and the Duke of Westminster's
brown filly Adventure, third. There
were eight runner. Distance one mile
and a half.
TMK TlfATT WITH AntHASPITA!.
A dijatch from Simla aaya that the
IreMty r )a-e between Great liritain
and Afghanistan ww ratified to-day.
A vlnte of thirty-one guns was fired
in hi:i"f of the event.
ZULt LAND tN TRoruLtw
i Mil war ha broken out in Xululand.
Mjtitwi, a jo crful chief, ha resolved
t surrender to the British.
KKt ITIN OK .KTMA.
The eruption of .Ulna incre.tea in
in-r. and iil of lire are throw u to a
icr-m Ufitftil and lmrl like rrx-kei.
A ard rraai ta Wfcrriary mf Mtate.
trnri"n.tnic of the New
Kalkiuh, May .JO. The atatenient
that the Attorney General has anything
to do with the proceeding instituted
siul me to force the publication of a
bill aa an act of the General Assembly of
.N rth Carolina without the vitfiiature
I the presiding n in rem of that lio.lv
which la made in the News of this
tirninr. ia incorrect. The Attorney
itrneral assure me he never authorized
any auch proceeding to lie instituted
ar-nt me for ttte simple retiMiii that
he a of opinion and had so declared,
thai u refusal to receive the school
bill and publish it at one of the statutes
of the Mate Hi it present unlit ion per
fectly in accordance with the law and
ilh the obligation it luioses un me
iu the premises.
'ery reevlfull v.
W. I. S N t-1.14."
Secretary of Stale.
(IIAPtL II I t.L-
Aaclhrr trrar baa Oelten Out. but la
trrsts4 by Uur 4'orr-snlent.
Corraaondriira of the Nrvr.
(.'iiti ki. II ill. May -The impres
sion haa gotten out in some portion of
the State that the Il.to-alaareate Hcrmoii
a ill le preached on Suud.ty, the Nt
da of June. This is not the cae. The
H.v. Minn l. IIokx it expected to ar
ri e a t'hapel Hill on Tuesday own
ing, and U prMcb the sermon lelore
the graduating claaa either on Wed
ncuv sr Thursday.
Wednesday morning, Sounlor Allen
U. Thuruian a ill deliver the address
before the tao Societies. n the -inie
day llic Hon. S. K. Phillip illdelier
the address le!ore ttie Alumni.
Wednesd-ty night original addresses
will lx made by the repn-enlaiiws of
the into o. eies-
on Thursday morning the senior
speaking will take pl.cc; after whu h
diplomas will I hi presented, report
read. etc.
In addition t the avc. on Tm-d.iv
e fin ii . after the adjournment ol liie
Societies, there.will le a nop; and one
ou Wednesday evening.
On Thursday eening the grand dres
b-Ul, gien i-ouiplwiieiilary to the tfiad
uatunc claa, will be an appropriate
roiitummation of the nuil of lesti.i
tie. Ifteery ineone. A larger crowd
i expe-te"t than ha oeeu present iiu. e
Pr"5idenl Johnson a lait to our Aiina
Mater.
An opirtunit for enjo uieiit
freenteii which a life tuoe will ?w.iie
oiler aaiti.
Ko.m at the hotel have U-en en
irlwl bv la.lie from Philadelphia.
Kivhmoui . smlh irilin and
ieorgia.
vnnliirThurman l certainlv i-otn-Ing.
Vi.it .
Ejreela mt I'rrfam- of I ! era am
Ileal Hi.
("a U Macwctor.
Contrary U a Hjul r belief, it haa
U-en r-entlv found bv an Italian pro
ftMor that fine egetrtf.le jHrfume x
erciae a ltively lenehcial inrtuence
on the atnioapl-.eie. by coerting the
oivgenof the air int that xwerfiil
oAydiing: and. therefore, purifying
avnt, ooie. The rifiuM found by
him to prtiduce the iufat oone are prv
C alv the which utago ha aelectel
a the moat invigorating, auch a cher
rv. laurel, clovea, lavender, mint, juni
per, lemon, fennel and lerifainot, sev
eral of w hich are ingretlienia in the re
frehin eau de Cdlogtie. Anine, nqt
nif,;. thvme. narci.u and hyacinth
flower-, rnlirnonette. heliotrope an.1
lllie- ol the valley al develop orjm-;
In fact, all flower tawaeaainif a perfume
appear to do so. whereaa thoae having
none do noul The interesting intelli
gence will be (rratlfrimc to all. e ial
Iv Go lovers of flower. anl the culliva
tn of the Uively tiainfectant of na
ture should bepromote.1 in all marhy
or foul place.
Tbe (arsaM IKsfg-e.
fttlladelphla Time.
Mr. Whitelaw Held, the great comic
Journalist of New York, la ortering a
rhromo for "the man who has been
scared awaj from the polls by bristling
Uronrta." Thee chronio dolgea have
dei-eiv el a great many people in their
time, but tber are get'.ing to be pretty
well understoal now. it tne miuic .
journalist would go on a allll bunt with j
a package of fn ah rhromo he might ,
terhap find a citiaen who hail never j
had hi house roboel ; he wouldn't find .
that cttixen going to bed with his front
door wide open on thaa accouut, how -
ever. F.veu the aaaurance of the burg- j
tar that he had no Intention of going in )
woold hardly aev-ure contiden-e. i
A Clerlawa ttaatee far Is Daxtor. '
Courteedouruat. J
t our Northern friends le cheerful. I
Should the colored immigranlM xpread
the vcllow fe r aanong them, tiover
vor lllackourn will leave Kentucky to
hi lieutenant and go their rescue'. It :
would Ih glorious opportunitv fr
the doctor U pit coals Uan the fiend
of tbojse who have wicke.lly slan
dered him.
eaesiee weanJeal
IVtoa Transcript.
A aoHT-facel man. dre"l In a ui.hI-
ct suit of black, called in t Uit town
He went ou; "I have a do that has)
irn in me lamuy a great inmnj . -t
and we are. aU naturally much attached
toll" "It will coat you two dollars,"
broke In th gentlemanly clerk, 1f a
male." "But It U n t a uiAle dog t
a t -a I I . - .a ft ar a- iMI f
elerk a aaj, i.litly doming m castor,
ln.iuire.1. "This is where Ii-enea or
.i ... . ...i i MiiAe. air? lie
u in forme,! that such was the fid.
leu.nl, I--" Well, then, it'll cojt you
uneven '.'" nciibhlingH few ininuu-.-.
- "there I your liceuac, i;-; on can
fill in tne iiistcr's name." Taking
theiuper and examine it c-aiefully. the
man iu black M.iid, perplexedly. "There
i nouie in intake here. The dog i not
a fern ile "Whul!" broke in tli
other, "not a male? not a Icmale? '
S.iil the iii iu in black again: "Antici-
Iiating aomo iiii!uiidera:ajidiuv, I have
irotitrht the dog with me," producing
an olil-f:Lhioiiel tire-iog "and you
can tell me w lie: her or not a licen.se is
uecv.a.tr ." There w a.s ju.st the mer
est glimmer of it t ink ! in the eye of
the aoher-i'a cd man iia he s!tid this.
No liceiie was iieoie.l. he va. told.
and he detarlod. l'l.o gent icnianly
clerk waited till hia visitor ha 1 got to
the landing Ik?!w beforo he brought
Iils tint du'A n on ids denk like si trip
hammer, with the very epro..sivc a
coinpaniuient of "fciolil, by thunder!"
It E 1 I . 14 II I J I I Hs.
Reports From Tblrtr-Oue h tales Ev
ItlesielMg Mie Relitrti af Prespr rlty.
Tlie New- York Times of Monday pub
lishes business i-orreapondeiice from
seventy live different point in thiriy
onti Matex, including all the principul
manufacturing ami business ceiitors.
The substance oftheae it gives aa fol
lows: In New Knglaud, manufacturer of
all K in ia appear to have felt the revival
of I ua nesi-s most strongly. Kxcept in
one o ' two cases in Khode Island and
Connecticut, where recent financial
embarrassment.s temporarily interfere,
factoiiea are running on full time, with
a brisk demand for their paoduct.s.
I,umber mills are busy, but prices are
low. Jobbers rejort u ginxl spring
trade. Sales are rapid, but on a small
margin of nrotil. lU-titUera alone com-
I plain. InMiig the last to feel the evidence
I r i,.,.., ,.
oi leiuriuiig i'iuj'vi . v i 1 1 1 1 v i -
lrin-viicte.l on a aoumler basis. Fewer
cretlita are given and less aake 1, and
collec tions are generally easy. Less idle
men are to lecen on the street., owing
to f.u-tory resumption and emigration,
and skilled labor is iu demand. Wage.
are lower.
What has been said ot New Knglaud
is true of the MiddleState. New man
ufactories are leing started iu some
places, low wages rendering possible
the running of the works ou a lower
stale of profit.. One in ii-atioiv of the
reinl i the increase I trallic of the
railro.uls. New Jersey a silk factories
now employ nearly twice as many
hand as a year ago. and her iron and
machine maker nave hard work to
keep up with border, own by running
night and day. Iu Pennsylvania one
firm haa advanced the wages of its
eiuphivees. The improvement is hardly
. apparent in tho ilistrici where co
. - .. -.. ..-.-. ii ! ii ii t .',! Iihi i' '.i
furnace men are very tearful of a thrca:-
ended advance in coal rale. Pelawaiv .
shipyards are full of work. Confidence
ia expresel everywhere. The loun
ger have gone wut, and the skilled
mechanic who remain find work
enough. As iu New Ilngland, the re
tailer are more cheerful over prospects
than prevent business.
From Baltimore, which has lost lunch
of its souther l trade, i niiii'i a cry of
distress, i linglo 1 w ilh a une congratu
lation over an increased exjnirt trale.
Taking the other Toulhern and south
western States, the general expreaaioii
Is verv cheerful. South Carolina only
reporting trale dull. Virginia limla a
great impetus gixen to tobacco luaini
focturing bv the risluction of the tax.
Wet Virginia gi iimblea. with ghtss and
nail facloiii-a iu full blast, be-uuse prof
its are not luo per cent. The cotton
.States report a reviving business, based
on the promise of the crops. The other
states repot t goou general leeuug. n
t!i exreptioii of Kentucky. Iu almost
eteiv sta:e building operatuuis are
brisk, aud tinauces are growing sound
er, a show n in the j .yment of old
debt ami les desire lor long credits.
New Orleans has some fear of n quar
antine which may embarrass business.
Throughout tlie Wes' the same evi
dence of prosjerity are shown, but are
more self -asserting than in the South.
No tailurt sor ruiuoraof failureaiu trade;
i-o;ie tions easy : long credit. neither
o Mens I nor asked these are the chief
financial indications. All the manu
factories Hie busy. Those which sup
ply material and" tools for farmers and
new settlers are jarticularly favored
wiih orders. The miller of St. Ioui
only have shut down, but for local
rea-sous. Jobbers report that trade has.
tKen in me place lifleen per cent,
letter than last year. The retail trade,
again, is the least afiecte! by returning
go.nl times, but the farmers are now
hard at work and have little time to
spend iu shopping. Building is going
on rap'dly everywhere. Kmigration
is very large; some of the more w estern
States" een apHar to feel crowded.
There is plenty of work every where, a
one correioiident says, for muscle and
capital.
The Liquid Count A Itaaad Tor
Con.
Chsrlottc 'I'wrver.
liastou couuty has been notel for
vears for Its ability to produce a verv
large quantity of a' very excellent qual
ity of corn Whisky. The people in
in'anv portions of the county had made
a living bv manufacturing it for years,
ami when" the high revenue lux was
impoed. they went on distilling all
the same, only removing the distilleries
off the roads, or higher up the brai-hes,
to keep cut of the way of the watchful
revenue men. But" blockading was
evetituailv cht-kel. and a lew govern
ment distilleries having been set in
motion, a public sentiment was create 1
against illicit distilling, and It has now
stopped almost altogether. But the
manufacture of the article was really
increased. Coionel Chapman, revenue
agent, has just returned from a riait to
that country, and reHrts that forty-tu n
lnndel government distilleries are now
in wtive operation. These dispose of
from four to ten bushels of corn each
dav, making in the aggregate alout two
hundred and fifty bushels of the grain
that jKiases from" tho solid to the liquid
state between the rising and setting of
each dav sun. Tho result is that corn
ia getting scarce in Uaston, notwith
standing a large quantity of it is raised
there, and is selling no.v at -" cents per
bushel. Charlotte merchants" might
find it to their advantage to supply the
demand at a paying price, ami Gaston,
w ith nearly one-fourth of the govern
ment distilleries in the district, onn
certainlv atlord to drop cotton at 1
rtMits fur that' what they received
last ytr -and devote itself exclusively
to corn.
A Cireo af III Own.
"I iv. John, did you see the circus?
veiled a loy to another last evening.
"No-os. I didn't see the circus?"
aneeriuglv said Jhn. who had lK.en
kept in the house for disobedience.
"Iiamph! Ought to een there; big
geet i)w you ever soed, elefant and
enrmela anil Uia contwisters iiml aid
everything. If I suhln't go to a circus
I'd run away." "Who wants to see an
old circus, "yelled John. "I hail a circus
all to myself. Tied the milk pitcher to
the cats" a tail, aud t L oat knocked
down two flower pots, aud smashed
the pitcher and broke a nane of glass.
Itit away wid yonr old clrcnses, been
to more'n four hundrel.an' ditln't have
so much fun; and didn't gel licked
nuther," and ihe boy who had been to
the circus smile I a sickly- smile. Oil
t tty Derr tk.
AN ESSAY ON GRANT.
MART CLE.VMEK AXALTZEK THE
DlNTIXUl'SHEII TRAVELER.
1 he Menial Aseendeney that waa
Achieved by aeereUry Fish Over
" The .Mau on lloraebaek."
I ludepeuiient.
A man never lived who personally
l ' " . V
which inspire enthusiam. 1 he tact that
enchantment of distance and the man
ipulations of politicians have lilted him
into a hero in the minds of those who
know him least, only proves how mar
velous are the powers of the human
imagination.
Fatally, for such glamour, I know
(irant weJl. It was my misfortune to
live for eight years in the very thick of
his civil administration. 'It was impos
sible tlAt I should be mistaken in its
character. An administration more
corrupt never cursed a country. This
was true while Urant himself was, at
leat, negatively an honest man. lie
did not pick and steal himself, though
he harlMred and trusted thieves. He
had that overweening lovo of money,
of all that money brings, that nearly
always marks the man deficient in the
native power of money-winning. Such
meu poverty make sordid. The man
of substance, the natural money -getter
the sous of inherited fortune, are tho
on who fill his imagination, make his
chosen society, if not his trusted
friends.
Such men were always nearest and
dearest to 5 rant. Stolid aa he seemed,
stuhlorn as he was, all discovered tho
unerring nerve in him whicu they had
but to touch to hold him forever tho
ner e of his inoidinate self-love. Its
all-absorbing activity did not prove
him to In by nature selfish beyond his
kind. Condition and circumstance had
quickened it to preternatural acute
ness. Tho man put ot!', batllod by for
tune, is the man w hom sudden success
overcomes. He is a man who never
learns the highest and finest use of
power. As President of the I'nited
Suites, such a man was Ulysses Grant.
The sycophants, the place-seekers, the
place-keepers, who surrounded him,
despite his reputation for pugnacity,
found it ierfectly easy, by feeding his
vanity, to hold this man iu thrall.
They told him that he was "tho great
est soldier that ever lived;" that ho was
tho final star in the triumvirate that
w as to blaze for all posterity Wash
ington, Lincoln and Urant that em
pire was in his destiny, and that ho was
to live and roign "chief," if not of lai
rope, of the United Stales. It was as
agreeable as it was natural for him to
believe all this, to gloat and swell with
sell iiiiMrlanco iu that telief. la its
full acceptance he left this country, ex
pecting as his right that all Europe
w oiihl "uncover" and bow before him,
thrchief of the western continent, over
w hose United States he was yet again
to reign and rule to their ruin. As I
have written before, Oram's tour
through Fn rope and around the earth
w as decided upon and prearranged by
the manipulators of his "third term''
lie fore he left the White House or the
city of Washington. Among many let
ters received from meu since I wrote
first of irant as a candidate for the
third term, is one from a Presbyterian
elegy man in a city of Iowa. He ad
dressed me in that curious tone of
mingled respect, condescension and au
thority indigenous to tho Presbyterian
ministerial mind when directed to one
of that srtioii of tho human family
whom even St. Paul evidently did not
altogether understaud, despite his as
sumptions and very oxoellent advice.
The clergy man tel Is mo that I "should
have said les about Urant or a great
deal more."
I d i tier from the clergyman, as I
should, doubtless, in his conduct of
"prayer meetings," though I myself
never pe-ak in any meeting whatso
ever. I cticio:it as it may be in quanti
ty and quality, I seem to have said
enough alout Urant to have stirred
considerably the minds of my breth
ren. Lot me now confess to these per
turbed beings, including tho Presby
terian minister, that 1 say as little as
possible about Urant. not wishing to
talk aiout mm or aioiu any man w uoni
it is beyond my power conscientiously
to praise. Tho clergyman points tri
umphantly to the fact that Hamilton
Fish's praise of Urant has great w eight
with the public mind. Well, the "pub
lic mind" w ould bo less moveedby such
i rai.se w ere it as well acquainted with
iamilton Fish and l lysses Urant as I
am.
Hamilton Fish is a gentleman by in
heritance, birth, breeding the most ot
a gentleman Urant ever had in his
Cabinet. A family more refined and
praiseworthy than his never graced
public life "in Washington. Amid a
crowd of plebeians and pretenders,
their grace and simplicity was as con
spicuous as it was solitary. Yet Ham
ilton Fish himself is a man of the world
a Onn viimil. While he far trans
cended Urant in inherited finenne : in
line, life-long associations ; in all that
makes a gentleman ; the tone of his na
ture, his intellectual habits, were not of
that higher quality which suggested
damaging comparisons, and put his
chief to absolute disadvantage, as did
the ronal and mental characteristics
of Carl Schurz and Charles Stunner.
Tho unity of at lo:ist one side of tho
natures of Fish and Urant begot famil
iarity, if not sympathy, between them ;
while tho superiority ot Fish on the
other gave him a mental ascendancy
over the President never habitually
achieved by any other member of his
Cabinet. Considering what for years
their relation was, it would have been
a strange, not to say disloyal, act for
Hamilton Fish to have spoken in other
than terms of personal praise ot" L'lysscs
Urant. It was less honorable in him
that, in pnuaing irant he should have
dropied disparagement upon the name
of Charles Sumuor. I heard from
Charles Sumner's own lips the entire
tale of his personal association with
Urant, and of Hamilton Fish's personal
part iu the affair. After making due
alliowauce for all human infirmity in
the three men. one inevitable conclu
sion reinai nod that the mental arro
gance of Sumner, if such ho felt it to
bo, was less insufferable to Urant than
the immeasurable moral and mental
sueriority of Charles Sumner himself.
Nothing so unerringly marks the in
trinsic fiber of a man's nature as tho
quality of the men whom he chooses as
his nearest companions. The strong,
crude, narrow forces of Urant's mind
fought instinctively the broader, higher
ideas of greater men. Their simple ad
missing put his own at discount.
Mightv in the brute force that holds
and propels armies through seas of
human blood, he was a selfish boor in
the use of the finer weapons of inind
and spirit that make and unmake the
tin onritv. the prosperity ol" a
pvovi., j ,
nation. ... .
The tieople have but to know and to
remeniler the character of the men
lifted and held in place by this man
that their abuse aud degradation of po
litical power made the administration
ot Uraut memorable as the most corrupt
in tV whole history of tho government
to make it impossible that a like ad
ministration le ever repeated as a na
tional afrttction. The report has been
brought back from India that General
Grant will refuse a nomination. Why,
not excepting his friends and admirers,
does nobody believe it? Why? Simply
because everybody who knows the
man knows that he not only will accept
a third nomination, but that he expects
it. So blinded is he by adulation, by
lust for perpetual power, by the flattery
and promises of the toadies aud office
seekers whose future importance hangs
upon his re-election which by day
and by night they are manipulating
he can no longer see that his one chance
of honor with posterity lies in his
speedy retirement as a soldier. LetTiim
in such retirement make the repetition
of the failures, the mistakes, the sins of
his civil administration forever im
possible, aud the tarnished repute of
th Executive may yet be covered by
the luster of the soldier's name.
The New York Herald, which, the
world knows, is so devoted to his fauie
that it :as sent a polished Boswell to
proclaim it round the entire circle of the
earth, yet declares tkat, if General
Grant wishes to perpetuate it undi
minished, unclouded, upon his return
he will retire, crowned with a soldier's
fame. There is certainly one pen that
will never follow him into such retire
ment with one line of reproach or accu
sation. But let no man assume to arraign me
for writing tho truth of a man who,
standing at its head, yet, through self
love, allowed the government of his
country to be administered on the low
est piano of selfish greed and cupidity.
Neither Grant, nor any man political
ly or personally identified with him in
Washington should ever be made
President of the United States. Surely
the nation is not so poor in manly honor,
in exalted personal probity, in execu
tive worth, that it can find no man
"available" as a possible President
outside of the hungry "hacks" and
"bummers" political, who have been
perpetually posing aud masquerading
for the Presidency for the last five years.
I love my country, love its people;
best of all", love its honor. I cannot
live so close to its heart to see it dis
honored accursed, as I have seen it
by the men who presume to govern it,
without consecrated protest.
I do not overestimate the force of any
w ord of mine. It may drop far short
of its mark ; it may reach but one hu
man mind; but, wherever it falls, it
shall be the priceless seed of truth.
The Railroad Meeting.
CJohlfrboro Messenger.
Tho adjourned meeting for the pur
nose of considering the railroad sub
scription question, was held Tuesday
night. In the absence ot .nr. a. .j.
Galloway, the chairman, W. F. Korne
gav, Esq., was called to the chair and
Messrs. A vera and Bonitz acted as sec
retaries.
.Afier the organization was comple
ted, Colonel A vera, on behalf of the
committee, reported tho following res
olutions:
In the opinion of the committee it
will bo impossible to raise tho money
necessary for building tho proposed
Goldshoro, Snow Hill tv Greenville
Railway by individual and town sub
scriptions; that it will be absolutely
necessary to resort to subscriptions on
t he part of 1 1 1 ree con n ties, Wayne,G reen e
and Pitt, and that the sum of one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars will have
to be subscribed on part of the same to
secure the building and completion of
the said ltailway; therefore,
JifMOtwi. That the county commis
sioners of Wayne county, in pursu
ance of the provision of the charter of
the said Railway Company, be reques
ted to submit to the qualified voters of
the said county, the first Thursday in
August next, the proposition to sub
scribe forty thousand dollars to the
capital stock ot the said Com pan j
ll(tlrcl. That the commissioners 01
the town of Goldsboro be requested to
submit a like proposition to the voters
of tho said town lor authority to sub
scribe the sum of ten thousand to the
capital stock of the said Company.
On motion ot Dr. J . r. Milter, second
ed by Col. I,. W. Humphrey, the report
was adopted aud the committee dis
charged. Previous to the adoption of
the resolutions appropriato remarks
were made bv Ir. .Miller and Messrs.
Humphrey and A vera in favor ol the
resolutions, favoring a postponement
of the same until the people of- Golds
boro, Snow Hill, Greenville, and along
tho projected route have shown their
interosiedness in the enterprise by
making liberal town and individual
subscriptions.
Comicalities.
Tiie summer horse car is an open
question. N. (. Pic.
Count that day lost, w hoso low de
scending sun
Can show of verses written 'nary one.
Merith-n Jlerordrr.
Nothing is more natural than for a
one-horse actress to take to playing
"Mazeppa." Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Cassagnac is not to fight M. Gob
let. No chance of Cassagnae making a
tumbler of his adversary. Phifadetjhia
liulletin.
More terrible than an army with ban
ners are the fair parasol -bearers of tho
crowded city streets. Ho.tton Tran
script. An amateur male singer frightened
a pair of canary birds to death. It was
a case of killing two birds with one's
tone. y. O. Pic.
The Crar, we hear, is very nervous.
It is so long since he has been
shot at that he fears the assassin is busy
p r act i si n g. Ch ica go Tr ib itn e.
The happiest moment in a boy's life
is when he can smoke cigarettes in the
presence of his paternal without en
dangering his life. Kingston Freeman.
Germany's custom of celebrating the
return of spring by a song at sunrise
wouldn't do in this country. Nobody
would get up in time to sing.CVa-cao
Saturday Evening Herald.
Says a fashion note, "Side panels on
costumes are fashionable." Panels be
ing things to a door, jambs in a crowd
and locks of hair follow quite nat
urally, making a knobby suit. Boston
Transcript. y
A Connecticut noetess addresses
"Triolet" to a New York paragraphist.
She asks: "Wrhat will you have, for
sooth Temples, birds or violets
A song of love and truth?" We regret
to destroy the imagery of the triolet,
but the chances are that he would pre
fer gin and sugar.. Xorristown Herald.
A man coming out of a Texas news
paper office with one eye gouged out,
his nose spread all over his face, and
one of his ear chewed off, replied to a
policeman who interviewed him. "I
didn't like an article that 'peared in the
paper last week, an' I went in ter see
the man who writ it, an' he war there!"
X. Y. Tribune.
A fashion item says "charming caps
for break !ast are of muslin; have mob
crowns bordered with scant ruffles that
are neatly scalloped." It doesn't tell
i.-. uv ar cooked, and we don't be
lieve we" could eat 'em, no matter how
thev were served up. Scalloped mus
lin caps for breamasi can never iivo
the place of scalloped oysters. -Vor-ristown
I feral d .
(slopped Over on the Exodus.
Tiouisvtlle Courier-Journal.
It appears' that Rutherford slopped
over on the exodus. He had been lis
tening to the sweet notes of George
Washington Conway.
THE GRISSOM REPORT.
A CAUSTIC LETTER FROM OHE OF
THE COMMITTEE.
Pleasaut Reading on a Warm Day
for those Interested lu the In
sans Asylum.
Correspondence of the News.
Greensboro, May 28. In my com
munication published in your issue of
the 7th, I acknowledge a personal debt
to the " honorable fathers" and "lovely
girls" of our good old State, which but
for iickness would have been sooner
canceled and which, though still sick, I
now hope to discharge, and at the same
time to vindicate the General Assembly
and those two unfortunate committees
UPOS AVHOSJ! DEVOTED HEaflSf
onr distinguished Superintendent pours
out so many vials of his rhetorical
wrath. In doing so I desire to say that
this controversy is not of my seeking
Indeed, after the love feast of compli
ments and good wishes furnished dif
ferent members of these committees by
our then charitable and resigned alien
ist in the closing days of the session,
about the time the compromise aheady
spoken of became an accomplished fact,
I could not have been more surprised
if they had received a wholesale invita
tion to
" PISTOLS AND COFFEE"
from him than I was by his very re
markable report. But though in the
light of the public and private history
of this legislation his attack is a " won
derful marvel," and though the com
mittees have subsequently been made
the target of various attacks ftom an
ambushed enemy, and one at least from
the house of their friends (the Hillsboro
Recorder of the 14th instant), I desire
to confine myself to a simple discharge
of tho al jresuid debt, making my com
munication as little personal as a faith
ful performance of that duty will per
mit. Let me pause, however, long
enough to say that our usually sober,
staid old friend of the Recorder " has
put iu a little abov e the ford." Upon
wrhat authority does he declare that " it
had appeared "that no abuse of resources
had been found to exist," and to charge
by indirection that the insane had been
made
THE VICTIMS OF PARTY RANCOR,
or party exigencies"? If so why did
we also reduce the appropriation of the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, presided over
by an excellent gentleman and a Dem
ocrat and also well managed? With
due difference to this venerable Nestor
of the Press, I challenge him as he
values his high reputation to produce
the proof outside of Dr. Grissom's re
port. The Recorder's gratuitous attack
is a modified form and rehash of that
report and it is safe to suy draws from
it and its author all of its inspiration
and life. Our distinguished Superin
tendent is reputed a skillful manipula
tor of editorial as well as legislative hu
manity. The Recorder, it is presumed,
had nothing before it but the conflict
ing reports of these committees on the
one side and of the Doctor on the other.
Your correspondent gave notice that he
would sustain the committees; and yet
our venerable knight not awaiting the
result as justice would demand of any
fair-minded man, even toward his en
emies HURRIEDLY SEIZES ALANC E
from the doctor's own armory and
hurls it into the ranks of his former
friends. The famous Don Quixote de la
Mancha may have done a more chival
rous, but never a more silly thing. "Call
you that a backing of friends ? " I ask
no man under any circumstances to
advocate wrong; but surely we had a
right to expect from one of the officers
of that assailed Legislature something
better than this indecent haste to wing
the poisoned arrow directed against its
bosom.
But, Mr. Editor, when we parted on
the 7th, the case of "Grissom vs. the
Legislature and others" stood thus: A
bitter complaint had been tiled to the
effect that the defendants had criminally
decreed the
DESTRUCTION OF OUR NOIILK CHARITY,
and to that end had arbitrarily ap
propriated to it only $58,000, instead of
the $70,000 demanded. For the de
fense, I had entered the plea of "not
guilty" as to the decree and "justifica
tion"a to the amount. In my turn I had
introduced witnesses of the highest
character, and of all others the most
intimately acquainted with the inner
workings and needs of the Asylum.
1st. The estimable Dr. Fuller, for many
years its main pillar. 2d, The three
members oi tne executive comiiuiioo
of the institution, certainly disinterest
ed oTi'nnt nu nat.riot citizens. 3d. I
cited the results of the long and labor
ious investigations oi tne two commu-
tnr,. nrwl Ath Thfl minnritv rfinnrt, of
HJCO, aim iLijf ....... . - - - - -
the Dr.'s confidential friend and fellow-
Republican, recommending $J,0U0 less
Lar tho flimrnnriat ion made. 5th. I
cited the Doctor's acceptance of the act
as it is, as a compromise; ami argueu
infereutiallv. that this one fact alone
ought to reassure
OUR "LOVELY GIKLS,
fYvr tUixt. it w.-is utterly incredible that
our chivalrous superintendent, who had
the institution aixi its siriCKen cunureu
so tenderly enshrined in his inmost
heart could have accepted the bill if so
infamous in its character and its conse
quences to these unfortunate ones.
Thnw wrfi therefore charitably as
sured that the report was "only a play."
Whatever of iorce mere may nae
Knn in thi flrtriimfint is now intensi
fied by the fact, which I am prepared
to show, tnat tne nocior is me buuiui
and proposer of this compromise; that
upon demand he gave to the doubting
Thomases of the committee written as
surances of his good faith; that he urged
his friends on the floor of the Senate,
and the House to stand by it and
squelch discussion; that in short it is
as much the child of his brain as that
beautiful piece ot rhetoric called a re
port is the child of his fancy. A fortiori,
all i ighted ones, there is
NO GROUND OF ALARM.
The act cannot be the vile thingfpaiuted
in the "play." For if it might be that
without due consideration he could
accept, it is beyond the remotest pos
sibility that he could deliberately study
out and propose a scheme to "starve
the stricken child of woe" (p. 22), "de
stroy the Asylum," (p. aim - gam
for himself the same reputation that
follows the name of that man who
carved his wretched fame by destroy
ing the temple of Diana" (p. 27j, and
do all this for the sordid consideration
of a place in the "Bedlam" (p, 21),
though at
A HEAVILY REDUCED SALARY.
No! No! as well expect the mother to
strangle her helpless infant, as our own
distinguished Superintendent (who is
to these poor unfortunates as a god)
thus to oetrav mem iur ma ci
sonal gain, 'rhis was the line of argu
ment attempted in my last. But it is
sad to find that there are many plain
straight forward old fashioned folks
who decline to fall into it or to accept
the charitable view presented. They
say: either to accept or to propose is ut
terly inconsistent with the bitter de
nunciations of this report. The two
things are
AS FAR APART AS THE ANTIPODES.
The idea of the report being a "play"
is a silly sham. If he was right then,
he is wrong now. If he is right now
he betrayed a sacred trust then. Ah!
my old fashioned friend, none the less
valued on account of those honest but
old-time notions, you overlook the
fact that genius, whether political or
rhetorical, must have its license and
the world generally allows it. Besides,
Aristotle has said, "there is no dis
tinguished genius altogether exempt
from some infusion of madness; but
whether our istinguished friend was
in this report only airing his rhetoric
or, like the boy in the Georgia scenes,
was only showing how he "could ha'
tout," if we had done wrong, one
thing is sure, he betrayed no sacred
trust in this compromise. He then
thought
THE SUM APPROPRIATED AMPLE.
I think no one yriXL doubt this fact
'wht will read the following letter, ad
dressed to the distinguished chairman
of the Senate Committee on the Insane
Asylum. But if such reader will lay
down the letter and then take up the
Doctor's report he will wonder how even
Aristotle's distinguished genius could
have the heart, in this season of bud
ding flowers and tender emotions, to so
unmercifully
CUT AND LASH HIS LITTLE LAST WIN
TER'S BABY.
I especially desire to this letter the
attention of the honorable Board of
Directors (composed, as I know, of
some of the best men of the State), who
spent several hundred dollars of a sup
posed insufficient appropriation to print
5,000 copies of this report. I said in
my former letter that the "Doctor,
while ptotesting $50,000, was insuffi
cient, etc. ; " but be it understood that
the Doctor did not then know that this
amount was not intended to include
the debts. He thought it intended for
all purposes.
Insane Asylum of N.
lum of N. C.
e Grissom, Sup.,
t, N. C, Feb. 25, 1879. J
Dr. Euoen
Raleigh
Col. John Gray Bynum, Senate Cham
ber:
Dear Sir: In view of the urgent
needs of this institution, I would ro
spectfully call attention to some facts
pertaining to its financial statement
which may be unknown to members
of the General Assembly, or may have
been unobserved; but their importance
justifies careful consideration before
such action is taken as may result in
lasting injury to the State by crippling
her means for the restoration of the
Insane. (The Doctor then goes on to
refer to the printed statement of the
affairs of the Asylum.) The total ex-
Senditures for the official year ending
ecemberl, 1878, were $03,535.06., leav
ing in the hands of the Treasurer of the
Asylum about $800. We are indebted
to the Public Treasurer for a loan of
$5,000 with which to defray the expen
ses for the month of December, 1878,
being an advancement on the appropri
ation for this year. There has been
advanced by the Citizens' National
Bank in the payment of vouchers
$3,344.92. There is further due in out
standing vouchers, but unpaid, the
sum of about $4,500. Thus the whole
amount of indebtedness is about
$12,000.
It should not be forgotten that about
three mouths of the present ollicial year
have already passed. To pay the debts
already incurred and to defray the ex
penses of the Asylum until January 1st ,
1880,will require at least $60,000,even up
on the assumption that the present low
prices of supplies can be maintained,
while in the event of a rise in the mar
ket a deficiency must ensue. Any
appropriation that will be materially
less than $60,000, after every possible
economy and retrenchment (without
serious detriment to the Institution in
all its aspects), will reduce the Asylum
from its present high curative standard
to the grade of a mere almshouse.
In view of the various opinions ex
pressed by different committees and
different authorities on this subject I
have felt it my duty to present this in
formation to the Legislature, so vital to
its interest and its honor involved in
the care and protection of the most un
fortunate citizens in the State.
I am, yours truly,
Eugene Grissom.
Now it needs but a short commentary
on this letter to show the extraordinary
character of the Doctor's report.
OUR CRIME
is that we only gave $50,000 on support
account. The Doctor distinctly declares
that $60,000 will pay all the debts (placed
by him at "about $12,000," but really
by his own showing adding up about
$13,000), and defray all expenses of the
Institution for the vear 1879. Let it bo
borne in mind that $8,000 of that debt
in round numbers was contracted and
due prior to that year of 1879. It is
plain then that the Doctor demands,
for this year proper, the sum of $52,000
only, and this without reduction of sal
aries. But the committees saw fit to
reduce the Doctor's salary about $2,00
And to abolish the Treasurer's
office, assigning his duties to
the State Treasurer, saving 600
And to abolish also second assist
ant physician, saving about 1,200
So that the Institution had lifted
from it. in these items alone, a
burden of at least, $3,S00
How now ? If $52,000, was asked, and
we gave $50, 000 in cash, and then $3,
800 additional in the reduction of sala
ries alone, did we not really give $1,800
more than the Doctor asked ? Does not
the Doctor confirm his Executive Com
mittee and become one of our most im
portant witnesses for the defense ?
Take another view. He asks $60,000
for all purposes. V7e gave him $58,000
in cash, and about $4,000 in reduction
of salaries. In the light of this letter
doesn't this
BEAUTIFUL RHETORICAL EFFUSION
become a little farcical, reminding us
in an unusual sense that it is but one
step from the sublime to the ridiculous?
Isn't it just a little probable from the
above figures that the injury rankling
in the Doctor's bosom, is not that done
to the "tender lamb of spotless inno
cence that never had a thought of evil"
(p. 20), "with that look upward from
the gulf of intolerable anguish," (p.19);
but that done the poor Superintendent
looking up from the gulf of a
n EA VI L Y REDUCED SALARY.
w hich Wfear, alas! is also a gulf of in
tolerable anguish? I really fear that
fi.o ilv business is a sham.
and that w e must at last go to Aristotle
for an explanation of the rhetorical
onslaught of "distinguished genius."
Friend' Eugene, thou art beside thy
self; "distinguished genius" and the
loss of salary and et ceteras, and "much
grub" at the expense of the State how
made thee mad.
Respectfully,
One of the Committee.
Relief for Arehblshop Purcell
The appeal for the relief of Archbish
op Purcell, which was acted upon by a
counsel of Bishops on Monday evening
is nearly ready for publication. It was
learned last evening that advices from
Rome of a semi-official character indi
cated that Bishop McQuade, of Roches
ter, N. Y., would be selected by the
Pope as coadjutor of Archbishop Pur
cell. His appointment is expected
this week.
THE LimfflELD . CASE.
CONJECTURES OF TIIE WISE MEAr
OF RALE1UII. "
The Sealed Months or the Telegraph
OfficialsThe Governor's Iufor-
inatlon on the Subject.
The case of Milton S. Littlofield,
whose trial is now going on In Florid,
was the principal topic of street talk
yesterday. Various and sundry re
ports were rife, and for a while the
News man could make no progress in
his eager search for more light or . " aj 1
the lights," as has been so bravely said
by another. The first report that
seemed to obtain a more general cur
rency started about noon yesterday,
wherein it was stated .to the reporter
that a telegram from Jacksonville had
been received somewhat to the follow
ing effect : . i . .
copy.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 30, 187U.,
TV, His Excellency Governor Jaypti:
A party was here yesterday, hailing
from jour State. He acted very strange
ly towards me, and there was sonn
doubt in my mind as to his sanity. In
order to vindicate the unsullied honor
of the old North State, as well as to de
fend myself against a possible Injury, T
took the liberty of having the party ar
rested. What shall I do with him ? ,
Faithfully,
M. S. Littlefield.
Tho reporter did not believe a word
of it. It looked like a 44 put up Job.
But the thing could be very easily
found out. All that was nocessary to
do was to ask at the telegraph office.
" Any telegram been received ry
anybody from Littlefield to-day ft
"Eh?"
" Any telegram
" Our mouths are sealed. We can't
divulge any secrets from this office.
You can understand why we can't !"
"Umpli 1 Been eating oysters too
much. That's what's the matter with
everybody these days when the re
porter wants to get at
'the bottom facts'
in a case that so deeply agitates tbe
public mind."
"We don't know anything about (hat
but if we can bo of any assistance1 to
you will very cheerfully help you." -
That was too much like "taffy" the
Major was giving us, so the Executive
office was just the place after all.
"Have you heard from Littlefield to
day, Governor ?"
"Yes, sir, I have just received a tele
gram which Mr. Overmann has, and
will show you."
Mr. Overmann, who is the very epi
tome of politeness, promptly produced'
the telegram which-was as folfors :
COPY.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 30, 1879. '
To ITis Excellency, (governor Jtrrix :
If the case goes against us shall vtt
appeal to the Supreme Court, which
meets next Tuesday week ? We will
do so if not instructed to the contrary.
J. W. Lee.
To this the Governor made the fol
lowing characteristic reply :
J. W. Lee, die.
Push tho case to its extremities.
Leave nothing undone. Keep mo in
formed. T. J.J A R vis..
"No other information ?"
"No, sir; that's all we have received
so far. We expect more news to-night."
Matters rested quietly for the balance
of the day. A groat many ideas were
expressed about
"what littlefied could tell."
" Fifteen men in Raleigh are trembling
in their boots now." " If Littlelleld
does come and tell what he knos."
" What did Badger leave for ? " " How
is Lee getting on?" "Tho last we.
heard from him ho had gotten over into
Georgia." 'Us it really so that Little
field arrested him?" And about 1,700
more "conjectural, interrogatory and
commentary allusions" Tundly volun
teered by the wise men of Italejgh yes
terday on this point.
tiif. latest.
The latest tidings from the " seat of
war" contain nothing very important,
as the following telegram received by
Governor Jarvis shows :
Jacksonville, Fla., May 30. Our
case will be concluded to-morrow.
Cannot sav what the result will be.
J. W. Lke.
Brain Sauce.
"There were two men got into a fight
in front of the store to-day," said a
North-end man at tho sapper table,
"and I tell you it looked pretty hard for
one of them. The biggest one grabbed
a cart stake and drew it back. I thought
sure he was going to knock the other's
brains out, and I jumped in between
them."
The family had listened with wrant
attention, and as the head paused in
his narrative the young heir, wboe
respect for his fatner's bravery was Im
measurable, proudly remarked:
"He couldn't knock any brains oat of
you, could he, father?"
The head of the family gazed long
and earnestly at the heir, as if to detect
evidences of a dawning humorist, but
as the youth continued with great in
nocence to munch his fourth tart, he
gasped and resumed his supper. Hoc k
land Courier.
The Earthquakes of 1J7.
The earthquakes of the world In 187.8
amounted to 103, and were most numer
ous, in winter and autumn, only iy le
ing noted in spring and summer, while
there were 39 in winter and 20 in au
tumn. This number, however, states
Herr Fuchs, who annually records
these disturbances, iucludes as units
many periods in which shocks occurred
at intervals for days and weeks. The
most destructive earthquake took place
on January 2kl in Terapaoa, South
America, and another notable distur
bance occurred in San Salvador. In
En rope one shock on Jan nary 2th affec
ted Southern England and part of
France ; Switzerland, the Black Forest,
the Tyrol, Lisbon and Piedmont also
suffered at different times; while the
earthquakes on the shores of the Boa
phorus in April and May wer felt by
the British fleet. The lower Rhine
earthquake being on August 25th, affec
ted a region of over 2,000 square miles.
There were 12 volcanic eruptions an
unusually high number, and these
occui red "at places far apart, and mostly
proceeded from little-known volca
noes. With the Hand PrtM.
Boston Transcript.
More than twenty-five years ago a
little boy, not yet iu his teens, took his
first lesson in "the art and mystery" of
firinting from a gentleman in middle
ife, who explained how tho"caso" was
arranged and why, and practically ex
emplified the process of "setting up'?
type. "This, my by,v he said In a se
rious tone, yet with a kind smile, as be
placed his hand on tlie lover of an old
fashioned Franklin hand press, "is the
most ftowerful weapon known. In the
hands of bad men it is dangerous; In
the hands of good men it can work
miracles. We hope to abolish slavery
with it." That bey was Causeur that
man was William Lloyd Garrison,
it
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