North Carolina Newspapers

& THURSDAY, ........JULY SI, 187. THE SOUTH AXO 8CR1BSEICB. We find in the August number of tkrib- Tier's a very sensible review of an editorial article recently published in that magazine on the subject of "Southern Civilization," which some time since elicited very spirit ed comments from the Southern press. The reviewer is Dudley Q. Wootsn, who writes from Austin, Texas, and who very candidly makes admissions that apply perhaps truly to the condition of society , in that State, but which are not applicable to communities ' resident in the older Southern States. ; Mr. Wootks says that there has always existed among us a mor bid public sentiment in reference to hom icide. " With us." he writes. " and our neighbors in the far West, the murderer and the criminal are usually presented in the fascinating garb of the desperado. The romance of adventure, the charm of reck' less daring and the mistaken semblance of heroism surrounding the average desperate criminal of the South and West, have con tributed to render him an object of ill - concealed admiration and respectful awe to the terror-stricken public against whom his life and deeds have been deadly foes.' Certainly we are to understand that Mr. WooTes speaks here only of Texas and her neighbors in the far West, and we shall not quarrel with him. about that mat ter. He doubtless knows how it is in his own community. But if by any construc tion it can be inferred that North Carolina is embraced within the region of' which he speaks, we - enter our emphatic protest and denial. However it may be else where, the people of this State look with no favor on him who has dipped his hands in the blood of a fellow-man. To be sure, here . men are . endowed with like passions as elsewhere, and difficulties arise in which homicides are committed. But there is no disposi tion, that we know of, prevailing in North . Carolina or in any portion of the State; to look with admiration or even with com placency on him who is guilty of murder. Apart from this admission of Mr. Woo- Tin's, which we conceive applies only to Texas, we agree very thoroughly with near1 ly everything else contained in his commu nication. He defends the South from the sweeping charges preferred by Bcribner't Magazine, and insists that "It cannot be truthfully; asserted that the Southern people, or any considerable or influential porfion of them, are dis posed to commit crimes, or to defend and tolerate those who do. The records of the criminal courts of every Southern State, he declares, will show as many arraigments in proportion to crimes committed, and as many convictions in proportion to arraign ments, as those of any of the States of the Vnion.M "The charges you make," he writes, "in regard to murder walking abroad, un challenged, defiant and approved by the ruling sentiment of the South, ' though n t t . euibcu puBiuvciy uy juu, arc sot sustained by any authentic instance within the knowledge of any responsible citizen North or South," - Aad then, earning the 1 war into Africa, he alleges, "that it may be positively affirmed that the character and tendency of . the crimes prevalent in the Northern States indicate a more de praved, morbid and dangerous condition of asv1otv than !a cVinnrn trv OT-!ot at t Via Qnnth Proceeding on this line he says: "Com pared on this basis, I candidly think the South is immeasurably superior to the North. It is not necessary to particular ize but will suffice to say that in all these offenses against social and domestic order and decency, against the high trusts and sacred relations of private, public and business life, the records of crime, as be tween the two sections, will stand as twenty to one in our favor. Forgeries, defalcations, social scandals, indecent do mestic complications, clerical short com tags, prurient horrors of nameless kinds, fill the pages of Northern papers, and have appearantly ceased to excite more than passing sensation. I honestly believe that there are some offenses of, wretched and frequent notonety in the Middle, Eastern and Northern States, which not only never oeenr with iml hnt whfoh nro mnrnllv onH mentally impossible to the native Southern character. What are We to think of the rioters and strikers who, two years ago pillaged and defied both civil and military authority in at least two of the most pop ulous and civilized Northern States? Are these things in no way exponent of civili zation as it grows on Northern soil, and expressive of the real practical outcome f social life at the North ? While isola ted instances of violence and partisan col orings of desultory crimes are used as ar guments to consign the South to barbarism and to the pious commiseration of the na tion we are said to be daily disgracing, we have a right to ask that there should be some mutuality in this matter of blame and reproach." In particular do we agree with him when hie says very forcibly that "the South has first and last listened to a vast deal of mawkish sentiment and pietistic cant from Northern journals, religious and sec ular, and even in legislative halls; the most of which has been either too obviously par tisan in its tone or too plainly false in its facta to demand our notice." We thinH there is much in the above to commend it to the enlightened judgment of those who may read it.1 Everywhere -there 'are grades in .society everywhere men and women differ according to the influences and circumstances that give a cast to their lives, for true it is that '. "time and chance happen to all men." But we fully believe from an intimate knowledge of the North Carolina citizen and a general ac quaintance with the people of other parts of the Globe that no where in no coun try does there now exist a people more worthy of commendation and less obnox ious to the charge ' so recklessly, made by ScrOmefs Magazine than the people of North Carolina, - ... , . TBE FES CIS LA W We who are hemmed in by the brick walls of our neighbors, and are not con versant with the wants and necessities of our farming population, perhaps ought not to even suggest matters for their consider ation, much less offer gratuitous advice touching their .concerns. For our own part, we candidly admit they are the best judges of what affects their material pros perity, and we can therefore only ask them to make a note of any hint we may now or hereafter make, with the view of consider ing whether or not it is worth while to act upon it. It so happens, however, that there are but few persons in North Caro lina not in some degree connected with agriculture, and while it is doubtless true that the farmers know best about matters peculiarly affecting themselves, we all have some slight acquaintance with the details of farm life. We are led to these reflections be cause we indulge a hope of being useful to that class of our citizens who comprise nearly nine-tenths of our entire popula tion. Nothing that can serve them a good turn should be allowed to he quiet by the press of the State. - - To-day we propose to direct attention to the "no fence law," as being one of the new ideas of these ad vanced times, which is worthy of the most careful consideration by the farmers of the middle section of North Carolina. Its history in this State we believe was somewhat after this fashion. Certain gen tlemen in Mecklenburg county v bavin g tried to have the law established in some ef their townships on several occasions without success, 'eventually had an election held when its opponents were not on the alert, and thus obtained its adoption in one township. When the fences had been built and the law fully enforced, its advantages became so apparent that the entire county quickly adopted the law and the only fences ne cessary to be kept up in that rich and pop ulous county were the fences on the coun ty line, thus saving an indefinite but enor. mous sum of money to the people of Meck len burg. From this example, Cabarrus county caught the infection, and now the law seems to be firmly established in that section of the Stale. It is well enough to remark that the farmers of Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties are usually conceded to be the most prosperous people in North Carolina and their deposits in the Charlotte banks are an indication of their thrift and in creasing wealth. r Without doubt the "no fence law" has many recommendations, which almost every farmer will admit; and we believe all that is needed will be an effort to conform our habits to the new order of things, and tne experiment once tried will prove a success and give eatisfaction to all inter ested. We commend it to the favorable consideration of our intelligent farmers in all parts of the State, but more especially to those who live in the red lands of the centre where grass and clover can certain ly be grown to advantage. Thx New York Timet, under the head mg of "The Southern Issue," makes the following noteworthy admissions touching Southern statesmen, and. U . purposes of tne Southern people.. Coming unexpect edly from a source that usually is so vio lent, we take pleasure in reproducing them as they indicate some advance from the position lately held by the stalwart press of the North. We may now believe that the Union is safe. .' We have had occasion, says the Times, to point out that there was danger the danger which always attends injustice in misstating or exaggerating what may be called, the Southern issue in tho political canvass this fall in the various States. But we are very far from thinking that this issue is not pertinent and important.- It Is obviously an error to say that we are called upon to consider the prospect of a new re bellion, or to combat either the theory or the threat of secession. The South has no avowed intention of trying over again on the battle-field the contest which it waged so obstinately and lost so hopelessly. Nor is there any indication in the speeches or conduct of the Southern leaders of any secret intention of this kind. As a thing of the past, the abstract right of secession finds its advocates occasionally." It would be strange if it did not. Men who have periled their lives for a cause naturally de fend its justice, and the, majority of the Democratic Representatives in Congress are of this class ; but it seems to us the extreme of folly to imagine that any considerable-number of men of influence and authority in the South contemplate as pos sible the practical reasaertion of the right of secession. - "" . I "; ' . r The reason , why the conduct of : the South now calls for attention from the country is not that that section is nursing rebellious feeling or proposing secession doctrines,., Coney Island is the favorite Sunday place for those New Yorkers who are" un able to leave the city on week days. They eat, drink and make merry, there with all the abandon of children at . a picnic On last Sunday, for instance, it is estimated that there were sold 500,000 clams, 25,000 crabs, ;10,000 broiled chickens, 25,000 quarts of ice cream, 50,000 cigars, 250,000 asses of beer, 10,000 glasses of soda water and 4,000 syphons of seltzer. IL Stephens defined his position financially; before the Georgia Legislature on Monday last. In the eyes of the dis tinguished Georgian the country seems in a desperate condition and all on account of the demonetization of silver, which was the sole cause of the crash ot 1873. To his mind the remedy is in the unlimited coinage of that metal and in a paper cur rency based on that and gold. Ane Viiamoer oi Aepuues to-day, by a vote of 249 to 165, adopted the proposal of M. Proust for the demolition of the ruins of the.Tuileries. The site will be trans - - tmn n m t - m formed into a garden. Thx New "York Herald takes it upon itself to advise Mr. Tildkh that he can never be President, but that if he will bring himself to realize that fact and be come the counsellor of the Democratic party rather than its candidate, he may guide it to easy victory at the next elec tion. We do not concern ourselves with the vaporings of the Herald, for that paper is nothing unless inconstant. Neither do we attach any importance to its notion that Mr. Tildex, if nominated cannot be again elected President, for whoever bears the Democratic banner will bear it on to certain victory. But it is beeause we find in this article of the Herald a very succinct state, ment of some of the reasons for this faith that is in us, that we reproduce it. It is true that many persons heretofore Repub licans are turning'away from that organi zation with alarm at its menaces against free government, and are looking to the Democratic party as the only hope of pre serving those republican institutions which have made America the great exception in the history of governments notably among whom are Secretary Gobham and Ex-U. 8. Senator Cole, of California, whose desertion from Republican ranks we chronicled yesterday morning. The Herald says : You cannot be President Mr. Tilden, for a number of reasons. We will not here refer to certain disagreeable events In your career, because that would be un kind, and we are now addressing you in the most friendly spirit. We will not al lude to your unfortunate income tax suit, with its painful adjuncts; nor to the. still more unlortunate cipher aespatcnes: to your sometime relations with the late Wil liam M. Tweed: nor to your relations to certain shipwrecked railroads. It is far from our purpose to revive in your own mind the recollection of events which, nevertheless, are fresh in tne public mind. and which, as all sensible Democrats very well know, their opponents would, if you should have the ill fortune to procure yourself to be nominated, take care to ad vertise abundantly to a public which, thouzh it may not be squeamish in its own pursuit of fortune, is, perhaps for that reason, the more rigidly particular about the character of its servants. It is not necessary to refer to these matters, Mr. Tilden. for the truth is there are other reasons besides these to prevent you from ever becoming President, xou are un doubtedly an able man. but your action in partisan politics is disastrous to the party which you seek to control. You follow your own career with such unfaltering determination that you notoriously forget everything else, and a politician of whom it is generally suspected that he means to either rule his party or rum it cannot ex pect a long continued success. You sue ceeded once. You became Governor ef New York. You ought to have seen that this was properly the end of your career as an omce-hoider. The Democratic party, witn wise man agement, has a fair chance of success next year. A great many people begin to think that, on the whole, the country would be the better for a change of parties. The Republican party has done much good work for the country in its eighteen years of power : but the people are a little dis gusted at the deadly tenacity with which the Republican leaders cling to the offices: it makes them suspicious ; they think it wise to have a change, if only for four years, and no doubt they are right. If the Democrats should next year offer them a safe platform and a fit man we believe the voters might accept them. But you ought to see that it is just here that you are out of the question. You are a Marplot in your party, which will not have you if it can helD it and if von should suecwl r the no which will not change unless it can change for the better the country, Mr. Tilden, would reject you : and, we say it in all kindness, it would be right in doing so. You cannot be President. Air. Tilden. but you can serve your party by retiring to private life. Do that and who knows? we may have a Democratic President yet. Thx investigation of the Freed man's Bank progresses very slowly, although three experts are examining the books. There were thirty-three branch banks con nected with the parent institution in various parts of the country. The business trans actions of the, branch banks are very nu merous, a majority of them being made up of small deposits, and running through about nine hundred ledgers of six hundred pages each. The experts hope, however, to have their work completed for presenta tion to Senator Beuce's committee about December 1. Frank Ilnrd on ree Xrade. Representative F. H. Hurd (Dem.. OA who has been under treatment for rheuma tism in Philadelphia, has been talking about free trade to a reporter of the Timet of that City. Of the so-called "balance of trade" he said : "If free trade prevailed a man might leave Portland. Maine, with a cargo of staves not worth there $1,000. He takes them to the West Indies, where staves are needed, and trades them for sugar and mo- lasses ana otner products ot that clime. He then takes these to St. Petersburg and exchanges them for fur. tar and nroducts of Russia, which he carries to Liveraool to cnange mere tor sue, laces and other goods uemanaea at xnew xorx. Alter a two years' voyage he returns to the United States with a cargo valued in New York atyat from $50,000 to $60,000 The protectionist seeing him start out with $i,uuu worth ot 8 tares and coming back with $60,000 worth of goods, would de - plore the transaction because the balance of trade was against us. The freetrader sees in it the just reward to American enter prise, and would encourage such transac tions that they might be repeated indefi nitely from every port in the United States. The freetrader asks for a modification of the tariff then, first to open new markets to American products : secondly, to de stroy the unjust system of taxation of one man to help another, which protection always implies: thirdly, to build ud the honest businesses of the country, which are inreaiened every day by , unpunished smuggling, and, lastly, to enable the United States to take the place, to which it is en titled, of the greatest carrying nation of meworiou". - . .... Dean Er&kine, of Ripon (who, by the way, was "the lion." as well as "the Very Rev."), when a jocose rural dean said to him, in a bantering way, "I don't see whv. if you cathedral deans have the crefli ! Very Rev.. we rural deans shouldn't have I some prefix, tool" " Well," replied the canny Scot, with a chuckle, " suppose we call you 'Bather , Reverend V " Temple nor. - r- - - jjoro. xxrne is to write a dook on America. - A man who thinks he can im prove the Psalms of the Bible by making tnem over into rnymes is capaoie ot doing . . - most anyuung m tne wnung une. . A well known French proverb says that "One must suffer in order to be beautiful' i Tbe Yellow Ferer. Memphis July 29. Six new eases of SUow fever were reported to the Board of ealth this morning. Among the number are 8. A. Hatcher, of R. L. Cochran & Co., Maria Lanahan, JS. Rosenheim and TonyBotto. Late last night a messenger arrived here from Raleigh, Tenn., for a nurse to attend Dora, the daughter of Chief of Police Athy, who is down with the fever. CoL Cameron, with his detail of colored soldiers, took . quiet possession . of . the grounds selected for the establishment of a camp, and by 6 o'clock this morning had 125 tents erected. The first train with refugees will leave this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The policy of the authorities to furnish rations only to those who are in camps will be strictly observed. All mail matter leaving this city is thorougly disin fected under the personal supervision of inspecting officers of the National Board of Health. The weather continues sultry. Two more cases were reported to the board of health this afternoon, and four deaths from yellow fever have been re ported by undertakers Ada Hicks, col ored, Easton Oley, colored, Bridget Twomey and John Twomey. The last two have never been reported to the board of health as having yellow fever, neither did the burial certificate have the signature of the attending physician, but as both died within two hours of each other, and had black vomit just previous to dissolu tion, it was presumed by the undertaker that .they had died of yellow fever. A colored man named C. Wiggen also died to-day. : He had no physician, and a mem ber of the Howard Association, whose at tention was called to his death, had him buried, and Bigned the certificate for yel low fever. The board of health, how ever, refused to recognize the signature, and classed the death as unknown. About fifty people went down to camp this after noon. The weather has greatly interfered with the removal of the poor. The camp has been named Camp Marks, in honor of the Governor. The Howard Association to-day assigned ten -additional nurses to duty. An aged negro named Billy Mc Donald,1 who had been left in charge of Mrs. Allen's residence, near the north gate of Elm wood Cemetery, was found dead this morning. Some unknown party murdered him. There is no clew to the cause or assassin. Samuel A. Hatcher is reDorted in a critical condition to-night. A Mr. Nash, a broker, who reached Cincinnati from Memphis last Thursday, was removed to the hospital to-day sick with yellow fever. The attack is mild, but oronounced genuine. Lizzie Brandy, the little child of Mrs. Brandy, from Memphis, died of yellow fever at St. Louis Quarantine Hospital this afternoon. AO new case has developed there yet. THE OASES 07 YELLOW FEVER IK SEW OB' ; "1 T; 'lUUSS. New Orleans, July 29. The second case of yellow fever reported to the board of health is that of a two-year-old child of Dr. Moenegra, at the corner of Magazine and Washington streets, who is now con valescent. It is regarded as a doubtful case. The Time says its reporters visited vesterday every doubtful case known to the doctors. They express the opinion that none of them is yellow fever. It would be almost impossible for a case to escape the vigilance of the State board of health, the national board authorities and the sanitary auxiliary association officials. who know of no case other than those be fore mentioned. Later. No new cases of yellow fever are reported as having occurred in the city. A little child living at 105 Bourbon street. who was brought here sick on Sunday night from Morgan City, has the black vomit and will die. The Morgan City au thorities sent the child and its mother, Mrs. Auff ret. to this city. Montgomery (Ala.) and Vicksburg (Miss.) have established quarantine against New Orleans. In sonsequence of possible interference fr?a auarantinpa th council have decided to hold the convention of tbe national cotton .Ex change in New York on the 13th of Au gust, instead of at St. Louis. New Yobk, J uly 29. A special to even ing papers from New Orleans to-day says : "ureat excitement prevails in this city over what seems to-day to De a most im minent probability that the yellow fever scourge has begun its ravages again. - One case has been already reported to the board of health, and there is reliable information that four more will be reported. Every one who can leave the city is doing so, and the trains for the north are crowded to their utmost capacity. The disease has broken out in the same neighborhood where it began last year tbe Gordon dis trict. From this district, a densely popu lated one, the fever originated in the years 1803, 1867 and 1878." Baltimore Hun. -Panic in a Church in Chicago (Trom tb Chidago Tribune, July 21.) There was a panic at the French Catho lic Church, corner of Halsted and Con gress streets yesterday forenoon, that for a few minutes promised to result disastrous ly. This church edifice Is very old, and for months past there have been doubts expressed as to- the safe condition of the floor, and very many of the people of the parish have sought religious privileges else where on this account. Yet the church was unusually full yesterday morning at the 8 o'clock mass. Nearly every sitting was occupied oy devout worshippers. The priest had reached that part of the service where the communion is celebrated, when there was a report as loud as though a small cannon had been fired beneath the floor. Fast following upon this were a second and third, and then the cry arose that the floor was giving away. With this startling announcement the congregation arose and began an indiscriminate scram ble for safety. Men and , women were frantic witn excitement Many were thrown down and trampled upon and received severe bruises, but, strange to say,' as examination afterward proved. there were no broken limbs. The priests did all they could to quiet the throng, and after an urgent appeal, succeeded in stop ping the flight of the congregation. When this ' was done the priests stated that they would not continue tbe mass, as they did not consider the building safe. A great many of the congregation who had succeeded in getting out of the church re- rused to retain ; but, strangely enough. tnose who were still in the building, ascer taining that they were not injured, went back to their seats. Then they insisted that the mass be continued to the end, and this in tbe face of the fact that there was an impending possibility of the floor sag ging at any moment and parting in the centre. The priests complied with the request of the congregation, and the mass was said. At 9 o'clock mass was again said in tbe church. The ground floor of the church is used for fairs and other fes tivals. This story Is about twelve feet in the clear. The auditoriom is above this, and is reached by a staircase leading from the vestibule that opens upon the street. VI wish I could prevail on neighbor Hin der to keep the Sabbath," said good old Mr. Jones. "I'll tell you how to do it," ex claimed young Smith; "get somebody to lend it to him. and I'll be bound he'll keep It. He never was known to return anything he borrowed." We see that a '"hoase of call" in New Jersey is called the "Mosquito Tavern." That must, be a place where any hungry I wayfarer that Blocs may be sure of getting I muiie, ' I , From Washington. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Son, S9th. '" . THX XSGLISH , MISSION. . None of the Pennsylvania delegations that were to come here in the interest of some one of their number for the English mission have as yet put in an appearance. Numerous letters and dispatches were re ceived to-day by the President from prom inent Pennsylvaaiana, suggesting certain persons for the appointment. Among tbe names suggested were Mr. Anthony J. Drexel, the banker, Gen. Robt. Patterson, Wayne McVeagh, Galusha A. Crow, ex -Gov. Hartranft, Judge M. Russell Thayer, Benj. -Harris Brewster, ex-Congressman Campbell and K Joy Morris. There is a story that the Secretary of State de sires to transfer Professor White from Berlin to London, and to give Penn sylvania both the German and Rus sian missions, the latter being now va cant, or, if the Pennsylvania people prefer, the mission to China, which, it is expected, will be vacant soon after Congress assem bles. The name of Levi P. Morton, the wealthy banker Congressman from New York city, is also suggested for the mis sion vacated by Mr. Welch. The estimate at the Department of State is that our minister to England must of necessity spend $25,009 a year "to maintain tbe dignity of the office." This, they say, is simply covering the cost of the minister's personal expenses and the entertaining he is bound, by all rules of both social and official propriety, to do. Now, as the sal ary the government allows him is only $17,500, he must have a private income of his own to see him through or else go in debt. Mr. Pierrepont's expenses, while minister to England were at the rate of $40,000 a year. From this it will be seen that none but the rich' need apply for the place. Democratic simplicity needs a little revivication. ; j THX MEMPHIS PESTILENCE. - CoL Keating, the editor of the Memphis Appeal, who is so well known through the country for bis brave and humane conduct during the yellow fever epidemic of last year, arrived here to day direct from Mem phis, which place he left on Saturday even ing last. He says that he thinks the fever there has spent its force. The people left In the city are so few in number that it will be impossible for it to spread. He re ports the authorities of Memphis as having the affairs of the city well in hand, and that they will be able to care for all with out having to appeal for aid from outside. The cases so lar developed, he says, in no way present the malignant form the fever did daring the epidemic of last year. He anticipates that within six weeks business in Memphis will be going on as usuaL THX PCBLIO DEBT. It is given out at the Treasury Depart ment that the public debt statement for t his month will show an increase of proba- bly bix million dollars. This increase attributed to the large amount paid out for arrearages ot pensions. THX FBEEDMEN'S BANK. Senator Bruce announces that his corns of expert accountants have finished up the investigation ot the accounts of the branch es of the Freedmen's Bureau outside Washington, and that now he is ready to begin work on the main concern in this city. In the branches nothing was found to criminate any oi the bank officials. BIVXB AND HABBOB MONEY. At the cabinet meeting to-day the ques tion as to wnether any or the money ap propnatea Dy me recent act maKing ap propriations for rivers and harbors should be withheld was discussed, and it was de tided in the negative. The full amount nearly asy.wu.uw, will thererore be ex peuded this year. A warrant placing this money to tbe credit of the War Depart ment passed tbe Treasurer of the United States this afternoon. nm TAXES A VIEW OF THB OHIO CAMPAIGN FECTS. PBOS- Old Si came in yesterday morning with a new inermomeier, longer and more am 1 . 1 1 J pie iuau uis uiu one. "1 feels cooler already, but still I's hot arter some infermashun jess now." "What is it you want to know ?" "How am de Ohier cam pane gittin' on an how fer is hit got ter ?" "Well, it's pretty warm already, and the eyes oi tne union are centred on the re suit" "Jess so ; dat's de pint I wuz gwine ter cum ter. now oo it happen now-er-days dat Ohier am de ballunce-wheel ob de country 7 Why ain't Rode Ilium er Orre gam jess ez lierbul ter slew 'round an' lead de dance er while ez Ohier I" i "Why, you see. Ohio Is well, she's sorter the fact is, whichever way Ohio goes tnings are doubtful anyhow!" "Dar ! dar 1 1 Aint I done Bed long time ago dat Ohier warn't gwine ler do ter tie to i .how, you'se got it down whar er man oat runs fer I'resvdent mus' srn round nghtin' an' skirmishin' from New Vb- tn umer ana oactt agin 'lore he kin get er bet i&iu on nimr eii, vniois inemvotai state now. ana u jawing gets elected we are pretty J f m T-. . . " v sure vj win in iooo. .O T i i !.,. m . . xw) iiearui aimier XiWin sir tr pow iul nice man an' orter hump hissef mon strous peert dunn dese summer riava Dis ar his life ride, an he better win de pot er he s gone up. ler er fack I He's on de rite hoss, weighs de rite figger, kno de iracx lute er dook, nez got er nckord dat's hard ter beat, an' backers dat nebber up looks ter me moughty safe ter buy Oc- touer iucnures on aat man l "Yes; he has the best chances to win." wars only one ting er wantin' dat I sees now." ' "What's that?" "lilt's er a'r-tite kurrenteen 'ronnrt Ho Btate ter xeep de Ohier offls-holders f urn gittin back dar ter vote fer de odder man, kase ef dere's jess half ez mennv Dimormts in de State data free white an' twenty-one ez dar is Ohier Radikils drawin Gubment pay 'round thro all de res' obde States m de Union, den Ewin' ar bound ter git 'lectedan' close de corner fer de pahtyin 1880 ; don't yer heah me, honey I" And the old man chuckled heartilr nmr his solution of the situation. Atlanta. Constitution, t Hurra job August Farm Work- F.vl- der crops that have not been used, should be cot and cured for winter. Sweet corn stalks, from which the ears have been pull- eu iut maraet, snouia not be left to waste. out cut up ana cured as soon as tbe crop is off. , The ground may be plowed at once and sown to white turnips. There snouid be no waste of fodder, or of ground, and every little saving that is possible. suoiua oe maae. Experience proves, every : season, the wisaom oi plowing as much tut nnoRihl lur spring sowing. .Early ialL. plowing, has the benefit of tallowing to some extent. and the earlier it is begun, the more ad vantages are derived from it; it is more beneficial on heavy land than on light, but ugnt lana cannot lail to be improved by The stubbles are now idle nrvm mrmt farms. This ianot desirable: drv weather at tnis season seriously interferes with plowing, and the work cannot be well done if it is delayed. As soon as the oats have been removed the ground should be plowed, and if the weather mntinno it should be cultivated or worked with the harrow. The disc or wheel hnrmw ex cellent for this purpose. Otherwise a cross plowing should be given before the ground becomes hard. The innnmi mrfQ mn seep the bottom from drvinv nnt cmuuBOut. When bad men combine, the honest must unite to resist and defeat them. It is on this principle, more elegantly expressed, that Edmund Burke justified party organizations. Like other good principles it may be abused, but this does not detract from ' its general truthfulness and logical force. One of the principal of these abuses is the too frequent attempt to divide parties upon subordinate questions, not involving or affecting the fundamental ideas, principles and policies of a great party. Such attempts should be frustrated by a recurrence to a maxim of universal appli cation among a free-thinking, honest and conscientious people. That maxim is : "In essentials conformity, in non-essentials freedom, in all thingscharity." It is on these propositions we base our demand and maintenance for the prosecu tion of the unity and integrity of the Democratic party in this State. The main object of that party is to pre serve the domination of the honest, virtu ous and intelligent portion of the people ia the making of the laws and their admin istration, and thus to defeat and prevent the return to power of a party which has heretofore been led and controlled by a small band of the most experienced cor ruptionists and practiced plunderers, princi pally composed of white men, it is true, but men who have brought the State to the verge of ruin, and have retarded the ad vancement of the race which trusted them.. 1 :.. " '7; ";. 1 : 1 , 1 With such main object in view the Democratic party cannot afford to divide its force or permit subordinate dissensions and differences to divert it from the ac complishment of its great mission. Such a course would be a repetition of the folly of the Jews when besieged in Jerusalem by Vespasian and Titus. After repelling with great slaughter and heroism the as saults of their enemies, they would set to wors quarreling and fighting among them selves on subordinate questions of faith and ceremonies, until at last they were so exhausted that the enemy made an easy conquest of their stronghold. Thus Jerusalem fell, and thus Louisiana will fall when the party which rescued her from the talons of the vultures who so long fed upon her life-blood and reduced her to her present weakened and depleted condition, becomes distracted and weaken ed by dissensions in its own ranks. The worst and most fatal of these inter necine dissensions in an organized party is the tendency to combinations with factions of the adverse party. Such combinations maybe temporarily successful, but are eventually disastrous to the parties engag ed in them. Such combinations invaria bly shrink into rings, and the Democratic party has no greater enemy than rings, its chief duty is to overcome and subju gate all such, and compel their submission to the will of the majority. This is the leading idea of that party discipline which is as essential in a party as in an army. It may be styled machine politics by the de feated enemy, but it is the machinery which accomplishes results of the greatest value and importance to the well being of society and the defense of the liberties of the people. N. O. Democrat. Uow to Pack t trunk. From the Detroit Free Press. Mr. Bowerman and wife left for the country yesterday. One could tell that their trunks were not over half full, as they were pitched into the baggage car with a crash. They began packing a week ago. When the subject was broached he said he preferred to pack his own trunk, and he didn't propose to take a whole month to it, either. All he intended to take along was an extra suit, and he could throw that in most any way. Night be fore last he began work. It struck him that he had better put in an extra pair of - v fotmdathni auU lie fl jUg "em In the corners with his clean shirts. The shirts didn't seem to ride very well, arid he braced them with two pairs of trousers. Then he stuffed his Sunday coat pockets with collars and cuffs, and found a place for it, used bis white vests for "chinking," and tbe balance of his clothiog jist fined in nicely. "The man who takes over ten minutes to pack his trunk is a do!;!" said Mr. Bow erman. and he slammed down the lid and turned the key. Mrs. Bowerman had been at it just seven days and seven nights, and when the husband went up stairs at 10 o'clock she sat down before the open trunk with tears in her eyes. "You see how it'is," she explained, as he looked down upon her in awful con tempt. : "I've got only part of my dresses in here, saying nothing of a thousand other things, and even now the lid won't shut down. I've got such a headache I must-lop down for a few minutes." She went away to lop, and Mr. Bower maa sat down and mused : ' "Space is space. The use of eoace is in knowing how to utilize it." Itemoving everything, he began renar.b- ing. He found tnat a silk dress could be rolled to tbe size of a quart 1ug. A fresh! v starched lawn was made to take the place of a pair of slippers. Her brown banting fitted into the niche she had reserved for three handkerchiefs, and her best bonnet was turned bottom up in its box, and packed fall of underclothing. He sat there viewing sufficient empty SDace to pack in a whole bed when she returned and said he was the onlv real good hna- band in this world, and she kissed, him on the noee as he turned tbe key. "it s simply the difference between the sexes," was his patronizing reply, as he went down stairs to turn on the burglar alarm. When that wife opened that trunk last night 1 But screams and shrieks would avail nothing. It is not generally known that the cus tom of having bride-cake, without which. even in this day, any wedding within the domain of civilization would be counted as incomplete, is derived from the most solemn of the three connubial ceremonies observed by the ancient .Romans. This was called eonfarreatio. and was perform ed by the chief priest or priest of Jupiter; a formula was pronounced in the presence of 10 witnesses, and the man and woman ate of a cake of salted wheaten bread, throwing part of it on the sacrifice, which was that of a sheep. The cake was termed far, or panis farreus, (corn or wheaten bread:) whence the name of the ceremonv By this form the woman was said to he possessed of her husband by the sacred laws, and Decame a partner of all his sub stance and sacred rites, those of the Pen ates, as well as- Lares. . If he died intestate and without children, she inherited all his property. If she had children, she receiv ed an equal share with them. The off spring ot this form of marriage were desig nated as patrimi or matrimi, from whom were chosen priests and priestesses, especially the priests of Jupiter and the vestal virgins. The Emperor Tiberius wanted three priests of this pure lineage, but could not get them owing to the gene ral disuse of the ceremony in his reign. Confarreatio was dissoluble only by a form of divorce, dvtfarreatio, regarded as its equivalent in solemnity. That bride cake is a relic of eonfarreaiio is evident from the fact that until two centuries since it was made of wheat or barley, without fruit. We should think that, . with the present revival of. and love for. the old. young women of classic Culture and taste would insist thai the Dnde cake should he of the ancient sort. It might add to the serious and sacred character of the occa- aion . f ;. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 pppiTTp uuOlVO THE LARGEST AND BEST ASSOIITED LOT OF Hamburg Edgings EVER OFFERED llewfaltsmsaiSjii! MOTHER CASE OF THOSE CHEAP AT 5 CENTS. FRESH- AXtUXV-iLO IN In Order to Close Out we will Sell Our Entire Slock of SUMMER ! DRESS GOODS, White Goods, 0ASSIMERES, LINEN DRILLS AND COTTONADES, For If en and Boys Wear, And We Guarantee Bargains in these Goods. Mimm, SARATOGA TRUNKS, All Styles and Price. Ladies' Travelling Bags. TO ARRIVE A HEW SUPPLY OF LADIES' SLIPPERS In 2, 3 and 5 Straps. H is oar purpose to please all customers as to prices and qaalitef goods. PINK. AtfD WniTE. FANS, at Fabulous Prices. LiDiES' IOT ULSIE&S. : ANDFL?a?LE OIL CLOTHS, MATTINGS, LINEN TABLE DAMASK IN END LESS VAIUETY. NAPKINS,) DOYLIES, 'aid TOWELS. LINEN DRUGGETS, LINEN LAP ROBES. The Old 31 otto: "Mkh a.i Lowest Fricss. Biblical Recorder please copy. - : and Christian Advocate nii!ii:ii I'll! IK Run and M w. Mosanito mill