North Carolina Newspapers

ft$ djjhaiham Record. Ctottom BATES ADVERTISING. H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOR AN1 rtlorKIKTOB. Uuc square, one Insertion. One square, iwo lusurtluus,- Ouc wiuart', uue nnitilli, 1.00 l.K TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: On dry. one Vr, One copy , six iiiuiulis One copy, tbree mouths, 2.00 1.00 VOL. I. PITTSBORO CHATHAM CO., X. C, MAY 8, 1870. NO. .11. Tut turgor ailurtliK'iiicuu IIIkt.1 contracts will to To the Bereaved I Headstones, Monuments AND TOMBS, IN THE BEST OF MARBLE. (hood Workmanship, and Cheapest and Largest Variety in tbs Btate. Yards oorner Morgan and Jllonot streets, below Wynn's livery stables. Address all eommnnicatious to CATTOM & WOLFE, Raleigh, N. O. W. L. LONDON Will Keep Them. His Spring and Rummer Stock is very large and extra Cheap, llemember, HE KEEPS EVERYTHING And always keeps a Fnll Snpply. lie keeps the largest stock of rLOWS. PLOW CAST INGS aud FAHMINQ IMPLEMENTS in the Connty, whiob be sells at Victory Prices. Baa Ball-tongues, Shovel-plows, 8weeps, etc., as cheap as yon can bny the Iron or BtotL He keeps the finest and beat stock of GROCERIES! BCOAllS, COFFEES. TE4B, CUBA MO LAbSES, FINE HIKUrS AND FANCY OltOCERIES. Ho bnys goods at the Lowest Trices, and takes advantage of all disoonnts, and will sell goods as cheap for CASH as they can be bought in the State. You can always And DRY GOODS ! FancT Goodj, ouch as Ilibbons, Flowers, Lacei, VailH,' Ruffs, Collars, Coraets, Fans, .Vaiaeola, Umbrellas, Notions, Clothing, HARDWARE, TINWARE, DRUGS, PAIJfTS MIXED AND DltY OH.8, CROCKEHY. CON FECTIONERIES. SHOES! Very largo s'ook Boot. Hats for Mon, Bays, Ladies and Children. Oarriago Matorialt. SEWING MACHINES Nails Iron Furnitnre: ChowlrjR and Smoking Tobauco. Cigars, tiuun"; Leather of all kinds, aJ a thousand other thiugs at the CHEAP! STOKE ! Of W. L. LONDON. rittsboro, N. O. H. A. LONDON. Jr., Attorney at Law, MTTSBOItO', N. C. jMsfSpeclal Attention Paid to Collecting. J. J. JACKSON. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, riTTsuoito',y. c. J4fAll business entrusted to tilin will re. oslve prompt attention. W. E. ANDMtsnK, Pruld.aU P. A. WILET, Cashls CITIZENS . NATIONAL BANK, or UALEIGII, ti. V. J. D. WILLIAMS & CO., Grocers, Commission Merchants and Produce Bayers, FAYETTE VI LLE, N. C. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., OS1 RAIEIGII, X. CAR. r. H. CAMERON, PrubUnt. W. . ANDBRBON, Wet Frit. W. II. HICKS, The only Home Life Insurance Co. is the State. All Its fund loaned ont AT HOME, and among our own people. We do not send Kocltt Carolina money abroad to build up other Slates. It 1 one of the most successful com paulae of Its age in the United 8tates. Its as set are amply sufficient. All losses paid promptly. Kight thousand dollar paid In ths fast two year to famlllas In Chatham. It will ost a man aged thirty years only Ave cuts a lay to Insure for one thousand dollars. Apply for further Information to H.A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Agt. PITT8BORO', N. C. JOHN MANNING, Attorney at Law, PITTSBOBO', . 0., ' u i. n. ivmri. af Ckalhasa. H.rm.U feoer. s.d Oraa,., aa la Ih. Sopnn. aaC Trim Avails. The Brook. Bat yesterday this brook was bright And tranquil as the clear moonlight That woo the palm on Orient shares ; Hut now a hoarse, dark stream it pours Impetuous o'er its dark bed of rock, And, almost with a thnnder-sbook, Bills into currents fierce and fleet, That dash white foam round oar feet A raging whirl of waters rent As if with angry discontent A tempest In the night swept by, Born of a murk and fiery sky, And while the solid woodlands ahook, It wreaked its fury on the brook. The evil genius of the blast Within its quit) bosom passed, And therefore is it that a quiet tide, Which used aa lovingly to glide As thoughts through spirits sanctified, Shows now a whirl of waters rent As if with angry discontent. I knew of late a creature bright And gentle as the olear moonlight. The tendarest and the kindest heart Ood ever sent a loving part To act on earth across whose life A sudden passion swept in strife, With wild, unhallowed forces rife It stirred her nature's inmost deep That nevermore shall rest or sleep ; Remorse its rugged bed of rook, O'er which for aye with thunder-shock, The tides of feeling, fierce and fleet, Are dashed to foam or icy sleet, A raging whirl of waters, rent By something worse than discontent Paul H. Hayne. ROMANCE OF A DISH-TOWEL. 'How happens it, Tom, that yon never married V asked Harry Stanhope of his friend, Tom Meredith, as the two saun tered slowly along Broadway one fine afternoon. 'Because I could never find any wo man who wonld have mo, I suppose,' answered Tom laughingly. No use to tell me that, old fellow,' re joined Harry. 'Girls are not so foolish as to decline taking a good-looking man like yon, with plenty of money; yet here yon are, nearly thirty years old, and no more prospect of settling than you had ten years ago. Now, if it were me, why the case is very difforent. A doctor, just straggling into practice, is scarcely considered 'eligible' by the match-mak ing mammas, to say nothing of their worldly-wiso daughters; but they are ready and eager to smile upon yon, and yon might as well make yonr choice." 'Thank yon,' answered Tom, still laughing. 'When I find a yonng lady who onu oome np to my grandmother's standard of domestic virtues, I will invite her to become Mrs. Thomas Mer edith. ' 'And what was your grandmother's peculiar doctrine on the subject?' in quired Horry. 'I presamo she had mora than one,' said Tom, 'but thin she particularly im pressed npon my mind. 'Always look at a woman's dish-towels,' sho would re mark with much solemnity. 'No matter how well she plays tho piano, or sings, or how many languages sho can speak, never marry her, nnless you see that sho nses soft dry towels, and plenty of them, when she wipes dishes I Be snre that a girl who uses soiled or wet dish-towuls does not know enough to bo the wife of any honest man.' Harry laughed at this definition ot housewifely knowledge, but presently said in a serious tone, 'There is considerable truth in the old lady's ideas after all, but I don't quite understand how, in those days, you can apply the test; most young ladies that we know, have nover seen a dish-towel. Now I think of it, I promised to intro duce yon to my cousins. There are three of them, all bright, pretty girls, though I think it doubtful whether they would fulfill your grandmother's re quirements as a wifo. Btill you may find them pleasant acquaintances, and if yon like I will go there with yon now.' 'Agreed,' responded Tom, and the two friends found themselves in the parlor of Mrs. Itenshaw, Harry's aunt. 'Mr. Meredith, let me introduce you to my cousin, Miss Violet Itenshaw.' And turning quickly he was surprised at the sight of the tiny creature, so un like her elder sisters. There was noth ing magnificent and little that could be strictly termed beautiful in the almost childish figure, but something indescrib ably winning in the olear, gray eyes, and in the rich chestnut onrls that clus tered about the broad low brow. Tom had little time for observation, however, as Ida and Adele olaimed all bis attention, while Harry monopolized Violet in a frank, brotherly way, quite unlike his more formal and ceremonious manner with the elder sisters. 'Wi 11, what do you think of my three cousins f ' was Harry's natural question, when he and Tom were once more in the street. 'I can only express my admiration by saying that I wish it were possible to divide myself into three separate and distinct individuals that I might offer each of the fair enslavers a hand and heart,' replied Tom with much solem nity. 'What, without even waiting to dis cover whether their dish-towels are in proper order V retorted his friend. Tom laughed. 'I have a presentiment that I shall forgot my revered grandmother's advice until it is too laU, when the import ant event of meeting my fate shall ar , rive.' 'And then remember it for the rest of your life, I suppose,' observed Harry; 'on the principle of 'marrying in haste and repenting at leisure.' Well, I hope my fair cousins will not be the cause of such a catastrophe; but I must leave you here, as I have a patient in this house.' And he ran hastily np the steps. Left to himself, Tom sauntered slow ly along, thinking of the yonng laJieB whom he had just seen. It must be confessed that little Violet occupied but a very small portion of his thoughts, which were filled with Ida and Adele. 'But I donbt if either of them ever saw a dish-towel,' was his concluding reflec tion, as he reached his boarding-house. Weeks passed on. Tom was devoted in his attentions to the Misses Benshaw. Bumor had assigned him first to Ida, then to Adele, and waited with impa tience for the time when the engagement should be publicly announced. Meanwhile, almost every day brought some good and sufficient excuse for him to call at Mrs. Benshaw's pleasant house; a new poem, the latest song, an invitation for a drive, or a plan for some exoursion. Of Violet he saw less than of the other sisters, though they were very friendly, and he treated her with somewhat of the same brotherly frank ness as Harry. One lovely June morning, he present ed himself at Mrs. Bonshaw's at quite an early hour, intending to invite the three sisters to pass the beautiful sum mor day in a long country drive. He noticed that there was some delay in answering his ring, which was not usually the case with Mrs. Benshaw's well-trained servants, but at length he heard a light footstep in the hall, and in another moment the door was opened by Violet. She had a broom in her hr.nd, and a dusting-cap covered her bright carls, but she bade him good-morning with as much cordiality as usual, and invited him to enter, adding 'Please walk into the dining-room, for I am just sweeping the parlors.' Secretly wondering, Tom obeyed. As he turned the handle of the dining-room door, there was a sudden rush, a hasty bang of a door, and a hurried exclama tion of 'Oh, Violet! how could you ?' and he found himself in the prosonce of the fair Adolo, though for a moment he scarcely rocognized her in tho slovenly dressed girl, with disheveled hair, who stood by tlia break fast-table dabbling the cups and saucers in some greasy water and wiping them on towel which, to suy the least, was very far from being spotlessly clean. She colored and with some confusion of manner said 'Ah, good-morning, Mr. Meredith. So you have come to find us all at work this morning. It happens that we havo for our throe servants a brother and two sisters. They received this morning the news of their mother's dangerous illness, aud mamma at once gave them all per mission to go home. We supposed we could get a woman who sometimes does extra work for us, but she was engaged for tho day, so we are obliged to do the bost we can, ourselves. I assure yon,' sho continued, with a little laugh which Tom before had often thought pretty and engaging, but which now sounded false and affected, 'that I am by no means accustomed to suoh work, nor have I any desire to be oome so.' 'Cannot you allow me to assist you ?' asked Tom politely. 'I was brought up on a farm, and have often washed dishes and made myself generally usof ul about tho kitchen.' 'You I' exclaimed Adele iu suah an as tonished tono, that Tom could not for bear laughing. Yes, certainly; why not?' ho in quired. 'Oh I don't know only I thought you never did anything,' stammered Adele; then endeavoring to seem at ease, she said hurriedly, 'Yes, if yon will help, please take this heavy tea-kettle into the kitchen, and set it on the stove. Tom seized the kettle, and, throwing open the door leading to the kitchen, was crossing the room toward the stove, when his progress was arrested by tho sudden appearanoo of Ida from a store room beyond. If Adele looked slovenly and disheveled, what shall be said of Ida ? An old dress, dirty and torn, slip pers run down at the heel and but out at the sides, no collar or ruffle, very lit tle hair instead of the magnifloent tress es he had so often admired, and what there was hanging uncombed about ber face, no wonder Tom stared in blank astonishment. A heavy frown took the place of the usual smile, as she curtly bade him good morning. Tom muttered an apol ogy for his intrusion as ha deposited his burden on the stove, and turned to re trace his steps, just as Violet entered from the dining-room. She did not see him, but, addressing Ida, said 'Ban away now, Ida, dear, and dross before callers oome for you. I have al ready sent Adele op stairs, and will fin ish the dishes now I have done my sweeping.' 'You have been long enough about it, I hope,' muttered Ida ungraciously, but nevertheless availing herself of h sister's offer with much alacrity. 'Here are the dish-towels, Violet, 'she said, ex tending several greasy, blackened arti cles to the young girl. Tom had been meditating an escape not an easy affair, aa the sisters stood directly in his path; but at the word dish-towels ho involuntarily stopped and glancoJ around. 'No wonder my grand mother cautioned me,' was his first thought as the soiled towels met his sight, and he hastily approved tho look of disgust which crossed Violet's face as she quietly laid thoso af-ide, and, opening a drawer, took from it a plenti ful supply, soft, dry and clean. Ida and Adele had both disappeared, and Tom ventured to renew hit offer of assistance to Violet, who started a little as she for the first time noticod his pres ence. But sho recovered her compo sure at once, and quietly auswored, as she deftly filled tho dish-run with clean hot sude 'No, thank you, Mr. Meredith. I shall do very woll without assistance. My sisters have not JbrC much for me to do. Yon had better walk into the par lor, and they will soon join you.' 'Xo, indeed,' replied Tom. 'I will take myself out of the way, with apolo gies for my untimely intrusion, unless you will really let mo be of some ser vice. And bolieve me," he added earn estly, with an admiring glance at the neat little figure tripping so lightly about tho kitchen, and mentally con trasting her with her two sistors, 'you will make mo very happy by allowing me to help you.' 'Oh, very well,' said Violet, smiling and blushing a little as she met his gaze. If you are really so much in need of employment, I will try to provide some for yon. Suppose you set those dishes on the lower shelf of the closot, as I wash thorn then I can arrange them after they are all done.' Torn obeyed, ami was rewarded by be ing allowed to bring a hod of coal from the cellar, and do various othor little errands, all the while he was notioing the neatness and disnatch with which Violet worked, and was especially ob servant of the clean, dry dish-towels, and the skill with which, when done using them, she washed and Ecaldcd and hnng them to dry. He declined the invitation to dinner, given by Mrs. Benshaw, when she came and found him assisting Violet, and made his way directly to Harry's ilbe. 'I have made my choice at last, Har ry 1' he announced : 'it is ono that would Buit even my grandmother I' 'Might I inquire who is tho fortunate damsel?' asked Harry, laying down his book; 'and how aro you snre of your re vered relative's approvulf Tom told his morning experience, con cluding with 'if she will only accept mo. shall be the happiest man alivo, and all owing to my dear oU graudmothor's advice.' Xevr Orleans Homilies Mr. Edward King, an accomplished journalist, who has viaitod all the chief cities of Europe and the l'nt, thus writes of the women of New Orleans : One thing may bo said of this city without danger of contradiction, and that is, that tho prettiest wumeu in the world my feraitrino readers naturally excepted rcsido here. Nowhere else does one see such delicato, ethereal types of beauty, nor such robust, en during charms as some of tho Creole matrons possess. The American ladies fade earlier than their French sisters ; perhaps they lead more oarnost aud ex cited lives : aud they nlt-o raise larger families. It is not at all uuommon to see a mother who may still be called young, with six. or seven children around her. The girls of New Orleans are like the rosea of this straugo Southern city ; thero is a peouliar fascination in their bloom, and one oxpoets it to last always when, suddenly, it is gone I At a matinee, in a theater, or nt tho priuci pal churches in the American quarter, there are a great numbers of interest ing and piquant faces usually to be soon. Christ Church, or the First Presbyte rian, where the famous Dr. Palmer preaches, aro the houses of worship where ladies of distinguished beanty do most congregato. And in carnival season they aro to bo soon at thp balls and parties during thoxo mad days jnBt before the capital pnts on tho ahes and sackcloth of penitence and goes sadly and quietly through Lent. At the grand ball giveu by the "Mystio Krewe Oo mus" in the Varieties Theater, several years ago, I saw 2,500 ladies gathered together. It would not have been an exaggeration of the truth to say of any one of them that sho was beautiful. The girls of French parentage do not receive so elaborate an education as is given to the Amerioan young ladies, but they are generally blest with one or two ao complishmontn and understand the art of conversation to perfection. If they are a little narrow and prejudiced in their views, it is because they have not cn joyed great opportunities of travel and bocatiso they havo been taught by their parents to resent the loss of the old system, with its grand and irrespon sible ways of spending money and mak ing merry in elegant fashion. Systematic vaccination has rarely had a more complete vindication than was offered by tho health returns of New York oity last year. Out of 27,000 deaths but two were due to smallpox. A solitary case last week was the first, or nearly the first, during the current year. There are fi.wm.OOO Free Masons in the world. A SA1) STORY. Tlit S'ilmt!oii til r Youiiji l.ndy l.t-niN to n lllnuily Aflrny lll wri-n lli-r Jlroibi-r mid llrlrnycr Itruili of ihr l.ndy The I atliir In Kflltil while Atl.'iiiftllug lu Avriijit Iter. West Baltimore, Md., has been the scene of a tragedy whioh was the after result, of another less fatal tragedy, whioh ooourred on Baltimore street a short time ago, in the basement of a large wholesale cloth honse ; the pri mary cause of tho whole being the se duotion and death of a young and inter esting girl. The first act of this trag edy which has already caused two lives, occurred on tbo2:M day of last Decem ber, Denwood B. Hinds, a young man in the employ of Robert Moore 4 Co., was visited upon that day by William M. James, an intimate companion. Hinds at the time was in the basement of the building, and thither James repaired. s soon as he saw Hiuds, he aooused him of the seduction of his (James') sister. Hots words followed, and James drew a revolver and began to discharge load after load in rapid succession. Hinds who was also armed, drew his revolver and returned the fire. Each man emptied his pistol, and it was ascer tained that Hinds was shot in the left temple just above the eye, over the ght eye and in the right hand ; and James once each in the left breast and left arm ; neither dangerously hurt, and both wore soon going about their usual vocations. Miss James' delicato situation first became known to her family by or about the .late above given, and her lover's refusal to consummate matters and save her famo by marriage, bronght about premature illuess, and she breathed her last on the 15 th of March. With her last breath she called npon Hinds to come to her, but he persisiontly refused to re spond to the summons, and his heart lessness, it is said, as much as anything elso, sent her to an early grave. The fearful sequel to this tragical story, was enacted a few days since. Mr. James, the father of the unfortu nate girl, came face to face with Den wood B. Hinds. Without any prelim inaries James drew a revolver as soon as he caught sight of Hinds, and opened fire. Hinds immediately returned the fire, and several shots were fired by both parties in rapid succession. Hinds received a wound in tho fleshy part of the arm, and his brother Harry, his companion at the time, was slightly in jured by a shot, also iu the arm. Mr. James f" lieaJi and was fonnrl nave received a bullot in the head, one in the throat, one through the lungs. and a fourth iu tho right chest. Hinds was put under arrest. A Woman Lawyer. Lavinin Goodsel, who has attracted a good doal of attention in Wisconsin by drawing up a bill to tho State legisla ture, providing that no person should bo refused admission to the bar on ac count of sex, and securing its passage, seems to be possessed of unusual ener gy and ot decided talent for law. She owes her success and reputation entire ly to her own nuaiJod exertion. Homo time ago she was employed on a fashion journal, but conoeiving that she could do somothiug better, she resigned her position and wont to Jauosville, Wis., whore her aged parents resided and needed her assistance. Arrived there she determined that sho would not set tle down to washing dishes and making over gowns, as most women do. Sko ad long had a fancy for law, and had convinced herself that sho possessed a business head. Thorofore she began to study law; kept at it for throo years, pplied for admission to the circuit court; pused a brilliant examination, and was admitted. Sho gained her first cases, and one of them having beeu car ried to the supreme court, her right to plead there was denied on account of her sex. Sho reviowod the supreme udgo's opinion in a legal journal, and got tho better of him in argument, and then went to work upon the legislature, with the result already known. S.iruo of the ablest lawyers in the State admire her acumen aud learning, and declare her to bo a born barrister. She is rep resented as entirely feminine, notwith standing her profession, and ono of tho best of women in all the duties of life. A Horrible Death in a ltollhii? Mill. A terrible aooident occurred at a roll ing mill in Cleveland, O. William Ra leiffh. a waiter boy. was standing in front of one of the rolls through which bar of red hot iron was being run. When the iron is at the right tempera tnre tho bar is very pliable, but by becoming chilled it takes all sorts of fantastio forms, and flies and twists about in every direction. The bar wrapped itself about the boy and encir cled him in its folds, literally burning is body in twain. It was several mm ntes before be could be extricated. Meanwhile, the iron was searing bis flesh, causing the most horrible ories ot agony from the helpless sufferer. In a few moments after he had been released he died in terrible agony. His clothing was completely torn and burned from his body. The colored citizens of Baltimore ale sire teachera of their own people for the colored schools, and propose making test case to compel the board of educa tion to appoint a colored pedagogue. Lands in tho South. A Southern paper commenting on the large migration of people from the North to the West in order to bettor their con- tion, wonders why they do not come South, and declares that "in Maryland and Virginia, abounding in all kinds of land, both rioh and impoverished, we claim we can hold our own on our poor est soils, either against Europe or the West; all that is required is sufficient capital and intelligent application of means to ends. Our lands are cheaper than either in Europe or the West; our grain is worth more hero than in the West, and the difference is more than sufficient to justify the expense of the improvement of our impoverished soils. Our most impoverished soils are defi cient in only a few of the ingredients of fertility, and oan be bought up aud kept np very cheaply with judicious husband- It is only by snch husbaudry, on small farms, with mixed products and the added thrift, with tho duo amount capital, that the advantages which the West has over the Atlantic States in ability to produce and deliver grain oheaply. We can bring our land np to the full valne of the best Western lands, and at the same time make the interest all our applications. The thing has been done and is being done daily. Tn the agricultural sections of Maryland, Virginia, East Tennessee, North and South Carolina and Georgia, where these cheap lands exist, the climate is the best in the world ; cattle thrive with out stabling, there is little waste land, and labor is cheap. This count ry, more over, presents advantages over tho far West, as already long occupied, having churches and schools and railroads, canal and water communications sum mers longer, winters shorter, tempera ture moro moderate." The Duty of a Newspaper. An attorney.in a recent speech before jury in a libel suit, made use of tho following language as showing tho func tions of a newspaper: "There has grown up a sort of an obligation, recognized mutually by the press and people, by whioh the people expect that the press, as distributors ot useful intelligence, shall inform them as well what is to bo avoided as what is to bo sought, as well what is to be suspected as what is to be confided in, A newspaper as a garner- er and distributor of news is a public monitor, and it is bis duty to admonish the peoolo oi' '' ''" auu impostures and dishonesties. It is to be a beacon as well as a guide; and whenever a publio newspaper, through the di versified appliances for the collec tion and distribution of information, dis covers auywhere in publio life and in public avocations whether it bo a law yer, or a clergyman, or a physician a man, who instead of securing tno pub lic welfare by honorable mothods and proctioes, simply prowls about in the back yard of his profession, and uses the means and instrumentalities which hon orable title gives him to pander to his own lust and avarioe, or any other vile pnsBion; &ud that paper fails to send ont some admonitory voice and some signal warniug.it is recreant to everyprinciplo of duty and responsibility, and should bo stigmatized by the public it pretended to serve." Ottysbunr and Shiloli. The late Gen. Richard Taylor, for merly of the Confederate army, iu his forthcoming book of personal expe rienoes in the late war, says : "I hap nfin to know that one or two of our ablest and most trusted generals con enrred with me in opinion that the fail ure at Gettysburg and the fall of Vicks burg in July, 1803, should have taught the Confederate government and peo nle the necessitv of estimating the chances of defeat. A recent article in the pnblic press," General Taylor con- tinues. "signed by General Longstroet, ascribes the failure at Gettysburg to Lee's mistakes, which he (Longstreet) in vaiu pointed out and remonstrated against." Upon which his comment is, "J. hat any subject involving the possession and exercise of intelleot should be clear to Longstreet and conooaled from Lee, is a startling proposition to those having knowledge of the two men." Of Sbiloh Qeneral Taylor says : "One short hour mora of life to Johnston wonld have completed his (Grant's) destruction Had it been possible for ono heart, one mind aud one arm to save the cause of the South, she lost them when Albert Sidney Johnston fell on the field of Shiloh." Rontorlntr a Memorial Shaft. When the Federal troops entered South Carolina at the close of the war they took possession of a memorial shaft which the State proposed to erect to the memory of General Stonewall Jackson and it is now in charge of the war de partment. In response to a letter from Representative Evins, of that state, tne secretary ot war writes that he will make no objection to its return to Gov ernor Simpson. In Missouri the lands, buildings and shops of railroad companies, under a re oent law, are to be assessed by the coun ties in whioh they are situated, while State board of equalization is to assess the road bed at so much a mile, the county courts then to certify to its cor rectness, and the county through whioh it passes to collect the tax. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Rich gold veiuB have been foaLd in Wilkes county, Ga. The Morylaud agrionltural college is now out of debt and has sixty-six stu dents. The New York elevated railway meets with such great success as to necessitate a third track. Baltimore's fire department has a horso which has been in active service for twenty years. New taxes, to the amount of $150, 000,000 a year, have been imposed on France since the war. One-fifth of the population of Rich mond, Va., are Baptists. There are in the city nine churches ot white Baptists and ton of colored ones. Tho adoption of American goods has caused England's export trade to depre ciate alarmingly, and causes serious fears among her financiers. ' Although thero were only twelve hun dred Amerioan exhibitors at the Paris exhibition, the United States carried off 750 prizes, a larger proportion than any other country. The attendance at South Carolina's schools during the past year, was 110,-2-I9; of whom f.2,121 were colored, and 5-1.118 were white, an increase of 13.81U over tho returns of the previous year. Thero is now a channel twenty-seven feet deep through tho Mississippi jet ties, from the lighthouse to the deep water of the gulf, and a twenty-five foot channel for the same distance, with a width of two hundred and thirty feet. The Maryland fish commissioner has secured 50,000 eggs of landlocked salmon a fine fish which grows to a weight of half a dozen pounds and the young fish, when old enough, will be distributed in the various lakes and streams of the State. Mr. John Bright, addressing his con stituents at Birmingham, England, said : The government are imbecile at home and turbulent and wicked abroad. I leave them to the judgment of their con stituencies and the heavy condemnation history." Texas journals are making earnest ppeals for farm hands. The crops promise abundantly, but in some sec tions tho apprehension is that there will not be hands enough to gather them. Cass county alone promises work for 000 farm laborers, "with plenty of . . . V 11. ft The dairymen of Maryland have form ed an association for the purpose of pro testing the milk producers of the coun try from unscrupulous city dealors who do not oouduct business In an honorable manner, both as regards paying the farm ers for their milk and adulterating tho same after it reaches tho city. Tho Massachusetts legislature has passed an aot permitting women to vote tor members oi scuooi commuiees iu tho towns and citios of that State; but to become a voter it will be necessary for tho women to go through such regular forms of registration as may be required for men, aud to pay a poll-tax, which in Massachusetts is 92 per annum. On tho 15th of April a heavy snow storm visited Northern New York. The spring season is a month later this year. Lako Georgo was covered with ice .mi inches thick. People and teams crossed over Lake Champlain ou tho ico, and in some parts of Saratoga the country roads were impassable from snow druts. Liverpool has suffered, and still suf fers, from a terribly high rate of infant mortality. Daring 'the past nine years 22 of every 1 ,000 infants born within tho borough have died under one year of age. This proportion declined from ;10 per 1,000 in the five years, lb7U 4 to 200 in the more recent four years. 187.- -8. Mr. George H. Stockslager, a well- known citizen of Funkstown district, Virginia, died suddenly recently. He bad been plowing in a rocky piece oi land and the plow struck a rock, and, rebounding, struck him in the abdomen in the vioinity of the large blood vessels, causing a paralysis of the heart and al most instant death. As an instance ot the benefits confer red by fish hatching, Dr. Wm. R. Cape hart, owner of extensive fisheries in Al bemarle sound, N. 0., three years ago batched in a bouse of his own between lOO.OiiO and 500,000 shad, and plaoed thorn in the water near his fisheries. This year bis catch has been very large, while that of others on the sound was below the average. An eooentrio German of Baltim re in his will, just offered for probate, warns his "ohildren not to dispute among themselvos concerning any article of the will or sue each other; as in doing so they would be throwing away their money foolishly, as happens so ofton in this country." Nevertheless some ot his heirs are dissatisfied, and propose a contest. TIMB NOT TO lie RECALLED. Mi.rk that swift arrow how it cuts the air, -How it outruns the following eye 1 Use all reranasions now, and try If thou canst call it back, or stay it there. That way it went, but thou sbalt find No track is left behind. Fool ! 'tis thy life, and the fond archer thou Of all the time thou s shot away I'll bid thee fetch but yesterday, And it shall be too hard a task to do. Besides repentance, what canst find That it hath left behind V ye