North Carolina Newspapers

(Lhafljain crord. H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOtt AN1 I'ltorilUCTOl!. BATES OF ADVERTISING. : : : . 1 a i-y-rm- TCWttS Of SUBSCRIPTION: I ll. Mi ual'i', out- lnsol I Inn. One square, tn Iiim-iiIhhv 1il' M 11 !)!'.' , I'll' III'. I III, (1.00 - - 1.50 2.50 OnecorT. rear. -Ourooiiy .six niuiilli . r:.on 1.00 O lis copy, three mouthy - - VOL. I. PITTSBORO CHATHAM CO., X. C, JULY 10, 1S7U. NO. l.'i. 2fe djjHaJham Rerori. Che Ctattam To the Bereaved T Headstones, Monuments AND TOMBS, IN THE BEST OF MARBLE. Owd WorkmanHhip, andChoapest and Largest Variety iu tlio State. Yards cornnr Morgan and B onnt ktraetH, below Wyun'e livery stables. Address all onrnrnnnioation" to CAYTON & WOLFE, Raleigh, N. C. W. L. LONDON Will Keep Them ITii Spring anil Rummor Block is Tory Urge sua exira unoap. itomcmucr, HE KEEPS EVERYTHING And alwavs keeps a Full Hnpplv. He keep the largest stock of PLOWS. li.OW CAH1' INOa and FARMING 1MPLKMENTH in the Co, inly, which he sells at Factory Prices, lias Hull-tongues, Shovel-plows, Sweeps, etc., is cheap an von can buy the Iron or Stool. Ho keeps toe Snest and bojt stock of GROCERIES! Sttgira, Coffees, Tea, Cuba Molaixes tine sirup and Fancy (Jrocerict, He bnys good at tlio Lowest Prices, and takes advantage of all discounts, and will toll goods as cheap for CASH as they can be boutjui in me auto, ion can a lit ay Una DRY GOODS ! Fancy flood h, snch as Ilibbon. Flower. Luces, Vails, II u if b, Collars, Corsuts, Fans, Taiaaole, wmuruiiaa, notions, e,ioiuing, HARDWARE, Tinware, Drug, Paint Mixed and Dry Oils, Crockery, Conjectioncrics, Very large stock Hoot. Huts for Mon, Hots, Ladies and Children. Carr.ago Materials. SEWING MACHINES Nails Iran Furniture: Chowhn ami Smelt inu Tobacco, Cigars, Ntiuff; LoathiT of all Linda, ana a muusana omor uungs ut the CHEAP STOEE! or W. L. LONDON. futsboro. n. o. H. A. LONDON, Jr., Attorney at Law, riTT!COKO..N.. W"Special Attention Paid to rirtllpuLinn J. J. JACKSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, riTTSBOUO', x. c. JAU business entrusted to Ulin will re. ceivu prompt attention. W. K. ANDERSON, fr.ild.nt. P. A. WILEY C'aauUr. CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, IC tLEICill, x. c. J. D. WILLIAMS & CO., Grocsrs, Commission Merchants dud Produce Bayers, FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF JULEIGIt, X CAR. t. IL CAMERON, rrtitfint. W. E. ANDKKSON, Yitt Vrtn. W. H. HICKS, e'y. Tho only Home Life lararaaco Co. is the State. ' All Its fund loaned out AT IIOIIH, and mouir our own people. We tin not sntl Nor in Carolina money abroad to build upotlicr States. It is one of the roost successful corn pan lea of Its a e in the United States. It as eets are amply sufficient. All losses paid promptly. Eight thoukand dollars paid In th last two year! to families in Chatham. It will cost a man aged thirty years only five cents a day to insure for one thousand dollars. Apply for further Information to H. A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Agl. PITTSBORU', N. C. JOHN MANNING, Attorney at Law, PITTSBOEO', N. a, . frsctlM. la th. Uo.rta tit Chatham, Hara.tt. llo.r. aad OraBs;., sua la tb. 6Qpr.ffi.aa4 ftduij VaafU. My Babes In the Wood. Onoe, walking In tbe forest wide, Two little darlings I ospied. The leaves had not yet begen to grow, And ohill winds wandered to and fro ; Yfct strange! beside a giaut tree No sweeter faces eonld there le Than-fhoso that looked up timidly. With teardrops to their dop bine eyes, While I looked down with glad surprise I tbottght of thore two children swoct Whose story UtUo folks repeat Tbe poor, forlorn babes iu the wood And then I spoke in kindly mood: 'Dear littlo darlings! ob, how fair, All, all a'one in this coll air! The night may bring us suow ami frost ; Tell me, niy pretties, are yon lott? They accrued to nesllo oloser then, And, though I gontly spoke again, They gave uo answer to my words, Tiat were as mnto as sangloe birds. I boro them homeward tenderly. And called my little onos to eta The pretty darlings I had found, Oh! how tho merry shouts rang ronudl Perhaps you may haveguossed my pttf? Tht y wire the flril spring violets. LOVE'S REWARD. 'Asked Till?' 'Yes, actnally. I bcarJ bho mysolf I'M you ever." WisB Rjio GrcoD. for an unnver. looked unutternblo tbincs. Miss Oreon took off lierBUDdown snd fnnned boreolf vigorously with it. fjbe looked warm; bor faeo was flushed with feeling no less than tuo weather. S!io and hpr ater were no longer as Tonthfnl cs t hoir names euggesteil. Moreover, irritation onngs out tho lines and wrinkk-s of a ice?, ami it is unnncstionnljlv irritating to be passed over for a slip of a thing witn a Joii-baby race, not one sown flish and blood at that. 'There tbey go nowl' cried Miss Kjnie in an oxoited whisper, flvinrr to tho win. dow, and peeping through a crack in the eiinuer. 'For goodness' sake.don't give her tho satiBfaelion of seeing von look at Lit.' I uon t care whether sho sees wo or not not a mail. That old pink cnlico oni 1 iio think she might bavo hud the decency to make herself look re;ipccta- oie, riding out with pa's ronm man." 'V&'b young man! Wbut a way to put Well, isn't ho. for tlio present? IIu'fl reading mouicme in ph s c lli.-o. I'm mire. and be takes tlio laessngoti that aro loft, ana tells pa ailorward. For my part, I think he is bound to be civil to na's (lauRhtern. 'Well, ho is bring civil to one of tin m.' Yes. Thnt's tlio worst of the wiv tin trcnts Tilly. It's real unjust to" in. IlaU'ful littlo piece I' A ease of cruel bton-sistorn. vf n nrn Winking. However, Ihcro w.is no tie either of blood or of marringo in tLiH iu staneo. Dr. Green Lad adopted Tilly, brought hor with him when ho moved to Woodbridge fifteen years ago. She was a mere bnby then, and his wife was Btill living, anil ened for tho child liko ber own. She man a motheiJy b ul, and loved babies. H. r own nirU bad h ft infancy half a scora rears Loliind them. bince her death life had not been eo Bmooth for Tilly. Perhaps tbe Green girls wt.iild have been kind to another pereon in tho same situation, but they certainly made life a bnrden to their lit. tie adopted sister. Mr. Leonard ho boned tr lm TV Leonard this time next yoar drove a fapt hoitio before a shining now buggy. It was a bright day. and ho bad a pretty girl beside him. BU spirits rose to the level of tho or eujion. Tilly and he laughed and talked in a war that wonU have driven Mies Tosio frantic. I speci fy Jliss I'osie, beeauso her sitter hud acquired two or three years' additiounl resignation in which to bear tho ills of ppinsterhood : wall-flowerincr had bocnmA almoBt a second nature. But Tilly laughed on regardless. She was baenv. John Leonard waa the handsomest, the beat -mannered, the best-dressed young man she had ever known, and bo hud singled her ont for his especial favor. Sho was willing to believe anything of an auspicious late. Nor was that the last drive thov took together. He rsked her all the of tenor when be saw it mado tbe 'wicked sisters.' aa h dubbed them, angry. As it prov ed, lie asked Tilly far oftoncr than was good for her. This was only an episode with him; with Tilly it was tho most real cxperieree of her life. John Leon. ard seldom talked of his plans, but the had mapped ont bis career for him. When he graduated in medicine lie should become her father's partner, and finally relieve bar father of the burden of bis pruotioo, and then and then Tilly always herself shared the air cattle wun joiiu. This was a long, lonar while ao be fore the war, almost; Eccarately, at tho very breaking ont of the war. At first John Leonard, who was an Euglithman, ceoapod the war fever, I ut gradually the soul of tho war clarions 'passed into bis blood.' IIj must have a hand in this himself. A man must bulonc toms. where. Bo Le ciolly informod Dr. itreen one day that he had enlisted; he was going to fight for Lis shoulder-straps. As lor my diploma, 1 11 wait awhile for that.' When ho came to bid Till irood bre. she burst out crying. That settled the quertion as to their manner of farewell. Hi took her in his arms and kissed her repeatedly. This waa decidedly wrong, At oidedly iropmdent,altbongh they were only affectionate, brotherly kisses. Miss It sie oame in as he released her- 'Well Mitilda Greenl' she cried, with an in tonation that meant anything but well But Tilly was too hcart-brokeu to ex tenuate her conduct. She loft that to John, who paid, good-naturodly. 'You'll give mo a kiss too, won't you Miss Kosie? Komcmbcr.you may never see me again.' And ho actually kissed her too. He wanted to put it out of her power to tenso poor Tilly, She bad been guilty of the samo impropriety herself. Poor Tilly was wretched, wretched, after he was gono. Rut she was bnoyod up by hopes and visions. She bad a bravo pictnro, too, of John, which be sent her when he was made a lieutenant, Oli, how proud she was when thul ctme! Sho felt that the was fighting the bat tles of her conntry. Sho never forgot a speech of Johu's abont improving her mind. She tried bard to find timo to do so. Ilor favorite method was the composition of letters to John, which wero never sent, in the course of whioh she would laboriously hunt out iu tho dictionary nearly all tbe words she wanted to vie, to insure their csrrect spelling. She alao endoavorod to find time to rend such light literature aa was contained in the weekly paper of tho honsehold. Sbe read tbe love sto ries, to be sure, with an especial zost apait from their purpose as educators. They struck a kindred chord. One day John Leonard received iu cimp a copy of the same paper the Woodbridgo Ketcs. It contained a marked paragraph. 'Good grncioinl' ho said, reading it, 'old Green's dead. How fearful suddenl Ilis particular chum, lieutenant Phil Robs, was standing by. This gentleniau was a cormoruut of facts a trait which tho thoughtless aro apt to confound with curiosity; bnt I contented that there is a difference between inquisitiveneas and acquisitiveness. Mr. Rjbs stretched out his baud for the paper. Old Green? Hum 1 ah, yes Dr. Grecnl By Jove! 'Philbrick Green, for merly of Greenbrier, New York.' I knew tho man. I hail from Greenbrier mysolf. So ho has turned np again, has he? 'Woodbridge, Rockland County, Pennsylvania.' An excellent place to be luriedalivo in. Been in Woodbridge, eh? Whatever took you there? I stndiod medicine in Dr. Green's cfli it-. Thero was an excellent openiug for a cauutry practice.' Let mo see: he had two daughters R:sio and Posie.' 'Three.' 'The third was only an adopted daugh ter. She Kceounts for my interest in him. Her mother was a distant couiin of mine. Left a widow with three ohil- lien utterly destitute. Sawed for her living. The Greens took a fancy to her littlo Tilly, and offered to take her off her hands. She agreed, rather than let tho child starve. Tho Greons moved away shortly afterward. Tho hist time was iu Greenbrier (I run up thero very summer to see my mother) I found that my cousin had marrieda very well-to do man too. Her other chil- dreu had died meanwhilo.and she had set her heart on reclaiming Tilly, nor usbaud had made inquiries for Dr. trceu, but to no purpose, lie had mado two or three moves since leaving ireenbrier, and no oue knew whoro he had moved to last. My cousin was fret ting herself sics. I cin't say that I pitied Ler as much as though she had not given up her child of her own-free will, to begin with. It always seemed an nnmotherly thing to me. And here liavo suddenly unoarthed tho girl! tl writo to her mother this very day .' 'And I'll writo to Tilly,' John added. Ho wrote to the mother too; he scorn ed so anxious, as Phil said, to have bis ngor in every corner of the pie, that Phil waved his rights of previous ao- qnaintanceship, and pormitted his friend to niako tho discloHiros to Mrs. Eaton, Phil contenting himself with inclosing a few lines to his cousin indorsing John's moral character in that yonng man's own words. Speedily eime the answer. A very in coherent, agitated, short little note from Tilly, so badly penned and expressed aa to be almost illegible and nuintelligible. But John mado out from it that she was very unhappy, and would hail any change with joy. Mrs. Eaton's missive was blotted with tears. Net long afterward arrived tho news that Tilly had gone to her mother in Greonbrier. John breathed a sigh of relief. Ho had learned that Dr. Green bad died intestate. His property Lad gone to Lis legal heirs. It would have been hard lines for Tilly, slaving all the lest of Ler days for those hard task miutresses, the 'wicked sisters.' The life-long bondage seemed inevitable to John's excited imagination. S j severrJ months passed. Then John applied for leave, on his doctor's advico, who said he needed rest. It was a prob lem where to spend it. Ho would have gone to Woodbridge as being the nearest approach to home, had Dr. Green and Tilly still been there. She bad cried when he bad bidden ber good-bye. He did not think that any one else had shod tears for his sake since. Poor little Tilly I Pretty little Tilly! He had a great notion to go to Greenbrier and look ber np. He wanted to find ont whether she would be pfa l to see Lim. He went to Greenbrir. II j found the decent, tidy little brit-k house where the Eatoua lived. IIj was bhown into a dark little parlor. It was impossible not tj see that Tilly was extremely agitated when she camo down to him. The band die gave to Juhn wa;i like ice, and trouiblcdat his tonoh. ne almost seated her, still hold' iug her hand, and she looking up at him with the old wistful look in her eyes. John was touched. He always had liked Tilly. And, poor little soul, how thin Bho was! Was it possible that she had only exchanged one kind of bondage for another? She went out to the front door with him when ho left, and ho saw then in the daylight how palo sho had grown. Tho littlo wild roeliad lost s bloom. He auked her to take a drivo with him for tho sake of old times, 'You look as though yi u needed the fresh air.' 'Yes, I do not got out often; mother is so ailing.' On tho evening of hii last day in Greenbtier ho mude ip his mind that he wtuld ask her to marry him. He had very littl doubt of her answer, poor foolish cLild; for his ownpnrt he facc;ed ho was in lovo with her. At all events, bo ought to be iu love with some one by this time. Tilly was almost the only girl he had ever known well. But fato interfered with his intention. Mrs. Eiton was so ill that Tilly could not be spared from her side for more than five minutes. She ran dowu just to say good-byo, John resolved that ho would wrilo instead, ne told Tilly he would write. 'And take enre of your self,' bo added. She did not cry this time. Persona who take an extremo view of human maladies worth! perhaps bavo Enid that &ho looked simply broken- hearted. When John did writo it was a different sort of letter from t'ue one bo had plan ned. Ou his return to camp he was confronted by a crisis iu hia lifo. A gay party from WushiDgton camo down to dance and flirt iu tho tontod field in lieu of tho conventional ball-room. Of its number was Maud Galo, who, if exper ience goes for anything, should have been an adept in both dancing and flirt ing. A society girl par excellence, but tho first of the type who had crossed Johu Leonard's path. She had cultivat ed fascination to the full extent of her powors, and John fell au easy victim to her practiced wiles. II 3 waa bowitched. What if her hair were blondined, and her skin wero whitened aud reddened, aud ber eyebrows darkened? John was as innocent as n babe about theso mat ters. To him Maud was radinnt in all the fresh beacty of yonng womanhood. Tilly? Sho faded in his thought by con trast into snch a mere dull little girl. Still bewitched, he becamo engaged to Maud. Ho was stiU madly infatnatod, how ever, when his regiment was ordered in to battle a battle which euded iu victory for bis side, but whioh left him iu a condition however between lifo and douth. He was desperately wounded; and poor fellow! aud when they first told him that the amputation of his right arm was unavoidable, it seemed to him that he would rather die outright. A cripple! maimed! He thought of Maud and her strong, bright beauty with a sickening sensation of unfitness. He lay nt death's door for weeks. Tart of tho time he was too ill to recognizo any ono. Only tho teudercst nursing, the most nssidnoiu euro, saved him. And when he finally opened his eyes to cont-ciousness, npon whut assiduous and tender nnrpedo you suppose they rested? It was icrrcdiblo, lna whom but gentle, euro-worn, gazelle-eyed little Tilly! 'll'jw ou earth ' begau Jolin, then dropped off to sleep again. It had been almoht a year now since ho had seen this dewy woodland rose, lie hud only written her one letter mean while, but that letter had been her heart's sustenai ca ever siuco. Sho had laid it away among certain other mem ories of hers memories which retained their sweetness liLo withered sprigs of luvendor. As tho months sped by she made np her niiud that she would never see Johu again that bo had forgotten her. This was her presentiment. But she did not blame Johu because he bad not proved all that she had once hoped hewonld; that had been her mistake, but a mistake which had been also her ono joy and romance. She called him her good angel. Iu the dear Hebrew phrase, ho bod corae to her as in truth every good friend comes to nr. as an angl of God. During thw weary while her mother lied. Tiny found herself without a tio in life. S'io might come and go as she pleased. Thero was a distinct de-sire in hor loving heart to do the one work for an unemployed woman just then. But it was some little timo before she gath ered oouruge to carry out ber wish to become a hospital nurse. The alarming first step once taken, she went on easily enough. And she found an immense pleasure in thus being of nse as i-ho proved and of comfort to many suffer ing souls. The providence which tliroets small matters aa well as great, appointed ber dutios in a certain ward in a certain hospital, where ahe came npon John Leonard's white face one day, as he lay strotchod on his cot of paiu, and she re alized, with a sudden tumultuous rush of feeling, that it was for her, humanly speaking, to te-ud him back to life. She felt as though thin satisfaction more than compeusated for all that she had suffered loueloss, neglect, disappoint ment- in the past. There was littlo romance about Maud Gale. She made some excuse for break ing her engagement as noon as ahe learned of John's niisfoi tnue. She had littlo faith in a ono-arniod man's being able to fight tho battle i.f lifo success fully. Aud m?ceF8 meant to her more than affection: one mieht full iu love many times over. John fortunately fonud tin'' tho cure for bis disappointment lay in tho nature of tho disappointment itself, '3o weak a thing! so weak a thiugl' Hi we cnue to tho cud. Tilly, eon tinning her ronnd of blcssnd duties, was greatly surprised when John told her, not many mouths after that, that she was the ono noed of his life. Sho hud buckled down to work. When lovo camo to her suddenly, its voice was as a vo'ce iu a dicaia. But sho believed it oh, bow gladly I It is so easy for youth to be happy, to forget! Miss Glo might have married a dirtin gni!i!ied man, aft r all. Dr. Leonard graduated iu his profession immediately before his marriage to Tilly, and his name by this timo in one that is well known among physicians. My impression is that ro notification of tho wedding was sent to Miss llrjpie and Miss I'osie. Mr. Philip Ryss was notified, however. Ho signified his cordial interest and approval, no felt, moreover, as though he had had ashoro himrelf in making tho match. But then I have noticed that that is aUvnys the way tho unimportant important char ac'er feels in all the novels and plnys. B-izar, Abettors of Suicide. If the authorities t-l'OnM be nhlo to collect clear evidence identifying the in dividual who furnished to Tarr the strychnino with which ho brought hia lifo to an end almost iu tho presence of the judgo who was rcutemcing Lim to bo banged, at Philadelphia, they will have acase for tho application of a doctrine of law, aucient ami important, thougli very seldom invoked. It is the same offense to aid a person to kill himself that it is to enable him to kill a third person. The antiquated methods by which it was once sought to punish snieido have fallen into disuse, not nt all because sni- ci lo has eonio to bo deemed innocent or even venial, but altogothi-r because they offend modern ideas of humanity in pun ishments. Tho law formerly denounced a heavy forfeiture of property ogniu?t a suicide; this is no longer enforced, bo cftDBC it is seen to punish innocent heirs rather thau tho real offender. Tho law formerly prescribed ignominious burial, this is relaxed becusj it is seen to in volve a batbarous venceance, rather than a tiue punishmc-nt. Bnt suicide is just as truly tho murder of one's self now as in ths days when tho perpetrator was liable to forfeit lands aud goods, and to be buried, with a ctako tbrouph the benrt, at a plnc3 whoro four roads met. The cnurta now realize that the principal offender cannot bo renehed by human penalties, and they forbear tho attempt. But for tho purposes of any collateral inquiry, au iuteutioual sulfide by a Fane person is fully and entirely murder. Whoever aids a rnieiJe in guilty of complicity in a murder. A Painful Scene. t Yesterday morning whilo seven or eight old and rcliablo citizens were holding down chairs an! boxes in a Michigan avcuno grocery, and nnr.ni niously agreeing that this was the great est country on e'arth, a strr.nger entered and said: 'Gentlemen, I suppose yon aro all familiar with politic.-'.' 'V7o are,' they replied iu chorus. 'Au 1 you kunw all about tho fundamental principles of liberty?' 'We do.' 'Well, I'm glad ou it, for I've made a bet with a feller back hero as to how tho reading of tho con stitution begins. One of you jmt write mo down the first teu wordii.' Whilo be felt for a stub of a pencil every man begun serr'emug his head and cautiously eyeing b;s neighbor. Ono began muttering: 'Now I lay me ,' and a second Fai.i somo'.hiug abont 'Resolved,' aud a third wrote on tho top of a cracker-box: 'Ou motion, it was voted that that .' There was a "rent deal of onghing aud sneeziiirt: and nose blowinj, when a boy c imo in and Raid the stranger's horso buj run away, no rushod out, aud seven faces brightened up and srailod, and seven mistook fresh chews of tobacco anl tried not to look too important when tho grocer Slid: 'The constitution? Why, every oao of you can repeat it by heart with your eyes Bhut of eiuno you e in. According to rfc.'utoomutat'ous, it is shown that iu these dujs of death-deal-iug war iniplotuenU, tli." percentage killed of those wud go into battles amounts to eight to eleven per cent. ; during the days of smooth-bore guns tbe percentage was twenty-five, and iu the times of sword, bow and spear it amounted to thirty-three, "fha smaller ratio iu these days over tho old bntid-to-hand conflicts, is accinnhvl for on the ground that battles are fonght at com paratively long range, no general during to rush his men to tho certain death of close encounter. Fashion's Whims. Bright brocades and wild flowers mix prettily in seaside Lutn. Kilt fronts are seen on nearly all tho promenade dresses in New Y.irk. Black lace bunting di esses arc likely to snpersode woolen grenadines. A profusion of lace cud TI inibui g era broidery de-cks snmv.er ettuu:ea. Lulies' nkters of f:.;.ey cl. evict nrc to take tho place of linen traveling wraps Old coi crnls aro worn iu tcarf-pius and bouquet holders; the newest and oddest is an owl with ruby eyes. India muslin j whets, trimmed with Breton lace, wiil bo worn bath with black and colored costumes this sum mer. W Lite inufum neiiitios aio worn around tho throat inside tho liucn col lar. It is not considered stylish t ) wear them outsido. Tho Leon;e sleeve is a new cvuifp. It is only fastened to the waist under the arm, and tho wearer looks as if Ler dressmaker's work had beeu bn.,Iy done, and as if her poirn vvio cco-ing to piece p. New breakfast caps have ! !.. laco or muslin end:! that cro.'.s iu tlic back, liuJ are brought togi tlu-r again in front low on tho bust. Tiio chowy Biabaut Lice is used for tho crown an 1 falls cif other cdpa. lYacock biu.i satin ribbon, in looped clutters, or in ono largo Ah a cian bow on top, is very effec'.ivo triri ruing for muslin caps. For a stout girl of fouitccu r.ia'uo per c.;lo and lawn dresses with bolted basques aud very simply droped over skirts that have quite shoi't aprr-ns, and perhnps a kilt plaitod skirl. Make her while dresses wilii u boufl'mt polonaise. Tho Tinafore polonaiao pr.ttern will be good for a stout lady's dres -os; either grenadine or wash dresses mnr bo uade by this design. mxTs Aiiorr oucsses. Corfanes are most vari-.d in uelail, scarcely any two bcinij ma le alike. The inly settled fact is that all basques are shorter, except those tha1- are cut in English coat shnpn, to s vw .is a street garment without nn cxtn wr.-ppinj. Tho front has t.ro darts, but uo oro basqu seam, an 1 thii FOiue'iues com pels the "iso of an nndera'ni d.itt, which gives the effect of two side forms in the back. The first oid j b j ly begins i:i the nrmhole, and iu many c ies the cccond also; but tho long side form i, bejiuuing in tho shoulder bo;v.us, have proved bo becoming to mist figures that the at tempt to give ihera up h.n beeu a fail ure, as lunny ludici io.M.it upon lii.vjiif them. Tiicio are, however, fewer pcuhh in tho back than wh"u tho Ions; cor- ei liko cuirass was so punuiar. Tao middle seam is usually retained, though iot al ways. Sjuio of Wortu's handsomest- fitting waists nro mado with merely the two short sile-fona semis in tho back. Tnere is loss effort to make tho figure taprr toward the waist line; hence all the forms of tho back pro cqu.-lly broad nt (he narrowest part. Tho greatest changes arc made below tho wnUt in the back by the introduction of the pan ler fullness, which is net confined to the skirts of the dress1, but is seen on fir basque us well. Sinu times tho side forms aro cut qnito lo-i.fr and broad, are piped on the front ed'O and nt tho bi.t tom, whilo tho back edgas arc laid in three or fonr plaits, find are brought lo fotlier qr.ito high np, nearly t th" waist liue, ou t'io middlo forms, where Ihev are further onla; -. d bv having a ehe'll bow of satin placed upu them; this bow conceals tlio j ;inir.? of tin plaits. Tuo cuds of th i mi.ldlo forms ure in this cmo laid quite flat, aud ni3 shaped to form two wiJo ln.-ips. Such a basque as this is quite bou;T.i:it of itself, and adds to the general punier eff -ct. This design is exoelle'it for black frreua diues, with satiu luws f ir triiu r.iuf;. J lit r per lia'.a,; Slcht Sceiiiir In America. Niagara Falls i- the pr.iu lest cataract in tho world. II i!f of it bel.'irjs to tin) United Sintes, yet it in not p.siblo for nn American citizen even to look ht the falls nnle'rs he pin s at least twenty-Eve cent!,! Wafkins Glen, New York, in a wonderful cha-tir, wil l and p e'.iiresqne, but tho free Air.er'cin citi.eii umi-t pav fifty cents to enter it. It is Lard to fence in Mt uat Wa:;liing!..vi, an 1 it has not yet beeu uoivmpiirhed, but as tlio fares are uiui'li higher tie.n ti.o moun tain tho free American citizen vi-.y tliiuk he can save meuey by walking to the top. He is i:"iituke'i. He will have to pay eighty centa toll to vtaik up. Tht' An Saublo chasm is gloomy and grand, but it coRts tho free American citizen fifty cents to see it. The Fl inie nt the Frarc mia Notch is wort!i seeine; r-euty-tlvo cents worth. Tl:e Whirlpool at Niagara is sad aud i' rnber, at let U makes the fre'o American citizen feel so when bo goes there with n party of la dies fifty cents rr.c'i. Tiio Falls of Montmorency are romantic, historical and be-antifn! twenty-five e ntr admis sion and fifty cents toll. And tLus it goes. If Ann rican speculators c-.ild only eieet a wall aloug the sea omist so that no one eonld stu tho eoiaii without payiug a dollar, it is qiiitd likciy tho free American citizen would go tj 6ee it without a murmur, nud lake hi- children if they wero allowed t' go for half price, Tiie Charleston, S. O., oitoiu-hou?e cost tho government Sl OOd.OOO, nud was twenty yearsuildiiig. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Factories in Mucin, Gi., aro taming cut au unusually large number of cotton gins. Tho first ordination of a Chinaman to tho Protestant Episcopal ministry in the United States took place in San IVecci'-.eo, May 10. A cypress saw-log recently parsed down the Sabine, in Texas, sixty feet long and seven feet in diameter, capable of making 00,000 shingles. The production of butter and cheese iu thin ceuutry is said to be four tinios greater in value than the total yield of e;nr gold and silver minep. Tho Law and Order L?agin of Brook lyn, X. Y., have resolved to vigorously enforce the law forbidding tiio sale of litjuorH to persons under 18 years of age. Of 1,W emigrants landed nt New York in one day, 12rt of them were Mor mon converts on their way to Utah. Tlicy comprised English, Irish, Scotch, Y el.sh and Swiss. A vigorous effort is racking for tho introduction of a divorce law in France, or rathor for tho restoration of an old article in the ende, which wus iu force from 1702 to lslG. Tho new Inlet near tho month of Cine Fear rivor, N. C, has been closed. It id generally thought that tiie Buccer.s f this work will add greatly to tho prosperity of Wilmington. The women employed in tho English government departments complain to parliament that while their pay has been cut dowu one-fonrth, that of the nun Las not been reduced at all. The English parliamentary coramiitco bus reported that tho electric lighting system is snflbieutly developod to nliow of its being economically used for public 1 ut net for domestic f u '-poses. During r:uo of tho last uuys of lha session, when the chaplain of the Senate offered prayer and invoked 'divine bletr- !!' upon the deliberations of this b dy,' tiievo was not a single Senator pre-ent. Charles K. L indif, who killed Elilor Cnrrntli at Vinelaiul, N. J., for defaming Mrs. Liudis, has now got n oivorco on iccDiiutof ber desertion. It would ap pear that Mrs. Lindis did not consider her vindication worth the sacrifice. During a railroad war in Ivinsai C:ty, one lino euv. tho fare to Chicago to fifty ceiits, whereupon a rival offered a ticket aul cl.r.imo for the samo am'. u'it. then ,lussos of beer were thrown in, aud liiiilly a truiuhnd of passengers wero tal; u free. New York city ha? a by-law pr Libit iug itineraut u.micians from playing wiliiiu o'l) feet ef churcbt- or school- bou -ics whilo in setsiun, aud making it conipulsoiy on musiciaus to movo along when ordered to do so by be.mehohlers in front of whoso promises they may be playing. Tae Boston Traveller fnys : 'The de- uoud for labor at the West has niatoriallv reJit'od the volume of unemployed labor hero, while tho demand for our products to meet the wants of tho W'cbt s causing most of tho New Eolaiul mamiractnring corporations to work on i'ull time.' Sixteen littlo girls in Minneapolis wero recently rendered deadly sick by eating -oiao castor oil beans which the-y hud boiu encage! in stringing. Twelve of the children, by timely antidotes, aro out of danger, bnt the others aro bo badly poisoned that their lives nro de spairej of. According to tho returns given by tho M )il'ct bell-pnnches iu Richmond, tho sross receipts of tho saloons of that city average only $2 per day, or not ciii ugh to pay the rent, fr.nn which the authorities couelude there is a discrep ancy somewhere, as all tho Euioons are niaUiug money. The. Nihilists ef ll issia bavo iu prepa ration a book which is said to give n full acciuutof thoezar'ui. 11-ncri.inintrieu -s, w itii portraits of tho court boantios who have from timo to timo held away over the imperii.l affections. Great ex ito ment prevails in high circles in conse quence of tho report. TLo emigration of Swedes from the old etiuttry to New Saredeu, M, is constantly on tho increase, nud bus as sumed ui t'.i proportions that (be luiuau steamship company Las established an ngi-tey at New Sweden, and now sells tickets from any part eif Old Swedeu through to New Sweden, Me. A cow on the New Jersey Central rail road caused an oil car to jump tho track and explode. The oil at once took fire aud spread itself for sniw dittitneo art uud, destroying nineteen loadod cars. Persons living near th disa .ter bad to eiig treno'ies to prevent tho flaming sub station from coming in cmtaet with their hoiisf , Whilo a detachment of North Ciro liin's convicts, who had been at work ou the Caps Fear and Yadkin Valley rail roed, wi re returning to oiinip nuder guard, ten of tho prisoners mado a rush for lilx-rty, when rhe keepers fired npon Micro, instantly killing four, and seri ously wounding four ti tbe others. Two escaped. At tho session of the grand lodgn of Masons of the Stato of New York tho re port of a special committee wua read, showing that the total cost of the Mason ic Tomplo in New York city for grouud and bnildiug on M ay 1,178, wns 31,-21-' 953.78, theoostof furniture $iil,i:8. M; tundry other expenses amounted to $2.11,850.00. Total $l,590,2;2.9rt.