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NO. 11.
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To the Bereaved 1
Headstones, Monuments
AND
TOMBS,
IN T1IK
BEST OF MARBLE.
O.mil Workm&unhip, am Cbevcrit nnd Lnrgont
Variety in tho 8mto. Yards corimr Morgan nnd
B mint ntruotu, below Wvuu'b livery tdublcs.
Address all oomniniiicalionx (n
CAYTON & WOLFE,
K iloigli, N. C.
PeoDleWill Have New Goofls,
W. L. LONDON Will Keep Them.
His Hpriixr and Hunirnor Htock is very iurgo
aud extra (Jhoap. liuuiembt-r,
HE KEEPS EVERYTHING
And 'always keeps a Full Snpplv. Ho keeps
the largest stock or PLOWS. I'l.OW CAST
INGS aud FAKMlNO IMl'LV.MKSTS in the
County, which ho sells at Factory l'riccs. Has
Ucill-toiiRiiOH, Shovel-plows, H weeps. o'C, an
cheap ax you can bny tlio Irou or Steel, lie
koeps tbo Uueat aud beJt stock cf
GROCERIES!
Hiifara, Cti(!':ex, Tea, Cuba Molasses,
J-'inc Sirup and Fancy druvcries.
Ho bnys goods at tlio bowost l'rioop, and
takes advantage of all ilixeountH, and will sell
goods as cheap for ("ASH an they can be
bought iu tbo State. You can always Bud
DRY GOODS !
Fancy floods, fnch as HibboriH, Flowers, bacon,
Vails, Hulls, Collars, Corsets, Fans, 1'aiasols,
Cnibrollas. Notions, Clothing,
HARDWARE,
2'intrarc, J'nif.i, J'aint Mixnl and
Jry Oils, Crocki ri, ('mi- ,ioncricn.
SHOESI
Very largo Block Hoots. Hats for Men, l!.ys,
Ladle aud Children. Carriage Materials!
SEWING MACHINES
Nails Iron Fnrnitnre: Chowini? and Smoking
.tobacco, cigars, hunt!; Leather or all Undo,
auu a inousauu oiuur mings at mo
CHEAP STOKE!
OF
W. L. LONDON.
riTTSItOKO. X. c.
H. aTlONDOW, Jr.,
Attorney at Law,
I'lI'TSBOKO', .'.
itey-Spec-inl Attention PnU to
ColleoUncT-
J. J. JACKSON,
AT TOR NE Y-AT-L AW,
riTTsuojio', y. c.
tTAll business entrusted to Mm will re
ceive prompt attention.
W. E. A.NPEItsoN,
l'relilui.
P. A. WILEY,
Ca.uler.
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK,
OF
HAL1.1GII, X. V.
J. D.WILLIAMS & CO.,
Grocsrs, Commission Merchants and
Produoa Eujers,
FAYETTE VI LLE. N. C.
NORTH CAROLINA
STATE LIFE
INSURANCE CO.,
OP
llVLKIIill, X. CAU.
F. H. CAMKKON. PreiUmt.
Wt K. ANlEKtON, VUi Vrtt.
W. II. HK'KS, Sre'f,.
Tha only Homo Life Insuranco Co. in
the State.
All 1U fund loaned out AT llO.Wt:, and
amon our own people. We do uot n.ml
Norli Carolina money abroad to build upothor
Btatoa. It ii oue of the most aucccssful com
pauiea of Ita ae in the United Btnte. Its aa
aeta are amply ailUelent. All losm'S paid
promptly. Eight ttuuMiud dollars paid In tin
laat two year to families in I'hatham. It will
coat a man auej thirty yenr only live cents a
day to Insure for one thousand dollars.
Apply for further information to
H. A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Aflt.
FITTiJUOUCC, N. C.
JOHN MANNING,
Attorney at Law,
PITTSBORO', XT. C,
Ptiilici la Ih. Coart. ot Chaihsm, ll.n.tl
Moan ol Orsutf., auj la tk. Huprain.aad Vd.rJ
Caru.
A I'oor LMUf Mother.
Once a liltlu lady dressed in black aud red
Tucked her little childreD safely in their bed.
A green leaf ending over wai all tbo roof they
bad,
Cut tbs softly tinging breezes aud the unnshiuo
made them glad.
Oft How tbo littlo mother through the plc&nant
eiimrmr air;
Hho novor thought of danger, nor felt a siuglo
oare.
A graesy glado, a lull top, and then a Held of
clover
This little damo in black aud red went Hying
gayly over.
But in a pretty gardcu where grew a rod, red
roso,
The little lady lighted to nestle and repose;
An toft as fairy velvet .and oh, so rod aud uwott
Wero tbo fragrant leaves around nor aud mi
dirneath her feut.
Out tripped a merry maiden along tbo garden
B-y,
The red, red rose to gather to tbo littlo damo'a
dismay.
Hho drowsily came creeping from out awoet
rosek af land,
And stood a moment thinking on tbo merry
maiden' baud.
The little maid latighod softly, she wai) so full
of glte,
Held up lur dimpled Dnger, aud clear and lond
called she:
'Lady bug, lady bug, lly away home!
Your hom-o is on tiro aud your ehiklron
will burn!'
Off How that littlo mother in terror wild and
dread
Acrofs tbo bill and grassy glado and !! Id of
clover red.
Her littlo wings wero aching, bor anxious spirit
drooped,
Whou at tbo tiny portal iu breathless fear alio
stooped ,
There lay bor littlo children all snugly tucked
in bed,
Yes, safo and sound, aud sleeping, with the
green leaf overhead'.
St. Nicholas.
The Girl from the Poorhouse.
I took Nell when hLo wa.su't moro'ii
ten years old took Iter from the poor
house. I knew who eho wuh. Her
mother used to bo iu ray mother's family
wheu I was a child, flor nnmo wan Sally
Jenuingfl. Hlio wan a good, smart girl,
but was terribly fond of dressing up aud
going around; Hort of ambitious to bo
somebody, though her father wits a
drunkard aud eho hadn't a cent iu the
world but what she earned at Bewiug and
hi'inowork. Klio roiulo my mother's
hniiPo her homo nigh ou to four years,
cutting aud Bewiug for tho boys, aud
uelpiug to i!o tlio housework. 1 was
quite a girl wheu eho married that Ned
Qwiuey. Some said bho was married,
pome said eho wasn't no ouo know, for
sure. We only knew that sho eame to
towu about a year after sho went away,
bringing with ber a little niito of a
baby not more'n three weeks old. Mother
aud child looked ruiscr'blo enough.
Sally didn't say much, but sho said
her hnsbaud was dead, aud sho was sick,
aud sho wanted my mother to keep her
for a day or two. My mother had enro
enough, merey knows, with fourteen of
us children, but she packed at together,
somehow, nud qavo tlio poor thing u bed
and a place nt the table. Sally was all
broken down wheu sho e ime. Sho staid
two or three days; but she didn't htay no
more than that, for sho died.
The doctor said sho'd probably got up
too quick after her baby was born; brtt
there she was, dead; and there was the
baby to bo taken care of. My moiher
wouldn't take it; eho wasn't well, herself,
and had so many of her own, I being the
eldest, and about sixteen. My Uuclo
and Annt Peters had charge of the poor
houxe then good, clever folks as ever
was so mother felt differently about
sending it there, than if there'd been
straugers iu charge. Resides Aunt Pet
ers declared that tho baby wouldn't live
to trouble anylwdy, long, and we give it
np with that idea.
But it did livt, aud grow up a fine,
healthy child, though odd. They called
it Nell, and it learned to play and work
and seemed likoauy child, only b-j queer
anil still, I used to see her, when I
went over to tho poorhonso to see Annt
Peters, playing all by hersolf, with corn
cobs and bits of crcckery and whisper
ing to tho sticks she dressed up for dolls.
Well, I was married pretty soon, and
had children fast enough, dear knows.
But they were all boys. After Lnthcr
aud Anflon wero big ouough to get ii.to
miuchief, and Bt-n was in my arras, I
found I'd got to havo some oue to help
me, and John, my husbiud, mentioned
my taking a little girl, aud bringiug her
up. I thoug'it right oil of Nell. She was
nigh on to ton years old, au.l a quiet,
handy thiug, slipping round with a
knack at doing a good many things Aunt
Peters hud taught her; so I had her c.inie.
She was a s'ght of help, from tho first
tuudiug the baby, Aud washing dinhes,
aud minding the children, as well as need
be. As sho got older, I thought I
couldn't get along without her. Miles
and IViolii'l were born, aud then the lit
tle one that died; u ml-all that time Nell
was as faithful as the Fin. But faithful
as she woe I'm sure I never cmld find
bnt a bit of fanlt with her in all my life
I used to think she had things to take
np hor niipd and iuterest her which I
didn't know nothing about. She'd take
her knitting and sit down in the doorway
of an evening after tbo children had
gone to bed, and sit and listeu to the
frogs piping in the meadow, her fingers
busy, but ber eves looked out in the
darkness as if there was something there
to see and attend to.
Then she'd stand aud wash dishes, or
iron, with a look in her fnco as if she was
in a dream. Sho'd start up quick
enough if I spoke to her, but I've stood
nud watchod hor smiling just as uuoon
scions to herself, like as if she'd sorao
thing iu her mind which made her as
happy as tho day was long. Sho always
erred n sight for grass and flowers aud
those things; aud when my baby died,
she put littlo bits of white flowers all
round its head and all rouud its little
breast, and kept the house quiet, and
looked so gentleliko that something
peaceful came over me as I sat alone iu
the chamber with the little colli a, and I
stopped crying, ami clapped my bands
over tho pretty little face, nnd prayed
(iod to forgivo mo for murmuring, nud
make mo fit to meet my innoocnt bubo
iu heaven.
After that, Netty was born, aud my
husband bought moro land, and had
hired men to work for him, and I'd a
great deal of care, and Nell was always a
help. Tho fall the baby was born we
hired another girl nnd kept her right
along, for Noll was only a slip of a thiug,
tliongh handy and willing, and not fit to
hnve all tho care of so inueh work. My
family had got to bo a great oue, 'spoci
ally after John had took Levi's boys to
teach farraingto. Levi's boys came from
tho city. They wore slender slips of
lads. Levi had lost two of consumption,
whilo they wero at college, and he was
bound ho wouldn't lose the last two;
so ho just sent them out to John to havo
a year's good hard work on a farm.
The next summer after they came ont
comes a Mr. Washburn of Bjston to get
board with ns aud lead Litin with Levi's
eldest boy, Ilenry. Ho wanted board in
tho country bceauso he was a littlo out
of health; and ho attended to Henry's
lessons becaiiHe ho was a friend of Levi's,
I was a little struck up by his coming,
for ho was a fine appearing mnu, with
tho city look, as if ho was used to be
ing waited on. Not foppish and silly,
but grand, like a real gentleman. Hut
he put mo nt eao, for he Kaid, right off
'Pon't iucommodo yourself or oiler
your arrangements in the lmt for mo,
Mrs. Hatch, for if I had wautod tho ac
commodations of a city, I should havo
stayed iu tho city.'
With that ho sits dowu to the supper
table and eats homiuv and milk with tbo
rt'i-t of fliu uiiu; and then goes out in the
stoop and sits dowu on tho step; and
Jowler went and put his head on his
knee a thing I never knew tho dog to
do with a stranger before.
Well , I considered Mr. Washburn one
of the family, right off. He mado hay,
nnd worked in the field with the rest of
the men, and got as brown and healthy
as any of them. It was good to eeo him
laugh ho had such white teeth, nnd his
eyes just tho brightest hazel you ever
saw sparkled so I He was real well
educated, yet the furthest from putting
on airs among common folks of any oue
I ever saw.
no took notice of Nell. By-nnd-by
she told me that he bad lent her somo
books to read. I was willing enough
that sho should read if sho could only
find tho time, but I didn't want hor to
neglect her work, and I told her so.
'Did I over neglect my work?' she
asked, pleasant enough, yet growing a
littlo flushed np.
No, Noll,' said I, right rlV. 'You
uover did ; but you know how much there
is to do this summer, nnd I need all tho
help I enn get.'
As if I hadn't enough to do, my two
nieces came np from Andover, Jim
Viual's daughters. Bright, pretty look
girls, but I never was less glad to see
them in my life; for they needed more
waiting on than some folks, and mado
considerable confusion.
It turned ont that Henriette had met
Mr. Wahburn in 1$ jstou aud kuew him
pretty well. Sho told me what I had
uover known before, that he was rich.
She said that she aud Kite were going
to set their caps for him.
Well, I thought they did sure enough.
Tho three were always frolicking around
and off -going after lilies, and for ber
ries, nud to the mill pond to boat, and to
Woiiko's Hill for strawberries. Mr.
Wanhburn seemed to like it, immensely.
He was always ready for a jaunt, aud
wheu I saw tho girls cijoling around
him, I used to wonder which would got
him, aud if either would.
Ouo day something happened which I
remembered afterward, but did uot
know what to make of then.
I was helping Nell make np the but
ter, one day, when Mr. Wanhlmru came
into the dairy, and went ont of the door
to tho boueh under the window. He sat
town there, with his book, and we were
going in aud oat, Nell and I, wheu all at
once ho says :
wiy nttie girl? in a sort of fond way
as if he were speaking to a baby. Nell
wasn't there; sho had gone into the
kitchen; and Henriette and K tte wasn't
within hearing; so to find cut what he
meant, I just put my bead out of the
window.
Mr. Washburn,' said I. 'Who did
you speak to?'
He was just lookiug up sort of anxi
ously at the window, but wheu he saw
my face lookiug through tho vines, ho
looked startled.
1 beg your pardon,' ho sort of stam
mered, 'I thought it was 3onio one
ebe there.
Kate and lleuriotte are in the dining
room,' said I; and with that he whips
round to tho dining-room door, und goes
iu.
When Nell came back, 1 told her, aud
she turned j;ut ns red as fire.
'Oh,' says I, hi'ighing; 'ho didn't
mean you. If you'd heard tho way he
said it, you'd know ho wss calling some
ono ho was fond of. I guess ho thought
lleniietto I'lrao out her,-; ho seeraB to
taLo mostly to her, lately.'
If I hadn't had so much to do I should
havo noticed whut wan oing on, after
that. To bo sure I di 1 see that Mr.
Washburn talkod to Null considerable,
aud I saw her reading books whieh I
kuew ho ha I lout her. A' dii I hadn't
been half den 1 with tho headaeho, that
laHt week, I should have suspected
somcthiug from the way Nell lookod,
for tc tell the truth, We. Washburn was
making love to her. It enmo over mo all
of a sudden to find out that Nell was
growing up, nnd that she was as good
nnd pretty as any girl ngoiug, with some
thing about her that attracted Mr. Wash
burn. This was tho way I found it out:
Kuto enmo to mo one day, and said
film bad Bonn thine; to tell me. She raid
that sho saw Nell, the night before,
talking with Mr. Washburn just ontsido
the door, and that before they came in
ho put liis arms around her nnd kissed
her.
Now, Auut Hatch,' says she, 'some
thing shameful is going on. That Nell
has deceived you; she is a bad .girl, of
conrso. Tiiero is no other way of her
being familiar with a mati liko Mr.
Washburn. O! course you won't keep
her, aud have her go ou iu this way.
But the matter will have to bo arranged
eirefuily. It wou't do to get Mr. Wash
burn iuto a fc.-ape, ba."auRO he'll go
away, aud that will spoil evorything;
Ifonrielto thinks he's most ready to pro
pose. So if you'll just sent Noll up to
Andover to Uncle John's (ho'll take her,
for be wauU a girl,) she'll bo uicely out
of tho way.'
She told me iu tho dairy, where T had
been making butter tho day Mr. Wash
burn called out so. I was so dumfoncd
ed that I didu't kuow what to say to
Kate, bnt right off I hears a stir, nud in
comes Mr. Wnshbnrn from hiB sent on
the botch under tho vines.
'f beg your pardon, Miss K tte,' says
he, 'I hnvo nlrendy proposed to Nell,
nnd us she has accepted mo, I had rather
have a voien in the nniltcr of sending
her to Andover. I go next week if the
clergyman of this village will marry ns
first. I tako Nell with me. If you will
allow mo, I will speak alone with Mrs.
Hatch.'
Kate slipped ont, turning all sorts of
colors; nud then Mr. Washburn said that
ho loved Nell for hor inuoceueo nnd
worth; that sho was tho loveliest girl he
ever seen; and that they were to be mar
ried nud then Nell was going to sehool
for a year; nud ho would like my ap
proval. (ijodness know3 I gnvo it, heartily
enough, though 1 hardly kuew what to
say a man liko him riii-rrying a girl ont
of the poorhouse I
But ho did marry her, aud she went to
school a year, nud then they went to his
house in Boston. It's a splendid place.
I was in it once, but I declare to good
ness Nell ain't no more put out in it than
sho used to bo in my kitchen. She's
just ns qnito and gentle nud pretty-appearing
as ever sho wu; nnd the girl's
got u baby now, that's ns pretty as a
picture
So I eaysns I've nlwins said that
it's what's in ft person that makes them
noticed. Mr. Wubhhnru would have
married lfiiiiette, if ho hadn't found
out that Nell was more modest and pret
ty in the kitchen thau Hourietto was in
tho parlor, or even could bo anywhere.
Death by Yellow Feier.
correspondent, reviewing tho scenes
of tho yellow fever sc mrgo last season,
says: There is one thing very remarka
ble in the fatal yellow fever cases that
I have seen in Now Orleans and else
where the fear of death seems never
felt. Those terriblo phantoms, thoso
heartrending exelamntions so common
ou deathbeds, are rarely witnessed in
this disease. This first came paiticu
larly under my observation a number of
years ago in Opelonsas, where tho yel
low fovor broko out suddenly and with
appalling severity. 1 was thero with a
friend on important business with the
land Hi! v, and ho was among the first
that were attacked, in a few days over
2U0 were stiuck down. The mortality
was appalliug. I saw many die, and
tho physicians, if any of them of them
are now living, will bear mo ont iu tho
assertion that, without exception, tho
patienta seemed to wele me death. !
Kven the constitutionally timid viewed
its approaohes with composure. Hus
bands and wives, who had many ics to
biud them to life, wero uot known to
express regret or reluctance, and in not
a single instance, by cither man or wo
man, was thero any indication of terror
or apprehension. Whether calm and
rational or fravtie aud delirious, they
usually died liko stoics, without a tear.
I have seen so much of the same thing
in New Orleans, in people of different
temperaments and of very opposite hab
its and creods, that I class indifference
to death as one of the characteristics of
geuuiuo yellow fever.
Dry buckwheat draws grenne ont of
any woolen stuff,
The Last Jlmuw or the (.rent Match.
No such excitement ns that which ex
isted iu Lmdou the last night of the pe
destrian contort has ever ber-n caused
by a pedestrian contest. Weston suc
ceeded in completing 55') miles iu 1
hours, beating tho host record by 7 :M(i
miles, aud won tho Asttey loug-distaueo
champion belt and a bet of 2,590. Al
though it has been hard for Englishmen
to seo this famous belt slipping away
from them, they cheered the American
to the echo, und Agricultural hall was
the Boeue of tho wildest enthusiasm.
Tho performance isomidered tho moro
marveh-iH that tho Euglish public had
begun to loso faith in Weston, aud im
agined that the idlan 1 could produo a
dozen better men than he, and that iu
tho keeping of 'Blower' Brown, backed
by It jwell, the belt was perfectly safe.
It was lirowu who made tho famous re
cord of 512 and 5 K mile, aud wheu
Weston had scored 51'!, au.l was still
scoring lap after lap with untiring per
severance, tho building fairly shook
with tho tremeu'hjtiH applause of tho
multitu lo who watched tho sturdy walk
er aud the changiug lirnres ou tho black
board, A largo number of Americans
were present, aud their shouts of eu
couragement and the deny bouquets
and baskets of beautiful flowers shower
ed upon their plucky countryman seem
ed to iufino him with new life; and with
a smiling face ho reeled off the laps as
though he were walking for tho fun of
tho thing. Au hour later h had scored
5-48 miloi, at 10. -15 o'clock Cl'J and at
10. C5 o'clock another mile had been
added, the great walk was ended, nud
with minutes ytt to spnro tho score of
the champion pedestrinu of tho world
stood 550 miles. Brown's score nt this
time was 453 miles, or nincty-noveu
milos behind that of Weston, and S.I
miles behind that of his own record of
lust April. Weston was also n contest
ant iu that match, and succeeded iu
gaining a share of the gate-money by
covering 150 miles.
A ilavtke.te Keterie,
Mr. Bardetto, editor of tho Barling
ton Jlawki-.if, amused himrolf, soou nf
ter reaching home, by setting u young
dog to investigate an early spring wnsp
that came iuto his sanctum. After va
rious preliminaries he Fays :
Tho wasp is wheeling airily about the
room, singing in low, soft tones the
songs of other golden summer ihiyx.
liow peaceful and siinimer-Iiko the pic
ture. The dog ! Ah, yes I Was there, then,
a dog in the scene ? Memory, memory,
open thy golden gates. Ah, yes; there
wes a dog, not long ago. Yes, I remem
ber now. He was here. But thero is
no dog in this immediate vicinity now.
He has moved. How like a silent boni
suu the radiant sunlight fulls upon the
street. Yes, X thiuk now I saw him
move. I heard him, too, for my recollec
tion is that he moved as mu :h with his
tonguo as ho did with his feet. I gaze
upon tho cauvas of ttie past, nud memo
ry limns for me the details of his mov
ing. But nothing limus nuythiug for
the dog. lie doesn't uetd it. He limn
ed it nil that was necessary for his own
unaided neif.
Upon tho cloudless, pale, unshadow
ed blue of the April sky nbovo me,
storms wili come, aud the fierce white
glare of tho lightning will frighten the
radiant nuushino and the mellow star
light. Thero will be drifting clouds
across tho summer day.?, and tho smile
of tho spring time will bo quenched in
bitter tears. Oh, icy sheen of winter,
and tho hollow souud of tho man npeu
tho treacherous cellar grating! How
nil these things will come aud go. The
changing seasons, flecked with storm
nnd calm; tho still, deep, starry summer
nights, the restless tide, and the laugh
ing of tho wiuds in the vuicel-.'ss fort-ids;
laughing childhood, radiant youth and
reverend nge; the bridal wreath au I the
snowy crown upon the casket lid. How
all theHO things will come aud go. I5.it
tho dog will never come back here sgain.
Never. At least, not until he has heard
that that wasp is dead, I .'ud. I Vnd
and buried.
The .list or u t all. n Dvmisti.
The son of Napoleon 111. is dead,
trapped by Zulus in ambush, and his
body pierced by poisonid (-pears. The
priuee imperial, who played at picking
up spent bullets while the dcath-kuell
of tho empire 'was s uuding, has fallen n
victim to his own rnshuess nt tho mo
ment wheu the republic declares itself
strong enough to intrust its existence to
the keeping of Tal is. The dynasty that
was nursed among the mountains of Cor
sica comis to au end amid the pathless
wilderness of South Africa; the boy that
was born in the purple just as tho treaty
of Paris put its seal ou the greatness of
the third empire, aud whom all the
world hailed as the assured ni 'e jssor to
the throno not less firm than the oldest
in Europe, has gone down with tho last
remnant of the heritage of the man of
destiny in a skirmish with nameless sav
ages. It were tedious to exhaust the
antitheses which such a subject mggests,
endless to dwell ou the bitter irony of
fate which closes Iho historical episode
of Bonnpartism. For the fate of this
generous, brave, aud modest young
man, neither the coutempornry annalist
nor the future historian can havo aught
bnt. pity; over tho death of tho cause
which ho represented, of the hopes of
which he was the source and center; no
lover of freedom will drop a tear.
Cilj, Ton anil Comity Debts.
The forthcoming number of a maga
zine will contain i-oaio important aud
interesting figure.-, regarding the fiuan
eiul condition of the towiiB, couuties and
cities of the United Sir tes. In a former
article the flmmcinl condition of 130
principal cities down to 1870 was given,
and tho present investor diou in brought
dowu to the close of the your Is7-S, nud
iaelu les counties, cities and t iwnsof the
entire country. The nr uuic'pnl debt of
1110 cities was found lo lie iu tho year
1S7I!, j5fili,37.H,i'HW; in sr,i',, rf21,:si2,
000. ThoarwotBcd value of tho proper
ty of the same in lb7ii, was i,175,0ti2,
15H;in liii, f-:,4:l,19,:.l. Annul
taxation of the same iu l7tJ, si 12 711,
1275; in 1 -it'iO, SCI 000 !U !. Population
of tho same in 1S70, 8,570,210; in 100,
.5,019,011. Increase iu debt, iiuf) per
cent.; in taxation 83 per cent.; iu valua
tion, 75 per c-ut., nud iu population,
only 33 per cut. The municipal debt
alono of 13'J cities, representing a pop.u
lution of only h,570,21., exceeded in
in 1S70 by over S12k,0oo,(hmi the county,
town nnd city indebtedness of tho entire
country in ls70. In six years the in
debtedness of these cities Lad exceeded
by over 310,000 Oi0 the bonded n:id
floating indebtedness of e.ll the towns
nnd lilies of tho United States, which iu
lfs70, according to the census, amounted
to !?515,81 0,0110. I'tum eliviu Stub's
complete relurns have been obtained.
Those States aro New York, Massachu
setts, Illinois, Oiiio, Wisconsin, Minneso
ta, Kansas, Mifscuti, Connecticut, ( Bor
gia and Khodo Island. Tn these the total
uagreguto local debt in 1 s7s was .."i 10,
2S5.52S, aud in 170, 179,CV.O. The
assessed valnatiou of property iu these
States was !?1,172,MS,17J iu PS70, and
,3.13,000,515 iu ls7. Although Lai
enough, the second investigation shows
a better condition of affairs than did the
first. The increase in the e:tiei was at
the rate of 2i'0 per cent., r.n.l by adding
in the ctuuty and towu debts tho in
crease is loss than I U per cent, lie
turns from the rest of the States lire
incomplete, but are as complete aud cjr
rect as it is possible to make them until
after the census of Jxsd is taken. The
total local debt of the country nt the
close of the year lfe7S was si ,051, 1 00, 112,
exclusive of State debts.
( liild-I.il'e on the Aiiiaoiis.
Mr. Herbert 11. Soiilh. writing
A- r i'mcr of 'Au Indian Village ou tho
Amazons,' thus deseri! es a very it ter
estiiig phase of tropical life: Child-life
here is an exceedingly curious study;
the little quiet creatures arc m different
from our American boys and girls. They
get few caresses and give none; mother
lovo is mcchauienl; there is nothing of
that overflow of tenderness, that con
stant watchful care, that sheds such a
halo around our homes. The babies
vegetate iu their steady brown fashion,
seldom crying or laughing, but lying nil
day in their hammock cradles nud watch
ing everything around them w'th keen
eyes. As soon as tho li'.tlo buvs nud
girls cau toddle about they nro h U pret
ty much to their own re:..iui'.;:;', tum
bling up tho back stairs of life on a diet
of mandioca meal nud tish. The parents
seldom punish their children, for they
nro very decile; when they do, the litlle
ones pucker up their months nud look
Milieu, tut they do not cry. Pleasure
is uxprest-ed by n sniih among the lit
tle girls very often by a broad grin, with
nbnnde.nt show of teth lull an articu
late hmgh is n rarity.
It is ivtereMhtg 1 watrh how the
mental traits of the race appear even in
tho young babiis. If a plaything is
given them, they examine i4 gravely for
a littlo while, and then let it urop. Ob
serve how different this is from a white
baby's actions, A bright litt'e six
months old at homo has four ili-tinct
methods of investigation : llr:-,t, by look
ing; second, by touching; then by put
ting the t;l ject in its mouth; and finally
by bauging it ngninst the floor. The
brown tnrnini) j n t look.",; he doi s not
investigate at all. The children crow
older, the same trait i:i nppurut iu
almost every we. An Indian is con
tent to see or hear a thiug, without
trc ubling himself about the whys and
wher fores; even such iueiunpr-'hensihh-pursuits
as fossil collecting, or butterfly
catching, or sketching, piovoke hardly
any curiosity. The people leok o:i
quietly, sonic-times asking a ipc.-ti n or
two, but soou dismissing the sul.j-'Ct
from their minds as something they are
neapable of under st and ing.
A Drunken Vat.riT Puds in Death.
l';chia Leusburg, of Le Suer e niuty,
Minnesota, while en n drnt'ken spree,
undertook to swallow the gla.is contained
iu a whisky flask. The glass was pul
verized, and he swallowed it mixed with
a tallow ciudle. The next day he begnu
to feel the effects of the unnatural foo 1
ond to writhe aud Feream in agony as the
glass cut into his vitals. His sufferings
continued until tho close of tho third
day, when death relieved him. Medical
aid was called iu, but for the conse
quences of such a fool-hardy trick thero
could be no relief. A pi.-t-mortera ex
animation was had, aud the man's stom
ach aud intestines wero fonnd to be lit
erally ground to shreds. His death left
a wife aud nine children in a destitute
condition.
Ice can easily be kept for hours by
wrappiug first iu several newspapers aud
then in a blanket.
ITEMS OF (JKNKUAL ixtkkest.
Vieksbnrg is in a wretched sanitary
condition.
The son of the lata (leu. Oideou J.
Pillow is writing his father's biogra-
A colored Methodist church in Abbe
ville, S. C, gave?I,20') Inst year for char
itsblo purposes.
They are ng'tating the removal of t!'0
capital of Louibiana from New Orleans
to somo interior town.
The Ij mdon Sunday school uuion has
under its cure 4,301 schools, 100,nj'J
teaeberp and 004,721 scholars.
The Cornish mines in Great Britain
have beeu worked for ono thousand
veers, nnd are entirely exhausted.
While a stoamtug was running up tho
river from San l-'raneiscj nt night, a
thirty-pound snlmoa sprang aboard, and
w:;s captured.
Tho sanitary condition of Memphis,
Tenn., is reported by tho board of health
of that city to be belter than at any pre
vious time iu twenty years.
It is announced on excellent r.uthority
that Edison bos abandoned his theory of
the electric light and adopted that of ilr,
W nllne 3, of Ausonin, Conn.
The clergymen of New York State,
avle.l by some of the ablest lawyers, nro
about to begin war ou the Shaker com
munity at Oaeida, on account of their
free 1-jvo practices.
A black snake, four feet long, has re
cently been killed at Oakington, near
11 ivro elc-(Jrace, with a head on each
end. The snake could travel in cithor
direction with equal facility.
The temperance movement seems to
have takeu firm hold of the inhabitants
of Bandy Creek, N. Y., for of tho fifteen
huudred residents oue thousand havo
takeu the piedgo of total ab.-tincuce.
Tticro is considerable excitement in
tho silk nrirket, prices of the raw mate
rial baring advanced i?l to $10 per
pound. The advnnee is owing to tho
failure of the French and Italian crops.
At two o'clock of a Monday morning
tho doors of the Congregational taberna
cle in Jersry City wore foun 1 ope-n and
all the lights abhizo. A careless sexton
L n 1 forgotten to close the house cf wor
ship. As iw passenger-laden opsin stoamers
were passing down New Yoik harbor,
theye illided, and damage to the nmouut
of .'.IO.iiiO ilouo. Thuio mu ureal com
motion among the people ou board, but
none of them were iujn red.
naif of the hair and beard of a mnu in
Springfield, Miss., hni turned gray,
while the other half retains its natural
dark color. The dividing liue of the
beard is in tho middle of tho chin, and
on the bead it is immediately over the
U38C.
It is nnnonnced that the Canadian
government has decided to rescind nil
permissions to American troops to visit
Canada tinder arms, alleging as a reason
for tho adoption of such a course that
these visits might lead to futuro e im
plications. Biissia has solved the problem of tho
S .'rviitu b mudary. When the cjaimis
sion failed to agreo upon a boundary,
Kassiuii soldiers, at tlio point cf tho bay
onet, drove the Servians beyond the
bottudary lino set by Russia, and threat
ened to shoot any one coming wi,hiu a
league cf it.
Au eighteen-raoulhs' old child, ia
Cuyahoga Palls, Ohio, after watching a
blacksmith shoo n horse, picked np a
littlo hammer and, crawling between
the legs of a team on the street, began
hammering at tho foot of one of the
horses, when it stepped upon the in
f nut's leg aud broko tho bone chert clT,
and then kicked it in tho head fatally.'
The grow ing of wheat on a large scale
iu 'he Argentine republic has only been
carried on two or throe years, and yet,
at last accounts, forty vessels were load
ing iu tho river Tlata with wheat for
Europe. The country is fast filling up
with emigrants from Italy, Frnuej nnd
Germany, and promises soou to b.i a
sharp " mpetitor in grain shipmenls
with the United States.
John Kiug, who has been nn iudu Pri
ons 'newsboy' iu Cincinnati for ten years,
rtwiflistnudir,g being crippled in both
Icrf, has just given the city library
2 50.) select volumes, fearing to keep
them in his sipi did tenement for fear of
fire, no has always lived in absohila
pct.nry, and devoted all his funds to tho
purchase of rare books, being fond of
classic reading. Ho still peddles papers,
and is scarcely above want.
l,r years (Ireat llritain has beeu
universally regarded as the richest coun
try ou the face of the earth, ber wealth
aggregating, exclusive of public high
ways, ?!,2,503,O,i0,t00. Kecent estimates
plaeo Uriinco a'lead iu tho matter of
wealth. Her private property, real and
personal, is set down at SI3,110,0il0,0(K)
and her navy, palaces, public buildings
and other public property, excepting
highways, at 81,475,003,000, making
SI I, Cm5, 000,000,
A Mr. Collins of Tennessee claims
that an infusion of somo kind of wood
moss is a specific for tho bite of rattle
snakes, aud to demonstrate its c ffi .-acy
allowed himself to be stung by a snake
in the presence of two Nashvillo doctors,
when bo immediately took a draught of
the mixture and applied it externally.
Iu a short time all trncoH of the poison
hud disappeared. Tho same snake wus
induced to bite a dog which expired iu
agony in loss than two honrs.