North Carolina Newspapers

2 djjhatlam Jrcci;! OF ADVERTISING. ( tin ;qu:irc, ono Insert kttt - fl.nO (.'.it? "'inm. it i it -I, - . . - i.;j One s jiinro, :.! im nth, 2.W H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOR AXB FROntlETOK. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One wit. "ne yi'ni. . - - . . . f.'.oo OllO COiy ,lix lll.llilll.-4 J. 00 One copy, three inoutun, . - .so vol; i. PITTSBORO CHATHAM CO., X. C, JULY 2-1, 187'.). no. ir. F-T lat,;.'i a.!v rt:vLii:i iit!i llh-. n.l vnU v. .11 le n:;t tc. Sfoij (Chatham word. m lleforu To the Bereaved! Headstones, Monument AND , TOMBS, IN THE BEST OF MARBLE, ft 'Oil Workmanship, and Cheapest and Largest Vitriaty in the H'.ntH. i'uT.la corner Morgan and B 'innt streets, below Wynn's livery stables. Address all rnmmiimoatioiis tn CAYION & WOLFE, Raleigh, N. C. W. L. LONDON Will Keep Them. n s Sprinrr and Hummer Slock la very Urge and extra Cheap. Remember, HE KEEPS EVERYTHING And 'alwavs keeps a Full Hnpplv. He kenpi Hih largest stock of rLOWH. PLOW CA8T 1NQS aud FARMING IMPLEMENTS in the Co nly, whioh be Bella at Factor; rriocs. Qaa linll-tonguae, Shovel-plows, Sweeps, etc., as chetp an Ton can bny the Iron or Htool. Ho keeps tbe Quest and beat atock of CROCERIES! Stigirt, Coffees, Tea, Cuba Molasses, Fine Sirups and Fancy Groceries. no l'tiya good at Iho 1Owost Prises, and taken advantage of all disoonnts, and will sell goods aa cheap for CASH as they ou he bought in the State. You can always find DRY GOODS ! Fancy floods, anch as Itibbons, Flower", I.ares, Vails) IiutTs, Collar.!, Cornets, Fans, PatauoU, Umbrellas, Notions, Clothibg, HARDWARE, Tinwrre, Drugs, J'ainis Mixed and D-y Oils, Crockery, Confectioner its. SHOES! Very large atock Bioti. Hate for Men, B-vys, I.idkni and Children. (Jarr.ajo Materials. SEWH6 MACHINES N ills Iron Furniture; Chewing and StnoLing Tobacno, Cigars, tfui.ff; Leather of fall LmJij. and a tuoucaiid other things at the CHEAP STOKE I OF w. l. LONDor:. PIITSBORO. N. C. Attorney at Law, I'lTTSBOUO', -..'. jkJ-Special Attention Paid tn Collecting. J. J. JACKSON, AT TOR N E Y-AT-L AW, riTTSBoi:o',x. c. HfAll business entrusted to him will re. civc prompt attention. W. E. ANDERSOJf, p A: WILEY, l'rc.ldout. e.lilr CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, or It 1LEIGII, X. 1'. J. D. WILLIAMS ti CO., Growrs, Commission lMorchants and Produoa Bayers, FAYETTE VI LLE. N, C. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., RALEI0I1, X. CAR. T. H. CAMERON, 7VM'tU. W. E. ANDKKSON, TVs 'r,. W. H. I1ICK3, Sfc'y. The only Home Life Insurance Co. in the State. AH IU fund loaned out AT 1IONF., ami among our own people. We do not send North Carolina moucy abroad to build up other Btatea. It 1 one of the most successful corn pan lea of Its aire In the United Utah. Its as sets are amply aulUolent. All losses paid promptly. Eight thousand dollars paid In ths last two yean to families in Chatham. It will cost man aged thirty years only five ccnta a day to Insure for one thousand dollars. Apply for further Information to H A. LONDON, Jr., Gen. Aat. PITTSBORO', N. C. J&HN MANNING, Attorney at Law, PITTSBOEO', N. 0., Fr.rtlwt to th Court, et Chatham, HsrasM l,Mr. and Oras(, aud la Mis uiui. and ttifi Carta. Halbert and Hob. Here ia thing that happened. Like wild ' beaata whelpsd, for don, foawi'd part of North England, there lived . once tiro wild men, Inhabiting 0110 homoaUad, neither a hovel nor hut, Time out of mind, their birthright: father and son, theer bnt Bach a aon, anoh a father ! Host wlldneBS by degree Softaua away: yet, hut of their line.the wildest and wo'it wore thono. Criminals, tbemr Why, no: Ihoy ill not mur- der and rpb; Cot give them a word, tbey retnrncd a blow old Halbert and young Hob: Harsh and florco of word, rongh and garage of deed, Hated or fearoJ the more who knows? the genuine wild-beast breed. Thus were they fonud by the few sparse folk of the oonuty-side; Vat how fared each with other ? E'en beasts conch, hido by hide. In a growling, grudged agreement: ao, father and aon lay onrlod The oloselier np in their den bectute the laat of their kind in the world. Still, heart irks beast on occasion. One Chritt- mas-nlgbt of snow, Came father and aon to wordi inch words ! more oruel bcoanse the blow To crown eioh word waa wanting, while taunt matched gibe, and curse Compatod with oath in wager, like pastime In hell nay, worso: For pastime turnod to earnest, as up there sprang at last The son at the throat of the father, seired him end held him fast 'Oat of this hones yon go 1' (there followed a hiJeoua oath) 'This oven where now we Lake, too hot to hold as both 1 If tbere'a snow ontsijo, there's ooolucss: ont with you, bide a spell In the drift, and aave tbe sexton the oharge of a pariah shell !' Now, the old trunk waa tough, waa solid as stump of oak Untouched at the core by a thousand years: much lesa had its seventy broke One whip-cord nerve in the muscly mass from neck to tbonldcr-hlada Of tho monntainous man, whereou his child's rash hand like a feather weighed. Nevertheless did the mammoth that his oyoa, Drop chin to breast, drop hands to side, staud stiffened arms and thighs All of a piece struck mute, muoh aa a sentry stands, Patient to take the enemy's fire- bis captain so commands. Whereat the son's wrath fliw to fury at such sheer scorn Of his puny strength by tho giaut old thus act ing tbe babo new born. Acd 'Neither will this turn servo I' yolled he. 'Out with yon ! Trundle, log I If yon cannot tramp and trudge like a man, try all fours like a dog !' Still the old man stood muto. Bo.logwiae down to the floor Palled from his flresido place, dragged on from hearth to door Was be pushed, a very log, a staircase along, until A certain tarn in the s.epi was reached, a yard from the house door-sill. Then the father opened bis eyes each rp.uk of their rage extinct Temples, late block, doad-bUnchcd -right band with left hand linked He faced his son submissive; when slow the ac cents came. Tbey were strangely mild, though bis son's rash hand on his ueok lay all the same. 'Ilalbcrt, on such a bight of a Christmas long go, For auoh a canse, with such a gesture, did I drag so My father down thus far; but, softening here, I heard A voice tn my bca i, and stopped: you wait for an outer word. 'for your own cake, not mine, soften you too Untrod Leave this last step we reach, not brave the finger of God I I dared not pass its lifting: I did Well. I nor blamo Nor praise you. I Hopped bore: Halbert, do you tho same !' Btraiehtway the son relaxed his bold of the father'a throat. They mounted, tide by side, to the room again: no note Took either of eaob, no lign made each to either: last A first, lu absolute silence, their Christmas night tbey passed. At dawn, tbe father sat on, dead, in tbe self same place. With an outburst blackeniug still tbe old bad fighting-face; But the son crouched all a-tremble like any lamb new-yearned. When be went to tbe burial, some one's staff he borrowed tottered and leaned. Bat his lips were loose, not locked kopt mut tering, mumbling. 'There! At bis cursing and swearing !' the youngsters cried; but the elders thought, 'In prayer.' A boy threw stones: he picked them np and stored them in his vent. Bo tottered, muttered, mumbled be, till be died, perhaps from rest. 'I there a reason la nature for those bard hearts ?' Oh I.ear, That a reason out of nature must turn them oft, seems clear ! Robert Browning. Five outlaws were hanged by a mob in Heniy county, Ky., several year ago, anr1 until lately that section was free of robbers. A new gang, however, has proved its existence by a particularly fiendish crime. RiiJing on a farmer's premises at night, they murdered three persons and burnt the.buildings for the sake of ftealing things worth lens than $300. Governor MoOreeiy says, in a proclamation offering a rewarJ, that Kentucky cannot afford to let the crim inals escipe. A LEAF FROM A DIARY. I am happy; so happy that there in tin intensity like prtin iu the feeling, an if a touch, a brent h might send me from such au extreme down to misery. How nncousoionsly I came to thii lonesome p!ace, never guessing that here I was to find everything my own life and nature longed for in PritcLlla Burns! I caunot tell when I first realized that she formed a imrt of my drtily thought and living, bnt from my first glanco at her she ne ver seemed like any one else. I can call np distinct pictures of her which have photographed themselves forever on my memory; once silting by tho lire em broidering purple and gold pansiefon some dark, somber woolen stuff, a soft flush on her cheek, the soft whita 1-.1 flitting back and forth with the needle a picture for a man to frame on his own hearthstone; Penelope tit her loom could no more clearly have typified the perfect union of lowly domestio cares aud graces; then again, as she comes in from school white and tirod, every spark of animation gone from her face. Willi a seemingly haughty indiffer ence which really covers shyness, when approached on ordinary topics, she glows aud forgets herself in speaking of higher things. I have at last persuaded her to read German before mo, aud though her slyness would hardly allow her to do It, she was only impelled, I am sure, by a stoical anxiety to be criticised for her own good. Her ncseut is poor, as it may well be, sho having been for tho most part her own teachor, but her enthnoi aam aud true appreciation of eveiy beauty are enough to inspire any one. I have given up the solitary evenings in my own room that wera at first so de lightful. Frisoilla, who does not have tho luxury of a firo np stairs, takes her plcca every night in tho sitting-room, and with only good Mrs. Fickcring for an andieuco, who is half the time asleep, we talk till the bntcher, the baker, the cendle-stiek maker comes in from their respective haunts at nine o'clock. ' Sho is kind and friendly to mo simply be c.iuHO she is so unconscious. With no society hero, no friends who earo for the things sho is tittcxl to appreciate, I bo lie va sho is somewhat grateful for tho pliasant Jionrs we havj spent together; they have made a variety in her monot onous life. Is that all? It must not, shall not be all. Every grain of will, tvory impulse within me are bent on this one point, to make her lovo me. When with her I am c.ilm and ooroposod as the hersvlf. I dare not lose one degree of control for four of frightening by th in tensity of my passion. Enough of rhap sody ! I must do as I have begun to do toward Tom.nvoid mentioning her name, for it leads me further thu I care to go. Poor Tom ! he writes ta aan why my let ters are so short and business-like and why 1 never speak of the school teacher who occupied four pages a while ago. I cliu.ll not tell him now. If I am to be hapf'y he will kuow it thou, if I am not but I cannot provide for that alterna tive. For the first timo in my life I am living altogether iu the present, with no thought of the past that was like a dream compared with this substance of reality. One week t which had been long enough to carry me through anffloient gradations aud revulsions of feeling to furnish a metaphysic'an with material for years of speculation. Bnt the meta physical aspect is of no importance to me; I can only thiuk of my real, human hnppiueRS. There has been a change to my watchful eyes in Priscilla, a shyness in her manner toward me, au avoidance of my society. It out me to the heart, for I was too stupid to dream it might be anything but dislike. One night I met her on tho shore when she was re turning from a call on somo sick scholar or indignant parent, aud stung to the quick by her cool 'good evening' and evident desire to leave me, I broke bhiutly.even rudely into tho truth. She was startled, almost frightened I believe. To my aocusation that she had wholly ignored me she had not a word to say, and then bnt even if I ooulJ recall what I said next I would not write it. I only caro to remember that she yield ed to my impetuosity and owned that she loved me. After that no demur nor ob jection to our love could or can evor move ma. For she has objections, seri ous ones, she says, which she names with a gravity only equaled by the ease and gaycty with which I overthrow them all. 'Iu the first place,' said Priscilla, 'I am not your equal in some points. Perhaps I personally insy be, bnt our positions in society are so different. Ton are rich I know, aud though you are free from any assumption of superiority one oculd tell from your manner that you are accustomed to what ia more refined aud luxurious in life; used to eating with a silver spoon, iu fact. Tour wife must be a woman fitted to shine in society, and I could never, never fill the place you offer me.' At the grave dropping of her tone here I am so jubilant, so ar rogant in my new happiness that I laugh scornfully at her weak little argu ments, aud sweep them down with one assertion: 'I love yon.' It includes c voi y thing else I might say. It tells her what she is to me in comparison with all the rest of the world. That was but three days ago, and I have made so many opportunities for seeing her, have so used my right of possession in de manding from her every spar minute she bo., that it teems os if we had bo longed to one another for ages, or rather as if the years when we did not know one Fnothi r had sunk bpo: boro they deaervo ta bo, in the pa-t. If Imp piners wakes time fly it certainly also makes some uviments seem infinite. She has told me the story of her life; a life so hard, bo full of pror.aio work for daily bread and devoid of pleasures, that I al most feel condemned for having lived at it:y eaio while bhohr.s been walking such thorr y pnthr. Iler father and mother died when she was a child; then she was taken by nn aunt who was kind as far as she knew how to be, but nnoon; olonMy ornol to the sensitive child. Cruel be cause sho starved her of wbnt bor am bition and talents demnuJed, books, leinure for study and a lit'io aid in tho path she knew herstdf fltttfl by np.tnro to treid. 'She real'y liked mo, I think, said rrinoilla, 'but on a farm yon know thcro is not muoh ready money, even for those who are entitled to it. It wss nat ural they should feel I was in the wny, and that they should fully appreciate their own charity in doing so much for me. So partly from a desire for inde pendence, and partly because I wanted a new life, I sncoeedod in teaching a terra or two of a district sahoal, thou went to a privute echool where I took a fow classes iu return for tuition iu several branches, thou more district school, and here I am, as you see.' Aud here I am determined she shall not be long. She has no other claims to consider, no friends who hava a right to dictate or even advise her.and why should we wait before beginning our new life together ? Tho mere fact of tho lifo and personality of this woman coming in contact with mine has changed tho current of my thought completely, and I hope forever. There is no more doubt left me of the solemnity, tho supremo importance of every-day life, because I have fonud an interest iu the hnraau I never had before. The divine and ideal are not lesiened iu importance to me, but I cannot believe it is right for a man to look altogether away from tho poor little planet where he is born. It is not ouly his privilege to attempt daring flights into the un known, but to make harm onions the workings of common existence. When I say this revolution has been wrought iu me by her, I mean rather that it has taken place from tho mere fact of my loving her. L ve has created me a home, has given me my own little foot hold on the earth which makes mo think more kindly of the whole globe. As to whether these new ideas will chnngo my external life I cannot say; my past fail ures, at least, can be more easily borne since the relutiv.) importance of all work is becoming more clear to mo. So that now, if I must submit to living a quiet lifo which shall rffer no grand resnlt to tho world, I can acoept it without tho foeling that because I hf.va failed in what I havo aspired to everything else must necessarily be of no value. Who cau draw the lino between singing the mighty song of tven a greater than Ho mer, and guidicg the tiuicst wheels of tbe nnivjrso tvju though they run noUolecsly aud out of sight? I am not learning to underrate great deeds, but only beginning to realize that the earth belongs to me as much as to the most richly endowed among men. I claim my birthright of lovo and beauty and tveu 6orrow, roy privilege of forming a part of humanity. Legislative Secrets. Senator Thurman recently told iu Congress how appropriation bills are passed by the people's representative. Ilesnid: 'Until the last session I do not recollect, although it may be a de fect of memory at present, a case of the yeas and nays being called on an appro priation bill. There may have been such an instance, but I cannot recall it, it made to little impression on me. These bills usually pass as a matter of course. I shall never forget the snr prise with which I saw an appropriation bill, making appropriations, according to my reoollcctiou, of about $2,030,000, pass this body at tho first session that I had a scat here. There were in this Senate at the time that bill passed just four Senators. 'There whs tho Senator from Msine (Mr. Fcseenden), the chairman of the committee on appropriations, who sat, if I recollect aright, where the Senator from New Tork now sits. There was the Senium from Iowa (Mr. Harlan), chair -roan of the committee ou Indian affairs. It was the Indian appropriation bill. I went over and sat by the side of Mr. Fespenden while the bill was under con sideration, and my friend from Minne sota (Mr. Rimsey), snt iu his seat over yonder audjwrote letters. There were four of us, nnd we voted away $'2,0J0, Oro of the people's money at that sitting. Five hundred thousand dollars apiece. Wo did not vote that exactly, for there sat Mr, Fessenden with the bill before him, and there sat the Senator from Iowa, the chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, with a long list of amend ments to offer; and wheu he offered an amendment, Mr. Fessenden, if be ap proved it, would nod, and then it went in ; if be shook bis head it did not go in, for there could not be a vote; there was no quorum. And so they two, with their nods and their shakes, shook ont of the treafury $2,000,000. That in the way appropriation bills too often pass, and generally do pass,' A (Jpoi'gia Horror. A dispatch from Aluua nunouncs that the home of Mr. J. T. R ynold s near Joaesboro, bus been burned, and with it several members of his family. A oorreflpondont vent to the 6eeno of the fire, and rep rt3 that a trcincudona crowd had gathered, aud the excitomcnt was iiitouHO. Tne Iioufo, a large two story woolon one, was iu rains, nnd nothing had been stvdd from tho wreck. Mr. Reynolds, who wft3 hira.self badly burned, had been taken to a neighbor ing hcu -e, aud tho corpses of tho two gills, or what remained of them, bad been taken out, making a horrible sight. Mr. Reynolds was in the most intenso pain, and was almont crazed with ex citement. His narrative wus frequently interrupted by bin ee.reams and Khrieks. Ho says that the tin t tiling ho heard was a eort of a dn'ppliug, rattling sound like the falling of a s unaoior shower, Hj thought it was rain, and so told his wife, being'not wido awake enough to kuow whether she heard his remark or not. After dropping asleep again be beard a dull, heavy, roaring sound, and thonght he heard cries for help. Ho jumpod np and ran nputairfl, finding that the noise camo from that direction. He fonud himself iu a fearful gin re, aud saw that the whole upper part of the house was in flames. He rushed to tho door of the room iu wlvo'i his daughter, aged thirteen, aud his sister, aged sixteen, wore sleeping. They bad locked thoir door on retiring, and were now crying aloud, bnt could not unlock tho door. After trying in vain ho hur ried down btairs, and was j'ist iu time to get his wife to a place of safety before tho roof fell in. The most pathetic part of the story wits that tho poor father, after ho had rescued his wife, staggered aronnd to the side of the house, and saw, as he ha 1 suspected, his daughter and her aunt in tha window, scream: ng for help. Tho s'airwny ha 1 burned in, aud he could not reach them. He called to them to leap iron th window, but tbey would not doit. Ha continued to call to them to jimp until tl.i y perished at the window in his vciy sight. Hair Carpet. Tliero is a mania to which careful American housewives are pecu'iarly prone. We call it the'rag carpet niatiic..' When you you sou a woman begin to oast a longing eye npon your garmeuts yon may bo assured she is about to be attacked with tho disease. It is a cer tain sjmplom. V.'o noticed it in our wife for week; before it BSfumetl violent form. Tho first signs wore a careful aocnmnlation of all small bit a of rags, and iu a week or so wo would occasion ally surprise her at the childish occu pation of sewing their ends together. Then followed a period of rest, suc ceeded by the rolling of the eyes toward say piece of apparel that was iu the least diaflgurod. Finally it became so violent that in a spasm she seized and rent into strips a coat wo Lad inadvert ently left exposed to her gazo. From that momeut r.Le mado no at tempt to conceal tho disearo, or restraiu her frenzies. So infuriated was she that sho really gloried in lit r madness. She became so reckless that almost every garment wo possessed was torn into strips to fuoh an extent did she carry this destruction of npparcl that a com plete restoration of both her wardrobe and our own became neevsnry. That fifty yards of this so-considcred economical carpet costs $10.70 per yard may be seen by tho followiug result as ascertained by ft careful analysis : 7 coats at 10 averago valne each ...... $ 70 00 10 pairs of pantaloons U 7 70 00 H vest " S5 40 00 23 dresses " 1'' 230 (Hi Chain 20 Oil Weaving 15 00 Labor 60 oil Sundries 50 00 Total 515 00 Aotusl value of carpet per yurd, 603... 30 00 Total lort 4303 00 A Strancre Fanaticism. The authorities of Southern California having had their attention called to the starving of a child by its parents, dis patched an c fliitr to investigate and arrest the culprits. Ho fonud a Clermau doctor bad instituted a sreiety und pro cured as members a man and his wife with their four children; and the doc trines they upheld prohibited the eating ot any meat, and ouly allowed subsist ence ou naci-oked vegetables, without any condiment whatever. The child complained about was fed on scraped apple and dried fruit only, p: d was meroskiuand bones, its poor, little, bloodless boi'y being bleached white as snow, and scarcely a spark of vitality remaining. The mother, on being re monstrated with for hir inhuman treat ment, said she was willing to sacrifice her babe to the spirits, ns if it passed away it would not be lost to her. The society own a fine farm on which nothing is raised save the vegotables for the maintenance of the members, which they eat in their natural state. They have builtabcuse at a cost of SS.000, every room of which is circular, nnder the be lief that that form gives more thorrugh ventilation, claiming that in rooms where there are corners the air stagnates and becomes unwholesome. The entire party presented a wan, emaciated ap pearance; but declared their belief that it was the only method of living accord ing to the teachings of the Almighty. I'upxpceted Fortune of ft Harried Couple. 'JVni'io Juno' vritufi to o Baltimore paper th'H feeling incident of married life whieh eime nnder h r obsprvatioD : Aaioiig the departures on ono of the Eu ropo bound steamers that sailed last week wus a couple who had jnit Cgurod in a pomewhat romantic cpm-j:lo. When they married, ten years ago, the gentle man occupied tho position of cashier in a busieess bouse, nnd tho lady was a school teacher. Fur some timo they continued to pursue their respective callings, and were thus one.blod to live in n modest but highly respectable man ner, the lady's mother and her hnshund's young sister forming part of the furaily. After awhile tho hnsbaui's salary was rained, so that ho considered it no longer necafsary for his wife to follow her vo cation, and she gave tip hor position and remniued r.t home tending to household concerns, as a good and cirod for wife should. But unexpected Imuincss e m plicatiocs impaired the fortunes of tho honfio with which this gentleman was connected, and flua'ly reju'.tod in its disat-trona failure n-J tried long and patiently, bnt did not sueci ed in getting another situation, and times began to darken for tho young people, who hnd commeueod lifo so hopefully. Iu this emergency tho wifo tried to regiiin her old positiou in ono of the public schools, but found herself cut off as n married woman living with her husband. Re duced finally to desperation, they egreed to separate. The mutlier was committed to tho Care of other relatives; with the proceeds of their furniture the sister was sent to a ciun'ry boar ling school. The husband determined to (,ro West, and directed his steps to a torn iu which ninny year ago his father had urehased laud, which had alwais been a dead weight upon the little family, bnt which he now thought might bo util z-d as the f u Dilation for a new h inw. The wife, in I ho meantime, sought aud obtained a position us an unmarried womau, nnd arranged to share lsereRrriirigs with her hut.baud uut'l he sin uUl have obtsiiued afitfithold iu anew place and among a different people. For three yee.rs their lives were darkened by separation and utter failure to realize their Lopes. Hard times hud produced stagnation, the land wns found to be sttrild nu 1 hopeless for farming purpecs, and while the niau worked nt any odd j jbs which would as sist him iu procuring a livelihood, the woman dragged out l.er we-iry life, s'rivinn t increase the pittance obtained by touching by contributing short stories to tho weekly papers. S:x weeks ago she rc-ccived il'.e nri noufCL'meut that a sudden decision with regard to a railroa 1 had placed the hind ovned by her husband ia tho market and multiplied its value mauy times, nnd that Eho was to leave school cud get ready for a trip to E trope. Of course she would not leave until she could do so with honor, but snch a transform ation was ( ffected ia hor appearance by the sudden lifting of herbnrden that i-he seemed to have grown leu years jounrer. For three nights she cru'd not sleep for j v, and constantly rose to frd' npou hir knees nnd thank Heaven for thi3 unex pected good fortnno. A Triumph of Mechanical (renin. The English correspondent of a Xow York journal describes a wonderful ma chine which be saw at work in Lra.' f.'rd, Yorkshire. It was tho iLveution of a Mr. Binn, a practical silk wei.vor; nnd if the aeoouut is true, as there seemo to ho no reason to doubt, is des tined to work a revolution in the weav ing of the world's fabrics. A3 yet the machine has been put to work ouly npon silken cords and braids for trimmings and the like, b;it the inventor claims it cau bo used for multifarious designs in weaving. All it requires is to bo kept clean, to be supplied with motive power, aud have abundance of material t i 'feed' from, and it cau bo ruu from Mjuday moruiug till Saturday night, without atteudauco. Whereas Mr. Binns use,! to employ r.nmerons hands to wnteh and wait on the old machines, fdl he now requires is an enfiueer, ft book keeper nud one man to keep the ma chines cleau and lubricated nud to see thy do not run ont of material. Tuns tho mill can lua night and Jar without cassation. Tue machine is so complete that if a thread breaks it instantly stops, picks np tho thread by means of wire hooks, j ins them na.l oace moro re sumes its spinning as methodically as a human being. The correspondent saw fifteen machines working thus iiii'omat ically, aud their pro iuet was a marvel vt neatness. Profits of our l oreisru Trade. ! The United SUtos, of all tho uutions, is the only one, with a few trifling ex ceptions, which does a profit ible foreign business ;thit is, which sells more goods than she I uys, and if she docs not grow richer therefor 'the blood is flowing ml in somo other quarters munmercially she is growing rc'.ier. O ir d-mestic expor's for the fiscal year 1878 amounted to S'274, 000,000 more than our imports (re txports deducted) for the same year. All the other cen itries of the world oombinod cannot show a balance of trade in thoir favor to equ d half this sum. While the births in London last year were 120,184, there were bnt 2.r5 women who died in childbed, while 78 persons were murdered and 315 put an end to their own lives. ITEMS OF CENEKAL IXTEKEST. During one Sunday 3J0 men channel tho gauge of the St. Lo'riJ, Iron Mvta tain end Southern railway for distance of 700 miles. San Francisco is largely snppliod wilii water from artoaiau w.:lls, of which it is stii 1 there are not losi than '20.1 in the cif.y. The mulattoes of Florida form them selves into societies to whioh bhwk men ure debarred, and much foi ling has been e!onderel thereby. r.'-ofessor Paige has discovered in Wyoming Territory the antediluvian ro mains of o monster which was nt least eighty foctlong and eighteen hiph. At a trial of carrier-pigeon flying tho prize bird made tho distance of miles from Stf ubenville, Ohio, to IT 'bo!:en, K. J., in tight hours aud eighteen min utes. Etrip.ration statistics at Cistlo C tr den Now Tork, thow that 55,291 omi grauts landed during tho pabt sis months of 1870; nn incr"npe of 17,350 ov or tho same period of 1 878 . C.ipt. J. S. Barton, who won tho champion badge for military marksman ship at Creedmoor, recenlly lost his ripjit eye by being struck by ft piece of bli.ek thrown off by a cross cut caw r.t 0.we,o, N. Y. Tho failures in New York during tho first six months of 1870 worn 118 less in number and 328,000,000 iu humilities than tbow which occurred in the mno period last year. The French government is developing the carrier pigeon service iu earneht, fer 10 r.ivis and twelve other foi litiod towns no fewir than 0,0" 0 birds are now f.l at the public expense. According to Sr.VHuv fl 'r.Tor., of the Fiji Islands li2C0') out of a tot d population of 12.1,0.10 of the island u'tt ii 1 Wesh yan chapels, and the jn-ist of tho ret attend some ot'ier p'aee of w .ivl.;i, AIr. S'mwof Ct!:firri.i C'ltli not leave !i: bn-iiie'-s to come to Ai'm'iy, N. Y., for his promised bride, a ?tii Wright, tbey wetv married by trloritpu and the la.lv started across the eoi tiucut 1 1 j iu her liti-ban 1. A fertile valhy iu Xer.tTibei::srtIi-ot-eued by millions of e.-i -kets, nil the Imsts available were collected :ml driven against Ihn destrnctivo insects, e.tul de stroyed vast quantities of them, grorvirg fat rapidly ou their singular food. Tiio nitvie.i! festivil ass.ic'ition of Oia'siunttt has offered ft pr" of t?1000 for tho bo: t tdTsii?a! composition by au American, to be Hi'is nt tho mnsicul l s'ii.d in 18S0. Theodore Thomas i:i tho president of the examining bcviiJ. Farmers at Wichita, Kan., nre hanlii g buffalo bones into town every iw. There has j :isl opened in Wichita a goeid market. T!ie bones are fathered in Harper and B.irbtnr counties, wheio tiicy lie in countless numbers, nnd are hanlod from fifty to ono hundred milts. At n meeticp; of Massachusetts women 'to consider their dukes ns voters for suhocl commissioners, under tho rot? amendment allowing them to v tfl for f u?b officers, it was declared that it was 'not only a matter of principle bnt m net of duty to endeavor t o forward tho work." A plag.ie of locusts fell upon i'jo province of Cancans, Rissir, dif'inj Aoril. Vineyards nnd ft n't gardens were ntterly destroyed. The water courses were choked by tho swarmirg pests, and the village streets were so blocked by them that tiio shops were shnt aud all trt fil ? snspendod. There are two ire dealers ia Wilming ton, Lel., nnd the people nre c::j lying unusual favors in their competition for b-.irtines?. At tho i flio of oi:0 there io a bountiful supply of ice water for ad jm-s-crs by. Tho other has gone a f-tep further and has a barrel of iced lemons. Io on tap for all who choose to take a drink. Lu'.ii R Fiun, n Charlestown, Miss., girl of eight was appointed a monitor iu one of the schools recently, and having complained of George Hillo.i, ten yeans old, for some offoune, she received a severe pnueh in fie aVowm from the boy's umbrella while coming out of Fchool, f.oin which sho reny die. The B sterner process, by cononvz iror tho munufaotiiro of steel, which is now made direct from the ore, bns( (Tool ed a savins; in expenditure in n'l the ex isting railways in (!' at Rrt:i"i ilnrin: t e life of oae et of rails of ?.io,00, 0;'0 by sulMit.i'rg ste 1 for irv,n. Tiio royalty paid Kir ll-'iiry Bessemer for bis process alieady amounts toove: ",0 10, 000. The OiiiU'lnn irovernment his em ploye! thirteen practical tanners nt a s ilary of S7.10 inrm illy to initrnnr tho finti-iim if that c"un!r iu a 'rieu'hire. The government, fur.iishes bin 1, imple ments snd provisions for ore year. After that time it is tx pecked the farms will be self-supporting, tho farmer to have any surplus be may be able to make. Col. R'ehsrdson, the largest cotton planter iu Mississippi, has made a mar ket for bis product by building a cotton mill at Wesson, Miss., which lias 15,000 spindles, and now oonsnm.es annually 5,000 bales of cotton. The market price for cotton at the mill is two cents a pound less than it can be bought for in Massachusetts. Col. Richardson em ploys COO operatives, and his preflts tho past year were 12 per cent.