North Carolina Newspapers

djjhftam Record. ptipm H. A. LONDON, Jr., EDITOK AND rKOrUIETOK. OK ADVERTISING. "nr . juuit, nin iii.rt!m, -din' wiuarp.twtttnsi 1 1 in( - On' hi".n,l t in' jiK.riih, - fl.nft TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Onncnrjr, cinrar, -Oneroiw ,-lx iiH'iilli -One copy, three luuiilli-, v.-.nn l.on VOL. J. mTsnK() Chatham co., n. c, aik.ist m, is?.l is. Fr lart-r a'lvt-'-liiiifiitit itiKjalouiitiarla will bB 01 To the Bereaved ! Headatones, Monuments AND TOMBS, IS THE BEST OF MARBLE. Oood Workmanship, mid Gheapost and Largest Variety iu the Btato. Varda corner Morgan and Blount dtroeU, below Wynn'e livery stable. Address nil roiuniniiioaticnH to CAYTON & WOLFE, Rileigh. N. C. W. L LONDON Will Keep Them. Rig Spring and Bummer Block U very large tod extra Cheap, ltemeuber, HE KEEPS EVERYTHING And always keeps a Full Rnpplv. lie kotps the largest atook of PLOWrt. 1'i.OW CASf INUS aud FAliMlNG lMPLEMKNTH iu tho County, which ho sella at Factory Priced. Has Bull-tonguee, Sbovel-plnwa, Sweeps, e'e, as oheap aa you can boy the Iron or Btoel. lie keep the linoet and beat stock of GROCERIES! Sugars, Coffers, Teas, Cuba Molasnes, Fine Sirups and Fancy Groceries. Tie bnya goods at the tiowest Prioen, and takes advantage of all disoonntH, and will sell goods as cheap for CASH aa they can be bought in the Btate. You can always find DRY GOODS I Fancy flood, f rich aa Itibbons, Flowors, Laoes, Vails, Ruffe, Collars, Coraeta, Fans, I'aiauola, Umbrellas, Notions, Olothing, HARDWARE. Tinware, Drug, Painfs Mixrd and Dry Oils, Crockery, Confectioner Us. SHOES! Very largo Rtock Bxite. ITata for Men, Boys, Ladle and Children. C&rr.ago Material! SEWING MACHINES Nails Iron Furniture; Chewing and Hinukinp louaooo, Ul rica, Buuii; Leather or all kiude, and a thousand other things at the CHEAP STORE I OF W. L. LONDON. riTTtflJORO. N. 0. H. A. LONDON, Jr. 7 Attorney at Law, I'lTTKIIOKO', x ( jiySpecinl Attention Pntd to Colloo'ino. J. J. JACKSON. ATTOR NEY-AT-LAW, riTTsnomr, n. c. f-SFAU business entrusted to blrnwlllr. ccivo prompt attention. W. I. AltDIRSAir, rr.tld.al. ' r. Ai WILIT,' OaaklM. CITIZENS! NATIONAL BAN& OF " itALEifin, sr. c. J.D.WILLIAMS It CO., Grocers, Commission Htroli&nta and Produce Bayexi, FAYETTEVIULE. N. O. NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF RALEIGH, . CAR. T. II. CAMERON, JYMmf. W. E. ANDERSON, Tic frn. W. 11. IIICK8, tt'y. The only Homo Lifo Insuranoo Oo. la the State. All It fundi loaned out AT IIOM E, and among our own people. We do not su4 Morta Carolina monty abroad to build no other hales. It la one of the moat anoeeasful com panies or Its age In the United Blatea. It aa. ecls are amply sufficient. All Iomm p.14 promptly. Eight tbouutod dollars paid In Iks last two year To families in Chatham. It will coat man aged thirty year only Ave eenM day to Insure for one thousand dollars. Apply for further Information to H.'A. LONDON, Jr., Ben. Aft. PITT8B0R0', V. 0. JdHN MANNING, Attorney at Law, PITTSBOBO', H. 0., JmMcm la th. Voarta ot Gbalham, H.ra.tt wr aal Oraaf ., aa Iu Ik. Bupraa.aaa Vaeenl arts. Blossom uiul Blight. I ia her in her innuoenco, A rhild with beauty rare ; The light waa in her tender glance, And ou bor golden hair A perfect blossom of the earth; But formed diviuely fair. I maw her when a blooming girl, Half shy and yet half bold ; Iter feet Jut eutoring en tho path Whose end ia to bo told Her features woro a softer ahado, ller hair had deeper gold. I saw her iu the early bloom Of woman's glorious grace ; Her boxom'a swell but half couoealtd lly folds of filmy lace Tho Jewels Hashing from her ucck, The beauty from her faoo. The gayest of them all she moved A thing of lifo and light ; A gc in aa rioh aa ever shone Upon the breath of night Tiiu flush of triumph ou her ohreka, Her forehead ivory wbito. Tho I.IuhIi of K Jen eoeuiod to rest I'pu her finger-lips; The red roao iu hor dainty baud Waa pale before her lips ; Tue azure of those molting eyes 'J lie violets did oolipeo. haw her once again, alas ! That over alio waa born, A tuiuted wretch, a cant otf toy, Ilur beauty wrecked and torn - Art changed as ttoim from calm may be, As midnight is from morn. All me 1 ah mo ! the human heart Miiht htill the btory tell ; Tho willing ear to whispering lush Had listened far too well And heaven's pearly doors swung elono Wbou ope'd tho gatoa of hell. But pray, perhapx the Kaored Hand, Nail-pierced In other days, May Blill in mercy bo outatretched Buch fallon out a to raise ; And feet yet walk in paradine That here tied devious ways, Pirhais before the curtain drops The blinded eyes may see ; The nandeiing feet to Josub turned, lly Him may bo set free ; 'Forgive, dear Lord I' 'This very day !' Was spoko on Calvary. SHUT THE DOOR AFTER YOU. TiMtrn nut by tlio window of her room, reiuliug a uoto, nothing but perplexity aud disturbnueo in ber fair face. Blie wan a uoblo, iutolltgett, woll-edunatoj girl, but utterly iiueojihifitioutotl, or, m her achoolmutvs called her with girliun Bluug, 'eret'L'.' Thero wiw no reiiHim for thin in her Rocial RiirronndiugH. She had been born and brought up iu a city, been Bent to more than one boarding-school, and necu much good society in her father's houso; but her nature wua radically unworldly, and ecu Id receive nothing of a counter potivo kind from things about her. tiho was e.H romantic, as scutimcutal, as ideal, eatbiiHiastie), innocent, and gushiug at twenty iib a gill of teu; believed what people, said to her, had implicit faith in the newspapers, despised money it is to bo acknowledged she never know tho want of it and had entire trust in the honor, honesty, aud kindliness of all about her. Within a year of the time we aro introduced to her alio had formed an aciiuaiutancd and what she called a friendship with a young man iu Djunis, who wan a law strident, and rather an uuusnal Bpeoimeu of tho clasn. Mr. McDraw for he wan of Scotch descent was poor, pious, and prim to a degree. Laura thought him as near a saint us could bo, aud considered their iutininuy a privilege to hor. lie was one of those people who talk a sort of reflned and poetic oant that sounds well, but, liko tho fruitless fig treo, feeds no living soul, His modest recreation after hard study consisted chiefly iu long walks, and he delighted iu getting up parties of his own age to divert the way. Miles and miles had Laura Btocktou followed his strides over hill and dale, distancing her less enthusiastic comrades; she pant ing with fatigue, he cool and gaunt, the sandy hair that thatched his angular head flying in tho broeze, his high cheek bo uos aud prominent nose turned of a crude pink in the keen air of the Dennis hills, and Lis great rod hands swinging besido him like a pair of raw pendu lums. Hilly Stockton, Laura's little sister, sinfully giveu to parodies, travestied tho 'lUttle of Ivry' for Laura's benefit, and mado the refraiu: 'Prexs whore ye see my light locks wave, aud hoar my loud guffaw, Aud be your orillamme to-day the red hands of McCraw.' Laura was very angry, but everybody else laughed. She alone, eho thought, understood this lofty spirit, and ecjoyed being a disoiple of his fine theories. It was a pleasure to her to pound along after him by the dusty road-sides, and come up iu time to hear him say, with a gesture of oommand and digito monstra turn, 'That cloud I' or, perhaps, 'That oow I' whereupon Liura fell to and ad mired at it.as old writers say ; in the infan tile innocenoe of her heart thinking the thing was to be admired because Mr. McOraw said so. Then they would pauee under some great tree, and when their companions had gathered about them, this youth would draw from his capacious pocket a small volume of poetry, and torture Ten nyson or declaim Browning with such tricks of elocution aa college bad taught him, and suoh lack ot perception as was inborn with him. 13ut in all these walks and talks and roudiugi, though ho singled out Liura aa his companion, and turned to her for the appreciation he failed always to ob laiu '.nna others, she never dreamed of any peculiar aud personal inleres"; on bis part moro than that community of spiritual interests which was once tho fair Platonio day dream of many a girl ish scul. Girls iu these, days know bi t ter, or know moro. She had never hud her pulse quickened or her visions per turbed by this man. Theoretically she admired him; his mini seemed to her very doep. Uis sollish reticence and moody temper were a great deal deeper than any mind he had, and his pompt us eolf -conceit was but a cover for the most crass and" dogmatic ignornnoe of any thing more profound than hiu law-books. Kveu his professed religion war a form that did not modulate or awooteu bin daily lifo ; he kept the cotuniuuduieutH because it was respectable aud propel' to do so, not because he loved to obiy his leather and Lord. Honesty, cleunli nees, economy, a certain hard and uko fill intellect, and tolerable self-outrol, were his virtues ; but to a person with any ense of humor he was absurd too often, and his rampant oonneit niude him oliuoiious toeveiyono with the least perception of character. Lnckily for liUira, noitlur humor nor perception waa in her make tip. IJut Mr. MtUraw was a judicious person, aud ho by no means intended to sutler Piatonism to take posBnsniou of his soul, and blind him to his best interests, lie fully un derstood that marriago with Laura Btocktou would insure him a I-i 2' posi tiou iu society and eventual wealth, and his friendbhip of a year oilmiuuted in a formul and distinct offer of ninrriago iu tho note which wo found Liura reading and moditating ever. She was pained, grieved, and disap pointed; she liked Mr. McCruw ruaoh, so long us he was only a friend, but not ono teuder sentiment pleaded for him as a lover. Tho truth wan, though she could not formulate it, that this mau was not a gentleman in any sense of the word. Good -breeding is a safe shield against an tin Tit marriago, for a well-brod woman is ropelled by htr instincts from a low and vulgar man. And nl heart t his preciuo Mr, Mi Craw was both vul gar and low. Laura was perplexed, and tri d to recall to herself any undue en c )urft(jemcnt she might have given him; but her conscience acquitted her, und sbe cxcufcd him as being beset by some paasiug fancy, und auawerod his note in the kiiult t,t aud most delicate manner, expressing regret that she nnut seem to hurt his feelings, and hoping they would still continue to be friends. Partly because sho was shy, partly be cause she was an American girl, she did not goto her mother with this note, or, indeed, conlUle it to anybody; yet Miss Sally's sharp eyes reud tho secret wiih the noiitencH4 of fifteen when flftoeu is acute; Ltiiira at twenty was no match for her. Mr. McCraw smiled a grimly pleasant smile when he rtcoived Launi's answer. Worldly wisdom was not want ing in him; he regarded her regret aud hopo us tantamount to an acceptance, and in a week or two ro-appeured at Mr. Stockton's house as pious, poetic, and prim as ever, aud was received by Laura exactly on the old footing. She was pleased to think he cherished no ill feel iug at her rejection; ho was as much pleased to be virtually accepted by her smiling weloomo; and Bally, who hated hiui, was furious to see that he hud re turned to his former footing without evou a dint or a stain on his mail of con ceit. Sho turned upon Liura as soon as he left the door that morning, 'Liura Stockton 1 are you a fool?', Why, Sally, what is the matter ? what have I done now ?' Jone I When you refuso a man, why doii't you rofuso him, and not have him dauglo after you like this!' Who told you I refused him ?' said Laura, blushing red as a fire-lily. 'Your face told me, and various other indications. I can see with my eyes, if you can't.' But, Sully, what I done? I don't seo any reason why one cannot dislike to marry a man, and yet liko to be friends with him.' Perhaps you don't; but Lo doos. In six mouths roe if he don't offer again. I'll givo you my gold bracelet if he doesn't. He don't feel rejected; not at all, I assure you. Laura, if you had been a little yellow gosling on the odgo of Cross pond, you couldn't be more silly than you are." Liura opened her large eyes. 'Sally, I don't think you ought to talk that way about it; you're only a little girl.' 'A little girl I Then you're only a baby, Miss Laura; and I believe iu my heart you are a groat, big, dear, im practicable baby. Just wait till he of fers again, aud we'll see who is right then.' 'Sally I lint the lecturer had vanish ed in wrath. However, aa the summer went oo, matters reverted to the former footing entirely. Geology now occupied the McCraw mind; aud with bags and ham mers he led his neophytes np and down, and filled the echoes with sounds of gneiss, syenite, volcanic formation, dip of strata, and the like ntteranoes, and gave occasion for the enemy to mock him in the person of Sally, when, being asked by a visitor in search of informa tion what a certain blie mountain in the d.'iituuco was, hoourtly s iswero l 'Trapl' tho astonished girl huvii.g meant to iti-k its proper name. Il.it when winter o ivoi-i.- l all fNuIgi en! formations, and walka were brought to a tujilen end, this Htreuui ui youth devised a now dissipation, C illocting a ragged cveuiug school in tho lower part of Dennis, lie b?nt up recruits among bis own sort to become- ti-r.eliein, and Ltura took up the pr jiiet with earnest enthusiasm. Si docihi was she in adopting all his suggestions, so de voted to the work he had inaugurated, that he considered himself beforo long to have formod her mind aud molded her character, and looked upon his creation, in a certain proper way, luuo'i .is Pyg malion looked at his peerless statue, ytt no doubt with a profound sense of bin own power und glory (iu tho fashioning of such an image. Seeing in Liura a rcflicliou of his own gooducnsatid great ness, a deeper emotion stirred within him than she hud ever beforo awakened. Self-love was his strongest trait, und lie learned to love her from thin motive; his eyes shono while ho talked with her as pleanantly as green ryes cm sliiue, and n milder pink than thn spring broezt s bestowed though still visibly vivid sull'iiHcd his ciinntcLauco with nu arid glow whenever sho came into tho school room. He waa bo certain that he was iu lovo with her that he resolved not to wait till the year expired which ho had set for the limit of his delay, and beforo spring had fuirly begitu ho again, though iu a rather less formal aud a shade wanner manner, requested Miss Laura to accept his heart and hand, adding : 'I make this offer in tho confidence that such a nuiou will conduce to our mutual spiritual good, and render more useful to both of us the discipline of this lifo aud tho means of preparation for tho life to come.' t'nluckily the girl who receivod this onrionsly methodic and stilted note at tho door curried it to Sally, who recog nized tho tall aud angular script sb-j hud so often said was a perfect photograph of the mau. She ran up stairs with it to Laura, aud maliciously stood by while t-ho read it; for Laura was too simple to under stand expedients, r.ud dared not quite at-k Saliy to leavo her. Poor girl t she could be silent, but her faco spoko for her. Kvon to her nusnspecting soul this letter was ungracious as well us uugraco f nl ; between tho written lines ran that unnoialiou that letters so oft -.u betray: the self-love, tho innate tyranuy, tlioob tusencFfl, tho stiffness of th man's na ture underlined his words. Sally nufeel ingly watched her faco as t,ha read. 'Will you have my gold bracelet?' she asked, mockingly, whon her sister laid tho note down. 'Oh, Laura, you'll believo me ntxt time, won't you ? Tho wrolc'a I the miserable prig I does he think he's fit to touch my dear, good, sweet, silly, lovely Laura's shoes i fd liko to expreiis my mind to him I' 'Oh, Silly, don't think of that !' said iuuoeeut Liurn. 'My dear, it would do no good if f did. Hut, Laura, do, tit rr j -fit him once for all this time. Shut the door ou him, or, as mamma used to say aud you know you always did leavo the doors ajar 'you'll have lo do it over again, Liura.' 'I don't want to hurt his feoliu;s, though, Sally. I think that would be unkind. It in a great complimout to pay me, of oourso.' 'Liura I Laura I you make me think of what that horrid mau wo met last year at Newport said about Niagara Falls you're 'suoh a sweet green,' Will you let me write tho note ?' 'No, indoed I ' was the ituliguaut auswer, Aud Silly could only hope that her in terference had been of use; but she doiihtod it when in Miy sho saw Mr. McCraw, after a brief scanon of sulky abstnoe, yield to Liura's gentle civility aud evident remorse at having offeuded him, IIo was not geutlemau enough to perceive that, being a lady, she was pained to have wounded his feelings; and was too simplo, besides, to know that any attempt at reparation would be treated as rcpentauoo. He took the role of an injured person, led Lturaon to en deavors at appeasing and conciliating him, and, when friendly relations were at last re-established, persisted iu airs of de haul en ban toward her that enraged Sally. 'Well, dear Liura, bo yon moan to marry Andrew McCraw, after all ?' she said, with great sweetness, one day, when Laura oanio buck from a botanical ex cursion under his direction. 'How dare you say that V retorted the angry Liura, roused for once. 'How dare you encourage him?' re plied Sally coolly. 'I don't. A man don't want to be re fused more than twice.' 'You don't think he has been refused, do you, my dear ? Ha thinks even now that you are trying to draw him on again.' 'Sally, you are too bad.' 'Liura, you are too hopelessly absurd.' Hut Sally's case wan proved, as she had triumphant evidence within the third month after this sharp bkirmish, finding Laura ouo day in tears over a note renewing Mr. McC'raw's oiler in set terms, but adding that he should not, after previous experience, have tried his fate again, but the unmistakable en couragement, tven invitation, she had given him of late really obliged him to I .In so I Hilly laved and L '.urn cried, buteoun Fels of tcuie piov.ii'ed at last. No no tice Vtlmlevi-r wan Ukcu of this impel ti in'iice, aud tho answer cent was the sim-plei-t and iit;veri-sl negative. 'I think ,v hi will ishut the dour after you this time,' ba'd Sally; 'but you'd better lock it, too, my dear.' Yet hho Might have t-pared L'liira, for who had learned this lesson by hoart. Jn iie.r'n lazur. A Woman's Lueriry. Iu Kli.abcth street, not far from Jiroome, New York, si -ands a dingy, old fashioned ho'iso, managed by nu Eng lish woui in upon the stereotyped Eng lish lodging house principle. This house iH owned by, and has for yeai's boen tho residouee of, a womuu whose career pos-foi-scb Horuu exlneirdiuary featuros, vho coiumci'dd with unthing und umassud a fortuuoof .l,0:iO,Ul)0 by real estate op era! i mih, and at acveuty years of ago ia intending to finish her career in tho world by writiug a treatise ou religion and hcieuce. M jiv, than fifty years ago a young girl iu un interior county iu that State walked thirty mile4 to engage tho vacant prineipalship of a village academy. Although not competent to pass au examination for tho vacancy, tho tiinteoi wore hiruck by the imloui itahlo pltijk of tlio young rustic, and kindly promised her tho situation if she would preparo herself to pass an exam ination within the two mouths' vacation between tho spring and full terms. Tho girl went home, shut herself up in a little garret room, lived ou bread and water, quarreled with her mother about tho housework, and Hpplied herself night and day to arithmetic, geography and grammar. Hat when sturdy little Louisiana St. Johu reported for exam ination, at tho expiration of tho two meathii, sho answered every question triuruDuauily, and outered upon her du ties as the priucipal of a village acad emy. For more than tweuly years Miis St. Johu purauod tlio career of a peda gogue, ommbing money dollar by dol lar, aud iuve.-itiug her pavings with cir cumspection, until sho thought herself financially strong enough to abandon the schoolm i'am'3 desk aud remove to New York. At first hor operations iu real istute were small and tentative, tho Kuglishwomiiu, then yt ung and active, acting as her agent. Hut successful ac cumulation engenders confidence, aud the year lb?.!, memorable for its finan cial crisis, found the adventurous school- ma'aiu operating on a largo eeale iu Western laud, St. Louis city lots, eto., and exercising from her little parlor in Elizabeth itivet a potent iutlu'.'Uco ou tho market. Her habits are peculiar aud methodical, llisiog with the sun, she lays out tho business of tho day with mathematical precision before break fast, and issues her instrmtious to her trusted lieutenants, giving minute di rections as to the conduct of each enter prise, and holding each subordinate to a military accountability. Althcughscv- euty years eld oud tu'Iering from dropsy, uot six mouths ago this indomitable old lady journeyed unattended to St. Lniis, aud there, week after week, while the bridge across tho river was iu progress, looked after the interests of a large properly likely to bo ulFcoted by that en terprise, lieset with sharpers aud in terested parties of rdl sorts, her wouuiu'h insight ranidly sifts out tho false from the true, and protects her million alike from tho speculative enterprises of the visionary and from tlio bubble compa nies of the professiinal financier. Sho will tell you, nevertheless, with a sigh, in a moment of conlldeuco, that her whole lifo has been a failure, and her splendid fortnuo only a trouble to her for these many years; that she would give her million for a toddling little granddaughter, but, iu the ubt-enee of the granddaughter, means to leave it to found any institution that shall in some way belli lit humanity. A Nobleman's L'wl. The Ron of a German prince, and the nephew of a cabinet miuister of the Gor man empire died in Chicago a few days since, with a strong suspicion of suicide, and now fills a pauper's grave at the early ago of twenty-three. He was the sou of Prince Herman von Mauteuflel, and having committed peccadillos iu Germany that the wealth of his family, aud even their rank, could not shield him from punishment, ho reached this oouutry last winter with about SII.OOO iu money. He led a reckless life in Chicago, devoting himself to women and whihky. His favorito among the fair sex was a pretty girl attending a cigar store, whoui ho had promised to marry, and much to her credit she supported her 'count' when his wealth was exhaust ed and his noble relatives rut off tho remittance?. Iu his despair he added opium eating to his other vices, and the title is now vacated. The number ot packages of tomatoes put up in the Uaited States last year reached the great total of l!,t'it'.8,000 Maryland leading off with C.KIO.iklO; New Jersey .r,,W2.0flil; Delaware 1.H81,- OiK); New York l.CsaixH); Massachusetts "ll'.O.llOO; Penusylvauia 192,01)0; Paoiflo coast 1,2 )0 i)0il ; Western aud other States 1,:12),0iKI. The value of this in dustry to the trade is given atl,00,- OOii. Yet many of the present genera tion oan reoall the time when the tomato was regarded as only a curiosity, A I'rcai liei'V llesl SiTintiii Spoiled. The lliehmond (Va.) AV i;iuus ! r a':l s:iyp: I'.rother Cuthbert ltonch, brother of the l' iv. Elij ib K )uh, many years ogo moved from Churlotte oouuty, Va., to Trigg county, Ky. He told nu when ho went to the Liltlo Uiver associ ation, Kentucky, he hoard a leading minister in that association, and u very good man, preach from tho following text: Acts ii, 10: 'Save yourselves from this untoward generation.' Tho old gentleman pronounced the word 'untoward' as if it was tint nverel, an 1 weut on to tell the nu lieuuu that iu the days of tho apostles the peojdu lived in walled cities, v.ilh towers) and battle ments for their defense; that the apont lo used tho word figuratively here, to show how defenceless was that wicked geuer atiou, without tower.s of Ktrcngth, iu which they c mld enter mid defend them selves from the wrath of fod. Thus it is at tho prepont day, Slid ho; tlioM'nuer is exposed and has no tower iu which to defend himself. And with many other words did ho testify and exhort, si.ying, pave yourselves from this untoward gen eration. As they returned from church Hrotber lloach said to tho preacher: 'Did you not give a wrong interpreta tion to tho word untoward ii your txl to-day by pronouncing it incorrect!) ' no replied, 'Ob, no, lirother touch, 1 know I am correct, for I have preached that sermon at least twenty times at dif ferent plaaes, and tho brethren have told me it is the best sermon they ever heard mo preach.' 'Well, well,' flays Drother Hooch, 'we will fee what the dictionary soys as to the meaning of the word aud its prouuueialiou when wc g-1 to the house.' After they lookid lit the dictionary the good brother, with ovi dent mortification aud regret, exclaimed: 'Hrother 11 jach, this is too haul Y-m have spoiled ono of my best (tenuous! I shall never be able to preach it again.' The I'liiteil Mates vs. Europe. The president of a Connecticut cut lery compauy has invaded 8lt flleld, the home of tho edge tool trade iu England, aud has engage I 101) cf its best work men to come with their families to his factory iu Connecticut. They nre on the way, and in September they will bu fol lowed by a large number of (-killed edge-tool makers from Germany. Oilier Connecticut workers of iron ond si eel have recently built up :i flourishing trade iu Australia and home other colo nies of Great Britain. These signs of the development of American trade are full of meaning to those who uru study ing the eonditiou of England. No sub ject nt the present time so holds the at tention of thoughtful meu iu fhat coun try as the great aud advnuoing power of America in the markets whore England has in years past been foremost, and America's influence upon her home ag riculture and mannfuctureH, the foun tains from which oomo hor life-blood. Tho fertilo plains of our great West are seudiug to her grain aud moat iu largo quantities, aud at pri?en for w hich they cannot bo produced in England without loss; and it is imuouneed iu the House of Commons that farming in England has ceased to be profitable, Evou hor own colonies close their doors against her goods, nud iu Homo of them tho trado of American muuiifiiotu rers is growing os rapidly as her owu is pass ing owoy. To niaey of those who form erly bought her finished f;oods she can now scud ouly raw material. Her farmers see no profit iu raining crops, and her workmen see less aud less money with which to buy them. H;r statesmen may soon bo confronted by internal troubles for which it will be hard to find a remedy. lie Aioiiled the appearance. Tho Boston Tranm ri( t aye: An in complete idea is apt to be a false idea; it is necessary to take the whole in order to make it valuable. (Jansour remembers a good country parfou who preached a series of sermons ou practical morality, and wry interesting and ine-ti active they were. A la 1 iu the village who had heard only one of them was coining out of au orchard one day, hi.i pockets bulg ing with stolen fruit. He mot the par son, ln noticed his olTort to conceal tho evidences of his guilt. 'Have you beeu stealing apple?' asked the minu ter. 'Yes, sir,' answered the boy, sheep ishly. 'And you are trying to hide then; from me?' continued the good man. 'Yts, sir," said tho culprit and then add ed, his face brightening nj 'you said last Sunday that wo must avoid the fljJ lcirani e, of evil. Mich Priced Musicians. L;vy, the comet player, is reported as being paid 81-V) a week And board for his family for his Beivices in tho orches tra at Manhattan beach, C mey island, where Gilmoro is paid $.10.1 for himself and .?1,00l for the rest of the band. Arbuckle, who stands on a pedestal in Talmage's church on Sundays, receives $100 a week at West Brighton; aud of Brighton the same writer, saye: 'The only solo player ou the cornet to be had for this place was Liberati. In the spring he offered to play for 101) a week, but his offer was rejectee, as it was then thought that there could lie a better player obtained iu Europe, but Neuendorf! searched in vaiu for one, and had at last to seek Liberati again; but in the meantime Ltberati's price had doubled, and so they had to pay 2lHl.' 1TKMS OF t;i:M;KAIi IMKK1.ST. All usurers and pawnbrokers, to the number of 278, havd been expelled from M'MCOW. Tho 'Ladies' Solitary aud Benovolcut Association,' of Now Oilcans, is organ ized and readv for business. Tho United States is now shipping horses to lirest, to bu used iu tho 1'ieueh civulry service; thui oponing u now trr.ni ',. Of tho forty milliou dollars iu refund ing certificates issued by tho United Slides Troasury, j?:i2,277,0CO huvo been converted into four per ceut. bouds. New York capitalists aro investigating tho feasibility of a canal ucros.i 1'loridu in order to shorteu tho ocean voyogo from Now Orleans to tho riiotropolic. Dif centers from the Greek ehuieli, hitherto uuiie guized by tho Sluto in liiiw'u, are now to huvo out ii o liberty of wo.ship. This uiV.ctH 12,000,111)0 Huh- Hiall hill jeClH. M J. M. CbirU, at Howell, Mioh., lately delivered u lot of hau 1 cars with sail attachment, Ho is now tilling or ders for sail Lau-l-cirs from tvo parties in New York, ono order being for ( xport. Tho managers of Manhattan bench, (.! mey inland, New York's fashionable wnleriug plane, announce they do not want Jews to visit the;r grounds, claim ing their presence is olTi n-uvo to the ma jority of people who patroni.e that ro sort, Iu consequence of tho prevalence of iiiciunliiuisni tho authorities of Khar holT, Iliissia, have divide I tho town into o"2 1 fire diHtri jts. Every householder is bound to keep a special night watch man, anil to have thirty buckets of wa ter always ready. The wviM tlioug'it in Virginia has hern followed by disastrous forest llres, iu which tl'OU--iidr of acres of valuable timber lie. been burned, as well as much oordwood nud fencing. In many in stances farmcra with dilli-'ulty saved their bunting bnildiugr'. A liuo illustration of tho pntienco of hope nud the labor of lovo is found iu the (.' lurch Missionary Society of Eng land, which labored without desponding eighty years withcut a single convert, but it now reports UO.OOO communicants an 1120,0oo adhereuts iu pagan lauds. While the steamer State of Viigiuia lay on tho sho'd off the Nova Scotiuu coast where sho struck, being tempora rily ubaudemed, a small schooner, liav ing a canvas over her name, ranged alongside, and tiio crew stole the larger portion of the cabin furniture, includ ing tho piano. Saturday, July 12'.h, the themomoter nt Charleston, S. C, stood 101 degrees iu the shade, the hottest day ever Luowu there, aud tho recerd goes back to 10;iH. Iu IT M, for the firot time, it reached !S; iu 1772 it touched Ml ; iu s2i and 1-V2J the highest point reached was 100; iu 1H7! it went up as high as lo2. Twelve large donations to mis.iiouiiiy soon ties have becu made within a few months, amounting to over 8-1,00,1,01)0. Miss Lipshy, of Iu liana, left g:iOJ,0(IO to the Prohbvteriou board, and Deacon Otis, of Connecticut, S))7S,0IM) to the American board. Gifts of i 100,1)00 each from India and Afrit-1 tiro included in the list. During the past jeai- 1' 1.1 distilleries have beeu Hi-i.cd iu the sixth North ( '.a olina collection district, the net amount of money recovered to the United States therefrom being moro than fNo.lM);). Tho collections from thn district for the year were ci:i7,ii-"'., au increase of :s."i,. 1171. This is duo to tho rigid enforce ment of the law. The New Hampshire house of repre sentatives has passed a bill regulating railway passenger aud freight tariffs. It gives to the railway ooiumisMoui ra tho right to regulate tho tariff of auy road iu the State, prohibits any railway comniis-siotiei- from holding olli 'o in any railway corporation, or from owuiug the stock or bonds of any railroad. Two prisoners who broke jail at Oma ha, Neb., have sent a uoto to oui of tho papers, stating that ttte sauitary coudi lion of the edifice was so bud they fen red disease, and so escaped. They assert their innocence of the crime fur which they were committed, aud state that on the day set for trial they will appear aud prove their case, 'ireful estimates made at New Oi lcans place the Louisiana rice crop nt about omvhidf that raised in the State iu 1S7S. Where irrigating machinery was employed a full crop will bo har vested, but the greater part of tho crop l as Buffered terribly or beeu lost from wiiut of water a want iuUnsifled by the remarkably light rainfall this houcou. The whole number of publications of all kiuds in the United States and terri tories, as showu by the American News paper Directory, frew from S,70d in Jan nary last, to tf.l.Vl in July. Monthlies aud dailies have most increased. News papers abound in tho territories. Sus pensions in general have beeu compara tively less than for preceding periods. Discoveries were made at the Blantyre colliery, near Glasgow, Sootlaud, whero a terrible explosion destroyed thirty lives, that some of the meu had tobacco pipes and a false key to the safety-lamp, which was found opeu, making it proba ble that the explosion was caused by a reckless attempt to take a smoke iu a situation where it could uot fail to be at tended by a tremendous risk.