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MMMfm (ffilt ; Jf-liY fflft fit! "ft By P. M. HALE. ADVERTISING BATES. Advertisements will be inserted for One Dollar per square (one inch) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of the RALEIGH REGISTER, Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayetteville Street, next to Market House. , office : ; Fayettevilk St., Second floor Fisher Building. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION : fine copy one year, mailed post-paid . ... . .fa 00 One copy six months, mailed post-paid.. . .1 00 ZJT No name entered without payment, and no I aper sent after expiration of time paid for VOL. I. RALEIGH, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1884. NO. 18. THE OLD CAlffP-fflnSETIIV'. Lancaster Intelligencer. Come, brederin', git in de golden car, Uar's room for you an' me up dar ; t'oiue, set down on de anxious seat, Raw siti am sour, an' 'ligtou's sweet. CHORUS. Den come an' jiue right now in de ban', An' take de sistern by de han', Vftt bound for glory in de happy lan' Ain't no sufferiu' dar, up dar. Put dfin ulippers on your feet Wtaeibyou walk along in de golden street, An iu deni angels put your trus', Kase uo room darior to raise a dus'. ' If you see Peter sleep at de gate, Kase de uigbt beo' be was up so late, You needn't spect, wid your load ob sin, lfci t y.u tjit past bini aud steal right hi. Uey know you here, an' dey'll know you dar, I ase tie angels 's always on de squar; Dey'll ta'ist you out ob dar lubly sight, Ef you're full ob sin, and your soul alu't rijjbt. ihout, siug, kase de time am nigh V ben you put on wings to fix to fly, An' .leni what prays an'jde loudest Bings A in de ones w'at w'axs de biggest wiings. . An lix ilar jraie on de starlight skies, K ase de I.ord am good an' de Lord ankind, Kf you cau't see it you must be blin". Don't sex doWBupon your seat, Hut rise up, Bredren, to your feet, An' shout for glory till you're sick, An' git dat "ligiou ;ure you quick. tilon!" "Whoopee!" "Shoo!" "What's dat?" WUat am all you sinners at" Brudder .Teems, pull down your ves An" let ilrm light ilat ho'nets nes'. I.if" up jour voice in bumble pr'ar, Xu' let deni sinners ober dar Fo'git dar 'ligion for a spell, An' wish deru ho'uets was In hell. (ohm! Iord, dis meetin' 's all broke hp, Kae Satan sent some sinful pup, Who'll go to hell wid all de res' b'or haiHliu' in a ho'uets nes'. $53 TATE. PUA(TICAL MAN OP BITS I NESS And Typical North Carolinian. Samueti McDowelj. Tate, of Burke, a typical North Carolinian, was given a com uivri ial education, and at the early age of nineteen was accorded an equal copartner ship with his.guardian in-what-became a large and lucrative business. When great ' difficulty was exjierienced in 1858 in se curing individual subscriptions to com 'plete the Western North Carolina Railroad to Morgantou, the late Colonel Charles F. Fisher took the stock and contract v for building twenty-two miles of its most ex iKMisive lint, from below Hickory to Mor- ganton. Up to that time this was the! largest individual venture of its kind in the South. That valorous and patriotic martyr only sought to develop the State In- loved so well. Finding that his duties :is President of the North Carolina Rail road engaged all his time and attention he sought the aid of his trusted and bosom friend, Tate, to take charge of the hazard ous enterprise. Here the subject of this sketch labored with energy, nearly com? pleting the contract, when Lincoln's proc lamation was issued. Instantly Colonel Fisher sent Tate a dispatch urging him to aid in raising a regiment for defence of North Carolina. In a very few days there w as an organized body of men, afterwards k now n as "the Sixth North- Carolina In fantry, w hich was destined to shed such a halo of glory around its name and that of our grand old State.' Commissioned a captain May 28,1861, Captain Tate refused, again and again, " Iximb-proof ' positions, saying its was his duty to share the perils of hisnen, wvhich lie did to the end, although-fre- ' iently wounded. By the casualties of co-sr he succeeded to the command of the . Tiii'-OH-fiT in 1863, and led the successful the lie upon Cemetery Heights at Gettys , Vc h July 2, captured the guns and works la re lc enbmy and held them until nine st-cOk iii the night, and only abandoned an-7, xisition because communication with ir army was cut offi The "Count de Paris, in his recent work, gives a detailed ac count of this "murderous and persistent attack," which he attributes to two bri gades, and he says they were only dis lodged after prolonged slaughter with the aid of a whole division of reinforcements, die. Whereas, in fact we had but one limit red and forty North Carolina veterans with a captain and fourteen men of the Ninth Louisiana. It has been a just cause of complaint on . the part of his associates that Colonel Tate has so long allowed his modesty and . version to public declaration 10 Keep mm j silent. It is due to the State and to them that the "truth of history" should be made known and perpetuated. Fisher, Pender, Avery, commanders, slept beneath the sod, and Webb, wounded and a pris oner, had ieft Tate to follow, as best he could, their examples. How: well he did his duty the survivors can testify. Returning home at the surrender, he w us plat ed in charge of the Western North Carolina Railroad, which had been des troyed by Stoneman's raiders. By ad mirable tact, he secured a regiment of Yankee sol.diers from the garrison of Salis bury to aid ip reconstructing the road and soon had it opened for the. public use. Everything worked on prosperously until Reconstruction swept him and the "rebels"' from control, and then the trouble began. The private stockholders kept Colonel Tate, with' Merrimon and Vance, on the Board to look after their interests as best i hey could, but they had no control. Finally. Colonel Tatk, as a member of the House in 1874-5 introduced, and after fa long struggle got passed, a bilLfor the compromise of the debts of the company and the transfer of its property to the Stute, to lie finished by convict labor. So distrustful were many of the feasibility -f using such labor in that -way that Col onel Tate consentedto take charge of it and demonstrate its utility, and to-day has the satisfaction of seeing his fondest hoiies realized in the completion of that great work as well as the building of other important lines, and-ihis year, the eople entirely relieved of State taxation. The State is in better financial condi tion now than at any time within the last - thirty years, and this is due to the wisdom of legislation in wbichuhe was a leading actor. t i - 5 ' ' Few, men have done more for North arolinn, and noneliaTe served her more unselfishly. Whether as soldier, fiduciary agent, or'legislator, he has proven himself tin- Mcr of any man. P. S. W. THOMAS D. JOHNSTON. TIM Next Congresnaan from raghth(?) District. the Correspondence of the Raleigh RegistebTi AsHEvrLiji, N C, June 16. No section of this great commonwealth which we in habit has shown more aggressive move ments during the last four years than the counties embraced in the Eighth(l) Con gressional "District. The material progress' has amazed even those who were most san guine. The social advancement could not be overrated, even by the greatest enthu siast. Political reform and purification stand as the most commendable marks of progress in the recent past, and are the most hopeful signs for the future. In ma terial" growth, social advancement and po litical reform, a new spirit is abroad over the land. New ideas are conceived by the people, and by them converted into new schemes and nobler methods. Chief among the signs of social and political improve ment is a determination on the part of the people to make a more judicious selection of those who are to betheir leaders. Noth ing can be more unmistakeahle than the indications which point to the leadership of young men. The people show that they desire new and younger men in office ; and in this country what the people want is an unanswerable argument. Youth, to be sure, has no merit in itself ; iut to-day the men of thirty and forty years are wiser in methods of government than their fathers were 'at the age of sixty. In the direction of a worthy leadership the desire of this district has never shaped itself with better form than in the loud calls for Thomas D. Johnston to represent them in the next Congress. In the person of Hon. R. B. Vance the people of this section haTe had a noble and faithful servant for many years ; but they now have reasons for making a change, and a change will be made. -In making another selection the choice naturally falls on Mr. Johnsjton as the man most worthy of the honor and the one best fitted to meet the issues and dis charge the grave duties of that office. He is a man whose principles audh abilities are well known to the public. ' m 1870, when the State was ridden well nigh to death by Republican misrule, Johnston was the pnly man who was able to redeem his own county of Buncombe from the; chains of the oppressor, winning his seat in the General Assembly by a majority of five hundred. His faithful services so commended him to the people that in 1872 he was reelected, over one of the most brilliant Republicans in the State. In 1876, when' the interests of the Western North Carolina Railroad were in great peril, Johnston was elected- to the State benate, and then gave such substantial aid as to put the Western people under ever lasting obligation to him. tVhether in public or in private life, Thomas D. Johnston is the same unflinch ing, uncompromising Democrat; the same bold and fearless man. A mau of hand some fortu'ne, he has no selfish ends to serve, but is ambitious for the good of his country. Having large acquaintance with the people and their wants and in posses sion of liberal ideas and statesman-like views, no man is more competent to pro mote the welfare of the country. As a campaigner, he is unequalled in the whole field. 4fe is a judge of men, and knows well how to marshal them into rank. Of fine physique and "noble bearing, he com mands the respect of all, while his per sonal magnetism draws them into the cur rent of his own great purposes. While not gifted with the highest order of eloquence, yet there are few men in the field who make a stronger speech. On the platform or the "stump," his speeches never fail to convince the judgment and arouse popular enthusiasm. If the people want an able financier, a great leader of men, a strong speaker who holds the ideas of a states- STiaan who will sacrifice his personal e good of his country, and who i full strengtn. of tne JJemo Thomas D. Johnston is the r cnoice. tney say give tnem 'or Congress, and the West end olid for a victorious Democracy mber election. Pender Peculiarities. , Wilmington Review. Many of our citizens will doubtless re collectlthe late James W. Johnston, a resi dent of Castle Hayne, Pender county. He was quite aged and decrepit, and his gen eral appearance indicated that he was pos sessed of but few of this world's goods. During a visit to this city, a few months since, he died very suddenly in the Scar borough House, on North Water street. - Since the death of the old gentleman a number of valuable bonds and securities have been discovered among his effects, which' were sold at publje auction a few days since the total sale amounting to about $10,000. And now comes evidence of how well the old man took care of all the precious metals which came into his possession. Under the belief that he had some buried treasure, a search was insti tuted a day or two since, which resulted in the discovery of about $22,000 in gold and silver, which he had securely deposited in jars and buried under his house. Not Quite as "Good as Wheat." New York Times. The National Bank of Commerce," of Cleveland, was found yesterday to be $100,000 " short.". The deficiency was explained by Mr. Stanley, the paying tel ler, who said that he had lost the money through the decline in wheat. Whenever a bank loses money in this way there is always some strange story about the last investigation made by the Bank Examiner. In this case the story is stranger than usual. Mr. Ellis, it is said, actually found a deficiency of $15,000, and asked Stanley where the money was. " Here it is," said Stanley, "in gold in' this bag," handing Mr. Ellis a heavy bag. On what little things the fate of banks depends. If it had occurred to Mr. Ellis to count the money, or even to look into the bag, he would have discovered that it contained silver; that Mr. Stanley had told a false hood; investigation would have followed, his speculations in wheat stopped, and the bank would have been saved. It. seems to us either that the Bank Examiners ought to verify statements made to them as to the contents of bags supposed to contain bank assets, or else the Government ought to make the depositors good in any case. Her Work Was Done. li. L. Milliken. Anear four-score and seven well-rounded years Were drawing to a close. Her work was done. The very house missed her familiar step; The antique clock, companion of her life, Ticked slowly in its long-accustomed place; Her saintly face was turned to greet the first Pale beams of dawning day, she gently raised Her head, and resting it upon her hand," The rosy lips of morn kissed lightly, then, Her aged brow and silver hair. " The morn Is beautiful," she said, then closed her eyes And sank to rest. Grandmother dear was dead! And vet the clock ticked on the sun still shoue. manr ehdJgp nut t cratic ptoy, man opxaei wiii-Bferas in the'Nbsfi! CATAWBA'S NOJIINEE For Superintendent of Public Instruc tion. Major S. M. Finger was born in Lincoln county, North Carolina, 'and is now in the prime of life: He obtained his prepara tory education for college at the Catawba High School and graduated at Bowdoin College in the Spring of 1861 in time to make his way through the lines and enter the Confederate army shortly after his ar rival at home. He continued in active service till 1863, when he was appointed controlling quarter-master of North Caroj lina, which post he filled till the close of the war: After the war he took charge of Catawba High School, with Dr. J. C. Clapp, and proved himself to-be a ripe scholar and an excellent disciplinarian. He represented Catawba county in the (General Assembly of North Carolina in 1874-'5, and Lincoln and Catawba coun ties in the Senate of 1870-'7 and 1880-"81. He was Chah-man of the Committee on Education during session of 1876-'7, and was a member of the committee during all his services in the Assembly, and showed a thorough knowledge of our common school system. All these posts of trust and honor he filled with great satisfaction to his patrons and his constituents. - He has always been a Democrat and now sees no reason to change. . FVNEBAL INCONVENIENCES. The Corpse's Unusual " Polne Time." Harper's Magazine Drawer. J (The life of a minister is not so prosaic and uneventful as many imagine ; on the contrary, he often has many pleasant, though not altogether pious, experiences. A rising young minister of the Methodist Church relates the following as an actual experience which he had not long ago : There was an Irishman, whoso name we will call Michael, who was very sick. The doctor had given up all hopes of his recov ery, and the wife was informed of the sad epd soon to come. She took it very philo sophically, and in her conversations with Michael everything was arranged, even to the funeral service. It seems he had no coat suitable to be laid out in, and with his consent it was decided to have the tailor make him a garment at once. This was done. In a short time Michael died, and the funeral day arrived. The minister had come' to speak of the good qualities of poor Michael, and to comfort the hearts of the sorrowful. Everything was ready, but there was a delay, evidently caused by thj non-appearance of some important mourn er. Finally the man who had general charge of the funeral, getting impatient, called up the stairs: "Tommy! Tommy! come down. They're waitin' fur ye.'' The person addressed thrust his bushy head past the door, and concealed the rest of his person. Tommy's face was full of anxiety as he replied to the inquiry and said, "I can't I can't." "But ye must come," said the man at the foot of the stairs; " the funeral is wait in', and ye must walk wid the widder." "But I can't," shouted Tommy more earnestly than before. "I can't; the corpse has got me coat on." " Och ! man, what do ye mane?-aid the man. "Ye roust come down anyhow and walk wid the widder. Put on the corpse's coat, and cornel down." In a few moments Tommy appeared with the corpse's coat on. It was too long, and too large in every way. ine sleeves ex tended over his skinny hands, and as he slowly descended the stairs he was occu pied in trying to roll them up. It gave him a most ridiculous appearance, and as Tommy took his place beside the widow a suppressed smile was visible on every coun tenance. The minister could hardly re strain himself from laughter. The service, however, proceeded, and the coffin was soon carried out and placed in the hearse, followed by the minister, Tommy with the widow, and the friends. The procession was on the point of starting, when sud denly Tommy began jumping up and down, and, with his arms flying, shouted : " Shtop ! shtop ! The corpse has got me money and me spectacles in me coat. Give me the money and the spectacles." All the money Tommy had was locked up with the corpse. It would not do for him to lose it, and make this unnecessary sacrifice. Nothing would do now but to restore the personal effects to Tommy. The coffin was carried back into the house and the corpse removed. The coat was taken off ana given to Tommy, who im mediately took off the one belonging to the corpse, and put on his own with a de gree of alacrity that was delightful to behold. Tommy found his money and his 'spectacles all right, and seemed quite con tented. ' The coat made by the tailor was put on the corpse, which was then replaced in the coffin and the hearse. The humor of the situation was fully appreciated, and no less by the widow than the minister; for when she let down, her veil and looked up, her face was full of smiles as she said, "I was just thinkin' what a foine time Michael was havin' in Tommy's coat, wid his pockets filled wid money and a pair of spectacles." An Arkansas Church Duel. Hot Springs Special, June 18. J A desperate shooting affray between two members broke up the services at the Bap tist Church of a settlement six miles east of here yesterday. Two young men, named Lem Dishtswan and Peter Lewis, attended church with the avowed purpose of taking home the minister's young daughter, ana when Lewis moved from his own into the minister's family pew while the sermon was in progress, Dishowah drew his re volver and opened fire upon him. Lewis returned the fire, and the congregation made rapid exit by way of doors and win dows. Neither was hurt, and both being disarmed they agreed to go into the woods and fight it out with fists. Before they startecf, the girl who was the cause of the, fight desired to speak privately with Lewis for a moment, which was granted. While the congregation were: awaiting the result of the fist-fight a pistol-shot was heard from the direction of he scene of conflict. The congregation hurried to the spot and found Dishowan lying on the ground dying from a shot through the lungs. He said that he was getting the Detter of Lewis when the latter drew a Derringer quickly from his boot-lear and shot him. Tne girl I had placed the weapon there during her i i m i.i. t - ; i,,,.,! unci coiucreuce wuu nemo just uouic the fight. Lewis may be lynched. The Ways and Means Committee have begun the consideration of such portion of the Hewitt tariff bill as relates to the question of the construction of parts of the tariff act of 1883, and which the Sec retary of the Treasury earnestly recom mends' may be adopted to relieve his department of the burden of complaints made against incongruous legislation. Other than that the committee will not undertake to pass upon this session. . " NORTH CAROLINA WOODS Shingles, Shatter and Shekels. Salisbury Watchman. J Few people are aware of the enormity of the shingle making business in North Carolina. Besides those engaged in split ting out and dressing shingles . in the old way whjch makes a far superior shingle there are steam saw mills all over the State cutting shingles. Mr. Connelly, at Icard, has piled up at the station, on the Western North Carolina Railroad, about four million shingles, the product of his and one or two nulls near him. Hid sales last year amounted to six million shingles. His own mills turn out about three million. These figures give some little idea of the magnitude of, the business in the State. A worker of our hard woods, and a large dealer, told the writer the other day that he had bought r second growth hickory tree, standing, for five dollars and fifty cents. He said that the man from whom he pur chased was fully satisfied with the price paid. He cut the tree and sawed it in a careful manner, and when he had finished the work, he counted up the value, aad found that he had turned out from this single tree, one hundred and thirteen -dollars and sixty cents worth of marketable material. This should prove an eye opener to the owners of valuable forests. At Elmwood, there is a branch of the Thomasville shuttle block factory, which is doing a big business. They have closed down work for the season. The capacity of this mill is one thousand blocks per day. The entire output is shipped direct to Londou, England. They also prepare ash and birdseye maple for the car manu factories of Manchester and Augusta. The mills are now engaged in preparing these woods, and these two car shops take the entire product. During the last eighteen months they have shipped '. . i some thirty thousand dollars worth of material. Quiet at Any Price Detroit Free Press.) j "I war lookin' fur you 'bout an hour ; ago," observed a colored citizen to a police. , man whom he met on Hastings street yes- ; terday. i " What was the trouble?" "A puason claimin' to lie my wife, an' i havin' three children behind her, arroved j from Cannda." ! "Did, eh?" " Yes, sah, an' de fust I know'd of it de crowd was right at de doah of my house. I jist kinder reckoned on a sort o' cyclone, you know. Looked as if it would come powerful sudden on de wife an' two chil'en inside." "Whew! And what did you do?" "Broke de ice wery gradual, sah. I s'pected dar'd be screamin' an' yellin' an' ha'r-pullin', but eberything moved off de tranquillcst you eber saw. De pusson from Canada stuck to it dat she was de wcrry woman I run'd away from five y'ars ago, an' so when I saw dat it was no good to argy I took de hull of 'em in." "And what did No. 2 sAy?" " Nuffin' werry important. She kinder clawed aroun' fur a spell an' den settled down. De chil'en took to each odder right away, an' dey is now minglin' together in de harinoniest manner." "And vou are going to run two fami lies?" "Well, sar, Izc suggested dat one take inwashin' an' de odder do ironin", while I kinder boss tie job, an' I reckon we'll git along widout any serious perforashuns. Ize a pusson dat am bound to huve tran quility aroun' my house at any cost. You kin sort o' hang aroun' heah, you know, an' if dar should be a sudden upshot de sight of you would go a good ways to em bellish renewed harmouv." She Took the Lot. DetroiUFree Press. "Do your women customers bother you much?" asked a citizen who wan talking with at Woodward-avenue grocer the other morning. "Well, they seldom want to pay the prices. It seems natural for them to want to beat down the figures. There' comes one now who probably wants strawberries. Here are some fresh ones at fifteen cents a quart, and yet if I should ask her only eleven she'd want 'cm for ten." " Say, try it on, just for a joke. If she asks the price, put it at eleven." The grocer agreed, and presently the woman came up, counted the sixteen boxes of berries under her nose, and of course inquired :" "Have vou anv strawlierries this morn- ingr "Yes'm." "Fresh ones?" ' Yes'm." " In quart boxes f "Yes'm." "How much?" "Only eleven cents per box, madam." " I'll take the whole lot," she quietly ob served, as she handed out a five-dollar bill ; and take 'em she did. The citizen disappeared at that moment, and the grocer somewhat believes it was a put-up job between the two. Last Electoral Vote. The Electoral vote by States in 1880 was as follows: Oarfirld Colorado, 3; Connecticut. 6; California, 1; Illinois, 21; Indiana, 15; Iowa, 11; Kansas, 5; Maine, 7; Massachu setts, 13;-Michigan 11; Minnesota, 5; Ne braska, 3; New Hampshire, ; New York, 35; Ohio, 22; Oregon, 3; Pennsylvania, 29: Rhode Island, 4; Vermont, 5; Wis consin, 10. Total; 214. Hancock Alabama, 10; Arkansas, 6; California, 5: Delaware, 3; Florida, 4; Georgia, 11; Kentucky, 12; Louisiana, 8; Maryland, 8; Mississippi, 8; Missouri. 15; Nevada, 3; New Jersey, 9; North Carolina, 10; South Carolina." 7: Tennessee, 12; Texas, 8; Virginia, 11; West Virginia, 5, Total, 155. The Electoral votes of California were divided, Garfield getting one and Hancock five. The total popular votes received by each candidate were as follows: Garfield, 4,451,619; Hancock, 4,443,207; Weaver, Greenback, 303,910. Why they Didn't Leave. Philadelphia Call. Depositor " Where is the cashier?" Bank Boy "Gone to Cannda." "And the President?" "Gone to South America." "Mercy save us! But the Director?, where " . Nobody knows." "Is any one left." . " Yes, mc and the watchman." "Well, why didn't-you two go also, and make a clean sweep of it?" "There wasn't nothin' left when our turn came." THE STOLEN LETTER. A LAWYER'S STORY. Warren's Diary of a Detective. I served my time never mind in whose office and started in business for myself in one of our English country towns I decline stating which. . I had not a farthing of capital, and my friends in the neighborhood were poor and useless enough, with one exception. , The exception was Mr, Frank Gatliffe, son of "Mr. gatliffe, member for the county, the richest man and the proudest for many a mile round about our parts. Well, Frank was a stanch friend of mine, and, ready to recommend me when ever he got; the chance. I had contrived to get hinij a little timely help in borrowing money at a fair rate of interest; in fact, I had saved him from the Jews. The money was borrowed while Mr. Frank was at college. He jpame back from there and stopped at. home for a little while, and -then there got spread about our neighbor hood a report that he had fallen in love with his young sister's governess, and that his mind was made up to marry her. Frank told me he was really in love, and said he was determined to marry the governess. Frank's father, being as proud as Lucifer, said no, as to marrying the governess, when Frank wanted him to say yes. He sent the governess away with a good character and a fine present, and then he looked about to find something for Frank to do. ' . Frank, in the mean time; had bolted-to London after the governess, who had no body alive belonging to her to go to but an aunt. The aunt refuses to let Frank in without the squire's permission. Frank writes to I his father, and says he will marry the girl as snon ah hf ia of nnrA nr chnnt 'HiTnoAlf "V-n i: I" J? trv. .A io iowii comes me squire, ami nis wiie, and his daughter ; the upshot of it is, that the old man is forced into saying yes. Frank introduced me to his future wife one day when I. met them out walking, and asked me if he was not a lucky fel low. I told him I thought he was. The marriage was to be on a Wednes day. I was sitting in my office on the Monday morning before the wedding day trying to see my way clear before me.and not succeeding particularly well, when Frank suddenly bursts in, and says he's got a most dreadful case for me to advise on. "Is this in the way of business, Frank?" savs I, stopping him. "It's in the way of business, certainly; but friendship " I was obliged to pull him up short once more, or he would.-have kept me talking to no purpose nil day. "Now, Frank, I can't have any sentimen tality mixed up with business matters. Please to stop talking and let me ask you questions. Answer in the fewest words you can use. Nod when nodding will do instead of words." I went on : - "From what you have been stating up to the present time, I gather that you are in a scrape which may interfere with your marriage?" He nodded, and I put in before he could say a word : ' The scrape affects your young lady, and goes back to the period of a transac tion in which her late father was engaged don't it?" He nods again, and I put in once more : " There is a party who turned up after seeing the announcement of your mar riage in the paper, who is cognizant of what he oughtn't to know, and who is pre pared to use his knowledge of the same to the prejudice of the young lady and your marriage unless he receives a sum of money to quiet him? Now, first of all, state what you have been told by the young lady herself about the transaction of her late father." "She was talking to me about her father one day so tenderly and prettily, that she quite excited my interest about him, and I asked her, among other things, what had occasioned his death. She said she believed it was distress of mind in the first instance; and added, that this distress was caused chiefly by a shock ing secret which she and her mother had kept from everybody. She told me that the great mistake of her father's life Was his selling "out of the army and taking to the wine trade. He had no talent for bus iness, and his clerk, it was strongly sus pected, cheated him '' ' What was that susjiected clerk's name?" " Davager." "Davager," says I, making a note of it: go on. "His affairs got more and more en tangled; he was pressed for money in all directions; bankruptcy stared him1 in the face. In a fit of desperation, he " "Ah!" says I, "he had a signature to write, and signed another person's name to it?" " It was a bill. His principal creditor wouldn t wait till he could raise the money But he was resolved, u he sola oil every thing, to get the amount and repay ' "Of course," says I;- "but drop that. The forgery was discovered. When?" " Before even the first attempt was made to negotiate the bill. He had done the whole thing m tne wiong way. lne per son whose name he had used was. a stanch friend of his, and a relation of his wife's; a good man. as well as a rich one. He had influence with the chief creditor, and he used it nobly. " In a business way, what did he do? says I. " He put thu false bill into the fire- drew a bill of his own to. replace it, and then only then told my dear girl and her mother what had happened." " Where was tne lamer f Off, l sup pose?" . , "111 in bed," says Frank, , colorings "but he mustered strength enough to write a contrite and grateful , letter the next day, promising to prove himself worthy of the noble moderation and for giveness extended to him. But, alas! the thought of his crime continually preyed upon his mind. He became possessed of the idea that he had lowered himself in the estimation of his wife and daughter " "Do you happen to know," 1 put m " whether the letter we are speaking of contained anything like a confession of the forgery? "Of course it did," says he. "Could the writer express his contrition properly without raakwg a confession?" " Well, it is my opinion that this letter was stolen ; and that the lingers of Mr, Davager, of suspicious commercial cele The above Story, related to me by a lawyer, although not eoming directly within the sphere of my operations as a Detective, I think entitled to a place in these " Recollections," for the cu rious phase of criminal life which it presents. I give it in the lawyer's own words. brity, might possibly be the fingers that took it." " That is exactly what I want to make you understand." " How did he communicate the fact of the theft to you?" ' ' He has not ventured into my presence. He actually had the audacity the scoun drel" "Aha !" says I. " The young lady her self! Sharp practitioner, Mr. Davager." " Early this morning he had the assur ance to approach her, while alone, and ac tually showed her the letter; put into her hand a note for me, bowed, and walked Off." "Have you got the letter he left for you?" says I. jHe handed it to me. It was short and humorous. It began in this way : "To Francis Gatliffe, Esq., Jun. Sir: I have an extremely curious autograph letter to sell. The price is a five hundred pound note. The young lady to whom you are to be married on Wednesday will inform you of the nature of the letter. If you refuse to deal, I shall send a copy to the local paper, and shall wait on your highly respectable father with the origi nal curiosity. Yours, &c, "AlFBED DAVAGEK." "A clever fellow that," says I, putting the letter away. "Clever!" cried Frank: "he ought to have been horsewhipped within an inch of his life!" "Do you think I am saying any thing libellous against your excellent father's character, when I assert that if he, saw the letter he would certainly insist on your marriage being put off?" " " Feeling as my father does about my marriage, he would insist on its being dropped altogether, if he saw this letter," says Frank, with a groan. "But even that is not the worst of it. The generous girl herself says, that if the letter appears in the paper, with all the comments this scoundrel would be sure to add to it, she would rather die than hold me to my en gagement." "Did you think of asking the young lady whether this infernal letter was the only written evidence of the forgery in existence?" "Yes, and she told me there was no other written evidence." "Will vou give Davager his price for it?" " Yes," he answered. "Frank, here is my proposal. I'm going to try if I can do Davager out of this letter. If I don't succeed before to-morrow afternoon, you hand him the monev. and I charge you nothing for professional services. If I do succeed, I hand you the letter, and you give me the money instead of Davager is it yes or no?" "You know it's yes, ten thousand times over. Only you earu the money, and I" "And you will be too glad to give it to me. Now . go horue don't let Davager set his eyes upon you keep quiet leave every thing to me and feel as certain as you please that all the letters in the world can't stop your being married." Frank now took his departure, and left me to make up my mind what to do. i ne nrsi ining, oi course, was to nave look at the enemy. I wrote to Davager. and informed him that I was appointed to arrange the business privately with him. He could not conveniently call till be tween six and seven in the evening. I had nothing to do but to wait, and give cer tain instructions before he came to my boy Tom. There never was such a sharp boy of fourteen before. I settled it with the boy that he was not to show at all when Mr. Davager came ; and that he was to wait to hear me ring the bell when he left. If I rang twice, he was to show the gentleman out; If I rang once, he was to keep out of the way, and follow the gentleman wherever he went. Those were the only preparations I could make to begin with ; being obliged to wait and let myself be guided by what turned up. About a quarter to seven my gentleman came. I tried at first to take the measure of him in a wheedling, confidential way, but it was no good ; I paid him some compli ments, but he was not to be flattered. I tried to make him lose his temper, but he kept it in spite of me. It ended in his driving me to my last resource I tried to frighten him. "Before we say a word about the money," l oegan, "let me put a case, Mr. Davager. The pull you have on Francis Gatliffe is, that you can hinder his marriage on-Wednesday. Now, suppose I have got a magistrate's warrant to apprehend you in my pocket? Suppose I have a constable to execute it in the next room? Suppose I bring you up to-morrow, the day before the marriage charge you only generatly with an attempt to extort money, and ap ply for a day's remand to complete the case? Suppose, as a suspicious stranger, you can't get bail in this town? .Sup pose" "Stop a bit. savs Air. LJavager: "sup pose I should not be the greenest fool that ever stood in shoes? Suppose 1 should not carry the letter about me? Suppose I should have given a certain envelope io a certain friend of mine in a certain place in this town? Suppose the letter should be inside that envelope, directed to old Gatliffe, with a copy of the letter directed, to the editor of the local paper? Suppose my friend should be instructed to-open the envelope and take the letters to their right address, tl 1 don't appear to claim them from him this evening? In short, my dear sir, suppose-you were born yester day, and suppose I wasn't?" says Mr. Davager, and winks at me again. He didn't take me by surprise, tor l never expected he had the - letter about him. I made a pretence of being taken aback, and to be readv to give in. k was to draw out a document which-' he was to 1 ' . 1 A T-T T sign. He knew the document was stuff and nonsense : as well as I did, and told me I was only proposing it to swell my client's bill. He was wrong there. 5- The document was not to be drawn out to gain money from Frank, but tiine from Mr. Davager. It was ah excuse to put off the payment of the five hundred pounds till three o clock on luesday atternoon. Tuesday morning Mr. Davager said he should devote to his amusement, and asked me what sights were to be seen in the neighborhood of the town. When I told him, he went out. I rang the bell once waited till he had passed the window and looked after Tom. There was my jewel of a boy on the opposite side of the street, setting his top going in uie most piayiui uiauuer pos sible ! Mr. Davager walked up the street. Tom whipped his top up the street too ! In a quarter of an hour he came back. Mr. Davager had walked to a public-house just outside of the town, in a lane leading to the high-road. On a bench outside the public-house there sat a man smoking. He hsaid "All right!" and eave a letter to Mr. Davager, who answered "All right," and walked back to the inn. In the hall he ordered hot rum and water, cigars, slip pers, and a fire to be lit in his room. Af ter that he went up stairs and Tom came away. I now saw my road clear before me not very far on, but still clear. I had housed the letter in all probability for that night at the Gatliffe Arms. After tipping Tom, I gave him directions to play about the door of the inn, and if Mr. Davager went out, or Mr. Davager's friend called on him, Tom was to let me know. He was also to take a little note from me to the head chambermaid an old friend of mine ask ing her to step over to my office on a pri vate matter of business, as soon as her work was done for that night. When the head chambermaid came, it turned out that Mr. Davager had drawn her attention rather too closely to his ug liness by offering her a testimony of his regard in the shape of a kiss. I no sooner mentioned him than she flew into a pas sion ; and when I added, by way of clinch ing the matter, that I was retained to de fend the interests of a very beautiful young lady against the most cruel underhand treachery on the part of Mr. Davager, the head chambermaid was ready to go any lengths, that she could safely, to serve my cause. In a few words, I discovered that Boots was to call Mr. Davager at eight the next morning, and was to take bis clothes down stairs to brush, as usual. ( If Mr. D. had not emptied his own pocket overnight, we arranged that Boots was t6 forget to empty them for him, and was to bring the clothes down stairs just as he found them. If Mr. D.'s pockets were emptied, then, of course, it would be necessary to transfer the searching process to Mr. D.'s room. I waited tall Tom came home. His re port was uncommonly short and pleasant. The inn was shutting up ; Mr. Davager was going to bed in rather , a drunken condi tion. Mr. Davager's friend had never ap peared. I sent Tom"J(properly instructed about keeping our man in view all the next morning) to his shake-down behind the desk. At half-past seven next morning, I slip ped quietly into Boots's pantry. I Down came the clothes. No pockets in trousers. Waistcoat pockets empty. Coat pockets with something in them. First, handkerchief; secondly, bunch of keys; thirdly, cigar-case ; fourthly, pocket-book. Of course I wasn't such a fool as to expect to find the letter there, but I opened the pocket-book with a certain curiosity, not withstanding. Nothing in the two pockots of the book but some old advertisements cut out of newspapers, a lock of hair tied round with a dirty bit of ribbon, a circular letter about a loan society, and some copies of verses not likely -to suit any company that was not of an extremely free-and-easy descrip tion. On the leaves of . the pocket-book, people's addresses scrawled in pencil, and bets jotted down in red ink. On one leaf by itself this queer inscription : "Mem. 5 Along; 4 Across." I understood everything but those words and figures, so of course I copied them off into my own book. Then I waited in the pantry till Boots had brushed the clothes, and had taken them up stairs. His report when he came down was, that Mr. D. had asked if it was a fine morning. Being told that it was, he had ordered breakfast at nine, and a saddle-horse to be at the door, at ten, to take him to Grimswith Abbey one of the sights in our neighborhood, which I had told him of the evening be fore. "I'll be here, coming in by the back way, at half-past ten,'' says I to the cham bermaid. " What for?" says she. "To take the responsibilitv of making Mr. Davager's bed off your hands for this j morning only," says I. "Any more orders?" says she. I "One more," says I. "I want to hire Sam for the morning. Put it down in the I order-book that he's to be brought round j to my office at ten.". ... In case you -should think Sam was a i man, I'd better tell you he was a pony, j I'd made up my mind that it 'would be i beneficial to Tom's health if he took' a con- j stitutional airing, on a nice hard saddle, in ! the direction of Grimswith Abbey. . "Anything else?" says the head cham- ' bermaid. "Only one more favor," says I, "would ; my boy Tom be very much in tie way, if he came, from now till ten, to help with the boots and shoes, and stood at his work close by this window which looks out on the staircase?" "Not a bit," says the head chamber maid. "Thank you," says I; and stepped back to my office directly. Tom came back to the office, and report ed him mounted for his ride. i His friend had never-appeared. I sent the boy. off with his proper instructions, and then slipped into the inn by the back way. The head chambermaid gave me a signal when the laading was clear. I got into his room without a soul but her seeing me, and locked the door. Mr. Davager had taken one of the best rooms at the Gatliffe Arms. I searched, to begin with, everywhere, " and taking more than an hour about it. No discovery! I now looked to the carpet. I felt all over it with the ends my of fingers, and nothing came of that. Then I scraped it over gently ana siowiy witn my nans, aiy secona finger-nail stuck a little at one place. I parted the carpet at that place And saw a thin slit a slit about half an inch long, with a little end of brown thread, exactly the color of the carpet-groundj, sticking out about a quarter of an inch. : The pattern of the carpet waaT bunches of leaves and roses speckled over the ground at regular distances. I reckoned up the bunches ten along the room and eight across it. When I had stepped out in the centre, there were five one nray and four the other. It was not at all difficult for me to un derstand now the words, "Meni'5 Along; 4 Across." - ;: ' I now heard a footstep-outskle the door. It was only the chamber-maid. . , , "Haven't you done yet?" she whjspers. " Give me two minutes," says T, "and don't let anybody come near the door." I took a little poll at the thread and heard something rustle. I took another pull, and out came a piece of paper. I unrolled it and there was the letter ! I immediately bolted off with it to my friend Frank, and he in his tarn bolted off to show the letter to the young lady. She first burnt the letter, and thewent into hysterics in his arms. I saw them married on Wednesday; and when" they went off in a carnage-ana-four to spend the honey moon, I went off on my legs to open a credit at the Town and County Bank with a five hundred pound note in my pocket. As to Davager, I can tell, you nothing more-about-him, except what is derived from' hearsay evidence, which is always unsat'sfactory evidence, even in a lawyer's mouth. '- He, I have been . since jriven. to under stand, left the Gatliffe Arms that same night with his best clothes on his back, and with all the valuable contents of his dressing-case in his pockets. I am not in a condition to state whether he ever went through the form of asking for his bill or not; but I can testify he never paid it. When I add to these fragments of evidence that he and I have never met since I jock eyed him out "of his bank-note, I have about finished mv statement. THE RIGHTS OF LABOR Aa Understood by the Llmekllnera. Detroit Free Press. " Gemlen,'"Baid Brother Gardner, " we am all poo' men an' laborin' men. Let us reason together. De aiverage workin' man was bo'n of parents poorer dan his self. He took to labor in preference to a perfeshun, or, lack of eddecashun fo'ced him to l'arn a trade in place of bloomin' out as a lawyer or a doctor. Am dat de rich man's fault? Am it anybody's fault? Wasnt it de best thing dat could be done? By what right does de carpen ter, painter, or blacksmith urge that he orter have bin suthin' else? By what right does he sot up a growl bekase de man around de co'ner kin count dollars to his pennies? "Dar' am sartin orators and newspapers dat shed tears ober de condishun of de workin' man one day, an' nex' momin' hold 'em up as better paid, better ed dicated, better fed an' clothed dan de same class in any other kentry on airth, which am de sorenMr truf. Plenty of men in Detroit makes a hundred dollars whar' I make fifty cents.' What of it? If dey made only a shillin' whar' I made a dollar, would I be any better off? Could I drap de whitewashin' bizness an' go to pleadin' law? Dar' am no laws in dis kentry made for employers. A poo' man's wote counts jis de same as de rich man's. What, den, am de need of a workin' man's candidate? Put a Detroit caqieuter in de White House, an' would wages be any higher dan under de present incumbent, who is rich an' a gentleman? Would rents go down, pro visions grow cheaper, an'pianersgo walkin' into cottages? ' "I do not know by what right any man sots hisself up as de champion of de la borin' man. I do not diskiver why dar should be any complaints from de workin' men as a class. Each one selected his trade. If dat trade doan' flourish he kin blame no one. Each one has made his own way. If he has bin industrious an' economical he has a home of his own an' suthin' left over. If he has bin de op posite he am now howlin' agin de rich. Five-sixths of our laborin' men chew an' smoke. It am a useless an' absurd waste of money, but who am to blame fur it? Three-fifths of our workin' men drink beer. If deir money goes to de saloon keepers whar' should de blame rest? Nt one mechanic , in ten am satisfied wid a Sunday suit costin' less dan ' $40. Plenty of 'em own horses and cows. At least one in five has his own home. When deir wives come down town dey are dressed like ladies. You see plenty of 'em at de theatre an' circus an' on fie boats. De great majority belong to ' life insurance lodges and societies which cost from $5 to $25 per year. De mechanic smokes his ten cent cigar and enjoys it. Dey send deir chill'en to de best skules. You hear pianers or organs playing in everyjquftre. You see lace curtains at cottage windows, an' Brussels carpets on de floors. De agent wid a $12 Bible will sell mo' among I de poo' dan de rich. De laborin' man has his daily paper, and not one 4nJ fifty am i obleeged to confine hisself to the necessi ' ties of life. - If he am ground an' op i pressed how does he git along so well? If j he ain't ground and oppressed, why i need of champions and orators an' '. dis fuss? Let us purceed to bisoiess." de all Domestic Economy. "Mariar," said an-AUen county peasant to his other half, ""have you enny idee how many young'uns we have?" " Nigh onto 'leveh, I guess." "And how many dogs air the v 'round y'ere?" " 'Most a dozen, I guess; thar's Tige, an' Bruce, an' Growler, an' her four pups, an' the bound, an' the terrier an' them others o' Hank's that loaf around y'ere." " Yas; 'leven children and only a dor.en dogs Marier, don't ye think we have 'most too many children? Times is most tarnation hard, ye know. Say, can't we put out some o' our chunkiest gals to work ? I 'low thet they could make enough in a spell fur us to buy another dog or two." "Jist as ye say, Hezekiah." " Wall, I 'low 'f we could swap two of our young'uns fur four more dogs, we'd be fixed. I guess I'll try it." Arkansas Politics. Texas Siftings. During a recent political convention in Arkansas, when opposing factions had " locked horns," and when it seemed im possible to nominate a candidate, a man from the Northwest arose and exclaimed : ". Feller citizens, you are all urging the claims of your respective candidates, but you don't give a reason why any of them should be nominated. I came to fight for Colonel John Hornrock." "What's he done for the party," cried a voice. "Never mind what he has done. He has done enough. He made five hundred gal lons of whisky last year, and " His voice was drowned by deafening shouts. Colonel John Hornrock was nom inated by acclamation. Atlanta Business Ways. Atlanta Constitution. "Hello, old man," said a gentleman on Whitehall street, stopping a negro in front of a shoe store; "what've you got in that bundle?" "Pa'r shoes, sir, dat I jisf got in de stoah dar." " Did the proprietor know you got them?" " G'lon 'way fum hyar, boss; whatcher mean by castin' sech 'marks at a po' nig gah? In co'se de gemmen knowed .hit." " Well, I don't think he did," answered the white man, "and as I am the owner of that store, I reckon I'd better hand you over to the police." The negro grew pale and huskily said : "Is yer, fer a fac boss?" "I am, and now tell me what am I to understand by such actions?" - "Nuffin', sar, . 'ccpt I bin a, waitin' .fer yer, an' bein' as yer wuz so long cumin , i 'eluded to go out an' look yer up. What is dey wutht" Children's Hymn. We thank Thee, Heav'nly Father, For every earthly good, For life, and health, and clothing, And for our daily food. O rive us heart to thank Thee, For ev'ry blessing sent, And whatsoe'er Thou sesdeat Make ns therewith content. 1 V y t