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f VW M ti' Suit-it t " ' 'tSAlas t v.".-'. i By l. HALE. ADVJCJ&Tisnra bates. II WHI owes : Fsyeiteville St., Second Floor Fisher Building. Advertisements will be Inserted for One Dollar rwr flntiara onfi Inoh for fr.hn flnzt And ITfftv Pnt 1 v J for each subsequent publication. UATK8 0F BTOBCBIPTIOa ; One copy one year, mailed poet-paid .$3 00 Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of the i RALEIGH REGISTER, Oae copy six months, mailed post-paid.'. 1 00 No name entered without payment, and ime entered without payment, and I 7"VT TT I after expiration of time paid for. I ' V x JL RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1885. NO. 56. Second Floor df Fisher Building, Fayetteville no paper sent i Street, (next to Market House. rr-!V MiVi II IY II W I II il II II V 5 P SALUTATION. G. B, CromwelL Through life every sorrow gives birth to a bless ing. And shadows In falling show sunlight Is clear; The force of the shadow is but a caressing, For lilies and daisies the beet of good cheer. Away, then, with doubting, with grief and re pining, And learn to know Nature provides for each day ; The deeper the Bhadow, the brighter the shining Of purity's glory and beauty's array. The snow of the winter is earth's virgin bless ing, Its bosom protecting, when winds wildly sing Through branches denuded of emerald dressing, Awaiting the zephyrs of beautiful spring : The smile of the New Year, the winter dispel ling, Gives blossoming beauty a welcome delight, To charm mortal vision, while artlessly telling How life may recover from ashes of blight. The force of the tempest that sweeps o'er the mountain And voices the billows that swell o'er the sea, Bespeaks the same power that glasses the foun tain, To show its resemblance created In thee : Then, courage partaking from storms that assail thee, And trusting the wisdom that gave thee a soul, Thy way through disaster must needs of avail be To harbors of safety where waves cease to roll. CLARA IS AN DON. " The Writ of Habeas Corpus." Warren's " Experiences of a Barrister." I . . . In the month of Druary, ot the year following that which witnessed the sue- cessful estabmnmen oitue claim oi ir Harry Compton s infant son to his magni- ficent patrimony air mueijerret was travehngfpost with all the speed he could command towards iancasnire, m compn- anca-with a summons from Lady Compton, revesting in urgent terms, his immediate preaenee at the castle It was wild and bitter weather and the roads were in many places rendered dangerous, ana ai- most impassable, by the drifting snow Mr. Ferret, however, pressed onwards with hishabitual energy and perseverance; and, spite of all elemental and post-boy opposi- tion, succeeded in accomplishing his journey in much less time than, under the circumstances, could have been reasonably expectea. But swmiy as, ior tnose slow times he pushed on, it is necessary I junior' held him in a Btate of thorough pu- i " m"y of the foregoing particu should anticipate, by a bnef period, his piiaKe; and- unchecked by him, devoted as he knew and thought proper to arrival at his destination, in order to put h6 np,L:PJ, hrin hv fa;P or communicate to me. For the rest I am the reader in possession of the circum- stances wnicn naa occasioned ine nurried and pressing message he had received. Two days before, as Lady Compton and her sister, who had been paying a visit to Mrs. Arlington at the Grange, were re- turning home towards 9 o'clock in the evening, they observed, as the carriage turned a sharp angle of the road leading through Compton Park, a considerable I number of lighted lanterns borne hurried- I ly to and Iro in various directions, by per- sons apparently in eager but bewildered pursuit of some missing obiect. The car-I, riage was stopped, and in answer to the servants inquiries, it was replied that Ma- jor Brandon s crazy niece had escaped from her uncles, house; and although traced by the snow-tracks as far as the entrance to tue park, had not yet been recovered. Mrs. Brandon had offered a reward of ten pounds to whoever should secure and re- conduct her home; hence the hot pursuit of the fugitive, who, it was now supposed, must be concealed in the shrubbery, Rumors regarding this unfortunate young lady, by no means favorable to the char- acter of her relatives as persons of human- a j . nau previously reacueu i.auy vomp- ton s ears; ana sne determined to avail herself, if possible, of the present oppor- tunny 10 ooiain a personal interview wun the real or supposed lunatic. The men who had been questioned were informed ed iuatic. The affidavits filed in support alleged to be suffering unlawful constraint that only the castle servants could be al- 0 tne petition were, however, so loose and should actually be brought before the lowed to search for the missing person, vaue and were met with such positive "queen herself;" that is, before one or either in the park or shrubberies; and that counter-allegations, that the application more of the judges of the court which if there, she would be taken care of, and was at once diami88ed with costs; and has issued the writ, who, if they find the restored to her friends iu the morning. f Su8an rasn suitor for "justice" detention illegal, the only question at issue The coachman was then ordered to drive Juced to absolute penury. These cir- upon this writ, may discharge or bail the on ; but the wheels had not made half-a- cumstanCes becoming known to Lady party. It was quite obvious, therefore, dozen revolutions, when a loud shout at compton Susan was taken into her ser- that in this case such a proceeding would some distance, in the direction of the vjce . and it was principally owing to her be altogether futile, as the detention in park, followed by a succession of piercing frequently-iterated version of the affaii the house of her guardian, under the screams, announced the discovery and thaj clara had been forcibly rescued from sanction, too, of the lord chancellor, the capture of the object of the chase. The Mrg Brandon'8 80n. ex-offieio custodier of lunatics of a ward horses were urged rapidly forward; and ' tt,e natient of alleged disordered intellect wasclear- ere more than J minute had elapsed, the n th. '"i'SiidSli ly legafat least prima facie so, and not to carnage drew up within a few yards of WMf -IrhVoriMedT ttS be dSfturbed undVa habea ad &. at all the hunted girl and her captors. The in- wandered what- .rt J? events. sunt it stopped, Clara Brajdon, liberating SSK "Perhaps so," replied Ferret quite cool- herself by a frenzied effort from the rude J' would be dangerous, if not ly in reply to my exclamation; "but I am grasp m which she was held by an athletic "bompton hot only refused to ietermfned to try every means of releasing young man, sprang wildly towards it, and gjj pT0PMajor and Mrs. Brandon, the unfortunate young 'lady from the cruel with passionate entreaty implored mercy XZ her r.. Bran- thraldom in which she is held by that har- d protection The young man, a son of n a JJeri rage po8ted off to the ridan ofan aunt-in-law. Sheisnomore S n hTlZZ neei? magistral! toand the assu, really; insane than you are; but at the y resized her, and with nerce peace-officers in obtaining posses- same time so excitable upon certain topics, J ce endeavored to wrench her hand JJfX person of the fugitivi That that it might be perhaps difficult to dis- wZh sh SCo Camaf 6 t S' functVonaryPwould, however, only so far abuse the chancellor or a jury of the im- wbch she clutched with desperate tenac- " nw4 the in'dignant lady's soUcita- pression so industriously propagated to aLn flw open the sudden jerk 20nJ,,weild hi8 ierk t0 the castle to Ler prejudice. The peremptory rejection d. engaged her hold and she struggled JJntte reason of the young lady's by her gudian of young Word's ad- yainly in her captort powerful grasp. . and when his messenger re- dresses, though sanctioned by her father Save me! save me!" she frantically ex- J6"? Enclosing a copf of the -you know the Burfords?" claimed as she felt herself borne off. SifSaj de- "Of Grosvenor Street you mean-the ou who are they say, as kind and PfXt tL conduct of Lady Compton East India director f S" bf autlf . and h"PPy' "Te was not onlj perfectly justifiable, but "Yes, his son ; and that reminds me that I ad v P fU ? ki k voo praiseworthy, anf that the matter must re- the declaration in that everlasting exche bv th? P ' tlne,XPre88lb,ty ;hh,ckt maTover til the patient was in a condi- quer case must be filed to-morrow. Con by the p.teous spectacle presented by the JJ"" T OTed. P Things were precisely found it, how this flying about the country diiyr1"!""" 'othl.n60,,ed n this sLte! except that Clara Brandon puts one out! I though some one had gard, wild expression of her coutenance- CwiSed-for aoDearance on "Indeed 1" :Z;r 5Jew omBt8 n"P.r. Vintt "I . a J ,olet' sh.e in.8tant 7 remonstrated, "do what brutal violence." terf lhtlght.VhJr' " . uo ,.??m"""u1"'5 '"uu dW. . y' ,. 18 g-,rl 18 VI . rd, as well as niece, and shall re Z Dti uedriddS STiSSS -ra tta Twhole armor of the have any skill In: reding Mr. Ferretr that who t a addre88,n8 "f J iRW. no weapon could he discern which that gentleman, having some ulterior pur w:..,a.t.a e8ture fro5L. Ml8 P'ton. "ZlZa tClKaiahtimt hone of fhrhtine a ooae In view, which I cannot for the mo- yourpern,Pgre88- Withstand m at " Force Lp fmm him t -xMimPo Tdv r : .. orce ner from hl.m I exclaimed Lady XV!n-.' ... " w t uy.11.e.mornlD-" . . . ainieue leilow strutrsrled aesoerate- lv ; but j..:-j he was only one man against a score, nearly all the bystanders being tenants or laborers on the Compton estates; and spite ' his furious efforts, and menaces of law nd vengeance, Clara was torn from him " a twinkling, and himself hurled with ,ome violence prostrate on the road. "Do- not iei mem hurt the man," said Lady "iptoh, as the servants Dlaced the in- "eiisible girl in the carriage (she had faint eln 'and tell him that if he has really au)' legal claim to the custody of this un- Ularas escape irom confinement, as just narrated he hpmieatWI hi entire fortune tween two three thou8and ftnnnm , Qn ,an,FY0 v. & u appointed his elder brother, M . R ' , . MeeHto, of his will &D rdian of his child; and in the event f - . . f . X, attojned her mni - t ' f . - h . w,ntp1 fit h father.deatn, upward8 of three years or wlthout lawfu'l propert'y wag to . tQ . im willed at his lea8U Maior Brandon, whose oh vsical , 'rcriahA n nn,i;nK, hrot4n rfownh nniv f hi fiftV- ,h,., k nr h.rA Mr. . , v t -p-i.' 1.1, v-a maP. . , . tfl 1Hw f a hmth of- - , t. mnth nf . - -on The a woman of inflexible will, con- biJ Wmains of a somewhat masculine i...,.. rj ahnnt hc. husband's foul mean. union between Clara and her a cub of two or three-and- tJfntT ... f whose sole obiect in I i:' u;. m,w. r-lara ... t. f,n;a;tinn nf w -jth. Ac- tZlnnr .,.rmiw -nfl renort. the lady mental infirmity had been t jL K k ahhal endued at the hands of Mrs. Brandon, -fh . ;.w t r v.. :nto . marriaire h detested The most reliable authority I - tVlo tltK of thp mm or. w Susan in rvi, ofTdComn- ru, ,l i, i; manir mn X. Mr Frederick Brandon and his ok. h.j h,. h.rrrut nhniit A m0nths after her master's decease by MrJJ Ma;or Brandon for alleged imperii-I nence. and thoroughly convinced was Sa8an that the goon-afterwards alleged iunacv 0f Clara was but a juggling pre- tence to excuse the restraint under which . -un. sn iaw. for the furtherance of her m nurDosea. had determined to keep her, that although out of place at the tim ghe devoted all the savings of her lif 'between eihtv and ninetv pounds, to procure . justice" for the ill-used orphan. I Tbig artjcie Susan was advised, could be . t 0KU;ed 0f the lord chancellor; and proceedig8 were accordingly taken before keeper 0f the king's conscience, in or- . t chantre the custody of the pretend- the scene of action. Long and anxious was the conference ,an t heId with Ui muniflcent client and her interesting protege, if con- fewncJthat may be calledVinwhich the ..tnt, ittomnv enacted the Dart of list- ener only scarcely once openfng his thin, I wo rlio'liia Mirer brain - tlenj.inted guardian for the custody of his ward. And B y lookd noon the flasuine eve and elowing countenance of To. rv,m.n .r.h- Mnntd a few of X:'n77r inflicted uTKin the e---. . -o - fair ana neiDiess flriri recunine Desiue ner whose varying cheek and meek suffused eyes bore eloquent testimony to the truth of the relation that he would willingly exert a vigor even beyond the law to meet his client's wishes, could he but see his way to a safe result. At length a ray of light, judging from his suddenly-gleaming eyes, seemed to have broken upon the troubled chambers of his brain, and he rose somewhat hastily from his chair. " By-the-bjj I wilt just step and speak to this Susan Hopley, if your' ladyship can inform me in what part of the lower regions I am likely to meet with her ? " 4 Let me ring for her." "No; if youplease hot. What I have to ask her is of very-little importance; still, to summon her here might give rise to surmises, reports and so on, which it may be as well to avoid. I had much rather see her accidentally, as it were.'" ''As yon please. You will find her somewhere about the housekeeper's apart ments. Yoa know her by sight, I think?" "Perfectly; and with your leave I'll take the opportunity of directing the horses to be put to. I must be in London by noon to-morrow if possible; "and "away Mr. Ferret bustled. " Susan," said Mr. Ferret, a few minutes afterwards, step this way; I want to have a word with you. Now. tell me are you goose enough to expect you will ever J see the money again you so foolishly threw into the bottomless pit of chancery ?" "' Of course I shall, Mr. Ferret, as soon as Miss Clara comes to her own. She mentioned it only this morning, and said she was sorry she could not repay me at once." " You are a sensible girl, Susan, though you did go to law with the lord chancel lor 1 I want you to be off with me to London; and then perhaps we may get your money sooner man you expect. " Oh, bother the money ! Is that all you want me to go to Lunnon for? " Mr. Ferret replied with a wink of such exceeding intelligence, that Susan at once declared she would be ready to start in ten minutes at the latest. "That's a good creature; and, Susan, as there's not the slightest occasion to let all the world know who's going to run off with you, it may be as well for you to take your bundle and step on a mile of so on , j -"" J"0' first turnpike." Susan nodded with brisk a. 1 m a! . " a. 1 J 4.1 good humor and disappeared in a twink ling. An hour afterwards Mr. Ferret was on his way back to London, having first im- pressed upon Lady Compton the necessity of immediately relieving herself of the grave responsibility she had incurred to- wards Major Brandon for the safe custody of his ward, by sending her home imme- diately. He promised to return on the third day from his departure ; but on the nature of the measures he intended to adopt, or the hopes he entertained of suc- cess, he was inflexibly silent; and he moreover especially requested that no one, not even Miss Brandon, should know of Susan Hopley's journey to the metropolis Mr. Ferret, immediately on his arrival in town, called at my chambers, and re- bUed with his usual minuteness and pre indebted to subsequent conversations with the different parties concerned. "Well," said I, as soon as he had con eluded, "what course do you propose to adopt?" "I wish you to apply, on this affidavit, for a writ of habeas ad tub., to bring up the bodv of Clara Brandon. Judge Bai- ley will be at chambers at three o'clock it is now more than half-past two, and. can be off on my return by four o'clock at the latest.'' "A writ of habeas?" I exclaimed with astonishment. "Why. what end can that answer? The lady will be remanded, and toq and I shall be laughed at for our pains." The writ of hdbeat corpus "ad tubji eiendum ," I had better explain to the non professional reader, is the great preroga tit writ, the operation of which is some times suspended by the legislature during nolitical panics. It is grounded on the principle that the sovereign has at all times a right to inquire, through the judges of the superior courts, by what authority his or her subject is held in constraint. It issues, as a matter of right upon the filing of an affidavit averring that to the best of the belief of the depo nent the individual sought to be brought up is illegally confined; and it is ol the essence of the proceeding, that the person 'Yes, Miss Dalston with Sir Jasper's eldest hope." "You don't mean it?" "They do at all events, and thatis much more to the purpose. A fine young fellow enoueh, and sufficiently rich too ' "All which rambling talk and anecdote," I cried L interruptins him. "means, if I ment divdne, is determined to have this writ, and does not wish to be pestered with anv argument on the subject. Be it w: it is your affair, not mine. And now, I as it is iust upon three o'clock, let me see Tour affidavit." " t : tj.v,. i w u . iwo Ferret, but I suppose it will do." "Well it is rather loose, but I could not with safety sail much closer to the wind By the by, I think you had better first ap- blv for a rule to stay proceedings against the bail in that case of Turner; and after that is decided,' just ask for this writ, off hand as it were.7 and as a matter of course. His lordship may not then scrutinize the affidavit quite so closely as Jf he thought counsel ' had been brought to chambers purposely to apply for it" "Cautious, Mr. Ferret I "Well, come along, and I'll see what I can do." The writ was obtained without diffi culty; few questions were asked; and at my request the judge made it returnable immediately. By four o'clock, Mr. Ferret, who could fortunately sleep as well in a post-chaise as in a feather bed, was, as he had promised himself, op his road to Lan cashire once more, where he had the pleasure of serving Major Brandon per sonally ; at the same time tendering in due form the one shilling per mile fixed by the statute as preliminary traveling charges.. The vituperative eloquence show ered upon Mr. Ferret by the Major's lady was, I afterwards beard, extremely copious and varied, and was borne by him, as I could easily believe, with the most philo sophic composure. In due time the parties appeared ttelore Mr. Justice Bailey. Miss Brandon" was accompanied by her uncle, his wife, and solicitor; and in spite of everything 1 could urge, the Judge, as I had foreseen, refused to interfere in the matter. The poor girl was dreadfully agitated, but kept, nevertheless, her eyes upon Mr. Ferret, as the source from which, spite of what was passing around her, effectual succor was sure to come. As for that gen tleman himself, he appeared composedly indifferent to the proceedings: and in deed, I thought, seemed rather relieved than otherwise when they terminated. I could not comprehend him. Mrs. Bran don, the instant the case was decided, clutched Clara's arm within hers, and, followed by her husband and the solicitor, sailed out of the apartment with an air of triumphant disdain and pnde. Miss Brandon looked round for Ferret, but not perceiving him he had left hastily an instant or two before her face became deadly pale, and the most piteous expres sion of hopeless despair I had ever beheld broke from her troubled but singularly expressive eyes. 1 mechanically loiiowea, with a half-formed purpose of remonstra ting with Major Brandon in behalf of the unfortunate girl, and was by that means soon in possession of the key to Mr. Fer ret's apparently inexplicable conduct. The Brandon party walked very fast, and I had scarcely got up with them as they were turning out of Chancery Lane into Fleet street, when two men, whose vocation no accustomed eye could for an instant mistake, arrested their further progress. "This lady," said one of the men, slightly touching Miss Brandon on the shoulder, "is, I believe, Clara Bran don?" "Yes she is; and what of that, fellow?" demanded the Major's lady with indignant emphasis. "Not much, ma'am," replied the sher iff's officer, "when you are used to it. It is my unpleasant duty to arrest her for the sum of eighty-seven pounds, indorsed on ID, 18 Wm, lSSUeU at lUC SUIb 01 uue ousau Hopley." "Arrest her!" exclaimed Mrs. Bran don ; " why she is a minor." "Minor or major, ma'am, makes very lit tle difference to us. She can plead that here after, you know. In the meantime, miss, please step into this coach," replied the officer, holding the door open. " But she's a person of unsound mind," screamed the lady, as Clara, nothing loath, sprang into the vehicle. " So are most people that do business with our establishment," responded the imperturbable official, as he shut and fas tened the door. " Here is my card, sir," he added, addresssing the attorney, who now came up. " You see where to find the lady, if her friends wish to give bail to the sheriff, or, what is always more sat isfactory, pay the debt and costs." He then jumped "on the box, his follower got upirehind, and away drove the coach leav ing the discomfited Major and his fiery better-half in a state of the blankest bewilder ment! "Why, what is the meaning of this?" at length gasped Mrs. Brandon, fiercely addressing the attorney, as if he were a particept criminis in the affair. "The meaning, my dear madame, is, that Miss Clara Brandon is arrested for debt, and carried off to a sponging-house ; and that unless you pay the money, or file bail, she will to-morrow be lodged in jail," replied the unmoved man of law. " Bail ! money 1 How are we to do either in London, away from home?" demanded the Major with, for him, much emotion. I did not wait to hear more, but, almost suffocated with laughter at the success of Ferret's audacious ruse, hastened over to the Temple. I was just leaving chambers for the night about ten o'clock I think it must have been when Ferret, in exuber ant spirits burst into the room. " Well, sir, what do you think now 01 a writ ad tvb.t " Why, I think. Mr. Ferret," replied I, looking as serious as I could, "that yours is very sharp practice; that the purpose you have put it to is an abuse of the writ; that the arrest is consequently illegal; and that a Judge, would, upon motion quash it with costs." To be sure he would : who doubts that? Let him, and welcome! In the meantime, Clara Brandon is safe beyond the reach of all the Judges or Chancel lors that ever wore horse hair, and that everlasting simpleton of a Major and his harridan wife roaming the metropolis like distracted creatures ; and that 1 take to be the real essence of the thing, whatever the big-wigs may decide about the shells 1" "I suppose the plaintiff soon discharged her debtor out of custody?" "Without loss of time, you may be,sure. Miss Brandon, I may tell you, is with the Rev. Mr. Derwent at Brompton. You know him: The newly-married curate of St. Margaret's that was examined in that will. case. Well, him: he is an intelli-gentf- high-principled man; and I have no doubt, that, under his and Mrs. uer- went's care, all trace of Miss Brandon's mental infirmity, will disappear long be fore she attains her majority next June twelvemonth; whilst the liberal sum per month which Lady Compton willjadvance, will be of great service to him." "That appears all very good. But are you sure you can effectually conceal the place of her retreat?" "I have no fear: the twigs that will en tangle her precious guardian in the laby rinths of a false clue are already set .and limed. Before to-morrow night they will , 3; j 1 nave ooscovereu, oj means 01 uwu unu wonderfully - penetrative sagacity, that Clara has been spirited over to France; and before three months are p&Bt the same surprising intelligence will rejoice in the discovery that she expired in a maison de santi fine comfortable repose, in which fool's paradise I hope to have the honor of awakening them about next June twelve month, and not as at present advised be fore 1" Everything fortunately turned out as Mr. Ferret anticipated ; and when a few months had glided by, Clara Brandon was a memory only, save of course to the few entrusted with the secret. The whirligig of time continued as ever to speed on its course, and bring round in due season its destined revenges. The health, mental and bodily, of Miss Bran don rapidly improved under the kind and judicious treatment of Mr. and Mrs. Der went; and long before, the attainment of her majority, were pronounced by cora- letent authority to be thoroughly re-estab-ished. The day following that which completed her twenty-first year, Mr. Fer ret, armed with the necessary authority, had the pleasure of announcing to the re lict of Major Brandon (he had been dead some months), and to her brutal son, that they must forthwith depart from the home in which they, to the very moment of this announcement, thought themselves secure ; and surrender every shilling of her property they had so long dreamt was their own. They were prostrated by the intelligence, and proved as mean and servile in the hour of adversity, as they had been inso lent and cruel in the day of fancied suc cess and prosperity. The pension of three hundred pounds a year for both their lives, proffered by Miss Brandon, was eagerly accepted; and they returned to the obscurity from which they had by ac cident emerged. About six months afterwards, I had the pleasure of drawing up the marriage set tlement between Clara Brandon and Her bert Burford; and a twelvemonth after, that of standing sponsor to one of the lustiest brats ever sprinkled at a font: none of which delightful results, if we are to believe Mr. Ferret, would have ever been arrived at had not he, at a very criti cal moment, refused to take counsel's opinion upon the virtues, capabilities, and powers contained in the great writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum. THE IRON DUKE And his French Artlat Cook. David Ker in Harper's Magazine. One autumn evening many years ago, m one of the more secluded rooms at Strath fieldsaye (the Duke of Wellington's coun try house), a very strange scene was being enacted. A tall, thin, sallow, black haired man was striding fiercely to and fro, rolling his eyes, clinching his teeth, flourishing his hands about, tugging fran tically every now and then at his long hair, and making gestures of anguish and despair worthy of any tragic hero in Shakspeare. Indeed, he might well have been taken for a tragedian rehearsing his part; but if so, he was rehearsing it rather expensively, for his superb white shirt frill was hanging in tatters, and his gold rimmed eye-glass, flung down and stamped upon in fury, lay strewn in fragments over the carpet. "Jamais! jamais! nevare!" howled he, in a queer jumble of French and English. "C'est trop fort! it is too moch too moch ! Allons, vite, vite, from dis place avay. I lose ze reason if I sail stay here !" And the speaker crave a eroan that might have broken the heart of a paving stone. "Why, Monsieur Bonplat, what's the matter?" said a deep voice from the door way, in which, as in a picture-frame, ap peared the square, thick-set figure, hard, weather-beaten face, and iron-gray mus tache of old General H , one of Wel lington's ablest commanders. " Ze mattairef ' echoed the French cook (for such he was), with an intensity of irony to which no words can do jus tice. " Dis is ze mattaire, M. le General: it must be dat I go instantly out from dis house or I sail go mad, and bark and bite, and com-mit murdaire ! " "That would be a pity," remarked the old soldier, with perfect gravity, although he was inwardly choking with suppressed laughter. " But are you really thinking of going already? Why, you've only been in the house a week." "Aveek?" yelled the Frenchman, ca pering'about like a scalded monkey. "An age a century an eternity of suffering! Ah, ton-ner-r-r-re! " And he rolled and rumbled the word till it sounded like the thunder which it im plied. "Well, M. Bonplat, without wishing to be inquisitive, .1 should be glad to hear your grief," said the General, as gravely as ever; although the mischievous twinkle in his eye showed that he expected some fun. " It must be terrible indeed to move a man like you ! " "Ecoutez. done listen!" said the cook, in a hollow whisper that would have befitted the confession of a bloody and bar barous murder. "Zeday dat I enter-ed ze household of his Grace ze Due de Vel lainton " (the sarcastic emphasis of these last words fairly set General H 's teeth on edge), "I come and say to him, vid all ze solemnity befitting so important a question, 'Vat vill your Grace please to have for dinnair dis day?' And he an swere me (it is so true and I do stand here), Oh, anything, anything!' No reflection, no reverence for ze sublime science of cooking none, none ! " "How dreadful!" shuddered General H , with an affectation of horror wor thy of Garrick in Hamlet. " My heart boil-ed vidin me," pursued M. Bonplat; "but I restrained mine r-rage. I said to myself, ' I vill be merciful ; I vill give him yet one more chance.' Day after day I put ze great question to dis man vidout soul, and vat vas his answer? Oh, amo a -vAstprHnv snme fut vesterdavl' And dis day dis ve-ree day," he added, raising his voice to a perfect screech, "ven I ask him vonce more, he reply quite short, Oh, what you like; I never know what I put in my mouth!' "Figu-rez-vou tela, man Dieu! That I J, Xavier Francois Auguste .Napoleon Bonaparte Bonplat, should cook for one who know not what he put in his mouth ! " Here the orator became incoherent from excess of emotion. " A hard case truly, my dear M. Bon plat," said the General, sympathetically; "but remember how many other great geniuses have been neglected and perse cuted before you. What was the fate of Galileo the astronomer, Columbus the dis coverer, Tasso the poet? Yet their art was sufficient for them; surely yours is sufficient for you I " A faint smile dawned on the French man's convulsed features. " Is the genius of a Bonplat to be lost to the great science of cookery," resumed H , with enthusiasm, "because one man s blind to it? It is as if your coun tryman, the great Moliere, had ceased to write comedies Decause uuv mui iuicu w enjoy them. Moreover, the Duke has hitherto dined alone; but to-morrow the house will be fullf guests, all warm ad mirers of your wonderful skill. Will you punish so many for the fault of one unfor tunate who has been denied the happiness of appreciating your great wprks? You have been deeply injured it is true; but show yourself a brave Frenchman, and pardon the Dnke his offence." "Ah, M. le Geueralf cried the cook, springing forward as if some one had stuck a pin into him, "you have conquered. I vill be magnanimous ; I vill pardon all to le Due I vill keep my place I " And he did so. , WESTERN N. C. BAILBOID, The Protect of the Flfteou Senators.' The Senators, whose names are hereto subscribed, availing themselves of their constitutional privilege, do hereby enter their solemn protest against the passage of the bill entitled "A bill to be entitled an act to secure the completion of the West ern North Carolina Railroad from the mouth of the Nantahala river to the town of Murphy," for that, 1. At a special session of the General Assembly of 1880, called for the purpose of selling the State's interest in the West ern North Carolina Railroad, a contract was made with W. J. Best and his associ ates by which, in - consideration of the transfer of property of immense value, it was stipulated, among other things, that the assignees should deliver to certain commissioners a written contract, signed by themselves, and binding them to the State, to pay certain interest, and to finish the road to its Western terminus at Paint Rock, and the Georgia and Tennessee line near Ducktown, and to complete and put in operation the road to Paint Rock on or before the 1st day of July, 1881, and to Murphy, in the county of Cherokee, on or before the 1st day of January. 188!5. and that within two months from the ratifica tion of said act work on said road should be begun and carried on with diligence and energy until completed. By said act (see Laws of 1880, special session, chapter 26) the state contracted to furnish on said road 500 convicts, for which it was to receive in quarterly instal ments $125 each per annum. Upon the passage of this act it was an nounced that the State had parted with its interest in the road and was forever re lieved of all liability for the construction thereof ; that the heavy burden of taxation imposed upon the people was removed and the road was to be completed without fur ther cost to the State. The contract having been assigned to the present owners of the road, they de manded and obtained relief from certain Ero visions. The Legislature, in 1883 (see aws of 1883, chapter 241), for the pur pose of enabling the work to be prosecu ted, parted with certain securities held by the State, and in consideration thereof the road, among other things, stipulated that it would, within sixty days after the pass age of the act, place and keep continuous ly at work on the line of road, from the mouth of the Nantahala river westward to Murphy, a force of seventy-five convicts. The road has availed itself of all the ben efits of the act of 1883; has sold its bonds, rendered valuable by the act, and, it is stated, now refuses to build the road to Murphy, although it has twice covenanted to do so, and has received the considera tion therefor. Under the contract of 1880, amended in 1883, the road owes the State a balance of about $28,000 for the hire of convicts, and it is now said that it refuses to perform its contract unless we will donate to it this amount and give them, free of charge for an indefinite time, the use of 150 convicts, worth to the State $18,750 per annum. We arc told that to refuse this is to violate the plighted faith of the State. We can not for a moment admit the force of any such argument, especially when the corpo ration sought to be benefited has failed to comply with its obligations and contracts. The State of North Carolina and the Dem ocratic party have kept faith in this mat ter, and in order to do so the people bore with patience a heavy and onerous burden of taxation until the work was assumed by others. We can see no reason why the people should again be subjected to taxation to build a railroad for which they have al ready paid, and when finished, presenting it to a corporation so utterly unmindful of its promises and obligations. Surely, to pay the sum of $28,000 for the privilege of doing this is going beyond what we think just to the people of North Carolina. That by this act it is done no one can deny. The bill is either so drawn as to leave its construction obscure, with all doubts against the State, or it is so inaccurately and loosely framed as to leave its meaning in many respects uncertain . While it holds out the delusion that certain bonds are to be received, it also provides that the Treas urer of the State shall indulge in the use less and absurd ceremony of receiving with one hand and returning with the other the bonds of the road. For it says that, upon the completion of the work, the bonds due shall all, including those for $28,000, be returned to the company. That the$28,000 is now justly due the State is admitted. To receive bonds for that amount and hold them for a while, and then return them to the company, does not accord with our ideas of proper legis lation. If it takes that amount from the tax-payers to induce this syndicate to per form its covenants, most solemnly entered into by two acts of the General Assembly, how much more will be demanded the fu ture alone will develop. Public taxes should be used only for public purposes, and when voted to cor porations or individuals without consider ation, a wrong is done which we cannot indorse and against which we earnestly protest, A. W. Graham, William M. Bond, W. R. Williams, W. I. Everitt, J. W. Todd, Robert W. Winston, J. L. King, Joshua Pebrt. H. G. Connor, James Parker, M. S. Robins, A. Horne, J. W. Wiseman, James Holeman, R. F. Lewis, Too Sharp for the President. TNew York 8un.l Washington, March 17. A story thatis perhaps apocryphal, but which is good enough to be true, is told of a Mississip pian's visit to the White House in quest of a postmastership. " How soon does the incumbent's term expire?" inquired the President. ' " Oh, in about three years, unless it is cut short." "Are there any charges against him?" " Well, yes. We Democrats don't like him." "But on what ground do you ask for his removal?" "On the ground, Mr. President, that eleven millions of people decided last No vember that they wanted a change." Worth Praise, Not Blame. fNew York Herald, j Some journals complain that the Presi dent goes too "slow" in changing the staff of his subordinates. But he has been in office just two weeks; his Cabinet have been in office barely twelve days, includ ing two Sundays. The crowds who visit ed Washington to attend the inauguration and remained to see the city and to con gratulate the President have scarcely got home. What time have President' and Cabinet had to look into the complex ma chine they are to set and keep in order t THE HUNGRY DEMOCRATS Are Mighty Well-Mannered Folk. rN. Y. Herald Washington Letter. The President does not complain of any severe pressure upon him of office-seekers. On the contrary, he is greatly pleased at the kindness with which he has been treat ed and the consideration which the friends of gentlemen desirous of place have shown him. He has freely received all delega tions and committees, but these have been much fewer in number than the general public has supposed, or even than he had anticipated ; and while no doubt he has felt compelled to disappoint some gentle men whom he would have preferred to oblige, he speaks with great respect of all and with the kindliest feeling to them for the moderation with which requests have been made to him, and for the entire good nature with which those who were not gratified have borne their disappoint ment. He receives numbers of persons daily, for he gives an unusual number of hours to business, but a considerable part of those who visit him go to converse with him on public affairs and not about offices. He is a good listener, and is evidently very ready to give all the time asked to hear what prominent men have to say to him about various public interests with which they are familiar, such as Indian, Mormon, silver and many other matters. Those, therefore, who imagine that Mr. Cleveland is beset by omce-seekers, or that his time is entirely or largely taken up with the question of appointments, are mistaken. He is, on the contrary, listen ing to the views of the Senators, Repre sentatives and eminent private citizens of experience upon pretty much sll the pub lic questions which are to come before the administration, and he welcomes all men who have special knowledge on these sub jects, or whose views are otherwise of im portance. There will be removals from office by and by in the different departments and government offices here and elsewhere, but thev will be for cause, and will be made slowly and as necessary measures of re form. The members of the Cabinet are quietly and patiently mastering the com plicated machinery of their departments In some cases it is already known that in efficiency and abuses have been discovered ; but the time for investigation has been too short to make it thorough, and while wherever clerks and other Dublic servants are found to have neglected their work or abused their trusts they will be summarily dealt with, it is the determination to make investigation so thorough that no injustice shall be done, and that really valuable public servants, high or low, shall be pro tected. BOYS AND GIRLS. Some of the Distinguishing Variations, Mark Twain. J "What's your real name? Is it Bill, or Tom, or Bob? or what is it?" I reckon I shook like a leaf, and I didn' know hardly what to do: So I saul it wouldn't be no use to try to play it any longer, and I would just make a clean breast and tell her everything. I told her mv father and mother was dead, and the law bad bound me to a mean old farmer in the country thirty miles back from the river, and he treated me so bad I couldn't stand it no longer. I stole some of his daughter's clothes and cleared out, and I had been three nights coming thirty miles. I said I believed my uncle Abner Moore would take care of me and that was why I struck out for this town of Goshen. "Goshen, child! This ain"t Goshen. This is St. Petersburg. Goshen's ten miles further up the river." "Well, I've got to be moving along. I'll fetch Goshen before daylight." "Hold on a minute. I'll put you up a snack to eat, you might want it." So she put me up a snack and says : "Say, when a cow's lying down which end of her gets up first? Answer up prompt now. Don't stop to study over it. Which end gets up first?" "The hind end, mum." "Well, then, a horse?" "The forrard end, mum." "Which side of a tree does the moss grow on?" "North side." "If fifteen cows is browsing on a hill side, how many of them eats with their heads pointed in the same direction?" "The whole fifteen, mum." "Well, I reckon you have lived in the country. I thought maybe you was trying to hocus me again. What's your real name, now?" "George Peters, mum." "Well, try to remember it, George. Don't forget and tell me it's Elexander be fore you go, and then get out by saying it's Georee Elexander when I catch you. And don't go about women in that old calico. You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when vou set out to thread a needle, don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it thafs the way a woman most always does, but a man always does 'tother way. And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tip-toe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot. Throw stiff-armed from the shoulder like there was a pivot there for it to work on like a girl ; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm put to one side, like a boy. And. mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in her lap she throws her knees apart ; she don't clap them together the way you did when you catched the lump 01 lead. Why, I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle; and I contrived the other things iust to make certain. Now trot along to your uncle, Sarah Mary Wil liams George Elexander Peters, and if vou get into trouble you send word to Mrs. Judith Loftus, which is me, and I'll do what I can to get you out of it." Carp Flonrlsh In Sampson. f Clinton Caucasian. Four years ago, Mr. Bryan Merritt, of Tavlor's Bridge township, started a fish pond with eighteen young German carp, furnished him by Mr. Stephen G. Worth, Fish Commissioner. Last Thursday, Mr. Merritt drew off the water for the purpose of stocking another pond and letting a few of his friends have some young carp The increase of his fish had far exceeded his most sanguine expectations. Not one of the original stock had died, and one 01 them weighed six and one-nan pounds. There were hundreds and hundreds 01 young fish of ' three distinct ages the youngest about two inches long and the oldest six to eight inches. This settles the question as to whether the carp will propagate here, and it fur ther shows that fish culture ought to be encouraged and extended. CLERICAL HrWlOHS Which Find Tent In Harper's Drawer. Harper for April. 1 S Things said and done malapropos are sometimes very amusing. Here is an ex ample : !, On a certaiq charge of one of the Meth-. odist Conferences in the Valley of Vir ginia there was a change of preachers. The newly appointed preacher s name was Wolfi 'His (predecessor was a serious, solemn man, Who could scarcely appreci ate a joke when made, much less be guilty of perpetrating one. This preacher was present with the pre siding elder of the district at the first quarterly meeting. The P. E. requested him to close the morning service on Sat urday in the! usual way. Taking the hymn-book, the preacherlooked rather hurriedly for j a hymn, and read, with a solemn air: i Jesus-great Shepherd of the sheep, To Thee for help we fly : The little iflock in safety keep, For, ohl the wolf Is nigh. r It comes, rot hellish malice full, To scatter, tear, and slay ; It seizes every straggling soul As his qwn lawful prey. The preacher, absorbed in his reading. never noticed jthe amused smile that light ed up every face in the congregation. The Rev. Mr. , now a member of the California; Conference, began his min isterial careerin Iowa. He there preached at three different places each Sunday, which gave him twenty odd miles travel ling. He rode horse-back at first, but finding his mare too light to easily carry his weight, he purchased a road sulky, and, much to his comfort, discovered that his horse possessed considerablejspeed. One Sunday, while going from one church to another, he overtook a man, also in a sulky, driving a fine animal. "As our friend was in a hurry hejpassed the stranger who kept close behind him until a long stretch of good road was reached ; then he heard his fellow-traveller urging his horse, and be fore he knew! it he was taking part in a spirited heat, iin which the stranger came off second best. On reaching a bit' of rough road jboth slowed up, and the stranger sung out: "That's a good mare you've got, my friend. Does she belong to you? " "No," replied Mr. ; she belongs to my Master." "Who's hefe " " The Lordj," was the response. " Then IgUess vou don't trot her much?" " Oh yes, I;do." " What do you trot her against? " Mr. replied, very solemnly, "The devil." f "Um! uni! I guess you get beat pretty often, then." "Well," saad-Ir. , "I rather think I'm ahead of him now." Mr. afterward ascertained that his adversary was the most violent infidel in the neighborhood. COMPARATIVE EARS. How the Women Folk Kxeol. fNew York Times. It has at last been decided that the hearing of woman is more acute than that of man; and the scientific persons who have arrived; at this conclusion will next endeavor to ascertain for what object na ture endowed woman with ears superior to man's. f The ease with which women hear burg lars at night first attracted the attention of science to female ears. It is a matter of universal notoriety that husbands are con stantly.awakpned by wives who are confi dent that they have heard burglars in the house and want their husbands to get up and drive the wretches out. On the other hand, it is equally notorious that in the great majority of cases the husbands as sert that they have heard nothing, and therefore refase to get up. This seems to prove that wpmen hear more acutely than men, but thei scientific persons already re ferred to decline to admit the fact without further investigation. Two hundred married men who, on leaving home in the morning, were gen erally called back by their wives to receive instructions as to shopping, but who testi fied that they never heard the calls in ques tion, were examined by the scientific per sons and fouhd to have as good hearing as the majority jof men. These two hundred men, in accordance witn tne instructions of the investigators, undertook to call their wives back whenever the latter started out on shopping expeditions by saying, "Come back, my deir. Here is five dollars more." In every case the wives promptly heard the call and retimed to receive the money. This experiment, the cost of which was defrayed by! the scientific persons them selves, who (furnished the husbands with counterfeit five dollar bills, proved con clusively that women hear more acutely than-men. Many other experiments were, nevertheless,! tried, and the invariable re sult of these 'was to confirm the fact of the superiority of women's ears. Doubtless s nature has thus richly en dowed woman in order that she can con verse with her sex. - Six men can meet in a room and (converse for an hour, during which time -every man will hear "what is said by every other man, for the reason that no two; men talk at the same time. When, however, six women meet together and every ope talks ceaselessly at the top of her lungs, no one not gifted with ex ceptional powers of hearing would be able to understand anything that might be said. It was probable that in order to provide for just such! occasions as this that woman received better ears than man. Had she not been thiis gifted she could never have enjoyed the society of her sex, and would have been condemned to masculine reti cence. THE BURNING PILES OP SALEM. Catholic and Protestant Alike do It. jfNew York Herald. J In the first place, the Salem witches were not burned, but were hanged. In the next place, sectarianism had nothing whatever tot do with their trial and execu tion. If the Salem people had been Cath olics instead of Puritans they would have hanged thej witches just the same. All Christian countries in 1692 believed in witchcraft as a fact and punished it as a crime. Protestants were no more and no less to blame than Catholics, if either were to blame at jail. Pope Innocent had issued a bull requiring good Catholics to arrest witches and bring them to punishment, and Martin Luther had enjoined good Protestants: to do likewise. The proceed ings againsf the nineteen persons hanged at Baiem were in couiormiiy wun ine law of the land, under a statute of "James I., which noneof the King's subjects, whether Protestantsl or Catholics, disputed. Its only contemners were a little handful of scientific free-thinkers not far removed from wizards themselves in public estima tion, j i
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