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Long, long ago, its brightness slowly waned, Long, long ago, I ceased to hold it dear ; Nor saw I aught of gladness to be gained From year slow following year. - Yet for my Master's sake, who bids me wait Until His coming, still I trim my light ; And still it burns, as now the hours grow late And deepen into night. Sot mine to ask why He doth will it so, Not mine to quench this faintly burning fire ; Mine but to wait in patience, and to know The faithful, heart is His supreme desire. SUPBElflnE COIBT. Decisions Filed February Term. From Advance. Sheets of Davidson' a Reports. KIJiCAID V. GRAHAM. On a trial before a justice, the defend ant claimed a credit of $50 on the note sued on, which still left a balance due the plaintiff, and which the justice decided against him. On appeal to the Superior Court, this credit being the only matter in dispute, it was found by the jury in favor of the defendant. Held, that the defend ant is liable for the costs in the Superior Court. ' ' BARNKTCA8TLK V. WALKER. 1. The office of the summons is to bring the parties into court ; the nature of the action is shown by the complaint. 2. When A leases land to B for some determinate time, it gives B a right of en- try which is called his interest in the term,' but after actual entry, the estate vests in him, as if by grant," and he is in posses sion, not properly of the land, but of the term. 3. If the lessor enters and dispossesses his lessee after he has entered upon and taken possession of his term, his remedy is by action ex delicto; under the former practice, an action .of trespass quart clau- sum. f regit, but under the present system an action for a tort. L There is no implied contract that the lessor will not molest the lessee, but there is an implied condition, upon s breach of which the lessee is discharged from his obligation to pay rent. 5. A justice of the peace has no juris diction of such an action when the dam ages demanded exceed $50. -. 6. A tenant. carK bring trespass against his landlord for forcibly entering and weaning ms close, during the term. (Hatchell v. Kimborvugh, 4 Jones, 163; Wilson v. Moore, 77 N. C 558; Nance v. Railroad Co., 76 N. C, 9; cited and approved). mS PLOWMAN'S HAIR. An Incident 1m the Life of a Physician. DAVIS V. HIGGIN8. 1. Section 539 of The Code docs not ap ply to an assignment of the cause of action as collateral security for a continuing ob ligation; 2. Nor when the assignment is only of a part and not of the whole cause of action. 3. It applies when the assignee might, under sec. 188 of The Code, be substituted for the original plaintiff. RUDA8ILI. V FALLS. 1. Where an agent exceeds his author ity, his principal must either wholly rati fy or wholly repudiate the transaction. He cannot ratify that' portion of the con tract which ia beneficial to him, and repu diate the remainder. 2. The provisions of The Code are mandatory, that the controverted allega tions in the pleadings should be submitted to the jury in the shape of issues. WARE V. NISBIT. In a petition for a Certiorari to correct a mistake in a case stated on appeal by the judge, it must be shown that by inadvert ence, mistake or accidental misapprehen sion, the presiding judge misstated or failed to state something that ought to appear iD the case settled on appeal, and that the judge would probably make the ' correction, if the certiorari is granted. JCurrie v. Clark, 90 N. C, 17; cited and approved). eOODSOH V. MULLEN. 1. In proceedings under the statute for ponding water on plaintiff s land, the jury has no right to go back further than one year in assessing damages; but if they do, the error may be corrected by the court only giving judgment for one year preced ing the issuing of the summons. 2. Where, in such proceedings, the an nual damages are assessed at less than $20 per annum, the judgment, is for five years. including the year preceding the filing of the petition, for each year's damages so as sessed, with a eessat executto for each year after the first year. 8. Where the damages were assessed at as much as $20 a year, the judgment was the same, except that the plaintiff had his election to take judgment for five years, or only for the one year preceding the filing of the petition, in which case he was at liberty to bring bis action at common law; but if the action was continued for more than fhe years, the judgment was for the entire amount, and the plaintiff was barred of his election. 4. Where the jury find the damages are different for different years, they should assess them separately for each year. 5. By sec. 1860 of The Code, the dam ages are to be assessed for five years, at they were prior to the act of 1877, -chap, 197. , Hester v. Roach, 84 N. C, 251; Gillett v. Jones, 1 Dev. & Bat, 340 ; Burnett v. Nicholson, 86 N. C, 99; Pvgh v. Wheeler, 2 Dev. & Bat., 50, cited and approved). JAMES V. RUSSELL. 1. The plaintiff claimed the locus in quo as devisee, and also alleged that the de fendant had possession thereof as his ten ant. The defendant objected to the in troduction of the will under which plain tiff claimed. The jury having found that the defendant went into possession of the land as plaintiffs tenant, it was held that any error in. admitting the will in evidence was immaterial. ; 2. A tenant cannot contest his landlord's title until he has given up the possession of the land. 3. Where one tands silently by and hears a contract made for him by an other, he is bound by such contract. ABERNATHY V. 8TOWB. 1. Where the defendant gave his bond to the plaintiff for a sum of money, which was part of the purchase money for a tract of land, to be paid when the plaintiff should remove from said property "all claims, trespasses or incumbrances," and give the defendant possession of the same; Held, that the incumbrances intended, were such as at the execution of the bond had some foundation in right, or at least color of right, and not such as might be set up arbitrarily aod groundlessly by a mere pretender, and the trespasses were such as intruders were perpetrating on the land at the time the bond was executed. 2. Where in deference to the opinion of the judge, a plaintiff submits to a non suit and appeals, the non suit will be set aside and a new trial ordered, if in any view of the evidence offered, the plaintiff has made out a jrrima facie case. OWEKS V. PHELPS. 1. The absence of the judge from the district does not dispense with the re quirement that he should settle the case on appeal upon disagreement of counsel. 2. When counsel disagree as to the state ment of the case on appeal, and instead of submitting the two variant statements to the judge, they are both sent to the Su preme Court, that Court will not dismiss the appeal, but will presume that appel lant agrees to the amendments contained in the case of the appellee, which will be taken as the case on appeal. 3. An administrator has no power to rescind a contract to purchase land, made by his intestate. 4. Where in an action brought to declare such attempted rescission a nullity, it ap peared that the vendor had paid to the administrator a sum of money for which the rescission was the consideration ; Held that the administrator had such an inter est as made him incompetent to testify. Mitdman v. Retlman, 70 N. C, 257; Wihtton v. Patrick, 75 N. C, 344; Mason v. MrCurmki, Ibid, 263; same case, 80 C, 244, cited and approved). WILLIAMSON V. HAKTMAN. 1. A motion in the cause to set aside a judgment for irregularity will be enter tained, if made in a reasonable time, but this does not imply that every judgment affected in any degree by an irregularity will be set aside. It is only when irregu larities are so serious in their nature as to destroy the efficacy of the action and ren der the judgment void, or when they may seriously prejudice and injure the moving party, that they occasion grounds for set ting aside the judgment. 2. What is reasonable time in which the motion must be made depends upon the circumstances of each case, but when a long period has elapsed and the rights of innocent persons have grown up under judgments, courts will only set them aside for the most weighty considerations. 3. So, where an infant was duly served with process, and a guardian ad litem was appointed, but no process was served on the guardian, nor did lie make any de fence, and it only appeared inferentially that he knew of the pendency of the ac tion; but it did not appear that the infant had any defence, and adults whose rights i were identical with his own. sued in the same action, made no defence ; it teat held, that the judgment was Jiot so irregular that it would be set aside on an applica tion made several years thereafter. 4. Obtaining a judgment by fraud does not make it irregular, and after the action has been determined, the question of fraud can onlv be tried in a new action brought to imneach the iudgment. Before the action has been determined, a party alleg ing fraud in any previous interlocutory order, may set up such matter by a peti tion filed in the cause. 5. A motion to set aside a judgment for irregularity will be entertained after the determination of the action. (Matthew v. Joyce. 85 N. C, 258; Tick v. Pope, 81 N. C, 22; Window v. Ander son. 3 Dev. & Bat.. 9: Thompson v. Sham- well, 89 N. C, 283, cited and approved) PENDLETON V. D ALTON. Where a plaintiff sues as executor, MC DOWELL V. MC DOWELL. 1- Parties, by consent, may authorize a judgment to be rendered and entered in vcation, but such practice is not to be en couraged. . 2. Where such consent is given, and the judge rendered the judgment, but went out of office before it was entered on the minutes by the clerk, a motion at a subse 'Utnt term to enter the judgment nunc pro - will be allowed. 3- The power of a court to amend its records at a subsequent term is essential, and such amendment should not be made y simply noting the order to amend, but 't should be actually made by correcting fie minutes of the former term. 4. Where an appeal was taken ' both from the order allowing the judgment to pfc entered nunc pro tune and also from the judgment itself ; it wot held, that the ap peal from the judgment would not be con sidered. (Shackelford v. Miller, 91 N. C, 181; JMoach v. Worke, 3 Hawks, 36; Grantham I- htraiedy. 91 N. 148; State r. King, 0 ired., 203; Jones-v. Lewi, 8 Ired., 70; tttr v. Woodfin, 65 N. C, 29; Logan. V 9N. C.t 7; State. Woodjln, 85 A- 598, cited and approved). the production of letters testamentary is- ?ued to him is sufficient to show that the estator's right of action has become vest- ed in him. It is not neccessary to annex a copy of the will to the letters when the nrovisions of the will are not involved in the nrosecution of the action. 2. Where a bill in equity filed under the former system of procedure by the vendee, to enforce the specific performance of a contract to convey land, and also praying for general relief, was dismissed, it was held, that such dismissal was not an estop Del to an action brought under The Code to recover a sum of money alleged to have been paid in pursuance of said contract as a part of the purchase money for the land. 3. Both legal and equitable rights may now be administered in one and the same action. Therefore, if an action is brought for the specific performance of a formal con; tract to convey land, to which the vendor pleads the statute of frauds, and it appears that a portion of the purchase money has been paid, the court will give judgment against the vendor for the amount which he has received. 4. A court may refuse, for equitable rea sons, to compel specific performance of a' contract legally binding, and leave the party to his remedy in. the recovery of damages for its violation, 5. Where a defendant has successfully resisted the specific performance of a con tract, he will not be allowed to set up such contract as binding in order to defeat an action brought to recover money paid in pursuance of said avoided contract. 6. Where the pendency of a former ac tion is relied on to stop the statute oi um nations, it mast appear that it was between the same parties, and for the same causer of action. Granbery r. Mkoon, 1 Dev. 456; Roa noke Navigati m Co. r. Green, 3 Dev. 434; London r. Railroad. Co., 88 N. C, 584; Murdoch r. Anderson, 4 Jones Eq., 77; Chambers y. Massey, 7 Ired. Eq., 286; Bank y. Harris, 84 N. C, 206; WtUne . WombU, WTX.V., ZteNichr.Fnman, it Ired. 99, cited and approved). Dr. Win. A. Hammond In New York Tribune. When I talked with Mary Plowman just before going into Mrs. Clapham's din ner, I thought her one of the stupidest women I had ever met ; after she had be gun to eat and drink and until I parted with her at her carriage door I was fully convinced that never before in the whole course of my life had I encountered so brilliant and versatile a person of either sex. Fifty years of bachelor life had not accomplished much in the direction of chilling my ' naturally warm, heart, but twenty-five years of active medical prac tice had certainly given me increased con trol of my emotional nature. My feelings were almost as acute as they had ever been, but I kept them well in hand, and when I appeared at the breakfast , table the next morning, my maiden sister, two years younger than l, had no idea that i had passed nearly the whole night think ing of the woman that bad - astonished and captivated me to a degree that twenty four hours previously I would have thought to be impossible. My sister was a very sensible woman, and I often made her the confidante, or the semi-confidante of the impressions that the people I met in society made oh me. I resolved to tell her something about Miss Plowman. I was sure her good sense would give me an idea or two that would prove useful to me. So I launched out at once without any preliminary sounding. " I met a rather remarkable woman last night at Mrs. Clapham's dinner,' I said as soon as I had swallowed a mouthful of coffee. "I suppose that's a lock of her hair that I saw on your library table this morn ing. It's as red as brick-dust, and the woman from whose head it was taken doubtless has the temper of the Furies." My sister's eyes fairly sparkled with ex citement as she spoke. I saw it all. She was afraid I was going to bring a wife into the house. Well, why should I not, if I wanted to do so? "No," I answered with dignity, "that is not a lock of Miss Plowman's hair. That hair was brought here last night by a crazy woman, who informed me that she had torn it from the head of one of the nurses in the asylum on Blackwell's Island. It is exactly like Miss Plowman's and the woman at first led me to believe that it was her's." "Bring me that lock of hair from the Doctor's library table,' said my sister, ad dressing the servant who stood by her side. The man went into the adjoining room and in a moment returned with the lock of golden-red hair, that the lunatic woman had left with me and that she had told me came from Sarah Shine's head. My sister took the long silken strands and looked at them closely, turning them first in one direction and then in another so as to get the play of the light on them from different points. Then she rubbed them between her hands examining the palms afterward with great minuteness and finally she held them to her nose and sniffed them while she cast her eyes up to the ceiling reflectively. 'That hair," she said with all the de cision that she knew- so well how to put into her voice, " never came from the head of an asylum nurse. In the first place, it is perfectly clean; absolutely free from grease and dust. In the next place it is scented with the last new perfume, and the most expensive to be found in New 1- i i ' - ll ' i , l um, pnijBiriuga, worcu im weigm in goiu. It occurs to roe, however, that you might easily ascertain whether or not there is a nrirse in the Blackwell's Island asylum by the name of bhine, and a patient there answering to the description of your crazy visitor of last night." " And so I will," I answered with equal petulance, rising at the same time from the table, "I shall at once telegraph to Dr. Marsons, the superintendent, and then, my dear Janet, you will be able to possess your soul in patience. An incredulous smile was my only an swer. I sent the telegram and in less than one hour had the answer in my hand. "No such patient and no such nurse," it read. " Good heavens ! " I exclaimed. Then the golden lock must have come after all from Mary Plowman's head." I was so much overcome with this conclusion, which so far as I could see was inevitable, that I dropped into a chair and remained for sev eral minutes lost in thought as to the pos sibilities of the situation. Nine o'clock struck. My reception room was full of patients waiting for me to begin my daily consultations. Thomas, my man, had al ready been twice at the door to remind me of my duties, bnt I had given him im patient answers, very much to his aston ishment, for I had always been remarkably "particular to ring the bell for the first pa tient precisely at 9 o'clock. Howevr, eventually I recovered my equanimity to a certain extent and then I began my work I did not get through till 3 o'clock. Then I dressed myself with care and drove to the Windsor Hotel without saying a word to my sister in regard to the .telegram I had received from Blackwelrs Island. Yes, Miss Plowman was at home and would see me in her own parlor. So the servant who had taken up my card brought answer. She was standing at the fire-place as I entered the room and was leaning grace fully against the mantle-piece. She was even, I thought, more beautiful in the full gTare of a warm winter's day than in the mild subdued lamp and candle light of Mrs. Clapham's rooms, and the golden gleam of her luxuriant hair lost none of its glory in the rays of the sun that fell on it as she crossed the floor and held out her hand to me in welcome. " I am glad to see you," she said with a bright smile on her lovely face. " If you had not asked me to allow you to call as a friend, 1 should have sent for you professionally. My health is a very im portant consideration with me, and if you will permit me to do so I would like to consult you now in regard to it." I did not like the idea of mixing busi ness with what l meant should be alto gether a different sort of a visit, but I was at the same time exceedingly anxious to discover the exact character of Miss Plow man's disease; for that she had some seri ous affection of her brain I felt very sure. So I answered that it would give me great pleasure to be of service to her, and after a few- minutes of general conversation during which she expressed herself with perfect fluency, ahe introduced the subject. " Ton saw me yhder very unfavorable circumstances last night, she said, " and you must have taken me for an idiot as we conversed together Just before we, went into dinner. My maid, who is at the same time ft kind of nurse, disappeared yester day afternoon, and I was so greatly incon venienced that I forgot to take my custo mary glass of wine before I went out. As a consequence I was stupid and it was not until I drank a glass of Chablis that I be gan to recover my natural mental condi tion." :;- .,;-:-a: 1 "Good Heavens!", I thought, "then Janet was right," It was the imbecility of the drunkard deprived of the customa ry stimulant All this was not at all cal culated to heighten my opinion of myself. Twice within twenty-four hours had I been deceived, and in each ease by a wo man, whose real condition I ought to have been able to- detect at . a glance. However, I could probably give her some information about ber maid. " Your maid disappeared yesterday af ternoon? n I said interrogatively! " Tea! and I am afraid that she is in a worse mental state than I am. I think she is insane. She certainly acted very strange ly just before she went away." " Was she a woman of about fifty .years of age?' Tasked. ' "Yes. " Who thought herself a Cossack princess?" 44 Tes. She is a Russian, and all day yesterday she was talking about her being the daughter of a Cossack prince. She is greatly attached to me and she declared that ahe was going out to find a physician to cure me." :i " She came to my house last night." " To your house ! Did she have anything with her? I mean anything that she said would give you an idea of the character and seat of my disease?" 4 4 She brought this with her,' I answered, taking from the breast pocket of my coat the lock of hair and proceeding to take it out of the paper in which I had carefully wrapped it. " Yes!" said Miss Flowman, "she tore that from my head last night as I was get ting out of my carriage on returning from Mrs. Clapham's. I saw her standing on the pavement apparently waiting for me. The moment she saw me she rushed for ward. ' I must save yon ! ' she' exclaimed, and at the same moment she tore that lock of hair from , my head. Of course I screamed, for the pain for the moment was something dreadful, but when I recovered myself sufficiently to look around me' I found myself surrounded by people who had been drawn toward me by my cry, but the woman had disappeared." one came to me," l said, " and at first wanted me to give an opinion of your case from an inspection of the hair, but when I declined she said that she was an escaped lunatic and that she4iad torn the hair from the head of her nurse." 41 She has a strong conviction that such a thing is possible. Probably when she discovered that you did not come up to her expectations she told the story of the escaped lunatic out of revenge." 44 It was poor revenge so far as she was concerned," I answered, laughing, 44 for I gave her into the custody of a policeman, and she is probably by this time in the Jefferson Market prison." 4 'Then she is safe at any rate. Now, shall I tell you something about myself ?M I bowed and then she legan,' first, liow ever, going to a table that 6tood between the windows, and drinking from a large goblet full of something that I took to be wine, or some other alcoholic liquor. 44 1 was alwavs in good health, mental and physical," she said, as she seated her self and motioned to me to take a chair near her, 44 till about a year ago, when I began to experience a slight pain in my head on the left side just above the ear. I paid very little attention to it, till finally it got to be severe, and was accompanied with a sensation of dizziness. Then I con sulted one physician after another, but without obtaining the relief I sought, and finally I observed that I had a difficulty In getting a correct idea of very simple mat ters idu in currying on a conversation. This last symptom alarmed me greatly. I had, and still have, large' business inter ests to look after, and I was often put to confusion in my efforts to understand the matters that were dairy brought before me or to answer the questions put by the su perintendent of my iron-works." "Did you notice an Inability to Compre hend the subjects submitted to you f " I asked, as she paused a moment in her re cital. " ! 44 No, I don't think I did' she answered, after a little time1 taken in reflection. "It appeared to me that just as I was about to answer or to decide in a certain way I ex perienced a sudden impulse to answer or to decide in exactly the opposite way, and so the two alternatives Would come up in my mind one after the other for several sec onds, till at last one would predominate, and then I would come to a conclusion what to do or say." I was lost in astonishment. I had never met with or even heard of such' a case be fore. I knew that the brain was consid ered by some physiologists myself among the number to be a dual organ, each hem isphere or lateral half acting independent ly of the other, though usually, If not al ways, in health, in unison. 1 knew that we sometimes have the idea that some thing that is then being experienced has at some former period been experienced in exactly the same way, and that it has been supposed that in such cases the two halves of the brain have acted not quite at the same time, and that hence there have been two distinct periods of consciousness ; but here was a brain, the two hemispheres of which acted alternately in two diametri cally opposite ways. In fact, one half could be called the positive and the other the negative hemisphere; for one prompted to affirmation and the other to negation. I said as much and she at once answered : 44 Yes! you are right. I am first im pelled to say 4 yes ' to any question put to me. Then immediately ' no ' comes up In my mind; then again 'yes, and so on till at last one or the other gains the ascend ancy and 1 speak. " Then yon must aotnethnes gtv4 tin an swer which is not in accordance with your Wish." " "No; I think not; for the reply that I give is based upon my ultimate and stronger wish. I finally arrive at a decis ion and that decision is in accordance with my matured judgment. But I have" not yet finished. A few weeks ago when the pain in my head and the vertigo were at their worst, I '.n desperation did what I had never done before, for I was brought up by my mother on strict total abstinence principles: I drank a glass of wine. The effect was wonderful. Almost instantly l found that the conflict In my mind had ceased. I could answer or decide as Sromptly as I had ever answered or deci ed in my life. Since that time I have in dulged freely in the use of wine, requiring half-a-dozen glasses a' day of : Sherry pr cilVi.i.i' ii ' H' went out to her as (determined that all the resourees c'nry'elece and art should be brought to bear oh her case ! 44 Will you place yourself absolutely in my hands with the determination to sub mit to any treatment, medical or surgical, that I may decide to be necessary for your cure ? M I inquired. With earnestness. 41 1 will do anything you say." 44 Then, come with me to my house. I cannot examine you properly here, for I have not the requisite instruments. My carriage is at the door. I will go down and wait for yoU." ' I will come,'" she answered. . I left the room, and in a few minutes we were driving up Fifth-avenue to my house. We did hot cither of us say a word dur ing; the short time we were together in the carriage. But;' after we had entered my consulting room T plied her with question after question with the view of eliciting all the informatiori ' possible in regard to the nature and cause of her remarkable disease, ' Then I proceeded to examine her head with the view of ascertaining whether or not there-was any malformation, or morbid growth, or marks of disease. She let down her magnificent hair in order to facilitate my investigation, and then she looked more beautifufin my eyes than ever before. Somehow or other a woman with her hair down always was a particularly bewitching sight to me, but Mary flow man went far in advance of all the others. Well 1 1 minutely inspected every square inch of her head, and I saw the spot from whieh the lunatic maid ' had torn the lock of hair that she had brought me the night before. It was red and inflamed, and as I touched it the poor child, with whom I was now hopelessly in love, shrank away from the contact with my fingers. I took up the handlens that lay on the table the one that 1 had used on the ends of the lock of hair and examined the place to better ' advantage than my eyes already beginning to feel the effects of my fifty years unassisted could give me, and then I aaw traversing the bare scalp a white line that under the magnifying power was very perceptible. 44 Did you ever have a blow on this spot?" I asked, with my heart beating clear up in my throat. ' Twenty years ago," she answered, " when I was only ten years old, I fell and struck my head at that spot against the root of a tree. The-scalp was cut and I lost some blood, but of "course that could have nothing to do with my present dis ease. ' RemembeV that it was twenty years ago and that I am now over thirty." . " But it has- something to do with it," I exclaimed, 4a and a good deal, too. Now tell me ; don't you feel pain at that place sometimes ? " 44 Yes, very often. Jn fact it starts at that very spot. I then applied the two poles of a delicate thermo-electric apparatus to different parts of both sides of the head, and ascertained beyond a doubt that the injured side was of considerably lower temperature than the other. I was entirely convinced that I had discovered the cause of my dear Mary's terrible affliction. One half of the brain had its functions so impaired that it did not act as quickly as the other, and hence there was an interference ia the synchron ous action necessary to every perfect men tal operation. Wine or any other stimu lant gave it an impetus, and therefore caused it to act in unison with its fellow. ''"Depend upon It," I said, when I had gotten through, "that the trouble from which you now suffer comes from that blow. No time, however long, is suffic ient to abolish the dangerous, serious con sequences from even a slight blow on the head. To-morrow, with your consent and that is already given I shall trephine you, and I shall expect to find a fracture of the internal table of the skull. I shall remove the depressed piece of bone, and then the injured hemisphere will act in unison with the other. How fortunate, after all, that your crazy maid tore out the hair from that spot, for otherwise I should never have discovered the scar." ; Well ! the next day I performed the op eration, and matters turned out exactly as I had surmised. A small spicula bone, something of the shape of a carpet-tack, came out with the button of skull removed by the trephine, and Mary Plowman was once again In hef right mind. Three months afterward she became my wife. My sister was easily converted to the idea of my marriage, but she held very tena ciously to the notion (an4 I think she was right) that married people should not have their relations living in the same house with them; so she went off to a lit tle cottage of her own at Shrewsbury. She agreed with me, however, that I had one of the sweetest and best Women for a wife that the' world had produced within her experience. As to the crazy maid, I found her at one of the police station houses, and she is how welt taken care of in a private asylum. I shall never, however, cease thanking Providence for sending her to me. OFFICE AND PARTISANSHIP. The President anal Pearson's Appoint ment. Boston Daily Advertiser. J Washington, April 5. A Cabinet offi cer is quoted here as having given to a friend the following statement in regard to the President s reasons for re-nomina ting Postmaster Pearson: It was not a thing that especially concerned me or my department, but the President was courte ous enough to state his reasons to me, and ask for my opinion. "I am under great obligations to the liberal Republican press," said the Presi dent in opening the subject, " and I must repay the obligation in some way which will properly express my appreciation of the services rendered. Shortly after the New Year, I had conveyed to Mr. George William Curtis an intimation that I should like to show my sense of the importance in which I held his most valuable assist ance, and that rendered by the New York Times, Herald and the Evenmg Post during the canvass, by a consultation with him self and the gentlemen representing those journals as to the best and most proper mode of acknowledging the obligation in some official way before the country. The proposition was met, as I felt it would be, in the spirit I made it. "Mr. Curtis said that, for himself, he neither sought nor desired any official po si tion ; that whatever service he had ren dered had been given unf'er a profound sense of right, and in the success of the principles he had so long advocated he had received the only recompense he de sired. The other gentlemen, who had brought to my support the important jour nals mentioned, replied in the same man ger as did Mr. Curtis. None of them wished any official recognition, holding that a higher duty to the country made it desirable that they should not be fettered by the obligations of office. They wished, however, to be considered as the warmest friends of my Administration in the direc tion of reform ; and I assured them that their interest was very gratifying, and their wishes when expressed would cer tainly have great weight. "The thing that most impressed me in these interviews was that in no way did these Independents evince any desire to stipulate for place. I would gladly have tendered Mr. Curtis an important foreign appointment it is believed the President meant the mission to the court of St. James, but my intimation to that effect was met by him with so much firm, courteous determination to adhere to his views that I said no more. Mr. Schurz positively de clined to take office, and Mr. Jones, of the Times, and Mr. James Gordon Bennett expressed themselves in the same manner, ' When the matter of Mr. Pearson's re appointment came up for consideration L through personal friends, invited some ex pression of opinion from the gentlemen al luded to. It was unanimous in favor of Mr. Pearson's continuance in office. I had said early in the canvass that faithful, un- partisan discharge of duty was incumbent upon all officials. This Mr. Pearson had especially emphasized in his course- during the Presidential contest. His opponents were many and formidable. Some of the Republican leaders particularly wished to see him dishonorably discharged, because he refused, in the heat of the canvass, to permit the post office to be made a politi cal machine. I stated these views to the members of my Cabinet who are from New York, and they fully agreed with me in the propriety of re-nominating Mr. Pear son. It is a matter in which New York, as a city, is more interested than any other part of the country can be. I be lieve the good sense of the whole country will approve my course. But I know I am right, and there I mean to stand or fall." vantages of a measure j which works so happily for- public economy and public morals. . TBANSTf LTANIA PROSPECTS. What the C, C. and C. Read Will do. (AshevllleCitiren.J To Transylvania the work is of di rect importance. It is a county that prom ises as much as the reward of enterprise and development as any in the West. It combines in a singular degree the charac ter of an agricultural, pastoral, forest and mineral county.; a remarkably and exten- tensively diffused system of fertilo valley, rich and productive hill sides and tops, magnificently timbered mountain lands, undoubted mineral wealth, and a wide dif fusion of fine water power. The chief source of ready money is in the rearing and sale of cattle, made possible not only by the natural mountain pastures, but by extensive valley meadows and pasturage so good as to have stimulated greatly the in troduction of lmprovedbreedsof cattle, and furnishing steady supplies to the Charles ton, Augusta and Richmond markets. But the chief wealth of Transylvania is locked up for want of egress by railroads. There is little hope of development for anything but pastoral wealth so long as the only outlet from the county is by roads tljjit are often impracticable from mud, or impassable by reason of high waters. In the competition between communi ties possessing equal natural advantages, the balance will always incline to those possessing the greatest facilities for using those advantages. Communities less fa vored, in fact, with ready access and means of transportation will surpass those who are shut in from communication. This is emphatically the case with Tran sylvania county, now reached laboriously by wagon roads whose condition is depend ent upon the caprices of the weather. Such is also the case with much of Hen derson county in the western part of which lies the large, fertile and beautiful valley of Mills River, and also of the southern part of Buncombe county lying west of the French Broad. WHAT LAND IS WORTH Along the Western N. C. Railroad. Baltimore Manufacturers' Record. J 44 Where the Western North Carolina Railroad is now building," says Mr. Stew art, "improved farms are worth from $10 to $25 per acre, with fair buildings, or chards and fences. Timber land is held in large tracts, and a few yet unbroken tracts of 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 acres, and even larger, are held by individuals, or estates in executors hands. Such land can be procured in lots of 500 to 2,000 or 5,000 acres at ftf.5U to f3.5U per acre, some very choice lots exceeding these fig ures. It is these lands, which are remote from the railroad at present 10 to 30 miles. which offer the most inviting investments." Weldon to he a Lowell. INDUSTRIAL JhTOYESIENTS ! Here and. there la North Carolina. LIQUOR LEGISLATION. The Working of High License. AT THE GRAVE OF ALLEAN. : By AbdealJ Oft in summer. Have I seen the sun's bright and glistening rays ' - Without number Dance on this grave, until It seemed to blaze In shimBaerine splendor, While a voice from that glory seemed to say With accents tender, She is not here, but to heaven hath passed away. Azain alone Thither I went, in autumn when the flowers did iaoe , And leaves did groan, As they came whirling down of every grade, With a deep sigh Tb'be trampled even down in mud and mire, 1 And therein He 'Till time and earth and all on it expire. And yet again Have I seen winter's rough storms on it beat And round it rave, And in wrath, hail and snow upon it heap. , , 'Twas a sad sight There td see winter hold his heartless reign Both day and night With naught to move the heart or clear the sight. T Bnt in the spring I retained, and saw her breathe a kiss of warm ; breath On everything, When lo creation seemed to leap from death, And loud rejoice, And shouting sing the great creator's praise, i . with heart and voice, And that to most sweet and enchanting lays. ':. Oh ! them lei time roll, And you ye aeasons fly on electric wings ; Since the great soul : Of her whose dust rests here still lives and sings, Her body must, Like spring's sweet flowers, again in beauty rise, - W , j When humbly I trust We'll meet and reign together above the skies. s.'V-j But never till then ' Shall I here oo earth meet with ADean more, No, never bnt when er, Madeira or of some other tolerably strong 'This life is past, and all its conflict o' wine to keep me in a Corlditipn to take a , ' I feel 48?ref . . . . . . Eart in business or society, put the Idea df eing dependent on "-su'ch an agency is hateful to me. ' My father, I have been told, indulged in stimulants to a great, ex tent, and I have air my ' mother's strong feeling against them. But What canldo V Well meet again, and that fn brighter sphere, ,i t .! F Wheve nothing rode -Shall come to aaai W bites or eause a fear.- ,mU " Then fey this grave,' ' Above her dust I now do dry my tearsy And try to live . As she Uredjletting do sorrow or earth-born cares She clasped her handa together,, and U,.1Vr-ir-w-i,--. looked pleadingly into my face.? How beau- -un' 'a lytoart' : tiful she waa, and:, now my-whole heart ' And goto Allean and my other friends. New York Sun.J The high license law, known as the Har per law, has now been on trial in Illinois long enough to enable us to see how such a system of regulating the liquor traffic works practically in a great and populous State. That law, passed in 1H83. nxestne minimum license fee for dram shops at $500, and for malt liquors at $150 only in cities, towns and villages, and authorizes county Boards to grant licenses on like terms noon petition of the legal voters of any town or precinct. We have reports of the working of the new system in half the counties of the State, obtained by the Chicago Tribune. In Cook county, in which Chicago is situ ated, the liquor men are most able to pre vent the execution of the law, and yet even there the number of saloons has been diminished by from 500 to 1,000, and the city revenue has been increased by more than a million dollars. In nineteen other cities and towns there were, before the enforcement of high license, 733 saloons, yielding a revenue of $89,950. There are now in these places onlv 468 saloons, but the revenue has been increased to $253,000 The high license fee has had the effect to shut up the low groggeries in towns and their suburbs, which were always the resorts of vile characters, and the conse- auence of less crime and less drunkenness, The number of arrests has fallen off, and drunkenness has decreased in the larger cities by thirty per cent. There is also an improvement in the quality of the men who keep the saloons, for the business has grown to be more decent and respectable, so that even those wno sen liquor ac knowledge that the law is working bene ficently. The report from Cairo is that "disor derly conduct and arrests have decreased not less than fifty per cent. from Quincy, that " it has materially lessened, the police court cases for drunkenness ;" from Spring field, that 44 the number of arrests has di minished over fifteen per cent., and the increase in the degree of deference paid by saloon keepers to pnblic sentiment and legal authority is fully as distinct as the betterment in other respects;' from Joliet, where the license is placed at $1,000, that respectable liquor dealers and the police are enforcing the law, which has vastly imrjroved the order of the town. From the rural counties equally favorable re ports are sent. No other method of regulating the liquor traffic and diminishing the evils caused by it has been so effective as high license. , The taxes of the communities are lessened and their expenses for maintain ing public order are decreased. -The liquor business gets into the hands of bet ter men, whose interests induce them to assist in enforcing the laws, and-both those who drink and those who refrain are better served and protected. Let us, therefore, follow the example of Illinois and have a nigh license law in New . York, so that we too may jet the ad- fWeldon News. ' Under the charter granted by the last Legislature, the Roanoke Navigation and Water fower Company have organized Dy electing tne iouowmg coaru oi uireciors Senator J. D. Cameron, of Fennsylvania S. P. Arrington, 'R. P. Arrington and Sen ator Win. Mahone, of Petersburg, Va., and T. W. Mason, of: Northampton. Senator Cameron is President and S. P. Arrington Esq., Secretary efnd Treasurer. Mr. S. P Arrington was in this place Saturday, and stated that an expert would shortly be en gaged to survey the entire canal and locate all the sites suitable lor lactones, and re port to the company the cost of putting the canal in thorough repair and proper condition for supplying all the water that may be needed. Within twelve months the work will begin, and as soon as far enough advanced, inducements will be held out to capitalists and manufacturers for the erection of factories of every description. The people of this community have lor years been looking forward to the devel opment of this property, and it can be positively athrmed that the near future will witness the fruition of these hones. The men who own the property have both the intention and the eapital to develop it to its fullest capacity. The Morgantbn Furniture Manufactory is under full f headway, employing ;a large force of skilled workmen, - consuming a large quantity of pine, oak, cherry, maple and walnut lumber. Also, there is a num ber of steams, grain, and lumber mills In and around this place, giving employment - to many workmen and common laborers. House-carpeoters and brick-masons are also in demand, as many private residences and 8 tore-houses are now being and WiTT be built at once, all offering good prices to skilled workmen, common laborers aod, men who have teams. Morganton Startt Mr. Prince has been out in the country for eight or ten days with his magnetic inn dicator hunting veins. We met him Tues day morning; la8t " smiles and buoyancy, full of the orighe8t hopes and confident that the mineral developments in nowan this spring and summer will create an en thusiasm never before known in this State. " The mines i are here," said he, and' no mistake; and they are attainable 'at "Such reasonable prices as will insure their being taken up." This, from an experienced miner and from one whose business it is to gather such facts, is worth something. Salisbury Watchman. ' An addition of sixty feet has lately been made to the ''Richmond Cotton Mill" at Laurel Hill, (in this county, Mark Mor gan, J&q., proprietor, ana spmaies added, makijng the entire length of the building 241 1 by an average width of 40 feet and thi total number of ' Spindles 3,000, instead of 1,800 as heretofore. We are glad to learn that this mill is in a pros perous condition under the able superin tendence of I Mr. Morgan, who has had charge of it for the past thirteen or four teen years, ad who informs us that nia mill has never had to suspend operation for a single day because of hard times or a scarcity of water. Rockingham Spirti. Nearly every vessel leaving here for a Northern port takes as a portion of her cargo a large quantity of juniper bolts. These bolts are taken to the North where they are in demand for the manufacture of pails, buckets, tubs, &c. and in the man ufactured wares which are shipped to all portions of the country, North Carolina included. Our forests-and swamps have an almost inexhaustible supply of juniper from which the entire South, besides a good share of the rest of creation, might be furnished With tubs and buckets. Ihe cost of the machinery for the manufacture of these articles is trifling and in ouropin? i . i j j a . ion migut ueiconuucieu wuu prom- riguv here where tjbe timber grows. Wilming ton Review, f P. H. Andrews, Esq., has just returned from Castle Ijayncs, in New Hanover coun ty, whither he went. to make all the neces sary arrangements for the manufacture of phosphates for the present crop, and we were pleased to learn from him that every thing is in good running order and that the firm is now daily turning out from ten to fifteen tobs of their phosphates, . He also informed us that the demand for their phosphates was very large and that the mills arc kept constantly running to keep up with their orders. The following named gentlemen are the officers of the company : Mr. M. J. Hawkins, President; Mr. A. H. X. Williams, Vice-President, and Mr. C. M. Hawkins, Secretary and Treasurer. "Evening Visitor. ' ' ' The Durham Cotton Mills building is an imposing structure; solid and substantial, extensive and perfect ia all 'its arranr- Crowi In Cumberland. Fayetteville Observer. J We have heard lately of a novel inven tion by one of our citizens. It seems that up to this time no sure preventative against the ravages of crows has been discovered, but the invention of this gentleman seems to fill the bill. The machine, or trap, is shaped like a double fan, with hinges at the handle. One side, or fan, is of solid wood, the other has the appearance of a skeleton fan, composed of strong springs and wires. On top of the wires a wire gauze is laid, and on top of the gauze earth is lightly sifted, and on that a hand ful of corn is partly buried. The solid fan is also slightly covered with earth. The crow approaches, sees the corn, looks long and suspiciously, but finally, with cautious steps, approaches the corn, which is planted about the middle oi tne ian. Just as he decides it is all right, and picks up the first kernel or two, the pressure of ms leet on me wires springs tue imp; up comes the other side and down on hii head falls the heavy fan with killing fore. A few of these fans properly plantd in a field will end the visits of numerous crows and effectually frighten the rest away. men ts, and j surrounded with , , numerous neat cottages for the use of its operatives. On the first toor are 50 cards, on' the sec ond, 200 looms, on the third, R568 spin dles actively engaged. The building is to be lighted with Edison electrie .light, and is protected from fire by automatic sprinklers. Mr. Odell, thq President, has large experience m tee cotton mill easi ness, and is jone of the successful men' of the State, aad Mr. Carr acted wisely 4a inducing him to come here, . These, two men make a strong team in every sense of the word. Durham can never thank Mr. Carr enough! for his public spiritedness, and such establishments as the , Durham Cotton Mills will stand in years to come as monuments to his energy and spirit of public improvement. Durham Plant'. i t " RAILROAD ITEMS ' n' Rnrke and Yancey mining. Baltimore Manufacturers' Record. Burke county, North Carolina, claims to be the richest ha the State, in valuable minerals. It has valuable mines of gold, mica, garnet and corundum, from one mine five tons of corundum are shipped every month to Boston. Many capitalists have invested in this section during the past few years, and some of the mica mines are yielding very handsome revenues, mr. Garrett Ray, the " Mica King," of Burns- ville. Yancey county, has an income of $60,000 a year from his mines. Poetry or Nothing. From all Parts of North Carolina. The people! of Wilkes are becoming very much interested in the project of extend ing the railroad from Taylorsville to Wilkesboro. f Tfie county has now on hand $27,500 in cash which is immediately available for railroad purposes, and more can be raised to grade the road and. f ur- The Board- of Directors of the Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Railroad Company (Charlotte & Statesville) met in this city on Wednesday last, and declared divi dend of four per cent two per cent, pay able on 10th bf April, and two per cent, on 10th of' October. As Mecklenburg countv has $100,000! stock in the road, the divi dend will add to her 'finances a right nice little sum. pharwtte Democrat. The Carolina Cumberland Gap and Chi cago railroad, projected years ago, linger ing and languishing under existing finan- distant day, a reality. A meetiag t the directory of (the company, held in the (city of Charlestoh early in March, developed a vitality that was as surprising as it was encouraging) It appeared ' that all the counties in South Carolina through, which the projected line passes have subscribed enough to grade and supply cross-ties to the North Carolina line. There are three counties in North Carolina directly inter ested in the work Transylvania, Hender son and Buncombe. The proposed line, crossing the jBlue Ridge through the J-sta-toaQap, at a grade of 70 feet to the mile, aims at ultimate connection with Chicago, opening another channel for the treasures of the great Northwest. It is designed to build first to-Asheviiie, put tne purpose to observe the old and main route across the Pisgah chaid and down the Pigeon valley is maintained. AsMtuu uttisen. New York Times. " See here," said a citizen of; St. Louis to the proprietor of a book-store, "you'll have to take the book back. I asked you to give me a volume of poetry to put on the parlor table, but every darned word in this book is straight prose." 44 Why, man alive, that was Written by Shakspeare." "ldonlcare who writ it, it's prose: I've looked at it all through. For instance, here's a specimen : 44 1 How suver-eweet sound lover's tongues Jy ugut, Like softest music to attendln' ears! ' Do you call that poetry, rhymin ear with night f Ton can take it back. I don't want it." Palpatio mistake. iNew Tork Sutf.l 44 BelovedfbretTaren,' remarked a'cbui- try minister at the close of his sermon, 44 among the pennies and two-cent, pieces of last Sabbath's , collection '. f waJ, 'sur prised to find a gold coin of considerable value, t As there were no strangers; 1a the congregation it was evidently put there by mistake.f : By applying to the treasurer and proving property the owner can re cover his money. Let as uniti in'oraTer.n The reason why men succeed who mind their own business is because there is little oimpetitioBLi-G'fwws Comity (Texas) Her- aia.
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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