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V, ,., ... V V1 Hilt ' f ByI Ml HAtE ADVERTISING BATES. ' "rtvvtMe iJ"4 -s Advertisements will be inserted for One Dollar Fayettevffle St., Second Floor, Fisher Ballding. RATES OF BCJMCBIPTIOH I ! . per square (one tnch) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts far advertising for any space or time ju: w Us; v,, may be made at the office of tha One copy one year, mailed post-paid $2 00 One copt six months, mailed post-paid.... 1 -00 RALEIGH REGISTER, ii ( it No name entered, without payment, and I "ITX1" ' 'i; XT 1 uo paper sent after expiration of time paid tor. I V' KJld XX ' " RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1885. NO. 64. Second Floor of Fisher Building, FayettevfUe Btreejt next to Market House. ii ii j 71 7H t II . TBGB LOTB. There is true love, and yet you may J Have lingering doubts about it X . .J" I'll tell toe trnth' and simply .say That life's a blDk without it, ; There is a love both true and strong, . . A love that falters never; , U j. '. It lives on faith and suffers wrong, : . But lives and loves f orever. ; .-1 U. Such love is found but once on earth , The heart cannotrepel It; i From whence it comes, or why its birth, The tongue may never tell it. -,: u ; .-, This love is mine, in spite of all -j ;i .,. This love I fondly cherish; n The earth may einfc, the skies jnay fall, . This love will never perish.- i ;' i ' ; It is the love that cannot die,; . But, like the soul, immortalT . n, And with it cleaves the starry sky . ki And passes through the portal, j-i t Tbis is the love that eomee to stay' ' AH other loves are fleeting ; " And when , they come jnst turn away , It is but Cupid cheating, SVPBEHB C9CBT. closure from setting op the title" acquired J by them from the1 purchaser at the exccu- j tiori sale, in tm nctrbri acTunst them for th ! possession of the land,1 by purchaser at a i saie oy-tne mortgagee. "f 1 ! u o. iv eem, 1 tftat-nnder 'som cireuin- ; stances a mortgagee may be reorjired tffsell a part of the mortgaged land -sufficient to satisfy uis aett, in order that the mortga gee may have a homestead allotted in the residue.' " -.i.uud 5 Btvtit V. Ferguton, T K. C;,' 118'f At Hfwem n MeJntyres'W'li. 147: cited no approved.5 Johnwn -rj Fattotip'-18 lred.'t'Bi; Eddlemanr. Carpenter',' 1 Jones; irreyr.' liamtour, 6 N a, 488, cHed ana distinguished).- ' -"-i A BIFOKHKB'S FATS. convinced against bis will, Is of the same opinion still." " Yoa don't ished Sylvia. mean it ? " asked aston- " Jest what I do mean." " But you don't mean to say them folks Decision. Filed Febrnarj Term. From Advance Sheets of Davidson's Reports. CHURCHILL V. THE ISSTJBAKCE CpkpJUST. Providing an undertaking on appeal ia not a professional duty which an attorney owes to his client, ana an assumed: agency of counsel to see that this is .done , is the same as if the agent was not a professional man, and his neglect, is ;the neglect of the principal, so far as losing the right to appeal is concerned. , i ChvrekiU v. Inturanee Co.. 88 K. C, 305; Winbom v..Byrd, ante, 7, cited, and approved). ; BLURT V. BWHA: ; .... . , 1. Where there is reason to apprehend that the subject of the controversy will be destroyed,- or removed, or otherwise disposed of by the defendant, pending the action, so that the plaintiff, may. lose the fruit of his recovery; the court will take control, of ij by the appointment of a receiver, or by. the grant of, an injunc- 'J tion, or by both, if necessary, until the action shall be tried on its merits. 2. The facts in this ease fuliy justified the appointment oJL.a receiver and the grant of an-injunetivn if i t u Parker v. Grammer, Phillips Eq., 28; t. MorehMdA 67 W . 422 ; Morris v. Willard, 84 IN. C, 293, and Letenton v. Ehon, 88 'N. C, 182; cited and approved"!. " ' ' "' , HOWELL Y. SAT. 1. Where the grantor in a deed is dead, and the subscribing witness has been a non-resident of the State and not heard from for a number of years, and it is im possible to prove his hand-writing, ' the deed may be proved and . registered upon evidence that the signature of the grantor is genuine, without ' proving the'liana writing of the subscribing witness. 4 2. Where in such cases,' the -evidence upon which the "'probate judge acted in ordering the regiiiration is set out in full, and it appears that' such evidence was insufficient, the-registration is void;-" !4i (Jones v. BTount,i V Hay., ' 238? "Blach itthhr v. Fisluir, 4 D. & B., 204; MeKindtr v. Littlejohn, 1 Ired.. 66; Lore Harbin, 87 N. C, 249; Starke v. Ether-edge, 71 N. C, 240, cited and approved. BancUk r. Wood, 3 Jones, 806; Davis v. Biggins, 91 N. C 382; Leatherwood v. Boyd, Winst., 123. cited and distinguished. Carrier v. Hampton. 11 Ired. , 307, cited arid doubted as to one point). . ' , . ,, , BCKTON V. SFrERg. ', " 1. ."Where . he , . purchaser? at exeevtioii sale is a stranger to the judgment, ho get good title, although the sheriff may have failed to advertise the property and give notice to the judgment debtor, as pre scribed by sections 456 and .457 .of. ;The Code. Al that, such purchaser is required to ascertain is, that it is an officer who sells, and that he is empowered to do so by an execution issued by a court q com petent jurisdiction-. t ; ... 2. But when at such sale, the plaintiff in the execution' or, his attorney or agent, or any other , person affected ,wijh notice of such irregularity , purchases, ' the sale may be set aside at the instance of the de fendant in the execution, by a direct pro ceeding for that purpose. ' 3. Execution sales cannot be collaterally avoided because of irregularities in the manner in which tjiey have been conducted. t 4, When thee is fraud and and collusion between the sheriff and the purchaser &t execution sale, the sale is absolutely void, and such defect may be taken, advantage of by any one interested in the property ' sold ; but when the fraud results from, the conduct of the plaintiff alone, as in sup- ressing bidding, &c,, there being nq col ision between the sheriff, and the pur chaser, the sherifl's sale passes, the title, and the execution debtor must ieek, his re lief in equity, , ' , ' , L (Mordteaiy. 8peiahL S Dev., ,428; Mc- Entire v. IfuremL 7 Ired.., .151 ; ' JKK t- Whit field, 8 Jones, 120 ; Jlarry Grajipm, Mialen S.Murpb., 1. SAVAGE V. KNIGHT. Where in a voluntary assignment to secure creditors a debtor has the intent to hinder and delay one certain Creditor, the deed is fraudulent and void, although neither the trustee- nor the' . beneficiaries under the deed participated in, Or knew Of, such fraudulent intent. '' ' 1 2. Where the conveyance is absolute and for a valuable consideration, it is not frudulent and void as to creditors, although the grantor had fraudulent intent in its execution, unless the grantee" participated in such intent. ' '" 8. Where a deed Xraudn nt and void as to one creditor, it is void as to all. 4. Where the validity of: a deed alleged to be fraudulent depends upon the intent with which it was made, such intent is a fact to be submitted to the jury. (Hafner v. nm, 1 Ired., 490; Lee v. Flannagan, 7 Ired., 471; Cansler r. Cobb, 77 N. C, 30; Beiger v. Dam, 67 N: C, 185 ; Lassiter v. Davis, 64 N. C, 498, cited and approved. Brannoek v. Brannoek, 10 Ired., 428; Harriss v. DeQraffenreid, 11 Ired., 89, and Morris v. Pearson, 79 N. C, 253, distinguished and commented on). HARRISON -V. BB AY. ' 1. The plaintiff executed to the defend ant a mortgage to secure the amount due upon a note one year thereafter; before the day of payment she purchased two notes on defendant, (who was insolvent), past due. and demanded a credit for the sum due thereon upon her note; the defendant refused to allow thecredits alleging that he had sold the note before it became due ; that one of the notes against him was barred by the statute of limitations ; that he was entitled to the amount of the plain tiff's note as personal property exemption, and advertised the mortgaged premises for sale ; Held, that the plaintiff was enti tled to have the sale enjoined until the issues arising upon the controverted facts were properly tried. - Whether an interlocutory injunction should be' granted in such cases, is a ques tion addressed to the legal discretion of the court, to be exercised in accordance with established principles, its purpose be ing, not to determine the rights involved, but to prevent the perpetuation of a wrong, or secure the preservation of the subject of the litigation pending action, x, Harris v. Burnett, 65 N. C, 584; Hei- yv. Stokes, 63 IS. C. 612; Jartnon v. blunders, "9 X. C. 64 N. C, 367 ; Dockery v. French, 308, cited nd approved). ID. & it, 76; Vxley v. 250, cited and approved) ; VACGHAN V. GOOCH. , '' , , , . 1. .Aa order : Or judgment entered by consent cannot be set aside or modified unless by consent, except for fraud or the mistake of both parlies. ,i. .: : ... a. Where such; order i or judgment is interlocutory it may be corrected for such Masons bv a motion in the cause; but if it be a final judgment it must be done by a civil action. .3 ;Whre n interiocutory -order made bv consent, directs the judicial sale . of land, the parties to the action cannot change the terms of the order by consent in manner detrimental to the interest of a purchaser At such sale, i -i , 4. A consent order directed sale of certain lands by a. commissioner, that said commissioner execute a deed to the pur chaser, and further directed him how to apply , the proceeds of the sale, . but contained no provision for reopening the biddings. After the sale an advance; of ten per cent. en the amount bid; Bald, that the refusal by the . Superior Court to open the- biddings was proper. 5. Where ia such case, the judge bases his refusal on the ground that he has no power to open the biddings and order a resale, he wilLbe understood as meaning that its exercise under the circumstances would be unwarrantable, and that he has no leaol power to grant such motion.' tMebane v. JMams, 80 N. 9i;lWil- eots v. Wilcat, l.Ired. Eq., 36; Edney x Edney, 81 N. C, 1; Stump v. Iang,M Jf C. 616: McEaehern v Kerch, 90 JN. C 177; ExparU Yates 6 Jooea Eq., -212; Ashbee t. Coteetl, Bush. Eq.. 168$ Prtteh- ard v.; Askew, 80 C, 86; cited aiid.&)- provea . - ... . ' Only one Christian and he a Jew. 1 American Israelite. J ' i At the inauguration ceremonies of the Children's Home of the Episcopalian Church of Louisiana, at Hew Orleans, Bishop Galleher delivered an address, in which,' according1 to the Picayiine the fol lowing passage occurred: '"Pointing' to the He wish Home opposite. BiBhop' Galle her said 'that when a set day comes the children of the elder children of God gather together there, and in three hours a year's maintenance is provided. t: They are Jews in their creed but true Chris Hans in their love and generosity; and on the list of those who buiTt the. walls of the Protestant Episcopal Hdme 'are'the names of Israelites. He had invited them over his , own name to be present that he miirht thank them openly and publicly. He did thant them, and thanked ; God that there are men like them." This re minds one of what Pius IX. is reported to have said one day. There was to be a mu nicipal election in Rome, and the Pope was shown a list thnSmnees for .municipal honors. Having scrutinized the list closely, tlJ?op remarked, .veryjearaesUys VThjBse are not my men ; mere is oniy ouc viins tian among them, and he is a Jew." A manly BEan and no Migwump, Waterloo Tribune J We -heard a gentleman relate a little in culent' which occurred in the, office of Frank Ilatton, . when PoetmasterGeneral, a few. davs before the expiration of Mr. Arthur's terra. A Virginia Postmaster .tjfi his easel He tiro do sea to resign, and have Frank appoint a Dem ocratic friend of his, who would have the office . in his store and . let him, run it. Frank said, ' You ; are a Republican?" Yea.." 44 You oronose to continue to suDuort the party! " . 44 Yes." " You op- . 1AM Ml T H t TIT IT poaea gieveianai" " xes." " wen, ypu have no rurht to an office under an Ad ministration whose election you opposed, and I would not be a party to jthe, mean trick by which you hope to get it. ctana up like a man and be kicked out j with the rest of us 1 ' . Scotch Characterlstlea. VErty, TTZZEIX. In an,action to foreclose a mortcraee. the defendants in their answer admitted the execution of the note. and mortgage. and the amount due thereon, but alleged as a defence: 1st. That the land had been under judgments docketed ' prior to 1. sold the execution of the mortgage, and that they had acquired a life estate in the land jrom me purchaser at execution salev; ad, That the defendants own no, other real es tate from which they can get a homestead J and 3d, That when the mortgage veas exe cuted, they delivered to the mortgagee other securities, as additional security for the debt; Held, that the answer raises no material issue either of law or fact and is InVOloUS. vJ . I'WUV' t. Held further. That the mortmurora ' 1 fKew York 8unj r: ' The Scotch' are:, in ' some respects, the most ' wonderful people." "It lis reported that at the recent ball given lo the Prince and Princess of Wales at the Agricultural Hall in Dublin all the ildwers and plants used ' for decorative purposes came from the conservatories of a, Glasgow 'Horist. The 'Scotch have, never a bright ' sunny day, and barely any flowers at all, yet they are famous, as landscape girdeher8.'4 'They are the Imost ,bigoted race,' yet they have produced the most radical thinkers.' They have the most abominable climate,' yet go without breeches and never seem to catph cold.. They have barely any fruit, yet are celebrated for making jama.' .' One would suppose a scotenman naa never seen an orange ia.lds life'yet'ull the world do will not be estoped by the decree of for-1 fights In eating their Dundee marmalade. fRose Terry Cooke la Harper's Bazar. -A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion, stilt" And how much more a woman 1 Still more a clique of wo men..: If 8y Ivy North had only understood this, i she. might, nave been an Honored member of Dalton's church sewing circle to this day. Perhaps this did not seem to ber the height of honor, after her experi ence. Kiss Sylvy was a quiet, honest, simple-minded old htdy, owning a tiny house and garden. in Dalton, where she was born, Having a Jew Hundred dollars in tae Dans, and supporting herself from year to year by the various arts known to women of her condition in New England country towns. She took in plain sewing, tacked comforta bles, wove carpets, dyed yarn, knit stock ings, add made it her prond boast that she had 44 fended for herself" ever since she was 'sixteen.14 'She'was'TCspetfted thbr- oughly in the village ; elsewhere she had small acquaintance, for she 44 dwelt among her Own people." She was liberal, too, for. she' not only through these fifty years supported herself, but put a dollar into the contribution box every second Sunday in the month,' no matter' for what object the collection was intended ; all shared alike, If Squire Hill, the. richest man in jjaiton, bad given of his goods in the same pro portion JCss Sylvy did, his -praise' would have been in ajl the churches. Miss North was, moreover', a kind-hearted creature, though the close reticence of the New England character too often kept her lips from disclosing tne impulse and tne ten dencies of "her heart; but all the sick in the 'town,' depended on being fed with nourishing and dainty food at her hands, unless the v had funds and friends which rendered her help needless, all the children shared ' the ' fruit of her two great apple trees, and the reward of merit in her Sun- 1 1 1 , ' 1 . A . 1 tea at her house. What tender doughnuts, what lerisavcrusted tpua. what, savory hot dishes, what 44 lucent syrups" and amber jellies, what flaky milk-white biscuit, and what spongy ' rye-bread made that tea- table a despair to ordinary house Keepers, and a delight to ber guests I And she -was a (rood woman, good thor oughly; somewhat impatient at times with the ill temper, the deceit, and tne unkind- ness of her fellow creatures; somewhat set in her way, BTid intolerant of other peo ple's ways,' bat on the whole an estimable specimen of an earnestly religious and can did woman. " She had, however, led so imiet and seelnded a life that -few temnta- tkms bad beset her; she had no worldly wisdom, bat there was smalt need for that in her position ; she bought her wtod, her apples, her potatoes, of Squire Hall, who always gave her her money's worth and a little more? : she had one price for her sew ing, and never had been beaten down by any customer as yet ; and it seemed to her, when she stopped to ponder, on tne meta physics and mysteries of this life, as she sometimes did on- Sundays, that it was Very queer that "people should not all be good and respectable. She believed in helL because she thought such a belief was required of her in the Bible, btit she avoided thinking about it, because it-seemed to her nothing which concerned) her or her neighbors; and she had never yet come in contact with the class which, as a t niversslist clergyman during the late war said of the rebels, 44 makes hell military necessity." Bat of late years, since Dalton had set up an axe fac tory on ts wide brawling brook,, and rows of tenement-houses dotted its hilt-aides, the population had increased, the church was better filled, and the eewiag society much augmented'. '- If a rolling stone gath ers no moss, a rolling snow-ball gathers much mass, and Darton did likewise. In earlieVdlays the sewrVM circle had PflWWjltf 9.rMRiJhftS9to'i .aDd store-keeper's wives, miss Dorcas Vining, our own Miss Syivy, and some eight or ten farmers', wives from the outskirts of the township; .women -whose innocent gossip had been of the . state of religion, the price of sugar and calico, the short-comings pf bens and cows, or that invaluable theme, the various weather of their native climate ; but . when the employes of the factory brought their qqota of women, not only to increase the society, but to be- . . . v pome a majority tnerein, tney orougni with them a more vivacious and a more acrid style of note and comment, and quite set aside, the simple amenities that had reigned oeiore. . , ju.ven tne cnurcn mu sic was rehabilitated. Hiss Dorcas mourned bitterly at this. " We used ter have notbio' Sabbaths but them good eld tunes we could, all fall to an7 , sing, , but nobody can't f oiler, these jigs and quavers: 'tisn't fit for the sanctuary noways.", ; Miss Sylvia could but agree with her, yet she herself was wounded, more deeply , by another "change in affairs. Since the aggressors had taxen noid oi uaiion ana aU its works, with full intent to remake it into a modern and lively village, the sew ing circle, Misa .Sylvy's great recreation and .social joy, ' had taken, a new tone. Gossip ran riot; friends and, foes alike were harried,, criticised and discussed. Mrs. B,'s new bonnet, Mrs. A. 'a. butcher's bill, Mrs. EL a way of having company too often, what Mrs, C. said about Mrs. E., and what Mrs. E. said folks had said about Mrs. C. when, she lived in Meriden ; hints, half-told tales, innuendoes, all startled and vexed our spinster's tranquil soul ; she bore it for a while, afraid to lift up her, voice, but on . the, day when she called to mind the . saying recorded at the head of this story, her long patience had at last ex pired. Mrs. Stack had set the tongues in mo tion even before the quilt was fairly stretched. . '' 44 Say!" she began, '"did any of you notice Miss Bunnell a Sunday !" and then the respondents took up the luckless Mrs. Bunnell, and bandied -about her manners, her drees'hdr housekeeping, and the state of her soul, as we who dwelt in the rural districts have "'ofttimes seen a! brood of hungry .chickens wrangle over one little bug, wb&bieach pjgiem eagerly .desires to swallow. ! When this subject was at last exhaust ed, another was taken up and thoroughly ventilated ; all with Bach foregone conclu sions, such petty spite, such malicious in sinuation, that dear Miss Sylvy's kindly heart burned with indignation, and on her way home she spake aloud Out of her over flowing disgUst.? :... ' i ' ''Seems tod bad, it really doos!" -(""What doos f " echoed avoice from be hind her.'i 1 ' ' -.'s -Minn r tlv n- "Why, Dorcas Vtning I you skeert me out 0 breath. I didnt know you was be hind me no more than nothing." " - .- i I knAw! that; bat-what riles you so, 'SyiW i A rtrtijt -. h r.ia 1 k ! -- " Wh; the way folks is 'getting to talk in s'ciety; seems as if, by' their tellnost everybody ia Dalton wa as hateful as can -wi i'u i -j . i a it b 'J d 3. a 44 lies, ' eerily rejoined Miss Dorcasi is tellin' lies deliberate f " " I mean to sav they're lyin because ; they talk about what they don't know for certHn. and I call that lyin If I was a bettin' character I wouldn't be afraid to ' They don't mean h; I know they don't," she said to herself. "They hear things, -and b'lieve 'em ; 'tis natural they should, I s'po8e; and I know they'll be real glad to find out they a'n't so. I'll look out all them things to-morrow, Provi dence permittin', and straighten 'em out the best I can, for I know real well there's mistakes all round most likely ; and I pre- bet that they couldn't prove one earthly I sums to say Celye King is as good a girl thinsr tnev've told concernm' any moruu i as steps, i how sne is. this hull afternoon." 44 Oh dear!" said Sylvia, piteously; now you don't reelly think they're so bad as that, do ve, Dorcas t " " I do. I ain't no such old lambkin as you be, Sylvy North, that don't know a wolf by its howl ef it goes round in a sheep-skin. I've lived quite a spell to Har'ford when I was learnin' the tailorin' trade, and well I know what sech sort of folks be. I've heerd 'era time and again, and I mistrusted these was the same feather. But you've lived right along here forever and amen, never hearin' nothin' worse than the parson's geese cackle and Dr. Goodwin's old mare whicker, and so you're easy took in." " Well, now, Dorcas, it don't seem as though real respectable folks, church-members and sech, would tell them stories with out they knowed they was true." " Law ! they wouldn't make no bones of lym' about you if they wanted to." This was awful. A cold shiver ran down Miss Sylvy's back. Miss Dorcas smiled sarcastically ; but what further fruit of the knowledge of good and evil she might have offered her companion she was prevented from offering by the proximity of Sylvia's own door, into which, for once, she did not invite Miss Dorcas: an idea had struck the simple, charitable woman, and she wanted to be alone to think it over. The result of this elaborated idea was that at the next society meeting, as Miss Sylvy sat down at the still unfinished qmlt, she took from her pocket a doubled ptece of letter-paper and a pencil, and laid them in her lap, where the quilt hid them from observation, and opened her ears, attent to take in whatever statement, hint, or vague rumor went the round of the church parlors that afternoon. We record the conversation, but not the needless names of the converse rg. 44 Say! did you see Susan Brooks to church yesterday I Why, she set there with her eyes shet all sermon-time jest like a dead image." 44 They say she don't like the new min ister a bit; she did that to slight him, you mav depend." "Well, if I didn't like a minister, I wouldn't take that way of showin' on't; 'tis sort of insulting to be so public about it." Miss Sylvy made a little note on her pa per: 44 See Susan Brooks about sleeping in meeting." The talk flowed on. 44 Oh, did you hear how old Mis' Cole had whipped their bound girl I The mis tress up to the Rock school-house says the firl come to school cryin' like mad, her ands all tore up." 44 You don't say sol Well, I always thought Mis' Cole had a temper of her own, the deacon looks so meek." Miss 8ylvy noted: 4 4 See Mrs. Cote about Hepsy Perkins." , Then a sharp, high voice made itself heard : 44 She did ! Our Lurany saw her o' Saturday night com in' down Huckle berry Hill with Sam Coke in his buggy at 'most ten o'clock. She knows 'twas Celia, for 'twasn't a covered buggy, and the urany was moon shone real bright, and L jest comm' out of her folks' door. I'd let her go home, because her mother hed a chill Friday, and she wanted Lurany to wash the -clothes Sat'day, and she could leave 'em in the tubs, and Sharp could na.ng'em out a Monday." ; 4 4 That ain't all," put in a slow, hard voice. 44 Husband was comin' from a neighborhood meetin' in Love Lane only last evenin', and as he was joggin' along he passed a couple down by the spring walking considerably slow, and he kind of turned about to see 'em, and 'twaf Celia King and Sam Coke ; and when he come home he ask me if I'd heard any thing about 'em, and I ask him what he meant by that, and then he told how he seen 'em that time o' night out there." " Hm!" sniffed several of the company, and the first voice snapped : Ah, dear Miss Sylvy! she judged her neighbor as we all do by herself: if only all Our judgments were drawn from as pure and kindly a nature as hers, how tranquil our world would be ! So the next morning Miss North put on her best bon net and slipped into Mr. Brooks's house. Mr. Brooks was the miller of Dalton, and Susan, his elderly daughter, kept his house, for the other children were all mar ried abd settled far away, and the mother long since dead. Susan was a bright, prompt, outspoken woman, who did her duty with thorough efficiency, and said her say without thought of anything but expressing her mind freely and honestly. Kindly and generous as she was, her frank speech made her many enemies, for few of us like the sharp crystals of truth unless they are set in gold. Susan was at home ; indeed, she always was, for her father spent the day at the mill, and she had to be on the premises, not only to do her work, but to take or ders for the mill, which was the best part of a 'mile above Dalton, on the hillside down which poured Yeast Brook to join Dalton Brook. " Set down. I'm real glad to see you, Sylvy," was her cheery greeting. "I thought I should find ye to home, Susan," answered the elder woman. "Yes, I have to 'stay by the stuff,'" laughed Miss Brooks. ; Miss Sylvy was no diplomatist, yet a sudden odd shyness prevented her intro ducing the motive of her call at once; they chatted a few minutes about various small matters, and then she took courage and said, 44 How do you like the new minister, Susan!" . : "Not very much," was the reply; 44 but then other people do. I expect I am a little notional about ministers. I like to hear 'em preach the Gospel out straight, without airs and graces, and scraps of forrin ' lantmaire switched in. What do we Dalton folks know about his German talk and his Latin remarks? 1 suppose there is some that think it sounds good, but I don't" " Perhaps they like it the same as an old woman I've read about who was so overcome with a sermon that she had to wait and tell the minister how pleased she was, but when he asked her what partic' lar part met her case, all she could say was, 4 Oh, that blessed Mesopotamiye 1 ' " Susan laughed. ".That's something, it's a fact; why, I haven't really nothing to say against Mr. Smith, only he dont just suit my idees. He fills the church, and int'rests the young folks, and that's his business." ' Well, I asked you because I heered somebody say that you set all day a Sun day in meetin' with your eyes shut, so's to show you didn't like him." 44 If that a'n't Dalton all over! Why, if I hated him like p'ison, Miss Sylvy, I wouldn't do such a low kind of thing as that. I ' speak in meetin',' when I do speak. I don't go round blinking and making faces. Truth to tell, I had a splittin' headache Sunday, but I do hate to stay at home from meeting, so I thought I'd go and stout it out, but setting in that corner one gets the light straight acrost from the window opposite, and it hurt my eyes so I had to shut 'em." 44 Well, I thought likely 'twasn't to show spite you done it ; you ain't that kind ; but 1 thought I'd ask ye, so's to set it rignt." 'If I was you I'd let it bile, Sylvy, said Susan, a little, indignant. "Folks that say things like that don't want. to have 'em set right; you won't get no thanks for doing of it." ; " Why, Susan, you don't suppose folks want to tell what ain't truer : ' " They want to talk," curtly replied Su san. The simple, grieved old face regard ing her changed the current of her inten tion: she took Svlvv's face between her hands and kissed her tenderly ask ye, and tell them the real fac's next time s'ciety meets." If I was you, 8ylvy, I'd just stay away from folks that talk such stones," said meek little Mrs. Cole, her lips quiver ing and her face flushing with reasonable anger. 44 1 never laid a hand on Hepsy never! I wish't I had; and there wasn't a wale onto her, I know, for the deacon took a laylock sprout to her, just stingin' big, that's all." "They said here hands was all tore up." 44 Well, I do declare! I'd been br'ilin' a fall chick for dinner Sunday he's no tional about cookin' don't like 'em fried and I was in a hurry; so when I took it off to butter it I told Hepsy to take off the gridiron, and if she didn't grab it by the bars ! Just like her ; but it scored both her hands acrost with blisters. I had to do 'em up in sody and keep her to home all day." 44 Dear me!" said Miss Sylvy; other speech was checked by' Mrs. Cole's abun dant tears ; and Sylvy departed, much cast down by this second effort to set the world right. Yet she stopped at the old min ister's house to interview Mrs. Pine; for Miss Sylvy had a moral doggedness of na ture that urged her on to do what she meant to do, though it might be to storm and scale a redoubt, or assault the walls of Jericho. She found Mrs. Pine mending her father's coat, but she received a court eous welcome ; and after a little conversa tion the hostess herself, luckily for Sylvia, broached the very subject she was so anx ious to discuss. " This is a long piece of work, Miss Sylvy; you must excuse my keeping at it, for father has no better one, and he can't go to meeting to-morrow unless this is mended. I wish he was as fortunate as I am. I have a cousin, who is a dear friend came " Well." she said. 44 have it your own "A baby could tell wW shim come to, Way, Sylvy; you're as harmless as a dove 8ierabiy hindered by not gettin' a-standin' all day in that shop showin' off you amt as wise as a serpent, i aiun i . time, and it got to be late in tl nonneta, ner nair au uiu up w umu uu . curiin'onto her forehead like a doll I She'd all." " And Miss Sylvia, with a puzzled look on her face, went her way, She stopped next at a farm-house some distance beyond the village, where Deacon Cole and his wife lived. They were old friends of Sylvia's, and she had no shy ness here. She sat down in the kitchen, where Mrs. Cole was making pies, and af ter a certain amount of friendly talk, she said, auietlv. " Mary Ann, do you have much trouble with that Perkins girl? ' ' 8isrht8." savs Mrs. Cole, laying down her rolling-pin 4 'sights of trouble, Sylvy. She is the most contrary thing I ever see : von can't lead nor drive her. She don't want to work, and she don't want to learn. There's shiflessness in her blood, and she's as obstinate as a pig. I've dofae my best to coax her. I got her a real good Sunday gown, a dark red mervno, and a felt bun- net, and my black cloak cut over, and she looked real good in 'em ; but she flung 'em down everywhere, till; they looned nice hudy. And last week a Wednesday I see that bunnet under her bed, and the cat curled up in't with aJitter of day old kit tens ! And the week before, comin' home from meeting, she see a little dog in the lot. seeming to be lost, and if she didn't shin right over a five-rail fence, ketch her gown onto a splinter, and tear half a yard of the hem right out! I can't manage her; the deacon thought he could last week. He's real mild spoken, you know, but he's dreadful resolute too, and he always goes to Scripter for everything, so he's always flincrin' it at me that I've soared the rod on Hepsy, and fin'lly I owned I guessed I had ; but I couldn't whip her, for I couldn't hold her. she's so strong. So when he come in last week a Monday, and found her eatin' bread an' ra'lasses, and the din ner pot all bHled out, the vittuals burnt to Lira uuliuui. auu ut. . . ... - have better gone out for somebody's help; them good-lookin' girls that ha'nt got no body to look after 'em 'most always goes to the bad." "Well, now, I can tell aomethin' fur-, ther," put in a flat, false voice. " was goin' into Miss Case's shop Monday night, say about ha' past eight, and I stopped to look into the winder before I opened the door, and who should I see but Sam Coke in the back part of the store a-whisperin' into Celye's ear. I might ha' rattled the knob before goin' inTbut I didn't; I don't further no sech doin's; I just bounced right in quick, and you'd ought to have seen her jump. He walked off di-reet, but I knowed there was aomethin wrong.'" And so the orphan girl was tossed Uke a ball from one to another till her charac ter was well blackened, while Miss Sylvy set down these charges on her paper in silent indignation. . 1 Then Mrs. Pine, the widowed daughter of the old minister of Dalton, who had "outlived his usefulness." and was now existing on the small pension his daughter received from government for her dead husband's services in the army, eked out bv her writing simple little stories and bits of rhyme for the "Children's Corner" of various newspapers. . "Did you see Miss Pine's black silk a Sunday?" "Iguess I did I" echoed several voices. "Well, I don't know how she contrives to get, such a dress as that "Twaa heavy and soft, too, and couldn't have cost, hus band says, under five dollars a yard ; and husband knows he used to keep store, ye know." 4 4 Yes, and her pa goin' in that shabby old ulster, and his hat as brown as modi" "And her bonnet to match, all set off with cut jet beads. I priced some of them beads to Miss Case's the other day. and thev went bevond my means, now I tell you." -. . -Ji'5. " She always was a stuck-up thing when she wasn't nothing but a girt, and since she married Captain Pine you can't touch her with a ten-foot pole; but I should think she'd be ashamed to pinch the poor old parson for to rig herself up and a widder too." - , Here was another item for Miss Sylvy; but iust as she put it down the tea bell rang, and pocketing her notes, she went out to supper, -and then ; home, for she never staid to the evening sociaoie mat supplemented the afternoon of real work. Much: she pondered that night on the i course of action she had almost decided basket not hung out for I'd been called in a hurry over to Ed's house, her teethin' babe havin' gone off in 'convulsion fits, so I'd left the dinner for her to finish, and wrung out the washin' for her to put onto the line, and husband come in to din ner to find things so. Well, she laughed and iumoed round, and acted as though she didn't care a mite: so he took down a rod he'd cut a purpose, and dressed ter down pretty smart She yelled quite a little, he said, but 1 guess it done ner good ; she's stepped round pretty spry sence. " "Weill well!" ejaculated Miss Sylvy. " Now they're tellin', that you , whipped her 'most to death ; that she was all wales when she come to school. I didn't hardly b'lieve it could be so, and I thought I'd too, and with plenty of money. She is just going out of mourning for her mother, and is about to be married, so "she has sent me all her dresses, her cloak, a heavy black shawl, and two of her bonnets. If only somebody had sent father a coat, I would gladly have gone without Mary's things, for most of them are quite too nice for me to wear. " Well, I'm glad you did get 'em, Mis Pine. 1 don't think there s much that is too good for anybody that's as clever to their father as you be.' " I ? " said Mrs. Pine, with a look of as tonishment. " Why, Miss Sylvy, he's my father, and he's all I've got. " Her beau tiful eyes filled with tears, and Miss Sylvy winked very hard. But she dropped that subject, only remarking to herself on her way home, " I guess they'll all be as pleased as ever was n.lian T toll 'om aliAiit tKom MntllM " T. UO .1UI.U .1.11 BWUW WUUL. V.WVUH. There was only Celia ' King's case to en ter into now, and Miss Sylvy rapped at the door of the little red house where the girl's widowed mother lived, knowing that about this time Celia would come home for her tea, which she took before Miss Case had hers, not to leave the shop unoccu pied. Celia opened the door, ner swollen eyes and tear-stained cheeks showing that she was in trouble, Is your ma to home, dear?" asked Miss North. No 'm ; she's gone to Aunt Barclay's,' said the very tremulous voice. " Well, I guess I'll step in a minnit, for I come to see you specially, "Jelye, Oh. you've heard it 1 " sobbed tne girl, as Miss North passed her and sat down in the first chair. T " Well, I've heard some things, (Jelye, but that ain't to say I b'lieve 'em, for I don't. But I have heard 'em, and I come to have ye tell me the rights on't, for I know you wouldn't do wrong no more than nothing." It wasn't grammatical, but it was kind, and poor Celia could only burst into a flood of tears. Miss Sylvy did not wait to let her cease crying, but with the tact of a tender heart, went on and told her suc cinctly what she had heard at the sewing circle, and as she told her tale Celia recov ered her poise; her eyes grew cold and quiet, her lips ceased to quiver. Mow I'll tell my story," sne said, wnen Miss Sylvia stopped. "You see, Miss Sylvy, week before last Mrs. White, up to Feeding Hills, sent down for a widow's bonnet. The squire oiea, you recoiiect, maybe, very sudden, and she must have it to wear to the funerat, and Miss uase agreed to have it done ; but We were Con ine veil the after noon the day oeiore tne mnerai oeiore 'twas done. Mrs. White agreed to send for it; and she did, but 'twasn't ready, so Miss Case said she'd send it up. I'd got to go with it to see if 'twas a fit, and show her how the veil went; so I knew John Harris, who lives on the farm next to Deacon Cole's, took butter up to eeoing Hills every Saturday night and I said I'd walk over there and ride up with him, to save Miss Case hiring a team. Well, I did ; but just as I got to his gate I see his white horses going over the top oi riucKie berry Hill, and I was beat. I didn't know anything what to do. And just tnen up drove Mr. Sam Coke in his open buggy He comes to our store after his mother's bonnets and caps quite frequent. And he asked me where I was going, and I told him I wasn't going, and why ; so he said he was going of an errand right past Mrs, White s bouse, and be d taKe me along there, and ston for me when be came back ' A . ... Well. I thought no harm, and the bonnet had got to go, so I went, and 'twas coming back lurany saw me. men, mat nignt, in Love Lane, mother and I had been over to neighborhood prayer-meeting. I sup pose Mrs. Dimock's husband didn't see us ; .m a 1 -War Wa we set close to tne door. And xnrs. rme asked -mother to ride home with them, so I said I wasn't a mite afraid to walk a half a mile in the moonlight ; but I hadn't got half wav when Mr. Sam came along. He'd been down to Hop Meadow shooting, and we walked along side by side tall ne got to his house, and 1 went the rest oi tne way alone. As for his whispering to me, that s iust as silly as can be. He wanted a cap . . 1 I .t 3 A made for his mother lor ner Dinnaay tea Dartv. She was in the back shop when he came in to see about it : he wanted to sur prise her, and was afraid least she should hear, so he was giving orders to me in a whisner. when Mrs. Pratt bounced in with the onr.h a noise we both lumped. That's all. bright handsome young fellow. out to ner. Come in, come in, Miss North," he said, cordially. I want to see yeu a spelL Mr. Sam. kind of private." Come into the library, then ; nobody '11 disturb us." And in the library Miss Sylvy laid be fore him all that had been said about Celia King, her grief, and the probable conse quence to her character if this talk went on. " Now you see how 'tis, Mr. Sam. Celye's a good girl, as good as ever was, and as pretty-behaved ; and what I want is for you to keep as fur away from her as you can for the future. You'll promise me that, how, won't ye ? " "No, 1 won't stoutly replied Sam, his face flushing and his eyes sparkling. " Xou won't ? Why, Mr. Barnwell Coke, I thought better of ye than that, " quavered the grieved old lady. " But I'll tell you why I won't Miss Sylvy," said Sam, smiling. "Because I love Celia with all my heart, and I mean to marry her if I can; and how am.J go ing to do that if I keep away from her ? " " You don't mean it ?" "I certainly dp." i " But what '11 your -pa and ma say ?" "Mother don't deny her boy anything he wants, ma'am ; and father why, father married a poor girl out of a milliner s shop himself, and a better wife no man ever had, as he says every day. He can't object." " Sorter runs in the family, don't it ? " said Sylvia, dryly. 1 only hope it will," laughed Sam. And Miss Sylvia went out of the door as happy as a good woman will be in the happiness of another. But at the next week's sewing circle there was an unpleasant perturbation when, after asking the attention of the ladies for a few minutes, Miss Sylvy went on to explain their mistakes, only remark ing when she arrived at Celia's story : 1 guess she'll make manifest how 'twas with her pretty soon. Howsoever, I must say't she hadn't done a out-of-the-way thing not one. I tell ye all this because I knowed you'd feel real pleased to think them hard stories wasn't none of 'em so." Poor Miss Sylvia 1 Wrath rather than pleasure was expressed on the various f aees before her; they scowled at her and low ered their brows like a herd of angry cat tie. Mrs. Dimock was the first to speak. "Well said! II I'd Knowed there was somebody takin' down all we talked, should have felt consider'ble riled. I don't feel cert'in sure now about Mis' Cole ; folks can tell their own story pretty glib ; don't look jest right to save your own skin by puttin' the matter on to your husband " That's so," added the sharp voice of another. 44 And, moreover, if Mis' Pine had have reelly wanted to get her pa a coat, she could ha' traded off that silk gownd for nnifn o onm Tf Via' mva Tior tan 3U1 lv em iiviiv duus a v w o liars for't myself." 44 No need to tell me, neither, 't Susan BrookB don't despise the minister. I know she doos. She can talk and talk and talk, but actions speak louder'n words." " Well," drawled another, " I hope Celye King can explain her ways; but 'tisn't likely she can. When" a girl gets talked about, why, she ts talked about, an' there 'tis, one na n't done jest wnat she had ought to have done, or nobody 'd have talked about her : there ain t no smoke where there ain't no fire." "Well, I think," snapped another, that 'tisn't real agreeable to have folks harkin' to everything a body. may say amongst themselves as it might be, then go a-tellin' on't and a-ferretin' out'for to throw into folk's faces." Miss Sylvia hurriedly pocketed thimble, thread, and scissors, threw down her work, and went home. "I wouldn't ha' minded if I'd did wrong and knew it," she confided to Miss Dorcas, "but when I thought I'd done 'em a kindness, to be so hectored and faulted, I tell ye it broke me down." Tain't best to try settin' folks right, Sylvy," was Miss Dorcas's comfortless re ply; "leastways not sech folks; they've gut to be made over before you can do it, and the can't nothin' but grace do that, and some of them would be consider'ble hard even for grace to straighten out." But the one drop of comfort that re mained to Sylvia was the speedy and happy marriage of Sam and Celia, who were her hrm and warm mends ever alter. She had been their friend indeed. But the sewing circle never forgave her. THE NATIONAL BEVKICES and on't her Fall Thirty million IKllars abort. The revenue of the Federal Government is raised from customs duties, interna, revenue taxes and a number of miscellanef ous sources.1 one of the larger items o which has been from sales of public lands The customs and internal revenue re ceipts for the nine months of the Govern ment fiscal year, from July 1 to the 1st of April, have been made up at the Treasury for the current year, and a comparison of the receipts from these two sources for the three quarters of the present fiscal year witu uie same penoa in several previous years can therefore be made. The com parison shows a large falling off in revenue from both sources. The customs revenue for the first nine months of 1881-2 was, in round figures, $166,819,009. For the same nine months of 1883-3 it was $166,820,000. For the same months of 1883-1 it was $151,283, Q00. For the nine months of the current and unexpired year, 1884-6, it is $138, The customs revenue for the first three- S uarters of the current fiscal year is there ore $28,250,000 less than for the same pe riod of 1881-2, and over $12,500,000 less , than for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. The internal revenue receipts for the same nine months of 1881-a were f 1U3, 688,000. Fbr nine months of 1882-8 they were $107,959,000. For nine months of 1883-4 they were $97,491,000. For the same nine months in the current and un expired fiscal year, 1884-5, they are $81,- 505,000. The internal revenue receipts for these nine months, of the current fiscal year are, therefore, $26,363,000 less than the largest receipts in the period taken for compari son in the year 1882-3, and $15,896,000 less than for the nine months of last year, 1883-4. j. The total' falling off of revenue from these two sources from last year is, there fore, over $28,500,000, and the falling off compared with the nine months of 1882-8 is over $54,000,000. The miscellaneous receipts for the first nine months of the last fiscal year were $24, 766, 672 j For the first nine months of the current year they are $20,221,081. That is to say, there is a decrease of reve nue from miscellaneous sources from the same period last year of over $4,500,000. Of course the result of the final three months cannot be foretold, but it is safe to say that the actual total revenue for the whole year will run not less than $16,500, 000 below the estimate made in December. That will make the total revenue of the year $31 3, 500, 000. Against this will stand the total expenditure, stated at $290,500, 000, to which must be added $4,000,000 for deficiency bills passed by the. last Con- fress and payable in this year in all 294,500,000. That will leave; a surplus in hand at the close of the year of $19, 500,000. i It is instructive to notice that the total revenue from all sources was: For 1881-2. . I $ 408,500,000 For 1882-8 . . .. 898,260,000 For 1883-4.. 4 848,500,000 While for this year, closing on July 1, it is linety to te only bi8,m,im We have evidently fallen on a period of necessary economy and reform, mere will be no great surplus to waste on river and harbor Sobs, and the Secretary oi the Treasury may think himself well off if he can scrape together surplus enough wren which to continue to buy $2,000,000 worth of silver per month to stick into the Treas ury vaults to depreciate on his hands. The silver dollar, of which the Government now owns $163,000,000, bought with the surplus revenue, was worth ninety-three cents when ;we began to coin it, and is now worth pnly eighty-three cents. OFFICE-HUNTING IN THE ORIENTAL CHURCH. The Fnlneu of the Earth. And vet Miss Sylvy, I've been talked about to Miss Case, and sniffed at by folks that came in. and looked at as if I was a rat or a snake, till I can't bear it And ii it comes to mother's ears 'twill half kill her. and I haven't done a thing!" Here poor Celia's tears burst out afresh. Her Dale cheeks were overflowed, her love ly dark eyes drowned, her sweet red lips distorted with distress. Miss Sylvy did not know what to do, but a bright idea struck her, and she rose to go. " Don't crv. dear ueive."snesaia. wnaeny - now Bishop Kip's Unnoticed Things of Scripture. J One of the most touching ceremonies in the world is, a burial in the Oriental church when their ritual is fully carried out. No coffin incloses the remains of the departed, but he lies on an open bier, crowned with flowers, to intimate that he is a conqueror over death and the grave. And as the procession moves to the cemetery, the an thems they chant speak not of the gloom of departure, but of the glory oi tne resur rection. When the body has been lowered into its last resting-place, the priest, standing at the head of the grave, takes in bis bands as much earth as they will hold and strews it. in the form of a cross, over the body, uttering aloud the words: 4 'The earth is the Lord's and the fullness tnereoi." But what significancy has this declara tion in this solemn ceremonial? As they interpret it there is a most touching meaning. It is, that the earth is full, even to repletion, of the bodies of tne dead. They form the dust which composes its surface. Thev are "the fulness of the earth." 44 All that tread The globe, are but a handful to the tribes Which slumber In its bosom," If. then, these are the Lord's, as the priest thus proclaims, how cheering is the truth at such a moment, when the mourn ers are committing one of the loved ones of earth to its bosom I It will be cared for in the treasure house of the angel of the resurrection. It is the Lord's, and shall re main under His care until they which have been dwelling in the dust, shall awake and sing and come forth to a new and unending life. With what a glorious meaning, then, do they invest the sentence 44 The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof!" It has been their rendering of it for many centuries, as age after age it is thus pro nounced over the sleeping dead. Yet we know not the origin of its use. We do not Has Ineonrvenlenteea Under Cleveland. i New York Herald Letter. Another iamusing incident occurred in the President's room to-day. Two gentle men,' citizens of a far 'Western State, hap pened to get there about the same time, though the one did not notice the other's presence. The man that got the Presi dent's ear first had some very severe things to say about the other fellow, and he was very open land loud in his statements. The other rhan heard every wprd that was said, but he: decided that ne would make his answer at his own time, and he quietly stepped out of the room", waiting outside until his traducer came out. As the " of fensive partisan " was leaving the White House he wias accosted by the fellow who was traduced, with the remark : ' What did you mean by what you told the President about me!" The other map, in true diplomatic style, answered by simply saying, " I never used your name.'f , some hot; words ensued, wnen tne ques tioner Said a" Never mind, old fellow, I will have my turn next, and Pll show you up so thoroughly that you will never be respectfully received ii you enter tne w mte nouse again. Little episodes like this have frequently occurred at the White House in the past couple of months among the warring fac tions of .Democrats tnat nave come irom the several! States where Democrats have been engaged since the election in quarrel ling amongf themselves. Sometimes when the President is listening to tne claims oi some men there are a dozen sitting around waiting to be heard on other matters. As the business is carried on in the ordinary tone of voice, all present are enabled to hear it if they pay careful attention, and it is noticed that most of them do. The President does not believe in being made repository for secrets or confidential communications. He desires that all should be frank and above board in their state ments to him, and it is for this reason that he makes all his replies loud enough for all to hear them.. 8BIAI.Ii BOTH NOT At.Ii ALIKE. don't ye. Things '11 come out all right; 1 1 remember to have seen this interpretation i Tot. n v. aw iu;.nm " t nt tlio luuvn in liit Mimmentator on the know they will. . Try to hev patience. So she kissed the orettv. sorrowful girl. and, inspired, by her thought, marched off to Mr. Coke's big house, rang the bell sharply, and asked for Mr. Sam. Mr. Sam, of the passage in any commentator on the Psalms. Yet it is deeply impressive, as it forms part of that glorious anthem with which for so many ages the Eastern Christians have sung their dead to sleep. The Model Bey. A Marion boy. aged 9 years, lately started alone on a journey to Illinois, and took along Homer's 44 Iliad" to read on the road. -Atcntson (Jian.) viupnpvon. The Xatvral Anlaaal. A certain father in Middletown attended one of the meetings Sunday with his little son. When it was announced that tne collection would be taken tho father gave the boy money for that purpose, but what v f - i j. i L .1. - l was ilia atouisniiien viwu vue w. ww passed to tee the little fellow hold on to the money; upon being asxea tne reason for so doing, he replied, saving n tor the circus' Hartford (Conn.) Timet. . Probably the oldest person in Edge combe cohnty is an old colored woman living near Bethel, Nancy Barlow by name. Her age is believed to be one hundred and twenty-onb years. Rocky Mount Reporter.
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