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iUUigli fgUgfettr. mfm mm. By P. M. HAI.E. ADVERTISING HATES. Advertisements will be inserted for One Dollar per square (one inch) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contract for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of tha RALEIGH REGISTER, i. Second Floor of Fisher Building, Fayetteville Street, next to Market House. offici: Fayettevtlle St., Second Floor Fisher BuOdtng. RATES of subscription: One copy one 'ear' mailed P8t-Paid 2 00 Oue copy si months, mailed post-paid. . . . 1 00 No name entered without payment, and lupaper sent after expiration of time paid for. VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1885. NO. 68. THE TAPESTRY WEAVERS. f Anson G. Chester. Let us li arn a New Tear lesson, no braver lesson can be, From the ways of the tapestry weavers on the other side of -the sea. bove their head the pattern hangs, they study it with care, . mi as to and fro the shuttle leaps, their eyes are fastened there. They tell this curious thing besides, of thepa- tiont, plodding weaver; He works on the wrong side evermore, but works for the right side ever. It is only when the weaving stops, and the web is loosed and turned, That he sees his real handiwork, that his mar vellous skill is learned. Ah, the sight of its delicate beauty! It pays him for all his cost, So rarer, daintier work than his was ever done by the frost ! Then the Master bringeth him golden hire, and giveth him praise as well, nd how happy the heart of the weaver is, no tongue but his own can tell. Tbe vears of man are the looms of God, let down from the place of the sun, Wherein we all are weaving, till the mystic web i. doue. Weaving blindly but weaving surely, each for himself his fate, We may not see how the right side looks, we can only weave and wait. -But looking above for the pattern, no weaver hath need to fear, Dulv let him look clear Into Heaven the Perfect Pattern is there. If he keeps the faee of the Saviour forever and always in sight, Hi toil shall be sweeter than honey, and bis weaving is sure to be right. -And when his task is ended and the web is turned and shown, He shall hear the voice of the Master ; it shall say to him, " Well done !" And the white-winged angels of heaven, to bear him thence shall come down, And God shall give him gold for his hire not coin, but a golden crown ! SUPREME COURT. Derisions Filed February Term. ! From Advance Sheets of Davidson's Reports. TLKREXTIKE V. THE RAILROAD COMPANY 1. Until the term expires there is no final determination of the cause, so that the rase on appeal need only be filed within five days after the end of the term at which judgment is rendered. 2. In calculating the time within which the case on appeal must be filed, the first day is to be excluded. i Clifton v. Wynne, 81 N. C, 160; Moore v. Hinnant, 90 N. C, 163; Bafcroft v. Rob ert. Ante, cited and approved). LAWRENCE V. HODGES. 1. The power conferred upon Congress by the Constitution to regulate commerce with foreign nations and between the States, is paramount and exclusive, and includes the power to regulate navigation by all manner of vessels upon navigable waters flowing from one State into another, or from a State into the sea, and extends to giving to Congress the power fo prescribe the methods of sale and transfer of such vessels. 2. Enrollment under the act . of Con gress, and not the kind of service in which they are engaged, gives to vessels their national character, and renders them subject to the laws of the United States. 3. Where a vessel which was duly en rolled under the act of Congress, but which was entirely used in North Carolina waters, was mortgaged, which mortgage was registered in the custom house in ac cordance with the act of Congress, but was not registered as required by the North Carolina registration acts; It was held, that such registration was valid. 4. It is not necessary that a vessel used entirely on the waters of this State should be enrolled as required by the act of Con gress, although it may be done, if the owner desires. 5. Such mortgage can be proven before a clerk of the Superior Court, as he is ex "tfieio a notary public. DeVourcy v. Barr, Busb. Eu., 181, cited and approved. Wiswall v. Potts, 5 Jones Eq., 14, overruled in part). STATON V. M 1714,18. 1. When the habendum and warranty clause of a deed are joined, and the inten tion tq convey a fee is clear, the words of inheritance will be so transposed as to connect them with the conveying terms, so as to secure the intended effect of the deed. 2. A deed conveying a life estate is color of title, and when accompanied ! by ad verse possession for the required time, will ripen into a good title to the life estate so granted. 3. When the plaintiff claims under a deed purporting to convey the land in dispute and shows an apparently adverse possession, the burden of proof is on the defendant to Show that such possession is not adverse; and when he claims a rever sionary estate, after a life estate, that such life estate determined too short a time be fore the bringing of the action, to bar his right. 4. A deed is an estoppel, even as be tween the parties thereto, only as to the estate conveyed. Where A, having a life estate, con veys to B in fee who conveys to C, the re versioner or remainderman does not have fight of action until the death of the ife tenant. At his death the possession becomes adverse, and will ripen into a good title by seven years possession, the title being out of the State. b- Possession byv a grantee of any part .u iana a escribed m hia deed is con "tractive possession of the entire tract against all persons, except a party having a superior title to the part of which there is only constructive possession. ; When the beginning corner was loca R(i. and there was evidence showing "eu trees, corners, natural objects, &c, ' held, some evidence fromi.which Jury might locate the land in controversy. c .. V : 3 it is not error in a judge to refuse to cli charge abstract of law which "ave no application to the case; . When a witness swears to his posses H,ny with repeated acts of ownership ex tending over many years, which evidence )s allowed to go unchallenged to the jury, 11 s not improper for the judge to assume a legal possession to have been testified . and so present the case in his charge 'uc jury. KUavuY.Higgin, 91 N. C..382: AUen 74 N. C, 155; BteU v, Barham, 15 ' -V C. 62: Batehfhyr v WhSLJu. RR N L; 350 ; Osborne r. Anderson, 80 N. C, 261 ; wm v. Blount, 3 Dev., 84; WiUiam v Buchanan, 1 Ired.; 535; Gadget, T. 82 N. C, 481; Logan, r. Fitzger S 87 N. C, 308, cited and approved). STATE V. ANDERSON. While it 1. dence, that the acts and declarations of a person, in the absence of the prisoner, are not admissible in evidence against him, yet there are exceptions, one of which is in case of a conspiracy to do an unlawful act, when the acts and declarations of con spirators, in furtherance of the common purpose, are competent, although made in the absence of the others. 2. The least degree of consent or collu sion between parties to an illegal transac tion, makes the act of one the act of the others. 3. Where in order to admit the twin nnri declarations of a third person as evidence : i a i , , ... ... ogiub me prisoner, ine estate alleges that there was a conspiracy, the regular method of proceeding is for the State in the first place to establish the fact of a conspiracy by proof; but the judge, in hia discretion, may allow the acta and declarations to be given in evideuce, the solicitor undertak ing to prove the conspiracy at a later stage of the trial. 4. The acts of the different parties al leged to be conspirators may be given in evidence to prove the conspiracy. o. ine rejection of evidence by the Court, which, if admitted, would have been prejudicial to the prisoner, cannot be assigned as error. The declarations of a consDirator. at the very time of the homicide, who was in close proximity to, but not within sight of tne prisoner, upon hearing. a pistol shot, that the prisoner had killed some one, is admissible in evidence. 7. To constitue res gestae, there must be an act which may be explained by con temporaneous declarations. So when it was alleged that there was a conspiracy between a person and the prisoner to take possession of certain mine, in doing which the homicide took place, the declarations of such person when setting out to take possession of the mine, as to his motives n doing so, are not competent evidence for the prisoner. 8. A Judge is not required to give in structions in the very words in which they are asked, and when the charge to the jury substantially embraces the prayer for in structions, it is no ground for a new trial. 9. It is not error to refuse a prayer for instructions which is not founded on any evidence in the case, and is purely hypo thetical. 10. Where an affidavit for the removal of a case, stated that the State could not get justice in either Mitchell or Yancey counties, and this was recited in the order, and the cause removed to Caldwell county, held to be no ground for an arrest of judg ment. 11. It is no ground to arrest the judg ment, because on such removal, two trans- scripts are sent to the county to which it is removed, although the, first is defective and tKe second is transmitted without a writ of certiorari. 12. Where the clerk sends a defective transcript on the removal of a cause, it is not a compliance with the order, and he may, of his own motion, send another. 13. Upon the removal of a trial for murder, the record showed that the pris oner was arraigned, and then the order of removal immediately follows, before any order remanding the prisoner; Held, that it appears by necessary implication that the prisoner was in court when such order was made. (State v. Johnson. 82 N. C. 565 : State v. Shepherd, 8 Ired, 195: Sthte v. Collins, 3 Dev., 117; State v. Cratan, 6 Ired., 164; State v. Chatis. 80 N. C 353. cited and approved). Tariff Reform Speculations. New York Times Washington Notes. Southern tariff reformers are not a little concerned to know what the Pennsylvania Democrats will have to say next winter during the tariff debates which are sure to be heard about the iron question. 1 be de sire of the Pennsylvania iron makers to re duce wages and other costs of production indicate the failure of the present tariff to maintain high wages, whatever proof it mav be of the effect of the tariff on tbe prices of iron or steel. The Southern iron makers are not anxious to have the tariff maintained. With their mines close to coal. wood, and limestone; with labor cheaper than it is in Pennsylvania or Ohio, with railroads favoring tbem in transport ine their iron, thev are onlv anxious for a wider market. Witn tne tarin lower tney 7 . . " . a are confident tnev coma sun noia tneir own against foreign producers. The Con stitution will not allow Pennsylvania to protect herself against the cheap corn of Alabama and lieorena by imposing an inter-State export duty. Should Pennsyl vania be forced out of the iron business, Alabama and Georgia, by inheriting the trade, might be converted to protection by the hope of prohts greater than tnose ever dreamed of by .Pennsylvania manuiactur ers. The danger of over-stimulation is as clear to Georgians as it ought to have been to Pennsylvanians, and they do not hope for an abandonment of the iron trade by the Keystone State. Just what action Congress shall or should take to satisfy both Pennsylvania and the South in ad justing the tariff schedules no one ventures to suggest. Doe Habit Make Decency In Dress? London Times.) What is it that constitutes decency in dress ? Clearly nothing but habit. The custom of the particular society or subject matter concerned m ordinary language, convention. This seems strange to some people ; but it is most certainly true that there is no absolute rule as to what drapery is or is not decent. Even in the same so- cietv the conditions vary enormously. Use and custom alone determine the becom inc. A Turkish ladv is shocked if a strain? e man sees her without a yashmak and a monstrous bundle of wraps. So conventional is this covering of the face that a Mussulman peasant woman surprised in the field will often veil it with her only petticoat. Travelers tell us that a well-bred Afri can woman blushes to be seen for the first time in clothes. The unusual use of cloth ine appears to her scarcely decent. , Cus torn, habit, and convention decide the matter among ourselves. A pore cottage ffi rl in Connemara. who sleeps in a room with men and never owned stockings, would feel uneasv in the bail dress of a Princess. The Princess would almost suf f er death rather than share her cottage for a week. If the daughters of Leonidas went to a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace in their Spartan tunics, they woud probably cause aa great a flutter as they would feel themselves. No one would ex pect a hosp'tal nurse to do what hundreds of innocent girls do in a pantomime ; but the danseuse, again, would nardiy suomit to the unsparing revelations of a surgical ward. Honi toil is tbe sole and paramount rule: .but then this depends on certain con- . A? ? i venoonai practices pemg respecteu. 8PRING-TI1HE AND SCIENCE. A Product of Evolution. W. C. Prime, in the Journal of Commerce. Profile House, N. H., May, 1885. High up in this grand gorge of the moun tains one can watch better than anywhere that I know of the wonderful events of every spring, occurring so often and so regularly that we fail to recognize them for the miracles which they are. Winter 6tul holds his own here. But down in Fraiiconia valley, three miles away, spring has just begun to touch the ground, and here and there a plant has commenced to grow. It is impossible in any book to get any help in understanding this event. No learned man or society, no scientist or philosopher, has been able to give even, a hint in explanation of the millions of mir acles going on along the hill-side, aa the mysterious influence comes up the slopes. I see, half way down, a bed of sharp green points rising out of the earth. I know they will be what we call dog tooth violet plants, and I am confident of this because I have seen them come thus every year. I pull up one of the plants to discover what strange chemical laboratory, what force, what thoughtful taste and exquisite skill are at work in the dark ground, to manu facture the mottled leaf and golden flower which will be here next week. I have ta ken up two plants instead of one, and this other is the slender stem of a straw lily, which will be wholly a different plant and flower. I seek some differential force or power in the roots, but cannot find it with eye or microscopic aid. I ask science in books why one will be a straw lily and the other an adder-tongue, or dog-tooth violet. A speculator, in somewhat pretentious phrase, answers the question by a theory that one has been in long ages evolved from the other, or both from something else. But this answer is pure nonsense, having no relation to my question. What crowds of people there are who accept for answers to their questions these crudities of scientific speculation, which do not touch the questions. No philosopher, however self-reliant, dare attempt an an swer to the simple question, why, in the wanntn of this spring-time, do these salts and solids in earth and air and water change into the myriads of forms of vege tation f Volumes have been written avoid ing the question, but the fact remains that no scientist has ever yet told us the cause of any event in the ordinary course of na ture. To tell us that the plant is a violet be cause of its nature, produced by selection, is using words without conveying ideas. Wek now that the bullet is round " be cause " the mould in which it was cast was round, but the mould is not the cause of the roundness, ife-cause is not the cause There are twenty a hundred facts which are as much causes of the roundness as the shape of the mould. A round mould can not make a round bullet. And back of all essentials of quality in metals, and proper application of heat and tools, and metnoos oi casting, lies tne prior cause which made the mould, and made it of hard metal, and made it round, and made the lead, and made it softer than the mould, and determined all the conditions which will make a round bullet. The observer of phenomena, seeking causes, wnatever be tne effect or the ob ject he is examining, in every possible case, must go back from cause to cause, and reach a point where a will, a thinking determined volition, comes in. No honest observer will deny this, unless he prefers to say that he stops his search because of inability to go further. He may refuse to face tbe truth. But the truth faces him, that an immaterial and invisible world produces every phenomenon in the mater ial and visible world, and that this pro duction is by the exercise of judgment and volition. I he relation of the two worlds to one another is constant, absolute, and visible to the reason of a child. If science be all our dependence we live in a mystery. 1 iook down tne mountain and see the mystery coming into the val ley, spreading over it, touching the base of the hills, gently, almost imperceptibly, coming up the forest-covered slopes. To morrow it will come more rapidly, and in a few days it will have become a mighty power, rolling up the mountain, covering the dead earth with infinite beauty of flow ers and grandeur of foliage. The mirac ulous change, which in some countries oc cupies two or three months before it is com plete, goes on here within two or three weeks. Now snow lies deep in the shades and even in some sunny places. In three weeks at most we shall have midsummer luxuriance of foliage all around the Profile House"and up the sides of the lofty moun tains which over-hang it. Wherein is the science justified which, in a mountain gorge like this, refuses to consider the phenomena going on inside of and those outside of the Profile House as equally subjects of investigation, and essentially explaining one another! A few weeks ago a profound stillness reigned over ail tnings aiiKe. now a Hundred changes are going on in the great hotel. Summer is coming. What men call arti ficial beauties are to be added to what they call natural beauties. The interior plans and decorations of the hotel are changing. Great modern improvements are introduced, ine innumerable luxuries which modern civilization requires for its enjoyment in summer, and which are seen in sucn noteu as tne frotjie House, are not satisfactory from year to year, but are increased, varied, and a hundred men are at work on the house and grounds, pre paring for tne thousands of men and wo men and children wno will come here in a few weeks. The two lakes, which are opals surrounded by emeralds,, are supplied with gaily painted boats, because people want to go on the water as well as stand by it. To the human eye the place has never been so attractive, with the miner ling of works of nature and of art, as it will be this summer. Is this great luxurious settlement among the mountains any less a product of evo lution than the hills and forests around it ? If voii go up on Eagle Cliff and look down on the Notch, and consider the hotel and the valley together, the steam engines and the refrigerator rooms inside and the cool wind and descending mountain torrents outside, and the forces that are at work in both, and fail to see that both are alike subjects of philosophical examination. then you are as dull as the Old Man of the Mountain, who with his rocky head up yonder knows as much about the powers at work down here as any evolutionist on earth. There is no more absurd basis of reason in all the catalogue of human er rors than the arbitrary distinction between organic and inorganic matter. If a tree, or a bird, or a man is the result of evolu tion, then beyond dispute the Profile House is the result of evolution. Either they 'are 'alike products of thinking, in tending intellect, volition-, which connects the material with the immaterial, or they are alike self-created by the law of the se lection of the fittest. :. . Long aero, aees in the lives of birds, aeons to the duration of the generations of insects, a road cut its way down the val ley. It was not mind that cut it, accord ing to modern philosophy. It cut itself in obedience to a law wnicn went on working. A small house grew out of the ground. The timber came from holding up branches and leaves and newed itseii into shapes, with mortise and tenon, some thick and stout, some thin and beveled. Men call them beams and boards. But it was not mind which shaped them. They were obedient to a law called the selection of the fittest. Then the little house grew into a long low house, and from year to year changed its form. It stands now, and is the servants hall near the .Profile House. The innate desire of the forest was to meet the ever changing and always increasing desires of men and women to spend their summers in the mountain country. So it obeyed tnis internal im pulse, this driving necessity of its nature,, and at length a great hotel crawled slowly into existence under the combined forces in wood and iron. It is a beautiful study for the evolutionist to review this history. Wing after wing added itself to the hotel, once thought large, now a small part of the assembly of buildings. Furniture and ornaments came to the work, with won derful reference to the selection of the fit test. For again and again that .which had been fittest for its time, became less to the more luxurious tastes of a lar ger and more wealthy American popula tion, and that which was fitted to the newer demand crowded out the old and suppressed it. So often was this repeated in a half century that you could not doubt that chairs and tables and carpets and pi anos obeyed the commanding law of evo lution. See the result. In a wild gorge of the mountains, under cliffs that tower more than a thousand feet above, between two lakes whose waters flow, one north one south, wood and metals, paint and pa per, plaster, stone and brick, organic and inorganic matter, all nave done tneir best. and you have a grand hotel, a village of buildings, to bold a thousand people, where it is never hot in the hottest sum mer days, and where next July and August the ignorant people who enjoy life here will think all this is not the work of na- .ture, but is the supernatural product of mind. There are a hundred reasons for regard ing the Profile House as the result of such a law. Everything is the fittest here and hereabouts for summer rest and enjoy ment. There is only one more charming spot. Three miles up yonder is Lonesome Lake Cabin, now surrounded with deep snow, on the bank of a lake still frozen over. Woe to the man who comes up there to talk the absurdities of evolution as his explanation of the miracles of na ture, or off era us the twaddle about selec tion of the fittest as an answer to the question of man and bird and flower and sunshine and mountain, "Who or what makes me as I am!" Evolution is too flimsy a theory for men who live high up on mountains, looking daily and nightly into the great depths of light. The im material and invisible world is very near us. We know its inhabitants. GOOD-HinOBED JIBES. Peculiar Practices of Ploas People. We had scarcely entered the hotel at Chattanooga when a colored man ap proached and asked a subscription to help the colored church which had been de stroyed by fire. We gave him a quarter apiece, and after breakfast as we strolled down the road toward Lookout, we met the same man again, and he said: "Gem' len, our cull'd church had de misfortin' to be blowed down in de great cyclone. If you would only be so kind as to help de folks along a little I'm sure de Lawd would bress you." We shelled out again, and two hours later the same individual walked up to the trio and observed, "Gem'len, our cull'd church has had de misfortin1 to be swept down de ribber by a freshet. If you would " " Say, old fellow," interrupted the Judge, "this is the third time you have hit this crowd." " 'Zactly, sah." " What's the matter with all the colored church buildings around Chattanooga?" "Dunno, sah, but dey's havin' powerful hard times." "Come, now, but are you canvassing for a build' ing or for yourself?" "Fur a buildin', sah, but, arter I has 'lowed myself 90 per cent, commission, dar ain't so werry much left to de church, you see, an' I has got to skirmish 'round powerful lively like 1 "Detroit Free Press. The Maharajah of Travencore, India, was recently weighed against a mass oi pure gold, and the gold was then dis pensed in chanty, This custom is called " Tulabhara ' and dates from very early times. Maharajahs of an economical turn of mind are anxious to have the ceremony Iierformed when they are young and weigh ess, but public opinion condemns this practice. The holiest Maharajahs piously fatten up before they get weighed, and then if they don't happen to have gold enough on hand to balance their weight, they can easily seize wnat tney want from their loyal and dutiful subjects. New York Tribune. A good old deacon in Connecticut was very pious ana very tona oi ciams. When once upon a time he attended a Rhode Island clambake, he overtaxed his capacity and was sorely distressed. But his faith in prayer was unabated. Leav ing the party and going down on his knees behind a tree, he was beard to supplicate: "Forgive me, O Lord, this great sin of gluttony. Restore my health, and I will never eat any more clams." Then, after a judicious pause, "Very few, if any. Amen." New Orleans Picayune. A colored clergyman who had been put on trial before a jury in Darien, Ga., for some offence, was brought in not guilty, the other day. The defendant said: Read that again." ".Not guilty," was repeated. With a spring he bounded into the air, giving vent to religious ejacula tions. The colored women, who crowded the court room, set up a halleluiah chorus, in which the preacher joined, and the Judge had to sit still and let them have it out. View York Sun. A Silent Partner. New York Tribune. A tall woman with a red face and confi dent manner walked into anup-town bank a few days ago and presented a check. "No good, madam." said, the teller briefly, "the check is not indorsed." "Never mind that," saif the applicant for cash. " it's all right, he's my husband. 'It makes no difference. We must have v " his own signature, even if he is your hus band." "Well, you give me a pen and IU sign his name. I just want you to know, young man, that he's a mighty silent partner in our combination ana I'm the dossi" BOY AND SEAN. Boy Not Always Father to Man. New York Times Hit and Miss Chat. Many years ago, when baseball excite ment was at'a height never since attend ing the national game, when everybody, from millionaires to street boys, bowed down and worshiped, there occurred an incident which is recalled by our late Wall street sensation the disappearance of Teller Richard S. Scott from the Bank of the Manhattan Company with $160,000 of stolen funds. One bright June morn ing Banker Cross's carriage rattled down town to the planks of a Brooklyn ferry boat. The turnout was chiefly noticeable for the three or four lovely girls which it contained Banker Cross's daughters, fa mous beauties. A flush of pink color touching maiden cheeks and animated gestures made by pretty hands indicated that the Misses Cross were unusually agi tated. They had been smitten, like all other New York belles, with the baseball fever. Not far from the banker's coach a tiny newsboy stood pleading with a youth of the gilded order. The dandy was out of temper, and the gamin consequently had to suffer. "Give me my money or give me my paper," demanded the boy. You know I can't stand foohn here, so hurry up." "Get out, you cheeky young beggar:" was the savage reply, "or I'll have you arrested." The altercation went on, when suddenly the paper went over into the East river, and, without warning, the polished gaiters of the man in fine clothes collided with the newsboy. Then a quiet young fellow of rather athletic build, who bad looked up at the noise from the bat handle he had been stringing, strode over to the dandy, tapped him on the shoulder and said: "Pay that boy his money! I saw you toss his paper overboard." What right have you to interfere? ' the gilded youth responded. I Give the boy his money, sir!" The dandy's onlj reply was to shove the stran ger aside, and in another moment, while the newsboy stood among his dailies on the deck, the quiet-mannered chap had the fellow by the throat. Slap, slap, slap ! Even the girls in the coach could hear the noise made by the palm of that hand as it struck the gilded youth's cheek. Lean ing forward they watched the denoue ment. "Give that boy his change!" was once more the stranger's command. This time it was obeyed with alacrity, and the victim slunk off to become one of the first to hurry from the boat as she plumped into her dock. There was a soft little clap ping of feminine hands, and dimes were showered down upon the newsboy. Then, as the chains were lowered and the crowds began to scurry onward, the Crosses' coachman cracked his whip, and his fair burden was lost to sight. So was the young athlete, vanished in the rush. An hour later, over on the popular olcTBrook lyn ball grounds, bevy on bevy of bright eyed New York girls were watching play on the diamond field between a Brook lyn team and a popular metropolitan nine. When the game was finished the refreshment tents quite the fash-, ion then were visited, and lemonade and sparkling ginger ale were quaffed in unlimited quantities. Even the banker's daughters were not averse to such plebeian thirst destroyers. In the midst of gossip and clatter a belle beckoned to a young man, and he was introduced to one of the Misses Cross in this wise: "I say, Lizzie, dear, here is Mr. Blank, of whom you heard me speak." Mr. Blank stood iu mute astonishment. Lizzie, dear, had deliberately turned her back upon him. Wasn't he the dandy she had seen abusing a uttie newsooyr wasn t ne the person she had seen a pleasant-looking young athlete humbling? That wasn't the sort of an acquaintance that she desired. The scene changed a moment later, when one of the heroes of the days's game, attired once more in his sober tweed suit, was the object of glances from the soft eves of this same pretty girl. She had welcomed an introduction to him almost with enthu siasm. "Why Mr. Scott, it was you who punished that fellow on the boat as we were coming over; you ought to be ashamed of yourself, but couldn't you have slapped just a little harder?" This was how and this was when bank embez zler Dick Scott met the girl who subse quently consented to be his wife. MATERIAL FOR NOVELISTS; Incidents In General Bnckner's Life, New York World. 1 Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, the Con federate General, who surrendered Fort Donelson to Gen. Grant, was married last week to Miss Claiborne, one of the most noted of the Virginia beauties, and who is related to nearly all the leading families of the South. Gen. Buckner is a tall, finely preserved gentleman. He has fresh, ruddy complexion, thick, snow- white hair, and a luxuriant moustache and beard. He had some difficulty in securing the consent of Miss Claiborne. Gen. Buck ner has a married daughter in Louisville, Mrs. Belknap. Miss Claiborne would not accept him until the General had obtained the constat of bis daughter to the match. He obtained this consent in a recent visit to Kentucky. The bride is Miss Delia Claiborne, daughter of Major John H. Claiborne, one of Richmond's most highly respected business men. Miss Claiborne is an exceedingly handsome brunette, above the medium height, graceful in car riage and manner and of charming con ver sational powers. She has been a noted society beauty for some years, and many have worshipped at the shrine without success until Gen. Buckner entered the lists. Miss Claiborne is about twenty seven years of age, while the groom is about fifty five. There are incidents directly and indi rectly connected with Gen. Buckner that make his career interesting far beyond the common. He was always a conspicuous man in Kentucky society, and when hb was made a general in the Confederate army he. was the popular idol of the day throughout all the Southwest a popular ity which was intensified even by what was considered bis misfortune at Fort Donelson. Handsome, brave, with a fine figure and gallant bearing, a perfect horse man and an accomplished man of the world, he was the typical young cavalier of the South. He was married some time before the war to a Miss Kingsbury, who died after a few years of married life and whose brother was an officer in the regu lar army. Lieut. Kingsbury and his sister were joint heirs to a large fortune, mainly in Chicago real estate. Before leaving for his post with the army in Tennessee Gen. -r i t 3 - .i f 1. 1 - 1 xl Bucitner nau an interview wuu ms urouier-in-law and made over to him all of Mrs. Buckner's estate. This was to protect it from- confiscation, but it was verbally un derstood between them that the property was to be held in trust. If Gen. Buckner survived the Issue of the approaching con flict it was to be returned to him. If not, it was to be made over to his only child, Lillie Buckner. Lieut. Kingsbury fell mortally wounded in one of the first battles in Virginia. Realizing too late that he had made no testamentary provision by which Mrs. Buckner's property should not go in with his own estate, he told to a comrade the story of his agreement with his sister's husband. For some reason his dying wishes were either not communicated to or were disregarded by his wife, his only heir, and she entered into possession of the entire property. The war closed, Gen. Buckner came back to Louisville and asked of Mrs. Kingsbury the restoration of his daughter's estate. Mrs. Kingsbury refused to consider the question, and a suit of re covery was brought: It was one of the great cases of the day, and was finally, after years of litigation, fully decided in Gen. Buckner's favor. Gen. Buckner at once began to extensively improve his Chicago property. The fire came, and in a day he was poorer by half a million dol lars. When, however, his daughter mar ried Mr. Morris Belknap, of Louisville, two years ago, she was one of the great heiresses of the South. Mrs. Kingsbury lived in Newport after her husband's death. She was a beautiful and charming woman, and remained a widow only for a few years. Then she married Gen. Lawrence, eldest, son of ex Gov. Lawrence, the richest man in Rhode Island. It will be remembered that, after the peril which the arrival of Gen. Butler's troops barely averted, the cadets and ap pliances of tbe Naval School at Annapolis were removed to Newport. The young and lovely Mrs. Kingsbury was easily the acknowledged belle among the impressible cadets, ana when the Class of 1878 was graduated it was generally understood that she had engaged herself to Hugh McKee, member of that class from Kentucky, and a brother of Major George McKee, of the Ordnance, who is now stationed at Sandy Hook. Hugh McKee was a mar vellous young fellow in his way. He was brave to recklessness, with magnetic ele ments of character which made him not only the most popular man of his class, but even, without the circumstance of his tragic death, the best remembered of the younger officers of the Ttavy. He was killed while leading a small detachment up the walls of a Corean fort during our short but decisive war with that people some twelve years ago, and a memorial tablet to his memory hangs on the walls of the Academy chapel at Annapolis one of dozen commemorating the most heroic acts in the history of our Navy. The story of what just preceded his death is thus told by one of his associates. When Hugh McKee was ordered to the Pacific squadron he left these shores with the promise from Mrs. Kingsbury that she would become his wife on his return. One day, in Nagasaki harbor, the American mail was brought to the messroom of his ship. A young lieutenant looked up from a letter he was reading with the ejacula tion : " Say, boys, guess who is married !" McKee was standing just back of him, fronting a classmate who knew of his en gagement. "It s Mrs. Kingsbury," con tinued the first speaker. " She was mar ried to Gen. Lawrence a month ago." I he narrator says that McKee made one step forward, his handsome face distorted, his teeth set and his fists clinched as if he would strike the reader. Then he recov ered himself, went above and walked the deck all that night. It was shortly before that time that an American trading ship, thaeGeneral Sherman, while ascending the gfiaBgyang River, in Corea, was attacked Ly natives, uesiroyeu, ami ner omcers aim crew murdered. Admiral Rodgers start ed with his fleet from Nagasaki immedi ately on receipt of the news, sailing for Corea. Arriving at the forts in the River Yan, a force of marines and sailors was landed. McKee begged to be put in com mand of a detachment, rushed in advance of his men up the mud walls of the fort, and fell dead inside, pierced through the heart by a Uorean spear. The hapless denouement of the marriage to Gen. Albert Gallatin Lawrence will be recalled. Mrs. Lawrence a few years since eloped with Mr. Van Ness, an attache of the Belgian legation to this country. Gen. Lawrence procured a divorce. Mr. Van Ness married Mrs. Lawrence and was sent by his Government to Egypt, where he died. Mrs. Lawrence still has a large in come from her moiety of the Kingsbury estate an income which was not so much impaired by the Chicago fire as was Miss Buckner's. An Office Holder's Aristocracy. Sew York Sun. The life tenure of office being once engrafted upon our civil service so as to include more than a hundred thousand office holders, the natural and almost in evitable result will be the extension of the system not only to all other executive posts, but likewise to the legislative branch. Next, as in the experience of other coun tries, a system of pensions will be a natural and inseparable adjunct to tbe life tenure for civif officers. In no other way has it been found possible to get rid of the super annuated, the intemperate, the incompe tent, the dissolute and the worthless. When all this is accomplished, the Gov ernment of the United States, like that of France under the despotism of the late Prince President ill., may still retain the name of a republic, but it will in fact have become a monarchy, even, if it is not yet called an empire. The truth is that the scheme which our civil service theorists propose for us, prop erly belongs to a monarchist or despotic form of government, and that it is irre concilable with the fundamental princi ples of a Democratic Union. Correcting Bad English. fNew York Sun. "There," said a woman to a tramp, a nice dinner, but I shall expect you saw a little wood for it." "is to "Certainlv. madam." rjolitelv replied , r j M the tramp, attacking the dinner with both hand a, " but you will pardon me, 1 trust, if I venture to correct your English." "My what ?" " Your English. Some modern author ities claim that grammar is played out. I know better. The word saw ' is a verb, in this case, singular number and imper fect tense. You cannot say. ' I shall ex pect you to saw wood.' 'I shall expect you to see wood ' is correct. If you will indicate the pile to me I will now look at it as I pass out." Kentucky Understanding. fNew York Times. Host (something of a musician, who is entertaining a Kentucky friend at dinner) " Would you like a sonata before din ner. Colonel?" The Colonel "Well, I don't mind. I had two on my way here, but I guess I can Btand another." A SUCCESSFUL SOUTHERN BANK. Of Interest to Merchants and Business 9len. New York World and Exporter, j From time to time we have been pleased to record the establishment in Southern cities of new banking institutions, or the extension by those already in existence of their financial and other facilities. The rapid growth of both commercial and fi nancial interests in all the leading South ern States has added to the increasing de mand for such facilities as they furnish, and especially has the increase in their numbers been perceptible in the sections in which the manufacturing trades have shown greatest progress. The cotton and tobacco growing and manufacturing Stateain which the promotion of manu facturing the above products has in turn encouraged every other branch of busi ness, have displayed notable progress, and here we have been called on to record the largest increase in the financial institutions. But while we are pleased to announce the establishment of these banks, it affords us still greater gratification to be able to refer subsequently to their success, and in almost every instance, where prudently managed, they have proved both profita ble and successful. Not only is the in creasing wealth of the South rendering their operations as depositories remunera tive, but their services in the transaction of financial affairs are in growing request, and where well located and carefully con ducted they are certain of increasing pat ronage. About twelve months ago we referred to the establishment at Durham, North Carolina, one of the centres of the to bacco growing and manufacturing indus tries, of the Bank of Durham, which had then been in existence about twelve months, and was awaiting chartered in corporation. The bank was established by Colonel W. T. Blackwell as an experi ment, and proved so promptly successful and profitable that it was permanently or ganized, and to-day ranks with the most flourishing of the South's young financial institutions. The President, Colonel W. T. Black- well, who is really the proprietor of the bank, is the former manufacturer of the world renowned "Blackwell's Durham" tobacco, and a wealthy, successful and conservative man of business. His per sonal guarantee in real estate and approved security to the amount of $350,000 above all liabilities, insures the stability of the institution, while Mr. P. A Wiley, who occupies the responsible post of Cashier, has an experience and reputation as a bank officer that is in itself the most valuable form of security. The discount and col lection branches under his direction have proved specially successful, and hundreds of thousands of dollars loaned and turned in since the bank opened, with slight loss, speak well for its careful management. riaving business relations with the lead ing business men, manufacturers, planters, farmers and others throughout the State, and reliable New York correspondents in the National Park Bank, as well as in the Merchants' National in Baltimore, Md., the Commercial National Bank in Phila delphia, Pa., and the Planters' National and City Banks of Richmond, Va., the Bank of Durham enjoys exceptional facil ities for the transaction of financial busi ness of every description, more especially such as relates to the collection and pay ment of notes, drafts, bills, etc.. all through the South, but particularly in the State of .North Carolina, and we recom mend its facilities and advantages to any of our readers who may be desirous of transacting business of any kind with the Southern States, involving the transfer or handling of funds in either direction. the nourishing and daily improving town of Durham requires the handling of large sums of money by this bank, and the increased business of the past year notwithstanding the general depression in trade is a sure guarantee of a firm basis. Every day adds new depositors and cor respondents. Being located in the centre of the tobacco region, the town of Dur ham is certain to be also the centre of the tobacco manufactories of the' State. Dur ing the past year a very elegant cotton mill has been built, the productions of which will be consumed by the manufacturers of smoking tobacco in Durham. A wooden and woollen mill has also been built, and is being successfully operated. Other in dustries are thriving, and ere long, where fifteen years ago there was only a small railroad station, there will be a flourishing city. HARMONY AT THE CENTRE. Harmony in Prosperity, that is. fThos. Dixon in 8helby New Era. Oxfoed, N. C, May 25, 1885. The first thing that strikes a person on enter ing Granville county is that her people are prosperous. What is the Becret of their prosperity ? Enter the town of Oxford, the county seat, and you are not long with out an answer. The numerous lofty prize houses and broad-roofed warehouses soon tell you the story. It is perfect ly wonderful how much cash there always is among the people. Men, who fifteen years ago, before they began to raise to bacco, were as poor as Job's turkey, going around the country selling cider, peanuts and apples at public gatherings, several such men were pointed out to me as men now worth from thirty to forty thousand dollars. A lightning-rod man, who had traveled over a great portion oi the state, said : I'll tell you, sir, the people of this to bacco reeion are by far the most prosper ous and happy people I find anywhere in my travels. I always tell a farmer 1 11 take his note or cash for work offerine him a small reduction on f. cash job and it's a wonderful thing to say, sir, but I never took a Uranviile man's note in my life. They always have the cash, and al ways prefer to pay it." One man in Uranville this year made $1,400 off of two acres of land, and -scores of men rent their land at an average of $100 per acre, which seems almost incred ible, but it is, nevertheless, true. They usually rent for a fourth, and their fourth averages f 100 an acre. There is very lit tie of this land on the market at any price. I asked a gentleman why it was that peo pie in other counties, with the same soil, did not go into it. " Well," he said, " it does look strange. Now, your land in Cleveland is the same formation as ours the same land and you could grow the same gold leaf tobacco by proper atten tion. But you'll hna it's bard to get them started. A few men will go into it, and the first year fail, as is always the case, and then they'll spread the news that you can't grow tobacco on the land, and the movement fails. That is the great trouble. People must stick to anything till they give it a fair trial to succeed, and this is doubly true of tobacco." Pittsboro Home. In a recent trip through eastern Chat ham we were pleased to notice signs of prosperity and progress. The farmers have an excellent stand of cotton and corn, and much of tbe tobacco has been put out. Wheat is aot good, and there is a failure in the oat icrop. There will be an abun dant supply of fruit. We noticed several new and good dwellings that .have been recently erected, outbuildings improved, yards full' of flowers, and neatness and thrift visible. At Mt. Gilead and Mt. Pisgah there, are large and excellent church buildings that would do credit to the enterprise and liberality of any country neighborhood. The church at Martha's Chapel is '- also very neat, and it, too, is nicely painted and looks well. Merritt's Chapel, too, has been improved and en larged and looks as good as new. The large congregation at Lystra are beginning to feel that their present house of worship must be superseded by a more elegant ana commodious building. We noticed a good two-story residence of recent date, with corresponding im provements all around, that belongs to a thrifty man of color. He owns two good mules, a horse, and other stock in propor tion. He makes good crops and has money for every needed comfort and luxury. His parlor has an organ, upon which his daugh ters play well. What he has done, others may do by; exercising the same industry and judgment. HUNTING A DRESS POCKET. And a Wife Learns a Useful Lesson. New Orleans Times-Democrat. Col. Jim Pettingill, who is a stout man and perspires a great deal, went home to his wife the other evening and asked her where she kept the key of his valise, as he wished to pack up a few things and take the night train for Mobile to look af ter some important business matters. Mrs. Pettingill told him to go up stairs to her room and he would find the key in the pocketiof her black dress, which was hanging on a nail behind the door. She further explained that it was her serge dress witha Watteau plait down the back, and looped along the front with small satin bows, and continued to give a geographi- cal description of the garment until Pet tingill got tired and suddenly turned on his heel and left her. " Poor, foolish mortal, he did not know that it waKeasier, as the Scriptures say, for the eye of arich man to crawl through a cam el than for &im to find the pocket in his wife's dress. Blinded by his own confidence, he took the dress off the nail, and that mo ment his suffering commenced. He took a short survey of the garment as he held it up in his left hand, in order to locate the position of the pocket. His eyes rested on a small opening and he thrust his hand into it, only to find his fingers gliding through a kind of bottomless concern, and then, sticking his arm into it up to the hilt, he observed that his hand was pro truding fBom an aperture on the other side. This caused him to change the po sition of the dress, and he saw another opening and sounded its depths and ascer tained that it was the same mysterious hole he had been in a moment before. This slightly annoyed him, and after throwing off his coat and vest and mop ping the streams of perspiration from his face, he again went in search of the pocket. He saw a little slit on the right side, and a softer light came into his eyes. " This is it," he murmured, and putting his hand into a shallow flounce, commenced to grope around for the key, which, however, waa sleeping snugly in the pocket at least two feet away. Pettingill got mad and began i to swear through his clenched teeth. He' determined to find the pocket or die wither his face to the foe, and the next minute he ) commenced stabbing the dress with both ' hands, and hitting it straight blows from the shoulder, and dancing around it just as if he was engaged in a rough and tum ble fight. He glanced at the clock and saw that the train would start in forty minutes, and once more he jumped for the dress with a low yell that indicated plainly that he was mad enough to match himself against a hornet. He jammed his head into the folds of the dress and commenced dig ging with both hands and the air got full of satin bows, pieces of Watteau plaits and smothered growls. Then he got down on ms nanas and Knees and cnasea tne dress around the room, and under the bed, and over the chairs, until he had to gasp for breathi While seated in a chair rest ing himself, he glared at the crumpled dress lying on the floor, and the idea oc curred to him that the only way to keep the pocket from dodging him was to put the dress on. Me did bo and then renewed his search, but his hands would slide into loops, furbelows, folds, flounces, and ev erything else except the much-desired pocket. This was more than he could stand, and! be determined to take off the dress and tear it to pieces, and thus dis cover the dwelling place of the pocket. He pulled the dress up over his head at if he was divesting himself of a shirt, but it got caught in his suspender buckles and wrapped itself around his neck in a pecu liar way, and he stooped forward and tugged at It with all his strength, but it would not; give an inch and appeared to tighten its grip around his head. It was hot and he was smothering in its folds, and in order to release himself he beat the air with both hands and danced up and down in one spot until the window panes rattled. The dress, however, knew that it was getting the best of him and would not let him go: and then Pettingill in his rage made a blind dash and butted the bowl and pitcher off the wash-stand, and upset the rocking chair, which prodded him se verely in the ribs. The next dive he made the bureau suffered, and cologne bottles and powder boxes, mingling with a tin' bath-tub and a bird-cage, rolled over the floor. ; i Mrs. Pettingill heardthe crash, and hastening up stairs discovered her hus band lying on the floor on his back, with his arms and head bound up in her dress. and kicking both his legs in tne, air, and using profanity oi 140 degrees in the shade, one pulled nun out of tne areas, and he sat up on the floor and gazed at her in a dazed, way, and rubbed his ribs with one hand and wiped the blood off his bom with the other. There was a look in his eyes which told Mrs. Pettingill that it waa not the time to talk to her husband, so aba merely picked up the dress, and without any trouble at all stuck her hand In a cer tain place and took out the key, which she handed him without saying a word. It was too late to catch the train, so Pettin gill quietly bathed his bruised head, and then went; to a locksmith's shop, and when he came home he brought his valise key with him,; and it was chained to a bar of pig-iron. He says now that when he wants to go away he is sure to find hia key outside of his wife's dress pocket. . The farmers of this section are mucn encouraged by the prospect of the present crop. Should the good seasons continue an abundant yield will no doubt be the result. Moore Gazette.
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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