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f BALEIGH, UST. O. WEDNESDAY. ..JUNE 24, 1885. MTlFSPj4Pit COMPLAINT. The Rkgistek had occasion some weeks ago to note the bitter complainings by Democratic Congressmen that they were persecuted nigh unto death by " the sav ages engaged in the wild hunt after office." These were in the worst taste, for in all the land there are no more persistent office-hunters now than the Congressmen had been up to election day. They should have taken a little feeding out of the same spoon without making such very wry faces; or, if the victuals turned their stomachs, there was a very easy and a very effectual way to dodge spoon and victuals. It was'not necessary to remain in office and die from persecution : Resignation would have afforded them a refuge "where the" wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest," and the country none the worse. There is no lack of worthy people who would regard themselves very well paid for the annoyances by the solid com forts which go with the $5,000 seats in Congress. Some of the brethren of the press fall into kindred fashion, and in this dull sea son revive a newspaper complaint that . seems to be periodical and in its periods epidemic. "The Press" so one may sum up the general complaint "is an.excellent thing to send a man to Congress, or to make him Governor, Judge or Sheriff, or to help him to some well-paid office in the Stat or at "Washington, so long as it charges nothing for services rendered and geta less than it charges. The office secured,- the Congressman elected, the Press may go to the d 1 1 " All very true, but what of it? If the man who is sent to Congress or who gets a well-paid public position is the proper man, the Press has done neither more nor less than its duty to itself and the country. If the Press has allowed itself to be used to put improper men into Congress or in good offices, the Press ought to go just where it is said to be allowed to go. Will the brethren permit the suggestion that these complainings of neglect of the Press by so-called "big men," accompa nied by the never-failing allegations that the bigness is begotten by the Press, in fact that the Press has fooled the people into thinking great shakes of very small potatoes, do not tend to improve the esti mate in which the people hold us ? The point of an observation lies in the illustra tion, and the best illustration that occurs to the Registeb of the situation which it thinks it has observed, is furnished by an anecdote about a tramp printed in that never-failing source of funny good sense and sensible fun, the Detroit Free Press : "They were holding an out-door ward meeting the other night, and a speaker had just commenced to warm up to his work, when a stranger with all his world ly ' duds ' in an old sheep-skin on his back, boots gone, hat going, and a dyed-in-the-wool tramp air about him, halted on the outskirts of the crowd. The speech soon caught him, and he began to applaud. At the end of every sentence he clapped his hands and roared like a fog-horn. No matter whether the speaker ' hit 'em ' or not, the stranger never failed to come down with the applause, and he carried a good share of the crowd with him. After the speaker had finished, and while he was wiping his heated brow, the tramp ap proached him and said : " That 'ere speech was one of the best I ever heard in all my life." "Ah ? I'm glad it pleased you.' " Pleased mel Why, it lifted me right offn my feet! I tell you, you're a born orator, and I just wish I could stay in this town and hear you make a speech every night. " Yes, I wish you could." "But I can't. I am on my way "West. I shall, however, think of your speech a hundred times a day. I can feel the elec tricity of it yet, and say, can't you lend me half a dollar to help me on ? " THE HOMESTEAD LAWS. "The Davis Times" says the last States ville Landmark, as careless of facts as of the little courtesies of newspaper life "some weeks ago referred to the homestead law as "a Democratic measure," and the Hickory Carolinian adopts this idea and discusses the law from this standpoint. It is the business of the esteemed Raleigh Register to keep the brethren straight, but it has thus far failed in this matter to doits duty by these erring brethren at Mocksville and Hickory. Having held our peace, therefore, until it has become certain that it does not intend to speak, we beg its pardon for usurping its preroga tive and proceed to inform our contempo raries aforesaid that the constitution of 1868 gave us the homestead law, and it is to our Republican friends alone that we are indebted for it." The Registeb has not had the pleasure of seeing what the Davie Times and the Hickory Carolinian have said about the Homestead Laws, but if they said only what the Landmark alleges, they said only what is true. It is perhaps worth while once more to state the facts in the matter, for there may be people as ignorant of them as the Landmark is; other people, better informed, whose faith in their own knowledge of the facts may be shaken by such positive and matter-of-course state ments as the Landmark makes; others foolish enough to think that Colonel Dockery was right in 1882, when, upon the same elaim now put forward by the Landmark, he made the grandiloquent declaration that the Canby Constitution " was the grandest production of human wisdom that ever emanated from the brain of man." The pocket nerve is sensitive. The Canby Convention was called by General Casey in 1868, and his decrees registered in that year. Most readers of the Register can find in their neighbor hood a copy of the Laws of 1866-'67. If they will take the trouble to turn to page 81 they will find "An Act to establish free no d homesteads," &c, and then if they wU turn to the Canby Constitution they T! find at this law, curtailed and abridged in value of homestead and amount personal property exemptions, was tran8ferred to the Canb OcmrtitirtKm and " " -arwcie i of that instrument. 1 Legislature of 1866-'7 was composed The of ' men. democrats of course. ' homestead bill which it made law was The in- troduced into the Senate by that old-fashioned Democrat, Mr.i Berry of Orange, and was passed by a ygte of 38 to 6.- The House passed it without dissent, as report ed from a committee of conference on some points of disagreement. It is said above that instead of invent ing the Homestead Law, the Republicans in the Canby Constitution curtailed and J abridged the Homestead and Exemption Laws then and theretofore existing. In the 69th volume Reports of the North Caro lina Supreme Court, pages 396-405, is a report of the case of Garrett v. Ches hire. The decision of the Court which consisted of the five Republican Judges, Pearson, Reade, Rodman, Settle and Boyden was pronounced by Judge Ed win G. Reade. ' It is all interesting read ing, but we nave space only lor tne para graphs relating to the matter in hand, which show that the Canby Constitution of 1868 abridged the exemptions estab lished by the Democrats not only in 1866, but so far back as in 1856. Judge Reade says: "Our act of 1856, Rev. Code, exempts personal property, articles by name, which may be of the value of several hundred dollars, more or less, according to the cir cumstances of the debtor's family. And in 1866-67, prior tothe existence of the debt in the case before us, an act was passed exempting " all necessary farming and mechanical tools, one work horse, one yoke of oxen, one cart or wagon, one milch cow and calf, fifteen head of hogs, 500 lbs. of pork or bacon, 50 bushels of corn, 20 bushels of wheat, household and kitchen furniture not exceeding $200 in value, the libraries of attorneys-at-law, practising physicians and ministers of "the gospel, and the instruments of surgeons and dentists, used in their profession." Acts of 1866-67, chapter 61. "It is apparent that an allotment of those articles approximates $1,000, and in many cases would exceed that sum in value. And the same act allows a homestead of 100 acres, without restriction as to value, which in many cases wsuld be worth, with the improvements, many thousands. " In 1868 our constitution .was adopted, and in that our present homestead law is limited to $1,000 realty, not in fee-simple, but for a limited time, and personalty to the value of $500. Our homestead law is not an increase but a restriction upon former exemptions." BArABIt, BURR AND JEFFERSON. Secretary Bayard made a speech in Missouri some weeks ago, which is giving a great deal of trouble to him and to the newspapers, and to the newspaper report ers. The latest explanation by himself as to what he actually said about his grand father's agency in securing the election of Jeffersox over Burr filled nearly a col umn of the Washington Pout's small type, and a correction of the reporter's misun derstandings of what Mr. Bayard said to him occupied an editorial column of next day's Post. It seems to be at last definitely settled to the newspapers' satis faction that Mr. Bayard did not say that his grandfather's vote (Delaware's vote in the House) elected Mr. Jefferson, but that his grandfather's vote of a blank for Delaware made his election possible and certain. The newspapers, big and little, accept this as Mr. Bayard's real statement and also accept it as a fact. The Regis ter doubts if Mr. Bayard has said any thing so foolish. Mr. Bayard, Sr., cast the vote of Delaware for Burr on every ballot until the last ballot, when he voted a blank. On this ballot Mr. Jefferson was elected, by a vote of ten to six. Four of the six were cast for Burr, and two were blank votes. The blank votes were just as effectual against Jefferson as if cast for his opponent. If ,Mr. Bayard had not voted he would in certain contin gencies have aided in securing the result. For instance, if the States had been equal ly divided, eight to eight, and Mr. Bay ard had declined to cast Delaware's vote, Mr. Jefferson would have been elected by a vote of eight to seven. Casting his vote either for Burr or in blank would have defeated Mr. Jefferson by making the vote a tie. A blank vote is; a vote, and to succeed, a candidate must have a majori ty . In elections by the House, when it chooses between two candidates for President having equal electoral votes, the Constitution required that "the votes shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having one vote; a quo rum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. " " The Rascals!" Where are they? The Register has looked with a good deal of curiosity to the neighborhood comments on the retiring Republican officials. It does not recall a single instance in which the Democratic press of the vicinage has failed to speak in high commendation of them as honest and capable officers, their only fault their politics and their participation in politics. And yet the cry is still about " the rascals," who would seem to be like chills in eastern North Carolina " none known here; plenty on the other side of the pocosin." There is a good deal of humbug in the world, in cluding civil service reform. And that humbug don't pay. People recognize the fact that Republicans are to go out because they are Republicans, and their places to be filled by Democrats, because they are Democrats. It is just as well to say so. The Register reprints to-day from yes terday's New York Sun a complete list of the foreign appointments thus far made by the Administration. It will be seen that the South has had fair recognition, and that no section has canse for com plaint. Here and there a State this State, for instance has opt Ha full recognition, but the system manifestly observed will doubtless remedy this defect in due time. These Kluat be "the Rascals!" New York Herald Washington Telegram. In the ninety days since Commissioner Miller too charge of the Internal Rev enue Bureau, out of the eighty-four inter nal revenue collectors in the country he has appointed sixty new ones. The re maining officers to be changed are one each in Colorado, Delaware, Florida, In diana, Maryland,. Missouri. Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio and Wis consin ; five each in Illinois and New York and three in Pennsylvania. .These will be taken up as rapidly as possible, and soon there will not be a Republican internal revenue collector in, the country. More than a hundred fishing vessels and nearly a hundred fishermen ,were lost in a gale off Newfoundland last week DAVIDSON COLLEGE. Th " Old School Presbyterian Plainly Up With Tna If sot Time. f m.'iv' & 'wfciL Th'exerdsesbf Davidsbi Coflegfc Com mencement wek began with the Bacca laureate Sermon by the President, A. D. Hepburn PPD., on Sunday the 14tfi.w "I write unto you young men, because ye are tronjk Those who know Dr Hepburn need not be tola that tne sermon was a good one simple, elegant, full of thought and his words of wisdom and of counsel to the young men gained added force and tenderness because this was to be his last baccalaureate here and to close his minis try to these students. FILLING "THE VACANCIE8. The meeting of the Board of Trustees, beginning Monday night, had been antici pated with interest and even with concern because they had to select a successor to President Hepburn and one to Prof. Blake, and it was felt that tne future of the col lege hinged upon these elections. Perfect harmony prevailed, and with absolute unanimity that eminent divine, J. A. Le fevre, D.D., of Baltimore, was chosen President, and Prof. C. C. Norwood, of the Maryland Agricultural College, was elected Professor of Physics. All the friends of the college will rejoice that Dr. Lefevre has signified his acceptance of the office. THE ANNUAL ADDRESS. On Wednesday the address before the literary societies was delivered at 11 a, m. by Hon. Leroy F. Youmans of South Caro lina. It was a scholarly and timely pres entation of the duties of young men to the State, and was delivered in the best style of this popular and graceful speaker. REPRESENTATIVE SPEECHES. The contest for the orator's medal is assigned to Wednesday night; the con testants being three members of the Junior class from each of the two literary societies. On this occasion the speakers were Messrs. J. E. Watts, L. M. Blue, and J. M. Clark of the Philanthropic Society, and S. C. Baker, D. F. Sheppard, and W. L. Mor ris of the Eumenean society. They all had live subjects, and treated them in a lively manner. The Jcommittee awarded the prize to Mr. Clark, with "honorable mention " of Mr. Baker. It really was a close race between them. AN EPISODE. After the society prize medals had been delivered to the best debater, essayist and declaimer in each society by Col. You mans, with a sparkling little speech, there was a pleasant little event not down on the programme. A couple of elegant gold headed canes had been slipped under cover upon the rostrum, and were now handed to Mr. Youmans with the statement that they were intended to - embody the affec tion and esteem of the students for the re tiring professors, Dr. Hepburn and Mr. Blake; and so Mr. Youmans made his third speech of the day. He did it in graceful style, and the responses of Dr. Hepburn and Prof. Blake were full of tender and grateful feeling. COMMENCEMENT DAY. Thursday was the climax of this busy, crowded week. The dust had been laid, and the heat tempered by last night's shower, and the day was beautiful and de lightful, happy omen, let us hope, of the life upon which these young men are en tering. There were six speeches, and they were all good; the diplomas were deliv ered to the happy graduates ; the parting words were said ; the immense throng dis missed, and the formal exercises of an other commencement were over. THE SOIREE AND THE SURPRISE. But the best is reserved for the last. On Thursday night," while the band discoursed its sweetest music, the boys made their sweetest speeches, and the girls made their sweetest responses; the marshals doffed their fine trappings, which were donned by their chosen sweethearts ; lights gleamed and eyes sparkled, and all went "merry as a marriage bell." Conspicuous in the throng was the tall form and handsome face of one of the honor men of the grad uating class. Those who saw behind the scenes had known that he had not de toted all his time to gaining scholastic distinction, and we confidently expected to see mm oacK now ana then, drawn by his love for his alma mater ! But when it was known to the sleepy breakfasters next morning that he had quietly slipped out of the hall at 12 o'clock and had gone to the train doubled and with an unusual array of trunks for a student, it was ad mitted that there had been a very cleverly managed surprise. The wonder now is how any fellow could venture on such an extravagant investment in happiness at the beginning of his career. A diploma and a wife all in one day is too much felic ity for one man to stand I Well, that man will quite certainly not forget the Com mencement of 1885, for he has made it unique. GRADUATE8 WITH DEGREE OF A. B. Neal Larkin Anderson, Davidson Col lege, N. C. ; William Sinclair Davidson, Hopewell, N. C. ; James Parks Grey, Hope well, N. C; William Bain Henderson, Hopewell, N. C. ; Alston Davis Horah, Salisbury, N. C. ; William Richard Kell, Pineville, N. C; Isaac Raymond Oeland, Wellford, S. C. ; Jesse Weimar Siler, Franklin, N. C. ; William Francis Steven son, Statesville, N. C. HONOR ROLL FOR 1885. Senior Class J. W. Siler, Wm. Steven son, Raymond Oeland. Junior Class C. S. Gilmer, J. A. Mc Murray. Sophomore Class R. F. Avery, R J Grey, E. P. Hall, T. McCoy, J. McLaugh lin, J. K. Hall. ' e Freshman Class R. Sparrow W. P Nesbit, Wm. Martin, S. McKee. ' DEGREES CONFERRED. Besides the A.B.'s conferred on the graduating class, the degree of A. M. was given to Prof. C. R. Harding, of Hamp den Sidney College, Rev. F. P. Ramsay of Dublin, Va., and W. A. Withers of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station ; the degree of D.D. to Rev. Jno. W. Davis, of Soochow, China, and to Rev B F. Marable, of North Carolina; and the degree of LL.D. to John H. Rion, Esq of South Carolina. M THE CHAUTAUQUA And the Chantanquaiia. At early morning of June 10 the cars brought to Mt. Mitchell Hotel nearly a hundred interesting and fine-looking but very tired teachers and friends to educa tion. The forenoon was devoted to sleep and rest, but the hotel could hold them no longer. In the afternoon a number of parties ascended the peaks near by and re turned full of pleasure and overflowing with talk about, their first mountain trip On the following day the assembly was formally opened. Dr. R. II. Lewis was elected President Urn. in place of Prof Fray, deceased. After a short discussion the assembly adjourned to meet at ten the following day. Since then the teachers have enjoyed spirited discussions and instructive lec tures every morning. Occasional lectures have varied the order at 5 in the afternoon and -at evening. A few evenings since. Prof. Van Daell entertained us with an admirable lecture on language. This was followed next afternoon by Prof. Winston, who told in his most happy style of his travels "in other lands than ours." So well pleased were the Chautauquaus that he was unanimously requested to continue has story the following evening. The as sembly has enjoyed also a charming ad dress, a .talk to . teachers by Major Bing nam. Other addresses are to come now va. rapid succession, many of them by the most distinguished educators in the land. .The ' 't-f SECOND TRAIN . 4 : tame in on the 17th nd was crowded to its utmost capacity. Nearly 500 have en rolled: their names to date, representing sine States1 and Territories. And, it js said, a finer looking and more intellectual 4 body of ladies and; gentlemen ' hat never met in tne Old rnortn state. The hotel is situated in a most delight ful part olthe west. In everydirection the mountain peaks rise in sublime grandeur and the valleys between stretch away in the distance, lending beauty to the scene. The building is near the railroad, but the grounds are yet unfinished. It even now presents an attractive appearance, but when the designed terraces and gravel walks are completed it will be beautiful indeed. When the second train came the rush was immense. Think of putiing away 500 people in a hotel with a capacity for 300 1 Nevertheless it was done, for like the omnibus the hotel has always room for one more. All seem now to be comfortable and enjoying the affair to its greatest ex tent. Not a day passes but that some paity makes a visit to some point of inter est. Warm Springs, Waynesville, Ashe ville, Catawba Falls, and Mount Mitchell have already received numbers of visits. To-day Prof. Winston takes a delighted party of his old students to its summit. He leaves before the ladies rise, because he had promised 25 of them to take them on this trip, but has since decided to "tramp it with the boys.r' The Chautauqua is a grand institution. It will be of lasting pleasure and profit to the wearied teachers, and all will render praises to Mr. Harrell for his untiring efforts to make it what it is. CABARRUS COMPLAINTS Of Law-ITIaklnE and Law-Costs. Correspondence of the Ralkigh Register.! June 19, 1885. There is scarcely a ripple of news in town or in tbe county. The brakes have been put on the graded school question; a restraining order grant ed, restraining the county government from levying a graded school tax for this district. The people need, and if the people could get what they want, they would have some change in tbe judiciary branch of the gov ernment, by which the tax-payers would not have to board common thieves at pub lic expense. A negro stole two pounds of bacon last fall and was sent to the peni tentiary, at a cost to the county of $38. Another stole a buck saw, worth not more than 25 cents, and was sent to the peni tentiary for one year. He is now in jail for stealing bacon, and his accomplice (another pen negro) made his escape. The people are being educated to a sys tem that will give fewer terms of the legis lature and convictions of criminals at less cost. A term of the legislature every six years would be all that is necessary, and the Governor to hold his office six years. Let the members of the Legislature be elected one year, or six months at least, be fore the Legislature is to convene. I take no stock in evolution, but do in revolution, as far as saving money to the tax payers and meting out swift justice to criminals is concerned. Yours &c. , J. W. M. NOTES ABOUT PEOPLE. All Sorts and Conditions of Sen, Hon. Joseph J. Davis, of Franklin coun ty, and Samuel F. Mordecai, Esq., of Ral eigh, have been appointed by the Gover nor members of the Board of Internal Im provements. Visitor. Six vacancies in the Board of Trinity College Trustees were filled by the nomi nations of J. A. Gray, W. M. Robey, W. C. Norman, J. W. Reid, J. W. Mauuey and H. W. Spinks. Christian Advocate. E. C. Smith, Esq., has been elected as the orator of the day (4th of July), and D. Reid Upchurch, Eso., will read the Declaration of Independence. Rev. W. A. Nelson will officiate as Chaplain. Visiter. The most accommodating postma'ster in the United States is Mr. B. F. Goode, in charge of the office at Hull's X Roads. Some of our subscribers at that office complain of receiving their papers irregu larly. Mr. Goode writes us: "As soon as I can Get my crop laid by I will Try and Get me a Gentle Horse and hitch him to my Buggy and go round and Take the people's papers to them to keep from hav ing my House being advertised in the Lin coln press." Lincoln Press. Mr. E. J. Hale and family left here on Tuesday morning via Wilmington en route for Manchester, England. Mr. Hale, af ter spending a day or so in Washington, will, by invitation, visit Lowell and Bos ton. He has made his preparations to sail on the City of Richmond, of the Inman line, on the 25th inst. No better retire- sentative for our cotton interest could have been selected ; he is a man of great culture and refinement; a student of po litical economy, appreciates the position to which he has been called, and will so di rect his course that the appointment will receive universal commendation. Fay etteville Observer. General Pierce M. B. Young, of Geor gia, Consul-General at St. Petersburg, was in New York a few days ago. He is one of the Southern men who retain the dashing air that was associated in public thought with the chivalry of 1860. He is as straight as an arrow and walks as if treading on air. His whole career has been of the hot-headed, blazing sort that is admired, but never pointed out as an example to youth. He was within a month of graduating at West Point when the war broke out, but resigned and entered the cavalry branch of the rebel army. He was an officer of distinction, and won a Major-General's position by fighting. There is a story current, of a charge he" made down a railroad cut to capture a strongly posted Federal battery. It is said to have been as gallant as Balaklava, although the guns were only in front. As he swept along at the head of a thousand troopers, one of his associates in command said': " This is not war, it is suicide; do you re alize what you are doing?" "I do in- aeea,' was the light response. "Ill be a major-ueneral or in blank in half an nour," ana be carried the storm. New York Tribune. battery by ' Forty years ago this very month, when but nine years ofe age I drove a market cart to this city, and for years continued to come and go, bringing from Currituck eggs, chickens, &c, and carrying home necessary supplies for family use. The world moves, and the market carts of those days have given way to railroads and steamboats, which ply the rivers and which build up your wharves. And you, my friends, are entertaining to-night one of the market boys of old Currituck. The change has been wrought, as my old friend would have it, by such friends as I am surrounded with this evening. In 1865 I became almost a wanderer in your city May, 1865, passing along Mam street pen niless and unknown, I was accosted by a German clothier, who said: "Mine frent dont you want a suit of clothes! " I knew of no one who wanted them more than I did, but how should I get a suit of clothes with not a penny in my pocket? I told him yes, and explained my impoverished condition, when be asked: "Are you one of the fellows who went to the wars and T8t "ing home?" "Yes," said I Then come and, get . a suit," said he and pay me when you get the money." And," said the Governor, "I don't think he ever regretted letting me have that unit." Governor Jarvis at Norfolk Ban- ( WW. I , hi?). IN TWENTY STATES. A Busy New Yorker Tb.lrtv-davr ffotea If you would know what your home is. gu iruui u. jhh monin on ancj slide over railways, tripping tip nights at hotels. You will again cross your door-sill and enter the serenity of your home as a chip comes upon the smooth stream after dancing in the rapids of the whirlpool If you are getting tired of your wall paper and wish your bedroom was in some other corner, if your coffee has deteriorated and your domestic atmosphere has grown cloudy, go away and live at hotels. It is wonderful what a rubbing up of every thing you will see upon your return. Kindness and beauty will look out from every crevice and corner of your dwelling, and every old familiar piece of furniture will welcome you back to a renovated home. You will feel like shaking hands, even with the andirons. yes, go away! You will enjoy the going, and perhaps your family will enjoy it still more. At sundown, at the end of your first day's ride, as you are within a half or quarter mile of the station, the passengers will all rise and stand in the aisles, holding their sticks, wraps and bags, ready to jump to elude the police that must be after them. You will stand too, though not conscious of evil done or intended. Then, as the train stops, nobody escapes ; 'all have lost courage and shuffle slowiy down the steps and are arrested by the porters and hack men. Once in the omnibus, it takes a slow and easy start and suddenly turns a corner with a jerk that nearly dislocates your neck and twists the points of the compass half round before you can under stand what the mischief is, albeit you had been keeping the line of North and South at much mental labor all day. You are rolled and trundled along over a dirt road and then a Macadamized and a cobble pavement, till finally you are tipped at a perpendicular against the chief hotel of the city, not upside down, but right side wrong. You walk in with a half-questioning foot-step. The clerk behind his coun ter has an idea of your object,and mechan ically turns and pushes towards you a register in which you write your name. Your autograph being made in a hand that looks back to you with a piteous novelty, is subjected to a brief incantation and the mystic figures, "99," are written against you. " Show the gentleman to ninety nine," shouts the clerk, and the boy, taking your bag and looking straight into the floor before him, proceeds to the staircase while you step into the elevator. You meet on the third floor and enter your room. At your right is your bed, with mosquito net ; beyond, on same side, is your wash-stand with bowl and pitcher. At your left is your bureau with looking-glass and, be yond, on same side, a small table. Three chairs, promiscuously placed, completes the furniture. .You have a high, white ceiling over you, a pink carpet under your feet, and around you is a neatly papered wall. Over your entrance door is a tran som, and opposite is a large window look ing into the street. You are thus enabled to have a draft from the hall to the outer atmosphere. In the left wall is a closed door, used only when families or friends occupy both rooms. This room now is your hired CASTLE FOR A NIGHT. But you are still a passenger, a guest only while taking breath. You are to rest with lights burning in the hall and people passing your door. After ridding your self of some of the soot and dust of the road by use of the brush and basin, and refreshing yourself with cool and clean linen, you proceed to meet the demands of your appetite. You learn from a printed card on your door that you may take your tea any time between six and eight o'clock ; that upon leaving your room you are to lock the door and leave the key at the office; that the proprietor will not be le sponsible for valuables or clothing left in the room; that there is a safe in the office where you may deposit valuables; and vou are also advised that for this room, with meals, you are to pay $3.50 a day. As you reach the airy and spacious dining room, you see a score or more of square tables covered by white spreads. From one hundred to two hundred guests could be accommodated at a time, eight at a table, comfortably. But few are here now and they are scattered Just as you have crossed the threshold a fine, senatorial looking head -waiter politely bows and leads you to a seat. Next comes the wait er in charge and places a bill of fare be- lore you and stands for orders. Between so much that is unknown and so much that is uncertain, you hesitate, but finally make your choice and take your meal in silent contemplation. Here and there you observe conversation between members of families or friends who are seated by them selves. With a few such exceptions, all is a single-handed combat, and every one is devoted to his own thoughts and his own tea and toast. Having finished, you walk out feeling a little as if you were on the deck of a steamer or the floor of a skating rink. A little cup of wood toothpicks stands by the door, and as you pass out you take your pick of a pick and enter the hall with this symbol of wants satisfied. You pass the " Reading Room," but you see nothing to read except bills and ad vertisements of dealers, manufacturers and railways. Some are nicely framed, and others are in volumes that are worn and torn. Several guests are intently writing at a large double desk. It is a rather quiet, rather barren place, and you walk farther, nere you come to the "parlor."' It is nicely upholstered, curtained, papered and carpeted, but there is no heart in it, no home light, no sun light, and but very little gas light. A gentleman sits on one side and two ladies in the farther corner. They seem strangers to the world and to each other, and to have been banished here under a sentence from which there is no escape. You go on to the large hall into which you first alighted and where guests come and go. Here is A CHANCE FOR STUDY AND IMPROVEMENT. You can read as many legends as there are people before you. You judge one by what he is saying, another by what he is not saying; one by his style of standing, another by his mode of scanning the com pany. Three gentlemen sit in a row on a fixed seat. One reads a newspaper; the next, under the bloom of a complacent smile, is looking into the fluting of the column before him and humming out his happy thoughts as they run. Perhaps the subject is a bargain of business; it may be a bargain of life more likely the latter. The third is lost among the scant frescoes that branch out from the column overhead and his mind is evidently far away. Here is a young man sitting diagonally on his chair, his hat poised over his right eye, the head of his cane between his thumb and finger and the ferule on the tip of his shoe. He is at present strufftrlinrr with nn great problem, but is simply thinking how he shall spend the evening. He is matched by another who stands with both hands in his pockets and eyes fixed upon emptiness as if waiting for his picture. And here are two men who do not wait for opinions to be formed slowly. They compel you to know by their active demonstrations and words that they are oracles and umpires Gentlemen in passim? out anrl in Uhe checkered marble floor. One nicks his teeth, another twirls his cane, another twists his moustache, another strokes his chin and whiskers, and some do the whole The entire scene is a sort of world in min iature. After a little you feel as if vou should be turning your time to some account either for yourself or your friends ; but you are not in the mood.or condition for writ ing or reading, and you have no friend to visit or talk with. So you walk a few blocks by gaslight and return, feeling that a night's rest is the first best thing fa. tb world. Again tin your room, jon nofiee. the electric pehj knob and some pf its uses. Oneimsh prlfiag wrfrinyyon waiter? two. will bring you waiter with ice water. You determine to try it, and give the knob two gentle depression8.Almoat to your sumrise. ere two minutes" have eemingly elapsed, you hear the tinkling of ice with in a pitcner' turning up 10 your uoor. Here it is, indeed, and being refreshed, you are soon upon your pillow, which, though strange, holds your head with a gentle and kindly touch, and you are quickly in oblivion. You have been told on your door that breakfast is from seven to nine. At six in the morning you are half awake and have a notion of a door shutting and of steps in the hall. Yon doze along for nearly an hour with occasional interludes of vehicles in the street and voices faintly mingled with the sounds of early traffic. The-lodger next room rattles his tooth brush in his cup, thumps his pitcher against his basin, and clears his throat with a so rt of giant grim cough. It is of no use to hold the fort longer. You capit ulate, get up and bathe and go through the motions of your toilet as if you felt hardly well enough acquainted with the room and what is within and around it to feel as easy as you would at home. But there is no body looking in at the third-story window from the street or through your transom ; and as for your hall door and the one con necting with the next room, you see they are both bolted on your side. At your convenience you are once more at the entrance to the dining-room and are again politely shown to your place. First upon the list is "fruit," and you find-a sweet orange a pleasant preparation for your chosen breakfast of oatmeal, steak and coffee. You cannot fail to observe some of the different ways in which THE ORANGE 18 EATEN. One takes it iri his hands, and, with his fingers only, picks off the rind and parts it into its natural lobes or sections which are eaten as so many plums or peaches. Another cuts and turns the peel with his knife, and then proceeds to dissect and eat the pulp. Another, without disturb ing the rind, bisects the orange equator wise, obtaining complete northern and southern hemispheres, and then drinks or sucks from each as from a cud. Another still uses the two hemispheres as small bowls, and, with a spoon, sips their con tents as if luxuriating on ice-cream or cup custard. You see the boy puncturing the orange at the north pole. By squeezing tne iruit, ne win at that point suck and drink its contents. But the steak, the corn-cake and the coffee are the great requisites, and you will hnd them of various sorts so various that the traveling world has a never exhausted luud in them for conversation and com plaint. After stopping at many leading hotels in dinerent parts of the country you will find more to commend than con demn ; and if you are in a mood to find enjoyment wherever you go, you will not often scold the waiter or make severe re marks about the fare. The truth is, that THE GUEST IS OFTEN TOUGHER than the steak of which he complains; and sometimes of the two the steak is the less rare. A case in point. It is that of business traveler at the best hotel in small western city where lady waiters serve the table. It is an exceptionally clean and bright house, and there is an evident ef fort on the part of proprietor and employes to please guests. The traveler ordered his breakfast with dignified authority, and in due time and in good order it was placed before him. He looked at each dish in turn, as though it had been taken from a pair of allopathic saddle-bags, and then nxing nis eye upon the steak, which, though apparently of excellent "cut seemed the particular object of bis SDleen. he pushed it from him with an expression tuat startiea the poor girl into a succession ol blushes and hesitations. Without word of defence or excuse in its favor, the condemned dish was removed at the bid .1 : . c j , . uiug ui lue urummer, wno sat the very autocrat of the breakfast-table. The same haughty traveler was noticed afterwards at one of the largest and finest hotels in the country, looking "as meek as Moses A long time may elapse before we have a perfect system of hotel keeping. As per a current aaage, it takes more than suari man io Keep a notei. it is more than an ordinary business; it is a profes sion. The manager of a hotel should be bred or trained to his position, and should know and appreciate everything about his esiaoiisnmeut, trom the kitchen to th dining-room, and from the dormitory to ine orawing-room, without having to ask aujr assistant or menial li a thing should be thus or so. The numberless and name less little things that enter into the making up oi a sausiactory and delightful enter tainment of guests will not fall into line and do tnemselves because of a grand nosieiry ana a large retinue of servants If the manager dees not himself know us much as his employes and does not follow them in their duties he will never be sure of success, but on the contrary will be sub ject to iriction and lailure. Hotel life needs reform. It should be made less exacting, less extravagant and less wasteful. Hotel keepers have catered to artincial wants, and the public have re sponded in a way to encourage such cater ing. We pay for more than we consume, and we consume more than we need. A large part of the expense of hotel keeping and hotel living is an expense of absolute waste. vve need simplicity in public tastes and customs that shall be product ive of health, economy and integrity. The best hotels are the best places at which to Degin needed reforms in living. A. S. R. SARAH WALKER'S RECOVERY. Her Acquaintance With Scotty Brlga. New York Suu.J Two of the three stories contained in the latest volume, " By Shore and Sedge," of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s 18mo edition of Bret Harte's writings, appeared origi nally in the Sun. Our readers remember small Sarah Walker, who, when thev thought she was dying, sent for " Scotty," the barkeeper at the summer hotel. The nurse tells the story, and it is worth print ing again : "Bring him," says the docthor, "at once." And they bring him in wid all the mus tachios and moighty fine curls of him, and his diamonds, rings, and pins all a glis tening just like his eyes when he set 'em on that suffering saint. "Is it anything you're wantin', Sarah dear ? " sez he, thryin' to spake firm. And Sarah looks at him, and then looks at al tumblar on the table. "Is it a bit of cocktail, the likes of the one I made for ye last Sunday unbe knownst ? " sez he, looking round mortal afraid of the parents. And Sarah Wal ker's eyes said "It is." Then the minis ther groaned, but the docthor jumps to his feet. "Bring it," sez he, "and howld your jaw, an' ye's a christian sowl." And he brought it. An' afther the first sip fhe child lifts herself up on one arm and sez, with a swate smile and a toss of the glass: " I looks toward you, Scotty," sez she. "I observes you and bows, miss," sez he, makin' as if he was drinkin' wid her. " Here's another nail in your coffin, old man," sez she, winkin'. "And here's the hair all off your head, miss," sez he, quite aisily, tossiu' back the joke betwixt them. And with thai she drinks it off, and lies down and goes, to sleep like a lamb and wakes up wid de. rosy, dawn in her cheeks and the tnorthal sickness gone forever, - Thus Sarah . Walker .reco vered. HAS ART STATU BEEN SLIGHTED 1 Appointments Alreaar Blade Consid ered Geographically. . New York Sun Washington Letter. An Illinois journalist, who is here in quest of a consulate, has been studying the question of geography in appointments ery closely, with a view to ascertaining whether or not Secretary Bayard is follow ing any method, and what his own chances may be under a geographical scheme. His groupings, of names and figures by States are interesting. The list to date stands: KW TOBK. i Turkey, Minister Cox $10,nu Chili, Minister Roberts lo,U00 Hayti, Minister Thompson .'." s'ooo Second Secretary of Paris Legation Jay h,mn Havre, Consul Dubois. 3ittu(, Ottawa (Can.), Consular Agent Hotchkiss -j,',mw Bremen, Consul Loening i.mto Dundee, Consul Wood 2 son Belleville (Can.), Consul Strong 2,M Chili, Secretary Legation Seibert I .vm Tien Tsin, Interpreter Bertrand l 200 St. Johns (Can.), Consul Bertrand l'sou Total 1 47,S4 OHIO. Germany, Minister Pendleton $17,700 Frankfort, Consul-General Mueller 3,oo Amoy, Consul-General Crowell Honolulu, Consul-General Putnam.. 3noo Birmingham, Consnl Hughes 200 Total .$29,T0O MARYLAND. France, Minister McLane 11700 Berlin, Consul-General Raine 4 ooo Leeds, Consul Wigfall... ajiwo Total .(23,i00 INDIAKA. China, Minister Denby $12 sou Sweden, Minister Magee 7MM Persia, Minister Hanna " 5 uon Total..... 2400 IUTUCKT. Peru, Minister Buck J10,00 Switzerland, Minister Boyd 5,oo Eanagawa, Consul Greene .". 4,001) Total 819,000 VERMONT. England, Minister Phelps $17,00 MICH1UAN. Russia, Minister Lothrop $17,$ou VIRGINIA. Austria, Minister Keiley , J12,00 nemg aong, consul witners 6,900 Total $17iK) SOUTH CAROLINA. Paraguay, 4c, harge d Affaires Bacon $ 5,JU Meiwturne, (consul Morgan 4,44 V.11PUIWUZ, consul tanner 2,j Cologne, Consul Warner 2,jo legucigalpa. Consul Prmgle 2,m lotai 8l.5,x NORTH CAROLINA. Brazil, Minister Jarvis $12,uu) Manchester, Consul Hale 'A,M 1 oral $15,OU TEXAS. Japan, Minister Hubbard $12,0u Hamburg, Consul Lang 2,500 Total $14.00 LOUISIANA. Bolivia, Minister Seay $5, Koumania, ic, Minister Fearn liOO Paris, Secretary Legation Vignaud 2,650 -Total $14450 ALABAMA. Venezuela, Minister Scott $7,6110 ivio jaueiro, Armstrong 6,000 Cardenas, Consul Foard 2,400 Total $16,KK GEORGIA. Mexico, Minister Jackson $12,j CONNECTICUT. London, Consul-General Waller $6,000 Liverpool, Consul-General Russell 6,000 Nice, Consul-General Hathaway 1,400 Total $13,00 WISCONSIN. Montreal, Consul-General Anderson 4,00 Nuremberg, Consul Black 2,000 Prague, Consul Jonas 2,000 Total- $8,00 MISSOURI. Halifax. Consul-General Phelan Jttam Mexico, Consul-General Ewing 2,000 lorunio, consul-general Wagner 2,) Consular-Clerk Vest -2,000 Total.. $9,W NIW JERSEY. rortugai, t onsul-General Lewis $5,00 Rotterdam, Consul Stockton 2,900 Total $7,000 RHODE ISLAND. Netherlands, Minister Bell $7,400 - NEVADA. Hawaii, Minister Merill $701 ILLINOIS. V lenna. Consul Jussen Cta Leghorn, Consul Sartori 1,400 Total $4,400 PENNSYLVANIA. Athens. Consul Gross Sa.moo Stuttgart, Consul Kimball l.ioti Plaso del Norte, Consul Biigham... l,oo I 'h n l.v,,n.ann f 1 . vnwivircwwL, a;uui neuu 1,4HJU Total. $7,400 NEW HAMPSHIRE. Sherbrooke. Consul Lucke 42 J Matanzas, Consul Pearce 3,000 Iotal $0,4011 ARKANSAS. Hamilton, Consul Welch $2,000 DELAWARE. Nuremberg, Consul Black $2,WO TENNESSEE. , St. Galle, Consul Staub .. $200 CALIFORNIA. Apia, Consul Green baum $1,400 The more the figures are studied the more apparent it becomes that, all things : ,1 1 : . 1 - . -, . - wuucreu, it is u pretty lair uisiriDUUOD 01 patronage as far as it has gone. NO SNIVEL SERVICER. Genuine Reformer of the Civil Service, New York Sun. Without making any extraordinary fust over tne work, tne Secretary of the Treas ury is carrying on an extensive and mass practical reform in that part of the civil service which is immediately under his control. In the Internal Revenue Bureau, for ex ample, he has reduced the force in three months so as to save the Government about half a million dollars in salaries hitherto paid to unnecessary officeholders. Further retrenchment, it is believed, will result in an annual saving of a million dollars in this overgrown and extravagant branch of me liuuiiu service, wiinoui in tne least os gree interfering with the legitimate bnsi ness of the bureau. " Nothing like it has been seen in Wash ington for years. It is real reformthe sort of reform that the people call for. 1 ue same tning is true in tne otner di visions of the department. Secretary Manning is reducing the tax paid indirect ly by every citizen of the United States for the support of the Government. He is applying business principles to the man agement of the Treasury. He is sending the tax eaters away to earn their own liv ing. This involves the dismissal of hundreds of Republican officeholders, to whom, per haps, according to the theories of the self styled reformers of the civil service, there ought to be assured a life tenure, with funeral expenses paid afterward bv the Government. Mr. Manning finds them alive and superfluous, and out they go. ! 1 nerein is tne aiiterence between genu ne reform and humbug. OUR NEW DIPLOMATISTS Don't Get Out of Very Hot Water. . New York Herald Cable Message. I hive the best authority foir statins that Mr. Keiley, the recently appointed American Minister, will not be eranted an exequatur by the Austrian government, in spite of the efforts of the ultra-montanes, who sympathize with him in his hatred f Victor EmmanueL whose natural son is now Italian Ambassador here and a warm personal friend of the Austrian Emrjeror. The latter holds a more favorable position here at Court than any Ambassador except the German, who. beinsr the mouthoieoe of Prince Bismarck, commands attention. The inevitable unpleasant relations be tween tne Italian Ambassador and Mr. Keiley, would. make it so disagreeable for both, as well aa for the Austrians. that it haa been decided, to cut the matter short by refusing the exequatur. Besides, Mr. Keiley's wife is a Jewess, and i Jewesses are not received at Court a THE CONSn. AT PRA(ii-F. I. also learn that the Austria,, f,v ment fears tW fm .u. " -fJVrti ble will come in th. t,;, troi Charles .Tonna a ij..L't r. . fjpointnu'nt ,,f ir 1 "vuicn ui Doncni traction, to the imnortxnt n ., iui (-X- Pe. Mr. . Jonas went' g 1860 to escape military service l he returned to Austria as a nam a ', citizen of the United States. This u previous to the existence of the ,rc guaranteeing the rights of America , hf zens born Austrian subjects H !!' promptly arrested and afterward reli-.? not at the demand but at the inte ' of the American Minister wbth the treaty was the strongest acti,,n tZ the American Minist-.r .m " ,n ,h lt Mich m. r '.-." ""Iy m . - 'ixiias returned to ica, where, as editor of a (i,.,,.,.. .Miier- paper in Racine Wi- ti, liill new. plained that he covered the Austria,, Era" peror and government with violent Hbu' and he has now returned to Austria nr,' tected bv his official OUR SENIOR SENATOR Talks of North Carolina Politic. Baltimore Sun Special. J Among the recent callers on the Pn-,i dent was Senator Ransom, of North C' ,ro hna. The Senator recently arrived in 'this city to urge the claims of several of 1 is constituents who are applicants for office His relations with the President are vd to be of the most friendly character ind his suggestions usually receive marked consideration. After the Senator came away from the White House he said to . representative of the Huh that he had just arrived from home, where he had Vf, everything pertaining to politics in pretty good shape. North Carolinians, as a ru, are well pleased with the administration and its methods of transacting the ,,l,lic business... He said he was te,,,t,d to make a speech before leaving-h,,1,,,,. .,,, tell those of his people who think chan.v are not being made rapidlv enough that there is no ground for their complaint, especially so far as North Carolina N ,". cerned. He only restrained himself lo calise he thought it might look as thouH, iiu vas attempting to vindicate an adn um- lstration that needs no vindimt said he was in favor of turning out of office all Republicans and appointing iu their places efficient Democrats, and thev would all have to go if he could have hU way. Unfortunately the civil service law stands upon the statute book, and it woiiid scarcely do to go behind it. The 1'resi dent had sworn to execute the laws as he finds therh, and no good Democrat would be willing to have their President commit perjury. The Senator believed that the President has but one object in view---to give the whole country an honest and a good government. He does not aspire to Ktuuu term anu probably woul Ilot auuej-ii, a reuomiuation under stances; indeed, if the truth any circum were known. ne would probably say that he is already tired of being President. Referring to the cabinet, the Senator said the Prei., nt has surrounded himself with an aide corps of advisers selected from the various sec tions of the country. He has been ei tremely liberal with the South in the dis tribution of offices both at home and abroad. The Senator cited several in stances to show that in almost every batch of presidential nominations the South rc ceived ample recognition. REVIVALIST JONES ON WHISKY. He Ought to Fight Internal Re venae. From a Report iu the Atlanta Constitution.; I believe liquor is a good thing in its place, and I believe its place is in hell. If I was in hell I might drink it, but so help me God I never will on this earth drink it again. Some fellows say don't mix politics aud religion. When you hear a fellow talk that way you may know he hasn't got any religion to mix. I would mix religion with politics, but not politics with re ligion. A little religion will help politics. It will make it clean and decent. We want truth, justice, and temperance mixed with politics in this State. 1 spoke to the Legislature of Tennessee on this subject the other day. They are talking about a constitutional amendment on the liquor question up there. We want this question cleared up beyond the reach of these lit tle cross-roads Judges, who hop up every now and then and say something is uncon stitutional. We want to do away with such Judges and put decent men of brains and character in their places. You can't reform a State until you send good men to the Legislature. Some men come to every Legislature that meets in Georgia that ain't fit to go to the chain gatiLj. If you refuse to help suppress the infa mous wrong that is being done by whisky, you are rotten yourself. Some of you here don't know me. I speak plainly. 1 use words you can understand. Now vou can take the Latin word decayed and it won't faze a fellow. If vou take the food old Anglo-Saxon word rotten you can cut his head off. lou see, 1 choose niv words. Of course there are always some little spelling-book critics sitting around, who will go back on a fellow's grammar. I wouldn't mind being swallowed by a whale, but I would hate to be nibbled to death by minnows. Whiskey is not good for oneahiiig in this world for which there is dm some thing else that is better. If the tW ever comes when they say to me: 'You'll u if you don't drink whisky," I will say. "Get my shroud ready." I mean to me sober. If a fellow gets so low that noth ing but liquor will save him, I am ready to preach his funeral sermon. If there is in this vastaudience one man or woman who never had u relative 01 loved one hurt or ruined by whisky, I want him or her to stand up right now. You have all had a brother, or a sou. or a father, or a son-in-law ruined by whisky. My goodness, these sons-in-law! I'd rather have a boa constrictor around my neck than to have a drunken son-in-law. The devil can't do any worse than that. Some of vou old hypocrites that are dillydallying with the whisky question are goiug u p1-' caught just that way. The devil is going to slip up on you with a drunken sou-i" law, and I'll bet he will make you a pro hibitionist with a vengeance. God despises a coward. 1 haa raiui. die at the mouth of a cannon doing m duty than to run away from it because! was afraid. God intrusts all the uohlt causes on this earth to men w ho are gn"; I don't mean to talk here more than nan an hour. If any of you fellows get u" you know the way home. W e wouiuu have missed you if you hadn tcome ai Love's Varieties Practically Tented- New York Sun. "Do I love George," mused Clara, soft- lv, "or is it simplv a sister's affection I feel for " " . ... Just then Bobbv burst noisily into I"1 medita- room and interrupted her sweet tions. "Get out of here, you little brat. she she shouted, and seizing him by tne arm shot him through the door. , "Ah. no." she sighed, as sue her interrupted train of thought, "my for George is not a sisters iovi. something sweeter, purer, higher, holier." . Tie Small Boy Always Hemdfitta' (Harper's Weekly-J neacon " Bovsl bovs! VOU should" i ,o.ki luu Sunday's a day " taj UW-UMJ. s. . rest, you know." .. but Spokesman" Yes, sir, we knows it, we ain't tired, sir."
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