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(gtster. By P- H. HAIiS. ADVERTISING BATES. office: . - Advertisements will be inserted for One Dollar per square (one inch) forthe first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of the l RALEIGH REGISTER, r.i'U'v ilk-:., Seooud Floor Fisher Building. RVTES OF SUBSCRIPTION I ,. year, mu t'T- 1 .w) tuatia til .2 00 0' -. ." .th mailed nost-DaM... 1 00 i ,T ill".."--, v , name cutered without payment, and VOL. II. Second Floor of Fishen, Building, Fayetteville RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1885. NO. 88. ' .,lt after expiration of Umt paid for. no ;"Per ' - Street, next to Market House. THE LIFE LEDGER. Nineteenth Century.! Our sufferings we reckon o'er With skillndnute and formal, The cheerful ease that fills the score We treat as merely normal. Our list of Ms, how f uU, how great 1 We mourn our lot should fall so. , 1 wonder, do we calculate Our bappineeses also ! Were it not best to keep account Of all days, if of any ? Perhaps the dark ones might amount To not so very many. 1 Men's looks are nighjas often gay - - As sad or even solemn i Behold, my entry for to-day Is in the " happy column." A STOBV OF SEVEN DKVILS. the ItlOIl ;v R. Stockton in November " Century." The ncro church which stood - in the woods near the little village of Or- 5...1 Pruts Roads, in one of the lower counties of Virginia, was presided over by anelderlv individual, known to the com munity in general as Uncle Pete; but on -Jundav the members of his congregation addressed him as Bruddcr Peter. He was an earnest and energetic man and. although would neither read nor write,he had for . v,.irs exnounded the Scriptures to a,, citisfuction of his hearers. His mem ,,'rv as pood, and those portions of the n:"i.io -hirh from time to time he had heard read were used by him, and frc ,k with nowerful effect, in his ser- 1 ' His interDretations of the Scrip tures were generally entirely original, and ... made to suit the needs, or what he wDDOsid to be the needs, of his congre- ii "whether as " Uncle Pete " in the garden ...1 rn.ficl(l.()r "Brudder Peter" in the church, he enjoyed the good opinion of crervbodv excepting one person, and that was his wife. She was a high-tempered and somewhat dissatisfied person.who had conceived the idea that her husband was the habit of giving too mucn lime to church and too little to the acqui of com -bread and pork. On acer- . i . .. 1. MirA Kim o TnAcf trpmprr. tain ?aiurua sue yt Jous scolding, which so affectel the spir its of the good man that it influenced his JecWion iif regard to the selection of the subject for his sermon next day. t His congregation wjis accustomed to bein? astonished, and rather liked it, but never before had their minds received such :, shock as when the preacher announced :ne subject of his discourse. He did not mke anv particular text for this was not Sis custom, but he boldly stated that the Bible declared rtiat every woman in this world was possessed of seven devils; and ;he evil that this state of things had brought upon the world he showed forth with'much warmth and feeling. Subject matter, principally from his own experi ence, crowded in upon his mind, and he served it out to his audience hot and strong. If Lis deductions could have been proved to be correct, all women were creatures who, by reason of their seven fold diabolic posses sions, were not capable of independent thought or action, Mid who should in tears and humility place themselves absolutely under the authority of the other sex. When he approached the conclusion of his sermon. Brother Peter closed with a bans the Bible, which, although he could not read a word of it, always lay open be fore him while he preached, and delivered the concluding exhortation of his scr- "Xow, my dear brev'ren ob dis congre gation,'' he said, "I want you to undcr stan' dat dar's nuffin in dis yer sarmon wot tou'vc jus' heerd ter make you think you sefs aDgels. By no means, brev'ren ; you was all brung up by wimmen, an? you've, got ter lib wid 'em, an' ef anythin' in dis ver worl' is ketchin', my dear brev'ren, it's habin debbils, an' from wot I've seen ob some ob de men ob dis worl' I 'specs dey is persest ob bout all a oeDDiis uey goi room fur. But de Bible don' say naffin p'intedly on de subjec' ob de number ob debbils in man, an' I 'specs dose dat's got 'em an' we ought ter feel pow' fnl thankful,my dear brev"ren,dat de Bible don' sav we all's got 'em has 'em 'cordin to sarcumstances. But wid de wimmen it's dif'rent; dey's got jus' seben, an'bless my soul, brev'ren, I thinks dat's 'nuff. " While I was a-turnin'oberin my min' de subjec' ob dis sarmon, dere comes ter me abitob Scripter wot I heerd at a big pacbin' an' baptizin' at Kyarter's Mills, bout ten year' ago. One ob e'e preachers was a-tellin' about ole muddier Ebe a-eat-in" dc apple, an'isays he: De sarpint fus' come alonnrwid a red apple, an' says he: You gib dis yer ter your husban,' an' he think it so mighty good dat when he done eat it he gib you anything you ax him fur, ef you tell him whar de tree is. Ebe, she took one bite, an' den she frew dat apple away. Wot you mean, you tri flin' sarpint, says she, a-fotchin' me dat apple wot ain' good fur nuffin but ter make cider wid. Den de sarpint he go fotch her a yaller apple, an' she took one bite an' den gays she: Go 'long wid ye, you fool sarpint, wot you fotch me dat June apple wot ain't got no taste to it! Den de sar pint he think she like sumpin' sharp an he fotch her a green apple. She takes one bite ob it, an' den ihe f rows it at his head, an' sings out: Is you 'spectin me to gib Tat apple to yer Uncle Adam, an' gib him de colic? Den de debbil he fotch hera hdv-apple, but she say she won't take no ,su h triflin' nubbins as dat to her husban', W she took one bite ob it, an' frew it away. T)(!n he cro fotch her two udder kin' ob apples, one yaller wid red stripes, :t it de udder one red on one side an' green on tie udder. mighty good lookin' apples, t do kin' you git two dollars a bar'l fur at the store. But Ebe, ' she wouldn't h ave neider ob cm. an' when she done took ' iie bite out ob each one, she frew it away ben de ole debbil-samint. he, scratch he h-ud, an' he say to hese'f : Dis yer Ebe, -he pow'f ul 'ticlar, 'bout her apples. Reck- 1:1 1 II have ter wait till after fros', an fot( h her a real good one. An' he done wait till after fros'. and den he fotch her ;i Albemarle pippin, an' when she took one bite ob dat. she iuV cro an' eat it all x-k core, seeds, an' all. Look hyar, sar pint, sayR she, hab you got anudder ob (ein apples in Your pocket? An' den he look one out, an' gib it to her. ''Cuse me,- nays she, ' IVgwine ter look up Adam, ( f he don' want ter know war de tree is w-ot dese apples grow on, you kin hab him fur a cawn-iiel' ban', " "An" now, my dear brev'ren," said Brother Peter, while I was a-turnin' dis fculjjec' ober in my min", an' wonderin' how de w immen come to hab jus' seben deb hils apiece, 1 done reckerlect dat bit ob seripter wot I heerd at Kyarter's Mills, ri' 1 rcckin dat 'splains hew de debbils got '"ter woman'. .De sarpint' he done fotch 'nudder Ebe seben apples; ' an''ebery one kiie takes a bite out ob gib her a debbil." As might have been expected, this st r-1 mon produced a great sensation, and made a deep impression on the congregation. As a rule the men were tolerable well satisfied with it; and when the services were over many of them made it the occasion oPshy but very plainly pointed remarks to their female friends and relatives. But the women did not like it at all. Some of them became angry and talked very forcibly, and feelings of indignation soon spread among all the, sisters of the church. If their minister Jiad seen fit to stay at home and preach a sermon "like this to his own wife (who, it may be re marked, was not present on this occasion), it would have been well enough, provided ne naa maae no allusion to outsiders; but to come there and preach such things to mem was entirely too much for their endu rance. Each one of the women knew she had not seven devils, and onlv a few of them would admit of the possibility of any oi tne others being possessed by quite bo many. Their preacher's explanation of the man ner in which every woman- came to be pos sessed of just so many devils appeared to them of little importance. What they objected to was the fundamental doctrine of his sermon, which was based on lus as sertTon that the Bible declared every wo man had seven devils. They were not willing to believe that the Bible -said any such thing. Some of them went so far as to state it was their opinion that Uncle Pete had got this fool notion from some of the lawyers at the court-house when he was on a jury a month or so before. It was quite noticeable that, although Sun day afternoon had scarcely begun, the ma jority of the women of the congregation called their minister Uncle Pete. This was very strong evidence of" a sudden de cline in his popularity. Some of the more vigorous-minded wo men, not seeing their minister among the other people in the clearing in front of the log church, went to look for him, but he was not to be found. His wife had order ed him to be home early, and soon after the congregation had been dismissed he departed by a short cut through the woods. That afternoon an irate committee, com posed principally of women, but including also a few men who had expressed disbe lief in the new doctrine, arrived at the cabin of their preacher, but found there only his wife, cross-grained old Aunt Re becca. She informed them that her hus band was not at home. 'He's done 'gaged hisse'f," she said, " ter cut an' haul wood fur Kunnel Mar tin ober on Little Mount'n fur de whole ob nex' week. It's fourteen or thirteen mile' from h'yar, an' ef he'd started ter morrer mawnin', he'd los' a'mos" a whole day. 'Sides dat, I done tole him dat ef he git dar tcr-night he'd have his supper frowed in. Wot you all want wid him ? Gwine ter pay him fur preachin' ?" Any such intention as this Was instan taneously denied, and Aunt Rebecca was informed of the subject upon which her visitor had come to have a very plain talk with her husband Strange to say, the announcement of the new and startling dogma had apparently no disturbing effect upon Aunt Rebecca On the contrary, the old woman seemed rather to enjoy the news. " Reckin he oughter know all "bout dat," she said. "He's dune had free wives, an' he ain't got rid o' dis one yit." Judging from her chuckles and wag gings of the head when she made this re mark, it might be imagined that Aunt Re becca was rather proud of the fact that her husband thought her capable of ex hibitms? a different kind of diabolism ev- crv day in the week. The leader of the indignant church members was Susan Henry, a mulatto wo man of a very independent turn of mind She prided herself that she never worked in anybody's house but her own, and this immunity from outside service gave her certain preeminence among her sisters. Not only did Susan share the general re sentment with which the startling state ment of old Peter had been received, but she felt that its promulgation had affected her position in' the community. II every woman was possessed by seven devils then, in this respect, she was no better nor worse than any of the others; and at this her proud heart rebelled. If the preacher had said some women-had eight devils and others six,, it would have been better. She mio-ht then have made a mental arrange ment in reeard to her relative position which would have somewhat consoled her, But now there was no chance for that The words of the preacher had equally debased all women. "A meeting of the disaffected church members was held the next night at Susan Henrv's cabin, or rather in the little yard about it, for the house was not large enough to hold the people who attended it. The meeting was not regularly organized, but everybody said what ne or sne naa to say, and the result was a great deal of clamor, and a general increase or indignation against Uncle Pete. "Look h'yar!" cried Susan, at the end of. some energetic remarks, "isdarenny pusson h'yar who kin count np figgersT" Inquiries on tne suDiect ran tnrougn me crowd, and in a few moments a black boy, about fourteen, was pushed forward as ap expert in arithmetic. "Now, you Jim, " saia ausan, -yous been to school, an' you kin count up Ag gers. 'Cordin' ter de chu'eh books dars forty-seben women b'longin' to ourmeetin', an' ef each one ob dem dar has got seben debbils in her, I jus' wants you ter tell me how many debbils come to chu'eh ebery cl'ar Sunday ter hear dat ole Uncle Pete preach. " This view of the case created a sensa tion, and much interest was shown in the result of Jim s calculations, which were made by the aid of a back of an old letter and a piece of pencil furnished Dy usan The result was at last announced as three hundred and nineteen, which, although not nreeiselv correct, was near enough to r satisfy the company. "Now. vou jus' turn dat ober in you nll'a minds." said Susan. "Morc'n free hundred debbils in chu'eh ebery Sunday, an' we women fotchin 'em. Does any hodv s'nose Ise e-wine ter b'lieve dat fool talk?" A middle-aged man now lifted up his voice and said: "Ise beep thinkin' ober di h'var matter, and Ise 'eluded dat pVaps de words ob der preacher was used seben klebbils meant chillun." Thebe remarks were received with no favor bv the assemblage. "Oh. vou git out!" cried Susan. "Your ole woman's got seben chillun, shore 'nuf, an' I s'pec' dey's aH debbils. But dem sent'ments don apply ter all. de udder women h'yar, 'tie'larly ter dera dar young uns wot ara t married yit. " . This was good logic, but the feeling on the Bubiect proved to , be, even . stronger, f of the mothers in the .company became so angry at their children being considered devils that for time there .seemed to be danger of an Amazonian attack on the un a great deal of uproar now ensued, and it ' was the general feeling that something ought to be done to show the deep-seated resentment with which the horrible charge against the mothers and 6isters of the con gregation had been met. Many violent propositions were made, some of the younger men going so far as to offer to burn down the church. It was finally agreed, quite unanimously, that old Peter should be unceremoniously ousted from his place in the pulpit which he had filled so many years. As the week passed on, some of the older men of the congregation who had friendly feelings towards their old com panion ' and preacher talked the matter fortunate speaker This was averted, but over among themselves, and afterwards, withjnany of their fellow-members, suc ceeded at last in gaining the general con sent that Uncle Pete should be allowed a chance to explain himself, and give his grounds and reasons for his astounding statement in regard to womankind. If he could show biblical authority for this, of course nothing more could be said. But if he could not, then he must get down from the pulpit, and sit for the rest of his life on a back seat of the church. This proposition met with the more favor, be cause even those who were most indignant had an earnest curiosity to know what the old man would say for himself. During all this time of angry discussion, good old Peter was quietly and calmly cutting and hauling wood on the Little Mountain. His mind was in a condition of great comfort and peace, for not only had he been able to rid himself, in his last sermon, of many of the hard thoughts con cerning women that had -been gathering themselves together for years, but his ab sence from home had given him a holiday from the harassments of Aunt Rebecca s tongue, so that no new notions of woman s culpability had risen within him. He had dismissed the subject altogether, and bad been thinking over a sermon regarding baptism, which he thought he could make convincing to certain of the younger mem bers of his congregation. lie arrived at home very late on Satur day night, and retired to his simple couch without knowing anything of the terrible storm which had been gathering through the week, and which was to burst upon him on the morrow. But the next morn ing, long before church time, he received warning enough of what was going to hap pen. Individuals and deputations gath ered in and about his cabin, some to tell him all that had been said and done; some to inform him what was expected of him; some to stand about and look at him; some to scold ; some to denounce ; but alas ! not one to encourage; nor one to call him " Bruddcr Peter," that Sunday appellation dear to his ears. But the old man possessed a stubborn soul, not easily to be frightened. "Wot I says in de pulpit, " he remarked, I'll 's pi ain in de pulpit, an' you all ud better git 'long to de chu'eh, an' when de time fur de service come, I'll be dar. " This advice was not promptly acted upon, but in the course oi nan an nour nearly all the villagers and loungers had gone off to the church in the woods; and when Lncle Peter had put on his high black hat, somewhat battered, but still sufficiently clerical-looking for that con gregation, and had given something of a polish to his cowhide shoes, be betook him self by the accustomed path to the log building where he had so often held forth to his people. As soon as he entered the church he was formally instructed by a committee of the leading members that before he began to open the services, he must make it plain to the congregation that what he had said on the preceding Sunday about every woman being possess ed by 6even devils was Scripture truth, and not mere wicked nonsense out of his own brain. If he could not do that, they wanted no more praying or preaching from him. Uncle Peter made no answer, but as cending therlittle pulpit, he put his hat on the bench behind him where it was used to repose, took out his red cotton hand kerchief and blew his nose in his accus tomed way, and looked about him. The house was crowded. Even Aunt Rebecca was there. After a deliberate survey of his audience the preacher spoke : ' ' Bre v'eren an' sisters, I see afore me Brudder Bill Hincs, who kin read de Bible, an' has got one. Ain't dat so, Brudder?" Bill Hines having nodded and modestly grunted assent, the preacher continued. "An' dar's Aun' Priscilla'sboy, Jake, who ain't a brudder yit, though he's plenty old 'nuf, min', I tell ye; an' he.kin read de Bi ble fus' rate, an' has read it ter me ober an' ober ag'in. Ain't dat soJake ?" Jake gnnned, nodded, and hung his head, very uncomfortable at being thus publicly pointed out. An' dar s good ole Aun' Patty, who knows more Scripter dan ennybuddy hyar, havin' been teached by de little gals fiom Kunnel Jasper s, an' by dere mudders afore em. I reckin she know de hull Bible straight froo, from de Garden of Eden to de New Jerus'lum. An' dar are udders hjwr who knows de Scripters, some one part an' some anudder. -Now I axes ebery one ob you all wot know de Scripters ef he doan 'member how de Bible tells how our Lor', when he was on dis yearth, cas' seben debbils out o' Mary Magdalum ?" A murmur of assent came from the con gregation. Most f them remembered that. But did enny ob you ebber read, or hab read to you, dat he ebber cas' "cm out o' enny udder woman ?" Negative grunts and shakes of the head signified that nobody had ever heard of this. Well, den,"' said the preacher, gazing blandly around, "all de udder women got 'em yit." A deep silence fell upon the assembly, and in a few moments an elderly member "Brudder Peter," he said, "I as well gib out de THE EFFICACY OF CHARMS. An Agreeable Substitute for Medicine. arose. reckin hyme."' you mought The Insignia of Office. Chicago News. J Police Justice You were drunk last night? Prisoner Yes your Honor, but it's the first time. I'm a hard-working man, sir, and . " What do you work at? " "I'm a bricklayer, sir." 0ftr mo tj-ii r linnla " The prisoner showed a hands. "All right' you may go. next prisoner. Ah, sir, vou working man too? " : ' Yes,' your Honor, and I'm the Presi dent of the Laboring Man's Agitation As sociatiou. "So! Show me your tongue." The total receipts of cotton since Sept 1st are 1,886,327 bales, against 1,882,139 last year. pair of horny Show up the are a hard fNew York Times.J English Settlement, Penn., Oct. 22. Years ao a number of emigrants from Devonshire, Lancaster, Cornwall, York shire, and other counties of England set tled in Northern Pennsylvania, near the New-York State line. They have made some of the finest farms in the State and are the best of citizens, but many of them cling with singular tenacity to a strange belief in the efficacy of certain charms that have been used for centuries among the class to which they belonged in England. The charmed ring cure for epilepsy is one of these. Only a few days ago a jeweler at Honesdale was called upon by a resi dent of the settlement who had with him his daughter, a sickly girl, of 15. The girl produced nine English twopenny pieces from which the jeweler fwas requested to make a ring to fit the girl's middle finger. It was necessary, the farmer said, that a portion of each coin should be used and the rest of the pieces saved and returned to Lis daughter. The coins were given her by nine boys, as near her cwn age as could be found, which would give to the ring a charm which, when she put it on, would cure here of epilepsy, from which she was suffering. This he maintained was a cure that was always tried in Devon shire and never failed. If the victim of epilepsy was a male, the nine coins must be presented by nine females. Some of these farmers keep the skins of adders in or on their houses and buildings, believing them to be a certain charm against fire. To cure ague the patient is taken to a spot where two roads cross, and an oak tree is found as near the spot as possible. A lock of his hair is lifted up and driven into the tree with an ash peg. The patient must then tear himself loose, leaving the hair sticking in the tree, and walk away without looking behind him. Sufferers with erysipelas by wearing in a silken bag around thoir neck a toad from which the right hand leg and the left fore leg has been cut until the mutilated reptile dies will get well of the disease. The tongue cut from a living fox, these charm believers say, carried about the person will ward off disease of all kinds, but as the per son carrying one of these fox tongues will surely die if he should happen to meet a fox at any crossroads the charm is seldom invoked. One old resident of the settle ment carries in his pocket constantly an immense tooth from a human jaw. The tooth, he says, was taken from the mouth of a man who was hanged in Hertfordshire more than a hundred years ao, after the man was dead, and was carried by the pres ent owner's father, grandfather, and great grandfather. It is carried as a preventive of toothache, the tooth from a dead per son's mouth being a certain charm against that malady. The owner of the tooth says he never had the toothache in his life. A double hazelnut carried in the pocket or about the person is also a preventive of the disease. The charms for the dispersion of warts believed in by many of these honest farm ers are numerous and most singular. For instance, if a person with warts on his or her hands will write down the number of them on the band of a tramp's hat without the tramp knowing it, he will carry the warts away with him that is, they will gradually disappear from the person's hand and appear on those of the tramp. By cutting a notch on a green elder stick for every wart a person may have, rubbing the stick on every wart, and then burying it in the barnyard until it rots, the warts may be cured. Warts may also be removed by taking a black snail, rubbing it on all the warts at night, and impaling the snail on a thorn bush, repeating the process nine successive nights, by which time the warts and the snail will both be shriveled up. Another way to get rid of warts, is for-the person to see a funeral pass unexpectedly, wherever he may be, and as it passes rub his warts quickly and repeat the words, " Warts and corpse pass away and never, more return. ' Green peas may also be used to advantage in taking off warts. Let the afflicted person take as many peas as he has warts and touch each wart with a dif ferent pea. He must then wrap each pea in a separate piece of paper and bury them secretly in the shadeof an ash tree or un der a hazel bush. If peas are not in season and the person with warts does not care to try the efficacy of any of the above named charms, let him select as many pebbles as he has warts. Sewing them up in a small bag, he must take them to where four roads cross and throw the bag over his left shoulder. This charm will never be re sorted to, however, by persons who have no maliciousness in their hearts, for if, by chance, any other person should find the bag and open it the warts will appear on his hand. A wen is usually a troublesome and un sightly thing to be afflicted with, but the victims of wens need not suffer long if they believe in the English charm. Take a common snake. Hold it by the head and tail, and draw it backward and forward nine times over the wen. Then cork the snake in a bottle and bury it. If that fails, the patient must not repine, but simply wait until the next May Day. Rise early in" the morning of that day before the sun has disturbed the dew. Kio to a graveyard, and by passing the hand three times from head to foot over the grave, collect the dew that lies on the grave of the last young , a T 1 .1 1 T . 1 person wno was uurieu in me yaru. n me victim of the wen is a woman the grave must be that of a man, and vice versa, Apply the dew immediately to the wen, and a cure is guaranteed, in England, ac cording to an old resident of the settle ment, the "dead stroke" was considered a never-failing cure for wens. This was the stroking of the affected part with the hand of a dead criminal. The charm for curing nosebleed is a curious one. 11 a person is suDiect to nose bleed he may effect a cure by going to a person of the opposite sex and requesting him or her to purchase a piece oi lace, such as may be specified, for the person making the request. When the lace is brought the person must take it and neith er pay for it nor return thanks for it. He must mske a necktie out oi the lace anq wear it for nine days, and he will never have the nosebleed again. If the person is too modest or gallant to get the lace in that way, let him catch a toad, kill it, and wear it around his neck in a bag until the stench sickens him. His nose will never bleed again. If a person has cramps in the legs or feet at night, he has but to place his stockings in shape of' a cross on the floor in front of his bed when he retires, or lay his slippers under the bed, soles up ward. Placing the .shoes under the cov erlid at the foot of the bed so that the toes of the shoes protrude is also a sure pre ventive of cramps. No one who wears a snakeskin around his head need ever have headache. If one feels a sty coming on his eye let him take a hair from the tail of a black cat, rub the eye with it nine times before midnight1 on the first night of the new moon, and the sty. will die. A ring worm may be dispersed by simply holding between the thumb and fingers a pinch of hazel ashes before breakfast for three days and saying : "Ringworm, rlneworm red! Never mayest thou speed or spread! NO KIOBE MAD DOGS. But aye grow less and less, And ale among tne asn! " These and many more strange super stitions are part of the faith of the simple, honest, and thrifty farmers of English Settlement. DIPLOMACY AND TAIL-COATS. Dr. Pastenr'a Care for Hydrophobia. Onr Bolivian MInUter'a Wardrobe. New York World Washington Letter. 1 A story is related of the reception given to Judge Wm. A. Seay, of Louisiana, who was appointed during the summer Minis ter to Bolivia. His predecessor was a man named Gibbs. He had had considerable experience in diplomatic life and was thor oughly familiar with the rigid etiquette of South American ceremonials. The day that Judge Seay was to be received llr. Gibbs gave him a breakfast. It was ar ranged that after the breakfast the new Minister should be accompanied by his predecessor for a formal presentation to the President of Bolivia. Judge Seay came to the breakfast dressed in an ordinary bu siness sack suit, in fact the same suit in which he had traveled from the United States to Bolivia. It was soiled, wrinkled and travel-worn. Mr. Gibbs was in full dress. He saw that the Judge did not appear to appreciate the social require ments of the occasion. "I presume you intend to go home to dress after the break fast," said he. " Oh, no," replied the Judge, " I had no idea of that. I am all right as I am." Mr. Gibbs then explained to him that the representative of the Uni ted iptates in Bolivia was a very great per sonage. An escort of cavalry had been de tailed to follow him to the President's house, where the latter and his Cabinet would be in full uniform of a State recep tion. The Judges of the Supreme Court would be there in their robes, with all the prominent officials of the Government. Mr. Gibbs dwelt upon the fact that the Spanish are very rigid in their social ob servances. Mr. Seay was given to under stand that his dress would 1c construed as an insult. The Judge said: "Well, what shall I do' I have not any dress suit. My wife told me that I would need one of those things, but I did not pay any atten tion to her." Mr. Gibbs would have lent the new Min ister a suit, but the latter was a large man, while Mr. Gibbs's figure was slight. After a consultation they went over to a German tailor, a man who had dress suits for hire. Judge Seay tried on several, but none of them were large enough. At the very last moment Mr. Gibbs wrote a note to the President asking him to postpone the re ception to a week later, as Judge Seay was very much fatigued by his long journey. Mr. Gibbs then placed his successor in the hands of a French tailor, who promised to have a dress suit ready by the week fol lowing. As there is only a weekly stage coach out from the capital of Bolivia, Mr. Gibbs was obliged to come away without learning what success attended the Louis iana Judge's first experience with a dress coat and an official reception. THE PRESIDENT'S VISITORS. Cranks, Handshakers and Women. New York Herald Letter. There were two visitors of this class (cranks) at the White House to-day. One of them wanted to talk on shipbuild ing. He said shipbnilding was more sacred than any other calling or occupation in which men engaged, and that shipbuilders should have every possible protection that the government could give them in the way of bounties or rewards. Before he had got very far he was told to submit his ideas .in writing to the Secretary of the Navy, who was just now investigating the subject. This got rid of him. The other man wanted the government to purchase of him a quantity of small croc odiles which he said he could catch in a couple of days in the lower Potomac, and place them in the basins of the fountains in the public parks. He thought that the antics that the young and playful croco diles would perform would be more amusing to the children, as well as others, than anything else. He said that there were millions of croco diles in the Potomac and that he possessed a secret by whieh he could easily catch as many as might be needed. This gentle man was referred to the Fish Cotemis-sion. The President makes all his visitors feel at home. He seems to make every one think that he is specially glad to see them. Though to the ordinary observer it looks as if he shakes the hands of all who pre sent themselves the same way, he does not, and many of them go away with the im pression that they were specially favored in the way their hand was shaken. Ladies are always highly pleased with the way the President receives them. He never seems to pay any attention to their attire or ap pearance, all, rich and poor, being cordial ly received, though it has been noticed that in the cases of aged ladies, and indeed aged men, he makes extra efforts to con vincc them that he is glad to receive their calls. Atlantic Railroad Improvements. rNew York Herald Cabled Pakis, Oct. 28, 1885. No more hydro phobia! No more mad dogs! Dr. Louis Pasteur's experiments have resulted in a most brilliant success. At perhaps the most important sitting held by the Acade my of Sciences Dr. Pasteur thus described the process of cure by means of a rabbit inoculated with the fragment of a tissue taken from the spine of a rabid dog. The incubation of the poison occupied fifteen days. As soon as the first rabbit inoculated was dead a portion from its spinal marrow was in turn inoculated into a second rabbit, and so on until sixty rab bits had been inoculated. At each suc cessive inoculation the virus increased in potency, and the last period of incubation did not occupy more than seven days. Having ascertained that exposure to dried air diminished the virus, and consequently reduced its force, Dr: Pasteur supplied himself with a series of bottles of dried air. In these bottles he placed portions of in oculated spinal marrow at successive dates, the oldest being the least virulent and the latest the most so. For an operation Dr. Pasteur begins by inoculating his subject with the oldest tissue, and finishes by the injection of a piece of tissue whose bot tling dates back only two days, and whose period of incubation would not exceed one week. The subject is then found to be absolutely proof against the disease. CCRE8. A boy, twelve years of age,namcd Meis tcr, who had been bitten fourteen times, came fron Alsace with his mother to see Dr. Pasteur. The autopsy of the dog which had bitten the boy left no doubt as to its having suffered from hydrophobia. Dr. Pasteur took the celebrated Dr. Vulpian and a professor in the School of Medicine to see the boyMeister. These two doctors came to the conclusion that the boy was doomed to a painful death and might be experimented upon. In thirteen days in oculations were made upon Meister with pieces of spinal marrow containing virus of constantly increasing strength, the last being from the spine of a rabbit that died only the day before. Now a hundred days have passed since Meister underwent the last inoculation. The treatment has been thoroughly successful and the boy is in Eerfect health. He had been bitten sixty ours and had traveled from Alsace to Paris before the first inoculation was per formed. A shepherd boy named Judith, aged fif teen, was bitten by a mad dog a fortnight ago and has now been a week under treat ment. Dr. Pasteur is confident of curing him. D. Pasteur said that it was now uecessa ry to provide an establishment where rab bits might always be kept inoculated with the disease. In this way a constant supply of spinal tissues of old and recent inoculation would always be ready. Be fore the sitting was adjourned Dr. Pasteur received an enthusiastic ovation, from both the Academy itself and public who were present. Among those present I uoticed the Grand Duke Alexis, who is a great dog fancier, and M. de Lesseps, who went to hear Dr. Pasteur's report indorsed by Dr. Vulpian. EUREKA ! One of the leading doctors present re marked that the question was whether a maja cured of hydrophobia could suffer from a second bite. In other words, whether the inoculation of virus was a guarantee against hydrophobia. In an swer Dr. Pasteur states that the malady is transmissible only by bite. If, therefore, by a general compulsory inoculation of dogs for several generations dogs had been made incapable of hydrophobia, the mala dy would have disappeared and there would be no occasion to ask whether inoc ulation had a permanent effector not. As to the origin of hydrophobia, Dr. Pasteur says nobody in the world can explain its primal causes. As he remarked perhaps out of politeness his theory will require study by the profession in order to make it practical, but he emphatically stated that the cure for.hydrophobia had been found. persecution, brings those who come under the law closer together, and in a way strengthens the ties that unite them as a common danger always does, but it has the effect of discouraging those who have not entered polygamous relations, and if it continues the Mormons will soon become weary of resistance and yield to the inev itable. Just now they are up in arms and united in their common defence. Very soon they will see that this is useless and beg for quarter. " " There is no danger of an uprising?" "Not the slightest. There may bean occasional attempt to resist arrest, but it will not amount to much. " THE TRADE IN EGGS. Protection Needed for American Hens. New York Journal of Commerce. It seems rather remarkable that a country with the prod-active resources of the United States should have to import a food pro duct like eggs, but it is nevertheless a fact that during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1884, we recejved 16,487,204 dozens from foreign countries, valued at $2,677,340. We paid nearly the same money, however ($2,677,604), for only 15,279,065 dozens in 1883, and thus made a large gain in food supplies at a very small additional outgo, in the latest of these two years. The principal foreign sources of im ported eggs are the British North Amer ican provinces, even British Columbia having contributed thirty dozens to Am erican tables during the year 1884, while Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island sold us 2,994,093 dozens, at $448,007, and Quebec, Ontario, Mani toba and the Northwest Territory sent us 11,694,215 dozen, and took away in return $1,908,296 of American money. A curiosity of our official statistics for the year under notice is the record of im portations of eggs not silk worm from China and British Possessions in Africa and adjacent islands. China is credited with 219,790 dozens, valued at $11,460, with a separate entry of 11.209 dozens, valued at $622 from Hong Kong. It is hardly less noticeable, however, that a food product of this kind should come in respectable commercial quantities from such distant sources of supply as Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Thus, from Germany we received 467,242 dozens, at $90,730; from Sweden and Norway 41,840 dozens, at $8,415; from Denmark 976,305 dozens, at $191,841 ; and even Scotland sent us 10,860 dozens, and took from us the modest sum of $2,153 in requital. The import trade in foreign eggs is. quite a recent growth, so far as the port of New York is concerned, In 1880 it had no ex istence. In the second quarter of 1881 foreign eggs to the value of $181 found their way to this port. They have the gen eral reputation of being good in quality, and in spite of the long ocean voyage they can be unnorted so cheaply that they con stitute a formidable element in competition with the domestic product. The freight is prepaid on the other side, so that the trade here is ignorant of the cost of trans portation, but dealers do not hesitate to express their opinion that a very low rate is made, and that the ocean freight is prob ably not greater than that from Chicago to Jsew lork. The importation is, of course. also assisted by the tact that eggs are on the free list. American hens, perhaps, after a while will be demanding protection. A considerable part of the domestic sup: ply has to pay for a still longer haul, since Iowa is one of its largest sources. Of course preserved, or "lime "eggs are here gen erally spoken of, the supply of fresh, or "hotel "eggs, being derived from New Jersey and other nearby sections, whose product is not laid down far future con sumption and distant markets. Western New lork, Ohio and Canada arc leading sources of supply. The wants of New England are largely satisfied with eggs from the British provinces. LOl A Mexican DEVICES. en's Ways. SE 1L 1 r. wU fortuna itanettfa 1 ail v. wmWin THE MORMON DECAY. The Law has the Saints in its Grip. tNewbern Journal. The Atlantic & N. C. Railroad made a large deposit in the National Bank here yesterday, which about extinguishes the floating debt of the road. Every effort is going to be made to put the truck through the coming season, withoutchangc of cars, to the North and negotiations to that effect are now pending with the Atlantic Coast Line authorities. Civil Engineer Kingsley is getting ready to line up the track of the entire length' of road and when that is completed the fast truck schedule will be easily run. Cross ties have been put in as fast as they are cut and the tie-getters have greater demands upon them for ties than they can supply. President Bryan is nego tiating with parties in Baltimore and rhil adelphia for new steel rails and has began to look after the coming Alorehcad summer travel. Visitors t6 Morehead during the next season will travel with as much luxu ry and comfort over the Atlantic road as on any road in the country. The railroad people are doing their best and deserve the encouragement of our citizens. Weighed and Found Wanting. New York Times. " How do you like the new minister, aunt Luey?" asked a gentleman of an old colored woman. " I hain't got much respeck for his abil ity, Sah. He don' 'mount ter much." What's the trouble with his abilitj, aunty?" " He's prayed foah Sundays now fo' de health of Deacon Johnsing, Sah, an' de poo' ole man is gettin' wuss an' wuss," Herald Washington Letter.J Ex-Secretary Ramsey has presented the report of the Utah Commission to the Sec retary of the Interior. It contains a review of the work of the year, a description of the workings of the Edmunds law, and makes some recommendations as to further legislation by Congress to make it more effective. "It proves to be the most effective legis lation ever directed at the Mormon evil," said Mr. Ramsey to the correspondent of the Ilerald to-day, "and the fact that John Taylor, Cannon and Joseph W. Smith, the three presidents of the Church, are fugitives, is the best evidence of this. Nor are they the only men who are trying to escape from its clutches. About fifty of the bishops and apostles have gone away, thirty or forty more are under indictment and twenty-five or thirty more are playing the martyr behind the bars of the prisons While I cannot say that this law will de stroy-Morraonism, it has already crippled it. and if supplemented with additional legislation to cover the point it docs not reach it will go far to wipe out the curse. But it will be a long time before the evil is extinct. We have allowed it to grow un molested for nearly half a century and the Church has become such a powerful and thorough organization that it cannot be pulled up by the roots. We can only pa tiently work to lop off the branches, girdle the trunk and kill the tree by slow de grees. "Nobody can study Mormonism, " con tinued Mr. Ramsey, "without being in spired with a profound admiration for the genius that has framed and the energy and industry which has built up tne great struc ture that has polygamy for its corner stone Nor can one avoid seeing the danger that threatens this nation from its continuance. Like the nerves and sinews of the human body, the faith of the people is interwoven into" every incident of their daily lives, and the cure of the curse lies in educating the next generation to respect the laws and acknowledge obedience to the government. The day is passed when we can wipe out such things by force. It can only now be killed by the appliances of law and moral suasion. ' "Is the endowment house still running? "I cannot say. I suppose polygamous marriages are still being contracted, but the secrecy preserved is something re markable. I do riot believe there is another cummunity in the world where such a mys tery could be sustained as it is in Utah ; but immigration is falling off and the number of apostles is decreasing. " " Then the Church is in a state of de cay?" I "No, that cannot be 6aid. The action i of the government, which the Church calls GRANT AND TILDEN. More Tales Abont a Dead Man. Captain Alfred E. Lee, who was private secretary to Governor Hayes when he was nominated, elected and inaugurated as President and afterward appointed by Hayes as Consul General at Frankfort-on-the-Main, is now a resident of Columbus, Ohio. His attention was called last week to a statement of Mr. Geo. W. Childs, of Philadelphia, which has been extensively published. to the effect that General Grant told Mr. Childs that Tilden was elected and should have been inaugurated instead of Hayes. Mr. Lee says: " During the summer of had numerous interviews with Uen- Temple Bar While I was in Cuba I wu fortunate enough to form the acquaintanSfe&f a la dy of noble Mexican family. wEcfcJiad been settled in the island for many year She must have been: between sixty and seventy ; but except that her hair was snow white and her form (somewhat bent, she showed little sign of age, while her skin still preserved its smoothness and her eyes sparkled with the vivpeity of youth. She was one of the most charming talkers I have met. One evening, in conversation with her, I alluded (to the passage in the " Barbiere," where Don Bartolo examines his niece's fingers to see if she had been writing to Almavira. j" Surely, I said, "it is out of the nature $f things to suppose that Don Bartolo wonid exercise so strict a watch upon his war," Dona Juana smiled. "Well," she said, after a moment's pause, "I will tell you of aicase in point, which shows that when I was a girl such extreme vigilance was by no means uncommon. 1 was educated with my sisters at a convent near Mexico. I was the youngest, and when I was fifteen I! returned to my fa ther's house. My sisjters had married, and was alone with my father and my duena. I led a very happy life; whatever I wished for was mine at once; and I was careful not to give utterance to unreasonable de sires. In the mornimg 1 sat in the house, or walked with my jducna; in the after noon we drove, my father riding by the side of the carriage. Four .things only were denied me : pen, ink, pencil, paper. But I had no one to . write to, and I did not feel the restriction a hard one; indeed I never thought much about it. So you see, senor, that your Don Bartolo is not such an exaggerated: character ; for my fa ther's views were but those of his country men, f " But tell me, senpra," said I, "did the time never come when you found these re strictions burdensome?" "You shall hear," she said ; " that is if you care to listen t the love-story of an old woman like myself. I was seated one morning at the window, when I noticed a young cavalier come riding up the street. He was superbly dressed and mounted: he wore a broad brimrasd sombrero, '.trim med with silver lace;; his large black riding cloak was lined with scarlet, and his heavy silver spurs jingled ias he rode. I thought I never in my life had seen so handsome a cavalier. He saw me sitting at the win dow, and looked so fixedly at me that I drew the curtain in my embarrassment. He must have turned his horse at the head of the street for while I was still trembling with excitement,he pame riding past again, and this time as he passed, he took off his sombrero and bowea. I scarcely slept that night. Next morning I accompanied my duena to mass at the cathedral. As we left the church I raised ;my eyes and saw the cavalier who had bbwed to me the day be fore standing at the entrance. Senor, I need not tell you fthat I had never had any experience in the affairs of the heart; I was fresh from the convent, and had scarcely spoken to any man except my con fessors and my father ; but I felt instimct ively th.it this haadsome gentleman had come there to see me. As we passed I felt his hand touch mine, and a little note was placed between myr fingers. " When we returned to the house,! man aged, not without jdiffieulty, to open and read my letter. ItUs fifty years since I re ceived it, and I haieerit still my first love letter. Can you enter into the feelings of a Mexican girl when she is told for the first time that her eyes are brighter than the stars, more tender than the gazelle's, and that her heart 'surely cannot be colder than her smile? But I will not weary you with the repetition of my precious little letter, every line of; which I still know by heart. I read and, re-read it, and then sat down to consider bow I was to answer it." " There your difficulty must have been unsurmountablei."i "Truly it did at first seem so. Writing materials I had none. Confide in my du ena I dared not. She was a relative of my fathers, stern andi severe. Still, I was de termined to answer the letter. So kind a note; bo handsome a cavalier; it would be cruel to leave him- without a reply. Be sides, my heart was enlisted on his side. The letter had to be answered, that was certain; only howrwas I to do it? " I need not tell you, who know some thing of Spanish life, that my library was extremely select. Mndeed it consisted but of my book of office and two large books of devotional exhortations. But I had a huge packet of saints' cards I had used at the convent one ;for almost every day in the year. I do i'ot know whether you have ever seen sucp cards with the pic- ed was the Hayes-Tilden controversy, and Grant gave me to undefstand that he had reason to believe that Mr. Tilden proposed to come down to Washington and be sworn in as President. Speaking of this (irant said, with an expression of seriousness in bis ouaint face which indicated that he meant every word he said, If Mr. Tilden had undertaken to do that 1 would have hung him.'" Captain Lee says that tjenerai urant toio him this on niore than one occasion, and at one time told him that he would like to have Mr Hayes know it. During the controversy and all his subsequent acts and talk and the fact that President Grant had made thorougn preparations to thwart any attempt to in aucrurate Mr. Tilden illegally he thinks conclusively discredits the Childs story. Captain Lee quotes General E. F. Noyes, late Minister to X ranee, as oeing me pos sessor of similar information to that of his. i i h i nail Dumeruus micrviews wibu urcu-t eral Grant, and among the things discuss- turejof the saint Or martyr at the top, and J a pfSyer addressed to Well, I Prayer, Poker and Farures. Memphis Avalanche. While the Merchants' and Cotton Ex change ceremonies were opening with prayer a Middle Tennesseaa visitor and a West Tennessean were moved by the busi ness surroundings to remarks which we do not regard as indicative of that reveren tial spirit that should pervade the breast of every man in the presence of ascending prayer. The visiting uMiddlo Tennessean remarked with a suspicious flavor of double intent: "They deal in futures here." The irreverent West Tennessean glance at the blackboards with their quotations of "futures" and suggestiveness of "spots" and "puts' and "calls" and "long" and "short" transactions, and without noting his friend's delicate double reference to "futures," ventured to express his opinion. " Yes, I see," said he, "and by George, they might as well open a jack pot with prayer." s j - A willow farm in Macon, Ga., produces about a ton of switches to the acre, com manding, when dried, $200, and as the leaves and bark sell at 25 cents a pound baled, the enterprise pays better than cot ton. New York Sun. him underneath. was desperate, and I resolved to sacrifice the saints' cards. I cut out the words I needed and the fervid ejacula tions served my purpose well and thus I composed my letter. Then I took one of my handkerchiefs, and sewed each word to it in regular order. "The next morning I was at my window betimes, and it was not long before I saw the cavalier approach on foot. I rolled my handkerchief into a ball, and when he was close to the window I let it drop at his feet; he picked it up,pressed it to his lips, and hastened away. " In this manner we corresponded for nearly two months, exchanging handker chiefs daily, either at my window or at the cathedral door. During all this time I had never exchanged a spoken word with this gentleman. He told me , who he was, andi I was rejoiced to learn that his family was equal in position to our , own. By this time my pile of saint's cards had been long exhausted, and the books of sermons were saflly mutilated, but they furnished me the fairest phrases! When the second month had passed, I wrote that I thought he should speak with my father. "The next day he came accompanied by his uncle, and proposed formally for my hand. My father readily accepted him, for he was a man of distinction, and noble. We were married soon after, and lived for ten years in Mexico. Political disturbances forced us to retire to Cuba, where my hus band had estates. I have been twenty years a widow, land haver never ceased to regret my loss. So you see, senor, that though I won my husband by deception, yet it was, as it were, forced upon me, and I think my case was pardonable. Only the saints' cards, aid those pious books I that was a grievous sin, and 1 have done pen ance for it since, I may tell you." I have given he substance of the story, but the mannet of narration cannot be re- iroduced. The lovely, white-haired old ady, telling her little love-story of half a century ago, now with a smile and then with a sigh ; her soft voice, and the tender ness in her eyei as she spoke of her hus band and lover, would have impresssed the most careless listener; and by one who heard her, the; story pf that evening will not soon be fojgotten.
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