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i ' iiUKlH CAROLINA PORTFOLIO i 1; 5 V "N.. Ml 1 Pennsylvania Farms. The road ran southeast for a few miles through rich bottom-lands. Here and there a small, snug farmhouse was set in a space absolutely bare of trees; an enormous red-roofed barn, corn cribs, patent bee-hives, smokehouses and cider-presses huddled about it in a bare clayey yard. Outside, were great orchards, dusky and cool in the hot moonlight the gnarled trees' soon to red den with old-fashioned Baldwins and (Rambos and knotty golden quinces; beyond these the fields of Indian corn rolled over the low hills, the blades shining dark and green in the glare; or fields of oats, the wind sending gray ripples over them, or an ashy, feathery stretch of buckwheat, mounting up the , hillside. The farmer's wife, in her "Calico gown, her hair knotted in a little knob back from her sallow face, was usually in sight somewhere, and always at work. She "was picking peas in the garden, or ?she was making soap in a uge smoking caldron hung over a fire near the" well, or she was drawing great loaves of flaky bread from an oven, while innumerable pans of gingerbread, or cherry-pies waited their turn. There was the sluggish calm of physical lux ury everywhere. The air was full of the odor of pigpens and drying meat, . mixed with new-mown hay and honey suckles. Roses, which were ; delicate "nurslings with town florists, ran riot in feverish - crimson over the barns and henneries: the endless lines of hills which walled in every landscape were fawn-colored with the early chestnut blossoms. V " Tons of these nuts rot every year in this State I alone," boasted, the doctor. "There are enough chestnuts wasted in our mountain ranges from " the lakes to Georgia td feed all famishing India. This is the best fed country in the world, and old Pennsylvania is the best faA fifof o in 5 I " Our travelers were offered boarding the hill farm houses .at from three to rirlarn tipt wfipt. TheV found sheller in an old house which lay di rectly in a. gorge between two moun tains; the creek, which ran brawling down the gap swept past on either side of it, and met again, leaving it on a little island, .accessible only by stepping stones, which were 'always covered by high water: In all the seventy years in which the owner had lived in the house it had -not occurred to him to make a bridge of a couple of planks. " It is a place for a murder," declared Mrs. Mulock. The house was gray and the fences gnawed with age. Old Nit tany, a ragged, stern mountain, inacces sible except to bears and rattlesnakes, frowned heavily down upon it; the stream was full of whispering voices ; a cold wind blew perpetually down the jjjorge. But the doctor and Sarah found as much delight and beauty in this cut of the hills as if it had been the Vale of Cashmere. I They fished for trout, op went1 on law-defying hunts for wood cock; they rode up nearly perpendicu lar wagon-trails left by the charcoal burners ; they made friends on the few half-tilled ipatches grouped about the yellow store and postofSice, in which the feeble gossip of these lonely hill farms found universal tongue and ears, and where the proprietor dispensed let ters, boots, i calicoes, sugar and spirit ualistic doctrines to all comers. Ear- That Deceiving Hammock. "I've been a fool Vi growled Harper yesterday, as he untied a parcel in his iront yard and shook out a new ham mock. " Here I've been lopping around fell through! this infernal hot spell when I might just as well have been swinging in a hammock: ana naa my blistered back cooled off by the breezes." - Any one can put up a hammock. All you've got to do is to untie about 500 knotSiUnravel about 500 snarls, and work over the thing until you can tell whether the open side was meant to go up or down. This puzzled Harper for full twenty minutes, but he finally got it rieht and fastened the ends to two con venient trees. Then he took 6fi his hat and coat and rolled in with a great sigh of relief. No, he didn't quite roll in. He was all ready to when the hammock walked away from ;him, ana he rolled over on the grass and came to a stop with a croquet ball under the small of his back. "Did vou mean to do mat?" called a boy who was looking over the fence and slowly chewing away on green "apples. i . -'Did IP Of course I did! Git down 'off'n that fence or I'll . call a police man!" -T The ''-boy;,' slid down andk Harper brought up a lawn chair for 'the next move. It's the easiest thing in the world to drop oil. a chair into a hammock. Lots of men would be willing to do it on a salary of ten dollars per week. The trouble with Harper was that he didn't droD all his body at once. The upper half got into the hammock all right, but the lower half kicked and thrashed around on the grass until the small boy, who didn't mean to leave the neighbor hood until the show was out, felt called ' upon to exclaim : ' You can't turn a handspring with you head all wound up in that ere net, and I'll bet money on it !" Harper suddenly rested from his la bors to rise Up and shake his fist at the ' young villian, but that didn't help the case a bit.! He hadn't got into that hammock vet. He carefully looked the case over, and decided that be had the plans too high. He therefore lowered the net to Within two feet ot the ground and he had it dead sure. He fell into it as plump as a bag of shot going down a well, ne ieic arouna xo see n ne was all in. and then rave himself a swing No person can be happy in a hammock unless the hammock has a pendulum motion. The hammock of Harper's was just getting the regular salt-water swing when his knots untied and he came down on the broad of his back with such a jar that the small boy felt called unon to observe : . That ain't no way to level a lawn vou want to use a regular roller!" After the victim bad recover sd con? - sciousness he crawled slowly out, gently ! tubbed his back on an apple tree, and slowly disappeared around the corner of the house in search of some weapon which would annihilate the hammock at one sweep, and though the boy called to him aeain and again, asking if a min- 'strel performance was to loiiowtne reg , ular show, Mr. Harper never turned his '"bead nor 'made a sign. Detroit Free Press. ' -: " The skull and horns of an uncom vimrmlv larsre mountain ram were found imhpTWd In a pine tree in Idaho. It is supposed, that the beast was caught and ' starved in the tree when it was a sap ling, leaving his head to be overgrown by the "wood. r Four poun d sweet potato is Florida's Lowing this season. he ee ;pEE J3ee. $ Advertisements inserted! in the Bee as lollows: First insertion, $1 a square second insertion, fifty cents a square a square is one inch in length of column. Editorial, local and . reading matter notices, when au thorized, five cents a line for each insertion. "When you write to advertisers about things you see advertised, please favor us by saying, " I saw your advertisement in Pee Dee Bee, Rockingham, N. C." . HE rEE IJEE Bee. ESA copy ol the Bee containing the first issue ot each advertisement is mailed tree to the advertiser. When advertisements are inserted '-till lorbid (tl.)." notice ot discon tinuance must be given, otherwise they will be continued and charged for accordingly. When you write to parties about things adver tised in this paper, please say in your letter, " I saw your advertisement in Pee Dee Bee, BEE PUBLISHING CO. Labor Omnia Vincit. IN GOD WEjTRUST.'r Nil Dkspekand m. $2.00 a Year, in Advance. VOL. TIL NO. 33. ROCKINGHAM N. C, AUG. 21, 1880. WHOLE NO. 384. My Lady, A CONTRAST. My little lady all in white, f Do you want to know, do you want to know, Why I sit at this tree-foot, out ot the light ? Are you sorry for me that God-made me so? Myjbright little lady. , " -i ' " Are you grieved that you can jump and run, In your pretty trpek and your dainty shoes, Just as you like, in or out of the sun, Withjlightsome leet and heart hill ot fun, While I sit stilly as 1 cannot choose But sit still, my lady? My old black trock burns hot on my back My worn old trock, bought long ago, When mother died and work is slack, ) And I'd rather dress in my old sack Than stint the little ones. Do you know , What hunger is, lady ? Oh, I beg your pardon. Those gentle eyes Are filling with teare fast filling with tears: You nave left your swans unfed; surprise Is melting to pity. You're not too wise, But you'll be wiser when at my years, . And you're kind, my lady.' Yes,,I'm older, grayer, sadder too; Oh, I've had my share, I've had my share Ot things unknown to the like of you God sees us both. What he bids me do I try to do. What he makes me bear I bear, my lady. r 'i ' It's hard sometimes. The hunger. and pain, The children's crying that's worst of all. But I do my best, and t don't complain. There', I'm glad to seeiyou smile again. Give me my crutch,j No fear I'll tall Still, thank yon my lady. Although I crouch at the loot ot the tree, And you o er the meadow run and shout, There's the self-same sun for you and for me, The same birds singing so merrily. 'lis good to see you dance about, My merry lady. " 'Twould not make me happy to make you sad And I don't like pity, and God is kind. If I your park and your castle had, , But no little sisters to make me glad, No father to work for to my mind 'T would be dull, my lady. So we'll each of us go our appointed way, Safe to the end, safe to the end. For sone mast labor, and some mnst.playv If you pass my door again some day, I'll be glad to .see you my beautiful friend, 1 My sweet, little lady . Miss Mulock, in Harper's Bazar. HALF AN HOUR. " Your curiosity is natural," said the count, smiling. " It is true that I am under thirty ; yet, as you see, my hair is whiter than snow, ine cnange look place in the space of half an hour. .when I tell vou that nothing but tne will of an implacable enemy stood , be tween me, and a horrible death during that half-hour, you will be prepared for a startling narrative. . My cousin Angelo. and myseii were fellow-students at Padua. No two relatives could have differed more widely in character than he and I. , j "Angelo lived by nimseit in a close, secret way; and snunned society as a pestilence. I, on the contrary, never snent an hour by myself when I could find any of my nost of friends at leisure to receive me. The consequence was that Angelo graduated with' high honors, while I fell in love with the beautiful daughter , of Leonardo di Porta. "Unsteady as I was by nature, that noble woman found good enough in me to return my love.' The knowledge of my undeserved happiness sobered ine; I settled down to nara worK to gam honor for her sake. Those were nappy days, signor, Youth, love and ambition made up for me a paradise that I would not have exchanged for that of our traditional first parents. Like that, a serpent was not long in creeping in to poison its 'happiness. . . " f auiine di rorta was seized witn a disease that threatened her life. The solemn quacks who attended her looked wise, gave her drugs, and finally left her to die. " It was easy enough for them to say, ' She will die, no human power can save her,' but how was it for me to bearP My own death-warrant would have seemed a mild trial to confront beside the certainty that the woman of my love was to pass away, from me, with the golden promise of her youth yet unful aueu. , "In my extremity I thought of An gelo. He had been appointed to the professorship of chemistry in the col lege, and had already earned a wide reputation for profound knowledge of the science. It seemed possible that m the resources of his learning there might i . - r A 1 J . Tl i- De a cnance ior me aymg gin. "I went to him and asked his aid. At first he refused. What were human life and human suffering to him; who lived apart from his kind in a gloomy egotism of his own? I could not arouse his sympathies, but I did-arouse his fears for himself. I don't know by what violence I brought him to her bedside at last. ; - "A curious change passed over his face as he gazed upon the sick girl. His dull eye lighted up, and a flush came into his sallow cheek. Was it her wasted beauty, or her weakness and suffering, that touched his cold nature? Whatever it was, it made a worker of miracles of him in her behalf. He watched her as a mother might a child, dministered powerful remedies known only to himself, and in a week had cured her. : I. -- ' -i .: . When she had recovered. I went to him and humbly begged his pardon for the violence I had used with him ; he looked at me, with a strange smile. ' I have saved her life.1 he said: ' but for me she would have died.' "I know it,' I responded: 'l am very grateful to you,-Angelo.' "idid not do it tor you,' He said; ' I did it for myself. Do vou know, the old tradition?'-he added, with sudden change of manner. He who saves a 1 lie owns it forever afterward.' I looked at him with a suDerstitioua hrill: but he. was smilinc. and it assed awav. . I nressed him tn visit. Pauline with me. I desired him to be the friend of my future wife, and I said so. , - " ' Don't tempt me.' he said, ffloomilv. ' You can't tell what may come of it.' l laugned at nis solemnity, which I upposed to be assumed in iest. and took him with me to her house. During the interval prior to' the day set for our marriage, he spent a part of nearly every evening with us, and I, like a blind icol, was pleased at his fnendlv interest in us. " He rarely spoke when he was, with ,mostly sitting silently in some ob scure corner, apparently . buried in thousht. I should never have known that he had ever paid any attention to us, but for what he Said to me one night as we were going home together. He Eaused abruptly in the road, and, laying is hand on my arm, said, in a harsh tone: , ",'Salvatore do you really love that girl V l was startled, but I answered. quickly: , '.Before my own soul, Angelo "'Strange,' he muttered: 'unstable minds like yours are not prone to strong attachments.' '"Unstable I mav be.' I returned, offended, 'but J know her value as well as any man could know it.' ' ' Yes,' he answered, walking on. 'even a fool must love that woman. A wise man .might sacrifice his chances for her.' "The subject was not renewed be tween us ; but I did not forget the occur rence, and snortly after mentioned it to Pauline. :She had never liked mv cousin from the first? and she appeared to find something to alarm her in what he hadsaid to me. Salvatore,' she said, nervously, 'your cousin is an evil man. He does not love yo", and would not hesitate to do you an ihiury. Avoid him. Do not bring himx here again. Trust my woman's instinct. I have seen the serpent where you have only seen the eccentric frien d. I laughed at her fears, but promised that if I could avoid Angelo without of fending him I would do so. But it ap peared that some subtle instinct had revealed our thoughts to him; for from tnat day he shunned my society and never entered the doors of the Di Porta mansion again. I had not forgotten the debt of gratitude I owed him, but Pauline's fears had impressed me more deeply than I knew, and I was glad that he had chosen of his own free will to avoid us. "On the eve of our wedding, I met An gelo by chance at the door of my lodg ings. Me was 'engaged m conversation with the lodge-keeper's daughter, a coarse, low-browed Catalonian girl. He turned sharply as I approached, and the girl retreated in haste. "He looked at me suspiciously, as if he feared that I had overheard their conversation. The girl is going to Rome to-mor row,' he said ; I wished to send a mes sage by her. 'Very good,' I. returned, laughing. 'By the way. cousin. I am to be married to-morrow ; will you not be present?' " Balvatore, said he, laying his hand upon my shoulder with a smile, 'don't count on any event until it is accom plished. My words seem mysterious to you. WelJ, come to my lodgings with me and! I will explain.7 " His odd manner gave me a sense of undefined alarm, but I permitted him to take my arm and lead me to his lodgings. His rooms were on the,top floor of an old building. The arched windows were shaded by masses of rank vines, and glazed with squares of stained glass, through which the moon was shining with a weird, blood-red hue as we en tered the room. A feeble taper was burning on the table, and near it stood a bottle of wine and two glasses. Evi-i dentlv Angelo had counted upon my visit and had prepared to be genial for . 1 1 J 5 X. A A. once in nis me. ie lnviiea me to sit at the table, and took a seat opposite to me, where the red dare from the window lighted up his haggard features. He filled the two glasses with wine. I no ticed, incuriously, that he held his hand over mine an instant before he passed it to me. " To the future!' he said, as we both drank.' 'And what is that future to be for vou. Salvatore? Not the idle dream of haDDiness vou have cherished. It must be what I choose to make it. Your lite. Salvatore. is in mv hands.' ' I stared at him speechlessly. Had the man gone mad? "'In that class of wine,' he con tinued, with a slow, deliberate accent, j" ' See what love can do even with one so weak as;you,' he said, almost mourn fully. 'See what it has done with an iron nature5 like mine! I pity you but I will not yield. I saved her life and it belongs to me I' ! ' You are . a madman as well as a villain,' I $aid. 'Thank God she is safe from you whatever ; happens to me!' . ' ' . ; " 'Read that paper,' he returned, without heeding my outburst. It con tains my conditions.' "I read it by the feeble i light of the taper. It was a letter to Pauline, break ing our engagement in insulting terms, and stating that I had left ! for Rome in company with my lodge-keeper's daugh ter. When I had finished he said : f ' I have: bribed the girl to leave Padua. Copy that letter, sign it and go where you please in safety, so that you neither see; nor communicate with Pauline again. On these terms you are safe, not otherwise. . t I tore the paper into a hundred frag ments. ! y f ' ' You have mistaken your man,' I said, sternly. Sooner than budge a foot, soonerjthan disgrace my love with such cowardly dishonor, I will die twenty deaths I will die proclaiming your crime m the streets.' 1 arose andattempted"to reach the was a subtle poison, known only to my self. If I so will it vou must die, and leave no sign by which to convict m$ of the crime. 1 do not desire your aeatn, but I do desire something from you which onlv the fear of death can ex tract. If you refuse- to comply you have but a half an hour to live. No human Dower but mine can save you, fori alone possess the antidote. i "I looked wildlv at his haescard! face What I saw there ronvkicfed me" that he anoke the truth., ... " What have I done to deserve this?' I cried. 'What do vou wish me to do?' " ' Salvatore.' said he, with a harsh, vibratmsr voice. vou forced me to the bedside of Pauline di Porta. You tem-nted me to visit her afterward. warned you, but you would not heed he warnine. It has come to this I nove her. I love her well enough to sacrifice my salvation for her. 1 must -yield her to me or die.' " 'Then I will die where I sit, I an swered, resolutely. Do vour worst "He glanced at me with a haggard smile. ' - door, but could not. The fatal poison had already paralyzed my limbs, ana I sank back into my chair with a groan. '"Reflect- Salvatore,'- he exclaimed, earnestly. With a long life1 yet left before you, there is. time to forget Pauline and! seek happiness elsewhere. Withadall the human things cease to be. But little time is left you to decide. It was ten o'clock when you drank the wine. It is now five minutes past the hour. In itwenty-five minutes you will cease to breathe.' V He drewjout his watch and placed it on the table, it lay in a patch of the blood-red light from the window. I glanced at if; vaguely, and saw that its hands marked five minutes past ten. I watched it while the slender bars of steel moved qver five minutes more of mv life, and then gazed ud at mv de stroyer's face. It had faded to the color of ! ashes, and his eyes met mine with a look of horror. Vile as he was he could not see me die unmoved. " Salvatore !' he cried, ' ten minutes past ten. I f, " I smiled at him in triumph. With the abyss of the hereafter yawning at feet in? soul was calmer than his. There was a dead silence in the room, broken only by the --soughlngof tms wmrt through the vines at the window. The poison seemed to be benumbing my senses. Through a mist that beclouded my eyes I saw Angeio's , lace growing ghastlier ever moment, and the watch yme m tne njiooa-rea stain, i neara him cry outi again in a piercing accent, balvatore, hiteen minutes past ten. Then l sank into partial unconscious ness." l ' " Once again I heard Angeio's voice as in a dream : f Salvatore, twenty minutes past ten. I ' Then there seemed to be a sudden confusion and a shrill outcry from women's voices. In a hazy way l saw the Catalonian servant enter the room. followed by Pauline. I heard her voice in wild entreaty. I saw her kneeling at Angelo s feet, and I saw his pale face bent over her in awful emotion. Then an arm was passed about my neck and a glass put to my lips. l,n a few moments more I recovered my senses and looked about me. The nrst object that I saw was the watch marking twenty-eight minutes past ten. The next was my be trothed wife kneeling beside me. "f Thank (rod, you are safe!' cried Pauline. 'Your cousin Angelo has saved your life as he did mine. May heaven reward him. "I glancea at Angelo and our eyes met: I I ." f Yes,' I muttered, 'may heaven re ward mm. " "1 Pauline,! said Angelo, in a low9, hoarse, voice,! leave us together lor moment. He will recover, I swear to youi Go, I have only a word to say to him. ! 'I " When they had left the room he ap proached me, and looking at me for s moment in silence : " 'Salvatore,' said he, with a writh mg hp, ' 1 have lost my game lost it through my love. The Catalonian sus pected more than I told her. Her con science smote her and she hastened to inform Pauline of her suspicions Pauline knows nothing of !the truth. She believes that she has wronced me that; you were taken suddenly Til, and that I saved your life. I thought my self invincible. I was, to all out her voice. I loved her too well to deny her even- my own chances of winning her. Can you respect such a love? f,Can you Daiance it against your nate oi me, ana let what has passed be buried forever from her knowledge? Salvatore,' the man's voice trembled and his eye grew dim,! 'what I? carry in my own heart will revenge you amply; will you let her keep her respect for me?" "His misery melted ever y; sterner feeling of my heart. ' Angelo. I said, with emotion, she shall never know the truth.' " 'Thank you,' he muttered, wringing my hand. 'You deserve the happiness which is in store for you. With these words he left the room. On the next day he disappeared from the city and was never heard of again. "This, signor, is the history of the half-hour. The poison left no trace upon me, except this white hair. My wife -believes that some sudden strange illness caused it. To me it is the re membrance of the most mournful and most terrible period of my life." COST OP THE WAR. The Use of Oaths. 1 he London Standard rmblishes the toliowmg summary of the declarations of allegiance made by members of the legislatures Of the countries mp.nt.innp.d : In France, since the abolition of the em pire on the fourth of September. 1870, no oath or affirmation has been adminis tered in kny form to members of i the legislature of the republic. Nor is there any formality which might be re garded as an equivalent. Under the empire new members made a declara tion to the following effect: "I swear naenty to the emperor and the consti tution." But the name of the Deitv was not included. The members of the German parlia ment take no oath, nor do thev make any affirmation whatsoever. The mem bers jof the Prussian, and most other state parliaments, take an oath of loy alty beginning with the words: "I swear by God the Omnipotent and Omniscient," and concluding with the words, " so may God help me." To this latter formula those who wish it may add, " through Jesus Christ, to eternal bliss, Amen." Any one refusing to take the oath, or commenting upon it would undoubtedly be exclude from the Prussian and other state parlia ments. In conformity, however, with the laws regulating the administration ot oaths in civil and criminal courts, an exception would be made in the case of persons belonging torecognized uieisuc religious communities, wno. like certain Mennonite and Jewish sects, regard the name of the Deitv as too awful to be invoked in the trans action of- secular business. In these cases a simple affirmation would be re garded as' equivalent to an oath. The omission 'of any oath in the German parliament is occassioned by the wish to avoid the delicate question as to the amount ot loyalty due to the emperor, in contradistinction to state sovereigns the law passed on the 15th of May, 1868, Parliamentary oaths were abol ished in Austria, and a simple affirma tion was substituted. The first para graph of the standing orders of the A is trian reichsrath reads as follows: New members, on entering either ot the two houses, have, on the president's challenge, in place of taking an oath, to promise loyalty and obedience to the emperor, inviolable observance of the constitution, as well a3 of all other laws, and concientious fulfillment Of their duties." Upon the president reading words to this effect the new marnhrn. oiryTtly mpl inn,, iiJ nrOTHllBP Articles thirty-Seven and thirty-height of the rules of the Spanish congress say that deputies, before they can tike their seats, shall make the following oath. which is read aloud by the secretary of the congress, all present standing : ' 'JDo. you swear to observe, and make oath to observe,, the constitution of the Span ish monarchy? Do you swear fidelity and obedience to the legitimate Kingot bpain, Alfonso All r Do vou swear well and truly to behave in the mis sion confided to you by the nation, always and in everything seeking the weliare of the nation rV The deputies then, two at a time, ap proach the table of the president, and kneeling on' his right hand, he remain ing sitting,, they place their hands on the Gospels lying open before them, and Say, "Yes, I do swear:" and the presi dent then answers : " If you do so, may God reward you, and, if not, may 4b. e call you to account." I The president of, the Italian chamber of deputies, seeing a new deputy in his place says: "I invite the honorable gentleman to take the oath in the form following: . 'I swear to be faithful to the king, and to observe loyally the fundamental-statute and the other laws of the state, with a single view to the inseparable welfare of the king and the country.' " The new deputy then, m his place, stretches out his right hand and pronounces the one word, " G iuro, interesting Statement Prepard Treasury Department On the eighth of last Jane the United States Senate pjjised a resolution calling; on the secretary. or the treasury "to ommunicate to the Se nate the amount of money expended by the United States for all purposes necessarily growing out' of the civil war, and specifying separ ately the amount paid on the principal of the public debt thereby incurred ; the amount of interest paid on such debt each year; the amount paid each year for pensions, including arrears of pen sions; the amount paid to soldiers and sailors of that war under laws passed since its close ; and that such infor mation be brought down when con venient to January lt 1880." ' That statement has now been printed, and it proves a very interesting and remark able document. It is divided into three parts, which are entitled " Gross expen ditures," ''Expenditures other than for the war," and " Expenditures Growing; Oat of the War," and the footings of which are respectively $6,844,511,431 03. - $654,641,522 45, and $6, 189,929,908 58. A study of tne statement in detail is, how ever, of the greatest interest, some items of which are as follows : Expea&itture growinfr ox eg ine war. ("I swear.' Increase in Yalue of Farm Lands. ,The publication of the report of the United states commissioner of agricul ture shows that, in addition to the bounteous crops which the farmers wil gain this year, they have also been made richer by the increase of about eight per cent., taking the average for the whole country, in the price of farm lands, and compared with the prices one vear earlier. The timbered lands show a tendency to appreciate in value more rapidly than the cleared land. The following table will show the average increase in price of the cleared and timbered lands : $51,522,730 77 59,738,167 73 1,764,256,198 45 381,417,548 58 299,481,917 66 85,342,733.63 336,793,885 55 ' " 3,025,219 66 - 345,543,880 20 126,672,423 44 31,070,846 59 448,731 45 78,084,729-47 868,305 41 14,386.778 29 6,126,952 65 844,150 55 4,824,877 6S 38,522,046 20 3i;760,345 95 '69,998,786 71 268,158 II 9,635,512 86 597,178 30 1,297,966 35 9,713,873 13 45108,770 Zfr 196,048 32 I 2,232,785 12 1 123,487 49 509,283 21 4,553,531 71 State. George Beamont, an Englishman, has lately taken from the Cape to Buenos. Ayres, 105 African ostriches of the most beautiful species, with the intention to start an.ostrich farm in the Argentine Republic from studies made, previous to carrying his ideas into effect, the im porter entertains rk doubt of their thriv ing in the climate of South America as well aa they do in Southern Acfria. Maine.. ........ New Hampshire Vermont ....... Massachusetts Connecticut .... New York New Jersey.. .. Pennsylvania. . . Delaware.. .... Maryland; Virginia..!'... .. NorthCarolina. South Carolina. Georgia ........ Florida... 9 4! Alabama.. ..... Mississippi. .... Louisiana . ...... Texas.... ...... Arkansas. Tennessee...... West Virginia.. Kentucky . . . . .. Ohio. ........ . Michigan .... Indiana.. .. . . .. Illinois.... Average! val. per acre cleared lands 1880. $12 87 1500 15 28 85 00 29 00 58 48 82 42 45 75 19 00 I 24 65 1 9 42 9 77 864 6 93 Average Average Val. per increase acre ot value o timber'd both c' lands in in 1 y' per c't .10 . .10. 6 5, 7 88 14 36 8 98 1178 13 00 2105 18 86 47 53 34 39 30 46 33 03 Wisconsin..... 26 07 Minnesota.... . Iowa.. , Missouri.... . .. Kansas...!. .... Nebraska California.. . . . J 14 45 27 36 14 52 1182 .8 93 27 16 Oregon........ 2171, 1880 . 12 66 '32 00 17 73 43 25 24 50 40 88 56 82 29 70 15 00 35 50 7 48 5 53 6 24' 545 3 03 4 08 3 78 3 53 400 3 48 7 28 9 39 12 82 41 87 20 27 26 90 23 68 19 55 12 25 39 36 8 35 19 12 25 85 855 4 50 .06 .08 t .07 I .01.7 ; .05.2 .07 I .07.5 .06.3 .04' .06 .09 .10 .28 .09 .09 .09 .04.8 .07.3 ..8.7 .08 .08.2 .08.5 .08 .08.7 .11 .07 .05 .07.6 .12.5 .10.3 .15.3 .03.2 .02.6 Appropriations. Expenses ot national loan and currency . . Premiums Interest on public debt ...... Subsistence of the army ..... Quartermasters department. ncidental expenses ot Quar termasters department... Transportation of the army. Transportation of officers and their baggage. ....... ..... Clothing ot the army.. ... . . Purchase ot horses for cav alry and artillery. ........ Barracks, quarters, etc ...... Heating and cooking stoves.. Pay, mileage, general ex penses, etc., 01 the aimy. . 'ay ot two and three years' volunteers. .............. 1,040,102.702 53 Pay 01 three months volun teers .................... 'ay, etc., of 100 days' vol unteers .................. Pay of militia and volunteers 'ay, etc., to officers and men in Department ot the Mis souri .................... Pay and supplies of 100 days' volunteers........ Bounty to volunteers and regulars on enlistment .... Bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs ....-.... . Additional bounty act of July 28, 1866. Collection and payment of bounty, etc., to colored soldiers, etc.............. Reimbursing States tor mon- eys expended tor payment 01 military service ot Uni ted States.. ...... .. ....... Defraying the expenses of minute men and volunteers in Pennsylvania, Mary land, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky Expenses of recruiting ...... Dratt and substitute fund. ... Medical and hospital depart ment Medical and surgical history and statistics. '. . . . . Providing lor comfort of sick, wounaea ana dis charged soldiers Freedmen'a hospital and asy lum Artificial limbs and appli ances Ordnance'service ........... Ordnance, ordnance stores and supplies 55,933,932 83 Armament of fortifications . . 1 10,218,472 09 National armories, arsenals, etc Purchase of arms tor volun teers and regulars Payment of expenses under reconstruction acts Secret service Medals of honor Support of National home tor disabled volunteer soldiers Publication of official records of war. .... .... ......... Contingencies of the army and adjutant-general's de partment ................ Preparing register of volun teers Army pensions 407,429,192 80 Telegraph lor military pur poses ...... Jlaintenance of gunboat fleet proper.. Keeping, transporting and supplying prisoners of war Construction and mainten ance of steam-rams. . ., . Signal service Gunboats on the Western rivers .... j Supplying, transporting and delivering arms and muni, tions of war to loyal citi zens in States in revolt against the government of the United States... Collecting, organizing and drilling volunteers Tool and siege trains Completing the defenses of Washington Commutation ot rations to prisoners ot war in Con federate States.. National cemeteries Purchase ot Ford's theater. . Headstones, erection of head- tones, pay ot superinten dents, and removing the remain s of officers to na tional cemeteries Captjureof Jefferson Davis . . Supp rt ot bureau of refugees and treedmen Claims for quartermaster's stores and commissary sup plies.... ................. Claims ot loyal citizens for supplies furnished during th war Horses and. other property lost m military service. . . Fortifications to the Northern frontier 683,748 12 Pay 61 the navy 74,462,304 34 23,603,489 32 76,378,935 13 3,128,905 94 681,587 42 29,890 00 8,546,184 76 . 170,998 98 . 2,726,698 75 1,015 45 2,500,085 80 5,244,684 32 7,659,41169 1,370,73042 143,797 56- 3,239,314X81 1,649,596 5? 29,091,666 57 702,250 00 . 912,283 01 320,636 62 4,162,848 39 88,000 00 I, 080,185 54 97,031 62 II, 454,237 30 850,220 91 5,170,304 54 4,281,724 91 Provisions olthe navy . Clothing of the navy Construction and repair. Equipment of vessels . . . Ordnance.... Surgeon's necessaries . . . Yards add docks Fuel for the navy . . Hemp for the navy. ........ Steam machinery... Navigation Naval hospitals - Magazines.... , Marine corps, pay, cloth ng, etc -. Naval academy...... Temprary increase ot the navy Miscellaneous appropriations Naval pensions....... Bounties to seamen. Bounties for destruction ot Confederate vessels ...... Indemnity lor lost clothine. . 16,368,623 82 1,594,790 98 134,178,096 45 25,174,614 53 31,422,094 37 1,937,744 06 30,300,302 07 11,340,232 68 898,252 27 49,297,318 57 2,526,247 00 499,652 94 , 404,53165 '7,757,615 18 ! 1,862,132 Ul : 8,123,766 21 2,614,044 77 6,590,043 00 2,821,530 10 271.309 28 389,025 33 Buenos Ayres, 40,00,000 sheep. South America, has. I, 111 in
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