North Carolina Newspapers

I - ', I !!,' (' 'l 'i! ' l'" - - 1 f 1 L ' - w i . . BE SURE YOTJ AEE EIGHT; TELBJgCXSBglT ATF31E AJD. I Crockett. in ff!tr "I" ' -;' TARBORO', N. O.; FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1877. NO. 15. ,-jzu m-rfeW: t ii m a i iWJi.ii1 i:. us ' ' m :a is- w;; MM AVIV W - ' '-! F ..... . H, r . - -J - ' 1 I ; r ! ! '- i : 1 1 r. rT ? ir : VOL. 55. - ! 1 A I 5fc a?- V' GENERAL DIRECTORY. ' TABBOBO. Matok Fred. Philipt. CoMXisaioKKKS Jese A. Williamson, Ja . cob Feldenhelmer, Daniel W. Hnrtt, Alex. McCatw, Joseph Cobb. Saomi-rurr A Tsiisvui Kobt. Whlte hurat.: Cinru Pouea John W, Cotten. Auistst rotio J: T. Moo-e, John Madra, Wood Windorno and Isaac Bynnm. " . COCNTT, Superior Court Clark mad Prvbot Judff K. L. Buton, Jr. Register 9 f Petda Alex. McCabe. SAfiJoseph Cobb. . . Coroner , Ti wwy-Robt. H. Anstia. Surveyor J oh .xV Baker. StmndarJ KfperT. 8. HJcka. . ScAo btwiMnrjr F. Mabson-. Chair man, W. A Dufr?D, W: T. WUMamson. Keeptr Poor House Vf. T. Godwin. Commissioner! Jno. Lancaster, Chairman, N. B. Bellamy, F. U, Whltted, Clinton Bat tle,tF. Dancy. County Attorney. Wj -F. Wniiamson. . mAiJbs , " y' ARRIVAL, AND DEPARTCB OF MAILS KORTH AND SOUTH VIA W. W. B. R. l" T. it TWo(rfHr) a ' - SO P. M WASHINGTON MAIL VIA GREENVILLE. FALKLAND ASD BPARTA. ; i L.t. TarboWlsK ? - s ArrW.St Ta?br?siW t - : M. Concord R. A. Chapter No. 5, N. M. Law 'cence. High Priest. Masonic Hall monthly convocations ri Thursday in ersry month at 10 o'clock AJK Xii vff i ft ' Concord L4e Nor 58, Thotnas Gatlln, Master, Masonic Hall, meeti. first Friday night t 7 o'clock P. M. and third Saturday at 10 'clock A. M. in every month. Repiton Encampment No. IS, I. O. O. F., I. B. Palamountaln, Chief Patriarch, Odd Fel lows' Hall, meets every first and third Thurs day of each month. ' Edgecombe Lodge No. 50, I. O. O. F., T. W. Toler, .N. G., Odd Fellows' Uall, meets every Tnesday night. Esecombe Council No. 122, Friends of Temperance, meet every Friday night at the Odd Fellows' Hall. Advance Lodge No. 38, I. O. G. T., meets everv Wednesday niat at there Hall. Zanoan Lodge, No. 235, I. Q. B. B., meet on first and third Monday night of every month at Odd Fellows' Uall, A. Whitlock, President. DHCKCHES. Episcopal Church Services every Sunday at 10 1-2 o'clock A. M. and 5 P. M. Dr. J. B. Cheshire, Rector. Methodist CAtircAServices every Sunday at 10 o'clock, and atnigbt. Rev. W. S.Roane, Pastor. Prayer Meeting on Monday even ing. tresoyrertmn Church Services every 1st, rdandtth Sabbaths. Rev. T. J. Allison, , Pastor Weekly Prayer meetiug, Thurs day night Missionary Baptist Church Services the 4th Sunday in every moLth, morning and night. Kev. T. K. Owen, Castor. PrimHivs Baptist Church Services first Saturday and Smnday of each month-at 11 'clock. : HOTELS. Adams' Hotel, cornf r Main and Pitt Sts. O. F. Adams, Proprietor. EXPRESS. Southern Express Office, on Main Street, closes every morning at 9X o'clock. N.M. Uvikci, Agent. OFESSlOIf Ali CARDS. -pRANK POWEIili, "feAtUrmay and Counselor at Law, TARMORCy, N. C. Jter Colloet4s)S sm SpoelsUsy. "V Office next door to the Southerner office. July 2, 1875. tf JOS. BLOUNT CHESHIRE, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW, jinn 'NOTAEY PUBLI0. ar Office at the Old Bank Building on Trade Street. je25-tf. -jOSO. HOWARD. ttornty and Counselor at Law. TARBORO', N. C. 17 Practice in all tbs Courts. State and Federal. " uov.S-ly. jpBEDSRICK PHILIPS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, TABBOBO', 5. C XW Practice in Courts of adjoining coun ties, in the Federal and Supreme Conns. Nov. 6, 1876. ly ALTER P. WILLIAMSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TARBORO', N. C. If ill practice in the Courts of the 2nd Jadicial Dittriot. Collections made in any part of tb. Stave. BTjOffico la Iron Front Building, Pit Street, rear of A, Whitlock dc, Co . Jan. 7, 1876. tf JACOB BATTLE, Counsellor and Attorney at Law, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Practices in all tLe State Courts. March 84, 1876. ly DR. E. D. BARNES, Surgeon Dentist, TARBORO', N. C. All work wan acted to give entire satisfaction. reD.lbw. J H. & W. Jj. THORP, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. PRACTICES in the counties of Edge combe, Halifax, Nash and Wilson, and In the Sapreme Court North Carolina, also a me united States District uouri anuueign H. K. NASH, JR., f ngmwr 3nxbtax OFFICE OTEB WS. S. NASH & CO'S STORE, Where be can always be found when not pro fesslonally absent. Tarboro, Match 2, 1877. DR. J. B. GODWIN, Surgeon Dentist, Washington, N- C March 2Z, 1877. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. i a week inyo nr own town. Terms fiOOand 15 outfit free. H. Hallett A Co., Portland, Maine. GEORGE PAGE & CO. Ha. s v. ccasasnxa st, iat.ttvoss. i. Psrfca t VrtMt Hfuionnry Enrln- finur Hsrtoy k Ssusls MUls, eTuZ' FlMr tUlsu, Wtr ilte Eamry whssls and Tttlll ftaBaUcaiAej. VIA. i 1 ' tfrtZCZ 0 Hmfmf Week to Agents. 10 tfrOv H 5? Ou Freo. P. O. Viek ery, Augusta, Maine. ' : j in day at , home Agents wntd. i ifiOirtfl nd terms free. TRUE CP Angnsta,tMa 1 OK Extra Fine "Mixed ' Cards.j with Jsarte, 10 cts post-paidiU. Joues m CoM Nassau, N. T. - ' ' :. - r rtitctc, U I Incoroormted JIprU , 1800. J President, Hon. W. Dob bio, JudM Snpe- mw. T..tunitAni asTai-r all the eom A UC UUTO iuowui ' - , . r 1WUI W B UUUIV SV yrwvww Tw D " " -V or ear diseases. 8kitt nurses are $n atten dance, and as the snrfoom in charge resides in the house with the family, patient are seen by him several times daring the day. WOT luriner lDIorxaauun, mpyij k iiuicuu in charge. Dr. GEORGE REULIN G. 9 OVWilne. BflNSON CO Port ft w ASSaariiTitttim land Mains.' PRICE, TWENTTf-FIVB CENTS, i NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING ONE HUNDRED dc NINTH EDITION, Containing a complete list of all the towns in tbe United States, the Territories, and the Dominion of Canada, having: a population greater than 5,000, according to the lost cen sus, togetoer wun roe names pi me newspa pers having tbe largest I local : circulation in each of the places named. -Also, a catalogue of newspapers which are recommended to advertisers as giving greatest value in pro portion to prices charged. : Also, all newspa pers in the United States andsCanada print ing over 5,000 copies each issue. Also, all tbe Religious, Agricultural, Scientific and Mchanicat, Medical, Masonic, Juvenile, Edu cational, Commercial, Insurance, Real Estate, Law, Sporting, Musical, Fashion, and other special class journals ; very complete lists. Together with a complete list of over 300 German papers printed in the United States. Also, an essay upon advertising ; many tables of rates, showing the cost ot advertising in various newspapers, and everything which a beginner in advertising would like to know. Address GEO. P. ROWELL A CO., 41 Park Row, New York. NOBTpLK BUSINESS CARDS. - W. H. TATLOIL. . X. X1XJOTT. i J. H. WATTBHB . X. X1XIOTT. Taylor, Elliott & Waiters, Importers and Wholesale dealers in H AR D W ARE, CUTLERY. GUNS, &c. Corner of Main Street and Market Square, NORFOLK, VA. Feb. 9. 1877. I 8m S. HAXBUBOSK. B. HAXBCXQIX Hamburger Bros., MANUFACTURERS OF TOBACCO. PACTORT, OFEICE A WAREHOUSE, Second Street, vo x vo water street, Petersburg, Va. NORFOLK, VA. Feb. 9, 1877. 3m tOUIS HILLIAKO, Greenville, N. C. BILLIARD MABCBLLUi MOOBX, Formerly of N. C. ; M00RE, - COTTON FACTORS AW Commission Merchants, McPhail's Wharf, Uorfolk, Vixjfinia. Keep constantly on hand a large and vai ied stock of Sagging and Ties. General dealers in Standard Fertilizers. Liberal cash advances- made on consign ments. I leb. .-ly J. Easth-ax. ' E. T. Powxli. E4STHAM, POWELL & CO., Wholesale Grocers 90 Water Bt & 41 Commerce St. IVox-lolLc, April 6. 1877. . I 3m. GOODEJHOUSE COR. COMMERCE & MAIN BTS., A. J. Manhlifc! rdpvr. Ml 3 J BOARD FEE DAY, $2-00. April 6, 1877. J tf. M. L. T. Davis. ; B. D. Thomas M. L. T. DAYLS & CO., WHOLESALE O K O O JR. S , Also, large stock of MEATS, PORK AND FLOUR, always on hand. IRON FEONT, i Sonth East Cor. Water jand Commerce Sts., Iorfolk,Va. Capt. D. BELL, Salesman m the House. April 6, 1877. : 3m MARROW & CO., Successors to Bottimore, Marrow A Co. WHOLESALE j" SHOE HOUSE, Nos. 120 & 122 Main SL, JXorTolh:, Va, AprU6, 18877. j . i 8n 1855. ESTABLISHED 1855. W. A. MEHEGAN, . Manofactnrer of FINE CIGARS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer U V- Leaf & Hanufactured Tobacco- 120 CHURCHj 8TREET, ; Ram visa worth jt : AAFAMntt& April 6, 1877. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. GEO. S. HAWES, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN Tin, Copper S1BT IRON! WARE, . Tarboron JT. V. a FULL' LINE OF COOsUNG HIAT AL ' Ing, Parlor 4c Office Stoves, kept constanUy on c&aoV which will "be sold at lowest cash pricesw. : , ROOFING AND either te town or country, ed t and on reasonable terns. ofaUl ness. If yon can't afford to buy "a new stove bring your old One and trade. - ' ' GEO. 8. HAWES, ' Nearly opposite Post Office. Feb. 18, 1878. ? ly. Old Rallabl jewelry Store, V TEARS , EST AIUSHEO. JTIU l FULL IIAST. Arthui C. Freeman, SUCCESSOR 100 Main 8L NorfoJk.-Y., , t f t . offers t the citizens of Edgecombe ahi sur rounding country, a full line of Diamonds, Plain Gold Wedding and Engage ment Rings, Bridal Presents, fcc . My facilities are such that being connect ed with one of the largest Importing Houses in this Country, and buying exclusively for cash, enables me to offer SUPERIOR INDUCEMENTS. Send your orders to me, and you will save 15 to 20 per cent. Should the goods not suit money will be refunded. Address, ARTHUR C. FREEMAN, - Jeweler, Norfolk, Va. Hia"m.T Impohtist. I emnlov none bat tbe most ixUJM- Workmen In the Repairing J have your watches" repaired properly and satisfaction given, send them to merby Ex press carefully packed in cotton. WEBER'S BAKERY P THIS OLD ESTABLISHED BAKERY 18 now ready to supply the people of Tar boro and vicinity with all kinds ot Bread, Cakes, French and Plain Candies, Nuts, Fruits, $c, $c, c.t. embracing every thing usually kept in a First Ulaes JCstabiishment of the kind. Thankful for the liberal patronage of the past the undersigned asks a continuation, wltb the promise of satisfaction. Private Families cavil always hsvt their Cakes naked iters) at abwrt atnatice. Orders for Parties & Bails promptly filled. Call and examine oar stock, nexf door to Bank of New Hanover. Not. 4.-ly. JACOB WEBER. W. T. TAYLOR, Manuiaetarer of ' WINDOW FfiAKIES, DOORS, Plain Panels of every style DOOR FRAMES, WINDOWS, 8A8XES, BLINDS, MANTLMS, MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, SCROLL WOEX. Tobacco Box Patterns, Whitaker's, N. O. Also, contracts to pat up buildings, furn ishing all material complete tarn-key jobs, or otherwise, as parties may prefer, all with kiln-dried lumber. March 84, 1876. ly TH0S. E. LEWIS & CO., AT THE OLD ESTABLISHED INFORM THEIR FRIENDS AND THE public generally that they will add to their present stock of Books, Stationery ASB FANCY; GOODS, A foil supply of Staple and, Domestic Dry Goods, Jfotions9 Boots tf Shoes, Groceries OUR MOTTO: QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS." The patrons infire so Io long extended to M. WXDDELL COn ifl respectfully solicited. iTIics. E. Lewis &Co.1 March.lS77. f .!'! U ' 5a I CLllTEltlKG , 'prbmpttt atteadV i r r , j - if utboto' IjmniktttiZK. Friday, April 13, 1877. THE TWO LQVE LETTERS. We don't take boarders' said Mrs. Farquhar, looking in an owl ish fashion through her epectac -glasses at Mr. Stuart Waller. We have got plenty aid to spare witL oat the trouble of 'eni. You'll find the tavern three-quarters of a mile bwlew You mast v hare come right ptst its. door.' . . , ... - - 5 chiYalric manner .tnat maae e?err lady wh.m he addressed feel titer self, for the time being, the only feminine creature in all the uni verse; 'but no, amount of money won Id hire me to make my home in a place like thatf Here it is like a glimpse of Paradise looking j ad miriaglj around at the shady lawns, the clematis-bordered porch, and the rose hedges all sprinkled over with pink buds. -'I am sure mads am," you will reconsider your deci- sion, and take me in for a few days, and I will promise to be no more trouble around tbe house than a kitten.' Mrs. -Farquhar was but human, and the upshot of affairs was that Mr. Waller' trunk arrived the nest day. , Oh, mother !' said. Patty Far quhar, knitting her pretty black eyebrows, why did you let him "in ? Jlnd wo bo peaceful and comforta ble here !' 'Child, why shouldn't J ?' said the widow, 'lie's to pay ten dol lars a wi-ek board, and i haven't no use for the little three-cornered room over the parlor.' 'I dent know,' ea;d Patty, slow ly, 'but it seems to me 1 feel exact ly as Eve must have felt when she saw the serpent writhing his way into Paradise.' 'Nonsense !' said Widow Farqu har, almost angrily. But Patty only laughed, and ran away under the shadow of pink buds, to meet Morris Newton , her affianced lover. . 'Little one,' said Morris, impf oning hoth her soft, white hands in his, -1 ve got baa jiews sot you j 'Bad news,Morris ?' '7've got to go to Omaha next wcek,r to see about those silver mines that one of my clients has an interest in. 'Oh, dear !' cried Patty, parsing up her strawberry of a mouth. 'I shall be gone six months. 'Worse and worse,' said Patty. 'But if you say so, Patty,' draw ing her gently to his side, 'we can be married first, and make a wed ding trip of it.' 'The idea !' flashed back Patty, drawing herself out of his embrace. 'And i without a single dress made!' 'We can buy the dresses after ward.' 'That's all a man knows about it 'Youe sure it's impossible ?' with a disappointed air. 'Oh, quite !' asserted the little brunette. 'Then,' said Mr. Newton, with a sigh, you must be sure and write very often, and be getting your fol-de-rels ready to be married in, as soon as I come home.' 'Yes,' said Patty, gravely. fThat is more reasonable.' And she went back into he house utterly ignorant that, at the isame time, Mr. Stuart Waller was laying a wager with a boon companion, at the Eastworth Arms 'that he would cue tut that conceited lawyer in less than four weeks.' For Mr. Waller was piqued by Patty's cool indifference, andj un fortunately, his were the 'idle hands' for which Satan ia eaid to find plenty of mischief to do. ' 'She's pretty, after a fashion,' said he to himself; 'and X mean v. make her dead in lore with me be fore Pm through.' Mr. Waller was a man of the world. Patty Farquhar was as young in experience as in years. They were an ill-oatached pair, and it was hardly three weeks before the tongue of gossip began to busy it self with the widow's dark-eyed daughter. . Mrs. Farquhar came into Patty's room, one afternoon, and found her crying as if her heart would break, and with an open letter in her lap. 'Heart alive, ehild ! what is the matter?' cried the old lady. Nothing, nother nothing !' and Patty hurriedly wiped her eyes. 'Only I've got a letter from4 Mor ris, and it makes me so glad and so sorry!' 'Folks didn't cry over love letters when I wai a girl,' eaid Mrs. Far quhar. But the letter was more to Patty thaa the old lady suspected. Every trusting word, every caressing ad jective, was an envenomed arrow m her heart. Patty knew that almost uncon sciously, she had been led into what seemed to her an innocent enough flirtation with Stuart Waller.: She had walked with him in the twilight, and she had ; written two letters, when her.was temporarily absent, in New ork-4-cartless, girlish letters, which although she had thought no harm at the time, she would now sire worlds to recall. 'I'll ask i him to return them to me,' said Patty to herself : ' 'and then Pll tura anew leaf. I will go to Aunt Prude ncja's while he re mains here, and-begin my wedding cietbes migood earnesf ) j I "But when Patty Farquhar prof- red her innocent request, Mr. Waller laughed in her face. My deafePattyiSaid he,- Mo yod taki me for fool? ... My hamea MisrFarquhar,' said thegirl with Jiashing eyes. , 'Excuse me, but when you say 'Dear Stuart'' k i never saia such a thins! ins terruptea ratty, with oarninz cheeks -srv " . . s n ana e k. -'' r "... ! w In the letters !' T n?rJ 7)a1- Mr W. U' nor. ted Patty. vbxeuse me once more memory playa you false.' -your Will you return me the letters ?' 'Miss Farquhar,' with a low bow, 'they are a great deal too precious to me ! 'Yoa refuse V 'I never refuse anything to a la dy ; but ' Patty did not stay to hear the conclusion, but flashed out into tbe afternoon sunshine, whh a huge lump in her throat, and a curious sensation as if all her blood were turned to fire. What a fool 1 have been !' she thought, pacing up and down the tiny graveled walk, like a chained pantherese, and biting her scarlet lip, 'oh, what an idotic, unreasons inr fool ! An l what will become of me if ever Morris Newton sees those silly scrawls? But, surely, surely,' with a troubled .effort of memory, 'in the wildest moment of my in fatuation, I never addressed him as 'Dear Stuart !' Be that as it may, I must and will get .those letters back !' Fired with determination, Patty Farquhar resolved herself at once into a private detec ive, searched Mr. Waller's room, and even got a false key to his trunks and went through their contents, but all in Ltainl Aodh? had the sorry sat isfaction 6( perceiving, by Mr. Wal ler's amused and patronizing air, that he knew all about it. 'I'll have them yet !' said Patty. Miss Farquhar was standing with clasped hands before the wide-opened door of the old-fashioned oven, built by the side of the kitchen chimney and extending a sort of hump-backed excrescence, out into the lilac bushes of the back garden, when Mr. Waller ame in, one af ternoon, with a string of speckled trout depending from his finger. Za Penserosa!' said he, lightly. Pardon me, Patty, but why are you so grave .?', She looked up suddenly at him. My thimble !' said she, 'it has rolled down into the oven my lit tle gold thimble !' '.And can't you reach it V 'it is impossible !' 'Nothing is impossible where a lady's behest spurs one on !' said Mr. Waller, gallantly. 'Stand aside one second, Penserosa !' And he sprang valiantly into the yawning depths of the eld brick oven. it was decidedly warm, for the fires had just been taken out; it was decidedly dark, but no sooner bed he entered than Patty, a bril liant inspiration lighting her heart and face alike, swung the massive, dingy iron door to, and fastened it with the Sturdv bolt. Hello!' shouted Mr. Waller, 'what are you doing there, Patty ?' I'm shutting the oven door,' breathlesalyresponded Patty. 'But I can't find your thimble in this Egyptian darkness.' 'I don't want my thimble.' 'Patty -Miss Farquhar what do you mean ?' 1 I mean to have those letters bask,' announced Patty. 'Do you want vo roast me alive in this Black Hole of Calcutta of a place ?' gasped Mr. Waller. I don't think I care much wheth er you roast or not,' answered PaU ty, deliberately. 'I shall shout for help.' 'Shout away,' said Patty, with a laugh. 'Dorcas is hanging out clothesby the river, and mother has gone to the village. Do shout !' 'Patty !' imploringly. No reply. 'Miss Farquhar!' more imploring ly still. Well ?' 'Am I to be a prisoner here for life ?' 'Until you give me those letters.' I can't V groaned Waller. I haven't got them with me.' 'But you can tell me where they are, I suppose !' rejoined Patty. . . The oven was hot and dark, a sen sation akin to suffocation stole over Mr. Stuart Waller, 'Let me out,' said he, grinding his teeth, 'and i'll give them to yon.' f That won't do!' retorted Miss Patty. ' 'I must have them Before you com out, or not at all.' 'impossible! 'Nothing is impossible,' mimick ed malicious Patty, 'where a lady's behest spurs one on !' Mr. Waller uttered an ejacula tion, which was certainly net a prayer. ' - . . 'I can't stand this broiling hole !' Bhouted he. 'In the little summer house under the loose board of the table ! Quick, or I shall be stifled to death !' - And Patty flew off ss if her tiny feet were garnished with wings. In the little summer-housa, un der the loose board, : as Mr. Waller had said, wrapped in oiled silkjf and tied with a jellow cigar ribbon. Catching them npv-f Ve tore, them hurriedly open. ;f,;-f.HV 'I knew it wasn't 'Dear Stnartlij' she exclaimed, mockingly ; and then tearing them into a shower of infi nitesimal pieces, she flung them to the summer wind. Haifa minute later, Mr. Waller, crumpled as to linen, frowsy as to hair, and streaming with perspirai tion, crept out of his sultry cell. Patty courtesied low to greet his egress. " 'Walk out, said she. 'Coward and liar !' - , Mr. Waller made no reply. What could he have said ? He left the Farquhar cottage that evening. He said he had re ceived a telegram. Perhaps he had; but Patty had her doubts on that subject. At all events he disap peared, and Patty Farquhar breatbV Morris Newton came ?back in October, and Patty married him. But she never told any one, even ber husband, of the episode of the old brick over, and the two love letters. . . She had her lesson, and Bhe bad promed by it she told herself ; let all else sink into oblivion.: OUE WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington Lapsed into Apathy Improvements Patterson and Spen cer Overhauled Things too Mon strous and too Insignificant to Men tion A Senator Robs the Soldiers and Charges Mis Wife with the Crime, (From Oar Regal ar Correspondent.) Washignton, D. C, 1 April 9, 1877. Washington has lapsed into its summer apathy; its greatness has departed. The SeDate chamber and the hal of the House of Representatives are undergoing indispensable re pairs. The departments jog on through the monotonous routine. Mr. izayes shakes hands with all who are disposed to oondone bis usurpation, and drives with Zach Chandler or Secretary Sherman about the bank3 of the much sound ing Potomac, A few Senators and members remain ; some of them own houses and property in the city and Washington is more their -home than the districts to which they are accredited. This is especially the case with referenoe to the carpet baggers Spencer, of -Alabama, and Patterson, of South Carolina, al though they represent those States in the Senate, are less identified with their interests and people than are intelligent and philanthropic members of the foreign legations. These worthies, their peers and vassals, are not identified with any thing, in fact, but theft and lechery. I am willing to be responsible for this assertion. J have no doubt but that similar expressions of opin ion in my letters have been attribu ted to malice and personal spite, by those who were not themselve cog nizant of their truth. I came to Washington four years ago prepar ed, partiotically, to admire our great legislators, i had read the invective and bitter personalities of the opposition press until it impres sed me as rhetorical rather than truthful. Strong in the ; orthodox faith that we were the envy ot sur rounding nations, I was a worship - L- A per ui American : institutions, American women, men and con- w ar . . a gressmen. My opportunities for observation have not been remark-1 able, but they have been fair, and, while I have written with strong in dignation, I have never written a word that I did not believe to be the truth, and feel it my duty to write. 1 earnestly believe that tbe stoiy of corruption as it affects con gress ana the aepartments, as it permeates every artery and tissue of official life, haa never been told can never be told. The fraud that shocks oar existence is one, which, ere we can fix it in language, is gone or eclipsed by a bigger fraud, and bo it goes en in stuns mng succession, until there is a des ponding apprehension of a decay -of public spirit in the .American peo ple, a reasonable fear that despair has made them resigned to the greasy old machine,' until it shall run down, with its fraudulent exec utive, perjured judiciary and cer- rupt, imbecile legislature. I said that the story of corruption cannot be told. There are some things too monstrous and too insignificant fox 1 a statement tnat win ne credited by our neculiar sacked jury of 40.- 000,000V They will not believe that the government supplies its legisla tors with cologne, . visiting cards and tooth, picks ; its thousands ef .1 - - - --. I 5 3 -A employees wit u pen-smves anu sta tionary for private use ; : and they will not believe that a cabinet officer, who was a member of the Republican church, stole thousands of dollars from the soldiers and charged the theft upon1 his wife. But these are only items ; grains of sano-en the teeming shore. 1 hate statistics? the world hates statis tics. 3 We all-prefer romance and cant of moral ideas and progress ; the. blowing. j of trumpets and bang- ing of , urums on the; fourth of J uly, or;th soft flaitfring; Sisging if star spabgle? poets. 'It the poets of the future wilf but t his facts from the archives of- the departments, and his4ntpiratiori from the report ers gallery, th.e .American epic will be, different, from Bayard Taylor's Ujen tenniaL Ode. In my humble opinion, popular . government is faulty; not an absolute failure, per- bapsbut, so far as oar .experiment goes, a failure to secure wise legis lation fair administration or just construction in municipal, State or national matters. One thing is cer tain : the government made by the fathers for 3,000,000 colonists of the Appalachian water-shed, is not suited for a steam regenerated, rail-road ribbed, electric nerved 40,000,000 of people. I am no pessemist. but since Haves is called president I think there need be no haste- to put the obituary of . the devil in type. . if an American citizen can bear or even look at such low browed,1 villianous men as Patterson or Spencer, without a sense of morti fication, so much the worse for the American citizen. These honora ble Senators are not monsters, they are such men as we meet every day; men whose bosoms never swelled with a free and generous thought, who have never felt an emotion that was not selfish, never an aspiration that was not venal or veneral. But they are Senators, and this is our country ! C. A. S. The Mormon and His Wives. 'Among the gentiles,' asked a re porter, of a Mormon of Salt Lake City, "'even one wife . is often , re garded as an expensive luxury. How is it that among the Mormons a poor man is able to support sev eral wives ?' 'Oh, that is easy to explain. A man who joins the Mormons gene rally makes money by it. Let us suppose a case. Say a European 'peasant comes over here with his wife, having been induced to join the Mormons in Utah. He imme diately takes possession of 160 acres of good land under the law of Congress. Now, this is a great taing for a man who has probably never owned a foot ot ground before. The land out there, your must re member, is very good. The soil is rich and deep and the rainfall has increased, 1 suppose about one hun dred per cent, in the last fifteen years. Still, the land has to be irrigated to" some extent. xWell, the man goes to work and nens up .... . . a little nut maae et siaos. or logs and mud; then he get- acow, rais es crops, and pulls through tne first year. He may have brought , over a peasant girl to work for him at, say $2 or $3 a week. He sees that he can just as well marry the girl and save the wages he would other wise have to pay her. He gets a baby as soon as he can, and the next year he puts this new wife of his, with her baby, upon another 160 acres of land.. Perhaps he has been smart enough to build his hut just on the boundary of the farms, so that by putting up an extension the new 'family" .can live in the same house and get on another farm. Then as he extends his do main, bo will marry more wives, and each of his additional children he puts upon another j 160 acres. Now, you know, after . the settler has occupied a farm for' five years, built upon and worked it, he gets a full title to the prop erty from the Federal goverment. Each of his wives, after he has lived on. anoth er 160 acres for the same iime, can swear out a clear title as 'head of a family.' ' This has always been done and is done stilL I And thus the head of the concern, who came into the country a poor peasant, often becomes a regular patroon, living in ease in the centre of his domain, while his wives and their children go on increasing their num bers and his wealth. 1 Now you know just how it is done. i 'Well,' he complained, pulling on his pants, 'when I die I shan't go pokin' about cold mornings bnjldin' fires.' 'No,' was her cruel reply from beneath the warm coverlids, for if you get your just deserts, you'll find the fire all burning red hot for you every morning.' 4 .j-."" l; 'Ssmbo, what is ; darj dat nebber was, nebber can be, and nebber will be ?' 'I dunno Caesar j I gibs It up 'Why, chile, a -.monies ne'st 1 in a eats ear.',: .r OUB HOTTO." i I- ''Equal Bights to All; ExcItidTaPriT lieges to; Nona " : . ' y ; Ed. Southebnxb : in closing my first communication I , said, If . you love freedom for yourself and isnil- dren better than slavery, form Green' back Clubs and demand of Congress your rights or dismiss your servants. I contend that the. servant', is hot greater thaa his master ; that the pee. pie are tne sovereign j that Uongress ; is ftk "paid agent (servant), xlotked -. with delegated power totsohl' money TtI . -and regulate the value thereof. . They hate no granted power to grant oth--. ers an exclusive right to coin money, ; ti nor to regulate the value thereof, tlf '. the people are sovereign in the United ' ;; States they f have ; the right q' com mand their servants and demand of i Congress a government "currency for v i themselves, sufficient for all the wants ; 'i of tra4e and . commerce of the United dt Statea The sovereign people are the ,' ! best surety for. the redemption of all its debts.' But Congress, instead of coining legal tender greenbacks at. par with gold, have passed laws to"-. SJ call them in Jand are burning them,1 - and have legalized upwards of 2,100 national swindling shops to coin mon- . . ey, and to shave and swindle the toil- ing millions of people out their labor, ," with its fictitious credits called mon- ' V ey which, in fact, is not lecal monev ' ' to cheat the people by contracting" I - - ana innacing at will, raising and low ;. ;V ering the value of labor and property , . , causing panics and suspensions, as in. K, 1816, and again in 1837, and sot ;n ward for about every, twenty yean, ' ' which, have. brought ruin and disas tor. upon the! country clogged all the. ; industries, demoralized and destroyed' " ' confidence among the people, and the " 'i result is now bankruptcy and ruin all xw7 wuubry. at ute auora umep swindling began by. shavers, agents and speculators of the fictitious mon ey power, and: reaped a fafr harvest out of the f ruins "of ! the - people, brought about by these i legalized swmdling shops.- r These, are facts I have witnessed. ( "We claim of Con-', gress "equal Jaws to protect equal ' rights ' to ' property; persons ; and speech, and : equal taxation upon all 1 values, and a legal tender greenback currency of its own, instead of con- . traeting and burning them; to 'com pel the people to use a fictitious bank currency, cheating and 1 forcing them to pay lnterest'from 1012 to 25 per cent, on the dollar for its use. Sunh is equal protection and .equal rights with a vengeance. Our servants -in Congress - have botvayod . tha xxplo . , iufa Pound xis, ana all w lia, ever to the bondholders, not only in the United States, bnt "Rnronn. Mnatdail of coining money as the. Constitution required, have uncoined silver, calling ' in all' the leiral tender Annntitntionnl money, buttj gold, and have granted exclusive privileges to twentv-one hundred shoos, called National Banks. to coin a fictitious money not a con stitutional money out, of the credit -and bonds of the government, instead of issuincr i?reenbaclc IacaI tamers and paying its own debts, have, sinoe . 1873, been contracting its greenbacks" to oppress the tjeonle. A maioritv ' of Congress do not represent the peo- ana are j opposed to equal rights and equal taxation, and are in favor of exclusive privileges to the few. and hence we are paving the way for the bankers and bondholders, 1 who pay no taxes, to peap another fat harvest Out of the people by resumption of -specie payments in 1879, with an al- most empty treasury; to force the -government j to purchase gold of the same money changers and pile up bil lions more of bonds at ruinous rates of per 1 centumn and more taxes on the people to pay. We say to . Con gress, : the people must, have equal tax ation or no taxes Thej must have a United .States money a- Currency .of its own, made a legal tender in 'pay ment of all debts and dues, ! whatever; or repudiation will be the result, or . something worse may come. : ; 1 1 ' " ' He Left Eer. -. He left her and stepped out to see a friend berweeu acts, i - j s ' Why, Edward, said she, when he returned, there are tears in your ' eyes. ( . v-v- -:- i ' - ' " 'JeS, pet;' replied he solemnly, 1 suppose there are I saw such a sad aighr when I was out' i f -j ' You did--whatwas Itfr : r 'Such a sad sight oonftnued he, keeping his face away that she might not smell his breath. 1 dtsoovered a voung man whom I haveMcnown for years drinking whisky.' i ! You did r .;; 1.-; I -.- 'Yes, standing right in plain sight before me, partaking deeply and ears- . leasly of the( intoxicating glass.' There was a little pause, when the young lady suddenly said: j j 'Edward, was he standing right In front of you?' j -r . Yes, pet,, was the reply J ... There was another pause, when the ' young lady asked again i l 'Edward, don't most of the fashion able saloon counters have great nioe mirrors right j on the "walls . behind themf - " ! , -i" !' - " J Edward flashed m little and looked quizzical as ho replied that be ''believ ed" they did. I. V j: c And there he permitted the subject to drop. i i. !. -. - A simple method of rendering Etperso retentive ; of r. ink that the ittcr cannot be removed withoct leaving plain marks has been lately adopted in France for checks. The main feature of Ithj method is the passing the paper through a very- blled water. ft A; "1 vl '-'! w . I. i'J i I : -