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T E E I) A R K: HOUR.
A CIIIUSTMAS STORY.
"I can't 'and it anv longer, Jane: I'll
go out, Hint perhaps something will turn uj
fur us."
'tV a cold night, Robert."
'.".CoM, yes; hut it's not much colder out
than in. It would have been much-better
i.f,r voii if you had married John Tremain,"
'he sa'nl, bitterly.
'lK.n't say that, -Robert,- I've never re
gretted my choice."
"Not even when there is not a loaf of
bread iu the house for vou and the .chil
dren?" "Not even now, Robert. Don't be dis
couraged; God has not entirely forsaken tis.
lVrhnps this. Christmas eve the tide will
1 1 it ili ; better tlays may daw n on us to-mor-
Robert Btioe shook his head desponding-
Lv
'on arc more hopeful than I, Jane.
Day alter day 1 have been in search of
.employment;" I have called at about fifty
places' only to recei ve the same reply evpry
w In re." ' j
.lust then lit ire Jimmy, who had been
asleep, woke Up.
'Motlicr," he pleaded, "won't you please
trve 111 o a piece of. bread? 1 am so hiing-
-There is no bread, .limiuy, my darling, '
s.iiil the poor mother, with-a sad, aching
Iicrut.
.... .!. , 9. 11 1
"W lien w ill there lie some; asKeu mo
tjutlc child, pitoously.
Fears came to the mother's eyes; .she
knew not wlmt to do.
"Jimmy, I'll bring you pome bread!-'
said the agonized father. , ' '
I te seized his hat, and hurried to the door;
his wife, alarmed, laid her hand on his
sleeve. She saw the look in his eye, and
.feared to what step desperation might lead
him. ".
'Remember, Robert,' she said solemnly,
"it is hard to starve, but there are thiugse
yon worse." '
He shook offher detaining hand, and
jwssed out. -
' Out -iu the cold streets! There woulil
.be their onjy home next. For a brief pe
riod longer they had -the shelter of a cheer
less room in a cold lodging-house, but the
rent would become-due at the end of the
present month, and he had no money to
meet it.
Hubert Brice was a mechanic, compe
tent and skillful. Three years before, he
li ved in a country village w here his expen
ses were moderate, and he found no diffi
culty in meeting them. But in an evil hour
hr grew tired of his village home, and mo
ved to the city. Here he vainly hoped to
do better. For a while lie' met with good
success; but he found' the lodging house in
wliiclMie had to live a poor substitute for
the ntgSt cottage he had in the country.
Tile saw his mistake, butrwas too proud to
go back, although his Wife wished to do
, SO. "'-.. j, .'''
Hut a time of great dejiressimi came, and
witlwit a suspension of tusuiess enterprise.
" Ork ceased for Robert "Brice and inanv
others. If he had been in his old home
he could have turned his hand to some
. thing else, and, at the worst, could have
iiuimwou oi. ms jicignoors unui irigi.uer
times. i. '
. "So day by day he-went out to seek work;
only to return disaipointed. If he had
been alone he could have got on in some
w ay; but it was a sore trial to come to the
cheerless room, and see his pale wife and
hungry children, with no relief to offer to
them.
When Robert II rice w ent into the streets
on that Christmas eve, lie hardly knew
how he was going to redeem the "promise
he had made to little Jimmy. Ue was absolutely-penniless,
and hud been so for
three or four days. There was no work
thai he was liktdy to find to do on that
- night. .
'Twill pawn my coat," he said; IT can
,not see niy.vvife and children starve."
It was a well-worn coat,flnd that cold
winter night he needed soniethincr more to
keep him warm. Weakened by enforced
tasung, he w as Qiore sensitne to the cold,
and shiverca as he walkdd along the pave
ment. "cs," he said, "my coat must go. I
know noUiow I shall get on without it,
but I can't see mv family starve before mv
" f,y.-s." " "
He was not in general an envious man;
'mt when he saw the sleek, well-fed citi
;zeuS, buttoned up to the throat in wtxrm
wevcoats, come out of brilliant v liglited
.ois, providexl with presents for liappv
(l'iWren at home, while his own were star-
ing he suffered some bitter thoughts upon the
inequality of fortune's gifts to come to his
mmd. Why should they bo so happy and
he so miserable?
There was a time, he remembered it
well, when he, too, suffered not the Christ
mas Eve to pass without bnying some lit
tle gifts for Jimmy and Agnes. How lit
tle he dreamed that they should ever want
bread? i
There was one man, shorter than him
self, well clad, who passed him with hands
thrust in the pockets of his overcoat. There
was a pleasant smile upon his face. Doubt
less he was thinking of the happy circle at
home. . I f
Robert knew iiim to be a rich cabinet-'
maker and upholsterer, whose large ware
house he often passed. He had applied
to this man, only two days before for em
ployment, and had been refused. It was,
perhaps, the thought of the wide differ
ence betw:een them, so far as outward cir
cumstances went, that led Robert to follow
him. " : - - .'
After awhile the tradesman, Mr. Grimes,
drew his handkerchief from his pocket. As
he did so he did not perceive that his pocket-book
came -with it, and fell on the pave
ment. He did not perceive it, but Rob
ert did. His heart leaped into his month,
and a sudden thought entered his mind.
He bout quickly .down, and picked up the
pocket-book, raising his eyes to see if the
movement had been noticed. It had not;
Mr. Grimes walked on, unheeding his
loss.
"This w ill buy bread-for my wife and
children," thought Robert, instantly.
A vision of the comfort which the mon
ey would carry to that cheerlessfroom light
ed up Jiis heart for an instant, but then
for he was not ilishoncst there came an
other thought. The money was not his,
much as he wanted it. '
"Rut I cannot see my wife aud children
starve," he thought again; "even if it is
wrong to keep the money, God will pard
on the offense, for he understands1 mv mo
live." ' - ;,; :
All this was sophistry, and he knew it;
in a moment he. felt it to be so. There were
some things worse than starving his wife
had said before lie came out. Could he
meet her eve on.his return with food so got
ten? "
"I've ljv,ed honest so far; I won't- turn
thief now."
It was with a great effort that he came
to. this decision, for all the w hile there
was before his eyes that vision of a cheer
less home, and he could hear little Jimmy
vainly asking for food. It was with an
effort tlrat he stepped forward and placed
his hand upon the tradesman's shoulder,
extending' the hand that held the pocket
book. y-
"Thank you," said Mr. "Grimes, "I had
not perceived mv loss; ' I ain obliged to
you." - ::" : , .:
"You have reason" to be," said Robert,'
in a low voice. "I was verv near keeping
it." -, '
"Thatjwould have been dishonest," said
Mr. (J rimes, his kind tone altering slight
ly. "Yes, it would; but it is hard to be hon
est when one is penniless, and his family
without bread."
"Surely you and your children are not in
that conditionr' said the tradesman,- earn
estly. ' V '
"Yes," sahl Robert, "it is only totftrne.
J''or two months I have vainly sought for
vork. I applied to you two or three days
ago. '. ,
"I remember you now; I thought that
I had seen vou before. And vou still want
work?"
"T should feel gratefuT for it."
"My foreman left me yesterday. Y'ill
vou take his place at twentv-liviaollars a
week?" V :
"ThankfuTlv sir; I would for onlv half
that."
''Then come to-morrow morning, or, as
to-morrow is holiday, the next day. In the
meantime, accept of this for present neces
sitk's." "Why, you have given me thirty dol
lars!' said Robert, in amazement.
"I know it the pocket-book contained
five thousand dollars. Hut for vou I should
have lost all. I wish vou a merry Christmas."-
,"It will, indeed, be a merry Christmas,'
said Robert, fervently. "Heaven bless you!
good night!" '
"Good night."
Jennie waited for her husband in the
cold and cheerless room which lor a few
days longer she might call her home. An
hour passed; there was a step on the stairs
her husband's. It "coald not le, for this
was a cheerful, elastic step, rapidly com
ing up two steps at a time. She looked
eagerly to the door, as it opened, l'es, it
was he. Robert, his face radiant with joy,
entered with a basket of substantial pro
visions. ''Have you got some bread, father?" iu
cpned Jimmy, hopefully.
"Yes, Jimmy, some bread and meat from
a cook's shop; and here's a little tea and
sugar. There is a little coal left; let's have
a blight fire and a comfortable meal,- for,
please God, this shall be a merry Christ
mas!'?. "How did this happen? Tell me, Rob
ert." ' . ' - ,
So Robert told his wife; and soon a nice
lire lit up the humble room, and there were
four happy hearts' that waited in joyful
hope for the daWn of a "merry Christmas'
day. I .."'..'
The next week they moved to better
rooms, and have never since known want,
Robert fount a, firm friend in Mr. Grimes;
he now has a comfortable home, a surplus
sum in the bank, and lias reason to remem
ber, every da' of liis life, with a grateful
heart, God's goodness on that Christmas
eve.
Love cmlurcth all things.
A Legend of Servian Hospitality.
The hospitality of the Servian is illus
trated by the following legend: The day
had just" departed, and the moon shone
brightly over bare fields of snow-, when a
stranger entered the hut of a poor Servian
named Lagare. "You are welcome' said
Lagare, and, turning to his wife, continued
in a low tone: "Luibitga, make the fire
blaze and get the supper ready." Luibit
ga .replied: "The forest is vast and the
faggot brums cheerily on the hearth, but
where is the supper; have we not fasted
for two days?" '"Are you Servians?" said
the stranger, "and have nothing to give
your guest?" Poor Lagare opened one
cupboard, then another, but both were
empty; not a morsel of bread, not a fruit
did they contain. Shame and confusion
took possession of him. "Here is food
and fresh meat, too," said the stranger,
laying his hand on the golden curls of
Tanka, the only child of his host. "It
shall never be said, then, that a Servian
was wanting in hospitality!" cried Lagare,
and, seizing Tanka, he cut her throat as
if she had merely been, a iamb. After
perforaning this a'wful deed, he swooned
away, and Luibitga fell to the ground
with a loud cry. 'Who could describe the
supper of the stranger? Toward midnight
Lagare1 woke to find his guest bending
over him, who said.iu a loud tone: "Rise,
Lagare, I am the Lord thy God; Servian
hospitality has been tried and not found
wanting." Thy daughter is 'restored.
Abundance and peace shall reiu in your
house evermore. Lagare, Luibitg a, Tan
ka, live long and prosper!"
A Real Pearl Xeckl ace. A vcry
curious circumstance recently occurred here
relative to a necklace, or rather a string of
beads. One of the vacant shops on the
Rue de Rivoli was occupied temporarily
by one of those Arab venders of pipes, per
fumes, imitation jewelry, shawls, ptc,
wherewith the visitors to Long Branch'-and
Newport. at home have become familiar.
A gentleman j-esiding in the upper part of
the city stopped at this stall the other day,
and purchased a string of imitation beads,
for which he paid ninety cents. This
necklace he gave to his (laughter for one
of her dolls. A celebrated jew;eler hap
pened to call one evening while the child
was engaged in amusing herself with
her new toy. "How foolish you arc
to let a child have so valuable an object to
play with!" remarked -the" jeweler to the
father. "Yalnable!" said the father, "I
gave four francs and a half for it the oth
er day." The jeweler took the necklace
from the little girl, and examined it long
and miniftely. "I do not care what you
paid for it," he said at length, "but this
much I do' know: the pearls are real, and
the necklace is w orth ten thousand francs
(82,000) at the very lowest computation.
If you doubt. my sincerity, I will prove it
bv giving vou eight thousand francs for it
on the spot." The next morning thu-gentle1-man
hurried totliefdaee where he had pun
chased it, but the shop had in the mean
time been rented, and the Arab had disap
peared. How a string of' real pearls had
got mixed up with his beads of wax and
glass must, therefore, of course,' remain a
mystery.
Moral. Let us buy largely and contin
uously of imitation jewels, in the hope that
they may turn out real. Alas, the reverse
is too often and far more frequently the
case. l'uris Letter.
Ax Apologue. One day the guardian
genius of all who possess strong sensibili
ty thus addressed Jupiter: "Father di
vine! bestow on thy .poor human creatures
a language more expressive than any they
now possess, for they have only words
signifying how they suffer, how they en
joy, and how they love." "Have I not
given them tears?" replied the deity
"tears of pleasure, of pain, anil the softer
ones that flow from tender passion!" The
genius answered "O God of men! they do
not sufliciently speak the overflow ing of the
heart; give, I thee supplicate, to man a
language that can more powerfully point
"the languishing and impassioned wishes of
a susceptible soul the recollections, so
delightful, of infancy the soft dreams
of youth, -and the hopes of another life,
which nature oft indulges while contem
plating the last rays of the sun as they
sink in the ocean: give them, father of all!
a new language of the heart." At this
moment the celestial harmonies of the
spheres announced to Jupiter the approach
of the Muse of Song. To her the god
immediately made a sign, and thus utter
ed his behests: "Descend on earth, O
muse, and teach mankind thy language."
And the Muse of Song descended to earth,
taught us her accents, and from that time
the heart of man has been able to speak.
John Randolph, of Roanoke, employed
an excellent man named Clopton, to preach
to his negroes in a chapel on his planta
tion. One cold Sunday, while he was giv
ing out his hymn, two lines at a time, he
observed a negro put his foot with a new
brogan on the red hot stove. Turning to
him he said in a measured voice: "You
rascal, you, you will burn your shoe." As
this rhyme was in exact meter to the hymn,
the negroes chimed in and sang it. The
preacher smiled, and mildly explained:
"My colored friends, indeed, you're wrong;
I didn't intend that for the song." This
being also in good measure, the negroes
sang it with pious fervor. Turning quick
ly to his congregation he said sharply; "I
hope you will not sing again until I have
had time to explain;" but this only aroused
tbejn to repeat his last words with vigor.
Mr. Clopton, then finding his tongue
turned to rhyme, abandoned explanation
and went on with the services.
If anyone speaks evil of you let your
life be so virtuous that none will ever be
lieve him. ,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER
Old Time Detectives. A New York
paper, speaking of the inefficiency and cor
ruption of the detectives of the present
time, relates this anecdote of a detective of
the last generation: One of our banks
kept losing money, only in small sums,
yet the loss was' constant and mysterious.
A celebrated detective was called in. "Let
everybody leave the directors' room," he
said. "Send in everylwhy, one by one,
who has had a chance to steal." Southe
president, the cashier, the tellers, the book
keepers and clerks had a private interview
with the detective. Eveiyone irt the bank
knew the purpose of the visit, and all but
one were slightly nervous and uncomforta
ble under the searching questions of the
chief. The last who entered was the neph
ew of the president. lie walked in cool,
unembarrassed and indifferent, and with an
air that said "proceed." He was dismiss
ed as well as the rest. The detective said
not a word, left the bank, and in. one week
returned. He had been shadowing the
president's nephew. In a clear, fair hand
was written out the whereabouts of the
young man for the past six days, the com
pany he kept, what he drank, the hours he
spent on the road, his night orgies, and all
his movements by night and by day. No
body in the bank knows to-day- that the
president's nephew was the thief. That
his health was not good, that he was trav
eling in Europe, and that his place in the
bank was filled by another, was well
known. The bank was saved from rob
bery, the family from" dishonor, the de
tective commended for his skill and pi'u
dence, and was all the happier for a check
of $1,000.
A DlVOKCK WITH A TKIUilBLE'OlUGIX.
A New York letter to the Baltimore
News says :
There is in this city, h"ow?ever, one most
amusing low comedian who has a reason
for never smiling. In his youth he was
the father of a little girl of a refractory,
obstinate disposition. One day, to punish
her for something, he locked her in the
bed-room, and with his wife went down
stairs-to dinner.
Soon the child began to scream in a
terrible manlier, which the parents consid
ered was only temper; but, as the shrieks
continued, the wife became alarmed, and
desired to go to her. lie, however, for
bade her doing so, as he said the child
must be taught obedience, and that she
should not gain her -end by screaming.
They went on with their dinner; the
fearful shrieks continued for a while and
t-hen ceased. As tlnjy were about leav
ing the table smoke began to pass through
the house. There was lire soinew here.
Rushing to release the poor little girl, they
found her dead., Her clothes had evident
ly caught fire from the grate, and while
the parents were eating the child was dy
ing. The comedian's wife took' a horror and
hatred of her husband after this, as she be
lieved that if he had allowed her to go to
the poor child she might have saved her
life. They were divorced; no wonder that
man never smiles off the stage.
;k to It. Learn a trade, or cet in-
to business, and go at it with a determin
ation that defies failure, and you will suc
ceed. Don't leave it because hard blows
are to be struck, or disagreeable work to
be performe1. Those w ho have worked
their way up to wealth and usefulness do
lot belong to the shiftless and unstable
lass, and if yon do not work while a
,'oung man, as an" old man vou will be
nothing. Work with a will and couoner
your prejudice against labor, and man
fully bear the heat and burden of the day.
It may be hard the first week, but after
that 1 assure yon it will become a pleas
ure, and you w ill teel enough better satis
fied with yourself to pay for all the trial
of a beginning. 'Let preseverence and in
dustry be vour motto, and with a steady
application to business you need have" no
fear for the future. Don't be ashamed of
your plain clothes, provided you have
earned them. They are far more beauti
ful in the estimation of all honest men and
women than the costly gewgaws sport
ed by some people at the expense of the
confiding tailor. The people who respect
you only when well clad, will be the first
to run from you in the hour of adversitv.
Frx at Home. Don't be afraid of a
little fun at home, good people; don't shut
up your homes lest the sun should fade
your carpets, and your hearts lest a hearty
laugh should break down some of the mus
ty cobwebs there. If you want to ruin
your sons, let them think that all mirth
and social enjoyment must be left on the
threshold when they tome in . at night.
When once a hotne is regarded as only a
place to eat, drink and sleepJn, the work is
begun that ends in gambling-houses and
degradation. Y'oung people must have fun
and relaxation somewhere. If they do not
find i at their own hearthstones, it will be
sought in other and perhaps less profitable
places. Therefore, let the fire burn bright
ly at night, and make the home delightful
with all those little arts that parents so
perfectly understand. Don't repress the
buoyant spirits of your children;! half an
hour around the lamp and firelight at home
blotsout the remembrance of many a care
and annoyance during the day, and the
best safeguard that they can take with them
into the w orld is the unseen influence of a
Inight little domestic circle."
"Some men," said a stone mason, "be
come useful citizens, and others become
vagabonds just as some slabs of marble
become useful doorsteps and others be
come lving tombstones." '
Never be idle. ,If -our hands cannot
bo usefully employed attend to the cultiva
tion of vour mind.
23, 1875.
FOE CHARITY'S SAKE.
"Now you just skip out of this, said a
big, burly clock hand in the ladies' cabin
of a Fulton ferry boat, as Jie caught a thin-ly-clad,
shivering, barefooted boy by the
ear and marched hini toward the door.
"Get oat on the deck lively now." The
little fellow had been asking the passen
gers for cents, and the man had caught
him at it. "Oh, please don't !" screamed
the child, as the clock hand twisted his
ear; "I'll go, I will!"
A fashionably dressed woman stepped
quickly forward, and her silks rustled and
her eyes flashed fire, as ahe said: "What
has he done! Why do you treat the child
so harshly?'' .
"He's a beggar, mum; and the rules
doesn't allow beggars in the boats, mum."
"Let him stay in here," said she. "It's
cold outside5. He is barefooted, and so
young, too why lie can't be more than
five or six years old!"
"He can stay in here if he behaves him
self. He mustn't beg it's agin the rules,
mum;" and the big man ? let go the little
one's ear, and stood watching him.
"Poor little fellow," mused the lady,
scanning the boy's pale, pinched features
closely. "You look tired and hungry.
I've a mind to give von something."
"Its ior mm, if you give him a cent,
mum; his folks will take it all away from
him before his foot's put ashore three min
utes," answered the dock hand.
But the kind lady handed the child one
of Uncle Sam's crisp fifty-cent promises to
pay hereafter, saving, "He certainly needs
shoes and something to eat."
"Mistaken ckarit'," persisted the valiant
employee. "We know 'em all he'll get
no good of the money."
"He's welcome to the little I gave him,"
she answered, and, noticing that the pas
sengers were regarding .her, with interest,
she added : "Aud I beh?eve that every per
son in the cabin thinks I am right and
that most of them are willing
poor child a penny or two.".
to give the
The passengers did agree with her, and
they began dropping pennies into the boy's
hat until the episode proved his bonanza.
The boat touched the planking. The
boy skipped to shore and across the street
to Fulton market. The reporter followed
him round into Beekman street, and saw
him wait on the corner; two minutes after
ward he saw the well dressed lady ap
proach from the other side of the market;
he saw the boy carefully empty the money
into her gloved palm, and passing the pair
heard her say cheerfully, "Well, Dick, I
guess we'll try the Roosevelt boat."
A WASHINGTON ASPASIA.
One of the most remarkable women that
ever trod the sinful paths of Washington
life was the mistress of Ex-Congressman
Bowen, of South Carolina. She was one
of the loveliest women that ever had a
mission to lure. Her mother was a Greek,
her father a Scotchman. She inherited
her mother's classic face and voluptuous
swell of figure. .Her hair was a glossy,
shimmering blue-black,' her eyes two stars.
Her complexion and teeth were of a daz
zling whiteness. Her mind was of a rare
order, and, as she always studied, she pos
sessed more than ordinary culture. I nave
many interesting particulars concerning her
from the physician who attended her onee
when she had an attack of typhoid fever.
She was very 'stately in her-manners, and
as sweet tempered as a noonday sun. She
lived with Bowen several years as his mis
tress, and was as true to him as a wife
could be. At the expiration of some time
Bowen married for money and position, and
dropped ""Sallie," as he called her. There
was never an- woman less to blame for
becoming a social outcast. Her father
died early, and left her to the tender care
of a step-mother. This stepmother sold
Sallic in Baltimore, when only sixteen, to
a very rich man. Under cover of a sup
posed marriage she lived with . him several
years, when ho deserted her. Bowen then
came to her rescue. After Bowen she
rented a house here, and gathered about
her a few women of her class. She would
have none that were by any possibility
within the pale of being reclaimed. She
kept this house but a short time. Strange
as it may seem, she always had prayers at
her house morning and evening, and she
was a most diligent Bible x-eader. "I am
in this life," she would say, "through no
fault of my own. The way out does not
exist. Let us make the best of it." La
ter on she crave up her house. She said it
was enough to carry her own sin, without
having the thought of the responsibility of
others. She went to Chicago with the
brother of a former high official here. Ho
went into business in Chicago, and at last
accounts "Sallie" was serving him ' as a
most faithful mistress. "
Five years ago a conductor on a Hart
ford and New Haven railroad was given a
thousand dollar bill by.a sleepy passenger
for fare. He took it into a baggage car to
change it, and, upon returning, the passen
ger denied having given it to him, claim
ing to have handed him a ticket. The con
ductor rout the money in a savings-bank,
where jt still remains. The story has oft
en been told in the newspapers, yet no
claimant has been discovered.
Money goes, no one knows. Where it
goetli, no one showeth. Here and there,
every where. Run, run; dun, dun; spend,
spend; lend lend: send, send. Flush to
day, short to-morrow. Notes to pay, bor
row, borro'w. How it goes, no one knows;
where it goeth, no one showeth.
If you have great talents, industry will
strengthen them; if moderate abilities, in
dustry will supply the deficiency.
From the Colojrwe Gazetted
THE 1)EAD PRINCESS OP EGYPT.
Magnificent Funeral of the Khedive's Favorite
- ' Daughter.
The Princess Hanem Zeinub, only fif
teen years of age, a favorite daughter of
the Khedive of Egypt, and wife of Ibrahim
Pasha, died recently in Alexandria of ty
phus fever, following shortly after her con
finement. The Khedive and his family,
as well as his guest, the Sultan of Zanzi
bar, and the whole city of Alexandria, were
much disturbed by the sad event, and the
theatre was closed for three days. The
body was taken to Cairo the same day, and
placed in the Kasr-el-Nil palace. .? An im
mense concourse followed the remains to
the depot in Alexandria, and hundreds of
lire were distributed among the poor peo
ple. The interment took place iu the Ri
lah mosque on the following morning.
Twenty-four bullocks, thirty camels and
forty wagons were in the funeral pro
cession. These animals were laden with
bread, dates, cooked meats and vegetables;
the wagons carried casks of water and sy
rup, and all along the route distributions
of tho provisions were made to the poor.
Eunuchs, meantime, threw 450,000 pieces
of silver coin to the people who thronged
the streets. Three thousand priests, some
clad in rich vestments of gold and silk,
others half naked, followed the wagons,
repeating prayers as theyj marched, and
clapping their hands. Aftler them came
the family of the poor young princess and
the high officials of State,i and then the
coffin, borne by officers of rank. Behind
this walked three eunuchs, bearing on gold
en shovels copies of the Khoran, to be bu
ried with the deceased. The coffin was of
simple, rough hewn wood, and the corpse
was sewn up in a linen cloth. Upon this
coffin were placed the jew-els of. the prin-
cess; worth a million and a half dollars.
After the bnrial the priests slaughtered the
twenty-four bullocks before the mosque,
roasted them and ate them up. The priests
remained for seven days in the neighbor
hood of the grave to pray for the soul of
the departed. The Khedive was so over
come with, grief that he could not receive
any visits of condolence.
A Nevada Catamount Story. The
St, Helena (Nev.) Star of Oct. 21 relates
the following incident : "Last Thursday
as a young child of an employe, living near
Sugar Loaf Mountain, on W. W. Lyman's
place, was playing in the yard, a daring
attempt was made by a catamount to de
vour it. The mother hearing a cry such
as only a mother's ear can detect as fore
boding evil rushed to the door and was
horrified to see in mid-air a catamount,
which had just sprung from the bushes,
about to light upon her child. Coincident
with her shrieks, a.faithful bull-dog, which
by accident happened to be on the spot,
had already placed himself in a position
to defend the child. The fight .was short
and the catamount took to a tree near by.
No male person being iiv the bouse, the
mother dispatched a little daughter down
the road for help. The girl meeting Mr.
Tally, of the seminary, 'informed him that
the dog had a California lion treed. Leav
ing his team with a Chinaman, ho repair
ed to the spot and killed the animal, which
proved to be a catamount of huge propor
tions. -The animal without doubt was
very hungry, but it is;not an uncommon
thing for them to visit the heji roost any
hour after dark. It was forteate indeed
that the dog happened to be there."
Correspondence.
FOR THE GAZETm, , .
REMINISCENCES OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL
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Ehrati'M. "Vovaffinr" calls onr afteiitimi to the
fact, that we mado" a slight mistake of 4.0,ooo in tho
number of volumes 'toiniowiii tho pirolic library of
Balse, which he spoke of in Ms S8th number. Instead
of 500,000 there kve. only 50,000. We guess the cotiio8
itor whs thiukinsi of the Laities' Circulating Library of
JTayetteville. Kiw. G azette.
Messrs. Editors : Now that I leave
Germany, and may not recur to that conn
try or any of the countries composing it, I
will say that I have strictly endeavored to
keep the promise that I made .on my arri
val in Holland, and that was to report what
I should see; but really many things that
I saw were so revolting,,! will not say to
all morality, "but to all decency, that a
proper sense of propriety forbids my speak
ing of them. I have recently, understood
that some of your German subscribers
think I have borne rather hard upon the
Germans. Whether I have appeared pre
judiced against the Germans or not, I can
say one thing that I have onlv told the
truth, and on ly part of the truth at that, as
it is not proper to bo too candid on all oc
casions. But in confirmation of what I-have
said, I will quote from one of the most a
ble newspapers published in America, and
that is the New' York Sunday limes, es
tablished thirty-five years aero, by that
good and noble old Jew, Major Noah. In
No". 10 of a series of articles written by a
lady who has spent some time in Germa
ny, she says, nnder date of September 10,
1874, in regard to a daneo'which she had
witnessed in Germany : f "The variety of
eostnme w-as verv great, and some were
verv odd. Such dancing J
emeu vigor-
ous flourishing of
limbs and emphatic
stamnhir of feet ! . And all this on Sun-
dav a day which is universally set apart
in "Germany by the common people for
balls, pleasure" excursions, beer drinking
and similar amusements, while by the bet
ter classes it is observed as a day of feast
ing and social enjoyment. Indeed, among
the unaccustomed things which5 strike a
stranger m this country, none is more re
marked than tho slight reverence X in
which tho Sabbath is here held by those
accounted the most pious. In first
class families iu which 1 have visited, the
ladv of the house, herself esteemed as an
WHOLE NO. 123.
exemplary member of 'the church, invari
ably on Sunday! afternoons sets forth a ta
ble with coffee and cakes, in anticipation
of the visitors who never fail to call or ?
leave their cards, and around this table
herself and female visiters sit chatting and
knitting, through the afternoon. I bavc
seen a pious old lady reading the Bible
and knitting on a Sabbath; and the latter
is the Sunday evening employment of all
the respectable trademen's w ivesj and
daughters, who sit outside" their front-feoiB
thus employed, while the man hirasttf, if
ho does not go to some beer gardenma'v,
be seen at his back-shop window, Imsilv
engaged at his usual avocation of shoe
niaking, tailoring or sign-painting. I have
been told of a very excellent and pious old
lady, two of whose sons aro clergymen,
who every Sabbath evening has her grand
children collected at her house for a dance;
raid I have myself been inyffed , to a
Sunday croquet party at the house of a cler- .
gyman." 1
Here, I close my quotations from this ve
ry intelligent and interesting Southern (for
such she is) lady correspondent of the Sun
day Times. Yon will" notice-she uses the
word "better classes" and "first-cjass fam
ilies." But, then, think; of it what must
a man see, who mixes up with all classes,
and goes to all places of public amusement
on Sunday, and especially if ho is located
in various towns and cities for years, in
stead of soendin a dav or two'herfi nn,l
tuerei i went to Europe to see, and did
see. Let tho authorities of Munich, Bava-
ria, report the condition of things1 that at
one .time existed at the Great Prater. Tho
Prater is the great park. Things had as
sumed in broad day, on Sundays, such a
revolting condition to all chastity and del
icacy, that those in charge of the convent
on the ODUosite bank of the river Tser uwiV''
obliged to .report the establishment (Pra
ter), when there was. someiittle reform
made. - But let any one go now, and sit as
a silent spectator, and he willsay perhaps
that this is a place not frequented by genteel
people. Par from it, for yiero aro hun
dreds of gentlemen present with their fam
ilies, who of course do not participate, nor
do their daughters ever dance or notice this
vast crowd of common people; but they can
not help bat see.
Some days since I met a gentleman a
T..i: -1. T 11 : i .. ; n 1 r in
j. ojisn ucw a. vl-ij luieingeui ana niguiy
educated man, who resides in ypur midst. .
While in conversation he remarked that
he had traveled all over Europe, and had
visited every place that I had spoken of,
and he found every word correct, and that
everything I had said of Germany and the
Germans was perfectly true. But, after
all, we can overlook the great faults of
the Germans their lewdness and vice, then
great lack of refinement and polish, the
common appearance of the mass of tho
people, their great disposition to malign
and traduce other people -when we take .
into consideration their great habits of in
dustry, frugality, sobriety, feelings of hu
manity for animals, and many other good
qualities that they possess.
Through all
my travels for years . in the
various king-
doms of Germany I saw but one
man
who was really drunk, and I tlo not know
that I saw any other person under the
least i nfluence of liquor. In Germany they
drink, but not to an excess. , Is it not.
strange that in no country, on the conti
nent of Europe, you often see any one
drunk? But of all tho countries on earth
where drinking is indulged iu to an alarm
ing excess by all classes, the United States
excels them all. But we will return to Ger-"
many. It is very pleasant to dvelLin some
countries in Germany. ' The old castlesj
old churches, old cathedrals, old groves,
old and beautiful parks, the fine galleries
of paintings, the? splendid collections of
statuary, the fine operas, the reat orches
tras, the-mqwib Te Deums, and other grand
performances in the way "of church music,
the splendid brass bands of from 30 to 5j0
pieces that oiie can hear anywhero at any
time, the fine roads, and many other caus
es, conspire to render Germany encbant;
ing to those who are fond of the fine arts,
music, architecture, and any other' profes
sion they may wish to pursue; while those;
who are fond of the antiquated can be grat
ified by. a hoary antiquity that is , more .
strongly developed in Germany than in
any other European country, ex.cept Italy. .
As! regards the admittance ofAmericans,
and especially gentlemen from the South
ern States,' to tho higher circles of society
in Germany if one has letters from per
sons of note iiithe United States, conducts
himself well, and is a centleman, he is not on
ly taken notice of, but his society is sought
by all tho elite. found it necessary
to avoid society, as I saw that if I mixed
in company I would ha vo no time for stur
dy. The whole of winter and spring in
Munich and other cities is. devoted to grand
soirees of various kinds, w hich, together
with the great operas, would not havo left
much time for study. Besides, I wished to
.
mix up with the world, as well as to be
with the refined and elite. .
Now I. will ffiv-e vour readers somo idea
of how much it costs a gentleman to live iu
tliA cbennnst citv in (fennanr. ivldcli is
Munich. To have rooms in a first-class
house, or one of the most fashionable ho
tels, where only wine, i$ drunk;, to keep a
box at the opera, have a valet, a horse and
vehicle -all this will cost him only about'
1,200 per annum. Then again, to live
in common style to have rooms in a fino
house, to take meashj at a good hotel, and
go onco or twice a week to the opera
will cost only about $400 to $600. Main
tenant je fats mcs adieux a Allemagnc.
Voyage UR.
A laborer in one of the manufacturing
districts of England recently- offered his
wife for sale to the highest bidder. She
was sold to a young man for the ' sura of
fourpeuce, and the matter was 'duly set
tled in a written agreement, signed, by at
testing witnessses.