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W. P. DATIS, Publisher.
VOL. I. NO. 24.
GOLDSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY. 17, 1888.
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HEADLIGHT.
SPANISH SONG.
Jenorita, red thy lips
As the roses in the South;
Is it yea or nay that 6lips
Birdlike from thy dimpled mouthr
Captive to thy sorcery
Cruel kindness thou dost show;
Sweetheart, if thou lov'st not me,
Ureak the spoil and let me go.
Senorita, dark thy hair,
Gleaming with imprisoned light,
Like a subtle shining snare
Tangling fast my dreams by night,
Slicp or 'waking Pti 11 to theo
All my fevered thoughts do flow;
Sweetheart, if thou lov'st not me,
lireak the Fpell and let me go.
r'enorita, soft thine eyes,
Lustrous, fair and jetty-fringed,
Like twin stars that gem the skies
When the dawn is rosy-tinged;
Ce:;he, ah, cease thy coquetry.
Teach their rays a warmer glow;
Sweetheart, if thou lov'st not me,
Lreak the spell and let me go.
Samuel Minturn reck.
A Lost Diamond Necklace,
TRANSLATED FKOSl TIIE FRENCH OF A,
SILVESTRE.
, ENEEMaizeroj
was a delicate,
pretty and
charming girl,
very mucli
above her sta
tion in life and
her surround
ings. Her fathei
was a pooi
Govern, men i
clerk, and aa
both he and
her mothei
had but little money, no friends and no
social position, she could not even hope
that a brilliant marriage might someday
transfer her from the terrible mediocrity
of her life to something better and more
in accordance with her refined tastes and
aristocratic inclinations.
Thoroughly disheartened, she mar
ried a junior clerk in the Treasury De
partment. She suffered bitterly, how
ever, for she felt that she was born for
a life of luxury and enjoyment, and
chafed continually under the more than
commonplace nature of her new sur
roundings, which were hardly better
than her old ones.
To live in dingily furnished lodgings
was to her a torture. Everything around
her jarred on her feelings of refinement
and on her violent longings for elegant
luxury, while the meagre dinners, eaten
on a coarse tablecloth, out of common
chinaware, and her scanty wardrobe,
containing neither furs, laces nor jewels,
were a perpetual source of misery to her.
Besides this she bitterly felt the ab
sence of dowers, draperies and bric-a-brac
in her poor little rooms, and grew
every day more and more discontented
with her lot.
What exasperated her still more was
the fact that her husband, who was thor
oughly commonplace, did not even seem
to percieve the numerous deficiencies
of their life, and when, on coming home
from his office, he would sit down to a
dinner consisting of a thin soup, boiled
beef and potatoes and a piece of cheese,
with a beaming face and a good appe
tite, she felt like strangling him with
with her own little white hands, to pun
ish him for his intense vulgarity and
lack of sympathy.
One evening on coming home to din
ner her husband handed her, with a tri
umphant smile, a large, official looking
envelope, saying: "Well, my dear, here
is something that will surely please
you."
It was an invitation from the Minis
ter of the Interior to a ball which his
Excellency was about to give at the
Ministry.
Instead of being delighted, as her
husband had hoped that she would be,
the poor girl threw the unlucky invita
tion on a side table, with every token of
disgust and vexation, saying: "What
am I to do with thatf '
"But, mj dear," he replied, "I
thought that you would be so pleased.
You are always complaining of not going
into society. This is a magnificent oppor
tunity of so doing, I assure you. I had
the greatest difficulty in obtaining this
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imitation, and I went to all the trouble
of doing so only in the hope of giving
you pleasure."
"And what am I to wear if I do go?"
asked Renee, impatiently.
Poor man! he had not thought of this,
and he stammered: "Well, would not
your black silk do, dear? With a few
alterations, would it not be good en
oughr' He stopped short, perfectly thunder
struck, for his wife had buried her head
in the sofa cushions and was sobbing as
if her heart would break.
"For heaven's sake what is the matter
with you ?" he exclaimed in great dis
tress. She looked up with a tear-stained face
and an angry look about her eyes and
cried: "I cannot go there dressed like a
beggar. (Jive your invitation to one of
your friends. All their wives are sure
to be better dressed than I should be."
Deeply chagrined beyond all expres
sion, the unfortunate husband asked
tremulously: "Loo!; here, Renee, how
much would a pretty but simple dresa
cost ? Something that you might be
nblu to wear again on similar occasions.
A blush of pleasure mantled her face,
and after reflecting for a few momenta
til flXH. ' V
she said hesitatingly: "I am not quit
sure, but I think that it might be don
for 400 francs."
He turned slightly pale, for this wai
just the sum which he had set aside witi
'great difficulty to buy himself a gold
watch. Ho replied, however: AU
right, you shall have 500 francs; bui try
und get a handsome dress for the money,
as it will be a long time before I can buy
you another one.''
As the great day drew near Ilenee, al
though her dress Avas finished and wa
very pretty, began to look cad ana
downhearted again.
Her husband having inquired cs t
what might be her new trouble, she ao
knowledged rather shamefacedly . thai
she was deeply humiliated to have to gc
to tho ball without a single jewel t(
wear.
She assured him that it would look sc
odd that she would much sooner not gc
at all.
Thoroughly annoyed at her want ol
common sense, he told her to stick som
flowers in her hair and on her dress and
assured her that it would look just at
well as any jewelry. She refused to b
convinced, however, and went oa la
menting in the most dismal way.
"Well, my dear," lie said at length,
"I do not see why, if you are so anxioui
to wear jewelry, you should not go and
get your old schoolmate, Mme.Forestier,
to lend you some of hers for the occasion.
She is very wealthy, and will, I am sure,
be delighted to be of service to you."
Renee jumped with joy at the idea,
and putting on her bonnet and cloak
went straight off to borrow some of hei
friend's jewelry.
Mme. Forestier, who was a kind
amiable woman, immediately brought
out her jewel-box and asked her friend
to choose what she liked best.
There were lots of bracelets, lockets
and earrings, and poor Renee could nol
make up her mind, but kept trying
them on before the glass, unable to de
cide what was the most becoming to hei
delicate style of beauty.
While turning the contents of the bos
inside out she suddenly discovered a Hat,
black velvet case, containing a superfc
diamond necklace. Her heart began to
beat violently as she pictured to hersell
the magnificent effect that this truly
regal jewel would produce on her white
nock, and she tremulously asked her
friend if she would consent to lend it to
her.
Mme. Forestior very willingly assent
ed, and Renee, wild with delight, rushed
home to acquaint her husband with the
result of her mission.
At length the evening of the ball ar
rived, ami Renee created a positive sen
sation w hen she made her appearance in
the Minister's salon.
She was by far the prettiest woman in
the room, and was so beset with invita
tions to dance, compliments and atten
tion from all the gentlemen present that
she did not allow her husband to take
5 her home until 4 o'clock in the morning.
They had great difficulty in finding a
cab to convey them to their lodgings,
and it was only after walking nearly a
quarter of a mile in the cold, damp
street that they met with one of those
horrible night cabs which patrol the
streets of Paris in quest of adventures.
They were both very tired and out of
sorts when they reached their quarters,
she because the fete was over, and he
because he had to be at his office at 9
o'clock, and consequently had only three
hours of sleep before him.
Renee, however, went to the glass to
give one more admiring look at all her
finery, when suddenly she uttered a
scream of horror.
The diamond necklace was gone!
Her husband and herself, both as pale
as death, and trembling from head to
foot, searched the rooms, the staircase,
their own pockets, to no avail. The
jewel was nowhere to be found. Unfor
tunately they did not remember the
number of the cab which they had
taken.
In despair the poor husband dressed
himself again and went back to the Min
istry to see if the necklace had been
dropped there. He returned at 7.30
o'clock, broken-hearted and worn out.
He made inquiries at the police sta
tion, aud had notices inserted in the daily
papers, promising a handsome reward if
the diamonds were returned to him, but
he acknowledged that he had little hope
of ever seeing them again.
"You must write to your friend," said
he to his weeping wife, "that you have
broken the clasp of her necklace, and
that you are having it mended. This
will give us a few days to look round,
and see what is to be done."
A week elapsed and the poor young
couple lost all hope of ever recovering
the missing necklace. Renee was thor
oughly ill, and her husband looked at
least ten years older than before their
misfortune. The only thing to be done
was to buy another necklace and send it
to Mme. Forestier. But how could they
do itl They went from jeweller to jew
eller, and found a necklace at length
which was exactly similar to the lost one,
It cost 40,000 francs.
; Their entire fortune amounted to only
half this sum. They borrowed the res!
from money lenders at enormous rates,
giving their signatures and engaging
their whole future, ami at last, after a
fortnight of agony, they bought tha
necklace, and Renee, trembling at the
idea of being detected, took it to Mme.
Forestier, who, without even opening
the casket to look at her returned prop
erty, told her very coldly that she might
have brought it back sooner!
Then began a life of ntter misery and
abjection for the unfortunate pair. They
gave up their lodging, sent away their
only servant and went to live in two
small rooms in a tenement house.
Poor, pretty Renee was obliged to
cook her husband's scanty meals and tc
wash his linen. She wore out her pink
bails in scrubbing the floor, and was
forced to do all her little marketing her
self. They sold all that they had in order
to try to pay the heavy interests on their
enormous debt. Work, work, work, and
no pleasure for Renee from one end of
the year to the other.
The husband, too, worked day and
night, posting up petty tradesmen's
books and addressing envelopes by the
thousand for a ridiculous pittance. All
this was in addition to his office work.
Ten years elapsed. Renee had become
an old woman, prematurely aged, worn
out, haggard, vulgar and coarse through
drudgery and hard Avork. Her husband's
hair had turned quite gray, and he was
bent almost double like a cripple.
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At length they succeeded in paying
up the entire amount of their indebted
ness, and once more they were able to
breathe freely.
One Sunday afternoon Renee had gone
for a little walk in the Champs Elysees,
when she suddenly saw an elegantly dress
ed woman walking in front of her, and
after a moment's hesitation recognized
Mme. Forestier.
She felt much moved on thinking of
all that she had suffered for that woman,
and determined, now that she had paid
her debt, to tell her all.
Approaching her, she touched her on
the shoulder and said softly:
"How are you, Jeanne ?"
Mme. Forestier turned round and
stared at her. She did not recognise her
old friend again in thi3 elderly, common
looking bourgeoise, and Renee was for
ced to name herself.
"What, Renee! Is it possible?" ex
claimed Mme. Forestier. "What has
happened to you? What has changed
you so ?"
"Well," replied tho poor woman,
"these last years havo been hard ones
for us, and all on your account."
"On my account ?"
"Yes. Do you remember your lend
ing me your diamond necklace ten years
ago? I lost it."
"Lost it ! but my dear Renee, you are
crazy ! How could that be ? You
brought it back to me !"
"No, not that one. I lost it and I had
to buy another for you, I am so glad
you did not notice the difference. But
it has taken us ten years to pay for it,
notwithstanding the sacrifice of all the
ready money Ave possessed. Tho one
I bought was fully as fine as yours, was
it not ? And you lost nothing by my
stupidity. I am so glad !"
Poor creature ! She was smiling with
pride and gratification.
Mme. Forestier 's eyes filled with tears
as she caught hold of her friend's hands.
"M.7 poor, dear girl," said she, sadly,
"my diamonds were false and the neck
lace had cost only 500 francs.
GIVING DENNY HIS FILL.
A Shrewd Wife's Scheme to Iteform
Her Drunken Husband.
There is a man living in the Fourth
Ward section of Madison street, New
York, says a local paper, who was once
a very hard drinker, but who neA'er
touches a drop now. For the past 20
years he has been a total abstainer from
all kinds of intoxicating liquors. The
change in his habits is entirely due to
his wife having not only given him all
wanted, but on one occasion having aided
him toward getting more than enough
to make him drunk.
For many years Denny held the palm
for being the biggest whisky demolisher
in the ward, lie drank Avhisky the in
stant he got cut of bed, and kept it till
he got to bed again after midnight. He
never went home sober, and his poor
wife was nearly broken hearted.
One tlay when he Avas bothering her
for the price of his bitters, she made no
reply, but took a good sized wooden
bucket and went out. She brought back
the bucket filled to the brim with whisky.
Turning to her children, of whom there
were three, she said :
"Childer, yer father is determined to
bring ruination on us all and death on
himself, and there's no us.e in tryin' to
sthop him. Let him have his way, and
maybe when he's gone we can have some
comfort. Here's plenty of whisky for
him now. He won't want any more, for
there is enough in the bucket to lay him
cowld. So, childer, go and fix up the
place; get clane sheets ready and we'll
have a foine wake."
Then handing a dipper to Denny, she
told him to drink his fill. He dropped
the dipper and fled to another room.
From that day he never looked on whisky
again without a shudder, and is now one
of the leading churchgoing men- in the
ward, and an enthusiastic member of the
Father Mathew Temperance Society.
No More Elephants.
The savage King of the Matabele, in
South Africa, has probably never heard
of the game laAvs of civilized nations,
but it has occurred to him that some
thing should be done to save the ele
phants from utter extermination, and
he has set about tho task. Ho has is
sued an order that white men be no
longer permitted to hunt the elephant
in his large territory. He says that the
Dutch and English hunters have left
very few elephants alive, and that he
will not permit the noble animals to be
hunted again until they have largely in
creased in number. The ivory trade
south of the Zambesi is no longer profit
able, because so few elephants fall in the
way of the hunters. No part of Africa
is uoav rich in ivory ezcept the unhunted
region of the Congo basin.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
News Collected by Wire And Mail From
All Paris f Dixie.
There are now 213 students at AVake
Forest N. C. College,
Another national bank is to be es
tablished at Salisbury, N. C.
There are twenty-one iron furnaces idle
in Pennsylvania in consequence of the
strike.
Simon Elias, clothing merchant at
Florence, S. C, has failed, liabilities
$10,000; assets $3,000.
The old Avar between the iorts of
Newport News and Norfolk, Va., has
been received at Washington.
Revenue officers in Alabama captured
several stills, 16,000 gallons of wiskey
and seven moonshiners.
Two escaped convicts were recaptured
in Durhan N. C, a few days ago and
taken to the penitentiary at Raleigh.
W. K. Gilkersou, a prominent dry
goods merchant of Laurens, S. C, has
failed, liabilities $5,878; nominal assets
$13,731.
James Hudson's residence, iu Rowan
county, N. C, was burned a few nights
ago, with all its contents. Loss, $1,500,
with no insurance.
A Republican State Convention has
been called to meet in Jackson, Miss., on
February 0th, to elect delegates to the
i National Convention.
Wiustead fc McGowan, hardware deal
ers, at Greenville. S. C. , have made an
assignment. Liabilities, $5,000; assets
said to be $8,000.
Two Mormon missionaries have left
Warren county, Ga., in disgust after
failing to make a single convert.
It is estimated that there is about
$:350,000 worth of timber in the port of
Darien, Ga., Avaiting shipment. One
j firm is carrying $135,000 worth of tim
ber.
The firm of Jackson & Shaw, at Car
thnfc. N. C. also made an assignment
and assets ere not stated.
Rev. Dr. J. T. Wheat, of Salisbury, N.
C, one of the most venerable Episcopal
clergymen in the State, died at his home
at Salisbury. He was the father-in-law
of Ron. Frank E. Shober, ex-congrcss-man
from the seventh district.
Counterfeit money is becoming eo
numerous in Laurens county, S. C, as to
suggest the il'a that th factory i not
faraway. The coin appears as bright as
a pin, and is a clever imitation.
Walter Bristow, the one-armed man,
avIio this week at Palmyra, Halifax
county, killed J. II. Ilemmit, has been
acquitted on plain proof that it was jus
tifiable homicide.
Governor Blackburn, of Kentucky, re
fuses to surrender the Hatfields. for
Avhom a requisition has tecn made by
the Governor of West Viiginia. The
courts must decide the matter.
Thi' srliooner Ad APntnrp Wliittduirsf
' master, from Charleston, S. C, bruind
J to Washington with guano, is stuck in
Oregon Inlet, N. C. She is a total loss.
Cargo insured. The crew's effects were
saved.
Very great interest is manifested in re
vival meetings at Statesville, N. C, by
Evangelist Pearson. Already there are
over one hundred converts, aud the great
warehouse, where the meetings are held
is packed nightly.
The authorities of AVake county N. C,
have made contracts for the erection of
two large iron bridges over the Ncusc
river, near Raleigh. It is understood
that iron bridges have been constructed
or contracted for in many parts
of this state. The Contracts were award
ed to the Iron Bridge company, of Tole
do, Ohio.
The school commissioners of Charlotte
N. C, have elected Alexander Graham
superintendent of the graded schools.
He has for many years been superin
tendent of the Fayctville graded schools,
and is a very able man. He succeeds
Professor Corlew. There are seventy-five
applicants.
Parties who bought what is known as
Big swamp, in Robeson county N. C,
containing sixty thousand acres, are run
ning a canal through it. The canal is 30
feet wide, and will be used for drainage
and transporting. The swamp was pur
chased from the state. It is expected
that the extensive drainage system inau
rated will reclaim large tracts of it.
At Bl'ackville S. C J. D. Whitle shot
at a dog going out of his gate. He miss
ed the dog, but hit a lxok agent, from
Richmond, Ya., named Sampson who
was walking on the railroad track a hun
dred yards distant. Sampson's wound
is painful but not fatal.
In the United States Court at Jackson
ville, Fla., W. J. Cook, formerly a con
ductor on the Florida Railway and Nav
igation Company's road, is . suing the
road for $20,000 damages for the loss of
an arm. The caboose of the freight
train of which he had charge Avas de
railed and the plaintiff jumped to the
ground, injuryiug his left arm and hand
so that the limb had to be amputated.
Already over $50,000 has been sub
scriled to a new cotton factory at Rock
Hill, S. C, and subscriptions are still
being taken. Nearly every one has some
shares. It is a cheap and good invest
ment, and many young men are putting
their money into it. -
A daring robbery Avas committed at
Raleigh N. C, a few days ago. A negro
entered the jewelry store of William
Thame, in the block of the police station
and carried off eleven gold watches and
one silver watch, during the momentary
absence of the proprietor. A cry Avas
raised and the bold thief was run down
and captured half a mile from the city.
He gave his name as John Staples, of La
Grange, Lenoir County. He had a white
accomplice, who has not yet been cap
tured. Eleven of the watches were re
covered, being found on the person of
Staples.
THE BURGLARS CAUGHT
And a Reign f Terrr in Charleston, 9.
Ct Ended.
The whole city of Charleston, S. C, is
rejoicing over the capture by detectives
of the burglars who have been operating
there for the past six months. They
were captured at their den on 3Ieetiug
street. Their names are Andrew Gibbs
and James Johnson, with a dozen aliases.
Both arc negroes under twenty years of
age. There can be no doubt that these
two crooks are the ones who have terror
ized the entire city for several months,
for the detectives found in their nest a
large assortment of plunder, which tilled
up a room at the main police station.
The news of fhe arrest was bulletined
early in the morning, and the station
house was crowded all day by victims in
search of missing articles. One of the
burglars made a confession and told how
they had robbed over fifty houses within
the last three months.
NORTH CAROLINA EDITORS.
isews oi iniereni imra rrom unr ?iair i
Exchangm. '
Greensboro Tatriot: Prof. F. S. Blair,
of Summerfield, has associated himself
with Prof. J. M. Weatherly in the man
agement of Liberty Academy.
Waynesville Ncavs: Wc Avere pleased
to see ia town this week Mr. Alexander
Thompson, lie has reached the ripe old
age of 00 years, and walked to Waynes
ville last Monday, a distance of ten
miles, from East Fork of Pigeon.
Raleigh NeAvs-Obscrvcr: Harrison's
Hotel and the Episcopal rectory, at Ply
mouth, were set on fire by by unknown
parties Wednesday morning about 3
o'clock and completely destroyed. Loss
$3,000. Insurance $1,500.- Twenty
farmers' sub -alliances have been organi
zed in the State Avithin the last week.
The total number is now 330. "Our
Saving3 Bank has been successful le
yond all anticipation," said a business
man yesterday, "and the deposits are
continually growing; but I am informed
that there are less deposits from the class
of people from which the greatest help
was expected, than from any other."
Indian Outrages.
Nogales, A. T., Special. The prefect
of the Guaymas district has informed the
State officials of Sonora that he has in
formation of further trouble from the
Yaqui Indians, and at a point Avhcre it
was thought there was no danger. The
people in the vicinity of Punta del Agua
have apjtcalcd for aid, stating that a
band of desperate Indians, numbering
fifty or more, have arrived there and are
devastating ranches and naming off all
the cattle "and horses, (.ieneral Uuerra,
who has been following the Indians in
another portion of the State, and is now
at San Marcial Avith his command, has
been ordered to proceed to Punta del
Agua Avith all possible haste. He is in
structed at once upon his arrival to call
for reinforcements, should he deem it
necessary. The opinion that many ban
dits have joined the Yaquis prevail in
official circles.
North Carolina State Guard.
Officers of the general staff and com
mandants of the various regiments of the
state guard met at Raleigh ami had a
long conference with Governor Scales. It
was decided by the governor to furnish
all troops Avith overcoats, and twelve
hundred will be immediately requisition
ed for. It Avas also decided to issue cloth
for uniforms to the companies as rapid
as needed. This latter issue Avill le at
once made to four companies whose uni
forms arc reported unserviceable- It was
also decided to hold an encampment
some time In'tween the middle of July
and the middle of August, at a point on
or near the coast. The location and ex
act date of the encampment Avere not set
tled, but will soon le announced. Mhc
adjutant-general and regimental officers
have left for Wilmington ty look at
camping points in that vicinity.
The Body Found.
While a party of lalxrers Avere Avork
ing on a public road in Alexander county.
N. C, they unearthed a skeleton. Their
picks first unearthed the skull a foot lc
ncath the surface. They soon had the
entire skeleton out. It was in a sitting
posture, the knees being drawn up close
to the chin. It is that of a colored man
who mysteriously disappeared from Tay
lorsville twenty years ago. At the time
he disappeared he was known to haAc
had $400 in gold and silver in his ob
session, and it was always thought he
had leen murdered, his money secured
and his lody disposed of in some mys
terious manner.
Jealousy the Cause.
In Wilkes county N. C, Joseph Green
shot Martin Triplett with a rifle, causing
death in forth-eight hours. The men
were on good terms for some months lc
fore this fatal affray, which occurred on
account of Triplett's aMcged intimacy
Avith Green's wife. Triplett went into
Green's yard and the latter, taking his
rifle, shot him in the alniomen. Green
has, with his wife, made his escape and
cannot be found. Whiskey and jealousy
were the cause of this bad affair.
Richmond's Electric Cars.
The Union passenger line, which has
its ramifications through many of the
principl streets of Richmond, and on
which cars are propelled by electric
motive power, has leen formally ojcned
to the public. With insignificant inter
ruptions, the cars were successfully run
over the line for a distance of se'en miles .
They were crowded with passengers all
day.
North Carolina's New College.
Raleigh has completed the payment of
eight thousand dollars subscribed to the
State Agricultural and Mechanical col
lege, that sum having been a bonus giv
en to secure its location there. W ork on
the college will begin in thirty days.
Great quantities of material are being
hauled to Us site.
WASHINGTON.
DEATH OF A HARD WORKIXG MAS.
Otis P. G. Clarke, ex-commissioner of
pensions, is dead. Major Clarke suc
ceeded Commissioner Dudley, and was
succeeded by General Black. He enter
ed the army from Rhode Island and came
thence to the pension office where he was
promoted nine times, until he was made
thief.
TOST OFFICE BUSINESS.
The post office department has decided
to arm at the expense of the iost office
department all postal clerks west of the
Missouri and Mississippi rivers. This ac
tion is taken ltecause of the frequent
"holding up" of mail trains by robbers
in that section. .
SENATOR STANFORD EXPLAINS.
Senator Stanford, of California, has
written the following letter to a constit
uent who asked his reasons for A'otingfor
the confirmation of Mr. Lamar as Justice
of the United States Supreme Court:
"Ymir !ctter asking my reasons for voting
for Ijiniar receiveiL I voted for him liecausi
I ronsMered him one of the best men in the
SSouth for the place. He is in my judgment
a troarl, liberal minded man, of a great deal
of learning. Ho was professor of law in the
University of Mississippi. 1 think he is a
thoroughly converted Unionist, and I do not
think it wise to reject any oneon the ground
alone that they were engaged in the late re
bellion. 1 think that we want to be one peo
ple, politically and socially. Gen. Grant ex
pressed the idea when he said: 'Let us have
peace.'
"Lamar's loyalty and integrity to the Un
ion was insscd uponnio6t conclusively when
both house s of congress provided for the suc
ession to the presidency and made him an
heir, only a few removes from the presidency.
I am reluctant to find myself not in harmony
with all the Republican Senators, but it was
a case, so far a my action was concerned, en
tirely for my own judgnieut and conscience,
and I voted accordingly."
Lkland Stanford.
ANOTHER MAP tiCITEAC.
Further indications sIioav that Abra
ham Isaacs, the Polish Jew, who Avcnt
into the white house Avith a loaded re
volver to collect $4,000 from the Presi
dent and was arrested Avith the weapon
in his possession, is a crank of a vc ry
dangerous character. He says the gov
ernment owes him the money.
When arrested he was exclaiming: "I
will kill him, I will kill him !" The fel
low appeared to be crazy, but announced
his dctremination of putting a bullet into
Mr. Cleveland if his claims were not
promptly settled.
He had in his possession, Avhcn taken
to the station, $200. He says he is forty
nine years old, and that he has been
robbed of thousands of dollars by United
States officials.
He says he has lived iu Sante Fe, N.
M., and has leen in this city three years.
He refers to all United states officers
as swindlers, robbers and thieves, ami
says that he cannot get justice. He will
be examined by physicians to determine
his insanity.
THE MALITIA FORCE. OF THE NATION.
The Secretary of War has transmitted
to Congress a tabulated statement of the
militia force of the United States, which
shows that at last return there were 82
general officers, 1,103 officers of the gen
eral staff 1,038 officers of the regimen
tal field, ami staff and 5,385 com
pany officers, making a total
cf 8,210 commissioned officers.
There were 18,331 non-com missioned offi
cers; 2,000 musicians, and 71,306 privates
making iu all 02,027 enlisted men and a
grand total, officers ami men, for the
militia force of 100,837 men. The num
!er of men available for military duty
(unorganized) is set down at 7,020,708,
but iu some cases the figures are based
upon estimates made in the War Depart
ment. STATUE TO l'ROF. BAIRD.
The Senate has passed the bill appro
priating thirty thousand dollars for the
erection of a statute to the late Professor
Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute.
DEEDS OF DEVILS
Drat radian fa Graveyard laTeaareaee.
Mvaanenta Tlrd I the Grand.
Intense excitement and great indigna
tion exists at Fayetteville, Tenn , over a
remarkable scries of outrages there cul
minating in an unhcard-of-pieee of
ghoulish work, followed by the arrest of
the offender. Within the past two weeks
a number of barns haA-c lcen burnod in
the country, and there has been general
watchfulness for the incendiary. Horses
haA-e leeii stolen and smoke-housas
roblted, but the greatest indignation was
excited by tho act of a gang of scoun
drels who went to Unity church gravc-
yaid and upturned and threw down near
ly every monument is contained. Some
of them were dragged to other parts of
the churchyard, and many broken. A
reward was at once offered for the vil
liansand the detcctiA-es went to work.
As a result of their investigation, John
Wright, a resident of that neighlxrhood,
has been arrested and jailed, after con
fessing to all the deeds in court. When
arrested he was mounted on a stolen
horse and had a quantity of meat he had
stolen from his father's smokehouse, after
breaking into it. As soon as told why
he was wanted he acknowledged every
thing, and later made a full confession
in court. It is lclicved several others
are implicated, and officers are huntirg
them down.
Cut His Fathers Throat
At Greenville, N. C, John Page was
assaulted by his seventeen-year-old son,
and the latter cut his father's throat,
causing very severe injury. The !ad had
an infedious disease. The father had
ordered the son not to visit him until
well. The bov disobeyed, whereupon
the father rebuked him. This infuriated
the young fiend, and he instantly 6prang
at his father and cut his throat and threw
him down, and would have killed him
had not his mother and sister interposed.
Newspaper Consolldat ion.
Rev. Dr. Charles T. Bailey, editor of
the Biblical Recorder, of Raleigh, N. C,
has loutrht from Rev. Joseph E. Carter.
the Western Baptist, a weekly newspaper
published at Aslieviue. i ne paper ayiu
be merged into the Biblical necoiuer,
SELECT SIFT1NGS.
Adam Sebastian, of Cincinnati, is the
father of eight twins.
Tho oldest tombstome in the German
empire is one at Worms, which bears the
date A. D. 900.
During the past season two naturalists,
G. W. and E. G. Teckham, have found
that wasps remember the locality of their
nests for ninety-six hours.
A wide traveler declares that the best
cooks in the world are Arab cooks, who
perfectly understand how to introduce
good fruit to hot fire over their furnaces.
The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
thinks that sailors' sweethearts must be
all black eyed Susans, because no less
than 00 American vessels named Susan
plow the deep.
A farmer near Reeds ville, Pcnn., re
cently killed two deer at one shot. His
weapon was a eingle barreled rifle, with
which he put a ball through the neck of
each deer at a distance of seventy-five
yards.
The Chinese regard the eye of a cat as
an infallible indicator of the time of day.
They go by the contraction and expansion
of the pupil of the eye, which is influ
enced by the approaching or receding
strength of the sunlight.
Long Lake, in Michigan, has been
gradually rising for four yearj, until tho
Grand Rapids and Indiana I Jail road has
been forced to abandon its old short
line. It is said that the waters of the
lake gradually rise and subside every
few years.
A correspondent recently saw in the
library of Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson
the original manuscript of her novel.
'Vashti." It was entirely in her hand
writing and was as clear and neat as a
freshly printed page. This is the manu
script for which Mrs. Wilson received
$15,000, and it is kept carefully pre
served in a case of heavy leather.
A lady in San Francisco had three ca
naries so tame that they Hew about the
house at will. One sickened and died
suddenly. The "dead body was taken
from the cage and laid on the table, and
the other two flew to it and examined it
very carefully. Then they went back to
their cages, and for over thirty days
neither of them uttered a note. After
that period of mourning was over they
piped up and san as of old.
One of the peculiar features of the
Territory of Idaho is the occurrence of
dark, rocky charms, into which large
streams and creeks disappear and are
never more seen. These figures arc old lava
channels. At one place along the banks
of the Snake one of these rivers reap
pears, gushing from a cleft high up in
the basaltic walls, where it leaps, a cata
ract, into the torrent below. Where
this stream has its origin is a mystery,
though it is believed to be a long way in
ifco Nwrtk. - - - - -
The Largest Triphammer.
The greatest and most costly tripham
mer in the' world is the tremendous struct
ure in the Krupp gun works in Germany,
and the next largest is in England.
America has a giant of its own in the
Washington Navy Yard.
What is as great a marvel about these
immense hammers as their size is the ease
with which they are operated and the
manner in which their ponderous move
ments can be controlled. In any one of
the three historic machines the descent
of the hammer to the bed plate can be
checked instantly at will by touching a
mall steel lever at the side of the ham
mer. The Emperor of Germany was
amazed when he saw the thing done at
Krupp's works, on the occasion of one of
the royal visits to that famous establish
ment. It is related that the Emperor
took from his pocket an expensive gold
watch and laid it upon the bed plate of
the great hammer. The engineer told
the Emperor that he would bring the
hammer down with all its power and stop
it just in time to save the watch from in
jury, ihe machinery was started, and
the hammer descended with a swoop. If
it struck the watch it would certainly
crush it as completely as if the whole
factory had tumbled on it. The engineer
kept a watchful eye on it, though, and
just as the Emperor thought his watch
was going to be smashed, the engineer
Enshed the lever, and the huge iron
ammcr stopped instantly within a frac
tion of an inch of the surface of the time
piece. The Emperor was awed by the
engineer's dexterous skill.
"You may keep the watch," he said.
'That is the most amazing thing I ever
saw."
Uncle Sam's employe in the Washing
ton Navy Yard tries a more thrilling ex
periment than the engineer in Krupp's
works did. When Americans go to
Washington to see the sicrhts. and he
wants to show how perfect his contf ttl of
the enormous hammer is, he puts his
finger on the bed plate and nobis it there
without wincing when the great hammer
falls. Then he stops the fall dramatically
just in time to save the digit. Every
body who sees the experiment and re
covers from the start it gives declares
that it is a tremendous piece of nerve as
well as of skill on the part of the engi
neer. New York San.
Where the Wood Goeg.-
To make shoe pegs enoughs for Ameri
can use consumes annually 100,000 cords
of timber; to make our lucifer matches
300,000 cubic feet of the best pine are
required ever? year. Lasts and boot
trees take 500,000 cords of birch, beech
and maple, and the handles of tools,
500,000 more. The baking of our bricks
consumes 2,000,009 cords of wood, or
what would cover with forests 50,000
acres of land. Telegraph poles already
up represent 800,000 trees, and their an
nual repairs consume about 300,000 more.
The ties of our railroads consume an
nually thirty ycara' growth of 275,000
acres, and to fence all our railroads
would cost $15,000,000, with a yearly
expenditure of $15,000,000 for repairs.
Our packing boxes cost in 1874 $12,
000,000, while the timler used each year
in making wagons and agricultural im
plements is valued at more than $100,
000,000. This is the way our forests
are disappearing. The American.
Indiana's Religious Phenomenon.
Pascal Porter, the Indiana "boy
preacher," is only 11 years of age and
rather dull looking. He is a plain coun
try boy, with little or no education, yet
in his lectures and sermons he uses lan
guage equal to that of the most cultured
orators of the day. He displays a won
derful knowledge of the Sf cripturts and
uses sound logic. BroA lyn Eagle.