North Carolina Newspapers

The Ssate Chronicie SUCCESSOR TO . it; I'ARMER AND MECHANIC AND ; silLY CHRONICLE t he State Chronicle P BSLfXHIB VEST THURSDAY KOIIIM BI THI CHRONICL! PU3LISXINC COMPANY A OITTIIERN FAMItY NEWSPAPJER FOR TOft AM) rOI'VTRY, DEVOTE!) TO Till W?iARE OF NORTH CAROLINA, AND THE SOVTH. Sulrription IMice- rayable Strt. Mt In Advance per v;-.r ; 1.o tvr'Sli Months-. SO (V.io Thrw Mc.nf. . ;oS.!IATEI JVLY lut, 1885. YOL. XVII. RAXETGK, N. tt. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1887. NO. 3 4 I'ilE EDITOR'S DESK. -i s i s o Tories that aim: h;onicle Kpresns Us Opinion on - Public Uvents and Questions ii tt":'st .Now Hefoie the !(. pie: ;: Wad. shoro Messentter has outgrown ions nd is io have thorn length- it is io be enlarged and Mr. Jas. of Monroe, has associated himself Mr. Lowe, the present editor. The ::irer is a clean, neat, ne wspaper, and ". . a huge patronage. s. San IMeoo, Cal., court has decided a deed to real estate from a husband -v. where 'dove and affection" are i its the consideration, is void if the s do not live in harmony, there be ) valuable love and affection in that ami the statute i cqtiirhtg a valuable i. -ration. Goldsboro Argus gave $50.00 to the ; d School Committee with which to : cks for children whose parent, are or to supply theni with the necessary -. This was a most generous act on ,.rt of the cditois of the Argus, and xamp'e that wealthy men hi ali - might Mill.j v with profit. :. UaHAKD ILuk::tt, of Wiik.-s count-cent graduate of the tale Univcrs a voting nmn of decided talent, iatcJ himself i;h Mr. Vt-rr-on W. .. !" i ho Wir..ston Sentinel, in the he Southern 11 "me. Uo'h and ! men are w.-il t-utteateu ipacity to make the S :i T class literary magazine, hove thev will do it. hein We orth eed-. one. The Citfi! NK IS. rc c such voung pi en as Messrs. a'- l. i :..- ::re pass- aTiCC i a inward, preseril t an gates m thai cuy We ha', e not learned .-d for violation. Ii is idinunce. It will be e-.-peo.aily with the young people. Hereto ;:'..di.g on the gate, where their g wa i'u" tender." the courting K;w i ecu obliged to stand exposed tide gaze of the wosaie passer-by. h,. new law, thev will stand in the ! -Pal s breat de of the trees. i'i the vard. ! ti-. i-ir sweet nothings free j the .- rutiuy of th io unsympathetic In a criticism, rather favorable than a- revise. of Mrs. Langtry in her new part f rs. Tespard, the New York Star com- lias that Mrs. Langtry occupies too lata time in dying. Heirs apparent and . is expectant have often held the same . i ..i i-...a. F ;v, la' i v. s. It is related of L,ord Chesterfield , at he at.ologized to those who stood by .s i ..! side for the long time it required tn io become "cold and stiff in death." : Star reasons that Mrs. Langtry ought . in -j Kurctar hnrrv and that not. tn o -o is evidence that rd.e is wanting m . Tiir. Wilmington Star has completed its i. t : . th war Tt has attained to irreater than any other daily ever attained in :. ..-,V i 'omtina Tt hn oro'-vn tn this ma- age because "it has given the news y ari'l promptly, discussed public ques :.s with honesty and ability, and had a i'.'-in aia. s:ce iiini. picacu mt, 'e-'it. better to-day than ever before in its -.,rv and as it enters unon its maioritv - - - i its i werty -first birth-day it has all the -IirV.:ii. .1HH.11., .U'"V,' lit. vi .v.,,.. v. ' ot. .i-..r ,K;-r-c o ?.- l.e.-elv- and (if I'nnil p-.rt. which becomes a strong young man. In, question. What is a Mugwump in a--? has been often asked and as .-: io: scored as frequently asked. ; . ' anis says it is a man who will not .r t.-.rt a corrupt or unworthy man lc- .- he is nominated by the party to . ; 'ue belongs. He is such a Mugwump. .iti a of the- Chicago News, an Inde- was cph asked the question. ITis re- rammatie; "A Kepuobcan ...:'.-ionce." The CiiiioNiei.E needs add that there .are no Mugwumps, ag to this definition, in Nori h Car lo this connection we note that a ' a t;. an in Buffalo has named his horse .gv.ump" because he interferes. the four adjoining counties of David . Montgomery, Randolph and Alamance is not a single licensed dealer in -key. It is the same in Mitchell, Yan . Giuene and Dare. Possibly there y he other counties. In Randolph there ia.t been a liceu-gj to sell liquor grant a the last seventeen years. In Hun county liquor is not sold except in town of Asheville, and in Catawba except at Hickory. Besides these aoitions to license, there area large aae'- of "dry" tojsns in the State. All - goes to show that, there is no need of 'laird party that" under the present - in North Carolina the people can .v.- or not have license as they please. am-tiis show that in the past fifty - the consumption of sugar has gone in la to TO pounds per head. Dio - -ays that sugar is not healthy and no family of five persons should use than a pounds of sugar a week. ; t the average is 70 pounds per head ar. This investigation into statis ''aehes well, it may teach a dozen -- but the leading one that presents ' our mind is that it gives the reason 'a- girls of to-day are sweeter than -'re half a century ago. The ChiwjX ' -n't often drop into such statistical t g-, but it is well for an editor, as as a teacher, occasionally to heed the .I'ltilOti tion of Thomas Gradgrind: "Teach boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts a'.one are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything lse. You can only form the minds of reasoning ani mals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be any service to them. . . .Stick to Facts." sk ;i - Mr. Tiiko. II. It ill, of Raleigh, author of "Pa-sion Flower and Other Poems"" makes an offer in to-day's Chronicle that those who love good poetry ought not to fail to avail themselves of. lie advertises that he will mail a bound c opy of the book to any one, during the next thirty days, at cost, for only fifty cents. The Chron icle has before this referred to the ex cellence of Mr. Hill's poetry. The Wil mington Star truly calls him "a genuine poet born not made," and says "North Carolinians should read his productions for they are the best North Carolina pos sesses." It ought nut to reqmre any urging. Every reading man or woman in North Carolina who has not a copy of Mr. Hill's poems ought to be glad to buy a copy at the present extremely low price. t V "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" or words to that effect. A readi er (denominaton ni'kiinwn. for which let us give thanks!) in Caldwell county, who had a wife and twelve children, has de serted his family and eloped with his mother-in-law. If he can stand it, the (:"'.. try can. We have L.'urd of n- n look ing calmly into the month of a loaded cannon; staring death in the face without lunching; but we have never before heard of a uian who had the courage to elope wi'h his mother-in law. We have no words of condemnation of the poor preach er. He is by this time already sufficiently punished. Com.ueni.ing on the marriage to the mother-in-law the listen l ost t'aeeiiausly says, "it ,-t.ch hi'.le episodes as th. e that d ftrov ov.r ir.it h in the regeneration of the n ue ;t 1 Tin: r.etLS.-ity or ;u increase ot the taembers of the Supreme Court boeotr.es mote apparent every term. There hae been docketed for the present term one hundred and thirty-ei-ht appeals, includ ing ol ! ones. There no rea-on for:! ; steady increase of cases in the Supreme i. Court. There ought to be a law excluding matters not involving important icgai not involving , and where th qnesttor amount sued for is an insignificant sum. Just how far appeals should be permit ted is a great practical question in the ad ministration of the law. This question applies not only in North Carolina but in the courts of all the States and the Su preme Court of the United States. The recent appeal of the Anarchists to the 1". S. Supreme Court evidences the fact that a still greater restriction upon appeals is necessary if the court performs all the work it was intended to undertake. The Supreme Court of the United States is already three years behind its docket. No man ought to be denied "right and jus tice," but when a man has had a fair trial by a jury of his peers, he ought to be sat isfied, unless there is some palpable reason why a higher court should review the case. Appeals for delay are all too frequent. Indiana has for a number of years held a larger place in the thoughts of politicians than any other Western State. It now looms up to a prominent position in the religious wcrld. There is an economical farmer in that pivotal State who, having no children, and growing old, has given to the Methodist Episcopal church his entire lortune of $130,000 to be used for foreign missions. The church authorities settled l,o00 a year ou Mr. Hayes (that was his name) and his wife. The ohl man display ed wisdom in making such disposition of his property as he desirec" before his death. It he had given so Large a sum to missions in a will, ail his relatives would have en deavored t- break the will and made oath that he was crazy, and half the world would have agreed that no sane man would give so much to the heathen. It has beer' esti.uai.td that it costs up.ec-e io convert the heathen. Mr. Hayes may, therefore, using the Gradgrind and Boun derbv method of computation, reckon to a man "how many of those who "sit in dark ness" have been brought to the light by reason of his benefiiction. "I venerate the r.obier man who gives His generous dollars while the donor lives; Gives with a heart as liberal as the palms That to the needy spread his honored alms: Gives with, a head whose yet unclouded light To worthiest objects points the giver's sight; Gives with a "hand stib potent, to enforce His well-aiaied bounty.and direct its course; Such is the giver who must stand contest In dving glorious, and supremely blest." The penitentiary problem bids fair to be solved by Chapter Laws of 18S7. That act provides that the county commissioners of any county may work the prisoners in jail and all the convicts sentenced to the penitentiary for less than ten years with some few exceptions upon the public roads of the county. The act has been adopted by Iredell, Rowan, Davidson and several other comities. Mecklenburg has had this provision, in force several years under a special statute, and is putting her coun ty roads in admirable order. Randolph, Guilford and other counties are thinking of adopting it shortly. Instead of the jail prisoners lying idle in jail they cam their board by putting the roads in order, and besides the sight of them at work has a deterring effect in the prevention of crime. As to the convicts, who would otherwise go to the penitentiary, their labor is kept at home for the benefit of the county at whose expense they are convicted. Already there is some diminution of numbers in the penitentiary, and if this act is gener ally adopted the number in the peniten tiary will become very small and the con vict and road problems will be solved. . Use the reat specific for "cold in head" and "catarrh Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. .SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. WISE ITKMC SENTIMENT SHAP ED LAIK.KLY IIV THE PRESS. The Views of Our Contemporaries on I'assitig Public Events and Questions of Interest. Attacks upon the American public school do not and cannot attune themselves to the spirit of American citizenship. The public school is a distinctive American in stitution. Chicago Herald. For once Johann Most will find the en tire country enthusiastically in accord with his, views. He says that if the Chicago Auarchists hang, all other Anarchists ought also to hang. Boston Post. The home for aged and indigent minis ters that was talked of by some of our leading brethren a year ago is now an ap parent necessity, and will therefore natur ally grow up among us. - Raleigh Recorder. A Mexican weather prophet recently predicted rain. When his predictions failed to come true he was tried as a false prophet and sent to the penitentiary for two years. In some respects Mexico seems to bo in advance of this country. Boston Post. In a republic like oars, where there are political parties, a new.-paper without any fixed political opinions, is a very poor guide and educator of the people. By referring to Revelations, third chapter, you can get in formation on this matter. Wilkeeboro Chronicle. The Southerner stiii adheres to its esti mate of the eoiton crop titteeu per cent, loss than the average. The farmers, though, those who have brought cotton to the cotton yard, ate almost unanimous that the crop is twenty per cent, short. l'ar boro Southerner. We advi.-e our colored f; lends and read ; is to insist : pou Jo!.n Sherman's telling them why Republic. in Ohio won't have mixed .-.chouls and why he thinks aa ex-Cc-nfedoraie soldier in North Carolina is eminently re-pcetable, while in the North he ! 'es not Ii-itat vronotitjee the . et- era a a doui:e dyiu ;". Wita.ingt-,:. '.' - e. .ttiuable traitor. g- r. Ignatius Ikmt.eJly is igorou.-lv at work on Jules Verne's -Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." lie is confident that he has diseovcicd the cipher which proves two things first, that it was writ ten by James G. Blaine, and second, that it is a prophecy of the position he will oc cupy after the Presidential election in 188S. J New York Herald. The Democratic objeet ion to Fred. Grant as Secretary of State of New York is that he was nominated and the people are ask ed to elect him because he is the son of his father; that if he had been the sou of a father of no distinction he would not have been thought of for nomination, and that political preferment in this country, upon the sole ground of heredity, as in his case, is repugnant to the very first principle of Republican institutions. Rochester (N. Y.) Union and Advertiser. The New York farmers are having an awful time. George and MeGlynn are telling them that land taxation is their only hope; Governor Hill is preaching to great crowds of them that personal prop erty must be taxed as well as land; while Senators Evarts, Hiscock and Sherman are exhorting them to embrace the protection ideas of the Republicans as the only real remedy for present ills. Hill draws the biggest audiemes. The farmers are not fools. Springfield Republican. Hon. John :-horman of Ohio, and Sena tor Mahone of Virginia, are coming to Raleigh by invitation of negroes, to ad dress the colored people at their Industrial Fair the latter part of October. If the colored people of North Carolina invite such slanderers of Southern v bite people to visit their Fair, Gov. Scales and other white North Carolinians should have noth ing to do with such gatherings. Let the line be drawn between gratitude and in gratitude . Chariot tc Democrat. The trustees of Davidson College have recommended that "in iew of the cen tennial of Presbyterianisi.. in the United States occurring in the year 18sS the churches and people connected with Da vidson College endeavor to raise $100,000 for the increased endowment of Davidson College, as a thank oifering to God;" and "that contributions and subscriptions be taken up in all our churches iu the months of April and October, 18bo, the proceeds to be appropriated to the endowment of the chair of "Bible Study and Presbyterian History."' When Tou rgee's novels are freely bought throughout the North it is a clear indica tion of the decadance of letters and the depravity of the Northern appetite, it is announced that the "smart" and quondam carpet bagger has three volumes ready, two of which are novels. They are called "Bolton's Inn" and "Black Ice." The third volume is composed of a series pub lished in religions papers under the title "Letters to a King." If Tourgee had moral .qualities to back his intellectual he would do. But he lias no conscience. Wilmington Star. The legal fraternity of the State com plain often and loudly about the length of the opinions of the Supreme Court Judges; but we believe that none of them have ventured to complain through the papers of the State. We suppose that this Is atr tributable to the great respect which laws yers in common with all other thoughtful people have for the courts of the country. Still if the evil of long opinions is as great as the private conversations of the lawyers show it is, surely there can be no objection to calling the attention of the Supreme Court to it in order that they may consid er the propriety of shortening tiieir opin ions. No one has higher respect for the members of the present Supreme Court than we have. Why take a dozen pnges to reargue and reexpress what has been before argued and expressed clearly and concisely by those who have preceded them? Why use a half dozen different expressions to convey one idea? It strikes us that whenever the State goes into market offering her Governor's house for sale, it will lie very much like the boy that drew the Elephant. Besides we are opposed to its sa'e. We have always had a weakness to live in a tine house, and as we intend to be Gover nor of North Carolina some day, we expect our weakness to be gratified. Ho a ever, we are in no hurry about it, when all the other aspirants gets through, then if we are not too old, we will come in, bat upon this condition: the salary must be r.dsed. We can't live on $3,000 per annum Hold up brother Polk;don't sell our house right avay. Hillsboro Recorder. PEN CI I, M AISGI VA i.I I'OR DAY READING. S5' - HY 11. F. M. Special Cor. State CnuoNU.LK.j "Sewing at once, with an equal thread. The seams of a shroud and a shirt."" Su -1: is the substance, if not the ords. of Tom Hood's heart in ing vetse: .'. what good i.s achieved by appeals to !it::, ..n sympathy, that should aaike the who!, world kin, when we see I- constantly neg lected and ilisiegarded without evt "; (:: palliation ;!' ia c; ssity! In a North Caro iiua journal or n ei :: date 1 see ;oa ; ;'.u;o- nate t Oct 0 ie ol tae glutei M.d -r-ii! ;. tli frippery and l'ojipery ot a "iitgai : the joiitii of a next pan: graph uk" NioL--- ail d !"' on-- of i he the voa' .; men dre.-i bali, jit-ended bv city .siii--poed. in the vet j of the sme eoi .nr.i to be, tears, at the untimely ei be.st and most beloved of of ' hat same eii v. bet na-: .! 'lost - .Ken. If Youth stay its joyous .step until I . nth no more itivade its rosy circle, in an m- etatit the damdiUis of musi; ever brought low, but Fate's iiiiermiiigliiigof the webof V.lii be ilTetl i. V. ovand v- r- of w -" it: ti.l; .1 r.itord no excuse .'; ir:-: of 1 . a..d 1 ion o. wh:a;i v. : can g'le'.ee f;el the ce which giu.iguigiy, -h-.tding" to divorct let W !ll ents ; at o,i t i.a..f." as Vv e new-papers i. spare the ..,i the f ii I - pure some from their unwilling cot: iitiunshin ou the same page. My fondness for tracing co incidences of " expression leads me to call attention to the following: Burns, in his "Januar" Winds" has the exquisite simile, "Her cheeks like lilies dipped in wine, The lass that made the lied to me." Green, a poet of Shakspeate's era, a profligate and unprincipled man, but a poet (to my thinking) of transcendent ge niis, gives us in "Menaphin's Eclogue," this line, "Her cheeks like ripened lilks steeped In wine." . Next to the famous retort of John Wilkes to the Earl of Sandwich, which will not bear repetition here, the finest piece of repartee I have ever encountered in read ing is that administered by Charles Phil lips, the famous orator and advocate, to Mr. Adolphus, the no less famous lawyer, reporter and littf.ratei k. When the prac tice of the latter had in a great degree fal len into the hands of the Irish barrister, Mr. Adolphus, with natural, if not excus able pique, broke out on one occasion, "Phillips, you remind me of three B's. Blarney, Bully and Bluster!" "Ah:" re plied Mr Phillips, "you never complained of my bees until they began to suck your honey." i- To the silly question asked so often not by silly people only "How can a law yer reconcile it to h's conscience to defend a person whom he knows to be guilty of a crime?" I can oppose no more practical answer than these remarks of the great Sergeant Ballaiitine aft. r tin active expe rience of thirty live years at the bar. Says he, "I suppose lew counsels have defend ed more accused persons than myself, ami I must allow thai innocence was not the eharaeterisiio feature of the majority of my clients: KLT I cannot RF.MF.Mi.Ett any CASE IN WHICH I RECEIVED AN I Ngl A LI I'i ED ADMISSION OF Ol ILT." Rejection of the best men of the coun try, by partisan Senates, on partisan grounds, is not altogether an evil ot post p.iLt.Li m days, nor confined to the Republi can party. That great lawyer and states man. Judge Crittenden, of Kentucky, and that still greater lawyer, George II. liad ger, of North Carolina, were nominated to the Federal bench, and rejected by a Dem ocratic Senate for that they were not "State's-Rights" Democrats. So says Mr. Blaine in his Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 1, page lol. And though Mr. BlaineV impartiabty of statement as to many such matters may be well doubted, here the statement carries intrinsic evidence of it truth. They were rejected! What other than party reasons can be assigned? Surely, the Democrats would not stullify them selves by imputing mental or moral unfit ness to such men! -.- - Another North Carolina Rook, From Shelby New Era. Messrs. Babington, Roberts & Co., have just issued from their presses Coi. John R. Logan's work, entitled "Sketches of the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations." The book is neatly gotten up typographically and reflects much credit on the publishers and binders. The book contains an introductory sketch of the author by Mr. Robert L. Ryburn, of the Shelby bar, which is replete with valuable information. The work contains more than six hundred pages and gives a com plete and faithful history of the Baptists within the bounds of these associations, reaching back to their earliest formation. The most interesting feature of work is the sketches it contains of the leading ministers and laymen who have figured in the associational work. What W ill Ruin the Country. From Durham Recorder. An old darkey from the "rooral dees tricts," in concluding an argument on the new railroads that "are" coming to Dur ham, was heard to remark, "Times am changed; do new rale roades, de hog law, lokal oction an' bar'd wire fences am gwine ter ruin de country, yit." C0-EDUC4TI0N. REV, DR. DEEMS TRACES ITS PROGRESS. He Relieves that All Colleges Ought to Open Their Classes to Qualified Wo men. From The Forum. In early life I was called to bo a profes sor in the University of North Carolina, and subsequently to be President of the College for YToung Ladies in Greensboro', N. C. Afterward I founded a school for boys and a school for girls in the same village and under the sam government; the girls occupying a building which pro vided dormitories, recital ion-rooms, and all the other apartments necessary for so larjie a family: too boys boarding in the village and I a vim! their school in a build intr two blocks away from the school for girls. Thus far only did public opinion in North Carolina before the war allow me to attempt an experiment in co-education of the sexes. The experiment, while still in its beginning, was, like many another valuable undertaking, thwarted by the breaking out of hostilities. The subject has never lost its attraction for me, and I have watched with interest the growth of co-education. My own opinion is, that in the beginning of school life boys and girls should be educated to gether. There is a transition period when, perhaps, it would be best to educate them apart. They come again to another season in life when eo education seems better for both sexes. Iii addition to these views I have a profound conviction that exactly the same education should be given to both sexes in those studies which have for their aim intellectual development, as distin guished !,;iii studies immediately concern ed with practical li-'e. If I ha.'; autoerat I ;: power I would re strict ci 11 -c siuoi- 5 o the branches which are special v. and 1 might say almost sole iy, intended for inieMeet ual development. Latin. G el-, nn l mathematics should be the tinay , p..st graduate or univers ity !ej-:--.r! 'T'euts 1 would have those studies which are intended for practical life, and they .should be pursued only by those who had gone through the preliminary intel lectual training in the college classes. I'p to the eiose of the ,-oIlege course both sexes s there 1 one! have r.e tr.g no ei- e: ve is' old ( ; , to take, tiit- ii. same curriculum, studies until the and suuieiently A. degree. Even nr tr H d i I he po :ere a! e til stil l. 'It oO-, . ite and university cla-ses inches which both sexes i". Almost all the pres 1. ges for young women l w .-.a..: Id ' .I t- .... with- ei eXatne tial. . be reo pa;:.. sev-.s eriia: -'iGua; -;ls. t i i i;e a. aa'tev itelv !!!! Th. imp.ar a j s 'or a gl't a., aiied to' pass t he female, a ; a; pus suou I-1 an exaaiiua- as tal lion a.s ice vera. If these views were adopted I can see how a number of ad vantages would accrue to education. In the first place, there would be an improvement in the readjust ment of courses of study. In the second place, there would be an improvement in the interplay of influences between -the sexes, such as there is in the family, con- aisiiugoi men iuu women, i himi ou &. In the thi'd place, there would t.e an im provement in bringing together the prop erties and the endowments of the fruiall male and small female college into one institution. These are theoretical view, and have been growing on me for years. Lately 1 have had occasion to set myself to ascertain whether they were practical. Providence denied me the privilege of completing the experiment that I had un dertaken, but duriug the lat quarter of a century, since my can eras a teacher prac tically closed, other institutions have been making experiments with what seem to be the following results. The nearest institution is Columbia Col lege. In 18S;J the trustees ordered that a course of study, equivalent to the p-mrse given to young men in the college, but not identical with that, should be offered to such wonieu as might desire to avail themselves of it, to be pursued under the general direction of the faculty. The plan embraces nine different groups, viz., Eng lish language and literature: modern lan guages and foreign literature; Igitin lan guage and literature; Greek language and literature; mathematics; history and politi cal science; physics, chemistry, and hy giene; natural history, geology, paleont ology, botany, and zoology; moral and intellectual philosophy. The course is to extend over four years, and these are de nominated first, second, third, and fourth, not freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior. The preliminary examination for entrance is to b? 1 eld annually, and the Candida e m"st be .seventeen years of age. Having passed the enirunoe examination, the student must pursue the si dies of the first group, viz., English language and literature; and. in addition, those of one other group, during the first and second years. At the end of the first year, how ever, a new selection may be made. The student is left, to pursue her studies at her own discretion as to the manner and place thereof. Times for examination are ap pointed by the boards of the college. It i.s conceded by Columbia College that, its system is not particularly attractive, because it offers no instruction, women not being: admitted to the college classes. It has not been in operation lung enough to allow any of the candidates to complete t ie four year course; and as it was not ex pected that the applicants would take a tail course, the larger number of the stu dents at present are pursuing only special branches, apd are not candidates for grad uation. Thf re are nineteen of them in all. The fourth year is about closing, and not more than one or two will come up for graduation when it ends, As the trustees did not venture jp the beginning to hold out ths attainment of a degree as a possi bility, we can readily see why the number of full-course students is, probably, less than ii would otherwise have been. The authorities of the college believe that the number of that-class will probably increase hereafter. The venerable President Bar nard, in a note o me, says; "As to the performance of the young women in their examinations, we have every reason to be satisfied. Some of them have displayed singular proficiency, especially in classical studies. As a rule it may be said that the young women are diligent students." 8yraeu.se University throws open the doors of all its colleges for- the admission of women on the same terms as men. Its summary of students in the "Sixteenth Annual" (18S(-187) gives no data to enable one to see what proportion of the students are women. This is consistent wth the university's plan of making no distinction. In looking over the catalogue of four hundred and thirty-seven names it is perceived that a very large proportion are names of women. The university has no dormitories. The students board in families near by. There is no discrimi nation whatever on account of sex. Its chancellor. Rev. Dr. Sims, informs me that no special rules are made because of the presence of both sexes in the univer sity, the young wome t having every right that is accorded to the young men. He adds: ' We have nev-r had difficulty grow ing out of the presence of both sexes in the institution. The young ladies are as sch'-'-.riy in every department as the young men. ' Co nell University extends the amplest inducements to women. By an act of the trustees, passed in April, 1872, women are admitted to the university on the same terms as men, except that they must be seventeen years old. A separate building, the Sage College, has been erected and furnished for their residence. The en trance examinations, scholarships, fellow ships, aud all the studies except military science, are open to women as to men. Sage College was built, furnished, and endowed by the Hon. Henry W. Sage, at a cost of over two hundred and fifty thou sand dollars, and by him given to Cornell University as a place of residence for wo men who are students. It has a frontage of one hundred and seventy-six feet, and a depth, with an interior court, of one hundred and seventy-two feet. The build ing has every convenience and comfort. Great attention is paid to the health and the general physical culture of the young women. The immediate care of all the students is intrusted to a woman who has had wide social experience iu Europe and America, and who has full acquaintance with the best methods for the education of women. The female students have the same use of libraries, laboratories, draught-ing-rooms, collections, and museums as the male students; and every effort seems to be made to carry out the intentions of the founder of Sage College, who to his munificent gift attached but one condition, viz., that "instruction shall be afforded young women, by Cornell University, as broad and thorough as that afforded to young men." The registrar of the univer sity, Professor 11. C. Thuvber, tells me that Sago College is now more than full, the numlcr of women in attendance being between eighty and ninety. Many of these are graduates of colleges for women, and many more are special students. He adds: "I think there is no longer any doubt here an to the general good results of the system." Harvard does not admit women to scholastic residence. It has an "Annex" for female students, preferibes a course of study for them, and appoints a committee of examination. The fourteenth -examination for women by Harvard University will be he'd in Cambridge, New Y'ork, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati nest sum mer. Candidates who present themselves for this examination will be examined upon the studies required for admission to liar ler, t ive vard, i-ut any student may. it shej.ro bstilme 'or the prescribed and eiec course an advanced examination in 1.' ivneii r.'id j eras an. lue time and mode of examination for the pupils will be the same as for the regular examination for admission to the university, and the same privilege of passing a preliminary exami nation ou a part of the subject, and of completing the course in a subsequent year, will 1; allowed. There is a society for the colleg instruction of women. Thi society has charge of the examinations in Cambridge. When the candidate receives the president's certificate she is admitted to the course of instruction given in Cam bridge by the instructors in Harvard Uni versity, under the direction of the society. That certificate is also accepted, if pre sented within a year of its date, by Welles ley, Smith, and Vassar Colleges, institu tions for women alone, as the equivalent for examinations in such studies, whether preparatory or collegiate. It will be seen that this is a mere "annex;" women are not admitted to any pai t of the university. Last year about half a dozen certificates of completed examinations were issued. In regard to the University of Michigan no statement more compact and compre hensive can be given than the following, received from my friend, Professor Alexan der W inched; "Women have the same privileges in the University of Michigan as men h we, and they avail themselves of them to the same extent. There are literally no discrimina tions made here on account of sex. Women Ktudy literature, languages, science, phar macy, dentistry, medicine (homeopathic and 'regular'), and law. They take the degree of A. B., B. S., B. G., M. P., Ph.D,, LL.li, 1). I). S-, etc, Thpy study for advanced de grees ind get them. They earn equal hon ors with men. They are more faithful aud generally make better attainments, though many men equal thtn. In some medical courses th y have separate instruction and demonstrations. Few study law. None, perhaps, study civil or mechanical engineer ing, but some take mechanical draughting." t o-education is carried forward in the University of Wisconsin. In the beautiful campus of that institution there is a build ing called Ladies' Hal!. It contains a so ciety hall, teachers' rooms, together with study and lodging rooms for about sixty students, and ample accommodations for boarding. The students' rooms are well furnished. The young omen occupying this building are under the immediate charge of the principal, are required to board with the matron, and are expected generally to conform to the rules requisite for a quiet and orderly household. The institution assumes no responsibility for pupils, male or female, rooming in the city, except as regards good scholarship and general deportment. President Bas com says: "Young women are granted with us precisely the same terms with young men. Co education here iseutireiy successful." From the "Year-Book" of the Boston University it may be gathered that there is no more distinction made there between the nexes than between the inhabitants of States; even the absence of such distinc tion is not mentioned. Upon opening the "Year-Book" for 1887 one soon comes upon the names of women in the lists of Doctors of Medicine, Bachelors of Arts, and Bachelors of Philosophy, the curious thing being that all the Bachelors of Phi losophy are named Eva, Alice, Ida, Louise, or Marcia. It so chances, also, that the names leading the senior, junior, fresh man, and special classes are feminine names, modestly followed by names of the other sex, Plainly, Boston University has thoroughly wiped out the distinction of sex, and has for its purpose not the edu cating of men and women, boys and girls, but rather the educating of human beings. But oo education cannot be forced. It must be the produet of general increase of both enlightenment and broadening, two things which do not always go togeth er. At present I do not see any reason why any college in the land may not open its classes to all women who oan success fully undergo examinations for entrance. They will be old enough and well-trained enough to feel the responsibility of their situation. They will, probably, be of such character as by their presence to dispel those phantoms of danger which are raised upon a priori conjectures. In any case, each woman student would be under the discif linary control of the college authori ties, just as the men would be, and each student, male or female, should be treated according to his or her merits. Charles F. Deems, THE NATION'S CAPITAL. PRUTKC riO HAS NO FOOT-IIOM) IS TIIK SOUTH. Outline ot a Triit" Hill to be Ftilnn'tted to the Democratic Caucus The Kvan Keliual Alliance CI -veland's Trip. Special Cor. State Chuon-icle. Washington, D. C, Sept. 2G, 1887. The outline of a tariff bill was formed at the recent conference at Oak View between the President, Speaker Carlisle, Mr. Mills, of Texas, and Secretary Fairchild. This outline will be submitted to the Democratic Caucus as soon as possible after Congress assembles. It will be revised and deliber ated upon and passed without much delay. A great many Democratic leaders have been in this city recently and they recog nize the necessity of acting promptly and effectively in this matter. I have this from a prominent member of Congress as well as from several well informed news paper meu some of whom get their infor mation on important subjects direct from Col. Lamont and Mr. Cleveland. Judge McCreary, a member of Congress from Kentucky is in this city and says the protection sentiment has no foothold in the South except iu Alabama and in that State it is confined to the city of Birming ham. He proves his assertion by giving the fate of ex-Congressman Martin. He says: Mr. Martin represented that district in the last Congress, and voted with Mr. Randall. It was thought that he repre sented the sentiment of the people of his district. He lived in Birmingham and it was supposed that they would support him. But when he went, in for the nomi nation he was defeated on that issue. He had some strength in the city proper, but the people came from the byways and mountains and the valleys and beat him. The majority of the people of the country demand thai the tariff shall be reduced", so that the revenues will not be more than enough, as we say in our plat form, to sup port the government "economically ad ministered." Congress must make such a reduetiou this winter. The tariff bill which was outlined at the Oik View conference will doubtless be embodied in the Presi dent's message to Congress and the peoole will see when this is published that Mr. Cleveland is heartily iu favor of a redue tiou of the tariu". A great many North Carolinians look to the oiTorfs of Hon. John Henderson in the caucus to securo the proper reduction of the tooacco, whis key and brandy tax. If Mr. Carlisle had recognized Mr. Henderson on the lloor of the House during the closing weeks of the 40th Congress, lie would hace presented a bill which had already received the en dorsement of some of the wisest men in the party, and which 1 have strong grounds for believing would not have been opposed by Randall. If North Carolina's tobacco and whiskey and brandy taxes are not closely watched in this caucus, and if Mr. Henderson's lead is not followed cordially by the united delegation from our State, those interests will surfer. Every State has its "own ae to grind" and many of our delegation are new men without in fluence or weight here. Mr. Henderson has experience and is thoroughly well read on the tariff and internal revenue question. Carlisle himself is not better informed. But our people must remember that in a caucus of the House, the State of North Carolina has the followinguew and untried men: There is John Nichols from Raleigh in the place of W. R. Cox. There are Col. Rowland, Mr. Simmons, (whom I hear highly spoken of on all sides) Maj Mc Clammy and Brower. Brower's and Nich ol's politics I don't profess to understand. The other gentlemen are Democrats, but they will not be able to accomplish any thing of any moment here for fully two years to come, and will not do it then, un less they aee industrious, shrewd aud able. The House of Representatives has grown too large for any one man of ordinary .ability to rise at once to prominence in it. There are 325 members and 8 delegates. Of these there are perhaps 17'J Democrats. Mr. Henderson will clearly be the leader of our delegation on account of his ex perience and because ho has made a spe cialty of this subjeot. Col. Cowles and Capt. Tom Johnston have paid considera ble attention to the subject, but they have had other matters in hand, while Mr. Henderson has given a great deal of time and study to this very question. Mr. Henderson is admitted here to bo one of the finest lawyers on the floor of the House. While he is not a brilliant orator, he is a clear and forcible speaker. These, with his high character and general popularity always secure for him the respectful at tention of the House. In caucus he is especially effecti ve and persistent. I know he realizes the importance of this tariff legislation as regards his own constituents, as well as the conscientious discharge of his duty. He is opposed, on principle, to the continuance of these heavy taxes. He did his best last session to have them lift ed. I hope the new members will stand by him to a man as soon as the 50th Con gress assembles and that our State w.ll present an unbroken column for a tariff' reduction, adusc oi .-sam caiman, nis followers and his methods won't accom plish a thing. It will have to be done by a strong, united, firm and at the same time courteous and conciliatory move on the part of the Democratic majority, back ed by the cordial endorsement anrl sup port of the Administration. If this does not bring Randall and his crowd into the caucus, then I don't know what will. I think it will, for Scott of Erie was here during the Oak View conference and I have reason to believe he looked after Pennsylvania's interests as far as it was legitimate and necessary for him to do so. There will be held in Washington early in December a meeting of the Evangelical .Alliance of the United States, that will be gin on Wednesday the 7th, and last three days. The Rev. Josiah H. Strong, the General Secretary of the Alliance, is here making some arrangements for the gather ing. The meeting is expected to be one of the most interesting and important that has occurred for many years. Many of the most distinguished clergymen and lay men in the country will be included in the list of speakers, among whom will be Bishop A. C. Coxe, the Rev. Dr. McCosh, Bishop Potter if he can attend, Bishop Hurst, of the Methodist cnurcn, the Kev. Dr. Dwight, Chief-Justice Waite, the Rev. Dr. Hoge, of Richmond; Justice Strong, Senator Joseph R. Hawley, Representative w.c. p. meckinridg, ot Kentucky, ana others. Bishop Coxe will speak on Ul- tramontanism and there will be papers and discussions on the "Saloon," "Di voroe," "Mormonism," "The Public Schools," and upon the question how the spirit of competition now so rife among evangelical bodies can be avoided and the efforts of the churches made more effective, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland leave here for their long Western and Southern trip next Friday. They will be gone three weeks. This journey will cost the President several thousand dollars. He has engaged a spe cial train for the entire distance consisting of an engine, a baggage and supply car and two palace cars This train w iil carry them about 4,."00 miles. The stringen-y of the money market has been relieved" by the oil". r of the Gov ernment to buy up 14. 00. ),0t),) worth of bonds and to prepay some of interest soon to become due. There i.s still supposed to be a surplus of 17,000,000 iu the Treasury beyond the requirements of law. Tho rumors of an impending panic on Wall street started a good deal of talk about an extra session to be called in November, or as soon as possible after the President's return to tins city. If Congress is not called in November, no work will be done before January. Congress invariably ad journs for Christmas and often its organ ization is not complete liet'ore Janmiry. It is probable however that the Wall street "panic" may be caused by Jay Gould's manipulations to accomplish some purpose of his own and that money will be easier as soon as the master of 20,000,000 of ready money is prepared for this desired result. It has been suggested also that some enemies of the Aministration are cir culating these panicky rumors. Dr. James Grant Bev, of Cairo, Egypt, while here at the Medical Congress, found time during the distracts of that meeting to present to the Museum some very inter esting relies of ancient Egypt. Dr. Grant was a genial, pleasant-looking gentleman, made conspicuous by a red Turkish cap. Besides his duties as physician to the khedive. Dr. Grant has found time to pur sue important studies in Egyptology, and to be present at most of the remarkable discoveries made iu the past years in tho ruined cities of the Nile Valley. Two ob jects of the highest interest in the collec tion given by Dr. Grant are pear-shaped pendants of gold which are imprinted with the kingly seal of Thothmes 111, who lived 1,000 years P., C. A piece of the wrap-pin-,' linen of Barneses II, on which Dr. Grant iias written the royal seal of that king, provokes reflections on the changes since t,M.) busy haudsof the weavei wrought that iiue linen 8, :() years ago. A small bronze mummy box with a lizard on tho top tells that i he Egyptians were also care ful of the bodies of a.s small animals as these. A mummied hawk is also in tho collection. Tiie hawk was tho symbol of Horns, the sun god, and son of Osiris the greatest god iu the Egyptian Pantheon. Two little porcelain statuettes were tho subject of an interesting story told by tho learned doctor. They are called Shubti, or respondents. When an ancient Egypt ian went to the funeral of a friend ho look several of these, which were deposited in an empty box provided for the purpose iu ihe tomo. to represent that tho friends wished the deceased to have plenty of servants in the next world to till the soil and sow seed. Hence they have agricul tural implements aud a bag of seed iu their hands. These shubti were formerly mistaken for images of 'siris. Among other things is a copper f gurette of tho Ibis-headed god Thoth, the ancestor of tho Greek god Hermes, the g d of learning; one of a cat, the symbol f Sekhet, who corresponds to the Greek Diana, goddess of the moon; a small stone scarab or beetle with the seal of the goddess Rathor on tho under side. Several fragments of papy rus, with old Greek characters written on them, are from the late interesting find of objects dating within the Christian era in the Fyoum. Seal rings, a piece of glass ornament, and many other things which space forbids mentioning constitutes the bulk of the collection. Th 3 remainder of the collection consists of other articles more nearly related to past, Egyptian and modern tunes, such as Greek, Roman and Turkish coins, &e. Green Manuring Hy George Allen, of New Heme. Ni mhek 5. Special Cor. State Chronicle. A sufficient amount of the proper kind of food is of prime necessity for mankind, for animals, and for the land. Animals that are not regularly fed with suitable food in proper quantity cannot be relied upon to stand severe strains. A diet of fried pork and bread may sustain life, but such food alone will not maintain the highest mental and physical vigor of a man and his family. If the land is not properly fed with suit able food, the farmer cannot obtain from it the largest results. Man cannot thrive on meat alone. The horse cannot live on corn, but must have a variety of food, to insure health and vigor. The land must also le fed with a variety of vegetable food, and in largo quantities in order to obtain the best re turns tor the labor bestowed upon it, and for the concentrated fertilizers used. It is fully as important that the land diall have vegetable matter to feed upon, in order to produce remunerative crops, as or man to have vegetables or fruits for his daily food. If the land ts well sup plied with vegetable matter, it can appre ciate and use with profit a reasonable amount of commercial fertilizer under al most any kind of crop. If the hind is not supplied with vegetable matter, and is in a poor and rundown condition the con centrated fertilizer will not give certain or profitable results. Many farmers use from two hundred to six hundred pounds commercial fertilizers per acre with profit, and the largest profit comes from the land that is best supplied with vegetable matter. Some portion of the crop from every acre under cultivation should be returned to the land each year. How can this be ac complished with the least expense, i.s a question that each farmer must determine for himself. Is it better to feed the crops to animals on the farm, and use barnyard manure to enrich the fields, or i.s it easier to plant peas, millet, rye and other crops to bo ploughed under for fertilizing the land, or cannot both methods lie employed by every farmer? Our long seasons enables the managing farmer to obtain a market or food crop, and also a manuring crop from the greater part of his land every year. Rye can bo sowed at any season; millet and peas can be planted from April to July, and they all are good crops for manuring. Ate the Clergy Digoted? From Webster's Weekly. It is a hard fact, but the clergy are nat urally more bigoted and dogmatical than men of any other class or profession. This is due partly to their natural prejudices, but principally to the clemency to criti cism upon them. This makes them pre sumptuous, and fills them with the idea that they are environed in a perfect and unassailable panoply. Baldness may be prevented, and a thick growth of hair stimulated, by the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor. This preparation also restores the natural color to gray hair, and renders it soft, pliant, and glossy.