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Oile copjy ont v-ar, raaill postpaid, Xuroe inontlts. nttJii? pntered without payment, anl no "piper eiit'after ezpiilation of time paid for. That, Dropped stitch. - I '"'(From St. Xicholas. J. ; A; ; little oltl woman ; - , pVithilrer-rimo'ied "iiee," "": . 1 Quite daintily drged - ' ; - jfa the cleanest of cliet-ks, ! : . -. Wm sitting alune in a tower no high Tliat it itemed like a needle pierefn the hky. j ; . Tfirrejilie.had nat r v 4, V j " : ', '' por h, ever no long! ,'.-V '.' - ' 1 K pitting, and ninging t y--' A swet little song. ' . i "' And flhe jwaid while her face.. was all . pnekfroil ' : t with Hinile.-, ' '. -"I'll 0! have enoni, J.r I've knit twenty : :'" - miles." .'- '- -.-" ' , t . ' . - - . . ' . "... Slie h:ul nev.lk-H ail r'iil her i AnJ j'ro in Jiw - i : wr cTahe Jiad a parti;t . v " J " lar ohjeet in viewL : Being a Ml fully tired of jnrjK-tuuI nittiiii;, r She meuiit to cliuil down ion her lon piece of . ' " . knitting. i , T ' . '"."." I j " - " .V- : Tlie knittinta huo.4 free ' -f - . ?rom the Hle-ten eaM-nient ; ' ' " The.end of ii rcaehe - ". .. Xluiost to the Ius-!iieiiL . . . ' "j She'cltee .Lr..ii.. ..,.1 -...!.,..!.,.... .i... ' "liv ntilus of tliiii kaittiiW I'll do without y wins." :' 1; !;V 'Of thf world far beneath her'. ' "' . . She knew not a hit, ' . ;. ; ; " "ut she said to herself, '. With a good deal of wit : , -"If UoIk-i ter tliaii'this plaice, it eau'ot be worse.' T- So con tin ued her knitting, and Hinging her verse. " ." ! '. .- ,'-.' -1 '" I 4 . :-: . U last, she got near " f . '. . r '-." i To the end of her wirk - ."lie swift needles flew ' - . " , In and out, with a jerk, t. ' When, sa ind -knot in the worsted -prxlueHir a . ' - . ' J " .hitch, . .' This che rful and jdeasaitt old girl dropjHil a' . " ' . -. stitch. . ,;; " " i " . . ,v .)., - . ....-...! -'' . .rl ow, $ great many persons : .';' .'. Are ajt to Hnppose ' . ;'. : -. That droppini; one switch i ' , Which you 1c!iow,"hunlly shows . J Should lx a small matter quite eiisy to shirk ; -VAiuI xo tin old lady went on with her.work. - " . . .. T . . he finished her line, . . .; Never .minding herfrrmr; . -'. ' . ',. Vied it fast; and then started, - . Wheji, oh ! to her terror, u s. It lsgan, where the stitch ; had been dropped,; . ; ' 't t ' to unravel, . 1 And rapWly down toward the earth did she ' - ' .. "travel! "v.." : i I v, - , ' , " : - ' ' . .' t first fast, and then faster, '.. f ; " Tlie knitting unwound, . " " J nd fiister ami fatef She-fell to the -ground, :. - - " Whirlel nvr and over, and" heavily droppetl, Por sil ! How Me .wished on her window he'd toppel ! - " ik, ehildreiij be thorough, Whatever you "do, I for a similar trouble ? Might happeirtayou.; - In performing yoor duties ' don't offer to shirk, ' :15ut be eafefid no stitches are dropped in your I- 'work. .' LITERARY GOSSIP; JVUY HA YARD CLAUKU,. EDITOR. r, All Iw'k received during the week will be mentioned ov name nr me .bmi s "sue, and !if worthy of it, receive tiee after -careful - read in sr. - TheV- next succeeding is- re a longer no ma v be sent either by; mail, or in packages of i dozen by express, rfhd should always lie attdresseti to .-Mrs. M.tJIY II J yard Clark e, Newbern, N. C BOOKS liKC ElV ED. , r ALFRED WILLIAMS 4 tO, RALEIGH, X. C'. A iIEMOIUTF S. S. PRENTISS; Edited by -his broiher ' : t harles bcribner's Sons l"ub- lisshers. SCHOOL HISTORY OF NORTH CARO liv John Wheeler : Ajre.' .. LIN A INTEUN ATIONAL REVIEW for January. 1S.S0. A. S.'Barne8 fc Co. Publishers. ' t. 1JRAXSON, RALEICII; X. C. . VXH'IST OF PL.VSSAXS. .tub Bv : em ilk DOSIA ; ZoLi, Tran.slatel by John Stirling. A Rnssian Story. Iv Henry (Jre- translatetl bv Mary Xeal herveool. Petertoii & llrthers Publishers. - - i - - I Tlti-s jeJUion . yf the 3Iemoir of S. S. Hud leuition . oi lue auemoir oi o. Pren(is3 a . republication of that' issueo sliortlv" lifter -liis tleatli '.'twenty-five yean rears ago, and! it is greatly to'lw regretted that; the - editor did not revise ' and condense it into onel yolum.e, as there are liiany pages of it, interesting at the time of its. first publication, which could have been, in this, -second 'tne, omitted with advantag; the TwRtical! questipns which they treat of r! ". ' hough jonce dividing parties, having grown o'jsoletej llie nam e ot Sergeant b. 1'ren-.'"- tub is notlung to the present generation :but a brilliant .tradition, and as such one -; volume t matter .'might have been made most acceptable, while ""two will be weari some. Jo us- lie was something more than a tradition, ainl our" personal retollections T of hiiii fu a genLtl gentleman and a bril- Kanl cqnversafionalist in a social circle ' where1 Charles M. Conrad, Erasmus Fen ner, Frknk' Lumsden and Bnintz Maj-cr. shone- jlend a charm to these volumes almost pfjual to th:it exercised by his per sonal presence. Though a Northern man : by birth and education he had become so " completely identified with, the South before . the anti-slavery furor was , started that " atthaugh he retained a warm affection fyr his early home, he always seemed to us a - isouthemer by birth as well as adoption. He was; born inJIaine, the -son of a sea ' captain J and while an infant hadva. fever Jhat depriyed him of the use of hik limbs. Tlia devoted care of his mother saved his , Kfl and lie always cherished f-or her the - most anient affection : a lady once said to . liini after he .had' reached the zenith- of his ' ... . .i ix. ii "your motner lio oe congratulated - on her son without, a moment s Iiesita- tion lid replied, " rathct congratulate the; ";- on having such a mother." As Maine fifty years ag heldfcut' small attractions to -' a young . man of talent . and enterprise, " rrentlss,-shortly after ,he graduated j went to Cincinnati and thence drifted to Natchez, . where he made his reputation as. a lawyer. "'. In 1838, when .only twenty-nine, he was - elected to Congress, but had to contest his seat, and that of his colleague, Mr. Word, . 'with Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson, who had been elected to serve in the special sessionf of Congress called by Mr. Van claimed under a resolution of the I ouse to be duly elected members of' ,. '-; ' . LJ- - . - :, i fe : : . " r I - . . . . : n tt- . ' . . : . . VOL. 1. the "whole twenty-fifth Congress. It was in this contest that Mr. Prentiss won his national reputation as an orator. His ar gument lasted into the third day, and be fore he had concluded it the galleries, lob bies-.and 'every racant spot on the 'floor were thronged by henatore, ex-J embers or Congress, -officers, of the army and navy and eminent Jurist and Judges,. as .well as foreign Ministers and uistiuguistieu n- vate citizens. " Directly an jront oi itiie. chair feat John Quincy Adams, tii H estor of the House; juot outside the bar oithe opposite side of the hall) his tall,figijire towering alxjve its fellows, stood ; Henry Clay, generalissimo'' of the Whig Jbrces, watchhiir with-uleliht- his - youn'; friend s manful, defence ; near hini; were Judge White of Tennessee, a white-haired patri arch of his -party ;, I'jrestoif the elcKjuent Southern Senator, and Crittenden, the no less eloquent Kintuckian; close by rose the massive form of Daniel AVebster whase countenance, grave, unmoved and almost sombre in its afpect, betokened tha most profound attention. It was indeed a splen did assembly illumined by a galaxy of renius, worth, statesmanship, beauty. Tind station such as meet together but rarely in a generation." This speech elevated him af once to the first rank of Congressional orators; Mr. Webster remarked as he left the hall, ".Nobody could equal it. More than a week was" consumed -by the other side in answering" him and their last ppeech wa!s made by Mr. Legare, of South; Caro Iftia. Mr. l'rentiss had the elosmg speech", immediately after which the vote was taken and the question decided in favor of 1 rentes and Word. 1 hey were, however, rejected -on the final vote. Somes ' years alter at a -public dinner, in New ' (riffleans, to which icity ho had recently removed, Mr. Prentiss gave some! amusingf reminis cences of his " electioneering campaign. He had, as was lisuiil, sfnt out printed bills containing his appointments several weeks ahead of him-; the proprietor of a traveling menagerie availed himseli of these bills and followed hi.m closely with his wild beasts.' The first time Mr. Prentiss "saw the elephant" he was in high! feather, speaking ; with more than -usual' energy when he observed some of his audience -. looking over their shoulders. He began to think he was growing dull am roused himself up to more animation; 'twas all in vain"; at lchgthl he looked in the popular direction and tol hls horror saw, jlust com ing over a hillr the elephant, dressed in i oriental splendor with a houdahj on his back fXKiupied by musicians and followed by a Ion" train bf wagons and'.cases. De termined not toL be outdone, he colitinued, though one by one 'his hearers dropped off and , those who 'remained evidently dfd so out of politeness., "Well, ladies and gen- tlemen, said h, " I am beaten, "but not by my competitor; I wilr hot knock under to any two-legged beast, but I yield to the elephant';" But! he had his revenge, for he. found he must come to some understanding with the proprietor, and agreed w;ith him that he (Prentiss) should address the crowd under, the! awning at Holly I Springs for one hour, and then give way to the monkey 'and ihe eLnvn; he said he hoped itwouhl not -be charged against I him as -"bargain and corruption," ' and " took his place on. one of ;the cages which was con verted into a restrum. He heard a mut tered growl under him and learned that it came ,froni the' hyena. - There were large au;j;er holes bored in the top of the cage . for air, and when Mr. Prentiss canie to the ' blood arid thunder part of his speech' he ran his cane tfirough one of these and called forth a horrid yell from the; animal. Gesticulating violently with his other hand he exclaimed, " Whyj fellow; citizens, the very wild beast's are shocked at such politr; ical baseness! See how this worthy fellow beneath me is spandalized! llear -his yell of patriotic shame and indignation !f . The effect was electric and called forth a tempest of enthusiasm, j From that time he had it all his own way, hurling anathemas at his" foes and enforcing them by the yells of his neighbor. Th hyena was good for ahun--dred votcs. j i . -j ' The volumes are composed , almost entirely- 6f t .his j letters, and . some " few speeches, -the narative of his brother being . but the string jthat binds " them together. His manful and patriotic fight , 'against Mississippi repudiation, is narrated m full but unfortunately none of his speeches on tnis uoject were; reported ; he regarded jt. as a question touching alike national honor and the foundations of society.- In 1815 he removed to New Orleans where lie spent . the last five years of his life, dying in lbotl; his last appearance at the bar being in defence of Gen. Lopez, whom he regarueu a sincere patriot,- tiiougn ne con- . demned fiKbustering and the Americans engaged in it in unmeasured terms.! There have Ijeen so many cricisms of this edition of Moore's History-pf North Carolina" that it is useless for us to say any thing more about its faults, inany of which were 'accidental and will, we- under stand, be corrected in the next edition, for which we shall reserve our comments. ' The International Reticle is a haniV somely gotten up octavo magazine with an engraved portrait pf the artist Rubens. Dr". John S.. Billings contributes an inter eating article : jin " Yellow Fever," in which he urges the tecessity of a legal quarantine' From his belief in .the truth of the old farmer's statement' that "yellow, fever .can't go anywhere unless j-outote it" Mr. , Charles' Lanman writes of - the "Islands of Okinawa," better known as the Loo Choo Islands which are at present a subject of controversy between China' and I Japan. , Bayard Taylor .has -given such a graphic account of these people .that there is tut little left for Mr. Lanman to tell us, except, the interesting fact" that the men wear hair-pins. . "" V "The Conquest of ' Plassans" is simply a horrid,' disgusting story of insanity, written Tith great power ; .Emile Zola is the exponent and representative man of the Realistic school of literature in France, as Victor Hugo is of the ltomantie. The translator tells us in the preface that. ' Zola's nude, figures are those of. the ana tomical table .and do not inspire the slight-: est immoral thought" 'Perhaps so; per-, haps they do not do the harm that the works of the' Romantic school io because they disgust ' instead of attracting, but as we fail to see the good they do we can say ! : .11 r . . it . - . . . .- . ! -snotmng in favor of the author s part of 'the book. The publishers' work is well exe cuted both in this and in "Doia," a pretty iiyve story uesenpuve oi lita in liussia. !Both these translations are good and 'printed jn large clear type on thick tinted fipappnjcely gotten up in sruare form and grev.papcr cover. ' , I - : 1 : I Here and There In North Carolina. J I jIT5MS FROM I.ETTEUS" TO THE EDITOI ' I v JTransmoxtane "Notes: ' ' I ' . -Mitcon Coinify, January 57t " 188J.- jTho, resources, in minerals, of this trahs i montane section of the Staie u by no ; means - understood by the people ot the - State", pnerally, and t am sorry tliat thj9 ;lim$s ' assignednuex will not allow rme to .give a fuller account of, them-. than I now .propose to do. ' . I shall aim at- facts and endeavor to avoid all exaggeration. ;To bier jigmiwith 1 first take Corundum a mineral, 1 thai is now coming into great demand Aacee years ago x was lniormea Dy a cor T1 : . ' . T- n l respondent in Liverpool,. England, that the Emery and Corundum of Asia were not beiig mined so extensively as formerly, f supposed to be (lue !to exhaustion of the jidepasits jin those localities. He therefore mfi4e special inquiry as to the. probable quantities or "Jorundum that might be pro fcurld in Western Carolina and put into the miaifket. 1 lie was special in desiring mtor fjmafcjon as to our - means : of mining it and transporting it to some port for shipment I.was compelled to tell him that it was a hundred miles to the nearest de'not . on a iNojth Carolina Ilailroad and fifty miles to 'the nearest depot on a 'Georgia or South iifarsilina Hflilrnnd WifTh tlieso fliffliiltia tittGie way he. abandoned the project of; getting tprundum trom this country. -XA. Massachusetts man, however, bought a '.Corundum mine in Macon county, and as the 'proceeds of the mine, employing only an saverage or three, regular miners, and they not working during the winter ;of JlS7 '78 he has wagoned to the Air-Line Railroad, from August, 1878, to Decem ber 187&, two hundred tons of Corundum.' jA New York party has alstf bought -a Co rundum mine in Clay county '.'which they liave not yet operated but when they can sfaaye-a Railroad to carry it out expect to niie it on a large scale and .supply the .luretgn demand. j ' ; . I ; "Jliis iuineral is destined to figure.largely iiii tjie arts in the future. ' The uses to which it is applied are constantly increas ing," and machinists everywhere are laying asitjp the old methods and material for cut iiinj away the rough exterior of chilled iro in machinery, cutlery and t carpenters' Jtools and adopting corundum fi?r that jui kx)SQ.' It possesses an abrasive power sur- "passjed only by the j diamond, and is not Jikey ever to be superseded by any. other Imatferial.::. ; Emery will never supplant it in 'nianj of the uses to which it is now ap-. plied." There is a marked difference be tween Corundum and (-Eniery. The cut ling or abrasive properties of Emery are due to Corundum, for Emery is nothing Inore than fine scales or particles of Corun lum mechanically combined with magnetic run, which possesses a very slight, abrasive ower. Hence, the Corundum ' in it does he cutting for, a time, but subsequently he iron forms a sort of enamel on the cut ing angles of the Corundum, and hence he Emery wheel becomes a burnisher and jolishes the surface of the metal applied :o" it'. Net so Corundum. If a wheel, : uade of it be so constituted as not to gum n the use of it, it will cut so long as ; a particle of it, remains j and its cutting or ibrasiye power must be superior in the ra io of 'iron present, in the Emery . t If With these facts, which nq just criticism yan question, Is it not apparent that this material alone must be valuable as one of fehe resources of the State ? It may be fwell to mention also that the geological; zone and rock producing Corundum passes from 31 itchell county to the Georgia btate line.;; There are numerous localities all along thfa belt or zone." where it' occurs, , some, of which are not yet known to " the public. ; Intelligent exploration and 'the jinvestment of capital will warrant a supply ior ine growing aemanu ior it, proyiuea. the proper system of railways for its trans Ijwrtiitiori are constructed. In view of the jjprobable foreign demand tliat is likely to iris for it, are there any well founded treasons Avhy it should n5t be crushed and gra4ed here, and transported and shipped ffront our own ports ? ; From all the facts here stated, can there be found a North Carolinian who loves the State that gave lim birthWwho professes to know anything at all of political , economy and desires the cmmercial and. future, prosperity of the ?tate, who can find it in his heart, to op osjB the very system of internal improve Imcnt calculated to make this a profitable jindustry to the State ? I suppose there is flnothing that could wprk 'such result in a North Carolina brain unless it be ignorance lor gubernatorial honors. And can it be uhai there are State officials who: feel it in J.i l i . i . i i .11: -i. J , uiejr nearc. to ODStruct. an mi.euigeiiti.-uuu practical exploration and development oi this and 'other resources, : preferring theo- sretieal speculations mi science, so-called, to practical commercial results ? ; . I Alleghany. News and Not,News: I A negro woman known as "Old Aunt - died at North Adauis, Mass., last week,Lat the age of 115 years. I : Governor Cobb Jias filled the vacancy in ! the United States Senate caused by the 1 death of -Senator Houston ' by appointing Luke Pry or, of Athens. Mr. Pry or has never ocen an eiiice-noider, always aeciirj ing, but is an able man and a lawyer of 1 fine ability. He was law partner of Sena-' tor Houston. The election by the Legist t ture will take place in; November. li j One hundred"" and seventy-five persons t v v iiuiicu au Lite uyiiAVi k'i&i.o ioov j l.ui y - I more or less satisfactorily. Ve are not al- i together of the opinion of those philoso- phers wno hold that hanging a man is the worst use to which he can be putOn the I use jthat can be made of some men, and " : we are on that point merely in general I agreement with nearly all human society as that society has shown its opinions by its acts for many centuries. ' iThe total number of mercantile misfor -H . ' -; -rk-, - tunes in New York' CSfcy during tbg- year io( wan awmi iuui as great in Ha pre ceding year, while the gross uabflitiefcfjrrere about on&tquarter m large. - I DtiTk .the past year 460 failures ", were reportea'witli liabilities -iaggregating '.$16383,93 and assets $5,ltM,033. For , the yeaf878 there were.' 917 failares, with liaities amounting to $G4,000,000 in! round um-. bers, with assets of 'lSOjOOfthe largest record for any year sinjoe - thelanic of 1873. , (. . ; 'j ' Europe pays annually . eight hilred millions of dollars for the rare luidPy " of being prepared for warlf Evejry fiMjears, in order, to prevent a great war, itJwiys the cost of on& It symatacally iijepts the waste of war as the most e3e3tiv od of avonung that waste. - It acts fon "systetri which, taking togeihel the y!MS W any1 one generation of men mak the comparison: of burdens as betwn n cmtant peace and an occasional war tO'Lu in?Hyor of war. It makes peace the! morejlspstly of the two. In thirty years a peaeuch! as Europe now possesses would eost't$ven ty-four thousand mfili0ns of Jollars " f New Y"ork's last-born slave istlSead Aunt Betsey Horton, born afsUwe "'SJw the Requa estate, near Tarfytowrf, died fSatf urday morning. . The age of Aunt tsey n uncertain, and has to be gathereL;Wrom indirect evidence.- She has; often h'fated it as her "belief that she wasfl2 or; yer old when Robert lulton tried. Jiisrreat experiment of steam l navigation the Hudson, and she reniembereq vivioaiiavr ing run down to the river,, with otheives on the Redua estate-, to Sef the Iniirine monster pass by on its iway tij Albania At that time Aunt Betseywas allittle ntess,!. i - or io years oia, ana asinac wuti years ago, ;sne must have been oa or-iiiore at the date of herxlemise. f , ; ; An insurance journal has made gzihle of the losses bv fire throughout the itrafited States during the year 1879. jTheyaunfc to S7,8lJ,700. The; four previous mam make much the.same showing. The sur- ance losses' seem to be about half p tthei total losses!. During, the first six of the, year, for which alone the ififes have been accurately compiled,' the? Hfcseis and expensea of .the Massachusetts :-ftiir- ance companies exceeded their incclfiiis at the rate ofi $18.50 for every $1 00 oysk things was the withdrawal of twentffive companies with an aggregatejApital,irll.- 500,000 in Massachusetts alpney altBuga ii : : : jw:-- r ers in other companies, . j , . Educa'tioal Items -.t j y "fea xs ew Hampshire has Z,v6a, public sffEOols with an" average daily attendance. it3,4 910, pupils , Private schools instrfil 3, 0GG pupils,! while 3,988 children between five and fifteen years attend no sclifirat all. ' The State has G28 male teachefrgwand 2,954 female ones ; the former jmri&ive 34.09 a month, including board, th4? lat ter 22.8J. Ihe school receipts' qrfhng the past year were $587,411.49 ; . "lira ex penditures $609,588.1 3. ! The StaW has: nearly a hundred higher schools gde- mies, seminaries, nign anu geiect scgaois. . The Londons Times very wisely? ,yy8 : . ''Young people ought to be taught tw.read witli emphasis, and to talk ?ith soming like freedom and grace. Both tliGsjgjs ac complishments are best acquired .ftoyj, pa rents and older friends that .is, if thfilsaid parents are : really on true ar jnta rms with their children, which id riot laarays the case. I There are parent who ihjther converse with their o.wn chiHren-norLdlow them to talk in their presence. They "jave their children to the fcchool Jroom teachers, or to teach one anether, ' and so acq;re a community 'of family failings, ' OyS'lhey think they have done their' best wheiihey set a child down to pore for "days to&ther over some foolish tale. Bad tricks ol!"5read- in ; ana taiKing are tnus eariy jearnanu rcely evej quite got'rid of." -:!S: ! sea; The DeTil and Tom Walkerfg " . From the New York frimes; ; Somebody is inquiring abut "Th&lt.- vil and i Tom. Walker. It. is a pi5yerb not much in' vogue nowa-days, thougifljsti'll frequently heard in JNew r;ngland, anjls pt native origin, It is employed as feau tion to usurers, and is derived, it is jjert ed, froni an actual personage j Walk was a' Bostanian, having been brn there jjfjOut 150 years ago, and riotorioas for hisVeed and his miserlv disposition. I In thosftavs when superstition was rife, he was thwSight Vy lguoraut pwpte, io nac.nuiu uiiuei ty; the Devil for a large sum morieyl pTith; this money he opened a loin office jerej and during the financial pafnic whitopre- Vailed during the time '1730-17 of Gpvernor Jonathan Belcher, wmiftslled many merchants to pay most usurious sites, ; causing several of them, it li said, toc$oni- mit suicide.! He grew' sq rich aiw..so. mean, according to traditiojfl, that m to cheat Satan himself,-but ssatan, w always been more-or less . patent in cinity. determined to foreclose the srage-lie had taken on the told hunk'. With tmslefermination he .knock Walker's office Tdotwhile he was so the last hundred donarsMjut . of aoor wretch , who ihad fallen in(Tma .clujiyhesJ The usurer opened the do?r and iai.diH ately disappeared. The story was eSWei)t .tbajb the 'mysterious visitor was a 3Jack man who had come on a black horsoSPand, that he 'mid-seized the Bostonian andfown, away withfhimSvA number of peiije at once searched . Walker's ."office : b, hw money chests were empty and tTie-fiame nig tit ma nouse caugntnre ananas jxjjueu to the ground. Tom Walker s fat; was onor cited as a terrible warning to usvers; sve but now, alas ! Boston Js lull oM om Walkers. Walfs - . i; The "Chinaman had a 'good -grip ; the idea when he spoke of the cucuuitir as no belly good. '. ' j ' '' ' , i , " " ' ' '"'--"I'-SI'r : '-1' "No ! Aljrernon, dear. X say that tM boy shall riot be brought up on the little, T 1. J-- mmiaJ oJ " ' .'.:i-M$tf.:--- Life is put together considerably jjke a set of harness. T-ure arc traces o,are, lines of trpuble,: bits oft good j fpne; breaches of good manners,sbndled totCttes, ned ii has ort-i skul.i M at win" and everybody has to tug to pull thrjiagh. - . ,. . 'I . .... , ... '.v MAJ. WILSON'S en(jixei:rixwork. ' " :' . -';";'.';.: . ,i " j- - AVIIAT COL. CAMEHOJf SAW VP WEST. ' -' -T-rV-" From the Durham Jlecordcr. " Passing upthenarrow valley of Mill ' Creek, the route soon displayed its labyrin thine character. Much &i lias bcen'satd about the wonders of this, ascent notliing but actual observation lean realize it. iThe work is a wonder, tlw very remance of . -engineering, bold, original, bean'.ilul, yet eminently practical iir eoneptioji in fact, , the only mode appwently by which the ele vation to be reacliepcould have beca overt ;comc. . !::-;. . ; '.'"!'? "; The first marvelous feature occure at the i-Jtound Knohwhk-h the road encircles from yie leii. Approaciniig it, nign -op, in iiie air, 120 feet aboye th4. track, Is seen a Jong trestle, crossed apparently by a parallel road. Curving sharply to the left, the road crpsses Mill Creek on a single arch way. of granite, 45 feet ; above tlie water w.ith a ! .sjjan ef 40 feet, the work of convict labor, and very beautiful work it is; then hug .giog the base of the mountains, following all its recesses an J indentations, passing through deep and formidable rock cut;s, it sweeps batk in irregular curvatures, crosses Mill Cretk: again encircles Round Knob, and mounts that high restle which a few minutes before was high in the air above us. . Then bearing to the right, it sweeps inV a- majestic symmetrical curve round a conical peak with broad but irreg ular baseand comes back again to find it self in close proximity to the Round Knob track, but far above it." Then , again bear- ing to the right and winding- along the. bases of the hills, and plunging deep into the recesses of the eoves, it turns again "to the left, crosses a fill of extraordinary height, cuts through the point of a steep slope to formidable depth, curves sharply to the left again, and then crosses jby a trestle, party filled in, a valley which is 130 feet below the track, and about 21 HI yards across.. ,"' ".U r " . .'---'i -f !'- " Emerging from this the train baits' im mediately at the famous. Mud-Cut; f he difficulties of this spot have not been alto gether exaggerated!; only it is grave error to. regard them as insurmountable'. The cut was'madc through a soil which ages before had slipped from the steep mountain face high above, and the continuity of loose . texture" having been broken, gravitation caused a sidelong settling, arid the exevase ( which has occasioned so much i delay, j About 7 acres thus made their way to t lie track and offered an apparently endless battle. But having seen the cut in the early stages of trouble, we cannot fail j" to see how much of the difficulty has lessened: The face of-the cuf, originally nearly pert pendicular4 and 60 feet high, is now re duced almost to a level and the angle is - so small that there is little pressure. And except occasional delays, the cut itself has proved an indispensable mine of eatth needed to fill up the, adjacent' high ? trestle which had to" be filled, and to which earth would otherwise have ' had . to. be brought from remote distance. Maj. Wilson :will at once proceed to construct a track around the point ef the mountain beloW the- etit, and, with the aid of a tnrn-table, escapejall farther delay both in the passage of trains, and the prosecution of his work. The Asylum at Morgantoii. "Frotn the Dtilliam Recorder. J This stupendous building is constructed under tne act oi ioo , uuuer uib .hu perative demand for additional prevision for the unfortunate .lunatics of the State, The original appropriation was $75,000, of which $30,000 was used in the purchase and preparation of ground, and . in the water supply. , -l he legisiature oi j t ne next session made an annual appropriation of $30,000 ; and the last session ako an annual one of $25,000 for the next two years. Up to this ! time, therefore, there have been made appncapie to tne wort, exclusive of the last year of the appropria tion 9pf $25,000, $lf0,0M, of which $30,000 were spent for lauil and water supplies, $120,000 on building, leaving 810.000 : unused iff the Treasury. The commissioners think that the whole build- in", 918 feet in length, vll be fully com pleted for occupancy for the sum of-300 -OOOj including. all past and future appro priations. The. present commissioners, Messrs. J.; li. llau, . o. I'earson anu j. C. Harper, are business men, who manage the affairs of the Asylum without the in tervention of contractors. The material is thus furnished at prime cost. . AH the brick are made on the premises, and all the wood work is done in a building; on the grounds by machinery owned by the State-! Tl-ie work is all ot the beat kind, ino wick being of excellent quality. Tlie buildings,, rather mon; than halt ot which are completed, are very beau Uful and imposing in design and effect. At a distance, peeping up f roitt the dark grove of pines in front, and standing out in relief 4 against tne DatK grouna oi me oouiu Mountain, the long line of building with its irregular outline and frequent pinnacles, recalls the pictured linages; of Swlss or German scenery. A large pond in front, beautified or dignified .with the iiame -of Lake Louise, adds much to the beauty of the foreground. i One of the pluckiest men in the medical profession is Dr. South', of Western Texas. He was warned some time - ago - that he would have to pay with his; life the forfeit ' of having voted as a member of a grand jury for the indictment iof a certain band . of desperadoes. One night a man rode up "to his ranch . and inforined him that the wife of the ring-leader of the gang was ill, and .that he must attend her; : He naturally, thought that it was a trick to get him o t and kill hiriv but he got his horse and r Jt'e away with the iriessenger right among the gang of desperadoesand, dismounting, er tefed the tent of the! woman, There lay the sufferer, while the riian who had ' promised to kill the physician stood near: by. . The doctor drew his revolver, placed , it on the pillow, and P remarked that h: would "attend to professional calls irst and personal ones, afterward." The det- -peradoes were impressed with, his courage and his humanity, and trebled his fees in stead of shooting him. ; f : 1 All Mta BI!4. j WHY MAJOR W II EELOCK WILL Bt'V A . NEW PAIR Or SHEAR 1YIR Ills EXCLrsiVE VZ. I From th Detroit Fn Piw.1 Mrs. -.Major Wheehckt wi of that old pioneer and eminently resiftel tjitizeu of that name, leaned over the banik-tcr the other morning and answered Lim, f-. . . !"TIc shears? Why, jtheyj are right .down thefii vomewhere. J, was uning thetu "m five minutes ago." j '. ..'The Major wanted them to truu off a hrse blanket at the barn, and he Inarched "into the sitting room and up to the family work basket. Of ourse tlicy f-ere there. - He tnuibletl a ball of yarn, ja papeif of pins -a lrilf niade LroiOTitJa'lHitUrti bu- and a;" L pin cushion off; on the floor, inadt a divo' among podkim worsti;, turead.-j arid darn ing' needles, and the hhisirsjdidat jturn up He stood the wurk basket in its ijead, but it was no g(Mid. Then hi- rent pVcrito the what-not and raked off thrice or Ibur phc tographs, rattled down a loft of shells and knocked off two books, but (the sjiears were not there. He was red in fhc fiue as he went into the hall and callefl out : "I can't find hide or hairj of jein, and I don't believe you ever had any !' ,.' i 'NoW look again that's a goo l man," she replied4"! know they aTe right there." i The Major got down on liis hands and knees arid looked under the loiirige. No shears." Then he stood upjand .jloked on the mantel, lhe nearest approach to suears inere was a Dent nair pm. 1 hen he walked aratind arid surveyed L'ich win dow sill and gave the work ibaskJ another racket. "I tell ydii there a'int no sliieirs-herej or else 1 m blinder n a bati .he sliouted fioui the. hall after he! tree' a looting, 6 Ver. ' had given the hall i "Why, 3Iajor,' how impatient -lyi . i "There's no iuipatienee ajxjut it ou are : ! I tell, one can : you the shears ain't here ever find anything in this liousei I had to look a straight hour,;, the? other -day to find a gimlet ! ":-' v j -:' 'J , "If you don't sec t hem in the!lK?d nKiiii I'll come down." j . ; . ITe entered the bed .'rt'oin, glanced over the bureau and stand, pulled the jsliams off the pillows and whirled the pillows around and then, t, ok down a hair 0il;botitle from a I. racket au-i looked into ft. The shears va n- ho! in llu lxittle nor anywhere else. Rj'A .1 : Tin v niiirht have been carried uri- di l tiie; bed by that mysterious household tide which .-carries, articles from 'room to roolii -iii-an invisible 'manner. He crawled under, Uiiiiipoil i.is head od the klats, got . dust in his thiiKit, and was backing out with Mood y his k ye; when! his wife called out: v- ) ; - ." , :': . ; "Why, what on earth are you "After t" After!" lie. shoaited, 'most; coughed his head iff' them infernal shears !' ! "Why, here they are ! They after?" las he- al- I'm after arc lying in my sewing chair, right in plain sight." "1 dont believe', it- 1 Hncver believe it! I looked into that ! chair, lover len thou-; 'sand times !". ' ' -1. !.'. j "Well, there!' they are." j "It'iS no such thing! lou'v lost 'em or pawned 'era or tradedj 'em ; for gum. You've ho more order in yimr hiouse than an old cokimt tliop!" ;i T ! He walked past the chair intfl? the hall and Was going out when slie called : )ear, aren t you going tuj fake the. si iet irs "Shears? What shears? I'm going over to the store and buy me a pair of shear?, and if any human bting iri this house ever puts a 'finger cn 'em they'll suffer for it ! ,'I'H see if I can't have k pair off shears in .riiy house after being' marriel for upwards of forty-three years ! . , 7 And he pulled down his hat and slam as he mod the went. out. door with all his might Representative Joysi, ': From the Providence Journal. He occupied one half of the car seat and -filled the. other with a double-covered mark et basket. He was an original, jK.'cimen. His plug hat sat on his ears like a smoked chimney. on the prongs of a lamp top ; his legs were braided tigethcr) ami ihis shins , were sharp iiiough fur can lojienets. ' "You c-an't gui&s . what I've got in the basket, 'Squire," he observed to a passenger in the seat-behind hnn. j ." r "No," was the reply. j .'Twins, . by thunder !" j he "and I'm troing to give them exclaimed, ill S() saying. he drew fiirth a jblack and white doll of unusual ptoporti(ns and dandled theiri on his knees. 1 ! ' "l'il tell ye how it is, (3aptaiii,i" he con tinued. '"Me and the old woman has been , hitched up in the holy bonds-f hemlock going on these forty year, : a chick or child to lie seen! md there haint or heerd about jht home these .heir' jthoice a t'ie house. Ho I've brou are twins." She can tak lack 'iin or a white un. ike to both. , Why, if Bel Vt" she will I took home a black snake, she would want it to set up and have .-Home super, an put a hot brick in the bed .where the snake was going to ;sleep. Gosh! the ild gall has got a heart in her like a rcd cedar. ( reat prize pump when she sees kins ! hiw she will shou .them are twins !"' ,' i And then he put, them carefully back.in 'the basket, closed the cover fand beamed benignaiitly wjion the wintry" world without ' It was at the postoffiice in another vil lage. The demoiselle was buxom, bashful, aged 18, and hailed from Berry town. She wanted a dollar's, worth of stamps. One dollar's worth," repeated the smiling assist Bnt! "of what denomination??' iThedam- sel sliowed siirns ot em liarrassment, and hesitated to reply. She twirled her shawl fringe nervously, cast her eyosi about to see If anv una was" near, moved aNlittle closer to" the window, and finally asked j in a tim 'orous voice. " Do you jhef'j to write it ! flown5?'! " By no mean" answered the courteous' assistant ; " that is nut necessary ; (hut I presume ypu have as to the denpiuination. some prelerence '-Ah well jyes, TepIi'Kl the stranger. , her face turning scarlet, 1. hev some. 1 the ' liscopsil M etlitidist generally go to myself, but tl e fellow 1 m buying tne stamps tox ne s a Universal. Orthodox. NO. 11. FARM AXD daRDK NOTFS. . : ( I Til K V A LI' t OK rCKTlLIZ EILt. r, , The Connecticut Eiix-riuHnt Sutioo. semis out ! the fi.llowing infornutinn Tfla (iTe to the valuo of ciantaert-ul tertil- uers: ' '-. f .. ' . "Xitrogt-n is JeoinmeniaUj thciiioM val uaLle firtiliiing clement. It (XYum in various fi-rms or states. Organic nitrogen is the nirngcn of aiiimal' and" Trp-tatre' blatters gem-rally, exting in th albumen . and fibrin of neat and blood, in the ario, at id of bird dang, in the uica and Iiippurie acid of urines and in a numW of wther PuManeen. rvitne forms of organic' nitro gen, as that of -bhuid and meat, are highly active ai fertillaers; other, m that f hair and leatWr, - nt)tnivliy - t4w V in their , effevt tn vegetation, unlera these matters are reduced t a fine jxiwdir or chemically disiritegrstetl. .Amhiouia and nitric acid are result of decay of organic nitrogen in the (toil aud mauurtA heap, and are; the most active forms of nitrogen. They ticcur in r)uimerce the former in sulphate of amihonia, the latter in j nitrate of soda. '! );'.' ''(,- ' " Soluble PhuHplioriu acid imjtlies plw phorie acid or phosphates that are frw ly ' soluble in waterj It it the characterwtio ingredient of suju-r j.h(-phiiten in which it is produced by acting m " infmlublo n or " reverted " phonphates with oil -of vitriol. It Is not only readily taken tip by plants, but it is distributed through tho Moil by rains.; Oik -well ineorjKtrated with: soil, it shortly IxHnies .reverted phospimriu ' acid. ' '. . ';'. ' . v : ' Reverted tredueod or prtH-ipitati'd) phosphoric acid 'means, tstrictly, phosphoric acid that has been freely soluble iu wter, but from j heinioal change has Ikhhuiio in soluble in that liquid. It is fwly taken up by a strong solution of .Ammonia -.Citrate, which 'is tlierefore used in aualyiJs to deteniiiuoj its qiiantity. 'llevcrtetl phos phoric a-d implies phosphates t hut are readily, assimilated by crojis, but have loss value than soluble phosphoric acid, because " they do not distribute trtly by rain, 7 Insoluble tihosphoric acid initdit Viri ons phosphates riot freely soluble in watT for ammonia citrate. In some c;tse.).the phosphoric acid Is too insoluble to be retid , ily available as plant fisnl.; This is true of South Carolina rin k phosphate, of NaVasan phiisiihate, an 1 csj-ei ially of Caiiila asitite. The phosphate o raw bones in Clearly in soluble in Ithis H iie, because of the animal matter of the bone which envelopes it, but wlien .the latter decays in the soil, I he phosphate remains in csHt'ntially the " re-, verted " lwm. . ' Potash signiflt the substahtv known in themisfry as jNita's.siuni oxide, wliieh is the valuabL, fertilising ingrtfdient of "pot. ashes,' and 'jMit-ash mIu,' it is most cost ly in (he form (' sulphate, and less ho in the sliaie of 'nnirate or -hIoik!e." : j THE 'llt'KT OAT. ' It is said that these oats mature many days earlier than any of the In'st varieties common tp this country. If they will do this on any variety of land in this climate it is a very important discovery. The oat" crop' is 'a ycry important one, and we trust the Burt oats will have a fair trial on all classes of land, and we will be thankful if any of our friends will send us the result of their experiments therewith. H()(l rAISIN'M IIOO CHOLKnA. ... In your last . Ntj. I noticed that O.' J. wished a plan- foj- keeping hogs through the summer in good order, at a Hinalreost. I offer the plan that I anticipate adopting next year.; One having a plenty of' the improved grasst, uch as clover, lucerne and many others,-when the land is jn a high state of cultivation, will give, bites very early, and will last until .midsummer, or at least' say until the Kith or 15th of June. , Ticn turnj on wheat fields, to pick up the waste wheat, which will last bat a short time!. By this time rye will be ready; to turn on. Thisjcrop (the rye) should be sown at the usual time for sowing' wheat. Light soils, are better adapted for rye than stiff clay lands. This t-rop usually lasts until the middle of August. ' . As soon as the flogs get through pick ing up the waste Wheat, with single horn ploughs turn the wheat stubble-under, and in every third furrow drop cow jx-as, aliout two feet apart. This plan will put them two by three feet, jwhich is sufficient dis tance. Then givej' them a good ploughing and hoeing, then turn them loose. After rye gives! out, I have a field of peas ready, These peas aro planted about the middle of May. These will last unt il the peas in my wheat patches begin to ripen.-' Jy the tirtio all my peas are gone, it will be about the first of October. 1 hen, oh! then, comes tfie farmer's greatest and cheapest relief of all the hogs themsel n prefer them to all other sulistitutcs I mirht say even Ui corn. This great pro duct is th Spanish chufa. One acre of land well manured and planted in chufa, after the above" plan is carrieI out, will fatten all the hogs that a one-horse farmer can raise, without giving them any corn. After iiipr hogs are fat and killed, the sows and pigs are turned on the fields, to pick up tlte waste rcas and the remaining chufas. - IIOi CHOLKRA. Right here, allow me .to say.a little about the 8-ealled hug cluAera. From my own bitter experience I arii forced to believe that the many common complaint that us ually attack our hogs annually, is ibe pur est form of negligence on the part of the owner. This malady makes its first ap pealer in early spring among the stock, hogs, which have become fat from eating the decaying' peas through midwinter. These peas seem impregnate the hog's blood with! some great K)ison. I am con fident if his blood .W kept perfectly pure, and a plenty of frqsh earth to root over,, and pure tlean water to drink supplied, he seldom ever would get sick. - . . - ' - The pta that I plant afier my. wheat, is k nown as ithe Shenandoah valley pea. J planted this pea this. year as late as August, and they Khave matured well; and can further sa they will stand the wet weather longer, than any other pea in this section.-" W. P. C.,j Wilson,! N, C-, Nov! 1H, 1H7I." Sontitf i Cultivator.', SIIEEP VALUE AND PKOFIT. I n all tollable localities, our oouiucru 'AKrrtiM-DM-nU will m UrrtrJ far IX)0 prf uan Com ImcIi) t la Art ivl $ly rmli Ar rarta NlMrqnent fmUiratloa, . I Onntrm-u for alrtitMiii( tie aay r r ti m BUkM at u nicr of : HALE'S WEEKLY, f 'yrtUT.II Ftrrrt, vrr Wil!iMia A IV and platitrn should kvp as laryv' flovks '.of aherp m ptwHtU, tut t) fJkw. ing reasons ,' ' ' I ' ' Jt. They ara very pnitabk", Uh foff WtxiJ anI mutton. - 1 . j SJ. They sriJiry riiri.h tlw Uml ovrf whkh tJwy rangn. . 'XL Tm-ir Dumbrr incrran with fprrat rtjidity wL-n proj- rly carr.1 fwr and r tl, ami tin y will thus male ike oamr rii-V in a few yearn. ' ' . fth.. A ("erman sirrinihuri has rak-u-Uujd that the dropping. from one thiuiwntl Wp, during a mnplo niht, would lua. nute an aenrof fmniiid'sunieteat fur any crop. By oning clu-ap pTtblc f dcimi, and moving the Mine IVom placv to place, a farmer niay in'anari' his rutlyinR fields witli he-p, witli a Vnm on thaa the haul- -wj aLiirWiHfr'9f lium j mm ihii $th. A frrvat tk'al of lhe uioKt Taluid'h ,in:iiure niay als.i l made by a h.tiatid caKjr system of night folding, on d lit tonrd yards and in ihed which honl I Ui Ttttl on the mop to pn.ex the Aim k aajtist sud-k-u and r- rhaugtti .f the weather. ' , . Them are a few of iheluuuy advalitagrw of keeping iliwp ; and if we can "ltuin stringiiit liisliilive enactment againnt rolling and Invp killing, t-ngage rt n- smfly in ahix-p hunbniidrv. tho wettlth of the inuutry can U in. n niN-.l by milhoimin a v ry lew eam. ,Vi uf Ihr S.,,1. ; I'lfff where lhe Maaie. I'niMi lh I Hi roil 'nn Vn I Aunt AnaikydropiMMl in tho o( her iiiorn- ing ueiore Kri-.ikTitsi. 1 ! . V as on my way dow n loan tho igltt I'd eolnr by an' ' lio an' jua ' voua all gettin long, the said; den I had fewj aiga . I llnnight I'd bring yoii t l iin.- ev'lxMly 'a Iu-im ia quit krtiii' dair'a a doii-n all but five." ' I'm glad to gel tin ui; how juui'Ii d yon ask i;.r tin-in?" . ' x fur 'iint Ijiw7 liimey, i-ain't I liriilig you a little prt-st tit oiut in a ahiV 'doiit ilmrgiit' you nothiu'.? . IVtii aiga ia a pn-sent." ; '-.-'"! I! Well knew by ea-'rieliee lhe priix- of such " pr"wnts," but I gr.n iounly aeect4-d theisitUHtion--and lhe rgga and thatikel Auht Anarky, .;'. ." Phmny tole lue Io l. fl you howdy, an' say 1 1 here's a stalk of sugar wiiie ahe, saint you -eourse she don't charge iiuthin' for one stalk." More arix bum ruminnging in the htoreh(u a'of iny.brain what to give the two. But from the luiaket came three ears of pp-eorti. ... "jltluzy Ann saint 'em to you to 'iim iu ber her by." More thaiika; . then Aunt A nark y is sent to get Iter breakfast. M Break fua' ? Iawity,you all a'int done ct yet'' 1! wr.ni ,de sun m Xmttr Uuh 1 Had inylireaklus hing, go an .forgot bout it but I b'lieve Ml M. Up iii Wn a little ly basket where I would inoiifle mo'." : l'utting her eu be iure to rnj it 'and Nving, uu it ne went bobbing off to the tiu hen, but turn- e4 to suy, by Way of a joke, to dreen that offee-iot, slvi."' I'ae. gwitio AfiUT breakfast she went away, but came back in time for dinner. When ready to start homo she happemid to rcmomlvr that Phftiny said, ' Please 'm, siend her a sjaol of tli read, not too coarse an' not too fine, in' liome juilt piores; an', if you 'ye got it to aare, an ole ovcrskirt," ,y Phrony's Wants' were supplied. Then Aunt A barky said ! J : - ,-.? " Blaipr Ann say as (liow shu never x you nuthin' fur ditt fir pop-eirn, but ef youfe-ls like srndin'! any ole dn-ss dat un you've got on 'II do an' some o'- your ole Sunday shN-a, an' huff nor'ard home- siiuri to make her an spun, she 11 be tuiirhly clad. She's gt doiuimckcr t-hlcketi to send you when it's big nuff Io Ie4ook de oje hen." ; . I ' , from' As far as was rsonabl I stijipliml tho demands of Bkzy Ann. " " Vhew !" said Aunt Anarky, " won't dein'gals e, proud o' dem llinga!. Well, I've pit to lie sgoin'i Moubt you wants to gie jino' some ole ; thing fur dem aiga. V 'ain't got ho two ole naliker rqrt'ns to' line mpr quilt wid, I fi'c'kn, an' a cup u rice mi a little handful o' flour--n' Josh wayole lnc tell you howdy, an' ax you fur a little nweHnin' fur his iofb-e." ; Tlie nieiiiory of jwst klndncHs -ausfd the biiski to Ih; filh-d, but, aa she was stow ing iin tlie pajK-r of sugar she said : ' j "Dunno what dat air nigger' want wi' sugar fur de coffe?, a hen he ain't gol grain o coffee to put fugir in !'' nary .ltnimltj of FUhes, U'lmhifiKton I-tl-r U llartfonl (t'onn.) Timca J iSiiic days sgi I h.vl ot anion to make ' some inquiry into lhe ngo of fished, and was J eurpriw-d to find that they liveI sy long Thinking lliatlliere are sonic irthcr who know as little about the suhjeci as I did,!! apcnd a l.-lU-r I received from Pro-; fcHsir Spencer ;W, I'aird, 'I'nited ;taUn Fisli ('ouimiHsioiier, who in the heft au thority in the world en fish. He writes'"! -J "There is, I U lieve.'aulhenlio evidence to sliow that carj hae attained an age of two hundred years Tluro is a tradition . that within the last lift j years a pike was living iu liussia allumc age dated back to ". the fifteenth c-iitnry. The fish is said to hsvcj Insen eighu-n fc-t long. Thisj lowr ever! is not t-onsiderinl very reliable, j But! there is nothing to Tevetit m Mi fnan liv-j ing almost indefinitely, as it has m Jx-riod of maturity, bnt gws with each ywr .of life. In rnt 'u like mammals and birds,' . where thcu is .a limit, a definite "tnn of1 years is gen Tally the rule.' , - Tbcre are now some gold fish" here, in jhe : quariums of the 1'nitcd Stales Botan- ical liarden, that are fifty years old. A . -gold-fish dealer in' Baltimore allowed mc " jiom - gold-fish that he had kejt in Lis aquajiium for thirty years. ,' " TJierc lives in New Haven, Conn., a man who can lift 1,K00 pounds without afrificud aid, land aoothor who can lift 7U pounds with one hand. . : - ' j Ilagh McGlinn, a San Francisco miser, has ied leaving $ 'M,W0 to Lis wife, wholu he many years K"forc turned awsy because she bought a silk dress. ' She afterward earned a living as a domestic errant. ; : ) 7! I! ! t .1 I- i . 1 !' r j. ...-.. ; v' ff-J'-