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" ! ' f . wit . &35H3t M "" , INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS'. T.r,.o.oop.rV..r. VOL. VI. NEW BERNE, CRAVEN COUNTY, N. C, MAY 17, 1883. NO. 7. NEW BERNE ADVERTISEMENTS. WMtty's iron, SPRANG ACME Pulverizing,: Harrow. Clod Crusher v and L'eveler. Tennessee Wasron The Farmer's Favorite. J !, ..'. 0 - : - - The "BUCKEYE," Two-Hone Cultivators, with Sweep Attachments. Cultivates the whole row at one time. - - .The IlIPROVED IRON CULTIVATORS (one horse) with attachments. ,m .iiiiii i ii mii mi. The Celebrated "CUAIAXn Cotton Plow, the bent Cotton Plow in us. ' " The GILBERT FORCE PUSIP. to be without one. ?" - THE "MAID OP THE SOUTH Grist Mill. B. Bender, Jones Co., N C, sayi: "I hare ground one bnahel of GOOD meal in ten minutes with the 16 inch Mill bought of you." :A-Tolar sajs-'that the 24 inch Maid of the Sotatfi Mill works to perfection, grinds 12 bushels of good meal an hour with perfect esse." ' -. . v-- OneidA Engines, Sutionarr,-Portable and Mounted; Kriebel's Vibrating Valre, Stationary, Portable, Mounted and Boat Engines. Saw Gammers, Side Files, Swages, Kqvelty Belt Hacks better than AUgtor 3fu, and Pip Wrenches. You have only to see them f6 appre ciate their ; advantages, " . - COTTOII SEED OIL MILLS. - No. 1 Mill, capacity 2 tons a day, f 1,800. vNo. 2 Mill, capacity 4 tons a day, $2,500. ; Extending to all a cordial invitation to give me a trial for anything in my ine, I am. very respectfully, ; ;JpHN G. TRAVEL GaiTavvay's Liver Pills. Contains no CAJjOiTEX. or other iLERCITLIAL Ingredients, but are com- " ; - .'- ' . posed, of Fziz end Unadulterated Vegetable Ingredients " 3 ft ILaJCEJa THEM THE ' ' Surest, Safest and Best Liver Pill on the Market, - ty Try thew and be convinced of their merit- . ; (7 All DrugjiaU and. Deal en keep them. 25 cents per. box. seplwly ;'-(SEOiAliLEW'& CO., .. Pollok Street," New Berne, N. C, f y 2 nt , r 4 PLOWS, HARROWS In Great Variety and NEW GOODS HOWARD & JOWES. Ve call especial attention to our large line of SHIRTS : - Tkm Eigkmi Skirt, the bosom of which will not break or crease, only gl.OO. " ' The J7s City Skirt, manufactured for u ; all the later improvement rein forced, and everlasting stays which prevent tearing down the back or up the sleeve; only f 1.00. Regular made British n. Hose ; only "Joe. a pair ; a bargain. fmh line of Gents' Handkerchief, white and colored borders. We have . Just received a new lot of White Silk Handkerchief!! at gl.OO. . Hew Ties and Scarf9 just received. . Linen Buggy Bobes, il.25. . , Out Spring Line of Clothing will soon be complete. Blue Flannel Suits in r. jreat variety. - Hats l Jiats 1 1 llaU : : : c iotnngouiio Hiake room ror rpring oiock. Give us a trial on Underwear. All wool goods at Cost. ' Boys Shirt Collars and Cuff?. ' Te arrive by next steamer NewStraw Mattings and full line of Boys' and Children Clothine. HflWAED & JONES, tw Oppoalte Eplaoopni.cnuron. Specialties the OF 18 83 No well regulated family can afford etc., etc. lacing or rivets. WHITTY, STREET. XEWBERX, X. C. Offers Truckers Peas, Seed Potatoes, Cotton Seed Peruvian and Rone fJuauo, QoQd f-upk tfifano, Merry niauVSupor.Phophate, Lister's Dissolved Hone, Wliann's Plow Brand, For Truckers and Cotton Planters. AND CULTIVATORS, at Very Low Prices. GEO. ALLEN & CO. i5 MEMORIAL ADDRESS. By J. S. Long, Esq., at the Decoration of the Confederate Graves. Amid the gleuming lights and radiant landscapes of the new world, which has sprung from the desolation of war, we are met to-day to remember the old world which has passed away. The warrior banner has been caught up to meet the warrior soul. The restless changes of diplomacy, the sturdy con flicts of battle and of siege, the mourn ful tears of fair women and the martial cravings of brave men, have been sealed up in the book of history and of fate. A new creation, fringed with the rosy faces of happy children, bordered by the scarlet splendors of purity and youth, and pervaded by the celestial airs which blow over a land girt in by Heavenly sympathy and peace, is stretching its golden capes and silver seas on every hand. Night has given place to day. On every hill-side the merry shout of the hunter responds to the babbling music of the vale. The rivers glow with the opulence of com merce, and the far wastes of waters smile unde the rich heritage of blessings which they bear. Where now is the sad memory of war? In the midst of the fruition of the new world, shall we forget the wrecks of the old? Is there no voice coming out of the realm of shadows, which was dear to ps before? Has the gallant form which wore its suit of gray at the suggestion of our patriotism and pride, which went out from us brave and strong with its love of country and of home, and never re turned again to the fair bands which decked it for the strife, never the power to visit us even in our dreams? Away with such a heartless retrospection of the times that are dead. To-day we are renewing the wedlock of our hearts to ihe vanished iovB, which shall never come to us again in this world. This is the holy Sabbath of domestic memory and j;rief. To day "the warrior ban uer" returns from behind the clouds of the melting sun. unrolls its streaming st.-irs from the shadowy ramparts of the spirit land, descends amid the roar of unseen artillery, and is grasped on the field of glory by the hands which pressed ours with so much tenderness and love. To-day we are keeping 'watch and ward" by the sweetest graves to us in all this land. They are the graves of knights, of martyrs and of heroes. Their dust is dearer to us than the yellow gold, which lured the steel clad followers of Pizzaro and Cortez, in the days of chivalry- and romance. But men say that this is a utilitarian age. The forests are being leveled, new mines are being opened, new railroads are being built, explorations into every recess and secret of nature is being made, uncounted millions are being invested in property which but yester day was the mere vision of the dreamer 'fl brain, the teeming myriads of popula tion are crowding with their industry and skill every acre of the virgin soil, and men stand amazed at the material progress of the nation. Even the South itself, in the very region of the country jvhere the institution of slavery was the strongest, and the shocks of battle were the fiercest, is beginning to bloom like the gardens of Damascus, under the touch of mechanical genius, and by the application of capital and labor. The cotton mills of New England, for the improvement of the fabric, and the in crease of profit, are being removed to Southern cities and towns. Money, hitherto invested in Northern inven tions, factories and mercantile enter prise, is being bestowed for the expan sion of Southern ventures and the de velopment of Southern resources. Add to all this, that the fair-hand' goddess of learning hath descended in our midst, and is erecting her bright temples in every grove and by every flowing stream, kindling the eostacy of the gwticlyre, exciting the genius of the istoric muse, arousing the intellectual aspirations of the. gifted and the good, pouring the limped streams of eloquence UM the Gods poured the waves of Pac tolusover its yellow-sands, and we have a picture of material and intellectual progress and advancement, which the most extravagant thinker could never have anticipated. But it is precisely at this point, fellow citizens, that we construct the argu ment of our indebtedness as a people, and discover the fitness of the memorial tribute which we this day pay to our honored dead. No talents or cultivation of our own could have produced the prosperity which now greets us. Im poverished, scarred and broken by the calamities of war, we should have stood lipon the utmost verge of eur stranded fortunes, and sighed in vain for the vanished good. But when back of us the whole country has been planted with heroic bones; when every stalk of corn and blade of wheat is nourished by heroic blood; when that single fiery struggle of four years gave the South an immortality of fame, and a moral armory of imperishable forces, we started out with a capital which no ad versity could reduce, and no misfortune despoil of its energy. The force of moral example does more for the civilization of a people than lit erature or art. The Italians had the splendid imagery of Virgil and Dante, of Raphael and Angelo. and yet not even the valor and patriotism of Rienzi could save them from slavery and chains; while the English, with the memory of the gallant defence of Har old at Hastings, of Alfred against the Danes, and of the royal Elizabeth, when, mounted at the head of her own troops, she inspired them with courage to meet the Invincible Armada, which came to launch itself against their altars and homes, have grown stronger, more enlightened and powerful with every passing year. The Southern soldier, after being stripped of b9 property and j priue, aiiu leij uuiy uis livery ui uvuiui, can point with a noble gratification to the glorious example set him by our departed braves. And we ourselves, while treading the cedary alleys of peace, and weaving our rosy chaplets for the richest, the most sacred and hal lowed dust in all the sepulchres of this world, can strike again the grandest chord in all the harmonies of earth. Where is the race of men who ever struggled, suffered and died like our : Confederate soldiery? Even amid the electric lights and overflowing riches I of this new world which now flashes around us, we return to this question ' again and again, for in it is concealed i the purest gem of Southern excellence j and honor. Were they the men of Camden, Trenton and Valley Forge? , Nay, verily. The soldiers of that heroic time contended against a powerful foe, but he had to cross three thousand miles of ocean before he locked bayonets with our patriot sires, while theConfed- erate soldier was always in the presence of an enemy who outnumbered him, cut him off from his supplies by his cruisers and ships of war, wore him out with his superior equipments, and left j him not a single advantage with which to meet the emergencies of the struggle. I Were they the Federal participants in the Civil War? These came out clothed in purple and fine linen, nourished upon the fat of the land, armed with the nio6t effective weapens. and recruited from every quarter of the civilized world, while our poor boys often won their grandest victories upon an empty stomach, shivering in rags, and with . the defective muskets of a vanished age. Who does not know of these facts, w hich we have repeated again and again to our children? And yet they consti tute the proofs of a moral courage, which has done more to arouse the Southern people from their reverses, to stimulate them to a fresh activity and labor, and to crown them with the most brilliant successes, than all the capital, patronage and material resources of the country. Close by the side of the forti tude, the courage and endurance of the Southern soldier, is the far-reaching ef fectiveness of the battles which he fought. The victories of Blenheim aid 1 Malplaquet not only built the luxurious castle of the Duke of Marlborough, and enriched the fortunes of hia family, but they imparted such an esprit du corps to the character of the English people, such a breadth and fullness of self-confidence, and elevation of national pride in all their relations to the world, that such illustrious battles came as it were to inaugurate a system of military glory, and advanced the English Em pire on every possible road of material and social development. So the battles of the Confederate soldier, whether he lost or won, were fought against such tremendous odds, with such a storm of enthusiasm rocking his embattled squadrons as they dashed on the foe, and with such a reckless disregard of all the deadly perils of the stricken field, that even in the gloom cf defeat they have given him a military pres tige, a royal and holy occupancy of the land, which is the basis of all his dawn ing prosperity. So that the blood which hallowed the soil of Manassas, of Shiloh and of Sharpsburg, has built the facto ries and otton-mills of Georgia, trans ferred the looms of Massachusetts to the Pedee and Savannah, peopled the orange groves of Florida with the pioneers of agriculture and of commerce, and sent the fresh streams of a higher life into every vein and artery of the South. Yea, more, the loftier plane of manli ness to which the victories of the war, won out of the very jaws of poverty, penury, hunger, nakedness and cold, brought the gallant people of the South, has opened a wider intellectual area, where the blessings of education have ' fallen upon them like the manna in the desert. So that it has come to pass that the thunder of the guns at Chicamauga and Reams' Station hath built the fair est temples of learning in every city, village and hamlet, caused the humble poor to ilock to them like doves to their w indows, and set in motion the forces of social chivalry and pride, which will yet redeem us from the last abyss of disaster in which we fell by the hard ships and sufferings of the war. Said I not. that wo were indebted to the Southern soldier for almost every bless ing we enjoy? And is it not fitting that the memory of the dead should be pre served as a sacred legacy? One of the most startling consequences of the war is the exalted respect cher ished for us-by our great adversary. If the Southern soldier had not been braver, truer and greater than all other men, like the defeated adherents of the House off Stuart our brave veterans would have fallen under the last pains and penalties of conquest. But it was not in human nature to exterminate a race of men who had proven the truth of Homer's Illiad, and embellished mod ern history with unparalleled examples of fortitude and yalor. And now that the excitements and prejudices of the conflict are flying like the bats and owls into obscilrity, nowhere is the Southern soldier valued so highly and honored so greatly as among the generous people of the North. The recent flattering enter tainment of our own knightly Fitz Hugh Lee by a Brooklyn regiment, in the very heart of all the wealth, splendor, lux ury and political influence of that im perial country and people, is a tribute to the undaunted courage and energy of our soldiers. Fitz Hugh Lee was only one among the gallant riders, who out rode the fiery storm of shot and shell from Bethel to Appomatox. Though from spur to helm a spotless soldier, full of all the high and generous qual ities of a leader among men, yet it was as a representative of his people, bear ing the scars of their battles, illustrat ing the virtue of their sufferings, and speaking the words, of their iope and courage, that he received the hospital ity of the North. This spirit of -respect and admiration for the conquered is growing everywhere. In the earnest language' of the pulpit, in the epigram matic "sentences of the daily press, in literature, in the forum, on the platform and on the bench, in every stratum of society and in every relationship of business, this respect for the vanquished is made manifest. And this is credit able to them and to us. It shows that defeat does not always bring infamy, nor victory an eternal vanity and arro gance. It shows that the people of the North, as great as they were in that tenacity of courage that never gives up, but fights on to the end, were greater still in that princely magnanimity which can appreciate and do justice to a gal lant foe. And this also we owe to the bravery and fortitude of the Southern soldier. Such men as Stoneman and Rosecrans, Sloc'um and Hooker, who crossed swords with him- across the red tide of war, have by their generous praises helped to weave chaplets for him amid the harmless activities of peace. And whatever respect and admiration have been given to our sunny land, are to be credited to his heroic deeds. But, fellow pitizens, as golden haired morning springs from the loins of night, so is meek eyed peace the first born daughter of war. Night with its horrid tumult of bitterness and strife is gone, and the radiant day, as we step upon the shining marge of the new world which dashes into space, breaks upon our vision. What of the day, and what of its signs of promise? A complete unification of every language and race, tongue and people, literature and cus tom, temper and thought, on this conti nent, is the first necessity of this people. There must be no more talk of cavaliers and Puritans, witch-burnfcrs and slave drivers. There must be no more mixing of the poison chalice of jealousy and hate, merely "'to point a moral and adorn a tale." The old oracles of calumny and spite, maintaining their fearful my-teries by the Ashley and Massachusetts Bay, like the vanished oracles of Delphos, must surrender their priestly robes. A universal brother hood, linking itself with every sacred intere6f of the family apd the home, stretching its loying arms around every altar of religion and every policy of the State, touching with its magic pity the very hatchments of the grave, and climbing the very steeps of the beauti ful world, must now surround every community of this nation. And then, the pure chrism of education must be bestowed upon every palace and hovel in ! this land. There must be no more ! prisons and hospitals built up by the j hands of iguorance and vice. The i Southern soldier never died for such ! homes of wretchedness as these. The pure light of mental culture, streaming over every hill-top and vallyof this new world that dances under our feet, must be sent into every secret recess of its forest paths. Every brain must catch the reflection of the newly risen glory, and every heart must burn with enthusi-: asm far the good, the beautiful and the true. And then, over all this ecstatic scene of universal harmony and culture, the consecrating intluence of the love of country must pour its libn- tions of sympathy and affection. No' Manlius on the Taypcian rock '"in the brave days of yore." nor Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham, nor Sergeant Jas per with l'us heart of fire, should eclipse the grand devotion of the Southern patriot to his native land. In the proud cathedral aisles of liberty and law, be- ; fore the dazzling altars of civil purity and truth, with the glowing vestment of priest and acolyte Tilling the chancel, and clouds of incense risinu to fretted roof and swelling dome, let the sublime patriot hymns of our earliest brother hood lift every worshiper in a chariot of flame. Then shall our country be as good as it is just, and as true as it is powerful. But, fellow- citizens, while dwelling on this conservative theme, let us not forget the gifted Southern statesman, who, on last Memorial day wreathing flowers for the Confederate soldier, is 1 on this Memorial day standing on the sea of glass, hearing the harjw of Heaven. Any notice of the Southern soldier would be incomplete, which has not to-day a tribute to Alexander Stephens. Let us uncover before his mighty shade. There was a time in the wildest tumult of the struggle, when we thought him untrue to our tempest tossed flag. God forgive us for our un just and ungenerous suspicions. We have lone since learned to know better Never ultra or radical in his sentiments and opinions, conservative in every fibre of his moral and- intellectual nature, perhui s however he was not fitted eith er by his character or political educa tion to play a successful part in a struggle of giants, like that into which he was thrown. As a matchless parliamentarian and political thinker, equipped for all the difficult arts and winding ways of di plomacy and state crait, he was richly furnished for the piping times of peace, and stood first among his equals in genius, eloquence and learning. But to drive the flying steeds of war over bro ken and trampled ranks, to hold the reins firmly and bravely in the presence of victory or defeat, and to command the resources of a leader for every emergency, whether in the cabinet or the field,- was altogether beyond his capacity. But what an orator he was. He was an armory of celestial lightning from his feet to his crown. We heard him in the autumn of 1861, standing on the platform of the railroad train in Goldsboro, when the whole air was charged with electricity, and a vast, excited multitude was crowding around him. It was a scene never to be forgotten. His voice rang out like the battle cry of one of the old Greek leaders on the -Trojan plains. The very car seemed to - rock under the sweep of his imagery , and the rushing in fluence of his impetuous thoughts. And no popular audience, under the spell of any speaker, and living in any age, was ever more completely under the en chantment of a human tongue than the audience that heard Stephens on that stormy day. And what a writer and thinker he was. Never writing histories of himself, like some of the other great leaders of the war, his eminent talents and great lite rary resources were devoted first to his beloved South, and then to the history of the whole country. And if he had not distinguished himself as one of the mightiest orators and statesmen of the Republic, these literary efforts would have made him- immortal. Let us not forget to drop a tear and weave a chap let to-day to the memory of Alexander Stephens. Fellow citizens, it is meet and proper that we should scatter flowers, beauti ful flowers, over the graves of our Southern dead. Only let the incense of our hearts mingle with the tribute, and sanctify the sacrifice which we offer to their illustrious memory. All races and nations have bad tears of sympathy for those who have suffered, and those who have attained to exalted places in the world's history. In the Pere le Chaise at Paris, where the dead of that brilliant capital await the resurrection, is the tomb of Heloise and Aberlard. The deep pathos of the French people has made it a Mecca for all that is true and touching in the passion of human hearts. Standing by it the traveller re calls again the suffering of the beautiful novice, and the superb rhetoric of the wonderful churchman. He sees Heloise fair and innocent as the morning, filled with every grace of intellect and char acter, moving like a Greek Goddess in the proud stateliness of her youth, faithful, generous and pure, with the lights of home gleaming around her like angels' visits, and herself the central object of every affection, sympathy and devotion. Out of her dreams the elo quent voice of Aberlard awakee-her. It breaks upon her like the song of night ingales, under violet shadows and sap phire skies. And when the gifted rhe torician, smitten at last by the ligntnidg of his own eloquence and the paralysis of pain, falls at his post, the sorrowful woman buries him under the shadow of her own altars, and fasts and weeps by his tomb until she dies. Can we not emulate the fadeless remembrance of the French people, and of the beauti ful mourner of the Paraclete for our heroic dead, who were greater in their lives than all the masters of eloquence, and more pathetic in theif death than the fairest victims of suffering and grief. Let us bring flowers, then, the brightest flowers for the soldier's grave. Let us scatter them with a lavish hand over the noblest dust ever placed under the funeral canopies of this world. And then as we sing our paeans ftf victory for their valor and their glory, let us en shrine them in eur heart of hearts for the sacrifice they accomplished. Figures of Interest. The vastness of the sum which would have resulted from an investment of one. million dollars, made at the time the Pyramid "Cheops" was built (if it had been passible to have so "planted" or lodged it; or its equivalent, that it would have, in any wise, increased at an aver age rate of one per cent per annum), it is very difficult to comprehend. The figures given in the last line of the table .printed hereon, we will not attempt to enumerate, but simply write the total there shown (resulting m 3'JOO years at one per cent interest), as follows: 4. 052,555, 153,01 f, 970,207,000,000 dollars. We tnus leave the reader to suit his own notions in regard to enumeration. We remark, ho wjevefT that if so vast a sum of thojT-going should be divided equally amonn the 1,400,000,000 men women and children now inhabiting the globe, each (including all the babies) would have the verv handsome fortune of 82,894,000,000, au amount sufficient to buy the city of New York, for a win ter residence, and also the northern por tion of the state itself in. which to re create in the summer, and still have a residue large enough to buy half the states of Delaware and Rhode Island, to hold for any possible heir of the next generation. Or this residue would be large enough to secure, a.t least, of the chief railway and oilier transportation system of the United States. If the evidences of wealth that would have thus grown should all be canceled ex cept in one isolated case, that oue, when he arrived at man's estate, could, under existing laws, make a contineut dance whenever he should choose to pipe. The Pyramid Kings reigned about 40C0 years ago. Oue of the Pyramids of the Gizeth group Cheops now stand ing, covers 18 acres, and is 4Sn ieet high. Herod .'tus says 100,000 men worked 20 years in building this sepul chral monument. At one cent per day, the cost for labor alone would therefore have been six million dollars. If one sixth of this amount (or one million dollars) had been lodiid a,t that period where it would have increased at ttu rate of one per ceut. and a small frac - tio;i additional. 50 a-; to make the in crease even three fold each 100 years, the total now would be as shown 111 the accompanying table; The time "Cheops" was built. 1 million 11 100 vear 243 - bioo - 50 040 " -- l.'ioo I I 34s 007 - -Jooo ,1,4Sti 7.4 4ol - 25HO " S47. 2X8 000 4-1.3 " H( 20.') M1. 132 0'.)4 04!.' - IV,IH) ")0.()31 54;').0I.)S,000 707 301 mi " 4052,5"j5,1 ;'3,018. 070.207." A young woman in Georgia nev er speaks to her father. She con verses with her mother and with her brothers as long as they remain single, but as soon as one of them marries she ceases talking with him. She declines to give tiny rea son for her eccentricity. In life it is difficult to say who sometimes do you the most mis chief, enemies with the worst inten tion, or friends with the best. HIS LAST COURT, Story of the Sternest Judge Arkansas tver Bad. that Old Judge Grepson, a justice of peace, was uever known to smile. He came to Arkansas years ago. and y tar after year, by the will of the voters, lie held his place as magistrate. The lawyers who prac ticed in his court never joked with him, because every one soon learn ed that the old man uever engaged in levity. Every morning, no mat ter how-bad the weather might be, the old man took his place behind the bar, which, with his own hands, he had made, and every evening just at a certain time he closed his books aqjl went home. No man ever engaged hint in private con versation, liecause he would talk to no one. No one ever went to his home, a little cottage among the trees in the city's outskirts, be cause he had uever shown a dis position to make welcome the vis its of those who lived even in the immediate vicinity. His office was not given him through the influ ence of ''electioneering,'', because he never asked any man for his vote. lie was first elected because having once been summoned in a case of arbitration, he exhibited the executive side of such a legal mind that the people nominated and elected him. He soon trained the of the "Hard Justice," and ev ery lawyer in Arkansas referred to his decisions. His rulings were never reversed by the higher courts. He showed no sentiment in de cision. He stood upon the platform" of law which he had made a study, and nom;iu disputed him. lleoently a woman charged with misdemeanor was arrainged before him. "The old man seems more than eVer unsteady," remarked a lawyer, as the magistrate took his seat. "I don't see how a man so old can stand the vexations, of a court much longer," "I am not well today," said the judge, turning to the lawyers, "and any cases that you may have you will pleased despatch them to the bestf and, let me add, quickest of your ability.'' Everyone saw that the old man was unusually feeble, and no one thought of a scheme to prolong a discussion, for all the lawyers had learned to reverence him. "Is this the woman?" asked the judge. "Who ia defending her?' 'I have no defence, your honor," the woman replied. "In fact, I do not think that I need any, for I am here to confess my guilt. No man can defend me," and she looked at the magistrate with a curious gaze. "I have been arrested on a charge of disbursing the peace, and I'm willing to submit my case. I am dying of consumption, jndge, and I know that any ruling made by law can have but little effect on me," and she coughed a hollow, hacking cough, and drew around her an old black shawl that she wore. The expression on the face of the magistrate remained unchanged, but his eye-lids dropped and he did not raise them wheu the woman continued, "As I say, no man can defend me. I am too near that awful ap proach, to pass which we know is everlasting death to soul and body. Tears ago I was a child of bright est promise. I lived with my par ents in Kentucky. Wayward and light-hearted, I was admired by all the gay society known in the neigh borhood. A man came and pro fessed his love for me. I don't say this, Judge, to excite your sympa thy. I have many and many a time .been drawn before courts, but I never before spoke of my past life." She coughed again, and caught a flow of blood on a handkerchief which she pressed to her lips. "I speak of it now because I know this is the last court on earth before which I will be arraigned. I was fifteen years old when I fell in love with the man. Mjr father said he was bad, but I loved him. He came again and again, and when my father said he should come no more I ran away and married him. My father said I should never come home again. I had always been his pride, and I loved him so dearly but he said that I . must never -again come to his home my home the home of my youth and happi ness IJqw I longed to see him. How I yearned to put my head on his breast. My husband became addicted to drink. He abused me. I wrote to my father, asking him to let me come home, but the an swer that came was, "I do not know you!" My husband died yes, cur sed God and died. Homeless and wretched, and with mv little boy I went out in the world. My child died, and I bowed down and wept over a pauper's grave. I wrote to my father again but he answered 'I know not those who disobey my commandments!' I turned away from that letter hardened. 1 spurned my teachings. Now I am here." Several lawyers rushed forward. A crimson tide flowed from her lips. They leaned her lifeless head back against the chair. The old magis trate had not raised las eyes. "Great God" said a lawyer, "he is dead!" 1'ho woman was his daughter. Oswaldus Nothiugerus is said to 1 have made 1,000 dishes of tinned ivorv. all peilecr and complete 111 j every part, yet so thin and slender ! that all of them were included at j onoe in a cup turned out of a pep i porcorn of the common size. They I were so small as to be almost in j visible to the eye. They were pre sented to Pope raul V. As Kalakaua, King of the lli waiian Islands, has become a prom I iuent personage lately, it is well I that his real name should be known. It is David Laamea Kumanakapun Mahinulani Naloiaehokalani Sumi- alani Kalakua. A Chinese coin 3,0WJ years old, has been found by gold miners, who were digging in a claim at Cossiar. Cal. It is supposed to have been left there by Chinese manners wrecked on the coast long before the Christian era. ; A South Carolina negro lias V2 i children and ;2-l grandchildren. The Isle of Woe. All the lepers found in the Ha waiian group are banished for life to the island of Molokai. From time to time a Government mandate is ssued requiring all leper to report themselves to the health-officer Of their district. He inspects them and reports them to the sheriff, who has the leper removed to the Isle of Woe. The law is binding on rich and poor, native and foreigner, men and women, as the isolation of the few is the only hope of safety lor many. About eight hundred iwpers are at present upon the is land. The village has its churches, schools, stores, and Government offices. The resident Superintend ent is Mr. Clayton Straun, a white man. Atter residing for a time at Honolulu, he went toPhilanelphia. Wrhile there the loathsome leprosy declared itself. He immediately returned to the Sandwich Islands that he might end his days on Molokai. Miss Cnmmings, in her description of this settlement of lepers, thus speaks of one who, though not a leper, has chosen it as his earthly abiding-place. She says: One there is who, iu pitying love to these outcasts, has voluntarily taken his place for life in. their midst. Father Datnien, a young Roman Catholic priest, resolved some years ago to devote himself to this work, and, following in the Master's steps, seek and strive to save these poor sheep iu the wilder ness. It was truly a noble act; for apart irom the daily horrors of his sur roundings, there must bo the ever present knowledge that he may one day develop sympiomsof the death ly doom. Hitherto that devoted life has been mercifully preserved, and the good young father continues to be a centre of brightness and sunshine in that sad colony. The Protestant congregation is in charge of a native pastor,himself a leper (there are several such on the island), and the poor little chil dren born to such a heritage of woe are taught by leper teachers in two schools. Latterly',a company of volunteers has been formed, though it is hard to see what pleasure these poor creatures can derive in playing at soldiers. The gratest success is the leper baud, for the whole community thoroughly enjoy their cheerful music. The choir, too, is excelent and is led by a young girl with, an exquisite voice truly a nightingale in a dreary prison. One.ef General Butler's Pranks. Governor B. F. Butler relates one of his college pranks in break ing up an abolition meeting. We students went into the country and paid an old farmer fifty cents to let us catch in his barn all the swallows we wanted. We got a dozen or so, and on the night of the meeting a number of us were present, distri buted judiciously about the room, each boy with a swallow in his pocket. The church was lighted by old-fashioned chandeleirs, holding each fiCe or six whale oil lamps. At a given signal, wheu the services were under way, the swallows were let loose, and almost in the twink ling of an eye out went the lights. The birds of course went for the lights, and the rush of air caused by their wings put out the lamps. We kissed a girl or two and they of course-ehrieked. All was commo tion and confusion for a few mo ments. Then the moderator, de manding silence, said that some unaccountable accident had put out the lights, but that the au dience .must sit quiet and preserve order, and the lamps would soon be lighted. The sexton hurried away for a torch there jrere no lucifer matches iu thoSe(Ia3-s and present lyhe came into the church, holding it in front of his face and shielding it with one hand; the swallows of course went for the light, and one of them struck the candle; knock ing it out of the old man's hand and into his face. He tumbled back, gave a yell of fright, aud gathering himself up took to his heels, vowing there were spirits there sure. The crowd, now frightened in earnest, the students leading, got out of church in a hurry,and that abolition meeting was at an unexpected and unexplainable end. Fourteen Mistakes. Somebody has condensed the mistakes of life, and arrived at the conclusion that there are fourteen of them. Most people would say, if they told the truth, that there was no limit to the mistake of life; that they were like drops in the ocean or the sands of the shore in number, I but it is well to be accurate. Here ' then, are fourteen great mistakes. ; It is a great mistake to set up our! own standard of right and wrong,1 and judge people accordingly; to 1 measure the enjoyment of others j by our own; to expres uniformity of j opinion in this world; to look for j judgement and experience in youth; : to endeaverto mould ail dispositions ; alike; not to yield to immaterial trifles; to look for perfection in our own actions; to worry ourselves and j others with what cannot be rem- ! edied; not to alleviate all that needs alleviation as far as lies in our power; not to make allowances for the infirmities of others; to consider everything impossible that we can not perform; to believe only what our infinite minds can grasp; to ex pect to be able to understand every thing. The greatest mistake is U live only lor time, when any moment niav launch us in eternity. California Hero. T 1 recent ex!ilo!on ot a ui 1 1 1 j dev.-l l.-r factory ut Herkelav. I'al.. .1 hem. Frank Holler saw ih i-parks set lire to a t:iipaiilin 'of a schooner lvin at a wl c Slower on tin- d. II. 1 knew that lil'ty tons ot'the cxphcive vii aboard the ve.-sel. Tin- 111 w were aware ol' it. too. and they scampered away a- last a- poil.l.-. ' Hut Koller leapcd through the window of hi- hmi-e. ran to the perilous craft and cxtim-iii-h-ci the !!an'.cs by throwing on water w uh a 1 iu k t . If lire had reached the caruo the town and everybody in it would I have been destroyed. CURRENT ITEMS. A New York physician offers to cure men of snoring for flO. The dutv on sugar yielded f47,- 000,000 to (he Government last year. This country spends nearly f800, 000 a vear on dolls for its little girls. The lafe Congress appropriated the enormous amount ol 18O,570, 000 for pensions alone. Weavers' looms were brought into Ixiimon from Holland iu 1G76, The steam loom was introduced in 1807. Microscopes were invented by .jansen in lioiiantl about 1MM), by Montana in Italy and IJrebbel in Holland about 1021. iver 4,uuu norai crowns were heaped around Gambetta's coftln in the Palais Bourbon. Their value is estimated at 100,000. The par value of a share of stock in the Chemical Bank of New York is f 100, but if you wanted to buy one it would cost you $2,105. A new machine for picking cot ton is estimated to pick from 3,000 to 5,000 pounds of cotton a day with. the aid of two mules and one laborer. Soap bubbles can be blown to a size of two leet in diameter and kept for two days by tiRing a pren-1 aration ol oleate of soda and gly cerine. A tree was rut a few days ago in Hempstead coun ty, A rk. , t h at meas ured twenty-six feet iu clrcumfer- cnce. It took six men. working constantly, half a day to fell it. A new instrument of war ia the mole torpedo, which can burrow iu the earth or nuder a wall, and then either explode at once or wait a while, accordiBg to the will of its master. It is estimated that in the two Carolinas, Georgia and Louisiana, a total population of about 200,000 people, white and colored, are de pendent upon the cultivation of rice. A set of paper wheels under a truck of an engine of the Central Vermont Railroad has been in use twelve years, and is still apparently sonud. A man in Georgia last year made $9,000 from one hundred acres of watermelons, This year 7,000 acres, in seven counties, will be planted with the vine. Edward Everett's PolltneM. Even an amiable man my be ex cused for being a little irritated, when aroused from an after-dinner nap by one whose business is of much more importance to himself than to the sleeper. The following anecdote of Edward Everett, pub lished in the Boston Traveller,Bhow how a gentleman will behave who is conscious that the disturbance of his siesta has made him cold and curt. Those who were familiar with Edward Everett will remember his dignified personal presence, bis unexceptionaple politness and his uniformly grave appearance in the presence of both friends and stran gers. It has been stated that he was rarely known to smile that he sel dom indulged in the jocose, and that levity was altogether foregin to his taste. His public addresses were always very carefully prepared and coin mitted to memorj-; and mnn3' who read this brief sketcn have as they approched his library door, heard him rehearsing his speeches. He was not fond of being" inter rupted at such times, and signified to callers, not in words, but acts, acts, that short visits were desira ble. Mr. Everett always gave the manuscript of bis oration to one of the daily papers in advance of its delivery, and alter the printed copy had been carefully read and correct ed, he gave orders to deliver slips to other daily papers that might want to publish the speech. On one occasion, haviog been advertised for an oration in Faneuil Hall, and having given a copy of the manuscript to one of the dailies, he went out the day before to Arling ton, where he was living ior a short time. The daily Traveller by some ac cident had not recieved a copy of the printed slip. As the oration was to be given at 12 o'clock on the next day, it could, of course, be printed entire for the evening edi tions of the several papers. The writer of this was instructed 1 at about two or three o'clock by the' proprietors of the Traveller to hunt j up Mr. Everett at any expense aud ! obtain an order for .the printed slip. The steam-cars then did not take one very near the house and ahorse and carriage were procured. Mr. Everett's home was reached at about live o'clock. A colored porter came to the door and said Mr. Everett was asleep and fould not be disturbed. lie never allowed himself to be waked up from his after-dinner nap, and the servant declined peremptorily to speak to him. After much parleying a bargain was made, by which the writer would take all the blame upon him self, and save the porter from all harm, provided lie would say to Mr. Everett that a gentleman with business of great importance wished to see him. The distinguished orator ap peared with a I row 11 upon his lace, but gave the order for the printed slip. )n the next day, between eleven and twelve o'clock, as the distin guished guests who were to occupy seals upon the pl.it torm were as seuibling in the mayor's office, together with the representatives of the press, Mr. Everett, who wivs 'present, advanced from "he oppo site side of the mum, and taking the hand jl the writer, asked his pardon for being so uncivil the day I (c tore. This incident will scive to show that if Mr. Everett was ever dis courteous, he ha-tened to make the most ample reparation. He was uniformly polite. Professional Cards. otoiwi r. araoira, ' bajtkt, a. rvatr, Klacb, N.O. Klnatoo, W, O. BTBOffQ & PERRY, 1TT0MEYI IAD C0U5SELL0E! IT 11 f Having tnrm& ftnpartnwatilp for Ilia hi fnm.fi 01 wia mw in jonMouamy, rljr attend tli twnrta n Uta aawa. attention paid te aallarltona. marlMawU MlUJffd 4k McRKT. 3E0. M. LINPSAY, Attorney at Law, WOW H1IA, H Commty, . C ' RrmoM: Hon. A. a. Morrlmm, flm. T. C Fuller, Kalalgh, X. U) A. lion. ur I4n N. t, WU1 rtmxOm tn th eoontlna of (trtmm, -notr, Jofiv aud wayna. rl)rttn and cm. TrnHnc a jMMria.ity. fcnatnraa n(r..l.l to ma will raonlva prompt Unun. oeut wU LEONIDASJ.KOOnE. ATTORNEY AT LAW, (OMm arpailM Oailaa HaaM,, 2fow Item. N. O. W1U Aranttm In tha Oonnttaa of (Iiwim, T oolr, Jimia, ma low, fmmllooaud Oravan: aiao In tba U. fL IMalr4 Omirt. PramDt attantkMi naM to IKa anlltiim J elalma. . aprlwlr ... P. H. PEtLETIER, - -A-ttorneyat-IL,av. . Will nrmntlna In tha rVwrta af rwrlarot Jn Onetow and Craven. . Hnectal attention given to the eolWtlon of elalma, and aattUna aetata, of deoaaaed ir oaa. rtLirrmi nut1 niarlvtr t Carteret Cuty, . c'i . W. XIXOM. W el MMtolfL CLEintXT KAkur. NixoN,'sir.moKs a i::zvt ATTOUNEYS AT LAW. Will Draetloe l IheOmn le ixx'-v. . Onalow, Carteret, PamU.tn and httiAr, end in we reaerai uounUMv Mrree. fvlOM 1 P. MURPHY PEARSALL, " AXTOaaXT AT LAW, TEENTOJT, JOlfES COV N. C. Will nrantlne la tfce -rvMtn.iM r t..i.. OolleoUnf aapactalVjr. ep-da-if ran tioUAa-D, a, ' owkk r. ocion. HOLLAND & GUION, Attorney nt .Lriw, (Offloa ona door freatorOaeVm llonaa.) Will nrantae la tha rVmatiM f rn Jonea, Onalow, Darteret, I'amlKv, and Le reven, Prompt attention nptr tlon paid U apr4tr id to eullectloiia. DR. J. ;D. CLARK, NKWBERK. K. C. Offloa on Craven street, belvara fsdlo-k and Broad. ur!1-Aly EH. 0. K. BAG BY,- Hurg-eon Dentiwt, Will be In New Barn from tba 1 st to the 1 5th of each Month. f . . . I a Baanfort from IM9 the Kith. Offloa la Nrw Berne, over K. W. A K, W. Rmallwood'a, oorner Hoots front and Craven etreeta. . Teetb extracted without pain b ) nee of nltroaa oxide. wi4vU Ncvr Berne Advertisements. A. II. POTTER & CO., yVUOLESALK ASD RETAIL, CONFECTIONERS, MAirur AcrdtzM or ; FRENCH & AMERICAN OANDIEH. And deaJpra In'Fnrelcn and Porn eat la Frulte Note. Aleo Ctcara, Toliaooa, 'J uya, eta. Pollock i treat, iwurt to $eo. AUm Co., w-ir new mmmmu jr. c - aonx Furniture I When von oome to Xetr Berne for FarnW ' ture be ture to call at (. ... - JOHN SUTER'S. OX MIDDLE STREET. . Heeond door above K, K.'Jonee4, He keepa on Hand rlr Mofta -fliamher fKtta, Walnut Hedatnada, Hareena, Wartlmliea, Mattraaana Tialra, l,uauB'ee,Mofea,Jentre la blea, eve. ror aele at , . . . ROCK BOTTOM PRICKS. JanSwly . GEORGE DISIIOP, w mil, 1. c, Kit pa conetantly on hand VlUAUTY of the rmrtrr Metallic Burial Ceeaete aaa Caoet. Mee wove aad M tlaal Ceaheta ejad Caeea. , ' In all aliea, hnndeomely mounted. AIAO Poplar CeAlu ef all Maae. (Trior by teletrrann day or Bight trnmptl ehtpped hv nret train after order la reoelvea. octltwlv F. Boesser HAH THE IjA-hohbt btook or FURNITURE In the city of New Heme. He ha a I wart la ' aUK-k Parlor Suits. Bedroom Bets, Mattresses, Chairs of every description, In fiu-t ever) thlnii uatifilly kppl In a Klrei. rlitHN I- urnHur Htorp-, and will im Sold Very Low. Corner o f Itrond nntl Middle Street, . KW HKKXE, X. C, jna4w ly Guano and Kair.it. I.Mm ii Ui- .c (-lniiil (mihiio. 1 ,MKi h:k k 1 Hone and l'oUcU. l.tKKi Hiukn Kainit, at 13.60 11 ton. ri(o oni'lv I'urinV (Juhiio. Mmi N;irk Kovotcr'n Higli (Jrnilc Act! l'lioaplintp-. : , 700 kii Ik Norfolk Kerl.ilir.ernt lHlott. Peruvian (.initio. E II. MEADOWS & CO., ( unirr l'dlliK-k nnd Mldtlle te -WarelioiiHv Cotton Exchange PlACt, NKW UERNK, N. C. C1-J2 '-;: -