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i r Mi r. h. cowan, Editor and Proprietor. TlhLe XjfceL' Ly o: "blfcLie Press Tnust "be Preser v ecL. ECaxLCooIfc. TERMS : $2.00 per Year - I ' : VOL. II. WADESBORO', N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1882. NO. 48. Succeeds The Pee Dee Herald. TERMS -.-CASH IN ADVANCE. One Year 2 .00 Six Months 10 Three Month ow ADVERTISING RATES. One square, first insertion, $ 1 00 Kach subsequent insertion, . Local advertisemente, per line, ..... iu t-iT Special rates given on application for longer time. Advertisers are requested to bring in their advertisements on Monday evening of each freek, to insure insertion in next issue. 0 THE "TIMES" HAS BY FAR THE JjARGEST circulation of any PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE PEE DEE SECTION. TKOFESSIONAL CARDS. SAM J. PEMBERTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ALBEMARLE, N. C. Z3T Attends the Courts of Anson, Union, Cabarrus, Stanly, Montgomery and wan! and the Federal Courts at Charlotte and Greensboro. "FT" IR- Allen DENTIST, tgr Office S. E. corner of Wade and Mor an streets (near the Bank.) 25-n. a. J. DAKOA5, J- PKUBKBTOS. DARGAN & PEMBERTON, ATTORNE YS AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. l-Practice in the State and Federal Courts. J AS. A LOCKJIART, Att'y and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO, N. C. Pratices in all the Courts of the State. a. X. LITTLK- W. L. PARSONS. Littlo A Parsons,. ATT OR NE YS AT L A W; WADESBORO, N. C. ;T" Collections promptty attended to. SAMUEL T. ASHE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBUKO, N. C. -T' Speci.il attention tjivvivco the eolltM' liou of claims. P. D. WALKKIl. A. BL'KWELL. Walker & Bunvell, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will attend regularly at Anson Court, and at YV'adesboro iu vacation when requested. CYRUS J. KNIGHT, ATTORXEY- AT- LA IP, SWIFT ISLAND, N. C. Will practice in the courts of Anson and adjoining counties. 31-ly IIOTELS. WAVERLY HOUSE, CHARLESTON. S.' C. This favorite family Hotel is situated on King street, the principle retail business street, and nearly opiosite the Academy of Music. The WAVERLY under its new manage ment has recently been renovated and refur nished, and is recommended for its well kept table and home comforts. Rates $2 and $2 50 per day, according to location of room- The Charleston Hotel Transfer Omnibuses will carry guests to and from the House. G. T. ALFORD, Manager. YARB ROUGH HOUSE, RALEIGH, N. C. Prices Reduced to Suit the Times. CALL AND SEE US. J)UItCEL.L. HOUSE, WILMINGTON, N. C. Recently thoroughly overhauled and reno vated. First-class in every respect. Loca tion desirable, being situated near all busi ness houses, Post-office, Custom House, City Hall aiid Court House. Rates, $2 00 and $2 50 per day. Our motto is to please. B. L. PERRY, Proprietor. D. J. GASHERIE, Proprietor. Convenient to all the trains. A full stock of Groceries and Con fectioneries always on hand. CHARLOTTE HOTEL, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Newly Furnished and Entirely Renovated. Sample Room for Commercial Travelers. Terms, 2.00 per day. Special rates by the week or Month. A. 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Bat-tlb, Prof., Mercer University; Rev. Geo. F. Piekcb, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for Man or Beast. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fuller information get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, J. II. ZEILIN & CO.. Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA. SCHEDULES. Carolina Central R. R. Comp'y. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. UFFICE liEXEEAL aL rnmirranoiiBT, . Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 30, 1881. f On awl after Jan. 1, 1882, the following schedule will be operated on this Railway: PASSENGER, MAIL AND EXPRESS TRAIN. I Leave Wilmington, 8 20 p m ro. l. Arrive at charlotte, 5 5Ua m 0 f Leave Charlotte, s Arrive at Wilmington, 10 10 p m 7 32am Trains Nos. 1 and 2 stop at regular stations nnlv, anil points designated in the Company's Time Table. PASSENGER AND FREIGHT TRAIN. Leave Wilmington at 5.40 a. m Arrive at Hamlet at No 5. Arrive at Charlotte at 7.55 P. M 1 Leave Charlotte at 4. 15 A. M J Arrive at Hamlet at ( Arrive at Wilmington at 5.55 P. M No. 6. Trains Nos. 1 and 5 make connection at Charlotte with A. & C. R. R. for Spartan burg, Greenville, Athens, Atlanta and all points beyond. Train No. 6 makes close connection at Wil mington with W. & W. R. R. for points North. Through Sleeping Care between Ruleigh and Charlotte. V. Q. JOHNSON. Oen'l Sup't. Raleigh & Augusta Air-Line Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Superintendent's Office, Raleigh, N. C, June 5, 1879. ( On and after Friday, June 6, 1879, trains on the Raleigh and Augusta Air-Line Rail road will run daily (Sundays excepted) as follows: No. 1 Leave Raleigh, 8 00 P. M. Gary, . 8 31 P. M. Apex, 8 5-5 P. M. New HiU, 9 14 p. M. MerryOaks,9 3Gp. M. Moncure 9 56 p. M. Osgood, 10 17 p. m. Sanford, 10 44 p. M. Cameron. 11 27 P. M. No. 2 Leave Hamlet, 2 30 A. M Hoffman, 3 14 A. M Keyser, 3 37 a. M Blue's,. 3 54 a. M Manly, 4 13 a. M Cameron, 4 56 A. M Sanford, 5 41 A. M Osgood, 6 02 A. M Moncure, 6 25 A. if Merrv Oaks, 6 42 a. m New Hill, 7 00 a. M Apex, 7 23 A. M Cary, 7 59 a. M Manly, 12 09 A. M. 12 29 A. M. 12 48 A. M. 1 14 a. M. Blue s, Keyser, Hoffman, Ar Hjimlp.t. 2 00 A. M. Ar. Raleigh, 8 30 a. m Tram number 1 connects at iamiet witn C. Railway for Charlotte and all points south. Train number 2 connects at Raleigh with the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad for all points north. JOHN C. WINDER Superintendent. Cheraw & Darlington R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. President's Office, ) Society Hill, S. C, Feb. 28, 1880. f On and after Monday, the 28th inst., the train on this road will run as follows mak ing connection at Florence with trains to and from Charleston, Columbia and Wilmington both ways: GOING DOWN. Leave Cheraw at 10 30 a, m. " Cash's, 10 50 " " Society Hill, 1115 " " Dove's, 1145 " " Darlington, 12 15 p. M. 44 Palmetto, 12 a5 " Arrive at Florence, 1 00 " COMING UP.' Leave Florence at 2 35 p. K. " Palmetto, 3 00 " " Darlington, 3 15 " " Dove's, 3 40 " " Society Hill, 4 05 ' " Cash's 4 25 " Arrive at Cheraw, 4 50 " Close connection made at Florence with trains to and from Charleston and Wilming ton, every day except Sunday. B. D. TOWNSEND. President. Cneraw & Salisbury Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Until further notice, the trains on this road will run as follows: Leave. Arrive. Wadesboro, 7.15 A. M. Cheraw, 3.20 a. m Cheraw, 9.25 a. k. Wadesboro, 5.80 p. m Making close connection both ways at Che raw, with Cheraw & Darlington train, and at Florence with the Northeastern train. B. D. TOWNSEND President. Silverand China. LAW'S S. & C. HOUSE, INEST TRIPLE PLATE AND CHINA WARES. ?3-Jy THE GOLDEN SUXSET. BV LONGFELLOW. The golden aea its mirror spreads Beneath the golden skies, And bat a narrow striping between Of land and shadow lies. The cloud-like rocks, the rock-like clouds Dissolved in glory float, And midway of the radient flood. Hangs silently the boat. The sea is but another sky, The sky a sea as welL And which is earth and which is heaven The eye can scarcely tell. So when for us life's evening hour, Soft fading shall descend, May glory, born of earth and heaven, The earth and heaven blend. Flooded with peace the spirits float, With silent rapture glow, Till where earth ends and heaven begins, The soul shall scarcely know. EXTRACTS from a speech delivered by hon. john d. c. atkins, of tenn., in the house of representatives, august 6th, 1882. It is fair to conclude that when Congress makes appropriations that it knows what it is about, and that it means what it says ; that is, that the expenditures must be circumscribed by those expressed limits; otherwise Congress, which represents the peo ple, lays and collects taxes, and ap propriates the revenues for the uses of the Government, is sovereign in these respects in theory only, but is in fact the mere puppet to do the bid ding of a selfish, usurping, and ex travagant bureaucracy, run by subal tern clerks. Many of these deficiency bills are not' regular deficiencies, but are ex penditures incurred by Government officials without authority of law. Section 3678, Revised Statutes, reads thus: "All sums appropriated for the various branches of expendi ture in the public service shall be ap plied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made, and for no others." Now, will any one pro tend to claim that moneys appropri ated for miscellaneous and contingent funds of the various bureaus, for the maintenance of the Navy and of the Army, and for many other branches uf oti r obau Kci qj. pyin be lawfully diverted to the employment ana pay ment of clerks and other employees, as has been the common practice in some of the Departments, thereby necessitating an insufficiency of the appropriation for the purpose speci fied in the appropriating act; and I submit is it fair thus to act as some of the Department and bureaus have done, and then come before Congress asking for deficiencies brought about, not by complying with, but by violat ing the law? And is it the duty of Congress to encourage these viola tions of the statutes and the creation of deficiencies, whether lawful or un lawful, but a too ready yielding and granting their requests? Is not our readiness to give an incentive to them to ask? Thus many unlawful expendi tures are incurred in violation of law, contracts are entered into in excess of appropriations, and when the money gives out straightway great deficiency estimates are sent in for Congress.to provide payment, where as, had the Departments observed the statute forbidding the contracting for any service or thing until an ap propriation has first been made by Congress for that particular object, there would of course be no deficien cies. That the country may not be con fused by this talk about deficiencies and pensions subjects, however, which ought to be closely and criti cally understood by Congress and the people allow me to again refer to the above table. The appropria-. tions for all purposes for 1881 are $189,328,222,64, pensions $41,644,000, leaving $147,684,222,64 for net ordi nary. Now, take deficiencies from that sum, which were $6,118,085, and we have $141,566,137.64, for 1881. The whole sum appropriated for 1883 is $295,248,943.75. Excluding pensions and pension deficiency $116, 000,000, and other deficiencies, $13, 212,681.26, and we have for 1883, the appropriations being made at this session, $166,000,749.79, for net ordi nary expenditures, or $24,434,612.15 in excess of the net ordinary appro priations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, and $29,136,478.33 in excess of the net ordinary appropria tion for the year ending June 30, 1882, or $34,214,102.68 in excess of the net ordinary appropriations of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, which were $131,786,647.11 exclusive of pensions and deficiencies. At the same rate of appropriations for 1884, the Forty-seventh Congress, Republi can, exclusive of pensions and defi ciencies, will have appropriated in round number3, $78,000,000 more money to defray the net ordinary ex penditures of the Government than was appropriated by the Forty sixth Congress, which was Democratic. Thus it will be seen that the Repub lican party in administering the Government, exclusive of pensions and deficiencies, appropriates about 20 per cent, more money than the Democrats have done for the same purposes ; this, too, with the great ad vantage of being in accord with the of the House, showing, as they have, their disposition and power to re trench expenditures, had the ad vantage of a Democratic administra tion, intent upon retrenchment and reform, as it doubtless would have been, the facilities thereby afforded for curtailing j public expenditures and lessening annual appropriations, cutting off useless service and unlaw ful deficiencies and otherwise reform ing the civil jservice, would have largely reduce4 the annual budget, thereby adding! to our surplus to be applied to the extinction of the nation al debtr or by that sum to have dimin ished the taxes of the people. The natural growth of the Govern ment is something I admit, but un fortunately for our Republican friends the Democrats practiced an economy I in the Forty-fourth and Forth -fifth Congresses amounting to $85, 855, 136.- 54, or $21,463,783.13 average per an num in the face of a Republican ad ministration less than the Republi cans appropriated in the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses, and the disadvantages of the growth of the Government Was against the De mocracy in this calculation. I ex cluded the fisheries award in 1877 of $5,500,000 just as I have excluded the Geneva award at this session of $11, 000,000 as extraordinary and unusual. And again, taking the last session of the Forty-sixthiand the first session of the Forty-8evtenth, the difference is $29,136,476.33 in! favor of the economy of the Democrais. Why should ;it cost $25,000,000 on an average annually more under a Republican than under a Democratic House of Representatives to adminis ter the Government? As I have be fore intimated, jthe Republicans are more prone to ield to the demands of a Republican administration in ex cusing violations of the laws and al lowing larger and questionable defi ciencies. As for instance the Demo crats allowed irj 1S79 and 1880 each about $5,500,000 and in 1881 between seven and eight millions, carrying back the deficiencies to each year re spectively, not including pension defi ciencies, while the Republicans, ex clusive of pension deficiencies, have in 1882 allowed $3,212,681.26. j That the public may not be misled rnnfnsfd in tlh?Mr understanding as to the amounts bf deficiencies appro priated for by Congress, I will give them for the liast eleven years as shown by the laws of Congress and the records of the House itself. Defi ciencies alio wed. in 1873 were, $6,596, 677.39; in 1874, $jl2,978,418.60 ; in 1875, $4,0S3,614.26; iij 1876, $4,703,699.18; and in 1883, $13 248, 193.96, aggregat ing $41,609,904.89. During each of these years the Republicans had con trol of Congress. For the six years, between 1876 and 1883 exclusive, the Democrats had Control of the House and a part of thie time control of the Senate. The deficiencies allowed in 1877 were $2,908,177.09; in 1878 $2, 745,480.97; in 1879, $11,962,013.02; in 1880, $4,633,824.55; in 1881, $6,118,085; and in 1882, $5,124,046.65, aggregating $33,391,627.28, or $8,618,277.11 less in six years appropriated for deficien cies by the Democrats than were ap propriated by the Republicans in five years. j Or. in other vords, the Democrats appropriated for the six years they had control of the legislation on an average, per annum, the sum of $5, 565,271.21, while the Republicans ap propriated on an average, per annum, the sum of $8,321,980.88; no pension deficiencies arej included in either of the periods. The Old Enemy. The so-calledl Liberal party, which it is attempted to put forward as the foe to be beaten by the Democracy this Fall, has no substantial existence outside of the! Radical party. Its platform and ithe Radical platform are identical, and the men who or ganized and control it are the known leaders of the Radical party. In fact it is but another name for the Radi cal party, delibierateiy chosen and de signed by Radical leaders to delude and deceive the people, hoping there by to revive Radical rule in North Carolina. What are the facts? On the first Wednesday in June the so-called Liberal Convention met in Raleigh j , The first man there opened his mouth was ex-jJudge W. A. Moore, then and now a member of the Radi cal Fxecutive Cpommittee, a man who has been a violent Radical, whether on or off the bench, ever since negroes could vote i a Kirk-war Radical and a special-tax-bonjd Radical. This man nominated thei President of the so called Liberal Convention ; next week he was himself the President of the regular Radical Convention. The next man to move in the or cr&nization of !the so-called Liberal Convention was O'Hara, then and now a member of the State Radical Executive Committee; O'Hara, the Radical Halifax negro, and the Radi cal candidate for Congress in the black district. Leary, the Radical Cumberland ne gro, was one of the Vice-Presidents. He is now a niemher for the State at large of the State Radical Executive Committee, j Taylor, the Radical Edgecombe ne gro,, was another. Carson, the white McDowell Radi cal, was another. I. J. Young, who for twelve long years, has been a Revenue Collector, known all over the State as a bitter Radical, and member for the State at large of the State Radical Executive Committee, was there and took an active part. J. J. Mott, the chairman of the Radical State Executive Committee ' and late Collector, of the Sixth Rev- ( enue District, was also there. Thomas N. Cooper, the new Reven ue Collector and late chairman of the State Radical Executive Committee, was there also. James H. Harris, the Radical Wake negro, was there also ; the negro who wishes to canvass the State with Governor Jarvis. Stewart Ellison, another Radical Wake negro, was there. John H. Collins, the Radical negro Solicitor for the Raleigh Judicial Dis trict, was there also; and so was John Eaves, of Rutberford. Another bright and shining light there was Dr. Richard M. Norment, late Radical candidate for Secretary of State. Of course a few sore-headed ex Democrats Were there.such as Colonel William Johnston, of Charlotte; Cap tain W. M. Cocke, of Buncombe, who ran as an independent candidate for Judge and was beaten ; Captain Natt Atkinson, of Buncombe, who ran as an independent candidate for Con gress 'end was beaten; Thomas P. Devereux, of Wake, now the Radical candidate for Congress; little Jake Halilmrton, of Burke, and John Stew art, of Rowan. So much was seen in Raleigh on the first Wednesday in June. But what happened there on the second Wed nesday? On the second Wednesday in June these same Radical leaders, W. A. Moore, I. J. Young, Harris, O'Hara, Mott, Cooper, Norment and the rest, were in Raleigh holding a Convention and calling themselves old-fashioned, fire tried Radicals. And no man objected that the President of the Radical Convention was not a Radical but a Liberal. And no man objected that its lead ing delegates sat in the Liberal Con vention of the week before? Do Radical Conventions make men who are not iutuik;uo, uucu n,uia:0 officers ? Do Radical Conventions permit men, who are not Radicals, to be dele gates? On the contrary, the Convention not only recognized Mott, Cooper, Moore, Harris and O'Hara as fire tried, old-fashioned Radicals, but re turned to them, in a formal resolu tion, the thanks of the Convention for their earnest, active and untiring efforts in accomplishing a project which would secure victory to them in their next campaign. This resolu tion is to be found in the proceedings of their meetings as published in the Times, their Raleigh organ, of the 21st of June, and reads as follows: "Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention are hereby tendered to Dr. J. J. Mott, Col. T. N. Cooper, Hon. W. A. Moore and J. E. O'Hara for their earnest, active and untiring efforts in aiding in bringing about a union and coalition which will secure to US victory in our next campaign." It is but the counterpart of an old, old story. Hundreds of years ago, so runs the tale, an ass dressed him self in a lion's skin that he might frighten man and beast; and did so, until he undertook, to roar, and brayed. In this year of grace the ef fort was to soothe by braying, and the bray ended in the roar of the ravening wild beasts of Radicalism who for one short week had masquer aded in the skins of harmless"Liberal" asses. Democratic Document. Judge Bennett's speech at Asheville is thus referred to by a correspondent of Raleigh News-Observer: Judge Bennett followed in a speech of two hours Perhaps the greatest tribute I could pay his excellent speech is merely to state the fact that the crowd regularly increased from its incep tion to its close. With hardly a single exception, every man who came in at the door remained till the speaker brought his eloquent address to a reluctant close, protested against by the hungry crowd who, though dinnerless and tired, cried out, "go on ! go on !" There are so many fine stump orators in North Carolina, it were a rash thing to say any one man surpassed all the rest, but cer tainly Judge Bennett may well con test the palm with the noblest Roman of them all. The Democrats made a wise selection when they chose him as their standard bearer in this con test. The German infantry soldier when on a war footing carries a total weight of over sixty-four pounds, and the military authorities have been vainly endeavoring to reduce the equip ment, which, they find, consists of nothing but the strictest necessaries. His personal clothing weighs twelve and one-half pounds; the knapsack and its contents of extra clothing, ammunition and tools, amounts to eighteen and one-half pounds, and the remaining weight is made up by his spade and rations. Hnbbeirs Corruption Fund. Colonel Henderson, the secretary of the Republican Congressional com mittee, of which Jay Hubbell is chair man, rises to the defense of the as sessment system which invades the highest as well as the meanest and remotest government offices to force a tribute from their occupants in or der that the wheels of the odious poli tical machine may be greased and its motive power maintained. It is a matter of congratulation that the vigorious denunciation which the system has provoked from the press and the public has taken effect and forced one of the men chiefly con cerned in carrying it out to put forth as much of a defense as it is possible to make, but one which, after all, fails to touch the root of the trouble. Colonel Henderson in the first place begs the question by assuming that it is the Democratic press which leads the denunciations of this partisan blackmail, and he accordingly plead?, in avoidance, that the Congressional campaign committee has the warrant of long and well-established Demo cratic practice to justify this plan of raising funds for political purposes. The fact is that honest Republican newspapers and honest Republican voters are just as sincere and out spoken in denunciation of the assess ments as are Democrats, and the pro test comes up from the masses of the people, who have resolved that this system shall die, because it threatens the subversion of every principle of fair and honest government. It is no defence of the spoils assess ment plan to say that women are not bidden to stand and deliver, that day labers are not called upon for their share or even that no man who ob jects, or is unabH, to contribute will be compelled to do so by threats of removal. All these things are mere ly incidental to the great wrong of the system. What honest voters object to is the accumulation of large sums of money to be disbursed in influenc ing elections. It makes no difference whether the Congressional committee secures its funds from voluntary con tributions or from robbing the Treas ury of the United States by a vote of Congress ; it is the corruption of the sources of political action which threatens mischief. It is against this accumulation of an enormous corrup tion uiuu itua Uaaiuii . .-jr corner of the land to prostitute politi cal honor and encourage fraud, bribery and ballot-stuffing that the people are now arrayed. The public feels not half so much anxiety about the sources from which Chairman Jay Hubbell and Secretary Colonel Henderson collect their corruption fund as about the way in which the funds is to be expended in defeating the will of the people. . If Chairman Hubbell wishes to allay popular wrath on this subject he should direct his secretary to tell us, or should tell us himself, how he proposes honestly to expend the money which he is rais ing: Rhil. Times. The Republican party is a most in sincere organization. In the New England States it is the champion of limited suffrage. In Rhode Island white men are disfranchised by the ten thousands. We believe one fourth of the white men of that State are denied the right to vote. In Massa chusetts the right of suffrage is also limited, and great numbers of white men there are denied the right to ap proach the ballot-box. These pro visions are kept up by Republicans who seek to keep Democratic white men away from the polls. And yet these same Republicans make night hideous with their insincere cries over "a free ballot." The Radicals alleged that in Louis iana the Democrats used a thin tissue ballot to cheat at elections. To meet that allegation, the Democratic Legis lature provided that no ticket should be counted unless it was on white paper of a-certain size, weight, thick ness, &c, and that the State should furnish the paper on application. No sooner was this law passed than the insincere Radicals made a great furore and uproar over it. They did not want a fair count or a free ballot. They wanted to stuff the boxes with their bogus tickets, and this law pre vented it by making void all tissue tickets. Again, the Republicans in Maine have the Maine liquor law ; in Massa chusetts they have a similar law, and so on in other States. They last year carried prohibition in Kansas, and are now fighting for it in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, and other Western States. In North Carolina they falsely seek, for political pur poses, to make it appear that the Democrats are the prohibitionists They are insincere. But they ought to fool nobody. The people ought not to put confidence in their political roorbacks. Neics and Observer. Perforated Coins. A United States Circuit Judge in Boston has decided that punched or perforated coins are legal tenders. E e holds that the law is not violated by the punching of a hole in a coin provided the value or quantity of metal is not reduced that the mere "changing of the face of a coin does not destroy its legality as a tender. They All Do It. The President appropriates the United States steamer Despatch to his personal use in travelling by sea. That vessel is at his beck and trail like a private carrige on land. As in duty bound, she broke down to keep up the fair fame of our magnificent navy. The Secretary of the Navy ap propriates the United States steamer Tallapoosa for his personal uso on a pleasure excursion, which is ingeni ously described as "inspection of navy yards." He began by inspect ing the voters at Norfolk, who are ordered to support , llahone. He inspected the voters at League Island and in Philadelphia, who are ordered j to sustain Don Cameron in Penn sylvania and Secor Robeson in New Jersey. He inspected the voters at Brooklyn, who are ordered to stand by the Stalwart ticket. He will inspect the voters at Kittery in be half of Blaine. And if there were a yard in Mississippi, the enterprising Secretary would run down there to inspect the voters for Fort Pillow Chalmers, with whom he has formed a political partnership. Mr. Folger appropriates to his personal use the revenue cutter Grant or atrip from New York to Wash ington, and his First Assistant ap propriates her on the return voyage. These public vessels are treated by the President and the Cabinet as per sonal conveniences. A ship of war is ordered about as the chief of a bureau or a head clerk orders a carriage, or a brougham fraudulently procured as a "wagon" for cary ing the mail. This practice began under Grant and Secor Robeson. It was continu ed by Hayes and by John Sherman ; we are sorry to see Arthur and Folger following in such footsteps. Nothing better was to be expected from William E. Chandler, who organized the villainy by which the vote of Florida was stolen in 1876. Ar. Y. Sun. Brother Gardner on Slang. "If Brudder Pizarro Grant am in de haM to-night he will please step for'd," began the old man, as Samuel Shin struck the triangle and sent its quivering notes dancing along the ceiling. Jirotner rizurru co ruiit tmi stepped up, his eyes having a squint of alarm and his knees loosing their s;ind with every motion. "Brudder Grant," continued the President, "you am a young man on de doah-step of lif e ; you w'ar wery tight pants an' a wery short coat an' a wery narrow hat, and you look de cidedly wretch er chee. De great world am befo' you. If you begin right no man dares bet two to one dat you won't sit in a Governor's chair befo' you am fifty. If you be gin wrong it will be safe to bet 1600 to nuffin dat you will bring up in State prison befo' you am ten y'ars older." "Yes, sah, Ize tryin' to start right," said Pizarro, as Brother Gardner stopped to swallow a pint of water. "I hope so I hope so, but 1 doubt it, Brudder Grant. I'ze had my eyes on you for some leetle time back. I doan't fink you would lie or steal or burglar or forge, but you has fall en into one werry bad habit. De od der day you met a friend in front of my cabin, an' when he axed you if you war a gwine on de excursion you replied dat you would 'gasp to gur gle.' On anoder occaishun I heard you remark you would 'mix to mur mur.' Again you observed dat you would 'sigh to sniffle." Only an hour ago you told Waydown" Bebee to 'cheese it an' live.' What does all these things mean, Brudder Grant ?'' "I doan' know," replied the victim, as he stood on one leg and scratched his head. "Nor I, either. Ize looked up de Latin an' French an' German an' Greek languages, but I can't find any expreshuns as 'hire a hall,' 'see you in de grave yard,' or 'I should smile.' Why do you make use of 'em ?"' "I doan know." "Den stop ! If plain English am not good 'nuff fur you to 'sprees your thoughts in. Tarn Spanish or Chinese. It am all right fur a sweet young gal who has been frew college to remark that she would titter to grin, butich 'spreshuns doan' sound well comin' from a 3oung man. If I should go home to night an' tell my old woman dat I would prespire to evacuate, or lithograph to animosity, she'd look me straight in de eye fur thirty seconds, an' den would come a climax in which my hat, head an' a broom stick would all be mixed up." "Return to your seat, Brudder Grant; go back an' sot down with a determination to avoid slang an' do your takin' squar' from de shoulder. When you git tired of beef, go into a grocery an' ax fur codfish in plain English, an' doan' use any mo' ora tory dan am necessary to secure full weight an' git rid of a quarter wid a hole in it. We will now proceed to split the regjar order of bizness down de back and let out de sleeves." Weik muscles and nerves slug gishness of thought and inacivjty, cured by Brown's Iron Bitters. Father Evans, of ' the Milton Ciironicle, now venerable in years, remembers waen a. school boy of hearing Dockery 's campaign speech. Ureen9'xro Patriot. We learn that Judgo Bennett wore Dockery into a frazzle and then wore out the frazzle. While Bennett was speaking be took occasion to make some heavy strictures on the revenue department in regard to the present way of using it as an election eering scheme for the Republicans, and said when he got to Washingtin that he intended to do all he could to remedy this great evil. Dockery told the people that they had better take the Judge's bond for the promise made. Judge Benuett in replying told the people that he did not owe five cents in the world, and that everybody, who know him always re garded hia word as trood aa his bond. Then the Judgo brought out a few facts on Dockery in regard to his financial statifling, which caused this groat Republican Mogul to wilt before a heartily applauding au dience. Dockery was so com pletely "done for' in the contest ct Lincolnton that he did not venture to come to Newton Tuesday. He skip- pod and went in another direction. Hurrah for Bennett! He is a noble hearted, public spirited, conscientious and high toned gentleman, and just the man to suit our people in Con gress, and there he will go. Hickory Press. The Great Gothard Tunnel, which was opened on the first of January of the current 3'ear, is nine miles and 563 yards in length. In the construc tion of "this wonderful hole through the mountains" an average of 2,347 men were engaged per diem, and work was carried on day and night. During the entire period of the con struction about 1,000 tons of dynam ite were used for blasting and 1,700 tons of oil for illuminating purposes. The entire amount of rock removed in making the tunnel was about 1,800, 000 cubic yards, and the lining of thot inside which has an area of 258,000 square yards, took up about 220,000 cubic yards of masonry. The aver age cost of building the tunnel per linear foot was about $78.75. The time occupied at the work was exact ly 3,330 days. A Buffalo man has perfected an im portant invention which is nothing less than a steam bicycle. , It ia expected that it is destined to revolutionize the modes of travel on the lngn way . It at nrst resembles a. low, open buggy or buckboard. Thei seat is placed between two principal wheels, the third wheel being in front, about five feet away from the others. It is smaller, and is used, for guiding the vehicle. The two main wheels are the same as those used in bicycles. The motive power is ap plied to them by means of a small spur wheel and a few feet of belting or chain. The engine and boiler ore located between the seat and the for ward wheel. They take up very little space, and much of the machin ery will be enclosed in a wooden case when the vehicle is complete. The engine is one and a half horse power, and it rests on the bottom of the conveyance. The exhaust is under neath, and will be nearly noiseless and invisible. The cylinder is 2 by 4 inches. The generator is upright and stands directly oyer the neat little boiler. For fuel gasoline is used, and two gallons of the fluid, surround ed by water, will be carried in a reser voir the under seat. It will be convey ed to the furnace by means of tubes. It is claimed that one gallon Will be sufficient to run the engine nine hours at the rate of from 15 to 20 miles an hour. The tri cycle as it now stands costs about $200, but it can be dupli cated for $150. Columbus, Georgia, has tea cotton and woolen mills; the only bagging factory in the State ; the largest irou works south of Richmond ; three mer chant mills ; a trunk factory ; a paper box factory ; a paint factory, and two clothing factories. There are nine teen hundred and sixty-seven opera tives, in textile mills alone. Con sumption of cotton last year 16,984 bales. One manufacturing firm in Columbus pays out $40,000 a year in wages. Dollar. Dollar, a word more used in America than in any other country, and said by foreign cynics to be heard here oftener than any other, has a singular and interesting origin. Its connection with dale, a little valley, would hardly be suspected,, but it is etymolgically that very word. It comes through the Dutch, from the German thaler. Now, ? this word is an abreviation from Joacbimsthaler, the coin having been so called because it was first coined from silver obtained from mines in Joadbim's thai, i. e., Joac him's dale, in Bohemia, about the year 1518. A dollar is, therefore, merely a dale er. - "I'm not in mourning," said a young lady frankly, to a querist, 'but as the widows are getting all tbe offers nowadays, we poor girls must do something to protect ourselves." "I wish you would pay a little atten tion to what I am saying, sir," roared a lawyer at an exasperating witness. "Iam paying as little as I can," was the calm reply.