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recd;.:fexsb.
Back to the east returns th- srn,
Though long and gloomy be the night;
All wings are turned, hn day is done,
In homeward flight.
The wave; with rapture touch the Bhoro,
To which they laid a long farewell;
The listening fore it hear once more
' The songbird's s we!L
The tree receives again its crown
Of golden fiuit3ge, singing leaves;
The CelcU but late so bare and brown
Are ri . h in sheaves.
Theroving bee renews it? pledge,
By Summer's rosy sweets beguiled;
June re se? lean from out the hedge
Where winds blew wild. '
O 1 waiting hearts, O ! eyes that plead,
Through the long winter of despair,
Shall ye not too, find gracious meed.
In days more fair.
Linda il. DuvaU.
The Man With the Satchel.
-Although Mr. Phibbs was a very en
ergetic professional man, it could never
be said that he sought fame. Fame came
to him, and the only sorrows in his life
were caused. by its arrival. If he had ever
had his business cards printed, which he
did not, both on account of his surpas
sing modesty, and the confidential nature
of his affairs, they would have necessarily
read very much like this: '
B."PHIBBsj
: Burglar. :
: All Business Strictly Confidential :
: Banks a Specialty. :
. "
Mr. Phibbs was indeed of a retiring
disposition. Moreover-, he stood so high
in his profession that, despite its frequent
interruptions,' he was beyond the fever
and heat of mercenary competition. On
a certain night Mr. Phibbs was plodding
his way through Allen street in reply to
a professional call. A dark, dismal street
it was, on which a burning sun had
beamed d.own all day lonsj; a baker's
oven that had been Coasting rich and poor
and was now cooling off, while the
chimes of the far away church bells fang
themselves to rest; a black cavern of a
street, fit, you .would think, only for
murder and rapine. Mr. Phibbs was in
it. and his eyes very sharp, black eyes
set in dark caves of sockets, with lashes
like bushes above them, wandered up and
d,-,7ii the great storehouses. He was a
well built man, with a very long nose and
an over lip that was always being bitten
by his white teeth as though it had done
wrong.
On this night he carried a satchel in his
hand. Who could tell his thoughts as his
eyes ran up an(l down the black fronts?
"Were they of all the precious things stored
within, of the fabrics dainty and rare, or
of the tired, weary hands that had made
them and cou'd never touch them atjain?
Mr. Phibbs stopped at the door of one.
Uc smoothed the iron bolts gently and
soothingly as though the bolts had. no
one to blame but themselves for not
knowing him sooner. He ran his hand
up and down the iron shutter also in a
reproachful manner. How still and calm
the great street is, like a cathedral when
the organ is hushed. Quickly the satchel
is opened and a bar of steel is in jthe hand
of the burglar. It rests on the iron shutter,.
Hark! Wh.t was that? A step? No,
only the sobbing of the wind. The bar
cuts into the iron deeper and deeper.
Again the sound lower and fainter, but
still tl iC same. The bar of steel is in the
man's left hand and a gleaming revolver
in his right, when the sound comes again,
this time from his very feet. The moon
draws her veil of cloud and the white
light shines down on a little childish
face there at the cracksman's feet.
Mr. ,Phibbs, from the nature of his
profession, was accustomed to surprises.
He bent his glance and saw that the face
below him was not of Allen street. It
was a tender face only to be kissed by
a mother's lips. On the little finger of
the leff hand gleamed a tiny gold ring.
The collar at the throat was of lace, and
the other garments of rich texture. Mr.
Phibbs read the story in a second. He
knenv some mamma shopping in Grand
street had lost her child, and he knew
that the baking sun had almost stilled
the life beat in the little one. He felt
the pulse. It had almost ceased to beat.
What would he do? Let it die? It would
only be one more little unfortunate swal
lowed up by the streets, or perchanca
cast on the bosom of the river. If he
were to give it to a policeman he might
as well say he was Mr. Phibbs at .once.
Let it die? Had he not seen others
prettier r&id fairer smother and starve
in the tenements? There is a sound of
footsteps along the way. Slow, steady
footsteps, and Mr. Phibbs kpows they
belong to a man in a blue uniform.
Would he escape himself and trust the
policeman to find the. child? The . foot
steps are nearer. A memory cbmes over
a man's mind; an indistinct,- strange
memory and a face wrinkled , and care
worn comes, with it. A, face it is. look
ing very, calm, and Mr. Phibbs sees a.
rocking cradle what is that? ..The face
bends down and kisses the one Jn the
cradle. How like and how unlike a
burglar. Like a weird shadow a man is
.speeding noiselessly down Allen street.
At his breast isv the face of a child.' Be
yond the great warehouses flies theman'
beyond .the shuffling men' and -noisy
women &r alighted street; beyond the
dark forms sleeping in the thoroughfare
down w,horethe,bxmses are thickest, but
never beyond that wrinkled, -careworn
face, nor the rocking cradle fashioned
only in memory. . - .
Perhaps you read this one day in your
daily paper; "
Policeman Johnson of the'Tenth Precinct
last night discovered a complete kit ot burg
lar's tools on Allen street Most of them were
in a satchel, but a jimmy was found on the
pavement, and the windows of the wholesale
i
boose of Edwards & Co., dealers msux, wert
party forced. The policeman met a man
carrying a similar satchel several hours be
fore, and Police Su erintendent Brown, al
though he will not admit as much, is confi
dent from the description given that the
notorious ciacksman Bill Phibbs was sur
prised in the perpetration of a robbery.
The pol ce were looking for the man
with the satchel.
This single room with th cot in one
corner, and the tattered gamin asleep in
the other is Mr. Phibbs's home.
"Back a'ready," cries the- boy, sud
denly waking; "why I thought "
"Never think," says Mr. Phibbs, "go
for a doctor." f
"Oh, I see, Pop," says the boy again,
'abduction, eh? All right, Pep, rmoff,n
aj Mr. Phibbs places a senseless child on
th3 bed. Many strange things had the
ragged toy seen in that room. Ho had
seen bales cf silk piled on the floor and
Bill Phibbs standing over it cursing
about an old man with a hooked nose.
He had seen rough men divide pile3 of
greenbacks there, and more than once
had he seen Bill Phibb totttr in bruised
and bloody and pale, and many a time
had he nursed- the burglar's wounds.
The boys returns in a minute and says
softly: "No use, Pop, the doctor's
asleep." Bill Phibbs is chaffing the
child's hands. He drops them, looks at
the shining barrel of his revolver and
murmurs: "I'll have to wake him."
An old man returns with Mr. Phibbs,
exclaiming as he does 60: "And you
thought I wouldn't come. Why, bless
your soul, 6ir. I was over anxious, sir.
Even before you stuck your pistol in the
window, sir." Mr. Phibbs points to the
child and the doctor hurries to the
couch.
Through that hot summer night a
burglar chafed the hands of a child and
a worried doctor watched. All night
long a burglar watched a white, delicate
face on a pillow, and when the morning
sun had come, the doctor gone and the
white face life-like again, a burglar
thought he saw a rmile on a wrinkled,
careworn face that bent over a cradta
fashioned only in memory.
Mr. Phibbs moved the next clay to an
other quarter of the town. Several men
who had called on him scowled at tho
fair child playing with the gamm, and
said that Mr. Phibbs must give up keep
ing a foundling asylum.
The child was very young and could
not tell i's name di.tinctly. As near as
Mr. Phibbs could make out the name was
Willie Grounds. It did not seem to mind
its new home much, and played and
romped as merrily with the gamin as
though it had known him all his life.
Th next day Mr. Phibbs put this noti.e
in the newspapers:
"Personal A child wearing a plain
gold ling found; parents or guardians
who claim the same may have it by iden
tifying it through these columns."
On the following morning Mr. Phibbs
read that he would receive a liberal re
ward by restoring the child to No.
West street. He went back tp his
home.
"Come, Willie." he said to the child,
"I am going to take you tp your mamma
and very tenderly he patted the curly
head as he spoke. The child's eyes
brightened. He was anxious to go, and
aft. r kissing the gamin many times he
and Mr. Phibbs set out. He had grown
accustomed to Mr. Ph'bbs and was not
surprised to see the cracksman wearing
big black whiskers as they left the
house. Mr. Phibbs and the child were
within a block of the residence when
I Mr. Phibbs paused. A gentleman was
! coming down the stoop and Mr. Phibbs
knew him. He was the Superintendent
of Police. .
; "Ah, my hearty," ejaculated Mr.
Phibbs, "so that's your game," and be
fore the child was aware of the fact he
was sitting by Mr.Phibbs's side in a coach
and rolling down town.
.
Allen street is no longer broiling and
baking in the sun. The Christmas days
have come I Christmas Eve with all its
J legend, its ringing bells, its stories of
. ghosts and goblins! . Christmas Eve,
; bright and cheery 1 Christmas Eve, like
I a benediction on the landl
j - -
i Mr. Phibbs sits before his grate; the
gamin plays on the floor and a lost child is
playing at a burglar's knee. Slowly but
surely the days are driving from a child's
j mind the memory of an early home.
. There were his tin roldiers on the floor
and his rattle by the hearthstone. Mr.
J Phibbs was very much changed. There
j was a solemn, settled look on his face.
; He never smiled except when he held tho
child on his knee. Very . sagely the
! gamin shook his head and told the old
j gentleman with the hooked nose : "Pop's
going," pointing to his head.
Mr. Phibbs went out that night. There
had been rumors of an over active Police
j Superintendent and Mr. Phibbs was look
ing for another boarding-house. He
found one and turned back to the lodg
ings. The hallway was very dark and
the stairs creaked. -Never before had a
hallway been so dark in the mind of Mr.
Phibbs, and the stairs creaked as though
they were saying: "Phibbs, Phibbs,
HPhibbs,xI'ye got you now, Phibbs." He
turned tbe knob of the doer, swung it
open and stood sfill. There before him
sat-lhe Superintendent of Police with the
child on his knee. . The burglar heard
the last words of the child: "And oh,
papa, papa, he's so good and so kind,
you will love him." The gamin was in
his corner. Mr. Phibbs's revolver was
pointed at the Police Superintendent's
heart. 'I
"Don't move," he said, "or I'll bore
you through."; ,The child- clung to its
father's knee. Ue had never seen the
over jnp as now being gnashed bj the
whit teeth, nor "the gray eyes g'ettn like
a panthtr's before. He had never tteen
Mr. Phibbs so cool, so deadly and 10
bloodless as he stood there, holding the
life of his father in his hand.
"Kid," said the burglar, 'pack that
bag and get down into the street.' The
boy did so. "And now, eaid Mr. Phibbs,
hir dear. ray eje ran alonjc the bar
rel, '1 am going, too. Ten have year
Christmas present in your arms.' Only
for a second the eye wavered as it fell on
the face of the child. "Good-bye, Wil
lie!"! said the man's voice. The door
swung shut and locked, and when Police
Superintendent Brown and his child were
in the street they saw "only the driving
snow flakes wrapping up the city in a
white mantle, and covering all its sins
and its sorrows and its crimes beneath iti
folds. New York Graphic.
! The Washington Family.
At the dedication of the Washington
National Monument invitations were sent
to nearly 300 members of the Washing
ton family by direct descent or by collat
eral marriages. Thirteen gentlemen bear
ing the name of Washington sat together
on the floor of the House of Representa
tives on the occasion of tho dedicatory
services, and besides, in the gallery, there
were thirty ladies who claimed kindred,
with the family. Washington, of course,
had no direct descendants, but he had two
half brothers and one half sister, as well
as two full brothers and one full sister,
all of whom had families. His sister Betty
married and left a large family. His two
brothers, Charles and Samuel, both mar
ried and settled in the valley of Virginia
on large and most productive farms.
Charlcstown, the county seat of Jeffer
son County, W. Va., was named after
Charles Washington. His brother Sam
uel owned an adjoining plantation of
nearry 2,000 acres of land. Samuel was
married five times, though he died at the
age 0f forty-six. The descendants of
Samuel are very numerous. Those of
Charles, however, are comparatively few
The Washington families are most nu
merous in Virginia, Tennes-ee, and Ken
tucky, but a considerable number of them
also jreside in Ohio, Minnesota, Penn
sylvania, California, and Georgia, where
theyj have usually settled on the most
productive farm lands. As another char
acteristic it may be stated that they
arc unambitious for public position,
but whenever they liave filled positions
of trust they have discharged their
duties with fidelity. The ability of
Judge Bushrod Washington, a member
of the Supreme Court, and his able re
ports, will suggest themselves to the
minds of every one. George C. AVash
ington, who represented a Maryland dis
trict in Congress, was a man of fair abil
ity. ; It was his son, Louis A. Washing
ton, iwho was captured by John Brown,
taken to Harper's Ferry, and shut up
with him when he was besieged by the
United States Marines and taken. A few
other Washingtons have studied law,
and some medicine, but a greater num
ber of them take to mathematics, survey
ing,: and farming. When they have en
gaged in merchandising it has usually
been in connection with the management
of their estates. Both the full brothers
of Washington were deceased before the
General. The General died possessed of
large amounts of excellent land in Vir
ginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and devised
these lands to his nephews, who were in
consequence put in possession of consid
erable estates that made them independ
ent, j influential, and prosperous citizens
in the neighborhoods where they lived.
IThey nearly all married young and left
families. The Washingtons have always
been fond of the gun, and the most noted
.horsemen Of the sections in which they
lived. .Their personal appearance, as a
class, has been characterized by tall, large
boned frames and strong, well cut fea
tures. In their habits they are social and
hospitable to a degree of extravagance.
They have been free, good livers, and oc
casionally some have-indulged too freely
in spirits, but cases of inebriates among
them are exceptions Ben: Perley Poore.
Taking Cold in Baby Carriages.
Perambulators are the latest thingi
which the much too inquiring mind hai
discovered to be fraught with terrible
peril to human life. Everybody hai
been rather of the opinion hitherto thai
these baby vehicles came as a bron and I
blessing to myriads of infants who ar
too weak to walk, and prefer Veing car
ricd ; but this seems to be all a mistake.
It is just because psrambuIatDrs are sai;
to be dangerous and verv often fatal U
infantile existence that an cutcry is being
raised in the columns of an esteemed
hygienic contemporary against their im
proper use. These useful and meritori
ous articles are subject, just at present,
to any number of medical broadsides
Pneumonia is said to be occasioned b
the fact that the nursemaid always whceli
them in front of her, so that the cold ah
catches the child without any protection
It is gravely suggested that their was t
good deal to be said for the old practic
of a nurse drawing a perambulator be
hind her, so that her body tnterposed at
a sort of screen betwixt" the wind an
hisj nobility in the seat. Cold an
coughs innumerable with all their ao
tual and possible accompaniments are
it is asserted, always being contracted
by infants who have to - sit still and bi
wheeled along the crowded street, in th
teeth of a bitter nor'eastcr. Londtt
Telegraph.
The landed property - of England cov
ers 72,000,000 acres. It is worth $10,
000,000,000, and yields an annual rental,
inhependent of mines, of $330,000,000.
Half of the entire country is held by
7,403 individuals. -The: population is
85,000,000.
FOR THE YOUNQ PEOPLE.
The Story of a Beautiful Visitor. ' -All
day long there'd been a hush in
the air ot Fairy Palace a hush full of
wlemnity, yet with Expectancy softly
tiptoeing in the near distanee.
All the White Roses, strung along on
their green ropes just under the eaves,
gave out their daily toll .of sweet in
cense, and stirred not a green leaf in the
doing.
Then the stately, and oh, the beauti
ful, the sweet-breath'd Carnations! how
quickly, they answered that'gentle greet
ing and mingled their own spicy odor
with the Roses' perfume ; then with
itately bows retired . asain to fix their
rValm eaze once more on Grandame Cen
tury plant, who calmly spreads out her
ijreen petticoats all about her on the high
Seat of Honor, high above the head9 of
ill the flower family. This ancient
Srand-dameis unto the flower family,
iear children, whatthe Old Clock in the
;orner is unto you a faithful teacher
ind trust :d guide.
Since daybreak she had becD leaning
aver, thoughtfully, in the direction of a
jroun sm'lax vino (that dainty climber,
wrho was always ambitiously trying to
reach the sky), and lo! for once he hid
jiopped c'imbing, and was holding tight
5n to the white ropes and looking down,
too, upon his next door neighbor, Ma
dame "Night-bloomiug Ccreu?." Wba"
there was so in'ensely interesting
ibout that long, gaunt, homely body, w,ho
clothed herself every day in such dreary
looking, faded green dressc-, and thtn
trimmed them all with prickly fuza; who
had elbows in every direction, as though
she was forever slartingoff on new roads;
ch tnged her mind, faced about sharply,
and went some other way. Well, a
modest little Sweet Pei just across the
corner there wondered at it much, then
bejjan to see other neighbors looking that
way too. Even gentle Pansy's eyes were
very wide open, looking right up at that
Madam Cereu. And, yes, the. e was little
bu-ybody Red Geranium th"rc too, peep
ing over the hea-1-? of the Begon'a chi'.
dren, just starling out for school, with
their pretty piak p:ayer books. And
Lily of the Valley Bells all stood still,
and had quite forgotten to ring.
"So sure as I live, an 1 am Katureena
Sweet-Pea, there's Jennie Phlox with
her new red velvet bonnet on! Anl the
little Dai-y Girls in their white dresses!
And why why what's going to be to
day, any way?''
Sve?t Pea hastened to tie on hor own
pretty pink bonnet, and then climbed
the green la Ider just by the window aid
waited.
There was a sense of watching in all
the air, and it settled down oppressively
ove? all the beautiful flowers, as the sun
at last lingeringly bade them good night,
and ' went over the edge to say gjod
morning to those waiting on the other
side.
Still Grand-dame Century plant leaned
tenderly over, and Sweet Pea's gentle
heart throbbed almost to suffocation a3
she recklessly pushel back her dainty
pink bonnet, and waited on. When the
little Stars came out quietly, one by one,
and looked down at their friends through
the glass windows of Fairy Palace, they
saw a calm Stranger among them, of
fair and beautiful white form, held joy
ously high in the arms of Madam Cereus,
like a new-bofn babe waiting over the
font to be blessed.
It seemed to the watching stars tha
the beautiful Stranger was just slowly
waking from a long sleep. .
White, long, slender leaves, and vel
vety, opened slowly in circles around,
one and another and yet another, till at
iast a pathway in their midst ' was re
pealed that looked made of filagreed gold ;
a white canopy of tiny flowers was above
it, and beyond you saw the beginning of
trumpet-shaped, green-white chamber.
One little Star near the Moon whispered:
"That was probably the home of the
Queen Flower's Soul. Is it waking now
I. wonder?"
Calmly the white leaves kept spread
ing sweetly unmindful of loving eyc3
watching wide away, till evening
folded into night, and slowly night into
midnight.
Just then the proud young moon
looked down upon the upturned face of
the beautiful stranger, that looked
steadily back again a long waiting tn'n
ute, saw the glory in he moon's face and
then--a trembling of glad surprise
passed over the fair form, and it seemed
to the watchers that a shining form
sprang from out the grecn-wh tc trum
pet, sped over the golden pathway and
floated swiftly up'
"Yes, yes," Sweet Pea whispered,
breathlessly, "the Soul of the beautiful
Flower Queen has gone up to the Moon."
Surely they heard a sigh, as the white
leaves, circle by circle, slowly fell back
and folded themselves together and shut
the Golden Pathway in.
The beautiful house was teractless
now. Madame Cereus stood quiet and
silent a while among- her awed friends,
holding up the limp form of her beauti
ful child, till suddenly a singing
shout irom far away was heard by all the
listening Flowers. Th-n Madame Ce:eus,
whose full heart had recompense now for
all her lonely life, felt humbly that a
Crown of Glory had been placed on her
unworthy head. The Spirit of her first
born was safe up there, its brief life nn-
soiled.
And the Morning Sta-s sang on to
gether in glad welcome. Mrs. Anna D
Midler. -
The oldest publishing house m tht
world is that of Orell, Fussli & Co., u
Zurich, Switzerland. The firm still pos
sesses initial letters that were, used ir
1-519.
MeClillai tad BsrasMa.
Among the accounts from various
point of view of .the Battle of Fred
ericksburg, in the Century, is one by
General D. N. Couch, from which we
quote as follows: "Toward evening,' oa
the 8th of November, 1862, at Warren
ton, McClellan rode up to Burnsidc's
headquarters to say that he had been
relieved of the command of the army.
Burnside replied :
"4I am afraid it is bad policy; very,
very, very!'..
"It was just at dark. I had dismounted,
and, standing there in tbe snow, was
superintending the camp arrangements of
my troops, when McClellan came up with
his staff, accompanied by General Burn
side. McClellan drew in his horse, and
the first thing he said was :
" 'Couch, I am relieved from the com
mand of the army, and Burnside id my
successor.'
"I stepped up to him and took hold of
his hand, and said :. 'General McClellan,
I am sorry for it. ' Then, going around
the head of the horse to Burnside, 1
Eaid : 'General Burnside, I congratulate
you.'
"Burnside.heird what I said to Gen
eral McClellan ; he turned away his head,
and made a broad gesture- as he ex
claimed: " 'Couch, don't say a word about it.'
"His manner indicated that he did
not wish to talk about the change; that
he thought, it wasn't good policy to do
so, nor the place to do it. He told me
afterward that he did not like to take
the Command, bat that he did so to keep
it from going to somebody manifestly
unfit for it. I assi med that he meant
Hooker. Those of us who were well
acquainted with Burnside knew that he
was a brave, loyal man, but "we did not
think he had the military ability to com
mand the Army of the Petomac.
"McClellan ' took leave on the 10th.
Fitz John Porter sent notes to the corps
commanders, informing them that Mc
Clellan was going away, and suggesting
that we ride around with him. Such a
scene as that leave-taking had never
been known in our army. Men shed
tears and there was great excitement
among the troops.
"I think the soldiers had an idea that
McClellan would take care of them;
wouldn't put them in placs- where they
would he unnecessarily cut up; and if a
general has the confidence of his men he
is pretty strong. Put officers and men
were determined to -serve Burnside
loyally."
Reminders of Benedict Arnold.
The old Benedict Arnold well in this
iown has been closed says a Norwich
j(Conn.) letter to the New York Sun. It
!i3 at the rear of the lawn, encircled by
tall evergreens at the fine Ripley place
Jon the road to Norwich Town. Foi
many years a Gothic curb has stood
about it, but it became so rotten that it
was necessary to take it down. The
curb having been removed, a big round
stone was placed over the well, which
was not filled in.
The old Arnold farm house, which was
not far from the well, was torn down a
quarter of a century ago, and replaced
with a handsome modern dwelling. In
:the woods back of the house still is
pointed out a towering oak into whose
crotch the youthful Benedict used to
climb.
v At Norwich Town, not a quarter ol
a mile away, the squat brick box,
with mossed roof and bleached walls,
still is standing in which Benedict
learned from good old Dr. Lathrop how
to mix pills and put up lotions. It is od
ground owned by Henry McNelly. It?
worn front door sill is almost in line
with the dusty village street, and there
is no fence in front of it. The country
roadside walls have been built up to it,
and then deflected so thrit it is in a
walled recess. It U one story high,
with two or three old-fashioned dusty
windows, which look somewhat severely
at the brand new things about the old
drug shop. The building is preserved
as a relic. It has been padlocked foi
many years, and it needs painting.
Another reminder of Benedict Arnold,
the old. Spittle house, on Blackhall street,
New London, recently was demolished
by its purchaser, Bryan F. Mahon, tc
make room for a showy woodca house.
In its dining room, on September 6,
1781, Arnold took dinner, and was al
most chooked to death by a fish bone.
It was on that visit that Arnold captured
Fort Griswold, in Groton, and massacred
the garrison and made a bonfire of New
London to testify to his New Londov
county . neighbors how much he still
thought of them.
Elephants Scared by Little Things.
'.'It is a well known fact that clcphanti
are afraid of small objects, said Heao
Keeper Byrne at the Zoological Garden,
"and I. have seen one of them almosj
scared into a fit at the eight of a mouse.
These warm days we have been giving
them a bath at 4 o'clock, and to amus
them and the spectators we have throwi
half a dozen inflated bladders into tht
pond when they went into swim. Al
first they almost scared them to death.
Then Empress struck M one with hei
trunk, and when.it bounded into the aii
both trumpeted arid scrambled out of th
pond. Empress, who h 's the curiosl'y o)
her sex and a mind of her own, gently
fished one of the bladders out of tht
water and then kicked at it with hei
hind fevt. No serious rc-sul s following,
the continued her investigations, which
ended by her putting her frout foot on
the' bladder. It exploded with a louj
report, and the two elephants scampere i
hova.e."Philadeluhia Tim:.
FACTS FOR THE-CURIOUS.
One-half of the children born into the
world die before they reach the age of
five years.
Eighteen bumblebees, twenty-two wasps
or thirty-eight ordinary honey bees con-1
iain enough poison to kill an adult
To make nails was one of the sentences
imposed in Massachusetts a hundred years
ago as a punishment for Crime, and
twelve nails a day was accepted as a day's
work.
The planet Mars has niftre land ' than
the earth and the late t theory is that
Mars is inhabited by a race of beings
Similar to our own, but longevity tnere is
far less than here. .
The greatest fortress in the worldtJfrcm
a strategical point of view, is the famous
stronghold of Gibraltar. It occupies a
rocky peninsula jutting out into the sea
about throe miles long and three-quarters
of a mile, wide. ,
It was not until 1830 that the word
"donkey" found its wayinto the diction
aries. It is a nickname for the ass and
nothing more. Probably in the course of
time it will be superseded by the word
"dude," which has about the same mean-in-.
Caesar is said to have had ,320 pairs of
gladiators at once In the arena, and to
add to the scenic effect the bloody strug
gles were at night. Trajan surpassed all
in forcing 10,000 unhappy prisoners and
gladiators to contend for life ? in the
Roman amphitheatre; the bloody and
brutal sport lasted for 113 days.
In 1 G 15 Governor Dale procured the
important privilege for the people of
Virginia of holding landed property by
a stable tenure. The farmers then did
not possess the land they cultivated by a
tenure of common socage, but enjoyed it
as tenant at will of the crown. Now to
every adventurer into the colony, and to
his heirs, were granted fifty acres of land,
and the same quantity for every person
impo.ted by others.
A good many people will be surprised
to learn that the biggest building in the
United States will be the City Hall of
Philadelphia, now in process of construc
tion. Between $11,000,000 and $12,
000,000 have been expended upon it
sinco 18f2. It is estimated to covir
2,800 more square feet than the Capitol
at Washington. The tower on the north
side will be surmounted by a statue of
Penn, and its extreme height when com
pleted will be 535 fert. It has now
reached a height of 270 feet.
Slavery in the ancient Roman world
was in part sustained by a practice so re
volting and inhuman as harJjy to be
comprehensible to modern ideas the
systematic exposure and abandonment of
the children of tho poor and of femeal
and defective children by the ricH.
There are innumerable allusions to this
inhuman treatment throughout Latin lit
erature. In two diffefent comedies or
dialogues the husband, on starting on a
journey, is represented as ordering his
wife, who is soon to give birth to a babe,
to destroy it if it prove a girl ; and the
plot of one turns on the wife's foolish
weakness in exposing rather than killing
the female infant.
The Olive Eaters.
The extent to which the olive is used
varies great Iv in different countries. In
northern countries it is used chiefly as a
relish eaten by itself, or as a sauce, sea
soning or 6tutBng for meats, fowls or
game. It is on the tables oPthe rich
what the French call a hors d'oeuvre
that is, a side dish or table superfluity.
But it is far otherwise with the poor in.
the south of Europe, to whom it is an
important article of diet. In ancient times
the poor made an entire meal of bread
and olives. It U still the same in some
parts of Europe, where a peasant thinks
himself prepared for a journey with a
piece of bread under his arm and a hand
ful of olives in. his pocket. In Southern
Italy no meal is made without olives.
The olive merchants pas regularly at
supper time through the poorer quarters
of the city. It is the Spanish habit to
eat olives at tlie end of a meal, but not
too many. Three or four are usually
thought enough, or if they arc very good
one may eat a dozen.. An Italian author
recommends the perserving of Spanish
olives that is, of those grown on Italian
soli - but prefeTT"thosc called Saint
Francis, which is common at Ascoli,
where it attains the size of a walnut. It
is however, generally agreed among
gourmets that the smaller olives are best
for eating. The manner of treatment has,
nevertheless, perhaps, something to do
withthe coarsa quality, of the Spanish
olive when found in- thj peninsula.
Olives are preserved in Italy, as else
where, in weak lyc or brine. They are
also bruised, stuffed in the Bordeanx
manner or dried. In eastern countries,
whence the olive came, the fruit forms
still an important article of diet. San
Francisco Chrovide.
A contributor to the St. Louis Globe
Democrat, who has traveled through
Mexico, Central, and South. America
says United St.'tes contractors and specu
lators always piy American rates cf
wages, while Fnglishmen take advantagt
,f any local rates which may profit them
Thus in Mexico contrasts aTe carried ou
side by side, and while American con
tractor? pay $1 and $1.25 a day, Euro
pean I osses ay fifty cents and seventy
rive cents. It b just the fame in the Ar
gectiiic rcpu" lie, on all the public worki
tbij?e Local labor is absurdly cheap
and English contractors pay just as littl
as they can, v. Iiile AmiT.cans pay decen
rates ;;'il tfcrojgh, and in the long ru:
come out the bet, thir terms tttractinj
all the best men.'
FUN.
A girl may have plenty of bustle and
till be veTy lazy. ,
The rabbit is timid, but no cookcan
make it quail. Pud.
"How'a crops!" is now the prevalent
form of salutation in the poultry yard.
1ercJiant- Traveler.
it you can't trust a man for the full
amount, let him skip. This trying to
get an average on honesty has always
been a failure. Joth BUUngt.'
The flatness of Denmark ia said to be
remarkable, but it is really nothing com
pared with that of the man who never
reads the papers. CW7Z.
That Chicago dog with hjdrophobia
which rushed into a saloon, was In search
f congenial company. Everybody therms
was afraid of water. Buffalo JVJjtr
"Arthur." Yes, we should ' lika to
have you write for our paper. Address
four letter to the business office and it
iv ill be sent to you. New Haven AW. ,
Yale College has established a chair of
journalism. It is an old battered aflsir
with three leg i and a broomstick, and
illed with exchanges for a cushion.-'
Burlington Free Press.
'""Did you ever try a deal in stocks?''
tslted one Burlington merchant of
mother. "Yes," was the sad reply, "I
ha"e tried a deal too much for my good."
ISurlington Free Pre.
"Anybody that knows a thing before
it happens is called a reporter," was the.
lefinition written on the slato of an eight
rear old boy in one of our schools yes
:erday. Boston JownaL
A dealer advertises "Lightning Fruit
fars." They may be a new brand, but
for lightening fruit'jars there is nothing
more successful than a small boy and
iolitude. Korristown Jlerabl.
Mrs. Dusenberry "N6w just look at
ihose flannels! If anythink will shrink
more from washing I'd like to know wh
it is." Mr. Dusenberry "A. boy will,
my dear." Philadelphia CalV.
It was a grim joke on the part of a
rondemncd man, who, the night beforo
his execution, requested the jailor to
close his grated window because ho con
sidered night air unhealthy. : Siftings. .
1 ho EST" if of the girl of the are
imall, tapering and beautifully shaped;
I I as beautiful as the , and she is
without her J; her frown is a t, and hct
figure excites ! ! 1 of surprise, and s
hankering her. Paper ami Pre$s.
Tommy (who has just received a severe
scolding) "Am I really so bad. mamma?"
.Mamma "Yes, Tommy, you are .a very
bad boy." Tommy (reflectively) "Well,
anyway, mamma. I think you ought tob
real glad I ain't twins f '--Harper's Weekly.
A few months ai.,o apapcr was started
nt Heber, Ark , and named Oh Pshaw
The salutatory was: "I'll monkey with
this thing awhile The Editor.". ' Ro
ccntly it expired, and here is its dying .
gasp: "Valedictory : The monkey ccasei
to perform."
The Manuscript Market.
Junius Henri Browne says in the Forum:
Only those on the inside have any idea
of the excessive supply of manuscripts .
wherever they arc paid for, the prioe
mattering little. Such is' the general
desire, indeed, to see one's self in print
that periodicals which receive gratuitous
contributions alone are always' full to
overflowing. There is not a 'magazine
in the country but has enough accepted
articles for the next two years, without
any additions. Whenever a new monthly
makes its appearance, it is deluged with
papers on every topic conceivable, some
of them almost inconceivable. Editors
are in constant terror of manuscripts,
"which descend on them like avalanches.
They are very wary and timid on the
subject, and with reason. When any
"body speaks of writing, they are visibly
discomfited. It is like talking of halters
'in the house of the hanged. They do
not like to say what they feel : "Heaven
and earth! I am suffocating from a- sur
plus of contributions ; he who tend .
another is my bitter enemy!" lest they
be thought rude. They shrink from
being polite for fear of opening fresh
sluices. They often hesitate toy say:
We should like to see the article you
mention, though we cannot promise to
use it," which means nothing; Is but a
courteous phrase of emptiness. If they
say so, they are afraid that .the articlo t
will be offered and rejected, and that its
writer will declare tUat he was urged to
prepare it. Many editors put it bluntly :
"We are overrun. V e are taking noth-
frotn outsiders. When we want any
thing special, we arrange for. it with one
of our regular contributors." This may
not be exactly true, but it is substantially
eo. And it is better to be discouraging"
than to excite a hope which cannot .be -gratified.
To be an editor is incon
venient; to be a writer, of any kiud,
without other source of income, is posi
tively tragic.
There Is nothing new tinder the sun,
and even the fashion of banging the
hair, which has been e.ipposad to be a
modern invention for young ladies and
gentlemen, ia very ancient. Herodotus
6ays of the Arabians: "They acknowl
edged no other Gods than Bacchus and
Lrania, and they say that their h-vr U
cut ?n the same way as Bacchus' is cut.
in a circular form, banged rouud ir
temples." j' '
An Invention consisting of the combi
nation of some light-giving substanc
with printing ink so as to produce s
luminous impression is reported fron
Turin.- A new daily paper will br
printed there in this manner. . -
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