North Carolina Newspapers

ft , ' (f ClL 9 y IU1 OlSfiA Devoted to the rotectio of Home and the Interests of I7ie County. Vol. H. Gasiwia, Gaston 0 ount y? "N. G,4 Saturday MokninGj July 2, J 8.81, No. 26. GAZETTE. voices of the yianr. It was lute lout nlK'it when yu jtired !" " Yes, pupa," I said with a yawn Behind my fun, " for the horrid man, '' He juHt talked on and on. ..The more I hinted tlio more hp stayed ; I knew you wore wakeful too. And I told him ho ; hut he would not go And what could a joor girl do f: , It was very lato when you retired !" "Yes, papa!" I frankly said, For the man, you see, just talked to me. Though I yawned till my eyes were red, And I went so fur, when the clock ptruck twelve, As to count the strokes all through ; But the stupid I he just wouldn't see And-whnt could a poor girl do ?" ," It wag worse than late when you retired !" "Why I tell you, pa!" I cried, r" If I hinted once to the tiresome dunce, 'Twaa a hundred times beside ! yfhy, I even said you'd been In bed For at least five hours I knew ; But he tipped his chair, and still sut there-7 So whut could a poor girl do?" ."Well, Uio jceinsos-gosh was you up all night V" "Why, papa!" I liuipbly plead, ," Don't thunder so I there's u man below ; And he's sent you his card, and said .That tho reason why ho .stayed all night Was, that he wanted to see yon, too, frimt he might ask for the hand I guve For what could a poor girl do?" BILL ARP. piscourses on the Products of '." the Schools. Atlanta Constitution. Taking the back truck, when an enthusi astic hound gets after a smart fox some jinjee he overdoes the tiling hikI the tc nt -gels fainter ami (aimer, und su 'denly he discovers his mistake und reverses his en gine and takes the buck track. Tout is a ftgnofaeood dog. riiere Is too much free education in this country, and I'm glad to see that some of our strong men arc writing about it and ta'king nbqijt it. peneral Toombi made u gra:ul speech the pllier day in Columbus, and he said it was no part of civil government to tducute I he children. That's the parent's business, and the parents can give 'enj enough fur a start jf they want to. Uepiase some few are fno poor am) some too ignorant , is no rea9.ni for establishing a grand system, of Tree schools that does more hurm than good in the Ion run. The good old plan is the best und I never knew a p or nun's child turned ('fT from school beca!!- he cou!d nt pay. Lawyers have to woik for poor plients, and doctors for poor patients, and preuchers work on long time anil tuke their 'i-ty l .J)e next world, and teachers must ake their chances in the same way. I pever knew a boy or a girl fail to get a Jittle schooling if they wanted it. Its not the tuition fee that troubles even a poor jivm, but its the loss of the boy's time at jiome wbcre bis work is needed, and its the want of books and better clothes, for a mother is a mother whether poor or rich, and she woot let ber children gp to school jit rugs or patches il she can help it. Its ibe fame trouble with a smart ambitious oy about going ( fT to college. He could ninua the tuition fees sumo way by himself or through a generous friend, bu Jbere is the board and clothes and school ijoks which is 6ve tim'ja as much. It takes too much education unyhow nowaday), and too much of everything. Too much house and furniture, too much dinings and. wiu I jnga and banquets und horses uud. furrijge and riding and sleeping and dressing too many yards of calico in a dress und too much sowing on it and trimming and financing and tucking and;; lace ringing in general. Children's clothes used to be 'changed twice a week, but I know some poor mothers who change 'em now three times a day and cun hardly pay their gashing bills. The dear little darlings must be kept so sweet. It's the strungest thing in the world that win 11 poor folks get rich they want to do more f r their pbildreo than anybody else. A man who never hud but three or four months' chance in an old Geld school and rose ubove all I obstacks and acquired riches and honour and fame, is very apt to dress his children in fine c!othia aid keep 'tin at school or at college a 1 their young life- lis ihrJ na'ure of folks to go to extremes and a big pile of money will make a fool ot must air, bidy en abort acquaintance. It's not beeu proven yet that a 'liberal djCj(op( scattered broadcast over the land, make the peojile tetter pr happier. TH) much ' sclioo i'ng makes t lie young people laeier and prouder ui.d unfiis'cin lor he com moo troubles an J buid-hips of 1 1 f College boys as a general thing are no count. They won't go to the S Id nor the workshop, for they are too stuck up or too lazy.aud 10 they Uje a profcsHou and lout found. Thoy know a little about comic sections and trigonometry and Lutiii and Grtxk and sillogisms and a little bad ol French, but what is all that worth to 'cm tod will il buy a suit of clothes or pay for dioocr. I want to see college all about and linve Vnt all tudowed, so that the CtrLCit, ambitious, studious, bojs and. gir'8 niuy have a chunce to disthguish themselver, but it ain'J one boy in twenty lliet wunts the fiance, and the other nineteen become drones in Ihe bee, hi,ve. What woold tiny bring on the block? Who wunts 'i.m? Who bids ? Twenty hoys just from .college wind fin occupation that will it pure a living. Here ure merchants atii) n asler mechanics and architects ;iml planters all want labor utid skilled work men, and nnry bid is mude. Tucy don't wunt college boyn. Why, b!x ' months sphooljng bus made ns great men us six pears. A year's schooling will lay tho foundulion for utiy boy. It will lay jt broad and deep, and he cue build on it oil his, life if he wunts to. There is too much at tention being paid to education. Jt is not as big a thing as saijie ol our people think We are spoiling- honrlreds of young men who would have made good, useful work ing boys In the fit; Id and in the workshop and the fjj'st thing we know we will have u nation of spojlt niggers. Bays I : "Mack wliut is 1 he matter with ull these young darkies that huve grown upsinpolhe war ? Whut piukes em so trifling and luzy ?' Mrckisone of the old time duikies and says ho. mournfully ; "Major, as shore as vou are born. sir. it's nottiiu' but this school bisness. Schooling js u ruinin' all these young niggers. .ou can't depend on em for anything, and they just run about and about, workin' a little here and a little clar and dey is all ruined, sir. ruined." I rend u piece the other day in the JSuton ton Messenger arguing aKajtjst atatp educa tion and free schools frotp the pen of Rev J. li. Brnnlmm, and it eun't be answered tojny o)ii)joji. It's as solid ns a rock. One nfhigfeasona that struck me' most forcibly was that it weakened Ihe homl befayeen jin rent and child, and rvj ide 'lie child fed inde pendent and weaned awny his reverence and rsjiect. It's just like a boy having fortune left him by a grandfather or rich old uncle, and he gets proud and vain, and before he gets to be twenty-one his fjiher and mother real;z? that the legacy was a curse iiistted ol a blessing. Thank good: ness, there ure no rich' uncles or grand- lutt.ers in my lumiiy, lor 1. want my children to look up to me and, their mother as long as we live, and Resides I don't be; lieve much iu legacit-s to children nohow, 1 hey ore never much account, until they have earned their own money, und even a Selfish hoy U not going toentirtuin a sepret jongjug for the o!f man's death, if the old man hasn't got a pitsiel of money to leave behind him for a division 80 lets take Ihe back track awhile und consider. Hii.t. Ar,;. Arrested. Ht fttppoteii prrprtralor of the .-irj tinder murder in jail Ejeritement, On last Sunday morning, about one mile from Ashville, two men mmied re spictively Paine and Poole were arrested, upqn utlyices from Tuylorsville that they were tho perpetrators of the recent bruta-i murder in Alexander. The exact nature of the evidence we have so fir been unable to obtain ; but it seems that a short lime before Miss Thompson was murdered Paine who is a reckless character, made inquiries abjut old Mr.Tnoinpsoii's money and where he kept it concealed. On the iay of the nuri)er he told pxrsons whom he met that he was on his way to Catawba Fuctoiy; but he failed to put in his ap pearance at that place. On the night after the milder was done we understand that he spent the night at the house of an old woman, who saw him place a large bag of silver under his pillow before retiring, and npon seeing liini lie was ooserveu ne toy her that he had robbed a horse drover und the money wus Ins booty. .Thtisday evening with certain disreputable associates among whonTj whs I'oole, he appeared in Hickory, and the party conducted thennejves jn so suspiciom a manner that many of the mer chants, fearing that their stores would be robbed, had them guarded during the entire night. 0 Friday Paine and Poole tools the train for Asheville, whither they were followid on .Saturday's train by Mr. .f. p. 'iomljiison, 0 Hickory, with a wairunt for, their urn's! When arrested Ihcy became greatly excited and alarmed,' and acted in such a nnuner us greatly to strengthen the already powcrlul evidence of ibeir guilt. Jrcut excitement prevailed in Hickory when Ihe prisoners wi re brought to hat place, uud hud the evidence azaiust Ihe two men been s icli as to huve left no doubt of th ir guilt they would have been lynched. - Tin J are' now in Tayloi svillc jail awailieg furlher developing nis. Ai. olhcr arrest bus been made, lull we have n t ItarntJ the nulne of 1 he party. Lfiioir top i . ' Q11 the orange grove of Mes-rs Iluhbard and Herndon. near I, ike Punasoffkee. Flu., ts a tree which measarvs 3 i feet in circuin ' recce, four fert from the ground, and at the ba. mcanur.i tl. PROF. SWING ON THE BIBLE. WHAT TIIK CIIIOAOO DUTNB SA.VS tpoK TUB KUr-JKCT OP ItKVIIO.V. It so hoppens thai all modern difficulties of any moment, in the direction of Ihe Holy Scriptures, are not difficult s with a rendering, but with the subjict mailer, however interpreted. T(iere should be in this ncp per$ionii eliminations of jphoh cimilers and whole b,oqk, on the ground that they make the sacred volume t"0 large to be printed in good type and still be portable. A email Bible awuys means thet the type is almost microscopic. A popular Bible should be at once portable and of lair, clear type, and to make this possible u large part of the Old Testament should be omitted from Ibe editions of the future. Not only are the laws of the Mosaic slate repealed and dead, and therefore un worthy of a place in this guide: of the pub.- lic, but they are the laws of a semi:barbar ous age, and cast no little ol their tmper fection upoq the fair pagts of the New Testament. The New Testament has 8ifr lered much from thus beip found in bad company. Those treatises are valuable as being a part of the hjstory 0 the .Jewish state, but not as being a part, much le?s a valuable part of Christianity. Many of the Hebrew luws were so unjust that their presence in the popular Bible makes it essential that each clergyman and each Sunday school teacher shall spend much lime in explaining the relation of Mosaic things to Christian affairs un ei'planatjuR to be made eusier by a withdrawal of the cuu.-e. 1 he laws about wemen and slaves are particularly unjust, und their presenpe in the good book will always complicate the inquiry : "Whut js inspiration ?" If, us a I ni' st all Christian scholars udmit, those laws were the temporary statutes of u nation temporary compromises between u horrid epoch and a kinder one in com parison, ttut Itgul literature should have lapsed into quietness along with the 11 biew, Ihe Amorite, the Jubusite, and not be spread out to-day before youth, as forming some purl of the divine tru bs to be believed. Besides the suvage injustice in seme of tin Be laws there is much that offends against the refinement of our more civiliz-d iim'8. No minister, no fumiiy dares read aloud ail of the 0 d Testament. It came from a far-off time, and jars like a discord upon ihe modern heatt. The Bible has alreudy been so deeply injurtd by the ijinirijty of its friends that now, since rage for 11 new version bus come, it is high tin a demund were mude that the best of ull books be set free from some of the weights tvliich so impede its progress. A 1AJLUR'S JQJiE. A tailor on fort street east got hold of a red hot idea the other day. He heated up his gonso to the blistering point and placed it on a bunch at his door with a sign read ing : "Qnly 25 cents." In a few njinqlrs along came an nncienMno'jing" colored man with an eye out for bargains, and as he saw the goose and read the siin he made up his mind that he hud struck it rich. lie naturally reachei out to heft his bargain, and that was where he gave hinnelf away. The taiior almost fejl Jown with his aer riri-.eM, but it utdn t hut over sixty sec onds. At ihe end of that time the victiq pntered the shop and began a sort of gym nastic performance which did not end until the taiior was a sadly mashed mm and bis shop in the greate.-t confusion. The two were fighting in front when an officer came clung ;iikJ nabbed both, and both were brought before his Honor together. The tailor appeared with a black eye and a finirer tied up in a red rar, and the African had a scratched nose and was minus two front terjh, "Well ? . qneried the court as the pair stood gazing at him. "Yhell, I shull speak first.'' replied the tailor, "I likes to have a shoke sometimes und so I put dot goose oudt dere. It. vhas all in funs, und I am werry s irry." "I c 'uldii't see whar' da fu 1 cum in," saul the other. "Ins yere han am an burned to a ouster, an' I won't 'be able to use it for two weeks." "Did you put Unit hot goose not-there for a j ke?" queried Ihe court. "Yuw it was onlv u sh ik'.'.'' ''ni vat? j on j 'kiu when you enter eit the shop and mule things hum?' he asked of the other. "No bos, I wasn't. I'm an old man an' not much giben to luffi 1' an' cn'tin' up. When let go of dat goose I made np my iiod o mash lat tailor flatter, dan a billyurd ball. It was my first ("qt for ohtr forty j'urs. hut I'd got the bulge on hint an' wbs nsin' him up when de officer step pe I p. o, boaa, J wasn't 'kin 'bent dat lime."' it 'Were you very lickltid t" hr n('cvkHl of the iailor ' .'.'yiiell, I yo tickled until he pitch into me. "Vou were the only one who fun out of it?" had ary yiiell, I 'spr.se sn;'' "JThep .you'll have to f )0 tl.e bill. J shall let him go and line you $8." "Dot isb pootty high." "Yes, but it wus a rich juke ynu know." "Maybe she vhas, but I guess I let dot goose cool ofl'i'ow. Here is five, six, seven, eight dollars, und now I shjill go home. I bid yoa goot day." THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON. . Baltimore Sun, . Although the obscuration of the moon by tho shadow of the earth is nof an un common occurrence, and is as inevitable as the revolution of the earth on its axis, yet it is an ur.rathrmuble mystery to most of those who guzo npon the phenomenon. The scientific explanation is easy enough, and is understood by every one familiar with the elmienls of astronomy, but in the pi'eserjce of the actual darkening of the lull-oibtd moon the familiar pictorial illustration of the cauce is lost in a sense of awe. Happily science has taken away the superstitious terror which used to fall alike upon the good and the wicked when the moon passed through the column of darkness which the revolving earth pro jects ou, 'nl infinite space. We look upon it with wonder, but not with dread appre hension. Barely within the memory of those who gazed upon this interesting phenomenon on Salurduy night, or rathrr on Sunday morning, bus it been witne9red under more fuvorable circumstance', A culm surpmer night, a soft, balmy air and a cloudless sky brought out a great multi tude pf spectators, and the full moon beipg scarcely pagt htr 'zenith when she first came jn pontact with the shadow, there wus po difficulty in obtaining an unpbr strucled view from ihe doors and sidewalks. A few pule stars were faintly twinkling in the oper dome, but all the lesser host were obscured by the bright moonlight. As the shadow moved across the 'shining disc, the stars began .to apseur on the darkening side, and when the obscuration was complete the veiled queen was sur rounded by a brilliant cor.stellution, which, in the eternal order of things, had been set in the heavens for her adornment. A weird spell seemed to fall npon the earth while tlie obpoi;rutjop lasted, and the face of the moon sl.one through the. shadow With a red, flickering glow, like the dimly illumi nated dial of some great celestial clock Before the phenomenon ended the mnon had diopid down towards the western horizon, mid the first rays of Spnlight were begining to touch the borders of the east. The first mark of. the shadow was seen on the eastirn edge of the moon. As the shad ow crept over the fiioon's surfuce the dark ness gradually increased until the final obtcuiution, when the darkness was most marked, revealing the greatest number pf 1 stars, w! icli stood out. fcj're and more prominently ns the obscuration increased. After the obscuration of the first half of the moon hud been accemp'h-hed, the phenomenon presented was striking. The illuminated portion of the moon was bright as usual, while the part on which the shad ow hud fallen was distinctly visibls to he pajied, eye, bat of & muII, -reddish-golden hue. "When the obscuruiion was complete the moon hung in the heavens a lurid disc. ail the stirs, little and big, standing out w'nh great distinctness, and. calling to mind the quotation : '.-Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid wit h .atcrp (if bright gpld." The to'.abscuralion of the moon was accomplished a lew minmce past 1 oclocK, and aboui 27 minutes past 3 o'clock the moon bad pa8.ed entirety oat of tlie shadow, ibe moon is eclipsed when it enters the shad ow of the shudow of the enrth; ir. other words, when the earth is enterposrd be tween it anj the pun. This can only occur at the time of full moon, or when the moon is in opposition to the sun, unj when both bodies arc at the same time near one of the moon '8 nodes. The moon cannot fce eclips ed mote that twice during the year, and it may escape eclipse lor an pntjie year alta gether. Lunar eclipses are visible to all parts (if the earth at which the bodv is above Ihr horizen at the lime of their oc- , 1. cu rn nee. The Wcsl Virginu press 11ssoci.1t i n wjl, meet in annual converliiu at Waston July 13. A printing offjoe which will have room lor I .Oi1!) com pisitors is soon to be established in Paris. There are 962 dailies 'mblishcd in the United Stale. 436 morning papers and 546 evening papers. Nearly 5,000,000 pounds of type are handled in printing o!e issue rf the 10.131 ntwapiiptr ib'w counts J. TREES UN A B0UKP4HY LINE. The question frequently arises, who owns the fruit of u tree standing near the boun dary line between two proprietor? It js gnerully supposed that the fiuit on the lipids overhanging one's land belongs to him, bat this is an entire .mistake. If a tree stands wholly on your land, although some of the roots extend into the sqil of your neighbor and derive support and nourish ment from his soil, yet he has no right to any of tjje. fruit which hangs over ihe line. Jf ha a I it jji pi s, by. force lo prevent yoij from pxkingit, he is liable for an assault and battery. The Boston Cultivator gives Judge Bennett as deciding a cape in points as follows: ' A (!adyl,jybil standing on a fieppe picking cherries which hung over Ihe line, vus forbidden to do so by the adjoin ing owner, who was at woi k in his garden, and, in Ihe scuffl-j to prevent her, she re ceived some bruises 00 ber arm, for which he Jiod the pleajure of paying the neat lit tle sum ol $100. According to ihe same authority, if your fruit falls into your neighbor's lot, you have an implitd license in law to go and pick it up, doing bill) no unnecessary damage. If, however, a frujf tree standjjlireclly on the division line, und if it is what i3 called a "line-tree," both parties own the tree and fruit in common, and neither can cut down the tree or seri ously injure it without being responsible to thp pthefr. ROMANCE OF A BAD YOUNtiJllAN. Charles W. Stickney wus a Harvard gr-.d..ate- and by profession a teapher of iBt'-SJgiv. He had a young, pretty wife wkn whenihe went to Denver sev ral years ago. In that city she won the love pf Montgomery Campau, who importuned htr to get a divorce and marry him. S'ickney was wild with j.-ulougy on hcarin;; this, but his rage subsided when h'w wife advised him to blackmail Campau, who was by threats soon inductd to sign ten notes ol 51,000 each, payable at intervals of six months. The Sfipkneys, thus provided with a gocd ii.come, settlid down in Chi cago suburb to eij y it'; J5it after two years the payments ceased. Stickney went to Denver und brought u suit on the note that wus dup. Campau resisted further ix- tortion, and mude the whole mailer public. Thv- was u heavy blow to the blackmailer, and immediately following it came an other desertion by his wife, who took all the money he possessed and departed for parts unknown. Then Stickney Brmed himself to kill Campau. hunted for him all day, found him at night ir, the parlor of his boarding-house, and in murdering him alsp slew by iicc.jilent a young bride wbu happened to be in the room. Npw York Sun. PROVERUS FOR SUBSCRIBERS. " A wise son m iketh a glad father," and a prorp.pt-paying suoscrioer causein on editof to hi,vji. ' -Fully ik j jr 1 ha I is destituted of wis dom.'' but a delii i lei l sub-crib, r C lUsttn sufTering in ihe house of a newspaper maker. "All the ways ufa man are clear in his own eyes," except the way Ihe delii.'cucnt snbscribpr hajh of not paying fcjr Js news. pupir ' Better is a little with righteousness,'' than a thousand subsci toers who fail to pay what they owe. 'A just wiisfht and balance are the Lord's," but that which is due Upon your newspaper belongs to the publishers thereof. - Better is dry mouai nd .uietnU therewith," than a long list of subscribers who cheat the printer. 'Better is the poor man that walkelh in iutegrity,"' and payetb. his sub.-cription than the tich nun who continually tellelh your devil to cull again. Hope deferred niaketh the. heart sick," is a proverb sudy real z d by the publisher who sendeth out bills. LITTLE JOHNNY ON DOG$. One time there wus a feller but a dug of a man in the maike!, ar.; the dog it was a biter After it Imd bit the feller r...i- .p .-a fiitu. 1. llirpw b plilAplin it.. and led il back to the dog 1 i.ver trad in 1 ai fce, biki ne sunt 10 uie ui'y - I. ... 1 I : 1 : - J . ' )nan, he feller dtf: ' Ole man dident yon use to huve this don ?" The dog man Inked at the do;', and he thot a while, and then he suid : " Well, vrg, I ha.d bim bout ha f the ti . and I e other haf he had mc." Then the filler hp wus fewrious mad. and he said : Wot did you sell me sech a dog is thiso for ?" And the ole man he spoke up and ed : For f4 W k ffl money." Then the feller he tuessed he wade go home if the dog was willing 3t EMORY'S FLOW MUII. In raemoty'i mellowed litfht No thorns do.we behold ; Wo soe tho flowers smiling briirht. In cups of dowy jrold. The sparkling gems flew lustre shed. And lepd bripkLPf ray ; Tho' withered, yet they are not dead. They blossom every day. Their nectared sweets have touched our lipa, And thrilled us, as of wine; As bees the richest honey jBips, From lily, rose apd vine. And we lifigM;, Ipving still, 'MJd t,hefy-ojk of sunny hours, '.'W1-418 fountain's foaming riti jf memory's hallowed flowers. Chaki.ks M. Bkehi. THE ROTI, qAtrjI. tiuuniUHler. plays the pianner. And his father played the drum, His sister played the tambourine. And his father went bomb, bomb. BITS OF AUN SENSE. A gentleman named his dog Penny, be cause he wus one sent to him. Always goes around with a long face on alligator. Yawcob Strauss. "bcissorsand lightning," shouted ao irate subscriber who could find nothing but mis pellany apd telegraphic news in hia paper. A ludy wbodrep a j;eni,len;an'f djessing gown at a rtrcent church fair now wishes to draw a good looking young man to pot it in. - Wh n Jones' boy was kicked out of suloon by his father he remarked that there uppeared to be an active temperance move ment on foot. Modem Argo. Some people have no tact 1 A newly married man in JJrookly went home the other night, and when hia wife oceped.thfi door for him he gave her a hug which nearly drove the whalebones of ber corset through her lungs. And when she yelled " murder !" the idiot tried, to sooth hpr tyr declaring that he thought jt tiff ser vant girl. Chic. . A rich and catchpenny Minnesota jusr tice, nrwly elected a dealer in drugs, amj of luu .'liing habit was waited upon by 9 long-fuvored, unassuming country swain, who wue about to become a "happy Bene dict." 't Le knot was tied in the most ap proved manner, and the "charge" woj culled for and answered as follows : " How much do you churge, squire ?" " Ve'l. the law ullows me a dollar and a half; you aay pay me what you please." "All right. Here's fifty cents ; that'll mr.he you two dollars." The squire laughed and so did the town, when it became public. A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT. Among the old Roma us there prevuiled the touching cusrom of holding the face of every new born infant toward the heavens, signify ing by thus presenting its forehead to the stars that it was to look above the world into celestial glories. This was a vain superstition ; but our holy religion dis-pels the fur.cy, and gives us a clear re. all ition of the paga.i fancy, in that we a'e taught that a tiny, fragile child may become joint heir with Christ to ao iiieor ruptio e innen.B.. ,tu. w-ttr3. turn the facs of the lit lie oms toward heaven and prepare their spirits for immor tal glory. jri.q natnre is uiore am'ahle than beauty und more agreeable than wit. " The in , n who minds his own business has a good steady imployu i Bt. Out ol every It) inhabitants in the Uuiied States 16 live in cities. G idliuess ouht to be written ia 1 tters of gold ovir'everv church door, us the con- dition of mtujb;riilli(1. Yts, the world's a stage at d wc are the actors, but did ynu ever stop to thii.k bow few ol us ever riccive un encore J In the public school of Chattan oga there is an enrollment of 2.4 ) ) pupils. A large number of immigrants nre set tling in McCulloch county, 'IVxi. The valuation of the taxable property of Ck,attanoogii is nearly S4,0X0,00O. Twelve hundred immigrants arrived irj I!j!tinnre 'edoesdjy, from EarogQ. Over Gfir tuou,md dullsrs worth of sponge was sold in Key West last week: The yield of wheat in Tvxa( year "ora W lDM lF 1 u .1 r.. " Senator Lamar has been made M L- L. D. by Washinatoo and Lee piiiver?ity, of Virgiuiu, The assessed value of real estate In ' Ttir mingbam, Ala., is f.Val.O 10. The popula tion is uearly 6,00i. The commencement rxcrrcjeef of tV. uniTrrsily of Miraiwippi, at Qxford, will extend from June 24tb to June 23th. The people of Columhui, Miaia'ppi use refosol cot 1 on seed nil for culinary purpose in preference to bug's laid.