North Carolina Newspapers

- ' - - - ' ' ' " . GASTONIA, N, C, SATURDAY,' JANUARY 14, 1882. VOLUME nr. NUMBBE 2. rv w NEWS GLEANINGS. Mississippi will have a State female College. . Georgia Jiaa 762,981 males and 779,190 1 ' females. Birmingham has hopes of a large car manufactory. 'Mississippi has four times as much tim ber as Minnesota, ' Marion county, Fla., has 23,000 acres of land in orange groves. Russian Jews are constantly fettling in all parts of Mississippi. (Fifty-five cotton mills in Georgia, and otners in process of erection. Real estate at Milledgeville, Ga., has doubled in value in the last two years. Birmingham, Ala., has raised the li cense of whisky dealers to $350 a coun- ter. ' " . . .. A bill has been introduced in the Vir ginia Senate to abolish the whipping . post. v The salary of the Mayor of Savannah has been increased from $1,500 to $2,000 a year. It is sa?d that twenty seven of the ex hibitors at Atlanta are going to establish factories (here, t There are eleven men in the Clarks Tille, Ark., jail charged with murder in in the first degree. Three Butler county, Ala., boys in one day's hunt killed fourteen foxes and twenty-two cat squirrels. Forty thousand dollars have been sub" scribed toward a proposed car manufac tory in Montgomery, Ala. - Mrs, Nancy E. Pearcc, who cut off her child's head in Iloward county, Ark.? has been adjudged insane. The street letter-boxes in San Anto nio, Texas, have been robbed so fregueat ly that the postmaster has ordered them taken down. v - . Maayt24r larl. jbelier r therr; , will be a groat advance in cotton next spring, and are holding back as much of their crops a? possible. Since 1860 Tennessee lias acquired nearly 400,000 additional population, and has made crops every year of an average annual net profit of $27,500,000. In the four States of Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee the num ber of persons employed in the manufac ture of cotton is 11,788, against 5,890 in 1870. ' ., The "Mayor of Birmingham, Ala. has given orders to the police lorce of that eity to require all merchants to discon tinue the sale of cigars and tobacco on ' Sunday. The father of Rev. Richard Jordan of . Rhea county, Tenn., is still living, at the age of 100. His son Is seventy-five. His wife is eighty-seven, but looks older than ' her husband. ' - . The Cincinnati Southern railroad has contracted with the Glen Marj (Tenn.) mines for twenty car loads of coal per day for their engines, at seven cents per bushel untcreened V The new capital building at Austin, , Texas, is to be 366 feet high, 566 feet long, and J85 feet in depth, the seventh highest building in the tforld, and the second in the United States. The Trustees of the Georgia Academy for the Blind have purchased ground at Macon for the erection of an academy for the colored blind. The State appro priated $10,000 for the purpose. In North Carolina there are fifty tl ree cotton mills in operation, and six others are in progress and nearly completed. There are also four or five woolen mills in operation in " the old North State." A mulatto woman named Fannie Crawford ha? just returned to her farm in Mississippi, with- fifty negroes from Sump ter county, Ala. This year, about closing time, she worked 300 hands on her farm, which she manages herself. With increased capital pouring into New Orleans, with the jetties opened for the largest vessels, with four railroads running there, and at least three more on the waythe Times-Democrat wishes the whole world " a happy New Year." - Tie Vicksburg and Ship Island and the Memphis and Vicksburg7 railroads have leased 600 penitentiary convicts from the Mississippi State Board of Pub lic Work which are to be divided be tween the twe roads and put to work near Vicksburg. A gtcd deal of syrup mide in Alaba ma this season is found to be unfit for use because the sugar caho from which it was made was grown in cow-pens. The stalks of the cane were, unuf unllj fine, but the flavor of the syrup is said to be absolutely nauseous. Memphis Appeal : Mrs, Erwin, who is mentioned as the "Southern Florence I RHn-liinnnln A'.nA at TTim fair illn Ala recently. During the war she had hos pitals wherever the army of the Tennes see could be reached,?"'" ter t! Bho establ ished an a of Confederate soldi ... 1 . j . 1 , n is reported tnat.iue -uumUiuvw. the great nail manufacturers of Wheel ing, West Virginia, are arranging to come to Birmingham, Ala., where in co- J partnership with Mr. DeBardeleben, they propose to enter largely into the mrniu- facture of nails and gther irons, There are 1,000 Indinns yet in the Everglades of Florida. They speak their own language, but by frequent inter course with the white people at the trad ing posts, on Lake Okeechobee, have be come civilized. They are friendly and honest in their dealings with the whites. The extent of the manufacture- of "pure olive oil" from cotton seed is in- dicated by export statistics from New Orleans, Of 6,000,000 gallons shipped thence during 1879-80, eighty-eight per cent was sent te the Mediteranean and French ports, and one amount to Italy. Phillips, Marshall & Co. of Londoni have purchased 1,300,000 acres of land from the state of Mississippi. The lands lie mostly in the Yazoo delta, and com prise some of the richest cotton and timber land in the South. It is the in tention to improve, cultivate and colo nize these lands. ' , uon. j. i', uunninguam or luiton, Ark., has invented a cotton-picking na chine that, pulls off the cotton bolls. limbs and leaf, and then separates them, liie horse and wngon pass over the rrws that have been picked ar no Atlanta Coustitution : The cost of the Exposition was $250,000, of which $150, 000 in round figures were put in build ings and improvements and the balance paid out for running expenses, printing, etc. The receipts were from $220,000 to $250,000, of which $115,000 came from stock, $15,000 from privileges, $15,000 fr. m entry fees, $90,000 from gate re ceipts, and $5,00J from miscellaneous resources. Eastman (Ga ,) Times : L. L. Burch, of Telfair county, killed a bald cade last week which measured eight feet from tip to tip of its wings. One of the feet was sent to this office, and the claws from point to point measured eight and one-third inches. This monstrous bird had a grown sheep down when Mr. Burch discovered it, and forced him to relax his hold by sending a riflo ball through his eaglcship, . Du .'ham Recorder : The farmers in Eastern Carolina seem to be tardy in fin ishing up the year's crop, hence it is al. most impossible to employ a man to drive deer. Sport in this line, however, is fine. Deer , are abundant, so mcch so that migratory sportsmen believe them to be more numerous in the everglade counties of Tender, Jones, Onslow, Cra ven, Pamlico and Carteret than in any part of the South, -The Dempsey family and the NorrU family, of Cherokee county, Ala,, have long been enemies. The older members have spent a life time in continued bick erings, and have wearied of it. But the boys have taken up the cudgel, and here is the result: Last Week two of the Dempsey boys and two of the Norris met to fight it out Both of the Norris boys were stabbed, the younger mortally, The families stand high in tho commu nity, and great excitement has grown out of tho difficulty. Jacksonville (Fla.,) Union : During the month of December there were 6, 200,000 feet of yellow piue lumber shipped from this port, against 3,318,CC0 feet for same month last year, an increase last month of 2,882,000 feet over the amonnt shipped during the same month in 1880. The above does not include lumber shipped north via Fernandlna, over the Fernandina and Jacksonville railroad. During the year just close there were, not including that shipped via Fernandina, 68,887,451 feet of lum ber shipped from this port, against 41, 719,255 feet shipped during 1880, and 33,978,938 shipped in 1879, " an increase in 1881 over 1880 of 17,118,196 feeand oyer 1879 of 24,858,513 feet. Sttccess of JHgh Fanning in Belgium. The magniflcont farming of Belgium on poor soil is due to, first, the po lection of both plow and spade work second, eaoh field has a perfection t shape given to it to facilitate cultivate and drainage ; third, most careful hue banding of the manure; fourth, th great variety of crops, especially of in dustrial plants, suoh as colza, flax, to baeoo, bom, chicory, etc., fifth, bocop" of loa iuf onte. 8 Aluiuugu not favorable to meadows, yet, taking the second crop into account, one-half ofjhe available superficies is devoted to the keeping of live stock. Seventh,! house-feeding of cattle, by wldch thes lu" I anwn irinn KrvtK mn ,;n. ,! I Vfmanure. Eighth, minute weeding Thnl n i y - . . " Belgian laborer goes with his whoelbar-1 row to the villam to bnv a nnnlr of guano, undertaking to'pay for it aftejrv' the harvest The dealer trimta him. f gives fcim oredit, having a lioq on the orop produced by the aid of hi mnnnrA In November he flretflhis monv thi produce has been doubled and the land improved. The small farmer does jusj s the laborer does. Eaoh opens on aol oount with the manure-deafer, jwho if the best of all bankers. Flemish small farmers invest from 83,000,000 to $4,000 J 900 in guano every year, and quite ai much in other kinds of manure. M. D Laveley gays : " Tha - FlemiKh-fcmire ..viauvau luriunuonaiy pouecH every uwmoi bow u half of thia ge from the towns ; he guards his man- 1 J4re like a treasure, puts a roof over it) i v 1 Drevent the ram and siinslnnft irom spoiling it ; he gathers mud from rWers uid canals, the excretions of aniaale along the highroads and the ways foi conversion into phosphates." Corres pondence Chicago Tribune. j uromer woraners s l'lniosopny. i "Doan' seek to make angels of yen selves," quietly began Brother Gardng J - As the meetuiK opened. "In de ace dis am no sort o' kentry fur ange an in de next place you would mighty lonesome. De man or woi who becomes so sweet an' soft an' g dat dey expect ebery minit to rise up fly doan' take so much comfort as fcki who feel dat it will be a cms shave T Ii'lfA fnfAnl 1n. Via will wm-k in fn'nnnnAB of bone fur ebery eight ounces of meat, if I doan' watch him. I like to have del bootmaker tell me dat American oowskini t am French calf, an I am pleased when de sto' clerk warrants fo' cent colikcr td wash like sheet-iron. De man who ami I not a leetle wicked has no chance to feej r sorry ; no use for prayer ; no need of I churches. He cannot say to a fellow- e man : 'I wronged you I'm sorry y shake.' - f. "De man who neber sins makes f poor nex' doah neighbur. Do ,womar who keeps feelin' of her shoulders fo sel if wings have started makes a pool mother an' a wuss housewife - If yot have neber injured a man an' gone tc him an' axed his pardon an' made ur you doan' know what real happinec am. T en yot ness o tote men feu M keep you convinced dat you must help to support churches an' pay olus atten Bhun to what de preachers say or you'll be left behin' when de puroeshun starts." . A Greenhorn's Irish Experience. . A Btory is told of an Englishman who lauded in Dublin filled with apprehen sion that the life of any loyal subject ol Her Majesty was not worth a farthinr there and thereabouts. The Lono Leaguers, he imagined, were all blood thirsty assassins, and all that sort of thing. But it was his duty to travel is the land a duty he approached with feat and trembling. . p. Now there happened to be on his rout4 a number of townshe names of which begin with the suggestive By -"Kil."4 There was Kilmortin, an In his ignorance of geographic? clature his affrighted senses were, anew on hearing a fellow-passer the railway carriage remark to anow as follows : "I am just after bein' over to Eilpat rick." "And I," replied the other, "am afther bein over to Kilmday." " What murderers they are 1 1 thought the Englishman. " And to think that they talk of their assassinations so pub licly I " But tho conversation went on. "And where are ye goin' how?" asked assassin No. 1. " I'm goin' home, and then to Kill more," waa No. 2's reply. The English man's blood curdled. " " Kilmore, is it ? " added No. 1. " You'd betther be comin' along wid me to Kilumaule." It is related that the Englishman left the train at the next station. .- Lord Dxrbt haa ten men servants in the house and about forty more domes tics feeding daily at his board. Suppos ing to-morrow he and his wife should agree to struggle along on $100,000 a year he could save at least $800,000 a year; while were the Dukes of West minster, Devonshire and Bedford to do likewise their savings, would be still greater. Supposing Lord Derby to save at this rate for thirty years what an arch millionaire he wonld become I v Th man who waa " spell-bound" ob tained relief by consulting thd diction ary, . , - UNTIED THE BOft hour of twelve bd Hed, - - J. ojt tu oluilnod up lu tho brn, ; luther w( In bed. . I ', " klxtm. In hit mind, ht'i won. fbimt)f heuM: ' cre and bonds that I'll call rnlna "fiber dear pa Is dead I" I1 (en ni changed on Uiat front atop; iiellvo virion fled; ftg w tearing from the barn, rpn waa out of bed. . ...,U U4 ....... .t tbe oanlno take. . rom off bit Wndor part '., i mouthful of (teak. , amed of golden ponnda no more, iwund upon the head ; ten that awaln would fain ait down ushed ber pa waa dead. i JJU.J J J 1M . on the Idol of Juggernaut. tuck has been made npon the nggernaut, at Pooree, the most lirine in India, by a body of i N , otera, who numbered twolve three women, and were almost e of nudity, succeeded in en 6 temple, and tried to force ''into the inner recesses. Al pward of 1,000 pilgrims were' hey were not expelled without truggle, in the course of which .deryas trampled to death. arrested, and sentenced - -month's imprisonment.' ry showed that they belonged 5 of Hindoo dissenters lately i the Sumbulpore district, and Kumbhupatios from the fact i in f jj i .".l mowers wear ropes of bark sir waists. ege that their religion was re-ixty-four persons in 1664 by a ate, wkom they style Alekne w ; is,' the Lord whose attri-aot- be described in writing, aye in the existence of the ) of Hindoo deities, but do their4mages, saying it is im represent a Supreme Being ne has ever seen. They are into three classes, two of ranee the World and make no of caste, while the third lead i. Then habits ae -said to oo of tho futility of their relig-' the whole world wonld. then ihe truth. Calcutta Gazette. axons were the most faithful he Emperor until the battle of he chief city of Snxony, though pital. There at the moment leon's 60,000 was closing in for ,ble triumph the Saxon corps te field and fixed into their mradcs. This decided the 1 Napoleon, having made his tions and despising the un- enemy, had retired to cat his n peace. He was finishing a leg bn, a meat wliich he never ven n until his duty of tho day was hen on aide delivered the fateful it "Well," he remarked with 're, " one must never ent until hall have rrow. I la tout." worst the - wuuj " he didn't im, as in the glorious days of t, Austerlitz and Jena, and while sea oouldn't be replaced, tho ig levies of Austria, Russia, f Bavaria, Saxony and the Rhine by British gold renewed theni uly, until finolly, though they hing but defeat, by Bheer force jers, like Grant at Petersburg, peror's victorious- legions were o a mere guard. Then came the lay of Fontainebleau, when the j had mastered Europe abdicated :e and relinquished his glorious IS Iundred Victims of Whisky. Corwin during her voyage to anded on St Lawrence island, ,trders to investigate the whole uitrtfvation of the natives. At tlie l- village at whioh they landed all were so also at the r,econd, where fifty i bodies were counted, nearly wn males. At another place j-nien, women and ehildren V -ad. At tho next settlement, tws jdead bodies, and at the following thiiy were found. . All the inhabitants on ihe north side of the island, where whsky trailers sold liquor, are dead netpne escaping. The general starva tion' occurred two years ago last winter. Bine then the presence of the Corwin in tie Arctic haa broken up this inhu man1 whisky trading. The empty whisky kegi are seen strewn all about The toui number of dead bodies found on St Lawrence island waa over 600. The survivors say that white trailers from Honolulu sold whisky, which the natives bought and got drunk, ' remaining bo during the season for . laying in their winter supply of walrus and seal. San Francittco Alt a. Ths Imperial Library at St Peters burg contains over 1,000,000 volumes. Among the treasures of the institution is Voltaire'a library, many of the vol umes of which bear the former owner s autograph notes. A peripatetio lecture upon the library, its contents and asso ciations, is given twioe aweek (onoe on Sunday), which usually secures a much interested group of listeners, and sug gests the thought that perhaps the plan might be followed with benefit to the publio elsewhere. IminlgfatioiT Statistics. The total immigration to this country from lft'20 tn 1SS1 aTnr.nrfnl in in ana 189. Tho year 1820 is thd gonesis of m PTOwpura, ub previous k mat time no statistics of immigration were officially kept The total number of immigrants for the years ending June 30, 1880 and 1881, will be seen by the following: -.w...... ...i. 1HBX 669,431 ily far the largest number arrived at XT V 1 1 1 . . , -. .new Aura, me ugures 01 tne .Bureau oi "31 were 400,871; tho wun, or numbers is o they aggregated .wo three other ports wuere me arnvais were relatively neavy: Baltimore, 40,017; Boston and Charles- wwn, juoss., 4i,ui; and i'niladelphia, 34.865 leaving 41,491 who arrived at ii. ii ai i, . ... uiiriy-uuee otner ports, a statement as to the ages of the immigr nts for the year 1881 will be interesting in this Under 15 years of age ......., Fi f teen aud under 40 years of age. . . Forty years of age and upward. , .... i.."i53,480 4r,tMa 61,456 xi is worthy or note tiiat OTPd till" TiQ lf rf .Via immi'mwrita nv v v uuuuuinuio cue well .1 An . , i , uiiuui u vearH oi uge, or, m omer woras, of men who. if they remained in Europe. would be subject to military duty. It cians that of the 10,808,189 immigrants wno nave come to ine united otates since 1820 no to June 30. 1881. Ireland and Qerrniinv liavA fnrnisliA1 nm. 3,000,000 eiw.h. The totals for the seven grand divisions, made by the Bureau of Europe .1,... 537,441 11,991 Africa , o ulcus tics, are oa toiinwH- ; America. . 127.535 lalaiidn of the Atlantic 1 (tin uwiiuuu: , j.,,, ...... 1 v.ll All other countries and island.. . i. 1 '139 loiai... ..6C9,43 From this statement it is apparent that RnrnnA fnmialio1 AitaMIio IT. : Total "X u.uiuu. Ul L1XX3 1111- migrants of the year ended June 30, 1881. The distribution,, as7 regards Eu rope, was as herewith given: England 65,I77Malta...v.. i Ireland..... 72,342 Netherlands 8,597 Sootland 15.1C8: Norwar. 22,705 Wales l,027)Portii8al J71 JaleofMan 4 Konmmiia 30 Austi-I. 21,109 Busahisv...,,..., 4,865 Be!ginm.. i,T)FiiiIncl.,.:.,',., 176 Denmark. 9,117 Poland.... ...... . 6 614 France '6,227, Spain... .'.;...,,.. 'isi , . , , 1 OV Gibraltar 5 Switzerland...... 11 wn 18Turkov in Europe. 72 J, Europe.. 527,441 ;.ftenatrerie was attacked "by a lion in Birmmgham, Eng land. He entered the cage in order to clean it To separate the animals from that part of the cage that was to bo cleaned a wooden panel was used. It reached from the top to the floor of the cage, oiul was about two inches in thick ness.' The nnderkeeper, Harris by name, does not appear to have absolutely closed the panel as he entered. Ihe largest lion a powerful animal named "Wallaco" sprang toward Harris, the sliding panel guve way from the pressure and tho mau stood unprotected in front of tho lion, who with its mouth seized the poor fellow bv the shoulder. Harris, who had a broom iu his hand, plnckily defended himself for a few moments by striking the lion with the bamllo of the broom. But tho lion, clutching him with one of its paws, dashed him to the ground ami began gnawing at Jus body, from which the blood was freely flowing. The lion tamer, Alieamonsa, who was at the opposite sido of the hall, hearing tho commotion, ran to the cage. W ith the utmost courage and coolness he entered the don, and twice fired his pistol, which was loaded with blank cartridges. All tho time Harris was still beneath the lion, who was tearing' his flesh. The pistol firing had no effect whatever ou the animal; and seeing this, the lion tamer, who had with him a loaded whip began striking the nfcimal with the butt end of it ou tho head. He dealt tho hon four or five blows, and the hist, hitting tho animal with terrific force between the eyes, appeared to stun it. The lion loosed Harris, who was instantly dragged out of tho cage. He was bleeding pro fusely, but was not quite- uueonscious. "King Henry Y1IL" Palace, wima nnv nf vniir readers visit Lon don, I want them to go to No. 17 Fleet street, where they can for sixpence pay their respects to King Henry V1IX ; sit in . one of Cardinal Wolsey's chairs ; see their face in Anne Boleyn's looking glass, and, if it is winter,, warm their toes at the same fireplace where that virtuous old tyrant did his. This mag nificent saloon, restored and redeco rated, is now presented to the spectator in preoiselythe condition in which it existed in the sixteenth century. The gorgeous and elaborate enrich ments of the beautiful ceiling, with the old insignia of royalty, and the carved oak paneling on the walls, combine to form a series of embellishments as fresh and salient as during the period of its ancient grandeur. It is now a barbers shop, and John Carter is proprietor ! London letter. VTEiiii," exclaimed Mrs. Goodingtou as she put down the glass, of water in disgust " perhaps they re right ; maybe it isn't delirious to health, but it's un parablo enough to the taste, goodness knows. It's perfectly contagious, and I d as lief drink so much bulge water. V by can't they stop the collusion of that nasty Figgin Brook, I wonder ; and I wonder, too, if swallowing elergy, as they call it ia wholesome. Guess if they had to drink it themselves, instead of Apollo and Vicious water, they wouldn't think it wasn't delirious." And the old lady scowled an unwonted scowl at the " unparable " beverage that badly became her usually serene countenance. Boston lYanscript. HUMOKS OF THE DAT. . A fruit of the battle-field grap. , A LotjisvuiTiE belle has in her parlor a) beautiful embroidered motto, " E Plurl bus, yum, yum." X Last words of the balloonist : 'It's all up with me." Last words of the gosling: "It's all down with me." .There are some days when 70a can't lay up a cent, and other days when you can't get hold of a cent to lay up. " :'' It is more blessed to give than to re ceive, when a kick from a No. 10 boot is . the question at issue. Steubenville Herald. Customer " Tou say that those fig ures are life size ? My dear sir, they seem very small." Artist "Perfectly correct, sir; you know ' life is short'" Why doth the festlTe Injun squaw Improro each shining minute And scratch her head from morn to night f Because there's millions in it. San Framcix Waif. " Yv.a " AT! aim Ail Ttrrnm 'nn 1 ways find me with a pen in my hand. I'm a regular penholder, my boy. "Let'a see," said Fogg, musingly, "a penholder is usually a stick, isn't it?" Bottom Transcript. TvrrxKLR. twinkle, diminutive type ol nebula r-nnnjtriwitlAn . How I meditate upo your composition, Sltqated above this oblate spheroid at lach as altl- In similitude an infinitesimal crystallisation of car- Itnn in tha Kin nm . SWf fls.. n...B " v.hv viuj icuu. 11 ty 1 m,m - Vn .im 1 : -.1 L ' i-ii, mu imp vnrmiiig am vi coo - juu , uu, jvu uui 11 r o uii, ifi i vi- legeof paying for all my little supper and carriages after the theater, and you'll be envied by all the boys. ; That ought to satisfy you." ' .But, your honor," says the accused, mho to a uaoo ui, rjiuuiuo. xxxo honor"?" The accused "He always said he wanted to commit suicide, but that he hadn't the i-nnmcm. Rn thftn T helped him !" His honqr "But whyr afterwards, did yon take his watoh 1" Tho accused (with a shrug) ''Why, because he didn't need it any niore V -French paper. ' ximita hod a llLLlt? wiutnuj bright girl of seven, was talking to her . said, loud enough for everybody to hear,' "you can, talk real plain, can't you?. Ul UflUBQ X USUI, JL Iftllll J , f Jw V think I .wasn't old enouffh to talk sister the otner nignt, ana jvu wf saying, 'Oo tweet sing, 00 ! Oo 'ovey dovey, turn tiss oor own tweet Siddy,' so much, that I wasn't sure but you had a impegiment in yonr " Pnnv was excused ana Air. K,Mno-ir was carried out on" a shoveL - Steubenville Herald. "I comb over to see about your boy," said a neighb&r last evening. "He's very troublesome about my house. He has been throwing rotten apples into my front yard and calling my wife 'Old Molly Grubs.'" "And I was going over to seo you about your boy, was the rejoinder. "He chalked my wood shed all over with a picture of my wife driving me out of the back door with a kettle of water in one hand and a broom in the other." "Is that so? Then I go in for civil service reform within our owu families." The boys never knew what they were " licked ,r for that night -NcwJIaven Register. Europena Street Cars. The street cars of the continent ar a bard lot Most of them are run with out a track, on the flat paving stones, and occasionally they go out of their way to deliver passengers. In Turin, I think it was, where the small wheels ot the car went rattling over the stones in such a aueer way as to make one feeble looking lady put her hand suddenly to her neck and exclaim: "Oh, my poor back i" yet that suave conductor poUtely asked where we were stopping, and, on. ascertaining, trotted us around two extra corners and left us at a hotel, glib as it he were and omnibus. In Milan ther have stone tracks that is, two rows of flat stones, each about two feet wide, run down the middle of every street, and 1 wion para meet tneT servo iui nine - ---- . have to turn out and rattle your bones oveT the stones. Correspondent ln dianapolis Journal Inmates of Almshouses. There is a prevalent idea that th almshouses, for the most part, shelter the unhappy and guiltless poor, whorj unmerciful disaster has followed fas and followed faster until it has chased them into this lost refuge people who have come from vine-covered cottages, or tidy rooms up one flight of stairs in tenement houses, with ab Bible or the table and a pot of flowers ui tha window ; or even from luxurious homes) desolated by commercial panics. As matter of fact, the great majori ol American indoor paupers belong to whaft are called the lower classes, and seek the almshouse not because of commer cial disaster, but because of very com mon vices. , Too Much Learning. vhat did you do with that letter that was on my table ?" asked Qua D. Smith, of the colored boy who cleans np the room. , , I tuck it to de postoffice, aah, and put it in de hole." " What did you do that for ? Did yon not seo there was no address on the e- 'jgaaarwasnowtin' on de vftl opo, but I 'lowed yer did dat ar on put pcU so I oouldn't tell who yer was writin' to. l'se an edicated negro, I is, Texaa Sit ings, .