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. • * . The Times. PUBLISHER EVERY WEDNESDAY AT RALEIGH, N. C. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year, - - - Six months, _ _ . Three months, Address all communications to $2.00 1.00 “THE TIMES,” Raleigh, N. C. VOL. I. Raleigh Post Office. John Nichols, Postmaster. Note Changes in Arrival and Departure of Mails. Office hours: 7:30 a. m. to 7:00 p. m. Sundays, 2:30 to 3:30. Money Order Office: 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Registered Letter Office: 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. The front doors of the P^st Office remain open day and Light. SCHEDULE OF MAILS. Northern—Through—Fast freight— R. & G. R. R.—Arrive, 8:20 a. m. Norfolk—(Special)—Fast freight— R. & G. R. R.—Arrive, 8:20 a. m. Close, 5:50 p. m. yortbern—Through and Way—Reg ular mail—R. & G. R. R.—Arrive, 8 p. m. Close, 8 a. m. ♦Fayetteville, Hamlet, &c.—Regular mail—R. & A. A.-L. R. R.—Arrive, 8:30 a. m. Close, 7:15 p. m. Eastern and Northern—Regular mail—N. C. R. R.—Arrive, 3:25 p. m. Close, 1:20 p. m. Western and Southern States—Reg ular mail—N. C. R. R.—Arrive, 1:50 p. m. Close, 3:10 n. m. HOKBw ROUTES. Ragle Rock. Stanhope, &c.—Arrive, 6 p. m. Wednesday and Saturday. Close 9 p. m. Monday and Thursday. Leachburg and Gully’s Mill—Arrive 7 p. m. Wednesday and Saturday. Close 9 p. m. Tuesday and Friday. Myatt’s Mills, Averasboro, &c.— Arrive 5 p. m. Monday and Thursday. Close 6 a. m. Tuesday and Friday. Hayes’ Sto v e, Fish Dam and Red Mountain—Arrive 7 p. m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Close 9 p. in. Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Hutchinson’s Store and Rogers’ Store—Arrive 7 p. m. Monday and Friday. Close 9 p. in. Sunday and Thursday. Collection from letter boxes twice daily, at 6 a. m. and 12 m. Registered mail closes half an hour before closing the regular mails. The Post Office Department desires that every letter or parcel deposited for registration shall have on the out side the ’eof the name and full address of the sender, preceded by the word “from.” No letter or parcel will be registered unless this request be com plied with. Box holders are requested not to entrust their keys to children or other irresponsible parties. Much annoy ance and inconvenience might be avoided by a strict compliance with this ru.e. The making and use of keys tc letter boxes is a violation of law. Extra keys will be furnished on application at the office. |^“When the Stamp Department is closed stamps, Ac., can be obtained at the General Delivery. ♦This mail makes close connection at Hamlet with trains on the C. C. Road for Wilmington and Charlotte. Our Governments. OFFICERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. THE EXECUTIVE. Chester A. Arthur, of New York, President of the United States. Frederick 2. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, Secretary of State. Charles J. Folger, of New York, .Secretary of the Treasury. H. M. Teller, of Colorado, Secre= itary of the Interior. Robert T. Lincoln, of Illinois, Secretary of War. Wm. E. Chandler, of New Hamp shire, Secretary of the Navy. Timothy 0, Howe, of Wisconsin, Postmaster General. B. Harris. Brewster, of Pennsyl vania^ Attorney General. THE JUDICIARY. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, Chief Justice. • Samuel F. Miller, of Iowa, John M. Harlan, of Kentucky, Stephen J. Field, of California, Wm. B. Woods, of Georgia, Joseph P. Bradley, of New Jersey, .Stanley Matthews, of Ohio, Horace Gray, of Massachusetts, . Samuel Blatchford, of New York, Associate J ustices. OUR STATE GOVERNMENT. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Thomas J. Jarvis, of Pitt, Gov ernor. James L. Robinson, of Macon, Lieutenant Governor. W. L. Saunders, of New Hanover, Secretary of State John M. Worth, of Randolph, Treasurer. Donald W. Bain, of Wake, Chief Clerk. Hal. M. Worth, of Randolph, Teller. W. P. Roberts, of Gates, Auditor. Thomas S. Kenan, of Wilson, AU torney Genoral. John C. Scarborough, of Johnston, Superintendent ofPublic Instruction. Johnstone Jones, of Burke, Adju tant General. , J. McLeod Turner, Keeper of the Capitol. Sherwood Haywood, of Wake, State Librarian. JUDICIARY. . SUPREME COURT. W. N. H. Smith, of Hertford, Chief Justice. Thomas Ruffin, Thomas S. Ashe, Associates. t W. II. Bagley, of Wake, Clerk. t R. H. Bradley, of Wake, Marshal. en t arterr CAMPAIGN ECHOES. He Times. the an. GRAND REPUBLICAN RALLY. Enthusiastic Gathering at County Line in Davie County. 3,000 People Present—Speeches by Hon. James H. Harris, Dr. J. G. Ramsay, Dr. S. Angle and A. S. Richardson. “MY GOD, ABERNETHY!” ‘ A large and enthusiastic gathering of colored Republicans met at Coun ty Line, Davie county, on Saturday, the 29th day of July, being the an* niversary of the Annual Grand .March of the colored people at that place. The names of several promi nent speakers had been announced in advance to deliver addresses on the issues of the day, in consequence of which some 3,000 people were pres ent, fully one third of whom were whites. The meeting came to order at noon, and Alexander Carson, Esq., was called to the chair. The chairman then introduced Dr. S. Angle, of Eagle Mills, who came forward and addressed the meeting in a ringing speech, heartily endorsing the Liberal movement, and dealing some telling blows against the Bour bon Democracy of the State. Hom. James H. Harris was next introduced to the meeting and re sponded in a speech of an hour and a half with marked effect, eliciting frequent and enthusiastic applause from the large assemblage. Harris’ speech was acknowledged by all present to have been one of his hap piest efforts, and his arraignment of the present oppressive system of county government was full of sound reasoning and unanswerable argu. ment. He said this system was only one of the many obnoxious acts of the Bourbon Democratic element, all tending to the perpetuation of the machine, and the oppression of the poor toiling masses of both colors, and both political parties. That the day of retribution had come, and the people all over the State were rising in their might, and by an over whelming majority at the polls next November would rebuke this viola= tion of their rights, and strike a death blow to class rule in North Carolina. As to the cry of “nigger domination,” he said, that had already been ef fectually disposed of. In the first place, there were nine white men to one negro in the State, and he (the negro) a comparatively ignorant one at that. And if there were ever any fears in that respect, either fancied or real, entertained by the Bourbon Democracy, that was finally settled by the action of the great lights of that party, notably such men as Merrimon, Vance and Bell, who in last summer’s campaign were in such “brotherly accord” with Price, John son, Hood and others. That Capt. Gudger (coz. to Zeb. of investigation committee fame) canvassed with Cassar Johnson, a colored man “so black that a piece of charcoal would make a white mark on him.” That Bishop Hood and Vance canvassed together, and Capt. W. T. R. Bell tipped his hat to Joe Price, colored, on the speakers platform in Tucker Hall, congratulated him, and in vited him to call on him should he ever visit King’s Mountain. With this record, made scarcely a year ago, he thought the cry of “nigger domi nation” come with rather ill grace. He spoke at length on the liberal movement,inaugurated by the masses, and which was the outcome of a long series of oppression and tyranny, by which the people had been systemati cally ignored, and by which the fa vored few now managed the govern mental affairs of the State, from the Governor down to a school commit teeman. He endorsed the move-* ment and exhorted his people to sup port solidly the Coalition ticket. In regard to prohibition he said the Bourbons now claimed that the issue was a dead one, having been buried beneath 116,000 majority. But “My God Abernethy,” says he, “what to do the Bourbons care for a majority. ’ [Prolonged applause, and cries of “that’s so,” that’s so.”] In proof of the assertion he instanced various acts, among them the action of the county commissioners of thirteen counties in the State, who, irrespon sible to the people, appointed and kept in office by the organized ma chinery of a Bourbon Legislature, had, in violation of the expressed will of the people, virtually enforced the prohibition bill by refusing to grant license to dealers in their re spective counties. He also referred to the suppression of a large per centage of the vote in the State, (especially that of the colored peo ple,) by means of fraud and intimi dation, and by which the will of the majority was subverted, and made to subserve the base ends of the Bour bon minority. A. S. Richardson, of Salisbury, also spoke, urging the people to sup port the Liberal ticket, and endors ing the platform of the Liberal party. Dr. J. G. Ramsay made the closing address, endorsing the policy of the Liberal party, and urging an active and aggressive canvass. He was for “carrying the war into Egypt,” and exhorted the Republicans and Lib erals never to desist till they had planted their battle flag on the ram parts of the enemy, inscribed with the watch-words of the coming con test, “Local self-government, a free ballot and a fair count.” RALEIGH, N. CL AUGUST 9, 1882 The speaking being over, on mo tion, the meeting adjourned. Good order prevailed throughout, and the addresses were listened to with marked attention. The people are alive to their interests in this section, and will be heard from on election day in tones which the Bourbons will never forget. Those of the opposi tion who have counted on any disaf fection among the Republicans, will be sorely disappointed. The Repub- Ircan vote will be solid almost to a man for the Coalition ticket, and we aicVeceiving large accessions of Lib eral every day. An old gentleman, by the name of Sparks, came all the way from Yadkin county to attend the meeting, as he said, “just to hear Jim Harris.” He has heretofore been a Democrat of the deepest dye, but says he will never in future support any prohibitionist for the Legisla ture, and has no use for Vance or Robbins. He is a man of character and influence, and is only one of the many who are rapidly leaving the ranks of the fossilized Democracy. Next week I will give you some campaign incidents from our section of a general character. To say the Bourbons are mad and desperate up here, is a very mild way of putting Justices of the Peace of Northampton county, from 1868 to the time of the adoption of the new system of county government, as appears from the affi davits of qualification filed with the Register of Deeds : Samuel Calvert, Rep., qual. ’68, white. Jesse Flythe, “ “ “ “ J. A. Buxton, “ “ “ “ Sol. Parker. “ “ “ “ S. N. Buxton, “ “ “ “ G. D. Holloman, “ “ “ “ E. W. Brittle, Dem., “ John R. Drake, Rep., “ “ “ W. H. Burgess, J. W. Newsum, J. W. Conner, B. Lankford, A. E. Peele, J. R. Mason, Jas. W. Grant, J. T. Wheeler, Sol. Parker, R. C. Parker, J. W. Newsum, Dem.. Rep., Dem. Rep. W. J. Maddry, Dem. T. W. Mason, “ W. F. Kidd, G. D. Holloman,Rep.. L. Gilliam. “ the situation. Junius. The Voice of Johnston. At the County Convention Johnston, held at Smithfield, on for the 29th ult., to appoint delegates to the District Congressional Convention, the following preamble and resolu tions were unanimously adopted : As enunciated in our declaration of rights, we hold that all political power is invested in, and derived di rectly from, the people ; and that all government of right originates from, and is founded upon, their will; that they should have the exclusive right to regulate the internal government and police thereof; the spirit and in terest of which evidently is, that the people should have the election of all their officers from the highest to the lowest; therefore 1. Resolved, That we view with alarm the acts and tendency of the Bourbon Democracy in abridging the rights of the people, by depriving them of the election of justices of the peace, county commissioners, school committeemen, &c. Also, in the many new offices they are con tinually creating, as for instance, at the last General Assembly, county superintendents of public instruction, bridge commissioners, Ac., not a single provision is made for the election of any of these new officers by the peo ple, but all are to be appointed by the General Assembly either directly or indirectly, which is contrary to the spirit of true democracy or re publicanism. 2. That, aside from their unjust gerrymander of the Congressional and Senatorial Districts in North Carolina, the Bourbon Democracy have even gerrymandered the princi pal cities and towns of the State, and in a manner that, it would seem, would make even Bourbonism blush with shame—making one vote in many instances, in the same city or town, count as much as six others— all simply to get and perpetuate Bour bon control. 3. The Bourbon Democracy have shown by their acts and class iegisla* tion that they are no friends to the common laboring people, and unwill ing to trust them, even with the elec tion of their officers. 4. We therefore appeal to all rea sonable and true Democrats to unite with us in the coining election in our efforts to restore to the people the election of all their officers, and such other ‘rights as they have been de prived of by Bourbon rule—thus hurling from power these enemies of true democracy. The following executive committee for the county was appointed, to-wit: P. T. Massey, chairman; A. K. Dun can, Elijah Parrish, H. A. Hodges, J. B. Jernigan, M. Bizzell, J. D. Massey, W. L. Graves, J. T. Stans cill, R. M. Barber, J. W. Narron and Braddock Pearce. “THE OPPRESSION OF NEGRO RULE IN EASTERN COUNTIES.” “All Cry and But Little Wool.” List of Officers Who Have Ruled in North ampton and Halifax Counties. The following carefully prepared and correct list of county officials, who have held office in Northampton and Halifax counties since the re-or ganization of the State government in 1868 to the time of the adoption of the Bourbon amendments, with their color and political status stated, has been handed us for publication. The statement demonstrates how utterly baseless and fraudulent is the Bourbon cry of “negro domination’’ in Eastern counties. In 1870 North ampton contained in colored pojiula tion 2,271 majority, and Halifax 7,572, and the exhibit shown in these two counties is a fair sample of the other eleven counties in Eastern North Carolina containing a colored majority : NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. The following list comprises the black. white. REGISTER OF DEEDS. John N. Brown, white, Democrat, from July, 1868, to July, 1870, whose deputy was a white man and a Demo crat. J. J. Judge, from September, 1870, to 1872, whose deputy was a white Democrat. B. H. Franklin, white, Re publican, from September, 1872, to March, 1875; deputies, white Demo crats. R. I. Lewis, white, Republican, from Mareh 1875, to present date; deputy, white Republican. TREASURERS. E. T. Clark, white, Democrat, from April, 1868, to September, 1870; John R. Gary, white, Democrat, from Sep tember, 1870, to 1872; E. T., Clark, white, Democrat, from September. ’72, to BepfeiLrGylb76; L M. Long,whit, . J/cmocrat, from September, 1876, to t i)ecember, ISO'S; E. T. Clarke, white, Democrat, from December, 1878, to December, 1880 ; L. W. Batchelor, white, Democrat,from December, 1880, to the present time. SURVEYOR. Robert Brinkley, white, Democrat, e’eeted by Republicans on the regular ticket NO. 14. ■^T*^ ^ - 1 - j#L j^^ The Times. ADVBBTISIlTe BATES: Advertisements will be inserted in The Times at the usual local rates. Special con tracts made for long advertisements. As a very large edition of the paper will be pub lished during the campaign, it offers extra in ducements to advei tisers. J. W. Grant, JessO Flythe, W. J. Edwards, S. Calvert, J. W. Conner, J. B. Barnes, E. W. Brittle, S. N. Buxton, J. A. Buxton, R. A. Weaver, W. J. Maddry, Ballard Moore, L. Gilliam, J. W. Coker, J. J. Deloatch. Sol. Parker, G. D. Holloman Jesse Flythe, J. W. Newsum, J. W. Grant, E. W. Brittle, Dem. Rep. Dem Rep. Dem Rep., Dem. Dem EI. Copeland, Jr Rep , J. W. Conner, Dem. T. W. Mason, W. H. Parker, E. A. Martin, J. W. Conner, E. A. Martin, W. H. Parker, W. J. -Maddry, A. E. Peele, J. N. Selden, Matt. Calvert, J. W. Coker, W. T. Peele, Jacob D. Hill, A. J. Harrell, T. F. Moore, J. W. Grant, Isaac Peele, Ira W. Futrell, J. L. Lassiter, A. H. Reid, T. C. Parker, W. J. Maddry, A. E Peele, T. F. Moore, R. A. Weaver, J. L. Lassiter, E. A. Martin, Ira W. Futrell, Wm. Grant, W. H. Parker, Isaac Peele, Rep., Dem. Rep., Dem. Rep., Dem Rep., Dem. black, white. Rep. Dem. Rep., Dem., Those marked “Democrats’’ in the foregoing lists were influential Demo crats then, and are now, and generally, of the highest respectability. The Constables are not given, but were all white; and generally Demo crats. So also the clerics of township trustees. The Sheriffs and Deputies were all white, and between 1868 and 1872 there v as one Republican Deputy one Democratic Deputy. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Four white, one colored. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Three white, two colored. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Three white, two colored. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Three white, two colored. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, Three white, two colored. 1868. 1870. 1872. 1874. 1876. and On School Committees it was usual to appoint one colored man, especially in large colored districts. The Standard Keeper, J. N. Sel den, is and always was a Democrat, and is white. The County Treasurer, James W. Copeland, is and was a Republican, and white, and acted until the office was abolished, and upon the restora tion of the office, was in 1880 re elected to the same office, and now holds the same. The Clerk of the Superior Court has always been a Republican and is white. The Register of Deeds has always been white, and a Republican until by the throwing out of votes a Democrat got in, and the Supreme Court with the present incumbent. HALIFAX COUNTY. {From 1868 to 1882.) CLERKS OF THE COURT. John T. Gregory, white, from ruary 10, 1866, to the present he!d Feb- time. Deputies all white Democrats, to-wit: W. P. Hamlin, George T. Simmons, Thomas N. Harrison. SHERIFFS. John A. Reid, Republican, from 1868 to his death, November, 1874, whose deputies were all white men and Democrats, to-wit: W. E. Whitmore, G. C. Whitehead, II. K. Reid, Thos M. Lewis, Dr. L. W. Batchelor. L. F. Larkin, white,Republican, from November, 1874, to December 1874. Deputies: A. B. Hill, L. 0. Wilcox, T. C. Burgess, H. C. Phillips, J. S. John ston, B. F. Gary, all white and Demo crats. In 1876, L. M. Long, white, Demo crat, was appointed Treasurer by a Re publican Board of County Commis sioners; and in 1878 was appointed by them as Tax Collector; he for several years has been the chairman of the Democratic County Executive Commit tee. J. T. Dawson, white, Republican, from December, 1878, to the present time. Deputies: B. B. Pullen, S. T. Norman, J. C. Deer, B. I. Allbush, I. C. Cook, all white Democrats. CORONERS. All white, except the present incum bent, J. II. Jenkins, colored. COMMISSIONERS. C. N. Webb, white, Republican, chairman in 1868;' B. A. Lavender, white, Republican, chairman in 1870; W. P. Solomon, white, Republican, chairman in 1872; J. M. Grizzard, white, Democrat, chairman 'o 1874; J. E. O’Hara, colored, Republican, chair man from 1874 to 1878 MAGISTRATES FROM 1868 to 1878. R.. H. Smith, Jr., Dr, F. M. Gantt, Jno. A. Norfleet, L. F. Larkin, J. H. McGee, J. M. Foote, G. N. Webb, Dr. John O’Brien, R. W. Brown, B. F. Gary, J. T. Dawson, J. J. Judge, J. C. Spruill, W. T. McMarks, J. J. Good ¬ win, G. V. Hardy, Balaam Dickins, D. Dickens, John W. Johnston, whites. Running the Blockade. E. all [From the Philadelphia Press.] Off Shore, Wilmington, —’64.— Dear Frank: I’ll bring a boat to meet you at wharf and hour desig nated. Be prompt; the captain and boilers are fuming. We will cer tainly attempt to run to-night. Wear your dark clothes, black the whites of your eyes and put your teeth in mourning. Yours, Edgar. A mysterious missive, understood when I explain that 1 had obtained a passport “to go outside of the lines,” and secured passage upon a Nassau-bound runner, which having been laden with cotton and naval stores, only awaited nightfall to test her speedragainst the’gunnery of the blockading fleet. Names and dates were, for obvious reasons, omitted, in all coo’munications likely to fall into the hands of spies, who were not very rare in Wilmington. As we approached, the vessel which I was to board could scarcely be discerned for the smoke which nearly enveloped her. To my expressed fear that she was on fire the reply was: “Oh, no; they are smoking out stowaways who have been incited to foreign travel by the attention of the conscript officer.” Fabulous sums were offered for secret passage, and many stowaways were smuggled. Some were caught and brought back ; and were turned adrift with supplies, and more than one man was found dead at the end of a trip, suffocated or crushed to death by the cargo. Our craft is a staunch vessel, built for the traffic. She is long and nar row, with upper deck about ten feet from the water. The masts are low and unprovided with yards, and topped with “crows’s nests” for the lookouts. The funnels are short, and can be telescoped so that the smoke can be ejected along the deck. Eng lish sea coal is used because it pos sesses a maximum of heat power with a minimum of stowage room, and emits very little smoke to serve as a sky-trail for vigilant cruisers. Lead color is the prevailing tint on the runner, as it has been found to blend with the gray of dawn, misty twilight and the hues of the sra. A convex forecastle deck, extending aft nearly to the waist, enables her to force herself through instead of over heavy seas. Driven by powerful screws, they defy successful pursuit. Admiral Porter said that the majori ty of his fleet could be sailed all covered by these nimble neutrals. THE START WITH LADIES ON BOARD. We have a baker’s dosen of passen* gers, three of whom are ladies. Evening closes in and we have “the dark of the moon,” nature’s clearance papers for blockade runners. Steam rises, the screw revolves, we are off, and suspense begins. Outboard there is little noise. The lapping of the waves against the vessel’s sides drowns the splashing of the propeller. “Fear is large eyed,’’ says the Rus sian proverb, and the passenger group is awed into silence, as wild-eyed thev stare over the waters and descry the sails of an entire armada of blockaders in every wave that flashes its white cap in the gloom. In the starboard distance is a whitish mist, not unlike a wind-torn sheet of fog hung to dry upon the walls of night. An officer accounts for it as the haze from ill-concealed lights upon a bloukader. A turn of the wheel shows that our craft has determined that the other is a good one to make a stranger of, and distance rapidly unwinds between. “Look out, or you will be down upon us,” is the sharp, apprehensive cry that rises from almost under our I bows. We sheer off and barely miss a small boat that is faintly detected gliding astern. “What a narrow es cape for them,” whispers a passen ger to the captain, who gruffly re sponds: “Narrow for us, you mean; I wish we had cut her down; it is a patrol boat, if I mistake not, that will notify the fleet of our presence.” Sure enough; from almost where the boat was last seen, a spool of lire ascends, unrolling a luminous thread signal well understood by the hazy stranger aforementioned, whence lights flash and fade as the bottle lan terns are carried by the open ports. Flash—boom—and the cannon’s glare etches in crimson upon ebony, a full* rigged ship, with all its intricacy of ropes, masts and spars. Tho shot rushes overhead and sinks lu ^che waves beyond. More pressure is ap plied, and we bound along. To the right and left narrow ribbons of light flutter on the waters, denoting the position of blockaders. The lights are soon obscured, but the roar of gun, hiss of shot, and whirl of shells are the indication that we are heard, if not seen. Most of the shots fly wild, but one comes inboard, rips open a cotton bale and carries a large sample of feminine defense to the mermaids in the depths. The flash of the guns indicates the course of our pursuers in chase. We almost run upon a cruiser silently groping for us, and the signalled engineer reins up so suddenly as t® throw passen gers and crew off their feet, while the craft lay trembling like some frightened thing, as the steam is noiselessly blowing oft* under water. The cruise having passed, we start again, and feel out of danger as we observe astern the glare of guns fired at the spots where we had been. FOG AND FOES. Morning is sent to us under an envelope of fog, but the drift of the fog is aloft, and this with our speed soon shoves our bows out into the open of clear sky and sea. Ere long there dashes out of the receding fog bank a sloop of war with all sails set, and her funnels publishing vast libra ries of what is known as “volumes of smoke.” The huge “bone in her mouth” betokens unusual speed. Each vessel is a revelation to the other; she makes an advance with friendly signals, and we, with friendly false ones, endeavor to coquet with her. This rule fails and she calls for aid by sending skyward great puffs of smoke to notify all cruising Pharaohs to close in. They can be seen further than a cannon can be heard. These signals are an swered from points interfering with our progress. ‘A survey of the situ* atien’ decides our commander. Like a scarred rabbit about we go, almost heading for the foe. Disguise is thrown aside. Naval stores are fed to the furnaces. Long pennants of smoke trail aft as the speed in creases. The craft throbs like the pulse of a racing Broabdingnag giant. The high pressure and speed drive the bows downward, lifting the lead ers of the screw. “All hands to roll cotton aft!” is the order. A number of bales thus shifted restores the ne cessary equilibrium, and we “bowl along” at a rate that would astonish the figures of a ship contractor in summing up a trial trip. HIT OR Miss. The sloop in this time has been brought astern, and if out of ^each of her metal we need fear her not. There’s a flash, her bows are shrouded in gray, and the boom of a gun comes across the waves, and a shot sinks astern, as do two or three others tried “bows on.” She veers, and her broadside brought to bear is wreathed in flames and smoke through which the iron surge heavily rolls. Ten balls dash the water in the air as they dance about with lessening stride ere they sink, and we laugh in fancied security. Then we see they are pivot ing a heavy gun around towards us. Men, whom its proportions dwarf into pigmies, jump about it—it is loaded. The gunner steps upon the chassis and pats the gun, now right, now left; there he has the direction, up goes the muzzle higher and higher, and he gets the elevation; he is satis fied with his aim and sets down. vVe hear with our eyes: “Ready, fire,” and out of the smoky coil leapa 300- pound missile with an initial velocity of 700 yards per second. Fourteen knots an hour cannot beat that, and the bolt goes shrieking past. It is now speed gunnery. We are doing our best, and so is the gunner. His shots fall all about us, but gradually we draw away from our enemy; the gunner wearies and tompions his gun. Ihe chase is done. A Wife Market. The Butcher. A butcher is a man who wears an apron like that of a barkeeper, hence it frequently happens, particularly in Austin when the Legislature is in session, that belated revelers, who are returning home early, just about sunrise, frequently drop into a butcher’s shop and request him to prepare them a tonic. Or perhaps it is the smell of the butcher’s breath that draws the belated reveler into the shop, for the number of trips a butcher takes to the nearest saloon to his stall is simply incredible. His ostensible object in going to the sa loon so often, is to “get change.” Whenever he sells a dime’s worth of meat, he has to rush off to th^ saloon to get change. He never omits on such occasions to change his breath, or rather to strengthen it, for he usually adheres to whisky straight. If you hand him a five cent piece for a piece of meat for the cat, he will say, “excuse me until 1 get some small change,” so absent minded has he become from the force of a bad habit. A gentleman of a statistical turn of mind measured the distance from a San Antonio butcher’s stall to the nearest saloon, and found that the butcher traveled seventeen miles- every morning, just to get change to accconimociate his customers, al though, like Polonius, he became a little weak in the hams toward the latter end of the walking match. If one of the ends of the track is a sa loon door, almost any butcher will distance the best trained pedestrian in the country. Perhaps some butcher will say that he spends his own money for tonics, and it is none of the public’s business what he does with his own resources. That is just the point we are going to elucidate, right now. We shall demonstrate that the convivial walk ing matches of the butcher are not entirely at his own expense. The hungry public has to come down lib erally with gate money to see that walking match. When you ask for porterhouse steak, -he produces a bone that looks as if it belonged to a mastodon, with a little meat hanging to it. He hooks this bone on to his badly-adjusted scales, swings himself on it, and yells “Five pounds !” You pay for five pounds of meat, but you only carry off three pounds of bone * and six ounces of meat. And the worst of it is, you do not get all that, for he proceeds to chop off the bone, which he keeps, and afterwards sells it to a hotel to make soup out of. That’s the kind of a philanthropist some butchers are. There are others who are not quite so enthusiastic. They do not swing themselves clear off the floor when they weigh, meat. They only keep a hand as big as a canvas covered ham on the meat to prevent it from blow ing off the scales. In law and equity, you are entitled to the butcher’s hand along with the meat, for you have bought it and paid for it, but never delivers the goods. He needs that hand in his business. It is so handy in weighing. He sells that hand at eight or ten cents a pound forty times a day, but he always keeps it on hand, as it were, it being so useful in mak ing change,.lifting up beer mugs, and in removing a customer who wants to have the meat weighed over. The butcher can be very sarcastic if ho tries. Possibly his trade has something to do with his making cutting remarks. Besides, he is a man of brains, having more on hand than he has any use for, which may account for the fact that he is never sent to Congress or the Legislature. We once suggested to a butcher that he put his scales where the cus tomers could see the dial, not neces sarily for publication, but as a pledge of good faith. “Oh, yes,” he re plied, scornfully, “I suppose, after a while, when you buy a five cent soup bone, you will expect me to put on my swallow tail Sunday coat and my stove-pipe hat, hire the finest hack in town and a brass band, go in pro cession to your shanty, and deliver the soup bone.” We assured him he wis mistaken, that no such idea had ever entered our head, but we never after enriched him with any more suggestions how to acquire the esteem and respect of his fellow-citizens. We may mention right here, inci dentally, in closing these remarks, that they do not apply to all butchers, but principally to the one who did not seem to need any advice where to hang his scales.— Niftings. It is related that in Naples, one of Italy’s famous cities, a k nd of wife market is held every year in connec tion with the foundling hospital. All the marriageable girls of that insti tution assemble in a commodious room, to which young men of good character only have access. An offer of marriage on the part of any young man is conveyed by allowing his handkerchief to drop before the ob ject of his choice as he passes by. If (he girl takes it up, she thereby sig= trifles her acceptance, but her refusal, if she permits it to remain. The Land League have had embalmed Fanny Parnell, and to Ireland. in New York the remains of will send them Odd Delivery of Letters. A short time ago Captain Craw ford, while towing a vessel picked up, out from land, on a board about three inches wide by three feet long, upon one end of which was a bottle filled with letters. Upon one side of the board was written: “Please mail the letters and drink the wine. Officers U. S. Steamer, Tallapoosa, bound for Pensacola, Fla. Please break the bottle and mail enclosed letters.” Upon the other side of the board was written: U. S. Steamer Tallapoosa, at sea June 20, ’82. Weather fine.” The bottle containing the letters was broken. Captain Craw ford sighted th.; Tallapoosa in the distance and everything seemed to be working smoothly. He returned to Mayport in time to hand the letters to Mr. George L. Fox, the mail agent, who delivered them to Colonel Jay upon 1 arriving at the city, and they were immediately forwarded North.
The Times [1882] (Raleigh, N.C.)
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