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ONE DOLLAR FOR SIX MONTHS. THREE MONTHS FOR FIFTY CENTS. 0“ Deductions Made fob Clubs. The Vesuvian Bay. My soul to-day is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay; My winged boat, like a bird afloat, Swims round the purple peaks remote : Round purple peaks it sails and seeks Blue inlets and their crystal creeks, Where, high rocks throw, through deeps below, A duplicated golden glow. Far, vague, and dim the mountains swim ; While on Vesuvius’ misty brim. With outstretched hands, the gray stands O’erlooking the volcanic lands. Here Ischia smiles o’er liquid miles ; And yonder, bluest of the isles, Calm Capri waits, her sapphire gates Beguiling to her bright estates. I heed not if my rippling skiff Float swift or slow from cliff to cliff ; With dreamful eyes my spirit lies Under the walls of Paradise. Under the walls where swells and falls The Bay’s deep breast at intervals At peace I lie, blown softly by, A cloud upon this liquid sky. The day, so mild, is Heaven’s own child, With Earth and Ocean reconciled ;— The airs I feel around me steal Are murmuring to the murmuring keel. Over the rail my band I trail Within the shadow of the sail, A joy intense, the cooling sense Glides down my drowsy indolence. smoke Her children, hid the cliffs amid, Are gambolling with the gambolling kid; Or down the walls, with tipsy calls, Laugh on the rocks like waterfalls. The fisher’s child, with tresses wild, Unto the smooth, bright sand beguiled, With glowing lips sings as she skips, Or gazes’at the far-off ships. Yon deep bark goes where Traffic blows, From lands of sun to lands of snows :— This happier one, its course is run From lands of snow io lands of sun. 0 happy ship to rise and dip, With, the blue crystal at your lip! O happy crew my heart with you Sails and sails and sings anew! No more, no more the worldly shore Upbraids me with its loud uproar! With dreamful eyes my spirit lies Under the walls of Paradise! T. B. Bead. ON THE WINGS OF THE WIND. I do not think I ever felt prouder in my life than I did one morning when Mr. Job F. Slogger, our locomotive “ boss, 5 ’ accosted me as I was making ready the “ Milwaukie” to take the through train westward “ Well, George, heard the news? Guess not, eh? You ain’t got to run this route again.” I turned pale, fearing 1 had got into some scrape; but I only said—“Why, sir ?” “ Why!” he .repeated, smiling at my scared looks—“because you’re put up in- Abel’s place. You feel kinder spry, I reckon?” I did indeed feel “'kinder spry,” for Abel, a first rate hand, had just been pro- ifioted, with a handsome douceur, for gal lant conduct upon a certain occasion. I was his companion upon that occasion; and as the adventure was the cause of my being made an engine-driver, I will, with your permission, proceed to relate it with out further preface. Soon after my ar rival in the States, I succeeded in obtain ing a situation as fireman on one of the trunk lines. After a time I became asso ciated with Abel Storer, who had the reputation of a first-class engine-driver, though he was, to my taste, a little too reckless; and when “in liquor” nothing daunted him. From Abel, I heard many tales respecting the encounters he. had had with “ white Injuns,” as he denomi nated certain filibustering gentlemen, who had a playful habit of disguising them selves as Indians, and carrying off any species of ammunition contained in the wagons. At times, indeed, I believe they did not hesitate to commit the most dread ful outrages under the guise of the war paint. One morning, about two months after my having been appointed “ fireman,” we got orders to take a train down to Lan- derville. Abel was, accordingly, in great hopes of shooting some “ Injuns,” and provided himself with a quantity of am- munition for his six-shooter. I, more THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY FREDERICK T. WALSER, EDITOB AND PBOPBIETOE. TERMS: TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, QETOTEQ TO (POLITICS fi^ GEJIE^JL JIEWS. THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time $1.00 One square, two times 1-25 One* square, three times’ 1-^0 A square is the width of a column and one inch deep. VOL. 1. a sitting posture—“Darn them cusses, have they gone right away ?” For a moment I stared in speechless surprise. “ Why, I .thought you were drunk.” 1 cried at length. “Drunk!” he echoed; “those fellows would have had you on your back in a coon’s jump but for me. I know them, the ‘Injun thieves,’ they’re after our specie, my boy, as sure as shootin’, but I’ll tail ’em the varmints. Which is the specie wagon?” “ Number eight,” I replied, wondering- iy- “Off with it, and tackle it on to the passengers’ train,” cried Abel, excitedly; “ we’ll fix their flints yet, by gosh !” So we set to work with a will, but while we were uncoupling the wagon the other train arrived. Abel communicated his suspicions to the conductor, and in a few moments the specie was safely included among the passenger cars. By this time the evening was closing in, and we had placed the train on the siding at the top of the incline, to clear the track for the passengers, I began to hope that our fears of an attack were groundless. We ran down again with steam on, to .get in the rear of the passenger train, and tiie other engine followed at a little dis tance. As our engine neared the points, just beyond the log-huts I have mentioned, several figures rose from their conceal ment. Without warning of any kind they deliberately fired at -the engines as they passed. Surprise, more than fear, kept us for a moment inactive. But Abel quickly recovered himself. Shouting to me to lie down, he discharged two barrels at the nearest of our assailants. With a groan, he fell dead in his tracks. Ina few seconds we had run out of range, but those upon the other engine were less fortunate. Unarmed as they were, the driver and fireman could make no resistance, and we, as well .as the passengers, who were now turning out their assistance, were obliged to remain passive spectators. The poor fellows were tumbled off the engine by their assailants, whose intention to seize the specie was now evident. But in this way they were foiled. Some of the pas sengers, having got within range, had by this time commenced a pretty hot fire against the “ filibusters,” who now found themselves in a fix, as Abel, reversing his engine, returned to the.attack. Their position thus becoming untenable they started their engine, and ran quickly out of the range of the passengers’ fire. But Nemesis was behind them. Abel, seeing their manoeuvre, turned on full pressure, and swore he’d shoot them ere he slept. Now commenced the most extraordinary chase I ever heard of. The engine in front had a start of about half a mile, but we had greater power, and understood the management of the machine. Both locomotives were well supplied with wood and water. One of our opponents attempted to jump off, as speed was for a moment slackened, but he was hurled upon the line a bleeding mass. His terrible fate deterred his companions, who increased their distance and disappeared over the brow of the hill. We followed, going at a terrible rate, bumping and oscillating to such a degree upon the uneven track that I fancied we should run off the line. We kept our course, however, gaining slightly for a time, Abel taking every opportunity of sending a bullet through the weather- board of the retreating engine. As the excitement cooled a little, I for the first time discovered that I had been “hit.” A trickling of blood from a wound sceptical, neglected this precaution. We started, however, having a quantity of specie in boxes, some valuable stores, and a mixed cargo of “ notions” in our charge. We had received instructions to shunt at Bunkum city for a faster train with pas sengers; and then (if ithad not previously run into us) to assist it up the steep incline at that place, our train being subsequently helped up by another locomotive. We arrived at Bunkum, siding in safety about five o’clock, and hearing nothing of the following train, replenished the en gine, and then proceeded to look for some food for ourselves. We pitched upon a small “ store,” where we managed to procure food, and some of the most fiery stuff (miscalled whisky) that I ever tasted. Abel drank it greedily, however, while I devoted myself to the food. We were on the eve of departure as two rough-looking fellows entered, and demanded “liquor,” “ taking stock” of us as they swaggered about. Seeing that Abel was becoming more intoxicated, and recollecting that the passenger train must be due, I at tempted to remove him, but one of the strangers, stepping forward, requested us to “liquor up” before we started. Abe grunted a drunken assent, anS 1, not dar ing to refuse, sat down while the “drink” was being prepared. During the concoc tion of the “reviver,” Abel kept wander ing aimlessly about, swaying recklessly against the tables, and when the glass was at length presented for my acceptance, he lurched heavily* against the stranger. Crash went the tumbler upon the floor, while, amid a volley of curses, I dragged the offender from the house, and managed to regain the engine unmolested. Anticipating we should be followed, I kept Abel’s revolver in readiness, but after a time I noticed two figures proceeding in the direction of some log huts, which lay some distance down the line upon the left. As the strangers disappeared over the brow of the hill, I turned my attention to Abel. To my astonishment, he responded to my first adjurations by saying, as he gained WINSTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1872 had left, the up mail, all were forgotten, until I had reverently placed the body upon the engine. The silence was terri ble. I persevered till I had covered the remains of my poor mate as well as pos sible; and as I sat down upon the engine- rail, I fancied I heard the distant rattle of an approaching train- I rose and lis tened intently. After a pause, a whistle long, though very faint, broke the still ness. I stood ready to run if occasion demanded it, when again the whistle rose, this time loud and clear, and after dying away into a long, wailing sound, sudden ly ended in three sharp, quick notes. My heart leaped to my throat—this was Abel Storer’s signal. With trembling fingers I replied. In a few moments a dark object loomed up in front, and Abel’s “hallo ” was ringing in my ears. In two seconds more I was be side him. “ Don't ring a man’s arm off,” he cried, “ I’m rather done.” “ Good heavens! how did you escape? ” I said. “I’d a toughish bout of it,” Abel re plied, “ but by gosh, I’ve won.” “I fancied you were shot,” said I; look here,” taking him to his own engine I showed him the body which still lay there in all its ghastly reality. “ Shot,” he laughed in no way affected by the sight, “no sir ; that’s the coon I pipped in the skull; he grabbed my cap too, I may as well leave it agin’, I guess.” So saying, he released the dusty head- covering from his late antagonist’s grasp, and calmly brushing it,' continued—“Yes, you see, when the engines closed I leaped on the step, and potted this follow at once—didn’t you hear the shot ?” I said 1 had heard a noise, but fancied ’ it was a steam-pipe that had given away. “ No,” he said, “ that was my first fire - These Injuns had but one ‘derrick’ be tween them, and this fellow was about to use it in my favor, but I luckily stopped that- The other tried a knife on my skin, but he was soon plugged. Then 1 had to go to Landervillve to give information, and was returning for you when I saw your head-lamp and whistled accordin’— that’s all!” “ Is the other unfortunate man dead?” I asked. “Not he,” replied Abel, “I only shot him in the shoulder—but he’ll lose his arm, I reckon. We’d better be going and seeing about the passengers now, I think.” We then coupled the engines, and leav ing the dead undisturbed on one, mounted the other. On arriving at Bunkum city we told our tale, to which the mangled body of the filibuster bore additional testi mony, and after a detention of rather more than an hour the passengers were despatched on their journey. Upon our return to headquarters we were specially thanked, and otherwise more substantially rewarded. Abel was promoted to amore comfortable and permanent berth in New York city, while I was made an engine- driver, with the highest scale of pay, in his stead. What befel me in my new appointment, my readers may perhaps bo informed upon a future opportunity. in my arm, and a numb sensation, were anything but agreeable. A rough band age stopped the bleeding, and we were then at liberty to ebserve the chase once more. Darkness came on, yet there was no token of any abatement of the speed, nor any apparent change in our relative positions. Occasionally a defiant whistle was borne back to us, but still on we swept through the night. Suddenly the red glow upon the track in front seemed to stop. We neared it. rapidly. “Dive!” roared Abel, just in time. As he spoke two shots came whizzing through the glass in front, and fell harmless from the iron plate behind us. “A ‘shave’ that!” laughed my com panion, “but I’ll be quits.” As he spoke he got out upon the frame, and told me to lie'cached. “ What on earth are you about? ” His reply made me shudder. “ I’m going to kill them on that engin’; good-bye, friend.” He was gone—creep ing over the wheel-casings to the buffer beam. Now determined to win, I employed every means to do so. We were surely gaining. Another log upon the already roaring furnace. The valves discharged a cloud of hissing steam, but on I went hurrying to destruction. In a few moments more the engines were almost touching; another shot, but no harm done. We bumped!—a grinding noise was heard, then another bump. “ Hurrah,” I cried, or rather tried to cry, for my throat was so parched that I could scarcely utter a sound, and, regardless of risk, was about to join Abel, when a shrill noise arose beneath us, and the other en gine shot into the darkness ahead of ms. With an oath 1 shut off the steam, (fur ther progress I knew was impossible with the heated machinery,) and shouted to Abel. As soon as I could pull up I jumped off and ran to the front. Abel had dis appeared! Gracious heaven! had he fallen when the engines touched ? I be gan to fear the worst, and to call wildly in the vain hope that he might hear, but the whisper of the wind was the only reply. It was impossible that he could have gained the footplate of the other locomotive and escaped instant death; had he fallen the engine would have killed him. Thus I argued, and after a time mechanically filled a pipe, and took the lamp behind to oil the cranks. Look ing at my watch, I found we had been running thirty minutes, and at such a pace I knew the up mail was not far dis tant, and that Landerville was only a few miles off. So I ran gently ahead again, and had not proceeded far when a sudden “lift” of the engine nearly threw me down. I stopped and descended. At the side of the track lay a body horribly dis figured. The cowcatcher had struck him, and dragged him along. An indefinable sensation of fear took possession of me. Was this Abel after all? It was too awful; I managed, however, to turn the corpse upon its back. The features were indistinguishable, but all doubt was speedily set at rest; for by my lantern’s light I recognized Abel’s cap tightly clasped in the dead man’s hand. I staggered against the engine, and new the excitement was all over, sobbed like a child. The passengers in the train we NO. 23 ^S” Liberal inducements offered for contract Advertisements. In the Saddle. A cavalry camp immediately after The Road to Siberia. During the reign of the C^ar Nicholas’ and we presume there have been few changes since, the nobility of Russia possessed many privileges, and among those not least appreciated was corporal punishment, and in ordinary cases they were conveyed to Siberia, instead of pro ceeding thither on foot. The unfortu nate individuals sent to struggle against the inclemency of a hard climate, and the severity of harder -taskmasters, were divided in two classes : those mere ly transported and those transported with hard labor. The journey from Kiew to Tobolsk took one year, while the convicts whose destination was the mines of Nertchinsk, seldom reached it —if they did reach it—under two’ years. For the bones of many of them that perished of cold, ill usage.and sickness were scattered over 'the interminable Russian steppes, to serve as finger-posts to the melancholy con voys that followed the same desolate route. These convoys generally consisted of one hundred to two hundred and fifty persons—men, women and children. An armed Cossack on horseback then followed the convicts, chained together in gangs of twenty, with a Cossack intervening between the gangs, and a posse of those, very irregu lar cavalry men closed the procession. The Czar was merciful to women ; they were not chained. The sick were gently treated ; they were allowed to ride in vehicles with iron rings round their necks, like wild beasts in menageries. Perfect silence reigned in those pro cessions ; the only feeling noticeable was the dull apathy of despair. During sleep no one could move without causing more or less severe pain to his mate. During meals the convicts crouched round fires closely guarded by the Cos sacks. Each column marched two days and rested for one day. Beyond Nishni N ovgorod,when ordinary edifices became few and far between, long, low isolated buildings were constructed to serve as pens for the herds of human cattle. Moreover, guardhouses were established at irregular distances to relieve the es cort. The officer in command was responsible for the prisoners. He was like the captain of a ship at sea ; he was absolute master over all, and could in flict any punishment short of immediate death. '* Some officers, however, were oc casionally found, who remembered that the prisoners had once been men and women with souls of their own, and who did not feel any especial delight in inflict ing upon them unnecessary physical suf ferings. One of these convoys was cal culated to arrive weekly at Tobolsk, where sat a government commission, charged to distribute the convicts accord- Fashion Notes. Jet bands for the hair are fashionable. The rage for coral continues unabated. London smoke is the fashionable color. High standing collars are again in vogue. Alpine sticks and. parasols are now combined. Colored linen appears with the warm, weather. Dolly Varden note paper is the latest, we believe. Brides adhere to Quakerish grey for traveling suits. Yacht ties are rapidly superseding the Lord Stanley scarf. Ladies’ shoes are now made to lace on either side of the foot. Sailors’ hats are voted common and vulgar in genteel society. Flounces continue the principal mode of trimming skirts. Nilsson collars continue to hold their own, despite fierce opposition. Turban hats—al ways genteel and pretty —are in fashion this summer. Would-be Brummels now insist upon two and three buttoned kid gloves. The white hat epidemic has broken out among the gentlemen very suddenly. Garden hats are made jof muslin, but the queen, of park and conservatory hats, is the wide Italian Leghorn, that flaps over the brow, and is worn with a fichu crossed over the bosom. Lace sacques worn over light-colored silks are exceedingly effective and stylish. . The old-fashioned opera cloak has been discarded for a sleeveless affair of white silk. Chatelaine purses for ladies are fas tened with a ring and chain to the mid dle finger. Full dress parasols are of lace or white silk, with narrow frills, and gold or coral handles. White tulle, grenadine and organdie will be the fashionable material for even ing dresses. Work of all kinds, embroidery and elaborate braiding, cover out-door cos tumes this season. Immense white sunshades—small cir cus tents, in fact—are the correct thing for demoiselles at the sea side. • Yachting jackets for ladies are made of blue and white flannel, with wide revers and trimmer with large buttons. Umbrellas are now carried by our would-be conspicious young ladies sus pended by a chain from a belt around the waist. Fans show nearly every pattern, style, shape, and variety imaginable. Those of lace are the most elegant for all full- dress occasions. It is now the style to wear one’s over skirts of the lightest shade, and the train Bowditch on Intemperance. The following is a brief summary of some of the principal points presented in the “ Third Annual Report of the Board of Health of Massachusetts,” and a paper read before the Boston Society for Medical Observation, as published in the Medical'and Surgical Journal: 1. Stimulants are used everywhere,, and at times abused by savage and by civilized man. Consequently intoxica tion occurs all over the world. . 2. This love of stimulants is one of the strongest of human instincts. It cannot be annihilated, but may be regu- ted by reason, by conscience, by educa tion, or by law when it encroaches' on the rights of others. 3. Climatic law governs it. The ten dency to indulge in intoxication being not only greater as we go from the heat of the equator towards the north, but the character of that intoxication be comes more violent. 4. Intemperance is modified by race, as shown in the different tendencies to intoxication of different people. 5. Races are modified physically and morally by the kind of liquor they use, as proved by examination of the returns from Austria and Switzerland. 6. Beer, native light grape wines and ardent spirits, should not be classed to gether, for they produce very different effects on the individual-anel upon the races. 7. Light German beer and ale can be used even freely without any apparent injury to the individual, or without caus ing intoxication. They contain very small percentages of alcohol (4.or 4.5 to 6.5 per cent). Light grape wines,- un fortified by an extra amount of alcohol, can be drunk less freely, but without apparent injury to the race, and with ex- hileration lather than drunkenness. 8. Ardent spirits, unless used very moderately, and with great temperance, and with the determination to omit them as soon as the occasion has passed for their use, are almost always injurious, if continued even moderately for aqy length Facts and Fancies. The total reduction by the tariff and internal revenue sections is estimated at $44,000,000. Some of the largest steamships burn eight hundred tons of coal crossing the Atlantic ocean. Some “ port wine” analyzed at Liver pool lately contained molasses, alcohol and logwood. Nice !■ A little girl who was asked to define reading, said, “It is hearing with the eyes instead of with the ears.” Europe is supposed to contain 300, 000,000 people. One hundred years ago the estimate was but 60,000,000. The use of cosmetics of all kinds is becoming alarmingly widespread among our women of all ages and complexions. There is not a single place in Hallowell, Me., where a glass of cider, ale, beer, or whisky can be purchased. The Wyoming Journal’s fee for mar riage notices are “ as high as ecstacy and liberality of the bridegroom may prompt. ” The average life of Methodist minis ters is 23 per cent, below that of minis ters of other denominations. They work too hard. Troy, N. H., has a pair of golden rob ins which hung their nests for 16 years of time, for they gradually encroach on the vital powers. If used immoderately, they dwarf intellectually, morally and physically,/cause a beastly narcotism, which makes the victim regardless of all the amenities and even decencies of life,'or perhaps they render him furi ously crazy, so that he may murder his best friend. in the same tree. Certain marks show the birds to be the same. Engagement bracelets are the last novelty. They are placed on the ladies’ arms as soon as papa has given his con sent, and then locked on by a small gold key. For real business ingenuity commend us to California. The proprietor of a San Jose pleasure garden draws crowds by offering a prize to the person with the longest nose. Some statistics just published shows that in German Tyrol over one-third of the teachers receives less than $50 a year, and this is eked out by oragn-playing and other church service. Thenumber of clerks who are seeking employment in New York to-day lamentable. A gentleman met one car driver who formerly had a salary $3,000 in a large mercantile house. as of to A gentleman of New York went Europe recently to be married to his ing to the requirements of the public of the darker. In full dress several service. ■ About ten thousand passed colors are blended. annually through Tobolsk.—DMin Vni- The Orient at Vienna. Great preparations are, it seems, mak ing in Egypt for the approaching Inter national Exhibition at Vienna, at which, says the Levant Herald, there is reason to believe the Turkish and Egyptian de- Bodices are made with points in front; partments together will give a very com- versity Magazine. basques orni diminish on the sides. e lie wibiipuinuoiniiviiu, iment them nt the back and plete idea, of the East in its industrial, reville, says Gen. Custer in his “Life on the Plains,” always presents an animated and most interesting scene. As soon as the rolls are called and the reports of ab sentees made to headquarters, the men of the companies, with the exception of the cooks, are employed in the care of the horses. The latter are fed, and while eating ar® thoroughly groomed by the men, under the superintendence of their officers. Nearly an hour is devoted to this important duty. In the meanwhile the company cooks, ten to each company, and the officers’ servants, are busily en gaged preparing breakfast, so that with in a few minutes after the horses have received proper attention breakfast is ready, and being very simple it requires but little time to dispose of it. Imme diately after breakfast the first bugle call indicative of the march is the “ General,” and is the signal for the tents to be taken down and everything packed in readiness for moving. A few minutes later this is followed by the bugler at headquarters sounding “Boots and saddles,” when horses are saddled up and the wagon train put in readiness for “pulling out.” Five minutes later “ To horse ” is sound ed, and the men of each company lead their horses into line, each trooper stand ing at the head of his horse. At the words “ Prepare to mount,” from the commanding officer, each trooper places his left foot in the stirrup ; and at the command “Mount,” every man rises in his stirrup and places himself in his sad dle, the whole command presenting the appearance to the eye of a huge machine propelled by one power. Woe betide the unfortunate who through carelessness or inattention fails to place himself in the saddle simultaneously with his compan ions. If he is not for this offence against military rule deprived of the services of his horse during the succeeding half day’s march, he escapes luckily. As soon as the command ismounted the “ Advance” is sounded, and the troops, usually in “ column of fours,” move out. The com pany leading the advance one day march in rear the following day. This succes sive changing gives each company an op portunity to march by regular turn in advance. Our average daily march, when not in immediate pursuit of the enemy, was about twenty-five miles. Upon reach ing camp in the evening the horses were cared for as in the morning, opportuni ties being given them to graze before dark. Pickets were posted and every precaution adopted to guard against a surprise. The BOY Baby.—Who knows not the beautiful group of babe and mother, sa cred in nature, now sacred also in the re ligious associations of half the globe ? Welcome to the parents is the puny struggler, strong in his weakness, his lit tle arms more irresistible than the sol dier’s, his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not. The little despot asks so little that all nature and reason are on his side. His ignorance is more charming than all knowledge, and ^is little sins more be witching than any virtue. All day, be tween his three or four sleeps, he coos like a pigeon-house, sputters and spurns, and puts on his faces of importance ; and when he fasts, the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him. Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and check ers, he will build his pyramid with the gravity of Palladio. With an acoustic apparatus of whistle and rattle he explores the law of sound. But chiefly, like his senior countrymen, the young American studies new and speedier modes of trans portation. Mistrusting the cunning of his small legs, he wishes to ride on the necks and shoulders of all flesh. The small enchanter nothing can withstand— nq seniority of age, nor gravity of char acter ; uncles, aunts, cousins, grandsires, grandams—all fall an easy prey ; all caper and make mouths, and babble and chir rup to him. On the strongest shoulders he rides, and pulls the hair of laureled heads. The Tariff Question. The following is the estimated reduc tion of duties which the new U. S. Tariff bill effects : . Articles. Coal ..—. Salt ~ Leather Chicory Cotton, manufactures of Wool and manufactures of .■ Iron and manufactures of Metals and manufactures of, N. 0. S.... India-rubber and manufactures of Gutta percha and manufactures of..... Straw and manufacturers of Oil-cloths and manufactures of Steel and manufactures of Burlaps, &c.,flax-dressed, (no estimate can be made.) Lumber and manufactures of All other articles, including chemicals, &C Books, printed, &c. No estimate can be made.. Newspapers, periodicals, &c. No es timate can be made Vermuth. No estimate can be made.. Mus ard ground Currants, figs and raisins Copper’ and manufactures of Plate-glass, including silvered Tin, in sheets or plates 7. Screws, embraced in iron reduced Moisic iron. No estimate can be made. Paper, manufacture of, (not included). Total reduction : Free list Total reduction Duty. 215,254 00 615,522 0) 529,490 00 92,880 17 1,077,383 25 I 3,358,274 03 1,376.612 13 284,966 11 53,207 61 510 99 65,347 57 2,786 61 489,256 26 185,980 57 594,944 52 10,462 96 1,036,617 80 37,763 00 94,291 06 949,077 82 6,101 10 $11,076,629 56 . 18,569,148 50 $29,645,778 06 Frayed silk and commercial, artistic and social aspects. satin ruching, cords and tassels, curled feathers and plaiting are the trimmings preferred. Marguerettes sewed on black velvet is a favorite and fashionable trimming for bonnets and hats, and it is also worn around the neck, as well as to form bracelet. The contrast pleases the ladies, inasmuch as it gives to the skin an effective whiteness. A Traveler.—The following strange, eventful record told of a journeyman printer’s life we are positive is correct to the letter. It develops what a man can do if he likes, and what queer, enterpris ing, unselfish fellows the majority of printers are: “The life of a printer is, to say the least, one of variety. I left home at the age of nine, and was appren ticed to the printing business at the age of thirteen. Since then I have been in Europe—been in England, Ireland, Scot land, Wales and France—in Canada, Nova Scotia, Labrador, South America, West Indies and all the Atlantic States in the Union, from Maine to Louisiana— have been fixed in twenty cities and towns of the UnitedStates. I have been a sailor in the merchant service, and have sailed in • all manner of craft—ship, barque, brig, schooner, sloop and steam er-in the regular army as a private sol dier, deserted and got shot in the leg. I have studied two years for the ministry, one year for an M. D.—traveled through all the New England States, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia, as a journeyman printer, generally with little else than a brass rule in my pocket. I have been the publisher of two papers in Maine, one in Boston and one in Rox bury. At one time I had seven thou sand three hundred dollars in my pocket. I have been married twice, and am now nearly twenty-six years old. I have been a temperence lecturer, and proprietor of a temperance theatre.—Exchange. The programme of the section has been arranged by two well-known Austrian men of science, Herr Brusgh, the anti quarian, and the architect, Herr Schmo- renz. The latter has been entrusted by the Khedive with the preparation of sev eral characteristic Egyptian construc tions, to be erected in the Exhibition grounds. Prominent among them will be a regular Egyptian house with harem and selamlik. An Arab fountain will play close by, serving as a pendant to a Turk ish fountain in the Ottoman section, and on a story above it, exposed to view, will be an Arab school. A neighboring building will contain apartments for the Viceroy, a fac simile of a native Arab cafe, open to the public, on the first story, and on the basement Arab shops, in which genuine natives will sell a variety of articles of Egyptian manufacture. The facade of this building, on the park side, will represent a mosque crowned with two minarets, a copy of one of the most historical and also ar chitecturally graceful of the Caliph mosques at Cairo. In another part of the Egyptian section of the park a fur ther group of buildings will comprise an Arab peasant’s hut and the residence of an Arab schiek. In the garden to the left there will be a reproduction of the tomb of Beni-Hassan and a fac-sim- ile of a Cairo bath, in which the public in Vienna, in the spring and summer of 1873, can enjoy a bath in the Arab fash ion. The Egyptian part of the grounds will be studded with pigeon-houses and fountains as in Egypt, and all the edi fices will be furnished in complete Egyptian style, the'house of the schiek, moreover, containing a quantity of agri cultural implements used in Egypt. The tomb will be set off inside with a number of rare Egyptian antiquities, and will present a curious picture of Egyptian civilization in the days of the Pharaohs. fiancee, who was residing in Paris. Much to his surprise, he learned on h>s arrival that she had eloped the day before with her father’s courier. The Marshalltown, Iowa, Times is evi dently a Wilson-paper. It is for James F. Wilson, of Iowa, for President; Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, for Vice-President ; and James Wilson, member of Congress from the Fifth Dis trict. The man with the iron jaw , lives in Taunton. He takes a thick, heavy flint glass tumbler and bites large pieces out of it with perfect ease, and chews them to powder. He does not swallow them, however, for fear of having a pain in his stomach. The three things which a woman can not do are now said to be, to sharpen a pencil, tie up a bundle, andcarry an um brella. Well, who cares if she can’t ? She can always get a man to do such things for her, just for the sake of show ing his superiority. A woman at Danville, N. H., having been notified by the highway surveyors to appear and work out her tax of four cents, made her appearance at the ap pointed time, armed with a hoe, and toiled vigorously till her tax was canceled —about fifteen minutes. Of every seven native-born Vermont ers three have emigrated to other States. The last census shows that the whole number of Vermont emigrants is 180,000, of whom 36,000 have taken up a resi dence in New York, 14,000 in Illinois, 16,000 in Wisconsin, 14,000 in Michigan, 12,000 in Iowa, and 4,000 in California. Evening flirtatious have commenced. It is rather early in the season, but then, as they hang upon the gate together he gently pulls the shawl more closely about her shoulders, raises the collar of his own spring overcoat, and, with an arm thrown lovingly about the shawl to keep it well in place, whispers sweet words of singing birds and times when roses are in bloom. The United States Navy. — Deser tions from the United States Navy at all the ports continue, and continued en listments must be made to keep the companies full. It.is expected that of nearly every port, aftera pay day at least ten per cent, of the men will leave. It is known that desertions from the navy are numerous every, spring as during the fall enlistments are made by sailors, boatmen and others simply to be pro vided for during the winter. The de sertions have never been so numerous, however, as they have been this spring. Reducing the pay and requiring that all money due for clothing shall be de ducted from the pay roll at one time. Co-operation.—A number of clerks in St. Louis have organized a co-operative real estate association. The plan is to obtain 100 members, who will each pay an initiation fee of $5 and a weekly due of $1. . When $5,000 is raised they in tend to buy a piece of land ’within the city limits, subdivide it, sell the subdi visions to the highest bidders among their number, and then repeat the opei- ation until each one of them has a lot. Then the same scheme is to be followed in relation to building, until the benefits of the association culminate in giving every one of its members a home free from incumbrance. The scheme is per fectly feasible, and if managed honestly and intelligently, is sure to succeed. Out -Door Life.—Our girls want more out-door life, and less reading novels and embroidering in rooms darkened, with green blinds. If there is any one thing more beautiful than another in a garden of flowers, that thing is a beautiful girl, with a sun-bonnet on her head so wide and capacious that you have to get right square before her, and pretty near her, to see the glowing cheeks that are sure to be there if she is at all accustomed to garden walks and works. Physically, there can be nothing better for daugh ters, and, indeed, for many wives, than to take sole charge of a small flower gar den. The benefits derived from early rising, stirring the soil, snuffing the pure morning air, are freshness and glow of cheek and brightness of eye, cheerfulness of temper, vigor of mind and purity of heart. Consequently she must be more cheerful and lovely as a daughter, more dignified and womanly as a sister, and more attractive and confiding as a wife. If you have not the dooryard ground, then get a dozen pots and plant the seeds of flowers to your taste. The care and attention required to rear and train the growing plants, occupies the mind to the exclusion oftentimes of senseless novel reading, a senseless waste of time. You listless, pale-faced, fragile thing of a girl, throw off your mock delicacy, put on gloves if you will, but work in the flower garden till your cheeks vie in color with the. blush of the rose which you culti vate.. Scientific.—Dr. Stimpson, the emi nent director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, has been engaged during the past winter, as we have already in formed our readers, in prosecuting the deep-sea explorations in Florida. He first accompanied the United States Coast Survey steamer Bibb, when mak ing soundings between Cuba and Yuca tan for a submarine cable, but found the sea-bottom very poor in animal life. We have previously mentioned that the bot tom temperature in the deepest water was about 39.5° F., which may possibly account for the scanty fauna. The bottom consisted of sand and globiger- ina mixed, in which scarcely anything occurred but shells, mostly dead.’ Some of- the specimens were identical with those obtained by Gwin Jeffreys at a similar depth off the European coast. On their way back from the cable work, the expedition made one haul of the dredge off the Cuban coast, near Havana, in 250 fathoms water, and ob tained a superb specimen of the very rare Pentacrinus caput medusae, the first ever’ obtained so near our coast, and perhaps hardly represented as yet in any of our museums. After returning to Key West the Doctor took charge of the dredging on board the Coast Survey steamer Bache, but ill-health prevented his prosecuting this to any extent. ‘ The Discovery of Coffee.—Toward the middle of the fifteenth century a poor Arab was traveling in Abyssinia, and, finding himself weak and weary from fa tigue, he stopped near a grove. Then, being in want of fuel to cook his rice, he cut down a tree-which happened to be covered with dead berries. His meal being cooked and eaten, the traveller discovered that the half-buned berries were very fragrant. He collected a num ber of these, and, on crushing them with a stone, he found that their aroma in creased to a great extent. While won dering at this, he accidentally let fall the substance in a can which contained his scanty supply of water. Lo, what a mir acle ! The almost putrid liquid was in stantly purified. He brought it to his lips ; it was fresh, agreeable, and in a moment after the traveler had so far re- covered his strength and energy as to bo able to resume his journey. The lucky Arab gathered as many berries as he could, and, having arrived at Arden* in Arabia, he informed the mufti of his dis covery. That worthy divine was an in veterate- opium smoker, who had beer- suffering for years from the influence o ’ that poisonous drug. He tried an infu sion of the roasted berries, and was so delighted at the recovery of his ow.n vigor, that in gratitude to the tree he called it cahuah. which in Arabic signifies force. And that is the way in which coffee was discovered. The ignorance of the French peasantry is said to be unparalleled in the civilized world. Not one in a hundred can read or write. in an advertisement by a railroad company of some unclaimed goods, the letter “I” dropped from the word “lawful,” and it reads now, “People to whom these packages are directed are requested to come forward "and pay the awful charges on the same.” A Thrifty Family.—The’ head of a family in Omaha earns fifty dollars per month by his labor, two boys earn eight dollars per-week, and two girls six dollars more. Two girls beg enough to support the whole family and four boarders be sides, thus leaving the money earned as a fund to clothe them and pay for the house and lot lately purchased. An Inhuman Father.—In Washington county, Ky., a man named Lovell placed a pistol in the hand oi his little son, aged seven years, and ordered him to shoot his (Lovell’s) step-daughter, who was an idiot and caused much trouble. The boy fired, but missed the idiot and struck another sifter, inflicting a mortal wound. There is great excitement in the neighborhood against Lovell, who escaped. Fooled Him. —A touching incident is reported from Chattanooga. An utter stranger called on a respectable farmer, last week, and asked him if his housa had not been robbed during the war. The farmer replied that it had. “ I, ’ said the stranger, “was one of the ma rauding party that did it. I took a little silver locket” “That locket,” said the farmer, bursting into tears, “had been worn by my dear, dead child.” “Here it is,” replied the stranger, visibly af fected: “lam rich ; let me make resti tution ; here are $20 for your little son.” He gave the farmer a $50 bill and re ceived $30 in chance. He then wiring the farmer’s hand warmly, and left. The farmer has since dried his tears and load ed hi shot-gun. The $50 bill was bad,
The Union Republican (Winston, N.C.)
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