New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-18

III Conlederates Of Wilmington, n. C..
decorated the graves of the rebel dead last
week. In the procession was a banner with
the following inscription r. E. Lee Gloria
COrondt,Ss! On the reverse side-the Bonnie
Blue Flag, and the Confederate battle flag.
with the following The hearts that were true
to their country and God, will report at the
grand reveille. In the center Of the inclosure
at the cemetery stood Confederate flag, with
the names of many battle fields inscribed
thereon. The speech Of Col. Robert Strange.
the orator of the day, while it was not of such
partisan character as liz generally the case at
their observaIces was plenty bitter and full Of
vindictveness. lie said, in closing his speech.
that the cause they mourned over to-day seemed
lost but still they could pray and hope that
the principles FOR which the brave men died
might yet be vindcated by the American
people.
"A traveller once visiting the lighthouse AZ
Calais, said to the keeper " But what il one
of yourlights should go out at night Never
impossible :" he cried Sir, wonder ara
ships sailing to all parts of the world. If
tonight one Of my burners were out in
six months | should hear from America, or
India, saying that on such night the lights at
Calais lighthouse gave no warning, aud soma
vessel had been wrecked. Ah sir y! sometimes
feel when | look upon my lights, as if the ewes
Of the whole world were fixed upon me-" No
one knows how much sorrow and suffering NAV
ensue from single neglect of duty.
Mr.. James Murray Mason, one of the re-
preventative Virginia statesman of the last forty
years, the author Of the Fugitive Slave Law
and the colleague of Sidell in the European
diplomacy of the Southern Confederacy. leave.
name which $50 far as posterity will consent
to remember it, will stand in pitiful contrast
INIT hat Of fap
tor, Mr.. George Mason, who reported in l776
to the Virginia legislature, the bill of rights
declaring that all men by nature are equally
Free"
They have in China what is known az the
grease tree. Large forests grow there, and the
OleaginOns product has become traffic. The
greace forms an excellent talow, burning with
a clear, brilliant and-what is infinitely more 10
the purpose--whte light, and at the same time
emitting not a trace of any un pleasant odor, or
of the ordinary disagreeable accompaniment of
combustion-smoke
Bismarck new title Of Prince is heredita
ry, but can only be assumed by the eldest son
Of the family in each generation. The title ia
full is, " His Serene Highness the Prince Won
Bismarck -SchOenhausen. 1t is asserted that
the present income of the Chancellor is not in
accordance with his princely rank, and there 10
talk of additional power for the title, from the
Crown.
Mrs. Crittenden, the wife of the murdered
man, was witness on the trial of Mrs. Fair,
in San Francisco, on the ! lth instant, and while
she was giving her testimony Mrs. Fair, in
loud voice, pronounced everything she
had said a lie. When the witness left the
stand the Judge fined Mrs. Fair $3.50 for con-
tempt.
A stranger observing an ordinary roller
rule lying on the table took it up. and on in
curing its use, was answered - Ii is rule for
counting houses" He turned it over and over,
up and down repeatedly and at last iu a Dc,
roxism of baffed curiosity. he inquired "How,
in the name of wonder, do you count houses
with this !? "
"A circular issued from the Treasury De-
partment, orders that hereafter subscriptions
TO newspapers and periodicals by heads of bu-
reaus for use in their offices will only be author
lied through the office of the Secretary of the
Treasury, and no subscription will be recog-
nized. or paid by the Department unless made
in accordance with the terms of this record.
Little and agile girls should take warning
from the fate of IsidOre Moody, of Akron,
Ohio, who recently performed three hundred
jumps over her Skipping rope, followed on the
next morning by one hundred and seventy more,
and three DAYS afterward died. And the doc
tors said her death was caused directly by
jumping the rope.
As sometimes small evils, like invisible
insects, infict pains. and single hair may stop
a vast machine, the chief secret OF comfort
lies in not suffering trifes to vex one, but In
prudently cultivating an underground of small
pleasures, since very few great ones, alas ara
of long duration.
The Detroit papers have discovered hew
method for driving away the organ grinders.
Every day or two they have a small paragraph
like this; ''Organ-grinders In Memphis make
about ten dollars day."
Il think II is the most beautiful and humane
thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with
pleasure that the one may not sink into melsn
choly, nor the other rise up into wantonness.-