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The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

Our brennan commends our friend $. Il.
Darlington at Durham TO The considcra.
tion Of all whiting or passing that place
Sterling is very elose to the rail road, aud
there 4 no difficulty In ii0dlng him out.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

The Charlotte Democrat comedies with
US 10 regard to Judge Cox decision. 0be-
dience to the Law, but impartial justice TO
our own people. is our principle.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

See notice o. tile Programme Of COM
mencement for which we are Indebted 70
the Raleigh Observer through lis Chapel
Hlll correspondent.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

Hot. hotter. hottest. II il goes on as it
has begun. we will omit degrees of CON-
parison and use the superlative only.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

DUPoNCo's GOLDEN PERIODICAL
PILLS are the surest and safest remedy
for ladies In delicate health. 6m.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

Ttistbe sotof Mr.. I0vcIcy, the old
teacher 4 Raleigh, aud not the old senile-
man himself WIN will open . school ~
durham.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

The blazing sun calls for that shade on
the streets which the poor mutilated trees
are unable 10 give.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

We learn that 4. d. Long has been Inc
vest.galIng the affairs Of Post Office at
Chapel HlII, and the Consequences Is that
n "a. has TO step down and out.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

Don't forget The Closing Exercises 81
this School on Friday June lst. Dr Craven
will bc there aud no doubt the occasion
will be an interesting Que.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

Episcopal convention begins At Char.
latte an the s0th Inst.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23
TOBACCO MARKETS
REAMS' WAREHOUSE.

Good brights in good order sell we'll. |
think prices will be better VIXEN the order
Is improved.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

Thirteen Cents infested each day sria Sc.
cure 10 your family sJ.OOU.
The Hillsborough recorder., 1877-05-23

See fourth page both for Ads and In
taresting reading matter.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-19
Cold Winters in Europe.

In 40l the Black Sea was entirely frozen
over. In 769 not only the Black Sea, but
the Straits of Dardanelles were frozen over;
the snow in some places rose fifty feet high.
In S22 the great rivers of Europe, Danube,
Elbe, &c, were so hard frozen as to bear
heavy wagons for a month. In $50 the
Adriatic was frozen. In 99l everything
was frozen, the crops totally failed, and
famine and pestilence closed the year. II
1867 most of the travellers in Germany
were frozen to death on the roads. In 134
the Pc was frozen from Cremona to the
sea the wine sacks were burst and the
trees split by the action of the frost, with
immense noise In 1886 the Danube was
frozen to the Bottom and remained long in
that state. In 1916 the crops wholly failed
in Germany wheat, which some years be-
fore sold in England at 6s. the quarter,
rose to GO. In 1903 the crop failed in
Scotland, and such famine ensued that
the poor were reduced to feed on grass,
and many persisted miserably in the fields.
The successive Winters of 14323-4 Were
uncommonly severe. In 1868 the wine dis
tributed to the soldiers was cut with
hatchets. 1858 it was excessively cold.-
Most of the holies were killed. Coaches
drove along the Thames, the ice of which
was eleven inches thick. In 1909 occurred
the cold Winter; the frost penetrated the
earth three yards into the ground. In 1716
booths were erected ON the Thames. In
l744 and 1745 the strongest ale in England,
exposed to the air, was covered in less
than fifteen minutes with ice an eighth OF
an inch thick. In 1909, and again in 1912,
the Winters were remarkably cold. In
1914 there was fair on the frozen Thames.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-19

CAUGHT AT LAsT.-Not a hundred miles
from York farmer set trap to catch a
cunning fox who had been annoying him
considerably by his midnight visits among
the poultry. For fourteen successive visits
to it he found the trap sprung, stick of
wood between its jaws and the bait eaten
up. The circumstance so often repeated
surprised him. There were no other tracks
to be seen but his own and those of the
foxes, and who sprang the trap, was
question that puzzled HIM sorely. By con-
tinuing to rebait his trap he hoped to
catch the author of the mischief On the
fifteenth night, lie found q fine old
fox lung 10 it by the nose, and in his
mouth was stick of wood. From the
circumstance it would appear that the cum
ming animal had sprung the trap fourteen
times witha stick, but in attempting it
the fifteenth time, he unfortunately got a
stick that was TOO short, and he conse-
quently got his nose nipped. This incl
dent, improbable ms it may appear, is said
to be fact, and bears with it Il moral.
Human cunning and dcpravity may, time
and again, practice the most wicked de-
ceptions. commit the greatest crimes, and
cvade and. elude the law, but their turn
will come as it did with poor reynard,
when the stick will be too short.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-19
ITEMS, OF INTEREST.

Many a creditor nowadays tries to be
like the fence, which wears the glorious
inscription, "Post no bills"
The most laconic will on record is
that of man who wrote: ~ have nothing;
owe great deal; the rest give to the
poor"
She said, Dear, it is just twelve years
since that Christmas eve, when you washed
my face with snow and kissed my tears
away" Said he, " Is that all ?"
The Old Story.-Nearly every man
Tells his wife there is another man in town
who resembles him, and who is frequently
seen coming out ofsaloons.
-" Bankruptcy and ruin stare our I'M
happy country in the face" shrieked the
venerable Hunker yesterday. In fact,
haven't cent myself; have you dollar
about you2"
-" Oh! shall only charge you nom,
inal fee,' remarked a young lawyer to
friend who had called for professional adj
vice. "Well," replied the other, for
man of your profession that's phenomenal
certainly"
-" Funny Monkey" said Mrs. Parting
ton, as she saw him patiently sitting; "but
he sits as if he had plumbago in the back,
and I could wish there was more hair on
his reprehensible tail. cannot yet believe
neither that they're our posterity."
Asa is tue name of an honorable
house cat living near South Carver, Mass.
His guardians were saved from abject
poverty by Asas curiosity, which led him
to drag an old stocking ont of m obscure
corner. The iingling sound produced
caused an examination, and the stocking
was found to be nearly half full of silver
coin.
1t is a fact worth thinking about that
Africa is three times as densely populated
as America. The estimated number of
inhabitants in Africa on about eleven and
a half square miles of territory is more
than twice that in America on about fifteen
and q half square miles. In America the
average is 81 people to the square mile, in
Africa, III.
A gentleman of Indianapolis, former
ly conpected with the regular army, has
in his possession pair of gloves made
from the tanned hide of an Indian whom.
he killed in desperate 'hand-to hand en-
counter in the Black Hills country. The
leather has fine grain, and is soft and
pliable, but the gloves will not compare
with Alexandres or Jouvin's, having been
iudely made by a trapper. The leather
was tanned by the Indian process
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-19
THE SUN.
NEW YORK. 1877,

The different editions of TIE Sun during the next
year Will be the same as during the year that has just
Iassed The daily edition Will week day be sheet
II four pages aud on Sundays sheet OF eight pages
II 81 broad columns while the weekly edition will be
sheet OF eight pages of the same dimensions and
haract Ter that are already familiar 10 our frenos.
1HE SUN Will continue to be the strenuous ad
Il reform and retrenchment ana OF the substitution
craftsmanship wisdom ana ntegiit, Tor hollow pre-
ence, imbecility aud irau1 in the administration of
ublic affairs 1t will contend for The government of
he people by the people and for the people oppos-
n To government by frauds in the bautboX and the
'onnting of votes enforced by military violence It
VIII endeavor to supply its readers-a body far
rom million OF souls with the most careful, COM
plete and trustworthy accounts Of events and
VIII employ Tor this purpose numerous and carefully
selected stun OF reporters and Its re-
ports from Washington especially. will be iul
rate and fearless; an2 il will doubtless continue TO de-
ervp and euny the hatred OF those who thrive by plum
iering the Treasury by usurpug what the law does
not give them, while ii will endenvOr TO merit the
hdence of the pnllc by defending the rights OF the
neople against the Entertainments of fled power
The price ut the daily Sun will lie 55 cents Ionth
Ir So 5Oa year. post paid, with the Sunday edi-
uou $40 year.
TnesuNDAY edition alone, eight pages, I2O year,
post paid
The WEEKLY Sun, eight pages of SO broad columns,
will be furnished during 1877 at the rate of SI.OO
ear, post paid.
The benefit OF this large reduction from the previous
rate for the WEEKLY be enjoyed by individual SUBJ
cribers without til necessity of making up clubs,
At the time, any of friends choose to aid in
'xteudiDg our circulation, shall be grateful to
hem, and every such person who sends ten or more
subscribers from place will be entitled t one COW
II the paper for hi nsef without charge At dol-
ar year, postage paid, the expenses OF paper and
printing are barely repaid; aud considering the size
u the sheet aud he quality of its contents,
'onhdent the people VIII consider The WEEKLY Sun
he cheapest newspaper published in the world, and
we trust also one of the very best.
Address THESU New York City N. Y
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-19

THE MAN Who KNEw.-Once in great
while man can stand on u street corner
in Detroit and ask question which can't
he answered, but such instances are very
rare. Yesterday noon, when an old citizen
made nh inquiry of crowd at the post.
office, it wasn't a second before he was be.
ing answered. He started ont with the
remark that lie was nearly sixty years old
and ended by asking:
"Can any body tell me why we have this
warm spell called Indian SUMMER"
Yes, sir" was the prompt answer, sit
is to give certain persons a chance to wash
up and get on clean shit before winter
sets in for good"
The old resident coughed several times
took another look at the sky, and moved
on. After he had gone about block lie
halted suddenly, grew red in the face, and
exclaimed:
"Come to think of it, I believe that
scoundrel meant to insult me, and wish
| had knocked him down."
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-01-19
TAK :9GZS.
BEL AIR, FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 1877.

Be Careful What YOu Say.
In speaking of persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with house OF glass
Should seldom throw stone;
If we have nothing else TO do
But talk of those who sin,
It's better we should look at home,
And from that point begin.
We have no right TO Judge man,
Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have fauts-and who Inns not?
The old as we'll as young,
Perhaps ourselves for aught we know,
Have fifty to the one.
I'll tell you of better plan,
find 1t works full well,
TO try my own defects to cure,
Before of others tell;
And though somtimes hope TO be
No worse than some l know;
Ny own shortcomings bid me lei
The faults Of others go.
Then let us all, when we commence
To SANDER friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
70 those we little know;
Remember that curses sometimes,
Like our chickens, "roost al home"
Don't speak of others faults until
We have none of our own.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-09
ClAIRVOYANT PHYS CLAN.

NTRS. DIR. p. Il. STEPHENS, THE
Nl greatest astrologist. clairvoyant physi-
clan and test medium o the age has arrived
and can be consulted at her rooms ON South
Main street, nearly opposite Bishop * Car
penters livery stable. Past, present and fu-
ture trutbfullv delineated. Special attention
given to the afflicted. Charges reasoable.
ap4-lm
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-10-27
A STAR OF HOPE,

A star above the steeple-tOp,
In twilight but feeble spark,
Is hanging as the shadowssdrop,
And brighter burns as comes the. dark.
Let not your courage from you go
When common troubles drag.youtdoWn
Your face that now is white for woe,
With sunny Joy may yet be brown.
Be pure in heart, in peace or pain;
Obey the still small voice that calls:
The star above the steeple-vane
Shines stronger as the darkness falls.
Hope, like diamond in the coal,
Shall shine, however black the night;
Keep well your eyes unto the goal,
And do not tire, but trust and fight.
Because the path has led your feet
To places bleak and bare with blight,
Seek not for safety in retreat
Still forward go, and look for light.
And if in vain you seek ray
OF sun to break the chords of sorrow,
Still fight it out-work well to-day,
And do not fear about tomorrow.
THE SONG OF THE OYSTER.
oh ] jolly old bird is the oyster fish,
As he sits in his pearly shell,
A-thinking how many delicate dish
He can make when cooked we'll
Broiled or roast,
Served on toast,
Or raw on a dainty platter
EseallOp or stew,
Either will do,
Or fried in crumbs and batter.
And u knowing old fish is the oyster bird,
AS he slyly seems to doze;
For he drops not hint, speaks not word,
OF all the secrets he knows
Blissful hours,
Shady bowers,
Whispering low and sweet;
Booty delights,
Merry old nights,
When jolly old cronies meet.
Boston Com. Bulletin.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-10-27
The Cuban Sugar Crop.
New York Sun. I

The last crop of sugar in Cuba, al
though sold ut extremely high prices,
left no profit to the planters, which is
proved by the fact that there are at
present recorded against the property
holders in different sections of the
island-of whom not less than seven
ty-fve per cent. are sugar planters
over $4,000 unexecuted judgments,
for non-payment of taxes. The thirty
per cent. tax was expected to produce
$52 100000 for the current year it
will not produce $I2, 100000. Cuba's
crop of this year will fall short at
least forty per cent. of that of 1876.
The diminished production and high
prices of this year have given an
enormous stimulus to the sugar grow
ing interest all over the world, and if
this war lasts two years longer the
Cuban sugar crop will be most in
significant factor in the sugar stats
tics of the world. This terrible result
will not be the direct, but the indirect
consequence of the war. For the last
two years the Cubans have destroyed
very few estates-probably not lis in
all-but the enormous rate of taxa
ton imposed by the Spanish govern
ment, makes it an absolute impOssi-
bility for the sugar planter to COM
pete with other sugar producing
countries of the world.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-10-27

Transient advertisements 81 per square
first insertion; each subsequent insertion,
75 cents per square.
Official advertisements 81 per square first
insertion; each subsequent publication 50
cents per square.
Editorial notices, first insertion, % cents
per line; subsequently, 10 cents per line.
Brief communications upon subjects of
public interest solicited.
No attention paid to anonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views
of correspondents.
Address: CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-10-27
NUMBER Z.
Weekly News Summary.
Foreign.

Hayti is quiet.
France is in a feverish state of po-
litical uncertainty.
Fire destroyed 200 houses at Port
land, New Brunswick.
Russian floating batteries at the
mouth of the Danube bombarded
Sulina.
The Russians are closing in on Ras-
grad and Rustchuk. Suleiman Pasha
is falling back.
1t is now stated that the Russians
captured $4,000 of Mouktar Pasha's
men and 40 cannon.
The Emperor of Germany is cred
itor of the collapsed Ritterschaftliehe
bank for 300, 900 marks. =
The steamer Kimpton Hall, with
twelve lives, was lost by collision
with an unknown vessel.
Nearly all the strikers OF the Gen
eral Southern and Western Railway
of Ireland have returned to work.
The revolution in San Domingo
continues in full blast. Puerto Plata
and Lovejashave been recaptured by
the government troops.
Spain intends to demonstrate with
the United States. s.against the duty of
fifty cents per ton on Spanish ship
ping entering the United States ports.
Kars is surrounded and Gen. Hey
man is marching on Erzeroum, while
Gems. Tergukassof aud Luzaroff are
pursuing the retiring army of Ismail
Pasha.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-10-27

pie are rich and we'll organized, and
the business of quilting fools is too
profitable to be given up without a
fight. They have the best legal tai
ent in the city behind them, and then
their methods of doing business are
so secret and well guarded that it is
difficult to convict them. There are
large number of lotteries that have
their headquarters in the city, and
all of them, with five exceptions, fare
bogus. They take in vast sums of
money, though. SCRIBE.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-10-27
AGENTS FOR THE CHIEF.
LOUISIANA NEWS.

B Caldwell Herald: An unknown
man was found dead at the Sherwood
place.
U Carroll Conservative East Car.
roll certificates of indebtedness sold
on the streets this week for 96 cents
on the dollar. By the first of January
there will not be any outstanding La
bilities.
~ Pointe Coupee Pelican George
Hamilton and Robert Roach are in
Jail, charged with the murder of Henry
Evans, a young colored man and fell
low la5orer of accused. Hamilton is
incarcerated as principal and Roach
as accessory.
E E. Feliciana Pat. DEM: Mrs
II. A. White was wounded by the dis
charge of pistol which fell from her
husbands pocket Mr.. Edward Story
was severely injured by falling from
the steps of his gin-house. = Cotton
is coming in slowly.
Claiborne Guardian Friday
evening, just after dark, two unknown
men entered the cabin of Seaborn
Love, colored man, living three
miles from Homer, and shot Love three
times, from the effects of which he
died. A negro girl in the house was
also shot in the hip. Five shots in all
were fired, and the parties decamped
without any clue to their identity.
~ st. Charles Herald The de-
mand for laborers at present is very
great and the supply limited. Wages
are one dollar per day and fifty cents
for the night watch. Some planters
are paying as high as seventy five
cents for the night watch The lit
tie daughter of Mr.. Max Ferth upset
cup of scalding coffee over her face,
neck ana bosom, burning them Sc
vcrely.
" Catalonia Ners: Geo. Hen
derson, Dick Holstein and another
colored man whose name is not now
known to us, we've arrested OH Sicily
Island charged with horse stealing,
and while being brought to Harrison
burg by Constable and posse, were
seized by a body of armed men and
taken into the woods. The bodies of
two were found dangling to tree
next morning; the third one escaped.
10 St. Mary Enterprise: Three
colored murderers have been con-
victed in the District Court and will
be sentenced to death Wesley Tur-
ner, who killed Mr.. Ehrhardt Alex.
Brown, who murdered his friend and
comrade, VIM. Dudley, for money,
aud Edwards, who killed his brother.
Charles Green, another murderer, es-
capped on the insanity plea The
eight year old son of Mr.. Etienne of
Centreville was drowned in Bayou
Teche.
~ Franklin San: A young man
by the name of Milton Gray slot his
step-father, Owen Tucker, with shot
gun. The load took effect in the arm,
neck and breast, tearing off the flesh
aud muscle between the elbow and
shoulder to the bone, and one shot
entering the neck, and another the
breast. Gray then tried to make his
escape, but was pursued by the Sheriff,
with posse, and captured. Three
days after the shooting Mr.. Tucker
died from the effects Of his wounds.
The difficulty arose from family affairs.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-10-27
Our Washington Letter.
The Presidents N1essage-COn.
gressiOn:Rl AndfcatiOns-Cap.
ture of the Neg Perces-Mexf.
can Border Troubles, etc.

S1AAA ASOA VeAUAOSs CUSs
WASHINGTON, d. e., Oct. Is, 1877.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The Presidents brief message was
transmitted to both Houses yesterday.
1t relates almost exclusively to the
deficiencies which rendered an extra
session an imperative necessity. AS
the pay of the army is several months
in arrears, he urges speedy action in
justice to it, recommending that the
present number of men in the service
-25, ,000-be taken as the basis for
the estimates for the balance Of the
current year, leaving the question of
an increase or decrease to be deter
mined at the leisure of Congress. AS
modified by tho present Secretary,
the estimates for the army amount to
S32, ,436,764 SO. The aggregate tor
the Navy Department is given at $2,-
003, ,86I %, distributed as follows:
81 ,446, ,68S Is due officers and men on
last quarter of the last fiscal year
$31l ,593 SO due for advances made
by London Fiscal Agent, for support
of foreign service; $50, 900 due to the
Naval Hospital fund $I50,000 due
as arrearages of officers pay S45,-
219 So for support of Marine Corps.
There is due to attorneys, clerks,
commissioners and marshals of Uni
te4 States courts for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1877, and for rent
of court rooms, maintenance of pris-
oners and other deficiencies, $685.
535 %. 1t is recommended that an
appropriation be made to cover the
estimates, soon to be submitted, for
repairs and temporary structures rem
dered necessary by the Patent Office
fire of the 24th ult. Estimates for
such other deficiencies as require i'm
mediate attention will, the President
says, be submitted by the Secretary
of the Treasury, and provision there
for is bespoken. Attention is called
to the vast number of letters received
from all sections of the country by
the Department of State, urging that
provision be made for our representa-
ton at the Paris Exposition, and rec
ommendsing an immediate accept
ance of the Invitation of the French
Government, rendered in May, 1876,
and that necessary funds for payment
of salaries for Commissioners. trans
portation of goods and other purpo-
ses, be voted. The appropriation of
$1,000 for the expenses of a Commits
sioner to the international Prison
Congress at Stockholm, to be held
next year, and in which we have been
formally invited by Sweden and Nor
way to participate, is the only other
asked for.
1t is vaguely rumored that some
factious opposition will be made to
the immediate consideration of the
recommendations relating to the de-
fciencies in the military and naval
budgets. The complaint of bayonet
rule in the South, which was made o
pretext for refusal to vote the neces-
sary amounts last winter, can be no
longer urged. but it is intimated that
the methods by which the army and