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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17
A Partisan Beauty's Revenge.

An English Warehouses, resident in
the legitimist faubourg, and avoiding
the Napoleonites as low, gave parties on
grand scale. To one of these an Eng
lish lady took, unlimited, a pretty
French woman, a friend of the Empress.
The pretty woman made herself conspic
uous by her prettiness and firtations,
but the Marchioness found out who she
was, and was Disguised. She said to
her:
II am so conscious Of the honor you
have done me in visiting me that dare
not expect repetition of the unexpect-
ed compliment"
The pretty woman grew pale, but
smiled and ordered cavalier to go for
her carriage. The pretty woman was
clever, and finessed revenge. She
bribed the Marchioness' femme de cham
6re to give her the list of the guests in
vited for the next party. Armed with
this she prepared a circular note which
she dispatched to each of the invited
late in the afternoon of the following
day:-"The Marchioness presents her
compliments to So-and 50, and regrets
that domestic calamity will prevent
her, &C." She then went to great Mad
Doctor, representing herself as the
daughter of the Marchioness, and act
ing with the consent of the ladyship's
family, she represented that her moth
err, the Marchioness, was afflicted with
insanity, and her madness was in the
delusion that she was always having
great parties. For instance. if Mon
sieur, the Doctor, went to her lady
ships hotel that evening he would find
her dressed in great splendor, with the
saloon illuminated, adorned with flow
ers, and Bullets covered with refresh
ments.
The doctor went, on the understand
ing that he was to obtain the proper po-
lice authority to take the Marchioness
to Maison de Sante in the event of the
representation made to him being con-
trmed by his own observation. He ar
rived at ten in the evening. He was
the first, the only guest. And though
tho Warehouses did not remember his
name she took 1t tor granted she had in
vited him, and was profusely civil. His
manner puzzled and his questions start
led her; lunacy became more clear;
she was at last offended and rang for her
servants. At the same time he made
proper intimation of his police authori-
ty; and the end of the story is that she
was taken off by the doctor in hys-
terics and detained as a prisoner in
his asylum until the whole truth
came out. All Paris was in roars; and
the pretty hirt was heroine for
ever. Protected by her august friend.
she escaped retaliation - q British
marchioness is too grand for wit.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17
The Mysterious Masked Lady.

At the masked ball lately given by
Frances, Countess Waldegrave, lady
of distinguished appearance, dressed in
black, and wearing domino, observed
two gentlemen who were convorsing
unmasked in an alley of the beautiful
gardens at Strawberry Hill. She APP
preached them with easy grace. and
opened conversation in light and ban
tering tone. The elder of her male in
terlocutors was assured, by what 1.-THE
Antiquary would have called 'his fair
enemy" that she knew all about him,
and could, and would, tell him many
queer stories about himself. Well
able to defend himself in tongue en-
counters the gentleman, whose wit
and peJsViags were once the delight
of the House of Commons, in which he
is now much missed absentee, re-
piled that if she knew even 1.-THE of
the mischief that he had done in life
she would compel him to borrow her
domino. Carrying the war into the
enemy's country, he proceeded Jest
ingly to impugn her assertion that she
was a married woman, and accused her
of having escaped from boarding
school to take part in the Strawberry
Hill gayeties. His younger male com
panion, being scarcely inferior in badi-
mage, asked permission to touch her
marriage ring and accepting the
gloved hand which she promptly ex-
tended, remarked after satisfying HIM
self as to the correctness Of her claim.
that so fair . gage was worthy Of more
worthy salutation, and was permitted
to raise her black glove to his lips.
After a diversified conversation, which
lasted about . quarter Of an hour, the
lady glided gracefully away. leaving
her companions in puzzled mystery as
to her identity. Their guesses were
more ingenious than correct; but the
sentiments OF the elder gentleman may
be more easily imagined than described
when an hour later he was laughingly
informed by the lady Of the most ex-
allied rank in the assembly (she Prin-
cess OF Wales) that she herself was
the escaped boarding school miss, and
that tho domino which she had removed
from her faoe was ct his service-to hide
his blushes.-Lon don World.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17
A French Actors Picnic.

Good Friday is the only holiday in
the Partisan actors year, and they prof
it by its recurrence to deliver them
selves to the widest excuses of pic
nicking in the Banliene. Castellano
was this year appointed by his comrades
to organize and manage the excursion,
having an unlimited credit and arbi-
trary powers, and contracting to satisfy
every desire of every member of the
company.
They met in the morning at the Cafe
de lAmbigu and decided to go into
the country-of course.
Eyes, but how?" growled Gil Pere S;
on foot, by bus, in hacks, by train?
These things are all played out. Now,
l want to go in break with four
horses, two postillions, bells, rib
bons"-
Here it is" said Castellano, as the
vehicle of Gil Peres' dream drew up at
the door.
They entered it and set out merrily.
How do you like it, asked the
manager.
ooh, it isn't bad, exactly" grumbled
Gil Peres; but slow-no fun. If we
only were to upset, or
Upset the coach, boysl' shouted
Castellano to the Positions, and over it
went amid chorus Of shrieks, spilling
every one into the ditch. No one was
hurt, but an axle was broken; the day
was hot; the road was dusty. Never
was comedian so roundly abused AS
Gil Peres. However, farmhouse was
seen at some distance and the dispirited
actors trudged YEARLY towards it.
"Ah, l WISH" exclaimed Gil Peres,
"that We could get decent breakfast
here"
At that moment head waiter, nap
kin in hand, appeared at the door and
said. Gentlemen. breakfast has Just
been placed on the table,
They entered. Enchantmentl Such
q spresd as Luculius never dreamed of.
Gil Peres seized knife and bounded
towards plate.
"Well, have you got everything you
want, now" asked Castellano.
Everything" said the radiant actor,
though" he added, IS . shade passed
ever his face. "these new boots bother
my corns dam nably."
SO saying. he plunged his fork into
the plate and drew out-his slippers !!
-Ner York World Translation.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17
Blunders of Painters on Sacred
Subjects.

Both ancient and modern artists in
treating of the subject of Hagar and
Ishmael in the desert, have fallen into
singular error. 1t has been customary
to represent the latter as q young
child Of eight or ten, or younger still.
But reference to the chapter proceed
ing the one in which the narrative oc-
ours will show the impossibility of
this. Ishmael was thirteen when the
whole household was circumcised, a
year before Isaac's birth. The feast on
the occasion of the latters wedding,
which led to tho Punishment of the
"bond woman and her son." could not
have taken place till two years later
still; in the Eaat the weaving Of child
is never earlier than this, and often
later. Taking the earliest possible
reckoning, therefore, Ishmael could
hot have been less than sixteen at
the time he was sent away from
home. And this removes much of
the impression of harshness in the
sentence which might dwell on the
mind of one who supposed the ban
ished son to be little child. He was
old enough to seek his fortune, and
also to make it probable that his mock
cry of his younger brother was not the
mere needless sauciness of child, but
the ebnllition of bitter hostility in an
ambitious and high-tempered youth,
first opportunity of claiming what he
would regard as the right of seniority.
a mistake which pervades almost all
pictures, ancient or modern, in which
the Saviour is introduced, is to repre-
sent Him with glory Of light around
His head. There is hardly anything
of which we can be more certain than
that no such manifestation accompanied
Him during his ministry. The only
time when he permitted even a chosen
few to have glimpse OF "the King in
His beauty" behind the disguise Of
the Man of Sorrows, was in the Trans
fguration, when for a moment the
three disciples could look on Him as
He really is-the veil thrown back, and
the excellent glory manifest. With
regard to the minute details OF pic
lures, the older masters, from their
ignorance OF Oriental customs and
dress, and also in many cases. of his
tory, have often set these at defiance in
their treatment of Scripture subjects
both in the Old and New Testament.
But these mistakes are generally more
ludicrous than miscellaneous. Jacob in
q four-post bed, and Sarah in quilted
satin petticoat, and the family of Cor
nelius in the starched ruffs and stiff
black dresses OF Dutch Burgomaster' 3
wife and daughters, and Pilates sol
diers playing cards with their muskets
beside them. may call forth a smile,
but cannot greatly mislead modern
spectators. The modern painters, how
ever, have, ot late years at least, taken
most praiseworthy pains to study ORR
entail costume, landscape, and features
and consequently errors of this kind
are much schooner met with.-Home
Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17

The Keokuk Consultation tells of 4
polyandrous woman living in Charles
ton township, Lee county, Iowa, who
is wife, with all that the term implies,
to her present husband. William Glass
ford, living on the Illinois shore, and
to her divorced husband. named Wiley,
Of the Iowa side. to whom (the latter
she has four children. During the
summer she lives with Wiley and in
the winter with Glassford. Both men
are aware Of all the circumstances.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17

The corn crop has increased in the
United States from 76S, 800 900 bushels
in 1867, to $40 ,000, 900 in 1877, or
nearly 100 per cent in single decade.
The hog product has more than doubled
during the same period. being the last
year 9,04S, 500 head. The yield Of
wheat last year WAS 800 600, 900 bushels.
or 80. oo0, 900 more than was ever be-
fore produced.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17

In 1915, wolves in the Russian prov
ince Of Samara devoured $3.50 horses
and horned cattle, SO, 900 small cattle,
- 900 domestic fowls. and moro than
1900 dogs. In 1877 their ravages
were even greater. and the loss in the
two years is esti mated Mt 5000 600.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17

Every SpAniArd in Cuba can be a
voter. who is twenty years old,
and Who pays an annual tax Of five
dollars. 1snt this getting suspiciously
near 20 tho American suffrage Standard
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17

The following story of an unpardon-
able practical joke on a trustful young
woman is told by the IVatertor,a Times:
"a young man from this city visited
Carthage photograph gallery day before
yesterday. The artist, whom he knew,
was out, and while waiting for his re-
turn, girl from Champion came in TO
get her picture taken. The young man
told the customer to be seated. The
young man pointed the camera at her.
and then slid down stairs. One hour
and ffteen minutes afterwArd he re-
turned, and to his astonishment there
the girl sat Just rs he left her. Sup
posing everything WAS all regular. she
inquired how much longer abe would
be obliged to look prettyr-PhiIdde9-
phd Chronicle Herald
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-17

San Antonio. Tex, has only sounded
its Are alarm bell once in eighteen years.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17

In many other things important to
be known the contrast might be con
tinued between North Carolina and
other sections, but it would make my
article too long
As before stated, we have an area of
about g 1000, 900 acres fitted for agri-
cultural purposes, less than one-fifth of
which is in actual use for tillage or
pasture. Full 10000, 900 could be
spared to new cOmers, very large
portion Of which is still in virgin for
est. Most Of this can be sold at prices
ranging all the way from 12i cents.
the price of State land. TO ten dollars
per acre, and the chief aim Of the De-
partment should be TO induce people
TO come and buy them and make homes
upon them. No greater stimulus could
be given to the prosperity Of our State,
and with thousands and thousands o.
citizens in the eastern and northern
sections of the Union, no happier step
could be taken TO better their condi-
ton. But we want 10 impose upon
none, we want to deceive nobody.
Wherever it is preferred we are pre-
pared TO sell lands through the agency
of the Department Of Agriculture AMI
to have titles scru:inized b. the Attor-
ney General of the State. We intend
as far as possible to keep all jobbery
out of the question, and we do not
want mere laborers. We have more
labor now than capital. That same
inflexible census report from which |
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17
BY THE GOVERNOR.
Governor q. B. Vance Reviews
the Advantages of the State
and Cordially Invites Re-
spectacle Men to Find
Homes in our Midstl

MEssRs. EDITORS: This American
country of ours offers to the over
crowded populations of the Old World
a vaster area in which to choose homes
than any portion of the globe. So
great is the diversity of soil, surface
and climatic conditions, that not only
foreigners are attracted from beyond
the seas, but a constant disposition is
fostered in our own people to change
their homes and their fortunes, and
test the virtues and capacities of every
corner of our great domain.
Much of the prosperity of a ma ajority
Of American States is attributable to
their receiving this tide of humanity
in its westward swell, and the conse-
quence has been that those States
which have been passed by have not
kept pare in wealth and material pros
perity with those which secured this
flow of immigration. Owing to the
want of direct communication with
Europe, the absence of vast bodies of
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17
}salei9b an0 Roundabout.

&C. w. Watkins of Granville has
been pardoned by the President.
Who will try to obtain that Devon
Calf? See premium offer elsewhere.
David Townsend, of Robson, made
II bales of cotton and 400 bushels of
corn, with one horse and a darkey.
Col. Walter Clark has moved his
office into the Bagley Building, oppo-
site the new Post is to be.
cW- Read the Premium Offer. A
fine blooded Devon Calf presented to
the best list of subscribers before April
10th.
Mrs. w. T. Blackwell of Durham
was presented 1,CO0 silver set by
New York friends, while on her bri-
dal tour.
George w. Dill, well known in
Raleigh, Newborn and New York, died
at Morehead City on the 9th inst. He
had many good qualities.
E. O. Noe, Carteret, has been APP
pointed by the Governor Commissioner
of Wrecks for the 4th Wrecker's Dis
trict on the North Carolina coast.
DIR. Geo. w. Graham and lady left
the city on Saturday; the latter to
visit friends in South Carolina. DIR. G..
will spend about month in New York
city.
Col. John ID. Cameron, whose edi-
torial-quill "a short stub of lead pen
Gil, by the way is admitted to be with
out a superior in the State, spent yes
terday in this city.
Our city business men may not be
aware of the benefits they lose in not
advertising in this paper. We received
yesterday a $50 advertisement by tele-
graph from New York.
Our regular readers, acquainted as
as they are with the magnificent re-
sources of the State, may find the
present number somewhat less inter-
esting than usual. We have, however,
a large amount of interesting, and val
uable, matter ready for the next num-
Der.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17

G. E. b., New Haven, Conn.-Much
interest is being manifested by our
people in the soil, climate and produc-
tions of your State. Many in our over
crowded manufacturing centres desire
to go South, and no doubt your State
will get its full share of our surplus
not of paupers, but of the best element,
who will bring some capital and some
enterprise. 1t seems to me that it
would be better. for several reasons.
for our people to come in colonies.
Answer.-We want your people Of
capital and enterprise, but we want no
paupers. North Carolina is no place
for them. You are correct as to the
policy of your people coming in colo
nies. There would be very many ad-
vantages in it, and in all cases where
practicable let these parties send man
in whom they have confidence, to the
office of the Department in Raleigh, to
examine the Register and the pro-
ducts of the various counties, and to
obtain the information they may want
in regard to our State.
j. H. r., Stanly county, n. C.-Upon
what terms do you register lands in
your office? Let me know, rs I wish
to sell some.
Answer.-Upon application we send
you blanks for full description Of the
property, price, &c. With this blank
you send one dollar to pay registration
fee. This is the only cost to you un-
less we sell it. When sold by the De-
partment you pay 2. per cent commits
mission on the sale. We advertise and
take the risk of sale. The Agency is
under the exclusive control of the
Board of Agriculture.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17

OUR NEW CHIEF JUSTrCE-Public
expectation was more than met when
Gov. Vance, last Monday, issued his
commission, appointing Hon. w. n.
III. Smith to the exalted Bench, left
vacant by the decease of Chief Justice
Pearson. Judge Smith was born in
Murfreesboro, Sept. %, 1872; gradual
ed at Yale College and Law School !;
and has since occupied position
among the brightest legal minds of
North Carolina. In ante-bellum poll
tics he was an Old Line Wing. AS
citizen, and as a lawyer, he is worthy
of the honor conferred upon him. and
the Supreme Bench loses nothing by
the change. The new Chief Justice
was sworn in by Judge Reade on Tues
day morning, and at once entered upon
the discharge of his duties.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17

small sum of IS cts, Mr.. John S. Hamp-
ton, of this city will send his neat little
volume bearing the above title, con-
tanning a map of the State, list of its
post offices, population of its chief
towns. address of the leading lawyers,
ETC., all of which must be very useful
to strangers. This book may also be
obtained at A. Williams, Book seller.
Raleigh, n. C.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17

pubic lands, and land jobbing and
speculation companies, and various
other causes, North Carolina is among
the States which have been avoided by
immigrants, both foreign and domes
tic. An examination of the census OF
1870 will show that she has fewer citi-
zens of foreign birth than any other
State of the Union and whilst she has
progressed as fast materially as any Of
her sisters, who have been similarly
dependent on the natural growth Of
their own population, she has become
fully aroused to the necessity Of secur-
ing this addition to her wealth and
energy The constitutional demand for
a Bureau of immigration and Stats
tics, and the consequent legislation of
our late General Assembly, are direct
ed to this object and l gladly avail
myself of your invitation to write an
article in aid Of so cOmmendable an
undertaking as your proposed immi-
grafton" number Of the FARMER AND
MECHANIC
North Carolina, in my judgment,
presents more solid inducements to
sober-minded immigrants than any
other portion of the American Union.
Situated in the heart of the north tenn
perate zone, she is blessed with an in
termediate climate, which ensures
condition of animal life as comfortable
and as perfect as is to be found on the
globe. Stretching from the sea coast
for 600 miles westward, on the 35th
is raised by the great Allegheny chain
into an altitude of 5000 feet, giving
its mountain ranges much of the pro-
ductions and temperature of Western
New York and Ontario, Canada !; whilst
the holding of its bosom up to the sun
gives to many of it's southwestern
plains the productions of Florida and
Louisiana. 1t grows, and in most cases,
grows to perfection, every article emu
merated in the columns of the United
| States census reports, and many that
are not so enumerated. It's surface
contains larger variety and more
valuable quantity Of timber, and it's
| bosom Of minerals, than any other
| State, as is incontestably established
! by our geological survey It's water
| power, considered with reference to
all probable wants, is simply iimitless.
1t is true that our lands are not so
fertile as the fat plains Of the great
| West, but they are equal, if not supe-
| rior, to any in the Atlantic States, and
repay the intelligent care of the culti-
vator with most generous returns.
/ Our area of 80 millions of acres con-
tains perhaps not more than five mil
/ lions which are actually untitled for
agricultural purposes. AS general
rule the good things of this world are
distributed with kind equality, and
! if the. books are fairly posted, North
i Carolina will have little to fear from a
| comparison with the most favored
/ States. Let us take the census of 1870
! and contrast her with Ohio, one of the
richest of the West, and the third in
the Union in population and wealth.
/ Let us see first as to the area of land ::
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17

1t will thus be seen that Ohio has
about three times as much land i'm
proved and in cultivation as North
Carolina; cultivated with implements
more than six times in valu e, and by
labor twice the cost of that exp ended
in our State, and the total costof capi-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17

The Publishers of the FARMER AND
MECHANIC will present fine, healthy
Devon Calf, raised upon the farm
of prominent officer of the North
Carolina Agricultural Society, to the
person who shall make up the largest
list of yearly cash subscribers, before
the 10th day of April next. No name
already on our books will be counted,
of course but beyond this. the offer is
open to all, and subscribers may be en-
rolled from any post-office in or out of
the State. Persons entering the lists
for this splendid premium will please
send on their subscriptions as fast as
obtained; they will be properly Gre
dited to the sender; and the more the
paper is seen and read, the easier will
be the work Of getting up the club.
Address, FARMER AND MECHANIC.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17
Y. OIL. |.

> This paper is printed at 10 P. NJ.
every Wednesday. Price: 50, in ad-
vance. 1t is the Official Mouth-piece
of the Department of Agriculture, I'M
migration and Statistics Gov. l.. b.
Vance, Chairman Col. l.. l.. Polk.
Commissioner. Monthly reports are
furnished by two or more correspond
ents from every county in North Caro-
lima, giving all items Of interest.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-17

- Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer,
prof c. b. Fairchild, Dr. ID. E. Salmon,
and others whose names are withheld,
for the present, have also kindly en-
gagged to contribute for our columns.
Address,
FARMER AND MECHANIC.
Raleigh, n. c.