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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-18

Mr.. G. G. Frost, the well known total
abstinence speaker, has been ordained to
the ministry in the Baptist church at Nor
wich, Conn.
Illinois is another state whose legisa-
ture, like Missouri and Indiana, passed a
law requiring foreign insurance companies
to sue and be sued in state courts as a
condition of doing business in the state.
The recent severe storms made sad hay
oc in England as we'll in our own country.
Human life was destroyed by lightning,
whirlwinds swept away buildings and de-
stroyed the crops, while the fields and
streets were flooded with rain. The extent
of the damage is not estimated.
blaine is one of the best fellows in
the world" said democratic senator,
"and if he WAS democrat we should
almost idolize him. Butt he added, " he
does thrash round so in our corn field
sometimes that he makes me itch to knock
him down"
The gross earnings of thirty western
railroads in May show an increase Of
$314,000 as compared with last year,
about per cent on the business reported.
The increase, as for some months past, is
almost wholly due to two Kansas roads,
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and Kan
sas Pacific.
Immense quantities of salmon are now
arriving at Montreal daily from the Bay
of Chaleurs and other ports of New Bruins
wick. On recent morning, no less than
eleven tons weight of this fish arrived,
most of which was forwarded to New
York The fish are expressed, packed in
frozen snow, all over Canada and as far
west in the states Us Chicago. The price
at which the fish are sold in Montreal is
at present from ten to twelve and one.ball
cents pound at wholesale.
Hon. Henry w. Blair of Plymouth,
whom the caucus of the republican men,
bers of the New Hampshire Legislature
nominated for United States senator Con
the ninth balloD, was born at Campton, N.
H., Dec. 6, 1884, and was admitted to the
bar in 1852 During the war he served as
Lieutenant-C Colonel of the Fifteenth New
Hampshire volunteers. He was Il member
of the state legislature in 1S66-6S; and
represented his district in the Nth and
45th congresses. He is an able lawyer and
conscientious, trustworthy man.
Ex-Secretary j. d. Cox left President
Grants cabinet because he did not like
some things which he could not remedy
and he has been quite independent in his
politics, with strong bent towards the
democracy. Yet Mr.. Cox is speaking in
Ohio for Mr.. Foster, saying that 1.-The
issues are purity of elections and finance,
and taking up gladly the gauntlet which
the opposing party has thrown down."
How much more evidence is needed of the
soidifying effect upon the republican par,
ty of democratic craftsmanship in con-
gressP
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-18

Senator Bruce has word that the exodus
from Mississippi is over for the pres.
ent, having carried off from 5000 to
10000 negroes. lie says that there arc
fewer complaints from the colored people
of their treatment by the whites, and sees
beneficial results from the movement al.
ready.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-18
T II Z NJ A r X L t S.
BOSTON CATTLE MARKET.
AT CAMBRIDGE AND BRIGHTON

Orted and tcieGrdphed expressly for tie Grlu
Mountain freeman,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

hearty as a pippin. | got mad, M
rave him the other half barrel to Il hck;
was certain that | had him then 1
looked in. and I'll be hanged If
he wasn't lafing worse than
ever! Dye know where that water
come from. Mr.. -?' says he, dye
'snose it come out of the Hudson? L
amt certain of that, says |, but L We
cot some that | do know where 1t comes
from: 'spose we try a little?' All
right SAYS he, laying back very, cool;
IN order a barrel if you II be so kind!
Well. [ whispered to a man, and he ana
another went off and fetched n a few
gallons of what | told EN- about. l
give the Teller a half-bucket, and sech a
kickin', an gaspin', an splutterln you
never heard in all your days. | opened
the door and looked at him. lie was as
red as a turkey. Says he, Guesss
you've got me this time. Ill give IN.
Well says |, dye know where that
water come from?' Con e ON !. says
he, | guess | do; it come out o that
damned beefbarrel in the yard. Well,
sir. he was as meek as a lamb ever att
er." And the veteran laughed at the
story of his victory until the tears ran
of his eyes.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

NOTE.-The effect of the continual
repression of sight and speech, and the
unchanging life, day in and day out, is
equivalent to burying a man in a living
grave or vault. During a period of
more than sic months the writer of
these lines neither spoke nor was spoken
to; neither laughed, whistled, nor
raised his eyes from his work bench.
The effect was very injurious to
his voice, greatly weakening it.
Dozens of his fellow-prisoners from
Carolina were in the same room, but he
never once caught a glimpse of them
during the two years Of his confinement.
1t will give an idea of the isolation of
the prisoner to state thas the Franco
Prussian War and the Presidential
Election passed without my knowing
any of the particulars until afterwards.
Hearing c~annonadiny one evening, fired
as a .teu d. .joie over the first mistaken
rumor that Horace Greeley had carried
North Carolina), [ ventured to call the
night-watchman to the door of my cell,
and very humbly asked him if he would
be SO good as to relieve my suspense by
the single word-Grant, ? or Greeley?
1t cost me dear. The fellow. whose
rough grasp of the cell-door usually
awOke me half a dozen times every
night, as he glared between the bars to
see if | were asleep, and had not van
ished through the stone walls, gave me
just such a brutal c%ursing, brow-beat-
ing and TRADE of abuse as ought to
have been expected from one of his
class. 1t was hard to bear, and kept
the blood hot for many a day thereafter.
However, all tonics are bitter. The
effect taught me that it were better to
become a ~machine-man, deviating not
one hairs breadth from the iron RegL-
lations. Because one such hectorlng |
from a low fellow, whom you looked
upon as unfit for a door-mat. was more
crushing to the soul than all the rigor
OF silence, and subsection of sight.
Il. A. S.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
Compensation
BY CORINNE OAKSMITH.

There is no wintry scene however dreary
But has some trace OK fefvid
glow,
Somet tut Of moss, or tardy leafet CHEEKY.
Lifting its simple head above tue snow.
There Is no river. through the desert gliding,
But bears some token to the distant sea-
Some silent blossom on its bosom riding
FRI IN fair GASES wrapped in mystery.
There is no life however, dark and shrouded
But has some light to glisten on its tears -
Some sweet remembrance or a past un-
clOuded,
Shedding its radiance through the gloomy
years.
Then let us cling to every sunny token
The tuft Of mo 5, the leafiet and the flower,
The sympathetic glance, the love u~nspoken,
The Joy remembered of a happy hour.
For these amid our LIES keen wintry SHOWS,
Will still some vanished summertime
denote,
And where its rivers to the ocean flows
A silent desert flower may happy float,
Hollywood, n. c., March Il, 1879.
-GoldsboIo Messenger.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

wears, and for the vigor of body and
mind she preserved until within a lie"
months of her death.
Her marriage with Jerome Bonaparte,
which made her a conspicuous and in
teresting character for more than fifty
wears. was one of the important social
events of the early part OF the century.
Though her weak and time-servlng, IT
not villainous husband, at the bidding
of his imperial brother, discarded his
American wife and formed a bigamOus
union with a German princess, Mrs.
Bonaparte chung to the name to which
she was entitled, and had al the pride
and ambition of a reigning family and
the mother of a Prince.
jerome Bonaparte came to the Uni
ted States in 1903 as the commander of
a French frigate, and Napolean being
then First Consul. his brother was sure
of receiving the most marked social at
tentions at Il time when even less dis
%tinguished foreigners than he rarely
visited the new republic. In Baltimore
he met and speedily won Miss Eliza
beth Patterson. a beautiful girl, the
daughter of William Patterson, a rich
and leading merchant of that city,
which then was remarkable as 1t is
how for its lovely maidens. The pair
were married in December Of the same
year by the Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Baltimore; the marriage contract
was carefully drawn, and In both a
legal and ecclesiastical sense it was a
matrimonial union as binding as that
of the Duke Of Connaught the other
day. Mrs. Bonaparte was both fond
and proud of her husband, and he
seems to have been much attached to
her. His affection, however, was MOI
strong or lasting enough to make him
stand by his wife in the face Of the
violent opposition of Napolean to the
match. The Emperor would not allow
her to set her foot on French soil, SO
when the pair went to Europe in 1906
jerome, leaving his bride outside of
France, proceeded to Malmaison with
the avowed purpose Of modifying
Napoleon. He never returned to her,
however, and in July she gave birth to
a son at Camberwell, in England,
while two years after, in spite OF the
refusal of Plus VII. to sanction the
union, he was married to the Princess
Fredrica Catharina of Wurtemberg.
Mrs. Bonaparte's subsequent efforts
to obtain legal recognition of her mar
rage in France were all failures, owing
undoubtedly to imperial pressure but
Louis Napoleon's time the legi-
of her son was acknowledged,
and her grandson, jerome Napoleon,
who crossed the ocean to attend her
in her last illness, received "a commits
sion in the French army after having
prepared himself at West Point for a
military career. Another grandson,
Charles Joseph, was graduated at Har-
ward, and is now practicing law in
Un~questionably these des-
cendants of jerome by his American
wife are the rightful heirs of The great
Napoleon.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

Each man has his separate labor to
perform. Perhaps it is to fix upon the
boot, while it is yet upon the last. a
narrow strip of leather, to which the
man in front of him is to fasten the
heel. Or, perhaps, it is to seize the
newly-heeled boot and to place it under
"A sort of lathe, a machine containing a
movable knife, which pares and reduces
the rough leather to the proper smooth
ness and shape.
At his left hand is the pile from
which he takes; at his right is the pile
t which he adds; in front ofhim is the
polished automatic continuance. which
performs its labor with marvellous ce-
lerity and precision. He must feed it;
he must grasp the boot just here and
just there, must adjust it in IA second.
must turn it in precisely tie same man
ner that he has turned thousands of
them before, and he must not lag or fall
ter III doing this, until at noon and at
night a bell from one of the high desks
announces to him that he is now TO sion
Il Is to go to his cell.
AWFUL SILENCE.
In all the long day he has not spoken
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

A WORD TO HUsBANDS.-Has any
body ever written upon the response
biiity which rests upon a husband with
regard to the education Of his wife? OF
course we know what you will say about
her being supposed to have finished
her education" before marriage, and all
tat; and yet we all know that she be-
gins an education with him as new as if
she had never seen the alphabet. His
views, feelings and ideas are they moth
ing to her if she loves him? Years
after, when they who knew her as a
girl come to talk with her as a matron.
do they not find her husband reflected
in every sentence, either for good or
evil? OF course the more strongly a wo-
MAJ loves the more completely is her
identity absorbed in hat of her hus-
band. This is a point that is too much
neglected by married men. A good
husband is almost certain to have a good
wife: and if she be not as good as he
could wish, at the commencement of
their married life, he could educate her
up to the proper mark. And, on the
other hand, he can educate her down so
as to render his house a purgatory, and
perhaps bring on himself and family the
greatest agony and keenest disgrace
which a husband or children can feel.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
The Pretty Woman Era.

Mr.. Jennings, the London c%orrespon-
dent of the New York World, states
that the worship of the rich at the
great London parties is dying out, and
that pretty women now receive the at
tention formerly paid to mammon. He
says There never was SO moral a
court in England as we have to-day,
and as to the one of society" before
pronouncing an opinion upon it, a
careful distinction ought to be drawn
between those who are really at the
head of social life and those who ale
merely impudcnt pretenders. London
abounds with the latter class, and these
free and easy days they nave a simpler
game to play than of old, when class
distinctions were marked out between
hard and fast lines. These lines are
almost oblitcrated now. We have now
entered upon the ''pretty woman" era,
money itself being less sought after
than beauty. If a mar chances to have
a pretty wife, all doors are open to
him-he can go anywhere, although, to
be sure, he dOes not count for much
when he does go. There are about
half a dozen s~'beauties' now in Lon
don already to begin the season-mar-
ried beauties, mind you, for bread and
misses are no longer in fashion.
The pretty married wOmen are ever so
much more piquant. The knowing
people who want to form "a ''set of ac-
4uaintance in the exclusive circle get
these pretty ladies to their houses and
all the men will soon follow"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

Madame Elizabeth Patterson Bona
parte died at Baltimore last Friday,
aged ninety four years. The New
York Sun, In an editorial, sums up the
history of this remarkable woman as
as follows 1.-THE death at Baltimore
of Mrs. Patterson Bonaparte
venerable lady whose life was one of
extraordinary interest, and whose
strength and peculiarities of character,
apart from the romances and accidents
of her career, would have made her a
notewor thy member of society. She
was also remarkable for the great aae
to which she attained, niDety-fonr
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
ALBANY "PENITENTIARY.
The Modern Bastile to Which
Southern Political Prisoners
Are Sent.
From Appletons' Journal.
AN OUTSIDERS VIEW.
Continued from last meek.

Continued from last meek.
1T is easy to place a curb upon one :
tongue and a rein upon n hands,
but. when you see a man who has hith-
erto been lawless, and, In fact, Is here
/ in of his lawlessness, who
has placed a check upon his eyes, that
hold them in spite of all surprises, and
all his native and natural curiosity, you
become filled with painful establishment,
and you ask yourself, What does he
dread? What kind of influence IS 1t
that thus restrams the quickest actor in
his BODY" !.
1t will not be long before YOU will
perceive what it is. The power that
represses his eye is the eyes of another,
or. rather. of two others or, to be
more exact still, the possibility that the
eyes Of two others may be fixed upon
him.
II OVERSEER.
At each end of the apartment, upon
a high seat. and with a desk before him,
is seated a guard.
He is able. from his elevation, to dis
tinguish every man III the apartment.
He gaZes at them increasingly, and with
an Undesirable %sternness. lie carries
his head high, he stretches his neck in
order that he may peer better yet, and
his eyes move restlessly over the labor
ing crowd.
Each man there feels this gaze in all
parts of his body.
1t penetrates his back, it chains his
feet, it holds his head III a vice, it fas-
tens a tether upon his arms.
1t does more. 1t SO involves and SO
entangles the convict III a web of imagi-
nary meshes, that it turns his poor and
meagre thoughts back uponthemselv2s,
and they travel their dreary and profit
less round in his barren brain until they
lose their vitality then they turn into
nominations become brood
ings; and broodings become melan-
choly and, finally, this melancholy
permeates his system. 1t is shown in
his face; in his step, as he marches
and in the droop of his shoulders when
he stands alone.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
SPANISH ,

Three hundred bushels saved. cI-ar
and sound. expressly FIR planti,g . lr
sale at $500 per bushel e oo per bali
bushel; S1.OO per peck. Shippei n
stIong boxes, delivered free. ON boaa
Of cars or at express office at Nagn.
liza. Order early and get good ,er.
Cheaper than ever sold before. S.a.
money Registered, or p Q Money tt.
der on K nansville. Any informatIa
desired in regard to the cultivation g.
the crop viii be cheerfullv given.
Address. r ii. BROWN,
f6tf H~allsville, Duplin Co, NJ
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
BELMONT Q FAPV

am breeding Thorou.h BradHa.
the Back Hawk Morgan tr.tti9..
riding family, Fl ON imported p r
rOn-Nt rman tOrses. stock and :
Clys ale work horses.
Al-o fine and fashionable s.
horn cattle Of all ages. and Cha....
- hite, Berkshire. aud ESSEX Swim
will sell stations of any 0 + The h...
to clubs or Individuals on pa,inrf,r.
if applied for soon.
;. W. FICKLIN
Belmont Stock Farm near Char.
lottesville, Va. Imar r. Ar
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
NEARLY BURIED DURING A TRANCE.

NEARLY BURIED DURING A TRANCE.
Mrs. Gwenslagle, who lives about
five or six miles southwest of this city,
was taken violently i'll several days
ago and in a short time died, to all APP
]pearances. The friends and relatives
were convinced that the lady was dead
and preparations were made for the in
terment of the remains. On Saturday
the body was dressed for burial and
placed in a coffin. The friends began
to collect at the residence of the be-
reaved family. Suddenly a slight
moan was heard to issue from the cof-
fin in which the body had but recently
been placed. This greatly started the
assembled neighbors and the people
were about to rush from the room,
when the husband of the lady APP
preached the coffin and was astonished
to find the body moist and warm. A
closer examination disclosed the fact
that the I'M was breathing. Res
toratives were applied and the supposed
dead Came back to life and soon was
able to sit up and ccnverse.-Portland
O1egOnian, Feb. 10.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

NoTE.-The shower bath has since
been prohibited in all the New York
Prisons, by Legislative enactment. The
cause. as | am informed, was the death
of a prisoner, a Russian, whose stol-
cisn permitted his countenance TO ap-
pear unmoved, though the little streams
of icy water were dripping on his shaved
head. until they seemed like gimlets
boring into his brain, 1t was muir
der by inches. The coroner 5
inquest made 50 much stir that the
Legislature wa forced to order its dis
continuance. X. A. S.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

True love fears no winter. No,
no, It's spring is, and ever remains.-
Tick.
-Glrls We love for what they are !;
young men for what they promise to be.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
Two Doors West OF Presby..-

Two Doors West OF ~Presby-a-,,
All KINDS OF Dress Goods. in ,h~
made into garments DYED .". Dee
finished. Ladies' Dresses. CI.at
S1;;1 N All iaGrlcs cleaned, Whom @
CLEANED. FEATHERS nItI1h,> NJ
FULLY. Gentlemens' Coaf. htt
Pants, Vests. &c, DYED or cis.., sF'-
ripping. Damask and Mo-. VI p
DYED beautifully. Grape
the most brilliant shades If Sea iS. r.
Se.i or n most delicate or gravr
Shavis cleaned in the best nm
by express Will receive prrmr.
and be returned III the same Wa ".aa
Respectfully, y. Fp.r
dec SIN. 'h 4s.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES. - First
anniversary-Iron.
Fifth anniversary-Wooden.
Tenth anniversary-Tin.
Fifteenth enniversary-Crystal.
Twentieth anniversary-China.
Iwenty-fifth anniversary Silver.
Ihirtieth anniversary-Cotton.
Ihlrty-tifth anniversary-Linen.
Fortieth anniversary-Woole
FIttleth anniversary-Golden.
Seventy-fifth anniversary-Diamond.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

1t Is, as it were, born in maidens that
they should wish to please everything
that has yes.-Gleim.
"A mother needs to possess every
good quality. Not tuentv men indeed
could bear such burdens, nor should they
but they should acknowledge uoman's
wOrth.-G0ehe.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17

GIRLS, BE WARNED IN TIME:-An
almanac maker gives the following as
girls chances to marry From Is to Is
years old, 81 marry in a tho 1sand from
10 to Is, lO4 marry; from Is to 20, 2lO
marry; from l9 to %, 233 will marry:
from - to 26, l65 marry from 26 to
IS, 90 more will marry and the number
dwindles down till from 80 to SO years
Old from 4 to 8 marry in a thousand.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-04-17
= A K + OPPORT r. "
READ1-MADE CLOTuIy,
AT COST.
NJ. ROSENBAUM & BRO. &, r.
ettevIlle Street

We have concluded to devote ..n-.
the selling OF DRY GOODS ,r1y .-.
we offer our large stock Of RIA
CLO1 HING AT NET COST. for cash "@..
Call and see what you need in. III,
line. We don't advertise often. bn,
we do, we mean every word W., a.. "-
NJ. ROSENBAUN p
delc5m. ""
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-03-12

the 10th congress without making the
usual and necessary appropriations for
legislative, executive and judicial ex-
penses of the government for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1880, and without
making the usual and necessary appro-
pnahons for the support of the army
for the same fiscal year, presents an
extraordinary occasion. requiring the
president to exercise the power vested
IN HIM by the constitution, to convene
the two houses of congress, in anticipa-
ton OF the day fixed by law for their
next meeting;
Now, therefore, |, Rutherford B..
Hayes. presl dent of the United States,
do, by virtue of the power to this end
vested in me by the constitution, con-
vene both houses of congress, to as
semble at their respective chambers ut
Il O'Clock, noon on Tuesday, the 18th
day OF March, instant, then and there
to consider and determine such meas
ures as in their wisdom, their duty and
the welfare of the people may seem to
demand
In witness whereof | have hereunto
set my hand, and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
(Signed) r. B. HAYES.
BY the president.
VIM. Nj. EvARTs, Sec'y of State.