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eare with whom old John sanborn's
daughter had to do?


But he only said, deprecatingly:
swell, Lyme's a good, steady fellow"
"Humpl" was the scornful rejoinder.
The young man mused long and seri-
ously when his visitor was gone, and
went to bed with lighter heart, having
come to firm conclusion.
When the new teacher closed school
the next Friday night, she was feeling
rather worn out, as she was apt to feel at
the end of the week; nor did the pros
pect of her four miles walk home serve
to cheer her.
She locked the door and started down
the path with sigh.
A neat little buggy was coming briskly
up the road. Molly gave start as the
driver pulled up the horse and sprang to
the ground.
It was the young director, and he was
coming toward her.
II won't make any excuses, Miss San,
born," he said. with humorous solem-
nifty. 'Twon't say that I'm going over
to the river on business, and happened
to think you might like to ride. The
truth is that it's a carefully laid plot.
Will you be an alder and abettor2'
The little teacher laughed apprecia-
lively as he helped her into the buggy.
II must stop at Mr.. Larkin's and leave
my dinner pail, she said demurely.
Mr.. Larkin was standing at the front
gate. He stood staring at the young di-
rector as the latter assisted the teacher
to the ground, and sat down on the
horse block to wait for her.
"Lymc Doty was here after Molly just
now," he said, almost gaspingly. Il
sent him down to the school house."
"We met him." said Steve. "You
see, he added, making bold attempt
at carelessness, but speaking nevertheless
in shame faced way, and avoiding the
little mans eye-"you see, feel as
though it's my bounden duty to keep
Lyme Doty away from her. Pure impu-
dence, his hanging around her that way" :"
The little teacher came tripping back,
and the young directors buggy whirled
away in cloud of dust.
''Steve Tenney's taking Molly home in
his buggy" said Mr.. Larkin, joining his
wife in the kitchen, and sinking dazedly
into chair. 81 guess the worlds
coming to an endr
fSteye Tenney amt fool" his wife
responded. practically. II knew he'd
get over that ridiculous notion of his
and especially after he'd seen Molly"
"Says he's doing it from a sense of
duty pursued Mr.. Larkin, chuckling
slowly as the humor of the situation
dawned upon him. "Wonder how far
his sense of dutv'll take him2,'
II shouldn't be surprised at anything!"
said Mrs. Larkin, mysteriously.
The Larkins-and. perhaps, Lyme
not surprised when the new teacher gave
up the school at the end of the term, and
was quietly married to the young di-
rector.
The chairman of the school board is
wondering over it yet.-Emma a. Opper.
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The Bread Fruit Tree.

The bread-fruit tree grows everywhere
in Southern Central America, and is
veritable forest king 1t attains i'm
mense proportions, the trunk often being
from ten to twelve feet in girth, and the
branches reach out so to cover a circum-
ference of perhaps one hundred and one
hundred and fifty feet. Its leaves are
very large and thick, of a rich dark
green color on one side and a silvery tint
on the other. In shape they somewhat
resemble a broad vase or fower-pot
twelve or fifteen inches long and ten
wide. The fruit, with which one trec
will supply whole neighborhood, looked
like a small, oblong watermelon with
rough rind, and takes yeilowish tint
when ripe. 1t forms an important part
of the food Of the natives, who prepare
it by splitting it open, putting a small
piece of fat salt pork in natural cavity
in the center of it, for shortening and
seasoning, and then baking it. The
taste suggests something like a cross bo-
tween bread and potato
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persons yield by far the richest harvest.
Of course such cases as the Ward, Jaehne,
and Shaler trials make little difference,
while the investigation by the Senate
committee of the booble Aldermen for
months materially augmented sales.
Many little fellow, with two or three
copies of an evening paper under his arm,
pursues customers with his opportunities
late ct night. If he fails in selling these
last copies of his little pile much of his
two or three hours of previous hard work
10 thrown away. His leftover copies are
. dead loss on his hands. To buy such
copy of him, then, is no longer to give
him his few pennies. 1t is to give him
the whole price of the paper. It is all
profit to him, and is to encourage hard,
very hard work.
Much better are the venders situated
who offer the papers at fixed news stands.
These stands are selected on distinct
principles, the chief of which is that the
foot passengers are very numerous and
are business men. Some of these stands
yield handsome income A favorite
spot of this kind is at the foot of the
staircases which lead to the elevated rail
road station at the City Hall Square.
Some of the women who sell papers thero
are said to have accumulated fortune.
At the west staircase entrance mother
nd daughter are stationed. IN ary,y
the daughter, brunette Of sixtee sum-
mers, is quite favorite with the male
passengers. She sells more papers than
any other single street vender in the city.
--Neso York Sun.
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A Remarkable Frozen Well.

Scientific men have been perplexed for
many years over the phenomenon Of q
certain we'll at Yakutsk, Siberia. A
Russian merchant in 1929 began to dig
the well, but he gave up the task three
years later, when he had dug down
thirty feet and was still in solidly frc EN-
soil Then the Russian Academy Of Sci
ences dug away at the well for month
but stopped when it reached depth OF
Ss2 feet, when the ground was still frozen
as hard as a rock In 1874 the Academy
had the temperature Of the excayatio
carefully taken at various depths, and
from these data it was estimated that the
ground was frozen to a depth Of 5l2 feet.
Although the pole of the greatest cold i
in this province of Yakutsk, not eveA
the terrible severity Of the Siberian win
ter could freeze the ground to depth pf
800 feet. Biologists have decided that
the frozen valley Of the Lower Lena is
formation Of the glacial period. Thy
believe, in short, that il froze sGhd y
then, and has never since had q chan
to thaw out.
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Letters oddly Addressed.

Many oddly addressed letters daily
pass through the post Offices. Several OF
the rhyming kind are somewhat remark
able for the poetical skill displayed by
the writers.
A clever example is given in the fol-
lowing, addressed to Sir Walter Scott
during one of his visits to London:
"Sir Walter Scott, in London or elsewhere;
He needs not ask, whose wide-extended
Is spread about our earth, like light and air,
A local habitation for his name"
Charles Dibdell, the naval-song writer,
sent letter to Mr.. Hay bearing the fol-
lowing address:
s'Postman, take this sheet away,
And carry it to Mr.. Hay;
And whether you ride mare or colt on,
Stop at the Theatre; Bolton,
If in what county you inquire,
Merely mention Lancashire"
A letter addressed as follows was
mailed in the provinces, and was duly
delivered in London:
"Where London's column pointing to tho
skies,
Like tall bully lifts its head and lies,
There lives citizen of sober fame,
A plain, good man, and Balaam is his name"
The letter was delivered without delay
to Mr.. Balaam, fishmonger near the
Monument.
Turning from poetry to prose, we find
the following vague direction:
"Mr. -, Travelling Band, one of the four
playing in the street, Persia Pershore),
Worcestershire. Please find him II PCS
sible."
Another envelope bore the following:
"This is for the young girl that wears specta-
cles, who minds two babies 80 Sheriff
street, of Prince Edward street, Liverpool"
Mr.. J. Wilson Hyde, in his book,
"The Royal MAIL" says that two letters
directed as follows were duly delivered:
''To my sister Jean, Up the Canongate. Dom
Close, Edinburgh She has wooden
leg.
The other was directed:
'My dear Ant Sue as lives in the Cottage by
the Wood near the New Forest"
SIN the latter case," says Mr.. Hyde,
"the letter had to feel its way about for
a day or two, but ANT Sue was found
living in q cottage near Lyndhurst.-
Home Chimes.
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In Germany, says the New Haven Jour
nal, the hours of labor average per week,
in textile factories, ~; in machine fac
tories, 60. In France, in testile factories,
20; in machine factories, 60. In Aus.
tria, 66 in each In Russia, in textile
factories, from 20 to 81; in machine fac
tories, 70. In Switzerland, Sc in each.
In Belgium, in textile factories, 20; in
machine factories, 62. In Italy, in tex
tile factories, So to go; in machine fac
torres, r. In Holland, in textile factories,
~; in machine factories, g.. In the
United States, co in each. In Great
Gritain, in textile factories, Sc; in ma
chine factories, 50, In England factor
les generally close at $50 o'clock in the
erening and at 1 o'clock on Saturday af-
ternoon. while in the silk factories of
Northern Italy the factories are open from
B O'Clock A. n. to 10 o'clock P. NJ, the
hands working "a 1-2 hours per week, or
% "a hours per day, exclusive of meal
Nours.
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SELF REQUIEM,

Another idle day is done,
Another empty week is gone;
Is aught accomplished, any deed
Performed to merit lasting praisei
Have these swift, gliding, restless days
Gained for me any future need
From act or words Truth answers: "None!''
Alas, sad truth-alasl to hear
The hollow echo of the Past,
For aye that hopeless burden bear =
The mockery of blank Despairl-
To feel, as ghostly days fit past,
That we can count, when this brief race is
run,
Nothing of good or great, no laurels won.
The web Of life is swiftly spun;
Each hurrying day, month, fieeting year,
All but so many fragile threads
That Time with nimble fingers spreads
In the vast woof he's weaving here;
Death throws the shuttles by - it's donel
Nelson Hersh, in Current.
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Investigations are still going on, par
ticularly in France, with q view to utili-
ring the heat Of the sun as = source of
power and warmth One Of the most
interesting and practicable methods in
this line is that devised some time ago by
Professor Morse, Of Salem, Mass, the
limitations Of Ehich, it is hoped. may
be overcome by future improvements.
This device consists simply Of = shallow
box, the bottom Of which is Of CORFU
gated iron and the top Of glass. This is
placed outside the building in such q
position that the sun shines directly
upon II, the heat nays Of the sun pass
through ts5S-zs, and are absorbed by
the iron, heating il to quite high tenn
perature, and, by . system Of ventila-
tion, a current Of air Is passed through
the apparatus and into the room
70 behested- By this means the air was
heated, on pleasant days. to about ninety
degrees in passing over the iron. It Is
admitted, however, that the chief diff
Guilty ia all these methods Of solar heat
ing. Is . substitute for the ordinary or AZ
ti6cial means, isyet to be overcome,
being available onIy in fair weather;
though, in connection with the custom
ary system, a solar apparatus may ef-
feet saving in the quantity Of fuel
Usually cons1me1.
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Mustard plants used to be the.terror
and disgust of the California wheat
grower. Now they are a source of profit.
By ingenious mechanical harvesting both
crops are gathered separately, and the
mustard is worth more than the wheat on
the same land.
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There are now eleven guides appointed
> show visitors through the National
Cspitol and explain its wonders No
price is fixed for their services, and they
leave their fee to the generosity of the
visitor, generally receiving a fair COM
.pensat1on for the long tramp through the
building and stereOtyped descriptive
'eeches. Many members employ guides
take their constituents over the build
sal; as they have not the time, and
pEfully pay rather than be troubled
S. the tiresome task One of the
4 he's, BENJAMIN Stewart, of Virginia,
> fOlrOught up on President MadisOn's
stead, and has fund of anecdote
Va Madison, Monroe, Jefferson and
90 her magnates of the Old Domin-
The stories told By the guides about
4 81 Of those to whom they show the
6 Island its inmates are very amusing.
Some Of the haekdrivers who carry
strangers about the city to Arlington and
to the Soldiers Home are well posted on
the public buildings and history Of the
city. and receive = good many extra
''tipsn from those who employ them
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Able and well-knOwn writers will contrib
ute to its columns from different parts Of the
country. and it viii contain the latest Gen
eral News of the day.
THE MESSENGER Is first-class newspaper
and viii not allow personal abuse in its col
umns- 1t is not sectarian or partisan, but
independent-dealing fairly by all 1t re-
serves the righ ito criticise the shortcomings
of all public Officials commenting the
worthy, and recommending for election such
men as in its opinion are best suited to serve
the interests Of the people.
1t is intended to supply the long felt need
of newspaper Tn advocate the rights and
defend the tiers sts Of the Negro American,
especially the Piedmont section of the
OarOilno -
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L4AI,rnsEs in Adrnnec1

W. c. SMITH. Charlotte. N. C.
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THE
Charlotte Messenger
Is PUBLISHED
Every Saturday,

CHARLOTTE, N. c.
In the Interests of the colored People
of the Country.
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Catarrhal Dangers.

To be freed from the dangers of suffocation while lying down; to breathe freely, sleep soundly and undisturbed; to rise refreshed, head clear brain active and free from pain ache; to know that no poisonous putrid matter defles the breath and rots away the delicate machinery of smell taste and hearing to feel that the system does not through its veins and arteries, suck up the poison that is sure to undermine and destroy, is indeed blessing beyond all other human enjoyments. To purchase immunity from such fate should be the object of all afflicted. But those who have tried many remedies and physicians despair of relief or cure.
 Sanford's Radical Cure meets every phase of Catarrh from @ simple head cold to the most loathsome and destructive stages. It is local and constitutional Instant in relieving, permanent in curing safe economical and never failing.
 Sanford's Radical Cure consists of bottle of the Radical Cure, one box Catarrhal Solvent and one improved inhaler, neatly wrapped in one pack age with full directions; price $l.
 Potter Drug and Chemical Co.,, BostO n
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July l5, 1886.
Rai1rnads.
New York, New Haven dE Hart
 ford R. R.. June 9S. ISS8.

1OEO k6s R6ss D unc SS. ASSOs TRAINS LEAVE NEW HAVEN AS FOLLOWS
 *7:30"5:10 s:30, "9:sO 1O40 Ill :5O :O0 D. m.
 way train to Stamford), *1:30, *2:4O *3:1Of3:5O.
 way S:l1 to New Yorf Tttn e 1
 days, *s:58. *4:4o, S:oO g. m, *s:4O. 500 6so, wAsHfNGToN SfGHT Fl EXPRESS VIA HARLEM
 RIVER-Leaves ct *11:50 p. m. daily stops at
 Milford, Bridgeport. South Norwalk and stam- FOR BOSTON VIA sPRINGFIELD-.1:os night,
 s;5 so +1 1l6;o1 63 5ts6t nj a fa6, II m sl s6 p' ' FOR BOSTON VIA NEW LONDON AND PRovL
 DENCE-"1:3o a. m., HOBO a. m., fast express
 t12:a5 noon. Newport Express trains *1O:3O a. FOX BesTos s SIA R HARTFORD IA TITO AND N.T&r. FOR BOSTON Via Air Line and N. r. & N ERR
 soo 3. m: 125 p. m., *5o5 p. m. fast express. WHITE MOUNTAIN EXPRESS 20 a. m. with
 through cars to Fabyan's House, daily except
 Sundays Saturday nights the log night train
 will run through car to FabyanS. Tuesdays
 and Thursdays the 6:26 p. train will connect
 through to Fabyan's.
 ETC.-*12:15 night, *1:02 night, (*2:3O a. m to
 Hartford, ,)e:52 S00 HOPS, *11:05, *11 20 12:1O
 noon, *1;16, a:12 5:o7 (5:55 to hartford).
 *6:26. s:is D. m. Sundays +1:02 night, *4:35 a. FOR NEW LONDON. ETc-+1:so night, TOO, f7:50 Block Island Express *fG:30, 1885 a. n1 d40 way to Guilford goes farther) *4:OO +4:20, 5:07, 6:1S. (9:35 D. way to Guilford goes no farther9 Sundays +12:25 noon, *1:30 VIA B. N. Y. AIR LINE DIVISION for Middle town, Wiilimentic Etc.-Lesve New Haven for all stations at SOS :25, ,#5:05 6:15 D. m Sun- days, *5:05 p. m. Connect at Middletown with Conn. Valley R. R., and at Wil1imantic with N Y. & N. E. aad N. L. & N. R. R., at TurnerviIe Now Haven at S:02 am, :22. +6:55 s:55 D. m %. M SHEPARD, General Superintendent. HI,ocaI ExDress
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place understanding the business in detail, and one manifest improvement is gong of whistles used for the first time on Tuesday, July 13
General State News.

General State HeWss
 DIED SUDDENLY IN A HOTEL.
 Mrs. Minnie Lugo, about fifty years old, died suddenly Tuesday evening in her room at Halls hotel, at Chambers street and Park Row, New York. The police took charge of the body and notified the coroner Mrs. Iugo; accompanied by her husband, came from Greenwich, Conn.,, June IS, and regis tered at Halls Hotel, where they have been stopping ever since. Two weeks after their arrival Mrs. Lugo became ill. MT. Lugo, her husband, is analytical chemist and was supposed to be engaged in business at No. 254 State street, Brooklyn. He left the hotel Tuesday morning, saying that he would wife had died MT. Lugo was notified by tele- graph and arrived at 8 late hour Tuesday night
 THE CHARTER OAK INSURANCE.
 HARTFORD, Conn, July 14.-At the an nual meeting of the Charter Oak Life lnsur- ance company to-day the following directors were chosen: George M. Bartholomew, Elisha Carpenter, George E. Hatch, John " Stedman, George w. Williams, George W. Woolsey, all of Hartford and Thomas A. Logan, of Cincinnati. The names of MT. Woolley and MT. Logan are new in the board and there has been reduction in the num- Der of directors. The only thing anticipated outside of routine business was some action as to the sale of the building for which an offer has been made by syndicate. No such action was taken and the matter is still open.
 ARRESTED FOR B1GAMY. Daniel Moriarity, who left Shelton about year ago, leaving a wife and children be- hind, has been arrested for bigamy in Attic boro, Mass, where he has another wife. His Shelton spouse has gone on to testify against him.
 KATY WILSON'S DISAPPEARANCE.
 
 ed two months past at the Woods summer l boarding house at Noroton, disappeared mysteriously on Sunday night. She was last seen near the Noraspn river. No reason can be assigned for hefdisappearance by her employers, or by her relatives in New Y ork FOR THE NATIONAL ENcAMPMENT. The special train carrying the New Eng land delegation to attend the national en- 1 campment of the Grand Army at San Fran | The Connecticut delegation will leave Hart ford, July g, at 2:20 p. m., arriving at l Springfield, where sleeping cars will be in waiting, leaving there at 3:15 D. m. and pro- ! ceeding to Greenfield, to connect with the through train from Boston, which arrives at Niagara Falls, July 23, at s 1 8. m.; leaving there the same day at 4 p. m., arriving at Chicago | July 24, at a. m. leaving there the same day at p. m., arriving at Denver July 26 | at 7:30 a. m. and remaining there till s a. m. July 28, which will give an opportunity for an excursion to Clear Creek Canon and other points of interest. Salt Lake City will be | reached July 29 at 11:30 a. m., and leaving | there July 31 at 7:30 8. m. the e1cursionists reach San Francisco August at 7 p. m. The headquarters of the Connecticut dele gation at San Francisco will be at the Grand Hotel.
 Mrs. M. Schaenberger, Beaver Dam, Wis, writes: We have used Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil in eur
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Afternoon Session.

The first witness called in the afternoon vas Mir. Isadore Freedman of the firm of Mendel & Freedman, the Chapel street fancy goods dealers, who testified as follows: Shortly before May MT. Glidden came into our store and saw Mr. Milius Frank, who re- ferred him to me- He asked me if we had made contract with the JOURNAL AND COURIER for advertising. told him no, but that we proposed to. Mir. Glidden then said,
 'sThere is boycott on that paper and if ou
 advertise in it you must take the conse-
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STATE CORRESPONDENCE.
GnilfQrd.

GUILFoRD, July 14.-Mr. Amos Chitten- den, who fractured his collar bone by being overturned from and landing under a load of hay on Thursday last, is doing we'll
 The Wyllie brothers, of Bridgeport, are sinking an artesian well at the silk factory and have some drive wells under contract.
 Rev. G. w Banks and Rev. Mir. Emerson. of Clinton, exchanged last Sabbath.
 The new superintendent at the button shop Is said to be the right man for that
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miscel1a1lenms.
District of New Haven. ss, Prnhate Court.

District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court,
 April 26 1886. UPSTATE of BEDOTHA BUTTON, late of North II Haven, in said distrc5 deceased.
 Pursuant to an order from the Court of Probate for said district will be sold public auction to the highest bidder, the 18th day of July, A. D. 1886, at 10 o'clock the forenoon (unless previous tate of said deceased, situated in the town of North Haven, viz:
 Sale to take ple e at the office of T G. Sloan & Son, in said New Haven. Terms made known at time of sale. JOHN T. SLOAN, iyS It Administrator with the will annexed
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EimamCfaI.
The Bears Frustrated-They Raid LackaWanna in Hopes of Break. ing the L1st-The Bulls Rally and The Market Leaves of With Slightly Better Rates.

ing the L1st-The Bulls Rally and
 The Market Leaves of With Slightly Better Rates.
 NEW YORK. July A.
 The feature of speculation this morning was raid on Lackawanna by the bears in the hope of breaking prices all around, but fn this they failed for while the price declined IS cent, the rest of the list well supported and in most cases an advance ranging from A to 13s per cent. had been established by noon, the latter in Erie preferred. Norfolk and Western vety strong and advanced IS per cent. for both the common and preferred The business outside of few leading stocks was in- significant. Transactions for the most part were in small lots. Next to Lackawanna Jersey Central and Manitoba were the weakest stocks, declining per cent. each. Lackawanna recovered a part or the mornings decline by 12:s0 D. m. The failure or the managers of the granger roads te settle their differences at their meeting in Chicago yesterday did not in the least affect the prices of those stocks Aside from this item nothing transpired calculated to influence values and the changes fer the most part attributed to manipulation Neither Side made any ventures in the pit and with the excep- ton of series of small transactions by roon trad CTS nothing was done of moment. The advance or the morning fully maintained and at the close prices generally fractionaly higher. The speciaties were higher.
 Money closed easy at 25aa3 per cent
 Exchange was steady. Posted rates 4S711@4ss Governments closed firm.
 Closing prices reported She private wires of | BUNNELL & SCRANTON. Baakers and Brokers. \ RtA Amked
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Chicago Grain and Provision Market. Closing quotations Reported Private Wires to Edwin Rowe q Co.,, Commission Ner- chants. 40s New York Produce Exchanee, New York.
 The following shows the quotations at F M Chicago time) for the past three davs.