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Year: 1874

Mr.. Geo. ID. Parsley, whose resi-
dence at Hilton was robbed on Tues
day Of large quantity of wearing ap
parel, obtained Information on We'd
nesday which led to the arrest of
Robert Hill, colored, as one of the
parties implicated in the affair. He
was lodged in Jail and a hearing was
set for yesterday afternoon at S
o'clock, before Justice Gardner. At the
appointed hour an officer went to the
Jail to bring the prisoner down for
trial, when, on entering the Jail, it
was fonnd that the bird had escaped
from the cage, taking along with him
David Martin, the colored boy who
was convicted of the murder of little
Willie Carter, and WHO was to have
been hung on the 18th of last month,
but who was respited by Gov. Cald-
we'll to the Goth of August, and
Richard Jones, the man who
cut Spott, the Purcell House
porter, one night last December.
and WHO was in Jail to await trial be-
fore the next term of the Superior
Court.


The prisoners were on the second
floor of the building, which is the
first floor of the Jail, and had by some
means obtained possession of knife.
With this they cut through the floor,
which is somewhat decayed, and Sue
ceeded in making hole large enough
to squeeze through. They then drop
ped to the floor of the building. below
the level of Princess street, which is
used as kind of storehOuse. They
succeeded in escaping observation, and
then jumped from a window to the
yard without, where they entered
sewer, and crawled through it to it's
exit in a lot west of the Jail wall.
There they were at liberty and sue
ceeded in making off without attract
ing attention. 1t is not known at ex-
actly what time the escape was effected,
as it was not known that they were
gone until the officer entered the Jail
to take Hill to trial. It is thought,
though, that they must have escaped
about two o'clock An effectual search
was made of the premises near the
Jail in the supposition that they had
concealed themselves there. Several
tracks in the soft soil evidenced that
they had been there, but there were
| no other traces of them.


Late yesterday evening Robert Hill
was overhauled in Brooklyn, and was
conveyed back to Jail, but there are as
yet no traces of the others. The cap
ture of Hill was effected by officer
George Jackson.
Year: 1874

some four years or more, to the time


when Holden was Governor, and


claimed authority to suspend at will


all the laws Of the State. just as they


were suspended when Sherman's army


occupied the State in 1865; to the


exciting times that preceded the Hol-


den-Kirk war, when Holden by the


stroke of his pen could declare every


county in North Carolina to be in q


state of lnsurrectiOn, and when with tine


help Of the Supreme Court, he sus-
| pended the writ Of h0be0s corpus at
will, and declared substantial martial


law wherever it pleased him so to do.


A Judge of Canby's make and of the
true Reconstruction pattern, was then
| no small parsonage either in Mr.. Rus
sells opinion or in point of fact. Alb
bott WAS then United States Senator


and Latin and Estes and Flavial


Foster and Abiel Fisher and Chicken
Stephens and Parson Sinclair were


statesmen OF course the true white


people Of North Carolina had q small
showing.


Then it was that Mr. Russell pro-
cured the arrest of a citizen of OnslOw
county and had him carried to Raleigh
before a Federal Commissioner on the
ground that he was holding the Office
of Sheriff in violation of the 14th
amendment to the Federal constitu-
ton, and for no reason in the aOOrld
sare the fact that the Sheriff persisted
an forcing Judge RusseH to pay tares
on his plantation in Onslo,o county
then several months past due!


And has it come to this that a North
Carolina Judge threatens an officer of
IL 81
his Office because he dares to do his
sworn duty When did Judge Russell
become SO mighty and 50 great that a
Sheriff dare not call upon him to pay
his lawful taxes then several months
over due Was Judge Russell enti-
tied to any special privileges in the
matter of taxation ?


But not only did Judge Rus sell
threaten Sheriff Murrill, lie actually
had him arrested and carried to
Raleigh And this is the man that asks
the peop,e to make him q Judge over
them, the man who has his neighbor
arrested ani dragged to Raleigh as a
criminal, ant, for what ? Why, because
having been q Coroner before the war
and being Sheriff after the war he
''uanoyed" His Honor 6y asking him
to pay his tarcs! Is the man who re-
sorts to such measures as this to
crafty his spite and to satisfy his
desire for vengeance fit to sit upon the
bench ?


People of Onslow, people of the
whole District. are you willing to trust |
the powers of n Judge in the hands of
the man who committed such an out
rage? ?


Surely Judge Russell forgot himself
when he became a candidate for re-
election. for it is one thing to be |
when bayonets and bullets
and a military commanders certificates
are all powerful, and quite another
thing to be a candidate when the bal
lot box alone settles the question, and
mems mouths are no longer closed.


Did Nv. Russell fatter himself that
no one would dare expose his record =?
If so, he is not the first man that has
found himself to be less awe inspiring
than he had supposed himself to be.
Year: 1874

The white people possess large un


doubted minority pf the voters i'll boil
the Congressional and Judicial Dis


tricts, and all that is necessary for II:


t, do, IS TO go thepolls in full strength
| and deposit our ballots. II we Il,
this, the victory will be ours beyond
dispute.


The question is will we do this :


Upon the answer depends the future
Of orr section of the State.


We will not, we cannot bring out
out full strength, unless we go to work
systematic ally and organize our forces.
Especially is the work of organization
necessary in the townships. We call
upon our friends therefore to ask them
selves If they are doing anything in
this matter, and if they be forced in
honesty to answer that nothing is be-
ing done, we beg them not to rest a
minute until they have done their duty


How many men are there who can
tell what and how many changes are
likely to occur in their several town
ships, or even in their school districts,
so that if report of the condition of
affairs should be called for by school
districts or by townships, it could be
made out at once?


Are there any persons in the various
precincts, attending to the important
matter of registration. There can be
no registration on election day.


RemtnJc1. that the election Tar re-
I"iTcs CHAT WHEN VOTER IS CI1AL-
LENGED AT THE POLLS UPON DEMAND
OF ANY CITIZEN OF THE STATE IT SHALL
BE THE DUTY OF THE INSPECTORS OF
THE ELECTION TO REQUIRE SAID VOTER
BEFORE BEING ALLOWED TO VOTE TO
PROVE BT THE OATH OF SOME OTHER
PERSON KNOWN TO THESE JUDGES THE
DAYS PREVIOUS THERETO IN THE COUN
TT IN WHICH He PURPOSES TO VOTE


L'tnacn3Gcl also that the election
lar says ''NO EUFCTOR SHALL BE EN-
IL I-t-i' ~ lAGp VI. VILE ~ AM
OTHER PRECINCT OF TOWNSHIP THAN
THE ONE IN WHICH He IS AN ACTUAL
OR BONA TIDE RESIDENT ON THE DAY OF
ELECTION, AND NO CERTIFICATES OF REG
IsTRATION SHALL BE GIVEN"


Unless all these matters are being
attended to, we have no right to expect
to win the fight. The victory Will be
ours unless we are cheated out of it
by fraud. But we must organize
thoroughly and work increasingly and
leave nothing to chance. We intend
to repeat this injunction until the polls
close. Organize thoroughly, work
Systematically and work increasingly
until the polls are closed. Leave
nothing to chance.


The work is easily enough done after
it is laid out. The important point just
now, is :or the District and Township
Committees every where to meet and
allot to each man his own particular
work. Then let each man do his part
and a bright and happy future awaits
us in this section.
Year: 1874

We hear the most encouraging ac-
counts from the canvass that DIR. De-
vane, the candidate of our party for the
Senate, in BladeE and Brunswick, is
making against the whole Radical khan
in those counties. He meets the
enemy wherever he can find them, and
never leaves them without making
them feel the weight of his blows.
DIR. Devane is the regular candidate
of the party in his Senatorial district,
and will receive the most enthusiastic
support from our friends III each
county.
Year: 1874

1t is altogether a vitiated taste that
creates demand fer over -fattened meat.
There is no nutrimeRt in fat, and with
the large consumption of sugar, syrup
and starchy food, that is common ameng
US, the necessities of the system for car
bonRceous food are fully, if not over
supplied. The use of excessively fat
food then is a waste of material, and it
probably induces some of the bilious
disorders which are so common. With
regard to poultry these remarks are es.
pecially applicable. The markets of the
cities are filled with fowls that are lined
with fat, a useless addition that IS 8
loss 10 the consumer, and its production
has been at the expense of a waste OF
food to the feeder. Besides, housekeep-
ers complain of these over fat fowls,
that they are deficient in delicacy of
flavor, and are coarse and greasy, thus
losing in quality as well as in weight.
This matter is in the hands of farmers
to remedy. They alone decide as to
what degree of fatness their fowls shall
be brought, or rather, not knowing ex-
actly how fat they are, they continue to
feed them much too long for their own
profit. A very thin fowl can be brought
into good condition for the table in
three weeks feeding. Generally fowl
from a grain-stubble or bsrn-yard at a
time when waste grain is scattered about
literally, as we'll as at other times, when
the housewife undertakes the feeding of
the poultry, is sufficiently fat for the
market, without extra feed. IF poultry
is marketed at the age of two years,
and none older than that kept, the quail
ity of the flesh will be all that can be
desired, without any cramming of extra
feed, and the extra fat that is laid upon
an old fowl, is no addition to its good
ness, but rather adds to its bad qualities.
A good Judge of poultry looks to the
age of a fowl, and passes by the old
birds that have been crammed to fit
them for market. -AgricuIt1ITist.
Year: 1874

There is nothing in social life more
ignoble and contemplate than what
Byron calls "the abominable tittle-tat-
tle' of those who delight in circulating
scandal, who gloat over, even while
they profess to deplore, the details of d
slanderoUs story, whose very manner of
deprecating credence in the tale con-
firms the listeners belief in its truth
fulness. How many there are of these
mischief-makeTs in every circle, who
know how, with a skillful touch, to
heighten the tints of a slanderous rumor
with insinuations worse than open lies,
because they can not be met by open
denial by mingling sneers with smiles,
and by pretense of candor. And the
pity of it is that they shound find so
many people willing to listen; that 50
many wOuld rather believe evil than
good of their neighbor. Nothing spreads
like a scandal, and the worse and more
unlikely it is the. more readily it OBJ
tains circulation and credence. Society
is quite as much to blame as the scan
dal-mongers themselves. It is as mean
and disgraceful to listen to a slander as
to utter one.


It is q common trick with slanderers
and scandal-mongers to scatter their
vile inventions broadcast among the
community, and then point triumphant
" to the wide circulation their stories
have obtained as confirmation of their
truth. They bespatter aiman with mud,
and cry out upon him for dirty fellow.
Calumniate calumniate - is their
motto some of it will stick" Per-
haps the most effective, as well as the
meanest, way of slandering is to do it
with affected pain and reluctance, as if
weIl-nigh heart-broken at hearing evil
things whispered round about a man so
dearly loved and honored. An adept in
this method of slander can work infinite
mischief.


There is something marvellous in the
Ray a slander grows as it passes from
mouth to mouth, we'll illustrated by the
the we'll known story of three black
crows. Without intending, perhaps, to
exaggerate or be untruthful, each one
who repeats the story adds something
of his own, and by the time it has gone
the rounds of society it has grown into
q hideous Frankenstein, q monster OF
untruth and malignity. This may be
tested by the game of exaggeration, F"
where one whispers story, cOuched IN
as few words as possible, to the person
sitting next him. He repeats it In the
ear of his neighbOr; and so on through
a circle of ten or twelve, each one try
ing to tell the story Just as he heard
it. The last person in the circle tells 1t
aloud, and in nine cases out of ten II
will be found that it has gained some
thing every time 1t has been told. The
moral of all this is expressed in the line
already quoted from Tennyson, 81 Speak
no SANDER no, nor listen to it. "
Year: 1874




1t is a singular fact, says a Partisan


writer, that man generally requires
| very different qualities in a wife from
those he admires in a sweetheart.
| While lover, he expected to see his
future wife tly and stylishly dressed
| whenever he chose to call, either morn


ing or evening. and the girl busted her
| little brain all day IN efforts to please
/ his taste. If he left town for a few
/ days, he sent letters full of sweet moth
| ings that filed her soul with Joy Then
came delightful rambles in the moon
light, and hours spent in charming
tcte-G-teteS after the family had retired,
when the two saw no one but el ch other
in their world of love.


Alas that such bliss must ever be dis
PEELED. Time brought preparations for
the approaching wedding for this de-
voted couple imagined that their happi-
ness could never be complete until the
hymeneal knot was tied.


So the wedding and honeymoon were
soon over, and the parties SO tied into
the matter-of-fact part of life. The
blide knows nothing of housekeeping.
Since her sehooldays she has spent her
time in studying the tastes of her lover,
which certainly seemed to incline to-
wards dress and sentimentality.


Now, alas she discovers that his
stomach demands food OF the best
quality and because she knows not
how to cater to his palate his love seems
to be waning. While he is vainly tr5f
ing to appease hunger with sour bread
and burned steak, little dees he appre-
ciate the sweet nonsense and honeyed
words which used TO be so satisfying to
his sentimental nature.


Ah, men are so unreasonable 4? They
expect to find every quality of excel
lence in the women they marry, vet
have not penetration sufficient to choose
the most worthy. To shine in society,
to exhibit every feminine accomplish
ment, both at home and abroad, are
duties which they require in the women
they marry AID what have they TO give
in return 10 seems impossible that
these delicate attentions which eharao-
terize the lover should be so withdrawn
by the husband.


The other day when I heard a neigh
Dor demanding his dinner in not the
most pleasant tone, thought, Can it
be possible that he ever played the
ardent lover to that pale, detected wo-
man, whom he calls his wife 2"


The lover who could scarcely tear
himself away frem his sweetheart at
midnight is the same man now who
leaves his wife to spend her evenings as
best she may, while he passes the hours
in doubtful enjoyment.


All how soon men forget the solemn
vow to love and cherish till death And
how many women regret that the charm
ing delusions of eourtship were ever ex-
changed for the unpleasant realities of
m anrrfuora
Year: 1874

Last Sunday morning family living
in the suburbs of the city went to
suburban church, leaving a little girl
about seven years of age and a boy
about twelve years of age in charge OF
the house. The church was situated
Int a short distance from the house.
The family were to have beans for din
ner. and these were left In a vessel on
the stove to cook. The little girl while
plaving, suddenly began to smell the
odor of burnt beans, upon which she
rushed out of the house over into the
church where the pastor was gravely
and earnestly preaching the profound
word of God. The first person Of the
family the little girl espied was youDe
lady cousin, and to her in loud voice
which startled the assemblage consider
ably. she cried, "Come home, comt
home, the beans are burning, and i'm


nediateiy rushed out again The Rs-
tonishment was great, and all the solem-
nitv of The preacher as well as of the
congregation disappeared beneath a
broad smile at the righteousness of the
matter. louisville Co'frieT-Jo'iT5aaL.
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph tthus) mean that your sub
scriptior is ont or unpaid. and that
you are requested 70 pay mp at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone VIII pay expenses, and
we are forced 70 adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor


q We enter NJ new names on our
Books withcut the money an nlIv7r .ce-
Year: 1874




Here is a picture Of the belle of Sara
tOga as she looks to-day Hair scol-
loped in front and braided down behind
in one straight braid ten inches long,
which hanging from the hat looks like
the handle of a dipper. Hat on back
of the head, with narrow brimed turned
up and down and sidewise, and skewed
and twisted around as If it had been
run over by locomotive. Face yeiled
well with tulle, which il also muffied
around the neck SO that the chin rests
on it, and the head looks like hen on
a nest OF down. Dress black on
grenadine, short enough not 10 touch
the floor, straight down ia front, but
long behind, and pulled back over the
hips. No hoops, and the bottom Of the
dress so narrow that the young lady
cannot take long steps.


How does she walk?


She don't walk she wiggies along as
men do in a sack race. This dress shows
the form beautiful, and is a great inn
provement ON the old flowing skirt
Young ladies are now standing perfectly
erect. Their chests are expanded and
shoulders are thrown back. The shoes
worn are the only part of the toilet sub
jeet TO criticism. These are narrow,
high-heeled bunion makers. They cause
the young lady 10 limp, and they must
also be the cause of a great deal of pro
family when the young lady is left alone.
The parasol is a big black or blue OF
brown umbrella, bordered with lace.
Fans are ordinary, and more for nee
than ornament. Hair is worn natural
and as yet no young ladies here appear
ed with safEron-cOlOred locks. Beauty
| Is not of the Lydia Thompson school,
/ and only the de1ai-HaOa0le dye, paint OF
powder. Gloves are from three to six.
| buttoned. No lockets, neck chains OF
watch chains are worn the jeWelry be-
ing rings, plain pin and a chateline
braid or oxidized silver chain hanging
from the belt, to which is suspended
oxidized smelling bottles, pocketbook,
or anything else which fancy may
attach.
Year: 1874

When the entire dwelling is heathed by
furnace or by steam, it will probably be
unnecessary to have other means of warm
ing the sick-room but the fireplace should
be always open and kept ready for a wood
or coal fire, whenever the patient shall ex-
press desire for one. The fre-places are
excellent ventilating fues eTen without a
fire, but are nearly perfect when supplied
with wood fire, the brisk blaze of which
creates a strong ascending current, and
continually carries off the ever accumu-
lating exhalations Of the sick-room.


If there is no fire place, window open
a short distance from the bottom, in the
room in which the patient is lying, and one
let down from the top in the other large
room, with the door open between the two,
will form an effectual draught during any
but the warm days of summer, and will not
be to strong for the most delicate patient
who is protected from the direct draught
by the high-hcad board Of the bed


In cold weather the window opened at
the bottom will often be sufficient On
very cold days We may trust to an entire
change Of air several times a day, effected
by raising all the windows for a few
moments at time, during which the
patient must be thoroughly protected by
extra blankets, and shawl about the head.


If stoves are the only means of heating
apartments, a perpetual burner (coal)
may be used in one room to keep both at
an even temperature, during day and night,
but the sleeping room should be provided
with wood stoves the brisk blaze in this
answering to some extent the purpose of a
fire in an open fireplace.


Many lives have been cut short by
exaggerated notions in regard to fresh air.
Air must be pure, but it should also be
warm. To effect this there should be day
and night steady but gentle heat in the
room of an invalid, accompanied by an
equally steady and gentle current of fresh
air
Year: 1874

| \ correspondent who has visited the
South Sea Islands, writes to the Boston
Medical Times that a notion prevails there
that the headache, neuralgia, and other
| cerebral diseases proceed from crack in
the head or pressure of the skull on the
brain. The remedy is to lay open the sclap
with piece of glass until a hole is made
into the skull down to the dura mater about
the size OF crown piece. Sometimes this
scraping operation will be even to the pia
matter, by an unskilful surgeon, or from
the mpatience of the friends, and death is
the consequence. In the best of heads,
about one-half of those who undergo the
operation die from it, yet this barbarous
custom, from superstition and fashion has
been So prevalent, that very few of
the male adults are without this hole in
the Uranium, or shave a shingle loose" to
use an Australian phrase. 1t is said that
sometimes an attempt is made to cover the
membranes of the Uranium so exposed by
placing piece of cocoanut shell under the
scaly. For this purpose they select very
hard and durable piece of shell, from which
they scrape the softer parts and grind quite
smooth, and put this as a plate between the
scalp and the skull. Formerly the trep-
hine was simply sharks tooth now a
piece of glass is found more suitable or less
Objectionable (if we may even so qualify
the act). The part of the Uranium general
ly so selected is that where the cOronal sagittal
sutures unite, or little above it, upon the
supposition that there the fracture exists.
This bone-scraping remedy is likewise en-
ployed in cases of rheumatism in old peo-
pie The cuticle is incised longitudinally,
and the centre Of the ulna or tibia laid bare,
then the surface of the bone scraped with
glass until large portion of the external
lamina is removed.