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Year: 1877

The "bankers," who live along the North Carolina banks, are peculiar people. Like the Florida " cracker, their origin is wrapped in mystery. They have little intercourse with the world, and that little is confined to an inter change of commodities. They are ex- pert fishermen and hunters, and the range for both is wide They make their own nets, hollow out a cypress log, and fashion and trim it to the semblance of a boat, cultivate little patch of potatoes, and live and flourish in sort of rude in- dependence, if not antagonism to their more civilized neighbors across the chan nel They are happily ignorant of the making and unmaking of Presidents, and the turmoil of the world generally in no way disturbs the equanimity of their lives.

 At the extreme end of Rogue banks, and eight miles from Cape Lookout, is Fort Macon. A broken down parapet and few dilapidated looking guns con stitute the fort A row of neat cottages solemn tower is said to be the hospital. So close a resemblance does this fort bear to prison that desertion is of very

 

 the soldier and banker are of use to each other. The former, after making his escape, takes his way along the banks until he falls in with bankers hut, and there disposes of his blouse, pants and cap, receiving in return complete suit of nondescript apparel. Then the transformed soldier is ferried across the sound by the accommodating banker, becomes a civilian, cancels his engagement and is rarely brought to justice. A few years ago soldier, tired of the monoto nous life of the crazy old fort, made his escape in the customary manner, and after wandering through several States ill the direction of the frontier, at las found employment in circus. There he completely sunk his identity, and be came 0 daring bareback rider. More than three years had elapsed, when al officer strolled into the show, at tha time performing in Iowa. The officel recognized the delinquent and, armed with the necessary extradition papers clapped his hand on the soldier acrobat and conveyed him back to his old quar ters at the dismal end of Bogue banks.
Year: 1877

The case of Ann l.. Neill against the American Popular Life Insurance Com pany was brought to trial before Judge Freedman and a jury, in the superior court, at New York city. The plaintiff sued on policy of $5,OOO taken out on the life of her deceased husband. The company defended the action on the ground of discrepancy of one year in the age of the insured, given in his ap- plication for insurance, as compared with the statement fl.his age given on the proof of his death. The son of the insured, who put in the proof of death. testified that he must have made nus take. Judge Freedman promptly di- rected verdict for the plaintiff for $5, 195. An extra allowance of. five per cent. was awarded to the plaintiffs coun- sel. The judge also refused stay of the entry of judgment for sixty days asked for by the company's counsel. The courts require pretty good reason on the part of life insurance company, when the latter endeavors to evade the payment of policy.
Year: 1877

A dark, swarthy looking individual, dressed in semi Indian garb, was at the Union depot, Omaha, making numerous inquiries in very imperfect English dia- lect concerning the name of c. G. Gas kill, who left some portion of eastern Iowa for an overland trip to California during the gold excitement of 1851. This half wild fellow claimed that he was the son of this Gasl1ill, and that he was about five or six years old when his father set out with his family for the overland wagon trip to California. The family, two years later, were in Arizona, and one night the Apache Indians made an attack upon them and carried him away, while the others made their escape MT. Gaskill has very vivid recollection of the battle, and also the long wagon recollection of the home or just where it was located. He was carried away by the Indians and lived with them, sharing the same neglect and attention as their own children, until he grew to manhood. He describes his life as being pleasant and one that he fully enjoyed. He became and followed him in many of his battles.

 

 skin like the savages themselves, until now it has the same coppery color. He describes Cochise as being great war rior and most wonderful savage. He remained with these Indians until about six years ago, when he was captured by the Comanches in one of their battles with the Apaches, and with them he led wandering existence, first as a captive and afterward as one of the tribe. Last fall he became tired of such mode of existence and left the tribe, and making his way toward the Pacific coast, made inquiries concerning his family, but failed to learn anything of them. In his wandering, nomadic life he had accumu- lated considerable wealth in the form of gold dust, and on the proceeds of this he was travelling in search of his lost home and friends. No one seemed to be able to give him any information, and he started on his way east to prosecute his search in Iowa.
Year: 1877

A Washington letter says Just now the favorite solution of the Presidential complication is to hold new election next fall, and to allow the president of the Senate, whoever he may be after the fourth of March, to administer the office ad interim. This is to be brought about according to the gossip of the Hobbies and cloak-rooms at the capitol, by the Democrats in the Senate debating the questions arising in the progress of the count until the clock strikes the hour of noon on March 4, when 1t is claimed the whole operation of counting the votes necessarily ceases. Then the Senate is to proceed at once to swear in it's new members and elect a presiding officer. By the time this is accomplished 7a message will be received from the sec retary of State announcing that there is a vacancy in the office of President of the 1 United States The newly elected presi- dent of the Senate will take the oath of office before the chief justice, who will, of course, be in waiting with his gown on, and he will then jump into a car- riage, drive to the White House, and set the wheels of government in motion.

 The feasibility of this method of set clement is asserted by the Democrats, who say t,at unless the Republicans should again set up the abandoned claim of the right of the president of the Senate to count the votes there is no way in which declaration of the election of Hayes can be arrived at against | e r opposition. The Senate has no rules to limit debate, and now that the joint rules are abrogated, there would be noth- ing, they think, to keep them from talk ing day and night to kill time and pre- ! - ct the completion of the count.
Year: 1877

No better specimen of the Whiting ton ideal of the English self-made man could be found than the late MT. George Moore. His life was exactly that of the Industrious Apprentice. He used to tell how he first came to London without friend or a sixpence, and, walking about the streets, entered draper's shop to ask for employment. This was at first refused; but the owner was won by some answer, or something in the bearing of the candidate, who, on the day of his engagement, set@before himself two purposes to be worked out-to be head of the establishment and marry his masters daughter. In both of these aims he succeeded; and the house of Moore, Copestake & Go. is now one of the most important wholesale stores in the Kingdom.
Year: 1877

The schooner Baracoa, of Booth Bay, Me-, discharged a cargo at Ponce, Porto Rico. The customs authorities there. de- clared that there was an informality about the matter, although no fraud was charged, and n fine of S4,300, gold, was levied against the vessel. No time was given the captain to consult with the owners at home, and the officer was, in trouble. A Spanish glmboat lay along side the schooner and threatened at any moment to take possession of her. The captain of the schooner not approaching the position in which he was placed, slipped her chains and at half-past eleven o'clock A. M went off like bird, and be- fore the astounded and dumbstruck off cials on the gunboat could collect their senses. She got all sail set, and was three miles away in the briefest possible time. As she went off she sprung Der Huff and saluted the port with her colors three times three. The gunboat was sent in chase as soon as she could get up steam, but the schooner %as out of eight in a very short time,
Year: 1877

The late Commodore Vanderbilt, with that forecast of vision, that essential ele- ment of genius which in every important event of his career never failed to assert itself saw that sailboats were destined to lose their supremacy while he was inter ested in sailing vessels. Eleven years had passed since Fulton's experimental trip up the Hudson. Abandoning his successful business, he accepted the post of captain of a small steamboat at a salary of $1 ,0O0 a year. At that day passengers to Philadelphia were conveyed by steam boat from New York to New Brunswick, where they remained all night, and the next morning took the stage for Trenton, whence they were carried by stage to Philadelphia. For twelve years he com manded the steamboat (which was owned by Mir. Gibbons) running between New York and New Brunswick The hotel at New Brunswick where the passengers stopped was at the same time given in charge of his wife, whom he married when only nineteen years of age. She was the daughter of a neighbor on Staten Island. Her maiden name was Sophia Johnson, and thirteen children, nine daughters and four sons, were the fruits of this marriage. The hotel business proved more profitable than the steam boat, and why he remained as captain so long was for the reason that the State of New York had granted to Fulton and Livingston the exclusive right of run ming steamboats in New York waters. Believing this grant unconstitutional, as it was afterward declared by the supreme court, Mir. Gibbons ran his boats ill defi- ance of it, and thus involved himself in a fierce contest with the authorities of New York. The brrlnt of the battle fell on Captain Vanderbilt. For sixty success sive days an attempt was made to arrest him. Leaving his crew, who were also liable to arrest in New Jersey, he would approach the New York wharf, with a lad at the helm, while he managed the engine. As soon as the vessel was made fast he would conceal himself in the hold. At the moment of starting m off cer, who would be changed every day in order to avoid recognition, would be in readiness to arrest him.

 "You are my prisoner" would say the officer, tapping him on the shoulder.

 "You are more like my prisoner" would respond the captain, and then or der: "Let go the lines"

 Fearing to be carried to New Jersey, where retaliatory act threatened him with the State prison, the officer would jump ashore, or failing in this, beg to be put ashore, which request was of course politely granted. In this and other things the captain managed to evade the laws. He fought the State of New York for seven years until Chief Justice Mar, shall declared New York wrong and New Jersey right. The opposition tried vain. ly to buy him off. F'No," replied the captain to all such offers, I shall stick to MT. Gibbons until he is through his troubles" And he didsstick and he car ried his point.

 MT. Gibbons offered to raise his salary to $5, ,O0O per year, but he declined tn, offer. 1T did it on principle, /" was hi reply to the question why he refused [ compensation that was so manifestly just

 "All ever cared for was to carry m,
Year: 1877

INKY.-Report has it that river of genuine ink has been discovered in AL geria. It is formed by the union of two streams, .one coming from a region of ferruginous soil the other draining peat swamp. The water of the former is strongly impregnated with iron, that of the latter with gallio acid. Vixen the two waters mingle the acid of one unites with the iron of the other, forming trne ink,
Year: 1877

We agree with contemporary
that no man living represents in
his own character a larger number
Of the American people than Gov.
Wade Hampton. BY word and
deed he has acquired a national
fame. de has become a chief fig-
ure in the annals OF the times.
Though rising in prominence as a
leader on the defeated side Of the
late war, he has won the popular
heart, North and South, and is TO
day the most faithful exponant Of
that sentiment which Is 70 forever
Unite the recent hostile sections.
His heroic bearing through the trials
that confronted him when deliver
ing South Carolina from bondage
secured the love OF the entire
South; while the liberal, manly, pa
triotic utterances that from time
10 time, have dropped from his lips
have awaked the admiration Of the
whole North. In the presence Of
Wade Hampton sectional hate dare
not hftits head. Ia his pure char.
acter are mirrored all the best ma
tional traits.
Year: 1877

The question is asked by every
one who sees the new elevator, how
in the name of the State Grange
and little monkeys are they going
to get wheat in house with no en-
trance to it? Ahl There's the
rub. Everything must have mys-
terry about it, if it wants notoriety.
1t is thought by some that they will
bore hole ir the top and shoot the
wheat in with a shot gun; by 9TH
ers that they will tote it up on lad
der and pour it through knot hole
in the gable end; by others that the
wheat is already in there; by others
that they will just pretend that they
have it full of wheat; by Others that
its nobody's derghned business
how the old thing works. We in
cline to several opinions.
Year: 1877

We have suggested to some of
the members of the Board of Alder
men to have our streets and houses
numbered. 1t takes a man fifteen
minutes to direct stranger how to
find house or street, and then the
stranger misses it. 1t will cost the
city very little to have the street
names painted, and the Board can
require the citizens to number their
houses, appointing some one to
number them so that it will be cor
rect. The convenience of our peo-
pie demand this.
Year: 1877

For some time somebody has
been committing a nuisance every
night in the south entrance of An
toinette Hall and escaped detection.
Last Thursday Capt. John Arch
Richardson was asked by the Mayor
to take the trail, and that same
night he caught one colored boy in
the box Office and another hid in
the gallery. They were reminded
not to be caught there again and
suffered to depart unpunished. The
persons who are doing this will get
into very serious business if they
do not desist at once.
Year: 1877

There are q good many ways TO
kin q dog besides choking him tc
death on butter, and there are q
good many ways to keep n man
from starving to death on poor land.
We know 3 man that raised $50
worth Of watermelons on an acre
and a quarter Of worn out sedge-
field. Two and half loads Of sta
BILE manure Is the secret OF his sue
cess.-Cleveland Banner.
Year: 1877

GIVE Your CHILDREN A NEwsPA-
PER.-An exchange very appropriate
ly says that a child beginning to read
becomes delighted with newspaper,
because it reads about names and
things which are familiar, and it will
progress accordingly. A newspaper
in one year, is worth a quarter 8
schooling to child. Every father
must consider that information is con-
nected with advancement. The moth
er of a family being one of it's head,
and having more immediate charge
of children, should herself be instruct
ed. A mind occupied becomes for
tilted against the ills of life, and is
braced for any emergency. Children
amused by reading or study are of
course more coHsiderate and more
easily governed.
Year: 1877

Though some farmers claim that Jdne
is really the best time to trim their orch
ards, very few attend to it then, on ac-
count of the pressure Of other work,
and so we must attend to it in the mild
days of winter. To trim properly, using
Judgment and good sense, is rather q
nice operation, and hence it is better to
select mild pleasant weather. A man up
in an apple tree, with the thermometer
at zero, is not in a position to stop and
think and examine very critically. We
do not like 10 be compelled to cut of
very large limbs. Training and shaping
ought to be attended TO while the tree is
young, and then there will seldom be a
necessity for removing very large bran
ches in trimming. Tie object is to get
rid Of waste dead wood, limbs that cross
each other, that hang too low, the
sprouts that start out and dis6gure the
tree Cot smooth, but not too closely;
All the trees in. an orchard should be
carefully examined at least as often as
once year, and such limbs as grow out
of proportion shortened in little, and
all surplus wood taken out.
Year: 1877

AWKWARD - Unpleasant accidents
have happened to many fair one since
the pin back came into fashion. Blu,
the worst misfortune of all overlook 8
lady who was being presented to the
Queen at the last drawing-room. After
executing most profound and loyal
courtesy to Her Majesty, this unlucky
victim to fashion found herself unable
to get straight again, and actually had
to be helped into an upright position.
Year: 1877


When will the flowers grow therep I can not


tell.
Oh, many and many 3 rain will beat there


first,


Stormy and dreary, such as never fell
Save when the heart was breaking, that had


nursed
Something most dear little while, and then
Murmured at giving God his own again.
The woods are full Of yiolets. know;
And some Wild swsekbriars grow 20 pesr ths
place; ~ s. ~
Their time is not yet come. Dead leaves and
snow
Must cover first the darling little face
From the wet eyes, forever fixed upon
Your last still cradle, o most precious onel
Is he not with his father? So trust.
Is he not his? Was he not also mine?
His mothers empty arms would yearn toward
the dust;


Heaven lies too high, the soul is too divine;
I wake at night and miss him from my breast,
And-human words can never say the rest.
Safe2 But out of the world, out Of my sight,
Ny way to MIN through utter darkness lies:
I am gone blind with weeping, and the light
If there be light is shut inside the skies
Think you to give my bosom back his breath.
would mot kiss him from the peace called
n..lto -'StS
Year: 1877

Texas has, purchased fourteen hun
dred acres Of land near Austin as the
site Of state university for colored
youth. This rather contradiots the in
dustriously circulated Republican idea
that the Southern whites are unwilling
to give the blacks suitable advantages
OF education. The whites are sensible
enough to know that ignorance is the
most dangerous element in any COM
munity, aud that as the colored people
are uwong them. and likely to remain
with them, public safety, il no higher
consideration, demands that the proper
facilities for the acquisition Of knowl'
edge be provided.


We should have been better pleased,
however, to have had thoroughly
good, common school than the pro-
posed university. The country seems
to lave run mad in regard to what is
called higher education" Now high
er education, even when all that the
name implies, is useless luxury for
the great mass Of mankind, while low
er education is an imperative necessity.
With the fundamental branches firmly
fixed the student can easily rise to the





more orna mental, if he chooses; and it
he does not choose he has enough to
carry him through the world respecta.
bly,. A vast amount Of time end mon
ey is wasted in trying to give q uniyer.
sity culture to those who do not appae-
ciate it or are incapable of receiving
it. Probably in all Texas there are not
a hundred colored youths who have
The desire or ability to 70 through a
university course credltably; whereas
there are probably in all Texas not a
hundred who have not the desire and
the ability to master q com non. school
course. 1t the state authorities are
wise they will abandon tie university
project and secure the common-school.
ii -[St. Louis Republican.
Year: 1877

There is no tie in the world moro
beautiful than that which binds
mother and son grown old enough to
be her protector. A daughter loves
her mother, indeed; but she sees all
her detects, as one woman always docs
see those Of another. No doubt, with
the unconscious arrogance Of youth,
she exaagerates them. But the son
loves his mother with an ideal love-
he secs her a. man ssss = woman !.
that is to say, through acertain halo Of
mystery. Reverence is iu his feelings
for her, and at the same time sense Of
her need of his care-he is st once her
knight and her son. He is proud Of
her and fond Of her at :he same time,
Her image is sacred to his mind. She
may not be better than other women,
but she seems So to him,
Year: 1877

No man knows the possibilities Of
an acre. We know that two hundred
bushels of corn were once grown on one
acre, and that five bales of cotton have
been made on the same area Of soil,
but we do not know that the limits of
production were reached in either case.
We should try to find out merely how
much of any one crop can be produced
on an acre Of land, but how cheaply it
it can be raised. A biz crop may not
in all cases, be profitable one. II
may cost too much to make il. The
greatest yield with the smallest possi-
BILE outlay Of capital and labor is what
we must aim at. As we have said be.
fo-e--and we would like to impress the
truth upon the readers mind-ouf far
mers are often poor. not SO much be-
cause their crops are small--and small
they are compared with what they
might be-but because il costs too
much to make them. We must learn
to make large crops with less labor.
To do this, we must 60 over less
ground. and make science and practical
skill properly supplement muscle and
mschinery.-[ DR.. Jaques.
Year: 1877

watchfulnees or care upon the part Of the


citizen can guard against injustice in the as
sessment after it has left the control Of the
county authorities In the matter OF taxa
ton, therefore, not merely for State, but for
county, town, and city purposes, the citizen
is at the mercy Of an irresponsible Board,
whose proceedings are not to levy ta1 by
valuation on the property Of each citizen, III
proportion to its value, but whose function
is to levy taxes by counties, and whose de-
cision is final, except in the case Of fraud.
The aggrieved citizen is without remedy.
The courts arc closed against him and he
finds TINT he is not required to pay taxes in
proportion to the value of his property, but
according to the value which the State Board
may think proper to place on oil the prop
erty in his county.
Year: 1877

It is matter Of general agreement among


representatives Of all branches Of trade in


this city that the business done by them


last week was gratifyingly large, and much


in excess of what they they had looked for


ward to. It did not need their assurances,


however, to prove to even the most indiffer-


ent observer that the season was an active


one. The crowds upon tho streets, the


throngs in sll the shops, wholesale and
retail, the attendance at the Exposition, con-
sisting chiefly Of country people, were good
enough indications that the day of better
things was at hand. The prosperity of the
great show on the lake shore is satisfactory
evidence Of the amount Of money which is
being spent in Chicago just now. The
price Of admission is but 25 cents, or half
what it was last year, and yet the receipts
last week were equal to those for
the same period in 1876. Nearly all
the visitors are from out of town,-the
city people waiting till the rush is over
and, after they have seen the show, they visit
the shops and make their purchases, and
they are heavier than they have been for
years. The TRIBUNE finds that its sales Of
papers havo largely increased, and it is neces-
sary for it to print over 1000 moro than
usual per day in order to supply this extra
demand. The commercial banks report that
their deposits are increasing, and that the
traces Of the savings bank panic are rapidly
The people of Chicago arc
elastic, and not given to despondency. They
do not cry long over their wounds, but take
heart Of grace and go to work again. They
are beginning to feel the influence of this
recent business revival, and will be prompt |
to take advantage of it, and make this the
busiest and most profitable season we have
had for Years