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Year: 1877

A good sized audience assembled at the
Opera House last night to hear the noted
Swedish Lady Quartet. The singing was
melodious and pleasing, and could not
fail to delight everyone, whether skilled or
otherwise. The soprano has great sweet
ness and purity of intonation, artistic
phrsaing, and refinement and beauty of
expression; while her companions are
worthy of her, and one has a remarkable
contralto, adding all the harmony and
effect of male voice to the quartet.


But the most remarkable and unap-
proachable excellence, is their absolutely
perfect unity and blending, all the varieties
OF shading in time or volume being execu,
ted as by one person, and all the subtle
expression proceeding as from one mind.
Moreover, the shading and expression that
display the unheeded beauties or unsuspect-
ed depths of meaning in a true song, were
never employed with more facile and COM
plete command, or more effect, whether for
tears or laughter, than by this altogether
charming and inevitable quartet Of genuine
song singers.
Year: 1877

that she would find herself left out in the
cold "that in her blind vindictivCness''
she had gained absolutely nothing by the
passage Of the bill.


Nothing, 80 far as we can recall, was
said to the disparugemenL Of Clarksburg
ior the part she took in the passage OF
the bill. Charleston was the exclusive
target for the Registers sarcastic shot.
There was nothing said then about the
superior hotel facilities Of Charleston,
present or future, or It's prospective live
daily newspapers, or even its future
railroad up Elk River, or its wonderful
general outcome. All these embryotic
excellencies were reserved for an edito.
rial to be written two months after the
adjournment OF the Legislature. Strange
indeed that they did not suggest them.
selves sooner to the now prophetic vision
OF the Register, Stranger still that
instead OF seeing these strong points
in favor Of Charleston, the Reg.
istr should have been engaged in
showing that everything,regardless of the
interests OF the State at large, was being
made to bend to "grasping Charleston" !"
We were told, less than three months ago,
that Charleston was "willing to sacrifice
the best interests Of the State in crafty.
ing her spleen" Delegates from other
parts OF the State. e.were warned not to be
made tools Of by Charleston, and exhorted
not to "neglcct the interests Of their own
constituents, or permit their interests to
suffer by reason OF CharlestonS vindic.
tivGneaa.'


We were not told at that time that
Charleston had great development
ahead Of her. On the contrary we were
told that she, not less than Clarksburg
and Martinsburg, was as well improved
and developed as she could possibly be.
Now, however, presto! change! Charles.
ton is to be city second only in import.
ance to Wheeling, r And. Wheeling is to
be her commercial beneficiary, ii ,hc will
only turn ont and vote for her as the
future Capital. We can secure the large
and valuable trade Of this wonderful city
Of the future by falling in with the gen.
eraI current OF progress that is setting in
so irresislibly in her favor. We will be,
come to her what Cincinnati is now.
We do nosthink that the people Of this
Congressional District are quite ready to
be suddenly converted to this view OF the
Capital question. They want at least as
much time as the Register has taken be-
fore coming to conclusion. And the
Register should not complain If they
finally refuse 10 be converted twice-two
different ways-by the same preacher.
Having done so much last winter TO pref.
udiCe the public mind against Charleston,
the editor should not be surprised II the
people now absolutely refuse to take any
stock in his new departure.
Year: 1877

Inb lACcuhe AhbEORhO'


The Second Branch Of Council having
chosen to put itself in the position Of an
ob,truClioniBt to the taking out OF license
by the saloon keepers Of the city at the
regular time, should bO prepared to as.
ume whatever responsibility attaches to
their gratuitous position. Those Of the
saloon men who are impatiently waiting
10 receive permission to go on as hereto
fore with their business should distinctly
understand that it is the Second Branch
that stands in their way, That body has
chosen to assume an unsolicited cham.
pionship oil their interests. No petition
hll been sent into Council for reduction
Of the license paid for the last three years.
The First Branch have been ready to
grant license on the same basia as
heretofore, but the Second Branch, in
spite Of the pressing necessities Of
the city for revenue, have chosen
to step in aud try to beat down
the old price. Itappears also that some
Of the members are putting on an air OF
injured innocence in the matter, on the
ground that they are being dictated to by
the First Branch. Dr. Logan placed the
boot on the other leg last night by re.
marking very properly that if any body
was assuming the role Of dictator it was
the Second Branch, inasmuch M nobody
hld asked it to do what it wa. attempt.
Ing to do. The First Branch was simply
continuing ON in the line oil precedent'
standing ready to vote for license on the
bl.is heretofore granted. In addition to
this pointby DR.. Logan, Mortimer Pol.
lock made telling point to the effect that
despite all the talk in the Second Branch
about the inability OF the saloon men to
pay the license heretofore charged, the
number Of saloons had steadily increased
and was now decidedly larger than when
the present rate was fixed three years ago


We refer to the proceedings last might
in order that those who are anxious tC
reopen their places Of business may SEE
who it is that is standing in their way
They should saddle the responsibility OF
tue Second Branch where it belongs. The
First Branch have been ready all along
to grant license on the usual terms
Those Of the saloon men who have beer
arrested for selling on Monday
without license, and who will be
forced to litigate their cases al
considerable expense, can appreciate
the fact that between what they will lose
in that way, and what they will lose in
addition by having their places OF bust
nest closed for nobody knows how long
will much more than overbaIauce any
possible reduction in the rate OF license
Every day during which they are thus
shut up is just 20 much loss to be charged
to the position assumed by the Second
Branch.
Year: 1877

An exchange says 1T is not good taste
for young men to stay after ten O'Clock when
visiting young ladies'" Most young men
fail to detect the difference in the taste after
10 o'clock
Year: 1877

OVER TIE FALLS OF NIAGARA.--About
noon last Monday man passed through
the upper gate of Prospect PaEk Niagara.
Falls, and walked along the bank to point
just below the 'tail.race" that empties into
the river. One of the guides, who 'follwed
him to tell him where he could get the best
views, was astonished to see him wadng
opt into the rapids. "Come back, you fool,
You will go over the falls p The, stranger
paid no heed 10 the warning, but throwing
himself forward on his face struck out for
the brink of the cataract. Just below
where he entered there was small cascade
over which he was carried. When he en-
erged his hat was of, and moment later
he ebtuined foothold in the rapids. and
STOOD wafst.deep ID the foaming waters
The guide was by this time at Prospect
Point, wither he had hastened in the hope
of being able to reach the man. The stran.
ger, standing in the rapids, instantly struck
out again, swimming Justify out further
from the shore, and successfully placing
himself beyond the aid of the man on the
bank. He clasped his hands over his head
and went down to his death. This suicide
is Us extraordinary as that of the Canadian
chemist, near Detroit, who two days before
had ended his life in order to test the eff
cacy of a resurrection powder.
Year: 1877

A Paris correspondent says of Lucy
Hooper, whose letters in various Ameri-
can magazines and papers have made her
name familiar: Beneath her tread not a
lily cup is crushed or a drop of dew
brushed awdy-that is, when her tread is
upon the pave of the boulevard des Ital-
lens. In the country it may be different,
for her weight must be in the region of
200 pounds. She is about forty years of
age, wears spectacles, carries her chin
high in the air, and has fair and bloom
ing complexion that many debutante
might envy. She usually wears brown
cloth, tight-ftting polonaise in the street,
which betrays her full contours in man
ner to make her lady friends exclaim
'Why doesn't Mrs. Lucy II. Hooper's
dress-maker give her better advicep She
wears black velvet bonnet, and it is
evident that her time is too valuable to be
given to the architecture of her millinery,
or she would not wear such an unhand-
some thing, for upon other matters her
taste is exquisite. This bonnet was evi-
IDENTIFY originally designed to have an al
most Doric severity Of outline, but the
changing fashion of later day has added
to it few pointed arches of velvet, and
some foliated capitals of lace which have
developed into fine replique of media
val ecclesiastical architecture. This lady
is one of the most industrious of women.
Besides her regular contributions she
scstters continually shower of her fresh,
limpid and sparkling essays over the gen.
eral press. She is seen at every exhibi-
ton or sale of pictures and oojets des arts
in Paris. Moreover she exercises a wide
and graceful hospitality, and her salon,
as a magnet for most of the intellect,
wit, culture and beauty of our country
people in Europe, is becoming almost as
famous as were the salons of the first en-
pire, or every one might say as the Hotel
Rambouillet in Es grand sieceIe.
Year: 1877

THE AVAILABILITY OF GoLD.-Experi-
ments made in modern times have shown
that a single grain of gold may be beat
en- out so as to cover space of seventy.
fivesquare inches; the thickness Of the Leaf
is then only the three hundred and sixty
seven thousand six hundred and fftieth
part of an inch, or about twelve hundred
times thinner than an ordinary sheet OF
printing paper.


Faradsy states in his researches on
1.-THE Experimental Relations Of Cold
land other Metals to Light" that a Leaf
of beaten gold occupies an average thick
ness ofno more than one-fifth to oone-eightn
part of a single wave of light. He re.
duced the thickness Of gold-leaVes az
pleasure by spreading them upon glass
plates and gradually dissolving the metal
by means of q weak solution of cyanide
of potassium. "By this means," he says,
~ think fifty or even one hundred mignt
be included in a single progressive un-
dulation of light" p Popular ScfeH"
Monthly. o
Year: 1877




HORSEBACK RDMe.-Young ladies, if
so circumstanced that they can~avail
themselves of the privilege, should not
neglect horseback riding. A canter for
a few miles is an admirable promoter of
female beauty and health. The cheeks,
the eyes, lips, and every feature of the
fair equestrian, when she dismounts, pos
sess the fresh and sparkling grace which
is one of the most important requisites
in female loveliness, and which can be
impaired only by the purity of the blood
and its brisk and equal circulation, which
are produced by temperature and exer-
else. The pale, sickly and languid
countenance of that lady whose hours of
leisure have been passed without occupa-
ton within her chamber, or listlessly
lounging upon a sofa or couch, may pre-
sent attractions to such as have selected
their standard of beauty from among the
victims of round of fashionable dissipa-
ton; but every man of sense and genuine
taste will prefer the ruddy glow of health,
the active, agile step, and the exuberant
gayety of her who is accustomed to spend
some time every day in active exercise on
foot or on horseback in the open air.
Year: 1877

the work stands about as good chance


Of being disposed Of AS the frog did Of
getting out Of the we'll, when for every
two feet he climed up he fell back three.
And this Is Democratic economy. Starve


the pensioners They had no business to
go into Abe LincOln's army and get
Year: 1877

The Temperance Pioneer Corps of St.
Mary's Church will give an excursion to
Creedmore Park on the steamer Ariel, Mon
day, June 18th. This excursion promises to
be one of the grandest affairs of the season, 80
the committee are doing all in their power
to make 1t pleasant for both old and young.
The City Cornet brass and string band has
been engaged for this occasion, and will fur.
nish music on board the boat and on the
grounds also, for all who wish to "trip the
light fantastic" In order that every one
may have = chance to 60 the tickets will be
sold for so cepts each. Children under IL
years half price.
Year: 1877

Trouble i'm the O0lored Ministry,


An old colored minister, Of one Of the
churches in Walnut street, we are Informed
is to be held to answer charge Of immoral
conduct, at special meeting of the Con-
ference. We hope that he may come of
clear of the charge, a. heretofore he has
been very respectable old colored citizen.
Year: 1877

We understand that the movers for mass
meeting In favor OF silver demonstration
have secured tho Tabernacle for next Thurs
day evening, and hare placed petitions
III various accessible places for sigma
tnres. Every business man and property
owner who is Impressed with the necessity
OF early action In this matter as tho only
means Of rclief for tho present financial and
commercial depression should put himself
out to sign one Of these calls, should cancel
oil other engagements and be present at the
meeting, and should urge bis friends 10 do
likewise. The force OF the meeting will de-
pend largely OF tho numbers and tho on
crgy Of expression, and IT the public senti-
mont Of Chicago be properly represented at
the meeting, tho Tabernacle will not be largo
enough to hold the peoplo.
Year: 1877

zion, and all the tests of intellectual qtlal1ca-
tion have heretofore proved abortive.
Unless high standard of learning Is stead
lily. and vigorously adhered to, it is better not
to have any at all


One Of the great evils of the times is that
ignorant and incompetent men, and men who
are incapable of ever becoming competent
lawyers, are held out to the world by the
State, as officers and priests in the temple of
Justice


Elf the State is to give the seal of its appro-
bation to the qualifications Of any man as O.
lawyer, it should be done only through the
Court, and not through the irresponsible
action of the faculty Of law school, who
generally seem to think that it is impossible
for any man to have attended their lectures
without becoming O. competent lawyer.


The State holds out the lawyer as an officer
in the courts Of justice competent and fit to
aid the Judge and jury in coming to correct
and just conclusion. She commits q decep-
ton and fraud on the public when she ad-
mits incompetent and unfit men to the priest
hood in the temple Of Justice We are often
inclined to believe that a thorough academic
training should always be required as con
dition precedent to admission to the bar. 1t
is q discipline and trial OF both the intellec
tual and moral faculties. This should always
be followed by three years professional
lectures, and thorough examination by the
Supreme Court.


The priesthood of all the churches, which
have an educated ministry, go through dis
eipline as thorough, and in many cases even
more so than we have indicated, for the priests
who minister at the temple OF Justice


BETA. Rho. PHI.
Year: 1877

LII order to an exact and efficient admins


tration of justice it is absolutely necessar,


that the judges should be gentlemen of high


character, cultivated intellects and deeply


learned in the history and science of the law
as well as familiar with the art of it's prac.
tice AS general rule it is not at all proba-
BILE that such qualifications can obtain the
support of the class of men who usually OBJ.
| tain control of political conventions, when the
more lucrative offices, requiring less high
| qualifications, are eagerly sought.


Lawyers possessing such qualifications if
nominated would always be voted for by the
voters OF the party nominating them, but are
they likely to be nominated? Experience
answers no. Reflection and experience de-
monstrate that all judges should be appoint
ed by the Executive, who Is directly RESPONSE
bic to the people for the wisdom and excel
lence of his choice.


Another great change is necessary in order
that the most capable and fit men may be in
duced to accept a place on the bench and
that is that the tenure of office should be for
good behavior. Any lawyer of sufficient
character and capacity to fill the bench of q
district court can make from $4,000 to SO, 900
per annum in the ordinary practice of his
profession at the bar, and unless he is Of in
dependent fortune, cannot afford to accent a
judgeship for only four short years at $4,000
per annum. At the end of that time he would
find himself at sea and adrift without % bust
ness or clientele, and having to build lIp q
practice again.


Judges who prove incompetent, negIectful
OF their duties or corrupt can always be re-
moved by the Legislature.


Make the tenure of Office for good behavior
and the certainty of moderate competence
for life will tempt the ablest and most up-
right OF tho bar to relinquish the uncertain
hopes of more brilliant and more lucrative
career for the more solid, sure, and hon
Orable position on the bench for life


Another change suggested is one that. we
believe, has never been tried but which would
certainly tend to produce and develop the
greatest excellence in the judiciary, and that
is to require that the higher courts shall be
filled by a selection from among the number
of the judges of the next inferior court The
judicial temper and talent is peculiar and
distinct from that of an advocate, and nothing
50 well as experience teaches us who would
make the best judges. If the highest places
are only attainable through a trial by service
in the lower, we have the strongest in
ducement for the highest and best talent to
accept positions in the lower courts


most important subject, and one which it
is most difficult for any statutory enact
ments to regulate efficiently, is the admission
of candidates to the bar. It is impossible to
fix legislative standard OF moral aualihca- |
Year: 1877

The Raleigh Observer says that the
agricultural commissioner has ordered
several varieties OF the sugar beet seed,
which he proposes to distribute in every
county OF the State, his object being to
ascertain what sections are best adapt
ed to its culture. In France the cufti-
vation Of the sugar beet is becoming the
principal industry Of that prosperous
nation, and it is believed that this beet
can be made equally as profitable
in this State as all the
tests and experiments that have
been made have proven entirely satis-
factory. The sugar beets raised in
Wake county last year were tested by
an eminent chemist at the Centennial
with specimens from Delaware, New
Jersey, Illinois and Connecticut; the
average per cent Of sugar in those from
other States was about four, while the
North Carolina beet yielded 16.O Der
cent. When we consider the fact that
in France IA per cent Of sugar is con-
sidered extraordinary and far beyond
North Carolina,
Year: 1877

HARTFORD, July 1B.-At meeting of gen
tlemen of the life insurance company this
afternoon, committee was appointed to in
vestigate the assets of the Charter Oak, to
ascertain whether the company can be saved
and continue to do business under entirely
new. strong and trustworthy management.
An earnest effort is being made to save the
concern
Year: 1877

The following is a sample of more than
dozen advertisements which apPear in the
New York HeraId OF last Sunday morning !:
YOUNG LADY OF REFINEMENT, f.
- nancialiy embarrassed, would ike 10
meet with a gentleman OF means, who womb
assist her. Address, g.


\ striking peculiarly about these refined
but embarrassed young Ladies is that they
all want to be relieved by gentlemen not
| one OF the lot asks assistance from ''sone
lady of means" Must We conclude that the
female portion of our community is so un-
charitable that these refined young ladies'
in their embarrassment, think it useless to
ask assistance from one OF their own sex
! rbasr
Year: 1877

If there shoald ssishappily lie split
between the President and the Senate-oi
which there seems 10 be- some little danger
At PRESENT. is more than probable that all
the southern members will join with the
administration members from the North. in
support Of the administration At eau
Gus OF Southern members held last Sunday
evening, at which all the leading men Of the
South were represented, the expressions of
opinion made it very apparent that the
Southern members were not disposed TO ac-
quiesce in any factious opposition to the
Presidents appointments. A number of
Northern Senators prominent among
whom are Mossrs. Christiancy, Dawes and
Hoar-have also declared themselves very
positively against the effort to get up a
fight" the Massachusetts, Senator's declaring
that the result of the recent election in their
State warrants them in standing squarely
by the President
Year: 1877

The Earl OF Beaconsfeld, at the Lord
Mayors banquet in London last Friday
night: defined anew the policy OF the Eng
lish Government with reference to the Eas
tern troubles. There were some things in
his speech which indicated that the British
lion was not in a mood to have his tai
trodden upon in the vicinity OF CONSTANT
nople Should the war extend into another
campaign, and the Ministry preserve it.
present attitude, Great Britain may not finc
1t so easy to keep on the outside.
Year: 1877

Rumor says that two more of the Law
renee banks are in trouble. They are both
largely interested in the dam, and its re-
pairs are costing round sum. One of the
drafts for material for the dam was delay
ed in its payment some days for want OF
funds. The financial condition of many
of the banks is bad.
Year: 1877

The friends of our senior Senator-and


their name is iegion-have just reason to
feei proud of the honor that has been done
him by the Senate in appointing him to
the place on the committee of privilege.
and elections, made vacant BY the de,sh Of
Year: 1877

THE CORN SPEcULATIoN.-The market
for corn opened with bound on Satur-
day, and sales of mixed Western for
June delivery were made at II and ~
cents, but before the close of Change
sales were made at 694 cents owing to
advices of decline at Chicago. In the
afternoon the market was steadier and
closed at 694a69i cents, define of cent
per bushel from tie closing price on Fri
day. Wheat was dull and weak and flour
steady. At New York both corn and
wheat were rather higher. At Chicago
wheat was cents and corn cents lower