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Year: 1870

MAYORS CoURT.-Nothing bcGore His
Honor the Mayor on Saturday. The shoot
ing referred to in another article, is left in
the hands of the Colonel Of the regiment.
The police hearing the shots we've prompt
in coming to the place, but couNs do no
good as the parties of course had 'eft the
ground


In five minutes after the shots were fired,
the police were on the grounds, but no one
could be found. No city in the South can
boast OF better or more prompt and atten-
tive policemen than ours; and if the City
Commissioners had put on an increase when
we asked it, those parties would have been
caught.


A case of child being killed by its
mother was brought before the Mayor and
postponed.
Year: 1870

THE New Berne Times says that colored
man was arrested in Beaufort last week Tor
making several attempts to ravish colored
women in that town. 1t appears that with
the exception of an old linen coat he would
go throagh the streets at night nude, and
creased all over, and though several attempts
were made to arrest HIM, all had proved un-
successful until last week. He is now in
Jail. His not being captured before is in all
probability owing to his being creased.
Year: 1870

NIGHT ATTACK.-On Friday night after
we had gone to press, we learned that a
party of men fred into the camp on Baptist
Grove. From what we Can learn, it appears
that just as the policemen turned off the
light at the corner of the grove four men
Immediately fired in the direction of the
camp and then ran, the guards returning
the fire but no one was hurt.


The police could do nothing, owing to
the darkness and the firing, but we advise
our citizens that they had better let that
kind of ,fun and pastime alone. They might
be caught and then -. Well, ga word
to the wise," sc.
Year: 1870

We LEARN that Mr.. W. H. Billings, the
popular hotel caterer, late of the Purcell
House" Wilmington, is holding forth at the.
Continental Hotel Long Branch. Should.
any of our citizens contemplate visiting
Long Branch this season it would be well to,
drop Billy line and he will have every
thing all right for you. This is not Josh y
but VIC expect there is some relationship.
Year: 1870

GYMNAsIUM.-Why don't our young men.
get together and form a gymnasium class.
there is one in the city who is fully
capable to teach US. Our clerks, and
all young men, who are confined
during the day will find it to their ad-
vantage, not only as far as health is con-
ccrned, but in other ways, and for other pur-
noses. TO take these lessons
Year: 1870

We ARE requested by the Chief of Po-
lice to call the attention of all drivers of
drays, carts, and wagons, to the fact
that it is violation of the city ordinance
to drive faster than walk in the city limits
or to stop their drays on the crossing and
leave their horses without some one to watch
Year: 1870

CRops.-We clip the below from an c. Y
change and will vouch for it from what " c
saw on our last trip.


Crops are promising and bid fair Tor a
yield that your people are seldom blesse d
with. Farmers are cheerful and full of hope.
and never before have they put forth more
industry and energy, in the spirit of ;agri-
culture, and well they may, for their calling
is the chiefest among ten thousand" and
commendable to every pleple, besides smil ed
upon by Him who said to the man of u e.
mote aye, ego till the earth"
Year: 1870

TIE Democrats howl about taxes and du-
ring the war they levied an ertrG tag of ten
dollars on the hundred of all the farmer
made They were too busy hurrahing for
jeff Davis to howl about taxes then.
Year: 1870

THE RECENT Democratic Conservative Con-
vention in this County nominated Rufus II.
Jones, tithing agent under jeff Davis, for
the General Assembly. If Peter Mallett
lived in Wake he would stand first rate
chance to be nominated to some office by
his Democratic friends
Year: 1870

New YORK, December 2S.-Every
fresh detail confirms the culpability
of the officers in overlooking the steamer
Nick Wall which was snagged last week
in the Mississippi river. 1t seems that
when the steamer reached Memphis
she was laden beyond her capacity, but
the officers controlling her consented to
the addition Of sixty deck passengers
with their freight and luggage as a
consequence, the boat was managed
with the greatest difficulty and several
times narrowly escaped disaster before
she ran on the snag which sunk her
So heavily was the boat ladened, and
so conscious were the officers of her
danger, that whenever another boat ap
preached, the Wall remained motion
less so that the return waves might not
Jar the vessel too much. At about
S o'clock in the evening the vessel ran
on a snag and in a few minutes there
after sank, and drowning at least one
hundred people and seriously injuring
a large number Of others. Very many
who might have been saved leaped
from the deck in lrighful uncertainty
Of the shock.
Year: 1870

d


Ex-Governor Vance, Of North Carroll
ma, writes the following important let
ter, in view Of his recent election to the
United States Senate, to the editor OF
the Washington Chronicle in defence
Of himself and his action during the
war:


You have stricken me some heavy
and some unjust blows, will you allow
me to parry through your columns?


Referring to my election to the United
States Senate, YOU charge in recent
issue, that it has been my constant
boast that my opinions and feelings
have undergone no change since the
war. that my children are taught to
hate the Government &c. | deny this
last most emphatically. 1t is simply
untrue. 1t is difficult TO tell what you
mean bv the former II a four years
war had been fought to prove the In
correctness of the multiplication table,
| do not see how the victors could force
upon their adversar.es the conclusion
that that venerable institution lied.


Ifvou mean that my abstract opinions
as to what was right have not been
changed by the results of the war, you
are correct but if YOU mean to say
that do not accept those results; each
and all of them, and guide my conduct
as a citizen thereby, your charge Is in
correct can well see how a beaten
party may be required to acknowledge
that fact, and to engage that he will
forever refrain from attempting those
things again which were the cause OF
the collision. But it seems to me that
he would be quite sorry dog, indeed,
who should acknowledge that he had
for four years participated in all the
horrors and calamities of civil war for
cause that had so little reason to sus'
tain it that it became wrong as soon as
two men and $40 proved too strong for
one man and 81.


You also charge that less than three
weeks ago, in a speech delivered in Wi!
Year: 1870

the land Of my birth, is held up before
nv ewes for a memorial, and a test-
mony that the past, like the poor, is
ever with me How can we thus for
get it? Will you, sir, help US? Will
the visitors attend the funeral OF this
past, and throw the first clod upon its
coffin? II so, will engage that 1t will
be buried forever.


Because we hold fast the bond of
faithfulness to each other in the shad-
ows of defeat and humiliation, is no
reason why, il permitted, we should not
glory in the splendors Of the great Re
public. Because we refuse to leave oil
mourning over the desOlaton OF our
homes and the slaughter Of our sons, Is
no reason why we should refuse to re-
ioice over the prosperity OF the whole
reunited land. Because we refuse TO
turn our backs on the brave and honest
men, living and dead, who followed our
banners in obedience to the doctrine OF
! State sovereignty, is no reason why we
should not fraternize with equally brave
and honest men on the other side.


| protest to you, sir, that ] am an
obedeat and law-observing citizen Of
the United States; that | acquiesce in
and will maintain all the legitimate re-
suits of the war; that earnestly desire
the unity and perpetuity Of the whole
| country, its prosperity and honor. !
desire never again to see It's great ener-
gies, its vast resources, its illustrious SOL
diers and its wise statesmen engaged IN
the ignoble task Of selt-destruction; but
fervently pray that every atom OF the
wealth of it, bosom, and every spark OF
the genius of its children may be lie
voted to the common welfare hence
forth and forever. And in attestation
Of all this pledge faith which stood
bv a sinking cause through misfortune
and defeat, bright and untarnished-as
nv bittelest enemy must say-because
honor and duty required it.


Very respectfully, sir, your obedlent
servant ZEBULoN B. VANCE
Year: 1870

The latest from Arizona says the Indians
are active throughout the Territory. There
is complaint of the supineness of the troops.
Nine whites were killed in one week in the
southern portion of the territory.
Year: 1870

A correspondent from tho scat OF
war writes tha. the manner in which
the French skirmishers are lighting
is the same as that Of 1863, which oc
casioned 80 much needless cruelty
They have . manner OF throwing
themselves on the ground and thcn
shamming death. When hostile
skirmisher passes them they jump up
behind and plunge y knife or short
sword in his back. Tho Austrian
skirmishers in Italy tricd to foil this
by plunging their bayonet into
everybody they came across, thus
causing great suffering to the poor
wounded.
Year: 1870

1HE STEAMER VIRGIN TO BE SoLD.-The
secretary of the Treasury has peremptOrily or
dered the sale of the steamer Virgin, now lying
at tie Washington navy yard and she will be
dLsI osed OF 10 morrow to the highest bidder.
Year: 1870

CALL UPoS PRUssIAN SUBJEcrs-Gsn.
Stgei Ready for the Field.-Consul General
ROesing, of the North German Confederation
states there is no truth whatever in the cable
telegram that the Prussian authorities have
instructed their cOnsuls to furnish free passage
and outfit to all Germans wishing to return
home and enter the army. 1t is stated that
twenty thousand Germans in New York city are
now ready to volunteer, but the consul can
receive only such as are still subjects Of Prussia
and liable to its military service. These are
now called upon to report to the cOnsuls in the
places where they reside, and hold themselves
in readiness TO return and join the army. Gen.
Sigel offers to lead a division of German volun-
teers, to make q descent Oh the coast OF France
and attack Napoleon in the rear.
Year: 1870

ONE OF THE POPULAR BELIEFS every summer
Is that no preceding summer ever furnished SO
many flies. People aver, in our hearing every
day, that these pests were never before SO nu-
merOus and troublesome. They are plentiful,
active, and annoying enough, but We have
known them to be quite much Of a nuisance
I'm preceding seasons. They bring a comfort to
the credulOus, who will rest assured that so
long as there is no scarcity OF flies, there will be
no epidemic like the cholera.-N. Y. Express.
Year: 1870

The HEALTH OF \ APoLEoN.-A Paris cor
respondent OF the New York Evening Post. re
ferring to the health of the Emperor Napoleon
states that the physician OF his imperial hghness
declares him to be an ''impOssible" patient, who
is always i'll such hurry to get well that his
convalesence is retarded by his efforts TO help
nature in doing more than the doctors prescribe
At one time, in the midst of severe attack OF
the gOut, he was found by his attendants, ap-
plying lighted lucIfer matches TO the soles of his
feet as counter-irritants. At another. when
troubled with a headache, he put so much
emetic ointment on the nape OF his neck that he
was blistered down te. his shoulder blades. 81
have overdone it, doctor, he said, in reply to a
remOnstrance of the latter, ''and il is ali very
well for you TO say ] had better wait for you,
but you see, l haven't time to be sick"
Indeed, his impatience has become quite fever
isb: he seems to think that he will die before he
can establish his son on the throne: and directly
he begins 10 benefit by change OF air or OF
medical treatment. overtaXes his strength, bod
lily and mentally, taking long and fatiguing
walks and working with his secretaries. during
all OF which time cigarette is never out Of his
mouth.
Year: 1870

BLANCHARD, in a recent article on Dickens
relates a rather remarkable circumstance. AS
turned on Edwin brood" ;" and his companion
said to him: "Well, you or we are approaching
the mystery" Dickens, who had been and was
at the moment all vivacity, at once grew serious
and fell into long and silent revsrie, which he
never broke during the remainder Of the walk
Year: 1870

A MosxEY's MEMoaY. gen.
orally think that the monkey race are not
capable Of retaining lasting impressions,


but their memory is remarkably tenacious


when striking events call it into action
A monkey which was permitted to run
free, had frequently seen the men-ser-
wants in the great country kitchen, with
Its huge fireplace, take down a powder
horn that stood OH the cl,irneypiece and


throw few grains in the FIRE, to make
Jemima and the rest Of the maids jump
and scream, which they always did on
such occasions very prettily. Pug waited
his opportunity, and when all was still
and he had the kitchen all to himself, he
up. got possession of the we'll
filled powder-horn, perched himself GIN
eerly ON one Of the horizontal wheels pla-
ced for the support Of saucepans, right
over the warm ashes Of an almost extinct
wood fire, screwed of the top, and rever-
sed it over the crate. The explosion sent
him half way up the chimney. Before he
was blown up ne va. snug, trim. we'll
conditioned monkey as ever you would
wish to sec on summer day; he came
down carbonated African in miniature.
in an avalanche Of burning SCOT. The
weight with which he pitched upon the
hot ashes, in the midst of the general fare
up, aroused him to sense Of his condi-
ton. He was missing for days. Hun
ger at last drove him forth. and he sneak
cd into the house. close-singed, begrimcd
and looking scared and devilish. He re.
covered with care; but like some other
gentle personages, he never got over his
sudden elevation and fall, but became a
sadder ard wiser monkey. Ifcvcr Pug
got troublesome. you had oni; to take down
a powder horn in his presence, and he was
of to his hole like shot, screaming and
chattering his jaws like pair of castancts
Year: 1870

kFThe North British Rerielr thus
comments on what it is pleased to call the
doom Of our. world" What this change
is TO be we do not even conjecture bu.
we see in the hcavens themselves some
traces of the destructive elements, and
some indications of their power, The
fragments Of broken planets, the descent
Of meteoric stones upon the globe. the
wheeling comets welding their loose ma
tcrials at the solar surface. the volcanic
eruptions on our own satellite, the appear
ance Of new stars and the disappearance
of others, are all foreshadows Of that im-
pending convulsion to which the entire
system Of the world is doomed. Thus
pla0sd on planet which is to be burnt
up. and under heavens that are to pass
away--thus treading as it were on the
cemeteries Of former worlds, and dwelling
in the mausoleums Of other plancts-let
us learn the lesson Of humility aud wis
dom.
Year: 1870

north as St. Landry.


This can be made pleasant country for
white people, and we want that class of
immigrants. AS to health, this part of
the country is as healthy as Delaware or
Maryland, as know from long resi-
deuce here
Year: 1870

DIDS FOR ALL THE COAL TAR PRODUCED AT THE
I'D works OF TIE Metropolitan Gas Light Company Forty
second and Eleventh avenue be TIL
IL next the main oce OF the company, 425 Broad
way, where terms and particulars be learned


o. ZOLLIKOFFER, President
Year: 1870

Au alarm clock not only tells the
time Of day, but it can also awaken
peOplein the morning. I have such a
clock in my chamber. Every morning
about five o'clock it sets up such a
Whizzing and ringing, that it wakes
me up. " What nice way to be rOus-
ed up :" some of my little readers will
say. Ees, it is very good way, If I
aLICdyS get up lrhCjI 1t eCdEcS me. But
last summer, one morning, instead of
getting up when my clock aroused me,
l lay still a little, and then went to
sleep again. The next morning I did
the same thing; and in the course of a
few days the clock, though it made as
loud a noise as ever, would not wake
me. Why ? how strange :" you will
say. Strange or not, yet IL is true; my
alarm would not wake me any longer
it would not do sO-because | did not
at once get out of bed those two or three
mornings.


Ihave often thought That my alarm.
clock Is very much like ones con-
science. Every person who knows
God will has such q clock in his own
breast; so that whenever he is going
to do wrong, it gives an alarm, saying,
That is not right; you must not do
that: God sees you" How important
it is to have a conscience that always
tells us when we do wrong, and that
checks us when we are in danger Of do
ing so.


But we must hcqr conscience when it
speaks. If we always stop when it
says "stOp," if we always do what it
tells us to do, then we shall always hear
it. But if we get into the habit of not
doing what it tells us, after awhile we
shall not hear it at all; our conscience
will become hardened, and we shall be
ready to commit any sin, however
great.


In the town in which / formerly liv-
ed, there was a boy put in gaol for
breaking into shop at night, and steal
ing money. This boy once went to a
Sabbath school, and bad as faithful q
conscience, perhaps, as any boy who
reads this page. But he commenced
doing wrong in little things. His con-
science used to say to him, Robert,
that is wrong; you ought not to do
that.n But he did not obey the warm
ing voice. He went on from bad to
worse, until, as l said, he was sent to
gaOl for stealing money.


Remember, whenever your con-
science tells you to do anything, do It,
and whenever it tells you TO stop, stop.
-CHiLd's Paper.
Year: 1870

OF the girls. He knew that they were
in the yard, having caught 8 glimpsS
of them as they rushed from the house
A few more bounds and he wOud be il
! their midst. For q moment modesty
OVercame fear, and he once more halt.
ed. The snake, evidently pleased with
his rapid transportation, manifested
his gratitude by attempting TO enfoId
the legs Of our hero within his embrace
With an explosive ''Oltch, >" and urged
forward by " circumstances over which
he had no control" ;" poor John bound
ed on. The next moment he was in
full view Of the girls, and as he turned
the corner of the barn, the snake came
round with a WhiZ something after the
fashion of coach whip.


Having reached the barn-yard, to his
dismay he found the bars up; but time
was too precious to be wasted III let
ting down bars. Gathering all his
strength, he bounded into the air
snake dittO-and as he alighted on the
other side, his snakeship's tail cracked
across the upper bar, swapping like an
Indian cracker.


Again John set forward, now utter
ly regardless Of the presence Of the girls,
for the extra tick Of the snakes tail as
he leaped the bars, banished all his
bashfulness and modesty, and again
he had the pleasure of finding the
snake in straight line, drawing stead
lily at the hem of his solitary garment.


The house now became the center of
attraction, and around it he revolved
with the speed Of thought. Four times
III each revolution as he turned the
corner, his snakeship came around with
a Whiz which was quite refreshing.


While describing the third circle, as
he came near the group of wOnderstruck
girls, without removing his gaze from
the snake, he n anaged to cry out:


"CALL 4 NAN ~


The next moment he whisked out of
peared on the other side of the house /:


"CALL 4 MAN -


And away he whirled again, turn
ing the corner SO rapidly that the whiz
Of the snake sounded halfway between
a whistle and the repeated prOnuncia-
ton of dOuble-e.


"CALL \ MANI


Away he flew but his strength was
rapidly failing. Nancy Clark was the
first to recover her presence Of mind,
and seiZing a hOOp-pole, she took Ler
station near the corner Of the house,
and as John reappeared, she brought it
down npOn the. snake with force that
broke his back and his hold upon Johns
neither garment at the same time.


John rushed into the house and to
his room, and at tea-time appeared in
his best Sunday suit, but little the worse
for the race, and to all appearance cur
ed of bashfulness. That night he walk
ed home with Nancy Clark. The New
Year, they were married, and now,
when John feels inclined to laugh at
his wife's hoop, or any other peculiari-
ty, she has only to say, Call a man."
when he instantly sobers down.
Year: 1870

The following will be found interest
ing: "a fine Newfoundland dog, which
was kept at an inn in DOrsetshire, was
accustomed every morning, as heclock
struck eight, to take in his mouth q
basket placed for the purpose, and con-
tanning q few pence, and to carry 1t
across the street to a bakers, who took
out the money, and replaced 1t by q GER
tain number of rolls. With these Nep-
tune hastened back to the kitchen, and
safely deposited his trust; but what
was well worthy of remark, he never
attempted to take the basket on Sun
day mornings"


Every one who has travelled much
in Scotland, more especially in the
Highland districts, must have remark
ed the large attendance Of shepherds
dogs at church on Sundays. This pc
culiarity is very interesting to English
tourists, one of whom states that he
was told that many of the dogs were
more regular attendants than their mas
ters. This gentleman mentions that,
in one parish, the animals, perhaps de-
mOralized by q "black sheep" among
their number, became so quarrelsOme
and unmannerly in their behavior, that
the minister requested all who had
been in the habit Of bringing their dogs,
to confine them to the house before
leaving for church. This plan answer
ed exceedingly well for the first Sunday,
but, for the future, not single shep-
herd farmer or could find his dog on a
Sunday morning. They had no notion
Of being deprived of their accustomed
liberty, and, well knowing the hour of
service, set off to church without their
masters. An attempt was then made
to compromise matters, by erecting a
large kennel close to the church, where
the dogs were imprisoned during pub
fearful bowling, that the congregation
was seriously disturbed, and there was
no help for it but to restore them to
their 0rmer rights and privileges.
Year: 1870

That will was never disputed. The
next morning, too, I received check
for 81 600; and the next news heard
Of the widow was, that she herself had
seen that awful apparition, and had
left the mansion Immediately.