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Year: 1875

.~ A prisoner .in, Paris lately received a letter containing merely lock of hair wrapped in the leaf of small book. The iailer- did not consider the souvenir important enough to be delivered, but a few days after came similar inclosure, and yet another. This aroused suspicion and the governor took the, matter in hand. He examined the leaf of the book It was only that of a common novel, twenty six lines on a page. Then he studied the hair and noticed the small quantity of the gift. Counting the hairs he found them of unequal length, and twenty-six in number, the same as the lines of the page. Struck with the coincidence, he laid the hairs along the line of the page which they respectively reached. beginning at the top with the smallest hair. After some trouble he found that the end of each hair pointed to different letter, and that these letters

 combined formed a slang sentence,

 which informed the prisoner that his friends were on the watch, and that the next time he left the prison to be ex- amined an attempt would be made to rescue him. The governor. laid his plans accordingly, the attempt at rescue was made, but the rescuers fell into

 their own trap. '3aap 10 Cos .iRo. 'a%t
Year: 1875

Probably no horse was ever more generally known than the celebrated horse Cruiser, imported from England in 1861 by John s. Rarey, whose system of horse tanning was for some time the sensation in this country and England. When MT. Rarey went to England his system was thoroughly put to the test by contact with Cruiser, an animal that was so vicious that he was closely and con tinuously confined in stable, in such @ way that he could by no possibility reach anybody, either with his mouth or heels. His food was delivered to him through sort of funnel, and he seemed to have been kept solely as an extremely wicked curiosity His splendid muscle nd activity gave him the widest scope for the exercise of his incorrigibility, and he is said to have kicked so high as to strike a board floor fourteen feet above the floor on which he stood. Ordinarily, it was only the work of few minutes for Mir. Rarey to tame ahorse, but it took him three hours to subdue the ter rife Cruiser. After putting Cruiser under control, MT. Rarey purchased him and brought him to this country, and placed him on the Rarey farm, at Grove port, in Ohio, where he became popular among breeders. He became so gentle that the people about the Rarey farm could fondle him as they would kitten, and his colts were noted for their kind disposition. Strangers, however, were not permitted to have much to do with him. This was to prevent teasing and the revival of the old propensities. Cruiser died at the Rarey farm recently at the aoa of twantv-tyyO
Year: 1875

Recently, in a Yorkshire town, a farmers wife was assaulted by her hus- band in field where was COW that the woman had greatly .petted. On seeing the man beating his wife, tearing her hair and clothes and otherwise maltreat- ing her, the COW came charging up the field, and attacked the man with such ferocity that he was glad to retreat sum lmarily. The COW then took up defen- sive position by the woman's side, and stood perfectly still while the latter struggled to her feet and supported her self hy leaning on it's flank until she had sufficiently recovered to take refuge from her husband in fiji 1t.
Year: 1875

Of late years one of the most impor- tant and useful operations in surgery has been that of grafting new and healthy skin upon Q wound or sore and thus es- tablishing the healing process and ob- taining ,cicatrization. Hitherto the particles of skin have been taken from some sound part of the patients body and to the diseased or injured part, but M. Anger has recently demonstrated that pieces of skin may be taken from amputated limbs, and used successfully in hetsroplasty. In one case M, Anger took strips of skin from the palmer sur face of an amputated finger and applied them to the Liberated leg of another were removed and the grafted pafts found firmly united to the surface and evidently vascularized. To insure sue cess it is necessary that the graft be made immediately upon amputation.
Year: 1875

An eminent naturalist has spent con siderable time, during the past few years,

 in studying the habits of that ever inter esting insect, the bee, and evolves some curious facts as the result of his obser- vations. In Q lecture on the subject, he alluded to the statements made by many students of natural history concerning the affection of bees for each other, and stated that this popular belief could not be borne out by facts. He had seen bees lick each other when they were covered with honey, but he had never yet seen one attempt to rescue another from drowning, and he had come to the con clusion that what sometimes appeared

 like affection was invariably dictated by selfshness. He once killed bee close to another-so close that the dead body came in contact with the living bee :; but the latter kept of feeding, and did not take the slightest notice of what had occurred nor show the least apprehen-

 sion lest similar fate should lbefall her. self; and he had concluded that no 7af- lection whatever existed for each other. Then a good deal had been said and written about the great devotion which bees had for their queen, This also he believed to be without foundation. Last autumn he exchanged black bee for 8 Ligurian bee. He put the old queen in box, and when he went back the next day he found that all had deserted her.

 He next put her in g. box with honey, but even then not the slightest notice was taken of her. Scent, he found, was an important organ in the economy of bees;l and in order to ascertain whether it was true that sentinels were placed at the entrance of hive, to guard it from strange bees or wasps, he had frequent ly called out the bees by the scent of eau de cologne, and had watched those which first came out. The result of his observations were that in seven or eight times out of ten the same bees came out each time, thus showing that they were engaged in the occupation of sentinels.

 When he wished to attract their atten- tion, so that they might be fed, he made all kinds of noises. He had shouted, screamed, played on the fiddle, and made other noses; but they took no mo- tice whatever. He did not, however,

 regard the experiment. as conclusive, and was inclined to think that they did hear sounds, although he had not been able to get any evidence on the subject.

 Bees, he added, had keen sense of smell, and that would account in many cases for the antipathy or otherwise which they are said to have for persons

 He found that the warmth or ooldness of his body had much to do with their friendliness, toward him, and he had often been stung when he had done nothing whatever to irritate them and could not in any way account for thedis- like which they had taken to him. dOn the whole, he was disposed to think that the so-called intelligence of the bee had been greatly overrated, as it's course of action was generally governed by mere selfish instinct.
Year: 1875

There are a number Of Republican
papers that are busy at work endeavor-
ing to make their readers believe the
whole objection the people have to the
policy of the Radical party lies in the
course of Grant toward Louisiana and
his ambition for q third-term nomination
and election. This is a mere delusion.
Grants policy has been bad enough to
damn any President and any party; and
his aspiration to third-term is silly In
the extreme; and would never have been
attempted by man of sound Judgment
who relied upon his own merits. But
Grant is not Of that stock. He relies
upon others. And is made to believe
that he is the most popular man In
America by set of whipper. snappers
who are themselves also surrounded by
underlings who live by political office
Grant suffers himself to be used by these
fellows; and he believes that the people
are wholly controlled by political chques
and that the Radical party will finally
nOmluAIG uLIu W sLNS AtSSh AVN oSASNo
But the people have an account to set
tie. with that party for very many act
Of legislation with which Grant ma!
not be chargeable; enough in all con
science to destroy any party that eve
existed in the estimation Of any free an
intelligent people. This account the
will settle with that party whethe
Grant is nominated or not 1t will hav
to take back seat and wait till it
purified of its utterly corrupt leader


before it can over control the nation!


legislature again. This is q foregor


conclusion. And it was settled upc


long before Connecticut re-afirmed


by her vote on Tuesday.
Year: 1875

The Reading Eagle says: ''The Will
mington Commercial rejoices that fish
ing boat captain took away some colored
bummers from that city to work on his
vessel, and hopes they may never return,
and that somebody else will carry away
some of the white ones"


So do We. But it has not been ~.
since the Commercial frequently used
such language as was calculated TO in.
duce "colored bummers" to come te
Wilmington and vote the Republican
ticket, and it will very likely do SC
again when election day approaches.
Year: 1875

There will be no strike in the Wy
oming coal region. A despatch from
Scranton says the vote by ballot taken
yesterday in the mines of the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Company on
the question of a strike stood 1912 for
and 319 against the continuance OF
work. Tie vote of these Hyde Park
mines will govern the entire region
The action of the miners is compli-
mented in the highest terms by men in
all branches of business.
Year: 1875




Under the old Constitution there
was some distinction between vice and
virtue, between crime and innocence.
Guilt had its penalties which marked
a lasting difference between the offend
er and the free citizen.


Now it is all different. The rights
Of the viiest criminal are only in abey-
ance during tue temporary suspension
OF liberties. With the withdrawal of
the prison bolts, he marches forth a
free man restored to all his rights and
privileges, to neutralize by his foul
breath the voice of the pure. the hon
est and the patriotic. Nor does
he always have to wait until the
legal term Of his sentence has expired.
Party has use for him in its emergeu-
cies. How often have we seen judicial
or executive clemency strike off the
chains fro n the criminal, throw open
the prison gates, and march him forth
to swell the tide of victory or cast his
might IN the doubtful scales of con-
fiict.


There is nothing more precious than
the right of sutfrage-a right which is
conceded to be not an inherent one.
but won from power by hard struggle
and worthy now to be cherished as the
heritage of the free and of the honest.
Are the people willing to see this right
degraded by its longer enjoyment by
the thief, the forger. the felon in all
the gradations of crime?


Yet this must be SO under this pres
ent Constitution, and until the people
determine that the Convention of 1875
shall restore the rightful relations be-
tween crime and obedience to the laws
of the land and of morality.
Year: 1875

tax of sixteen and two thirds cents for
the general fund on every one hundred
dollars value of real and personal prop
erty in the State, subject to exemp-
tions made by law, including moneys,
credits. bonds, stocks and all other
ta1able property.


SEC. q. A special tax of nine cents
on the one hundred dollars shall be
levied and collected on all taxable
property of the State for the Insane
Asylum, and the Institution for the
Deaf Dumb and Blind.


SEC. 3. A special tax of six cents on
the one hundred dollars shall be levied
and collected on all taxable property of
the State, to be applied to the support
of the copvicts and to general prose
cution of wolk connected with the
Penitentiary.


And yet in the face of these plain
provisions of the law. the negro party
asserts that ''there is no tax whatever
upon the books of lawyers and profess
sional men," Does this negro party
think that white men are to be fooled
by such bald falsehoods like parcel
of ignorant negroes? White men may
be poor, but that does not put them
upon an equality with negroes, either
mentally, morally, or socially. Ne
groes believe anything their Radical
masters tell them, no matter how glar-
ingly false. White men acknowledge
no masters, and require much more
+hap mara Radical authority to make
them believe a Radical assertion.
Year: 1875

Judge Rodman, of the Supreme
Court, is candidate for the Conven-
tion in Beaufort and Pamlico counties.
1t is, of course, we'll known that Judge
Rodman is most pronounced Radical.


In his address to the voters of Beau
fort and Pamlico, he says:


I do not fear, as some Republicans
profess to do, that the Democrats, If
they have majority in the Conven-
ton, will violate the restrictions on its
powers imposed by the Legislature. I
feel myself bound to o6serUe them both
6y taa0 and by q sense of faith and
fair dealing.


What will the candidates of the
negro party, who talk SO
much about the inability of the
restrictions imposed upon the Conyen-
tion by the Legislature say to this opin-
ion of their dearly beloved Judge IF
Mr.. Rodman is not good authority in
a Radical camp then we know not who
is.


Remember when these negro party
gas about the restriction
not being binding, to ask them wheth-
er they know more law, or more Rad
calism than their Radical Supreme
Court Judge.
Year: 1875

SETTING ASIDE EVERY OTHER CONSID-
ERArIoN and looking solely aud alone
to the fact that such men us ex-Judge
Russell and ex-Judge Tourgee and 9th
er leaders of the negro party, after
failing to defeat the Convention now
seek to control it, we tind therein
ample reason to why every decent
man, every decent white man should
vote for the candidates of tie
Democratic. or white mans party. It
is a moral and mental impossinility
for such men to give the people good
advice. Since their advent into polit-
ic i life in North Carolina, they have
uniformly sided with the negro, and
against the white man. They cannot
be trusted.
Year: 1875

To YoUR Posr.-The Raleigh Ncacs
says the campaign has begun. The
enemy is up and doing. They have
money and they are determined to re-
gain their power. Let our friends be
up also and hard at work. 1t is ne
time to play. There is danger, not of
losing the Convention only but of los
ing the state. Let our speakers be
abroad to rouse the people from apa-
thy. Let them show them the dar-
gers of their Indifference. Let them
meet the attempt to array class a gainst
class. Organize clubs, diffuse infor-
nation, reach every man in every COM
munity, and bring every man to the
polls.


The Democrats have nothing to fear
from discussion. They have the in
terests of the people and of the state
to work for. The Republicans work
to regain power and to retain office.
Year: 1875

AS SURE AS THE SUN SHINES the
Convention will m act in Raleigh on the
first Monday in September. That
much is fixed and settled beyond doubt
The only question for the people to
decide, at the is election who shall rep
resent them in that Convention. Shall
we have the candidates Of the negro
party there to degrade, disgrace and


mpoverish us as they did in 1868, or
shall we send there the ablest, best
and truest n 4 III all the land, to frame
the Constitution and Government, un-
der which we must live? In lswer to
this question we have no fear that the
white men of North Carolina will give
forth any uncertain sound. Victory,
final, complete victory, is almost with
in our reach. and we shall not fail to
have grasped it when the sun sinks to
rest two weeks from this day
Year: 1875

We have received q circular from
the Secretary of the Board of Trustees
announcing that the exercises of the
University will be resumed Oh the
first Monday in September next. With
the exception of two weeks vacation
at Christmas, the session or term
will continue until the second Thurs
dav in June 1876. The charges are for
tuition sixty dollars for the term, and
ten dollars for room rent. One half
of the amount will be payable in ad-
vance, and the other half in January.


No young man of merit however,
who is unable to pay the above
amounts need fear to be deprived of
the advantages of the University on
that account.


The object Of the Trustees is as far
as possible to put within the reach of
all who may desire them. facilities
for acquiring the highest education.
The university is intended to be a
school not merely for rich mems sons,
but place for the people and of the
people, rich and poor alike No boy
need to stay away because he cannot
pay his tuition and room rent.


The college buildings have been re-
paired inside and ont, and rooms will
be ready by the first of September for
several hundred students. Good board
can be had at the University for from
twelve to fifteen dollars month. AS
general rule students should be six
teen years of age before entering the
institution.


It will be seen from the above that
the Trustees bave sought to make the
expense of getting an education at
Chapel Hill as small as possible, and
the character of the gentlemen who
constitute the faculty gives ample as
surance to parents and guardians that
both the mental and moral training of
their sons and wards will be duly cared
for. 1t gives us the GREATEST pleasure
therefore, to commend the institution
to the people of North Carolina as iu
every way worthy of confidence and
patronage.
Year: 1875

If those dresses were twice as tight
they would wear them. If it were the
fashion to carry barrel of -four on
the back of the neck they would do it,
or die trying. You couldn't devise a
fashion the women wouldn't meekly
follow, from no clothes in winter to
bearskin oVercoats in summer.
Year: 1875

TAKE away the petty Federal cor
ganizers, says Charles Nordhoff in his
last letter to the New York Herald,
and the negro, left face to face with
the white man, no longer marched up
in column to the central poll of the
county, but voting IL his proper pre-
cinct; argue d with; hearing both sides
for the first time; knowing by expert
ence, as bes presently will, that the
Democrat is not a monster, and that
a Democratic victory does not mean
his reinstatement, will lose much of
his interest in elections. They won't
vote unless they have white organ z
ers." was the universal testimony of
the Republican managers wherever
MIR Nordhoff went in the south
Year: 1875

DRAGaED TO DEATH.-The Stockton


Independent Of June 18th furnishes an


account of the following sad accident:
The following particulars Of the death
Of q little boy in Bachelor valley, are
furnished us by correspondent at
Pennington: Last Friday morning .
son Of Thomas Kennedy. aged about
ten years, was hefding stock near home,
a. usual. When dinner time came. as
he did not COME home, lis mother sent
younger son ont to call him. The
latter soon came back and reported that
his brother was asleep. An older sister
was sent out. and upon examination,
she found him dead. 1t seems he got
off his horse, and for some reason tied
the picket rope around his body. and it
is supposed the horse took fright and
dragged him long distance. as his
head and face were terribly disfgured
and lnangled. as were also his body and
arms. The horse evidently ran till he
was tired out, and when found was
standing still with the boy still fast to
him. No one saw it. How long he had
been dead no one knows. The ground
over which the horse is supposed to
have dragged him is uneven and rocky.
Those who saw the body say that there
was nothing about it by which they
could identify the little fellow. The
funeral took place on Saturday last. and
was largely attended. Kennedy lives
in what is known as Bachelor valley,
about ten or twelve miles Of Pennington.
Year: 1875

POLICEMAN STApBED.-A policeman of
Olympia, on the night of the Sd inst.
attempted to stir up man lying dead
drunk on the wharf at that place, when
the dead man jumped up and stabbed
him in the back. The wound is not
serious.
Year: 1875

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIc.-That from
this date that l have no further connec-
ton with the Central Seattle Homestead
Association. and am sorry that ever had
but if the parties carry out their agree
mept your investment is good.


J. NJ. RICE.
Year: 1875

The Alma (CoL) Yetos thus refers to


one of the formidable difficulties that


the miners have to contend against:


The altitude of the Stevens mine on


Mount Mcclellan is 12, 500 feet. At the


depth of from so to 200 feet the crevice


matter, consisting of silicia, calcite, and


ore, together with the surrounding wall


rock, as a solid frozen mass. Mcclellan


is one of the highest eastern spurs of the


snowy range; it has the form OF horse


shoe, with bold escarpment offelspath-


lie rock nearly 1000 feet high, which in


some places is nearly perpendicular.


Nothing unusual occurred until a dis


tanee of some eighty or ninety feet had
been made, then the frozen territory


was reached, and it has continued for


over 200 feet. There are no indications
of thaw, Summer or Winter. The
whole frozen territory is surrounded by
hard, massive rock, and the lode itself
is as hard and massive as the rock The
miners, being unable to excavate the
frozen material with pick or drill, found
that the only way was to kindle large
wood fire at night against the back end
of the tunnel, and in the morning take
out the disintegrated ore. This has
been the mode of mining for more then
two years. The tunnel is over 29O feet
deep, and there is no diminUtion of the
frost. There is, so far as can be seen,
no opening or channel through which
the frost could possibly have reached
such depth from the surface. There
are other mines in the same vicinity in
like frozen state. The theory IS that the
rock was laid down in glacial times,
when there was cold enough to freeze
the very earth's heart. In that case the
mine is an ice-house whose stores have
remained unthawed for at least $4,000
years. The phenomenon is not unGom-
mon or inexplieable when openings can
be found through which current of air
can pass; but cases which, like the Bran
don frozen well and the Stevens mine,
show no way for air currents, are still
to embedded icebergs and the
glacial period.
Year: 1875

Over and over again.


N0matter which way turn.
always find in the Book OF Life


Some lesson have 10 learn.
must take my turn at the mill,


must grind out the golden grain.
| must work at my task with resOlute will
Over and over again.
Over and over again


The brook through the meadow flows,
And over and over again


The pOnderOus mill-wheel goes;
Once doing will not suffice.


Though doing be not in vain,
And blessing failing us once or twice,
May come if we try again.
Year: 1875

TREASURE IN HEAvEs.-Tfse pearl OF
great price which the InerehaatInan
found made him rich fo1sgeF. Poor, and
blind, and naked before, after that he
was rich beyond all the necessities Of
time and eseSnity. Getting competent
portion Of the good things Of this life is
right and duty, since slothfulness is
everywhere reproved, and Christians are
exhorted to be ''dlIIigent in business
bat to seek first the kingdom Of God
and his Righteousness, istbe great duty
and the highest wisdom. He who has
the treasure Of the earth, with the treas
ure laid up in heaven, is still poor man
Year: 1875

THK Whole picture of ruin and desola-
ton which is to follow the resumption
ofpar payments is purely imaginary.
It is thecreatiCn Of men who are Elind-
ed by sophisms, and OF other men who
wan to profit by gambling in the euren-
ey. To have the greenbaeks redeemed
at par, and by their maker, would have
the effect OF closing the goId-ronn, and
breaking up the whole traffic in national
currency. Then gYeenbaek being worth
adoIIar and equivalent 70 a dollar in coin,
would pass as such every day in the week
at the same value.-Chteago tribune.