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Year: 1876

ADOPTED AT A SPECIAL TERM OF THE


UNITED sTAEEs CIRCUIT COURT, HELD


AT GREENSBORO ON THE 9TH MONDAY


IN JUNE. 1876.


Every warrant for the arrest of a
person for violation of the Internal
Revenue laws, must be issued and the
case heard by the Commissioner near
est to the place where the offense was
committed. Il warrant is issued or a
case is heard by more remote Com
missioner, the reasons for such action
must be endorsed on the warrant.


At the commencement of every trial
for crime the Commissioner must ad-
wise the defendant of the charges
against hIm-his right to have the
assistance of counsel in his defense;
and that he is at liberty to refuse to
answer any question that may be put
to him relating to his guilt, and that
his refusal to answer shall not be used
to his prejudice at any stage of the
prosecution.


Commissioners must return to the
clerk of the court all criminal pro-
ceedlngs had before them ten days be-
fore the next ensuing term, and in
cases of default no fees will be allow
ed the Commissioners.


Where Offenses are committed by
two or more persons at the same time
and place, only one warrant must be
issued for their arrest, and only one
bill of indictment must be sent before
the grand jnry.


Where person is charged with sew
eral offenses which can be included in
one bill of indictment under different
counts, only one bill must be sent be-
fore tho grand jury, unless otherwise
directed by the court. Ii several bills
are sent in sucla cases they will, on
motion, Ebe consolidated and but one
set of costs allowed.


Deputy Marshals in proceedings
before Commissioners must endorse q
statement of fees and mileage on the
warrant in the presence of the Com
and the Commissioner must
approve or disapprove the same and
make return to court of the warrants
endorsed.


Any deputy marshal, who by threats
or promises induces prisoner when
under arrest to confess his guilt, or
Treats prisoner with unnecessary
rudeness or force, will be summarily
from Office.


A deputy marshal must not fill up
Year: 1876

It seems strange that in this day and
generation of a people deriving it's
laws from an AnglosSaxon ancestry it
should be necessary for Judge form
ally TO pr 'claim from the bench the
commonest principles of civil liberty
and not only that, but that he should
deem it necessary to have them pub
lished in the newspapers in the various
parts of the territory over which he
has Jurisdiction.


Strange as it may seem Judge Dick
has done this thing. But not a moment
too soon was it done, or moment be-
fore it was needed TO redress evils that
had grown up under Radical rule.
What striking commentary it is upon
the conduct of judicial affairs in
North Carolina that a Federal
Judge finds it necessary to advertise the
people of their rights against his
own judicial subordinates.


We stop not however to inquire why
this thing was not sooner done. We
are not of that school of men that are
forever unnecessarily raking i'll
the ashes of the dead past. We pre-
fer rather to look upon the live fu p
ture and hail this action of Judge
Dick as a sure harbinger of better
and brighter and happier days. We
are of that school that believes there can
be no peace on earth save under good
laws honestly administered. 1t is idle
to expect men to refrain from acts of
violence that are always unreliable
when men undertake with their own
individual hands to redress the wrongs
done them, and that men will attempt
to redress their own wrongs when the
law fails to do so, or when the officers
of the law themselves become oppres-
sors is both human nature and human
experience.


It is with unfeigned qualification
therefore that we see evidence of a
purpose on the part of Judge Dick to
compel the officers of the law to cease
from their prosecutions and oppres-
sions of the people. The dawn of a
better day is nigh at hand.


RULES OF COURT.
Year: 1876

HOPE INSURANCE COMPANY.-In another
column of our paper will be found the
eighteenth annual statement of this staunch
and reliable company, an exhibit which
proves it's popularity and the confidence
and esteem of the public. After making
and other contingencies, cash dividend of
ten per cent has been declared on the
capital stock of the company, payable to
the stockholders on demand. Managed
with rare skill and tact, combined with
prudent care in the plscing, of risks, the
Hope offers protection to insurers in fire,
river and marine insurance,
Year: 1876

The course Of lectures which has hereto
fore been announced to be delivered before
this club, has now fairly begun. Judging
from the reputation of several Of the speak
ere who have been named, we may expect
some light to be thrown upon several at
present rather occult subjects. Without
being mysterious at all, we may say that
we believe it to be the intention of the
orators to ''speak out in meeting" as they
say at revivals. Mr.. John Ray will speak
tonight; General Sewell, on the twenty
sixth, and Messrs. Fellows, Posey and
Braughn will follow in the order named, l.,
and probably on succeeding weeks.


This is all very wsll and satisfactory,
though the information is somewhat hard
to obtain. Why all this secrecyl Why
not discuss private business in secret ses-
sien, and general principles openly. We
have no desire to interfere with the secret
working of the club. In all matters re-
lating to membership, finance organiza-
tione, etc, we feel perfectly Indifferent; but
the political aims and views of more than
q thousand intelligent citizens, organized
for the purpose of acting as q unit in pub
lie affairs, become q matter of public inter
est, and are really public property. We
take the liberty Of repeating the suggestion
that the club throw its doors open to the
public when there are to be discussions on
public matters. This can be done either
before or after private business has been
disposed of. We know many of the mem
bers. They are gentlemen of liberal We've,
and We appeal to them to let the public
fairly and sqnarely know to some extent
what they are doing, by which we shall
know how to place the organization. At
present it is not very easy to say whether
they side with the administration or not,
and an inquiry of this sort is not out of
place in regard to an organization which
has on its rolls a large number of
prominent Republicans.
Year: 1876

bolic box was traced to him. But on the
failure he appeared to abandon everything.


If he had died ct once it could not be
said he suffered as an assassin should. But
he lived. Under police pressure he told
many parts of his story; he gave his wife
to them; he, in his agony, prayed to them to
help him to life; he told much that they do
not disclose; he confessed his crime; he gave
even the details, and when he had done all
he could in torture he died unforgiven.
Year: 1876

Speaking of the choice of place for
holding the next National Republican Con-
vention, the Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune says of Senator
Mortons preference: According to men,
bers of the committee, he had every car
pet-bag vote except that of Marshal Pack
ard, of Louisiana, who was in favor of Phila-
delphia, because he thought that was q
good place for the third term plant to take
rOOtn
Year: 1876

Benjamins Franklin's benevolence was
higher than his kite. 1t would not come
down at the calls Of charity. He played
with the forked lightning of heaven, and
was not afraid to say mo" when asked to
subscribe money for . new meeting house.
Year: 1876

It was mean man who got on the Clay
street car and tenuered the conductor four
cents fare. Not wishing to stop the ear to
eject the fellow, the honest and generous
conductor made up his mind to take It, and,
drawing his punch to operate Sin the pres
snoe Of tho rassengair" was astonish7d to
hear him eSeiaim, in excited tones, Hold
on! don't shoot. here's the other cent.
Year: 1876

One Of the most discriminating estimates of the
character Lord iacaulay that have been called forth
by his recent biography is from the pen Of Mr. leslie
eephen and is reprinted from the "Cornhill Magazine
in the July number Of the Eclectic.
Year: 1876

"A great overgrown baby. This is the
pudding-foOted pride of the desert,
whose silken hair is mans raiment, and
whose milk is meat and drink. While
my camel was still kneeling with his
strap over his leg. | stepped into the
curve of his neck and went up the front
stairs to the top of his hump. His sad
die was Il tree of wood with thick rugs
lashed over it. 1t was little like
swinging in saw-buck, riding that
camel to Sakkarah. He edged his way
over the desert. putting the two legs ON
one side of him forward at the same
time, and then keeling over and push
ing the other side ahead. was con
tinually rocked back and forth until
my head swung loosely on my shoulders
my sides ached and all my spine WAS
sore. Many people are Seasick when
they mount Il camel for the first time
The motion is not unlike that of il small
boat in chop sea. There is certainly
no pleasure and very little elegance in
your rest, as you toss to and fro on the
summit of that animated mountain OF
ida a-rubber.
Year: 1876

A traveller in Cairo gives the follow
ing account of the delights of Camel
riding:


My camel was tied down in the sand
patiently awaiting his burden. You tie
IL camel to himself-that is, when he
has shut up his legs under him like
knife blades, you slip leathern brace
let over his knee and there YOU have
him, for it is impossible for him to open
his leg so long us this bracelet is around
it, binding the leg above the knee and
the shin-bone together like Il pair OF
tongs. OF course it is not easy to find
anything in the desert to which YOU
may tie your camel with security: Il
beneticeut Providence has therefore
made every camel his own hitchng-
post, likewise his own cistern and veg
ctable market and step -ladder-in fact
the camel is the most complete machine
on four legs that we have Il knowledge
of. His machinery is clumsy and needs
oiling. His. great joints show through
his sides, and his tail is the barest apol-
ogy and unworthy of notice. You would
think your camel went on stills if You
were to start off suddenly, sitting in :,
nest of luggage on that high back of
his. lOu would think he had his feet
in poultices, if yOu We're to look at the
soft, spongy things as they fall noise
lessly on the earth and spread under
his tottering weight. And that fearful
face of his, with its liquid and pathetic
eyes, and those deep cavities above
them, big enough to hold hens egg !;
his aquiline nose, with its narrow, slant
ing nostrils, that shut tight against the
sand storms and withering kamsin, and
give very scorntul expression to the
face; the whole face looks as if it were
just going to cry. The absurd under
lip is puckering and pouting to the most
charming extent and you are not at all
surprised when the beast finally bursts
into tears and cries long and loud like
Year: 1876

The following strange affair has oc-
Cured in this city, and we give it to our
readers as it was told to us. s. Ehrens-
weig, q well-to-do Hebrew, lives with his
wife and family at No. GOA Clinton street,
and some days ago his wife was blessed
with little girl. The birth of the child
took place about five o'clock in the even
ing, and few minutes after that hour a
beautiful grown white dove flew to the
window of the room in which the child
was born and landed on the window sill.
The dove took a position by which it
could look into the room and have a
view of the bed upon which the child
was lying. No notice was at first taken
of the feathery visitor, and it remained
in the same position it had taken all that
night. When morning dawned the
family again took notice of IL, and they
raised the window. The dove appeared
to understand that this was an Invita-
ton to enter the room and he flew in,
taking his position over the head of the
bed. It began to COO sweetly and at once
became attached to the child, whom it
seldom left.


The bird soon became attached to its
new home, used to fly about the rooms
of the house, and, as it showed no desire
to escape, it was not put in a cage. A
few days after Its arrival the child was
taken sick, and as each day came it got
worse. The dove appeared to notice this,
and as the child grew no better it be.
came despondent, and its cooling, which
was once pleasant to hear, turned to a
disagreeable sound. Last Friday the
child died, and the dove began to carry
on in very wild manner, screaming and
flying about the house madly. The peo-
pie attempted to drive him out, but he
would not 90, so yesterday they captured
him and placed him in covered basket
and carried him off out into the country.
-Bufdlo Leader.
Year: 1876

Charles Dudley Warner tells how it is
done. Mounting the camel Is not diff
ficult, but 1t has some sweet surprises for
the novice. The camel lies upon the
ground with all his legs shut up under
him like jackknife. You seat yourself
in the broad saddle and cross your legs
in front of the pommel. Before you are
ready something like private earth
quake begins under you. The camel
raises his hindquarters suddenly, and
throws you over upon his neck; and be-
fore you recover from that he straightens
up his knees, and gives you a jerk over
his tail; and while you are not at all
certain what has happened, he begins to
move off with that dislocated walk which
sets you into see-saw motion, waving
backwards and forward in the capacious
saddle. Not having hinged back mt
for this movement, you lash the beast
with your koorbash to make him change
his gait. He is nothing 10th to do it,
and at once starts into high trot, which
sends you up foot into the air at every
step, bobs you from side to side, drives
your back bone. into your brain,
and make castanets Of your teeth.
CAPITAL exercise. When you have
enough of it you pull up, and humbly
inquire what Is the heathen method OF
riding dromedary.
Year: 1876

The Memphis avalanche says: A
rather novel case was taken before
Esquire Miller the other day, being no
less than a prosecution. for malicious
kissing, designated on the warrant as a
breach of the peace. The party causing
the arrest was u negro named Charles
Glosson, and the malicious kisser was
Ella Daily, who it is hardly necessary to
state, is also colored. The prosecutor has
a wife, and he stated that Elias malice
did not consist in the mere act of kissing
him, which ordinarily he did not object
to, but in persisting in kissing him in
the presence of his wife, which had a
tendency to make things unpleasant at
home, and was expensive, when the
broken crockery and frying pans that
had to be replaced were taken into the
account. Esquire Miller, after patiently
hearing the case, suspended judgment
during the COED behavior of Ella, who
left the Office, remarkipg that she would
&c hit dat niger wild brick" for having
her arrested.
Year: 1876

IThe following (" Song Of Praise for Our Country
with aspirations Tor Its true and Enduring GioIy y,
written by Mr.. George CoolTidse. Is copied from q
he National Board Of Centennial Commissioner
who will decide upon Its official adoption as the M
lion Ode j


The ages, mighty God, are thine


The Nations Thine the ages bear
All people to Thy sway incline,


Thy sovereign providence declare.
Our hearts exult In thy great Name!


We bless Thee for our country free
For all its greatness and Its fame


Thy glory its refulgence be.
o, Sovereign ruler Of our hearts,


Our country guide the agesthrough-
Our country guard from baleful arts
Our country keep forever true.
OF all the fathers sacrifice


May children's children mindful be-
And on the wings OF morning rise


Forever anthems OF the free
Thou hast outspread the wide domain,
Responsive TO our toll and skill
The seed, the sun, the timely rain,


With bread our habitations fill.
u, praises, praises, gracious God


We bring Tor all our land receives
For herds, the verdure OF It's sod,


For verdure's crown, Its bursting sheaves !
D, give us, Parent OF our race,


Thy law OF brotherhood TO know
For all are beauties OF Thy grace;


For all, the crystal rivers flow;
Our cOuntry's every child enfold


In loving hearts fraternal all
Defenders all, may each behold


In brothers arms living wall.
Our Fathers sought Thee in the land,
Their faithful homage given TO Thee,
Thou gavest to their soul 8 demand
The Constitution Of the free.
Forever shall Thy work endure


For ever more our country bless
The truth their egis ever sure,


The Sons the fathers steps shall press.
In all the future, GOD OF Grace,


Thy favor to this people give,
Its rulers ever seek thy lace;


In snion all Its children live.
Give Legislators laws TO frame


The laws to execute, the wise
Be justice all judicial aim---


The wisdom be this peoples prize.
Eternal God The starry spheres
Thy everlasting dwelling are
Thou giyest man his feeting years,
Thou givest him this earthly star.
Among the nations Of the earth,


In this Thy holy christian age,
We bless Thee for our country's birth,
For all Its rolling years presage
y, may our country's glory light


The ages as a rising sun
A dayspring to all human sight,


Till earth and Thine own heaven be one
The human heart with Christian grace
The blessed reign Of Peace pursue,
Until the glory OK ia J faco


The nations OF the world shall view.
Year: 1876

BREvITY is lost art; but It is the
fault of time that writers or speakers
cannot be brief. There is too much TO
say, because too many things have hap
pened since the world started. In the
beginning Adam and Eve could talk AZ
concisely ~ the ten commandments.
There were no old Greek frauds to quote
from, no precedents, no remembrance on
the part of Adam of his mothers
cooking. With the first couple brevity
was the soul and body of wit, and there
were no words to waste, and nothing
but plain business TO do.
Year: 1876

A HOG with an artificial leg must be
a touching and picturesque object. The
cow-catcher at Dunleith teok off one of
the hinder limbs of Mr.. Smiths hog,
and his benevolent owner made wooden
succedaneum and strapped II to the
stump. The creature shows its graf
itude by accommodating fat with great
rapidity, the only drawback being
that, when killing and curing time
comes, one Of the hams will have no
handle,
Year: 1876

THE San Francisco courts have decided
that a man undertaking to pass to the
left with an umbrella in his hand is
liable for all damage inflicted. In the
case wherein the decision was rendered
the plaintiff lost an eye from sudden con-
tact with the ferule of the umbrella,
and the jury gave him $299,99. If it
had not been for slight cast in the eye
the owner would have recovered 5000.
Year: 1876

Peter Cooper, in replying to the letter
informing him Of his nomination to the
Presidency by the Greenback Convention,
says: "While most heartily thank the
convention for the great honor they have
conferred upon me, kindly permit me to
say that there is bare possibility, if wise
counsels prevail, that the sorely needed re-
lief from the blighting effects of past IN
wise legislation relative to finance, which
the people SO earnestly seek, may yet be
had through either the Republican or
Democratic party, both of them meeting
in national convention at an early day. 1t
is unnecessary for NE to assure you that
while ! have no aspiration for the position
of Chief Magistrate of this great republic,
/ will most cheerfully do what I can to
forward the interests Of my country. l
therefore accept your nomination condi.
tionally, expressing an earnest hope that
the Independent party may yet attain its
aims, while permitting me to step aside
and remain in that quiet which is most
congenial to my nature and my time Of
life. PETER COOPER"
Year: 1876

Gen. Sherman, in letter to the New
York Arcadtan, (Which nominated him
for President) says: Il recognize the
friendly motive of the communication, but
am SO hardened in my preference for my
own profession over all others, that moth
ing can shake my determination. I have
no fears on the subject but am sure
that our country will produce an ample
supply Of good candidates, and that the
people will choose from their number .
good President IS.
Year: 1876

Tie Springfield (Mass.) Union says: "If
Mr.. Blaine can hold his original vote Of
over 800 for one or two ballots, it is an in
evitable conclusion that he will have 500
votes on the third or fourth ballot. Can
he hold it? We answer, unhesitating,y,
yes. The 200 votes of the West, North
west, and Pacific coast are uncompromis-
ingly his. In the entire Northwest no
other candidate has been spoken of. He
is as sure of the two-thirds of the New
England delegation which he has as if he
had them all, as he will have at the end
His hold on his Southern vote is at least
as good as any other candidates. AS over
any one of the three other prominent can
didates, Blaine then is certain to gain on
every ballot after the first"
Year: 1876

WE would recommend the people
of Mineral Point and vicinity to
wait for the great sale, as goods
must and shall be sold. Positively
no goods sold to merchants, or to
any person for them. We sell goods
one yard with the privilege of the
whole piece.


FoY, ScASLAN & Co,


Consi pees.
Year: 1876

GREAT New York Bankrupt Sale
OF dry goods and ready made cloth
ing. $4,000 worth of the above
goods to be sold at public auction to
the people of Mineral Point and VI
cinity at their own prices. Those
goods are consigned TO us from the
great auction and bankrupt sales re-
Gently held in New, York City.
Those goods must and shall be sold
if they only bring 20cts on the dol
lar. Look out for hand-bills for par
ticulars.


FoY, SEAMAN q Co.,


Consignee's.
Year: 1876

The question of the water supply for the
metropolis is one of the gravest importance,
and it is beginning to attract the attention
of the public, as we'll as the consideration of
the Department of Public Works. We pub
lished yesterday the report of Mr.. Thomas
A. Emmett to the Chief Engineer, of the sur
veys and estimates for a new Croton aque-
duct Two routes are proposed in this
report the estimated cost of each being in
Nothing is more necessary to this city than
work of this kind, and Mr.. Emmet's esti-
mates afford an intelligent basis for consd-
ering not only the cost but the necessity of
the aqueduct. But full supply of water in
the reservoirs is not all that is needed. 1t is
even more necessary that the means of
water distribution in the metropolis, and
especially in the lower part of the city,
should be increased than that the supply itself
should be augmented 1t is plain that with
our present system of mains and pipes the
means of supplying every part of the city
with water are inadequate to the demand.
Especially is this true in some such emer-
gency as great nre or an increased demand
for manufacturing purposes. Even now
there is great scarcity in all that part of the
city known as down town. This necessity
must be met by new mains and, indeed, by
new system The first step toward the
realization of such a system is a survey and
report similar to that of Mr.. Emmett on the
proposed aqueducts Our people ought to
know just what is needed and what this
necessary work will cost. We trust the De-
partment of Public Works will at once set
about preparing this report from actual sur
afforded it will be comparatively easy to
secure the accomplishment of work the
necessity of which is recognized by all our
citizens.