Carolina Watchman

              the carolina watchman vol x third series salisbury n c april 24 1879 no 27 communications l'if the ' atchm i till blue laws tlie recent allusion id progress in the widchmau to the no-call blue j aw of connecticut set me to work t rxlni'iie from a file of papers an ar jc|e on that subject which i found in acopy ofthe philadelphia presbyteri an at tl»c very bottom of the file and wliich is appended for perusal and re flection 1 l»j»ve looked over it with a yievv of eviscerating all reference to uny ofthe denominations of christians mentioned ill it but as these seem to be handled with about equal justice or rather injustice ifyou please ; and as the unity and perspicuity of the ar ticle would be mueh impaired by so doing ; and as my object is without taking part in the contest in whieli progress is engaged to vindicate the truth of history in regard to the uws in question which not only the presbyterian but well informed men everywhere now regard as never hav ing had an existence as a code i b_.v concluded to submit the article a a whole believing that many may in thi way l me better informed notwithstanding they fail to become wiser 1 till hi i'l law of connecticut the blue laws of connecticut form a never failing subject ofilis ciission they havelieen hung in the face of the puritans whenever noth ing more convenient or more weigh ty was at hand the puritan has re torteil by the charge that whoever concocted what is called the blue laws was an unconscionable liar and the laws a series of unques tionable forgeries lhe episcopalians of new england have somehow thought it necessary that the i'uri tuns should be made responsible i'm tbe.-o laws and have the responsi bility so securely fastened that no amount of squirming should release them from the hateful burden oue of the episcopal journals intimated not long ago that it was iu the in terest of the episcopal churclitli.it the genuineness of the blue law bhould hu maintained and all attempts to prove them forgeries resisted aud hi all new england episcopacy is willing io hear all the evidence wliich nan he fished from anv depth even ifit he unclean which tends to the conclusion that there were blue law and that the sour old puri tans did pass them ami publish them an.l enforce them ' the old contest has just been re newed with all its old acrimony mr j hammond trumbull of hartford conn full of puritan blood and hearty in hi.s reverence and love for tlie puritan name has published a book in which the true blue laws ofconnectiout and new haven and the false blue laws forged by peter are contrasted and the lies and for g-rie of peters are exposed where upon a knight appears on the episco pal side and republishes rev sam uel peters general history of con necticut eve in which specimens from the laws as reported by dr peters are quoted and the puritans f the last century are fully shown to hue been a set of canting impracti cable bigoted dissenters the editor of this bonk is samuel jarvis mccor niiek and he has done his work with a feeling of great satisfaction that he t'nild pelt the old puritans with the tone furnished by dr peters hut lie was not wise if he counted on the silence of the men whose fathers he mso gladly impaling afresh the 0tmgrtgationaltai forgets the chief manufacturer of the slanders and pounces on the editor in the follow lug style after showing that the edi tor was guilty of suppressing peters w,jr<ls and making additions of his own to the text : l to sum up then the case stands thus of all old books scaroeish in the market probably this was the near wt in existence to absolute worthless ness with no conceivable reason for t-s reproduction except to use it base w to reawaken prejudices and resent ments which all honorable men ecu id tth forgotten ; while this reprint is w unfaithful in its reproduction and w miserable in its editing as to be oworthy any place on shelves which prner the sheaves ofthe past and heath contempt in every point of *** as a literary work lhe ruth seems lo be that there ere some of the old laws of con hfcticujt which were bluish that 8i attempted to regulate social cus to,u and parts of men's conduct in mch law can do very little good n,u which law docs not now attempt ail(j that upon these dr peters heaped a jarge eollectiou of lies and forgeries ™ nake the stories lie was telling od ones and add spice and attrao mvfinesb to the history of conjfecti cut wliich he was preparim asa i . in ll.it *.. h flip ' - ■-"•-*,. i /■.•-.'.'■•.. ,. for un wai jackson ilit.i x c april 15 7i editor watchman : having long enter tained a desire to \ i-.it the narrows of the vadkin and ll eai ling to see all that could be seen of interest by the way i left jackson hill early friday morning on foot-back and wended my weary way to stokes ferry near which the four counties davidson rowan slanlv and montgomery cornel at au imaginary stake in the middle of the romantic yad kiu this is said lo be the best ferry in all this region the waters at this point seem to have resolved themselves into '»« committee of the whole and have formed n most magnificent lake one or two miles long in order to take a shorf period of repose preparatory to i urn iug themselves loose in that rugged ravine which forms the boundary line between montg ery and manly counties ahout a mile he low the ferry is eusconced the beautiful little iu.i-e oi milledgeville where the yadkin falls manufacturing company are doing a very successful busines in the manufacture and ulc of v urns sheetings dour aud general merchandise we learn ihat nearly all the wheat purchased by the merchants of jackson hill is here made into hour and shipped thence by wagon transportation to liles ille,wades boro folk ton rockingham and other points suth from milledgeville i passed down the eastern or montgomery side of river lo the mouth of gar creek a con fluent of the yadkin at this point the yadkiu falls manufacturing company j have mills that turn out considerable quantities of flour meal and lumber of i various kinds about a mile below liar creek on the stanly side aie the cele brated pennington mills now owned and operated by james m red wine of albe marle mr red wine is running two sets of burs and one corn mill and does a good business iu ginning and packing colton which goes principally to the fac tories on deep i iver the lauds here are well adapted to he cultivation of corn wheat cotton and to bacco aud here would lie a very good j location for a cotton factory leaving kedwine's mills we next visited nash ville ahout it mile down the river where ; messrs xash aud kirks are doing a tren i eral milling business and turn out annu ally large quantities of flour meal lumber aud ginned cotton here we sa ; several cornfield nymphs'1 that compare very favorably with city belles here is kirk's mills post ofiice and near by is ! yadkin mineral springs institute a dourishiug mixed school presided over ! by that indefatigable educator prof 0 ('. hamilton assisted by miss henrietta j m mcallister the belle of milledgeville ! just below nashville may be seen a se ries of ledges or natural dams which precipitate the greater volume of water against the western or stanly side and j makes a splendid water power of easy access the eastern or montgomery side i.s a cliff of building slate the river here is very wide and shallow beaver dam creek so justly celebrated for its mines of gold flows into the yadkin at right an gles about a mile below nashville for a mile or more the bed of this stream is lower than the river which causes dead water from two to sixteen feet deep may not the bed of this lake or dead j water be rich in gold 1 could it not be worked by build ng series of coffer dam cutting a canal and bringing into requi j sition steam pumps from tho mouth of beaver dam to the islands about a ' mile distant the water flows down an easy grade here it is again intercepted by ledges and the main body of water i dashes along the stanly side forming the , best water power i haveyet-seeu thisisou the property of xiel mckay of sanford we are now at the head of the narrows the river here is six or eight hundred yards wide aud gradually contracts as it dashes along its precipitous course until it reaches a point known as the big pot where it is ouly sixty feet wide and of unknown depth the narrows pre sent many points of interest we will only name the big pot the sliding rock the ballance rock the stair-steps and hollow bucks the big pot is a hole iu the hard rock some live feet in diameter and eighteen or twenty feet deep worn out by the scouring of sand gravel and larger stones near the big pot is a number of smaller ones from one to six feet ill depth the rock in which these pots are formed presents very much the appearance of a huge irregular honey comb the big pot constituting the * queen's chamber the sliding rock has au inclination of about fifty degrees and in its face is worn a channel much resembling the slide of au otter down whicll many a country swain has tukeu a slide we will stop at the big pot and in our next will give you a description of our trip to the falls nemo gov hampton's arrival in wash ington created quite a stir among his many friends his welcome in the senate could not have been warmer or more general says a dispatch spe cial anotkei war cloud j exol ' " sl .-..;*!. . '. . *.'. ■* -..-,. to rrs fears of t t oil i t new vork tribune a dispatch irom cairo states that busi ness is completely suspended and is likely to remain so until the decision if eugland and france is known the government is collecting money through out the provinces using every means of compulsion an immediate levy of 10 000 soldiers has been ordered a special envoy has been sent by the khedive to constantinople he took with him a huge sum of money for the sultan the khedive's opposition tu england and france appears to have been well timed la-t month these nations de manded that the two european members nf his cabinet should have conjointly an absolute veto on nil measures they might deem advisable they also stipulated ihat the khedive was not under any cir cumstances to take part in the delibera tions of ihe council of ministers the khedive meekly accepted these terms hui in less than a mouth he has dismissed iln european ministers and is now busi ly engaged in collecting taxes and en rolling troops england and france are of course dissatisfied hut on considera tion they bud that they are practically powerless the sultan is ready to oblige england so far as to depose the khedive bul it is supposed that the latter would resist this decree and probably declare himself independent unless therefore england and fiance have recourse to force the khedive may act as he sees fit • and as neither nation i.s disposed to speak first war seems out ofthe question the khedive is now in his 49th year and there are reasons to believe that he has for some time entertained the ambi tion of throwing aside toa certain extent his subserviency to the sultan and be comiug an independent monarch he lias an army at his disposal consisting of . 4 regiments of infantry numbering 12,000 men ; a buttallion of chasseurs 1,000 strong ; 3,500 cavalry ; an excellent artil lery service with 1,500 men and 2 battal ions of engineers whieh consist of 1,500 rank and file beside these there are 2 regiments of black troops from soudan 10 mm strong his navy consists of 7 ships of the line 5 frigates 9 corvettes 7 brigs 13 gnu boats and 27 wooden trans port ships the financial scheme proposed by the khedive and which is the bone of con tention between himself and the french and english bondholders is based on the belief that without at all increasing the taxes ofthe agricultural cu.sses iu egypt and by compelling the foreign residents of egypt now exempt from taxation to bear their due proportion of the public burdens a sum sufficient to pay the in terest upon the bonded debt and provide a sinking fund which in twenty years would extinguish the debt can easily be raised the conflict of opinion in polit ical and financial circles here respecting this matter is becoming more acute • and although the bondholders have thus far to a great extent obtained the public ear the other side of the question has its ad vocates who will probably make them selves heard in parliament on its re-as sembling after the easter recess a bad day for judge russell charlotte observer for the first time since the beginning of the session mr russell representing the third district of north carolina ro-e in his place in the house of represent atives last tuesday and made a few scattering remarks it was mr russell's first experience in the arena of national polities and we grieve to relate that he was sat down upon summarily and viv olently the question was upon the motion of mr bragg democrat of wis consin to insert iu the legislative exec utive and judicial appropriation bill a clause repealing the southern claims commission mr bragg spoke to his motion and must have said disagreeable things about the class of men who are most given to the presentation of these southern claims to congress at all events the wisconsin member raised the ire of the north carolina member who spoke as follows according to the wash ington republican's report : mr russell x c protested that the proposition offered by the gentleman from wisconsin mr bragg was not only an injury but an insult to the union men of the soutli and that if there was auy class of men iu tha country who deserved the consideration of the government it was the union men of the southern states history might be searched in vain for an instance of men having suffered and endured for opinion's sake so much as they had done even in the huguenots of france the dissenters of scotland the puritans of eugland there was no paral lel for their endurance they had suf fered for a principle he deuounced the assertion that there had beeu uo union men iu the south it had become quite respectable on this floor to cast slurs at the union men of the south that had got to be the high-toned thing ; but the insinuation was a slander on men who were the equals of the gntleman from wisconsin or of any other gentleman on th tloor applause on the kepublican * ■ ; 1 ;.. new york sun however gives a m icb more entertaining sketch than this in fact gives a very entertaining sketch iuleed so much so that we copy|from the sun's washington letter as follows : daniel l litisse.l a new republican ; member from north carolina made an amusing speech he tucked up his coat sleeves brandished a pair of brawny fists and acted as though he wanted to fight any man who insinuated that there were not plenty of loyal union men iu the war he talked about the glorious uniou and the boys iu blue gen bragg then said that he wanted the southern claims commission abolished to preveut the government from paying debts that it had no business to pay aud io prevent the republicans from n&iuj the cry of rebel claims as a prelude to interesting campaign documents he called upon the republicans to come to ' the front and face the music tbey bad secreted themselves behind the cloak of loyalty long enough if the gentleman from north carolina mr russell was loyal be would like to know when rus sell had served in the confederate army wasa member of the confederate legis lature and after the war ended had be come a republican ile had beeu elected a judge by tbe republicans of n c not withstanding he bad never been grad uated from a law office this attack ujiou russell every word of wliich is true was greeted with roars of applause an account of the debate is also tele graphed from washington to the rich mond dispatch as this is substantially however the same as the above we copy only a sentence or two from it : mr russell republican of north car olina went into a highfaluten defence of the union men of the south when gen ward ol ohio asked him if he proposed to pay for the property which he as a confederate soldier helped to destroy and he replied yes i was iu tbe con federate army and i have no apology to make for it either the republicans who had been applauding seemed to have suddenly swallowed something sour tbe whole tenor of the above dis patches goes to show that the older mem bers took an unfair advantage of mr russell's youth and indescretiou and got him down and stuck their lingers in bis eyes this was not only very bad on mr russell but bis awkward position mortifies his north carolina admirers ; and even this is not the worst of it but iu tbe beat of tbe debate and being pressed closely he reiterated his old con federate sentiments thereby shocking and scandalizing his brother republicans on the floor in every point of view it was a most unfortunate day for mr russell if to quote the irishman he can never open his mouth without putting bis foot iu it he had best come home and doctor his horses and mules all of wliich are down with the epizootic the army ix the senate speeches by blain'e withers and wallace the greenbackers defrauded of their morn ing uour in the mouse — a licsolution against general legislation de feated washington april 14 senate — the senate after the usual morning business resumed the consideration of the army appropriation bill and blaine proceeded to address the senate he said tbe democrats instead of striking out the eight words offensive to them viz or to keep the peace at the polls repealed the whole section of which those words were a part aud theu re enacted it thinking to get credit for originating it ; but this law was passed in time of war and signed by lincoln when he bad a million men under his control and could have controlled elec tions without any such aid the purpose of tbe law was to insure fairness in the elections and the democrats now bear wituess to its fitness for that purpose by trying to re-enact it he derided the idea of military interference and said there were ouly 2,7_>7 soldiers east of omaha and only 1,155 in the southern states about 70 to every million people the democratic cry of military despo tism would injure the standing ofthe country abroad but a european would laugh at it if he knew there was only one soldier to every seven hundred square miles of territory in tbe south this was not tbe real issue the ulterior purpose of the other side was to preveut the gen eral government from being represented by its civil officers at elections iu which it was specially interested and over which the constitution gives it full cou trol he would not profess to know what the president would do when these bills came to him but it seemed to him that the dead heroes of the union would rise from their graves if he should consent to be intimidated and outraged in his pro per constitutional power by threats like these the appropriate respouse from his lips would be is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing withers of virginia said blaine's re marks would not produce much effect ou either tbe senate or tbe country lt was not a question to be decided whether there are soldriers enough to dominate control elections but whether under the operations of existing laws it was not possible for the executive to distrib ute aud use the soldiery so as to destroy the freedom of elections it was not to confront a present dauger but to remove from the preseut or any future president the temptatiou the existiug law would offer to destroy the liberties of the coun try and erect ou the ruins of ths repnb lie a despotism supported by arms he argued that the presence of troops at the polls was incompatible with free govern ment aud this was the principle ou whieh the pending bill was based the dem ocratsdidnot propose to shape their course as to what may or may not be the posi tion ofthe president he should not at tempt to take away a particle of the spi nal marrow attempted to be given to the president by the senator from maine he would not interfere with any agency to infuse strength to his spinal cord the debate was closed by wallace of pennsylvania who declared tlmt the single issue in this bill is shall the executive longer possess the power to place troops at the polls tlieir presence is a menace upon the right of free elections this right is fixed and certaiu it comes to us from england aud is part of our sys tem of laws its protection rests with the states and the federal government has nothing to do with it after an argument of considerable length the senators closed by saying that this legislation places a check on the military power in the interest of the peo ple we must restore the original prin ciples from which tour years of war have diverted the government ; bring lhe mili tary to strict subordination to the civil power permit a free system of laws to be based upon free ballot and expunge a standing menace upon tree institutions democratic policy alexander h stephens still lives he thus paragraphs the democratic policy in a resolution submitted by him to the democratic caucus : resolved that the aims and objects ofthe democracy oftlie united states as far as we chosen by them as mem hers of the present house of representatives are entitled to be considered as the true exponents of those aims and objects are directed with a siugleness of purpose to the restoration of constitutional liberty and with it the restoration of peace harmony and prosperity throughout the length and breath of the land they abjure the renewal of sectional strife they accept all the legitimate results of the lamented war they are utterly op posed to the revival in this country or any part thereof of african slavery or any otlier kind of slavery or iu voluntary servitude except as a punishment for crime they stand pledged to maintain the union oftlie states under the consti tution with a'l its existing amendments as they shall be expounded by the su preme court of the united states they are against all unconstitutional or revo lutionary methods they are for law and order and the protection of life lib erty and property without redress of all grievances they look alone to the peace ful instrumentality of the constitution first the law-making power second the law-expounding power third the law executing power and finally the ulti mate sovereign power of the ballot-box they are lor a tree ballot as well as for a fair and just count while they are opposed to a large standing army as were the trainers of the constitution yet they are for keeping the army sulli ciently large to repel invasion defend our extensive frontier as well as all neces sary interior forts and garrisons and so enable the president to put down domes tic violence or insurrection in any of tin states and in aid of civil officers as a posse comitat its iu the execution oi legal process iu pursuance ofthe constitution and as provided in the acts ot congress of 1795 and 1807 but they are utterly opposed to the use of the military forces of the united states in controlling or in any way interfering with the freedom of elections they are for the niaintain ance of the public credit inviolate but are opposed to the increase of the bonded debt unless the exigencies of war should render it necessary thev are for retrenchment of expenditures lessening the burden of taxation and a thorough re form iu the present unequal aad iinjtisl method of raising revenue thev are for placing the coinage of gold and silver upon the same footing without restric tion or limitation upon the amount of either they are for reviving the languish ing aud perishing industries of the coun try by an increase of the volume of cur rency founded on a sound basissufficieut to meet the urgent demands of trade iu every department of labor and business the exodus from egypt the stalwarts have seized the migia tion of two thousand negroes to kansas as at once the evidence ou a great scale of race proscription at the south and tin means ot transferring population vote aud congressional represen tat ion en iuass-.e from democratic to republican states as affording another breath of life to tiie old issues it is welcomed with great en thusiasm and to magnify its political effect both chandlers gorhaiu hamlin and wiiidon organize a national emi gration aid society boh ingersoll give one thousand dollars and half his income for tive years for the refugees and zach chandler wants one hundred of them ou his firm iu michigan the dallas aud wichita railroad employs a national fanners association at bosto to circu late iudamatory documents among iiu negroes of the south dwelling 11(1011 i.i private and political despotism of their present condition and presenting as an alternative a settlement on the company's lands in texas where they have twelve thousaud eight hundred acres for side at oue dollar and a half per acre t..e ulti mate purpose is to form a negro state in that viciuity au organ izat ion has also just been formed in south carolina to help ou the same scheme as a movement of the labor market and a national cure tor social and polit ical discomfort we welcome the migra tion of the blacks but we should regret to see any outside stimulus introduced for political ends the ability and capacity to migrate are signs that tbe negroes have in tlieir own bauds the leuiedv for wrongs which no law can reach we are glad to see ihem use tbat remedy and teach the south that barrenness neglected held and desolatiou are tbe natural results of social warfare upon tbe laboring classes on the other band while the republican party may derive considerable temporary streugtb from the movement the identi fication ofthe party with it may ultimate ly result very much as in the case ol the freedmen1 saviugs bank emigrants are notoriously opeu to disappointment in their new found homes if they were taken into states where there is already a surplus of labor tlie movement would also react against the political partv which undertook it aa gen butler suggests - springfield republican meetikg or the board of aguicllt ure the board met pursuant to ad journment yesterday morning in the governor's office ami was in session all day lung the reports of the sub-depart iiients were again considered and approv ed the work has heen must satisfactorily carried on hy tlie commissioner the slate chemist ami fish commissioner the duties of state geologist were defined and duly incorporated in the by-laws it was decided that the work ot the fish commission was important and that it be continued the time of the board was | mainly occupied in shaping its by-laws . to conform to the amendments of the i general assembly affecting the depart ment of agriculture lt was an import ant meeting aud occupied the undivided ; time of iia board for two days raleigh j news .__>- the world's fair at new york the project of a world's lair iu new york in 1663 is already so far advanced that there is little doubt the exhibition will be a credit to that city and the na tion the national board of trade has forwarded invitations to the governors and mayors throughout the country in j viting them to send commissioners to a : great national convention to be held on j the 17 of june next it is evident that the fullest co-operation ofall sections ot the country is to be sought to make the display so far as the united states is concerned a magnificent one that a stimulus is given to industry by these grand international exhibitions is unde i niable and it is said philadelphia will j not be backward in lending eucourage j ment to this enterprise — raleigh news a boy's inclination the history of tbe humblest liu ; man life is a tale of marvels is the opening sentence and a true one ofa book whieh i found time to glance at j the life of a scotch naturalist i thomas edwards by samuel smiles i this man was born a naturalist when only four month old he leaped from ins mother's arms in an effort tu catch some hies which were buzzing in the window as soon as he began to walk besought the companionship ofall liv ing animals cats and dogs and chick ens and ducks and pigs and birds and fish rats and mice tadpoles bee i ies snails frogs and all other ani mals and birds aud insects at four years of age he ran away almost every day and roamed about the fields and woods in search of insects and birds and birds'-uests sent to school he ! played truant for the same purpose at work in a factory l\,r his parents were poor all his spare time wa spent in hunting and carrying home all sorts ol anim • n attires even tn a snake and on - me ■ ■ ea_.i .. a '.*. a.-p's nest which he secured by stripping off his shirt and enveloping nest and wasps in it after one uf the wasps had stung iiiui painfully whippings and con finement at home and at school bad no effect on him ; go he would with or without food ,'» it in all respects except this i.e was a senseible lad — his father made a .*• loe-makerof him and he cou li uued to follow his trade it tlie same time so studying natural ' m i '. as l - be deemed woriny ofthe i nigii h ii'*t of ih'iiig ect d au associ i ate ol me i_-.'iii_cui io icty ile made many friends with ail is of crea tures among other carrying two rats about with in ii iu hia pockets thev knowing aud following him as dogs would i he following incident is af fecting l'mii had run away and .— i » • - 1 j l lue tvuoie iia in the woods i.ctiir.niig u ..._!. .*• lut.ier scolded i.l i sc . l*i - ■_. ami u»ieivd li un i to i-ttl veh uu.jgr a v it ut uis sup per v nen ine • ■_.•. - veie out aud a.i thought t*i be a ned a ngiil hand removed uie clothes i rum over loius head and pui something into in baud lie fouud it to be a tug d ...» o bread and butter lt wa so like the kiud mothei's heart and hand to do tlii and this is ouly the beginning ofa life devoted to cobbling and science i ine history ol the humblest human life i a tale of marvels — ■"//.' in raleigh obs ever ggf never use a lady name in an improper place at an improper time nriii mixed company never make as rtions aboui ber you think untrue or allusions that you feel she herself would biusii to hear when you meet with men woo do not scruple to make -.. ___> use of a woman's name iu a reckless and unprincipled manner shun them for they are tlie worst members ofthe coram unity — men lost to everv sense of honor every feeling of humanity many a good and worthy woman's character lias bee ruined and her heart broken by a lie manufactured by some villain and repeated where it should not have been and in the pres ence of those whose little judgment could not deter them from circulating the foul and damning report a slan der is soon propagated and the small est thing derogatory to a woman's character will fly on the wings of the wind and magnify as it circulates until its monstrous weight crushes the poor unconscious victim respect the name of woman for your mother aud sisters ars women and as you would have their lives unembittered by the slanderer's tongue heed the ill that your own words may bring upon tha mother the sister or the wife of some fellow creature dying durkles thk kansas fever sets i.v destitute darkies in kansas — seventeen hundred in wyandotte — aid is ask ed from the united states sick helpless and dying a dispatch from kansas city states that a large number of the colored refugees from the southern states were brought up the river and land ed from the steamboat at wyandotte they are in a most destitute condi tion during the past few days it has been impossible for them to procure any place of abode the churches and public halls are filled the ex posure to whieh these homeless immi grants are subjected is great many are in a helpless condition — sick from exposure worn out and hungry and many arc dying mr shelly the mayor of kansas city has telegraphed the secretary of war asking for aid from the united states government that an order may be sent to issue rations to these starving darkies from fort leaven worth kansas the secretary replied that lie had no authority to issue such an order — lie advised that applica tion be made to congress now in ses sion ; that it was exclusively a mat ter for the jurisdiction of congress a com mittee on the part ofthe citi zens of wyandotte has been formed to look after the sufferers and have issued a call to the citizens ofthe united states for immediate aid to re lieve their terrible suffering the committee further state that there are 1700 entirely destitute already in ths city and thousands more in the same condition are on the way and begging for immediate assistance all contri butions should be addressed to north rup ct sons bankers treasurers of the executive committee stenography — in stenography it is generally conceded that ameri cans take the lead the congress ional reporters at washington are the best that write the english language sonic of them have held their posi tions for over twenty years many exciting scenes in congress have been photographed as it were by those men it i.s i ntei est ing to watch one • d them at work with his arm exten ded and only his fingers resting on the paper he actually writes from the shoulder cool in the heat of debate he seems hardly ever to look at the paper before him his eye wanders about the vast auditorium closely watching every man's movements while lie snatches the words as fast as thev flow from the speaker's lip occasionally stopping to pick up an una iswered interruption and always catching up again with ease con stantly traveling with current of de :.:'*. ie cares nothing for storms or rapids for he knows that he can safe ly guide his little vessel through them ill iii i-e nothing but let it uol hi _ i fur a moment that - short hand can do this expert stenographers have al ways been and probably always will be extremely rare after many days — the jurors who served the inferior court last week got cash for their-er vices imme diately after their tickets were issued it seemed to do our democratic sher iff good to pay the jurors it was something unknown to jurymen to get cash for their tiekets when the county was under radical rule this is another benefit derived from dern ocratic government — oxford torch liqht