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al once liis maid j a""v "■ i his congenial com . n»a,an(l he wraa as deeply attach vvas to him «« engagment to a handsome and \ mplished girl with idotof seven lli;'lioils was a shock to the good j untj but sho yielded gracefully to lhe nevilabic when the arrange ',"'"'■* or the marriage were being bussed however the voting ladv ■ j»°k into her head to make it a con d;tl0 of their union that the aunt 6lluui*l be excluded from their new llc w:l scarcely elegant enough to j ";•*" gilded saeons gambetta ex 1 how much hi ant.t had been j'-'1'*1 jiherie beauty was only the j01 obdurate gambetta took up hie l * ll:it and with a profound bow ( 101 said be ; we were not made touudetttau4each other ami the l8a*««g wa put off forever , to learn tlm i the messrs '. mil"iiius whose mining buitdinga y.'.",|('mi„yc,l hy lire a short time agtt ' ' ' wnrk re-building soon political salisbury examiner the convention system we not unfreqneiitiy hear men say they are opposed to conventions ns a means ol bring out candidates yet not a single one has any better method to offer what then can we afford in this struggle with the radical party for all that is worth contending for in government for all that is dear to freemen for liberty and honest administration of public affairs - can we afford to allow every one to run who thinks himself competent to serve the people and thereby secure the contin ued rule of that most odious and corrupt faction surely no thinking man will say lhat we should do this thing it means more than ihis it is a complete mh lender of principle a total abnndon mi nt of party oigaization if this is lo be tin policy if every one is to run who de sires then we had better have no more elections it would be more to the pur pose and more economical to say to the radicals we endorse your despotic and corrupt rule we will not oppose you con tinue to rule us with a rod of iron con tinue to rob the public treasury and plunder the laboring millions with high protective tariffs national bank swin dh s and internal revenue burdens l.ut the masses of the democratic citizen ate uot ready ogive these cowardly counsels it is only the trimmers the time-servers those who aie looking out to turn an lion j st (!) penny regardless of the public weal or the ruin thai may befall the conn - try who iie so industriously prating about the evils of the convention system there may bee\ils iu the convention system but tell us of oue that is not more or less defective the primary election system has been suggested well this has been tried in several cities and some states but it has fallen into disrepute besides ii is exj eusiveand liable to even greater abuses than the con vent ion system they have given it a thorough trial iu maryland ami here is what is said of it by the baltimore gazette one of the old est and ablest papers in that state the gazette says : there is not an intelligent democrat or republican iu this city v ho does not know that the primary elections of both pai ties are no longer the \ nice of the mas ses of the people in regard to thes lec tion of candidates in fact they have be come so hopi li ssly coi 1 apt and so shame fully d iiiuii ol the popular will that a large majority of the decent nun of all parties hare long since ceased to attend them now ts the gazette well says there must be political parties under our sys tem of representative government and par ties must have leaders there will also be party tickets nominated as long as we have popular elections and party ma chinery of some sort least objectionable must he adopted to select leaders as yet we have none better than the conven tion system but some say conventions are packed this is impossible if the peo ple who are interested will turn out and vote their wishes if they will uot do so then they should not complain but cheer fully acquiesce iu whatever the majority it the on vention does despotism vs democracy democratic government or a democ racy is a government by the people the word democracy comes from two greek terms : demos people and kratein to gov ern and taken together demokrutia lit erally means a government by lhe people ii form ol government in which the su preme power is lodged ill the hands ofthe people collectively there is no better system ever devised by man it is free mutual and retroactive it is strong aud powerful and equitable just in proportion as the people are en lightened ami virtuous educated aud pe.ie under it every voter is presumed to be capable of exercising the right of franchise wiihout prejudice and without dictation lie is expected to bury his in dividuality aud animosities ignore the behests of mere cliques aud factions and vote for the promotion of measures calcu lated to advance the interests of the com mon good with white men this idea is generally adopted and constitutes the in centive to their action willi the colored people as they are now manipulated hy a few disreputable leaders it is entirely the reverse in uu instance have they ever voted in any considerable numbers for measures promotive of the common weal ou the other hand they generally go to the polls at the dictation of self appointed leaders and cast their ballots for men most odious in the community aud for measures and principles in direct antagonism to the well known interests of i large majority of e people among whom they live fifteen years of free dom and twelve years of suffrage have not improved them they still stick to their initiative experience and follow the counsels and leadership of the most selfisli worthless and abandoned set of political hucksters that ever walk ed the plank or disgraced the pillory the system thus inaugurated is a thousand times worse than that enforced by the old feudals in mediaeval ages it is not de niocracx at all but despotism the despo j in of fih tion the concentrated force of ig '. noi.u-ce selfishness and the bitter spirit of race rivalry and vindictiveness and the crowning shame and infamy of till is that some men calling themselves demo crats lend their influence and support to . this vile travesty on popular rights against public and social interests sallstrarj rxamlner strange bed-fellows can ti man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned can lie lie down with swine and not become point ed with vermin ? there is almost as much certainty about these things ns there is eon riling the fact thai a leopard can not change his spots nor a negro his skin vet strange things happen every day fools make no note of time wise men are heedful and escape extremes vice j and duplicity are the same the world over ! sunn tilings are done for spite bnt rea son ilile pure men wash their hands of hypocrisy and follow not in the wake of scoundrels and thieves groveling na tures are always looking out for an ex cuse i'i ide and ignorance are incestuous they beget each other one of the pecu liartiis of radicalism like sin is that its god is the devil and its worship isa ritu al of blood nod murder it is a propa gandists of cruelty and death these proverbs are not taken from sol onion's writings but drawn from daily observations which the sharp and vigi lant will no doubt fully appreciate but to come to the point is it not pass ' ' ing strange thut politics make such strange lied-l'ellows . if consistency and truth were the controliiig motives of action j ; this fact would not bca mallei of wonder ' however thoughtlessness may have some thing to do w i li it but does nol hy nny means justify any wrong that may result we hear men deuouuee certain villiuuous acts of individuals perpetrated openly i with the mosl shameless hypocrisy being actuated by greed of place or love of pow ' ! er and still these same men will surren ' i der their political faith abandon their | party organization and go to the polls and cast their initio's tor those \\ hoin they j ! have deununced as h merits and known ; j to lie unworthy of the support of honest i j me democrats who have been robbed and insulted and oppressed by radical , i.n.tves w io g»t down on their a i fours ; j tiinl creep through the stench and filth of \ degro hovels back alleys and gutters so i liciting vo tes have done these things a ; ; thousand times would we prefer to vote ' 1 for the dirtiest and greasiest negro in till j i uiggeidoni than for a white man who can ; i so far fo-get what is due his race and col j or to say nothing of the base hypocrisy ' ' and inoi*l turpitude of his tuotivi s ir.ml's nomination djnigcrotis | george william curtis opinion of the third tt rm mori ment xi.w vol may ...- a telegram from st louis said that george william cur tis had written a letter to the anti-grant convention which had beeu printed for 1 1 the reason that ir said that while curtis j wtis opposed to g 1*1.11 1 lie was also oppos ; id toti bolt mr curtis wns asked about the letter here to-day he answered i did not write a letter but sent a telegram it was brief and i did not keep a copy ' but i eau write it out and he wrote the follow ing : henry hitchcock chttirnian committee on iuritatious j 1 iiin unable to come to st louis but i ! sympathize with all republicans who un j der the present circumstances oppose a ' bird-term nomination lsee no reason 1 in the condition of public a flairs for coin j milting the republican party uuiiecessa ' lily to the overthrow ofa sound and con ; seivalive tradition of the government j which has been formally approved by he j party in many states and has nevei been ; questioned or violated that is ali i sent added mr curtis | i never said i was opposed to a bolt but j i think the nomination of grjult would be j a ven daiiffipiou nomination for the re j publican patty to make the questions of boiling grant's nomination has not j i reached the lime for decision yet agreat many republicans have decided to bolt ; that nomination if inside it is gratifying to find that tho people generally ate for jarvis for governor but there is nothing strange about it after the record he has made as governor since vance went to the u s semite that be is a cool headed just and sagacious ruler even his enemies must admit lie has made a noble record as governor faith ful prompt and true wo have heretofore taken no part in the discussion of the merits of candidates for the governorship preferring rather to wait and rear names suggested tiiat we ] might the better choose our candidate ' but we are satisfied with jai vis and do not think that the people can possibly do belter than to elect him — examiner progress of tin boom — 1 grant would not be a cmi.di.lato anyway 2 he would i not be ti candidate unless there was a unan imous call for him and he was nominated by acclamation 3 he would try the first ballot but might then bu withdrawn 4 he was after it like any other mau 5 he is in for a bitter fight and will hang on till he is voted down aad be.iti-n ! this last i on the authority nf logan , in speaking of the labors of the press in the political campaigns the tarboro southerner says : " the chief burden of the fray is al ways borne by the press it makes many a big man out of very poor material it does more gratuitious work than any other calling lt is expected always to breath a high pure tone of patriotism and wheu all is done some fellow pokes around and subscribes like he was doing the editor a big personal favor " but brothers of the press our desti ny is in our own hands it is high and noble if we will make it so it is in our power to crush out the loathsome parsites thtit curse politics society every thing let us at all times in onr commenda tions and criticeisms be fair fearless independent candid conscientious it is for us correct evil as well as to uphold the good it is conceded even by many republicans that the president's late veto has re-acted on himself the democrats will now send the vetoed bill to the president again with out thc so-called political ridcrto wiiich he took exception but also without any ap propriation tor the marshals then thev will pass the section relating to thc appoint ment of deputy marshals as a separate bill a:ul send that to the president the ir_ru nicnt of his veto message will not apply to it then and he cannot refuse tin assent to a law proposed by the republican leader in the house without making himself still further ridiculous if he should do so the rouse will of course refuse any appropria tions for deputy marshals and the responsi bility will rest with the president — char lotte observer the nev york world calls upon the south to speak out on the presidential question the world says " it is not enough for the sixteen southern states which we hope o see voting together in november to point out what democratic aspirant they do not wish to see nomina ted they should with equal frankness and sine rity give northern business men sonic indication of the sort of can didates whom they would like to vote for it ant am settle resolctioxs pass ed jacksonville fa may .\— the repub lican congressional convention of the first district in this state lias boiii iti essi»n to day tit tallahassee without making any nomination for congress yesterday strong grant and settle resolutions were passed without opposition news items volcanic eulptios — city of mexico yi-.iy 7 the volcai o at aliuta continues in active eruption lorilla at the foot of the volcano is reported sinking the in habitants are panic stricken and abandoning their homes destructive fire ra pknnsylvama — bradford pa may 7 au oil well was set on lire yesterday near rev city by a brush fire rew city composed of about a hund red houscs wtis entirely destroyed it is estimated that three hundred derricks were burned besides several miles of forest the loss will reach 300,000 on sunday night of last week loud screaming were heard to issue from the m 1 church after services in the church had closed aud the building locked np the pastor who lives near bad the key and went over to examine when he open ed the door a small bundle of humanity ran out who it wa.s we have not been able to learn hut he had evidently gone to sleep under the soothing influence of bro t'arraway's sermon and when he awoke he found himself shut up in utter darkness a warning to those who are spiritually asleep — winston leader long sweep of the louisville and nashville l'n i i trays xasbvinc american the louisville and nashville railroad eastern is now the fourth in point of mile age on thc continent it owns and con trols 700 miles of railroad there are 8,163 utiles of road embraced in the gould system the pennsylvania roads condol ed by ooi scott have a mileage of 5,400 and the vanderbilt roads are 4,697 miles in length including the chicago nnd northwestern in which mr vanderbilt has an interest sufficiently large to enti tle him to a deciding voice in its manage ment some months ago the foster brothers three of them desperate characters of polk county were tu rested and placed in jail recently a party headed by a man named price went to the jail and releas ed them those engaged in the matter together with the prisoners escaped ex cept price who was captured by the sheriff and jailed anticipating thatthe fosters would in turn endcaa'orto relea-e price iu the same manner as they had been turned out the sheriff carefully prepared a trap door which would spriug the moment an attempt was made to en ter the jail last tuesday the fosters appeared the trap fell catching all three of them in the room below they made a desperate struggle and one or two shots were tired before the sheriff got them iu prisou but they are safe there now or | weie at last accounts — choi lotte obscr sscr j arhesten for forgeht st louls may 7,—gen b ___ morion president ofthe j national liberal league was arrested here | yesterday charged with having forged the name of ex-qov john m palmer of illi nois to a check toi so.oooon a hank iu jop ; hn mo about a year ngo c ; rev c ii wiley superintendent of the american bible society for xorth ; carolina says that for the year ending april 1st it transactions in hisdistrict footed up 9,000 that 26,000 families were visited and over 25,000 volumes of the scriptures were distributed the official letters of the superintendent for that period amounted to 1,596 ihakius an average of more than four per dav a little bov : tne infernal little trick sent by mail to the new york spanish consul central ) new york may 13 a dastardly at ; tempt was made yesterday by some par i ty or parties to kill spanish cobsnl-geu j cral hypolito dtriastc it appears that • when his letters were brought to his office ; among them was a package about 8 inches by 3 the consul attempted to open it i when it exploded and balls of fire shot ! out burning the carpet and the consul's j oat and hands but doing no other dam j age an examination showed that the j box contained gun powder large percus sion caps and what waa supposed to be j nitroglycerine and arranged to explode j when the top wtis taken off it was post j marked philadelphia and new york and j supposed to be a cuban plot to kill the ; spanish official i forest fires i i great destruction of property iu the oil region of pennsylvania bradford pa may 13 a fire again j started in the timber hinds at the head of i foster brook valley yesterday that j section is thickly studded with derricks j aud tanks the ,\ ind was blowing a gale and the fire swept over the ridge consii i ming everything i.i its path continuing ; the tire swept down tram hollow a pro | liiic portion ofthe oil fields burning rigs | small tanks ami buildings the villages of oil centre and middotighville with the exception of one or two houses were entirely destroyed at ien o'clock last night the 25,000-harrel tank of mitchell & jones was in liainc no villages be : ing located near the danger from that source was not great at baker's tres tle on the kendall & eldred railroad a 5,000 barrel tank also took lire the town of duke cut re a place of one thou sand inhabitants was threatened but was still sate at midnight state medical convention wilmington x c may 12 — there is a full attendance upon thc medical convention now in session here and the session thus far has been very pleasant the first impor tant meaaure yet bron_-ht before the body in a communication from thc edgecombe county medical society the substance of which is to punish by a fine of 50 or imprisonment for not less than ninety days any one found guilty of the misdemeanor of practicing medicine or surgery in this state contrary to the statute which in corporated the state medical society audestablished the state board of med ical examiners that statute makes it a misdemeanor for any one to prac tice medicine and surgery iu north carolina who has not a license from such board unless such person was engaged in practice prior to the pas sage of the law in question the edgecombe society also asks for the passage of a law creating a board to examine druggists iu the state and also for a law requiring that in all cases of death before burial the cer tificate ofa physician shall be furnish ed and when no physician attended thai the certificate of a justice of the peace shall be furnished the whole subject was referred to a special committee of five to report at tin's session the following are the committee : drs s s satehwell jno mcdonald v t en nett thos j moore and h m a i ford the nortiiern methodist cincinnati may 10 — at the ses sion ofthe methodist general confer ence to-day memorials were presented advocating the election ofa bishop for liberia to be located in that reptibic thc election of a colored bishop and the election ofa german bishop whose episcopal work should uot however be restricted to german churches a resolution approving the new hymnal of the methodist episcopal church and thanking thecomrittee revision wu adapted by atari a unanimous vote the members rising i to their feet instead of voting as usual ■ by uplifted hands bishops dogget and mctivre of the m e chureh south were intro | duccd as fraternal delegates and re iceived with the customary courtesy by the conference a resolution approving the conduct ' of mrs president haves in uphold ing temperance principles in the pros ! idential household was adopted by a , standing vote explosion of a powder mill ; — pottsville may 13 the mahon ; ing powder mill near ashland ex ploded this morning killing elwood ! ; benseman and injuring five others j 1 it is not known whether any more were killed or not as the mill is on [ fire and cannot be approached death of a tobacconist dan [ j ville va may 13 w w keen ia well known tobacco dealer planter land speculator died this morning ' ■!■ ill ■■ i _■■■ it f 1 mil i ■ r ■ b__isce_l___a_veous did any one ever hear ofa person j who because there is counterfeit mon j : ev in circulation would have nothing ! to do with money ? why then re ject christianity because there are bo i gus christians in circulation it is : verv strange that so trivial and unrea ; . sonable an excuse should be so often | j offered mr john m bailey of winning farm > 1 billerica mtiss informs ns that he is now i j april j4 feeding his milch cows ! j ewes and lambs exclusively npon corn fodder ensilaged in september last lli i iios were opened december 3 and the 1 preservation of the fodder ta as pei hit ' . now as then mr bailey is doing great . service to the agricultural world in demon j strati ng to american farmers the ad van t [ ages of this method of keeping fodder burglar alarm — that the great est ingenuity should be displayed in the invention of machinery to econo mize manual labor is at once natural i and creditable but we did not antici pate that the builder of the future would be called upon to fit a median - ical watch-dog to thc street door to i guard the house be may be required j to construct most persons are aware • . that by introducing a flame of gas into an open tube whether met al or glass the tube will sound ; in fact we might easily produce singing flames there are silent speaking tubes — that is to say tubes that un der ordinary circumstance do not ut ter a sound but if the door be open ed a draught is created then the glass vibrates and the most startling noises result a glass of this description has been contrived in whieh when a jeci of gas burn the sound of a dog barking is produced should the street door be opened li.u may the bouse be guarded by a mechanical watch dog spiritualistic exposure a trial took place at vienna re cently the result of which will not be received with much favor by those who put their trust in mediums a spiritualist professor named hansen who has acquired considerable noto riety at vienna and iv-th fbr some time past requested any one of the spectators to come on to the platform and undertook to mesmerise him against his will the challenge was accepted by a young man named fishcher and thc professor despite his artistic passes failed to produce any effect upon him fishcher began to banter the professor uml tell him he was only a viie impo-ter for the use of which expression he was sum moned before ihe district magistrate and finel one huiidml florins the professor however did not look upon this as a sufficient reparation for his injured honor and commenced a fresh suit in order to prove that be was reallv capable of doing what he pro fessed to do he called as a witness a young man who had always appeared an excellent medium on the platform and who it the bidding ofthe prof s sor was in the habit of falling into a trance and of holding communica tion with spirits from the other world but when he came to be cros>-exaa rncd br tbe obnnsel for the defend he confessed that he had only beeu shamming temporary death ami to the great amusement of the court proce ded to demonstrate how the trick was done the consequence was pro lessor hansen h>-t his suit how an arab lndy perfume herself sir wm raker in the tlojr ofthe tout or hut as it may chance to bo a small hole is ex cavate sufficiently large to contain a common champagne bottle ; a tire of charcoal or of imply glowing embers is made within tlie hole into which the woman about to be scented throws a handful of scented drugs she then takes of the cloth of tope which forms her dress and crouches naked over the fumes while she arranges her robe to fait as a mantle from her neck to the ground like a tent she now begins to perspire freely in the hot-air bath and the pores of the skin being thus opened and moist the volatile oil from the burning per fumes is immediately absorbed bv the time that the fire has expired the scenting process is completed aud both her persou and^her robe are redo lent with incense with whieli they are so thorongly impregnated that i have frequently smelt a party of wo men strongly at full a hundred yards distance when the wind has been blowing from their direction earthqi ke shocks sltbrfical lhe superficial character ol a nevada earthquake wtis noticed some months ago the eureka nevada i.t-nhr of april 17 relates another aud similar experience a miner at work in a mine on prospect mountain during tin lasl shake at secret canon says that while the tumor was plainly felt by his partners ou the surface he at a depth of eighty feet noticed noth ing unusual the same miner says that through an experience of fifteen years underground lie litis observed one peculiar phenomnon namely that loose btones and bits of earth in mines are sure to fall betweeu twelve and two o'clock at night about this time it seems that everything begins to stir and immediately after twelve although the mine litis been as still as the tomb be fore the fall of little particles uf rock and earth will be heard and if there is a cav ing piece of ground in the mine i i sure to give way it would be interesting to know if other miners have ever observed this phenom enon use of thb potato in france f:»rina i largely used lor culinary purposes the famed gravies sauces and soups of prance are largely indebted for their excelle ca to that 3 urce and its bread and pastrj equal ly -■>, while a great deal of tic so-called cognac imported into england and france is the product of the p tato throughout germany thc same uses arc common in poland the manufacture of spirits from tho potato is i most extensive trade stettin brandy well known ia commerce is large ly imported into england ud is bent from thence t many of 1 .- foreign possessions as the produce of the grape and is placed on many a table of england as the same while the lair ladies of our country perfume themselves with thc spirit of p itato under the designation eau d ( mai there are other uses which thi esculent is turned 1 1 abroad after extracting thc farina the pulp is manufactured into ornamental arti cles such as picture frames snuff boxes and several descriptions of toys and the water that runs from it in the process of manufac ture is m most valuable scourer for per fectly cleansing woolens md such articled it i the housewife's panacea ami if the washerwoman happens to have chilblains the becomes cure i by the operation antifk i m respir t-o-j the medical pre mid circular 1880 informs us that in a recent communication to the french academy professor fort raises again the question of prematuie intcrmeuts one fact lie mentions is that bi • d to restore *.. lifea child three yearsold by practicing artificial respiration n it r hoars commencing three hours aada half after apparent death another case wan communicated to him by dr fournol of billanooort who in jul 1 reanima ted a nearly diowm-d person after four hours of artificial respiration this per son had beeu in the water ten minutes and thc doctor arrived one hour after asphyxia professoi fort insists also n the utility of artificial respiration in cases of poisoning in order lo eliminate the poisons from the lungs and glands the length of time it is desirable to practice artificial respiration io any case of appar ent death from asphyxia professor fort ha not yet determined but his general conclusion is that i should be maintained perseveringly for several hour the modest roan who ;•* not a cow ard anti who has conscience and con victions to inspire his determination is the mau most to im der-endtd on for effective cnufl rt