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' ■ in trr 1 u il ';-. i stove ; ; • 1 aper than .' iss0 i ' .'•"'■' an buy mool nnd * * . • n 1(.n els |!:"'''- bom ; ; • ■ in thisi ity he elipup . -..,.•, will repair k-st ■. old stills on ot ir <-. n'ol tf frr ip you wish j^m yourwaiches and *»---.'. jl~j i locks sewing machines,&e ■ nooil clieitp and n*sponsible u r l '''''"" leave ill'r ••''"' mcrnwi ki iv itcudlenian salisbury n c li brown cheap chattel mortgage y.,r i lai !- for sab here poetry the mother's prayer hear me 0 father ere i rest this night upon my bed : i.<t thy blest spirit in the heart of my dear son be shed forgive him bhould he wayward seem for sake of thy lt-nr son ; without th blood of calvary arc all ol us undone i.e id him as thou canst bad the faltering steps of youth through tempting and entanglingsrtares j to path of heavenly truth i watch o'er him with thy loving care i wherever he may be : thou knowest theycarningsoftny heart — j i leave it sill with thee rcqiiirnu-iits john t wiiittier . . i we live by faith but faith is not the slave of text and legeud reasou's voice ami god's nature's and duty's never are at odds 1 what asks om father of ids children save ; justice and mercy and humility a reasonable service of good deeds pure living tenderness to human needs reverence and trust ami prayer for light to see ths master's footprints in onr daily ways no knotted scourge or sacrificial knife ' rut tin calm beauty of an ordered life j whose very breathing is uii worfled praise ( a life that stands as all true lives have stssod ; fast rooted in the faith that god is good .' i ••() may 1 join the choir invisible gkorgr ki.mot < i may i join t lie choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better bv their presence live iu pulses stirred to generosity in ibs-.'s of daring rectitude iu scorn for miserable aims that i-ml with self in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars and wiih their wild persistence urge1 man's search to vaster issues so to live in heaven : to make undying music in he world lb entiling si autcoiis order tha controls j with growing way he growing life of man sh we inherit that sweet parity for which wc struggled failed and ago i rr ll i with widening retrospect that bred ties ' pair ih hellions flesh that would not be sub dued a vicious parent shaming still its child i poor anxious penitence is quick dissolved its discords quenched hy melting har monies die in the large ami charitable air and all our r irer bet ts-r t ruer self that sobbed religiously in yearning song that watched to ease the heathen ofthe world laboriously racing what must be and what may yet be better saw within a worthier image for the sanctuary ansl shaped it forth before the multitude divinely human raising worship so to higher reverence more mixed with love - that better self shall live till human time shall fold its eye-lids and the human sky i.e gathered like a ss-rssll within the tomb unread forever this is life to come wbieli martyred men have made more glorious fur us who strive to follow may i reach that pui'esl lieaueu be to other souls the cup of streugt.li in some great agony enkindle generous ardor feed pure love i.eget ills smiles that have uo cruelly — ue the sweet presence of a good diffused and in diffusion ever more intense so shall 1 join llm choir invisible whose music is the gladness of the world l.-'.i washington letter dispatch of business in conyress senator edmunds after the /<»- enterprising journalists — unterrifietl agitators of ii oman's rights from oar regular correspondent washington i c jan -__-,'< i . 1331 this has been a comparatively busy ws-ek in both houses ssf the national con gress and while it is believed an extra session cannot be avoided its work will lis considerably lightened if cvugress shall continue at this rate during the few re maining days of the session the house passe i tin three per cent rcfundiug bill and the navy appropriation bill the senate passed i brace of appropiiatioii bills awarded 00,00f to ben holliday who claimed half a million settled the ki hogg case : ma da hasty adverse dispo sal of senator mcdonald's resolution tss appoint a regular committee to console the rights of woman ; debated the indian severalty bill ; ami ill executive session appointed a committee to investigate 1 1 .<• manner iu which the chinese treaty was inasls public since the invention of wires and cables the enterprise of the pies has 1 tilt the old fashioned diploma tist in the lurch and now when our grave reverend and somewhat surperauuated ! house of lords takes up for discussion in m ■( is cy this long longed for treaty they ate shocked to know thai it has been published in the papers alas what an affront to all the venerable traditions of diplomacy senator edmunds of ver mont was decidedly angry and he moved that a committee l>e appointed to inves j tigate the means by which the treaty be ' came public there were only four cor \ respondents who obtained copies of the documents and it i.s fair to presume that they did not steal what conlsl be obtained for the asking thereof as also each of the correspondents aforesaid arc gentle men it is hardly probable that they will reveal the sources from which they deriv ed their information even thongh as j senator edmunds suggested to-day they j should be locked up between four cold walls for three six or nine months or ; nine years until they told what they i have no business to tell the last occa ! sion on which the senate undertook to uud out who gave away its secret pro ' feedings was when the new york tribune ■ published the washington treaty the ' investigation was as might have lieen j expected fruitless if the committee on ,' privileges and elections has any disposi i tion to inquire into ancient history it \ might summon senator edmunds antl ask ! him if bis copy of ihe washington treaty issue any marks of having passed through the telegraph oflice between the time that lie first placed it on his desk at home and looked at it again several weeks later the iiiitcrrifled agitators in favor of woman's enfranchisement mrs stanton misses anthony cousins and others have been holding another convention in lincoln hall and on yesterday they sat in the senate gallery and saw disaster overwhelm the little resolution ofierred by the freshly married senator mcdonald in their favor no one can listen to miss j anthony or mrs stanton without being j impressed with the ability and capability of these ladies but the efforts of the younger ansl fresher champions are not i edifying they talk too much with their mouths ('. ,\. paris letter regular correspondence paris frame jan i ith 1331 the first lot of engineers and other gentlemen forty eight in all connected with tin cutting of the inter-ocean canal ; left paris last evening en route for pan ! ania m de lesseps accompanied by i several friends look leave of he travel ers at the st legarve station all seem ' ed in a state of the greatest enthusiasm and the train left timid repeated cries of j vive la france '"' vive m de les-j sepsp the party left st xn/.aiie this morning in the lafayette ihe vessel i which took out the lirst explorers ansl i afterwards m sie lesseps with lbs tech \ uical committee m louis blanc was taken ill after ijianqui's funeral yesterday and bis bouse | was to-day beseiged by eager inquirers ' after his health although lie was still i seriously indisposed this morning the accounts arc much more favorable to i night m i'sttil de cassagnac having yester ' day broken lance on behalf of cipriani the italian who has just been expelled from france for taking pait in political demonstrations the intransigeant indig nantly declares to-day that it sloes nsit want any iiounpnrtial allies it sees iu l m de cassagnac the incarnation of its haded iu the past and begs him henceforth to count himself among its enemies in the present opportunism and imperialism are ono and the satins thing ss monsieur de cassagnac gam betta is holding out his arms to receive vou.1 m paul dc cassagnac thanks m henri itochefort's journal for its disinter ested advice but asks its permission to wait a little before he throws himself into m jfamhetta's arms in an amusingly cynical article lie taunts the extreme radicals with being always the lead mica ssf the republican party and predicts that if ever they get iu to office they will grow fat and lazy like the rest among yssu the lean alone have principles and that is the very reason why they are ban the fatter they grow the taster do their principles evaporate m ib cassagnac admits that lie voted for the plenary am nesty and defended m uochefort against m uambetta and m cipriani against m aud rieti x but calmly asks the tntransi gcant if it is quite sure that sympathy was bis nir five vou are well aware that if 1 bail bail a word to say it is you the cheifs that i should have shot down in stead of the tour devils who now sleep under tbe turf of tbe paris squares ami ami whom you hail led on l.y means o tbe influence that education or talleutbe stows no you know well that there never could be any sympathy between us and if we ever follow you it is as the sportsman follows the gains m t cas sagnae is frank and explains why i.e helped lo procure the return ofthe com munists we wanted ..■.,.; ansl we keep you i thought of you when 1 voted for the return to paris i wished tsi see you one day take the chamber of deputies bv storm ami i hops that you will do so yet this article is evidently intended to ex asperate the iiitransigeants at a meeting held yesterday at the flysie m jules roche held forth as the champion ofthe revolution against re ligion lie advocated the separatism of church ami slate the suppression of the4 stipends allowed to the clergy and de clared that it would be very pleasant lor the city of paris to receive 5,000,000 annti l'y a sum that could he derived from the religious edifices devoted to the 1 catholic faith which was not recognized by the people m ks.che however pat ! rouizingly declared that he warned one to prevent people from believing in or dreaming god jupiter or mahomet _ — — __■ _■_■_______—» ! political troni the wilmington stak certain massachusetts republicans are i very desirous of honoring rutherford 15 j hayes who has been permitted to sign him ' self iwr nearly four years president of the united states to do this they propose to ; procure a portrait of rutheifrausl and put it in the memorial hall of harvard univer sity the committee having the matter in charge were green enough to write to chas a dana editor ofthe n york sun ask ing for si subscription the reply to the re quest is just what might have been antici pated by any one save a boston committee composed of some of the supposed literati mr dana will nsit join in the subscription he will aid in no way in honoring hayes wi must copy a part of his letter he writes : de was not chosen president he was defeated in the election • ansl then a band of conspirators mr ilayes himself conspir ing sinsl conniving with them setting aside the constitution and the law and making use of forgery perjury and false counting secured for him possession ofthe presidency to which another man had been elected and when he had got possession of it his insist sedulous care was to repay with ofliees and emoluments those authors managers and agents of ths conspiracy to whom he had been chiefly indebted for its infamous ! success how great an insult you are proposing to lie t ivo illustrious presidents of the name of adams is made manifest by the following words from the son of the one ansl the grand son of t he other : i think mr hayes was elected by a fraud and i do not mean to have it said that at the next election i had forgotten it i do uot say that mr ilayes committed the fraud but it was committed by his party i have no enmity to mr hayes but after the fraud by which he became president i could not vote for any person put up for president dii the republican side who did not disavow the fraud committed i would not support any member of that party who hail any sort of mixture with that fraud i feel that the counting out is just as much a fraud now as at the tims it was perpetrated how tiie republicans acquired cirant riui'low weed in n y tribune before tiie presidential canvass fcr l.slis had opened thoughtful men of both parties were casting a i wilt for candidates i learned that dean rich mond peter cagger uml cornelius wendell the successors ofthe albany regency wiser democratic leaders than those who succeeded ll.cm were sjiet ly preparing ti.e way for ieneral grant's nomination it was general ly understood that while geo grant had not been a prominent politician he had acted before the rebellion with the democratic party remembering that in 1828 tammany hall took the wins out of the sails of the ciintonian party by making general jackson an avowed ciintonian its candidate 1 1 determined that the adversary should : not steal our thunder a second lime i therefore called a meeting of an ini i prom pi u general commit tee a eom : mittce that had been quietly doing good republican work in this city for several years monday evening was fixed for a mooting of the committee i this was arranged on saturday in ! the evening papers of that day gen ; grant's arrival at long ranch was announced i immediately took the boat for that place iiml after break , fast sunday morning invited ieneral i grant to smoke iiii cigar in my room i then greatly surprised him by in forming him that he would be nomi nated for president by a republican nieeting to be held in new york on the following monday evening and thai the proceedings would be handed | him by the chairman ofthe nieeting ; mr thomas murphy the governor of utah has issued a certificate of election as delegate to i congress to a g cambell gentile candidate although cannon the mor mon candidate had a majority of the votes ilis grounds for t'nc action are that cannon being a poligamist i.s not a citizen ofthe united states howard e jackson democrat has been elected to the united states sen ale by the legislature of tennessee this gives the democrats control of the next senate we believe the orphan asylum of georgia loans out monoy onr asylum would like lo have a few loans the editor ofthe winston sentinel discussing in the last issue of his pa per a certain measure now before congress says : southern congressmen especially north carolina congressmen who vote to make grant a general and pension him on the country will get the grand bounce from their constitu ents if they ever appear before them again grant wilfully knowingly malicously and meanly lied on the southern people during the lute cam paign and southern members should not forget it the editor of the winston sentinel is just exactly right lie will please give us his hand on the proposition above states vi lie landmark miscellaneous a boston business man said to another business man's wife that she w:.s sweet enough ts kiss her husband gave the other man a caning for telling such a delib erate lie a small boy went to see his grandmother after looking eagerly around the handsome ly furnished room where she sat he exclaim ed oh grandmama ! where is the mis erable tabic papa says you keep mr robert j burdctte the very witty man of the burlington hawleye is a member of the bapti.-t church in that city and until called from home hy his lec turing engagements was its popular sun slay school superintendent — presbyterian a paragraph copied the other day was misleading and mysterious it was that senator dennis lived on terrapins the ex planation is that he owns a twelve acre ps-uid whose chief production is the terrapm it gives him a gsiod income think of 12 0s)0 being caught and sold in one year they sell at f!i each for all over seven inches long in market they fetch 20 a dozen wu slur we are glad to note a disposition on the part of the railroads ts reduce their rates of local travel we lately called at tention ts the reduction iu fares estab lished on the carolina central and uow the kaleigh ami gaston and the raleigh sinsl augusta air-line announce that they will sell round trip tickets between stations at .'!_ cents per mile tor first class and tt :! cents for second class we hope that these reductions arc only the fore runners of others to be masle in like man ner sin all our roads such a policy will bi iti the end promotive id the best in tsrests of the companies inducing travel anil stimulating our people to activity veirs if observer remarkable circiiinstar.ee dr a j brooks a successful farmer of black creek inform us ihat on the night ofthe v_7t ii of december his horse slipped into a marl-hole and remained all night unable to extricate himself the water all around him anil over him except his head and neck was frozen but wonderful to state the next morn ing when the horse was found he was unhurt except a slight wound on the heel to get him from the pit a ditch had to be dug and the water drained oil from the marl-hole the horse was rub bed aiul treated well and with the ex ception of the heel is as well as ever this is the most remarkable preserva tion from cohl anil exposure we have ever known — wilson advance marrying josh billings thus writes to an old friend about marrying : by ill means joe git married if you have a fair show don't stand shivering on the bank but pitch right in and stick your head under sinsl the shivering isovt-r thar ain't any more tris:k in getting married thanthar is in eating peanuts many a man has stood shivering un the shorn until the river has run out don't expect tw marry an angel them hev all been picked up long age re member joe you ain't a saint yourself do not marry for buty exclusively ; bitty is like its awful slippery and thaws dreadful easy don't marry for luv neither luv is like a cooking stsive goosl for nothing when the fuel gives out but let the mixture be ssmie buty becomingly crossed with about_2o0 in her pocket a gud speller handy and neat in her bouse plenty of good sense tuff con stitution and by-laws a light step small feet and sound teeth and a warm heart this mixture will keep in any climate and will not evaporate if the cork happens to be left out the strength ain't gone joe don't many for pedigree unless it is back ed by bank notas a family with nothing but pedigree generally hicks sense sad and alarming — during the past thirty days within a radius of 100 miles from charlotte eighteen persons have been killed by railroad accidents ami eight or ten wounded the killed weie six passengers antl twelve men connected with the roads in various capacities four being engineers the ground everywhere is so soft from snow sleet and rain since the 19th of december that railroad trav eling has become very dangerous — char democrat . bismark is said to be in a sad mei r lal condition fear of assassination oonstantly distui bs him tlie avesteru insane asylum i the report of the progress of this i work for the two years ending d cember 1 18s0 lias lieen hid before the assembly the commissioners in their pari of the report state that tbere is a balance of tlie appropria tion of 84,801.82 this amount i however will be appropriated to pay | ing for work that is yet in progress ion the walls of the laundry building j aud slate ami tin roofing they fur ' ! ther say that 880,000 is required for j the completion ofthe wings extend ■ | ing southward from the centre build ing the boiler house laundry roam ! and workshop with the connecting ' passages heating ventilation ami drainage to which add 20,000 for \ \ the purchase of the necessary furni ture and other incidental expenses in i preparing for occupancy and it ap pears that the total sum of 100,000 will be needed to make this iiistitu-j tion available in caring for the insane ! ofthe state the building will then j accommodate 2o0 patients mr sam uel sloan the architect in his report to the commissioners says * ■ we al?o estimate the es>st of constructing the walls ofthe wings running north ' from the centre building and roofing ' them in afc 60,000 in sluing this the walls ofthe cellar that have been ! already constructed at a cost of 10 000 would be protected they are exposed and damage if not ruin will ensue if they are left iu their present condition besides if these wings are placed under roof the grounds around the building could be prop erly graded and put in order the additional cost of completing these wings including heating and drain age will not exceed 40,000 in all 100,000 in addition to the work done on the cellar walls with these wings complete two hundred and fifty more patients can be accommodated — in all five hundred if crowded four hundred being the number provided for although the lo mer number ca 1 1 e accommodated it may not be amiss to call your attention to the fact that no asylum ofthe kind has been erect ed in this country with all the mod ern improvements and conveniences i nt rod need for the treatment of the insane where the cost per capita is not far in exec ofthe estimated cost of your building when completed presuming tjte remainder ofthe work can be done at the same rate that the building has cost up to the present date an arm tons in two — a year ago a young boy named shuniati was quite seriously hurt while playing with a band ovor a wheel in the ma chinery at hilton's mill a few miles from the city after this accident the band and wheel were raised out of reach of boys but yesterday a lad twelve or thirteen years old named crowell living near the mill in spite of two or three warnings climbed up to the band and his arm was caught ex actly as shu man's hail been he was carried round with the wheel two or three times until the lower arm wag literally torn away bone and muscle at the elbow dr j m miller was callcsl and dressed the wound aud re ports the boy as doing very well and nsst in danger in sjsitc of the pain which must have been terrible — charlotte observer a is iiii almanac we arc sorry for it we wire not aware that wc hnd ever shown that we could speak in eight different languages or aver has misjudged ns and sent ns a neatly bound copy of hi almanac in eight langnages in addition to the al manac in has also sent ns a circular giv ing directions how to take pills iu chi nese which is si very handy thing to have in a printing oflice we once heard of a girl who could chew gum iu three languages ; but now she is surpassed hy dr aycr who can take pill in eight different languages if the pills fail in english we can try i them successively in german swedish dutch norwegian french portugese and spanish until a cure is effected we slo not know of any other pills in the market which offer such advantages we suppose that dr ayer intended either to flatter our knowledge or set us out on a course of the study of the lan guages we like the almanac it is the correct thing for now we can tell the j weather in eight languages w hicli is a great improvement on the l i plan wilson allium f the drink curse of the curious publications issued by congress a volume entitled the state of labor in europe is one of the most interesting and valuable the document is a compilation of consu lar reports in answer to a circular let ter sent out by the state department asking information upon various sub jects such as rates of wages cost of living to the laborer business habits j and systems habits and modes of iiv j ing of working men and womeu ami many other points touching the pres ent condition of labor and trade thp , answers have evidently been carefully prepared and necessarily contain a variety of important information i with one point only however are we concerned just now and that is the revelation made ofthe relation which strong drink bears to the welfare of working men and women as incident ally exhibited in these answers let us see what kind of testimony j we get from germany france and ! england especially the hon edgar stanton united state consul to bremen writes : a fruitful cause of waste and ruin , among the laboring classes is theenor msnis increase of the drinking saloons and dancing halls and the complaints are universal as to the disposition of the laborers to indulge in excessive drink whatever be the character of the laborer in other parts of germany in this and the neighboring districts he is as a rule improvident and quar relsome the towns are in conse quence heavily burdened by poor rates consul eason writes from dresden the cost of living to the laboring classes almost invariably goes pari passu with their wages they seem to be generally improvident and re gardless of the future and spend in beer drinking dancing and idleness all they earn sunday is always re markable for the crowds of people moving in all directions in pursuit of pleasure such as beer drinking danc ing concert music excursions by boat and rail consul cjerrij.li writes from bor deaux although wages have increased somewhat the savings of this class are diminished the principal cause of this conies from the pernicious habit of spending their time in cafes the number of these drinking places in bordeaux and its environs is upward of two thousand the hard earned money as well as the time usually lost in these resorts of idleness and bad manners it is impossible to calculate consul webster writes from shef field england : many a man who can easily earn his fourteen and nineteen dollars a week will be satisfied with earning half that sum or just enough to pro vide him with his food beer sporting : allowing his wife but a mere pittance s of his wages lor herself and children any one walking our streets will see s where the earnings ofthe working men * go and in very many cases the earn i iugs of the working women also the , amount spent in drink in great brit •• tain in 1877 according to the excise - returns was more than seven hundred i million dollars sheffield's share of i this expenditure would amount tu - more than live million dollars a considerable part of this sura would not come from the earnings of what are termed the laboring classes but a i sufficiei t amount comes from that source if saved tt place a great pro " portism of them above want consul cooper of glasgow writes whiskey which is considered a positive necessity by the great mass - of laborers here and costs about three 1 hundred per cent more than in tl e united states with beer which la . ter is comparatively cheap absorb the larger poitiou of the laborer's . earnings here pampas grass — ibe cultivation of pa nip is grass now so much used for decorative purposes has become quite a profitable industry in south ern california three-quarters of an acre planted in pampas grass yielded at 2h cents per head 500 another grower sold all he could ra ire at 7 j eenls per head last year 10,00 heads or plume of this gra^s w^i sold from that region no 16