the carolina watchman vol vii third series s.alisbury bt c may 11 1876 no 31 \\ miki.v 1 j bruner ed an.l propr t k bruxer associate ed i r-i iiii'ii.'n rates : year payable in advance 3 00 iminilil'l ' -'"' u elttisino bates : ,, - incli one publication ii 00 "". ■■ two publications 1 60 • i - for in ni lis or ii year xotice of sale l sder mortgage to building and loan association by .,;■•", of a mortgage executed by w l mn i and wile mary a mills and qiicde i mills and wife cornelia p j|i,j,8 :•' the salisbury building ami loan in iuiioii dated the first daj of june \-'\. and doly registered in the oflice of the deeds of rowan county in hook v 0 48 page 345 fcc and upon which de fault has been made the undersigned will ex posc for sale at public auction at the courl house door in the town of salisbury r,th day of jlaij 1s76 (| 1c proportj morl e ag d consist ing of a iol land situated in tin greal north square of [], c town of salisbury fronting about !<") fret on main street 1 and running back 207-j fret adjoining the residence of the said v id the lots nl harriet johnson and edwin sli cash b order of the board of directors b f rogers sec salisoury build & loan asso s rill lill ami iuaw salisbury 1k marble yard main street qrxext door to the court-house fitji [•; , besl place in xorth car | monuments tombs lead stones ..'■■ , ie none but the besl ina ill work done in the besl style a call will satisfy you ofthe truth ..,,. orders solicited aud promptly tilled satisfaction irunranteed nr ii charge jo un 11 litis propr 17:6ms stperioe court kovi.iii tciiitty jane e chambers i against summons samuel i hambers deft ndanl i state of north carolina totliesheriffof rowan county greeting you are hereby commanded in he name of the state to summon samuel jiiambera defendant in the above action to n|i|'e-ir nt tlie n xt term of the superior court of the county of rowan at the court-house in salisbury on the itli monday after the oil monday in march 1876 then and there to mi niver the complaint of jane 1 < hambers plain nil in tl.i ii and you are further comman ded to notify the said defendant ihat if he fails to answer the complaint within the time spe cified hy lav the said plaintiff will apply to ihe courl for the relief demanded in said com plaint mul for all cist and chars - in this suil incurred witness j m horah clerk of our ii.l t'ourt m office in salisbury this the 15th day of april a i 1876 j m horah ■ " ' s n < ourl rowan < ounty 2s:6t.p'd ft ox and off m slick as grease ! jv wm a eatfle lu*ii respectfully announces hi continuance al qis old - old line en main street opposite '■■'■' -'• di l store he is always ready and anxious to accommodate customers in the hunt and shoe business in the best mann i possible he is prepared to do first class work and can ; ii.].'-ii w i |, ime niul hern shop on hand made jobs iiis machine lasts i*c.,are ofthe latest and best paterns he keeps on hand ready ri.'i'li wurk and stock equal to any special or der footing boots in best style 7 new boots best quality si ! ■ repairing neatly and promptly done al reasonable prices satisfac ed nr im charge cash orders by mail protnpt.lv filled vm ragle jan 20 1876 l5:6mo jo tl-.n world was convinced thai sew j -' ■ mi he done by machinery — tbe only qnes . it in ichine combines in iisell ** e prcatest number of important adva tin florence lating tension save i i ath ; without change i needle then from right to left and left while one tv of the machine sews the operator . ; s may lie desired find . -:.:.>. inelegauceol thness of epcration variety of price tbe funei a tion p.g.cartland '. a agent lie is also nt for fciekftu-d jcn^tin machine , been knit m ,...! riih perfect heel - vi scaris iloves ve . friend which costs bul j in relati en •>> either knitter ma i.ine is invited niul unplei-,nf ' upon application i orders by mail ■■■ prompl attention machines ship pari of the sti.i -. a nl satisfaction i agents wanted in ■ .--. ry (' il communications to l e c l.'ti.anli salisbury or i ii c akti.anl gen'i agt i greensboro n (,' *" the absence of salisbury agent call on r '- bloss at the natiou.il hotel 23:ly coy seymour's speech cov seymour's speech before the i tica convention has been read and pondered by republicans as well as dem ocrats throughout the country this is a refreshing and significant omen of the times it is rare for a political leader when addressing an audience chiefly composed i of i lie magnates and managers of his i party to raise the level of his speech so '■■ high above all partisan considerations as i gov seymour did on that occasion ii ' is encouraging to see a statesman who en j joys the confidence of all shades of opin j ion in his party and the respect of his ; political opponents at the threshold of a | presidential campaign in which thechances | ; are in favor of bis associates throw aside ! the low selfish appeals to party spirit so common in such performances and tell l the democrats that they do not deserve buccess in the pending contest merely ' because the republicans are extravagant and dishonest ; that they will only be ; worthy nf triumph when they can prove to j the people that they themselves are econ ; omical and faithful ; and so far as he is i concerned that he does not desire a demo ! cratic victory this fall unless the party i can stand this test the nation is not hopelessly given over to profligates and plunderers when such a man as horatio seymur thinks it wise to open a presi dential canvass by sounding a key-note like this cov seymour's speech was marked j ; by a noble moral tone and a broad and genuine patriotism he rebuked both j friends and opponents for iheir tolerence ! of fraud and corruption in the conduct of ! affairs and asserted that these views were not confined to the federal administra tion but existed in all our state and : municipal governments llf pointed to i the general greed for money and the baste to ; r et rich as the main cause for the de moralization of society he bad the can dor lo say that though iu bis opinion i tiie republicans bold certain lax consli tilioual doctrines which lead np to the j doors of the tieasury nevertheless he ■ believed that if the democrats had been ] iu power so long they would have been ! about as corrupt as the republicans have j been i ie was severe on shoddy tinsel | 1 wild speculations and extravagant living ! ', and denounced tlie venality and profligacy ■ if men in oflice as the natural outgrowth ■ of reckless expenditures inordinate love nt money and lack of sterling integrity among ibe masses of the people he pointed to an early return to tbe simple habits und genuine virtues of the fathers j of the republic both iu society and gov ernment as the best remedy for the evils that surround us there is nothing very original in these views they have been uttered by scat ; tired moralists by a portion of the pub i lie nress and a limited number of inde ! ... i pendent politicians ever since the close of the war and especially during the adminis ', tion of grant but that which challen ges particular attention in this instance is ' . 1 the fact unit at an important convention i ; of his party on the eve of a fierce strug j gle for supremacy in the government of the country a philosophic statesman and j sagacious political leader deems it not only proper but tbe highest reach of ex . 1 pendiency to send ringing along the lines ; of his followers a speech in which he . i ! bases the c.aim for a victory by the demo ' crats mainly on the contingency of their | ability to satisfy the voters that they will ■ administer the government more honestly l than the republic u — n y san the jews and the holy land the new york express says that the n port that the sultan offers to com pro j mise with bis jewish creditors by turning i over to them tbe holy land in payment of his boutls lias started anew the stories about the schemes of the jews for the re turn of their people from all quarters of the globe to palesline christian tradi l lion assigns to thera an irrepressible long ing to do t lii and now i lie opportunity " is offered to il.eui to do it all that is : necessary is for the rothschilds to pay i what would be a mere bagatelle to them , as the papers which are running the story for the dozenth time put it and the dream ' of judea may be fulfilled ail of which is very fine and very romantic but nobody ; has discovered among the jews of london frankfort paris vienna and new york * in which cities they are among the money kings an irrepressible longing to betake themselves to the desert syrian wastes and to surrender the place they fill in the i great capital iu any quixotic attempt to build up a picayune governmental estab lishment there there are it?\v people in the world who have better reasons to he satisfied with the power they wield through ' limit wealth in every land everywhere t'u-'-e are men of the highest culture and attainments amongst them who are at tached to their surroundings and who would no more think of an exodus to syria i ban tho average american would ol bottling in central africa and the probabilities are that if we wait for the jews to return to tbe land of abraham we will have lo wait a good while verdict in the strange homicide case this highly interesting trial closed on tuesday evening with a verdict not guilty by the jury tbe case occupied five days and we must say that at no time have we seen manifested such inter est in a cause the deceased was a young man by the name of murray from hay wood county of highly respectable stand ing in his community his father and mother were both in attendance daily up on the court and during the entire prose cution the old man murray behaved with the most becoming propriety both before and dining the trial the defendant thomas v strange is a youth of unanrpased character as was shown by such witnesses as bishop atkinson and others who knew him from his infancy these facts taken in con nection with the melancholy circumstances that led to the death of young murray made the case one of exciting interest to the community tivo days was occupied in the argu ment of counsel which for profound legal learning close analysis and eloquent logic has rarely been surpassed in any of our counsel are given in another place during the trial the large college chapel both floor and gallery was filled with eager spcctors including a large dumber of ladies the prisoner was ac companied in court daily by bis father and bis step mother and perhaps other female relatives his honor judge watts delivered a written charge to the jury which exhibi ted much learning and depth of thought and was delivered to the jury in an effec tive and impressive style lie told the jury that it was a case of murder or noth ing that the question of manslaughter did not arise in tlie case ; and having stated the position of the law arising upon the facts the jury had but little to do but to render a verdict of not guilty we have not expressed an opinion of this case taking the view put by the court llie jury did right ; but we think the facts might well have warranted a verdict of manslaughter we think the excellent and enviable character of the defendant repels t lie idea that be was a murderer but that lie was only guilty of iuaiislauglier which ihe proof would well warrant and while we say this we have no doubt the prose cutor and bis friends will be satisfied wiib the result as he had no vindictive motive in pushing the prosecution but for the honor and dignity of the court we regret the demonstrations of applause which came from the crowd on the rendering of the verdict while this was doubtless the result of an honest sympathy with young strange still it looked too much like sending up shouts of joy over young murray's grave it showed disrespect lo the father and mother of the deceased and was inconsistent with the polrmi pioceedings of a court in a scene of such intense solemnity that it was the result of an muhoaghtful in discretion of ibe vast crowd we have no doubt but nevertheless uusuited to a court of justice the judge's charge to the jury will be given to our readers next wi*ek as we could not obtain a copy for this issue we should add that tbe young prisoner and his near friends acted with ibe most becoming proprietytlii-oiighouttlietii.il — a slice tile expositor indecision i believe that is the trouble wilh thou sands of people that have been attending these meetings i believe that if every man and woman that ba6 been here had been true to their own convictions there would have been thousands more saved many a man and woman has gone out of this hall convinced that they were sinners and that t hey ought to receive christ but yet they have rejected him just as pilate did pilate was a vaccillating character wayward and undecided one solemn truth comes to me to-day and that is that all these men that would not decide for christ and decided against him how punishment came upon them ! host lost lost for time and for eternity for want of decision ! i believe in my soul that there are more at this day being lost in new 1 oik for want of decision than for any other tbing 0 my tri nds what is your decision to-day ? what are you going to do with christ that is the question to-day 1 do not care much about the sermon if i could only get this text down into your hearts get it down deep into your soul i should feel i had accomplished ray work here it is not preaching you want now it is lo conic to a decision to decide what you will do with god's own son 1 he gave him up freely for us all will you not receive him 1 it is to have him for our saviour now or at some future day to have him for our judge pilate like every oilier sinner wanted to get rid ofthe responsibility he did not like to be pressed to a deciaio 1 he shifted the responsibility to herod but even herod refused to take bis life and sent liim back so pilate tries again he thinks he has got a plan that will work he puts it out of his own power foolish man ! he ought to have decided it him self and not left tbe multitude to decide he said i wiu put the question to them now and get them to decide poor deluded man ! he thought they would choose jesus instead of barabbas he did not know the depravity of man's heart and how they were in league with hell against christ he took the murder er and highwayman and asked them which one he should release and the multitude lifted up their voices and said release unto us barabbas after they had made that decision the poor disappointed governor said to them what shall i do wilh jesus that is called christ and they answered let him be crucified — moody justice to both the radical papers have a great deal to say against col pool the news has no intention of defending col pool if he i cannot show a clear record throughout that is sufficienily manifested in the po sition it has already taken and from j which it will not be moved unless that j record is made satisfactory but why is j it that these papers who have so much to say against col pool about the peabody fund have so little to say about hower ton and his swindle of the state listen at these facts just before howerton came to raleigh he went into bankruptcy it is said that he had actu ally to borrow money to come here on living in raleigh is expensive dr howerton came here wilh little or noth ing he has lived here three years he has supported and educated a large family expensively ; has bought a car riage and horses drives out in style lives in style aud has a housekeeper brought trom virginia he has also purchased and furnished a handsome house in ihis city at a supposed cost of 87,000 and notwithstanding all this at the end of three years he tells a goutleman in new york he has saved 87,000 and will soon have 81.0,000 and offers to put it in to j start a business house in raleigh sup pest col pool had done all these things i aside from much ihat is rumor let us come to facts in 1s74 he got a bill passed to allow him to buy all the sta tionery for the state on tbe ground that he wanted to save money for ihe stale in 1671 he did buy and the bills in ihe ollice show that the prices charged were about 20 per cent higher than the same articles could have been bought for in raleigh emboldened by success he again buys in nov 1s7d he buys from the same firm thrown & warner and notwithstanding the heavy declne in prices he buys from them at about 40 per cent higher than in 1874 tbe bill was only stopped by llie honesty and firmness of john reilly the auditor suppose col pool had done all this 1 in nov 1875 howerton bought car peting f'.r the state at 2,25 per yaid when merchants here in raleigh sav ii that the same carpeting could have been honestly bought at 81,1.3 per yard nay more when the bill was examined it turned out that tbe bouse from which il purported to have been bought was a fictitious bouse and bad never bad an ex istence howerton filled a power of at torney from tbe fictitious bouse to draw tbe money suppose col pool had been caught at this ? there are yet other delinquences of howerton which we will not at present give to tbe public these things do not make col pool innocent but bow do tbe republican press reconcile it to themselves to say so much against pool and so little against i lower ui does the fact of being a republican make the difference and ex culpate one and blast tbe other — ral news cork e s pon den c e . executive department j state op north carolina > raleigh april 17 1876 ) rev r sears gen agent peabody fund dear sir : — i write to you to ascer tain whether or not stephen 1 pool superintendent ot public instruction of north carolina has properly accounted to you for the money belonging to tbe peabody school fund which was intrust ed to bis care to aid in educating llie poor children of north carolina from information in relation to ihis matter i have reason to believe that stephen i pool is a defaulter and that he has taken a portion of the peabody school fund for bis own private use and benefit in violation of tbe public trust which he held i desire correct information upon this subject as col pool has occupied an important position by virtue of which i presume be was selected as tbe cuetodian of the peadody school fund for this slate and if he has not discharged the duties of tbe trust with fidelity the peo ple ought to know it very respectfully your obedient servant c a brogdfx governor and ex ojjicio presideut board of education n c peabody eu-jcatiosal fund , staunto.v va april 20 j his excellency gov brogden : dear sir : — superintendent pool has sent me a list ofthe schools which he has paid from the peabody educational fund and i have no reason to doubt its correct ness there are several other schools which lave not yet been paid but which be says be will pay there are certain ly irregularities i hope however he will fulfill bis promise to me and pay up soon his account of moneys received from me and mine are correct i suppose he has vouchers for all be has paid i sent him my account which no doubt be will show i have no doubt he has used for his own private convenience the money i paid liim for all tbe schools not on his list which should have been paid to those schools the way to get at the exact truth would be to compare my list of checks given him amounting to 1.5,150 wilh bis vouchers my list is in his hands very respectfully yours b seai.s cen agt p -**>. — his list of payments as re ported to me april 7 js76 amounts to only 812,600 he may have made some payments since the moon what the scientists know about the lesser luminary prof soole recently lectured on this sebject before the san franeisco school of mechanical arts he said that in using the immense telescopes of modern times one is surprised at the exceedingly small area that can be examined at cne time and by the great diminution a careful burvey of the surface fills one with astonishment that the placid silvery moon should be changed into a ragged gray wrinkled and pockmarked heaven iy body on turning to the brighter portions we find everywhere mountains volcanoes crevasses and precipices of vast height or depth — it beema to be a picture of deso lation enthroned upon a pedestal of ashes those mountainous parts reflect a brilliant light on account of their vol canic nature the rocks being often smooth and polished and their jagged surfaces giving thera powor to catch and throw lighl in every direction the southwes tern portion is especially volcanic in its appearance on close examination how ever we find long ranges of mountains exhibiting no signs of volcanic action but in many respects similar to the sier ras much steeper on one side than the oilier and apparently formed by similar forces though as a rule the volcanic ele ment prevails many of these mountains are of immanse size ; thus clavius is 120 miles in diameter anil has an area of 12.000 square miles and turrets on its walls shooting io an altitude of 16,000 feet — we next notice the frequent occur lence of ringed mountains not more than ten or fifteen miles in diameter and al most perfectly circular iu form they are found alone upon the level country or in groups.and even upon the ridges of the pits which differ chiefly from others in their smaller dimensions — there is also another prominent feature which has puzzled astronomers even in the present day for many of the ringed mountains notably lroiu tycho copernicus and kclper are radiations extending in some cases hundreds of miles which at the fall of the moon glisten with a remarkable brightness they shine as brilliaetly under the oblique as under the vertical rays of the sun a fact yet unexplained ; ihey pass over tbe tops and through the the craters of volcanoes and through the valleys in au uninterrupted course of ihe many theories concerning them per haps the most reasonable is that they are veins of matter ejected from below during some great volcanic or earthquake dis turbances and in many respects they resemble our own trap dykes and veiiu since the lime of galileo astronomers have painfully patiently and peisever ingly mapped every detail of the moon's buiface until we have lunar topographic al charts more accurately constructed than any hitherto constructed of the earth's surface photography has recent ly aided largely iu this work by careful experiments it has been proven lliat tin light of the full moon is only 16,000,000 part of that of tbe sun and that she gives only one-sixth as much light as would a pure white disk ; therefore she is nearer black than white an equal sized globe of fire-brick or clay thrown into the orbit of tlie moon would furnish us wilh light as bright as our own luminal as early as 1 700 efforts were made to ascertain if any beat came from the moon her rays being concentrated by means of a lens upon the bulb of a thermometer with no effect however and other and later tiials with improved apparatus gave the same result or in some cases indica ted that tbe moon was shedding negative heat or cold it was only after the in vent ion of tiie thermopile that evidences of lunar heat were discovered tbe amount was excessively small however hord rosse with the aid of his three-foot reflecting telescope and tlioinasou's gal vonometer shows that little if any of this heat comes from the interior of the moon or in other words that the body of the luminary would he cold but for the heat absorbed from ibe sun this bor rowed heat has been shown to raise the exterior temperature of our satellite to at least fifty degrees fall as the sun's heat and light cease to fall upon her sur face and are lost for fifteen days at a time and the remaining heat being ra diated into space the alterations of teui peratuie must be something startling and the changes in tbe physical features of the body produced by the enormous ex pansions and contractions of her outer substance must he great and very de strutive the cardinal vicar at rome has is sued the edict aud apostolical pardon for lent in 1s70 except during nine days in respect of which special personal licenses will be requisite in the coming lent it will be ue allowable for all tbe inhablants of this fair city and the sur rounding district to eat meat of any kind and moreover to take lard and grease for seasoning hoiel keepers are ex horted if ihey have to get ready meat or food prepared with fat or laid to do so in rooms shut off from the public view in order that by avoiding scandal it may be the better known that we are still in the capital of the catholic world the car dinal vicar bespeaks the favor of tiio whom he addreeues on behalf ofa pontiff who could use his power if lie thought it expedient in order to oblige people to observe abstiuance and fasts iu their ancient severity but who benevolently uses it instead to make the keeping of lent easy or to enable persons with the lightest posaible iueonyenience to themselves to pay to the divine justice what they owe for their sins — n i . observer the richest man in richmond a correspondent of the index-appeal writing to that jonrnal from richmond says : the main street lots on which stood before the war corintheian hall j now occupied by temporarv buimino | were sold yesterday for 16,900 mr j james thomas became the purchaser j mr thomas is the richest man in rich j mond he does all his business on a j broad cash basis and never likes to have j less than one or two hundred thonsar.d i dollars to his credit in bank when the ! price of tobacco stamps was to be raised before a given lime mr thomas bought 8250,000 worth of old stamps and thereby made a pretty nice margin he is a bountiful provider for his family enter tains with great hospitality keeps a part of bis family travelling iu europe nearly all tbe time never meddles with politics gives liberally to the baptist church and rides around town in a large easy but neat elegant carriage and looks content he is now fat and a little gouty his hair is white as snow he never had any ambition worth speaking of he was never known to keep a fast horse or to mn a newspaper or to be a candidate for the city council or the legislature his forte is to manufacture tobacco and to keep the richmond college agoin rev dr j l m curry married one of his daughters so did the rev late col john k connelly so did senator quesenberry mr queaenberry is dead the fine row of imitation brown stone fronts on grace street between mr thomas residence and first street was built for his married daughters it is called by young men son's-in-law row speaking of art in the catacombs of rome a recent writer says : you rec ognize the novelty of the christian paint ing at every step by the intensity of feel ing by the inspiialioo which animates these rude figures and which determines their arrangement and suggests their forms no picture of distress despair or desolation is there where desolation must have assumed its most fearful aspect in those dark vaults you may see now the good shepherd gently beaiingthe young lamb in his arms showing bis proteciiou to the weak and innocent ; now four compartments in which are drawn sub jects from tin old and new testaments surrounded by garlands of flowers and fruit ; now it is noah aud his atk ; now moses sinking the rock or job on the dunghill or the miracle of oana ihe mul tiplication of loaves or lazarus rising tii'iu the tomb more frequently it is daniel in tbe lions den a symbol of martydoin by wild beasts ; or jonah ejecied by ibe whale a symbol of marty doui by wat.-r or the three childred in furnace a symbol ol marly dom bv tiie these scenes ot triumphant martydoin were evident iy painted to give courage and ciiticolaiioii rut nu traces of con temporary persecutions no represen tations of christian slaughters do we find nor scenes of bloodshed to awake hatred and revenge while images of pardon love and hope are predominant this is christian painting in the catecouibs this is christian symbolism the water locomotive mr iluet's theory of the water loco motive has excited considerable interest he thinks it a mistake for ships to have to force their bulk through tbe water meeting thereby ihe large opposing sur face of water and a sliding friction over the whole of their immersed surface ; this he holds to be in fact as much of an error as it would be to dismount rail way cars from their wheels and drag them like sledges along the rails he boldly argues that vessels should be mounted on rolling drums that those drums should give principally the power of flotation aud that they should be driven round as paddles to move the ship forward in this way there would be a floating locomotive mounted en its sup porting wheels or rollers ; the vessel would offer no resistance but a rolling one to motion ; the whole of tbe support ed weight of tbe fcbip would be used as useful pressure to give adhesive frictional effect to the rollers and a high velocity attained application of hi me soils rich in organic matter even though tl.ey already contain it in considerable quan tities drained peat swamps stiff days and coarse heavy soils ami especially those des titute of it are all benefited by an applica tion ef lime good results also follow its use on light soils after an incorporation of eirganie matter as green manure nnx-k or a think sod or green erop plowed under — sterile soils are rapidly rendered more sterile by its application wet lauds show least effect from treatineut with lime hence such laud must either be drained u receive an extra amount clays should also have orgauie matter applied in connection with lime it acts most effectually near the sur face the apparent effect is greater ihe second season than the first so the most sat isfactory results ate obtained by sowing bradcast iu the early ull with at most only a light harrowing or brushing it should be applied in an air-slacked fine mechani cal condition the most profitable quantity to a ply depends much ou the land soils those well filled with organic pjatter and clays taking most — from ten fto forty bushels being recommended according t*j the oireumstaqjces — scientific former nearly all of tbe tobaccoplanti in gran ville county have been killed by cold weather wilmington is going to send to the cen tennial an old chest that has beeu iu use since 17 49 the concord sun has seen specimens of very fine gold from ihe land of john ludy stanly countyt the emperor of china i the following curious edict is copied from the pekin gazette of january ihe cth : — j the emperor having ascended thethroue | while still of teuder years it is most needful ' that bis studies be undertaken in due lime ■ and be pursued with continual pre>gre te tne end that the results f education in the ! oourae of right may be secured and the fouu j dauou whence good government takes iu : nse be laid straight let the imperial i iie-ard of astronomers select a day of br i tuuate augury in ihe fourth moon of the i coming year on whieh his majesty shall commence his curs of studies in the yu k'tng apartments of tbe palace let the v lee-cbauedler of the grand secretariat an.l acting vice-president weng tung-he and the viee-president hia tving-dm act as preceptors to his majesty let them o each morning and evening address him with suitable admonitions aud devote themselves with thorough attention to ibe iaeuhmtiea ol learning rn order to prepare the way to fruitful results let the prince of ch'ua superintend all that is needful in tbe allot mentofhis majesty's studies and arrange ments in bis apartments the spoken lan guage ofthe imperial house and the litera ture ofthe mai..:,u tongue being fundamen tal institutions of our dvnastv hia majesty must pursue the study of these and must likewise be practised in the sp..ken and written language of the mongols in horse manship archery :,-. 1 the like accomplish ments let the ministers of the presence ir due time rive the necessary instructions and let the prince ofch'un in like manner superintend the needful arrangements this prince of ch'un is the emperor's father weng tunghe the chief preceptor is a literary mandarin of eminence and hai t'ung-shan the subordinate a vice-presi dent of the board of war according to chinese official etiquette both mandarin uttered a sort of nolo episeoparim aud went through the form ou the following day f begging to be relieved of an office of such responsibility but of course the request was negatived also by edict and the gazette of the 10th of january contains their memo rial of thanks among the arrangements necessary to the imperial s : s is another appointed which is not gazetted that ol lahachutze or whipping-boy 1 the bol der ..! ibis who is a child usually t neaily the same age as the emperor i as ihe honor of being flogged or disgraced whenever the sovereigh is naughty or inattentive mind your p s persons who patronize papers should pay promptly for the pecuniary pros pects of the press have a peculiar power in pushing forward public prosperity if the printer is paid promptly and his pocket-book kept plethoric by prompt paying patrons he puts his pen to the paper in peace his paragraphs are mora pointed be paints his pictures of passing events in more pleasant colors and the perusal of his paper is of more pleasure to his people paste this piece of proverb - ial philosophy in some place where all peiaons can perceive it exchange the failures thus ear in 1676 the statistics of failures throughout ihe united states for the three months ending with march show an increase iu mercantile casualties whieh though exs pected is larger than was anticipated the number of failures are set down at 2.s0g with liabilities at sg4.000,f><>0 compared with tbe same quarter in 1875 in which the number was 1,733 with lia | bilities of 38,000,000 the increase is j very marked amounting to 1,073 in ! number and 26,000,000 in liabilities but as compared with statistics for the previous quarter or tbe last three months in 1875 the showing is not so had exodus from tennessee an emigration movement has recently sprung into large proportions among the colored people about nashville tenii it is claimed that it is the beginning of a general african exodus at least from middle and western tennessee and that the destination of the emigrants is kan sae though what there is lo attract the colored man is not stated the nash ville american predicts ihat kansas will prove a sad delusion to him as it has to thousands of eastern whites beet culturb there is a much greater money value in the beet crop when it is rightly man aged than most farmers are aware this is tine of all root crops but tbe sugpr beet v ill yield a better return on the in vestment than any of the others and potatoes probably the next mr henry lane ol cornwall vermont is doubtless the most successful cultivator of this crop than of any on record it appears that by bis mod of treatment the cost of one acre of tieid beets is as follows : | plowing tin ur 3 iii i cultivai ncli and tfeianing 7 50 : i iv ing t drain re 4 ott s n ii ti e l..i*r.-i -•• 3 00 -• • j 4 50 cultivating live tunc 5 oy l uo 1 96 00 this is the ens of cultivation fr.r one acre and the y'.-'d was 1 050 busbeu tbe cost in labor therefore was biit little ever rlir<*c cents per bushel if jra ' add to this the use of land manure and seed the whole cost will not exceed sij i cents per bushel while ihe value of such ! a crop to any farmer is from filteen to i twenty-five cents a bushel according to i the locality the mode of feeding the k : i.d oj stock it is fed to etc a country editor offers twenty-five do lars reward cr iiie perpetrator of the foju lowing lines : if i was a lokie editor wouldn't i havje.a time i wouldn't print t.-.-nrsed wor<"l l . i less't-n a ioilar a liwe i'.i s;'a ray grub and like free a n.i tickets lo the thowa i route n't pay for ihe buggy hin j a i.j wouldn't i wear good close ?