f^wii jt^a tl • t^tt 1 trrij t ttttrt1 tn 1 !?!!.?'--} salisbury f c n0vembeh 29 1877 0 6 the congressional election , ix the yi it 1878 \,, i " ,-. , ,- . kxistsi i'.k 1 v i the i \ ws 01 1 uk s i l k vxd i iiosk of the i m ■ i v l,*l tiieki , stix1 l.l i liml last week s there any other law of the state which orders tii election to be held in august i '<' '• chapter 132 sec i caws 0 f i '; i p h ; -. lias been cit i as an ,' that i lb-el i hat act was ratified the 14th day of feb 1-7 after the passage through ongress of the act ,,,- |-' ( . and i-a tin refore liable to ,],,. k i ii ■ objections i have jusl btat l in i t tr u (] in sec •„'. ch 22 ol bat rev bui sec l.i'fih 132 laws of 1873 74 does im i even in express terms authorize an i , lion to be held in august 1878 at all win ii it was fust adopted it did direct in eh ction for certni including meinbi , of • ongress to be held on the 1st 1 imisday in august 187 t and en ry f lltl j , ." bi . i lie section wns amended by the act of march 22 ! -"... li !.. 187 i 75 cli f\7 sec 4 p 31 ), so as only to authorize an election for said includin ■ members of congress jo he held on the tuesday next after the l-.t monday in november i 7(5 there is no other man law bearing upon the question li follows therefore irresistably thai • in re is no law nf the state v liich author izes much less requires an election for congrc i i to i 1 held in august 1878 iln the contrary il will bo in express vio of | he laws ot n'oi i h i larolina and of lie constitution and laws of the ; cd states for the ncxl election for . smelt in i his state to lie held on any either day in the year 1878 than the one lixed and i tablished by congress if sei . i i intended a congressional elec tion to be held ii august why not say 80 .' ii i very wrong to assume that the legislature of 187b 77 intended to au thorize an unconstitutional election in . 1878 that body knew full well that ii law of ongress required the election for members of that bodv to be held in november 1878 why should the legislature be so blind and ignoraul as to stultify its it i why should it de liberately <!•> ail absurdity ? common is a sutricicnt guide to tea 1 us t lint the legislature could not have intended to do such a vaiu or absurd thing one oflieber's rules is if one interpretation would lead to absurdity the other not we must adopt the latter another rule is ihis if the law admits of two inter pretations that is io be adopted which is agreeable to the fundamental law e g a constitutional aci of congress as in mr case though the other may have been adopted previously in our case the fundamental law was adopted lirst licber's rules sedgwick ou stat and const law ]>. 28 i will als.i remark that see 25 of the u.s revised statutes being passed in pursuance of paragraph i sec i art iv ofthe constitution ofthe united states does nol alter any ofthe state regu lations relating to holding congressional elections except only as to the time aud ii cannot be seriously contended thai there arc now no statutes of this slate in force regulating and prescribing the places and manner of conducting and holding elections for representatives in congress iu reply to this position how ever the raleigh observer of the 9th inst with an evident touc of triumph reniat mr ll.n rson rays the federal statute - only the time of holding the < '• i for congressman leaving all other matters to the re • the si ite law . however thai thes ; ns as laid down in battle's revisal in addition to lixii in - iction 2 the day of election on the lay in august n quii'c i'i s ■ tion '■> 4 the si to i ■■', and •• impure the .' it what then '.' will it 1 e coi ', nded that the federal statute will change that also if this be bo there is little need for any state legislation on lhe sub ject it must be remembered that the votes f..r congressmen are ii compareed a arc - i ieneral assembly unfortunately dr the observer sec 4 ch 22 of rat rev upon which it relies its citation of sec 3 is evidently a cleri cal error has been amended by striking oat third thursday of august and in sert ing in lieu thereof the words " tucsdt ." i law • of i87li 77 ch i sec i and 1 may just as well re mark here that the observer is almost equally unfortunate in all its other cita tions of north carolina statutes relating to this controversy this amendment plainly proves that the legislature in lie eh et ion law of 1877 must certainly have intended that the election for congressmen should be held in nov 1 78 for why should an election beheld in august and a comparison of the voti s by the sherilfs to be postponed until the 3rd tuesday in november following which also shov s that the i .< gisl it arc did no consider sec 2 ch j of bat rev to be in force bul must have int ud ded to direct the electiou to be held in no ember if the observer had examined the elec tion laws of the stati a little more care fully it would have also scon that the iimli of requiring the sheriffs to m et together in each congressional dis trict for the purpose of comparing the . .\ ... had been abolished nol onl . ■ tion 20 27 28 21 ch 275 laws ot'187(i 77 bul also by chapter 11)9 of the laws of 1 ii 7 both of v liich acts require the returns for members of the house of represoutat ives of the united states con to be made diaeel to the secretan ite to be counted by the board of state cauvassers but section i ch 22 of rattle's revisal had not been ami nded on the 7th day of novemlier l-7ii when the last general < lection wns held in this state the state law then required the election for con lield in november lav - to meet tog titer in th si cts to coul . a ... '. | bat li • .. ch • i why does uot congress take notice of this irregularit f according to the argument of tho observer on this account if for no other the titles of the north carolina -• **■ an doubtful and di i ctive for although liu legislature has endeavored to cure the irregularity laws of 187(1-77 ' ;• l ec 2 ii is a matter of grave doubt 1 ; that i.mlv can i galize acts -•;- terly void and without authority of law ns the observer seriously maintains in its issne of the oth inst in regard lo a sug gestion of mine that if there be any irreg ularities in the present election law the next legislature can pass an act ea>ily removing the difficulty i iuu--i nol forgd t remiud your read er that it was nol necessary for lhe laws of the state of north carolina lo make iiiil provision whatever about the time of holding elections forcongr men thai has been fixed by the laws of congress whether the states amend their laws to conform in ii or not lhe law of con gress alone is nil that is neces-sary and as for providing machinery for carrying tin federal law into execution ihe ex isting laws of this state are amply suf ficient withoul any further legislation see chapter 199 and 275 laws of 1870 77 t have no doubt myself that there are quite a number of i states of the cnioii which haveasyel madenoamend ments whatever to their election laws notwithstanding the aci of congress of feb j i fa but have deemed that statute sufficient withonl the necessity of alter ing their local laws with the view of making them conform in express terms to the law of ( ongress i is true the constitution confers upon the u s house of representatives the right to judge of the elections returns and qualifications of its members art i sec .">. i ) ; but i have no hesitation in expressing the opinion that no parti san majority in congress however un scrupulous or corrupt whethei radical n democrat will in the bright daylight j during this generation at least dare to expel from the iialls of congress all the rcprescntal ives ofa state who have been duly elected according to the ordinary forms of law n the day expressly appoint ed by congress for the election to beheld the returning hoard system has become too offensive and odious t the people of the whole united states for any political : ; party .<> adopl its maxims and practice at the ipitol ofthe union i am also per j fectly satisfied thai the laws of this state i arc now far more full and complete on ' the whole subject of elections than those ofa majority of the states of tlie union the law is much more p rfect than it ; was al the time the last election was held i lie shi riffs after thai election niel and 1 compared the polls for the votes for mem bers of congress on hi third tuesday in \ november whereas the law required mum to meet and compare them on flu lird '< thursday in august the law also then ; required the votes for electors of presi i ■ deni and vice-president to be counted by i - the county canvassers who were also i directed to make out an abstract of the votes in each county aud seal ii with tlie j county seal although the law had not provided for any county canvassers at i all and nol more than a dozen counties in the mate had county seals it is not necessary to pursue tho argu ment further i have shown that the , ' stal lite laws ot non i cnrr-hr-jr rrptm im | subject matter of this inquiry does not come in conflicl with the laws of the i united states there is not one section ' of our state laws which cud possibly ; be wrested into the semblance ofthe con trary view of course i refer to see 2 ch j'j of battle's revisal but if that section was still in force it would be con i trolled by sec 25 of the u s revised statutes but il is no longer in force having been absolutely repealed by chap ! ter to of the laws of l>7ti-'/7 is incon sistent with sec i of said ch 22 as i amended by ch 1 , see i . laws of is76-'77 and has been also virtually repealed by see 1 h 132 lawsof ls/'i-t-l as amend ed by see's | and 4 of chapter 237 laws ' of 18 l-"75 the amendiiienl to battle's ; re i -.:'. >. c i ch 22 l i 1870-77 ch i see !). and another to sec i ch 132 laws of i !. caws 1874-75 see's i and i both escaped the notice of | the raleigh observer in it discussion of the whole question i conclude by saying thai there arc no ' defects iu our existing state election laws i which necessarily require a remedy and most assuredly there are none of such | character as cannot be cured except \ through the help if the g ncral . ! ■ ■ . ion i ti be called by the < lev el nor f there were any real conflicl be ween . ui mate and federal election laws congress is perfectly competent to make all necessary regulations in regard thereto const it s art i sec 4 li ). the colorado contested election case - although the fads in that case do not j throw much light upon tho question in j v lved in this discussion ill probably j suggesl to congress the propriety of so nn dii ing the ped ral statutes upon the j ibjecl of cli lions as to avoid any pos ontlicl hereafter bei v en the laws federal government uud those of atcs t s ii to planl and harvest f.ttu is attended ' with much can and expense and most farmers exhibii commendable industry up to this point but when those crops are to be fed out many of them do it with tiie greatest recklessness corn ts thrown to hogs in muddy slushy yards hay is scattered upon the ground to be tramp led in the manure by the cattle and tlie den nly sheep receive their hay and grain in the same manner wa diington letter : the prcsidenl and mrs hayes decline all invitations to the theatre and places of amusement man agers feel that they have at goodadvi r tisemeuts since they can uo longer uot-i public that the pn sid ul and fam ily will occupy a private box luring the performance on certain evenings mr and mrs hayes are veiy devoul method ists the whit house and its inmates are c seceding popular there is a re freshing absence of pretention and foi m ality the presidcul aud his wife have es cordial manners which spring from kindness of heart they are quick and ready in conversation so that there are no awkward pauses they are net afraid to converse freely and do not ap pear to put any restrainl npon their ut terances as though they feared misrepre sentation this too is a contrast io the last regime loaning a lover my sister patricia wns an heiress strange enough for we had always been terribly poor down at lowbridge my widowed mother bringing tip her four daughters with the greatest difficulty but when brought up we wort worth looking at i believe healthy habits and frugal living aie apt t make good conditions nnd lless and amy nnd pa tricia aud i were as bright and handsome girls ns arc often seen bess and amy were twins with eyes as blue as the sea near which they were born rosy checks and long light-brown curls patricia was a sparkling brunette while 1 was a perfect blonde with crink led hair like molten gold great hod been onr excitement when aunt betty wrote from fairhaven : deau sisteb-in-law : 1 am going to do myself tiie pleasnreof visiting you this summer i hear that brother abel has hli four girls and i want to see them i mn getting on in years and will make one of them my heiress etc aunt hetty of fairhaven was worth 100,000 if she was worth a cent well in due time she came she put ii at the hotel for our cottage at low bridge wasn't big enough to hold her with her maid coachman and carriage : but fortunately that was close by and she spent ih larger half of three days with us we all thought bess would be her choice for father had named her eliza beth for amd betty though she had al ways been bess with us but it was not either of the twins and it was not i - it was patricia where did thai girl gether black hair aunt hetty asked as soon as she saw her i think she looks like mv brother luke hm you .'*" asked the mother with a wistful look the very image of him answered ann betty turning pale 1 divined then as 1 learned afterward that uncle luke had been a lover of aunt j betty's when both were young before her marriage and the fact seemed to have a power over her she looked at patricia until the girl blushed rosy-red and would have slipped out of the room when she called her to her and drawing her down upon her knees on a footstool beside her she put a m iilit-ivtl lminl a na.li a'nlt ut ih yotmg cheek and said warmly : my thai you shall bo my heiress so il was patricia she chose to leave ber money to ;. but ive were nol left out iu the cold for she sent the twins who wen only lli lo a convent school for two years and invited me with patricia to the hermitage it was her home a stalely old mansion of grey stone gloomy-looking on tin out side but luxuriously comfortable and beautiful within without being in the leasi modern we had each a maid and lhe free use of th horse ami carriage after making this provision lb our com fort aunt betty excused herself from mak ; ing company of ns and we were free as 1 ; air to enjoy ourselves as we chose pro | vided we did nol interfere with her naps ! we chose to make a great many pleasant i acquaintances guided conscientiously by aunt betty's wishes and the result was thai 1 returned to lowbridge in the sum mer engaged to mr clyde sherrington lie wns wealthy handsome agreeable well-connected everybody said ger : t ru*l has done well for herself thai autumn aunt betty died patricia was to coin in possession of her fori une in a year when she was ji full and un ; disputed possession of 100,000 it was arranged that we were all to coin lo the hermitage lo live wc did s and had lived there quietly as was i becoming fur nearly a year when pa tricia made the acquaintance of mr cage redmond she m el him first at a funeral — of all places !— the occasion caused by the death of our uexl neighbor gen delacy gage redmond being a neighbor of his he was well-connected but poor as a chnrch monse people said so of course he was after patricia's fortune mamma declar ed patricia is rich and beautiful pray don't let her marry a fortune-hunter mamma said i looking up from a letter 1 was writing to mr sherrington l would not if i could help if but what authority have 1 gertrude said my mother in a few months patricia will be in undivided possession of her fortune we are here only by courtesy the hermitage is her home i have no i ' ht to control her whatever il your influence mamma ?" will have veiy little eti'ect if she sets her heart on this age redmond pray stop stating vacantly out of the window gertrude and att ud to what i say i want assistance in this matter please excuse me 1 am thinking of my own affairs just now mamma they may be of no consequence to you bul my letter is a matter of some importance to inc i did not mean to be saucy only pet i tish : and mamma having had long ex perience with four headstrong girls bore it with me quire patiently weil finish your letter gertrude and then advise with me but my train of thought was broken and after a few moments 1 put the sheet in my writing-desk what can't be accomplished openly must be done by stratagem mamma it is probable that gage redmond is after patricia's money she is a great prize matrimonially well you say i am prettier than patty suppose i play de coy j what ?" cried mamma mr redmond is dark and reserved i am fair and volatile don't you think he would appreciate my style of beauty if i took a little pains to4nake him do so '." but mr sherrington ?" i will tell him he will not object i think he will oh no ! he will be interested in the good of the family lie comes next week fortunately patty is sick with a cold and mr redmond can see but little of her until then quite pleased with my scheme 1 ran np stairs to give patricia her cough-drops sitting down at the window of her room and bowing cordially to mr redmond whom 1 could see writing in his uncle's study in the great mansion across the way the larches hid all the house but that one window he was there a good deal and i reflected that patty's blue silk curtains were more becoming to my style of beauty than to hers i'll bring my embroidery up and sit with you patty 1 said do she said i am tired of watch • ing the evergreens swaying about against that gray spring sky so 1 filled my lamp with rose-colored worsted and framed myself in the blue window drapery for mr redmond's ben efit inst the culms to set off tin snow ami pink of my complexion i had the satisfaction of meeting his eyes more than once when 1 glanced over the way seems to me you've wonderfully good spirits gert remarked patricia languid ly the delacy dinner-bell rang and mr redrvtond disappeared well i must take them in another di rect ion now 1 said rising i can't give any more time to you sis for i want to finish my blue silk suit before mr sherrington comes you'd better take a nap patricia settled herself obediently among her cushions suddenly she lifted her beautiful head lias mr redmond called to inquire for n to-day l*-ily no 1 believe not i replied indif ferently she showed a moment's sur prise then settle herself on her couch again and in live minutes was sleeping sweetly the blue silk suit was finished and having laid aside my half-mourning for aunt betty and donucd it the family pronounced the effect charming is mr sherrington coming to-day crime i asked mamma yes "] want to say to you my dear that en mr sherrington's account 1 don't think you had better — " she whispered bul i interrupted her by exit from the apart ment the next train brought mr clyde sher rington how delightful that the spring is at baud said he the sunshine growing warm and the grass springing ! i passed a bit of wood coming up from the station that is full of arbutus we will have some delightful walks lerty i am very tired of city life yes clyde dear : but you see i have been obliged to make a little plan which will interfere somewhat with that ar rangement i replied quickly in fact for the family good you know i want to lend you to patricia ?"' lend me ro patricia .'" yes : while i lure away a most ineligi ble suitor she has mamma and 1 con clude thai il is the only way i added patricia has a fortune of 100,000 you know yes well wc think this mr gage red mond is after her money lie is only a briefless lawyer we can't afford to let patty make such a match as that and so as 1 don't think i'm a totally uninterest ing person — do you clyde am going to try and flirt a little with mr redmond now you won't be a bear ami say no w ill you dear and you'll try to help us by devoting yourself a bit to patricia wou't you ?" at first my companion did not believe that 1 was in earnest but when convinced of my sincerity his astonishment was in expressible 1 remembered that he stam mered out some faint objections bur i would nor listen and before retiring thai night i whispered to mamma that i had made it all right with mr sherrington and she had only to observe how nicely 1 would manage the whole matter 1 sent patricia off in th morning to find arbustus with mr sherrington while 1 waited to receive mr redmond when he came i was in the garden and had ordered lunch an hour earlier than usual my pale-blue silk looked beauti ful on the lawn grass pray come and see my tulips mr redmond i called as he walked up the avenue he came pleased enough and as he was specially fond of flowers i had no difficulty in detaining him for more than half an hour then seeing him look at his watch 1 observed we won't wait for lunch for patricia ; for mr sherrington is with her they have gone roaming off after spring flowers aud may not be back this three hours come in and have a bit of salad with a cup of chcolate mr redmond 1 made the chcolate myself and can recommend it so i kept him for another half hour and he left pleased with his visit patricia and mr sherrington came back only fifteen minutes after the usual lunch hour the former so delighted with a pro fusion of pink arbutus as hardly to heed when a servant informed her that mr redmond had called to sec her and stay ed with mi*as gertrude for lunch she had put the rosy clusters in her dark hair and on the bosom of her grace ful gray dress and flushed with her long iambic i think i never saw her look so perfectly lovely he has been here very nice of yon to keep her out of the way so long 1 whispered to clyde helookedatmequeerly but said nothing i did not want him to expostulate with me as i believed he wished to do and so kept apart from him during the evening leaving him to play and sing with patri cia he was interesting with his very nat ural manner of reserved modesty i was glad that patricia found him so he had pale silken hair that fell in shadowy curls over a beautiful forehead soft dark eyes softly-modulated tones he con trasted nicely with her dark spirited beauty clyde has an elder brother raymond — ju si the one for patricia i mused i wonder if it cannot be brought about but i soon had my hands full for at all hours ofthe day and night mr redmond came to the hermitage and it was not long before my success as a decoy was patent to the most careless observer he asked only for miss gertrude he came solely to see me in three weeks the crisis burst upon me he proposed 1 used to think mr sherrington was your lover he said standing before me tlie light on his frank handsome face but late observation bus shown me that his visits here are i'm your sister since you are free then will you not marry me lean support you well gertrude or i would not ask you to bind your future to mine the death of my grandfather two years ago left me 50,000 besides some real estate i have a pleasant home on the hudson — retired but elegant — where i would like to take yon what do you think iiert rude could you be contented to leave your friends and live at rose cottage with me f my amazement allowed me to stammer nothing intelligible in some distinct way i temporized the matter aud begged mr redmond to give me time for reflection he went away making an appointment for the next evening so thunderstruck was i by the revela tion of mr redmond's wealth that 1 wan dered about the house in a dazed way not heeding how mamma was fretting about patricia who had gone to rial with mr sherrington what is the matter mamma ? is it going to storm ?" i said at last to storm nonsense where are your eyes gertrude / but it is nearly 9 o'clock patricia has been gone seven hours with mr sherrington and i know somel hing is v rong what .'" 1 demanded arousing myself i don't know mine 10 ii and 1-2 o'clock passed no carriage no news at noon the next day the buggy drove into the yard patricia and clyde sher rington alighted patricia coolly pre sented her husband they had t eu mar ried the ■■ veiling before by our pastor al : idge so nice ami quiet said patricia no fuss no notoriety she took her place cooll al the table i ■ you needn't hesitate to take ( age now gertrude ; he's dead in love with yon and as i like clyde best i though im decide the man r without any complica tions 1 think i was dumbfounded but i found my tongue when mr redmond came that evening and said yes i give my experience for the benefit of others if is dangerous loaning one's lover the choice a quaker residing in paris was waite on bv n.ur of his workmen in order to ra ike i :. • ir i orapliments nua a-k according to lhe ci ramon custom for their new year's gifts well my friend said tbe quaker here nre your gil -: choose fifteen francs or this bible i don't know how to read said the first so i take the fifteen francs i can read said the second but i have pressing wants lie took the fif teen francs th.e third also made the he now came to the fourth a young lad of thirteen or fourteen the quaker ed at him with an air of goodness saying will von too take those three pieces which von mav train at any time hy your labor and industry as you say the book is good i will take it and read it to my mother replied the ley he took the bible opened it and found between the leaves a prdd piece of forty francs the others uv.n down their heads while the quaker quietly told them that he was sorry that tbey had not made a better choice the vanderbilt villainy it is sworn that for years old vander belt kept a strumpet in the family until his wife became crazed about it and was sent to the asylum when she died all the children protested except wm el wim wbue admitting that his mother was grossly wronged said the old man would have his way and that he did not pro pose to lessen his chances by interfering after mrs ws death another strumpet was selected by tlie i idesl son to keep the dotard under her influence when this arrangement was interrupted wm el married his father to a second wife a beneficiary of his own a perfect un derstanding was said ro exist between the son and mrs v as t.i the line of policy she was to adopt in relation to this mr scott lord the well kno'vn lawyer declared that w ii had perpetrated the mosl infamous offense that a son can commit again his father the main objccl was to persuade the silly i.i man that ho oughl i'i leave his fortune all in a lnmp to his oldest son to influence him the house was lillt-.l with clairvoy ants spiritualists quacks lawyers a in the pay ofthe son once when tin old man felt kindly disposed towards the younger sou a youth who resembled him was dressed up and sent to the slums there to be seen and recognized as cor nelius at such and such placi s but we can only skim over the less putrid points ofthe story justly does the philadelphia 77.j ■• remark : was there ever a more disgraceful case before a court of law ? whether the charges are true or false the whole busi ness is offensive beyond toleration and ought to cover the name of vanderbilt with shame there is no such excuse for a contest that involved such a disclosure right-minded people would have sacrificed every cent they have in the world rather than come before the public with it mrs le bau and her brother might well have taken a tithe of their poi tion rather than expose the skeleton and william ii vanderbilt should have paid thrice the amount that was asked rather than allow it to be exposed it is as bad as the beecher tilth the affair serves however to impress lessons of which the world is continually reminded although it never learns to profit by them trite though they be ihey cannot be too often repeated riches however desirable never bring unalloyed happiness and too frequently crime and misery ghaw the heart that is covered by robes of the finest texture somebody has said that the almighty shows his con tempt for wealth by the kind of people upon whom he bestows it and long before him a wiser man said that money is the root of all evil these considerations and others in the same vein that characterize the scriptures of all religions and the pro verbs of all lands will not be likely to cause anybody to desist from the pursuit of riches nut they should in the light of such examples as thai ofthe vanderbilts make men avoid hoarding for the sake of hoarding or forthe sake of makinga thank less posterity rich in this world's goods wealth selfishly acquired or selfishly be stowed is ever a curse what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world aud be pilloi ied by his children as a knave who was nol ;';'. to live .'" the next mississippi legislature the washington star thinks will be proba bly the mosl unanimous legislative body as far a politics are concerned thai ever met in the united males the senate thirty-six members is solidly democratic and ofthe one hundred and twenty mem bers of the house ne hundred and four teen are democrats four independents and two republicans the independents an so call d because elected in opposit ion ti the regular democratic nominees bul they are also democrats so that of the on ■ hundi i >'■ . ud fifty sis mcmbei of the mississip i legisli i urc one hu i tired and fifty-four are ! democrat an i i o ai i ; i i i ci u - . that trill do prett well for a s1 i has a majority of colon il votei - ... i iters and we are truly glad w s c such a convincing proof that our colon d fi ii uds \ have not altogeter and evi ry i in re closed the windows of their minds to the light of reason we would remark however in passing that our contemporary is mistaken iu sup posing the mississippi legislature will be the mosl unanimous legislative body that has assembled for if we mistake nol the mary land legislature has - ii tl war been entirely unanimous in both bnmches we would remark also that the complexion of the mississippi legis lature iioes nol eem to bear oui m r i ayes declarat ion tl re arc indication i . ., dissolution of the democratic party in that state a -'. observer an in utstrial vf , ' ;'■■, v j - , ■ u .-.. [ hilanthropic individ lal - in boston cl ii i of helping a ployed mi a by giving thei ard for preparing kindling and t«.v wood this plan directly and indirectly was the means for relieving the buh ring of - me two hundred and fifty persons who were witl ing tn work rather than to tntm and beg the ...-, .,-, d po a that this ni [ will be put in operation during the i . i wim r .: personal combat ina turkish bath one of the most ludicrous combats on record occurred at a turkish bath in st loui a v days ago two mortal ene mies a physician an.l a bank cashier happened to occupy neighboring couches in the hotest room ot the establishment and were enjoying a thorough steaming before they noticed each other a wordy warfare was instantly begun which soon developed into blows ami the two naked a each drenched with perspiration were locked in a deadly struggle tiie strip of matting which protects the bath er's feel from the almost red-hot boor was soon pushed aside and lhe tight went on furiously upon the blistering pavement as the lloor began to born their bare feet li;e combatants capi re.l up and down iu agony pounding each other's faces with the fury of dispair tin wildest dervish dance uc er exhibited so extraordinary a spectacle at lasl the attendants rushed in an i separati 1 tha perform rs and pro ceeded to bind up their many wounds ihe shriveled skin peeled from the soles of the doctor's feel like parchment and the cashier was al o pretty well roasted they parted full of threats but win 11 they bght again ii probably won't be in the midst of a furnace an aromatic pipe uml color in thirty seconds there will he two opinions as to whether m gisclon in removing some of the troubles of pipe smoking has or bas not di ne a philan thropic work ii his invention tends :.. pro mote pipe smoking he has net ; hut it we con sider that people will smoke despite all the preaching to the contrary ihat can be done m gisclon deserves credit for obviating some of ihe expense much ofthe annoyance and posi blysomeof the dangers el the tobac o pipe lia soaks a * ipe ofcommon porous i lay worth a few ctir.s in a mixture of ether and ah hei to which a little rose essence is added and in which is dissolved 10 percent by weight of camphor and 10 per cent of borax er othei qnx willi thi is combined a trace of nitrate of silver in this preparation as above stated the pipe may ha soaked er the compound can be applied with a brush ever the parts which il is desired to color the advantages of this treatment m gisclon ays are that tin pipe is made to look like meerschaum and to have a hue i:h'-s the smoke perfumed hy the rose ami camphor is agreeably aromatic the pipe is cheap and ii will color nicely either hy smok ing or exposing it to the light in the latter instance thirty seconds exposure is stated to be quite sufficient underground telegraphs between berlin and halle an nndground telegraph wire has been in use for one year and underground wires are about to he laid be tween berlin an.l the cities of cologne frank fort strasbourg breslati hamburg kiel and konigsberg thereby dispensing with posts and insulators and avoiding the cost of their main tenance the copper wires which convey the electric current ore enclosed in wrought iron pipes an.l are hermetically enclosed by insulat ing materia which protects them from the ac tion of air and wati :\ and prevents oxidation we surrender much of onr space this morning ami mosl cheerfully to the speeches of our worthy congressmen messrs davis and steele we commend them mosl cordially to our readers col steele was fortunate in getting tin ear of ;;,,■ ii ,;-,-.■ iu hi maiden address aud those of i.s who know him doubt not that he will keep it audit mr chittenden of new york does nol remember mr di vis . • > iii ily ing day . i ; s ill 1 only for the reason thai he has the thick si hides and the siioi ti si of meniori r it always doe as good to see north caroli nians come so gallantly to the front as messrs davis and steele havedonc.-12az ,;,/, obscr i r ft is remarked of the hebrews of xew vork thai while they form ftboul ten per cenl . of tl ipnlal ioi of thai city they ibutc less than one p r cent to the crimii • ' ne 1 1 nson for ihis is as a race tin j are i ducat i to habits of industry an i • if ih pcndi i cc and are not given to vices thai have a criminal tendency another is lie riich of them as happen to !>•• stricken with poverty and destitution arc carefully provided for and nol i isl upon the v orld to be come beggors and outlaws ami enemies to society tin re is much in the lewis , conomy thai < in isl iaus mighl profit r western pioneer the federal conn clos d il - fall tu nn friday at noon and :; t ! o'clock ili honor left for home th ity revenue c g i w i ii conspiracy was continn d till in ' ■ was also th ,. -,-. w ( '. met ai thy chai ged . with i mb z di nn nt the com i disallow ed tin on of e w !..■;. . to have his case removed from the state court to the united st tes court his honor hold ing that ii did not come within the scope of the united states laws in relation to , the n !*■*; is charged : with ' , ■ iu watauga colli • ; . •"•"•">- wheu sir wall i scotl wa - nrgi tl not ■ ,,, prop tin fallen credit ol one of his ac i nuaintanccs he replied : the man was , nv f • : | win :■ my fi if were few nnd ; v\-jll lie his now that iii enemies are many ."