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w . : v ?? 9 X v VOL .IV. " ]>. i a*v; /<; A'o r.s r r a it i:x r.s IX MODERN LITER ATURK. BY PROP. CHA8, K. RICH A HDHON. Jirhe streams ?perhaps one should say the great tides?of literature can bo kept pure and wholesome only by constant and conscientious watchfulness on the part of all who affect them or are affected by them. Indeed, the idea that letters take care of themselves, or are moved by mere "tinui .nut " i>a ninm iilln if thing, than tlie notion that a man is a creature of fate, or a nation the result of cold "manifest destiny," encountered without reference to popular education or the spread of righteousness. If anything in the world is an intentional creation, produced by the will of its maker and deliberately adopted or rejected by its reader, it is a book. Whatever a figure we employ regarding literals ture,?its currents, forces, fashions f the fact clearly remains that the (great laws of free choice and individual responsibility apply to it in every moment of its existence and \Sy work. The good in printed matter is to be spread by intelligent purpose, and the bad is to be suppressed or lessened by honest and well directed endeavor*' In trying to say something concerning evil tendencies in so brosul a subject as that of books and reading it will he well to select a few well-marked banes, and to comment upon them in language the brevity of which shall at least be free from ty * blindness or w'earisomohess. Three dangerous elements in our current publications occur, perhaps most promptly u4H strongly to the mind of the well-wisher to liteva] ture; and however poor or trite the comment upon these three things, it will be sure to be beneficial fro.ni the very fact that it must address many L minds which, of their own motion, have more than once reflected upon the topics under discussion. The first of these evils is sensationalism. Our newspapers and t, magazines, to be sure, have devoted greater space to the discussion of ( (piiet, unsensational "realism," with ?P / occasional allusions to Tolstoi and B| pessimism or Zola and grim sewerIt, ism. But, after all, most American L \l readers, if we use that word in the L broadest sense; trouble themselves very little with Mr. James' three or SSL ~ four annual volumes; Tolsoi and Russian gloom are largely a tempoBB vary "fad" in the higher circles; and even Zolaism, to borrow the poeti laureate's word, is for the most part foreign and as yet unassimiluted. MB When any little American writer exj periments with woe and TTadncss KHj 1 ** which would be complete if they HBjR were not so evidently artificial, the BhA'' / resulting attention is temporary, fl / Orrthe whole, our American taste tuoes not liKe oestiality, adultery, or godlessuess, so well as square honesty, homeloving purity, and manly conscience. But for that, reason it is all the more unfortunate that the universal craze for something new should lead thousands of readers to cheap and demoralizing "detective" stories; to preposterous and ill-written parodies of Poo or the Arabian Nights, with an occasional fragment otso ctdled modern "science" thrown in; or wrotohcd novels, by native or foreign mamufacturers, in which, if absolute vice is seldom portrayed, aotual life is never by any possibility delineated. The "libraries" of ten or twenty cent pumplilets have unill MAAAtl 4 1 W /I <> ? A * ?1? i ? ? ? ^ Pm iwvunjr, uuiiu muuu HI popularise standard fiction; but just now the printers and the news stands have discovered that more money is to be made by the sale of twenty-five or fifty cent duodecimos, in gaudy paper, by writers of whom no intelligent reader has heard or ever cares to heap An inspection of the literI ary departments of our railway staL tiotis; or of the armfuls carried by ' the peripatetic venders on the trains, Bp is enough to jremind us how much education is needed before half of our* young men and women can realBB ly Ifp said to know how to read at A second mischief-maker in curSB rent literature is indifferentism. If the classes which, in view of thoir W means for education and their apparent social position, are usually callerr on the side of the ill ~? _c sensational, tlieir alleged betters are sinners on the score of Laodicean* j ism in letters. Two many readers? and, of course, hack-writers, who know how to address themselves to the market of purchasers?feel or affect a liking for laziness, quietism, .... :l.. \? 1 Ul JUlfMlUUlSiVJlll oil [Ml 111; I it 11IV iVIIJ ^ mental exertion, even that required ( by an old lachrymose novel of the i order so dear to Miss Lydia I-an- 1 guish, is a trial; they may endure excitement in small doses, in the papers, but not in largo, between covers. To write or read without plan or passion, without admiration or disgust, is almost more hopeless than to full into mental sin or literary excess. We have scores of young novelists, in England and America, who can turn out a fairly respectable story?or set of maundering pages not deserving so coherent a name. Their wares are bought anil then thrown aside, but meanwhile the mischief is none the less (leadening because it is nol malicious. Josh Hillings once remarked that "you can't make a wet string stand on end;'' and sometimes it does seem as though indilferentism, though, relined, were more hopeless than sensationalism, though crude. () listless book-maker and reader, be something! -either cold or hot, good or bad, optimist, ami your work will either be healthful or curable. At any rate, it will have a mark and character of its own. A third, and in one sense peculiarly American, evil, is a widespread tendency to turn everything into ridicule. Callow youth indulge less in . cigarette-cynicism than twenty years ago; but the. newspapers have not niprovcd much in the matter. Our presidents are weakling or boors; our statesmen, tricksters or ward politicians; our minsistcrB of the gospel, superiluous salary-takers; our public schools, places to rid parents of the care of their children? our doe. tors, drug-dispensers and grave fillers, in humorous league with undertakers; our lawyers, mere shysters; our army, a resort for "ne'erdo wells;" our navy, a set of halfscuttlijd hulks. The "Indian problem" is how to deal with tomahawk1 ing brutes, and the "Southern qucstion" one of endurance of six million chicken-stealers. If our children do not come to believe those cheerful statements, it will not be < because they have not read them in some books, in more gaudy pain phlets, and in many journals. And jnst there, in too many daily and secular newspapers, is one great root of the present evil. 10very really intelligent and thoughtful American must believe in the essential rectitude of our national life plan, and hold optimistic views concerning this great people of ours; a nation of freedom, intelligence, schools, churches, libraries sel f-reliant individualism, heroes and saints,?of men and women who, in the horrors of any new war or great disaster, or , in the ordinary duties of humdrum life, are as worthy of beatification as half the old celebrities in the "Acta Sanctorum." And our newspapers, at their best, are by, of, and for such a people. Hut at their worst they misrepresent it, and one must say, though with reluctance, that their tone is lower than it was twenty five years ago. Let no one hastily arraign a whole profession,?profession which, as truly as any other, not excepting the clerical or the education al, ought to he the salt of our American earth; nor let any one forget many striking exceptions, especially, perhaps, on the part of religion, miscellaneous, and country newspanftl'M. and r?f mil' lnmiflilv inarm vi n/ta 1 , ?? ?J p.**"1 t the best of which arc t he best in the ' world. Hut let each reader of these ( words dispassionately ask himself ; whether he is not annoyed, often | and often, in sonie daily or weekly paper he reads, by detailed accounts of disgusting crimes, trials, or prize- j fights; by disproportionate attention ( to horse-racing, ball-playing, and yatohing; by a constant tendency to ' magnify the base or the trivialj aud < to to minimize the seriously impor- i tant; by cheap "cuts" and ohcaper . iokes: by advertisements fraudulently printed as reading-matter, or accompanied by long "notices" which 1 were a part of the corrupt promise 1 made by the newspaper's solicitor; < by violence or indecency of treat- , mcnt of political opponents;, by the vulgarization of Sunday through 1 swollen sheets of irreligious and un- 1 literary trash, hawked at the very i iii "Be True to Your X)~NWA?~, 8. c. shuroh doors;* in a word, by sensa . tionalism, indifferentism, and a constant tendency to turn things to ridicule? If you are never vexed by these ills, then you are wise or fort- 1 unate in your choice of periodicals: < if they annoy you, then purify your ^ home literature, anil prow your j strength of conscience, by forbidding this dangerous current to tlow 1 daily through your door. Better 1 one act of improvement than a bun- 1 died words of empty lamentation.? 5 Sunday School Times. ALL A 1K> I T 77/ /</ /?'. 111M K HS 1 News and Courier. Since the rumor that- the ugricut- | turists in this State were going to i put forward candidates for State and < county oflices was published in tho ' News and Courier last week, various I reports have been rife concerning I the alleged semi-political movement. , It has been denied and again assert- J ed as fact until the people have ar- \ rive 1 at a point where they do not know what to bc-lieve. 4 Mr. K. I?. Roche, assistant com- I missiouer of agriculture, who was ! present at tho Pendleton stock show, where tho alleged caucus is said to ( have been held, was seen by a Re- ! porter for the News and Courier ves- 1 tor day and asked about t ho truth ot j the rumors. ? "I really know nothing about the i matter,"said Mr. Uoche, "except what i 1 have seen yi the News and C'ou- | rier, but 1 do not think there is any ground for the reports which are be- I in^r circulated. A caucus of some i kind was held, and I thought it was a meeting of the trustees of the i (Jlomson ("ollege, but I heard after- < wards that it had some serious politi- i cal significance I do" not think there i is any truth in this, however 1 talked ' with a number of the gentlemen nam- i ed in connection with the reporte/1 j' movement, and they said the farmers < were not going to go into any politi- i cal scheme whatever, and so far as j the Alliance, which has been men j | tioned in this connection, is concern- | od, the chief objects of organization | are strictly non-political. Mr. Shell i of I.aureus, who was mentioned for I i secretary of State, lias suitf that his ] present position is a much more pro- < ferahle one, and 1 have no idea that Mr. Tillman will consent to run for Governor. The spirit of the Farmers' Allianco is displayed very clearly, I think, in the election of the officers of their organization in several counties, where they have defeated the extreme candidates and elected conservative ones." A CIIICA GO XCANJ)A L. Ciimwoo, August 20.?The wife of j Millionaire "Mike" McDonald, the * rioted ex-gambler and politician, is f missing. Mrs. McDonald disappear- t B<1 froin her home at the corner of Ashland Houlovard and Harrison < ft street a week ago last Friday, and though a small army of detectives 1 have been retained to discover her j whereabouts, the have succeeded only in obtained her diamonds, pawned or nold somewhere in the Kast. . It is supposed that Mrs. MoDonald is now in Europe. It is being reported this evening that she had as a companion i Catholic priest, who, it is alleged, has been since unfrocked by the CJhuroh. The priest is supposed to have had a parish at South Chicago or some suburb in this locality. The itory is that Mrs. McDonald became acquainted with the priest while he was on a visit to St. Jaralath's parish, of which she was a member. lie became infatuated with her, the admirxtion was reciprocated, and the elope met was planned and executed. Hugh Mullaney, McDonald's coach mar#, took Mrs. MoDonald from the tiouse in a carriage last Friday, hut i }| mid nothing of it until a week had < ^ elapsed, when he told Mr. McJ)oi?ild, adding that he had promised to ^ <eop the matter secret for a week. t There is no escape from opinions, t nferences, actions, save in sterility 11 >f thought, Deserts alone are free t from vegetation; The fertilo field is 1' iccupied; if not by this, then by that; " f not by seemly, then by unseemly, 1 growths.?liascom. v We arc now in danger of sentioer.tal and simpering faith. Charity ti without priuoiplp to guide it may s Jiaiributo its gifts very indiscrimin- h ttely and injuriously. More evil 1 may arise from lawless lovo. which is v fascinating, than from hatred, whioh ii is repulsive.?*/>r. MoCqth, i r ju,v? am mti word arfd Your wor/t Till: USD AY, 1 TALK WITH HAMPTOtf U News aiul Courier. i \V ASIII NOTON, AllgUSt 21. NniUl- ' or Hampton, who is horo for a few i \ lays, has very decided views on the' mlitical situation in the South and I le never hesitates to express them in i i straightforward, interesting manner t it the proper time. No man, per- * mpe, is better qualified than the | Senator from South Carolina to 1 *peuk for the South, lie said to a ; t representative of the Star to-day: "I do not think that Mr. Harrison's1 policy is as yet sufliciently defined | i for one to form a definite opinion , i about it. 'I'he Republicans have al- , t ways made an effort to break into the 1 South, and 1 have no doubt that at < this time they are especially earnest. | At present they are directing their 1 attention chiefly to Virginia, where (s they will certainly be snowed under. ' They have no chance of carrying t Virginia this fall, nor can they hope ? For better success in any other of the i Southern States. < ''They are trying to win by intro- < hieing the economic question in the i South, but as long as the matter of t local self-government domands our i ittoutiou our people cannot be. divi- t led on this issue. Whether a man I is a Protectionist or a Tariff Reformer, 11 the safety or welfare of his home is | paramount to the tariff." "Do you think." was asked, "that there is a growing protective sentiment in the South. "No," the Senatoi reply, "I think ? the tendency is more likely to be the < other way, especially in the mining t and manufacturing districts. Tho I interests of the States of Virginia, i Tennessee ami Alabama particularly ire all advanced by low duties. They can produce iron and coal much I cheaper than they can be produced < in the East. The protection only t tssists the Eastern manufacturers to i keep up this rivalry. Without the t protection rivalry would bo greatly lessened. The less protection, the I more capital will jro to develop tho ( ndustries of the South. Seeing this t I do not think our people will bo led :>ff by this question. The efforts of t !ho Republicans will be in Virginia, f ronnossee, North Carolina and per- < laps Alabama. I do not think they 1 will meet with success 111 iliiv linn of I ,heso Statos. The exodus of negroes < xom North Carolina, if it keeps up, I .vill hurt thoin there, hut they could i lot carry the State anyhow. Mr. ? Harrison's appointments in the South 1 lave been of a character to strength- 11 3D us in the resisfanco of any at- 1 empts made upon the Southern, * States. I know it has been so in 1 South Carolina and 1 presume it. is 11 ho same elsewhere." "Would any injury result to the South from an extensivo exodus?" . a "An inconvenience, but no injury. We would gladly see the colored people move elsewhore, and would bo billing to suffer any reduction of I epresentation that mi^ht result from " heir departure. It would deprive us 1 )f much of our labor and make it a ' ittle harder for the present genera- * ,ion, but it would be the salvation of 4 he future. 1 no not wish any harm I o tho negroes, but I would gladly " lacrifico whatever votes wo got in ' he Electoral College or in Congress ' ly reason of them if they would go c )ff to themselves or settle in Now 1 England. I would gladly vote to ' ippropri a to $50,000,000 for tho pA -- * ;haso of Cuba or some other place N or them to settle in." * 'What do you think the Republi-1 1 sans will do with tho 'Southern (jues- j' ion' in Congress this winter?" "They can do nothing, constitution- 1 dly. I think they will attempt to trovide for Federal supervisors, and | >laco the elections under Federal 1 vontrol. This would bo unconstitu (: ional and vicious. I do not think (1 hev can succeed in this, mid I fir. ^ * ; ' * . iot s?o that there is anything else hat they can do. There are Repubiean Senators who would oppose any * neasures oppressive to the South. ^hose who have investments *here * vould oppose such a policy." < ' Senator Hampton expressed the >p:tiion that there would be no extra r ession of Congress. One reason that 1 ie thought sufficient to deter the P ^resident from calling extra session ( pas found ill the elections to be held t n November, which would necessar- ? ly take some members from their ) <ti)(l ) 'our < 'ovrfh y.'' Al (M ST 21), 1 ;eats. They could not do anytliinoj i f any of these members worn absent,1 ( I'lie death of Mr. Laird, bo tliowolit. i " ' i vould tend to provont a rail. n Speaking of the I )omoeratie policy, i 10 said that they would stand tojreth > ir on the defensive, and ho presum- i id that in the House thoy would ro- I list any attempt on the part of lie- .* luhlicans to unseat I )emoerats mere- * y to seat I Jepuhlieans and strengthmi the majority. KK-l'KNSIONS COM M ISSIO S KS ( M:Y ; . ' s not the nonentity under tie* pros- \ Mit Administration that many periods suppose. In several of the dolartments his endorsements are re- , J yarded as almost sacred, and the applicant who can produce a letter of *ecommendation from Col. Dudley jeldoin |roos away empty handed. The Colonel does not restrict himself j o letter writing hut, he is frequently ( teen in the departments ploadino ' > ith the appointing power in liehalf 1 >f a personal friend'. A prominent ' tltioi.-il ii? Mini ?.f I l.<i ? 1 '...v.*** ... xmiw ui uiu ?iji-iv??vii uuimrt- j 11 (mits remarked only a few days a?*o ' hat Col. Dudley's endorsement in a 1 :ertaiii department is worth more1 ' hail that of any member of the I [louse, or Senate, and he has not been ' it all modest in his demands for his 1 riends. / .1 MASOX/r SKXSATIOX. ' Charleston World, 1 Nkw Yokk, August 20.?Some 5 ixcitoment was caused in masonic ' jircles hero to-day by the rosiona- ' ion of IV M. (Jrand Commander Win. I II. I'eekkuni, a thirty.third decree ' iiember of Cernoau Consistory No. ' I. The cause of the resi?ruation was 1 lectured t he on account of the al- 1 ejjjed ti IH lint ion of the supremo coun- ' ;il of the body with the Cratul < >ri- ' mt of France, which does not reeou* f ? i li/.o the existence of a personal J Jod. ' ? Following is Mr. 1 'ock ham's let .or of resignation. ' "To dwi Masonic Fraternity 1 hrouohout the World: n For forty years f have been an ac- ' ivo member of the Masonic order, as !' bunded in London, Kuirlund by All- 1 lerson and I )osaoulliors in 1717. C )]irilt(f f<\l?r ilA/lll/lno i?y*r Till! *v w ",J i f >elief ami allegiance thereto has nev- ' ' ;r been doubted, while I have at no 1 iino permitted a shadow to darken ( U fair and honored name, and have I ilways been found in tiio front ranks | ' o extend the sphere of its usefulness 1 md to defend it against any or all ! I regularities, holding the belief that | <. here exists no institution foun'ded by i nan outside of our loved and vener- t ible order wherein or whereby (lod's I ireatures on earth can find lessons ' vhicV teach j>eace and good will to r dl. Its dogmas and ethics are in- [ pirations emanating from our h'ath- c sr who art in Heaven. i All Masons ivhornv(*r fimiwl r?v.l >ress their belief in bis divinity and ' iiici all-ruling power. It is the cor- ; mr 8tor?e on wliicli the * Masonic lum- j >le is erected: but the Grand ()riont 1 >f France, from its foundation in l"i 15, through all its schisms and chan- 1 re, after faithfully adhering to the j [foresaid dootune, in 1878 oiimina- | ed the name of (*od from its coflsti- j ution and ritual, thereby compelling ivery symbolic Grand Fudge to do-! lounce the act and sever all raations of amity and correspondence herewith and yet in spite of this j veil known fact, brother F. J. 8. ioorgia, the present (irand Coinnandor of the Ancient an 1 Accepted Scottish rite of tlTT? thirty-third and ast decree of Free Masonry us esablishcd in these I'nitod States by i' Joseph ('er.nean in New York in 18-| >7, <111rii?a visit by him to France ii 1SSS did visit nnd most with the ( ouncil of the order, and did appoint mo of the 'obedience of the said * < 1 1 iraud < >rient a representative there- i f), and a guarantee of amity in be ' alf ?>f the bodv over ivliirdi lu> fl>? s ~"j ? ,,vj i aid Georgian, presides. "Subsequent events, confirm this j net, and painful as it is to me, I am I distrained to publish it." A? a proof that the said council of! j ites, which tie contends is n distinct ( tody from that of the Grund Orient, ^ dr. Peck ha m j^ivos the names of the Strtmd Orient of France "In whoso f >osom is the council of the order," dr. Peclihain adds, "thus showing borond controversy that the names are r v ' . '' '' ''''' '! ' ' ' : ' 1 ? SSI). numbers of and onvo allowance to thu' Irand Orient. and consequently are > mder bun of 11011 -Masonic intercourse mtl that no true Symbolic Mason cpii gnoro the edict of his (Jrutul lodge vhicli interdicts his doing so. Loo!.ng at tin* mutter m all its hearings, [ lind myself, as a loyal meiiiher of symbolic masonry, constrained to lover my collection with tlio Scottish dasonry and the ('orneur Consistory S'o. J, thirty secoml degrees, of this ity, and leave my action to the hid- ; foment of all conscientious names vhorover disjiersod, \S' \i. II. I Y.cMl a m . Past M. P. tieneral Coniinander state of N N . TWO srucrMHX 1I0LDI-: US. Nr. Y. Kventug Post. In commenting the other day up>n the fact that notice of Wannamator's appointment to a place in the ailway nui'l service found a negro illice se l<er of North Carolina sorvng a term in the penitentiary, for a Mirglarv committed after his application for ollioe was sent in, we drew lie lesson that promptness on the art of the appointing power was in- \ lisponsable io the interest of public! norals. A disptaeh published by the '/W'>un< tips morning, however, shows hat promptness in making appoint-I nunts will not act as an insurance igainst offences. Now, according , 0 this dispatch, Henry UaUestraw, 1 negro, was recontly appointed ; lostinnster at Chojaw, S. ('., a town a-hich, according to the , ms seven churches and two acado- | nies. "Karly this week he went, to j Darlington, a larger town, to get londsmon. After making vain of i9 . 'orts in this direction, he hocamo dis- j rusted and got drunk. Ilcwas soon , trrested and taken to the guard j louse, whore in delimit of *ltl ho j was sent to jail for ten days. A osident of Darlington telegraphed ,lio facts to tho postmaster general, dr. \\ anuinnker did not reply, and inallv tho I )omocrats oponed a subicription, the line was paid, and the low appointee was given a free tick)t liome." There is really only one sure euro or such troubles as these, and that s tho ''something equally as good" lire, which the Kvoning I'ost has reicatcdly prescribed. Let respect udo men lie appointed to discharge lie duties of the ollices, and then iay the drunkards and burglars an iqual niiiviunt out of the public; ironstry, to make sure that they will renin an "interest in public affairs." inter inis system the politicians can 'go off on a drunk" or roll a lion oost any.time they choose, while the niblic will always be served by ofli:ials selected on the ground of litioss. s' y Hi'v r /.* <>m ii r a '/' k n m / ; a o\s. News and <'ouriur. Wai/i Mitiiouo, August 20.?Kolowing your suggestions, one of our nost progressive and outorprisinn :itizoiis, who has as a side issue to lis professorship the well earned title ?f model farmer, I'rof. Ilonj. R Stunt, has lately been experimenting in fie manufacture of watermelon syrip, and in a late interview he furlishes the following: lie has manufactured an improvised press consisting first of a large .vashtuh, into which is placed a box nade of stout boards In by 12 inches, i inches deep, perforated on all sides, [testing on and fitting in this box is i shutu 8 feet I inches tall; which vhen filled with the inside of the ....I ... -t iH ium ir> r?uii|un?''U u? ill*' pnjs.iuro >f a heavy !???/ lever. which extracts v n (very particle <>f juice. Ho say a hpt from iwonty pounds of melons ie gets one gallon of juice, and from i if teen gallons of juico one. gallon of yrup worth CO cents. Thut at this ate his small melons have netted lint -3;| cents, while much larger mol>ns, from twenty-five to forty pounds, letted him when shipped to Northern uarkets only 3^ conts. Ho onlcu atoe that with proper attention, with* >ut soiling any of the melons, from v8 to *12 per aero can l>o easily re,lizo<l According to the amount of; ertllizors used. ^ g| Conceit may puff a man tevor prop him up. * tU " jjnnllj? vr ^ X rN i. the hhesi pent wile " llE ASKED TO SOL VE A ll Loll I.EM IN LOUTS/.IN. I HO LIT i OS. ('hnrleston World. N ] :\\ Voiek, Aug. 21.?A Washington special to tho K veiling Post says: . The President, immediately upon his return from Indianapolis to Doer I'ark, will bo called upon by the Kepublican managers to make an important decision as to l.ouisiana politics; viz., whether he will recognize tho element there of which ex-Senator Kellogg is the head, and thus secure a cnited Republican party in the contest to till the vacancy in the third congressional district, or whether ho will continue to ignore Kellogg, and thus make tho election of the Democratic candidate in that district, young Mr. Price, almost certain. It will be an embarrassing position for the president. On? of l.is pet theories has been that the Southern (Congressional dirtrict can be carried r> by white candidates fwrinely connected with the Confederacy, and tho Democratic party upon the protection issue. Such a candidate ami sisue were presented in tho Third Louisiana district by the nomination of Mr. Minor, <1(1 UA v UIIIIMK-Iiiu', \>liu IIUl ago was a Democratic anti-protoetionists. Dot it happens that this , district is a very unfortunate one in which to try an experiment with a white man's organization inside the the Republican party. It. is one of the groat Republican districts of the Teehe section, the homo of Rslloggi the district which he has almost always carried by a very largo majority whenever he has run. Kellogg is master of negro voters of that district, and probably has more influence with them than all other Republican elements combined. If they understand that Kellogg is disafTectod, either as regards the miiiinaii /.? nilmiiiiutixili/in it ia i-nrv ? IM/IIIMIW W1 ll' I III I II lijl ? tV ? ? V?J <lotil>tful Whether the whole Republican voto can be sooured. And there is no hope of carrying the district without that full voto, together, with such white accessions from Mr. Minor's former associates as can be seen roil. ( 'apt. Williamson is now selling hay from his farm near Raleigh to Raleigh livery stable keepers for twenty dollars a ton. Thev pro...... .. ../V ! t I * l.n it fi It ?f \. / vr?t liuon I M >11 I li;iT I I IJUIHH lllilll MIIJ i-HMHIUII liny that comes to that market, and cheaper than the Northern hay they can buy at the same price. This hay, the < '<ill toll.* us, was cut from a field of twenty-five acres which produced two tons to the acre. It was composed of a mixture of tall meadow oat ^rass, and red clover, which is* the Captain's favorite mixture. Here is forty dollars an acre for a crop which it costs very little to cultivate and which leaves the land richer than t it was before, Is there any other c* N raised by the North Carolina fari^ that will pay as well? Occasionally ^ ' cotton does it on very rich land, and sometimes tobacco does it where tho tobacco is of fine quality, ^oingocca I1-. 1 i .1 c I..., sioiptuy uuyouu wiese ngureb, out thero is hii immense amount of labor ami uncertainty with both cotton and tobacco as compared with hay. There is money for our farmers, near cities or railroads, in hay, ami with it a cheap and valuable fertilizer of lands, a good reason if no other existed why farmers should give attention ?o its cultivation Wilminytou Sfur. . I .V I N r L P. A SANT < '(> UTI X (1 / /XI' p: n IR X(' PL A young man named Dixon has just had an unpleasant courting experinco in fnnishowen, County Donegal, Ireland. His lady love is not only very pretty, but she is an heiress, her uncle having left her a fortune. Moroover, she is partial to Dixon. The young inan was callings 0*1 the girl one day when he heard the footsteps of a couple of rivals, and in sportive humor ho concealed himself in the butter box. While he was enjoying the conversation, the girl's fathei camo along with a pail of hot water to scold the box. before the girl divined his purpose he dashed the water into the box. The howl of the snd poor