the larolma watchman vol xiii tsird series salisbury n c june 22 1882 no 36 hydratcd soda the manufacture of which from this mineral is much more rapid and profitable than from common salt as formerly alumina is an incidental pro duct in this manufacture they arrived at greenland and met 11 sail of dutch fishing in horn souud whom they forced away and took from them all they had caught and also the english that were in their ships and made 1900 tuns of oil and discovered wyches island e p r democratic county convention the democratic county convention ; for uovv-an will be hrhl wtp4ht court ', house in salisbury saturday july 1st ! 1882 at 12 o'clock m for the purpose of appointing delegates to the state con i gressional and senatorial conventions ! and for other important business all the democratic voters of the coun ty are requested to meet in convention in their respective townships at the usual voting precincts on saturday june 24th 1882 at 12 o'clock m for the purpose of appointing delegates to the county convention and for full and complete organization according to the plan of or ganization of the democratic central ex exutive committee j w m.vunev 3 a new metal was discovered a few years ago called aluminum this is easily derived from tins mineral it is singular in several respects it is a white metal with a buisli tinge it resists oxida tion or rusting it has a low specific grav ity while iron is about 8 times as heavy a6 the same volume of water tin a little h's8,copper a little more silver more than 10 and lead more than 11 gold more than 19 and platiniuin more than 21 times as heavy as water this metal aluminum is only 2 and six-tenths in specific gravity the republican convention assembles at metropolitan ball yesterday — a large attendance james e boyd was the next speaker he gave a booiu to the liberal move ment saying that the republicans wan ted to shake hands with everybody he said the great heart of the north had yearned for liberalism iu the south aud was joyful at the movement iii progress here his view was that every man who turned his face from the democratic or ganization should be welcomed encour aged and his desires fostered he said that the statements made by democrats that they were lot afraid of the liberal movement were false the democrats had always played a game of bluff the ass in the lion's 6kin having no real strength he then went on to say that parties in this convention had intimated that they would bolt if the liberal move ment were endorsed he denounced such a course saying that the proper thing to do was lift up the new party and its fol lowers 1 but by another process another met al sodium can be made from this miner al which is lighter eveu than water and floats on it it is yellowish white and soft like wax this metal has been very costly but it is eaid that though it was once sold by the grain works are erected in new york to manufacture tons of it so that it can be sold for 4 a pound and as its specific gravity is so low a pound will be a large bulk 5 this mineral from greenland is in teresting from the number of ores found with it — irou-stone lead ore copperas sulphur arsenic tin-stone toutalite col umbite zinc blende c in 1015 baffin was sent again he found fair point to differ from london 74 de grees and 5 minutes and found that there was no passage through davis straits it being only a great bay j e o'hara colored was the last speak er and lie at once took up the liberal movement saying that it was assured that the republicans were determined io stand on that platform endorse and back it he said that if at the next election the votes were counted as they were cast,victo ry for the coalition movement was assur ed he said that all that was asked by this coalition was that democrats republi cans blacks and whites should share alike he said that the republicans held the democrats as a party responsible for the prohibition act and demanded they be held to such responsibility ch'in county ex com for the watchman early voyages of discovery lb'2 baffin went again and in sir thomas smith's sound their compass varied 50 degrees westward but finding no passage be returned home as there has been so much said and done in modern times about expeditions towards the north pole it may be of in terest to some to know what was done in former days 1533 sir ii willoughby in his discov ery of a north east passage passed by a large country by the west side whereof he sailed for some days together and therefore it could not be a small island as the dutch make it we have nothing of the voyage but those short notes which were found lying on his table after his death ; which was that in august the 2d they parted from seynam : august 14th they were 160 leagues north east of sey nam that they continued sailiiig till september 14th when they landed in r country high rocky and uninhabited from whence the cold and ice forced them to return more southerly which they did till they came to arzina a liver in lap land where thej weie found next spring all frozen to death in the ship the following is mostly extracted from an old geography title page gone but published in england probably about 1700 the committee on credentials reported through 0 j spears their report showed that most of the comities were represen ted by regular delegates the following counties were not represented : beaufort clay durham gates graham hyde martin pamlico pitt rockinglmin tyr rell and washington a colored speaker asserted that some of the delegates were self-appointed the first we read of that searched for the north west passage was martin fro bisher in anno 1576 with two barks com ing la the latitude <£ degrees found i great inlet of 60 leagues in length and main laud ou both sides called by him frobisher's straits he found there a certaiu ore which hfi thought to be gold and the next year maje a voyage t:i fetch a quantity of it but it proved but black lead in 1583 sir humphrey gilbert went to the great river st law rence in canada took possession of the country and settled a fishery trade there the election of permanent officers of the convention was then begun it being decided to elect by a vote of counties the following were put in nomination for chairman james e boyd of alaraaiice ; w a moore of chowau ; w p canaday of new hanover ; john s leary of cum berland ; j c dancy of edgecouibe the names of leary and daucy were af terwards withdrawn there was a long and lively contest over tiie election con suming much time but finally a vote was had thompson in his winter speaks of this such was tiik britton's fate iu 1585 mr john davis was employed for search of the north west passage : the first laud he cime to he called the land of desolation ; then lie arrived iu gil bert's sound in the latitude of g4 degrees and ti minutes thence they went to 6g and 40 minutes to mt ilaleigh totnes sound etc in 15so he made a second voyage to the same dace found among the natives some of frobisher's ore as also black and red copper and return ed after search of many places with hopes of discovering the desired passage so that in i5s7 he made a third voyage to 72 degrees and 12 minutes where the compass varied to s'j degrees westward the land he called london coast and there they found an open sea 40 leagues between land and land which he called fretuin davis davis straits as with first prow what have not brit ton's dared !] he for the passage sought attempted since so much iu vain and seeming to l>e shut by jealous nature with eternal bars in iiiese fell regions in arzina caught and to the stormy dee his idle ship immediate sealed he with his hapless the nominations there was a lively scene w p williamson of edgecombe sup porting john c dancy asking the white republicans of the west to come to the aid of the negro republicans of the east this raised a howl from some delegates three colored men geo wassoni johuc daney and a s richardson were dually elected secretaries after a recess the convention reassem bled at 7 p in and hon w a moore the permanent president was introduced by judge russell mr moore's speech was short he said the purpose of the c«n vention was to nominate candidates and see that they were not out he charged that but for hand ralph p litixtuu would now be the governor f the state the only tiling that defeated the republican ticket was fraud such as had been un earthed in halifax and punished he went ou to speak of the liberal party,say ing that a result of bourbou misrule it had sprung like minerva full-armed from the head of jupiter he called ou repub licans to reach out their hands and strike with the liberals he made an appeal to his auditors to give the liberals their favor and uot be opposed to them or to the liberal idea col i j yeung asked that vance be al lowed four votes iu the convention and durham two vote3 making a speech of some length a heated discussion sprang np at once o'hara making an exception ally hot speech in which he made flings at the revenue wing or the govern ment wing ike young responded ask ing if the revenue wing had ever failed or faltered in its devotion to the repub lican party of north carolina great ap plause col young's speech was humor ous but could do nothing to allay the bad feeling so apparent to any observed o'hara made a bitter response charging that the convention had this day throt tled thousauds.of republican voters iu throwing out northampton county while o'hara made his speech he stood excited ly just iu front of mott and canady who occupied seats in the front row the mo tion of col young was so amended as to give vance aud durham each two vote put to a vote and carried on motion of col canaday the thanks of the convention were tendered judge russell temporary president of the con vention a committee on platform and resolu tions composed of one from each con gressional district and one from the state at large was then appointed by the chair as follows : paleman john j e o'hara john s leary j g l harris j a mccauley j w brown l l green riley cannon state at large james h harris a motion was made that vice-presi dents from each district and one from the state at large be chosen by the conven tion this started another dispute in which o'hara harris and ellison argued with w p williamson who was temporarily in the chair and all semblance of order was oftentimes lost finally the election was begun and the following were nomi nated first district geo w lane colored dieted second district frank dancy colored election not completed at this stage of affairs stewart ellison moved that to appease the desire tor posi tions all members of the convention be declared vise-presidents a motion was then made to indefinite ly postpone the entire election of vice presidents this was carried amid a roar of cheers and laughter the acting chairman mr williamson then said lie thought the next business before the convention was the nomination of a congressman at large dr mott rose and corrected him say ing that it would not do to be precipitate just at this time the committee on plat form aud resolutions through j c l har ris reported the following : the republicans of north carolina iu convention assembled renew the pledges made in all former platforms and declare as follows : resolved that education is the bulwark of american liberty ; that the constitu tion of the united states requires the na tional government to secure to each state a republican form of government that the amount of money as now collected and disbursed by the state is greatly less than is absolutely necessary to furnish each child with a practical english edu cation ; therefore we favor the appropria tion of the internal revenue tax on distill ed spirits by congress ro rata among the several states and territories to the full amount of money derived from this source aud to be expended in educating the children of our common country resolved that sound policy based up on the experience of the past twenty-two years requires thccontinueiice of the tar iff which enables the labor and capital employed iu our industries to compete fairly in our own markets with the labor and capital of foreign producers resolved that the present system of county government is based upou the monarchical principle of taxation without representation and is utterly subversive of the rights of the citizen and should be repealed the inherent right of the peo ple to elect every officer clothed with a portion of the sovereignty of the state from the chief executive to the humblest official must not be denied or abridged ■ to the end that local self-government may j ; be restored to the people of north cam ! una that an honest count must follow j a free ballot and the majority shall do ; 1 termiue who shall make and execute the laws resolved that the bourbon leaders of i the democratic party are responsible for j | the passage of the prohibition bill and the ! agitation resulting therefrom the said j bill having been rejected by a vote of the ' j people the republicans of this state in \ maintaining the fundamental principle | that a majority must rule request their candidates for the legislature to vote for the repeal of said prohibition bill and against all similar measures u hubbs moved as au addition to the resolutions a resolution eulogistic of c i a arthur prefiidcutof the united states and heartily endorsing his course iu all j respects the resolution was adopted : ou the reading of these resolutions mr t b keogb moved to strike out the last five words of the concluding senteucc of the resolution on prohibition mr j c l harris here spoke and said the effect of this would be to strike out j the very pith of the resolution if the re ! puplicau party was to make anything out of this anti-prohibition agitation they ] must pledge themselves not only to repeal i the prohibition legislation but pledge i themselves to allow uo such legislation to j pass in the future harris speech waa ex cited aud there were cries of that's the • keynote hit him again etc mr keogh said he was sorry he had created such confusion by his remarks lie said his desire was to make the pro hibition question a dead issue as it ought ! to be to got rid of it to keep it out of politics entirely james h harris said the question was ' no dead issue that it had been transfer | red to the national legislature and that senator vance had fought tom cooper because he was au anti-prohibitionist he { said that the democrats would if they had the next legislature pass some iu ; sidious bill of a similar character he had ] no doubt 0 j spears said that lie hoped that the resolution would not be amended he ; went ou to say that the republicans had j been exceedingly lenient to those of that ; party who had voted for prohibition j calls were made for ex-judge riley ; cannon who spoke in favor of the reso lutions mr keogh's motion to amend was lest i and the resolutions were carried with a \ ': roar by au overwhelming majority mr w p williamson offered resolu tions reciting the fact that in view of the ! unjust discrimination by the railways the ! plan of raising a railroad commission be recommended he had been instructed by edgecoinbe county to press the reso lutions he said tin democrats at their j < convention would adopt just such a reso lution and he di-.sirt.-d to anticipate their action by this resolution the disscussions on his resolution be ■ came heated mr canaday making a mo , i tion to i«ic the resolutions to the com . mittee on resolutions they were refer : red by a vote o 1 to '■*'>. i j c !.. harris offered the following res durion : resulctij that the liberal convention of tiic r!i w:is the lir.st organized evidi'i - ' ced on ihe pad of tho liberal aud pio i grtssive men who have heretofore acted with tbu p oou'atic party of a it i volt against tho despotism of the bour bon democracy that free thought free ; speech and the independent political action received great encouragement from said convention and the men in that con . vention are worthy of the confidence and support of the people resolved that geo n folk \& one of 1 the ablest jurists in the state issingular ! ly free from prejudice and bias on account ! of race and political affiliation and is iu every way fitted for the important office of associate justice of the supreme court therefore we endorse his nomination as i made by the liberal democratic conven tion on the 7th inst resolved that tho lives liberty pros perity and happiness of the people are in seperable from incorruptible aud non partisan judiciary ; therefore we endorse i the nominations of chas c pool johu a ! moore frank h darby wm a.guthrie i aud l f churchill for superior couit judges resolved that having sec-u in the pub lie prints that the candidate of judge of the superior court of the 5th district as . nominated by the liberal democrtic con vention in this city ou the 7th inst de clines said nomination this convention will not make a nomination for that posi tion but authorizes the the republican state executive committee to act in con cert with the state committee of the lib eral democratic party in filling said va cancy ou the judicial ticket mr j c l harris then read the fol lowing telegrams morgantox june t4 colonel folk accepts the nomination hope you will endorse him j h hali-ybigto.v sec'y liberal convention makgum juno 14 my compliments to the convention i endorse the alliance iu good faith aud shall proclaim it ou all occasions the liberals do not mistake their man may godspeed the early redemption of oui state and the full restoration to oar people ol all the rights and privileges of free men my duty shall i don 0 h dlkkkkt the resolutions offerred by mr harris were then ut to i rote and adopted unanimously the member of the conven tion rising und cheering at 9 o'clock p ni the convention af ter a recess reassembled and the electron ofanexectutive committee was held it wan decided that the delegates from each congressional district recommend to the convention the delegates from their own district the result was as follows : first district palemon john of pus quotank j second distict willis barley of northampton ; third distict w p caua day of new haimvei : fourth district james ii harris onyalvc huh district wm f henderson of davimtnj sixt district w r myers of meckleutmrg seveuth distii.-t thomas n cooper of iredell : eighth district joha );. eaves of rutherford commit tee at large dr 1 j mott elec ted by acclamatiou johu s learj and ij young ' when tin cum ni it tee for the second district reported a noisy negro delegate taylor declared that gag law had been used i:i the committee r ji o'hara sai«l he was sorry to see the rev enue wing of the fourth district interfer ing with tue second district there waa a lively time for a while and sonic of tho negroes intimated that they were not given positions but wera snubbed and givfu back seats mr 1 m mccorkle of rowau was call ed upon to speak and did so at length pie endoised the convention its object and also the liberal movement he spoke of the gerrymandering of the state and criticised the state election laws he de nounced the county government system the appointment of magistrates the se lection of school committeemen and coun ty commissioners he said that the ap pointments had been often partisan in most cases and that in his section of the state a tide of popular indignation was rising which would sweep the tropic be fore it tho convention finally adjourned about 1 o'clock tliia morning black spirits and grey the liberal 1 state executive com mittee has upon it william jobuson chairman life-long democrat and char lie price professed democrat and speak er of the house by accident with them among others are associated those nice radical specimens w a moore tom cooper and o'hara colored brother 1 of yonng deverenx who said : he wanted white and black to be brothers they were brothers and stood upou the same platform to this complexion have we come at inst - old pluy is there any mistaking such a body ! johnston and deverenx two aristocrats bothering the negroes why a mind man could pierce the gauzy disgnise and a man as deaf as a post conld detect the odor it is the same old radical affair with a few an fledged neophytes just caught added now just look at it in the pow-wow there was our old friend the boss radi cal of the raleigh district ike young he was there and he was quite prcvi oti.v more than once it was lovely to see this innocent liberal tickling the elbow and scratching the back of the dear eld km nel who presided and it was really cheering to behold how tho old democratic office-seeker smiled gra ciously on ike in return how very beau tiful it is to see brethren (?) of the name political family dwelling together in gra ciou.s unity then there were jeeras harris of fraud commission notoriety and o'hara and norment and other old time kadicais sitting cheek-by jowl with natt atkin son who has a conspicuous amount of buncmiube in all he does and says and llaily bin ton democratic editor so-call ed and other recent converts to iladical isin altogether it was a nice a very fragrant gathering this is the concern that i expected to bamboozle the people to sell out and break up the old democratic party well we will see what we shall bee but if th democrats cannot fan out such a ringed streaked and striped combination as the liberal-radical combination for 18&j then it will deserve to go into enforced retirement wil star senator hill's condition is described by an eureka springs correspondent who saw the sufferer on thursday of last week : h is very feeble and ui life apparently fast ebbing away he gen eral!y keeps indoors and in his room and in wed he suffers terribly and uses inor phiue to ease tbo pain his face has a drawn ghastly look and is rapidly de caving the bone is crumbling the de cay is attributed to the ravages of the cancel he has great difficulty in mak ing himself understood not being able to articulate distinctly altogether his con dition is pitiable and death inu.-t l.e it welcome release to him his son tele graphs that hi general in allli i improv ed and that lie will return to georgia ciew end full exerted at his several task froze into statuary ; to the cordage glued the sailor and the pilot to the helm the roll of counties was culled but be fore any result was annouueed there was a regular lot of speeches the votes of several counties were changed by dele gates craven county allowed only two votes in the convention claimed four votes and convention grew lively the executive committee it was stated had the evening before the convention allow ed craven only two votes a number of delegates charged that this was a robbery of representation and that the new ap portionment should not be used as a basis of representation in the convention franklin county raised a voice claiming that craven ought to bo allowed only two votes at least twenty speeches were made during all this time judge russell was in the chair dr mott having that post of honor and taken a seat where he could watch the proceedings with a crafty biuile the contest grew more and more acrimonious and finally dr mott was called on and stated that his idea was th.at the present representation two should be the basis allowing four votes the chair then left the question of sus ta ning him in his decision that the representation be given to those counties on the basis of the next general assem bly to the convention there was here more trouble and demands were made that the matter be put to a vote by coun ties there was much recrimination and shouts of don't give us any gag law the question as to whether the chair should lie sustained in his ruling was then put to a vote by counties when by a vote of nays 134 ayes 56 it was de cided that the chair should not be sus tained and that the old basis of repre sentation should bo adopted and not the new apportionment an hoar and a half was consumed in the discussion of this one matter the decission as to craven carried with it the matter of the repre sentation of all the counties re-appor tioued in 1556 stephen burrows searching a north east passage into the indies arriv ed in 1 12 degrees and 25 minutes in long itude 76 of latitude sailed to 80 degrees and 11 minutes and thence to nova zem bla in 1580 arthur pet and charles jack man sailed all over these seas and that no nation but english frequented those northern seas till 1578 that a dutch ship came to cola and a year or two after an other to st nicholas and that by the encouragement of an englishman that set himself against the russian company which was incorporated 1553 in hill mr hudson proceeded 100 leagues further than any before had done and gave names to certain places viz desire provokes isles of godmercie prince hcurie's cape king james cape queen ann's cape etc but the ico hin dered him from going farther and the mutiny of his men from returning home afterwards the dutch crept in more and more and 1594 they employed ba vents and others to find out a passage bavents separating from his company sailed to the north east of nova zembla where he lost his ship and himself died in 1612 james hall and with him william baffin discovered cock ing's sound in latitude 05 degrees and 20 min utes which differed from london 60 de grees and 30 minutes where james hull was killed in a boat by ii native pretend ing to trade they saw rocks of pure atone purer and whiter than alabaster and angelica growing plentifully * * • in 1603 henry hudson was sent forth to discover the north pole who went to 82 degrees as did also thomas marmaduke of hull 1u12 who saw di vers islands beyond that the carolina watchman established in the yeali 1832 price 51.50 is advance i h v celebrated if a stomach l 5itteb s the feeble and emaciated fufferinp fron dyspepsia or indigestion in any form are ad vised for the eakc of their own iwdih and mental comfort to try hostetter's stomach bitters lailiesof the most delicate romuitution testify to it harmless and its restorative properticr physicians everywhere disgusted , with the adulterated liquor of commerce pre scribe it as the safest and most reliable of all stomachics t for sale by all drupsists and dealers jj^j generally 29:ly j rhodes browne pres't v ■■;.(■ coart sec'y a home company,seeking home patronage stroi prompt eeiiie literal term policies written on dwellings premiums pa : one i b:il aiicc in : f .\ el ■■■ monl hs j alleh begwff a?t 21:gni ; v .\. c come at once ! john frick's celebeated grain cradles for sale at r r crawford & co's ; m remember the dead ! ; j|l monuments tombs great deduction ix tiik prices of i marble monuments and grave-stones of i cordially invite the public generally loan inspection of my stock and work ; ifecl justified in asserting that my past experience undei first-class workmen in £ all the newest and modern styles and $ that the workraauship is equal to any of fe the best iu the country do not say i that my work is superior to all others 1 i am reasonable will not exaggerate in or i di>r to accomplish a sale my t udeavor is £ to please and give each custoroei the val i ue of every dollar tiny leave with me i prices 35 to 50 per cent ch apil is _ than ever odvred in this town before i call at once r seud for trice list and de m signs satisfaction guaraut'doruocliarge the erection ot marble is the last work i t respect which we pay to the memory ■ vt departed fi tends john s hutchinson h salisbury x c nov |, j881 i money sived is mom made ■ dops not every body kntn u it where a man i ? as no hou ■ , rent norclerfcs tohlre ■ necaaselllowl goto j.l wright for cheap i family grxtx^csetflxeis i suchaa bacon lard sugar i ic iffee molasse i ■""!*> nip . | . . . . ,,, , andies krulta 1 1-nn ,■:■'• ' : j.l.wrich the white rock mentioned above is no doubt the miueial cryolite described be low and the first time it was ever notic ed : 1610 the company sent out the ship amity jonas pool commander for whale fishing who fell upon the land formerly discovered and called it greenland and gave name to many of the eminent places viz horn sound ice point belle point etc in cross road 79 degrees 15 minutes latitude he seized upou the country to the use of his masters by setting up a red cross and fastening a writing to it there he made the first oil ctitoute — this is a remarkable min eral discovered iu greenland many years ago and which takes its name from its resemblance to ice and it can like ice be melted in the ilame of a candle 1 it is not said to be found any wheio else in the world but there is there an immense vein of it from which it is said 160,000 tons can be obtained iu fact ask is believed to be a volcanic product and the vein goes down to the centre of the earth the supply is inexhaustible though the expense of working beyoud ft certain depth would be too great the mine is owned and the mineral is quarried out by a firm in philadelphia in 1611 the company sent out two ships and six barks to fish for whales when the first whale they killed yielded them 12 tuns of oil in 1614 the english sent out 13 gieat ships and 2 pinnaces well armed and the dutch 18 whereof 4 were men of war the english took possession of divers parts of the country for the king setting up a cross and the king's arms in lead ; and the dutch did the like afterwards iu we s;uv u notice a short time ago of a ship lost at sea with a cargo of thison board and also having the crew of another ves sel that had been previously lost on the way to philadelphia then there was another hitch as to vance county it being claimed that it was entitled to a vote but the chair ruled that it was not the same places for the province of or ange in 1615 the king of denmark sent three ships men of war to demand custom for fishing upon this island which was deni ed and the island affirmed to belong to england in 1017 the english sent 14 ships and two pinnaces april 24th they set sail from graveseud and may 28th the vote for permauent chairman was then announced as follows : bojd 74 moore 113 canaday 35 the election w;is then on motion of mr boyd seconded by col canaday made unanimous 2 it is known in chemistry as the flut-ride of sodium and aluminum and from it different prod acts are obtained by different processes for instance great quantities of caustic soda tliu ininerul is said to contain ! i per cent of tlie election of permanent secretaries was then held during the progress of