the carolina watchman salisbury n c july 26 1883 fol xiv third series n04 a new oh leans legend the weird story of mine la-laurie's home in the old french town a new orleans correspondent of t lie nashville american writes as fol lows : there is no portion of new orleans so full of interest to a stranger or nonresident than that which a stran ger prettily calle«l"t lie new orleans of george v cable its old red-tiled cottage-house some with great over hanging roofs that serve as a sort of awning with high balustrades of tiles set on end fonring a decoration around the edge of the roof are pret ty to look upon time has softened the angularities in these small houses the winds of many years have blown a rich soil upon their tops as witness — i passed a cottage on bourbon slrcet the other day upon the tiled roof of which grew in luxurious profusion golden rods each stock at least lour ! feet high far down upon the corner of roy al and another street stands a big square house built in old french style it is five stories and although there are great scars upon the gray stone walls and the ornate carvings over the peaked tops of the small paned windows are beginning to crumble off it is a building whose ar chitcctural featuies attract the atten tion of all the sight-hunting strangers about fifty years ago this house be longed to a wealthy old french wo man whom one may call mine la laurie she owned many slaves and when she went to live in her royal street residence she furnished some of rooms in grand style that the madame was a she-devil who tortured her slaves all the town was beginning to know there was a deep well in the back yard in which it was said she hung the ne groes even to the little babies sus pending them by the arms so that the cold black foul-smelling water came up to their lips ; and there they hung till almost dead if they died in the water especially the babies who could not naturally endure such treatment the body was weighted the rope cut and the poor freed dark ey sunk swiftly out of sight in a root on the lower floor of the house mine li-laurie had buiit a sort of dungeon a brick room in a brid room it has oi.e window with iron gratings across it and is as black and awful looking as any dungeon you can imagine the floors in this echoing uld building are full of mimlerous-looking-stuins and to-day it water is thrown upon them they corfle out bluml-red it was up in the garret though that the worst tortur ing was done here this blood-thirs ty old woman so they say upon the least provocation used to take her negroes tie them to the walls or nail them by the hands to the floors and then amuse herself by cutting oit their ears tearing out ih'-jir nails ami cut ting out their tongues one night there came a hoarse roar blowing down the narrow length of royal street trncl toward midnight a black crowd of human beings — that awful result of an outraged community a mob — surrounded that stately grim building the old french mistress listened in scorn to the storm-like clamor until the tumult of people ap parently came to a halt under her own windows and she heard her own name cried out with threats for her of the torture ame la-laurie was rich and her house was richly furnished when her house was attacked all this fur niture of every description was piled i in the street and burned not a sin gle article was carried off the popu ! lace feeling themselves contaminated | by having in possession anything be j longing to so loathsome a being the ■ subsequent fate of the woman is tin j known to the public — ed asheville citizen north caoliuu revenue districts washington july 17 — arrange j ments have been made at the inter , nal revenue bureau to have the col , lection districts in north carolina re organized in accordance with the re cent executive order o:i the 21st j ultimo the number of districts in that state was reduced from four to three ( no change whatever was made in the sixth district of which t n coop er is the collector the other three districts were consolidated into two to be known as the fourth and fifth , districts and i j young one of the { present collectors was designated as , collector of the new fourth district j the bonds of these gentlemen have | been approved and they have been in | structed to take charge of the affairs of their new offices on the 21st instant commissioner evans said to-day that j he proposed to transfer the office in j tjie collect districts ojf the other states j and territories affected by the re cent executive order as soon as tho necessary arrangements could be per fected the express prince mr o'brien the manager of the southern express company who is much of the time in new york said to me on the third day of july : it is just twenty-five years this day since i entered the service of adams express as the driver of a wagon mr adams the founder of the com pany kept a bar in early life i in quired about mr h b plant the president of the southern express ( company and mr o'brien said : he came originally from the east prn states but has lived very many j years at augusta ga and is one of j the chief railroad builders in the south he owns the railroad south i of savannah not only to jacksonville aud the appalachicola river but he has built a line to tampa bay in south florida and will put on steam ers next winter to make the run acms to havana in twenty-three hours so that less than one day and night of sea voyage will divide^the people in new york from cuba which i think will become the most popular resort of americans solid fou pluxdek — on one question only is the republican party harmonious the one underlying principle the one bond of union which influences animates and guides alike the protectionist and the free-trader the reformer and the boss the prohi bitionist and the distiller is the co hesive power of public plunder this is the key ix.te of their harmony and it is well that it should be so because here a real issue is raised and on this platform the republican party finds it is antagonized and opposed by a united democracy determined to put an end to public plunder fixed in the purpose of putting plunderes out and putting hoiieat men in — v y world cut raw potatoes in slices as thin as wafers with a thin sharp knife lay them in cold water over n»ght ; a bit of alum will make them more crisp next morning rinse in cold water and dry with a towl have ready a kettle of lard hotter than for fried cakes aud drop in the potatoes a few at a time they will brown quickly skim out in a colander and sprinkle with salt or lay them on a double brown paper in the oven till dry if any are left over from the meal they can be w.armed in the oven and will be just as good for another time these are saratoga potatoes the new york tribune says that while blaine is undoubtedly the most popular man in the republican party and stronger now than he has ever been it is well known that he has peremptorily reused to be considered a candidate or to let his friend d anything for him he has been out of politics for two year and has found congenial employment and has no desire to engage in political strife again the chinese claim printing from immovable types at a very early pe riod and from new arrivals at the rooms of the british museum it appears that in ihis as in many other partic ulars there is some sort of connection between the civilization of china and the euphrates valley bricks from babylon covered with fine writing show ti at the method used was print ing from metal plates not inscription by hand as in other examples a wonderful clock theodore rohrer a swiss watch maker of this city has just completed an automatic clock which for intri cate mechanism surpasses the celebra ted timepiece at strasburg it is built in imitation of an ancient castle and is about five feet in width and eleven feet high on the top is perch ed an eagle holding in its beak a pen dulum beneath the bird is a globe encircled by a dial plate of twenty four hours which in its revolution of once a day gives the time at any me ridan at 4 o'clock dials placed on each side of the stand in which the national bird rests register the time at washington san francisco lon don and st petersburg the machinery is'so adjusted that ut the hour of 1 two figures repre senting roman soldiers with shield and sword announce the dawn of time aud man's entrance upon the stage of life five minutes later a small dour near the top of the clock flies open and an almost life-like bird appears and in exceedingly doleful notes chants the flight of time another five minutes glided by when the door of another apartment opens ami reveals a little babe which re mains five minutes at different peri ods until the next hour there come and go figures which repre ent the child youth man in his strength in his decline helpless ago and his last lon sleep during the entire day and night a sentinel walks to and fro along a gal lery prepared for him and halts and turns as natural as life at each hour there appears a figure representing the different nations of the earth — at 1 o'clock the russian at 2 the prussian at 3 an invisible orchestra mystifies the hearer with most excellent rendi tions of choicest bclectious ; at 4 the austrian appears at 5 an italian ; at 6 two doors in the chapel open and tlie sexton sounds chimes which are set to form perfect harmony and sev eral beautiful selections are rendered at 7 a representative of france bows to the lookers-on and then marches on to make room at 8 for the span iard at 9 the orchestra is again heard at 10 re 1-coated johnny bull steps forth aud is followed at ii by uncle sam who appears from the rear of the clock flag in hand and performs the remarkable feat of climb ing a pole on the top of the clock he fastens the stars and stripes to the top descends and disappears while this scene is going on drums in the interior are beating merrily at 12 o'clock large folding doors are opened and a sacred scene is pre sented which is still more wonder ful than those already nieinioncd it shows the saviour in the presence of the apostles evidently giving them their instructions as it is his last night on earth he moves about and addresses each one of his faithful fol lowers in turn making lifelike gest ures after thus having delivered himself he lies down and surrenders himself to his enemies the apostles then withdraw from the scene follow ed by the traitor judas who with the bag containing thirty pieces of silver strikes five bells as he leaves the scene the cock on top of the clock then flops his wings and crows three times during the time chri.-t is instructing his apostle satan ap pears upon the scene twice as if in doubt as to his actions this scene closes when two trumpeters appear and raising their bugles to their lips proclaim the close of night during the twelve hours the clock plays three musical selections and 2,022 automat ic movements are made of course the machinery is so arranged a to permit the entire performance of the automatons taking place every fifteen or twenty minutes the inventor of this wonderful time piece was born in baden ger many in 184g and serving an ap prenticeship to a watchmaker in his na tive place went to london where he remained six years in 1881 became to this city and secured a situation with mr j c llanna where he has since remained his wonderful clock he constructed in spare moments in the mornings and evenings having commenced work on it seven-years ago he has always shown remark able ingenuity having several years a»-o made a man at lire clock winch he wears fora shirtstud and which keeps correct time this invention caused considerable talk in scientific circles as mr roh rer was the first person who succeed ed in demonstrating the fact that a pendulum could be made to swing while the time piece lay on its back the dial of his shirt front clock is held in the pin hole nearest the col lar while the lower part of the mani ature concern appears about one inch below where he pendulum is seen swinging to and fro mr rohrer in tends putting his latest product t.n exhibition throughout the country neicoadle pa latrr the n>w york limes thinks the re pahlieau have uphill work belore them in ohio 1,000,000 pounds of dried fruit and berries kluttz & rendleman's \ they have just received i new supply of summer goods which they offer very cheap with a full assortment of dry goods notions clothing furnishing goods shoes hats their stock of family groceries is large and complete they still have the bee flour oat meal meats sugars teas coffees rice meal bran shot new orleans molasses syrups pure lard ac a full assortment of family medicines fhuit ja15s cheap anil all kind table and glassware a good stock agents for coats spool dottc still have a plenty of five cents tinware j-^"come and see us before you br - jttjfrg k for i iron wol kntines boilers saw hills i fs m turbine wheei s also contractor and builder i —— _ _ _ __ mining is not properly a specula tive business but in the broadest sense legitimate as an industry it should no more be forced into speculative channels than farming or manufact uring it is true there is a specula tive element in it but no more so than in the other industries named it has been made the football of un scrupulous and irresponsible financial dummo who knew no more about a mine than an apache indian knows about the plan of salvation — cal mining ex tim government printing oilier now tlmt the appropriations fur the new fiscal year have become available i full of life again issuing the publications ordered by the hist congress one of the nu.st ! important of tliese is the official list of pensioners which will make a work suf ficient to bind in three volumes as large is webster's unabiiilgeil dielion i arv this list which will coiupri.se some hoi 000 names is awaited with much in terest once upon i i inie ami not so very many years ago loving lingers prepared the long slips ami robes that constitute the first dress of an infant bat all this is changed the fondest mother lias now but to make out a list ami spend a few hours in selecting the entire outfit when her baby i furnished with dainty gar ments produced in quantities by profess ional workers whose skill and taste attain results entirely satisfactory it ouylit to be explained that in the lilipu tian wardrobe furnished by professionals there exist many grades so that every mother in these busy nineteenth century days may avail herself of tlio ready made garments if she so desire did yon lose miicli by tlio reubot town failure !" not a cent why i thought you had large business dealings with him !" so 1 did up to last summer then when he rented a seaside cottage bought a diamond necklace for his wife and sent | his three daughters to europe to be e<lu ' cated i at once chopped off short von knew he was going to fail and otter ten cents on the dollar 1 no sii ; i supposed he was going to fail and not pay a farthing he made a i slip somewhere and has got to pay some j tiling wall street news ismail tlie deposed khedive of egypt gave a correspondent lately the following candid description of his son tewfik i wlio is now at the head of egyptian af fairs i'ewiik like all feeble natures is alwavs ready to conspire against tlioso above him and against whom he does i not dare openly to btand up he will i always prefer to associate with tliose who : | are enemies of his masters rather than i i with their friend and if he does not ] conspire himself he is delighted to know | that others arc conspiring powerless but refractory people always revenge themselves in that way say nothing respecting yourself either good bad or indifferent ; m>th in<r good for that is vanity ; nothing bad for that is affectation ; nothing imufiernt for that is silly fhealthcolts inrroafies in pop . eviry day m l»ui«i let covfobtablh j d gaskill only 17:tf sm i ojiu v > fossptr www celebmted t . stomach no tinif ihoul 1 )>•' lost if the ptnmorh •' ana boweta are aflectcil o a>l<i|>t tbe i remedy hubtrtter'd monmcli itiltvrs / eased ut th organs named bt-kft ollic'-r ' more serious an<l a drlsy u therefore i rdotis djrspppsift h»er complaint « , ami tfv<-r early rheumatic twing kidi weakness brim leriolu ixtdily trmibli tritlrcl with lose no time iu u .,• effi-<iivi ami null medicine ur bale by all i>ruiri;ii-u uu 1h ..:• . t'liitrull j . if we would improve our n by conversation it is a great li ness to be acquainted with ; wi-ser than ovewelvea it i ■- of useful advice therefore to _: favor of tlieir conversation fre«ju as far as circutuntaitues will a ami if tiif v na|>|m'ii t«i he a litl served use all obliging nut draw out of then wjutt iikiv in your own i iinwu'il a nunte in an insane ;\&\ i ■> mark : vc outlive quickly n of our j»ati nis for we kno pcculi.irit v in the eye of ea when a dangerous outbreak is ami finally we reach so callous that sane people outside seei • nonce lunatics while the 5eein hqiic an ex-soldier of the confe on trial for larceny at beaufor the other day was defend colored lawyer who made a j appeal for the man who hi ! arm in the service hut all t the court gave him two y the penitentiary a gentlemen whose wife v suddenly ill hastened to i hrsi immediately responded what ia the mutter it!i 1 tor t i fear she lists the lockjaw law jaw ! well say dsicto . ran ulonj that way fur a teu i • 1 rkansag traveller eight of the graduating ela university of virgin t have be?n culled to proli • i other colleges of the south the carolina watchman j established ix the year 1&s2 i-uick 51.50 in advance tr , for dyspepsia #»*! i t-'j>~^"-*_jtffi •'''•'«■ headache t»^tml'j vffiie malaria | rl ,. .--, meat i '-'* '• i '-> vl ■'- - kidnej-s symptoms of a mskaskd l.tvek ■ . i . ic s nv-times ihe ; uauc mistaken for : j.p tite bowels ing a-itli lax : heavy ,-, ac impaniod ■ .. . .. . dilcthillg i don . a liulit lrj cough i m ■ . .. . attendant often lh i i lit i omplains ... . his eusily startled ns t 11 . and despondent id be i ene ii :. . ;. fortitude to , ■ 1s vcrj ionic y several .- ■• liul c ases .. ., ilie liter to ,, „; i !„■ used by all persons old uid rouiig tvhenever any of th ti ve i j mpt ins anpear ivi-min traveling r tivim in vn ihiiiii.v lucalitio •■■<■ v ■ ' ■•- ■>■ irasion die i.ivtr in 1 i w ill jvoi.l i i'.iliolih itr»cl . t izz:iic»s natl i 1 •. ■ ■ ■ :,. . i it : ine but ih 11 > ill it.xicuting b veruge if you linvt 1'ittin nnylliiifj hard ot digestion oi fscl heavy after mea.s ur uleep less at night _ -■ i you wil be relieved tim itinl doctors kills will .'«» saved h always keeping the regulator in h.i ii us [..■.■ , ., thoroughly ha purgative ultt-rntivc and ioiim an . harmless ,,!;.! ilops not iulrrfrre uitli l>iisin«\.s or l,..,s ii i i-i i:i:i.v vi t aiu.k y f c lomel or it any of tl . ■. ufti i effet ts \ governor's testimony l.ivrr 1 n-isem my i and 1 am uutiud ii is _ ,,.■■.:• i .. i ience i i .:; : sikiktki i ii.vernor of ala hon al imli r ii su-i liens of ga ...... me beiirfn in.m the use of : lator and wish to give it a i tlir nnly tiling that never i:iils to keli.-v ' :" r»i oys w , affi ti n ai ! • bilit . ' n never nave i me i the • xtent i ■..:■■ .., min thei ' r m janney minneap tis minn ur t v i:i8itn s;i from actual ex ' . liver regulator in li | • • : ■ lieen ami am satisfied to us - a pin gati ••- nn dicuic 1 - . thi c.-iiiiiu which always : . the rod /. trade-mark id signature of j h zeilin & («>. ror ■ all by all druggists having purchased til e stock u f wm smithdeal * as will as the interest of r r crawford of the firm of r r crawford & co '•«' niv iiir.v pi i'|i;iiim1 to stij»])lj onr itli all kinds of agricultural implements in iuldil ion to the r!ri'inl stork or u a l d w a it i in the s t a t e we ils handle rifle ancl blasting powder f use ill line ot mining stippht's we will j lie ate any prices in the state ( ' a -!- and skk us h.s blacemes satltaylcr 1 ' n-ii she sprang down the oaken stair way across the marble hall past the dungeon then full of festering wretchs past the well of water — they say the reason tis so black to-day is owing to the little negro babies on the bottom — and loosening the heavily barred back gates she made her way to the river side she dodged her pursuers anil crossed over the river in a canoe finally she escaped to france where she afterward died they say the mob after freeing the negroes fairly gutted the house of course the place is haunted by all the laws of sensationalism it could not hm be a place where black ghosts walk the building was once used as a public high school but the parents of the girls were superstitious and would not allow their daughters to cross the threshold of the place so it was aban doned we clip i his from an exchange witu some knowledge of the subject the narrative is true yet hardly half told when a lad we were in n;.>w orleans shortly after the attack on madame la-laurie's house the in terior was a wreck we were point ed out the places from which the dead bodies had been taken the cells in which the tortured slaves daily re ceived the cruel visits of the she-dev il who passed hour after hour in in flicting the most cruel torments it was said that this woman alone of all her family escaped the massacre of st i domingo and her daily cruelties were i in re.euge for the death of her hus i band and i.er children she escaped i l>v the aid of a negro man and this same man again saved her from the fury of the new orleans mob mad press convention poem i you have set me gallant gentlemen a task beyond my powers — my muse is just a butterfly j that spoils thro 1 sunuy hours 1 1 m fragile wings essay no flight beyond the rosy flush where throbbing in warm golden light the summer roses blush i and reaching upward to the height to which your aims aspire i would need an eagle's soaring flight , an eagle's eye of the no longer pleasure's idle guest j allures your eager feet as gathering from tlie east and west from north and south you meet aroused at last you recognize and wiser grown confess how high the calling that is yours ; how powerful lite press ! your task it is to hold the guage that measures public right ; and for the people's good to wage with wrong an endless fight | no private gain no selfish end must check the utterance strong with which the right you e'er defend or boldly censure wrong no coward's heart no fawning thrift no lust of place noi gold : for tho self chosen still it is a public trust you hold ! between the factions of the day that mean ignoble strife men look to you to point the way to a inner public lite i to lift the public standard up to a higher broader plane j where the country's good is sometimes sought instead of private gain i you spin the subtle threads that sway the people in their choice ! the echo of your words it is that swells the public voice ' by you in large degree is wrought the country's weal or woe von start the springs of puhftc thought whence public actions flow there was an old egyptian law a strange majestic tiling - when death helore the bar of uod called him who was their king a herald summoned forth the dead once more in royal state to take his place midst living men and solemu trial wait while all the nobles of the land in grave tribunal then judged all his life the good the ill that he had wrought for men i time changes form ; altho 1 that court is held in every land no longer dead but living men at its tribunal stand and every editorial desk has a judgment seat been made whereat the deeds of public men the good and ill are weighed their actions scanned their motives sought whether for wrong or right and woe to him who falletii short when weighed in public sight hut lie public mind is fair and true ; the public heart is kind take heed no selfish motives tinge the verdicts that you liud for should the test of time disprove the charges that you made the public scorn will shift to him who stabbed with treacherous blade and yet a higher trust you hold a trust both grave and great for those who train the children's mind make tho future of the state who fills a child's unreasoning mind with tales of crime and vice is planting there a scorpion's egg to bear a cockatrice from a foui.tain poison'd at the source a poisoned stream must flow ; and the grain we reap at harvest springs from the seed we sow then oh ! take care my masters that you sow no hurtful-seed in the columns of the journals that the little children read ' let innocence still hlod a veil u n rent before her eyes nor barter harmless ignorance for knowledge that is not wise liod save you all brave gentlemen and make strong to raise your calling far above the snares of narrow devious ways to bp so brave so just so true that all men must confess how noble is the work you do how mighty is the press ! rkbkcca cameuox lii lsloro n c july 1th id;s3 kkkp the mouth shut the influ ' ence of nasal respiration on the ear is illustrated by mr george cautlin in his history of the north american indians among two million indians lie found not one who was deaf or breathed through the mouth except three or four deaf mutes ; and in the memory of the chiefs | of '•"><> tribes not one case of deafness could be remembered to have occurred this explained by the mothers always ■ closing the month of a child whenever it ' attemps to breathe through it a notable diffeuence.-t1ic it - ' publican idea is to distribute the siir 1 plus among hie several states the democratic idea is to leave the sur " plus in the pockets of the people where it belongs — boston post