Carolina Watchman

              jp * „ .,.„ «'^ —^*» • no 42 te i carolina watchman pj^yshed is the year 1862 darby3 ipbophylacti fluid i jradlcsvcs g diphtheria sali ,«.» h ration ulcerated 2talaii i sore throat small pox measles and ■ ' v ,/ scariel fever has ■ lit 5w ' , , „ -. : , : w h n thr fluid was ■ vrtr vith it after i ck v».ult ).:..! token place the woi ?——': jsekses i darby ' , am mbei fmyfam ■ imr lirr air u iy * '■ '- k - n - vith .-: j i us 1 the ■ j w 9oretbroat it isa j ; ..., ; the patient was i s was not ■ f,,nt»(r n ', ril i vl ", i pitted and was about i ror fronted feet 1 in three ■ ohubl»ln piles „„ othen i ch»fl»r ' : ' ' i w park b ■, i fjrit-re i th i diphtheria £ i utirr.'i a r*'-ve i iu.u.g ■ erraipela . '■"•*•• '■"■»«"■■"" ■ iiarn i | y^cians here i scar , use darbys fluid very i pnentery eared uccessfully in the treat i wuiin'l mcnl f diphtheria i stnrr a stollknwkrck ■ a - vnti«i<>t c f dr/uisboro ala totter dried up ( liolem prevented i purified and : . lsesofdeathit ■ sed 1 about t will . m ill r~7f jl , eminenl pliy ■ , - m sirmn j maitlon ■ scilc * tvsi e sims iff i new cured h * : ■ ' ■ :] '' ; 1 ; :! v vanderbilt university nashville tonn | test ties of prof ;. ■ : la tie 1 ifectant and ti illy h i mi ac is darbvs klnirl is recommended l>y ! the '■ v ; ■ : university.s.c rct a ! i i k , bish p 1 e l im)i»iin w!!.i to livekt uojie 1 ed ml rnally or t ' ••■!. and we thing ' y ur i priel r , 1 if zkilin « co * mil i ! ku^delphia blackmer&taylor having purchased i ii e stooic wm smithdeal as well as the interest of r r crawford of the firm of r r crawford & co propareil to supply our ers with all kinds of agricultural implements j atltlition to tlio host selected stock ot 11 a r 1 w a k k i u the s t a t k also handle r ifie ana blasting powder fus e : "" 1 a f h hneol mining supplies we will jgj d phcate any prices in the state au < and see us slacrt1er safltayl^j 50:1 v deferred items montkukv mexico july 23 the ac counts of t lie robbery of the american consulate in this city as published show great exaggeration it was but an ordi nary attempt cairo july 23 — the number of deaths from cholera yesterday in cairo is reported at 429 i and about 2">0 it other points six deaths from cholera have been re ported in the london docks and the american consuls in london and liver pool have been notified to make sanita ry inspection of vessels sailing to this country new orleans july it the steam ship bateshire arrived at quarantine july ! j with six cases of yellow fever on board she lias had thirteen in all the i steamship mocha arrived at quarantine july hi with one death from yellow fever | there are no cases of yellow fever on shore boston july if — the port physicians of this city have received an order from the board of health to keep an extrenie , ly sharp outlook for all vessels arriving from foreign ports this precaution is : to guard against the introduction of yel i low fever and other contagious diseases all vessels on arrival at tho entrance of the lower harbor will be subjected to a careful inspection tucson arizona july id the mex 1 ican consul here has received a letter i from tho frontier dated july 14 stating that at or near the place where general ■ crook left the liostiles in the district of ' montezuma they attacked a mexican i settlement killing live persons a de tachment of mexican infantry pursued the savages but found them in too strong force and were repulsed with the loss of seven soldiers london july 2 — a serious outbreak of cholera is expected it bombay as there were thirty srvou sporadic cases of dis ease there during the last week the siu-z quarantine against infected and sus pected ports have been renewed ad vices from egypt state that in addition to an outbreak of cholera at the town of toreskonr eight miles southwest of dam ietta leprosy has appeared and is spread ing rapidly there are neither doctors nor medicines at toreskour the canadian government has pro claimed n rigid quarantine against all mediterranean ports the tribune is correct what need to go bad to the magnificent corruptions of giantism when there are plenty ef new frauds supplied by the republicans with out raking over those of ten years ago ? the pennsylvania republicans might have added to their platform a demand for forty acres of land and a mule for every citizen that would be popular in the south just as some of our sagacious exchanges think the proposed distribu tion of bin plus re euue will be swainman who was arrested at nash ville tenn for stealing the ledger that is so important in the polk trial has con fessed that he took it at the instigation of ox-tieasurcr polk and that he receiv ed * i for doing it statistics show that the growth of tim ber in kansas is yearly increasing be yond the consumption it was feared at the first settling of tho state that the timber would disappear in a few years chicago tribune a shipment of 300 bushels of red oak acorns lias been made to germany for planting on untillable lands and hillside this tree is found to do well in europe audits wood is valuable tho acorns were gathered in missouri at an average cost of 1 a bushel turn on the light we believe now as we believed at the time that the republican campaign of 1880 was one of the blsickest,tnost corrupt and most desper ate conspiracies of # the century if new light can be thrown upon the details history demands tho revelation and the testimony of the man who turned peo ple's evidence becomes valuable like all evidence of that kind only as it harmo nizes with and strengthens facts already known — boston post tnr.v did'ntcacii ox if there ever was a tinio when tho democratic party should hare made a national campaign on the fraud issue that time went by three years ago iu this rushing world the tide of events cannot bo backed up to let men who have missed their chance catch on — washington post w h hicks of anderson s c can not write or make a figure and yet he can obtain tho result of any problem whether including fractions or not in less time than it could be computed on paper lie is called the lightening cal culator how can i best get my poems pub lished 1 writes a young author who wears his hair long and his coat short buy a hand press young man buy a hand press letter from gen cox baden-baden july 2d 18s3 we have recently visited some of | the most important places and inter ' esting parts of germany this conn ' j try abounds in iron and coal and we | were surprised to find so raany i'oun | dries in successful operation she al so possesses nany other valuable min erals as well as mines of precious gems her fine marble and . slate quarries not only supply the local de mand but are largely exported to other | lands in many sections the nianii \ facture of textile fabrics such as linen silk wool etc is extensively carried ou and her pottery-ware is justly cel ebrated occupying a central position in eu rope much of the soul hern part of her territory is rolling and mountain | ous but the mountains are not so high j as to forbid the labor ot man from , ! bringing them into cultivation the northern part of the couu try is level , and much of the soil naturally poor i and sterile yet by means of ditching irrigating and intelligent husbandry all lands susceptible of improvement are made reasonably productive the mode oi cultivation here differs essen ', tially from ours the manufacture i of the beet sugar is ail important in ! dus-try and owing to the scaiviiy of j fuel great interest is now taken in , forestry cultivation germany is not surpassed in edu cational facilities germany not only possesses some of the finest universi ties in the world but her common i schools extend their blessing to every household and give to each one the essentials of a good education her military system is recognized as the : most perfect in europe every man is required to serve for three years in the army with the exception of a fa vored few who escape with one year's bervice at the expiration of his term j of enlistment the soldier is not rcaliy '< discharged for though permitted to j return to private life ins name is still bo nre on the rolls his residence is not ed and he constitutes a part of what is known as the reserve force on a peace basis the german army numbers less than a half million of men but it is estimated that an army of one mil | lion and a quarter can be concentrated ; at a given point at twenty-four hours j notice the soldiers are well uni ; formed martial in their bearing and j a splendid looking set of men ; indeed ; the germans generally present a line appearance * berlin the capital of prutu as j pi res to be the handsomest city in : kuropc in her development ss fur nished an example of the benefits de rived from the possession of wise and | sagacious rulers situated on the banks of the magnificent river spree in thej midst of a sandy desert plain she at ' tained no importance prior to the reign of frederick the great but un j der his fostering care became^a city of 150,000 inhabitants that wise statesman and great soldier against a combination which pursued him with j a seven years war raided ii:s country j into the first rank among nations su : perior to the prejudices of ins age he practiced religious toleration and by j the patronage of letters and in search ! of deep philosophy 1 wove such a halo j around his name that a history of his life reads more like the embellishment of fancy than an unimpassiuned nar j rative of fricts under the present confederation j berlin became the capital of the ger man empire and bismarck has proved to the new city what frederick was to the old she is now the pivotal j point of all political movements and no continental nation hazards any ■ great or important movement against ; another without first ascertaining the temper and consulting the wishes of this imperial centre dominated by the massive brain and imperturbable will of the first diplomatist of the age under the new impulse given to her berlin is moving forward with rapid ■ strides and already numbers one mil lion and a quarter inhabitants in her university there are 6.000 students ; and in her polytechnic over 3,000 | and we were not prepared to find j among them so many young men from the united states * * * * from berlin we visited potsdaw and were shown over the palace and beautiful grounds of sans s mci which was for a long time the resi dence of frederick the great one of the most interesting points at this place is the celebrated old wind-mill the owner of which refused to sell it to this man of more than imperial pow er but who had too much respect for law to force him to do so another interesting point was his favorite walk where his pet greyhounds and horses are buried and where he hoped fin ally to rest oil their monuments are marked their names and the dates of interment the palace was unoccu pied during a period of fifty years af ter his death and his library and other apartments are stiil preserved as he left them the grounds are now splendidly kept and while we were there many people were walking through th(;m and the varied and luxuriant foliage handsome flowers and ninety-six fountains in full play gave the place an animated and strik ing appearance hile in potsdam we called to see a member of the american congress who is on a visit to his fatherland and who the day before had iuforrn ed us that when he emigrated to america he went from necessity as a steerage passenger had he remain ed in his native country where the i maxim prevails of ne sutor ultra ere pidam he would doubtless be receiv ing but a few hundred marks p»r an num whereas now he returns as an j honored and trusted legislator of the great republic with an annual salary of over 20,000 marks * * * like faithful pilgrims on reaching ; cologne we repaired at once to her j wonderful cathedral this building though commenced over six hundred , years ago was only completed within ! the last few years it presented the singular phenomenon of a part having j decayed while the other part was mi i der process of construction we will ; not attempt a description of this edi fice further than to remark that it is adorned with over 5,000 pinnacles 1 each of which is surmounted by a sep arate flower the beautiful stained wlass of its medheval windows affords an admirable opportunity of conipar ■ ison with the finest work of the pres i ent day we will now tell our little readers a story as told to us and like all true stories it must have a proper begin ning bo once upon a time when t_tit plague raged in cologne the wife of the knight meugis was attacked by i the disease and f ll into a deathlike swoon shew as interred in the apostles ; church which we visited she had on when buried much line jewelry which certain robbers visited the tomb to secure and iu their efforts to remove il from her person she was awakened from her trance with the shroud flowing about her she returned to the house of her husband tie thought she was a ghost and declared he would sooner believe his horses could ascend to the top ni his house than that his departed wife should re turn alive the words had scarcely been spoken when horses hoofs were heard ascending the stairs and soon their heads were seen looking out of a window in the upper story of the house in commemoration of this wonderful event statues of two whhe horses were made and placed in the identical position the horses occupied while passing in front of the house to our surprise we aw the heads of tho>e horses peering out of the third story window we pent a night at bonn and the next day visited its places of chief in terest tli is was a roman city and possessed a fortress probably founded by drusus it is frequently mention ed by tacitus here the christians suffered many persecutions under the korman emperors wind ceased du ring the reign of constantino the great his mother is said to have ft unded the cathedral or minster which is regarded as an object ot great interest the present univer sity was founded by the king of prussia in 1818 and maintains a high lank as an educational institution during the day we took a steamer for mayencs the beauty of the scenery historical associations and facilities for tiavel make the rhine one of the most attractive rivers in world it is estimated that over a million persons pass up and down its waters every season and when we consider the amount of money each one must necessarily expend an idea may b"e formed of t!ie revenue deriv ed from this source alone yet this is by no means the only reliance for the numerous hills upon the banks are covered with vineyards which produce the finest grapes from which j the famous rhine wines are made a few selling as liiga as 800 a cask and are difficult to procure at that price in addition to this fine marble and slate quarries are found in the neighborhood and are extensively worked while numerous towns and i villages are dotted along the banks we passed no city of importance until we reaehc 1 cobelentz at the con flu ' ence of the rhine and the moselle this city is justly considered the most beautiful place on the river , we arrived here about g p ni and ' during a dtive we look through the city crossed the moselle over an old bridge erected by the romans and ■ afterwards drove through a beatiti ' ful park along the banks of the rhine directly opposite'the city rises the imposing fortress of ehrenbreitstein ! which during all the sieges has never been taken by direct assault the garrison consists of 5,000 men but it is capable of accommodating 100,000 * * * * heidelberg is beaufully situated on the river neckar in our eyes its [ great attraction is the university a plain venerable old building from whose walls have issued some of the ripest scholars in germany the students of which there are at pres ent 1,200 are generally divided into different corps between which jeal ousy and bad blood often exist duels are sometimes fought which the au thorities are unable to prevent some of them are peculiar only one of which i will mention as related to me by a person who witnessed the funeral a challenge was passed and accepted between two students they were in earnest there was no dress parade about it they agreed to draw lots as to who should kill him self and the one upon whom the lot fell had no alternative but to carry out the agreement did such rules prevail in our sister state of virginia what afflictions she would have es caped * * * * a magnifient old building of the 13th century half fortrtss and half castle stands in a commanding posi tion above the city still grand in its ruin full of historical associations and picturesque in its situation it must be seen to be appreciated in one room of its cellar we saw an immense cask we thought the largest in the world but were mistaken for in the adjoining room is one said to contain 283.2t)0 bottles or about 800 hogs heads of wine and which has been filled several times in front of this cask is a picture of the court jester who always drank from fifteen to eighteen bottles a day think of the carousals held in this old castle in former days and say whether the world is not improved ! * * * .* baden-baden is the most famous watering place in europe every thing 1 that money and ta>te can ac complish to improve its many natur al advantages has been done and j the result is an eminent success du i ring the season some of the finest hands in europe daily perform in the grounds set apart for this pur i pose where throngs of people from ! all parts of the world are seen prome nading in addition there are beauti j ful drives delightful baths mineral springs and public halls of entertain ment formerly this place was cole j brated for gambling which was parti ' cipated in by persons of all classes the magnificent casino rented for over 50,000 a year think of the fortunes lost and hopes blasted by the ventures here made and say whether the world is not improved ! the emperor of germany has abol ished gambling throughout the em pire w ii cox m nt ■■ - - the vain old woman there was once an old woman so very poor that she had no house but lived in a hollow tree one day site found a piece of money lying in the road full of joy | at her good fortune she began to consider what she should bu with the money if i get anything to cat she said fo herself i shall quickly devour it and that will be the end of the matter that will not do at all if i buy clothes peo ple will call me prond and that will not do and besides i have no closet to keep them in ah i have it ! 1 will buy a broom and then everybody that i meet will think that i have a house a broom is the thing a broom it shall be so the old woman went into the next town and bought a broom slie walked : proudly along with her purchase looking about her all the time to see if people noticed her and looked euvious^thinking of hei house but as no one seemed to remark her she began to be discontented with her bargain does everybody have a house except me ?" she said to herself crossly 1 wish iliad bought something else !" 1 presently she met a man carrying a small jar of oil this is what i want exclaimed the old woman ; anybody can have a house but only the truly rich can have oil to light it with so she bartered her broom for the oil and went on more proudly than ever holding the jar so that all could re it still she failed to attract any particular notice and she was once more discontent ed as she went moodily along she met a woman with a largo bunch of flowers here at last i have what i want | the old woman thought if 1 can get these all that see me will believe i am just getting my house ready for a bril liant party then they'll be jealous 1 hope so when the woman with the flowers \ came close to her she offered her oil for them and the other gladly made the change now i am indeed fortunate she said to herself now i am somebody v but still she failed to attract attention and happening to glance at her old dress it suddenly occurred to her that she might be taken for a tei rant carrying flowers tor her master she was so much vexed by the thought that she flung the bouquet into the ditch and went home to her tree empty-handed now i am well rid of it all she said to herself adapted from the german by arlo bates in the august st nicho las thcjewel of assurance i best kept in the cabinet of a human heart ii 1,000,000 pounds of dried fruit al berries - kluttz & rendleman's they hare just received anew supply of summer goods which th'-v offer very cheap with a full assortment of dry goods notions clothing furnishing goods shoes a.txti3 iixvts their stock of family groceries is large and complete they till have tlie best flour oat meal meats sugars teas coffees rice meal bran shorts new orleans molasses syrups pure lard c a full assortment of family medicines fruit jars cheap and all kinds table and glassware a g-ood stock agents for z:rs spool cotton still have a plenty of five cent tinware j5i come and a c us befoi • you boj r sell for we will do you good y w taylou july 4th 1883 d.j.bostiax aen ' jgyyl apit for pmix iron works s§b 1 turbine wheels 3kss ps^ui also contractor and builder i ■ " jl ■-"'■■-■■ r hitches at the altar fickleness on t lie part t grooms and | brides lias l>oen a fruitful source of hitches at the altar there is i story told of a liistii swain who when asked whether lie would t;ike hi partuer to be his wedded wife replied with shameful indecision yes i'm wiliin but i'd much rather have her sister an equal ly remarkable instance which must be authentic i nariated by abathgatemin ister in this case a hitch had occurretl at the outset through the absenceof.wit nesses and the bride had surmounted the difficulty by going for two friends one of them being her cousin a bloom ing lass somewhat younger than herself when at length the parties had been properly arranged and the minister was about to proceed with the ceremony the bridegroom suddenly said wad ye hide a wee ii ?" o what is it uow v asked the exasperated clergyman weil re plied tiie vacillating groom '! was j ist gatin to say that it it wad s the same to you i wad rather liae thatano — pointing to the brid smaid a most extraordina ry statement lo make at this stage 1 in afraid it's too late to talk ofsnch a thi::i now is it returned the bridegroom in a tone of calm resignation to the inev itable wee then sir ye maun jnsl gang on the gentlemen who so inopportunely declared hi.s preference for the sister oi his bride is only oue ol many who have made similarly eccentric replies to the nil important question one hasty indi vidual ou being asked ii he would take the lady by hi side to be his wife testily responded in course 1 will that's what i came here for a a recent oc casion an eccentric bridegroom when interrogated in the nsual fashion as to the acceptance of ilia bride persisted in responding to the confusion and bewil derment oi tho officiating clergyman yes for a fortnight ;' a declaration which was the occasion of no little trouble and perplexity though the difficulty was ulti mately overcome we will conclude with a case in which a somewhat serious obstacle to i cele bration of a marriage was removed al the eleventh hour by ih intervention t a beneficent flash of clerical jealousy in v western scottish town one evening there were so many marriages unfortunate couple who had arranged :<• be married at the ministers hon"*r were unable to procure a cab to convey tliem thither till long past the hour appointed and when at last they stood u the door of the inause and rang the bc-ll it was approaching midnight a load and some what indignant voice presently r spnnd ed from n bedroom window up >:.:;-. de manding to know "■■■• was there the gjtuati ■ ' ::.■■<]: bill icc that of rev mr v of the „'•• " ; ' t ie ■'• '•■ ' ' li ' i proved inexorable i can't help it ; was the ultimatum received ; you mu no home ami come back to-morrow 0 : m ; . v f ye keu we ciinna gang haine ■ without beiu man ied 1 sti uck iu a female voice bni what would you have me do call up the whole house because of your bnngling p could you nn dae ii i over the w iin . sir p xonseitse : it is impossible 1 '< '. y i '• sir . • ken v.r httend ::."• al ■■. ." '»«» l ' : iy and ,,,, „„ \\- i •».' this linnl stroke i ■. :'..;■ '•» mr w and mr b , minister of the second charge of the same cbnrch there existed a deal <•(' professional jeal ousy the window was put down the gas lighted the door opened and the marriage of the triumphant diplomats duly solemnized — « ixo.o what it was mr jenkins was look ing pale and 1 ;,-,;, d the other day mid a friend uotic d it hello jeuk he said ou are look ing bad i know it i feel iha1 wa ." well you are usually in excellent spirits what conld have :;<>; into yon to make you nk s • ?'" you won't give it away if 1 tell yuu what has gut into me will yon v i is not bankruptcy is it i xo nor domestic trouble ?" so what is i then ?" •■( iiniii'n i - and dried apple pie - merchant traiu go - the condouined t!i practice of con gratulation upon marriage it is he said as absurd as congratulating a man i having drawn a ott iv ticket before you know : u a prize or a blank 1 uaiili's ,. healthcorset ■ ; - ,»/' rs-'-f in t>opul»rit j " y • lay as jadim find it ( omfoktlitl.e pri(ii<t i itttno i£s cnr.nt ev't worn mor . ■^\ ' '■■■'' ' j tclto«tli«be«t ," i j - f any rnrut j ■ .: wsmckd ;. z 3as:::ll only 17::f salisbury n v f w celebrated 1 j i . stomach itte&s it ■ : stomach bitten i,r inrr«min u-<r nn<l rendering ib phjmad i._'!ii:ir up'l active ke i lltr ami protect .. ation dy ! • rtou*n«-88 - it is in ire '!• fence rial f vers i sidrt t-.-moving from k y-tem for sale by all d -- ix-alera the tallej mntnal life asoociatmm of vii . ■ j wwto i ( »» as 1 r a ' . i very uev c t ikiiley u t • i othci proiuinet men of • - il r judge avery sajs of it ; i have held a policy in the valley mutual life asa the tall « iss'j and consider m\s it fortumite in ii.i\i:i •:<•! upon its solvency tbeeobl will nevei amount to more than forty per ,.,. : .:. nf tii , riuiilius charge in regular i inpa::i - i the ain • i i>l i xi third series salisbury n c august 2 1883