Carolina Watchman

              the carolina watchman tfol xiv.—third series salisbury n c august 9 1883 no 4s danish barque hialto ence of opiuion between the wind and the water is the cause of the frightful storms and high seas which have made this cape such a bugbear on the voyage from boston mass to ward port elizabeth cape of cuotl hope ap'r wt d3 we could not have desired finer weath er than we have had here it has not rained since we arrived but the dew-fall is very heavy the sun shines warm during the day but the mornings and nights are perfectly splendid and they call this winter it is latitude south corresponding to that of wilmington north friday may 16th i did not have time to go ashore until wednesday all com munication with the shore is by means of small steam launches which make three trips per day and charge the vessel five shillings a day for their attendance all passengers land on a magnificent iron jetty cargo is landed in the surf and carried ashore on the shoulders of naked kaffirs i think the first thing that attracts ones attention on landing in port e is the great variety of nationali ties represented ou the quay the pop ulation is made up of stragglers from the four quarters of the globe swarthy arabs from zanzibar handsome hindoo men from bombay and calcutta malay women from the east indies almond eyed chinese — wild-looking fellows from the interior and big strapping ugly zulus and kaffirs are all to be seen here ; 1 never before saw such a medley be sides those 1 have enumerated i think 1 have met representatives from every country in europe such a lot of chnrches as there are here every pro testant denomination jewish synagogue hidoo mosque roman catholic cathedral and chinese joss house the kaffir lan ! guage is very generally spoken both by j natives and by the european residents • who pick it up i tried to pick it up too but could not // is too heavy most of the newspapers are published in dutch and english as the boers do not conde scend to learn any other than their na tive language * * * * jtiue 1st yesterday i went to the ostrich and ostrich feather market there were several hundred of the birds walking quietly around gobbling up old horse shoes door knob broken bottles and other delicacies the ostrich market is not a healty locality for dogs as the ostritchea seem to take special delight in making life a burden for those animals sometimes a bird will quietly approach a dog from the rear then suddenly reach down and bite his tail off again an os trich with an innocent expression of countenance will walk up to an unsus pecting canine eye hint mildly for a mo ment theu wheel around and give him a kick that sends him yelping dear across the house theu the dog leaves but he also leaves a good deal of hair hide blood and cauiue imprecations behind him nearly all ostriches are treacherous and many accidents occur from persons going among the droves even those accus tomed to them are sometimes attacked an ostrich's manner of attacking a man is to rush suddenly up behind him knock him down and trample upon him in the same room were long tables covered with bundles of ostrich feathers these are sold at auction and shipped to eng land they generally bring about 7 per pound but the prices vary greatly according to the quality the leathers of the tame birds being generally worth twice as much as those of the wild oi.es they are mostly shipped be steamer being packed in small tin cases each one con taining about 1,200 sterling worth of feathers 1 went hunting the other day with some english captains and shot a beautiful little deer called a bush-bok last sunday night we had our first ruin it blew and rained fearfully most of our men wore ashore on liberty and i had to take watch from 6 p in to 12m0 a m i was soaked through and through in spite of my oil skins and nearly blown oil my feet sometimes before the rain came the sand from the deserts around the town was blown over the harbor un til the ship's deck was covered an inch or two deep our eyes ears noses and mouths were filled with it every thing we ate was gritty and it even got into our tlluiks about 11 p m it commenced to thunder and lighten for an hour 1 was nearly blinded by the glare of the light ning and deafened by the almost incessant crashes of thunder we had to let go our spare anchor and pay out sixty fathoms more chain cable and then the old uial to tugged and strained at her anchors as if she would break loose in spite of us on shore considerable damage was done many houses flooded some standing ou the side of the hill had their foun dations washed from under them and they came rolling down great stones from tho mountain sides were washed dowu into the streets obstructing traffic for sometime 1 was told that the park was well worth a visit and accordingly started in that direction 1 met a team coining from the diamond mines and stopped to gaze at the huge wagon drawn by twenty-two j bullocks driven by a baud of wild look ing natives their heads decorated with feathers and their bodies decorated a la adam a little further on i was nearly run over by a flock of ostriches which were being driven down to the quay to be shipped to new zealand this caus ed another gazing delay t by the time i got under way again for the park a crowd dl parsee women came clattering along with their wooden sandals and bright colored turbans snowy silken robes and ; in uilled faces again i had to heave to the park had begun to lose some of its attractions but 1 struck out manfully and was beginning to congratulate my self on escaping further temptation to i loiter when a party of tiger hunters ! came dashing down the street on horse back a band of howling singing zu lus in their war paint followed with a magnificent tiger on a bamboo litter that settled it : 1 saw no park that even ing * * port e is a stirling business j town of 1 1,000 inhabitants it contains i many buildings larger aud filler than any i in the state of north carolina and does | ten times the business of wilmington ! its harbor is — well uot crowded all the fleets in the world would not be crowded in algoa bay but there are always a | great many vessels here of all sizes and i nationalities wool hides diamonds i ostrich feathers gold ivory and lies about the zulu war are all shipped from ! this port the imports are everything i imaginable from locomotives to lucifer matches there is a railway running far up to some indefinite place in the coun try a gentleman told me the name of it but was too large to handle conven iently and i asked him to have it put up in packages and sent on board they also have street railways the cars are divided into first and second class they hare gas and water works several manu factories and numerous newspapers * * steamers leave here every week for eng i land all mail for this place from eu rope is landed at capo town whence there is a mail per coasting steamer twice a week the postage is rather ex orbitant — sixteen pence per ounce — but for some inexplicable reason this place does not enjoy the advantages of the pos tal i'u ion * * * * the carolina watchman established in the year 18s2 e ] -:.-■■ in advance for rel\s7 ind ilorau streets vk comer ol chun li q i 2:t for sale an upright grand piano , ■■ est " : -- ' fully b most ntlj perfect mi-.s v ii keave also two gpeclm i own ets , a , . - ■■ insti .: i til : the other w.1i.xeave ilflstttterv h w (| \ w . stomach itteb s bostettpr'8 stomach hitters by increasing iwer and rendering the physical fun i i r iii:ir and active keeps the system in rood working ordi r and protects uueainst disease for constipation dys pepsia and liver coinpluint uervousness feiclnrj and rheumatic ailments it ia in valuable mill ii affords it sure di-fcnce malarial fever , l>fskl - removing nil traces of such disease from the system 1 or sale by all druciriatd aud dealers geuerallj . jhealthcorset incri'.'i^cp in popnlarit . / (■', ■■ n r ,', as j jl ' 1 i } " comfortable i pekfkct fitting ev r w orn mor [ _■ • . itjrivcsthcbrst i • f -? : la hi of any corset v i ■ y i i warrant tl v : i y r ry v.x mi il ri - j d gaszill enly salisbury n c blackmer&taylor having purchased th e 0 f wm smithdeal as well . - the interest of r r crawford of the firm of r r crawford & co '■ ' • uo x pi rpared to supply our ■ i's with sill kinds of agricultural implements in addition to the ''<■-: selected stock r ' * i d w a i k iii the s t a t k w ' also handle rifb aiid blasting powder fus e u l a full m ne ot mj n i ng supplies we will jp any prices in the state ( ' v1 - 1 - vxd see us ft/s.buckmer safltiylor an old romance the tale of riviere's life and love from the new orleans democrat yesterday intently gazing into a show window on canal street a feeble i white-haired old gentleman recalled memories of a tragedy which in the ! hurly-burly of life seem to have pas se into oblivion in 1841 outside of the city proper there was perhaps no more delight ful place of resort than at the bayou bridge it was par excellence the great suburban attraction at the time land between beating parties on the waters of the bayou and card reunions over the tables of old barleduc'sgam bling saloon out there the jeunesse dorec of new orleans of that day managed quite comfortably to while away many a leisure moment possi bly no two voting men enjoyed the quiet hospitality of barleduc more than al phonse riviere and henri delagrave in fact most of their afternoons were spent in the dimly lighted saloon of the old gamester at whose shrine all the curd-loving element of the city { paid homage riviere was a dashing fellow of 22 with a large estate in the parish ofst jaiiv's and a round account in the old union bank lie had passed suc cessfully through the ecole polytech nique in france and taken a bout in algeria and returned to louisiana as accomplished and companionable a geutlemon as one could wish to chat i with he was fond of his horses his wine and a quiet game of cards re fined in his manner and i^i!!!ii >; l in his deportment he was a warm favor ite wherever he went and his entry into old barleduc's establishment was alawys the signal for a cordial greet ing from all who might be present on this particular june afternoon hiviere with i he activity of a gymnast leaped from his buggy in front of the saloon and throwing the reins to his negro servant told him to drive to the shade of the pecan trees in the yard switching a delicate ivory headed cane with a nervous jerky motion ho crossed the broad gallery and unannounced entered the gam bling room most of the players were wrapped in attention to the game but one there was who turned his head at the entrance ot the last coiner this was delagrave he felt that a crisis was at hand but even with this knowledge he did not strive to elude its coming th.it morning he had been accepted as the betrothed lover of mine celestin one of the most beautiful and wealthy widows of the lower coast and riviere who had been for the past year her most de voted admirer was left to nurse his disappointment as an unsuccessful suitor riviere had had no hesitancy in lotiing the world know that he wauled to marry tiie coquettish wid ow and further he in a very plain way gave people the information that he did not waut interlopers paying their devoirs at the mne shrine these matters arc hard to arrange exactly as one would wish one buds much difficulty in closing all avenues of approach for love is not unlike light which the photograper in his dark room finds s much difficulty in keeping out it steals in under doors through nail holes and even down the chimney at least so it had been the case at mme celeslin's for jealous ami watchful of rivals as riviere was delegrave hud made the couquest un der the very eyes of the enemy and the widow had that day so informed the unsuccessful suitor riviere was very pale as he ap proached the group of men around the table with the yellow light chining through the curtains and his bloodless appearance heseeired rath er a ghastly corpse than a living body but there were motion and voice in him which soon dispelled such an il lusion as he ncared delagrave the latter turned to confront him when riviere ! with a voice that seemed to come from i behind the door of a tomb said del agrave we cannot live on this together it is not large enough delagrave quietly puffing his cig arette in a cold aud impressive tone replied yes you annoy me — it would be better if you were dead riviere's face flu ed and reaching forward iaid the back of his hand o-ently against delagrave's cheek the game was at once interrupted the slap which was so light it did not even crimson the young man's cheek was enough to call for blood and leaving the house he sought an inti mate friend ; to him he opened his heart it must be a battle a rout rance such was the enmity between himself and riviere only a life could wipe it out the old doctor who had grown up it might be said on the field shrugged his shoulders and re monstrated but at last acquiesced and said very well theu ; it shall be to the death few people knew what s»it of a i party it was driving down the shell j road bordering bayou st john two carriages stopped just on the bridge leading to the island formed there by the bifurcation of the bayou and four gentlemen alighted saviilc a well known character here forty years ago accompanied riviere and dr roc quet was with delagrave the sec : onds had met previously and arrang ed everything delagrave as he step | ped from the carriage looked furtive ly around for the cases of pistols but seeing none he was a little disconcert ed after walking about 100 yards from the carriages the party stopped and the doctor motioned them to ap proach closer when they had done o he called them by name and said : gentlemen we have discussed this matter nearly all of last night and both mr saville and myself l'eel sat isfied that there is no solution to the differences between you but the death of one the world is so formed that both cannot live in it at the same time the two nodded therefore the doctor went on ' ; ve have agreed to i make tfie arbitrament as fair as is pos sible and let fate decide he took out a black morocco case and from it produced a pill-box containing four pellets one of tlie.se said he con tains a positively fatal dose of prussic acid the other three are harmless we have agreed that each shall swal low two of the pills and let destiny decide saville inclined his head and said as the representative of riv iere he agreed the two men were pale almost bloodless but not a nerve trembled or a muscle contracted gentlemen said the doctor we will loss for the first pill saville i cried out tails as the glittering ! gold piece revolved in the air it fell i in a bunch of grass the blades of j which being separated showed the | coin with the reversed head of the goddess of liberty uppermost mr delagrave you have the first choice j said the doctor reposing in the little box the four ! little globes seemed the counterpart of | each other the closest scrutiny would | not develop the slightest difference nature alone through the physologi i ' cal alembic of the human stomach can tell of their properties in one j there rests the pall of eternity the ! struggle ibr life the failing of sight i the panorama of years rushing in an ! instant through the mind the science j and peace of sleep for evermore the 1 cerements the burial case the solemn cortege and the noisome atmosphere of the grave all these were contain ! ed in one of these little pellets del j agrave having won on the first choice j i stepped forward and took a pill with i i a calmness which was frigid he placed j ■ it on his twngue ami with a cup of i claret handed him by the doctor washed it down and now m riviere said the ! doctor riviere extended his hand and took a pill like his opponent he swallowed it the two men stood looking one an other in the face there was not a quiver to the eyelid nor a twitch to a muscle each was thinking of him self as well as watching his adversa ry one minute passed two min utes passed three four five now j gentlemen said the doctor in solemn tones it is time to make the final drawing this was the fatal choice both men were ready for the cast of the lit . j saville tossed the gold piece aloft and '■ the doctor cried out head heads it was and delagrave took a pill from the box leaving only one now said the doctor m riviere the re maining one is for you you will please swallow them together the two men raised their hands at the same time and deposited the pills on their tongues and took a draught of claret one second passed and there was no movement then — good god !" ex claimed riviere his eyes starting from their sockets he turned half around to the left raised his hands above his head and shrieked a long wild shriek that belated travelers even to this day say they hear on the shell road near the island he fell prone to the earth and save a nervous contraction of the muscles of the face there was no movement delagrave took him by the hand at he lay on the damp grass and said in a tender voice i regret it but it was so to be the funeral was one of the largest ever seen in new orleans and for ; weeks the cafes were agog with the i story of the duel the beautiful wid ow horrified at the atl'air would never see delagrave afterward and is now a happy grand mere on bayou la fouche having married a wealthy planter two years after the fatal event delagrave weighed down with the trials of an unhappy life wrinkled and totteringjstroils along canal street of warm afternoons assisted by a negro servant having a bare competency he has never actually suffered from want but he shows evidence of great mental anguish the sight of a pill box makes him shudder and the taste of claret will give him convulsion 1,000,000 poows of dried fruit aid berries kluttz & rendleman's they hare just received a new supply of summer goods which thcj offer very cbeap with a full assortment of dry goods notions clothing furnishing deeds sko£s a.3xtid h-a.tjs their stock of family groceries is large and complete they still hare tlie be^t 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 chi m and all kinds table and glassware a good stock agents for coats spool cottc still have a plenty of five cents tinware tf~coinc ai l>cfore vou 1 sell fur we will do you good v \\ . tayi or > july 4th 1883 ' d.j bosi . s j s:l '"' r j^^^l apt for phffinix iron works ii b5,'s3 iy _ miscellaneous news ou last sunday morning about day the j kitchen of mr t 13 bailey was discov ; ered to be on fire and before assistance conld be rendered the entire building was completely consumed the origin of the fire i.s unknown — davie times a nashville dispatch says the jury in the case of ex-treasurer polk returned a : verdict wednesday of embezzlement and the penalty was lix<-d at twenty years in the penitentiary and a fine to the full amount of the embezzlement chicago aug 3 last night while i man named besey was on his way to the train with his three children james josephine and chris tine aged respectively ten twelve and sixteen years the horses became frightened and plunged into the river at polk street bridge the draw being open the hack man and besey es caped but the children being cooped up in the vehicle were drowned iht horses were all drowned a puecious pair — the united stales senate lias a committee on labor who travel about the country at the government's expense to ex amine into the condition ofthework iiifinan the two leading members are woodpulp miller of new york and billy mahone of virginia one a hidebound monopolists the other a shameless repndiator a precious pair to be looking out for the inter ests of the working man — boston star chattanooga tkss august i to ; day at sewenee tenn at a meeting of a convention of the episcopal chinch ( consisting of bishops ministers and lay j men from thirteen southern states it was resolved in accordance with a report of a committee consisting of bishop j.y niau of north carolina bishop gregg ol texas j m duley assistant bishop of kentucky h m thompson assistant bishop of m-sslssippi and w c wil liams pike powers and r ii footman of georgia that the general convention which meets this fall be memorialized to establish schools for the education of colored men who desire to enter the min istry of this church and that all colored ministers of this church have equal rights and power in all church councils a new process is in the course oi in troduction at the edgar thompson steel works which will materially lessen the cost of producing steel rails last janu ary the meth d of rollii _ the metal as it . came from the converter instead of put ting into pigs aud remelting was pul in to practice and to this is to be a the soaking pits in these ingots as soon a they are cool enough to leave the mold are placed and by the heat held within them they arc brought to a uni form degree of beat and rails made with one heating of the metal thu method has be.m successfully used in england aud will be used heiv in the course ol ix , weeks or two months the saving will be from 1.30 to 1.75 per i»u st me of the western papera place the fignres at .■<."). l>nt they are away u w their i o in our stick constantly replenisi under the firm name of i*li'.tiyii<:i & iorgl;t wm .). pn mi . v.ng kti .■■... - tl harnefs and sa i i ■ m ik r vh i ever did bu oess in salisbury pr sent his cumplimri to old frii n u id pi - • vitl an i.,vi . '" call and -■ • , loc fc ,,,- .,,. harness .- ■ • .. , v . he irarrai : sat 3 ' '•-■ ' ' ■ n « sto l •"■' 1 a's i his r ; iir work rates i low 1 good article will ' ■.,'■■ ■.{. | , md w e plxtmmejs & morgan concord n ii august 2 tii fol lowing is the 4 1st ballol i.i scuatur in tli legislature which numbers 315 uec essarj for a choice 158 : liollins i st ens i lad«l 1 maihton j biughain 112 pike 1~j pike having the majority w.i declared electee ; great applause mlou london august 3 tlie i>;ii new asserts thai the total number « i deaths from el i lera in egypt so t'.w has been sixteen thousand it say the <!:-• ase is i . .■ -- violent ( ten .':. .( 1 among tlu j>riti-i tr ojis ui avi rage ui sis survived clearing tlx gardcu of weeds •■' • ■ onr gardens are t beda of treed and they need a year's fallow and irorl ing to ch an them i his thoroughly i tiic ground and favors t thorough i corporation l mauure securing tiiu clean s il witli an increase of growth a a full yield which caw not posuiblj had h is are striving for the iua tery to nay i the labor rrc tip subdue them which is a whole ses work the same work to !•<- rejwated • ;•. year it doe.i not require much mar the woi i.i .- i i in • iil i,r this di - iiol uecessarih depi i • fai mei i . . • ■ if!i<-i pii ; , mid put il n i i i i ■ ' . . • il 1 ' i * '> i mail u n , ._. ik is ■ ' • . and ii :■ '■ bet [••! : - up niel r all'r ■ i pl ii - requii ■■•'< foi •. king uk pulv . . : • jil w . - ■ - ' fall pn :. . p ). in tlit spi ing i mire m i thei •• ■■ ti ri on v i . s usually t fi kin tli sal _' •■ ud ing i ■ ■ ■ '• ' • fbe rallej mntst.il lift as i \ . . n • doi seil i •_ ._ a ' . v uev f 1 . li i . ' ■ 5 state j ■''■ •■[ liave ■ mntua the 1 h and c - . having relied up«m its solvency '! • . more than foi • i tin ;■: i luiiiin.s cliai j l . we are expecting the u s man-of-war brooklyn here next week she is the flag ship ot the indian ocean squadron and consequently has the admiral on board we have two or three zulus on board working for us they are dread fully stupid and have a fearful appetite they speak no english and as i neglect ed my zulu at school 1 am not able to carry on any very extensive correspon dence with them we are loading mo hair and merino for liverpool will take about a thousand bales of six hundred pounds each i suppose we will go from liverpool direct to wilmington a tun hero after the strike on thursday one of the chief operators of the western union here called up the operator at culpeper ya who is a very good operator though getting a small salary and long hours of labor and said : may jlh — this is the queen's birth day beautiful bright and gunny quite befitting the character of the good old lady in whose honor it is celebrated all the ships are gaily decorated with flags guns are booming from the u s man-of war boat-races processions grand dinners and other festivities too numer ous to mention are tho order of the day on board the rial to we are working hard getting the ship ready for the long north ward voyage * * * a bran new steamer the hawarden castle arrived at cape town yesterday having made the trip from england in nineteen days in eluding a stoppage at madeira and one at st helena when wo get around the cape the worst is over it sometimes occupies one-third of the time just going from lure to a few miles west of the cape we did it in forty eight hours coming out but the wind always blows the same way there and alas for the homeward bound that way is from w to e the only way to get around froui e to w is to make fast sails and drift around with the current this current runs against the wind as from east to west and strange to say the harder the wind blows from the west the stronger the current runs to the west this differ will you come to washingtrn to work for a salary of 90 per month and a guarantee of live years ?" after making a few dots on the key the answer came : judas iscariot died 1,800 years ago — washington critic general rosecrans tells this anecdote about sunset cox : i remember one day some one on the other side i forgot his name was making a strong pro-chinese speech winding up something in this way : the chinaman is clean lie i tem perate he is frugal : what fault have you to find with him v cox piped out he wears his shirt outside of his breeches 1 the house was convulsed and that was the last of that orator and his chinese speech mr a m booe sowed three bushels of wheat and threshed out one hundred and four s a woodruff sowed one bushel of extra wheat and threshed out thirty five davle times