the carolina watchman vol xv third series salisbury n c january 3 1884 kg 52 the carolina watchman established in the year 1882 price 1.50 in advance darbys prophylactic fluid a household artwle for universal family use flsjhe23s£es350n for scarlet and ■ _ i bj typhoid fevers ■ eradicates g diphtheria s*n > i r • a ota hvutioii ulcerated jjlalliiivia b soiv throat small ggp'-t w ¥^ w l measlqs and all contagions diseases persons waiting op the skk sh-.uld use it freely scarlet fever has nev.r urn icn n to prca.i where the r lmd was used yellow fever has been liired with n after black vomit had taken place the wort cases of diphtheria yieid to it fevere«un!sirk!vr smallpox ions refreshed and and 1j.mi sort » prevent pitting of small t-d by bathing w.th p ox pkevkntkd darbyj fluid a nv-mber of my fam impure a r made „ was takcn f wirfl harmless and p smallpox i used the for sore throat it u a ; the patient was i is ii chafing etc u , w p ark _ ssssis i diphtheria j it cant be surpassej b««..a~*«j 3 catarrh relieved and ■ xtqv©lll2cl h erysipelas cured b3e5sbbhr5t^8eb barns relievedwstamly the physicians here scar prevented use jj ir b ys fluid very dysentery cured successfully in the treat wounds healed rapidly mem lf diphtheria scu v lr f d > . • i a stollknwwck an antidote for anim.m greensboro ala or vegetable poisons stings etc tetter dried up i used the fluid during cholera prevented our present nilhcti'.n witli ulcers purified and sc.ir!:t fever with de healed ,'. advantage it is in cases of death it indispensable to the sick i should be used about room — wm f sand the corpse — it will fobu eyrie ala j prevent any unpleas the eminent phy ■ scarlet i ever 3 sms m d ew clifsdt p convinced prof darbyj vanderbilt university nushville tenn i testify tu the most rx ellent qualities of prof darbys prophyla i fluid a a disinfectant and detergent 1 is th theoretically and practically hiperi r t any pre aration with fhich i am ac quainted n i i.i 1 mn i'rjt chemistry darbys fluid is recommended by h n axkxand !< h stephens i i georgia rev chas f debus d.d church of the strangers n v jos leconte columbia prnf . university s.c xcv a j battle prot mercer university r«v gh 1 f pii-i ..... bishop m e church xkdispensaislk to every home perfectly harmless used internally or cjftcnially for man r beast the fluid h.<b been thoroughly tested and we have abundant evidence that it h.ts done everything here claimed k r fuller information get of your druggiit a pamphlet or send to the proprietors j ii zf.ilin & co * manufacturing chemists ham purchased the entire stock of goods formerly belonging t 0 blackmer & taylor i will carry on the hardware business in ill its branches including wagons buggies all kinds of agri cultural implements & machinery rifle and blasting powder dynamite and all kiiuls of mining sup plier in short everything ordinarily found in ;, first class hardware establisment x jsxxaxjxj ii e move — to the — mcmeely corner whoic i will be pleased to see all persons who wiwh to pu hase hardware fo?g cash i wjll keep no books or accounts c2f*4n parties indebted to blackmer rajlor are requested to make immediate settlement their accounts will be in the hands of w s blackmeb who will make settlement u ke blackmejr # october 1883 i on tlie same footing j]ow much a man is like old shoes for instance both a sole may lose hoth have been tanned both are made tight by cobblers both get left and right both need a mate to be complete and both are made to go on feet they both need heeling ; oft are sold and both in time all turn to mold with shoes the last i 6 rat ; with mi'ii the iirst shall be the last ; and when the shoes wear out they're mended new when men wear out they er men deatl too they both are trod upon and both will tread on others nothing loath both have their ties and both incline when polished in the world to shine and both peg out and would you choose to be a man or be his shoes a visit to smith's island — inter esting facts prof washington c kerr late geolo gist of the state which position ho held for fifteen years was in to see us yester day to-dny prof ken goes to smith's island near the mouth of the cape fear river to gratify his curiosity in regard to a certain matter smith's island is the largest island in north carolina and its climate is said to be the mildest of any point in the united states outside of florida-in fact as prof kcrr expresses it — it is a little spot of florida in north curoliua it is to satisfy himself fully upon tins latter point that he visits the island he will be accompanied by a h vaubokkelen esq president of the chamber of commerce aud maj henry bacon assistant engineer ill charge o the government works at die mouth of tlio river on tuesday prof ken vas near man ly in moore county aud took a survey ol a scope of the country composed of a high point of land of considerable area and exteur covered by pine 1i meas ured the liiil and found it six hundred feet above the level of the sea or the highest point of pine baireu section i.i the countiy for this and other reasons prof ken thinks the sjiot the best point in the united states as a locn tiou for a sanitarium principally on ac count of the dryness and mil lness of the atmospheric surroundings in this coinicctiou prof kerr mention ed a significant fact lie bay a distin guished professor in a lead tig medical college ol pennsylvania belonging to a coubutuptivc family and himself having all liia life been fighting and raiding off a liesi he could the iusiduuis approaches uf this read enemy to the luman family and having thus made diseases of the lungs a mat tor of study ami investigation described to our professor the locality thai should above all others l>e selected as tlie propel one for the establishment of a sanitarium and the point il>»ve referred to in moore county says prof kerr ex actly fills the bill it seems hat dryness mildness and lack of variableness in at mosphere conditions or surroundings a.c essential in a place of residence for per sons troubled with luug diseases — wil shir rest awhile yon ue weai ing out the vital forces faster than is any need and in this way subtracting years from the mini total of your life this rush aud worry day after day — this restless anxiety fir something you have not got — is like pebble stones in machinery they grate aid grind the life out of you you have useless burdens throw them off you have a great load of useless care dump it pull in the strings compact your business take time for thought of better things go out iu the air and let god's sun shine down on your busy head stop thinking of busi ness and profit ; stop grumbling at ad verse providences you vill probably nerer see much better timesin this doom ed world ; and your most opportune sea son is iio»t ; your happiest iay is to-day calmly do your duty aud let god take care of his own world he is still alive and is the king do not imagine that things will go to everlasting smash when you disappear from this mortal stage do not fancy that the curse of heaven in the shape of the vain task of righting up a disjointed earth is impost d upon you cease to fret and fume c;ase to jump and worry early aud late the good time is coining but you can uever bring it ; god can and will ; tak breath sir sit down and rest aud take a long breath then go calmly to the tasks of life and do your work w«ll — dr t taylor one of the largest sheep ranches in america is on the santa rosa island cal ifornia on this islaud of 74,000 acres fully 80,000 sheep are kept last june the wool clip from these sheep was 415 740 pounds which sold for 27 cents a pound briaging the owner 212,349.80 a clear profit of over 80,000 even this was a low yield four men keep the ranch iu order during the year but iu shearing time an additioual force is of course necessary a shearer is paid five cents a clip and 4.50 a day is frequeut lv niad by a good hand the santa rosa sheep require no herding but two hundred trained goats run witli them answering all the purposes of shepherd dogs railroad commissioners 1 report the first report of tlie railroad commission as now formed has ween presented to thelegislature,and shows that the members of the board have made conscientious and intelligent ef fort to carry out the law under which they were appointed they devoted five months of hard steady work to the task assigned them before issuing their standard schedules of rates the effect of that schedule i briefly stated as follows : first to freights : the rates for short distances have been generally reduced below what they were before the rates for long distances are about die same as before except that on the charlotte colum bia & augusta railroad short dis tance rates have been increased and long distance rates have been reduced second as to passenger fare the rates on all roads have been decreased ! these results are illustrated by elab orate tables the report then gives the details of the complaints made to the commis sioners and of their efforts to remedy the evils complained of and more par ticularly explains the difficulty in re gard to joint rates the trouble is that while it seems equitable that the charge for transportation of the same article for the same distance should be the same whether it was on one road or divided among two or more roads the wording of the law is such that joint rates established on that principle might compel each road to reduce its whole local tariff to the scale of its proportion of such joint rates an amendment of the railroad law to meet this difficulty is sug gested the board quote amply from mr charles francis adams what he says about the massachusetts railroad commission as follows the country did not contian any trained body of men competent to do this work they had to be found and educated in the next place the work was one of great difficulty and ex treme delicacy the commissioners weie to represent the government in a momentous struggle with the most compact and formidable interest in the country they were to be pitted against the ablest men the community could supply thoroughly acquainted with their business and with unliii.it ed resources at their disposal final ly the test of success was to be that under these circumstances and in the face of these difficulties the commis sion should develop the crude origi nal laws placed in their hands into a rational and effective system at the beginning of the report a merited tribute is paid to the memo ry of the late ex-governor jeter whose labors as a member of the board are fittingly acknowledged a rail road map of the slate prepared for commissioner bonham is found with the report — charleston hews c cqu reir boys who became famous men one night a father was aroused by the cry of fire from the street little imag ining tlie lire was in his own house lie opened his bedroom door and found the place full of smoke and that the roof was already burned through directing his wife and two gills to rise and fly for their lives he burst open the nursery door where the maid was sleeping with fire children they snatehed up the young est and bade the others follow her ; the three eldest did so ; bat john who was then six years d was not awakened and in the alarm was forgotten the rest of the family escaped some through the windows others by the garden door j the mother to use her own expression wad ed through the lire just then john was heard crying in the nursery the father ran op the stairs but they were so near ly consumed that they could not bear his weight and being utterly in despair he fell upon hia knees in the hall and in agony com mended the soul of the child to god john had been awakened by the light and finding it impossible tu escape by the door climbed upon a chest that stood near the window and was keen from tli yard there was u time for procuring a ladder but one man was hoisted upon the shoulders of another and thus he was taken out a moment after the roof fell in yvheu the child was rescued the father cried out : come neighbors let us kneel down ; let us give thanks to god he has given me all my eight children j let the house go ; i am rich enough john wesley always remembered the deliver ance with the deepest gratitude under oue of the portraits published during his life is a representation of a house on firu with the scriptural inquiry is not this a brand plucked out of the burniug the certain way to be cheated is to imagine one's self more cunuing than oth ers good is uever more effectually per formed than when it is produced by slow degrees men who mind their owu business usu ally succeed because there is little com 1 petition stock raising the newbern journal holds that there is more pleasure in raising beef mutton pork and horses and mules than in cotton in raising stock the farm can be improved without buy ing commercial fertilizers in this i section there are vast acres of excel i lent summer pastures especially on the po.'osins where there are thou i sands of acres of reeds which by the j way afford excellent winter p.istnr age too and a cow or a sheep or a hog with proper attention will ma nure land enough to make their win ter's support one difficulty that formerly existed here that of elut ! ting the market can now be avoided ! with quick and safe transportation i lines all the beef and mutton that ! cannot be consumed in newbern can ; be shipped north and if fit for mar • ket will bring good prices a good stock raiser with a farm i near this city that will make crab grass ; peas and corn can make a fortune supplying this market with gooil ! stall-fed beef but to do this the poor ' miserable stuff brought here and sold ! for beef must bo ruled out of the ' market some of the older citizens tell us | that before the war but few grocery dealers kept the northern and west ern bacon for sale while every one ! had the country hams and shoulders 1 now it is just the reverse we are in favor of progress but there are some of the old wa^sthat will ere l«ng : have to be resumed one objection now to hog raising is cholera this ; is very bad but remedies ar being ; applied that are said to be very effec | tual and t lie inventive genius of nan ' will vet if it has not already tin ! a 1 sure remedy it is often the case however that the disease originates from an empty com crib the amount of money paid out an nually in eastern north carolina for horses and mules if it could be cor rectly estimated would astonish the people now while ours is not strickly a stock region yet it would be profitable to at least raise horses and mules enough to cultivate our lauds now we de not expect a sudden revolution among our farmers in re ' gard to their market crops but we ask j them to consider what is ahead we i want them to remember that the mis sissippi bottoms will make a bale of cotton to the acre without manure to make it in north curolina we must spend from six to ten dollars per acre for manure that i the tanners is the cotton lie-it can make it from one to two cen.s per pound cheaper b than we can — i ■»«-— canes the manufacture of canes is by no means the simple process of cutting the sticks in the woods peeling olt the bark whittling down the knots sand papering the rough surface and ad ding a touch of varnish a curiously carved handle or head and tipping the end with a ferrule in the sand flats of new jersey whole families support themselves by gathering nan ueberry slicks which they gather in the swamps straighten with an old vice steam over an old ketile and perhaps scrape down or whittle into size these arc packed in large bun dles and sent to new york city and sold to the cane factories many im ported sticks however have to go through a process of straightening by mechanical means which area mys tery to the uninitiated they are bu ried in hot sand until they become pliable in front of the heap of hot sand in which the sticks are plunged is a stout board from five to six feet long fixed at an angle inclined to the workmen and having two or more notches worked in the edge when the stick has become perfectly pliable the workman places it on one of the notches and bending it in the oppo site direction to which it is naturally bent straightens it thus sticks ap parently crooked bent warped and worthless are by this simple process straightend ; but the curious part of the work is observed in the formation of the crook or curl for the handles which are not naturally supplied with a hook or knob the workman places one end of the cane firmly in a vice and pours a continuous stream of fire from a gas pipe on the part which is to be bent when sufficient heat has been applied the cane is pulled slow ly and gradually around until the hook is completely formed and then secured with a string an addition al application of heat serves ta bake and permanently fix the curl the underpart of the handle is frequently charred by thfe action of the gas and this is rubbed down with sandpaper until the requisite degree of smooth ness is attained — american merchant the thinnest sheet of iron that human ingenuity ever succeeded iu manufactu ring was made in wales and whs indeed nothing but a gossamer of which 4,300 beets were required to make ne inch iu thickness a remarkable cave an article in the century is a de ■ seription of devonshire entitled the j fairest county in england by fran ! cis george heath of kent's cavern in the vicinity of torquay a remark able cave consisting of a great exca j vation in the devonian limestone the writer says : it is entered by a nar row passage some seven feet wide act five feet in height the central i cavern which is almost goo feet long j has a number of smaller caverns or j corridors leading out from it itsfar j thcr extremity is terminated bv a deep | pool pf water in the bed of this cav ern modern research has been reward ed by some deeply interesting discov eries over the original earth bottom of the cave is a bed or layer of con siderable thickness in which arecon i tained a strange mixture of human ; bones with the bones of the elephant i ami l he rhinoceros the hyena the bear and the wolf intermingled with stone and flint tools arrow and spear heads and fragments of coarse pottery the i animal remains testify to the presence iin the ancient forests of britain of • beasts of prey which long since have become extinct speculation may be exhausted in the endeavor to account i for the curious intermingling in this i cavern of the remains of human beings and of wild animals the place m:vv have been used for shelter succeessively by man and by the lords of the forest or as the presence of the rude weapons of man might seem to indicate the beasts of the field may have been brought into this natural recess as trophies of the chase and their flesh and skins used for purposes of food and clothing nothing less than the most persevering and enthusiastic search could have discovered the in teresting remains which for a vast period of time had been buried in this retreat ; for the fossils were covered by a thick floor of stalagmite which had been formed there can be no doubt by great blocks of limestone which had fallen from time to time extending over a very lengthened period from the roof of the cavern and had become cemented into one mass by the perpetual percolations of lime-water from above saving winter cabbage there are several methods usually givsn about this time of the year to preserve cabbage through winter and we have tried nearly or quite all of them we prefer the one we intro duced nearly thirty years ago and with which we have always succee ded in keeping our cabbage in perfect condition until late in the spring it is simply to excavate slight trenches side by side on a rising or dry spot where the water will readily drain off in which to stand the cabbage just as it grows sinking it up to the head the rows can be as closely put together as the size of the heads will admit ; cover over with corn foddcr,straw or bean haulm then set tour posts so as to from a pitch pla cing the head against a stone wall or board fenoe on these form a roof by bein poles when boards are not ut hand and cover this with corn stalks or straw it ordinarily well done the cabbage will keep as long as may be desired having usually pre served ours sound and fresh until the end of april or the beginning of may we are aware that it is commonly recommended to place the heads of the cabbage in the ground with the root sticking up but having tried this way we found that the cabbage kept fresher and better as we recom mend to prove this we have had cold-slaw in may — gcrmantown telegraph the montgomery ala advertiser contends that an honest man is the bo blest work of god in the workshop as well as in the court-room or the office vvben a boy believes that lie will be dis graced by becoming i mechanic or a far mer his education lias been sadly neg lected though all the colleges in the land have added initial to his name \\ lien a girl belieyes she will be disgrac i ed bv marrying an honest artisan or cul tivator of the soil her education is a fail ure though she una trinuipiiantlj passed | the gauntlet of seminaries uud colleges winston leader on july 4th 1783 was held a thanksgiving in salem j church that the war of the itevolu ■ tion was ended when one considers i the emiuent piety of the moravians of those days we cannot but think that i it was mo^t earnest and truly thankful oh no i don't object to the quality ! of your butter said the customer to the 1 grocer ive not that but hit wife com plains that there isn't en-ough hair in it to make a respectable switch but a good deal too much to make it palatable the astronomical lay begins at noon ; the civil day begins at tire preceding mid night the civil reckoning i therefore twelve hours iu ad ranee f the a^trouom ical reckoning meroney & bro.3s!f have largest and most complete stock of v dry goods a^d istotio^ss to loo found m tho town or saliabury mess fidlis a splendid line of black and colored cashmers fn ■ .-, ,„,-,. hr v , r we „.„ ■*«««. --«,«-- s.lk vh i vk ; v f k „,, special bargain all wool-filling worsted the latest shades at 10 cents per yard this good ia worth , ne thir.1 more and cannot be had at this extrenuly low priee out side of oui house t cloaks circulars dalmans m jackets are pretty and cheap from 2 to 18 e^-also a nice line of jersey jackets shawls knit jackets kc g carpets rfgs door mats a i l selling cheap b 0 0 ts and shoes at nice iine "'" '-"'''^ collars from 5 cents to lpyp|p3£g is-«*s ilandki-rchii-fs from "» ets to 2 aserisaa davis i royal st jota seiiii haekibes kv^raplss&iigflw'e can nn.l ■ , - i cheap call and be convinced m.&b to keep hoffs healthy keep your hogs i.i goo clean ; fields ; give them cres.su pure wa ter even though you should lie com pelled to dig a well f«»r tkat purpose — a good pump and plenty of suuabl 1 troughs cleansed every week will cost hut little and will always prove i a valuable outlay provide als in i the divest part of the held a good shel ter both from sun and rain a few ; rails properly arranged two or three 1 feet from the ground coverd with a ! stack ut straw or coarse prairie gra-s i will be jm attractive place ior the j entire drove jn troughs near bv their resling places t w t » or three times each week place a composition of salt soda red pepper and ginger to four parts of the first two articles add one part oi the latter our com mon red pepper will do very well they should however be well pnl | verized and all the ingredients thor oughly mixed most healthy ani ; inals will readily devour salt t<i ! obtain it they will also take tin alkali and stimulant the compound will not injure bird beast fish or man jt is not offered as a patent remedy but simply as a preventative of the injurious effects of foul gases and pestiferous filth in which hogs have been a howe to wallow con tinue their usual summer feed wheth er clovor bran meal or corn — dro vers journal the jewel of assurance u best kept in the cabinet uf au liiin'ole heart if eveiv year we rooted out one vice we should become perfect men the washington mi kinen aie not al lowed to ring bells as the.v disturb the slumbers of the policemen they might be allowed to us-j dumb bells our brains ar seventy-year clock ', tlie angel of life winds them up once for all then closes the ease and gives the key into the hand uf the ansel of the resur rection for the planters £ furors gfn0r7hqarglena iu order uut n ir planting friendu hrou.ifhout hie stuti ::::■;• 1 uib d to iiropnrp and u*n v^\l li ssglved raw 3gnes .,,..> ,-»' r 1,1 1 ■;.' ' • • !■:■: d ol onr make as v ; i i.u.vue c!1e.hicaks for 1 .:. - ni:i 1 . liom<'-.ll:ide l-crtilizerx i wo 1 inii ■! imkkj't '■•■ farmers finv.ll ... 11 i ii'f..l-.-.i!.3 j't-i 1 ■;.-. for tb r n.-iil.-;i . ' ■ r rn>:i:i:;-r wa have r-riibji-lirii ix ut-.ut in noitl'olk vi mi ori'.crs mi:i i btiltimor can !>•■ f-lapik prnmptlv fi iu norfolk 1 ■ -• : 1 i i i • 1 . i!l it • !.%»••'- ill-pot or luc<!insi ■" if shipped :■ ui lialtimore zif~si for nnr 1 i lilet t •'■■•■• full dewaip t ■•] v «>•.»!<■ st it pr i ' ir t-ind!ir<l lir-'i 1 ■>!" i v i •: t .« , • i ; . 1 approved baucfs"it§on8 133 sq'j'ni st baltimore md ga j r keen w salisbury n c _ dbfejl apt for phffinix iron wore enoaes boilers saw mills m^|||#^j 1 turbine^wheel t*^^c ;>^ ajso contractor and builder ifostettcbv fg •* celebrated 1 1 j the nree.==ity i..r prompt an<l r:li houst-holi remedies ia daily growing moi imperative and ol these hostetter'a acta bitters ii the chief in mrrjt ani tl most popular irregularity of the fctoiij:i i and bowels malaria lvvir liver com plaints debility rheumatism and minor ailnnnts art thoroughly conquered by ihis incomparable family restorative and mvdic inal safeguard an^l il i justly regarded as the purest and most comprehenaive restedy it.s cla-s for calu by all druggujta acj dbilira generally bargains at ami below cost goods going at a siiffflci ibcrnluifdi irss we are determined to close out our pres ent stock consisting of a great variety ol dry goods nolions clothing hals shoes c and are now offering the greatest induce ments in tlio \\ aj i>i low prices ever before known in this city call and sec us and be convinced that we mean what we say bernhardt bro's dec 12th l vv >;. chillirtnei chillarins ! chill a bine the great chill cure of the day v7arrasted to cure every ' time or the money refunded for s:tlf i only at bnniss drug store asthma cured ivsag-ic asthma cure persons af flicted with this distressing complaint should try this medicine a tew hour us will entirely remove all op <! tt patient can breath and - . ease and freedom price ri foi ennisft drug atore