the carolina watchman fl x.—thiel series salisbuey n c januae t i 1879 no ii porttie watchman the common man pic bards sing heroes pluck j j clashing arms and battle-cry i tabes thai always wolf's milk suck tl in their boots are bonnd to die ; his great unwritten life iv'i \ dav which angels scan : oftentimes lives with his wife d dies in bed the common man nice ne'er did he nspin — 10 noble to contend v ith knaves scramble thro the din and mire id over good men's thankless graves each some old rickety stand popular applause where crops routing rogues ransack the land r crumbs the honest laborer drops independence hard work buys ie sunshine's light the free air's breath argc hands strength'n drown hiastjrha id buoy him up thro life and death ears liis forests builds his homes id draws his grain from willing soils is railways bridges costly domes s monuments his victor spoils i private in our armies he oil-hopper ou the farm's domain ; tar before the mast at sea al-digger miner shepherd swain workshop's hammer-swinger keen ie fact'ry din's totum bright ; nature's gentleman i weeu — lis honest universal wight others he their battles wins id binds the laurels round their heads ears the blame of all their sins r their mistakes he sweats and bleeds i-.akes the money in the bank it seldom doth a dollar see ; jives the general his rank id to him then bows loyally retting nothing but himself lectiug nothing but his gains mer he of naught but pelf s loaded down with woes and pafbs iher folks in time of war i in oad>word's bath the cannon'sfood limbs like brawuey pillars bear i nation lame his country's good tlio the proud man little heeds is author of his prondestjstore ; ' hist'ry plows him down like weeds il poets iiim too oft ignore i mammoth milliouary wight truth mast ever lead the van ; king must own in depths of right *. i lown aud tii roue's the common man •«•.■., i vs e p h a contrast the kicn eoon mas ■ .}-.- while to eat the dainty food t ids soul witii every earthly good ; and then i.'ii from cost ly robe and costly store .. i and famished miserably poor make his bed in hell forever more tiik pooh rich man ttle while in pain aud want to lie lised and friendless left alone to die ; and then angel band to bear him to his rest head sott pillowed on a father's breast all eternity to make him blest m s y mi ■«■■> i win mi m mill iiitt — r —___-. mt vkunov dec l 1878 r watchman : hold in my hand a withered leaf i.ed in lhe forest just now as a titting i*i to load out my mind into an agree ■ series of curious ri ave and edifying tcmnlatious its history through its n-ssive singes of growth and decline n its former vernal freshness to its *. ni hibernal death and decay is an iii.iiig study to the naturalist as a me for wise and spiritual reflection ii • iniinouly esteemed the favorite em in i if the frailty and transitoriness of ivstcnce botany tells us of its veg i'le harmony and wonderful adapta . tn i lie sustenance of the parent stem raliiy ami religion single it out as the ! and most appropriate symbol from irli the stern lesson of life's total vani is to be drawn thus we learn mate ly to admire the leaf and figuratively venerate it vhen god said let the earth bring tli grass the herb yielding seed and • fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind ose seed is in itself upon the earth in the lordly oaks that tower above tiie is to the tiny snow-drop that scarcely • its modest head above the turf there - not a single plant which did nst at '*• appear with leaves adapted in form 1 shape to its peculiar necessities and iation some were liko huge troughs goblets others were like fairy drink jiips if the place was elevated the ifs concave form and its little can il aped furrow ou the pedi.de close to the inches showed it was made to receive 1 retain the distillations from the mis aquatic pants on the other hand ie clothed in leaves quite smooth and ek without the aqueduct ofthe moun iu foliage manv other remarkable botanical facts ruing the formation of leaves might iiientiouwl ; but the limits of this letter ibid the olive leaf which the dove brought ■ r k to the ark at the conclusion of the luge has given rise to so much poetical toiic;d anil metaphysical matter in the oral ure of all nations that 1 have ught no simple incident that ever imp lied bore eventually such magnificent d infinite fruits but one other leaf cau in pete with it ; and that is the laurel ie live speaks forever of halcyon peace c laurel ut victorious war nexttothese ihaps in the poetiy of the world stand '" cedar the holly the bay the pine • palm the beach and the oak enough rses have been written about these trees fill forty thousand volumes i never ride through the little braneh ttoms in our own beautiful aud bclov scotch ireland which are lined with irgrocns without thinking of grace tnlar quaint romance the vale of dais i never look up into the forests of dlyoaks without remembering the oak se leafy top hidakingfrom the search ins enemies i never behold her vast etches of dark green pines but i am muthdof the siberian exiles wn nug far from home under their tflcmy coronals i never see a holly loaded with red berries in our woods but i see the christmas festivities und the decorated lunches of old england i never sit down under a fig-bush in my garden but i am transported in imagination to the sunny lands of syria and palestine and away over the desert wilderness where the arab on his noble steed is carrying them in his saddle-pouch as his only food through long days of tedious travel lia this withered leaf ! what doe t speak of ye fade as the leaf tha is ils language we are here to-day and none to-morrow would that its voice could ling in our ears continually we might be kinder to each other ami more wise aud sober for it e p h death at tiie toilet t'is no use talking to me mother i will go to mrs b s party to night if i die for it that's all—i'll go you know that mr t will call for me at 8 o'clock this evening and he is goingtoleavetown to-morrow so up i go to dress annette why will you be so ob stinate you know how poorly you have been all the week ; and dr l says that laie hours are the worst thing in the world for you pshaw mother ! nonsense non sense be persuaded for once my daught er i beg of you ! oh dear dear what a night it is too — it pours rain like pitchforks and blows a perfect hurricane ! you'll get wet my child aud catch cold you may rely upou it come now won't you stop at home with me to night daughter ? o yes do be good and stay ! til have lots of nights to be home with you ai d i'll go to mrs b s party to-night if it rains cats and dogs along wilh pitchforks such were very nearly the words and sueh was the manner in which miss a i expressed hei determi nation to act in defiance of her too indulgent parent's wishes and entrea ties she was the only child of her wid owed mother and had but a few weeks before completed her twentieth year with yet — notwithstanding her vain endeavors — no other prospect be fore her but that of single blessed ness certainly the twentieth year may lie generally considered the time of life when female beauty begins to blossom iuto real lovliness if the form er years has been occupied in acquir ing useful knowledge and the princi ples of christian duty but when the seeds of vanity folly and deceit are sown in the nursery and nourished at home and at school by flirtations use less visits and the immoral current literature of the age the essence of girl's youth never guarded by mod esty may be properly expected to vanish with her teens although be longing to a respectable family am by nature endowed with a rich fun of intellectual ability a weaker more frivolous aud conceited creature than miss a d it would be very hard to find she was the torment of her nerveless parent and the nuisance of acquaintances her mother's circumstances \. re verv strained sufficing barely to •_ ti lde them to maintain a posi..on in what is called respectable society nevertheless this young woman con tinued by some means or other to gratify her penchant for dress and gabbed about here and there aud everywhere the most gaudy attired voung person in the neighborhood though far from having a pretty r ac or fait figure for she was both stoop ed and bonsy yet she believed her self handsome and by a vulgar flippant forwardness espeeiallv -* n mixed in company extorted . in tentions as persuaded her th ot rs thought she was good looking for two years she had been an oc casional patient of mine the settled pallor the tallowyness of her complex ion conjointly with other symtoms evidenced the existence of stomach and liver complaints and the last visit i paid her was in consequence of frequent sensations of oppression and pain in the chest which plainly in dicated some organic disease of the heart i saw enough to warrant me in warning her mother ofthe possibility of her daughter's sudden death from this cause and the imminent peril which she exposed herself to by dan cing late hour fcc but mrs d -'» monstrances gentle and affection ate as they were always were thrown away upon her headstrong daughter it was striking six by the clock in the methodist church when miss a d , humming the words ofa popu lar song lighted iier lamp and with drew to her room to dress in a few moments she called sarah the hired girl and gave her a sound rating for not having starched and ironed some arti cle of dress that she had intended to ; put on that evening seated beside the stove in lier little j parlor mrs i had commenced j reading the account of a prepossessing j american young lady who had gone to paris ind there married a very wealthy officer ofthe french army he story was interesting and much 1 time had passed unnoticed ; the cluck j told quarter to eight nett's toilet was usually a labo rious business and therefore her long absence excited no surprise in the mind of her fond parent the noise she . ad made in walking to and from her dressing table had ceased for some time but then her mother thought she might be engaged at the mirror in adjusting her hair and preparing her compk on hut mr t may arrive at any i..orp<-nt an.i the girl should be ready to receive him said mrs d in a subdued tone of voice taking : dd ofthe little call bell on the table she rang it and sarah was soon by her side i do you know sarah said mrs d , whether miss annette is yet ready for the party i don't know ma'dam replied the girl i took her the curling irons about half an hour ago and she seem ed to be th^n a little out of humor go up to . room and see if she wants anything said mrs d . the girl went up stairs and knock ed at the b jrootn door once twice thrice but received no answer there was a dead silence except when the storm shook iiie windows could miss annette have fallen asleep im possible sarah knocked again but unsuccessfully as before siie became a little flustered ; and after a mo ment's ... se opened the door and en tered there was miss a d sitting before the looking-glass why lame commenced sarah in a petulant tone walking toward her young mistress here i have been knocking for f *"> minutes and — horror-struck she staggered against the bed tillering a loud shriek which ahirmed mrs d , who instantly tottered up stairs anti fainted as soon as she beheld the lifeless form of her daughter mis a d was dead ! sarah immediately alarmed the neighbors i was sent for it was a stormy night in march andthe deso late aspect of things abroad deserted streets the dreary howling wind and the incessant pattering of the rain contributed to cast a gloom over my mind when connected with the in telligence ofthe event that had sum moned me out on reaching the house i found mrs a d working in a violent fit surrounded by several of her neigh bors who had been called to her as sistance i repaired instantly to the scene of death and beheld what i never shall forget there was a table towards the further side ofthe room and on it stood a looking-glass hung vith a little white drapery and various articles belonging io the toi let lay scattered about — pins curling papers ribands gloves c an arm chair was drawn to the table and in it sat miss a d , stone dead her head rested upon her right hand herelbo supported by the table ehile " leit hung down by her side grasping y ir of curling irons ; each of her wrists was encircled by a showy gilt bracelet her face was turned toward the glass which by the light ofthe lamp reflected with frightful fidelity the clammy fixed features daubed over with rouge and carmine the fallen lower jaw and directed full into the mirror with a cold dull stare that was apalling on exami ning the countenance more closely i thought i detected the traces ofa smirk of conceit and self-complacency which not even the paralyzing touch of death could wholly obliberate the hair of the corpse all smooth and glossy was curled with elaborate pre cision ; and the shining sallow neck was encircled with a string of glisten ing pearls the gastly visage of death thus leering through the tinsel of fashion — the vain show of artificial beauty — was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life ! indeed tt was a most humiliating | and shocking sight poor creature ! struck dead iu the very act of sacri . ficing at the shrine of vanity ! two | or three of the women present procte : ded to remove the corpse to the bed ' for the purpose of laying itout what i strange pnssiveness she who but a few hours before would not on any account submit to the entreaties ofa fond mother offered no resistance to those who bound her for the cold and silent grave her limbs were extended and . er jaws tied up with a riband that sue intended to wear that evening at a fashionable gathering on examining the body i foun that death had been caused by disea ofthe heart her life might have been prolonged possibly for many years had she taken my advice and that of her mother i have seen hundreds of corpses as well in the calm composure r f natural death as mangled and c torted by violence but never have ._. seen so startling a satire upon human nature so repulsive unsightly and loathsome a spectacle as a corpse dress ed for a bal ! a r e li a r k a b l e st > r y o f a young lady the new york herald publishes a remarkable story based on the state ment of dr charles e west of that city in regard to the ease of miss mary j fancher of brooklyn who in 1865 at the age of nineteen years had her nervous system complex ' shattered hy an accident which be her whilst stepping irom a street cai and by which she was dragged over the navc-.m n a block in february 1sgg miss i tnclier lost all her senses even her sense of touch and did not take any food until may but she lost her speech in a few weeks and became subject to trances in june nourish ment was forced by a pump into her stomach which made her deadly sick as a result her throat closed and she was unable to take any nourishment or utter a sound for twelve years she has laid in one position for i ue years in a rigid or pa ral zed stato during these twelve years she has virtually lived without food since the 4th of july lier eyelids have re mained closed her rest is taken in the trance state which answers for sleep her mental state is more ex traordinary than her physical she has the power of second sight all places are alike open to her menial vision distance interposes no bar riers she will dictate the contents of sealed letters without a single error site will visit the family circles of her friends in distant towns and tell what they are doing and describe their per sonal attire persons entering the house of her aunt whether acquainted or strangers are instantly recognized she works in embroidery and wax without any patterns lier wax flow ers are marvels of beauty ineutti » velvet leaves for pincushions she holds the scissors by the knuckles of thumb and finger of the left hand ami bring ing the velvet with thumb and finger of right ham — b#th hands being be hind her head — she cuts the leave as sharp as if they had been cut w a die this story is too wonderful to be true it is offered only as a sample of newspaper fabrication ■!■ i m —* the new hampshire tramp law the tramp law enacted 6ome time since in new hampshire is being rigor usly enforced with results . ost salutary and satisfactory as soon as a vagrant enters the granite state he is forcibly invited to go to work or leave the common wealth and fail ing to do either forthwith he is ar rested and severely punished iu the execution of the law tliere is really no hardship yet it absolutely pre vents persons from roaming around the country on begging or thieving tours i je bible and science the bible is true and science is ti e and when your man of science v i vain and hasty conceit announ ! cl the discovery of a disagreement , between them rely upon it the fault j is not with the witness of his records j but with the worm who essays to interpret evidence which he does not understand when i a pioneer in our depart ment of this beautiful science discover the truths of revelation and the truth of science reflecting a light one upon the other and each sustaining the other how can i as a truth-loving knowledge-seeking men fail to point out the beauty and to rejoice in its discovery and were i to suppress the emotion with which such discoveries flight to stir their soul the waves of the sea would lift up their voice and the very stones of the earth cry out against me as a student of physical geography regard the earth sea air and water is pieces of mechanism not made with i hands but to which nevertheless cer tain offices have been assigned in ihe terrestrial economy it is good and profitable to seek to find out these offices and point them out to our fel lows ' and when after patient re search i am led to the discovery of any one of them i feel with the as tronomer of old as though i had thought one of god's thoughts and lc j " dying christian the gloom shall depart from our souls as the mists of the morning from the illeys at the smiling ofthe rose ate dawn our days shall seem gilded as with the refulgent halo of zion's dazzling glory itself and the dismal grave from which poor frail fallen humanity now instinctively shrinks back with an ill-defined dread shall present no more grisly terrors to the minds ofthe believer but will instead to the eye of faith appear as wondrous ly glorious in its supernatural beauty as a grandly arching gate of purest pearls fresh from the courts above and flashing forth in the light of god resplendent rays of majestic loveliness upon the soul of every one passing within its limits because in it we be hold the portal through which is the entrance from earth's dark scenes of suffering and calamity into the ever lasting realm of the eider brother of our souls the king of glory peace and love — joseph m brown no you can't go ix whither away gentle youth said the gentleman in waiting at one of princess louise's receptions to an airy young kanuck who tried to in sert himself amid the favored throng i would do honor as a loyal sub ject to the beauteous scion of royalty the daughter of an empress whose power extends from tropic to torrid zone and whose morning drum beat circles the globe for the perpetuation of whose empire millions of swords would leap flashing from their scab bards and " yes yes but your nicktie isn't the proper color and in quiry has developed the fact that your grandfather kept a grocery store you can't go in can't ! i can't go in and shake hands with louise exit youth in a rage — boston traveler _ ♦-«.•» choked to death by a bone in chesterfield county va on mon ay last a young colored girl retired rather precipitately fiom dinner at which a rabbit pie had been served and when found shortly after in an adjoining room was extended at full length in a chair and was entirely lifeless a doctor was never theless summoned who pronounced her death due to disease of the heart ; but as the body was being made ready for burial it was discovered that her throat had been cut by a sharp rabbit bone which protruded clear through the skin blaine's misstatements in stating the increase of southern re presentation in congress by reason ofthe enfranchisement of the negro mr blaine exceeded the facts by nearly one half he ignored the three-fifths representation of ante-bellum days iu stead of thirty five the actual increase is about twenty one mr blaine should exercise more caution in the use of numericals tho senator's style is too figurative wash ington post a very practical demonstration rock hill s c herald last thursday while major rob ertson of our town mas lecturing his son a ja*l of about fifteen on the careful handling of fire-arm a most ! dangerous accident befell him in the course of his remarks it occurred : to him to describe to his son how a j gentleman of his acquaintance with j gun in hand the butt resting on the | ground many years ago shot himself i fatally by carelessly dropping an up i raised leg so as to push back the hammer and thus cause the gun to discharge its contents iuto his body accordingly taking his shot-gun in hand the butt resting on the floor he proceeded to illustrate and as his leg went down bang went the gun the load lucidly a very small one of j no 10 shot lodging itself iu his left jaw inflicting an ugly but we are glad to say not a serious wound with this feat of his powers of de monstration the major closed his lec ture and has not informed us when he will complete it a glorious privilege lo live when we see the earth in her green ery as she dresses for the embrace of spring and we see the flowers spring has sprinkled upon her bosom and the rivers laughing in the sunbeams as they rush on to meet the kisses of ocean and the streams as they glisten like ribbons of light among the grass : when we see the mountains ver dure and the lilacs blush aud the cloud craped hills and mist veiled valleys and the forest shining in the morniag air twinkling with diamond lights or see the earth washed with the white moonlight while the stars are making love to the little stars behind the clouds or inhale the in cense of nature when the long tresses of the evening stars are trailing tlieir shadows across the valleys every where this sentiment glows and great ens that it is a glorious privilege to live — hon 0 a lochrane the greatest of teachers woman is the greatest of all teach ers she moulds the character ofthe rising generation far greater is her mission than that of the sculptor for she chisels a fairer form and breathes upon the intellect the elevating ten dencies and aspirations of her own soul far greater than that ofthe paint er for she brings out in brighter per spective the most commanding excel lencies the works of nature and of art may please the eye and gratify tlic senses but when the earth shall melt with fervent heat they shall pass away with the things of time but the la bors ofthe true woman in developing the higher capacities of the soul will outlive time aud find its full consum mation in the realms of bliss — ex tract from an address the higher culture of woman deliverecy col lege temple com mencement newman the beam in their oum ey/t mr blaine appears anxious to ex pose the crime against the right ot suffrage if an investigation into the methods of the late election be gins it should extend through every new england state especially at the manufacturing towns it should have full sweep in new york city where supervisor of elections davenport in behalf of the federal government forcibly and violently deprived thou sands of voters of their ballots and took away their naturalization pupers which have been pronounced lerfecfc ly legal by the courts that investi gation should extend-throughout penn sylvania rotten with radical election fraud and bull-dozing and through the west by the time tiie committee gels through new england blaine ami his radical friends will have enough ofthe investigation o __» what the negro needs tho opening of new colored schools is reported in several of the southern states education will convince the uegroes of that section that their interests are iden tical with the interests of tin ir white neighbors and that they have nothing to gain by following the lead of northern demagogues who care nothing for thc:u unless they can use theni for selfish euds — washington post improvements in our coins needed the bangor me art association has assaulted our american coinage in a series of spirited resolutions premising that coins are supposed to be representations of the artistic skill and refinement ofthe people and the period by whom and in which they are made the association resolves that coins of the united states do not represent either the spirit skill or ingenuity of the american people the secretary of the treasury is re quested to avail himself of the highest artistic and inventive talent so that our coins may in reality be an honor to the country and au explosion of the genius of the age in which we live the richmond whiff while urging vigorously action upon the tobacco tax question is for no half way measures but demands the repeal of all tax in principle the whig is right because tobacco as an agricul tural product ought to be as free of burden as wheat corn cr cotton and in its raw state any tax upon it is unjust as much as it would be on those other products but as a manufactured article and as a presumed object of luxury the world has agreed to tax it heavily this government is so overwhelmed with debt that we can never expect it to release tobacco or whiskey from heavy contributions to the revenue it is idle to expect it principle in this case must give way to controlling necessity and all the tobacco inter est can expect and therefore all it ought to ask is reduction of the im position but that ought to be de manded without mincing words — hillsboro recorder we agree with our charlotte con temporaries the observer and demo crat that the legislature should re peal the law authorizing a board of state canvassers and modify if not repeal that authorizing the vote of county canvassers the system is too complex and the negligence or igno rance of any of the many agencies necessary to the perfection of the acts of such boards may defeat the will of the people simply through adher ence to too much red tape a hitch in this county came near vitiating the whole vote in the late congressional elections give us back the straight forward direct old way returning boards have an unsavory smell to honest people — hillsboro recorder grant's candidacy special dispatch to the x y herald 20th philadelphia dec 19 — the friends of general grant are delighted over their last success in paving the way to tho general's renoniinatiott^p j1880 having secured senator conkling withdrawal as a presidential candidate and his co operation in tiie grant movement they had still senator blaine to deal with a confidential agent was sent down to wash ington last week and ret urn 1 wiih a message from blaine that he will not stand in general grant's way in the convention bftt will stand aside and let the general have lift run this i.s regarded asscttlingthe business for with conkling and blaine promised to keep out ofthe way and make no opposi tion the grant managers rely confidently upon tho popularity of his name and tho general enthusiasm to secure him a unani mous nomination u the first ballot they do uot conceal their delight at this result it is believed iu blaine circles that he does not consider the chances of the re publican ticket in 1-v so good as to war rant him io making a fight for the nomi nation against the odds he would have to encounter by a union of tha grant and conkling forces and thai istbereasou why he has surrendered at discretion bro yates puis in tt strong word against dialling we learn that the persons from south carolina who came over into north car olina to fight a duel recently will be ii dicted by a mecklenburg court that is right and gov vance should demand the rendition of the persons implicated let our courts put a seal of emphatic condi fi liation on the foolish duelling code meck lenburg authorities are expected to do their duty in regard totheafiaii mention ed and maintain the dignity of onr laws and respect due the state li two orthrce negroes or white men get into a little tus selling scrimmage or fist and k fight the whole force of the state in law ) i.s brought against them aud the same should be done against the youug geutle men from soath carolina who came into , this county aud violated our la ws chart ' democrat