tlie carolina watchman l|l z thied series salisbury jf c march 20 1879 n0 2g i lo your best ,.„ inuifsi davy rocket sakl h|1m ynii'ie i i.-'i then j-n ahead prvi-tiili*-.«"d i maxim true — l'ujld_tl i m«r than lit knew ." ,,,,,. you'll ii._m : nr come as nenr rjijlit as mortal man mav steer (| ,*,„.< hi best exhaust ins stoic .,.,.], themselves can l mi more.11 ljj-li our aim then ifyou miss „ ii.,.l.iii.iii « iii i thi : li,l mi i missed tin nun i i lia in in prouder one not lisconragcd wink away ; 1,1s arc mil bnilded in a dav ; rh rloiiils enwrap you fur ami wide .,,'. a sillisliilie oil the otlier siile , mcdle whom magnetic roiii u i seal rlies for the pole ni thi ill van judge e then ■ . 1 1 - 1 in . ran dwell w ith men li;i|)s the mm iii mn !»_»• ii force 1-i-i || liltle tll.lllj-l of roll i'm ; mi m iv i h i rn mn when vmi ran h mu your on - 1 1 n i •_. i 1 1 on,11 again | a nice little game i ■ i he sat before the glowing grate i feet on one corner ofthe mantel chair tipped back his young o looked at him ; aud her pretty ek eyes wliich only a minute l»c ,. hail been with teats emitted iis i fire 1 ler rosy mouth closed li a iirm expression and her dain hl'.h.t came luw n upon tlie rug in a vet i.-.l in inner faw \ ,.*,,..• i stand it she said under h in illi 1 can't twill kill ine ' h s.r nun thus night after night .!•■_;■. u!.*.l ruining both soul ifll i mil v i must save luni for my y . * 1 «• ' j i,.ii sin it and meditated they em been married a litt le over two pi uni the baby in the wicker i m i i * i i thri ing bov nu hap [ jifr ivniiiaii than 1 hilly the w ild hi l'i but for one thing lier eh>'i:iii.i wi mid drink ile loved his 1 clti iii'ihi 1 le i'd not neglect his bj_p ' i;i "'*'*• ■■•■""■■ boil <■ iu the small ii hi an unsteady condition lilly tried everything — tear en it ies pi i-ii tsion — but he only where's the barm dolly can't how l.e merry now and then with lut dolly saw the awful evil grow jkul him and knew what the wuuld i.e she shuddered and eves filled wiih tears but the mill iliter they hashed lire and she i'll try it she said to herself if cs iiii good it can't do much ler husband roused up and open i eves with an imbecile stare ■ frank you believe that a wife id follow in her husband's foot me he sure you're a sensible and yu're a sensible man frank siat -, right for you ui do is right for w isn't precise dolly ■ just so exactly 9>n re a wise woman you are |'\ cry well frank ifyou go to the itn any more at nights i'm going -__■< '' her husband looked up half sobcr ixouseuse dolly he said that's lining the thing into the ground i m do do such thing rv.hi'll pec that 1 will fran !' ■<-' iii-wend resolutely ; j love vui d what you do i shall do too if ■' see lit to ruin yourself soul and w and shame yonr son i shall lluw you example 1 care for notli w that you cannot share as vou ■ hi cheek paled and his lips quiv ■''• her wortls touched him to the ■ l he sat silent for a minute ■'" l>e got up and aid : fxousense dolly come to bed pl'e followed him obediently and l''ing more was said on the bub ►'• 1 r three or four nights frank ■""' honw punctually then his old wit mastered him lly had his supper all waiting -_-_---_ 1 1 * u •■•••■> slippers and dressing town 1 the fire but he did not come ■(: baited patiently till 10 o'elu/k t'lshe called the housemaid and put on her wraps sit by baby's crib mary and when mr may fair conies tell him i have gone to the reindeer ask no questions and take good care of baby and you shall have a dollar extra this month vi tv well ma'am with wonder j ing eves twelve o'clock one and th n the young husband let himself in with • liis latch-key and came reeling into ! tlie sitting room there sot the maid beside the sleeping child frank looked about him a little anxiously ah last asleep fine little fellow he said bending over the crib marv my girl w here's your mistress gone to led *." no sir she's gone to the reindeer hotel he stood aud stared what do you say girl ?' she went out at 10 sir and bade j me tell you when you came that she'd gone to the reindeer the young husband stifled some thing like an oath and sat down be fore tlie hearth half an hour went by then he started up und glanced at the clock great heaven ! tis nearly 2 o'clock and she not here he seized his hat and rushed from the house like one mad iiv the time he was half way to the reindeer he was perfect lv sober '( ould she have meant what she said ".'" he asked himself over and over again presently a carriage came down from the lighted tavern on the bill aud as it passed him a woman's voire rail out singing the chorus we won't go iniine till morning it wa wife's voice he caught at the horses heads frantic with rage dolly's pretty curly head looked out as t he vehicle slopped frank old fellow hie — is that ; vou ? gel in gel in — whv didn't vou conic up oil we had a j illy lime — hie — we did such a dance don't blame you for going out frank didn't know it was so pleasant — hie — 1 — i mean to go vvi'vy night vou do?1 he gasped leaping into the seat beside her grasping her arm j'kver dare to do such a thing again and you will be uo wife of mine dollv laughed uproariously xousehse frank le'me do as you do that's fair let go mv arm vou hurt and you'll break my flask j tis prime brandy frank — take a drop i he caught it from her hand and i lung it oui of the u indow iith ! said dolly her cheeks lush ed i wish \\\ stayed at the reindeer what makes you so cross frank hush ay no more dolly he answered his teeth set hard 1 can't bear it i — 1 may do something i'll be sorry for keep silent — 1 don't wau't any tnoic crooked words ita m ti horn ifl die for it cried i dolly ihen she clapped her hands and laughed gleefully breaking oft into i — a moonlight night for a ramble frank let his head fall into hands good heaven he groaned i'd rather have died than have seen this sight v lie got her home and into her own room at last but she was very un manageable and persisted in cutting up all inaifiicr ofcapers ; dancing and singing her cheeks hushed and her hair streaming and asking him if thev would not go again — it was such jolly fun * his pretty modest little dolly long afier she had fallen into a deep sleep her husband sat over the smoul dering lire with his face hidden in his hands dolly he said when she awoke late on the following morning what happened la.*-t night must never hap pen again she looked uj with her old clear eyes very well frank that is for you to say just as you do so will 1 he was silent for a moment 1 would rather die than see wbat i saw last night over again he said then frank she said her lips quiver ing i've seen the same sight once or twice every week since the day i married you and only god knows : what it cost me he caught lier close to liis heaving heart poor little wife he almost sob | bed you shall never see such a night again i shall sign the pledge to-day so will j fi-u.k they both signed it and kept it i too ten years after may field was a rich man and one ofthe most re i nowncd temperance leaders of the day frank said his pretty wife one i day as they watched their children i playing on the lawn i did fool you j handsomely that night frank it was all make-believe j didn't go to the ileiudeer that night and not a drop ofthe hateful stuff had passed my lips didn't i fool you handsomely and cure you in the bargain ?' vou little witch !' he cried but the instant after his eyes filled — yes dolly he said drawing her close to his side vou cured me ofa habit that would have beeu my ruin the young merchant two country lads came at an early hour to market iu town and arrang ing their little stands sat down to wait for customers one was furnish ed with fruits and vegetables of the boy's own cultivation and the other supplied with lobsters an.l fish tie maiket hours passed along and each i little merchant saw with pleasure his stores steadily decreasing and an equi s valent in silver shining iu his little i money cup the last melon lay on i harry's staud when a gentleman came by and placing his hand upon it said "\\ hat a fine large melon what j do you ask for it my boy the melon is the last i have sir and though it looks very fair there is au unsound spot in it said the boy turning it over !' so there is said the man i think i will not take it but he : added looking into the boy's fine open countenance is it business like ! to point out the defects of your fruit ; to the customers jt is better than being dishonest said the boy modestly you are right little fellow ; always remember that principle and vou will find favor with god and man also 1 shall remember your little stand in the future are those lobsters fresh he con tinued turning to lien williams yes sir fresh this morning 1 caught them myself was the reply and a purchase being made the gen tleman went away harry what a fool you were to how the gentleman that spot in the melon now you can take it home for vour pains or throw it away how much wiser is he about those lobsters 1 caught yesterday sold them for the same price 1 did the fresh ones he would never have looked at the melon until he had gone away ben i would not tell a lie or act one cither for twice what i haveearn i **■ ed this morning besides 1 shall be better oft in the end ; fori have guin • ed a customer and you have lost one a man who by lying und cheating drives away one customer a day will in a little while have very lew left for they will soon find him out and leave him an illinois huriucani — st louis march 12 — information has reached here that a violent wind storm amounting almost to a tornado passed over the southern portion of macaussin county illinois yesterday j destroying houses and barnes and ! other property mrs ann eliza young nineteenth wife of the late brigham young has written a letter to mrs president hayes declaring woman siirt'erage in utah a delusion and a snare and ask ing her to exert her influence against the vast and increasing crime of po lygamy bridget i told you to let me have mv hot water the first thing in tl e morning sure sir said bridget didn't 1 bring it up and lave it at the door last night so as to have it in time hand boo of the department of agri culture commissioner polk of the depart ment of agriculture has prepared and . is now getting through the press a band book of north carolina embrac ing historical and physiographical sketches of the state with statistical and other information relating to its industries resources and political con dition the book is issued in compliance with tbe act creating tbe department of agriculture this is the first work of the kind ever given to the people of north carolina and results from tbat wise policy on tbe part of the legislature the pursuit of which led two years ago to the establishment of our state agricultural bureau this department has been of vast benefit to the agricultural and all other inter ests of the state and through its reports and publications it lias impar ted information to our people the value of which no one can approxi mate and in a thousand ways quick ened the industrial and material spirit oftlie people of the whole state while the success and rapid de velopment of the agricultural depart ment has been unexpected and unpre cedent and the results of its workings most gratifying and satisfactory in every respect it has done nothing during the two years of its experi mental existence at all approaching in general usefulness the preparation aid publication of this hand book it is of course imperfect and incomplete in many respects the commissioner recognizes and acknowledges tiiis fact it is necessarily and unavoidably so for as great as is the aggregate amount of statistical information already ob tained and on file iu the department there is still wanting much of detail information of ail localities from which such informal ion comes the com missioner says : the facts and information set forth in these pages have been for the most part obtained through the voluntary aid of puldicspirited citizens in various c rn ii i ies and has been compiled with in the past three months no work of a similar character has ever before bc-'i pub ished iu our state and de fective as it may be should this vol ume stimulate inquiry and investiga t.oa and awaken an interest tliat should lead to a higher appreciation of our character and dignity as a peo ple and oi those bounteous blessings with which a kind providence basso graciously favored us as a state one of the chief objects ol the work will have been accomplished the hand pood is of three hun dred pages containing in part a his torical sketch of the state from 1584 to the present time presenting tbe names of every sovereign bodyassem b'ed since mecklenburg declaration of independence executive and state ollicers and members ofcon_-riss since 1663 natives of north carolina who bave become distinguished citizens of other states distinguished divines and eminent physicians an alpha betically arranged description of tbe coun tie of the state appears also a physiographical description of the state by state geologist kerr compre hending its situation and extent its physical geography geology and inin , era is climate temperature tables rain i and clouds mean humidity for 1879 winds comparative climate forests and soils part third is devoted to our form of government taxation new debts municipal corporations education homestead liens punish inents charities and modes of amend ing the constitution the relations of the races native products fishing in terests the propagation of food fishes raii roads elevations and a partial list of north carolina inventions part four contains the public and literary institutions ofthe state the public 1 schools state press tabulated state ' ment of farm products cotton and j wollen mills genera statistics agri cultural organizations tbe productive capacity of soils tbe cities towns and i villages silk culture bee-keeping and ' fruits adapted to our soils the hand book of the depart i ment of agriculture will prove both an interesting and valuable contribu tion to the practical literature of the state and should be placed in the bands of every reading family tbe commissioner makes bis acknowledg incnts to that devoted son of north carolina — the venerable and patriotic historian — hon john ii wnec er and he also consulted the histories of hawks lawson williamson martin and wheeler and ruffin's sketches of north carolina ami the work mav be relied on as historical lvauthcnticjwhile tbe scientific statistical agricultural and industrial contributions are tbe results of patient research careful compilation practical test and obser vation and paii staking labor and ex periment — lial observer hampton's condition — his views on prominent questions a charleston s c dispatch states the only visible trace of su ferine sen ator wade hampton has undergone since bis accident is a slight increase in tbe gray in his whiskers his gen eral health is excellent except that the change from bis former active out of-door life to tbe necessary confine ment ofthe past three months has de veloped dyspepsia which causes him the hiss of much sleep his leg still gives bim great trouble and frequent ly intense pain the end of the remain ing portion of tbe bone being dead the physicians are waiting to allow this au opportunity to come oil itself but should it fail to do so luring the next month it will probably have to be amputated senator hampton who is now re cruiting his health at the loudes plan tation colleton couniy s c in an interview with a correspondent sun day last said he was as yet uncertain whether he will be in washington at the extra session although he would go if he possibly could and his doctors would allow it in case the business was particularly important he will go anyhow in reply to a question as to his opinion concerning tbe action of the house in refusing to pass the ap propriation bills he replied that be thought the house was right he would favor congress sitting forever if necessary before it receded an inch from its position he did not think mr hayes would have a right to op pose the amendments if congress con tinued to urge them as such action would show that they were the will ofthe people on the chinese ques tion he expressed tbe opinion that mi hayes action was right in the first place he did not think congress bad the power to abrogate a portion ofa treaty he thought that body wron in yielding to the clamor from cali fornia a glass mountain and road mr p w xorris the superinten dent of the yellowstone national park on a recent visit to the capital gave a lecture on some ofthe natural curiosities ofthe region over which he presides and is engaged in exploring among these may be mentioned as the most novel a mountain of obsidian or volcanic glass and a road made from this material near tbe foot of beaver lake the explorers discovered this mountain of glass which there rises in basalt-like columns ami countless huge masses many hundreds of feet high from a hissing hot spring forming the margin of the lake thus forming a barrier where it was very desirable that a wagon road should be as the glass barricade sloped for some 300 feet high at an angle of 4 to the lake and its listening surface was therefore im passable there being neither indian nor game track over it to make the road huge fires were made against the glass to thoroughly heat and ex pand it and then by dashing cold wa ter from the lake against the heated glass suddenly cool the latter causing large fragments to break from the mass which were afterward broken up by sledges and picks but not with out severe lacerations of the hands and faces of the party into smaller frag ments with which a wagon road one quarter ofa mile long was construct ed about midway along the slope thus making it is believed the only road of native glass upon the conti nent on reaching the grand canon of the gibbon river tbe explorers found tbe eastern palisade for about two miles in length to consist of vertical pillars hundreds of feet high of glis tening black yellow mottled or band e<l obsidian or rofeanic trtass ibis obsidian has been and is still used by the indians for making arrow beads and other weapons and tools land the mountain has formed a vast quarry for the making of such instru ments or weapons of a quality and quantity unequaled clsewheie the lecturer gave a graphic descrip tion of old faithful and other gey sers of firehole basin and i he lib erty cap and other geyser coins re sembling in their grotesque forms the monuments of an extinct race he also exhibited a number of specimens of minerals found in the park includ ing chalcedony amethysts opals pe trified wood lava etc miss maria ji eve a young lady of augusta georgia who has recent ly acquired some literary reputation was awarded the prize of 100 offered in mobile for a poem expressive of southern gratitude to tlie noi tb fori its munificent liberality last vear du ring the yellow fever epidemic a virginia lady residing in mobile was the second on the list it is said the committee had much difficulty in deciding between the two we pre sume that mrs preston and paul | hayne did not contest or we should ask for the rejected poems miss eve's poem is going the rounds of the press — iiv &•**. the cincinnati gazette has taken the trouble to feel the democratic pnsle in ohio and indiana it ar t rives at the com insion.that the demo crats of ohio are for thurman while , those of indiana are for hendricks but it is convinced that they will both ' accept tilden with alacrity pat donan in trouble the donan — cunningham adair from the cuariotte oh rrer considerable interest lias been excited by the lately published statement in 10 fereiice to a difficulty at n oho mi !><•- tween 1 donan tli well-known bei.u ind journalist nnd l 1 i'nmiiuglinru a ■ lawyer and railroad man of xeoslio the • obserrer published tlie first statement of l the iraiiftaction subsequently put lislied j a traveler's version and annouueed its ; purpose to publish col ionian's vei sion i as marly as he c-wulil rl it a copj of the bentonville arkansas adrance of february 22d roi.-taining this statement i over col duiian's iguature has been j placed in our hands by a geutleman of i this city who wrote to col 1 for it j col ilm an says : tor the tirst time io my life i have recently experienced what it is in bur iter phrase to let a scoundrel get the ilniji mi me and for the liist time have appealed to the laws of the country for itilress ofa personal wrong after detailing a numbering ofcircum . stances which had led to his newspaper al lacks ilium cunuiughaui lol donan j;.»es on to say : friday february 7th while stopping ■ at the same hotel with cunningham iu neosho 1 received a message lnun him ! asking to see me in his room inarmed ami utterly unsuspecting i walked into his room spoke to him and carelessly i dropped myself into a chair pailiallv tnrniug my hack to him as 1 did so in a moment i found a cocked revolver at my bead with a demand that i sign some pa]*er on the table instantly or have my brains blown out standing as the would be assassin was paitly behind me one glance satisfied me that it would be im po-sililc to knock the pistol from his hand and satisfied me that he meant assassination for which 1 gave him credit for just sufficient courage sitting down unarmed with his cocked revolver to my head in such a position that i could not possibly reach it he had jot the drop on tnecoinjiteicly : sol simply said : cer tainly under the circumstances 1 think 1 would sign almost anything;11 and sign led it without knowing or caring whal it was ju-t as i would have signed a note for fifty thousand dollars or surrender ed my pnrse to a james hoy or oiher ; highwayman under similar eircomstan ccs it was my lir.-t experience of the kind and 1 am free to admit that there i a powerfully pursnaave influence on au unarmed man iu a cocked six-shooter at eighteen inches range even in the hands of the mosl cowardly assassin by reference iotlie-4rfra«ccwe see that the grand jury of x**wton county — iho county in which neosho i situated — dc • lined to tind an indictment ag.iiust cunningham col donan continues : i had no idea what it was 1 bigned though i suppose and have since heard that it purported to be some sort et a i vindication of cunningham character bat 1 think be and the compauy that employs him will find that uu so-called vindication •:< t hy the assassin's or • highwayman1 art will vindicate before the clear-headed honest fraud-hating people oi arkansas the reputation i a man who has such a record as that from which 1 shall now pr«*cee-l to exhibit a few sample sings of villainy the colonel then proceed to unfold his assailant's alleged record iuterlard i in his story with epithet and thin the • whole constituting one of his average specimens of word-.-lingings as the story of cunningham's public aid pri vate character is f no interest to our peo ple we publish only so much of this arti cle as ik personal to col donan himself | father good evening patsy i'ia line moonlight night patsy it is your reverence but it is n t to-night we i want the moon oat : it's the dark nights we want it | the menace to el rope we have been taught to look upon the return of the p*fegue whicll devastated europe repeatedly dining the middle ages and ceased its ravages in europe only at the beginning of the present cent ury as a practical impossibility in our epidemic five bandied years ago when europe was much 1,-ss densely populated than now it has been estimated that not less than 25,080,000 people perished it was indeed a common thing in former ayes for entire communities to bt ntterly wiped out of existence by this tur lie peat that could not happen now it i said our modern physicians are better able to combat disease than were those ofthe past sanitary science has been developed and effective quarantines an possible resides men are more intelli gent now and letter fed better housed and more amenable to sanitary regula tions all of which is true : and we sin cerely trust that the experience of the coining year will demonstrate the present impossibility of any widespread epidemic of the plague now filling europe with alarm but europe must not neglect to take account of conditions now prevailing in western and central europe indeed all over the continent specially favorable to the development of an irresistible scourge which mav diminish the popula tion of europe by one half within the next five years it must not he forgotten that the facil ities lor rapid communication character istic of modern civilization may he a source of deadly peril i case ofa disease so malignantly infectious as the plague nations are most intimately bound t gether hy commerce and every letter or hale of goods may be a means of trans mitting infection victims of the disease may traverse tl.e entire breadth of the continent between the time of exposure and the full development of the disease with every extension ofthe area of the plague the possibility of staying its ad vance by quarantine regulati n becomes less ami alter it passes a certaiu limit pestilence like tiie is uncontrollable the supply of physicians ami medicines at any time is adequate only for ordinary conditions let tbe usual bounds of dis ease he much overpassed ami resistance is hopeless such a state of things i by no means impossible in europe to-day consider tlie situation of affair i eastern europe turkey i a chaos aad the military power which keeps a sem blance of older there would soon bleak down with the plague iu its camps i'he local governments have neither the power nm tin intelligence required to sqcc-pss fully combat an epidemic tho spread of the plague is little hindered hy cli matic conditions russia seems to be un able to stay its progress lin liu-,iau people are already upon the brink of des peration and revolt through poverty and military oppression let the oontrqhing arm of the government the army ix par alyzed as it is liable to ih by the plague and russia will preseut scenes ol disotdejt a ul death appalling to think of i in such food the plague fattens the netii nient would be blamed for every disaster ami mohs crazed by fear and revenge and hanger and blood would do their fatal woik iu every city all who could command means of bight would lly and carry the infection into adjoining lands in spite of the strictest sanitary regula tions germany is almost ripe for revo lution add to existing hard times ami financial disorders the busiuess derange ments which precautious against conta gion must entail and a geueral l.t .. i i food and remunerative laboi would nee essarily eusne cuder such conditions socialistic outbreaks would he inevitable the experience of russia wuuld ix re peated ami the steady advance of the plague over western europe would cert tainly follow once underway the wave of death would sweep ovei europe as surely and a destructively as it did iu the fourteenth century do we therefore predict a repetition of those terrible time lly no means wc have only shown that they are possi ble : that europe presi nt conditions wliich with pligue up ui it bonier must he considered to say tin least as decid edly menacing to tin entire continent if m to the entire civilized world if re ports an true ami the plague i steadily approaching the heart of russia the promptest most rigorous and most tlior onghgoing measures to tay it advance an imperatively needed ludiffereufls and inaction now v ill entail tin most fearful consequences scientific meriean the western xorth carolina kailroad ha achieved a decided victory in the house that body tuesday night by 67 to 25 tabled a hill to repeal the an nual appropriation f 70,000 tor tho prosecution ofthe work on that road lu-ub-r a verbatim copr — the following i a copv ofa report by a senator t'llmtiin et literatim : the committee operation hasexamion the with in bill to oregaiiize and in cor porate the ( hri-tiou assoreeation and beg love mend th it it do i'a hereny eppe lor committee