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the carolina watchman vol x.--third series salisbury n c may 15 1879 50 30 communications l'a.r the watchman letter from jncksou hill j ackso s hii.i n.c may 1 i edr rob watchman : hear sir if your numerous readers ou ld not object to a short letter from *.",, place here comes : as the world vacs on so do tlie men of this vicinity v . x t each in his particular way accord ingto in profession calling or employ ment tbe farmer here as elsewhere ou rbom all depeud for sustenance and in : w li08c success all feel a deep interest wil a after his plow hopeful happy con fident of plenty now and well assured of plentv hereafter he knows he can make enough for his own family and feels quite m ir uf making a considerable surplus for the market his interests in this vicin ity arc encouraging though injured in tome n spects hy tin severity ot the past vjdter and ti chilling frosts of the month ol april the oats crop has suf fered most there being but a very poor nuiii-l left ■«• *- k ' i 1111 ' wn the pros pects for wheat are pretty good the iimiiit own being large and the ap pearance bo i'-ir good enough the fruit crop has sustained very considerable in jiii'v from the recent great frosts peaches except on very high situations are almost all killed apples are plenty i they did not bloom sufficiently early for tin frost to seriously injure them mechanics hereabout who are exclu j mvciv such are not very plenty most of uieni being lacks of all trades and good a t poue carpenters and lumber j men whom the solous of our legisla ture so graciously bless'd with a laborer's lien law to the exclusion of nearly ev erv other laboring class are doiug quite : well though they would wear better countenances and swear less if people were mora disposed to build than they now are lawyers are scarce over here they ! ns i class have made more money since tlie in te war than all other literary classes combined 1'oit years ago a lawyer unless quite talented and considerably experienced could not make much mou i ey at his profession ; and if his cranial walls happened to be somewhat thick he i'diilil not make enough to pay his tavern bills and would soon be compelled either to take the oath <>! insolvency or go to jail how different now ! many who never knew any thing of the principles of elementary law and little more of stat ute liw than a township constable with nothing t recommend them but a cocked bat high-heeled boots a half-cent che root between the lips and claw hammer mil have actually grown rich since ihe war l > i mii there are none in this vi cinity ; and i hope to in able to say this next year l'ltacheis over this way are sufficient ■ly uuiuerous unless they weie better teachers in the synagogues they un like the legal fraternity do not make much money at their profession : but on tbe contrary when dependent on voluu ! tan contributions alone are as poor as lazarus ever dared to be some i them i enhance their scanty incomes by riding i stallions and vending patent medicines thus carrying ou a triplex business uany ui tin in are no doubt g-><'ii men ami deserve better pa ; while others perhaps would dy well to lay aside their ttcenlotal rolies for a season and repent thoroughly before attempting again to reach i'hysicians in this and surrounding neighborhoods as also m every ol her part of north carol iua are haivug a truly knotty time tiny are almost all poor nowadays none realize much money from tin practice of their profession alone why mi because their sentiments of humanity and christianity drive them to practice toilsomely and expensively for one half u their patients who could but will not pay them their rights ignored by every legislature of north carolina for the last ten years they have nevertheless with becoming modesty and without complaint continued unceasingly to im prove in all things that pertain to an en lightened theory and practice of their profession tlie merchants of this place are cheer ful and buoyant : and judging from ap pearances 1 would say they not only feel well inn actually live well they are bow receiving and opening their spring ul summer stocks which are large and veil selected jackson hill is a place of very considerable trade for a country btaation and only needs ilu quickening li ofa railroad to make il grow to the dimensions of a smart town idltlivol'iiagos for u*e watchman uk blue laws of m.iv england < uxt 1.1 1t am the new england puritans as e have been the mere toleration of dif ferent forma of worship was condemned •• unquestionable sin they also con sidered ii a heinous sin to be preseut fheu prayers are read out ofa book by a vicar or bishop and they taught that theloversof zion had better put their , ' tl - to the mouth of hell and learn from the whispers of ihe devils than read tlie 1's'l ks [ willi 71 it says cotton mather in bi-17 sev r'.il years alter land had been murdered •'. v the puritans f england after men une in obstinate rebellion against the light the civil magistrate shall walk towards them in .■,.,-. au j gentle commis ■ins - iftuess aud gentleness is cc66ive large to foxes and wolves bu hu bow | 8 .,,.,. miserably straightened and n<d ngaiubt the | r sheep and liuuug of christ nor is it frustrating ** j christ's comiug but a direct d^ucing it to destroy the bodies of those ' - who seek to destroy the souls of or whom christ died c.mather -••":'''"•<"<. i ;, win al l mather was only re-echoing the p'uiou 8 and ideas of his english friend jj apologist the distinguished uicbaid • the author of hat excellent book { saints [{«•„■• 1 abhor said bax | er » '* unlimited liberty and tolerati of all : and think myself able to prove the wickedness of it quoted in neal snppl iii kid by a law of massachusetts passed on the 14th of october 1656 it was enacted that any quaker landing on the coast should be seized and whipped ; then im prisoned with hard labor ; and anally ex pelled from the colony curteis hamp ton led 82 de toqueville i 64 and tliese laws were rigorously enforced three quaker women were stripped to the waist amid frost and snow and hogged through eleven towns geo pox journal i 161 quoted by curteis pour persons were hanged together a drummer preventing any of their dying words from being heard the verv cap tains of vessels were dogged for briugiug quakers into port and every roman catholic priest who returned after one expulsion was put to death dctoque ville i 64 quoted by curteis connect icut borrowed most of its laws and judicial proceedings from massachusetts mr trumbull even voluntarily concedes as much bine laws p 333 in 1650 a code of laws was drawn up for this col ony it bega thus whoever shall worship any other god but the lord shall be put to death hlasphcmy adul tery sorcery theft disobedience to parents were punished with death — because the book of leviticus had so pun ished them ; and people were forced by lines to attend divine service de toqueville i 62 quoted by curteis in july 1651 a mr obediah holmes a bap tist was well whipt ; and that so barba rously that for some weeks he could only take rest upon his knees and elbows and the historian adds bonds and imprison ment awaited all baptists in new eng land cramp rap hist 409 quoted by curteis as late as 17."i0 an old man who had been long a member of the eng lish cliu-.eh was whipped publicly for not attending the congregational meeting and they lined heavily iu the same year an episcopal clergyman of english birth and education on the pretence that he had broken the sabbath by walking home too fast from church ; and at hart ford one of the judges of the county court assisted by the mob pulled down a rising church and wiih the sioiies built a mansion for his son wiib amr cli liu it was the cougregationalist clergy says cramp the baptist histo rian by whom the magistrates in new england were instigated to commit sucli violence and excesses anil to enforce such laws i have purposely omitled mentioning some of the worst acts of the new eng land puritans of the 17th and lr*ih ceu t ui ies they are too disgusting and cruel to chronicle and it is not a pleasant thing to go through the mental torture of re calling these facts to the remembrance of christian men and women of the present day i am not accusing the old puritans for their intolerance and barbarity ; for iu their times intolerance inherited from former ages infected more or less au re ligious parties dr stangton : quoted by curteis hume goes so far as to credit no denomination if left to use with the virtue of toleration he says if among christians the english and dutch have embraced the principles of toleration this singularity has proceeded from the stead resolution of the civil magistrate essays ii 438 curteis says luther invoked the civil sword agaiust the anabaptists calvin burnt servetus craniuer burnt lane bonchier and of cart w right a dissenting writer says parker and whitgift persecuted the puritans but if cart-wright had been in whitgift 8 place he would have dealt out equal persecution to baptists and independents " bump lcc 69 in the liith and 17th centuries the very men who were crying out the loudest for re ligious fieedom themselves constantly and most inconsistently refused the slightest toleration to an opinions but their own we can scarcely believe that l.iinyan whom the latest historian of the baptists claims as tho brightest ornament of their communion should have said i would be and hope i am a christian * * rut as for those fac tions titles of anabaptists independents * * or the like — i conclude l hey come neither from jerusalem nor antioch but rather from hell mid baby loii for they naturally tend to divis ions ; you may know them by their fruits cramp p 380 ap gould 295 quoted by curteis now while i don't accuse the puritans of being more wicked than other men on account of their persecutions at the same time i do nol excuse them and clear them of all guilt every religious sect and party has its own sins of omission and commission to answer for as well as the puritans rut it will not do for the modern apologists of the puritans to en deavor to poison the sources of history to blacken the characters of reputable historians and to slander a numerous and respectable body of christians for the sole purpose of changing the verdict which history has rendered against the puritans of new england the chief arguments used by these apologists are that the author of the blue laws i.s an unadulterated and inconsciouablc liar and forger forgetting that frost ban croft hildreth hinmau and dozens of other historians all testify to the sub stantinl truth of everything contained in the notorious blue code of peters who did not pretend to qote the laws as con tained in that code 7 - from any book of statutes he acknowledged that they ' were mainly laws of usage and custom i churchman ang 11,1877 mr hin j man who has written a book upon the ' rlue laws says that he has gone over the collection of peters and expresses | surprise that the latter should have been bo correct and the rev a r chapin i i d a man of wonderful learning and | of great piety said that dr peters was : obliged to draw upon his recollection for | his materials while if he had had chap | ter and verse to go by as he himself had j in his controversy with dr boshwell he i would have been a severer historian for ! puritanic misdemeanors than he is al ready churchman aug 11 1877 : when 1 hear men admit tlie blaishncss of i ihe old puritan laws and then denounce ' dr peters lor all that is black in the cat alogue of ciinies charging him with hav ing vilely invented and forged a blue code 1 mn tempted to ask these self confident critics which and how many of the laws compiled by peters are forgeries and which genuine i have already shown thai the laws of a genuine code of old massachusetts were quite as bad as if not worse thai any ofthe rlue laws of the peters code aud from what investi gation 1 have given uu matter i think i can safely guarantee that for every law of peters whicli can be shown to be an error 1 can find another old puritan law which peters overlooked just as bad to put in its place it is a very easy thing for mr j hammond trumbull and the new york christian observer to call dr peters a liar and rogue hut it will in somewhat moi difficult to prove these charges dr samuel peters was born iu hebron conn in 1735 where lie lived until the year 1774 he was a highly esteemed pious and popular clergyman ofthe episcopal church he was driven out of hebron in 1774 by a cruel and blood-thirsty mob whose cruellies and barbarities indicted upon their innocent victims were enough to have : shocked the sensibilities of any man with a spark of goodness in his heart his life was threatened and but for the courage ofhis friends in hebron — who rescued him from the hands of the mob he would have been murdered lie was compelled to leave llie country with his family the ladies of which had also been grossly in sulted by this fanatical mob it was in loudon shortly after this that he wrote his geueral historj of connecticut dr peters returned to this countiy iu 1805 and died in new york in 1826 beloved and respected by all who knew him in i7!m he was elected bishop of vermont but declined to accept the office tin facts stated iu his history were not called in questiou during his lifetime and his great-grandson samuel j mccormick in an article published in the church man 1 of juue 2d 1877 says that the work was well received by the intelligent people of new england 1 have positive proof in letters to dr peters from par ties residing there at the date of its recep tion in the colony and who indorsed it as a true history at the time it was written he also says : 1 have in my possession correspondence to dr peters from 177:2 to 1626 and iu no single in stance can i find au expression that does not breathe of love gratitude and respect tliese letters are not from one class of society alone but range through all classes — from a nobleman to his slaves — and from various countries 1 would now ask could any one except those imbued with the former fanaticisms of their connecticut ancestors apply the epithet of liar and rogue to dr peters the truth is not always palatable and as the new york sun says in its comments on mr trumbull's book : the early laws of connecticut have a specially bad name it seems passing strange that as of ten as tliese very blue laws have been mentioned during the past c_ntury by so many writers and authors of high stand ing we do not find a person having the boldness to refute them upon any grounds of authority until the present time when possibly the greater portion of the documents substantiating the facts have been destroyed and all interest ia the matter has ceased to exist again he says : mr trumbull pub lishes the laws ofthe colony for the years lt 1650 aud 1656 showing t'.u.t no laws were then in technical existence like those published by dr peters but unfortu nately show ing that such laws wen in virtual existence and even quite as blue though doihed in more subtle phraseol ogy dr peters in his history says and did not similar laws still prevail over new england as the common law of the country i would have left them in si lence along with mr mathers pains conscripti and the renowned saint of mr neal to sleep io the end of time no one iml a partial and blind bigot cau pretend to say the projectors of them were men of grace justice or liberty where nothing but murders plunders and persecutions marked their steps the best apology that can be made for them is that human nature i.s everywhere tiie same and that the mitred lord and the canting puritan are equally dangerous : or that both agree in the unchristian doc trine of persecutions and contend only which shall carry them out * • all mr trumbull a efforts cannot wipe out the fanaticism bigotry and canting hypocrisy of the early settlers oi con necticut nor the cruelty ot his own an cestors toward an unoffendiug clergyman ofthe church of england by attempting to stigmatize dr peters as he has iu the work he has recently published the puritan apologists are not content ' with vilifying and defaming without any ! proof whatever the dead dr peters : but they must deliberately aud ungenerously ' call to their aid all the forces of prejudice and hate against the episeopaliaus of new england so that they nfny tie sure ofa temporary triumph the philadelphia presbyterian quoted by p contains this parapraph : the episcopalians of i new england have somehow thought it necessary that lhe puritans should be made responsible for these laws * * one of tlie episcopal journals intimated not long ago that it was in the interest of the episcopal hu reh that the genuiness of tlie lilac laws should be maintained and all : attempts to prove them forgeries resisted j and so all new england episcopacy is | willing to hear all the evidence which can [* be fished from any depth even if it be un clean which tends to the conclusion that there were milne laws " i shall be glad to be furnished by p or the presbyterian with the name niiin j ber and paragraph of an episcopal jour | nal when smh an intimation can be i found i am sure the the episcopal jour j unl referred to would be willing cheer fully to pay a large reward to any one who will discover such au intimation in any article which lias ever appeared ia its columns it is certainly a bad showing for the theory that tlie puritan i'lue laws are j forgeries and caricatures for its sup , porters to be compelled to concede that j the episcopalians of new england who certainly have some piety and love of truth among them arc unanimously con vinced of the genuineness of the blue j laws i wonder what the unitarians roman catliolies baptists and quakers of new england think about this ques tion they were persecuted under these laws much mure than the episcopalians i should like to know what the late jus tice story a massachusetts unitarian meant when he solemnly declared that puritan new england virtually establish ed an inquisition with a full share of its terrors aud violence story's miseel ,(>(', qonted by the churchman episcopa lians are by no means the only believers in the authenticity of ihe blue laws on the contrary it is only recently that any persons have la-en found willing publicly to pronounce ihem spurious ; and the lead ers in this new movement have declared themselves in a disingenous way by de n ing the existence of a code of statutes when even peters himself had admitted ihat tliese laws as a whole had never been enacted in that form the fact is that the puritans having started out with the assumption that the laws of god were in full force all over new england their magistrates and judges at the dictation of the puritan clergy not only had it in their power to interpret the meaning of but also make the law all they had to do was to say that such and such an ac tion was either in accordance with or con trary to the law of god — notwithstan ding this opiniou might at the same time be a strained unnatural and altogether false interpretation the blue laws have become historical they ue believed in by all sorts of learned men and christians their substantial truthfulness can be ' proved out ofthe mouths of the most par tial aud partisan puritan historians and chroniclers however much lie may be willing to overlook the faults aud to excuse the sins ofthe connecticut puritans i do not un del stand how more anon cau conclude ] that the laws of connecticut were indeed ; sometimes rigorous but never inhuman j man's inhumanity to man makes count less thousand uiouru and that is what the connecticut laws made thous i anils of episcopalians baptists quakers unitarians komau catholics and presby terians do for all these iveie more or less persecuted for alleged disobedience of most iniquitous laws the melancholy facts which i have ex tracted from the history of the early reli gionists of new england ought to teach us all lessons of wisdom and moderation it should make all christians of this eu . lightened age sensible of the evils engen i dered by religions bitterness discord and and intolerance every christian is bound to believe iu the truth ofthe gos pel the truth as it is in jesus but because we think our brother errs in his faith is un reasou why we should either hate or kill him the best chi istians are those who have a conscience void of of fence toward oil and toward men and to such christians god will hy his holy spirit enlighteu their minds with the truth if any man will do god's will s.iith the saviour he shall jtaoio of the doctrine let us therefore have charity one for another : for charity thiuketli no evil rejoiceth not in iniquity but icjoiceth in the truth and it is tlie truth which shall make us free veritas judge 3 " said a lawyer to his hon or during a lull in a case on trial what do you consider the best illus tiated paper a thousand dollar lank note growled the judge the cost of a life ix georgia col robert a alston who was murdered a few weeks ago in atlanta was a member ofthe last legislature , of georgia and while serving in that j body was chiefly instrumental in | securing the passage of a bill enabling | juries to designate the grade of pun j ishment which may be visited upon | men who take human life it is a ■singular circumstance that alston's own murderer is the first man to re ceive the benefit of the law in which ! alston so actively interested himself yet such is the case and io conse quence of that law edward cox es j c-aped the gallows which his crime so j richly merits the issue in the case does not sur i prise us i will be remembered that i we predicted it a week after the tra^e 1 tt ° j dy human life has come to be so cheap _ that we have about ceased to look for executions incases where the mur j derers have money or friends the j law rears its majestic crest with awe inspiring severity in the faee ofthe ; poor devil who has neither but it bows and smiles obsequiously in the pres ence of wealth and influence and touches with gloved hand the man who can command either oh it is terrible said poor alston as he threw himself into a chair in the state treasurer's odiec to be hunted down in this way but cox said he only fired in self-defence and cox's lawyers said that it was all a conspiracy on the ! part of alston and his friends to take the life of their client ! i will not i have anv difficulty with you unless i am forced to said alston when he i had dodged his blood-thirsty enemy ' as long as he could and exhau ted every expedient which he could de vise to escape his awful fate then i will force you was the response cox are you going to shoot mc ? cox are you going to shoot me now ' pleaded the doomed man — pleaded he i for his life like a very child the state treasurer who swore to this col loquy did not hear cox's reply but they fired simultaneously the grass : grows on alston's grave but the jury say that the red-luwided murderer ! who deliberately planned this cruel j deed and relentlessly carried his bru j tal purpose to thend hunting down | his enemy as a wild beast hunts down [ its prey does not deserve to die ! ! hemp grows in vain and he who sheds man's blood by man shall his blood be shed was written for naught but there would be less in thisver 1 diet than there is to shock the sensi bilities of people if there were the slightest probability that even the | mild judgment which has been ren dered against the prisoner would be ' enforced against hitn cut the same influence which saved his neck will follow him even to the shadow ofthe penitentiary's walls and when its gates are closed upon him will do its powerful work for him elsewhere a governor's pardon will intervene e'en before his hands become inured to toil and before one-fourth the remainder ofhis natural life will have been spent the criminal will walk forth a free man mark it ! then let no man cross him in a trade let no man refuse to break a bargain with another if cox demands that it be done the click of the re volver will remind him of alston's fate and if he still declines to yield let his aim be deadlier than that of alston or death in his boots will be the heritage of his children — char lotte observer llendei'snnville courier 1st : on friday nfornitrg last about 9 o'clock near grange portoffice in transylvania county mrs mary ann tucker wife of 1 f tucker esq hanged herself to a small pine tree about 20u yards from the house by means of two banks of cotton yarn looped to gether one end being tied around a limb tlie other around her neek various rea sons are assigned for her untimely death oue is that she was greatly troubled on account nf pecuniary wants aud many think the manner of her death vas hered itarv — her grandmother and two uncles having committed suicide and her mother '■once atteiniiting to do so mr samuel hartley returned from texas a few day's since as well or better satisfied with his old home than before he reports that ho ate beans and new irish potatoes while iutex how rock candy is made candy all candy is nothing but sugar — only it is done differently just the same as all printing is only types but they set them up different ways well let us begin at the beginning let us start with sugar loaf or lump sugar good white sugar of any sort how are we to make this sugar into candy into many candies we see from lozenges drops stick candy and all kinds to rock candy so unlike all the rest they are all sugar but how very different ! we must start somewhere let us take a teacup half full of boiling water and drop a lump of sugar into it it dissolves putin another lump and another j they dissolve the sugar disappears and the water becomes thick we arc making a syrup we are getting sugar in a liquid stato what was hard and white now has become liquid and transparent a great change truly now keep on adding sugar as jong as the water will dissolve any and when no more will be dissolved put the cup aside in a warm place near the stove jiang a thread in the liquid and look at it every day in a day or two or more 1 can't tell you how soon as that will depend upon the relative amount of sugar aud water you will find little bits of clear sugar sticking to the thread let them alone for several days slill keep ing the cup in a warm place and you will find the bits of sugar becoming larger and of more regular shape why it i.s rock candy ! exactly so this i.s the way in which rock candy is made just as much sugar as it will dissolve i.s put in water usually in a tub anil threads are hung in the syrup and the whole put in a warm place gradually the sugar leaves the water and gathers upon the threads xot in a shapeless mass but all in beautiful crystals more nicely formed than you could possibly make them and as clear and transparent as glass this then is tha way in which rock candy i.s made sugar after it has been dissolved in water is allowed to deposit itself slowly and quietly the regular forms it takes are called crys tals and they are always ofthe same shape whether large or small and are formed with ns much care and beauty is ifthey were diamonds or other precious stones you will ask why they form upon strings crys tals always form upon rough surfaces sooner than upon smooth ones i cannot tell you why any more than i can tell why boys and girls like candy mysterious disappearance ofa student at the university nf virginia special to tlie richmond dispatch charlottesville may 6 — mr a w crawford of louisville ky a student at the university mysteri ously disappeared from his room at the university on tuesday last there are many theories in regard to the matter he was a young man of most exemplary character and all ideas in regard to hoax or a design a *"* *-* to deceive are thrown aside at once he left his room as if to take a walk for recreation he left his best cloth ing his watch his books open and his lamp burning as if to be absent but a few minutes lor some days apprehensions were felt by his friends and acquaintances which were increas ed by the fact that he was known to have received a considerable sum of money ou the day he left and foul play is paiuful suspected tin's ; ap prehensions increased npon his non-ap pearance.nnd excited hisfellowstudents so much thai study was impossible ' and yesterday lectures were suspend i ed the students turned out in a ■bodv scouring the country north and j west of the university for live or i six miles leaving hardly a leaf uu j turned that might hide his body t nothing was discovered to-day the country south and east was searched ! but without result intense excite ment has been produced by the affair throughout the whole community you may talk abi ut tho lean and hungry cassius but did you ever take a side-view of the man who iias run a store for te.i years without ad vertising ? always busy the more a man accomplished the more he may an active tool never grows rusty you always find those men who are the most forward to do good or to improve times and man ners busy whostart our railroads and steam-boats our machine shops and our manufacturies ? men of in dustry and enterprise as long as they live they keep at work doing something to benefit themselves and others it is just so with a juan who is benevolent the more he gives the more he feels like giving we go for activity — in body in mind in every thing let the gold grow not dim nor the thoughts become stale keep all things in motion wc would rather that death should find us scal ing a mountain than sinking in a mire breasting a whirlwind than sneaking from a cloud . an old organ a friend iu condon told us that he spent anight with mr jacob stirewalt one of the best men of cabarrus and that in the room where he was put to sleep he found a larce organ and wondered how it was ever got into that second story room ou asking for an expla nation mr stirewalt told him that his father built the organ in the room many years ago and probably never thought about moving it when build ing it the machine is loud and well toned but would not make as tine a parlor oruament as organs of the present day this reminds us that the town clock of asheville which was in use some years ago and probably now was built by a lincolnton mechanic and was said to be as good as anv ever made in connecticut and now remem ber thatthcreisanoigan factory atmt airy and a sewing machine factory at shelby n c.,and we believe that we can manufacture anything here that is made at the north charlotte democrat mr stirewalt the same referred to above if we mistake not also built an organ for the organ church in this county in the gallery of which it was used for many years hon walter f leak died at his home in rockingham richmond county on the 28th ult in the 80th year of his age he took an active part in public affairs for many years having served in the legislature sev eral terms and once or twice was a candidate for governor before tho democrats made a regular nomina tion but after such nomination was made mr leak withdrew from tho field he was well informed on pub lic affairs and was a democrat of tho old school — charlotte democrat senator henderson of rowan in a letter to the raleigh news says that the act prescribing a short form for a real estate deed was ratified by the presiding oflieers of both houses and enrolled although it never passed either house ofthe legislature mr henderson is of opinion that it is not a law it should not be considered law and neither should the school dill which it is said did pass both houses but which was not ratified by the presiding oflieers things aro mixed — charlotte democrat col mosby is accused by a lady who writes from hong kong to a friend in norristown pa of sitting with his feet on the table when ameri can gentlemen call to pay their res pects at the table continues tho letter an extract from which i.s prin ted iu the norristown herald lie does the most dreadful things,*among the rest uses his napkin instead ofa pocket handkerchief s god is pitying and forbearing to us let us be pitying and forbearing to our felh.w men this is the lesson to be engraved in golden letters on tho humau heart all experience teaches and the soul ot man proves that there is no satisfaction in indulging an in tolerant spirit and that nothing bot grief and wretchedness is to be reap ed from the taking of vengeance i'm a rutabaga and here's where i plant myself said a tramp as he entered a farmhouse near freeport 111 and seated himself at the table wo allers bile ours said the farmer's wife and soused him y u h disll-p*ul ful of b '"*•■$ rt't i'm a rutabaga and here's where i plant myself said a tramp as he entered a farmhouse near freeport 111 and seated himself at the table wo allers bile ours said the farmer's wife and soused hisn ? : h difth-pftn ful of b j **•."." you may talk ab ut tho lean and hungry cassius but did you ever ■take a side-view of the man who iias run a store r te.i years without ad i verlising ?
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1879-05-15 |
Month | 05 |
Day | 15 |
Year | 1879 |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 30 |
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Creator | [T. K. Bruner and J. J. Bruner] |
Date Digital | 2008-12-29 |
Publisher | [T. K. Bruner and J. J. Bruner] |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
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Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The May 15, 1879 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601569531 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1879-05-15 |
Month | 05 |
Day | 15 |
Year | 1879 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was 5383867 Bytes |
FileName | sacw13_030_18790515-img00001.jp2 |
Date Digital | 12/29/2008 10:07:08 AM |
Publisher | Hamilton C. Jones |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | An archive of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
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the carolina watchman vol x.--third series salisbury n c may 15 1879 50 30 communications l'a.r the watchman letter from jncksou hill j ackso s hii.i n.c may 1 i edr rob watchman : hear sir if your numerous readers ou ld not object to a short letter from *.",, place here comes : as the world vacs on so do tlie men of this vicinity v . x t each in his particular way accord ingto in profession calling or employ ment tbe farmer here as elsewhere ou rbom all depeud for sustenance and in : w li08c success all feel a deep interest wil a after his plow hopeful happy con fident of plenty now and well assured of plentv hereafter he knows he can make enough for his own family and feels quite m ir uf making a considerable surplus for the market his interests in this vicin ity arc encouraging though injured in tome n spects hy tin severity ot the past vjdter and ti chilling frosts of the month ol april the oats crop has suf fered most there being but a very poor nuiii-l left ■«• *- k ' i 1111 ' wn the pros pects for wheat are pretty good the iimiiit own being large and the ap pearance bo i'-ir good enough the fruit crop has sustained very considerable in jiii'v from the recent great frosts peaches except on very high situations are almost all killed apples are plenty i they did not bloom sufficiently early for tin frost to seriously injure them mechanics hereabout who are exclu j mvciv such are not very plenty most of uieni being lacks of all trades and good a t poue carpenters and lumber j men whom the solous of our legisla ture so graciously bless'd with a laborer's lien law to the exclusion of nearly ev erv other laboring class are doiug quite : well though they would wear better countenances and swear less if people were mora disposed to build than they now are lawyers are scarce over here they ! ns i class have made more money since tlie in te war than all other literary classes combined 1'oit years ago a lawyer unless quite talented and considerably experienced could not make much mou i ey at his profession ; and if his cranial walls happened to be somewhat thick he i'diilil not make enough to pay his tavern bills and would soon be compelled either to take the oath <>! insolvency or go to jail how different now ! many who never knew any thing of the principles of elementary law and little more of stat ute liw than a township constable with nothing t recommend them but a cocked bat high-heeled boots a half-cent che root between the lips and claw hammer mil have actually grown rich since ihe war l > i mii there are none in this vi cinity ; and i hope to in able to say this next year l'ltacheis over this way are sufficient ■ly uuiuerous unless they weie better teachers in the synagogues they un like the legal fraternity do not make much money at their profession : but on tbe contrary when dependent on voluu ! tan contributions alone are as poor as lazarus ever dared to be some i them i enhance their scanty incomes by riding i stallions and vending patent medicines thus carrying ou a triplex business uany ui tin in are no doubt g-><'ii men ami deserve better pa ; while others perhaps would dy well to lay aside their ttcenlotal rolies for a season and repent thoroughly before attempting again to reach i'hysicians in this and surrounding neighborhoods as also m every ol her part of north carol iua are haivug a truly knotty time tiny are almost all poor nowadays none realize much money from tin practice of their profession alone why mi because their sentiments of humanity and christianity drive them to practice toilsomely and expensively for one half u their patients who could but will not pay them their rights ignored by every legislature of north carolina for the last ten years they have nevertheless with becoming modesty and without complaint continued unceasingly to im prove in all things that pertain to an en lightened theory and practice of their profession tlie merchants of this place are cheer ful and buoyant : and judging from ap pearances 1 would say they not only feel well inn actually live well they are bow receiving and opening their spring ul summer stocks which are large and veil selected jackson hill is a place of very considerable trade for a country btaation and only needs ilu quickening li ofa railroad to make il grow to the dimensions of a smart town idltlivol'iiagos for u*e watchman uk blue laws of m.iv england < uxt 1.1 1t am the new england puritans as e have been the mere toleration of dif ferent forma of worship was condemned •• unquestionable sin they also con sidered ii a heinous sin to be preseut fheu prayers are read out ofa book by a vicar or bishop and they taught that theloversof zion had better put their , ' tl - to the mouth of hell and learn from the whispers of ihe devils than read tlie 1's'l ks [ willi 71 it says cotton mather in bi-17 sev r'.il years alter land had been murdered •'. v the puritans f england after men une in obstinate rebellion against the light the civil magistrate shall walk towards them in .■,.,-. au j gentle commis ■ins - iftuess aud gentleness is cc66ive large to foxes and wolves bu hu bow | 8 .,,.,. miserably straightened and n |