vol x third series salisbury ff . c june 26 1879 no 36 john clark jr & co.'s best six gord for machine or hand use \ it'll assortment of all numbers and colors t wholesale and retail hy ihuttz acd rcndlcman saliskvury m c i a baby . di ai little ui rial ilow u mi life's portal i . a ijuesl ii n of chou <■ or ol mall pilgrim set oul 1 1 1 j i . 1 ( i o i i b t , ; ; he lop of a i rouble nine hill ink aboul with i hose eyes i gra .-. v eei surprise think ofthe vv orld now ii - 1 worth \ l'o im el life vv ilh a smile .' i that v ui ever vv ei it forced to ih 1 i!'e i the inline ' if a ein ions g line ! . child or vv hi ! her \ c fri we inusl each play in t urn . scarcely may learn lie game i ill cards are thrown low li : queer hm ry-skurry full nl iml i ei and worry . iv i i nine trick iii ii lii i ginning child th.-n phi - alone — es '." lie diffcn nee a italics •.' i 1 1 bin n in the t if same n ■ in i lie o ry sum 1 ; ci :. i iu i li ir in her - ni i he v eiy self-same w i ; iml both wi i e as pure and iniiocenl i in iw , ill ihem lived in a lei i need bouse iu ihe streel below ived in the self-same own and the childn u both were fair bill tnie had li . h i smooth and round tl iln r had tangled hair until llie ell - a pace as all nu children gi ow 1 i u lived in a terraced bouse mn iu the sl i el below . i'ww maidens . loughl in the self-same ■ iled and loved ; igh ii.e curl iin apart vol id vv here her sister moved . ., happy bride tin , ,„._ m lived in ti terraced house ■' l " - i bid on . lay dead in ihe self-same low ;:. and nni had l ndor can ; 11 other was l.-n alone to die i i i so thin and bare - i ii i hei loss ' "' ll ol hei few ears would flow ' '"' '"';'• id lived in u terraced house al '! < >■' in the sin el below died for rich and poor oiy love . - in his arms ip above vanished al last iioi would know ' them livid in il terraced eel below anhf*ec tsu .,. t , ,!„„,„., | t ,. iinlf^tllll ■! '" : >" greatest of all grains on in a million could ry v inch ol all he must largely produced rt ould be hit this is not w li.-e car ■ ; ■■ aniitiiil product ol ■ il slates is grown - a il louisiana mainly eight v millions ... i i al ili'nus ol china . il lie islands adjacent tes , lim uos exceed . lion i.i souls with ill in number ■, ice consti ■ ol ,:. ;. i he total cast lasl via was a little red and li ft \ billion j*>50 . • ' i ■ ■ • l pounds w hu a i o i . . limes the quantity grow u stati s this amount is sinned v ithin their ow u t r ■ ui tions shipped to europe in i though large is as ' ! ' the huge product bin a small li ss i ban one p r cent 3 i tan allen seal to onr office a : qdeudid wheat harvested june farm known ns allendale a own col allen is uot i .-- tobacconi it bul an ex i ikes greal pride in stoek raising and other : ii ni matters i improved - lock is vvoi th seeing 1 mcri ■ i a hu band by the a i'i re in china a person who was present at the late fire ! ' in hong kong china ays ; ••] iru-t never to see such a sight again the long mad ; | haded with tree leading from our part of i tlie town to the populous part was alive i with chinese carrying their good women ; huddled together over their bed baskets stools clothes crockery anything and ev i crything in the way of personal goods ; small footed women tottered along held lip by their children ; while other bore i some good bit of bronze or borne family treasure several sewing machines lay on i lie road und i met a superb american piano carried along siek people borne in blankets told ns that tlie hospital was ii fire still ive made our way to the front through the smoke up a street ofl small houses mostly those of small l'ar.ec uii i bants w im were huddling out bale of cotton silks embroideries frair " pictures i ie v bile so greal was : lie mass of broken \ looking glasses that walking became diffi cult at last we reached the cordon of sol diers and beyond it a blazing mass vva all that remained of the civil hospital and eight other larj e houses the governor , 1 and general stood there and the governor a i to ine 1 had lo blow i up i.i a c tin j dl :" and then lie whispered go i knows what we may have to do then are i nearly one thousand isoners now ' came the shrill b'.asl of the bugle stand back all out came from the smoke the engineer officers having just laid the | charges to blow up the rear ofthe hospital which adjoined the jail-yard another ex plosion if 1'iii ks blazing bits of rafter a ■ shower of sparks and blinding smoke and a gorgeous cloud of colored flame showed ; the drugs stored in the hospital were alight then came a commotion which 1 did uot understand soldiers marched up : ;' sh cries were raised and a stranger com i i ing up said you had better stand up on the rise ofthe hill for ihey are about to bring oul the prisoners lt was like the ! riol scene in barnaby rudgc i could \ bear the order fix bayonet and then down through the crowd and dust tramped ' ; he oldiers with about one hundn d band i creatures in iheir midst when x land 1 returned we followed the governor through the back entrance in the ia.il ua mg through the central police station « here llie inspectors who are married nien have large quarters here english furni lure books ornaments dresses lay about drenched with water the governor of the | jail told ine that the jail was saved by the ! blowing up of the civil hospital but that the danger then was from the police station ] ' bl . very soon they were gallantly • br ken open principally bv sailors and ' 1 huge piles ol bay handed from man to man ] : and thrown down the steep streets and ' that night many homeless chinese were '■ cuddled under the hay now the block ol 1 buildings in front ofthe oriental bank was to be blown up i hastened thither thro 1 a never ending scene of distress to find the i bank hung over with the handsome car | pets soaked with water within doors ■ papers were being packed iu safes bank i notes in fire-proof boxes and so sent down i to the harbor escorted by soldiers audi in steam launches i w atehed the j i blowing up of ross tailoring establishment i aline block of buildings several fifty el charges of powder were ' laid the ] sounded again and ross 1 cea ed to exist this however saved our end ofthe town words cannot tell the scene in - road one ol the sights of the city ; r here are or rather were the curiosity ] or bird shops the place was deeply lit tered with broken glass and shattered vi — . burning ik and gauzes suia bed ivories lovely lacquer cabinets in frag ments i stumbled over a iol of hares ducks geese pheasants etc the whole ofa poulterer's stock flu lire brigade u volunteers wm siill working looking thoroughly exhausted before one ■ ;. p n iii li lad declared he could not let t in inn il nli vi : and hi mgh in « as vv alli ed lliat a fifty p und char ■ \\ as in the | li m si -. be dashed in broke open i lie bird cages with bis axe and a flock of little ca : naries was all over queen's road in less than !'.\.- minutesi by i o'clock in the . veiling all was over smouldering juins i and lalling w alls only were left medical effects of onions a mother writes to an english agricul tural journal as f hows : twice n w ■ k and i vas g ncr ilh w hen we had cold meal minced 1 gai e the chi id ren a dinner i which was bailed with d li i k i this \- as a dish of boil ions the little things knew n t that they i w ere taking t be best i what in st children suffer from mine were hen free by this rem ly it ' was a medical man who taught to i al ; , onions a a specific for < old iu tl i he did nol know at the time till 1 told him that they were good for anything else th i litor of the journal adds : a case is now under our own observation in which a rheumatic patient a great sufferer finds much relief from eating onions freely either cooked or raw 1 ■ asserts that it is by no ne uns a fancy and he ays so after bav in - persistently tried turkish baths gal vanism nnd nearly all the potions and plasters that are advertised a c rtain alle .. iaii ( - or cures americans eat more potatoes than any other nation ud the murphy movement i , blooming v y com adv newspaper quarreling v.'e lmi"t know that we say them in ex actly the same way bul our esteemed co temporary tii macon messenger says some iiiii s very well worth the saying in sonic i way few things areso silly as quarreling nothing so sillv as quarreling in the news papers vet as the messenger says we frequently find in the newspapers flagrant attack or diatribes against unoffending in dividuals usually emanating from third or fourth class editors of obscure prints or weak and disgruntled persons who hope thus to provoke controversy and thereby he dragged forth prominently before the pub lic but any journalist who respects him self and is conscious of seeking to do his duty only sconis to notice these little lice like attacks and be ides can spare neither time nor spnee to advertise such lillipu tian assailants tin proper plan is to pursue the even tenor of your way without turning aside either to the righl or left to notice these petty flings unless they assume ihe grave proportions of personal calumny an.l false hood and can be 1 1 need to a respectable source then by all means still keep out of print ami hold the party to summary and severe personal account for gratuitous and unmerited insults the best way to settle difficulties and , put down slanders is to meet theii ant inn \ lace to face anel amically settle if possible any differences that may exist what does the public care for the personal affairs and quarrels of an editor ? it is an insult to your readers to foist private matters and grievances upon their attention in lieu of news and more interesting information these remarks are intended for all who areguiltyof this soleci in and without mentioning names we leave to the par ties themselves whoever they may be the task of applv ing the in ral < if course the • innocent have no cause to heed the admo nition the littlefield operations it has already been announced that the authorities of the state of florida refused to di liv.-r un cen littlefield on the demand of the < loveruor of north ( arolina rielfd c badger esq cf raleigh was in jack sonville fla t:l the lime tbc»mattcr was im cstigat 1 and on his return had a con versation with a reporter of the raleigh . in v hich the following colloquy n ctirred : a wrong impression is sought to be i re atcd said mr badger that ihe man littlefield is the only criminal in north carolina and other and larger men are lo 1 ' • concealed ! herebv ." i have heard thi befoi -. major vou think it is so :" suid the reporter th re i no doubt of it if tbey will only bring him to north carolina armed with papers which be showed ine i'i jack sonville thef-e will be a howl from dan to bcersheba littlefield never paid money ue always gave order checks i saw the signature of certain gentlemen that i recog nized at once the others can be proven it would astonish you to see them all right major barkis is willing now then astonish me h 1 no not yet the time i-i ol come yet bul it will come mark my words r it will be remembered that littlefield is charged with swindling the state and bribiii members of the legislature of 18g8 | 9 to i ute for i uiiit v bat i know n as i he special lax state :' lilroad bonds and no doubt he bribi d others who were not j members of the legislature honest men have no objection to the whole truth being told let ii come out and let ihe public sec who got money from littlefield cliar lotte democrat — - j — — citltnrc of celery peter henderson says in • g irdening for pi fit :" 1 know of no veget tble on the ; ■ iltivati ti of whi h 1 hei - i - so much us ■ . or expend d vvtl li ich unsatisfac tory results as celery but mr hend ■ ' . i ■ . ■ i . , 1 i i c h is a t once so si m pi . and pracl ica ' ■ : io one need fail 1 had never seen celery growing when ! i ad gard ming for profit but !■;• carefully ub ! g mr henderson's rul - 1 succeed i in obtaining eel rv that took the pre at our lasl state fair i planted the seed i in iln open groui d a soon as the soil was • dry enough to work well at:'i began to cultivate as soon as the pi mts . . ulii be seen keeping the ground loose and fre from weeds twice before transplanting [ sheared the tops of tbe plants off to in : talky growth an i about the 20tl june tbey were ready for transplanting ■-. hich was done not in i r nches as most ; ■.•. riti rs di i tbe level surfa e in tbout three f et and a ,. .; n d k ep the gr and iv • ■!-. and himiui the n of aug ess of "« arthiug up 1 l should 1 i gin ; the oil houl i he drawn up i to tii ■ plants vv ith < nough to keep t - leaves upri lii and vv bbn cool v i comes thu blanching may be finished by i g the soil from between the rows and : -._- up to the to of the plant s on each side of the r w i ie soil sh mid be moist and well manured — ( •.-. indiana \ .'■' . real distinction is to be obtained not by joiiiii everything different from what your or does but by doing everything bett r than he docs a low girl mini-muni vihy some people are poor silver spoons are used to scrape ket , ties coffee tea pepper and spices are left to stand open and lose their strength potatoes in the celler grow and sprouts are not removed until the potatoes be come wm t bless brooms are never bung up and are soon spoiled nice-handled knives are thrown into hot water the flour is sifted in a wasteful man ner and the bread-pau is left with the dough sticking to it clot lies are left on the line to whip to pieces iii i he w ind tubs and barrels are left in the sun to dry and fall apart dried fruits are not taken care of in season and become wormy flags strings and paper are thrown into the tire pork spoils for want of salt and beef liccause the brine wants scalding bits of meat vegetables bread nnd cold puddings are thrown away when they might be warmed steamed and s.-i veil as good as new the enforcement of the laws against miscegenation both in virgiuia and ln liana has caused much hostile couijiient iu ihe radical press of the country they overlook the f..et that their own strongholds of maine michigan and ver mont have just snch laws and no efforts have been mad to remove tbem from the statute boohs the michigan law says imply that no white person shall intermarry with a negro while the maine statute i.s even more sweepin.i providing that no while person shall in termarry with a negro indian or mulat to — charlotte observer the statesville american in sum mi ult up the work ofthe court in that county just ended says on wednesday afternoon judge craves pass d ihe following sentences alexander brad well while and tho boseboro col to be hung sth of august is"i for burgla ry sewell gillespie col larceny nine 1 months in county jail muses murchison col larceny 2 years in penitentiary wm barber col larceny 4 months in jail ; eli i clark col larceny 1 year in penitentiary farmer and mechanic some people ' forget to give the state in addition to the name of the towns in the address ou their letters perhaps they will be less care | less when they learn that there tire in the united states ii washington ll wiliuiugtons 7 weldons jxj rielimonds : 17 charlestons n nashvillcs 15 loui.s villes is brooklvns li bostons etc last monday says the winston sentinel the two year old child of sheriff estes of stokes county was found drowned in a tub of water the water was left in the rear i yard oflhe sheriff's residence and it is t thought that the babe being unattended was attracted to it ; and while amusing it is i self lost its balance and fell in breaking the silence bui arp's first interview ivllh jcs't \ jiiuings bill acts as a cashier for a balloon ' voyager and still holds the money for him mr carlton introduced us at hi tore under the avenue josh was a scttiu there about half asleep i i thought he was a methodist ex'orter mr cat i ton ays he to me arp — major a imi — allow me to introduce you o colonel lulling — josh hillings colonel billing major arp from jeoi'gy seating myself i looked at tosh j and josh looked at me he never said uothin aud i never said uothin for 1 still took him for an ex'orter after a good iig minute he opened his mouth soleni'ly and said : sav something somethin *.'" said i ; for i had just potted him and was looking as soleni as possible whon vou fled from the foul inva der you had a teei with a kmd in tail said he yes said i ts he well ?' said be as well as could le expected con siderin said i consideriu what said he he is dead said i billings sighed and wiping hi eve said with much feeling : heucc tin se steers just then mr carlton called us to the do ■'• to see a ballo m sailing a\v;ay j with a ballooiii.-t in it we lo kid j at it as ion as we could see it after j awhile it drifted clear out of sight and we sat down to ruminate bil lings sighed agin and the corners of his mouth dropped very low said l.e the like of that m ikes me very sad thirty wars ago 1 embarked upon life's uncertain sea — not the wet sea shore enufi but the dry land i star ted west with 84 and a good carakter — whieh is to say there were no in dictments agin me ; i wasn't runr.in away from uothin i went on an c plorin expedition like columbus and sir john franklin an experimental survey of the faee of the earth i traveled afoot that is a good many feet in fact a few hundred miles aud got out of money and expedients [ about the same time — way off in a i little town in indiana my natural aversion to muscular exercise had about brought me to the \ verge of bankruptcy when i spied a i crowd moving round in the suburbs there i found a little dried-up ital , ian going round with a hat trying to j makeup ten dollars lie aid iiel could go up iu his balloon for that sum aud no less the crowd he-ita j ted and talked and laughed and i joked but they didn't contribute ! the little fellow looked sad and dis j coinage and was about to give it up ! when i suddenly discovered my op ! portuuity rousing myself as it were from despair 1 whispered to him and asked him if be would give me all over the ten dollars that j could get yes said he seizing the hat i grew eloquent i let ily my homely wit - got everybody in good humor and \ in about live minutes had raked in 22 the rotton old balloon was fired i tip in a twinkling i helped to fire it and filled it so full of gas the old gny-ropes could hardly hold it to the : ground i saw thai ihe little fellow looked anxious but 1 felt gaily and ' was bound to give him a lively send off '\\ hen we cut the ropes he shot up like a sky-rocket in less than a minute he was about a mile up in the blue ethereal vault it vva a calm still ihiy as you ever see and he went up o straight it almost broke our necks to look at him up and up and up he went until the balloon was a bare speck in the sky — and higher and higher and higher it went until the speck was gone and not even a spy-glass could lind it my friends from that day to this ; nobody has ever seen or heard of that little italian and somehow or i somehow else i have always fell ' responsible for him my only hope is he went dead straight to heaven may the lord have mercy on us all billings choked up and sobbed a little as he remarked i've got hi pail ofthe twenty-two dollars but if he's ever heard of i'll pay it to liim and three per cent interest — i will pun honor — ari let's step around and take somethin — i'm feeliu so sad detroit fret press a talking to ik struck me in the face 1 didn't say anything to him but i gave him a good talk ing to the attorney scratched his chin a moment and asked the woman ii she ' would please repeat her statement i say he struck me i didn't say i anvthins to him but i gave liim a good talking to again the attorney scratched his j chin but finally told the woman to go on and tell what else happened that riime afternoon i e struck me again i can stand a gnat deal and i didn't say a word to him but i gave hi in a good talking to the attorney thought long anddt i p ly and then asked : j)i.l he strike you the third time ' yes sir he did did vou say anything to him no sir 4 m ut a word v ' not a tt lint pei haps i ive him a g talking ' •. you an j ;-* bet y ur life i di tli ■ lawv • r i egan i o serai chin again but the ju ige dismi - i the c -. a tramp negr > named john tay lor iras beeu landed iu \\ jail for jumping i.i board with jerry patton a darkey living south homiuy it is now tin that taylor is wanted iu one of more southern states forsom committed he is a bright m 6 feet high about 35 years of ag . weighs some 17o lbs and lias i -: a finger from one band — asheville ciilzt ll tallulah the terrible to attempt a description of the di versity and grandeur of the falls in ks than a book would be titter folly but we will give a brief outline fthem beginning with tallulah mountain at the rear of the hotel with an altitude of 3,182 l'e-'-t above the sea the hotel being 2,38:2 feet in front of the ho tel begins the fearful descent of the waters with the falls of ladore 1g feet at the foot of these is hawthorn pool 45 feet deep iti which the poct preacber was drummed a few years ago a little below this tumbles ofl the falls of tempesta 8h feet a little further on goes roaring seething hur rican 9i feet then in a few steps conies the beautiful oceana 4g feet hard bv is the bridal veil *_'■. feet all this makes au aggregate rapids and all of 460 feet then for :» few paces the troubled and tossed waters how along in comparative quiet until they pass lover's l ap 5 <> feet er pendicular nearby is tin devil's pulpit a huge mass of rocks strikin out from tiie wall ieie of the cut 150 feet abeve the river with stand ing room for tbe devil aud at least ie hundred of bis imps close bv is tbe student's rostrum a level-bot tomed cove in the mountain's side gui feet from the rushing stream be low next and seeming to fill tlie ' mind full of amazement and wonder at the works ofthe great creator comes the grand chasm a narrow gorge - through which the waters rush with a perpendicular wall on i.e side sou feet high and on the other a little oping two or three hundred feet higher if the explorer lias not al ready been tilled with terrors of tul lulah let him grap a tree or bush and look over this awful precipice and he will be filled to the chin immediately taken all in all no traveler v.heth ; er of europe or america ought to be 1 content until he or she spends a month with mr trammel looking at the wonders of fearful rollicking rolling tumbling foaming tallulah ! another attraction is tbe sinking mountain four miles distant from the hotel where tlie xv.y mountain top for forty or fifty acres has dropped down irom ten to thirty feet and tie s are actually sticking out of the ground roots upward j!..vv did they get there — that's theciuestion and when we li:i ont we intend t write it to the public which wc hope will be verv soon a xr.w theory of dew — pro fessor stock bridge of the amherst agricultural college has been making some experiments as to the origin of dew and has arrived at conclusions vvhai different from those gencral lyaccepted it is usually held thai dew . . isl ur ■ of the air con icnsi d through contact with objects of a low ' er tempi rature and that il : rm until radiati n im i . ■■ ! llie temperatue of the earth pr ■: -- bridge asserts however that dew is the result of condensation by '■ lir of warm vapor which rise , and li . - ex peri - - : 1 . the vapi r of 1 he ii i mu h w at ii'ijit ti.i'ii the ... a ensed by it -. v - - 1 !.'.'! the vv ,-: pr porti in ti .: place near * thiug plaul s nearest the ea . -• '■■.'. : ider i.a coi -. a nik jeets on the grmi : i * in i tivatiou of tii . - . - . . . . i ot . 5 that ii dr and . - - ' _ ' i — he i is no ter cl r soil in tin i'iiiti-d stat s for i . cul . - i his seecti illy the s i - - ti : . - uth side of the n i.i \\ ■ .-, « h re tlie most - an ancient ship anal anterior to the time of the occupan cy of florida by the people whom ponce de leon found when he was conducting his romantic search for the fouutain of pcrpetaul youth a race of men had partially constructed a canal across the southern end of tlie great cape the work must be very old fe.r in the bed ofthe ex cavation are live oaks whieh have been rowing fully a thousand venrs as ih ages of trees are determined it i claimed that this old excavation can yet be used in the construction of a ship canal and that additional openings of fourteen or fifteen miles will unite the waters ofthe atlantie and the gulf and afford a passage way for vessels by a much shorter route and free from the perils of the reefs and keys along both coasts the saving of life and property bv means ofthis transit would soon compensate for it construction am it cannot too soon receive attention from those in terested ir navigation , during the occupancy ed this ter ritory by the english from 1763 to 1 783 rice plantations were establish ed along the creek to which this grain gives its name palatka the remains of flood-gates constructed of cedar now a hundred years old are still found in a good degree of preser vation and the lines e.f the sluice ways are plainly discernable ou the northern shore of lake okeechokee general taylor had his battle with the seminoles in 1837 a remnant of this tribe about 150 in number who refused to go with the majority to indian territory still linger about this kike they are a dwarfish race subsisting on fish game and fruits they tan deer-skins by a process of their own making them almost as soft and pliable as the chamois skins of commerce it is as tonishing to witness the extent to whieh they can stretch a skin judg ing the size of the animal bv the ap pearance of the tanned skin one would suppose the small florida deer of mammoth proportion a sad burg la n hint — kansas city june i'i — t g nounan and wife were awakened early yesterday morning and supposing robbers to be in the house noouau went into the fruit room followed by his wife she became frightened an.l threw her arms around his neck and he supposing himself assailed by robbers fired kill ing her instantly they are well-to dei people who moved here a few years ago from milwaukee where noonan was a prominent merchant il i graduate <■;' yale college a mere nobody — blaine has car.-c lo di.-iike the south he was once a giant amongst pigmies but now thai tli £ nth i represented by her own - n blaine is a fourth-rate man y titutionai piestions 1 ld m u nds and conkling are called upon to meet the 9 iithern lawyers when he-re were i'':n of these latter in congress 1 ii - weakness vi .- never exposed fn i - . mere nobody — :'. wi our entire ly shocked ■ ii o hear of the mr 1 liin x iliotoo,a high ■ - • t of this city and u high school mr i ! i(g htheria at his i -■«.- •■ 4 . < ■:, near mul . ". surroun ;•• ! by his family ami he irad ; for ibout n the last ad he as ill - ; ' i ion truth «< toe of ring ftrade 1 upon it lie s . emi n lombard street come to me to sera reseated .- - g vi ry wrong i . . prii l lis napoleon the prince m . : i . ••. has be n kille.1 | by tlie zulus according to a cabledis • . i . : ii he is the last i ng and illustrious line and with i.i death perishes the last prospect of t of the empire in nee