the carolina watchman vol x.-third series salisbury n c july 10 1879 no 38 i joiffl clark jr & co.'s best six cord for machine or hand use a 111 i assortment of all numbers and colors t wholesale and retail i;v kluttz and rcndleman salisbvury ut c the fanner the fanner came in from the field one day dig languid step and his weary way his bended brow iiis sinewy hand yi s bowed his work for the good of his land i'm lie sows inl he li.x-s and lie mow all for the good of the land b tin kitchen fire stood bis patient wife 1,'jelit ni his home and j<»y of hi life willi face all aglow and busy baud 1'reparing meal for her husband's band for she mu.-t lx.il and she must broil and she must toil and all for the good of the home when autumn is here with its chilling blast the t'.u titer gathers his crop nt last ; his barns are full his fields are bare cor the good of the land he ne'er hath care ■ while it blows and it snow the \\ inter goes lie ii t 1 1 mu the work of the land lint the willing wife till life's closing day , g the children's guide the husband's btay in in day to day she hath done her best mil death lone can give her rest for after the test i'omes the rest \\ ith the i lest b uie farmer's heavenly home t liristitin at work circumstantial evidence hn announcement by the new york pa pers of the murder of mrs hull was in each instance though he was nol named an ac ii against her husband as the nuir on the second day he was plainly the police would appear t have held the same suspicion ; at least they kept the doctor under close surveillance what the polic theory was or whether the po 1 a theory or w hetber either the po ■ the newspapers both lay cliam to loth honor contributed materially to the :\ f the actual criminal are things ii"t likely ever to be known but the newspapers arc giving fits to the police on the supposition assumed as fact that theory was that hull was the murder r an i thus a great injustice has been done an innocent man much moralizing on the peril of circumstantial evidence is indulged in view of the injury to dr hull againsl whom as the world now says there was not a single piece of direct evidence ow that the real murderer has been found the ll'eir g 0es ,,„ to s:lv .. l i jj ew yorkers what a majority of the people of sew york probably thought a strong or at tart a specious case of circumstantial evi denee'againsl dr hull falls at once to the md when confronted with the facts of "■ the case against dr hull was ' ■ because we knew a single fact :: i-i-tent with iiis innocense but because 1 re many facts quite consistent with guilt an.l because no suspicion could be wtached to any other person the people intended most earnestly that the cir nces ofthe murder pointed to him sthe perpetrator will most rejoice to be re eved ofa suspicion dishonoring not only " the afflicted man who was the victim of ll ' but to human nature itself it is curi "'■^ and it ought to be instructive to con now that this suspicion is finally dis ■ !."'. terribly plausible it was many en have suffered death on evidence less ' than that which might have been • against dr hull it is not likely . - that a legal conviction could have been secured against him but the evidence have sufficed to produce a moral friction and to weigh down buch years ' ! fe us remain to him with the burden of 1 cruel distrust added to the burden ofa md dreadful bereavement really ' the only considerations which those ho believed in the innocence of dr hull we able to adduce as inconsistent with ' e opposition of hia gnilt were that the equacy of bis motive was not made out bd that he was physically incapable of committing buch a murder in other words - three elements of capacity oppor jjjrtj and motive which must be estal ned h v circumstantial evidence that of a pacity was apparently lacking and mo ftt * aa not proved a v ery remarkable english case of cir ktantia evidence is also cited by tve world a murder was committed some thirty years ago at night in a gentleman's house in the south of england and finallv confessed by the murderer in which every one of these three elements was apparently so lacking that nothing but his own blun der would ever have brought the crime home to him the story fc so interesting in itself as well as so suggestive that it is worth repeating the shipwreck of an in diaman cast upon the shore a passenger who was taken to a country house near by the owner of which a man of fortune had for many years been confined to his chair hy gout the host recognized in the man whom this chance had committed to his hospitality a school-fellow with whom long years before he hnd had a bitter school boy's quarrel and who had peached upon him old times were revived and the host recalled this childish grievance only to laugh it off he devoted himself to enter taining his accidental guest and the even ing passed off agreeably when bedtime came the host was wheeled to his chamber and the stranger was shown to a room on the floor above that inhabited by his dis abled acquaintance of yore so strangely once more stumbled upon in this room on the next morning he was found dead with a hideous gash across his throat as it was evident that the man had been mur dered a suspicion much like that which attached to dr hull was fastened upon a maid servant who slept upon the same floor with the murdered man the girl was ar raigned and a case was made out against her as the only person possible to be sus pected her master a local magistrate naturally took a special interest in avenging the murder of bis guest pushed the inquiry an.l a conviction seemed inevitable but somewhat to the annoyance of the prosecu ting counsel who thought the case com plete he insisted upon asking and reiter ating in a curiously persistent way the question whether the maid heard no noise during the night at last she suddenly remembered and stated that at a certain hour of the night she had been disturbed in her sleep by a slight noise in the passage before her door like dragging a dog from this point seized and pressed by the defence new light grew and broadened un til the disabled man who had to be lifted from his chair anel who had no motive con ceivable to any person engaged in the in quiry for injuring his guest and his old friend confessed the murder the memo ry of his childish wrong had grown strong er within him as he sat at meat with the boy now become an old man who had wronged liim it came on him like a pas sion in his bed until the lust of revenge at last mastered not only his mind but the very infirmities of his body he dropped ut of bed found and took a lazor and dragged himself in agony on all fours up the staircase and into the room where his guest and enemy lay to do murder upon him the case is one of the most impres sive of the long list of warnings against that over confidence in circumstantial ev idence which would have acquitted him without a doubt or a question to commit the judicial murder of his servant and which now again in our own city but for the capture and confession of the real mur derer must have done a grievous and ir reparable wrong to the husband of ilrs uuu.—l'il observer oveb tin falls at xiagera there was i terrible scene at niagara a day or two ago it was reported that a religious maniac was about to float down tho river in a row boat to the edge oi the fall ex pecting to be luiracuously saved from death a multitude of people gathered upon goat island and along the canadian shore and presently they were horror stricken to see a boat drifting down with the strong current directly in the middle of the river in it was the figure of a man he sat placid and motionless seemingly perfectly confidentthat a mira cle would save him from his impending doom nearer and nearer to the awful brink rushed the boat and finally with a mad plunge the frail bark dashed head long down into the seething cauldron be low women fainted and strong men fell to the ground weeping and praying some hurried to the foot ofthe falls and finally succeeded in recovering the body it was stuffed with straw remedy for ciiickex cholera — nail a piece of bacon ou a tree or post so that the chickens can peck it and if they are too far gone to peck for themselves j ut a small piece of fat bacon down their throats for three mornings and they will recover they are to have no waters dur ing treatment gapes in chickens is a worm that hatches on the head and crawls into the windpipe greese rubbed on the heads of little chickens will prevent gapes but if that is neglected put camphor in their water and it will work a cure a c far mer advices from hong kong to june 1st states that gen grant was then eu route from tientsin to pekjn and that con siderable change iu tho programme ol his future movements is indicated it is now believed probable ihat he may re turn to china after visiting japan and proceed to australia his plaus aro sub ject to so many sudden alterations how ever that nothing absolutely ceitain is known a mouth in advance for the watchman stock law question litaker township july 3d 1819 mr editor : the time is not far distant when the above question will be voted up on and as i have seen nothing in the pub lic prints lately relative thereto i with the solicitation of others have concluded to hint at the matter which may lead to some action we regard it as one of the most important subjects now claiming the attention of our section of the state i will give a few reasons : 1 whatever will result to the greatest good ofthe largest number ought to be the law of the land the land-owners are a very important class in the strength and support ofthe country 2 no one has a right to trespass on any one's premises which the owner pays for and improves as it now is a man's prem ises should not be subject to depradations bv his neighbor's stock without redress ? 3 it will result in great good to the farming class including tenants in the saving of labor and timber before it is too late the profits arising from the cultiva tion of hedge rows fence grounds and the natural improvement of lands not lia ble to trespass are items well worthy of note 4 the fence law is growing in favor with the people many who were opposed are now in favor of it and are anxious for the change consequently fences have been neglected and should the law fail to pass extra efforts will be required to re pair under the old system which the peo ple will be very loth to do 5 because it meets with some opposition does not prove it to be an evil the rail roads public schools and every enterprise which resulted largely in the welfare of all classes met with the same unfavorable reception 6 last but not least it will tend to the elevation of society as it now is there is too much labor for the amount realized consequently farmers children arc ground down to hard labor eight or nine months in the year to make a support anel have but three or four months left for school thus the majority of farmers remain poor their children grow up with good minds uncul tivated they follow in the footsteps of their predecessors and think it is all right on the other hand we feel persuaded that the proposed change although it be but a stock law will be the initiation of a new and living way so to speak whereby our children will become in truth sons and daughters of north carolina instead of servants if the state fails to provide adequate means as hitherto for the higher cultiva tion ot the rising race i verily believe that the new method will soon enable the mass es to accomplish this end unaided together with all the blessings and advantages that accompany prosperity and intelligence knowledge is power and gives the posses sor the advant.'ige of the uncultured in ev ery situation in life we hope kowan and adjacent counties will act speedily — call a convention and have the counties canvass ed by ittelligent speakers to enlighten and encourage the people very respectfully j l g little gutter pup he came swaying up from below sing ing for i'm little buttercup poor little gutter pup when the justice gently asked liim if he would stop his noise can't do it squire i'll lose it i'm little " lose what what have you got to lose lose the tunc man went to the op era last night — see little gutter " and where did you go after the opera was over asked the court went strait to the hotel strait p'l fccnian showed me the way what's my bill ? where's the feller t keeps this ho tel ? i'm little gutter pup " yes you're evidently little gutter pup said the justice sadly your hotel bill will be five dollars with understand ing that you follow the seville company out of town aud play the character of gut ter pup sonic where else according to rumors from boston ben butler is booming he expects to be nom inated for governor by both the labor reform and democratic conventions when the latter body does so we will be lieve it aud not uutil then — itiv star brother hugh hastings offers bri tian general grant to fight the zulus with it will also relieve us ofa ve ry painful duty by proposing iu ad dition to throw pope in as dispatch sender we want to see the zulus well licked — washington post a true woman scorns the smirking fop affectation of gentility is little better than insult false hair false teeth false cheeks false manners says au exchange are likely to cover a false heart a man is fortunate who works his way to wealth and position and dies before lie finds they are not worth the labor ' senatorial courtesy from the raleigh observer we are prone to think that the old en days were better than the these days and that our forefathers were at least derai-gods in integrity and vir tue we regard washington and hamilton and ames caswell aud others of like stamp with a feeling of awe and say within ourselves surely these worthies were above the infirm ities common to humanity and never looking at the great figures in history who loom more nearly to us than those first mentioned we are disposed to regard them as greatly superior in self-control and dignity of character to such men as lamar conkling conger chandler aud others of that stamp whereas history attests that webster clay calhoun randolph benton butler foote king and oth ers who more or less ranked with them all had their weaknesses their vanities their bursts of passion and at times exhibited before the country in their places in congress not the very best examples of parliamentary decorum and dignity it is well known that the duel be tween mr clay and mr randolph originated from gross and bitter per sonalites between those gentlemen on the floor of the house it is remem bered too that mr clay once told mr pickering on the flooring of the senate that he disgraced the carpet on which he sat on another occa sion mr clay in the heat of debate impeached the veracity of col king of alabama col king instantly wrote a challenge which was handed to mr clay and mr g bowing towards mr king said i accept it but immediately mr clay proceeded in substance to say that he knew col king would not at tribute to fear on his part what he was about to say ; and then he added he had allowed himself in the heat of de bate to charge col king with false hood but mr president he said i withdraw the charge for sir the senator of alabama is not capable of falsehood mr webster indulged only once we belive in gross personalitis charles jered ingersoll had charged in his place in the house that mr webster had been bribed by the manufacturers to represent their peculiar interests in the senate mr webster repelled this charge in his place in the senate in the most vehement manner and handled mr ingersoll very roughly personally but mr webster did not ptibish this speech in the regular edi tion of his speeches mr calhoun was remarkable for his s natorial dig nity he delivered his last great speech in the senate on the 7th march 1850 or rather it was rca 1 for him by a friend for he was too weak to read it himself and as soon as the speech was finished mr foote rose and made a vehement personal attack on mr calhoun this was too much for col benton who though not on personal terms with mr calhoun was always for manliness and fair play and he at once said in tones loud enough to be heard in nearly every part of the chamber when god puts his hand on a man i take mine off we might de/ote column npon col umn to reminiscences of this kind to show that modern days are no worse in this respect than former days we are neither improving nor retrograd ing on this score witness the fierce personal assaults on gen jackson's administration ; the abuse poured out by wise and peyton on whitney and kendall the threat that ten thou sand armed men would march down the avenue on the white house if gen jackson did not change his course on the bank question ; the personal assault by sam houston on mr stans bury a brother member of the house for which he was reprimanded by the speaker the personal insult offered by henry a wise to james k polk when the latter was speaker of the house which mr polk did not re sent but for which he paid mr wise in 1845 when as president he found mr wise was american minister to brazil and being a good minister he continued him in his place ; and the threat by gen jackson soon after the seminole war that if a certain mem ber of congress did not cease his as saults upon him he would go to wash ington and cut his ears off senators should remember that they are gentlemen of course everybody says that on ninety-nine occasions out of one hundred they do so remem ber and they do so act one senator says another senator is a liar the sen ator thus insulted repels the insult bv telling him that he is a liar well what of it what has been gained what has the truth gained by such a discus sion ? question which is the liar this question the country is not dis posed to settle it says gentlemen — please excuse your constituencies from this duty it is as unpleasant as it is difficult that senator who first impeached the mot ive of his broth er senator is primarily to blame ; but when the lie began to be bandied there was too much ofthe smoke of passion to allow any one to see clearly who was in the wrong and then the whole country adds you are both senators ; you were sent to the senate gentlemen and we believe you are really so though you have lost your tempers and behaved unhandsomely and we do not concur in the view you take of each other that is that you are liars the country thinks better of yon than that the house used to be called the bear garden as the senate incres es in numbers it increases in its ten dency to disorder the people are looking at both houses and they are talking about them for several years past the house of representa tives has been improving in courtesy and decorum the people think the house in this respect is doing very well it would be by no means a happy or a pleasant thing if the body once adorned by a webster a badger clay a douglas a cass a mangum a calhoun a preston or a benton should suddenly cast off the cloak of its dignity and become itself a bear gar den it would be well if senators would conduct themselves in their chamber before the world as gentle men bear themselves toward each oth er in a private parlor words in re ply to insulting words amount to no thing rather thau thus meet words with words it would be better to adopt the old adage a gentleman will not insult me and no other can and thus pay no attention to words the old scotchman who when called a liar retorted by saying pruv it was a man of more sense than he had credit for behold the war councils ofthe american indians let the senate model itself by these councils and by discountenancing personalities j of all kinds learn what true senato ; • ii rial dignity is an earnest sweetheart — the following tender epistle was sent us by a friend in winterville the paper was ornamented with three bleed ing hearts and a woman done with a pen in a manner charactertic with or : thography — clark county ga — j mr george — i will take th pleyer ofj in foring you a few lines to let you know that i am well and hoping that j these few words will find you the j same my love to words you is grater j than i can ex spress if all the straw i thats in the old feel wood turn to pends ; and all the leves thats on th trees wood , turn to paper and all th water thats in the see wood turn to ink it could xot . rite the love down that i have in my hart for your the rosie is rod the vi lets blu sliugar is seaweet and so are you if your love me like i love your j no nife can cut our love iu2 mr — i i wood like to see your very much at i this time your are my dailie study and my mid night dream i will be down there the 2 sunday in june if niitliino takes place your dear love ; miss emmer line pinson — ogle j thorpe ga echo in an editorial comment on adver tising schemes the reading penn times says : there are men who j would rather spend 10 or 20 in the rail-card and board nuisance which may be seen by a few hundred people than to expend the same sum in their j home papers where tens of thousands would see their cards every day this is an age of newspaper reading and the sooner business men come to real ize this fact in all it importance the better it will be for business general ly and the better it will be for them selves entering the sitez canal from sunday afternoon suuset on the suez canal two in terminable banks of grayish-yellow sand growing gradually higher as they round southward ; a little rib bon of light green water barely visi ble between them ; a huge steam dredger in the background with a clamorous garrison of blue-shirted men and red-capped boys who rush shouting to the side to stare at our steamer as she comes gliding by ; be hind us the houses and docks of is mailia the khedive's new capital fading into one shapeless mass ofjrrav amid which a darker spot represents the mouth ofthe sweet-water canal and all around the dreary waste of the great arabian desert looking vaster and drearier than ever beneath the fast-falling shadows of night at first sight it is certainly difficult to realize that this tiny streak of water less than twenty seven feet deep and barely seventy in breadth cau really be one ofthe great commercial highways of the world like the russian military road across the cau cassus or the little thread of railway which spans the boundless desolation of the steppes between the volga and the con it is so utterly dwarfed by the vastness of it surroundings that one half forgets the magnitude ofthe results achieved or the long and ter rible struggle agaiust heat sickness drifting sand insufficient supplies and constant hinderances of every kind which human skill and human perseverance have conducted to this glorious completion the men of old time when they completed the same task certainly found it no child's play in the region of xech says herodotus note-book in hand as usual one hundred and twenty thou sand egyptians perished in digging this canal what a history of op pression and wrong of grinding misery aud wholesale destruction do those few words convey ! stand by your anchor ! let go !" the captain's hoarse shout and the rattle of the chain as our anchor splashes into the water scatter my visions at once and i look up to per ceive that our surroundings have un dergone a sudden and marvelous change from the narrow monoto nous avenue of the canal we have glided into a wide expanse of smooth dark water which seems almost boundless in the shadowy twilight to the south and west long waves of purple hill roll up against the last gleam of light that lingers in the darkening sky in front the posts set to mark the cannel start out gaunt ly like skeleton sentinels and amid the deepening gloom twinkles a soli tary point of fire — the light house that guards tlie passage this is the famous bitter lake one of the countless lagoons that occupy a ful third ofthe space traversed by the canal are you going to stop here cap tain ?" don't see what else we can do growls the skipper if them fellers make us go half speed through the eanawl so as it comes on dark afore we can git through if we was to go it full steam we'd run the whole eighty-three miles tween sunrise and dark easy ; but its no fault of mine anyhow !" but no halt can be a matter of regret on this historic ground where the very earth seems to be still shaken with the tramp of empires and the very air to be filled with memories of the past few spots upon the face ofthe earth have a stranger mingling ofthe familiar and remote of names which were the household words of onr earliest childhood with others which are known only to the driest lore of the antiquarian hebrew shepherd and assyrian conqueror persian and greek saracen and crusader frenchmau and anglo saxson — all have been here in turn as the full moon breaks forth in its cloudless glory the shadowy arm ies seem to rise around us once more moses and the thousands of israel setting forth upon that wonderful march of which god himself was pioneer — assyrian xinus in his carv ' ed chariot with the captains of the host and mighty men of valor around him in all the pomp and splendor of war — the turbaned war riors ofcambyses with their light lances and huge wicker shilds sweep ing onward to that fierce short fever of conquest beyond which lay an un known grave in the depths of the hungry desert — the soldier zealots of aradia following black-browed amron to the sack of alexandria — mail-clad horsemen with the rtd cross on their breasts straining their eyes to catch the first gleam of sala din's spears along the sky — and final ly the war-worn grenadiers of re publican france gathered around the dark stern face and eagle eye of the general bonaparte who was one day to be the emperor napo leon leo miller a greenback talker said last week in a speech in lewis ton me it is a great wrong to stamp one dollar on a piope of coin that is worth eighty-four cents when it can just as easily be stamped on a piece of paper worth nothing economical management of news papers is a very good and a very necessary thing especially in the south but we do wish that our friend of the baltimore gazette whieh we like to read would quit wrapping up his paper in itslf a sponge cut thin and moistened worn in the hat is the best protec tor against sun heat known and are very grateful and cooling he was a diplomat a very tall man with sandy chin whiskers entered the door the car was full and the scat occupied by two persons was filled with a valise a bundle a shawl and a thin woman of thirty-five with the latest style of red hair and false teeth the man with the sandy whiskers feeling a sympathet ic bond drawing him toward the wo man's red hair touched her on the shoulder and said : is that seat engaged ?" yes it is snapped the woman swelling up in the seat that the man might observe no possible room ah murmured the man in a pleasant tone then he went and stood by the stove aud mused for a while presently he returned to the scene of his rebuff and leaning on the arm of the seat said softly : i beg your pardon madam but as i was standing by the stove your fea tures struck me familiarly did you ever attend a presidential reception at washington ?" no i never did replied the wo man but in a milder voice than she had at first assumed then you will please pardon me said the man with an apologetic air ; the mistake was occasioned by your close resemblance to a young lady from philadelphia who made her de but that season and whom i had the pleasure of meeting she was the belle of the season no i never was in washinton remarked the woman in a mollified tone it is strange how much you resem ble the lady in question pursued the man the hair is the same golden hue and while her features may not have been so clear cut and grecian in their — but there excuse me i am an noying you and the tall man started away don't hurry said the woman pleasantly there doesn't appear to be many empty seats ; won't you sit here and she picked up her nu merous baggage the man with the sandy whiskers didn't know but finally accepted the invitation and in an incredibly brief shace of time had the valise and bun dle in the rack above the shawl tuck ed around the window to exclude the draft and was regaling the red-headed woman with a choice collection of an ecdotes that kept her laughing till the passengers could see her false teeth the plain and wholesome things of life are its greatest blessings weare taught to pray not for luxuries and dainties but for daily bread colored velvet stands for dishes are used when it is thought beet to make the dinner table look unusual ly fine