Carolina Watchman

              the carolina watchman vol x third series salisbury n c july 31 1879 tn 41 johh clark jr & co.'s1 best s!x cord for hachine or hand use x ill i assortment of all numbers and colors j ,, wholesale and retail by kluttz and rcndlcman salisbury w c r-r i i i in _■_—-—»— -—-«—— a '■ for ilie watchman pearls before swine madam pearls before sn ine mchenry i can understand jour talis said olel kitty mc shitk ,. he answered in pulpit-tones i , ore bm ine madam pearls s ii '! critic was old mistress rome : in from the land of the vine - i swift i conquer for sluggards at inline carla before swim madam pearls befon swine [ oi fault-finder muter or sow u,as in , i e thought « hich is tin i's veil vhen you tsrlk seuse to em say with low li pearls befori swine madam pearls e p ii for the watchman pot-neck i'ot-ni ck .' i ><> you see k il i ovei uowau lands '. li fi n.rniiil crei !. it l'p the \ udkiifti shore extends : anil lictwei ii these noted streams it . h hiding ridge adit ion's ii mis it ' .,',' - away in ar nt eh s bridge i'mperly uo nu n can bound it : tl fault : fiiim the wa thai folks lirst found it out t iirued hy < •!.:• malt in his pom i ful romancing : for lie lie-lion's lit , nse had e'en to ii the hills to dancing ■ ■ lo catching shad sol the flute thai < upheus can it tl nur tiie m,i ni >_\ ii n w ( et v tin ri rst homer mai i i 1 in roes1 deeds could beal pol-neck's famed old-time tongue-wizard making anything skip rom.il whether flee or frog or lizard i folks or leagues of ground 1 jh-r waggoner and liar was jedidiiui malt esquire : for whopping big tales more notorious oho 1 despise to be censorious iptaiu keilly or munchausen kip or hilly dawson ; ion cheraw and camden s|ii'plitil his dirty little drapi-den "' from lhe peach-soaked brushy monn 1 ii the home-still's flowing foun tl in winter time sir mad wdeep i beats my rhyme r • bul ihis jedidiah swill and precious liar j,0 it iver'nt a bit of trouble jo tell you how thev ofl drove double meu-aius upon the miry batter ww mormons walking on the water we othei could be plainly seen sir : "»_ bottom right between sir 1 ni the red sea's uew flood '"'.", pharaoh thirsted for their blue jdmidi inland that i.v inerechancehe f^ned the fact as by a fence he taring close his team below sir drivers hal did show sir p'f he stooped it to recover i by some bold rover ■ what was old malt's surprise l head mouth and eves • ' ihem under houses ■' whip and shoutin cusses ii night old malt was riding wilkes road a barrel sliding don his old sled sir s a little of the dead air hed thc sandy stretches ty graveyard often fetches s»y grim and whit battallion lctiou drill and rally iu hing niouut his sled sir ,; and trembliug turned his ■ sii ! 11 ■■■ but one gave old malt sir ,: ed passenger no hair sir ■ or ever looked behind him • , ■."•, host should yawn and find him ia ully his switch he plied sir use's hairy side sir i ids watch-dog baying "' r wheu bis line sleighing sued and stepped aside sir ■ his jolly ride sir aujaiike*v il from t!li take earning ' rs put on mourning ■' moonlit uight like malt i • turn youi head or halt you .;( '" '" h government recently paid nstalment of its debt e>f 1 i ..; "'' f(f300,000,000 to hank of nd at ti time of the war any | forthe watchman i rocky river springs-stanly county a pleasant drive of forty miles brought our party from salisbury to this place yesterday evening and we were fortunate enough to find comfortable quarters among the crowd eif visitors now gathered here these springs have not been 11 known to our people in late years though a gen : eration or two ago they were very popular and annually thronged with seekers of health and pleasure from the neighboring counties and especially from south caro | lina a half century ago the property j belonged to a company of wealthy plan ters mostly froin south carolina the j williamses mcqucens steeles etc who resided hen several months each summer it is stated that the beautiful bnt ill starred daiighterof aaron burr theedo sia wife of gov alston of s c so jourued in this place it season in its palmy days there were rive hotels and ! six stores on the grounds hut the build : ings oae after another were consumed hy lire and the deed by which the prop i erty was held was lost or burned the i dimness of the title deterred he proprie ' tors from rebuilding an interest in the property has of late fallen into the hands j of d x beunett esq and rev c c ton-man and they have erected buildiuffs ] i capable of lodging about seventy persons the buileliiigs are perfectly new and un der the management of the efficient and obliging host mr sam'l wright well \ known to some of emr salisbury people : the place is once more in gooel running nider popular aud full of agreeable and pleasant company about f>0 visitors have already been here this season and j about 10 are here now the attractions of the place are first the rare and varied i combinations of healing waters in tbe ! limits of one eighth of au acre there are three valuable springs sprixg no 1 is evidently chalyerate and is said to contain also magnesia and is calculated to benefit dyspeptics it in creases the appetite and aids digestion j they . ay that after drinking its waters one can eat six hard-boiled eggs for sup per with impunity i know that a fresh visitor can eat two anil sleep soundly all night sprixg no 2 is sulphur and iron it is recom mended for dropsical affections and kidney diseases constitutions impaired by dissipations are restored by its waters wonder if the constitution ol the united states would not be bene fitted by a draught ? perhaps the re turning boards of some of our sister states might be washed clean by a plen tiful application it is also recommen ded us an antidote to the whiskey thirst wouldn't it be well to have a branch office of this spring opened up in our towns and villages where prohibition is unpopular ? it might take the place ofa soda fountain or ice-cream saloon spkixg no i is called the arsenic spring though there are evident traces of iron in the sediment of this also tra dition says that indians in old times used this water for cutaneous diseases it has recently cured cases of tetter scald-head and old sores generally it is recommen ded as good for neuralgia a second attraction of these springs is the cool and bracing nights enjoyed here the country is very broken and hilly anel forests ceive-r a large part of the territory around rocky river sweeps around this region like a huge half-moon a mile anel a half distant at the nearest point and rushes rapidly and tuiuultuously over rocky shoals anel falls here ami there in cataracts so that the voice of the waters is heard in the still evening air as the guests lounge in the cool porticoes or wander in thc grounds this belt of country is designated by the state geol ogist as the region of huronic slates lying between the granites of the pied mont section and the sandstones of the lower pee dee unlike the red soils and sluggish streams of more fertile regions this does not generate miasma and chills are rare another pleasaut circumstance is that visitors to these springs may come and return to their homes without change of climate and elo not need to stay until frost as tliey must elo when going to the mountains they are also removed from the favorite haunts of dissipation and luxurious vice though not on the line of railroad an easy drive of twenty-eight miles from concord or eighteen or twenty from polktou or wadesboro on the car olina central will set one down at the springs tin rates of board also are ex tremely reasonable ami suited to the hardness of the times three dollars a week will procure accommodations for adults and two for servants and larger children we have not looked around sufficiently nor been here long enough to venture a matured opinion but first impressious and the story as twas told to us gives the hope of a pleasant sojourn in this place r july 2-2d , l879 gretna green markied morris taylor july 3 by john c morris esq mr asbury mor ris and miss ella taylor daughter of ex military governor taylor of fort fisher notoriety hamilton hall june 2,d by jesse mulinix esq mr olie-d hamilton to miss hannah hall kisek masks — tuly 20th 3 o'clock a m by a s harris esq david riser to miss mary e marks poor davy was an orphan boy grim death had marr'd bis joy friendless and poor as one of yore he lay at the widow's iloor my mary was a buxom lass anel mamma thought shem pass with lads both richer anil wiser than poor honest davy riser my mary was a girl of fashion with heart full of love and compassion and though she could marry richer and wiser she chose her gist love poor honest dave riser sunday morning at sunrise thc happy pair took the gravel train for locust lev el cabarrus county many wishes for their happy future kelly tucker july 17th by p c saunders esq james kelly to miss la vina tucker lavina was a maiden bold full fifty years had all heen told ; though many suiters she had had she aye refused to make one glad till jimmy kelly came along — heing f bone and muscle strong she reasoned thus : — my raven tresses are silvered o'er my youthful days will come no more my breath is stale my feeth are shelly if jimmy's willing i'll be a kelly says jimmy : — before the lamp begins to flicker til get the license and tlie lii-.ker anil from your name til take the tucker dry weather and hot winds prevail and crops are being cut short wheat and eiats crops below average in quantity — quality excellent mellons just beginniug to come in grapes just beginning to show color re beccas rotting as usual : catawbas unusu ally line concords show a disposition to rot ; liucolus continue to set :" lve-s and clinton doing well and aie our earliest grapes flagtown expects to be awaked by the shrill bound of four whistles ere long the wise eiins say we are to have an un usually bard winter and the cereals will le unusually scarce next year cause the frequent raids of dan cupid nemo do not mow too close there was true economy in the advice ofthe fanner who recommended that the lower joint grass be left in the field for the old brindle cow rather than be cut and cured for her he was one of the numerous army mowers who had learned there is nothing gained by cutting too close the testimony with respect to the height from the ground at which it is best to cut grass is conflicting and tends to confuse and oftentimes mislead a novice iu the hay-field cultivators vary in practice from one-halt inch or as close as possibly to four inches the general tendency is however to cut close and many line meadows have heen injured therefrom close observation lias taught that tim othy cannot he cut low in dry weather especially without inflicting injury all attempts at close shaving the sward should be avoided many of our most successful fanners cut timothy nearly or or quite four inches from the ground others in guaging mowing machines for this grass take care to run them high tliat it will not be cut below the second joint above the tuber close mowing of upland meadows ought also to be avoided as the action of the hot sun and dry weather following the harvest affects the roots ofthe grass un favorbly when left without some protect ion on the other hand low wet mow ing grounds will bear cutting close as possible these are benefited by the in fluences which would dry and burn up an upland meadow again where the prac tice is followed of top-dressing the mead ow immediately after taking off the grass the mowing may be done low and a smooth surface hit to cut over the next time gene-rally speaking grasses cut two in ches high will start much quicker and thrive better than when shaved close to the ground ; the line grasses as a rule when the season is not a very dry one can he cut lower wiili safety than the coarser sorts — a 1 world statistics printed in the american ship show that since 1833 one hundred and forty-three vessels have been lost at sea and with them two hundred and two lives mr john payne on sandy creek pittsylvania county va caught a female opossum which had twenty two young ones hanging t.i her elev en were her own and were in her locket and eleven belonging to some other possum doubtless were stick ing on lo her outside a roman catholic priest in the in dian territory has recently renounced romanism and joined the baptists — i\e was baptized by bro j s mur row sa-luting the bride from the detroit free fress there was a marriage at the upper end ! of the detroit lansing and northern ' road the other day a great big chap al most able to throw a car load of lumber j off the track fell iu love with a widow i who was cooking for the hands at a saw i mill and after a week's acquaintance ' they were married the boys around ' the mill lent william three calico shirts a dress coat and a pair of white pants ! and chipped in a purse of about 20 and the couple started for detroit ou a bri | dal tour within an hour after being mar ! lied this ere lady explained william ; as the conductor came along for tickets ' are my bride just spliced fifty-six • i iuiniiits ago cost 2 but durn the cost | she's a lily of the valley and i'm the 1 right bower in a new deck of keerds conductor sa-lute the bride the conductor hesitated the widow had freckle and wrinkles and a turned j up nose and kissing the bride was no gratification conductor sa-lute the bride or look ! ont for tornadoes continued william as ' he rose up and shed his coat the conductor sa-luted it was the best thing he eould do just then i never did try to put on style be fore muttered william but i'm bound | to see this thing through if i have to fight ' all mithigan these ere passengers has got to come np to the chalk they has i the car was full william walked down the aisle waved his hand to com | main attention and said i've just been married and over thar ! sots the bride anybody who wants to ' sa-lute the bride kin now do so any ' : buily who don't want to will hev cause | to believe that a tree fell on him !" one by one the men walked up and kissed the widow until only one was left he was asleep william reached i over and lifted him into a sitting position at one movement and commanded . ar'ye goin to dust over thar an kiss | the bride ?" j lslast your bride and you t_o growl , ed the passenger william drew bim over thc back of the i seat laid.him down in the aisle tied his j legs iu a knot and was making a bundle j of him just ofa size to go through the j window when the man caved and went over and sa-luted now then said william as he put \ on his coat this bridle tower will be re sumed the use of kerosene we are again called upon to indite a paragraph upon the proper use of '■■ kerosene oil about the fowl-house i premises this is a valuable article i in its way but when judiciously ban idled and applied sensibly to the cleansing of nest-boxes the roosts of of fowls and for removal of scurvy i upon the legs of these birds but kerosene is a powerfully pun i gent substance and should always 1 be used with care for wash ing the fowl roosts occasionally noth . . . , ing is so certain to keep the perches i free from lice for thc bottoms and j sides of box-nests used either for j your layers or sitters there is no ar ; , ticle so good or so sure to disperse j 1 vermin and keep it away from those frequented by tiie hens but kerosene should be applied be neath the nests upon the wood-work only it is too strong and penetrating to be placed where it will come in ■ contact with the eggs that are be ing set on or to touch the bodies : of the fowls and where it is \ carelessly scattered — so that the hen 1 sits upon it or her eggs may be touch ed with this liquid — it does more ' harm than good often permeating the shells and destroying the embryo chicks as we have known the instance to occur we therefore suggest caution in the use of tins article as we have done before on repeated occasions we know of no agent more beneficial when rightly used than this is but if it be not properly applied to the j purpose wc have mentioned it hail far better be dispensed with altogether it eggs are smeared with it at any itime — when first la'nj or while being i set on by the hens — their vitality is as surely destroyed as thoy would be if punctured or crushed in the shells poultry world a journalistic quartet — the raleigh neics whicli has been vastly improved of late the raleigh olsei vcr wilmington star and charlotte observer form a quartet of dailies that do credit to this state and would pass i anywhere — greensboro patriot talks about health i have studied the subject of exer cise for twenty years i have inven ted a system of gymnastics which has been introduced into nearly all the schools in america into most ofthe english gymnasia and was introdu ced into the schools of berlin a few years ago with public ceremonies i have been the recipient of hon orable testimonials from american colleges many important educational bodies and from many sources in england and germany please excuse this parade my ob ject in making these statements is to give a just emphasis to an opinion whicli i wish now to express it is this — that walking when properly managed is the best ofall exercises none of the artificial exercise can be compared with it every important muscle works actively in walking notice an active walker see how every part works — legs hips arms shoulders the man works all over brisk walking gives even the upper half of the body fine play then walking costs nothing you are not obliged to join a class aud employ a teacher again walking'takes you into the open air and sunshine while in gymnastics you are in the dusty atmosphere ofa hall ; and it is not a small advantage that in walking you enjoy a succession of changing scenes suggestions of new thought and walking with a friend the conversa tion may be interesting and instruc tive all this may be found in nat ural and active walking but if the ankles were shackled so that the feet could be moved but a few inches the great value ofthe ex ercise would be lost i asked you to note the arms and shoulders of an active walker how they swing and wiggle and wi_gle — how thoroughly alive even the upper half of the body is ! thc physiology of that part ofthe body in walking is this : the shoulder is a sort of centre for the muscles of the chest thev start from the shoulder and spread out in every direction like a fan these muscles which run in every di rection ovor the chest around about tip down crosswise and interlock ing with each other in a wonderful net these muscles which determine whether the chest shall be full strong and active or thin weak and inac tive these muscles about the chest whicli determine whether the vital organs within the chest sliall be large active and strong or small slow and weak — these muscles which may con tribute more than any others in the body to the strength and activity of life these muscles i say depend for their activity for their development and strength upon a free and vigor ous motion of the shoulders brisk walking with a swinging of the arms gu'es the required movements of shoulders now we understand how it is that active walking contributes so much to the fullness and strength of the chest and the organs within the chest please put your finger down there and look out of this front window with tne it is a bright day and the ladies are out in force now let ns notice how they walk why they don't swing their arms at all ! their arms must be laced down upon their sides ! no they are hold ing their arins still and see they have tucked their hands into those large | fur rollers which they carry on their stomachs their arms look for all : the world like the wings ofa christ i mas turkey all tied down and ready j to be put in the oven it must be hard work to walk in j that way ! it is very hard indeed and you see j thev have to walk very slowly and | wiggle their hips what a funny motion that wiggle is i should think i'astidious people might call it vulgar and immodest oh well that depends upon the i fashion that wiggle-waggle is all the go now i should think it would lame them across the back it does ; there is not a lady in twenty who is not lame across the mall of the back let a man wear a shawl and hold it together in front with his hands aud he will not walk far before his back mil ache it i.s a bard strain upon the spine to walk without swinging the arms american ladies have muscular logs and hips ; but look at their arms candle-dips no 8 their angular shoulders and their flat thin chests a largo part of this ugliness and weakness como of carrying their hands j in muffs folded in front or under i shawls — in brief from not swinging their arms in walking ah when those beautiful fur mittens and gloves which are now becoming fashiona ble shall be generally introduced and our girls are able to walk off in that brisk bright way which we all so admire not only will their cheeks take a wanner hue but their arms shoulders and chests will become plumper and finer but better fitted to perform the duties and enter into the pastimes and pleasures of life — dio lewis m d >'. c darkeys on the way was-lngton post 19th the first batch of colored emigrants which has left north carolina for kansas passed through this citv yes terday the party consisted of love las brown turner scolt doc brown miles scott and wm scott brown is a baptist minister and hails from halifax county while the rest are from an adjoining county of warren and are farm hands the browns are both jet black while the scotts are light mulattoes the former are not relations but the two last named are boys of sixteen and eighteen sons of turner scott their first acton arriving here was to make for the city hall where they expected they would find mr fred douglass on hearing their story he gave them five dollars and sent them to see the kan sas immigration aid committee lately formed here mr douglass has placed himself on record over and over again as opposed to the move ment but said he could not see mem bers ofhis race go hungry and desti tute the tale they told him was that becoming dissatisfied with the life they were leading in north carolina they and their friends had decided that thoy should push along until they got to kansas do the best they could for themselves there and write home the state of affairs this last was especially delegated to the minis ter whose congregations he has three paid his expenses a colored man named west harris had advised them to call at this city on their way thev left home on tusday hist taking the turnpike at first and intending to go to 1 o o portsmouth ya and so husband tiieir small fund by wednesday at noon one or two ofthe the party were completely used up and the rest were very willing to take the cars though the fare took till their money mr milton m holland the treasurer of the relief committee here conferred with mr douglass and the travellers and it was decided that tlie route should be changed and athens ohio made the objective point tickets for that place were procured aud given them they left on the 11 o'clock train last night a box 2 { by 10 inches 22 deep contains one barrel ; a box i'j by 16 inches 8 deep contains one bushel ; a box 8h by 81 inches s deep con tains one peck ; a box 4 by 4 inches 4.1 deep contains a half peck the standard bushel of the united states contains 2150.4 inches anv box or measure thc contents of which arc equal to 2155.4 cubic inches will hold a bushel of grain in measur ing fruit coal and other substances one fifth must be added in other words a peck m eas u r e fi v e times even full makes one bushel the usual practice is to heap the measure how manv useful hints are ob tained by chance and how often the mind hurried by her own ardor to distant views neglects the truths that lie open before her if you wore as willing to be as pleasant and as anxious to please in your owu house as you are in the company of your neighbors you would have the happiest home in the world i ■ _■_ tin re is room in the l'pper story a young lawyer of our acquaint ance who had boen brought up on a farm and who had studied for hia profession in an out-of-the-way coun ty'seat several year age surprised hia friends one day by declaring that he had decided to leave the old sleepy town where he had always lived and locate at the capital of the state his friends remonstrated and assured him that the profession in that city was already crowded with aspiring and able lawyers well established in bus iness and that there was no room for a young man like him in such a place he listened patiently to their argu ment and then cooly replied that he haei never yet seen a hotel or a pro fession in which there was not room in the upper story he would go to this capital and he would occupy the upper story among lawyers — a place that was never crowded the lower and mediocre ranks were always crowded everywhere he acted upon this resolution and he had the ability to do it as he had said he would he soon took his place in the upper story not only among the lawyers of that city but of the state and he has al ways found room enough for the ex ercise of his talents no matter how much competition he may have come in contact with in recalling this incident to mind it has suggested a maxim that is es pecially true in all kinds of stock breeding the lest always pays the man who raises the best trotter or race-horse or draft-horse or carriage horse or the best cow or steer or who makes the best butter or cheese or produces the finest wool or the best mutton or the best pork ; or who brings his produce to market in the best condition can always bid defi ance to competition and command his own price for what he has to sell there is room in the upper story always and everywhere in all the various breeds of all kinds of live stock the man who approximates the npper story in the quality ofhis stock and in his methods of feeding and management will always find plenty of room while those who are on or near the ground floor are being starv ed out by ruinous competition — nat live-stock journal sickness at a daxce — a ludi crous affair happened at the town of wells ten miles from sparta last friday night there was a dance given in a large barn and over a hun dred persons were present during the evening lemonade was served and in a short time all who partook of it were seized with vomiting they rushed out doors into the bushes leaned against barrels lay across wag on tongues got into buggies and held their heads over the boxes young fellows held their girls heads one way and their own heads the other and it was a concert of ye-up till 5 o clock in the morning when a doctor arrived from sparta and stopped it tartar emetic had been put in the lemonade by mistake instead of tar taric acid — milwaukee sun american women are the prettiest in the world and the southern wo men the prettiest of them all amer ican girls always make a sensation iu europe by their beauty and except in complexion the effect of a moist climate english girls cannot compare with them we'll warrant mrs langtry wears a number six shoe and there thc southern girls have the ad vantage show us one that goes above number three and you show a curi osity — durham recorder sixteen little girls in minneapolis were recently rendered deadly sick by eating some castor oil beans which they had been engaged in stringing twelve of the children by timely an tidotes are out of danger but the oth ers are so badly poisoned that their lives are despaired of children — children should not sleep with people advanced iq ye&rs for reasons wliich will naturally sug guest themselves such a domestic ar rangement should be carefully avoid ed the older system draws vi tality from the more youthful one always world