the carolina watchman 0l x ~~ third 8eales salisbury n c october 9 2879 no 51 xews items jin-don * mooreitille road mketing transaction ib*0f important business tiiebs.nr«l«nirectorsofthewins s;au'..i and mmiresville railroad i t0"'.t the call of the chairman al j jutvihe tuesday the 30tli ult ! jwe ure glad to be able to state in j ofthe official proceedings | l the authority ofthe mooresville j jjrowatj director that the direct j r in eood spirit and had the , h , i ami courage to take some mi ; porttnt mi-i towards the prosecution j '■;:,? work i la iccordance with the wishes of , . v all concerned and certainly j th the interests of the road the d - r^iors ordere.1 its location to hunts eon the yadkin fifteen miles be lnd macksvill and it is very grat j jl^g to know that bona jule pledges j ir already made tliat will construct the roml bed to that point hunts . j ve believe about thirteen din from winston and nearly due west of it n the yadkin the lioard briber appointed a committee to wait upon the coinniissoncrs of rowan ; jiiuty an.l call for the 6,000 i ; booth authorised by scotch irish town thip t'icse w k issued for there j i :, b0 way of lodging it and will com j plete the road-bed lrom third creek h to the south yadkin : the rrading from mocksville to the • south yadkin will be completed in a fat weeks and indeed there is no rea v i wliv with a moderate and steady effort the first thirty miles shall not lie graded in a very short time fifteen per cent of the subscrip tion have already been call fir and it was ordered tliat the whole of the remainder he immediately called for m fur i<s huntsville and to be paid ' , iomottev or taken in contracts ihr in aril lu ther c died a meeting ofthe stockholders at mocksville for , iht 19th of november when there will bc * reorganization of the board md probably the election of a presi - mat mooresville gazette tbe offlce.seel._ng craze several of our slate exchanges have ixen touching up the politicians who arc aggressive in their office-seeking the truth is lhe people have but lit ' tlr to io with the selection of state : officers a few editors and a few pol iticians have been able to control mat ter in the stale conventions any one who was iu raleigh in 187g and bad eyes to see must have been dis g'l'lesl with many things that occur fw wo saw enough lo make us re luctant tn over go into such a body pin we ire satisfied that there l be uo amendment until the peo ple take the nutter in hand and send wlegiu of their own selection the conventions have grown to such a h«tbat they have become unwieldly 1<1 are too inueh on the order of re itctable aiobs how can it be pos fm for a thousand men to assemble convention and transact business ju oooajjr and wtifactortly when not '»« in ten 1ms any knowledge of par wotary law ?' one or two men iu ** delegation are leaders of the oth «*, who do as they are told in old before the war a state conven tlon r»re1y exceeded two hundred or j luindred and fifty delegates de lation and care were then possible nd men were nominated who were « choice of the party we do not jwnemberto have heard complaints lat die wrong men had been nomi a our conventions are too large e pe«»ple must give more attention j ll,att*-'r of choosing delegates — star , 1-ifmp.l of american gej.ius d english journal frankly gives to cricati genius credit for at least ecn hiventions and discoveries it says have been adopted all v the world these triumphs of genius are thqs enumerated the american cotton gin 2 the or]1 machjne » *» t,ie 6rtibs mower jd<1 p»i aeaper ; 4 the rotary print is press ; 5 navigation by steam ; 6 0 r or caloric engine ; 7 the sew nk machine ; 8 the rubber industry i 1 u,e machine for the manufacture of horse shoes ; 10 the sand blast for carving ; 11 the gauge lathe ; 12 the grain elevator 13 artificial ice man ufacture on a large scale 14 tbe elec tro-magnet and its practical np ! plication ; 15 the composing machine ' for printers — montreal 6w american cutlery in gaining rapid ly on the english article handwork i is held to in sheffield and birming ham while american inventive geni us supplies neater and quicker pro duction the american steel fork is made of one piece of steel cut by one blow ofa machine into parts on one side from which a long tine is drawn ; the english fork is made from a piece of steel rudely cut by blows on a hand chisel and each tine is made by weld ing another piece of steel to the half ' separateil parts of the main block the result is that the first is light elastic and perfect the second almost always defective in some necessary quality and the american fork has therefore snperceeded the english in england as well as elsewhere — ral eigh obs old fred douglass has got mad ' and gives the landless laborers of tl e south some very dangerous advice he tells them lo resort to the pistol and dagger and to fire and pillage — he ought to go at once to yazoo and try his hand fred has lived too long for his own good he is a nihilist — wilmington star i water-sponts how fishes and fuogs are some times rained down occasionally a correspondent writes . that living or dead frogs and little i fishes always with life extinct — have fallen from the clouds duriug a vio < lent tl under shower and such an nouncements have always elicited in credulity and ridicule notwithstand i ing the personal assurances ofthe se nior that in the course of his life he has seen little frogs and fishes fall in that way during a violent rain hail and thunder storm below will be found a statement gleaned from tiie new york sun of last friday which very clearly and satisfactorily explains ; how such creatures were drawn into the rain clouds and how in conse quence they would come down with a rain discharge ofthe heavy amount of water drawn up with them iu a water-spout : water-spouts on the hudson and on the sound at twenty minutes before 12 o'clock on wednesday morning the water uf lie hudson about a quarter of a mile from sing sing shore was agitated iu a peculiar iirtnner a*!n>re there was hardly a breath of air stirring and no where else on the river was there any commotion presently a large gray cloud drifted across the sky and hanging nearly over the disturbed water began to bulge downward to ward the river and after a few seconds a thin thread of water shot up from the agitated surface and entered the cloud the stream grew larger and larger until its diameter was about twice the ize of a hogshead the cloud drew up tlie water very rapidly and became very black it drifted southward drawing its ferial supply pipe after it but the latter did not follow quick enough to retain a per pendicular form and it soon took the form ofa gigantic curve the sun at this moment burst from behind a cloud and its rays illuminating the water spout there was a magnificent specta cle the gurgling rushing water was seen surging up into the heavens and after five minutes the cloud was filled and drifting heavily over the hills on the sing sing side to distribute ita contents in rtfeeshing showers over the country new haven september 11 — at the shore of the sound at 6 o'clock this evening two fierce wind clouds rapidly approached each other over the sound and soon joined aud imme diately a water-spout was formed — a vast body of water wae whirled up into the low overhanging eloutjo the fcpoufc was about sir piles from the month of new haven harbor and was visible until dark shut it out from view the new girl , i now chaley you'll be sure to re ! , member !' to remember — what ?' said mr j meredith with a hopeles expression | of insanity ou his countenance kit ! ty meredith dropped both hands des j pairingly at her sides charles !' she exclaimed you don't ; ' mean that you have forgotten already ! r i ' my dear said mr meredith fum j ' bling in the deeps of his overcoat pockets for a missing glove i may i not have forgotten — bnt i don't seem exactly to remember ?' the oysters !' suggested the wife oh yes said mr meredith the oysters and two ounces of double zephyr i scarlet wool exactly and the depot-hack to be waiting at two o'clock for your cousin from chicago mr meredith slapped one hand on the table she is coming to-day i declare to goodness !' he ejaculated and a dozen havana oranges for dessert and two pounds of grapes a-;d nine of those delicious little naples biscuit and maecaroons from salta selli's — oh and let thorn send me up a girl from st char's !' a which ?' a girl you goose ! for general • housework phoebe went home this morning with the faceache ansl i can't be left alone with company com , ing and all mind she's a good cook , aud understands waiting at tabic and mr meredith rushed off to catch the nine-thirty express with a kaleidoscope confusion of grapes , zephyr wool depot hacks oysters and i servant-maids careering through his brain which boded ill foi mrs mere dith's domestic plans while that lady clasping both hands over her forehead in a sort of tragic despair rushed down into the kitchen where a very good-looking young man of some two or three-and tweuty was on his knees in front of , the range trying to coax a most un wjlling fire to burn the good-look ing young man glanced up with a comical sparkle in his eyes and a smear of soot traversing the bridge of his nose well said he tom said mrs meredith hysteri cally can you make a lobster salid like a book !' said tom and coffee ?' 1 learned in paris good said mrs meredith and i can make buttermilk biscuits — and between us we'll get up a deceut lunch for the young lady from chica go ! as for dinner — ' well ?' again remarked the young man with soot-besmeared nose providence must provide !' sighed the matron there's an old chintz colored roos ter in the barnyard said tom hope fully if i could catch him i'd have a chicken stew tom said mrs meredith did you ever make a chicken stew xo then you don't know what you're talking about said the lady with some asperity yes i do too maintained the amatuer soyer onions potatoes celery j>earl barley with a pinch of salt and — ' nonsense interposed mrs mere dith do pick that lobster out of its shell and leave off romancing ! you're a deal better at poetry and newspaper sketches than you are in the kitchen though to be sure with a twinge of conscience goodness knows what i should do without you just in this particular emergency you dear old darling the lobster was only half picked out of the shell the buttermilk bis cuit was still unmixed and mrs meredith with a pocket handkerchief tied around her pretty brown hair was dusting the little drawing-room when there came a ring at the door bell she put her turbaned head out ofthe window after a most unceremo nious fashion who's there she demanded in a high coutralto does mrs meredith live here retorted a woman's voice and at the same moment the young matron caught sight of a neat black leather bag a black alpaca dress and a shawl ofthe plainest highland plaid it's the new girl thank provi dence said mrs meredith and she flew down stairs thanking honest charley in her heart for this unex i pected promptitude come in said she opening the door wide i am ; glad you are so punctual my good • girl from st char's intelligence bureau i suppose no don't take off your things up here — ihe servants room is below stairs you may as well come directly down into the kitchen . ; she led the way down followed by i the new girl whose countenance bore rather a bewildered expres^on what's your name she asked patronizingly my name oh it's martha an swered the girl in some eonfumou martha ?' critically repeated mts ' meredith what an ugly name ! i think i shall call you patly have you references i — i believe so , i think said mrs meredith sur veying her from top to tsie that you , are a little over-dressed for your sta tion patty ; but of course you have ( sonic plainer cloth.es ih your trunk when it comes ?' |. the st a lger lifted a pair of grave i , blue eyes to the tall form girded around with a towel who was vigor ously wrestling with the claws ofa stupendous lobster at the table be yond i do you keep a man cook ma'am saisl she mrs meredith drew herself up certainly not said she this is my , brother mr selwyn who is kindly assisting me to make a salid but lie is not doing it right said , the new girl he'll never get the meat out of the shell in that wav • i let me show you mr selwyn ami with deft lingers she loosened v the lucious white liber from the scar ) let shell in a manner that made mr ' selwyn cry bravo !' ami now patty said mrs mere dith i will show you where the things j are and leave you to get upa nice lunch as yon can for half-past two o,cjook we arc expecting my husband's cousin from chicago and i want everything in perfect order i'll finish the salad said tom who had secretly been observing the pretty face and trim figure of the new domestic now that i've commenced it but you needn't look so perturbed patty if that's your name i'll be careful not to get in your way and you can ask my sister if i'm not a handy sort of a fellow around the kitchen kitty shook her head surreptiously at tom behind the screen tom reso lutely affected not to perceive the warning gesture half an hour afterward he came up to the dinning-room where mrs mer edith was arranging her best lilac and-gold china kitty said he she's a jewel a gem of the first water depend upon it she's not always worked in the kitchen i quoted shakespeare apropos of something or other i don't remember what and she recognized the grand old words at once — her eyes brightened and you should have seen the color come into her cheeks i don t believe in high life below stairs said mrs kitty disdainfully the lunch came up at half past two in perfect order but no cousin from chicago arrived — no depot hack roll ed up to the door how provoking said kitty miss meredith must have missed some essential connecting train char ley will be so vexed but however i don't so much mind company com ing io at auy time now that i have such an excellent girl !' the dinner of daintily roasted quails and rabbit fricassee with a dessert of custard and jelly was duly served at precisely seven at wliich hour mr meredith bounded in hot and flushed with the haste he had made where is she cried he where is wlio said kitty my cousin from chicago !' oh !' said kitty she hasn't come not come no mr meredith drew a long sigh of ' mingled regret and relief then after all said he it's not so unlucky what's not so unlucky ?' petulant ly demanded his wife my dear charles you arc expressing yourself altogether in riddles that i forgot all about the oysters j and the zephyr wool and the servant j girl | forgot ?' j ' ' ifes forgot isn't that plain eng [ , lish enough ?' but you didn't forget remonstra ( ted mrs meredith you sent her she's here no\r in the kitchen mr meredith stared i've sent no one saisl he never thought of . the girl from that moment to this i , give you my w ord of honor then slowly ejaculated kitty i ' who did send her j king the bell !' said mr meredith ;, let's have her up ! who knows bnt j what she's one of those regular women , with an eye to the forks and spoons !' j and as he spokfi he jerked lhe bell ' , cord with some eiiei*<:v ina minute or so the new erirl ! . f came up smiling ami courtesyiug mr meredith uttered an exclamation ;, ol amazement why it's martha meredith shouted he it's my cousin from chi , eagsi !' ansl he clasped her in his arms with a shower of kisses that made honest tom's hair stand on end i 1 wish she was my cousin from j chicago uttered lie in a stage aside j kitty turned as scarlet as a pepper ( pod oh good gracious she cried clasping her little hands nervously ami i took her lbr the cook !' and i am a cook when occasion re quires cousin kitty !' said pretty martha meredith making her peace with a kiss don't be vexed with me for hrimoring the jsikc — indeed i could not help it and i'll show yon how ts make these nieringuees j glacis and the neapolitan creams to morrow ami they all sat happily down to gether to the roast quail and fricasseed rabbits and kitty and martha went together to tbe intelligence bureau on o m the morrow and established a damsel in the kitchen who was not at all in congruous to her surroundgiug ! and tom leaning over his sister's shoulder whispered waggishly : didn't i tell you she was a gem of the first water ?' curhent comment since the no torious victoria woodhull described mrs tilton's lapse from virtue as an amiable concessiveness there has been no euphemism invented that would compare with it until mr tilden the olher day when pressed about nephew pel ton's attempts at bribing presidential electors said that what he had done was no crime after all but amounted at most only to a fu tile dalliance futile dalliance is good fully as good as amiable con cessiveness both expressions coyly admit the wrong charged and both mask its hideousness beneath a var nish of refined expression the appli cation of whicli may be fairly termed a stroke of genius — charleston news and courier dem ' up i southebland's wagoxette — a novelty in the vehicle line made its ap pearance on our streets yesterday and attracted no little attention it is called a wagonette and is the proper ty of capt t j sutherland the liv ery stable man the wagonette is a very handsome conveyance will seat about twenty persons very comforta bly is drawn by fonr horses with tiny bells attached to them whieh keep up a pleasant jingle and is intended for souud parties excursions picnics etc for which purpose it is excellently well adapted quite a crowd enjoy ed a free ride to the base ball grounds on it vesterday afternoon — wilming ton star the last plan of increasing negro emigration fiom the south is the adop tion of cheap excursions one hun dred negroes have just left nashville tennessee for kansas on an excur sion and more are to follow at once wilmington star trades and professions con trasted j notice was taken in a recent issue | ofthis paper ofthe experience ofa large shoe manufacturer of this state who advertised in boston and new \ ork for twenty-live shoe litters to i work in his factory offering full cur rent rales and steady employment 1 fhe advertisement brought one np s plication about the same time a bo-ton llrm j advertisesl fm a book keeper and the i next day's mail brought three hun s dred and forty-seven answers during the same month ah adver ] tisemeut for a clerk iu a detroit pa , i per brought one hundred and thirty i applications the first day and a grea i ter number of letters and personal ap i plications the next day an advertisement for a week in the same city calling for a good carpen ter only brought four replies it is altogether probable that in any considerable city iu tlu land an d vertisement for a book keeper or re i tail clerk will bring fifty times as many replies as an advertisement for a fair workman in any trade j it is also probable that in any and \ '• every city tlie average earnings of clerks are nowhere near so large as iho earnings of workmen of average skill in the various trades further it is fairly certain that with equal capacity industry and thrift the young man whn learns any trade will achieve a reasonable coin petencc sooner than the young man , who sticks to clerking ; while the chances for materially improving one's condition are more numerous in the trades than behind the counter or at the desk why is it then that the boys all want to be clerks why is it that in j telligent parents encourage them in ! looking for a chance to get into busi ness and in looking down on me chanical employments — as though there eould be any calling more wretchedly mechanical than average clerking why is it that teachers al most invariably train their pupils lo look above mechanical pursuits what the country wants now is i workmen — intelligent industrious thrifty workmen men who can do . skillfully the work that waits for the doing — who can invent new means and better processes for developing1 the crude resources of the land audi for converting brute mfat ter into life1 snstaiuing and life enriching wealth | more clerks and record keepers are j at a discount there are two many of them and the professions so-called are almost equally crowded with men who have nothing to do there never was a time when ability to do some | thing real and practical vas worth so much as now yet our young men swarm after clerkships why is it — scientific a merican athens chronicle rev x a pratt of roswell cobb county a , presbyterian divine died two weeks ago he had been the spiritual guide ofthe people of that place for nearly for j ty years and no people by urgent ap peals and a godly walk ever received i more earnest admonitions to follow tbe saviour he was about eighty-five years old a small boy carried on the back of a tight rope walker in ogden utah had a tumble of about sixty feet a week ago the rope was stretched very insecurely aud the professor re marked that he had never walked as small a rope in his life and that it was not at all safe after doing some daring feats he ventured upon the rope with the bsiy blindfolded upon his shoulders the street was 100 feet wide and he succeeded in walking ninety-five ieet when he lost his bal ance and swayed to and fro while the crowd below were breathless with sus pense the swaying motion caused the boy to let go his hold and in an instant the body was whii ing through the air to the pavement sixty feet be low the boy struck on his head and was fatally injured the professor caught the rope with his toes and crawled iuto a window the largest sum ever paid for a horse iu england was 72,000 given for doncaster by the duke of west minster tobacco curing process recorded uv barn door building is 18 feet square four firing tiers fitted up with sheet iron pipe flues no 1 filled with absiut 450 stacks of tobacco grown on old field land bright yellow on the hill leaf large but light and tl in due to imperfect cultivation started fires and ran up to i>0 de gress in six hours then to 100 in six more then to 110 iu six — leaf now yellow at end of 18 hours then to 120 in six hours to 140 in three hours and remained at that tempera ture six hours leaf now about cured then to 150 iu three hours and re mained there three hours and then to 175 in twelve hours and continue there twelve hours a perfect cure in seventy-two hours aud bright lemon color no 2 building same size fitted up with same kind of fines barn filled with same number of sticks of tobac co grown on same land but some larger and thicker leaf started tires and ran up to i*5 de grees in eight hours then to 100 iu six hours ; then to 110 in ten hours — leaf yellow ; then to 120 in eight hours to 130 in six ; to 140 in six and re maining from 140 to 150 eighteen hours then to 175 in six hours aud continued thereabout twelve hours stalk stem and leaf fully cured at the expiration of eighty hours leaf bright lemon color success the difference in the time of curing was due to the size of tobacco the flues of both manufactures are equal ly efficient and require a very small quantity of wood an opening ten inches wide is left at the lop whole length of barn and closed after the leaf is cured this removes all danger of sweating — border review introduction of the tomato of the introduction of the tomato into the united states a correspond ent of the boston trunseripf gives the following account : capt phineasel dridge was a resident of carpenter street west of fourth street philadel phia in 1793 during the san do mingo wars between the negroes and the whites many ofthe latter fled to the united state ansl the more car fill and enterprisiug brought fruit an i seeds peculiar to thai island with thi a frenchman named nicalo with his family became a resident of phil adelphia in 1808 and occupied a lot next tsi captain bid ridge nicalo and family brought a variety of sec sis with them which tbey ssuvesl and cultiva rd among which was the tsimato — capt eldridge and family became ac quainted with the fruit and its use hy tbeir intimacy with the nicalo fam ily they dressed and used it as a s lad and were very fond of it other neighbors procured the seed but cul tivates it merely as an ornament ru.r ny being under the impression that it was poisonous the tomato was used as an article ol food in new orleai.r in 1812 tiny were not howevci sold in the markets even in phila delphia until 1829 the french re fugees from san domingo introduced many new and excellent plants aud vegetables and cultivated them in the gardens of maryland delaware aud other places near the shores of chesa peake bay a minister in the north of scotland was taking to task one of his hearers who was a frequent absentee and the accused defended himself on the plea ofa dislike to long sermons deed mon said his reverend monitor a little nettle-sl at the insinuation if ye diuna mend ye may land yereelf where ye'll na be troubled wi many sermons either long or short weel aiblins perhaps sae retorted john but it mav bo nao for want o minis ters w a dell the pharmaceutist on bay street has a splendid young mock ing-bird that will go and come as or dered turn summer-saults run around in a circle march fetch and carry hop on one foot pick up coin and in fact do more than any bird we ever saw before he leaves his cage at will goes and comes as he likes ami seems to idolize his owner — savannah news