Carolina Watchman

              the carolina watchman f 0l xi-third series salisbury n c april 8 1880 ho 2d t carolina watchman i . n i;il-lll"-l n the year 1832 | ••-'' pbl ,. : . $:.:,„ in advance artract advertising rates ' $ fbbbuaby20,1830 i qiontn i m • in's inn's 12 m's | s i *-, 60 nw fct.50 15.00 8.00 ' , i.i 60 5.85 7.50 12.110 4 10 8.00 t.r.u n.oo ir,.iki ,-, nn 1 1.50 j 13.60 is.fm , . 50 75 11.85 16.50 25.00 . ;; a 15.75 20.50 25.50 40.00 1c25 88.76 4s.7f 15.00 g^^^\^~-r — i.-.'-t "■ — m^v-m vwj . ■--;.; t .^- j -. i v j 1 fwn fjolda pneomoidft bronchitis uihni.i ( i'onn whopping couffh and mi eases f tho ilreathing organs 1 1 soothes and heals tho memhrnr.e of he ungs inflamed ar.d poisoned by the disease and prevents the nifrht cwmts and tightness acrosi the chest s acrompanv it consitoct10n boot an wearable malady it is only 1 s«*wiry to have the rfjrkt remedy ffiuxb's balsam is lhat remedy sovtdespair of belief for this benlirn specific will cure you nen though professional aidi fads 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through years himself mil wins lhe day i attained by liuunin tear a hero staunch and brave who fights an unseen foe and puts al last beneath liis feet hia passions base and low and stands erect in manhood's might l'ndaunted undismayed ""' bravest man that drew a sword in lury or in raid for something more than brawn urmasclo to o'ercome an«emj who niarcheth not iih banner plume or drum ; forever lurking nigh with silent stealthy tread wndeyour board each passing dav atnighl beside your bed allhonorthcn to that brave heart though poor nr rich he be ho struggles with his baser part lm eoiujuera and is free mil not wear n hero 1 * crown rfil l |, t . ro » s p av . .''" truth will place liis name among 1 1 "' bravest ofthe brave frtubyterian journal li l>iti ;/ uniplue of ihi city in a crit 1 " f tin master of red leaf corn its southern proclivities indeed 1,1 becomes these pen who are de kim's cabin and a j errand and tin thousand and otlicr .■ s|1 i i at south !.» complain when . ■■*""»-■ irtc imings arc held up to the the onlv regrol is thai ro few 1 the picture in * h "":' are drawn t ,, the life mrs • would probably never have ■ ''•«' have published the mas ' leaf bui to give these assail uth an opportunity to sec as others c them by t lie way that tourgee has sold his / '' : 20,000 this is no iss exaggeration he will be cv bould get from lirst to last m it x y ' weekly :| has the only wooden plate fac i al whicli single plv plates 1 . 1 there are nue or two al the ninth where a nen tal three-ply plates are made ■ ;,,: "' manufactures the onlv com plate in u e political sketches of radicalism sausbary examiner when that stern old patriot andrew jackson made his appearance on the stage of the union massachusetts iu full force euteied the field against him but he was too popular too powerful to be damaged by the intemperate vituperation and abuse of these radical puritan pests still un daunted and chagrined by their disap pointments.they persisted iu'following the natural bent of their groveling instincts and denounced everything that was pure and sacred.and noble they had innocnlat ed their poisonous theories into their chil dren and many of their neighbors and some of these had emigrated to other states to the west and no-lb carrying wiih hem all the characteristics and se ditious purposes of their villainous creed they opposed and denounced every effort of the government to acquire new terri tory the acqusition of texas called out all the bitterness of all the puritan tribes throughout he whole country next they were arrayed as one man against the mex ican war which resulted so gloriously to the american arms and gave to us the golden tleece of california the puritans the radicals,the federalists were extreme ly virulent and vindictive in their oppo sition and lhe leaders of this faction of new kiiglaiul.again talked of secession s,so that it will be seen that massachsetts and her dupes have opposed every step of the country o greatness and hat it is to-day what it is in spite of them the glories of american arms the achievements of our statesmen and the greatness of our country are what hey are in spite id pu ritanism and not because of it as all contagious or infectious diseases are more liable to take hold of the filthy the weak and thegroveling so abolition ism lirst made its appearance as a chronic distemper of the mind among the puritan tribes of massachusetts purr says the people unaware of danger provided no quarantine precautions and in a very few years not only all thepuri tauic churches but many called evangeli cal throughout tiie length and breadth of lhe northern belt from massachusetts to the far west and from mason & dixon's to the canada line were suffering from the ravages of that incurable distemper the same classes being invarably the first vic tims hose of small mental calibre and mean spirit and always those whose blood or ideas came from massachusetts ' ' abolitionism having corrupted all the evangelical congregations of new eng land and all puritanic and ultra-evangel ical bodies throughout the uotheru states they being the only ones in which massa chusetts ideas prevailed those bodies be came so many political organizations doing yeoman service to the black wooly headed father of abolitionism the devil — who is the rial father of puritanism this abolition distemper prevailed un til it assumed a malignant type and whole stalls and sections were swallowed up by it the strong government party the old fedcrlists encouraged its spread for polit ical purposes just as cromwell encourag ed the growth of puritanism in england to overthrow the institutions and govern ment of his country the scheme work ed well for soon the once noble old whig party north became a reeking mass of abolition corruption the democratic party for a long time stood like the rock of gibralter but at length the defeated candidates ambitious politicians and lime serving trimmers created by their unwise course a permanent breach in the great democratic party of popular liber ty and slate soveringty and the oppos ing party of a thousand and one names rode into power no sooner had it fairly taken he reigns of administration than he horns and cloven hoofs of supposed to-be defunct federalism became painful ly visible pendant from the rotten carcass of abolitionism which was animated by the fierce implacable hatred of the most malignant type of puritanism hatred that had for more than half a century been kept in check under proper control now burst forth like the flames ofa long smoth ered lire or the raging ferocity of a wild beast escaping from the cage of civiliza tion lo its native lair in the jungles of savagery lincoln the head of this conglomera tion of isms who had been heaved to the surface oy the turbid waters of passion was the mere tool of the designing knaves by whom he was surrouuded ii was not so dishonest as they but being too weak lo lead lie became the mere instru ment of evil iu lhe hands ofthe worst set of scoundrels and seditiouists that ever disgraced the image of our maker so ihe puritan-aboliiion-radical war went on terrorism ruled the hour despotism desolation and death held high carnival throughout the land for four long dreary years seward touched as he boasted a little bell on his right hand and arrested a citizen of new vork lie touched abell ou his left hand and arrested a cilizen of ohio and so in other states wherever a cilizen spoke out against the fearful des potism or was even suspicion ed of sym pathy he was arrested without warrant thrown into prison and tliere allowed to remain or was fiually banished the most eminent judges and statesmen of ken tucky were imprisoned ami banished for ' the simple announcement of tlieir name for a candidate for public ollice the offal 1 and skum of the human family from every country and of every color were or ganized the most irresponsible vagabonds adventurers cut-throats and scoundrels were placed over ihem as officers and sent to desolate the south to rob and mur der her people because they durst insist upon the protection of their property and a strict observance of the letter and provisions of our clearly-written consti tution the rallying cry with the war party of the north was for the union that union which they had so recently derided and spit upon and denounced as a compact with death and league with hell the able leaders of oft whipped federal ism snatched at the golden opportunity to carry out their aristocratic schemes bo many times condemned by the people joined in this false and drunken howl for the union this was a happy hit thous ands had been brought to revere the very name of the union it was more a fanat icism than anything else tliere hearts swelled with pride at the mere announce ment of the name tlieir love for it amounted to a sort of superstitious rev erence they rushed to arms in obedi ence to lhe demagogical cry the union must be preserved with as much enthu siasm as ever gallant kinght did to the defense of fair woman while the real disunioiiists the abolitionists shrieked and howled like so many hungry wolves or hyenas but took care to keep out of the light they hounded on the non puritanic laboring classes of native amer icans and the celts and teutons who had become americanized and all tbey could hire with high bounties to light their bat tles while they remained at home to reap lhe advantages and profits of high prices of the robberies and confiscations and to see that all the offices civil and military were filled by the faithful thus the infernal puritan-abolition war progressed a huge mountain of debt and taxes was heaped upon tiie shoulders of the laboring poor high tar iffs extravagance and a large addition of pnblic offices increased as a matter of course the millions wrung from the peo ple are more thau hall squandered den before any of it reaches the puhlil trea sury the result is the rich are made richer and the poor poorer the manu facturing interests of new england is fostered and protected at the expense of the agricultural states and he commer cial cities a monstrous system of inter nal taxation is forced upon the country it grinds into powder the laboring classes it keeps heir noses as it were continual ly tothe grinding stone their limbs shac kled and their muscles mortgaged for hey have to foot the bill to pay the ac cruing interest on the war debt and to liquidate he bonds held by lie shody contractors and favored parasites of the rail-splitting union-splitting slate and liberty-destroying administration of abe lincoln the manufacturers and mer chants in reality pay no internal reve nue except what little i.s consumed by heir respective familes the manufac turer and the wholesaler raise their jui ces to cover heir tax the jobber does the same and so also tlic retailer but the great mass of the people composed ol la borers the mechanics the artisans the clerks the farmers being the principal consumers pay almost exclusively the en tire tax while the bondholders and non producing claseb pay next to nothing there is scarcely an article of necessity or comfort thai the laboring man has to buy that there is not a^ax on in this way-he is continually paying tribute to the rich in tin form of enhanced prices ; and at tho same time he has to pay an internal tax on his income though that income be uot enough to support his family yet the favored few who hold the government bonds on which they receive high interest in gold pay not a single cent on these millions of bonds lowards defraying the expenses of the government such is lie accursed system inaugurated and tixed upon lhe people by the radical party it has been well said and itisa veritable truth that under the demo cratic administration of public affairs the laboring man could enjoy many of the luxuries and all the comforts of life now lie is not only debarred from even seuii i usuries bat must deuy himself and fam ily many the absolute necessaries of life he can not be so cheerful and happy as formerly uorappear so respectable while the rich are more extravagant than ever in dress equipage and living this vile system will continue to oppress annoy and to alienate the different classes of the people until democracy is again restor ed to power li ue we have a partial restoration of democratic authority in north carolina but such was the ruin wrought by the radical party during its rule in the slate that it wiil require a good while to re pair damages and restore former good times but nevertheless the work must go on until every ollice from constable up to the presidency of ihe united states is tilled wilh a true and tried faithful and honest democrat the preservation of democratic institutions and free gov ernment depend upon this if democrats firove recreant or unfaithful turn them out ami put in others that are honest neither the government nor its offices be long to any particular party but to the people those who administer ir for the common weal : and the people must de mand hat it beadiuiiiisteredtothiscnd the salisbury & cheraw rail road again the importance of this railroad to the people of rowan and salisbury is exciting considerable discussion again that the people of rowan will be greatly benefited by it is generally agreed the important question is how is it to be secured ? where is the money to come from ? now much is liecessary to render its comple tion a certainty l we have been assured j that n subscription of 200,000 by the . people of rowan will give us the road will the people vote this amount of sub scription ? will the beneiits to be derived from the road justify uch action on their i part to build the road this last question j is the important one let the people well ; consider it a subscription of 200,000 j will not increase the taxes that is it will j not make them heavier than they would have been since the sale of the w n c i railroad has reduced the taxes 12 percent [ if the people were to vote a subscription of$2ot,(100;they would have the bonds drawn so as to fall due at different times say at ten twenty and thirty years or longer and drawing a low rate of interest if fixed at j per cent the interest then on 200,000 would bo 12,000 annually this is just the amount ihey would have had to pay if the western road had not been sold now since they have been re lieved of this burden can they not do something towards securing a road that is of the most vital importance to them ? the reduction in railroad tariffs the general prosperity the enhanced val ue of real estate it is believed the comple tion of this road will bring about will more than compensate them for the out lay it will also open up a splendid mar ket which will enable them to get more for their produce better prices for stock their poultry or whatever else they have to sell tliere is a certainty that they will now get the road if they will make this subscription they can now get the necessary assistance from the owners of western n c railroad if they fail at this time to avail themselves of the pres ent opportunity there i.s no assurance that ihey wiil ever get the road as the western wi seek to reach wilmington charleston and the south by other routes leaving salisbury out entirely if hey doii't get the people oi rowan to do some thing toward building this road they wiil go down from statesville by way of charlotte thence down the north caroli na central to wilmington and charleston in this case a weekly lumber train will probably lie run from here to statesville and it may be that it will not be run that often tliere being no competing hue the north carolina ruiiroad will continue to discriminate iu freight tariffs against salisbury trade will go by us business will decrease and general stagnation in every branch of industry will follow as a natural consequence but surely the people can see the importance of this road and as they are to be directly affect ed by it whether they secure it or not we are entirely willing to leave the mat ter with them it may be slated however that it is proposed to raise 50,000 out of the town and the balance out of the county — salis bury examiner with all the fast living and reckless disregard of he so-called laws of health statistics show that tliere has been a gradual and steady increase in the aver age lenghth of man's life since the six teenth century then it was only eight teen years now it i.s forty-three in the united states forty-four in france and forty-live in england much of this in creased longevity has been due to the im proved condition of living among all classes and the influence of good living home comforts etc is shown at the pres ent time by the fact that wealthy people average twelve years more of life than the poor a xew phase r an old trick a quick nervous old gentleman irom gaston walking with a heavy hickory slick was standing talking lo a friend on the street the other day one of the city's funny men approached him behind and executed on the calf of he old man's leg the new and entertaining joke of a pinch accompanied witii the imitation of a small dog's bark the gas ton county liickoiy came round wilh a whiz like a niinnie ball as the man yelled damn that dog the good-natured old gentle man apologized but the funny man car ries his arm in a sling charlotte ob serrer -. <."> - — high i'oint is looking up the improve ments are numerous and substantial promi nent among them ia (>. c causey's cotton factory now nearly ready to go into opera tion the engine is 70 horse-power messrs e ii and j i fields have opened a 6rst class livery stable new buildings are ris ing up in nearly all directions and high point is to all appearances improving more rapidly than at any previous period a georgia farmer use a novel fer tilizer he kills snakes lays them in the furrow anil then plants corn with them these snakes are made to pro duce corn which produces whiskey which in turn produces snakes again miscellaneous perfect wisdom hath four parts viz wisdom the principle of doing things aright justice the principle of doing things equally in public and private ; fortitude the principle of not flying from danger but meeting it and temperance the principle of subduing desires and living moderately there are moments in the battle of i life that rush past us pregnant with vast results which seized may be the | turning points of our everlasting safe i ty whereas if we let them go the j harvest may be past the summer end ; ed and we shall not be saved — gum ming spartanburg s c spartan gen thomas l clingman is going to beat edison he is applying for a patent for zirconia which is oxidized zircon which he thinks the finest illuminator ever discovered and that it is the very thing required by edison on his mining lands in buncombe connty ho has an abundance of zircon this mineral occurs in square prisms with pyramidal terminations of a brown or gray color a red variety is called hyacinth pen sketches of snorers those who have enjoyed the music of the nose whe'n the player slumbered will be amused at and recognize the truth of the following pencil sketch by dr bagby turning upon my back i folded my hands upon my anything but peaceful breast and sighed wearily : this then is earthly bliss these be the delights of travel blast them all i grew more cheerful as i began to dissect the snores of which i distinguished the following well-marked varieties to-wit the long smooth homogeneous snore the short interrupted suorty snore ; the thin wa tery rattling snore and worst of all the pudding-cooling snore when the mouth pull's out the wind that the nose takes in as if to cool an iniaginery pudding fin ally i laughed outright as i discovered why a snore is so exaspirating in the first place it is involuntary and you have no legal right though you have the greatest desire and ample provocation to do so to kill the man that makes it for he is not responsible in the next place a snore is not an assertion of any thing nor is it an answer to a question it im parts no information whatever and it is not even a soliloquy interjection or ex clamation — it is hardly a comma and nev er a period it is just an utterly uncalled for and senseless noise slipping aimless ly up and down the nostrils like airbub ble iu a spirit level a period of misfortune the stellar phenomena which will ap pear in he sky shortly announce as we are told by the luxunibourg gazette an event w ich may become dangerous and destructive to the earth and its inhabi tants since the beginning of the christian era the perihelia thus the appearance ofthe stars in the neighborhood of the sun is called oftlie four great planets jupiter uranus saturn and neptune have not taken place at the same time but this event will occur during next five years and according to dr knapp who has col lected a mass of statistical material on his subject the nearest of these planets to the'sun when occurring at lhe same time has so far always been marked by great epidemics and mortality the views of astronomers are to the effect that when one or more of the great planets come near to the sun the temperature and the condition of our atmosphere is so disturb ed that fluctuations dreadful torrents of rain long continued droughts c arise by which harvests are destroyed and pes tilential epidemics produced among men anil beasts dr knapp while examining the history of ihe great epidemics of more thau 2,000 years previous to our present time has found the fact always confirmed that the nearness ofa great planet to the sun has invariable been followed by an epidemic thus iu the 6tli and 16th cen turies three of these great planets had ap penrd near the sun aud in these periods at the same time the greatest and most destructive pestilential epidemics of the christian era have occurred but soon after 1800 for the tirst time during the last 2,000 years all four of these great planets will at the same time come iuto the perihelion so that probably for sev eral years viz from 1880 to 1hs5 the health and lives of the inhabitants oftlie earth will be exposed to a severe trial inundations failures of harvests espe cially of potatoes deadly fevers among men and pests among cattle are prophe sied as precursors of the perihelion of the planets we do not mention dr kuapp's fore bodings in order to distress anybody ; we simply communicate facts that the si multaneous nearness to the sun of all the great planets of our solar system one of which jupiter is a thousand times larger than ihe earth must cause considerable distui bances in our atmosphere and tem perature is possible that these disturb ances may be injurious to health is equally j possible and that these astronomical phenomena have hitherto been accoinpa i ( nied by great epidemics is proved by history news and courier mrs atkinson's baby the atkinsons have had a terrible ■ time over their baby mr atkinson , sent home a folding crib with the ' j slats made in two pieces and hung down upon hinges when they op j pened the crib and put the mattre in it mr atkinson omitted to fix ' j securely the catches that held the j ; slats mr and mrs atkinson went ' to bed early that night and about eleven o'clock while they were asleep the baby got awake and began to kick vigorously the result was that j the slats slowly descended and depos ited the mattress and the baby upon the floor the baby being particu larly wide awake crawled out into the room and seeing a light iu the entry went through the door just as mr atkinson's aunt miss boggs was coming upstairs to bed she picked the baby up and finding that its father and mother were asleep she carried it to her room in the third story and determined to take care of it through the night about an hour latter mrs atkin son awoke and thought she would glance over at the crib to see how the baby was getting along xo sooner had she done so than she jumped from the bed in alarm the baby was not there ! the bottom seemed to have fallen out of the whole contrivance her first thought was that the baby was lying under the mattress smothered to death she pulled the mattress aside but tliere was no sign of the baby - then wild with alarm she shook mr atkinson and told him to get up atkinson growled out in a sleepy tone — the paregoric i.s in the closet ; go and get it yourself alonza !' shrieked mrs atkinson you don't understand — the baby is gone ! — stolen ! — kidnapped ! — mur dered maybe — o what shall i do what shall i do now be calm julia said atkin son gitting out of bed ; don't get hysterical the child most likely is under the bed no it isn't ; it's not there !' ex claimed mrs atkinson upon her hands and knees possibly said alonzo beginning to feel uneasy he has crept into the closet let us look this is horrible said mrs atkin son clasping her hands do you think asked mr atkin son that he could have crawled into the bureau drawer and pulled it to af ter him ?' certainly not said mrs atkinson you know he couldn't i think i hear him now he has fallen out of the window !' said mrs atkinson as a faint wail floated up from the back yard no it's only mrs magruder's cat yawling on the fense replied atkin son as he closed the sash have you looked in the bath tub in the next room ? perhaps he has gone in to take a bath drowned ! i know it i'm sure of it yelled mrs atkinson rushing in to the bath room he's not here said atkinson could he have gone down stairs and fallen into the sugar bucket iu the pantry ?' we must search the whole liouse for him said mrs atkinson so they began to hunt thev look ed everywhere in the clothes ham per in tiie kitchen cupboard in the parlor in the pantry and even in the , cellar but without avail he couldn't have gone up stairs because he couldn't climb the steps no he must have been stolen he lias been stolen by burglars i shall never see him again — never don't give way julia pe calm i will go up at once for the police mr atkinson dressed himself hur riedly and dashed down stairs and out into the front street he met a policeman almost at the door and in frantic accents laid the ease before hi ii the policemau sounded the alarm and soon had six other police man at hand they entered the house and proceeded to examine the fasten ings everything was right and one of the policeman said : in my opinion the burglar is in the house yet we'll go for him said another so drawing revolvers they proceeded j to search the building presently mr atkinson heard the report of a pistol in the kichen he rushed down i think i've killed him said po , liceman jones bring the light quick ] and killed the baby too shriek ed mrs atkinson by george i forgot the baby , said the officer then the light came and they found that policeman jones had shot his dog which had followed him into the liouse then policeman smith's pistol went off accidently and the bul let hit the kitchen clock which struck nine hundred and eighty-one and the confusion and racket so unstrung mrs atkinson's nerves that she went i into hysterics and emitted successive yells of a terrific character this j brought miss boggs down from the third story in great alarm what on earth is the matter she called matter said atkinson don't you know that burglars have broken into the liouse and stolen the baby why we've been having the awftillest time you ever heard of for the last two hours why i've got the baby up stairs with me said miss boggs i've had him all night you have !' exclaimed the party in a breath certainly do you mean to tell me said at kinson with supernatural calmness that the bay was quietly sleeping in your room all this time ?' yes atkinson simply looked at her he felt that language was unequal to the expression of his feelings mrs at kinson flew up stairs two steps at a time the policeman laughed and filed out jones pulling his dog by the tail atkinson went to bed with raging anger in his soul andthe next morning he put a sheet iron bot tom fastened with rivets under that folding crib hat making was first begun in danbury conn in 1780 the factory there employing three workmen and turning out three hats a day thero are now employed 1,800 persons and they make 17,400 hats a day tho payroll is 23,000 each week in 1780 it was under 20 a week an enterprising american shipped some wheel-barrows to liio janeiro and the natives filled them full of stones and such and carried them on heir heads they said its was a cap ital contrivance and wondered how thev managed to get along so many years without it jones says his wife i.s the most thrifty woman he ever new why sir he says she has made ten bed spreads during the last two years ; made them herself sir out of the sam ples she collected in her shopping tours during that time do you ever expect to make a newspaper that will suit everybody a veteran editor asied no sir was the answer and i don't want to a newspaper that would suit everybody wouldn't be worth reading more cotton is passing through the looms and spindles of new england than at any time since the beginning of the business the english eon sumption is about 32,000 bales a week winter sat down so heavily in spring's lap last week as to nearly knock the breath from that maiden bodv oh you old laplander she gasped — danbury nt ws the salt in the ocean in estimated by schaf hant at 4,051,342 cubic geographical miles or about four times more than the mass of the alps the grape islands of lake erie have 4,000 acres of vines and the yield in 1879 was 16,000,000 pounds the wine production was 1,526,400 gallous i e