Carolina Watchman

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to inherit 9 ttc tin.l proud degree ue higher merit i i ih tu iii for ine i i .: musl inter i i . in man mir iniuil a:,.l heart ' ! ■«> something still lli itn r i mere language can impart i . ■ rer seeing uieiil vet i.i plan i 0i uow being '' llk,'iii:m tn feel for man ! i .' i the saber a the humble spaded 1 i in labor i . pomp r i ed , npi uvetnent i emeiit i . bul ii.i ui inkiud ! i it isfilleil with yean ing - '■'' ii.i uie ii.i iiioic ' il the farther shore w that they are resting li stoi iiiy wave iv«-ar iii\ing •■■ beyond the grave 1 mil above us ess is thc grave till inaiiswered ! 1 an save i iis ■ mu inmost sigh '" * li mu us his pm pose v passed by i ever nliitiiii '" rl«uds may rot|ie t etween and the earth prows dark anil gloomy i et there's light behind their screen ; when the side next earth seems daikest then that next to heaven is light and in god's time rays of brightness will come streaming thro the night thru with faith in god our father let us straightway turn to him ; while earth's weary yearnings vanish with the clouds of doubt and sin ; and our dear ones will grow nearer as our love more perfect grows willi the love of god o'er shadow ing all in measureless repose trip lightly trip lightly over trouble trip lightly over wrong we only make grief double by dwelling on it long why clasp woe's hand so tightly ? u hy sigh over blossoms dead ? why cling to forms unsightly why not seek joy instead . trip lightly over sorrow 1 hough all the days be dark the sun may shine to morrow an.l gaily sing the lark fair hope has not departed though roses nitty have led ; then never look down hcar'ed but look for joy instead trip lightly over sadness stand im to rail a doom ; we've pearls to string of gladness on this side of the tomb whilst stars are nightly shining and heaven is overhead encourage not repining but look for joy instead political saitsburj examiner fidelity to party or defeat there is a small faction of dunder heads iu every community in every town lloiiiidering and groping about in the black slough and slime of negro alleys bar rooms and hovels trying to find some split which splits the difference between a true democrat inula negro-equalizing radical but the hunt is in vaiu there is no such plai on the green earth pure democracy is on the other side of the world from radicalism tliere is no cross ing tin impassable gull bet ween and they can no more get together than could dives tlie riei old fool mentioned in tin1 new testament escape ids doom and go ; to lazrus in heaven the history of rad . iealism i the history of shame and hy pocrisy is the history of duplicity and treason to the fundamental principles of ; self-government and liberty it is the his tory of persecution venality and crime it is stained with the blood of a million ol innocent men shed in a most unright : cons war of hate and plunder it is the • synonym of all that is black and base | and mean in the chronology of human in ! famy it stinks in the nostrils of decency and is ts odious aud repulsive to the lion , est and right thinking mau as sin is in the sight of gud the time-servers the lieksj.it ties the growlers and sore-heads going about iu hunt of this middle ground arc destined to be disappointed they are mainly responsible for the rule of rad icalism to-day they are chronic disor . ganizers aud traitors to principle while claiming to be democrats they are de stroying its friends they profess one si t of principles and act out another tlu-y are bankrupt in every thing that is in le and abandoned to iill that is occult iind v.llianous their foul slanders and base misrepresentations have two often been heeded by good men whom they have led astray they have betrayed the dem ocratic party and attempted to bring its time-honored principles into disrepute they have united with negroes and thiev es in midnight conclaves to work disor ganization and defeat in our own ranks yet they have been listened to and re spected tis true men and true democrats this course has well nigh ruined us this shameless policy has made of our party organization a wild and bewildering an archy and too frequently left us stranded and wrecked high and dry in the arms of unaccountable defeat men who are not for its tue against us tlie woi i of puri fication and organization must be begun at once and prosecuted with firmness there must be no move of running one set of principles for this man and another set for that one there is no such thing as climbing up some other way that is just what too many so-called demo crats have been trying to do until the party can be brought to think more of vindicating great principles than of seiz ing tin spoils of office it will continue to be ti weak and wretched timeservcr un worthy of the support of honest men this trying to steal in office through all manner of dodges such as laying down platforms of false principles and noiui nating men who represent any kind of principles except those of democracy wiil keep the party ti demoralized and dis graced minority to the cud of time in ilepeiideutism bolting and trimming have been too common discipline must be enforced and fidelity to the party must be the test without these all our plans tin destined to defeat tinieservers and sore-heads must be exposed and ignored the time has come for action the peo ple must awake from their lethargy the defeat ot the democratic party this year means the triumph of fraud venality and oppression the continuation of outrage ous protective tariffs odious internal reveuue exactions and lawless despotic measures the democratic party must meet the issue squarely these abomina tions must he abated no man who lends iiicoiirageiik.iit in any way to radicalism or radical aspirants for offiee must be listened to we have had enough of rad ical robberies and radical wrongs kirk wttrs and the insolence of public officials freemen must speak out ere it is loo bite to escape despotism organize the dem oet.it cohorts cast your banner to the breeze and rally as one man in this final struggle for free government and honest administration of public affairs i salisbury examiner facts not generally known from mr alex ii stephens1 conclud ing remarks on president lincoln's ad ministration we gather the following facts in regard to the number of soldiers em ployed by the opposite sides during the late w;u : from its beginning to its end near if not quite two millions more of federals were brought into the geld than the entire forces of the confederates the federal records show that they had from first to last two million six hundred thousand men iu the service while the confeder ates all told in like maniiei had but lit tle over six hundred thousand the ag gregate federal population at its com mencement wtis above twenty-two mil lions that of the confederates was less than ten near four millions of these bc j ing negro skives and constituting no part ! of the arms-bearing portion of the pop ulation of federal prisoners dm ing the war the cot federates took in round num bers 27(1,(11)0 ; while the whole number of confederates captured and held in prisons by the federals was in like round num j hers 220,000 in reference to the treat ment of prisoners on the respective sides j about whieh much was said at the time two facts tue worthy of note one is that the confederates were ever anxious for a spi ed exchange which the federals i would not agree to ; the other is that of the 270,000 federal prisoners taken 2 ! ..?<> died in confederate hands and ofthe ' 220,000 confederates taken by the eeder ttls 20,436 died in their hands the mor tuary tables thus exhibiting a large per cent in favor of confederate humanity iln entire loss on both sides including those who weie permanently disabled as well as those killed in battle and who died from wounds received aud diseases contracted in the service amount to the stupendous aggregate of one million of men at the end of the war the whole num ber of confederates surrendered includ ing lee's and ill amounted to about 150 000 the whole number of federals then in the lield and afterwards mustered out of sei vice as the records show amount ed in round numbers to 1,050,000 these facts throw new luster upon the endurance humanity ami fidelity of the southern people and forever hush the blander of the blockaded smith's cruelty to tin prisoners of war the ports ofthe north were all open they had plenty of medicine and provisions yet they nian aged to torture or slay more prisoners and that out of a less number held than the south governor jarvis a majority of the democrats of the county seem to favor the nomination of jarvis for governor it would be remark able if tlie sentiment of the people in this county at least were otherwise con sidering the action of the governor in convening the legislature in extra ses sion for the purpose of effecting tlie sale of the western n c rail road by the sale i.l the road its completion to paint rock and ducktown is secured ; and what town and county along the whole line of railroad will derive greater benefit from the conpletion than salisburv and rowan the road once finished to paint rock its ex ten tion from salisbury to wadesboro becomes a necessity and in a few years must bean accomplished fact governor jarvis deserves credit for his ' wise and patiotic course in convening the legislature in extra session and i while securing the completion of the w : n c railroad at an early day at the 1 same time releaves the people of onerous j taxation his action in this matter in opposition i to the advice of a majority of the board j of directors of the road showed him to ' be possessed of firmness sound judgment and decision of character which tue nec essary elements in the constitution of ev ery man called upon to fill high and re t sponsible pnblic positions lie has made i iin excelleni governor has proven a faith ful public servant and the democratic party would be guilty of ingratitude if they failed to endorse hia administration — examiner concord register there will be a meet ing held by the citizens of stanly county t\t big lick on the 3rd saturday in may for the purpose of considering the feasibili tv and the possibility of continuing the railroad movement from mount pleasant to that place stanly is waking up to rail road enterprise conventions in the lingo of sore-heads are always packed if their particular fa vorites and tools are not nominated we are informed that in south caroli na the democratic farmers buy their plows tlieir groceries and dry goods from uone but democratic merchants of tbe struitest sect whenever they hear a merchant talking about not caring for the political results in a campaign they drop him and trade somewhere else their prosperity and peace and social order de pend on democratic government so they do here bnt it will require another kirk war to open the eyes of the indifferent masses our people have almost forgot ten the crimes of radicalism and hence they do not fully realized the charater of the treachery in our midst — examiner • the sale of the western north carolina ' hail hoad saves annually to the tax pay 1 ers of the state 175,000 ! _____ __ _____ „__, ________________ ______ i f?__m_!^s*m — — — — — miscellaneou i — two colored men heroes mar tyrs , charleston news and courier two colored laborers named telfair and stewart went down into a fire-well in charleston on thursday morning a few moments later overcome by poison : ons vapors they were lying in the mud : and wtiter gasping for breath a colored i laborer named simons hastened to their relief as soon as he felt the first effect | of the noxious ga he was hauled out j undismayed a colored man named wil ! liam roberstou insisted on being lowered i i down into the well as he touched the ' i bottom he fell forward as if shot there ! were now three helpless dying men in ! j the well volunteers were not wanting j a colored man named james seymour | j descended into the depths anti and fell j ; as those who preceded him had done stewart one of the two men who went ! j down to clean ont the well was taken out ] alive telfair his companion was dead \ ; these two stewart and telfair were en i gaged in their usual work robertson and j i seymour who endeavored to save the j j stricken laborers were dead when tlieir bo j i dies were removed thev died for their i friends brave and loyal hearts had throbbed under their dusky skin know ! ing that they risked their live they de ! in a tided that they be allowed to make an ! effort to rescue the men of their own race j who were breathing their last they i shared the lot ef the man whom they hop led to preserve to'his wife and children 1 their own wives are widows and their children are orphans a florida romance a romantic rescue is reported by the leesbury fla advance an indent lov er boarded his frail bark last week on lake eustis to visit his heart's idol the young lady stood upon the veranda watch ing his approach she saw too a dark cloud rising in the southeast soon the angry looking clouds overspread the blue canopy of heaven the wind rapidly in creased to i storm and seeing her lover's danger she bravely entered a boat to go to his rescue as she pushed out from the shore she saw his boat make a lunge as if maddened by thc resistance of the waves and wind and go over no time was to be lost ; the danger ahead seemed to give her the strength the des perate occasion required and after row j ing for a mile against wind and tide she reached ihe disaster took her lover on board whom she found perched upon the up-turned boat and rowed back to the shore mr wm j best in new york the new york herald gives an account of an unusual scene in the streets of that city a gentleman attended by a becretary bearing bags of coir and laboring under the hallu cination that he was bestowing charity has been strewing the street with nickel and silver pieces to the manifest advantage of the small boys and the strikingly apparent delight of himself the herald gives the name of this eccen tric individual as dexter but from having recently witnessed a similar scene enacted in the streets of newbern we presume it was mr wm j railroad best while mr best was on the train passing through hancock street in this city his secretary who was provided with a bag of coin strew ed niekles and pennies from south front street to the depot the train was follow el by about fifty boys and many of them will long remember thc rich harvest they reipcd on that occasion — nut shell t should like said mr appleton taking up a sheet of paper to show you the cost of book making i don't believe that peo ple when they buy a book for fifty cents have any idea of the capital invested to bring it down to that price for example it cost us 233,000 to publish picturesque america and that without adding the cost of printing to be sure we made a great profit on it forty thousand copies were sold and 2,400,000 turned in by our agents an even more profitable venture was the american cyclopedio for which the pul lic has paid 5,760,000 of course all of that is not profit it costs an immense amount of money to carry on our factory in williamsburg we employ 00 hands and pay out 239,470 in wage annually gin sling is the name ofa chinese stu dent at harvard who is preparing himself f the bar a singular tragedy the observance of an old and celtic tradition saturday resulted in quite a tragedy and riot at paterson n j the old german custom now nearly obsolete t in germany but still kept in denmark of going to the hills on may day or the first sunday iu may at sunrise to see the snn dance was kept by the german socities at paterson tnis festival a mer ry and innocent one though sometimes j attended with pilfering of flowers is con bidered to be a vestige of baal or sun j worship ; the witches used to dance on the bloeksberg on tlie first sunday in may j ! according to the german legends which ! have come to us from the hartz moun tains amongst the paterson party of j revelers was joseph van houton step-son \ of alderman swift of paterson who at tempted to cross the lands of wm dal zell a farmer owning property on the mountain top when houten and his com panions were warned from trespassing but persisting the former waa shot dead by dalzell with a gun loaded with buck shot dalzell was pursued to his house by van hou ten's companions and when he refused to surrender his house and barn were fired coming out he was seized a rope put about his ueck and he was very nearly hanged when the police succeeded in making a diversion in his favor and procuring him a respite after which he took refuge in a negh boring house until the sheriff could bc obtained in whoso custody he weut to newark jail street sights in rome it is something if you be so prosaic as to enter old home by a railway to rind that the depot is put down on the map as a part of the old baths of diocletian and house hunting with hurried glimpses as one goes from street to street of trajan's forum and the fountain of trevi and the tiber is cal culated to stir strangely one's fancy and the picturesqueness of the streets strike one at once what with priests and soldiers and the passion of the women for brightness they are all life and color priests in brown priests in white priests in scarlet soldiers with an opulent variety of uniform and plumes and tassels and silverbraid enough to ruin a modest government is it because war in itself is so little alluring that soldiers are always so gay ? or is it the last remnant of thc time when men rivalled women in the splendor of tlieir dress we are getting of late years to a mono nous uniform of dark colors we shrink even from a too gay flower or ribbon to brighten our sombre robes but roman women have no such scruples and the rain bow scarfs the bright plumes and ornaments they wear are pretty to see and seem suited to this sunny air and the life and variety of the streets is tlieir charm to a northern mind even while i write a band sounds in the distance and i see down the long street a troop of gay soldiers a half hour ago a vague sonorous chanting rose to our windows and below was the long line of priests bearing the dead to his home all in brown robes barefoot and bearing long wax tapers their chant their dark proces sion had in it something weird and impres sive but the charm of the dead city one feels most perhaps from the public plea sure-grounds on the pincian hill the vis ion of all these domes and spires rising at one's feet the picturesque confusion of ma jestic ruin and modern shabbiness and be yond all back even ofthe great dome of st peter's which crowns the distance the alban hills standing up against tlie blue — all this is calculated to touch the most pro saic and the proper historic emotions for which so often one pines in vain come of themselves it is proved where fish are preserved in many of our bays open to the sea and even iu some few lakes and streams and not allowed to be caught except at proper seasons that acre for acre the water fur nishes a more valuble product than the richest and most highly cultivated land we are glad to notice that more and more attention is giveu to this matter annually by the united states and single state governments also by private individuals fish add a great variety to our food and are alike healthful and palatable perhaps more so than most kinds of meats by exchanges with foreign nations many new kinds have been added to our waters and we are promised more in consequence of this our products are continually in creasing and sonic waters in which here tofore little of consequence found life are now producing largely as in the europe an carp which subsist solely on vegeta ble matter growing in the water an eablt betrothal an early be trothal is chronicled in the elmira n y free press two young couples were married within a month of each other and from families that had been very intimate iu january last a boy was born to one of them and he was welcomed as heartily as though he had been a prince of a reign ing house last month a girl appeared to the other young couple one evening the mother ofthe boy visited the mother of the girl taking her child with her most of the members of both families were also present thc mother of the boy took rather a diminutive but costly ring from a case aud placing it on the linger of the girl scarcely a month old solemnly engaged her sou to the child the matter to be ratified in the future stamping by fire the postoffice authorities think they have arrived st a practical and thorough solution j of the question of preventing the second j use of postage-stamps which is a fraud that ! ; has been practiced by washing off tlie ink 1 with acids after the stamping of a first use i persons engaged in this cheating of th _ gov | ernment have been very ingenious in devis ing modes of doing the unlawful washing a new process of cancellation has been in vented and is to be brought into use in the postoffice it is to scorch the stamps speci mens of the new process show very effect ive work against the fraud of second use of the stamps the cancellation mark being ab solutely indellible the imprint made is just the same as that made by the ink stamp j except that it is slightly burned or scorch ed instead of being an ink impression the j new stamp is heated by gas the metal be ing thin to allow of both quick heating and | cooling it is used thc same as an ink stamp but with a saving of time tbat will enable the person using it to do at least twice the j work that the ink stamp would in using ! the latter it travels between the inker and the letters being stamped with the new j stamp the operation will be a continuous , rising and falling of a few inches it can i be used in all offices where gas is used an experienced hand with an ink stamp cancels ! about 123 letters per minute quigg and billy in new york city there lhes a red-faced little milkman named joseph quig_r mr j quigg is in the employ of a milk company ' and goes over a certain route every morn ing serving milk to many customers on charlton macdougal and other streets ii is horse billy has been ou the route for three years and not only knows every cus somer but the days upon which to stop for some of the costomers do not iray milk everyday one tuesday not long ago mr quigg who was several yards behind saw that billy did not intend to stop at a cer tain house on macdougal street and running up scolded billy quite hard but mr quigg found that billy was right for the man of the house reminded mr quigg that wed nesday and not tuesday was his milk day the man took the milk however and said that mr quigg need not stop on wednes day when wednesday morning came billy stopped sure enough and this so angered quigg that he beat poor billy cruelly some ofthe residents of macdougal street had learned to love the intelligent horse and when they saw the cruel treatment they complained to the company this com plaint led to quigg's discharge billy real j ly loved his driver however and gave such signs of displeasure at his loss that quigg was restored to his place promising never to beat billy again let girls learn to be pure in mind and heart to be modest in demeanor to be helpful at home and then tliere are less vital things that they should learn ; as to sew neatly to do simple cooking to buy with economy to dress with taste to read aloud well there are many other useful and orna mental accomplishments within the reach of most girls but those which we have given are indispeusible our monthly fell from the sky finding ofa meteorite in a xorth caro lina gravel pit prof wm k hidden ln morganton blade on the 19th of last july while mr gray v harris was prospecting for gold on his plantation near lick creek davidson county he found in a ditch a nugget of what appeared to him to be silver it was covered with a thick scaly crust of iron oxide weighed two aud three-fourth pounds ; was shaped measured a by 2 inches over its broadest surface and about 1 inch in thickness whenever cut or hammered it showed a white metallic mass underlaying the red crust and we cannot blame mr harris for con cluding the mass to be silver more silver especially as it was a native metal and no other metals but silver platinum and gold are found native in such large masses accordingly the story went far and wide that a three pound nugget of silver had been found in davidson county search was made for more nuggets but unsuccessfully i heard thc story as above recorded from messrs robt eame jr and sr , of thomasville in tlieir opinion the nugget was iron perhaps native iron they had noticed that the nugget had what mr eanies jr aptly term ed night sweats little beads of moisture would gather on its surface when left for a few hours which if wiped away would soon form again ; showing thereby that decomposition was going on in the nugget in all probability the oxidation of its phos phides and sulphides this last and most important addi tion to the silver nugget story con firmed mysuspici m ofthe mass being meteoric iron in truth a meteor whose coming and fall had not been observ ed after no liul . outlay of time and money it was fiually brought to new york an ! is now in the cabinet of the writer where it keeps company with two others from the south collected within the vear it contains iron nickel cobalt phospho rus copper and carbon iroti largely predominating dr s lawrence smith of louisville ky has its analysis now in hand and it will be published soon it is one of that rare class of meteorites that do not show the widmanstatten lines and will therefor t btaiu a widenotoriety among scientific mi n ti ii ku meteorites north carolina has been verv pro lific in meteorites no less than fif teen different falls are recorded and credited to this state buncombe haywood randolph roohingham nash madison and davidson coun ties have furnished meteorites the nash enmity fall 1874 was of stone not of ; in in the last month i have heard of two new ones in this state and have hopes of s ion bringing them to light the charlotte observer chronicled tho falling of a meteor in rowan county in february last about which we have as yet.heard nothing further i ask did it actually fall as recor ded ? meteoric iron in masses of extra ordinary size haw been discovered in in brazil thc largt st weighs over sixteen tons a yet larger mass now exists in the cascade mountains in oregon v s which when first discovered was thought to bc a ledge of native iron i regret to write its exact loca tion is now 1 « j t . why they tai.t it is n iw generally conceded thi t theso range bodies swing around the sun like so many mi nature worlds and coining tinder the attractive force of a larger planet fall to it ihey come from regions intensely cold and onlv become heated and consequent ly luminous in their short passage through mir atmosphere kepler believes there arc moro small bo lies hying about in pace than there are fishes in thc ocean which seems to fiud support in mod ern discoveries killed by meteors the story from kansas about a man being killed by the fall of a meteor has been proven untrue by the village paper published where it was aid to have occurred the editor thought it the unkindest thing ever credited to their town however people have been killed by meteori tes humboldt records a monk killed at creraa sept 4th 1511 ; another monk at milan in 1650 j and two swedish soldiers rt&c ird ship in 1074 not once i one hun 1 tl years will a human !>'■;> g mei ' his fai i from this cause ; thousa irs might pass without such an accident happen ing rarity of native hi ox terrestrial or native iron i of ex trerae rarity and is found only in everv inconsiderable quantities only in small grains in basaltic rocks and as an alloy with native platinum iri dium it is generally safe to conclude that any mas of metallic ir n found in tho soil is of celestial origin is a meteoi ite as i long to science and should never bo put to any practical usej but carefully pre served in their original condiiion for scientific purposes buyers can al wav be found for meteorites they will bring from ten to one hundred times ttteir intrinsic iron value something loose a gentleman in this city received i letter yesterday that was mailed tit amity hill iredell county on the 9th ol april having been one month comit _. ovei a ro ite «•_ •'». mile how is tiiis for «;•;;. k it is now probable tbat congress will adjoin n aboul lc 1st of juno demo crat''ami republicans appearing to lie pretty w .' _ "-• ■' pjj . -"•»»