the carolina watchman jol xl—third series salisbury n c july 29 1880 no 41 the carolina watchman established in the year 1832 pri •'■ ilm in advaxcb rontract advertising rates c ' febi-uab 20 is80 m's t m's g m's i in*s i>.i"p i mi 5.25 7.:.ip 18.00 '.:■» 11.00 15.00 : .... 8.00 ...*. 11 lis 16.50 25.00 25.50 4i io s3.7h i 76.00 .=■ blflg p vm si pjp * -- ' m \ — ..._____ j cares i ' '--•• hronciiml i •■•!•. croup lior-e.i..g cov_-h ar u ii csof tie lire tiling organs nsootli a and heals tho hei ton ae < f ute lun?s inflamed and polawncd by sediscise • . .*.- rwmltsl . * ' .*. . ... it iso-'.y nnd mali s r ra •;•. i.r for big !•■"•;•. .: iti ! cure oi cyi.*a .' ' •• : ■ " •■" i ""' • •''• | ! [ ■ ■ i , ' 7 ! i s .. . - c ." • ' ' •■ . . — moea * !-_..-. ■ _____ . ■■ -.. .._■_: ._,__, - - ' css • ' re -_: c co t tcr"u pr -—-- — _ , ok - :.___ _ , ....__.. for sale by t f kltjttz druggist salisbury k c james m gray attor counsellor at law - ; lisdurv x c llin in the iniiii house bit next doo ii uightoii will practice in all uie oourtfi ol the kite __ <♦, i rs i » • *. t 1 jtt0ryey at luv sa-lihuujlty x c pi i tici ii the state and federal 1 2:0111 kerr craige pontes t y»to blackmer aii henderson attorneys counselcis aud solicitors sal i su pry n.c 33 • tt unity high school ... ""' 1;-*1 term r thi school will open "".'"■••>• august 3rd 1880 ms & ,*.. address geo it mcxeill wood leaf x ('. greensboro female college greensboro ct c i h session will begin onthe2othof ■ . ii known institution oflv rs superior j | r if nial mid mural culture com derl n ''■'' l1 •'•- f pleomnt well or i ' ' — ion ol •« months : board isliing and !'-!'- i tuition -. 75 extra studies i . • ' "' , articular npnlv lo *• t m 1 ( inks 1'rcs't i"-n1ai"1 note heads bill hb^ds ai s'lll|l l.wi.i..m'i printed to ordei j,0w rates call at this utlice notice!«tll milk of one cow is ' m l.v for infant u mrs d.i.bringle's political no fraud this time allowing the republicans colorado i xevada pennsylvania oregon california connecticut illinois maine and xew jersey nearly all of which are likely to go forthe democratic candidate jar field could not be elected and this is the best case that can be made for him or his decaying party every intelligent republican realize the situation and admits there is no expectation of success before the people to resort to fraud again as has been suggested by desper ate partisans is to try an experiment that would recoil on its authors the simple question now is shall the majori ty of the people admiuister the govern ment through their chosen agents or surrender to a minority that has long since forfeited all claims to confidence t ; the answer wil be given at the ballot box next xovembcr in a way that cannot fail to command respect salisbury examiner maj j w wilson of the western x c liailroad went on to xew york a few i days ago to look after matters concerning thai road a telegram was received from him on tueeday stating that matters were all right and that the unpaid dues would j be nut promptly so that mr uest has not failed yet aad the sale of the road lias ■ not bursted but what if it does burst has the state lost anything is govern j or jarvis to blame ? the state is fully in * demnified cov jarvis did ' ithing except what the duties of his position required : simply to call the legislature together and ict it accept or refuse to accent lhe proposition to buy it saw propi i to ac cept and sell the load to relieve ihe peo ple of a burdensome tax first however all the security against loss deemed nec essary was incorporated in the bill of sale what wore could have been done whal more wus expected ? if mr uest should fail to comply with the contract t'.e state has the righj to resume control i the road and ii loses nothing an hon est effort has been made to relieve thel people nl i heavy tax and if it fail cer tainly gov jarvis mu the legislature is to blame iner a tew politicians in this congressional district are evidently laboring to get up a bitter feeling between the respective friends of messrs robbing and armfield uut the people aiv quiet ami watchful they care nothing about who claims to be entitled to tin nomination this time tliey want a good canvasser and representative they want a man who can go forward and lead them and not one who has to be taken bod ily on their shoulders and carried through the majority is evidently in favor of major robbins and if the congressional aspirants in the different counties will let them alone they will nominate and elect him almost unanimously still there are other men in lhe district who can be elected let the plan of voting suggested by the central exi entive committee be adopted and their will be no difliculty — no trouble and we apprehend none uut whatever is done let there be justice and fairness and harmony wil prevail and success he sure salisbury examiner judge jerc black's irony on cen garfield i rich hear hhn : i do not know any really good man who has done and assisted in doing so many bad things in politics as gen garfield no body knows cen garfield better than judge black and nobody knows better than he tli.it no really good mau will do bad things judge black's opinion of garfield then is simply this while gen garfield would have the world believe that he gar field is an honest upright politician and really good man ik is the most consummate sneak perjurer and bribe taker in the land and this is the character given him by his own party a disclaimer refuted iu a late issue of ualeigh observer is tbe follow ing i'he other day we copied from the ox ford free lance a portion of an article descriptive of the speech of col t l hargrove made in a radical convention then in the repoit it was stated that a part of col hargrove's remarks weie in tilting to the women of granville county we have received from col hargrove for publication a long card on the bubject which wc cannot print uut wc cheerfully state that he denies in toto ever making my remark calculated or in tended to reflect in any degree whatever upon the women of granville or any oth er place capt ashe will find by reference to af fidavits furuished by us this week that col hargrove did insult the women of granville as stated in the fees lam k ofthe 25.il of june the denial of col h to the contrary notwithstanding william a giitherie a prominent law yer of favetteville and stalwart republi can since his debut in politics is a pro nounced hancock man he will bo a much more useful and respectable man in feeling as a democrat we receive such converts with open arms and invite then riglit into the dining room wheie the democratic side board stands char observer missouri 50,000 for hancock st louts post-dispatch we may safely count on 50,000 ma jority iu missouri for hancock it may , be 00,000 1 saddening fact atlanta constitution gen garfield seems to have had his defense copyrighted at any rate his republicans friends are afraid to use it a n end to one issue from the boston herald mrs suiratt is left in peace again all the capital that was made out of raking up old lies and inventing new ones about her won't change a vote a most comforting assurance ' atlanta constitution a republican paper savs the gates of hell cannot prevail against the republi can party of course not uut the gates will readily give way and let the whole concern in a tribute lo the flag detroit free i'ross if it be true that the government made gieu hancock while gen garfield made himself the unanimous verdict will be that the government did much the better job shouting to keep their courage up louisville courier-journal the sole aim of the republican lead ers is to keep their party froui going to pieces before the election they are roaring like the bulls of basalt with rage a gem of polilical criticism cincinnati commercial rep touching civil service reform gen garfield has cheerful uess to sustain him in his letter and faith in the things hoped t rather than reliau ce on the substanc of thi ngs seen ,^_^ i the second father of iiis country pbiladelpbl i times ii gen hancock does not take rank as a second washington it wiil not be for hick of nice little stories ahout his early life we shall begin to believe soon that it was he that chopped the cherry tree why certainly boston post had we or any other catholic in the world been in gen hancock's place our duty would have been to do as he did whether the condemned woman were catholic or protestant heathen or infidel sl range but j'leasing new y"rk star john kelly's organ ) greystone will be mr tilden's head quarters during the summer where the riches of bis wisdom and experience v ill be freely dispensed for the benefit of the democratic party in whose success this fall he takes a deep and patriotic interest the earnestness with which mr tihlen supports lhe nominees ofthe national democracy is evidenced by the fact that he has sent to the chairman of the 1 enio cratic committee a check for one hundred thousand dollars as his contribution to the campaign fund collector young has been to washing ton city doubtless on business connect ed with his otliee and not having tho fear ofthe president's civil service order before his eyes he divulges what he knows of xorth carolina politics that's w hat collectors arc for to go to headquar ters and report progress iu the provinces uut col young has notions and has air ed them he says that his party expects to get tlieir full vote into the ballot boxes and that the republicans of xorth caro lina do not fear intimidation quite right colonel : we are agreed for once and we congratulate you upon starting out right and not adding to your political short comings by accusing yourself wrongfully of being a subject of intimidation uut adds the colonel slyly that he realizes the probability that the radicals will be counted out oh yes certainly a par ty that is twenty thousand in the minori ty is very apt to be counted out when the boxes are emptied — raleigh observer x woman turned oct to give place to a republican for thirteen years miss m a patterson has been postmis tress at china grove she was induced to take the office some time after the war when it was very difficult to find compe tent persons who would take the oath ic quiied the bnsinessof the office-has beeu conducted chiefly by mr i f patterson and there has been no complaint as to the way it was managed a few days ago miss patterson was notified that she had been dismissed aud 1*1 s w sechler was appointed in her stead sechler is the only republican in the place and no concealment is made of the fact that he was appointed on account of polities charlotte observer coddle creek township has the finest corn and cotton crops ever seen at this season of the year in this rectiou — iredell ■ gazette 3iisc ellaneous salisbury examiner hist0ky of tiie pestilence ! some of the scientist astronomers and astrologers have propbecied tbat great ca lamities will befall thc world within the next six or eight years fearful earthquakes famines fanaticisms war death and deso lation will reign supreme the cause of these fearful calamities is said to be the perihelia of certain stars that is the near i approach of certain stars to the sun jupi : ter saturn uranus and s.eptune will all approach very near the sun this year and the wise men say whenever these great stars pass in their orbits very near the sun or j each other g-feat atmospheric disturbances j j on the earth follow as a consequence ; and ■ these atmospheric disturbances cause the i awful catastrophes above named they say j that the perihelia or the conjunction of these great stars and the sun have always | in the passed caused most woeful conse i quences and they cite dates when these ; perihelia happened and plagues c which followed but the great plagues of the world and the perihelia fixed by the astron omers do not seem to have occurred at the same time perihelia have been very fre quent in the past if the world has had no great plagues without them we may be on the eve ofgre.it calamities of great pes tilence and famines of wonderful atmos pheric disturbances and natural disorders ; but we think it very doubtful whether they will follow as a consequence of thc predict ed or coming perihelia at least the history ofthe pestilence does not justify such con clusions there are beasons says a writer in the history of nations and individuals when the cup of tlieir iniquity is full and when god can no longer mitigate or defer his anger this period luul come upon the old world when the waters of the universal deluge overflowed it it had come upon sodom tyre babylon carthage and jerusalem when cod so fearfully destroyed them it had come upon the amorites israelites and assyrians when cod swept them away in his fury he is not wanting in means and instruments to accomplish the purposes of his indignation all secondary causes are in his hands and he employs them to ac complish his de.igns of judgments as well a mercy sometimes he makes useof mer s tin ind of hi anger think of the mil lions that have been swept into eternity by such men as cyrus alexander julius caesar tamerlane louis xiv and napoleon some times he employs the material creation to promote his vengeful designs the sun moon and stars tbe earth the ocean ar.d the elements all conspire as the ministers of his rebuke fire and hail snow und vapour i stormy winds tempestuous billows fulfill his word sometimes he withholds h rain of heaven and takes away the fruits of the earth sometimes he sends the earth quake the lightning and thc pestilence the pestilence is emphatically his own messenger it was so in various epochs of the jewish history and has been so ever \ since god has made the bodies of the dead j lie in heaps before the eyes of the living to i admonish them of his displeasure in an ! instance ofthe jewish history he destroyed j « i-i i tu thousand men in the short space of a { few hours in another instance the destroy ing angel cut otl one hundred nml eighty-five thousand in a night in thc reign of tar quinius the fifth king of rome a pestilence cut oil the greater part of thc roman em pire about the time that nehemiah re paired the walls of jerusalem not far from four hundred and thirty years before christ and about the second year of the pelapon nesian war that pestilence called the great plague of attica overran ethiopia lydia egypt judea phoenicia syria the whole persian and roman empires greece and the athenian states and continued to rage for fourteen years this is the plague of which thucydidcs wrote and lucretius and vir gil sang and is the first universal plague upon the ruin of carthage a pestilence spread over all africa and destroyed in numidia alone eight hundred thousand so greivous was this pestilence that upwards of fifteen hundred dead corpses were carried through one gate of a single city in one day and upward of tiro hundred thousand died in a few days two years before the birth of christ a pestilence spread over all italy and raged with such fury that few or none remained to till the ground since the commencement of the christian era and in latter years severe plagues have raged in england scotland and wales sometimes almost depopulating the princi pal cities of those kingdoms in the second year of claudius the roman emperor so fearfully did the pestilence rage in eng land that tbe living were scarcely able to bury the dead in the year iso in the reign of commodi s ind during the perse ution o tbe christians in the roman empire a pes tilence spread over all italy greece and al most all the roman empire in the city of rome alone there were for a considerable time together tirentij thousand buried in a day in the year 2-.fi a pesti lence raged in ethiopia so universally that it was impos sible to calculate thc number of the dead in the year 311 during the persecutions un der maximilian a pestilence raged tbat cut off from tbe army of that monarch fee thousand a day in the year 144 a univer sal pestilence begun at pelusium in egypt and thence spread over the whole world sparing neither age or sex family nor coun try island nor mountain in the second year of its fury it visited cnns'-.'.ntinopip ' with sueh violpnco that for n cor*«*ideraliir | time together fee and sometimes ten thou j and and upwards died daily in one part ! i of the world or another it continued fifty ■ , tteo years so that the greatest part of man i kind then living may be said to have been ! destroyed by it in the year tit a pesti lence again visited constantinople and cut | off in three years three hundred thousand souls , j in 825 in the reign of louis thc pious a plague destroyed almost all the inhabitants ■ of france and germany in 888 it raged i in wales to such a degree that the country was covered with the carcasses of men and | beasts in 1346 a malignant disease broke i out in asia that overspread and wasted the ' inhabited earth three parts out of four scarcely survived and in some places not a ! tenth part remained alive beginning with j the year 1848 the same plague raged in ; england nine years ; and in london alone ! from january 1st to the 1st of july destroy j ed one million five hundred and seventy three ! thousand and seventy-four ln 1g11 a pes tilence again visited constantinople and destroyed two hundred thousand in five mon ths and still later in 1665 was the great plague in london which raged the year be fore in egypt germany holland and other kingdoms and which destroyed in that city alone ninety-seven thousand in a single year in 1t20 in the city of marseilles from the 25th of august to the end of septem ber one thousand were swept off in a day and in the 1831 a plague raged so inesita bly at bagdad that the city was almost de populated it would be difficult to fix perihelia to suit the date and prevalence of all these plagues the history of the great earth quakes and great storms show their occur ence and predominance to be equally disre spectful ofthe perihelia so that the con jectures or predictions of thc wise fools amount to nothing they may happen and they may not were they to come true it would be purely an accidental circumstance founded upon no well established scientific or historical fact (.) ye wise men in the language addressed to the affluent emir or the grand old arab prince the afflicted but submissive job canst thou bind the sweet influences of pleiades or loose the bands of orion , canst thou bring forth mazzarath in his season or canst tluui guide arcturus with his suns knowest thou the ordinances of heaven i canst thou set the domiuion thereof in the earth ?*' these questions propounded nearly 4000 years ago by the author of the book of job have never yet been answered and these and others set forth in that volume show that the author knew about as much of the possibility and impossibility of matters ami things pertaining to the universe as the wise men of these days frightened to death a london letter says a little girl wan den d into a im lying ground which is under the charge of the chief sexton and pluck ed a flower unconscious of offense the sexton caught her in the act and deter mined to indict a punishment which should effectually deter her from spoiling his plots in the future so lie dragged the terror stricken child away to the dead hou<e in whicli four corpses were lying on biers thrust her in and went aliout his business the sextou forgot all about the tiny prisoner incarcerated in the charnel-house aud made fast the cemetery gates for the night next morn ing returning to work at the usual hour it suddenly occurred to him that he had omitted to let the child out of the dead house before going home he hastened to unlose the door when a shocking spec tacle met his gaze crouched iu a cor ner with glossy eyes fixed in a death stare of horror and blood stained lips bitten through and through in convulsive agony was a fifth corpse that of hi.s un fortunate victim the hapless child had been literally frightened to death orphan's entertainments it is announced that a chapter of chil dren from the oxford orphan asylum will give tiee entertainments throughout this section ofthe state under tbe charge of mr j a leach of thomasville for the purpose of arousing greater interest iu the orphan work they will travel through the country iu private convey ances and will give entertainments in churches the chapter is composed of seven girls and three boys the follow ing appointments have been made thomasville july jist fork church thursday july 22d shoals friday july 23d fariuingtoii saturday july j 24th : yadkinville monday july 26th : ; jonesville tuesday july 27th elkin wednesday july 28th jefferson mon day august 2d : boone wednesday august 4th : patterson thursday angust : bth morganton saturday august 7th ; rntherfoidton tuesday august 10th : j shelby thursday august 12th king's mountain friday august 13tii : dallas | saturday august 14th ; woodlawn mon ( day august 16th : charlotte tuesday august 17th masonic lodges where such exist are , expected to make the necessary arrange ! men for the care of the orphans at the several places they visit lot it not ho imagined tliat the life of a good christian must necessarily j be a life of melancholy nnd gloomi ( nc for he only resings pome pleas ure to cnjny other infinitely greater 1 — pascal the summer holiday humbug rebecca harding davis in harper's magazine for july exposes the delusion that hangs about tbe leaving of comfor table home for a time in the hot summer mouths to suffer in a so-called summer resort one goes because it is the fashion without knowing how to enjoy the idle ness his german cousin over tbe sea lias 100 holidays iu the vear he knows bow to bring the flavor out of even drop of the orange he drifts into idleness easily without thought when his fete comes he goes for a few francs with his sweetheart or wife a mile or two out of town they joke and laugh the sun shines the wind blows j it is all good it rains it is dusty ; but they joke and laugh all the same they criticize noth ing how good it all is ! rut as for our american a corn husk bed or amusquito in the woods will overturn a whole sum mer's airy fabric of happiness in lis anxiety less he should not seize the best chance of enjoyment he is apt to follow the largest crowd he goes to niagara to cape may the adiioudacks or some one ofthe countless pasteboard mansions or hot farm houses in the suburbs of the cities he tells you that his object is '' rest and freedom but the chances arc that he leaves both behind in his house in town there he could wear his old • slippers lie could chose his own compan ; ions he held such habits and opinions as suited him ; be was the mcdonald and i wherehe sat was the[head of the table but in every one of these summer homes society tramples him down in the hot i test montlis of the year when even the j beasts of the field lie down to rest.it forces upon him a hurly-burly of fashion gossip dress outlay and weariness which at home he can manage to shut outside of his own door he goes back as a rule to his shop or oflice his j-,as pipes and family table nn refreshed and lad that the holiday is over but after all he goes with the crowd the next year the london spectator says that thc great danger of tiie teachers in the pri mary schools is that they may become mere drilling machies machines capable of mechanically imparting to children the proper articulation and spelling of words the manipulation of the pen and the knack of counting ami ciphering with out imparting to them any of the desires which these arts were chiefly discovered to gratify for there is no routine of physical labor half so deadening as rou tine labor of the rudimentary mental kind a man who works in a saw pit has his minil fresh when his work is over ; a man who works at teaching dull children to articulate and use tlieir pens has his mind utterly fatigued when the work i.s over unless he can refresh it by a total change of occupation the fust of all requisites is to get teachers in the pri mary schools who are quickened by fresh intellectual interests themselves an i wh i have the talent of awakening thc.se in others you can hardly do this better than by fostering the taste for studies outside the routine course and inviting teachers when they do their routine work well to share those studies with their brightest pupils cash admitted to bail and assaults the editorof the cheraw sun charlestox s c.,jnly 16 colonel fash the surviving principal in the re cent fatal duel came before judge mc iver of the state supreme court at cheraw last evening on a writ of hab eas corpus and was admitted to bail in the sum of 83,000 considerable excitement was occasion ed in cheraw previous to the hearing of the application by an attack made by the sue of colonel cash upon mr pegues editor of the cheraw sun who had de nounced the duel in his paper young cash aud his father had both drawn their pistols the latter avowing his intention to see a fair tight and mr pegues was only saved by being thrust hy his friends iuto an open doorway where he was locked up xo arrests were made the outlook in france is thus deserib by evangelical christendom atheism clericalism and protestantism are in full conflict and the clashing and flashing of swords are heard and cen more than here tofore thanks to the freedom of print meet and lecture granted almost univer sally hitherto the noise of the battle seems to be above the beads of the great mass of the people millions of quiet s nils hear it not or if they do impatient ly wonder what it is all about : and mil lions more shrug their shoulders ami ask cannot we be let alone yet the lone persevering sowing that has been going on for years has in many instances pre j pared soil where sonls are ready to hear ! and live some places where crowded ; meetings have taken place and romanism has been demolished have turned a cold shoulder to the humble colporteurs with tin bibles and christian books some on the contrary where christ has been exalt el and a clear gospel proclaimed have willingly read studied and eventually railed for instruction in some places tin rale of scriptures after the lectures lias been large and followed with good re | pult in others tho effect has been the fontr-y rnemiei having puggested mer cenary motives in tiie sale the i.iciim m postoffice defalca tion.—richmond va july 1!».--the surteies of postmaster frobest have obli gated themselves to make good the de ficiency in his accounts by noon on thurs day aud if that shall be done no steps to wards prosecution will he taken the postoffice is now virtually in charge of assistant postmaster holliday whose ac counts were by the postoffice inspectors found to be strietlj correet col holli day is oue of the postmaster's bondsmen a s..m\v";iu1.im's f.w i harrisburg i'a july 17 wm i darrah one of the annapolis naval cadets visiting bus city vhile in a tit of somnambulism last night stepped from a fourth-story win dow of bolton's hotel he fell a dis tance of thirty-live feet into an open cellar way smashing the steps and breaking three o the iron stanchions supporting it the only injury he received was a fracture of the left wrist ull the following story is told by uie wor cester gazette there was an elephant that bad been trained to play tbe piano with its trunk in a show i me day a new piano was bougth for it but no sooner had the elephant touched the keys than it burst into a flood of tears what nils you kieuni asked the keeper fie poor beast could onlv point to the ke s alas ! they were made of the tusks of his mother messrs templet n williams v co rc realizing a handsome thing from iheir flouring mill iu this place they are bu sy night and day and putting up from twenty to twenty-five sacks of the best of fiom daily thev can grind a bushel of corn in live minutes and :• husliel of wheat in eight minutes they are talk ing now of putting up another set of burrs to meet the pressing demand upon them for grinding — iredell gazette a proof of thc diminished hold of the dead languages upon modern educational institutions is found in the fact that at the recent commencement of eton school england only one greek passage and not a single latin one was on the pro gramme of tiie speeches made by the boys 1 am old enough adds an eng lishman to remember when the rule went the other way and even an english pas sage was almost au exci ption there live in this township coddle creek eighteen persons seventy-live years old and over eleven white aud sev en colored ; thirteen eighty years old and over eight white and live colored and three persons ninety years old and over two white ami one colored the oldest persons in the township are mrs ann smith 93 and mr j g templeton 92 iredell ca lie wc learn the hotels at morehead city are rammed jammed ami crammed with guests while the cry is still thev conic the excursion train which passed through this city yesterday cai ied down aboul jou more and but few of them returned lasi night nut shell english strikers london july in the strike of the colton operators at oldham has thus far produced very little effect no mill has stopped work it is believed the place of the strikers can be easily filled mrs helen hunt jackson has written a volume called a century of dishon or,'1 relating to the sufferings of the in dians thc policy and agents of the i'nited states the town and township of asheville including the penitentiary convicts and summer sojourners has a population of 5,(300 ■ * ■ — the committee of the congregation de propaganda fide at home having decided that the claim of tbe korean cactholic bishops in england to ex ercise jurisdiction over tlio members of religious bodies should lie rejected t lie pope directed that judgment l*e deferred and tbat all tbe document on the subjects be submitted t'i bim befon the cardinals meet to pronounce upon tii matter the < ardlnals were to have a~>cailit.-ij on tiie loth instant bat on tin morning of thai day received counter orders from his holiness it i | ointed out in cleri cal circles that canonical and judicial objections would prevent the congre gation of cardinals from admitting the claim of the english catholic bishops while on the other hand its rejection might prejudice the interests ofthe church in england the pope i therefore stated to he considering tlio expediency of issuing a special bull sanctioning the episcopal juris diction with certain limitations you cannot dream yourself into a character y<m must ham nur and f rgc yourself one