the carolina watchman vol xii teirl series salisbury v g january 13 1881 k0 18 the carolina watchman established in the year 1632 i'iil e 1.5(1 in ai>vax :'.. contract advertising rates j iii;l ail's 20 1ss0 li ,. - fi da's 12 la's - .- . . . i 5(1 :, 5 7 7.50 !..:■:. i3.5u __<_■_ c 1 i do r . mm :■■:■•■■-■ 4mm -.-■■■■■■. ~ bmwmmwmmtyl rossadaus mmm i i ihll__hit i*h t7tti r~v~iii — ~ imile great southern f i a remedy for no euro or scrof i r i s t:;inf rhcu i hi ._!•._-. oat goure li n iv v iril.t :': •■' •' ■•' • l ' s.'s ducaac nr ing irom an i ro condition c!'t!:o lloail ssula or sr-..i cures scrofula a^we3b--_-s_e3_2e£3_kabb cares rheumatism d_fe»r ' 2__i_b_^__i__idis?ss¥a cares sy-._i__iis . liygiassbbe&sgbggt-ga-a-b a irosabaziis jljj c-::re malaria & i scares kervoaa debility a_s_ti_*»i^^-_?s^^ss s s r*ff irii aii rl im-erf cures < onsubsption lm i t ingredient published on ctct-v . .- u i . . . , . ; : .- i . ; : . i . i a ho will teu i altls i • ' t • . : isca . _..■• ... ia 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. • l in this city m»e cheapest . :' -• ■< ■] ■ \\ ill repair u the lr.-t , ! stills on ; notice n.m tf f if rou wish jpm your watches and j__s clocks sewing mai*liii:os c repairs tl by a good cheap and responsible workman please leave them with mefwrs khui v reodleman bali burv n ('. 1'ly e.'l brown cheap chattel mortgage iher blanks for eau here communicated forth watchman at home dec 29 1 30 mr editor i see that the two amend ments to the constitution submitted by the legislature of 1^79 to the voters of the slats l..r their ratification or rejection has been ratified by a majority of the g ■ people of the state and by the pro clamation ofthe governor they are parts of the constitution of the state as to the amendment in regard to the fraudu lent is'bi of the statr thai is final and si < ls no legislation to make it effective but the amendment in regard to the deaf mutes blind and insane of the state this legislature has the power and tis its duty by wise action to make it both eco nomical ami a blessing ts ths tax-payers <'!' the stale ivithout infringing on the welfare ol thoso unfortunate beings as ! was intended b the mover of said amend ment in the session of 1870 ami the : mover of said amendment eels it his du ly although hi can expect but little ben efit therefrom being close ou the home stretch of three score years and ten to state for the benefit of after generations thai some of the most poteut reasons that : prompted said amendment arc the follow i big : under the constitution as it was the legislature had ns power to restrict ex ps'iisos within proper bounds aud the outlook being so gloomy as regards the insane open to fraud most gigantic and when the prospects of the state would have been completely damaged by these galvanized philanthropists the cos in the near future would have been a quarter of a million of dollars yearly ; thai tin limit of taxation would have been entirely in su.'licienl for state and county need ami ' i here say thai these pretending philan thropists will not be easily choked off ; they have a hand in ami they will light a deadly fight to keep their hold tlie ! present amendment puts ii s ntirely under ; the control ofthe legislature with regard to the indigent insane and cuts off all those able to pay as well as the deaf mutes and blind we shall pass by the deaf mutes ami blind we think their case has upon ihe whole been judicious i hut not so with the insane no going far back bu liegiuuiug with the asylum at baleigii : at the sessions s.i i677and 79 there was up propria ted s(»0,0(h i year : tor two years ami for 1878 there was a dtdieieney of 8,000 for about 270 insane ' say tlie i is named year 000 at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars a head and yet there was a howl from dr g lissom for inure money while the state of georgia's insane cost her about one hundred and tlii ity live dollars each a year to me this looks in this state instead of galvanized philanthropy like i thieving philanthropy ! dr g lissom took for i8g8 si 15 more than georgia per capita shame ! the legiidatnrc of 1877-'7s appropri ated 100 for each outside insane and before the session of 1879 adjourned the treasurer paid out some forty thousand dollars to them some counties taking more money mil of the treasury than the taxes they paid in for their insane a very large crop of insane i think under this law the commissioners iu each county , in ths state inside a general grab on the state treasury why they would ran sack tlu poor houses i know that one commissioner hauled a two-horse load of them to salisbury to get them on tlm charge of the state and 1 dou't blame them ; for it was merely a shameful grab game and all tho way they could get a half showing to grab too they got five through aud most of them i have been credibly informed wero as good hands to work as could be found anywhere by this wholesale grabbing as the late chief justice said on another case the stale treasury became exhausted and the hut legislature could not as much as pay fifty dollars a head the treasurer being before the legislature said there was no money for them il was exhausted now lets peep into 1878 and see what it cor-l ihe slats for the insani ia that year and making provision for them in the future tin asylum at kaleigh 68,000 outside lunatics 940,009 morganton as ylum 30,000 asylum at goldsboro 50,000 in all for 1878 1.18,000 is it any wonder that the treasury should be come exhausted worse than the late judge tea oii*s judiciary now six years ago the legislature became very much a gal vanized philanthropic body when thoy slisi not or pretended not to be able to pay any interest on the public debt appropri ated only tie small ami insignificaut sum of 75,000 tss buiiil another asylum at morganton two years thereafter that small sum showed the foundation laid the legislature of 1870 77 appropriated for i ami 78 00,000 more for comple ting the main building ami one wing was it done '.' no bul the money was then the legislature of 1879 gave them 50,000 more and at the called ses sion ihat was spent and the building not ready to accommodate ono lunatic and like the horse-leas-h the cry was fir $•_">.- noil mors yes more but they slid not gel it anybody can see thai morganton must lis insane or they think the rest of the state are to let them filch the hard earnings of the people already one hun dred aud eighty-five thousaud dollars it is no wonder morganton has so plenty of money when if it takes 17 silver dollars to weigh a pound she has grabbed 7>,ihk pounds or five two-horse loads of silver i 1,000 pounds to a load wi ask will you make the insauo wait ; till ihey are dead ? it seems so the money is what they are after what do they care for the insane and now let mc advertise that these same galvanized ''■ philantrophists will twist wrangle and howlc in our legislature to make the i laws under the amendment in their favor j to keep on grinding the blood and bones j of the hard working people of the state for iheir special benefit will they bull doze the legislature ? we shall see the amendment says the general assembly may provide that tho indinge&t deaf mutes blind and insane of the state shall be cared for at the charge of the state imtti provide it gives the legislature | discression to make that provision or not ' as they may elect i hope the general assembly will uot undertake to provide | fur them at the charge of the state if they sis that amendment is and will be worth less the general assembly should recur to first principles if they do the grabbers occupation will be gone and in the near future it will save to tax payers nt least 50,000 dollars ■'■ the legislature should i enact luvs making each county pro vislc for its own indigent deaf mutes bliiisl and insane that the stale treasur er acquaint the commissioners of the sum : required for their maintenance and remit i j : the amount ts tiie sheriff when they make i their returns of taxes collected for the ' state and further the whole matter of : sending these unfortunates to the assyluin : lu left in the hands of the county com missioners with a skilful physician to constitute the board and further in any ourt where a criminal pleads iu sanity as a mitigation of his crime the physician should be tendered ts give impartial evi dence in the case thnt the county may not unjustly or wrongfully sustain dam age sinsl that the commissioners shall be required to advertise in their several counties from the 1st of september to the first of december in each and every year who the county sustains and pro vides for and the cost and the board so constituted should have exclusive is - er to sensl or not as ihey may think best for the insane or keep them at home for one of the assistant physicians at j raleigh iu 1870 said that two-thirds of ; the inmates of the assylum had no busi | ness there then it is useless to send them to the assylum and it can't benefit them why not keep them at home and save at least one-fourth of tho cost ! where ihey nre not malignant their friends would keep thein and they would not be incar cerated iu tin worst of prison for life let the poor insane have all the liberty and enjoyment of freedom that thoy can enjoy that god has given them to be incarcerated in an arssvluni for life is horrid worse a great deal than the pen itentiary in it a large majority of cases have hope of liberty at some time and in a large majority they are bleak and fat ; and with the colored they seem to be happy lint look at most of the inmates in tin asylums there is no hope when it shall end it is misery multiplied who can solace it ? is it any wonder that like the bird robbed of its freedom it pines away and dies so do they to them it is creation's blot and sometimes they are incarcerated by mercenary motives men and women who are sane are in for life by their enemies or relatives to get them out ofthe way of which sort the asylum at kaleigh may not bean excep tion and i think there is reasonable ground for the legislature to create a committee of experts to examine and if anyare thus incarcerated give them the lib erty god has given them to enjoy and to examine the roil and call each one and report the actual number in the insane assyluin at kaleigh one other commit tee to examine whether the outside insane received the one hundred dollars for 1877 and 78 or how much ami what wns done with the ballancc and if their monies were misappropriated by commissioners to bring them to punishment d baiuungkr jackson hill n c dec 23th 1880 i.n carolina watchman : on yester day came off the closing exercises of the fall term for the current year of tho school at mineral springs institute in stanly county exhibiting as is usual for that institution marked credences ofthe untiring energy and skill of the teacher and the good deportment zeal and pro gress of the students the only eircuiu stauce'calculated to mar in the least the enjoyment of the whole c«:asion was the inadequacy of the size of the academy to the accommodation of the large crowd present this inconvenience seemed to be unimtis-ed however and notwithstand ing tiie chilliness of the weather alien joyed it hugely those living at a dis tauoe set out for their respective hs.mes to-day traveling over bad roads and ' through a most blinding snow-fall feel < ing that they had been richly repaid for all their trouble aud carrying with the in ( their hopeful sons and daughters to fee • loved ones at home and to enjoy the christmas holidays the teacher mr 0 c hamilton the trustees and the people generally of the i vicinity arc now making active prepara tions for constructing a new and much larger school-building near tho site of the old one which when completed will no doubt afford the amplest accommoda tions and reflect honor on all who may contribute either in money materials or labor to its construction they do not intend that this school shall like many others in the country go dowu but that it shall be perpetuated • and with annu ally increasing educational facilities ex tend its enlightening influences to very remote parts of our country the writer of this was most agreeably impressed with the evidences of profound interest in the school manifested by the people of the neighborhood all even those whose heads were wni timed by the frosts of more than seventy winters were in attendance by night u well as day giving their undivided attention to all that transpired and tendering their hos pitalities to those from a distance dif ferences in politics and religion had no power to alienate them from a common brotherhood in the great cause of educa tion the only true foundation of enlight ened christianity there seem to be two elements essential to the success and per petuation of any school they are these 1st a good teacher * and busily concert of action on the part of himself the trus tees and the people generally ofthe vicin ity in its support the school at min eral springs is evidently blessed with these elements and hence its success on the above occasion the writer had the pleasure of meeting intelligent gen tlemen from this adjoining county of montgomery of whom he sought informa tion concerning that wolf wliich was killed about a month ago in the big woods a few miles northeast of troy and ofthe true wolfship of which many were for a time in doubt having seen the stuffed hisls of the animal in question he was satislied that it was that of a rertiable wolf but desired to know the thoughts of others lie was informed that no tissubts any longer exist in the part of country near where the animal was killed * that the best judges and among them gentle men who have resided in countries where the wolf is common unhesitatingly pro nounce him a wolfj that since tin one re ferred to was killed three or four others have been seen ; and that one william hurley had recently lost more than a hundred head of sheep which though killed by carnivorous animals were not killed by dogs now whence came those wolves . are they aborigines of the county of montgomery or are they immi grants from other parts settling there and claiming the rights of squatter sov ereignly ? is iltiiyoi'liasios miscellaneous prohibition from the n j pre«byterian in another column wc publish a card to ihe public on the subject of a prohibitory law for the state of north carolina it will be observed that a state convention is called for the 12th of january prox the time is short and it behooves the friends of temperance to bestir themselves let there be delegates from all sections of the state it is pleasing to note that secular papers are coming out in favor of this measure and that the movement seems to be growing into enthusiasm the north stale press says — and we could expect nothing else from that quarter let every christian man woman and child take a hand and soon our good state will blossom with prosper ity and the courts will be rid of two thirds of the business that pile upon the docket of every county and mon ey will be save to tlie tax-payers in the way of bills of cost fastened upon the people by the result of liquor sell ing do a good work and you will never regret it and the durham recorder the question presents itself and the question of the hour — shall indi vidual freedom war against the best interests ofthe whole one is grant ed a license to distill ; another a li cense to sell his right to a living is thus guaranteed but may it not be that this right to a living involves at the same time the death of his patrons the turmoil of communities the ani mosities of individuals ? we believe they do and shall make no objection to laws which not founded on tem perance intolerance but on sound so cial principles shall come in to say that prohibition shall be the govern ing principle of future state legisla tion the farmer and mechanic of ilal 2:gh comes out in favor of suppress ing the liquor traffic in the following weighty words : we can give the names of thirty v*ouiig men who like ourself were .. . _ i barely able to vote when the war closed they were young men who in physical and moral manhood in social standing in old family names and in future prospects had no supe j riors in north carolina yet to-day . fourteen years later all occupy forgot ten graves and many of them fell within half a dozen years ! well what shall be done to our mind the only thing that can be done is to stop the manufacture of liquor nothing but a late declaring all kinds jof intoxicating drinks rank poison j and therefore under the ban and sub ject to destruction wherever found will do any good we know by per sonal experience that no moral re jstraint no appeal to manhood no ex ertion of will-power can stop the , large majority of intemperate men i from taking the fatal cup just as long ; as they can get it and so long as it | is made they will have it our secular exchange list is very small and doubtless many other pa | pers arc in favor of the measure even i of our exchanges we may have over looked some who would like to be classified as in favor of the good work we will gladly publish the names of any that may come to our knowledge ; the methodist baptist and presby terian papers are committed to it | strongly and if we are not mistaken ithe church messenger the episcopal organ is decidedly favorable to the movement temperance und legislation cation farrar in a recent address entitled temperance and legisla tion published by tlie national tem perance socity referring to the cry so often made that yon cannot make people sober by act of parliament says : gentlemen it is not true that you cannot ts an immense extent make people sober by act of parlia ment you can : it has been done over vast tracts of america it is being done in wide areas of our colo nies it is done in hundreds of our english parishes where the land-own er has the wisdom to shelter his peo ple from crime and pauperism by the simple rule which he on his single authority can make and make un questioned but which hundreds of poor men and poor women and poor children on his estate cannot make however passionately they may desire it and however deeply it affects their social moral and religious welfare — namely that there shall not be a sin gle liquor-shop on his estate not make peoplesober by an act of parlia ment ! why at this very moment to their immense benefit you arc mak ing 20,000 people among whom are the very worst drunkards in england not only sober by act of parliament but absolute teetotallers who are these why they are the poor pris oners now in our prisons not one of whom from the day he enters prison is allowed to touch a drop of alcohol and who in consequence of this re striction arc as a class in spite ofall their other disadvantages so complete ly the healthiest class of people in england that there is a lower rate of mortality among prisoners than there is among professional men and that as the death-rate stands highest ofall among publicans who sell alcohol so it stands lowest of all among the pris oners who are absolutely deprived cf every drop of it there is little safety in locking doors when professional burglars are in town if the key be taken out of the lock they quickly fit one to it if the key be left in the lock they use a small pair of nippers of the best steel with a sliding ring graduated so that when they have clamped the nib ofthe key have an outside handle and can unlock the door as readily as if the real handle were outside the best protection is a thumb latch with a nail above it the latter to prevent its being raised by a long thin blad ed knife which burglars carry for the j purpose there is also little securi ty against professional burglars in fastening the window with a nail un less driven very tight and one on each side the scoundrels carry a ball of wax which they press against the window pane until it sticks then ( they use a small glass cutter such as | may be found anywhere and by tlie aid of wax easily cut out a large hole without the slightest sound insert an arm take out the nail or catch raise the window take oft their shoes ami are ready for operation a small wiry fellow with a step like a cat and the self possess ion of long train ing can then go through room after room selecting every thing of value while the owner with his wife and babies lies in blissful unconsciousness usually the rogues by watching around the house at bed-time can tell ! by the lights not only what rooms are sleeping rooms but also precisely where the door the bureau aud the ! bed in each room arc located this is less difficult iu small towns where1 gas is not used than in cities for > when the inmates carry a lamp it is1 to tell by the reflection the location of the bureau mantle-piece and bed so that the creeping marauder is in little danger of stumbling on the wrong spot it is well for the public to know these things as th cold hard winter up north is driving swarms of tramps and outlaws down south — farmer and macjianic our legislature organized and ready for work list of the officers raleigh n c jan 5 the senate and house met at noon to day a quorum was present the members were sworn in by the clerk of the late house gol john 1 cameron of durham notices were given of one contest in the senate and two in the house w t dortch of wayne was chosen president of the senate pro tern and c m cook of franklin speaker of the house ; ii m fur man of kuncoinbe chief clerk of the senate john h small of beaufort reading clerk of the senate thomas c evans of reidsville reading clerk ofthe house john h cameron of orange principal clerk ; j s tom linson of catawba engrossing clerk senator morgan of alabama in a recent interview gives expression to a sentiment which has gradually gain ed ground since the election it is in efl'ect that trade not the politicians is to rule hereafter in answer to a question as to whether garfield would pursue a pacific course towards the south or attempt a coercive interfer ence with oiir affairs he said the people ofthe united states will reg ulate that matter on strictly business principles and mr garfield will fol low the course of trade the inter nal commerce of the united states is by far the most important interest of the american people and that is be ing conducted in the most friendly possible spirit the merchants of new york would sue out a writ of lunacy against one of their number who would write to his customers that he regarded them as a set of bar barous bull-dozers and an unchristian set of peeple who resort to force and fraud to keep themselves iu power and that he would neither soil them goods nor buy their cotton mr xordlioff writes to the xew vork herald : the southern negro is niulonbtcdly ho most docile nnd ou the whole the liest pcasaut laborer in the world hut the southern white does issit know how to manage him this is modest the southern people who were reared with the uegroe.s and thoroughly understand them ds not know how to manage them f course the northern man knows all about it this reminds us of the hundreds of north erners who pitched their tents in the south immediately after the war sinsl rent ing or buying farms began to show the i'miorant southerners how very little they knew about cultivating the soil the re sult can be summed up in a few words : the despised southrons own those farms now and the boastful northerners have long ago busted and departed to parts unknown and now the northern wise men are to teach the stqpid southern whites how to manage the race they have played with and heeu on tonus of kindness with from childhood all the lessons the colored man and brother have learned tlios far from northern apostles have not tended to make them wiser happier or better aud this is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth wil star clover-roots contain tiie most fer l tilizing matter after the stems bave l been atlowed to go to seed ' > noted forgers hj-t ,,-•;,( opcrmththoh two continents their arrests new york jan 8 last wednesday a cable dispatch to police commissioner smith from consul crosby at florence advised him ofthe capture in that city of three american forgers who were travel ing with their wives under the names of george ashton colbert henry wills and james j julius forged securities ut ters of credit and drafts of american banks were found iu their possession telegraphic correspondence with consnl crosby developed the fact that colbert was alias for ivte hums wills for wilkeb and julius for shell hamilton who was out of prison for nine montlu a dispatch was then received which nt nouneed that evidence had been found t the police of florence implicating charlc becker and geo engels in the forgerie and asking for their arrest engels'sali as as discovered by the italians wa helger traps were set at once for the two men by the police and on friday night engela was arrested and locked up at the police headquarters detective were sent to becker's house about t*t*o miles back of new lots in king's coun ty on wednesday they watched the house all through t|ie snmv st0rm and mi friday morning they arrested their man as he was descending the steps of hit residence and took him also to the police headquarters the florence authorities were advised of the capture of these men and they sent word back that extradition papers would be forwarded nt once charles becker is well known to polico as the man who perpetrated the 64,000 forgery on the union trust company in 1873 he was arrested and a plate of n forged chick was found at his house he was a prisoner in the tombs and ludlow stseet jail for a long time but escaped punishment before that he had been imprisoned in constantinople for forging turkish bonds and broke jail with two confederates joe elliott and charley draper he is according to information gained by tin police charges with com mitting a murder in europe some vears ago edward barns is a liquor dealer at mercer aud houston streets in this city he is under police sarvillance tho poor judges in the lirst place any lawyer fit to bo a judge is apt tss have given up a practice worth doable the salary the salary is 2,500 but the judge has to pay his trav eling and boarding expenses under our present system of rotation he has to l>e away from his family nearly six months in the year and if he should live in pas quotank and be holding court in the cherokee district he would have few op portunities to pay even a living visit home he has sometimes to travel twen ty or thirty miles in au old open convey ance no matter how bad the weather is and when he arrives in the village he puts up at the hotel (!) did we say ho tel ? shades of ecelcs and blacknall de lend us there he has to stay one and sometimes two weeks in his room you can stick a fence rail through the wall tin linen we mean cotton upon his bed was clean whin it was new tho table the landlord intended to supply but the market gave out the biscuits tempt him but when he breaks them open he funis them all sicklied o'er with tlit pale cast s.l soda and so on wo might mention other discomforts ho is subjected to occasionally in the smaller towns and lis undergoes all this gives up a practice worth twice the net salary for the honor ot beiug a judge — anson times this wc suspect ia a neat bit of irony there are very few law vers who make more than 2,500 a year even in tho three cities'1 of the state we havo heard very eminent counsellors say that they barely earned their family expenses and if there lie a lawyer in the state — strictly dependant on his profession for a livelihood who will not jump at the chance of being a judge even at 2,000 salary we should like to see him create a vacancy ami then watch tho i'ro fessors if \ u wish to sec a null for 2,500 salary and sour soda biscuits ! - farmer dr met intuit l!i:in is av'i nr uobse -< ne of the wood haulers who hav all been having such i fete champetre so to peak for the last week yesterday came in with a two horse load as the supply has been considerably better and prices off in con sequence he asked only 1.75 for it a hebrew citizen his only taker offered si in and ihe trade fell through the wagoner couldn't stand the racket au drove off for home with his wood unsold but overtaking a sympathizing friend al ths cre«k borrowed i horse from ihe hit ter's empty wagon spiked it before his double team and returned t «> tsiwn iu all the glory of a three-horse load the sains citizen watchful for a bargain,hail ed hin two aud a quarter was de iiiaiiik'l i takes dot tree-horse load for 2.25 drive him to mein house dat is someding liki it clanluttc d tern ,-.