vol all a tiiiiij dj^iixliio salisbuey li c july 28 1881 no 41 xhe carolina watchman established in tiie \ ear i put contract adv rti ing bates .. tin ■'■ '■*■'■■' l2 '■' - ." i ■ - £# remember the dead v mil s hdtchdbffl italian ana ameii aimarlsre monuments niveslones 01 i \ ; 111 i>l i.u-tiox . enables me0fexcculin anj | '•'• ' ' work fr m the "., ..„., tothe mort elaborate in an jtvle and i a k.iarar.ty ll i ron call and i « ni ■ i 13 " ' " ' ' lie r..repurcl i ' :: r-v low t-i j • r i < i - ..; i xt door 1 1 u -<■■'"■■ ■ 2l!lt i r c uie selling 1 u faes a3 sl i blflstfn jjj.iuj11u.cl (.. . . and caj s 7 ' "■■■'■' ndpild.wi - l ll u 1 lluujul 05111114 t"i ctuic v : . 11.1:1 . , .. y a^io n its and cou:jsellcrs • ■ 1 ; . . f n.till < ; • . 1 • , ! . 1 ii »*>«*. ml mccorb atie ,■;■.-; 1 i's '-:.-"• ' opposite the coun ij • • . ;.: m " i kerh cr.i ' ..: ;,- p i c'rtttv ::. i . . i " ' *" " • c - •--».« j w % miw 1 attohjce v at !. iu salisb ry,x.c ! p ■ . . 1 i ■ ■: . . david lai wad-tohta p poetry tor lhe watchman holacn-sjcetcr i . dreamland wben tin sun was low all peaceful lav the pillowed snow and dark i winter *«, tin how ol midnight's darkened density b it i'j-.t am land saw another sight w in n the niusqueto came ait dead nf night dispersing thoughts of sleep in tli lit \',\ means of hia cussed hummery the victim all in white arrayed — the ' ki ter drew his battle made — and fuiiuus every muscle played to keep him from viscesery then bhook the walls with howling riven ; then rushed the hand by anger driven and louder than the bolts of heaven far souods the awful cusscry but retler yet lhat face shall glow and inader yet that man shall grow with the hum nnd stab of the niusqueto a believer in phlebotomy the combat deepens on ye brave who w i.-li for booty or the grave rave victim rave all thy senses rave and save your physiognomy few few shall part where many meet and there thev be on that stained sheet and nary a one ofthem aketers1 feet shall iiml a sketer's sepulchre ! there was a bright youngster named jack • on his dear mother's chair placed a tack she rose \\ ith a yip '." i liin grabbed the yound chip and warmed him down under hia back i rin n was :: young girl at waunc-ttc thought she could kill a musquitah she flourished her - upper but the \\ ise gal-i nipper remarked : l,l will beat a retreat ah ! ■ n ar ' r i » i i i niiiaam for tin watchman grand tournament f.i lb itado x c july 16th 1831 edit tr watchman : for lhe last mouth the young people oi montgomery county and especially the ladies had been looking forward with ro idei ible intercut to the ( irani tour ii.iinenl whicli was to be he'd at el dora do on tin loth inst nor were ihey dis appointed in their expectations the in lining !•; the eventful day was cool and promising but by noon old sol shone f»rth with his accustomed power in the aftcrti ion an immense crowd began gath i ring and before the exercises cimmenc ed i ; sc imi oi eight hit mi red people v ere on the ;.; ounds al liie lioui set a drizzling rain began i : i tail t liieii bid fair to interfere w ith the j anting im-nts but the gallant knights were no thus easily vanquished about loin o"cl i k they assembled in the lists readv u the joust llie absence of the iiinioi was the only way in whieh thev di tiered from the knights of old in gal lantly heroic bearing aud tender regards for the ladies they fully equalled that old sii t ic clad gentry the first knight to try his fortune ju uly i.e si led the blai k knight 1 mn lhe color ol his horse as often .'.. lhe daik horse carried the day liiis was nu exception the maximum ! inn i : nl rings was won by mr b hop kins ol kandoplpli who received the liihl crown i'he ncx successful riders wen mr l coggins and mr l russell both 01 el dorado tiny both rode ex cellently and well deserved the prize foi which iii'.1 fought ihe second und third crowns were awarded tothe above gen ii i icii while tho remainder ol the kubihts gained uo jiizes thev were not behind the lucky ones in gallantry and m rt inl bearing mr p u sanders of uwharrie was particu'.nily noticeable aud was the chevalier il-avard of the occa sion mr john sanders of ophir de bcrves praise for bis good riding aud had ids imi i noi become frightened his place would have been near the head if not there mr a ii sanders of ophir the rn arthur although with his trusty flxcalibui hi failed to get lhe prize he rode well and merited the praise which he received taking all into considera tion the tournament was a grand suc c - s in the evening h hall was held at which the queens n'i love and beauty were ed on behalf of mr hopkins mr sanders presi nted the first crown to miss lei the coggins the second was pre sented to miss minnie wood by mr ran dal harrison behalf of mr l coggins wiib dr rogers of washington pre sented to m ise nora forney the crown won b mr l russell the ball was a dccidi il • ticcess and lasted until the we1 snia1 hours among the many ladies pn -< nl we noticed miss l rily and miss davis of randolph misses mckinnon ol lov er montgomery miss d sanders aad miss fatter of uwharrie miss min ood miss leithe coggins miss no ra forney miss maggie henderson of i.i dorado nud miss harris of lexington much praise is due the knights for their . . i y aud perseverance in getting up ■ tho tournament everybody appeared to eniov themselves aud they all joiu inl ... ... wishing the knigl;ts good luck and hope j that before loi g they may have another j • uj ■;. able affair lance beat n and color of the hair may regained by using parker's hair i - a which is much admired for ita pur j • n ■• .- eanlincss an i dandruff eradicating • jly!4 ag!4 but how stands ilu case in north carolina correspondence of news a observer it is uie habit of writers in the li quor interest to discredit all unvrel came statistics from a distance by pro ducing distinguished opinions to set over against facts with them the opinion uf a new york city com tnercial newspaper out weighs the state ments of facts and observations on the puhject in maine by judges solicitors lawyers governors and senators in t lie twelfth annual report of the massachusetts bureau of statistics of labor january 1881 a tabuier statement i.s given of the liquor of fenses — arrests trials and convictions occurring in boston and tlie county in 1880 the result is that 84 ;>< r cent of the crihnnal cases were found to be connected directly or indirectly with the use of intoxicating liquors similar statements nre made by the judges and prison officers of the states i of connecticut new york penusyl ■ vania eel and of england also giv • iug the per centage of crime attribu j table to intemperance at 75 80 85 ! and 90 per cent but as these are all j too distant to have any weight what ever in north carolina with the class of reasoners referred to the executive committee ofthe prohibition conven tion have taken the tronble in the absence of any statistical records in this state to ascertain from some ot mir judges a statement of their obser vations on the subject of the relation ol crime and intemperance the following letter irom judge schenck will show what liquor drink ing does for north carolina : lixcolntox n c may 2 188 1 prof w c.kerr dear sir — your letter inquiring what per centage of crime in my opinion was attributable directly or indirectly to the intemperate use r.i anient spirits has been received i was at the bar from 1857 to 1874 and had a large practice on the crim inal side of tlie docket from 1874 to 1881 1 was one of tiie judges ol superior court of north carolina and traversed the sia;e from one cud of it to tiie other and therefore my opportunities for observation and re flection on this subject have been am ple 1 give you my deliberate opiu ipn that fully pevcnly*five per cent of ail clime in tins blatt is attribu table to intoxication by spirituous li quors and ihat of the crimes charac terized by violence the proportion is even larger 1 add to this that very much of civil legislation originates aiso in this fruitful gource of evil the taxes raised from the sale of spirituous liquors do not amount to one-fourth the money j t : < i out by the people in court costs jail fees lawyer's fees and other expenditures incident to the execution ofthe criminal law and three-fourths of these expenses us 1 befoie stated are chargeable to wii i.s ky now add to ibis the moral ruin the social destruction and the politi cal corruption which whisky product autl the computation i appaliinc to every virtuous and sober mind i have no doubt that the statistics you can gather trom the inmates ol our jails and penitentiary will confirm ill i have written wry truly yours d sciiexck judge eure says of homicides and all crimes againsl the public peace 1 am of the opinion that more than fifty nr centum of llu-se result direct ly from intemperance and he attrib utes many of the crimes of other classes indirectly to the same cause judge seymour says the com monest oflenscs on our dockcts are those with violence upon the person ofthe minor ones assault and batter ies and affrays c intemperance is the almost invariable cause of the cases of homicides which i have tried in the last two years i now recollect | ten of which six were in my opinion i traceable directly to drink with re gard to other offenses 1 cannot speak with as much certainty but tiie ad mitted truth is that the criminal class is as a rule a part of the intemperate class judge gudgerssys ofthe crimes of violence tried before me 75 per cent are due directly to intemper i ance in his charge to the grand ! jury at the la.-t anson couri be stal i ed that he had recently held court in two adjoining eastern counties each of large population aud otherwise sim ilar except in one respect — that the ' one xorthamton had a county pro i h ibi tory law the other halifax had il not in northampton he found eight h cases only on tiie do-ket which h«,i cleared the rbst day ju halifax he 1 he found a large number of cases i which took nearly the whole term nf ] court to try after moving some and i leaving a murder case on the docket i at a prohibition meeting in tl.e : town of weldon recently a very 1 striking address was nude by mr ' day a prominent lawyer of the conn j tr he said he had appeared for or j again forty five criminals who stood i j for their lives atid that forty-three hit ofthe forty-five could trace tlieir crimes directly to whisky that he i practiced in the conrts of northamp ton and that since whisky had been driven from the county the docket ; had dwindled until the judges and j lawyers had nothing to do will these facts too be whistled down the wind as i;i;iaiical ?" they are t!;e things that have so profound ly moved the staid old state and d rived her to seek a remedy x miscellaneous — - — — iff : a half dollar of 1807 is worth sev enty five cents alive-cent piece of 1795 in g"od condition is worth one dollar fifty-cent pieces of 1810 1810 and 1824 are worth sixty cents each a half cent for 1851 is worth eight cents a gentleman recntly provoked a one-armed organ grinder hy asking him if he was a survivor of the lute war why yon fool exclaimed the irate musician don't you see that i survive '? do i act as though i was killed in the war a person who has tried it says that a handful of tobacco stems placed in the box in whicli the dog sleeps will entirely rid him of fleas and that a leaf or two of tlie same weed put in a setting hen's nest keep vermin tit respectful distance these are two things tobacco is good for wc see it stated lhat col payne declines the nomination for governor of virginia at the hands of the dem ocratic convention upon the ground of ineligibility having borne a chal lenge flow can cameron the ke adjsister be a candidate then when he fought a duel with judge hughes a danville va blacksmith who is evidently a convert to the mahont theory of readjustment has posted the fo!low xoti — de copardner ship heretofo resisting betwixt me1 and mose skinner is resolved dem : what owe de firm will settle wid me ; an dem what de firm ow will settle wid mose tho cincinnati guzeiie says of the live hundred deaths which occur red in this city from tho excessive heat three fourths if uot a larger proportion arc traceable to lhe in temperate use of intoxicating liquors j all of which we respectfully com mend to the attention of advocates of whiskey new york herald carrier pigeons i last sunday morning conveyed to fom's river n j before eleven o'clock a summary of the most im porant news published in the her j eiltl these fleet winged aerial mes sengers may yet play an important part in the distribution of informa tion to points noi quickly attainable by post or telegraph the high french heel about whieh there has always been so much dis cussion is rapidly going nut of fash ion and in its place is a low broad heel place just where it should be and not under the bad of the foot true this innovation is apt lo make the fool appear at icast one-third lar ger but fashion demands the change if comfort there be about this new idea it will not be felt at first for the sensation of wearing low heels after using the high ones fur so many years is peculiar ti socro of j5cch norse at gran vilic corners mass « couple cf men began the work of drum making in 1s~>'a now thev have a fjve story factory 110x40 feet from which thev have turned out 79.000 drums thev were mostly toy drums and were made of wood tin brass and nickel the drumheads have used up 30,000 sheep | skins — scieittijic a ■-,-'.: m q'.;;k telegraphy — the direct cable company and the evening telegram of this < ity seem to be justly proud ofa recentfc.it in rapid telegraphy by whieh the result of the derby race in england was announced . here iu advance of all ether mediums of communication t^e telegram with its usual enterprise had an operator ar.d in strument on the grand stand at epsom the remainder of the story is thus record ed : liorses got away at 10:21:5 new york time iroquois passed winning post 10:53 55 new york time result reached new yeik 10:24 time occupied in transmis sion 5 seconds there ia a man in andover mass who has developed a higher degree uf finan cial genius than ordinary rogues can j show lie bought the material for a 10 i 000 house on six months credit and at ! the end of that time refusod to pay ah j the stuff was in the honse whicli stood iu j iii wife's name ti.o labor was obtained j iu the same way none of the men being paid and their employer have nothing nbject te execution this shrewd geu j ins lives contentedly iu his fine house j lint it is hardly necessary to remark that . lis neighbors do not love iiim much — ! wins4on leofc npcd not go to ma*f to cud n case j ike this tlicrc urc plenty similar ones i h«i t -.;'. home pleasing an amateur musician i thank said a well-known orchestral leader the best joke ever played in this town was on an ambitions amateur pianist when gottschalk was here the amateur's father was the owner of a large hall and i he offered the use of it to gottschalk fot j his benefit there was to be a piece foi j eight pianos and the amateur was to plav one of the instruments i waa^he leader i thought gottschalk would have a fit when i told him that the amateur couldn't play three straight notes - he is sure to throw us all out said i and ruin the performance gottschalk swore like a major bat t'was no good the bills were out and he couldn't go back on his programme even it the gift ofthe hall was no consideration to him at last i hit upon an idea that '. fixed the whole business the amateur j came down to rehcisal and we praised him j up until he thought he was the star of the j night as soon as he left we took the ham j mers out of his piano and made it as dumb us an oyster i guessed he would never j know the difference the seven pianos going at once the tuneful convention laughed aad just as i thought said the leader hammering on the table with his glass that amateur or his friends never discov ered the trick no t no sir he just sailed in and pound ed on that piano as if it were the worst ene my he ever had he was bound he would show off among so many good pianists and hammcrd on his key-board until the per spiration nearly blinded him now and then i looked at him approvingly to give him fresh courage and every time that i did he gave the piano a lick that nearly made matchwood of it his friends all around threw bouquets at him till he look ed like a wedding arch and when it was all over his fond parent fell on his neck in the greenroom and slipped a check for 250 into his hand the old man didn't know whether he was standing on his head or his heels he was so tickled ai.d the wav he set up the wine for the crowd was a cau tion didn't he look fine said lie to me among so many first-class professionals tool i never heard an amateur do so well in public said i what's more i meant it ch ,' don't you think i was right ("' the great comet now in sight the comet which made its appearance to the naked eye in the northeastern sky on the morning of june 23 and was seen from many points between hartford conn and s.in francisco ca is perhaps the comet lately reported by dr gould of cordova observatory in south america it appear i ed after its pethelion passage in the con ; steilation auriga about eight degrees from capella with a bright center and a tail 15 degrees long it promises to be a conspic uous object in the heavens this summer the new comer was almost simultaneous ly discovered in this country by p h thompson blufton ga ; by t l ed wards haverford college pa ; e l lar kin new windsor and several others we are indebted to mr thompson for a special telegram announcing his interesting obser vation a correspondent of the new york sun reports the discovery of the comet at a little before 2 o'clock a m june 23 at wash ington this we believe is the very earli est sil-ht of the stranger and may entitle the observer to tho warren prize of 200 the first appearance of the comet is thus described by the sun correspondent : jusl before 2 o'clock this morning the writer was summoned to an upper story window by a night watcher in the hotel pointing to the horizon just east of the georgetown heights the watcher said : j don't you sec that distaut fire v shooting up from the horizon was a bright silvery perfectly defined and steady stream of light fan shaped it was wholly unlike the light of a distant confla gration the stream seemed to reach fur ther and further up pointing to the pole star the boundary lines were weil de fined and converged it was no fire there were none ofthe waves of light suggesting an auroral display the distant glitter of r moving electric light was tlie only ex planation that could be civen ofthe singu lar phenomenon suddenly there arose from the horizon a brilliant disk of light bright as venus at her brightest and ful'y as large as that plane appears into this disk or nucleus the fan-shaped stream of li^ht converged there was no longer any doubt : it was the bursting into view of a comet the like of which has not been seen since donatio comet of 23 years ago tlie comet rose rapidly and boeame a splendid object at 8 o'clock it was about 15 degrees above the horizon ar.d 45 de gree's north of the rcoou at this altitude the tail waa about 10 degrees long it moved apparently rapidly in an easterly direction and waa visible until after sun rise at half past four it was e«a at bcdie cab where the nucleus was well defined and the tail brilliant it was observed at tombstone arizona at four a m wi-h tlie nucleus apparently half the size of a ' full m^on and the tail fan-shape and very brilliant a dispatch f.om london sajs the ne comet i the ortl-.eolt^rn bc&vcnj can bo spen b the unaided rye even in the more ing twilight it is predicted bv astrono mers that before the 1st of july it -..::; be visible all night i the identity of this remarkable bod ; will doubtless be socn determined pro 1 feasor lewis swift thinks it may possibly i j prove to be the great comet of 1818 wbh i • . lias been expected to reappear in thi qaar ■ ter aboot this time dr gould of the national observatory . of the argentine republic st cordoba s a . 1 announced june l the appearance there of • j a large comet which he suspect to be the great comet of 1807 though that cemet waa ', not expected to return for some fifteen cen turiea scier.tlf .- a meriean an english medical loxdox july ?.— the lancet the lead ing medical journal of london on -: i t accounts of the condition of mr garfield are on the whole satisfactory they have reasonable ground for hope there nre ol course many perils still to be encoun tered secondary internal lieaion may occur when the ballet is surgically or accidently displaced extensive inflam mation or blood poisoning is possible but looking at the case as n whole and reculliug the history of similar c ses it is impossible not lo feel that q fairly good hope is permissible it may be assamed that the course taken by the bullet in-tst have been snch as to avoid injury u the most important structures it ia search possible that nny large vessels can have been injured nnd a hypothesis of the complete severance or even of a severe injury of tie great nerves is not necessa ry to account tor the pains in the lower j extremities the liver it wounded can hardly have been extensively lacerated if mr garfield survives the perils of the j next few days and the bullet can bo ex , ti acted there cau be no medical reason j at least arising out ot the general char acter of hia injuries why he should noi 1 do well i electjitcai light patexts about 1 t'i • patents hare so far been granti il fo : eats relating to electrical lighting in this 1 country and about goo more applicat as i for patents thereon are now when wc consider the irm nnml i patents now existing a.r telegi 1 atnimcnts telephones alarm 1 trier j batteries bw itches and the iiiiiii ..- ofi i electrical devices it will rea . i 3tood that the patent office at is rapidly becoming a great b ire hous ol i novelties relating to electricity and i t ; thii branch or invention is already extraordinary magnitude — scii '■-' .. ican linconton progress : the west n i railroad hr been cnnij k-tetlnl miles below asheville and will reach marshal madison imniity by the 20tti inst and form a through connection hi the last of november to tcntiess e w !•• ;-• this line is finished all tlie force now i - 000 hands will be concentrated 1 •;. ii ducktowu line this line wil lie com pleted to pigeon river by the isl of no vember also some of tbe parsons at lli north j arc prettp plain bpeakiug people i anunig others we notice that kev ll j c mac arthur of new york assail ed vice-president arthur in i.i ser j mon accusing him of being coukhng s tool and deploring the possibility ol i his becoming president and kev i mr lnbinger at philadelphia in the course of his sermon said : i fhis last act which fills all minds is but the natural and legitimate outcome ol stalwartism it is the culmination of crime this man guitcau was not insane he had a personal grievance it is true but he was ino'-ed lo the commission of crime bj the factious spirit of partisanship not that had any personal relations with the leaders of stal wartism but his act ir the logical fruit of their ideas and spirit whatever the issue stalwart ism if doomed the people will no longer consent to be ruled by a mod ern mephistophiles 6uch as k conkling there i neci for a ; ! ical protestantism lhat shall i against the leaders of this spirit for the assassin there - i be no maudlin sentiment a-id there j shall be none from this pulpit he uhould die the death whether thi ! president dies or uot i cpr _ a doo diks of grief — at 1 '.- i burial in caldwell rccenty of tiie in i fant daughter of ca;>t roland it wa ! observed that a dog that had heen ii i lowed to play with the child when alive had followed the remains to the j grave aud while arrangements were being made for the interment n tin baby the dog bung aronnd the corpse rooaniug most piteoosly and other wise exhibiting its grief and whet the grave wa opened it jun ped in and refused to come out for r v f or scolding at last tlie dog wa tied with a rope ami taken from the i ground and secured to a tree to prc 1 vent its go;ng into the grave again [ after tlie bur;ul rite were performed nnd the dog w;i approached to br t rned loose it was found t - ' r dc d — dnrlarm ttemrilcr arab maxims _ i let yonr colt be domesticated ■ n ] hve wiih you from his lenderest age and when n horse . j _ e kith ful and in sj pam fatigue do noi | speak to ihem in a uo not gel angry with i . ■ kind iy reprove them i : | * ; tbey will do letter thereafter „„. demand he t m»ng it you ■ j v -:..:• let him frquentl " wind continue i sweated and dried three ti j you may ask of please he will • culty oi serve i - . ffhen ho « drinking at a brook if in bring ing down his bead . ns square witliout bending his posset ses sterling qualities and ail parts of his body are built -- fo«r things i . :.;__ front chest . . four things long n k an crup ; four •:. :; . a rr ssterns • back cars and tail ! i ulster of the obi red cent as tl i cent * now passed oul : _ •. .,;.. en bucket its ir ry '-- a i sufficient inli prcscrvsti lhe cent u is grst pro ■ ' ■', bv rob ert morris and was named bv jeffer son two years . ib -. 1 • '. its ap pearance from the mini i 792 it i bore the head of washing in oi • si«ie and thirteen links on 1 j 1 he i renc i rev ■• ■• - la j rage tor f ■:• h ' . n hi h put on i - . head of v godi -- ->:' liber y i f i lie • hain o v as displaced b the n ! but the french !.; ertv •-. | lived and - • ,,:. j cent the nexi _• ■ .. that -- lame i with a gllel a came into fashion about •',,; ty years n x,.]v i u'l"ei - . |,| jv ; effected ;■•. ;.. ns of tin iti rift i . riinfl i .' j ; vii ine '•• - : , ., sing ; airs :; expresses . • 1 vi ry fu ' of c i • -.. of j an advancing : : 1 1 tion intel . - , • ntcr ; into its mea ing l . < noi mean ; wealth but c -.,:• • - and ine rich mn - - poor thrifty i i the u • that holds < tu ;• : i nl mise and g:v ■- hostngi * to 1 riic thrift of society iii rise to the snr ! face : lhe thriftless as . sink to lhe bottom no :.. igl ilnl erson ! can deem these _ -. they i follow as use the < i busin - • of monev | i;i modern tin . •• i • ■ ■ ■ v iuto sp tidthrift i >!(«, which ring rty ;:: tin evidence - of pn • able to resist thi '• n ish ai , ty the jev - is a mir trie the . ; ition of the small vie - v .. i • c lie anv people the v ic ... idern iti s arc eating oul the pn -;• rity of our pco le tl . | : .:■. n:ni sport ing mom y would if cxp nded in nrojw i v -, • ii 1 1 ople pro , . so i burning <<• . | i months : dense of j ivan nah r i ver - • ■ , . • • ce du ring that pei ••• i - : ' ■ wc the some a ri • fi is in that l cality whii i fire during r in may aud boon ri ide sin . as to de fy attempia to < ■■" nguish it i gelta chcves i v s plant a tious ■• e an fcred gn atly * rr i 5 the i stent i ; ri ; of tl i l of those valuabi ' ! it i o alrca b i ■ burnt d wet sea i vi i • dan ■■■ ■' lo i.e soil that will rerj uii • ntm i - ■ ■• - co rho czar is a i smoker and i;e nii list i m alom . elying th ■ .. ■ • lo do 1 1.-"1 devilment r exchange ~.-\- i • v h tb ; are , oing out of fa dii , uml thai _;;; i baby is all '. - : fashi m }*■■ rinit . v*"o had bu ppi r : ihal fashion didn't erroit am babies ; ' all /*'■ >; fl r,r rv