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tiie carolina watchman ol xh.--third series salisbury n c september 8 1881 no 47 the carolina watchman bed in thk yeah 1882 . ic $:..-" in advance — p ♦**■»—■rovtract advertising rates tw * february 20 iss0 i n mth s ...'■- s m*s ei m's is u.'n - - tl r.u u l 13 ■•'■'■16.00 t-vj l 50 i 5 7.60 11 rn 4 •... 8 00 7 re 11.0(1 15.00 i 9.00 13.:u 16.00 11.25 16.60 85.00 ..... 15.13 20.50 *•'.:<. 4c.i 1,.75 8c.m bs.t6 4-.7s 75.00 gpmemib thi dead ik johh s hutchison dealer is italian j-nd american marble j monuments tcurbs and gravestones ■__. nl kvi.i.'l i.i.-..i:i»'ii'>n | e ii ■i practical marble-worker u enables m . of executing any piece of work from the ... must elaborate in an artistic a guaranty that perfect satisfaction -'■exacting patrons , unlne my sto-i k and prices be fl ip re ha»ing,a»iwilliell at the very low i-i . for any desired work i ipplication at next door m r!s's store ' " ,. s '*, march 9 1881 21:ly . | 1 r crawford & co are selling portable faem and factory immjeflffi blastim ¥ cartiilps and caps lis finest eifle powder life vasons w -«■wagons id f irelg a make and buggies r uie i .:. • il ••■ii 1 cheapest rufer belttdi cliampion mower horse rakes c ry jan 8 18 i ly zb vance w ii bah ev vance & bailey attoun a's and counsellors charlotte s c lice i supreme court of ii.e uniled bute supreme courl of north carolina 1 '<■lei \\ i iris and counties of mecklenburg ; i ab.irni union gaston ltowan and david i io ttji idxce two doors east of i ml pen 3 i •'• m u orkle theo 1 kluttz mccorkle & kluttz attorneys and counselors salisbury x c m^office mi i'o'.ineil street opposite he tout t rouse 37:6m i srb cbaioe r ii clement ilj crmge & clement 3ttonu\j at i!au il | m , hisbcrt.5.c ml | •"■^» m-s mmmmm-mvm amm*umwaimmra ilyey at l.hv \ salisbury iv.-c in the state and federal 12:6m j blastmer ami henoersor udi-aeys counselors aud solicitors salisbury n.c j*nnay22 1879 ti tawdgeths l/u4 x - ' ti\-»iv innl ' l-r -- / k <•'.'-.• l f estcn.'rr s~~l n.vt-i*.n .'.'*.',',■-';,'•;':• '<, -;,,- 3fpsn ,.._,.^ ' ' u ' deferred items there are some personal points about gen garfield that bring him near to the people who are always touched by any uu usual exhibition of human feeling the presence of his old mother at the in auguration his kissing her there iu the presence of the assembled thousands and his filial tenderness towards her exhibi ted in so many ways ; his devotion to his sick wife and her womauly bearing towards him ; thinking of his mother when at death's door and writing her the only letter penued by him since he was shot all these things have brought him near to the great heart of the people and now iu these last moments his longing to go to mentor to go to his humble home out of the splendid sur rouudiiigiiis of the white house stiiucs a chord in the hearts of all sympathetic people the lincoln grape we are iu the midst of the gripe sea son nnd our market has been pretty well siil plied from a few private gardens in and near town mrs pearson and mr john beard have furnished most of this delightful fruit and a few others lave contributed in less quantities the con cord and catawba are the leading varie ties for tabic use the lincoln alias elsingburg alias lenoir is also cultiva ted to some extent but chiefly relied on as u wine grape for which purpose sonic grape raisers concede to it the front rank as it is proposed to speak of its nativity it is proper as a means of defining it to say that the lincoln is a black grape makes largeshouldered bunches has small bellies compactly placed sweet with an agreeable sub-acid as late as the year 186.3 there was a popiliai belief in the town of lincolnton und elsewhere that this grape was a native of lincoln ton couuty n c it was cultivated in lincolnton much earlier than 18(i*j but how long before is not easily determined dr butts of that town had the credit of having fouud it growing wild in that county and of being the first o cultivate and bring it to public aticution he had a magnificieut vine of it in the rear of the butt's hotel if memory is not at all fault in 1843 how long before that dale he found it glowing wild in the woods may or may u..t be an important point in the question of its nativity after some years of fondly cherishing the belief that it was indeed a native of lincoln county of showing it toothers with all tho pride men feel concerning such matters as reflecting on the state we were startled one fine day in the summer of 13c7 by a denial from dr kron of stanly county we were visiting his vineyard for the purpose of seeing his collection and learning some thing of his mode of planting trimming training c aud finding ihat he had the lincoln we recognized it by that name and claimed it as a native of the state the doctor spoke of its excellent quali lics but demurred as to its nativity as suring us that he had known it well in fiance before leaving that country it is not now remembered when the doctor migrated to america but it is kuowu that he aught french to a class of young billies iu this tow u about the year 1823 mrs nat boyden of this place being one of his pupils we presume it is safe to say that the doctor's knowledge of the lincoln which he aliased as above runs back to 1810 which would give to the lincoln an age considerably ante dating dr butt's discovery of it in lin coln county ; for we think dr b was not an old man iu 1848 when his vineyard wats in it.s prime but again only last thursday mr liuerbaum of this place a native of ger many without knowing anything of this quorewon of nativity while eating con cord had the lincoln pointed out to him line half-pound bunches — and he quickly answered oh yes i know him : a vine of it ic now growing on my fat hei s barn in germany ! then it would appear from tho testi mony of dr kron of france aud mr buerbaum of germany that the lincoln has for many years been well known iu those countries now the question is did it go from ns to them or did it come irom them to us i we are indebted to mr bueibaiini for a suggestion which mav solve this ques tion he adverted to the fact that lincoln county was settled by germans aud that the grape was brought by them to this country it is a solution properly con sidered which leaves no reflection on dr butts his statement of having found it glowing wild in the woods of lincoln county is doubtless true both his statement aud the solution may be conect though the former may explode the meiits of the latter iu this country homesteads are of short duration the most of them lasting only long enough to rear a family and are then abandoned j give to the briar and brush which soon '^ oblibcrate all traces of human habitation the vino may have been thus left in lincoln county by some of the early set | t'..is to battle with tho weeds and anv one knowing a cheap protection to gva lies against the depredations <>!" birds and bees will confer a besufit o:i the pub lic ; , it sprouts through uinny years nnd be found at last by one capable of apprecia ting its excellence and by him brought out lor cultivation found in the condi tion and surroundings of the common wild grapes of the country by one with uo special knowledge of the general sub ject the most natural conclusion would be that it was a native variety without further evidence of the claim that the lincoln i.s a nativo.of north carolina it must be admitted that is not well sustained reply to senatotvahci the other side of the question the president of uie western north caro lina railroad presents his side of the cwse which proves that one story is good till another is told western north carolina railroad company president's oefie raleigh n c august 29 1831 to tlie editor oi tlie charlotte observer in your issue of tbe 2?th instant you publish nn interview with senator z b vance one of the commissioners ap pointed to examine the work on the western xorth carolina railroad which contains grave charges agaiust me both us a man and an ollicer of the western north carolina railroad company it would be easy to brand his charges of fraud as false but 1 prefer to submit a plain statement of facts to the people of north carolina and to leave them to judge between us the main question upon which wc are at issue i.s whether the extension of time granted to messrs clyde logan and b u ford by governor jarvis and dr worth in may last was obtained by fraud and whether i who represented those gentlemen iu that transaction am the person who committed the alleged j fraud senator vance says the claim to the extension is founded iu fraud ngain that the claim was obtained from one of them 1 dr worth iu a fraudulent manner and still again that we ignore the grant on the ground ol fraud then as it anticipating ihat some lawyer in north carolina might have i tie presump tion tei den.v the conclusion to which he has come or might dare to doubt the ac curacy of his legal judgment he adds by way of denunciation of this imaginary foe that no lawyer who knows the cir cumstances will ever honestly give a favorable opinion as to the legal or pres ent operation ofthe instrument by which the extension they claim was granted it is true that the senator after sleep ing on his words has deemed it prudent to make the corrections of the inter view in a card which he publishes in the observer of the 28th ; but there has been no retraction or qualification of the charges of fraud which he made in the first publication i am compelled there fore to furnish the facts and publip.li the documents to tho people ofthe state that they may have a true history of this matter on the 29th day of march 1330 the legislature of north carolina passed an act to provide for the sale of the state's interest in the western north carolina railroad and mr best aud his asso ciates became the purchasers of that in terest on condition that the would commence work iu two months by the 2'jtli of may 1830 and that among oth er things they would pay the semi-au uual interest on the first mortgage bonds of the road mr best fouud himself unable to raise this money and finally ou the 31st day of july 1880 four months after the pass age of the act be formally assigned all his rights under the contract to w p clyde a s buford and t m logan for tho consideration of 7,500 shares of stock of the face value of 7.30,000 the assignees were induced to conic to the rescue of mr best at this late day by solicitations and assurances from promi uent gentlemen in north carolina who felt great apprehensions at the threaten ed failure ofthis scheme these gentlemen messrs clyde logan aud buford began work ou the road and made some progress before the winter of 1880-'81 sat in but they encountered two obstacles which in the language of the act very greatly hindered and de layed their operations aud for which they were in no wise respousidle first the state ill the above cited stipulated ns oue of the conditions of the sale that during the construction of said railroad aud until the same shall be completed snid state shall furnish to said grautees or their assigns not less than five hundred ablebodied convicts j these convicts were uot furnished and the work was correspondingly retarded ! secoudly : the winter of 1830-'31 was i the severest ever kuown in the history of the state the thermometer at times sinking to 12 degrees below zero ami it was more than human nature could en dure to bo exposed in t'ie work of con struction during each weather shortly after the beginning of tlio work aud from time to time thereafter demand was tuado upon the 3 rata for tii a com pic - uient of convicts but they were not fur | uished while the 1st of july the date fixed by the act of the legislature for the completion of road to paint rock and pigeon river was rapidly approaching aud it wns evident that those points could not be reached by that time the '■2<3d section of the act provides : that should the grantees or their ns i eigueea be hindered or delayed by any ' cause for which they are in no wise re i sponsible then the said commissioners ! shall allow a reasonable extension of time for the completion of snid lines of road as president of the western north carolina railroad acting under the ad j vice ofthe assignees i determined toap i ply to the commissioners for an exten i sion of time assuming that i was en titled to it as a matter of right and that it wns tbe duty of the commissioners to i grant it and i supposed it would be their pleasure to do so under the eircum ces ou friday the 30th day of april 1881 i presented to the commissioners a petition asking for said extension i appeud below a copy of that petition marked a the commissioners after consideration returned it to me with a memorandum iu gov jarvis handwriting of the amend ment which tbey required before grant ing the extension it is as follows : the additional laborers referred to in this communication will be employed aud put upon the work as soon as the labor can be employed at reasonable com pensation either iu hired labor or by contract aud of this six hundred addi tional laborers or their value iu contracts wc will employ at least one-half on the ducktown line aud will keep a sufficient force ou said line to complete it to pigeon river by the time required by the con tract as extended by this application but it is distinctly understood that this extension if granted shall not affect any : other provision of the contract it was further demanded by the com missioners that the petition should be signed by messrs clyde logan and buford instead of the president of the western north carolina railroad i readily accepted these amendments and all of the commissioners agreed that w-lieii the petition was thus amended they would grant the extension i asked tho commissioners at the time to sign their names to this memorandum to which senator vance replied can't you take our word !" i did ! although one of tbe assignees lived in new york it was only seven days from this time to wit saturday may 7th when i returned with the petition signed by all of the assignees and with the memorandum incorporated in it word for word the next day was sunday on monday may uth uiue days after the meeting i presented the petition for extension to gov jarvis one of the com missioners who examined it and said it was just as the commisa'oners required it and as soon as they met they would sign the grant of extension previously agreed upon any further delay therefore in siguing the extension was duo to the com missioners not to myself i had per formed strictly what i promised aud was waiting for them to complete their prom ise the intimation that the controll ers whom i represented were procras tinating to gain time upon which alone senator vance bases the withdrawal of his assent to the graut of extension is unworthy of the senator and is as absurd as it is unfounded ; for bow could any time be gaiued when in any event the extension was to date from july 1st it i upon a grade with his italicised asser tion that the original bill nnd the grant of extcusion required that there shall be continually on the hues a sufficient u umber of hands to insure the comple tion of . the road within the time the reader will be surprised to learn by reference to the documents that there ts no such expression either in the act or iu the grant of extcusion and that the technical argument which the seuator has advanced is founded solely upon his inaccurate memory pending tbe application for an exten sion of time the western north carolina railroad company had advertised to let out the contracts to build the road to pigeon river and the contractors were to have the expected four months time to complete their work ; it can be imag ined therefore with what surprise i re ceived from governor jarvis the follow ing letter which was delivered to mo ou the day it bears date : north carolina ) executive department > raleigh may 13th 1881 ) col a . b a ndrews -• dear sir : — i am just in roceipt of a letter from z b vance in which be asks me to notify you that he withdraws the assent giveu by him to au extension of time for the completion of the western north carolina railroad to paint rock and pigeon river please accept this as such notice the application presented to me by you last monday signed by w p clyde t m logan aud a s buford assignees was in form as agreed upon and i shall when the couimiseiouers meet vote to give l liejcondition.il extcusion as indicated ; ia the memorandum made at our meeting iu raleigh some weeks ago trutj yours signed tuo •. j t\i.us this communication which seemed to | endanger the grant of extension wbich i had beeu promised caused me much anxiety and 1 insisted to gov jarvis that '■he and dr worth should stand by their j promise or i would be forced to stop the i work and refuse to let out the contracts j gov jarvis assured me that he felt bound j and would graut the extension agreed ] upon dr worth was in randolph conn i ty nnd i urged gov jarvis to write him a letter explaining the critical situation of affairs and that i would send it with the petition and insist that he dr worth should sign the extcusion now benr in j mind that the fraud of which senator j vance accuses me consists iu obtaining i dr worth's signature to the extension j in ignorance of his vauce's letter ! gov jarvis wrote tho following letter to dr worth raleigh n c may 14 1881 eon j m worth : my dear sir :— you will remember that at the meeting of the commissioners of the western n c railroad it was agreed by yourself gov vance and myself that we would extend the time for the completion of the road to paint rock and pigeon riv er upon the application being made to ns signed by clyde buford and logan with the amendment suggested by us upon this promise of ours they have advertised to let the road to contract from asheville to pigeon river on the 18th they presen ted to me last monday the application for the extension in the form and signed by the parties agreed upon by us as you will see by an examination of the paper itself they have done all on their part that they agreed to do or were required to do ; and for eine i propose to do what i agreed to do gov vance wrote me yesterday that cir cumstances had come to his knowledge since he was here which induces him to withdraw his assent to the extension and asked me to so inform col andrews this i at once did and i fear it is about to seri ously retard the work of course they can not let the road to contract or go on with the work in a satisfactory way unless they have an assurance that they will be allowed to go on the situation then f-eems to be tha we have to take the responsibility to extend the time or the responsibility to stop the work i choose to take the responsibility to extend ihu time if you agree with me yon can in your own way say so to an drews in writing i have already done it for myself truly yours sigued tuos j jarvis my clerk mr badger was sent witli this letter and the petition to dr worth in ran dolph dr worth read the letter of gov jarvis and the amended petition and then delivered to mr badger the following pa per i hereby agree to the extcusion of four months time for the completion of the western n c railroad to paint rock and pigeon river as stated in the within paper provided that it in no other respect affects the original contract with the state of north caroliua signed j m worth signed in the presence of s baduer to put the question at issue beyond all cavil dr worth gives to mr badger the following statement * ; for the personal satisfaction of mr s badger i state that he delivered to ine gov jarvis letter of the 14th may 1881 and that i read the same previous to signing the extension aug 29 1s81 signed j m wortu now a*s dr worth is shown to have had full knowledge of the fact of senator vance's withdrawal what foundation has the senator for his insinuations that such knowledge was designedly kept from him < dr worth simply kept a promise which he made with deliberation but senator vance thinks that if the doctor did so with out first having been informed though in fact he was mfor]ji£d4-that the senator in tended to tiolate a similar promise this would constitute a fraud an.l would ren der the grant of extension void can not a lawyer be honest aud yet dif fer with senator vance upon this legal pro position if i also give gov jarvis assent to the ex tension as follows : as one of the commissioners i agree to extend the time asked for in this applica tion four months upon the condition set out inapplication,reservingtoimselftheri 0 htto withdraw this assent if the applicants fail to perform the conditions set out in their ap plication signed tuos j jarvis may 16 1881 commissioner i think i have established these facts : i that commissioners vance jarvis and worth agreed to sign an extension of four months on a written condition prepar ed by themselves 2 that the assignees accepted the con ditions and complied with them 8 that commissioner jarvis and worth recognizing the obligation upou them did sign the grant of extension 4 that commissioner vance without anv sufficient cause refused to fulfill bis promise there is one other charge made by sena tor vance viz : that the grantees did not place on the road a sufficient number of hands to com plete tbe lines to the proposed points pigeon river an j paint rock ia tix vests after tho signing tha grant of extension if e»n*i»"r vance had giver the petition cr fr'ar.t p : eifensioa er*-a a casual exin.i nation before making this charge he could have ascertained that h iitrn«hr is no where mentioned in either paper it is as great a mistake as he made in asserting that the word continually was in thegrant of exten i sion both assertions are recklessly incor rect as soon as the labor couid be em ployed at a reasonable compensation mote than three hundred hands were put to work upon the ducktown line and the number has been increased from time to time until there are now over seven hundred hands at work upon that line i also call the attention of the public to the fact that the commissioners did not de ■ny or controvert any facts stated in the pe tition as to the causes of hindrance and delay nor did senate vance deny them ' in his intertiew and they are therefore , taken to be true but if it is necessary it can be easily demonstrated that the average number of able-bodied convict fentkhed by the state has been less thim four hvn dred or at least one-fifth less than they stip , uplated to furnish if the senator is not satisfied we mav . give the public a more interesting docu ment but in his own language this is all \ can tell you for publication now respectfully a b andrews exhibit a to the hon thos.j.janis,zehuion ii yanct and j m worth commisssners : this petition of a b andrews president of the western n c railroad company respectfully represents that in pursuance ..!' the act of the general assembly ratified march 29th 18s0 entitled an act to pro vide for the sale of the state's interest in the av'estern north carolina railroad com pany and for other purposes the western n (.'. railroad has been reorganized and the work of completion of said road has been begun and the same will be prosecut ed with the utmost diligence an.l energy and as an indication of its earnestness the company has already advertised for one hundred hired laborers who are being dai ly employed und placed upon tho work and advertisements are to be posted imme diately for five hundred additional hired laborers making six hundred in ihe aggre gate which joined to its fore of five hun dred convicts furnished by the state will soon give the company a total working force of eleven hundred hands and it i its purpose and intention to k en all of thia i iorce or as many as it can place on th road employed during the whole wo king season just now opening but it is respectfully submitted to your honorable board that notwithstanding the employment of this large force and the costly expenditures which will thereby be necessarily incurred that the company has 3erious apprehensions that they will not be able to rea h the points indicated in the short lime left them under the provisions of the act of the 29th march 1880 the petitioner respect fully shows to your hone rale board what is well known through the public documents of the senate of north carolina that the • original grantees lost four months of the most valuable and suitable time given them by the legislature to wit from the 29th march to the 1st day of july 1880 and which was the basis of estimate when the legislature prescribed the l-l of july 1881 as tbe lime when the road should be com pleted to paint rock and pigeon river and it was at this gloomy period in tli his tory ofthis contract on which north nro lina has based so many bright hopes that the assignees were urged to assume the bur den ofthe contract and complete the road ; ami that they did at that late day aftei four months had been lost without any fault of theirs assumed the responsibilities ofthe contract under the assurance th a libera ' policy would be pursued towards ihem by your honorable board in the exercise oflhe large discretionary power granted in said act and your pelioner furl or hows that the work on the road which was begun in the early autumn was obstructed and at limes almost forced to cease by a winter season unparalleled in its colduess in the history of this state the snow and frosts were go severe and continuous that it would he vc been cruel and inhuman nt times i compel the convicts furnished by the stitc to be c.vjosed in them and your petitioner fur ther show as a further reason for asking au extension that it has not been practicable or perhaps possible for the state to fake her convicts from the penitentiary or remove them from other public improvements and furnish them to the company according to the provisions of the act an.l that ihe . signecs have submitted to this curtailment of its labor with the expectation that a like spirit of accommodation and liberal it v would be extruded to them if they should be compelled to a**k feuau extension of time for tbe reasons set forth above the nu dersigned respectfully ask yom honorable boaid to grant him in writing over your own signatures a commissioner an ex tension of time for the completion of aid road to paint rock and pigeon river to wit an extension of four months hich i less thai tbe rime lost by the failur • aud de lays of tbe original grantees ar-d lor hich the present assignees o*:g!'t not to b held legally responible la conclusion your petit i uer !-. a 1 vised that four honorable board a:c empowered by virtue of the 23rd sec of the aid set 1 under the cimmntsnccs above mentioned | sad for the cause set forth to allow a j j reasonable extcntioii of time for tbe com pletion of tf id lines " he therefore a.-.'-.s that tbo prayer of th irpetition l*e grante i a 15 a>-'dbe**e s president ofthe w n <"" r r miscellaneous redmond says be was hot at iq2 times ; and got so accustomed to it that be didn't 1 ruind it much i the president baa wasted away to a | mere skeleton the day he was woand | ed he weighed 210 pounds but his weight is now said to be uot move than 85 pounds | new yoik star wttua the pr«aid**t ! lies fighting for bis life somebody at hia | bedside ia telegraphing his suffering le ' stock speculators to make money jot ol ; his miseries wbo is it t gen wickhnm the leader of tbe i staightout republicans in virginia has i issued an address denouncing tha mabone coalition and advising republicans te j vote for daniel philadelphia tines in aie-telce tw white house is be top of the ladder and therefore bow pathetic ace the words of that poor sick man down at washington when be says : ta uie home back te mentor one hundred and twenty-five hand-a are em ploy eil in a fruit-canning estab lishment recently started at knnxville tenn by baltimore capitalists gen hancock returned to new york tuesday he saiel to a reporter : i return on acce.tint of the very serious illness of the president a i do not feel inclined to travel and enjoy myself under the circum stances 1 think my proper place just now is at my post on governor's island the city of newntk'n j oue ef the manufacturing towns ofthe north showa how manufactures build up cities oul ofa population of 1:10,000 over 41,000 are ein ployed iu manufactures of various kinds the wages paid out last year were £! i,7s4,388 and the value of the manu factured products was ik;,!»!<5.7ti senator pugh of alabama commends mr arthur as a true gentleman full of common sense and more apt to lead conk ling than l.i be led by him in the presiden cy senator jones of nevada is aithur's greatest confidante and his influence would !.:• everted for good senator pugh concludes that if called to the presidency arthur would be altogether conservative here is the •• , . the female para<-*rapkist in the new vork tribune proposes to pun ish .">!;! vin the much-marrying man : lock him up and put on i.nn a prison j^arb deny him the use of a hair brush a looth brush a clothes brush and set him to making shoes !'" wouldn't that be the refinement of cruelty ? in a striped suit and no hair brush tooth brush nor clothes brush how savagely awful some people can lie general hancock i reported as speaking in high terms e#f vice president arthur it will bo as difficult for him to make the country believe all he says cone-erning arthur as it was for some others to make hi country believe thai stanley matthews was the man for the vacant scat on the united states supreme court bench gen ii - praise of v p a may be naid to be a little too previous what d.ies uncle sam tilden think ofthe late custom home officer v iu waa too venal for even ruther ford haves and john sherman's stomach 1 i ilmington star another doctor's opinion dr hammond is nol aloni in his opinion ofthe mistreatment ol the president by the surgeons in a recent interview with the representative oi a new york journal dr robert taylor a physician of some celebrity gave a pretty free expression of his views from which we quote : ' had the bullet been immediately ex tracted from president garfield he would ijl on his feet to day a ton could have been passed through and there would have been no probability of pya-unia nor any necestify for the incisions to extract tha you regard the incisions as weakening in iheir effect then ■" asked the reporter undoubtedly each incision withdrew t certain amount ol strength at a lime wl.cn strength was most important as i said before th fact ihat he is president affected the physicians in attendance tbey were afraid to do anything why « hen pcr nando wood was reported to be dying in washington they telegraped for dr saver he went on there ami on reachin the loom found tbe patient dying he was suffering from an abscess in bis throat which extend 1 to the windpi|>e and i iktd it when dr saver entered the room be saw that mr wood was dying he was black in the face without waiting for a tnomenl hj sprang on the bed and cut hii throat the content of the abscc flew aero tl room the patient recovered iii breath he lived now gentlemen said dr saver if you wish to hold a con sultation i am ready it i such treatment the president needed and such treatment he would have hud had he not been the president leister wallack asked me tbe other day said dr taylor what punbhment i would devise for the assassin guiteau i replied that i would take htm into the street of wa hington shoot him in tha sni place the president whs shot and then tum ini er to the president's physi cians and that gives our opinion of the fa ulty :" !• docs replied ibe doctor no doubt the president's doctors will receive handsome fees for their services and •' " 11 be fortunate for them if they ire large for if many such articles as tha one ib >-..- goes out ihey will not only not v>:ir ar professional laurels by tl«-ir treat ment ui the case but •* ill receive up ibanki : .*. their -':. votion it is •'.>; height of folly ro vait until i y»u are in bed with disease you may nut . get over foi months hen yon can bo j cured during the earl aytatotue by par • kf».'rt gii'iier tonic we havekuiwu th icklie-*t iaxnilie made the ht-nltlu-st by a timely u»o of thia pi re uiedic-ine oo i aiigl-iscpl-i
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1881-09-08 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1881 |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 47 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was |
Creator | [T. K. Bruner and J. J. Bruner] |
Date Digital | 2008-12-29 |
Publisher | [T. K. Bruner and J. J. Bruner] |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The September 8, 1881 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601559381 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1881-09-08 |
Month | 09 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1881 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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FileName | sacw13_047_18810908-img00001.jp2 |
Date Digital | 12/29/2008 10:16:19 AM |
Publisher | Hamilton C. Jones |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | An archive of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
FullText | tiie carolina watchman ol xh.--third series salisbury n c september 8 1881 no 47 the carolina watchman bed in thk yeah 1882 . ic $:..-" in advance — p ♦**■»—■rovtract advertising rates tw * february 20 iss0 i n mth s ...'■- s m*s ei m's is u.'n - - tl r.u u l 13 ■•'■'■16.00 t-vj l 50 i 5 7.60 11 rn 4 •... 8 00 7 re 11.0(1 15.00 i 9.00 13.:u 16.00 11.25 16.60 85.00 ..... 15.13 20.50 *•'.:<. 4c.i 1,.75 8c.m bs.t6 4-.7s 75.00 gpmemib thi dead ik johh s hutchison dealer is italian j-nd american marble j monuments tcurbs and gravestones ■__. nl kvi.i.'l i.i.-..i:i»'ii'>n | e ii ■i practical marble-worker u enables m . of executing any piece of work from the ... must elaborate in an artistic a guaranty that perfect satisfaction -'■exacting patrons , unlne my sto-i k and prices be fl ip re ha»ing,a»iwilliell at the very low i-i . for any desired work i ipplication at next door m r!s's store ' " ,. s '*, march 9 1881 21:ly . | 1 r crawford & co are selling portable faem and factory immjeflffi blastim ¥ cartiilps and caps lis finest eifle powder life vasons w -«■wagons id f irelg a make and buggies r uie i .:. • il ••■ii 1 cheapest rufer belttdi cliampion mower horse rakes c ry jan 8 18 i ly zb vance w ii bah ev vance & bailey attoun a's and counsellors charlotte s c lice i supreme court of ii.e uniled bute supreme courl of north carolina 1 '<■lei \\ i iris and counties of mecklenburg ; i ab.irni union gaston ltowan and david i io ttji idxce two doors east of i ml pen 3 i •'• m u orkle theo 1 kluttz mccorkle & kluttz attorneys and counselors salisbury x c m^office mi i'o'.ineil street opposite he tout t rouse 37:6m i srb cbaioe r ii clement ilj crmge & clement 3ttonu\j at i!au il | m , hisbcrt.5.c ml | •"■^» m-s mmmmm-mvm amm*umwaimmra ilyey at l.hv \ salisbury iv.-c in the state and federal 12:6m j blastmer ami henoersor udi-aeys counselors aud solicitors salisbury n.c j*nnay22 1879 ti tawdgeths l/u4 x - ' ti\-»iv innl ' l-r -- / k <•'.'-.• l f estcn.'rr s~~l n.vt-i*.n .'.'*.',',■-';,'•;':• '<, -;,,- 3fpsn ,.._,.^ ' ' u ' deferred items there are some personal points about gen garfield that bring him near to the people who are always touched by any uu usual exhibition of human feeling the presence of his old mother at the in auguration his kissing her there iu the presence of the assembled thousands and his filial tenderness towards her exhibi ted in so many ways ; his devotion to his sick wife and her womauly bearing towards him ; thinking of his mother when at death's door and writing her the only letter penued by him since he was shot all these things have brought him near to the great heart of the people and now iu these last moments his longing to go to mentor to go to his humble home out of the splendid sur rouudiiigiiis of the white house stiiucs a chord in the hearts of all sympathetic people the lincoln grape we are iu the midst of the gripe sea son nnd our market has been pretty well siil plied from a few private gardens in and near town mrs pearson and mr john beard have furnished most of this delightful fruit and a few others lave contributed in less quantities the con cord and catawba are the leading varie ties for tabic use the lincoln alias elsingburg alias lenoir is also cultiva ted to some extent but chiefly relied on as u wine grape for which purpose sonic grape raisers concede to it the front rank as it is proposed to speak of its nativity it is proper as a means of defining it to say that the lincoln is a black grape makes largeshouldered bunches has small bellies compactly placed sweet with an agreeable sub-acid as late as the year 186.3 there was a popiliai belief in the town of lincolnton und elsewhere that this grape was a native of lincoln ton couuty n c it was cultivated in lincolnton much earlier than 18(i*j but how long before is not easily determined dr butts of that town had the credit of having fouud it growing wild in that county and of being the first o cultivate and bring it to public aticution he had a magnificieut vine of it in the rear of the butt's hotel if memory is not at all fault in 1843 how long before that dale he found it glowing wild in the woods may or may u..t be an important point in the question of its nativity after some years of fondly cherishing the belief that it was indeed a native of lincoln county of showing it toothers with all tho pride men feel concerning such matters as reflecting on the state we were startled one fine day in the summer of 13c7 by a denial from dr kron of stanly county we were visiting his vineyard for the purpose of seeing his collection and learning some thing of his mode of planting trimming training c aud finding ihat he had the lincoln we recognized it by that name and claimed it as a native of the state the doctor spoke of its excellent quali lics but demurred as to its nativity as suring us that he had known it well in fiance before leaving that country it is not now remembered when the doctor migrated to america but it is kuowu that he aught french to a class of young billies iu this tow u about the year 1823 mrs nat boyden of this place being one of his pupils we presume it is safe to say that the doctor's knowledge of the lincoln which he aliased as above runs back to 1810 which would give to the lincoln an age considerably ante dating dr butt's discovery of it in lin coln county ; for we think dr b was not an old man iu 1848 when his vineyard wats in it.s prime but again only last thursday mr liuerbaum of this place a native of ger many without knowing anything of this quorewon of nativity while eating con cord had the lincoln pointed out to him line half-pound bunches — and he quickly answered oh yes i know him : a vine of it ic now growing on my fat hei s barn in germany ! then it would appear from tho testi mony of dr kron of france aud mr buerbaum of germany that the lincoln has for many years been well known iu those countries now the question is did it go from ns to them or did it come irom them to us i we are indebted to mr bueibaiini for a suggestion which mav solve this ques tion he adverted to the fact that lincoln county was settled by germans aud that the grape was brought by them to this country it is a solution properly con sidered which leaves no reflection on dr butts his statement of having found it glowing wild in the woods of lincoln county is doubtless true both his statement aud the solution may be conect though the former may explode the meiits of the latter iu this country homesteads are of short duration the most of them lasting only long enough to rear a family and are then abandoned j give to the briar and brush which soon '^ oblibcrate all traces of human habitation the vino may have been thus left in lincoln county by some of the early set | t'..is to battle with tho weeds and anv one knowing a cheap protection to gva lies against the depredations <>!" birds and bees will confer a besufit o:i the pub lic ; , it sprouts through uinny years nnd be found at last by one capable of apprecia ting its excellence and by him brought out lor cultivation found in the condi tion and surroundings of the common wild grapes of the country by one with uo special knowledge of the general sub ject the most natural conclusion would be that it was a native variety without further evidence of the claim that the lincoln i.s a nativo.of north carolina it must be admitted that is not well sustained reply to senatotvahci the other side of the question the president of uie western north caro lina railroad presents his side of the cwse which proves that one story is good till another is told western north carolina railroad company president's oefie raleigh n c august 29 1831 to tlie editor oi tlie charlotte observer in your issue of tbe 2?th instant you publish nn interview with senator z b vance one of the commissioners ap pointed to examine the work on the western xorth carolina railroad which contains grave charges agaiust me both us a man and an ollicer of the western north carolina railroad company it would be easy to brand his charges of fraud as false but 1 prefer to submit a plain statement of facts to the people of north carolina and to leave them to judge between us the main question upon which wc are at issue i.s whether the extension of time granted to messrs clyde logan and b u ford by governor jarvis and dr worth in may last was obtained by fraud and whether i who represented those gentlemen iu that transaction am the person who committed the alleged j fraud senator vance says the claim to the extension is founded iu fraud ngain that the claim was obtained from one of them 1 dr worth iu a fraudulent manner and still again that we ignore the grant on the ground ol fraud then as it anticipating ihat some lawyer in north carolina might have i tie presump tion tei den.v the conclusion to which he has come or might dare to doubt the ac curacy of his legal judgment he adds by way of denunciation of this imaginary foe that no lawyer who knows the cir cumstances will ever honestly give a favorable opinion as to the legal or pres ent operation ofthe instrument by which the extension they claim was granted it is true that the senator after sleep ing on his words has deemed it prudent to make the corrections of the inter view in a card which he publishes in the observer of the 28th ; but there has been no retraction or qualification of the charges of fraud which he made in the first publication i am compelled there fore to furnish the facts and publip.li the documents to tho people ofthe state that they may have a true history of this matter on the 29th day of march 1330 the legislature of north carolina passed an act to provide for the sale of the state's interest in the western north carolina railroad and mr best aud his asso ciates became the purchasers of that in terest on condition that the would commence work iu two months by the 2'jtli of may 1830 and that among oth er things they would pay the semi-au uual interest on the first mortgage bonds of the road mr best fouud himself unable to raise this money and finally ou the 31st day of july 1880 four months after the pass age of the act be formally assigned all his rights under the contract to w p clyde a s buford and t m logan for tho consideration of 7,500 shares of stock of the face value of 7.30,000 the assignees were induced to conic to the rescue of mr best at this late day by solicitations and assurances from promi uent gentlemen in north carolina who felt great apprehensions at the threaten ed failure ofthis scheme these gentlemen messrs clyde logan aud buford began work ou the road and made some progress before the winter of 1880-'81 sat in but they encountered two obstacles which in the language of the act very greatly hindered and de layed their operations aud for which they were in no wise respousidle first the state ill the above cited stipulated ns oue of the conditions of the sale that during the construction of said railroad aud until the same shall be completed snid state shall furnish to said grautees or their assigns not less than five hundred ablebodied convicts j these convicts were uot furnished and the work was correspondingly retarded ! secoudly : the winter of 1830-'31 was i the severest ever kuown in the history of the state the thermometer at times sinking to 12 degrees below zero ami it was more than human nature could en dure to bo exposed in t'ie work of con struction during each weather shortly after the beginning of tlio work aud from time to time thereafter demand was tuado upon the 3 rata for tii a com pic - uient of convicts but they were not fur | uished while the 1st of july the date fixed by the act of the legislature for the completion of road to paint rock and pigeon river was rapidly approaching aud it wns evident that those points could not be reached by that time the '■2<3d section of the act provides : that should the grantees or their ns i eigueea be hindered or delayed by any ' cause for which they are in no wise re i sponsible then the said commissioners ! shall allow a reasonable extension of time for the completion of snid lines of road as president of the western north carolina railroad acting under the ad j vice ofthe assignees i determined toap i ply to the commissioners for an exten i sion of time assuming that i was en titled to it as a matter of right and that it wns tbe duty of the commissioners to i grant it and i supposed it would be their pleasure to do so under the eircum ces ou friday the 30th day of april 1881 i presented to the commissioners a petition asking for said extension i appeud below a copy of that petition marked a the commissioners after consideration returned it to me with a memorandum iu gov jarvis handwriting of the amend ment which tbey required before grant ing the extension it is as follows : the additional laborers referred to in this communication will be employed aud put upon the work as soon as the labor can be employed at reasonable com pensation either iu hired labor or by contract aud of this six hundred addi tional laborers or their value iu contracts wc will employ at least one-half on the ducktown line aud will keep a sufficient force ou said line to complete it to pigeon river by the time required by the con tract as extended by this application but it is distinctly understood that this extension if granted shall not affect any : other provision of the contract it was further demanded by the com missioners that the petition should be signed by messrs clyde logan and buford instead of the president of the western north carolina railroad i readily accepted these amendments and all of the commissioners agreed that w-lieii the petition was thus amended they would grant the extension i asked tho commissioners at the time to sign their names to this memorandum to which senator vance replied can't you take our word !" i did ! although one of tbe assignees lived in new york it was only seven days from this time to wit saturday may 7th when i returned with the petition signed by all of the assignees and with the memorandum incorporated in it word for word the next day was sunday on monday may uth uiue days after the meeting i presented the petition for extension to gov jarvis one of the com missioners who examined it and said it was just as the commisa'oners required it and as soon as they met they would sign the grant of extension previously agreed upon any further delay therefore in siguing the extension was duo to the com missioners not to myself i had per formed strictly what i promised aud was waiting for them to complete their prom ise the intimation that the controll ers whom i represented were procras tinating to gain time upon which alone senator vance bases the withdrawal of his assent to the graut of extension is unworthy of the senator and is as absurd as it is unfounded ; for bow could any time be gaiued when in any event the extension was to date from july 1st it i upon a grade with his italicised asser tion that the original bill nnd the grant of extcusion required that there shall be continually on the hues a sufficient u umber of hands to insure the comple tion of . the road within the time the reader will be surprised to learn by reference to the documents that there ts no such expression either in the act or iu the grant of extcusion and that the technical argument which the seuator has advanced is founded solely upon his inaccurate memory pending tbe application for an exten sion of time the western north carolina railroad company had advertised to let out the contracts to build the road to pigeon river and the contractors were to have the expected four months time to complete their work ; it can be imag ined therefore with what surprise i re ceived from governor jarvis the follow ing letter which was delivered to mo ou the day it bears date : north carolina ) executive department > raleigh may 13th 1881 ) col a . b a ndrews -• dear sir : — i am just in roceipt of a letter from z b vance in which be asks me to notify you that he withdraws the assent giveu by him to au extension of time for the completion of the western north carolina railroad to paint rock and pigeon river please accept this as such notice the application presented to me by you last monday signed by w p clyde t m logan aud a s buford assignees was in form as agreed upon and i shall when the couimiseiouers meet vote to give l liejcondition.il extcusion as indicated ; ia the memorandum made at our meeting iu raleigh some weeks ago trutj yours signed tuo •. j t\i.us this communication which seemed to | endanger the grant of extension wbich i had beeu promised caused me much anxiety and 1 insisted to gov jarvis that '■he and dr worth should stand by their j promise or i would be forced to stop the i work and refuse to let out the contracts j gov jarvis assured me that he felt bound j and would graut the extension agreed ] upon dr worth was in randolph conn i ty nnd i urged gov jarvis to write him a letter explaining the critical situation of affairs and that i would send it with the petition and insist that he dr worth should sign the extcusion now benr in j mind that the fraud of which senator j vance accuses me consists iu obtaining i dr worth's signature to the extension j in ignorance of his vauce's letter ! gov jarvis wrote tho following letter to dr worth raleigh n c may 14 1881 eon j m worth : my dear sir :— you will remember that at the meeting of the commissioners of the western n c railroad it was agreed by yourself gov vance and myself that we would extend the time for the completion of the road to paint rock and pigeon riv er upon the application being made to ns signed by clyde buford and logan with the amendment suggested by us upon this promise of ours they have advertised to let the road to contract from asheville to pigeon river on the 18th they presen ted to me last monday the application for the extension in the form and signed by the parties agreed upon by us as you will see by an examination of the paper itself they have done all on their part that they agreed to do or were required to do ; and for eine i propose to do what i agreed to do gov vance wrote me yesterday that cir cumstances had come to his knowledge since he was here which induces him to withdraw his assent to the extension and asked me to so inform col andrews this i at once did and i fear it is about to seri ously retard the work of course they can not let the road to contract or go on with the work in a satisfactory way unless they have an assurance that they will be allowed to go on the situation then f-eems to be tha we have to take the responsibility to extend the time or the responsibility to stop the work i choose to take the responsibility to extend ihu time if you agree with me yon can in your own way say so to an drews in writing i have already done it for myself truly yours sigued tuos j jarvis my clerk mr badger was sent witli this letter and the petition to dr worth in ran dolph dr worth read the letter of gov jarvis and the amended petition and then delivered to mr badger the following pa per i hereby agree to the extcusion of four months time for the completion of the western n c railroad to paint rock and pigeon river as stated in the within paper provided that it in no other respect affects the original contract with the state of north caroliua signed j m worth signed in the presence of s baduer to put the question at issue beyond all cavil dr worth gives to mr badger the following statement * ; for the personal satisfaction of mr s badger i state that he delivered to ine gov jarvis letter of the 14th may 1881 and that i read the same previous to signing the extension aug 29 1s81 signed j m wortu now a*s dr worth is shown to have had full knowledge of the fact of senator vance's withdrawal what foundation has the senator for his insinuations that such knowledge was designedly kept from him < dr worth simply kept a promise which he made with deliberation but senator vance thinks that if the doctor did so with out first having been informed though in fact he was mfor]ji£d4-that the senator in tended to tiolate a similar promise this would constitute a fraud an.l would ren der the grant of extension void can not a lawyer be honest aud yet dif fer with senator vance upon this legal pro position if i also give gov jarvis assent to the ex tension as follows : as one of the commissioners i agree to extend the time asked for in this applica tion four months upon the condition set out inapplication,reservingtoimselftheri 0 htto withdraw this assent if the applicants fail to perform the conditions set out in their ap plication signed tuos j jarvis may 16 1881 commissioner i think i have established these facts : i that commissioners vance jarvis and worth agreed to sign an extension of four months on a written condition prepar ed by themselves 2 that the assignees accepted the con ditions and complied with them 8 that commissioner jarvis and worth recognizing the obligation upou them did sign the grant of extension 4 that commissioner vance without anv sufficient cause refused to fulfill bis promise there is one other charge made by sena tor vance viz : that the grantees did not place on the road a sufficient number of hands to com plete tbe lines to the proposed points pigeon river an j paint rock ia tix vests after tho signing tha grant of extension if e»n*i»"r vance had giver the petition cr fr'ar.t p : eifensioa er*-a a casual exin.i nation before making this charge he could have ascertained that h iitrn«hr is no where mentioned in either paper it is as great a mistake as he made in asserting that the word continually was in thegrant of exten i sion both assertions are recklessly incor rect as soon as the labor couid be em ployed at a reasonable compensation mote than three hundred hands were put to work upon the ducktown line and the number has been increased from time to time until there are now over seven hundred hands at work upon that line i also call the attention of the public to the fact that the commissioners did not de ■ny or controvert any facts stated in the pe tition as to the causes of hindrance and delay nor did senate vance deny them ' in his intertiew and they are therefore , taken to be true but if it is necessary it can be easily demonstrated that the average number of able-bodied convict fentkhed by the state has been less thim four hvn dred or at least one-fifth less than they stip , uplated to furnish if the senator is not satisfied we mav . give the public a more interesting docu ment but in his own language this is all \ can tell you for publication now respectfully a b andrews exhibit a to the hon thos.j.janis,zehuion ii yanct and j m worth commisssners : this petition of a b andrews president of the western n c railroad company respectfully represents that in pursuance ..!' the act of the general assembly ratified march 29th 18s0 entitled an act to pro vide for the sale of the state's interest in the av'estern north carolina railroad com pany and for other purposes the western n (.'. railroad has been reorganized and the work of completion of said road has been begun and the same will be prosecut ed with the utmost diligence an.l energy and as an indication of its earnestness the company has already advertised for one hundred hired laborers who are being dai ly employed und placed upon tho work and advertisements are to be posted imme diately for five hundred additional hired laborers making six hundred in ihe aggre gate which joined to its fore of five hun dred convicts furnished by the state will soon give the company a total working force of eleven hundred hands and it i its purpose and intention to k en all of thia i iorce or as many as it can place on th road employed during the whole wo king season just now opening but it is respectfully submitted to your honorable board that notwithstanding the employment of this large force and the costly expenditures which will thereby be necessarily incurred that the company has 3erious apprehensions that they will not be able to rea h the points indicated in the short lime left them under the provisions of the act of the 29th march 1880 the petitioner respect fully shows to your hone rale board what is well known through the public documents of the senate of north carolina that the • original grantees lost four months of the most valuable and suitable time given them by the legislature to wit from the 29th march to the 1st day of july 1880 and which was the basis of estimate when the legislature prescribed the l-l of july 1881 as tbe lime when the road should be com pleted to paint rock and pigeon river and it was at this gloomy period in tli his tory ofthis contract on which north nro lina has based so many bright hopes that the assignees were urged to assume the bur den ofthe contract and complete the road ; ami that they did at that late day aftei four months had been lost without any fault of theirs assumed the responsibilities ofthe contract under the assurance th a libera ' policy would be pursued towards ihem by your honorable board in the exercise oflhe large discretionary power granted in said act and your pelioner furl or hows that the work on the road which was begun in the early autumn was obstructed and at limes almost forced to cease by a winter season unparalleled in its colduess in the history of this state the snow and frosts were go severe and continuous that it would he vc been cruel and inhuman nt times i compel the convicts furnished by the stitc to be c.vjosed in them and your petitioner fur ther show as a further reason for asking au extension that it has not been practicable or perhaps possible for the state to fake her convicts from the penitentiary or remove them from other public improvements and furnish them to the company according to the provisions of the act an.l that ihe . signecs have submitted to this curtailment of its labor with the expectation that a like spirit of accommodation and liberal it v would be extruded to them if they should be compelled to a**k feuau extension of time for tbe reasons set forth above the nu dersigned respectfully ask yom honorable boaid to grant him in writing over your own signatures a commissioner an ex tension of time for the completion of aid road to paint rock and pigeon river to wit an extension of four months hich i less thai tbe rime lost by the failur • aud de lays of tbe original grantees ar-d lor hich the present assignees o*:g!'t not to b held legally responible la conclusion your petit i uer !-. a 1 vised that four honorable board a:c empowered by virtue of the 23rd sec of the aid set 1 under the cimmntsnccs above mentioned | sad for the cause set forth to allow a j j reasonable extcntioii of time for tbe com pletion of tf id lines " he therefore a.-.'-.s that tbo prayer of th irpetition l*e grante i a 15 a>-'dbe**e s president ofthe w n <"" r r miscellaneous redmond says be was hot at iq2 times ; and got so accustomed to it that be didn't 1 ruind it much i the president baa wasted away to a | mere skeleton the day he was woand | ed he weighed 210 pounds but his weight is now said to be uot move than 85 pounds | new yoik star wttua the pr«aid**t ! lies fighting for bis life somebody at hia | bedside ia telegraphing his suffering le ' stock speculators to make money jot ol ; his miseries wbo is it t gen wickhnm the leader of tbe i staightout republicans in virginia has i issued an address denouncing tha mabone coalition and advising republicans te j vote for daniel philadelphia tines in aie-telce tw white house is be top of the ladder and therefore bow pathetic ace the words of that poor sick man down at washington when be says : ta uie home back te mentor one hundred and twenty-five hand-a are em ploy eil in a fruit-canning estab lishment recently started at knnxville tenn by baltimore capitalists gen hancock returned to new york tuesday he saiel to a reporter : i return on acce.tint of the very serious illness of the president a i do not feel inclined to travel and enjoy myself under the circum stances 1 think my proper place just now is at my post on governor's island the city of newntk'n j oue ef the manufacturing towns ofthe north showa how manufactures build up cities oul ofa population of 1:10,000 over 41,000 are ein ployed iu manufactures of various kinds the wages paid out last year were £! i,7s4,388 and the value of the manu factured products was ik;,!»!<5.7ti senator pugh of alabama commends mr arthur as a true gentleman full of common sense and more apt to lead conk ling than l.i be led by him in the presiden cy senator jones of nevada is aithur's greatest confidante and his influence would !.:• everted for good senator pugh concludes that if called to the presidency arthur would be altogether conservative here is the •• , . the female para<-*rapkist in the new vork tribune proposes to pun ish .">!;! vin the much-marrying man : lock him up and put on i.nn a prison j^arb deny him the use of a hair brush a looth brush a clothes brush and set him to making shoes !'" wouldn't that be the refinement of cruelty ? in a striped suit and no hair brush tooth brush nor clothes brush how savagely awful some people can lie general hancock i reported as speaking in high terms e#f vice president arthur it will bo as difficult for him to make the country believe all he says cone-erning arthur as it was for some others to make hi country believe thai stanley matthews was the man for the vacant scat on the united states supreme court bench gen ii - praise of v p a may be naid to be a little too previous what d.ies uncle sam tilden think ofthe late custom home officer v iu waa too venal for even ruther ford haves and john sherman's stomach 1 i ilmington star another doctor's opinion dr hammond is nol aloni in his opinion ofthe mistreatment ol the president by the surgeons in a recent interview with the representative oi a new york journal dr robert taylor a physician of some celebrity gave a pretty free expression of his views from which we quote : ' had the bullet been immediately ex tracted from president garfield he would ijl on his feet to day a ton could have been passed through and there would have been no probability of pya-unia nor any necestify for the incisions to extract tha you regard the incisions as weakening in iheir effect then ■" asked the reporter undoubtedly each incision withdrew t certain amount ol strength at a lime wl.cn strength was most important as i said before th fact ihat he is president affected the physicians in attendance tbey were afraid to do anything why « hen pcr nando wood was reported to be dying in washington they telegraped for dr saver he went on there ami on reachin the loom found tbe patient dying he was suffering from an abscess in bis throat which extend 1 to the windpi|>e and i iktd it when dr saver entered the room be saw that mr wood was dying he was black in the face without waiting for a tnomenl hj sprang on the bed and cut hii throat the content of the abscc flew aero tl room the patient recovered iii breath he lived now gentlemen said dr saver if you wish to hold a con sultation i am ready it i such treatment the president needed and such treatment he would have hud had he not been the president leister wallack asked me tbe other day said dr taylor what punbhment i would devise for the assassin guiteau i replied that i would take htm into the street of wa hington shoot him in tha sni place the president whs shot and then tum ini er to the president's physi cians and that gives our opinion of the fa ulty :" !• docs replied ibe doctor no doubt the president's doctors will receive handsome fees for their services and •' " 11 be fortunate for them if they ire large for if many such articles as tha one ib >-..- goes out ihey will not only not v>:ir ar professional laurels by tl«-ir treat ment ui the case but •* ill receive up ibanki : .*. their -':. votion it is •'.>; height of folly ro vait until i y»u are in bed with disease you may nut . get over foi months hen yon can bo j cured during the earl aytatotue by par • kf».'rt gii'iier tonic we havekuiwu th icklie-*t iaxnilie made the ht-nltlu-st by a timely u»o of thia pi re uiedic-ine oo i aiigl-iscpl-i |