file carolina watchman fol xii — xhirb series salisbury n c september 22 1881 no 49 llie carolina watchman pstabusned in the tear 1882 *- " un ai.'van k nvtr act ad vi rtising rates c ° fkb1*uauy*0 1860 . ..;. :; u's r nys 12m*s \ .*•...:■" 15.00 : 4 50 :. i t.j 12.00 , m 7 t..i 11 ' i 15.00 i , t ■.. i.i i3.mj ! ■ ■ . : ;].'.:, ifi.50 25.0u ■ , 75 20.50 25.50 4".l | sslber the dead !| j-v john s hutchinson | dealer in j i italic •— american marble wtnnninppts tombs and gravestones | bu1 ,,' 1 vi i >!..-( imi-tkix ,— „-,.., practical marble-worker it enables i y piece of work from the t dal ate in an artistic i . in ,. j a tjuarant dial perfect satisfaction the most exacting patrons i examine my stock and prices be imsing « i will mil at the very low ml price . . ,,,,! estimates for any desired work ; rriikhed on application at next door . j j mcnccly'fl store . r march 9 1881 ' 21:ly 1 1 crawfurd & co are selling i ijluidljlli ind fact0sy [ mu and caps h inst rifjjffowder ek ffapns wapns ff agons e dili -■ . :. i , ■ ' v :: : " ! '' ' : ''- ; ' buggies fin st to llie cheapest we mm champioa mowers horse eakes c . -.. jan c ; 381 ly zi van-ce y ii bailey vaincf & bailey attorneys and counsellors cuarlotte n ('. practice in supreme court of the united sute supreme court of north carolina rederal courts nnd cotmtii b of mecklenburg ubarri union gaston rowan and david i.i cr ;: oii'ue two doors enst of indepen itnet square 33:tf kkle theo t kt-cttz mccorkle &. kluttz attorneys and counselors salisbury n c j^offioe on council street opposite the coin t house o7:lini ■■■«•■««= i frr'f-*3m-v***i*yj..^jmi^m | serul raige i ll.cj.kmknt i 4 craige & clement i slttwtg ut |? aw ! . kt , : , salisbury n c im \ i ' **$ ; 22 6 ovsfjblait ' att01lxey at l nr salisbury tv t '., . practices in the state nnd federal blacto and hestoob forneys counselors aud solicitors salisbury n.c oay22 i 879 tt poetry simple faith anonymous if one could hear his mother's voice again and stand beside his mother's knee again and be ag-.in a child simple and mild absorbing faith as earth receives the rain thi.b only could he shake the feeling off that he has learned too much or not enough cold is the air of reason though serene chill and unsatisfying though serene better for life and death were simple faith that ample evidence of things unseen but we have eaten the forbidden fruit nor knew the tree was rotten at the root deferred items crops in catawba we publish in this issue from the ral eigh observer a report of the condition of crops in various sections of the state in the main we presume the report is cor rect but the observer i.s mistaken in re gard to catawba county so far ns the wheat crop is concerned the report stands good for the wheat throughout the coun ty was iinusualy good this summer the yield was large and the quality of grain superior it i.s a great blessing to our section the wheat crop was good for tho corn crop will be distressingly short this fall the ridges and highlands all over the comity nnd especially iii cline's hickory randy's and mountain reck townships have been so unusually dry that coi n will be an utter failure inany fields will not average two bushels to the acre along the catawba river clark's creek jacob's fork henry's pork and other st renins and sections where the soil is not susceptible to the drouth there are some good fields of corn but these belong to citizens whoalsoluid good wheat crops so it will be seen that the dry weather is affecting a class of people throughout this county thnt will sensibly feel it wc have inquired of citizens coining into hickory from the various sections of the county nud judging from the reports of these gentlemen there will not upon a whole be ball a crop and piobably not a third ofa crop made in the county the cotton crop is equally short many of the fanners purchased hugely ot fer tilizers expecting to make large crops ol cotton imt iu many cases the cottou ticldsv.ii nm half pay for the fertilizers used the farmers arc talking a great deal about gloom prospects that seem to await them and many of them are very sensibly beginning lo economize already the tobacco crop also will be unusually short i hi season and notwithstanding the shortage it will be almost impossible for the glowers to cure up their crops blight for the tobacco will necessarily i>e cut before it is properly in a lined — hence the dillicttity in coloring the drouglil lias caused a continual rise in grain and all kinds of breadstuff's aud if the dry weather continues the value of eatables will continue to increase — hickory press the press has very accuiately describ ed the condition and prospects of nearly all the counties in western north caroli na this side the blue ridge the early forward corn in rich uplands may make a thud or fourth ofa crop but thu thin soiled dry ridges will fail almost to make fodder rich bottoms are producing fine ly but these will m.t supply the demand for the watchman tayi.or8vn.le n c sept 10 1681 editor watchman :— the drought still continues — corn in up land very light on bottom laud pretty fair garden vegeta bles potatoes ac almost a complete failure to-day has been a busy day — a meeting in the interest of the states ville & jefferson rail road was largely attended and a good deal of interest in the enterprise developed but the subject which attracted most attention and de veloped ihe most interest was the arrival of elijah church this morning iu charge ofa number of men who had arrested him and brought him to this county to deliver him to the sheriff of alexander there be ing for some time a reward of 500 offer ed by the governor of the state for his apprehension and delivery he is charged with the robbery aud murder of miss caroline thompson nnd robbing the house of james thompson in alexander county in june last some time since a young man named dockcry charged with complicity with and knowledge of that outrage was arrested and after examina tion committed to jail where he lias been ever since a few days ago he confessed his being engaged with church in the robbery at thompsons and present but taking po part in tlic murder : says it was done by church to conceal the kuowlcdgo of the robbery ; he also gave an account of their movements after the murder and gave such information as has since led to finding the clothes worn by himself and church hid oat and which were here on tho trial to-day church had an examination to-day be fore a magistrate's court where dockcry his associate was examined by the prose cuting attorneys liuney a jones and cross examined by church himself he not being able to obtain coi nsrl the two resi dent lawyers being employed by the prosecution this preliminary examina tion satisfies all who heard it that the right parties are now in the hands of the officers ofthe law excitement is very strong against thcirj especially church ; and while no violence is anticipated yet there is a strong feeling in favor of close care and diligence in their safe keeping as will prevent any possible escape from the j nst penalty of their crime thoy were both remanded to jail at the close of the examination this evening women arc everywhere using and recommending parker's ginger tonic because they have learned from experi ence that it speedily overcomes despon dence indigestion pain or weakness in the back and kidneys and other troubles peculiar to the sex home journal sl , tl luoctll an appeal for michigan sufferers cincinnati sept 12 — the following appeal has been telegraphed from port huron : pout iicnon mien sept 12 to the american people we have to night returned from the burnt districts of huron and sanilac coun ties we have seen the burnt disfigured and writhing l.m.'es of men women and children rough board coffins contained the dead followed to the rave i.v u few blinded despairing relatives there are crowds of half starved people at some of the stations asking for bread for their families and neighbors we hear of more than two hundred victims already burned and more charred and bloated bodies are daily discovered already more than fif teen hundred families are found to be ut terly destitute and houseless they huddle iu barns in school houses and in their neighbors houses scorched blinded and hopeless some still wander half-crazed around the ruins of their cabin homes vainly seeking their dead ; some in speech less agony wringing their hands and seekiug comforts one thousand people who only a week ago occupied happy comfortable homes are to day houseless and homeless sufferers they ure hungry and almost naked when found and in such numbers and so widely apart that our best efforts and greatest resources fail to supply their immediate wants without speedy aid many will perish and many more will suffer and become exiles our people will do their utmost for their relief but all our resources would fail to meet their necessi ties we appeal to the country and gener osity of the american people send help without delay e c caiii.ton major of port huron and chairman relief committee hrstonv of rowan coontt rev jeth ro rumple of the presbyterian church of salisbury has collected and had published in bonk form his sketches of rowan coun ty some of which will be remembered as having appeared in the carolina watchman the book is entitled a history of rowan county but contains sketches of many | men and families who belong to western xorth carolina it is a subject of wonder j how mr rumple busily occupied as he ] has been continually in his ministerial labors could have collected so many recon dite facts some of them not only interest ing as family memoirs but shedding great light on the general history of western carolina anecdote incident reminis cence and narrative abound in the sketches those who arc at all familial with mr rum pie's accomplishments in composition will j not be surprised to learn that the style is graphic an.l scholarly — charlotte observer ] while talking about scaacity of grain and starvation read the following para graph grain is flowing into baltimore so fast from the west that nothing can be done j with it the wheat there is held largely j for speculative purposes and cannot be moved all places of storage are filled | and thousands of cars are standing en thei track which cannot be unloaded the el evators being already crowded what might to l.e done with the men who hoard grain and gamble on it when | the people need it at a fair price for bread ? j it is bad enough to gamble in cotton but \ when it comes to gambling in breadstuff's | in the midst of a great drouth n law of some sort should interpose — charlotte democrat pp.f.pauf fob a fkesuet — a theory is advanced with plausability that during the long continued dry hot weather a vast : amount of water has been evaporated from j the ocean and now remains in suspension in the clouds and that at an early day these clouds will pour out floods of lain causing overflows iu irivsre and creeks hence it is suggested that all corn on low lands be immediately cut stalk and all and stacked on high hind to avoid dc struction by freshets if they should occur an old farmer tclis us that it will not hurt the corn to cut the stalk and place it in a safe place that the ear will dry just as well on such cut stalk as if it was left standing where it grew it would be well for farmers to consider the suggestion charlotte democrat our next legislature must take steps to protect the state against railroad monop olies if railroads running through the state will persist in unjust disci iminn tions against north caroliua towns in freight rates the legislature lias the pow er and it should be its pleasure as well as duty to protect the trade of the state — winston sentinel jay gould controls 11,714 milcs of railway representing a capital of b'-lg 500,000 exclusive of 1,20*0 miles of rail road in mexico how the apostle's died peter was crucified at rome and at his own request with his head downward andrew was crucified by l.eiug bound to a cross with cords on which he hung two lays exhorting the people until he died james the great was beheaded by order of herod of jerusalem james the less was thrown from a high pinnacle then stoned and finally killed with a fuller's club philip was bound and hanged against a pillar bartholomew was flayed to death by command ofa barbarous king matthew was killed by a balbert thomas while at prayer was shot with a shower of lances and afterward run through the body with a lance simon was crucified thaddcus was cruelly put to death the manner of matthias death is uncer tain one says he was stoned then be headed ; another says he was crucified judas jscariot fell and his bowel gushed out john died a natural death paul was beheaded by order of nero the amount of taxable property in geor gia has increased within the l**»t year from fl2.u00.000 to 15,000,000 the governor has in consequence issued his order for \ decreasing the rate of taxation half a cent ( lcs than last year miscellaneous he who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure no padlock bolts or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve some people are like blotters the more impressions they receive the cloudier they become it i.s better to be laughed at than ruined ; belter to have a wife who like martial's mamurra cheapens ev erything and buys nothing than to be impoverished by one whose vanity will purchase everything but whose pride will cheapen nothing gen lee is said to have asked a straggler whom he found eating green persimmons if he did not know they were unfit for food pm not eating them for food general replied the man i'm eating them to draw up my stomach to fit my rations we hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them those friendships that succeed to such aversions are usually firm for those qualities must be sterling that could not only gain our hearts but eonquor our prejudices a newspaper agent being told by an old lady that it was no use to sub scribe for the papers as mother ship ton said the world was coming to an end this year said : but won't you want to read an account ofthe whole affair as soon as it i.s over that i will answered the old lady : aud she subscribed the philadelphia bulletin says here's a positive fact that occurred in one of the public schools in this city recently : a small boy was asked to name some part of his own body he thought a moment and then repli ed : bowels — which are five in num ber — a e i o and u and sometimes w aud y " how quickly we forget the rules of arithmetic as learned in school i.s shown in the fact that a prominent drv goods merchant in boston work ed half an hour on the following pro position and failed to give an aiiswer \[ four men build a wall five feet high in four days how long will it take six men to build a wall e'glit feet high in seven days ? the story is told of a canny scot who having recently lost his wife war receiving the commiserations of a friend you have had a great trial mr campbell yes sir you may well say that was the reply and llien pausing with a shake of his head : not only was it a great trial but let me tell yon a matter of varra considerable expense on january 1 1881 the number of journals and periodical publications i in france amounted to 2,968 out of which number paris claimed 1,310 and the provinces 1 652 liberty of the press does not exist in france and every journal which treats of politics or social economy deposits a certain sum as caution money in the treasury ofthe state — 8*1,800 for a daily pub lished in paris and 3,g00 for a week ly journal the provincial journals pay a little less the following is stated as the cost of some celebrated modern buildings in europe reduced to american dol lars : the paris grand opera house 8,000,000 the paris hotel de ville 88,000,000 the paris post office 6 000,000 ; the brussels palais de beaux arts 8600,000 ; the brussels palais de justice 08,000,000 the london house of parliament 817,500,000 the london foreign office 82,750 000 the london law courts exclu sive of special fitting and not yet completed 04,500,000 king the balloonist has started from minneapolis minnesota on the 12th the balloon was cut loose and off it went at twenty-five miles an hour its occupants were prof king charles m feyc ofthe minneapolis trihune c p nicholas of the chi cago times w greemer of the n y herald e k johnson of the st paul pioneer press and winslow upton of the united states signal service a very large crowd wit nessed the ascension a soul hern trip i.s in view we believe i visited the house ofa friend of mine in toledo the other day who hnd a family of seven children lie had a wage of 1.50 a dav bringing him in a year an income of 450 i asked him how much he paid for the clothing of his family he said 100 at least i told him he could have bought those clothes in canada for 7*5 i demonstrated to him that he paid in a year nearly 200 more for articles required by himself and family than they could have been purchased for in canada i told him that this wns the nefarious result of a pro tective tariff — frank h hard il was a law in sparta that the citizen who was indifferent to the commonwealth and took no care as to the character of its rulers should be driven out of the state next to the church the government onpht to have the deepest concern of all good men under our system the people enrol their public servants richmond (. , t ( ttih ad kt'-f replevying a wife a kind of lawsuit supposed to be obsolete in michigan saginaw evening news recently dell wright of otsego coun i ty married a young daughter of a m j randolph of the same place under cir j cumstauces which were very unsatisfuc , tory to the young lady she claimed to | have been forced into the marriage by mr | wright and his friends and in less than , an hour after the ceremony was perform | ed the young bride struck out for her fa j therv.iouso.declaringjthatshe would never j live with her husband the husband was i naturally much chagrined at the prospec | tive failure of his wedded life and sought j legal advice from an attorney at gay lord after duly considering the case the at j toruey jim andrews by name advised i the husband to replevin the wayward life accordingly the two men proceed ed to a justice of the peace where an drews filled out the necessary blanks the husband inadeoath to them swearing among other things that the young wife was of the value of 100 and did uot ex ceed that value the proper goods chattels and property of dell wright the plaintiff in the suit that she was unlawfully de tained from his possession by a m ran dolph her father and that said dell wright was then entitled to the posses sion of her : that the said woaian had not been taken for any tax assessment or line etc according to the usual form for j affidavits in the replevin of property the justice issued his writ and it was properly delivered to the under-sheriff of the county who at once proceeded to the father's house where he found the chat tel described in his writ of replevin the officer commanded mr randolph in the name of the county of otsego mich igan by virtue ofthe ollice ofthe under sheriff thereof to surrender the wife of dell wright alter considerable re monstrance on the part of the young wife and her hither the officer seized the property named and duly delivered it to mr wright twenty miles distant from where he made the seizure and received his fees amounting to 18 whereupon mrs wright informed her better half that she was free born and half white and was going home and started again for her father's house on foot she was re captured on the way by the officer but managed again to escape and finally icached her father's house once more not content with her escape she has em ployed messrs hoi den & hendrick of ihis city to bring action against the un der sheriff justice and attorney for 1.-5 - 000 damages and will probably com mence action against mr wright either fe.r divorce or to annul the marriage on the grounds of his unduly persuading her to marry him against her will etc the methodist ecumenical coxfer exce.—london september 13 — the methodist ecunienial conference to-day expressed strong feeling against the methodists sending their children to ro mish schools on the subject of skep ticism mr todd of philadelphia said that skeptical science was a great enemy of the church the conference strongly condemned theatres and dancing messrs diffen and buckley americans speaking in support of these opinions mr peck advocated religious entertainments as a counter at traction a motion condemning the opium trade was introduced but was referred to the business committee at the sugges tion of mr peck because it contained words censnring the british government a motion recommending legislation against the sale of liquor on sunday will be submitted more of martin — dr j d button physician ofthe auburn n y peniten tiary has written a letter to the sheriff of richmond va giving his experience with thomas a marvin now under ar rest for bigamy and forgery and who it i.s claimed served a term in the auburn penitentiary dr button says du ring twelve years experience at this pris on no convict was ever known of cqnal ability at feigning all the forms of disease or insanity he was an expert in all kinds of deception : but his first failure at his entrance here rendered all hia ef forts futile it i.s said that the identifi cation of marvin as the man who mar ried miss tiirpin of richmond is now thorough the petkolecm wells failino the most recent statistics of the petrole um product of pennsylvania show a fall ing off during the month of inly last aud for a number of mouths preceding as compared with corresponding periods of last-rear stowell's petroleum reporter of august 23 expresses the opinion that a turning point has been reached and that in future tbe production will not be like iy to exceed the demand as has been the case hitherto an alfred maine man was di vorced after living with his wife twenty years and married a young chit but not living happily with her he was agaiu divorced and has gone back to first principles and mar ried his original wife north carolina at the atlanta ex position | ( hon montfe.nl mcgehee commis ; aioner of agriculture is busily engag ed in receiving specimens of our pro darts for exhibition at atlanta next 1 month we will give in a dav or ! two a list of some of the more impor tant articles the display is to be a splendid one bv far the'best north i carolina lias ever made abroad and i it is sure to attract marked attention i tiie officers ofthe department nf ag i riculture are untiring in their efforts i to make the exhibit in all respects j worthy of the state prof w c kerr state geologist will make an exhibit of our mineral resources ect under the control and j direction of tlie department of agri | | culture in conversation with prof ! ken yesterday wc learned that he j will take to atlanta the choicest spec ; iinens our of beautiful and extensive '' | museum of inetalic ores marbles val i uable earths marls and woods the minerals from the museum are already j i packed ready for shipment and will i soon be sent the building at atlan 1 ta is to be fiu'shed by the 26th oi the j present month the specimen woods in the mtireiiiii about go varieties are heilig packed a day or two since 1 1 : species peculiar to the country beyond i the 151 ne ridge were received from j waynesville haywood county years ; ago prof kerr had a complete col lee ! tion of onr north carolina woods jt ! was taken to vienna and left there there are in this stale about 100 ! species of wood — news-observer a smart young woman says the visalia cal delta : a young man in the neighborhood had ' taken up one hundred and sixty acres ' of land built a house upon it a barn ! bored wells dug ditches sowed it in j all spent hundreds of dollars upon it ; happened l be a dry season and the ! crop failed he became discouraged ! and offered his claim at a sacrifice a | young lady gave him one hundred | dollars for his right title and interest in the land and everything on it she let it lie she need do nothing more she sold the insufficient crop for hog feed the hogs rooted and scattered it the winter rains came and with ihem came the volunteer crop which matured ar.d has recently j been cut yielding twelve bushels perl acre on one hundred and twelve acres she will clear at least 1,500 besides having the land and the improve ments the best farm horses the philadelphia farmer says years ago when a faster horse than what then existed was desirable there was reason in the attempts tq improve the speed of the animal but there is hardly a doubt that the good farmer has been nearly altogi ther lost sight of in the desire to get horses of great speed the best farm horse is the strong horse the one that can step out lively and lias endurance to go through a day's work without great fatigue the business of raising fast horses is altogether distinct from the business ofthe farmer it is a source of excitement to sec a horse race but when a farmer thinks the horse he sees racing is the one he ought to have on his farm he makes a mistake the heavy norman horse would be more profitable than the one that was simply a racer singula it penny subscription — the cincinnati commercial's penny subscription for c a cook who knocked down a man because the hit ler expressed joy at the shooting of the president have amounted to over 700 the commercial says : the tine and costs of captain cook have been paid and he has received from us 150 in gold we have purchased a heavy american gold watch and chain the case of which is being man ufactured according to special direc tions the cost will be about 17*5 the rest ofthe money we shall invest iu foiir-pcr-cent bonds of the denom ination of 100 ending any margin of funds in cash a large blast — a big blast was fired iu the line of a new railway at the upper end of shell rock twleve miles above the cascades columbia river oregon chambers had been run into the clifffrora nearly opposite ides and charged with fourteen thousand pounds of powder the cliff was of basalt projecting into the river above which it stood at the height of about one hundred and fif ty feet the extent of its base was i about two hundred feet and the later al depth of rock which it was desired to move was seventy-five to eighty feet about forty thousand cubic yards of rock was blown off into the river when the distillery at harrods burgs ky was burned lately tl e ! beer flowed in the river near by and killed thou an of fish a question has arisen whether the government should pav the bills of the doctors who attend on president garfield or whether mr cat held is rightfully uie person to pav his own doctor s bill the government con tracts to pay the president a certain salary and famishes him a house and furniture without contract but it did not contract to pav for medical services if governor jarvis was sick or wounded would the state be liable for his doctor's bill ? it might he paid by special resolution of the legislature and the president's bill may be paid by special resolution of congress it is stated that the bills of the physicians attending the presi dent now amount to about luo,-x)0 — charlotte danoerat the people would not give 100 000 tor the entire batch of doctor's at a public sale a swindle of the peo ple in connection with this sad case will change the drift of their feelings a famous miser vandille a remarkable french mi ser was at one time mayor of rou logne and while in that position part ly maintained himself by being milk te.-ler general at the market while munching a scrap of bread he would partake of gratuitous draughts he always traveled to paris on foot and fearful lest he should be robbed took good care never to have more than three pence iu his pocket if he need ed more money he begged on the road ry such methods and lending money to the french government he made a fortune of x'8o0,o0o sprung from a single shilling during the very cold winter of 1834 he found it necessary to purchase some extra fuel and endeavored to beat down the wood merchantjn his price the man drove off and van dille stole a few log from the back of the cart in hastening away with them he became overheated and con tracted a bad fever he sent fcr the surgeon telling him be wanted to be bled as the surgeon charged half a livre which he thought was too much a barber was called in who agreed to open a vein for threepence rut friend said the cautious mi ser how often will it be requisite to bleed me three times replied the barlier three times and pray what quantity of blood do yon intend to lake from me at each opper.it ion ?" about eight ounces each time that will be ninepence too much 1 too much ! i know a cheaper way ; take the whole twenty-four ounces at once and that wiil save me sixpence he saved his six peine l.u lost his 1 i le — eiehangr the manufacture of artificial iee promises to be one of the great south ern industries of the future the new orleans lee factory company can now produce 45,000 tons per annum and they can deliver to consumers blocks of one hundred pounds or more of fine ice it is claimed that nianufactur.-d iee is superior to north ern ice and it can be furnished so cheaply that il controls the new or leans market against northern ice christ took your nature and came into your place to justify you ; he took possession of your heart to sanc tify you ; he advocates your canse be fore god the father to comfort you he reigns on the throne to command you ; he will come again to judge you god can make you happy in the world with the world or without the world ; but never expect that any thing or any one cau make you hap py but the lord if you would be happy y in-self endeavor to hoi or christ and make others happy ; this is the direct read cotton is pouring in now the re ceipts at all the ports arc large this i*i cutting down prices there vas a fur ther decline vest rd.-ty — news tf ob rrrr v learned yesterday that a t legrau had been received here stating that the boston capitalists who are intcicnted in the midland and north carolina had made a contract for tin iron the pre liminary survey line from pitts'ioro to raleigh has been completed the sur vey is made at this end to a point veiy near tbe fair ground maps of thia route are now being prepared — neiet el obser ver sonic darkies have sensible i.i a iboux things in general yesterday a negro k.i making tome sly investigations as to tl.o content of another african dinuei buck et whereupon the ownei of the bucket delivered in an oracular voice this opin ion daf jos what gits niggers in de pen dey talk too much at handles j things too speedily if dey wmim look ou more aud do less handlin d.re won ! i • more votin 1 next election — news d ' observer cultivation of hops — a father whip ping his sou