fill r^i uptswajl oi ine carolina watchman vol xiii thirl series salisbury n c november 17 1881 no 5 the carolina watchman established in the vear 1882 1*1 e 1.80 in advance ■_ .«!>. _». contract advertising rates february 20 is 0 n h,.s i month 2 uts lm em's i2in's ji .-• -. 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" . 51 0(1 sivih •• :.;, •• i ., •• ... tis nn j d t.lcizcclj ag't harness & c 1 ini prepared o furnish wagon and buggy iiaeness mad ol the besl northern tanned leatln r work and leather gu ranteed call and ee me llwcll . ialii sin et sallsbuiv n c john h james i b van i w 11 bailey vance & bailey atroivi'jiyo and counsellors ■ ii ik lot e n c in supreme court of the united ■ uart of north carolina federal i onrts and < omiticf of mecklenburg . i-i n ki wan and david r easl •». indepen 33:tf i.h m corkle theo 1 kluttz mcc0f.kli sl kluttz attorneys and counselors salisbury n c office on coum-il street opposite the 7:oni ; i . ii i i.imi:.\t ' craige & clement i ittonujjs at i salisbury s c blaciuier and henderson attorneys counselors and solicitors salisbury x.c 23 i 8'7 i tt federal interference in state elections on saturday last mr hill of georgia ! offered in the senate of the united states ; the following resolution rt solred that the appointments to offices under the federal government | ought not to be made to control or influ i ence elections iu the several states and | appointments made with such intent are i unwise unpatriotic and contrary to the ! spirit of our political institution and if continued without rebuke by the people | will become dangerous to the perpetuity of our institutions mr hill asked for the immediate con sideration of the resolution but mr mc '. millian objecting it was laid over under : the rules this resolution is evidently aimed at t the administration which is now using : the federal patronage to aid mahone in carrying the state of virginia it must be ; evident to every unprejudiced man that the interference by the general govern ; inent in state elections whether by the : bribery of patronage or the more violent means of the bayonet is altogether wrong the republican party has used both these means of accomplishing its objects and iu our opinion the stalwart wing of that party now iu power would use either means to accomplish its ends if its lenders belived they could count on a majority of ihe noi then voters to sus tain them iu such a course the federal union was not created by the states or by the people of the states for the pur pose of becoming a dabbler iu state poli tics and it is a degradation to it aud the j people who created it when it descends ■ from llic lofty plane upon which it was i intended to operate lor the good of the whole union and makes itsell a party to j the local contests of states what con cern has the government of the uni ted suites with he question whether virginia pays her state debt iu whole oi iu part ! why should the federal ad ministration interfere with the question ot suffrage in virginia any more than in massachusetts virginia demands the prepayment ofa kill tax before the voter can l.e allowed lo cast a ballot she re quires some evidence that he possesses a pecuniary interest iu the government which he undertakes to con uol before j allowing him lo vote there is nothing ; uii reasonable iu this but it has become one of ihe issues iu the virgiauia cam paign and the united states govern ment is throwing its inlluence in favor of abolishing this pre-requisite why has not the u s government gone into the massachusetts elections demanding there the abolitiou of all electoral qualifications except the mere fact that the voter i.s a man . for the simple reason that massa chusetts is already republican and there is nolhii g to be gained there by stirring lhe question of manhood suffrage whilst in virginia it is hoped that the demo cratic party will be divided on this issue and defeated — fayetteville examiner .._«,. chairman mott and cooper have been ; inviting the democrats to join with them | iu breaking down the democratic party ! lhe issue on which the next campaign in this state will turn will be tbe abolish ment ofthe internal revenue department we once had occasion to say that when the proper time should come we would ask republicans to vote the democratic ticket and we pioposed togivetheni good reasons why they should do so to make a begin ning we iuvite chairman mutt's attention to the issue above mentioned and hope he cau spare the time from his official duties to examine it thoroughly if it sliall commend itself to his judg ment we shall hope to sec him following the democratic banner on whicli is in scribed down with the revenucrs and free the people from the burdens of the internal revenue system it will be re membered that our state courts are quite good enough to try all the citizens of north carolina for offenses against our criminal laws except alone the night raiding revenuers these when charged with assaults on women and even rape we have heard make affidavit that he did it under color of their office and take their cases to the federal courts wheie ihey are never tried but go un whipped of justice in our efforts toget the whole thing buried out of sight behind us we shall have the aid of many who have heretofore co-operated with the republi can parly ttut for the present ive mere ly invite ihe prayerful attention of chair man molt and cooper to the subject — xcus i'r obst rnr a murder and a death on the 2d j instant two sons of mr ahart halsey together with one isham cox shot ami j killed a man by the name of henry hob | inson in grayson county va near the j north carolina line the three young men are now in jail at independence va an old lady by tho name of cox | who was in feeble health at the time ; and who was related to some of the par j ties concerned in the murder died j from the effects of grief and honor at the ! murder — lenoir topic it is worth remembering that nobody en i joys the nicest surroundings if in bad health there are mserable people about to-day wiih one foot in the grave when a bottle of parker's ginger tonic would do them more good than all the doctors aud medicines thev have ever tried see adv ocl3-xovt3 a colliding steamer an exciting scene on the mississippi keokuk iowa nov 5 the palatini passenger packet war eagle in attempt ing to pass through the draw of the keo kuk and hamilton bridge was baffled by the eddies aud cross-current and swung around agaiust the bridge breaking out one span and entailing damage amounting te 150,000 to the bridge the clerk of the steamer says : the captain and two of i the pilots were in the pilot house when j the whistle blew for the bridge and then ! i heard bells to stop the boat's headway 1 then saw that we were broadside to the | bridge and that the boat was backing strong i instantly ran iuto the cabin and threw up both hands to give the alarm i caught hold of one lady and cried out to the rest to follow me as the i boat was going to strike the bridge we all passed out the aft door on the star ] board guard reaching there just as the i crash of the collision of the boat against i the bridge came i kept calling to the i passengers who seemed bewildered to ! get on the hurricane deck as they did j not seem to understand i led the way ! and they followed several ladies were ! clinging to ine as soon as the boat ! struck the bridge a span gave way with [ a fearful crash i looked forward and saw that she was leaning on the west pier her stern having cleared the east pier where the break in tlio bridge occurred and saw tlie people climbing from the ; bout on to the bridge i took one lady i and the rest followed most of the pas i seugei'8 were safely landed when the j boat swung off and floated down the stream she floated with the current and rounded to head down stream at a point a few hundred yards below the elevator where with the aid of one wheel and the assistance of parlies who came iu skill's and took a line ashore she was made fast capt wood remained on the roof and all the officers so far as known stood at their posts the dick crew got on shore as they could cain a m hutchinson general manager of the st louis and st paul packet company was interviewed and said it would be impossible to estimate anything like an accurate amount of damage done or the insurance there is insurance of about 23,000 on the boat which is valued at 40,000 the cargo consisted of about ten thousand packages of miscellaneous freight chiefly potatoes barley and flour a large portion of which will be bared the steamer is settled iu about 17 feet of water the new cotton factory messrs shuford gwyuu & co are now erecting a large cotton factory on the waters of gunpowder iu caldwell couu ty the location is known as the old heard forge and is only one mile from lovelady and about seven miles from hickory water is plentiful and the dam hns a fall of about fifty feet the factory is a two-story building 50x101 feet and will be completed in a few weeks two members of the firm messrs a a shu ford of hickory aud x ii grwynn of patterson have returned from lowell mass and providence rhode island where they have been to purchase their machinery which is the latest improved and the very best make a pait of which will be here about the fiist of next mouth when it will be put up and the factory stai ted at once they will run about thirty thousand spindles wliich will con sume a large quantity of cotton every day the company is putting up on the grounds six residences for tenants and a building for a store of general merchan dise hickory will be their postoffice for the present piedmont press tin rice trade in eastern nokth carolina our rice mills seem to be creating quite a revolution in the trade iu that cereal in the northeastern section ofthe state where upland rice is fast be coming the leading product and it should be a source of gratification to all to see the trade iu that article being diverted so perceptibly from its usual channels and taking its natural course in the di rection of the commercial metropolis of the state formerly all the rice iu that important section that was shipped at all found its way to charleston and other ports outside of our own stale but uow the great bulls of the crop will probably conic to wilmington to give some idea ofthe extent of the trade iu this article at present we would state that five thou sand bushels of rough rice are expected to arrive here by vessel to the older of the carolina kiee mills aud that other large cargoes aie on the way in addi tion to these shipments by water there are also constant arrivals of rice by train shipped at newberu aud averaging at the least calculation one car load per day since the 15 it of october — char ob raleigh xeirs and observer at lhe colored fair was shown a gnu owned by henry berry loivery the famous outlaw it is a may nard with two sets of barrels oue rilled the other smooth bore aud is in a case wliich contains a wonderful h complete apparatus for making cartridges with this gun he killed several persons among them his mother his initials h i i l are cut ou the stock saved by a shadow j esten cooke in the philadelphia times the scout was surrounded he ; took in everything at a glance ond de jteriiiined to cut his way through aud ! risk tlie chances but the ladies rep j resented to him that this was certain ; death they could conceal him and js assented the young ladies ' acted promptly one ran to the win j dow and asked who was there while i another closed the back door — that in j front being already_fastened s was then hurried up the staircase oue j of the ladies accompanying him to show him his hiding place all had i taken place in a few moments and j the federal troops ga**e sudden evi ; deuce of their estimate of s . they fired a volley through the front 1 door and the bullets whistled by the j young ladies then the door was ! burst in and the troopers swarmed in : to the house s had been conducted to a gar j ret bare of all furniture but some ! planks lay upon the 6.eepers of the ceiling and by lying down on these a man might conceal himself at full length and the young lady retired and returned to tiie lower floor from his perch s then heard all that was said in the hall beneath where is the guerilla exclaimed the federal officer commanding the detachment ! what guerilla asked ona of the 1 ladies the rascal s .' he was here but he has gone tliat is untrue the officer said and i am not to be trifled with i i shall search this house but first read 1 1 he orders to the men he added turning to a sergeant the sergeant obeyed and s i distinctly overheard the reading of : his death warrant the paper chron icled his exploitsjdenonnced him as a guerilla and bushwhacker and dircc ' ted that he should not betaken alive • the men were expressly ordered to kill him not to take him prisoner this was not reassuring to the scout concealed under the rafters above it was probable that he would be dis covered in which case death would follow there was but one thing to do — to sell his life dearly after ran sacking every room on the first and second floors the ladies had attempt ■ ed to divert their attention from it but ne of them asked : what room is that up there the garret was the reply he may be there — show the way you see the way returned the young laky i do not wish to go up in the dust it would soil ny dress you go before then said the trooper to a negro girl who had been made to carry about a lighted candle for night had come now the girl , laughed and said : there was nobody ; up there but at the order went up '. stairs to the garret followed by the : troopers the decisive moment had come s — — heard the trampy feet and cocked both his • pistols the light streamed into the garret and i looking over edge of his plank he saw the garre filled with troopers all seemed over and his discovery certain ; he was about to spring down and fire when the men growled : hell there's nothing here and went down the stairs again the servant girl had saved him by a ruse she had taken her stand directly be neath the broad plank upon which s was extended and the deep shadow had concealed him an hour afterwards the federal detachment left the house in extreme ill-humor and before morning s was miles away from the dangerous locality where he had overheard his sentence of death s is now one of the leading clergymen in virginia whisky's wohk on last friday the 14th inst james warden bill woddie and jimmie baker were shot by a inau ; named roberts who was stilling near laurel springs in this county warden lived twenty-six hours after he was shot — lived long enough to tell his family that liquor had beeu his ruin that there was uo hope for him iu eternity he died leaving a brokenhearted wife and a large family of little children tiie other two boys are said to be fatally wounded though they are still alive from what we cau learn warden woddie and baker were trying to forcibly take liquor from i roberts and the shooting of the three was the result lenoir topic wonderful inventive faculty the news ofthe death abroad recently of hamilton e towle recalls the bright career and remarkable achievements of a distinguished american citil engineer mr towle was a passeuger ou the famous great eastern during her memorable voyage across the atlantic when she en countered a great storm which broke her steering apparatus her commander and crew could do nothing in the terrible emergency and tin 1 iy * ract cal y ! elple s at the mercy of the waves in this criti cal moment mr towle carefully and with 6elf-posession examiued the broken ma chinery and rigged up from the material at hand au apparatus of his owu design ing whicli proved equal to the urgent needs of the situatiou the improvised rudder brought the great vessel eafely in port and the great distinguished ameri can received from the grateful pussengers who deemed their lives to have beeu saved by him the gift of a superb gold watch ornamented with costly jewels and engraved with a memorial inscrip tion commemorating the historical feat of engineering this timepiece he wore with conscious pride during his lifetime and he also exhibited at times with an equally pardonable egotism a medal presented to him by an english humane society in recognition of his achievement the steamship owners of all who profit ed by his knowledge of engineering how ever were it seems the only ones to dis pute the value of his splendid services imd he was compelled to bring suit to recover the salvage to which he was just ly entitled at the timo of the terrible shipwreck of the ill-fated atlantic he delivered a lecture in cooper institute asserting boldly according to his knowl edge of navigation that the disaster was attributable to faulty seamanship from early boyhood he displayed a noteworthy inventive faculty and rigged up all sorts of ingenious toy water-wheels aud the like this surprising supply of clever ideas seemed to grow with his years and the ingenious conceptions with which his active mature brain teemed and many of which bore fruit in useful engineering inventions seemed endless he designed a surveying level which met a long-felt need wns instrumental in the perfection of the towle bell-register adopted by the third avenue surface railway at the advent of the bell-punch nud was inter ested in a host of other inventions of which a machine for type setting self inking letter-stamps telegraphic instru ments argand burners patent washing chemicals theodolites and weighing scales were but a few before his illness he was head ofthe towle manufacturing company in cortlandt street in this city the saddest feature of his death is that it is reported to have been due to the weakening ofa brain whose strength and extensive creative power made him at times a marvel to his friends and asso ciates — xew york times a millionaire beggar a blind clild of italy bearing upon his manly breast a placard with the legend i am a poor blind man caused by small pox and led by a bright-eyed vivacious little brunette who called herself his daughter wandering yesterday from house to house begging a pitance many no doubt opened their hearts in pity for the man and child and it will without doubt be very pleasant for them to hear that the poor blind man caused by small pox waa seeu yesterday by a gentleman of this city to couut out 5,000 in clean cash destined for his paternal ancestor amongst the white walls and blue hills of distant sunny italy the reporter did not see tho roll and this comes at third hand but it comes straight possibly the man of small pox origin could be induced to invest in southern securities it is shrewdly suspected that he is a millionaire — probably one of the erlanger syndicate — char ob gum arabic in morocco about the middle of no vember that is after a rainy season whicli begins in july a gummy juice ex udes spontaneously from the trunk and principal branches ofthe acacia tiee in about fifteen days it thickens in the fur row down whicli it/uns either in a vermi cular or worm shape or commonly as suming the form of oval or round tears about the size ofa pigeon's egg of differ ent colors as they belong to the red or white gum tree about the middle of december the moors encamp on tho bor ders of the forest and the harvest lasts six weeks the gum is packed iu very large sacks of leather and brought on the backs of bullocks and camels to cer tain ports where it is sold to english and french merchants the gum is highly nutritious during the whole time of harvest of the journey and of the fair the moors of the desert live almost en tirely upon it and experience has prov ed that six ounces of gum are sufficient for the support ot a man for twenty four hours — london family herald the latest about a t stewart's bones is that mr stewart has effect ed a compromise with the ghouls by j which they the bones will be sur rendered miscellaneous senator vance and gen cox on thurs ; day visited aunt abby house and found i that venerable woman in a very weak i condition of body and mind she was i moved to tears by their visit which j gave her uubounded pleasure she is now 67 years of age a hotel built of freestone and brick 90x69 feet seven stories above the side walk was recently moved in l.ostou with out displacing a stone or disturbing the furniture of the house or hindering tho occupants from their business the ac tual time of moving the distance of 14 feet was only 13 hours and 40 miuntea though it required months to make the necessary preparations for it the screw was the mechanical power employed the greatest speed was i inches in 4 min utes tiie cost of the job was 30,000 this is the largest building ever moved larger ones havo beeu raised a novelty in street motors has made its appearance in new york promising wonderful things in the way of radical improvements iu local travel it works by means of com pressed air which for such purposes gives all needed power without the noise or smoke or dirt which a steam engine causes it is found to do its work as efficiently as the steam eu ginc and quite as economically railroad notes conductor tom murphy of the western north carolina road has got a leave of absence to visit florida he being still troubled by a wound iu the leg received in a railroad accident last spring char ob richmond nov the committee of military officers here from boston inves tigating charges of misconduct against the 9th massachusetts regiment concluded taking evidence in the case last evening today they will visit several places where iu course of investigation it was developed that members of the regiment had damaged property and committed other wanton acts and at 5 o'clock will leave for home there is nothing to base an opinion on as to what recommenda tion the committtee will make intheirre port as they have made no statement whatever in regard to the matter an astonishing amount of testimony has been taken by the commission the quantity and character are much greater and more damaging than was ever anticipated by previous representations rape and lynching in soitii caro lina a special to the greenville jveic from pelzer s c gives the details ol the lynching ofa negro man named wil liams for committing an unmentionable crime upon the person of a little orphan girl nine years old named blayton un der circumstances of peculiar atrocity it says : she was outraged several days ngo at the rev mr mcbee's in greenville near reedy river she was tin ward of the rev mr attaway of wikiamston being in greenville on a visit aud on her re turn hoiiie her condition was discovered she theu coufessed and detailed the hor rible circumstances of the crime which was committed by robert williams col ored in a cotton field iu which they were at work together lie had threatened to cut her throat ii she told of it and terrorized her into silence thursday night he was arrested and friday morning was taken to wil liamstou and identified by the child he was then taken from the guard house at that place by citizens of anderson and greenville and brought back being marched through pelzer about 11 o'clock friday attended by probably oue fun di ed men of both colors he was notilied of his impending fate and acted very coolly calling a colored man to him to whom he confessed his crime and prof fered a request for a preacher which was granted just across the saluda river in the woods he was hauged to a tree that inclined over a hill side being put ou a horse which was driven from under him after the rope had been properly adjusted he died very easily aud was stolid aud unmoved to the last there was not the least excitement or disturbance the whole affair being conducted in a quiet and business style a tenement house caves in — several lives lost — new york november 9 — at 6:55 o'clock this morning the three story tenement house at tlie southeast comer of south fifth avenue and grand street fell in burying the occupants in the ruins the fire department was immediate ly summoned and they with the as sistance of citizens had extricated five of the victims from the debr's the life of two was extinct and oth ers wt>re seriously injured how many were in the building at the time of ihe accident is not yet known the work of removing the debris is ix-ing pu.h*-d isith au speed "*• " — — — ! saraiinali's cottou crop the report of tiie savannah cotton exchange for october gives georgia seventy-four replies from 46 counties weather daring october remarkably fine no damage from frost three j fourths lo seven-eighths of the crop | has been gathered and picking will i be over by the first of december j the yield of seed cotton is estimated at about 400 pounds per acre which , is 10 to 15 per cent less than last ■: year the decrease is attributable to , drought ofthe early summer then to i rust aud lastly to worms the yield j of hut cotton from the seed cotton is j nearly 10 per cent less than last year ! while the bolls owing to lack of moisture in the atmosphere are about 3 per cent lighter than usual florida twenty-one replies from 9 counties ; in flroida during the last mouth i are as follows the weather was dry j very favorable for gathering the crop i seven-eighths of whicli has been pick , ed the yield of seed cotton is about 350 pounds per acre aud compared ( with last year about teu percent less j in the sea island section the weather j was very fine three-fourths of the crop is gathered aud picking will be finished by the 1st of december the yield is about 250 pounds of seed cot i ton to the acre about 12i per cent ; less than last year caused by drought ' worms and rust the quality is good fine weather for gathering is gener ally reported better than last vear more mormon missionaries mayor de wolfe states that on his i return last week from tennessee via the french broad pass he encountcr ed upon the stage two mormon mis i sionaries who stated that they were | from beaver a town in utah about 80 miles from salt lake they were sent from their eastern headquarters at nashville where the latter day ■ saints have a bishop or his equivalent they said they would spend a year at least in western north carolina . and made no bones of the fact that their business was as mormon propa gandists thoy talk quite freely of their religion and although they ac • knowledged that about half of thecon ( verfs to the religion of joe smith af terwards apostatized they said they . never knew such an apostate who was , happy afterwards they called the pass of the french broad a canyon • which first attracted attention they got off at bridgewater on the west ' cm north carolina railroad and i plunged boldly into the wilderness ; they seemed to be ignorant though strong-minded men — char obs wise words try your skill in gilt first then in cold j • publish your joy but conceal your i sorrows people's intentions can ouly be decid ed by their conduct ono day is worth three to him who does everything in order gravity is but the rind of wisdom but it is a preservative rind the ignorant hath an eagle's wings and . au owl's eyes tho king-becoming graces devotion 1 patience courage fortitude judgment and reason have been grand-jurymen sinci before noah was a sailor promises hold men faster than ben efits ; hope is a cable and gratitude a thread it is wise and well to look on the cloud of sorrow as though we expect ed it to turn into a rainbow whoever looks for a friend with out i in perfection will never find what he seeks wc love ourselves with all j our faults and we ought to love our friends in like manner a man has no right to occupy such high moral grounds that he i.s con stantly 60 far above his fellows that he can be of no earthly assistence to them a great deal depends upon a man's courage when he i3 slandered and traduced weak men are crushed by detraction but the brave hold ou and succeed a napoleon ohio dispatch saxsthat tho i jury in the trial of ex-governor scoit of south carolina for the wa der f young drury brought in a verdict of t guilt the verdict appears to iv8 general satis faction