the carolina watchman yql vil third series salisbury v c june 1 1876 no 34 x u , in.y-.i 1 brc.vrb ed mid propr , t k buuner associate l-m 5 t i-,-ri:it'tl"n rates : . , ., payable in advance i 00 ' ' ~ : \ "*" ie i iitising rates : bl iti n ii oo publications l do .. or months or a year jfckeye bee-hive j persons wishing to purchase , or ell 1 1 1 i -- most perfect lnven ii wing counties will call on the 111 n signed to wit : ,, cabarrus stanly 1 ivie catawba flilmll burke mcdowell lincoln cleave ..-, ■!!. davidson ilinvi reduced the price on faun rights from i i sve also determined to offer comity and t unship rights at a very reduced price lu ' henry cauble salisbury n.c attention farmers grass seed ■ ,.,., iv 1 a fresh supply of clover i ras8 blue grass red top • -. . which i will sell eh eap lit enniss 1 c p+n will buy oue box of coucentated jill event " enniss ,/,;- till old ami reliable salisbury m marble yard main street grnexl door to tl •■ court rouse m he cheapest i tee in north j ,, - monuments tombs head stones ac , ic none bul the besl ma ised and all work done in the best style will satisfy j ou of ihe truth orders solicited aud promptly j irantocd or uo charge john ii uuis propr i?:i'uns superior court rowan county jane e cliambers plaintiff \ | ,/,,.' . mmon8 samuel i liambers defendant i state of north carolina to the sh iiii if u.w in county greeting yo0 are hereby commanded in the name ol the slate to summon samuel i iiamiii is defendant in the above action to 3'.'i*.ir at tin next term ofthe superior court iint ■ :' rowan it the < ourl-honse in lii-l.i.r.v i ii the cili monday after the 3d monday h march 1876 then and there to an nrrrthe complaint of jane e chambers 1 tiffin llii lit and you arefurlherc mman ded to notify the said defendant that i he fails iwer the complaint within the time spe citied hy hev the said plaintiff will apply to the court fur ih relief demanded in said com plaint and lor all costs an 1 charges in thissuit incurred witness j m horah < 1 rk of onr urt al office in salisbury this the loth dar of april a i 187(3 t.m horah cl rk sup v ' li i ' ounty 2s:6t:ii'd fc on and off & slick as grease ! jv wm a eagle *~ his continuance at nis old rtatid in : i old lino on main street opposite ennis's drug store be is always ready and ruiuus tu accommodate customers in the hon and shoe liu in ess in the best inanni r possible ho is prepared to do first class work and can cnnipi-to with an northern shop on hand made i 1 '*"- iiis machine lasts rtc.are of tho latest ud best paterns lie keeps on hand ready bade work and tjtoch equal to any special or der footing boots in best style .-?. new boots host quality 11 repairing neatly and promptly done at reasonable prices sati.-fac ti"n rnaranteed or no charge fi»sh orders by mail pn.mptlv filled wm a ragle fcn.20 1876 l5:6mo -' ago the world was convinced that sew ■» iwdi.ne by machinery tbe nnlyqi-es r*hal in ichine combines in itsell ber of important advantages j thei ule florence th its self-regulating tension sc n.u-'.in i bather without ehn j or needle then from right to lei and left to r .' t ~- nv '■•• one style of the machine sew t wi ,. r -" v "" the operator a may be desired jv tch alike.on both sides in elegance ol i and rnioothncsr of cperation variety ol i k:ir " 1 n ■ ..; price the florence e on tbe highest distinction i'.ii.c sjj;!j ro » jt - c-ii the agent he is also bickford knitting machine jf»nich:io pairs of socks have been leflit aud '"'!"""" "'•'""• ; " 1 ' 1 v l perfect he-el mar ii "°° dfi - sbaw '". clove <,,;,..' j this woman's friend which •■■ <^"'" l -' ] '' ■''■'■ in relation to either knitter fork ■ infi lin '' is invited and samples ol il!ri : ' : '''"'' pplication all orders by mail ped t ( " v '' 1,r r ; attention machines ship fihrhm 1 '''', 1 '''"' "'' the state ' ; "" 1 add ' agents wanted in t r ry county re "-> all communications to j i cartland salisbury 0r . i g.caktlani gen'i agt i r ., greensboro ,\. 0 - ur 5 of salisburv ngenf call nn s calo at tbe national hotel 23:ly wthttieips centennial hymn i written fur the opening of the international exhibition philadelphia may 10 1870 j oar fathers god from out whose hand the centuries full like grains of sand we meet to-day united five aud h.yal to our land and thee to thank thee for ihe era done and trust thee for the opening one here where of old by thy design the fathers speak that word of thine avlu.se echo is the glad refrain of ren l.-.l bolt and falling chain tu grace o r festal time from all the zones uf earth our guests we call p»e with us while the new world greets the old world thronging all it streets in il ng all the triumphs vvu.ii j!y arl or toil beneath the sun au 1 unto common good ordain this rivalship of hand and brain thou who has here in concord furled the war hags nfa gathered world beneath our western skies fulfill the orient's mission of good-will and freighted with love's golden fleece send back its argonauts of peace pur art and labor met in truce for beauty made the bride of use we thank thee but withal we crave tile austere virtues strong tu save the honor proof to place or gold the manhood never bought nor sold lb make thou us through centuries long in peace secure in justice strong around o'lr gift of freedom draw the safeguards of thy righteous law aud cast in suine diviner mold let the new cycle shame the old ! ■ — atlantic for june a cnild of romance a sch tol-girl elopes with her friend's rctrothed—a remarkable history i from the new york herald eldred pa may 6 1876 among the young people of the best circles of eldred blessie cookton aged 16 adopted laugh i terol jerome cookton a rich farmer was an acknowledged leader she recently re j t lined home from a philadelphia board i ing-school where she bud been a pupil four veins muking occasional visits homo < i one of these vi.-its about a year g she met alva evans tbe son ot u iron founder of london ana la he i was veiling this section with a party of oilier young men for the purpose of trotit : lisbing evans fell iu love wilh miss cookton the result was that a corres ; ponil.-iice was opened and kept up be ; i ween tlie two ami a marriage fixed upon io be consummated when miss blessie sh ule have reached the age ol is the room-mate and particular friend ofthe voung lady at school was frances peters of p rsville n y she was nm years the senior of blessie and left school some time before the latter miss peters is a blonde exceedingly at tractive an.l f a dashing and reckless ii line at llie bouse of a friend in , philadelphia she met isaac bell a young min represented to be of an old family and wealthy the young people formed an attachment for each other — at least j miss peters fell deeply in love wilh bell j as her parents had oilier matrimonial piosp.-cts marked out for her at home he kept her acquaintance with young bell a becret from them but it seems ; promised to marry him at some future | day not being able to have her lover ! vi.-ii her at home miss peters made an ; arraugi ment with miss cookton by which ! she was to pay the latter a visit when mr 1 bell was to •_■ > also and stay a utw days 10 add to the completeness of the ar i rangemeiit blessie wrote to her caua i eliaii betrothed and he was lo join the | visiting party miss peters came lo eldred about the j middle of april and in u few days there ' after isaac b.-ll made his appearance : miss blessie liked him from the first 11 was near the latter part of april be fore mr evans came from canada dur in the two weeks that had elasped since the coming of mr bell miss cookton bad transferred her affections to her friend's betrothed and his love toward miss peters had visibly grown cold it did not take tbe jealous eye of miss peters aud the young canadian long to notice the change as it affected them respectively but they bad no idea that it was any thing more than a temporary i flirtation on the arrival of young mr j evans blessie plumed a may-day par ty for an excursion to the mountains ! ou wednesday morning ihe party started i in accordance with previous arrangements ! miss cookton and mr evans in one car riage and ihe visiting couple in another ( in reaching the woods ibe parly stroll ed at landotn they naturally got some what separated ; but while miss peters and ibe canadian were always in hallooing distance ol each other il seemed that the other coup strolled further away the occasion seemed to be one of no pleas ure to evans and miss peters and ihey after an hour or so met near ihe . dge of the woods and and sat down to await the return of the other couple they sat there talking for an hour or more and as there was yet no sign of either bell or miss cookton both evans and miss peters betrayed evidence ■ of uneasiness and alarm the canadian told bis companion to remain in her seat and be would walk back over the hill and look for bl.-ssie a be was fearful she bad lost her way he was absent a long lime and finally returned looking pale and anxious lie bad seen nothing of eii b.'i of tne n i.-.-ing young folks miss peters was greatly agitated over the result ■ i his search but neither she norevans at that lime entertained tbeslightestsuspicion ibaitbe prolonged absence of tbe two was by design or that tbey were together they returned to the farm-house where the i carriage had been left in order to give an alarm and have a thorough search made they found that the conveyance in which evans and ' blessie had come was gone for the first time a terrible suspicion crossed their minds a farmer tol.l ihem that a young man and a young j woman had come off ihe mountain about noon and getting into the carriage had drivncn rapidly offin tbe direction ofaiinot station evans would not believe that the conduct of blessie and bell \ was anything more than a girlish prank i und wus conlident that they would find ! ihem at home on reaching the farm j they found the were still absent miss peters hastened to her room to hide her j emotion in a few minutes she sought iin.l found evans walking in the yard and placed a note in his baud it read as follows dear frank so greatly do i love mr bell that 1 have given up all for him i hope y.'ii will be brave enough to bear up and think of me as the most cruel creature in the world tell alva i have not the courage to write to him nor to father and mother we are going to be married and intend to return to eldred when the gossips are through with us farewell frank bid alva farewell for me 1 hope he had learned to hate me before this b c evans cooly handed the not hack to i miss peters and remarked quietly : i am glad to have found the young lady out before it was too late the same evening he was di i ven to the railroad and returned to canada the farm er's family took the matter very calmly miss peters however was found lying in her bed about 7 o'clock the same evening covered with blond willi a small pen knife she had severed the large arteries of both arms and was nearly unconscious from loss nf blood but lor the timely discovery of her situation she would soon have past all aid her wounds were bound up and a doctor summoned who now has her in charge her parents were sent for and arrived here this morn ' ing they will remove their unfortunate j daughter to her home as soon as they can with safety blessie cookton has a remarkable '. history she was found iu the summer ' of 1sg0 on the doorstep of farmer cook ton's bouse iu a basket accompanying tbe infant was this note : this child's father is the son ofa sen ator of the united states its mother is a gypsy girl who has been converted to ! christ and can not bear the thought of this innocent creature growing in ignor ance arid vice is there room for it lien . lis linle wings are weary and like the jesus.it lias no place to lay its bead j turn it now away but keep ii for the i love of christ the child was a bright little thing and j as the farmer hud no children he and bis i wife concluded to adopt it as their own it came to be such a sunshine in the bouse ihat they gave i the name of blessing which was subsequently turn ed into blessie hon vv m bobbins from the winston sentinel we take llie following extract from a private letter to a gentleman in our town the north carolina delegation in congress stands high we could hardly ! be belter re-presented your immediate ' representative v m robbins has made decided reputation — i have noticed bis course with considerable interest un 1 will give you a few points which particu larly commended him lo his constituents no member has been more diligent and punctual and i believe he has never missed a roll call except when on com j mittee duty he has done a vast amount j of work iu the committee on claims a j i very useful kind of work and all the i more wearisome because in ils nature obscure never bringing any notice or repiilalio.1 to the members wbo serve on i i said committee he has been of essen tial service so i learn to the committee of expenditures of the war department and was one of the three men who brought down belknap his counsels doing much to aid the progress of that case — he being ! iu fact the author of ihe impeachment : resolutions — and has also helped to un i : earth bibcock's crimes and reynolds | i anil jngall aud all the rest of the nu ' i inerous cases which that committee has ! evposed it is said that when tha record , of its doings is published it will be found i that his pointed and direct style of exam , ining the witnesses has answered a very useful purpose iu serving to concentrate in a brief spice the substance of each case which but for that would be left scatter ed through columns knowing that it was nearly useless to attempt lo get the senate to agree to any legislation such as we wanted he has not wasted time in in troducing many bills simply for the name of it but be has however offered several among them a very important amendment to the bankrupt law and be bus been warmly urging the diminution or abolition of the internal revenue tax making a speech ou this subject which attracted attention a did also bis speeches on the belknap case and ou the centennial the latter was an outburst which electrified llie houss more than any speech of tbe season and it has also done much to bring about a restoration of feelings of justice towards the south it is nolicable lliat no man in the house has since that had ihe lace to abuse the soul hern people as they were doing before — but though he thus offered the olive branch he is no crouching beggar for northern favor for he was quick to denounce blaine's attack on us as an infamous blander — he takes care to observe polite and kintlly relations with all persons in the house worthy of respect and he is very popular and much liked by all and exercises as much influ ence on the course ot business ns any man here of equal length of service the christian's armor will rust except it be furuished with the oil of prayer animated shot-guns animated not because they kick like so many of llie guns our leaders are fa miliar with but because they swim he cause they shoot themselves off not ac cidently like ordinary guns but purpose ly ; because they shoot to kill and to eat what they shoot ; more remarkable still because ihey load themselves with waler which they live in and shoot their game iu the air which they can't live in they are about six inches long and the naturalists call them toxotes jaculafor they look very much like perch only more beautiful their general color is greenish above and greenish silvery gray below across the back are four short dark brown stripes shaded with green those who have seen them flashing through the water speak with enthusiasm of their lovely and ever changing hues no wonder they are favorites wilh the pet loving chinese who keep them in jars as we do gold-fish and amuse themselves by tempting the fish lo display their skill by dangling a fly over the water the toxotes are natives of tho water of java but have been widely distributed throughout the fast as an ornamental fish it is said that their aim is so ac curate that they can bring down an insect from the height of three or four feet above the water this iisb has a near relative claxt ii'lou rostratus by name which inhabits llie chinese seas and rivers a beautifully colored fish which may be called an ani mated rifle from the fact that it shoots not a shower of drops like the toxotes but a single drop bringing down its game with wonderful certainty and precision iu this fish the jaws are prolonged into a sort of beak which serves » rifle barrel in other respects it resembles the scaly shot-pun above described — st nicholas for may good joke on a married max a joke is told on a certain gentleman of this city which is too good to be lost our friend who shall be nameless pur chased a pair of pants a few days ago uhirh upon being tried on at home he found lo be a hi lie bit too long that night he remarked to his wife that he wished her to lake off about an inch from each leg which would make them ofibe desired . length being fond as a good many wives are of teasing her husband she told bill flat-footed that she shouldn't do anything r.f the kind and he retire finally without having ob taiiied a promise from her that she would attend to ibe matter soon after he had i fl for his room however she as a mat ter of course clipped off the superfluous inch as she had been requested to do the family is en ai prised of six female members in addition to the good man and it chanced thai each one nf ihe other five who were in adjoining rooms includ ing the mother of our friend beard the dispute between the man and wife about the pants and after the latter had taken off the inch and retired the old lady de siring to keep peace iii ibe family and not knowing what her d.-nigbto.-in law had done cautiously slipped into the room and cut off another inch in ihis way did each nf the five ladies unknown to the others and all wilh the praise worthy ob ject of preventing any misunderstanding between the married couple clippi d art inch from the legs of the gentleman's trowsers the following morning all unennsious of ifthat had taken place during the night he rolled up the plants in a piece of paper and look ihem to bis tailor to be shorten ed lo the desired length l'po i a hasty glance the latter ventured the opinion that they were already rather short ; but the owner was too well posted on that score anil insisted that ihey were fully an inch loo long the tailor bad no more to say and our friend retired on the following saturday he called for the pants and took them home and lie next morning when he come to put himself inside of ihem he was supremely disgusted at find ing that the legs reached only a trifle be low his k.ies in other words thoy bad been altered to the fashion of a century ago when knee breeches wore in vogue lie straightway accused his tailor of hav ing ruined his pints and his indgnalion was expressed iu language anything but mild his wile heard him and came to the rescue of ihe knight of the shears explaining that she had taken au inch from each of the legs ; and her acknowl edgment was followed by that of each five billies whon ir was discovered that altogether the logs had actually been short e ned to the extent of seven inches ! — wil star the way new york helped the southern confederacy when the south w contemplating the folly of secession it was a common thing to road in the new york herald and to boar upon broadway and wall street sm-li expressions as these — the south shall never be conquered we will take up arms in defense nf the south now york will send one hundred thou sand men to fight in the southern auuies if the rail splitter lincoln attempts to in vade her sacred soil with bis hirelings in sorrow iu tears in blood in poverty iu woe unutterable have we paid for our folly iu listening to the lying voice of those men wbo were llie first to invade and the last to leave our soil once and what a terrible once we followed their counsels and were led by their voices then there was indeed a show a shadow ed reason about their promises now they propose to take us boldly by the nose and lead or kick us to the devil it the executive committee of this district will give the people ii chance two men will go to st louis opposed to wall street and specie resumption — albemarle limes a difference we believe that a distinction exists between grantism and the best elements to be found in the republican party at the north we accept giantism to be the very essence-the form and embodiment of all that is vicious corrupt debasing insolent and treacherous it has flaunted its robes rich with a nation's gold and worn upon its forehead the broad philac tories of promise • but it has filched the poor man's mite and the rich man's treas ure whilst betraying every trust and dis honoring the good name of the country its truth is leprous its society corrupting its breath pestilential its virtues a sham its devotion to principle a mockery and a deception such is grantism as we un derstand it we think better lliings of republican ism as held and taught by llie better class of northern politicians we believe there are many honest conscientious men amongst us wiio see things differently from us because of their peculiar educa tion and surroundings they are not all rascals however little they may under stand our people at the south we have considerable respect for such men as bristow judge waite of the supreme court chas francis adams curl shuitz and men of that class who dislike grant ism and guard handsome for the consti tution and win are guided by houest if mistaken political convictions in our view there is a vast difference between roguery and honesty between constitutional right and arbitrary law lessness between justice and tyrany sympathy and oppression for those men who are for maintaining ar.il uphold ing the constitution for sustaining the national honor for driving from oflice veual and inefficient rulers and for ihe restoration of solid peace tranquility good feeling among the opposing sections we have respect but for the mortons and blaines and boutwells and town sends who would stir up strife make bit , ter the waters of the nations awaken slumbering prejudices and passions for their own selfish ends and ambitious pur pose we have only defiance am uiicoui i promising dislike ; whilst for the vast j thieving peculating bribe-giving and bribe-taking set — the grants belknaps j butlers babcocks robesons we have j that contempt and scorn we en tea tain for ; smaller criminals who are guilty of lesser i crimes but we cannot indorse that class j of moderate republicans who professing to uphold the constitution and to demand i statesmanship honesty and reform are ! yet found supporting men who have been ' tbe friends of grantism faith without ! works is dead — oxford torch light i ~~ ~~" j he i aluc oj the sunflower in severed ways a i\-w stalks of this grand rank grow ing plant in the garden or near tbe house are highly beneficial in many respects : ihey aro great promoters of good health by finely absorbing malarious gases in ! the air and purifying it the seed is splendid loud for poultry it the winter '. and spring and best of all tho seed of sunflowers is the ino ; t healthy food that cm be given to horses in winter and 1 spring ball a pint a day keeps them in j health and spirited with sleek coats and ' ii ore animated than any other food it ' pi events heaves and other diseases j all places with the least tendency to in ilui ial difficulties should have numbers 1 of sunflowers growing about the resideu : ces then they are great favorites with : little birds — yellow birds blue birds i wrens and many others — which will bave fruit and berries to porch upon and ' pick sunflower seed it may not be gen • orally known that the seed of ihe stin . flower is the most infallible remedy yet ! discovered for the speedy cure of founder i in horses the direction which we glean from a brief article upon the subject in the essex runner says : immediately on discovering that your horse is foundered mix about a pint of the whole seed jn bis food and it will perfect a cure note by the editor — in that most excellent book the earth as modified hy human action { m ahsii i.s found the following mention of sunflowers as a protection against miasmatic exhalations maury believed that a u\v rows of sunflowers planted between llie wash ington observatory and the marshy banks of the potomac had saved the inmates nf that establishment from the intermit tent fevers to which they bad boon for merly liable maury's experiments have been repeated in italy large planta tions of suflowers have been made upon the alluvial deposits of the oglio above ils entrance into llie lake of isco near l'isogn,und it i j said with favorable re sults to the health of the neighborhood in fact the generally beneficial effects of a forest wall or other vegetable screen as a protection against noxious exhalations from marshes or oilier sources of disease situaled to the windward of tbem are very commonly admitted — southern planter and ft inner a sad tragedy the many friends in this city of cal st clair dealing where he has recently resided will regret to learn of bis tragic death last week at grahamville s c the news was received here ill a letter from a lady a former resident col dealing it so ins bail just been married and was at grahamville depot with his bride ready lo take the cars i„r the wed ding journey when he was shot down and instantly killed by a rejected suitor of the bride no further particulars are known here — wilmington review it was pride that changed angels into devils ; it is humility that makes men as angels from the new orleans picayune a mouse in.a spider web the wily weaver ensnaring huge game a wonderful xurative the wonderful little spider which cap ! tared the mouse and is elevating it in j its parlor at mr michael gross's carpen ter shop on greatmen between elysian i fields and marigny streets ol wh'ch we j gave an account yesterday morning is | slill busily engaged in its herculean task j and filing the numerous persons who visit it with amazement this astonish ing little insect is of the black species and very small a fact thnt renders the feat which it now performs the more mar vellous the mouse was accustomed when on a predatory excursion to emerge from a hole under the bench where spi \ ders dwell and pass into the carpenter ' shop where the bench stands the en terprising spider who had no doubt watched for a long time the movements laid a trap for the unsuspecting young mouse and on monday morning when it started out on its daily rounds the little spider who was on the lookout tightened the thread which she had prepared for her victim whose bind legs bad been en tangled in them as it passed out of the bole and soon secured it immediat ly after the legs had been caught the spider fastened another thread to tbe mouse's tail and after several hours constant work succeeded in raising her prey's bind quarters nnd continued so doing until the tip of the mouse's nose only touched the floor having thus render ed it helpless the little spider industri ously set to work multiplying its fasten ings after a few more bonis labor the , mouse was raised one inch fiom the floor the spider working as if with a pulley in its terrible contortions to release itself the mouse managed to sever the fastenings around its hind legs but so strong were j ihe threads which suspended it in the air : and so securely wore they attached to its ', tail that all efforts to break them p roved fruitless mr gross taking great inter ; est in the proceedings left the spinet j undisturbed and dining almost the whole of monday night with several friends ! watched its working attentively the ; little insect after taking her position on i her victim's tail commenced manipulat i ing the thread and working gradually | could the astonished witnesses of this \ wonderful feat see t lie mouse creep up and tbe threads decending from their fastenings under the comer of ihe bench to the mouse's tail increased in number and during the .*) 1 hours ending yester i day evening the threads had so increased i that it became impossible to count tbem i and the mouse which was still alive j though quite weakened had been raised j from one lo three and a half inches from the floor the spieler during the whole i time of its work sat on the mouse's tail j only leaving its position at long intervals j when it would cautiously creep down the j tail to its root and there feed upon the ! blood of the mouse then resuming its , position on the end ofthe tail it would i again begin its work this unheard of | capture of a mouse by so small an insect nnd its ingenious manner of elevating it has excited the wonder and admiration of j thousands uf visitors among whom may be mantioned several scientific men and physicians who assembled iu large crowds at mr jioss's carpenter shop to witness the progress of the gigantic task which the little spider bus undertaken and is so successfully bringing to an issue mr gross will leave them undisturbed and carefully watch the result as every one is anxious to see whnt the spider will do with its captive after it dies and how far it will elevate it low-dozen life in egypt the sheik of this particular village was well drpssed in oriental fashion had a house of many rooms and even glass windows he gave me sherbet and cof fee and then took me round bis village the mud bills are all built one against another like the cells nf a beehive save where tbey are divided by the little lanes that run through the village i chose a ii ti l at random and asked if i might go in yes said my companion but it is very poor and there is nothing to see we went to the entrance these huts hav ing as a rule no doors an old woman — ill least she looked old ; but the woman was old at forty — buried the way i offered money but that was uot enough to overcome her feelings that her house was her castle where no christian should li ter and the sheik bad to insist due small room — mud walls mud roof mud floor was all we found four bricks made a small fireplace but there was no fire a small basin of maize five water jars an earthen pot for artificial hatching of chickens n cock and three hens a small heap of backing by way of bed clotbes constituted all the furniture of the house fonr yards by five was the extent of the house and this was partly taken up by the raised dais of mud which serves as the family bed in every fellah habitation a family of four lived in space the head of the family was con sidered pretty well-to-do by the fellah world as he is the owner of live feddans acres of land i tried another house taken similarly at random it was still smaller and more pitiful than ibe last the mud bod occupied half the space ■ three yards by one was my measurement of the nst a water-jar and a reed pipe were all the signs of habitation there ivere no boxes or cupboards in which oiher goods or chattels might be hidden a family of three laborers on the lands of others lived heie i have seen pigs better housed in england london times j items from ihe beaufort eagle j a turtle was killed here on last mon | day which upon examination was found : to contain one thousand and fifty eg our farmers report that the crops in this county are looking well good stand in cotton and corn having beeu obtain ed there will be another pony penning on cape banks june sth this uen is only a short distance from beaufort and per sons wishing to purchase ponies will find it to their advantage to be present saw fish tony chadwick caught a saw tish twelve feet long the saw being , four fret in length he made two gallons of oil from the liver large shecjihr.td.—wr l ives pre sented col humphrey last week a sheep head weighing 16 pounds these fish are getting to be quite plentiful in our waters and large numbers of them aro being shipped west and north beaufort rnr—'slr 0 b stryon branch pilot informs us that there is l'j feet on oqr bar at dead low water and 17 feet on ordinary high water the above statement is correct and proves what our pe-;.p!c have claimed for years that our bar is the verv best south of norfolk governor brogden was the only south ern governor at the centtennial but his name wasn't even mentioned iu the list of no able persons present the southern home lifts up his voice and weeps as fol lows : alas ? for poor governor curt — h lo philadelphia did go for to see the loc ial show o'n ! bow his phelinks tbey hurt — thera big-bugs d,.m grant and pedro v hen they treated onr noble ex-curt ad ouly a small l'o-ta-to-o ! a model governor brogden is the executive meant tbo lynchburg news reviews the cases oi carson and cowles at present members of llie alabama legislature who were until recently citizens of this state where they were indicted for infamous ciime and whence tbey fled to alabama the news rehearses the fact that tho sheriff solicitor and other officials prefer red a request to the governor that he should make a requisition on the govern or of alabama for the fugitives and the additional and shameful fact that although three months have intervened no requi sition has been made and no notice what ever has been taken of the request the news indignantly remarks : the miserable creature who stains tlio proud aud pure anuals of the old north state by bis miserable misdoings refuses his aid in bringing fugitive ciuninals to the bar of justice lending the sanction and authority of the governorship to tho shelter of malefactors who happen to be long to his own corrupt party if it is that the receiver is as had aa the thief is not tbe protector of the criiu inal an equal partner in his crime ? we are glad to believe that after the close ofthe year 1s7 this bad man will no longer lord it over the good people of carolina heartily we echo this confidence and express the belief that with vance at the head of the democratic ticket the radical party will be buried under a tremendous majority next november — statesville lai i i mark the mustang rare a failure nr.w york may is — the mustang race at fleetwood park commenced at 1 o'clock this morning the conditions were that 300 miles were to be accomplished iu fifteen hours with relays of horses the rider to use one horse as long as he liked the stake was 25,000 that it could not be done to 15,000 that il could the first fifty miles were made in 2 hours and i minutes and the first hundred in 1 hours and 11 minutes at 2:30 p in two huudred and ten miles had been made but on the two hundred and twenty-six mile the rider gave out and the race was over aud a failure frank perralto the mexican who had been engaged to tide in the race and who was too nervous and weak to attempt it gave way for bu.ld parker who mounted in a rough jockey dress parker dismounted the first horse at the end ofa mile and quickly mounted a fresh one which stood ready and continued throughout the day to mount ride and change seldom compelling one horse to make more than one round at a time when parker gave out he was ki minutes behind i tiie average time necessary to accomplish the proposed i••.it l;iif turtit — we saw lying on tha wail of davis ev brother a few days ngo a tremendous turtle measuring live feet length and four feet in width he weigh ed about 400 pounds and the shell could be conviently used by one of our cu terprising youth as a shiff when we last saw him he was in the cait of davit a brother completely filling ii up he was caught hy mr born congleton writing of this turtle reminds us that we were told last week by mr anson lewis thai he caught in a small net in one day 14 turtles many of tbem very large and it was not a good day for turtles either lighting ly g'a about sixty years since l-ondjaa was fust lighted by gas soon thereafter ■ paris and other cities in euyope were similarly lit baltimore has the koiior of being the first ci;y in the united states to introduce this new illuminating me dium a few years later boston and new yoik followed her example and twelve years thereafter — about 1834 — philadelphia discard d her vile-smelling dim but costly oil-burning lamps for the uew cheaper and belter light