the carolina watchman vol viii third series salisbury n c december 14 1876 no 9 ,.,,,-,, wkkm.y j •'. iii'i'nki im and prop t k ltuinkk associate ed subscription rates : rear payable t n advance 2 oo £, bwdtlls ■ » advertising rates : mt inch one publication 1 oo unc i two publications i so : rates tor montlis er a year number lxxviii w ng iin for a native of the old north bj-h or rather we should say natives oar sketches hive ranged from lhe cold wren bill on canada's frontier on the u iih and to tbe landof the palmetto aud ke orange on the south ; and yet we are ot ijotie we have some other lands d oilier nations yet to bunt ap and jot : iwii it i a labor yet it is also a pleas note down the incidents of the dd pioneers of this county we care i when tbey came hue ll they came : rben tbey were infants or yet it they ve , e born here or pereliance came in the noontide nl life tbey are all of the coun ty and whatever we can cull from the incidents of their lives thai we think will t our renders now or those who lay in i'l 1 vearfl peruse tbein we shall endeavor faithfully tu give in short we ire writing history we are miking his lory not on ly for to-day but we trust for wu y years hence in rn wan county in the state of forth carolina lived a man by name of i'luistiati prow who had on many a battle field of the revolution fought to the best of his ability the liiitish and tories who bad foi long ami weary years fottglil tbe battle of freedom peace bad not been declared and be bad sought bis until home bad returned to the bosom of bb family to live in peace and qniel the rrtnaindi r of ins days of this old hero we can learn but utile his history is mostly forgotten by bis descendants lint in 17s3 or 84 there was b rii to him in thai county a sou whom be gave also lliu name of christian there was iho an older son called john the young christian when be arrived at the tusper age was apprenticed to a baiter by name ol juo fly al salem in the old north state it is remarkable how many of tbe old north carolinians were induc ed to apprentice their sons to the baiter's irade vei it was no mean trade and one in wt.icit a workintu cau always find j hjili after young i hi istian became iwenty iitii a in an i.v name ol peter clement greed to and did convey to liitn two lots i cleiut uls ville in rowan now davidson county upon condition that prow should - irt a batter shop tbis offer be accepted lli ugwellal ibis be also started the busiues of wagoning to wilmington north caro lina and lo i ion b ston to south caro lina this was also very profitable so much so tiiat he started a little store in connection uhh bis simp he was pros pering very well when bis whole stock of goods were consumed by fire there was an apprentice sleeping in the upstairs pai t of lie building by name of james brown wboge tetreat was cut off by the fire from llie ladder the fire however bad lurried a bole in the floor large enough to jet his body through and shutting bis fyes and mouth he jumped through the lire and escaped with ins lit , although serinii-ly burned christian prow bad been married some liroe at the date ofilris occurence he bad married a girl by runic ul m.ntli.i downs in 1s13 christian prow st and bis fousjohn and christian aud their fami lies concluded to leave the old north state and seek a new home in the fertile kordrwest sfnung christian at that lime was the t itber of three children jobu and william and james vv utter of whom now lives iu salem aud holds the office of justice of the peace getting together their goods and chattel nd started for their distant borne tbey finally located on a creek about two miles mirth ol where greenville in floyd cou ; tv uow stands there was too much milk si,-k there fur ihem aud selling ut iln i oi essiuiis there they moved out into u li.-ii is now jefferson township '« wasl iugton county it what is still to day known as ibe old prow place this aa in ibe fall of 1814 john graham aajiving in that country about two mile - west and was ihe only white m in boot there when christian jr was in ae»rch ol a location be found ibis man wabain who upon finding that prow de wed to settle iu li,it section took liitu ' v i to ihe place be afterward settle upon tare there was a splendid spring of water diatn bad cut bark and covered the h i j g ni oi-.jec thai no one should find ji and settle ihere unless be liked the '""^ ol tin in that spring although for years one of the best now goes almost if ot quite dry e next spring or summer william " illiatiis came and tlnn john stager **"! wbo cou sold out to john holler jf rii place was adjoining that ol prow's 1 will say beie by way of parenthesis llla t at this writing we have no data as lo tan christian piow sr died or where p have the promise that if it can be jj-kd out thai we shall have it after oiler cam spi ncer and two of tbe j,ii kll s . before any of these settlers " r « in that couutry a man by name ' read had incited on what is own e the jacob banta place he u8t have settled there in 1su9 or 10 en these few neighbors spoken of had willed there head sold out his claim a y^s that it was getting too thickly mtjd for i,i ni u)c j p ut 0qt f arl her west hie first still bouse in tbat section was w re ted by cbiistain prow the second l call bim then john holler hi ,' ie ncxt » ty-w'bg ibe prow place then isaac and htedey denny lrl "- 1 one up east uf prow's ju fact they were all over the country and it would si cm were the pioneers of church's and school houses and of a better civili zation james w prow was placed at the distillery by his father when about fifteen lo learn the art lie had strict orders neith er to sell or give away the least quantity to any one but to send all such to the house one day a large powerful giant ofa man a german or of german de scent named raker came there for a quatt win n james told him tbat he would be compelled to go to the house for it as he could not sell it baker told him the second lime to fill it and looked right at bim and as james did not move coin meuced to open his hand preparatory to laying hold of him james says that tit the time that hand opened it seemed as large as the bead of a pork barrel and that be filled that bottle in a hurry this same janus w prow was a justice of the peace in lawrence county for nine years and also a commissioner there for six years as before remarked lie is a justice now in salem soon the tide of emigration set in after christian the second settled thrie wm cornett robert and win mcneeley christian the second died march 1 1s4g and bis wife three days later their children nearly all of whom survived them were john william james w eliza who married jeremiah kendall and died in is.'ju of cholera serelda who married samuel louden christian now of campbclluburg levi and charles the indians came through the settlement only once but done no damage the wolves were very bad and the sheep had to b penned up every night often the settlers would go out aud shoot the wolves by moonlight as they prowled around the sheep pens in 1814-15 com and i provisiou was very scarce in lhat settle ment and christian the second aad an other settler took a five horse team ami staitt d for beargrass iti kentucky to buy corn on arriving there tbey found that the owner asked fifiy cents a bushel but lie unfortunately for them was on a big spree and they could do nothing with bim this detained them a day and then ihey were compelled to go up twenty-two miles iu kentucky to obtain a supply this delayed ibem two days more tbey then came back to workman's mill iu cl.uk county aud were detained two days there before they could get their meal the bet tiers were al the point of starvation and gathered at row's wailing auxiously for the return ul the team aud wagon loaded with th ine tin (|, lay i . ! been so gieat that \ ile settlers supposed the indiana had j captured th tu but after a while the long wished tor load cum i.i sight and j the meal was soou distribu ed aud many j a hungry person made happy rex i a captive free opening of the prison doors to ii //. ii houston hi excellency gov brogden ou yesterday issued a pardon to the most prominent man who has ever been con fined in lhe state's prison — w ii h houston of charlotte the facts in this case beca ne notorious at the lime and are doubtless still remembered by many of the readers ol the n i:\vs four years ago houston w.-ss the leading grocery it ( rch tut iu charlotte his establish ment war tbe largest in the city and his business v-.^s immense !{•■ was a man of wealth and went in style he was a miu of tlie kindest heart and wis .... i for his liberality no beggmr was ever turned empty-handed from h - door and his generosity and geniality made bim aa popular as be was prosperous but bis vaulting ambition o'erleaped . md in his baste to get richer still he made ventures wbicb involved bim hopi le :-.". with a frantic hope of ex tricating himself from the dilemma iu which be found himself placed h i rged paper to a large amount on the banks ot charlotte aud fat ling to np».e the notes when they i l due found ruin staring liitn in the face aud ii d the . v ite he was arrested incanadaand brought back giving bail be fb'd again and was ar rested last spring iu florida he was convicted iu mecklenburg court at may term 1875 of tlie crime of forgery and sen euced to the penitentiary for a ti rin of years he has been in confinement there evei since until yesterday day before yesterday ex sheriff w v giier oi mecklenburg came to this city bearing petitions numerously signed by the people ol union aud mecklenburg praying for the pardon of houston upon the ground of severe afflictions i.i bis fam ily one of his children has just died and bis mot her is lying at the point of death the governor beard the prayer of tbe petiti mers and on yesterday morn ing issued the pinion mr grier ac companied by ex-governor holden went ou to the penitentiary yesterday after noon and broke the joyful news to the criminal ii could not believe it at firs and later when he began to realize that it was true he trembled like an aspen leaf and gave marked evidence of the contending emotions within him he was epeedidly dressed iu citizen's cloth ing and bidding farewell to the officers ol the institution all of whom be bad made his friends he walked forth from the shadow of the penitentiary once more a free mau we think that gov brogden has done well in exercising executive clemency in this case the people who are most iu terested will sustain him en masse — houston has been punished sufficiently it was a grievous crime and grievously hath he atoned for it it can do no harm to turn loose tbis now thoroiigly broken-spirited and penitent man aud let liitn go home to his sevoiely stricken family rul news an english estimate of gen wade hampton the tidings of gen hampton's elec tion as governor of south carolina has elicited from the london daily telegraph a pronounced liberal newspaper words of hearty praise of the governor elect and nf those who helped to elect him the telegraph says : it is much to the credit of the negro that in south carolina — a state where the blacks far outnumber the whites — such a man as gen wade hampton should have been just elected governor prior to the war gen hampton was a typical , slaveholder possessed of estates iu south • carolina mississippi and louisiana — the owner in short ot property the capital value of which was apprised at one mil lion pounds sterling throughout the war he fought with admirable courage and constancy displaying a military aptitude which won bim the warm regard of gens lee and johnston he was severely wounded at the battle of seven pines and carried away from the terrible field of gettysburg in such a lacerated condi tion that none who beheld bim dared lo hope lhat he would live through the com ing night though stripped ofhis prop 4 ■ rty and ruined be has survived to betas useful aud active an example to his com patriots in peace as be did in war nor in his darkest hour of agony did lie ever desert bis native state she lias reward ed bim by appointing bim to be her gov ernor and it is to be hoped that the long lane of poor south carolina's adversity will at last have a turning for it is cer tain tbat it'll wade hampton will show liiinsell to be as hue and incorruptible in office as be was brave upon the battle licld when the hour shall arrive for tbe south io gather up her jewels it will be found thai such men as wade hamp ton of south carolina kemper of virginia and gordon of georgia who for four years faced fearful odds upon many a bloody battle-field will like the greatest oi american rebels george washington show themselves to be tirst in war first in peace and first in the hearts of tbeir couutrymeu " good for tiie old north state there is quite an emigration movement in the direction of north carolina report ed from the western part of the state and it is so honest in i;s character and enterprising iu its object that it deserves the fullest encouragement the parties engaged in ibis movement do not go with carpet bags in their bauds to capiuie the political offices of tor state but tbey take their families aud their house-bold goods with them with the iutentinu of settling in the old north state buying or leasing laud and helping to build uj the industri al prosperity of the commonwealth while improving their own fortunes twelve families will leave western massachusetts for xorth casoliua eaily next month and one hundred mote are expected to follow it is not eutirely au experiment upon wbicb they are entering already mass achusetts m n bave rented large tracts of laud from the planters there ai:d have found ibeir veutures profitable and their surroundings pleasant — instead of en countering social repulsion the yankees find the b"->i of friends among the former secessionists who welcome them to an lioner citizenship and a cordial neighbor ly intercourse thore is au excellent op portunity to buy good land on easy terms in north carolina and active men can do a good thing for themselves by taking advantage of it — boston past the millionaire murderer escaping the hangman and going into prison to si ty for life petekboro out nov 22 — think of a millionaire leaving his rich possessions jud accompanied by the officers of the !,..*-, boarding the train for the penitentia ry there to remain for the term of his life this morning james ryan was taken from the jail here pul on board the early train hy the sheriff and his consta i les and conveyed to the provincial pen itetiiury in kiiiston he was found guilty of wife murder at the peterboro assizes nn the 18th of october last and sentenced for death to-day tiie execu live at ottawa however hoard the prayer of almost the province as expressed through a petition asking for the merciful exercise of the executive power and the sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life ryan in personal and real estate a worth so it is estimated 1,200,000 fwenty yens ago when he was of age bis father patrick ryan now a millionaire of 70 give bim half a million in gold with which to start in business james bought a large tannery and by energy iu business an i tbe wise and profitable investment of hir surplus capital soon doubled bis father's gift to him eight years ago he married a highly accomplished young lady of montreal the daughter of a weal thy french firm of clothiers there every thing he ha ndlcd prospered and he was regarded as the coming dives of the do minion iu 18;37 when owing to the panic real estate was selling dirt cheap lie purchased largely in chicago st louis new york and elsewhere aud obtained an interest iu some properly in birkenhead the chief ship building centre in the north of england which brought bim a handsome yearly income he sold out his chicago property in 1869 just before the great fire in the early part of this year mr ryan took to drinking oo the 8ih of may he had an attack of delirium tremens he led from hia house in the forenoon and look refuge from bis imaginary pursuers in tbe tannery hard hy toward even ing be sent a workman for a botile of whisky and lav lag drank it felt nerved ! again and relumed bome he sat dowu j in his parlor and called bis young wife to | bim she walked up to bim and°put her arm around his neck tbeir two cbil i dren one seven and tbe other five years old were in tbe room suddenly ryan j arose from his chair and stabbed bis wife : in the side she staggered from the room into the ball and down the steps and with a pierceing cry fell dead on the lawn out side of the front door i be town constables arrested ryan sitting motionless in bis chair on being accused of killing bis wife he wept bit terly but made no answer a long thin bladed knife tinged at the sharp 0 point with blood was found ou the carpet by bis chair and was recognized as a knife used by tbe tanners for preparing pel tries the prisoner was duly committed for trial at lhe fall assizes and on his trial was defended by three of the ablest nisi prius advocates at the canadian bar the defence was temporary insanity — in plain er words delirium tremens — and when that failed the learned counsel made an effort to show that the deceased wife com mitted suicide in distraction at her hus band's drunkenness the suicide theory was abandoned before the close of tbe trial however and the prisoner was found guilty alter a trial extending over eight hours aud sentenced to be hanged to day the jury recommended ryan to mercy and this recommendation being backed by a petition by thi town at large and by some of the inos reputable physicians in the country mr lilake the minister of justice advis d tbe governor-general to commute tbe sentence as already stated under the old english law a felon con demned to death became taint by the crown and bis property like his body was forfeited to the crown but ihal practice has been dropped and ryan's million and a quarter is invested with trustees of whom bis father is one for the benefit of the two children a doc law farmers in many sections of ihe state are calling for a dog law — ex we place ourselves in that great army of honest light thinking farmers and clamor for a law that tbe dogs of this country will be bound to obey dogs to day have more privileges than anybody else in tbe state of north carolina and no man can possess a right tbey feel un der auy obligations to respect if a dog steals a sheep nothing is ever said about the matter and he is never held amend 1 ble to the laws of the land — if a white man or a darkey should steal the same sheep be would be immediately arrested tried sud sent to work on some of lhe railroads of the state if n do bowls and hollers aud keeps you awake at tu^lp nothing is ever done with him for it if a man is caught in disturbing the public peace iu the same rude and boisterous way he is thrown into the calaboose and heavily-fined if a dog slips up and nips a piece out of your leg when you ain't troubling itiu v - ou will have to grin and bear it — if a man assaults vou an action for damages will lay against him a dog never works a lick the live long day and he mikes hid living off other men — a man has to make bis living by the bweat of bis brow d gs are lawless usurpers and we are unalterably opposed to ihe whole race we bave voiy little hopes however that our legislators will mike a move in lhe matte according to the memphis avalanche i only tv.-o members of the i«sr teunpssee legislature are re-elected to the present ! the last legislature passed a dog law — ; clutr observer 11 lcd l bond tbe baltimore lazctle oi november 5 18cg spoke of the lawless acts of judge rond in these words : the conserva tors ofthe peace are imprisoned and lhe executive power of the state is paralized by judicial insolence and usurpation and again : the fact that no conduct judge bond can reduce him to a lower level than that to which tbe disgust of all j decent people lias long since consigned bim may hippily lessen the demoralizing effect of his action but of course is no palliation or diminution ofhis guilt it says of him now — iu 1s76 : the sequel to bond's baltimore judi cial infamy is interesting in the present connection it seems to be the function of judge bond to turn the stomach of justice atol bring about a reaction in favor of cleanli ness he is the dark hour tbat comes before dawn ; and out of the abyss of degradation into which the united states judicial office is sunk in bim it miv rise io higher tilings judge durell of louis iana who was used for the selfsame work that judge rond is now performing was a poor drunken wretch who was used and then cast contemptuously aside we believe lh it he died iu obscurity an 1 dis grace shunned by even tbe men who bad made a ladder of his infamy to climb into their present eminences judge bond should heed the warning the way of it louisville courier journal the active military preparations of grant taft and cameron are now attrib uted by these members of the military party to their tremendous fear of the democratic roughs of baltimore and new york conspirator taft of the department of justice (?) has discovered by means ofhis secret agents that there is a plot of these roughs to proceed in a body to washington to bull doze grant and bis cabinet and deprive mr hayes of the seat to which those leaders say he is honestly entitled who is the negroes friend we have already made the prediction that in tbe not distant future the wannest friend of the negro's right to suffrage would be found i i the south and is bitterest foes in the north the addition al power given to the south by the ex tension of the right of suffrage to negro voters has been made especially consptc | onus in the recent election aud very much to the disgust of the radical party for it was no part of the purpose of tbat party in giving suffrage to the negro to give strength io the south such however as wc have already pointed out bus been the unmistakable effect and now the average radical is beeking how to do away with it should this state of things be allowed to exist ?" is a question that is being now asked without their being aide to have any one give the desired answer a correspondent of the new york times one of the most unscrupulous badi cal sheets now printed in america writ ing to that paper from l misiana is es pecially exercised on the subject and conjures up dire spectres about the future under the dominion of the solid south and this very naturally leads him into an inquiry into the sources of strength of that solid south and he of course finds il in the negro vote he says : and just here is one fact which must not be lost sight of the southern states have 138 votes in the electoral college were it not for negro suffrage those same slates would nave ouly about ninety votes in the elect trial college louisiana has eight electoral votes but if the law did not allow the black men to vote if the negroes were legally dis franchised lhe stale would have only four votes iti the college as it is the black citizens who give the state this increased influence in the nation are il legally and by violeuce kept away from tb polls ami virtually every white man every democrat cists two votes so in neatly in all tbe cotton states the white democrats have double representation iti the electoral college aud twice as much voice i.i the election of a president as have the citizens of now york or cali fornia should thia state of things be allowed lo exist ?" onr colored friends need have no fear lhat the white people of the south will le favorable to any project looking to depriving them nf tbe right of suffrage trouble in that regard will come from the north and not from the south but it will in ver be greater than the while men of ibe south will be able to meet and overc ime — raleigh observer noble words of a noble man when hampton was told tbat al op position to bis claims as governor would be removed if be and several other promi nent citizens of the state would declare that tbey believed south carolina bad gone fu hayes lhe pure and noble hamp ton rejected the infamous proposition in these manly words tell them i would not say it even to be president they can deprive him of the ofiice to which he has been chosen by the suffrages of bis people and the hired incendiaries of the conspirators may destroy the homo that give t::i shelter lint all the gold and promises of power they can command will not buy from him his honor a gem far mote precious to bim than all the gold and rubies ibis earth cm afford the suit in bis whole course does not shine upon a braver hero a nobler man and a truer patriot than wade hampton and bis character stands out to-day like an i-l of cot ; ! j i in lhe midst of the ocean « .. ■.■■.- whither and purer as the dark waves of corruption and de moralization beat against its unyielding side — charlotte obseri't r who dennis is springfield republican hartfoud nov 29 — il is singular bow m in v connecticut yankee bummers tern up in tlie southern troubles a few il tys ago 1 sent yon a sketch of j r c pitkin the louisiana united slates mar shal 1 notice now that general b dennis turns up as uuiled sta'es mar shal in south carolina charged with the duty of seeing lhat none but repn licans stand guard to-night this dennis is another carpet-bagger from connecticut who has gotten rich by plundering tbe prostrate state lie was a norwich boy who went out in the seventh con necticut regiment ;,; captain aud when the real wprk of the war b.-gait resigned and turned sutler having made money onl nf the soldiers inning tbe war begot a brevet as g neral i ir » b it l.be lord only knows bul brevets w ro very cheap at the close of the war and since has been a prominent member nf the republi can ring iu sonth carolina if if)b pitkin aud john dennis are lo elect our president we might as well give up any presidents the country's danger new york herald the recent political canvass has proved conclusively that a serions danger mena ces ns unless we receive our political struggles from the pressure of office seek ers and officeholders it is these two classes — small in numbers but virulent iu temper who infuse such bitterness into our political contests eliminate tbeir zeal their intrigues their unscrupu j ious eff.»r's aud a presidential election would be quiet almost a ame affair for neither could maladministration proceed to such lengths nor would ibe party in power bt tempted or be able if ir wished to compel the whole force of its officehol ders to its defence it is not safe all men ought to have found out bv this lime that it is never safe either for a public functionary or a piivate individ ual to do wrong ii is never sale to in dulge iu swindling cheating or bribe taking it is never safe to practice cor ruption—any kind or degree of it it h never safe to indulge in falsehood any ! sort of it ii is never safe to do anything i which would bring shame to the do'er by being revealed jue may fancy his miss deeds can't be found out or have been covered up or can be so covered or they can be so denied or explaiued awav bo the people will be deceived about them ; but yet it remains true that there can be no safety for the wrong doers and no security against his exposure though this looks hard to some people it is nev ertheless in accordance with the fixed and irreversible moral law of things aud of being the only safety for a man or ! for a woman is in refraining from wror ; and doing right american manufac turer hard times 1 lie xew york tribune amused itself a few days since over ihe hard times iu louisiana as developed iti the matter of freight charges on election returns the tribune's idea was that money was scarce with the board only because ,' le : retuins were democratic and to get them out of the express office democrats were forced to furnish tbe money true but there is a more serious view ofthe matter which escaped lhe tr bane gov wells declined to pay the o cents of freight because as he stated the biard would be paid in warrants and the state's war rants being worth only a0 cents i:i the dollar he did not care to pay out 75 cents and rec-ivi in return scrip worth 22 cents thai is what ihe tribune and wells and their party have done lor louisiana credit how they have done it may be gathered from the facts lhat in the last ten years the tax payers ot new t cleans have paid 109,000,000 in taxeson a total property real and personal worth less than sioo.000,000 and now find themselves confronted by a co-called in debtedness principal and interest exceed ing s1u0,000,000 more raleigh ob server tiie color line broken bosl m herald.l but there is one compensation we ''<■} •'■-'<■ '■ see the color line iu politics token in the south and we believe that it cannot fail to be for the benefit of the colored men whose votes hereafter are lo be sought by both parties and given to lhe one which offers tbe larger in ducements in lhe way of promise and perform nice to the race the colored vole being divided we shall look next to see tie whites divided and then will come the natural end of tint conllict of races which if continued would be sine to be disastrous to the weaker race beet root sugar one hundred millions of dollars gold are annually exported from the united states to pay for the sugar imported aud consumed can il be kept here ? if we lived under an arbitrary government in name as in fact ibe question would soon find an effirmative answer as it is it saved at till the money must be saved by lhe production of the sugar an attempt is now m iking to do this by the introduc tion ol the manufacture of beet root sugar for liity yeara it has paid a fair prolir in fiance aud belgium and there would seem 1 i be no reasou why it should rot be profitable here where new industries are so much needed for the employment of idle hands and for profitable employ ment of those already at work t ex perimenl has never been fairly tried in tbis country owing to the cost and heavy duty upon ihe machinery 380,000 nec essary now there seems to be bome prospeel of ascertaining what can be done a meeting of california and northern men wbo propose lo move iti lhe matter was held in philadelphia last week and the testimony ol le iding foreign agriculturists collected which sets the undertaking in a most favorable light according to mr george may powell from 12 to 20 tons ol beets can be raised to theacre which al o per ton would pay the fanner twice as well us wheat he also slated thai lhe refuse from the factory using arces ol beets would be equal for stoek feeding to 500 acres of bay such a fac tory should produce about 2<j tons ol sugar and 100 tons of simp capit il invested in this way should pay the man ufacturer ao per cent tbe foreign com missioners present gave testimony wtv eucouraging to the experiment speci mens of beet sugar made in russia and france were exhibited and were pure white and sparkling the hon julian dannfeldt from swedcu stated lhat the manufacture had succeded admirably in bis country ; the same testim my was given by lhe australian commissioner rite canadiau government has recently offered a bonus ,,{ s7,000 per year for ten yens to the first company which succeeds in this business and also offers to take ; i'i 50 per cent excise doty from the pro duct the commissioner from the ar gentine republic where cane sugar is made stated that it was more economical to import the beet sugar for bome con sumption he however warned the ex perimenters thai both the soil and beets prodnced should be thoroughly aualized but ire money was put iuto factories yellow fever was taken to savannah i by a spa iish vessi '. ' the coal producebs bethlehem pa december 4 the long-expected suspension of coal production has at length occurred at this moment more than one bait the mines in tlie state are stop ped the number of tht working-men thrown out of work by this movement is variously estimated at between 35,000 and 40,000 this including men and boys working inside and outside the cdlieres some few operators ate still producing coal but as these contemplate stopping work soon it is believed the suspension will be entire by the middle of the month r tribui '.■' v ./... wc learn that kirk the bloodthirsty dog whose record for infamy is so well known in north carolin i is now almost a beggar i lhe streets of washington city lie still occupies a subordinate position about some of the departments at lhe capital and not long since be^ed a north carolina democrat whom hef met in lhe streets of washington for the loan of tbe pmtul sum of 81 vengeance is mine i will repay saith the lord is a divine promise which ins been wonder fully fulfilled in this case always trust in god worthy and din brother know how to carry yourself iu trouble keep od covenant in your trials hold bv his blessed word and sin uot flee anger wrath grndgiug tling forgive a bundled pence to y w servant because the lord has forgiven vou ten thousand talents for 1 assure vou by the i rd th it your advers iries shall rain no advantages except you sin and offend the lord iu your sufferings but the way lo overcome this u by patience for giving and praying i r y » qr enemies ; in doing whereof you beap coals upon their heads and lhe lord will open a door to your tronl e wait upon him as anight-watcl . | , t be morn ing ue will not tarry go up to your watch-tower and come not down but by faith and hope and j rayer wait on w ben the sea is full it will ebb a^ain ; and as soon as tbe wicked are come to the lop of tbeir pride and tire waxed high and mighty then is their change ap proaching i — p rhe lee mono | now amounta to about 25,000 the tobacco crop in mcdowell county was almost a failure the pasl m-asou illinois must acknowledge the corn her crop this year is 2't 0,000,000 bush els a fire in louisville ky i ) c t lgth destroyed property to the amount of 8600,000 the insurance was heavy to tit down at the table nnd force yourself to eat when there is not only r.o appetite but a decided aversion to food i'he genius who invented wooden tooth-picks for hotel use las made over a i 000 out of tli pati or and he is still picking up money to guzzle down a gl iss of cold water on getting up in the morning without any feeling of thirst under the impress ion of the health-giving nature of its washing-out qnalilii -. sir walter r ileigh one day asking a favor from queen elizabeth the latter said to bim ualeigh when will you leave oft begging f to which be replied when your majesty leaves off giving s ' bt its ever be asking from god who is ever giving and who is every willing , to give a theological tpposed to be deficienl in j ;•:_■ - asked by a prof.-ssor in the eon ofa class c-sami ti uion pray mr e how would you discover a fool ?" by the questions be would ask was tin rather stunning re ply christians shonld live in the world but not be filled with ir a ship lives in the water but if tin watt r gets imo the ship she goes to tic i ttom so christiana may live in the wot id ; but if the world gets into them they sink wli.i sail a teacher to a puph makes you fe 1 uncomfortable after you have done wrong my papa's big leather strap _ ly replied tbe boy now wonld ; •■ a good time for the citizeus of counties :■ .. up a petition and send to lue j gislalure preventing the killing ot partrid tm i is rumored thai a petitinn will be o up for tie purpose of ex i ending ti corp m ilio i ■ ; h -.. u and winstoy w bt •■• i i — ' our worthj citizen j a i watts esq , this week si . two pigs cacti abou a year ol • his little sou weighing ■'.'. a i . •"■■- pounds — 702 in the aggn _ ile who can beat tiiat — stab srille a ■ i to persuade yourself l hat you are de stroying onr unpleasant odor by introdu cing a strong ron : ii i to sweeten your nnwashi i jarmenis a i persoa by i uvelop .,.-'■ - ol musk eau de cologn , • water the best perfume being a cle in s>kin and well ; h asbt d c lotbi _