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the carolina watcnfnaife ri ,\ ,- vol viii third series salisbuby v . ft aug-sl 23 1877 no 41 our readers to fully appreciate the feelings which have produced this lamen table outbreak among the railroad em ployes must put themselves in their places here is a hard-working faithful man who has served his masters many years ; he has a family and can hardly keep the wolf from the door w4th his wages ; be knows that the road has made large profits and he sees that these in the form of dividends watered stock and high salaries have gone into a few h-ands in these profits he has had no share 3-ddeuly during a bad year he gets a communication signed by the president who fs en,p_yrng the millions made from these former gains that his small wages must be reduced ten percent he cannot see how bread is to come to his family with such pay he has been too long in the service to easily find another place indeed it may be that all places are filled in any occupation wliich he could follow burning with the sense of injustice and desperate he is easily influenced by the wild and reckless men who are always seeking to lead workingmeu astray he tries a strike which he has a perfect riglit to do he becomes a unionist and com munist a rioter the transition is easy aud natural if he reflects at all he knows that the financial ill success of his road has not been due to his neglect or failure it has been owing to the foolish ambition of its president iu building branch roads or the greed of speculators iu watering its stock or to similar causes ii;id he ever enjoyed a shave in its prosperity he would be willing now to accept a portion of its misfortunes under such feelings and convictions au outbreak is inevitable the strike will be worth all it has cost if it will change all this and tend to put labor in a more reasonable relation with capital and thus avert some of the dan gers which have just showed their front so formidably — new york times rep iu nashua n ii a thing has happen ed not wholly new under the sun a young man of nashua fell in love with a girl who disliked him he gave her a ring worth 10 on condition that she would keep company with him a week suppos ing that he could win her affections in that time — which sets in a pleasing light the arcadian customs of the granite state he failed however and then hired her as his true love again this time for a month and for a silk dress worth 8-3 throwing in another ring before tne expiration of that time only to find that he was turned off with contempt when the contract came to an end this curious lover was then guilty of the inexpressible meanness of de manding back the rings and dress which the girl refuse 1 to give him captain sir lambton lorraine we confess to a liking for the sturdy english ways of the bold decided man whose name heads this article and who remembered in an important juncture that he was something more than an english man that he was an anglo-saxon his name should be remembered with respect wherever our grand old tongue is spoken whether beneath the cross of st george and st andrew or beneath the flag of the union when two americans captured on the virginius were marched out by the butcher burriel and ordered to be shot he intervened and saved their lives here is the way oue of them tells the in cident : we knelt down an the orders were given prime heavy ; aim one when the i word halt came from the lips of captain sir lambton lorraine who had mean while approached and unwrapped his sword whicli was wrapped iu the british flag he threw the flag over pacheco and myself and said i am not an american citizen but an anglo-saxon the same a these gentlemen and if one hair of their heads is harmed 1*11 blow santiago de cu ba to ell you blow santiago de cuba to ell said burriel why inside of half an hour i will have you where you will never see daylight again ves jen bur riel said capt lorraine in ten minutes i may be in sloro castle but my ship lays out there we could faintly see the tops of the masts and pulling out his watch if in forty-one minutes i am uot aboard the niobe the ball opens you can do as you like you can release these men or let it be the order for release wa.s given and in a few hours the prisoners wuie on the american ship juanit.i good for you captain lorraine such events as these if they do not vin dicate tbe universal brotherhood of man at least prove the brotherhood of the an glo-saxon race raleigh news loom hing a brother of ah wing a baltimore laundryman whose pigtail was pulled by an irish soldier last wednesday deposes and says sloja man say nolling only comee npeen n mylee blulla hip nm foo mylee blulla say milling doee nolling mellican man e welle dam foolee ; ah wing say mellican man_no kille china man ;' he no mine ; my blulla kly find po liceman takee un wash'ous — alle liglit now the irishman's testimony took the form of invective it*s a putty pass that the country's cotuiu to when a free american citizen an a sojur to boot that cum tu fite fur ye kant have a bit iiv a shindy wid a haythen chinee without go in to the lockup for it repairs on the methodist church have begun in earnest the roof and rear wall are being torn down the church will be enlarged aud otherwise improved — the congregation will worship in the presby terian church while their church is under repairs the pastors will alternate ihe face atthe window bt virginia pi towxsexd descending from her carriage a little while later at her own door mrs rich mond said to her husband ah walden i have heen so happy to-day ! i feel as though 1 wanted to make some other heart light and gift 1 don't want to keep all ,]„. messing to myself i think of all the good words she had said to-day these were the lest • mv hilling you hav'ii't answered her husband and he looked at her with the inile in his eyes the smile of fifteen years ago she thought a month had passed and one pleasant tune day just at twilight with the sweet breath of blossoms and the droning of in sects in the golden air mr aud mrs kichmond bad just come up from supper with the little company of guests who were to leave them in the morning en route for switzerland and the alps it had been a gultry day and the bright nierey party scattered now on the veranda taking iii long draughts of the fresh cool hillside air come now richmoud you'd better think it all over at this late minute and include to take the next steamer with us there's time yet and there are the lp and the rhine and all the splendor of the summer in switzerland you'd better go with us remarked one of the plots or at least chimed in the voice of a lulv who stood by his side you'd better consign mrs richmond to our care for the next five montlis margaret can always do as she likes answered walden richmond turning to iiis wife with a smile it is not too late vet but all the time he was assured what her answer would be at that moment a servant came up to mr richmond there is a young girl who wishes to see you a moment in pri vate he said ; and the gentleman made some apologies to his guest and went in to the house a young girl on the lounge in a simple brown hat and dress her fingers were working nervously and her heart throb bing so loud and scared that it almost chocked her she looked up as the gen tleman entered he saw a young sweet girlish face the cheeks flushed and the the brown eyes wistful and frightened you are mr richmond she said and the words seemed to come hard and slow ' he was a kind-hearted man lie piled the young fill's embarrassment yes he answered in his kindest tone i mi stum you have some errand with ine ves ; it is about the rent sir i am miss aldrich we occupy thecottageyou have lately bought i came to ask you it you could wait awhile longer for the rent the words panted out half incoherently ; but if you could have seen the mouth tremble and heard the frightened plead ing voice you would have pitied the girl in a moment it all hashed upon walden kichmond this was the face that his wife had seen shining at the window ou that never-to-be-forgotten day a fair young delicate faee to whom he owed much the man thought he pitied the girl sincerely poor young thing he thought to have to come to him on an miami like this and then what a singu lar co-incidence it was ! what would margaret say ?" walden richmond answered in his gentlest voice do not give yourself any trouble about it my child i am in do hurry for the rent the kindly tones the sudden relief were too much for the strained nerves until aldrich looked up into the man's face with a look he would never forget ah sir i thank you she said it was no very hard to come and ask you then a quick trembling all over the face and dreadfully frightened and dreadfully ashamed the poor child burst into a great lobbing and weeping those hard tearing convulsive sobs thai always tell you what pain mid suffering lie behind them they melted the heart of the man who heard them why my child has it been m terrible a tiling to come to me did you fancy i was the traditional landlord bard and grim merciless and grasping 1 well at least it's a comfort that you will be undeceived now poor ruth ! she tried to answer over and over again ; but the sobs would come and choke up the words and all she could *•" as to sit still and cry it was not strange either when you came to know a the family prospects had grown wearier aud drearier during all this pleas a"t.iune month which seemed the coldest ii"l darkest of ruth aldrich1 life the voung face grew thin and an old hunted worried look came into the dark eyesas the days went on and household purse grew thinner i here wa.s a good deal of sickness iu e town at that season and a falling off ln the school ruth lay awake night af r night when the sweet face ought to have beeu drooping like a lily in the soft s of slumber turning over in her mind *""•<• plan by which they might be able to t the rent but no light came to her « seein-d to ruth that god had deserted tul|i she wished sometimes that they e,mxla a11 die together aud get away from **»• terrible world where there was no e»t nor comfort without money in the ed as for none to be betrayed until a de tective w_n his confidence and betrayed him i am inclined to think that i ought to be ashamed of this episode upon a rob ber but he was a man for all that your friend john l bridgecs gov vance to gov porter gov vance of north carolina says the new york times has sent the follow ing letter to the governor of tennessee : exkccwe department state ot ) north cabolina raleigh july 27 •> mr dear sir : it is officially reported to me that two men lately citizens i grieve to say of this law-abiding com monwealth named respectively william reece and noah reece recently made a hasty visit to union county tenn on foot and disregarding the rights of hos pitality and the comity of states return ed into north carolina mounted william on a mule and noah ou a gray horse close upon tlieir heels came one barrett ray from said union county tenn who made oath in due form that said mule was his property and that said william had obtained possession thereof by certain carpet-bag methods in direct contraven tion ofthe eighth commandment at the same time and place came also one robert love of said union county tenn who made a similar affidavit iu regard to 6aid noah reece and the gray horse — where upon the said william and noah were ar rested and lodged in the jail of mcdowell county n c to await further proceed ing i have the honor therefore to await your excellency's pleasure in the premises and to assure you that it will afford me no little pleasure to intrust — upon a pro per requisition these erring sons of north carolina to the correcting hands of your judiciary ; and with assurances of very high personal and official regard i am dear sir very respectfully your most obedient servent z b vaxce gov porter promptly sent a requisition for the two erring sons of north car olian from the vilinington star that society is becoming more corrupt in the north is the statement of papers and travellers we do not wonder at this when we learn what is the prevailing cus tom iu what is known as society weare not surprised what prevents worthless adventurers from finding tlieir way into reputable society ? where are the guards ? we find the following in the august num ber of a leading new york magazine the calory if the young american will reflect he will see why some families consider it hardly judicious for a daughter to go alone with a gentleman to whom she is not be trothed — on a drive in the public streets and parks on an excursion down the bay or to the opora at night topping off the en tertainment with a little supper aud reach ing the homestead in the small hour where she perhaps lets herself in with a night latch key this is not an exaggeration of the custom that prevails in the majority of families how can there be purity where such customs prevail . how can parents and guardians tolerate such a bitter school for bcandle v we laugh at french cus toms in regard to the young how they are shielded and chaperoned but that is far better than the above license secretary schtirz is reputed as refering in a late conversation to the lact that at the close of the civil war it was predicted that should the northern section of the repub lic ever become the scene of internal vio lence or a foriegn war threaten the coun try the south would avail itself of the opportunity to re-open the domestic con flict mr scliurz is said to have added that the late aspect of affairs seemed to him the moment when such a course was possible but the south has come forward with offers of men and money to put down this violence and maintain the suprema cy ofthe government — charlotte obser ver is mr scliurz correctly reported we had heard of no such tender by the south and do not believe it was made the south would probably have re sponded to a call of the president but is it probable the south officiously stepped forward in this case and made a tender of men aud money f what south has got men and money to offer in a case of such doubtful propriety j >• — interesting to municipal authorities — some time ago a man named godwin was picked up by the police on the streets of raleigh and thrust into the guard-house where he was made to sleep upon a cold floor and without any covering he was sick at the time he fell upon the pave ment and the subsequent ill-treatment which he received at the hands ofthe po lice caused his death his administrator thereupon brought suit against the city of raleigh laying damages at 85.000 the superior court allowed 2,000 and the city appealed to the supreme court which rendered its opinion last monday sustain ing the judgment of the court below judge reade in delivering the opiuion of the court compares the gnard-house in which godwin died to the black hole at calcutta the case is of interest throughout the state and should serve as a warniug to municipal authorities — charlotte obser ver the georgia constitutional convention last friday by a vote of 166 to 16 passed a section of the new oonstitution which re pudiates certain alleged bogus bonds is sued during the bullock administration | a chicago girl's gratitude will you do something to oblige me v shyly asked a beautiful young woman of a timid gentleman acquaintance she had just made at a sociable gathering on west adams street the other evening anything that i can in honor miss smithy he replied blushingly well said she come into tbe back parlor where it is dark and sit on the sofa with me and let me rest my head on your shoulder and you pretend to whis per iu my ear only don't blow because that tickles and i can't laugh for this new dress is verj tight and when anybody looks you can draw your arm away — i forgot to say i wished you to put it around my waist i'll pretend to blush but my gracious honored miss stam mered the young man after hastily divid ing four into 1877 and finding that it wasn'tleap year ; my goodness before all these people — and i am already engaged — and your father must weigh .' hush i know what i am up to replied the artless girl i am engaged too to that young man talking to that waxen faced thing with somebody else's hair ov er there 1 want to stir him up to bring him down to business — make him come up to time that's all the young man said that a load had been lifted from his bosom and aided her to the best of his ability so well indeed that in three quarters of an hour the betrothed got his girl into the library demand an explanation of her shameless conduct was softened by her tears called himself a brute asked if she could forgive him and promised to behave better in future and how did the young girl reward the young man who had helped her to the happiness why she never said a word to him all the evening ; in fact never mentioned him except to say to her reconciled lover alouzo could you have been so stupid as to think i could see anything to admire in such a mutton-head as that 0 wo men iu our lours of ease — chicago tri bune birth place of edwin m stan ton and jno a murrel interesting letter from col john l liridgers takboro n c.f aug gth 1877 dear general — as to the nativity of edwin m stanton he was born in the up per part of beaufort county not far dis tant from the place that the father of gens howell and thomas cobb lived before he emigrated to georgia though mr cobb lived in pitt county and left before either of his sons were born my recollection or rather impression is that their mother is a native of pitt but i am not certain now if there was no great difference iu cobb and stanton srs there certain ly was a wide difference in the jrs the late confederacy had no more unrelent ing enemy nor one who showed his bitter ness of feeling plainer than stanton as is always the case when one finds himself arrayed against his native place how different with the cobbs whose memory will be forever cherished as long as the confederate struggle is recollected i take no pride iu the memory of a north caroli nian who used his very great ability as an organizer to overrun his native land he belonged to that class of men who seemed to delight in punishing old friends there is but one of that name in this section and he is a republican he is not a bad man that is all i know of the stan tons that you do not know better but i will add a few remarks about another gifted man who was born and raised within l miles of where i am now residing who in geni us far surpassed stanton aud i believe was fully equal to him in executive abili ty i presume you are getting restless for the name of the man and will laugh when i give it to you his name was john a murrell the most gifted and in his day the most famous of all american robbers all that is left of him is his name in the field where his family resided — it is still called the murrell field he left here with his wicked mother after the death of his father who was a pious man and a min ister of the gospel in other days i knew parties who were their nieghbors and de scribed the future robber as a very bright boy but who was so exceedingly bad that his father after having exhausted all the virtues ofthe rod used to keep him tied daily in his room to keep him out of mis chief but the old man died and the moth er trained him to wickedness so the old neighbors used to say and for that tusk she was well qualified for it was said that she had only one virtue aud that was the virtue of womanhood is it not strang that she should have had a good reputa tion where a wicked woman would have been expected first to have fallen and where so many other good womau have fallen history takes him up an unknown emi grant i think in buncombe county where his mother was engaged in playing a yan kee trick on a yankee peddler that john might do the stealing cc his headquar ters was an island either in the mississip pi or arkansas river he had a band extending from there to the james river so tradition says all engaged in stealing negroes and horses and carrying them generally south to sell now why i say he was of unrivaled executive ability ; he never chose a man who played false to him and the business was so well mang dead night she would spring up suddenly out of her light restless sleep with a sense of some awful terror hanging over her and wring lier hands and theu the dreadful truth would come back on her shrinking heart there was none to help the girl out of this darkness wliich bore down so heavily on the spring-time of her years her mother always went down in perplexity tcarsand hysterics at such times and the children were too young to com prehend the strait and her father dream ed over his invention which followed the way of all its predecessors there was the rent too staring ruth day by day in the face the most terrible fact of all those she had to confront because it was the heaviest debt at last the girl grew desperate noth ing less than being this could have driven her to the determination of seeing the landlord telling him the facts and be seeching him to wait for the money three times already without mrs rich mond's knowledge the agent had called for payment : and there seemed nothing left for ruth to do but this thing the very thought of wliich was bitter almost as death to the proud shy sensitive girl she revealed her project to none of the family ; she put it away from her all day so that she could go steadily through her round of school duties and when the night came she had put ou her hat and walked the long two miles and still not daring to pause a moment lest her heart should fail her she had walked straight to the door and asked audience of the rich man do you wonder that the reaction came at last ? ruth aldrich will never forget that walk nor how the river shone aud spark led on her way nor how once or twice she stopped and wondered vaguely whether it would not be easier to lie down under hat cool smooth curtain of waters than do the thing she had set her heart to do mr richmond with that singular com bination of strength and gentleness which give him his power over others succeeded at last in soothing the girl ; then he step ped out ofthe room and calling his wife aside told her what the late summons meant the lady's heart was stirred with a great pity she left her guests and went to the sobbing girl ruth had grown a little quieter by this time and mrs richmond was gracious and sweet and tender as an angel would have been the girl thought i felt assured my child you would do me some good the first time i looked on vour face smoothering the little hot trembling hand mrs richmond had taken in her own ruth's great perplexed eyes the tears still across them looked at her in blank amasement then mrs richmond told her of the morning drive aud sweet face which shone on her from the cottage window and the magic it had wrought in her thoughts aud feelings ruth listened in awe wonder delight smiles came out on the hushed lips aud hot cheeks and a great pleasure shone all over the sweet face so you see my child that you are not the only debtor said mrs richmond if i had known i should have come to you before and so ruth was won into telling her own story ; all the privation and pain the dark days the darker nights the strug gle and the terror of the wolf with the tierce eyes and lean face watching always at the door mrs richmond had been born and nur tured iu every comfort and for years her life had been swathed in luxury she re garded poverty as a terrible thing but always associated it with ignorance and vice ; anything like this struggle with pride and misfortune by refined and deli cate people she had never conceived pos sible her own grace and grandeur seem ed to reproach her she cried with ruth as she listened to her story aud pressed the soft warm hand closer in her own i have no time to tell you all the kind aud pleasant things she said made doub ly so by lier manner ; aud wheu at last she could leave her guests no longer and the stars had come out and filled the blue furrows ofthe sky with tlieir golden sheens mrs richmond ordered her carriage and sent ruth home and she kissed the girl at parting and said to her — go home now my child and sleep soundly to-night never think of the rent again only that you have friends who will not forget you ruth wondered as she rode home that night if there was under all those stars another heart so happy as hers ; and then what a story it was to take into the h ic ly saddened household — to put new life and comfort iuto it ! there was to be no more fear of rent day ! ah my dear said mrs richmond with a little swift start of surprise and pleasure it is just the most delightful idea in the world it was one day right after dinner and the two for a wonder were quite alone to gether mr richmond bad just been placing before his wife a plan which had suddenly entered his mind that morning setling the aldrich family in the old home stead the end take off your uudi hirt saturated with perspiration and vipe down your chin what is a regisierttyfjctter.-^the ques tion is very tkt&t aslred : isttw-d ference between a registered letter and any other th*e dirjere_ee4s mt'a*_gis tered letter does not go in ffi mai prtrper it passes from lfand to h__d ou&i-e-tbe mail pouches every person through whose hands it passes being ttjtijrlred to tfgn * receipt fer it o passittg ft vet-to t_e n in transit the person holirrhg the last receipt is tfius always afbfe her sltow w*o is accountable for the loss theresp-sffcf bility rests upon the man who has signe a receipt for the registered package and who is not able to produce the package ot a receipt from somebody else for it the safest way to send money is by money order where it does not go to a money order office it should always be sent in a registered package money ought not to be sent in au ordinary letter under any circumstances there is no possible way of tracking such a letter a very pretty story is told iu the pitts burg commercial a young lady from the south was wooed and won by a young california plysician about the time the wedding was to come off the young man lost his entire fortune he wrote the la dy a letter releasing her from her en gagement and what does the dear good girl do why she takes a lump of pure gold which her lover had sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake and having it manufactured iuto a ring forwards it to him with the following inscription engrav ed in distinct characters on the outside : entreat me not to leeave thee or to re turn from following after thee for whith er thou goest will i go and whither thou lodgest will hodge thy people will be my people and thy god my god where thou diest will i die and there will i be buried ; the lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part me and tnee we may add concludes the commercial that fortune soon again smiled upon the young physician aud that he subsequently returned to the south to wed the sweet girl he loved and who love him with such undying affection reader this is all true young ladies who read the bible as closely as the heroine of this incident seems to have done are pret ty sure to make good sweethearts and better wives — *.«.. the decision of judge cox lately at chambers that the officers of a corpora tion charged with concealing its assets are as much subject to examination under supplementary proceedings iu regard to the disposition of its property as an indi vidual under like circumstances is a most righteous decision it would be a sad day for north carolina if our courts were to hold otherwise honesty and fair dealing arc as incumbent upon corporations as upon individuals corporations are as much accoutable to their creditors for the application of their assets to their debts as individuals we are glad to see that in the eyes of judge cox no divinity doth hedge around corporations — ral news the south the grand old south with her planta tion manners was after all the great conservator of civilization in the united states she kept the lamp of chivalry alight iu hearts of gold she preserved the monuments of civil liberty she ad justed the true relations between capital and labor she produced wealth like the over-flowing nile whicli enriched her self and poured her treasure into every vein and artery of the commercial north building up splendid cities making opu lent corporations and individuals and creating the possibility of every industri ous man earning a generous living she kept society pure and the government un sullied alas how have crazy fanatics and fools changed all this ! the war made upon the south and her institutions has brought forth dreadful fruit the revela tions of the past few days demonstrate that the fabric of society east and west has dwelt upon a slumbering volcano wealth has been concentrated in the hands of the few ; poverty is the burden of the many a privileged class has been established whose chief duty seems to be grinding the faces of the poor hard times have followed the big drunk of war and speculation confidence between man and man has been well-nigh destroyed the granaries of the union are bursting with plenty and yet myriads of god's creatures are hungry for bread we do uot care to taunt our brethren of the north in the hour of calamity ; but they should know at last that the day of tribu lation has arrived — a ugusta sentinel starting in the world many an unwise patent labors hard and lives spar ingly all his life for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children a start in the world as it is called setting a young man afloat with money left him by his relatives is like tying bladders under the arms of one who cannot swim ; teu chances to one he will loose his bladders and go to the bottom teach him to swim and he will never need the bladders give your child a sound education and you have done enough for him see to it that his morals are pure his mind cultivated and his whole nature made subservient to the laws which govern man and you have given what will be of more value than the wealth of the indies a mi-jyor out wesf has determined to kill half the dogsjn that city and tan their hides with the bark of the other half itw understood that h ladies who vow tbey will imver.mi-ry have not the remotest idea f keeping their word — •>., if an orator iu tho woman's rights con vention said iu thuuderiug tones if eve wore fewer suspenders thau adam i'd like to know it — « ..__»- tbe present style of holding up the dress reveals only one stocking and we hope geutlemen will be sati_lied with quality rather than with quantity if on the street you look at a lady very intently you are impolite but if you meet her in a waltz you may hug her all you please no matter whose wife she is in the man who thinks tis sweet for one's country to die should take the con sulship of st paul de loando on the coast of africa it is vacant now and a consul dies there every two or three mouths every coiumunist is a traitor to the government he lives under and should be dealt with accordingly the promulga tion of his doctrine is a suill icntly overt act and tliey should be stamped out un hesitatingly every communistic meet ing should be broken up — indianapolis news the london lancet calls attention to the dau«*er of disease the causes of which are sometimes concealed iu the ice which i.s used to cool drinking water in summer it is a mistake to suppose that water pu rifies itself by the act of freezing often it spreads the germ of disease as an evidence of american enter prise bishop marvin states in his letters from the east that the street railroad iu bombay india is owned by an american company with all its rolling stock im ported from xew york bombay he says is outstripping calcutta in growth secretary scliurz has addressed a circu lar letter to every employee of the interi or department outside of the department building enclosing the president's circu lar prohibiting employees irom taking any active part in politics the secretary says it is expected that every employee will conform his condition to the requirements of the president's order nearly all the lawyers of st louis without exception enrolled themselves in militia companies during the late troubles a reporter ofthe c lobe democrat calling attention to this fact remarked tlmt the moral effect of it would be to drive the rioters to their holes without striking a blow as the lawyers of st louis were universally known to be great on the charge a scrupulous boston lady who abhors slang when asked at the boarding-house table why her husband was not down to breakfast replied bashfully oh dear willyini was upon a a neck last night a what s„id her interlocutor a b bosom she exclaimed coloring to the roots of her hair a which said he a — a — a bust she whispered behind her napkin ihe potato bug in germany — the co logn gazette says that from careful ob servations and inquiries made since the burning ofa potato tield iu the neighbor hood of cologn it is evident that the ob ject of that destructive process has been completely attained there is no further trace visible either of colorado beetles or of larvm neither above the soil nor below the surface there is reason to believe that not oik beetle has escaped listen roys — we heard a gentleman who has occasion to employ several boys and young men say yesterday that when he sees a boy or young man who works for small wages constantly smoking ci gars it always creates in his mind a sen timent somewhat akin to a suspicion of their honesty this is true boys of ma ny men who aie noticing your habits they don't speak of it perhaps but you sometimes apply to such men foremploy nient and are refused and you are at a loss to account for it when it the facts were known it is owing to their having observ ed you indulging in habits that they know your income docs not justify raleigh news another snake sting from the oil ( ity derrick is the snake c^tor in :" amid the lings and arrows of outra geous fortune he never forsakes his po.-t behold in me the snake editor well i've killed a rattler how long was it ?~ nino l'eet four w-what ! less than ten feet '» this pa per is no receptacle for miserable fishing worm stories and the exasperated editor seized the visitor bj the throat aud shut otf from his iusides the breath af heaven yaas gurgb-d the poor wretch bat it had eighty-seven ra " no back talk !" yelled the edit we want no rattlesnakes less than from ten to twelve feet in length and the snake killer was dashed to pieces on the iliuty pavemout below
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1877-08-23 |
Month | 08 |
Day | 23 |
Year | 1877 |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 44 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was |
Creator | T. K. Bruner |
Date Digital | 2008-12-29 |
Publisher | J. J. Bruner |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The August 23, 1877 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1877-08-23 |
Month | 08 |
Day | 23 |
Year | 1877 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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Date Digital | 12/29/2008 10:32:33 AM |
Publisher | Hamilton C. Jones |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | An archive of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
FullText | the carolina watcnfnaife ri ,\ ,- vol viii third series salisbuby v . ft aug-sl 23 1877 no 41 our readers to fully appreciate the feelings which have produced this lamen table outbreak among the railroad em ployes must put themselves in their places here is a hard-working faithful man who has served his masters many years ; he has a family and can hardly keep the wolf from the door w4th his wages ; be knows that the road has made large profits and he sees that these in the form of dividends watered stock and high salaries have gone into a few h-ands in these profits he has had no share 3-ddeuly during a bad year he gets a communication signed by the president who fs en,p_yrng the millions made from these former gains that his small wages must be reduced ten percent he cannot see how bread is to come to his family with such pay he has been too long in the service to easily find another place indeed it may be that all places are filled in any occupation wliich he could follow burning with the sense of injustice and desperate he is easily influenced by the wild and reckless men who are always seeking to lead workingmeu astray he tries a strike which he has a perfect riglit to do he becomes a unionist and com munist a rioter the transition is easy aud natural if he reflects at all he knows that the financial ill success of his road has not been due to his neglect or failure it has been owing to the foolish ambition of its president iu building branch roads or the greed of speculators iu watering its stock or to similar causes ii;id he ever enjoyed a shave in its prosperity he would be willing now to accept a portion of its misfortunes under such feelings and convictions au outbreak is inevitable the strike will be worth all it has cost if it will change all this and tend to put labor in a more reasonable relation with capital and thus avert some of the dan gers which have just showed their front so formidably — new york times rep iu nashua n ii a thing has happen ed not wholly new under the sun a young man of nashua fell in love with a girl who disliked him he gave her a ring worth 10 on condition that she would keep company with him a week suppos ing that he could win her affections in that time — which sets in a pleasing light the arcadian customs of the granite state he failed however and then hired her as his true love again this time for a month and for a silk dress worth 8-3 throwing in another ring before tne expiration of that time only to find that he was turned off with contempt when the contract came to an end this curious lover was then guilty of the inexpressible meanness of de manding back the rings and dress which the girl refuse 1 to give him captain sir lambton lorraine we confess to a liking for the sturdy english ways of the bold decided man whose name heads this article and who remembered in an important juncture that he was something more than an english man that he was an anglo-saxon his name should be remembered with respect wherever our grand old tongue is spoken whether beneath the cross of st george and st andrew or beneath the flag of the union when two americans captured on the virginius were marched out by the butcher burriel and ordered to be shot he intervened and saved their lives here is the way oue of them tells the in cident : we knelt down an the orders were given prime heavy ; aim one when the i word halt came from the lips of captain sir lambton lorraine who had mean while approached and unwrapped his sword whicli was wrapped iu the british flag he threw the flag over pacheco and myself and said i am not an american citizen but an anglo-saxon the same a these gentlemen and if one hair of their heads is harmed 1*11 blow santiago de cu ba to ell you blow santiago de cuba to ell said burriel why inside of half an hour i will have you where you will never see daylight again ves jen bur riel said capt lorraine in ten minutes i may be in sloro castle but my ship lays out there we could faintly see the tops of the masts and pulling out his watch if in forty-one minutes i am uot aboard the niobe the ball opens you can do as you like you can release these men or let it be the order for release wa.s given and in a few hours the prisoners wuie on the american ship juanit.i good for you captain lorraine such events as these if they do not vin dicate tbe universal brotherhood of man at least prove the brotherhood of the an glo-saxon race raleigh news loom hing a brother of ah wing a baltimore laundryman whose pigtail was pulled by an irish soldier last wednesday deposes and says sloja man say nolling only comee npeen n mylee blulla hip nm foo mylee blulla say milling doee nolling mellican man e welle dam foolee ; ah wing say mellican man_no kille china man ;' he no mine ; my blulla kly find po liceman takee un wash'ous — alle liglit now the irishman's testimony took the form of invective it*s a putty pass that the country's cotuiu to when a free american citizen an a sojur to boot that cum tu fite fur ye kant have a bit iiv a shindy wid a haythen chinee without go in to the lockup for it repairs on the methodist church have begun in earnest the roof and rear wall are being torn down the church will be enlarged aud otherwise improved — the congregation will worship in the presby terian church while their church is under repairs the pastors will alternate ihe face atthe window bt virginia pi towxsexd descending from her carriage a little while later at her own door mrs rich mond said to her husband ah walden i have heen so happy to-day ! i feel as though 1 wanted to make some other heart light and gift 1 don't want to keep all ,]„. messing to myself i think of all the good words she had said to-day these were the lest • mv hilling you hav'ii't answered her husband and he looked at her with the inile in his eyes the smile of fifteen years ago she thought a month had passed and one pleasant tune day just at twilight with the sweet breath of blossoms and the droning of in sects in the golden air mr aud mrs kichmond bad just come up from supper with the little company of guests who were to leave them in the morning en route for switzerland and the alps it had been a gultry day and the bright nierey party scattered now on the veranda taking iii long draughts of the fresh cool hillside air come now richmoud you'd better think it all over at this late minute and include to take the next steamer with us there's time yet and there are the lp and the rhine and all the splendor of the summer in switzerland you'd better go with us remarked one of the plots or at least chimed in the voice of a lulv who stood by his side you'd better consign mrs richmond to our care for the next five montlis margaret can always do as she likes answered walden richmond turning to iiis wife with a smile it is not too late vet but all the time he was assured what her answer would be at that moment a servant came up to mr richmond there is a young girl who wishes to see you a moment in pri vate he said ; and the gentleman made some apologies to his guest and went in to the house a young girl on the lounge in a simple brown hat and dress her fingers were working nervously and her heart throb bing so loud and scared that it almost chocked her she looked up as the gen tleman entered he saw a young sweet girlish face the cheeks flushed and the the brown eyes wistful and frightened you are mr richmond she said and the words seemed to come hard and slow ' he was a kind-hearted man lie piled the young fill's embarrassment yes he answered in his kindest tone i mi stum you have some errand with ine ves ; it is about the rent sir i am miss aldrich we occupy thecottageyou have lately bought i came to ask you it you could wait awhile longer for the rent the words panted out half incoherently ; but if you could have seen the mouth tremble and heard the frightened plead ing voice you would have pitied the girl in a moment it all hashed upon walden kichmond this was the face that his wife had seen shining at the window ou that never-to-be-forgotten day a fair young delicate faee to whom he owed much the man thought he pitied the girl sincerely poor young thing he thought to have to come to him on an miami like this and then what a singu lar co-incidence it was ! what would margaret say ?" walden richmond answered in his gentlest voice do not give yourself any trouble about it my child i am in do hurry for the rent the kindly tones the sudden relief were too much for the strained nerves until aldrich looked up into the man's face with a look he would never forget ah sir i thank you she said it was no very hard to come and ask you then a quick trembling all over the face and dreadfully frightened and dreadfully ashamed the poor child burst into a great lobbing and weeping those hard tearing convulsive sobs thai always tell you what pain mid suffering lie behind them they melted the heart of the man who heard them why my child has it been m terrible a tiling to come to me did you fancy i was the traditional landlord bard and grim merciless and grasping 1 well at least it's a comfort that you will be undeceived now poor ruth ! she tried to answer over and over again ; but the sobs would come and choke up the words and all she could *•" as to sit still and cry it was not strange either when you came to know a the family prospects had grown wearier aud drearier during all this pleas a"t.iune month which seemed the coldest ii"l darkest of ruth aldrich1 life the voung face grew thin and an old hunted worried look came into the dark eyesas the days went on and household purse grew thinner i here wa.s a good deal of sickness iu e town at that season and a falling off ln the school ruth lay awake night af r night when the sweet face ought to have beeu drooping like a lily in the soft s of slumber turning over in her mind *""•<• plan by which they might be able to t the rent but no light came to her « seein-d to ruth that god had deserted tul|i she wished sometimes that they e,mxla a11 die together aud get away from **»• terrible world where there was no e»t nor comfort without money in the ed as for none to be betrayed until a de tective w_n his confidence and betrayed him i am inclined to think that i ought to be ashamed of this episode upon a rob ber but he was a man for all that your friend john l bridgecs gov vance to gov porter gov vance of north carolina says the new york times has sent the follow ing letter to the governor of tennessee : exkccwe department state ot ) north cabolina raleigh july 27 •> mr dear sir : it is officially reported to me that two men lately citizens i grieve to say of this law-abiding com monwealth named respectively william reece and noah reece recently made a hasty visit to union county tenn on foot and disregarding the rights of hos pitality and the comity of states return ed into north carolina mounted william on a mule and noah ou a gray horse close upon tlieir heels came one barrett ray from said union county tenn who made oath in due form that said mule was his property and that said william had obtained possession thereof by certain carpet-bag methods in direct contraven tion ofthe eighth commandment at the same time and place came also one robert love of said union county tenn who made a similar affidavit iu regard to 6aid noah reece and the gray horse — where upon the said william and noah were ar rested and lodged in the jail of mcdowell county n c to await further proceed ing i have the honor therefore to await your excellency's pleasure in the premises and to assure you that it will afford me no little pleasure to intrust — upon a pro per requisition these erring sons of north carolina to the correcting hands of your judiciary ; and with assurances of very high personal and official regard i am dear sir very respectfully your most obedient servent z b vaxce gov porter promptly sent a requisition for the two erring sons of north car olian from the vilinington star that society is becoming more corrupt in the north is the statement of papers and travellers we do not wonder at this when we learn what is the prevailing cus tom iu what is known as society weare not surprised what prevents worthless adventurers from finding tlieir way into reputable society ? where are the guards ? we find the following in the august num ber of a leading new york magazine the calory if the young american will reflect he will see why some families consider it hardly judicious for a daughter to go alone with a gentleman to whom she is not be trothed — on a drive in the public streets and parks on an excursion down the bay or to the opora at night topping off the en tertainment with a little supper aud reach ing the homestead in the small hour where she perhaps lets herself in with a night latch key this is not an exaggeration of the custom that prevails in the majority of families how can there be purity where such customs prevail . how can parents and guardians tolerate such a bitter school for bcandle v we laugh at french cus toms in regard to the young how they are shielded and chaperoned but that is far better than the above license secretary schtirz is reputed as refering in a late conversation to the lact that at the close of the civil war it was predicted that should the northern section of the repub lic ever become the scene of internal vio lence or a foriegn war threaten the coun try the south would avail itself of the opportunity to re-open the domestic con flict mr scliurz is said to have added that the late aspect of affairs seemed to him the moment when such a course was possible but the south has come forward with offers of men and money to put down this violence and maintain the suprema cy ofthe government — charlotte obser ver is mr scliurz correctly reported we had heard of no such tender by the south and do not believe it was made the south would probably have re sponded to a call of the president but is it probable the south officiously stepped forward in this case and made a tender of men aud money f what south has got men and money to offer in a case of such doubtful propriety j >• — interesting to municipal authorities — some time ago a man named godwin was picked up by the police on the streets of raleigh and thrust into the guard-house where he was made to sleep upon a cold floor and without any covering he was sick at the time he fell upon the pave ment and the subsequent ill-treatment which he received at the hands ofthe po lice caused his death his administrator thereupon brought suit against the city of raleigh laying damages at 85.000 the superior court allowed 2,000 and the city appealed to the supreme court which rendered its opinion last monday sustain ing the judgment of the court below judge reade in delivering the opiuion of the court compares the gnard-house in which godwin died to the black hole at calcutta the case is of interest throughout the state and should serve as a warniug to municipal authorities — charlotte obser ver the georgia constitutional convention last friday by a vote of 166 to 16 passed a section of the new oonstitution which re pudiates certain alleged bogus bonds is sued during the bullock administration | a chicago girl's gratitude will you do something to oblige me v shyly asked a beautiful young woman of a timid gentleman acquaintance she had just made at a sociable gathering on west adams street the other evening anything that i can in honor miss smithy he replied blushingly well said she come into tbe back parlor where it is dark and sit on the sofa with me and let me rest my head on your shoulder and you pretend to whis per iu my ear only don't blow because that tickles and i can't laugh for this new dress is verj tight and when anybody looks you can draw your arm away — i forgot to say i wished you to put it around my waist i'll pretend to blush but my gracious honored miss stam mered the young man after hastily divid ing four into 1877 and finding that it wasn'tleap year ; my goodness before all these people — and i am already engaged — and your father must weigh .' hush i know what i am up to replied the artless girl i am engaged too to that young man talking to that waxen faced thing with somebody else's hair ov er there 1 want to stir him up to bring him down to business — make him come up to time that's all the young man said that a load had been lifted from his bosom and aided her to the best of his ability so well indeed that in three quarters of an hour the betrothed got his girl into the library demand an explanation of her shameless conduct was softened by her tears called himself a brute asked if she could forgive him and promised to behave better in future and how did the young girl reward the young man who had helped her to the happiness why she never said a word to him all the evening ; in fact never mentioned him except to say to her reconciled lover alouzo could you have been so stupid as to think i could see anything to admire in such a mutton-head as that 0 wo men iu our lours of ease — chicago tri bune birth place of edwin m stan ton and jno a murrel interesting letter from col john l liridgers takboro n c.f aug gth 1877 dear general — as to the nativity of edwin m stanton he was born in the up per part of beaufort county not far dis tant from the place that the father of gens howell and thomas cobb lived before he emigrated to georgia though mr cobb lived in pitt county and left before either of his sons were born my recollection or rather impression is that their mother is a native of pitt but i am not certain now if there was no great difference iu cobb and stanton srs there certain ly was a wide difference in the jrs the late confederacy had no more unrelent ing enemy nor one who showed his bitter ness of feeling plainer than stanton as is always the case when one finds himself arrayed against his native place how different with the cobbs whose memory will be forever cherished as long as the confederate struggle is recollected i take no pride iu the memory of a north caroli nian who used his very great ability as an organizer to overrun his native land he belonged to that class of men who seemed to delight in punishing old friends there is but one of that name in this section and he is a republican he is not a bad man that is all i know of the stan tons that you do not know better but i will add a few remarks about another gifted man who was born and raised within l miles of where i am now residing who in geni us far surpassed stanton aud i believe was fully equal to him in executive abili ty i presume you are getting restless for the name of the man and will laugh when i give it to you his name was john a murrell the most gifted and in his day the most famous of all american robbers all that is left of him is his name in the field where his family resided — it is still called the murrell field he left here with his wicked mother after the death of his father who was a pious man and a min ister of the gospel in other days i knew parties who were their nieghbors and de scribed the future robber as a very bright boy but who was so exceedingly bad that his father after having exhausted all the virtues ofthe rod used to keep him tied daily in his room to keep him out of mis chief but the old man died and the moth er trained him to wickedness so the old neighbors used to say and for that tusk she was well qualified for it was said that she had only one virtue aud that was the virtue of womanhood is it not strang that she should have had a good reputa tion where a wicked woman would have been expected first to have fallen and where so many other good womau have fallen history takes him up an unknown emi grant i think in buncombe county where his mother was engaged in playing a yan kee trick on a yankee peddler that john might do the stealing cc his headquar ters was an island either in the mississip pi or arkansas river he had a band extending from there to the james river so tradition says all engaged in stealing negroes and horses and carrying them generally south to sell now why i say he was of unrivaled executive ability ; he never chose a man who played false to him and the business was so well mang dead night she would spring up suddenly out of her light restless sleep with a sense of some awful terror hanging over her and wring lier hands and theu the dreadful truth would come back on her shrinking heart there was none to help the girl out of this darkness wliich bore down so heavily on the spring-time of her years her mother always went down in perplexity tcarsand hysterics at such times and the children were too young to com prehend the strait and her father dream ed over his invention which followed the way of all its predecessors there was the rent too staring ruth day by day in the face the most terrible fact of all those she had to confront because it was the heaviest debt at last the girl grew desperate noth ing less than being this could have driven her to the determination of seeing the landlord telling him the facts and be seeching him to wait for the money three times already without mrs rich mond's knowledge the agent had called for payment : and there seemed nothing left for ruth to do but this thing the very thought of wliich was bitter almost as death to the proud shy sensitive girl she revealed her project to none of the family ; she put it away from her all day so that she could go steadily through her round of school duties and when the night came she had put ou her hat and walked the long two miles and still not daring to pause a moment lest her heart should fail her she had walked straight to the door and asked audience of the rich man do you wonder that the reaction came at last ? ruth aldrich will never forget that walk nor how the river shone aud spark led on her way nor how once or twice she stopped and wondered vaguely whether it would not be easier to lie down under hat cool smooth curtain of waters than do the thing she had set her heart to do mr richmond with that singular com bination of strength and gentleness which give him his power over others succeeded at last in soothing the girl ; then he step ped out ofthe room and calling his wife aside told her what the late summons meant the lady's heart was stirred with a great pity she left her guests and went to the sobbing girl ruth had grown a little quieter by this time and mrs richmond was gracious and sweet and tender as an angel would have been the girl thought i felt assured my child you would do me some good the first time i looked on vour face smoothering the little hot trembling hand mrs richmond had taken in her own ruth's great perplexed eyes the tears still across them looked at her in blank amasement then mrs richmond told her of the morning drive aud sweet face which shone on her from the cottage window and the magic it had wrought in her thoughts aud feelings ruth listened in awe wonder delight smiles came out on the hushed lips aud hot cheeks and a great pleasure shone all over the sweet face so you see my child that you are not the only debtor said mrs richmond if i had known i should have come to you before and so ruth was won into telling her own story ; all the privation and pain the dark days the darker nights the strug gle and the terror of the wolf with the tierce eyes and lean face watching always at the door mrs richmond had been born and nur tured iu every comfort and for years her life had been swathed in luxury she re garded poverty as a terrible thing but always associated it with ignorance and vice ; anything like this struggle with pride and misfortune by refined and deli cate people she had never conceived pos sible her own grace and grandeur seem ed to reproach her she cried with ruth as she listened to her story aud pressed the soft warm hand closer in her own i have no time to tell you all the kind aud pleasant things she said made doub ly so by lier manner ; aud wheu at last she could leave her guests no longer and the stars had come out and filled the blue furrows ofthe sky with tlieir golden sheens mrs richmond ordered her carriage and sent ruth home and she kissed the girl at parting and said to her — go home now my child and sleep soundly to-night never think of the rent again only that you have friends who will not forget you ruth wondered as she rode home that night if there was under all those stars another heart so happy as hers ; and then what a story it was to take into the h ic ly saddened household — to put new life and comfort iuto it ! there was to be no more fear of rent day ! ah my dear said mrs richmond with a little swift start of surprise and pleasure it is just the most delightful idea in the world it was one day right after dinner and the two for a wonder were quite alone to gether mr richmond bad just been placing before his wife a plan which had suddenly entered his mind that morning setling the aldrich family in the old home stead the end take off your uudi hirt saturated with perspiration and vipe down your chin what is a regisierttyfjctter.-^the ques tion is very tkt&t aslred : isttw-d ference between a registered letter and any other th*e dirjere_ee4s mt'a*_gis tered letter does not go in ffi mai prtrper it passes from lfand to h__d ou&i-e-tbe mail pouches every person through whose hands it passes being ttjtijrlred to tfgn * receipt fer it o passittg ft vet-to t_e n in transit the person holirrhg the last receipt is tfius always afbfe her sltow w*o is accountable for the loss theresp-sffcf bility rests upon the man who has signe a receipt for the registered package and who is not able to produce the package ot a receipt from somebody else for it the safest way to send money is by money order where it does not go to a money order office it should always be sent in a registered package money ought not to be sent in au ordinary letter under any circumstances there is no possible way of tracking such a letter a very pretty story is told iu the pitts burg commercial a young lady from the south was wooed and won by a young california plysician about the time the wedding was to come off the young man lost his entire fortune he wrote the la dy a letter releasing her from her en gagement and what does the dear good girl do why she takes a lump of pure gold which her lover had sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake and having it manufactured iuto a ring forwards it to him with the following inscription engrav ed in distinct characters on the outside : entreat me not to leeave thee or to re turn from following after thee for whith er thou goest will i go and whither thou lodgest will hodge thy people will be my people and thy god my god where thou diest will i die and there will i be buried ; the lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part me and tnee we may add concludes the commercial that fortune soon again smiled upon the young physician aud that he subsequently returned to the south to wed the sweet girl he loved and who love him with such undying affection reader this is all true young ladies who read the bible as closely as the heroine of this incident seems to have done are pret ty sure to make good sweethearts and better wives — *.«.. the decision of judge cox lately at chambers that the officers of a corpora tion charged with concealing its assets are as much subject to examination under supplementary proceedings iu regard to the disposition of its property as an indi vidual under like circumstances is a most righteous decision it would be a sad day for north carolina if our courts were to hold otherwise honesty and fair dealing arc as incumbent upon corporations as upon individuals corporations are as much accoutable to their creditors for the application of their assets to their debts as individuals we are glad to see that in the eyes of judge cox no divinity doth hedge around corporations — ral news the south the grand old south with her planta tion manners was after all the great conservator of civilization in the united states she kept the lamp of chivalry alight iu hearts of gold she preserved the monuments of civil liberty she ad justed the true relations between capital and labor she produced wealth like the over-flowing nile whicli enriched her self and poured her treasure into every vein and artery of the commercial north building up splendid cities making opu lent corporations and individuals and creating the possibility of every industri ous man earning a generous living she kept society pure and the government un sullied alas how have crazy fanatics and fools changed all this ! the war made upon the south and her institutions has brought forth dreadful fruit the revela tions of the past few days demonstrate that the fabric of society east and west has dwelt upon a slumbering volcano wealth has been concentrated in the hands of the few ; poverty is the burden of the many a privileged class has been established whose chief duty seems to be grinding the faces of the poor hard times have followed the big drunk of war and speculation confidence between man and man has been well-nigh destroyed the granaries of the union are bursting with plenty and yet myriads of god's creatures are hungry for bread we do uot care to taunt our brethren of the north in the hour of calamity ; but they should know at last that the day of tribu lation has arrived — a ugusta sentinel starting in the world many an unwise patent labors hard and lives spar ingly all his life for the purpose of leaving enough to give his children a start in the world as it is called setting a young man afloat with money left him by his relatives is like tying bladders under the arms of one who cannot swim ; teu chances to one he will loose his bladders and go to the bottom teach him to swim and he will never need the bladders give your child a sound education and you have done enough for him see to it that his morals are pure his mind cultivated and his whole nature made subservient to the laws which govern man and you have given what will be of more value than the wealth of the indies a mi-jyor out wesf has determined to kill half the dogsjn that city and tan their hides with the bark of the other half itw understood that h ladies who vow tbey will imver.mi-ry have not the remotest idea f keeping their word — •>., if an orator iu tho woman's rights con vention said iu thuuderiug tones if eve wore fewer suspenders thau adam i'd like to know it — « ..__»- tbe present style of holding up the dress reveals only one stocking and we hope geutlemen will be sati_lied with quality rather than with quantity if on the street you look at a lady very intently you are impolite but if you meet her in a waltz you may hug her all you please no matter whose wife she is in the man who thinks tis sweet for one's country to die should take the con sulship of st paul de loando on the coast of africa it is vacant now and a consul dies there every two or three mouths every coiumunist is a traitor to the government he lives under and should be dealt with accordingly the promulga tion of his doctrine is a suill icntly overt act and tliey should be stamped out un hesitatingly every communistic meet ing should be broken up — indianapolis news the london lancet calls attention to the dau«*er of disease the causes of which are sometimes concealed iu the ice which i.s used to cool drinking water in summer it is a mistake to suppose that water pu rifies itself by the act of freezing often it spreads the germ of disease as an evidence of american enter prise bishop marvin states in his letters from the east that the street railroad iu bombay india is owned by an american company with all its rolling stock im ported from xew york bombay he says is outstripping calcutta in growth secretary scliurz has addressed a circu lar letter to every employee of the interi or department outside of the department building enclosing the president's circu lar prohibiting employees irom taking any active part in politics the secretary says it is expected that every employee will conform his condition to the requirements of the president's order nearly all the lawyers of st louis without exception enrolled themselves in militia companies during the late troubles a reporter ofthe c lobe democrat calling attention to this fact remarked tlmt the moral effect of it would be to drive the rioters to their holes without striking a blow as the lawyers of st louis were universally known to be great on the charge a scrupulous boston lady who abhors slang when asked at the boarding-house table why her husband was not down to breakfast replied bashfully oh dear willyini was upon a a neck last night a what s„id her interlocutor a b bosom she exclaimed coloring to the roots of her hair a which said he a — a — a bust she whispered behind her napkin ihe potato bug in germany — the co logn gazette says that from careful ob servations and inquiries made since the burning ofa potato tield iu the neighbor hood of cologn it is evident that the ob ject of that destructive process has been completely attained there is no further trace visible either of colorado beetles or of larvm neither above the soil nor below the surface there is reason to believe that not oik beetle has escaped listen roys — we heard a gentleman who has occasion to employ several boys and young men say yesterday that when he sees a boy or young man who works for small wages constantly smoking ci gars it always creates in his mind a sen timent somewhat akin to a suspicion of their honesty this is true boys of ma ny men who aie noticing your habits they don't speak of it perhaps but you sometimes apply to such men foremploy nient and are refused and you are at a loss to account for it when it the facts were known it is owing to their having observ ed you indulging in habits that they know your income docs not justify raleigh news another snake sting from the oil ( ity derrick is the snake c^tor in :" amid the lings and arrows of outra geous fortune he never forsakes his po.-t behold in me the snake editor well i've killed a rattler how long was it ?~ nino l'eet four w-what ! less than ten feet '» this pa per is no receptacle for miserable fishing worm stories and the exasperated editor seized the visitor bj the throat aud shut otf from his iusides the breath af heaven yaas gurgb-d the poor wretch bat it had eighty-seven ra " no back talk !" yelled the edit we want no rattlesnakes less than from ten to twelve feet in length and the snake killer was dashed to pieces on the iliuty pavemout below |