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tlie carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury v c february 14 1878 no 17 mr robbins n the whisky tax ' in the house of representatives on wednesday tin-re was a running five minutes debate on the joint resolution | i tending the time for the withilrfiv.nl of j whisky now in bond uutil duly i 1878 heretofore noted in ourtelepraph columns in the ionise of it the question being on j an amendmenl which was adopted to strike oul all after the enacting clause and inserl thai a reduction of the ax on distilled spirits is inexpedient mr robbins mr chairman there are mie or two things which !. as _ member ofthe committee of ways and means desire to say on this resolution one thing lhat i do not wish forgotten 18 th the original resolution tf passed will not . ,,. itself l educe the 1 ax mi whisky in ! bond culess further legislation is had such whisky will bave to pay ninety cents fax so if the house passe the resolu tion as originally reported it will still be in the power t lhe house to prevent the tax on that whisky from being pul below ninety cents if uch be iis wish it is necessary then mr chairman for this house to-day to pas the amendmenl of the gentleman from massachusetts mr butler which bays in effeel thai you shall redact tho tax on whisky in 1 1 below iiineh cents .' why nol leave tho ways and means committee now < n liaueil in perfecting a measure of revenue after looking over the whole field to do whatever is wise and proper in this as in eveiy other particular why tic their j hand and say you in;iy ti x the revenue j system both internal and external bui this one thing you musl nut do sir if it is a wise and fair way to act in refer ence to everything else avhy not permit us to perfect our report also in this re aped .' a in the proposition of the gentleman from ohio mr poster to substitute foi this declaration thai the whisky tax shall not be reduced 1 will say simp ihis we are urged to vote for thai in order to settle the ipli stioll al once we will soon vote on this proposition ami we will settle i the question equally well by voting it ; down by that means we will indicate our purpose to reduce the tax on whiskj and declare to the country thai we will sustain the < onimittee of way and means on sui li a report mr chairman why not leave your com ; mitlce having this important subject in charge i do not ask it merely as a cour les in the committee but oul of respect : to the greal interest involved why not | leave the committee which 1 may say 1 believe without any impropriety is now almost naily to report to this house a well-considered and much improved sys ; lein of revenue external aud internal why not leave ihe committee free in all j these matters to perfect iheir bill and not say beforehand they shall reduce the tax on spirits why limit their action on ihis or any other item .' if we can show | the tax on spii its or anything else can be j reduced and such reduction will nol hurl anybody nor hurl the revenue nor op press any class what objection can there be to il .' bui we need uol bring in now the ques j tion of reducing the tax why not allow j these distillers the extension of time pro posed in the resolution for payment of the tax ? their market being destroyed for the present by the agitation on this subject why should we compel them to pay this tax at once and tluis force them to invest immense sums of money in taxi s ift hich they w ill not he able to realize upon until you have unfettered their ninikcl by final action mi ihe revenue biil soon to j co from the committee of wavs ami means this i the firsl time i have ever been told that ii is a wise policy ou the part of this t lovei nuieiii to tax one oi onr own productions tis much as it will bear without being utterly crushed if ihat is the true principle of taxation 1 have yet to learn it here i a lax upon one of tin iudus ti ies oi this country ami yet ; on saj t lial the true principle is to increase the lax until that business shows signs of death thi is not my view of the subject my idea is that you should leave a margin of profit tor every occupation not load the horse down til you see his back is break ing before you take otf some ofhisbur llell should we necessarily tax spirits nine ty cents per gallon because thai will bring 32,000,000 revenue it is by no means elf-evident tint we ought to exact that ! much revenue from that industry merely because we can do ii 1 think it well worth ' ini|..ii \ , at least whet her we may no ad just taxation upon thai interest more fair ly and equitably as compared with other ; subjects of taxation so as to make the public burdens fall nion equally upon all ! leave yonr committee of ways and means flee to do thi if thev i 111 a few days ago two ladies were cross ing loss creek ala on horseback one of whom carried a baby when towards the middle of the stream the mother became dizzy and dropped the infant into tire water both ladies screamed for assist ) auee but none coming they rode otf to ' the nearest house and go some men out ' l'he baby was found floating a mile below ' the crossing after an exposure of forty minutes with its face upward fast asleep it was well wrapped up and the clothes had k.-pt it from sinking the yankee colony ix burke 1 from the burke blade the yankce colony nine miles above j morganton is slowly but surely assuming j the dignity of a town and although the ; village has not as yet reached either the ! size or importance which its projectors had imped for it still its prospects are very j bright for the near future as its outposts are being manned by the very best senti j nels since our last visit mr g e chase i from maine has purchased a farm on the ! extreme southern border ofthe town site and is now making necessary repairs pre . vious to entering somewhat extensively ; ° ' i into the nursery business mr delbert j barker lias pttrcashed a hundred and fif ! teen acres on the eastern borders of the '■town lie will engage in miscellaneous forming and with his means and exper j ience we shall be sisapptiiuted if in the course iit'a year or two lie does not show our people a fair specimen of the best class of xew england farm and fanning mr barker is a native of hampden coun ty mass where superior farming is the rule mr lames grover also from hampden county mass has purchased a small farm just north of the postoffice where he intends by the thorough know ledge he possesses of changing the color of things to change his acres of poor red clay into that black greasy soil which seems to tell of full granary and gorged fruit and potato bins mr warren lo ver from eastern massachusetts is now ' at the settlement trying to secure a tit ling site for a first-class flouring corn ; and saw-mill to which it is proposed to j aihl a shingle machine tub and pail ! machinery and planer and matcher ! with sundry small saws the erec tion of the machinery which he pro ! puses would be a long step ahead for old burke j monroe kendall from spring ! field mass is also in our county spying ! oul the land with a fair prospect that he iil cast in his lot with the pioneer yankees of bnrke county and thus add nne more to the number of intelligent and i k il 1 lul mechanics which this little settle ment is attracting to itself mr blood is still pushing the work on his new house aud soon the first building for many miles j with anv pretensions to architectural i symmetry and harmony of design and finish will be reared in this village mr elliott in quesl of light and air is clear | ing the acres around his house of the tini ; ber in preparations as we trust for try ! ing the t perimet_t of hay-raising which j bi has been so strenuously urging upon the natives mr marquis also from massachusetts has erected and is occupy ing the i while he builds tiie main part of liis house the claim of boston to be considered as mr cook designates it a great amer ican town being now under considera tion i',ici like the following presented by our neighbor the pilot are certainly pertinent unwelcome though they may l>e three-fourths of all boston's school children are said to be irisli-ainericau and in proportion to its sixe boston has llie largest irish atul irish-american pop ulation of any city in the country the last report of the city registrar shows thai ol the fathers of the 10,773 children bora in the y in 1877 •'.;>'."> were born in american and 3,949 iu ireland of the mothers 2,916 were born in the tinted siaies and j-j!l in ireland there were also born 830 children of british-ameri can parents a large proportion of whom arc claimed as belonging to the irish branch it is further affirmed that the irish in boston have not only more births imi fewer deaths than the americans the direction iu which these facts point is unmistakable the adoption ol the matthews silver resolution in the senate has of course thrown a deep gloom over the new york tribune it says the american seuate has declared ihat it would not be a viola linn ofthe public honor tu pay ihe bonds iu depreciated coin and that is shame enough for the american people for one day wc all know thai the tribune has a sort of syndicate contract with some body to guard the honor of the nation and these things are disheartening the tribune should cheer up the conntry has survived the shame of colfax < takes ames grant babcock belknap simon cameron and the louisiana returning board and may be able to live down the rascality of stanley mathews lt is not worth while for ns all to go in mourning washington post drm mr bobbins of north carolina said dining the debate thai the object of some seemed to be to lind out what was the greatest burden whiskey could stand and then to impose thai amount of tax for his pari he wanted to have a margin for profit vou now tax it ninety cents per gallon and raise from it 852,000,000 washington special to bichmond dispatch n tobacco 40,000,000 are raised five sixths nf the revenue raised comes from tliese sources perhaps i may lind out that there is a hell though i think we have hell enough mi earth without manufacturing one here after ai any rate if there is a hell it i.s a comfort to know that there will be no more winter there were the last words of a disgusted new yorker who commit ted suicide the oilier day tragical death of a state senator news was received in this city yes terday evening of the death of c f voung a prominent citizen of yancey county who with col folk represented the counties of caldwell burke yancy mitchell and mcdowell in the senate of this state in the session ofthe legislature 1870-77 the particulars of his death are very meagre but our information is that during the heavy snow storm which prevailed in that section of the stato a few days ago he was caught out an.l was frozen to death at any rate he was found dead in the snow and there being no marks of violence upon his person it was naturally inferred that he had per ished from the cold he was a leading citizen of his couuty and in fact was among the most popular and influential men of that section of the state charlotte observer mexico open to the colored race the new orleans times has this para graph : it is reported thatthe discontented col ored people who want to be generals and judges and congressmen and who in the belief that their chances for civil fame in this region arc gone have been agita ting emigration to liberia have aband oned the latter happy land and arc now thinking of the flowery vales and silver mountains of mexico ifthey can't hold their own with the anglo-saxon in the race of life they think they could beat the mexican greaser and give him two in the game mexico is said to be the col ored man's paradise it is not only an abolition country but it is a place where social equality is not a mere by word and mockery in fact they practice mixing not only in society but also in matrimony president diaz is himself a much mixed statesman there are two popularities of the free and independent american citizen by which he may be known wherever met whether he is roaming among the effete despotisms of the old world raising stock iii kentucky selling stocks in wall street digging gold in california or harpooning whales in the southern ocean he is always ready to shake hands upon meeting a new acquaintance or an old friend and to pass a series of resolutions on the smallest possible provocation clcv herald tiie little shoes did it a young man who had been reclaimed from the vice of intemperance was called upon to tell how he was led to give up drinking he arose but looked for a moment very confused all he could say was the little shoes they lid it with a thick voice as if his heart was in his throat he kept repeating tliis there was n stare of perplexity on every face and at length some thoughtless young peo ple began to titter tbeman in all his em barrassment heard this sound and rallied at once the light came into his eyes with a flash — he drew himself up and ad dressed the audience the choking went from his throat yes friends he said in a voice that cut its way clear as a deep toned ixdl whatever yon may think of it i've told you the truth ; the little shoes tlid it ! i was a brute and a fool ; strong drink had made me both and starved me into the bargain i suffered ; i deserved to suffer ; but 1 didn't stiller alone no man does who has a wife and child for the woman gets the worst share hut i am no speaker to enlarge on that : i'll stick to the little shoe i saw one night when i wns nil but done for the saloon keeper's child holding out her feet for her father to look at her line new slioes it was a simple thing ; but friends no list civ struck me such a blow ns those lit tle new shoes they kicked reason into mc what business have i to help clothe others with fineries and provide not even coarse clothing for my own but let them go bare said i ; and there out side was my shivering wife and blue chilled child on a bitter cold night i took hold of mv little one with a grip and saw her chilled feet ! men ! fathers ! if the little slioes smote me what must the vet do ? i put them cold as ice to my breast : they pierced me through yes the little feet walked right into my heart and away walked my selfishness i hail a trifle of money left i bought a loafof bread and then a pair of little shoes i never tasted anything but a bit of that bread all the sabbath day and went to work like mad on monday and from that day i spent no more money at tlie public-house that's all i've got to say — it was thk little shoes that hid it without depth of thought or earnest ness of feeling or strength of purpose liv ing an unreal life sacrificing substance to show substituting the fictitious for the natural mistaking a crowd for society finding its chief pleasure in ridicule and exhausting its ingenuity in expedients for killing time fashion is among the last in fluences miller which a human being who respects himself or who comprehends the great end of life would desire to be placed terrible death a man knocked from a railroad bridge by an engine on yesterday a speeial engine left greensboro about 12 o'clock ( for charlotte to arrive here at 2:30 p in jt was con sequently running at lightning speed all the way just before it came to the bridge over little reedy creek five miles this side of concord a man was seen walking across the bridge towards the rapidly approaching engine he contin ued to walk at an ordinary pace till the engine was within fifty yards of him when he turned his back upon it and stood still as if courting death in another instant the engine struck him and knocked him from the track into the water below and he was lost to sight the engineer conld not stop after be discovered fhe intention ofthe man to remain ou the track hence no blame can be attached to him in ad dition to this his time for reaching char lotte before the time for the other train to leave was limited and furthermore he had every reason to believe that the reg ular noon train which had been delayed beyond greensboro was close behind him our informant is tjiiite confident that the man was robert machin formerly a compositor in the concord sun otlice — char observer the paris exposition the executive commitie of the state board of agriculture held a meeting yes terday and perfected arrangements for the exhibition of her products of our state at paris the committee have made se lections ofthe articles to be sent and now most earnestly appeal to every native of onr state who wishes to see her take a foremost place in this world's exhibition to send as soon as possible the best speci • men or specimens of the chosen articles | for exhibit to col l l polk at this city the collection of articles will be taken in charge by the i s government as the state has made no appropriations to de fray expenses the gentlemen of the committee will use their best efforts to make the display of the products of the old north state on this great occasion in every way creditable and worthy the finest most perfect specimens or samples of tiie following are requested to be sent by the owners producers or man ufacturers gold silver copper and iron ores coal mica corundum,barytes,soap stone kaolin marble whetstone grind stones asbestos flexible sandstone woods and marls wheat corn rye oats barley buckwheat rice both upland and low land an in sheaf millet cbufas honey wax sorghum peanuts and their oil dried fruits irish and sweet potatoes preserved fruits brandies whiskies wines leather sumac turpentine rosin shingles staves articles made of cedar sugar cane silk jute flax broom corn grasses wool long moss hominy maple sugar c if our people will put their shoulders to the wheel wc can make such a display as shall serve better than all else to show the outside world our manifold advanta ges and unlimited resources wliich need just such advertising the parsimony of onr legislature in refusing to make an appropriation for the exhibition of our products at the exhibition at philadel phia resulted in the poorest display made by any state in the union let us take warning by these mistakes of the past and show some enterprise and judgment in the future — ral news woman's tree place if i do not at least say that whatever else may lure or demand her woman's true place first and last must be her home i shall be untrue to any one stand ing great conviction women must make more of their homes and make them more io those who belong with them in this day of outward excitement and many out ward attractions the old and sacred in tegrity of home is endangered the homes of to-day are not so dear as those of a past generation oreat change has come over our people amusements multiply and press voung people have taken out a license against their parents parents arc getting rather aft aid of their boys and girls home isn't the little nucleus radi ating joy to each each shedding back on it it is a convenient place to have and the father is the banker and the mother i.s the mistress of laundry women and cooks but the home is gone it is only a part of the outer world which you have roofted over and lighted a lire in which you may make dark with your frown or uncomfortable by your whim once it was wliat if mast be again the heart's holy of holies once no man would desecrate it by deserting it ; once all good impulse sprung hence and all true character grew ; once the hearth at which father and mother sat was holy and dear and if the generations are to get back to old stability of character and firmness of principle and the old unde tiled religion it must be through these homes of which yon 0 women ! are priestess ; it must be by your garnish ing tbem again with forgotten grace re waking gone out liies and sanctifying anew the only place in which a human soul can be surely fitted for the work and warfare of life heaven help us if this desecration of the home gets into another generation t e w ware shut the poor — unquestionably doors are a necessity but sometimes we are almost inclined to call fliem a nuisance what detracts more from the neat ap pearance of bed-room or sitting-room than wide open closet doors giving their con tents continually to view ? for no mat ter how well those contents are arranged or how orderly may be the housewife who superintends them the effect is never pleasant to the beholder and a certain comfortless aspect is sure to be imparted to the room doubtless many of our readers have sighed from very weariness when com pelled to shut the same door or doors every half hour during the day as some times happens where children form part of the family circle at such times what force and truth appears in the old-fashioned rhymed percept for boys and girls which runs thus or nearly thus : — come when you're called do what you're bid : shut the door after you and you'll never be chid how many reprimands how much vexa tion might be saved if everybody servants and grown people as well as children would or conld remember to shut the door after them !" yet why should it be so difficult a duty to perform ? why not remember to shut the closet-door or the room-door as well as the street-door ? above all why if we are often admonished of our neglect do we feel so much tempted to slam in stead of shutting the offending door ? the carolina coast the efforts which senator hansom and representative waddell are making to improve the life-saving service and lessen the dangers of the north carolina coast cannot but commend themselves to the serious consideration of congress cer tainly the loss of life off our coast has been sufficiently great to impel sonic steps in the direction whicli senator ran som's speech ou wednesday indicated and there would seem to be no better time than the present for broaching the subject just after three vessels the hu ron the metropolis and since then the c c overton — have been wrecked iu these treacherous waters it is quite true that the loss of the metropolis was due more to her own condition than to the charac ter of the coast upon which she went to pieces but this coast is undeniably bad anil the facilities for saving life but mea gre hatteras which is nol far distant is the horror of every mariner on the american seas but hatteras is not lhe only dangerous spot off the north caro lina coast and if gen ransom and mr waddell can secure such legislation as will give the whole coast a better ser vice tbey will have done the world a service which can only be measured by the value of human life — charlotte ob server rather uncouth if the fifth avenue combination ever visits wilmington again under its present management it would be well for some one interested in the matter to advise the manager mr daly to leave his new vork manners at home before be starts south and substitute instead something more refined especially when he visits this locality we are led to make tliese remarks from having observed a little piece of rudeness which was exhibited by this xew yorker last night when he ac costed a gentleman who had a lady on each arm as he entered the theatre the gentleman passed in and seated his ladies but returned immediately to demand an explanation of the rude doorkeeper when the man with the xew york manners dis claimed any attention of offering an in sult he was given to understand how ever in plain unvarnished english that such conduct wonld not suit this climate — w'd review 5th the dini-i'.ks — a meeting of a congre gation of this strange sect at hagerstown ind october .?--_!', presented some in teresting features the attendance was large so large that as the preaching which began about ten continued the overflowing hearers had to be accommo dated with extra services in the yard at twelve there was au adjournment to dinner which was served at four tables in the basement admittance was by ticket and the tables seating 0 were filled five times dinner being over at five in the afternoon the communion ser vice was begun tht supper was au or dinary meal before eating whicli there was the washing of feet several of the brethren performed this office followed by others who did the wiping the giv ing of thanks preceded aud followed the serving of the bread and wine between 400 and 500 persons partaking of the ele ments tin ceremonies occupied five hours the meeting then broke up for the night and the next morning after breakfast preaching was resumed until noon the young wife leaned her head upon her husband's shoulder and assailini him with the sweet sorcery of her eyes gently murmured — augustus darling how dull earth would be if life had no sentiment in it ah then you have not forgot evangeline how you nsed to hang your bustle out of the window for me powe£of monosyllables a new boston paper the 11 eights col lecu some remarkable specimens of one j syllable writiug by well-known authors ! tew passages are liuer or more forcible j than the following selections e g this one of dr young's the bell strikes oue we take no note of time save by its loss to give it then a tongue 1 was wise in man or this of shakespeare where constance says thou may'st thou shalt i will not go with thee here i and sorrow sit here is mv throne bid kings come bow to it or where lear says thou kuow'st the first time that we smell tbe air we wawl and cry i will preach to thee mark me when we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools this a eood , block or where richard iii says hood friend thou hast no cause to say so j yet but thou shalt have and creep time ne'er so slow yet it shall come for me to do thee good 1 had a thing to say — but let it go or this from fletcher's purple island a stanza of seventy words all mouosylla i bless except one darkest xew light new love new life hath bred a life that lives bv love and loves by light a love to hint to whom all loves ate wed a light to whom the sun is darkest night eye's light heart's love soul's onlv life he is life soul love heart light eye and all are his he eye light heart love soul he all my joy and bliss the daughter at home do not think that because there pomes to you no great opportunity of performing a wonderful work you will let the thou sand little ones pass you unimproved it is no small thing to be ihe joy ofthe do mestic circle the one whose soft touch and whose gentle fitly spoken words averts disturdance and disagreement con ' ciliates the offended aad makt s alien na tures understand each other it is no small thing to possess tlie happy tact which makes people pleased with them selves and which insensibly urges people to appear at their best the young wo man who is gifted with this grace of touch this swiftness of sympathy and this beau tiful unselfishness may not have a fair face nor a trim figure but she will be en dowed with a dignity more winning than either it appears that victor emmanuel was somewhat superstitious when he arrived in rome on june 3 1874 he manifested a curious fear of passing the first night at his residence in his palace of the qnirinal he expressed his fears to his intimate friends saying that he knew that if he went to sleep that night in the qnirinal he would never awake however he went to the palace that day saluted the crowd from the balcony dined there and after appearing at the royal ball retired at midnight to his own apartments his friends wondered and it was shortly seen that his superstitious feeling had compimed he went home with his friend prince doria and in prince doria's mag nificent home the royal fatalist passed his first night in his capital of rome give him a chance liberty herald dou't act the fool keep cool if your neighbor is in a pinch don't te 1 every body you meet autl if he owes you a debt don't crowd hint to the wall give the man a chance there is no use to get panic struck about these bard times be patient frugal industrious and eco nomical be cautious and don't permit dishonest deceivers to inveigle you into a trap but ifyou know a man to be honest help him so far as you can without jeop ardising your own interests don't get excited and ifyou owe any one a deb go al once and pay it if possible a pleasant place in which to study hu man nature is the xew jersey state pris on an account of the taming process in that institution says there is first the boot-heel gag a very painful instru ment ; second the paddle an instru 1 ment used to beat prisoners on bare flesh i inflict intense suffering third the | stretcher which is equal to the rack of olden times the man's feet are fasten - j ed to the floor ; he is handcuffed and by | a rope drawn up to tin ceiling as tightly | as possible from five to twenty minutes i of this would make any one weaken fourth alcohol is poured on the pri som r's back an set on fire in one case a man was twiet".'t burned in succession so that the hair on his body crackled and he was twice put on the stretcher ; fifth the ! douche which consists of pouring water from a hose on the naked bodies of pris ! oners this creates most agonizing pain and is apt to produce insanity only a lock of golden hair !" the lover smiling sadly said — to-night it forms a halo fair above her head only a lock of golden hair the maiden smiling sweetly aid then laid it on the back qfa chair and went to bed - the capital 1 o remove rust i over the metal witk sweet oil rubbing iii w.n fu-r forty eight hours rub with finely powdered quick-lime a popular clergyman iu england r cently gave a lecture on fools tha tickets of admission were inscribed lec ture on fools admit one there was a large audience a handsome youth being questioned by a rather stylish lady as to his occupation replied that he was an adjuster of move able alphabets he was a printer a h.irrisburg paper woi.t_g_l cor respoudentona ipiestion of etiquette saysi when a gentleman and lady are walking upon the street the lady should walk for side of the gentleman then is a movemt it in kix-kcastle ky against the bast-head whiskey brought in from outside the slate the pledge permits the signer to drink as much as he wants of the pir homemade beverage dry buckwheat flonr if repeatedly ap plied will entirely remove ihe worst grease-spots on carpets or any othei woolen cloth and will answer as well as french chalk for grease-spots on silk a burning chimney when ihe soot has been lighted by a tin in the fireplace cai be extinguished by shut ting all the doors in the room so as to prevent any current of air up the chimney then by throwing a few hand-fulls nf common tine sail upon the lire in the grate or ou the health the fire in the chimney will be immediately extinguished tin philosophy of this is that in the process of burning the salt muriatic-acid gas is evolved which is q prompt extinguisher of tire the supreme courl of georgia has just rendered a decisiou that will doubtless liave the effect of revolutionizing a pleas ant and very prevalent social custom in judge bleckley's npiniou in the case of goodman vs the state we lind the fol lowing eor a man without some itino cent reason or excuse to pat his arm around the neck of another's wife is aq assault and battery the papers are very anxious to pul gov hendricks on the fence as to the silver question and to keep him there bnt much to the sorrow of golden-calf idola ters lie will not get nu the fence but stands on the side ot honesl money and demands thai tho dollar of onr dads shall be placed where it was in 18/3 be fore it was sneakingly set a ide am de preciated by the congressional corrnp tiouists and riugsters dr s 1 l.ussel an infidel of hell couuty texas was lately hauled from his bed at night by a company of men said to be members of a baptisl church carried off to the woods stripped and treated to a hundred lashes with this ad dress thrown in we know you are an hoin . i man and a good physician but wo will tolerate no infidels in bell county so by the help of god we will stop yottv career of infidelity food for cows mr miller of stockton x v au experienced tuck raiser has published a pamphlet in whicli he claim 9 to show by the results of actual experi ments that corn meal is better food for cows than hay he hows that 3 quarts 1 of corn meal will afford a cow as much nti triment as 20 ponnds of hay or as much as an animal v ill eat per day figuring from this basis he shows thai :. cow can be wintered on corn meal at about one half the expense incurred in the use of hay when tie price of corn is titi cents a bushel and thai of hay is 10 a ton mr miller's experiments have been repeated and confirmed by a committee ofexper ienced fanners who report iu fayor of hy plan 117m lhe microscope dentils mould i.s a forest of beautiful trees with the brandies leaves ami fruit butterflies are fully feathered hairs are hollow tubes the surface of nm hotl;c aie covered with scales like a fish a single grain of sand would cover one hundred and fifty of tliese scales and yet a single scale covers live bundled pores through tliese narrow openings perspiratmn forces itself like water through a sieve every drop of stagnant water contain a world of living creatures swimming with as inn-el liberty as whales iu ihe sea each leaf has a colony of insects gtaz ing on it like cows in a meadow i.'o s la bow lost oil city derrick ii fteeins t be the ambition ofallyou wi'.'i to look well when any t_.e c s tie ther day a south side bride heard j ring at th ven diiyr the maid .. out ami she rnshi d up t .- 1 i : s tu ix up • litt before admitting the caller there was a moment of lightning work before the dressing cask quicker than ir takes to tell it a ribbon was fastened at her throat a flower stabbed in !.<»• hair a flash or powder on her l.n . . and she was at the doo nil smiles and blushes the gent in said he had walked from memphis iii'l couldn't remember that he had *■!<'■■j food - : a-i lie left cincir i.ati
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1878-02-14 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 14 |
Year | 1878 |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 17 |
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 February 14, 1878 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Language | eng |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1878-02-14 |
Month | 02 |
Day | 14 |
Year | 1878 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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Date Digital | 12/29/2008 10:34:36 AM |
Publisher | Hamilton C. Jones |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
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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 |
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FullText | tlie carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury v c february 14 1878 no 17 mr robbins n the whisky tax ' in the house of representatives on wednesday tin-re was a running five minutes debate on the joint resolution | i tending the time for the withilrfiv.nl of j whisky now in bond uutil duly i 1878 heretofore noted in ourtelepraph columns in the ionise of it the question being on j an amendmenl which was adopted to strike oul all after the enacting clause and inserl thai a reduction of the ax on distilled spirits is inexpedient mr robbins mr chairman there are mie or two things which !. as _ member ofthe committee of ways and means desire to say on this resolution one thing lhat i do not wish forgotten 18 th the original resolution tf passed will not . ,,. itself l educe the 1 ax mi whisky in ! bond culess further legislation is had such whisky will bave to pay ninety cents fax so if the house passe the resolu tion as originally reported it will still be in the power t lhe house to prevent the tax on that whisky from being pul below ninety cents if uch be iis wish it is necessary then mr chairman for this house to-day to pas the amendmenl of the gentleman from massachusetts mr butler which bays in effeel thai you shall redact tho tax on whisky in 1 1 below iiineh cents .' why nol leave tho ways and means committee now < n liaueil in perfecting a measure of revenue after looking over the whole field to do whatever is wise and proper in this as in eveiy other particular why tic their j hand and say you in;iy ti x the revenue j system both internal and external bui this one thing you musl nut do sir if it is a wise and fair way to act in refer ence to everything else avhy not permit us to perfect our report also in this re aped .' a in the proposition of the gentleman from ohio mr poster to substitute foi this declaration thai the whisky tax shall not be reduced 1 will say simp ihis we are urged to vote for thai in order to settle the ipli stioll al once we will soon vote on this proposition ami we will settle i the question equally well by voting it ; down by that means we will indicate our purpose to reduce the tax on whiskj and declare to the country thai we will sustain the < onimittee of way and means on sui li a report mr chairman why not leave your com ; mitlce having this important subject in charge i do not ask it merely as a cour les in the committee but oul of respect : to the greal interest involved why not | leave the committee which 1 may say 1 believe without any impropriety is now almost naily to report to this house a well-considered and much improved sys ; lein of revenue external aud internal why not leave ihe committee free in all j these matters to perfect iheir bill and not say beforehand they shall reduce the tax on spirits why limit their action on ihis or any other item .' if we can show | the tax on spii its or anything else can be j reduced and such reduction will nol hurl anybody nor hurl the revenue nor op press any class what objection can there be to il .' bui we need uol bring in now the ques j tion of reducing the tax why not allow j these distillers the extension of time pro posed in the resolution for payment of the tax ? their market being destroyed for the present by the agitation on this subject why should we compel them to pay this tax at once and tluis force them to invest immense sums of money in taxi s ift hich they w ill not he able to realize upon until you have unfettered their ninikcl by final action mi ihe revenue biil soon to j co from the committee of wavs ami means this i the firsl time i have ever been told that ii is a wise policy ou the part of this t lovei nuieiii to tax one oi onr own productions tis much as it will bear without being utterly crushed if ihat is the true principle of taxation 1 have yet to learn it here i a lax upon one of tin iudus ti ies oi this country ami yet ; on saj t lial the true principle is to increase the lax until that business shows signs of death thi is not my view of the subject my idea is that you should leave a margin of profit tor every occupation not load the horse down til you see his back is break ing before you take otf some ofhisbur llell should we necessarily tax spirits nine ty cents per gallon because thai will bring 32,000,000 revenue it is by no means elf-evident tint we ought to exact that ! much revenue from that industry merely because we can do ii 1 think it well worth ' ini|..ii \ , at least whet her we may no ad just taxation upon thai interest more fair ly and equitably as compared with other ; subjects of taxation so as to make the public burdens fall nion equally upon all ! leave yonr committee of ways and means flee to do thi if thev i 111 a few days ago two ladies were cross ing loss creek ala on horseback one of whom carried a baby when towards the middle of the stream the mother became dizzy and dropped the infant into tire water both ladies screamed for assist ) auee but none coming they rode otf to ' the nearest house and go some men out ' l'he baby was found floating a mile below ' the crossing after an exposure of forty minutes with its face upward fast asleep it was well wrapped up and the clothes had k.-pt it from sinking the yankee colony ix burke 1 from the burke blade the yankce colony nine miles above j morganton is slowly but surely assuming j the dignity of a town and although the ; village has not as yet reached either the ! size or importance which its projectors had imped for it still its prospects are very j bright for the near future as its outposts are being manned by the very best senti j nels since our last visit mr g e chase i from maine has purchased a farm on the ! extreme southern border ofthe town site and is now making necessary repairs pre . vious to entering somewhat extensively ; ° ' i into the nursery business mr delbert j barker lias pttrcashed a hundred and fif ! teen acres on the eastern borders of the '■town lie will engage in miscellaneous forming and with his means and exper j ience we shall be sisapptiiuted if in the course iit'a year or two lie does not show our people a fair specimen of the best class of xew england farm and fanning mr barker is a native of hampden coun ty mass where superior farming is the rule mr lames grover also from hampden county mass has purchased a small farm just north of the postoffice where he intends by the thorough know ledge he possesses of changing the color of things to change his acres of poor red clay into that black greasy soil which seems to tell of full granary and gorged fruit and potato bins mr warren lo ver from eastern massachusetts is now ' at the settlement trying to secure a tit ling site for a first-class flouring corn ; and saw-mill to which it is proposed to j aihl a shingle machine tub and pail ! machinery and planer and matcher ! with sundry small saws the erec tion of the machinery which he pro ! puses would be a long step ahead for old burke j monroe kendall from spring ! field mass is also in our county spying ! oul the land with a fair prospect that he iil cast in his lot with the pioneer yankees of bnrke county and thus add nne more to the number of intelligent and i k il 1 lul mechanics which this little settle ment is attracting to itself mr blood is still pushing the work on his new house aud soon the first building for many miles j with anv pretensions to architectural i symmetry and harmony of design and finish will be reared in this village mr elliott in quesl of light and air is clear | ing the acres around his house of the tini ; ber in preparations as we trust for try ! ing the t perimet_t of hay-raising which j bi has been so strenuously urging upon the natives mr marquis also from massachusetts has erected and is occupy ing the i while he builds tiie main part of liis house the claim of boston to be considered as mr cook designates it a great amer ican town being now under considera tion i',ici like the following presented by our neighbor the pilot are certainly pertinent unwelcome though they may l>e three-fourths of all boston's school children are said to be irisli-ainericau and in proportion to its sixe boston has llie largest irish atul irish-american pop ulation of any city in the country the last report of the city registrar shows thai ol the fathers of the 10,773 children bora in the y in 1877 •'.;>'."> were born in american and 3,949 iu ireland of the mothers 2,916 were born in the tinted siaies and j-j!l in ireland there were also born 830 children of british-ameri can parents a large proportion of whom arc claimed as belonging to the irish branch it is further affirmed that the irish in boston have not only more births imi fewer deaths than the americans the direction iu which these facts point is unmistakable the adoption ol the matthews silver resolution in the senate has of course thrown a deep gloom over the new york tribune it says the american seuate has declared ihat it would not be a viola linn ofthe public honor tu pay ihe bonds iu depreciated coin and that is shame enough for the american people for one day wc all know thai the tribune has a sort of syndicate contract with some body to guard the honor of the nation and these things are disheartening the tribune should cheer up the conntry has survived the shame of colfax < takes ames grant babcock belknap simon cameron and the louisiana returning board and may be able to live down the rascality of stanley mathews lt is not worth while for ns all to go in mourning washington post drm mr bobbins of north carolina said dining the debate thai the object of some seemed to be to lind out what was the greatest burden whiskey could stand and then to impose thai amount of tax for his pari he wanted to have a margin for profit vou now tax it ninety cents per gallon and raise from it 852,000,000 washington special to bichmond dispatch n tobacco 40,000,000 are raised five sixths nf the revenue raised comes from tliese sources perhaps i may lind out that there is a hell though i think we have hell enough mi earth without manufacturing one here after ai any rate if there is a hell it i.s a comfort to know that there will be no more winter there were the last words of a disgusted new yorker who commit ted suicide the oilier day tragical death of a state senator news was received in this city yes terday evening of the death of c f voung a prominent citizen of yancey county who with col folk represented the counties of caldwell burke yancy mitchell and mcdowell in the senate of this state in the session ofthe legislature 1870-77 the particulars of his death are very meagre but our information is that during the heavy snow storm which prevailed in that section of the stato a few days ago he was caught out an.l was frozen to death at any rate he was found dead in the snow and there being no marks of violence upon his person it was naturally inferred that he had per ished from the cold he was a leading citizen of his couuty and in fact was among the most popular and influential men of that section of the state charlotte observer mexico open to the colored race the new orleans times has this para graph : it is reported thatthe discontented col ored people who want to be generals and judges and congressmen and who in the belief that their chances for civil fame in this region arc gone have been agita ting emigration to liberia have aband oned the latter happy land and arc now thinking of the flowery vales and silver mountains of mexico ifthey can't hold their own with the anglo-saxon in the race of life they think they could beat the mexican greaser and give him two in the game mexico is said to be the col ored man's paradise it is not only an abolition country but it is a place where social equality is not a mere by word and mockery in fact they practice mixing not only in society but also in matrimony president diaz is himself a much mixed statesman there are two popularities of the free and independent american citizen by which he may be known wherever met whether he is roaming among the effete despotisms of the old world raising stock iii kentucky selling stocks in wall street digging gold in california or harpooning whales in the southern ocean he is always ready to shake hands upon meeting a new acquaintance or an old friend and to pass a series of resolutions on the smallest possible provocation clcv herald tiie little shoes did it a young man who had been reclaimed from the vice of intemperance was called upon to tell how he was led to give up drinking he arose but looked for a moment very confused all he could say was the little shoes they lid it with a thick voice as if his heart was in his throat he kept repeating tliis there was n stare of perplexity on every face and at length some thoughtless young peo ple began to titter tbeman in all his em barrassment heard this sound and rallied at once the light came into his eyes with a flash — he drew himself up and ad dressed the audience the choking went from his throat yes friends he said in a voice that cut its way clear as a deep toned ixdl whatever yon may think of it i've told you the truth ; the little shoes tlid it ! i was a brute and a fool ; strong drink had made me both and starved me into the bargain i suffered ; i deserved to suffer ; but 1 didn't stiller alone no man does who has a wife and child for the woman gets the worst share hut i am no speaker to enlarge on that : i'll stick to the little shoe i saw one night when i wns nil but done for the saloon keeper's child holding out her feet for her father to look at her line new slioes it was a simple thing ; but friends no list civ struck me such a blow ns those lit tle new shoes they kicked reason into mc what business have i to help clothe others with fineries and provide not even coarse clothing for my own but let them go bare said i ; and there out side was my shivering wife and blue chilled child on a bitter cold night i took hold of mv little one with a grip and saw her chilled feet ! men ! fathers ! if the little slioes smote me what must the vet do ? i put them cold as ice to my breast : they pierced me through yes the little feet walked right into my heart and away walked my selfishness i hail a trifle of money left i bought a loafof bread and then a pair of little shoes i never tasted anything but a bit of that bread all the sabbath day and went to work like mad on monday and from that day i spent no more money at tlie public-house that's all i've got to say — it was thk little shoes that hid it without depth of thought or earnest ness of feeling or strength of purpose liv ing an unreal life sacrificing substance to show substituting the fictitious for the natural mistaking a crowd for society finding its chief pleasure in ridicule and exhausting its ingenuity in expedients for killing time fashion is among the last in fluences miller which a human being who respects himself or who comprehends the great end of life would desire to be placed terrible death a man knocked from a railroad bridge by an engine on yesterday a speeial engine left greensboro about 12 o'clock ( for charlotte to arrive here at 2:30 p in jt was con sequently running at lightning speed all the way just before it came to the bridge over little reedy creek five miles this side of concord a man was seen walking across the bridge towards the rapidly approaching engine he contin ued to walk at an ordinary pace till the engine was within fifty yards of him when he turned his back upon it and stood still as if courting death in another instant the engine struck him and knocked him from the track into the water below and he was lost to sight the engineer conld not stop after be discovered fhe intention ofthe man to remain ou the track hence no blame can be attached to him in ad dition to this his time for reaching char lotte before the time for the other train to leave was limited and furthermore he had every reason to believe that the reg ular noon train which had been delayed beyond greensboro was close behind him our informant is tjiiite confident that the man was robert machin formerly a compositor in the concord sun otlice — char observer the paris exposition the executive commitie of the state board of agriculture held a meeting yes terday and perfected arrangements for the exhibition of her products of our state at paris the committee have made se lections ofthe articles to be sent and now most earnestly appeal to every native of onr state who wishes to see her take a foremost place in this world's exhibition to send as soon as possible the best speci • men or specimens of the chosen articles | for exhibit to col l l polk at this city the collection of articles will be taken in charge by the i s government as the state has made no appropriations to de fray expenses the gentlemen of the committee will use their best efforts to make the display of the products of the old north state on this great occasion in every way creditable and worthy the finest most perfect specimens or samples of tiie following are requested to be sent by the owners producers or man ufacturers gold silver copper and iron ores coal mica corundum,barytes,soap stone kaolin marble whetstone grind stones asbestos flexible sandstone woods and marls wheat corn rye oats barley buckwheat rice both upland and low land an in sheaf millet cbufas honey wax sorghum peanuts and their oil dried fruits irish and sweet potatoes preserved fruits brandies whiskies wines leather sumac turpentine rosin shingles staves articles made of cedar sugar cane silk jute flax broom corn grasses wool long moss hominy maple sugar c if our people will put their shoulders to the wheel wc can make such a display as shall serve better than all else to show the outside world our manifold advanta ges and unlimited resources wliich need just such advertising the parsimony of onr legislature in refusing to make an appropriation for the exhibition of our products at the exhibition at philadel phia resulted in the poorest display made by any state in the union let us take warning by these mistakes of the past and show some enterprise and judgment in the future — ral news woman's tree place if i do not at least say that whatever else may lure or demand her woman's true place first and last must be her home i shall be untrue to any one stand ing great conviction women must make more of their homes and make them more io those who belong with them in this day of outward excitement and many out ward attractions the old and sacred in tegrity of home is endangered the homes of to-day are not so dear as those of a past generation oreat change has come over our people amusements multiply and press voung people have taken out a license against their parents parents arc getting rather aft aid of their boys and girls home isn't the little nucleus radi ating joy to each each shedding back on it it is a convenient place to have and the father is the banker and the mother i.s the mistress of laundry women and cooks but the home is gone it is only a part of the outer world which you have roofted over and lighted a lire in which you may make dark with your frown or uncomfortable by your whim once it was wliat if mast be again the heart's holy of holies once no man would desecrate it by deserting it ; once all good impulse sprung hence and all true character grew ; once the hearth at which father and mother sat was holy and dear and if the generations are to get back to old stability of character and firmness of principle and the old unde tiled religion it must be through these homes of which yon 0 women ! are priestess ; it must be by your garnish ing tbem again with forgotten grace re waking gone out liies and sanctifying anew the only place in which a human soul can be surely fitted for the work and warfare of life heaven help us if this desecration of the home gets into another generation t e w ware shut the poor — unquestionably doors are a necessity but sometimes we are almost inclined to call fliem a nuisance what detracts more from the neat ap pearance of bed-room or sitting-room than wide open closet doors giving their con tents continually to view ? for no mat ter how well those contents are arranged or how orderly may be the housewife who superintends them the effect is never pleasant to the beholder and a certain comfortless aspect is sure to be imparted to the room doubtless many of our readers have sighed from very weariness when com pelled to shut the same door or doors every half hour during the day as some times happens where children form part of the family circle at such times what force and truth appears in the old-fashioned rhymed percept for boys and girls which runs thus or nearly thus : — come when you're called do what you're bid : shut the door after you and you'll never be chid how many reprimands how much vexa tion might be saved if everybody servants and grown people as well as children would or conld remember to shut the door after them !" yet why should it be so difficult a duty to perform ? why not remember to shut the closet-door or the room-door as well as the street-door ? above all why if we are often admonished of our neglect do we feel so much tempted to slam in stead of shutting the offending door ? the carolina coast the efforts which senator hansom and representative waddell are making to improve the life-saving service and lessen the dangers of the north carolina coast cannot but commend themselves to the serious consideration of congress cer tainly the loss of life off our coast has been sufficiently great to impel sonic steps in the direction whicli senator ran som's speech ou wednesday indicated and there would seem to be no better time than the present for broaching the subject just after three vessels the hu ron the metropolis and since then the c c overton — have been wrecked iu these treacherous waters it is quite true that the loss of the metropolis was due more to her own condition than to the charac ter of the coast upon which she went to pieces but this coast is undeniably bad anil the facilities for saving life but mea gre hatteras which is nol far distant is the horror of every mariner on the american seas but hatteras is not lhe only dangerous spot off the north caro lina coast and if gen ransom and mr waddell can secure such legislation as will give the whole coast a better ser vice tbey will have done the world a service which can only be measured by the value of human life — charlotte ob server rather uncouth if the fifth avenue combination ever visits wilmington again under its present management it would be well for some one interested in the matter to advise the manager mr daly to leave his new vork manners at home before be starts south and substitute instead something more refined especially when he visits this locality we are led to make tliese remarks from having observed a little piece of rudeness which was exhibited by this xew yorker last night when he ac costed a gentleman who had a lady on each arm as he entered the theatre the gentleman passed in and seated his ladies but returned immediately to demand an explanation of the rude doorkeeper when the man with the xew york manners dis claimed any attention of offering an in sult he was given to understand how ever in plain unvarnished english that such conduct wonld not suit this climate — w'd review 5th the dini-i'.ks — a meeting of a congre gation of this strange sect at hagerstown ind october .?--_!', presented some in teresting features the attendance was large so large that as the preaching which began about ten continued the overflowing hearers had to be accommo dated with extra services in the yard at twelve there was au adjournment to dinner which was served at four tables in the basement admittance was by ticket and the tables seating 0 were filled five times dinner being over at five in the afternoon the communion ser vice was begun tht supper was au or dinary meal before eating whicli there was the washing of feet several of the brethren performed this office followed by others who did the wiping the giv ing of thanks preceded aud followed the serving of the bread and wine between 400 and 500 persons partaking of the ele ments tin ceremonies occupied five hours the meeting then broke up for the night and the next morning after breakfast preaching was resumed until noon the young wife leaned her head upon her husband's shoulder and assailini him with the sweet sorcery of her eyes gently murmured — augustus darling how dull earth would be if life had no sentiment in it ah then you have not forgot evangeline how you nsed to hang your bustle out of the window for me powe£of monosyllables a new boston paper the 11 eights col lecu some remarkable specimens of one j syllable writiug by well-known authors ! tew passages are liuer or more forcible j than the following selections e g this one of dr young's the bell strikes oue we take no note of time save by its loss to give it then a tongue 1 was wise in man or this of shakespeare where constance says thou may'st thou shalt i will not go with thee here i and sorrow sit here is mv throne bid kings come bow to it or where lear says thou kuow'st the first time that we smell tbe air we wawl and cry i will preach to thee mark me when we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools this a eood , block or where richard iii says hood friend thou hast no cause to say so j yet but thou shalt have and creep time ne'er so slow yet it shall come for me to do thee good 1 had a thing to say — but let it go or this from fletcher's purple island a stanza of seventy words all mouosylla i bless except one darkest xew light new love new life hath bred a life that lives bv love and loves by light a love to hint to whom all loves ate wed a light to whom the sun is darkest night eye's light heart's love soul's onlv life he is life soul love heart light eye and all are his he eye light heart love soul he all my joy and bliss the daughter at home do not think that because there pomes to you no great opportunity of performing a wonderful work you will let the thou sand little ones pass you unimproved it is no small thing to be ihe joy ofthe do mestic circle the one whose soft touch and whose gentle fitly spoken words averts disturdance and disagreement con ' ciliates the offended aad makt s alien na tures understand each other it is no small thing to possess tlie happy tact which makes people pleased with them selves and which insensibly urges people to appear at their best the young wo man who is gifted with this grace of touch this swiftness of sympathy and this beau tiful unselfishness may not have a fair face nor a trim figure but she will be en dowed with a dignity more winning than either it appears that victor emmanuel was somewhat superstitious when he arrived in rome on june 3 1874 he manifested a curious fear of passing the first night at his residence in his palace of the qnirinal he expressed his fears to his intimate friends saying that he knew that if he went to sleep that night in the qnirinal he would never awake however he went to the palace that day saluted the crowd from the balcony dined there and after appearing at the royal ball retired at midnight to his own apartments his friends wondered and it was shortly seen that his superstitious feeling had compimed he went home with his friend prince doria and in prince doria's mag nificent home the royal fatalist passed his first night in his capital of rome give him a chance liberty herald dou't act the fool keep cool if your neighbor is in a pinch don't te 1 every body you meet autl if he owes you a debt don't crowd hint to the wall give the man a chance there is no use to get panic struck about these bard times be patient frugal industrious and eco nomical be cautious and don't permit dishonest deceivers to inveigle you into a trap but ifyou know a man to be honest help him so far as you can without jeop ardising your own interests don't get excited and ifyou owe any one a deb go al once and pay it if possible a pleasant place in which to study hu man nature is the xew jersey state pris on an account of the taming process in that institution says there is first the boot-heel gag a very painful instru ment ; second the paddle an instru 1 ment used to beat prisoners on bare flesh i inflict intense suffering third the | stretcher which is equal to the rack of olden times the man's feet are fasten - j ed to the floor ; he is handcuffed and by | a rope drawn up to tin ceiling as tightly | as possible from five to twenty minutes i of this would make any one weaken fourth alcohol is poured on the pri som r's back an set on fire in one case a man was twiet".'t burned in succession so that the hair on his body crackled and he was twice put on the stretcher ; fifth the ! douche which consists of pouring water from a hose on the naked bodies of pris ! oners this creates most agonizing pain and is apt to produce insanity only a lock of golden hair !" the lover smiling sadly said — to-night it forms a halo fair above her head only a lock of golden hair the maiden smiling sweetly aid then laid it on the back qfa chair and went to bed - the capital 1 o remove rust i over the metal witk sweet oil rubbing iii w.n fu-r forty eight hours rub with finely powdered quick-lime a popular clergyman iu england r cently gave a lecture on fools tha tickets of admission were inscribed lec ture on fools admit one there was a large audience a handsome youth being questioned by a rather stylish lady as to his occupation replied that he was an adjuster of move able alphabets he was a printer a h.irrisburg paper woi.t_g_l cor respoudentona ipiestion of etiquette saysi when a gentleman and lady are walking upon the street the lady should walk for side of the gentleman then is a movemt it in kix-kcastle ky against the bast-head whiskey brought in from outside the slate the pledge permits the signer to drink as much as he wants of the pir homemade beverage dry buckwheat flonr if repeatedly ap plied will entirely remove ihe worst grease-spots on carpets or any othei woolen cloth and will answer as well as french chalk for grease-spots on silk a burning chimney when ihe soot has been lighted by a tin in the fireplace cai be extinguished by shut ting all the doors in the room so as to prevent any current of air up the chimney then by throwing a few hand-fulls nf common tine sail upon the lire in the grate or ou the health the fire in the chimney will be immediately extinguished tin philosophy of this is that in the process of burning the salt muriatic-acid gas is evolved which is q prompt extinguisher of tire the supreme courl of georgia has just rendered a decisiou that will doubtless liave the effect of revolutionizing a pleas ant and very prevalent social custom in judge bleckley's npiniou in the case of goodman vs the state we lind the fol lowing eor a man without some itino cent reason or excuse to pat his arm around the neck of another's wife is aq assault and battery the papers are very anxious to pul gov hendricks on the fence as to the silver question and to keep him there bnt much to the sorrow of golden-calf idola ters lie will not get nu the fence but stands on the side ot honesl money and demands thai tho dollar of onr dads shall be placed where it was in 18/3 be fore it was sneakingly set a ide am de preciated by the congressional corrnp tiouists and riugsters dr s 1 l.ussel an infidel of hell couuty texas was lately hauled from his bed at night by a company of men said to be members of a baptisl church carried off to the woods stripped and treated to a hundred lashes with this ad dress thrown in we know you are an hoin . i man and a good physician but wo will tolerate no infidels in bell county so by the help of god we will stop yottv career of infidelity food for cows mr miller of stockton x v au experienced tuck raiser has published a pamphlet in whicli he claim 9 to show by the results of actual experi ments that corn meal is better food for cows than hay he hows that 3 quarts 1 of corn meal will afford a cow as much nti triment as 20 ponnds of hay or as much as an animal v ill eat per day figuring from this basis he shows thai :. cow can be wintered on corn meal at about one half the expense incurred in the use of hay when tie price of corn is titi cents a bushel and thai of hay is 10 a ton mr miller's experiments have been repeated and confirmed by a committee ofexper ienced fanners who report iu fayor of hy plan 117m lhe microscope dentils mould i.s a forest of beautiful trees with the brandies leaves ami fruit butterflies are fully feathered hairs are hollow tubes the surface of nm hotl;c aie covered with scales like a fish a single grain of sand would cover one hundred and fifty of tliese scales and yet a single scale covers live bundled pores through tliese narrow openings perspiratmn forces itself like water through a sieve every drop of stagnant water contain a world of living creatures swimming with as inn-el liberty as whales iu ihe sea each leaf has a colony of insects gtaz ing on it like cows in a meadow i.'o s la bow lost oil city derrick ii fteeins t be the ambition ofallyou wi'.'i to look well when any t_.e c s tie ther day a south side bride heard j ring at th ven diiyr the maid .. out ami she rnshi d up t .- 1 i : s tu ix up • litt before admitting the caller there was a moment of lightning work before the dressing cask quicker than ir takes to tell it a ribbon was fastened at her throat a flower stabbed in !.<»• hair a flash or powder on her l.n . . and she was at the doo nil smiles and blushes the gent in said he had walked from memphis iii'l couldn't remember that he had *■!<'■■j food - : a-i lie left cincir i.ati |