the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n c september 26 1878 no 49 written for tbe watchman , to tiik cricket u'liix-'ei loves nature's wildest moods 1 forest field or fen whoe'er loves peaceful solitudes far from the haunts of meu wlioe'ci enjoys tin rural home's warm fireside's fond delights in iiuiet pondering dusty tones through silent winter nights hull learned sweet chirpcr long ago llion art his chosen friend that t his kfe thy music's rlow a ceasch s charm doth lend ! i so wonder suiierstition comes when round the house no more 8 heard thy voice and wasted crumbs thou seek'st not as befoie the awful silence to construe • into an omen dire ( death or sickness we must rue sj,ic that hapless lire \,. v.diidei "'"•« thy ft m-lcs ceased neath heai tli-rock sill and floor i he ancient rustic's fears increased in mystic days of yore whene'er my wandering footsteps stray to yonder city's dome t eve returning round my way thv welcome back to home i hear thee singing in the grass and by thy silvery btreatris thai purl along the deep morass in evanescent gleams and when my study lamp is lit and slow i dip my pen lion rapid fancies round me hit where thou art chirping then ! sudi time from dickens wizard king in fiction's wide domain hit cricket on the hearth would spring child of his teeming brain and pensive goldsmith mourned along l.pm>rted village street the absence of thy social song where lice trod busy feet u'ii --|\ i-enisi'v cheeks so pale l milton's pencil draw n just one blight gleam would fitful steal — tuy chirpings in the lawn ! win ii i am dead i would not lie in churchyard cold and grim lint in sonic pleasant garden nigh in farm house neal and trim where ill among the joyous llow'rs ate hid the live long day lull gaily thro night's moon-lit bow'rs ; iiiini piiufsi thy gentle lay < out pan ion of inv lonely life i attend lue in my tomb here calm my heaving bosom's strife - there hallow my last home ! e p h sept 1878 fill mooresville mocksville i an1 winston kail road mu i-i-itoi the above is the title j i dl a unil touch narrow guage chattered in i ik secretory of slate iu accordance tn a general railroad law passed by the legislature of north carolina which can in iihiiid iii rattle's revisal under the ik id nl kail roads i'he board of di rectors at their meeting in id in mooresville employed mr moore to survey this road from mooresville to wiuston by way of mocksville on thurs day sept 5th if 1 mistake not mr moore with his assistants began the sur e and has surveyed it to third creek station ou the western n c r r and in now eugaged iu running a second line tn mooresville and if necessary will run tt third line te third creek station and t hence to mocksville and winston there in no doubt but the directors of this road intfol to push it through from moores ville to winston as speedily as it can be ilmie whenever this mad i built it will be ilveiy great advantage to the people of davie rowan and a portion of iredell ami forsythe counties and if it should lie pushed through to danville as i.s con templated it will be a great through freight line from danville to the southern suites the city of charlotte is much interested in seeing this road completed t"i it will increase her trade especially it slu should conclude to down an extra rail ou her road from mooresville to the city nf charlotte so that this road can run lier freight down to them the citizens dong the entire hue arc alive to the im mtitaiice of aiding in the completion of ids road lit those who think this road will be a failure just watch and wait the movements of the directors ou the line of kail road mr isaac harris of mooresville isa team within himself and •>«* in too much interested in it to let it fail davie the connecticut democrats the xtatc convention harmonious ses ioil summation of all the state otji rirs sew ii vicx september 17 the demo c«*tic convention met in music hall this morning every town in the state was represented francis a mordeu of stain d was chosen temporary chairman he id the financial question was iis impor tant nn before the country and the peo ple we expecting such a platform from is convention as would undo the tinau a|dlegislation of the last sixteen years ue various committees were appoint and mr mordeu chosen permanent president with a vice president from each nntorial district and a secretary from u'1 uuty the committee onresolu s are in favor of soft money senator eaton and ,\. k hun are uot in the con w|ltl'"i and il is reported that they left 0 in disgust when they ascertained e complexion of the committee ou reso """">• the uhl state ticket e 1 hub i"1 of hartford for governor francis 11 mi of new london for lieuten jjj veniorn dwight morris of bridge l/'^'j'^'y of state edwin a huck lfi/l t l 1 ''"' treasurer and chas c ' d „. middletown for comptroller , "* re-nominated bv acclamation the t iiiiiaiiuu of francis h ooa.il foi lieu ,.,■■'" nvrriior was read and accepted , j1'1 ui and of derby was nominated j ant iovernor bv acclamation ' as accepted the nomination j i last wager of battel on the 26th of may 1817 a beautiful young woman named mary ashford in the bloom of her youth being but twen ty years of age went to dance at a village called sutton coldtield near erdington in warwickshire it was a village gath ering held by a miscellaneous party at the tyburn tree tavern cake and ale were provided in plenty : and the swains of the neighborhood there collected by degrees became boisterous and riotous the girl there met a farmer's son named abraham thornton who resided in the immediate vicinity and with whom she danced du ring the evening she did not leave the gay scene uutil a late hour saying she would pass the night nt her grandfather's house which was handier to reach than her own home ; and on leaving she was escorted by abraham thornton as far as a style in the vicinity of the village where the two were seen talking together it was the last time the poor girl was seen alive for the next morning she was fouud dead in a pit of water and there were evidences on her body that showed her death to have been caused by another leneral suspicion pointed to thornton aud this became so intensified that he was arrested and tried for the mnrder at the ensuing warwick assizes in august fol lowing there was powerful circumstan tial evidence adduced against him : there were marks ofa struggle at tlie supposed place of the murder and the prisoner's boots fitted the imprints found on that spot ; and other evidence was given which formed a strong chain encircling him with the guilty crime he however set up in defence an alibi which was so well sup ported that it obtained for him a v edict of not guilty so great was the feeling of indignation and surprise at his obtaining an uccquit iil that i new trial was asked for under the advice of an acute lawyer in the neigh borhood the brother ofthe murdered girl and her next of kin william ashford at once entered au appeal against the ver dict abraham thornton was again ar rested and sent to london in november following to be tried before lord ellen borough and the full court of king l.ciich the whole nffilir was noised about uud great excitement prevailed for an appeal of murder was an uncom mon ca.se the lawyers even interested themselves and discussed the c;i£e in its legal bearings in due course abraham thornton ap peared before the full court of king's beach in the custody of the shirilf by whom he was handed over under the or der of the court to the governor of the marshalsea prison all formal prelimi naries were got through and the prisoner was called upon to plead he was effi ciently and ably defended by counsel and instead ofa regular and usual defence by arguments evidence and witnesses the prisoner boldly defied all common forms of procedure he pleaded not guilty ; and i am ready to defend the same by my body he challenged his accuser to single combat to decide his innocence or guilt by the ancient custom ofthe wager of battel he aeonipaiiicd his plea by the old form of taking off a glove a horse glove handed him by the coun sel and throwing it down on the floor of the court as a wager william ashford a delicate looking young man was in court actually came i'm ward to accept the challenge by pick ing up tlie glove when he was restrained by tliose about him the prisoner's plea and challenge came upon all concerned in the prosecution with so much surprise and indeed upon the court also that the counsel for the prosecution moved for time to counterplead which was granted with what surprise and amazement did the assembly and indeed the nation ask whether such an obsolete mode of trial could be insisted on by a prisoner law yers with infinite trouble searched through the musty ancieilt records in order to discus the question authoritatively ; and all wondered at such au old right being so suddenly unearthed from the depths of ancient law ! in due time the prosecutor counter pleaded setting forth the whole facts and fiirthcrncirciinistaiiees which had come to light tending to fix the prisoner with his guilt so as take away the right to wage battel bat after a further adjournment the prisoner delivered the replication setting forth his alibi and insisting on his ancient right the prosecution de murred that the replication was bad in law ; and the demurrer came on to be heard in dim course the case was learn edly and ably argued for the prosecution all the ancient writers were cited in sup port of the argument of the prosecution that in der such a set of circumstances as set out the prisoner could not claim a wager of battel ( mi the other side for the prisoner it was just as learnedly argued that lie could the arguments of the case mere not concluded until after four sepa rate sittings of the court and on april lb 1h1h after much deep research iutothe authorities and consideration thereof the court unanimously gave judgment for the prisoner in favor of the ancient right of wager of battel which he claimed ; lord elleiiborough lord chief justice saying the general law of the laud is ju favor of the wager of battel ; and it is our duty to pronounce the law as it is and not as we may wish it to be whatever preju dice therefore may justly exist agaiust this mode of trial still as it is the law of the land the court must pronounce judg ment for it the appellee william asl|ford through his counsel informed the court that he did not now feel him self justified in accepting the challenge ; and the prisoner was thereupon discharg \ ed from custody he afterwards married ! and left this country for america where ■ he died in obscurity this case and the i elaborate arguments are fully reported in the first volume of i.arnewall aud alder : son's reports this was the last case of wager of bat tel ; for such was the wonder and regret at the judgment of the court such was f the popular excitement aroused by the case and the law as propounded by the i judges that in the next session of parlia ■ ment an act was passed liy which wager j of battel appeal of murder and other in ] congruous privileges were abolished — new york observer the utility of small things the poet editor of ihe augusta consti tutionalists has some excellent remarks upon the above topic he says among other things : in america everything is wasted in europe everything is saved nothing is too mean to be utilized what the anier can throws away the frenchman for in stance makes a profit of it he says they actually utilize empty sar dine boxes a thing that would never oc cur to an american we copy the follow ing suggestive and useful paragraph : too many of our people aro waslefiil in small things the great art of econo my is unknown to all but the foreign ele ments in our midst they aro growing rich from paltry beginnings 1-ecause they have been educated to save whero au american has been taught to destroy dis card or squander great tribulation will come to our people greater than any they have hitherto known in consequence of their thiftless habits willful wasle makes woful want let americans take a lesson from the foreigner within and without their gates or else prepare for a dismal future in the loss of character happiness comfort and partrimony no man need be stingy or avaricious those are sins as well ns the extremes of improvidence hut it i.s incumbent on all men who are wise in their generation to practice pru dence and frugality in small as well as great matters these be wise words we are all fat too apt to disregard small things we are often penny wise and pound'foolish we forget too the lesson of the old axiom that take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves for tunes colossal rothschild fortunes — are made up of pennies the sea is made up of drops of water the earth itself of parti cles of dirt indeed little things play a most important part in all that concerns us the guano islands were formed by the gradual deposits of birds one by one the wealth of individuals and of nations arises in gradual accumulation the con stant unceasing deposits it may be of but one cent at a time old or sam john son thought so highly of the practice of frugality that he somewhere has said that it may be termed the daughter of pru dence the sister of temperance and the parent of liberty as suggested in the above extract the practice of economy the indulgence ofa saving utilizing habit need not involve stinginess or uvaricious ness not at all a man may utilize small things and economize at every tutu and yet be a generous liberal kind ly soul frugality and liberality should go hand in hand for they are sisters born william penn said that the first without the last begets covetousness which is a great sin and as mean as it is sinful while the last without the first begets prodigality which like a finger-board points to shabby clothes lean diet and the poor house we close with an anecdote au agent representing a benevolent cause was about to enter a store as he approached the door he heard the mer chant soundly berating the clerk for his wastefulness in sweeping out with trash a small half-sheet of inferior wrapping pa per at this the agent passed en thin'c ing it useless to trouble such a close-fisted old fellow with any application in behalf of the cause he represented afterwards thinking that he had not done his duty he retraced his steps aud entering the store interviewed the merchant in his counting room laid before him the cause and re ceived fifty dollars as a donation he was very much astonished of course and theu told the merchant how he the agent had first passed by and why to this the fru gal man of business said : my dear sir it i.s by saving the little things that i am able to day to give your cause fifty dol lars tishkekroshhasiiavah on the 27th of this month the hebrew nation through out the would will celebrate the festival of rosh hashanah or the new year it is the beginning of the month tishri first of the jewish eivil year the festival is termed yom horushue a day for blow ing the trumpets and the first day is according to tradition the anniversary of the creation of the world wilmington review after death what t the ret randolph s foster of bos ton delivered at fair port new york a few days ago his second lecture entitled beyond the grave to an immense and greatly interested audience he spoke of the effect upon the soul of the destruction ofthe body at death and said : sudden ly the human machine stands still what became of the man t w'e have no per sonal testimony we have seen no man who has gone beyond the grave if we ; take the bible away our belief in a future life rests upon an insecure foundation i find myself a inau i think i feel i hare emotions and feelings i will i am i know all this i think and feel that i am , to live forever god has put this idea into me nnd i will hold to it until he takes it from me he made me and i cannot remake myself or put myself out of existence the proof is that what hus beeu created abides remains forever there is no proof that auy created thing has ever been abolished or destroyed no creature can destroy itself it is true that forms perish but forms are not things they change but the substance re mains it is said that as animals perish so may men perish but i deny it the substance of the body is not destroyed only tlie form the soul of a man is a pure and simple substanee hence it cannot ' perish an anatomist can dissect the j body but no anatomist can dissect the soul evidence that man was ever anni j diluted i.s challenged from all men a j human soul is a spiritual essence that can i think or will it isa growing something j it unfolds its power and in this there is ' no limit he then sketched the growth ofthe human soul from babyhood to the prime of manhood and said there was no limit to development which would go on forever he said would iod be so prodigal and improvident as to destroy the grandest of all the creatures he hits made the human soul ? again immor tality was inferred because man has au instinct which teaches it god created that instinct and he will imt mock it if man is not immortal he may indict the throne of the universe aud impeach the almighty cod of heaven and upon the grounds of justice but god is just his vindication is complete he can do a better thing by those who love iiini than ' he does for them in this life he can hereafter put crowns of glory on their heads and he will do it — there is no evidence that death is an everlasting sleep but there is evidence not enough not fully satisfying that there is life beyond the grave macallister's wonderful box a mysterious nightly event on broadway the most wonderful feat performed by macallister at the globe theatre i.s the pandora mystery of wliich he claims the origination and which ou ordinary prin ciples of analysis is really a baffling ex periment in legerdemain a l*ox con structed of common flooring is placed upon a couide of carpenter's dog's the box is about four feet high by three feet in length and two and a half in breadth the strips of flooring are securely nailed to upright standards one in each corner the angles are also securely strapped at intervals with iron straps screwed firmly to the timber both at the sides and at the bottom the lid is constructed of the same material as the box has a pair of heavy strap hinges and is fastened by a hasp and staple the latter receiving a powerful padlock two carpenters were last night called upon the stage as a spe cial committee to examine the receptacle - and report whether there was any false bottom or any mode of opening it except by unlocking it and lifting the lid after a full inspection during which the box was turned over sounded pulled about and tested in every possible manner known to the trade the committee pro nounced it a strongly made packing-box of the ordinary pattern oue of them at request of macallister then closed the box affixed the padlock turned the key aud put the latter iu his pocket as further precaution lie tied up the padlock in such a manner that it was impossible to get at the keyhole the piano played slowly and a screen moved between the audience and the box but not so as to conceal it ' entirely from view or to admit of sub stitution the magician passed behind j the screen as noiselessly as a cat in less i than 10 seconds the screen was withdrawn and the committee was requested to ex amine the box meanwhile the magician , had mysteriously vanished they repor | ted that the lock had not been tampered i with unlocked it aud lifted the lid when i ' ' ' i up leaped the mysterious magician like i jack in the famous toy or the goblin in ! the arabian legend the question was how he got in there the next procedure was to lock the magician in the bex with the same careful and exact attention to detail that has been previously observed music trickled from the keys of an unseen piano and tlie green screen almost as thin as gauze slid slowly into place and remained for about 20 seconds not the slightest sound was heard behind the l screen ; the dropping of a pin could have ' disturbed the silence of that breathless 20 seconds the screen was withdrawn and revealed the magician sitting upon tbe lid of the box the lock had not been tampered with or disturbed nor had the assistant beon out of view efthe au dience for a single instant the trick ; was the cause of a great deal of speeula , tion among the amateurs who were pres ent ivcic york times the death damp in memphis it chokes a city like a dead man's grasp the clammy breath growing more stiffling every day men falling by hundreds note and the prospects terrible beyond conception from the memphis avalanche another black leaf turned another chapter iu our book of misery turned as castaways on desert isle each day for form and occupation's sake enter up in their log the monotonous record of the drea ry day so we sit down to our log book to night as the days of their lonely exile lengthen into weeks and months and the new day brings naught but the old hopes the old longing and miseries as the hand shades the eyes from the setting sun for a last long sweeping glance over the nndot ted waste of waters • as the seamen in the fire light then sits dowu to write the same record of disappointment nothing changed only hope grown weaker it can not but be a heavy weary task so we prisoners here many of us doomed aud but awaiting the executioner turn to this daily duty with sad sad hearts outside the soft moonlight plays upon the street and wall and breaks iu shimmering bright ness o'er the slate roof above the si lence of the street is exaggerated as the trees throw their weird shadow and the awnings darken the pavement as the beautiful babe so winning that death even could not have the heart to mar the flower wliich he plucked lies as though twere sweetly sleeping so memphis su peinaturally quiet with the softest and most beautiful light iioodiug her streets seems but sleeping ouly sleeping a noise and a heavy wagon laden with cof fins lumbers up and goes rumbling by that wagon breaks the spell the eyes are shaded by tlie hand wliich shuts the moonlight lio i lie eye aim the bright fancy from tile heart i iir mgh tiie mind in swift panorama thi ho rid scene ofthe past day moves swiftly we shudder and walking to the window again gaze upon j the moonlight and its shadows yes tht city still seems to bo sleeping but it is the sleep of death ! the day's record i horrible the few new cases reported are not a tithe of those which occurred — negroes will not work will not leave town but lie about and draw rations and then get sick and become a burden intol erable the fields are wiiite with cotton but uot a foot will they move they give their sick no care and seem to thiuk they must be fed iu idleness and nursed with the greatest care mr langstaff presi dent of the howards was iu despair i can get no food for my nurses our men are falling every day and if we do not drive these lazy people out of town not one of us will be left and he expressed the awful truth not overdrawn the food remains and the fever feeds the nurses in two more days cannot attend one half the sick they must die like sheep and rot where they die if some thing is not done that we cannot advise or see any way of accomplishing now we are doomed surely truly unmistak ably doomed the cold shoulder has been turned on many a friend during the night of distress self-preservation has blotted out all other emotions talking a hole in a board at the smithsonian institute tlie other day edison saw a phonaiitograpb ma chine used for delineating graphically the form of the sound waves and examining it curiously a moment he remarked to a friend : wise men these were not to see that they could put a hard point aud a piece of tinfoil iu front ot it and there was the phonograph he was asked by a southern senator if he could iuvent a machine to pick cotton and replied that he thought so later on the same day a person watching the operations of the phonograph said : edison i wouder if you couldn't talk a hole through a board t of course i could was the reply and he took a slip of paper and rapidly stratch d the point of the phonograph iu connec tion with a small ratchet wheel wliich in its turn by proper cogs connected with a gimlet thus every vibration of the mem brane of the phonograph instead of pro pelling the point against the tinfoil would point the ratchet wheel forward and run the gimlet and a man would actually be able to talk a hole through a pine board j there is a lady iu henrico county vir ginia aged 4(i who is the mot her of twen ty-live children this is on the authori of the richmond whig the washington i post has beeu interviewing mrs austin a union woman from tennessee she is 54 and has given birth to forty-four children and is very proud of it she has a sister 4'd years old who has had twenty-six children her name is mrs ; carry kiuny her husband's sist«-r has • had forty-one ten of whom are twin ' so according to this three mothers have ' had one hundred and twelve children ' next the honey-moon eclipsed when you are looking on me you are looking dowu ou a heart-broken woman said eliza powers as she wiped her eyes before the desk they come here most every day he replied i was married four weeks ago she sighed softly as she scratched her nose i was living as cozy as a duck up 0u chei.e street when powers first found me he said he was struck with my beauty was he crazy f softly inquired his honor after the boys got through laugh ing no sir he was a nice man or se 1 thought then he could quote off the nicest poetry you ever heard he could tell you how long george washington was president which is the biggest city in the world when old john brown was killed and lots of other things and he called me his angel sir and he was al ways talkiug about my raving locks and chestnut eyes hurry up-come to the family fight as soon as you can warned tl^e court as she paused for breath can't i tell what i wore when we went to be married no iiiii'm the law doesn't know as you wore anything j well i did sir d'ye s'pose i'd be married without clothes and good clothes too well as i was saying we'd been married three days when i hit him a slap on the ear aud he gave me a cuff on the mouth any more f yes sir but it was his fault he called me names and he objected when i teok a little sip to drown my sorrow and he was mad when i wouldn't draw my seven dollars out of the bauk and let him invest it for me the other day he left me we had a row sir and because i backed him into a woodbox and jamed his head agin a rail he flew to camilla i'm left here with me sorrow this dark day that i mav die to-morrow i sliall pray pooh !" oh you may make light of this ach ; ing heart sir but i'll soon be under the j sod you'll soon get the red color out of ; your face your hands washed your hair comlted and a job for sixty days lie re plied if you send me up i'll choke meself to death with a string that is nothing to me mrs johnson if i lend a man my snow-shovel and he breaks his back by falling over it the law can't hold me io iu and sit down there's a pan of snow apples a dime nov el and a good tire in there • rant and lee in the septemlier number ofthe south ern historical society papers a writer after giving the federal official report of the strength of grant's artnv savs : so that general grant crossed the l.apidau with 141 h>0 men and had as a reserve upon whicli he could draw an available force of 137,672 making a grand total of 273,832 his own official report shows that nearly the whole of his force was actually engaged in his and butler's operations or in hunter's expedition which latter general lee was compelled to meet by heavy detachments from his own army to meet lliis mighty host general lee had on the l.apidau less than 50,000 men and in his whole depart ment of northern virginia which inclu ded the garrison around richmond and the troops in the valley his field return for the last of april lwil shows only 52,626 present for duty the simple truth is that on that great campaign lee foiled grant in every move he made defeated him in every battle they fought and so completely crushed him in that last trial of strength at cold harbor that his men refused to attack again and his brave army shaken in its structure its valor quenched in blood and thousands of its ablest officers killed or wounded was the army of the poto mac no more swinton and the gov ernment at washington would have been ready to give up the struggle if its fur ther prosecution had depended alone on the great butcher grant says he lost in this campaign from the wilderness to cold harbor od.-xjo men but swinton puts his loss at over i0,000 there is talk of sending governor hampton to the united states senate if the democrats should secure a majority ia the south carolina legislature we hope it will not lie done as governor hampton can do his state ten times more good as governor at columbia thau he can as senntoi at washington it would be a great injury to the state to remove governor hampton to washington at least for a few years to come — charlotte democrat hayes seems to have recovered his con fidence in the american people at all events he travels alioiit without the least apparent fear of his life despite the fact that his chosen protector from assassin - tion maxwell has been ruthfi-s*lj torn from his side and lodged in the peniten tiary the new silver dollar order the recent order of the secretary ofthe treasury to the united states trea-uivr directing him to exchange standard silver dollars for greenbacks on nod after sep temlier it is regarded at tho treasury department as a practical resumption ef specie pay mints more sweeping iq jts effect than the resumption act taking ef fect next january the last named law provides for resumption in bums of tifi dollars and its multiple at sut trensui ies whereas the letter ofthe secretary ot the treasury f last saturday makes no limit as to amount and prescribes no particulai place except the several sub treasuries where exchange of silver for greenbacks is to be made it is thought that the effect of the new order will be to wholly obliherate tlm small remaining premium on gold thus making paper silver and gold dollars of equal value as circulating mediums it is not thought that the order will place more of the silver dollars in circulation importers having customs duties to pay will take their greenbacks to obtain sil ver for them at one window and then ex change silver dollars for silver certificates at another window this practically makes greenbacks equal with gold and silver for payment of customs it is uot thought any amount of silver worthy of consideration will be taken from the treasury because for the purposes of commerce the greenback is preferable and the new ones anil twos may now be had at the treasury in any aniouut — baltimore sun female duel a good deal has lately been heard of the progress of female emancipation iu russia but it is some what ofa novelty to find the russian la dies figuring in the character of duelists as was the case not long since with two belles of petigorsk a well-known fashion able resort on the northern slope of the caucasus a dispute arose between the rival beauties springing out ofthe inten tions paid to each in turn by a handsome young cavalry officer quartered in the neighborhood the quarrel ran so high that one of the amazons at length dis patched her maid to the other with a for mal challenge which was instantly ac cepted the belligerents met without seconds in a lonely place outside tin town each armed with a brace of loaded pistols before however tiny lad even taken their respective positions the trembling ofthe one lady's hand caused her pistol to explode prematurely sending a bullet through the dress of the other who shriek ed and fell down in a swoon the assail ant frightened on of her wits bung away her weapon and rushed to raise the supposed corpse but her ungrateful an tagonist recovering her sensi - as sudden ly as she had lost them hitched her by the imi with one hand while boxing her ears with the other in the iimst energetic style the firing having now ceased the battle proceeded hand to hand locks of hair ribbons and shreds of clothing hew in every direction and but for the timely advent of three or four policemen the af fray might have ended like the somewhat similar combat ofthe kilkenny cats the military lothario's only remark on hear ing the story was it's lucky the look to claw ing each oilier instead of inc norlh carolina history do the schools and colleges in the state teach any north carolina history ? wc fear not much we hope more atten tion will hereafter be paid tow anls in forming children in our schools some thing about the history and resources ol their own state who will move in tne matter ? we have heretofore though i a good deal on the subject and our attention was re called to it by seeing the announcement that ii history of south carolina has been prepared for the schools of that state that is right ami north carolinians should also have a history taught in their schools the principal of the charlotte institute for youug i_ad.es told ns that he was ready to introduce such a study in his school if the neces-sary book could be obtained we ask the eo-operat ion of the press the teachers and the people of the state generally in iln matter char lotte democrat du aslht.ys invention reports reach ns through reliable ehai nels that the fruit aud tobacco diyin a p ratas of oir countryman dr dai iei astmry whi_.h is now on exhibition al danville va has created a gnat furor among the tobacco dealers of that i ivei city and the weed producers of the sur rounding country it work in drying tobacco is pronounced almost phenome nal tikh are in di'ivlle foil t niih i machine used for drying t bact and this is pronounced by all who havi - i h it incomparably superior t > any of tbem in the manner in which it do > its wt»i k and iu th time ecu tuned it excelled the quickest of tlie others by 14 lours a barn ot tobacco dried by this process soiil readily at 1.00 per pound whereas hi y • ers said tlint dried by any n'hei system it wo 1 i not ha i im a ided nine than 111 cents til li-lief is gcuci.ll itiiiollg th ■ -■• who have m-i-ji th ippm ; i i asb iry that he has a i.miiii :.. it w'v very much hope that u'l-e pi ni i-veiit may im such as to jiinrify iiii '■• li - charlotte observer