Carolina Watchman

              isinin»i i 1 ii rl iloljri 1 1 i til jsi til vol mi.-tnlkd serie salisbury n c november 24 lcstl no 10 whole no 100 l'anttna luatcijman i-i nl.islll.li weekly bt j j bruner editor and proprietor rat fix ol sl biiiii'iion osi v vil'ie in a.tvanee 2-54 si ■• " l5 ddress 10.00 1 if ilistuq ui 1,00 -,, ' ; '•"• ---. l lie charged off per ceut ■ raf s • a i irders « ill of publish j m . ites will otlier advertise • i i i es nver six lines cnarged iliellts contract rates r "-" 5 x r - ir r s ! g ! * r i h spa 2 e : 2 ! s 25(1 j?:j7ti 8500 87 50 12 00 ; h ti 2a - 50 12 00 2<',00 fi in i hu l iii is 11(1 jo 11(1 js res s 01)1100 1.1 mt 2."i 00 3:1.50 \ column i.s ""•-, i "" :{" mi ■"• hi i(m j colun . 25 nn 45 00 45 m 85 00 100,00 a«b»i-mi«3«wr i fill s vnu itoilis of li ver tlgm nn ii — -"-—— • 5 i jj complaint are uneasiness | iszmmoxvs'j land pain in the side fi fsi.iut iimes the pain is in 11 z^^r^^m*n l''u r-hou iler mnl is mis lieuiualisni the stomach is affected with i f appetite and sickness bowels in : costive sometimes alternating with lax i r_-^imv^*«.»r l 1"';"1 is tro,ll,le | iwith pain and dull hea xizv23r i jjvy sensation considera ■ fchie ii iss "!' memory ae ***• * ' "" v^-j jei'iniiriiiieil with painful sensation t having left undone something which ought in have been dune often complaining of weakness debility and low spirits sometimes nianv of the above sym torus attend the disease and at other tines very few of them but the liver i generally the organ most involved — t un the liver with dr simmons liter regulator a preparation roots ami herbs warranted to be strictly vegetable ami can do no injury to any one li has been used by hundreds and known fur the fi-i •*<' years as one of the must reliable etli i.i..ti and haramlo preparations ever of fered to the suffering it taken regularly and persist ntly i i sure t cure ul : l"^t.i idysjiepsia headache || sjatindice,costiveness,sick i regulator i llieadache chronic diarr i hiea,affectionsoflheblad wn™.it'i<t eamp dysentery af fections of the kidneys nervousness chills dis t a - of the skin impurity f the blood melan choly or ilepn imi of spirits heartburn colic • a i'ii iii the bowels pain in the head fever tgd ague ilinpsv boils pain iu the back ixrc i'i i.tre.l only by j ii zi al 1.1 n & co druggists macon ( la price 1 ; bv mail 125 kor sale by t f klitttza co reb24 ly salisbury n c north carolina t in tbe superior uow n cm n rv j coin joshua miller administrator of 3 w mcxeely and man meneely s plaintiffs ) summons and i'eti aifain.lt ti.'ii to sell lautl for win li mcxeely . as.-.-ts i \ r.it h me r ias aee f ilier i i it appearing to the sati.-f.te ill lhat win 15 mcxeely hid " ifly alias ae.-uith corriher i •■ ■• a f the state of north i . i ;■- therefore ordered that publi cation lie inaib in tbe carolina watchman a newspaper published in salisbury n 0 for six «..„* siu-cfr*stavi-ly requiring said defendants t appear ai the office ofthe nf the superior court for the county ti rowan at the court house in salisbury mi friday the 1st day of decerning uext and answei the ce uplaiui ofl .■ plaiutifls or the case tt ill he li.ai tl ex parte witness a judson mason clerk ofthe superior court of said county at riie in salisbury the kith day of october v d 1-71 a jl'dson mason cl rl nj rotean superior court north carolina r caldwell county j superior court a hise conrad hise mary hi«e tin unas fiucinuoti ami wife mahala henry chesti r aud wife caery against marvil hise elisabeth kmis leonard ktinis and mary iannis infants under the age "!' twenty-one years by their guardian j p • only elisha hise and wife mahala ein«*iiu hise lames hise millvann ilis infants under the age oi tweiity-oiie years by their guardian ad ittum j 1 couly in tlas case it is ordered tliat publicat on be made lu tin carolina watchman a newspaper publish j iu tbe own of salis bury for six we.-ks notifying marvil hise a uou-resideut defendant that be appear at the sup ri.ir court clerk's office iu leuoir caldwell county within that time ami answer the fi'tnplaiiit of tbe plaiutiff or judgment will be i.i ki-u pro confesso g to him witness tt il wakefield clerk of our sad t\iurt at ii,-e in leuoir tui 11th day . f sept a p 1871 r tt wakefield c 6 c aatd ! mu ! buy done except th bretn brown & co axe which is mad with extra heavy poll and warranted for thirty 30 days bbem brown & co importer and wholesale hardware deal ers charlotte n c nov 7th 187j s:'2t land deeds trustee deeds commissioner's deeds sheriff's deeds chattle mortgages c for sale at this otliee tiie i j watchman office is well supplied with j a large and elegant assortment of plain fancy i pictorial or 1 ■ cut illustrations c suitable for all k nils of printing also finer anil more ornamental types for i business & professional cjkhb3 * a,ik-m *,* is 4d visting party ami weil il ing cards ; college and school i\fes|i$kw&ta jaii tfmf mm ii on ma win ilis iiiu w u i — circulars uf all kinds pamphlets tobacco notices and labels for all purposes ; fall pinks j ! for clerks magistrates and solicitors ; ! or anything else required in the printing line the carolina tllatcljman as a newspaper is a candidate for public favor its circulation is good and it.s standing and patronage improving it is one of the best advertising mediums in the state and offers its facilities on as liberal terms as any land for sale ! acout 1c2 acres seven miles from salisbury on the wilkesboro road adjoining benj howard jos mingus and others part nf it second creek bottom ti-rms one-fourth cash balance one two and three years credit enquire of inn miller who lives nn the premises or of ii barringer agent charlotte n c aug 2 71 — 2m november the year grows old summer's wild crown of ruses lias fallen and failed in the woodland ways on all i!k earth a tranquil light reposes through the still dreamy days the dew lies heavy in the early morn on urass and mosses sparkling crystal fair ami shining th rends of gossamer are borne floating upon ihu air across the leaf-strown lanes from bough to hough like tissue woven in a fairy loom ; and crimson berried bryony garlands glow through lhe hat-tangled gloom llie woods are still hut fur the sudden fall oi eiipless attorns dropping to the ground or rabbit plunging through tlie fern steins tail j half startled by the sound and from the garden lawn comes soft and char the robin's warble from the leafless spray the low sweet angelus of the dying yenr passing in light away fax y stiltirday s sowed away i was mice a third mate of a water nynqi/i a lim clipper ship engaged in the australian trade one autumn she was discharging a general cargo ai the railway i pier wiiiiainsiiiw n port phillip and vay j duty elm liy consisted iu keeping a watch ful eye upon the stevedores at work in the hold for they were terrible fellows for broaching cargo whenever ihey get a chance and the quantifies of wine beer and spirits on boaid offered theiu many temptations notwithstanding my vigilance casks and cases were constantly sent on board void of contents and i was repeatedly censured by the chiel officer for not keep ins a sharper look out this galled me much for 1 was confident the gang then a work were not the depredators tis 1 had st en several bottled-ale casks dragged empty from the pi ces where ihey had been slowed and 1 knew that their de pletion were owing to some oilier agency than the one suspected at last 1 received a hint . froiulhe cook that there was always plenty of grog knock ing about in the forcastle ; so 1 resolved to sneak below after the batches had been closed at sunset aud endeavor to catch some of the crew in flagrante delicto 1 told the iiist mate the suspicious i entertained and he considered a*y pro ject a good one so shortly after liigbt tall he lowered ine down the hatchway the night was cloudy and s oruiy occasional quails of wind and rain drown ing every sound on deck but in the spa cious lower bi all was dark and silent as the grave i groped my way forward for some distance clambering ou hands knees over chests bales and boxes until at last 1 found my progress irapiled by several huge cases ot machinery which barred up the passage from one hatchway to the other on the starboard side on the port side and amidships small cases of wane were stowed and as 1 could easily lift tin m 1 commenced removing the top layer and crawling ahead tis i did i so as a lamp would have betrayed my presence to thieves 1 did not carry oue but i had a few dutches in my vest pock et and i occasionally lighted one when i lost my way among the labyrinth of goods at last ou removing a goods'z'-d baled i found an empty space before ine an.l concluding i bad arrived at lhe initio hatchway whence all the cargo had been removed i faced abou and began lower ing myself by my bands and feet io the kelson but a case 1 grasped gave way and 1 was suddenly precipitated to the plauk flouring the package failing upon mv legs and holding me down w ith its wen-lit wliich was considerable 1 tried to rise bui the effort was futile and the pain in crushed limbs was excrutiatiug the air was hot and stilling and a peculiar sick ening odor hung upon it after fumbling in my pocket for a match 1 struck the last oue 1 had against tin iron baud of the ease directly it iir uited a sheet of whiten nne flitted around aaii in its pah wierd light 1 saw a ghast ly skeleton crouclu d in close proximity to where i lay 1 uttered a cry of horror for it was no chimera 1 waa really in the t mb of one who had once been mortal and the flame wliich hu illumined tlie dark cavity where 1 was had been caused by the noxious gases generated in the de caying body ot the unfortunate man who must have been immured in a living sep ulchre in a frenzy of terror i uttered wild screams for help but only the echoes of my voice answered aud no oilier sound broke through the dread stillness save the hurrying rush of many feet as swarms ot rats fled over and away from me huge drops of sweat welled up and stood in dewy beads upon nty brow yet a chill sensation shook every nerve and muscle iii my body 1 could see nothing in lhe intense darkness but as it lured by fascination 1 glanced in the direc tion of the ghastly figure until my eyes were almost out of their sockets i fan ciid 1 could ee lhe long honv arm of the skeleton thrust itself forth to grasp mie the fli ashless face he hollow temples seemed clear to my sight and the white rows of teeth seemed to mock and grin at me in my despair i was a youngster and i could bear the horrible phantasy no longer ray over strained nerves re lived and i swooned how long i remained unconscious 1 cannot tell but when my senses re turned i heard a noise a short distance ahead of where i lay and saw a ray of yellow light gleam through the interstices nf some loosely stowed packages on my right then lhe sound uf a man's voice fell up.in my ear and by tin tones of it i knew that a sailor named carsrairs was iu the vicinity of where i lay " it's a good thing for us the mate thinks it's the lumpers as broaches this cargo or we'd never get a d.op of this good liquor 1 say rill can'l we smuggle ofl enough to last the voyage home :" i heard him say " cai stairs !" i holloed in a faint voice that sounded strangely unnatural even to myself " help ! i'm jammed up in here 1 ik aid a crash of glass as if a bottle had been let fall bill bill did you hear that half shrieked the terror stricken sailor " tis sum mat ouiiat'ial anyhow let's get out o this joe i knew no good would ever come of this way of doing business replied his companion 1 holloed again louder and more dis tinctly for mercy's sake don't leave me here lo dii |" i cried that's the third mate's voice for sure said carslairs " what's he arter d wn in re ? spying on ns i s'pos . — it lie's gotten hurt it's best we should go and in ip him ; he's not a bad sort and perhaps won't split on us flinging cases and bales aside they advanced quickly towards me guided by mv voice as i repea'edly haded them at last only one case stood between them and ine they rolled it away and grasped lhe one beneath which i lay " are you much hurt sir j asked tar stairs ** i can scarcely tell i replied as ihey lifted me up then i pointed iu the direction ofihe skeleton look there said " mercy mercy ! ' cried the sailor bis stalwart form trembling all over as his gaze fell upon the ghastly figure which the glare of the lamp revealed to us in all its repnlsivetiess " tis some poor fel low who's stowed himself away tor the passage be added when the first agony of surprise had passed away 1 was sorely bruised but no bones were broken the sailors assisted me along until i got under the main hatchway ; then they went up on deck via the fore castle and told tbe mate they thought some one was down the bold he think ing i had made a capture opened the hatch and i was hoisted more dead than alive from the hold beneath 1 explained all to the mate except the part relating to the two sailors for i did n.it wish to get them into trouble as they had aided me and next day the remains of the unfortunate stowaway were hro't up on deck from a paper found in the pocket of his coat we ascertained his name and foi-ner residence and afterwards learned ihat the uphappy man wished to join his sweetheart iu australia but having no money to pay for a passage in had stotved himself away in the pump well whence no sound eould reach to the deck and so met the terrible fate 1 have recorded there was no more cargo broached at night aboard the water nymph that trip someting about echoes a good ear 4'dimo distinguish one sound from another unless there is an interval of one ninth of a second between the ar rival of the two sounds sounds must therefore succeed each other at an interval of one ninth ot a second in order to be heard distinctly now the velocity of souud being eleven hundred and twenty feet a second in one ninth of a second the sound would travel oue hundred and twenty four feety r p ated crimes happen when two o - stachs are placed opposite to one another as parallel walls for example which re flect the sound successively al alemaeh in bohemia there is an echo which repeats seven syllables three limes at woodstock iu england there is one which repeats a sound seventeen limes during thu day and twenty limes during the night an echo in ihe villa siniouetta near milan is said to repeat a sharp sound thirty times audibly the most celebrated echo among the ancients was that of the metelli at borne wliich according to tradition was capable of re peating the fifteeu syllables eight times d stinctly dr birch describes an echo at rcsen heaih argyll hi re which it is said does not now exist when eight or ten notes wen played upon a trumpet they were returned by this echo upou a key a third lower than the original notes and shortly after upon a key still lower dr pa"c describes an ocho in fail lax county virginia wliich pi ssesses a similar curi ous property this echo gives three dis tinct reflections the second much the most distinct twenty notes played 1410.1 a tiute are returned wiih perfi ct clearness but the nn.st singular property of this echo is that some notes of lhe scale are not returned iu their placi a but are either thirds fifths or octaves tie-re is a surprising echo between two barns in belviderp alleghany county n v tbe echo repeals eleven times a word of one two or three syllables ; it has been heard to repeal thi neon tunes by 1 lacing one's self in the centre be tween the two barns there will be a double echo one in t'le direction of each barn and a monosyllable will e repeated 2-1 times a striking and beautiful effect of echo is produced in certain localities by the swiss mountaineers who contrive to sing their hans des caches iu such time that the reflected notes form an accompaniment lo the air itself curious custom the causes for which a mahometon wo man may demand a divorce are clearly and broadly laid down in the koran and her evidence is sufficient because the mahometon law supposes that a woman must be violently aggrieved before the modesty of her sex will allow her to ap pear iu public with such application fcjo careful is this law lo spare her fellings tint she is uot even required to recount her injuries unless of ber own free will all she has to do is to place her slipper re versed — that is with the sole upward — lefore the cadi and the case is finished ; the divorce is granted without further in quiry an american in china confucius a jeffersonian democrat — imperial mat \ rinimty congressman james brook'-s writes | from pckiu under date of august 27 i some interesting notes on chinese policy he says : before i leave pekin i must try to enn j vey to you my impressions of what this ! government is lt seems to be a demo j cratic despotism and hence perhaps the secret of its old age a..d long preset v.-u inn confucius was a sort of thomas jefferson or ben franklin ile laid down great practical democratic priiiciples and tln-y have ruled emperors and mandarins hun dreds and hundreds nf years * onfiieiiis j created a public opinion and a system of precedents that no despotism could over safely ignore then the common uoople ilirouirli their instructed mandarins guide and overawe if they do not even sway • the emperor he is afraid ol lhe people and the mandarins are afraid of the peo ple too there is as much a public opin ion here to be respected as in gnat brit ain or the united stales no.bereditary aristocracy of any kind exists no man darin can transfer even his buttons to say nothing of his post to bis children w hen these mandarins are made governors of the provinces of china their power is quite absolute but the emperor is omnip otent of course over th in the provin ces are like our states wiih certain pro vincial rights that mandarins must res pect when sent there hence the govern ment is nowhere absolutely absohue — that is with safety to itself the railroad am telegraph intelligent mandarins would like to build railroads and telegraphs it is thought but they dare not it is believed as yet no mandarin feels potent enough to ad vise the emperor to run a railroad over tin graves and through the giaveyards of ' hinese revered and worshipped ances j tors the trouble iu erecting telegraph poles is that a supeistitious chinaman believes and all are more or less super stitions that these poles will interlere with the fung-sbuey " wind and wa ter a species of geomancy or a belief in the good or ill hick attached to particular local situations that the poles may have struck an event has just occurred which will ', hasten th e erection of telegraphs the i grand pekin council of scholars have just awarded two competitive prizes to two cantonese scholars the highest hon ors of the empire the news was sent fiom shanghai by sea telegraph to hong kong and reached canton days before the news cuild come overland the can touese were astounded and discredited until the long looked for pekin official gazette came ovei laud and confirmed it then then was wonder and marvel over that intelligence and till china from j north to soul h is asking if it will do to give foreigners the means of more rapid inter course with the exterior of our empire than we ourselves have interest their trade and commerce i think will soon dispose of that fung shuey and give china the telegraph we have opened their great river one of the greatest rivers in the world and bv steam we americans do nearly all the coasting trade there wiih shanghai — : mandarins now prefer our boats to their ; junks to travel in europe and america j have taught chinamen how to cast can ; non and to make rifles their facilities ; under onr auspices are almost equal to j : ours their ships of war are now putting j on firm dable fronts if england again ! comes into conflict with t hiua it will not j be so easy a conquest as in her lasi two : chinese wars wanted ax empress great efforts are being made to find a wife no i for lhe boy emperor he can ! have as many as he pleases after no 1 the pretty girls from hundreds and hun dreds of iiiih's have been sent up to the cap ital as patterns for an empress ; but his mother the empress dowager has not picked out a wife for him boys and gills j in china have nothing to do with the se • ' lection of iheir own wives they seldom ■ 1 see — the husband or wife till the day of i his marriage the emperor even has ! got to take what tiny give him ; but if j • no 1 does not suit or s itil'y no 2 .'>, 4 ! 6 6 and so on can be hand maids some of the richest provinces have just heen | levied upon however to furnish siiks satins and embroideries for some grand j nuptial cen uiony soon to lake place in ' pt kin the riches silk province re ! spectfully protests i see by the pekin j gazette against the silk levy rmide upon i that province the mandarin writes the i requisition cannot he complied with with out trouble there and what is stranger '-. the pekin official gazelle publishes in tiill the respectful remonstrance this p.kin gazelle by the way is the only ! real chinese newspaper in the empire it 1 it is published daily lure and the uiaiiu sei ipt is furnished twenty lour hours in ad vance to tin foreign ministers if ihey desire it it is au official record only with no dissertation in it no " edertorials only the decrees of the government and . j tli reports and petitions ot inanuaiins train the provinces the economy of liadical rule the economy of our general administration is shown in this that in 1871 ve received ! 3,850,000 from the sale of public lands | land paid s 1 779.6s0 for collecting it this • was fifty three perceut whit dn our 1 • business unu think of this ? uncle sain : also pays seven per cent for collecting j his internal revenue aud six per cent for obtaining his custom house dulies it takes s21,000,000 a year to pay custom i house officers and internal revenue officers ; private individuals would take the con tract of this collection for two and a half per ceut and tousidei themselves richly paid from the correspondence of lhe n y observer the famine in persia okoomiah persia aug 15 1s71 my dear observer — unhappy persia seems to be sorely visited this year by the j idgments of god kasha guerjis ol orooinian has just returned from ispahau where he has been laboring several months past under the direction ol rev robert bruce of the church missionary society he reports successful labors there and much to encourage the heart of ihe christian but his accounts ofihe famine in all the south ol persia are heart rending he says the official returns made to inquiries oidered by the shall who sent large stores for the relief ot the sufferers summed up between fourteen and sixteen thousand dead by famine — this kasha was the agent of mr bruce in distributing monthly between sgo and s80 among the starving people from his private funds and he describes some most harrowing scenes he says tbe past win ter and spring seem to him like a wild dream children were stolen killed and eaten horses donkeys dogs and cats were greedily devoured tlie eyes and brains of such as had died were dug out and eaton the leg bones of animals that had died were soaked and the skin scrap ed off and eaten in fine everything lhat the teeth of hungry men could penetrate was eaten the dead lay in the streets ; and the dying shriveled human forms crept along by the aid of walls to pre vent their tailing from exhaustion with open mouth yet speechless tongues beg ging bread flocks cattle and horses were either killed and devoured or died for want of glass or provender and horses were not found even for post ri ders the cause of the famine was the great scarcity of water the past two years and the terrible sufferengs ceroid not be relieved by the rapid communication as there are no railroads nor steamboats in persia the cholera has since appeared in these regions and at last accounts was prevailing the cholera broke out also in teheran and for a time was very severe ; but a terrible tempest of wind which filled tin air with dusi and which prostrated many walls and upper rooms swept over the ci.y after wliich the cholera entirely dis appeared bat it is raging violently now in tabreez four days distant by caravan — not rail our post th:s week brings word that the daih death rate in the city is from iou to duo the people have fled iu every direction and now it prevails in the villages it has also been severe iu khoi and has reached salinas sixty miles norlh of us as yet our ciiy has escaped but it will be strange if we should be passed by may iod be merciful our messenger from tabreez also re ports that a terrible bail and thunder storm had just swept over tabreez and vicinity and tbe mountain torrents swol len bey nd all precedent came pouring down sweeping off whole villages and the crops to an alarming extent a thousand houses iu tabreez and 1,700 lives are reported as destroyed by the flood from the regions ot the tigris above mosul our helpers write us that lhe pow erful tribe ef arabs the shaniar have risen and were laying waste the region between m isdin and mosul whole vil lages wen plundered then burned and little children tossed in the flames the men were killed and the fairest of the women and children carried away captive at our last accounts the devastation was going on all these things seem to be against us but our od reigns yours respectfully g w co an the following letter is later intelligence and of the same distressing character : london nov 2 — further advices re garding the terrible persian famine have been received in i his city to-day tbe statements formerly received are now proved to have in nowise been exaggera ted the famine has already swept almost the entire length and breadth of persia and still continues unabated the people iu every city throughout the coun try are dying by h uud reds from die ef fects of starvation in ispahan one of the principal cities of persia with a pop ulation ol abaut 200,000 the ravages of the famine and its concomitant disease have been tearful tbe inhabitants wenk eaid to the last degree by excessive want have succumbed iu hundreds the cem eteries are filled in this city alone it is estimated lhat tliere are over 20.000 native persians 1,600 jews and 1,500 chris tians starving the provisions are al most exhausted and aie guile insufficient to supply one-tenth of the population for any protracted period a similar state of affairs exists at tehf-ran 310 miles further south and hardly a single city is exempt from the dreadful visitation **********>»♦■ ■- — tobacco ix north carolina ue learn that the cultivation of tobac c i is spreading in north carolina espe cially west of lhe blue ridge which region is f mod to be highly it..i|>ted to the production of the finer qualities that biing the highest prices at tin recent fair in ibis city the first premium on to bacco was taken by a citizen of buncombe countv — old " buncombe winch lias such enduring fame as the origin of the fa inn us saying of " speaking for bun combe she is rich in soil and in min eral resources and is one of the most picturesque and delightful of all the lovely sections ofthe bi ue il'dg the cri-ntleman who raised ibis tobac co is a native of henry county in ibis state he moved to buncombe after the war and entered upon the cultivation of the finer qualities of tobacco which he understood remarkably well and his suc cess has beeu wonderful he has set the fashion and buncombe and the neighbor ing district have rapidly increased their crop of tobacco we may expect largely increased arrivals of the staple in ibis m-irket from that interesting region of the nirth state by the way the danville read has he prospect of further important railway al liances in north carolina and these alli ances must be vastly beneficial to rich mond the products of that region art exactly suited to our market besides the superior tobacco wheat is produced there with success and a quality well suited to the mills here these articles must come to this market the mineral wealth of the country must also be favor able to our commerce the gnat manu facturing power of richmend must estab lish intimate relations with all sections which are rich in mineral wealth rich mond is the nucleus around w hich will be concentrated a great part of the thrift and increase resulting from mineral devel opment within the spere of her trade we can truly congratulate our citizens upon every additional facility that is giv en to their intercourse with north caro lina with that state our intercourse should be the most intimate richmond is the natural market of the north caro linians and it will be their in uket if oar people niily take advantage of tin oppor tunities lhat are given them richmond dispatch n — ■ revenue tax on tobacco important letter from the treasury department at washington peddlers or retail /> tiers of t,lscc pay ti sp end tax of fice dollars and may retail onywhere in hit stale treasury department ") office of internal revenue washington oct 2s 1871 \ slr — in reply to your letter of ( ct 24 in relation to peddling manufactured tobacco i h ve to say that a manufac turer of tobacco may sell his product any where in tin united states without laying a special tax as • ii iler in tobac co but he can sell only i.i the ori and unbroken packages he may send out an employee to peddle for him who nay sell ou the same conditions as the manufacturer a peddler of tobacco who is not an employee ofthe manufacturer and whose sales exceed 100 per annum is liable tu a special tax as a dealer in tobacco for selling manufactured tahocco in the mae ner of a peddler and such a peddler who has iaid the special tax tor so selling to bacco may retail from wooden packages packed and stamped according to law very lespectfullj , j w d m (*. i ass commissioner w d jones esq assessor 4th dis trict raleigh n c answer to a challenge the eccentric ii ii breckinridge one of the judges of the supreme court of pennsylvania when a young man was challenged to fight a duel by an english officer whom he answered as follows : " i bave two objections to this duel matter the one s lest i should hurt yoo and the other lest yon should hurt me i do not see what good it would he to put a ball through your body i could make no use of you when dead for any ordinary purpose as i would a rabbit or a turkey i am no cannibal to ived on tbe flesh of men why then shoot down a human creature of whom i could make no use 1 a buffilo would make better meat for though your besb might he young and tender vet it wants the firmness and con sistency which take and retain salt at any rate it would not do for a long sea voyage " yo'i might make a good barbecue it is true being of the nature of a raccoon or opossum ; but people are not in tin habit of barbecui ii g anything that is hu man now as to vour hide it is not worth taking off being little bet'.er than a two year old calf " so much for you as for myself i do not like to stand in the way of a ay tiling that is hurtful i am under the impression that you might hurt me this being tin case 1 think it the most advis able to stay at a distance it you want to try vour pistols lake a tree or a barn door about my dimension if you hit that send me word aud 1 will acknow ledge that if i had been in thu same dace you might lave lil me ay ecery inch a king .'" — an exchange savs : " wo arc cive-pincr along to ward it at the bangor banquet the president dined at a separate table sat upon elevated dais and beneath a canopy rand-kissing will soon be in order when we give a man tlie pow er t suspend the writ of habeas corpus and proclaim martial law at his discretion in any part of the united states it is highly appropriate that he should sit upon an elevated dais and be neath a canopy those who ex ercise the powers of a king may well imitate the personal assump tions of royalty