tiig carol in a watchman vol xvil-thied series salisbury n c january 27 1886 no 15 blue-grass blade i is the name of n lively new weekly just started at lexington kv and edited l v the brilliant and talented charles c moore the writer i acquainted with this gentleman than whom a more genial and kind man does not ex ist in the blue-grass country or any where else his paper neatly printed and sparkling with wit and wisdom is gladly welcomed to the watchman's exchange list the blade in discarding the editorial we 11 says after mature deliberation i have concluded to discard the editorial we and as i kind of journalistic cyclops write with one big i it is not intended as a mere ieono clasm fc seems to me that the origi nal presumption is that a man writing an expression of his individual views should use the first personal pronoun and in the absence of anv reason for a variation from tin's general principle in editorial writing thai tins presumption should continue in force again 1 have always fell thai in the use of the editorial we i could screen myself be hind its impersonality in a manner which was not salutary because it did not make me realize the personal re sponsibility of my own utterance for i lie watchman notice of some oldn c almanacks 1 hodge's for the year of our lord 17y being the id after bis sextile or leap year calculated for the state of north carolina but especially adapted to the meridians of some other states hv wm thomas agt printed and sold by abraham hodge halifax n.c.'l j hodge and boyland s north < ar olina almanack for the year of our lord l805 calculated for the state id north carolina being precisely adapt ed to the meridian and latitude of the city of italeigh by 1 brooks agt halifax : printed by abraham hodge 3 the north carolina almanac for the year of our lord 1799 being the 3d after bissextile or leap year and the 23d 24th of american inde pendence containing the lunations rising and setting of the sun moon and seven stars solar and lunar eclipses remarkable days festivals c fcc also a variety of useful and amusing articles calculated for the state of north carolina being precise ly adapted to the meridian and lati tude of the town of salisbury but will serve without sensible error lor any of the states adjacent salisbury print ed and sold wholesale and retail by francis coupee 4 the title page of the one for l800 is the same as the above with the change of the year the author says the contents or tnls almanac will amplj repay the expense " uiou lue purchase h is cost and none but a bloi kliead c in seriously say thai his time and hid wonej are losl christmas being gone a good ne \ j ear i wi>ii in all inj readers dear botu hi i.i.i md wealth good me it 31 rongbeer and all hi ■ lean to uiieer cold weather inj like for snow . if the ■ u i con !'■:! e and rreezi or else will lull lu showers of rain this is the calendar ac for january for tiie watchman letter from locke host's mills are running every day and sides the miller is doing good work the free school at salem i in bio.mi miss mollie julian has her hands full but she is a goo 1 teaciier and can man age em sifiord's cotton gin is about closing up the cotton is nearly all ginned and the money spent that's the way it goes then was a very good crop of corn and cotton raised in this community last year and sufficient roughness for our stock the pork supply is also good and fanners are independent of the cold weather and show one of our young men had the luck of getting married about christinas times esquire tarrh did the work be fore the weather got too cold we can boast of one industrious man sam the boss tobacco raiser who ploughed all day newyears a farmer a kentucky editor en flogging in ihe public schools i take great int te.-t in the public schools am constitutionally opposed to whipping children and want this state to abolish it by statute from the pub lic schools 1 dont like solomon tie is dea 1 and it looks like 1 o tghi nol to say anything to his disparagement but his views of the rod as an educator of youth and especially those of mascu line predilections have made a grea deal of trouble in this country i oin parjd with solomon brigham young was a bachelor solomon had a thous and wives be had a sort of a corn t on matrimony in his town he did not have to pay the county clerk for license and being good looking he married just as many as he pleased he perhaps had a photograph album and kept all his wives numbered so he could tell their names on state occa sions it was very easy perhaps to gel along by calling them mrs solomon but m the family circle it tuusi have kept the old gentleman rattled to call the great long lew names of a thous and women solomon had peril ns about 1.4(10 children of this number for a man of his proverbial good luck about 1,100 would be boys and in his old lavs solomon could carry his own - ward for councilman just by getting the solid vote of his own family the , paternal instinct is strong but one pa ternal instinct divided by 1,400 gets to be tearfully diluted and i don't think solomon was first-class authority on raising boys 1 never knew but two boys that were very much whipped at school one of them suicided under an indictment for murder and would have gone to the penitentiary the other one did go to the legislature i never was whipped at school the in ference is plain though of course em barrassing to my natural diffidence a a school boy my dullness in math ematics was but faintly expressed by the edge of a meat axe two men who tried to get that same hieroglyphic art into my cranium sleep under two mon uments in the lexington cemetery i walk out there in the late evening sometimes and sit with uncovered head by a little grass covered mound not long since 1 walked up to the first one of the monuments alluded to and said professor i am glad to meet you under the existing circumstances to the second monument i walked and instinctively pulled off my hat in reverence for there was a man that 1 loved so that i named my boy for him it would be a cold day in june when i would name one of my buys for the first one when my first boy got old enough to go to the city schools here 1 sent him to one with a note stating that 1 did not whip my own children and did not want my boy whipped at school he came back and told me that one of the teachers was named skinner and another tanner and that they would not take him unless they had the right to whip him i told him that he should not go by a large ma jority lie was too young to go to the state college but they made an excep tion in his case when i told them about the city school's idea about skjnning and tanning and 1 don't believe any professor in that college will say that any better boy has ever been there if 1 should ever send my children to a school 1 will remark as a general proposition that it would be unhealthy for anv man to whip one of them un less he is pretty certain of his ability to whip a man whose fighting weight is 180 pounds and who has taken some exercise with a maul on a rail cut - blue-grass vandr i o ■ furious pat donau—hed-hot nonsense correspondence si paul globe < lap the great horned and scaled cloven hoofed and forktailed old he devil reeking with brimstone of 6,000 years of hell and damnation into the straight-cut black coat white cravat and gold spectacles of an episcopal bisnop or a presbyterian doctor of di vinity and set him to lecturing a bible class of little girls on their sinfulness of giggling at their boy sweethearts on sunday and he would be a dainty and delicate personification of modesty and consistency compared with the ex-con federate cattle in congress at wash ington who are howling about the at titude of dakota a herd of red-hand ed rebels who owe the fact that their necks are spared to the mistaken clemency of the government they strove to destroy nearly a hundred ex colouels and brigadier generals and major generals of the secession armies whose onlv claim to office and only qualification for office under the united btates is having fought four years to disrupt the union and trample on the constitution—these fellows ranting about the revolution and treason of a grand territory in aspiring to become a state a state that a horde of un hung traitors and rebels still dripping with the blood shed in their mad at tempt to tear thirteen states from the flag of the republic prating of the revolutionariiu'ss and traitorousness of trying to add a new and radiant star to that glorious banner men who turned the fairest half of the hemis phere into a golgotha ridged a conti nent with the graves of the nation's defenders and piled upon the bending backs of the american people a debt of millions of dollars for every year since the creation of the world in their in sane and ruthless struggle to drag thirteen states oul of the union these fellows frothing at the mouth c yankee davis of el dorado new yc rk sun mr j 11 davis a funny gentleman down in kl dorada n c sends us a letter evidently composed with great labor and signed with a beautiful pen flourish in which he declines taking any further interest in your pseud io democratic sheet on the ground of ai alleged lack of"consistanev v in the i sun's comments on ex-president hays we advise mr.-i li davis of el dorado to take a little further in teri i in liis spelling book and english grammar before venturing on the sea of literature mr davis is a norther man and is commonly called yankee davis in montgomery count me is theowner of the morris mountain mine a dispatch crom buffalo x y an nounces tiie purchase of an immense ! tract of land in north carolina stated to iw 2'33,000 acres home helping a proper suggestion to females as well as males trade at home looking in this line we submitted reflections with regard to the patron age bestowed by many of our citizens who are not dealers on northern mer chants our object was to show that an occasional article might be purchas ed in this way at a lower rate than the home price yet in the long run it does not pay occasionally i northern firm run off some article they happen to be long on or it is getting out of fashion or by way of advertisement at reduced rates ordering such goods is always haz ardous in the first place the cash must alwavs accompany the order then the goods may be damaged and—note well this fact—if they happen to be out of the goods ordered they will send something else they never re turn the money so long as they can hold it the party ordering can never be sure of getting what he desires ask any of the many ladies who are in the habit of buying in this way if this is not the orthodox and frequent return they get from the northern merchants we regret that we are just out of the exact articles you or der but inclose these goods which we trust will answer your purpose again when postage or expressage is included it will be found it is about as cheap and us much more satisfac tory to buy at home where the goods call be compared and examined and when vou can lie ceitain you buy ex actly what you want when you buy from a home mer chant there is no leap in the dark you know exactly what you are doing one of the most prominent and enlighten ed citizens told us a few days ago while discussing this very subject the following as showing the views held by northern merchants i sent an order said he to a friend in new york—himself a leading mer chant — to have filled it was for mat ting my friend went to a large deal er in that line of goods and left the ; order when the stuff came it was rotten and not at all what i wanted i wrote to my friends recounting the shortcomings and asking a change or | that i might return the goods and re ceive my money back my friend was in dignant that i should be so shameful ly cheated and treated lie went to the dealer and stated the case telling him i would be perhaps a good and constant customer the matting man laughed in his face and told he would do nothing that he didn't care for and didn't expect to sell a customer but once s:'lling off his old goods to dis tant customers constituted his profits and this said our townsman was all the satisfaction i ever got we have no doubt this is the way northern linns work off old goods distant customers are at their mercy aid can't help themselves all the favor and andvantage are with the northern men every man is entitled to a living in his business and our merchants sell goods as cheap as can be found in the state when favors are requested of our home merchants they never fail to re spond then it is tin part of our people to help the merchants who ex tend the favors when a subscription is carried round for any charitable purpose or when help is sought for the public benefit our merchants who are all public spirited and generous are the first ap pealed to and never in vain these are plain facts our people especially the ladies — should ask themselves what they would do were it not for the home mer chants let us all pull together and help each other char democrat railroad building in 1885 the statistics of railroad building in 1883 show that while there was less activity in this direction than in any year since l^ts the south added near ly 1.100 miles of new road to her mileage or largely more than one third of the total mileage constructed last year the aggregate of new tracks laid in 1885 according to the annual report of the railway age in the whole country was 3,113 miles mis souri leading with jv2 miles follow ed by kansas with 270 and then by fionda with 231 the number of lines under construction in 1885 and tin track laid during that year in each of the southern states was maryland 1 65.0 virginia 3 11.0 north carolina 5 51.0 south carolina 4 104.0 georgia 9 151.0 florida 11 251.5 alabama 3 27.0 mississippi 3 76.6 louisiana 2 4 "_' tennessee 1 2.0 kentucky 5 33.0 west virginia 3 21.0 texas 0 211.2 arkansas 4 2g total 39 1.006.8 the four states south carolina georgia florida and texas had very nearly two-thirds of the total track laid in the south la-t year or 718 miles the lowest sute in the list is j tennessee which added only two ' miles of new track the outlook for 1880 promises more activity in railroad construction than i we have had for several years al i ready a large number of branch roads | and extensions are under construction i in texas the activity in building new ! roads bids fair to be unusually brisk even for that great state in north ! carolina a number roads some of them j quite important ones are now being i built and the prospects in that state | as well as in south carolina are favor aide for a considerable extension of railroad mileage during 1886.—mtuiu facturer l8 record washington letter from our regular correspondent washington jan 18 1886 the proceedings of the week on capitol hill have been varied interesting and : fraught with results in the lower branch of ; congress the senate did little else in open session than listen to endless irrele vant talk on the silver question,irrelevant because no financial measure w»s lorraal ' ly presented to that body until to-lay six senators made long stt speeches in advoca cy of continued coinage another crowded in an oration in behalf of national monuments to lincoln and grant and another expend ed eloquence on the subject of our army in its daily secret sessions the senate has had before it the president's nominations i hundreds of which have been confirmed no cause of complaint has been found against the nominees thetnselvesin regard to their honesty fitness and efficiency and the republican senators in lieu of any such grievance have been discussing in caucus the question of disciplining the president on the subject to tenure ot office unable to express themselves freely on this subject in executive session without ex posing their plans to the oppotition the leaders of the republican majority quietly i conveyed the news to their associates that | they must agree to a motion adjourning over irom la^t thursday to monday in or der that a caucus might be held on an j important subject of course the demo j crats did not know what was brewing and the proposed motion was carried in this caucus the president's policy was the subject of debate and the more pro nounced disciplinarians such as logan hoar conger and mori ill advocated ; reining up the president to compel him to ' state to tne senate his reasons for removing one set of officials to make room for others ol his own party some ol the more fair ; minded senators held that it would be i going too far to a>k of the president an ! explanation of his right to select his own 1 friends to fill the offices for which his party had fought so hard and that he was only i doing what a republican president would do if one were in the white house this kind of argument was very distasteful to the republican managers and they pro ceeded to discipline their obstinate breth | ren in a caustic way that won them over or at least compelled them to submission while a variety ol opinions were express ed with regard to the propriety of raising a formal itsue with the administration at present upon this question,a majority were dispose i to say that should the information sought not be forthcoming ultimately the republicans in the senate wiil take some formal action to secure it or an avowal from mr cleveland that he will not give his reasons for making removala there are many republicans in the house of representatives who would like to ste all di the republican office-holders dis charged indiscriminately their reason for this is that their party machinery is being disorganized by the present state of affairs many of their party workers received ap pointments to olfice as rewards for party service and as long as they retain their places under the present administration their hands are tied in a way to make them useless for party work among other bills to ab lish the civil service law that have been introduced in the house vas one by representative senev of ohio no such bill can pass the senate while the republicans 1 avc control of it they affect devotion to civil service refoim and the so-calk-d spirit of it and will continue to do so as long as the act can be made useful in keeping demo crats out of office and in bothering the democratic party then again there are many shrewd democrats in both branches of congress who would deem it unwise to repeal the civil service law and who see good politics in letting it stand as it is though of course uhe question will be agi tated like that of silver all through the ses sion the house of representatives was com mendably industrious in disposing of the presidential succession bill which has passed without change just as it came from iik senate under its provisions the line of succession is taken from congress and lodged in the cabinet only the president's signature is lacking to make it a law and then mr bayard and not mr sherman will be vice president of this united stales a startling visitation of death has just darkened the home of the secretary of slate and tiie genial graceful homelike hospitality characteristic ot the bayard mansion will b hidden under the shadows of bereavement for the remainder of the season miss catherine bayard the eldest daughter of the secretary died suddenly on saturday afternoon of heart disease m imi ■' iii the course of a very pretty letter from itio de janeiro brazil to col r b creecy of elizabeth city minis ter jarvis says in reference to my sell 1 am glad to say that i am in tine health and that mr jarvis is much better than she was v hen you last saw her we have found climate country and people all we could desire the emperor the empress and in fact the whole royal family and the government officers we have found to be plain sen sible good people free from any fool ish ostentation earnest in their efforts for the advancement and prosperity of their country and always extending a hearty welcome to those entitled to it being sent away from home at all i could not be s.-nt to a more pleasant place ireland is threatened with a famine and fears are entertaitu u in regard to it the money value of women for every man who lives a single life caring only for himself there is some woman who is deprived of her natural supporter says henry george it is a cool and unwarranted assump tion on the part of society that wives are supported by their husbands the persons who assume this will seldom deny that wives usually work as many hours a day is their husbands and fre quently more but then they will say the wife's labor is unproductive it has no money value such a position needs no very close analysis to prove its utter absurdity let the wife fall sick and it is imme diately discovered that her labor has a money value for it takes money to hire help to take her place in the household to take her place did i say but who can take her place the wife's labor is not unproductive it is as necessary to cut and sew cloth into garments as it is to produce the mate rial of which it is made or to weave that material into cloth it is as ne cessary that food be cooked as it is that it be provided in readiness for cooking a housekeeper is as essential as a liou.se builder it is not a supporter that a self respected woman asks for in society but justice equal pay fur equal work i industrial appeal there is an ox-vice-president alive seems whom everybody has forgot i for many years david k atchin 1 of missouri who in 1853 was wen by the senate to till the place of vice-president king who was a irth carolinian ol edmund richardson the wealth iest man in the south died at jackson miss on the night of the 11th hist of appoplexy his estate is estimated to 1)0 worth from ten to fifteen million dollars he was by birth a north carolinian and though without ad vantages of education was a tine busi ness man he leaves four sons and a the american exposition in london has been postponed until next year in order not to conflict with the colonial exhibition london is a large town but it is not equal to two simultaneous expositions it is remarked that the russian wc men talk less than american women this is owing to the language one russian word is calculated to last a quarrelsome woman twelve hours — hicago times happy kew year •• jl cb «» €^ » ** do you hear i big noise way off pood people '. that's us shouting happy new year t • our ten thousand patrons in tex us ark la mi>s a!;t tenn va n c s ('.. and fla from our grand new temple of music fli we are just settled in after three ths of moving and regulating illelujah anchored at last in ii mnni i buiidinjr exactly situated to our needs immense business just what we have led for ten lon years but couldn't get a magnificent double store fcur sto ries and easement 0 feet front 100 fest deep inn and plate glass front steam heated ebctric lighted tie larpst finest and most com pletb music house in america 1 fact if in do say it oursclres i'isit xew york bnxton cincinnati chicago st ijonis xew orleans or ami city u this continent ami you icill not fiii'l its equal in size nij/osiny ap pearance tasteful or ran ye went ele ijant fittings or stock carried and now with this grand new music temple affording every facility 1'<>i the ex tension of our business with our 00.0o0 cash capital our 100,000 stork t musi cal wares our ei^ht branch louses our 200 agencies our army of emploves ami ur t went \ ) ears of successful experience we we iiiiiiiinl t serve our patrons far bitter than ever before and ivi;theni irreuterad vantaiiis than can be had elsewhere north oi south this is what we are livinn for and we shall drive our business from now on with tenfold energy fwith hearty and sincere thanks to nil nations for their jjood will and liberal snp port wo wish them nil a happy new war lain & bates h me house savannah ga p g if anv one should happen to want a l'iano organ violin bai'jn aci-ordcon band instrument drum strings or any musical instiu i ent or sliest music music i ok picture frame statnarv art ( , ,],, or artists materials we keep such things and will tell you all about them if you write us k wife 0 my wife ins been a great sufferer from catarrh several physicians anil various patent medicines were resorted to yet the i disease continued nnabated nothing ap pearing to make any impression upon it ! her constitution finally became implicated the poison being in her blood i secured a bottle of b b b and placed her upon its use and to our surprise the improvement began at once and her recov ery was rapid and complete xo other preparation ever produced such a wonder ful change and for all forms of blood dis \ ease i cheerfully recommend b b b as a superior blood purifier r p dodge yard master georgia railroad atlanta ga greahbief from the athens ga banner-watchman ' uncle dick sautter says fifty years ago i had a running ulcer on my leg which , refused to heal under any treatment in is i went to california and remained | eighteen months and in l873 i visited hot springs ark remaining three months but was not cured amputation was discussed but i concluded to mike one more effort ( i commenced taking the 15 b b about six , weeks ago the fifty-year old sore on j my leu r is healing rapidly and yesterday i ' walked about fifteen miles fishing and hunting without any pain and before using the b 15 15.1 could not walk exceed ing half a mile i sleep soundly at night ( for the first time in many years to think that six bottles have done me more good ; than hot springs eighteen months in cal ifornia besides an immense amount of med icines and eight or ten first class physicians will convince any man on earth that it i a wonderful blood medicine it has al-o cured me of catarrh llh i there is a lady living heir mrs who has had catarrh for many many years 1 have known she had it for fifteen or twen ty vears and my father once doctored her rs she was then a tenant on our place for | the last two and a half years she has been bedridden the catarrh or cancer the nu merous physicians lave never decided which during her two jears and a half in the bed had eaten all the roof of her mouth out she was so offensive no oi e could stay in the room she could not eat anything but could swallow soup it it was strained she gave up to die and came so near perishing all thought she would die her son bought the b 15 b and she used several bottles which effected an enti e cure she is now well and hearty 1 have not exaggerated one particle lucy strong something niw r lamp cmmnevs „.>-; that will not break by heat lor sale ai k.n.m-s diamond dyes all colors yon wish at enk1ss 1 don't forget to call for seed oi all kinds at enniss to the ladies call and see the flower pot • exsi6s thlb ra - r....v advrrtisiiw dureauoo spn euntracts may be made for i i.n n!.u ouk hardware when you wantj hardware at low figures ill on the undersigned at no 2 granite row 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