r y ~ & s jf "*_? t3 r _ . ________ ____..___. v jsl x jiljl jl il%_^l l/\^__l__l__l__l_6_^_>^jl jl jy i tinid ( series salisbury n c august 27 1885 k0 45 present year cotton corn tobacco the cereals fruits c this exhibit would be representative and it would be compact not costly in transporta tion not expensive in management but so comprehensive and so perfect as to tell its own impressive story upon only one point of agricultn al interest do we propose to speak at present the tobacco interests of this state have very much to gain by pro per representation on a foreign field those interests now involve nearly the whole stale for tobacco even in the cotton counties is contending very stoutly for prominence at present and throughout all past time,t hat inter est abroad is represented through other states in fact it has no representa tion at all and virginia enjoys if she does not claim all the reputation of which north carolina is entitled for superiority in the most profitable qualities of tobacco an exhibit at london made under such conditions as to dispel all doubt would give new direction to thought and also to trade this state would become the recgiiiz 1 source of supply would secure the orders now given to the virginia market ; would establish wealthy agencies here for purchase and supply and would bring our dealers in the fit-id of competition for participation in the immense and val uable con ti acts annually entered into by several of the european govern ments in the maintenance of llieir vast iuoii polies for the control of to bacco house shall hereafter elect its commit tees by ballot which it seems was once the practice am thus relieve t lie speaker of a trust which is often abused and which even so fair a man as sps iker carlisle found it impossi ble to administer without sodividi g his n\v i party in the house as to crip pie it in the last congress tim e who remember what speaker iv ifer did in making up the committees win certainly agree that it v nld lie bettei to ivt the house select them by bal bt it is ploiisant to hear that demo cratic congress sien are thinking oi something besides offices the party has a great deal to flo to justify its election to power and if it means to prove its possession of statesmanship to the country it may very properly serious consideration to tho.-e plans for improving the machinery of legislation ketv railroad enterprise nashville union nashville is fast becoming the cen tre of the railroad system of the south her natural and patent advantages for the position are beginning to be realiz ed and surely and steadily she is gain ing her proper place as the great south ern distributing point the opening of the henderson bridge is of inesti mable value to her growth and pros perity the chesapeake & nashville line has now become a certainty giving her a direct outlet to the sea board of her own there is one m^re line which is greatly needed and which will be worth more to her merchants and manufacturers than any other and that is an east line over the cum berland plataau hile we do not wish to dictate inanv particular we will point out the adva-ij-uges of this hue and indicate our idea of its direction taking the line already built to l ■' a non as a start continue on to sparta or livingston over coal beds four or five feet thick the only true sub-con glomerate coal known of a workable thickness lying within sixty feet or less of the surface and sixty miles wide over th plateau of the cumber land with all of its posibilities down daddy's creek by very easy grades crossing the cincinnati southern at or near wartburg reaching the e.tst tennessee valley through winter's gap crossing in its descent seventy-five miles of iine coal of good thickness passing along under the eastern bi se of the cumberland mountains strik ing inexhaustible veins of fossiliferous red hem itite iron ore such as is used at birmingham gradsden chattanooga dayton an 1 rockwood then up the northwest side of the tennessee val ley following its beds of coal and iron to coal creek on the knoxville & ohio railroad passing up powell's valley reaching the valuable and practically undeveloped zinc mines still through coal tields and iron beds then turning east across the valley to johnson city or bristol giving nash ville the shortest possible line to the seaboard at norfolk and competing with knoxville and baltimore for the trade of upper east tennessee and the lower virginia valley at johnson's or kingsport it will cross the projected line from charleston to the ohio at the mouth of the big sandy by means of which it would form intimate connec tion with the rich interior system of western north carolina and by its northern line will be enabled to reach with all its wealth of coal and ore the heart of the great hanging rock iron district where now seventy-three blast furnaces are idle for want of this ma terial which that line of road would bring it and besides it will build up blast furnaces and manufactories to line the whole extent of the road after it reached the cumberland mountains this road would open to the trade oi nashville a large extent of fast grow ing country now occupied by knox ville chattanooga and by baltimore and by its connections the high heal thy and rich timber and mineral re gion of western north carolina east ern kentucky and west virginia giving her merchants and manufactur ers double the territory they now pos sess and on the return giving to her an unlimited supply of cheap fuel ores and timber which her rapidly grow ing manufactures need and with a direct and easy connection with the seaboard will give cheap transportation for her products and make her without a rival in the south a little enter prise and push will give nashville this line of road with all its wealth i increasing material and commercial prosperity i til ■ wi too 31 nth for one night lost in the mountains asheville citizeu maj stringfield recently had some adventures in the mountains which go to prove that the romance of tlic wil derness has not all gone and that the blase lotiii-t may find occasion of ex citement or variety for a dull life i lie will seek it a week or so ago he was'out among the smoky mountains running out land surveying r some thing of the kind which makes in ilueeiuent strong enough to penetrate tho-e wilds any one wo has been there will recall the height and mag nitude of the timber the density «•! the undergrowth the depth of the gorges ami the difficulty ot keeping any fixed landmark in view in the course of the afternoon a lwavy thun der storm came on die clouds set tled down to the ground the rain poured in cataracts,the lightning blaz etl in blinding sheets ami the thunihi crashed and reverberated with terrific volume the major was lost he could not keep his course the dark ness of night came on ; and cold and wet with rain and wading creeks and torrents he halted for the night he w;i too experienced a woodsman t » be alarmed yet he might be startled viicn in gathering an armful t sticks ivltli which to build him a fire he roused a rattlesnake which piling ln alarm with significant terrors and ai the same time a wolf set up a doleful howl and gave the major warning that no sleep was in store for him the long weary night parsed by the feeble fire t length passe 1 away and : with the dawn the majof started out to regain his path o.ily a few steps had been taken before a bear sprung up from his lair but shuffled off pro bably as much startled as the cause of his terror for the major had no weapon of any kind a large flock of wild turkeys got up a pleasant re i action in feeling and the mjj r was ! « heert 1 to renewed exertion and at : last got ut of the wildcrius after an entanglement of twenty-four hours ' queen victoria 1ms coi ferred the knighthood upon mr j d liu ton the best english water color painter — ill tlur poultices made of snails are said to ' be of great value in the cure of cer tain slun diseases eezeirta among them — 1b there is to be a new stamp it is for mime lia:e delivery li'ih-rs hav ing that stamp will be sent to the prsper person at once — lb dr deems in his lecture about evolntiou at cluutaiiqua yesterday hit 1 thc bull's eye the doctrine may be true hut nobody knows whether it is not and lots of people who have no predilections for or prejudice against the theory of man's deriva tion from the poilywog will agree with dr deems in his conclusion that it is noi pi oven — phil times joaquin miller says that no man | ever wrote anything good ou an empty j stomach there is no clamor for consul ma son's office at marseilles in this place cholera is offensive not mason's politics quiet and dignified mourners — i hayes and arthur who rode in the j same carriage at general grant's funeral and did not ppeak mr eustis's threatened defection is not viewed with serious alarm in louisiana where lie lives li is only a splinter not a split indiana has a ku klux organiza tion called the k ignis of the hick ory switch it has made war on voting and old women a republican politician from north carolina on a visit to washington remarked that so loiig as the negro j vote was solid republican so long j would north carolina be democratic | but democratic office seekers are now so pandering to the negro vote that j it will be uncertain how the vote of the state goes hereafter the man julius luck who shot and killed two men and weunded two others in moore county recently is in jail at carthago it is said that a lew days ago he nearly escaped from jail he put on the clothes of a woman who came to see him and his disguise was detected only at the last moment as he was almost out of the jail he is a dangerous character administrator's notice all persons indebted to the estate ot william townsly dee'd are hereby notified to make immediate payment and all those having claims against ii<l estate arc noti fied to present them to me on or before the gth day of august 1886 r this notice will lie pjead in bar ut their recovery this the gth day of auuust 18s5 ]). h julian adm'r 42:6w tttttc t a t3t?t niay be found n {!:•■ t oeo i'lllo jt airiiijl i howell & a - -"■ ■ paper contracts may bo mode for it ix new youk davenport college lcnoirs.c a high grade home school 1 ost girls bi-st climate surroundings and advan tage in the south delightful home higher english music art and elocution specialties two teachers from the lioyal leipzig conservatory complete new out tit for physical training send lor circular will li sanbolin pies aug 12 18s3 6t for rbnt i will rent my house and lands situated in the northern suburb of the town ol sal ishury there are 35 anres of good ti land spledid for cotton tobacco or for truck tanning all necessary outbuildings in goo.l repair a well a spring and a immch furnish an abundance of good wa ter the ihv..-!!i r has six rooms,and is in spleni 1 repair between 5 10 intl 700 fruit trees are on the place just beginning to bear for termd and particulars address \\\ m bahker i 39:1m salisbury n c t t 1 lor working people send 10 eedts post j f ill lige an 1 e will mail ■ i ft ,. a royal flfi i i valuable sampli traol goods tbat will j.1u1u i ou 1 : i i -■*■{,■ i-d l'.-'ii'n ■ re pure you c in live at iiouie indworkin d i tretlm onl 01 .,.:.- -\. il i.i :_-. ro$5 e i :• ■ ' '" ' " ■''' u "° w int vi rk ra -' ■ -•• - v '' t " ' ■ ' ia.ll ■•■:! i ire q i well - \.;. cm send l top-ay lor i ie ti mble ol wi i fu i p irtl hi ire lire ■ i ma el ■ seni tree li ■ i r li v.,ii staff i once don •-. stix8os & ' ).. p inland maine xov 27 84 ly a b.vn complexion is frequently caused bv worms shrinei'a indian vermifuge i will remedy the whole trouble try it only s cents a hot tie ! "' i t ' jwhen you want0 hardware at low figures call on the undersigned at n 1 2 granite row d a atwkf.l a70.1t tor the :# cardwellthresher salisbury x c juno nth — tf new store having bought out the grocery dc partuient of 1 i mcxeely i intend conducting a first <■ grocery store my stock will consist of sugar coffee bacon lard fish molasses flour butter chickens e«rgs & c also candies fruits nuts crackers tfccv in fact i in tend kecjiinj everything usually kept in the grocery and provision line and \>\ close attention to business and selling low for cash i hope to merit at least a portion of tin 1 trade come and sec me at j.d.mc neely's store j m hadkn june 4 1 s85 2ms all entirely new & fresh ! j s mccubbins sr will continue the business at the old stand having closi d out all the old stock his present stock is entirely new and will in offered on rcasmialik 1 terms for cash barter or lirst-class mortgages those who could 1 j « . t pay all their niort lca_c's last ye.-ir may renew 1i papers are satisfactory and appliance i mad at once ills stock consists of dry goods groceries boots and shoes hats clothing con fectioneris crockery dru ■-. racon lard coin flour tied and provisions of all kinds with a ful i line of high grade fertilizers as cheap as the cheapest vou will do well to see him before purchasing else where salisbury april 1st 1885 23:tt vouvin t^inovnl qiroimn 1 r o rl c pi tt i laluliii kiilbidl qililluii auuililj palmeksville ■ n.c c ii martin i'bincipal graduate of \\' :'.■■ forest colli re and also al • me untveraltj ol vlrglnl t w~i 1:111 .■-•, ?'> 1 ' : i r esslonol r months j tlie only school in ilils spction that teaciiea • t '. 1 v 1 m !): ■ i \ '_• rous ex ! tensive thorongli — 1 he clit ip si school in the ' d s where ttil-sc worlrt-renowi ■ 1 etlioda are taughi ,,.!.. ontb r iy ad tress 1 h mabtj.v mil / organized 1859 j0 ■ . ,* ' -\ ■ > a ibs . ■■".- . .- ■ - r-a | i y -■■-'^- til if mi $ - - r y.^w capital & assets s75o.ooo j rhodes bliowxe i fwm c coabt i'rest ) i secretary twenty-sixth annual statement janvu'.v i 188s liabilities cash capital 1800,1)00 <>•) jnad]ust€d losses 21,000 r reservi r ,,..,,„ ,« : - f 1g - 11 net surplus 25r>,2«3 ii t41.?rt0 zl si hedcle of assets cash la nati . .'■■'■ m 1 ishlah in 1 ol agents 11,968 29 t 19,-64 n ;•; itcd st ktes re - ten ib 1 is i79,»oo c • si it aad mu 1 3 51.ot '-< national bank stocks 156,400 »* •: inaracturing stocks m.735 >.> other local stocks 38,770 <»• r l c,iii iinbered city property 97.297 loans secured by first mortgagi ... . o,4i3 total aesets - 741,380 cs j allen brown agrt s ilisi ';.-;■-. n ''.. m u b 26 sss 6m something new r la mi him n ets g that wili not break ijv heat tor sale n ennis8 diamo2^d dyes all colors jam wish at enniss dont forget to call for seed nf all kinds at enniss to tiik ladies call and see the flower pots at ennis8 not strange but tuue.-wor.ta do oxi-t in the human l.odv ard are oft the cause of disease arid death shrim 1 - ndian vermifujrc will tlestrov ai d ex •.» them from the 56tcm the prejudice against opals may be dying out but a great many peo ple still hold to the belief that they bring bad luck said a jeweler i could tell you of a little incident that occurred hero last tuesday that may make you wonder whether some peo ple do not manage to get themselves horn three centuries too late a man came here with a ring that had a beau tiful opal set in it and told me to take out the stone and let him see some other gem to take its place 1 asked him if he was going to get rid of the opal altogether and he said that he was going to distroy it i was rather surprised and said : don't do that i'll give you 50 for it he declared that he didn't want money for it ; that it had brought him nothing but bad luck since he bought it ; that he failed in business and lost two of his children and all of course on account of a little piece of stone 1 went over to that bench and look the opal out of its setting and while looking at the ring 1 laid the gem on the befell beside me as quick as a flash that man picked up a hammer that was lying among the tools and hit that stone a whack that smashed it into a thousand pieces there was nothing left tueu he said : there in a satisfied manner it's too bad lor the opal is one of the prettiest of gems in the world — a y isun the tobacco planters — they are found all over the stau — are more especially interested than any other classes of producers because the bene fits e;;n be tuore immediate and con i nected with them and on their be i half the dealers and manufacturers should act the agricultural do i part incut is authorized by the act which created it to make exhibits of the state industries at home or a i broad this power wisely given that the fanners may have their interests fairly and conspicuously represented but if abroad thu cost will be more than funds of the department will justify tho>difficulty will be over come if cadi centre of the tobacco business durham winston r-eids ville and others will contribute in the same proportion will the depart ment it me lob ceo houses i:i dur ham will contrioute one thousand dollars tiie d j pai'inmnt will do tin same so on through the state un til t tie means for a ere it-able and profit ble presentation will he provi led l'lie very fact tiiat bucii pre sentation svili turn the eves of the tobacco world direct up mi norm carolina and make it the immediate source oi supply will be-compensa tion immediate aud uiiii.i table it n carolina can be made to have direct relations with great britain instead ul retaining its dependency upon vir ginia or oilier bia.es no cost would be too large to attain thcresuit and it can be attained by giving the state he same opportunities in london thai it had enjoyed in atlanta bos ton and new orleans only restrict in the exhibit in the former to the raw or ci udc material the charlotte music hous 7s branch of ludden & bates southern iviusij h usjb ik lmurks the lowest terms the easiest order prom this house and save time money and freights cllii;kcrins 1>ianos ' mason a hamlin organs w1 i . t umcuts 5 '*" : * 1 *^^^ irt p*r iioul v.t co pitinos bay state organs s'ueet musii ii 25 per cent til s j'ljjjji.j ifilaiiliu i irive an1 permanent cure dysjapiia anil indigestion : irt-i by r v v ullegouy charlotte n c ch.vri.ottk x c n'ov.20 1884 y w v i hei ■ y en tifj '•'. iv isci \ mi i yspepl i ■■'; p v it to n sell h ut hers k 1 wakixo mciubi r x ('. li gisluture charlotte n c a.w i retro ry i take great pleasure ''• ng ror testim my to the value of your lic remi ly 1 liavensed it with treat iiiii clieei fully recommend ii lo any one jio'froni ind / si son and a ivi r and lio d a jenkins n i '. st ite freasurer ; ! i»'i«h t j ii mcaden and t c smith & v kluttz co 49:!y eadquahtehs fo am tennessee farm wagoss , " m ' si i i.nnati :: 5gies & spring wagons 1 li tman wain and guano drills lk ms hay bakes avel walking c ultivators t , t omas harrows straw gutters do ' ' : plows er corn sliollcrs engines and boilers ? hdgr.8t bills her fittings-guns wads and caps fuse and pri spades building tt;mlsid clover seed ■ in flrsi class es i have on hand i them for the next lhan they have ever w smuhdeal h'5 ise by taking ' ■' ' - book out li r , fall terms free v ' ' ' " 1 ■! land maine for the watchman never surrender bv luther say shall i now despond and down my armor lay ; when darkness gathers round and foes obstruct my way ? no never will i yield nor sliall t cower down but bravely keep tin field though all the world may frown bnt by the truth and right i'll stand at everj cost and ever for ihem fight till all is won or lost and while the conflict's waged to virtue i'll prove true — wherever i'm engaged aud to the end endure ! yes on i'll go in faith hope in and trust my lord who pled with his last breath aud lor ine shed his blood he loved me in my sin and for me deigued to die that i might reign wiih him forever more on high he's paid for me my debt and freedom for ine bought and him i'll ne'er forget however hard my lot and now do 1 implore that 1 with zead each day may labor more and more for him iu every way lord free me from my sin and from it keep ine free thai i at last may win a home iu heaven with thee ! where all who've gone before \\ ill join wiih me to praise our lord forever more in sweet angelic lays north carolina at the london kx position asheville citizen the fact that the exhibit of the products of nortii carolina at the expositions at atlanta boston and new orleans lias been of immense benefit to the btate will not lie gain said there was made known an in finity of productions and resources unknown almost absolutely to the outer world and in a large degree degree concealed from ourselves each repeated exhibit tended lo an expansion of these latent power un til confidence has been gamed and fortified by the opinion of judicioii and intelligent observers to claim foi his state a wider variety of product than anv other state can do an abun dance of store that in some particu lars has not been equalled aud an exc lience id quality that ha not been surpassed the effect has been to engage and fix the attention of investors and capitalists aud en terprises based upon the information cu.il led in titose expositions i<avi iiecu set n foot in every part of the nate literally from currituck t cherokee for each section of the tate has its peculiarity of produc tions eah promising such rich reward o capital and industry that no part mis escaped investigation and every part has drawn to it some new ven ture of enterprise only limited or re tarded by a financial condition which is abnormal aud therefore but tem porary profiling so much in the present and in prospective by what nas already been effected it wouid be eminently unwise in north caro lina to slop short in the steps already taken for advancement if what has been done at home has been produc tive of such undeniable good what may be done abroad will be the more brilliant in results we propose to exh bit on a larger and grander the atre to spectators who must have the scene spread before their own eyes because by far the largest number and must interested among them cannot go abroad to see we propose lo beard tbe british lion in his den i'he london exposition gives the op portunity we want in such exposition all that we would propose to present would be the raw material it would be folly to present to a british public the crude results of our mechanical skill or the products of our looms in con trast with the finished works of bir mingham or manchester but we could open the eyes of manufacturers of those centres of skill to a new or valuable sources from which to ob tain their supplie or we could offer to the mercantile world inducements to obtain from us direct supplies ■ which they now obtain at sec ond hand or we could show to the agriculturist what he might gain by transfer ot his capital and industry • to a country where he could largely ' increase his profits under the same ', conditions of health social relation and the security of laws as he enjoys at home these would be the im i portaut object of demonstration | to accomplish this it would only * be necessary to transfer the store ot mineral specimens already exhibited ' in preceding expositions to london . to them add the woods which have 1 attracted so much attention add to them the fruits of the crops of the mexico's national drink what the napa valley is to sun francisco the western reservoir to ohio or the orange county dairy re gion to new york city are los llam>s ile apam to the city of mexi co — the principal difference being that maguey is milked in lieu of cows ami pulque is the product some idea of the magnitude of this kind of agricul ture niuv be derived from the act that two special pulque trains run daily into the capital city with the same regularity that milk train6 come into our metropolitan cities yielding the railroad a revenue of 1 000 a day freightage the legend runs that somewhere about the year 990 a tol tec indian whose name was p.ipant zin was first to discover that the juice of the agave americana might be dis tilled into a beverage fit for the gods desiring to bring the new blessing into royal favor he commissioned his only daughter xoahiti signifying the lower of anahua as cup bear er to the king this ancient hebe we arc told was young and beautiful and the monarch not only drank and praised the pulque but married the maiden and to this day the bever age of old tap — as no doubt his dtititul descendants call him tor short — is the universal drink of the lower classes of mexico ami no doubt it is one of the most healthful beverages in the world when just right it is milk white thick and ropy much re sembling buttermilk in color taste and consistency the indians are passionately fond of it the one solace and comfort in their lives of toil and penury as nature has placed exhaust less fountains of it by the waysides and in the deserts traveling amer icans turn up their noses at the first taste of it bin generally end by be coming as diligent pulque drinkers as was old p.ipautziu himself — han francisoo mooted changes in congressional procedure xuw yoik herald our wash ing on correspondent re ports that democrats are considering t:ie advisability of making some im portant changes in the rules of the house of representatives they arc first to unite the appropriations committee with the way and means committee and re-impose on the lat ter the duties it was charged with un til 1865 when the appropriations committee was created that seems to us a very sound return to the old practice it is certainly businesslike to let the same commiitee which con siders the expenditures consider also the taxes by which they are to be met in that way the books can be balanc ed and no such oppressive and need less taxatiou would be laid upon the people as resulted during several years in the collection of an enormous sur pins revenue which letl naturally to wasteful and even corrupt legislation second it is proposed according to our correspondent that in making up its schedules of expenditure and taxation the ways and means com iniltee snail balance each of the great n cads of expense by a special lax and he gives a sample of such schedule there would remain always a consid erable variety of expenses to balance which minor taxes would be laid hut undoubtedly such a system would wave ll.e advantage of enabling the people at large to detect easily and quickly any tendency to extravagance or wastet u'l use of money by their uep roe n waives at present while the totals of the appropriation bills arc easily accessible the um are laid with no reference at all to the expen diture and the true relation oi taxa tion to expenditure is concealed from the people third it is suggested that tne the wire-worm has done great damage this season the worm sembles wire heucj its name the bent method of ridding a field of them is by late fall and early spring plow ing as is done for cut worms wee fanny bit her tongue one day and came in crying bitterly vvhat is it asked her mother oli f mam ma !" she u d my teeth stepped on my toungue a minnesota farmer circumvents the cut worms by building boxes for wrens to nest in his garden he says a pair of wrens with a nest full of young will carry an insect of some kind to their young every three to four minutes from clawn to dark and the cut worm is their choicest article of fnod.-ziv