nil i i • 1lt7 j i 1 ill 1 i mil i 1 vv *\ i , il l^i i vol xvii.-thied series salisbury n c august 26 1886 no 44 bead this column carefully meroney & bro's the grand central faxcy d dry goods establishment oi r salisijiiiv il dress trim ■ i il trimmings : lambrequins irg and swiss . large ami !., ■ -; and : the city ». they have the best line of lac ■ ' l » a > . black and oriental aras l0ss ina11 t hel ■ ever sold v ,-,.■: iue o f warner - i orsets ]. ri - , - :: m 13 to 0.00 ur . ; i kid and silk gloves j m - and quality v ,_. ■ ' ■■: • • i kids for n • ment oi ladies and ribp.ed ih'.-k for chil dren a speciality •- from 25c to 1.00 white and colored r la lies lt - , t si raw hats fur hats and , lndii , or boys you tj 1 .. ful you n-ad the more you i .: ■ . have the best i m 1 w ill sell to \ ii at prices my one m yrh sera e1t j 1p3t if 653a ■ shades of dress oodsj veiling at 25c e:nl froid in ktoiuine i binal ion wool kobe dn ss dress ( loods , bouclay i i io is . d seersuckers ging hams vchi'x'zs groods in whiti goods you i-annol l>e pl ii i <■ linen i »■• dai , . linen !'■■; si an law n v :■ i v ute and m ;:: - n'aiusook -. . a < kides oi clieesc cloth cali.-ops 58 . 5e per yard i ear all prii-es i itn k-s from lnjics and mi - jf - ys a full line cur tain ( > : ■ ' '' i i . v i ii illan ■ les oid sli . - ■ 1 1 : d fix linen lup h me to .- i 50 meroney & bro salisbury n.c a h u-a-l-ua h^i =- \\ ~ * - i 1 \ ■' it ~ ~~ — '■ b3s7 eemedy known foe c\t\rrii soks mouth or osjifl 1 i'lliull i in all forms and stages purely veg&tabls reguiats ti j instrument it cures where othera failod to give rtiief dr r b n i .... says 1 suft ted il ■:. ' ! ctai.n i t .. tie dls "( eutain • - ereul rated - ■ ii ." >!■- . . . ■ , i . « ni •-. ■ ttrclj . -. i . ! ■ tes ■;•'. 2 '-"•: 1 <■ -. was ttal.n i atakkh ' ! he in can you doubt such testimony we think not if ates ir ffivi a . c or by 3 c co athens ga j ii knxl-s salisbury n.c f ' the 15th of iviii ;;- q \ • ; ". . . _ my foursi ('■ . irm oil ami 2 a re were i % j t ouechil f i i in one night a *~ 1 v simpson j r 13 iarv 1 l«79 & | •"■ ■ m child five years old,hftd i ' ... inns 1 tried calomi 1 \ \ w urra medicines but hail / &' ' my seeing mr bainv^j v vial of your worm 4 f wo us tin tl the second dose so manyfl \ , i i-oul 1 ii count them | / s m adams {% the'raison d'etre \ eleanor kirk in the omaha world the -;:': ; sky : the same old vessels sailing ly : the same old fanner raking the sand ; the same old fisherman rowing to land the same old lane and the -. me old mud : the same old cow and the same old cud the same old toad and the same old tree : . in sani i id ti n ii r ba kii a1 rue tin same piazza dusty and bare the same old women taking the air with the endless stories of lonf i if the same old ball and thi i au ; ne old dn — . ugh a sin id rush when the mail comes in : the same old fools and th rise men ime old pigs in tin pen old gobblers old men old work old play ■ ti i.'-!:t and the san the same old ■ ig to - t : n hair aiitiquit - chestnut everywhere and its eat and drink and sketch and sew and dn for w hom i'd like to know '.' for strata and fossils and hens and f ee •■. and they'call this health and rest and peace oh bother such rest and health say ' ; d rather be ill — perchance t > die — th i live in the daj s before the ii a ii antique clam in historic mud but this i'll ad i though t ill prove me^bold — one nice young man would at<>ii for the old and take the mil i n fr in land and sea and i guess that's whnt's tli matter with me ! notice about the white insane in it c august 5 l886 by the joint action of the hoards of directors of the north carolina en sane asylum at raleigh and the western north carolina lnsane asy lum at morganton and by virtue of section 2243 of the co le the dividing line between the two institutions has been changed so as to commence on the virginia hue i el ween i rson and grranville counties riu rung south with the eastern boundary liw - ; of the coun ties of persons 1 urham ;..< iiai ham moore an 1 richmond to the south carolina line it being the same hue as at t resent established by ad of con gress between the eastern and west ern federal judicial districts o north carolina hereafter all applications for the ad mission of patients from counties west of said line will be ma ie to the super intendent of the " \\ esteni north caro lina insane asylum at morganton and all applications from counties east of said line will be made to the super intendent of the north carolina in sane asylum ; : raleigh patients now in the asylum at ral ei h from the conni ;■■- of rockingham ird h indolph montgomery rich ; and < laswell will be immediately trauferred to the asylum at morgan ton k i»r.;.\i haywood m i president of the board of directorsjjof i f i he n<)ri ii ' carolina 1 nsane asy lum ai raleigh w j vates president board of directors of the w.-tern n c i ■ me as him at morganton xot . \\ ■■< patient tun r be earned to cither asylum without the wrkten consent of the superintendent there is not room in the asylums cor all wlfo are reported insane the directors have the right to regulate ad mis ions and will use it having in view alwa t s the curability of patients th protection of society and the svel fare of the institutions permission must be first obtained from the au authorities at m irganton before p . tients are carried there without this permission cases must be refused thus inflicting great suffering on the patient expense to the counties and a mosl disagreeable duty on the superinten dent all cases in the new counties assigned to the western asylum at morganton not in the asylum at ral eigh can obtain proper blanks by applying to dr murphy at morganton persons sent to morganton must be committed to the " ii extern x cin sane aaylion or they cannot be ad mitted without violation of law < chis is mentioned because several times per sons have been sent to mopganton who were committed to the n c lnsane asylum at raleigh any information in regard to mat ters concerning the western a ylum will be cheerfully furnished by apply ing to dr murpin at morganton ;.•-,-• papers in the western district will please copy the above if they think proper to do so for the informa tion of their readers and for the benefit of the unfortunate insane the oxford orphan asylum's needs the orphan asylum is just now in special need of funds to meet the < ur v i i xpenses of the in titution and to complete the industrial building which is now in process of reel ion dr dixon writes thai there are now 2ixj children in the asylum and that he must have money to board clothe and ite them the good people of north carolina have always responded to the calls of this asylum for help and surely they will again give a ready re sponse to this appeal dr dixon sends a verv handsome lithograph of the asylum buildings this interesting picture will be sent to any address*by dr dixon upon receipt of fifty cents i or the orphan's friend for one year jand the picture for 1.05 the five cents ' being added to cover the cost of niuil i ;,,,,. £| ie picture every masoi>shonld j have one of these illustrations of a nolile chanty help the orphans v trs-ohxrrrt ,: congressmen who don't pay washington notes in pittsburg dispatch some queer things can be seen about the capita during the last days of the session one of the queerest is the crowd of collectors coining to con gess may be an honor but it cannot be said to make men honorable the average of dead-beats in congress is quite as great as outside on the last days of the session you will find a swarm of flourists livery stable men hotel and boarding-house keepers con stables and professional collectors swarming the corridors looking after delinquent members and trying to catch j them in the halls there are members who systematically rob hotels and haberdashers and all sorts of tradesmen right and left nothing can be legal ' ly done with a member of congress for obtaining money under false pretenses i though it is a jailable offence when committed by common people the only remedy is to make the transaction known f the records of the congres sional dead-beats could be printed a good many people would be astonished a rich joke the washington dispatches disclose a rich joke on the senate it has been the fashion of the senate committees to attempt to discredit the sincerity and good faith of the president in his removal or suspension of republican officials they have studiously tried to make it appear that the president had made removals for party purposes j only and in disregard of his avowed purposes and pledges in order to give the suspended official a send off 1 with a line certificate of character and diploma of martyrdom the commit tees have in numerous eases made re ports and spread them upon the jour nal of the senate reciting in substance that the suspended official was a faith ful one ail i was suspened for political reasons and for no cause reflecting on his character or conduct personal or official a case has come to light which lias very much shaken the value of these indorsements away back in the early part of mr cleveland's administration he had appointed one alonzo i sharp postmaster at mccook neb sharp was appointed as a i h mocrat bui he followed the bad precedents of too many republican officials and was soon short in his accounts thereupon mr ( cleveland promptly suspended him and nominated owe thompson to succeed him the papers were sent to '■ the senate showing that sharp was short in his accounts and was no long er tir for public trust in a public office i \\ ith these facts and undisputed proof of their truth before them the senate committee gravely report to the j senate the following which will be | found in the congressional record of i une 3 page 53s7 on the 11th day of february 1886 the president nominated to the senate ; [■'. a thompson to be postmaster at i mccook neb vice a l sharp sus pended during the recess of the senate the suspension seems to have been irade for political reasons only and the committee has not found anything j in the ease reflecting upon the person al or official character or conduct of the suspended officer mr sharp who was kicked out for a democratic thief finds himself im mortalized in the senate record as a republican martyr no sooner had he been proved a rascal who ought to lie turned out than the republican senators claimed him as their own and clapped on his brow the martyrs crown although a proved defaulter repudiated by his sureties the repub lican senators found nothing in his case reflecting upon his personal or official character or conduct ' several of the inferences are irresis tibly suggested by this incident ia>t - that a senate certificate plastered upon the front of a kicked out official is a very poor label of character secondly — thai when a democrat in office turns oui to be a rogue he thereby is proved to be a spotless re publican and as such the senate take him under the ajgis of its protec t ion thirdly that the republican sena tors consider that when an officer ap plies to his own use the government moneys and becomes the terror of his own sureties there is nothing in such a state of facts which reflects upon his personal or official character ' as the senate record must be taken for absolute verity there is no escape from the.-e conclusions xeic york star a surprised englishman what surprised you most when you landed in america ? ' was asked of ii newly arrived englishman the other day well was the reply u you may think it strang but do you know as a fact what surprised me most was the bar-man in a public house hand ing me the whisky bottle across the counter and telling me to help myself what a wonderfully sober people they must be here thought 1 when they e.-m be trusted to help themselves to the whisky bottle why if such a thing was to be done in england yon would have the streets blocked iii the neighborhood with people anxious to help themselves woodrow sustained the last day of the trial at bethany dr adams of augusta presents the prosecution — dr woodrow defends his doctrines — he is declared not guilty ox both counts his argu ment bethany ga august 17 — a large crowd was present at the woodrow trial for heresy before the augusta presbytery today after sensational passages between dr adams and woodrow dr adams the accused proceeded to cross-examine him self as to his course in preferring charges against woodrow after which argument began by dr adams on be half of the prosecution the only point was the correctness of views held by the accused were they in accord with the scriptures as interpreted by the presbyterian church we thought it the ino.it important case coming before the house it was a crisis in the church we are trying dr woodrow on the question of evolution either as an ab stract principle or scientific hypothesis dr woodrow admits he finds nothing i a the bible to contradict the theory that all things were made by the immediate act of the creator and that it was develop ed by evolution the speaker then at length reviewed dr woodrow's argu ments and position on the question tt issue calling attention to the belief held that god's word teaches that man's soul was immediately created his spiritual nature came into existence by the fiat of the almighty ho drew the conclusion from the evidence that dr woodrow held that just as the horse came man came 11 you gentlemen of the court must say today is this to be the doctrine your church founded on the scriptures as interpreted by standards are you pre pared to make this admission dr adams argued to prove dr woodrow had passed the age of doubt in teaching evolution and hud accepted evolution as true beyond peradventure the scriptures are not silent on the subject the bible and confessions of faith both give accounts of the imme diate making of man the defendant having sworn to adopt the standards and catechisms of church could not exercise the right of private judgment to teach any other doctrine dr wood row is bound by the story of creation in the standards just as by otllfcr rules hither have the standards altered else step down and out the confession of faith said clod's body was erected after ail the other creatures dr wood row's theory was that it was being created along with other creatures all | the time iod created man sayo one church out of the dust of the earth and wo man out of the rib of man should dr woodrow be acquitted by the pres bytery the church would be pronoun ced in error " dr woodrow in his own defense announced that the principles of his address were true and would prevail against all opposition he said his work had nothing to do with his change in views i will not discuss evolution here for i would consider it a profanation to discuss a question of pure science in a court of the lord jesus christ but thinking it unsafe for the presbytery to has any action on the views as interpreted by dr adams he would explain that he had traced layer after layer and fosil and knew along with others that these forms of life have followed each other in that particular order that is the part that is not a hypothesis my accusers hypothesis that this is a hypothesis is a vast mistake 1 am surprised that dr adams should be ashamed of havmg been a quadruped explain what you mean by your last assertion i man that man before birth pass ed through these intermediary tauv how are you going to prove that i am wrong i have never said that evolu tion was taught in the bible or any thing like it but i do say that the bible does not tell us whether the pro cess was mediate or immediate dr woodrow said the standards did not go further in explaining the crea tion of man than the bible had done he affirmed in spite of what dr adams had said about him that lie did believe in the bible and all that it taught was he compelled to believe in what it did not teach he affirmed that he would not re-write a single syllable of the church standards he would not take man's meaning in pre ference to god's meaning dr woodrow npp^a'od in the name of the master that iro word or oppro biura in the church be placed tliat no additional meaning be placed on god's word one the final vote thirteen voted for dr woodrow not guilty and nine voted him guilty on the first count of the indictment o.i the other counts the majority of his votes was larger dr adams conducting the prosecution * at once gave notice of appeal to synod in sparta in october the presbytery then adjourned a missinf briigroom against a host of competitors i had won the love of mary ireton and was to lead her to the alter on the morrow and as i sat there that calm bright evening gazing out at the stars that seemed to look smilingly there rose but a single disquieting question — would i be able to make her happy as she deserved to be it w.is late when i retired to my chamber turning down the light i threw myself on the bed hoping in sleep to tinnihilate the remaining hours that delayed my happiness 1 slept and must have slept soundly for the time passed seemed a blank when the suns rays penetrating my still closed eyelids i lay in that half dreamy state in which the newly awakened sleeper's suspended memo ries one by one come straggling back why it's my wedding day 1 ex claimed at length opening my e with a start and sitting bolt upright hut where where am i was the next exclamation as i sprang to my feei and looked wildly about 1 had — i was certain of that — gone to bed in my own room a chamber on the second floor of the commodious new dwelling with which in view of my prospective change of life i had re placed the old cabin on my ranch which had served well enough for a frontier bachelor's home but where was it i now found my self xo ceiling was overhead no walls surrounded me i had lain down the night before without undressing and still had on the same garments - the only tangible circumstance to re pel n grewiag suspicion that i was un der some strange delusion as to my identity i was alone in the heart of a dens forest without the presence of hum in sight or sound how had i come there — had never been a sleep walker and could hardly think it credible i could have been con veyed thither without my own known ledge my speculations were interrupted by the sound of waves at no great distance 1 hastened in the direction whence it came and soon reached a low shelv ing beach against which the surf beat violently was i on the main land or on one of the innumberable islands that dot the gulf off the southern coast oi : texas near which my ranch lay i marked the spot and began a brisk walk along the shore at intervals as my eyes glanced seaward patches of forests like wooded islands rose to view but all too distant to be reached without a boat had 1 been ever so ex pert a swimmer in somthing over two hours by my watch which i found in its fob i came aigain in sight of the mark that noted my starting point it was now certain that i was on an island by whatever means i had gotten there and if as i conjectured it was one of the unin habited group that lay some leagues off the texan coast i illicit remain there for months years a life time indeed without a chance rescue no vessels ever came that way and there was nothing not even a mustang to en tice visitors red or white it would be tedious and nothing like as entertaining as the story of robin son crusoe to tell of my solitary life for the next two months the inlets abounded with fish which i found no difficulty in scooping up with a net made of strips of pawpaw bark knotted together i had some matches in my cigar case with which i was enabled to start a fire there being a good sup ply of dry wood in the shape of fallen branches i was at least in no dang er of starving and might even enjoy the luxury of cooked food there were several varieties of small game to >. surprisingly tame from not being hunted with my pocket knife i whittled out a bow from a tough piece of sappling which i furnished with a string twisted from fine strands of bark and equipped with this to varv my diet of fish with an occasional quail or rabbit what most of all pressed upon m spirits was the fear of what mary ireton might think of ray mysterious absence how could she account for it how could i account for it ration ally myself must she not conclude that i had shamefully jilted her the verv th nght was torturing beyond en durance one morning as i lay in my rude hut ruminating on the hardship of my fate and trying to solve its terrible mystery i heard the report of a gun followed by a loud halloo hounding to my feet 1 started and ran in the di rection of the sound shouting with all my might words cannot picture the joy that thrilled me at the sight of a small rchooner from which a small boat with i wo men was putting in for the i shore 1 dashed into the surf to catch j the rope flung out and the next mo ' ment the prow rested safely on the i beach owens forbes ! how are von old j boy ?"' cried a hearty voice that i had j not heard for ten years but recognized i at once as dick jocelyn's my old chum at cranboy's academy and whom i had invited to come a thousand miles to be best man at my wedding dick must have thought a bear was hugging him as in all the shagginess of two months growtli of hair and beard i sprang forward and caught i him in ray arms dick my dear old friend how did you find me out ?"' 1 cried sobbing like a baby come aboard the schooner and i'll tell you said dick i suppose you have no particular amount of packing : up to detain you with a laugh i sprang into the boat followed by dick and his companion the latter first giving us a good shove out and in two minutes we were on the schooner's deck do you know how i got there ?"' i asked dick as we scudded by my late abode not possessing the gift of wings its safe to presume you didn't fly he re plied but that isn't answering your question i only found out this truth myself two nights ago you know lot gresham i suppose ?"' yes he was my chief rival for mary reton's hand but stay — what does mary think ':" be patient 1 said dick and you shall hear all after traveling night and day to be at your wedding i arrived to find the bridegroom missing and everything in confusion there were but two people who didn't think you were plaving false your humble servant was one and mary ireton the other god bless her !"' i couldn't help interrupting mr ireton it seemed had always favored gresham's suit and after your desertion as he called it he sought again to urge him on his daughter but her refusal was tinner than ever i was taking a stroll the other night and at the same time trying to think out the puzzle of your disappear ance when 1 overheard two men in earnest conversation some words i overheard caused me to stop and listen i soon dieovered that the speakers were your late ab ductors and that one of them was lot gresham the other was insisting on the plot and lot was begging off bo cause his scheme of marrying miss ireton and getting in funds by it h d come to naught all i had to do was to follow up ire-ham's accomplice pay him a liber al sum lown and promise as much more when he had piloted me to you which he has faithfully done but how did they spirit me away 1 i couldn't refrain from asking easily enough they hid them selves in that b : g lonely houseof yours : waited till you fell asleep chloroform ed you and kept you in that condition till they left you in a place whence your coming back wxs as little likely as from the grave 1 i will not prolong my story by attempting to describe the meeting ag;iiu of dear mary and myself as my friend had truly stated she had never for a moment doubted me a new wedding was fixed and this time the groom was forthcoming it was a lucky thing for lot gresham considering the state of public senti ment that he was among the first to learn of my return and took prompt advantage of the knowledge to decamp to parts unknown the average well-water dr e 1 marsh in the sanitary moniter it is a common belief that when a well is dug pure spring water oozing from the ground is obtained that is true in the case of artesian wells but although possible is rarely the case in ordinary surface wells and under till head an embraced all wells not more than fifty feet deep the water ob tained from these wells is merely the water which has fallen on the surface of th ground in ram and has perco lated through the soil and becomes collected in this excavation it is call ed ground water even granting that some of the water may be spriug water mime of it must be the result of drain age and the amount of t!i will de pend upon the rain-fall and the char acter of the nil a moment's reflection will show that wells must act as drains to the surrounding s ii j t as a wet field may be dried by digging one or more trenches into which the soil may drain and be carried away so when a deeji tremh or well i.s dug the water from the surrounding soil will neces sarily tend to drain into it this i not only a matter of reasoning but a matter of experience the following ease is reported in consequence oi the escape of the contents of a barrel of petroleum or benzine which had been buried in an orchard a circuit of wells gofeet below and 250 or 300 van distant became so affected that the occupiers of fifteen houses con taining eighty two inhabitants were for ten days nnable to use the water for cooking or drinking 1 when wells are first dug in rural districts the water is pure and may remain so for a long time fortunately the soil po-sesscs some powers of purification and although the soil may receive pol luting matter on the surface of the ground some of this matter is detain ed mechanically by alteration and other portions may he decomposed ami taken up by growing plants and trees hut this power of the soil is limited when the sources of pollution arc con stant and numerous as in cities from privies cess-pools slop water oital and the manure of domestic animals and sometimes from leaky and imper fect sewers and drains the soil becomes hlth-.-odden and the tilth is carried leeper and deeper until finally it ap pears in our drinking water sanitary literature is full of instances of the jutbreaks of epidemics of diarrha's ty phoid fever and cholera which have been traced to the drinking of well water thus polluted and even though he city may go jhrougb one or tn ire pears without such epidemics it is not i pleasant thought for the inl abitants to indulge in thai they are drinking he drainage of their privies and cesf ools and yet they must realize the dca that their wells are and most lx lrains for the surrounding ground with ill its contents that are capable of so lution in water science cannot te.l as that a given water is charged with the poison of a definite disease but it jan tell us that it has received the pro lucts of decaying mutter from ani mal sources ami experience has shown igain and again that such water i.s langerous to health the sheriff took charge of the chicago magazine before miss cleve land did and she might s;i in the midst of literary life we are in death 1 a c^viid tn nil who are suffering from the error and indiscretions t youth net volts weak ness curly decay loss of manhood r.,l will send a recipe that will cure you kkkk of ciianok this great remedy was dis covered by a missionary in south america send a selt-addressod envelope ic the rev joseph t inmak station h xor york city 4:ly blodd~and mon£y the blood of man has mrch to doin shaping his iirtinn rlnrii g his pilgrimage through tin trouble-ome world regardless it the aniout ■ ! pres nt or expectant mnncv in pocket or store<l away in bank h i a i ciii < i!i i fa t that u i appear as our blood makes us and the purci the blood the happier healthier prettier and wiser we are hence the oft repeated interroga tory how is your mood 1 with pure streams of life-giving llnm coursing through our veins bounding through our hearts and ploughing i trough our physical frames our morals he ome better our constitution stronger cur ineellectual faculties more ai ute and gmnder,and men women and children happier healthicrand more lovely the nnprecedenntial demand the nn paralclled curate powers ami iheunmi takable profffrom those ol unimpeachable character and integrity point with n unerring finger tu b 1 15 hotanic i!lo<i balm as fur the best the cheapest the quickest and the grandest and most powerful blood remedy ever before known to mortal man in the reliel and positive curt <>! scrofula rheumatism skin dis eases ail taints f blood poison kidney complaints old ulcers and sores cancers catai ili etc h i i i only il".':t three year old — i bnbv in age i l'iant iii power but no remedy in america can make or pver has made such a wonderful showing in its musical powers in coring and entirely eradicating the above complaints and gigantic sales in the face of frrnzied oppo sition and would-be moneyed mooopo lists letter from all points where introduced are pouring in upon us speak in it its in!iilc praise ><■.»(■ ay they receive more benefit from one imttleofb h 1 than they have from i wcaty thirty and fifty and tvaii one hundred bottles of a ■ ■! decoction of iw-rt and non-med inal runt a 1 hranches of c mmon forest trees we hoid the proof in black md a hite an i w e also hold t fort polircmnii views mrs m m i * i ;:>•'-. laving t 38 west fair st atianta ga ha been troubled for several months with an iiu'ly form f i v ii ii copious and offrn iv ili ■:...!■_'• fi nm !>■ t ii nostrils i[ir ~ v t iu in injc " affected nnd ed ill it i n ■•- c nfined to bid t - • , and rec ived tlio iittenl ! l used a dozen but ■ advertised • ik least liencfit 1 , the use of h 15.15 with ii decided iinprov sm nt nj once ami ten bottles had been usi-d she was fall -;. mptoms i f catarrh j gave he an appetite ami in t i-c<l her atrengl ii rapidly nnd 1 cm erfully rec sind cheap blood p ifier 1 w gr.oeh ' - ■;. policeman a book op wonders free it thf cau r . .■..--• i . and s r fuloti v ,: - . • i in k ine oin i mall m .-, a boot or won f-n , iitllut proof ev " rb * . i!i.(k.i)iiu.m m 7)t.l,«..l a i