the carolina watchman vol xvhi.--third series salisbury n c thursday may 12 1887 no l9 may i •■!„ calendars the month of may [ s marked the month of love two lovers m ray j •!,,. old wood cuts in i finest grepn j ,, kinjj their love into each other's eyes \, i dreaming hapi>in«*s that n*ver dies and then they talk unheard and walk un seen g a ve by the birds who chant a louder lay to welcome such true lovers with the may i ed by the jocund trains of vernal hours and vernal airs npiose the gentle may ling she rose and blushing rose the flowi that sprung spontaneous in her genial ray ; her io<>k3 with heaven's ambrosial dews were bright and sm'rous zephyrs fluttered in her breast with every shining gleam of morning light the color shifted of her rainbow v st imperial ensigns graced her smiling form a golden key and a golden jviind she bore this charms to peace each sullen eastern btorm and that unlocks the summer's copious tore onward in conscious majesty she cumc the grateful honors of ma kind to taste to gather fairest wreaths of future cone and l>!end fresh triumphs with her ied past vain hope so more the maypole's verdant height around to valour's games the ambitions youth advance | icrry belts and tabor's ppi i 1 sound i wake the loud carol and the sportivi d-.llicf " ■ mfu!mmiii*.^j^-l>u.a < ja.xjjmmi i purely vegetable it acts with extraordinary efficacy or the tiver k idneys 1 a and bowels an effectual sfecific for maliiria l$o\v«-l complaints dyspepsia su-k headache constipation biliousness kidney affections jaundice mental lu-prrssion i>lie no household should b without it oiid by tifingkepi ready for immediate use will i\r many in hour of suffering mid man y u dollar in time and doctors bills there is but one simmons liver regulator see that you get the genuine with red 2 on front of wrapper prepared only by j h.zeilin &. co sole proprietors philadelphia pa pkick si 00 fledmont wag0nj made at hickory n 0 can't be beat thev stand where they ought to right square atthefr2nt it was a hard fight but they have won it just read what people say about them and if you want a wagon come quickly and buy one either for cash or on time saiiskcuy x c sept 1st 1 ssg rears asjo i bought avery light two piedmont wagon of the agent jno a u used it near'y fill the time . tried i severely iu hauling saw i hei heavy toads and have not : i pay one c nt for rep.iirs 1 look : ii ■ piedmont wagon as t he best thim - ■ _■ i maile in the i'nited states i in t hem is most excellent well si ..-■' .' i . ti i:n kit 1 tiiom imi s u.1sbcry x < '. an 27th ism fo ] bought oi jno a h - piedmont wajrou u hich uu li service a i > 1 n i i:u ! i it oken or uiven away anil conseijuent : nothing tor repairs john 1 iiexi.y saltpnuky n ( '. sept m 18sg nl ',<- igo 1 bought ol john a l . i ii : , 2 inch thimble skein pied ■ wagon and have used it pretty in in li - time an 1 i has proved to be a tir-t rati vvaijon nothing about it has uiven ■ fore it has required no re t a walton s m.isr.ikv n ('. sept slh ls x i - . inths a '<> 1 bought of the agent in su . 1 1 try i 2 in thimble i.<-'m piedmonl i t heir li-jht -■ one-horse w tijjon i ■ ki-pt it in almost constant use and :_' tli tinih hive h:inl<-i nn it at irast 7 loads of wood and that withoul any ■ ■ ■ ■■ ■• ■ i i w ■ ! i ■■■ a mob attempted to break the jail and mob a negro murderer at louis ville kv recently but was foiled by the police the new york star voicing i he city demands home rule it seems the legislature of the state exerts a power over the government of the city which is often detrimental to its best interest home rule in new york means a cii y government wholly by the city an old oft-ivpeated story : husband goes home drunk he is soon displeas e i with everything in the house and begins to abuse his wife from vile and profane words he directly gets to blows hi knocks down his wife with a chair the tong or anything he can lay hands on the screaming children are also knocked over killed or wound ed every day all the year round such cases are reported in the public journals new york we think supplies more than her proportionate share of these crimes chargeable to whiskey marshal key's identity hk is said to hate bees a maryland tobacco i'lantkr named rudolph washington star your notice of the purpose of several prominent physicians oi salisbury sec tion i north carolina to exhume the remains of peter s ney from their grave at third creek rowan county for the purpose of ascertaining whether thev are those of the famous marshal nev of france c c recalls to mind efforts made more than forty years ago to ascertain and determine to my own satisfaction whether or not one micha el rudolph who had a small farm on which he cultivated chiefly tobacco and a small log cabin at the head of chesa peake hav after the peace of i v o with great britain was in after times the famous michael ney the emper or napoleon's greatest marshal who was condemned to be shot by a court martial at paris during the possession of that city by the allies and who it i was supposed at the time was actually > h,>t by a platoon of his own corps the story of michael rudolph supposed , to have become ney by many persons is too long an one to otter for publica tion now the evidence i obtained at the time from the columns of paulson's advertiser philadelphia of the alleged testimony of marshal mortier of france one of the witnesses before the court in paris which tried and found him guilty of treason who it is said in giving his opinion of ney said that in his opinion ney would sell france with as little scruple as he sold his plug tobacco at cherbourg the efforts of m geret the notorious ex-minister of france to the united states whose ! relation had married ney to suppress and stay the discussion commenced in paulson's advertiser and other papers the beliefs and members of the ru dolph family on the wife's side in the vicinity elkton mil sopelo ga and of published statements of persons of the highest respectability of north ! carolina and afterward residents of i missouri all went then to satisfy me that michael rudolph who was a sol dier in our southern campaigns during our revolutionary war with great brit ain and given by his comrades the soubriquet of the bravest of the brave ' j which he afterwards won in the napo leonic wars l"le brave des brave j and who for do me tic reasons or suspicions left the neighborhood of his log cabin one evening went on board of his little freighting vessel in which he i had been in the habit of carrying his j own and his neighbors tobacco from i the chesapeake to the west indies and j disappeared never again to appear in i that vicinity as michael rudolph when our commissioners sent to the french directory were in paris and i before being ignominiously ordered out of the country mr monroe also saw and recognized him it was said mr laurens think it was of south caro lina ) is reported to have said to a friend on his return home do you remem ber the soldier michael rudolph who was so gallant in our struggle and who was called by his comrades the bravest of the brave "' yes said bis friend ; what of him well before the j directory sent us our passports we were present at a grand review on the champs de mars and there i saw ru dolph litterally in high feather as a ere nyral officer of the french army i mr monroe also saw and recognized i him it is said whether marshal nev skull was trephined or not or whether it is a matter of importance or interest to the people of this country that mi chael rudolph of north east ni the head of chesapeake bay and the fa i mous michael ney field marshal of ; france was one and the sain man 1 am satisfied in my ovvn mind from the investigations i made more than forty years ago at elktown md and the pa pers published in st louis mo long ago after i had concluded my inquiries that michael rudolph the bravest of rhe brave in our continental army and michael nev french lielj-niarsha mobt unjustly c mdemed by a coerced military tribunal in paris france in i ] v o i were one and the same man ' [< hi been said and never i to e ) satisfactorily refuted that a poor soldier i was pensioned by the empire and when he asked for what that bounty ' was bestowed upon him he was told s his name was ney and he was the father of the great field marshal bot-c ttiboro the descendants of the french marshal are rich and were un der the second empire powerful tlie maryland elkton and vicinity and the sopelo georgia rudolph are 1 fan cy content to let the name of the man who deserted his wife without sufficient cause las asserted 40 years ago resi in the households of these most worthy and respectable descendants t a j [ the above is written by admiral thornton alexander jenkins of wash ington a descendant of lieut col john alexander jenkins one of the proprietary governors of north caro lina michael ney one of the bravest of napoleons marshals was born at saarlouis on january 10 1769 his father who had been a soldier gave him a fairly good education and obtained for him ; an appointment in some neighboring mines but his heart was set on the army and in 1 7s7 he went to met and en ; listed in a regiment of hussars hut for the revolution he could never have i become more than a sargeant but in ■ the new state of things he was elected : lieutenant and afterwards captain of his regiment he was promoted col onel in september 1794 and his merits were so great that jourdon and kleber | actually quarreled which should have : his services in february 1795 he modestly refus \ ed the rank of general of brigade " lie i commanded the advanced guard of kleber at the battle of altenkirchen and was made general of brigade on the h'eld of torchiem in 1798 he was sen to switzerland and there reorganized massena's caval | rv and distinguished himself in mas ] sena's great campaign in which he j was three limes wounded and after i which h was made general of division in 1802 he married mademoiselle i anguie whom josephine had chosen : for him at bonaparte's request in the name id the army he begged ! napoleon to declare himself emperor ! anil on tin establishment of the em j pire he was made marshal of france j and grand cross of the legion of hon or in lsild for his victory at elchin i gen he was made duke of elcingen he missed the battle of austerlitz but was present at je.no eylan and friend laud and was so instrumental in win ning the hitter th it napoleon called him irene's des braces and gave him the grand eagle of the legion of honor in l810 he was in command of a corps in portugal under massena but they quarreled so much that ney was recalled and given command of 3rd corps in the grand army of 1812 in the disastrous retreat at moscow it was nev who commanded the rear guard and kept what was left in tut army together he served at lilt sen and leipsic and in the last defensive campaign of 1814 and with macdonald remained faithful to napoleon to the last in i bio he was given command of the army sen to check napoleon on escaping from kib.i but the sight of the old colors and his old commander was too much for him and he led his troops over to napoleon's side in the flemish campaign he fought the bat tle of quartra bras against the english on the same day that napoleon defeat ed the prussians at ligny and at waterloo he commanded in person the last charge of the old guard he mad 1 no attempt to leave france and was arrested as a traitor on de cember v.il he was found guilty of hi<*h treason by the house of peers and sentenced to be shot two days alter he was supposed to have been shot in the garden of the luxembourg paris shortly after there was a revulsion of feeling in re gard to ney a handsome monument was erected and his supposed body was taken up and placed in a new grave his family asseri that when hiabody was taken up there was bullet holes in his skull and breast tin character of ney was that of a simple soldier intensely brave though without the rash impetuosity of a mnrat he was yet as modest as he was brave as a general his condnct of the two retreats from portugal and russia are hi chief titles to fame _ — .«,. she broke the engagement because she saw that he had ceased to love her her beauty had laded her former high spirits hail given place to a dull lassitude what had caused this change functional derangement she was suffering from those ailments peculiar to her sex and so their two young-lives drifted apart how needless how cruel had she taken dr pierce's favorite pre scription she might have been restored to health and happiness fany lady reader of these lines is similarly afflicted let her lose no time in procuring the favorite prescription it will ii her a new lease of life sold by druggists under a positive guarantee from the manufac turers of perfect satisfaction in every case or monej refunded see guarantee u;i botllj v tapper plow ;.;. 1 v ;; r,y while grass is growing a'jout tobacco this i.s the way rill xye puts it in the boston globe xo doubt some of the finest flavored : smoking tobacco in the world is grown , in this state it is a bright and beau tiful golden color sis thin as f issue pa 1 per and smells well while in the act of feeding itself to the devouring ele j inents tobacco has been known to our race for about four centuries and during that time it has made wonderful j strides it is sad to think of the suffering : that existed throughout the length and : breadth of the land before tobacco was ' discovered tobacco is grown upon the rich red hillsides of north carolina and vir ginia by means of agriculture the venetian-red soil of the south has to be fertilized before it wii.^roducc much tobacco the best fertilizer is the handiwork of signor guanoof peru whose works are very popular in the south the soil is tickled with a hoe and j african humorists who can amuse a plantation in th;s way readily command 1 a salary of about 7 per month fertilizing is quite expensive and it ; requires a good crop to get e\en on the i year's expenditures for labor fertilizers etc due man 1 heard of the other day ! sold his crop two weeks ago and still i lacked 4.85 of having enough to pay ! off mr guano such things as these do much to dis courage the use of agriculture as a me ins of relaxation in the south tob ceo is a strong growing herba '. cerous fuzzy nim il rising frequently , to a height of'tix feet unless topped ' ! the only ornament worn by the adult ; tobacco plant is a large thick-set worm which may be secured by imbedding him between the leaves of mr web i sier's verbose dictionary and then deftly dosing the volume on opening the book years afterward i the still features of the worm may still i i>e detected tobacco is no t sold at the south by the producer at a regular price per pound but he hauls it into the ware house and when there is a break or sale his tobacco is sold at auction though sometimes it is bought at pri vate sale the pinhooker is a peculiar feature of the private sale business pinhook cr work in threes pinhooker a goes : to the horny-handed producer and says | i will give you sso for your lot tobac 1 co is falling a little to-day and 1 will not hold that offer good for more than . an hour the producer refuses to ac cept the offer pretty soon pinhooker h comes up i to him and says i'll offer you 68 for your lot if you give me a reply soon i what do you say r the pfanter gets a little scared i over the falling market but refuses to sell then c comes in and offers 60 if accepted promptly and the now thor ! oughlv frightened toiler rushes around ; to hurt a and accept his offer but a ' says it is too late the market is too . shakey he then scours the premises for 11 who reluctantly takes the goods at about 15 less than they are worth this is another reason why the do main of agriculture at the south is now rarely invaded by the white man tobacco is used in the preparation of , snuff fine-cut tobacco and plug tobacco ft is frequently used also to flavor ci gars and sometimes in the better grade of cigarettes the exports of tobacco from 1850 to 1s72 increased from 0,517,251 in val ue to 28,547,862 ten years ago the internal revenue from tobacco was nearly 40,000,000 for years it has been a favorite amuse ment on the part of the i nited states to jerk a few millions of revenue now and then out of that poor tobacco ag riculturalist and soak the amount into the various revenues whern the great ausage grinder of government needed more means that is the reason why so many nickel cigars are being sacrificed at the rate of two for a qnarter other information regarding the great tobacco industry is liable to follow close upon the heels of this trea tise the beautiful indian maiden you hive read of the beautiful in dian maiden i have and i thought as 1 read of her that she was as attrac tive and pocahontax-like as the histo rian had portrayed her well she doosn't look like you think she would she is generally a big fat filthy looking creature with a blanket around her that comes to her knees bareheaded with moccassins o.i that she generally pulls off when they are worn out * the blanket is fastened at the neck and also with a belt at the waist one thing and one only i will siy for them they have the most beautiful pearl looking teeth i ever saw chattanooga times when a man boasts that he moves in the best of society it may not be impertinent to suggest that it is proba bly because he is not permitted to stay in if jay gould's new private car now under construction will cost 20,000 it will be 70 feet long have five apart m uts and bo called the atlanta for the watcliman a copyrighted fable the jay bird said to the horny owl : — ■ if i were you old twit-tu-whoo 1 would not in the dark night prowl but hunt while skies are bright and blue hunt food by day sing roundelay nor court the moon with mournful tune nor children scare and raise their hair all out of curl you crusty churl and i'd let the gray old wood-mice play tu-whit tu-whoo ! if i were you with bitter scrowl replied the owl mind my own biz i would you phys ical compost of gab — the worst cuckold and scold and quareller bold the woods produce the very deuce in plumage nice ! take nnj advice : — i would not dress so fine i guess - mind my own biz — tu-whit tu-whiz tu-whit tu-whoo if i were yon !"' > just here a hawk on his morning walk in search of something nice and sweet swooped down beside em for a ride as was his wont when tired his feet j on jaybird's back jay's bones to crack ! jay's fancy gown to strip right down ! stop ! " cried the owl with angry scrowl dat ish not right me you must fight ; and whip ere harm yon can that charm j ing bird the jay who all the day ' hunts worms while you tu-whit tu whoo | rob murder steal and raise the de'il i lu general mong the fowls — unhung \ marauding felon put my talon in your eyes i will !" surprise deponent seized while jay-bird sneezed and thanked his star he wasn't thar j | came tug of war by bill and claw j and feathers hew and tough hide too - ' j deponent laughed deponent left moral i all ordinary quarrel oft ; is changed to melodies most soft | when gainst a common enemy we must make common cause or die i how oft have hunger sword or lire | tamed foolish rash fraternal ire ! ; how oft a poor man's drowning cry hath reconciled his enemy ; who there hath given the helping hand , that cooled their wrath and blest the land ! may,18s7 k p h true politeness a kind heart is the first essential of true politeness the other day we saw i a poor woman her arms laden with bundles trying to open the lid of a street letter-box dozens of people jostled by her without offering help '. but presently a finely dressed young lady came along who with her daintily ; gloved hand lifted the lid then smiled ! and passed on as if she were in the habit of being thoughtful for others the same spirit characterized the fol i lowing act told in the christian ad vocate : an aged truckman bent under the weight of a big roll of carpet his balehook fell from his hand and bound ed into the gutter out of reach twenty idle clerks and sidesmen saw the old min's predicament and smiled at his look of bewilderment no one ventuied to help him a fashionably dressed young woman came along book in the situation at a glance and without looking to the right or left stepped into the gutter picked up th ; hook in her dainty gloved fingers and handed it to the mau with a pleasant smile the idlers looked at each other and at the fair young woman the old truckman in a violent effort to express his thanks politely lost his hat it rolled into the gutter where the hook had been this was almost too much for any woman young or past young but this new york girl was equal to the occasion into the gutter she tripped again and got the soiled hat when she handed it to the truckman a happy smile was seen to play about her lips god bless ye miss 1 the man said as the fair maiden turned her back on the idlers and went on her way the last legislature passed i law vhich persons who havi houses built and the contract o s lor i ui i < tin _ the same had bet tes take notice of the law requires that the contractor shall furnish the owner an itemized statement of what is due mechan ics and laborers and i!so requires the owner to retain enough of the con tract money to pay such laborers and me chanies the claim of a laborer or mechanic is a lien up n a biiildingvwithout the pro cess of filing a lien the law will hen dif ficult one to enforce hut somebodj is going to vet into trouble if they don't look ouj — charlotte democrat the moravians in former years practiced a number of customs which today would i appear peculiar l>ut they were good and time and progress have not improved upon them one was that no younger and very few older citi/rns were to be seen upon the street at night and nine o'clock was a gen eral time for retiring now-a-«l;iys i «<•>■* have gotten to be real night owls nml it youngster will learn more mischief turned loose u u>n the streets for one niglil than he will at home in a life time m r al : keep l>oy at home winston rcj»mi can \< everj thread of gold is v ilu-hle so is every i r.xi.'.it ■>'. \.'\±. x . the potato bag this bug is not very large by him self but he is coining in now for a large amount of attention in this ( iry especially on account of his number the bugs have arrived here in millions and are increasing every lay causing uneasiness among truckers ami garden ers for their potatoes the n c ex periment station that department has been furnished the following which will prove of interest and be profit able numerous inquiries from different points indicate that we are having an unusually numerous visitation from this destructive beetle the impression prevails that they have been multiply ing and extending throughout north carolina in the last few years last summer the moisture in the ground favored the development of the pupae and this probably accotrats for our ex tra crop of the beetle this year this insect which was first exten sively noticed in the far west in ln'u traveled eastward at first at a rate f sixty to seventy-five miles a year but it must have gained strength tramping because it got to the ohio by 09 and appeared in this state four or five years ago its ravages appear greater the first few years then people learn to tight them better and we do not hear so much about them in this state we hear that they are very numerous about raleigh and tarboro as they may have come to stay we will repeat the oft told tale of ' tho dorpphora decem-ineata the colorado or western potato bug kadi female deposits 1,000 to 1,200 eggs upon the under node of the young leaves in clusters more or less regu larly arranged the larva 1 hatch in six days there are several broods annu ally and the last brood of them passes the winter as pupae in the earth the pupa 1 remain during summer as pupae i only from ten to twelve d lys then comes the perfect bsetle which is ready to lays fj in about fifteen days from the c this period varies with the weather and the supply of food the eggs are yellow and a t iched to the leaf by one end the larva is pale yellow with a reddish ting \ and a lateral row of black dote it is at this ; stage that they do their mischief feeding ; upon the plants about seventeen d ivs the beetle is distinguished by his ten separate stripes five on each side it is said that lime will keep j lavae back but knocking them off with a paddle is the surest way to destroy them paris green mixed wit ten parts of flour or eight parts of dry wool ashes dusted over the plants when the dew is on th m will kill them at once paris green costs from is to j ) cents a pound do not use it stronger than the above and avoid breathi.i the dust as far as possible knights of labor in the country we have reliable information tluit this organization is secretly at work in onr connty forming assemblies this work is being carried on very se cretly in certain sections of t he coun try the plan being t organize the colored element heretofore this or der h;i confined itself principally to the cities the plan is now t at in the farm hands as well the colored ition of the south presents a tempting field because of the vast political influence it will give in na tional contests if it can bul be secured then too it will furnish considerable revenue to help to support the order during strikes in the cities in other words these farm laborers will be taxed tu support the northern me chanic during the strikes these strikes have drawn so considerably upon the funds of the order that some thing must lie don •. the scheme for this country is to m the negroes thoroughly organized before harvest | when they will strike for higher wages chere is a pennsylvanian a new corner in the southern portion of the county a mechanic n trade who is now ami has been very busy in this direction for some time if this plan is carried out of course ii is going to create con siderable annoyance loss and trouble both to the emplover and employed our fanners should get up a counter organization and nip thi thing in th bud if they can if they cannot do this they should be prepared as far as possible to meet the issue chahottrs rille jcffi rsonian , a gentleman writing us from brooklyn n v with reference to our item about the yankee lawyer's offering to restore an old record book of howan county lor 100 answers our question what ought to be donewithsuchn fellow as follows publish his name and address 1 promise you the <;. a r men of hi town will make it hot for tym if he should refuse to return it " our correspondent ays further : i have a copy of corinne or italy l>v madame j>i stacl thai 1 found in vir ginia while with my regiment in front of petersburg during the fall of ls«4 i am anxious to return it to its owper as i am assured ii will serve t bring back to him pleasant memories l4 of day departed never to return will you help me to jind hiiii the following inscription is on the fly l l at : harrison 1 lyon feb'y t 61 l'niversity n l a philopena present for miss emma a brains from vour friend ii 1 lyou edgecombe co x c april lbth 1863 \ erj truly yours d f wiught '_'"■.:! jreene av brooklyn n y harrison !' lj'on was a brave young officer who fell on the reid of buttle he \. ;- from the neighborhood of whitakers ! and went out is a private in the bethel regiment lie afterwards became a lieu tenant .'!"!.•• x \\ - and i<.-.-i tr will be '• very happy to aid mr wright in restor ing the philopeun present with its a i sociations to whomsoever it maj now le ! long raleigh xcus and observer km r'jjsr^jpl " y^^bb bgvk bbw lf mbh eczema eradicated gentlemen k is duo yon to bay t!i i t think t am entirely well of crr?m after having taken swift's s>pecilic i have been troul in ray face since la*t spring at the berinnins of cold weather isi i . a slight appearance but went awaj and nasaeverreturned s s s no doubt broke ii '" " i and i got well it alao benefited my wife gi ind made a perfect cure f a breaking out on rov little three year ofj ■ ,,„,„, watkinsvuletga feb i l&b kbt james \ . h koeius treatise on blooa and skin diseases mailed fro tiik wipt spyriric cv t*riwn r ?,. atl.-ictj ga aug 28 1886 ly varri3 seminal pastllles.^a^r (" 9 aj"-1 ilra testcl i'nr i'^tt w.-rs m 1 t ti l|n||||l '"*•''' '' c *; j j '.^_.. mrrtr««v'l'''i-li s?es!ssis^s«!sssf5ss harris remedy co mru chthotb ' v^i\rlt\rk\r v i:vf':.t ; h -■• i j inrhi-.a i t«h w tm:s street st lotna mo ruptured person's can have fkee tr.'al o oar appliance abk for terms 25:1 y cash acalnst credit farmers look to your interest • oae dollar in cash or barter at v rowan davis store mill bridge rowan county will buy more g la than one dollar ami fifty cents on a credit wilh those stores which on mortgage i'fj u don't believe it trj one year and see ! what you will itve comi aad examine m excellent line of spring goods i ind especially the prices just received dry and fanej goods shttt ; ilati ipiccegoods uardware c 1 am now hi receipt of the best line of groceries ever in stock consisting of syrups coffee bacon roller mill flour new oilcans raw siu'ar and many other things uot mentioned fiesh lurjtu yecjforlss7 give me a call ' uespectfully j rowan davis 1 ll la