Carolina Watchman

              i lie l/aroima watchman salisbury f c ja1uaey 12 1882 0l illl.—i hex series no 13 iiecaj stabj ' -■ ntracti ■ ■ t ' - fo , r . k •■ % ■■ ■ ■ •' i \ \ i r poii ijilk.l - ■ iji bl nfiiiii vicliiv and ca s ik fiiit , apllo i i lib -.:;; 1 i ■ ■ .-.:■!. ly ffreeiemblb te dead ! t jjrn ---'•■:■■ . ~" : " n v t '■ dfc - or t a t t?t7 l p«ttr i ttmv r u&ljkl j ; ments and grave-stones of i : iniially invite t he public i ncrally i iin '. 1 1 - 1 < > ■ : • i inn of my stock ;;• il work i ft-el j,i itied iu asserting thai my past jbp<-rii-hce iiiiib-r iiist-elass workmen in ihe newest aud modern styles and | tat the workmanship i equal to any of i flji i'e.-t in the coiintiy i do nol say xliai in v woi k i • ■!,].■ : i i to all others ! viii reasonable will noi exaggerate in or j ijcr to accomplish a sale my endeavor is hi please and give each on touiei the val '■<' of vwvy d liar ihe leav \\ ; ; h me rices 35 to ' heapse i than evei this town before ( '■•; ; ice lisi uiul do i * i ant'd or no charge ' lasl w ork | < i the mi mory ( ok i biacl m.t t o v n 8 y 3 , co u ii s c-1 o r g and solicitors salisbury x c 1 januay22 1879 tt i jdavid.landreth&sons phila h . . i wccorkll kluttz [) ( ' u i i 1 ( 1 . . oil cuum s reel oj-f ofite the uu;t iir,il<c 37 i.i i . i . : a 11.1 v v : ey k ounsellcrs m'l '■ • - > i m v kli ? f duly qualified sis »;'' ] ' elast will an i testament v j >':. hereby j^ivenotice t all p ■-, . , . ; ;, ir t ■ : -' ker to make ii . : ■ -. claims »-- ; to pre i before r re poetry 31 l'rul cosmetics ye who would save your features florid limbs bright eyes unwriukled fore head 1 1 mi age's devastal ion horrid adopt l his plan : twill make in climates cold or torrid a hale old man a •. id in youth luxurious dih . lie train t iih p«i isions lawless riot ; ! luvoted to domes ic jiiiel be v i eh gay : o shall ye i rite of age's llat uesisl d cay seeli nol in mannnon-woie.1 p pleasure bui knd your richest dearest pleasure til -. friends music polish'd leisure th iu i ml not sense mi de the s le scale by which ye measure your opulence 1 ;■- is the solace this i lie science life's purest sweetest best appliance • disap i in'ts not man's reliance whate'er his state i5ul challenges v it h calm defiance time foil tine fate springfield republican hitcrvicn v i - 1 1 alexander steph ens mr stephens was asked do you think , i his session will be a quiet one ?"' •■•'■:) e coi trary i think it will be a ■. ■■:;. animated one while i hope and '.:". e thai i n ill not be agitated by sectional issues of any sort there will iu my opinion be much discussion of very important questions the subject of in ter-oceanic ti msit foy example is one of i the very highest national and interna conseq nence and ii will uudoubl - : cd'.y engage the attention of congress to a great extent it is of paramount im ; ortauce that we should nol allow great biittain prance or any i er european power to acquire ascendency over any , pai i of this continent are you in favor of an interoceanic canal '.'" asks the correspondent certainly i am and i think it would be wise for congress at once to charter tin nicaragua canal company the one ):, which general gram is interested whal abe--.ii refunding the corres j pondcnl asked well i am in favor of refunding all > our bonds that we can at the veij lowest rate practicable foi a long time say a ! hui dred years we could probably place bonds having that length of time to run ' al two and one-half or even perhaps as low as two per cent then we ought to curtail the expenses of the government an ■ much as possible and reduce the taxation i as far as practicable in what way '/"' we ought to begin by abolishing all internal revenue taxes they are a hor rible fungus and would never have been toil rated in this country except as a war necessity they ought to be svrept out of existence what about the tariff i ana in favor of a commission to re vise it 1 should like to see the rate of duty on a good many articles decreased so as to be no longer prohibitory and some articles which are now five should iu my opinion pay a duty but a revis ion of the tariff if accomplished at all must bv the worl of a commission ••\\ hat about silver coinage and silver certificates .'" of course i do not agree vrith the ad ministration in regard to them was the reply for my part i would be glad to bee all cur circulating notes — greenbacks bank notes etc — in the f»nu of coin cer tificates every dollar of which should represent an actual dollar in the treasury payable on demand to the holder of the certificate i think the policy recom mended by the president and the secre tary of the in usury in regard to sil ver certificates will not commend itself to the favorable consideration aud action oi this cougi ess if the following be true as guiteau's counsel propose to sho court they have pretty good grouuua a which to insanity : they propose to show that his father was not a person of well balanced intellect ; that he had two un cles his father's brothers — who died in sane and two aunts his fat c's sisters - who also died insane doth these aunts had insane children by this account of i ',!.;■ family history counsel expect to raise | the presumption that a person contamina ted 1 such an inheritance would be very unlikely to have a health brain and this to establish by recital of the vaga ries of guiteau's life that aa to him the presumption is just - charlotte observer how riik jum staxds — washington d ('.. deeembei 29 — a rumor is current that the guiteau jury with one exception are satisfied of the guilt and legal respon sibility of the prisoner the twelfth ju ror it is said stoutly maintains that gui teau is as crazy as a march hare — x it is worth remembering that nobody en joys the nicest surroundings if in bad health there are mserable people about to-day t in the grave when a bottle of parker's ginger tonic would do them more ood than all the doctoi and medicines hi y 1 '• ■ e er trie d 6ei v ' -< ':■ ko v huxley on the bible i have alwayn says professor hux ley been btrongly in favor of secular education in the nense of e,ducatiou with out theology ; but i must confess serious ly perplexed to know by what practical measures tne religions feeling which is tlir essential ba»i of conduct was to be kepi up in the present utterly chaotic state of opinion on these matters without the use of the bible the pagan moral i it s lack life and color ; and even the no : ble stoic marcus antoninus is too high and refilled for an oidinary child take the bible aa a whole ; make the severest deduction which fair criticism can dictate for shortcomings and positive errors eliminate as n sensible laky-teacher would do ifliti to himself al that is not desi rable for childit-.i to occupy themselves with — and there still remains in this old literature a vast residium of moral gran deur and then consider the great histo rical fact that for three centuries this book has been woven into the life of all that is best and noblest in english histo ry that it has become the national epic of britain and his familiar to noble and i simple from john o'groat's house to laud's end as dante and tasso were ■ . to the italians : that it is wi itteu in tii oblest and purest english and aboiiii ! - mi exquisite beauties of a merely literal v form ; and finally that it forbids the veriest hind who never left his vil lage to be ignorant of the existence of other countries and other civilizations and of a great as.f stretching back to the furthest limits of the oldest nations | in the world by the study of what oth er books could childreu be so much hu j manized and made to feel that each fig 1 arc in that vast historical procession tills like themselves but a momentary space in the interval between the two eternities aud earns the blessings or the curses of j all time according to its effort to do good and hate evil even as they are earning payment for their work ? and if bible-reading is not accompa nied by const mint and solemnity as ii it were a sacramental operation i do not believe there is anything in which chil dren take more pleasure at least 1 know that some of the pleasantesi recol lections of my childhood are connected with the voluntary study of an ancient r>ible which belonged to my grandmoth er there were splendid pictures ur it to be sure but 1 recollect little or noth ing about them save a portrait of the high priest in his vestments what conies vididly back to my mind are re membrances of my delight in the histo ries of joseph and david and of my keen appreciation of tbc chivalrous kindness of abraham in his dealings with lot like a sudden llash there returns back upon me my utter scorn of the pettifogg ing meanness of jacob and my sympa thetic grief over the heart-breaking la mentation of the eiieated o'esau hast tbou not a blessing for me also (> my fa ther ?" and 1 see as in a cloud pictures of the grand phantasmagoria of tho book of revelation 1 eunnnierate as they issue the child ish impressions which come crowding out of the pigeon holes in my brain in which they have lain almost undisturbed for forty years 1 prize them h an evidence that a child five or six years old left to his own devices inay be deeply interested in the bible and draw sound moral substance from it — contemporary lie view hot water for plants it has long been know that the root of plants encased in earth would stand wa ter so hot as to be quite uncomfortable to the hand m willermoz in the journal of the society of practical horticulture of tin rhone france relates lhal plants in pots may be tieated with hoi water when out of health the usual remedy for which has been repotting lie says when ill health ensues from acid substances con tained or generated in the soil and this is absorbed by the roots ii acts as a poi son the small roots are withered and cease thcii action consequently the up per aud younger shoots of the plants turn ■ v and the spots with which the ? are covered indicate their morbid state iu such cases the usual remedy is to transplant into fresh soil dean the pots can ally secure good drainage and often wiih the best results but the ex perience of several vears lias proved with him the unfailing efficacy of the simpler treatment which consists in watering abundantly with hot water ar a temper ature of about 11 degrees f having previously stirred the soil of the pots so far us might be done without injury to the roots water is then given until l runs freely from the pots in his experi ments the water tirst came out clean af terward it was sensibly tinged w ith brow n and gave an appreciable acid location after this thorough washing the pots were kept warm xext day the leaves of ficus elastica so treated ceased to droop the spread of black spots on their leaves was arrested and three days afterward instead of dying the plants had recover ed their normal look of health very soon they made new root immediately followed by vigorous growth mortal coxtagios of political jobbing — the lobbies of the capitol and : the rotundas of washiugton hotels are i crowded with the wrecks of ex-senators inml representatives wliotoiglit have been ; honored prosperous and useful if they had not early caught the mortal nonta igiou of political jobbing the minds of ; suck expanding l*y no useful thoughts or books are constantly in the agitating ; whirl of withering chicanery their as ' social ions keep them from the sternly i pursuit of legitimate business for which most of them have much talent and ac quirements they are far below the high i walks of statesmanship since these are ! only to be reached by thorongli labor and ! solid attainments by will enerjjj and i purpose — which such nion have not but it were melancholy to pursue this picture for it is really a dark and terrible thing ; to see a gifted man the libra of whose i mind has been impaired by idleness and • barroom associations j who has been ini ! provident and who is poor who has per haps dependents bound up in his fate to watch him always'disappointed yet forever hoping neglected forgotten i cut on all sides and thus advancing i into the autumn and winter of lifo be i hind him like so much golden sand lie i wasted opportunities and the warm proud friends of his sunny youth who predicted or him a career of usefulness and brilliancy a texas battle a lively skirmish bctwten three plucky prisoners and their pursuers st louis jan 3 — advices from graham texas report that the three mcdonald boys murderers of a man named mar in at bel knap made a desperate effort to escape from jail yesterday which resulted in their death and that of a deputy sheriff besides the serious wounding of sev eval other people about 10 o'clock in the morning the mcdonald boys were led from the steel cage to the calaboose and with jim boon and jack baldwin two other prisoners were given their breakfast by two deputies one deputy was testing the cage while it was empty and the oth er deputy davis melton stood in the door way of a worn cell opening from the calaboose to the steel cage he had a pistol in each hand keeping watch and presently he put both revolvers in one hand to get a match from his pocket the mcdonalds sprang up on him suddenly and disarmed him in the struggle melton was shot in the hand and his cries brought mur phy the other deputy from the cage but on entering the calaboose he was shot and instantly killed by the pris oners the prisouers then made a hole through the floor to a room be low and taking melton with them be gan their escape a blood hound watches the jail but bv a detour thev " i avoided him and took their flight in a southerly direction l y y this time the city was excited and citizens had gathered together and followed the prisoners the latter placed their hostage melton behind them and threatened to shoot him dead if they were fired on thus the murderers proceeded some three hundred yards when one citizen deliberately took aim smd fired wounding one of tho fugi tives who fell deputy melton seiz i ed the opportunity broke loose and j ran a general fusilade was now be i gun between citizen and the escaping j risoiier.s the latter entrenched them selves iu the weeds and stumps the battle raged for some time and when the shooting ceased the three mcdon alds were dead melton was shot three times an old man named wood was wounded iu the thigh and a j waiter named joe had a bone ot his leg shattered baldwin and boone took no part in the shooting and were recaptured graham was a scene of terrible excitement during the bloody affray treaty with mexico — presi dent arthur and secretary freling huyseu are understood to favor a re ciprocity treaty with mexico tenor romero the mexican commissioner will be well received and the friends of the treaty in congress will attempt to push through a resolution indors ing its negotiations the extention of the zuna libre which promotes smuggling between mexico and the united states is urged by the north ern states of mexico our minister at mexico is believed to have protest ed successfully at the direction of the slate department florida's famous saurian fads briefly stated that do a way with some popular ideas jacksonville letter in nashville world every lake that i saw in south florida large enough had its family of alligators near the settlements ' where they are frequently shot at they disappear ut the approach of man they visit each other from lake to lake when a man woman or child overtakes one in the woods the beast runs to the nearest water if hemm ed he stops swells and blows like a mad bull they handle their tail right lively in resisting an enemy or flipping a heg or dog into their great mouths i remember asking what they cat anything from a pine knot down was the answer as if a pine knot was their highest food when their stomachs are opened they are found to contain pine knots and black mud from the bottom of the lakes they eat however many of the best fish and largest turtles of the hikes the floridians do n«t think the gators dangerous boys go into the lakes swimming where the alligator lives and are not disturbed one 12 feet long is considered grown down in the kissimee river they grow to an enormous size having been seen eigh teen feet long those that are not accustomed to man i am told are dangerous i heard of a young man that was bitten while swimming in the kissimee and soon died their teeth occupy a prominent place iu florida jewelry some people eat their tails just before a rain they are heard to bellow somewhat like a young calf at midnight they fre quently make a great splashing in the water fiber from the stalk galveston news mr edwin james of brazoria coun ty sends the news beautiful specimens of clean fiber from cotton and okra stalks these specimens were obtain ed by the water-rotting process mr jumes says submersion for a suffi cient length of time in stagnant wa ter completely separates the fiber from its vegetable tissue the specimen from the okra is very white strong and about two feet in length it ap pears to be about equal to the fiber of the ramie in texture strength and susceptibility of separation into silk en fineness that from the cotton stalk is darker shorter and coarser but very strong resembling coarse jute mr j^mes experience estab lishes the practicability of separating the fiber from the woody substance ol these two plants without the aid ul machinery and as water costs noth ing and the process is simple it may be that he has given the cue to a pro fitable industry as he says it would be curious aud perhaps ol great service to the planters of the south to estimate the value if cured of millions of pounds of this fiber an nually allowed to go to waste with the beating down of cotton aud okra stalks kerosene and salt for diph theria — a correspondent of the n y sun says u ln 1863 on a planta tion in south alabama where there was great difficulty in securing good medical advice i saw a whole plant ation of blacks as well as the white members of a large family successful ly treated for diphtheria with kero sene oil and salt used thus every patient was given a lump of rock salt about the size of a boy's marble and instructed to keep it in his or her mouth swallowing the salty saliva at the same time the throat was rubb ed with kerosene oil and flannel sat urated with kerosene kept around the neck until the symptoms were abated or entirely gone if necessary ruild cathartics were given not a case was lost and thce were fully 150 in all on the plantation small-pox has about become epi demic in some parts of new york and the authorities are becoming alarmed several months too late there is a good deal more of this un pleasant disease in this city than there is any nerd of pining with a magician wonderful tiansformation at a christ mas dinner in a museum dr lynn completed the one l»un ; dreutli performauce of the mysterious ' magical feat f cutting a human heiiijr up at buhnell's museum yesterday afternoon the event was made tho occasion for a sort of christman festi val and anniversary dinner to whic-li all the museum curiosities were invi ted a table was set in one of the upper hall-s and dr lynn presided while on cither side sat mr g b bunnell the giant and giantess capt bates and lady dudley foster the five-pound atom ;" the limb less man the cannibal the hindoo snake-charmer the albinos boneless man fat girls and other curious i members of the museum company and the employes the magician after a j meek apology as to his gloominess and strange nnsociability proceeded j to play a number of surprising pranks on the guests a plate of green turtle soup sat before the fat girl disappear ed as sha was eating it another plate of the same delicacy became a globe of gold-fish and another was still changed into a plate of baked chick en a fragrant bouquet suddenly blossomed at proprietor bunnell's plate before capt bates a delicious plum pudding steamed ; the cannibal saw a generous cut of roast pig and the limbless man had a dish of raw eggs under his nose the w.aitcrs were out of the room during this time and when they returned the meal proceeded ojiietly until a course of oyster soup was reached then it was suddenly discovereed that the midget who had occupied the high chair had disappeared a general search was instituted and after some delay dr lynn with i serious air broke the crust of his oyster pie and produced the five-pound atom appa rently from between the layers of oyster 1 ?. the restored curiosity declared that he had ijeen crowded but could give no account of his di appearance the remaining course were finished amid similar difficulties dishes were whisked away i>y unseen hands champagne was changed into water milk or coffee and the dessert was found filled with silver half dol lars which were in turn transformed into live pigeons new york times bayonets in ireland louisviile courier journal if niie tenth of the irish outrages reported from the london newspapers have occurred the demonstration is complete that the krituii government with all its boa-ted power is unable to protect 15rit;>!i subjects iu the uni ted kingdom fifty thousand sol diers arc quartered in ireland about as many troops as the government had in the afghanistan campaign and yet according to the government or gans the outrages tiil continue the situation is strikingly like that wit nessed in this country when the re publicans tried to make an ireland of the south they filled the southern states with bayonets and continual declared that there was no protection to american citizens the fraud in the british case is about as big as that in the american case i»t - - — wisconsin's annoying 1 discovery madison wis democrat it ap pears that gov smith has receutly made a discovery that he did not want to make during the war the gov ernment levied a direct tax of 20 000,000 for war purposes wisconsin share of it was 510,688.67 of this sum our beloved and patriotic bad | gerdom has neglected to pass over to i uncle sam's wallet the sum of 207 g8-3.1g recently the government | made application to the general gov ernment for the 5 per cent on the net proceeds of public lands in the state which goes to the school fuml | but the governor was surprised when informed of this old debt and that the amount due the state would be credited on the debt in addition to this it appears now that the next leg islature will be called upon to levy a state tax to meet the balance duo the government which sum is not far from 200,000 j thurman's joke the chiies&ya ex-senator thurman was looking at ! i boxes in nrliicli m private books and papers had been packed in his old committee room he saw t lie let tering on the boxes was hon a ci thurman ; keep dry turning to a friend he said : who the deuce would ewr thiuk of giving me such advice as that '.'" frees himself cincinnati jan 3 — a special to th commercial from jashlaud ky.,*ays that mr gibbons ■ who was buspected of killing hischil dren and miss thomas ami of sotting i tire to the house returned yesterday ■ and brought such overwhelming proof : that he was elsewhere on the night of the murder that he bas not even been arrested what will england do?—a j merica is sending us prime beef and mutton american wool is ousting england from the market ameri can supplies are more numerous in the english market than hoire-grown america is new sending us english plumb-puddings ready for boiling american horses have this year won the principal races in england and france and now that america is bestirring herself about her navy what will be left for poor old england to plume herself upon london truth miscellaneous a dispatch announces the destruction by lire of a large portion of the russian naval station uronstadt xew york has a monkey boom the connecting link sells at from 3 to 25 and there is a growing de mand for them by people who dote on mischieveous pets an omaha railroad man got for a christmas present a silver locomotive thirteen inches long made at a cost of 500 a perfect mi nature in every detail a montreal dispatch bays thai there is greal anxiety about the ice supply as not a pound lias vet been cut and no idetcaa be formed as to when the harvest may ar ii\p american dealers from both east and west have mad large contracts and many have seemed warehouses here an ice famine beiug anticipated iu the uni ted states indiana is early in the field with presidential tickets for both parties in 1884 arthur and porter for the stalwarts and tilden and mcdonald for the democracy indiana would find it a cold day when some favorite son of hers did not figure at one or the other end of one or both presi dential tickets l i hotchkiss the american ar morer at paris is getting buth praise and pudding from his revolving canon the danish government has given him a decoration besides paying him for some of his machines and france has just ordered nine hundred of the guns and asked him to double the capacity of his work charlotte observer mad dogs ar reported to be plentiful in c'abarrus just now dr mills fox hounds were attacked in his yard by a rabid dog and he afterwards had the whole pack taken to the woods and hot though they were highly prized by the vete ran hunter the concord sun says six rabid dogs were killed at ilarris burg in one day by one man one of the chief causes of the far re idling extent of the small pox in the north and west has been the un usually large immigration from eu rope the past year the immigrants in spite of the precautionary measures taken carrying it in all directions in which they travelled this was not the sole cause however it seems that there is some deficiency in the sai itary regulations at ports of entry and lack of power vested in health of ficers to enforce necessary regulations such as vaccination cleanliness c the immigrants arrive railroad agents pick them up regardless of their con dition hurry them into the interior and with them such contagious dis eas - as they may be affected with — char obs mortgage sale notices for sale at this office