the carolina watchman no ig thing is turned into a jest and life is made to seem but one immense burlesque the countersign modern social life bees as weapons alas ! the weary hours pass slow the night is very dark and still and in the marshes far below i hear the bearded whip-poor-will 1 scarce can see a yard ahead my ears are strained to catch each sound ; i hear the leaves about me sited and the springs bubbling through the ground the changes of a century conversation a lost art but as conversation dies out the ri lrnt pleasures of society are gaining strength and importance brilliant pro fessional genius is summoned to do all the singing playing talking reciting while society merely sits still and listens there is music when noue dare ereu whisper to his neighbor a casual remark ; recitations when tho reom must be hush ed to perfect silence ; while at the thea ters society sits patiently cramped aud silent for four hours or so and is happy that no demands is made on it for talk a small privateer manned by fifty men but having on board some hives of bees was pursued by a turkish galley manned by five hundred sea men and soldiers when the latter came alongside the crew of the pri vateer mounted the rigging with their hives and threw them upon their foes who astonished at this novel mode of warfare hastened to escaj>e from the fury of the em aged bees another instance occurred when a rabble in llohiistein in thungaria attempted to pillage the house of the parish min ister he caused some bee hives to be thrown among the mob who in con sequence so<»n dispersed vauban re lates how bees played an important part at the seige of chatre in lor raine after a siege the town was being stormed and during the assault the besieged threw a few hives of bees upon the heads of the storming party the little creatures stung the besieg ers so dreadfully that they had to re tire and the historian tells that the bees were not the least cause of the siege being abandoned in the rush of modern life the old flab orate forms of social etiquete are rapidly dying out rays an english writer visit ing is tarried on through the penny post correspondence by telegraph and con ter sation by the telephone science is kill ing all the stately grace of life and flings so many treasures to society that the beautiful lik tarpeia is crushed to death under the weight of tha offeringa machinery railroads telegraphs and cheap literature have destroyed beauty grace style dignity and the art of con versation aristotles high-bred gentle man with his stately manner slow movements and measured speech would soon be hustled aside ac a railway sta tion and probably lose his place and his ticket neither has society any longer the time to listen as it did half a centu ry ago to the learned disquisition of maeaulay the inspired monologues of coleridge or the tierce-rolling iconoclas tic thunders of carlyle the art of con versation has beeu gradually falling into decadence and now barely exists tho manner or the mode of saying things well still helps to keep it alive and even to give to commonplaces the semblauce of gold in shakespeare's time conver sation was perhaps at its best in england the court set tho example queen eliza beth had wit and learning and round along the beaten path i pace where white rays mark my entry track ; in formless shrubs i seem to trace the foeiuau form with bending back i think i saw him crouching low ; i stop and list 1 stoop and peer until the neighboring hillocks grow to groups of warriors far and near with ready pace i wait and watch until mj eves familiar grown detect each harmless earthen notch and torn guerrilaa iuto stone ; and then among the lonely gloom beneath the weird old tulip trees my silent marches 1 resume and think on other times than these the whole mental activity of life has become vicarious we lay our weariness on the brad of some substitute aud so all personal responsibility ends for the exer cise of intellect wo leave all that to professional talent and except that we eat and drink we might as well be gods of stone ranged with rigid features round the walls of a drawing room or massed in the center like pins iu a pincushion the latest nawg ! kluttz k r1dl1i leading dealers in dry goods and groceries new stock of clothing large assortment of ladies cloaks and shawls ladies eats and tr1mings,---men's hats and caps boots and shoes a specialty we keep the best mad . agents for coats spool-cotton new supply of a cent tin ware full stock of glass and table ware best flour heats susjar coffee teas rice potatoes canned fruit pure lard corn bras meal new orleans molasses and syrups c full assortment of family medicines including quinine one and three-fourth lbs cotton sacking at 9 cents hew tics sit l.?o per bundle three 1b cans tomatoes at 1 "> tents over-coats at 2.5o best 1o cts sugni try it lie sure to see our goods before you buy we mean to sell von pood goods :•■' the vcrv lowest juices 5^"we buy and sell all kinds of countn produce v w tayloh ii p atklxs / .,,.... nov 1 1882 and i j bostian . " ' ebm - there is no place anymore fur brilliant individuality or he small ameteur ac complishments trained talent has seiz ed the commerce aud transmuted all they touch to gold sweet visions through the silent night the deep bay window fringed with vine ; the room within in softened light the tender milk-white hand iu mine the tender pressure and the pause that olttimes overcame our speech — that time when by mysterious laws we each felt all in all to each society is frozen into a mere aggregate of passive recipients and listeners much depressed by the consciousness of their own insignificance aud inferiority ; while the professional receive the plaudits and pay and exult with justifiable pride in triumphs fairly won by genius talent and earnest study executor's sale and then hat bitter bitter day when came the final hour to part when clad in soldier's honest gray i pressed her weeping to my heart ; too proud of me to bid mo star too fond of me to let me go 1 had to tear myself away 1 left her statued in her woe gen sherman's hell on earth of personal property having qualified as executor of the es tate of mary hall dee'd i will sell at public sale at her late residence on thursday the 21st of december wheat corn two head of cattle from oath's report of a chat her circled some of the most remarkable men that england ever produced cul ture had reached a high level and every one aimed at being clever and brilliant and above all learned it was the gol den age of england when the national in tellect reached the snpeme height in phil osophy poetry the drama and the splen dor and depth of thought in social life now about that said gen sher man you see 1 cannot be fool enough to decline what is not offered to me but what do i want to turn from the prospect of rest and peace at last for a period of years to the delusion of four years iu an office that is just hell that's what it is continued the gen eral emphatically ; it is hell what did gen harrison get out of it no thing but a month of misery what did general taylor get out of it twelve months of misery what did grant get out of it ? do i want to re sign this competence congress has be stowed on me for four years of hell ? what did hayes get out of the pres ideucy what did garfield get take them all within your memory nothing but worry trouble misun derstanding a wonderful invention the patent owned by the avir postal tele so rose the dream so passed the night when distant in the darksome glen approaching up the awful height 1 heard the solid march of men till over stubble over sward and fields where la the golden sheaf i saw the lantern of the guard advancing with the night relief graph company blacimer&taylob having purchased ti e cfc e ihf of wm smithdeal as well as tiik interest of r r crawford of the linn c r r crawford & co we aro no\vjprep:tre«l to supply customers with all kinds of agricultural imflilht in addition to tlie hest selected slock of ii a it 1 w a r e in the s t a t e we also baudlu rifle and blasting pow f u s e ami a full lino of mining su w"e will duplicate any pricer f the state call and skk is w.s biackiek saflta1 ( ct 5 1883 xo h:ogs household & kitchen furniture and other articles not mentioned terms of sale cash queen anno though the dullest of good women herself was fortunate also in ii:it ing her reign illustrated bj a great raeo of intellectual celebrities all of them em inently distinguished for cou versa tional power as swift popo bolingbroke lady mary wortley montague and others and there were great nnd brilliant talk ers even iti the heavy georgian era whose wit and wisdom are reserved to us in tho bright pages of horace wai pole like dried roue leaves with the per fume still fragrant as in life dr john sou it the high priest of the last century and we fling a wreath to the memory of the fascinating tbmle and little bar ney and the wonderful deianey and the stately hannah more and others who proved a woman's right to be a social queen alter them comes ft whirlwind of intellect male nud female rushing down the dark unknown of the opening nineteenth century immortal names ol immortal men illustrate this great era and a whole host of brilliant women light it with the radiance of their intel lect their wit tlioir beauty and the sparkling splendor of their conversational gifts maria edgeworth held the sceptrt of intellect lady morgan rulrd london by her wit nud lady luessington reign ed at tho gore house by bar grace and brilliancy while lady duftciiu and mrs norton of that wondrous sheridan race claimed and gained the world's homage by the right of wit beauty and genius all combined mrs jameson also and the broutcs held their place right sover eignly and mrs s c hall was a social power both in ireland and england here was a splendid banil of gifted wo men all irish by the way who were as brilliant aud interesting in conversation as they were powerful with the pen la ter on we find the female intellect su premely illustrated only by the name of one woman elizabeth barrett browning she stands aloue without a rival in the century but then she stands alone amid the women of all centuries after tho death of the great poetess of england the royal race of women who reign by the right divine of intellect dis appears and the professional beauty seized tho vacated throne as a social pow er the women of genius retreated into solitude and are now never heard of but on a title page they no longer cast their influence on society as brilliant thinkers and talkers and a library sa!o i ruled over by some dazzling queen of in tellect some splendid women of wit and learning exists in london no more for while the rush of life is tending to de stroy all the forms of social etiquette the diffusion of knowledge is sapping tho foundations of the conversational art which former generations almost raised to the perfection of a science there is nothing now left in the outer world to talk about penny newspapers and shilling cram satiate all curiosity and the professional reviewers kindly crumble up for us all the current poems and novels to save society the trouble of selection or mastication we are all fed on the same food nnd have no new and strange interests to im part to each other there are no more mysteries left the whole world lies on our breakfast table with all its lollies and by 10 o'clock in the morning every une knows every thing that hat happened throughout the universe from the hist spot on the sun to the last scandal and the latest crime and then we glance over the society papers nheic the « hole the legge patent seuds as many words over a siugle wire in a minute as the most skillful morso operator can send in an hour delivers at the receiving station a fac simile of the copy furnished and does it all without the help of a skillful operator anybody who can turn a crank 1 can send a message in his own linnd j writing with any private marks or other devices h pleases simply bj first writ ing his message on a chemically prepared piece of paper furnished by the company practical trials of this apparatus have shown a speed of 2,m)0 words a minute but it can be enlarged so as to do even better a morse operator who can send or receive hm or'2.)uo words nu hour can j command the highest salary and even then there is nothing to gnarantee him ! against making a mistake — a thing which by the logge process is impossible pic tures can be transmitted in this way and 1 an euturnrising reporter can send not only ! the words but the music of the new opera i by wire ; but the great advantage the i company claims for it is tho transmission ' of correspondence it is expected that the energetic business man who has an i important letter to send to a distance will j no longer drop it in the postofice — unless 1 indeed an arrangement can be effected by which the poatoflices will be made re 1 ceiving and delivering stations for tho • postal telegraph but will bring it to the . company's oflice place it with his own hands in the machine and send it hnrn ming in a moment to its destination — 1 philadelphia times it is not unlikely that the.prico f cot ■ ton will advance somewhat the price ! is fixed at liverpool in great part elli son the cotton broker at liverpool says that the prevail ing opinion at liverpeol has been that the crop will turn out ?, 000,001 to 7,100,000 the price at liver pool has hcr.'tofore been fixed on the ba kis of this expected yield ellison hiiu | self now confesses that the crop w ill not bo so large and tho american estimates fix it between 6,350,000 and 6,750,000 : as soon as the english cotton buyers un derstand that they have overestimated j the crop it is very probable that the price will go up — a r e»f8 t observer tin great gold field california is the best gold field yet disco verd in this country it is expected that the yield this year will be at least sh 000,000 it once reached as high as 40,000,000 to 50,000 00 j per annum some authorities claim that the gold product in this state from lsol to 1s07 was from 05,000,000 to h 000,000 per annum and that in 18(j«j it reached 0 000,000 since 1848 the gold yield of this state lias probably been 1,455 000,000 some claim 100,000,000 more but the inside figure is supposed to be the nearest to the actual fact — v y mtock lie port dr mott has given his ideas touch ' ing tlir result uf the recent election iu north carolina to the washington 1 republican he says the state was | l<*st to the liberal party in conse queuce of the lukewannness of the old-time republicans particularly those in the greensboro district and ' professes to believe that the republi cans will carry the state iu 1884 dr mott praises capt charles price highly and endorses him fur united states district attorney for the west ern district is this the price charles is to ob tain for becoming a liberal — char lutte home-democmt ilaltj who goes thcie ?"' my challenge cry it rings along the watchful line relief i hear a voice reply advance ami give the countersign !" with bayonet at the charge i wait ; the corporal gives the mystic spell ; with arms at port i charge my mate aud onward pass and all is well f-f7~all persons having claims against the miid mary hull ik-cm are hereby notified to exhibit the same to the undersigned on or before the 80th of november 1883 or this notice will bt l plead in b;ir of recovery and all persons indebted to said estate are required to make prompt payment a l ilall ex'r hut in tho tout that night awake 1 think if in the fray 1 fall can i tho mystic answer make where the angelic sentries call ! and pray the hearens may so ordain that when 1 near the camp divine whether in travail or in pain 1 o may bare the countersign — fritz-jatnes o'jlriea nov 30 1882 7:ts ti iff south thh representative industrial paper of north carolina w h 28 colnmn illustrated weekly every mine owner farmer man ufacturer merchant and industrial man in the south should have it pays especial attention to north carolina's mineral re sources and does full justice to every de partment of our state's handicraft psicb 1.50 per year a boy's prayer killing uats by electricity little willie l — aged three years had the misfortune to lose his father a few weeks ago the other evening abont twilight he saw his widowed mother weeping over her great be reavement little willie ran out in to the frout yard and climed up on the gate w*t and turned his cherub face up to the stars just^beginn ing to peep out god ! god !" he cried all his lit tle earnest soul in his words ami in his eyes send my papa jack from heaven ! send him right away ! we want him now ! send him right quick for mama is crying !" ralph carbit nn ingenious 12-year old boy of honeybrnok chester county pn has devised a novel plan of getting rid of the rats which infest hia father's cellar he has constructed out of old fruit j«rs a battery of lryden jars which he connects and places npon a large iron plate which touches the tinfoil on the outside the bait is so arranged that when tho rat tops upon the plate and acizra the bait ho at iico makes the connection between the outside and inside of thr jars aud they aro discharged through his body killing him literally as quick as lightning he charges the jars bj mean of an elec trical machine also constructed by him self he ran a couple of wires through the floor to the cellar from the room above and as soon as he would hear a rat squeak he would immediately recharge tho bat • tery the first time he put the machine in operation he slaughtered twenty live rats in a space of three hours and in two days the collar was entirely cleared of the pests wext cluster local positively in advance address at once edward a oldham editor and i'ropretor wilmington n c ex cash cash is my lotto having determined to adopt the cash svstem from the 1st of december i would respectfully request all those who arc in debted to ine on account or otherwise and for guuuo to call in tnd nettle as i am greatu in n<*ed of money and must have it but alas ! for that widow and that cherub boy although the prayer came from as sinless a heart as ever beat on earth it can never be answered — memphis weekly he carolina watchman ! l^tar.f.lslikd ix the vkak 1832 pi(ice,*1.50 in advaxce h ii in mi -- : ; f|u celebrated s?*j hostcttor'a stomach ijittcra pives stearti legs to the nerves induces a healthy nut unil flow of bile prevents constipation without unduly purging the bowels gen tly stimulates the circulation and by jiru noting ■' vigorous condition of ttie phys . i promotes also that cheerful the truest indication of a well of all th unimal powers tui lt l by all drugjcisu ami uvulunt generally ■„• i . /$$ .''■• r mr s y-r s : r',^l^pij y ls 4\^%vr : v 1 ''' &%~&?\ rhouk v.uu se.prest w'm c coakt sec'y l home company seeking home patronage tag pfnh reliable liberal term policies written on dwellings premiums payable one-half cash and ba nee in twelve monl hs j allen erown as:t 21;cm salisbury n c book stoke of i nso yoit^iyyi 5c00l books sch dc l supplied novels and stationery • erkoess of voltes i i ii i i.km \ s u ho sulk n for yearn from a nervoim dkuijjty pkematurb decay i i all the t-ik'its of yom ilul indiscretion will : or the ike of sutftring huaiiii.ity send fret to ii who need ii the lecipe and direction for diking the iinj it remedy by which he wan icred siill.-n t wishing lo profit hj the ul fiti^r cx:"'ii lice r;ni ilo o bv u!il res<in«;iii trfit-t ronfnlciiw johx b ogdex • ju:lv cedar st xew york __ i f remember the dead ! m i r monuments tokbs great reduction in t1ik p kicks of carole monuments and grave-stones of every description i cordially invite the public generally it mi inspection of my slock and work feel justified in asserting that my past xperience under first-class workmen in ill the newest and modern styles and hat tin workmanship is equal to any ot ( he best in the country 1 do not bay i ij;i my work u snjwm'ior to all others 1 . uii reasonable will not exaggerate in or i lei to accomplish a sale my endeavor is " please and give each ciistoinei the val ic of every dollar they leave with me prices 35 to 50 per cent cheapen than ever offered in this town before all it mice or send for nice list and de igiir satisfaction guarant'dor no charge ; i'll erection ot marble is the last work f respect which we pay to the memory i departed friends john s hutchinson salisbury \. c nov i 1881 1 1 1 ii - fining stock register am journal of finance iives the value and correct ratings of over s,000 mining companies and the latest mining information ieluitin<i dividends assessments loicent i llt'jiu-xt stock saks for each week up " within jl hours of publication kc for sale by all news dealers si iisi imi'tion *<> per year ( y 13 cents special detailed i - upon any mine furnished sec pa 1 for terms address ' 1'he financial and viininsr pub co ".'■"? broadu av new l'orl < it y i shall in future sell strictly for cash or barter as by this means i will be letter able to give my friends and customers more goods for their money !. 1 am now receiving a nice and fresh lot ot country produce the leading papers are agree that the condition of the drama in the united states and in england is at a very low ebb the plays with but few excepcions are said to be despi cable dramatic writers have no ca pabilities for strong original work so they are prone to fall back on french plays and it is acknowledged that the parissian dramatic genius is not of a high order at this time although there are wit and invention enough to give constant surprises and to feed an ap petite that craves the emotional and the intense the plays that are put on the boards in new york and thence radiate the country are too contempti ble for serious ciiticism rev dr mai lory owner of the madison square theatre new york has done some thing for play goers in ha/el kirke esmeralda and young mrs win throp tbew 1 plays are free from the vicious taint of the french dramas and are strong and original enough to furnish some intellectual enter tainment — wil star tonisy for the christmas holidays ifgt-call and see my stock before you make your pun lmscs.^5 1 have a tine lot of cocoanuts he was just a little colored boy but the announcement of his death will make many hearts sad for six years his bright black face had been familiar to all callers at trinity rectory and to all friends of the family lie was a courteous gentlemanlike little fellow and looked on himself as indeed everybody did as one of the family he belicted his great mission in life was to lake cure of the doctor a short sharp attack of tetanus fol lowing the most trifling hurt from one of those murderous toy putols carried him oft iu three days notwithstanding the ut ! most of power of science and skill we know here as none can know but those who live with them how close those dark faced servants weave themselves in to our lives and when one is so blight and truthful no honest and faithful and trusty as this poor boj was the family attachment is very btrong there is great grief at the rectory and among the larga circle who have known tonisy for so long he was only a little colored boy but he had the qualities that make the true gentleman and lie did his day's work well and many loved him x <>. times cmoct'al the medical journal wants to know what is life without health 1 pshaw ' man that's nothing what is health without life answer that and go p head axd 1pples 0 ham all kind of cfinilry produce taken in exchange f r ivoil wanted furs skins wax rags beef hides sueep skins butter e<^s chickens turkeys geese and d u c e s etc etc j d mgneely 7:1m house and lot for sale having determined to make our home in winston n c we have concluded to sell our house ami lot in the great west ward of salisbury n c house has 8 rooms a good kitchen with :» looms well of good water in the yard a good garden and sta ble mi the lot in the best neighlmrbood i in the city on the corner of monroe ami i church streets adjoining j m horah and others for further particulars see messrs d a j..odinan s w clem ii f fraley k f & m c graham 10-.3ni we think very likely although vermont is not a case in point no southern state of 350,000 inhabitants can show an annual record of crime as black ami monstrous as that of vermont the messenger devotes col umn alter column to lawlessness in the south it bad better look neat er home — boston pod ol xiv third series salisbury n c january 11 1883 gent's fine work a specialty 1 r s sj boots sho£s &. caiter3 irii r all '•• ■ ■! r r . ■' i :. -.-. •« ■ .. ■ ik < lei c '.- a ■ a jraui , i iln latesi si i'i.:(i in i woi i hi ways ■•". !: <-.-■ iti and jtron • ' lrrtve-1 win y e3«.s i:i . *. . .