the carolina watchman .- vol xl third series salisbury n.c february 12,1880 0 17 rnrc3 c';v ftifimaauia bronchitis iithma vrovnt whoopin coag-h and fflrcs of the brcathim organs it sooth and heals tbo membrane ot the llin-*'-1 inflamed aad poisoned by tiie dise-'^j and prevents tbe ni it l tresis ami tightness across the chest i sgslaccoirpanr-it consumption | ur tan iiiurable • naiad y it is only vvvi.yto have the rf.rht rente | i iivlb's balsam is hurt re__fcdy j 1>|)vt plspalll of rrlikf for \ liua benis.n specific w care you ; even tlwu-rh prole ion:d nm v-.-ah b_ll"ub_-5 jjlt ail j trey iny j a'jent ever i iscovcrcd jrur i ' '■'■■* '■•" i'i'i'it.i lr;r;'t carbolic t c , ■■ ■' suits 1m ll'ss i es'i ■■• .* ■ " i pain ci ptions henry s . •' ' o i tl ■■ . : ,■ « ■ upl.n henry's < trltolio :••■ ca . als bruises l«_i fer lit ir-/'s mt ":..':< ko other j townslets i jwjjbjj liill i cubes i . one minute advy a wi lm w __ i vu,._v j a st*uic i'i .*,*!::: ri;;:o co a is discar colds eoars^neso pb.ll___ria ui.i\7]io j',;;co-0 pleasant to one taste wi csygsaated wm reli3v3 dyt;j p;ia and biiiousncsa c*7 for sale b y all druog3 t johh f henrrrcrjkitv __ co bu e i;>*i-ki . 34 coll :•■■ v t ffc-vr or :. ] for saie by t f kluttz druggist salisbury x v tk^ttmemek^smsmnm^ksssmssmmneststbeaaa^tasstks^i^msmmtesmt poktry give me three c rains of corn mother ,"_*_»» powerful and fmt l.-rtic piece n nkgottcd l.y many of tlic painful incidents of the memorable irish famine of 1846 the title was the last request ol'mi jr i ii lad t iw mother as he wa dving of starvation slic found three grains of corn in a corner of his ragged jacket and gave them to him it was all sin had the whole familv were perishing from famine give me ti.ree grains of coin mother only three grains of corn : it will keep the little life i have till th coming of the morn lam dying of hunger and fold mother dying of hunger and cold : and half the agony of such a death my lips have inver told lam gnawed like a wolf at my heart mother a wolf th it is fierce for blood au thejli velong day and the night beside fihwwing t>m la i of tbod ir_atned oi bread in my sleep mother ami the v_;|.t was heaven to see — i awoke with an eager famishing lip but vou had no bread fcr me hnw could i look to you mother how could i look to you m bread to give your starving boy when you were starving too . furl read the famine in your cheek and in your eye so wild and i felt it in you ony hand a you laid it on your child tlic queen ha land and gold mother has laud and old : aie forced to your empty breast a^krl.ton babe to hold that is dying of want mother as 1 am dying now with a ghastly look it it sunken eye and t amine upon ils brow hat has poor ireland done mother what hus poor ireland done r'::u the world looks on and sec us starve perishing one l.y one i p'the men ot england care not mother the great men and the high r tin ni ring song of erin's isle * ve-.l'.n tltey live ordi*_j w is manv a brnve heart here mother tying of want and cold ii only across the channel mother are many that roll in gold i we tire rich and proud nu-ii tliere mother vh woiirfrom wealth in view al"i the bread ilie fling to their dogs to ... teto moxthk give iii'e to m and you i nearer to y side in.it her * ne nearer to ny i,ic an'i hold me fondly as vou held j father when h died ck t„r i c;un,1)t sc vou mother m brtath is almost gone ; ar mother ere i die venn throe grains of corn &! iiatue it was anna mari-ah '", v"''t for to kindle the fir-ah - v11 the wood it was green j al"l she used kerosene - '* "-' ll'1 gone where the fuel is dry all ! * *■ o m 1 ' foreign exports of the port of sa naii for tj p.lrt montj sim,u a ,„. cr>»8e of 260,0uq over the same time last car the famous mutiny on hoard the u s brig somers in 1842 a secrclari of the navy's son thc ringleader in november 1842 occuretl one of the most noted mutinies in the histo ry of the american navy while in mid-ocean the officers of the united states brig-of-war somers discovered that a conspiracy existed on hoard the vessel to murder themselves and turn the vessel into a privateer for the pur pose of piracy ; but the ringleaders were discovered and executed and the • crime frustrated the leader in the i aplir was philip spencer son of hon j fohn c spencer the distinguished ' statesman from new york the sec retary of war in the cabi net of pres ident tyler ou account of the prom inence thus given the event the mu tiny was everywhere a topic of discus sion and reviews of the case were written by a number of noted men in cluding j fennimore cooper the cleveland leader thus tells the story from the lips of one oi the crew capt wm buffington was one of the crew of the somers lie was vis itied at his residence by a leader re porter and related the story though modestly preferring not to have any thing published as coming from him at the time of tbe mutiny capt buf fington was eighteen or nineteen years of age and many ofthe facts have es caped his memory the somers sailed from xew york for liberia africa with dispatches but was ob liged to put back on account of insuf ficiency of crew and other seamen were obtained from the receiving ship north carolina capt buffington being a member of the second crew on the return from liberia before j reaching st 1 homas where it was the ' intention to stop and take on coal and | provisions word was brought capt alexander slidell mackenzie the com j inander of the somers that a conspi racy existed to capture the vessel and take her to the isle of pines where sslie would be joined by a mexican privateer and the two would com mence a career of piracy hi those days comparatively few steamers sailed the ocean and of course the security of the pirates was much better than it would be at present — mr wales the stewart of thc brig first brought the affair lo notice on the night of the 25th of nov mr wales was asked by spencer who was a midshipman to go aloft in the i'iging where he wanted to converse with him confidentially when alone the midshipman accosted wales with a question do you fear death ; do you fear a dead man ; are you afraid to kill a man somewhat surprised though still cool and collected the steward listened to what followed ta king the oath of secrecy imposed up on him by spencer the latter then unfolded the plan for the mutiny stating that it was written out on pa per and then under his collar back of his cravat and he would show it in the morning when it was light so as to read it twenty of the crew he claimed were leagued with him and the murder of the captain and officers ofthe vessel would bean easy matter when fully apprised of what had tik.n place capt mackenzie ordered a strict watch kept of the movements of spencer in a day or two the cap tain encountered spencer on deck and asked him what he meant by such talk to wales but the young man explained that it was a joke and no harm was intended the written plot was demanded but spencer denied its existence and a careful search of his person failed to disclose it it was found however secreted in spencer's razor case written in greek language but one of the officers understood the characters and translated them into english the names of the crew were written who would be given a chance to walk the plank that is be dropped overboard and others were to be given their choice between com pulsory service as pirates or a watery grave f cromwell the boatswain's mate aud elisha small a seamen from boston were also arrested they being frequently discovered in con versation with spencer the three were double-ironed and taken below they were speedily tried by court-mar tial and found guilty the sentence be ing that the prisoners be executed from the yardarm they were brought up on the morning of november 30th for execution small was unmoved and asked his mates to give him a ' good jerk so as to make sure but spencer mas quite broke down he was exhorted by capt mackenzie to set his companions a good example by j dying bravely the remark havingthe i desired effect capt mackenzie brief i ly addressed the condemned rtpou the ■ enromity of their crime spencer rea4 from the bible and prayer-book beg ged forgiveness ofall and then said he was ready to die black caps were made from black handkerchiefs the colors were to be hoisted at the moment to give solem nity to the occasion and then a gun was to be fired as a signal for the men at the ropes to pull spencer wanted to give the signal but afterward he requested capt mackenzie to do it for him when all was ready the condemned men sitting in their ham mocks awaiting the dreadful sum mons to another world the gun belch ed forth its thunder the men at the ropes drew in and the three unfortu nates shot aloft the sudden contact with the blocks above breaking their necks and hurrying them into the ! presence ofthe great white throne i two ofthe men were hung to one of ithe main yards and the third to the other the bodies were sewn up in sail cloth the feet weighted with shot and the earthly remains of the reck less youths were slid on a plank through portholes and disappeared in the depths ofthe ocean when new york was reached a court of inquiry composed of commo dore stuart jacob jones and dallas examined the case and approved the course of capt mackenzie a court martial was also held commodore downee being its president and the action of capt mackenzie was endors ed capt buflington says that aftei reaching new york the ship physi cian shot himself though it did not appear that he had been consented in the mutiny capt buflington knew of no other survivors of tiie crew a colored man employed at the union depot who died last summer was on board the somers at the time it it probable that there are some living as the crew which consisted of eighty persons was composed of only eight able-bodied seamen the remainder be ing boys of the first and secend class the excitement over tiie affair in the united states was intense and opin ions were given for and against capt mackenzie's course mil tu i utm — ■ — conflict of the marriage laws one can easily see that great pru dence and sagacity are required from the courts in administering the conflic ting marriage laws of the states fot the states have differed widely some command a ceremony by a minister or magistrate ; others allow the par ties to make the contract in any way they please when mrs bissell sued mr b for divorce about ten years ago in new york state he declared that he had never been married to her yes he has said she we were riding in a carriage one day wc had been en gaged to be married on that very day he gave mc a ring and said this is your wedding ring we are married i will live with you and take care oi you all my life as my wife i took it for a wedding ring and went to live with him as his wife and she proved tbat at the boarding-house where they lived he introduced her and paid her board as his wife the court held this to be a valid marriage in another instance a man deluded a brooklyn servant girl by a mock wedding bringing a crony to person ate a priest who read a marriage ser vice when prosecuted for bigamy he pleaded : no priest therefore no marriage but the judges said that if there was an actual agreement there was a real marriage ; a clergy was needless and in missouri in a law suit by grandchildren to recover pro perty belonging to their grandfather the story of his marriage was that no clergyman or justice was called but the happy pair stood up in the board inghouse parlor one evening and told the lady's relatives and the boarders j that they had decided to be married ; after which they behaved as such — i the court said that was enough so \ far as the grand children's rights were ' concerned i quite the contrary was decided in maryland where one of these mar riages without a ceremony and only ! by word of present contract was ques , tioned the court said it was void ; i that by the law of maryland some of j fficial ceramony must be superadded j to tlte parlies contract an oregon ! lady once claimed a share of a deceas 1 ed man's estate as bib widow she could not show that he had ever taken ont a-trmrmge licerfse so she declared j they were married by private contract i one time when they were tuking a sea ! voyage and while they were where ' there was no law commanding a li cence thc court without professing to doubt the lady's word said that the i story was not sufficient if true that ; bv the law of california and oregon i • , parties can not become married except ■ by consent avowed before an author ized officer and in the presence of two witnesses a strong argument can be made in | favor of each of these conflicting views but what confusion may arise when persons married in a state of liberal laws removed into a strict one if these new york or missouri couples go to live in maryland or california j are they respectable married persons or not ? quite lately the supreme court at washington was called npon to de cide this question a man of penn sylvania where apparently the law does not require an official wedding traveled into michigan where the statute proscribes a ceremony by a justice or minister and was there mar ried but the lady was an indian girl ami the statute was disregarded indian forms were followed or per haps none at all he carried his dusky bride back to pennsylvania they lived anil acquired property in pittsburg died and when their heirs claimed their estate the answer was made that the father and mother were never lawfully wedded the su preme court administered justice in this instance by saying that as the michigan law did not say in so many words marriages shall be void unless celebrated by an officer it ought to be enforced some other way than by ad judging them void and punishing in nocent posterity but sometimes the statute does say that found in thc case of marriages between a black and a white person ; these ate explicitly de clared void aiid punishable by the laws of several states while in others they are tolerated if then a couple of differrent color go to a state where they may lawfully wed and are law fully married and then return to one where this is unlawful what shall be done the supreme court is vexed with a case of this kind this winter all this shows that there would be great advantage iu a uniform national marriage law a strange story paris has another strange tragic lovo story one of the best surgeon in the city was stopped in the stieet late at night bv men with drawn revolvers ami with bandaged eyes taken to the room of a beautiful woman who was in bed and compelled to amputate her left hand she herself begged him not to hesitate as it would save hor life his ryes were then bandaged again and he was led away and found himself in a street near his own home the lady was the daugh ter ofa prominent reneral who had giv en her iu niarrige to a wealthy count though she loved another man and af ter her wedding continue against the wish of her husband to wear a ring which her former io?er had given her just as he was setting out to join an em bassy to wliich he had been appointed and which she had sworn never take off the hand that should always be his the count's jealousy was increased by a letter from the lover which fell into his hands and iu which his late financce was reminded of her promise and wrought up to a pitch of maduess by the presistent refusal of his wife to give up the ring he swore that he would have her hand cut off and seut to her lover the tennessee historical society has determined to purchase clark mill's equestrian statute of gen jackson to be unveiled at nashville at the tennessee | centennial april 24 it will be placed in the capitol grounds j news items the wheat fly survives i an intelligent farmer who resides , a short distance from the citv re ported yesterday that the snow failed to kill the fly which has done so muck ; damage to the wheat crop this is rather bad news for the farmers who ; imagined that tlrey wonld be rid of ■ the pest with the fall of snow or the ! i first hard freeze the damage already | done is more extensive than has yet ; been reported in one section of the country so we are informed by a re ' liable farmer two fiekls of wheat have been completely destroyed — j will not from present appearances j yield two bushels to the acre this i however was in a section of the j county where the fly first made its ! appearance it is stated that when , they once besiege a field they never leave it till they have cut down every 6talk and seem to increase in num ber at the rate of about a hundred per cent a day a curious fact in connection with the insect is that they can be driven from a field by the use of brushes aud it is related that one farmer with his family of four or five persons succeeded in about a half a day ridding a twenty acre field of them driving them out as the would a drove of turkeys they leap like a grasshopper a distance of four or five feet at a time and it is noticed that they inclined to move eastward — char observer grang-ers in council wo subjoin the following part of the proceedings on the last day of the recent session of the state grange at charlotte the committee on education submitted the following which was adopted as a substitute for the resolutions introduced by messrs jones and richie to-wit resolved that the executive committee of this state grange he required to pre pare a petition urging our state legisla ture to give us a public school law that will insure a good school in every district in our state for at least six months iu each year and that said petition be sent to each subordinate grange by the secre tary and be distributed by the commis sioner of agriculture during the month of next november resolved snd that the petitioners be requested to send their senators and rep resentatives in our legislature these said petitions as early as the 20th of janua.iy next a resolution was offered in regard to paying more than four hundred pounds of lint cotton for a ton of any standard fertiliser but after discussion it was with drawn and the members of the order were not committed for or against the measure dr d w c ben bow re-introduced the subject of transportation snd submitted the following resolution which after dis cussion was adopted : resolved that we fully endorse the reagan bill now before the lower house of congress with the exception of that portion of section y which declares the bill shall apply to less thau a car load of freight resolved that the secretary of this state graugo be required to seud a certi fied copy of this resolution to our sena tors and representatives in congress t ii kobinson introduced the follow ing preamble and resolutions which were unanimously adopted by a rising vote : wiikreas there are erroneous opin ions entertained and circulated by some of the people of the state in regard to the operations of the state department of ag riculture chargtbg that this action in re gard to fertilizers would increase the price thereof while the facts show that the present plan has saved much to our state by keeping out of the market much worth less stuff and keeping up the standard value of that article and whereas we have reason to believe that the course pursued by some of the friends of this department is calculated to cripple it in its operation for good and whereas such a course is tending to weaken the bonds between that depart ment and the state grange of north car olina which claims to have taken active initiatory steps towards the establishment of said department and still cherishes a deep interest in it ; and believing that the legislature of north carolina did more for the state in the creation of the depart ment than in any single oue of its acts for years past : therefore resolved 1st that we the state grange and farmers of north carolina respectfully petition tho legislature to foster said department and perpetuate its existence for still greater good to onr peo ple resolved 2d that we congratulate our selves and the agriculturalists of the state in having secured the services of so good and competent a man for coinmis i sioner as col l l polk and we hereby ' \ endorse his conrse and him as the right man in the right place resoloed 3d that we deprecate thc ac tion of the present board in changing the management of some of the important in terests of the department placing them in the hands of others than the commissioner j resohed 4th that the plan of sending i otrt regularly and often as practicable re ports from the department by the commis sioner to the people of the state tlierel.y bringing the farmers of the land in closer j union with the department has been and would still be productive of much good resoked 5th that we will hail with pleasure the presence of our commissioner in our midst to deliver t ns addresses on agriculture whenever his presence is not needed in his office on motion it was resnhed that a certified copy of these resolutions be sent to the secretary of the state board of agriculture under the seal ot this state grange the following resolutions were unani mously adopted resulted that the members of the state grange are indebted to col c h jones capt s b alexander r b caldwell and otlier members of the order in mecklenburg county for the use of the large and commo dious hall procured by them from thc ma sonic temple association of charlotte the birth-place of american independence and for other courtesies and that we will ever entertain a pleasant reniemberance of out meeting among these kind and hospitable . people resolved that our thanks arc due and are hereby tendered to ii c eccles the proprietor of the central hotel fox his bounteous fare and to those railroad corpo rations which kindly gave us reduced rates of fare an.l last but not least to the har lotte obsercer i'or its daily and accurate re ports ofour proceedings llesolted that the members tender ind vidually as well as collectively expressions of their warm appreciation of the z.-ul aad fidelity of our sisters who have honored us with their presence at this session ofthe state grange resulted that owing to the importance of the subject nnd to carry out the require ments of laws now ia existence the legis laturc be requested to pass a stringent law for the general protection of sheep hus , ban dry the grange then adjourned till the night . session kioiit mission ; the proceedings last night were taker up , in the exemplification of the un-written . work of the order and in the conferring at tlic fifth degree before the grange closed the follwing res , olution wa9 introduced and unanii i ush adopted t ii robinson having bee tem . porarily called to the chair reholrcd thatthe members of the state j grange reposing confidence in the integrity and ability of worthy master v ii cheek tenders him as well as all the other officers , of this body their hearty thanks for the ( faithful performance of duly during the i past year and especially for thc lahorc of the present session of the state grange fot . the year 1880 there being no further business tl , grange was closed until the next regt_ftir i annual meeting jefferson i>avis's t.-giu-y the contest iter mrs dorsey's will begun in earnest the contest over the will l.y which the lato sarah a dorsey,of beauvoi mi left to mr jefferson davis iter entire » estate has begun in earnest and during • the early days of next month tne argu ment in the united states circuit court of louisiana will be heard and a 1 -. i iou asked some weeks ago certain rela | fives of mrs horsey filed a complaint complaining that the testatrix did not possess testamentary capacity and that she was unduly influenced coupled with an application to set the will aside as be ing unjust to ti.e next of kin and also i being opposed to public policy to thi messrs breanx fenner & hull an onii nent xew orleans law firm as attorneys for mr davis have filed a demurrer be cause the allegations in the complaint are inconsistent with the claim that the testatrix was of unsound mind or was unduly influenced in making her will and therefore the complaint doe not - ite facts sufficient to constitute a cause foi action.'h the last pai t of tic de/uurrei is interpreted by the counsel of the ne.\t of kin to refer to that part of the com plaint which sets forth that it waa oppos ed to public policy ami good to adn.ir the will to probate it will be renfrmliered that mrs dorsey laid partienlar stress upon the fact that in lier judgment mr davis had received no reward for light ing for his country — meaning the t'onfi it erate states — and that alibis patriotic services going withont recognition in desired him to own and enjoy her deli estate connsel for complainant will take the ground that mrs dorsey's be quest s a reward for treason and a prem inm upon it and hence opposed to the spirit and text of the constitution 1 he amonnt involved is abour 25,000 seventy-five vessels arrived at th port of wilmington last month the it says forty-five of these were from foreign ports i blind crump i>ead-what tho coro ner's investi • * ••• proves blind crump the old negro who this found in a swamp ne .; tin . ty a day or twu "-■'■"■ ar an ins ■ dble * condition died saturday mot - 2 o'clock mr yandle ;' • ,,,;],,, i r liouse stal v evi dences of ;. viol * , , , ,. ,., the mu -.-. . and sticks e'no around with whfch the party or ; seem o lave beaten l.im to mak .. i rn 7 lately lar^e ti:e dr wilder the count | hysieian says tlm kul of tl poor man was ter ribly crashed tfeforc lc iii .! he suc ceeded in saying that h had been enticed , l-v two negroes to a ■ s\r church with ir promise of tion to him to 6 n"!:!l for ... th 1 be had in his pocki t eithi : two or two hundred dollars he was ver . ut and ir was with difii ult tl ■ i anything from him thc coroner was bus all day yesterday iuvi ti in matter and on the strength ol the testimony so far given tin follow ii have be u committed to jail : i huissa crump ti.r murdered man's wife and jim moweand freeman land the coroner is pureua ded that the murder was the result of a conspiracy includi quite n number of negrw ■ . li is said t i < . ,:• ;,. besides being somewhat ofa po i rftten -. , x"a ballad we nnderstand was daring 1 the war a servant of col chas fisher ' oi rowan and carri d hi tli nd body from : i manages b ttle fi hi lie was a i batfve of cesington n r !.,■ lost his sight so he said i'i th army cl ,-,'..... p ■"*. v ' one howard 1 knwtiin a =■ itai re iblican who . liis 1 h nei pa 7 ■ :. ,,.,,._ ! ty fri nds to go into 1 • rmin : cl to via s - with the mere determination action was to be ; il i n ■ ■ ther new 1 nrgi ns io burn 1 un ratic ban - their democrat to can ful turn i •: . 9end em leu ' ' mr hayes ■•'*■- i ' vice to g the ele : tion but thai - jecure . i a ' '■ mr kutchin reap '"'' :"' !' :' ■ i advice bul when ivutcl , r mr have rem ;* ; i ett's coon and he at once i . with a fat • • .., • • i'he ad id pei ceived i tim ns ., stalw ut i ' me i wa ■ hap ily ;' iu .. d^lii . . l4 and . culimht to ui lj ,, '....,,.. ..: j hi tb : inalij d . .,[ now :*>. : is i ...;. ". must irt the i t'yat ... .,-,. j,j ... ;,., "'■< - ■ ■ - liration fruly these 1 . ■ aton ar awful ly in the way uf.bu . raleigh ir-urw i . re ue •■■• it tiai ■ ' been convi ■ bxsaking the state an i , ijftve i u sonten , i i hard u ', tr . peniti nl years 1 in ; i pie are i ieo --. , i ear foi . support guard - !■ ■ ii we ca . jet rid of . i . . v i out an the sta .■ ill not th half 1 .... , on hai f soi ; bod find profitable j •... ■ : the -::*,_. •'■'■■ ' * '' * fore of sa i j only ■ i 1g0 ; e.t r ! u not a convief • work r coi -;' i ' ' is th y u < its ra the supreme i _ rendered a de ii 1'amli i thai tl tax-pa e s oj rritoi wnien .■..,. . mini - i for tnz n pa ;:. .. ■ , loie ; com v hi territory ■ ed to nouiil becou i i-.-'.i'ii ■ connty i ■.'.:.)• 1 • i of m setts tha t he woi suhtti ters au . ns.*1 ■ ■ wen •■ . . . patch i i fronl --.- you have . hotu •-.:., ,-,. mother pa it's •?•■ same t , i'o can | ...^ bad 1 broke