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the carolina watchman vol vii third series salisbury h c october 19 1876 no 53 carolina watchman .,„-,, wkkki.v i i r.k'.nr.k ed and propr rrbi-1 .,. k ..,•■■■*<■.••.■. associate bd ;.! i-.st ript-ojs rates : , .,. navablelu advance ?_ oo per ■' ir ' * 1 5 six mon-iis " ' adveutisino rates : 1 ,. ji oo •"•' '". .- 1 50 contract rates tor inoiiu-s or a year iiigial dem3cratic_reforffl ticket for i ■'-■* ' ■' samuel j tiluen of xew yol'k i for vice-pres i thomas - he dr1ck.s stateticket i /•' ( fir ti nt : i zebul n ii van f i i for j i thomas j jarvis i i i joseph a i-xglehard i of wii.si n i fw s i j c scar br hjull i alfred m vt adl'ell i b i i h i william m robbins h i uobeu i 13 van i h i elm n a 1 1 rge ■i'.l 1 m i.i 1 w ike ■i m lea i ni davidson i . ' latham h**i him l ji hi s f woo ten jowstimct-johx 1 stanford ■th district fab ii p.rsi.kl t district f i r ibbixs bithiiisn::i*i [;. j waning ■>!! ii strict wm i glenn tuni*-n:ii l a 0 eu v h .<_»- hplatiorni ofth . cratic par h y in north carouna adopted i by the d lc otato con ■vention at it on 14th i june 1876 i wm rkas . ■!■:.,. r(.pnuican party of h ih last sixteen h i iplete control of nueni in its di pai iinenls liy ii ii.rt _ ird ol i oii_tiiuti tl h'ui i l.yi unequal u.id oppressive tali ; hy iis cxii.iv .. u,i and waste i iditurt'et ; by ii _. unwise and mis h '"''"'' : by iis nnexam 1 '"'• tiie i . pervading all i linislraliou has h shi dii»(.iace upon ur governmeni h - our people '■''" •'. 1 in ihis centennial i in existence w invite all pai riot is nr.-i.u ,;. ,.,.,„,,_ ,,, disicg.-ird li.e ludics ur the past event ■**'"• t unit v i 1 1 1 ,.. i ; 1 1 t'ci-t n restore i economical and of iiu government ll promote ibe general welfare and i meetly and cor option by tlm l ' °' ''"■' amendment to tiie const i hn i1"'"1"""1 '"- i ' vt'»,inn of 1s75 '"■* 1,llr ly reduce the expenditures mil ;":'' l:"u,i,y governments and h ' v •'"''■' adiiiiiiisiraiion so that we h bt e,,al*l'-d io establish a thoroogb i i system of public schools for i wtit0i aii ii citizens of the state h"v '''''' ''■' 1 not withstanding our i * disappointments and impovisbed oji'"1"11 wf iiil cluri-.li the north oar ■jtcl 60 long labored for by more ■-,.,; fisher wm ii thomas | "'',:' ' u'ii ihthaiboihof bean i wilmiogtou wiili tbe great west ' c 11:l'!,;!i of ibe western lu ruilioad lo taint u_ck and dicktown and of our unfinished rail roads we pledge the continued use ofthe convict labor of the state and of such other judicious legislative aid as will se cure the completion of these great state works at tbe earliest practicable period resolved 4 that tbe people of north carolina uow have it in their power by an earnest determinated and uniied effort to relieve our people from the evils of re publican misrule extravagance and cor ruption and restore the prosperity of our slate itesolved 5 tbat we denounce official coriuption wherever found and we hold honesty to be tbe first and highest quali fication for office ruining the minister's parrot showing how blessed it is sometimes to return good for evil from the chicago tribune auy 21 there is an editor on harvard street who never gets home till long after mid night and he has a neighbor who is a clergyman possessing a parrat that has a voice like a planing mill this parrot's cage is hung out ahout day-break and just as the long-suffering editor is getting his first sleep and dreaming that he has scooped all the other papers on a hig indian ba lie lhe parrot gives a war-hoop that makes ail the windows iu the ward rat ih and then goes off into a series of shrieks whistles and veils uuiigh turn lhe milk out in cicero mid tl teeth of a handsaw on edge i .. per loiuiauci lasts till about 9 o'clock and whenever it hows any signs of flagging the clergyman comes out and wi.h an almond or a lump or siigar stimulates tbe acciused bird lo new frenzies at least this is how things used to be they are changed now one evening in j nnr when tbe editor went home to din ner his wife said : george i have some news for you '* ah my love is it exclusive .'" oar neighbors are going away for the summer to perry springs 1 impe they are going to take that pai rot with them no and what do you think ? they had the impudence to come and ask it we wuuld take care of lhe bird tor tln-tii while hey were gone did you ever i'd like lo wiing iis neck for them while they are gone ' a smile that was horrible to see illuuii uated the editor's face as be hissed in a low concentrated voice : my dear we should always try and return good for evil i will lake care uf lhai bird n.-xt day the minister went away and the editor set himself assidunu.-ly lo train the parrot in the way he i-hould go he had a room padded and the walls deaden ed and he hung the cage up in it then lie went and hired two a i t messen gers and bought a horse syringe and a water barrel and installed the boys iu charge my sons he said little par rots that shouldn't sing but will sing must he made not to sing whenever that bird lets off a cheep just syringe him with ice water the boys carried out the instructions so faithfully that iu less than a week the bird was as silent a the lomb aha !" said the editor his mind is now a tabula insa and prepared to receive proper instruction he must now be taught aud first i shall attend to my mu sical education accordingly he hired a man from a variety show on canal street to teach that parrot to whistle all the pop ular airs of ihe day such as " yum ! yum ! yum !" saw my leg off as 1 was going over the bill i saw a maid milking a billy goa then the vocalist taught that parrot all the cries of the street ped dlers and how to swear in fine print with out the use of glasses now said the editor triumphantly if i can teach bim the value of time i shall be well repaid by dint of syringing the bird with ice water when be offended and comforting inui with almonds he reduced the bird to the stilus of a feathered alarm clock set to go off with unerring regularity at 11:30 p m and 10:30 a ii and warranted uot to run down uutil the whole perform ance had beeu gone through wiih accord ing to programme the parrot's educa tion had cost him a heap of money aud much trouble but he did not regret it a week ago yesterday the minister re turned by the 7:50 p m , train and re ceived his precious bird the editor went home on tho half past 10 car lit his cigar opened the window and with a calm smile of expectancy listened the clock had just struck half past 11 when there came the yell of fire !" that probably startled everybody in the block except the editor lie still my love he said to liis wife it is only the parrot there is no danger the fearful cry was re peated and the editor heard sounds as if the minister and his family were jumping out of bed then windows were opened ou all sides and he had the pleasure of see ing lhe man who kept the key of the sig nal box and wasn't insured tear along the street in his slippers and turn in an alarm a few minutes afterwards the fire bells rang and the engines came tear ing up to the house whence the sin uis of fire !" were issuing the minister had to go down and explain and one of tbe drivers remarked audibly that he'd punch the old snoozer's beud off for a uickel meanwhile the parrot kept on yelling police !" fire ripe peaches ! fifteen cents a peck stror ap pools !" and the like till about 2:15 a m the editor with a swbet smile fell asleep leaving word to call him at 10 it was tbe blessed sabbath a bright sunny morning the street was crowded wiih church goers a dumber of deacous had called to welcome their pastor home and conduct him to the church the par rot had been dozing on his perch iu lhe un bul as the church bells one after auuthcr begau to cbique he began to gel excited presently the 10:30 bell struck its first note and punctual tu the second j the minister appeared on the piazza puuctual to the second also tbe parrot above them yawned scratched his ear and remarked o erebus ! ' he said it in english general attention was at once riveted and he continued in a honey ed tone how's elizabeth 1 then burst into a clear melodious whistle yum ! yum yum then exhorted everybody in bis hearing calling them a set of ), to go to and be !" * - • * an immense sensation was created and the police came up and said tbe minister must stop the bird and not create a pub lic nuisance or he'd have to come along finally the minister got the bird into the wood shed and put a lot of old carpets over him and his liair had nearly turned gray and after a terrible day and uight he went to the tribune office eaily ou mon day aud inserted the following : for sale a valuable parrot speaks and whistles affluently owner only parts with him because of ill health price low address x 999 tribune ofiiee report of the board of county of commissioners for rowan county shoicing receipts and expenditures of the lioord for fiscal year ending sept 1 187g o ' to ain't taxes collcct'd as ~$ lists 9,802 81 " " " from merchants traders sec 832 g4 " " " from hows con certs x-t.li-i*s c 410 70 " " " on unlisted real and personal property 2 70 l 11,148 85 subject to credit fair over charges insolvents c a mounting to about 300 00 sheriffs com'ns on 10,848 85 542 44 842 44 net receipts 10,306 41 claims audited by the board : ! j b gaither post mortem exam 10 00 ; s vv eaton do do do 10 00 | b p fraley coroner 04 55 ('. i mills special coroner 10 00 ; milas miller 2 00 i william sawyers repairing bridge 2 00 j james a hudson do do 12 00 i m a hol-houser do do 2 00 • i p o'neil .!<• do 4 50 i j v movie do do 12 00 i andrew gullett do do 10 00 j el ler a j.w.bas_nger build'g ur 161 40 o w atwell tin ' do 160 00 gill and mauney bridge lumber 38 09 o w atwell " do do 3 75 john eagle do do 4 68 jas eller hauling bridge lumber 1 00 hansom jacobs bridge inspecter 27 50 tin do do do 23 75 do do cash p'd bridg hands 4 10 miller & eagle lumber jail fence 14 56 ('. f baker & co repairs jail c.ii 34 10 w ii trexler do ilo 12 50 james barrett repaifg cupola ch 25 00 john hicks repairing c ii chim'y 11 25 j b hartinan scaffold poles c ii 10 72 a y kluttz lumber for do 0 1)0 t f kluttz paints oils c do 114 64 d a atwell hardware for do 8 12 crawford «$* heilig glass c do 35 00 do do do 3 15 w p moring painting do 10 00 do do 15 00 " do do 57 00 peter swink carpenter work do 8 63 g j shaman do do 10 25 j a barrett do do 10 50 j a barrett do do 19 95 j a harrctt do do 8 00 w lt trexler mason work do 1 88 w it trexler do do 7 81 j a cauble painting roof do 15 00 andy mack laborer on do 4 13 rich ilill do do 4 13 an'son owens do do 60 wm hunter do do 3 00 pink allison do do 2 25 meroney __ bro work on desk do 1 25 s e linton gas fixtures cl'ks ollice 25 00 p calicut making fence at jail 14 62 c w pool do do do 7 00 a k murchisou advertising 20 83 j j stewart do 7 50 j j bruner printing 13 50 j m mccorkle attorney 25 00 j m horali court costs 10 90 c.f waggoner cash p'd d a jen ) kins state treasurer for blank - 62 30 books c , for use of county ) j m horah stationery for office 40 83 j m horali paid for bl'k books ac 27 00 j a boyden for office stationery 28 81 j j suinmerell medical services 28 50 do do do 100 00 u j goodman maintaining luna 42 00 d c reid conveying pauper to t 1 50 j bringle hogs for poor house 10 00 poor house expenses to sept 1 76 1237 14 joseph dobson solicitor 34 00 a h joyce do 300 00 j m horah clerk superior court 160 00 j a boyden do do ilo 4 83 j samuel mccubbins county tr 200 00 h x woodsou making out tax i books issuing notices register 855 02 ing orders c ) j a rendleman jailor 811 50 a m walker ' do 10 00 j a march do 5 80 david loftin sheriff 4 00 j g neal do 25 00 j g neal do 75 m e alexander do 15 j cline do 15 c f waggoner do 6 95 c f waggoner do 27 00 do 22 10 " . do 57 80 « " do 5 50 do 31 80 david loftin do 5 00 j f a watts d s 6 00 w l parker do 16 95 « " do 3 00 j k burko do 7 13 do 1 50 r p rosemau do 4 95 do 7 80 o w atwell d 3 57 do 4 50 mo a smith do 19 3*5 do 30 00 do 6 00 do 7 60 d penninger do 4 40 do 4 20 vv m james do 12 15 f a kerr special d 8 15 c t kluttz " " 80 e a propst " " 15 john fisher " " 75 michael a brown special d s 60 j c casper " " 30 j t baker " •' 30 ii g miller " " 1 35 11 l woods " " 15 henrv mclaughlin " " 77 ti c reid " « 15 phillip sowers " " 1 05 t m kerns " •• 60 edmund fesperman " " 30 t p gillespie constable 80 w f lackey ** l 60 3 90 w w hall " 20 t cranford " 58 t d rice " 65 c w pool " 1 42 john t wiley " 65 t m earnheart " 3 02 a a file " 45 s c rankin " 3 00 w a brandon " 1 20 m a smith '• 6 80 t g hau<--hton justice peace 2 50 ■*'-«• " 14 95 4 85 19 05 w m kineiiid " " 47 john a bailey " " 50 j j stewart " " 50 d l bringle " " 1 00 t w keen " " 1 73 jos a hawkins " " 95 jesse w miller •* " 1 15 john k graham " " 60 john me daniel guard 1 00 lindsay lewis •' 1 00 geo mcg'ames serving notice 2 00 john k graham listing taxes 0 00 t t goodman " " 6 00 nathan brown " " 6 00 wiley bean " " 6 00 john w miller " " 6 00 j l sloan " " 6 00 s m furr " " 6 00 john a bailev " " 6 00 j c row * u 41 6 00 w v watson listing taxes 6 00 t c watson «• 6 00 c ii mckenzie " " 6 00 david barringer - " 6 00 s a i'arnhart *' " 6 00 w m kincaid " " 6 00 g h miller u «* 6 qq a l hall " 6 00 jos a hawkins ■»*'«* 6 00 w a luckev " " 6 00 c c krider " " 6 00 jesse w miller " " 6 00 j ('. o graham " il 6 00 richard ciilbertson " 6 00 john sloop " " 6 00 p a sloop " " 6 00 j m eddleman " " 6 00 f h manner " " 6 tk paul ('. shaver " 6 00 james f jam ison " " 6 00 h x woodson taking returns ' 04 it merchants traders c ) john if rice registrar 2 88 w l parker *' 1 90 j w ma une v m 7 14 t m phifer " 1 90 a a cowan " 4 26 a ('. ketner " 2 34 j c poole *• 1 85 w r fralev " 2 49 r h broadfield judge of election 3 00 m a bost " 1 50 r h broadfield " 2 00 j f stansill " 1 50 w t h plaster " 1 50 chas holshouser " 1 50 dan frick " 1 50 henrv kluttz - 1 50 alex lyerly '* 1 50 henrv peeler " 1 50 c a miller " 1 50 a w kluttz listing tax ajudgelec 8 59 b f fralev judge of election 2 00 j a brown •* 2 00 h c bost " 1 50 john eagle " 1 50 richard walker " 1 so ilg miller " 1 50 john w turner " 1 50 j ii a lippard " 1 50 thomas niblock " 1 50 b a knox « 1 50 j m harrison " 1 50 tobias goodman " 1 50 joshua miller " 1 50 j a fisher '• 1 50 w h horah " 1 50 a leazer ". 1 50 daniel beaver " 1 50 g a j scchlcr " 1 50 jesse barger " 1 50 e s p lippard u 1 50 john p rymer " 1 50 julius a coleman " 1 50 a c earnhart " 1 50 j c snuggs " 1 50 a m barringer " 1 50 atlas kirk «* 1 50 john f hodge " 1 50 isaac m shaver " 1 50 john e shaver " 1 50 otho v pool " 1 50 r culbcrtson " 1 50 c rice •' 1 50 j hellard " 1 50 r harrison " 1 50 b c parker " 1 50 john p henderson " 1 50 j b gibson " 2 00 s m furr " 1 50 paul c shaver clerk of election 1 00 t m kerns " 2 50 expenses board as per former ) 0,o ar statement \ wt ou 219 witness tickets in 8tate cases 339 75 5,965 59 horatio n woodson clerk sept 23d 1876 habit like flaxes of snow tbat fall nnper ceived upon tbe earth tbe seemingly un important events of life succeed one another as the snow gather together so are our habits formed no single flakes that is added to the pile produces a sensible change no single action cre ates however it may exhibit a man's character but as the tempest hurls the avalanche down the mountain and over whelms the inhabitant and his habitation so passion acting upon the element of mischief which pernicious habits bave brought together by imperceptible accu mulation may overthrow tbe edifice of uuib aud virtue a singular confession an ex preacjier proclaims himself an infidel and wants to be prayed for from the chicago inter-ocean in view of tbe approaching religious revival in connection with mr moody's meetings i wish to make a request of tbe christain people who may atteud ihem it is that they will pray for me for several years i was the pastor of one of the largest churches in the city and professed and preached the christian reli gion to all appearances i comforted and confirmed multitudes of christians and brought hundreds of uubelievers into the fold of christ but about six months ago uot from impulse but after mature and painful deliberation i abandoned the pulpit and publicly renounced my belief iu tbe christian religion even to me wbo no longer believed in a hereafter this seemed to be a very solemn step and to the church over which i so long pre sided as pastor so many of whom i had led down into the waters of baptism and to whom i had so often administered lhe sacrament it seemb to me that this event should have appeared nothing less than shocking and awful and yet it is a sin gular fact tbat tliere has never been a prayer offered iu the union park now the fourth baptist nay iu any other church in this city for my recovery from infidelity ou the other hand the boston baptist paper the watchman expressed the liveliest satisfaction that i had adjur ed the christian faith and was going to bell i have no idea therefore that i can secure au interest in the prayers of the baptist but i ask lo be remembered in the prayers of the christians at large who may attend mr moody's meetings i make this request because for several months past i have felt that there was after all a great truth somewhere in the orthrodox chritian religion though as yet i cannot define nor comprehend it but my present view of christianity ex erts no iufluence over my lieart or life and if i should die iu my present state of mind i should if the new testament is true sink into an endless hell i have also as an incidental motive the desire to receive a demonstration of the truth of religion by experiencing this highly im probable change in answer to prayer i make this request in this public manner because i am a public character and my case is of special importance to the cause of religion my defection has shaken the faith of many to my knowledge and a multitude all over the country whom i h-->e never seen nor received letters from mnai have been more or less affected by it i might suggest more particularly what i wish prayed for 1 would request that prayers be offered that i might recover my faith in the christian character that is that i might become convinced that the belief and subjective experience of the christian religion make men in the long run more truthful more honest more just more merciful more loving more forgiving than other people for i must confess that an experience of sixteen years in the christian pastorate has well nigh couviuced me that christianity simply in tensifies human nature so that while chris tiaus love their friends more than other people do and when once displeased are the most cruel and unscrupulous class of tbe community f lo it e x c e mcc a e i iiv chicago september 25 -<__>. the british post office o the london standard says : the postmaster general has just issued his annual report showing the work done in 167 by this it appears that in the course ofthe year more than a thousand millions of letters passed through the post office being at the rate of thirty-one for every man woman and child in the uuiled kingdom iu addition there were more than eighty**seven millions of post cards and nearly two hundred and eighty millions of book packets and newspapers compared with 1874 letters show an in crease exceeding four per cent post cards uearly eleven per cent aud book packets and the newspapers eight per cent the figures vary considerably for the three parts of the kingdom thus england sends thirty five letters per head while ireland sends only thirteen and scotland twenty-six tbe increase of letters in england compared with the previous year is more than five per cent of post cards between eleven and twelve per cent and of book pockets and newspapers nearly ten per cent the number of reg it red letters iu the united kingdom dur ing the year was about one in 231 of the whole number of letters the number of letters received in the returned letter office was very nearly in the same pro portion being about one in 232 but it was found possible either to return to the writers or to re-issue nearly nine-tenths ofthe whole number thus leceived every year the post office report reveals a varie ty of strange freaks perpetrated by a por tion of tbe public and it does not appear that this erratic dement is on the decline last year upward of twenty-five thous aud letters were posted without any ad dress of which number 46 l contained in the aggregate nearly five hundn d pounds in cash and bank notes and 0,000 in checks nearly sixty five thousaud pos tage stamps were found loose iu the diff erent post offices which were probably originally attached to letters and pockets dropped into the boxes but failed lo ad here whisky is not a tonic it is probably an alterative for it alters dollars to cent 1 virtu lo ctiui aud u*.u lj brutes suppressing protestantism tbe work of re-establishing the old order of things in spain when all who dared or even wished to reject the spirit ual authority of rome were consigned to the tender mr-rcies of the inquisition is going on we have no fear of its be ing restored ; it is too late in the day for that ; but the ultramontane are making every effort to extinguish protestantism by stretching the clauses in the consti tution and laws that favors romanism add restricting to the lowebt degree all that protect protestants americans and english are now begiuning to suffer as well as saniaids tbe foreign residents speaking english had a chapel fitted up at madrid which though not officially attached to any legation was maintained in the absence of a regular chaplaiucy by english and american residents or visitors in madrid at the head of the subscription list are the names of her brit ish majesty's minister and the members of the legation with those of the hon caleb gushing american minister aud his secretary it is therefore not a ua tive or spauish place of worship in auy sense ou the return of these foreign residents from their vacation the rev mr jamieson of the free church of scollaud who act ed as haplain wished to give notice that the services would be resumed hereto fore all such notices had been sent to tho press and no difficulty whatever had been met willi in getting them inserted as or dinary advertisements when the clergy man applied to the semi official curves pondencia de espana to publish a notice to the effect that divine service would be held at the chapel on the next sabbath the manager of the paper declined to do so and declared that he could not assume the responsibility of anything connected protestants doctrines tho same appli cation was made to ihe liberal paper the imparciul which has taking a leading part in defence of religious toloration and a polite refusal was also given by the editors the consequence was that very few residents and only part of the visitors in the hotels could be notified of the res opening of the church the native protestants are under the closest restriction in regard to their ser vices they are not allowed to have auy notice on the outside of their places of worship noi even to have the door op en lest some passer-by should be attract ed by the singing and induced to enter this is the religious liberty which roman catholics believe in and the only kind that they allow where they have the lower nay they would not allow christians to assemble for worship even iu the most private manner if they could help it they are doing all that they can to suppress and destroy protestant ism in spain root and branch even in the face of the new constitution and yet roman gatholics in the united states of america profess to be the friends of civil aud religious liberty one would think from their professions they were the only friends of liberty but look at their history where they have had the power look at the limited regions where they have sway now aud their true priucip'es will bo apparent to any but the wilfully bliud — new york observer from lite cradle to the grave an english generation on the march from the cradle to the grave is an instruct ive spectacle and we have it carefully presented lo us in the report by dr farr let us trace the physical fortune which any million of us may reasonably expect the number to begin with is made up of 511,745 boys and 4ss 255 girls a dis proportion which wiil by and by be re dressed by the undue mortality of the boys and will be reversed before the close of the strange eventful history more than a quarter of these children will die beforo they are five years old — in exact number 141,387 boys and 121,795 girls | the two sexes are now nearly on a level i the next five years will be much less fatal in the succeeding five years — from ten to fifteen — the mortality will he still further reduced indeed for both i sexes this is the most healthy period ot ! life ; the death-rate however is lower for buys than for girls tnere will be 6ome advance in deaths in the next five years and still more in the tive which follow but 034,015 will certainly enter on their twenty-sixth year before the uext ten years are at an end two-thirds of the women will have married the deaths during that period will be 0-2,05 and of these no fewer than 27,134 will be caused hy consumption between thirty five and forty-five a still larger deaih tuil will be paid and little more than half the original baud — in exact num bers 502,915 — will enter on their forty - sixth year each succeeding decade up to seventy-live will now become more fatal and tbe numbers will shrink terri bly at seventy-five only 101,124 will remain to he struck down and of these 122,559 will have perished by the eighty - fiflh year of the march the 38,505 that remain will soon lay down their burdens but 2,153 of them will struggle on to be ninety-five and 223 lo be 100 years old finally in the losth year of the course the last solitary life w-ll flicker out such then is the average lot of a i million english men aud women — cos sell's magazine when i was travelling in massachusetts some twenty years ago said a traveller i had a seat with the driver a ho on stopping at the post-office saluted an ill ! looking fellow on the steps with good morning jugdc sander i hope you're well j sir after leaving the office i asked the | driver if the man he spoke to was really a judge certainly sir,1 he replied we hail : ■lit week ami nude jud-'i t ...... , the boss candidates vance & settle at hillsboro a siring of transparencies special telegram to the sentinel hillsboro oct 12 187g f'ov \ ance came in last eveuing un der escort of the salem cornet band and many men on horse back the ladies of the village joined in the enthusiastic greeting this morning the durham tilden and vance club 400 strong ar rived by special train along with great numbers from alamance chatham and person counties full 3,000 people were present among the devices upon the numerous banners borne iu the proces sion which passed through the main streets of hillsboro i noted the follow ing : durham for tilden and reform to the back bone north carolina expects every man to do his duty ! vote for the whole demo cratic ticket tilden the giant reformer rata to your holes tilden and constitutional liberty vance and victory no ikes in our'n durham for vance against tho world down with revenue ike orange county 800 for vance we vote with our friends stay at home tommy don't go ballots not bullet 10 years of radical stealing has ruin ed us indiana the girl ofthe period reform and reconciliation hold the fort ! we are coming ! 20,000 majority for tilden and vauce stand by the nominees the 7th of november will settle thomas carolina carolina heaven's blessings attend her peace can only follow democratic success vote for tilden and vance grant endorses settle he endorses babcock s j tilden washington d c tilden the giant ring breaker reduction of taxes s j tilden we want a change we are tired of hard limes we pledge north carolina 20,000 for vance and reform the bloody shire played out our beloved vance down with rogues and thieves ! wo must have reform joe davis the houcst mau's candi date !" peace and prosperity we are going to win this fight the honest colored man is respected and protected d t & v club boss shepard babcock ike young and settle all belong to the samo ring harmony liberty and honesty where did young get his title of col onel 1 ans in the kir war that thing is played out kirk in 1s70 judiciary exhausted settle 1870 old rip van winkle has waked up tar heel " gov vance opened the discussion at half past 11 a m and pioceeded iu his usual telling style for an hour and a half being followed by judge settle for tho same length of time the stand waa erected at tho northeast corner of iho courthouse good humor und good order prevailed il i lutcycr's definition of law the newark daily says : a prom inent lawyer recently gave the following definition of tho law ; it is simply an effort to shift the responsibility of tbe deci-ion the jury of laymen befogged by the pleadings make up their verdict with the understanding that if there is anything wrong about it the supreme mt composed of lawyers will make it all li^'ht l'lie supreme court settles it according to law with the understanding that the laymen of the court of appeals will adjust the error the court of er rors orders a new trial and it comes back to where it started and begins again with tbe jury of laymen it is simply a mill that goes round and round and giiuds up the property of fools too fail in our day both married and single people live too fast a bachelor now has need of an income such as would once have satisfied a_man with a family ; and tin husband and father requires for his ingle household the means that twenty year ago wuuld have supplied two fam ilies if not three daughters are sent to fasiiionablo schools at ati enormous coat there tn learn extravagance aud in short to he come uted for auythiug hut u become the wives of poor young men sons aro ret uii eti with unlimited pocket money late hours and alinu-t total absence of paternal control thus wo not only waste our estates but perpetuate the voico of our children lu every way we are living too fai.-l ida lewis the heroine now has tho charge ol lhe lime rock lighthouse and lives there with her mother and her dogs she has not much regard for the tyrant ex although she has saved so many fro{jj drowning when complimented upon the interior painting of her bouse which he tinted herself she said : the gov ernment gives us men to do this but we'd have ti board ihem and i'd rather do anything in ihi woild mian have men iu tht li luliou - i likt ' ■•::..
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1876-10-19 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 19 |
Year | 1876 |
Volume | 7 |
Issue | 53 |
Technical Metadata | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archivial image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from microfilm at 400 dpi. The original file size was |
Creator | J. J. Bruner and T. K. Bruner |
Date Digital | 2008-12-29 |
Publisher | J. J. Bruner and T. K. Bruner |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The October 19, 1876 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina; this issue has a copy of the National Democratic Reform Ticket, it includes for President; Samuel J. Tilden and for Governor: Zebulon B. Vance |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601568284 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1876-10-19 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 19 |
Year | 1876 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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FileName | sacw12_053_18761019-img00001.jp2 |
Date Digital | 12/29/2008 10:28:46 AM |
Publisher | Hamilton C. Jones |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | An archive of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers. |
Language | eng |
FullText | the carolina watchman vol vii third series salisbury h c october 19 1876 no 53 carolina watchman .,„-,, wkkki.v i i r.k'.nr.k ed and propr rrbi-1 .,. k ..,•■■■*<■.••.■. associate bd ;.! i-.st ript-ojs rates : , .,. navablelu advance ?_ oo per ■' ir ' * 1 5 six mon-iis " ' adveutisino rates : 1 ,. ji oo •"•' '". .- 1 50 contract rates tor inoiiu-s or a year iiigial dem3cratic_reforffl ticket for i ■'-■* ' ■' samuel j tiluen of xew yol'k i for vice-pres i thomas - he dr1ck.s stateticket i /•' ( fir ti nt : i zebul n ii van f i i for j i thomas j jarvis i i i joseph a i-xglehard i of wii.si n i fw s i j c scar br hjull i alfred m vt adl'ell i b i i h i william m robbins h i uobeu i 13 van i h i elm n a 1 1 rge ■i'.l 1 m i.i 1 w ike ■i m lea i ni davidson i . ' latham h**i him l ji hi s f woo ten jowstimct-johx 1 stanford ■th district fab ii p.rsi.kl t district f i r ibbixs bithiiisn::i*i [;. j waning ■>!! ii strict wm i glenn tuni*-n:ii l a 0 eu v h .<_»- hplatiorni ofth . cratic par h y in north carouna adopted i by the d lc otato con ■vention at it on 14th i june 1876 i wm rkas . ■!■:.,. r(.pnuican party of h ih last sixteen h i iplete control of nueni in its di pai iinenls liy ii ii.rt _ ird ol i oii_tiiuti tl h'ui i l.yi unequal u.id oppressive tali ; hy iis cxii.iv .. u,i and waste i iditurt'et ; by ii _. unwise and mis h '"''"'' : by iis nnexam 1 '"'• tiie i . pervading all i linislraliou has h shi dii»(.iace upon ur governmeni h - our people '■''" •'. 1 in ihis centennial i in existence w invite all pai riot is nr.-i.u ,;. ,.,.,„,,_ ,,, disicg.-ird li.e ludics ur the past event ■**'"• t unit v i 1 1 1 ,.. i ; 1 1 t'ci-t n restore i economical and of iiu government ll promote ibe general welfare and i meetly and cor option by tlm l ' °' ''"■' amendment to tiie const i hn i1"'"1"""1 '"- i ' vt'»,inn of 1s75 '"■* 1,llr ly reduce the expenditures mil ;":'' l:"u,i,y governments and h ' v •'"''■' adiiiiiiisiraiion so that we h bt e,,al*l'-d io establish a thoroogb i i system of public schools for i wtit0i aii ii citizens of the state h"v '''''' ''■' 1 not withstanding our i * disappointments and impovisbed oji'"1"11 wf iiil cluri-.li the north oar ■jtcl 60 long labored for by more ■-,.,; fisher wm ii thomas | "'',:' ' u'ii ihthaiboihof bean i wilmiogtou wiili tbe great west ' c 11:l'!,;!i of ibe western lu ruilioad lo taint u_ck and dicktown and of our unfinished rail roads we pledge the continued use ofthe convict labor of the state and of such other judicious legislative aid as will se cure the completion of these great state works at tbe earliest practicable period resolved 4 that tbe people of north carolina uow have it in their power by an earnest determinated and uniied effort to relieve our people from the evils of re publican misrule extravagance and cor ruption and restore the prosperity of our slate itesolved 5 tbat we denounce official coriuption wherever found and we hold honesty to be tbe first and highest quali fication for office ruining the minister's parrot showing how blessed it is sometimes to return good for evil from the chicago tribune auy 21 there is an editor on harvard street who never gets home till long after mid night and he has a neighbor who is a clergyman possessing a parrat that has a voice like a planing mill this parrot's cage is hung out ahout day-break and just as the long-suffering editor is getting his first sleep and dreaming that he has scooped all the other papers on a hig indian ba lie lhe parrot gives a war-hoop that makes ail the windows iu the ward rat ih and then goes off into a series of shrieks whistles and veils uuiigh turn lhe milk out in cicero mid tl teeth of a handsaw on edge i .. per loiuiauci lasts till about 9 o'clock and whenever it hows any signs of flagging the clergyman comes out and wi.h an almond or a lump or siigar stimulates tbe acciused bird lo new frenzies at least this is how things used to be they are changed now one evening in j nnr when tbe editor went home to din ner his wife said : george i have some news for you '* ah my love is it exclusive .'" oar neighbors are going away for the summer to perry springs 1 impe they are going to take that pai rot with them no and what do you think ? they had the impudence to come and ask it we wuuld take care of lhe bird tor tln-tii while hey were gone did you ever i'd like lo wiing iis neck for them while they are gone ' a smile that was horrible to see illuuii uated the editor's face as be hissed in a low concentrated voice : my dear we should always try and return good for evil i will lake care uf lhai bird n.-xt day the minister went away and the editor set himself assidunu.-ly lo train the parrot in the way he i-hould go he had a room padded and the walls deaden ed and he hung the cage up in it then lie went and hired two a i t messen gers and bought a horse syringe and a water barrel and installed the boys iu charge my sons he said little par rots that shouldn't sing but will sing must he made not to sing whenever that bird lets off a cheep just syringe him with ice water the boys carried out the instructions so faithfully that iu less than a week the bird was as silent a the lomb aha !" said the editor his mind is now a tabula insa and prepared to receive proper instruction he must now be taught aud first i shall attend to my mu sical education accordingly he hired a man from a variety show on canal street to teach that parrot to whistle all the pop ular airs of ihe day such as " yum ! yum ! yum !" saw my leg off as 1 was going over the bill i saw a maid milking a billy goa then the vocalist taught that parrot all the cries of the street ped dlers and how to swear in fine print with out the use of glasses now said the editor triumphantly if i can teach bim the value of time i shall be well repaid by dint of syringing the bird with ice water when be offended and comforting inui with almonds he reduced the bird to the stilus of a feathered alarm clock set to go off with unerring regularity at 11:30 p m and 10:30 a ii and warranted uot to run down uutil the whole perform ance had beeu gone through wiih accord ing to programme the parrot's educa tion had cost him a heap of money aud much trouble but he did not regret it a week ago yesterday the minister re turned by the 7:50 p m , train and re ceived his precious bird the editor went home on tho half past 10 car lit his cigar opened the window and with a calm smile of expectancy listened the clock had just struck half past 11 when there came the yell of fire !" that probably startled everybody in the block except the editor lie still my love he said to liis wife it is only the parrot there is no danger the fearful cry was re peated and the editor heard sounds as if the minister and his family were jumping out of bed then windows were opened ou all sides and he had the pleasure of see ing lhe man who kept the key of the sig nal box and wasn't insured tear along the street in his slippers and turn in an alarm a few minutes afterwards the fire bells rang and the engines came tear ing up to the house whence the sin uis of fire !" were issuing the minister had to go down and explain and one of tbe drivers remarked audibly that he'd punch the old snoozer's beud off for a uickel meanwhile the parrot kept on yelling police !" fire ripe peaches ! fifteen cents a peck stror ap pools !" and the like till about 2:15 a m the editor with a swbet smile fell asleep leaving word to call him at 10 it was tbe blessed sabbath a bright sunny morning the street was crowded wiih church goers a dumber of deacous had called to welcome their pastor home and conduct him to the church the par rot had been dozing on his perch iu lhe un bul as the church bells one after auuthcr begau to cbique he began to gel excited presently the 10:30 bell struck its first note and punctual tu the second j the minister appeared on the piazza puuctual to the second also tbe parrot above them yawned scratched his ear and remarked o erebus ! ' he said it in english general attention was at once riveted and he continued in a honey ed tone how's elizabeth 1 then burst into a clear melodious whistle yum ! yum yum then exhorted everybody in bis hearing calling them a set of ), to go to and be !" * - • * an immense sensation was created and the police came up and said tbe minister must stop the bird and not create a pub lic nuisance or he'd have to come along finally the minister got the bird into the wood shed and put a lot of old carpets over him and his liair had nearly turned gray and after a terrible day and uight he went to the tribune office eaily ou mon day aud inserted the following : for sale a valuable parrot speaks and whistles affluently owner only parts with him because of ill health price low address x 999 tribune ofiiee report of the board of county of commissioners for rowan county shoicing receipts and expenditures of the lioord for fiscal year ending sept 1 187g o ' to ain't taxes collcct'd as ~$ lists 9,802 81 " " " from merchants traders sec 832 g4 " " " from hows con certs x-t.li-i*s c 410 70 " " " on unlisted real and personal property 2 70 l 11,148 85 subject to credit fair over charges insolvents c a mounting to about 300 00 sheriffs com'ns on 10,848 85 542 44 842 44 net receipts 10,306 41 claims audited by the board : ! j b gaither post mortem exam 10 00 ; s vv eaton do do do 10 00 | b p fraley coroner 04 55 ('. i mills special coroner 10 00 ; milas miller 2 00 i william sawyers repairing bridge 2 00 j james a hudson do do 12 00 i m a hol-houser do do 2 00 • i p o'neil .!<• do 4 50 i j v movie do do 12 00 i andrew gullett do do 10 00 j el ler a j.w.bas_nger build'g ur 161 40 o w atwell tin ' do 160 00 gill and mauney bridge lumber 38 09 o w atwell " do do 3 75 john eagle do do 4 68 jas eller hauling bridge lumber 1 00 hansom jacobs bridge inspecter 27 50 tin do do do 23 75 do do cash p'd bridg hands 4 10 miller & eagle lumber jail fence 14 56 ('. f baker & co repairs jail c.ii 34 10 w ii trexler do ilo 12 50 james barrett repaifg cupola ch 25 00 john hicks repairing c ii chim'y 11 25 j b hartinan scaffold poles c ii 10 72 a y kluttz lumber for do 0 1)0 t f kluttz paints oils c do 114 64 d a atwell hardware for do 8 12 crawford «$* heilig glass c do 35 00 do do do 3 15 w p moring painting do 10 00 do do 15 00 " do do 57 00 peter swink carpenter work do 8 63 g j shaman do do 10 25 j a barrett do do 10 50 j a barrett do do 19 95 j a harrctt do do 8 00 w lt trexler mason work do 1 88 w it trexler do do 7 81 j a cauble painting roof do 15 00 andy mack laborer on do 4 13 rich ilill do do 4 13 an'son owens do do 60 wm hunter do do 3 00 pink allison do do 2 25 meroney __ bro work on desk do 1 25 s e linton gas fixtures cl'ks ollice 25 00 p calicut making fence at jail 14 62 c w pool do do do 7 00 a k murchisou advertising 20 83 j j stewart do 7 50 j j bruner printing 13 50 j m mccorkle attorney 25 00 j m horali court costs 10 90 c.f waggoner cash p'd d a jen ) kins state treasurer for blank - 62 30 books c , for use of county ) j m horah stationery for office 40 83 j m horali paid for bl'k books ac 27 00 j a boyden for office stationery 28 81 j j suinmerell medical services 28 50 do do do 100 00 u j goodman maintaining luna 42 00 d c reid conveying pauper to t 1 50 j bringle hogs for poor house 10 00 poor house expenses to sept 1 76 1237 14 joseph dobson solicitor 34 00 a h joyce do 300 00 j m horah clerk superior court 160 00 j a boyden do do ilo 4 83 j samuel mccubbins county tr 200 00 h x woodsou making out tax i books issuing notices register 855 02 ing orders c ) j a rendleman jailor 811 50 a m walker ' do 10 00 j a march do 5 80 david loftin sheriff 4 00 j g neal do 25 00 j g neal do 75 m e alexander do 15 j cline do 15 c f waggoner do 6 95 c f waggoner do 27 00 do 22 10 " . do 57 80 « " do 5 50 do 31 80 david loftin do 5 00 j f a watts d s 6 00 w l parker do 16 95 « " do 3 00 j k burko do 7 13 do 1 50 r p rosemau do 4 95 do 7 80 o w atwell d 3 57 do 4 50 mo a smith do 19 3*5 do 30 00 do 6 00 do 7 60 d penninger do 4 40 do 4 20 vv m james do 12 15 f a kerr special d 8 15 c t kluttz " " 80 e a propst " " 15 john fisher " " 75 michael a brown special d s 60 j c casper " " 30 j t baker " •' 30 ii g miller " " 1 35 11 l woods " " 15 henrv mclaughlin " " 77 ti c reid " « 15 phillip sowers " " 1 05 t m kerns " •• 60 edmund fesperman " " 30 t p gillespie constable 80 w f lackey ** l 60 3 90 w w hall " 20 t cranford " 58 t d rice " 65 c w pool " 1 42 john t wiley " 65 t m earnheart " 3 02 a a file " 45 s c rankin " 3 00 w a brandon " 1 20 m a smith '• 6 80 t g hau<--hton justice peace 2 50 ■*'-«• " 14 95 4 85 19 05 w m kineiiid " " 47 john a bailey " " 50 j j stewart " " 50 d l bringle " " 1 00 t w keen " " 1 73 jos a hawkins " " 95 jesse w miller •* " 1 15 john k graham " " 60 john me daniel guard 1 00 lindsay lewis •' 1 00 geo mcg'ames serving notice 2 00 john k graham listing taxes 0 00 t t goodman " " 6 00 nathan brown " " 6 00 wiley bean " " 6 00 john w miller " " 6 00 j l sloan " " 6 00 s m furr " " 6 00 john a bailev " " 6 00 j c row * u 41 6 00 w v watson listing taxes 6 00 t c watson «• 6 00 c ii mckenzie " " 6 00 david barringer - " 6 00 s a i'arnhart *' " 6 00 w m kincaid " " 6 00 g h miller u «* 6 qq a l hall " 6 00 jos a hawkins ■»*'«* 6 00 w a luckev " " 6 00 c c krider " " 6 00 jesse w miller " " 6 00 j ('. o graham " il 6 00 richard ciilbertson " 6 00 john sloop " " 6 00 p a sloop " " 6 00 j m eddleman " " 6 00 f h manner " " 6 tk paul ('. shaver " 6 00 james f jam ison " " 6 00 h x woodson taking returns ' 04 it merchants traders c ) john if rice registrar 2 88 w l parker *' 1 90 j w ma une v m 7 14 t m phifer " 1 90 a a cowan " 4 26 a ('. ketner " 2 34 j c poole *• 1 85 w r fralev " 2 49 r h broadfield judge of election 3 00 m a bost " 1 50 r h broadfield " 2 00 j f stansill " 1 50 w t h plaster " 1 50 chas holshouser " 1 50 dan frick " 1 50 henrv kluttz - 1 50 alex lyerly '* 1 50 henrv peeler " 1 50 c a miller " 1 50 a w kluttz listing tax ajudgelec 8 59 b f fralev judge of election 2 00 j a brown •* 2 00 h c bost " 1 50 john eagle " 1 50 richard walker " 1 so ilg miller " 1 50 john w turner " 1 50 j ii a lippard " 1 50 thomas niblock " 1 50 b a knox « 1 50 j m harrison " 1 50 tobias goodman " 1 50 joshua miller " 1 50 j a fisher '• 1 50 w h horah " 1 50 a leazer ". 1 50 daniel beaver " 1 50 g a j scchlcr " 1 50 jesse barger " 1 50 e s p lippard u 1 50 john p rymer " 1 50 julius a coleman " 1 50 a c earnhart " 1 50 j c snuggs " 1 50 a m barringer " 1 50 atlas kirk «* 1 50 john f hodge " 1 50 isaac m shaver " 1 50 john e shaver " 1 50 otho v pool " 1 50 r culbcrtson " 1 50 c rice •' 1 50 j hellard " 1 50 r harrison " 1 50 b c parker " 1 50 john p henderson " 1 50 j b gibson " 2 00 s m furr " 1 50 paul c shaver clerk of election 1 00 t m kerns " 2 50 expenses board as per former ) 0,o ar statement \ wt ou 219 witness tickets in 8tate cases 339 75 5,965 59 horatio n woodson clerk sept 23d 1876 habit like flaxes of snow tbat fall nnper ceived upon tbe earth tbe seemingly un important events of life succeed one another as the snow gather together so are our habits formed no single flakes that is added to the pile produces a sensible change no single action cre ates however it may exhibit a man's character but as the tempest hurls the avalanche down the mountain and over whelms the inhabitant and his habitation so passion acting upon the element of mischief which pernicious habits bave brought together by imperceptible accu mulation may overthrow tbe edifice of uuib aud virtue a singular confession an ex preacjier proclaims himself an infidel and wants to be prayed for from the chicago inter-ocean in view of tbe approaching religious revival in connection with mr moody's meetings i wish to make a request of tbe christain people who may atteud ihem it is that they will pray for me for several years i was the pastor of one of the largest churches in the city and professed and preached the christian reli gion to all appearances i comforted and confirmed multitudes of christians and brought hundreds of uubelievers into the fold of christ but about six months ago uot from impulse but after mature and painful deliberation i abandoned the pulpit and publicly renounced my belief iu tbe christian religion even to me wbo no longer believed in a hereafter this seemed to be a very solemn step and to the church over which i so long pre sided as pastor so many of whom i had led down into the waters of baptism and to whom i had so often administered lhe sacrament it seemb to me that this event should have appeared nothing less than shocking and awful and yet it is a sin gular fact tbat tliere has never been a prayer offered iu the union park now the fourth baptist nay iu any other church in this city for my recovery from infidelity ou the other hand the boston baptist paper the watchman expressed the liveliest satisfaction that i had adjur ed the christian faith and was going to bell i have no idea therefore that i can secure au interest in the prayers of the baptist but i ask lo be remembered in the prayers of the christians at large who may attend mr moody's meetings i make this request because for several months past i have felt that there was after all a great truth somewhere in the orthrodox chritian religion though as yet i cannot define nor comprehend it but my present view of christianity ex erts no iufluence over my lieart or life and if i should die iu my present state of mind i should if the new testament is true sink into an endless hell i have also as an incidental motive the desire to receive a demonstration of the truth of religion by experiencing this highly im probable change in answer to prayer i make this request in this public manner because i am a public character and my case is of special importance to the cause of religion my defection has shaken the faith of many to my knowledge and a multitude all over the country whom i h-->e never seen nor received letters from mnai have been more or less affected by it i might suggest more particularly what i wish prayed for 1 would request that prayers be offered that i might recover my faith in the christian character that is that i might become convinced that the belief and subjective experience of the christian religion make men in the long run more truthful more honest more just more merciful more loving more forgiving than other people for i must confess that an experience of sixteen years in the christian pastorate has well nigh couviuced me that christianity simply in tensifies human nature so that while chris tiaus love their friends more than other people do and when once displeased are the most cruel and unscrupulous class of tbe community f lo it e x c e mcc a e i iiv chicago september 25 -<__>. the british post office o the london standard says : the postmaster general has just issued his annual report showing the work done in 167 by this it appears that in the course ofthe year more than a thousand millions of letters passed through the post office being at the rate of thirty-one for every man woman and child in the uuiled kingdom iu addition there were more than eighty**seven millions of post cards and nearly two hundred and eighty millions of book packets and newspapers compared with 1874 letters show an in crease exceeding four per cent post cards uearly eleven per cent aud book packets and the newspapers eight per cent the figures vary considerably for the three parts of the kingdom thus england sends thirty five letters per head while ireland sends only thirteen and scotland twenty-six tbe increase of letters in england compared with the previous year is more than five per cent of post cards between eleven and twelve per cent and of book pockets and newspapers nearly ten per cent the number of reg it red letters iu the united kingdom dur ing the year was about one in 231 of the whole number of letters the number of letters received in the returned letter office was very nearly in the same pro portion being about one in 232 but it was found possible either to return to the writers or to re-issue nearly nine-tenths ofthe whole number thus leceived every year the post office report reveals a varie ty of strange freaks perpetrated by a por tion of tbe public and it does not appear that this erratic dement is on the decline last year upward of twenty-five thous aud letters were posted without any ad dress of which number 46 l contained in the aggregate nearly five hundn d pounds in cash and bank notes and 0,000 in checks nearly sixty five thousaud pos tage stamps were found loose iu the diff erent post offices which were probably originally attached to letters and pockets dropped into the boxes but failed lo ad here whisky is not a tonic it is probably an alterative for it alters dollars to cent 1 virtu lo ctiui aud u*.u lj brutes suppressing protestantism tbe work of re-establishing the old order of things in spain when all who dared or even wished to reject the spirit ual authority of rome were consigned to the tender mr-rcies of the inquisition is going on we have no fear of its be ing restored ; it is too late in the day for that ; but the ultramontane are making every effort to extinguish protestantism by stretching the clauses in the consti tution and laws that favors romanism add restricting to the lowebt degree all that protect protestants americans and english are now begiuning to suffer as well as saniaids tbe foreign residents speaking english had a chapel fitted up at madrid which though not officially attached to any legation was maintained in the absence of a regular chaplaiucy by english and american residents or visitors in madrid at the head of the subscription list are the names of her brit ish majesty's minister and the members of the legation with those of the hon caleb gushing american minister aud his secretary it is therefore not a ua tive or spauish place of worship in auy sense ou the return of these foreign residents from their vacation the rev mr jamieson of the free church of scollaud who act ed as haplain wished to give notice that the services would be resumed hereto fore all such notices had been sent to tho press and no difficulty whatever had been met willi in getting them inserted as or dinary advertisements when the clergy man applied to the semi official curves pondencia de espana to publish a notice to the effect that divine service would be held at the chapel on the next sabbath the manager of the paper declined to do so and declared that he could not assume the responsibility of anything connected protestants doctrines tho same appli cation was made to ihe liberal paper the imparciul which has taking a leading part in defence of religious toloration and a polite refusal was also given by the editors the consequence was that very few residents and only part of the visitors in the hotels could be notified of the res opening of the church the native protestants are under the closest restriction in regard to their ser vices they are not allowed to have auy notice on the outside of their places of worship noi even to have the door op en lest some passer-by should be attract ed by the singing and induced to enter this is the religious liberty which roman catholics believe in and the only kind that they allow where they have the lower nay they would not allow christians to assemble for worship even iu the most private manner if they could help it they are doing all that they can to suppress and destroy protestant ism in spain root and branch even in the face of the new constitution and yet roman gatholics in the united states of america profess to be the friends of civil aud religious liberty one would think from their professions they were the only friends of liberty but look at their history where they have had the power look at the limited regions where they have sway now aud their true priucip'es will bo apparent to any but the wilfully bliud — new york observer from lite cradle to the grave an english generation on the march from the cradle to the grave is an instruct ive spectacle and we have it carefully presented lo us in the report by dr farr let us trace the physical fortune which any million of us may reasonably expect the number to begin with is made up of 511,745 boys and 4ss 255 girls a dis proportion which wiil by and by be re dressed by the undue mortality of the boys and will be reversed before the close of the strange eventful history more than a quarter of these children will die beforo they are five years old — in exact number 141,387 boys and 121,795 girls | the two sexes are now nearly on a level i the next five years will be much less fatal in the succeeding five years — from ten to fifteen — the mortality will he still further reduced indeed for both i sexes this is the most healthy period ot ! life ; the death-rate however is lower for buys than for girls tnere will be 6ome advance in deaths in the next five years and still more in the tive which follow but 034,015 will certainly enter on their twenty-sixth year before the uext ten years are at an end two-thirds of the women will have married the deaths during that period will be 0-2,05 and of these no fewer than 27,134 will be caused hy consumption between thirty five and forty-five a still larger deaih tuil will be paid and little more than half the original baud — in exact num bers 502,915 — will enter on their forty - sixth year each succeeding decade up to seventy-live will now become more fatal and tbe numbers will shrink terri bly at seventy-five only 101,124 will remain to he struck down and of these 122,559 will have perished by the eighty - fiflh year of the march the 38,505 that remain will soon lay down their burdens but 2,153 of them will struggle on to be ninety-five and 223 lo be 100 years old finally in the losth year of the course the last solitary life w-ll flicker out such then is the average lot of a i million english men aud women — cos sell's magazine when i was travelling in massachusetts some twenty years ago said a traveller i had a seat with the driver a ho on stopping at the post-office saluted an ill ! looking fellow on the steps with good morning jugdc sander i hope you're well j sir after leaving the office i asked the | driver if the man he spoke to was really a judge certainly sir,1 he replied we hail : ■lit week ami nude jud-'i t ...... , the boss candidates vance & settle at hillsboro a siring of transparencies special telegram to the sentinel hillsboro oct 12 187g f'ov \ ance came in last eveuing un der escort of the salem cornet band and many men on horse back the ladies of the village joined in the enthusiastic greeting this morning the durham tilden and vance club 400 strong ar rived by special train along with great numbers from alamance chatham and person counties full 3,000 people were present among the devices upon the numerous banners borne iu the proces sion which passed through the main streets of hillsboro i noted the follow ing : durham for tilden and reform to the back bone north carolina expects every man to do his duty ! vote for the whole demo cratic ticket tilden the giant reformer rata to your holes tilden and constitutional liberty vance and victory no ikes in our'n durham for vance against tho world down with revenue ike orange county 800 for vance we vote with our friends stay at home tommy don't go ballots not bullet 10 years of radical stealing has ruin ed us indiana the girl ofthe period reform and reconciliation hold the fort ! we are coming ! 20,000 majority for tilden and vauce stand by the nominees the 7th of november will settle thomas carolina carolina heaven's blessings attend her peace can only follow democratic success vote for tilden and vance grant endorses settle he endorses babcock s j tilden washington d c tilden the giant ring breaker reduction of taxes s j tilden we want a change we are tired of hard limes we pledge north carolina 20,000 for vance and reform the bloody shire played out our beloved vance down with rogues and thieves ! wo must have reform joe davis the houcst mau's candi date !" peace and prosperity we are going to win this fight the honest colored man is respected and protected d t & v club boss shepard babcock ike young and settle all belong to the samo ring harmony liberty and honesty where did young get his title of col onel 1 ans in the kir war that thing is played out kirk in 1s70 judiciary exhausted settle 1870 old rip van winkle has waked up tar heel " gov vance opened the discussion at half past 11 a m and pioceeded iu his usual telling style for an hour and a half being followed by judge settle for tho same length of time the stand waa erected at tho northeast corner of iho courthouse good humor und good order prevailed il i lutcycr's definition of law the newark daily says : a prom inent lawyer recently gave the following definition of tho law ; it is simply an effort to shift the responsibility of tbe deci-ion the jury of laymen befogged by the pleadings make up their verdict with the understanding that if there is anything wrong about it the supreme mt composed of lawyers will make it all li^'ht l'lie supreme court settles it according to law with the understanding that the laymen of the court of appeals will adjust the error the court of er rors orders a new trial and it comes back to where it started and begins again with tbe jury of laymen it is simply a mill that goes round and round and giiuds up the property of fools too fail in our day both married and single people live too fast a bachelor now has need of an income such as would once have satisfied a_man with a family ; and tin husband and father requires for his ingle household the means that twenty year ago wuuld have supplied two fam ilies if not three daughters are sent to fasiiionablo schools at ati enormous coat there tn learn extravagance aud in short to he come uted for auythiug hut u become the wives of poor young men sons aro ret uii eti with unlimited pocket money late hours and alinu-t total absence of paternal control thus wo not only waste our estates but perpetuate the voico of our children lu every way we are living too fai.-l ida lewis the heroine now has tho charge ol lhe lime rock lighthouse and lives there with her mother and her dogs she has not much regard for the tyrant ex although she has saved so many fro{jj drowning when complimented upon the interior painting of her bouse which he tinted herself she said : the gov ernment gives us men to do this but we'd have ti board ihem and i'd rather do anything in ihi woild mian have men iu tht li luliou - i likt ' ■•::.. |