tlie carolina watchman int viii third series saiisbuby n c november 16 1876 no 5 ' ._ « y-i.'.-j j pbpnkr bl and prop " ' f k bruxbb associate bd klftioji rates : , _ peai.ieiii advance j ua i 1 26 '""" uiveutisixg bates loll v 80 i - it'dns i .**..) , int i li or a ve.tr ci m________------«-----_______»i gbylxg a wife for a for tune i(ve vt.ii heard the news about miss j jfed / said charley ashton as rpd h-isim-ly up to the desk ird i'n nb nn occupied in j m h and jones office ou wall e warm blood colored ned's cheek : ill his struggles lo prevent it it replied : i : 1 ii..|.e no harm i idiotild guess it whs'nt come up your hook am as we j;o up town i you \, • i i mnol leave yel 1 have not m my balance iw ! liiii-h thai to-morrow l - rlock 1 wouldn't woi k as you . ,„• nun living much less ihese bank ! »,,., iliink all a fellow is made for is : make uioin-y f,,r hem ( nme su i om't go will tleai the tale in short is she has ill big f.n nine h fl her some five tl ih hi md dollars j iiivohiiilary sigh escaped ned and • nilicr uiutteied than spoke : i'm ferry to hear it w'hv w hat's gol inlo vou you ninny ? rryl why i haven't h mi i anything . i„t*.i-e in so ninth in many a day 1 ,,,•- liked the giil but i'm not philo i ttt enough lo many in-i for love alone uy doctrine is when poverty comes iu at _« window ve goes out at lhe door i in ii li.l 1 don't agree with vou in i iliiiigi1 l|11 1 have no lime lo discuss . «. m -- l'i tuple in my opinion uolil iii h fortune lor ai y mar did she ,, *,"•*..■••• a i ni of inone v i'-haw n«-(i7*ihai's i i.l fogv — love in ! ha l.a ! well i liked her ir j wr h before hul 1 c.it.'t h.-lp think i an aitractiotis very considerably en . ; : - ce i ileal tl th il hew s n ver ..*, il h tl in oi anything but a rl icij illlhilct — _-'.>*.-* i'll go i.i bur tun li'mi i -,-.*, , o.ii ell au . i \ i.tn.-ell wot king a rr ih se n.c iii.i tin reply bu he h li as if he * i llkt id glimi bei ea 1 ho i.ei-is one ikt | nl rpi at so ll i , v.i i lil i s ol her - i ct ii ii.i i i-ii i . grac ot uiiiiii ami p it c i.n ol 1 i ui >». it-aiuie which shotilii in ike up a per kl w a in-ui hi thoughts 1 unit d lo action re i.i i nijii ui li stamping ihe desk l with kucii loice us aim si to det.l a ur iuii a i.d nuking up saw mr smith's i.m iv gaze tix-al on him hack lu li - work he tried to bring bin jaiiglui but ihey were not bubj ct lo ■ » aiil and lie found himself in greul i.gt-r uf willing the thoughts passing niou^h liis mind she is lost lo me — li li'.w 1 wish it had llc-ver happened ! ur inn the book pul away i.i pa pt m.il willi that tlieaiy lost far away i i.d nf kink passed liuin dii gly among ibe throng on the money marl of lhe new irlil charley a.-hton inst no lime in im r.riii his opportunities for that night hud luiu seated tete-a-tete with mi j uiplc iu a cosy liltle room ou tweniy fot it lis temple was a plian and had wfwrg lived witli an auui her lather's fi an income ol four hundred dol m • year dad been hit her which at t atjpplit-d ajl necessary wants she *«' nut a-hamed lo a.-.-i.-i her aunt about tany jlimg some would call menial alarm a„d feature hear and mind all -' acquai itauc - said fully sustained pinion h . have seen ned faru •■•*•'.' had ol lier 1-re the evening wa vi r < barley .\ h lad ui ceeded in . ppeanng deip'y in ' vn and uol many days passed er lie had !■ ti.daiid was accepted < if all her male i';aiiilhiici*n miss temple had always pttferrnl the two young men mentioned wag iiupt f lcuj a-j.^r eai,erl to ihe jl steady m faniham but of 1 ue he d to visit i while mi ashlon's pj^nce had been almost constant "<*•<•.•, ill had per-uaded herself that "" v-d and had accepted him barley uiged a sp edy marriage iu a c""»<rsaiii,i ton lung fur me to deiail y**ia it appeared that some of the boys 4o*««treel were fixing up a pool to buy » cirri-m gtoek and our friend ashton mu'*-'d some ui the thousand dollars to put »■ t anna temple preferred a get tun ; urged ia im|)i wou n;ll.t ju ki.nw each oiher better especially jiutimate relation they now blood j"«*y a owed ihat he would never **&, and be knew that time could w develop any faults ji her aid miss temple there is another ***>!!, and 1 1 1 can be tree wiih ' d luiu 11 ' i .. iu ' '' i"""1 **° uc'1 i my iiicuii and aunt h.u uo spare moil 1ht 1 have no u_i.au of defraying the ry exp*.u.e •*,, u 1'rtvc tlju f"itu:'e lefl y°u ly ; 0r aur'tralian uncle aud even * if you u it received it your agents will c?,-»'"ly make an advance iinih ve "° f()r,u1 lettr charley some f^1 l as mine but lhe fortune to c"y<*u probably aliudo was left lo p cou mi.-s anna tliompsou tem !""» 1 introduced you at the . iiic ' y rm i,ideed ! 8i,e is a '■' "' eti»e v ' a"d 1,ow ujucl1 l*°ls s'1 '"" re iolla«ri8 ba ive iuil(1'"l(l thousand u i ut c0usi s>a il,ls lue in,"n ) tueageuta that there is but tcu ihous j and dollars in money the rest is in hous es ami lis at melbourne valued at ninty ; thousand dollars ah ! well really how these things do spread but lo our matter ; i guess miss anna you had best have your way j the houis of that evening dragged heavi ly along and as they lengthened mr charles ashlon's manner became more and more formal he left and anna's i warm heart was sad as she thought over i the cool manner and the cooler parting i no sleep came to her eyes that night can it be ? she said to herself a thous and times ; and yet ii must for his man ner chan-red almost from my lelling him ot nannies fortune ll.e nexi night came but charlie was not in his usual place and the next and nil mine about a week afterward a short note informed miss timple that having lost all his savings in a bad specu lation he emild not think of holding lu i an engagement which it would be out of his p ami to co isuina'.e for years 1 o say this did not grieve her would in fal.-e bui did not require lua.tv days tu leach her ihat she had not loved charlie ■ a-hlon as hc should the man she was i to mat i v again our two young men met — this time nu roadway charlie gayly sauu k'ling along hailed ned iu his old familiar imlv well bl boy nff early to day ? i've been promoted aod am not ohlig | nl lo work so late though 1 do often ! then 1 ihi.ik of taking a ride in the paik ; my head has ached much of late ; and 1 i am more nervous than lormerly shouldn't work so hard ; d . n't get any thanks for it by-the-bv that fortune [ of miss temple's turns out lo be all in i in eye how what's that ? was the eager re w ell a miss somebody temple has about a hundred thousand dollars left her but it wasn't our pretty little friend iiul i heard you were very attentive — some said engaged 1 here's no idling whal might have been done bul for that fool of an uncle ; making a mistake in names however ii's all over now you know that 1 at 1 as can't afford to ninny a pour woman i no iual rei :! lu is a perl 1 know you en lei tin s une sorl of f-.oli.-li uo in i ill i etc . vt iii do bill it's aii bosh i jive me ihe liimn's mv boy when poverty conns in at llu window etc j ou know j ike my advice ai.d diop all such foolish ideas a.-htoti might as well have talked to a i . liiij j o-i fm all lly hearing ned faiu li.nii did what he whs thinking of we cam nt say but be did not go to the park ' li.lt al el i i on but lhe ev ilillg found llllll in a li ih pari u which had so olieii been graced by charlie's presence kn the evei.ii g was over be bad explained his long nl si i ce told ol hi better prospects aid off-ivd his heart and hand she asked il.ne wei ks to consider he to visit lu-r as often as he pleased at the end of ihat time he was accepted and anna it ained what line love was hen my story might end but there is a sequel some months after the engage ment mr smith lapped ned on the shoulder aud motioned him to the private office i ing to many my niece ? said thai gentleman i 1 am engage to miss anna temple sir a*id we expect to be married in a quiet way one month from to-day but i was not aware that she w.:h your niece neither was i until a few days since as for your quiet way understand ma sir — the child of my only sister can be married nowhere else but in iny house come now un flinching i've heard all about it but she s poor — poor as job's turkey and i've too many children to give her more ihan a decent wedding ni-d did not understand the expression ou mr smith's face but felt a liltle an gored and replied : 1 shoul i have never addressed her and i would release her this moment ii 1 knew she was au heiress no you don'l ; in you don't i know you and i know l lie whole story you can go ned pondered long over this singular conversation but got satisfaction irom his own thoughts or from anna she replied only by a smile and a kiss notwithstanding all the urging of her new found uncle anna refused to leave her annt until the time for the wedding i that event came and the ceremony was ! over then mr smith called ihe young couple inin his library and drawing from • his sate a strong iron box said : now young man you're lied hud and j fast and i'll tell you that you've it au i heiress and a rich one loo a foolish ! brother of her father's who would go to australia took it into his head to tli not long since and left such a blotched up will that il has taken over six monihs to get the straight of it — we were his agents and kept the matter to ourselves because il wus a large sum and might create im • lostors we soon disposed of thu one hundred thousand dollars to miss anna thompson temple but the contents of this box oue h und red thousand pounds iu consols we used more scrutiny in as signing aud iu the course of our investi gatioti i not only found the rightful own er of our trust but the child of my only sister sir you are worthy of her and what is of less value her fortune — the morning pipits will announce you as a partner in our house another fenian ltuid on canada ottawa out , nov 10 the de partment of mililia has received informa tion from st albans vt that arms and ammunition are being concentrated there by the fenians major-gen siuiih is taking every precaution and will have volunteers iu icadmess in c^.e ufdli emer gency , from ihe monthly report of tlie de ptirtmeitt of agriculture for october 1876 washington d c digest of crop-returns sweet potatoes return give promise ofa full average crop ol good quality on the atlantic coast irom new jersey to soutli caro lina inclusive the condition ranges from 104 to 97 it has been reduced in geor gia lo 91 ; florida 84 ; and alabama 87 i by a general and protracted drought — | in mississippi the drought was severe i and disastrous lo t lie crop in localities j but being less general in extent the con ! dition falls only 2 per cent ; in louisiana i lhe same cause brings it down to s8 — | texas averages 96 coryell reports the i best crop ever raised all in fine condition ; upshur a yield equal to that of last year ! with an increase of 100 per cent in acre . age bexar a failure of the crop irom a j drought of three months continuance — , tin condition is 90 in nebraska and 94 in illinois but in all the remaining states in which the crop is of any ac count the range is from 98 in indiana and kansas up to 109 iu tennessee and california there is scarcely an excep t_-*ui to favorable returns respecting qual ity so far as it is referred to sorghum nearly all l lie state which grow or gliuin to any considerable extent report a condition averaging about 100 south carolina 101 north carolina and west virginia 103 alabama mississippi and nebraska 104 texas aud ohio 105 leor-'ia 108 tennessee and kentucky 109 madison virginia reports the largest crop ever raised in georgia the return from gwinnett states that the crop has become au important one in tlie county and that growers with lhe im proved evaporator are making sirup equal to the besl new orleans stewart ih it a good crop matured before the drought came on has been about ull ground up jackson that since the intro ductiou of evaporators simp superior to any other is made and that the crop will make thousands of gallons hart thai the crop is sufficient lo make 10,000 gallons i.f ii up in alabama conecuh reports that the crop well matured this season is more or less grown upon every farm and is conferring great benefit on the poorer classes in uo kill the quantity is above average and iho qtialiiy far su perior to that of any previous crop ; in clay the crop is very good and i.s be coming one uf the important industries in covington is grown in large quanti ties and found to be very profitable promising to supersede sugar cane lu texas the condition improved in september coryell leiurns i'm iu rusk about j0,00u gallons of sorghum sirup | have been made j'he simp sells for 50 cents per gallon sorghum will hence i forth be a staple product ol the county in arkansas fulton reports that the blacktop variety was injured by rust | while oilier kinds escaped in teiinet i see monioe reports thai sorghum mills and evaporators art the order of the day also that simp from lhe red-top variety is very superior in blount lhe abun dant crop was never excelled in allen ivy au unprecedented quantity of nor glium molasses will he manufactured in henry county ohio more has been grown than for the last three years in ji fiersoti illinois the crop exceeds all previous ones and the cane is very rich in juice tobacco cheshire anil sullivan iu n«-w hamp shire berkshire and hampshire iu mass achusetts aud hartford aud litchfi id ia connecticut all being principal tobacco counties re turn each a condition of 100 in new york the largest tobacco count v onondaga returns 70 other comities range from 75 to 100 in pennsylvania liu caster reports that a larger crop than ever before has all been housed iu good condition in york the next iu impor tance the conditions is 1 10 cumberland 90 producing but liltle is the ouly coun ty below 100 iu maryland the condition averages about 82 prince george the heaviest county is reported at 90 returns from calvert and montgomery stale that the quality wiil be inferior the crop was considerably damaged by tlie equinoctial storm iu virginia the average condition re turned sepiember 1 was 65 during the month the p ogress iu some localities was counterbalanced by damages fiom storm and depredations by worms in others so that the geueral condition october i aver aged aboui the same pittsylvania first in uroducfion returns 50 per cent of an average condition halifax next 70 iu the lat ler and in franklin 55 and din widdie 50 the crop has suffered greatly both from the severe equinoctial storms and tho depredations of worms in meckleuburg 66 the crop ia so late that much uf it must be cut before m luring some of the counties producing mailer quantities as montgomery aud carroll report that the crop has been housed iu superior condition as a rule the lighter counties are higher in condition than the heavier many of them reaching 100 in norih carolina tbe average is 73 in caswell ii has been reduced to so by nnpiecedented ravages of lhe horn-worm in rockingham 35 the crop is very late and exposed tn damages by frost orange returns 33 iu yield but fair in quality as iu virginia a higher condition is gen erally returned in counties producing small quantities tennessee averages 91 an advance of il per cent in september the figures in some oi the important counties are : montgomery so henry s5 smith 95 weakley and dickson 100 obion 110 macon 125 in west virginia a high condition is reported averaging 10g among the re turns only two small counties lewis and pleasants each 90 f*ll below 100 among the more important returns are : kenawha 105 putnam and cabell 100 others range from 100 to 125 horace mann on tobacco did you ever see a moth fly into a candle and burn is wings off you say i have and a foolish creature he was too but why do you call the moth foolish ? did he mean to burn off his wings oh ! no you say but he saw how bright lhe caudle was and he had no more brains than to think il would feel as pretty as it looked ay ihat was the mistake was it ? the bright candle was a temptation to him and he only did what people who have a thousand times more brains do he fell into temptation i wish lo call your attention lo oue of the lowest and poorest of lemp:ers it is called tobacco tobacco is a poison j virulent and fatal it is not poisonous to man only but it will kill an ox or an horse i said that lobacco isa poison in one of the reports of dr w.-odward the laic excellent superintendent of the massa chusetts hospital fm the insane at wor cester when speaking of tobacco as one the eauses of insanity he quotes the op inions ofa large number of the most emi nent medical men who pronounce the same opinion when first tauen into the system it produce nausea vomiting and and a deadly sickness ; ami puts all the organs into a perfect agony of effort to expel the invader the heart beats to i arms tlie slum ich cascades the lungs pant the eyes o vei flow wiih rheumy lears lhe mouth was saliva ihe i nostrils with mucus and the sk.n wiih j offsensive perspiration every organ is | put on tenfold duty that the enemy may i be dii ven out tobacco is highly injurious to the brain | those who indulge in iis use indeed sometimes pretend ihat tobacco does nol i injure the brain ; but this must be in the sense of ihe anecdote told of lhe old wo ' man who asked her physician if snuff : ever injured folk brains oh ! no j m i'll tn said he for folks who have any ! brains don'l take it " even il iln u^i of tabacco were decent its costliness would rentier lheindiilgei.ee i criminal for the single item of cigars there is more money spent iu these uni ted states every year ihan lor ilieedu i caiion of the children iu all its common schools yes ; all the common schools in our whole union do not equal in ex pense what is pnff.'d away to p dlnte god's atmosphere every year of our lives whilst two millions of children are grow ing up iu biu'ish ignorance around us now is he a cluistaiii man who is nol willing to forgo this dirty gratification iu o:der lo double the educational privileges of the youth of his couniry " lessons in expenditure o this an extravagant a^e a fact never more plainly demonstrated than by t ite reckless expenditure of yonr young folks the average boy and girl of to-day com pletely fail io understand the value of money aud spend recklessly whatever portion chances to come into their hands ; , and as the boy is so the man must be no doubt in many persons there are wh u may be call herediiaiy ideas about money some are burn frugal oihers extravagant and the circumstances of life what ihey may ihe oiigiual bias will assert itself ■ irom the nursery to the grave b il a i great deal iu iy be done by carefully edu | eating children in lhe true value of money as a means to au end there are various i ways of doing it and some of ihem will at first be disappointing different char acters must be differently treated an.l an age which ti 1*5 1 1 1 be suitable foi one young person lo be trusted with money might be very unsuitable for another you begin io ive your boy an allowance with which good advice ou lhe right way of spending it and you are mollified when he returns from his first vacation to find that you have to pay the money i twice ov.*r for his allowance is all spent | — he really does not know how — md the j bills which it ought lu have paid are sent i home to you well give him a sharp scolding ; be sure you do uol let him think | you feel him capable of having willfully i deceived you ; cheerfully trust him again i and the chances are it is the last time it will occur it it is good for lads to be gradually trained to ihe use of money it is juite as important for girls not ouly is it an additional interest in their life but it prepares them lor the lime when they will have to keen house for a hus band or brother and it is a constant oppor tunity of secret self denial to devout hearts that love to sp ire what they can for providence how it happens the republican stump speakers can illustrate to the colored people how it is that the democrats are responsible for tbe death of all the federal holdiers by the following : a man living in the town of rutliford killed another man's dog the sou ofthe man whose dog was killed therefore pro ceeded to whip the man who killed the j dog of the man he waa the sou of tbe man who was the son of the man whose i dog was killed was arrested by the man | who was assaulted by the sou of lhe man j whose dog the man assaulted had killed i the man who was arrested by the man ; who killed the dog of the man whom the j man anrested was the son of for assault ing ihe man who killed the dog finally settled the case up with the man who had arrested the son of the man who owned the dog for assaulting the man who killed the dog ol the man's father who had beeu arrested aud siill we aie not happy portland cement ox wood work portland cement has many uses in the garden and elsewhere not generally ap parent some rf them are enumerated by the garden as follows - when m de in to a thin solution like whitewash this cement gives woodwork all appearance of having been painted and sanded piles of stone may be set together with common moiiar and ihen the whole washed over with this cement making it look like one immense block of gray sandstone for temporary use a flour barrel may have the hoops nailed so as not to fly apart and the inside washed with a thin paste of portland cement and it will serve for a year or more to hold water boards nailed together and washed with it make good hot water tanks and it is of use in so many ways that it may be regarded as one of those peculiar things in a gar den which it is always good t.i have at band a solar distillery m mouchot whose steam boiler heat ed by the sun's rays concentrated by a concave minor we described nut long ago recently exhibited to the french academy of sciences a new apparatus wheieby by solar heat he distilled excel lent brandy the mirror was but l(j inches in diameter a little over a quart of wine was placed in the boiler and brought to boiling for 15 minutes by the concentrated rays the alcoholic vaper entered a tube placed in the center oi the boiler traversed the supporting foot of lhe minor and descended into a room where it condensed the liquor vas of remarkably good flavor free from the disagreeable taste of alcohol peculiar to that obtained from wine in the usual way and savoring stiongly ol the best cherry brandy m mouchot afterward placed flowers and ordoriferous leaves in his boiler and made a variety of perfumes and essences finally leading the steam into a cooking apparatus he prepared au entire dinner by the agency of the sun's heat speak evil if no man the christian weeldg says : what is meant by speak evil ol no man ? ' certainly it i.s not meant that we are never to speak of any fault or sin of any person lo another even wiih the added qualification in his absence may uot the father and mother talk of tlieir children's faults one with another i may i not go before the grand jury and testi fy to the crime i have witnessed 1 may i not speak to my pastor of tin faults of one of my fellows in tho church for his correction or for the belter preservation of lhe church itself from scandal or cor ruption may i not tell an inquirer the true character ofa discharged servant or clerk christ spoke evil of herod when lie said to the pharisee 6.j tell that fox paul spoke evil of demas and hymeueiis and philetus ia their absence when he wrote to timothy wc must use common sense iu the interpretation of scripture even if some eminent interpre lers do sometimes dispense with it there is uo absolute rule for deter mining what evil speaking is unchristian the christian cannot live by rules — why as though living in the world are ye suhj<*gt in ordinances if ye be risen wiih christ sat your affections on things above out of the abundance of the heart the month speaketh and no rule will regulate the tongue if the heart is not pure — li the reservoir is full of pure water then pure water will run from the faucet a filter is a poor contrivance at the best there id only one christian rule love the veriest scandalmonger that ever set a village by the ears did not retail the faults and follies ol her own childien if we love our neighbor a ourselves our lips will speak uo needless evil but if one must have a rule we know no belter one than this never speak behind a man's back wh.it you are un willing to repeat before his face il would cut a gteat deal of conversation short but society would be no worse for the golden silence happy returns an enthusiastic young married man from durham is reported lo have tele graphed gov vance that he was made happy by two events : one that vance was elected governor of north carolina ; and lhe oilier ihat he had that morning been presented wiih a daughter who had b.-eu named victoria vance hit is said tti have received this answer may you have many happy returns — char obscrrer closing the centennial exhibition philadelphia nov 10 — the cen tennial exhiliiiiou was formally closed to-day according to the programme pub lished yesterday the ceremonies took place in the judges hall among the distinguished participants were govs ifartranfi of pennsylvania rice of mass achusetts bagley of michigan bedle of new jersey and cochran of delaware president grant secretary of war cam eron secretary of slate fish chief jus tice v-v'aite of the united slates supreme court ; justices llrudley davis and strong of the uniied states supreme court and sir edward thornton it is reported that judge settle has gone to washington city does he want grant to send him back to peru or will he aceppt the supreme court judgeship ihat gov brogdeu has so kindly held o^eu lor him ' moonstrokes o every one has heard of sunstrokes but it will he difficult to convince roman i tic lovers and oiher sentimcutal people ; who are fond of cynthia's beams that j there is danger from the moon as well as ' from the sun and yet in some warm • latitudes people have been known to die of mooustroke several cases have been j recoided at sierra loone and an old ' number of the united service journal ' gives the following facts : eight or ten private soldiers had taken ' passage for calcutta and the night that ] the vessel quitted madras roads two of j them fresh young englishmen finding the heat intense brought their mala oo j i deck and lay down to sleep in the full . flood of moonshine men about them j ; looked at them as they slumbered and | remarked the contrast between their florid english faces and that of those who had ' passed many years in asia at last one j who knew the danger of their position arrived on the scene and with horror in | his countenance tried to arouse them i calling out tis odd if you don't sutler j for this he succeeded in awakening i them but on arising they fouud tha°t \ they could not stand and though one of them recovered the other died in a few hours of lockjaw a young lady's soliloquy useless aimless drifting through life what was i boru for for somebody's wife my mother says well that being true somebody keeps himself entirely from view and if naught but marriage will settle my fate i shall lie in an un settled state for though i'm not ugly - pray wiiat woman is .* — you might easily find a more beautiful phiz ; and those who seek for perfection will seek here in vain nay iu spite of these drawbacks my heart is perverse and i should not feel grateful for belter or worse to take the tirst booby who graciously came and offered me those treasures — his home and his name i think then my chances o marriage are small but why should i think of such chances at all . my brothers are all of them younger than i yet they strive in the world why not let me fry ? i know that iu business i am not an adept because from such business i'm i strikingly kept ; but this is the question that troubles my mind — why am i not trained upon work of some kind ? uselessly aimlessly drifting through life why should i wait to be somebody's wife from raleigh news nov 12 the situation the latest advices from ihe seat of war do not change ihe results announced in the news of yesterday the whole matter may be briefly summed up thus : the democrats have carried the states of florida louisiana and south carolina this is unquestionable — although the republicans will not admit it square out the vote of any one of these states or a single solitary electoral vote from any source will elect tilden the radical managers therefore are moving heaven and earth to reverse the popular verdict and have the certificates of election issued to the hayes electors and have it out at washington before vice-president ferry the troops are sent to give the radical managers and manipulators the necessary back-bone to carry out the evil designs of the party no doubt these arch-conspira tors arc iu danger fiom the long-suffering but enraged people of louisiana and florida in the meanwhile the balance of the south may possess their souls in patience and look on we have given the north an honest man for president let them see to it that lie takes his seat popular majority for tilden is 52s.000 the populir majority for hayes is 260 200 tilden's majority over hayes in 2o slates is 2u7,s00 the three states still in doubt are not included in the count tins shows who the people want for president it demonstrates that had the result been dependent upon a diiect vote there would now be no doubt and sus pense the democratic candidate having a decided majority over bis republican op ponent cotton factory ix ci i rlo ttk the southern home has the following in lefereuce to a new cotton factory ; mr o 11 sampson a large capitalist of boston has written to ihu owners of the rock island factory in chailoite to negotiate a purchase or lease for the pur pose of establishing a cotton factory mr sampson uud mr hall bought the oamp perdowu factory iu greenville a few years go and enlarged iis operations so as to make it a brilliant success the citizens of greenville took stock to the amount of 50,000 mr s wishes to start here with a capital of 8150,000 three fourths of whicll he will pul in him self if our moneyed men will raise the other fourth charlotte has grown as far as it can grow as a commercial centre its future growth must depend upon the establishment of factories mr b r smith who has been residing in boston for eight years tells us that mr s is a thorough business man trustworthy and capable and that he is iu earnest iu this scheme we heartily endorse the comments in the above ami hope that when ibe election is over aud things become mote quiel our business men will lake hold of this enter prise immediately a cubic inch of charcoal has not less lli.tu 10u leet of surface iu its pores if during a frost the moles throw up fresh earth within 4s hours the frost will be gone the threatened republk can rebellion following the lead of senator blaine " and of the globe democrat of st louie ' mr marat halstead of the cincinnati ! commercial plainly menaces the country with rebellion on the part of the republi i can managers in case of tlie election of ! mr tilden ' the sun here gives mr halsteaits i language and says by way of com i ment : | now what does this extraordinary de . claration of mr halstead's mean i what i does this cool-headed man prominent in j the councils of the republican parly the j friend of hayes and the strongest news | paper advocate of his election in the west j intend to convey to the people of the ; country it is simply this : ifuayc ' is defeated lhe republicans will begin a j new civil war they proclaim through i mr halstead that they will refuse to ac ! cept the constitutional decision of the j ballot-box and that following the ex : ample of the slaveholders in 1861 they i will revolt against the president chosen ! by the people the sun adds we believe these threats are empty words thai even the most hunitic.il republicans will not dare to begin their threatened insurrection j that the thought of it is born of the des peration of a corrupt party now standing on the brink of justice and of ruin but to surely defeat in advance their avowed treasonable scheme and to silence their traitorous voices let the people elect til den by a majority so overwhelming that not even grant and the most reckless of his crew will dare to stand out against the will of the country grant will leave tho white house unwilling and the grant party will die hard but both grant and grantism must fall under tbe blow the people will give them next tuesday this note from a chicago girl to her lover was made public through a lawsuit : dear sammie pap's watermillions is npe come and bring some poetry like you brought afore my love for you will ever flow like water running down a tater row bring a piece as long as your arm and have a heap more about them raving ringlets and other sweet tilings come next sunday and don't fulc me babcock and belknap sent south washixgtox nov 10 president j rant received a telegram from the south last evening that gave bim great anxiety about the election he immediately sent for babcock who went off accompauied by belknap in the night train there are four good habits — punctual ity steadiness accuracy and dispatch without the first of these time is wasted without the second mistakes the most hurtful to our own credit and interests and that of others may be committed without the third nothing can be well done and without the fourth opportuni ties of great advantage are lost which it is impossible to recall wearing the breeches mr merri weather paused at the gate as he adjusted his continental oilcloth coat and gave his torch the proper slant over his shoulders lo shout to his neigh bor across the way : it is a time that demands men ; men of nerve and in tell i geuce and courage men of clear ideas and pure convictions and the cilizen who stands idly waiting when the coun try calls him is heartless and negligent and unpatriotic and then mrs mer riwethei's voice was heard floating over the front fence like the song of a bird in ! the night erastus merriwether ! if you go off without splitting up wood [ enough for the kitchen stove i'll do some haymaking iu that earrotty hair o'yourn that'll make you wish this country never ' had a president xyud it is just such chilling influence as these that shut so many of our best men out of active pub lic life pure iron it is a remarkable fact that pure iron is an article unknown what is called iron is a metal combined or associated wiih other elements which though preseut only in small quantity may according to their number and proportion communi . cute ;.; it widely different properties it being a simple variation in lhe proportion , of carbon ay within the limit of about live per cent which cause lhe metal to appear it three well known states of wrought iron steel and cast iron and just as the proportion ol carbon increases tin metal passes insensibly brought theea successive stages one part in a thou sand of any ...' these elements will pro duce a decided effect ou the quality of the iron either separately or combined j hence ilie endless diversity of lhe iron steel and pig iron mei wiih iu commence so far as our knowledge extends iron is the only metal which i capable of thus acquiring such varied and useful proper ties by ihe operation of such simple and apparently trivial causes 1 1 id asset ted that pardons for mckee mcdonald and aveiy have been made out and will et th president's sigualwr joyce's name is not mentioned as among lhe fortunate ones who are to enjoy ki ieculive clemency antl hence the inference is taken that the poetical occupant of tho missouri ivnii on iry is the only guil-y mi mbi-r of the whisky ui.ig • the preeideul has pardoued m-kce