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■~ n .,, • •. more . rculat ion than any r paper published d salisbury and is gerd bc5t au " medi the watchman is the organ of th farmers alliance in 6th and 7t1i -• sid auv m jjy " l~k 3 t 13k 1 * ■■/ w — t . i i ■" ~\ " '■. . '. « w ■' - ■t*w^t"^f tt ~~ taju — 1 ** ~**- j k i "*-"" i 1 we*3 ' '.•■- t lill " ' 5 i •* ' i 5 " w " t -"'" 1 **" * ■-^ -~ t ot^^tf^fc '^-» ih j^jj t-»^m ■■i , -^ , . .^^^^ xxiiv third 1 *^. salisbury n c thursday december 8 1892 i : t':li arizona kiczicb ii w people used to live come with me he said when we had arrived at the rear of the store he carefully opened a dooi r-adiii to a small room there on u soft lounge nil i-uddud up asleep and evidently drnarnijig w.>s n dear child vrith golden iiair rent ytar tiie miils in that period produced 52.ooo.(hio pjiinds of vain against 44,000,000 during the whole of 1su1 and 42,000,9ljo during the whole of 1sc0 the thirty-five spin niiig mills worked on an average 182i days during the six months the num or of hands employed was 41,4«0 of whom 1g.010 were women niagara in tjaruran no 11 — we are not the edit r of the kicker who i also mayor of the town state senator and the owner of the fastest running uuie in the terri tory we are not the horse editor om it salary of nine dollars per week we tire not t.ie marine editor on a salary i of seven dollars we ire pimply the i agricultural editor on a salary of six dollars but gaining on it all the time to us hu.-j fallen the sad duty of detail ing the occurences which caused such intense excitement in ilia town last saturday and which have been tele graphed all over the country this july devolves upon us because the el tor is in bed with a knife wound in his right side the horse editor is laid up with a bullet hole through his hand th marine editor h nursing a gash ici !■•'• k and we are temporarily in charge of the greatest family newspaper in he west — subscription price two dol lars p"r year stiicilv in advance h is a well known fact that the ed itor and proprietor of tin kjcker has 1 he departm't of agriculture is about to publish an interesting report com paring the cost of living early in tin century with what it is now it ex hibits vividly the contrast between the poverty of primiiive agriculture and the progress of civilization ami wealth resulting fron hi jh development oi all the possibilities ol land and laboi n rural and industiial arts and indus tries the small wages paid in thosi days arc surprising as the low prices of commodities of all sorts the month of july 1693 isespect to murk a new em in the niaiiulac t«rm world for the caian.ct c«ta struct on comphdv hope u have their mammoth turbine wheels an 1 moi.mei dyiiani at work jor ih.se *|,. 0 ,. + , desire use tleir power m,.,e limn 2,000.000 and manj lives i . r b u sacrificed to this harnessin h luisjbty niagara to serre the h au c tmingworl.^and the enterprise u now ■uer nearl two years w oi k drawing near oompietion nowheie in tlw civilized world has any bvdn.ulic work f such magnitude been attempted nowbere else are there whrel pits 1(jo feet deep and wheelseapble of develop mis 5,0 10 horse power the c mtr • tortne water wheels has been awarded and calls for two superimposed turbine wheels of 5,000-horse power each to cost in the neighborhood of 200,000 ' the child explained tl e floor walk er belongs to some worn n now shop ping in this place she is wandering wound from counter to counter i«ml has temporarily forgotten h t r dear lit le willie we found the child aslee ie.ir the elevator,tired out apparently and you will trtly care of it until she couifs back eh v in spite of the large production tie demand was greater than the supply and at the end of the half year th s'ocks of yarn were vrry small while the mills were engaged in doing work ordered from tlm'e to six mouths be forehand the total pr duct ion of the ye.w is expected to reach a hundred million pounds from a statement of the dividends paid by the principal mills as compar ed with those paid for the previous half year it seems that of the ten lar gest mills onij two paid dividends un der 10 per cent for the six months while others paid 25 2 1 ( j is 15 12 hnd 10 er tent in the previous half year the highest dividend was 13 while in only two mills was it over 10 the explanation of this sudden prosperity is said to be a succession of good rice crops accompanied by high prices for grain and i great improvement in silk culture and the price in foreign coun tries for japanese silk game was abundant lv early in lu ceu ury and therefore cheap venison cost only three and a hah cenis a pound 1'e.ir meat was very slightly higher pigeons were in abund-uce selling a i little more than a rent apiece ei icrly n-ader.s will remember the fights ot flocks of pigeons which darkened he sides even as late as fifty years ago shad were very cheap costing onl ij'-ur cents each owing to the plenti ful supply oi gamt tanned skins wen low in price a deer skin fetched about 1 to 2 milk sold lor 2 cents . i quart and butter for thirteen cents a pound apples were from twelre and a half to twenty-five cents a bushel but by 1823 they had reached fifty cents vw will we have a number of chil iren to look after each day some are o^t some forgotten but the mammas ill come back in due season just t!:fn there was a suppressed ejaculation at the door something that sounded like ; 0!i my deardarlingchildchildchild a woman bounded into the room such kissing sucli luxgging you never saw in all your horn days ft was like this the woman aid i left the dear boy just one tiny min ute to look at some bargains in laces riien mrs gamp came up and and of course 1 had to talk to her time flip ped by it was almost an hour before i ever thought of dear little willie again well said the floor walker smiling he is safe 1 a smart young han mr gotham so you sent your sou to new york to earn his living fanner hayseed — you see it w;i8 paw i like th city and i'll go into the city and sell what ou raise n the nle farm says he you ship me all your truck and 1,1 1 sell it on com mission says he mr gotham ah he b'cuue a commission merchant then farmer hayseed — in a small way yes \ ou see he doesn't get any goods to sells it or several vcai*s pos.~e.-set u privat .'.■■>: i-yard li began wilh one plant 1 ind uiiilei i lie mosl adverse circuni tauces but ly the exercise of diligence pi'iseveranee und good judjfinpiit hi ii:ul up lo a year ago increased tin unber to ten i wo years i^o he ought an acre of sandy ground aud inclosed it with a neat picket fence the ground was sodded and set oui ritli shrubs vines and flowers tin fiives were placed in regular order 01 ih ■n ■f he main aveii m and i spot has really been the only one in neighborhood to interest sightseers it is ltie only private editorial gravt-yam in the west aud the oniy recreati-in jur chief has had for two years pasi as in working aiiout the enclosun . : i and rake jj ist march when the tenih mis ijiiicli d criirer was laid away to n st oui chief expressed iheearutst hope lii.it he ivould be die last liad men were yet iing scarce o r e.-teeiaed c«>ntenipomn v,:>;;'i worth powder and lead aud it . d s li as li the hope ol : the greatcd or in ighi i e i aliz d but the skele i u u l'.;te was stalking ov..-r th uniun farm wages were only about one third of what they are now ranging fioni twenty-three to fifty cents a day i 1 ': oin 4 to so a month was the usual compensation of well grown lads one hundred years ago the remunera tion of a boy for doing chores m:c1i is cutting wood and foddering horse one } ear was ordinarily 5 the use i>f oxen for a day cost twenty five i:eut while the use of a i i ow fur o::e year cost 2 it cost sixty cents t make a pair of shoe-s the price of ;< i pair of niocca-ins was twenty seven jen board was only one dollar a week liisuilssed a lady with a long train to her dress was walking along the street when an old colored man stepped on her trniu with bo h feet tearing it badly the lady was very angry and had the old man arrested for being disorderly what has the prisoner been guilty of asked the judge he was disorderly your honor who is the complaining witness 1 here your honor and a lady »> s brought forward and regularly sworn she told with much asperity how the old man at the bar had stepped on the train of her dress tearing it and when he saw the damage he had done instead of apologizing he had trud to get away who represents the prisoner he pleads his own cause the old man was brought forward a mild mannered old fellow wearing spectacles and looking the embodiment of good n at tired dignity it's dis way jedye concern in dis ladv here's a s'posable car-e s pose i walk along de street wid my coat tails spread out on de sidewalk two free fee as proud us a peacock neber lookin behint and dat lady come and an jes plant her two d^ar little sweet bits of fret on dat coat tail you t'ink i goin to make a fuss an get dat nice lily rested you t'ink sojrdge i think s.iid the complaining wit ness at this moment that i have made a mistake if the case is dismissed 1 will pay the costs the case was dismissed — macon tele graph then the woman went away with her prize siyin something at each tep that sounded like 0-h ni-a-m-m-a's dear 1-t-t-l-e lost b-o-y i w-i-1-1 n-e-v 1 — new york he.rald mr gotham i see well how has he got along farmer hayseed fairly well i should say i'm still workin the fail but he's got a mortgago on it — good news was ii is l<»#ie good a greasy looking tramp who has lived in city hall paik for three years and whose feet have become as hard as rocks from the frequent rappings from the clubs of the sparrow police man took four five cent whiskies the other day and mustered up courage enough to march to the mayor's office he had a paper in his hand the door keeper nabbed him and asked him what he wanted a machine for burning weeds an australian exchange descrilws it machine in use tliere this season for burning weeds and utilizing the ashen it consists of a large sheet irou t;uik mnunted on three low wheels it is covered over with v shaped l»..isof iron with an inch of space between each bar a iunge of sheet iron is attached to the top extending outw.ird about two feet all round thetauk isiir.iwn by one horse attached to a wire r«»p twelve or fourteen feet long the we^ds along fences are cut auii dried on l lie ground then li.e tank is ti.iulej along and tin dry weeds are forked in at the top ami kept in a constant blaze the a>lie fall through the bars and are readv for use as a fertilizer that was the day of individual and isolated effort antedating the era ot aggregation in factories classification uid division of labor and invention of labor-saving processes and appliances prices of farming products fluctuated great according to local scarcity which could not bo mitigated bv dis tribution from regions of plenty if there w re big crops they could not !>•■so!d if partial failures there was al nii'si nulhiiig to sell ...... 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"- 3 sfk^infr ■. • - uiuonsnssssw li r -'- ' i "^ © i 1 shonld 1)0 tt .■o : l /^ v > r.f cljills and fcrer <. ;: .....: gives^5 the ::■.; iho 1 u . :;. 7 a=a ;- ipuro at js k • •■■her . - . ■iy barrap-coatccl "«? • i'rifl 5 -. ofeee oj i'ark place n.y i rloik alliance jixghangs 11 and 13 commerce st istorfblk v"a ! owned and controlled by alliauceraen ■for handling pro luce cotton a specialty don't sell before writing for par ticulars to j 1 rogers mgr p o bos 212 chute 1 ' tt7 fliiddtt wadfc is the place to get monuments tombstones c a large stock ofvermoxt marble to arrive in a few days weguarantee ■•' every resj ■: and positively will uot be undersold gri»anite aloi luments of all l"'»'ie a spe ' mcui iii i!ie')v ■um ..: li q j ou v i lte every locality in its industries and jh'i'uih l existed lor a!id by itself hav ing no relation with otlier gommuui ie.s therefore the surplus production f e:tc!i farm vr;ts small th induce ment to produce being wanting anu there was very little money to pur cha-e anything more than the baiv uccci-sari^s the industrious family had an abundance of everything it ou!;l grow such clothiny a the lo'iui of the household could prolucp such furniture as could be mane on the place r in the nrinhlwrhood and little else — sew york telegram totukeoffold paint it is very seldom now that you see a painter burn off old paint with a spirit lamp or torch though there are still a few who stick to the old method the easiest way to clean paint off wood r even metal is to mix lime and sal o a pretty thickly in water and then upplv freely with a brush after a hort lime the paint can be scraped off with out difficulty any amateur can use this recipe only a uiixtumwill renio ski ti from the hands or face rren more rapidly than it will remove paint fruin wood or metal — st louis globe-dem ocrat lime as a land improver savtd from a war times sawbones good fanners have always had a high opinion of lime as an improver of land thi has been a popular belief from time immemorial and as we are learning the reason of many things that have been practiced fur centuries w.thont knowing why they were use ful and valuable the old practice is justified by discoveries of the why and how the most terrible exhibition of bar baric cruelty i witnessed during the war occurred at richmond ky s;iid captain j e elgin of louisville 1 was with the gallant john morgan and mores the pity that the brutality 1 refer to was perpetrated by one of our men he was a young surgeon just nit of a medical college and his blood was aflame with ardor for the confed eracy when the battle was over 1 was placed in charge of a hospital corps we were going over the field ministering to the dead and dying and my attention was attracted to the pit mis vvai's of a man close to the line of tl.e federal intrenchments there was such a distressful pathos in his cries that i hurried to him when 1 got close enough to distinguish his ivords i heard him plead forgrod's sake doctor kill me don't cut my egs off and leave me a cripple 1 at a glanc i saw what was goir.g n the pleading mm was a union soldier with a slight tiesb wound in the high of he right leg which disabled liui temporarily only his tormentor was the enthusiastic young surgeon who had just joined our command the juvenile reprobate had deliberately bound the poor devil to a log and was i-eisnrwly preparing to saw off his left ieg for no other reason in the world mi in that he wanted to disable the sol dier for further service during the war lie had si a ped the man's ieg bare to the thigh tied a string around it sever al inches above the knee and had marked ofi with the point of his knife a streak around the leg where he in tended to make the amputation my duty was plain at first i thought to shoot the inhuman monster down in his tracks but i realized that the punishment would be sufficient severe when john morgan and basil duke learned of his offence so i placed him under arrest marched him up be fore those men and told them what 1 ! had prevented him doing he wa promptly put in chains a court mar tial soon tried him and sentenced him to be shot sufficient influence was brought to bear however to save his life though he was discharged from i the army — st louis chronicle ins aud rattling ils boi.es s it head i d this wiiy last friday night then 1 i it v^d im this town i man ii:nneil j .!;: k s he was ivtiva i l.u'i viil ovei by the black mountains no one . . -. i ci ; y \, i v lie came but lit was mz u by everybody as a bad man sultinlii luivnoon at 1u u dock as our :.:••! was altctii lo enter j uk iyi kiel » tii ■'. he found the stranger at thr ioor inside t lie oilice the horse *■■■■! or wa dsc-hing cf a half column as i,icle on the i : u v as i factor in jov;h ation i he man tie rdil or ww pre anug slatisiics to prove that ctciiiiii-r irawiim eight ivei ti wati r c uld k i v i he 4-fo it shoals of the l tile l'oiur do river aiid i he agricu!i lira cd i / ! .. !;. is oki'stif was fii ishing uj n arrji:le r!es ined to revoluiioiiize i in ji.c.us industry f the great v.est ai v i pe fci li i i seivllp he was after rich red editorial lloud our chief as has been hinted at on wo or three previous occasions ha ontracted a curious habit if standing in lhe t-treet to converse with a man lie instinctively or intuitively or vvh.it nver it may be called spits tobacco juice u;i thai man's boots it s sim piy a li.ibit or nrni n he does not enow when ho does it and ih action has no meaning the stranger stopped iiin to ask about real estate matters and they had not been t iking over ;. uinute when our chief expectorated itter his usual fashion mr kelso ai • mc whipped out a bowif knife and proceeded to business the horse edi tor and the marine editor rushed out a the first alarm and for a moment things were mixed up our chief was iieeiid as usual but didn't want in shoot unless obliged to lie crawfish ed half way across the street trying to explaiu as he fell hack but mr kel o wouldn't have it he v/.is aivr rich red editorial blood and when it was s en that nothing else would satisfy bini he was dropped in his tracks lie had wouuded al three men and w;is fully bent on murder a coroner's in quest was held in the afternoon ami of course our chief was fully exonera ted while not seriously wounded he was advised to remain quiet tor a few days acting under his instructions we called upon ivc taylor the popu lar u ider'aker ind had the late decea seii hxed up with one of those favorite 5'27.5u coisns hirtd five carriages tor a funeral processsion and h was buried in the private graveyard and mound temporarily marked lt no li within a month lie will have a hand some headboard which will harmon iiizu niih the other ten and the trail ing arbutas will be in training to tr i over his last resting place no one can regret this.-.ffiir more deeply than our chief he didn't wan todo it but had to no 11 was sim ply forced upon him while no one but the small souled weak brained chicken hearted editor of the alleged weekly sheet down the street blames him ia ths least he feels that mr kel so in v nol have been prepared for his sudden trip and that it might have b:en bcit-t to run away it w il be noticed that we were not in it 0 if excuse is that we are purely an agri cultural editor on a moderate salary an 1 our ways are fall of peace and liu iniluy \\ e it/ve our chief and are loyai to him but we have our liiuii 1 wish to see mayor grant 1 he said loftily what about that's my business well if it is your business it isn't public bu-iuess git ! ' i wish to enrich the cooimnnitv to ihe unionnt of all right hand me a check for it n that won't do i want to give the community 1,000 and get 500 change what's your scheme read what it says in that pnptr uid he pointed to the following parw graph reliable statisticians have calculat ed that every adult iiiunigranl who mines inio the country is worth 1,000 to the comuuiiiity well i'm an adult immigrant ain't i k i suppose so what of it well i'm worth 1,000 to the com munity and i propose to get some of it or i'll get hunk how well if the community doesn't pay me 5,00 i'll go back there's a clear gain of 500 in this deal for the com munity it's a plain business proposi tion here am i benefiting the city to the rxtetit of 1,000 duly certified to by official statisticians and i don't get a penny out of it for myself move on — new york herald comet will mis i v new york nov 21 — the comet h speeding toward the earth at a terriffic speed l»ut scientists say it will n<>t come into collision with the earth as it intersects our rbit p.ofessor j k mis hopes to be able to tell by th latter part of the week w he her the rierv traveler i biela.s comet or a u w one the biela's comet was discovered in l820by dii australian after whon it was named it appeared in 1832 uud 1 s-j'j and was list seen in 1852 lime is much more soluble in cold water than in warn therefore this is the right season of the year to apply it to the land so that it may slowly dis solve during the winter and exert its beneficial effects upon the soil it h s been shown by recent chemical inves tigations that carbonate of lime — hid the quick lime used by farmers soon he roines i-arhonated after exposure to the soil full of decaying vegetable matter producing carbonic acid — is indispens able for the existence and action of thr nitrogen — producing microbe that so richly fertilizes the soil besides the lime acts upon the mineral matter of the soil dissolving silica that is in com bination with nearly every kind of mineral plant food in the land and thus making these elements available for crops it also decomposes organic matter that may be in the soil in the form of unexpended manure or decay ing weeds that have been turned under or the roots and waste of previous crops and makes these too available all this bting so what more useful ferti lizer can the farmer apply to the land to increase his crops but one thing is not to be neglected if lime thus acts as we know it does the fanner must give it plenty of in i terial to work upon otherwise th soil will become quickly exhausted just as a gold mine will be when dyna mite is used for breaking down the ore and by its tenfold strength d pletes the mine with equivalent rapidity the lnd of the farmer however is better than the best gold mine that ever ex isted for the more it is worked in the right way the richer and more lasting it beconi'-s — new york times a victim of murriatfe hain't bin ary cyclone a scootin 1 round these parts has they stranger not unlos she got by when my back was turned nary catamount with her back up look in 1 fer trouble the care of manure even solid manure requires care if the solids are massed together nud be come verv dry they will pusarsa but lit tle value but can l>e preseived by the addition of absorbents winch permit of mixing bot!i the liquids and solids in .» manner impart to tiie whole u greater ral ue than is possessed by either hing iv as no man u re dii be a compute fer tilizer that does not contain ull the requisites as plant food hence absorb ents add to the mauure as tvcii us pre serve it not lately 1 nary compound extract of calam uitv jane en wholesale destruction naiy tlieu 1 reckon 1 kin stopeu breathe ravself broke a faro bank at the colonel's own last night,i-n my wife's been arter ! me ever since with three knives two gnus an 1 her dander up say i'm lat in 1 low i am liz wants a calliker rlress,nalligator grip an 1 a dimun 1 ring lung with a ticket to tombstone so's she kin nm down en see her folks i don't olij-'ct tosendin 1 her up the road but i've got my eye on the bank at jupiter jonees an it'll take every dol lar i've got to bust it t-n throw in a gilt-edge double-header toot but that's the way with wimmeii no idees of what's what ai t married be ye ""' el i guess not young felier yer in big luck cause marriage is a failure blamed if taint 8av i'm goin over t jupitej's an 1 if you run counter of a blizzard in petti co t riiunin 1 th it way kindly lead er • t en teil pr you saw me inakin fur the colonel's own au 1 obliged t ye day stranger — detroit free press mt » m a new market for cotton the completion of the nicaragua ca nal wouid open up new markets forour southern cotton it is impossible to estimate the ex e it of the demand which would come from china and ja pm the coiton spinning indu>trv in j i|.an hid a poiiod uf extraordinary activity daring the lirst ln.ll of thecui jumbo's succ •»- or poor jumbo whose departure from the zoological gardens for ainericu where ue met o untimely a deaih and as at c liiue n question ■>! ulisorbiug intertait iuis a worthy r aaya ihe l union dili ly news jung paslin the eltph«ut brought over by t lie prince of val«w va al one time quite a tlwarf coinpaim with the departed favorite lie hiw and grown however until al the present luouient he measures oi'ly three iiicht-.s in heigh l*-ss than jumbo an in appreciable diffmreuoe every day the majestic beast may h seen in the regent urk gardens walfc in with stately tread roiiiid the ground drying ii full complement on hi bnck ,>(■little i'oys and girls nd pnwn-up i it •-. alice jumwn pnrtner in o»p fivi , ie»l about five jcareago iu the am louse wher jung 1'as •• u»a u imbiiaiion is the f.iv.-nie rhnjcfro vim mas 1 en for twenty-ejgh y.-.tr t ihjzmi this w the longrxt time an in im.il of th'u kind has ever i ved in cap tiviiy at all events in london i hcra w;s formerly one i regent park for iwenty three years postal affairs washington nov 30 th pus oflu-e ud irtm-ut hai a»irhor : z-.«d the establish inrnt of an a-liiuoml dai liue of railway postal cars m hie man rout fr.uu l/nvbli ir to n rth d.m viile va ov.tuie iii-imioid and dan tille railroa i anl a similar aid lional line from n i tli d.u . ili • o t rlott • over the iuie oiwl 1 o*t children in bijf stores are many babies lost in the li stoivs the il.'or wsilker stor.d hf side a num ber l bolts of cloth lr w.is in one ©" the big stores in fourteenth street children cry for pitcher's f^torit
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1892-12-08 |
Month | 12 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1892 |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 6 |
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. L. Ramsey Editor and Publisher |
Date Digital | 2008-12-29 |
Publisher | J. L. Ramsey Editor and Publisher |
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 Thursday, December 8, 1892 issue of the Carolina Watchman a 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 |
OCLC number | 601553332 |
Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1892-12-08 |
Month | 12 |
Day | 08 |
Year | 1892 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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 5453921 Bytes |
FileName | sacw17_18921208-img00001.jp2 |
Date Digital | 12/29/2008 8:15:57 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 |
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■~ n .,, • •. more . rculat ion than any r paper published d salisbury and is gerd bc5t au " medi the watchman is the organ of th farmers alliance in 6th and 7t1i -• sid auv m jjy " l~k 3 t 13k 1 * ■■/ w — t . i i ■" ~\ " '■. . '. « w ■' - ■t*w^t"^f tt ~~ taju — 1 ** ~**- j k i "*-"" i 1 we*3 ' '.•■- t lill " ' 5 i •* ' i 5 " w " t -"'" 1 **" * ■-^ -~ t ot^^tf^fc '^-» ih j^jj t-»^m ■■i , -^ , . .^^^^ xxiiv third 1 *^. salisbury n c thursday december 8 1892 i : t':li arizona kiczicb ii w people used to live come with me he said when we had arrived at the rear of the store he carefully opened a dooi r-adiii to a small room there on u soft lounge nil i-uddud up asleep and evidently drnarnijig w.>s n dear child vrith golden iiair rent ytar tiie miils in that period produced 52.ooo.(hio pjiinds of vain against 44,000,000 during the whole of 1su1 and 42,000,9ljo during the whole of 1sc0 the thirty-five spin niiig mills worked on an average 182i days during the six months the num or of hands employed was 41,4«0 of whom 1g.010 were women niagara in tjaruran no 11 — we are not the edit r of the kicker who i also mayor of the town state senator and the owner of the fastest running uuie in the terri tory we are not the horse editor om it salary of nine dollars per week we tire not t.ie marine editor on a salary i of seven dollars we ire pimply the i agricultural editor on a salary of six dollars but gaining on it all the time to us hu.-j fallen the sad duty of detail ing the occurences which caused such intense excitement in ilia town last saturday and which have been tele graphed all over the country this july devolves upon us because the el tor is in bed with a knife wound in his right side the horse editor is laid up with a bullet hole through his hand th marine editor h nursing a gash ici !■•'• k and we are temporarily in charge of the greatest family newspaper in he west — subscription price two dol lars p"r year stiicilv in advance h is a well known fact that the ed itor and proprietor of tin kjcker has 1 he departm't of agriculture is about to publish an interesting report com paring the cost of living early in tin century with what it is now it ex hibits vividly the contrast between the poverty of primiiive agriculture and the progress of civilization ami wealth resulting fron hi jh development oi all the possibilities ol land and laboi n rural and industiial arts and indus tries the small wages paid in thosi days arc surprising as the low prices of commodities of all sorts the month of july 1693 isespect to murk a new em in the niaiiulac t«rm world for the caian.ct c«ta struct on comphdv hope u have their mammoth turbine wheels an 1 moi.mei dyiiani at work jor ih.se *|,. 0 ,. + , desire use tleir power m,.,e limn 2,000.000 and manj lives i . r b u sacrificed to this harnessin h luisjbty niagara to serre the h au c tmingworl.^and the enterprise u now ■uer nearl two years w oi k drawing near oompietion nowheie in tlw civilized world has any bvdn.ulic work f such magnitude been attempted nowbere else are there whrel pits 1(jo feet deep and wheelseapble of develop mis 5,0 10 horse power the c mtr • tortne water wheels has been awarded and calls for two superimposed turbine wheels of 5,000-horse power each to cost in the neighborhood of 200,000 ' the child explained tl e floor walk er belongs to some worn n now shop ping in this place she is wandering wound from counter to counter i«ml has temporarily forgotten h t r dear lit le willie we found the child aslee ie.ir the elevator,tired out apparently and you will trtly care of it until she couifs back eh v in spite of the large production tie demand was greater than the supply and at the end of the half year th s'ocks of yarn were vrry small while the mills were engaged in doing work ordered from tlm'e to six mouths be forehand the total pr duct ion of the ye.w is expected to reach a hundred million pounds from a statement of the dividends paid by the principal mills as compar ed with those paid for the previous half year it seems that of the ten lar gest mills onij two paid dividends un der 10 per cent for the six months while others paid 25 2 1 ( j is 15 12 hnd 10 er tent in the previous half year the highest dividend was 13 while in only two mills was it over 10 the explanation of this sudden prosperity is said to be a succession of good rice crops accompanied by high prices for grain and i great improvement in silk culture and the price in foreign coun tries for japanese silk game was abundant lv early in lu ceu ury and therefore cheap venison cost only three and a hah cenis a pound 1'e.ir meat was very slightly higher pigeons were in abund-uce selling a i little more than a rent apiece ei icrly n-ader.s will remember the fights ot flocks of pigeons which darkened he sides even as late as fifty years ago shad were very cheap costing onl ij'-ur cents each owing to the plenti ful supply oi gamt tanned skins wen low in price a deer skin fetched about 1 to 2 milk sold lor 2 cents . i quart and butter for thirteen cents a pound apples were from twelre and a half to twenty-five cents a bushel but by 1823 they had reached fifty cents vw will we have a number of chil iren to look after each day some are o^t some forgotten but the mammas ill come back in due season just t!:fn there was a suppressed ejaculation at the door something that sounded like ; 0!i my deardarlingchildchildchild a woman bounded into the room such kissing sucli luxgging you never saw in all your horn days ft was like this the woman aid i left the dear boy just one tiny min ute to look at some bargains in laces riien mrs gamp came up and and of course 1 had to talk to her time flip ped by it was almost an hour before i ever thought of dear little willie again well said the floor walker smiling he is safe 1 a smart young han mr gotham so you sent your sou to new york to earn his living fanner hayseed — you see it w;i8 paw i like th city and i'll go into the city and sell what ou raise n the nle farm says he you ship me all your truck and 1,1 1 sell it on com mission says he mr gotham ah he b'cuue a commission merchant then farmer hayseed — in a small way yes \ ou see he doesn't get any goods to sells it or several vcai*s pos.~e.-set u privat .'.■■>: i-yard li began wilh one plant 1 ind uiiilei i lie mosl adverse circuni tauces but ly the exercise of diligence pi'iseveranee und good judjfinpiit hi ii:ul up lo a year ago increased tin unber to ten i wo years i^o he ought an acre of sandy ground aud inclosed it with a neat picket fence the ground was sodded and set oui ritli shrubs vines and flowers tin fiives were placed in regular order 01 ih ■n ■f he main aveii m and i spot has really been the only one in neighborhood to interest sightseers it is ltie only private editorial gravt-yam in the west aud the oniy recreati-in jur chief has had for two years pasi as in working aiiout the enclosun . : i and rake jj ist march when the tenih mis ijiiicli d criirer was laid away to n st oui chief expressed iheearutst hope lii.it he ivould be die last liad men were yet iing scarce o r e.-teeiaed c«>ntenipomn v,:>;;'i worth powder and lead aud it . d s li as li the hope ol : the greatcd or in ighi i e i aliz d but the skele i u u l'.;te was stalking ov..-r th uniun farm wages were only about one third of what they are now ranging fioni twenty-three to fifty cents a day i 1 ': oin 4 to so a month was the usual compensation of well grown lads one hundred years ago the remunera tion of a boy for doing chores m:c1i is cutting wood and foddering horse one } ear was ordinarily 5 the use i>f oxen for a day cost twenty five i:eut while the use of a i i ow fur o::e year cost 2 it cost sixty cents t make a pair of shoe-s the price of ;< i pair of niocca-ins was twenty seven jen board was only one dollar a week liisuilssed a lady with a long train to her dress was walking along the street when an old colored man stepped on her trniu with bo h feet tearing it badly the lady was very angry and had the old man arrested for being disorderly what has the prisoner been guilty of asked the judge he was disorderly your honor who is the complaining witness 1 here your honor and a lady »> s brought forward and regularly sworn she told with much asperity how the old man at the bar had stepped on the train of her dress tearing it and when he saw the damage he had done instead of apologizing he had trud to get away who represents the prisoner he pleads his own cause the old man was brought forward a mild mannered old fellow wearing spectacles and looking the embodiment of good n at tired dignity it's dis way jedye concern in dis ladv here's a s'posable car-e s pose i walk along de street wid my coat tails spread out on de sidewalk two free fee as proud us a peacock neber lookin behint and dat lady come and an jes plant her two d^ar little sweet bits of fret on dat coat tail you t'ink i goin to make a fuss an get dat nice lily rested you t'ink sojrdge i think s.iid the complaining wit ness at this moment that i have made a mistake if the case is dismissed 1 will pay the costs the case was dismissed — macon tele graph then the woman went away with her prize siyin something at each tep that sounded like 0-h ni-a-m-m-a's dear 1-t-t-l-e lost b-o-y i w-i-1-1 n-e-v 1 — new york he.rald mr gotham i see well how has he got along farmer hayseed fairly well i should say i'm still workin the fail but he's got a mortgago on it — good news was ii is l<»#ie good a greasy looking tramp who has lived in city hall paik for three years and whose feet have become as hard as rocks from the frequent rappings from the clubs of the sparrow police man took four five cent whiskies the other day and mustered up courage enough to march to the mayor's office he had a paper in his hand the door keeper nabbed him and asked him what he wanted a machine for burning weeds an australian exchange descrilws it machine in use tliere this season for burning weeds and utilizing the ashen it consists of a large sheet irou t;uik mnunted on three low wheels it is covered over with v shaped l»..isof iron with an inch of space between each bar a iunge of sheet iron is attached to the top extending outw.ird about two feet all round thetauk isiir.iwn by one horse attached to a wire r«»p twelve or fourteen feet long the we^ds along fences are cut auii dried on l lie ground then li.e tank is ti.iulej along and tin dry weeds are forked in at the top ami kept in a constant blaze the a>lie fall through the bars and are readv for use as a fertilizer that was the day of individual and isolated effort antedating the era ot aggregation in factories classification uid division of labor and invention of labor-saving processes and appliances prices of farming products fluctuated great according to local scarcity which could not bo mitigated bv dis tribution from regions of plenty if there w re big crops they could not !>•■so!d if partial failures there was al nii'si nulhiiig to sell ...... 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