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5the (Bhavtoite ontocval, (BhavlaHo, The Democrat. CHARLOTTE. N C. NOVEMBER 30i 18 7 7 for the Charlotte Democrat. Why is It? That, whenever the law goes in between a debtor and his" creditor, fit' almost always "goes in" on the side ol the debtor ? Every stay law, usury law, bankrupt law, retro spective homestead law, suspension ol specie payments, refusal to resume them, pouring out of irredeemable paper money, demoneti zation of silver when its dollar can buy more than one of gold, remonetization of silver when its dollar can buy less than one of gold, refusing to pay State debts ami coun ty debts and city debts, fcc, &c. All such arbitrary acts are intended to help the debtor against the creditor. Why is this interfer ence? Is the debtor a simpleton that re quires a guardian ? Is he a weakling that needs a protector? Is he a pauper who must have his debts wiped out? Is the creditor a man without a conscience, orl without sympathy ? Is he not as honest, as honorable, as generous, as truthful, as neigh borly as the debtor ? Is he not as necessary to the welfare of the commonwealth as is the debtor? If nature makes a creditor strong is he to be denounced for this strength ? The truth is all this one-sided legislation is wrong and it does wrong. When a bar gain is once lairly made no man ought to disannul it or add thereunto, directly or in directly. When a man swears, even to his own hurt, he ought not to change. This shrinking from the performance of a promise is not only wrong, but it does harm. It hurts the poor man. The strength of the poor man is his credit his power to borrow. Whatever hurts this hurts him. In the long run, the poor are best off where debts are best paid. "Cheating never thrives" is an old adage and is as true as it is old. When a creditor is in doubt about the return of his money, as to its kind or as to its time, he shows his uncertainty by the price he sets on the favor he does the borrower. In Holland, Dutchmen will lend to Dutchmen at two or three per cent a year. In Eng land money is generally abundant for three and four per cent a year. But in our own country it is seldom cheaper than six per cent a year. This difference exists although steamers start across the English Channel several times a day, and across the Atlantic several times a week. When men with money in their pockets are uncertain about getting it back if they give it out, they will keep it where it is, or they will spend it in travelling, or in bringing Obelisks from Egypt. They will do anything with it but lend it. Let it be remembered then that whatever helps a man to retain what he has promised to return, or to put off the day for fcl ieturn, hurts his credit his very best friend. Perhaps the most delusive voice that ever misled a people is the cry for "cheap money." We are apt to forget when we hear it, that cheap money means dear food, dear clothes, dear houses. It makes every thini dear but old debts. If however it makes old debts cheaper, it makes new debts dearer. We had cheap money during the Confeder acy. How many are better off for it, and who are they? We have had cheap money since the Confederacy. Who is better off for it, and who is becoming better off? Cer tainly not the poor man. Credit is the poor man's strong tower and cheap money under mines credit. The country is like a man becoming sober after a debauch. lie feels Very badly and he begs for more of what made him "tight," although it has made him sick. But what he needs is self denial and sobriety. So what our people need is not more money, but confidence between toan and man. There is a plenty of money in the world and in our country. But they who have it won't lend it. But they have, besides an abundance of money, an abun dance of fear, that if they let it go it won't come back. There is such a cry for infla tion, and such a spirit of repudiation by States, and Counties, and Towns, and Cor porations that those who have been creditors are afraid to repeat the experiment, and those who might fill their places shrink from their disasters. So they keep their money Where they can get it at a moment's notice, and where they may find it to be of the same value as when deposited. If money is cheapened after it has left "a money centre," it will come back in a much larger bulk than when it started on it travels Then, os we have daily experience, it cannot be moved again. For those who sent it out fear to bring another avalanche upon them selves. And those who took it out, don't want any more of it. When a man of hon esty, enterprise, intelligence, energy and skill borrows money, say as a manufacturer, he does not want the money to worsen, that is to become cheaper, on his hands. For then his material and his labor will cost more than he calculated on. Xor does he want it to better, that is to become dearer, for then it will be scarcer when his notes fall due. What we need for a sure and lively business, is money as unchangeable as Na ture will let it be. "The nimble penny is better than the slow shilling" when it goes Steadily. It may be nimble because folks are afraid of it. But then it goes about, as the Devil, seeking whom it may devour. When we have doubtful money in our pocket, along with good money, we pay that out first, fearing lest it may lose its value while we have it. "The queer" al ways has a livelier time than real money. Folks keep shoving it off on others. But when at last it stops, as stop it must, it can not start again. So it is with "cheap money," which is the greatest curse of every poor man and of every man who works for wages. All of us who are debtors and w ho will be compelled to remain debtors, ought to cry out, with one consent, against this pro posal to pay our creditors with silver worth 92 cents in the dollar, instead of greenbacks worth 97 cents, or gold worth one hundred Cents. It may be hard for us to get the gold or ftie greenbacks to pav our debts. But We shall De still worse off If we put on our creditors an experience they won't re peat "Honesty is the best policy." If we compel our creditors to take 92 cents for a dollar this time they will make up the loss on us the next time. If we offer to take 92 Cents for a dollar when we sell, and are ob liged to pay 100 cents when we buy we must became poor. If as a nation we sell - i 1 1 J? our . Gotten, juoa toDAcca, ana njswzpne iur ;iv At inu cents in the dollar and buy coffee and sugar and silk with 92 cents money we shall Decome a poor people auu the poor of a poor people are very poor and daily "becoming poorer. X. communicated. The Bie: Meteor. Chapel Hill, N. C, Nov. 21, 1877. Editor Charlotte Democrat: On Tues day, the 20th inst., about 44 I. M., just be fore the sut i set and a little after the moon rose, I saw in our northern sky, which was entirely free from clouds, a most remarkable meteor. It was of great brilliancy, and was followed, after an interval of some four or five minutes, by a loud rumbling noise like that of great guns. This ball of fire hit behind it a long line of light like a fine and straight thread ol silver. This line, bright as a streak of lightning, reached from a point nearly over head to one about tweny five degrees to the east of the north and about twenty degrees above the horizon. It seemed to be about sixty decrees long. It hung in the air straight and bright for nearly a minute, and then began to broaden and become milky. Then, as if agi'atr-d by the air, it became zigzag, and then to bv more and more broken. It preserved how ever its original general direction, but seem ed to shorten as it floated off towards the north. When last seen it presented a few faint and small patches of "mackerel sky," about forty-five degrees above, and towards the same point ol the horizon. Thcaj gear ing and disappearing of this superb sky rocket with the final vanishing of its track occupied about twenty-five minutes. Sev eral intelligent peisons uaz"d at the sight with me, and we all agreed that it was one of the grandest and most beautiful sights that we had ever seen. I. North Carolina Items. IT. S. Commissioners. The following are the recent appointees of Judge Dick: ATSummey, V S Cushman, John Hilde brand, A 31 Gudger, Uuncombe; A Q Moore, Henderson ; G C Neill, Transyl vania; D D Davis, Jackson; X G Phillips, Graham ; Saml Henry and Drury Weeks, Cherokee; J F Hard wick, Madison ; J W Burton, Yancey; D A Bowman, Mitchell; W F Craig, McDowell; J A Thorne, Polk; II B Wilson, liutherford.Asheville Citizen. JT From the statistics we observe that there have been fewer failures in North Carolina during the past twelve months, than in any other State south of the Mason and Dixon line. The liabilities of the per sons who failed amount to only about $700, 000. The Old North State is making rapid strides towards the topmost round of the ladder. Indeed may she be termed "the land of promise." We heard a gentleman of intelli gence from Nash county remark a few days since, that there was a negro in his neigh borhood, who had just returned from the Penitentiary, bragging that he fared better while confined was better fed and clothed than ever before. His back and stomach covered his idea of good fare, and the dis grace weighed not a feather in his mind, nor did lie feel at all degraded in his social pretensions. As long a the Penitentiary i- regarded in such light by the criminals, it will prove, in the language of Judge Kerr, inadequate as a punishment for criminals. Wilson Advance. Iredell Court. At the late term of the Superior Court for Iredell county, two issues were tried involving the existence of the Bank of Statesville as a corporation, both of which were decided adversely bv Judge Cloud, and appeals taken. The rul ing was, that the Bank and its assets was part and parcel of Mr Simonton's estate, the provisions of the charter never hav ing been complied with to make it an incor poration. In the cae of Sossarmn vs. the Pamlico Fire Insurance Company, the plaintiff's counsel submitted to a non-suit. When the case came up for trial the Attornies for the Insurance Company claimed that the policy had been voided because the stock of goods had been mortgaged to another party. The Court concurred in this opinion. States ville American. 3!r The old Wilmington Journal (week ly) is to be revived and will make its ap pearance in the city of Wilmington on the first Thursday in December, under the edi torial control and management of Mr Josh T. James, of the Wilmington Review. Mr James was lor many years connected with the old Journal as one of its editors, in which position he won the reputation that makes the Review so conspicuously promi nent in the State as one ol its leading jour nals. Success to the enterprise. A Centenarian. On the 10th instant, Mrs Margaret Gray died in Bethel Town ship, aged 116 years. She was raised in the vicinity of where she died, and never was out of Cabarrus county. She never saw a Railroad in her life. She was, per haps, the oldest person in the State, being 15 years of age at the outbreak of the revo lutionary war. Concord lleyister. 5y " A Washington correspondent of the Raleigh News thus speaks of the members of the House from this State: "All of our members voted against the Paris Exposition bill, on the ground of gen eral hostility to subsidies of whatever char ter. To Col. Steele is due the credit of having had incorporated in the act a specific clause, securing a proper lecognition and representation of the agricultural interests of the country, which were in danger of being almost entirely subordinated t com mercial and manufactuting monopolies. Gen. Vance has introduced a bill to in crease and regulate the fast mail service be tween Washington; Charlotte, Atlanta, Memphis, Mobile, New Orleans, Galveston and other points South, and appropriating $250',000 for that purpose. And here I may state that while our members are alive to all the great interests of our Section and of the country, their ef forts are constantly and actively bestowed in the direction of an augmentation and im provement of our postal facilities." Congress. . Exuiting Debfife in the Senate about thp ad mission of the South Carolina tand Louis iana Senators Hansom y jlferrimon and Gordon make a noble defence of Southern Democrats. Nov. 26. In the Senate, Mr Wadleigh, from the committee on Privileges and Elec tions, submitted a report, accompanied by a resolution, declaring W. P. Kellogg enti tled to a seat as Senator from Louisiana for six years from March 4th, 1877. He asked the present confide ation f the resolution, but objection was made by Mr Merrimon, Mr Withers and others, and the resolution was laid over until to-morrow. Mr Merri mon submitted a minority report signed by Hill, Saulsbury and himself, in favor of seat ing Mr Spoff r 1, which was ordered to be printed. Kellogg is a Republican and Spofford is a Democrat. Nov. 27. As an illustration of the char acter of the contest progressing in the Sen ate, Mr Patterson of South Carolina, said that if the Senator from Vermont (Mr Ed munds) said that he (Patterson) made a bargain of that kind he said what was not true! (Sensation.) Mr Edmunds said that it was one of the duties of a Senator and a gentleman to be careful in his statements. He repeated the statement he repeated the statement as made in the public newspapers, that the Senator was under indictment for the alleged offence of having secured his election by bribery. Mr Gordon inquired where the Senator got his information. Mr Edmunds replied that it was the com mon statement on the streets and in the public prints, one of which he held in his hand. Mr Saulsbury rose to a point of order and stated that no charge was pending before the Stnate against any Senator. The Sen ate owed it to the morality of this body that scandal against Senators should not be in dulged in on the floor without specific charges having first been made against such Senator. He therefore thought that the Senator from Vermont (Mr Edmunds) was out ol Older. The Vice-President over-ruled the point of order, and said that he did not understand the Senator from Vermont as making charges against any Senator. Mr Gordon said : The Senator (Edmunds) has seen fit to arraign by insinuation not only two of his former party associates, but Senators on the. Democratic side of the chamber, for what he was pleased to call a corrupt bargain, and, sir, upon what evi dence 'i Upon nwspaper articles, rt ports and whispers around the capitol. Now, Mr President, why this indirection. Sir, I wish to place that Senator upon notice that if this side of the chamber, or any member of this body, is to be arraigned upon such testi mony, we might justly retaliate. If corrup tion is to be charged by insinuation and in-uc-ndo, which I will not follow Webster in saying, "is the basest subterfuge of coward ice, of malice and of falsehood," let it be understood that upon like evidence I might arraign that side of the chamber for having instructed a Judge upon the bench to hold the decision in a criminal prosecution over the head of a Senator so as to induce him to change the political course he has pursued for the last few days. But, sir, I arose only to protest against such insinuations, and to put that Senator upon notice that upon such evidence I could demonstrate that Republi can Senators have sought to influence a Judge to use his fearful powers on the bench for political ends; have sought to change the very temple of iustice into the altar of sacrifice for the Senator who chose to vote according to the dictates of his conscience. Mr Ransom inquired il Gen. M. C. Butler had had an opportunity of cross examining the witness. Mr Cameron, who was chairman of the committee which inquired into the South Carolina affairs, said the testimony of the witness was taken down by the stenographer and handed to Gen. Butler, and he suggest ed to Mr Merrimon, a member of the com mittee, such witnesses as he desired to have examined and the questions he wished to be asked. Mr Ransom asked if this testimony was not taken with closed doors, and if Gen. Butler was not excluded from the sessions of the committee. Mr Cameron replied in the affirmative. Mr Hoar of Massachusetts, soto voce, "The usual way." Mr Ransom referred to the remark made by Mr Hoar, which, he said, had reached his ears, and said it was unusual in any civili zed community to have testimony taken to damn a man, and not allow him to be pre sent to cross-examine witnesses. Had not Mr Corbin, the contestant of Mr Butler, thes-.' same witnesses with him two or three weeks ? Mr Cameron replied that nearly all the Democratic witnesses were under indict ment, and that they were summoned to Col umbia to attend Court, Mr Corbin then being United States Attorney for South Carolina. Mr McDonald of Indiana, asked if the Senator from New Hampshire would not rend the testimony of Gen. Butler. Mr Hoar said the Senator from North Carolina (Mr Ransom) assumed a style of speech unbecoming to him. Mr Ransom: "Mr President" Mr Hoar, excitedly : "I do not yield; I have the floor." He (Mr Hoar) was sorry that it was a strange thing that anywhere, where common or christian law prevailed, that outrages should be committed, and among the members of a great party not a man was found to raise his hand to stop them. Mr Ransom said he had the floor by the courtesy of the Senator from New Hamp shire (Mr Wadleigh), but the Senator from Massachusetts (Mr Hoar) had interrupted him and then claimed the floor. That Sen ator, during his remarks, took occasion, first, to reflect upon him (Mr Ransom) and then upon the party he acted with, and upon the section in which he lived. He desired to say to all that when he desired to be in structed as to what was becoming, he trust ed that he should have the good sense to seek that instruction from other sources than the Senator trom Massachusetts (Mr Hoar.) When he (Mr Ransom) made the statement that in no civilized community could a man be condemned without an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses, was it in order for the Senator from the great State of Massa chusetts to say thai in no country wouljl eak wironz be committed a had bc?n in tbp South? That answer tras unbecoming h;ls character and unbecoming the Senator from Massachusetts. Nothing prevented him (Mr Ransom) from using a harsh term to de nounce the statement of the Senator from Massachusetts but the propriety of the Sen ate chamber. Theie was not a good man in the South who had not denounced all out rages. Did it become an American Senator to throw calumny upon eight millions of people, upon thirteen great Stat s, whose glory did m-t pale before that of Massachu setts herself. Here to-day Senators had witnessed an assault made by the other side of the chamber upon one of their own num ber, one whom the policy of the Republicans had put over the people of the South. The Republicans had had the army and navy ami the judiciary, and now they undertake to lay their own crimes at the doors of the Southern people. If his (Mr Rins.-m's) manner was wrong or objectionable he could not help it. He could not help his nature, but he desired to say to the Senator from Massachusetts that when he (Mr Ransom) saw a man come here who was the peer of all ; in whose veins flowed the blood of Oliver Perry -t when he heard that bright name assailed, he must defend it. Mr Hill of Georgia, said he desired to ap peal to the sense of the Senator from Massa chusetts to know what this discussion about the Hamburg tiouble had to do with the election of either Mr Corbin or Mr Butler. Mr Cameron of Wisconsin: "Had not Gen. Butler b en indicted ?" Mr Hill: "He has not been indicted. He has asked to be, but a Republican So licitor said the evidence was not sufficient." Mr Wadleigh again quoted from the evi dence before the South Carolina committee, and said that ku klux outrages had not been denounced by the Democratic party. Mr Cameron said the claims of Messrs Butler and Corbin, claiming a seat as Sena tor from South Carolina, were so blended together that one could not be discussed without the other. He proceeded to read the brief of Mr Corbin, claiming that he had been legally elected Senator from South Carolina. Mr Merrimon said he did not rise to enter upon a discussion of South Carolina affairs as they appeared to him as a member of the committee of the Senate which visited that State about a year ago. At some future time, when the Senate should be in a better humor, he would give his views; for the present he would merely show how entirely false were the statements as to intimidation in South Carolina. He argued that the Republicans had been in the majority in ihat State. They could do as they pleased, and did do as they pleased. The whole population in South Carolina entitled to vote was 184,943, and the whole number of votes cast in 1876 was 183,38s. How was it that persons were intimidated when nearly the whole vote of the State was polled? Moses, the Republican candidate for Gov ernor in 1874, received many more votes than any candidate before had ever re ceived. He then referred to the Hamburg riot, and said the evidence before the com mittee showed that the trouble was the con sequence of a long continued series of out rages in Hamburg on the part of negio-.s who lived there. He denied the chargts made against Mr Butler, of being concerned in that riot, and said Mr Butler happened to be there and no doubt sympathized with the white people, but to hold him accounta ble for the outrages or murders committed there, was against all decency. The evi dence showed that when men were shot down like wild beasts at Hamburg, Butler had left the place. Mr Merrimon quoted at length from the testimony, to show that violence did not exist in South Carolina. He argued that the presence of Federal troops in the State affected the vote of that State to the extent of at least 10,000. Again, it was the common impression that all the negroes in South Carolina voted the Republican ticket, which was erroneous. Thousands of them voted for Hampton. Mr Merrimon then argued that there was a conspiracy in outh Carolina to prostitute the army of the United States to carry the election there for the Republican party, and Mr Corbin was concerned in that con spiracy. Mr Cameron referred to the testimony and charged that there had been intimida tion and violence in South Carolina against the colored people during the campaign of 1876. He spoke at some length of the rifle clubs organized in the State for purposes of intimidation. The question then recurred on the resolu tion of Senator Thurman, w hich reads : Resolved, That the committee on Privi leges and Elections be discharged from the consideration of the credentials of M. C. Butler, of South Carolina. Agreed to Yeas 29, nays 27. Immediately upon the announcement of the vote, Mr Edmunds objected to the pres ent consideration of the credentials, and under the rules they were laid over. The Senate then, on motion of Mr Thur man, by a vote of aves 29, nnys 27, ad journed until 12 o'clock Wednesday, after a continuous session of twenty-tight hours. Nov. 28. In the Senate, the question being, Will the Senate proceed to the dis cussion of the resolution reported by the committee on Privileges and Elections de claring Kellogg entitled to a seat as Sena tor from Louisiana. The vote resulted, yeas 29 and nays 29. The Vice President voted in the affirmative, and the resolution was taken up. Thurman then moved to amend the reso lution by striking out all after "resolved" and insert M. C. Butler. The vote stood 31 to 31 (Davis and Patterson voting with the Democrats, and Conover with the Republi cans.) The Vice President voted nay, and the amendment was lost. Mr Thurman denied the right of Vice President Wheeler to give the casting vote in such cases. The Senate adjourned without further ac tion, aftr an exciting debate between Ben Hill and others. In the House, Mr Vance introduced a bill to provide for the re-etabhshment of a Branch Mint of the United States at the city -of Charlotte, North Carolina: which was relerred to the committee on Coinage j and Weights and Measures. j New York Matters. C pries pondan oe of the Raleigh Observer. In his charge to the Grand Jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer in this city, Judge Davis declared that in his experience of more than twenty years of judicial life he had found that more than seven-eighths of the crimes committed in this country which involve personal violence are tracea ble to the use of intoxicating liquors; and he specified homicides, affrays, assaults and batteries, criminal contempts, wife beatings, and abuse of families and children, lie mentioned a recent case where a wife, drunk, plunged a knife into the heart of her hus band, also drunk ; and she was found hid den in a tenement house inhabited by fifty families, all f whom were drunkards. The whole tenor of the charge, and its avowed object, were to induce the Grand Jury to indict the members of the Board of Excise Commissioners, who have lately issued li censes to liquor shops as "innx, taverns, or hotels," in palpable violation of the laws. The laws prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquir- between 1 and 5 o'clock a. m. ; pro hibit their sale to intoxicated persons; or to any person under eighteen years of age; or to any apprentice of any age (the Judge remarking that he was sorry that in this country apprentices had ceased to be nil- merous, owing to 1 lie rules ot trie iraaes Union,) ai:d the Judge closed with the fol lowing on adulterated liquors : "The statute declares that knowingly to sell intoxicating liquors which are adultera ted is a misdemeanor punishable by impris onment for three months and a fine of $100. In all humao probability a vast deal of the injurious fleets from intoxicating liquors are produced by the degree and character of their adulteration rather than by the in jurious effects of the article itself. In all probability no pure liquors are sold at all in the inns referred to. If you go into these cheap inns, taverns and hotels you will in all probability find nothing but a gross mass of compounds and villainous adul terations, enough to poison the whole neigh borhood." From all of which it would seem to be inevitable that there will be thousands of indicted liquor dealers. How far it may thus be possible to reduce the dicadful ex tent of drunkenness and consequent crime remains to be seen. In Midler's "Life of Faust," of which a new edition has just appeared, the remarka ble fact is stated, that during the past forty years he has received, in answer to prayers, and without personal application to any hu man being, the enormous sum of two and a half millions of dollars in gifts for the aid of the Orphan Asylum at Bristol, England, and other charitable institutions founded by him, and the still more strange fact, per haps, that in no instance has he published the name of any of the donors. Mr Muller considers all this a direct answer to prayer; but some people of less faith assert that it has resulted from the universal advertise ment, in newspapers and otherwise, of his novel mode of raising money for charity. They think that the age of miracles has past away, perhaps not reflecting that the age of faith p issed away first. So common is it to publish to the four corners of the world men's gifts, whether for charity or othcrwis", that it is wonderful to know that such a sum has been given without receiv ing or expecting a newspaper puff. It is evidence that not only Mr Muller has faith, but that the givers had read and believed in that portion of the sermon on the Mount embraced in the four first verses of the 6th chapter of St. Matthew's gospel. II. Jtlf 'Rev. J. B. Mack, formerly of Ca barrus, and now of Fort Mill, S. C, has been called to the pastorate of a Presbyte rian Church at Columbia S. C. NOVEMBER. The busy season continues ; every department is full of life and activity, supplying the numerous demands for our Men's, Boys' and Children's Clothing. The demand, up to the present, warrants us in the belief that this will be our banner season. Limi ted capital and poor credit cannot compete with Manufacturers, who with unlimited facilities and resources have the power to name prices that can not be equalled. We work for and in the interest of the people. We have but one price, that being the lowest possible for any reliable house to name, and we person all' guarantee the value of any article purchased of us. Wholesale close buyers will find it to their in terest to examine our stock. Goods sent from Charlotte C. O. D. to all sections, with the privilege of opening and inspecting before payment of bill. Self-measurement Cards furnished free on application. All goods marked in plain figures. One and the same price to all, both far and near. Every style of garment; every variety of texture and fabric. E. D. LATTA & BRO., Nov. 23, 1877. Largest Clothiers in the South. On Consignment. 10 Crates of fine Apples of choice varieties from Guilford nurseries. 25 bushels country Potatoes, for sale at 75 cents per bushel. Nov. 16, 1877. B. N. SMITH. Just Received, Pigs' Feet, Bolougna Sausage, Dried Beef, Break fast Bacon, and the best Hams in the city. Nov. 10, 1877. J. B. FRANKLIN. New Orleans Molasses. To arrive, next week, new crop Molasses, in Barrels and Half Barrels. BUR WELL & SPRINGS. Nov. 16, 1877. Grain Cradles. A lot of the celebrated Grain Cradles, made by Joseph Starnes of this county, on hand and for sale by Joseph Mclaughlin. Nov. 16, 1877. NOTICE. All persons having claims against the estate of W. D. Dowd, are hereby notified to present them to the undersigned properly authenticated, on or before the 1st day of December, 1878, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. J. C. DOWD, Nov. 16, 1877 4w Administrator. Shingles. 1 fin CYPRESS and PINE SHIN- IUUjUUU GLES, low for Cash. W. W. WARD, Sept. 28, 1877. Corner College and 4th Sts. CHEESE ! CHEESE ! ! A lot of Extra, Cream and Choice New York Factory Cheese, just received at J. MCLAUGHLIN'S. Sept. .21 ,1877. Rules of the Federal Court. At the late term of ti e IT. S. District Court at Ashe ville, Judge Dick issued the following Rules r- r Every affidavit for obtaining a warrant for an alleged " 'violation of the Internal Revenue Laws must be presented to the U S. Commissioner residing, or by order of Court assigned to duty, in the county iit which the offense is alleged to have h'een committed; i unless the defendant has caped frpnij-aid couuty. Every wan ant issued mu-t be made re turnable before the Commissioner issuing the same. The object of this order is to ave ex pense and inconvenience to parties and wit nesses and to enable Commissioners to fulk investitjate cases presented to them lor con sideration and action. The District Attorney is hereby requiied to endorse on every bill of indictineiit or information the name of the affiant who in stituted the prosecution and the name of the Commissioner who issued the warrant and heard the case on the preliminary ex amination. The rule of Court heretofore, made requir ing Commissioners on certain cases to re cognize parties and witnesses to appear in the second Monday of the term ot Court at Aheville, is hereby revoked ; and the Com missioners to whom said rule applied will hereaftei recognize parties and witnesses to appear on Tuesday after the first Monday of regular terms of said Court. All warrants now in the hands of the Marshal or his deputies which have not been executed must be returned to the Commissioner issuing the same, so that said cases may be entered on the record of said Commissioner, and warrants be renewed if deemed proper by the Commissioner. And hereafter all warrants which remain unexe cuted until the ensuing term of the U. S. Courts must be returned to' the Commis sioner and he must enter on record the returns of the officer endorsed upon the warrant. Robert P. Dick, Nov. 17th, 1877. U. S. District Judge. NEW FIRM. BOOTS AND SHOES. Having purchased the entire Stock of SAMPLE & WETMORE, we will continue the Retail busi ness of Boots and Shoes, making a specialty of the celebrated "CAROLINA SHOE," manufactured by them. Besides, we will keep a full line of all qualities of Boots and Shoes. A call from our friends and the public is respect fully solicited, with a promise that we will endeavor to please them in every respect. GRIER, McCOMBS & CO. Charlotte, N. C, Nov. 23, 1877. HS1T In retiring wc return thanks to our friends and customers for their liberal patronage, and re spectfully ask that they continue to patronize our successors. Respectfully, SAMPLE & WETMORE. Nov. 23, 1877. SPECIAL NOTICE. We ar6 daily receiving new additions to our already SPLENDID STOCK OF BOOTS AND SHOES. Our Stock is complete in every department, and we invite all to call and examine our Goods and hear our LOW PRICES. Ladies', Genti, Misses' and Children's fine Goods a Specialty. We have a line of Burt's celebrated New York Shoes for Ladies the best in the world. Come and nee us. PEG RAM & CO. TO THE MERCHANTS OF Western North Carolina. We are the general Agents for the sale of Sample & Wetmore's celebrated North Carolina Made Shoes, and are ready to supply all demands for them. Nov. 23, 1877. PEGRAM & CO. Hyacinths, Tulips & other Bulbs, Just received from Holland a choice lot of Bulbs. Now is the time to plant. F. SCARR & CO., Nov. 23, 1877. Druggists. Fair Notice to All. All persons owing us Notes payable in Cotton&xc hereby notified that unless paid by the 10A of De cember, we will refuse to receive Cotton. If received at all it must be of the bent grade. Look to your in terests, as we mean thin. BURROUGHS & SPRINGS Nov. 23, 1877. Special It. R. Accommodations. ATLANTIC, TENN. & OHIO RAILROAD CO. J Charlotte, N. C, Nov. 1st, 1877. f Commencing with November 7th, and on Wed nesday of each week after, an Accommodation Train will be niH from Stalesville to Charlotte and return. GOING SOUTH. Leave Statesville at - - - 6:30 A.M. " Mooresvilleat - - - 7:48 " ' Davidson College at - - 8:29 " Arrive at Charlotte - 10:40 " GOING NORTH. Leave Charlotte at 3:00 P. 31. Davidson College at - - 5:10 " " Mooresvilleat - - - 5:50 " Arrive at Statesville - - - 7:00 " Round trip tickets will be sold at the following rates, and will be good only for this Train and day upon which sold : Statesville to Charlotte and return, $2 3. Troutman's " " " " 2 05 Shepherd's " " " 1 75 Mooresville " " " " 1 55 Mt. Mourne " 1 Davidson College to Charlotte and return, 1 15 Caldwell's " " " 95 Huntersville. " " ' t0 Alexandriana, " " G-j Henderson's " " " " 5 Section House " " " ' "r Tickets purchased for this Train will not be ac cepted for passage on Mail Train, nor for return pas sage on this Train except upon the day purchased. J. J. GOKMLtV t Nov. 2, 1877 lm Superintendent. Salem Almanacs. "Wholesale and Retail Agents, T WILSON & BURWELL, Nov. 9,1877. Dru- DR. RICHARD H. LEWIS, Raleigh, N. C. (Late Professor of Diseases of the Eye and the Savannah Medical College,) Practice Limited to the EYE and Refers to the State Medical Society nd 10 Georgia Medical Society. Oct. 12, 1877 y
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