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ita v :, j. . ;- i -:.u Ik ,7' tf. J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor. 7'crwia of Subscription $2. 00, in advance. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1877. TWENTY-SIXTH VOLUME NUMDER 1308. LSI Hi V X Ml jiii ii a ri . r v hi II 111 1 Mi V AVI TV III III II lV X 1 air I I I I I II! A I t AIY AV II II THE Charlotte Democrat, PUBLI8HED BY WII.MAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor Tkrms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or Ddllar and Twenty-five Cents for six months. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. VUcrtisements will be inserted at reasonable r;oc, or in accordance with contract. )1 'ituary notices of over five lines in length will r,c charged for at advertising rate3. Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, l-i on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DliUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Family Mcdifini's, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Ydiicv and Toilet Articles, which he is determined o .til at the very lowest prices. ' .inn 1, 1873. F. SCARE, & CO., Chemists and Druggists, CHARLOTTE, N. C. I;iwrljtions prepared at all hours of the Day and Night. Keep constantly on band all kinds of Drugs, Mcdi f int s. Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Spices, Green and Black Tea, Arc, &c. Jan. 1, 17(1. J. P. McConibs, M. D., I'Vrs his professional services to the citizens of ! lutrlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both i.it'ht and day, promptly attended to. Oilice in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the ; liarlottc Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873.. r. r. osuouxe. W. C. MAXWELL. OSBORNE & MAXWELL, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oilice over Ilarty's Crockery Store, near the Court House. Particular attention given to Collections, Settle ment of Estates and Partition of Land and Convey ancing. Nov. 1,1870 ly DR. W. H. HOFFMAN, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office over A. R. Nisbet & Bro's Store, Trade Street. Feb. 8, 1875. W. F. COOK, Trade Street, on North Carolina llailroady Charlotte, N. C, Manufacturer of CIDER MILLS and all kinds of FARMING IMPLEMENTS. All orders promptly attended to. Jan. 1, 1872. R. M. MILLER & SONS, Commission Merchants, and WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Provisions and Groceries, College Street, Charlotte, N.C. Flour, Bacon, Sugar, Coffee, Salt, Molasses, and in fact, all kind of Groceries in large quantities always on hand for the Wholesale trade. Jan. 1 1875. Walter Brem & Martin, Dealers in HARDWARE, AND Agricultural Implements, &c, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Jan. 1, 1876. . W. M. CROWELL, Commission Merchant, And dealer in Groceries, Tobacco, Cigars and all kimls of Country Produce, (opposite Sanders & Blackwood's Cotton Warehouse,) College Street, Charlotte, N. C. .Inly 311876. HOTEL! The Central Hotel, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Located in the centre of the city, has been fitted up as a First Class House with New Furniture and all conveniences appertaining to a good Hotel. Terms $3 00, $2.50 and $2 00 per day. accord- mg to location of Room. II. C. ECCLES, Proprietor. Feb. 2, 1877. j. Mclaughlin, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, &c, College Street, Charlotte, N. C, Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. tW Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. D. M. RIGLER, Charlotte, N. C. Dealer in Confectioneries, Fruits, Canned Goods, Crackers, Bread, Cukes, Pickles, &c. ZW Cakes baked to order at short notice. Jan. 1, 1877. B. N. SMITH, Dealer in Groceries and Family Provisions of all sorts, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Consignments of Produce solicited, and prompt returns made. Families can find anything at my Store in the Grocery line to eat, including fresh meats. Jan. 1, 1877. Central Hotel BARBER SHOP. GRAY TOOLE, Proprietor, keeps the best workmen employed, and guarantees pleasure and satisfaction to customers. Shop immediately in rear of Hotel office. June 8, 1877. BLUE STONE! Blue Stone!! A full supply of Blue Stone at Oct on 1R SCA1 & GO'S Oct. 20,18,,. Drugstore. ScST" American citizens of English descent ought to look out for the London Gazette just now, for the Bank of England intends to publish in that dreary paper a lit of the names oi the original holders of stock of the Bank upon which dividends have remained unclaimed. The amount of these unclaimed dividends has reached 3,506,950, or nearly $18,000,000, and the Bank seems to be anx ious to get rid of this burden. Lands for Sale, Rent, &c. VALUABLE REAL ESTATE For Sale. By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, we will sell at the Court House door, in Charlotte, N. C, on Monday, De cember 24th, the following valuable City Property and Lands, situated as hereafter described : Part of LOTS 920 and 921, with a 3-roora house; Lot 919. which has a 5-room house ; Lots 918 and 85G Two unnumbered Lots, one of which has a 3-room house on it. All the above is in Square 107. Part of Square 106, beginning at Slenhouse & Macaulay's corner, running 246) feet on Myers Street to Sixth Street, thence with Sixth Street 253 feet to W. A. Williams' line, then 2G1 feet with YV. A. William's line to Stenhouse & Macau lay's line, and with that line 227 feet to the begin ning on Myers Street, containing two acres, more or less. All the above is City Property, and very valua ble, lying in close proximity to the business por tion of the city. One Tract of LAND known as part of the S. W. Davis place, lying three miles Southwest of Char lotte, on Big Sugar Creek, and near the Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Raiiroad. This property con tains 109 Acres, more or less, and is good Farm ing Land, joining B. F. Smith, R. R. Rea, and others. Plats of the above property can be found at any time at the Store of Walter Brem & Martin, and the undersigned will be pleased to show parties wishing to purchase. Terms of Sale. The following terms must be complied with : Ten per cent of the amount of sale must be paid in cash, and the remainder upon a credit of six and twelve months, in equal pay ments; Notes with approved security required, with interest from date of sale at eight per cent per annum. Title reserved till last payment is made. T. L. ALEXANDER, WALTER BUEM. Executors of T. H. Brem, deceased. Nov. 23, 1877 ow Mortgage Sale. Pursuant to a Mortgage Deed, executed by B. F. Smith and wife M. A. Smith, on the 27th day of April, 1875, to T. II. Brem, dee'd, we, Executors of the last Will and Testament of said deceased, will sell at Public Auction on Monday, the 24th day of December, 1877, at the Court House door in Char lotte, N. C, that TRACT OF LAND lying on Sugar Creek, joining the Lands of R. R. Ray and others, and now occupied by the said B. F. Smith, known as part of the S. W. Davis tract, containing One Hundred and Forty-eight Acres, more or less. Terms of Sale, Cash. T. L. ALEXANDER, WALTER BREM, Executors of T. II. Brem, dee'd. Nov. 30, 1877 4w . ii Personal Property for Sale. As Executors of the late John S. Means, we will offer at public sale, at the Court House door in Charlotte on Monday, the 24th December, 1877, the following personal property belonging to the Estate of said deceased : 15 Shares of Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad Stock, 4 Head of Mules, 5 or G Head of Cattle, 1 fine Milk Cow, 3 Wagons and some Harness, 1 Buggy and Harness, 25 or 30,000 pounds of Iron (bars), A quantity of Corn, Fodder and Hay, Farming Utensils, &c., &c. Terms made known on day of Sale. J. D. MEANS, II. S. PHARR, Nov. 30, 1877 4vv Executors. -. m POSITIVE SALE. By virtue of a power of sale contained in a Mort gage executed to me by T. W. Sparrow, M. L. Sparrow, J. S. Sparrow and II. D. Sparrow, duly registered in Mecklenburg county, 1 will sell at Public Auction on the premises, at Davidson Col lege, on Wednesday 19th day of December, 1877, that valuable Tract of Land, containing 53 acres, on which is situated an excellent Dwelling House, now occupied by the said T. W. Sparrow and family, together with all other necessary out buildings. " Sale positive. G. F. SHEPHERD, Nov. 16, 1877. 4wpd - Mortgagee. GOLD MINES For Sale. By Virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of Union county, made at the Fall Term, 1877, 1 will proceed to sell on Monday the 7th of January, 1878, at the Court House in the town of Monroe, the fol lowing valuable MINING PROPERTY, belong ing to the Estate of Hugh Downing, dee'd, viz. : The Stewart Gold Mine, Machine-, and all the Fixtures belonging thereto, lying on the waters of Goose Creek, containing 495 acres. Also, the Fox Hill Gold Mine, lying on the waters of Goose Creek, containing 195 acres. Also, the Lemmond Gold Mine, lying on the waters of Goose Creek, containing 734 acres. And also one other Tract known as the Long Gold Mine, lying on the waters of Duck Creek, containing 50 acres. The aforesaid property is valuable for mining and farming purposes ; also, a fine mill site on one of the Tracts. Terms 10 per cent cash ; balance on a credit of six months, with bond and approved security ; no title to pass to the purchaser until all the purchase money is paid. G. W. FLOW, Nov. 16, 1877 7w Commissioner. SALE OF CITY PROPERTY, By virtue of authority granted to me by Jo. WT. Wilson and wife, by Mortgage, dated March 13th, 1875, 1 will sell at public auction for cash, at the Court House in Charlotte, N. C, on Monday. De cember 10th, 1877, at 12 o'clock, M., that LOT in the City of Charlotte on which said Wilson resides, corner 7th and D Streets, fronting 99 feet and run ning back 198 feet towards 8th Street, on which is a two-story Dwelling House, and also a Brick Kitchen, Well, and other improvements. Sale positive. S. P. ALEXANDER. Nov. 9, 1877 5wpd Mortgagee. Fair Notice to All. All persons owing us Notes payable in Cotton are hereby notified that unless paid by the 10th of De cember, we will refuse to receive Cotton. If received at all it must be of the beet grade. Look to your in terests, as we mean this. BURROUGHS & SPRINGS. Nov. 23, 1877. Simplicity and Gracefulness. Ilerrick writes: "A sweet disorder in the die? s Kindles in clothes a wantonness; A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction ; An erring lace, which here and there Enthralls the crimson stomacher; A cuff neglectlul, and thereby Ribbons to flow confusedly; A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat ; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility ; Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part." The lines of rare old Ben are better known, and n ad thus : "Still to be neat, still to be drest As one were going to a feast; Still to be powdered and perfumed ' Lady, it is to be presumed Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a lace That makes simplicity a grace ; Kobes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; These strike mine eyes, not my heart." m JdlT The carrying ol concealed weapons is an indictable offense in Tennessee, unless one is on a journey, and even when travel ing one has to be v ery careful how he stops on the road, specially to take part in the lun f a log-rolling, as the following recent decision of the Supreme Court will show: "Blankenship vs. the State The prisoner started on a journey out of his country, aimed with a pistol, and went to a log-rolling, where he remained for a portion of the day, wearing his pistol. Held: That he was guilty, and the Circuit Judge commended for his effort to suppress the practice of wearing arms by affixing the extreme pn alty of the law." . . i3 Maj.-Gen. Hancock has been beaten in a suit the result of which is of general irnpoitance to hotel keepers. The action was brought to recover the value of three thousand dollars worth of jewelry stolen while he was living at a hotel in New York city. Having ma le a contract for board it is held that he Was not a guest but a boarder, which released the hotel proprietor from all responsibility. .. jm . ' Croup. Croup can be cured in one min ute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way to accomplish the deed is to take a knife or grater, and shave off in small particles about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its quantity of sugar, to make it palatable, and a lminister it as quickly as possible. Almost instantaneous relief will follow. Trustee's Sale. By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed by Dela ware Banks and wife, (colored,) on the 17th day of August, 1876, and duly registered, I will sell at Auction, at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday the 10th day of December, 1877, for the purposes specified in said Trust, the property em braced therein, being the HOUSE and LOT where the said Delaware Banks and wife reside, on Hill Street, in the Citv of Charlotte. Terms, Cash. J. A. McLURE, Nov. 9, 1877 5w Agent for Trustee. Trustee's Sale. By- virtue of a Deed of Trust made to me by Irwin Alexander, (colored,) dated the 7th day ot February, 1ST7, and duly registered, I will expose to public sale, at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday the 10th day of December, 1877, a Tract of LAND containing 47 Acres, adjoining the lands of Elam Robinson and others. Also, at the same time and place, a mare MULE will be sold in accordance with the provisions of said Trust. Terms, Cash. J. A. McLURE, Nov. 9, 1877 5w Trustee. Mortgage Sale. B3- virtue of a Mortgage made to J. W. Wads worth by Epbraim Potts and wife Hannah,(colored,) dated February 2, 1877, 1 will sell at public sale, at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday the 10th day of December, 1877, a HOUSE and LOT in Charlotte in Square 79, bounded by 1st and D Streets. Also, one black mare MULE 4 years old. Terms, Cash. J. A. McLURE, Nov. 9, 1877 ovv Agent for Mortgagee. Mortgage Sale. In accordance with the provisions of a Mortgage made to J. W. Wadsworth by John Parks and Frank Parks, dated the 15th day of February, 1875, I will sell at the Court House door in Char lotte, on Monday the 10th day of Decembei, 1877, a certain LOT "and parcel of" LAND situated near the boundary of Charlotte, near the corner of the Old Fair Grounds, fronting the road leading from Church Street. Terms, Cash. J. A. McLURE, Nov. 9, 1877 ow Agent for Mortgagee. Just Received, Pigs' Feet, Bulougna Sausage, Dried Beef, Break fast Bacon, and the best Hams in the city. Nov. 16, 1877. J. B. FRANKLIN. New Orleans Molasses. To arrive, next week, new crop Molasses, in Barrels and Half Barrels. BUR WELL & SPRINGS. Nov. 1G, 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 oi December, 1878, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recover-. J. U. DOWD, Nov. 16, 1877 4w Administrator. Shingles. 1 AH CYPRESS and PINE SHIN- 1UU,UUU GLES, low for Cash. W. W. WARD. Sept. 28, 1877. Corner College and 4th Sts. ,'Frostless Regions in North Carolina. Although half way through my 83d year, and physical and mental powers worse for wear, yet my pulse grew quick when I saw in your paper an article headed "The Ther mal Belt of Tryon Mountain." Of course, a Thermal stratum, of atmosphere has ever existed, because euch stratum - must form whenever the atmosphere is at rest, and will be reached by every tall hill and mountain, whether1 named "Tryon" or "Vickerstaff" mountain! The fact of the existence of a Thermal strata on mountains has been known since man inhabited them, and who ever yet saw a Spring frost that utterly destroyed the peach crop in the valley, that you did not . gee some mountaineer with his fine peaches for sale from the sunny side of some mountain whether Tryon, Vickerstaff or Cooper's Gap, or. the Blue Ridge. After having iseen the phenomenon for 50 years, I then commenced to search for the -why" of the thing, and I found it,or thought I did. Moreover, I made some of the most scientific men in both America and Europe think that I did ! And now, among philos ophers, there is no phenomenon better un derstood than that of The Thermal Belt or Frost Line, that is so mysterious to the dwellers about Tryon mountain. I wrote out the "why" of the thing in the year 1858, and the Secretary of the Interior (Thomp son) requested a copy. This copy was sub mitted to a board of science, and approved, Prof. Joseph Henry remarking that all re positions were based on true philosophy, with a complimentary letter from Prof. Henry. My theory of "The Thermal Belt, or no Frost Line," came out in the Patent Office reports for 1862, but, came not South. For why? We were then in rebellion! This is why the South does not yet understand the phenomenon of a warm zone on the side of Tryon mountain, whilst the same facts exist along the whole line of the Blue Ridge on its southern exposures where protected from the north wind. The whole mystery of the thing is explained by a knowledge of the gravitating process that takes place in the atmospheric stratum ot still times, it be ing only then that strata can form. Of course the heaviest would be the lowest, and the lightest of all above the others. I will explain : Water, oil and beeswax are of dif ferent gravity ; pour all three hot, into a glass tube and settle to their natural or proper gravity, and you will find that they have separated into strata, and of course the lightest is above the others. This is the philosophy of the "Thermal Belt." Silas McDowell. Franklin, N. C. The Women's Hotel in New York. The "Wo nun's Hotel, devised and built by the late Mr A. T. Stewart, is to be opened on the first of the coming year. If properly conducted, this hotel may become the most famous in the country, and it will be an institution deserving of the study of the philanthropists throughout the world. It has been built and furnished at a cost of two millions of dollars. This large sum of money is the gift of the millionaire mer chant, but he took pains that it should not be so bestowed as to generate dependence on eleemosynary aid something which is only a lesser evil than poverty itself. To give, and yet to save the receiver from the humiliation of accepting alms, is a very difficult matter. Therefore, Mr Stewart showed sense when he planned the institu tion, which is to be conducted on business principles, every woman taking advantage of its privileges, paying for what she gets, and so saving her sell-respect. It is a poor way of helping people, to exact of them a return of gratitude, which involves a con fession of their inferiority to you. The Women's Hotel contains over five hundred rooms, all of which look out on the street, and all of them are furnished com fortably and neatly. A first rate cook will have charge ot the kitchen, and thus the women who put up at this hotel will profit by what more condones to good health than doctor's prescriptions, and that is the pro per preparation of food. This kitchen, we are told, is equal to the cooking of food in a scientific style for five thousand people, and the hotel itself has a capacity for lodg ing one thousand persons. A feature of the plan is furnishing of meals, or parts of meals, at cost, to those who may come for them. Girls who are not able to secure quarters in the Women's Ho tel will have the opportunity of profiting by this advantage. It is an important matter. The great mass of working women with us are improperly fed. I hey hurry through a breakfast, eat a luncheon of pickles and pies, and take such dinners as they get. If they shall learn through the bills of fare offered by the Women's Hotel that neither men nor women can efficiently work with out substantial and well-cooked food, they will be wiser and better off than they have been. ZzSf Saying smart things does not pay. It mav gratify your spite at first, but it is better to have friends than enemies. If you cannot make people happy, at least refrain from adding to their mrserv. What if this woman is not your ideal of womanly perfec tion, or that man your model man ? Your mission on earth is not to remind them of the fact. Each of us has faults of his own or her own ; in correcting them we shall find ample occupation. A or a dig' never did any good never helped any one to be better. One who falls into the habit of giving them soon looks ill-natured. It is not always possible to join the Mutual Ad miration Society and be a good member, but at least jone can hedd oao's tongue. 23? The Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa., tendered his resignation last Monday, with the understanding that it should take effect the next time he got drunk. - 1 - Unhappy Marriages.' : ' ' From the New York Times. ' It is related of a certain old . cynic that when one of his juniors was , introduced to htm he would ask, "Are you married ?' If the answer. .was in the affirmative, his com: ment was : , "Jucky dog 17 , If he received a negative reply, he . ejaculated: "Happy aog j it is needless to say that the old cvnic was himself a marriod man. . An nhl English poet has compared matrimony .tq a itgntea lantern, . ihe insects: outside butt their heads against , the pane to get in; while those inside butt, their heads to get out again, fllow much cyuicisra. there is iu the old poet's figure, we cannot undertake to .say. It is , certain that unless thinsrs speedily mend, there will be a general and justifiable belief among young people in the infelicity of the marriage state... Now and then, as if by a, flash of lightning, fthe lub- lic . is shown the frightful, skeleton which some unhappy couple have kept in their closet. Or a lawsuit takes the roof off a man's house and reveals a state of things inside which the shuddering observer likens to the place of the damned. Scarcely a day passes in which it is not the duty of the newspaper chronicle to record some event by which a jarring couple advertise their misery to the world. It is a dreadful ending to a drama which opened with so much happy promise. There was the lovely young bride, for all young brides are lovely, crowned with the delicate flowers which were emblems of her sweetness and purity. She gave her tremb ling hand to the proud and happy bride groom. Long, perhaps, had he presed his ardent suit. And now he was like a young kinc just come to his majority. She was -trusting, and he was so sincerely devoted that he knew that no wind of heaven should visit her cheek too roughly while he lived. What a charming picture they made as they stood at the altar a rare combination of beauty and strength joyfully enteiing upon the holiest covenant which humanity makes with humanity. How many good wishes follow them, what ripples of delight spread outward from the joyous event that makes them one. Wherever they go they carry their happiness with them, so impos sible of concealment that even the most in different stranger takes share in their bene diction. Hard-featured old people look on with an unconscious relaxation of visage. The machine-like servants, railway people, and hotel clerks met on the wedding jour ney surrender a trifle of their official cold ness, and look kindly on the gay, innocent pair. Not only is earth, to these new begin ners a rosy place to live in, but each has found the perfect companion for life. In the nature of things, this cannot al ways be. No more is it possible that one should always bear the weight of grief which bows one at the side of a death-bed. The load of sorrow wears away before we are satisfied that we ought ev er to be happy again. And the refined joy of the bridal time is tempered by the cares and responsi bilities of married life. But when it hap pens, as it often doe-, thai the drama that began with music, flowers, smiles, and sun shine, speedily ends in darkness and misery, the mournful conclusion is that there has been a terrible mistake. It is better, per haps, that the world should never know just where the error lay. Perhaps it was in the beginning. Perhaps some fault ot temper, some long-concealed vice, some un suspected weakne.-s, came to the surface when all else was smooth and fair. Possi bly, each of the partners was in fault, and, instead of bearing with each other, they were petulent, suspicious, exacting, or sim ply cold and indifferent. Whatever was the original cause of estrangement, things went on from bad to worse until the domes tic trouble is bruited far and wide. The man and woman who tasted together the sweetness of love's young dream are hating each other. The husband who swore to love and cherish, (and meant it, too,) is trying to break his lawful wedlock. The wife who vowed to love and honor find life a blank. She has lost her happiness forever. This is all very miserable. It seems more miserable because we involuntarily contrast the conclusion. God, angels, and men may look with pleasure upon the bridal group at the altar. In all the wide world there is no place so horrible as a home in which hus band and wife are at odds. It is no home. The woman is an alien under the roof of him who was to . defend and protect her. The man, who should find rest and comfort in his home, shuts his door behind him with a sense of relief, and goes out into the streets to escape the horror that broods in his house. Is it any wonder that murder suicide, drunkenness and shame often hurry to drop the curiain on all this misery ? And is it any wonder that young people who see this wretched end ol a promising life are afraid to try the experiment? For it is an experiment, and, unfortunately, the failures are more conspicuous than the suc cessful issues. No man can tell whether a majority of marriages are happy or unhappy; too many skeletons are kept securely locked in domestic secrecy. But there are so many woeful chapters of wedded misery nnfolded to the public gaze that men say, "I may b singly unblest ; but I may also be cursed double." Of course, there is another side to the gloomy picture which we have presented. It is well for man to marry. Marriage is honorable; it is the natural condition of the race. Somehow, a person who remains forever single seems to have, missed a figure in the sum of human existence. There is a suggestion of incompleteness about his or her career. . Then, again, there, are multi tudes of happy homes homes in the broad est sense where the mother, daughter, wife, is a gentle queen in her place: homes where the chief partners so admirably com plement each the other that the divine insti tution of the family is glorified by their union.' We will not saytnat' ttie&e are ex ceptional instances of matrimonial ventures. But ,the disasters are so numerous - and so harrowing, that it is not ; surprising; that cautions, people are afraid to marrjr..! It is evident that many marriages are not found ed on love and respect. Somo are contrac ted like business partnerships ; some are eri-' tered upon out of pique; and not a few marry' without any adequate notion of the""" binding nature of the obligations so lightly assumed. We have gone far away from ' the old-fashioned homely idea of home. Unless we have more wholesome views of , life and society, happy ; marriages will be come more and more unirequent. . t ; - : - .Where Noah landed.' . The magnificent view which an Englishman i , beheld from the top of Ararat. The Londdiu.Spcctator,; speaking of the recent successful ascension of Mount Ararat by Mr Bryce, says : "Mr Bryce has given to the world a won derful word-picture of that amazing and awful spectacle, of that -landscape which is now what it was before man crept forth on the earth, the mountains which stand about the same as they stood when the volcanic fires that piled them up were long ago ex tinguished;' but he could not tell us what were his thoughts, his feelings there, what the awe and yearning that came over him in that tremendous solitude, where 'Na ture sits enthroned, serenely calm, and speaks to her children only in the storm and earthquake that level their dwellings in the dust.' His vision ranged over the vast expanse within whose bounds are the chain of the Caucasus, dimly made out, but Kazbeck, Elbruz and the mountains of Daorhestan visible with the line of the Caspian sea upon the horizon ; to the north, the huge extinct volcano of Ala Goz, whose three peaks inclose a snow-patched crater, the . dim plain of Erivan; with the silver river running through it; westward, the Taurus nges; and northwest, the upper valley of the Ai axes, to be traced as far as Ani, the ancient capital of the Armenian king' lom, the great Russian fortress of Alex- andropol, and the hill where Kars stands -peaceful enough when the bravo climber looked out upon this wonderful spectacle. While it was growing upon him, not in deed in magnificence, but in comprehensi bility, 'while the eye was still unsatisfied with gazing,' the mist curtain dropped, enfolded him, and shut him up alone with the awful mountain top. 'The awe that fell upon me, he says, 'with the sense of utter loneliness, made time pass unnoticed, and I might have lingered long in a sort 01 dream bad not the piercing cold that thrilled through every limb recalled me to a sense of the risks delay might involve.' Only four hours of daylight remained, the thick mist was an added danger, the ice-ax marks weie his only guide, for the compass is use less on a volcanic mountain like Ararat, with iron in the rocks. The descent was made in safety, but by the time Mr Bryce came in sight of the spot, yet far off, where his friend had halted, 'the sun had got be hind the south western ridge of the moun tain, and his gigantic figure had fallen across the great Araxes plain below, while the red mountains of Media, far to the southeast, still glowed redder than ever, ihen turned swiftly to a splendid purple in the dying light.' At six o clock he reached the bivouac and rejoined his friend, who must have looked with strange feelings into the eyes which had looked upon such wondrous sights since sunrise, l nree days later iir uryce was ai the Armenian monastry of Elchmtadzin, near the northern foot of Ararat, and was presented to the archimandrite who rules the house. 'This Englishman,' said the Ar menian gentleman who was acting as inter preter, 'says he has ascended to the top of Massis (Ararat).7 Ihe venerable man smiled sweetly, and replied with gentle de- cisiveness, 'inai can noi oe. rri . a. 1 1 iSo one has ever been there. It is impossible.' " Lakes in North Carolina. The onlv bodies of fresh water in the State which attain to the dignity of lakes are in the eastern section. They are 15 in number. The largest is Mattamuskeet, in Hyde county, which has an area of nearly 100 square miles. Its lorm is elliptical, ana its dimensions 15 miles by 5 to 7. This and three others, Phelps Lake, Alligator Eake and 1'ungo Lake, are situated in inc great swamp between Albemarle and Pam lico Sounds. Phelps Lake has about one third of the area of Mattamuskeet, and the others are of much smaller dimensions. In the White Oak swamp of Jones and Car- eret counties is a group ot small ovauaites mlv a few miles aoart and connected by canals nartlv natural and partly artificial The largest of these, North West Lake, as an area of 10 to 12 miles, lntheureen wamn of Brunswick county, occurs another ake of the same form and character, 8 miles ong by 5 wide. These lakes are all situa ed in the highest Dart of the swamps in which they are found, and have sandy bot toms, for the most part, and a depth of 4 or 5, to 8 or 10 feet," and occasionally more There are five other small lakes in Bladen t county, about half way between Wilming- . 1 t- -ii v tv.,- lon anu r ayeiieviue, ueiwn-u vap i-mi Iliverand South Uiver. Their a veraere area is probably not more than 2 square miles. The aggregate lake surface of the State is more than 200 square miles. Irof. Jterr Geological lieport. . XW Eight ex-Speakers of the House of Representatives are now living: Messrs, IL M. T. Hunter of Virginia; II. C. Win throp of Massachusetts ; T. M. Pomeroy of New York; N. P. Banks of Massachusetts, G. A. Grow of Pennsylvania; fcchuyler Colfax of Indiana ; James G. Blaine of Maine, and & J. Randall oi Pennsylvania,
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Dec. 7, 1877, edition 1
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