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to rrrtfV IV. J. YATES, Editob and Pbopbietor. Terms of Subscription $2. 00, m advance. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1878. TWENTY-SIXTH VOLUME NUMBER 1335. f 1 Ml I II Vnl III III I .1 I II f I I. Y.lhl lV Mill THE Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BT WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor Teiims TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for six months. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. Advertisements will be inserted at reasonable rates, or in accordance with contract. Obituary notices of over five lines in length will charged for at advertising rates. Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, I ! is on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent ' Medicine Fmily Medicines. Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, H75. J. P. McCombs, M. D., . tiers his professional services to th citizens of ( 'luirlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Oilice in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the ( harlottc Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Oilice over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite W. It. Myers'. Jan. 18, 1878. Doctor D. STUART LYON, Charlotte, N. C. Office with Dr. Battle, over Dr. McAdcn's Drug ytore. (Residence at Rev. Theo. Whitfield's.) Calls from City and country will receive prompt attention. April 19, 1878 y DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas u;d for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15, 1878. Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. E. J. ALLEN, Near Irwin's corner, Trade Street, CnABLOTTE, N. C, PRACTICAL WATCH-MAKER, Repairing of Jewelry, Watches and Clocks done at short notice and moderate prices. April 17, 1876. y 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. 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. IW 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, Cakes, Pickles, &c. EST" Cakes baked to order at short notice. Jan. 1, 1877. B. N. SMITH, Dealer in Groceries and Family Provisions of all sorts, CIIARLOTTE, 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. K. S. BUB WELL. 1878. E. B. SPRINGS BURWELL & SPRINGS, Grocers and Commission Merchants, Charlotte, N. C. Jan. 4, 1878. LEWIN W. BARRINGER, Son of the late lion. D. M. Barringer of N. C.) Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 430 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Prompt attention to all legal business. Best references given as to legal and financial responsi bility. Commissioner for North Carolina. References. Chief Justice W. N. II. Smith ; Raleigh National Bank ; 1st National Bank, Char otte ; Merchants and Farmers National Bank. March 15, 1878 ly-pd. DR. RICHARD H. LEWIS, Raleigh, N. C. Late Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the Savannah Medical College,) Practice Limited to the EYE and EAR, Refers to the State Medical Society and to the Georgia Medical Society. Oct. 12, 1877 y TAILORING. John Vogel, Practical Tailor, Respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country, that he is prepared to manu facture gentleman's clothing in the latest style and at short notice. His best exertions will be given to render satisfaction to those who patronize him. Shop opposite old Charlotte Hotel. January 1, 1877. Glass. ' "... V'-".-r.,j; 300 Boxes American Window Glass, at lowest prices. WILSON & BURWELL; - May 3,1878. 25F You meet a young man and you bear him complain that times are hard and money so scarce that he is not able to lay up anything, and as he stands you take a survey of him, and you find he is dressed in a suit that cost him perhaps fifty dollars, and while he speaks the fragrant 6moke from a ten cent Havana curls from beneath his waxed and well trained moustache. 'Win ston Sentinel. J. S. MYERS Has for sale, at low prices, 30 PIGS, U dozen CALVES, )4 dozen BEEVES, June 7, 1878 3wpd. SPARKLING O a t a w b a Spring' s, Catawba County, N. C. This desirable watering place will be open for select visitors 20th May, 1878. The Springs are situated near Hickory Station, on the Western North Carolina Railroad. The bracing mountain atmosphere, with the health restoring properties of their waters, renders these Springs a most desirable resort for invalids and pleasure seekers. The mineral waters embrace blue and white Sul phur and Chalybeate. It is the best and most ex tensively fitted up watering place iu the State, and can accommodate three hundred persons. A good band of music will remain at the Springs during the season, and all the facilities afforded for amusements usually found at first-class watering places will be offered to visitors. A good supply of ice constantly on hand. Conveyances will meet the trains daily at Hickory Station to convey visitors to the Springs. Board: $35 per month of 28 days; $12 per week $2 per day. Half price for children and colored servants, and liberal deduction for families. Dr. E. O. ELLIOTT, May 3, 1878 2m Owner and Proprietor. "Down by the Sea" Season of 1878. OCEAN VIEW HOTEL, Beaufort, N. C, GEORGE W. CIIARLOTTE, Proprietor, (Late Proprietor of Atlantic House,) Was opened for the reception of guests on the first day of May, 1878. The above Hotel is situated immediately on the water front, in the business centre of the town and offers special inducements to commercial travelers, and has a view from its promenade on the roof un surpassed by any other building in the town. BALL ROOM. This Hotel has a splendid Ball Room attached, and a Band of Music has been en gaged for the entire season. BATHING HOUSES. Commodious Bathing Houses have been erected on shore and beach, for the benefit of the patrons of this Hotel. CROQUET GROUND. For those who delight in this innocent amusement, provision has been made. BOATS. Fast sailing and well managed Boats will be in readiness at all hours to convey passen gers about the harbor, and will connect with all trains. The United States mail boat lands and sails from the Hotel wharf. FISHING. Beaufort offers superior advantages to those who delight in catching the finny tribe. THE TABLE will always be furnished with the best that this and the adjoining markets afford. THE SERVANTS will be required to be polite and attentive. THIS HOTEL will be second to none. REDUCTION IN BOARD. Per Day $1.50 ; per Month $30.00. Beaufort, May 17, 1878. tf WARM SPRINGS. Western North Carolina, Is now open for the reception of pleasure seekers and invalids. This delightful place is situated in the beautiful Valley of the French Broad, within eight miles of Railroad. We have a fine Band of Music, attentive Servants, and all accommodations to be found at i first-class watering place. The Bath-House has recently been remodeled and. now has all the modern improvements, such as Tub, Showei and Plunge Baths, hot or cold, or any tem perature that may be desired. Excursion Tickets will be sold to Warm Springs and return from the places named below at the fol lowing rates, viz : Via Salisbury and AsheviUe. $30 95 28 00 23 15 22 90 Via DanviUe, Lyncliburg & Morristown. $33 GO 30 65 25 80 26 85 28 70 From Goldsboro, N. C, Raleigh, Greensboro, Salisbury, Charlotte, u (i II Excursion Tickets will also be- sold to Warm Springs at all of the principal Cities in the United States. For further particulars apply for descriptive pamphlet. W. II. HOWERTON, May 17, 1878 6w Proprietor. BUYERS OP DRY GOODS, Ready-made Clothing AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Will find at the old established house of ELIAS & COHEN The largest, best assorted and cheapest Stock of Goods ever brought to this market. We are prepared to prove upon examination of our Stock that we make no vain boast, and solicit buyers, both "Wholesale and Retail, to look at our Goods and prices before purchasing. Our stock of Dress Goods, White Goods, Alpac cas. Embroideries, Kid Gloves, Sun Umbrellas, Fans, Ties and Fancy Goods are complete and will be sold at astonishing low prices. Carpets, Oil Cloths and Mattings very low. Fair dealing. Polite and attentive Clerks. Call and see us and judge for yourselves. ELIAS & COHEN. March 23, 1878. COTTON YARN. Kf) BUNCHES COTTON YARN from Glen roy Mills, N. C, manufactured from seed Cotton by E. C. Grier & Son, for sale by j. Mclaughlin & co. March 29, 1878. - At Wilson & BurwelPs. Swiss Condensed Milk, the best in use. 5 Boxe.- pure Corn Starch. Pure Extract Vanilla, Lemon, Orange, Celery and Pineapple. Pure Liquors for medical use, consisting of French Brandy, Rye and Corn Whiskey, Sherry, Port and Madeira Wine, and also pure Malaga Wine. WILSON & BURWELL, May 31, 1878. Druggists. Man's Age. Few men die of age. " Almost all die of disappointment, passion, mental or bodily toil, or accident. The passions kill men sometimes, even suddenly. The common expression, choked with passion, has little exaggeration in it ; for even though not sud denly fatal, strong passions shorten life. Strong bodied men often die young weak men live longer than the strong, for the strong use their strength and the weak have none to use. The latter take care of them selves, the former do not. As it is with the body, so it is with the mind and temper. The strong' are apt to break, or like the candle, to run ; the weak to burn out. The inferior animals which live, in general, regu lar and temperate lives, have generally their prescribed term of years. The horse lives twenty-five years ptne ox'fifteenor twenty; the lion about twenty; the dog ten or twelve; the rabbit eight ; the guinea-pig six or seven years. These numbers all bear a similar proportion to the time the animal takes to grow to its full size. But man, of the ani mals, is one that seldom comes up to this average. He ought to live a hundred years, according to this physiological law, for five times twenty are one hundred ; but instead of that, he scarcely reaches, on an average, four times his growing period ; the cat six times; and the rabbit even eight times the standard ot measurement. The reason is obvious man is not only most irregular and the most intemperate, but the most laborious and hard worked of all animals. He is also the most irritable of all animals; and there is no reason to believe, though we can not tell what an animal secretly feels, that more than any other animal man cherishes wrath to keep it warm, and con sumes himself with the fire of his own secret reflections. C-Sf An Irish gentleman writes to say that he never found a Frenchman who could pronounce this: "Thimblerig Thistle thwaithe thievishly thought to thrive through thick and thin by throwing his thimbles about, but he was thwarted and thwacked and thumped and thrashed with thirty-three thousand thistles aud thorns for thievishly thinking to thrive through thick and thin by throwing the thimbles about." But the English people are just as unable to pronounce the French liquid as the French people to pronounce the English th. But it is still more difficult for any one who is not a Spaniard to pronounce Madrid in Spanish. The d must be at once a dh and a d without being either. Taxing Pullman- Cars. The county auditors of Ohio have decided to tax all Pullman cars running through the State, according to the distance run in the State compared with the entire length of line run over. The tax in each county will be pro rated according to the length of line in the county compared with the State's line of road. ICE CREAM. C. S. HOLTON, at the "Rising Sun Store," is prepared to furnish Ice Cream by the plate or gallon. Call, or leave your Cash orders and they will be promptly filled. The attention of families solicited. May 31, 1878. C. S. HOLTON. Domestic Sewing Machine. It is universally conceded that the Light-Running DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINE is the best of all the Shuttle Machines ever made. One House alone in London, England, bought last year 33,000 of them, so says the Sewing Machine Journal. For sale by BRADSHAW & CO., May 31, 1878. lm. Charlotte, N. C. LADIES HATS. The Ladies will remember that we keep a nice line of Ladies Trimmed Hats, and very cheap. We have a large stock of Shoes which we are going to close out, if possible. Don't fail to ask for Shoes if you want any. We arc determined to close out our Stock of Ready-Made Clothing. It must be sold. We are offering inducements on all our Goods this season. Everything is cheap, and we are sell ing cheap. Don't fail to ask for Parasols. ALEXANDER, SEIGLE & CO. April 26, 1878. Grain Cradles. Another lot of the celebrated Grain Cradles made by Joseph Starns, just received at j. Mclaughlin & co's. May 3, 1878. DAWSON & CO'S. Carolina Real Estate Agency, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Office in old Bank of Mecklenburg Building. They Rent Houses and collect Rent for the same. Arrangements have been made with Agents, North and West, through which it is expected Emigration will be turned toward the Carolinas. They buy, sell and exchange Farms, Grazing, Mountain and Mineral Lands. Also, sell City Property privately or at Public Auction. Loans negotiated. May 17, 1878. y NEISW ANGER & CO'S. General Insurance Agency, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Office in old Bank of Mecklenburg Building. Life, Fire and Accident Risks taken at reason able rates. Only First-Class Companies represented. May 17, 1878. y Saratoga Water. Fresh Saratoga Water on draught direct from the Springs. : WILSON & BURWELL. May 3, 1878. "' - . ; . i Strange conduct of an Encased Woman. Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette. . . Cincinnati, May 30. Nothing in the fashionable social world here has created such a sensation recently, and nothing ever so strange, as the strangely romantic mar riage of Miss Blanche Worthington, of Covington, t Kentucky, a leading belle of great beauty and accomplishments, to Mr B. V. Jackson, of Parkersburg, West Vir ginia, a son of Judge Jackson of the Uni ted: States Court of West Virginia. The affair was a runaway match, and the cere mony was performed at the Burnet House by the Rev. Dr. Gray, an Episcopal divine. The lady has long been engaged to Maj. Byrne, a prominent young railroad man of this city, a very worthy gentleman, and, as Ma conduct on this occasion .shows, a chival ric one. The Major is a devoted Catholic, which faith the young lady voluntarily adopted after careful investigation and a long course of instruction from leading di vines of the Catholic Church in this city and Covington, and which she was to formally embrace on their marriage day in June. During the festival week Mr Jackson and his sister visited Cincinnati, where Maj. Byrne, assisted by his lady love, contribu ted to their entertainment. On Thursday they all dined together at the Burnet very happily. That evening the lover placed his betrothed in the company of Mr Jack son for the festival. On Friday she was to entertain him by introduction to her lady friends, and did so. On Saturday afternoon Mr Jackson called upon his friend, Maj. Byrne, to assist him in getting a marriage license, to which he responded as a friend at once, and together they repaired to the Probate Court, the lover little dreaming what was in store for him. The names of the contracting parties were there first pronounced. Imagine what must have been the feelings of the strong man, the ardent lover, when hearing the name of his almost wife in such connection, but he believed it a cruel joke, and not un til he met the lady did he doubt her. He wa invited to give the bride away, and having to release her engagement with him (a most solemn one) he consented, being a lifelong friend of both parties. There sel dom has been witnessed a nobler exhibition of true manhood and chivalry than when this gentleman, suffering the agony of a crushed heart and humiliated spirit, with a calm nerve and bearing, having formally released the lady from her plighted troth, forgiving her the great wrong she had done him in blasting his life by precipitately trampling under foot the pledges of fidelity and love still warm upon her lips, gave away in marriage to another the idol of his own heart. He has not since permitted the affair to be mentioned in his presence, but is evidently suffering as such a man can suffer. His friends have been apprehensive of the result upon him. The prominenco of the parties Miss Worthington being a member of a leading Kentucky family, a great favorite, a famous beauty and belle, some twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old; Mr Jackson, the lady's junior, the scion of a prominent Virginia family, a cou sin of "Stonewall," and son of a distin guished jurist, and the deserted lover, a prominent gentleman in railroad and busi ness circles, of high moral worth and cul ture, and I believe, a native of Maryland makes this a leading sensation in the three States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia. Every true man and woman in the land will disapprove and condemn the conduct of the young woman mentioned above. Fashionable humbugs may think it fine fun, but good and well-bred boys and girls will view such conduct with horror and disgust. Only a Mouse. Laugh no more, gen tlemen, at the cowardice of women where mice are concerned. A severe masculine censor once declared that the most grave and wise gathering of women, for the most important and serious purpose, could be iit terly thrown off its balance by the letting loose of a mouse in the room. That was men's theory. Here is fact: "While an Ohio Judge was holding Court a few days ago a mouse took advantage of his preoccu pations and climbed up inside his pantaloons. The attorneys and attendants became aware of the situation when the Judge suddenly gave a jump, clapped his hand to his legs, and stamped on the floor. The Sheriff rushed to the rescue, and the spectators rose in their seats, not knowing what was about to happen. The Judge whispered to the Sheriff, a lawyer took the intruder out, and in the general confusion that ensued the mouse escaped." Fancy the howl of derision that would have gone up from "the superior sex" if this had happened in a Court presided over by a woman ! tm Japanese Children. There are no cra dles in Japan. Almost as soon as babies are born they are taken out on the backs of the older children, the first child carrying the second, the second the third, and so on, and you will see a company of girls playing battle-dore, each with a baby strapped to her back. If the baby cries they jump up and down a little, and so rock it off to sleep! The baby thus gets exercise, fresh air, and sees all there is going on. Its education thus begins early, for the houses being all open, the operations of all the different trades may be seen going on in them as you pass along the street. The . buildings are all one story, with narrow fronts running back about forty feet, and by the removal of screens, which serve for partition walls, all are thrown open so that the air sweeps freely through thenL So the children early see the processes .of all the trades, and much of the quickness of the people comes from this. A Japanese servant can turn his hand to everything. .-"' ' Beware of two classes of men the one whq never smiles, and the one who always smiles. Look to ; Your Wells.' ' j ,f Here is a fresh illustration of How people are poisoned all the while. fey.fouV, wells : A family living on elevated ground iq Hart ford, Conn., in a region remarkliblyhalthy in all its natural conditions, were Wears sufferers from various forms of fevers, nead- aches, and an endless varietf of His, which Kepi a aoctor in pretty constant attendance. At last, three' years ago, .! warn out with this experience, the owner determined to sell out and move away, believing the lo cality to be an unhealthy, one.. At this juncture, a friend of the family .asked and obtained permission to do wbat the "owner of the place, or at least te physician, should have done long before make an ex amination of the premises !He found a privy-vault only tea feet 'Apoi' the well! It was'eyident that .this was , tBe cause of continuous illness among members of the family, and he obtained leave to remove the bucket from the well, and a promise from the family to go to the barn for their water, where it had been introduced in pipes from the great main that leads into Hartford. From that time forward there was a cessation of the sickness. Exchange. It is a fact well known to many of the citizens of Charlotte that several Wells have been poisoned and ruined by Privies being dug down to the water level under-ground. Cannot something be done to stop such suicidal work and injury to the health of our people rj A Dun. From the days of the middle ages, when Jews were tortured on gridirons by their debtors until they consented to discount their bills ten per cent, humanity has hated a dun. "The insolent scoundrel, to dun me on the street !" says a fine gentleman, morally outraged at the brutality of a me chanic who, alter privately sending in his bill forty times in vain, has at last, in his desperation, ventured to allude to it in pub lic. The word "dun" has wrought in the gentleman's soul a sense of wrong and in sult that he fairly calls upon heaven and earth to witness. Now, there are people far enough gone in simplicity to think that this indignation cannot be genuine ; that the whole right to feel outraged belongs to and is monopolized by the other side. Ah ! what ignorance of the profundities and sub limities. Genuine, the indignation of the man ! Yes, down to the roots of his being. His anger and surprise when a long-suffering tailor or bootmaker presents his little bill for payment is something worthy of the life-long study of a philosophical mind. The middle ages were well enough in their way, but they cannot suppose they appro priated all the human nature. Giants. Pliny relates that in the time of Claudius Cresar, there was a man named Gobburns, brought by the Emperor from Arabia to Rome, who was nine feet four inches, "the tallest man that has been seen in our times." In the reign of Augustus Ca?sar, the tall forms of Basis and Secundilla might have been seen, whose bodies were preserved in a museum, in the Sallustian Gardens, and each of whom measured ten feet and three inches in height. The Emperor Maximus was nine feet high, and was in the habit of using his wife's bracelet as a thumb-ring. His shoe was a foot longer than that of any other man, and he could draw a carriage which two oxen could not move. He ate usually forty pounds' weight of flesh, and drank six gal lons of wine daily. Josephus tells of Elezer, a Jew, a giant over ten feet high, who was one of the host ages whom the King of Persia sent to Rome after Peace. Plot, in his "Oxfordshire," 1676, says that a skeleton seventeen feet hjgh was then to be seen in the town hall in Lucerne. It had been found under an oak in Willison, near the village of Revdue. The Rome (Ga.) Courier says: "Some of our prominent farmers were talk ing over the troubles and trials they had to encounter since the war. One of them said, while he and his family were sitting at the table one morning he told them he knew how he could make them comfortable, have a good home and plenty of money. All stopped. He told them he thought of com ing to Rome and letting the train run over him, then sue the Road for damages. His wife remarked, "you had better go slow on that, for I don't know that we could swear, much less prove, that we would be damaged any." , He said this settled the question then and there, and he got up from the table and went to work, and has made a good support ever ground." since, aud is now on rising A Plan in Life. "What is your plan in life, Neddie?" I asked a small boy, turning from his big brothers, who were talking about theirs, to which he and I bad been listening; "What is yours, Neddie?" "1 am not big enough for a plan yet," said Neddie, "But I have a purpose." "That is good ; it is not every one who has a purpose. What is your purpose ?" "To grow up a good boy, so as to be a good man, like my father," said Neddie. And, by the way he said it, it was plain he meant it. His father was a noble Chris tian man, and Neddie could not do better than follow in his steps. A boy with such a purpose will not fail of his mark. Zdtf" A little fellow has just begun going to the public schools. His mother, to stimu late him to attention to his lessons, said to him the other day : "Charley, if you study hard you may become President of the United States, ; like George Washington." "Don't talk to me about being President," exclaimed he ; 'everybody's going to be President. When we go to school the first thing the teacher does she calls the names of the little boys, and they all say presi dent." The Education of After Ufa. Spend, if possible, one hour each day in reading some great book. The number of such books is not too many to overwhelm you. Every one who reflects on the former years of his education can lay his. finger on. half a dozen, perhaps even fewer, which have made a lasting impress upon his mind. Treasure these. It is not only the benefits which you yourself derive from them it is the impression which they leave upon you of the lasting power of that which is spirit ual and immaterial. How many in all classes of life may say of their own experi ence that which was said in speaking of his library, by one who was my own earliest literary delight, Robert Southey : "My days among the dead are past ; Around me I heboid. Where'er these casual eyea are cast, , The mighty inihds of old ; ... My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. My thoughts are with the dead ; with tliera 1 live in long past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with a humble mind." But it is not by books, whether of litera ture or science, that the self-education of after life is assisted. When Joan of Arc was examined before her ecclesiastical judges, and was taunted with the reproach that such marvelous things as she professed to have seen, and heard, and done, were not found written in any book which they had studied, she answered in a spirit akin, and in some respects superior to the well known lines in which Hamlet replies to Horatius. She replied, "My Lord, God has a book in which are written many things which even the most learned clerk and scholar has never come across." Then there is yet the deeper education to be derived by those who have senses exercised to dis cern between true and false, between good and evil, from the great flux and reflux of human affairs, with which the peculiarity of our times causes all to become more or les9 conversant. One of the experiences which the education of life brings with it, or ought to bring with it, is an increasing sense of the difference between what is hol low and what is real, what is artificial and what is honest, what is permanent and what is transitory. "There are," says Goethe, in a proverb pointed out to mo long ago by Lord Houghton as a summary of human wisdom, "many echoes in the world, but few voices." It is the business of the education of after-life to make us more and more alive to this distinction. Dean Stanley. 5EgT Hon. Ben Hill has made an impor tant contribution to the history of the last Presidential count and the way the country was saved from civil war. When Mr Hill became satisfied that there was great danger of another revolution he discussed the mat ter with some ex-Confederates. He is thus reported as saying by the New York Times that interviewed him: "Not to enter into unnecessary details, we, who had just emerged from a ruinous and disastrous war, and had experienced its de vastating effects we ex-rebels determined to prevent a second civil war, and spare the country from all the horrible horrors that would attend it. Accordingly forty-two ex-Confederates solemnly pledged them selves to each other upon their sacred honor to oppose all attempts to frustrate the count ing of the votes for President and Vice President. We held no caucus nor no meet ing. I called upon each gentleman person ally and obtained his signature to a paper that I presented to him. We conducted the movement with the greatest caution, for we did not desire our plans should even be sus pected. You may j udge how well the secret has been kept when it has remained invio late to this day. Having disclosed the facts, you can now determine what degree of im portance to attach to the influence exercised by the Democratic members upon the result of the electoral count." Me. Ruskin's Advice to Students. Mr John Ruskin contributes an article to the "Nineteenth Century," which is the sub stance of the last of a series of twelve lec tures delivered at Oxford. In the course of the article the writer gives the following advice to students : " First, cultivate all your personal powers, not competitively, but patiently and usefully. You have no business to read in the long vacation. Come here to make scholars of yourselves, and go to the mountains or the sea to make men of yourselves. Give at least a month in each year to rough sailors' work and sea-fishing. Don't lounge and flirt on the beach, but make yourselves good seamen. Then, on the mountains, go and help the shepherd at his work, the woodmen at theirs and learn to know the hills by night and day. If you are staying in a level country, learn to plough, and whatever else you can that is usefuL" iST A man who went to the Black Hills wrote back to a paper, saying : "Offer a premium at your coming fair for the biggest fool in the country, and I'll try to get there in time. Z33 Two girls of fashion entered an as sembly-room, at a time when fat citizen's wife was quitting it. "Oh," said one of them, there's beef a la mode going out." "Yes," answered the object of ridicule, "and game coming in." CST There is no greater every day virtue than cheerfulness. This quality in man among men is like sunshine to the day, or moisture to parched herbs. The light of a cheerful face diflases itself and communicates the happy spirit that inspires it. The sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere of continuous good humor. , f
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