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v r V Z77J TTT 9(1 9XIT: I. V?. J. YATES, EDITOB AND PioFEIITOB. Term$of Subscription $2. 00, in advaace. CHARLOTTE, N. Co FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1881. TWENTY-NINTH TOLUEIENDHBEO 1481. ."-11 111 III V II III III I 'II III III I T II I 7IW 1 11 i J lVi vv WV it: i n v v ii hi in i ii iii .1 1 r n i in i, in, ' ' - - - THE, Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BY : WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor Tebms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar for six months. Subscriptiont must be paid in advance. " Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, as second class postal matter," according to the rules of the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., ., CHARLOTTE, N. C, (Office corner 5th and Try on Streets,) Tenders his r rofessional services to the public, as a practical Surgeon. Will advise, treat.or operate in .all tUe 4 '.fierert department pXjgmgfirj March 51831 ly Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Has on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicine, Family Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined t sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1879. DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist and Pharmacist, Keeps a full line of Pure Drugs and Chemicals, White Lead and Colors, Machine and Tanners' Oils, Patent Medicines, Garden Seeds, and every thing pertaining to the Drug business, which he will sell at low prices. March 28, 1 879. J. P. McCombs, M. D., ( )ffers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, oppositethe Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Office over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 18, 1878. DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15. 1878. ' DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. March 18, 1881 ly A. BURWELL. P. D. WALKER. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office adjoining Court House. Nov. 5, 1880. T. M. PITTMAN, Attorney at Law, Opposite the Court House, Charlotte, N. C.) Practices in the State and U. S. Courts, and gives prompt attention to business. Will negotiate loans. May 28, 1880. y WILSON & BURWELL, Wholesale and Retail Druggists, Trade Street, Chablotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything per taining to the Drug Business, to which they invite the attention of all buyers both wholesale and retail. Oct. 8, 1880. xIALES & FARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keep a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles, &c, which they sell at fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c, done promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to Springs' corner building. Tnly 1, 1879. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, in otnrlr Cnffee. Sucrar. Molasses. Syrups .Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, (ii ass beecls, nows, sc, wnicu we ouenu K-vVi th Whnipsnln nrri Retail trade. All are in- fcVS V LA. -UV 1 IW1VU" - vited to try us from the smallest to the largest buyers. Jan. 17, 1880. 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. Cottom and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. Nov. 1, 1880. HARRISON WATTS, COTTON BUYER, Corner Trade and College Sts., vp Stairs, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. 24, 1880 ly DR. A. W. ALEXANDER, Dentist, Office over L. R. Wriston & Coa Drug Store. I am working at prices to suit the times, for Cash. With 25 years' experience 1 guarantee entire atisfaction. Jan. 18, 1878. Notice of Dissolution. The firm of J. McLaughlin & Co. is this dsy dis solved by mutual consent W. W. Grier having withdrawn. The business of the firm will be set tled at the office of J. McLaughlin. j. Mclaughlin & co. Not. 1, 1880. EST A young bride, from Mecklenburg county, is boarding at the Salem Hotel and attending the present session of Salem Fe male Academy. She was placed there by her husband after a brief honeymoon, that she might be enabled to complete her scholastic course. Winston Sentinel. . "We learn that the young bride is a Mrs. Barker. There seems to be quite a differ ence in peach orchards; some are full of bloom and peaches not killed, others will not bloom at all, while even some trees are dead. We' hear of some who hare already cut down their trees. All along what is called the Waughtown-Clemmonsville road there are plenty of peaches, and in other nigb b3 rrJooalitie's-afewi. Frews' PUBLIC SALE. L. R. Simpson and' wife, N. W. Wallace, et. al., vs. Viola V. Wallace, by her guardian, JosiahAsbury. Special Proceeding for Partition. Under and bv virtue of a decree of the SuDerior Court of Mecklenburg county in the above entitled cause, the undersigned will sell at the Court House door, in Charlotte, on Monday, the 6th day of June, 1881, ail the ivciALi jd i Ai Xi belonging to tne estate of the late Wilson Wallace. Terms 10 per cent cash, balance on 6 and 12 months credit. CHAS. H. DULS, W. W. FLEMING, April 22, 1881 7w Commissioners. Attachment Notice. State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County. Fanny Hurd vs. Jefferson Hurd, Attachment It appearing to the Court that the Defendant, in the above entitled action, is a non-resident of the State, and has property within this State : he is notified to appear at my Office, in Charlotte, on Monday, June 6th, 1881, and defend said action. Wl F. DAVIDSON, J. P. April 22. 1881 6w Notice to Creditors. T. L. Johnston vs. M. Davis, L, Davis, AdmJr of S. A. deceased. By viitue of a Decree of Mecklenburg Superior Court, notice is hereby given to the creditors of Samuel A. Davis, deceased, that a final dividend of 9.11-70 per cent will be paid to them on Wed nesday the 4th day of May next, at the office of the Clerk of tne superior Uourt oi said county. Creditors must produce the original evidence of indebtedness. The final Account of the Adminis trator is on file in said office, to which the atten tion of all interested is called. T. L. VAIL, Agent for M. L. Davis, Adm'r. of S. A. Davis, dee'd. April 22, 1881. 2w NOTICE. Having been appointed the Executor of W. H. Clark, deceased, I hereby notify all persons having claims against his estate to present the same to me before the 1st day of April, 1882, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of a recovery. Parties indebted to said estate are notified that prompt payment will be required. VVAl. TUDU, Executor of W. H. Clark. April 1,1881 6w OUR SPRING STOCK Is now coming in daily, and by the 15th of March will be complete, it will be unusually large ana attractive. We have a nice line of Clothing, Shoes and Hats A large Stock of DRESS GOODS, WHITE GOODS, Pant Goods, Shirtings & Sheetings. Drive up to our front door, get out and come in, and make our house your headquarters when you visit the City. ALEXANDER & HARRIS. March 11, 1881. HARDWARE. brem & Mcdowell. (Successor to Walter Brem, Agent,) Have a full and new Stock of Hardware for the Wholesale and Retail trade and invite an inspection before purchasing elsewhere. Corner Trade and Tryon Streets, Charlotte. Oct. 8, 1880. 1881. SPRING STOCK. 1881. We are daily receiving our Spring Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES, Which will be more complete than ever before.and comprises the best brands and latest styles. Ladies', Misses', Childrens', Gents', Boys' and Youths' fine Boots and Shoes a specialty. Lower grades of ell goods in our line in variety and all prices. Full stock of STETSON HATS, and soon to ar rive a pretty line Straw Hats. Trunks, Valises and Satchels, all sizes and prices. Call and see us. PEGRAM & CO. March 4, 1881. CONFECTIONERIES, GROCERIES, Ac. Cakes-and Bread. C. S. HOLTON. at the Rising Sun Store, oppo site the Old Market, still keeps a large assortment of Confectioneries, &c, and a good selection of choice Family Groceries all of the freshest aad best quality. Br6ad and Cakes. His Bread is considered superior by all who use it, and his assortment of Cakes is fine. t3J" Wedding Cakes and Cakes for Parties pre pared in the best stile at short notice. Give me a trial when you need anything in my line. C. S. HOLTON. Jan. 14. 1881. Just Received ! 1 CAR LOAD White Corn, 1 " " White Virginia Meal, 1 " " Silver Drip Syrup, 1 " N. O. Molasses, 2 " " Flour, 1 " " Bacon, 1 " " Choice Apples, 1 44 " Vinegar, 1 ' " Mott's Genuine Apple Cider, 5 Cases Bananas and 10 Barrels Oranges, And a full stock of everything else in the Heavy ana r ancy urocery line. We respectfully solicit the inspection of both the Wholesale and Retail Trade to our stock before purchasing elsewhere, as we are sure we can make ii vt vuur lutctcsks w uu so. DAVIDSON & BEALL. Feb. 4, 1881. Helping Mamma. Do you ever think, ever think, those of yon children who coax to 'help mamma how much you may. help her just by , taking care of your own things? Why I have seen little children leave their letterblocks and dolls and little carts and tin horses all over the carpet and coax their mothers to let - them help.' How much i more they might ..help by putting .the . blocks ,. in their ; corners. Then there is another way to be of great use; that is by amusing the little baby brother or sister while mamma is sewing. We once knew a little girl named Grade, who was anxious to try to help her mither. She would go into the kitchen on a baking- day and get dreadfully in the way with her little rolling-pin and kneading-board, rhilfif at the same time net Utile sister, Minnie was crying in mamma's room for some one to play with her. In a good talk with her mamma one day, Gracie understood something of how much more help she might be by doing those things which she could do than by trying to do that which she was not old enough to attempt. And after this Gracie was much more helpful, for she had learned the secret of 'helping mamma U.-S. CotjKt at Greensboro. At the late session of the United States Court at Greensboro a large amount of business was transacted on both the criminal and civil dockets. The case of Fielding Brower, tried on the charge of breaking into a post office, ' resulted in a verdict of not guilty. In the case against James B. Barnett, charged with a failure to keep books, as a liquor dealer, the plea of guilty was en tered. Julius Homer, tried for retailing spirituous liquors without license, plead guilty. The following persons were sen tenced by the Court : Eli Bean, for illicit distilling, four months imprisonment in jail and $100 fine. W. N. Steel, illicit dis tilling, four months imprisonment in jail and $100 fine. George Oldhma, illicit dis tilling, four months imprisonment in jail and $100 fine. Jesse Johnson, illicit dis tilling, four months imprisonment in jail, and $100 fine. Jack Thompson, for coun terfeiting, three years in the Penitentiary at Albany, N. Y. John M. Kine, breaking into a Postoffice, three years in the peniten tiary at Albany, N. Y. North State. A South Carolina plantation is to receive Chinese laborers from San Francisco by way of experiment. They are to be sent there under the watchful supervision of an overseer, who is to see to it that none of them take advantage of having their ex penses paid to the Atlantic States to slip away and settle down among their coun trymen in one of the larger cities. If they prove desirable laborers others will proba bly follow. t3F Last week at Dodge City, a man named Masterson met A. J. Peacock and Q. L. Updegraff in the public square, and immediately revolvers were drawn by the whole party and firing began. Updegrafl was killed, and a man named Anderson was wounded. The street was full. The mayor and sheriff with shot-guns compelled Mas terson to drop his arms and surrender! And this in Kepublican Kansas ! Uhl the saints ! Forsyth county will never go back on the fence law. Many of the farmers have disposed of their rails, which would make re-fencing an impossibility with some, wnne even tne aissausnea ones are aay oy day losing their old foginess and begin ning to see the advantage of such a meas ure. Winston Sentinel. A very pious man, who never reads anything but the Bible, and would not touch a wicked newspaper, is dead. He came to the city and blew out the gas in his sleeping room. E. J. HALE & SON, PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, 17 Murray Street, "Now York, Invite orders for School, Miscellaneous and Stan dard Books, and for all kinds of Staple Stationery, WRITING PAPERS Cap. Letter, Note and other sizes. BLANK BOOKS, of all Grades. ENVELOPES, all sizes and colors and qualities SCHOOL SLATES, best quality, all sizes. Slate and Lead Pencils, Pens, Inks, Mucilage, &c E. J. HALE & S"N. Feb. 18, 1881. Fertilizers. All persons to whom we have furnished Fertili zers are reminded that to secure the Vash prices payment must be made on or before May 1st, and that if thev want the "Cotton option" they must give us notice by May 1st. SPRINGS & BURWELL. April 22, 1881. The "Standard" Guano. We have a few on hand. tons of this popular brand still SPRINGS & BURWELL. April 22, 1881. Just Received, An assortment of CANNED GOODS; also, PO TATOES f rem Eastern North Carolina, at April 22, 1881. S. M. HOWELL'S. Tax Notice. The undensigned having been appointed List Taker for Charlotte Township for the year 1881, alt persons are hereby notified to make retnrns to me at the Court House in Charlotte. N. - C. within 20 davs after the first day of June next, of all proper ty, real and personal, under the penalties imposed bvlaw. j. w. vUox. "Charlotte, N. C, April 20th, 1881. Liver Pills. 10 Gross Tutt's Pills. 6 44 Bragg Liver Pills. At WILSON & BURWELL'S. April 15, 1881. Andrew Jackson's. Conversion. i f Correspondence of the Wilmington Star. " Faybttkville, N. C, April 8, 1881. ' In your recent issue the question is asked: "Was not Gen. Andrew Jackson a Presby terian?'7 I answer that he was; and thinking that the history of his connection with the church may be of interest to y our , readers, I shall proceed to "tell the ta!e as it was told to me" at second-hand. Mr informant was Hon;T, J'. Wharton of Jackson, Miss., the son-in-law of the man under whose min istrations he joined. This was Rev. Dr. Edgar, of Nashville, Tenn., who. was pro nounced by Bishop Bascom (or - Mr. Clay) to be the most eloquent man he had ever heard , in . any pulpit. My memory is at fault as to which of the two said it. Dr. Edgar was accustomed to officiate occasion ally at a little country church within half a mile of the Hermitage, which bad been erected under Gen. Jackson's auspices. The Doctor said that on a certain Sunday after noon, when he was to preach at the Hermi tage towards the close of the life of its most extraordinary occupant, he resolved to shape his discourse for his personal ear, as thev had ever been most devoted friends, though I believe, differing in politics. Selecting a suitable text from the Old Tes tament, he discoursed at length upon the emptiness of earthly grandeur, lie por trayed a man of the Hebraic era, whjo had attained the highest honors and emoluments of his time, but who to exalted genius, as shown in camp and council, devoted patri otism, unflinching courage and unbendiDg integrity, did not combine love and obedi ence to his Maker. Said the Doctor, "I observed with much satisfaction that the General seemed in tensely interested. After church he ap proached and said, in his brusque, impera tive way, Dr. Edgar, you must pass the night with me.' Upon my replying that it was impossible, he repeated, Dr. Edgar, you must go home with me, sir.' I told him that I had an engagement to attend a dy ing woman in town that evening; upon which he remarked, 'Of course, sir, that ex cuses you; but promise me to come out and take breakfast with me in the morning, tor I wish to see you on most important business.'' As I approached the house next morning, the Doctor continued, he was walking up and down the front piazza ap parently in a fit of deep abstraction. He reseived me with that courtly and urbane politeness for which he was ever remarka ble, and then asked me to accompany him D his study. On being seated he re marked, "unless I am mistaken, Edgar, you selected me for your target yesterday. If. so, permit me to say, my friend, that you! are mistaken in supposing that 1 have never thought of my duty to my Creator. Few even, as strange as it may sound, have given the subject more serious, earnest and oft re flection; and as strange, too, to say, I have been deterred in a measure irom uniting my self to the church long years ago by my' high regard for it. The apprehension of im putation of my motives, which my enemies would be sure to allege, might militate against the Master's service, had much to do with keeping me from an open profession of Faith in the prime of life. That considera tion no longer has weight. I wish you to catechize me, and if you shall then adjudge me a suitable candidate for church member ship, to take me into communion on next Sunday." This, said the Doctor, I did in a most exhaustive examination, and to my astonishment discovered that that proud, imperious, self-willed and unbending lead er of men, who had in a savage wilderness single-handed faced a mutinous army and , " - , " . 1 1 A. swearing ms great Dig oaiu, - wnicu meaui what words import, to shoot the nrst man who should take another step homewards, had shamed them back to duty, was a pro found theologian and well versed in the doc trinal tenants of the different sects. . This man who left the impress of his personality upon his country's nistory to a degree which few have ever done, and whom tne world supposed had never given the sub ject of his soul's salvation a serious thought, had evidently ever oeen morougniy im bued with the transcendant importance of it, and had been long anterior a zealous seeker after truth, and a quiet myestigator of real religion. He had ever been suppos ed to be the child of impulse; but in this, as in State-craft while shaping the destinies oi a nation, we see the marks of caution and 9 deliberation. Such Mr. Editor is a small rehash of the recital as related by Gen. Wharton, him self one of the most zealous and consistant members of the same church. I do not pre tend to give his exact language, but only the gist and mam facts ot the case, it is told to show that in his religion, as in his politics, his campaigns, his legal and horse racing experiences, this man was essentially to an "earnest man," the only class according old Tom Carlyle, who ever earn admission to W alhella s Halls. It has frequently occur red to me that there is a striking similitude of character in more respects than one be tween the two most remarkable of the same name, and that if the truth was known it would establish a near kinship between "old Hickory" and "Stone tralL". W. J. G. TWe presume the writer of the above is CoL Wharton J. Green. Millionaires leaenlxg to be Tankers. Two young Baltimoreans, sons of gentle men worth a million dollars each, have engaged to work at the De Ford tannery and will take a thorough course of the trade. Thev will be here so we are inform ed. as soon as the work opens at the yard. Thev will beein at the bottom round of the ladder and stick until thev are masters of the trade. These are examples worthy o emulation by all young men, and we pre diet for them success in life in whatever vo cation they may choose after first learning mis most excellent iraae. jjuruy ra.) Courier. Jefferson, Hamilton, and Old Times. By John W. Forney in Philadelphia ProgressJ One hundred and thirty-eight years ago to-day (April 13, 1881,) Thomas Jefferson was born, and a company of New .York gen tlemen, of which Hon. John L. O'Sullivan is the most active, have begun a movement to erect a colossal statue of Jefferson in a con spicuous part of New Tork city. It is be lieved that the monument will be ready in time for the opening of the "World's Fair, in 1883. That Fair is now a fixed fact; and, although it has had the usual discourage mentthe same that beset London in 1851, Philadelphia in 1876, and Paris in 1878 yet since the Pennsylvania Railroad has come forward with such munificence, ad tling to and - making up the first million of necessary dollars, other subscriptions will speedily follow. The Jefferson statue will be dedicated, therefore, in advance of the next Presidential election, two years after the celebration of the anniversary of the capitulation of Lord Cornwallis at York town, which takes plaoe in 1881, and one year after the ceremonies at Philadelphia, in the autumn of 1882, the bicentennial of the settlement of that city by William Penn. Thomas Jefferson first saw New York in the Spring of 1766, ten years before the Declaration of American Independence, when the whole State of New York had less than 20,000 inhabitants (cow nearly 5,000, 000), and he was only twenty-three years old. He had never been outside of his na tive province. He had witnessed the first great struggle in the Virginia House oi Burgesses, at Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1765, between Patrick lienry and the Tories, on the Stamp Act. Patrick Henry was then twenty-nine years old, a member of the Vir ginia Assembly, and was the guest of young Jefferson. Madison was seventeen years old, and George Washington thirty-three and a British omcer, as young Henry's voice rolled through the hall "in torrents of sub line eloquence. Jenerson was nrst alarm ed, and then swept away with the rest, and he Tories were very indignant. . 1 he reso utions against the Stamp Act were all car ried, the last by only one majority ; and the King's Attorney-General, Peyton Ran dolph, brushed past the young, red-haired student, J enerson, exclaiming louaiy : "xy God I I would have given five hundred a i mi i guineas lor a single voter nis worn done, Patrick Henry, suspecting nothing, rode to his country home, while Jefferson staid behind. The next morning another Tory member of the House came in, and ransacked the journals for a precedent and found one in favor of expunging Henry's offensive resolutions. Jefferson saw the plot, and, as he was not a member and the great orator was gone, he could not stop the Tory revenge, and the resolutions were expunged 1 In the Spring of 1766 he com menced his first trip to Philadelphia and JNew lone, it was a rougn trip, ne naa to cross wide and swollen rivers before he got to Annapolis, Maryland. Arriving at New York he found a clean, crooked, little, half-Dutch town, and was much amused at all he saw. At that time . two men, after wards great figures in American history, were unknown lads : Aaron Burr, born in Newark, New Jersey, February 6th, 1756, was not ten years old ; and Alexander Ham ilton, born in the Islandof St. Croix, a Brit ish colony, in 1755, was living there, aged eleven years. When we next hear of Jefferson, he was a member of the House of Burgesses in 1774, a proscribed man, a Democratic leader, and, with Henry, lull oi ardent patriotism. The excitements of 1874 and '75 nrenared Jefferson for the Congress of the Declara tion of Independence. That work done, the war ended, peace secured ; Hamilton a great leader under Washington, and Burr a Sen ator in Congress. Jefferson was living in New York, as Washington's .secretary oi State. In this part of his experience he was very conspicuous in society. He had spent five previous years in Paris, as Amer ican Minister, and was qualified, therefore, to contrast the fashions of the old French and the vouncr American metropolis. He returned greatly enlightened and improved . -r-m . " . 1 by Jj rencn society, and more intensely Democratic than ever. This was what he wrote as his platform, while he was on his way to take his place in Gen. Washington's Cabinet in Mew iorJc, and Delore ms lamous interview with the venerable Dr. Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia, who was then on his deathbed, but his miud clear to the end. This was in March, and Franklin died in the following April of that 1790, in his eighty-fifth year. Benjamin Franklin was Jefferson's confidant to the last, and his rmateritv Are Democrats to this dav. And what Jefferson said at Alexandria, Ya., here below, is still the creed of the whole Demo cratic party : - "Convinced that the Republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my prayers and efforts shall be cordially contributed to the support of what we have happily established. It is indeed an animating thought that while we are securing the rights of ourselves and our posterity, we are pointing out the way to struggling nations, who wish, like us, to emerge from their tyranny also. Heaven help their struggles and lead them, as it has led us, triumphantly tnrongn them." When he reached New York, Jefferson found Hamilton Secretary of the Treasury, and the leader of aristocratic society. Ac customed as Jefferson had been to the fol lies of the nobility, and the profligacy of the Kings oi Europe, be was startled at the avmbols of rovaltv and the conversation around him. He was much courted, but he found himself so environed with work, and so beset by new questions that awaited his action and inquiry, that be could only glance with surprise at the exhibition of frivolous foreign habits, and listen to their hollow Tory platitudes. And as 1 dwell now on what he denounced and discarded in 1790 in New York, I easily trace the imitation of even stronger follies and habits, taken from the same originals, at the present time, 1881. . ';. ' ' Jefferson' says of his experience in New York at this time: , "I cannot describe the shame and mortification with which the conversations filled me. ; Politics was the chief topic, and a preference of kingly over republican government was evidently the favorite sentiment : An apostate I could net .be, nor yet a hypocrite j and I found myself, for the most part, the only advocate on the Kepublican aide of the question, unless among the guests there chanced to be some member of that party from the legislative houses." . He found the press as well as society im- regnated with the same aristocratic Spirit. .lie movements of the officials were blazon ed forth in imitation of the court circular. Cabinet officers were Excellencies, the wives of certain Seers were ' Ladies, as Lady Stirling, Lady Mary Watts, Lady Kitty Duer. The Hamiltonian idea was the card and the toast in camp and . Sn court in par lors and in parties, and Jefferson felt it as if it had been a wound.' They soon learned to differ with much asperity, and - their friends became antagonists in the news- Eapers. , Jefferson felt that association with Eamilton could not be maintained, and he resolved to resign, and was with difficulty restrained by Madison, Monroe, and others. Meantime the administration of ; Washing ton waa finished, and the career of Alexan der Hamilton was cut short by the ballet fired by Aaron Burr in the duel in July, 1804, at Hoboken, in the very year that Thomas Jefferson was elected' President of the United States. It was a disgusting story of violated confidence and blackmail, and excited much feeling in private! and public. We hear of such transactions daily in all countries and times. Mr. Jefferson was never implicated in the .scandal, and Burr, who was his party advocate,: moved against his rival for other causes than polit ical differences. There is : hardly a public man at home or abroad that has not had some such experience, and. those who are now reading the life and 'times of. George IV, will remember, how the excesses, of princes were punished and traded upon by the women of their time. Alexander Ham ilton met his intrigue with. Mrs. Reynolds as bravely as he did his deatn at.the hands of Aaron Burr. He boldly confessed his faults in a public letter, and was forgiven for it by his country, but he could not es cape the fatal aim of his more remorseless masculine foe. Hope for Doll Children. Some of the most eminent men of ages were remarkable only for dullness in their youtn. oir isaac xtewton in ma uoyuuuu was inattentive to his study, and ranked very low in school until the age of twelve. When Samuel Wythe, the Dublin School master, attempted to educate Richard Brin- sley Sheridan, he pronounced the boy an "incorrigible dunce." The mother oi Sheri dan fully concurred with this verdict, and declared him the most stupid of her sons. Goldsmith was dull in his youth, and Shakes neare. Gibbon. Daw and Drvden do not appear to have exhibited in their childhood even the common elements of future, sue cess. When Berzelius, the eminent Swedish Chemist, left school for the university, the "Indifferent in behavior and of doubtful hope," were scored against his , name; and after he entered the university, he narrowly escaped being turned back. ' On ' one of his first visits to the laboratory, when nineteen years old, he was taunted' with the inquiry, whether be "understood the dttterence be tween a labratory and a kitchen." Walter Scott had the credit oi having "the thickest skull in the school," though Dr. Blair told the teacher that many bright rays of future genius shown through that same "thick skull." Milton and Swift were justly celebrated for stupidity in childhood. The great Isaac I-, m . 9 . . Aa. isarrows iatner nsea to say mat, ii it pleas ed God to take from him any. of his chil dren, he hoped it might be Isaac, as the least promising. Calvius the great mathe matician oi nis age, was so Biupia in m boyhood, that his teachers could make noth ing of him till they tried him in" geometry. uarraci, tne ceieoratea painter, was so map in his youth, that his masters advised! him to restrict his ambition to the grinding of colors. 'One of the most popular authoresses of the present day," says an English writer, "could not read when she was seven. - Her mother was rather uncomfortable about it, but said, as everybody did ; learn, with op portunity, she supposed her child .would do so at last. By eighteen, the apparently slow genius paid the heavy but inevitable debts of her father from the profits of her first work, and, before thirty had published her thirty volumns." Dr. Scott, the com mentator, .could not compose ..atbetne. when twelve years bid; and even at a later age, Dr. Adam Clark, after increditable effort, failed to commit to memory a poem of a few stanzas only. At nine years of age,- one who afterwards became a Chief Justice' in this country, was, during a whole winter, un able to commit to memory a little poevn found in one of our school books N, Y, School Journal. : ' ', -' t7 In New Orleans, 'on Tuesday : last, Rachel Cruden, a colored woman nearly fif ty years of age, was recognized ' bjr the courts as a legatee of Richard'Crudeo,' de ceased, and as such entitled to 40,0pO of his property. - Crudexr. was a very; wealthy slave-owner, and died jost preribuf to the war. Rachel was one of bis slaves, and was provided for in his will. ' ' gSP' In early childhood yon lay the foun dation of poverty or riches in the : habits yon give your children. Teach .them, to save everything, not for their own nxe for that wonld make them selfish but for some? use. Teach them to share everything with their playmates, but never allow them to , destroy anything.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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April 29, 1881, edition 1
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