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r -L. - !V ioL XII.THIRB SERIES SAUSBIFEYt N; 2C, HAY 6, 188L 110 25' The Carolina Watchman, XSTABilSHED JN TJ1E i YEAR 1832. -, PRICK, $1.50 IN ADVANCE. CONTRACT ADVERTISING RATES. r i FEBKUARY 80, 1SS0. ' (Inches - tmelor Two f&r Three lor ir for imonthsm's 3m's em's lim's $1.50 $3.6U $5.00 $8W 3.00 4760 5.S5 7.60 12.00 4. 60 .00 7.60 11.00 15.00 .00 7.50 1 .00 1S.60 tS.C'O 7.50 .75 11.25 Itf.5fl S5.00 -ll.M 15.75 20.5 85.50 40.00 19.75 26.25-f 33.75 43.75 1 75.00 - lfCOlUIDirlOT An' tin JO. ? do. do. REMEMBER THE LEAD! ).m. UUllll U. 11U AUOilllUUll, DEAI.EIt IX Italian and American Marble Monuments, Tombs and Gravestones, . for kveuv jKSCitn-riyx. Being practical marble-worker, ii enables me of executing any piece of worjf from t!ie ijaineHt to the mo elaborate in an artistic Itvle, and in a guaranty that jerfict oatisfuctioii will be given to the inoi't exacting airon. I Cull and examine tny Stock anJ prices be fore purchasing, as I Will sell at the very low est prices. - J i Desigim and estimates for any desired ork will be furr.wlie l on aiplication, at next door l9 J. D. McNeely's Store. HsaliHbury, N. U., March 9, 18S1. - 2 1j 1 y 1 R. R. CRAWFORD k GO. fl" ARE SELLING I! PORTABLE FARM AND FACTORY M Ik I.I 11 ! I and Caps. TllMSf RIFLE POWDER a iPIlS,f?p uj our own and foreign make and mm, Vroin the Finest to the Cheapest. i MMg, UUCUUJJ1U Orse Hakes, &v. Salisbury, Jan. 6, 188U ly Bis Wonderful ImproTed Saw MacM y wamutd to u a two-reot losr In llir mln- maa n e cor a wooa or iocs of any use in a aj tw mm can chop or aaw the old way. Every C7"A6!ITH WASTKK llliMlr.tM rircuUr and Irrml Free. 17:tiuj. JvKUU CKAIGR, L. It. CL.EMEKT. CRAIG f & CLEMENT, SALISBURY. S. C. -I 1SSI. dTT0RXEY AT LA IV, I SALISBURY, IV. C, j - - , . j Practices in the State and Federal ,1 Court. 12:Gm i ASS iiLAtJDRET SEEDS K BEST II not sold in can vet tbm bv maiL -,i ! ifaps. 1 '.SB MIS) 1781 i . ng a IKxtat Card tor Cat. w I SSf'a4Pt,w- Tkr Oldest and mot wctemvn &ej j OAV1D LAKDKETU & SONS, Phtlada. JPA. ;.; Blaclmer anLHenteon, ; omeys, Counselors - and Solicitors. ; SALISBURY, N, (C. ynaay23 1879 tt. POETRY. 1 The Loom of Life. ' : All day all night, I can bear the fir Of the loom of life, and xear and far. t thrills with the deep and muffled sound ja tirelesstlie wheels go always round; ' ' . ' Busily, ceaselessly, goes the lotnT In the light of doy and the rsidrnghtt gtoom, j And the wheels are turning early and late And the wheel is wound in the wai-p of fate i I Cliek, clickj there's a thread of We wore m,. - j -- - r- r Click, click f another of wrong and sm What a checkered thing this life Will be When wc sj& it unrolled in eternity I When shall ! hia wonderfnl web be done ? In a thousand years, perhaps, or one, Or to-niorrow. Who knoweth ? jJJot thou - jBor i , j But the wheel turn' on and the shuttles fly. 'K ' ' '. ' -v Ahv 8ad-eye(i weavers, the years a -e slmr, But each one is nearer the end, I know, And soon thjs last thread shall he woven in Ood grant ii be love instead of sini. - i. Are we spinhers of pood in lifeVwel) say ? Do wc furnish the weaver a thread each .day? . It were better, O my friends, to spin A beautiful thread tha a thread of sin. Senator Vance's Views. From the Southern Home. Senator Vance being nsked iv to his views of tilings in Washi?tu, replied substantially as follows ; The situation in the Senate is briefly this : When it was convened tn special isessiou on the 4th of March, Democrats were in a clear majority by tho dath of jSenatoi Cai'penter. The Pitt.sidfut'a nomi nations for cabinet ollioera tiw several Other pnniriii:t position- wie at once confirmed without waiting for; the ap pointment of committees, in order that the administration might suffer' no em barrasmeut. Then it was proposed by the Democrats to orgauizo the Senate by constituting the committees in the usual maimer.- without which no nomination jean be confirmed under the rules excerpt jbv unanimous consent. Tlie IicpMolicanR resisted for ten days by filibustering, in brder tlmt their vacant seats j might le filled, when, by the aid of MahOue's vote thev woald have nj tie and their Vicc 'resident could give the'dscidiug vote. When tleir snts were all tilled ithey quit jfilibustei iivg and offered a resolution or jgtinizfug t!ie committees. As these were jnlMoln'ty infcessary - to tho titinactioti bf the puilic biisiiisss, t!e Dnnciats Imade no lo'sjection, and the Resolution, jwas passed b' "the deciding, vote of the Viee-Piesiilent. Wr, tle;i supponed, of jconis?, that we y:uTd act on thii in:ni:ia- tlns ftcut us niid ci home, as it had fie oecn usual 10 cnango ine oiucers. i .! ". .1 i .i ii'.. cn jat a - i-'cre-: special- session. iat not so: It appear..-that their uew allyi Muhone, had to be pvided for. So a rest)lution Kvas oFe-red to pi.Mn-a new set bf officers, kt the head of the '1st being j trorham, Mah(ae's special friend, and Uiddleber rgtr, his right hand man iu Vifgiuia. It hfiii au bounced that no basinestf could be i'one until these oftkeis were put in. iThis looked so u;lv that the Democrats detei mined to resist it. WeVre fused to permit a vote on this resolution," but sought every day to go into j executive Session liij order tiiat we inigut uo tno Hpfiblic business and go home.) This the UJepublicaijshave persistently refused to ;d-, leaviijg "their own adiuhirstration ?vithout support. Thus it has continued ifor more than a month, the pemociats moving toitransact the busineiss and the lepublicaas decbiriug that nothing shall be done uutil they pay their debt to Mahoue. How long this will continue, qo one can tell, probably nutil far- into the sum mer. The democrats have a great advau tange i: t:e situation, and sp far have had much the better of the debates. They will not b;Uk down, rest assured of that; asid the pressure of the Republicans to give waj-jis very great. They staud in the position of men trying to carry out a. bargain, even if it be not so, sind are un doubted blocking all public business and embarrassing their own President for the sake of an! unrepentant rebel repudiator, lliddlebever. They are in it fix, much like the drunken man holding jto the post, and we don't intend to liel them oat of it. . JJveu if the question of the Senate's offices yris disposed of, their troubles would not be ended. Far from it. The vrar between the Grant and anti-Grant factious would then wage fierce over the appointments already sent in.! This isan J anti-Grant administration, and Logan, Conkiing, Cameron & Co., will die hard They are really afraid to go into execu tivo session aud they are afraid to stay out. Altogether, the Democratic view is hopeful. They will stick, and we may ronsolo ourselves br remembering the old proverb, "When rogues fll out," etc. A liquor dealer, who violated some of the town ordinances, was tried yesterday. There have been a good iv number of such cases recently, and almost, all of them have taken appeals to court. News & Observer. A SlWand Sure-means of restoring the youthful color of the hatoisfaraished by Parker's Hair Balsam, which, is de servedly popular from its superior clean liness, j aprwwiuj THE QUESTION OP THE DAY. Tbe Remarks of Sundry Con tributors. Bow it Worl in Lancaster. Mr. J. H. W. Stevens, of Lancaster, S. C, was iu our city yesterday. He has been a leading merchant of that place for a number of years, , and was asked to state the rcsoltsj of tbe prohibition law which has been tried in Lancaster. Ho strougly favors the prc4ibitkm law, and t!e following are his answers to questions asked bim concerning tbe result of the prohibition measure ; 'What effect has tle profrtbition had in your place, on general business t' 7. The effect is goodj1: - i -4Has any trade beeii diverteil frouVyaar place because it was a dry town V N"o; on the contrary, many visit our taw ii who disliked 1 1 xisit it while whis key was sold, knowing their weakness for it.' ' - - ; ! Did yonr colored citizens take any in terest iu carrying tlwj election for or against prohibition T For prohibition: and but for tlieir in terest, wo should have failed to carry the election.' 'Yes they all admit that fact now, and many of those who.wero at first opposed to the law, are now strong iu their sup port of it.' i Is there as much or more drunkenness and rowdyism, in your towu as before your prohibition law passed V j 'Nothing like so much. Oar streets were often, before prohibition, so block ed with drunken men that respectable ladies would not g; on them.' 'Are your people more, or less, pros perous under your prohibition law V Decidedly more prosperous. The la borers especially, who receive their daily wages and take their money to procure for their families the necessaries and com forts of lift, instead of -squandering it in liquor-shops, as mauy of them did before prohibition,' . j 'Are there any beuefiU outside of jyour town derived from prohibition ?' J Yes; many of our farmers froaji the country were in o:ir town on tbe djiy of election to encourage our people toj vote for prohition on their account. Some of these men are now sobar and industrious citizens, who formerly drauk toeicess, are prospering as they never did before. They say they do not tosts either time or moiKiy now o acf;int of whiskey, and tliesj m:i were strougly iu favor of whiskey liceuse at first.' j il.nv much are the taxes increased on account of the withdrawal of the license tax from the treasury V 'None whatever.' 'How about your conrts ?' 'Our court criminal docket inow clear ed iu about half tho time it previously required. 'Waat da you .conceive to bo the iprin ciplo cause of the crimes committed in your county ?' I r 'Whiskey.' j 'Did you have mush difficulty in pass ing your prohibition law V 'Yes; at first we lost the election by one vote. Iho next year wo carried it byasiuHll majority, and this year wo carried it by an overwhelming majority. Besides, a hu-j4 majority of the country people now favor it. ! r Operation of the? Law iif Shelby. "II. D. Lee, a prominent citizen ofShcl- by, engaged in oauKiug, ana a cotton merchant being in oar city, we concluded to interview him en tha effects of prohi bition iu Shelby. j To the question asked him, if Shelby was a dry town aud the effects of this on his town of prohibition, he repliedTj That his towu voted for prohibition four or five year siuce, aud it had been what is known as a "dry" town ever since that the town had steadily unproved jin all business relations j that trade had large ly increased and property materially ad vauced in value, 'flie moral tonjo and character of both the town and surround ing country had very much improved, and that it was but seldom that anv one was ever seeu under the influenco of liquor; that the effects of prohibition had materially diminished the expenses of the government; "that this decrease has more than compensated for the loss of the license taxes. He said furthermore ; "after tryiug prohibition for nveiyear our citizcus are more n favor of it now than ever, and if an effort should be made to license liquor shops withj ns, it would be voted down by a very! large majority.' I Y. A correspondent of tho New I York Timet writing from Caracas, tells of a land with 32,223 Generals. We feel very glad. There are a people on the globe who are as much afflicted as North Carolina is. In fact it beats this State "all hollow" as to "Generals," but when yon come to "Kurneis" our 49,837 lay jVene xnela cold. Then ire have a good sprink ling of "Majatisr and in the "Honorable" and "Jedgea" line the market supply may be quoted ag good with "an upward tendency." ?Eali for Venezaela and North Carolina anyhow WiU Mar.- . Wasliingrton Letter. MtetiiTcf tie National Academy of JSci eee$ Professor !ltell Explains His Wonderful Discoveries. From our Regular Correaponden I. WiffinsoTOK, D. d.V April 22, 1 881. During the past -week the National Academy of Science has held one of its semi-annual sessions in Washington; and its principal event hasi been a lecture by the distinguished discoverer Prof. Bell, the inventor of the speaking telephone. He recited the wonderful facts discovered by him while engaged in experiments for the improvement of the photephone, and tlmt a vast number of substances, solid, liquid, and gaseous, posseses tho proper ty of emitting sounds upon (the falling tliereon of intermittent ray(i of Bunlight, and that his experiments, to ineasure the emitted sound, has resulted in the inven tion of an instrument styled by him the j spectrophone that the! scientists say will prove of viKliinable value in the field of molecular physics. The academicians Went wild over tbe paper. At its couc!usionr Prof, lingers, said that, iu consideration of tho vastness of the discoveries aud their ' enor mous amplitudes, lie could not re frain from au expression of his great joy, as a scientist, thereupon, lie little an ticipated such glorious results. Iu view of thW magnificent contribution to the academy by its honored guest, Professor Bell, ho suggested that a vote of thauks be returned to the great inventor, ami it was so order by a unanimous vote. Prof. Bell read bis. paper, reciting the great facts recently discovered by him with the co-oppevation of his associate, Prof. TaiolcT. He illustrated his reiviarks with diagrams. The following abstract of his paper gives-the-essential facts. He had previously ascertained that thin disks of very mauy different substances, emitted sounds when exposed to a rapidly intercepted beam of sunlight, lie then ascertained that sonorousness was, under the influence of intermittent light, a pro perty common to all matter. The uatis factory results were communic'ttcd to the French academy. During his absence in Europe, Mr. Tainter, i at. his suggestion, examined, in the Washington labratory, the sonorous properties of a vast number of substances, and discovered that cotton wool, worsted, silk, and fibrous materials geuerally, produced much larger sounds tbjui rigid hod ic like crystals. He? next found tliat'tbo darkest shades prtMluccsl the best eilVct black v(rsted esecially. Then he tried lamp-black. A teaspoon- f n 1 of lamp-black was i dared in a test j tuU. .u.a vspoSVi toall intermittent beam I of sunlight, and the sounds produced was, louder than any produced before. The extremely loud sounds produced from lamp-black demonstrated the feasibility of using this substance in au articulating (dtotophouc instead of the electrical re ceiver formerly employed. Iu regard to the sensitive materials, in the case of solids, the physical -condition and the col or are two conditions that remarkably in fluence the intensity of the sonorous ef fects. The loudest sounds -are produced from substauces in a loose, porous, spongy condition, and from those that have the daikest or most absorbent colors, lie had not as yet found one solid body that failed to hecou:e sonorous under proper conditions of experiment. The deductiou from these experiments is that sonorousness is, under the direct action of intermittent sunlight, a univer sal property of matter. Prof. Bell made the gratifying state ment that his experimental examinations were still in their infancy, and that there .vas no telling ' what great results might Ge developed in the future. S. A reader of the Philadelphia Press pokes fun at the editor of that paper by asking "why can't the mnjoiity rule?" "I must admit," say. he, "I do not exactly know why it is th ;t the majority iu the Senate of the United States canuot break this 'deadlock.' Is it owing to some rule? And if so, what ? It seems strange that a majority cannot Hile in the Senate of the United States." And the Prets, iu dead earnest, undertakes to explain the matter by informing the playful inquir er that '.here is no previous question in the Senate, and the Democrats are levojurjng11 thing4 there. The true an swer is tiu.-'ii. s d b tiie old conundrum, why does a bnjrLet full of water weigh no more-after a five potind fish has been put in it? The. preliminary question to be set tled is, is there a majority? The Radicals and Mahoue together jiut equal the Dem ocrats in number, aud k U right bard to see where the majority conies jn. Travelers in Egypt are surprised at the large amount of opthahnia and blindness prevalent amng the inhabitants. Want of cleanliness ia the cause. An Egyptian mother, under the influence of a widely prevalent superstition, does not wash her child's eyes until eight days after birth. By that time the organ is frequently ruin ed. The teachers in tbe American and British mission schools of Cairo say that Egyptian mothers become invariably angry, when urged to wash the eyes of their newly-born infants, and can rarely be per suaded to cemply with a reqet of the kiidt MISCELLANEOUS 1 We print to-day Judge Merrimon's letter on the prohibition act. It will be. noticed that the Jadge snggests that so much of the act as makes it linlawfullo manufacture or sell spir ituous liquors is in force, and that that part of the law is not to be submitted to the people. If this shall, on con sideration, lie found to be the status of the matter, the effect will be to prohibit the county commissioners from granting licenses, and, as under the general law, no sales can be made without license, the act, may, notwith standing an adverse popular verdict, be effectual to prevent the manufact tufe and sale of spirits. It is a nice question, and - one worthy of - serious thought. . Such was hardly tbe inten tion of the Legislature ; but what the Legislature means to do, and what it does, are two very difierent matters. Neics & Observer. The prohibition convention, 39 we anticipated, i3 largely attended; there being 450 delegates present, repre senting every county in the State. Among the members are many prom inent divines and distinguished pub lic men, ami the convention will bear comparison with any like body ever assembled in North Carolina. For the time being party politics are laid aside, and the white and eolored brethren appear to stand side by side in the advocacy of the common mat ter which they have in hand. That excellent and sterling gentleman, Mai or James McRae, was chosen president, and among the officers of the convention sire other gentlemen equally distinguished for their zeal ami devotion to the best interest of the people of North Carolina. Sev eral admirable addresses were made on yesterday, and to-day others are expected among them one from Jinlgc Merrimou. The tone of the convention is decided and aggressive, and we may look for a hot and spir ited campaign to be at once inaugu rated in every section of the State. Netcs & Observer: The Lenoir Topic gets off the fol lowing effusion. Spring pocty dwin los, pales into insignificance, and can not le compared with it. Let .Grand father Mountain now turn his peaked head westward nor look upon Lenoir aga;u. The Meiip.y Month of May. Next Sunday is 3ay day, Spring's gala day. 1 lie 'flowers tresh, tbe bloom and branca1 then hold high carnival, for it is their formal, grand opening. Awaking from her long winter s sleep, Nature bathes in the dew of the morning, ar rays herself in the choicest of flowery attire, and is resplendent. u hen the flowers burstout, and everything takes on new life, a feeling of gladness and delight seems to fill one. Wearied with the confinement of winter, we instinctively live al fresco, breathing the Joyous bpring atmosphere, laden with the perfume of roses, and re a ' pressing a growing appetite for green fruit. The picnic season, too, ap proaches. On a bright Spring morn ing, they all go off, I he merry maid ens and devoted swains, to some pret ty place, close beside a spring, to spend a pleasant day, and catch a cold. An indulgent mother otiee of fered her diligent son, who had gain ed many medals at school, a choice between a picnic and whitewashing the palings, as a reward for his industry. With a fine judgment, he f-elected the latter diversion, Lenoir Tortic. 4 Coal of Deep lliver. Mr. L. J. -Haughton who owns a valuable mining property at Gulf in Chatham county, neur the line of the Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail road, has, for some time, been raising limited quantities of the coal which outcrops on his estate, for which he has found an increasing demand. To meet this demand he has sunk a shaft not far from the outcrop, and will soon reacli the stratum of coal. Its thickness there is five or six feet, and with sufficient power to carry on the work, large quantities of the coal will be raised. Mr. Haughton has order ed a steam engine which will soon be put to work, and it is expected will briivr to the surface aboutiwenty tons per day. This coal, which is of the bituminous kind, is of excellent quali ty flr heating purposes, and a ton of it is said to be equal to three cords of good wood. Mr. Haughton will be able to furnish coal delivered on the cars at about $3.50 per ton, and the cost of transportation, depending on distance, being added, many of our towns will find it their cheapest fuel. If it can be delivered in this town at 4 per ton; it will be cheaper as a f hpflt than wood at one dollar and a half per cord, which is a era mill, and they are among oar larg st cood deal under the market price. mill owners. They all make money. Iu-t- j vm;nn ' AA the boom in milling could not bo fayewnrui xt"- j The end of a Carousal. A North Carotmian Commits- Suieide, From the Atlanta OonsUtotion, When the Air-Line train came to a halt trader tbe car sned Sunday morning last at one o'clock, there stepped therefrom two inen, whose able bodied appearance and almost faultless physiques betokened a long and bappy life, but when the clock Btruek one the next morning, just twenty-four hours later, one of the two lay a corpse in a lonely, dreary room in on Alan t a hotel. The two menwbose advent int Atlanta was the precursor of tbe dearth" of one were T. Ei Ebernethy and W. O. Raper. They were companions seeking pleasure in tra velling from one place to another, and as is too often the case tbey attempted to vary the mcotooy of. the road by drinking. From an occasional dram they progressed to a Bpree, in which they were indulging when they reached Atlanta. Disembarking from the train they sought the Air-Line House on Prior street, where they secured rooms and where they remain ed, except when upon the streets, until the living one leftj the city yesterday with the corpse of his companion. After being assigned to a room at the hotel, they retired and were unseen again until Sunday when they made their ap- parance upon the streets and devoted tkeir time, as it was shown at the inquest, to a search for whisky. This, it seems, they found, for Sunday night they were both drunk and passed the evening in "taking the town." About half-past nine or ten o'clock they returned to their hotel, but soon after reaching their room Raper com plained of being sick. He manifested great difficulty in breathing, and by his actions so frightened his companion that he sent at once for a physician. To Dr. A. Q. Ilobbs, at Hutchison's drug store, the case was represented as though the man was chok ing to death and he responed, but soon af ter examining the man he became convinc ed that he wa3 suffering from arsenic pois on. Advisins Ebernethv to send for aid. Dr. Hobbs did all in his power to relieve the suffering man, and by hi3 keeping up an artificial respiration prolonged his life for quite a while. Though fighting hard to save his patient, the doctor soon became convinced that death would result, and so informed Ebernethy, who seemed greatly frightened. By tbe bedside of the dying man Dr. Hobbs remained until one o'clock, just 24 hours after he had come to Atlanta, when death closed his eyes forever. Beside Jhe doctor stood Ebernethy. looking at his dy ing companion, whose death was caused by whiskv. as he turned and uroancd with pain, and as the last breath left his asso ciate's body he fell upon his knees and swore never airain to drink. To Coroner Hilburn the sudden death was reported early Monday morning. Sum moning a jury; an inquest was begun at once, but beyond establishing the fact that the dead man and his associate had been on a prolonged spree, but little could be ascertained. The principal witness was Ebernethy. who stated that they came to Atlanta Sun day morning at one o'clock, and that they had been drinking for quite a while. Oft Sunday they bought liquor and continued the spree. At a drug store they bought some medicine called headache drops, f which they drank freely, but he knew of no poisoq his associate had taken. Several bottle3 upon which were labels calling the contents headache drops were found in' the room. From these buttles came the smell of whisky, and the label bore the following formulas : Tr. auranti, C, 6 prts.; tr. gentiance, 4 prts.; tr. valtr am., 2 prts.; elx. pot. brom., 10 prts.; syr. siutipl., 24 prts., spts. frumcnti. 64 pts. Ton-, ic and appetizer. Dose : Wineglassful. After hearing all the evidence, which was not at the satisfactory, the jury re turned a verdict in which they said that the deceased had died from the effects of alcoholic poison. Raper was from High Point, N. C, where his body was yesterday sent by Charles Swift, the undertaker. Beyond what his associate says nothing is known of him. Pkogkess and the development of our natural resources are the order of the day. And in uo branch of industry does a view of the present give greater en couragment thau in the matter of manu facturing cottou. It is apparent that those who have deemed our native popu lation uusuited for factory work have beeu very much mistaken. They make prime hands.' And those who have con sidered that we could not compete with the large and established factories of the North arc also proved to be in error. New England hasher peculiar advantages and so have the Southern States. The saving in freight is a handsome profit. It costs considerably more to lay down a bale of cotton at a New England factory than it does to place our manufactured goods in the market at Philadelphia, and besides the bulk of our products can be sold at the South, thus saving tho entire item of freight. Nor is this the sole ad vantage we possess; others equally impor tant are well known and appreciated by those who manage the Southern factories. We believe that no Northern capitalist has ever lost money invested in a SoutL- sustained nulcss it was based' ozr EandV some profits, and factories are springing: up an lurougn tne South. This inspires us witb hope for the future of Xbrth Car- oiiua, tor no Southern State is more fa- ! vorably situated than we are for the suc cessful prosecution of this industry.. Wo are within the cotton belt and have1 the- best climate m America. Livimr ehi-an.." aud the people steady, iadirstriomr nV. thrifty. We are the most prosperous of the Southern States. Our State is cut up wim streams auording unbounded water- power. Prof. Kerr has mad a nfni? statement of the power of oar rivers. Be ginning wuh the Roanoke River we have- an aggregate for the part of the river ly ing in this State of 70,000 horse powev which is double as much as the wholo utilized force of the State. - - : - Tar River hasjibt been; eawared, bat : its force above the Wilmington te- Wel don Railroad is not less than 8,000 to 10, 000 hose power. The Neuse, near Ral eigh, gives a force of twenty-two horse power per foot, which will inakeibr the whole river and its tributaries above Goldsboro, about the same aggregate a the Tar. Haw River is the only stream In this quarter of the State which has received anything like adequate appreciation. , It turns more spindles than any other river in the State. Tbe force of this stream is not less than 40,000 horse power and that of Deep River, above its confluence with the Haw, is nearly as much, and the1, total of these and of the Capo Fear, with4 its other principal affluents, will not be less than 130,000 to 140,000 horse power. The Yadkin has 255,000 horse power,' a force capable of turning all tho 10,000, 000 spindles in the United" States. Its tributaries would add at least 20 percent, to this estimate, giviuga grand total of 300,000. TlnrCatawba, with its chief tri butaries, will give more than 250,000 horso power. Wc have not space to go through -the list, but the Professor states that the ag gregate water power of the State is aboafc 3,500,000 horse power, and this force is distributed over the entire area of the State, with the exception of a few sea board counties, aud is thus brought into juxtaposition with whatsoever raw mate rials or other advantageous conditions may be found in any part of its territory. This is equal to the total power, water and steam, employed by all the manufac turing industries of GreaV Britain, tho foremost manufacturing nations, and con siderably exceeds that of the United States. -Estimated in another way, it is equal to tho power which would be pro duced by the combustion of nearly 4,000, 000 tons of coal per anuiun. The time is coming when these natural advantages will be utilized, and we hope at an early-day to see mills dotted along our streams and millions of dollars annu ally realized as the profit of our . milling industries. Xctcs d- Observer. Encouragingr Matrimony. The matrimonial problem proves a very troublesome one to newly mar ried men whose finances become ex hausted before the liouse-furnishing is completed. A society to encourage those who timidly hesitate on the brink of matrimonyonging to plunge in but dreading the expense, has been founded in Cincinnati. It is called. "The Matrimonial Benefit Company," and the members are each charged art j inifiation fee of five dollars. When a member marries, his associates each contribute 'one dollar to a fund, and this is given to him to smooth the fi nancial pathway to connubial happi ness. As there are twelve hundred members, the happy man" starts on .his matrimonial career with at least twelve hundred dollars. Curious Facts. A tree bearing thirty bushels of apples is really sustaininglialf atoaof water, for water constitutes about eighty-five er cent, of apples. A brick of gold measuring twelve by seven by four inches is worth about $75,000. Such a brick .repre- sents one month's product of one ef the hvdraulic mine of California. ' The rings noticed fn the wood ef a tree cut across have been considered " an index of the age of the tree jcoun tine one ring for each year, but thU rdoes not hold iu all species. A tree eighteen years old has shown, when cut, thirty-six distinct rings? ? In the vineyards of Southern France1 and Italy snails aae "cultivated," or i rather fattened and fitted, for food, and Baron liarthelemy prepares snail svrup and snail bonbons which he coiHiders valuable as a remedy for bronchitis and asthma. Nerve impulses are conducted along thenerves very slowly in comparison to the speed of electricity along a p per wim. The latter travelsVixteen million-times as fast as nerve impulse, and y?t the nerve impulse travels with the speed of the fastest rciJroad train, : H- r : I . t 9 I if