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Cljartottc Htcsscngcr. * Published every Saturday at CHARLOTTE, N. a ■»•'* -BY- W. c. SMITH. Subacription Rates. (Always in Advance ) 1 T»«r, *1.50 1 months, ■ . ... joo « " 75 ♦ 50 3 *0 Single copy, ..... r, Notify ns at one* of ell faDuraa of thfa paper to reach you on time. All money must be seutbv register, Money artier or Foetal note to tV. . SMITH. Short correspondence on subjects of inter eat to the putuio is solicited; but persons must not be disappointed if they fail'to see their art talcs in our columns. Ive are not reeponeible for the views of correspondents. Anonymous communications ge to the waste basket. V THE OLD AND THE NEW. A We take the liberty to say a few words concerning our preachers, now that the conference is over. Rev. Mayfield Slade who has served Clinton Chapel the last year, came to us a stranger, and as far ae we have been able to learn, gave satisfaction in the well performance of his duties, with perhaps a single no ticeable exception As wo published at the time, when the church voted whether or not he should be sent back, there were only throe votes against his return-. Like all other men he was unable to please everybody. It can be said ho came to us as a Christian gentleman and left us with as clean a record as any man ehonld desire to. He rais d all the sev eral funds and left the church in appa rent harmony. It is true he may have, and had a right to desire to stay two years, as is usual with Methodist minis ters, but the Bishop and the conference desired him to take another field. As far as we have been able to learn, there was no charge against him in the conference, but that the delegate presented the peti tion of the church for his return. While the church justly feels grieved at his being taken from ua, we must remem - her that all things work together for ' good, for those who love and trust in God. It was the Bishop's right to send Elder Blade where he thought be.t, just as in all other cases The good people of Zion , will accept the situation with that Chris tian grace which should characteiize all well regulated churches. Elder Blade has accepted it because the BiShepsnd conference thought beet, and now he thinks he can do the most good in the field essigne 1 him. He has made many warm, lasting friends here and will net fail to make friends in Wadesb .ro. We never before heard eo general e.\pres cions of regiet at the removal of a min teter, but such follow all good men. Mr. Slade s successor is Rev. Geo. L. Blackwell, one of the ablest and purest young men in the conference. He is al ready known in this city, and the Chris tians in Cl.nton Chapel have heart* large enough to love more than one man. They need but a few days to learn to love Rev. Blackwell as dearly as they ever loved Slade, Rivers, Tyler. Lomas, Meore or any one else. We believe the effect of Elder Slade's teaching will impell all Christians to give a hearty reception to Rev. Black well, if there was any disposition to do otherwise. Elder Blackwell is a young man. no | family,a student at Zion Wcßley College, • pure, common sense and discreet Chris tian gentleman. 6inre wiiting the above, things hare changed. Mere next week. A successful attempt at co-operative farming is reported in England. A < ompa njof city workiDgmen, tradesmen and me chanics in London, who were out of em ployment, united in an association which rented a running-down farm of IS4 acres near London. They paid a comparatively high rental for such land, thirty-five shillings ($6.75) per acre, but put eo much labor on it that the enterprise was • success. The lend was enriched and devoted largely to market gardening and dairying, the latter incroa-l. g as the as sociation secured capital .a purchase cowe. Formerly only four men were em ployed on the farm. Now it gives con •tent employment to forty, with propor tionate iecreasc of profit. This, the New York Mail and Erprree thinks, is possi bly a suggestive experiment for unem ployed workingmen in this country. It h> comparatively easy to secure laud on favorable terms. Tteahvill* has a citizen who in drew end genera! conduct appears to be per feetly aane, bift eech morning be gets up early, fills a small bag with food, r little tobacco, and some stones, goce tv ■be river end throws it in. Asked why be does this, he says: ‘‘Brother can't get anything to oat under the water.' One of bis brothers was drowned Lovers of imported fancy cheese" will t find food for thought in the statement ♦■bet nearly one-hstf of the olcomargs rine exported from this country returns again If foreign cheese. , An Odd Mental Power. A Princess Anno (Md.) letter to the : Baltimore American says: John Harri son, who resides at Deal’s Island, in this county, about twenty years of ago, is possessed of wonderful mental powers. He is a dredger, and says he only attend ed school about two months altogether in his life. Thisgrcat power consists in his ability to spell backward any word, no matter how long or intricate, that he can spell forward, or that is spelled for | ward iu his presence, and that, too, with j the greatest celerity. The American I correspondent, hearing of this wonder ' ful power, met him on Deal's Island, and I I requested him to give an exhibition ot ■ his strange talent, which he readily con tented to do. Such words as “incom patibility,” “incongruous,” “irreprehen i sibility,” “Cincinnati,” “Philadelphia, 41 ! and many other long words were spelled id his presence, which he immediately ' spelled backward with lightning rapid . : ity and without the least hesitation. He ; never fails, but always spells the words | correctly backward as they are spelled to him forward, and if he ever spells the 1 word incorrectly, no matter how long it be, it is always the fault of the question -1 er. Any word that he is familiar with and can spell forward he can also spell ! backward, and words that he is not familiar with and cannot spell forward, he can spell backward when they are ; spelled in his presence. He does not spell the words backward by the sound, because in many instances the letters make no sound. He says that he docs ! not even carry the word in his mind as it j is spelled forward and cannot explain by what means he is enabled to do it. lie says he first showed signs of this wonder ful talent while he was going to school the short time that he attended by spell ing backward the words propounded by the teacher, #tudi to the amusement of the teacher and the other scholars. Biscuits for Don*. Twenty years ago the business ol making dog biscuit was represented by ’ small shop in Holborn, nearly opposits Chancery lane, and a weekly sale of « couple of tons. Now there is a vast fac tory near Loudon Bridge and another in i New York, between which is a daily out put and sale of from thirty to forty tons. This dog food is made of whenfen Horn (chiefly that known as middlings), oat meal. dates, beetroot and prairie meat Dates were the first article of a vege table or fruity nature introduced, anc have had the anti-sccrbutic efbet so de nimble in the feeding of dogs. For mans years they only were employed, and a' that time it was advised that fresh vege tables should be given twice a week, ad ditional to the biscuits. Searching sot something that would obviate the need for this audition, it was discovered that the only vegetable which did not lose iti distinguishing properties under the great heat to which the rakes are subjected it baking is beetroot, and, as it lias all thi desirable ele cents for some years all thi biscuits sent out have contained beetroot The last ingredient is prairie meat, which is not, as many suppos”, tallow greavci or Butchers’refuse. It is meat from Ccn tial and South America. From it all fa has been removed, but the most valuabli gristle and bones remain to be ground np, and is not only of the highest qual ily from a feeding point of view, but per feetly sweet and good. Analysis ha shown that it is much more nutrition than the beef usually sold in our butch ers' shops, for it contains ouly fivo cent of w ater.— London Max. I ' " " Living Expenses in Berlin. Living is not expensive in Berlin, writes Albert Sutliffe, in the San Fran cisco Chronicle. Beer, the chief article of diet, can be had at from two cents to five cents a glass. Rhine and Moselle table wine, at from twelve cents to thirty cents or more the half-bottle. At thobost hotels youpayseventy-fivo cents for the midday breakfast and a dollar for the dinner, the wine being charged extra. The cuisine is French, with native peculiarities, but it has never the deli cacy of taste one finds in Paris. The waiters are willing and attentive, but not too handy in the performance of their duties. In the matter of eating, though the French cuisine came in with Fred erick the Great, Voltaire and the Wat teau landscapes, the standard of excel lence has not been well maintained. The American would prefer more beef and less veal. He can have a beefsteak if be desires, for which be pays twice as much as one of the same site would cost him in San Francisco, and it is not so good. For twenty five cents one can have as good a mer.i in the city of the Golden • ; Gate *s for seventy-five cents in Berlin, whether lie takes it at a pretentious hotel ' ‘or in one of the eo-eu)lcd restaurants of the second class in the I nter d-u Linden, where they lerve you on a rude tabic without a tablecloth, but the Moselle wine is netter. The German appetite is more <as ly sit’sfied. If is perhaps as well. When the German taste becomes luxurious they will want war even less than they want it now, and the chances are they will not tight their battles so well. j A new species ol boxwood has been found in Snitb Africa. It exist- in con sidc-rabie ijumtitics. and is suitable sot I engravers' use. A RICE FIELD. THE EQUIPMENT OF A PLANTA TION IN THE SOUTH. Til© Hands that, Ar« Required- Work on a Rice Field- Sowing: tho Paddy—A Succulent Pest. The equipment- of a rice plantation ▼aries with its size and location. From three hundred to five hundred acres is about the average size. It scarcely pays to cultivate loss than one hundred acres. On a place of average size, sufficiently near a city or town, a rice mill is now a rare adjunct. Previous to the war nearly every large planter milled hi l * own rice, doing toll work as well for his neighbors. Now it is found more convenient to carry the rough rice or paddy by boat to the big pteara mills in the nearest city. A thresher, however, is necessary on every plantation of any size. In addi tion to the common laborers who are em ployed by the day. and engaged and dis charged as convenience requires, a well appointed plantation generally has an overseer, a trunk minder, who is always a carpenter, and a foreman or “leader” for the negroes, beside a few regular hands to care for the stock, all of whom are engaged by the month or year. As many mules are necessary ns on a cotton plantation of the same size; for although at times they have nothing to do and enjoy altogether an easy life, neve:thelcss, when they are wanted they are wanted badly and in considerable numbers, as is the case during “rolling time” in sugar planting, in order to hurry through a certain process by a given time. The planter's bu*y season commences with the new year. The squares aro cleared of stubble, plowed and harrowed. The stubble is iu tome plowed in, but is commonly burned on the land. The ditches arc cleaned cut annually, aa they foul quite rapidly from abrasion, silt, and water vegetation; and the stuff so throw n out of the main ditches is laid on the bnnk«. One w ould think that in course of time the latter would become considerably enlarged by the accumula tion of vegetable matter and ditch mu 4 thus piled on them year after year; but in many instances, so light and porous is the original soil of which they are com posed, and so spongy and liable to rapid decay is the added trash, that the banks are annually shrinking and growing smaller under a process of gradual con solidation. so much so. indeed, that in even a well kept plnntati n it is frequently the case that tw o or more squares tempo rarily join thrir waters by portions of the bank giving way. Single horse plows are generally used in breaking up, but successful attempts have been made to introduce sulky and gang plows and screw pulverizers. The fields, however, are so cut up by the quarter drains that commonly light port able bridges have to b“ employed in crossing the ditches, and heavy ma chinery, in consequence, is not always convenient. Beside, the soil, contrary to the neces-ity in sugar planting, does not require deep breaking. .Asa rule the land is not fertilized, although it will not be long before the contrary will become the common prac tice. Many plantations that- have been under constant culture since colonial times still yield good harvests; but the land is gradually, though fortunately very slowly, losing itR native power. Usually the older fields produce rice of superior quality though lees in quantity than the fresher lands. Where afield has recently been “taken in.” and is consequently composed of light, po;ous soil, it is not productive on account of I he absence of mineral matter. On such a field phosphate and potash salts are used to advantage; on some of the older fields nitiogenous fertilizers are occasionally applied, but uot with as satisfactory results as in other crops. The paddy is sown from the second week in March to the middle or end of May. March sown rice will mature in about five months and fifteen days. Later plantings sometimes mature iu ad vance of the earlier. The principal motive of the planter, a*ide from important cultural objects in selecting the period of sowing, is to avoid harm upon the visitation of that vicious pesf. yet succulent dainty, ths rice bird, lfo conies in swarms twice n year—in the late spring and early Tall-- and tbo rice must be planted at such in ternals as to bo protected from his rav ages. And here another factor comes in, available sprin : tides. Both the '*arly rowr-d nre and that planted Inter are protected by the “sprout” and “stretch * waters when the birds rornc in the spring. The former is harvested and safe from their visit® tion in September, nrd the latter is not fully ripened until aftci have taken their flight further southward. Should a mistake be mado in regard to either of tho-e conditions, the rice bird to the unprotected crop is as disastrous and annihilating as the torch or a tor nado. Therefore, if the planter misses one apriug tide, h? must wait and care fully irak* Ms calnd-itions h * as tube able to utilize another for flowing.— Bivouac, POPULAR SCIENCE. ,‘areful measurements of seventy hu man skeletons have shown tho lower limbs to be equal in only seven. It ep pears that a person's legs may differ in length front nn eighth of an inch to en j inch and five eights, without any de formity being recognizable. A Frenchman, Mens. Rohart, hae dis covered that waste grease, like that of sheep s woo!, very readily absorbs sul phuietted hydrogen and other sulphur compounds, and that it will then form ft : cheap and excellent, soap with alkaline carbonates. The operation is very rapid, requiring less than an hour; and further economy results from the fact that the alkalies do not have to be used in a caustic state. Imitation amber is being largely ueed in Germany for the mouthpieces of pipes, owing to the dearness and scarcity of the real article. From time immemorial j amber has been chiefly found on the ; Konig'bcrg coast of Prussia, partly by dragging and partly by mining. The Palmnickcn Mines yield about 8,000 cwt. annually, and large piece* of amber produce *3O per kilogram (two pounds) when taken from tho mines. Most of this goes to Vienua, where the largest manufactory of amber mouthpieces ex ists. Much interest has been excited among engineers by the construction, under the \ direction of the Russian Government, of j some locomotive cars of a special type ! for the Transcaspian Failway, and built , so as to me:t two difficulties, viz., the j waterless character of a large section of j the line, and the insignificant ordinary | traffic. To meet the former the locomo tive car is provided with tanks contain ing sufficient water to last seventy miles; and. ns the waterless stretch from Mi- | chaclovsk to Kazmitchik is about fifty miles in length, this supply is amply suf- j ficicnt under any contingencies that may oecur. With regard to the second diffi culty, the locomotive is constructed with a car connected to it and capable of con veying eighty passengers. The locomo tive car is warmed by the exhaust steam from the engine, by which arrangement j an important economy in the consump tion of fuel resuits. A recent number of the Japan Wcelrly \ Mai! contains a short account of a night j ascent of the active volcano Asamayama. ; The party left Karnbawa in the after-I noon, and commenced the ascent from j the eastern side about snnse*. The'sky was perfectly clear, and the summit was reached an hour before midnight. The wind, blowing from the south, carried the sulphurous vapor away to the north ward, and thus the was mode lesa uncomfortable. The parly saw quite to the bottom of the crater, which pre sented the appearanef of a furnace filled with glowing coals The sound of the ‘oaring, hissing, end bubbling is de scribed as loud and awful. The walls o the crater are of a light brown color,anc ere composed of suet t ssive layers market out with striking regularity tike the seat* in an amphitheatre. Allowing ten of these layers to ea.-h interval of twenty feet, the depth from the surface to the incandescent matter would appear to bo 200 feet. The periphery of the crater is about half a mile although the Japanese calculate it at two miles and a half. m General Mites, of the regular army, says the average Indian will make as much success at farming as a United States Senator would at following a deer s trail over the plains. He agrees with all the oth"r Indian fighters that no redskin will stay eiviiizciT To expect them to is to go against nature. In St I ouis 7,000 pounds of copper have been used in making just one steam kettle for a brewery. Dr. .T. T. Williams Offere his profnitdonal twrvltve to the general public. CALLS ANSWERED DAT AND NIGHT Office, Fourth street between Tryon and Church, rear of expren office, Charlotte, N. BOOTS Sc SHOES. | Our store is now filled with new goods, I fresh from the manufactures We carrv : a full stock of all grades, and «f the I I j Very Best Quality ; And guarantee that vou shall have the worth of yom money in every instaooe PRICES. Will be made low to suit the time., (al and see us. A. E- RANKIN & BRO. TRYON STREET. Boarding House. I CONCORD, N. C. The traveling public be aeeommoda. ted with comfortable rooms and board- 1 House situated on Depot street, in front 1 of the Seminary, near depot, aid eonve : nient to all visitors. Terms reasonable. J. E. JOHNSTON. HllllEß BROS. STEEL PENS tbSS?in use. v When not for «I. bv tact wBII maU leading .lyle. in n box., of I Sown eocU, o.i | receipt ol 81.3 J. '* 4 t l«r>s SfJw*l 4 I <!«*• •° , Jw | 4 Busings* “ 4 1 ". . _ . | 4 “ £urines* & Stubs. 4 boxes. I doz- «*<*. , Alina IJS SUES BROS. CFIIOT CO, ImJa. Cm ( YOUJt ATTENT ION. j r i i i Our fall stock is in. Our stuck of Dress Goods and Trimmings were never so cheap and prettwas at. this season Big stock of Ladies Wraps, including all the new novelties. and Gent* Under wear." •) (Mi. Hits, Bills, 31*, it. A good home-made Blanket, made at i 1 Leaksville. Rockingham county, N. C-, j ior $4.50 Fine line of Yarns from i i ante mills. Carpet Mats in white and I I colors. I I Jeans, Cassimers, Ac., Be sure and try a pairof.Evjtts’ Shoes; I | every pair cuaranteed Will be glad to show yon our goods, j and hoping to sell yni*more than ever We nre truly yours, ) 1 f Harravgs & Atader, i PMTTH BUILDING I Sarapie#6«nf »t request. ; I j WE DON’T CARE IF \ | ’ Everybody Knows it; That we have a complete Stock of I DRUGS AND MEDICINES. Drug*. Chemioali, Patent Medicines, Fancy G<yj6§ at*! Toflet Artistes. Which we are selling at very reuoßftbl* Prices ; - —m~ Paints, Oils, Etc. ! . — l s .! v j 1 A h>f of Feesb TURNIP just received. *-I * ! * ( J*. ••:*> «I—II i: Prescription Carefully dpmulel i 1 . DR. H. M. WILDER, Charlotte, N. C. Virginia House, CHARLOTTE, N. O. i Accommodations furnished traveler*it reasonable rates. Comfortable, bed* and : rooms. House located in- the central and imsir.es port of the city. Table tor l nblied with th» best ot the market. Meals at all hours. J. M. GOODE, Prop. CHARLOTTE N. C. ! GO TO ~ i ROSS & ADAMS FOR BOOKS AND STATIONAY, School Supplies. Spe-sial Discoont to Teate r: ; ROSS t ADAMS. ' >«» *0 rtnt national »s.i, Charlotte, X. ft HENDERSON'S BUBER SIOP | The Oldeet and Bert. 1 | Experienced and polite workmen . t always ready .to wait on tautomer*. Hot* l you will get a Neat Hair Cut, and* Clean Shave. 1 John 8. Henderson. lEsst Trade St. CHARLOTTE, X. C. I Brown, Wellington] & Co., HARDWARE DEA EfiS, H-erlott*. V. C. —tot— the largest stock of ! HARDWARE. CUTLBBY. GUNS WOODENWARE, ROPKR, j ; Agrienltnral Implements. BLACKSMITH 9A ND.HENTERf- Aad other tools ia the State. A call i« solicited. i- - Brown, WeddJngton & Go. W. M. Wilson &Co DRUGGISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. j BUIST’S NEW CROP TURNIP SEED RKDTOP, FLAT DUTCH, GOLDEN BALL, AMBER GLOBE. WHITE GLOBE, WHITE NORFOLK, RED TOP GLOBE, POMERANKAN WHITE GLOBE, RUTABAGA, SEVEN TOP, SOUTHERN PRIZE, TELLOW ABER : DEEN. ALL FRESH —A»» XT — LOWEST PRICES, I Wholesale and Retail. W. M. WILSON & CO., DRUGGIST S, Charlotte, IV. C. PHOTOGRAPHS in all tbe latest stylo* and finish Photographs Enlarged to any size from small picture. No n*ed send them NORTH. ( Just as good work dona right here at boro* I And as cheap as in New York. Work G-uaranteed. Oall and see us H. BAUMCARTEN. CHARLOTTE, N. C. MOIL A. W. CALVIN —DMAMtn a — FAMILY GROCERIES ol all kind*. Country produce alway* or I hand. CHICKENS, EGGS. BUTTER and all kind* ol VEGETABLES and FRUITS. ALSO tIKALUm m LUMBER • and Building Material. Free delivery to ail part, of the city Ely’s catarrh CREAM relief at one* mbau&l and Cure, COLD IN HEAOP^ c oto3f'a H l^i CATARRH HAY FEVERS* / Mot a Liquid. Mtew- . Snuff or J’mrder. j Free from Lnjnri. , one Ihmqe and of- SSSot 1 J fenmtodar,. HAY’FbVER A partirle of the B».m I. spr,!t.<t loin ,uh nortrtl. w flftr-fablo to iim arU l. <ju[rklratworbc.t. eye— - "“r clMMtoz tb. iuml |WH,n ol c Jlnwhu tWo., roamim beotth, Mcretkio,. 7* •i'SI'P* 1 " «4 infl.rai.ioiion. po-lorl. |ho raw oronoi tfoing. of in* hto.l from «ddl!k>.-«l cold* coropirtoiv net. til- ■ ond !—!. rr« U,. >.v*~ Os two oud men. Bco-arml m»:. m r0.1i.-xt by * low application,. A IXorou,* treatment wtlteure. - flk* *• emta at drnaytata 1 by mail, nalOMd, SO cant*. Ci!Tolan*!.Tnt fr,* ' *•"**- ELY HKOTHERH, Drugguta, Owrgo, V. T. Catarrh la Nat o llload ntarvr. , N - whotr.ru It any flnalhr *»-!, etc tawb aiwaya «taru In tho head, out hrfonta to B>- “4. Thai I. no rayMrry about lha orl*tn of this dmadfal dlMaw. It twain, iu a nr*,., led roll T*® IS® tind that t. 'anre to b* hotter In.t-r . • rinouanda ot victim, know how >• to hr tad wapertrucc. Kl.'a Ooan, n»| m ca:-. . c,» to . tan baad aad oaurrk la .Utuiueta.
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