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THURSDAY, JULY 28. 1881.
Davis on Sharman.
"His'ery has already dooided that
Sherman burned Columbia, S. C., in
the mere wantonness of war and to gra
tify a brutal spirit of revenge against
what tbey called the 'hot hed of scees
sioo.' Sherman waged war with more
ferocity than aoy soldier sinoo Attila,
who roosived front his terrified and hor
rified contemporaries the title of 'the
aoourge of God,' and'boasted that no
Mace oi graso v«. . g .u -raw where
once his horse had planted his foot. His
cruel treatment of the helpless non com
batants of Atlanta is without a parallel
for barbarity and unnecessary vindic
tiveness in all the annals of war. Shcr-
man deserves the glorj—whatever ihnt
glory may be worth—of baling revived
and given renewed force to that most in
famous of uuoient maxims, 'Vie victir'
He made 'woe to tho oonquered' a not
less popular cry in the nineteenth cen-
tury than when first yelled by the bar
barians as they pressed with dripping
swordß to the sack of anoient Rome.
The truth ia, Sherman is a vain man,
who has been ruined by success and
flattery, and is possessed of a chronic
hallucination thai he is a great general.
He ia really a man of very mediocre tal
ents. either civil or military, and owed
his success entirely to superior numbers
and the laok of enterprise uu the part of
bia Antagonist, who either could or would
do nothing but retreat, seeming anxious
to be called the Fabius of the civil war
Had Stonewall Jackson confronted
Sherman in 1864, instead of Joe John
ston, a different tale would have been
told in my book. That, incomparable
body of infantry he lsd, ao rapid of
march as to have earned the title of
'foot cavalry,' would soon have brought
Sberman'a marches to an inglorious end-
His so-called march to the saa, 'so much
lauded,' was really the most absurd of
military manoeuvres ever undertaken in
t alNhe lid* of time. It was right in
thrf" teeth of all the* ru'es of war, *nf
bnt for the faot that the Confederacy
vaa then in its death agonies must have
resulted in the irretrievable ruin of
Sherman's whole at my. That his band
of 'bnmmers,' which was virtually an
organised gang of plunderers, was not
destroyed or captured was not due to any
generalship of Sherman, but the folly of
tho hot-beaded Hood, who, instead of
falling back before Sherman, went reel
ing off into Tennessee like a mad cap
on the wildest of wild-goose chases."
CROP PROSPECTS IN STOKM. — After
talking with the farmers from almost
every part of the county, we are led to
believe that there cannot under any cir
cumstance! be exceeding one-fourth of
1 crop of tobaoco made, with good sea
soas from now on. The corn crop will
be near an average one. The wheat crop
was never better. Rye ia good, but not
eo much sown as in former years. Oats
almost a failure. Potatoes a failure.
Garden vegetables less than a fourth.
In most sections the apple crop is abun
dant, though the fruit is small .having
been ftjured by the dry weather, but a
poor erop of peaches, with less than one
tenth of a berry erop. Meadows and
grass lots will only give one outting, and
that not good.
The injunction to '"go West" will
need to be modified hereafter by tbe
caution, "if you don't mind the weath
or." A more miscellaneous assortment
of bad weather than the present year
baa developed io that section it would
be hard to conceive of. Last winter
then were at least a doien "worst
snow storms of the season." Railroads
were bloekaded. street-car travel was
aoapended, and wide extents of territo
ry snow-bound at irregular intervals
trom November until March Thea
ia tbe spring the rains deaoeoded and
tbe floods came. High water marks
were submerged, and devastation marked
tbe eoorse of piairie brooks And now
eomea tbe torrid wave, as fatal as a pes
tilence, and productive of even more
discomfort and danger than the fearlul
■now storms and bliszards of the polar
winter. To add to the peril and des
traction water-spouts traverse the land ;
tornadoes are uorn of the seething air,
and go tearing through the fertile fields
and peaceful villages; summer flodds
atrive to beat the record of the during
froahets ; the lightning plays havoc, sod
tbe elements in general seem to be on a
greed rampage.
The drought in Southwest Virginia
it distressing. Pastures are burut up,
aad aattla have tobt drive* in many
ease* several mile* for -water. Crop
prospect* are discouraging.
Is it ao, or not ?
In the recent Anti-Prohibition oon
veniion at Raleigh, Mr Boyd said, as is
reported, that in Stokes count;, there
was but one man in favor of prohibition,
and that man was the representative.
Now I ask is it true that Mr. Qlenn was
the only prohibitionist in the count; 1
Of course it is not true, and I feel like
resenting it as a slander perpetrated
against my native county It hin ef
feet saying that Stokes is a remarkably
ungodly county, or it is an ignorant,
buck-woods section. If Ido not greatly
mistake the 4th of August will show
that Stokes will give, if not a good ma
jority foi prohibition at least a large vote.
When tb« people come to look the ques
tion tquaro in the face, whieh is grog
shop* or no grogshops, a demon chained
or a drink demon unchained. A very
Inrge per cent it not a majority of the
population will be founa on the side of
morality, sobriety aud good order A
cause which bas to be bolstered up by
falsehood is a bad cause. Such is not
tbe cause of Prohibition.
C M. Pbpp«R.
COMPARING our Southern papers with
thofe of the populous and wealthy North,
the Charlotte Southern Home says :
"Our nowspapers compare favorably
with those of an; State in tlid Union,
with all the liberal support and patron
age that the Northern people extend to
their local press. Our dailies, the Star
and Neir* and Observer, Constitu
tion and Newt, (Georgia,)—wo speak
of those in our immediate .vicinity—are
managed in a style that reflects credit
on the masterly hand at the helm that
guides with so little aid or earnest co
operation of our citizens. We venture
to say there is more hard work, menial
and physical, on each of our compara
tively small papers than the mammoth
sheets of the great metropolis Tho
reason is obvious. There the papers are
recognized as the voioe of the people
and the channel through which they
obtain all knowledge of the world, and
they are lavish iu their support, whioh
enables the establishments to employ
sufficient force and relieve tb« strain of
one man. We know the magnitude of
work done and the difficulties overcome,
which we trust some day the public will
more fully appreciate."
The llome is right about this matter
Tha South cannot do better work for
itself than by sustaining its home papers,
which will become more and more
worthy of support in proportion as the
people tender them strong and able by
liberal patronage.
Charlotte Democrat: The gardens
in the city have been almost completely
parched up. Vegetables never were so
sca.ee, and, there being no fruit, it is
hard on thoie fond of such food. .
It is very probable that the Prohibi
tionists will bold the "balance of power"
in the next Leginlct re. Tnere is no
power on earth that will keep the ques
tion from entering into all iuture elec
tions in this State, and most of those
who think alike will vote alike. The
question will certainly divide (to some
extent) both tbe Republican and Dem
ocratic party. A public meeting
at Lincoltonon the 29th ult., with rep
resentatives from Cleaveland present,
adopted a resolution asking the Com
missioners of Linooln and Cleaveland
counties to order an election on a prop
osition to suhsoribe {25,000 each to the
Virginia Midland Railroad,so as to se
cure an ezteipion of the road through
those oounties.
Speaking "by the Card."
C H. Wood, Esq , of the C. AT.
Ry., Port Huron, Mich., favors our eor
respondent with the following: After
sufferiug for nearly a year with rheuma
tism, receiving treatment from must of
the best physicians of Michigan and
tbo West, I happened to try a bottle of
St Jacobs Oil. Upon the first applica
tion I used fully half a bottle, and its
effcot was almoet instantaneous. I im
mediately dropped all other treatment
and confined myself to its use alone.
After the use of three bottles, instead of
being driven te my business, or moviog
about on crutches, I walked frum one to
three miles daily abont business, and
have been free (rom this horrible disease
for 3ver a year, not having tbe slightest
twinge of it. Ilence. I say that-all me
dicioes tnown to me an uselt-ss when
compared with the Old German Remedy.
Use this statement when and where it
suits.— Qaincjf (III.) Daily Tlerald.
A FOOL ONC« MOUK. —"'For ten years
my wil'o was confined to ber bed with
such a complication of ailments Ibat no
doctor could tell what was the matter or
cure her, and I used up a small fortune
in humbug stuff Six months ago I saw
• U S. Aug with Hop Bitters on it, and
I thought I would be a fool once more.
I tried it, bat my folly proved to be wis
dom. Two bottles cured her, sbe is now
as well aud strong as any man's wife,
and it cost me ouly two dollars Suob
folly payt."—H. W., Detroit, Mioh.—
Fret Prett.
Hon. M. B. Manley died ia Newbern
on Svtuvday the Bth-inst. lie WM 80
years old. His death waa very sodden.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Directors of tho Wilmington k
Weldon Railroad havo deolaired a di
viden of 3 per coot
Thus far the number of immigrants
who have arrived at the port of New
York this month is 1,940.
R. Y. Kirkman, of Yadkin county,
had a mule to die of hydrophobia a few
days ago.— Greensboro Battle Ground.
Sixteen deaths from yellow fever at
Havana for the week ending July 16;
several cases are reported at Carden
as.
John Veal, of Fayette county, Ky..
raised fifteen hundred bushels of wheat
on fifty acres.
Raleigh Visitor: New Hanover paid
more income tax for the year 1880 than
any other county in the State.
Asheboro Courier: A severe storm
struck towe last Friday and did oousid
arable damage to trees, fences, &o. A she
bo ro has never felt a more severe wind*
The man who makes the greatest
effort to convince you that he is telling
the solemn truth, is the very maa who is
lying the hardest.
Large quantities of peaches ire new
being shipped to Northern markets from
stations on the R. & G. li. R , and a
great many from Henderson, lays the
Review.
The Virginian says that it was the
opinion of those wht> heard the trial of
Sidney Mabc. oonvioted of rapt at the
last term of Carroll court, that banging
would have been too good for h in
Two establishments—one for the
manufacture of cigars and another for
the manufactures of shoes are soon to
be added to the enterprises of Greens
loro F'rotistant.
Our western friends bavo tkeir OWQ
way of relatinc » street fight. We read
iu Pierre (D T .) Journal: ''Win. Smith
is under treatment for au artificial hair
lip, which he secured in a "difference of
opiniou' on the aveuue the other uight."
There was much excitement hers yes
terday as soan as the n?ws was received
of the dangerous condition of President
Garfield. There were crowds around
the bulletin ooards— Raleijh Ntm-
Observer.
A SIMILAR SHOT. — Mr. David A.
Walker, a gallant Confederate soldier
of this town, was shot in the side pretty
muih like the President. The ball is
still in him, tbedoetors know not where,
and he suffers much at lime*. He is
hook keeper for Liudsey, Harris & Co
Reithvil/e Timet.
A. oj whp is travel
ing is Caldwell, Wataug* an4*Ashc,
reports that thera is an unusually large
amount of tourist* in the mnonttitis
The boarding houses at lilowiog Koek
are filled to overflowieg, and the pro
prietors are compelled to refuse lodgers
every day. One has rejected 500 appli
cants this season.— Statemille Land
mark.
Prssidont Garfield bad a chill jfs
tarday morning, fallowed by levt r, which
in the opioioo of L>r. Bliai were caused
by 'he toimation of a pus cavity in bia
wound ; later in the day a free discharge
from the wound relieved the patient and
there waa a subsidence of the disquiet
ing symptoms ; the consulting surgeons
do not regard bis situation as grave,
and axprtaa renewed confidence.
The followiug notice has been sent
oat from the office of the Weatere North
Carolina Railroad, at Salisbury: 'On
and after Monday, 1 Sth inat., the p«s
songer trains ou this road will run
through to Frenth Broad deport, «. e,
Alexander'*, 10J mi cs west of Ashe
ville."
North Carolina crops are Tory good.
Corn is looking finely. Cotton will do
well it the weather is seasonable until
the middle of Augaat. The fruit crop
is nearly a total failure—some anples
and uomparatively few peaohes. The
season has been also a bad one for gar
dens, but in some parts of the State
vegetables are abundant and of excellent
quality.
Oen. J. C. Penibertoii, who waa in
command of the Confederate army at
Vioksburg wlion Grant captured theeity,
died last Wednesday near Philadelphia
He waa a fennsylvaniao by birth,
edupated at Wast Point, and whan the
civil war began reaigned his position in
the U S. army to go into the aorvioe of
the Confederacy.
TheJapaneao have discovered that
a tew seconds previous to an earth
quake the magnet temporarily lose* its
power. They place a cup ol bell metal
under a suspended horsuhoo magnet
which baa a weight attached to its ar
mature. Oo the magnet becoming par
alyzed the weight drops upoo the cup
and givgs the alarm, and out rush the
famsly to the open air for safety.
Concord 6'un : Tbr number of deaths
in this oouniy is distressing. A good
deal of sicknes pievails. Obolsr iofao
turn ia earryink off the children, while
the old people ere dying from vnrions
caujca —The Germans who were
released from quaradtioe camp a week
or two ago, have settled dowo to work
and are proving themselves useful oiti
■ene. The men are breaking atone to
macadamise Deport street and the wom
en do waahing. They understand how
to work and do it well. The new
brick church bnildiog for the colored
people, adjoining the seminary on Deport
etreet,'!* rapidly being finiehed. It will
be quite atylisb and attractive.
How to ware for Young Fish.
I am frequently naked the question
by my correspondents who spply for
fish, "If it wauld not do better to build
a tank or pnnd and keep the young fry
in them until they get larger before
depositing them in the waters to be stock
ed ?" For the benefit if those Interested,
I will say that when the young fish is
first hitched it has a yoke sac attached
to it which, in trout at.d salmon families,
lasts about forty days before it is absorb
ed. At the Now York State hatchery
wo care for the young fry until the sac
it absorbed, and then they are ready to
he deposited, and the sooner the better.
Wl,iln the Rao is on them they do n> t
r quire feeding, hut alter this i» gore
thev need something to sustain them
right away. They can take care of
themselves much better than any one
can take care of them, and especially
an inexperienced hand. 1 have known
of many iustances where parties have
tried to keep them, and when they came
to (listribu e them the number was found
its have dwindled down very small, and
they ate very li .Bio to leae tlieoi all
[Scth Green in Syracuse Courier.]
The Ru'eigh New*-Observer sajs:
The condition of the Piesident does net
appear to be so hopeful for a speedy te
corery as \ few days back. While until
Saturday thera was A general improve
ment, yet withnu' doubt he ia very weak,
independent of the fever which has set
io with renewed vigor The prepar
ation!. that wrre being nude to give
hiui a short trip on board the Vandali*
will dp'bably he discontinued for the
present, anJ rc fear that ha will be in
great danger lor some tiuie to come.
A DEATH DEALING TOY —A singu
lur and unexplained epidemic of look
jaw hag followed Fourth ol July wounds
from toy pistols in Balitmorc, Md A
number of boy* have died of this com
plaint, and four or five others have been
attached hy it, of whoo at least two
cannot recover The docters nre puziled
to account i'or this result from alight
wounds, »nd will make a oareful analysis
of the piwder used in the cartridges,
thinking that it may possibly contain
ooisorious ingredients. The deaths al
ready uember not lees than seventeen
In Rochester, N. Y , six boys died
frotu similar wounds.
Greensboro Patriot: After the pacien
ger train from Richmond hid psfscd
Roidsville list Monday morning, some
persone who were concealed in the bush
es fired it the train, one bullet going
through the window of the baggage car
and passing near the head of the bag
(Oge-master. Mr. Willie Sites, of
this county, sowed four bu-he!s of Kivett
last fall, froifi whioh ho has just
threshed cighiyseven hu.ihols of nice,
clean wheat, being twenty one and three
quarter hu«hels to one sown. Why will
people go "West," when they can riiie
such good paying crops in the Old North
State ?
Dr. Payne in his lecture upon th>' Foe
and Grace saye that dyspopsia is a great
Foe to Grace It darkens the iky md
breaks the hope* of many Chri.timv
They think the trouble ii io their hearts,
when it is is their stomachs. Thus
the Stomach influences the feelings to
• Qch a d'-gree that it should be more
Carefully lookei a r iir ar.il
wi h the never failing Simmon*' I, ver
! Regulator, the constant use of which
will so improve the frclinvg »s to make
the heart h:ippy and the. spirits light
Piedmont Springs—Stokes Co.,N. C.
I will rent the Cabins this season for
82 50 per week, as they ate. I will also
I take some boarders in my house at Dan-
I burv for the hot season. Rates reason
able, lor further information, Address,
8. B. TAYI.OU,
June 16'2in Lanbury N. C.
NOTICE.
By virtue of a decree of the Probate
Court, I wtll offer fiir Sale on Tuesday
the 2nd day of August at the Court
House door in Danbury, eighty two acres
of land, lying near the waters of Flat
Shoal Creek, and adjoining the lands of
Jauies Rierson Sr., Lifayette Smith, the
poor house tract and others. Said land
is conveniently situated, well timbered
and produces fine crops of tobacco, corn
&c. Purchasers wishing lo buy land,
will do wall to attend the sale. Terms
i CASH. Saleut !2o'oloek, M. This the
I sth day of July 1881. G, F. WARREN
adm's of JOHN WARRUN, dee'd
GREBNSBORO *
FEMALE COLLEGE.
GREENSBORO, K. O.
The Mat Session of this well known Insti
tution will begin on Wednesday, 24th August.
TERMS PER SESSION OF 20 WEEKS :
• Board and Tuition in full English course,
$75 00- Charges forextra studies moderate.
For particulari apply tor Catalogue to
T. k. JONES, President.
Greeniboro, Jane 30, 1881-6ni.
BEATTV'B ORGANS It utefal itopsTs
sets reedi onljr $65. PUNOS SI2B up.
p*- lllui. Catalog F«a«» Address BEATTV,
Washington, ti. J.
V . 0 . WILLIS - ;
with
BAYHE, AHDERSOH * BARI),
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
No 286 West Pratt
And 52 South Howard Streets,
PaUerton Baynt, BALTIMORE.*
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$72 A WEEK. (12 • day at home
easily made. Costly out6t free. AIM rase
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BITTERS
GEORGE W. HINSHAW. w - M - HINSHAW.
SPRING AND BUMMER OF 1881.
HINSHAW BROTHERS,
WINSTON, IV. ۥ, v
Four years Dgo to du)' wo opened our fiist stuck ol GOODb iu one of ih# build*
ings we now occupy. Not siiiioiicd lo leuiam wtiere wo ataried wo have trom time
to time added to our building and Mock SJ thai wo ca.i safely say that we now have
the most complete Stoic R».ws in the State. We have in uso two of BATES'
best ELEVATORS by tho aietiuof wluoii *o hive easy acoesit to all parts ot ibe
ten Rooms iu our Block all ol which are tilled with Merchandise of ev.ry descrip
tion which we buy at lowest prices, mostly Iroui manufacturers and whlob we sell
at reaiouable prices . . ... .
IN OUR \\ HOLBBALE DEPARTMENTS, WHICH ARE l'lIK LARGEST
IN TOWN, wo will duplicate iu prieei any bill of uu orlmary amount bought in
any maiket, freight taken iuto consideration ...
OUll RETAIL DEPARTMENTS ARE TIIL MOST LOMI LUTE IN WIN
gTON. We call especial atloullou to our hue ot
OItESS GOODS,
ItlM MINGS, LAWNS, I'EQUETS, SUITINGS, NOTIONS, I'ARASOLS
COTTONADES, CASSLMERBS, BOOTS AND SHOES.
NIXGUKSIER VIRGLMA AXD MILES' PIIILADELI'UIA SHOES A SPECIALTY.
OUR STUCK COiNhlsrs IN PART OV
400 Suits MOD'S and Boy'a Clothing.
40 Cases Hats.
85 Canon and Bales of Cry Gocda.
60 " NotIOLS.
100 Bags Coffoe.
60 Barrels bugar.
• 75 " fayrups.
160 Kegs of Mails and Horso Shoes.
SPLENDID STOCK OF
STAPLE HARDWARE,
DRUGS AND PATENT MEDICINES.
TIN WARE, HOLLOW WARE AND QUEKNSWAKE
IN I.AItOK QUANTITIES A Nil OKEAT VARIETY.
2,000 Dozens Coats' Spool Cotton at Now York Prices.
2,0U0 pounds Sole Leather.
20,000 pounds Meat and Lard.
White Lead, Oils, Varnishes, &o.
We intend to make it lo the interest of every one to oome and see us, and weii
vite you to do so.
7,500 Bags of the Celebrated Slur Brant Tobacco Minurt for Sale I hit Spring.
Buy your goods of us and sell your Tobacco at our New \V arehouse, (PAL/E S)
when completed and you will couie an near geitiug Hie worth ot your moosy in
Merchandise, aud the worth of y >ur Tobacco iu uiouey as you oau get ia this wide
world. •
COME ONE, COMB ALL,
Respectfully,
May 14tb, 1881. lIINSIIA IK BR 0 TUERS.
STILL ALIVE AM) KICKING.
JOHN F. GRIFFITH, FRANK L. MOORE, ISAAC II NEhBON,
Ot Davie County. Of Stokes Couuty. Of Stokes Conetj.
A BIG SHOW COMING I
Although we have been driven out of the Joyner block by fire, we beg to lei tk*
public know that our business is going on as if nothing had happened. We ere
now located on the Ogburn Corner, where we have on view a Large, New Md
Well Selected
STOCK OF DRY GOODS,
Groceries, Notijns, Hats, Boots and Shoes, Tinware, Queenswaro, Willow-War#
Sole Leather, Bacoc, Salt, ko., ko. In fact everything kept in a First Class Store.
We ere now open and earnestly solicit our rnauy Irieuds and loruier oustomeret#
BE SURE
and not buy goods before giving us a look in, as we are satisfied we are fully pre
pared to give entire satisfaction. • • •
All Goods Guaranteed as Represented.
We are just starting and intend to bnild up an bonest trade by fair dealing.
Griffith, Moore k Co.
Winston, January, Bth. -