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TUESDAY, MAY Si, 1881.
Hordes of Chinese are oyerrunning
the Sandwich Islands.
The recent town elections in Virgin
ia are not giving much comfort to Ma
hone. The next nteeting of the Southern
Presbyterian Assembly will be held at
Atlanta, Ga.
Adulteration of food has killed a
number of fine horses recently on Stat
ed Island, N.Y.
St Louis records eighteen cases of in
sanity from excessive drinking of li
quor the past year.
Judge Ould has resigned the presi
dency of the Bichmond, Fredericks
burg & Potomac railroad.
Large shipments of flour are now
beinsr made from St. Louis to Liver
pool, by way of New Orleans.
The father of the late Commodore
Hutt. the dwarf, was a New Hamr
Bhire farmer, six feet three inches tall.
Gov. Jarvis will deliver the annual
address to the Alumni of Randolph Ma
con College, Va., at the coming com
mencement.
Geo. Griffin, colored, has been sen
tenced to be hanged, July 1st, at Coke
ton, Alabama, for an assault upon a
white woman.
The prison doors haye slammed on
Mr. Slamm, of Philadelphia, for failing
to punch tickets on the road on which
he was a conductor.
The Wilson Advance says that prohi
bition is gaining strength in that coun
ty, and if a proper canvass be made the
county may be carried.
Reports from Washington indicate
that Attorney-General MacVeagh in
tends to proceed in earnest against the
"star route" swindlers.
A negro girl in New Orleans, a few
nights ago, rushed into a burning room
to rescue a white child. She saved the
child but it cost her her life.
A new cotton factory is to be erected
at Aycock's old mill, in Bichmond
county, and will be completed and in
operation by the middle of September.
Louis Laplont, a French Canadian,
ie3ident of Medford, Mass., is accused
of the murder of his daughter, whose
body was found floating in the river.
A German walked into a saloon in
Chicago the other day, drank a pint of
whiskey, and then wagered five dollars
that he could drink a quart He won
the money but gave the coroner a job.
While European immigrants are
coming in, thousands of Americans are
going abroad to see the sights across
the water and deposit their loose
change.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has de
cided against imitation butter. The
Times thinks imitation butter ought to
be good enough for imitation states
men. Excitement prevails at Seneca City,
S. C, over the discovery of a diamond
field, in which diamonds are found said
to be equal to the diamonds in South
Africa.
One of the leading topics cf discus
sion in the council of the Reformed
Episcopal Church, in session in New
York last week, was the doctrine of
eternal punishment.
John Riley, at Louisville, Ky, threw
a piece of coal at Anthony Domas. Do
mas objected, whereupon Riley leveled
a pistol and shot him dead. Riley had
an extra charge of whiskey on.
In Laurens county, Ga, a daughter of
Mrs. Tiny Garrett got angry at her mo
ther and discharged two barrels of a
shot gun at her, wounding her severely.
About that time the father came in and
beat the girl so badly that her life is in
danger.
A contract has just been closed at St
Louis for the shipment of 30,000 bushels
of wheat from St Paul, Minnesota, to
Glasgow, Scotland, by way of the Mis
sissippi and New Orleans, at 28 cents a
bushel. If successful it will be follow
ed by larger shipments.
Gen. Grant has a salary of $10,000 as
president of a New York bank, and has
besides an interest in another banking
institution. But yet he is poor enough
to be the recipient of a money bonus
gotten up by a number of admirers,
Which has been invested for his benefit
The editor of the New York World
donvt think the revision of the New
Testament an improvement and says:
"Let us say the Lonfs Prayer as we
, Used to say it" And then he piously
tepeatea, -now l lay me down to
Bleep," as the Western politician did on
ia previous occasion.
Mr. Garfield is showing his respect for
fclvil service reform by lifting all the
Grant men ne can find, and putting
In their places uarfieid men. That the
Way the thing generally works.
Eiddleberger, having failed to be
Elected sergeant-at-arms of the United
States Senate, is Mahonejs candidate
for Governor of Virginia. He stands
about as much chance of being elected
US he does of being canonizea.
The Bails Battle-Ground is the title
f a new paper just issued in Greens
THlr the auspices of the"Bat-
iunmnnd Publishing Company," ad
-mo. Trohibitionv It ia in charge
t w Aihriut formerly of the Pa
.,;... recently with the Bea
vn, 0-ma tn have flickered
eon, wnose - . nrtran
Zt The ne w paper is to be the organ
?rTV '.nt with a ten weeks
LVi (WAM
jease of life '-"
Never perhaps in, the history of the
South have the signs of progress been
as encouraging and as numerous. Jiara
ly a Southern exchange that comes to
this office (and we have a goodly num
ber of them) that does not note some
improvement some enterprise or val
ue to the community, cotton lacco-
ries, woolen factories, macnine snopp,
etc are springing up and becoming a
part of the great wealth-producing in
strumentalities of this section.
In our own good old State there has
been gratifying progress in tnis re
spect the number of her manufacto
ries being increased every year. Those
already in existence are increasing
their capacity by enlarged buildings
and the addition of more modern and
improved machinery, enabling them to
work with greater rapidity and more
profit than formerly, while turning
out vastly superior quality of fabric?.
Some of the work of our looms" will
compare favorably with the best turn
ed oat in Northern establishments, and
the time is not far distant when the
odds in the competition will be all on
our side. We have the advantage of
having the staple at our doors, abun
dance of water power within easy
reach of railways, annually increasing
in number, abundant and cheap fuel
when steam is used, a genial clime in
which operations may be continued
the year round, cheap, and productive
lands. These are some of the advan
tages which the Northern section does
not possess facts which many of the
proprietors up there haye begun to re
alize.
There is no good reason why in time
the South may not become the great
cotton manufacturing as well as
cotton producing region of the coun
try. It is coming slowly, but uneir
ungly as fate.
Then added to this, what a store of
wealth we have in our vast mineral
deposits and in the boundless forests,
some of which have as yet been un
scarred by the axe. Iron, copper, coal
and numerous others, all of which are
coming into prominence and offering
remunerative fields for labor and capi
tal, while railroads are being finished
and new ones projected which will
open up sections heretofore cut off
from the world of commerce. This is
the outlook, which in the near future
is to become a reality. Steadily, surely,
the South is moving on to fill her
grand destiny, notwithstanding the ef
forts of hostile partizans to misrepre
sent her before the world and drag her
down.
AT ALBANY TO-DAY
To-day the contest for United States
Senators comes off at Albany. The
hosts are assembled, and Conkling with
Uhi3 strikers is there. rom tne pres
ent indications it looks as if Conkling
has a big job on hand in pulling him
self through, not to talk about his little
man Piatt He has failed to secure a
caucus, which leaves the Republican
members free to follow their own judg
ment and the judgment of a sufficient
number of them seems to have been
settled against Messrs. Conkling and
Piatt.
Should Conkling be elected it will be
a
great triumph; should he be de-
f eathd it will be a great humiliation.
He feels this and that is why he is
working so hard to win.
Ladies of Atlanta and other cities in
Georgia are circulating petitions re
questing the members of the legislature
o pass a local option temperance law
The Boston Commandery of Knights
Templar, while at Richmond, surround
ed the statue of Stonewall Jackson on
Capitol square, and covered it with flow
ers.
i i m i
Decoration Day su tne North
Washington. May 30. Decoration
day was more generally observed
throughout the North and East than
in previous years. In many of the prin
cipal cities business was entirely sus-
E ended and more than usual pomp and
oliday circumstance characterized the
commemoration of the event At Phil
adelphia an especially touching sleht
occurred. On Friday last all the chil
dren took pots of flowers to school to be
distributed among the various grand
army posts, ana tnis morning they
were transferred to carriages :to be ta
ken to various cemeteries. Ac mo&t of
the schools the little ones assembled,
and in accompanying the posts to the
graves formed a pleasant relief to the
dark blue uniforms of tne veterans.
Fire at It JLoula.
St Louis, May 80. Loss by the burn
ing of the Collier white lead and oil
works $120,000 to 8150.000. Two fatal
casualties resulted from the fire one
was a man run over by a runaway team
and killed, and the other death was evi
dently from heart disease, of Louis
Cohen, connected with the Westlich
Post, who was overcome while running
to tne nre ana aiea alter being carried
to the city dispensary.
The company is insured for 208.000
in sixty-five companies.
From France.
London. May 30. A News corres-
Emdent at Paris says: The Scrutin de
iste bill is seriously menaced in the
Senate. A majority of the Bight and
the whole of the Left Centre will prob-
auiy vote against it. j uies mmon ac
tively opposes it M M.Waddington and
Tlesserene de Bort have pronounced
strongly in committee for Scrutin
u Arrondissement
On tne Battle around.
Albany, N. Y., May 30. Vice-President
Arthur, ex-Senators Conkling and
Piatt and several other leading stal
warts reached this city this morning
and are at the Delevan House. There
are very few members of the Legisla
ture in the city and there is no excite
ment. Tne Weather.
Washington, May 80. The indica
tions are that local rains and partly
cloudy weather will prevail in New
England, New York, and the South At
lamtic States, and fair weather in the
southern portion of . the-Middle States
during Tuesday, with no change in the
temperature,,
C:riideneil Telegram.
Adolph C SehofrVr.-a prouiUtent Cot
ton broker of UaHirooxe -committed
suicide several days -ago,"" His dead
body was found yesterday in -bis rooir .
. , 4 Old Doctor's Advice,
It wai thist "Trust tn-God and keep your bowel
open." For this purpose ruaiiy an -old doctor h:ia
advised the habitually costive - to take Kidney
Wortler wt other remedy tw effectually overt
eomes this condition, an that without the die
tress and griping which other medicines cause. - It
la a radical euro for nUna. Tmn't fn.il to raa it.
J Translated from the New Torkei tung, ,
V ..v-4 ' uK tf
THAT POSTAL CARP,
WHICH
CAUSED
' FilTTTEIV
An which Yet Premises tm Otra JHa-
hn Btarv Xronfcle than Bl Jade
penaent Tot In the Senate
Washington Post.
These plain Anglo-Saxon words, on
the back of a postal card, addressed to
"Senator Z. B. Vance, N. C U. S. &,
Washington. D. C nave furnished tne
ground work for one of the most amus
ing prosecutions in the history tf the
postofflce department:
"Jr lease sena me your speecn on mat
damm dogMahone. Respectfully,
Middlebury, Loudoun county, Virginia,
March sist, 1881."
The sender of this card, a farmer of
the Old Dominion, and a graduate of
the Virginia Military Institute, was ar
rested on the affidavit of one Wm. T.
Henderson, an inspector of the post
office department charging that "one
John Carmichael did deposit, or cause
to be deposited, in the postoQice at Mid
dlebnrg, Loudoun county, Virginia, a
postal card addressed to Senator Z. B.
Vance, containing language against a
Senator as follows: "Please send me
your speech on that damm dog Mahone,"
which is an indecent epithet, and in
violation of section 3393 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States and
against the peace and dignity of the
United States." The preliminary ex
amination came off yesterday morning,
iu Alexandria, before United States
Commissioner Fowler. The court room
was well filled with the proud sons of
the 8 acred soil; many staunch Demo
crats, quite a number of; respectable
straight Republicans, very few Ethio
pians and Re-adjusters.
Mr. Lewis, the United States Attor
ney for the Eastern District of Vir
ginia, a gentleman and a lawyer, con
ducted the prosecution. The accused
was represented by ex-Congressman
Eppa Hunton, of Virginia; United
States Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
and Major Scott of Fauquier county,
one of Virginia's most brilliant advo-
Awaiting the arrival of the tardy
commissioner, there was a general run
of conversation. One old Virginian,
well-known to national fame, said:
"This case, seemingly insignificant has
two important bearings. In the first
place, Mahone is at the bottom of the
prosecution. He has been go damnably
abused that he wants a victim. In the
second place comes the question of the
right of a gossippy postal attache to
read the private communications on
postal cards. This last point is of na
tional significance.
The prosecution opened with James
E. Bell, the superintendent of the city
delivery of the Washington post office.
He admitted that the postal card had
passed through his hands early in April,
and that his attention was called to it
by one of his subordinates, Then he
investigated and found several other
cards in the same handwriting address
ed to United States Senators, but he
failed to find on them any objectionable
matter. This one postal card had on it,
in his opinion, scurrilous and indecent
epithets, so he handed it to the assist
ant postmaster for consideration. He.
had no idea that the card would ever
rise into national prominence. He fur
ther stated that the post-mark showed
that the card had passed under the eye
of the Postmaster-General. Then came
the cross-examination :
Gen. Hunton By what authority did
you read that postal card ? Do you not
Enow tnat it was maecent to do so ana
positively prohibited by law ?
Postal Agent Bell Yes, but I consid
ered it my duty.
Gen. Hunton Why did you read it
sir? Did you not know that officials
have been discharged for such illegal
Mr. Bell I considered it my duty,
and took the risk. In my opinion the
law sustained me.
Gen. Hunton I see by the Washing
ton Post, a most reliable newspaper,
that tne postal card trade is immense.
Do you read them all ?
Mr. Bell The Post's figures are cor
rect The business is simply enormous.
in tne city of Washington alone our
monthly delivery averages over 50,000
annually. Now, as to my reason for
withholding this postal card the post
al law, by which I am guided, told me
to do so because it was scurrilous.
Had I not retained it I would have
been responsible for dereliction of duty.
Gen. Hunton But the law says that
you must not read it, unless it be im
proper. How did you know it was im
proper
Mr. Bell My assistant called my at
tention to tne opprobrious epithet.
Gen. Hunton I want an emphatic
answer. Your instructions positively
say that postal cards shall be sacred,
even to the official's prying eyes. Now,
what right did you have to read and re
tain that card?
Mr. Bell The postal card was un-
mailable, and I sent it to headquarters.
When my assistant called mv attention
to the card I saw "damm doe" on it It
attracted my attention and I read it as
quick as ligntning.
Gen. Hunton "Damm dog" is not ob
scene language in its application.
Mr. Bell That is a question for oth
ers to decide.
Gem. Hunton No, sir, it is for you to
decide. What regulation gives you au
thority to peer into the mails? What
right have you to read a postal card?
What obscene word caught your eye?
Mr. Bell I considered the card ob
scene and unmailable.
Gen. Hunton Don c peg tne ques
tion. You had no right to read that
card; why did you do it? Did your
eye catch an obscene word or an ob
scene picture ?
Mr. Ben Not an obscene word only
an epithet objectionable under my in
structions.
Gen. Hunton Did you anticipate
this prosecution ?
Mr. Bell I never expected to hear
of the postal card again. I had forgot
ten its existence.
Here the defense, evidently wel
posted, aimed to trace the prosecution
to Gen. Mahone, out tailed the con
necting links being absent intention
ally, as the common talk ran.
Mai. iscott do you tmng you ex
ceeded your authority? Do you not
delight in reading other people's pos
tal cards t
Mr. Bell We haye neither the time
nor inclination to read these cards,
When we find an indecent card it is
mere chance just? like going on the
street and finding a five dollar
piece. We are not old women.
Maj. Scott In your experience, as you
say or seventeen years, nave you ever
known a case of prosecution like this?
Mr.Bell Never in the Washington
office; frequently in Baltimore there
are very bad people there.
Mat. Scott-KAre you aware of the
fact that the word "scurrilous" has
been eliminated from the statute and
that 'now only., "indecent" words , are
pronounced unmailable ?
Here a intra lawyer, a stranger, ap
peared fot the prisoner.. He quickly
drew out the fact that the postal card
Written by Carmichael had been for
warded to headquarters and obtained
the earnest consideration of the Post
master-General, but he failed, despite
his strict cross-examination, to bring
wtigm, uit tnan wno-was pmiing tne
WtfPft-Tim 'wft.nAfla viu stiirtrtftrn anA
insolent n .ill the lawver annanncod
himself. H United States Senator the
S??5,hBS; Mok. of Alabama. .
senator Morgan Is it your habit to
i a
7 auTZ??-: , exam
i"i2f. are almost
V against the Presi
dent but they never reach him ; we
burn them urJL . . 2
Senator Morgan What ricrht have
you to keep the President from know
ing what some of the people think of
him? , The President -. has ; the same
rights as any other man to obtain the
popular sentiment We are not living
in a despotism. -
Mr. Bell Senator Mahone has re
ceived very many scurrilous postal
cards.
Senator Morgan Well. I don't know
of any special guardianship in the post
office department over Senator Ma
hone. ' -
Mr. Bell We aim to protect all Sena
tors from these scurrilous postal card
writers. We don't want to lacerate
their feelings.
Senator Morgan I intimately know
my friend Vance, and l don t think
that that postal card would have
alarmingly shocked him.
Gen. Hunton here resumed the cross
examination. He declared that the
word "d-a-m-m on the postal card was
not prof anity no "cuss" word.
Postmaster Shuman, of Middlebury, ,
Va., was next called by the prosecu
tion. He testifies that the postal card
was mailed in his office, and that the
handwriting was like unto Carmi
chaers,and,in fact, that Carmichael had
admitted that he had written it and
posted it
uere tne prosecution rested, ana tne
defense declined to introduce any wit
nesses, whereupon the argument com
menced.
United States District Attorney Lew
is maintained that it was the duty of
the Commissioner to hold the prisoner
for trial. As to his guilt let a jury de
cide. This postal card is contraband
literature, and the offense was complete
when Carmichael deposited his postal
card in the postofflce.
Major Scott pronounced the case, de
spite its amusing, features, a very seri
ous one. A citizen vl v lrguna uas
been dragged from his home to answer
a criminal charge. The only witness
for th prosecution is, on his own con
fession, a violator of the law, for he
was forbidden by the law to read that
or any other postal card. A commit
ting magistrate has no right to place
any reliance on his statements. Where
is the offense ? There is no attempt to
be lewd or lascivious or indecent sim-
ly to place a conspicuous man where
,e rightly stands to-day. Why, a gentle
man on the floor of the Senate used just
as strong words against Mahone. (Sen
ator Morgan: Yes, much stronger
words; he called him a scoundrel.)
Why, in the Washington Republican 1
have read epithets on the chief magis
trate of the nation far more indecent
than the words on this postal card.
Moreover, Mahone is a Senator of Vir
ginia, and this private citizen had a
right to criticise his course. We are not
living under a despotism with special
agents of the Post Office Department
prying into our private business. The
woras, it is true, are bcuii uu ua, uuu
that is not an offense under the amend
ed statutes. This postal card had been
illegally taken from Senator Vance and
made the base of a criminal charge
against a free Virginian. The card is
Zebulon B. Vances property as much
as his coat and the postal officials
might as well have purloined the one
as the other. The words "damm dog"
are not obscene merely intended to
convey the honegt opinion of a true Vir
ginian on a recreant Senator. He
thought Aianone was a "aamm aog, ,
and he had a right to say so, especially
to a friend. The man who wrote this
postal card wanted to see the Senator
retired to his original obscurity. Why
does the Senator aim to make the law
a subterfuge for what he says is an in
sult instead of honorably and manfully
coming to the front? The prosecution
should be dismissed, and dismissed with
a vim.
Senator Morgan appeared for his old
friend, the prisoner. This prosecution,
hesaid,was a remarkable and dangerous
one, ana snouia De promptly suppressed.
He was very sorry for the poor devil of
a clerk who had filed the information.
The life of the average government
clerk was a hard one after a few years
service it was dimcuit to regain man
hood or womanhood. The informa
tion says Carmichael has committed an
offense against a Senator not a private
citizen. This has a bad smelL It
smells of the old actions for slanders
of great men: of the alien and sedition
laws for the protection of men in au
thority that in the twilight of ourReput
lie were strangled to aeatn Dy an indig
nant people. 11 senator manone is in
sulted, he has a remedy in the State
courts in an action for damages for
slander. This postal card does not
offend the moral sense or decency of
man or woman, and is not actionable,
let him appeal to the State courts. Tbi
post office department has a right ana
a good one, to suppress the transmis
sion through the mails of depraved
literature, moral poison, but this postal
card contains nothing calculated to
vitiate the public : Should a morally
emasculated official be permitted to
make the law a subterfuge to defend
himself from opprobrious words ?. This
man. Carmichael, has committed no
more offense than any one of the great
papers of the country. Why, if the
post office department is in earnest do
they not indict the publishers of these
papers each one has republished the.
statement that Mahone is a "damm
Gen. Hunton made a noble plea in
behalf of his client He pronounced
Mr. Carmichael as upright peaceable,
honorable a man as there was in the
country. The trouble is he is honest
and will call a spade a spade, This
must not be, as the information would
show, a prosecution in favor of Senator
Mahone. If it is. let the information
be amended so as to read that Carmi
chael committed an offense "in viola
tion of the rights of Senator Mahone,
and against his dignity." This postal
card does not taint the public morals.
It does hurt Mahone, but he has, if he
sees fit a personal satisfaction, or a re
course to the State Courts. Criminal
laws are made to protect the public, not
to avenge the assaults on individual
character. It the postofflce department
aims to put a stop to the transmission
of offensive matter through the mails,
why does it not stop certain papers, the
New York Herald for example, daily
filled with vile abuse of the President
ten . times more indecent" than the
words of this postal card. Again, the
word "damm" is not irreverential es
pecially if applied to Mahone The dog
is uenaimy jjui enuuea u) . revoreuvo
as to Mahone's claim for reverence, you
can come to any conclusion you please.
This prosecutidn was started in wrong,
and it Ought to be squelched. As to
calling Manone a "damm dog," that is a
matter or taste but it is no violation
of til '
District Attorney Lewis concluded
tne argument, ne said tnat ne nau no
desire to vindicate Senator Mahone
from the epithets of "dastard," "traitor,"
or "damm dog." The defendant had a
right to say what he pleased of Mahone,
but he had no right to send an indecent
expression on a postal card tnrougn tne
mails. He had violated the statute and
should be held for trial.
United States Commissioner Fowler
decided that the words "damm dog"
were offensive to, the fine delicacy of
the public, and he, therefore,' held Mr.
Carmichael to appear, under $500 bond,
before the United States Circuit Court
to convene in Alexandria on the 6th of
July. The bond was promptly filed;- .
Memrt. Butehucm. a Km- it im vlth real nlea
ure that I add my testimony to the ireaHrtrtoes of
rpBr'Nenraline" as a spedfle for pear&lgla and
sick headache. Sach a remedies a bleaalng, and
all uflerera ahould keep it on
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Albany. N.Y,. June 30. A sucrcres-
tion is made in some quarters that the
Legislature take a recess until after
tne .November election, and then come
together again and then vote for United
States Senators. It is said that the
members can vote more indeDendentlv
of influences which now govern them,
for the reason that they would know
the disposition of their constituencies
toward them. If they were renomina
ted and re-elected then they would
understand that their respective posi
tion now on the question were approved.
If they are not renominated or not re
elected they can vote accordingly. This
plan is attributed to the stalwarts,
administration, supporters laugh at
this proposition as entirely insufficient
They say they do not want to consider
any plans just now. All they want is
a vote in joint session, no caucus, no
plans, no machine contrivancies what
ever, if Conkling and Piatt cannot
get the now 80 votes, owin g to an ab
sence or i. fcs. carpenter, they say they
will accept their defeat They do not
claim as yet that there will be 80 votes
against the resigning Senators. The
fact is no one knows certainly how the
vote will stand. The administration
section claim every member who has
requested that his name be taken from
the call for a caucus, as an opponent of
Conkling stalwarts at the start nut
down some 00 names of members on
their call for a caucus, and these names
crumbled away until the list contained
only a minority, or some 50 names. But
those who withdrew their names, or
most all of them, never signed the paper
ostracising Conkling & Flatt.
Comment la Superfluous.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
In 1874, when Grant sent the name
of Simmons to the Senate for the Bos
ton collectorship, in place of Judge
Russell, whose term had not expired
and against whom no complaint had
been made, Conkling cracked his whip
about the Senate and rode over Sumner
and Boutwell, who were bitterly op-
Bosed to Simmons' appointment Conk
ng had no regard whatever for the
wishes of the Massachusetts Senators,
but swore that the appointment should
be confirmed in spite of them. In the
Robertson business, which presents a
parallel to the Simmons case, Conkling
denounces the President as a usurper
and resigns his seat because the Presi
dent declined to withdraw the appoint
ment, comment is superfluous.
JOB PRINTING.
BOOK BINDING.
STEAM POWER.
FAST PRESSES.
GOOD WORKMEN.
In connection with the publication of The Ob
skbyxb, and the establishment of one of the larg
est, most complete, and most thoroughly equipped
JOB PRINTING HOUSES
In the South, the proprietor has Just added a com
plete
BOOK BINDERY
AND
Ruling Department,
Capable of executing the very best class of work at
short notice. Old magazines, newspapers, law or
other books rebound In handsome style, and at
very low ugures.
BLANKBOOKS,
ACCOUNTS CURRENT,
And work of (bis class, ruled, and bound to order
We ate prepared to furnish close estimates on
eretr description of
LETTER PRESS PRINTING.
A FULL SUPPLY OF WOOD TYPE FOB
POSTER PRINTING.
Theatricals and other exhibitions win mt thi
DATB3 and POSTERS printed here In as attractive
a manner as In New York.
We have a Terr full supply of type for printing,
a anonnouce ana in nrst ciass styie,
BRIEFS FOB THE SUPREME COURT,
Ana lawyers desirous or presenting their argu
ments in Kooa snape wiu ao weu to give us a trial.
We have the most accurate proof-readers, and our
work Is as free from defects as It Is possible to
LETTER HEADS,
Statements,
Order Books,
visiting Cards,
Bali Card.
Pamphlets
BILL HEADS,
Deeds,
Becelpt'Books,
Business Caids,
Programmes
Magistrates' and
Court Blanks
In fact, all kinds of printing done at short notice
Special attention given to Railroad Printing.
NOTE HEADS,
Circulars, 7
Envelopes,
Handbills,
lnvuaaons
Checks,
Labels
W SATISFACTION GUARANTIED.
BOOK -WORK'
Having a larger supp of pe than most Job es
tablishments, BOOK WORK has been and will
oanturae to be a specialty with na. ,
Til k fnwiukv'inf n
OUR STOCK OF-
AND
AND
SPRING AND SUMMER TRADE,
tetfance of style, superiority of workmanship and Bnlsh, and Rood quality of material
goods. Boots, Button and Congress Gaiters. Naw Ttaa. Oxford nS st th2- SSSrKL?1-. cannot
and Children's Shoes in neat varietr and of the best anaittv. and of r, 3. ' c. Ac
a call. , v..c a nut una complete
A. E.
i
RICHMOND TO NORTH CAROLINA.
GREETING:
Determined to deserve the patronage of North
SNOW DRIFT
FAMILY FLOUR,
, Sugars, Molasses, and Everything ia h Eioe i
Heavy Groceries-
HARVEY & BLAIR,
mar8 lr
W. T. BLACKWELL & GO.
Durham, N. C.
Kurafaeturar of th Orlglmil ut Only Genuino
A
TOBACCO
2E5
Mar 22 lj
Piano TuniDg and Repairing.
HAVING secured the
services of a first-
class tuner and thorough
mechanic I am prepar-
to guarantee the oest
work. , Saoslaodoa
given or no charge.
Leave vonr orders at the
McSmlth Music House, Charlotte.
roarz dowimo tL Medium.
THE. SURPLUS OR PERMANENT FUND
With Graded Assessments for
Absolute Security.
TnE; NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
LOUISVILLE, KY.
Charter Perpetual.
Permanent Fund Limited to $100,000
Pbssbot Subplot $60,000
Membership fee, $10 for $4,000 Insurance.
m $5 52,000
Annual Does, Only $2.
Lower tfean any other Lite Association or Society
in the State.
Death Losses and lQO AAA
Accident Claims Paid, f 3pUU9UVv
- JAMES BRIDGEFORD, Pbes t.
t
J. ESTEN COOXE, SSCBETABT.
J. F. LLOYD,
' Gen. Agent for North and South Carolina.
Men of character and energy wanted as agents
In every county, except those on the sea-coast, to
whom a liberal compensation will be paid. For
agencies or Information address
may24 tf ChafiotN'c.
nn HE LUTHERAN CONGREGATION of Con
J. cord. N. a. desires to erect a handsome brick
church at once, and Invites bids for the building
of the same; the material to be of the very best
quality, the work to be fint class In every parttcu
lar, and the whole to be completed by the 1st of
October. 1881. ' Bona ana securny requirea. uora
plete plans and specifications can be seen by ap
plying to the undersigned, to whom all bids will
be sent Bids desired Immediately, , the same to
be dosed wiftun three weeks rrom Mar 3 jVfli
mayS dlma ' CQhcord, N.C.
Wriston's X&lotte Favorite Perfume.
The moW lasting in the world. Try ft
mayl8-d2w L. B. WBISTON 4 CO.
! filacer Baeha. Maadrake, Stmiagi and
many other of the best medicines known are com-!
bined o skillfully in Usksk's Gmcas Totnc as
to make it the are test Wood PurHUr and the 1
BtkaadStreagtkKesioreveTrms4.
If too are wasting away with ConumptKM or J
anv disease. ase the Tonic to-dav. No matter what i
your symptoms may be, it will surely help you. i
C Remember I . This Tome cures drunkenness,
- am a mm mm mi m ma a .
wine oen rassiiy Meaiotneever made, entirely
different from Bitters, Ginger Preparations and
otner I onics, and com tunes tne bestcnrmirrenroo-l
rtiesof alt Bur a oc bottle of wear dnunrut.l
r-neoe genuine wunoui vur ainuuarw OB outuoe
apper. Kiscox &. to., Chemists Mew rort
PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM
Tbtbetfaarfi
aoaesel Hair XJcssnsg-
marl tf ;
- "if:.
WANTED.
'A NTJMMJB OT HANDS to be employed In eon
A structlnc the Charlotte City Water works.-'
; Apply t ; CHAa-K. BOBINSON. -
mayl5 dtf v ' A. . ....... z ... ..
mi a IAPB MARK, .j
jsru Vo?
iliilii:ilt'fit
Contractor
Wanted
; It cores Dyspepsia, Rheamettsin, Nearslgla,;
SleepieesMeee, and all dweetes of the S to meek,,
s THE O IES 5
RANKIN & BRO.,
Central Hotel Block. Trade Street.
BURGESS NICHOLS,
ALL KINDS 99
E,
BEDDING, &C.
A full Lrm ov
Cheap Bedsteads,
AND IiOUNGO,
COFFINS OF ALL HMDS tfl KAXS.
a
CMAMl0m.il.e.
Carolina Marchants, we ask an order hr
our
AND SEA FOAIVt
- - RICHMOND. VA
Our claim for merit is basod ft
upon the fact tliat a cemicalSf
analysis proves that tUe tobacco Eg
grown in our socmen is better
adapted to mufei?aGOOD,PURE,
satislaitQry umoke than ANY
QTKJER. tobacco grown in. the
world; and being situated In
the HEART of tliis fmo tobacco
section, ts nave tne PICK ofj
the offerings. The public
predate this; hence our sales
EXCEED the products of ALL
j the leading lUanuftvotories com-
' bears
ths trVt&T-inGrl; of the
LE
FLY FANS & TRAPS,
BATH TUBS, SPEINKLESS,
ICE CREAM FREEZERS.
OIL STOVES
AND THE -
le
For summc r use, just In.
THE FINEST LINE OF
Cook-Stoves and Sewing Machines
IN THE CITY.
Orders and correspondence solicited at the Hard
ware Store and Sewing Machine House ot
RICHARD MOORE,
Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C.
Col. C. W. Bkadshaw. so
long and favorably
the Sewine Machine
known In connection with the
business of this city and vicinity, Is now with me
and would be pleased to see his blends iod
patrons and serve them as heretofore.
may24
CLEAVELAND MINERAL SPRINGS,
OPENED MAT 15, 1881.
Theae springs are 2 miles from Shelby, 54
miles west of charlotte; and within 1 roUe or the
Carolina Central Railway. Hacks will be at (be
springs station on the arrival of every train.
At King's IIoiintHln Station, on the Air Line
Railroad, hacks can be Obtained; distance 10
miles.
The trains from Charleston, S. C, connect at
wadesboro with the Carolina Central Railway, and
with the Chester 4 Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad
at Llncolnton, both enabling passengers to arrive
at the springs at 10 p. m. the same day.
COLD AND WARM BATHS.
White and Bed Sulphur and Chalybeate Waters.
A good string band secured for the season.
A Bowling Alley in good order.
Livery accommodations at
tached to the hotel.
8. MoPOSTON, Prep'r.
L. 8. Williams, Supt
TOW24 dlino
WANTED.
A PROMPT-PAYING tenant
wants ito rent a
small cottam. containing- four to six rooms,
centrally located, or to engage board for a gentle
man, wife and three small children.
Address for one week, QJ-Pv.
may!4 dtf Observer Office, Charlotte.
FOUND
formation apply at
A set ot false t&th, in good
condition. jriTfofther -
thjb office.
'wot"
City Tax Notice.
A T.I. nAnutna realdlnff in the City Of
the city of Charlotte
of taxable property
A who own or have control of taxable pros
h. ih.. . ik iii in f lino l ttttl . are here
by notified to return to me, on or before the last
day of June, 1881, a list of their taxable property
and polls In said city.
mayii imo
Clerk and Treasurer.
BRICK ! BRICK!
rpBX miderslgned respectfully Inform the
f
na
x that they have engaged m tne oncsc
ana are bow maxm
made brick, i Thev
ave lnconnecuon wMtbeff
mm. nnnAWlASi MTlsalirW fH HBUU
rard an imrjrored -Comnrasa
they make Pressed Brick equal, to the
MICE.
FU RNITUR
SEASONAB
mm
uvvu
Donb
Quick
Stove
oo
- Any one aesinng w ogua-wu ""s. j-v
tt to
ew?eSr ? toA'TbaWwT'
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