Nil. J' I A;i - editor awd-pRopaiKToa.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1 1869.
Trnm o 5uirH'(4on-fT a rtr Dox-iass, i advance,.
EICIITEENTn VOLUJIE K DUB E B. S82.
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"Western 33 emocrat
' j " , ! PCBLI-HED BT ' "! "' -' '.' '
WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor.
Txxu s Three Dollars pr annum in advance.
.Advertisements .jvill -be inserted... at .reasonable
-rates, er "in accordance with contract. .
: Obituary notices of over five lines In leneth will
e cnargea lor. au .advertising rates. . j
' Robert Gibbon,. M. D.,
. ! PHYSICIAN AND SUItGEON,
Tro Street, CJimlottr, X. C.,'
Oici unl Uejjl nee. one dopr feiitb old State Bank
(for'a.rriy "f w. J jiir.t:cns red lence).
Jan !. IH5S. . -: y i . . ' .-" -' :.., .
7 J. P. lilc Combs, M. D.,
OJers proftai'Ieuil services to
Cbi'rlatie and surrounding country.
the. citizens, of
All calls, both
ni'it and Uy, prur.pcly aUendcd to. .
o:W in Urown's Uiiliifg, uputairs, .opposite the
J "0J.il t5- Hot I. . v
DR. E. C. ALEXANDER,
IfiTi.ij Ir.citrd in Chirlcttp, La opened au office in
pj.jki 15u.l linr. opposite the Charlotte Hotel, where
lc cm lit f.Jin htn not profesionallj engaged.
Miy
Dr. JOHN H. McADEN,
Whoiesalo and Retail Druggist,
CHARLOTTE A C,
, , . n hard a large aad well selected stoek of TURE
(homical. Patent Medicines, Family Medi
i.V !, Painu. Oil. Varnis-hcs. Dye Stufl, Fancy and
r-i!--r Article, which he is determined to sell at the
wtrj low iL-t prices. ' , I'
WE M. SHIPP,
ATTOUXKY AT L. A W ,
Charlotte, N. C,
Office is 1wey"s Bavjc Bcildiso.
Not- I, 1S tf
T ALEX AND E R & BLAND,
Dentists, Charlotte, N. C,
! Will wait on parties in city or country whenever their
i sertice may oe to.Kiica.
Te?ik extracted without rain
Gas administered.
I titSce iu firo-vn s CuiMirg.
' to 5 P. M.
March 8, 1S10.
Hours from 8 A. M.
J. C. MILLS,
A X X O ' U C V AT. ImA XV ,
! Charlotte, N. C,
I Will practice in the 1'oorte of North Carolina and in
the Uuited States Court.
OtSc;? above the Store of Elias A: Cohen, opposite
; the Car!tte Hotel.
June ISC'J Crapl "
Hutchison, Burroughs & Co.,
Central L'Je and Fire Insurance Ayenis,
Ofire on Trsde Street, Chabiottk, N. C.
Sept. 7, iNi.
tractical
Watch and Clock Miker,
A.NU DEALER IX.
JEWELRY, FISE MATCHES, CLOCKS,
Watek Materials, Spectacles, cjr.
Aug. 10, 1SC7. ' CIIAULOTTE, N. C.
Tho City Book Store,
Has brrn lit-mov tl to '. Lmcrit Oil Slamh
One door below its former location. .
Everybody is invited to call and' examine our
Stock, which consists in part of a large assortment of
School Religions and Miscellaneous Books,
nink and Pas Doofc. Wll Taper. Blank and
Printing Paper, and all articles usually. Kept in
first-cl Book Store.
Our arrangement ith Publishers are ruch that
we receiTe U the NEW WOBKS of popular authori
al oon published
Our prices are as low as any other Booksellers in
the State.
Jaa i, 1SC3. -.WADE St GUNNELS.
J.
General
Y. BRYCE & CO.,
Commission Merchants.
CA III. (t TTE. A'. C. .
Purtk-uiar attention paid to the selling of all kind
rr-vliue. Cotton and Tubaeeo.
-Ti !1 ff'iwt cash price raid for Cotton.,
c:. Ail orders froma distance promptly attended
tv J. V. BIlYCr:.
Mtreh'S. C&.- . W. II. BHVCE.
A HALES.
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
X'xt Door to the Democrat Ojice, CnaRLOTTK, N. C
If your Waich needs Repairing,
. Don't get mad and go to swearing;
' Jut take it into HALES" shop.
He will fix it so it will not ?top. f
He warrant. his work all for a year.
When it is ucd with propcrcaxe.
He will do it as low as it cjjn be Uone,
An 1 do it so well it's sure to run.
January 1. 1S J '.
NEW GOODS!! .
I am receiving New Goods every week, and am
determine.! tint to ha undersold bv anr:one. Give
me a call before buying. D.G. MAXWELL,
Coffbo! Coffeo!! i
Java, Lagusvr and Bio Co fee. all grades at
31 AX WELLS, Parks' Building.
Sugar s
Fron 12 J to 20 cents p?r pound by retail, at
MAXWELL'S, Parks' Building.
. . . Tobacco and Snufll '
Leak s Tobacco and Lorillards Snuff alwavs on
hnd 3IAXWELL'S.
Confectioneries, Toys, &c.
e largest stock io the Citv. . Call and examin
Th
e for
yourselves.
D. O. MAXWELL,
Parks' Building
My io. nco.
t . QUE R Y !
ir.ii " rec,T,cif dy Lis Spriug Stock !f "
.Millinery. Trimmings, &ci &c,
which he asks the La lies and the'pnblic generally,
tu cd and exaoiiae. f
t'ar llEiS. QUERY I prepared to servo her
fntai with the . j
LATEST STYLES .
Jn EOXXETS, II ATS, DRESS-MAKING, &.
i A !
dubious Logs. An industrious German of
lualwaukee, who had by dint of hard labor and
economy saved 0500, put it in an old stocking
stowed t away behiud a rafter in his hoi;e, and
lately was in diypair to find the mice had made
a nest of it. lie gathered f the fragments, and
they made a peck measure bf scraps of jpaper.
itocking. wn.d,.nut shells, &c. A friend advis
ed hiiu tsend tTo whoh? mass. to the Treasury
Department at Washington, and he didsVj; This
was several week's ago. and Saturday he received,
la draft fr 8250 from the Treasury Department
and a letter statin? that so much onlv hd been
saved out of the $500. Two girls in the Depm
ment were at w.rk seventeen days sorting, pick,
inland pasting, and hid finally succeeded in
getting 3250 n th-t it . on l: re'- g:i'zpd '
DR
WILSON'S' SCHOOL,
v.
CIIAllLOTTi;, N. 0. f .
'. Exercises will he resumed on the 0th of August.
Terms for session of 20 weeks $'2 for English, and
$Crfor C'laPiicil nd High Matliematical course.
&ins of Clergyman nud bomi fide candidates -for
the Ministry, taught gratuitously, aud special terms
made for promising boys in indigent" circumstances.
, '- A few good boys taken - to board with. Principal
upon moderate terms. Others placed in good fumi
lies and under his supervision; I
. . i " . JXO. WILSON, Jr.,
Jufy o, 18G9- ' t r Principal.
; ' ) ! J.f H. HORNER'S
Classical & Mathematical School,
i OXFOKD, X. 0. !
: - i r -
Th8 Fall Session will open the Fourth Monday in
July, j The Spring Session, the first Monday in Jan
uary.' i : -: -f. 'j ' 'j,
The Winter Vacation will not exceed three wrecks
so that students need uotbi at the expense of return
ing home before the close of the Spring Session
. The charge for board aud tuition has been reduced
to one hundred and tventv-ve dollars. f . '
Oxford, N. C, June 28," IbC'J. . 6r ;
Alexandriana . Academy,
.-h. KLtMiUKG COUNTY. ' t
The exercist8 of the 4th term, under the auspices
of A.f J. HAUUISON, begins: July 19th, 1809, and
ends ficcember 7th. Cuarge made from time of en-
trance fucui as follows: : i
Ll.i.stiCs ............
Higher English
Primary Ei..plish. '.
... Si 5
... 12
-. 7
00
00
Board irorn $S to Slljper month.; . ,
Also.' in the same neighborhood.! on the same day.
in ihe basement of Temperance Halloa School will
be opened for Misses aud little boys, by Miss IluUk
Harrison, who comes highly recoinmended, and who
has had some experience in the business r
Patronage respectfully solicited. ' f
TUITION Ilieber English. $10 00
i Primary English..;............. 7 00
.Sciences... 111 50
Board as above. j
For further particulars address,' ! A
: j A U. IIARJIISON,
j Care of Brera, Brown k Co., Charlotte,' N. C
July 12, 1869 3w - -S . ; j ' i "
DRUGS JN GREAT - VARIETY,
i At Dll. J. N: BUTT'S.
Corner Trade and College Streets,1 Charlotte, N?
C , you can buy Mustang Liniment, Vermifuges,
Hoiloway's and Van Deusen's Worm Candy, Queen's
Delight, Rosadalis, Radway's Resolvent, Radway's
Relief;) Hostettcr's, Hoofland's, German, Baker's,
Koopmann's. and Drake's Plantation Bitters ; Ayer's
and "John BulPs Sarssp-irilla1; Number Six; Bur
nett's, Wilson's and DeJnogh's Cod Liver "Oil; Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Batema-n's Drops, God
frey's Cordial, Ayer's" Cherry Pectoral, Ayer's Hair
Vigor1: Ayer's, Wright's, Jeyne'Sj Deems', Strong's.
McLane'e, Radway's, Mnggiel-s and Compound Ca
thartic Pills; Blue Maps. Pain Killer,) Solid Opodel
doc, Wislar's Balsam Wild Cherry,' Hall's and Wood's
Hair Keuewer, Bachelor's Hair Dye, Tarrant's Com
pound Extract Cubi-bs and Copaiba, Jacobs' Cordial,
Sanford's Liver Invigorator, Philotoken, Hembold's
Buchu. Ayer's Ague Cure, Osgood'slndia Cholagogue,
French Capsules, Bison's Tobacco Antidote, Rai Pills
and Poison," Carter's Spanish Mixture, Sulph. Mor
phine, Opium, French and Power and tWightman's
Quinine, Hampton's Tincture, Essence Jamaica Gin-,
ger. Horse and Cattle Powders Calomel, Sweet Oil,
Castor Oil. Muetard. CIoycs, Cinamon. Spice, Ginger.
Mace Nutmegs, G'elatine.: White and Black Pepper;
Aniline Red; II. and S Dyesf-Brown, Black, Red,
Pink. Bine, Green, Solferino'and Magenta;j Dead
Shot for Chills. 1 I ; j. ;
Paints and Oils,'
All kinds; non-explosive Kerosene, Kerosene Lamps,
Lanterns,-Garden Seeds, Window Glass, Flavoring
Extracts, Perfumery, Fancy Soaps, j. Toilet .Articles,
Tooth Brushes, Brushes of all kinds, Toilet Powder,
Camphor Ice, Lip Salve, and all other articles kept
in a FIRST CLASS DRUG STORE. Prescriptions
carefully prepared at III !
DR. JAS. N BUTT'S,
Corner Trade and College Streets.
Mar 3. 1809. i I I "Charlotte. N
J FRESH ARRIVALS OF
China, Crockery anld Glass Ware-
JAMES HARTY, : j
(NXT DOOH TO TUB CotRT llOVSK,) !
Is just receiving a very larger stock of
China, Crockery and Glass Ware,
Together with a good assortment of House-keeping
articles, consisting oi ivnives. ana rorns, cpoons,
Castors. Butter Prints, Ladlesji Tubs, Churns, Buck
ete. Bread Trays. Rolling Pins. Steak Beaters, Tea
Kettles, Stew Pans, Gridirons,!&c.
Oct 2G, 18G8.
I JAMES IIARTY.
BINGHAM - SCHOOL,
1IANVILLB
WM. BING II AM, ROBT. BINGHAM, W. B. LYNCH
The Session of 1809-70, begins 25th of August
and'eontinnes forty weeks. '
The course of , instruction includes the ordinary
English branches, the Ancient Languiges, ! Freuch.
Mathematics, Book-Keeping apd the elements oi
Natural Science. ! .5 i
Expenses, including Tuition, Boards Booke, Fuel,
Washing and Clothing, SG5. ;
Circulars sent on appiicaiion. . ,
Jnnc HI, 1SC9 Cw
Sowing Machine Depot.
i'ou will find for sale at the JMve Depot. 22 Tryon
Street. Charlotte, N. C tho celebrated "COMMON
SENSE SEWING MACHINES f. tliat arc ni coming
m zonular throughout the country, combining ali
the latest improvements of under-feed and upright
Spool-Holder. Price only $15. v
Abo, the "BUCK-EYE AND HOME SHUTTLE
MACHINES." price $20.! J ri
Extra Needles for sale.; ,1; j
Acents wanted everywhere. 5 1 !
W. S. IIALTOM & CO.
June U, 1S09.. 6m f 1 U
. Wheat and Onions.
I want to Durchase a large quantity of Wheat, for
which the highest market price wil) bepaidJ . -K
Also, Onions wanted at market rate t v .
July 12, 1?9, J - ; W. J. BLACK. ,
The Wife Market in! Russia;
1-
A French writer, whose name I ) forcret. has
tru'y saidf the liussians are a nation of polite
savages? a remark that is not very! apt, but it
helps us toward a proper understanding of thp
social condition of the people. Ihe rich are
very,rich, the poor are very poor. . The nblep
are courtly, polite, and as refined in manners as
those oi the same class in Germany, but the seris.
or those who belonged to the nobles with the
&oii, Deiore tue emancipation, are rude and not
Halt civilized.
Almost as soon as a fiirl is born in the better
ranks vt society, her parents berin to preparjj
the' dowry she must have when she goes to h'eir
husband.' j For this, is indispensable j in the eyes
oi any luissian young genth-mati "who propoi-eirf
to bcuarned. fche must lurntsh everything for
an outfit m life, eveu to a dozen new; shirts for
her c.uiinir husband, v I 'i 1
I have heard of a lady of rank and wealth who
h:.d prepared a costly idowry oi silks, huen, jewels,
plate. fcc, for her beloved daughter,jwho diedaS
auu uccauie io De twenty years oia.i iinemotne
L . 1 ' . I 1 . . it. mi . , '
3
i resolved to endow six irirls with these riches, an
actually advertised lor them- A host of appli
cants came, and she selected six.! None oi theni
had lovers. But now they had a j respectable
dowry secured, each irl was spcedijy eugagedi,
and.: with tho husband, took, the dowry, and pai4
the rich lady by promising to pray fur the repose
oi her daughter s sou . ; f
! In no countiyjis this arrangement of terms
carried, ou with more caution and couipletenes
than iu Russia. ! Th(; young man goes to tin
house of his proposed bride, and counts over the
d esses, and examines the furniture, laud sees tt
the whole with liison eyes before be commits
himself to the irrevocable bargain, j In high lift
such things are fontli;cted with more apparent
delicacy, and the business beinir in the hands pi'
brok
er or a notary.
Ihe trousseau is exposed,
m public belore the Wedding day. f
At W hitsuuday there is, a curious custom
which is gradually giving way with thu advance;
of civilization The vountr people of a neighbor -j
hood come together a
d the girls stand in a row j
draped, indeed, and not
like so many statues,
''i t 11.1
my urapea outares.sei
d in their best, aud paintedj
too: for the
vnnni
1
dies, aud tho older ones,
also, of this country use cosmetics freely, and a
box of lady's paint is a very conitiioti present for
alyoung uan to uiake to the girl he likes. v l?e
hind the row of girls are their mothers; the young
meu having made known their.choice the terms
are settjt d between the parents of the parties'
The ladies iu Kussiti are very anxious to mar-i
ry, because they have no liberty before marriage.
i'hev are kept constuntlv under the-maternal
eje until they are given up to the htisband, ;tnd
then they take theirowii course, which is a round
of gayety and dissipation, nly regulatd by
their means of indulirence. TheGreek Ohurch
like the Homan. permits no divorce
Kmperer, like the Pote, can ) grant
but
the
dis-
special
neosations. Ihe tjrreefc priest must quarry once
and if his wife dies he cannot tnarryiagain. Ad
one in Russia can be married more! than three;
times.. .';'! ..' ! !
North Carolina Land CompanyJ
' I j I RALEIGH,1 July 2,. 1869.
Messrs. Editoks : We are receiving, letters daily
makini? inouirv as to the connection of the ?ortli
Carolina Land Company with the agency in this cityf
that is carrying on the Lottery business.
We wish to inform the public generally, tnat our
Company is a separate and dtstinct organization, con
ducted upon entirely different; plans, and presided
over by diflerent omcefs. 1 I fj
1 ULORuti L.ixxir;,rresiaeni
B. W Best, Secretary.
Julv 12. 18G9 ; lm
- Fresh" Cakes and Candy.
I have secured the services of a First Class Baker;
and will keep constant
CAKES AND CANDY
y on hand a full.assortment 0:
warranted fresh and nice
Baking cyery day. Orders filled at short notice.
Weddings and Partifes turmsiiea at snort notice.
I also manufacture plain ana lancy anaies.
Feb. 22, 18C9.
D. Ml R1GLER.
Canned
Fruits, &c.
Fresh Teaches, Pin Apples,) Tomatoes, Peas and
Corn. '! Pickles by the
dozen or gallon at
Feb 22, 1869.
!D. M.l RIGLER'S.
TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
' 1 l : ill.
Spices ! Spices ! j
Just received a lot
bf fine ENGLISH STICKS of
very superior quality
market, in I
,to anything ever offered in thife
NUTMEGS, CLOVES
MACE, GINGER,. SPICE,
BLACK and WHITE PErPER, Ac, &c.
At
F. SCARK S
April 12, 1869.
Drug Store.
RIVES & PROCTOR,
Wholeslb asd'Retaii! ": -f.
ESTS
Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Fancy and Toilet Arti
cles. Paints, Oils, Dyfe Stuffs, Perfumery, Imported
and Domestic Windowj Glass, Putty Spices, e.
S SOUTHERN DEPOT FOR ROSADALlS.
Would resnectfullv call the attention of Merchants
Physicians, Planters, (and others, to their extensiv
stock and superior muacemeuis. 4, ;j
I 107 Sycamorel street, Petersburg.
N. F. RIVES, M. D. i
-AAffoO. 1809 6m
Wi H. PROCTOR!
T. A. WILLIAMS & : CO.,
WLetexole Grocers and Commisin Merchants,
I No. 6, Roaxoke Square, NORFOLK, VA.
t lwavs on hand a 'full stock of all articles in the
Grocery line, at lowest market rates. t -i
Strict personal attention to consignments, and re
turns promptly and reguiariy maae
1 April 19, lbt"9 ; iy
DR.
QODDIN'S
Compound
Gentian! Bitters
Cures Chills and Fevtr, Uypffia, jnatjesnon, voite,
.?,! Xiamask: Iironihitts. Asthma, Aeuraigia, Kkeu
matismJ Jre.
A universal, rroii;-Ta
1 A sure safe and reliable preventive and cure lor
all Malarial diseasesi,' ana au aiseasea requiring a
ireneral tonic impression. j I ;
Prepared only by lJr ! A. II. OUUlills, ana ior
sale everywhere. .JAMES 1. VtfluUiivo, -
rSuccessortoJ. il. cater io.,j rropriei.rjr jtcu.
n(i vt iiniesaie ucaicriiii i icui uucuiviuo,
Virginia. M . LAPru-u,iIOUJ 1
1
Justices Summons, or iWarraiit
t f. . . Just print sd and for sU at this Office. J
, , The Increase of Crime.
r Referring to the newspaper record
'J
crime
if
and -casualties in New aork and Tieinityj within
a lewdays, the Episcomlian says: u The-Vasua
ties such as boiler, explosions. , the t collisions ip,
the harbor, and the railroad accidentsj are things
bad enough in their way, but what shall we say
ot tne crimes. r hat of the bank j president
who was killed jon the Long Island Raproad; and
who was subseqjuently discovered to be a idefault-
er to ine amount ot 200,0UU f YY hat l ot the
wealthy citizen m . Fifth avenue who attempted
to make way with his lifesimply because he wajs
embarrassed in pecuniary affairs and j amazed at
the extravagance ot his family? What of the
various murders and other atrocities, the;! partie
ipauts in which embrace all ages, from boy falooo
to hoary age f yv hat; but that, crime at times
puts on t ne cnaracter oi an epiacmic, i ana seems
to carry everything before it? What, but that
the rampant ;Worldliness. the criminal eixtrava!-
gauce, the hot haste to berich, no matter how,
the passion, for pomp and display, which! are so!
painfully promised, are doing-, their inevitable
work, at the devil s
bidding.
Not . that the
devil is any
busier to-day. i however,, than he
Has been from the begiuning; not that ''the mys
tery qi iniquity: iS more luconiprehensible now
than it was yesterday, last month or last year,
but that the powers of evil may be concentrating
their strength to regain ground which; has herer
tofore been lost to them through the efforts of
Christianity, land 1 the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit. V e put this view .of the case I to the
hearts and conscience of all christian" meii. and
of all who are anxious to labor for moral reforms!
We put it also, to! the churches, as such, in the
hope that it will quicken them in their! efforts to
extend the kingdom of God. i If atan increases
lis devices for the ; destruction, of soul&i they
must likewise seek to increase 'their influence ti
save and preserved We must look 'facts, frbidJ
ding as they may be, straighi in the j face, and
adapt our course accordingly.! If Action,'!' earuj
est action is the word, with ;business men .and
men of the world who would accomplish an y4
thing, so must it be with the church in its con
flict with evil. Let us be in earnest.
Railroad Matters.
A meeting
oft:
le Presidents and
Si
uperintenj
dents of ! various
Railroads in the JSoutheru
tates convened
in LoiuniDia, ooutji Laroana
I On motioaof Wui. A. Bmithi
.ml 1 ' ri . t ill 1 J
week before lust.;
Col. Wm.i Johnston, President of the Columbia;
Charlotte and Augusta railroad, was calle to the
Chair, lie explained the object of the meeting
to-be to arrange the schedule to meet the
iDg lines from New Orleans and Mobile to points
North, and, as far as possible, to harmoni
ze the
conflicting interests ot the various lines
Dele
rates reported from nearly all the principal con
nectiDg lines of Virginia, the Carolinas, (Georgia
ami Alabama. A committee were appointed to
ramea scneuuie as soon as practicaoie. a com
mittee were also appointed to devise some plan
to protect "growers aud shippers of - vegjetables
rom Southern to Ivortliem markets against
raud. Resolutions favorable to reduced rates
for immigrants were adopted. ' A resolution was
Itlso adopted j relative to the appointment of a
committee to consider tne propriety 01 iicKets
reduced rates to land buyers.
A Curious CasePoisoned by a Razor.
A barber J named William Brewster,
doing
weeks
business at C
liatham, Ontario, about sixl
since, was called
to shave a man whose death was
y
occasioned bv lung fever: the instrument h(
used was afterward laid by, to be used np 'mon
as a razor But! being one j morning without i
knife, and desiring to sharpen his pencil, Brew
ste'r used the-razor for the purpose, and during
the operationj cut aslight gash m the left j fore
finger. In an hour or two the finger commencec
aching, and continued to grow, "worse, until the
whole hand and arui were fearfully swollen,-and
the flesh in spots, assumed a mottled -appearance!
HaviDg doctored for four weeks, withoutsnccess,
among the skilled physiciaus at Chatham, Brew;
ster came to this city to seek relief at the jStj.
Mary's Hospital, lie had lost' .the entire tiseot
the arm and it had swollen to four times I its
natural size, the flesh emitting a bad odor. r
Ttltgrom. : . "'. i y . - - j -
Carding Machine.
I take pleasure in informing my friends! and the
public that my CARDING MACHINE, on thj waiers
of Jlallaru creeK, is now in jiisi rate oraer, uu
ready to card into rolls all Wool that may beibrougfit
in. The Machine now runs by water, ana 1 guar
antee to do as good WQrk as can be done anywhere.
All Wool left at the storexoif Bariinger & Wolfe,
in Charlotte, wilf be taken out,: carded and-xeturned
Carding done at 10 cents per pound. 1:1 I
1 ! W. BRYCE COCHRANE.
Mallard Creek, July 19, 18(9 .. Swx i j j
State of North Carolina, Gaston c
Superior Court. - I r,
David Ilhyne, Administrators,
Geo. C Khyhe. i f ,'
x
WPiT. Sbipp and
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that
Geo. C. Ithyne, the defendant above named, has left
the State, and the ordinary process of law cannot be
served on him it is ordered by the Court that pub
lication be made, for four weeks, in the (Western
Democrat, notifying; tne said jdetendant to appear
before the Superior Court for Gaston county, on! the
Cth Monday alter - the 4th Monday ; in ; feeptemper,
1809. and answer the. plaintiffs complaint, or the
plaintiffs will take judgment against "him- for four
hundred and eighty dollars, with costs of this action
Witness, E. II. Withers, Clerk bf the Superior
Court for the county of Gaston, at office in Dallas,
14th July, 1869.1 l E. H. WITHE KS, U
80-4w $8adv. ;
TURNIP SEED,
Early Flat Dutch,'
rut pie l op,
Large
Norfolk,
Seven Top, and Kuta Baga. ;
n Jnst received at
July. 19, 1869 r
KILGORE & CUBETON'S,
; . i. Springs' Corner.
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Tanners' Oil, , Uank UU,
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July 19, 18691
KILGORE & CURET05;
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DA VI D SON C O L LEG E ,
' ! MECKI.ENBTJRG COUNTIT, N-iC. j
The 83d Collegiate year will open September 2,
18C9. Preparatory Department .discontinued, i For
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July 12, 189
W. RICHARDSON, Clerk-
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London
Horror.
Domestic 'Jevbtiori-
Pbvertv ;. Vesterati6nl and
Death,
Less
than three .weeks have : passed . since a
terrible
domestio , tragedy eepurred in London
In Hosier Lane,- Sniithfield. almost within a
stone's throw of the spot where so many martyrs
were burped at;, the stake, three centurit s ago.
lived afaniily yarned l)uggan. The family cin
sisted of. Walter .)nggan, the father. Emma; his
wife,tbree sous ,and . th-ee daughters. The
children ranged, aa to. age, fiom : thirteen years
down to between one' and' two years; the eldest
being son the. .youngest a -daughter. 'The
whole of; jtbis family -father, mother and six
chiidret---on the morn ing bf the 28th of June,
were fiuiidlby thelpolice lying dead in two
chanibrs bf the house which they occupied.
1 he hildi"eh had been-poisoned during the night
by the itather, the wretched mother consenting
to their1 death. : For four jhrurs subsequently
Duggaij and; his wife st together in the chamber
surrounded :by lheir deadj children!! . Before
tbeui, 011 a' cot by himself, the eldest boy 'was
lying on his back and slightly "on his side."
On another cot were jtwQ girls, oqe twelve and
the other sir. decently covered up and both dead
On the
mother's bed we're the three joungerTthanuro per acre.
children, two boys andia girl, also dead. What
passed iDetween JJuggan and his wile in that
awful interval between ihe (3,elath of their children
' ""!- 1 I' . I-. 'S- . :.rtt'
and their own suicide will never now be known.
But, towards morning, the evidence goes to
prove that pJrs. luggiin undressed herself, and
lym
chi'l
mgddwn oh the bed beside her three vounest
ldreri tWk'a.spponJ containing; about thirty
drops of prussic acid, from the hands of her hus-
bund, and swallowing the terrible dose- nut her
hands beneath. the. bed! clothes and died. " Only
Duggan then remained alive. After drawing
the bed
covered
clothes over his dying wife, until they
he
breast, hejjtook with him the fatal
poison and
went into the
adjoining room, "011
I Here he undressed
the' secon
,d
fldor.backh
hi nisei f
and
driuking from a small glass the re-
mainder
of
10
the poismjstagjered into bed! but
before
sqould . compose j himself to die.' was
seized w
ith the mortal pagony. . When Sergeant
Evans,
bf thi; police eii tered the r 00 ui, Duggan
waslyiri
g:oui his back with one. arm beneath the
coverlet
urn ine. oiner aroppmg relaxed over tne
side of the! b
ed and CiOe tolthe ch.-iir 011 which
he had
placed the via labelled ' Poison," land
the empty glass. In he description given by
Evans of the members of the dead family as
they uie't- bis.eyes seven' in the front room of
the second. flcMir, and one itr the adjoining room
buck' he 6ays with a :mplicity of d;ctiori that
is inexpressibly touching, 'They all looked as if
they were asleep and bid not struggled."; j
i he prelude to this'fr igedy is-a 'piteous story.
Tho mail Duggan was Ii native of Bristol, and a
silvers tiiith by trade. and he and his wife hail
lved happily yigether iduriag the whole period
of their married life I Thiev were verv fond of
each ot
ner.'i says the toother of Duggan
rand
anythiu
jg-whieh- affected him Would greatly grieve
her. ; He was a' sober aiid mdustrious man
but had fbrisome time
previous been laboring
of spirits. His childreu
them, he thought, were
unaergreat
' . ! 1 ' '
depression
Some. of
were sickly
-! . .'1. . -
consumptive. lie- himself had
been suffering
for several years at intervals with an anection of
the throat. ; Kecently it had become woreejadd
symptoms or consumption j hart ma te their ap
pearancp -the post inOrtem showing disease of
the lungs of some months standing. . These dis
. t n ' ' 1 Mi t . '
orders acting upon his jmind rendered hi 111 unfit
to work Ho coutinued at! his trade, however.
until the 19th of June, when, he either! left
Adams', his employer, pf his Own ?ccord orjwas
harshly dismissed. puggan's letter to I his
brother! writteu in the,full conieniplation of the
tragedy', wh ich occurredl a few ho'tirs later;charges
Adams jwith being "a liafdlj selfish and narrow
minded man," who; on Diiggan's leaving I "him,
gave him also notice tip quit within a week the
house he occupied; anil which was owned by
Adams. appealed io him," writes Duggan.
ufdr 'soil le .consideration! for my wife and little
ones, and asked if it wer !jpcssibile he coald go
to such I extremes after Iny pating been between
four and five years in his employ." . His answer
wasthat I must be out oft his house "at thbi ex
piration of a week, or lie would , put my things
into the laue.' Ten days bad elapsed since the
conversation thus , refe -red to had taken place.
Duggan had sought eti ploy ment elsewhere, but
f ailed to gei it., , Thj- weiek's wages received
from Adams on part it g from the latter were
nearly exhausted, and bresSed; with "the alter
native t if starving in th "sttcets; the work-house
or death," the Duggani; both husband and wife,
determined on putting themKelves j and tHeir
six children to death. k'jMyself. and Emma, and
the children!," he writes, jare fariom strong ;
.we aire deeply attached !)to each other jeparation
alone wpuld; be ast bad s death,' and we lovejhe
children dearly r---toO;darl to condemn tiiemto
utter wretchedness andlwant." Then followsjin
the midst of his ownjj griat agony v a touchi.of
filial tenderness. ''Break the news gently; to
mother' he. writes, an next adds, in a burst of
uncontrollable anguish ''Oh! the horror of
this nkhtn ;. -V'l;j'-';; !J: ' j
A lttle later perhaps almost before the ink
was dcyf with, which the' concluding words 'Fate-
Tfll 4 Iroror'' XTTaya, Tvrt an noIrlilT nrVioa
f vili. vl,v 'vaw s tvwvu Im uygu
house is exactly eppos
te that occupied by the
DuggansJ saw. a light
in. the front room, first
minutes after midnight.
floor. It was then ten
and from jother testimony- which was elicited be
fore the (?oroner's jury: it marks the. time when
Duggan, in the presence of his -wife, "a very
sympathetic! wauun, and very: affectionate to
wards her husband," wakened the children and
administered., tle . poison to them one by oiie.
From that hour until 4 o'clock io the morning
the wretched couple sut together and bewailed j
their woes. ; Then followed the consummation 1
of the tragedy., The Wouian sought her, bed,
:took. the poison from tre,hands of her husbaqd,
drank it, and died in the midst of her children.
A few ; minutes afierwrd& Va flickering light"
was observed in -Duggan's. room., Presently it
went outL t He, too, had i swallowed tho fatal
draught and ail was darkness.
RaSiie! ' IlANDKEadiitjWe have
been
shown several haudkerchiefs made in New Or
leans from tlie' Ramie
plant., -'The texture is
Inandkerchiefs are a trite
finer than silk.and the
pretty. ; Tbo price paid Tor them was One dollar
each. Vt(mtngtfyn,itar: ; , 1
'3 n
. How to have Good lleadowH.
- ,3Ir N. Piatt, of Bradford county, PeW, In
letter to the Amer'oiq Institttto Farmers' Club,
gives his experience as followi:
My land is adapted to all kind of grain and to
tiiuothyigri.i aud red clover.jl My practice is,
when I sow. a piece to grass, not to plow (t tgaia
in eight yeJik, and I frequently let it lie a much
longer time. L have a meadow now which hsfl
been mgied for sixteen tocccasivo years, and it
wasnever better than now. In act, my'mead
ows, under the right treatment, grow better n
they row blder. I do it by returning to a mead
ow all the manure the hay made that was take a
from it, and soinjr a bushel of gysum per
acre each year. In- i-hit way 'the yield jof grass"
is heavier and finer and richer as 'the sod
thickens. . t " . ' ' f- 'r m "!, ,
. I used manure only for top-dressing tne mead.'
ows; in that way I got double price for it. " It
produces as much worth of gpss as it would in
grain, and'also reproduces" itelf again j, in thi
turf. 31y turf, when ready 'fov plowing . under,
is a solid body of grass toots twelve inches deep
or more, and so thick on the top that no soil caa
oe seen. 1 nsiacrone sucn iurt, when turned
under, equal tjrl GO tons of firstclass barn-yard
Land ao often plowed for grain gives up to the.
grain all the bone beef and tallow there is in it;
consequently the grass crop is so destitute of nu '
triment-that farm stock rill oat. thrive well upon-
it without grain a portion ot : tho season II p
furnishes a plenty of skin and rib as the cattle . .
are witnesses, Ji)ut the flesh' is minus, j Qraps
grown upon land kept in the right kind of order
for grass, will keep stock in first- rate order at
all seasons of the year. I have .seen, it tried in
both ways, and 1 know whereofl spea ; liais
ing grain on a piece of ground , three seasons to
two of grass enriches it in the same -ratio that
paying S3 for &! would enrich a man.! Like
produces like in grass as in breeding, consequent
Iy, manure made of good hay
i :
is the best tor.
meadows. : it stands to reason
. j 1, I
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for meadows to
grow better when their own pro
ly Returned to them. y
duction is honest
Many of our writers on agriculture have in
comes from other sources beside their farm, and
can fo.fow any system of rotation and have plen
ty of time and leisure. But the man who bo
gins at (he foot of the hill, ruus in debt for twe
t hirds of his farm, all his stock and tools, then
clears his land of stone and stomps,- walls it in,
enriches it and puts on the buildings, and raises
a family of children, must soubd all the j depths
of true economy; in that case he must not raise
too much grain; if he docs the Sheriff 'will sell
some of it for him. I -
. ThE Costs of Justice! At the recent
session of the Court of General Sessions, Judge
Boozer, there was tried a case of larceny that is
worthy of mention, as illustrati ve of the costs, if
uot the value of justice in th'cue times of "liber
ty, fraturnity and equality." j A negro stole a
chicken worth thirty-seven cents, lie was con
victed and sentenced to one month's imprison
ment. He had been kept iu jail two months be
fore brouglit to trial. "His case came; on the
thirtecnthday of the session.. The expenses I
have had carefully macja but by an officer of the
court. . They are-as follows For jail cxpensca,
that is fifty cents a day for three months, - are
$45; six witnesses in attendance for twenty days,'
3120; jurors, $18; solicitor's, hcriCTs and clerk's
fess $35; making an aggregate of just $208.
Isu't the tax-payer fond of tbit kind of admin
istration ? Cmrleston JCeics. ' i
Just such cases have occurred in this State.
A man who. has taxes to pay Kid better give a
thief a dozen chickens than arrest and return him
to Court. Too many little trifling matters are
carried to Court. ''.'I V'l: '
v Shall Drunkarus MaiIry? Tbo. State
Temperance Journal advocatesjthc enactment in
Connecticut of a Jaw similar that which i$said4
to exist in some European coujiltry, forbidding a
drinking man to marry, and remarks that "if in
temperance increases much longer ns rapidly as .
it has for a few years past, tlic people will bo
quite ready for a law of the kind." That it is
inexpressibly desirable to present tne marriage f
relation froui being formed by, persons who are ,
becoming drunkards, is' unquestionable; whether
we are ready for a prphibitorjr(Iaw of this sort or
not. We are repeatedly amazed be3'ond measure
at the infatuation of young women in connecting
themselves for life with men of drinking habits
and no less amazed at the; friends of these- ,
young women for encouraging such connections.
But. reaeon and observation weigh very little
with many people in this world of pai-aion and
appetite. . . ' ' ' ' '; ,
. The CRors.1 Fromll sctions of j Western
North Carolina we have cheering accounts of the
fcrpps. The Wheat has all been cut and gathered
in, anqtne crop is pronounce gooa in quantity
and quality.' The Corn is growing finely. Tbo
late wet andcold ppring retarded the plantiog1
fully one month.'and many fears were entertained
that an average crop -could 'not bo expected.
The recent favorable wcdther has fetarted it to
growing in" fine st ye. It now has a healthy
green appearance, with fine" stalk, and gives every
indication of a large crop. Oits aro looking fine
and: will yield a heavy crop. - Rye has also turned
ont equal to any previous yeari"" In some locali-
ties we hear tho peaches were not injured by the
late frosts, and ibe usual croj) wtil be fplbml.
Asnevtue A eves. :
! Crime - Encouraoed. The New York papers
are advertising for the return of the money taken
from tho Ocean Bank, and offer 23 per cent, of
it as a reward to the burglars if t hoy will return
it, 4and no questions askcd'ji When circuta
stances like this exist, it is not strange that crime
stalks through the land. It is encouraged and
paid by such as should nevefjjet interest stand
in the way of justice and until tho laws arenjorb
rigidly enforced, crime will liatttase turf c7t
abate. Newhem Times. ) '
Let the whipping1" post and branding b Re
established and there will bo fewer rotcs to
punish;-,, , . . 1 -II . ..
A Railroad meeting of all the people interest
ed in the ' Cheraw and Salisbury. Road; if to b
held in the town of Wadvboro, oiUb "Oi oJ
August.
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