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A A t 1 fla oxiT 3 j 7 y. K -4- V. ! s-tA viVm "ojw A Y. J. YATES, Editor and Pbopbietob. Terms of Subscription 2, 00, in advance. CHARLOTTE, N. G., FRIDAY, , MAY . 21,; 1880, : TWENTY- ... I . 1 EIGHTH TOLUnCnUnHSQ 143J. if i' i"oifto- n af??.w,at?I JfTi3 iiA XL . - x 77 NYV I HI 1 1 1 1 K, i ill III III I -1 1 III I & 1 1 I. II .11 I If I , . ' . i . . - ' " - ' THE Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BY W I L LI AM J. YATES, Editor "and Proprietor Tkrms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for six months. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. " Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C, as second class postal matter," according to the rules of the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., CHARLOTTE, N. C, (OJice comer 7th and Tryon Streets,) Tenders his professional services to the public, as a practical Surgeon. Will advise, treat or operate in all the different departments of Sorcery: Patients from a distance, when necessary, will be furnished comfortable quarters, and experienced nurses, at reasonable rates. Address Lock Box No. 33. March 5, 1SS0. y Dr. JOHN H. McADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Has on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Family Medicines, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Fancy and Toilet Articles, which he is determined to sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1879. DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist and Pharmacist, Keeps a full line of Pure Druers and Chemicals, White Lead and Colors, Machine and Tanners' Oils, Patent Medicines, Garden Seeds, and every thing pertaining to the Drug business, which he will sell at low prices. March 28, 1879. J. P. McCombs, M. D., tiers his professional services to the citizens of i harlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both light and day, promptly attended to. Mliee in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the i harlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C All calls promptly answered day and night Olliee over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 18. 1".8. DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, ClIAKLOTTK, N. C. OHice in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15. 1878. DR. A. W. ALEXANDER, Dentist, Office over L. R. Wriston & Co.'s Drug Store. I am working ;t prices to suit the times, for Cash. With 25 years' experience I guarantee entire satisfaction. Jan. 18, 1878. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. Jan. 30, 1880 ROBERT D. GRAHAM, Attorney at Law In the State and United States Courts. Collections, home and foreign, solicited. Abstracts of Titles, Surveys, &c, furnished for compensation. Office: corner Trade and Tryon Streets, Jan 9, 1880. yr Ciiaklotte, N. C. A. BURWELL, Attorney at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in the Brick building formerly occupied by "Vance & Burwell," near the Court House. 'June 27, 1879. RUFUS BARRINGER, Attorney at Law, Also, lends money on Real Estate or good collat erals ; negotiates loans, .tc. Bank rules and rates til rift 1 v followed. Charlotte, Dec. 24, 1879 ly-pd Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. E. J. ALLEN, Near Irwin's corner, Trade Street,"! ClIAKLOTTK, N. C, rivA CTICA L WATCH-MAKER, Repairing of Jewelry, "Watches and Clocks done at short notice and moderate prices. April 17, 1876. y HALES & FARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keep a f ull stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spi'eiaeh's, -c , which tlwy sdl at fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c, done 'promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to Springs' corner building. 'ly 1, 1879. J. MCLAUGHLIN & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Provisions, &c, Coi.l.KUK StKKET. ClIAKLOTTK, X. C, Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. r?T" Cotton and other country Produce sold on Commission and prompt returns made. BURWELL & SPRINGS, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Sa-rups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c , which we oiler to both the Wholesale ai d Retail trade. All are in vited to try us from the smallest to the largest hnvers. hm. 17. 1880 WILSON & BURWELL, Wholesale and Retail Druggists, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. August 10, 1878. Drinking Ice Water. Good author! ties tell ua theie is no more doubt that drinking ice water arrests digestion than there is that a refrigerator would arrest perspiration. It drives from the stomach its natural heat, suspends the flow of gas tric juice, and shocks and weakens the deli cate organs with which it comes in contact, An able writer on human diseases says; Habitual ice water drinkers are usually very flabby about the region of the stom ach. They complain that their food lies heavy on that patient organ. They taste their lood for hours after it is bolted. Mortgage Sale. By virtue of authority conferred on me by a cer tain Power of Attorney contained in a Mortgage executed to me by Frank Alexander, which said Mortgage is registered in Book 17, in the Register's Ornce of Mecklenburg county, at page 97, 1 will sell at Public Auction, to the highest bidder, at the Court House in Charlotte, on Monday the 7tn day of June. 1880. the following described property, to wit : That certain Lot or parcel of Land, situated in the City of Charlotte, fronting on First Street, and known m the plan of the City as Lots No. G08 and boy, fronting aa feet on i irst Street and run ning 396 feet to Second Street. Terms of sale, Cash. j. Mclaughlin, May 7, 1880 5w Mortgagee. LAND FOR SALE. I offer for sale, privately, a very valuable Tract of LAND, about one mile and a quarter from the Public Square of Charlotte. There is in the Tract about 150 Acres, well adapted to raising Cotton, Corn, Wheat, &c. It will be sold in a body or in sections to suit purchasers. Apply to S. J. TORRENCE, May 7, 1880 3w Charlotte, N. C. Valuable Mill Property for Sale. I wish to sell my Mill property known as "Stewart's Mills," 6 miles South of Charlotte, in Sharon Township. The Mills consist of Flour, Corn and Saw, together with a good Cotton Gin all run by never failing water-power. Sufficient Land will be sold with the Mills if desired. For further particulars address me at Charlotte or call at the Store of R M. White. II. K. STEWART. March 5, 1880. tf NEW MILLINERY GOODS And New Store. Spring Season, 18S0. Mrs. E. GERTRUDE GRAY of Baltimore, PRACTICAL MILLINER, Near the Court House, Charlotte, N. C. March 2G, 1880 3m For Farmers. 1 P OOO SHANK-HANDLE HOES, of the jVyVyv ijest make, just received by KYLE & HAMMOND. Jan. 23, 1880. TO THE LADIES. 1 have just received another nice lot of Fancy Groceries, such as Okra and Tomatoes in Cans (for soup), Buffalo Tongues, Breakfast Bacon, Mince Meat, Apple Butter, Sardines in Tomatoes, the nicest Hoi;ey in market and Mushrooms. II. T. BUTLER, Agent, Feb. G, 18S0. Old PosfOffice. SCHIFF & GRIER, Grocers and Commission Merchants, Have one of the largest and best assorted Stocks of Staple and Fancy Groceries In the State. Close and prompt Trade especially invited. They are Agents for the PLANTERS' FAVOR ITE and LONG'S PREPARED CHEMICALS, Fertilizers too well known to need further com mendation. Call for the book with testimonials from all sections. The' are also Agents for Sterling Baking Powder, One of the purest and best. Chemists of national reputation recommend it, such as Prof . Doromusof New York, and others. Sample Package free. Try it. Attention of Physicians called to it. For sale by all leading Grocers. SCHIFF & GRIER. Charlotte, N. C, Dec. 24, 1879. PLEASE READ THIS. Complete Burst of the Great Monopoly. The following is the latest Price List of Ziegler Bros.' goods, of which a complete line can be found at J. MOVER'S Boot and Shoe Store, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. Best Pebble Goat Button Boots, French heel, $2.75 " Kid Box Toe " " " " 3 25 Fox 3 00 " Serge High Cut Kid Lace, " " Fox Lace, Kid Newport Ties, Kid Fox Lace Boots, Serge Pebble Goat Congress Boots, 300 300 2.50 250 o 2 25 2 50 plain heel, Serce 2 50 " Kid"crimp Vamp Cong, boots, plain heel, 3 25 Finest French Kid Button Boots, French heel, i 00 My Stock of Gents' goods cannot be sur passed. Call and see them. April 16, 1880. J- MOVER. AT RIGLER'S Candies Both Plain and Fancy. We claim that we have as good if not better than you will find elsewhere, and at prices as low if not "lower than you can buy the same in the city. FR UITS, Nuts, Raisins, Citron and Currants, and Seedless Raisins for your Christmas Cake. The best assortment of Plain and Fancy Crackers ever brought to the city. CANNED GOODS of all descriptions. Here is the place to buy your CAKES AND BREAD, as we make a specialty of Cakes. Come and see us. Respectfully, D. M. RIGLER. Dec. 12 1879. Paint, Varnish, &c. We have the largest and best assorted stock of Pain- Vn i.-li, White-wash and Shoe Brushes in the Male. WILSON & BUUWilLL, April 16, 1880. Druggists. Debt Paying. : .... The following recently' appeared in he Christian Observer, and is . well worth reading: 1 1 - M "There is one great evil in this. country which we think the pulpit and the pre ought to denounce more lrequently than they do that is, the habit of getting iu debt and making no effort to pay Can man be a consistent Christian anjl not' strive to pay all his debts? Can a man : be a Christian and not be honest? Is 'a man1 who does not try to live within his riiean and pay his debts an honest man? If soj we do not understand the Bible. Should men who habitually disregard their finan cial obligations be allowed to remain in the. church? We think not, 'and think that man's being a member bf liie cnafch ought to be a letter of ctedit in any part of the globe where the Christian religion prevails. Hut it is not the case; far from it. as there are even some ministers whose 6ermons do no good because they are preached by men who are not considered honest by even men of the world. Whiskey is pronounced the great evil of this country, and it is a great curse : but we doubt whether it does more harm to the cause of the church than the lying and dishonesty of sober church members, whose promise to pay is not worth the paper it is written on. Tin church is'not the place for fraud and dis honesty." The New Kind of Butter. The butter manufacturers ot the country are very much alarmed at the growing pop ularity of oleomargarine, which in many localities is becoming a serious competitor tor real butter. lhe butter trade ot iew York is very much exercised, and at a re cent meeting adopted a strong circular let ter for general distribution among dairy men, urging them to use all possible means to resist the sale and manufacture of oleo margarine,' and to influence the enactment of laws for the punishment of what is al leged "a deception." That this movement appears to be in earnest is also illustrated by a bill introduced in the House a few days ago by Mr Cox, of New York, to levy a tax of ten ceuts per pound on the article. To attempt to interfere with the manufac ture and sale of oleomargarine as a legiti mate business, and expect Congress to specially tax it as such, will not only prove itself a failure, but go a great way toward popularizing the article among a class oi persons who probably without this opposi tion could never be persuaded to touch it. The idea that the articles beef suet and milk of which oleomargarine is manufac tured should contain any more impurities than cream itself is the shallowest sort of reasoning. Beef suet is used for some of the most delicate dishes we eat, and why it is any more injurious when worked into butter we are at a loss to understand. The truth is, the real objection to oleomargarine is not that it is made of objectionable ma terial, but that it has become a dangerous rival for butter, and will eventually reduce the price of it to a reasonable figure. For ney's Washington Chronicle. Smith's Worm Oil Is perfectly harmless, and will remove every worm when given according to directions. It costs only 25 cents. It is worth that much to feel assured that your child is not wormy. You can get it at Du. T. C. SMITH'S May 14, 1880. Drug Store. State of North Carolina, Mecklenburg Co. Superior Court. Thomas L. Johnston and others against M. L. Davis, Administrator of S. A. Davis, deceased. Pursuant to a Decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, made in the above entitled action, at Fall Term, 1879, the Creditors of Samuel A. Davis, late of said county, deceased, are hereby notified by their Attorneys, on or before Thursday the 24th day of June, 1880, to come in and prove their debts before Jno. R. Erwin, Clerk of said Court, at his Office at the Court House in Charlotte; or in default thereof thev will be peremptorily ex cluded from the benefit of said Decree. JNO. It. ERWIN, 32-6vv. Clerk of Superior Court. ICE CREAM P E II R Y At S Smoke PERRY'S Bouquet Cigars the best 5 cent Cigars ever sold in this market the rich man's luxury, the poor man's solace, the traveler's favorite. May 14, 1880. NOTICE- I have sold my stock of Groceries to Messrs. Brothers & Henderson, and commend them to the attention of my old customers and friends. April 14, 1880. R. 15. ALEXANDER. New Firm. Having bought Mr Alexander's stock of Goods, we request a share of public patronage, and promise to sell Groceries, and all sorts of family provisions, at as low rates as any house in the city. J. L. BHOTHERS, April 16, 1880. E. T. HENDERSON. ANOTHER ARRIVAL OF NEW Spring and Summer Dress Goods AND TRIMMINGS, Very handsome and cheap. Just in our third Stock of Summer Silks, in new and very desirable patterns. The handsomest line of DRESS BLTTONS in the city. A beautiful assortment of White Goods in fine and cheap Fabrics, Laces, Gloves, Hosiery, the handsomest and cheapest line in the market. T. L. SEIGLE & CO. May 14, 18S0. HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. We have just received a beautiful line of Foreign and Domestic Cretonnes, All grades. Also, Cottage Drapery, Languedoc, Lace Cur tains. Nottingham Laces, Cane Matting, Carpets, Rugs, Table and Floor Oil Cloths, and a very hand some line of DRESS G O OD Sa Laces, White Goods, &c, &c. EST" Call and see us. ALEXANDER & HARRIS. May 7, 1SS0. .. . A Keal Awakening. , . , From the Macon Christian Advocate 1 '! t , In the Nashville Advocate for April 24, we find a strongly written communication from Uev. U. r . Evans, urging up.nunri8 t,ian men the solemn, ind exigent duty of voting as they pray 1 he Tejta Advocate k- eps up its brave fight against corrupt men ir-mce. - ibe western nas made some center shots. .The Southern -Christian Ad- vocate ot April J4, contains a -vigorous paper , from our friend, Kev. W. U. Ivixk- Jand, which we take pleasure ii copying for his arguments apply in all the States as well as in South Carolina. Iiroth r Kirk land says: "We are soon to enter upon another sea- 1 eon of poetical excitement. In a lewrnontha the conventions wTlJJbe neld.the cin'didaies will be nominated, and the voice of the stump-speaker will be heard in the land. Even now candidates for every office, from President to coroner, are being announced, and their friends are very active in nr-iug their respective "claims." What are tin Christian people and the mural pcopl oi South Carolina going n do about it ? Who are to fill the various coin.ty and S ate of fices? This is a question .which we should begin now to discus , mi that the influence -t th moral poitioii of iery t oinmunity m;i be united and coiicv-utrated. We have too long left this matter to lie machine politicians. In many places our best men hold themselves aloof from politics. Asa result, wicked and very unworthy men have sometimes been elected to legislate lor and govern a professedly Christian people. These things ought not so to bt. No gam bler should hold office. No di unkard should hold office. No man should hold office who does not pay his debts, or who has not an untarnished reputation for honesty and pro bity. No person should hold office whose private life is immoral and corrupt. No person should hold office who is not quali fied in head and heart for the proper dis charge of its duties. llow bhould wicked men and incompe tent men be kept out, and good men and true be p'aced in office at the ensuing elec tion? It cannot be done if the Chri tian and moral people hold their peace. It cannot be done if they neglect or ig nore the primaries and nominating conven tions. It cannot be done if they vote b'.indly for any and every candidate who may secure the nomination. But it can be done if they resolve now to use their best efforts to have the right kind of men nominated, and if they de ermine to vote only for men of irreproachable char acter. Christian men should vote as they pray. You pray that the Lord would give us up right and God-fearing men for our rulers. Do all in your power, by voice, vote and influence, to answer your prayers. Don't sell your liberty as a Christian citizen to any individual, clique, party or machine un der the sun. To your own Master you stand or fall. You are just as responsible to God for the use you make of your citi zenship as you are for the employment of any other talent." Russians at Court. In the Romanoff gallery at the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg), the attention of the visitor is attracted by a green curtain on one of the walls ; it conceals a table in scribed with the very curious rules which Catherine the Great caused to be observed at her assemblies. These were as follows: "1. Leave your rank outside as well as your hat, and especially your sword. 2. Leave your right of precedence, your pride and any similar feeling outside the door. 3. Be gay, but do not spoil anything ; do not break or gnaw anything. 4. bit, stand, walk as you will, without reference to any body. 5. Talk moderately and not very loud, so as not to make the ears and heads ofothers ache. 6. Argue without anger and without excitement. 7. Neither sigh nor yawn, nor make anybody dull or heavy. 8. In all innocent games, whatever one pro poses let all join. 9. Eat whatever is sweet and savory, but drink with moderation, so that each one may find his legs on leaving the room. 10. Tell no tales out of bchool; whatever goes in one ear must go out of the other before leaving the room. A transgressor against these rules 6hall, on the testimony of two witnesses, for every offence drink a glass of cold water, not ex cepting the ladies, and, further, read a page of the "Teleraachiad" aloud. The "Tele machiad" was the work of a very feeble and evidently much despised poet named Tread iakoffsky. Whoever breaks any three of these rules during the eame even- ig shall commit six lines of the "Tele- machiad" to memory ; and whoever offends against the tenth rule shall not again be ad mitted." ScEf" A preacher was on an Alabama River Steamer, in the old days of racing. The Captain, seeing a rival boat half a mile ahead, began to curse, and order tar, pine knots, bacon, etc., to be thrown in, to kin dle the fire as hot as possible; and as the steam got higher and higher, the fatalistic preacher edged his way farther back on deck. The ioll v Captain seeing this tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Hallo, here, brother E ! I thought you was one ol them fellars what believes that what is to happen, will happen." "So I do," said the preacher ; "but I'd like to be as near the stern as possible when it does happen!" Ex-Gov. Edward Clark died at his residence at Marshall, Texas, on Tuesday morning. lie was elected lieutenant Governor in 1860 on the bam Houston ticket. When the Secession Convention assembled in 1861, Houston refused to take the oath required or to recognize the Con federate Government. He was deposed, and Clark became Governor. .n: Cinchona Rubra a Ctire for. Drunkenness. . y From the Ban Fr&ncisoo Bulletin. J- The following is a trne story. The 'au thor is known to4nany readers ofth Bal letin.y As a narrative of personal experi ence it is almost as graphic as De Qaincey't "Confessions of ari vpium-Eater : - Editor Bulletin : My . experience of the. enect ot Cinchona Rubra seems likely, to prove of benefit, to others, and I have there- iore, ana lor that reason alone, requested a friend to submit this true recital i to yon for publication, buch confessions can only .be made reluctantly, and ought to be taken as the outgrowth ol a wish, to help. .other suf ferers to the attainment of, a new , peacej beaUbj td ' sankr. t7-'t r -j fT ! ,V A year ago, 1 seemed a hopeless wreck. I had lost business and social position, was without employment, mud was drinking hard. My own misery and the wretched ness of those at home was beyond expres sion, and beyond belief by any who have not closely watched the work of alcohol. Ev ry fnend was justly . alienated, and I and n.iue were eating the bread of charity at the hands of those who pitied the wife whom I had sworn to protect. I cannot describe how bitter a slave I was to this bad appetite, nor .the mean devices I would adopt to satisfy it. One epileptiform attack succeeded another, my mind was going, my nerves were shattered, and the great mystery of my disgrace was that I had not suffered a pronounced attack of delirinm tremens or even sunk into a drunkard's grave. By the blessed 6orcery of a Peruvian twig, this unspeakable curse, which had hung upou us for thirty years is at last removed. Hi moved, not through any change of heart, or will, or intellect, not through my own sharp agony, not because of the awiul tdirinking from me of my little ones, not by the iust damnation of nublic fcorn, not by the sacred sorrow and wrest ling supplications of my noble wife. For I would to-day be as powerless as ever in the grip of the fierce thirst if my physical nature were not changed and renovated. On the 20th day of May last I began taking the Cincho Kubra, in doses (during the nrst four days) of a teaspoonful every three hours. During the three intervening nights I gradually ceased to dream that I was dru.ik a horror which had for about a year made me shrink from bedtime, and which rivaled DeQuincey's eloquent opium- dream of "crocodiles and all slimy things confounded in Nilotic mud." Mv appetite for food revived slowly, but seemed to re quire more than anything else hot bowls of beet tea from Liebig's Extract, and plenti ful slices of buttered toast. The fourth night I dreamed again, but the menace of foul monsters yielded to boy ish thoughts of icy brooks laughing through alder copses, and leaping trout, and the drum of the ruffled grouse. On the fifth day, dimly hoping that my redemption was beginning, I dared to face the 2,800 grogshops of the city. The roar, and rush, and crowd of the streets pierced me like a lancet ; but with my shiver of unrest came no accustomed thirst: and when a throb of positive hunger came to me I went into a bar-room for my lunch feeling safe. There stood facing me the naked blandishments ot all choice vintages, and distillations, and brews, and a white-aproned master of the mysterious formulas ol all mixed drinks. But their invocation seemed merely like the murmur of a Mcmnoa, about whom I feel neither knowledge nor curiosity, neither terror nor reverence, neither longing nor dislike. Dazed by this novel insensibility to temp tation, 1 went home, but do not care to en large upon the surprise and joy of the wel come which awaited upon me. I had ter ribly undercalculated a nervousness which ought to have kept me in the house a day or two longer; but quiet came toward nightfall, and the assurance that I was less "possessed of the Devils" gave peaceful sleep again. lhat dav was the crisis. Prom then un til now it has been as impossible for me to drink as though whiskey were molten iron. I feel neither horror nor disapproval of the long list of intoxicants. I simply cannot touch them. Were I to phrase this fact of absolute indifference a myriad ways they would do poor justice to its value, however much its iteration might tire you. For it is this which proves to my entire convic tion that my drunkenness was a disease, and that I am cured because it is a curable disease. If, in other words, there had occurred during the last eleven months one momen tary impulse towards relapse, I might well join the experienced Gough in pronouncing even such reformation as my own a delu sion and a sham, a bubble to be pricked by some provocation at some devil's opportuni ty or other. Agreeing that no man is safe so long as his nature is characterized by this "dipsomania" or thirst-madness, I am proof enough that, at any rate in certain cases, the appetite may be killed while the individual is kept alive. Such a one is saved because he has no will left to himself in the matter; he is sobered and restored, so to speak, in spite of himself. I bought one eight-ounce vial ot the ex tract after another, at Burnett's drug-store, and presume that the preparations of any other respectable druggists are equally effi cient. Beginning, with a teaspoonful every three hours, I have gradually reduced my doses to a present -quantity of a quarter teaspoonful twice or three times a week. Beside its safeguard against any return of the old curse, this conqueror of the quinine tree is a superb tonic, and I would have died outright from exhaustion and over work during the lll-paid months which next succeeded my recovery but for its strength ening aid. I speak of all this not in a spirit of prolix egoUsm, 1?ei because somctmixxgly slight symptom or fact may. pdsit tctsl and specwltapomncetxna.otf!1' How profonnd'and tMqjUyM of the friends, who nbw cluster arooad me know to the full; and they share the joy of my happy wife and innocent 'children in my present success. : Stripped of the dead drugof this poison of mid, and Jody, and soul, very Ucnlty seems equipped with vigor ( t and to perfect my comfort' it' only remains that He who has aye3 me may so save ahotherthrphgh my, agency, ';. , U 1 i President', AidnWr Joiiaibi a&d Co&fed rate 0Ocer.rV, ' A Life of theu late Senator Zachariah Chandler of JUichigan, . has beeir published in Chicago. One of the Chicago papers publishes a long extract from it, giving the particulars of repeated conferences between President Andrew Johnson, Zack Chandler, Ben Wade and Gen'L Butler, as to the die position to be made of Jefferson .Davis and other officers of the Confederate Govern ment and army at the close of the war. Johnson is represented (Sunday, April 16, 186.5,) as being furiously revengeful and contending that no punishment could be too severe, and as to Jen. Davis, that when captured be should be summarily existed. To this they all agreed, whilst all the ether parties to the conference endeavored to moderate Johnson's sanguinary purposes as to other Confederates. Chandler is quoted as saying, "You have only to hang-a fw of these traitors and all will be peace and quiet in the South.' Johnson asked the Erofet8ionaI ; opinion of Butler, whether avis, Benjamin, Floyd, Wigfall. and the other civil officers of the Confederacy could . 1 - J - rii. m no i, ue ineu n? a military commission r Butler replied that" they ' could be if cap tured in the insurrectionary States, in any locality under military control, and where no civil authority existed or was ' recog nized ; not otherwise. Johnson said, Davis would be captured, dead or alive. The ex tract from the book closes as follows : "During the early stages of this work Mr Chandler. Gen. Butler, and . others who firmly held that stern punishment should be meted out to a few conspicuous Rebels not in a spirit of vengeance, but from a be lief that salutary results would follow if it should be . established as a historical fact that in the Uuited States treason is a high crime whose penalty -is death were con stantly anxious lest the President should by some violent act or word destroy the moral effect of their position. In public he said repeatedly at this time that "the pen alties of the law must be in a stern ana in flexible manner executed npon conscious, intelligent, and influential traitors," but his private utterances far outstripped this lan guage, and were often scarcely less than bloodthirsty. Mr Chandler, on one occa sion, came away from the White House greatly disturbed by Mr Johnson's disposi tion to treat this subject with mere anger, and characteristically said to Senator Wade and Mr Hamlin, "Johnson has the night mare, and it is important that he should be watched." Gen. Butler's memorandum Mr Chandler heartily approved as clear in scope, just in spirit, and certain to prove effective in operation j but, by the time it was fully completed, a great change had taken place in the disposition of the Presi dent. In April he was in favor of hanging everybody; in June he was opposed to hanging any one. He finally ignored en tirely the memorandum which Gen. Butler had drawn up at his request, and 1 decided that Davis should be tried by the civil au thorities at Richmond, where bis crimes had been committed. As a result the Arch- - Rebel was allowed to remain in prison at Fortress Monroe for nearly two years, be cause of the lack of a civil Court compe tent to take jurisdiction of his case. In 1866 he was indicted and arraigned, and in 1867 was admitted to bail; a year later a nolle prosequi was entered and the case against him dismissed." I wonder if Gov. Swain had any agency in producing this remarkable change in Johnson's purpose 7 I know that he visited Johnson, by invita tion, and can well understand what his ad vice and influence would be. : They are both dead, and cannot speak for themselves, except through their actions and characters and these were widely different. 'J7." in Hale's Weekly. New Spelling. In September, !879, the Chicago Tribune began some abbreviations in common spell' ing, under the title of reforms, its editor-in- chief, Mr Joseph Medill, being a strong ad' vocate for a new system ot orthography. The changes aimed chiefly at the elimina tion of certain superfluous endings of words that had been imported into the language from the French, such 'as ue in dialogue, catalogue, pedsgogue, etc., where the pre ceding vowels are short ; the dropping of the final e in such words as definite and favor ite, and the final te in cigarette, quartette, etc., and the change of ph to f in phonetic, philosophy, phantom, eta r Lsst Sunday the Tribune published letters from onie hun dred representative men, including twenty Presidents ot leading Colleges and forty1 five principals of educational institutions, all favoring the new spelling, -which has also been adopted by the Utica Herald, the Toledo Blade, the Library Journal, the Princeton Review, the New York Indepen dent, and a number of newspapers less widely known. The English language is no doubt incumbered by a load of useless silent letters, but it will take a large amount of edncation to reconcile the masses of the people to all the cbanges proposed.' ' ' t?$r Jesse Holmes, the fool-killer." reports to the Milton Chronicle that he killed a Cas well county man for trying to jew the post master at Leaaburg down ba the price ol postage stamps
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
May 21, 1880, edition 1
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