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A A A :' " A hi I . . -r .. . ... M rrfSV 1 V J YATES, Editor and Teopbibtoe. Term, of Subscription $2. 00, in advance. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1880. twenty- EIGHTH YOLUUE--rNlJIJCER 1439. y lkj whvj avt av t 1 -3 THE Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM. J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor . Tkbms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar and Twenty-five Cents for six months. Subscription! 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, (ojict corner 5t7i and Try on Streets,) Tenders his r rof essional services to the public, as a practical Surzton. Will advise, treat or operate in alt the ti'th.re: t departments of Surgery. Patients from a d.st.iu.- , -when necessary, will be furnished comfortable q.iarters, and experienced nurses, at reasonable i ate. Address Lock Box No. 33. March 5, 180. y Dr. JOHN B-JttcADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Has on hand a large and well selected stock of PURE DRUGS, Chemicals, Patent Medicine, 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 Drugs 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., ' flers his professional services to the citizens of ( 'harlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the l harlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1873. DR. J. M. MILLER, Charlotte, N. C All calls promptly answered day and night. Office over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 18.1 87 8 DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office 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 at 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. 1 raotice 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 Chaulotte, N. C. A. BRWELL, Attorney at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in the Brick building formerly occupied by " Vanco & 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, &c. Bank rules and rates strictly followed. Charlotte, Dec. 24, 1879 ly-pd T. M. ITTMAN, Attorney at Uw (Oppmle the Court House, Chaulotte, N. C.,) Practices in the State and U. S. Courts, and gives prompt attention to business. Will negotiate loans. May 28, 1880. Om Watches, Clocks and Jewelry. E. J. ALLEN, ItUACTICAL WATCH-MAKER, tf 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. O.j Kc'j a tull stock handsome Jewelry, am Clocks, Styieotaules, c, whidh they sell at fair prices. ' Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, 4c, done promptly, and satisfaction assurod. Store next to Springs' comer building. ',!lyJ 1879- j. Mclaughlin & co., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Groceries, Provision 3., WflLjYfctiit Street, ' Charlotte, N. C, 6(4 U Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price, CP CottoB and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. BURWELL & SPRINGS, (Jrppers and Prpyisigq Eje$Jest ifae afways in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, rups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Grass Seeds, Plows, Ac, which we ofier to both the Wholesale aid Retail trade. All are in vited to try us from the smallest to the largest layers. Jan. 17, 1880. 23f The National Journal of Education speaks wisely when it says: "The man or woman who cannot stand before the chil dren as a daily 'object lesson in practical religion, good morals, and gentle manners, and has not the vitality and tact to use the events of the world around the children for moral instruction ; and to cull from the Bible, and all good books, the appropriate passages to enforce the lesson, is simply unfit for the post of teacher." Administrator's Sale of CITY PROPERTY. As Administrator of Roderick McDonald, de ceased, and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county made tipon a peti tion to make Real Estate assets, I will sell at auc tion at the Court House door in Charlotte, on the 22d day of July, 1880, at 12 o'clock M., the follow ing described Lots to-wit: Lots No. 1003 and 999 in Square 120 in plat of the city of Charlotte, the first fronting on Myers and the second on Boundary street ; also, one other Lot or parcel of land on Graham street in the City of Charlotte in Square 148 beginning on the street at a point known as the Strange and Norment corner and running thence South 43, East 105 feet to a stake on the Southwest side of Graham street, thence with Southwest side of Graham street South 48, West 278 feet, thence down to the branch North 45, West 88 feet to a stone, thenca 273 feet to the beginning. Terms made known on the day of sale. J. M. MILLER, June 18, 1830. 4w Administrator. EXECUTORS' NOTICE. The undersigned, Executors of the Will of H. S. Pharr, hereby notify all persons haviug claims against tbe Estate of the said deceased, to present the same to us on or before the first day of July, 1881, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery ; and all persons indebted to said Estate are notified that prompt payment will be required of them. T. F. PHARR, M. M. PHARR, June 25, 1880 6w Executors. NOTICE. A certificate for one (1) Share of the capital stock of the North Carolina Railroad Company, standing in the name of H. S. Pharr. No. 1193, dated Sept. 12, 18S9, has been lost. Notice is hereby given that application will be made for the issue of a duplicate certificate in lieu thereof, and the public are warned against trading for said lost certificate. T. F. PHARR, M. M. PHARR, June 25, 1880 Gw Executors of H. S. Pharr. Carriages, Phaetons, Buggies, &c. Another supply of Carriages, Phsetons, Buggies and Spring Wagons, just received by CHAS. WILSON, Sr., Rear of tbe Court House, Charlotte, N. C. June 18, 1880 3m John VanLandingham, Cotton Buyer and General Commission Merchant, In Sanders & Blackwood's Building, North College St., Charlotte, N.C. March 26, 1880. Butter, Cheese, &c. Just received the very best Northern Gilt Edged Butter and Cheese. Also, Mackerel, Smoked Her ring, Spring Chickens, Honey, and the very finest of Onions. June 18, 1880. S. M. HOWELL. 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. They are also Agents for Sterling Baking Powder, One of the purest and best. Chemists of national reputation recommend it, such as Prof. Doromus of 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. AT RIGLER'S Candies Both Plain and Fancy. We claim that we have as god if ncjt better Jhan you will $nd elsewhere, ncj at prices as Ipw U iib 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 Cake. pome and cee ps- " 1 ' "' R&pectrully, D, M. RIGLER. Dec. 13 1879. PLEASE READ THIS. Complete Burst of the Great Monopoly. Tbe following is the latest Price List of Ziegler Bros.' goods, of which a complete line can be found at v MQYEH'S Boot and Shoe Store, Tape Street, Charlotte, N. C. Best Pebble Goat Button Boots, French heel, f 2.75 Kid Box Toe ti 325 3.00 300 " Fox " " " Serge High Cut Kid Lace, " " " Fox Lace, Kid Newport "JieS, Kid Fox Lace Boots. 11 CI II It t II it i u It 350 325 333 950 9.50 plain heel, Pebble Goat Congress Boota, ' " Seree - 4 It t Kid Crimp Vamp Cong, boots, plain heel, 3 25 Finest French Kid Button Boots, French heel, 4 00 My Stock of Gents' goods cannot be sur passed.' Call and see them. April 16, 1880. J. MOVER. TP THE ADIE8. I 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 IIi.y in market and Mushrooms. n. T. BUTLER, Agent, Old Post Office. Feb. 6, 1880. The 6th District Democratic Nominee. From the best information we have been able to obtain concerning Maj. Dowd, the nominee for Congress in this the 6th District, he is about 45 years old, a native of Moore county, and, since the war, a citi zen of Charlotte. An honest man ot good ly presence, sound good sense, broad, liberal and conservative views, a capable business man, a learned and talented lawyer and effective speaker, a good writer, a man of character and education. He has never taken an active part in politics and has not much of a political record, but he is a steady, unflinching Democrat, is a fluent ppt aker and is popular generally. The con ciliatory, earnest, candid sentiments ex pressed in his very conservative speech here in the Court Ilouse, accepting the nomination, are very generally and hearti ly endorsed. Rockingham Hee. Edlf The nomination of Maj. C. Dowd at Rockingham last week has, we believe, given general satisfaction to the whole District. There were many present who had preferred others to him ; we ourselves had conscientiously advocated Col. Wm. Johnson, but all will now join and yield a cheerful and hearty support to Maj. Dowd, because he is the nominee and because he is a gentleman of integrity and ability, who will satisfy the wishes of all. Maj. Dowd has long been well known to the people of this District as an able lawyer, a most suc cessful financier, an eloquent speaker, whose personal character is irreproachable, and a man in whom the people may put their trust. Our county will be glad to support him and will poll tbiB Fall a majori ty that will make Radicalism hang its head in shame. Lincoln Progress. teW0" As stated last week Maj. C. Dowd of Charlotte, was nominated at the Rock ingham Convention. We consider the se lection a good one in many respects, and although Maj. Dowd is very little known in this county we believe that he will be able to poll the full party strength. We have known him personally for several years and consider him a very superior man. Newton Enterprise. The Earth Flat. Prof. William Carpenter, late of London, lectured in the Christian Tabernacle on "Zetetic Astronomy," as contrasted with the generally accepted Newtonian system. Prof. Carpenter's argument appeared to be based mostly upon the fact that as water could only occupy a level surface, according to his theory, therefore, the earth must be a plane. He undertook to disprove Prof. Proctor's astronomical ideas, saying that he believed Proctor knew his theory was wrong, but would not acknowledge it. He attempted to prove the fallacy of the sim ple and well known argument of the ap pearance of ships at sea as illustrating the rotundity of the earth by stating that an a?ronaut at the height of six miles could not distinguish a ship go down at all, but that at all times the horizon appeared on a level with the car, the earth resembling at the time a vast concavity. He designated Proctor's diagram of the ships as a pictorial lie. While antagonizing the theory that Australia was under the London bridge and China under America, he attempted no explanation of the fact that daylight at one point beheld darkness at another at the same hour. He deprecated the fact that such nonsensiql dea.a as Newton's theory should be taught in the public schools, and hopes for complete reformation in this re gard. There were about forty people pres ent at the lecture. Baltimore American, Stop Chewing Tobacco! It may kill you destroys the appetite and wastes your money. Try De Forest's Tobacco substitute 10 cents a package at Dr. T. C. SMITH'S June 25, 1880. Drug Store. Tailoring. S. S. ELAM, practical Tailor, has hi Shop in the DeinoQrt Of$ce BuUdng, second oor, where he will be pleased to serve his customers and friends promptly. Particular attention paid to repairing Sticky Fly Paper. Catches them alive ! Catches them all I The great Fly destroyer. Use this paper every season and these troublesome pests will soon disappear from your premises. Price five cents. old only At Dr. T. 0. aMJTH June 25, 1880. pU.g'$tdre, Charlotte, N, O. Macahoy Snuff, For snuffing and dipping fine flavor try it. You oan find it at Dr. T. C. SMITH'S Drug Store, opposite Central Hotel. June 25, 1880. Grand Semi-Annual CLOSING OUT ALS, DURING, J"pNfc XND JULY. Spring & Summer Clothing, Hats, &c. Good Wool Casslmere Suits at - - $7.50 A better Suit for .... 9.00 An elegant Blue Flannel Suit at $7.50. 9 and 10.00 A handsome Suit of our own make, $12.50 to 18.00 Cassimere Pants from $2.50 to $5, worth 25 per cent more. The very best unlaundred Shirt a th.e maiket. $1 An elegant white Shh;t, Jauftdred, ready for wear, $1 Superfine D?eaa Shirts from - $1.23 to $3 Straw Hata sold regardless of Cost. The celebrated Taylor Mackinaw Hats at Cost. Underwear and Neckwear at Cost AH our Stock shall and must be reduced, as we are determined to make some alteration in our place of business before Fall We need not remind the public that we always come up to what we adver tise. There are great bargains awaiting in our Store, and the wide-spread reputation of, our, welH made Clothing warrants us tyct a prompt response will he giyen o great inducements, which we n?W ofwrr- 3T" We call the attention of Wholesale buyers to, our low priceC L. BERW ANGER & BRO June 18, 1880. Leading Clothiers and Tailors. Cinchonidia, The great substitute for Quinine looks like it, tastes like it, acts like it ; cares chills. Try a bot tle. Dr. T. C. SMITH keeps it for sale. North Carolina Items. Mr Lemuel Bingham, of this place, celebrated his S5th birthday on the 24th of June. Three of his children sat down to the birthday dinner with him. Statesville Landmark. Fatal Accident in Lincoln. We hear of a fatal accident in the western end of Lincoln county. Last Saturday morning Mr Levi Robinson, brother of Sheriff J. A. Robinson, was hauling in his wheat and was riding on top of a load when by some means he was thrown to the ground, striking on his head and fracturing his skull. He lin gered until Monday when death relieved rhim of hia sufferings. Newton Enterprise, 23!f Last Saturday evening, while Mr Thos. Holland, of Cool Spring Township, was eating supper, a thief entered hia bed room and stole from a chest therein a tin box containing about $3 00, escaping through a window. Afterwards $11 of the stolen money was found near a lence close to the house, where the robber had probably drop ped it in getting over. Statesville Land mark. Jdgf On Wednesday night, 23d ult., "our boys" serenaded Col. R. T. Bennett at the Stewart House, and when called out eame forward and gave the large crowd assem bled a humorous and rousing Democratic speech. Repeated calls being made for R. P. Davis, Esq., that gentleman came for ward and gave us a short speech upon the magnitude of the desperate struggle before us. We learn that Col. R. T. Bennett pro poses to do exactly as he declared at the Rockingham Convention "to rake this District with a fine toothed comb," and says now he intends to visit and speak at every polling place in the District. If such a thing is done by such a political speaker as Col. Bennett, our majority in the District will be far beyond the wildest expectations of the most enthusiastic Democrat in it. Monroe Enquirer. Fatal Runaway Accident. We regret to record the sad accident that befell Man iius, a young 10 year old son of Mr Joseph Misenheimer, of No. 5 Township, last Wed nesday. During the morning Manlius had driven a wagon to lie il roan's mill and re turning with his grist had almost reached home and his parents saw him coming down the hill. Immediately after their first sight of him, they saw the horse start off in a wild runaway, from what cause is not and may never be known, for on hurrying to the spot they found Manlius lying under the wagon body by a tree against which he had been thrown. He was crushed, bruised and speechless, and in this condition was carried to the house, while a messenger was sent to town for a physician. An examina tion showed that young Manlius' injuries were necessarily fatal, as one side of his face was crushed in and there were other wounds on his breast and body. The little sufferer lingered until six o'clock the next morning when he expired without having shown a sign of consciousness since .the ac cident. Deep sympathy is expressed by all for the parents whose hearts are thus desolated by the events of a day. Concord Sun. Gov, Jarvis has ordered a special term of the Superior Court for Rowan coun ty, beginning on the 9th of August. Judge McKoy will preside. C3 The Weldon News has an enquiry from San Franoisoo, California, for the chil dren of a man named Bushrod Carpenter, who are supposed to be living in North Carolina. Bushrod Carpenter was the son of Dr. Nathaniel Carpenter who died at King and Queen county, in Virginia, in 1778. Bushrod had three brothers, named Nathaniel, Coryndon and William Fant- leroy, all of whom are believed tabavedied without issue. By deaths in the family a large property valued at more than nine hundred thousand dollars has fallen to the children of these four brothers, and as the three others died without issue, the whole amount will go to the children of Bushrod Carpenter. He was brought into North Carolina when quite young, by his rnatber, the widow of Dr. Nathaniel Carpenter, and she is believed, tP. have married again. He iQ believed to have lived for some time in Halifax county. The News adds: "The amount seems worth enquiring into, and if any of the descendants of Bushrod Carpen ter or any person able to give information concerning them will apply at the office of this paper they can learn of gQraeth.ing ta their advantage." A QTi OmsEN Gone. The mortal re mains of Mr Wade Hampton were brought here from Charlotte for burial. Mr Hamp ton lived here many years, and reared a family, who have long since scattered and died. He was himself a descendant of one of the earliest and most respectable families resident in this place. The last few years of his life were spent with his son-in-law, Mr William Wilhelm, a resident of Char lotte. Mr Hampton was aged about 75 years. Salisbury Watchman. 15fThe Governor appointed the fol lowing gentlemen Directors on the part of the State in the Atlantic and North Caro lina Railroad : P F Faison of Wake, II F Grainger of Wayn.e, C S Wooten of Lenoir, J D WhUford and C C Clark of Craven, J M Davis and B L Perry of Carteret, and J F Parrott of Lenoir. F M Simmons of Wayne, was appointed proxy for the State. This is the old Board, except B L Perry, who takes the place of Mr Oglesby, from the same county. The Directors on the part of tbe Stock holders are Eugene Morebead, J Q Wooten C R Thomas and James A Bryan, The matter of leasing tho Rx&4 ws& re ferred to a special committee, who is to re port to a special meeting of the Stockholders. Horrors of City LlfeT . It is stated in the New York Observer, that on one morning recently, forty dead bodies lay in the morgue waiting to. be claimed by friends i but no friends cams. This, is horrible. And the added remark,' thai "in most cases death was a comfort to survivors, and oblivion a cover :of sorrow and shame,"' does not -relieve the fact of its horrors." ; It is sad to think that there are so many friendless people around us, so many whose death even does not move any human heart, and that they are carted to the "Potter's Field," and dumped into the earth as so much clay, into rwbich had never been infused the spirit of the living God. -This morning's paper, as I write, presents "the following tragic incidents : No. 1 : A neatly dressed unknown woman, in a ferry boat, having one. child in her lap, aged eight months, and another by her side aged four years, bet them down and jumped into the North River. She left in the hands of the elder boy a purse containing thirty nine cents and a wedding ring. ; The chil dren, being unable to tell their names, were taken to the police station. No. 2: Dr. Lindsley, aged seventy-six, formerly a pros perous physician in large practice, became intemperate, lost his practice, and while drunk took poison, from which he died. His wife, an infirm lady of 80, was in the room with him. No. 3 ; -A young man, aged about 30, namfe unknown, shot himself through the brain in the upper part of the city. No. 4: A young man, aged 34, was to have been married on - Wednesday at 6 P. M. The guests assembled, but he did not appear. The -next day it was ascer- tained that he went to a hotel, and at the hour at which he was to have been married, shot himself. He left a few affectionate lines to hia intended. Poverty is supposed to have caused him "to die as the fool dieth." No. 5 : John Gimpel, in a fit of jealousy, fractured his wife's skull - with a crowbar, set fire to the house, and then cut his own throat. He died, and the wife will proba bly die. The fire was extinguished. -Such is the record of one day, in this city, in one paper. Be thankful, oh ye men and women of North Carolina, that you live in a region in which more value is set upon the life which God has given you than in this wicked city. "V New York letter to Raleigh News. Excessive Etiquette, The most elaborate and complicated sys tem of court etiquette ever devised was that in vogue during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Greenville Murray, the Paris correspondent of the London News, relates an anecdote that amusingly illustrates the rigidity as well as the absurdity of that so cial code : "King Louis standing one day in the park on the arm of Madam de Main tenon, and followed by his court of about five hundred persons, came unexpectedly upon a servant giil armed with a broom, pail and duster, who had been scrubbing in one of the pavilions. She ought by rights to have made her way back to the offices of the palace by a roundabout road, but being late she had taken a short cut, and this brought her in view of the King. His ma jesty removed his feathered hat and made her a low bow, and, as etiquette required that a person saluted by the King should be bowed to by the whole court, the poor girl, as she stood trembling and : ashamed, received enough homage to make her well nigh mad. First, the princes and princesses, then the secretaries of state, the dukes and peers, the knights of his majesty's orders, the bishops and chaplains, the lesser nobili ty, all had to make profound obeisence, while the ladies stopped and courtesied to the earth; finally, the King's guards bad to carry arms, and a whole tribe of lackeys bearing lap-dogs, fans and smelling-bottles, had to do their duty in the same humble fashion to their colleague this blushing girl with the broom and pail." mi Favoritism in the Army. The Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, has furnished tbe names and lineal rank of all officers of the Army not on duty with their regiments or corps, but doing duty elsewhere, and the nature of that duty. length of time absent, etc. The Secretary's report snows a use oi two nunarecr, ine majority being legitimate details of en gineer and signal officers, and the amount of extra emolument has been calculated np to December 31, 1879, since when the dou ble salaries have, however, been drawn with the utmost promptness. Lieutenant Fred erick Dent Grant, Gen. Grant's son, has been absent from his regiment for seven of the ten years of his army life, and his extra pay and allowances amount to $16,531. A wounded soldier (Forsythe) was removed from Gen. Sheridan's staff to make room for young Grant, with the rank of ColoneL J. E. Tourtelotte, who occupies a position on Sherman's staff, has drawn $25,638 extra compensation, and M. V. Sheridan, brother of Lieut.-Gec. Sheridan, who is a Captain in the Seventh cavalry, is receiving pay as his brother's Secretary, and has had $21,209 above his regular salary in all. T. II. Bradley, a First Lieutenant of infantry, at $1,500 a year, has never joined his regi ment, but is assigned to special duty in the War Department, with extra pay at $1,082, and rank as Major, having received in all $8,084.75 extra. Forney's- Washington Chronicle. mm, I 1 J5The Chicago Tribane calls upon Gen. Logan to resign his seat in the United States Senate to allow the Governor to fill it by appointing Gen. Grant, who, tbe Tri bune says, is in the prime of life, out of em ployment, and ot rich. ' Logan, it says, can go into Garfield's cabinet, or be elected to. the Ilouse of Representatives. Logan will do well not to count upon that. Bnt Grant in the Senate instead of Logan would be an improvement. : r National Convention: . Scenes. In regard to the last tote for the nominee, a correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution writes l "The scene preceding and attending Han cock's nomination was indescribable. There was a lull after Pennsylvania changed on the vote, and it was thought that all was over,' when Wisconsin arose and changed. After that nothing more was heard for a full half an hdur. Malcolm Hay got the chair and carried Pennsylvania over solid and then there was a pandemonium. " Han cock's1 banner, bearing his 'likeness and the motto : "The civil law 'is supreme-the natural rights of person and property must be preserved," was brought and planted on the chairman's deskvr The whole house rose and yelled and shouted. n -The flags of the States were then taken by the 'delegates and advanced to the center, nodding to the Hancock banner. ' Che Randall and Ameri ca banners followed, until the -front of the stage was a waving wilderness of flags and streamers. . The bands struck up inspiring music. 'For ten minutes the vast hail was like a mad-house, i Men raised umbrellas and waved them, pressed over the reporters' tables, utterly sweeping them to one aide. A desperate struggle was taking - place in the Indiana delegation over the State flag. It had remained planted in the midst of the delegation, when two men seized it and at tempted to take it to the congress of flags about the stage,' The delegates fought over the flag until it was torn to pioces,but the remnants were finally carried off, and the staff of the flag was hoisted in front of the stage. The delegates made a sally, re captured ' the banner and brought1 it back. A fight ensued in which "several persons were carried out of the delegation by the police. Dan Voorhees' stood" by watching the struggle with tears rolling down his face and many of the Indianians wept'isthe shouts went on. The Delaware banner of Bayard was never moved from its place in the midst of - the Delawareans and South Carolina's flag waved serene and undisturb ed by the side of the sad and silent Hamp ton, who sat guarding it with majesty and dignity. These two flags alone remained at their posts. The Delawareans were crushed and depressed, and with the Indian ians were the only silent clump in the enor mous tumult. Georgia attempted to change her vote, but a new call of the roll was de manded and quiet restored. ' On the last call Indiana voted for Hendricks amid furi ous pressure from all sides,-and adhered to the vote, although besieged , bv, scores of people who pressed for an unanimous vote. The Indianians were pale and determined, and stuck to their vote until the result was announced and it was seen that Hancock was nominated. Then the agony was oyer." About Lightning. People are very ig norant or reckless about lightning. I have seen a girl of 18 crying with fear, of light ning, and running every other moment to the window to see if the storm was not abating, unconscious that she was putting herself in danger. If every onet would hur ry to shelter as soon as a storm cloud was coming, and if they would shut the doors and windows, and keep away from . them afterward, and from wires, stovepipes, man tels, chimneys, heaters and , mirrors, with their silvered backs, which carry electricity, and keep away., from lightning ,xods; and their vicinity, and metal water spouts,, with good rods on their, houses, they might dis miss the fear of lightning from tbeir minds, so far as it is a thing of reason and not im pression. A Wake Fobest Student wiio cut his way through. A student . named Davis, from up in Cherokee county, grad uated this session at Wake' Forest. Five years ago he went to that college with five cents in his pocket all his moriev.VThey told him he'd better go back, but he vowed he'd stay around there and live on tbe wind but that : he'd go through. And( stick be did. He cut wood about for citizens and finally all the, professors gave him the con tract to cut up their winter wood. Profes sor Royall was in the chapel one morning and heard a terrible racket outside, like a cannon touched off, and it was Davis who had finished all of a pile of wood except some great knotty sticks that he split by Doring notes ana ramming in powueiv .tie cut six hundred and odd dollars out of wood during his term and graduated only twenty five dollars in debt lor the whole fiyeyears. He learned to sing and taught singing school in the country during the spare Saturdays. That made him some money. He graduated with honor, and the subject of hi commencement speech was "Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may.'f He has got his axe with him and intends to lay it away in his study, and label it: "With this I cut my way through.'? lie has already been offered a professorship in some College. Reidtville Time. ESETT Don. Cameron, son of Simon, it is reported is sick of politics. His failure at Chicago was a terrible blow to his 'ambi tion. With the fortunes of his chief his own were inseparably connected. His cxy laborer, Lord Roscoe Conkling, was dis-' gusted, and has retired from ths National Republican Committee. g3f The Rev. Young J. Allen, D. p., one of tbe missionaries : of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Shanghai, says the Southern Missionary; Herald, has , been made a mandarin by the Chinese govern ment the only instance, we, . believe, irf which a foreigner was sver honpred with such a title. -. It gives Dr. Allen great influ ence and ad vantage among the Chinese. I g5f Yon rever fi&d oat how, bad, a man1 has been . nntil he is nominated for office,' and you never know how good he has been until yon read his obituary.
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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July 2, 1880, edition 1
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