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XL ft Pi mffii J V. J. YATES, Editor and Pbopkiktob. Terms of Subscription $2. 00 1 m advance. CHARLOTTE, N. Ci, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, "1881. TWENTY-NINTH VOLUME NUMBER 1473. 1 1 11 III I II I I'll I V V J I I II I II II 1 I. Ml I- , . - 1 I V III I II J r i THE Charlotte Democrat, PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM J. YATES, Editor and Proprietor Terms TWO DOLLARS for one year, or One Dollar 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, Office irnerolh and Tryon Streets,) Tenders his professional services to the public, as a practical Surton. Will advise, treat or operate in all the uMlere: t departments of Surgery. Patienta from a disUii." , when necessary, will be furnished comfortable quarters, and experienced nurses, at reasonable lates. Address Liock Isox JNO. 66. March 5. 1850. 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 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., 'ffers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Oltice in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the 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. 18,1878. DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Ga3 used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb. 15. 1878. A. BUnwELL. P. D. WALKER. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office adjoining Court House. Nov. 5, 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 awl Tryon Streets, Jan. 9, 1880. yr Charlotte, N. C. T. M. PITTMAN, Attorney at Law, Opposite Vie Court House, Charlotte, N. C.,) Practices in the State and U. S. Courts, and gives prompt attention to business. Will negotiate loans. May 28, 1880. y WILSON & BURWELL, Wholesale and Retail Druggists, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything per taining to the Drug Business, to which they invite the attention of all buyers both wholesale and retail. Oct. 8. 1880. HALES & FARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keep a f nil stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, "Spectacles, &c, which they sell at fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c., done promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to Springs' corner building. T"ly 1, 1879. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Byrupa .Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Glass Seeds, Plows, &c, which we offer to both the Wholesale ard Retail trade. All are in vited to try us from the smallest to the largest buyers. Jan. 17, 1S80. j. Mclaughlin, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, &c, College Street, Charlotte, N. C, Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. Jgf Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. Nov. 1, 1880. HARRISON WATTS, COTTON BUYER, Corner Trade and College Sts., vp Stairs, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. 24. 1880 ly DR. A. W. ALEXANDER, Dentist, Office over L. R Wriston & Cos Drugstore. I am working at prices to suit the times, for Cash. With 25 years' experience I guarantee -entire a tisfaction. Jan. 18, 1878. Notice of Dissolution. Tile firm of J. McLaughlin & Co. is this day dis solved by mutual consent W. W. Grier having withdrawn. The business of the firm will be set tled at the office of J. McLaughlin. j. Mclaughlin & co. Nor. 1, 1880. tSP! The New York Times says of New York City that it is the most extravagant and voluptuous in the world, and that no city, modern or ancient, ever bad such an opulent variety of necessities and superflui ties. The private life of thousands of its citizens exceeds in mateial comforts those of any age. Wbitelaw Reid says that New York City is the most expensive place in the world, and that nowhere else in America is living subject to such tremendous taxes. House rent in New York is dearer than in any other city, of the age or past ages. Valuable City Property for Sale. By virtue of a mortgage deed made to me by Allan Macaulay, and duly registered in the Regis ter's Utnce oi Mecklenburg county, JM. U., 1 will sell at Public Auction, at the Conrt House door in ihe City of Charlotte, N. C, on Monday, the 14th day of March. 1881. that valuable HOUSE and LOT known as the Allan Macaulay residence, lo cated on the corner of Trade and Mint Streets, near the United States Mint. On the premises are all the necessary out-buildings, a never failing well of water and one of the best garden spots in the city. This property is centrally located, being within three minutes walk of the Public Square. Terms: One third Cash ; balance in one and two years, secured by Mortgage on the property. The title to the above property is good beyond doubt. D. MACAULAY, Trustee. T. M. Pittman, Attorney. Feb. 18, 1881. 4w Executor's Notice. Having qualified as Executor of the last Will and Testament of Dr. Isaac Wibon, deceased, I hereby notify all persons indebted to the Estate of the said Dr. Isaac Wilson to make earlv settlement, and those having claims against said Estate must pre sent them before the 12th day of February, 1882, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. JOS. M. WILSON, Feb. 11, 1881 6w Executor. Just Received ! 1 CAR LOAD White Corn, 1 " " White Virginia Meal, 1 " " . Silver Drip Syrup, 1 41 " N. O. Molasses, 2 " " Flour, 1 " " Bacon, 1 " " Choice Apples, 1 " " Vinegar, 1 " " Mott's Genuine Apple Cider, 5 Cases Bananas and 10 Barrels Oranges, And a full stock of everything else in the Heavy and Fancy Grocery line. We respectfully solicit the inspection of both the Wholesale and Retail Trade to our stock before purchasing elsewhere, as we are sure we can make it to your interests to do so. DAVIDSON & BEALL. Feb. 4, 1881. E. J. HALE & SON, PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, 17 Murray Street, New York, Invite orders for School, Miscellaneous and Stan dard Books, and for all kinds of StapleStationery. WRITING PAPERS Cap, Letter, Note and other sizes. BLANK BOOKS, of all Grades. ENVELOPES, all sizes and colors and qualities. SCHOOL SLATES, best quality, all sizes. Slate and Lead Pencils, Pens, Inks, Mucilage, &c. E. J. HALE & SON. Feb. 18, 1881. OUR FRIENDS Will please remember that we now occupy the commodious Store Room on West Trade Street, Recently remodelled so as to make it as convenient and well lighted a room as any in the city. We shall keep, as we have always kept, A Line of Goods Adapted to the wants of all classes of trade. Friends and customers are invited to pay us a call at our new stand. T. L. SEIGLE & CO. Feb. 11, 1881. Castor Oil, Laudanum, Essences, Tutt's Pills, and all such Goods as are sold by Country Merchants can be had very low at Dr. T. C. SMITH'S Sept. 17, 1880. Drug Store. AT MRS. QUERY'S. Laree additions to the stock of Hosierv. Gloves. Neck Wear, Cloaks, Ladies' Underwear and Child rens' Goods. Just received a full line of Silks, Satins, Fringes, Passmentries for Dress Trimming. Hats and Bonnets, For Ladies, Misses and Children, of every shape and quality. Have now on hand the most complete stock of Ladies' and Childrens' Goods to be found in the City. A new lot of 2 Button Kid Gloves at 25 cents a pair. Oct. 2V. 1SSU. MRS. P. QUERY. Simmons' Hepatic Compound Is a scientific preparation of the most approved Medicines in the vegetable world. It will cure Liver Complaint, Bowel Affections, Skin Diseases, Kidney Affections, Billious and Malarial Fevers, Cholic, Jaundice, Indigestion and Dyspepsia, and many regard it as a "i amily Medicine Chest in itself. For sale by WILSON & BURWELL, Jan. 28, 1881. Druggists. Just Received, A large lot of Black Silks, very cheap. Also, a lot of beautiful Spring Saques for Ladies and Misses, At WITTKOWSKY & BARUCH'S. Feb. 11, 1881. CONFECTIONERIES, GROCERIES, &e. Cakes and Bread. C. S. HOLTON, at the Rising Sun Store, oppo site the Old Market, still keeps a large assortment of Confectioneries, &c, and a good selection of choice Family Groceries all of the freshest and best quality. Bread and Cakes. His Bread is considered superior by all who use it, and his assortment of Cakes is fine. tff" Wedding Cakes and Cakes for Parties pre pared in the best stile at short notice. Give me a trial when you need anything in my line. C. S. HOLTON. Jun. 14, 1881. One of the Old U. S. Supreme Court Judges. A correspondent "of the Cincinnati Com mercial describes Judge Clifford as follows: "As I drove ddwb the Avenue after Gar field had been declared duly elected, I saw at the window of the National Hotel a man's face looking vacantly out over the crowd A pale face, with strong jaws, shaven cheeks and smoothly parted hair ; the window was closed and fastened, and there he sat- Jus tice Clifford of the Supreme Bench his memory gone; his fine mind so feeble that he is not able to dictate his resignation. He is kept a prisoner in his room, watched over by the: dearest wife that ever a man had.J They say she is so changed that her friends would not know her, she has aged so last fellow-worshipper, it is. a want of since this affliction has fallen on her bnlhanfor God an(J the 8ervices of His s nusoana. a lew a ays ago me mvaiia es caped Irom the care ot bis nurse ana wan dered out through the halls of the hotel, looking pitifully into faces that he did not remember, although they were the faces of old friends. He was going to Court, he said, when one of them detained him; in a few minutes his nurse was after him. and led him back, without resistance, to his room, and there he sits occupied with what vagaries ? while the endless crowd surges through the streets; dreaming, who shall ever know of what? the while a new leader comes up to the Presidency ; a new race of giants possess the land in which he was an honored and a marked public man, filling a great place in the nation's history but yes terday." . JNO CONFIDENCE IN ViAS METRES. It IS possible that if gasmetres did what a few innocents actually suppose them to do, reg ister the amount of gas burned, the gas companies would be as well off, in the long run, as they are now. Persons who go about carefully turning down burners, have at least a reasonable excuse for supposing that they do not use as much gas as their neighbors with the same number of burners, who pay no attention to the matter and in dulge themselves in brilliant illuminations to a highly extravagant degree. But when the bills come in the would-be-economical man gets no credit for his reduction. The man in New York, the other day, who gave a large parly, and through other causes was compelled to have going an unusually large number of burners tor several weeks, veas positive that he used much more gas than ordinarily, but his bill took no note of that indisputable fact. This is not a new story tor .Philadelphia, or anywhere else for that matter, where gas is used. Everything con demns the' metre. It is a delusion and snare; a liar by occupation. It is not an ornament. The man or woman never lived who could regard the metre as a handsome thiug. The mere thought of it aggravates every house holder. It is not what it makes believe to be. and until we get the electric light, the most needed invention in this line is an in strument which will indicate truthfully the amount of gas passing through it. Phila delphia Progress. tT A lady teacher protests against the absurd fashion of short skirts for girls, by which their legs are indifferently protected. "If they belong to the poor classes," she adds, "they are dressed with cruel scanti ness, the result being that they contract rheumatism, pneumonia and consumption.' But it is "the fashion," and that is the all sufficient plea. A Proclamation by the Governor. $200 Reward. Executive Department of North Carolina, ) RALEIGH, Feb. 22, 1881. f Whereas, official information has been received at this Department that JOE ROSS, late of the county of Mecklenburg, stands charged with mur der ; and whereas it appears that the said Joe Ross has fled the State, or so conceals himself that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon him: Ifow, tfierefore, I, Thomas J. Jabvis, Governor of the State of North Carolina, by virtue of au thority in me vested by law. do issue this my pro clamation, offering a reward of Two Hundred Dol lars for the apprehension and delivery oi the said Joe Ross to the Sheriff of Mecklenburg county, at the Court House in Charlotte, and I do enjoin all officers of the State and all good citizens to assist in bringing said criminal to j ustice. Done at our city of Kaleigb, the 22a day of Feb ruary, 1881, and in the 105th year of American In dependence. , THOS. J. JARVIS. By the Governor : G. L. Dudley, Private Secretary. Description. Joe Ross is about 25 years of age, is of a black or dark lead color, long full face, high cheek bones, upper jaw sticks out and shows his front teeth, has a scar on the left side of his neck commencing about his car and extends to near his collar bone, has a lonz swinging walk, and stoops somewhat while walking. He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, weighs about 160 pounds, and is heavy set. HOSIERY. Our entire stock of Ladies', Misses and Children's Fancy Hose will be offered at Cost for the next twenty days, including all the latest styles in Fancy Stripes, Cardinals, Black, Garnet, Gen D'Arme, Seal Brown, Light Blue, Light Pink and Silk Em broidered. ALEXANDER & HARRIS. Feb. 18, 1881. Fancy and Heavy Groceries. BROTHERS, HENDERSON & McGINNIS, Opposite the old Charlotte Hotel, Respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have h elegant assortment of FAMILY GROCERIES Of all sorts, to which they invite attention. The "Minnesotta" and other fine brands of Flour, as well as common brands. 3? Cigars and Tobacco of aVl grades, and Loril lard's Snuff in bladders of from 1 to 5 pounds best article. Give us a call in Brown's building, opposite the Charlotte Hotel. J. L. BROTHERS. E. T. HENDERSON, . Feb. 25, 1881. E. D. McGINNIS. SEED OATS. A large lot of very fine WHITE OATS, express ly for seed, just received at Feb. 25, 1881. J. MCLAUGHLIN'S. of the ways in which Courtesy is forgotten in Church. One is, by coming in church after the service has begun. ' Some persons are hab ltually late, and as they walk down the aisle with creaking boots, or rustling dress es, they disturb those already assembled. The voluntary is being softly played, or the minister is offering a prayer, or the opening hymn is being sung in any case persons coming into ine cnurcn laie is a serious in terruption, not to say nuisance. An old lady was once asked "why she was always so punctual and prompt at the house of God." Her reply was, "it is a part ot my religion not to disturb the religion of oth- era Besides the rudeness to pastor and reverence sanctuary. ' With care and attention to time, and promptness in starting from home, all can get to church before the , opening services. If there is to be a lecture, a theatre, or some grand State ceremonial, how careful we are to be present at the appointed hour. Sure ly, when the duty of the day is the honor and praise of the King of Kings we ought to see to it that we lose no portion of the worship. Another marked discourtesy, is, restless ness during the service, gazing out of the windows, fidgeting, yawning, turning the pages of the hymn-book, whispering. We have bad our feelings pained and shocked by persons talking in church. This is not only a lack of veneration for the holy place, but is unqualifiedly rude. The invaluable lesson of a quiet demeanor, and reverence for the house of God, was once a part of a child's education. It is now missed by many, and the rising generation are the los ers by the greater license of these days. Another lack of reverence is getting reaiy to leave the church during the sing ing of the doxology; fastening on furs, buttoning the overcoats, and then rushing out in haste like school boys, wearied with the restraints of the school-room. Oxford Friend. Why our Beds should lie North and South. "Why does the magnetic needle point to the North Pole ? is a question often asked and as often failed of an answer. Theo rists have suggested cause by effect, etc., etc., which may be all or in part true, nev ertheless we do not fully know. But if that particular part of this little globe is overbalanced, away up toward the great zero, with some mighty magnetic influence, whose currents are ever flowing tovards and back from the opposite pole, may it not be supposed these ever continued and never ceasing currents affect something, and if then something, then everything? Now, we know from actual experiment if you take a bar of iron and place it in a position due North and South, and lee it remain a long time, we have a perfect magnet a positive and a negative pole, and which fully represents the two poles of the earth, and that if either pole of the earth could be removed our needle would no longer point out the positive pole, and our great guide be lost. Now, if a bar of iron can be made a magnet, as we have seen, then I may and naturally do conclude that position in all things earthly has a good deal to do with the physiological condition. Hence every body should sleep with his head toward the North, assuming that a man's head is the prime or positive end of the body, and as a consequence his feet toward the South. In a varied practice of medicine for twenty t wo years, I have been giving this subject close attention, and I.have found disease to yield to treatment more readily when the position of my patient has been placed as above suggested, and that vice-versa has been the contrary; and npon reversing position the condition was bettered. I will not say always bettered, but most general ly, noticeably so. My observations were particularly (though generally) made during the war in hospital practice. And I believe anv intelligent man mav notice the vigor and the devigoration added after sleeping alternate nights, every thing else, being equal, in a positive or negative position, and between these positions and . positions oppositely. Having merely glanced at this great subject, I may recur to it in a politco physiological sense. Giles L. Glazener, M. V., n Greenville (o. V.) JVews. 53ir Talking to boys in publio meetings is getting to be an art and a science. Billy Ross is a great temperance lecturer, and at Rosherville, 111.,- was preaching to the young on his favorite .theme. He said: "Now, boys, when I ask you a question you mustn't be afraid to speak right out and an swer me. When you look around And see all these fine houses, farms and cattle, do you ever think who owns them all now? Your fathers own them, do they not ?" "Yes, sir," shouted a hundred voices. "Well, where will your fathers be in twen ty years from now?" "Dead!" shouted the boys. "That's right. And who will own all this property then ?" "TJs boys," shouted the urchins. "Right. Now tell me, did you ever, in going along the streets, notice toe drunkards lounging around , the saloon doors, waiting for somebody to treat them ?" "Yes, sir, lots of them.'f "Well, where will they be in twenty years from now?" "Dead," exclaimed .'. the boys. And who will be the drunkards then?" "Us boys I" Billy was thunderstruck for a moment, but recovering himself, tried to tell the boys how to escape such a fate; England and the Jisws. The presence of the Prince of Wales at the , marriage of Mr Leopold Hothschild has caused, much satisfaction in Jewish circles, . a following close on the speech of the CrownTrince of Germany, it is regarded as a sign that there ia no royal sympathy with the persecutions of the Jews. No English Prince has visit ed a synagogue since 1800, when three of the royal dukes attended a service at one. Some About Women. . From Forney's Philadelphia Progress. London tailors are doing a good trade this winter in ladies' costumes. A loner driving-coat with brass buttons is one of tne novelties, and it is related that a cabby respectfully said, "Thank you, " as his shilling was handed him the other night by a fair lady in a billycock hat and a long brown coat. When he found out his mis take he apologized in this way : "Beg par don, mum, but you see 'tis difficult now to know which is which." .Out in Germantown they have "hitching parties." The way of it is this. There ia a contrivance like a sled, holding twenty or more persons seated in a single long row. This remarkable vehicle is drawn by one horse. Sometimes it upsets. On one of these interesting occasion? it was just growing dark there was a puzzling mix ture of ihe passengers. The ladies rolled promiscuously down a declivity conven iently at hand, and when the gentlemen went to pick them out and up, it was hard to tell t'other from which. One of the beaux, who had succeeded in stopping the descent of a revolving bundle of fur, touch ingly asked : "Are you hurt, dtarest Emi ly ?" "I am not Emily," came a voice from the fur, "drop me." And what did he do? Why, he let her slide, of course. There are institutions in London, so it is said, where young ladies are taught how to get in and out. of a carriage, on and off a horse, to laugh with propriety, to manage their trails, and generally how to avoid gaucheries in society. Similar schools, says Madam Kumor, nave recently been opened for awkward man. He has advice how to dress, what to do with his hat, how to enter a room supposed to be full of company, etc., etc "The Coming Woman" is the title of a new department in the Crawfordsville, In diana, Journal, edited by a committee of the Crawfordsville Equal Suffrage Society. Mrs Jones is the man of the establish ment, not only at home but everywhere, and when. Jones takes her to New York, he has to put their names on the hotel register in this fashion : "Mrs and Mr T. W. Jones." A London housemaid being ordered by her mistress to clean a transom oyer the front door refused and left the house. She sued for a month's wages, and in Court it was stated as her objection to the work, that to perform it she would have to climb a ladder, and to climb a ladder put her in danger of displaying her ankles, an exhibi tion which she virtuously declined to take the chance of making. And the Judge de cided against her. The fashion of afternoon lunches, from three to five, for ladies only, has reached Topeka, Kansas, and that city is very happy. A physician going from Nefteubach to Winterthout, Switzerland, in his carriage, met on the road a veiled lady. She asked him to give her a place in the carriage, which request was complied with. Ihe physician soon noticed that his companion's hands were very large and coarse, and his suspicions were aroused. He managed to empty his purse into his pocket, and then, as if by accident, he pulled it from his pock et with a handkerchief and allowed it to fall out of the carriage. The lady was po lite enough to step out to get it, whereupon the physician whipped his horse into a gallop, leaving the stranger to continue her lourney on loot. In a basket which she left in the carriage two revolvers were found. amiiii Who Make the Toys? A writer for the New York Times has been looking up the subject and writes thus pithily of one great bouse in New York where they are made on a large scale : "Are we still deriving our stock from for eign sources? It used to be that the Black Forest people fashioned them. For centu ries in Germany one family of peasant la borers would carve horses, another chick ens, archaic in Bhape, modeled, perhaps, af ter forms of the sixteenth century, the horse not differing so much from the crude efforts of the early German masters, and children all over the world accept them. Of late years, however we have turned back this huge tide of foreign playthings, and our own flood f joy is pouring itself into the Old World. The German toy is stranded and it is tin which has done the business. Away up town, on Eleventh street and Avenue D, New York, close to a gas com pany, amid a street of gas receivers, there looms up a huge building. Look at it and you would think it was a foundry, a cotton mill or a piano factory it towers up five stories high and is 125 feet long by 103 broad. This is the fountain-head of toys, for nowhere else in this world is there so large an establishment, nor one which pro duces so many or - various playthings. From January to January, year in and year out, it turns out its wares made of tin and metal, and the products of this factory go not only to every city, town and village on the American continent, but to London, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, to Hamburg, Leipsic, (Leipsicythe home of toys,) to Rot terdam. The Hague. Amsterdam. Bergen. to Natal, Cape Town, Shanghai, Yokohama, Australia and Java. . Some child in a dis tant corner of the earth is always playing at one time or another with an American tin toy made in this New York factory, and as it- is the nature of children's playthings to be ever passing into the' state of annihi lation, this concern must be incessantly re newmgtbe stock ot toys." ?Lemmy, you are a pig," said a father to his son. who wax ti vp vears old. "Now, do you know what a pijz is, Lei "Yes, sir ; a pig is a hog's little boy. pij2 is,Lemmy? Hints for Conversation. . There is one rule of conversation which should be thoroughly impressed upon the mind, which is to remember there are two persons of whom you should never suffer yourselves to. speak one is yourself, and the other your enemy. The reason is evi dent you run into two dangers egotism and injustice. '. Women are too justly accused of a love of scandal, and in a group of ladies collect ed for a "chat," it often happens that severe remarks on the conduct or motive of their ueighbors form the staple of their conversa tion. The time passed in conversation on servants and babies, or the more reprehen sible animadversions we have just alluded to, is neither very entertaining nor instruc tive. The topics of the day, the new bocks, amusing auecdotc?, pretty works and grace ful feminine occupations, hhonld form the staple of conversation. The' are subjects free from danger to that "unrulv member ," which requires such constant restraint. . From a mind veell stored with good read ing, good words are almost-suro to emanate; and more attractive than beauty, is 'the pleasant, intelligent companion, whose cle ver and original remarks will be full of re freshment to the tired man of busiucss on his return home, who will know that at home a bright welcome awaits him from one whose pleasant "talk'? will refresh and amuse him, and render the evenings at home as agreeable as those passed in so ciety. Having lully impressed yourselves with the first rule we have laid down respecting the two subjects of conversation to be avoided, I would suggest that you should remember never to talk too fast nor too loud. Many mothers, and those who have the care of the young, are apt to restrain them too strictly from conversation during meals. It is better to make a rule that they should speak only when spoken to, and then ad dress them on subjects suited to their com prehension, encouraging them to give their own ideas of things that are daily occurring, questioning them on the books they have to read, and drawing out their minds so that conversation will be no effort to them when they go out into society, and that painful mauvaise honte, which makes a girl afraid to hear the sound of her own voice, will be effectually avoided. Exchange. Good use of Lemons. A piece of lemon bound upon a corn will cure it in a few days ; it should be renewed night and morning. A free use of lemon juice and sugar will always relieve a cough. Most people feel poorly in the Spring, but if they would eat a lemon before breakfast every day for a week with or without su gar, as they like they would find it better than any medicine. Lemon-juice used ac cording to this recipe will sometimes cure consumption : Put a dozen lemons into cold water and slowly bring to a boil ; boil slowly until the lemons are soft, then squeeze until all the juice is extracted; add sugar to your taste and drink. In this way use one dozen lemons a day. If they cause pain, or loosen the bowels too much, lessen the quantity, and use only five or six a day until you are better, and then begin again with a dozen a day. After using five or six dozen, the patient will begin to gain flesh and enjoy food. Hold on to the lemons and still use them very freely for several weeks more. Another use for lemons is for a refreshing drink in Summer, or in sickness at any time. Prepare as directed above and add water and sugar. But in order to have this kept well, after boiling the lem ons, squeeze and strain carefully ; then to every half-pint of juice add one pound of loaf or crushed sugar, boil and stir a few minutes more until the sugar is dissolved, skim carefully and bottle. You will get more juice from the lemons by boiling them, and the preparation keeps better. : s. ' Arab Horse Maxims. Let your colt be domesticated and live with you from his tenderest age, and when a horse he will be simple, docile, faithful, and inured to hardship and fatigue. Do not beat your horses nor speak to them in a loud tone of voice; do not get angry with them, but kindly reprove their faults ; they will do better thereafter, for they understand the language of man and their meaning. If you have a long day's journey before you spare your horse at the start; let him frequently walk to recover his wind. Con tinue this until he has sweated and dried three times, and yon may then ask him whatever you please, he will not leave you in difficulty. Observe your horse when he is drinking at a brook. If in bringing down his head he remains square, without bending his limbs, he possesses sterling qualities, and all parts of his body are built symetricallyi Four things he must have broad front, chest, loins and limbs; four things long neck, chest, forearm and cronp ; four things short pasterns, back, ears and tail. The settlement of Lower Oregon is going on at an unprecedented rate. A Ger man couple has recently arrived with four teen children, the mother being about 25 years of age. They were married in the Fall of 1870, and the following Summer their married life was blessed with twins, both girls. Less than two years later the woman, who was then eighteen years old, gave birth to four children, three girls and a boy, the latter living only a few days. In the Summer of '74 three more girls register ed at that bumble hearth, and in 1875 a boy arrived solitary and alone. . Seven years alter marriage the arrival of another cluster of four, this time two boys and two girls, was an event that created - some con sternation, and two years ago two more little flaxen-haired girls came to the couple ,4
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