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i o -1 t ?4 OLD SERIES: VOLUME XXX. CHARLOTTE, N. 0., FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1882. VOLUME XL NUMBER 558 I fl -4 - ' i iff 'l . if J f -t f t i i- V I " v 4 - S2 LI A n 7 iff iSl rrrVc 3C 3rn THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published btekt Friday bv J. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor. . O ' ' Tcrms-rTwo Dollabs for one year. One Dollar for six months. Subscription price due in advance. o "Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte, N. C., as second class matter,", according to the rules of the P. O. Department ROBERT GIBBON, M. D , CHARLOTTE, N. C, (Office corner 5th 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 Sur gery. March 5, 1881. Dr. JOHN H. MeADEN, Wholesale and Retail Druggist, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Has on band 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 de termined to sell at the very lowest prices. Jan 1, 1879. DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist and Pharmacist, Keeps a full line of Puie lDrugs 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. Mc Combs, M. D Offers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office m Brown s building, up stairs, opposite the Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1,1873. JOHN E. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Charlotte, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts Office on Trade . Street, opposite the Court House, JNo. 1, bims & Dowd s building. Dec 23, 1881 y 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. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice Limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. March 18, 1881. " DR. J. M MILLER, Charlotte, N C. V All calls promptly answered day and night. Office over Traders' National Bank Residence opposite "W.Ti. My tTo Jan. 1, 1878. A. BTjBWKLL. P.D.WALKER BUR WELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. "HVill practice in the State and Federal Courts, Office adjoining Couit House. Nov 5, 1880. WILSON & BURWELL, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Druggists, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything pertaining to the Drug Business, to which they invite the attention of all buyers both wholesale and retail. ' ' ' ' Oct 7, 1880;'' HALES & PARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keeps a full 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. July 1, 1879. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Floury Grass Seeds, Plows, Ac, which we offer to both the Wholesale and Retail trade. All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar gest buyers. Jan 17, 1880. ' 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. tW Cotton and other country Produce sold on commission and prompt returns made. Nov. 1, 1881. TORRENCE & BAILEY, College Street, Charlotte, N. C, Commission Merchants, Handle Grain. Flour. Bran. &c. Cotton stored and sold. Oct. 7, 1881. . 1. 6m..: W. A. TRUSLOW, Jeweler and Watch Repairer, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Respectfully announces that, having succeeded E. J. Allen, in the Watch and Jev. Ary business, ne has J usi added to his stock of ... " ' Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, CLOCKS, SPECTACLES, fcc, , And be hopes by close attention to business and lair dealing to merit a snare oi patronage. t Fifteen years constant experience in the WATCH REPAIRING ; Department, enables him, to fully warrant every Watch entrusted to him. ' Do not forget the old stand on Tryon street, near tne Square. 77 Oct. 7. 1881. 6m j Central' Hotel Barber Shop. GREY TOOLE, hi the Basement of the Cen tral Hotel, still carries on the Tonsorial Art in its Various branches. He and bis assistant Artists are o wen known for tneir skill tnat it neeas no multiplicity of words to inform the' public where beards can be shaved smoothly and hair cut .and dressed in fashionable style and "with dispatch." uive him a trial. - GREY TOOLE. July 29, 1881. Under Central Hotel. A Little Cotton History. The water-power of Lowell began to be improved for manufacturing purposes in 1822. The first cotton planted in this country was in 1721, in South Carolina. The plant was discovered growing wild on the Island of Hispahiola: also as far North on the banks of the Mississippi as the thirteenth parallel of latitude, and .it has been proved to be indigenous to the soil of the lower latitudes of North Ameri ca. W. Ellitt, iu 1790, gathered the first successful cotton crop in South Carolina, and within a tew years cotton cultivation became general in the extreme Southern States. COMMISSIONERS' SALE OP 1,200 Acres of Valuable Lands. By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of the county of Mecklenburg, we will sell at Pub lic Auction, at the Court House door in the city of Charlotte, on Monday the 16th day of January, 1B92, tne lianas wnicn were owned by the late Mary M. Wallace. The Home Place, 4 miles from the city of Charlotte on the Lawyers road, contains 408 acres, wiih a large Brick Dwelling House, good Barns and other improvements. 1 he Allen .Place contains 267 acres, is 4 miles from the city, adjoins the Home Place, and lies between the "Lawyers road and the Monroe road. The Wynens Place, on the Potter road, con tains 133. acres, adjoins the Home Place and is about the same distance from the City. 'lhe Wilson Place, on the Lawyers road, amiles from uiiariotte, contains 322 acres. The Brumley Place, on Reedy Creek, 7 miles from Charlotte, contains 7J acres. We will also sell a valuable Uold Mine, in Union county, near Matthews', known as the Henry Phifer Mine. . - The Home tract, the Allen tract, and the Wil son tract, each, will first be offered in lots and then as a whole. , This sale is made subject to the ratification and approval pi the Court. Terms One tenth cash; balance in two equa installments at one and two years, with security and interest from date. Deeds and Plats can be seen at the Law office of OSBORNE & MAXWELL, Charlotte, N. C. Parties desiring to examine th property will apply to S. II. Farrow, at the Brick House Place. JOHN It. MOKK1S, ' ' W. C. MAXWELL, Dec 2, 1881. tds Commissioners. SALE OF Valuable City Property. By virtue of a Mortgage Deed executed by R. Jti. .brown and wife to Martin Icehour, for cer tain purposes therein mentioned, and registered in the Register of Deeds' office in Mecklenburg county, N.C., Book 25, page 286, lwill sell at the Court House door, in the city of Charlotte, on the 13th day of February, 1882, that valuable City property located in tne city or Char lotte, on uranam street, adjoining the pro perty of T. L. Alexander and A. R. Nesbit, fronting 99 feet on Graham street, and extending DacK "zvs reeu ora2 dr.iim6 txxM j. -other. J improvements, ana excellent wen oi water on the Lot. Terms cash. MARTIN ICEHOUR, Jan. 6, 1882. 5w Mortgagee. Notice Sheriffs Sale. I will sell for cash, at the Court House door, in the city of Charlottp, on Monday, the 6th day of February 1882, to satisfy executions in my hands for State and County Taxes for the years 1880 and 1881, the following described city property, viz : One house and lot on Trade street, adjoining the property of J L Brown and others, and known as the BankmgUouse of the Merchants and Farm ers National Bank. ALSO, one house and lot on Tryon street. adjoining the property of the Second Presbyterian Church, Ed. Henderson and others, known as the property of the Merchants and Farmers National liank. ALSO, at the same time and place, one Lot in Ward 4, Lot No 1564, Square 190, known as the City Mills, adjoining the Air Line Railway and others, known as the property of the Traders .National Bank of Charlotte. M. E. ALEXANDER, Jan. 6, 1882 5w Sheriff. NEW MILLINERY. We are now receiving our Fall and Winter Stock . of Millinery Goods, Containing all the latest styles and qualities of Ladies', Misses and Children's Hats and Bonnets. Also, all the novelties for trimniins : Feathers. Flowers, Ribbons, Silk, Flashes, Satins, Orna ments, etc. Also, our usual larere and attractive stock of White Goods, Laces, Embroideries, Neck Wear, tiloves and Hosiery, Corsets, Shawls Cloaks, Skirts, Ac. Another laree stock of Ladies' Mus lin Underwear just received,, that we are offering at very low prices. Uct. 14, 1831. MKS. i. tJU-Eltl. Just Received AT TIDDY'S CITY BOOK STORE A well selected Stock of WRITING PAPER, Including Note,' Letter, "Sermon, Legal and Fools cap, which they propose to sell cheap for cash. Also, French Paper of every descriptioj. with .haveiopes to match. Also, raper in boxes, tosu.it the most fastidious. SOCIAL ETIQUETTE OF NEW YORK. A standard treatise upon the laws of good society inJSew lork. CONGRESS TIE ENVELOPES a new lot just received. Edward Todd & Co.'s Celebrated , Rubber Pens ' A Pen by some considered superior to a Gold Pen. TIDDY & BRO. are also Agents for Emer- san's celebrated Rubber HAND-STAMPS ; and any orders given them will receive prompt atten tion. Cash paid for Rags. A. A. GASTON, DEALER IN Stoves, Tin-Ware And HoHse Furnishing Goods, . CHARLOTTE, N. C. He keeps the largest stock of Stoves and Tin Ware ever offered in this market. $100 reward will be paid to any party that ever sold a larger or heavier Stove than the "Barley Sheaf." I have sold the "Barley Shear' for eleven years. Call at my Store under Central Hotel building, . -- i -, J ana examine my siock. a JST Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware manufactured to order, and all Repairing promptly executed. ; Feb 1,1881. , A. A. UASTOJN. Trees for Delivery. My trees are how ready for delivery, opposite Mr. Allen Cruse' s residence, on Tryon street, be tween 5th and 6th. A fine lot of Trees, Plants, Flowers and Flower Seed on hand. Anything in my line furnished on short notice. T. W. SPARROW, , . Dec, 9, 1881. . . , . ; Charlotte, N. C. Foreive and Forget. When streams of unkindness as bitter assail, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue, And meekness is writhing in torment and thrall, By the hands of ingratitude, wrung ; In the heat of injustice, unwept and unfair, While the anguish is festering yet ; None, none but an angel of God can declare 'I now can forgive and forget." But if the bad spirit is chased from the heart. And the lips are in penitence steep'd, With the wrong so repented the wrath will depart, Though scorn of injustice were heaped ; For the best compensation is paid for all ill When the cheek with contrition is wet, And every one feels it is impossible still At once to forgive and forget. Brood not on insults or injuries old, For thou art inj urious too ; Count not their sum till the total is told, For thou art unkind and untrue ; And if all thy harms are forgotten, forgiven, Now mercy with justice is met, Oh, who-would not gladly take lessons of heaven. Nor learn to forgive and forget ? The Prompt Clerk. I once knew a young man, said an emi nent preacner tne otner day in a sermon to young men, that was commencing life as a clerk. One day his employer said to him: "Now to-morrow that cargo of cotton must be got out and weighed, and we must have a regular account of it. He was a young man ot energy, lhis was the first time he had been entrusted to superintend the execution of this work ; he made his arrangement over night, spoke to the men about their carts and horse, and resolving to begin very early in the morning, he instructed the laborers to be there at hall-past four o clock. So they set to work and the thing was done ; and about ten or eleven o'clock his master came in, and seeing him sitting in the counting- house, looked very black, supposing that his commands had not been exe cuted. . 'I thought," said the master, "you were requested to get out that cargo this morn ing V" "It's all done' said the youug man, "and here is the account of it." He never looked behind him from that moment never ! His character was fixed confidence was established. He was found to be the man to do the thing with prompt ness, lie very soon came to be tne one thax" coma "noTrjepaTirti , bo-n-M xuJ4aarj to the firm as any one of the partners, He was a religious man, and went through a life of great benevolence, and at his death was able to leave his children an ample fortune. He was not smoke to the eves nor vinegar to the teeth, but lust to . the contrary. ST There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it, while the other closes itself, and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them it is because we will not open our hearts to receive him. Rubber Belting. A complete Stock of Rubber Belting, Rubber and Hemp Packing. Also, all sizes and kinds of Rope at bottom prices. Hot 1,1880. Kl LiHi & HAMMUHD. BUB6ESS NICHOLS, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in FURNITURE. BEDDING, &c. 0 I have now in Store a well selected stock em bracing everything found in a First-class Furniture Store, Such as Bedroom and Parlor Suits, Lounges, Tet-a-Tets, Whatnots, Marble and Wood Top Tables, Dining Tab!es, Washstands, Bureaus, Wardrobes, Book Cases, &c. tiT CHAIRS of all kinds and cheap Bedsteads at prices to suit the times. 1 respectfully solicit a shure of patronage. . ALSO, COFFINS of all grades kept on hand ready- made. No. 5 West Trade Street, 3 n 19, 1881 Charlotte, N. C. Lumber ! Lumber ! ! LUMBER III I am prepared to furnish Lumber to persons desiring the same in any quantity. 1 nave steam and Water Mills, and can saw Lumber or Giind Grain at any time. Address, Dr. I. J. Sloan, Charlotte, N. C' I. J. SLOAN. Dec. 2, 1881. 3mpd GOOD COFFEE. Everybody wants it, but very few get it, be cause most people do not know how to select coffee, or it is spoiled in the roasting or making. To obviate these difficulties has been our study. Thurber s package Coffees are selected by an ex pert who understands the art of blending various tmofrfTt lsI Si inPSl flavors. They are roasted in manDer (it is impossible to roasc well in small quantities,) then put in pound packages (in the bean, not groundS bearing our signature as a guarantee of genuineness, and each package con tains the Thurber recipe for making good Coffee. We pack two kinds, Thurbers "No. 34, strong and pungent, Thurbers "No. 41," mud and rich. One or the other will suit every taste. They have the three great points, good quality, honest quantity, reasonable price. Ask your Urocer for Thurber s roasted (Joffte in pound packages, "Jso. 34" or "No. 41." Do riot be put off with any other kind your own palate will tell ycu what is best. : - ' ' Where persons desire it we also furnish the ''Ideal" Coffee-pot. the simplest, best and cheap est coffee-pot in existence. Grocers who sell our Coffee keep them. Ask for descriptive circular, Respectfully, Ac, II. K. & Pj B. THURBER & CO Importers. Wholesale Grocers and Coffee Roast ers, New York. P. S. As the largest dealers in food products in the world, we consider it our interest to manu facture onlv pure and wholesome goods and pack them in a tidy and satisfactory manner. All goods bearing our name are guaranteed to be of superior quality, pure and wholesome, and deal- ers are authorized to refund the purchase price In any case where customers have cause for dis- satisfaction. It is therefore to the interest of both dealers and consumers to use Thurber' brands. Dec. 16, 1881. ' l w - Ben Hill on Civil Service Reform. We present a portion of the stinging speech made by the Hon. Ben. II. Hill of Georgia, in the senate last week, when the question of civil service reform was under discussion : "lhe Senator irom unio toofe occasion to remind ns that the late President of the United States was the victim of a cor rupt civil service in this country. That everybody says is eo, and therefore it is not necessary for me to discuss it. But, sir, the President was scarcely laid away in his final resting-place, the people of the United otates everywhere were still weep ing for his departure, when in the midst of their very sobs a Federal Judge was soiling his ermine by inditing a letter to the successor oi that very President who succeeded by reason of that very corrupt civil service, appealing to him to make upuiutmciHB xui tu cA-prcsB pui uusc ut i aiding a coalition to control a State elec- tiuu, aim nie uuujuc lauguagc ui iuai I Judge was that the President should make the aDDointment "to cement onr nnalition " Fnr what, nnmnao icon thp coalition ? Simply to secure Republican w- ww mvruv mm m. s - officers in the State. The Senator read that much, but he stopped there. He did not tell the beuate, as he miht have done, that that very President to whom the letter was .addressed, with the weeds of mourning all around him, with the sobs ofthecouutry still echoing from every nook and corner of the land, sat down and made the very appointment that that Judge designated lor tne purpose ot ce w menting our coalition." and that Presi dent, as soon as he made that appoint ment for the express purpose of "cement ing our coalition," turned right around before the ink on the commission was dry and used tne very same pen, dipped in the very same ink, to write a learned dis quisition or homily upon civil service re form to be inserted m his message to (Jon gress. Ihat is the way we treat civil ser vice reform in this country. Do you blame the President for that ? Has he not a right from his own ex peri ence to assume that everybody in this country who talks about civil service re form is simply playing with the people? hy, sir, are there not scores of men now listening to me who sat in their seats in this very Chamber and heard read from that very desk official communications from a former President and his Secretary of the lreasnry, insisting upon the re moval of this very President from the custom-house in New York, upon the ground that he had made it the head quarters of a political party, and that his removal was absolutely necessary to se- cure an honest administration of affairs in that public office? Did you not all hear tKat read, from the desk ? v as it not puuiiciy given 10 me country And y that very man who was removed from the custom-house in New York, upon the ground that the honest administration of the civil service required his removal, that very man the next year was nominated by that very party for the second office in the gift of the people, and the very men who asked tor his removal supported his election, took the stump for bim. And that is civil service reform! And all the crowd of civil service reformers at the North, with homilies upon civil service re lorm, and who have been at it tor years, voted tor that very man for Vice-Presi dent. What do vou think of that? Well, is anybody surprised that when that President made his nomination to the Senate for the purpose of "cementing our coalition," in Virginia his party friends should an nave supported that nomina tion when every one of them holds an office here due to that very coalition ? Do not half this Senate absolutoly hold office in this body which they never could have obtained except for that coalition ? Do we not all know that five years ago immense clamor was raised in this coun try about certain frauds upon the ballot, upon the popular will, in different States 01 tne union returning-ooard irauos by which (the charge was made) the Presidency itself was secured ? And does not everybody know that every man, high and low, black and white, who was charged with connection with those frauds, received an ofhee from that very adminis tration which obtained the Presidency by these frauds ? Did I not hear, did not other members of the Senate hear, wit nesses come before a committee of this body, and the testimony was printed and spread before the body, in which the wit- nesses testified and admitted under oath that they had committed deliberate per offices and he n nor their nartv Andl.i;j nM iA ru 1 a 1 j does not evervbodv know that men who did that did secure the offices, and, as far as l know, hold those offices to this day, hold them now? I have not heard of their removal vet: thev certainly held them up to the end ot the last administra Hon.7 Great is modern invention. A Massachusetts physician was called by telephone about 1 o'clock at night not long ago to attend a child suffering with the croup two miles away. It was a dark and stormy night and the doctor rebeled attheidea of making the weary journey. However, he prepared to start when just as he was leaving the house the thought struck: mm tnat ne misrnt solve tne cum- culty by the aid of the telephone. He requested the parents to bring the sick child to the telephone transmitter, listened intently to its croup cough, prescribed a remedy, which was promptly administered, waited until he was informed in a short time that the patient had been relieved and then sought his couch, calling down blessings on the inventor of the tele phone. Flipping the Pbnny. He was asking the conductor how he managed to build a house' and buy a fast horse out of his fifty dollars a month. "You see," said this nobleman, "sometimes we get a way pas senger who pays a quarter or half dollar for his fare. Well, we flip the money up heads for the conductor, tails for the company.?' "But," persisted the investi- gator after truth, "sometimes it must turn t:ia What do -vou do then?" "Oh" v .. , ,i. ui replied the conductor, with an ineffable contempt, "then we flip it up again bo that passenger went home and sold out his ' railroad shares. Anon. ' - Where Great Men Come From. The way "Blood" tells. Senator Miller, of California, was a gal lant soldier. He was poor at the close of the war. . lie secured the lease of the Alaska seal furs, and has made millions. Senator Jones, of Nevada, is poor now compared to the millions he used to wear at his belt; but he is just as good a lellow all the same. He never did put on much style about society, but if his beautiful lit tle wife does leave her Gold-Hill home and preside at the granite mansion this winter there will be several reunions there long to be remembered. Sen ator Davis, of West Virginia, was once a brakeman on the Baltimore and Ohio rail road, and arose and arose, until he has reached fortune and fame. He is worth millions and still a making it. He never did astonish "society." here and as neretires iu 1 ftS? will probably way. Senator not venture w v v i iu that 1 endletOn IS rich; an e very-day ciety man, with an accomplished family hi,.f .BLfti. xr;a wQ ,i u . i i . .u i. will Lll LllUUnallua LI J L. 1 1 1? HLtlir lire I ICl H - l - I " Edmunds is rich, and hiafamilv are of the best New Eno-land stock. Ravard has a regiment of children delightful they are, too. and of the dozen or more that are al- ready in society none know them but to l0ve, admire, and respect. He is kept poor by the continual pouring in of school- charges and milliners' bills.' Mrs. Con- ger has bought a $30,000 house, and also a carriage and Dair of horses, and thev n r j j have left the National hotel and gone to house-keeping. They will now form part of the society people. Ferry is a bache lor, Morgan is poor, and Beck resides with his daughter. We 11 speak of Sherman after the investigation closes. There isn't any other very special case, except, in deed, it be dear old Senator Saunders, of Nebraska. He left Kentucky a poor boy, .......i ni,;. ,i .1. t ,j 1. ,i t I handle friction; couldn't work, and had to loaf around the country store; did chores for the proprietor; worked his way up; be came the head clerk; commanded a com pany of young men who emigrated from Ohio to Kansas: became one of the leaders in the Kansas-Nebraska fight; and al though a Southerner, was an uncompromis ing anti-slavery man; went into dry goods and politics, and made fortune and fame; was the first Governor of Nebraska, and the man who stuck the golden Bpade that threw the hi st shovel-full of dirt that com menced the building of the Union Pacific railway. His daughter is the handsomest young lady in society. His son, who has. just graduated at law in New York, is a proud and gallant-fellow; while Mrs. Saun ders is loved by hosts ot friends; but not withstanding all this, the benator will tell of Java when he chopped wood and drilled the boys for the Kansas .and . Ne braska light. Washington Chronicle. '"- , . Repaieixg Mutilated Currency. In the fall of 1880 a bachelor of Wayne Township, Crawford County, Pa., Coon Hart, gave to Mrs. Coulson, the lady of the house, his pocketbook for safe keeping. Tt mntainPfl fivp Sun hills thrpp nf thpm it contained five bills, three ot them being greenbacks and two national bank iff K notes. She put the pocketbook away in a little trinket box. As Mr. Hart had no occasion to use the money, the box was not called for until the 1st of April last. when on opening the box it was found the mice had been there and made a very nice nest of the bachelor's savings. In fact, the notes were cut as fine as a carding machine could have done the work, in pieces from the size of a pin head to that of a finger nail. No one who saw the ''remains" ever thought there could be any identification of the money. But about a month ago a friend of Mr. Hart's sealed the contents of the box and mailed it to United States Treasurer Gilfiilan. 1 On Tuesday of last week a draft was received lead pencil and about an inch long could be lit at one end and held with the fingers. It melted like wax, and it was only after a little while, when hot drops ran down, t,o fl V. l u KlA danger of fire is considerably less than with liquid petroleum. The product can be easily liquified when required by the addition of vinegar, and . the process is rapid. The vinegar in time separates out below and the petroleum above. It is not stated whether the same vinegar can be used repeatedly. It appears that the uscu icucuiguiv, jLb auucaio tuai. tuc yzu nMnn ua : crude naphtha are not affected by the solidifying agent, in which case the costly apparatus for fractional distillation might hp rtisnpnsprl wit h Thp ad vanl awpa nf buiiu ijc iiuicu ui ni-'uiu 10 ucvuuaiiv iciu I : ; n..., nantn,a indnat.rv snffers throng the dearth of suitable wood tor barrels. SagT" Bronson Aleott's latest instruction for his aesthetic disciples is that the purest food is fruit, and that, if animal food be eaten at all, it is best in the mild form of oysters and eggs. "Beautiful diet, beauti ful form," he exclaims. "All pure poets have abstained almost entirely from ani mal iood. iLvery animal leeaer is some times a tyrant. If one would abate that ffltft lip mnt. nm:t :t pnt;rei unt hv a gradaal prooe88. Compare a table of the DreBent day with that spread by the hands pread by j?ve paradise to feed her ethereal guests. Then was gathered together a least of the purest, a banquet of right. We are composed of atoms, and every atom must be musical and tremulous with harmony to give the body that harmony that is musical. The consent of our atoms, the absolute consent of every atom to every other atom that is harmony. Every passion leaves its impress, we know not how; long. Every atom sympathizes with every other atom." -. : .. Vineoab feom an Oak. While the Rev. Daniel McHorton, colored, was cut ting down a large red oak tree near But ler's Creek, Ga., he observed a clear liquid running from the cut. Upon tasting this he found that it was strong vinegar. Pro curing a vessel, he caught the liquid as it ran out and obtained about three gallons and a half. The. liquor. has the taste and odor of good, strong cider vinegar. There was a small crack in the centre of the tree, and it is supposed that the sap collected in this, fermented, and turned to vinegar. Augusta Chronicle. How a French Court Would Have Tried Uuiteau. r The French wav of conducting the trial of the murderer Guiteau may be stated I with brevity: The murderer being presented in court, the Judge would have addressed him: Judge Hal miscreant! You murdered our good President. He has done no wrong His wife and children mourn; his country has lost him. Your life has been traced. You are a scoundrel. What can you say? Prisoner I was impelled by the Diety to remove the President. It was not a personal matter. Some of our politicians I were abusing the President, and for the sake of peace the Deity put it into my I head to remove him. The Deity did it, not I, as I was but the instrument. I Judge Miserable. Then you plead in- sanity. Take the wretch to prison; sum-1 mon a commission oi experts in diseases nf thp mind to makfi a nersnnal ftxamina- I lT th c.ulPnt Lu . to-morrow whether he is responsible for his acts. The commission would have been that - - - I the miserable wretch knew enough to know that murder was a crime; that his pretense of irresponsibility was the last resource of a desperate wretch. That would have been the proper end of the triak Lawvers' speeches bv the wav to I befog the case would not have been per- mitted. The mouth of the murderer, if he had attempted to gabble insults, would have been stopped by the Judge. The idea of feasting the scoundrel in jail, and running after him for photographs, and nattering by taking a cast of his horrid head, could I not have been entertained lor a moment. The Judge would have called up the murderer on the third occasion of his ap pearance in the court, and without wast- l"S WUI""W- UUk m' ,1WTUC" . w piay.or rneionc or sentiment, semenceu him to death. No time would have been fixed for the execution. A few days', per- haps, would have passed, during which the condemned would have been visi- ted by a scientific man or two, to make sure that the wretch was not an irrespon- Bible maniac, and for the formality of an application to be made for the mitigation of the sentence. The reply to such an application would have been a simple refusal, and the day alter, or, at tne iurtnest, tne tnird aay, a huge black van would have appeared about two o'clock in the morning iu front of the prison, and in an hour the guillotine would nave been in order and men tne executioner would have knocked on . the cell door of the murderer, with the infor mation that his time had come and he must make his toilet of death. That means a close shave and hair cutting, and a low necked shirt. While the preparations were being made the murderer might have been allowed a cup ot coffee, with perhaps a few drops ot brandy in it. - Halt an nour sumces tor the ceremony of preparation. The services of a vener able priest may be had. The iron gates roll open without noise, and the ghastly assassin is thrust forward, and, under the knife, as coolly and ' rapidly as a hog is I f ,? , 7. . J, .... -r""J " ""s " handled in the killing sea80n at oneof our j .:i,i: t pork houses, and in the twinkling of an eye, the heavy triangle of steel glides down the ladder-like frame. hisses through the neck, and strikes a rubber cushion with a low thud. There is nothing in this process to cul tivate the vanity of miscreants to become murderers no autographs, photographs, phonography, and no models ot heads by bogus artists, or big dinners, or double breakfasts, or correspondence with female fools. Cincinnati Commercial. Confederate Ghristmases. Mr. James D. McCabe has recorded some interesting experiences of Christmas under the Confederacy. The dinner; of 1861, he says, did not differ materially lrom its predecessors in the "piping times of peace," and though . in 1862 the feast was home-made, it was. enjoyable. Tur j .in : j i. i ,i rwy wiiiy J. uu biu uau fallen to 33 cents a pound. The Yula log was obtainable at $15 accord; wines were to be had by the very rich, and sorghum rum or apple, peach, or blackberry brandy cost $30 a gallon. A few toys were left in the stores in the cities, and fireorackers, essential to the Southern festival, were $5 a pack. By 1863 the closest search of i o . 1 , . , - j Santa Claus revealed no playthings, and firecrackers indicated great wealth or reck- firecracker indicated crreat wealth or reck ?7"u - u wP w uu u.c, w- " ' ur ov agauuii: sugar was 90 anu 10 a With dinner I n tnr- 1- i pound, and. flour $125 a barrel. Sold at 280. .a Plam Christmas lor a large family cost $200 or $300. In 1864, when Christmas fell on Sunday, gold was at 5,000. Flour was $600 a bar rel; sugar, $2 an ounce; 6alt, $1 a pound; butter, $40; beef, $35 to $40. Wood was $100 a cord. Mr. McCabe describes a Christmas dinner at a country house near Richmond. The four gentlemen were in uniform, three ladies were in homespun. They had for dinner a $300 ham, and the last turkey on the plantation, value $175, with $100 worth of cabbages, potatoes, and hommy. Corn bread was served, made of meal at $80 a bushel . and salt at $1 a pound. The desert was black molas ses at $60 a gallon, and after one cup of tea real tea, worth $100 a pound, treas ured for the occasion as a surprise, and not sassafras there was coffee at discre tion, made from sweet potatoes cut into little squares, toasted, and ground down. Richmond State. tT" It has been estimated, says an ex change, that the railroad system of the entire world embraces 105,000 locomotives, representing 30,000,000 horse power. The steam-engines stationary, in vessels, and others are estimated at 45,000,000 horse power. If we admit that the nominal steam horse-power corresponds to ;the effective labor of three draught horses, and that the draught horse produces the labor of seven men, we shall find that the steam engine actually represents the labor of a tnousana million oi men. Over 800,000,000 bushels of corn are produced annually in the United States. Over half of it is fed to cattle and hogs, and much is used in the manufacture , of I sugar, starch and alcohol. " The Riffht of the Road. If a farm-deed is bounded by. on, or udou a road it usually extends to the mid die of the roadway. There are a few ceptional cases, but ordinarily the farmer owns the soil of half the road and may use the grass, trees, stones, gravel, sand or anything of value to him either on the land or beneath the surface, subject only to the superior rights of the public to travel over the road and that of the high way-surveyor or ther similar officer to use such materials for the repair of. the road; and these materials he may cart away and use elsewhere on the road, yet he has no right to use them lor bis own No , other man has private purposes a right to feed his cattle there or to cut the grass or trees, much less to deposit his wood, old carts, wagons, or other things thereon. The owner of a drove of cattle which stops to feed in front of your land, or of a drove of pigs which root up t hp. soil is rpsnnnsihlo In vnn bv law an much as it they did the same things inside the fence. No one has a legal right to pick ud the apples under vour trees, al- though the same stand wholly outside the fence. No traveler can hitch his horse to your trees on the sidewalk without being liable if he gnaws the bark or otherwise injures them. You may unties the horse and remove him to some other place. If your, well stands partly on your land and partly outside the fence, no neighbor can use it except by your permission. No man has a right to stand in front ef your land and whittle or deface your fence, throw stones at your dog, or insult you with abusive language without being lia- ble to you for trespassing on your land. Ile has a right to pass and repass in an or derly manner a right to the road but no to abuse it. Haul in Your Line. "Take no throught for the morrow, that is, no anxious, fretful thought. Walk through to-dav as well as vou can. and God will undertake for your future. When you go forward out of to-day, to worry about to-morrow, yu are over the fence, you are trespassing, and God will scourage you back into your own lot. I have always found that so long as I kept a short line I couldn't manage my fishing very well: but when I let mv line run out the stream took it down, and there I was, at the merCy ot every stick that struck up in the stream, and everv rock that iutted out from the banks. I lost my fish, and I tangled my line; very likely I lost my footing also, and got over head and ears in the stream. Now most men have cast out their lines into life forty years long, when it ought to be but one day long. In consequence, they are not able to manage their tackle at all; but are pulled after it, stumbling first into this hole, and then into that; slipping up here, and slipping down there, struggling and splashing about in far more distressed fashion than the fish at the end ol the line and, as a general thing, there is no fish there. Haul in your line." Daughters. mere are lew great! Drevaili di8D05ition prevailing disposition There are few greater mistakes than the among: people in middle-class life to bring up their daugh ters as fine ladies, neglecting useful knowl edge for showy accomplishments. The notions, it has been justly observed, whic h girls thus educated acquire of their im portance is in an inverse ratio to their true value. With iust enough of fashion able refinement to disqualify them for the duties of their proper station and render them ridiculous in a higher sphere, what are such fine ladies fit for? Nothing but to be kept like wax figures in a glass case. Woe to the man who is linked to one of them! If half the time and money wasted on music, dancing and embroidery were employed in teaching daughters the useful arts of making shirts and mending stock ings and managing household affairs, their real qualifications as coming wives and mothers would be increased fourfold. The Decrease of Villages. The last census showed a decrease of the population in villages in the United States. This same decrease is now deplored in England. It is said that people congregate in towns, because life in town is really more decent, more agreeable and more profitable. We should like to know the test of the argu ment. There is some truth in it, and that lies in the two words, "public opinion." Pub lic opinion makes many people respecta ble, that otherwise would not be so; they dare not give way to indulgence because the public eye is upon them, when they would freely do so, were no such correct ing medium about. Then the homes of country people are so poor and wretched often, that they prefer the sound walls of a tenement house to the tumble-down shanty of a village, and would rather live in close quarters with others than drag out their days in miserable loneliness. The congregating of human beings is one of the great features of the coming gen eration. Saving. A saving woman at the head of a family is the very best savings bank established. The idea of saving is a very pleasant one ; and if the women imbibed it at once, they would cultivate it and adhere to it ; and thus, when they are not aware of it, they would be laying the foundation of a competent security in a stormy time, and shelter in a rainy day. The best way to comprehend is to keep an account of all current expenses. Whether five hundred dollars or five thousand dollars are expended annually, there is a chance to save something if the effort is made. Let the house wife take the idea, act upon it, and she will save something where before she thought it impossible. This is a duty, yet not a sordid avarice, but a mere obligation that rests upon women as well as men. Home Journal. i ' wm ' Something Remaekable. A gentle man by the name of Jacob Foust used to live in Chatham county, and for 18 years before his death, he carried a cratch made out of sour-wood. At his death the crutch was stuck in a crack in the house, and in about six months afterwards the crutch was pulled out of the crack, and found to contain a green pith four and a half inches long. It is a fact, so a gentleman in formed us this morning, who says he saw it