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Home and Democrat; CHARLOTTE, N. C. f jv Correspondence of ihe Home an -Democrat, New York, Jan. 16, 1882. Editor Home and . Democrat :l have in nr-'forptiWTcation - tbf- weeka pamphlet nt4ei j The president's Rela tions with' SerfatoVManone'and Repudia-tioQJLai-tPUIPtStheSupreme Cour of the United , States." . It is by Wni.il Royall Esq.', author of several legal and political works, ,and among the latter a Reply to Toargee's Fool's Errand, of which I published three editions last year; and like all his writings, is thor oughly logical and supported by facts and figures..,,, . , : Among his facts, two are worthy of no tice herej as showing of what stuff the Mahone-lieadjuster party, to which the National administration has' given a sig nal, triumph, is composed. The Legisla ture" which, elected ;Mah,one to the U, b. Senate, elected Thos. B. Claiborne a Judge for Ffankliu 'county, in the face of a state ment In writing by Gen. Jubal A. Early, of, the; same county, read to the Read- juster caucus and to the Legislature, that Claiborne was a professional gambler, and a cheating and swindling gambler, making a business, of;'j)lay1ng "poker" with a Lizzard" cpncealeu under nis vest, ana extending ; down i the leg to his foot, by which he could . substitute a strong hand for a weak on when dealt to him. And the'.other iact to which I alluded, that the prtsaat Legislature , last week, elected as Superintendent of Public Education, with a 'salary of $2,700, a man named Farr of Fairfax,- who,1a official documents, spells aggregate ,,agrigate", levied "leveyed,' and -amended "araendid." It is to be hoped that he : will learn to spell while drawing his "salary, and that he may , not superintend such education as his own for the rising generation of Virginians, black ana white.; .t ...... . . Ihe World cites the carious provisions dfmatiy'., wills. : One." man in Maine re quired his- heirs to make a pledge ot total abstinence before receiving their legacies, and imposed a forfeiture of six months' income for every violation of the pledge, Gerhart' Bechtel of Pennsylvania, disin herited any son' which should persist in wearing; mustaches. Jesse Mehany of Indiana left $25 to every namesake who might apply within a year. .The same paper enumerates many oddi ties of Court decisions. In Addison, Ver mont, a suit has been pending twenty years about an SO acre tract, valued orig inally at $5,000 and now at $1,600. It has been tried six times and is about to . . . have a seventh hearing. In Mount Saint- Michel, (wherever that may be,) an old lady of 00 is carrying on a suit com menced by her father in 1769, refusing an ofter ot $600,000 as a compromise. Judg ment had been given one way or the other, more than eighty times. In 1879 the Hungarian. Supreme Court restored the heirs of a great estate to the property of which they had been wrongfully evict ed in 1769. In a recent suit against a Hartford administrator, out of a recovery of $10,000 the lawyers took $9,410. In a suit in Iowa about a calf long since con- ' verted into beef, the costs so far are $2,300, ' I. had , a remarkable case last week. Twnty-odd years ago an old friend (long since dead) made an assignment to pro- fide for debts amounting to nearly $25, 000, It seems, that I was provided for to the amount of, $100, though I have not the slightest recollection of the fact. The attorney who had it in hand, however. was ' not " rib oblivious. He prosecuted a iuitfor property . conveyed, through dif ferent counties, and, before the Supreme C4urt and .finally realized $1,400, enough to pay ' 3.57 of the claims, after deduct Ihg one-fourth,' $350, for his many years' work.' $Iis fee 'I consider very moderate If it had .been here, instead of paying me $3.57, as he has done, he would probably have required me Td pay" him as much or more - ' - t- A writer in the Church' Union, upon the influence of Jcolleges, says : t - . . v "lt is estimated that every college-bred man, on the average -weilds a direct influence over the weal or woe of a thousand of his fellowmen. By a eiogte revival at Yale College there were raised up ministers oi unrist who were instrumental, we are told, iu the conversion of SO.000 souls! Think of all all of onr seminaries'" of learning sending yat .educated : men .wbo aTe to be our authors, scientists, editors, teachers, -preachers. judges and governors, or in mercantile life to ex ert a moulding influence on the civilization of this and other generations.1'' More than half the grad uates of Harvard becaffteiuiinisters the first sixty years of its history. - If, as Edward Beecher has aaid,"au idea is . mightier than a million . men," than that place where ideas are born, expressed or applied, is a centre oi living power. s One of the sad sights of city life is the delving of street gamins- into barrels o refuse on the side-walks in' search o jomething to' eat. " JMore than twenty years ago, from, my,, window in the Fifth Avenue Hotel I saw the greedy snatching of such bits of meat from the leavings o tne "kitchen, . and the startled look with which Jhey ran away when they : heard footsteps approaching. ,As if any . one would deny them ' that - which had been ihrbWn awayl1 ' On Saturday last, Rosanio rririt:' ' '.i'ii' v' . : Auureiuuu, ageu ,ia years,, oi vrosoy treet, atea piece of bread that he had taken from a barrel in the street, was im mediately sickened, 'and died. ' It was shown on investigation that the bread had been covered with rat 'poison. Its jdepoBit;iu such place ;was an act of gross carelessness, resulting in- the death of this poor Italian boy. " r . " The greatest sugac refinery in the world rllaveraypr.j fc. Elder's, was . burned in Brooklyn last week.-' The lows was a mil lion and a half, orwhiclTa little more than half Was covered J by J insurance in 276 companies, mostly in amounts of $2,500 and $5,6oa. Jt threw nearly; 3,000 men out ot employment. The effect would be to ad vance the price of refined sugars, ex I cept that the demand for raw . sugars would be so diminished as to, counteract the rise of the refined. The firm does uot expect to recommence work for about a year. They had six millions of dollars worth of property in the burned building and half a dozen other huge buildings near it, which escaped. The money-order department of the mails is rapidly growing. At the office in this city alone during the year 1881, 64,288 orders were issued, covering $1,- 388,083.67, and ' drafts to the amount of $10,225,592 were paid. Including foreign orders paid there were 883,802, to the amount of $58,992,768.81. It is by all odds the safest way, if not the only safe way, to remit small amounts. A remit tance to me by postal order from the mining region of Colorado was lost some weeks ago, but an application by the Postmaster there to the General Post- office at Washington brought a duplicate, which was paid. The only loss was in delay. v The .dealers in "special tax" North Carolina bonds appear not to despair. They had another meeting last week, and appointed a committee to take steps under the recent act of the Legislature author izing the Attorney-General of New York to institute suit in the Supreme Court of the United States in the name of the State against a delinquent State, provided the claimant bondholders indemnify him by a sufficient bond. In his opening speech in the prosecu tion of the Star Route fraud, Col. Bliss said: "All the bonds in these cases were worthless. The same piece of property was made to do ser vice as security for an unlimited number of bonus. On 13,110 bids made by certain contractors they gave bonds in the sum of $8,840,544, and Colonel Bliss said: "Probably there is not enough secur ity in all of them to buy a spavined horse." In Cabell's case the defendant had acquired title to 575 acres of wild land in Morgan County, which one of his correspondents there had assured him was not worth the assessed taxes upon it, yet this property had been conveyed from one of the de fendants to another, just as needed, and had done service to the amount of $77, 100 in bonding Cabell. In another case a witness had sworn that he had gone on Boone's bonds to the amount of nearly $3,000,000 on a piece of land which he had been informed had been transferred to nim, but he had never seen the papers of transfer. One of these surities had sworn that he owned real estate to the amount of $100,000 in Aberdeen, Miss. The postmaster there says that mere is not enough real estate in the town limits to foot up this figure. Colonel Bliss cited many other cases in which real estate of small value had served to secure bonds for a fabulous amount." Which of the sexes shall I appeal to as to the philosophy of the following: "Yes," he said to his confidential friend, "I am engaged to her and I suppose I ought to be very happy, but somehow I am worried about a former attachment of hers. There's that infernal black guard, Jones, who" "Why, bless my soul! You stupid fellow, sne nates him like poison. "Yes, ves. I know that's what troubles me. She hates him too bitterly not to have loved him once. The hated lover had probably jilted her. Is it not Shakespeare who says, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Or corned, as it is sometimes rendered. II. FOB THE HOME AND DEMOCRAT. Death in the Pot. was the cry of the class of young divines, who were studying theology under Elisha, some thousands of years ago. The dish provided for dinner that day was not to their liking their pure, unvitiated palates discovered the danger before it was too late. While we, on the contrary, go on eating "diseases dire" all unconscious of the poisonous germs which are to blossom into scrofula, consumption, dropsy and cancer. We eat everything almost, which we ought not to eat. And the conse quence is, that we are probably the most short-lived and unhealthy nation in the world. The foreigners amongst us, as a rule, look better, and are better, physi cally, than we are. But they also com plain that new national habits, have in troduced dietic changes, which are pro ducmg national decay. A recent con tributor to a British journal, (The Nine teenth Century,) remarks, "Ihe yeomen of Elizabeth's reign, who drew tbeir bow strings to their ears and sent a cloth-yard shaft whistliug through a barn door at eighty yards, ate meat about once a week, and lived the rest ot the time on 'whole meal' bread and cheese." As a woman's letter is said always to contain the most important item in the postscript, so this sentence contains its chief import in the last word, "cheese." lo healthy constitutions, like those of the ancient English yeoman, cheese contains double the amount of nutriment that any otner Known article oi iooa aoes. ine people of Holland use it largely even young children eat it without restraint, and they are a remarkably strong, ener getic and healthy race. Every farmer's wife in the land ought to know how to make cheese, and make it, in some degree, a substitute for the almost unvarying dish of bacon. The Greeks were a people of marvellous intellectual development, and they knew what they were about - when they gave a certain wide spread disease, the name oi scrofula from scrota, the hog. It is thought to be the foundation of all cachectic disorders ; a "scrofulous habit of the body" is the origin of all "maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, Qualms of heart-sick agony Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs. Dropsies and asthmas and joint-racking rheums." . raraime Lost. There is not the shadow of a doubt of two facts. 1st. That man is subject to more diseases than any other animal on the earth. 2d. That he is more artificial in his habits than any other animal. . By "artificial" I mean that he departs more widely from the laws of his own nature, than any other created being. : Many new theories have been set afloat in regard to foods ; and of these that of vegetarianism has probably attracted most attention. But to eat even vegeta bles is not. in accordance with God's com mand to Adam, "Of every tree of the garden, eating thou Shalt eat." (Literal translation.) The discoveries of scientists prove that this tree food contains all the elements of nutrition in their greatest purity and abundance. The culture of trees not only gives us lood,- but purines the air, en riches the soil, and beautifies the land scape. Parks are considered a stately luxury which only the rich can afford to indulge in. liut it is a delightful fact ho IkaEiolia Heme aai - IsWoWaC that the finest park trees are the finest food producers. The chestnut, the Per sian walnut, the pecan, the shell bark hickory nut, the arancaria and the Italian pine, are only a few of the most beautiful. Cheese is a much better article for sus taining strength than bacon, beef, pork or mutton, liut nuts and fruits are infinitely better than cheese, or "whole meal" bread, or any other artificial food. Jas. Thoreau, (a noted scholar and naturalist whose life has been written by Wm. Ellery Chan ning) maintained that "men ought to have no more labor in providing lor their own wants, than the birds have." But, poor fellow, he lived on pulse (cooked, of course,) and grain of different kinds, with some fruits, and he died early. Dr. Syl vester Graham, another noted vegetarian, also died in middle life. Adam was not a vegetarian, but a fruitarian if I may coin a word. Holding these views, I was, of course, very much charmed to read of an English family who had arrived at the same conclusions; and who were not mere theorists like myself, but were actually putting the theory into practice. They left England and located in Los Angelos county, California, in 1877. And like wise people, they made a three years trial of their system, before they allowed their success to be proclaimed to the public. After three years of perfect health in a family of eight persons, several of whom were "always ailing" previously, it would have been wrong, had they kept the good news to themselves. From the first, how ever, they made no secret of their convic tions but with remarkable benevolence, kept open house, giving a welcome to any one who wished to try their system. But finding "so many people in the world who are homeless and incapable of taking pro per care ot themselves, and who therelore are willing to endorse any views or prac tice, as long as they are comfortably housed and fed," Mr. liinde had to cir cumscribe his hospitality. He now offers to take boarders at his handsome residence near Anaheim; and any one who wishes to try the food of Adam and Eve, can have an opportunity of doing so. I give some extracts from a letter of this gentle man : " Ihere are with us now four adultsi and four children, living on uncooked food, but there are many others who are meas urably adopting our regime, in this State and elsewhere." "Our life work and de sire is to classify and group together those with us, desirous of putting into practice the highest truths known to the human race; for by obedience to truth, every form of vice, pain, sorrow and dis cord, in whatsoever shape, will disappear, and earth will become,! aradise regained. I fear Air. Hicde is not a believer in the Christian religion, as he makes no men tion of it, in stating his "creed." He says, "We believe in body soul and spirit; or matter, law and Deity ; our practice of eating all of our food, in its natural state, is an act of obedience to law, and brings its own compensation in exuberant vitality and perfect health." It is better to have the Christian reli ligion without the "exuberant vitality and perfect health" than to have the latter without the former. But why not have both? Invalids often travel thousands of miles to some popular mineral spring; they speud money with lavish hand, on every claimant to the art of healing. I do not denounce regular physicians, however. Many of them are truly God-sends to the human race. They themselves urge their patients to use the preventives of fresh air, exercise and diet. If every one followed their advice, there would soon be no need of doctors. As a class, I think they would rejoice at this result, and be glad to en gage in some other mode of serving their fellow men. But if people would once realize that health could be maintained ; and when lost, regained by the simple use of natural food and fresh air, how greatly the sura of human enjoyment would be increased. Instead of crossing oceans and continents in search of health, they have the very best of remedies at their own doors, and in their own hands. The celebrated English surgeon, John A. Forsyth, author of "Dictionary of Diet," says of the first inhabitants of the earth : "The decays of nature, in the ex piring periods of life, were the only in firmities to which men were then liable; and though their limbs sometimes failed to perform their office, their health and appetite continued with them till life was no more. In this natural state the food of man is said to have continued upward of two thousand years, during which pe riod the office of the cook and physician were alike unknown. It is not easy to say at what period man exchanged vegetable for animal diet. But certain it is, that he no sooner began to feed on flesh, fowl and fish, than seasonings of some kind became requisite, not only to render such food more pleasing and palateable, but also to help digestion and prevent putrefaction. Eating of animal food was evidently adopted as a necessity to guard against famine." Mr. Hinde says "Fire - burns out the spirit ot food, rendering it mere dead matter, fit only for the substance of the animal nature, leaving th spiritual to starve." The Bible says, "Babes have need ofmilk, and not of strong meat." "Strong meat" here does not mean flesh, but simply "solid food." Young children are not prepared to masticate solid food ; and consequently must be supplied with liquid; and this fact is used to illustrate the giving spiritual food, in its progressive stages. Our Saviour and his Apostles said but little directly about food. But the open ing chapters of Genesis and the grandly beautiful vision with which St. John closes the Apocalypse, outline the truth, in all its purity. Let us copy a more literal translation of the latter. "And he showed me a river of water of lite, as chrystal ; proceeding from the throne of God and the Lamb. In the midst of its broad place, and of the river, on this side and on that, was a wood (or forest of the trees) ot life ; bearing twelve fruits, yielding for each mouth its own fruit, and the leaves of the forest were for the healing of the nations." In Genesis the expression "tree of life" ought, according to Kenuicott, to be translated "trees of life." All the trees ot Eden except the forbidden tree, were possibly trees of life and as long as man had access to them, he was immortal. He was driven from the garden of Eden "lest he should put 'forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat and live torever." But in Dent. 20 we are told that "the tree of the field is man's life" and the gracious permission is annexed "thou mayest eat of them." Let Hebraists and divines tell the dif ference, if they can, between "the tree of life" in Genesis, and the tree of man's life" in Deuteronomy. In Genesis he is driven from it; in Deuteronomy he is di vinely permuted to have access to it. The food of the unfallen Adam was never consumed by fire upon the altar; the lood oi the fallen man was. r lour, flesh, oil and wine were all artificial foods, and of them alone were sacrifices made. Fruit was offered for the food of the priests, but never burned. Each one of the Mosaic ordinances was intended to convey some divine lesson to people ol every climate, every age and ; every na tion, tl. M. i. Congressional. Washington, Jan. 16. In the Senate, the chair submitted a petition from the board of trade of Portland, Maine, for the separate organization of the Signal Ser vice. Mr. Vest presented a petition of Hon. Henry Hitchcock and others of St. Louis for the establishment of competitive exam iners for all subordinate offices of the Government. Mr. Vance offered a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to lurnish copies of all charges and complaints, re ports or other information on file concern ing irregularities in the collection of in ternal revenue in the 6th collection dis trict of North Carolina, and copies of any orders by the collector thereof forbidding the arrest or taking out of process of ar rest of offenders against the revenue laws. Adopted. Mr. Hale lrom the committee on appro priations, reported favorably the House census deficiency bill making an appro priation of $540,000. In the House, under the call of States the following bills were introduced and referred : Gen. W. R. Cox has presented the pe tition of W. W. Latta and other citizens of Orange and Durham counties of legisla tion to protect the people from excessive charges and unjust discriminations by railroad corporations. Mr. Wheeler of Alabama : To prevent the introduction of infectious or contagi ous diseases; also to aid in the establish ment and temporary support of common schools. vr. Williams of Kentucky : For erec tion of a monument over the grave of ex President Z. Taylor. Mr. Darrell of Louisiana : To termi nate the treaty ot June, 1875, with his Majesty, King of Hawiian Islands. Mr. King of Louisiana: ; Appropriating $500,000 for the improvement of the mouth of Red River. Mr. Thompson of Kentucky: Provid ing that the tax on distilled spirits shall hereafter be only due and payable on withdrawal of such spirits from bond. Mr. Money of Mississippi : Making the Agricultural Department an Executive Department. Mr. Houk ot Tennessee : Granting pen sions to civil officers injured in the service of the United States or to their widows and children. Mr. Dibbrell of Tennessee: To remove internal revenue tax on tobacco in the hands of producers, on matches, bank checks and bank deposits. Mr. Cook of Georgia, on behalf of the committee on public lands moved to sus pend the rules and adopt the resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to what action had been taken by the Secretary of the Treas ury to sell or lease all the real estate and riparian rights now owned by the United States at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Mr. Garrison of Virginia, on behalf of the committee on the District of Columbia, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill to incorporate the Garfield Memorial Hospital. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was defeated yeas 140, nays 86. Mr. Wm. R. Cox, of North Carolina, introduced a bill to repeal the Internal Revenue Tax, which is as follows : "Whereas, internal revenue taxes have always been distasteful to our people, and never resorted to except in times of ex traordinary emergency ; and, whereas, our present system was resorted to as a war measure, which war has long since termi nated, and profound prevails; and, where as, the enforcement of this law not only necessitates great expense, but has even led lo unnecessary sacrifice of life, and is a source of continual irritation among great numbers of good people ; and, whereas, the Secretary of the Treasury reports a large surplus of revenue on hand, and the wealth of the country is continually augmented by the influx of population and the development of our own resources,aod in the opinion of many of our leading statesmen and political economists the time has arrived when this tax should be abolished : therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following chapters of the title thirty-fifth of the revised statutes of the United States be, and the same are hereby repealed : Chap. 4, entitled Dis tilled Spirits ; chap. 5, entitled Fermented Liquors ; chap. 6, entitled Tobacco and Snuff; chap. 7, entitled Cigars ; chap. 8, entitled Banks and Baukers; chap. 9, en titled Stamp Taxes on Specific Objects ; chap. 10, entitled Legacies and Succes sions; chap. 11, entitled Provisions Com mon to Several Objects of Taxation. And all laws or parts affixing an Internal Rev enue. Tax are hereby repealed." Jan. 17. In the house Mr. Armfield, of North Carolina, offered a resolution for the appointment of a committee of five members to inquire into the report con cerning alleged abuses practiced by offi cers of internal revenue or other persons in the Sixth collection district of North Carolina, and concerning all other abuses perpetrated in said district by internal revenue officers, which relate in any way to the internal revenue laws of the United States or conduct of internal revenue offi cers. The resolution is preceded by a preamble stating that charges have been made that the great expense attending the collection of the small internal revenue taxes is attributable to abuses among the officers of the internal revenue. Mr. Houk, of Tenn. commenting on the resolution as a stump speech sent to the clerk's desk and bad read a letter from the District Attorney James E. Boyd, deny ing the charges. The resolution was re ferred to the Committee on Ways and Means. In the Senate a number of petitions for a commission of inquiry concerning the alcoholic liquor traffic; for an increase of pay to members of the life saving service and by l;r. Plumb from the citizens of Kansas for woman's suffrage were present ed. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, from the committee on appropriations reported with amendments a bill to repeal certain laws relating to permanent and indefinite appropriations. The President sent the following nomi nations to the Senate to-day : Postmasters, John R. Wallace, York ville, S. C; Oscar II. Leland, Waco Tex as. The Senate confirmed the following nominations: Thomas J. Scott, register of the Land office at Montgomery, Ala; O. H. Leland, postmaster at Waco, Texas. Mi 1 ha introduced a bill in tne House to build a $100,000 Court house and post ofiice at Charlotte, N. C. . We hope the bill will pass, Charlotte needs such a building, and since the Government has built a fine one in Raleigh, we don't see why Charlotte shouldn't have one also. Wadesboro Times. , Shot. Again we are called upon to re coidan 'accident ? which iBitod common among the boys of this section. On last Saturday evening Andrew Spangler, son of Webb Spangler, deceased, was fooling with an old army musket, in the Northern edge of town, when the head of a match (which he was using for a cap) exploded and the contents ot the gun entered his left shoulder inflicting a serious but not neces sarily dangerous wound. Shelby Aurora. The Westeen N. C. Railroad. The Asheville Citizen says: "Capt. Faggsays he will have his heavy cut finished by tne 1st proximo, and that the intervening work will be completed on or before, so by that time, in accordance with the law,' and 'with due diligence and energy,' the line to Pigeon will be done. The Paint Rock line will also be throngh by the same time. Much work has beeu done beyona Pigeon, and President Andrews says he will push things lively after April. The iron is down to beyond Turnpike, fifteen miles from Asheville. The iron bridge for Deep 'ater has gone down, and the track is down below Warm Springs. So the work goes bravely on, notwithstanding the bad weather." Cabarkus County. The following is the list of jurors drawn to serve for the March term of Cabarrus Superior Court : R F Wallace, A C Query, J B Harris, Wm Propst, W C Coleman, D M Fisher, Jno M Barnhardt, Dr C Mills, Robt H Davis, A B Young, Wm Stinson, C, M B Goodnight, W L Misenheimer, W H Shim pock, Carter Bradshaw, C W Swink, W M Eudy, J C Barnhardt, John H Morri son, W S White, ;W V Walter, J N Flan nigan, C T Allison, Jas C Brumley, S C BoBt, Jas A Porter, Jno W Fisher, D W Honeycutt, Edmund Foil, Robert Biggers, J L Stafford, II M Teeter, Jas C Johnston, C C Caldwell, D It Ridenhour, Wm Sul lings. Iredell County. The jury for the February term of the Superior Courtis as follows : Mrst Week. R D Hix, J Martin Tem plton, John Moore, J R Guy, Jos W Saunders, Thos W Redman, W R Feims ter, vv W v itherspoon, M N Hall, D O Lazenby, Augustus Reid, Hugh Plyler, T W Gibson, J D Patterson, A H Setzer, Thos Brotherton, H A Tomlin, J J Lip pard, D L Brandon, R L Troutmao, S H Abernathy, W F Kirkman, A A Hampton, E W Sears, S N Thomas, H C Davidson, J F Woodsides, Eli Bost, Jos W Gudger, C W Stimson, A M White, W A Kerr, J S Thompson, J M Steele, John Setzer, G A Brown. Second Week. J Sidney Morrison, II A Bost, Reuben Davis, H L Troutmao, T W Vickery, W M Fleming, Henry Har ris, J F Frazier, D A Wasson, Jos F Gibson, J M Shook, Cowan Hoover, J A Austin, J A Mills, C W Kesler, E M Crouch, W N Johnson, P R Lazenby. A Sad Case of Abduction. That is a sad case of abduction of Mr. L. Cart wright and wife, living near Whiteville, Columbus county, who had their little daughter taken from them the latter part of December. It seems a man by the name of Wheeler had been at work for Mr. Cartwright, who had taken the man in more out of charity than anything else, and a day or so before Christmas the man suddenly disappeared, and with him the little child, neither of whom have since been heard from. As soon as the child was missed Mr. Cartwright started out to look for it and its abductor, armed with a shot-gun. He visited this city and numerous other points, also traversing the swamps which are between here and Whiteville, but has never been able to come up with the missing couple, and in the meantime he has reached a state bor dering on distraction, and his poor wife is said to have partially lost her mind from brooding over her trouble. The little girl answers to the name of Mattie, is a little over 10 years old, and has long, dark hair and a somewhat red face. Her abductor is about 21 years of age and has his name tatooed on his arm, together with various devices. Wilmington Star. A Human Curiosity. There has been on our streets, for several days past, a re markable specimen of humanity, and one that has attracted a great deal of atten tion. W e refer to one Franklin Price Powell, a colored man, born in Columbus county, aged about 24 years, and raised by Mr. Calvin Powell. He has neither feet nor hands, the arms terminating at the wrist with a blunt etub. The right leg just below the knee turns, and there is a formation of gristle to represent a foot. The left leg has only a small knob below the knee. Otherwise, this curious specimen is splendidly formed, and has a bright and pleasant face. He works on a farm and is represented to be well to do. He can do any kind of work, drive or ride horses, dance and get about as lively, ap parently, as if he was perfectly formed. He can even thread a needle, sew on a button, mend harness, and, in short, do anything, and do it with ease. He is, in fact a fit subject for Barnum. Wilming ton Star. North Carolina has a total population of 1,399,750 against 1,071,361 in 1870. Commissioner Raum reports 589,514 gallons of corn whisky made in North Carolina during the year ending June 30, 1881. North Carolina Manufactures. The energy and shrewdness of the peo ple of this State are evidenced in the great number of small mills that have been built since the war. More than eighty cotton factories, great and mall, are now running, all of which, with a solitary exception, are owned by small shareholders living in their immediate neighborhood." Iii other words, the profit 8 of the cotton patches are invest ed in mills, that the planter may make additional gains by converting his staple into yarn. V ithout an exception these mills have prospered, and many new ones are now building. For these the many rivers flowing from the mountains to the sea furnish an unlimited supply of water power. . Among the textiles exhibited by North Carolina at Atlanta were some fine blankets made at mills in Surry county. These mills find a home market for their entire production, and have never been fully able to supply the demand. Their wool is brought to their doors by the farmers of the country. The fleeces : are from Merinos and Southdowns both of which breeds of sheep do well everywhere in the State. Philadelphia Bidletin. & The population of Virginia is 1,512,565. Thomas ville. Georgia, will have a cotton seed oil mill. v" Christian county, Ky., was the great corn county in 1881. An Allen county, Ky., girl, four years old, weighs 135 pounds. Key West, Florida, made its first ship ment of tomatoes last week. Last year's rice crop in the Guif States amounted to 150,000,000 bushels. The sugar crop of Louisiana has fallen off 25 to 30 per cent, this year. During the past year 2,179 acres were cultivated in tobacco in Alabama. The present appearance of the wheat crop in Texas is very promising. Mr. J. II. Miller, of Lake Como, Florida, has 12,000 egg plants growing. Columbus, Mississippi, invested $300, 000 in a cotton factory, and now the capi tal amounts to $1,250,080. Gossip rumors that tfrs. Mahone, wife of the Virginia Senator, wears the finest diamonds in Washington society. Gossip does not say that there will be any attempt to "readjust" them. The New York Herald says after the war a colored man went from North Carolina to Boston and started in trade as a tailor. He now gives employment to 100 persons and is worth' $50,000. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage said last Sunday that the exclamations 'My stars !' 'Mercy on us!' 'Goodness gracious !' 'By George !' 'By Jove !' are next door to swearing. A passenger train ou the Virginia Mid land railroad ran into a land slide, last Sunday night near Faber's mill, killing the engineer, John 1 ilton, of Alexandria, and badly wounding the fireman, and doing considerable damage to the engine. The passengers all escaped unhurt. "We sell large quantities of oleomarga rine to farmers in bulk. They take it home, stamp it, bring it to market, and sell it as their own production." This a manufac turer says. The' wholesale price is about 23 cents per pound, and it retails at from 28 to 35 cents. Philadelphia Record. It is proposed to light up the greater part of the Suez Canal by electricity, with the twofold object, first of enabling dredg ing operations to be carried on at night instead of during the day, and next, in order that vessels may pass through at all hours instead of blocking up the passage and anchoring, as hitherto. Fences. The fences of Indiana, it is said, if extended in single line, would reach around the world fourteen times, and their cost is put down at $500,000,000. Carrying this rate of expense through the other States, we should find the cost of fences much greater than the whole national debt. Dan Edson of Warrensburg, Pa., was a terrible blasphemer. A horse kicked him iu a barn the other day, and his ejacula tions were uncommonly prolonged and violent. Then flames broke out among the hay, and the building was destroyed. There is no convincing the neighbors that Dan's sulphurous language did not kindle the fire. A remarkable use is being made of potatoes. The clean peeled tuber is ma cerated in a solution of sulphuric acid. The result is dried between sheets of blot ting paper, and then pressed. Of this all manner of small articles are made, from combs to collars, and even billard balls, for which the hard, brilliantly white ma terial is well fitted. A poor mechanic from Canada was paid a $50 bill by mistake for a $1 bill by a storekeeper at Granby, Mass. He hastened home, resolved to keep the money; but within a week he returned, gave up all ex cept what he had spent for car fares, and promised to pay up the remainder as soon as he could. His experience with his con science, he said, had been unpleasant. Ex-Gov. R. C. McCormick has purchased 16,000 acres of land in the state of Colima, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, and is going into the business of coffee culture on a large scale. He has 40,000 trees in bearing now, and expects to plant 12,000 per year for four years to come. In order to encourage this industry, the state will remit for a period of ten years all duty on the coffee and all taxes on the land where it is grown. According to a German economist, the income of the world is $13,520,000,000; debt, $10,926,000,000; taxes, $2,002,000, 000; capital, $85,612,000,000. Sweden has the smallest debt, or $50,000,000; France the largest, or $2,140,000,000. The United States has the largest income, and England the most capital. Italy is the heaviest taxed, paying 35 per cent, of its income for taxes to the average 15 per cent, of other nations. The ancient device of pouring oil upon the troubled waters. is to be revived. A Mr.- Shields of Perth, has invented a piece of apparatus for the smoothing of broken sea by means of oil, and a few days ago the contrivance was tried at Peterhead, in Scotland, with considerable success. The oil was conveyed to the North Harbor en trance by means of a pipe about 200 yards long. The pumping soon took effect on a piece of rough water. The oil spread and rendered the surface of the harbor quite smooth over a large area. In the old cathedral at Ribe, Denmark, there is, fastened to one of the massive granite pillars near the main entrance, an ugly brass candlestick upon which is in scribed a curse on the man who removes it. No one knows when or by whom it was put there, probably more than two centuries ago. When some years ago the church was repaired it was decided to re move the unsightly object. A ladder that was put up for the purpose fell upon one of the workmen and broke his leg. The first man who went up to unfasten the candlestick fell down and broke his neck. On the same day the architect who had the restoration of the church in charge fell seriously ilL The candlestick was then left in its place and remaius there to-day, an object ot awe. What America is Doing. America is sending us prime beef and mntton. Ameri can wool is ousting English from the mar ket. American apples are more numerous in the English market than home grown. America is now sending us "English" plum puddings ready for boiling. Ameri can horses have this year won the princi pal races in England and France. And now that America is bestirring herself about her navy, what will be left for poor old England to plume herself upon? London Truth. Comparative Cotton stata - The following is the cotton statement for the week ending Jan. 13 : Dl Net receipts at all United States ports during the week, Total receipts to this date Exports for the week Total exports to this date Stock at all U. 8. ports ' Stock at all interior towns, Stock at Liverpool, Stock of American afloat for Great Britain, 1882. 104,02.4 3,366,946 134,312 1,758,630 1,143,625 205,666 572,000 1881. 3.652,722 101,405 2,202,917 920,294 162,494 487,000 235,000 239,000 Liverpool Cotton Circular. Washington, Jan 10 m.. circular of the U&2t Association says : Cotton has yjw?- viU aescriptions slight, ly declined. Americans, although freell offered, advanced 1, excepting wdinar wnicn is unchanged. In sa J . 0 - uu mere was small business at unchanged rate Futures opened dull but shortly hardened The tone was generally firm throughout the week, with i advance. Machias.JIe., Jan. 13. In the Supreme Court, after a Bix days' trial, the jury has sustained the will of Horatio H. Foster an uneducated deaf mute, Y6 years old who could neither read, write, nor use the' manual alphabet. The will, which was made by pantomime, devised $7,000. QDK one similar case was ever tried by t courts in the United States, and' that in North Carolina. Hargraves & Wilhelm. NEWGOODS. Our Fall Stock is now complete, and the hand somes t and cheapest ever offered in this market It embraces a full line of Silks, 8atins and Surahs in all shades and qualities. ' Our Stock of Dress Goods and Dresa Trim mings is the most varied and attractive ever seen in this city. Cloaks, Dolmans, Ulsters. Walking Jackets, and Children's Cloaks, in all qualities and shades. Shawls. Balmorals. Iiepellants, Cloakings. Oil Cretonnes, Worsted Fringes, to match. Velvets. velveteens, i'jusn, ccc. A complete line of Flannels, Cassimeres, Da masks and Towels. A large assortment of Ladies' and Gents' Neck wear. We have an immense stock of Boots, Shoes, Hats and Clothing That we are selling at extremely low prices. All we ask the public and our patrons is to give our stock a careful inspection. They will find the greatest variety and cheapest stock of Goods ever shown in this place. We will save you money by calling to see na. All-wool Plain Black Bunting at 15 cents. HARGRAVES & WILHELM. Sept 30, 1881. Stand Lamps. We have a large supply of Stand Lamps which we are closing out at very low prices. WILSON & BURWELL. THE NEW FEED AND COMMISSION STORE. A. J. BE ALL & CO. Have now in store 1 Car Load Patapsco Patent Process Flout. 1 " " Waverly Extra Family Flour. 1 " " Yellow Corn. 1 " " White Corn. 2 " " Bran. 1 " " Pea Meal. 3 " Hay,' Graham Flour & Pearl Grits. The above goods were bought at lowest cash prices and we invite the public to give us a trial before purchasing elsewhere, as we are con vinced we can make it to your interest to do bo. A. J. BEALL & CO. Dec. 2, 1881. ly IdP We pay special attention to the retail trade and use in the preparation of prescriptions SQUIBBS MEDICINES a fresh supply of which we have just received. WILSON & BURWELL. Jan. 6. 1882. Trade Street. GOOD THINGS! Lyons' Patent Metallic Stiffeners PREVENTS BOOTS AND SHOES FEOM RUNNING OYER, Wearing off at the Sides, or Rippixa in the Seams. Johnson's Silk and Felt Insoles PREVENTS Rheumatism, Cramp, cold feet, Bunions and chil blains. PEGRAM & CO., Sole Agents, Jan. 6, 1882. Charlotte, N. C. Squibbs' Medicines Are regarded by all as Standard. We have just received a supply for our prescription counter. WILSON & BURWELL. Notice. Mr. II. PEYSER, Manager of the Atlas Printing Company, has just received a new, and one of the latest improved Job Presses that could be obtained for the office. They have also just received a new line of handsome Job type. The office is now prepared to execute all orders in the latest and most artistic styles. Jan. 6, 1882. OUR SECOND STOCK This season has just been received, and we ask a thorough examination of the same before you make your purchases. We will, at the very low est market prices, satisfy all your wants in Plaids, Sheetings. Tickings. Calicoes, Ginghams. Cotton and Woolen. Flannels, Table Damwk and Napkins, Dress Goods and Trimmings, Buttons. Hosiery, Gloves, , Valises. Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes and Clothing. We have a large lot of Cloaks that we are selling at a great sacrifice. We sell the best Corset in the world ; if it breaks with bix months' ordinary wear we will give you ten dollars. Ask for Warner's Coraline Corset We have a bargain counter for Dress Goods, on which will be found goods at 25 cento per yard worth 60 cents. An examination of our Stock will convince you that all we say is true. T. L. 8EIGLE & CO. Dec. 8, 1881.
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