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7 mi iMiuural OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXX. CHAELOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1882. VOLUME XI. NUMBER 570 THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published eveky Friday bt J. P. STRONG, Editor fc Proprietor. o Terms Two Dollars 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., Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE, Fifth and Teton Stkhts. residence, Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C. March 17, 1882. tf DR. T. C. SMITH, Druggist and Pharmacist, Keeps a full line of Puie 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, 1881. J. P. McCombs, M. D , Offers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and day, promptly attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1, 1882. 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, No. 1, Sims & 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, 1882. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice Limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT. March 18, 1881. DR. J. M MILLER, Charlott6, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Office at A. J. Beall & Co's store on College street Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 1, 1882. A. BURWELL. 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, 1881. 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, 1881. HALES & FARRIOR, 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, 1881. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, 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 ouyers. Jan 1, 1882. 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, Commission Merchants, College St., Charlotte, N. C, Handle Grain, Hay, Flour, Bran, Cow Peas, &c. Have on hand imported English and Scotch Potatoes. Agents for the "EUREKA" GUANO. March 10, 1882. W. A. TRUSLOW, Jeweler and Watch Repairer, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Respectfully announces that, having succeeded m. J. Alien, in me Watch and Jewelry business ue uas jusi aaaea to ins stock of Watches, Jewelry, Silverware, CLOCKS, SPECTACLES, fcc, And he hopes by close attention to business and lair dealing to merit a snare or patronage. ZS" Fifteen years constant experience in the WATCH REPAIRING Department enables him to fully warrant every Watch entrusted to mm. Do not forget the old stand on Tryon street near the Square. Oct. 7. 1881. 6m HARRISON WATTS, Cotton Bnyer, 'Corner Trade and College Sts., up Stairs. CHARLOTTE, K. C. Oct. 14, 1881. Sleep foe Children. There is no dan ger that children can sleep too much. The old proverb, "Who sleeps eats," is illus trated in those little ones who sleep most. Wakeful children are always peevish, and if they can be induced to sleep abundantly, they are quite likely to become good na tured and plump. Their sleep should be as much during the hours of darkness as possible, and therefore it is better that they should go to bed before sunset to have their sleep out than to sleep long after sun rise in the morning. It is well to let any healthful, growing child or young person sleep until he wakes himself, and then give him such a variety and amount of out-door exercise as shall make him glad when bed time returns. Mr. George Booth, of Athens, has a cow giving three gallons of milk a day, and her calf is two years old. City Property for Sale. By virtue of a Mortgage to the Mutual Build Ing and Loan Association made by J. S. and M J. Freeman and recorded in Register's office Book 27, page 114, for purposes therein set forth I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday, the 1st day of May, 1882, the real estate therein de scribed, to-wit : A Lot on Myers street, 49 feet front and 196 feet deep, being a part of Lot No. 1034, known as the Eagle Lot, and upon which there are comfortable improvements. Also, about two acres of Land adjoining W. n. Myers, w. a. layior and Mrs. S. W. Kobin son, upon which there is a Slaughter Pen. a. u. JtJtti!iiNlz.KK, Sec. and Treas. Mutual B. and L. Association. March 31, 1882. 5w. PUBLIC SALE. Elizabeth Maxwell and others vs. George Couch and others Special Proceedings for Partition. Under and hv virtnp. nf a Dpptpp rvf tha Rnm. rior Court of Mecklenburg county, in the above nr:tltil n.incfi llin -w 1 Ann I j-, , ) 1 1 ia lL wuitwu wtuov, IUC SlgUCU Will SC11 til LUC fVmrt FTmiRp door in P.lmrltt day of April, 1882, all the Rea'l Estate devised to T LT .1 A TXr Vf 11 1 r 1 1 r i o. xx. aim a.. . jixu.wcii uy iue win oi uie laie Alexander Wallace. Terms 4 cash, balance 12 months credit. WILLIAM McCOMBS, March 31, 1882. 5w Commissioner. Notice Sheriff's Sale. I will sell for cash, at the Court House door, in the city of Charlotte, on Monday the first day of May 1882, to satisfy executions in mv hands, the following described tract of land in Long Creek Township, adjoining the lands of Wm. B. Park and others, as the property of the Hopewell Cop per Mining company ot Baltimore. M. Xj. A 1 j EX AIn Dt, K, Sheriff, Mecklenburg County. March 31, 1882. 5w NOTICE SALE. By virtue of at order of the Superior Court for Polk county. North Carolina, in the matter of W. W. Flemmmg, Administrator of J. C. Mills, vs. Mary M. uureton and others, 1 will otter at Public Sale the LANDS belonging to the estate of the late J. C. Mills, on the first Monday in May, (the 1st day,) 1882, at the Court House door in the county of Polk. Ierms I wo and a half per cent cash, balance on twelve months credit, with note and approved security, with interest at six per cent from day of sale. The above Lands are situated in Polk county, within one mile of the Spartanburg and Asheville Hailroad, on the racolet Kiver, and are very de sirable for agriculture. About 150 acres of fine bottom Land. For further particulars address. W. W FLEMMING, Adm'r., &c, March 24, 1882. 5w Charlotte, N. C. NEW DRUG STORE. I have a full Stock of Pure Fresh Drugs AND MEDICINES. A well selected line of Toilet Articles, Fine Handkerchief and Flavoring Extracts, and everything usually kept in a first class Retail Drug Store. Landrt Fresh Garden Seeds for sale. I will be glad to see all of my friends. H. M. WILDER, Agent, Cor. Trade and College streets, Feb. 17, 1882. ly Charlotte, N. C. Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as administrator on the estate of the late George W. Miller, on the 11th day of February, lobs, 1 hereby notify all persons in debted to said estate to come forward and settle, and those having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same for payment on or before the 25th day of February, 1883, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of tneir re covery. W. U. AAA VV xuuu. Public Administrator. Feb. 24, 1882. 6w Administrator's Notice. Havinsr oualified as administrator on the estate of the late Elizabeth Kennedy, on the 7th day of February. 1882. 1 hereby notify all persons in debted to said estate to come forward and settle, and those having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same for payment on or before the 25th dav of February, 1883. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covery. W. C. MAXWELL, Public Administrator. Feb. 24, 1882. 6w THE GREAT COTTON FERTILIZERS, Pine Island Acid Phosphate AND Pine Island Ammoniated Phosphate, The hitrhest Standard Fertilizers sold in the State, as per Analysis made by Dr. C. W. Dabney Jr., State Chemist. We will also keep a supply of Kainit on hand during the season. Read the following testimonials : I used the Pine Island Ammoniated Phosphate on lands that would have made not over 300 lbs of Seed Cotton per acre, which increased the yield to ouu IDs. l tmnx n iuiiy equai, u noi superior to any ever used by me. R. I. McDowell. This is to certifv that after having used several of the different brands of Fertilizers, I tried the Pine Island and preft r it to all others. I ex pect to use it this year, and cheerfully recom mend it to tne uouon growing puunc. R. D. Whitley. fiArt Tnna in Stnrp ftnrl for sale bv BROWN, DeWOLFE & CO. Jan. 27, 1882. 3m NOTICE. Lost or mislaid a Certificate for twenty-five Shares of Stock in the Traders' National Bank of Charlotte. Notice is hereby given that applica tion for a new Certificate will be made. D. MOFFET, March 17, 1881. lm. Chester, B.C. True Beauty. Beautiful faces are those that wear It matters little if dark or fair Whole-souled honesty printed there. Beautiful eyes are those that show Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below. Beautiful lips are those whose words Leap from the heart like songs of birds, Yet whose utterance prudence girds. Beautiful hands are those that do Work that is earnest, brave and true, Moment by moment the long day through. Beautiful feet are those that go On kindly ministry to and fro, Down lowliest ways if God will so. Beautiful shoulders are those that bear Ceaseless burdens of homely care With patient grace and daily prayer. Beautiful lives are those that bless Silent rivers of happiness, Whose hidden fountains but few may guess. Beautiful twilight at set of sun, Beautiful goal with race will run, Beautiful rest with work well done. Beautiful grave where grasses creep, Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep Over worn-out bands O beautiful sleep. -.- The Rice Crop. Eight States Alabama, Florida, Geor gia, JLiOUisiana, Mississippi, .North Caro- lua, South Carolina and Texas are the rice producing portion of the country. ormerly a great deal of wild rice was gathered by Indians in the Lake region of the .Northwest. In the census reports for 1880 the rice crop of 1879 by States is thus stated: Alabama acres under cul tivation, 1,579; pounds produced, 810,889; average yield per acre, 514 pounds. lorida, respectively, 2,551; 1,294,677; 508. Georgia. 34,973 : 25.369.687: 725. Louisiana, 42,000; 23,18S,311 ; 552. Mis sissippi, 3,501; 1,718,951; 491. North Carolina, 10,846 ; 5,609,191 ; 517. South Carolina, 78,388; 52,077,515; 664. Texas, 335: 62.152: 186. The totals of the crop are, acres, 174,- 173; pounds, 110,131,373; average yield per acre, 632. Ul the eight states pro ducing rice North Carolina stands fourth n order of production, both as to acreage and number of pounds, the others being South Carolina, Louisiana and Georgia in acres and South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana in production. The highest average yield per acre is in Georgia ; the next in South Carolina ; then come Louis iana, North Carolina, &c. Sfei?"' There is a bird in the London Zoological garden called the hornbill, whose keeper stands ten feet oft and tosses grapes at the bird so rapidly that nobody's eye can follow them through the air, but the bird's eye can, catching every one in its bill at almost every conceivable angle; of half a dozen grapes shot at him in rapid succession, he will not miss more than one. In this country he could get a first class position in the national base-ball league. The Schley county correspondent of the Americus (Ga.) Republican says: A gentle man of Schley county, who owns twentyfive hundred acres of land, and is one of our most successful farmers, offers to sell the rails around the plantation at one dollar per hundred and throw in the plantation and other improvements. The true remedy for barren farms and barren Churches: plow deep. FOR RENT. Bt thfi vear the store room near the court house ; or would let the same by the day, week, or month, tor auction, or similar purposes. ItLr US UAltmiHUJljK. March 31, 1882. tf Executor's Notice. Having qualified as Executor of the last Will and testament of Jane D. Houston, deceased, hereby notify all persons indebted to said estate to come forward and settle the same ; and all persons holding claims against said estate must present them within the time prescribed by law, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covery. J. W. WADSWOKTxi, March 31, 1882. lm Executor. SPRING We are now opening STYLES ! our new SpriDg and Summer Styles of MILLINERY, Including all the latest novelties in the Millinery line. Hats, Bonnets, Flowers, Plumes, Ribbons, Silks, Laces, &c., in all the new styles, colors and qualities. Also, all the new styles, and qualities of Laces, embracing White Goods, Neck Wear, Hosiery, Gloves, Parasols, &c., the largest and most com plete Stock in the City. We have opened our Pattern Hats and And will be pleased to show Bonnets, the Ladies the GRANDEST DISPLAY OF FINE MIL LINERY they have ever seen in this city. MRS. P. QUERY. March 31, 1882. Fresh Drugs And Chemicals of all kinds, Spices, Flavoring Extracts. Ac. iutt received by R. H. JORDAN & CO., Op. Elias & Cohen's, Tryon street. March 10, 1882. NEW GOODS. Our Mb. Seigle has been to the Northern and Eastern markets and has bought a stock of Spring Goods Specially adapted to the "hard times" ; and pur chasers will find our Goods cheaper and better than ever offered by us to the public. Everybody is requested to call who is in need of CALICO, LAWNS, Bleached and Brown Sheeting and Shirting, Cottonades, Ticking, Table Damask and Napkins. Tin best Towel for $3 per dozen ever seen in Charlotte. Ask for WARNER'S CORALINE CORSET, only 97 cents. Gentlemen will find a good assortment of Clothing, Hats, Shirts, Collars, Scarfs and every thing else they need to wear. The verdict of the pubiic already is that SEIGLE Has the best and the cheapest Goods in the city. Don't fail, then, when you come to Charlotte to examine our Stock and compare our prices. T. L. SEIGLE & CO. March 24, 1882. How to Run. Very few boys know how to ran. "Ho, ho!" say a dozen boys. "Just bring on the boy that can ran faster than I can!" But, stop a moment. I don't mean that most boys cau't ran fast I mean they can't run far. I don't believe there is one boy in fifty of those who read this who can run a quarter of a mile at a smart pace without having to blow like a por poise by the time he has made his dis tance. And how many boys are there who can run, fast or slow, a full mile with out stopping?" It hardly speaks well for our race, does it, that almost any animal in creation that pretends to run at all can outrun any of us ? Take the smallest terrier dog you can find, that is sound and not a puppy, and try a race with him He'll beat you badly. He'll run a third iaster than you cau and ten times as far, and this with legs not more than six inches long. I have a hound so active that he always runs at least seveuty-five miles when I stay a day in the woods with him; for he certainly runs more than seven miles an hour, and if I am gone ten hours you eee he must travel about seventy-five miles of distance. And then, a good hound will sometimes follow a fox for two days and nights without stop ping, going more than three hundred and fifty miles, and he will do it without eat ing or sleeping. Then, you may have heard how some of the mnners in the South African tribes will run for long distances hundreds of miles carrying dispatches and making very lew stops. I make these comparisons to show that our boys who cannot run a mile without being very badly winded are very poor runners. But I believe I can tell the boys some thing that will help them to run better. I was a pretty old boy when I first found it out, but the first time I tried it I ran a mile and a quarter at one dash and I was not weary nor blown. And now I'm going to give you the secret : Breathe through your nose. I had been thinking what poor runners we are, and wondering why the animals can run so far, and it came to me that perhaps this might account for the differ ence that they alway take air through the nose while we usually begin to puff through our mouths before we have gone many rods. Some animals, such as the dog and the fox, do open their mouths and pant while running, but they do this to cool themselves and not because tbey cannot get air enough through their noses. I found once through a sad experience with a pet dog that dogs must die if their nostrils become stopped. They will breathe through the mouth only while it is forcibly held open; if left to themselves they always breathe through the nose. So, possibly, we are intended to take all our breath through the nose unless necessity drive us to breathe though the mouth. There are many other reasons why we ought to make our noses furnish all the air to our lungs. One is, the nose is filled with a little forest of hair which is always kept moist like all the inner surfaces of the nose, and particles of dust that would otherwise rush into the lungs and make trouble, are caught and kept out by this little hairy network. Then the passages of the nose are longer and smaller and more crooked than that of the mouth, so that as it passes through them the air be comes warm. But these are only a few reasons why the nose ought not to be switched off and left idle as so many noses are while their owners go puffing through their mouths. All trainers of men for racing and rowing and all other athletic contests understand this and teach their pupils accordingly. It the boys will try this plan they will soon see what a differ ence it will make in their endurance. After you have run a few rods holding your mouth tightly closed, there will come a time when it will seem as if you could not get air enough through the nose alone; but don t give up, keep right on, and in a few moments you will overcome this. A little practice of this method will go far to make you the best runner in the neigh borhood. St. Nicholas. Keep it to Yourself. You have trouble your feelings are injured, your husband is unkind, your wife frets, your home is not pleasant, vour family, the things in general, move unpleasantly Well, what of it? Keep it to yourself. A smouldering fare can be found and ex- tinguished ; but when the coals are scat tered who can pick them up t Uury your sorrow. The place for sad and disgusting" things is under the ground. A cut linger is not benefited by pulling off the plaster and exposing it under somebody's eyes; tie it up and let it alone. It will get well sooner than you can cure it. Charity cov ereth a multitude of sins. Things thus cov ered often cure without a scar, but once published and confided to meddling friends there is no end of the trouble they cause. Keep it to yourself. Troubles are transient, and when sorrow is healed and passed what a comfort it is to say "No one ever knew it until it was al over. To convince the friends of the sur vivors of the Jeannette who are located at Irkutsk, that those brave men are not suffering for the necessaries of life, we take the following from a recent volume pub lished in England and America by Henry Landell: The markets ot Irkutsk are wel supplied. Fish and game are plentiful Beef is abundant and good and costs about two cents a pound. Frozen chick ens, partridges and other game are often thrown together in heaps like bricks or firewood. Butchers' meat defies the knife, and some of the salesmen place their ani mals in fantastic positions before freezing them. Frozen fish are piled in stacks and milk is offered for sale in cakes or bricks. A stick or string is generally congealed into a corner of the mass to facilitate car rying, so that a wayfarer can swing a quart of milk at his side or wrap it in his handkerchief at discretion. 3jgf Monuments do not prove much, after all; some of the wisest and best men who have ever lived are buried, and no one knows where. Whittling. It happens that multitudes of girls are not put together by the regulation pattern, and cannot be made over in its likeness. Sedentary employments are hateful to them. They detest sewing, and cannot conquer the mysteries of "work 7 ch., 1 sc., 2 si. on the next f. st., 15 ch., go back ana connect with the 4lh 1. st." They abhor practice, and despise painting. Bat in the grip of the twenty-seven bones of their slender right hand is all the joy they could ask of time if only they were per mitted to nnd it out. r or why may not these girls demand the jacknife, and free dom to whittle ? Whittling, of course, we use as a generic term, implying all the uses of the carpen ter's bench. Why should not a chest of tools be as fit a present to a girl as a china tea set, a work box or a backgammon board ? Nay, if her claim be based on fit ness and adaption to future needs, the girl has a far better right to hammer, gimlet, saw and plane tbau the boy. Everybody observes the greater "handiness" of women in the household. In families where such work is not done by a hired workman it is almost always wile or daughters Who drive the nails, put up the brackets, mend broken urmture, set window-glass, bang curtains, ay carpets, ease doors. 1 lie husband and father pleads incapacity, with an air of considering that incapacity an evidence of superior nature. And if women do these thiDgs tolerably without training, is not that proof of a mechanical bent that would ustiiy good training ? There are many parts of the carpenter's, joiner s, turner s or cabinet-maker s work which women could do. thus adding a uew employment to their limited list. But putting aside the question of, paid abor, there still remain the hundred utili ties of the house which would be subser ved by their knowledge of the uses of tools. And putting aside this -considera tion as a sordid one, there still remain the vast considerations of health and happi ness. Any boy will testify that there is a perpetual fascination in the useot the keen edged tools which cut so clean and straight a path through the soft gram, lhe sing- ng ot the saw is music in bis ears ; the woody smell of the light shavings that curl about the plane is incense to his nos trils. The clip, clip, of the hammer rouses us energies like a drum-beat. And oh, the delight of "making things," from the bracket tor mother to the skewer lor the cook ! This age makes greater demands on its women than any preceding time. It asks more of their head, of their heart, of their lands. Their equipments cannot be too arge,their opportunities too liberal. Every girl should have not only head training, but hand training, lhe sense ot observa tion, proportion, comparison, the power of execution, quickness, deftness and niceness of handling, are properties of childhood, and more easily developed then through wise amusements than afterward by the most strenuous labor. It is to mothers rather than to teachers that these early lessons belong. And the daughters of that mother who give them tool chests instead of earrings at Christmas will yet ise up and call her blessed. Harper s Bazar. IheZuni Indians, who made a pilgrimage from New Mexico to Plymouth Rock to perform some mysterious relig- yt . .-. r i t- "li n t a (.Ann Iaha . fr They were landed on the outside shore ot Deer Island and immediately began their devotional ceremonies to the eastern ocean. The chiefs first walked into the water and sprinkled the sea with the "sacred meal." Returning to the shore they squatted in a semi-circle, the wash of the waves wetting their limbs, and smoked the consecrated cigarettes. Then they chanted invocations to the "Father and Mother ot the World,1 the "God under the Waters," the "God above the Waters, the "God under the Earth" and the "God above the Earth." The ceremony of taking up the waters in the f acred gourds and canes was then per formed, after which Mr. (Jushing received the preliminary initiation into the "Order of the Bow, the highest order ot the tribe, After he has received the final initiation in to this order, which will occur when the In dians arrive home, and which is attended with some privation and suffering, he will be entitled to a knowledge of the unwritten epic poem containing the history of the tribe. Ibis poem is very long, takes twenty-six hours to recite and must be memorized. Consequences of Calumny. Who can arrest a calumnious tongue, or who can stnn the p.nnsennenees of calumnious mis- representation ? You may refute it, you may trace it to Its source and expose Its authors, you may sift every atom, explain, them so. It damp, an the plant over onnilnUto It anrivot HVo ClrfV fir it. r- spreads their surface the dampness will mains unquenched and unquenchable ; or, like weeds, which, when extirpated in one place, sprout forth vigorously in another spot. Half truths are often more calumni ous than whole falsehoods. Not a word may be uttered, but a half-suppressed in nuendo, a dropped lip, an arched brow, a shrugged shoulder, a significant look, an incredulous expression of countenance, nay, even an emphatic silence, may do the fiendish work: and when the light and trifling thing which has done the mischief has fluttered off, the venom is left behind to work and rankle and fester, to inflame hearts, to fever human experience, and to poison human society at the fountain springs of life. F. W. Robertson Columbus. Ga., Times: "Mr. Fred Lit tle, of Allen's Station, Richmond county, said in his essay at the Georgia Agricul tural Convention, in August: 'In his opinion the best laud for watermelon cul- ture was a sandy loam, and it, possible, a place which had laid oat for some time and had grown up in small pines and broom sedge. He then proceeded to give his method of culture. When the plants are well established they should be thinned down to one plant to a hill if large melons are desired, and this is very requisite if the melons are intended for sale.' The most popular melon in this market the past season was the Mountain Sweet and a long white or gray rind." 1 It is estimated that 250,000 bushels of wheat will be raised in Comanche county, Texas, this season. A Conscience-Stricken Animal. The moral responsibility of some ani mals seems less doubtful than that of "in termittent lunatics." If it should become the duty of a public attorney ol the future to prosecute a homicidal monkey, the fol lowing case (quoted in Brehm's "Thiersle- ben") would furnish an ugly precedent against the counsel for the defense; a few years ago Dr. Schomburg, the Super intendent ot the Botanic Garden of Ade laide, Australia, took charge of a select corps of monkeys and kangaroos, a "hap py family, he might have called them, if it had not been for the depravity of an old babuina, or female Bhunder baboon. If she had not been the only representa tive of her species, he would have tried to get rid of her, for her only object in life seemed to be to make herself as disagree able as possible. Solitary confinement made her wildly obstreperous, bat in the family cage she kept the marsupials in a delirium of terror, and in the evening when her youngest relatives ventured to enter the sleeping-box she seemed to con sider herself divinely ordained to remove them by force. But one day she attacked her own keeper, and without any apparent provocation lacerated his wrist in a shock ing way. ochomburg at once ordered tier to be shot, lhe next morning the as sistant keeper approached the cage with a shot gun, which had often been used to shoot the rats that infested the menagerie building. The other monkeys seemed to expect another razzia, but the Bhunder knew better, lhe moment she saw tne gun she made a dash into the sleeping cage, and when the keeper tried to open the door she yelled as if she hoped to get off on a plea of insanity. Meaniug to try her the keeper waited until breaktast time, but the babuina did not show her self. She kept out of sight a full hour, until the mess-boy brought an extra lunch of sliced pumpkins, when she made a rush tor the bucket in hopes ot securing a port able piece. In that moment the keeper bolted the door of her sleeping-cage and went back for his shot gun. As soon as the babuina caught sight of him she flew toward her place of refuge, and finding the door locked, made a mad attempt to squeeze herself through the interspaces of the front railing. But the bars proved inflexible and after another desperate pull at the sleeping-cage door, the babuina flung herself into a corner, closed her eyes and was apparently dead with tear before the buckshot struck her. Popular Science Monthly Girl Drivers in Scandinavia. "In Finland," says a sojourner in "the land of the midnight sun," "l bad a young girt for a driver at every station; and these children of the North seemed not in the least afraid of me. My first driver's name was Ida tJatnerina: she gave me a silver ring, and was delighted when she saw it on my finger. I promised to bring her a gold one on the following Winter, and I kept my word. She was glad, indeed, when at the end of the drive, after paying, I gave her a silver piece. Another of these girl drivers was named Ida Carolina. The tire of one of our wheels, became loose, but she was equal to the emergency; she alighted, blocked the wheels with a stone, went to a farmhouse and borrowed a few nails and a hammer, and with the help of a farmer made everything right in a few minutes. She did not seem in the least put out by the accident. She was a little beauty, with large blue hair and rosy cheeks. eyes, thick fair Newspaper "Organs." If the excel lence ot a newspaper is not always meas ured by its profitableness, it is generally true that if it does not pay its owner, it is valueless to the public. Not all news papers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest taste of respectable people, and to the preiudice, ignorance and passion of the lowest class; but as a rule the sue cessful journal is the best journal. The impecunious newspaper cannot give its readers promptly the news, and still worse, it cannot be independent. The political journal that relies for support on drippings of party favor or patronage is a poor affair, and, in the long run, comes to grief. The newspaper only becomes a real power when it is able on the basis ot pecuniary independence to tree itselt from all such entanglements. An editor, who stands with hat in hand, ha9 the respect accorded to any other beggar. It is a popular error to suppose that ivy growing on the wans ot a nouse makes it damp. 1 he attachment ot ivy to walls, so tar trom injuring tuem ana caus ing dampness, is an advantage. If the wans are ury wueu piauieu, ivy wm n.eep disappear. Where dampness prevails ivy sucks out the moisture, and its thick foli age will prevent the access of rain to the structure ; and thus it is not only a re mover, but a preventive ot dampness. The only danger attending the planting of ivy on buildings is where fissures occur in the walls, in which case the shootB and roots will enter, and, if left undisturbed, their growth will soon begin to tell upon the building, and will, by increase of growth, push against the sides of the open ing, thereby enlarging it, and eventually so weaken the wall as to cause it to fall. Where the wall is sound there is no such danger, for the plant does not make fissures although quick to discover them. Remedy for Wolves on Cattle. W. 1? K" nrritaa (mm C.Wntnn T.a t.rt tho Tin. -i tm. v.i,, n. a remedy for "warbles" or "wolves" on cattle is to drop from eight to ten drops ot tur pentine into the hole of each, which will kill the pests in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours without causing any pain to the anima ';. To cure warts on cattle be re commends equal parts of common cooking soda and lard, well mixed and thoroughly rubbed in. By this means a complete cure is painlessly effected in from three to four weeks. Congressman Moore, of Tennessee, wrote, "Be a good boy and you'll be a good man" in an album which he supposed belonged to the small page who handed it to him. only to find that it belonged to a gray-haired officer of the House. Look Out, Young Hen. When it is said of a man, "He drinks," and it can be proven, what store wants him for a clerk ? What church wants him for a member? Who will trust him? What dying man will appoint him his ex ecutor? He may have been forty years in building his reputation it goes down. Letters of recommendation, the backing of business firms, a brilliant ancestry cannot save. The world shies off. Why ? It is whispered all through the community, "He drinks, he drinks !" When a young man loses his reputation for sobriety, he might as well be at the bottom of the sea. There are young men here who have their good name as their only capital. Your father has started you out in city life, lie could only give you an education. Ho started you, however, under Christian in fluences. You have come to the city. YdlHtre now achieving your own fortune, under God, by your own right am. Now look out, young man, that there is no doubt of your sobriety. Do not create any suspicion by going in and out of liquor establishments, or by any odor ot your breath, or by any glare of youreyes, or by any unnatural flush of your cheek. You cannot afford to do it, for your good name is your only capital, and when that is blasted with the reputation of taking strung drink, all is gone. 1 i mm Employment. The following sentiment was uttered by Daniel Webster in a speech in the United States Seuate : "Sir, I say it is employment that makes the people happy. Sir, the great truth ought to be placed on the title page of every book on political ecouomy intended for America, and such countries as Amen- ca. it ought to be placed in every larmer s magazine. It should be proclaimed every where, notwithstanding what we bear ot the usefulness and I admit of the high usefulness of cheap food notwithstand ing that, the great truth should be pro claimed everywhere should be made into a proverb if it could that when there is work for the hands and brain there will be work for the teeth. Where there is employment there will be bread. And in a country like our own, above all others, will this truth be good a country like ours, where, with a great deal ot spirit and activity among the masses if they can find employment, there is always willing ness for labor. It they can obtain fair compensation for their labor they will have good houses, good clothing, good food, and the means of educating their children from their labor will be cheer fully performed, and they will be a con- tented and happy people t3lf" The origin of the notioL it hardly ranks as a superstition any longer that a horse-shoe is a sign of good luck can be traced back in England to the thirteenth century. The monk Gervaise of lilbury informs us that at that time there was a kind of demon in England which appeared as a horse rearing on its hind legs and with sparkling eyes. Whenever this appari tion was seen it was a sign that a con flagration would soon break out. Hence, as giving a kindly warneng, this mysteri ous horse was regarded as a friendly spirit, and the animal in general was believed to have a beneficent mystic power. His sweat was a sovereign remedy against ep ilepsy; a horse tooth carried in the pocket prevented toothache; it was a sign ot good luck to find a horse-shoe, & one was placed under the pillow of a child to cure the colic, or nailed against a building to prevent it from catching tire. I bis led to its general adoption as a protective symbol. Dr. Hammond says: "Eat plenty of well-cooked and nourishing food. The nerves cannot be kept healthy on slops. Gruels, panadas and teas are well enough in their way, bat the nerves require for their proper nourishment undiluted animal and vegetable food ; as a rule the former should predominate. Meat-eaters are rarely troubled with nervousness. Ameri cans eat more vegetables than any other well-to-do people, and they are probably the most 'nervous' nation on the face of the earth. The London Lancet states that there are "no appearances of the eyes worthy of a moment's serious notice in the diagnosis of insanity. The'wildness,' 'un natural brightness, 'restlessness, 'dulness. 'vacancy,' &c, so frequently mentioned in certificates of insanity, are utterly ground less as evidence ol mental unsoundness. The writer adds that "there is incom parably more restlessness, vacuity, and the like in the eyes of the sane than in those of the insane." Sixteen American inventions of world-wide adoption are the cotton gin, the planting machine, the telegraph, the mower and reaper, the rotary printing press, steam navigation, the hot-air engine, the sewing machine manufacture of horse shoes, the sand blast for carving, the gauge lathe, the grain elevator, artificial ice-making on a large scale, the electric magnet, and the telephone. Capt. C. A. Bryan of Tallahassee has a strange but beautiful anomaly in his flower garden. A large rose bloomed on one of bis bashes, and when the leaves began to fall from it four small but com plete roses appeared in the centre, and now on the end of the stem where the large rose grew may be seen four fully de veloped roses not larger than a gold dol lar. Capt. Richard Booth of Old t lampa nas grattea in a grape-truit trees six varieties oi tne citrus tamiiy. crow ing from the same stump we find the shad dock, lemon, lime, citron, sweet and sour oranges. Does it not sometimes happen that it is not so much the want of a quorum as it is the presence of a rum quo which bothers oar national legislature. Didn't use to be so when the cold tea's below. You cannot do to-morrow the work of to-day. He whom you would save will be elsewhere, you will be elsewhere, or other things will engage you. It has been beautifully said that the openings of the streets of heaven are on earth.
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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April 7, 1882, edition 1
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