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OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXX.
CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1882.
VOLUME XL NUMBER 572
THE
Charlotte Home and Democrat,
Published eveby Friday by
J. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor.
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Terms Two Dollars for one year.
One Dollar for six months.
Subscription price due in advance.
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"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 Tkyon Streets:
besidence,
Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C.
March 17, 1882. tf
DR. T. C SMITH,
Druggist and Pharmacist,
Keeps a full line of Pure Drugs and Chemicals,
White Lead and Colors, Machine and Tanners'
Oils, Patent Medicines, Garden seeds, and every
thing pertaining to the Drug business, which he
will sell at low prices.
March 28, 1881.
J. P. McCombs, M. D ,
OllVrs 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.
A. 11U11WELL.
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.
JOHN E. BROWN,
Attorney at Law,
Chablotte, N. C.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts.
Office on Trade Street, opposite the Court
House, JNo. l, 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 corner
of College and Trade streets Residence opposite
W. It. Myers'.
Jan. 1, 1882.
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 haadsome 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, Susar, Molasses,
Syrups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard,
Hams, Fiour, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c, 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, Chablotte, N. C.
Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash,
and buys Country Produce at
highest market price.
3T 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.
Agents for the
"EUREKA" GUANO.
March 10, 1882.
HARRISON WATTS,
Cotton Buyer,
Corner Trade and College Sts., up Stairs.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Oct. 14, 1881.
Z. B. Vance. W. H. Bailey.
VANOE & BAILEY,
Attorneys and Counsellors
CHARLOTTE, N. J
Practices in Supreme Court of United States,
Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal
Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg,
Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan,
and Davidson.
M& Office, two doorB east of independ
ence Square. june 17-tf
1882. 1882.
SPRING STYLE HATS.
PEGRAM & CO. have received and are daily
receiving a beautiful line of Gents' Silk, Stiff and
r eu
HATS.
Don't fail to call and see them.
PEGRAM & CO.
March 3, 1862.
Carrying a House as Prbic.ht
Joseph Cummin, master carpenter of the
T T.l J T !
UK isiana ianroaa, removed a dwell
ing, lathed and plastered, and 18x24 feet
in size, from Beth page to Bellport, a dis
tance of fifty-three miles, on two platform
cars, and placed it on its foundations in
thirty-six hours. It was too wide to pass
any water tank or switch target, and
wnen ine train approached one of these it
was taken down and replaced after the
train bad passed. No trains were de
layed, and the house was landed without
the breakage of a window pane or a crack
in the walls. The cost was about $1.50 a
mile.
City Property for Sale.
Bv Virtue Of a Mill-to-no-p to thp Mntnnl Pnilfl
O Mv ii It l U t XUIIVI
ing and Loan Association made by J. S. and M
T E1 J . , . . .
.i. xreeman anu recoraea in Kegister s office
Book 27. Dace 114. for niirnnfipa thprfin ept forth
1 Will sell to the hie-hest hiddpr fnr rash at hp
Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday, the
isi uay oi may, iboz, tne real estate therein de
scribed, to-wit : A Lot nn Atvprs atrppt
feet front and 196 feet deep, being a part of Lot
no. ioo4, Known as me Jiiagie Lot, and upon
wnicu mere are comiortaoie improvements.
Also, about two acres nf Land arlimnimr W
R. Myers, W. B. Taylor and Mrs. S W. Robin-
l i m. r i .
sou, upon wuicn mere is a oiaugnter t'en.
i Tk t -XT- T rw t- r- rw
iv.. kj. i j i ir.N iz.iiv, oec. ana ireas.
Mutual B. and L. Association.
March 31, 1882. 5w.
PUBLIC SALE.
Elizabeth Maxwell and others vs. George Couch
ana omers bpecial rroceediugs for Partition.
Under and by virtue of a Decree of the Sune-
rior Court of Mecklenburg countv. in the above
entitled cause, the undersigned will sell at the
Court House door in Charlotte, on Saturday, 29th
day of April, 1882, all the Real Estate devised to
J. H. and A. W. Maxwell bv the Will of the late
Alexander Wallace. Terms M cash, balance
mourns crean.
WILLIAM McCOMBS,
March 31, 1882. 5w Commissioner.
Notice Sheriffs Sale.
I will sell for cash, at the Court House door, in
the city of Charlotte, on Monday the first day of
Mav 1882. to satisfv executions in mv hands th
following described tract of land in Long Creek
Township, adjoining the lands of Wm. B. Park
ana others, as the property of the Hopewell Cop
per -Mining tjompany ot Baltimore.
M. K. ALEXANDER, Sheriff,
Mecklenburg County.
March 31, 1882. 5w
NOTICE-SALE.
By virtue of an order of the Superior Court for
Polk county. North Carolina, in the matter of
W. W. Flemming, Administrator of J. C. Mills,
vs. Mary M. Cureton and others, I will offer at
rublic bale the LAJNDS belonging to the estate
of the late J. C. Mills, on the first Monday in
May, (the 1st day,) 1882, at the Court House
coor in the county of Rolk.
Terms Two and a half per cent cash, balance
on twelve months credit, with note and approved
security, w;tn interest at six per cent troni day of
sale.
The above Lands are situated in Polk county,
within one mile of the Spartanburg and Asheville
Kaiiroad, on the facolet ftiver, and are very de
sirable for agriculture. About 150 acres of fine
bottom Land, t or further particulars address.
W. W FLEMMING, Adm'r., &c,
March 24, 1882. 5w Charlotte, N. C.
Executor's Notice.
Having qualified as Executor of the last Will
and Testament of Jane D. Houston, deceased, I
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. VV. WAP8WUKTH,
March 31, 1882. lm Executor.
BLACKSMITHING
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ALL ITS BRANCHES,
AND
WORK WARRANTED.
I have a Wood-shop connected with my busi
ness, and will make and repair Wagons of all
kinds. Buggies repaired neatly and quickly.
J. K. PUREFOY,
College street, Charlotte, N. C.
April 7, 1882. ly
Sweet Potatoes.
Eastern Yam and Louisiana Potatoes at greatly
reduced prices.
April 14, 1882.
Butterick's Fashions.
Butterick's Metropolitan for April, with Pat
terns, just received at
T1UUK & HUU'.
March 17, 1882.
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.
Landretli's 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.
THE GREAT
COTTON FERTILIZERS,
Pine Island Acid Phosphate
AND
Pine Island Ammoniated Phosphate,
The highest 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 tne 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 800 lbs. I think it fully equal, if not superior,
to any ever used by me.
R. I. McDowell.
This is to certify that after having used several
of the different brands of Fertilizers, I tried the
Pine Island and prefer it to all others. I ex
pect to use it this year, and cheerfully recom
mend it to the Cotton growing public.
R. D. Whitley.
500 Tons in Store and for sale by
BROWN, DeWOLFE & CO.
Jan. 27, 1882. 3m
Follow Me 1
Soul, o'er life's Bad ocean faring,
Whither drifts thy barque ?
To what haven art thou steering
Through the dark ?
Torn by tempests, tossed by billows,
Wouldst thou anchor fast ?
Stay there on eternal pillows
At the last ?
Far away the happy islet
Where the blessed be,
Lies quite past the utmost twilight
Of the sea.
But the waves are dark between thee
And that shelter warm ;
Haven there is none to screen thee
From the storm.
Weary, wounded, wind-tost, stricken
Hcrk ! across the sea
Comes a voice thy hopes to quicken,
"Follow Me?"
Whither, Lord ? the path is gloomy,
Dim the harbor light,
Cruel doubts and fears pursue me
Through the night.
"Follow Me in faith and meekness
Where My steps have led,
For My strength is in thy weakness
Perfected."
Shall I find Thee when I need Thee ?
"Only look above :
1 will keep thee, shield thee, lead thee
With My love."
Shall the rough waves stay their riot ?
"Nay, 1 say not so,
Not in peace and calm and quiet
Shalt thou go ;
"Many a time thy soul shall sicken,
Yet, though faint thou be,
Hardly pressed and sorely stricken
Follow Me !
"I Myself will be thy pilot,
Till thou rest for aye,
Anchored at that Happy Islet
Far away.
"There of storm and strife and riot
Shall be blest surcease
Life for Death for long disquiet
Utter peace !"
How to Warm the Feet.
Pressing the palm of the hand closely
over the instep and toes while the boots
are on will restore circulation. The hands
of another berson are better than one's
own hands; but the latter will answer.
Putting the right leg across the left knee
and firtniy grasping the instep and toe of
the shoe or boot with the leit hand will in
a little while induce a warmth in the
right loot ; then put the left foot across
the right knee and grasp that with the
rifrht hand and hold it until it becomes
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warm.
Putting thin-soled slippers on the feet
and sliding them rapidly over a woolen
carpet a Brussels, a velvet, a Wilton or
an Axminster preferable is another effec
tivfi nlan. The exercise continued for a
few moments will make the feet "burning
hot," to make use of a common expres
sion. Dr. Pbote's Health Monthly.
AT THE RISING SUN.
C. S. Holton
Has in store a fine lot of Lemons, Apples, ana a
fresh lot of Candies. Call and see tliem.
C. S. HOLTON.
March 17. 1882.
R. H. JORDAN.
DR. JOS. GRAHAM
STORE.
NEW
DRUG
We have opened and have now on sale a new
and complete line of r resn
DRUGS,
Toilet articles, &c, which we respectfully invite
our friends and the public generally to can ana
examine at our Store on
TRYON STREET,
Opposite Elias & Cohen's.
Prescriptions
Carefully Prepared at all Hours, uay ana
Night.
R. H. JORDAN & CO.
Feb. 3, 1882.
Prescriptions
Carefully and accurately compounded
of the
best materials at an nours.
WILSON & BUltWfiLL,
Feb. 20, 1882. Druggists.
OUR
SPRING STOCK
Is now Complete.
Wholesale and Retail Bayers
Are invited to examine it before making meir
purchases.
Handsome Stock
OF
NEW CARPETS,
Oil Cloths and Rugs.
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS a Specialty.
The laigest and cheapest stock of
Embroideries
In the City
Call and see them.
Elias & Cohen.
March 17. 1882.
FERTILIZERS, GRASS SEEDS,
Agricultural Implements, &c.
We have in Store, Potash Acid Phosphate,
Navassa Acid Phosphate and Kainit.
A full line of the Standard Grass Seeds. Agri
cultural Implements of various Kinds from a
Wheat, or Grain, Drill, to a Garden plow. Every
farmer should call around and see for himself.
The Thomas Smoothing Harrow is attracting
great attention among farmers.
3,000
Were sold at The Atlanta Exposition. This
House is Headquarters for Impelments, Seeds,
Wagons, &c.
J. G. SHANNONHOUSE, ag't
Co-operative Store.
Feb. 24, 1882.
The Baby's Autograph.
They gave it to me at Christmas the
pretty new autograph album and I was
very proud ot it ; the binding was so gay,
and the white, gilt-edge sheets so spot
lessly pure. I could hardly make up my
mind who should have the honor of dedi
cating that album, or what verse was
grand enough to be inscribed on its pages,
and before I had quite decided, baby
found it! She had toddled into the par
lor and taken it down from the table be
fore we missed her, aud was sitting cross
legged like a Turk, with the precious book
in her Ian. That would not have been
worth recording, and I should not value
my album beyond price now if it were all.
But she had a pencil for she dearly loved
to scribble on bits of paper and she had
made her mark on the front leaf (the title
page) of my beautiful book. She had
made a dozen marks, criss-cross aud zig-
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.g, and there she sat, her bright hair
tossed over her face, her little demure
mouth pursed up, her blue eves full of
mischief, half shy, half defiant, and we
three women looking at her.
"Oh. you naughty, naughty babv !" I
cried; "you've just ruined my new album,
you bad little thing ! '
' Bless her dear little heart, said my
mother; "doesn't she make a picture ?"
"Uhip her,'' said Aunt Harriet in a
vindictive tone. She has no children of
her own and knows just how to bring up
other people's.
1 was angry enough to do it, and had
made one step forward intending to wrest
the buok out of the clasping baby hands,
and then what! beat my own child?
I was saved that degradation by my own
good mother, who shook her head at me
over Aunt Harriet s shoulder.
How long is it since Christmas ? Count
ing by heart-throbs I should say years !
years! It is only a couple of months, and
to-day I would give, oh ! what would I
not give, to have those little hands doing
their sweet mischief. Peace, foolish heart !
"He givelh His beloved rest." The baby
is gone. rut when 1 look at the little,
short lines that dedicate my album the
sweetest, saddest lines to me that were
ever written soon ended, like her little
life I am glad that I took her in my
arms, kissed the rosebud lips, and put the
book away without one reproving word
glad that I caused no angry feelings in
the baby heart, or left memories for my
self that would now have power to wound!
That is why all the leaves of my new
album are blank pure, spotless, just as
the fair page of her little life was; but
you who think these characters on the
dedicating page unmeaning, have never
had the key to them. Mothers can tell
what they are. Angels will be glad over
this record without blot or stain. There
is no handwriting so fine that I would ex
change it for the baby's autograph.
As for us
Our lives are albums written through
With good or ill, with false or true,
And as the blessed angels turn
The pages of our years,
God grant they read the good with smiles
And blot the bad with tears.
Detroit Free Press.
Amole A Plant that Yields Soap.
These cacti grow on the American con
tinent from Mount Shasta on the north to
a similar latitude in South America, and
from the Pacific coast to east of the Rio
Grande, through New Mexico, and West
ern Texas.
The flower stalks are destitute of leaves
but are plentifully supplied with branches
about eighteen inches long, from which
flowers of white and yellow colors are
suspended in the flowering season. The
bulbous root is from one to six inches in
diameter and from six to eighteen inches
long.
A saponaceous juice is expressed from
the root and the fibre of the leaves is
heckled for the manufacture of mattresses,
cushions, and chair seats. The vegetable
soap extracted from the root has been
used by the Indians, Mexicans, and others
lor many years as a hair wash, and ex
ceeds in purity our manufacture from ani
mal substances.
The preservative qualities of the soap
are well known, and its use gives the hair
a fine natural glow, preventing decay of
the hair and entirely eradicating dandruff
or other impurities on the scalp.
Cattle eat the leaves in the spring as a
purgative. And cut into bits and thrown
on water where fish abouud, the effect is
stupefaction of the fish, when they can be
easily taken.
The price among the Indians aud Mexi
cans, who sell it in Tucson, is five cents
for a bunch of two stalks interlaced (man
cuerna.) For cleaning flannels the amole is found
vastly superior. It may be hoped that
the manufacture and preparation of amole
may become one of the industrial pur
suits of the age. Tucson Citizen.
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Pins
in a Bible.
It was an old Bible, a family Bible, a
well-worn Bible the Bible of an old lady
who had read it, and walked by it, and
fed on it, and prayed over it for a long
life-time. As she grew older and older
her sight began to fail, aud she found it
hard to find the favorite verses. But she
could not live without them, so what did
she do ? She stuck a pin in them one by
one, and after her death they counted 168.
When the people went to see her she
would open her Bible, and feeling over the
page after her pin would say, "Read
there," or, "Read here ;" and she knew
pretty well what verse was stuck by that
pin, and what by this pin. She could in
deed say of her precious Bible, "I love thy
commandments above gold ; yea, above
fine gold ; they are sweeter than honey,
and the honey-comb."
EST" Three lives dwell in a man, and
he is capable of a fourth. One is that
mvsterv of mysteries, the animal life ;
another is the intellectual life, a third is
the moral life, that tells the right from the
wrong. The fourth, the crown and glory
of them all, is the life of which Jesus spake
when He said, "Ye will not come unto Me
that ye might have life ;" of which Paul
wrote, "Christ liveth in me." This lile is
given to man by the spirit of God when
man is born again.. W. P. Breed.
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J3F Hope is like the sun, which as we
journey toward it casts the shadow of our
burdens behind us. Samuel Smiles.
Pernicious Reading.
We have just laid down a secular paper
in which are given the details of a name
less crime. All the horrible and disgust
ing details are brought out with minute
ness and realistic force. The paper in
which this article appeared is one of the
leading journals of one of our chief cities,
and is read dailv in thousands of fami'Iis
composed of men, women and children
This paper is not different from the majori
ty of its contemporaries. It is the modern
style to "give all the news." Squeamish
ness is laughed at. The journal that comes
short in the fullness of its details of such
things is voted dull, unenterprising, and
behind the times. The popular taste is
vitiated, and demands this vileness. And
so the slums, the police court, the record
of murder, rapine, licentiousness, nd all
wickedness, pour their foul -flood into on
homes. The journalist who has a con
science and a home of his owb may wince
at what is required of him, and here and
there a mother or father may be startled
into the exercise of a righteous aud rigid
censorship with regard to the admission
of such reading into the household. But
the evil fashion prevails, public sentiment
is debauched, and the rule is that the
newspapers print and the people read all
the crime that is committed in all the land.
It is taken as a matter of course, and by
many this article will probably be taken
as an exhibition of editorial prudery. But
let us look at the matter a moment.
Would any parent walking along the
highway with his child pause to give it an
opportunity to witness a crime that was
being perpetrated? Would he wish his
girl or boy to hear from the lips of some
foul-mouthed creature in human shape a
narration of some shameful or fiendish aci?
How is it, then, that a class of crimes that
are not allowed even to be mentioned in
the laraily-circle may be detailed without
reserve in the family newspaper? Wherein
is the difference? Is foulness less lonl
when received through the eye than
through the ear? There can be but one an
swer to these questions, if people will only
stop to think. But this is what they will not
do. Evil fashions of this sort are followed
without thought. It is time fathers and
mothers were roused to think on this sub
ject. They are by their apathy ruining
their children. Their sons and daughters
are precocious in their knowledge of vice
and crime. They are getting such views
of human life as will tend to make them
look upon murder, lust, and theft, as its
normal conditions. They are being famil
iarized with a class of ideas that are
fraught with terrible danger to youth and
immaturity of judgment and character.
In a word, they r.re being morally poisoned
by what they are permitted to read at
home. This is monstrous. The social
sewers of society are turned into our par
lors and bed-chambers, the newspapers
conveying moral contagion into what
ought to be the holy of holies, the Christ
ian household. Yes, it is monstrous when
you stop to think about it. Nobody will
defend the evil we are denouncing. It is
indefensible. The blame of it must rest
equally on the publishers and the patrons
ot this sort ot reading. As long as a
prurient public taste furnishes a market
for filth, the supply will follow the de
mand. Let each head of a family protect
his own house. If your own taste is so
debauched that you must have your daily
or weekly dish of horrors and obscenities,
spare your children. Let the pulpit do
some plain speaking. This evil is a grow
ing one. It has been more prevalent and
virulent ever since the shameful details of
the great Brooklyn scandal were sent into
all the homes of the land where a daily
naper was taken. Like a flood in the
Mississippi, the levees were then swept
away, and since then it has been consid
ered a matter of course that a live news
paper must give its readers the details of
all the crime and scandal afloat. We
write for Christian fathers and mothers.
We beg them to consider this matter and
act wisely. If there must be a literature
of the slums, let the slums sustain it.
Keep it out of your home.
Children's Feet.
What a vast amount of human suffering
might be prevented did parents properly
care for the feet of their children. We do
not now refer to the matter of cleanliness,
too often disregarded, but to those points
which affect the development of the feet,
and directly concern the future comfort of
the individual. Fortunately, the days in
which the foot was squeezed into the small
est possible shoe or boot have gone by.
But life-long trouble may result from wear
ing shoes that are too large. When a shoe
fits badly, and there is with every step a
constant concussion or rubbing, the skin
thickens at that point. At first this trou
ble may belong only to the surface skin
or cuticle, but after a time the true skin
is affected, and in some cases even the
muscles may become involved and painfully
diseased. These troubles, when small,
are called corns ; when larger and on the
ball of the great toe, "bunions," and on
the heel, "ribes." All have the same
origin, an undue, long-continued local pres-
sure, anu are an uie same uaLuie, ueiug an
,i ii .v. .
attempt to resist this pressure by a thicken
ing and hardening of the skin, while the
parts below become exceedingly sensitive
and painful. Corns ol whatever descrip
tion may result from a pressure of too
tight a shoe, or the frequent rubbing of
one that is too loose. Young people
should always have well fitting shoes, and
if they wear woolen stockings all the time
they will be more likely to escape corns
than with cotton ones.
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JSP" The Gulf Stream received its name
from the fact that it was long supposed to
originate in the Gulf of Mexico. Accord
ing to Humboldt, it receives its first im
pulse near the southern extremity of Afri
ca. From the Gulf of Mexico this stream
flows into the Atlantic Ocean between
Florida and Cuba, whence it runs north
ward, nearly parallel to the American
coast, until it reaches Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland, where one branch runs
downward toward the Azores, while the
other flows northward toward the British
Islands, and thence to the Polar Sea.
Jlf Let him who expects one class in
society to prosper in the highest de
gree while others are in distress, try
whether one side of his face can smile while
the other is pinched.
Annie's Prayer.
Annie was a motherless little girl, her
own mother having died when she was a
wee baby. Her papa having no near re
lative to take care of her, was obliged to
marry again; but he fouud that he had
married an unworthy woman. She was
very unkind to both Annie and her papa;
aho snnlrl Hitio A.,;Q r- ihn
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poor
least thing. One day Annie broke a Dlate
and her stepmother whipped her very
hard and left marks on her. This poor
little Annie took very much at heart.
Annie's stepmother was not a Christian
woman; she never went to church or
prayed. Little Annie loved church and
loved prayer. One Sunday when she
came home from church she went to her
room and was thinking what the good
minister had said about secret prayer; so
'she thougtlt she wou!d beginWpray night
and day that God might make her mother
a Christian. This she did, and did it faith
fully. One morning while she was engaged in
prayer aloud her mother, who had been
listening in the hall, came in the room and
said: "Who is that woman you were
praying so hard for?"
Aunie looked up with tears in her eyes
and answered, "It is you, mother."
Her mother said: "Why do you pray
for me in that way?"
"Because I love you, mother, and want
you to be a Christian, and then I know
yon would not whip and scold me so and
oh, how happy we could be together!"
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mis seemed to move her mother very
much, and for the first time in her life she
picked up the child and kissed her tender
ly; then she sat down and cried bitterly
to think she was such a sinner. Just at
that moment Annie's papa entered the
room and was very much surprised to find
Annie and her mother crying. He asked
what was the matter. Annie told him
that she was praying to God to make her
mother a Christian. He looked down at
her and smiled and said, "Ask mamma if
she don t want family prayers. Annie
asked her, and she said "Yes." So that
nignt tney nad them, and her mamma
said that she enioyed them very much
and wished to have them every day, and
tney did; and ner mother became a
Christian, and they lived happy ever
after.
I hope the readers of this story, if any
of them have a stepmother who is cross,
will pray to God to make her a Christian.
Christian Union.
Dates Worth Remembering.
1110 Glass windows first used
for
light.
1236 Chimneys first put to houses.
1252 Lead pipes for carrying water.
1290 Tallow candles for light.
1297 Spectacles invented by an Italian.
1362 Paper first made from linen.
1334 VVoolen cloth first made in Eng
land.
1410 Art of paiuting in oil.
1449 Art of printing from movable
type.
1468 Watches first made in Germany.
1545 Pine first used in England
1550 Variations of the compass first
noticed.
1603 Theater erected in England by
Wm. Shakspeare.
1610 Thermometer invented by Sane
torious.
1690 Telescopes invented by Portin
and Jansen.
1690 Jupiter's satellites discovered by
Jansen.
1704 Tea brought to Europe from
China.
1549 Circulation of blood discovered
by Harvey
1625 Bricks first made of any required
size.
1626 Printing in colors invented.
1627 Newspapers first established.
1630 Shoe buckles first made.
1636 ine first made of grapes in Eng
land.
1640 Pendulum clocks invented.
1641 Sugar cane cultivated in the West
Indies.
1646 Air guns iuvented.
1640 Steam engines invented.
1650 Bread first made with yeast.
1662 Fire engines invented.
1756 Steam engines improved by
Watt.
1759 Cotton first planted in the United
States.
1785 Stereotyping invented in Scot
land.
1788 Animal magnetism discovered by
Mesmer.
1832 The telegraph invented by Morse,
1880 Telephone invented by Bell.
Give Yourself.
Said a mother to me one day : "When
my children were young I thought the
verv best thing I could do for them was
to give them myself. So I spared no
pains to talk with them, to teach them, to
read to them, to pray with them, to be a
loving companion and mend to my chil
dren. 1 had to neglect, my house many
tim.ic 1 had nn t.imo t.n indnlorp mvsfilf in
manv things which I should have liked to
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d0 i wag so busy auorning ineir minus
and cultivating their heart's best affec
tions, that I could not adorn their bodies
in fine clothes, though I kept them neat
and comfortable at all times. I have my
reward now. My sons are ministers of
the gospel, my grown daughter a lovely
Christian woman. I have plenty of time
to sit down now and rest, plenty of time
to keep my house in perfect order, plenty
of time to indulge myself in many ways,
besides going about my Master's business
whenever he has need of me. I have a
thousand beautiful memories of their
childhood to comfort me. Now that they
have gone out into the world, I have the
sweet consciousness of having done all I
could to make them ready for whatever
work God calls them to do. I gave the n
the best I could myself.
i .
ZS? The custom of planting a tree
when a child is born or married is a pleas
ant one. When a far-off friend visits you,
plant a tree to commemorate the event.
If you do not live to rest under its wel
come shade, some one else will.
I have noticed that he who thinks
every man a rogue is very certain to see
one when he shaves himself, and he ought,
in mercy to his neighbor, to surrender the
rascal to justice.
Synopsis of N. C. Supreme Court Decisions.
April, 1882.
Allen vs. Jackson. 1. To give a jus
tice of the peace jurisdiction of civil ac
tions under section 27, article 4, of the
constitution, the summons, as a substitute
for a complaint in such case, must show
upon its lace that the cause of action is
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within bis legal cognizance: if the action
be founded on contract, it must contain
the amount of the sum demanded, not. ex
ceeding $200; if not a contract, it must
specify the value ot the property in con
troversy, not exceeding $60.
2. An amendment of summons in the
Superior Court that would, if made in the
justice s court, have given the justice ju
risdiction of the action, was properly re
fused.
Holmes vs. Holmes. 1. An equitable
estate in lee may be declared without the
use of the word "heirs," if an intention to
pass such estate can be guaranteed from
the instrument.
2. A parol contract of sale of an equita
ble (as well as a legal) estate in laud is
voied under the statute.
3. The decision in Scott vs. Battle, 85
N. O, 184, that a married woman's con
tract affecting her estate in land is void
uuless made in strict compliance with the
statute in reference to taking her privy
examination is approved.
4. One who uses a deed in the necessary
deduction of his title, which discloses an
equitable title in another, is affected with
notice ot the trust.
Johnston vs. Bernheira. Where the
managing partner ot a nrm buys goods
on time when he ought to have bought
for cash according to the terms of their
agreement, the firm and each member
thereof (out ot his individual estate)
is liable for the debt, even though the
seller had knowledge of the stipulation
against credit ; and this, whether the
partner sought to be charged derived any
individual advantage from the enterprise,
or not.
Kendall vs. Briley. When leave to sue
on a judgment under section 14 of the
Code is refused by the judge below, his
decision upon the question, whether "good
cause is shown, is conclusive. (Mr. Jus
tice Ruffin dissenting.)
State vs. Locke. 1. An appeal does not
lie from the refusal to discharge a pris
oner when a mistrial is ordered. The
mode of procedure to have such a case re
viewed is by a petition in due form for a
writ of certiorari settiug forth the grounds
of the application.
2. A jury were discharged before ver
dict, in the trial of a rape case, upon the
following facts found by the Court; cause
committed to jury ou Monday of second
week of term; jury kept together until
half-past ten o'clock Saturday night, when
they came into court and were polled,
each juror stating that is was impossible
for the jury ever to agree; the court, find
ing they could not agree, held it unneces
sary to prolong the term of the court for
the purpose of the trial, ordered a juror
to be withdrawn and a mistrial entered.
and the prisoner to be remanded to jail;
Held, no error.
Cain vs. Commissioners of Davie. 1.
Under the provisions ot the "fence law,"
act of 1881, chapter 172, the commissioners
were proceeding to collect the tax as
sessed upon land to defray the expenses
of building the fence, and the court refused
to grant an injunction to restrain them;
Held, no error.
2. Held further: The provision in said
act that it should take effect upon the hap
pening of a contingent event, to-wit, upon
its being approved by the necescary num
ber of qualified voters, is not a transfer of
legislative powers to the voters.
3. The ruling m Simpson vs. Commis
sioners, 84 North Carolina, 158, that the
decision of the Commissioners, to the ef
fect that a majority of the voters favored
the enactment, is final, is approved.
4. The constitutional provision that
taxation shall be equal, uniform, and with
in certain limits, does not apply to local
assessments imposed upon owners of pro
perty, who in respect to such ownership
are to derive a special benefit in the local
improvements for which the tax is ex
pended. Commissioners of Davie vs. Cook. 1.
No appeal lies from an interlocutory order
appointing Commissioners to assess dama
ges for condemnation of land for a fence-
way, under the act of 1881, chapter 172.
2. Where a court of record of common
law jurisdiction in the county in which
the land is situate, is authorized to ap
point Commissioners to condemn the land
for certain purposes, it seems that the
Judge riding the district in which said
county is embraced, though not in the
county; may exercise the jurisdiction.
State vs. Edwards. A and B, owners
ol a mill employed U
as a milier, giving
him one-third of the toll received, as com
pensation for keeping the mill, and the
flour alleged to have been stolen was
made of undivided toll wheat; Held, that
in the indictment the ownership of the
flour was not properly laid in the miller,
but it should have been charged to be the
property of A and others.
A Cat and a Hex. Mrs. A. W. Brooks,
of East Elliot, in the State of Maine, has a
cat thirteen years old, for which she has
been vainly offered $50. This learned
pussy will stand up at the word of com
mand, bow slowly or quickly as directed,
walk around the room on her hind-legs
only, dance, turn somersaults,' go through
the motions of holding a jew's-barp in her
mouth with one paw, and playing on it
with the other; mew when ordered to
speak, kiss her paw to visitors, hold a
saucer oi milk on her forelegs, and lap the
milk, and stand on her hind-feet and with
her fore-paws catch bits of bread or meat
thrown to her, like a base-ball player.
Her kitten, a year old, will turn somer
saults. The same lady has a ben which
wipes her feet on the mat on entering the
house, and if asked, "How do you get your
living, Biddy ?" will scratch on the floor,
look to see if she has scratched oat any
thing, and then look at the questioner to
see if the answer is correct.
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