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A rrfilY 0 OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXX. CHAELOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1882. VOLUME XI. NUMBER 573 fry 111- THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published every Friday by r. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor. J. 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. Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE, AND TSYON F I F T II Streets. 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. A. buuwell. V. 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, Charlotte, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office on Trade Street, opposite the Court House, JNo. 1, bims & Dowd s building. Dec 23, 1881 y DR. M. A. BLAND, Dentist, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office in Brown's building, opposite Charlotte Hotel. Gas used for the painless extraction of teeth. Feb 15, 1882. DR. GEO. W. GRAHAM, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Practice Limited to the EYE, EAR AND THROAT March 18, 1881. DR. J. M MILLER, Charlotte, N. C. All calls promptly answered day and night. Utnce at A. J. Ueall & Vo s store on corner of College and Trade streets Residence opposite V. It. Mytrs'. 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 n -wl rutail uuu ivtaiii i Oct 7. 1881. 1 HALES & FARRIOR, Practical Witch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keeps a full stock of haBdsome 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, &c, which we ofler to both the Wholesale and Retail trade. All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar gest Duyers. Jan 1, 1882. j. Mclaughlin, m Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Groceries, Provisions, &c.t College Street. Charlotte, N. C Sells Groceries at lowest rates for Cash, and buys Country Produce at highest market price. EST" 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. VANCE & BAILEY, Attorneys and Counsellors CHARLOTTE, N. : Practices in Supreme Court of United States, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan, and Davidson. I Office, two doors 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 ueit HATS. Don't fail to call and see them. PEGRAM & CO. March 3, 1862. The Poweb op Bad Harit -T V n rxxr from experience that habit can, in direct opposition 10 every conviction of the mind, and but little aided by the elements of temptation (such as present pleasure. etc.,) induce a repetition of the most un worthy actions. The mind is west who it has once given way. It is long before a principle restored can become as firm as one that has never been moved. It is as 11 tie case Ol a mound or resflrirnir if this mound has in one place been brokVn wuaiever care nas been taken to make the 1 1 I repaired part as strong as possible, the probability is, that if it give way again, it will be in that place. John Foster. NOTICE SALE. By virtue of an order of the Snnpri Polk county. North Carolina, in the matter of w. w. j; lemming, Administrator of J. C. Mills. vs. Mary Al. Uureton and others, I will offer at ruDiic &aie tne L.A..NDS belonging to the estate uLiueiaie j. u. mills, on the first Monday in May.jthe 1st day,) 1882, at the Court House coor in tne county of Polk. Tekms Two and a half per cent cash, balance uu tweive woDins creait. witn note and aDDroved ocumjr, wim interest ai six per cent trom day ol The above Lands are Mtuated in Polk ronntv within one mile of the Soartanburc Railroad, on the Pacolet River, and are very de- suauie lor agriculture, ivuout iau acres of fine nottom Jand. For further particulars nddrpss W. W FLEMMING, Adm'r., &c. March 24, 1882. 6w Charlotte. N. C 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 nffir.p. Book 27, page 114. for Dumoses therein set forth I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday, the in uay oi may, iooa, tne real estate therein de scribed, to-wit: A Lot on Myers street, 49 feet front and 196 feet deep, being a part of Lot xho. iut4, Known as the .Eagle liot, and upon which there are comfortable improvements. Also, aDout two acres of .Land adioming W . R. Myers, W. B. Taylor and Mrs. S W. Robin- son, upon which there is a Slaughter Pen. A. u. -BlUGPUZfcat, Sec. and Treas. Mutual B. and L. Association. March 31, 1882. 5w. PUBLIC SALE. Elizabeth Maxwell and others vs. George Couch and oihers bpecial Proceedings for Partition. Under and by virtue of a Decree of the Supe rior Court of Mecklenburg county, 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 by the Will of the late Alexander Wallace. Terms i 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, aa the property of the Hopewell Cop per Mining uompany of JLJaltimore. M. ;. AL.EXAJND.EK, Sheriff, Mecklenburg County. March 31, 1882. 5w 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 m bar of their re covery. J. W. W ADS VV OKT11, March 31, 18821. lm Executor. BLACKSMITHING 1 -N ALL ITS BRANCHES, AND WORK WARRANTED. I have a Wood-shop connected with my busi ness, anu win make ana repair wagons oi an 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. . Ai. 11 W J-jLiLi. April 14, 1882. Butterick's Fashions. Butterick's Metropolitan for April, with Pat terns, just received at IIVUX B UliU B. 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 evervthinff usually keDt in a first class Retail Druse Store. J J m Landreth'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 Phospnate AND Pine Island Ammoniated Phosphate, The highest Standard Fertilizers sold in the State, as per Analysis made by Dr. U. VV . JJaoney, 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 o! 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 Old Acre. . The course of my long life hath reached at last, In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea, The common harbor where must rendered be Account of all the actions of the past, The impassioned nhantasv. that, vacua and vast, Made art an ideal and a king to me. "Was an illusion, and but vanity Were the desires that lured me and harassed, The dreamaof love that were so sweet of yore, a. i . i What are they now, when two deaths may be mine, One sure, and one forecasting its alarm? Painting and sculpture satisfy no more The soul now turning to the Love Divine, That oped, to embrace us, on the cross its arms. Henry W. Longfellow. Stained EjLOORi-Soft' wood floors treated in the following manner have given general satisfaction: Mix about equal parts of raw and burnt umber with turpentine and japan, adding a little boiled linseed oil to prevent its drying too rapidly ; hffve the floor perfectly clean and free of grease spots, as they prevent the stain from drying, apply the prepara tion with a well-worn paint brush, rub bing it across the grain. In a few min utes, say ten, take a woolen rag and rub off all surplus color, rubbing this time with the grain. Y hen dry, apply a coat of boiled oil. This may be repeated twice a year Spring and Fall, which is often enough under ordinary circumstances. The stain may be varied by using more or less of either color. If a dark rich color is desired, add burnt siena. With these three colors almost any shade from oak to black walnut or mahogany may be pro duced. iVI Y. Tribune. The Decay of Conversation. The ancient art of talking is falling into decay. It is an ascertainable tact that, in proportion to the increased popu lation, ihe aggregate bulk of conversa tion is lessening. People now-a-day shave something else to do but talk; not only do they live in such a hurry, that there is only leisure for just comparing ideas as to the weather, but they have each ana all a gross quantity of reading to do, which puts talking out of the question. If persons remain at home, they read ; if they journey by rail, they read ; if they go to the seaside, they read; we have met misguided individuals out in the open fields with books in hand ; young folks have been seen stretched underneath trees, and upon the banks of rivers, pouring over the opened page; on the tops of mountains, in the desert, far within for ests everywhere men now pull printed sheets from their pockets, and in the earliest, latest, highest occupations of this life, they read. The fact is incontestably true, that modern men and women are reading themselves into a comparatively silent race. Reading is the great delu sion of the present time ; it has become a sort of lay piety, according to which the perusal of volumes reckons as good works; it is, in a word, the superstition ot tne nineteenth century. AT THE RISING SUN. C. S. Holton Has in store a fine lot of Lemons, Apples, and a fresh lot of Candies. Call and see them. C. S. HOLTON. March 17. 1882. r. n. JORDAN. NEW DR. JOS. GRAHAM. STORE. DRUG We have opened and have now on sale a new and complete4;ne of Fresh 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. II. JORDAN & CO. Feb. 3, 1882. Prescriptions Carefully and accurately compounded oi the best materials at all hours. WILSON & BUKvv JiJjLi, Feb. 20,1882. Druggists. OUR SPRING STOCK Is now Complete. Wholesale and Retail Buyers Are invited to examine it before making tneir 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. x 3,000 Were sold at The Atlanta Exposition. This House is Headquarters for Impelments, Seeds, Wagons, &c. j q SHANNONHOUSE, ag't Co-operative Store. Feb. 24, 1882. "Notes of Life." By Bishop Robert Paine of the Methodist E. Church, South. The year 1819-20 was a memorable pe- ! riod. It was such to the country, to the Church, and in my own personal history. Politically, it was eventful. It marked the opening of a great struggle, which, like the low muttering of a distant storm, had been occasionally heard by prescient statesmen, but now assumed a definite and visible form of a portentous cyclone,overspreading the fairest and happiest land beneath the sky. I allude to the admission of Missouri into the Federal Union by Congress, when for the first time the question of slavery divided the country by a geographical line. The culmination of that storm was the four-years' civil war of 1861-65. The deplorable results oi that fratricidal strug gle are too well known to require repeti tion or comment. 'The evils of it are in conceivable, and the responsibility for it must be decided by the only Court of supreme jurisdiction. If I. felt in any degree responsible for it I think it would craze me. Thank God I do not ! ' Among other important events of that period were the promulgation and estab lishment ot the "Monroe Doctrine" of non intervention of foreign powers with the South American States and Territories ; the right of the Federal Government to make internal improvements; the admis sion of Missouri, Mississippi, Illinois, Ala bama, and Maine into the Union ; the cession ol Florida (East and West) and adjacent islands, to the United States by Spain, and the approval of the Act estab lishing the Bank of the United States by Congress. The discussion of these topics in the Congressional and Legislative halls of the United States was like so many vol canic outbursts, threatening the very up heaval and destruction ol the political frame-work of our Government. Fortu nately, Congress never was filled by so many great men. It was the war of giants. Some of these questions the first-named especially was such as naturally and al most of necessity produced a great section al sensation in Church as well as State relations. And thus the most delicate and dangerous of all moral, political, and eco nomic questions, which might possibly have been peacefully and safely adjusted in the calmness of lraternal debate by pa triotic, Christian statesmanship, became a wedge in the hands of impassioned parti sans and uncompromising fanatics to rend and nearly destroy the boasted fabric of our National Union. The darkest page in Protestant history is that which records the civil war of our States in 1861-65. Great men, like powerful locomotives, are dangerous without a corresponding con trolling power. An archangel would be a safe custodian of a nation, but without purity he would wreck and ruin it. Un fortunately our statesmen proved unequal to the crisis. To the Church also this was an era of unusual importance. Our Methodish, in common with other Protestant denomina tions, had made gradual and decisive ad vances in every department of Christian enterprise. Revivals had been extensive, accessions of members unusually great,the number of candidates for the ministry had multiplied, and withal, their gifts, grace, and usefulness indicated a higher grade of qualifications. Led and stimulated by her able and consecrated chief pastors and ex- perienced preachers, and by the co-opera- tion of the laymen, there was a forward movement all along the Church-line. The watchmen had long prayed, and anxiously looked out from their watch-towers; had responded to the cry "What ofthenighl?" "The morning cometh, and also the night." A crisis was at hand, but the promised day had not burst. The yearning heart and the eye of faith wistfully turned to read in the f-igns of the times the realization of a brighter era. Heaven had been prepar ing the Church and the world for a great advance-step. As In the age after Julius Csesar passed away the temple of Janus was shut ; so, when Napoleon Bonaparte, whose character and history strikingly resembled the Roman usurper, had been dethroned, white-robed Peace seemed to have come down to dwell again among the nations. This turbulent spirit, at once the terror of Europe, and the pride and scourge of France, having risen from obscurity by the combination of extraordinary political events, controlled by a masterful mind, had been chafing, like a caged lion, in a lonely island of the ocean since 1815, and the world looked on and breathed free. By the treaty of Ghent England and Amer ica had made peace, while Spain and the tribes of Indians upon our frontier had ioined us in new treaties of amity. Even . , " 1 it 3 1 - theological warriors oeat me -arum eccle siastic" less long and loud, and Christians looked into each other's faces, and began to ask if the points in which they could agree were not as many and more impor tant than those about which they dmered It soon appeared that while the different Protestant denomination had been at war among themselves about the meaning the Bible as to "mint, anise, and cummin," they had neglected the weighter matter of giving the Booh itself to the people. In this, at least they could all unite. In 1810 the American Bible Society was organized, and, as was eminently fit and significant, this precious book became the great basis of Christian union. To print and distribute it in all languages, and put it into the hands of all men, was its acknowledged mission. Up to this same date there had been no regular missionaries sent by people into heathen lands, nor any society among us formed for the purpose. Ihe earth swarmed with benighted humanity. Even upon our own continent, at our door, and throughout our whole borders, they lived by myriads; but until 1820 there had been no efficient organization of missionary or Sunday-school societies through which the Christian zeal and philanthropy of our Church could operate. But the time had come the heathen cry for help had been heard, and the response had been quickly and gladly uttered by many." Almost simultaneously these agencies started upon their glorious careers. The faithful watch man, who long had waited, cried from his loftv tower. "Lo. the day breaketh, and the night is over and gone." "The clock of ages had struck," and a new era had be gun. Nashville Advocate. 1 1 1 Mild words turneth away wrath. The Demand Upon Us. One of the most important social pro blems is presented to us in the interroga tory that demands au answer at bur hands, and which we cannot possibly evade: "How shall we work to benefit the country most?" Whatever advances generally prosperity will further private interest. The great object of labor with us must be to produce. We must become producers in the full est sense of the word. We must produce, not one thing, not a few things, not many things, but everything in our grasp. This policy is necessary to independence and prosperity. The fatal policy of .fostering one matter to the exclusion of others, is exemplified in the bitter experience of years upon cotton. With mad greed our planters have neglected all things to raise cotton. Their fantastic financiering has nearly broken them. , Planting all cotton and no grain, they become dependent upon the foreign market for bread and meat. The market by withholding can exact its own price. Thus, even with a handsome yield of cotton, it may all be absorbed in the purchase of necessaries. The destruc tion of independence is complete. They stand at the mercy of the foreign provis ion dealer, who is a Shylock inevitably. But let the plaintiff first put in grain that under all contingencies will bread him and his labor ; let him sow corn, wheat, oats, sorghum, peas, etc., and then, it he has any space left, or labor needing work, go at cotton. Whatever be the issue of the last, whether a failure or a success, he is safe. If he fails, in his grain, his cotton can still obtain him provision. If he plants all cotton and tails, be must go in debt to live. If he succeeds in both, his cotton is net gain and he is practically richer, for he has made so much above sub sistence. To be independent above every contin gency therefore, we must produce every thing producable. IN ever beiore did a country more thoroughly possess within itself every element of life. We must and can produce the cotton that makes our shirts, and we must manu facture it ourselves. We must raise the sheep that will give us woolen garments for winter. We must raise everything to eat and pay no tribute abroad on the sub stautials to keep up breath. We must produce our own ships and carry our sur plus products abroad ourselves, get in our own hands the gold these things bring in the markets of the world and keep that gold at home to enable us to produce still more. We must work out our coal and erold and copper, and other minerals. We must put our water courses to work to produce the varied articles of human use That man who starts the making of a single article of usefulness, is a benefactor to his section. Produce! Produce! Produce! must be the unanimous resolution of our people. It will help to disenthrall us from com mercial vassalage. It will keep in our midst the money our people make. It will cause the development of the land and the utilization and adornment of the whole country. It will give us prestige It will make us a sustaimug, regulated influential power. It will do more to re store our section to its old status, than any political movement we can make. It will take the paralyzed body ol South ern statesmanship and put it upon its feet a breathing giant,- radiant with life, teem ms with vitality, ana strong in virtue and capacity. Southern World. Persecuted Bird Professor Linden said a good word the other day at Buffalo for that much perse cuted bird, the common crow, Corvus Americanus.) The crow ot America b longs to a scattered family oi about two hundred species, including among them the buzzard, iay. raven, and magpie. Of the genus proper to which the crow be longs, seven examples, are found in th United States, the great black raven be ing at the head. In the wilderness, about one hundred miles from Buffalo, on the shores of Lake Ontario, ravens were found. Their nests were so secluded as rarely to be discovered. So wary were the birds that Mr. Linden had found it impossible to obtain a specimen. They were reported more abundant on the Canada shore of Lake Ontario, but it was impossible to procure a specimen even there, though a liberal reward had been offered. The crow was only preserved from annihilation by its great cunning. Even in captivity the bird displays a degree of sagacity which almost resembles human intelli gence. Mr. Linden admitted that the crow could hardly be called a sweet singer, still, when tamed, he made a very inter esting pet. On the whole, he might safely be set down as a useful bird and a real friend to the farmer. He eats large quan tities of noxious insects, and though he has a bad habit of pulling up young tender UI raju' 1U w,aB 4H" was not more than compensa- t .. l : :i i.ii nf I .eu uy i lie uuiuuer ui liirvw ui ucebiua iuuh brought to light and devoured. Scientific American, The Springfield (Mass.) Republi can believes that the burning of Walker Hall at Amherst College was caused by spontaneous combustion, the floors having been oiled on the day before. It also says that Borne years ago Contractor Johnston, who built the Northampton First Church and many other similar edifices in the Connecticut Valley, "had an impression" one evening that some thing was not right about a church he was finishing, the pews of which the workmen had been oiling on that day; so he went to the building and unlocked it, to find the flames were just breaking out near the entrance of the audience room. When one of the men left work at six o'clock be laid the piece of cotton waste which he had been using on the rail of the pew, and spontaneous combustion hours. - the result was in three or four 5Elf The utilization of the wave power of the Atlantic Ocean is the latest prob lem. Prof. Sawyer says he can transmit it as easily as he can build a fire under a steam engine, and that the only question involved is one of expense. We should be tempted to laugh at the Professor, if old Ben had not taught us to respect the later i ranklms. A Child's Library. Our experience has convinced us that, for the average child, the element of pos session of a book is of great importance. The borrowed book, however attractive, is never read with the loving enthusiasm with which the child devours the volume that is his own. Try the experiment of oaning to your pupil Scott's "Lady of the ake, "Robinson Crusoe, "Arabian Nights." Give to another pupil the same book as his own properly. In nine cases out of ten the boraowed book will be read on the gallop, hastily taken in and forgot ten. Ihe book owned by the child will be read leisurely, returned to, and lingered over with loving fondness; taken out under the trees in summer; taken down from the shelf for consultation; really assimilated into the mental and moral being. It is the most common-place truism that the value of reading does not depend half as much upon the quantity gone over as the quality of the book and the deliberate and thoughtful method of using it. Now, the natural way to interest a child in reading is to give it a book suitable to its years and mental condition, and leave it to its own way of appropriating its con tents. Every child, nowadays, even the poorest in the public schools, should be encouraged to found a library. The boy who sees a growing book-shelf every morn ing, when he gets out of bed, will have a constant reminder to save hia pennies to buy some favorite book, rather than spoil his stomach with candy or buy a ticket to the "Black Crook." Nowadays, when readable editions of the English classics can be bought for fifty cents a volume, almost every child is able to buy a few books every year. It is surprising how soon such a library assumes respectable dimensions, and amazing how mauy beau tiful books and valuable magazines are de stroyed by children nowadays for want of some definite plan of keeping them to gether. And anybody who knows child nature can understand how much more thoroughly the books of that home-library will be read than the volume borrowed from any source. Teachers and parents, set your children to this good work of founding a child's library, and keep them at it till they need no pushing from you. And it may turn out that a few shelves of good books will educate your child more than all the schools and universities. N. E. Journal of Education. The Wives of Old. The late Hamilton Jones once told Mr. Daniel Courts, our late honored State treasurer so many years, the following : He said he was riding along the road at tending an election and saw a countryman sitting on the fence. "Ain't you going to the election ?" he asked. "Dunno," said the man, "hardly reckon I am." "Oh, yes, come and go with me," urged Mr. Jones. "Wall, if you'll go by the house till I ken put on some other clothes, I bL'eve I will," eaid he. He stopped at the house with him and the man went into a little attic room to put on his Sunday clothes, and soon lit. Jones saw the man's wife, a red head ed long limbed woman go into the same room. He overheard the woman say "What're you doin ?" "I'm fixin' to go to the election," said he. "Wall now you ain't gwine no sich thing you stay rite home" said the woman. Directly the door eased half open, and the man's head poked out and said. "Stranger, I kinder gin it out !" There were women in those days. Jieidsville Times. A new industry, in which the en trails of 6heep are used in the production of what is pronounced an exceedingly strong and durable article of belting, has been introduced at Oakland, Cal. The process of manufacture is described as fol lows: The entrails, which will average about 55 feet in length, are first thorough ly cleaned and then placed in vats of brine, where they remain some days. When thus prepared, they are not much thicker than a piece of common cotton twine, and will sustain a weight of about ten pounds. The next stage in process of manufacture is to wind the prepared ma terial on bobbins, after which the process is the same as in making common rope. This method is used to produce a round belt; but where a wide, flat belt is to be made, a loom is employed, and the fine strands are woven together, as in ribbon manufacture. The flat belts are made of any size, and the round of sizes vary from l-19th inch up to l inches in diameter. The round belts are made either in the form of a smooth cord, or as ropes witi from three to five large strands. The f inch rope is said to stand a strain of seven tons, and is guaranteed to last ten years. Henry Greathouse, a young man of Lebanon, Ohio, became a convert to Methodism, and believed he had a call to preach. His ambition was encouraged by his pastor, who recommended a course of study. The cost of this preparation for the ministry was beyond his means, and in order to raise money he engaged two spiritual mediums to give an exhibition under his management. No objection was made by his advisers, as he was careful to advertise that he did not believe in the genuieness of the manifestations which might occur. Still, he seems to have pri vately had faith in them. While the show was in progress he asked one of the pro fessedly entranced mediums if he would be Buccessfnl as a minister. She replied that he would succeed for a while, but would eventually die of consumption, in abject poverty. He went home and shot himself. 25 Experiments made to test the muscular power of insects, prove that the smaller the insect the greater the pro portionate muscular power. A bee is for its weight thirty, times stronger than a horse, for a bee harnessed to a wagon can pull twenty times its own weight. I have noticed that silks, broad cloths, and jewels, are often bought with other people's money. A Virginia Romance. Farmer Rice, whose fertile fields are near Danville, Va., had two things for which to be thanklul a charming daugh ter and a promising patch 'of early vegeta bles. As it so runs in this world of worry, however, both treasures were hard to keep. Sheep by day and prowling things by night caused the farmer to fret for his peas, his turnips and his what-not, while Dan Cupid's dart had struck home in the heart of Alias Sallie. In regard to the youug woman, Mr. J. J. Barker, a youth of the neighborhood, had become her accepted lover, but Mr. Rice opposed the match, and threatened dark deeds with dog or dagger should the young folks carry the nonsense to a practical issue. But Mr. Bar ker was aa persistent as his sweetheart was true, and a plot was laid against the old man. About nine o'clock, on the morning of the 7th inSt., Mr. Barkei-, iu "company with Beveral friends, drove to a piece of woods some three hundred yards from Mr. Rice's house. One of the friends slipped across to the truck-field and opened a gate through which several of the sheep passed, with the tinkling bell of the leader play ing a tell-tale tune. Miss Sallie shouted to her father that the sheep were in the truck-patch, and the poor old man was thus decoyed from the house. Half way to the truck-patch farmer Rice heard his daugh ter shrilly call and wildly gesticulate for his return.' He saw Barker's buggy, with the horse at a gallop, crossing from the woods, and at the same moment caught the sound of the faithtul daughter's: "Same s Blopm ; run, pop, run." Mr. Rice was in a predicament. At his left hand sheep were despoiling his truck; on his right his daughter was running away with . an objectionable man! What should he do? Hesitating not longer than a second the old man seized a pitchfork, and started after the lovers. Away went the buggy, and after them pegged the farmer's easy going mare. At Pelham he drew rein, for the lovers had slipped away. Mr. Rice returned not to the truck patch. He saw in the bottom of his consoling cup that both treasures, by which he had set so much store, were gone forever. Phecision in Business Matters. How many misunderstandings arise from the loose way in which business matters are talked over, and then when each party puts his own construction on the conversa tion, the matter is dismissed by each with the worlds, "all right, all right." Fre quently it turns out all wrong, and be comes a question for lawyers and the courts. More than three-fourths of the litigation of the country would be saved, if people would put down their agreements in writing and sign their names to them. Each word in our language has its own particular meaning and menory may, by the change of its position in a sentence, convey an entirely different idea from that intended. When once reduced to writing, ideas are fixed, and expensive law suits avoided. Heaven's Wealth. The wealth of heaven never perishes, never departs, never ceases, never brings with it care or envy or blame, destroys not the body, corrupts not the soul, is without ill-will, heaps not up malice ; all of which things attend on earthly wealth. ibat honor lifts not men into folly, doth not mako them puffed up, never ceases nor is dimmed. Again the rest and delight of heaven endureth continually; ever being immovable and immortal, one cannot find its end or limit. Nothing which comes to an end is much to be desired ; what ever ceases, and to-day is and to-morrow is not. though it be very great, yet it seems little and contemptible. Then let us not cling to fleeting things which slip away and depart, but to those which are enduring and immovable. On the Blue Danube. The floating grain mills on the Danube are its most curious feature. . Fancy two canal boats moored paralled to each other in mid-river, about fifteen or twenty feet apart, and supporting between them the crank of a gigantic mill-wheel, turned by the current of the stream. Fancy, moreover, the sides of one of these boats carried up one story higher than the other, then roofed over a la Noah's Ark, with win daws and doors as needed, and you wjll have a fair idea of these Danube grain mills, some four or five thousand of which in groups of ten or twelve together, are scattered along this watery highway, all the way from Vienna to Belgrave. Each mill is inscribed with its owner's name. RUT Here- is an extract from the com prehensive malediction which the Bishop of Santander has launched at the Liberal editors of bis diocese I "May Almighty God curse these journalists with the per petual malediction launched against the devil and his angels ! May they perish with Nero, Julian the Apostate, and Judas the traitor ! May the Lord judge I them as he judged Dathan and Abiram ! Mav the earth swallow them up alive I Let them be cursed day and night, sleep- ine and waking, in eating, in drinking, and in playing, when they speak and when they keep silence ! May their eyes De blinded, their ears deaf, their tongue dumb I Cursed be every member of their body ! Let them be cursed from to-day arji forever I May their sepulchre be that of dogs and of asses I May famished wolves prey upon their corpses, and may their eternal company be that of the devil and his angels!" Sf Of the 80,000 persons imployed in the work of mining and preparing anthra cite coal for market in Pennsylvania, at least 20,000 are boys, whose ages range be tween nine and 18 years. Some enter the breaker to pick slate at the tender age of six or seven. A rope of four strands up to 8 inches is fully 16 percent.- stronger than one having but three strands. Tarred ropes, hawsers and the like have twenty five per cent, less strength than white ropeij. m Principles are important, but need to be adorned with grace to be at tractive. SSgT" He who refuses justice to the de fenseless will make every concession to the powerful, . .
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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April 28, 1882, edition 1
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