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- I ni ni iii i II i v mm WW" OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXI. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1882. VOLUME Xn. NUMBER 588 fir fa - A A Wmm mill U III - H Ft): I THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published evkby Friday by J. P. STRONG, Editor fc Proprietor. o Terms Two Dollars for one year. Onb Dollar for six months. Subscription price due in advance. o "Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte. N. C.. aa second class matter," according to the roles of the P. O. Department ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE, AND TBYON Fifth 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 Drags and Chemicals. Yiri.!.A T n-wl An1 fAtrtna XfasvliinA ami4 'I'.nn AM 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. Mc Combs, M. D , Offers his professional services to the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country. All calls, both night and dav.Dromotlv attended to. Office in Brown's building, up stairs, opposite the Charlotte Hotel. Jan. 1,1882. DR. A. W. ALEXANDER. DR. C. L. ALEXANDER. SURGEON DENTISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office, up-stairs in Irwin's corner building. C2T Office hours from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. July 14, 1882. yr. 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. 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 over A. J. Beall & Co's store, corner of College and Trade streets, enterance on College street. Hesidence opposite W. It. Myers . Jan. 1, 1882. J. 8. SPENCER. J. C. SMITH. J. S. SPENCER & CO., Wholesale Grocers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Trade Street, Charlotte, iV. C. May 19, 1882. WILSON & BURWELL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Druggists, 2Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C, Have a large and complete Stock of everything pertaining to the Drnir Business, to which thev invite the attention of all buyers both wholesale ana retail. Oct 7, 1881. HALES & PARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keeps a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles, &c. which they Bell 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 offer to both the Wholesale and Retail trade. All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar gest Duyers. Jan 1, 1882. TORRENCE & BAILEY, Commission Merchants, College St., Chablotte, 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. Vanck. 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. V& Office, two doors east of independ ence square. June 17-tr English Tooth Brushes. 5 Gross just received at WILSON & BURWELL'S July 7, 1882. Drug Store. tdT Mirages are frequent and remark able in the southern and central parts of Sweden, and lrom time to time whole landscapes, cities and castles, with moving oojeots, nave Deen observed renected on the sky for hoars. Daring an afternoon in May a magnificent spectacle was seen over the lake of Orsa, in a remote part of Dalcarlia, in latitude sixty-one degrees. Many large and. small steamers, with smoke rising from their funnels, were seen renected over the lake, and later on the scene changed to a landscape, the vessels then taking the form of islands in the lake covered with more or less vegetation. The phenomenon lasted from 4 to 7 P. M., the mirage at last dissolving in a haze. BdS?T" Character is the diamond that scratches every other stone. GOLD MINE FOR SALE. J In obedience to a resolution of the Stockholders of the Rudi8ill Gold Mining Company of Hart ford, Conn., I will expose to public sale on the premises of said Company near the city of Char lotte, N. C, being tne place known as the Rudisill Mine, On the 11th day of September next, all the Pro pertyReal and Personal belonging to said ! Company, including all Machinery, Mills, Ap pliances, loois, tires, and Cnoses in action. Terms cash. JAS. H. CARSON. Agent for the Company. Aug. 11, 1882. 5w HOUSE AND LOT For $1,500. Needing the money for the erection of its new building, the Charlotte Baptist Church offers its present house of worship, and the lot whereon it stands, at corner of B and Seventh streets, at the above extraordinary low price, to an approved purchaser. The rear line of this lot is the rear line of the main church building, and the pur chaser at tne above price will also get tne e Drice will also sret the ma-1 tenal composm allowed any . rear rooms attached and be -naDie va& aesirea wnnin . .. . . . .... I which to remo a :me. Call or write once, as this offer will not be open after the 15th August, 1882. Further par ticulars can be obtained of THOMAS L. VAIL, Cashier Traders' National Bank. July 28, 1882. tf SALE OP VALUABLE LAND. By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, made on the 21st day of July, 1882, in a proceeding entitled Marg't. B. llipp, et. al, vs. JSancy If. liosicfc, et. al.. 1 will, on Monday, the 28th day of August, 1882, sell at the Court Mouse door, in the city of Charlotte, a ; valuable Tract of LAND, containing 42 Acres, lying in raw (Jreek Township, adjoining tne lands of T. T. McCord and others, and being that part of the lands of tne late Tnos. Johnston which was assigned to John Chapman. Terms of sale Ten per cent of purchase money Cash ; the balance on a credit of twelve months, by note with approved security, bearing interest at eight per cent. 11. W. UAKKltJ, July 28, 1882. 4w Commissioner. SHERIFF'S SALES. I will sell for Cash, at the Court House door, in tne uity oi unanoite, on jionaay, me vow day of August, 1882, to satisfy Executions in my hands, the following Tracts of Land and City rroperty, viz : One BRICK STORE HOU8E on the corner of Trade and College streets, adjoining the pro perty of w . J. Yates and others, as the property of J. E. Stenhouse & Co. Also, two LOTS, Nos. 1087 and 1088, Square 132, in the City of Charlotte, adjoining the pro perty of J. N. Gray and others, as the property of J. B. Sykes. Also, one Tract of LAND adiaininir J. H. Wil son and others, known as the RUDISILL GOLD MINE, sold as the property of the Rudisill Gold Mining Company. Also, one Tract of LAND in Providence Township, adjoining the lands of J. S. Grier, E u. urier and others, as the property oi a. a. Houston. Also, one Tract of LAND in Clear Creek Township, adjoining the lands of Marshall Mc Ewin, Jack Wilson and others, as the property of Ruben Denis. M. E. ALEXANDER, Sheriff. July 28, 1882. 5w SALE OF VALUABLE LANDS. By virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg county, made in the case of J. P. Alexander et. al. vs. John Robinson, as Commis sioner of said Court, I shall expose to public sale, at the Court House door, in the city of Charlotte, on Monday, the 28th day of August next, to the highest bidder, for cash, a valuable TRACT of LAND, lying about a mile and a half from Charlotte, on tte south Biae oi tne sawyer s Road, containing about one hundred and seventy acres, adjoining the lands of W. P. Bynum, W. R. Myers, the lands of the late John Wolfe and others, and known as a part of the Torrence Tract of Land. For Agricultural purposes, this Land is re garded as very valuable. A survey and plat ot the same will be exhibited on day ot sale. GEO. E. W1L.SUJN, July 14, 1882. 7w Commissioner. Executor's Notice. The undersigned having qualified as Executors of the last Will and Testament of G. J. Freeland, deceased, we hereby notify all persons indebted to said estate to come lorwara and seme, ana those having claims against said estate to present the same for payment on or before the 20th day of July, 1883, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. J. U. JJ'ltfcJliljAXHU, R A FREELAND. Executors of G. J. Freeland, deceased. July 14, 1882. Gw NOTICE. Having qualified as Administrator on the estate of the late W. E. Wilson, all persons hav ing claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the .same for payment on or before the 21st day of July, 1883, or this notice will be pleaded in oar oi their recovery. W. C. .01 AA. VV TAjLi, July 21, 1882. 6w Administrator. COME AND SEE THE Finest Set OP BED-ROOM FURNITURE Now in the city. A Large Stock of Furniture At Wholesale and Retail. E. M. ANDREWS, Jan. 13, 1882, White Front KING'S Portable Hand-Power Cotton and Hay Press. Over 100 sold the past two seasons. FIRST PREMIUM taken over all competitors at the North and South Carolina State Fairs. Also at the Weldon. N. C. and Darlington. S. C. County Fairs last Fall. We are now manufacturing 100 for the Fall trade. Circulars, Cut and Testi monials sent on application. We feel warranted in saying that we manufacture the best Cotton Press now in use. oena ior circulars to CELY & BRO., July 14, 1882. lm Greenville, S. C. Faith. How sweet it is, my child, To live by simple faith ; Just to believe that God will do Exactly what He sailh." "Does faith mean to believe That God will surely do Exactly what He says, mamma ? Just as I know that you "Will give me what I ask. Because you love me well, And listen patiently to hear Whatever I may tell?" "Yes, you may trust in God , Just as you trust in me ; Believe, dear child, He loves you well, A nd will your Father be. "For when you seek His love, Your Father up in heaven ,v Looks' kindly down for Jesus' sake, -And writes your sins forgiven. "And now, to pray in faith, Is simply to believe That what you ask in Jesus' name, You surely will receive. "Go with your simple wants ; Go tell Him all you need ; Go put your trust in Christ alone ; Such faith is sweet indeed." Pre-Indian Relics from Virginia. Mr. M. S. Valentine, of Richmond, Va., has sent to the Anthropological Institute of London, for exhibition, a collection of very curious articles fashioned in soap- stone and clay, which were found lately between the ranges of the Blue and Alle- guauy iiiuuiHB.uB, uwr juvuub x ib-u, i ni .: ,t a n: t i Mountains, near Mount . . . . i ... ... I rtonu varuiiua. lue ouecm are nam io i De OI a lvPe aosoiuieiy unique, consisting t.itlr ri hnmnti tvt1ir animal fi vnwAa I Fan"j -U1 i"""j ui uuuoi uSmco. either in the round or in various degrees of relief. Some are household utensils. They appear to have been sculptured by metal instruments, so perfect is their workmanship. The human type is alike in the various objects, but is not Indian. All are fully clothed in tight-fitting garments. some are seated in arm-cnairs, others on all sorts of animals bears, prairie dogs, birds, and other shapes belonging to North America. But some also represent types of the Old World, such as the two humped camel, rhinoceros, hippopotamus. Some of the specimens were obviously made since the advent of the whites, and these are fresher-looking and of ruder workmanship. The inference hazarded is that the articles were made by an earlier and more civilized race, subjugated and partially destroyed by the Indians found in v irgima on me arrival oi wnite men. Self A Cincinnati physician says that diarrhoea and summer complaint can be cured by exposing water in a blue bottle to the sun for a half hour or upward, and then giving one or two teaspoonfuls each hour until symptoms change. Water thus affected by the sun he declares to be a great nervine and refrigerant as well as an astringent. FOR LEASE OR RENT, The large and elegant store-Koom now occu pied by E. D. Latta & Bro. Possession given Oct. 1st, 1882. JAS H. CARSON. Aug. 9, 1882. 4w MOSQUITO NETS AND CANOPIES. All sizes and Colors, very cheap at BARRINGER & TROTTER'S. July 28, 1882. CATAWBA High and Normal School, NEWTON, N. C. The Thirty-fifth Session of this well known Institution will begin the first Monday in August, 1882, and continue 20 weeks. We have in charge the Buildings, Libraries, Apparatus, &a, of Catawba College and are prepared to give superior advantages to those seeking a good practical education. Board and Tuition mod erate. Worthy young men with limited means will do well to correspond with us. Catalogue free. Address the principals, CLAPP & FOIL. July 21. 1882. lmpd Buist's Turnip Seed. We have received a large stock of all varieties of these celebrated Seed, which we otter to both Wholesale and Retail Trade. WILSON & BURWELL. Fresh Drugs And Chemicals of all kinds, Spices, Flavoring Extracts, &c, just received by R. H. JORDAN & CO., Op. Elias & Cohen's, Tryon street. March 10, 1882. Piedmont Patent Flour. 100 Barrels, just received and for sale by SPRINGS & BURWELL. April 7, 1882. SPRING STYLES! We are now opening our new Spring 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 snd 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 m the city. . We have opened our Pattern Hats and Bonnets, And will be pleased to show the Ladies the GRANDEST DISPLAY OF FINE MIL- T.TNTCRY thev have ever seen in this citv. MRS. P. QUERY. March 31, 1882. NEW FURNITURE Constantly Coming In, Which 1 will sell cheap for cash, both Wholesale and Retail. E. M. ANDREWS, At White Front. Feb. 24, 1882. . . Lanterns and Lamps. We have now on hand a fine stock of Lanterns and Glass Lamps. , ., WILSON & BURWELL, Sept 80, 1881. Druggists. Words of Wisdom . Rev. Dr. Hay good, President of Oxford College, 6a., in his address to the Grad uating Class last J une, spoke the following words of wisdom : : "Let me ask you this last time I will ever see you all together, what are you going to do ? Something I am sure. Most JNo achievements by your ancestors can buy for you exemption from the duty of work. It is a shame to a man . to live upon the accumulations of others, without purpose I or effort to do something himself. It is a sname ior any numau peing to De content- ed with a nte oi idleness ; it is a shame be- yond words when an educated man does nothing to deserve to live in this working world. Thoreau puts the case well: 'Be not simply good be good for some thing." If you are to be good for any thing, you must do something ; with small qualification we may say with Matthews : "What a man does is the real test of what he is." It was suggested to me by a wise friend that I should speak to you to-day on a choice of a profession. Meditating upon I tne matter i nnd tne subiect so large )iect so large and I complicated that the occasion will not give me time for its proper discussion. Some general remarks are all that I can indulge at this time. b or one thing I am glad to know that you do not propose to divide yourselves absolutely among what are know as the learned professions. Some of you are good debaters who do not propose to be lawyer?; some of yon can feel a pulse who do not propose to be doctors; and some of I . i i i . a I you ieei divineiy movea to ao gooa in me i world wno ao not ieei caned to nreacn. l I . .. . ... 1 . I am told that some oi you will preacd,some i...k I I n. MKJ:ArnA rnL' ' I mjhuu urauuw law.sume uieuwue. xuib ib i enough; there is room for you there is al- ways much room in these protessions at the top. But these lines do not suffice for you all. Some look to journalism : some 1o civil engineering; some to" farming; some to merchandise. There may be other fields that you are contemplating. One thing is sure there is a place for you if you are only fit for it; or there will be when you become fat. there is a great cry irom the army oi the unemployed that they can hod nothing to do ; this cry is. answered by the great world, "We cannot find men to do what sorely needs to be done what we are willing to pay for." Young men, I would ring it into your ears to-day, it is easy to find one hundred young men in Georgia who want "first class positions" where we can find one thoroughly fitted to Bll such a place. I beg you to consider the significance of this statement ; it is the simple truth without a trace of exaggeration. Circumstances have given me opportunity to take an in side view of this matter and I tell yon plainly, we are poor in men and women who are htted to do the hrst-class work of either the chnrch or the State. Hundreds can do common-place work ; many cau do average work ; few, very few, can do the higher work that the times require to be done. "If you doubt what I tell vou. ask those who are called on to fill the higher places when-a vacancy occurs. I make no exceptions; my statement applies to the pulpit ask your bishops and your congre gations ; to schools and colleges ask your trustees, to journalism ask the publishers of the great newspapers; to the mechanic artt ask your builders and contractors. I may be blamed and contradicted for what I am about to say; be it so. I am used to it, and it were better for a man to say what may be false in fact, when he is honestly mistaken, than to say what he believes to be false. It is better to be right than to be thought right. What I wish to say to von. and to the undergraduates of the col lege, and to the vouni? men and women of my section, as far as my voice can reach them is this- We of the South are poor- est where we least suspect poverty in . men and women thoroughly qualified to do the work that our time, and our duty, and our opportunity demand at our hands. Another thought I wonld impress is found in the tide of deluded emigrants leaving suoh State as Georgia, or North Carolina, year after year, dreaming of El Dorados in Texas, or m some other country where we can suppose that they can have an easy time. Where one succeeds two perhaps ten fail. The failure is not in Texas, but in them ; such men would fail in the Garden of Eden they would neither till nor dress it. Before dismissing the subject of work HJKS rVn fl5n. T if mln hn .. 6 3. .. . call vour attention to a fact that merits your consideration. It is this : work that would pass twenty-five years ago will not pass to-day. The competitions sre so sharp, this age requires more of us than the pro ceeding age did. You cannot do the work ' . .. .. .... with success that might have made your father rich and famous without the capac ity to do better work than he did. Our advancing civilization has multiplied our wants, sharpened our iacuities, raised our standards. Hundreds of men of the form er generation made themselves famous who could not, were they now beginning, repeat their careers ; they could not even hold their own. If harder work and bet ter work are now required of us, we have commensurate encouragement and inspira tion. Opportunity never offered greater rewards for well-doing. This is pre-emi-nentiy true in the South. Fasting in Acnte Rheumatism. Dr. Wood, professor of chemistry in the Medical Department of Bishop's College, Montreal, reports in the Canada Medical Record a number of cases in which acute articular rheumatism was cured by fasting, unusually from four to eight days. In no case was it necessary to fast more than ten days. Less possible results were ob- tained in cases of chronic rheumatism, The patients were allowed to drink freely of cold water, or lemonade in moderate quantities if they preferred. No medicine was given. Dr. Wood says that from the onick and almost invariably good results obtained by simple abstinence from food in mom than fortv cases in his own prac tice he is inclined to believe that rheuma- tism is, after all, only a phase of in- digestion, to be cured by giving com- eta ana continued rest to iu taa Twwrrimwuutui Recovery from Hydrophobia. A caae of recovery from an attack of hydrophobia was related to the Academic de Medecine at the meeting of Jane 13, by m. a. JJenis-Damont, of Caen. The details of this case are given more fully in tne letter of our Paris correspondent I The patient was a man, thirty-1 this week. eight years of age, of strong constitution, I and previous good health, who was bitten I on April 16 on tne torearm by a rabid I dog, which had bitten the same day a J WOman and tWO Children. The woman I died of hvdronhobia on Mav 20. news of the death profoundly impressed I the patient, who became restless, anxious, I affected with extraordinary thirst, and compiaineu oi sore tnroat and oi difficulty in swallowing. He refused all drink which I was offered him, manifested a tendency to I bite persons and objects around him. and 1 presented convulsive attacks of the char acter so frequently met with in hydropho bia, tie was taken to the hospital on ma m i m may Z4, ana none ot tne medical men in attendance had any doubt that he was suffering from hydrophobia. The treat ment employed consisted in hypodermic injections of a centigramme of pilocarpine, I which caused an abnndant diaphoresis I which caused an abundant diaphoresis and salivation. At the same time a I draught was given of two drachms of I bromide of potassium, four drachms of I chloral hydrate, and an ounce of syrnp of I coaeia (wnetner at a single dose or in divided doses the report does not state.) lhe symptoms presented a rapid ameliora tion, and on the 30th ot May bad entirely ceased. It seems open to question wheth- er or not the case was one of genuine hvdronhobia. When the svmutoms com-1 . . . ..... . r . . I mence with mental disturbance, distinctly cTfitdd hv snnh lntunaa innhoniinn nf I - -j r rffv" . , the disease as is excited by the news of . f 1 ,1 r . 1 ... ... I me ueain oi anotner person Ditten at tne I same time, the case cannot be regarded as anording conclusive evidence on the therapeutical question. M. Bouley, how lver, announced his intention ofcomrauni eating to the Academic at the next meet ing another oase of hydrophobia in which recovery followed the use of pilocarpine. I Lancet. I How to Handle Honey. Large savings invariably originate in small sums, just as money embarrassment arises from little extravagances, very few persons of ordinary honesty deliber ately set to work to make large purchases wbioh they cannot afford, and yet numbers spend just as much in the long run in lit- tie things that they scarcely think are worthy of notice. It is very difficult to fully realize the value of small sums. Little savings, it made at all, made in personal expenditure, spent upon the household is must be What is generally needed, but the small personal luxuries which cost so little, are not. And when any saving is made in this way, the money should be put aside and saved, instead of being mixed with the spending fund, and additions made to it as frequently as pos sible; that will make you understand as soon as anything, what small economies amount to. When money is put aside to be saved, it should be put in some place where it cannot be directly got at the Savings Bank for instance. The very fact that a little trouble and formula has to be cone through with before it can be ob tained, many a time prevents it being spent, when it certainly would have been were it close .at hand. To secure inde pendence to ourselves is really worth some self-denial. How Mant Toes Has a Cat? This was one of the questions asked a certain class in school No. 3 during examination j week, and as Bimple as the question ap pears to be, none could answer it. In the emergency the principal, Mr. Brands, was emergency the principal, Mr. Brands, was, PP"ed to for a solution, and he also, with a g03 natured smile, gave it up, when one applied to for a solution, and he also, with I h a 4- ao rrka Haf Ami nod vr t r rtA oi the teachers, determined not to be beaten by so simple a question, hit on the idea of sending out a delegation of boys to scour the neighborhood for a cat. When this idea was announced, the whole class wanted to join in the hunt. Several boys went out and having been successful soon returned with a lhomas. A return ing board was at once appointed and the toes connted, when to the relief of all it was learned that a cat possesses eighteen toes, ten on the front feet, and eight on the hind feet. The board of education should feel proud at having in their em ploy so determined and practical a teaoher. After the question was solved, Thomas was allowed to depart, much to his satis- .-Patterson Fress. ' Vinegar. A method employed in France, which converts cider or other liquid into vinegar much more expeditiously than do ordinary practices, prefaces the process with prepar ing the barrels or casks by first scalding with water and next pouring into them boiling vinegar, rolling the barrels and allowing them to stand on their sides two or three days, until they become thorough ly saturated with the vinegar. This pre paration over, the barrels are filled about one-third full with strong, pure cider vine Every eight . . . gar and two gallons of cider. days thereafter two gallons of cider are added until the barrel is two thirds full. In fourteen days after the last two gallons are added the whole will have been con verted into vinegar, one half of which is now drawn off and the process of filling with cider begun again. In summer the barrels during the process of conversion are exposed to the rays of the sun, and in cold weather are stored where a uniform temperature of about eighty degrees can be maintained. S2f A flower known as the Rafflesia Arnoldi, which is over a yard in diameter and weighs about fourteen pounds, is now on exhibition at Berlin. It is the largest flower in the world, and is found only in I Java and Sumatra. I SEihe whale bone oi commerce is made I not from the skeleton of the fish, but from I small bones in its mouth, which act as I strainers for its food. The arm of a man, foreleg of a quadruped, wing of a bird and fin of a fish, all present the same bones, varied and The Worries of Pronunciation. . Among the many sources of sorrow in-1 convenience and distraction by which I our celebrated lexicographer was sur-1 rounded in the manufacture of his best I known work, corroding doubts ' about or-1 thoepy should be distinctly marked. It is I recorded of him in BoswelPs chronicle I that he consulted two of the leading au-1 thorities of his time abont the pronuncia-1 tion of the common word "great." The one was Sir William Yonge, the other "IsirA nhoaterfiold Tlia Vwot .n..V ;n so spoken as to rhvme with "state" its ordinary sound at the present day; but a pronunciation rhyming with "seat," was preferred by the best speaker in the House of Commons, who. moreover, added that I none but an Irishman would pronounce it I in ny other manner. Bv tbia divergence I ot opinion, at once learned and aristo cratic, the good doctor was doubtless so deeply disgusted that he gave up the at tempt to settle the sounds of the English language in despair. At all events, there is in bis dictionary nothing more than a meagre array ot accents contributing to that end Erudite classical scholars are certainly Erndit no sure guides in the tortuous pathway of orthoepy, nor can we set entire reliance upon the sign pott of the stage. Mr. Percival, it is notorious, insisted on pro- nouncmg the name of our metropolis as if it were spelt "Lunnon," while Lord Hol land pronounced Bordeaux, and supported himself by argument, as if it were spelt "Burdux." Garrick, after the manner of Lichfield, where, as a distinirnished native has informed no. th v impair t.h nnroat I J I r English, or perhaps after the analogy of nh ,MAm . c.r.... i. I . auu - i ways said "ehupreme ." while Kemble. be- ... - . . .... ' sides taiKinc ot "arches " aa if thv were a plural of a letter of the aohabet too fre- quently ignored, produced, when speaking 1 of a "beard" the impression upon his hearers that he referred to a general term for the feathered kind. Such is the nn- satisfactory nature of authority in matters of speech, even when it is concerned with the simplest and most common words. London Globe. A Perpetual Motion Clock. In September last, a new perpetual clock was put up at the Gare du Nord, Brussels, in such a position as to be fully exposed to the influence of wind and weather; and although it has not since been touobed, it has continued to keep good time ever since. The weight is kept constantly wounu up uy a lau, piaceu m a chimney. As soon as it approaches the extreme height of its course, it actuates a brake, which stops the fan: and the greater the tendency of the fan to revolve, I so much the more strongly does the brake act to prevent it. J simple pawl arrange ment prevents a down draught from ex erting any effect. There is no necessity for a fire, as the natural draught of a chimney or pipe is sufficient; and if the clock is placed out of doors, all that is required is to place above it a pipe, 16 or 20 feet high, lhe clock is usually made to work for twenty-four hours after being wound up, so as to provide for any tem porary stoppage ; but by the addition of a wheel or two, it may be made to go for eight days after cessation of winding. The inventor, M. Auguste Dardenne, a native of Belgium, showed his original model at the Paris Exhibition of 1878; but has since considerably improved upon it. Good Night. How very commonplace is the expression "Good-night !" and yet what volumes it may speak for all the fu ture time ! We never listen to it in pas sing, and this thought does not force itself upon us, be the tones in which it is uttered upon U8 be the tones in which it is uttered ever g0 thoughtless. The lapse of a few hours may so surround and hedge it in It ii r a 1 Ml; t j i l horror that of the millions of words which a lifetime has recorded these two little words alone shall be remembered : "Good - night !" The little child has lisped it, as it passed smiling from this world ; the lover with his gay dreams of the nuptial morrow ; tne wue and motner, witn tne tangled threads of household cares still in the fingers ; the father, going out to death, leaving home and kin uprotected and uncared for. Good-night I The seal upon days past and days to come. What hand so rash to tear aside the veil that covers its to-morrow ! The Presbyterian. A letter from Pes Moines, Iowa, to the Chicago Journal, says : "Observers of the cyclone cloud at GnUll say it was luminous with electrio fire, and there was luminous with electrio fire, and there was a continuous report from electrio explo sions like torpedoes. If there was no electrio disturbance, how is to be ex plained the faot that the mainsprings of watches were broken in extraordinary numbers all along the track of the storm for thirty miles wide ? ' In this city alone nearly thirty watches were taken to jewel ers on Monday with mainsprings broken Saturday night." CSJ" A citizen of North Danville, Va., nnna of remirk&blv robust constitution. I some time ago began to complain of some I n- . f .t TT affection of the heart. Upon examination it was found that the heart had been dis- placed several incnes, ana it was oonciuaea that the displacement was caused by the formation of water in the chest, and that the water must be drawn oft An instru ment was inserted and nine pints of water were drawn from the region of the heart. Some relief was afforded, but it is said that a second tapping will have to be per formed. tSf Manv people will be surprised to learn that the postoffice department has on its pay roll about 1,000 oats which are regularly in its employ throughout the country, and are paid ior their services with food and shelter. These estimable creatures make themselves very useful by keeping rata and mice out of the mail mat- tor. Their number and the cost of their maintenance are strictly accounted for,and when any of them deciires a dividend that factisdulyreported,andprovisionismade tii. True goodness is like the glow- worm it shines most when no eyes save those of heaven are upon it. A Brave Bov. Evvie Jerome is a little New York boy wno is spendmg the summer at Hath, Long Island. There is a beautiful shelving beach at this place, and the children have g?d. ' times - there wading in the surf, digging in the sand, and building mimio bridges and forta with snowy clam shells. On Friday, July 7 th, a merry croup was playing on the shore as ' usual, when suddenly there was a scream of fright and horror. A great wave had come rolling in, and had can eh t and carried ont of eight a tweet little eirl. There was not a man within reach. The ladies were para lyd with fear. The bright head had gone down under tne dark waters, lint there was a little boy there who had the heart and courage of a man, though he war only seven years old."- He had what many men have not-the sense to see what ought to be done, and the will to do it quickly. Ev vie Jerome caught hold of the life-rope, and by wading and swim ming reached the place where the little girl had gone - under. The spectators watching the young hero saw him dive. Up he came, dragging the child with him. Clinging to her with one hand, and to the friendly rope with the other, he brongnt her, half-drowned but safe, to her mother's arms. in . Shallow Cultivation for Fruits. Fruit growers must be reminded that their hoes, cultivators and ploughs may do more damage to plants than good if not used with discretion. The small fruits- berries, currants, grapes, also dwarf pears. quinces, etc., root near the surface. Here "..,- , . . .. iouna tne nest roots, tnose that pro- viae most nourishment. i a trim rifnirnfi these to be mulched by the dead leaves, - --- . ; . l.Mj;HAMHi;.U.K.Hl.l.:M. M 1 . 1 . uu iu our uiui iuuiguius wouiu ue tne hest treatment if it were possible. As it 18 tne DC8t we can do is to give frequent Dut shallow cultivation. I have seen in- telligent men ploughing deep furrows alongside of their raspberries, currants I and grapes, well satisfied that they were aomg tnoroagu worn, in at wouia secure an abundant harvest. Let such men dig up one plant before thus ploughing and one after and see what butchery they have oommitted. There are no taproots stretch ing far down into the subsoil, but simply a few laterals branching out, say, from two to four inches below the surface, and more than half of these have been sacri ficed by the ploughshare. When we set f;reen hands hoeing strawberries and new-y-set raspberries we know what they will d0 if not watched-they will destroy half lheir rootB and loosen the hold for life that the struggling pets have seenred by chop- i . . . - ping ciose aoout tnem. A very long journey for an unattended child is being made by a lad of 9 years who arrived at the railway station in Buffalo with a card sewed to bis jacket bearing this inscription : "Parker's Land ing, Pa. This boy, Samuel Brindle, is . - ar v going to his mother, Mary A. iirindle, Primrose Banks Mills, Old Oldham, Lancashire, Englond, via Montreal, Cana da, and Liverpool, England, per Canada Shipping Company, Beaver Line. Take care of him." The boy had in his posses sion when he started tickets from Buffalo to Montreal, and Montreal to Liverpool ; but the one conveying the journey from Buffalo he had lost on the way. The police telegraphed to Parker's Landing, and received a reply requesting them to forward the little traveler, and it would be made all right. He was sent on his way, and lacked no friendly care on his long journey. About a year ago he came to America with his lather, who recently died. Acquaintances thereupon provided for his return to his mother. The Sawdust Business. The Lumber- men says that in New York there are I about 500 venders of sawdust, having a I capital of $200,000 invested, and doing a I f Aanaaaa ! a 3 I business of $2,000,000 annually. Forty 1 years ago the mills were glad to have sawdust carted away ; twenty-five years ago it could be bought for fifty cents a load ; now it brings $3.50 a load at tha i mins. it is uBea at noteis, eating-nouses. groceries, and other business places. It is wet and spread over floors, in order to make the sweeping cleaner work. Plumb- ers use a great deal about pipes and build ings to deaden walls and floors. Soda- water men and paokers of glass and small articles of every kind use it, and dolls are stuffed with it. Yellow pine makes tha best sawdust, as it is the least dusty, and has a pungeant, healthy smell. I white dut will 5o.. Black sawdust will not anil is hnm But any walnut sawdust will not sell, and is burned. The best grit for the manufacture of mill stones, to be found in the world, is quarried in Moore county, N. C. It is a natural composition of flint rock and ce ment which sharpens rather than dulls by use. Four thousand bushels of grain can be ground with this stone without re dressing, and it is said to make the largest quantity of the choicest meal to the bushel of any stone known. The quarries art situated about sixteen miles from the Ral eigh & Augusta A. L. Railroad, and is I being rapidly developed, quite 1,..!.. I a little village having sprung up in the vicinity of the quarries, peopled by the workera i .uwu. twtio Awcnonn. 1ST" The Journal of Health thus com ments on "Bites and Stings : Apply in stantly, with "soft rag," most freely, spirits of hartshorn. The venom of stings being an acid, the alkali nullifies it. Fresh wood ashes, moistened with water and mad into a poultice, frequently renewed, is an excellent substitute, or soda or salratus. I all being alkalies. To be on the safe side in case of snake or mad dog bites, drink brandy, whisky, rum or other spirits aa free aa water, a teacnpfull or a pint or more, according to the aggravation of tha circumstances. - r: 1 1 , . ,Y D1 AnJft!r1m re the faahr' J6 ,J h" 450 thJ J"?00 ..fondon 15yicn? 20 n Berlin will soon have 50. Altogether, themost beautiful and striking bndga w Europe is that over the Moldau at Prague. We judge ourselves by what Wf feel capable of doing, whUo others judt us by what we have already done.
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Aug. 18, 1882, edition 1
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