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yftC ft . - -A iff fff MM'M jfT- -1 OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXI. CHARLOTTE, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1882. VOLUME XIL NUMBER 582 THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published every Fbidat by J. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor. o Terms Two Dollars for one year. One Dollar for six months. Subscription price due in advance. - o "Entered at the Post Office in Charlotte. N. C.. as second class matter," according to the rules of the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. Physician and Surgeon. D., OFFICE, AND T B Y O N Fifth Streets. RESIDENCE, Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C. March 17, 1882. tf DR. T. CV 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. DR. A. W. ALEXANDER. DR. C. L. ALEXANDER. SURGEON DENTISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office, up-stairs in Irwin's corner building. ZW 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, Charlotte, 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. Residence opposite W. R. Myers'. Jan. 1, 1882. 4. S. SPENCER. J. C. SMITH. J. S. SPENCER & CO., Wholesale Grocers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Trade Street, Charlotte, JV. C. May 19, 1882. WILSON & BURWELL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Druggists, 2'rade 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 ana retail. Oct 7, 1881. HALES & FARRIOR, Practical Watch-dealers and Jewelers, Charlotte, N. C, Keeps a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles, &c. which they sell at fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c, done promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to Springs' corner building. July 1,1881. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrups, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Flour, Grass Seeds, Plows, &c., which we offer to both the Wholesale and Retail trade. All are invited to try us, from the smallest to the lar gest buyers. Jan 1, 1882. 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. V "i Z. B. Vance. W. H. Bailey, VANOE & BAILEY, Attorneys and Counsellors CHARLOTTE, N.J Practices in Supreme Court of United 8tates, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Federal Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan, md Davidson. t&" Office, two doors east of independ- ou39 Square. June 17-tr English Tooth Brushes. 5 Gross just received at WILSON & BURWELL'S July 7, 188? Drug Store. Advice to Boys. Horace Mann writes: "You are made to be kind, generous. magnanimous. If there is a boy in school who has a club footdon't let him know that yon ever saw it. If there is a lame boy, assign him some part of the game which does not require running. If there is a hungry one, give him part of your dinner. If there is a doll one, help him on with hie lesson. If there be a bright one, be not envious of him : for if one boy in proud of his talents, and another is envious ot them, there are two great wrongs, and no more talent than before. If a larger or a stronger boy has injured you, and is sorry for it, forgive him, and request the teacher not to pnnish him. All the school will show by their countue ance how much better it is than to have a great fist." t3F In Spain it is the enstom of every one who eats a fruit to dig a little hole and plant the Beed, and the roads in that country are lined with trees, the fruits of which are free to all. borne one says : "Ihe man has not lived in vain who plants a good tree in the right place." FOR SALE, Five Hundred and Ten (510) Acres of desirable Land, near Rocky Mount, in Fairfield county, o. U. for information, apply to Mrs. J. C. MOBLEY, "Winnsboro, Fairfield county, S. C. Aug. 25, 1882. 5wpd Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as Administrator on the estate of Samuel Knox, deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons having claims against said estate to present them on or before the Both day of August, 1883, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. Aug. 25,1882 6w Adm'r. NOTICE! Valuable Lands for Sale. - By virtue of the power vested in us as Execu tors of the last will and testament of John Wolfe, deceased, we will offer for sale, at the Court House door in Charlotte, on Monday the second day of October next, all that valuable tract of land known as the John Wolfe Lauds.contaming three hundred and seventy-two acres, situated two miles from Charlotte, lying on both sides of the public road leading from Charlotte to Monroe, and also, on both sides of the Carolina central it R. Said lands are well improved with a good residence, fine apple and peach Orchards and Vineyard. The Lands will be offered in three lots. First lot containing ninety-four acres. Second lot con taining: one hundred and forty-eight acres on which is situated a residence and other Improve ments, also a valuable mineral spring; Third lot containing one hundred and thirty acres. These Lands will also be offered as a whole. Terms One third cash, balance in two equal installments at the end of one and two years.with interest at eight percent. Persons desiring further information apply at residence of the undersigned, or at the Law Office of Hemming ds Kobertson. -. C. H. WOLFE, L. W. WOLFE, Aug. 18,1882. 7w Executors. GOLD MINE FOR SALE. In obedience to a resolution of the Stockholders of the Rudisill Gold Mining Company of Hart ford, Conn., I will expose to public sale on the remises of said Company near tne city oi unar otte, N. C, being the place known as the Rudisill Mine, On the 11th day of September next, all the Pro per tv Real and Personal belonging to said Company, including all Machinery, Mills, Ap pliances, Tools, Ores, and Choses in action. Terms cash. JAS. H. gARSON, Agent for the Company, Aug. 11, 1882. 5w BROWN & WEDDINGTON Keep the largest Stock and best assortment of General Hardware, Cutlery, Guns, Nails, Iron, Rubber and Leather Belting, Woodenware, Hames, Chains, and Gen eral Farm Bupplies; Tanners', Blacksmith's, Carriage and Wagon-Makers' and Carpenters' Tools and Supplies, that is kept in the State. Call and see them and you will be con vinced. Aug. 4, 1882. 3m flff" Call and see the Celebrated TELEGRAPH Straw Cutters and Smith's Lever Cutters, at BROWN & WEDDINGTON 8. Aug. 4, 1882. Buy A Rotary Peach and Apple Parer and White Mountain Apple Parer, Corer and Slicer. They can be had at BROWN & WEDDINGTON'S. Hardware Store. Aug. 4, 1882. HARDWARE, Iron, Nuls, Horse and Mule Shoes, Cutlery, &c, cheap for cash, at BROWN & WEDDINGTON'S. Aug. 4,1882. . COME AND SEE THE Finest Set OF BED-ROOM FURNITURE Now in the city. A Large Stock of Furniture At Wholesale and Retail. ' E. M. ANDREWS, Jan. 13. 1882. White Front. Fresh Drugs And Chemicals of all kinds,. Spices, Flavoring Extracts, &c, jut 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. Lanterns and Lamps. We have now on hand a fine stock of Lanterns and Glass Lamps.. r W lUDWPt S ttUltVV UU, Sent 80, 1881. Druggist "Almost Home." - THE DYING WORDS OF SENATOR HILL. Softly fall the lengthening shadows ; Calmly sinks life's setting sun ; ' Death's dark night o'er one is stealing,' J For his earthly race is run, Can naught cheer the lonely traveler, Through the gloomy, narrow way ? . Must the soul go forth in darkness, At the closing of the day ? Through the valley of death's shadow, Can no ray. of brightness gleam I Must the wanderer, faint and weary, Cross alone the cold dark stream ? . Ah ! a Father's hand outreaches, And His staff shall be the guide, Which will lead the way-worn pilgrim Safely to the other side. . ' "Almost Home f The light is breaking, And the glorious dawn of day ' ., Bursts upon the spirit's vision, -As from earth is soars away ; Sweet the strains of angel voices, Echoing through Heaven's high dome ; On their golden harps is sounding, The glad tidings, "Almost Home !" Lo ! a people mourn in sorrow, As with bowed, uncovered head, Round the bier they sadly gather, . To deplore th' illustrious dead, Mingling with your tears and sighing, This glad thought must ever come : . That life's latest hour found him "Almost Home 1" Yes, "Almost Home !" S. F. C. Mother's Boy. Mother, cherish , your boy. Respect him and encourage him to talk with you. Ask questions about things that interest him. Caress and kiss him, and prove yourself to be the best friend by showing your love. How is your little boy to know that you love him, if you never fondle him if you continually repel his advances? Many mothers cease to show their love J as soon as a child is four or five years old. I Little bovs after this eet fewer kisses, be- I cause frequently they soil their hands and face in play, and come in noisy, warm, and tired, not just the sweetest cheeks and lips we loved to kiss, and instead of put ting back the matted curls, and with cool water bathing the hot face, we say, go away with you, dirty boye, I don't want to look at you. How much better to fold him to your heart, kiss him and send him away happy! I have not said indulge vour bov. but make him love you. You need not suffer him.to correct you when older persons are talking. Teach him to be silent in company, unless drawn out by younger guests, but alone at home make him your companion. Up to that age many boys have little real love or respect for their mothers, and the fault lies nearer the mother than the son. Carey Religion Into Business. There are two ways of carrying your reli gion into your business. Talking religion I to the people you meet iu your business hours is one way : dealing fairly, meeting all obligations promptly, treating those in your employment with kindness and courtesy ' is another. Some Christians may do good by the first method : no Christian can do good who neglects the second. ' A celebrated English physician says a pint of milk is equivalent in nutri tive power to an ordinary mutton chop, and as a pint of milk will yield only 'an ounce of cheese we must have in the latter a cheap and highly concentrated food. The English eat double the cheese in proportion to the population that is con sumed by Americans. The Italians live to a great extent on cheese and Indian corn. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT ' OF ELI AS & COHEN. ALL NEW GOODS. Having disp sed of our, old Stock, we now offer an immense Stock of Fresh Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Carpets, Boots, Shoes and Hats. All new and the latest styles. Don't fail to examine our goods and prices before buying. -i-tthxt Jj.Lj.UVO Oil VVXXXlX't. Aug. 25, 1882. - ENGINES AND MACHINERY, ALL KINDS. We are agents for the following machines : The Water-town Engine Co's Engines, The Bookwalter Engine,' The Leffel Waterwheels, The Phocenix Gin, The Liddell Cotton Presses, The Liddell Saw Mills. . K1NGSLAND & FURGUSONS M'F'G CO'S THRESHERS, HORSE POWERS, &C. Any person wanting Machines will do well to " write to us before purchasing. We will sell a Stationary Engine 6 Horse Power for f 355, just right for ginning, and give a warrantee with it. This Engine is the very thing for Treshing when mounted, as it only costs $418 complete on wheels, and two good horses can pull it anywhere. Also a complete Stock of Hardware. BREM & MCDOWELL, Charlotte, N. C. Hardware Dealers. Aug. 18. 4t Insure Your Gins, Cotton, Farm Property and Stores in the N. C. HOME INSURANCE CO. Louses promptly paid. Rates low. Call on or address THOS. H. HAUGHTON, District Agent. fjf Office on Tryon street, opposite office, Charlotte, N. C. Aug. 25, 1882. 3m the Post- Liars; BY REV. DE. DEEMS. VVe are growing too polite to call things by their right names. We have softened l "Urog Shops" into -sample Kooms," and I thoae whom oar Diuns Saxon ancestors called 'liars," we now designate -as "per sons who are given to exaggeration.' And the , doom of those - people which is .thus stated in our good old honest Bible, "All liars shall have their part in the lake which barneth with hre and brimstone," we euphemistically paraphrase into "All those who are conspicuously inexact shall go to a place of very torrid temperature." xif uiiarge uiau witu jieing a liar, is to total demoralization, lhere was a time when it resulted in' a duel and if a duel ought ever to be fought, it is upon such a charge. ' A man that is a liar deserves to be shot, if any man ever does. To make the charge is to attempt to do the man the greatest injury possible. It is the most despicable of crimes be cause a liar is a coward, a knave and a fool. He is a coward because he does not dare to face the results of facts of his own creating. He is a knave because he at tempts to gain ends by false pretenses. He is a fool because he does not see that, if all men were liars, society would be hurled into a hell of anarchy. lhere is no defence for it. , It is not witty, nor wise, nor beautiful, nor profit-1 able. Any blockhead can lie. A lie is a moral deformity. It has no counterpart in any reality. All nature and all fixed facts of the universe conspire to fling a lie np to the surface and fling it out, .as the bodily system makes a universal effort to eject a poison. In the long run the truth will come to be known and the lie ex posed. In the long run, therefore, the lie is uncomfortable. And yet liars abound, with all history in demonstration of the folly of falsehood, There are the business liars, the buying liar and the selling liar. I he buyer , un duly depreciating the goods, and the seller unduly extolling, are in this class. . Solo mon caught them at it in his day. "It is naught! -it is naught J said the buyer: but when he is gone his way then he boastetb." Even in this day many a man boasts when he has lied another out of his property. The seller attempts to lie the buyer out of his money. Both regard it as very witty. Some parents rejoice when their boys display this kind of smartness. Some employers encourage their salesmen in this "sharp practice." In such cases the employed will sometime be too sharp , for his employer, and vice versa. They are two dogs, hunting in couple?, that tear each other when they cannot catch the prey. An employer ought to instruct his salesman if he detect him deceiving a customer he will dis charge him on the spot. Business may come in slowly, but confidence once se- cured, fortune follows, but business built on lies falls down in a day, when the want ot honesty in the tradesman is discovered. Lying does not pay. There are polite liars whom we emooth ly call "diplomats," men whose paws are" as soft as velvet, but armed with claws like steel. They gain nothing by direct force of truth. Their whole brains are given to the study of circumvention. . As soon as a man who is more smooth and more patient comes along, their time ol ruin comes. There are liars of gossip, men and wo men, the only salt of whose discourse is falsehood, who scatter firebrands, arrows and death, and say, 'Are we not in sport?' There are the begging liars who live by their wits, such as they have, who are forming narratives ot misfortunes, who are attempting to deceive the charitable, who are "dead beats." Such men and women make a point of going to clergy men at the dinner hour or just after his night sermon. The poor clergyman has barely enough to live on. His only time of rest is while he is eating. These .im postors know that the man cannot hear a tale of hanger and go back with comfort to his meal without giving some relief. He has been preaching the gospel of charity and he cannot go borne and 6leep if he do not relieve an applicant who "does not know where to sleep to-night. They know that the clergyman cannot then take time to investigate the case. The worst of the class is the long-faced liar, the "pious" deceiver who "asks a blessing" on the lie he is about to tell, and then "returns thanks" at its success. Alas ! for the success ! It always comes back on the hypocrite in a curse. God will avenge himself if any man attempt to make him party to a falsehood. Truth is clear. It is easy. It requires no study. . It does not have to be watched. The falsehood has no real and permanent power in it. Truth triumphs at last. The simplest soul can conquer life to himself by truth, but it is not in the wit of man to bring beauty and good np out of the reeking corruption of lies. Small Change in Mexico. In one of the small towns I bought some limes and gave the girl $1 in payment. By way of change she returned me forty-nine pieces of soap, the size of a water craker. I look ed at her in astonishment,and she returned my look with equal surprise, when a police officer who witnessed the incident hastened to inform me that soap was the legal ten der in many portions of the country for small gums. I examined my change and found that each cake was stamped with the name of a town and of a manufacturer authorized by the Government. Ihe cakes of soap were worth 1 cents each, Afterward in my travels I frequently re- ceived similar change. Many of the cakes showed signs of having been in the wash- tub ; but that, I discovered, was not at all uncommon. Provided the stamp was not obliterated, the soap did not lose any value as currency. Occasionally a man would borrow a cake of a friend, wash his hands and return it with thanks. I made use of mine more than once in my bath, and subsequently spent them. Philadel phia Press. EST The Republicans in Madison county have nominated a Btraight out ticket, ignoring liberalism. otter him the last possible indignity, be-1 rowui aB u io say. u mere is re-1 mecnanic leeis in oeuermooa tor his work, made the fire and hung cause it lays at his door the most despica-1 proach connected with this, I wish to bear J if he is sure his skill will not go unappre- I himself, -we'll venture, m . .. - . .W - I 11. 5 J 1. . ' f . 1 . ' I 1 j. 1 , .. .? . I ble of the crimes, a crime which involves mJ 8Qare " any danger, i am ready to I ciated. it seems a pity, since (iod- has radishes, peeled the The Men who Pledged their Lives, For- iunes ana oacrea nonor. la looking at the signatures to the I declaration, not c-no is - written- with a j iremuimg nana except oiepnen xiopKins'. " WB ao' ar mat maae mm tremoie, iui ue waa a true : patriot as any oi I them, but he was afflicted with the palsy. I Uut one of the residences of the signers! is aiiacnea 10 nis name Charles Carroll It is said that one was looking over his shoulder when he wrote his name, and said to him : "There are several of your name, and if we are un successful they will not know whom to arrest." He immediately wrote "of Car- face it. There was genuine natriotism. It was rather amasiug, alter they bad signed their names, to hear Benjamin ranKiin say to &amuel-Adams: ".Now, I think we will all haner together " "Yes," said Mr. Adams, "or we shall all I hang separately." Many have supposed I that all the names were signed on the 4th I oi iuiy, 177b. JNot so. it .was 6igned on I that day only by the President. John TT -t - 1 - . 7 1 uancocK, ana wun nis signature it was sent forth to the world. On" the second day of August it was signed by all but one of the fifty-six signers whose names are appended to it. The other attached his name in November. The signers of the declaration of inde pendence were all natives of the American I soil with the exception of eight. . Sixteen of them were from Eastern or New Eng land Colonies, fourteen from the Middle, and eighteen from the bouthern Colonies. One was a native of Maine, nine were na tives of Massachusetts, two of Rhode Is land, four of Connecticut, three of New Jersey, five of Pennsylvania, two of Dela ware, five of Maryland, nine of Virginia, and four of South Carolina. Two were born in England, three in Ireland, "two in bcotland, and one was born in Wales. Twenty-seven of the signers had been regularly graduated in colleges, or about one-half. Twenty others had received a thorough academic education, and the re mainder had each been taught at a plain scnooi or at nome. ut the ntty-six sign ers twenty-nve had studied the institutions of Great Britain while sojourning in that country. AH had something to lose if the struggle should result in failure to them. Many of them were very wealthy, and with very few exceptions, all of them were blessed with a competence. Thirty-four of the signers were lawyers, thirteen were planters or farmers, nine were merchants, five were physicians, two were mechanics, one was a clergyman, one a mason, and one a surveyor. 1 he young est member of Congress when the declara tion was signed (Rutiedge) was twenty- seven years of age: the oldest one (Dr. Franklin) was seventy. Forty-two of the htty-six were between thirty and hfty years of age ; the average age of all was forty-three years and ten months. They all lived to a good old age. The average of fifty-three at the time of their decease was over sixty-eight years. The last survivor was Charles Carroll, of Car- ronton, being over ninety when he died, Fourteen signers lived to be eighty years old, and four past ninety. The pen used by the signers is preserved in the Mas sachusetts Historical Society at Boston. What tales that pen could speak ! What a history there is connected with it ! Not one of the signers ever fell from the high estate to which that great act had elevated him. It had been well said that (r.l 1 4 . -s "tne annais ot tne world can present no political body the lives of whose members, minutely traced, exhibit so much of the zeal of the patriot, dignified and chastened by the virtues of the man." - Clandestine Correspondence. One of the surest roads to ruin trodden by young girls is the pernicious custom of indulging in clandestine correspondence with any handsome scamp who lies in wait for them. Saturday is red letter day with these clandestine correspondents, many of whom are school girls whose pa rents never dream that their children are lollowing in the footsteps of so many girls who have been taught the art of decep tion and disloyalty by their love of what they call adventure. The writer of this article once stood near the ladies' delivery window in a city postoffice and watched these girls as they came and went. It was very easy to distinguish those that came to the office for a legitimate purpose. One young lady approached the delivery window and inquired for a letter in a man oer which seemed to indicate that she didn't care whether she got one or not. she was good looking, bat. there was a restless, uneasy look about her face, and scarcely heeding the delivery clerk's re ply to her question, she glanced furtively about the postomce. suddenly a young man entered the office, and with her soul in her eyes she met him, and held a hur ried conversation, the last words of which were : "To-morrow evening in the usual place." "Lots of women call regularly at this office who have never received a letter in their lives," said the postoffice official, "and many of them don't expect any letters. We have done all we could to get rid ot them, ana oi these young girls who come to get letters from clan destine correspondents, bat we cannot. We do not deliver letters at the general delivery addressed to initials, but scores of them are received." Then the official showed a long list of these letters which had been sent to the dead letter office. Exchange. " ' I gf" The earth itself is the best of all disinfectants. This is owing to the anti- Beptic and deodorizing properties ; it is porous in the highest degree and readily transmits air through its surface, and so changes to healthy action the otherwise obnoxious fermentations. It does not act B0 rapidly, or rather its results are not so I instantlv annarent as those following the ase cf chlorides, but its effect is more wide- spread and lasting. t3T An air-tight clock is being m&Ae I for Wesleyan University. It winds itself Lbv means of an electrical apparatus, and j as the air is exhausted from the case when it is started, atmospheric disturbances an I avoided. r r ii . vJ V Cheering Words. f Don't be afraid to speak them. Some of your friends are hungry to hear them. I x on can find no better way ot helping pec- I pie to ao oetter, than by speaking words oi appreciation lor what they have already I uone. ine eaitor win write witn aoaoie I brilliancy, if yon tell him how much 'you enjoyed his last leader : your wife will cook a better dinner to-morrow, u von jraise her a little lor the well cooked dishes to-day. The parson will preach with new fire and -force, if yon can honest ly shake his hand, and ' say that - his last sermon went straight to your heart and inspired you with better purposes. The made man with such a' deep hunger for praise,, that some of them get so little of it. Equally unfortunate is the fact that a sanctimonious '- piety," a narrow spirit of selfishness, tries to hush the . voice .- of I honest praise. Don't blame people, for j desiring words of praise, unless yon want to impeach the wisdom of the Creator.wbo made men with this ..desire, liemember, I there is no - one-in-. whose actions some thing cannot be fpund worthy of com mendation. ' There are some people whose very pres ence is a tonic, a sort of inspiration. In conversation they call forth the best that is in you, and you surprise yourself with your own brilliancy. To have them stand beside you is in yoar favor. The secret of their power of helpfulness is that they are ready to appreciate and commend whatever is commendable. Open your eyes, friend, to the goodness '. and noble ness there is in yoar fellow-men, and don't be afraid of making them proud by prais ing them. Men are not so easily spoiled in that way as is sometimes .imagined; Cheering words give wings to weary feet, and new life to the lagging pur pose. Don t grudge the help you can afford your fellow-men by giving them the praise and cheer they have fairly earned. They are discouraged for lack of somebody's frank and honest approval; Give 'them yours in a hearty way, and it will set them on their way again. World's Urisi8. - A case involving the liability of the directors of a joint stock company when they have paid dividends which have not been earned has been decided in England. The directors, by including among their assets debts which they knew to be bad, and by other triks of book- keeping, caused it to appear that the com-1 alone ought to be responsible for the run pany had made a profit for several years, I ning of the train, leaving the conductor the whole or a part of which nominal profit they divided, among the shareholders. In the course of time the company became insolvent, and the assignee in bankruptcy sued the directors to recover the dividends thus paid away. The Court of Appeal held that the directors were liable. ' - As the capital stock of the corporation is the only fund to which creditors can look, it most not be impaired, bat mast be kept I whole to meet their demands, and the di- rectors, having misapplied the company's I funds, were held liable to make repayment under a clause in the Companies act. Of course, if the dividends, though not earned within the year, had been paid out of a surplus previously laid up, the decision would have been different, for a company can divide its earnings at any time it sees fit, but the Hinglish court states clearly that the dividend must be paid out of earnings, past or present. ' BaT" The increase in the consumption of coffee is very striking. Twenty-five years ago the quantity grown was esti mated at 338,000 tons, but in 1879 the total was 590,000. Ihe consumption was greatest in the United States. The princi pal coffee-prod acing country is Brazil, the crop of 1880 being estimated at 280,000 tons, but when the emancipation of the negroes is complete, as it will be in twenty years, the question is whether the coffee planters will be able to . find laborers enough to keep op this high total. Next to Brazil come the Dutch Indies, including Java and Sumatra, into which the cultiva tion of coffee was introduced by van Hoor in 1669. It is only within the last quarter of a century that the coffee of Ceylon and the .Last Indies have been exported in any quantity, but at the present time the ex port of Ceylon coffee is 40,000 tons, and of East Indian coffee over 30,000. The coffee plant has been found to do well in some parts of Alnca, such as the region of the Mozambique and the Cape Verde Islands ; but it has not answered at Sierra Leone, on the Guinea coast, at Natal, or in the Cape Colony. Attempts are now being made to acclimatize it in the Fiji Islands. Senator Ransom was born in Warren county he is about 56 years of age. Senator Vance was born in Buncombe and is about 52 years of age. Maj. L. C. Latham, Representative from the First District, was born at Plymouth in 1840. Representative Hubbs, of the Second, is a Northern man, age not guessable. Gen. W. R. Cox, of the Fourth, was born in Halifax county. He is, we suppose, about 50 years old. Gen. Alfred M. Scales, of the Fifth, was born in Rockingham coun ty in 1827. Mr. J. W. Shackelford, of the Third, is a native of Onslow and is about 40 years old. Maj. Clem Dowd, of the Sixth, was born in Moore county in 1832. CoL Robert . Armfield, of the Seventh, was born in Guilford county in 1829. Gen. Robert B. Vance, of the Eighth, was born in Buncombe in 1828. Wilminjton Star. Cair It must be something of a shock to the philanthropic persons who were holding indignation meetings a short time ago to denounce the cruel treatment ofthe Jews in Russia to find that the relief com- mittee is now embarrassed by the number I riantly where one cow will only find suffi of applicants for free passes back to that 1 ciejit good grazing. w ' barbarous land, si ot only do many oi tne alleged refugees, disgusted at the demand made upon them here to work for their living, hasten to embrace the opportunity to return, bat many Vho are not and never were refugees, appear anxious to get back to Russia. "Despair and postponement are cow ardice and defeat. Men are born to suc ceed, not to fail. ' When Eve Spun and Adam Delved. There has been a ereat deal said about the faults of women, and why they need so much waiting on.; Some one,a man of coarse, has the presumption to ask:;" Why, when live was manufactured of a Bpare no a servant was not made to wait on her ?''. She didn't " need any. A bright . writer has said : "Adam never came home whining to Eve with a ragged stocking to be darned, button to be sowed on, gloves to be mended right away quicknowl Because he never read the newspapers till -the sun went down behind the palm tree, and he. stretching himself, yawned out : 'Isn't sapper ready,my dear ? Not he. He the kettle ; over it and pulled the potatoes, and . did - everything he ought to do. He milked 4 all the cows fed the chickens, looked after the piza himself and never brought half a dozen friends to dinner when Eve hadn't anv fresh nomeoranales. He never staved out till 11 o'clock at night and then scold because poor Eve was sitting np and cry- ling in side, the gates. He never loafed around the corner groceries while Eve was at home rocking Cain's cradle. He did not call live up from the cellar to get his slippers and put them in the corner where he had left them. Not he. When ho took them off he pat them under the fig tree, beside his Sunday boots. In short, he did not think she was specially created to wait on him, and wasn't under the im pression that it degraded a man to lighten his wife's cares a little. That's the reason Eve did not need a hired girl, and with it was the reason her descendants did. Cleveland Herald. A practical railroad man informs the New York San that before long every engine drawing a passenger train .will have a pilot; his place will be forward of the engine or above the present cab with which he will have a signal connection and his business will be simply to watch, -everything on or near the track and quickly signal any danger to the engineer. This is a move in the right direction ; the engineer and the fireman are already re quired to do all that should be expected of them, and while attending to the insati ate monster that constantly demands fuel, water, oil or some other attention ' they cannot be expected to see everything that goes on ahead of -them. But the change should be even more marked than is con templated in the foregoing suggestion; the pilot ought to outrank in authority the present conductor and engineerand he to look after passengers solely, and the engineer to manage his engine under the orders of the pilot. Setting a Boy's Broken. Neck isr Connecticut. Perhaps the most wonder ful surgical operation ever performed in ' Southington was that which saved the life of the little son of Mr. Orlando Whitney of Darien, whose neck, was , dislocated by the upsetting of a carriage. The opera-, tion was performed by Drs. Russell of New. Haven and Osborne of Southington, and was one which required great skill and delicate manipulating. The little one was obliged to lie in a plaster of Paris cast of his whole body, from its neck to below the knee joints. It was the only thing that could have saved his life; a move ment to the right or the left would have caused instant death. Dr. Osborne, we believe, has had charge of the case since the setting, and under his care the child is progressing favorably. Southington Phcenix. In the Southern Lumberman, Nashville, we find the followiog : "Mr. George L. Palmer of Palmyra, 111., called on the Lumberman the 20th, on his return from a trip South, where he had been prospecting for timbered lands. He is well pleased with the timber of oar section, and states that the hardwoods here are better, both -in quality and quan tity, than Illinois hardwoods ever were sounder and freer from wind-shakes. He has contracted for three million feet oak, ash, hickory and poplar, and will locate his mills at Sylva, N. C. ne will operate two portable steam saw-mills on the mountain sides, and erect planing-mills, eta, to be ran by water-power, and will manufacture axe handles, wagon and buggy stock, and all kinds of building materiaL Cotton Seed in Spasmodic Ceoup. George L. Gray, M.D. (Miss. Val. Med. Monthly), claims that cotton seed is an efficient remedy in spasmodic croup. A handful of seeds is bruised and afterward boiled for a . few minutes in a quart of water. The decoction is allowed to stand for a short time, when it is strained.sweet- . ened, and cooled. . The patient should now be given all it will drink of the medicine, or, it necessary, it may be poured down the child's throat. Relief is general prompt, and sometimes without vomiting. If,how ever, the remedy be persistently given it will produce free emesis. - Lemon Tbees. It is surprising that more persons do not grow these in pots' and tabs as room ornaments. A com batively young lemon will grow- from twenty-five to fifty lemons a year,and usu ally they are much better than those we buy. We saw a test recently where one was taken from a tree which yielded double the quantity of juice to afirbt-claas store fruity Gardners Monthly. A Mr. Watt of South Carolina,has a female Angora goat that has given four I quarts of milk daily the season through, of as rich quality as that of any Jersey cow on bis farm, of which he has several An Angora goat will thrive where a cow will starve, or six goats will subsist luxu- I E"l?" There is a Chinaman in San Fran- cuco with red hair. His countrymen treat him with superstitious respect. At the table be has the best of everything, and at all ceremonials' he takes prece- I dence. ISf True honor, though it be a differ ent principle from religion, is that which produces the same effects. ,
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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