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Home and Democrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. O.
Correspondence of the Home and Democrat.
New Yobk, Oct. 30, 1882.
Editor Home and Democrat: Some
people are food of law. Jt is a luxury
which only rich' people can indulge in
here. A Mr. Travers accidentally sat
down on the hat of a Mr. Pettit, at Del
monico's restaurant. Fettit was angry,
and not receiving a sufficiently humble
apology, went to the leading law firm in
the city, Evarts, Southmayd & Cboate, to
employ them to sue Travers for the dam
age to his hat. The lawyers had sense
enough to decline such a petty suit. It is
lather to he regretted that they did not
allow Mr. Pettit to spend a thousand or
two dollars in that way.
The beauties of tenement house life,
which is the life of hundreds of thousands
in this city, are illustrated by the follow
ing paragraph which I find in a morning
paper :
"The body of a male infant about a
week old was Iound by John Cassidy, a
hair-dresser, buried in the yard in the rear
of his shop, No. 114 First street, Wil
liamsburg. The house is a three-story
tenement and is occupied by about a dozen
families. There were no two families on
good terms, and each family was ready to
wear to enough to hang all the others.
However, when Coroner Parker held the
inquest over the body yesterday and had
all the belligerents before him he had no
evidence. The jury therefore returned
the following verdict: "We, the jury,
find that the aforesaid unknown infant, of
unknown age, came to its death through
unknown means upon an unknown date."
The South as usual, allows Northern
authors to write the biography of South
ern men. A late book of the kind is "An
drew Jackson as a Public Man," by W.
G. Sumner, Professor in Yalo College. I
have not seen it, bat only reviews of and
extracts from it. But what reason have
we to expect a Northern man to under
stand a Southern man ? Tet if Southern
people will not write their own history
and the biography of their great men,
(nor read them when written,) they can
not complain if Northern people do both,
write the books and read them for the
sake of the injustice they always do to
the South. Here is Mr. Sumner, for in
stance, speaking of Gen. Jackson as show
ing a lack of training, which is no doubt
true, but thereupon compares him with
"barbarians," which is about as far from
the truth as could well be. No one who
ever saw Gen. Jackson could fail to be
impressed with his polished bearing and
manner, and the simple elegance of his
language. I mean, of course, when be
was not roused by passion. I spent a few
minutes in his Dresence in the White
House in 1834, having gone there much
against my inclination by desire of a lady
friend, for I did not, and do not now, ap
prove oi nis course as rresident. l ex
pected to meet an imperious, ill-mannered
man; whereas there stood the courtly,
kindly gentleman.
One view of his character given by
Prcf. Sumner, is no doubt correct, viz
that when his mind became set or biassed,
it was not easy to deflect it. No, we
have all heard how his old negro gardener
described him on that point. A Btranger
- riding by the Hermitage soon after the
General's death, stopped to talk with the
gardener. "So the old General is gone !"
"Yes, massa." "He has gone to Heaven,
hasn't he?" "I don't know, massa, but if
he wanted to go dar, all hell couldn't stop
him."
Of the President who wrote his name
so deeply on the popular heart and on the
pages of his country's history, Prof. Sum
ner says finally: "He had had honors
beyond anything which his own heart had
ever coveted. His successes had outrun
his ambition. He had held more power
than any other American had ever pos
sessed. He had been idolized by the
great majority of his countrymen and had
been surfeited with adulation. He had
been thwarted in hardly anything on
which he had set his heart. He had had
his desire upon all his enemies. He lived
to see Clay defeated again and to help to
bring it about. He saw Calhoun retire
in despair and disgust. He saw the Bank
in ruins, Biddle arraigned on a criminal
charge and then dead, broken-hearted
In his last years he joined the church, and
on that occasion, under the exhortations
of his spiritual adviser, he professed to
forgive all his enemies in a body. It does
not appear that he ever repented of any
thing, ever thought that he had been in
the wrong in anything, or ever forgave an
enemy as a specific individual."
Since the above was written, some days
ago, another of this kind of books has ap
peared: "John Randolph. By Henry
Adams. American Statesmen Series, ed
ited by John T. Morse, Jr., Boston."
have not seen it, but it is described, as
might be expected, as a malignant out
pouring of abuse against Randolph and
the South. To the world generally Ran
dolph did not indeed appear to be a love-
able character, though he was idolized by
his neighbors and his slaves, an evidence
that there was some good in him which a
writer of any Bort of history other than
yankee history might have discovered and
recorded. As a specimen - of the spirit
which animates this book, read the fol
lowing:
"For a generation like our own. in
whose ears the term of States Rights has
wwViuV uaicmi u v iuj t uh perversion in
the interests of necro slaverv. and in
whose eyes the comfortable doctrines of
uuumuea national sovereignty shine with
the glory of a moral principle sanctified
uy uie oiooa oi innumerable martyrs,
these narrow and iealons
Randolph and his friends sound like sys-
"States' Rights hateful !" "the com
ortable doctrines of unlimited national
f
sovereignty shining with the glory of a
moral principle, are phrases worthy of
people who have a "higher law" than the
aw they have sworn to support. But the
time may come when this higher law may
plague its inventors. As the Hartford
Convention of New England was for dis
union in 1814 because the war curtailed
their profits by commerce, so they may
find themselves oppressed some day by
the unlimited sovereignty with which
they are now in love because it is hateful
to the South and contrary to the constitu
tion, and they may look out. H.
Education What the Radicals Did.
The Wilmington Star of Oct. 29th, con
tains an article giving an account of the
doings of the Radical party in this State
while in possession. We publish some ex
tracts from the same :
"The Alantic Monthly says that the
Radical leaders its correspondent met with
during many months of travel in the South
held that "it was not desirable to give the
negroes any political education or en
lightenment." Of course every one not a
fool can see reaany why tney aia notwisn
the colored voters to have any political
information or education. As long as
they were stupid and Btolid they thought
they could be manipulated Very readily,
and could be led always to vote for white
Radicals in preference to white Democrats.
We wish to say here parenthetically,
that the negroes will vote the Radical
ticket any way, whether they can read or not
The colored man, ignorant or partially
educated, will vote every time for the
partym North Carolinawbo never did tbem
anything else but harm that never edu
cated one solitary negro child that never
expended a dollar for the negro insane for
the colored deal and dumb, or tor the
colored blind.
It is a well ascertained fact that whilst
the Radicals were in power in North Caro
lina they never spent one cent in educat
ing one negro child. They not only did
not educate a solitary negro but they
wasted and spent the public school fund.
They never built a school house or taught
a negro child.
Not ouly this, but they reached out
their corrupt hands and smote the Univer
sity of the State after it had had a most
useful career of nearly seventy yeas. It
destroyed it completely.
Not only this, but they took $650,000
of the public school funds that was invest
ed in sound railroad bond;) and exchanged
them lor the Special Tax bonds that were
not worth one dollar. So here went nearly
all that was left to support the common
schools and educate the white and colored
children of the State.
But not ouly this, but this venal and
vicious party came near wasting the pro
ceeds of the lands in Eastern Carolina be
longing to the Literary Fund. It was a
very narrow escape, and they deserve no
credit whatever lor there being one foot of
land belonging to the r una at this hour.
They plotted to get rid of it but were
baulked in their plans.
They squandered literally $125,000 that
was derived from the "United States Gov
ernment for educational purposes.
This Radical party in North Carolina,
iu the year 1869, when they had complete
control of every department of the Gov
ernment, took $158,000 of the educational
fund and divided it among the Radical
Legislators the "hands as Jo lurner
used to call them in the Raleigh Sentinel
paying ignoramuses, men just from the
plow "htdd hands $7 per day.
But even this is not all. They took
$9,000 more of this fuud and what became
of it no man can tell.
In the year ending September 30th,
1870, they expended $203,411.01 ot the
educational fund, but ouly applied $38,
981 to what they called education. It
went to pay salaries, &c. This was every
cent they pretended to have spent during
the entire time they had control in th-
State for education. Such is Radicalism
Such is the record of the party that now
comes belore the intelligent people of the
State and ak to be reinstated in power.
They never educated or caused to be
taught one negro child, but stole and
wasted the large school fund, and still
every negro parent will go to the polls
and vote for thH fellows who are running
as Radicals. This they have done, and
this iht-y will continue to do.
We write for reflecting, honest, men.
We ask them to consider the facts and
figures. They are perfectly reliable, be
cause they are copied from the official
records of the Radicals. It is their own
showing of what they did."
New Cotton Plant.
The Savannah News of Oct. 26th con
tains a communication concerning a new
kind of cotton, which was sent by its
New York correspondent, with the re
quest of further particulars. The follow
ing extract gives a description of the new
hybrid, of which we hope to know more
from the very great advantages this cot
ton possesses:
"A XMKW COTTON' lUN'T. A lieW
variety of cotton plant has been brought
to light iu America, where great things
are expected of it. It is the product of
the hybridization ot the cotton plant with
the common okra both of them indi
genous to Florida, where the'new plant
has been reared, the hybrid, which at
tains a height of about two feet, has the
stalk of the okra and the foliage of the
cottou, but the flower and fruit are said
to be quite unlike either parent. The
flower, of which each plant only bears one,
is as large as the magnolia, and nearly as
fragrant. It, like the cotton bloom, is
white for several days after it opens;
later it becomes pale pink, and finally
red, 'when it drops, disclosing a wonder
ful boll.' For about ten days the boll re
sembles that of the cotton plant, when its
growth, "as if by magic," increases won
derfully, and it finally reaches the size of
a large cocoauut. Then ihe lint or cotton
down appears, of which each boll produces
about two pounds of a fine long staple,
superior to the sea island cotton. The
great advantage which this cotton pos
sesses is the ease with which the bolls
can be gathered, an unskilled picker be
ing able to collect 600 or 700 pounds
weight in a day. A still further advan
tage consists in the absence, or rather the
peculiar disposition, of the seeds, which,
instead of being mixed with the lint, lie
at tl ) bottom of the boll. There are only
four or five of these seeds, which resemble
persimmon seed, and can be easily shaken
out as the boll is plucked, so that the cot
ton requires no" ginning. The saving in
expense occasioned by the reduction of
labor both in picking and ginning are
likely to cause this hybrid cotton to sup
plant the gossypinpjj jeyen ifts produce
were not ot the superior quality attribu
ted to it."
ho Oh as lotto Sono and Bonocrat, Gboslotlo,
N. C. NEWS.
E2f Dr. Bob Scales, the .venerable
father of Gen. A. M. Scales, died at hie
home in Reidsville Saturday evening.
$ar The Winston Leader says: Many
farmers could make money by gathering
np the acorns, and selling them for a small
trifle per buaheL Persons who have hogs
to fatten will hnd it a cheap and substan
tial food.
Another Old Chalk. Our old friend
John Newlin of Hadley Township, has a
chair that is considerably over a hundred
years old, and still has the same bottom
in it that was first put in. It formerly
belonged to the Braxton family and was
brought here before the Revolutionary
war. Chatham Record.
Engineer Killed on the W. N. C.
Railroad. Salisbury, N. C, Oct. 27.
The Eastern bound train on the Western
North Carolina Railroad met with an acci
dent this morning, three miles West of
Alexander's. The engine ran off near the
end of Sandy Mush Creek trestle and
turned down a bank about ten feet high.
Engineer- Charley Gordon was seriously
injured and died this evening about six
o clock. Gordon was one oi the oldest
engineers on the road, and was a member
of the Knights of Honor and insured in
the Accident Insurance Company for
$2,000. Transfer was made and the pas
sengers, mail and express came through
all right. The track was cleared by five
P. M., and connection restored.
A North Carolina Jay Hubbell.
Who has not heard of Jay Hubbell, known
and execrated by all men? Who thought
that he would ever have an imitator, who
would make a similar levy of blackmail?
It remained for Friday Jones, once of this
city, but who has for a year past been
eking out a precarious existence in Wash
ington, D. 0., to pursue Hubbell's plan,
and with the most'indifferent success. We
are reliably informed that Friday had a
letter written to every North Carolinian
holding a clerkship in the various depart
ments, stating that the sum of $10 was
needed by him and at onee, and that if
that sum were not "put up" promptly
disastrous indeed would be the conse
quences to the recipient ol the note. But
the imitator of Hubbell's meanness had not
his power, and this scheme of raising the
wind failed. It is stated that Col. N. W.
Shaffer has one of the circular letters which
was sent him by a recipient, from Wash
ington. Raleigh Observer.
U-SsT" Spun glass napkins are a recent
addition to the supply of luxuries which
people who indulge a tasts for oddities will
probably not consider too high priced at
$100 a dozen. The first one brought to
St. Louis is on exhibition iu a Fourth
street store. It is pearl shade, the size of
au ordinary breakfast napkin and almost
as pliable as silk. The feeling consists ot
minute glass threads crossed by a silk
chain, and the fringe of glass fibre is
about two inches long. Raleigh Ob
server. An Elopement in High Life.
The town has been in a whirl of excite
ment for several days over the elopement
of Joseph Parker, a married man, and
Miss Dora Smith. On account of the social
position of the parties the affair has been
suppressed, with the hope that it would
prove only a harmless escapade and that
the erring oues would speedily return.
A week has now elapsed and no tidings
have been heard from the absconding pair.
Parker leaves a wife and several children.
Mrs. Parker bears up nobly. To a reporter
ot the Patriot she said that she had almost
ceased to think of his return and was indif
ferent as to his whereabouts. For several
months past they had not lived happily
together, but irs. Parker never dreamed
that the black-eyed, dusky Miss Smith
was at the bottom of it. Miss Smith is a
dashing young woman and many years
the junior of the heartless scoundrel who
eloped with her. Greensboro Patriot.
The Dockery Family Against the West.
Before the war Gen. Dockery, father of
the present Mott Revenue candidate for
Congressinan-at-large, was a candidate
for Governor of the Siate. In canvassing
our Western counties for that office he
was profuse in his promines to our people
of all his aid and influence to complete the
W. N. C. Railroad. Gen. Dockery was
not elected, but did get a very heavy
vote in our Wi stern counties on the faith
f his promises.. He was a member of a
succeeding State Senate. That session a
bill was introduced appropriating $7,000,-
000 lor this road, lhen State bonds were
worth par, and would have realized
enough to have completed the rod over
twenty years ago. The bill passed both
Houses, but, to the surprise of all, Gen.
Dockerv, who had just voted for it, tnoveo
a reconsideration, and by his effort bad
the bill defeated, thus delaying our road
fir more than twenty years. Col. Daid
Coleman, who was a member ot that same
Senate, denounced Gen. D. in a severe
speech for his treachery and infidelity to
th- people of the est who had stood by
him
Our people are painfully aware of what
Col. Oliver Dockery's party did with this
same Railroad pince the war.
The Weft has always suffered at the
hands ol the Dockery s, notwithstanding
they always made the fairest promises
when wanting office. V ill our people
forget these things and vote for Oliver
Dockery against Beunett, who co-operated
heart and soul with the Democrats in get
ting our road built ? We believe not.-
Asheville Citizen.
Two Outrages by a Negro. Grand
Forks, D. T., Oct. 24. Yesterday Charles
Lubane, a negro barber, met a Norwegian
girl on the road and ravished her in the
mst brutal manner. He then rode on
about a mile, entered the house of Con
ductor Sam Burbank, of the Manitoba
railroad, and outraged Mrs. Barbank. A
party is in pursuit of him.
The aggregate yield of corn tor
1882 is estimated at 1,168,000.000 bushels
by the national Department of Agricul
ture, it is thought, . however, probable
that this figure will be changed by the full
returns of the yield per acre, which will
be reported uext month.
A Conductor Killed. Atlanta, Ga.,
Oct. 2S. A. N. Bishop, a conductor on
the Est Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad, fell between the cars, near the
Chattahoochee River, to-day, and was
killed. His remains were brought to
Cleveland, Tenn., his home.
Slaughtering Her Child. Williams
ton, N. C Oct. 27. Chaney Stanton,
a negres?, this morning killed her baby.
She afterward placed its body on lb 6 rail
road track, where it was cat to pieces by
a passing train. c '
N. C. Supreme Court Decisions.
' ' Fall Term, 1882.
Reported for the Charlotte Observer.
Daniel vs. Hodges, from Halifax. In
1876 defendant instituted suit against her
husband, Joseph Hodges, setting forth
that be had abandoned her, left the State
and failed to contribute anything for her
support : that he had no property in this
State except the' lot, describing it, now
claimed by plaintiff. The prayer of the
petition was for reasonable alimony and
that said lot be assigned to her. Such
order was made.
In 1879 Joseph Hodges moved to set
aside to order ; motion refused ; he ap
pealed and the Supreme Court reversed
the order on the ground that the petition
er, seeking no divorce or separation, could
not under the statute be allowed alimony
pendente lite. W hile the order was in force
and the defendant was in possession of
said lot Joseph Hodges made a deed of
trust lor the land to one tiall which deed
was executed and duly registered in 1877,
nnder the deed the trustee sold the lot to
the plaintiff and executed to him a deed
for the same in 1877. In 1880 the suit
for alimony came on for final hearing,
and the said land was assigued to defend
ant for her maintenance during her natural
life.
The defense in this case is that the con
veyance to Hall and from him to the
plaintiff was made while the action for
alimony was pending and after the order
assigning her the lot in question, thus
bringing it within the principles in
volved in the law of lis pendens. The
Court says : Two things are necessary
in order to give effect to the principle.
1. The litigation x should be about
some specific thing, which must be
t-arily affected by the termination
neces
of the
suit.
2. The specific property must be so
pointed out by the proceedings as to warn
the whole world that they meddle with it
at their peril.
The particular circumstances of this case
make it an exception to the generally re
ceived doctrine iu regard to the exclusion
of the application of lis pendens from pro
ceedings for alimony.
The lis pendens was not destroyed by
the reversal of the order of the Superior
Court. By the institution of a suit, the
subject of litigation is placed beyond the
power of the parties to it, whilst the
suit continues in court, it holds the pro
perty to respond to the final judgment or
decree.
The petition for alimony under the cir
cumstances of this case constituted such
a lis pendens as affected the purchasers
with notice, independent of the actual
notice had, and rendered the deed void.
Affirmed.
Vaughan vs. Hines, from Hertford.
This action is brought by plaintiff as
administrator d. b. n. against defendant
a surety on the bond of the former admin
istrator. There were two returns made
by the administrator to the probate judge,
one 10th July, 1882, the other 13th May,
1873, both of which show an acknowledged
balance due the heirs. The defense relied
on is the statute of limitations. The jury,
under the charge of the court, returned a
verdict for defendant.
Plaintiff appealed.
When the return of the administrator
is such a statement that shows to all per
sons interested in the distribution that the
administration of the assets was finished
and that there is no longer a necessity for
following the surplus, that it was subject
to the call of the next kin, the return is
final, and the statute of limitation is put in
motion, and an action against the adminis
trator after the lapse of six years is barred.
C. C. P., Sec. 33. The statute having
once been put in motion could only be ob
structed by legislative enactment. JNo
error. Affirmed,
Hahn vs. Guilford and others, from
Beaufort, -This was a summary proceed
ings belore a Justice of the Peace, under
the "Landlord and lenant Act,' to recover
possession of the premises claimed by the
plaintiff.
The plaintiff alleged in the complaint
that defendants entered upon the land as
his tenants, but that their term had ex
pired, as well by the non-payment of the
agreed rent as by the lapse of time. In
his return the Justice said the answer had
been lost, but he certifies that the defend
ants besides denying the allegations of the
complaint, "set up an equitable title to
the laud in themselves." His Honor look
ing only to the pleadings and the return
of the Justice, without hearing any evi
dence upon the issue as to the tenancy, or
as to the nature of equitable title claimed,
held that the title to the land was involved
and dismissed the action as not being
within the jurisdiction of the Justice,
Held. 1. An appeal means an appeal to
the next term of the appellate court
Where a Justice fails to transmit the ap
peal for two terms of the Superior .court,
it was the duty of the defendant to have
moved promptly at the first term for a
recordarp directing him to do so. It is
error to proceed to judgment in a cause,
apparently ont of court, without giving
to the plaintiff a day to show cause
against it.
2. When in a proceeding under the land
lord and tenaut act, the defendant in his
answer denies the tenancy, it is the duty
of the Justice not to distpies the action,
but to try the issue of tenancy j if that
should be found for plaintiff, then because
of the estoppel operating upon the defend
ant, it is impossible that the title to the
land could be drawn in controversy and in
case of appeal it is the duty of the Judge
to try the cause and render judgment just
as the Justice should have done.
Every equitable title will not serve to
defeat an estoppel, but only such as arise
out of relations such as a court of equity,
under our former -statute would protect
even after judgment in a court of law.
Error. Plaintiff entitled to a new trial.
State vs. Burgwyn, from Halifax. The
only question in this case was to the ad
mission Q evidence of certain confessions
of the defendant.
What facts amount to such threats or
promises as to exclude confessions as not
being voluntary, is a question pf law, and
the decision of the court in regard to them
may be reviewed In this court. But
whether the evidence if true proves these
facts and whether the witnesses giving the
testimony in regard to these facts are
credible or not, and in case of a conflict
of testimony which witness should be be
lived by the court, are all questions of
fact, to be decided by the court, the de
cision of which cannot be reviewed. Judg
ment afijrmed.
Barker vs. Bledsoe and others, from
Wake. Action to recover amount due on
to plaintiffs intestate In 1874 ; at Spring
A A P '
I term, f o4 , an oraer oi reierence was maae,
and it was adjudged that plaintiffs recover
$499.20, with interest from 1874. On
March 5, 1882, execution issued, there
upon application for an injunction was
made by Bledsoe, supported by his affida
vit. Upon the hearing the injunction was
denied and the restraining order vacated.
Defendant appealed.
It is entirely inegular nnder our pres
ent system to seek relief in a personal in
junction against a plaintiff and restrain
him from the advantages of a judgment
unreformed, when the relief can and ought
to be obtained, if proper, in itself, by an
order in the cause. . An application to a
court of equity to restrain its own pro
ceedings is a novelty. Judgment affirmed.
Mosely vs. Mosely and others, from
Halifax. Action for dower in certain
lands the ' construction of the deed to
which is the question in dispute.
Where there are but two parties to an
instrument and the recited pecuniary con
sideration passes from one to the other;
the super added words "as well as natu
ral affection of said Wesson to his daughter,
wife of said Mosely," expressing v the in
ducements which prompted the convey
ance to the husband, do not in form un
dertake to fetter or qualify the estate
granted, nor do they in law raise and an
nex thereto a trust in favor of the wife.
Trusts arising by operation of law result
in two cases. 1. Where an estate is pur
chased in the name of one person and the
consideration is paid by another. 2.
Where the intention not to benefit the
grantee is expressed upon the instrument,
as where the conveyance is "upon trust"
and none is declared, or that declared
fails. No error affirmed.
Whitehurst vs. Pettipher and others,
from Pamlico. The defendant claiming
title to the land, the object of this action,
proposed upon his own examination as a
witness for himself to show the position of
the beginning corner, nnder itB calls by
the declarations of one Gaskins, then a
slave, whose master was in possession of
an adjoining tract, as owner, and his
poiuting out its location. Both master
and slave were dead at the time of the
trial. The testimony on objection was
refused and this ruling presents the only
question on appeal.
Held. In questions relating to private
boundary the declarations of disinterested
persons, since deceased, made before any
controversy has arisen, are admissible to
show their location. If a declarant, if
alive, were allowed to prove the fact to
which the declaration relates, the declara
tion itself may be proved after his death.
It was error to exclude the testimony
from the jury. New trial.
Clayton vs. Rose and others, from
Hyde. In November 1855, Burrus con
veyed the land in dispute to a trustee "for
the sole use and benefit of plaintiff then
the wife of Claytou" during her natural
life, after her death the trustees "shall
hold and possess the land and premises for
the sole benefit and advantage of the heirs
of her body, begotten by her present hus
band, to be conveyed to her said heirs
when the youngest shall arrive at the age
of twenty-one provided the said Susan be
then dead. In 1868 Clayton and his wife
executed a deed conveying the land to
defendant Mahala. This deed was proved
on 12th November, 1879, by the subscrib
ing witness and registered without privy
examination of feme bargainor.
It is urged by defendants on appeal 1.
That an equitable estate in special tail,
converted into a fee under act 1784 for
separate use of plaintiff, passes under the
deed of Burrns and that the deed of 1868
without a privy examination is sufficient
to convey an equitable estate for her life.
2. lhey also rely upon the statute' of lim
itations. The court says: 1. Equitable estates
in land vested in a married woman, in the
absence of a power in the instrument creat
ing the trust pointing out and authorizing
a different mode, caunot be transferred
without conforming to the statutory regu
lations applicable to legal estates. Ihe
statute admits no distinction between legal
and equitable interests.
2. When the right of entry is barred
and the right of action lost by the trus
tee or person holding the legal estate
through an adverse occupation, the ces
tui que trust is also concluded from as
6erting a claim to the land. The cor
relative must be accepted that when
the trustee is not bound neither can
the cestui que trust be. No error. Af
firmed. Support the Local Paper.
The following, from an exchange, is so
eminently sensible, that we copy it for the
consideration of our readers, especially the
business men :
"In all towns where a newspaper is pub
lished, every mau should advertise in it,
even if nothing more than a card, stating
his name and the business he is engaged
in. It not only pays the advertiser, but
lets the people at a distance know the
town you reside in has a live and prosper
ous community of business men. A local
paper which has but few announcements
of local business men gives a bad impres
sion to strangers, and although there may
be a good number of merchants in the
village, he at once concludes it is a dead
place, and leaves without further comment,
or never pomes to town because of the
tame impression. . The local paper travels
into nearly every state in the Union, and.
first or last, falls into the hands of man y
enterprising business men, who are either
attacted to the place or repulsed, accord
ing as the merchants are represented in
its columns."
A Republican Row, Mr, R. M
Deaver, of North Carolina, a prominent
straightout Republican, who objects to the
1 - " l " i i-i .
coalition uusiness in nis state, attempted
to go into the meeting of the North Caro
lina Republicans last night. Mr. Mack
D. Lindsey, one of the members of the
association, objected to Mr. Deaver'a en
trance, and, as the latter stated to a Post
reported, he wes forcibly ejected from the
meeting. Mr. Lindsey is a clerk in one of
the departments, as are a majority ot the
members of the association. Wash. Post.
83f The Chemical Bank of New York
pity is the most successful financial insti
tution in the country, if not in the world.
The capital is only $300,000? but its de
posits aggregate $li,00p,00p, on which a
discount business of $13,500,000 is transr
acted. Its shareholders are paid a divir
dend of twenty-five per cent, quarterly.
The stock is held at 2000, the highest
quotation of bank shares in the world.
52?" An official of the Postoffice Depart
ment cays that the recent experiments
with the tricycle in Washington as a
means of collecting and delivering mails
have been eminently successful and that
the introduction of the tricycle in the pos
tal service in other cities is only a question
of time. '
6.
High Prices for Cotton Pickers.:
Th Waco - (Texas) Examiner "reports
a typical case of a: planter, who raised
a crop j and,; like those wno neap up
wealth, could not tell who ; should garner
it: ' - v" ;:" ''
m Titin Shackelford, who is one of the
largest and most successful farmers in this
country, went to Mexico in quest of labor
ers to pick out his cotton crop. The
scarcity of labor here drove him to the
.Amowiiit distrusted with his trio. Labor-
era there eeemed to have work enough to
content them, and did not want to leave.
He offered to advance the money for rail
road fares, and guaranteed $1.25 per 100
pounds, but not a laborer could he get,
and he came oacs aione. wuw j wut
hn nrill nATt trv he has not decided, but U
talking some of going over into Alabama
or Georgia and see if there are any labor
ers there who want to come to Texas and
pick cottou for big wages.
The President's Mail Bag.
Washington, Oct. 24. I was in the
White House the other day, and saw a
stack of some hundreds of communica
tions addressed to the President of the
United States. They were all neatly
jacketed and briefed and corded np,
awaiting the President a return, l asicea
Secretary Prudden what the tenor of such
letteTs was.
"O. everything was the reply. "They
are on every conceivable tubject of a per
sonal nature to the writers. Many ol
them are direct appeals for money.. Now,
you would never suppose a stranger in
Texas, Nebraska or New Hampshire, or
somewhere else, would write t9 the Presi
dent for a few dollars, with the expecta
tion of getting it, would you f"
I answered that I didn't feel quite sure
about that, since women and men who
were total strangers to me frequently
came into my office and requested me to
get them a pass to Philadelphia or New
York, or a government clerkship, or a
situation on a leading newspaper.
"Well, it is a fact. There are letters
here asking Mr. Arthur to send various
sums, by return mail or express, from
fifty cents up to $500. One young lady
writes for money to buy a piano, by
which, she says, she will be able to earn
her own living. Another, a man, wants
to borrow $100 for six months, for which
he will give his note and 10 per cent in
terest." I glanced at the top jacket and saw the
brief, "Pecuniary Assistance."
"Yes, that's one," 6aid the genial Secre
tary. "There are a good many more in
the stack. Some want official sinecures,
making no profession of services. - They
merely .want to be put on rolls some
where for a few months, so that the sala
ry will help them along. . They are us
ually not particular, however, whether
the Government or the President furnishes
the money."
"Which of course he does ?" said I.
"Oh, yes; the same as you provide the
railroad passes and clerkships. Why, his
$50,000 a year wouldn't be enough to pay
these demands upon him personally. He
can't even read their letters. It's a very
funny world this." And so it is. Phila
delphia Times.
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,
dents' Furnishing Goods, Carpets, Boots, Shoes
and Hats. All new and the latest styles. Don't
fail to examine our goods and prices before
buying.
ELIAS & COHEN.
Au. 25, 1882.
T0E CHARLOTTE WAREHOUSE
FOB THE STORAGE
OF
Cotton, Fertilizers and General
Merchandise,
SPRINGS & BUUWELL, Proprietors.
Having put in good order the building formerly
known as the "Rock Island Factory," we are
now prepared to do a general Storage business.
Thi being the largest and most conveniently
located Warehouse in the City, we can furnish
Storage and Insurance at reasonable prices and
can receive and deliver on short notice.
SPRINGS & BURWELL.
Sept. 22, 1882.
NEW FALL GOODS.
We have just returned from the Northern
markets, and are now ready to show the
BEST STOCK OF GOODS
In this City, embraping everything new in Dress
Goods and Trimmings, such as Cashmeres,
Shoodahs, Satines, Ottomans, French Novelties,
Satins, Silks, Surahs, Moirep, &c, &c.
Our 8tock of Cloaks, Dolmans and Jackets, is
immense.
Balmorals, Shawls,
Neckwear, Ribbons, Passamen tries, Fringes,
Velvets, Velveteens, Plushes, &c.
We have a large and handsome Stock of
Boots and Shoes,
Clothing, Overcoats, Hata, Caps, &c.
We have the best 4-4 Bleached Domestic ever
offered at 10 cents. Ask to see it.
PEA.RL SHIRTS.
Call and examine our Stock before buy ing, and
if we don't sell you it will not be because our
prices are not low enough.
HARGRAVES & WILHELM.
Sept 15, 1882. 8mith Building.
Paint Your House
With Lewis' Strictly Pore White Lead and Lin
seed Oil, one price only, at
Sept. 22, 1882, T ' ggjg.
Cigars.
We are still selling the "Ultimo," the best of
all 5 cent Cigars. After eight years' trial we can
find no better.
WILSON & 'BURWELL.
Cash Paid for Beeswax
At T. C. SMITH'S Drug Store. Want aU we
can get. Right awav.
Sept, 29, 18S2.
- Comparative Cotton StatemeitT
: The following is the cotton statem
for the week ending October 27 : 'Dl
IftfiO
Net receipts at all U. S. ports 240,964
Total receipts to this date, 1,159 750
Exports for the week, 139965
Total exports to this date, 579,279
Stock at all U. S. ports, 520,695
Stock at all interior towns, 68.287
Stock at Liverpool, 448,000
Stock of American afloat for
. Great Britain, . 140,000
188L
538,000
1W.0O0
Total Net Receipts of Cotton
The following are total net receipt!
cotton at all Dorts since Sentmk .
Wilm,ngton, 30,23i!
Halt lmni-o a... I
Norfolk.
140,254 ;
New 1
aw York, 60,006; Boston, 15,630; IW
nee, 110; Philadelphia, 8,218; CitvJi
dence.
Port Royal, 2,622 ; Indianola, 6,865 toui'
1,159,750. '
Cotton Broker's Circular.
This week's circular of the Liveiwi
Cotton Brokers' Association sayg W
UUSineSB ua ueeu iuuuciulo WHQ jre.
Bure to sell. Quotations are further re
duced. American was freely offered itv
some irregularity in quotations, which in
reauceu i-oao-iou. oea isiaaa has beej
in limited demand and rather easier ritei
were accepted. Futures opened flat lnj
with slight, fluctuations, but decline
throughout the week. Quotations
reduced l-4d. for October, ll-64d, for
October and November, and 1-8& fa
other positions.
The World's Visible Supply of Cotton
The total visible supply of cotton for tbe
world is 1,845,418 bales, of which 1,221.
618 is American, against 2,114,060 md
1,678,520 respectively last year. Rj.
ceipts of cotton at all interior towoi
146,064 bales ; , receipts from the
plantations 256,016 ; crop in sight 1,335.
555. '
w - m 1 .
One of the most extensive tree
planters in the world is declared by the
English Land journal to be the Date of
Atbole. Every year, it says, be planti
from 60,000 to 100,000 trees. During the
present season he has covered with trees i
plantation of some 2,000 acres. By the
gale which destroyed the Tay bridge hi!
plantations were denuded of 60,000 treei
One of the Dukes of Athole is still known
as tbe Planter Duke. In the year 1774
bis Dnnkeld hills were almost entirely
bare, and he began to plant on a Urge
scale. Before he died he had planted
27,000,000 trees, which covered 15,000
acres.
-3
MONEY! MONJEYH
We respectfully and earnestly request all who
are owing us either by Note or Account for the
years 1881-82 to come np and settle. It
mortifying to both parties to have to resort tot
dun. Come in and see us.
BAKRINGER fc TROTTER
N. B. Don't forget that we have a splendid
stock of -
Dry Goods,
Clothing, Shoes, Hats, &c, as cheap as the
cheapest.
Oct. 20, 1882. B. & T.
HAVING REMOVED
TO
Corner College and Trade Streets
(l w. pebdue's old stahd,)
and adding to our already large Stock of
CORN, FLOUR, HAY, BRAN, MEAL, ST0CI
FEED.
A FULL LINK OF
Choice Family Groceries,
at bottom prices.
We are ready and will be glad to serve ouroM
friends and the public generally with Goodi if
our line as LOW as the LOWEST, and reaped
fully solicit a share of your pationage,
A. J. BEALL CO.
April 21, 1883.
JAMES P. JOHNSTON,
Charlotte, N. C.
The Daniel Pratt RevolviM
Head Cotton Gin.
THE BEST GIN FEEDER and CONDENSES
on the Market.
Tbe Revolving Heads carry the Rolls and pre
vents the friction of the Cotton running agW
the ends of the Cotton box. Itpreventschokiul
or breaking the Roll. It Gins the seed cleans
than ordinary Gins. It cleans the dirt ont bet
ter and makes a better sample.
The Feeder is the best now made. A twelrt
year old boy can feed it easily and safely. The
Condenser never gets out of order and de
work well.
Read the Certificates and come and exajnin
the Gin, and get prices. Every Gin sold givwC
perfect eatUfaction.
JAMES F. JOHNSTON,
College Street
CERTIFICATES.
CapeFs Mills, Richmond co , N. C-,
July 28, 1882. f
Mr. J. F, Johnston: The Pratt Gin, Feed
and Condenser, bought of you last Ftt, !'!
performed satisfactorily. The Qa Feeder
Condenser has never given us a particle of IK
ble, wprks well in' every particular, spd fljl
given entire satisfaction. Gins faster andctesw
than any Gin I have ever seen without any
ception. Respectfully, Capkl & Pabsosi
Huntersville, N. C, July 24, 1862.
Capt. J. F. Johnston : We are glad to
our testimony to the merits of the ReToltinj
Head Pratt Gin bought of you last Fall. I
taiuly does all that is claimed for it. With
60-saw we can very easily gin . 8 to 10 bale P
day. We therefore recommend it to those 9
want of a first-class Gin. Respectfully,
Hunter & Ras
Crowded Creek, N. C, July 25, 1881
Mr. James F. Johnston : 1 purchased 60-
Pratt Gin, Condenser and Feeder of yoo
Fall which gave me and my customers eptfl
satisfaction. It does not break the roll,
takes more sand and dirt out of storm con
than any Gin that I know of, and gins tbecotf
clean of the sand. I do not think any Gin "
do better work than the Pratt Gin. I ba'e
ginned all day but can safely say that I can w
from 8 to 10 Bales per day. I heard co""
buyer say in speaking of some storm cotton
was on the marker, that if it bad been ginned
my Gin he would have given a cent Per
more than what he did give, and all cotton P00"
on my Gin brought the top of the market, on0'
market where sold. Truly,
Jro. F. Wtt
Gastonia, N. C, July 22, 188S.
The Revolving Head Daniel Pratt Gin, FJJ
and Condenser bought from you last Octonwj
the best I ever saw run cleans seed the best ;v
makes tbe best sample. Tbe Roll never bre'
a 12 year old boy can easily and safely fee"
and it cleans sand and gravel from the cot
better than any I ever saw. Condenser nc
gets out of order and does Its work well.
A. M. Rutkb 4 Co.
Aug. 4, 1882. Sm. .
All kinds of - Patent Medicines
can be found In our Stock. - .-,T t
WILSON a isvnw