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wwMPw jy flip wll1 OLD SERIES : VOLUME XXXII. CHARLOTTE, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1883. New Series VOLUME XIII NUMBER 636 THE Charlotte Home and Democrat, Published ktkby Fhidav by j. P. STRONG, Editor & Proprietor. o Terms Two Dollars for one year. One Dollar for six months. Subscription price, due in advance. o "Entored at the Post Office in Charlotte. N. C., as second class matter," according to the ules of the P. O. Department. ROBERT GIBBON, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE, Fifth and Tmon Stbeets. RESIDENCE, Sixth and College Streets, Charlotte, N. C. March 17, 1882. tf T. 0. SMITH & CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, CHARLOTTE, N. C. May 11, 1883. J. P. Mc Combs, M. D , Offers hi3 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. Office hours from 8 A II. to 5 P. M. July 14, 1882. yr. A. HUHWEI.L. P.D.WALKER. BURWELL & WALKER, Attorneys at Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts, Office adjoining Court House. Jan. 1, 1883. 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. Oas 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 Jan. 1, 1883. J. 8. SPENCER. J. C. SMITH. J. S. SPENCER & CO., Wholesale Grocers AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Trade Street, Charlotte, JST. C. AGENTS FOR RockiDgham Sheetings and Pee Dee Plaids. Special attention given to handling Cotton on Consignment. April 13, 1883. W. H. PARRIOR, Practical Witch-dealer and Jeweler, Charlotte, N. C, Keeps a full stock of handsome Jewelry, and Clocks, Spectacles, etc.. which 1 will sell at a fair prices. Repairing of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, &c. done promptly, and satisfaction assured. Store next to Springs' corner building. July 1, 1883. SPRINGS & BURWELL, Grocers and Provision Dealers, Have always in stock Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syruys, Mackerel, Soaps, Starch, Meat, Lard, Hams, Four, 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. Jan. 1, 1883. PAUL B. BARRINGER, M. D.. Physician and Surgeon, CHARLOTTE, N. C. Office Over Jordan & Co.'s Drug Store. Residence At Gen. Barringer's. t2T" Calls in country attended. Feb. 9, 1883. Cmpd E. M. ANDREWS, Charlotte, N. C. FURNITURE, Coffins and Caskets, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Feb. 9, 1883- yr HARRISON WATTS, Cotton Buyer, Corner Trade and College Sts., up Stairs. CHARLOTTE, N. C. Oct. 14, 1882. Z. B. Vance. W. II. Bailey. VANOE & BAILEY, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS CHARLOTTE, TiC C. Practices in the Supreme Court of United States, bunreme Court or iNoriu Carolina, reueiai Courts, and counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, Gaston, Rowan, and Davidson 830fflcc. two doors east of Independence Square. June 17 ti TAILORING. John Vogel, Practical Tailor, Respectfully informs the citizens of Charlotte and surrounding country, tnai ne is preparea 10 manufacture gentlemen's clothing iu the latest stvle and at short notice. His best exertions will be iriven to render satisfaction to those who pat ronize him. Shop opposite old Charlotte Hotel. January 1,1881. You often want to know what constitutes a car load. Weil. Daste this in your hat and you will have the answer handy. Nominally a car-load is 20,000 pounds. It is also seventy barrels of salt, seventy f lime, ninety of" flour, sixty of whiekj j..O sacks of flour, six cords of wood, . t; an or twenty head of cattle. fifty or sixty head of hogs, ninety to 100 head of theep, 300 feet of solid boards, 17,000 feet of siding, 13,000 feet of floor ing, 40,000 shingles, one-half less of hard lumber, one-fourth less of green, one- tenth less of joist, 340 bushels of wheat, 400 of barley, 400 of corn. 680 of oats. 360 of flax seed, 360 of sweet potatoes, and 1,000 of bran. ' - For Rent or Lease, A valuable Farm in Providence Township, this county, three or four horse farm, in good state of cultivation, well adapted to cotton and grain, especially to small gram. The Land is rich and very productive, adjoins G. C. Morris, Esq., and others, on the Flat Branch and Six Mile Creek. For information enquire of G. C. Morris, Esq., near the place, W. W Grier, Charlotte, or E A. Armneld and B. F. Houston. Monroe. N. C. Mrs M. H. TRAY WICK. Sept. 21, 1883. 3w LAND FOR SALE. I will sell privately between now and Decem ber 1st, a Tract of LAMD known as the Joe Stames place, containing about 156 Acres, lying in Clear Creek Township, adjoining the lands of airs. Albert Wallace, James Mullis, John 11. Mor ris, and others. For particulars aDDlv to S. H. Farrow, Charlotte, N. C. or H. E. McCombs, Hickory, N. C. H. E. MCCOMBS, Adm'r. of R. W. McCombs. Sept. 14,1883.- lm PUBLIC SALE. By virtue of a Decree of the Superior Court in the caee of W. L Houston against S. B. Hous ton and others, I will sell at public auction, at the Court House door in Charlotte, the 8th day of October, 1883, a valuable Tract of LAND con taining One Hundred Acres, more or less, in Crab Orchard Township, near the N. C. Railroad. Said Land is sold for a division among the heirs of the late George W. Houston. Terms Ten per cent cash, balance on a credit of twelve months, with bond and approved se curity. J. M. DAVIS. Sept. 7, 1883. 5w Commissioner. NEW STOCK. Our Stock is now nearly all in, and comprises a comparatively new Stock of Goods. No old goods to show you as we "cleaned out" nearly all our goods in our closing cut sale this sum mer. W e have now a laige Stock of Dress Goods, In all the new shades, and Fabrics and Trim mings in all the new varieties. Our Stock of Velvets and Velveteens, in all colors and prices, is complete, and 'twill pay you to look at them before purchasing. Velvet Ribbons, all Colors and Grades. We have bought a iob lot of Ladies' Gossamers that we offer at $1, good quality. Our Stock will be kept complete, and you will atall times find everything in our store to be found in the Dry Goods line. A full stock of Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Ready-Made Clothing, Trunks, Valises, Seal- bkm (Japs &c. liive us a call. We will sell you as cheap as the cheapest. HAKGRAYES & ALEXANDER, Sept. 21, 1883. Smith Building. FARMERS! Insure your Gin Houses at once and run no risk. Apply to C. N. G. BUTT, At Merchants & Farmers Bank. Sept. 7, 1883. 4w j. c. HARGRAVE. w, L. D. HARGRAVE. C. ALEXANDER. NEW FIRM. We have this dav opened up a new firm undT the name and style of HAKWKAV JtHo & ALiHiJv ANDER It shall be our aim to meet the de mands of everyone. Our Stock this Tall will De larger man ever and will comprise everything kept in the Dry Goods line. We will also carry a large stock of shoes and Readv-Made Clotning Our Boots and Shoes will oe nougnt airect from manufacturers and we will have every ad vantage possible, that buyers can have. We will a3 heretofore carry a very large stock of Dress Goods and Trimmings. In fact you will find everything in our house to be found in the Dry Goods line. We cannot be undersold, and will sell under the motto, "live and let live." Thanking all our friends and customers for past patronage, and hoping a continuance of the same, we arc Yours truly. HARGRAVES & ALEXANDER, Successors to Hargraves & Wilhelm. Aug. 17, 1883. NEW DRUG STORE. I have a full Stock of Pure Fresh Drugs AND MEDICINES. A well selected line of Toilet Articles, Fine Handkerchief and Flavoring Extracts, and evervthinsr usually kept in a first class Retail Drug 8tore. Landreth's Fresh Garden Seeds for sale. I will be glad to see all of my friends. H. M. WILDER, Agent, Cor. Trade and College streets, Feb 17, 1882. ly Charlotte, N. C. FERTILIZERS. On and after this date we will have on hand Etiwan Dissolved Bone AND STONO ACID PHOSPHATE. The experience of some of the best farmers is that these Brands have no superior and lew equals. Other Grades of Fertilizers furnished on short notice. SPRINGS & BURWELL. Aug. 3, 1883. Sure Relief, The great pain destroyer, will cure cramp colic, cholera morbus, dysentery, diarrhoea, headache, backache, pain in the side, rheumatism, sprains, bruises, neuralgia, coughs and colds. Price 35 cents. For sale by T. C. SMITH & CO., June 29, 1883. . Druggists. The Stewart Cathedral and the Stewart Bones. R. J. Burdette, in Cincinnati Enquirer. The Cathedral of the Incarnation. at Garden City, N. Y.,built by A T 8tewart,is completed. It has been five vears in course of erection, and cost $2,000,000. The organ cost $100,000. The Bishop's residence will cost $80,000. and the! stables, already finished, have cost $10,000. Gray shadows fall 'neath the arches dim, Bright lights through stained-glass windows swim, There's a touch of gold in crypt and hall But where are the bones that built it all ? -. . The chimes ring out from the steeple tall, And "Bim, bones, bell," is their rhythmic call; While the five-part organ in chorus moans, In its hundred-thousand-dollar tones, "Here is his organ; but where are his bones?" Ob, foolish man, with heavy gold, : To build a chapel, gray and cold, Costly and gloomy, grim and tall, And lose his own bones after all ! When a tithe of the gold, with its mighty charm, Spent for humanity, living and warm, Instead of these cold, dead, senseless stones, Would have saved the man who stole his bones. How to Stve Boys. Women who have sons to rear, and dread the demoralizing influence ol bad associates ought to understand the nature ot young manhood. It is excessivelv rest less. It is disturbed by vague ambitions, by thirst for action, by longings for ex citement, by irrepressible desires to touch life in manifold ways. If vou. mothers. rear your sons so that their homes are as sociated with the repression of natural in stincts, you will be sure to throw them in the society that in some measure can sup ply the need of their hearts. They will not go to the public houses at first for love of liquor very few people like the taste of liquor; they go for the animated and hilarious companionship they find there, which they discover does so much to repress the disturbing restlessness in their breasts. See to it, then, that their homes compete with public places in at tractiveness. Open your blinds by day and light bright fires at night. Illumi nate your rooms. Hang pictures upon your walls. Put books and newspapers upon your tables. Have music and enter taining games. Banish demons of dull ness and apathy that have so long ruled in your household, and bring in mirth and good cheer. Invent occupations for your sons. Stimulate their ambitions in worthy directions. While you make home their delight, fill them with higher purposes than mere pleasure. Whether they shall pass boyhood and enter upon manhood with refined tastes and noble ambitions depends on you. Believe it possible that, with exertion and right means, a mother may have more control over the destiny of her boys than any other influence what ever. Appleton's journal. Hi A Girlish Family. Of twenty-seven children under 15 years old belonging to the Cook lamily, in this county, twenty- three of them are eirls. Pittsboro Record. Young gents who want to marry a Cook will make a note of this. TO THE TAX-PAYERS OF Mecklenburg County. I will attend at the times and places men tioned below, for the purpose of collecting the State and County Taxes for 1883 : Steel Creek, Monday, Oct. 15, 1883. Berrvhill.Collins' Store Tu sday. 16, Paw Creek, . Wednesday, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25. 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, Long Creek, Lena leys, Davidson College, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Huniersville, Mallard Creek, Crab Orchard, Clear Creek, Morning Star, Providence, Sharon, Pineville, The Taxes for the present year must be raid Dromntlv. and all those who are in amarages for past years must meet me at tht-se appointments and settle it they would save costs. Myself or Deputy will be at the Court Uonte in Charlotte every day ior tne purpose oi re ceiving taxes. 30.. Hi. ilJjHiA.ii.rSUX.lv, DUerill. Sept. 28, 1883. 5w Executors' Notice. TV, a nnlorcio-Tipfl havinir nullified aa Execu tors of the estate of M. B. Wallace, deceased, all persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same for payment on or neiore me isi oi ociuucr, ioo, w tui w tice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery, and 0ii aa iohtpri tr KBid pstatfi are notified to make settlement or their papers will be given out for collection. I. N. WALLACE, M. E. WALLACE, 6w Executors. Sept 28, 1883. Administrators' Notice. We. the undersigned, having been qualified and taken out letters of Administration on the Estate of W. B. Withers, deceased, hereby notify all nersons havinz claims against said Estate to present them on or before the first of October, 1884, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery ; and all persons indebted to said Estate are hereby notified to come forward and make settlements at once. S. STACY. T. W. STACY, Sent. 28. 1883. 6w Administrators. THE TIME HAS COME. On Monday last the Graded School opened, and all the Young Ladies and Misses who have. not got a "GOSSAMER can get one at r. i.. SE1ULE & CU very cneap. Has just returned from the Eastern market and can now show you the best Stock of DRESS GOODS In all grades, and Silk, cheaper than you have ever seen them in this market. This season you will be able to find in our store one of the best selected Stocks to be found in any House in the State. Prices to be Entirely Satisfac tory. Call to see us and be convinced that thes? are Facts. ;,' T. L. SE1GLE & CO. Sept. 21, 1883. s X There has been so much talk' lately of the question whether or not our young women are having, all, the advantages which they can make use of, that one would naturally think the females of our time were favored and cared for beyond all complaint. ' But alas ! . if the wisdom, the modesty, the' gentleness, the womanliness of the lommg woman are to be judged and measured by the character of the present girl then have we fallen upon sad days indeed ! The question has forced itself upon my iuiuu aiu aim oiiam in biieae limes ui : j : r i liberal education, of excellent schools, of M I wide knowledge, and abuudant literature What is done for our girls ? . lbai there is a great lack somewhere, no one can tail to see who notices care fully that large portioL of every com munity the school-girls, who, lrom the age of 12 to that of 16, throng the streets of the city, and the promenades of our summer resorts. Does education, reach them all with its beautiful civilizing touch? There is scarcely a difference, in respect to education (so called) between the pet ted girl of wealthy parents, who attends a "private" educational establishment, and the poorest child, whose name is upon the "roll" ot any of our public schools. All are equally well-taught. To rich and poor alike the pages lie freely open. I have sometimes listened with surprise iu passing through crowded streets, to ward evening, when the young folks were all abroad to the very correct and per fectly turned sentences from the lips of all, even of those who dwelt in the hum blest homes. This is the work of our public schools, ot the grand scheme where by the child of lowest estate is lifted out of all poverty of mind, and is given that most enduring of riches a good educa tion. It is noble 1 It is worthy of our great, free, advancing country 1 But as I watch these girls of our land, everywhere I find one great blank, which the schools, and the books, and the fine plan of edu cation have failed to supply ! Perchance the "higher education" will fill the need. If so, then let us have that higher education without another raoifth's delay 1 For verily for one sweet, modest, quiet girl, whose cheek can blush, and whose eye droop, who shrinks from the public presence and seeks the background shadows, whose voice falls gently, and who does not assert herself we would give all the modern female "students," sixteen-year-old "essayists" classical schol ars, and wondrous "girl-graduatee." We do not find the old-time school-girl. She is not in any group in the park, upon the street, or in the public conveyance. There are no soft-voiced, bashful, timid girls, who leave us at nine in the evening. Ob, no! The modern girls talk loudly, stare boldly ; they are upon the side-walk or the beach, or the hotel piazza, as late as any one they go up and down, arm in arm, with noisy laughter and distinct con versation ; perhaps, even with snatches of song from some operetta. Occasionally, during their promenade, there occurs something comical at which they make no effort to repress the laughter which at tracts so much attention. Shall we never have again our old fashioned, retiring school-girl whom we looked upon with pleasure, thinking of the woman Bhe would grow to? Where does the fault lie? Doubtless wih the mothers in rnOst cases. But we have thought much lately of that "higher lemale education" theory, and wondered if our faithful, earnest teachers might not add this to their list of duties to teach the girls the great value of modesty and of quiet demeanor everywhere; to tell them of the beauty ot soft voices and gentle speech ; to give i hem instruction in that true "wisdom" whose price i above rubies to show thm their proper paths, lying narrowly along the low, unseen valleys, where birds sing upon the thronged highway where older feet must tread. v ould it not be the first great move ment toward that "higher education" of women, if our teachers should give each day side by side with mathematics and Latin, if you please more careful instruc tion regarding the Beauty ol Oirlhood as shown by modesty, by unselfishness, by unostentatious care for others, and es pecially for those who are older, by quiet I 3 II 1 3 ways ana woras in an puoiic places, auu by gentle yielding to those in authority Let the schools make it an important itud Giye k high, grade. Let it be - : M,,;Q nJa tha I watchlul eve ot the teacher. Let our girls be taught to be true girls, with gill hood ennobled and glorified and set apart for pure and special work. Yes, we have come to believe in a higher education ! We see the need of it. Let our girls no longer be deprived of their rights. At 14 they are capable of better and higher things. Let them be ad mitted to the "full course." Let them go as hich as mav be. until they are sur rounded and upheld by that , rare and radiant atmosphere which widens and colors into perfect womanhood. Then may we walk in our streets and public resorts, and be no more annoyed and ashamed as we now are at the bold manner and loud voices of our girls. Jennie Harrison in N. Yl Observer. ? NOTICE. On account of Holidays our respective places of business will be closed from sundown Mon day, Oct. 1st, until sundown Oct 2d. Also, from sundown Oct. 10th until sundown Oct . 11th. Our patrons will please, make note of this. . WITTKOWSKY & BARUCH. ELLAS & COHEN. Sept 28, 1883.. COTTON GIN INSURANCE. $3,000 dollars lost by Fire already this season. Those desiring Insurance against loss by Fire can secure same from E. NYE HUTCHISON, Agt. Corner College and 4th Streets. Bept w, 18B3. , We have recently added to ;our stock a full supply of White Lead and Linseed. una. uau on us f co' ; , , Druggists. uur uiris. A Few scrarjs or North Carolina Histnrv. From the Statesville Landmark. W. W. Ho'den was Provision 1 ft.Wor. nor 0f North Carolina from May 29th. to uecemoer 3 1st, 1865. He" was once elect- ed Governor. Hon. Thos. S. Ashe, now Judge ran against him. . Holden was tm- peached by adoption or-articles in the House oi Representatives, in December, 1870; but the close of his trial in the Senate and his final deposition from office was not until March, 1871. ' Holden was ! succeeded by Lieut. Gov. Tod R. Cald well. Jonathan Worth was Governor from Jannarr 1 lRfifi t.n .Inlu 1 1cq havint? been elected first, nvpr PrA;,' : --w.o.vr.. . i:nvarnn. un ,in , .. f w v. a aiisa uuiuvut a u .November, 1865. and re-elected iu October, 1866, for the ensuing regular term, without serious op position, though Alfred Dockery received most of the adverse votes. . : Hon. Z. B. Vance was Governor when the war closed, his term having begun January I, 1865. This was his second term. The terms then were biennial. He was displaced at the surrender in April, 1865, and imprisoned for some time by the Federal authorities, and the gov ernorship thus vacated. W. W. Holden was appointed Provis ional Governor, by proclamation of Presi dent Johnston, May 29th, 1865. Under this provisional government during thai year, North Carolina was required to agree, and did agree, to the repudiation ot her war debt, the repeal ol her seces sion ordinance, and the emancipation ol her slaves these two latter measures be ing submitted to the popular vote and carried at an election held November 9, 1865. The people voted, as it were under duress, on these questions, and the vote was small on them, everybody feeling that it was a farce to ask them to vote on what was alrendy practically settled. On that same November 9th, 1865, an election was held for General Assembly, for Congressmen and for Governor. W. W. Holden and Jonathan Worth were candidates for Governor. Worth was elected by a large majority, greatly to the displeasure of President Johnston, who naturally wished the Provisional Governor endorsed by the people. But both Johnston and Holden bowed to the popular will in this matter; and on the 26th of December, 1865, Gov. Holden is sued his proclamation that the provision al government was at an end ; and on De cember 30, 1865, Governor-elect Worth issued an address to the people of the otate, announcing tne situation and giv ing good counsel ; and on January 1st, 1866, he was sworn in and qualified as regular Governor for the unexpired term, (originally Vance's terra) ending January 1st, 1867. Worth convened the General Assembly elect, and it met January 18, 1866. It chose United States Senators, but neith er they nor the Congressmen elected in November, 1865, were admitted to their seats. That Legislature called a conven tion. The convention met and framed and submitted to the people a constitu tion, not differing very essentially from our old one as amended. The people voted it down, preferring the old one. VVithout going too much into detail, suffice to say that bylaw an election was held in October, 1866, to choose a Legis lature and a Governor for the biennial .regular term next ensuing. Governor Worth was re-elected without serious op position ; about 10,000 votes were cast for Alfred Dockery, who was not a regu lar caudidale, and 117 scattering. Worth was duly inaugurated and began his regular biennial term, January 1, 1867. The reconstruction acts were pasxed by Coiigrt-sn soon after. Under them and by order of Gen. Canby, an election lor mem bers of a constitutional convention wa held in the autumn of 1867. It met and framed the Canby constitution, so-called, which was submitted to the people at an election held on April 21, 22, 23, 1868. This election was held under military su pervision, as also was that for the conven tion in 1867, the negroes being allowed to vote and large classes of while men di tranchised. The constitution was thus ratified, and a Legislature and Congress men at the name time elected. There was also an election then for Governor. W. W. Holden and Thomas S. A-he were the candidates. All the returns were sent to and counted by Gen. Canby, Military Governor at Charleston, S. ' C. Holden was declared elected by about 20,000 ma jority. Congress having approved the consti tution by act passed June 25, 1868, our Congressmen were at once admitted. On July 1st, 1868, Gov. Worth was removed by Canby s order, under protest, and liol- . mi T - X I den put in. The Legislature met July 4th, 1868, and Holden and the entire re construction government was thus inau gurated and put in operation In December, 1870, the House of Repre- ntatives of North Carolina adopted arti sentativ cles of impeachment against Gov. Holden for suspending the writ of habeas corpus and other offenses. The (rial in the Sen ate lasted until about the middle of Mareh, 1871, when he was convicted, de Dosed from office, and disqualified from holding office under this State. Tod R. Caldwell, Lieutenant Governor, succeeded him as Governor for the unex pired term the terms being quadrennial. In 1872 Caldwell was elected Governor for a full term of four years, defeating Augustus S. Merrimon; but he dying in r tt T T : . . the unexpired term, lhen in 1876 we elected Vance; and he being chosen Unit ed States Senator, Lieut. Governer Jarvis succeeded him as Governor. Then in 1880, we elected Jarvis for a full term, which is not yet out. Such is history ,and so they go and come, and live and die. The Raleigh Observer of the 28th, pub lishes the following, making some correc tions in the above statement. 'In an article headed A few Scraps iTTiatnrv ' whifth contains a erreat deal ol "---- -- - j j 3 tvafinrl it eta tosi that CXrw Worlh. wha wa8 elected Governor in 1865. 1 toot lhe oala of ofgce Jannary 1, .1866. Our information is a little different, and as Jit is well to be accurate when accuracy i nnmnhio w i stand them as follows: "w V Holden was Provisional Govern- nor from Mav 29 1865 to December 29, " ruereu,uy prociamauou uaieu tbe 8th day of August, 1865, an election f?r ?elegaes to a convention to be held oc 2m of beptember, 1865. This conven- uuu met wcioDer za, iioa. mis conven tion ordered an election for Governor and a General Assembly to be held on the 2d Thursday in November, 1865. The Gen eral Assembly met on the 4th Mondav in November, 1855. "Jonathan Worth, Governor-elect, took the oaths of office before the two . Houses of the General Assembly, December 15, 1865. They were administered by Daniel G. Fowle, one of the judges of the Su perior Court, and the Governor "then de livered an appropriate address." See page 133, Journals ' of 1865-66. Upon noti fication by telegram from the President of the United States of the discontinuance of the provisional government Governor Worth assumed the duties of Governor December 28, 1865." Importance of Roads. We are not aware that any estimate has ever been made of the actual cost of the public roads iu the United States, or. the I expense ot providing them has ever been attempted by any bureau of etatistics,but we make the rough estimate that they have cost at least seven hundred million dollars probably much more while unknown millious are annually expended in attempt ing to keep i hem iu repair. It the money were only well applied, it would be an ex penditure of great profit and economy, as everything which the farmer does off his own land is greatly affected by their con dition. All bis many loads of surplus farm products are drawn over them, and it makes some difference to him and to his bori-es whether those loads are con veyed easily over hard, smooth surfaces, or dragged through mud and against stones with severe labor to the team, fatigue to the driver, and wear and break age to the wagon. Every week he and his family, more or less, go to the village for numberless errands, or to church on the Sabbath, and the good or bad condi tion of the roads seems to affect every fiber, pleasantly or unpleasantly, of their feeling of nervous sensations. On an average, there is at least twenty miles of traveling each week ior the members of a single family. It would make a difference of five dollars a week, everything counted, whether this teaming and traveling, is doue over a nice, comfortable road, or through mud holes, -sloughs, ruts, and un bridged streams, or agaiost stones. Five dollars a week amounts to $250 a year, a snug little sum to tax the farmer with; and when this sum .is .multiplied by at least five million owners or drivers of horses, carriages, wagons, heavy teams, etc., the aggregate cost would be some-, thing over a billion dollars? Does any one say this is too large an estimate? Then proceed in detail and show in what particulars; but do not blindly and ignor autly say it is wrong without careful ex amination. Suppose, however, we admit that it is double the reality, is not the six hundred millions every year, expended directly or indirectly by our people, worthy ot more attention on the part of patriots, statesmen, politicians, office eeekers, public spirited men, writers for newspapers, agricultural journalists, 'and in fact of every one who passes over a road? So l-ng as our public highways in most parts of the country are made and repair ed with so little interest and so little thought, we mu-t suffer an enormous loss. We would like to ak how many ot our readers, who drive or ride over the com mon road, never see a loose stone, or a fixed Ktone, to strike, jolt and batter every pasning wheel, or who does not see hun dreds of them . which might be removed wi'h the exp- nditure of a small portion of the road tax? How many never saw sods I and muck scraped into the road bed, to lorm a highway or "turnpike," which would be excellent for corn and potatoes, but which when worked into a mass of mud or cut into ruts a foot deep, constitute a si range object to be called a "road?" How many never saw along the roadsides, tbritty patches of thistles, burdocks, mul leins, John's wort, nettles, etc., etc., ready to seed all the neighbors' fields? Until we can find such happy persons in the ma- lority, we hope more attention may be given to correcting .these evils, al though we would not lessen the praiseworthy attention . which is now freely accorded to enterprises and interests of almost infinitely less importance, but good in their small way. Country Gen tleman. ..... 22f A writer in the Popular Science Monthlv nrononnda the theorv that a j change of climate is taking place iu this - 1 country from- electrical" disturbances. country He believes that "radical changes are taking place in our 'atmosphere and climate; that the construction of great railroad belts across the continent and the erection of a vast net-work of telegraph and telephone wires exert an influence upon the atmosphere by disturbing the equilibrium of electric forces." VW The State of North Carolina has made a splendid show at Boston. The New York Herald says of it: "The most conspicuous in the great hall, is sim ply immense in its comprehensiveness and shows a wholesouled enterprise on the part of the enterprising citizens and pub lic officials of that otate which , cannot fail to give a most favorable impression to all who view it of the variety, extent and excellence of the resources of that State." - ini E37" In 1866 the best railroad time ' be tween New York and New Orleans . was 1 five days, and a passenger had to make -1 3 r .i i of nine changes,and many of them long rides lrom aepot to aepoc in l bow tne time was reduced to four days; in, 1873 to three and a half days, and in 1878 to three days and only one change.' - Now the time has been reduced to fifty-eight hours.' ' :'-': ' K --: "Charlotte of Mecklenburg." i BY KEMP r. BATTLE. LL. D.. PRES. OF UNI- TERSITT OF HORTH CAROLINA. A scrap of history from an address he fore me jxormai iichool at Chapel JJUlt .JY. C.t on July 21, 1883. t m. Admiral GeorJ Lord An rod. with all the pomp and 8pienior which the British Navy could supply, was bringing from Germany a blooming bride to the young King, George IIL Her name was Charlotte. She was a princess of Meck lenburg Strelitz. These names are great in history. : Few men stand oat in English history more distinguished for romantio daring as a navigator, for the strong sturdy , quali ties of English sailors, descendants of the old Northmen who issued from their fro zen fastnesses in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, like an irresistible torrent, , to conquer the nations, than George Lord Anson. He led a squadron around Cape Horn in the perils of winter, and after many vicissitudes ' circumnavigated the globe. He was the pioneer of the great victories of the English Navy. He was the teacher of Nelson. He it was who first announced and acted on the daring order which has led to so many victories over overwhelming odds, by English over French and Spaniards, and in the War of 1812, by Americans over English, "close with the euemy gun to gun. hand to hand, cutlass to cutlass, no matter what odds against you." In early life he purchased lands on the waters ot .the Pee Dee, but his dreams of forest happiness were bro ken by the alarum of war.. In 1749, when at the zenith of his popularity his name was given to the vast couutry which extended lrom the limits ol Bladen to the far waters of the mighty Mississippi. George the III began to reign- in 1760, for a few short years one of the most popu lar kings who ever sat on a throne, both at home and in the colonies, though in course of time his obstinaoy . alienated many of his subjects, and lost him the American possessions. When his bride, the homely but sensi ble and pious Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz, came from the north of Germany to England, she was the favorite of the day. It was the fashion to admire every thing German, from the stern Frederick, tben striking some of the most terrific blows of the Seven Year's . War to the blooming maiden, whether princess or . "gansemadchen" orgooee-girl. The bride was received in London with enthusiastic ovations.. Her manners', conversation and dress were heralded as if she were a god dess. Perhaps my lady auditors . would like some details. Her manners were Eronounced by no less a judge than torace Walpole as "decidedly genteel." Her dress was of white satin, brocaded with gold, distended with enormous hoops. She had a stomacher of diamonds. On her head was a cap of finest lace, stiffened so as to resemble a butterfly, fastened to the front of the head by jewels. I will quote to you one of her speeches. When she arrived in sight of St. James' Palace, where she was to meet the groom, the bride turned pale. The Dutchess of Hamilton rallied her. The princess re plied, "Yes, my dear dutcheBs, you may laugh ; you are not going to be married, but it is no joke to me !" It was a tre mendously exciting- time; Horace Wal pole writes, "Royal marriages, corona lions and victories came tumbling over one another from distant parts of the globe, like the work of a lady romance writer. I don't know where I am. I had scarce found vieoklenburg Strelitz with a magnifying glass on the map before I was whisked to Pondicherry. Then thunder go the tower guns; behold Broglie and Soubrire are totally defeated by Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick at the battle of Miuden." The joy of this period and the satisfaction over this marriage ex tended to the wilds of North Carolina, and the good queen's names, Charlotte of Mecklenburg were affixed, as soon as the news came, to a newly created county and town. She was a woman of noble character. . She was a model of domestic virtues, and the court through her in fluence was pure in the midst of a cor rupt society. And when our ancestors, in the angry passions of war in 1779, ex punged from the map the hated names of Tryon and Bute, and when the inhabitants of this section were the fiercest fighters I against her husband, their s I as hornet stings, they allowe words sharp allowed the names I of the good queen to remain as a perpetual tribute to all womanly virtues. Note the coincidence, that just as Ad miral Anson introduced Charlotte of Mecklenburg into England, as its Queen, so in . the distant North Carolina the county of Anson in North Carolina politi cal history, went before and was usher to the county of Mecklenburg. . It should be a warning lesson to all rulers that only thirteen years after this ebullition of loyal affection, the , most de- J fiant resolves and the most spirited action I against England's King came from those enlightened men, whose county and town bore the name of England's Queen. The chords of sentimental devotion snapped when strained by hard and real assaults on inherited liberties.- With many a sigh over the sweet past, now turned into bit terness, , our ancestors addressed . , them selves to the stern task before them. tdT The Scientific American points out that the chemical changes by which paste is transformed into dough and dough into bread are not completed when the bread has been baked. ."They continue have entirely ceased the material has not become what it onght to be -bread easy of digestion. It is a burden to any stom ach, to a weak one it is simply ; poison." The advice given is to avoid the eating of hot bread or any of its substitutes,' such as hot biscuit, muffins, rolls, waffles, buck wheat cakes, etc "Hot breaif in ; any form whatever," 5 saya this authority, "should never be eaten. Some forms are very much worse than others, but all are bad, and should ' in reason be . banished from every table." i ; -, - - i t3J In no country in the world is the I "drumming" business carried on so exten sively as in the United States. There are two hundred thousand commercial travel lers in this country with salaries ranging from 1500, to $10,000 year. ;
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Oct. 5, 1883, edition 1
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