I ' i .. ' 1 '- " . . . . . ... . . - . 1 '' " t ! - ' ' y ' - ' - .. t - . )' THE STRONGEST BULWARK OF OUR COUNTRY THE : POPULAR HEART. CARPENTER k GRAYSCK, Editors. TOIL,. II NO. 8. V vUV-.i1 -'.i' clendenin & carpenter, polishers; ' rr ... r. , i . w" -1. . . ' ' ' - : '. : ; 1 1 , : . , tl ' $ 1ST 11 rutherfordton, n. c. ; ' Terms of Suescriptiox. I Copy. 1 Year m JLdvaocc, 1 ij months,; f u, $2.00 l.oo t2T Any person s'tfdng us & Club of five with the Cash at above rates for one Year, will Ipe eiitiiled to an extra copy. V Rates of f!A.DVEiiTisTNO -: SPA CIO lw; Irro. 3mo. Cmo. 12mo. 1 inch . 1.00 2.50 ;.0Q5?.00 16.00 j '2 " 2. CO 5.00 2.00-18.r0 30.00 4 8 4.00 10.00 20.00 30.00 45.00 8.00 20.00 35.00 45.00 70.00 I column 15 CO. 4-0.00 C0.00 80.00 125 00, 5?" fpociaMioliclos cliar:od 50- per cent Uglier. Lcal notices 1.5 vents a. Hue. . . ES" Agents procuiring ndvertiserncnts will It allowed a ctmirrtiswon of 25 per, cent. rltOTESlQNAL CAJWS. . DU.J. Li RUCKER, ! rHYSICIAX AND SU1IGEON, ' Gr-'iteful tor the liliieral pilroiiare' liereto foro reteived, ' huptVby ' pii.n)pt,lte!;lioii,:to nil culK-to mciit a coulmuauoje of tLe same. I tf I.. F. - CHl-hcil'lIX, ;.: I G. il. ' WIIITKSIDK, ' CHURCHILL k AVIjITESIDK, V 1 : ATTO'RNKfS AT LAW, r ' 1 'l' lit;iIKUF()HDTo.Vtv-K.:-:CJ' - Will practice (iii iill the Courts ot VesteriV prth Cwrojiua, in thj Suprcnie Courts of. the tiite and in ilie District.. Uitcuk and Supreme -Courts of the Uit d ?!rttC5. Itf - M. IL iHJSTlCE, jVTTOUXllY AT.LAVV. '.I?ea-iiK.i:ro'Ri)To.v.- N. C. Clanrrvcoilecied in all parts of the State. ltl WUCKRSON, ' A TTO R X K Y AT LAW, j K tp'HKKFOKWTON, jS. C.; Collections liiailc iii any purl ct the State if possible. X. Vf. LOCKS, ' J. M. 'JUSTICE. 1 LOGAN k JUSTICE, J ' ATTOuX KVS aT LAW, ' I ''',' ; , V IUTJlKI:KUIU)'iOX, X. . C. I .Will Rive picauyt i ntent c n to all Uusinss entrusted to tin ir cure; ;y . Pa rt icul a r )t t tVi it ioki'K-Vi ? f'O to collections iin itiiir SupfPioT and ...u.fiic'ert'.. Courts. . itfj J. P. C-AUl 'ENTER, i 1 ATTORN KY AT LAW, ? . ItlDTIlEHKOR!)TOK, N'. CJ Collections promptly attended to. . lit; 1LUL110AD DIRECTORY. 13C AV 1 1. ?51 N fTO C II A I ItlTKi:iIOlil 1 AiMtOAD. EASTEIiN' DIVISION GorsagwEsr. 'i ' STATIONS. , is. P. S'SKNUKH ; KKKIGIIT. "i.tave Wilminston, L iS 00 'A 6.00 A. M 10.00 " Anive Lilesville, 4.43 -1 . ' GOING EAS1 ' STATIONS. . Leave Lilesvillfv ;"y f Arme Wilifiwiutots.- PASSENGER A0 A. M. ;4.3o P. M. it.kightJ 12.0.) M '5.00 P M "WESTEUSi DIVISION., f STATIONS. I Lea ve Charlotte, i Arriv at Bvfialo, passenger; 8 00 A M 1150 ' EETll P.KIXG. T;eave DuLndo. f Arrive Charlotte, ; V. Q. JOUNSOX. y ,.; Assistant Supf 1.30 P H . '5.30 " : . FliKMONT, Gen. Supt, WESTERN .3. L'AKOLINA. KAIL Tappcnj'er Trains bu this Ticad run as Fol io ws: GOIXO WEST. Lcare Salisbury at 1 Arrive at Marion, Arrive at Old Fort 5.00 a. m. 12.48 p. in. 1.32 k; -' v Goixa EA&T. Leave Hhl Fort, Leave Wnrion at Arrive at .lisbury. T.;i5 a.m. 8.04 " 3.32 p m. KICIIMOND Al) DANVILLE ISAIL, y " (ROAD COMPANY. NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION I GOING NORTH. I STATIONS. f Leave CLariotte. I Arrive Greensboro, I Leave Green shoro, ' Arrive Gx)ldsboro MAIL. 7.10 p. m. 12.5(V a. m. 1.45 " EXPRESS. 6.25 a.m. t0.10 " 11.10 11:05 a. rn, GOING SOUTH. V I ' -bTATIOXS. ,y V -1 AlAIU j Leave Goldsboro', ' t 4.00 p. ra. ? Arrive Greensboro, j. 1-30 a. m. express. 3.30 p m 4.00 ' 8.30 .4 Leave Greensbdro, I 2.15 t Arrive Charlotte, .7.S0 I All passenger1 trains connect at Greensboro 'with trains lo and from Richmond. y . Puliman Palace Cairs cn all niht. trains. bft- tweeV Charlotte i, Richmond, .. (without ; change.) . S. E. ALLKN. l(GeuT Ticket Agent. W;n. GREEN. aster of Transpcrtation,. I THE AIIl-EI'N'E ItAILUOAD. IS Out Passenger ari(l 'Freight, tlir times a Week, Mondays, Wrednesdayg and Friday. , COIXG WEST. j fleave Charlotte, ' f 1.30 a. m. ' fArnve Black's, ! 11.2G f In Passenger and Freight, Mondays, Wed- iiesdays and endays. . . -. I . '. GOIXG EAST. .xave J3 lack's, ' ; 2.0(1 p. m Arrive Charlotte, : 5.5S B. Y. SAGEL Tncineer and Superintendent Twin siu. Creeping slowly o'er the mountains, Came the sombre twilight hour, Shadows draped the crystal fountains Moonbeamskissed the dewy flower. ...i'. : f J.': . . : . . . ' . ( - - Darkness hid the wreath of roses, Mom.had twined in joyous glee,; And the songsters of the twilight Sang the vesper melody. ' j Soft and silvery fell tie moonlight, I From the azure arch above, ' (Floating richly in its beauty, Like a fairy dream of love.. i .Bright and dazzling in their splendor, I Burned tho starry gems" on high," While the night winds murmur softly "Where the weeping winds do sigh. (And on love's sweet tender,, bosom, j Sinks the w eary careless child, While rest so gentle and so soothing, l By low music is bejmiled. f ' '. .. i . . jAnd angels from the stany heavens, Come to guard th e1 sleeping world, Shield it fromldark: haunting evil, "While nightls banner, is unfurled. A STEANGE STORY. IfiOW A DEAD MAN'S CHAIN WAS TKAXSFEKRED T0 A QUICIt r. -, A correspondent of the New 'ork World, writing from Paris, sjives'thor following: strange and hardly credible account of the rc-J cent transfusion of a dead man's brain into a living subject. The facts are reported by the World jcor respondent as. recorded in the G azette Ilebdoma dai rc, taken Troni ViyrhoV''s Archives, a riicdi jcnl journal published a .Berlin : j It was at Leipzig that the ex jjerinient was perfonaetl. A sol dier who had killed the cti Jon el (-liio -tet2f.i tv m ilia' aaJA iiu whom . the severity of Prussian military discipline would have caused to die a hundred deaths, Iliad it been possible, was deliber- Atelv handed over to the surgeons. by sentence of eotirt-martial, and ;was confined m a strong room in thp niijitary hospital, entirely in the dark as to tiie lixte which a waited him. rondv fni fin lie was kept there .cmcrjencv, wnieii did not fail to occur. A- keeper of a beer cellar in Leipzig, a man ircsemblmg in many respects the Icondemned soldier, and who had been seized with acute inflama tion of the hearr, or rather of its 'investing membrane, was brought 'to the hospital to die of that in curable, and promptly fatal, mala dy. No sooner had the anticipa ted death taken place than the dead saloon-keeper was placed on the table by the side of another operating table, on which was the chloroformed but living body of the soldier. Two surgeons, with assistants, proceeded alike in both cases to divide the scalp over the summit of the skull from car to ear, turij back the divisions and remove the skull-cap by in cisions passing around the skull like a crown.' In the' soldier, whose" carotid arteries had been' prepared for compression, these vessels were clamped so as to pre-; vent hemorrhage, and but a lew drops of blootl were lost during the entire operation. In each the dura mater was incised, and the hemspheres of the brain were re moved bv an incision --with a' sharp, thin bladed knife passing abou t the cerebellum, or a nar row portion of about two inches in a diameter called the crura cerebri. The brain of the saloon keeper, which' was sound, the heart disease having left it intact, lie havins: been sensible to the last, was transferred to the skull of the spldier, and by an ingenious contrivance, the continuity of the "arterial and venous tubes wasies tablished. The greatest Scare was taken m securing the natural a daptation of thp parts to a frac tion of a Hue; and the skull hay in g been replaced simply, was held down .111. position!. byAtie scalp, which was drawn over, and its edges, confined by strips of ad hesive plaster, and . over all was placed a bandage. ;, It was not until several days had passed that the pressure upon the carotid arteries was entirely relaxed, al- thougn Deiore tne skull - was re placed the flow pf blood in tKe vessels of the brain was proved to be restored. - ; The chief fear was from the results bf inflammation and suppuration, but1 fortunately neither erlsued, and the wounded parts healed kindly. There was from the first no difficulty in feed ing the patient, nor was difficulty anticipated, for it is well known that in puppiesy ana1 y kittens in which the entire brain has been removed sucking and swallowing go on as well as before the opera tion, aud in this case the nerves which preside over deglutition and digestion -were far below the point of section. The patient re mained in a sound sleep for two weeks, as in a case of apoplexy, the circulation, digestion and all the vegetative functions of life be ;ng n ninterrupted. The gradual union of the parts was shoy n by faint but gradually increasing movements of the limbs, of the jaws ai.d of the muscles of expres sion in the face. Speech, did not become possible until the close of th e third week, and , then it was h esi ta t i 11 g, sta m rn e r i n g, a s a ch i 1 d learns. Although it was evident that the patient tried to utter words and sentences it was very gradually that the power of in telligible articulation returned. The Gazette contains the re port in a tabular form of ihe in creasing voluntary power over the arms and hands, as measured from day to dav by the dvnanioihe ter, the. measurements srivon in y" kilogramnies ; also the daily tem perature of the limbs, as hown b'v the thermometer in decrees of centigrade ; also the measure of re lb niiilLr feonsibiltv of the li ers anJ hps, as given by ran instru ment called an cesthesio!nitcr; biit I oii'.it besc, as your readers will be interested in tho main facts only. J When speech became ictclligi ble it was found that tho soldier, as he seemed, had forgotten en tirely his military training and discipline; 011 the other hand he told, at a formal exarai nation, in the presence of a number of wit nesses, the price of all the wines and beers, such as the saloon-, keeper had been in the habit of huvinsr and selling, manifesting the unimpair.edjcerebral activity of the latter. His tnemory recalled the saloon-keeper's relatives, friends and customers, .whom he called bv name. The soldier had been ugh', tacturn revengeful ; he now had the saloon-keeper's f rankness and even garrulity,- in spite of his stammering utterance, lie was totally blind. .Although the nerves of smell and sight had been approximated in the approx- imatetl in the operation, thev iaiieu to unue. it was both sad and strange to see and hear the soldier grooping in his. infirmity of blindness and giving proof of all the patient endurance and j goodness of heart which had made the saloon-keeper deservedly es teemed and prosperous. ; These are the mam iacts in the case as far as dekiiled in the Archive, bUT the subject of experiment pre sents so many important problems ot the relation between blood and brain, of bea rt-po w e r an d nervous-energy, that we may be well assured'to no facts of interest' in the changed condition of the cul prit will be permitted to escape notice and record. , A grave point of discussion is whether he must still be considered, a criminal and suffer execution as a guilty soldier, or shall be pensioned and liberal ly cared for in his infirmity as a guiltless and much suffering beer seller. Public sentiment is divid ed. : Emperor William " says : u Ya,"v peremptorily. . The Em peror W i 1 1 iam'6 j u dge; t h erefore, all say 44 Ya wolil.": The Empe ror W ill iam's professors of meta physics in the Emperor's univer sities say it isy clearly a case of ego and non-ego, and-the people seem willing that the matter should" rest "there 'as farvas the metaphysical aspects of.the ques tion axe concern cel. s For my part I merely give the iacia or mc case ana tne- prooi on wnicn)tney rest. . A Ulorraou Wman? Story of Us Oix'ruiion How tlio Iolv gamous Jutent jFirst Shows Itself Anions- tiu irwm' -o. -4- Mrs. Stenhouse, jn.her lecture on "Life in Utah," says : She was proud to say that thp. mpVmonrSworrrerjrtiii3 not willingly accept polygamy. ; They were be trayed into obeying a revelation which was said to come from God, which made it necessary to their salvation and exaltation in heaven that they should give to their husbands other wives, even though that act of obedience should cni ciiy themselves ; and they were betrayed y that abnegation which women have! always shown in a. religious cause. The more alluring doctrine of a kinship of spirit, the assertion that all wo men must have husbands in order to be saved, and that true mar riage was not for the time only but for all eternity was taught. The first symptoms ot polyga my that is perceivable by the'first wite lsjgeneraly a little quiet sigh ing 011 the part or He becomes very mind is evidently the husband. serious. His occupied. He exhibits more than usual zeal for the'faith. He goes regularly to church. He becomes concerned about his future kingdom. "Coam ing events, cast their shadows be- fore.". he is e'er If in rood circumstances, rtain to bring home some present, and tell his "sweet little wife" how much! he loves her, that "she fills his heart," and that "he is so happy 111 her affection." When a wife in "Ltah hears this kind of language, she may be ce rtain";t n ere is auuuxer- n?vum tion awaiting heiv yy'" The affectionate husband be comes very reflecting and observ ing. His brotnerjif ones has three wives, brother Smith- two, and brother Robinson, who has not been half so long in the church as he has, has even four wTives, while. he, poor man, has only one. He then begins! very gently, "This will never do, nrydear; we are not living jour religion. I am sometimes afraid the anffer of the Lord will be kindled against us.' He makes His wife feel it is as much her duty as his. He asks his wife which of all the young girls of her acquaintance would make a good wife a plea sant companion for her -one who would respect her.! He mentions a half dozen, one jof whom he has determined upon,' and that one isr selected. The wife, of course, is deceived ; she feels that opposition is useless. Soon the hiishand has meetings to attend, business engagements after business hours: He is seen walking or riding with a young girl, and the wife hnds it is no thing new, and then she feels that she has been deceived, and her idohis broken. If a man has twenty wives he makes the last one believe that -she is the first ar.d only true loAei There is a- class jof women in Utah professed ly devoted to poly gamy, as they are to faith in Christ, who act as j drill-sergeants to the other women. These lead Mormon polygamic society and get up .memorials! to Congress, ect. ' They form what iscalled the female relief society, and to wo men whro object to marrying they say, "Would it not be better for voutobeone of the officers of a fineJ ship 01 war than to, be tne captain of a small fishing smack?" mean ing it is better to be one of the wives of a great man than the only wife of an obscuretman. t A broken-hearted wife went to Miss Eliza B. Snow one ot tho wives of B righam " Young and told her -'the; misery of her life. "I cannot endure, it," exclaimed th e ti n happy woman . 1 "B a t you must endure it," replied her com forterJ : tlt will kill me 1 know it will !" she uttered in despair. Then you will wear .a .martyr s crown, -sister " rerjlied: this soul- less woman. -I In Utah it is do common thing to find a wife's own sister or sis ters brought home as wives; aud some mothers have been obliged to give Mheir own daughters to be the wives i to their husbands. B righam Young once admitted to Hepworth Dixon that he saw no objection to brothers and sis ters marrying: . .' Carolina ! Carot ua I -W"o should look, more closely into our own resources to learn what a State we have. There is hone like it in climate, in soilih variety ot -production, in diversity of niinefal wealth, m unrivalled water power, and with' .an ex tended system of internal improve ments, in commercial position. The census ofl840, the first ac curate statictical information furn ished to the- people of the coun try, showed that North Carolina, furnished to a greater or less ex tent, something of the products of every one of the other States of th e Un i on ; and was 4he only one that could make such exhibit. Nor were these productions mere samples or specimens, but with the exceptions' of the sugars of Louisiana, staples, all raised on a large scale. There was the sugar of Louisiana, land the maple sugar of Vermont, the rice of South Carolina and the barlev of New York, the indigo of Georgia, and the buckwheat of Pennsylvania; there was wheat, and oats, and rye, and' corn, all produced in large quantity, while all the great southern staples cotton, and to bacco, and rice were raised ex tensively. Y " ; ' Since 1840, there have been some changes owing to the libera- longer an important item. But cotton has increased from 40,000 to 200,000 bales, Tobacco from 11,000,000 to 43,000,000 lbs. - Oth er' items are coming into conse quence. The culture of the vine promises to make North Carolina a rival of California, while in oth er fruits, she will always be with out a superior. ' ' The tide of immigration will be turned this Wy at no distant day, and then will the superior advan tages of our State be seen, a ild ap preciated, ill the meantime our own people will Joarn to stay at home, and appreciate what is so attractive to t lie foreigner " CaroHna! Carolina! heaven's bless ings attend her, While nve live we will cherish, pro tect and defend her." , Totliins: Great but God. When Massillon pronounced one of those discourses which have placed him in the first class of orators, he found himself sur rounded by the trapping's and pageants- of a royal fuuerair The temple was not only hung with sable, but shadowed with dark ness, save . the "few twinkling lights on the alter. ' The beauty and the chivalry, of the lanii were spread out before him. The cen sers, threw forth fumes of iiifcense mounting in wreaths to thbgtid ed dome. There - sat Majesty, clothed in sack-cloth an sunk in grief. All felt in .common, and as one. It was a ureathless ; sus pense: NotXseeond stolel upon the awful stillness. The; .piaster of mighty eloquence arose. His hands were folded on hi3 breast. His eyes lifted to heaven. Utte r ance seemed denied him. lie stood abstracted and lost. At length, his fixed look unbent ; it hurried over the scenejj where every pomp was mingled - and evry trophy! strewn. It found no resting placebr itself amidst all that idle parade and all that mocking ivanity. Again it set tled ; it had fastened upon Jhe bier, glittering with escutcheons and vieled with plumes. A sense of the indescribable nothingness of man, 'at his" best stateI c7f th e meanness of the highest human grandeur ; now made ' plain in 6Dectalec ot that hearsed mortal overcame nim. His eyes once more closed ; his action was sus pendefl ; and, in a scarcely audU : ble whisper, he broke the long- ? drawn pause, uThere is nothing; great but God. ' Sprmoixs by JJr. , Hamilton. Quarrels. One of the most easy, the most 2 common, most, perfectly foolish tin ngs;in,xn e w ui ia, rel , no matter with whom; hfiani woman or child : ofi upon what pretence provocation, or occasion whatsoever. There is no kind of necessity for it, ho manner ot use in it and yet strange as the fact may be, theologians! quarrel, arid politicians, lawyers,! doctors- and princes quarrel, thejChurch quar rels, and the. State quarrels ; na tions and - tribes, and corpora tions, men, women, and children, dogs and cats, biroV arid beasts, quarrel about all mariner of things, and on all manner jof occasions. If there i3 any thiugiu the world that will make , a man feel I bad, except pinching his fingers in the crack of he door, it is unques tionably a quarrel., No man ever fails to think less of himself after than he did before one ; it degrad eshimin his own eye3, and m the eyes of others, and what is worse, blunts his sensibility to disgrace on the one hand, and in creases to powerjof passionate ir ritability on the other. The truth is the , more quietljy and peaceably we get on -the better, the better for ourselves, the bet ter for our neighbors. In nine Climes cut of ten, the (wisest course is, if a man cheats you, to quit dealing with him ; if he is abusive quit his company ; if he slanders you, take care to live so that no ter wlrTXhe is, or hqw lie misuses you the wisest way; is generally just to let him alone, for there is nothing better than this cool, calm, quiet way of , dealing with the wrOngs we 1 meet with. . Croaking is not confined to the South', nor is farming without its drawbacks even in the great fer tile West. Here is what an Illi? noisiau Jeremiah has to say in the Country Gentleman .of the condition and prospects of the agriculturists of the; "Garden of the World .1" "It would not hurt him, a would be immigrant to stay two years and lea rn how the Illinois farmer grows V corn and oats at 20 cents a bushel, cattle at 2h and hog3 at 3 cents a pound,'" is taxed, ten per cent. on. the assessed value of 1 his property, pays 5 cents, a mile when he takes the train, hauk water two miles when it is dry,get3 sloughed in his own door-yard- when it is wet harvests -with the mercury at 110 in the shade, and feeds hifattlo with the thermometerat 34a be- , low zero." Now, thougfiwc sus pect this i pictureis ' much too highly colored it serves to show that ourlittle troubles, here ' in the South, are not so bad as they might be, and that we neecl not envy the farmers of less favored regions because they possess the one advantage of a more fertile soil. ; : V To the saihnaker seeking a situation look a loft. - -11 A Maine jury decides that Rhode Island hop becris intoxw eating. ' . 1 San Erancisco firm adver tises for skulls of deceased In- diansJ' . :yy ;v..-. V' ' f? ' . 'Vr.-: How dangerous to defer those momentous reformations which thef conscience ii solemnly preach ing to the heart J If they are neg lected, the difficulty and iudispo- sitionare increasing evcry month ; decree after the mind receding, degree, from the warm and hope fuf zone, till at last it will enter the arctic circle, antlbecome fixed in relentless and eternal ice. y i J

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