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THE WEEKLY LINCOLN PROGKRESS. Site Xjxntfihx gJwgtw. J. T. DeLANEl11411013 Prop's. LINCOLNTOn n. c SATURDAY, : : : JULY 6, ; 1878. DEMOCRATIC TICKET! The Nominees. For Solicitor, Sixth Judicial District : W. J. MONTGOMERY, OF CABARRUS. o Legislative Xominations. For Senate from Lincoln and Catawba: W. A. Git AH AM, OP LINCOLN. For the House of Representatives: J5EYEIILY 0. COB 13. o County Nominations. 1 For Sheriff: J. A. ROBINSON. For Clerk of Superior Court : W. M. 11 KINII A RDT. For Register of Deeds : .. W it. EDWARDS. ' For Treasurer : J. C. JENKINS. For Coroner: It. S. EDWARDS. For Surveyor: O. A. RAMSO UR. Judicial Nominations. For Judge, 8th District : ALPIIONSO 0. AVERY, of Burke. For Judge, Oth District : JAMES C. L. GUDGER, of Haywood. Duripg the training of Mollie Mc Carthy at Louisville water was brought by express from the Pacific slope, for the mare to drink. It is the conduct of Mr. Hayes fiinco his attainment of power that is now the most painful subject of con templation for patriotic Americans. A ruler may stop on the safe side of impeachment arid yet bo ' guilty of acts by which he justly forfeits the confidence of the governed. When President Hayes was raised to the supreme authority by the deseision of the Electoral Commission, the ma jority of the American people vere probably convinced that a wrong had been .done, but they were unvvilling to beleive that the President was in any way a part' to.it. But if the evi dence taken within the past fortnight before the Committee of Inquiry be not mass of malignant perjury, it j appears that the men who the Presi dent selected to fill the highest offices in the State were directly implicated in the corrupt transactions by which the votes of Louisiana, and Florida were taken away from Mr. Tilden. Unless Secretary Sherman. and Sena tor Matthe ws and the American Min isters at Paris, Vienna, and St. Peters burg are able to prove that they are the viotimS of n. Ormei-klr-onTT it Tnnof -wwj 1 J J uo u be acknowledged that the purification of politics of which the Hayes ad ministration boasted has little progress by comparison even with the worst period of Gen. Grant's rule. If it be suggested that the President was is- norant of the part which his friends played in the counting of the votes in Louisina and Florida, the answer will be that there aro limits to human credulity. London Tall Malt Gazette. The Cause of Mollie McCarthy's Bad Failure. Mr. M. Lewis Clarke, president of the Louisville Jockey Club, telegraphs tho following explanation of Mollie McCarthy's signal defeat, by Ten Broeek : "The day was intensely hot and close and tho track very heavy. The mare set the pace to kill tho big horse, both running thirty or forty feet from the pole.' After going two and a half miles tho mare bearan to weaken, and when passing the stand tho third time she was very much dis- iressea. Alter passing tno nail mile pole on the last mile she began to reeL and was stopped before reaching the quarter pole, and with difficulty could be brought to tbe judges' stand. The excessive heat has been telling on her lately, and the close, hot day wastoo much for her. Ten Broeck was much distressed and could not have gone the second heat." Fiye Children at One Birth. From the Shepherdstown Register. The most remarkable birth ever known in-the history of accouchinents occared at or near Salesville, Ohio on last Monday night. Mrs. McCormick gave birth to five healthy children, four boys and one girl. The medical works have but foW instances of such births, and when they do occur the children have been scarcely known to live, tin this case the mother and chil dren! in the common language on such occasions, are "doing well." ME. SEAGLE'S CAED. "2 repeat that the conversation between us" (Judge Schenck and Mr. Seagle) "was between the 1st and 20th of Septem ber, 1873, and on tte day that Mr. Shot well passed up the road by Lincolnton on his return from tlie New York prism." The above is an extract from Mr. Seagle's card in the Lincolnton News of the 6th July. The statement is emphatic and particular. We deny it and raise the issue squarely with Mr. Seagle. We promised to show that this statement was incorrect "from testimony in Mr. Seagle's pos session" and shall proceed to do so : First. What day did "Mr. Shot well pass up the road by Lincolnton ?" . From tho editorial columns of the Lincoln Progress of September 20th, 1873, (of whicb Mr. Seagle was sole editor and proprietor) wo make this extract : "CAPT. R. A. SUOTWELL. Tho Charlotte Observer says 'this gentleman left Charlotte on the 15th over the Carolina Central Railroad on his way to Rutherford, where his father resides. The re-union with his relatives and friends,after a separa tion of more than two years, will be yond doubt, bo a happj one.' " This fixes the time as Monday, the 15th day of September, 1873. Second. From the local columns of the Lincoln Progress, September the 13th, 1S73, we make this extract : "By order of Judge Logan the court in Polk county will not be opened until the second week, the 15th of September." So Mr. Shotwell "passed up" on the Monday of Polk Superior Court. Third. We will now show that Judge Schenck was in Polk county from the 14th to the 21st September, 1873, and in Columbus, Polk county, on the 15th September, 1873 The editorial columns of the Lin coln Progress of the 27th of Septem ber, 1873, contains a letter signed, "D. S.," written by Judge Schenck from Polk county, over, a column in length, which describes his trip to Polk Superior court and tho incidents by the way. It shows that ho' left Lin colnton Friday, September the 12th," 1873, and arrived at Charlotte at 3 o'clock p. m. That he left Charlotte Saturday, the 13th of September at 5 o'clock a. m., and arrived at Spartan burg at 10 o'clock a. m. That on tho 14th in company with other gentlemen he went in a carriage to Mr. Mill's farm-house, in Polk county, and that on Monday the loth September, 1873, the day Cu.pt. Shotwell "passed up the road," he went into Columbuf, the county scat of Polk county, which . is sixty miles from Lincolnton. That he was there the 15th and 16th September, and on the 17th, in company with J. C. Mills, Esq., and J. Lynn McAboy, he ascend ed Tryon mountain, and that "the balance of the week," which includes the 20th September, 1873, he spent with Col. James K. Simpson at White Oak Hall, Polk county. This is no doubt enough to settle the question of time, but in corroboration, the Raleigh Neics of September, 1873, states that "Capt. Shotwell on his return from prison was in Raleigh Friday, September T 12th, 1873." The Southern Home of the 15th September, 1873, says tho editor in terviewed Capt. Shotwell in Char- lotto, Saturday, the 13th, on his way home. The Register of the Central Hotel shows that Capt. Shotwell came to Charlotte Saturday the 13th, and left Monday 15th September, 1873. We have other evidence, but do not care to multiply it. When we denied the statement made by Capt. Shot well, we did not apprehend a contro versy with Mr. Seagle. Wo thought he concurred with us as to dates, and we had no idea of having to meet his confirmatory statement. Wc think he is mistaken and that when he reads the testimony he will frankly confess it and say so. We have given the evidence that caused us to say that tho interview did not occur as Capt. Shotwell "passed up the road by Lincolnton on his retoru from tho New York prison," and we think they aro sufficient to convince any man that we were correct. We have no other issue with Mr. Seagle, and regret that we had to have this one. Self-Esteem. Don't rob your neighbor of his good opinion of himself. Crush a woman's self esteem, and you make her cross- grained and snappish. Do the same thing with a man, and you make him morose. You may mean to create a sweet, humble creature, but you will never do it. Tho people that think best of themselves are apt to be fat. Woman grow pretty in believing they are so, and fine qualities often crop out after one has been told one has them It only gratifies a momentary spite to force your one unfavorable opinion of him deep into another's mind. It never, never did any good. Ah ! if this world, full of higly people and awk wardj)eople,jof silly people and vain pcupv, Riicw meir own ueuciencics what a sitting in sackcloth and ashes we should have. Tho greatest of all things that men can possess in a satis factory identity. If that which be calls I please him, is well with him ; otherwise, he is perfectly wretched Let your fellow beings alone ; hold no truthful mirror before their eyes, un less with a pare intention to uproot sin. So may a mirror without a flaw never be prepared for you. - North Carolina Press Association. Special to the Raleigh News. Hickory, June 5. The Convention was called to order by President Saunders, Wednesday evening at four o'clock, some fifty or sixty editors present. The usual business of the Convention was har-s moniously transacted. On Wednesday Col. Saunders and W. A. Davis were re-elected Presi dent and Secretary, by acclamation. Vice Presidents K. B, Creecy, ft. M. Furman and W. W. McDiarmid; Executive Committee, W. J. Yates, Jordan Stone, J. A. Boniiz, TV K. Bruner, J. S. Tomlinson. The whole party was treated like kings by Dr. Elliott, the generous host of the Sparkling Catawba Springs. I'he whole party went on a special train to the mountains to-day and ex amined tho working of the Western N. C. Railroad ; stopped at Morgan ton, and went to the asylum on the return. AH here are now preparing for the banquet to be given by the citizens of Hickory. We gather the following from the Ealeigh Observers report of the second day's proceedings: Dossy Battle, Esq., editor of the Tarboro Southerner, made the address. It occupied nearly an hour in its de livery. It was an entire success, as the large audience, composed of the members of the Convention, the visi tors at the Catawba Springs and citi zens living in the vicinity, abundant ly testified by repeated applause and the most undivided attention. At the close of the address and its attendent congratulations, the follow ing resolution was submitted by ft.' 13. Crcecy : Rtsolved. That the thanks of this Convention bo tendered to Dossy Battle for the excellent, instructive and humorous address which ho has just delivered. On motion of W. W. McDI arm id, -of the Lumberton Robesonian, tho reso lution was amended by requesting a copy of the address for publication, with the proceedings of the Conven tion, and also requesting, for publica tion, a copy of the remarks of Mr. Creecy in presenting the speaker; which amendments were unanimous ly adopted. The noxt Convention will meet at the Atlantic Hotel, Beaufort. Next in order was tho selection of j an orator and a poet for the next an nual Convention. Mr. McDiarmid put in nomination for orator at the next meeting, the name of J. D. Cameron, of tho Ilillsboro Recorder. The nomination was seconded by Mr. Furman. The question being sub mitted, Mr. Cameron was unanimous ly elected. Mr. Manix put in nomination for poet, at the next Convention, the name of Clement Manly, of the New born Nut SAc. The nomination of Mr. Manly was seconded by Mr. Creecy. The question was submit ted, when Mr. Manly was unanimous ly ChoSCIl aspoct for the next Con vention. Convention adjournod sine die. An Enterprising Reporter. . There was a picnic in Eby's Grove near Dayton, Ohio, one day. Some of the young men wanjdereddown the riverr In a seludecf nook they discover ed sC pile of female clothing. They look ed into the riverfor signs of life or death, but saw nothing. A newspaper reporter took down all the surround ings, rummaged among the clothes and found there were several sets or. suits of them, little and big. In one of the pockets a love letter was found, writ ten by Hal to Julia. The clothing was tenderly bundled up and taken to the picnic camp, stuffed under a buggy seat, and the party started home feel ing very sad. It did not occur to them at once that it was a little strange that a young woman and two or three little girls should commit suicide all at once. It was perhaps Julia and her little sis ters who had thus plunged into etern ity. It was a very Bad, sad case al I agreed ndisappoin ted love, gerbaps and on the theory of, suicide the Jove letter would be a good thing for the account. The clothes were taken to the police office. The reporter was satisfied that he had a good thing. The account was read evidently, for early in the morning an angry father came raging into police quarters demanding the c!othesrHis danghtcrhad taken a o walk on the river bank with two or three little neighbor girls, and the place being seclndcd, and the temperature warm, and the water inviting, they concluded to take a bath. Soon they heard voices in the woods, and hid themselves in the bushes. They hud dled together as quiet as mice until the intruding j'oung men had come and gone- gone with . their clothes The only thing they could do was to remain quietly , where they were until after dark, and then steal to their homes in the kindly shadows of night.- N. Y. Sun. SHERMAN AND HIS BUM MERS. An Accidental Disclosure of In famy. ' The Columbus (Ga.) Sun and Times published the following letter, which was found in the streets of Columbia immediately after the army of Gen. Sherman had left, and the original of which has been preserved and can be shown and substantiated: Camp near Camden, S. C, v Feb. 26th, 18G5. Mr Dear Wife: I have no timefor particulars. We have had a glorious time in thisState. Unrostrictedlicense to burn and plunder was the order of the day. The chivalry have been stripped of most of their valuables. Gold watches, silver pitchers, cups, spoons, forks, &c, aro as common in camp as blackberries. The terms ot plunder are as follows: The valuables procured are estimated byrcompanies ; each company is required to exhibit the results of its operations at anr falls to the share of the commander-in- chief and staff, one fifth to the field officers of regiments, and two fifths to the company. Officers are not allowed to join these expeditions without disguising themselves as privates. One of our corps commanders borrowed a suit f rough clothes from one. of my men, and was successful in this place; He ;ot a large quantity of silver (among other ti.i.ngs and old time milk piclier) and a very fine gold watch, from a Mr. DeSaussure at this place. Desaus sure is one of the F. F. V's of South Carolina, and was. mad" to fork over iberally. Officers over the rank of Captain are not made to put their plunder in the estimate for gv nigral distribution. This is very unfair, and for that reason in order to protect themselves, subordinate officers and i privates keep back everything that they can carry about their person-, such as rings, car rings, breast-pins, &cM' of which if I ever live to get home I have about a quart. I am not joking-! have at least a quart of jewelry for you and all the girls, and some No. 1 diamond rings and pins among them. Gen". -Sherman has silver, and gold enough to Istart a bank. His share in gold watches and chains alone at Col umbia was two hundred and scventy- fivo (275.) But I said I could not go into partic ulars. AH the general officers, and many besides, had valuables of every description, down to ladies embroider ed handkerchiefs. (I, have my share of them, too.) We took gold and silver enough from the d d rebels to have redeemed their infernal currency twice over. This (the currency) whenever wo came across it, we burned, as we consider it utterly Worthless. I wish all the jewelry t,his army lias conld be carried to the "Old U&y State." It would deck her out in glo rious style ; but alas, it will be scatter ed all over the North and Middle States. The d d niggers, as a general rule, prefer to stay at home particular ly after they, found out that wc only wanted the able bodied men. Some times we took off whole families and plantations of negroes, by way of re paying secessionists." But the useless part of them we soon manage to lose sometimes in crossing rivers some times by other ways. - I shall write to you again from Wil mington, Goldsboro, or some other place in North Carolina. The order to march has arrived, and I must close hurriedly. Love to grandmother and aunt Charlotte. Take care of yourself and tho children. Don't show this letter out of the family. Your affectionate husband, Thomas J. Myers, "Lieutenant, &c. : P. S. 1 will send this by the first flag of truce to be mailed unless I have an opportunity of sending it to Hilton Head. Tell Sallie I am saving a pearl bracelet and earring for her; but Lam bert got the necklace and breast-pin of the same seL lam trying to trade him out of them. Theso were taken from the Missc9 Jamisons, daughters cf the President of the South Carolina Secession Convention. Wo found them on our trip through Georgia. This letter was addressed to "Mrs. Thomas J. My er?r, Boston, Mass." The Risks of the Stocking Trade. A Dry Goods Man's Experience. Olive Logan in Cincinnati Commercial.! "The riskiest business in America to daj" answered Mr. Berwick, "is the dry goods business, and tho most un stable part of tho drj goods business is in the line of stockings. I never saw anything like it. Tho caprice of American women concerning stock ings is something almost surpassing belief. Two men have within the last month been sent back to tho United States from Chemnitz raving lunatics, driven insane by the fluctuations in taste in the stocking demand at home." I thought the statement was joke, and smiled. - J "It's strict; truth I am telling you and no nonsenoe. I don I know how much longer I'll hold out. "My whole existence is one elongated hose. I eat, sleep, drink and think stockings. "We've got stockings on the brain," said Mr. White. "On the brain! I should think so," replied Mr. Berwick. "Between the top of my nose and the root ot my head I've got twent--five thousand dozen of stocking packed away. I used to be able to put the whole sul jct out of my mind on the Sabbath ; now the churcn I attend is full ot stock ings. I am wondering during the sei mon what the particular taste is of every one in the congregation concern ing stockings, not excepting the min ister, and his wife and family. The very pulpit is hung with stockings. "A perpetual Christmas. 'Santa Clans is better off than I am for at least ho dosn't have to furnish people with stockings." What is it exactly that causes 3011 this anxiety ?" I inquired. "The constant fear ot having twen- t3r or thirtj- thousand dozen expensive stockings thrown on our hands, dead stock to be sold at fiftv cents on the dollar of what it cost us through the cracic-oraineu notion or some tew so called leaders of fashion. Wh one no ted lady in town one alone has it in her power to change the stye ofwtoCk- ings in the spnee of twont3'-four hours. Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith can walk into a storii, ask to look at so kings. be shown the greatest novelties, and if the bulk of the stock happens to be red she has but to sav 'Oh, red's ho good now ; green's all the rage." That's en ough. From that moment wc have to seize people by the throat and maul them to get them to take a red stock ing. Whv, even the children know it. and cry if their mot hers, tempted by the lowered price, want to buy I he un fashionable color for them. ' Oh, it U dreadful!" exclaimed the excited h' siei3' merchant. "Dreadful ! Dread ful ! It beats Bannikcr!' "I infer from 3our remarks that American woman, as purchasers are somewhat capricious." - "The3' are the most capricious, tho most extravagant women that God lets live," continued he. "I can't be gin to tell you all this nonsense about hosiery. Why, an eighth of an inch in width of a stripe is sufficient to ruin a whole invoice of fine hosiery as selling goods. Stewart was bit this way re cently. They had 20,000 doxen hose with a stripe that was pronouced, a little too narrow or a little too wide, I forget which, and they had to sell the whole lot al less than half cost price in Europe. And they were difficult to get 1 i 1 of even at that." Hon. Jefferson Davis. Mobile, July 11. Jefferson Davis yesterday made an address at Missis sippi City on the occasion of the pre sentation to him of a gold badge and certificate of membership of tho Asso ciation of theArmy of Tennessee. He said the question of the States' right of secession in 1861 was at least debata ble, but the course pursued by the Fed eral government after the war had ceased vindicating "the judgment of those who held that separation would be necessary for the safety and free dom of the Southern States, and the unsuccessful attempt to separate left those in power to work their will as it bad been manifested when they first obtained control of the govern ment. "Events aro too recent to re quire a recapitulation, and the ruin they have developed requires no other memorial than -the material and moral wreck which the country pre sents. He reasserted h is unshaken be lief in the right of secession and the duty of tho citizen to battle in the cause of his State after it secedes. Ho said that Albert Sidney Johnston was the greatest soldier and ablest man, civil or militarj', Confederate or Fed eral and reviewing the operations about Vicksburg and Port Hudson, spoke in glowing terms of their de fenders, adding : "Let no ono BupA pose that in thus vindicating our cause and in paying due tribute to gallant deeds, I am seeking to disturb such peace aa we have or to avoid the logic of events. You have done your duty in the past, and I would ask no more than that yon should fulfil equally as well the duties of the pre-, cntandtbe future. The bravest arc, as a rule, the gentlest, and Irucut to every obligation , assumed. y()ll agreed to return to tho Union (! abide by the constitution and the made in conformity with it. Tims far and no further do I understand your promise to extend." During bis remarks ho spoke of i),c necessity of wise laws and an honot administration- of the govern ment, and concluded 03 sa3'ing : "Troth and justice and honor prcid. ed at the birth of our Federal Union, and its mission can 01113- be performed by their constant attendance upon it. For this there is not needed a condi tion of human perfectibility, bat only so much virtue as will control vice and teach 'the mercenary" and self-Kecking that power and distinction and honor will be awarded only to patriotic c.v pacit3 and integritj-. To 3-011 self- sacrificing, self-denying defender of an imperishable truth and inalienable right, 1 look for the performance of whatever man can do for the welfare and happiness of his eonnUy." More Quickened Conscience. A fair to medium Detroitcr ri n't home to supper the other night to find that bis wife had entered tho """jv "Nij 111U111V.111 uliuiVj U I ill lie natural inquired where she had been. 4 Richard," she answered, in a verv sober va3-, "1 have been to consult a fortune teller!" "What !" he exclaimed, turning pale in an instant and staggering back against the wall. 'Yes. I have been to consult a for tune teller," she went on, as the tears' came to her eve.". v "Bosh! madam! Fortuno tellers are humbugs swindlers liars." 'Richard, this fortune teller told me" "I won't hear it I want none of their nonsense !" he interrupte l. "Richard, it concerns 'ou." "I don't care! I want 1113- supper--I havc.no timefor fool'isbnc !" "Richard, she sa3-s that 3-ou are " "I tell you I won't hear any of her balderdash ! She lied about mr, of Course, and I'll make her take it back or go to prison !" "Richard won't 3011 let me . ny that she said 3011 were gradual kill ing 3-ourself l3' too close attention to business ?" "Did she .ay that ?" "Why, of course, she did!" ' Lizzie, forgive r?3 rash word. I sec that they tell the truth, and t he truth 011I3-. After Mipper I'll get a carriage and we'll ride out, and whili weare down town you'd better get that new bonnet you tpokc of!" Detroit Free Press. "Now, Willie, do have a little cour age. When I have a powder to take I don't like it an more than 3-ou !', but I make tip my mind that I will take it, and I do."-"And when I have a powder to take," replied Willie, ' I make up my mind that I won't take it. and I don't." COMMERCIAL. Idncolnton Market. Corrects Werhty by P. 1). Jllmon. Friday, July 13 1878. We quote selling price from wapons Hour ... 2 (JOC-n Corn 4o(" 4S On 40 b" 11' in Peas.. : (Wn Oats,. 2 Butter 124K Chickens,... M 10(3) kjrgs Ho, Salt American...... 1 4.0 fa, 1 00 8 Yarn per bunch.. .....1 00 (" .Sheeting,.... 7(, Bacon Hams, .....i lOfa. Shoulders, Sides... 7(.7i Pork rK" Lard,.. W) Tallow, 8f, Bees Wax 2-3 a Apples Drietl, , 2$ a Peaches Dried, 3 a Blackberries Dried.............. 4 a Meal r0u .S 4 io Wheat 1 00 a 1 Potatoes Sweet, o0 a Irish, . 50 a Beef, 4 a Hid es G ree n . 5 a " Dry,.. 8 a 12 LAW1NG & MBEE, Drug-gists, (Corner of Main and Academy Sired,) Xiiicoliiton, IV. CV 10-3m BUtiN HAM'S ?SJCT .7. . " " . nrfT Mi Also, KILLING MACHINERY, FEICES SEDUCED AFS. zu, -.mpbloUfrce. Otiict., Yos, 1 - - - Cooper Shop. Persons in nftd nf Rarrols A:c will find it to their interest to call and examine my work. Robt. &owtto.