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; .. . . J...yx&2idiL . ;.;r J? JUrr, rfrw of galificz, JggrimJtitrt, :0nnnfoctwc8t 'mnmcnc, and $Urcc1hncow cm1mg. VOLUM XIX. STATESVILLE, 1ST. C, BXTURDAY. AUGUST 1-2, X87G. NUMBER THE AMERICAN ISSUED WKEKI.Y B? :, --' EUGENE It. DRAKE & SON, JCflitors ami ''mprfetor. 'SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One year.......... .... Six months....... STRICTLY IS ADVANCE. 12 00 1 00 ' TERMS OF ADVERTISING: Onn dollar a Square fr.tlie fin week, and fifty iKMiU for each subrfrtjuent iuaeitioa. Ten lines or loss ronstituta a Square. .De ductions in ul e hi favor of standing matter as follows: SilOS. CMOS. 1 TEAR One square...... 5 00 $H 00 12 00 Two squares.... 00 13 00 18 00 Three squares. 10 00 13 00 23 00 Oiie-furUieol 13 00 25 00 35 00 Half eolmnn 23 00 40 00 80 00 One eolmnn.... 40 00 00 00 100 00 . Unless the number of insertions be marked upon tlie manuscript, it will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. It. P. A TIM FIELD, At Statesville, N. C. GEO. H. FOLK, At Lenoir, N. C. Armfield & Folk, jlttorney and Counsellors at Zatr, T)RACTICES IN ALL the Courts of the I Tenth Judicial District, McDowell and Burke iu the Eleventh District, in the coun ties of Mecklenburg and Rowan, in tha Federal Courts Circuit and District and the Supreme Court of the State. " ""Communications addres-ed to the firm at either Statesville or Lenoir will receive prompt attention. October 20, 1873. ' 3G-tf H. KELLY, M. D., OFFERS his services to the nub- ' lie, and may he found at his Office wnen not protessionauv engagea. - January 1, 1871. , , .v 16-tf y " S: B. EVANS, M. D., Having located in Statesville respectfully offers his proffessional service to the Citizens of the town, and the surrounding country. lie may be found at the Drug Store of Messrs. lunstall & Feud, or at the resi deuce of Mrs. Celia Alexander. April 25 1875 No 11 tf. ? . ST. CHARLES HOTEL. 0TH0 Alt BARKLET. : Proprietor. rilRE undersigned, having -takcirthaTgo J. of the ST. CHARLES HOTEL, in Statesvilleinforms the public that it is now open for the accommodation of travel ers and guests, and will be conducted as a ? First-Class Hotel, : the Table belng'supplied with the best the Conntr Jnnntrv affords ; attentive Servants, Ac. The House has been newly refurnished and refitted, and no pains will be spared to give entire satisfaction to its patrons. A shttre of public patronage is solicited. Guests of the St. Charles will always find a splendid assortment of Cigars. I i OTItO M. BAUKLEr, rrop'r. f .Jan. 8, aniii 1 1' r l47tf NATIONAL HOTEL, Delightfully situated, next to Capitol Square RALEIGH, IV. C. A NEW HOUSE. Fine Rooms, well Furnished and Jitjea up . . ; ! '- in' the Best Style - ATTENTIVE SERVANTS. The Table Daiiy Supplied with the Best tlits and other Markets afford. - ' C. S. BROWN, - 2tf ' Proprietor. BOYDEN HOUSE, Mrs. Dr. Revesr Proprietress. SALISBURY, w..... N. C. ,- W We study to ploan hnr Guests.-'" i When yon visit fcaHs.Airvy don't fail to stop at the BOYDEN HOUSE; a Due House, filled with new and elegant Furniture, Car pets, Silver Ware, &c. Clean and neat Rooms , We guarantee- something good to eat, polite Servants, and a hearty welcome. LSaneioii ISouso "' MAIN STRKo.1", Til IS well-known Jlonse having been re cently taken, refitted and refurnished by the undersigned, is now opened to the travelling public. With an experience of sixteen, years the proprietor flatters himself that he can render satisfaction to even the most fastidious. Omnibuses meet every train. . : . WM. ROWZEE, Proprietor: : "TiiifTTBUTSr DEALER IN Fine Watches, flocks and Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, fce., " ""' O II A IiLOTTE, &.-V--' i ;;;;' : : . n-tf , PRACTICAL , V7atchr.al:sr & Jeweler, BANK ROW, - STATESVILLE, HT. C, HA VINIt located permanently in States ville, is now prepared to do all work eiitnr t"l ti h piiio in the most thorough and s i i.iimaiike manner. ' Ail ' '-rk .'farranted, -. T '"stoUitnk of M'tesvint, Carl ten A I t. .1. 8. l.:r-! ?'-vor J. F. Vanpelt, Col. K:: c, i . .. Tutors f tha i- :iCS. ' lHlf r, ...:.v mI I RALEIGn, X. C. A Tuper for t'-e IVonle aivl a f 1 the I ifi.it'F a;..i i:u..,..-.i'..l c..,.-r8 t.i co'1 ''v. I Fos'rtl Card f-r sample copy. :l ' - 1 ' : ' 1 1 ' , , .- v , l l.ee. Sm. ( .,' . - 4-1 y Tildcn's Dishonest'. Cincinnati Enquireu (Dem.) Be foue the Nomination. A private letter just received from jJew 'Xork, irom a gentleman ot lair ness and intelligence, says : 1 had eood Opinion ot Tildert until 1 came anions those that knew Iiiin, but find thev nil asrree that his Fhonr of reforin is all a humbug. The recent Albany conference 19 corroborative jOf all tliis testTmowy. ' The con trai ling poltticans, as well as the masses of the people in the Democratic par ty-in Jew lork, wlro can draw dividuiir line between an lionest man and. a Bengal tiger or a hypocrite, are. alike aware that Tildcn can not carry his own State." There are a few facts concerning Sara Tilden, which, we trust, will sink into the mind3 of Southern and Western Democrats. ; 1. lie can not carry his own State in .November. 2. He ean not carry any Northern State. :';'3. He Is a hypocrite, a political swindler, and has long been a public swindler. i. He did what he could to defeat the Democratic part3' in Ohio, in 1875 expending his money, alul subsidiz ing the Eastern Democratic press to that end knowing that Ohio's victory was his defeat, and loving Tildcn more than the Democratic' party, He has earned the enmity of the West and South. : 5. He has sought this high office by methods so unprecedently shame less and disreputable that it would be an everlasting stigma and a re- proach upon the American people to elect him. 6. Upon the foremost questions of the hour he is a most pittiless foe to the interests of the West and South He is the unscrupulous oppressor of tile great struggling industries of the vast producing sections of the coun try..". No Republican Administration could be more hostile to them than would his. It could not but be that a.man cd ucatod in cunning, m liyppcracy, in iniquity, nominated In corraptionand shameless . effrontery, even though his millions could elect him, would give us themostcorraptadministration the country has ever known. "Neith- iniperiai dignities, nor the gloom of solitude, said lacitus, "could save Tiberious from himself.'? And Til dcn could not rise above himself, or above the source of his power. It will surprise our readers to learn that the foregoing is taken from the Cincinnati Enquirer. It . was printed before Mr. Tilden's nomina tion, but we are not aware tuat it is any the less weighty for this reason. Except that it is marked by extreme bitterness, it might have . appeared, originally in any Republican - paper n the country. ' What must be J u- den's character when even his ' own party associates talk about him like this ? : If elected, , "he will give us the most corrupt administration the country has ever known that is the cam deliberate judgment of his cliief and only Cincinnati supporters. What do voters think of a candidate supported in this way ? ' 'Election Law. By chapter 23T of the public laws sof 1874-'t5! the- election id- North Carolina has been changed from the first Thursday in August to the Tues day next after the first Monday in November, 18? 6. We publish below the amendments made to Battle's Re tard and to the laws of 1873-'74, Tjy which the change was made, and Would suggest to the -.. press of the ; iState the propriety of copying it : - Secretary of State .to furnish on requisitioa, tegistj-aloq books on the first Monday JscpUiaber, 1876, Registrars of voters to be selected bh or before the Grst Monday of Oc tober, 1876.' yujf Registrars to revise the existing registration books of their .precinct, or ward) or township, as heretofore, but instead of performing this duty in July and, up to the day; preceding the firat Thursday ; in August, they will sit between the hours of sunrise and sunset on each day (Sundays ex cepted) from the first day preceding the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Judges or inspectors of election to be appointed by county commission er on or before the first Monday of ober. . - , . r- leturning officers of Senatorial districts composed of more; than one county to meet on Tuesday, one week after the election, at places designa ted in Battle's Revisal. ', When Senatorial returning officers are prevented from meeting on de signated daj', as above, returns shall be waited for and received if the- ar rive on the following day,' itc. '. Slieriffs to furnish certificates of j election to members of tli lloirn of; Representatives and Senators, where' the dlu'.riet is not cosr.posed of more than one county, previous to Wed nesday before the third Monday in November. ifherLT shall dso, at least ten days before the first day., of Peeer-V r, ii'-4'. all persons elected in the eouuty to i;ift nt the court- house on me i. her. . . er. ' or clher return::-chlccr of i every county to transmit by mail or otherwise to Speaker of the House of Representatives vote for State offi cers on or before the third Monday in November, 187G. ' Secretary of State, on or before tha first Monday in October, 187C, to furnish county commissioners of each county copies of so much of chaptei 52, of Battle's Revisal, as relates to elections, as amended by chap. 237 laws of 1874-'75. , The above are amendments t"K Bat tle's Revisal J chapter" 122, laws of 1873-'74, is amended as follows: Strikes out the hrst lhnrsday in Auaust ' as the day of election , of members of the -General Assembly, county officers, members of House of Representatives, and inserts Tues day next after the- first Monday in November. 187fi. Changes time of election of State officers, from first Thursday in August to Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, 1876. O; :. ' State otticers, Presidential JMec tors, members of Congress, members of the Legislature, and county offi cers arc to be elected, and the pro posed amcndKjefits;ter- the , constaUty tion of Ibetnte are to be voted up on.. ' ' ,'M, '. " All officers whose terms of Office would expire did the election occur On the first Thursday in August will hold over until their successors, to be elected in November, qualify. Secretary of State to furnish copies of election act or 22(1 ot March, 1875 to county commissioners, who will give three months' notice of the elec tion. Difference of Opinion. The Syracuse, New York Journal has the following to say about a Dein ocratic candidate for the Legislature in this State : "Acts speak louder than words" and especially so when we find the Democracy of North Carolina who support Tilden because he pronounced the war a failure nominating for leg' islative office the most brutal and un- regenerate specimens of rebels. R. A. Shotwell is a notorious Ku Klux lender, who "was tried and convicted of instigating and participating in some of the fearful outrages commit ted in 1871, and sentenced to the Al bany penitentiary for six years. He was pardoned at the solicitation of one of his victims, after having serv cd only a part of his term. This man has Been nominated for the State Leg islature by the Democrats of Meck lenburg county. There is work in his line for him to do there," This is the way the people of the North look "at it, but here is the way the Wilmington Journal views it. "In the Canvass before us it is all important to the success of onr State Mckct that men of first rate ability, of integrity and in fluence should be placed in nomination by the several counties of the State for local and legislative positions. Every voter must be brought to the polls, and to accomplish this, : acceptable " tickets must be put' in nomination by the County : Conventions. Appreciating thin fact the oood people of the Coun ty of. 3ti,,LLltinbKf ' Jipve jilocefl t A$ field a ticket that i :owunad the enthusiastic support oj ner - nonezi citizen. Among the nominees is the gentleman whose name heads this ar ticle Capt. Randolph A. Shotwell who has been chosen as a candidate of the Democracy as a member of the ext House of Representatives. Meck lenburg has within her bounds a num ber of gentlemen who would repre sent her interests, with zeal and abili ty, but she has no son, who wouIOfdo, with greater zeal and inorem ability than Capt. Shotwell.- - The oompli- ment paid in .bis nomination ; is a graceful one." : , ; - ' ,,!,, We itomize certain " parts ' of the Wilmington Journal's references and call the attention of our readers t the difference in the views entertain ed by the papers of the two sections. n the opinion of the Wilmington pa per the very reasons for which the Northern paper condemns him, name ly, being a Ku Klux is his - chief re commendation. How do' the people like it ? Xetvbern Times. Vance made a speech at Wilkes- boro, la J f' f , after the suspension of the writ ot habeas corpus by the so called Confederate authorities. In speaking of the law suspending the writ, he said : "We must not make a con- ''-n because a law has been enactor ,...ica onr jurists announce as ...within the imits of the" constitution of the coun try that we have sworn to support, we ought to stand up to bur own con stitution and our own laws." i And, yet, Daniel. -G. Fowle has the mprudence to bellow forth on the stump that Yance was the champion of civil liberty. ; , The - Chattanooga (Tenn.) Com Hied merciul says : "Lei. snmnel u. as hoisted the banner of jr.! yes snd Wheeler in the Montgomery (Ala.) Bulletin. Col. Ried was for some me previous to the war, daring and after it up to 1SS3, the leading Dem ocratic editor of the State, lie is a man of truth, honor and courage. We rrs r!.t 1 t3 note his accession to the s::: sc'-'' ; nr.Uonal llcpub- licaa t ICi How Governor Hayes Won Mm Wife . A Bit or Domestic History. The amiability of Mrs Governor Haj-es, and her ability to entertain compnnj', have been a good deal talk ed about by the press of the country since thaliant Governor and sol dier has become the standard-bearer of the groat Republican party in the coming Presidential fight, and there fore the stnt '-rrvMl of how Governor . IIay(s.ifnny nofbc imia tefestmg, especially to lad- readers, After Rutherford B. Hayes gradu a left at the Harvard.- law school, m 1845, he commenced the' practise of law, auu mipgoub aissuingie in vie . rv.:!.! 4 i.i.i j-.tw uiuiit,, iv uc'i e He ueiu iuhii hve 3-ears, nd was considered at p time a brilliant, rising young man. He " was" ine-appearing, intelligent and hancrsome, and as it was well un derstood that he was the heir of his bachelor uncle, Sardis Birchard, wen Known Ranker and merchant o the town, young Haye? was consider ed a very- good catch by mothers all over the State who had marriageable daughters. . -v?l- 1849 or '() young Hayes visi ted his ' mother at his -birth-place, Delaware, Ohio. It so happened that Delaware was the seat of the celebra ted Ohio Wesleyan University, Methodist institution, used extensive ly as a female college, which stood there, and does now. in the midst of the town and in the center of a large and beautiful park- The park is and always has been the popntar resort of the townpeople, and especially the beau-catching young women. The feature of this ground is its immense spring, which gushe3 out of the earth in a huge jet, cool and sparkling, fur nishmg pure water to all who come, Around this spring seats have been arranged, and tastefully laid out lit tle flower-beds embellish it. In the evening'this is a most popular spot. Young Hayes, in company with other young men, used to go to spring in the evening, generally choosing their tjme when the Univer sity girls came their also. Among the bevy of young ladies was one in particulor who .attracted Governor Hayes' attentions She was sparkling; bright and wiuy, and the park always rang with the echo of her merry laugh ter when she came to the spring. The young lady was remarkable for her long, flowing black hair, dark eyebrows, pearly white teeth, black eyes, and was famous for her laugh ter and of course, was a leader among the girls of her school., Before know ing her name the young lawyer fell in love with her, and he made up his mind that the gay, laughing girl he met at the college spring evening af ter e'enmg was the one ho was look ing for as his wife and future com panion in life, and so he opened his heart to his uncle and mother. In the course of time the lawyer and la dy were introduced, and she - turned out to be a Miss Webb, of Chillico- the, Ohio, a descendent of a m6st ex cellent familjv The love engendered at the spring ripened into true and honest affection, which was fully re ciprocated by tho lady, who in due course of time became Mi's. Hayes- It was a trne love-match, and a hap py fifiion it has proven. Mrs. Hayes ha done, much toward making Gov ernor Hare popular. She . is mod est and retiring, with a rare faculty for entertaining company. Her vir tues are extrollcd by ; all who know hec. She will prove an ornament to the White House. . Effect of Gypsum. ' A correspondent of tho Times' writes : in readi..)" some remarks cm :yps itt and its application, I notict 1 a suggestive error in regard to its ap? plication upon uplands when wet. I learned years ago 'by a chance cir cumstance, that plaster does -no good until thoroughly ; washed into the ground by rainfall, A part of a field of porn was. plastered before and a part after a heavy 6howiav That part plastered before the shower, where the plaster was washed out of sight immediately, put on a deep green col or and grew rapidly, while that plas tered after the shower where the plas ter remained in a dry state around the hills retained its yellow color, and grew more slowly ; and although it assumed the deep green, and com menced growing when the other rains came $wo weeks afterward, it never overtook the other,' the difference be ing plain to be seen during the sum mer. -.-- - . .' , - -v ; The action of gypsum upon plants cannot "ke place until it is dissolved and L. 1 the roots. It is very clear then th . . cai.aot bo of the slightest use either upon the' leaves of the ground during dry weather. There is nothing whatever about the action of gypsum as a fertilizer that is different from any other fertilizer. It simply supplies some needed mat ters to the plant when it is dissolved n water and absorbed by the roots. Beiiem & Wagner, in their anna review of the population of the lobe, state that Europe has an area ) p""are nv.ies and a pop- lation of . . ', Ma, l:! ' ' '.- 0 square i. - j : 1- - ' ' ' n, , 000,000. Africa 8,T00,C, t i.u- i. 200,000,000. America, 12,0 CO CO square nines ; population, S-l,- 000.000. Australia mid Pclvne.-iu, ,p,C00 s -hire ir.:h-3; 4,1. ..)''. population. Another Dambos Exposed. Our "reform" friends of the demo cratic faith put forth many humbugs to deceive the people. They first cry "reform," "reforin" and to pretend to commiserate the conditiou of the "o vcrtaxed"people , and then,espccial ly in the south, they abuse the reve nue laws and revenue officers, ma king the manufacturers of whiskey ana tobacco believe that l r they, the democrats, Obtain power, they "will repeal these "odious" laws. We re member that in 1872, one James Madison Leach claimed great merit for what he had done in this behalf, in congress, and made great promises to the people as to what ho would do. We exposed the gentleman's hollow pretensions, and we intend now to expose those of the democracy of the present day. . . The average democratic whiskey maker no doubt thinks the present democratic house of representatives will amend the laws for his relief. Morrison, the chairman of Way and Means, the most important of the committees of the house, has re ported a bill to amend the revenue laws, so as more effectually to pre vent frauds in the collection of the taxes due the government. His bill proposes to amend Section 3332 of the Revised Statutes, by addin thereto the following words : - "And in case of seizure -of ft still doubler, worm, worm-tub, mash-tub, lermenung-tnb, or other distilling appa ratus, having less producing capacity than lw callous per day for anv offence Involving forfeiture of the same, where said apparatus shall be of less than 8500 value, and where it shall bo impractica ble to remove the same to a place of safe storage, from the placo whore seized, the seizing officer ts autlionzed to destroy the same us to i)revent the use thereof or of any part thereof, for the purpose of lUstMing,11 etc. : Will our democratic friends please to take notice how the democratic congressmen are helping them in the whiskey business 7 It was considered that the law was not severe enough so the democrats go to work to make it more stringent. If there was any doubt before as to the power to de stroy illicit distilleries, Morrison pro poses to remove that foubt. 1 et the democratic newspapers and ora tors of North Carolina cry out against the severity of the revenue laws 1 To quote the eloquent language of the Patriot, we say, "Bah !" North Stale., 'i,--. :-':; . . :,:: Rattlesnakes and Wild Cats We . learn that a colored man by the name of Donas ltobinson killed a rattlesnake near Mr. E. Thomases places in . .Brunswick county, a few days Miice,- which measured six feet in length and . about seven inches through the body, being the largest monster of th kind ever seen in these parts. He had been the; terror of the neighborhood for a long time, having frequently been seen before, and it is stated that some of the men employ ed in chipping turpentine boxes in that vicinity actually stopped : work for fear 1 of encountering , him. . . He was found to have sixteen rattles and was as large around in the middle as a man's thigh. ., ; ; i, .- , ; We also learn that an enormous wild cat - was killed in the same nigh- boihood on Saturday night last.which measured three and a half feet on the back and, was as large : around . the body ? as an ordinary sheep.. When discovered the- "varmint", was seek-. ing to make his way into a house oc cupied by colored people, and it made circle of the house three times in its efforts to get at its inmates -before it was shot down. Mr. Thomas secured the skin and stuffed it, and intends bringing it to the city soon for exhibitions Wil. Star. ,; . A Sad Affair. ' ;; The Charlotte Observer says, that Mary Woods, ' a girl about 20 ybars of age, and a daughter of Mr. David Woods, of Steele Creek township, committed suicide last - Saturday morning,' by' hanging" herself to 4 joice in the garret of her father's res idence. She was missed and search being instituted, her body was found hanging in the garret. She had been suffering" from mental aberation, on account of the death of her brother. who ' committed suicide about two weeks ago. The circumstances of the boy's death were peculiar. ' lie was at Church a Sunday or two before he took his own life, when he accidenta lly dropped a pistol. It was dis charged, and though no one was hurt, the boy, who was about 17 years of age, became very much alarmed of the consequences. To add to this, companions twitted him continu- is lly about the matter,, telling him that he would be brought here' to Charlotte and put in jail, and that Judge Schenck would get after him nd send him to the Penitentiary. lie was also told that "Porter would get him," &c. Mr. Porter is a Mag istrate in feteele Ureek,anu one moili ng having some business with Mr. Woods, he rode up to his gate. The boy saw him, and supposing that he intself was in danger, escaped by the aek way, and when found, Lis life- I y was l-ing on an island in ri , Hi was the victim of fear. ince this ti.ue h.s sister Las boen nr. y i,,- -.'( and a new grief is, her tra; .ly grc- ;ic death, added to tho ,t L.i. 1 l.',d the f... il'ed to Lear. nl- as 1 -. .1 t Cropn la the Kerth-Wml. On the 30lh June, the Toledo tfapublishcdiU annual midsummer crop report, embracing reports from one hundred and seventy-three places in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illi nois. These show that tho wheat crop in nearly all of tho wheat-producing districts is nearly up to the average in quantity, while the quali ty Is superior to,lhat ot any former years. Spring wheat in Illinois has generally done very badly. Tho best reports for winter wheat come from Michigan, where the harvest has been especially good. The October crop in Illinois, Indiana and part of Mich igan is a total failure, and what grain was grown is deficient in quality. In Southeastern Michigan and North western Uuio the oat crop is unusu ally good. Rye and barley crop arc all up to the average. A large quantity 01 naxsced was sown in some parts of Indiana,' and has done well. There were less potatoes planted than last year, but the crop will bo enormous. Hay, except in some parts of Michigan, where rain interfered with its cutting and curing has produced far beyond the crop of any previous year. I ho quality vciy good, and has been well taken care of. The apple crop is very largo everywhere. Only a partial crop of peaches will ripen. Grapes are wonderfully abundant in the lake region, and promise to ripen well. Taken altogether the farm products will exceed those of last year from thirty to sixty per cent. St. Paul, July 30 The terrible devastation of grasshoppers on the northwestern, western and southwest ern borders of this state has not been before alluded to in these dis patches. The damage done by these pests is incalculable, but the amount of crops destroyed is so far nicoiisid crable, counted as a whole, although hundreds of industrious, hard-work ing settlers have lost their all and have nothing left to live on. The Pioneer Press of yesterday says that the great part of the region west of and including Jackson county to Eastern Dakota, and south through westrii low a is covered with devour ing pcs'8, and our reports indicate that the entire crops of the region are being swept away and main' of the discouraged settlers are tempor arily leaving. - 1 Tilden'i roliUcarPortralt. . A; IT. Purdy, a prominent New York Democrat, is familiar with Mr. Tilden's history. In a recent speech he thus refers to tliat gentleman's past tiansactioiis: f "Hie great capitalists claim a strength for Mr,: Tilden by the asser tion that ho is an honest man. Let us examine his record and see if it is such; William M. Tweed was prob ably the greatest thict that this country ever saw. But the larceny was not the work of an hour, or a a month, or a year. During all the time that he was carrying on his plunder in so open a manner that the world knew it, Mr. Tildcn was active ly associated with him, was the chair man of all the conventions that were controlled by Tweed, was living in the same city, and belonged to the same political organization. When Tweed was exposed by that eminent reformer, Jimmy O'Brien," when . he was at the bar of justice -and shorn of his political power, and caet down then and not till then did Mr. lildcn join in the cry against him. If ir. Tilden did not know or suspect the robberies of Tweed in all the years that they, were going on I aay he was not a man of any sagacity. He was in a position to know it and ascertain it. If he did know of these - robber ies, but stood calmly by without lift ing his hand or his voice to stop them he was not and is riot an honest man. The dilemma that you find him in is cither being a fool or a thief, and in either eVeut not a fit roan to bo Pres ident of the United States."., , Hillsboro Hecor Jer .'v We lel.T) that an involuntary suicide took place in Alamaiico "county last week under the following circumstances: A Dr.. Hooper, a Dentist, living in the Northern part of tlie county, went to the breakfast table prepared to pom on his wife, from what reason we have not learned. They were seated alone at tho table. After, pouring out the coffee Mrs. Hooper was dis patched out of the room on some pretext. . In ' her absence her hus band poured into her cup a deadly mixture. ' She returned, and it Hap pened that the Doctor himself was called from the room for a moment. In his absence, a fly fell into his cup. urs.; Hooper, wife-like exchanged cups. 1 he Ur. returned,' and drank his coffee almost at one swallow. He at once detected tho singular taste of the beverage, and asked Lis wife ' if lie had changed cups. .She replied that she had, giving the reason for it. He exclaimed, Ml hen I anj'n 'dead man," and In a low minutes was a corpse. Albert Semli.h, county treasurer of Washington c- ..ty, V :,.;,), is defaulter in the sum of about 4 '0,' '. His whereabouts is unknowa. He a very prominent Uerman Dem ocrat. 2 iM;,icaa n tho r" ' iuvl was a ih ;.te to tho 1 . . I. ..U Convention. MUrrpresfHtallpa. It is so well known that systemat ic misrepresentation of Republicans is a part of tho ordinary tactics of Democratic jouriialiftsn, that it is hardly necessary to deny each false hood act afloat in Democratic iipwh paers. It was the late John W. Cameron who defined Democracy to mean rule of the devil" the word Iwing derived, ho said, from two Gret-k words: ucmnrr, the devil and irate to rule," and accepting this definition as correct, nothing U more natural than fur tho father of lies to be constantly engaged in tending out his children on missions of false hood. And the picture is presented to our mind's eye of the Arch Demon in starting Democratic ncwnpaHr, and concocting systems of fraud by which to sustain them, while these children of tho devil, the ncwnpniicrK, in their anxiety to cstabliHli their lineage, are busy in dressing up the little lies and sending them out to deceive, even before they are able to walk alone. Hence it is that the public meet with so many little weakly, pale faced, dirt-rating lhn toddling around tho world trying to deceive people. Era. Carpet-Bagger. There is no word which has done the Southern Slates more harm than the word caretbugger. Its mean ing in the South is clear enough. It is intended to apply to adventur ers from tho North who went South after the war for tho purpose of plun dering the inhabitants and returning home with their plunder. It is re garded in the North as a term of re proach, and has had tho effect of deterring from the Southern States thousands of honott Northern men who would have been glad to go South .on account of the climate and the naturaWrichiicss of the soil. The Maine citizen may go to Colorado and California and lie welcome. It Is no reproach to hiui that he was born in tho East and votes the rrpul lican ticket. Let him go to (Icorgla or Carolina, ami carry with him his principles, and bis fate is social, er sonal, Klilical, pstraeimn. He can assert no independence of judgment without incurring the worst forms of reproach. Something of this, may be due to the soreness occasioned by thcrwnr. But while this was natural it should not last always. Tho word carpet-bagger may servo tho purpose of a flippant politician like Mr. Cox, but it should have no Hace in our literature. If we go into the matter deeply we shall find that we are all carpet-baggers, with the ex ception of Sitting Ball and bis eo- )lc New lor I: Herald. In looking through our exchanges, we were struck with an expression used by Prof. W. C. Bowman, in a letter to the Roan Mountain Jlepubli' can. He was speaking of the pro posed 1 constitutional amendments. saying. that "moro than ono nail or tbein are of a very trivial character.'? Continuing, ! said, "this is the tranh to cover up the trap." In a few words he expresses the whole of it. The Democrats have proposed a lot 01 trashy - amendments, none of which are necessary, or even desirable ana seek, by misleading the public, to blind ' the eyes of the people to tluwe amendments, which if adopted, will deprive them of their liberties. "We hope our publie speakers will uote this strong figure of speech, and use it when they address the people. lct them enforce tho idea that the people are expected to go blindly into the trap, and that this trap is covered with this to deceive Iho eye. AVv North State. ' The 1iankri.it j-aw,- mm law has just been amended by Congress. Tho following is the amendment 1 - Sec. 5103 The rcviwd statute is hereby amended as follows : . At any time after the expiration ofsix months Team the adjucalion of .bankruptcy, or if no dobts lwc Ren proved against tho b-mkropt, or if no awcta have come into tho hands of tlis as signee at any time after the expira tion of 30 days ami before the finsl disposition of the cause, tho bankrupt may apply to the the Court for a dis charge from his debts. This section to apply in all cw heretofore or hereafter commenced. . Agsncy Indians along tho Upper Missouri, who have received an ac count of Ciutcr's fight through soma hostile braves who took part in it, say Cnstcr shot three Indiana with his pistol, and killed thrre other with his sabre, when he Ml. idiot through the brad by "Urvin ii tha Face," a chief ' ' 1 Cui-r 1 . 1 f-r. cibly arretted some time a 40, fr murder. The Indians lost 70 killed among thcia many noted chief. Tha fight, was hand to hand. Thq lu u ::ii9 say they did not f -i.r t' " J i toI so much ns the :.' h. 1h v are neai ly will not f out of au. ht p;-'i!ri uii .iiuii. ..1 th. . R. si y from t! K ('.... 't j: 1. 8!.: ;: arc- are t t j 1
Statesville American and Tobacco Journal (Statesville, N.C.)
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Aug. 12, 1876, edition 1
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