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J. J. 13BUNER,
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This unrialltl Southern Remedy ia warrant
ed not to contain a single particle of Mercxby,
or an injurious mineral substance, but ia
rUHJDLTT VBQLTABLE,
containing those Southern Roots and Herbs,
which an all-wise l'rovidence has placed in
countries where Liver Diseases most prevail. Jt
will Cut t ull JjUtcue caused by Derangement of the
Liter. .
The Svm r0M8 of Liver Complaint are a bitter
or bad taste in the mouth; 1 am in the liack,
Sides or Joints, often mistaken for Rheumatism
.Sour Stomach; Loss of Appetice; Bowels alter
nately costive! and lax: Headache: Loss of mem
ory, with a painful .sensation of having failed to
do something which ought to have been done ;
Debility, Low Spirits,' a thick yellow appearance
of the Skin and ivves, a dry though olten mis
taken for' Consumption. Sometimes many of
these symptoms attend the disease, at others, very
few : but the Liver, the largest organ in the
body, is generally the Beat of the disease, and if
not Regulated in time, great sunering, wretched
new and DEATH will ensue.
This Great Unfailing SPECIFI&villnotbe found
the Least Unpleasant.
i Tor DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION", Jann
die, Billions attacks, SICK HEADACHE
Colic; Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH
Heart Burn, te., c.
Simmont' Uvtr Regulator, or Medicine,
Is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family Medi
ane in the W orld !
MANUFACTURED OSLY BY
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Macon, 0a. and Philadelphia.
Price, 51.00. Sold by all Druggut.
FOU SALE BY TUE0. F. KLUTTZ.
June 19 tt. f Salisbury N,
COME
TO THE
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And get Bibles. Prayer Books, Hymn
Books of any kind you. want; Histories.
Biographies, Music Books. Music. Novels of
the best authors; Blank BooksrAlbums of
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Views ; School Books, all kinds in general
use. Slates, Inks, Writing Paper of the best
quality; Wall Paper and Window Shades
lu great variety, Musio Teachers for vocal,
Pinnos, Banjo, violins &c.
A WORD TO TARMERS.
Buv a few dollars worth of books every
year for your sons and hacdsand take a good
newspaper, they will work better and be more
cheerful. Try it. -
A WORD TO FAB.BXX3XIS SOUS.
You have something to be proud and to
. jboaajt of. The farm is the keystone to every
industrial pursuit. When it succeeds all
prosper; when it fails, all flag, Don't think
voa can't be a great man because you are
the son of a farmer. Washington, Webster
and Clay" were farmer's sons, but while they
tolled they studied. So do ye. Buy a good
book, one at a time, read and digest it, and
then another.
Pall and see me and look over books.
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April 24, 1873-6moi.
EVERYBODY.
The World . Astonished.
THE AMERICAN
Bulton-Hole, 0 verseaming
! AND
COMPLETE SEWING MACHINE.
i
The first and onlr BUTTON-HOLE AND
SEWING "MACHINE combined that has
made its advent this or any other country.
JftsT" The following reasons are given why
this is the best.1 x
Family Machine to Purchase.
1. Becaoe it will aoi 7. Because von can
everything that any ma-quickly raise or lower the
chine can uo,:; sewing teed to adapt it to toick or
from the n nest to the, thin cloth.
Coarsest material, hein
mintr, felling, ! cordinz.
8. Because yon have a
short deep bobbin by
braiding, binding, gath-
which the thread is on-
ering and sewing on. at stantly drawn from the
the same time ruffling.
centre ; the tension con-
quilting-, etc., better than sequentfy even and does
an
other machine.
not break the thread.
Because the tensions
y. uecause the passer-
are more easiiy adjusted foot turns bad ; that the
than any other machine.
cloth can be easily rrmov
3 Because it can work ed after being sewed.
a beautiful button bole
10. Because the best 1
making as fine a pearl as
by the hand.
4. Because it will em-
merchanics pronounce it
the best finishad and made
on the best principles of
broi Jer.o ver the edge mak any machine manufactur
ing a neat and beautiful ed. It has no springs to
border on any garment.
break; nothing to get out
5. Because it will work of order.
a beautiful eyelet hole.
11. Because it is two
6. Because it i can do machines in one. A But
over-hand seaming, by
ton-hole Wohxikg and
which sheets, pillow cas
ewisq Macbikx com-
es and the like are sewedibined.
over and over.
W No other Machine can accomplish the
kind of sewing stated: in os. 3, 4, 5, and 6.
' Parties using a family sewing machine want
a Whole Machine, one with all the improve
ments.
; It is to last a LIFETIME, and therefore one
i wanted that will do the most work and do it
th best : and this machine can do several kinds
of sewing not done on any other machine, besides
doing every kind that all others can do.
; The American or Plain Sewing Machine.
(Without the button-hole parts), does all that is
lone on the Combination except button-hole
and overseamtng. ;
MERONEY & BRO., Agts.
Salisbury N. C.
Examine them before purchasing any other
bewing Machine.
I.do not hesitate to nay the American Combination,
surpasses all other machines. Besides doing all
the work that other machines can, it overeeams.
worksDutton-holea in-a-riy fab.-ic, from Swiss mu-
tin to Beaver cloth. I have useil Singer's Sloat?
Howe's and the Weed machines, and find the Amer.
ican far supeiior to them all.
Miss M. Rctledge.
I have used sit different Sewing Machines. The
American surpasses them all.
? Mrs. A. L. Raikey.
I have used The Singer and otner machines and
wou'd not exchange the American for any.
"f j Mrs. II. N. Bbikgie.
Salisbury, N. C, Kay 22, 1872.
Me'iokey & Bro.. Agts, American Com; S. M
Sir : I have ussd the Howe. Stcger, Wheeler &
Wilson, Wilcox & (Jibbs Sewing machine, and
would not give the A merican Combination for all of
them, it will do all that isclaitf.ed font in the tircu-
lar. I consider its aperior to all others 1 have ever
seen. . Very liespectfuilj.
Mrs. Geo. W. Harrison,
We the undersigned take gret pleasure in giving
our testimony of favor of the American Sewing
Machine in preference to any oUier, benevnc tbht
His truthfully recommended as the bet-t machine
made. It is simple, runs very light aud doe not
get out of order tor drop sticlies .
- MRS. LACK A M . UTEBlf AN,
v 'i " A. L. ForsT,
'J. Allen Chows,
44 A- W XtvnEBy.
'A. E. J0XE8.
44 M. E Thomasok,
We have seen flaming advertisements and heard
much said hy Agents of other .machines.
We will forfeit one hundreds dollars to the con
tending natty, if after fair trial before competent
judges the American Machine will not do as well
if not better, the work done on any otner macbine.
and do valuable work that no other machine can
do.
We have been Agents for Sewing Machine sinre
1856 have sold Singer's Lad Webster's Atwater's
aad Floience's, and have abandoned all for the
American.
Bend and get sample af work.
No 40.-tf
MERONEY& BRO- Ag'st,.
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INSURANCE
fJOMPAlvY
OF RICHMOND, VA.
Assetts, 1st January, 1873, - $472,867.23
Issues Annual, Term, and
Participating Policies.
Farm Property a Specialty.
DR. II. G. DAVIDSON, President.
JO&DANN. MARTIN, Vice-President
J, k. NEISWANGER, SecreUry.
j S, B. JOi CS, General Agent.
J. ALLE bWN, of Salisbury,
j ' I Canvassing Agent.
LEWIS C. HANES, of Lexington,
1 JjOcal and travelling Agent.
May 22,17. '
THE SOUTHERN MUTUAL
I INJUNCTION.
Mr. Thomas Webb of this county has
obtained from Judge Clarke an iu junction
restraining the R. & D. R. R. Co., from
changing: the gnage of the N. (J. U. U.
track. ibis is the ostensible object of
the injunction, but it is really more com-
preheof ive in its scope, looking forward
to the cancellation of the lease, and a final
test of its legality.
Mr. Webb sustains his complaint by a
series f allegations to the number of
eighteen. We have not the space to
specify them. It is enough to say, that
establishing the fact of the usurpation of
power and authority by a combination
nf defunct officials, which he does in the
8.h allegation, he proceeds to show that
this combination, illegal as it was, in con
junction with W. A, Smith, their PreN
dent, and using the corporate seal of the
Company secretly, and without the kno l-
dge f die Stockholders generally, but
with the connivance of nniue holding laige
numbers of shares, executed a deed or
wiiting. denominated a lease, to the R. &
D. R: R. This lease transferred to that
Company for 30 years, "all the property
and rights of the N. C. R. R , at an an
nual rent $260,000. Mr. Webb contends
that this lease is void, that neither a legi
timate board of Directors, nor the Stock
holders, can delegate such powers, and
that the R. & D. R. R: Co., is a foreign
corporation, and cannot receive as proprie-
tor tbeS property of the N. C R. R. Co.
Thai it is beyond the corporate power of
the N.:U. Lload to grant the lease ; that
the rent stipulated is too small, and in
snfficieptly secured ; that the N. C. R. R.,
was designed as-a grand trunk of internal
improvements io the State, which idea
had been so far carried out that a car from
Wilmington or Newhern, may unload at
the foot of the Blue Ridge ; that the four
foot eight inch gnage was adopted, which
is the guage of all roads north connecting,
except the R. & D. R. R; that the R. &
D. R. R., propose to change the gnage
from Greensboro to Charlotte to five feet
to conform to the guage of the R&D and
the S C Roads, thus severing the N C
system, and entailing heavy loss of busi
ness and increased expanses of transport
tation.I The 14th allegation complains
that the resources of the N C R R estima
ted at five million dollars are made subject
to a debt of only four hundred thousand
subsidiary to the interests of the R&D
R R owning a track of 140 miles, and
heavily burdened w'rtn debt, &c , &c.
The 16;h allegation protests against
the surrender of the property of the N C
R R to the control of an irresponsible and
foreign corporation, &c., &c.
Whereupon, Judge Clarke granted the
injunction, restraining the defendants from
changing the triage of the road until the
further order of the Court, and requiting
the plaintiff to enter into bond in a sum
not exceeding 320,000.
We iliave made a synops'a as brief as
possible, Eut it leaves us no room for com
ment in this i?sne. It is a measure con
certed j;i?h deliberation, and framed with
great ability, aud is a formidable demon-
ft ration of the avowed sentiment of those
btockhhlders who feel and believe that
their rights have been bargained away,
and their interest? trifled wuh.
j Hillsborough Recorder.
THE SALARY GRAB.
llie ew lorK vvorla savs the more
the back-pay operaiiou 1 the last Con
gress js examined the greater does its
iuiquity appear. It was formerly iiu
fusion) .to pay Senators and Repr coi.
ties ilieir salaries at the cloe of eaeh
year, the. Sergeantat-Arras of each ILniee.
advancing money to members on iheir
salaryi as their necessities lequired, but
a full settlement was imdeouly at the
end of the y.ur. In 18G7 a law was
passed providing that each member could
draw his salary at the end of each month.
The Sergeant-at-Arms draws from the
1 reasriry etirh month the amount neces-
, sary to pay Congressional salaries, and al
the end of the mouth the members are
paid by bim, he taking their receipt in full
for the! month. Under the operation of
the law of 1867 the Senators and Repre
sentatives in the last Congress had been
paid fh all but the lat month of their
term when the "back salary'' was passed
by them and had given tlieir receipt in
full, which receipt was held by the Gov
ernment. Lach Senator and member bay
ing given a receipt in full up .to and ins
eluding the last day of the preceding mouth
they go to work and pass a bill under the
pretense of giving themselves an increased
pay for the put two years, when in fact
they bad given a receipt in full for all
salary at the end of each month. Their
action? therefore, was simply voting them
selves $5,000 each as extra compensation
for the last.moutb of the term for which
they were elected. Under this rule, if
they can vote themselves $5,000 extra
for one month under the pretense of back
services, they can for every month of their
term, and there will be no end to the
"salary grabs" in the future unless those
who participated iu !.-" last are repudiated
and condemned bv their conbtituents.
The custom of transferring shares to
escape personal liability has received a
judical bjow in England. Walter Wil
liams, shareholder in "the European So
ciety' (whatever that may be) give notice
to the directors of bis desire to transfer
l.OOO shares iu the Society to George GiU
bert, gentleman, in consideration of 5.
The transfer was executed. The Society
went to insolvency, when it turned out
that Mr. George Gilbert was a blind man,
and at the date of the transaction had not
5 in the woild. The official liquidator
applied to have Williams' name placed in
the list of contributories, and Lord West
bury, without the least hesitation, and
wit K aimo lanra rmarra nnon
the dis
honeitj of the transaction granted the
application.
SALISBURY N. C JULY
Correspondence of the New York World.
A RAILROAD RING CONVULSED.
A Great Highway Stolen cn Destroyed.
Huntsxille, Ala., July 13 Not
more than & year ago Tom Scott (some
times called the Southern Railroad Secu
rity Company) leased the Memphis and
Charleston road, three hnndred miles long
from Memphis to Chattanooga. It was
stipulated in the lease that the road should
be thoroughly repaired, and supplied with
the mils and rollingstook, and given at
once a "first-class equipment." The road
in in a wretched condition. The eating
lion- are villianous, sleeping cars iufes
led with vermin till they became insufTcra
hi aud were taken off the road, passeuger
c irn are villanouoly filthy and the road,
people ay, is purposely (destroyed, that it
may never consulate a route competing
wuh fcntt 0 more cosily lines through the
Citroliiias aud Georgia to Vicksburg,
Shreveport, New, Oi leans, Texas, and
the Pncfic. In other words, it is believed
that Scott leased the road to destry it, aud
the contract of lease defines no penally fi r
itsviolation It is also true that u was
understood 'when the lease was made that
Scott had contracted for the Memphis
and Little Rock road, which was to be ex
tended at once to Shreveport, and thence
across lexas to the Pacific, bew York
Memphis thus became a point in the short
est line from New York city to Marsal,
Texas, the initial point of the Texas
Southern Pacific. But Scott has utterly
refused to have aught to do with the road
in Arkansas, and is certainly destroying
the road valueless as managed between
Memphis and Chattanooga. In very truth
it is generally believed that Tom Scott
and Newcomb, of the Memphis and Lou's-
vine, una aicomo the three owning
nearly all the railroads in the States
11 1 a
have combined to destroy Memphis and
crush the Memphis aud Little Rock road,
and thus prevent the extension of the
road from Memphis to Shreveport. The
result of this state of facts and of this al
leged fraudulent conduct on the part of
Tom Scott is the preparation of a bill to
be filed in the United State Court at
Huntsville praying that the contract with
Tom Scott's rinr be set aside, and that
Scott's agents Sacqucs and others be
enjoined from the further destructive use
of the road ; and the prayer is that the
whole'property be placed in the hands of
a receiver till the validity of the contract
or lease be determined The stockholders
of the road who leased to Scott, meet
here on the 29th instant, and there will
be a terrible struggle to control the action
of the body by Scott's friends and enemies.
I am persuaded that by the time this
meeting occurs Scott will own a majority j
of the stock, and that an end of the road
The price of the. stock, which is being
quietly bought up by Scott's represent
tatives, may advance from IS to 50 cents
within twentysfour hours after the publi
cation of these facts.
THE DAN BURY NEWS MAN DIS
CUSSED. Frark Leslie's WceUy says : American
humorists ar( a queer race. They aie
generally .orn on some country uewupa
per, aud cease to be funny whenever they
s.-ek a broader field for the display of
iheir lah'nts. The first of thern vr Dne-
sliek we soeak of liii.i bec.ii.t-e he is
forgoitei -im th last ii. wa bcln ve, ih
VK'ibury N ' Man. In It 8 diy, D e-s-it-k
considered very funny, and
!-' Uoghed iinin leratf ly at such fine
tln.igs i i his letters, as ''and we took
another gl-is uf beer." Now it would he
impossible io force a smile out of a laugh
ing machine at such stupidity unless
some other favorite should say it. The
new favorite ihe Danbury N'-ws Man
can b - dull as he pleases while he lasts,
and everything he says will be received
us wise ann witty, out he cannot last
long. He has already taken the first step
toward oblivion he has published a book.
By the time he has published as many
books as Doesticks and the rest, he will
be as completely forgotten.
We like this Danbnry News Man as
much as it is possible to like any Danbury
man. lie is a Drignt chap, ana lie tias
made Danbury as bright as he is himself.
w m a 1
rr .it.. 11 1
it ne troes on, people may even leain
a a w
where Danbury is situated
We shall
like him all the more tor so important an
Addition to ffn-rnhical diseoverv. Even
the school geographies will have a chapter
something like this: "Danbury, a village
on the river, or basin, or bay, or
sound, or something, in the State of Con
necticut ; population, the Danbury News
Man; product, humor." Danbury will
then be of as mnch importance as Ujiji or
Ugogo, and the other places which Stanly
discovered for the Herald ; and the Dan-
bury News Mandrill be as much a bene
factor of mankind as the discoverer of
Livingston.
POSTAL CARDS.
The Morgan Envelope Company, which
holds the contract from the Government
for the manufacture of postal cards, have
giving up night and Sunday work, having
increased their facilities to such an extent
that they now turn out 600,000 postal
cards per day. For some lime past the
company experienced diffiulty in obtain
ing paper in sufficient quantities, but new
arrangements have been made, and they
will soon receive enough paper for 1,250,-
000 cards per day. The company will
then increase their production to 800,000
cards per day, and the supply will be kept
up until all demands are satisfied- The
total number of cards ordered up to July
1 was 31,038,000, and over 3,000,000
hare been called for since that time.
Large orders are also held back at Wash-
MngtoTi- The total amount of 0 thead
J at the factory is about 14,000,000.
31. 1873.
HETjlODIST HISTORY.
Tlie Methodist Conference Centennial
in Philadelphia.
The centennial celebration of the First
Methodist (Annual Conference, ncer.tly
held in Philadelphia, is a vcrv iuten siiiio
gathering.
Tho First Methodist confer
ence was held 111 St. Ueor?e'a church.
Philadelphia, on the 14th, 15:b and 16:h
days of July, 1773. Til? Conference was
called for the 13th .of July, 1773, but ou
account of the absence of manv of the
preachers 110 business was transacted until
the follow lug day. The committee hav
ing the centennial celebration lu charce
determined lo include the 13lh as well
ms the Mih, 15. h, and 16:h days of July.
MM I - . . .
1 ue general committee recommended that
on the first of these days Saiulty the assem
bling of 1 he conference be commemorated in
all the Met hod in churches of the land. It
was not, Ijowever, so observed to any
conid-ral!4 exteut except iu Philadelphia
and within j.he bounds of the old Phila
delphia conference, where sermons were
preached having reference to the subject
of the early hisiory and rapid growth of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Conference of 100 years ago was
tho first Assembly of Methodist preachers
iu America for the purpose of consulta
tion in regard to their work ; but it was
not a "Conference" in the sense in which
the word is now used, noedid the preachers
belongto ajdistiuct church as now. The
Methodist; Episcopal Church'' did not
exist until tjie winter 17841 1 years later
than the Philadelphia Conference. When
John Wesley, in 1739, at the solicitation
of Whitfield, who had preceded him in
the work, tegan his ministries as a field-
preacher ia England, he had no design of
organizing an ecclesiastical syptem outside
and independent of the English church,
of which he himselflived aud died a mem
ber. He proposed to ins'itute a society
as an evangelizing supplement to the Es
tablished Church, and took special pains
to do nothing which would look like dis
loyalty to! that church except when he
thought himself compelled to do so by the
exigencies of the mission to which he felt
Sltlusl T wna nnt until 1 t C I. r. t T t
iook I lie nrsi step lowaru tue organiza
tion of a "church." Previous to that lime
Methodists had considered themselves
members of the Episcopal Churc' , and
had received the sacraments In the chinch-.
es and from the ministers of the estab
lishment. All the Methodist preachers,
who had not been ordainod as rerrul ir
Church of England clergymen, were situ-
it ut i ! i f i
; piy "lay preactiers, anu peilnrmed no
; ciuircu uiiiciions ; urn m iioi lucre were
1 in America 81 Methodist preachers and
io.uuu iUeinodisi laymen. iiiev were
F IT .1 I' . 1 fill
scattered all over thu couutrv. and the
Episcopal chtnehea being few and
Ia a
eedsible to manv. thi lar-'e bodv cf f li rii
mac-
tians were deprived of all "church" rela-
tionshij-, ami of participation in the sacra
ments. K'-prcseutatiuns of iheir need
were made fiotn time to lime to Wc.Icv.
and noiably by the convention of preach
ers which met in Philadelphia in 1773.
lie. pitying their condition, and yet wish
ing to avoid irregular net. on, besought the
B !iop of Losdon to ordain ministers who
sh'iuld administer the sacraments among
the Aruericau Methodists. The rcq ifl
bei.ig refused, he thought' himself ant iiori
ze.l by t!e neccesi'.ics of the cae to him
self ordain 'I hmn as ('oke, already a pres
bytt. in the Englisli Chinch, n Superinten
dent or Ui.'hop for America. )n Christmas
dy, 17b4, many as possible and the
Metliixiwi pK-a.liiTK iu Ara ric. mtt in
15 iliituore, HUlmp Cke presiding, nnl the
Meihitd.ist Episcopal ' huich was orgatii
z d. lie oid lined ihe preachers us min
isters, and during the s.iuie session ordaio
ed Francis Asbury wlio had been elected
to the office) Bishop of the hew church,
i It will thus be see.i that the Methodists
Episcopal Church, as a dintinct ecclesi
astical body, lacks, 11 years of Lcing a
hundred years old ; and in 1SS 4 the Metho
dists ol Ijallitnnre will without doubt ctle
. brate tho centenary of Methodism.
Singular Case of Depravity-.
Greenville, (Tenn.) Letter to Knoxville
! Press and JIcrald TUe cholera al Green-
ville 1,a9 developed a few ca?es of mon-
"nous uepravuy, one 01 wn.cii X win re
i late without mentioning names. Au old
' gentleman, prohablv nearly seventy years
!faSc' wuo MVfd a m lo or two iu the
country and noted for his recklessness and
ntter defiance ot the laws of God, came
il,t0 one d l.v, and passiu
g down the
street cried out that he intended to spread
the cholera over the town. He then went
to an undertaker and wanted to know if
he could make him a Collin and what he
would charge. The reply was tL t if he
wanted it before his deatn he would charge
him twenty-five dollars, but if after, he
would charge only fourteen dollars. He
told him to proceed with the matter, but
to be sure to tu ike it out ol two-inch plank
and leave it open at both ends, so thai if
a
the devil pomes in at one end he could
escape at the other. That night he was
stricken down with the cholera, and by
morning was
a corpse.
Scandal. The story is told of a wo
man who freely used her tone to the
scandal of others, and made confession to
the priest of what she had done. He gave
her a ripe thistle top, and told her to go
out in various directions and scalier the
seeds, one by one. vt onaertnz at tue
penance, tse obeyed, and then returned
- t rv a
and told her contessor. lo her amaze
ment, he bade her go back and gather the
scattered seeds; aud when she objected
that it would be impossible, he replied
that it would be still more dimcol: to
gather up nd destroy all evil reports
which she Imd circulated ahont others.
Any thoughtless, careless child can scatter
a bandfull of thistles seed before the wind
in a moment, but the anoogest and wisest
man cannot p.ther them again.
NO.:
St. Loo'n Cilube iflat Salurdaj.J
UUKIED ALIVE.
A Little Girl Cries WOpen Open" from
Her Grave and is Ilocucd.
Yesterday everingjn Gld reporter
obtaiued an inkling of jwhat seemed to be
a eeuatioual graveyard ravncry. which
excited enough curiosity to induce him to
investigate it thoroushlv. Accordinrlv
be vuiied the young lady from whom the
report originated and itUrviewcd not only
I t . r .
uer, out uer lather anct mother. The re
sult of the conference was the statement
of Miss Mary Myers, who is an interesting
young miss, fourteen years of age next
month. i
On Thursday rooming, between 3 and
o'clock. to visited the "Old Picket
Graveyard," on the Uravois road, for the
purpose of watering .some Sowers and
plants which bad been set out on the
graves- of her dead brothers and sisters.
tor in number, the las;of whom had been
buried some seven vrars since, which
plants, were set out lajt Saturday. After
watering the fliwcrs ;sho took a stroll
through the old graVeyard aud io her
pergiiuations noticed j a liltle losemary
shrub ou a newlv made erave.
Un slopping to examine and smell of it
she heard a voice from the prave crvin-
Open, open." The young lady became
very much agitated, but still preserving
her consciousness starred off in search of
assistance, tspyuig two meu net a great
distance off she went to them aud related
what she had heard. At first they laughed
at her, but at length, becoming impressed
with her earnestn?ss, Uhey consented to
follow her to the grave which had a small
i ..." ...
uoard at the head of iti on which was in
scribed.
"Emma CipiEWE,
1S7.
The men found some shovels near by.
and immediately commenced unearthing
the coffin. At length ll)e dirt was reraored
and the coffin laid bare, They then forced
open the lid of the wooden burial cae.
when a young giil, between nine and ten
years of age, rose from the coffin.
She was iinmediitel4 assisted from the
grave, and seeing the. young lady, Miss
Myers, caught hold of her dress, calling
her "Mens!, Mena." She also claimed
one of the men who hid unearthed her
from her living grave as her father, but
he denied knowing hex.
Look Witmix. An English medical
man hu.3 invented a nncliiue by which he
throws such a powerful light upon the
human body that the Uesh and blood arc
made transpjtcnt, and in ibis manner any
derangement of the internal orgaus may
be readily detected. : We welcome this
invention with a feeling of intense delight.
We have long desire to sec an encrge'.ic
slomaeh-ache in active opraiion, and
now ilm wish cm bo' gralificd. A ihi.ig
of this ki.id will ho! vcij convenient in
many respects. Aftfr a hearty supper a j
man will be able to lok in and c wheth
er it is the lobster salad or the clams that
disagree with him : when he has a pain
iit his leg hj can examine it ami see wheth
er one of his libs h ii slipped down into
iiis calf ; he can hunt round in his bram
for ideas without thej trouble rf thinking
about them ; he can i-xamiue hi theuuia-
tism at k-Uurc and see how it works;
.1 1 t . .
anu tie cau till wiiu accuiacv when Ins
ivcr gets out of rejnir and he n.ed a
new one. o snail buv -one of iliesc
machines and illuminate our friends. It
will kill the medicalJprofession. When a
man can delect awhooping cough the very
minute it is organizing inside for woik,
and can go for it at 'once, ihe doctor and
undertakers will have to quit the business
Max Adlcr.
A REMINISCENCE OF THE WAR.
Iu bis Jail Jokrnal John Mitchell
writes of helium days, ISG2, in Richmond.
Speaking of iho organization of the Con
federate array, let as here mention fo a
very surprising part of his history. "Tho
officers beinjr elective, and the time an-'
pointed for the new. election failling last
summer, just when tlie enemy, in
overwhelming forci was pressinz upon
Yorktown on tliei way up the penin
sula toward Richmond, the elections were
hold there and ihea, ou the lines, in the
trenches, in actual presence of the enemy.
as there ever before an instance of an
army changing, by election, the whole
body of its regimental officers on tho very
eve of battle I Yt here it was done,
quietly, regularly without a moment's
excitement or confusion. This, as well as
several otliei examples I could mention,
has brought metotlC conclusion that of all
races of men of the; world, tbesesouthern
ers nave ine largest amount 01 sang jroia
of genuiue iinpassivecoolnesa and stead-
mess, let the vtrV contrary is tho cur
rent and received icjea of their character.
Southern impulsiveness, southern passion, j
and wild, blind fury this is the cant
the direct opposite is the fact.
Axothiu Tr.A'f ed r. All About a
Note. A Marion paper says: An affray
occurred in Rich Valley on Thursday last
which resulted iu the death of one of the
parties and the serious wounding of an
other. It seems that Jordan Combs had
traded for a note oit Charles Phipps, about
which they had a misunderstanding, and
that Combs went to Phipp's house to see
him about it, when a quarrel ensued and
Comb drew a pis5d and shot Phipps, the
balls taking f fleet n the abdomen, caus
ing his death next day. Immediately
after the shooting (leorge Robertson, who
was wiih Combs, discharged
shot-gun
ho was
Montgomery Buchanan,
brother-in-law of Phipps, the load lodjinz
iu bis bead, causing a serious though per -
baps not fatal wocriid. Combs and Robert -
son escaped, and 4-up to the present time
hare not teen arrested.
4C WnOLEKO. foC
8TICK JT ON TIIK MINli
A boy in a fit of passion, spoke God's
name la vain. As soin as the Words
were out of Lis mouth, ) he was aslumed
and sorry, and when he went befoe be
asked bis mother to wjite down til tho
Bible said about profarte swearing He
said '-be wanted to study it, and slick It
ou bis mind, and carry h about with Mm
everywhere." So she 'found and copied
loc loiiowing irxu :
"1 bou shalt not take the name tl thu
Lord thy God in vaio ; for the Lord will
not bold him guiltless j who taketk 11 la
name in vain." Exodus 20:S. j
"Ye shall not swear by my name false
ly, neither shalt thou profane the Dameof
tby God ; 1 am the Lord," Lev. 19:12.
" Beca u se of s w earin g tie land tnou rneth ;
the pleasant places of the wtldertftit are
dried op." Jer. 28:10. j !'
"I say unto you, swear not al all j
neither by heaven, for ii is God' throne ;
nor by the earth, for it s His foot! tool ;
neither by Jerusalem, for it is the City ef
the great King. Neither shall thoa wear
by tby bead, because d4 canst not make
one hair white or black. Bat let j jour
communication be Yea, yea; Nay J nay;
for whatsoever is more than these c4meth
of evil." Matt. 5:31 -37.
"Above all things, my brethren, swear
not ; neither by the earth, ; neither by anj
other oath ; but let your yea be yc4, and
your nay, nay; lest' ye U into condem
nation." Jarue 5:12. (
He learned these scriptures, and-f bare
written them down fjr every boyi who
reads these lines to learn them also.
Graxt ox Prokaxitt. On Friday,
before leaving for Long Branch, the Presi
dent dropped in to see a well-known cili-
zen of Washington. During bis stay the
daughter of the gentleman referred to, re
marked that she had heard a pleasant
thing aboul him (the Prriident). ( The '
Presided inquired to what she referred.
"I have been told by an joflicer who, serv
ed with you in thirmy,V said she, f'lhat
he had been with you under many trying
circumstances, and in n single instance,
no matter what the provocation, bad be
ever known you to make one of profane
langnage. 1 was delighted to bear this,
especially in view of the fact that profanity
is raid to be the rule, and Lot the excep
tion, among army officers. Will you ex
cuse rce, Mr. President if I inqiire if
what I heard is true." "It is, I believe,"
modestly replied ihe President: "Ehavo
always regarded profane .language as un
necessary, to say the least, and as I'am a
man of few words, I have never bee able
to understand the necessity of useless ex
pressions of the character referred to.
Il'a.i. $tir.
A Delilah. A ccttijn civil engineer
r.f tin. State was employed, a monlb ago-,
near tha line 1 tli Pcnnlylvauia Central
railroad in examining anil measuring som
coal lands. II is a rain! not only skilled
in his proftenoii but very observing and
investigating. In a conversation j wiib
him on bis return to Yirgin;a, be made
some rt rnark- not without interest, j
He gave iiluftia" u:ji which we need
not repeat, to shorr the grinding despotism
ot the Tom Scoii road. It held tlie coal
and imn men by the throat and! made
them "divide." By refusing them trans-
porta: ion, wLch is done by a subterfuge,
i!c ownris of valuable miues are compell
ed to sell 10 a ring, composed of certain
railroad officials, an interest in their pro
perty. The manufacturers and farmer
sufT r the same extortion. , A road intend
ed for the benefit of the pnblie becomes a
curse. A corporation chartered as a Itaad
maid to iudustry i. turned to a brigand,
plundering the people and selling at de
fiance the law, or ia; her owning the
makers of the statutes. , J
How hapless a people whose servant
has become a cru.l monster. Virginia
must watch this powerful scheming and
tyrannical corpo,.:ion. If ouce we fall
into its hands, we shall wear its mabacles
forever Lrxingfon ( Yi ) (imette.
To Pkevent $rx'f DevoiJriso
Young. A Scotch farmer writes : 1 no
ticed some tine ago a metbod for prevent
ing sows from devouring their young,
which they will do at times, and ome
times when they w.u't let down! their
milk. When this stale of things )l not
caused by a diseased condition oi the
uterus, it is said that the sow can be
brought to term, by pouting a mixture of
ten or twenty grains of spirits of camphor
with one to three ol liuciore of opiam, in
to the ear. The s iw will ira medially lie
down o(i the side of ihe ear to which the
application wan made, and remain' qoict
for several hours in this position, without
inierienug wan uer pigs j
and on feenv
have lost ber
'
ery from the stupor will
inilabihty in regard to tpcra. Tlie ex
periment has been tried in Germany
hundreds of times, accordjng to oue'of the
agricultural journal, wiihfut any injurious
effects. It is also said that the valine of
pigt by the p innt sow 'tin be rcad'ly
prevented by rubbing them all ovef with
brandy, and miking the lb me application
aboul the uos. of the sowl herself.
I
Frsi-R. The fence law of Texas bas
hitherto been a very curious one. Kverj
man was required to fejice against bis
neighbor's stock. In other words, jt was
required 10 fence out atock instead of
fencing them in. A bill' introduced into
the Texas legislature p eposes to change
this, and make a farmer fence in but cattle
instead of fencing out those of his fceigb
bor. Georgia also hat just passed a law
at 011 this subject, one very important to an
a agricultural cornminity. 'Under the stat -
ute. the boundary line of each lot or parcel
' of land is te be considered a lawful f-nce,
' and no animal ned to fit food orj labor
will be allowed to run at large beyond the,
limits of the land of the owucr.