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" - htMHKiMlifftM: Tin ?ii roTn t inn o Tnr ;- H SALISBURY. IT. C, AUGUST, 2, 1877. 170 41 . LL JLJLV - (UlJL HJJULJUKUj- . V.V Ub (LJlJUUlOJLlo " - -v: ' . ; ., ....... . . . .. ?. x .. . ' !' .. ; . ........ ..-:'.-.. . v '- ' ! ; . , J. ..: ' , . "OLD DUMPS." They used to make fun of him at the He was a queer old fellow, with a Lenin face, and, what we thought, ridi culously polite ways. He would takeoff big bat when he came in, and say : Good morning, gentlemen. I trust I iee you all in health this fine day." And some of the boys would nod and gome wouldn't do anything; but I never oold help standing up and bowing, per iapt because I knew that my mother a-ould have said I ought to do it. To be sure he was only on salary like ourselves, but he had been at R- & B's twenty-five years, and young fel lows had come and gone, and there he una. And. rou see, it was gentlemanly of him. I said : and if he was a little creature, with a q ueer little whig, why he looked something like a gentleman, too, I said once to Merrivale, next desk to mine ; but Vell 1 4idn't try it again. "You see, Merrivale was up to every thing, dressed elegantly, sneered at every thbg almost, and I'd come from a coun try town and he was a city, man. Xobody was down on "Old Dumps,' .k hp. was. especially after lie made us that 6pecch about our conduct to. the la die6. 'Dumps made a speech, you know ; and it was Merrivale who had said the lady only came in to look at him il'm sure sne really wanted to know the wav to the street she asked for ; and how she colored and hurried out ! And Dumps with his brown wig, look ed to me like the gentleman that day ; and Merrivale with his fine curling- hair and black moustache and broad shoulders, liieapuppj'. ' r "The man who calls a blush to the cheek nfa irood woman by look or tone must have forgotten his own mother," said Old Dumps "AY hen that lady asked you a civil question, she relied on her belief that you '.were a centleman. Mr. Merrivale. When yiin answered her as you did, and spoke of her aB you did, any one could read your insultiog thoughts, Mr. Merrivale; and you did not evert rise from your seat, sill You proved that she was very much mistaken' - 4,Meah to say I am no gentleman T" said Merrivale. N "In this, instance, sir," said Old Dumps, 'you ccitainly have not C45ndacted your self as one should." MerrJvah? pulled his coat half off, and pu led it on again." VPshaw," said he ; "he knows he's safe. There'd be no fun in knocking down an old bag of bones like that. I could do it with my little finger. But you attend to your own business, will you, Old Dumps, l ean behave myself w ithout your advice, and that -ain't the first woman that's come in just for a sort of flirtation. I'm used to that sort of thing. I am." 'Mr. Dumps is right this time," said I. "Bah !" said Merrivale. "You're from ihe country." 'Thank Heaven for it, then my young fneud, said Dumps, and sat down. After that' Merrivale was never half way vil to Dumps, and the boys followed Merrivale's lead. But I liked the old fellow. When we met in the street I'd takeoff my hat and shake hands, and say some of those polite things that moth er used to gay. And I wrote of him to mother, and she said she was glad that her bov knew what was due to a irood old i gentleman. But after all, in the office, ' you know what the boy thought and a I aui iiad its influence. Who were the boys f Why, there was Merrivale, with his darling airs, and his ay of letting you know he was favorite with the women. ! - adu Uarberrv. who didn t care about style, and knew the city. j And Stover, who used to come with red I eyes and headaches, and boast that he had been making a night of it. It was lonely enough in the great city, Mid I should have liked to join the com- pany with Dumps aud walk home with mm from church sometimes, but I was afraid of meeting one of the boys,and T never did. But I would bow to him, and we took our hats off to each other always. Sometimes, when I lived at Haredale wua my mother, I ve seen the sky beauti- ful and bright and blue one hour, and the ui Diack with the clouds of a thunder j storm. Just tha way my trouble came . to me an awful trouble such as I could not have dreamed of. j I had written to my mother that I was doing well and liked my business, and would be down to see-, her on Sunday, ' nen I was sent for to go into the inner J Aud once he-told me its sweet, sad sto office ; and there I can't go through with ry, and I knew why thequaintold man in t Lcan't even remember details ! But I - astharged with being a thief. iouu have to understand our particu-' lK business, as well as book-keeoinz. to i now how I waa supposed to have doue rtf but they believed I had robbed them Pf one hundred pounds. They urged me to confess., I was inno nt, and I said so. Then they told roe tly did not wish to be hard on me. I wagyottns. The citvwas a bad nlace r . - ior bo; ys. They would be merciful, and -&ly dismiss me without a recommenda tion! All I m,m .atri.n,! tu Prored m iUv Wnr fW I me guilty before thev accused me . - Wid ; and at last I staggered out in- to the office. The boys werejjetting ready to go home. 1 saw they knew what had happened. "Jfone of you believed this of me," ' aid I. "None of you who know me t" "And Merrivale said : "Look here, Forrester, you're very lucky to get off so." "Carberry said : "Now come we know too much to be fooled. It's always your sly boots oty a young man that does these sort of things." And Grab said : " "I say, Forrester, don't talk too much; you'll give yourself away." And Stover said : "Oh, go take a glass of brandy and wa ter, and don't go on like a girl about it." And with shame, and rage, and grief, I could have died ; when out of his dusty corner came little Old Dump, in his little snuff-colored overcoat, and held out his hand. - ' "Mr. Forrester," he said.- "I've watch ed you ever since you've been here. : I know what you are. You are incapable of a dishonest act, and what is more I will prove it before I rest. The man who honors his mother will do no dishonorable thing. He took my hand in his arm, and, bowl ing to the others, walked out with me.. I heard Grab and Stover and Carberry laugh, but Merrivale give us a furious look, and stood, white to the lips, looking after us. "Mr. Dumps," said I, "I thank you for your confidence in me I deserve it in this, at least ; but it saves my heart from breaking under this disgrace. How shall I tell my mother t" "Don't tell her yet " -said he. "Wait, Others shall think of you as I do soon. - Then we went ou in silence. He took me to his room, where he kept bachelor's hall. He made tea for me, and served me with sliced potted beef and thin bread and butter. The room was a strange, old tasu ion place, enougn .li Ke a room in a story and there was a minature of a young lady in the costume of forty years j before, on the wall over the mantel ; and of book shelves, old calf-bound volumns FieleRng's Amelia, Thaddeus of Warsaw, Evelina I can't tell you all of them ; and on the stand near the fire, the prayer book, with a book-mark hanging to it. And it was not until we had done tea that he said to me very apologetically; af ter I had called him Mr. Damps : "Jlr. t orrester, excuse me ; out l am not named Dumps. That is the name by which the young men at the store consid ered it witty to call me. I confess I could not see the wit, but it rather hurt them more than me. 1 saw by your manner that you had made a mistake. My name is Adams." I was so much ashamed of having used the nick -name, innocently as I did it, I could have cried. But my friend comforted me. I think that but for hii sympathy that night I should have taken my life. I did not be lieve he could help me even then. But be did. I said I could not tell you just what they accused me of doing unless you knew the ins and outs of our business. And I can't tell you how I did it for the same reason. But one day he came to me, flushed with triumph, and took botii my hands and shook them hard, and said : . "My dear boy, it's all right, I'd watched before and had a clue. Your character is cleared. The firm welcome you back, with regrets that tney sliould nave sus- pected you, and the real culprit is found. The real culprit is Merrivale, and Stover is his accomplice." And so it really was. They had doc- a -a - a - . a tored my books and meddled witn my proof. They made me out a thief as plain ly as though I had been one, and they never guessed that "Old Dumps," with his suspicions aroused, had played detec- tive. and was able to come to my rescue in the hour of need. I went back to my situation and I've got on well ever since ; but there's more of my story. Think of my dear Old Dumps turning out to be my uncle my mother's own brother- and neituer ot us , a guessing it. Long ago other people had quarreled and so separated these two, who were al ways friends. . Think of the little man in the shabby wig and coat proving to be quite rich, and going down the country to live with his sister for the rest of his life. In vacations and holidays I go to, see them. They are happy together, and the little tea is set with the china, and there is potted beef and jelly and I'm petted rlike a child. And in my uncle's room the old miniature of the young lady hangs on the mantal piece as it did in his lodgings. the office had a more true and tender cml - n"- lantry to women, and was a braver friend and more perfect, gentleman than the vOunir fobs who trrinned at him from th high stools between his desk and the win dow, and gave hira the nickname of Old Dumps. - Prayer is a haven to shipwrecked ma- rioers,an anchor to them thataresinkiutr in the Waves, a Staff to the limh thatWru- a mine , 'of jewels to the poor, a security to ' dim of health. ? ... , bu grayer at once, secures inecouunuanceoiouroiessings,anddis 1 X A 1) -a a umtiu tna cloud of our calamities. Chry$ottom. A MODEL SENTENCE. Three saloon-keepers in Chicago were found guilty of selling liquor to minors. . The address of the justice when they were ' t 1 xl r ecuicuccu, as reponeu in me imcago Tribune, is original and eminently whole some. The evils of the liquor traffic, and what a license involves, are rarely set out in a clearer light than the following ad dress by Judge Reading : "By the law you may sell to men and women, if they buy. You have given your bond, and paid your license to sell to them, and no one has a right to molest you in your legal business. No matter what the consequences may be, no matter what poverty and destitution are produc ed by your selling according to law,' you have paid your money for this privilege, and you are licensed to pursue your, call ing. No matter what families are dis tracted and rendered miserable ; no mat ter what children jitarve or mourn over the degradation of a parent, your business is legalized and no one may interfere with you in it. No matter what mother may agonize over the loss of a son, or a sister blush at the shame of a brother, you have a right to disregard them all and pursue your legal calling you are licens ed. You may fit up your lawful place of business in the most enticing and captivat ing form ; you may furnish it with the most costly and elegent equipments for your lawful trade ; you may fill it with the allurements of amusements ; you may use all your arts to induce visitors; you may skillfully arrange and expose to view your choicest wines and most captivating beverages ; you may than induce a raging appetite for strong drink, and then you may supply that appetite to the full, be cause it is lawful ; you have paid for it you have a license. You may allow boys almost children to frequent. your saloon ; they may witness the apparent satisfac tion with which their seniors quaff the sparkling class ; you may be schooling and training them for the period of twen ty-one, when they two, can participate, for all this is lawful. You may hold the cup to their lips, but you must not let them drink that is unlawful. But with all these privileges, that of selling to the children is denied you. Here parents have the right to say, "Leave my son to me uutill the law gives you a right to de stroy him. Do not anticipate that terri ble moment when I can assert for him no further rights of protection. That will be soon enough for me, for his mother, for his sister, for his friends and for the com munity to take his road to death. Give him to us in his childhood at least. Let us have a few years of his youth, in which we can enjoy his innocence, to repay us in some small degree for the care and love we have lavished upon him." This is somethingyou who now stand prisoners at the bar have not paid for this is not em braced in vour license. For this offense the court sentences you for ten days im prisonment in the county jail, and that you pay a fine of seventy-five dollars and that vou stand committed until the fine and costs of this prosecution are paid." DO IT WELL. How many persons there are who wish they could do a thing well, but wno are unwilling to give the time and strength to fit themselves for the work in question. Young teachers wish they could interest and profit a class as well as some highly successful teacher of their acquaintance ; yet they are not readjr to study as hard on their lessons week by week as that skilled teacher does ; nor will they pay as much attention as he Gives to wise methods of teaching. Another young per son wishes he could write attractively for the papers ; but he will not wait until he has trained himself for this sphere as, without exception, the best newspaper writers have. He who thinks that a man can preach well, or play well, or sing well, or write well, or play on a musical instru ment, or, in fact, do anything well with out hard work in learning how to do that thing, is greately mistaken. It is never easy to do a thing until a man realizes that it is hard to do it, S. S. Timet. HOW POISONS ABE SPREAD. Mr. G. Owen Rees, consulting Physician to Guy's Hospital, London, has called public attention to some unexpected sources of arsenical poisoning. The green calico lining of bed curtains has been found to have produced, for months, se vere sy s torn s, which were treated as those of natural disease, without benefit to the patients. When the curtains were re moved the patients at once recovered their health. The beautiful pale-green muslin, largely used for ladies' dresses, has been found to contain not less than 60 grains of the arsenical compound known as Scheele's green in every square yard. He suggests that, in order to prevent much of the nausea, vomitine:, headache, in flammation of the eyes, etc., from which so many suffer, there be a prohibition of the manufacture of such deleterious Iaonc8- ariet, and mauve-colored W 1 a a . I fabrics are not always free from arsenic. I Ha flrida that the AiritnHnn nf alrirfa in dancing discharges arsenical poison, which nmMhlr mnifi inm t fli j nollnr anil f ' , , V ,7 .T' T uuguor almost aiway wnoiiy attributed to I ill-ventilated and crowded rooms, and to bad champagne. UNIVERSITY NORMAL SCHOOL. 1 ...'- I Lecture bv Profettor ' Kerr, the 8tat. Geologist. CLIMATOLOGY AND GOtOGT. Special eorreppondenc of the Krvs. Chapel Hill, July 14, 1877. . The second lecture of the course was delivered yesterday afternoon by pTof. I The I W. C. Kerr, in the eollegs chapel. subject of the lecture was ' clixatologtV The importance of the Subject is not generally recognized. ' the climate of a country determines its products; cultiva tion. The climate of . England forbids raising of silkworms -or rf the grape; therefore England, in spite of long con tinued and obstinate attempts to 'carry On these industries, is compelled by na-ture-to import her wine and silk. She manufactures silk, to be sure, but the cocoons are imported. Climate is determined by temperature and moisture, controlled by geographical position and topographical relations. Temperature is determined chiefly by latitude, the thermometer falling 1 to H" for 1 of latitude, modified by 1. Elevation (3 for 1,000 feet). 2. The distance and direction of the coast lines and mountain -ranges. 3. Winds. 4. Ocean currents. Moisture or humidity depends on 1. Relation to water surface. 2. Winds. 3. Ocean currents. The winds from the African desert, very hot and dry at first, become charged with moisture as they blow over the Mediterranean, and reach Italy and Sicily -a . m a . . . in a condition iavorabie to vegetation. Winds from the same county become the hot, destructive monsoons of Arabia and India. The Mediterranean has changed the monsoon into the sirocco. So ranch forclimatology in general. Let us consider North Carolina. WHERE IS NORTH CAROLINA T Nobody knows. Fverybody says its lati tude is from 33 56' to 36 30 the real latitude is : S. E. corner, 30 51' 37": K. E. corner, 30 33' 15 "; X. W. corner, 36 34' 25i". Its topographical relations are as follows : It lies E. and W. 475 miles, N. and S. 100 miles. It is wide in the east, narrow in the west; low in the east, high in the west; sounds and lakes east, mountains west. It has five topographical and climate divisions : - 1. Seaboard, 50 feet elevation above the sea level. 2. Sandy pine barren, 100 to 200 feet elevation. 3. Hill country, 600 to 700 feet. 4. Piedmont, 1 ,000 feet. 5. Mountain plateau, 2,600 feet. The east end is thrust into the Gulf Stream and the west end is elevated The effect is nearly the same as it would be if the State were turned half around and lay lengthwise up and down the coast. The winds meet in North Caro Una and contend for the mastery; N. W. hot and dry; S. W., hot and moist N. E., cold. It cannot rain with a N. W. wind. The S. W. wind generally brings rain. The climate of North Carolina is dry, being about 60, that of Ireland is 88 London 80, New Orleans 86. North Carolina has every range of cli mate, producing ALL KINDS OF VEGETATION, balsam, palmetto, hemlock, live oak. . It has more varieties of any one botonical species than any other portion of the globe of the same extent. It has wild horses, whales and corals. The State is especially suited for manufacturing. Our rainfall gives us a power equal to the whole steam power of Eugland. The lecture was illustrated by maps, which displayed by means of lines the various features of climate described by Prof. Kerr. At. night the subject of the lecture was upon GEOLOGY RELATING TO COAL. Coal is a combustible black stone. It was used by the Greeks, Romans and Britons. It is used chiefly to feed steam eugiues. The mining of coal was attend ed by great danger until Sir Humphey Davy invented the safety lamp. Before that time the operations were either conducted in the dark or by the feeble light of phosphorescent wood, usually called fox fire. A dangerous gas, called fire damp, accumulates in the coal mine, and explodes in contact with flame. Davy's lamp cuts off the flame from the surrounding atmosphere by a covering of wire guage, through which the flame will not pass. " Prof. Kerr visited a coal mine in Eng land, went down a shaft 2500 feet deep iu a car. The coal cars were continually ascending and descending, bringing up two tons of coal every minute. In the mines, 2500 feet underground, were peo ple, horses, railways, a small village. Some of the men had not seen the light of day in thirty years. It was very warm, and the air had to be cooled by blasts of cool air blown in by the aid of the steam engine which was located in the hank near the shaft, 1,250 feet from the surface and furnished the power to carry on all the work. Coal, which is lower than 3,000 feet, cannot be mined, because at that depth the heat is too intense to per- m it men to labor. Below is a statement ' a . ai 1 w"" vywuu""J mmeu oy , the coal-producing countries : Great Britain raited states, Prussia ,.130,000,000 . . ,60,00,000 ..io,ooo,ooo ...15,000,00 ...13,000,000 , 600.000 700,000 Belgium. France Spain , .Nova 8coUa The following table shows the amount of coal to be mined in each of the coal- a A . . a proouemg countries, ine estimate is miles of surface lying above the coal- beds: United States............. Great Britain............. wo,ooo Sq. Miles. ....... ...is,oto Prussia i.boo sq. it. ..0 - Tance... 1,800 " t.000 Spain.. NoraS Scotia 18.000 M In Wales the coal goes down 12,000', feet, n Prussia 0,000, so that a large . " " ' a a . a I portion can never , oe minecu rAt . axgl feet below the surface the temperatuie is over 100 higher than blood heat. Some time ago England became ex cited about her supply of coal and ap pointed a commission to investigate the matter. It was calculated that the coal beds of Great Britain will be exhausted in 300 years. The English vessels are ordered to buy coal at foreign stations if possible. The source of coal is the carbonic acid of the atmosphere, which gave food to the trees whose bodies partly decaying form ed coal. If all the carbonic acid was con verted into coal there would be a layer of coal 1 foot deep over the whole globe or 4 feet deep over the land. There is more corbon in the air than in the coal beds. Most of the carbon exists in the form of limestone, and all this was also once in the atmosphere. Graphite of black lead, petroleum or rock oil, and diamonds are all carbon as well as coal. Coal in the earth exists in layers of various thickness and at varying depths under ground. In Wales the formation contains 60 seams or layers of coal, aggregation 120 feet of coal and lying from a few hundred to 12,000 feet lelow the surface. A seam must be 2 feet deep to pay for working. In Pennsylvania some single seams 100 feet deep have been found. Most of the seams are valueless, being less than 2 feet. A geologist can tell by the rocks of a country whether it has any coal and how deep the beds are. The earth is made of layers of rocks, and coal occurs in partic ular layers. Coal roust have formed very slowly, probably 1. yard ..in 1,000 years. A Welsh coal bed of 120 feet of coal must have required 40,000 years to form. The coal near EGYPT in North Carolina is 460 feet below the surface and the layer or seam is 5 feet thick. This lecture was well delivered and abundantly illustrated by means of maps. These two lectures should be delivered throughout the entire State and printed in pamphlet form for distribution. We regret our inability to give more than the above exceedingly hasty and meagre sketch. T. ELOQUENT EXTRACTS. Below we give to our readers a few ex tracts from a lecture delivered before the Normal School at Chapel Hill, by Prof. A. w. Mangum, well Known to our readers : "I have therefore concluded that I could find no subject more appropriate for an address before this association than TnE BIBLE THE TEXT-BOOK FOB ALL MEN AND FOR ALL AGES. Prof. Mangum asked was the Bible sufficient to establish the truth and reveal the true character of God. An argument of some length clearly establised the great aims and truthfulness of the word of God The Bible, character of God shows itself more plainly and effectively when com pared with the characters which have been assigned to "Jupiter of Mythology, the Krishm of Brahma of Paganism, the blind chance of the Fatalist, the crude fancy of materialism, the absurd omni formity of the Pantheist or any or all of the multiform and transcedental vagaries of infidel philosophy. So the Bible is not a failure but in its own glorious sphere is stilLun rivalled and victorious. Notwithstand ing all this it has determined enemies. The irreligious in the learned world leave no theory untested that gives the faintest promise of its refutation. We note es pecially three daring charges of modern infidelity. 1st. It contends that the mble is con tradicted by known truths in science 2nd. It affirms that the Bible is too re stricted in its plans of benevolence for this broad humanitarian spirit of this age. 3rd. It pronounces it autiquated, obso lete and unadequate to our era of great intellectual achievements and unprece dented refinement. In answer to the first he raised himself erect and with pride proclaimed that those branches which are arrayed against the Bible are successfully refuted by the Bible and its devotees. Progress is the foster child of christi auity. The Bible does not profess or aim to teach the world in art, science, letters and refinement, but under its benignant reign these eminent branches of human progress are most rapidly and inspirinclv - . W ueveiopea. iney nounsu most wnere Christianity most signally triumphs. ' Here the Professor drew a comparison between those coun tries ' where the Bible is read and those where paganism and idolatry exist. His picture of China was very interesting, dealing minutely with the manners, socially, morally and politically. In speaking of the Bible, he said: "It tells the navigator of a ship that rode the waves that hid the mountains and drown ed the world, and even tells of one who walked .erect on storm-lashed billows with naught but his sandals beneath him It tells the railroad king of a chariot of fire rolling its flashing wheels on plains of ether through the tracklesalieavens. It tells the architect of jasper walls and gates of pearl and streets of shining gold; and a city that shall stand through end less ages. It tells the sons of music, of bands, of immortal harpers arrayed on glass and fire, striking to the numbers of undying praise and joy. It points the painter to the unrivalled pictures on the sky, robes of the morning and curtains of glory that veil the setting sun, and tells hira these are but faint shadows of the beauties that shine forever in the inner galleries of the skies. Then say not the Bible is a failure. It is 8ufficent for the age, and it will be suf ficent for all human ages. It will have the place of highest honor known in the alcoves of time when the poetry of Shakes peare and Homer, the science of Hum boldt and Darwin, the history of Gibbon and McCauley and the orators of Demos thenes and Webster, are lost or forgotten; aye, it will hold its place in perfected edition through everlasting ages in the library of eternity. In conclusion, to all patriotic citizens of this grand old commonwealth, or of any other section of this great republic, I com mend the principles of this matchless vol ume as the guardians of civil aud reli gious right and the infallible guides 'to genuine political economy aud permanent national prosperity, To woman, in what ever sphere of life, I commend it as the author and vindicator of that faithful re cognition of her transcendent loveliness and excellency which is to-day one of the most honorable distinction of christian civilization. To you gentlemen, I commend it as the sure, unerring chart by which, if you are truly loyal, we must direct this University this flag-ship of the educational navy of North Carolina with all the life-laden fleet that follows in he wake on her glorious voyage of beneficience and honor. To each and all I commend it, as the superhuman mentor, ever ready, ever sure. Let it choose your vocation, your pleasures, your companions, your fash ions, your honors, your rewards, your hepes and your destiny." Marked attention was paid throughout the entire lecture, and not unfrequently did the audience bestow the well merited applause. It is to be hoped that the en tire lecture will be published. Valuable Testimony. The elections in Rome are very significant. The cleri cal party have had their candidates, and have put forth their utmost strength, and they have been utterly defeated. This in Rome, where the Pope and the goodness or badness of Romanism and Romish rule are better known than anywhere on earth ! If the people of this country wish to be informed whether Romish supremacy in this country would be a blessing, the peo ple of Rome are prepared to give testimo ny on the subject. They have given it in the elections just held. The whole influ ence of the clergy was exerted on the masses of the population, aud the entire strength of the clerical party was polled. The result is that they were utterly de feated. Not one clerical candidate was elected. S. W. Presbyterian. The following order, issued a week or ten days ago, is what .caused the trouble on the Pennsylvania Railroad : NOTICE TO DISPATCHERS. On and after Thursday, July 19, 1877, two trains are to be run on Union and two trains on National Line through letween Pittsburg and Altoona, thirty-six cars to a train, a pusher from Pittsburg to Derry, and a pusher from Conemaugh to Altoona. No passenger engines to be run on freight. Balance of trains to divide at Derry, first in and first out. Derry to be the head quarters eastward, where engines will be turned. Between Derry and Pittsburg, all double-headers, thirty-six cars to a train, or as many as they can haul, to be increased or decreased in the judgment of dispatcher according to lading in cars. Robert Pitcairn, Superintendent. The pioneers of the Catholic colony of Saint Brendan arrived in Spartauburgon the 18thinst. Thirty, thousand acres of land have been purchased iu Transylva nia and Henderson counties, in this State, for colonization purposes. Arrangements have been made for the removal thither of sixty-five families from eight different States of the Union. They will turn their I attention to farming and stock-raising. Raleigh Neics The Georiria convention U u! f ; , O " ww v .w ? lawyers 51, farmers 44, doctors 15, mer- chants 13, manufacturers 5, railroad man agers 4, teachers 2, editors 2, preachers 5, professional office-holders 4. i This is not a full list. Mrs. Vimlerly, of Otter Creek, Fla.,. has netted $312.59 on three-fourths of an T.; acre of cucumbers this season. On the ." same piece of land. this lady has planted ;' sugar cane, upon which she hopes to make t ? at least $200. i ..,, , .. - -f The following new anecdote is 'told of ex-Governor Letcher, of Virgiaia : Gov.- , ernor Letcher, returning from a Baptist ' fair, was asked by a friend ;whathe' had been doing. MI have been eating oysters for the Lord at a dollar a dozen," was the . , reply. ' - ' - ,. The Wheeling (W. Va.) Keguter, in an editorial urging the selection of Charles ton, Kanawha county, ar the permanent location for the State . capital, where a State-house had already been erected, as against Clarksburg, where these build ings would cost $500,000, makes the an nexed acknowledgment of the new State's obligations in regard to the old debt of Virginia: "Attempt to evade it as we may, the people of West Virginia will very Boon be forced to look fair in the face and pro vide for the payment of her - "equitable proportion" of the old 15tate debt of Vir ginia, whether that "equitable proportion be $5,000,000 or $15,000,000." The strikers on the Erie Railroad fixed their terms at the outset. On Friday a committee of Firemen and Brakesmen handed the Superintendent of the road, a document in writing, containing the fol lowing demauds on behalf 'of the firemen, brakesmen, switchmen and trackmen, to wit: That all the men discharged for tak ing part iu any meeting or going as com mittee to New York shall be reinstated. Brakesmen to receivcTy'-i per day, switch men $2, and head switchmen $2.25, track men in yards 1.50 per day, trackmeu ou sections to receive $1.4flLper day and pay' no rental on company's grounds, except as per agreement. The firemen to have the same pay, or rates of pay, as they re ceived prior to July 1, 1877, and monthly passes to Ik? continued same as before, and passes be issued to brakesmen and switch men. Raleigh Seics. Singular but True. A few days ago a gentleman who lives neur this city was walking through his farm, and when quite a distance from his dwelling, heard the chirp of a chicken. Thinking that some hen had "stolen her nest," he followed up the chirp and found a young chicken fol lowing a partridge. He carried the chicken to his house, and there related the circumstances to the lady members of his family. The ladies, prompted by-curiosity, repaired to the place where the chicken was found, and during their search they discovered a partridge-nest withsix teen partridge eggs and the shell of a hen's egg, which accounted for the waif. The partridge eggs were carried home and placed under a sitting hen and much to the surprise of the household, there were soon sixteen little partridges running around the yard. A few days subsequently tho one little chicken could not be found any where about the premises, but was after-? wards discovered with the partridge in the woods two miles from the dwelling Query, which is the mother of the chick- .a a i Tar ' en, tne partnugeor ine nen. numtngion Eevietc. Some Hope Left. When the oxyhy drogeu microsope was first exhibited in Edinburgh, a poor woman whose riches would never hinder her assent to the king dom above, took her seat in the lecture room where the wonders of the instrument were shown and which were for the first time to meet her sight. A piece of lace was magnified into a salmon net-, a flea was metamorphosed intoanelephnat, and other like marvels were performed before the eyes of the venarable dame, who sat in silent astonishment, staring, open mouthed, at the disk. But when at length a milliner's needle was transformed into a poplar tree, and confronted her with its huge eye, she could "hold iu" no longer. "My goodness!" she exclaimed, "a camel could go through that ! There's hope for the rich folks yet." It has always been customary in Pari and other large cities, to name the street and boulavards after the memliers of the governing powers, and eminent statesmen and savants, but it is alo customary to' change those names again atevery over throw of the government. This has of course , caused many inconvenience, and Madame Zedde had .a proof of that nuis- auce when her husband came home at 4 Vclock in the morning. "What kept you so long f" she inquired. "ell, my love, ' he answered, "it is not my fault if I come home at this time. They have changed the name of our street, and I could not rind my way home. Consolation. The Ohio State Journal tells of a village clergyman who, visiting a parishoner suftering from a lingering disease, expressed to his wife a Iiojk? that she sometimes spoke to him of the future, "I do, indeed, sir," wa the reply; 'lOf- ten and ofton I wakes him in the uigut and says: John, John, you little think of the torture as is prepared for yon. 4u t I i s. 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Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Aug. 2, 1877, edition 1
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