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ll VOL IX. THIRD SERIES
SALISBURY, C., JULY 4,
HO 37.
1878.
From tMN.Y. Observer.! j
The English People.
THE KICII AND rOOR THE NOBLE AND
IGNOBLE ROYALTY.
Americans going abroad do not give
time enough to England. It is so small
they think to run over it iu a few days
i ml then go to tins Continent. But coun
tries like people, are not to be judged by
their size. The most precious things come
in small paicels. It is worth a voyage
across the Atlantic to have a mouth in
London. And at the end of a month, the
study of that city is only just begun.
Very few Americans have sufficient knowl
edge of the languages of the Continent to
make travel mere us jucuoau
as it is io a country where one's own. is
pecially with what are called the common
people, is one of the greatest advantages
and pleasures of foreign travel. The rich
have substantially the same tbingsevery
where. They enjoy themselves as they
please for "money answereth all things."
But to see and know how the not rtch live,
what comfort they have, and what they
puffer; to learn the home-life of the great
mass of a people in any country, is a mat
ter of intense interest to one who loves
iia fellow men. To get at this you must
talk with the people as yon meet them on
the way, or see them at their work, or
what is better still, at their own homes.
And the most painful reflection 1 have
iu England, conies from the vast gulf be
tween" the very rich -and the very jioor.
The extremes of life come into such con
trast as to make one doubt the brother
hood of man. We go over there with our
republican notions of equality, and it-is
very hard for us to reconcile this contrast
with the doctrine of common humanity,
, not to say Christianity. In Scotland the
most religious country in the world, the
land is owned by the. smallest number of
people in proportion to the whole. And
the poverty of many who tend the flocks,
or till the land, of the rich, is something
that we know nothing of in out country.
And we wonder, as we wander iu the
midst of .such institutions, that the world's
progress makes so Jittle-change from gen
eration to generation in the condition of
the industrious ioor. The laws of entail,
tile rights of promogeniture and an Es
tablished Church are great social arrange
laei.ts which perpetrate certain evi.'.s frujn
which wo are happily freed. -To these
evils may Iks added the inste principle
vhicli prevails iu England as well as in
juuia. 'l iie uisuncrioii oetwecii 1 1 it; no-
1 ility and common class is greater than
we can believe it to be, until we sccjind
feel its practical power, liecause wealth is
.'so largely concentrated and perpetuated
ia the nobility, and poverty so exclusively
prevails among the lower orders, the bond
of sympathy is not strong between them,
and the misery of the low does not re
ceive, as it ought, the notice and relief of
fhe upper classes. Hence the extremes'
remaiu unchaged, and will indefinitely.
The innate revereuce of rank is, to an
American, inconceivable. We go to the
other extreme, and affect a contempt for
position and character, on the bad prin-
t-ipie or Holding one man to be as good as
auotherTille is not, There is a mighty
deal of.difference among men; one is often
entitled to far more respect thau his neigh
bor. And we worship the aristocracy of
wealth, which oftentimes is far meaner
than that of birth. We -prefer with good
reason our elective power of government,
and we ridicule the idea of making the
office of President hereditary. But in the
course of u huudred years we might get as
few bad incu, and weak men, in our high
est chair of State, if we trained the oldest
son of the Presiden t to succeed him. So
ithachair of mathematics in college.
We often make mistakes in the choice of
Presidents aud Professors There is some
thing to be said on . both sides of the
hereditary question.
Hut the reverence of the English mind
for royalty is a positive entertainment to
us untutored savages from the wilderness.
Ladies and gentlemen will attend an ex
hibition, or anniversary, or public meet
ing of any kind aud give their money
freely to the object, if some one of the
royal family i engaged to be present and
give the light of his or her countenance.
J he nearer to the Head of the family,
the greater the honor of coursebut to
hare the remotest tinre of n,i
ami text to that to be of noble birth is
m attraction that brings thousands into
the support of a cause from which they
ould turn away, if it were not under
patronage of the higher der. It is
impossible to convey, by words, the depth
and breadth of this -homage to nobility
""Uwyalty. Audit is not without it
fc'ocd uses. It is certainly better than a
ant of respect for those who are called
t rule or to teach. There is in England
solid base of society which indicates
Irmauerce. Life and property are safer
"ere than here. The subject is not plnn
ered by law ns the citizen is robbed here.
" requires courage to hold real estate in
this country, for one does not know by
hat ererderuain of legislation its value
nay be destryed. Gradually we shall
tome to understand n
r
Fiyvv,,;. m,,ub uener,
trr. lt ln t,,e meantime it is not wi '
think of ourselves more highly than we
JJtJr to think. Let us winfug,y
that some other, people have many things,
by which we could learn if we
would.
They have more poverty add 'social
suffering, more intemperance in drink
ing, more ignorance and vice in England
and Scotland, than we have anion"' oar
native population. The-iufusion of the
foreign element into our socioal economy
makes it impossible to compare tbe ef-
fects of our institutions, with those of the
old world. If with the tremendous load
to carry of German and Irish immigration
we are able to challenge the contrast at it
is, what would our country be if we
were as unified in our traditions, habits,
and religion as the people of England
are 1
I saw much in the manners and customs
of English people that might be held up
for imitation. But what i-thlf
speaking of it T Is the average American
mind open to. instruction by any otlier
people or tongue under the whole heav
en f And shall I not be set down as un
patriotic and a snobbish, if I venture to
eulogize England the English Y Even so.
But that does not alter the fact, i do
not want to change our political or religious
institutions: they are the result of the
ripest experience' and the concentrated,
wisdom of preceding ages. But as in re
forming the Church from Romanism the
leaders rejected some good things for. the
sake of casting out more' that was evil, so
we in our revolution have revolved so
far as to regard our own ways the only
good ways, aud all that we left behind us
as positively evil and intolerable.
The. more communion we have with
England, the b tter we will esteem the
people ami their institutions. If happiness
were an object, whiclrit is not, it were
just asieasy to find it in Old England as
in New Englaud, Yorkshire as in New
York. There is more and higher culture
in the fields and iu the Homes of the
wealthy English than in any other coun
try among people of the same social cias
and to mingle with intelligent English
people, in their tight little isle," is one of
the highest pleasures of foreign travel.
They are not accessible. They have a
reserve which they suppose to lie dignity.
They get it from the existence of an ar
istocracy, and every man, whether born
into the charmed circle or not, wishes to
be exclusive that he may appear nnto
men to be something more thau he is.
But that reserve melts in a minute w hen
he conies into social contact w ith a broth
er man.'. It is a foible of Englishmen, us
familiarity is a fault of our people.
AtuEnglish gentleman introduced him
self to me at the hotel where we met, and
the few hours of my stay were made very
pleasaut by his agreeable company.
Learning that I was to visit the part
of the county in which was his resi
dence, he insisted upon my going' to his
house, though he would not be there,
that his family might have the pleasure,
&.c. And he made a point of it : wrote
to his family that I was coming, and when
I called for a moment at the door I was
received as a friend, aud the' were posi
tively disappointed when I dccliued to
stay and enjoy their hospitality. Such
is not an in sola ted case. Another English
gentleman did just the same thing. These
are iu proof that behind that thick coat
of dignified reserve, there are just as
warm, genial and generous souls amor.g
Englishmen as in every other laud where
Christian civilization reigns.
iKENiECS.
The Colored Solicitor.
The Republicans of the judicial district
met in convention at Tarboro yesterday,
and nominated a colored mau for Solici
tor. '
J. H. Coll ins, the nominee, is a colored,
briefless lawyer. He has had license some
three or four years, but it is not remem
bered that he ever had a case ; has not
practiced the. profession of the law, nor
much attempted to, but has devoted him
self to sehool teaching. He may lie said
to bo utterly without capacity for the po
sition of prosecutiug officer, and his nom
ination is an insult to the dignity of jus
tice aud a flagrant outrage on the majes
ty of the law. Hal. AW.
Personal. Gov. and Mrs. Vance ar
rived in the city yesterday moruiug iu a
through car by the Hamlet connection.
Mrs. Vance stood the journey quite well,
and was feeling somewhat brighter during
the day. The Governor expects to re
main in Raleigh but a small part of the
summer. He will carry Mrs. Vance, furth
er west, probably remaining most of the
summer about Morgantou. In the mean
time Lt-Gov. JarvU will come up to Ral
eigh and discharge the duties of die ex
ecutive office, Gov. Vance making a trip
once a week to the capital Charlotte 0l
server.
Another three-legged Wisconsin baby
boy has just arrived. Carpenter anil
Howe had better hurry up their Senato
rial race before this youngster, so ex
ceptionally gifted iu legs, pushes up to
manhood. Washiugton Post.
The editor who has recently visited the
New Englaud States says that neither at
Yale norjlarvard did he see any colored
students, nor was the African brother vis
ible in the churches of the white people,
nor could he trace the existence of any
colored statesmen iu the six New En "land j
legislatures.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
A NEW FLYING MACHINE.
first Pen ir exhibition of Prof. C.
i F- KitcheH's flying machine was conduct
ed at Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday af-
j ternoon, June 12. It went np to a height
of fa,,X two hundred and fifty feet, past
j the spire of the Colt Memorial Church,
, an ailed off until over the Connecticut
! rvert the operator meanwhile exhibiting
j his power to change its altitude and direc
tion at will When - he ascended there
was but little wind blowing, and the ma
chine appeared to be under perfect control;
but gradually a breeze sprang- up, and it
was deemed safest to make a speedy re
turn, as there were indications In tue skyf
i CatIiering storm iThS machine turn-?
nur.Vu' M wny.oaca in uie leciu oi
the wind until directlv over the ball
ground whence it had ascended, and then
alighted within a few feet of the point
from which it had started.
From this demonstration of its capaci
ty it was generally conceived that it could
do much more than its modest inventor
claimed for it. He never expected it to
move against a wind of any strength, and
has not bad the attainment of that end in
view in its construction, as may readily
be seen by a glance at its proportions, but
he does claim that it can be raised or low
ered at will to leave adverse currents and
enter favorable ones ; that it can be made
to tack so as to effect a little headway
against a breeze, and that in a still atmos
phere it can be moved about as readily
and perfectly at the will of the operator
as a boat can be moved unon quiet water.
All that, and even a little more, there is
abundant evidence of its having done on
Wednesday.
The inventer, Mr. Ritchell, is a Maine
man, but has during several years past
lived at Corry, Pa. The project of con
structing a fly iug machine has been a fa
vorite subject for contemplation with him
during nearly ten years past, and for the
last seven of that time he ami his friend,
Mr. W. II. Lyman, of Corry, Pa., have in
cubated his idea together. In November,
1876, they went to Bridgeport, Conn., to
put their plans into execution, as they be
lieved they could there obtain most read
ily just the peculiar materialsnhey requir
ed, and have them put together in the
most perfect manner. Their confidence in
Yankee resources and skill was not mis
placed, but their crude ideas were not
immediately erystalized iutoa ;crfect ma
chine, nevertheless.
Iu the first apparatus which they con
structed, some parts were too heavy, oth
ers too large, and there was an ineffectual
application of power. Then a secoud one
was built, that now upon exhibition, ami
though it cannot be said to be so far per
fected as to be capable of application to
practical service, such as serving a mail
route, or even as a popular vehicle for
travel, it is still of very great importance
as proving the correctness of the theories
upon which it was based. Mr. Ritchell
took it to the Permanant Exhibition at
Philadelphia, May 10, 1877, aud succeed
ed in effectually concealing it from pub
lic knowledge for a long time. Now he
has put it into the proper course for either
securing its development or making it a
pioneer for other inventors in this branch
of science.
The flying machine is all clumsiuess
above, all lightness and grace below. The
lifting power is afforded by a horizontally
placed cylinder of "gossamer cloth," fine
linen coated with India rubber, twenty-
feet in length and thirteen in diameter,
weighing only sixty-six , pounds, and
charged with uydrogen gas, which is made
by the usual process from iron turnings
and sulphuric acid. Broad worsted bands
extend over that and down to a rod of
mandrel drawn brass tubiug, nickel plat
ed, li inch in diameter and 23 feet long.
From that rod the machine is suspended
by slender cords. The after portion of the
machine is at the base a parallelogram of
rods 2 feet wide and 5J feet long, from
which rise, lengthwise, curved rods 18
iuches high in the center, and drawn near
togetherat the top. All these rods are in re
ality hollow tubes of mandrel drawn brass,
light aud very strong. Above the apex of
this ftirm rises a cog edged steel wheel, 11
iuches in diameter, with double handles
so geared to a four bladed fan moving
horizontally directly beneath, that the op
erator can give the fan 2,000 revolutions
per minute. The four blades of the fan
are of white holly, each having a superfi
cial area of about 50 square inches, aud the
extreme diameter of this revolving fan is
24 inches.
The blades are set at a slight angle,
like those of the screw of a propeller. Just
behind the wheel is a very small seat, upon
which the operator perches. His feet rest
upon two light treadles above and in front
of the fan. From the front of this form
spring other rods, carrying at their ex
tremity a vertically working revolving
fan, like that beneath the operator's seat,
except that it is but 22 inches in diame
ter. It is so geared to the main or hori
zontal fan that it may be operated or not,
at the pleasure of the driver of the ma
chine, aud can be made to turn from one
side to the other, so as to deflect the course
of the machine n the air! This fan will
make 2,800 revolutions per minute when
the other is making 2,000. All its move
ments are controlled by the onera tor's
I feet
- - -
When he presses the left treadle he
throws it into gear, when lie presses with
the toe of his right foot it turns to the left,
and a slight pressure of his heel whirls it
over to the right.. He efii also reverse
the action of his main fan so that when
it whirls one wayrhe goes down, and when
hte course ia reversed he 'mounts in the
air.
That this is not merely a claim, has
been clearly demonstrated. Then the
weight of the operator and machine and
the lifting power f the gas cylinder have
been so nicely adjusted that they were ex
actly balanced ; six pounds nave been add
ed to the weight of the machine, and the
wroking of the horizontal fan has caused
the apparatus to rise and continue to as
cend as long as the lifting .power of the
machinery was exerted. TJie' weight, nor
frMjPfl,C the, jnohine,-ani(t Ue redirect
which it is suspended, is 48 pounds.
This, then, gives 1 14 pounds as the weight
of the entire apparatus. The operator,
Quinlan, who went upon Wednesday and
again yesterday, weighs 96 pounds, and to
balance him and the dead weight against
the lifting power of the gas, he had to car
ry along with him about nine pounds of
shot and stones.
The second exhibition was given June,
13. The weather was far from favorable.
The wind came iu quite sharp gusts,
and there were threatenings of a coming
storm. Nevertheless, the ascent was
made. Little Quiulan, even if he does
only weigh ninety-six lmunds, has confi
dence and nerve enough to go up in a gale.
Some time w as spent iu getting the weight
aud lifting power so neatly balanced ato
show that the machine could exert a lift
ing power of its own. When this had
lieeu effected to Prof. Rite-hell's satisfac
tion, the apparatus rested quietly on the
grass, but could be lifted or set back with
the light pressure of oue finger. The
word was given to 'Go." Quinlau began
turning the wheel, the horizontal fan re
volved with a noise like a buzz saw, and
the machine darted up almost vertically
to a luight of about two hundred feet.
There a strong, steady current of wind
setting toward the southwest waseucouu
tered, and the machine was swept away
by it, broadside on to the spectators.
Then the operator was seen throwing his
vertical fan into gear, and by its aid the
aerial ship turned around, pointing its
head iu whatever direction he chose to
give it. All this was the work of but a
few seconds. Although Quinlan could
move the apparatus about, hie could not
make any headway against the strong
j viiid. Reversing -the motion of his hori
zontal i'.in, he descended apparently uliout
one hundred feet, to get out of the current,
but, finding that impracticable, reascend
ed to a much greater height than he had
first reached. JStill he was swept off' to
ward New Haven, and altera little time
went out of sight. He had vanished be
laud a distant hill, aud for a while it was
supposed he bad alighted. 'Then he was
agaiu sighted, far away and not less thau
one thousand feet above the earth. The
cyliuder of the machine looked no larger
than an orange. At length he disappear
ed altogether.
At (j o'clock P.M., having been up bat
tliug with the w ind very nearly an hour,
lie descended safely at Newington, and at
10 o'clock was back iu Hartford. He said
that at one time he was eight or ten miles
away from his starting point, but by tack
ing uud working between the gusts of
wind, won his way back as far as Newing
ton, only five miles from Hartford. He
says that the working of the niacin ue is so
easy that he could continue it for four
consecutive hours, without fatigue, in a
quiet atmosphere.
Mr. Lord, the Superintendent of the
Colt Arms Factoiy, has watched the ex
periments with much interest, and his
opinion as a practical scientist is of value,
lie says that while he does not see an im
mediately practical use iu this flying ma
chine, he cauuot but regard it as a great
step in progress, one which should be re
cognized as of immencc importance and
encouragement for hope of a speedy good
result iu the way of aerial travel. Sew
York Suit.
A NEGLECTED INDUSTRY.
A new field awaiting the employment
of an immense amount of labor, capital,
and inventive talent now exists ready at
hand iu the neglected flax aud linen in
dustry of America. Forty years ago
nearly every farmer in the country knew
how to raise and prepare flax for domestic
use, and many of our fathers and mothers
were to some exteut engaged in this man
ufacture. In 1845-55 several manufacto
ries were put into existence in New Eng
gland to make the various kiuds of fine
linen goods. Among these were the Ste
vens mills ut Webster, Mass.. the Wil
limantic, in Connecticut, and the Ameri
can Linen Company, of Fall River, Mass.
The latter was established iu 1852 with a
capital of $500,000, aud had at one time
250 looms running upon sheeting, table
linen, and coating and pantalooning, be
sides the coarser kiuds of fabrics
These mills were enabled to start by
the placing of a duty of 25 per cent upon
linen goods in 1842, while they had pre
viously been admitted free of duty. But
in 1857 the duty was removed and linen
again admitted free of duty, and the in
fant industry was strangled. Nothing of
the old industry now remains excepting
the Stevens mills, making crash and huck-
i7 '
aback, at WW nr. in. ...
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Willimantic no longer exists, and the
American Linen Company changed to
coiion manufacture long ago.
Besides th si.- r.t.r,.
most extensive mm ; i
ing some fifteen kinds of coarse goods,
there are the Stark, at Manchester, N. H
the Ludlow and the Bay State, in Mass
achusetts, all small producers of coarse
linen fabrics. These, we believe, are the
only mills weaving flax fabrics in the
United States. Tow bagging ia made in
several places in Ohio, Indiana, Louis
ville, and in Illinois, while the initial
steps toward the establishment of a linen
mill have been. taken in Oregon.
x Extensive flax thread mills exist, one at
r-aterson, J. j., employing 500 hands: one
ai iroy, a. 1.; and one in New York city,
employing 600 hands. Up to 1873 there
were nearly a hundred flax bagging, mills
in the central Western States, but the
reduction of duty upon jute caused an al
most complete transfer to jute bagging,
me material with which the South now
covers her cotton.
This is the condition of the linen indus-
iry in tne united States at this time. Of
the raw flax used by the crash aud thread
mills, 4,000 tons are imported and 1,000
tons are home grown, chiefly from the
northeastern portion of the State of New
l ork. A considerable portion of the im
ported in Russian, a part, that of the best.
is Belgiau, a part Canadian, and some
Irish. The use of American flax is for the
most part to adulterate the better im
ported kinds, aud thus lessen the cost of
the product. There is a geueral complaint
tnat the American fiber is less skillfully
cared for, and carelessly cured and pre
pared, and certainly its value, 9 cents a
pound, iudicates that either too little at
tentioQ is given to the growth of the flax
or to the preparation of the fiber. The
imported flax filler, simply separated from
the coarse stalk and with the tow still in
it, aud not of a fine quality, has a value
of 12 and 15 cents in Belgian and Russian
ports. Upon this there is still an addi
tional cost of 30 per cent duty, liesides
cost of transportation, makiug the cost of
a good quality; of Belgian flax at this port
nearly 20 cents a pound. But little of
this is used, and that to give a better fin
ish, a longer and stronger fiber to thread,
but is largely adulterated with the cheaper
Canadian, Russian, and American. The
crash mills would use the American fiber
altogether if its character could be de
pended upon; but from its careless mani
pnlation aud want of attention to growing
aud dressiug it is of less value and
difficult to use.
more
What is required at this time is that
our farmers attend to the requirements of
fertilizers aud the rotatiou of crops acc
essary to grow the fiber io perfection, and
then sow the proper amount of seed, 2 to
three bushels per acre, pull it liefore it is
over-ripe, steep it, and spread it just long
enough to separate the fiber completely,
aud the present demand for flaxmay be
easily supplied at home.
This is the first step, aud if it cannot
be secured without the assistance of a
flax association, such should be organized.
The importation of raw flax is about 4,000
tous annually, at a cost of about $1,250,
000, the importation of linseed about
$ti,000,000 annually, aud of linen goods
about $15,000,000 annually.
The value of the flax industry to Rus
sia is above $100,000,000 annually, the
exiorts of linen goods by Englaud is up
wards of $50,000,000 anuually, while the
number of looms in Great Britain in 1870
was 39,738, aud in 1875, 51,601, having
increased tenfold since 1850.
The establishment of a linen industry
iu America is not a work of a day, but the
fact that the country has every requisite
of the world for its successful establish
ment should incite our people to make the
necessary effort. Much inventive skill
would of necessity be called iuto action
to supply lalior-saving appliances, and
considerable capital, labor, uud patience
wonld be required to obtain tuccess. The
government should bo willing to accord
it the same assistance, by way of a duty
upon imported goods, which it afforded
the silk industry, and with that there need
be uo risk of ultimate success. Scientific
American.
Lightning Conductors ami Etrth Contact.
The importance of a perfect earth con
tact for lightning conductors is shown by
an accident at Nottingham, England, in
18C8, which is mentioned by Dr. R. G.
Mann, iu the Journal of the Society of Arts.
A copper lightuing conductor, four tenths
of an inch in diameter, was attached to
the weathercock, one huudred and fifty
feet from the ground upon the spire of a
new church, aud was carried in an un
broken line to the ground, and probably
at first had a good earth contact; but after
the accident an investigation showed that
some thief had drawn it out of the ground
and carried away all that was more than
six inches below the surface.
On October 16, 18G8, the chureh was
struck by lightning, the fluid passing
quietly until within about six feet of the '
ground. Had there been a good earth ;
contact, all would, have gone well, but at
this point it was drawn from the eon due-
tor to a cas pipe on the iuside of the wall,
although separated from it by 4$ feet of
...
-'S"P'pett.tl.e gas maio. and
off into moist ground; but on its passage
it totally destroyed a shott pieee of pijie
near the gas meter and allowed the gas to
v r w ",cu UJ way, caused another
i "c ,,H,un,D8 nav wuen
lighted lamp was carried into the cellar
by the person sent to look up the leak.
At the point where the electric fluid pass
ed through the wall from the conductor
to the gas pipe, the stone work was splin
tered into fragments through an area of
about a square yard on either face of the
wall; while the center of the wall for a
thickness of about a foot, was eatirelv
uninjured.
THE MUSlCALfPHONOGRAPBY
Prefessor Johnson lately exhibited in
this city a new instrument supplied by
Mr. Edison, which reproduced Levy's
"Last Rose of Summer," the "Carnival of
Venice," etc. Every ear was on the alert
to listen to the performance of the phono
graph. Levy came in front of the mys
terious thing, and blew a blast on his bugle
horn strong enough, as it would seem, to
blow the whole concern out of existence,
andrwhen he subsided Professor Johuson
reversed the crank, affixed a sort of horn
to a disk on the cylinder, and out came all
of Levy's music, with all his variations,
to last the note. The wonderment and de
light of the audience were great in the
extreme, and they applauded the articu
lating phonograph as if it werealivingand
breathing thing. When Miss Cole sang
to it 4,Comiu' thro' the Rye," there was in
tense curiosity to hear how it would be
returned, as her voice has a birdlike quali
ty in the upper register that it was thought
impossible for the phonograph to coun
terfeit. When Professor Johnson turned
the crank Miss Cole herself sat petrified
in astonishment as she heard her very
trills imitated by the iusensible piece of
Machinery before her. Of course the
sougofthe phonograph was nothing to
that of Miss Cole, because the voice was
metalic and without the attributes of flesh
aud blood, but its close reudition of the
words and accent-was really marvelous
to hear. JNVir York Herald.
Morgantou L'Uide: Mr. JI. A. Rust, a son
of Mr. Joseph R. Rust, living near Bridge
water, iu tlik county, a yotiug man of un
usual mechanical iugeuuity, conceived a
plan of using different blades or "bits" iu
an axe, and on the 6th of March last hi.s
application w as filed in -the patent office.
Mr. liust afterwards showed his model to
one T. K. Downiug, of Mississippi, who
forthwith posted oft' to Washington, and
applied for and obtained, on the Dth of
April, the patent right for the axe of which
Mr. Rust is certainly the inventor. We
alized over $4,000 from sales of territory?-)
and that the invention is hailed as one of
the most useful as well as profitable ex- !
tant.
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Strength of Solar Heat. j
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Sir John Herschel ("Familiar Lectures
on Scientific Subjects," page 64) says: "I j
have seen the thermometer four inches j
deep in the sand in South Africa rise to
159 Fah., and have cooked a beefsteak
and boiled eggs hard by simple exposure
to the sun in a box covered with a frame
ofw iudow glass and placed in another ,
box so covered."
How a Distinguished
Scientist liaises
Strawberries.
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Some of the largest and finest flavored
strawberries that we have ever seen this !
seasou were from the garden of our val-
ued contributor, Alfred M. Mayer, South
Orange, N. J. Informing new beds he
invariably takes runners from new plants,
Manures in the early -spring. After the
berries have formed he cuts off all run
ners aud thins out the central leaves.
Result : enlargement of the berry ; im
provement in flavor. Scientific American.
Tennessee Steel Works. The first open
hearth steel ever made in the South was
turned out, June Gth, by the Roaue Iron.
and Steel Company of Chattanooga. The for the House; M. O. Sherill, for Clerk
cast, au experimental one of six Urns pro- suprerior Court, and S. L-,Youur, for
duct, by the Siemens-Martin process, was sheriff. Col. Steele's course in " Congress
a perfect success in quality. Sjiecular ore was approved, and Governor Vance tho
from near Cartersville, Ga., was used
When in full operation the company ex
pect to produce 150 tons a day.
Alabama Corundum. A correspondent
writes that large quantities of corun
dum, for emery wheels, are shipped from
Tallapoosa county, Ala., to Massachu
setts.
Assessing the IFonwin.
From tbe St. Louis Times.
A woman in the Treasury Department
at Washington who has a family to sup
port, a doctor's bill to pay that has now
been running three months, aud a month's
rent behind, considers it rather hard (hat
she should be compelled to put $5 into
the Republican Congressional fund while
John Sherman, who is worth his millions,
and gcts $gf000 a year salary, is only as-
gessed $100. It does seem a little hard.
From the Warner (O.) Record.
IS li llayes coniriuuies ;y.,uuu iwaru
carrying on the Republican campaign this
fall, while women clerks, in the depart-
meut at Washington, who receive 4o per
.mouth, are aruefcd $7.
A LITTLE DARKY'S STOP.Y. '
Under a great pecan tree on tm lawn
before the "big house," Sam and Pumhle .
sat down to consider and consult, or as
they expressed it, "study up what ns
gwinetodo." . .
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Shill I tell a story V asked Fumble.
Does you know a good one!" iuouired
Sam. . ;
"Dis story's gwine to4e a new one,?
said Puinble, 'bekas 111 make it up as i r
go Hong." ; .
"Tell ahead," said Sam. . , ...
Wnnst upon a time" began Punible,
"What time t" interrupted Sain.
"Shut up ! WuoBt upou aime. i Dey
wo a man. An' dis heah man lighted up
An' he went walfciii' along. . Right ariitv
along. An' walkiu long, an' walkin' .
along, an' walkin' ttiongau-iraflUV along,
an' WHlkiii' along, an' walkin' along
"Datmau wuz gwine allele way, wuzn't
hef interjected the listeuer.
"He hadn't got no way hardly, yit,"
said Pumble, "but hekep' a-walkin' along,
an' walkiu' along, an' walkin' along, an'
walkin' along, an' walkin along, an walk
in' along, an' walkin' along "
"Stop dat walkin' now," said Sam,
"and tell whut he done when he got froo
walkinV :- .
"He come to de place he wus n-gwioe
to," said Pumble.
"Did he sho' enough ?" exclaimed Sam,
"I wuz kiuder skcered he-wudu't nebber 7
git dar at all. What did he do nex t"
"De nex' ting he done," said Pumble,
impressively "wuz to turn right-roun'
an' go back whar he come from. An' dat's
all !"
The way of trausgressors is hard.
Every one w ill reap according as he
sows.
The Johnston county Democrats en
dorse Judge W;R Cox for Congress.
The Democrats of Burke last Satnrday
nominated ex-Sheriff Berry for the Houso
and instructed him to vote for Vauce.
About all the Republican papers in
Missouri are solid for Graut iu 1880, but
Grant can't run in Missouri exclusively
with any prospect of beiugelected. '
dclphia Times. -
It is said that the kind mothers down
East are grown o affectionate that they1'
give their children chloroform previous to
whipping them.
A dispatch states that Bergh has brought
suit against ne parties for "decking" a
horse's tail. They were probably playing
poker on it. This was only possible with
a horse. A mule would bate defended
his own tail w ithout going to court about
it.
Christian Reid has a new novel jusf our,
entitled "Bonny Kate." It is a story of
Southern life, and her publishers, the
Messrs. Appleton, say that "in it she ap-
pears at her best." This is her twelfth
work iu abm,t ev'u M vt'ar- ' Sho
writes well and with artistic-purpose.
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. jYe are Pn.foundly"grate"ful to all our
ytrtktUvt.n ti ,iM, ilf!Srt. sllui To inairv i.ii-
vnte citiz(.U8. fo, kind umu awoken of us
tlll,Mlirll tlll, :u.d bv letter recentK .
w uo ,,OIU. iu thU wor,u
tll!tI1 to timiI!?ilt well of and coninli-
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UJf III 1 ' 1ft .Fill 1 IIILI'I llll fc.v. .., v . .
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ot w lioin we euTei iaiu no outer iccimg
than that of love' and respect. Charlotte
Itetuocrat.
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Everybody thought it waR a match and
80 did he, and so did she; but last eve.i-
ngy at a croquet t party, she hit her co: it
n, whack with the ' mallet that sounded
like a torpedo, and h liHaiighcd. "We
meet as stranirci s ." she wrote on ber
stranger,"
cuff and showf.il itto him. "Think '"of
me no more," he whispered hus-trHy.-
CaUnrba County.
IIickouv, June 22.
The Catawba county convention met
tn-l:iv. Full attendance. Cat, K. l'.
i)avis, formerly of Wilmington, was uomi-
choice of the county for Uu'tted SJalos
Senator. Jlaleigh Setrs.
The Lincoln Progress, shaking of Col.
Win. Johnston, says: Our delegates fro::i
RaleiglT speak-in the highest term of hi
manTy efforts to secure a representation
for the west on the Supreme Court' ticket
and express their intention to reuiemU r
ids fidelity to his section and the interest
of the State.
Campaign Funds.
The Sunday Republican has discover
ed that a iortiou of the money filched by
Got ham's committee out of female Treas
ury and other employees is nsed to sus
tain the National Republican. This is
certaiu.y the acme of cruelty. A pei
son might, in the course of time, becomy
reconciled to the loss of hU hard-earned
dollars, but not while daily confronted
by theRepublican as the result of the
theft. Yashiugton Pont.
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