North Carolina Newspapers

i I' ' I L The Carolina Watchman, ; ESTABUSIIED IN THE YEAR 1832. 11 CONTRACT ADVERTISING RATES. 1 month t mi ' S la's m's 11 ms $1.50 SI. 50, S3. SO ft&JW J. $. .00 4.60 ft. 14 7JW lt 4.M .0 J.6 11J 1S.M t.00 ?JO .9V 1 1M.M 1.M t.73 U.tt lJt S5.W Il.tS 15.: WJ J5.6S 40.M is.; t cts 4H.I5 , Two tor ; Three fur vmir (or 1' co fr : . . An i do. I do. Cures CoU rneumonla, Bronchitis, jstluna, Croup, Whooplns Ceogh, and H diseases of tho Hreathlnir Organs. It Soothes and heals tho Membrane kt tho Loos. Inflamed and poisoned br the disease, and prevents tho Bight sweat! and tightness rrs theehest which accompany It. t'OASUSlPTiOX is not an incurable mabdr. It is enly Beecssary to har ti rtrht remedy, and MXLVA BAIi Islhat rmcdy. D0ST l)ESPill Of RELIEF, for this benira specific will cure you, CTea tboujrh professional aid fullsw HENRY'S 23 HflUCmtfK. T E tJie'y. Most Powerful Healing Agent ever Discovered, TTemry' Cnrh'ts fimlve hemls hurn. JUtvrv Cnrlfti 8nlv9 etrrtt mtt. llrnrg' LrMia tint mltayt ft in, Jlrmrtf'a C'trhlie Htlen enr eruption: Jlry' Carholi, immtm jlnplrt. : Henri's Cartli &mlm tumU bruUr: -Aak for Uenry'a,nd Toko No Other. . ST CZwABE OP COL'TEKmTS. UZi Mt ll II Y CUBES IN ONE MINUTE. Edey's Carbolic1 Troches, V ; ! . A SUCE rBEVKNTTVE OF Coatairioas Diseases Colds. XXoarsencaa. 1 I 1 P 1 I . ' . . f Sc'Joya DysjxpsiajL&d Bilioonicas. n 1 - tr for sale by all druggists. t iJOHir P. HENRY, CXTRRAN ft CO. ; S4 CoaMr Place, , . New Tort -f X Tor Sale by T. F. KLUTTZ. Druo'gist, ; !: lG:ly hnliAburv, C. J;'l. v. ' JAMES M. GRAY, k Attorney and Counsellor at law, i l; SALISUURY, X C. Office in the Court House lot. next doo to Squire Ihiughtoii. W ill practice in all tlie Courts of tlie State. 9 L33 D. ATT01LVY AT LJU) Practices in the State and Federal Courts. - 12:6m if! i KERR CRAIQE, mx at atof. BAllaVtxrT : Bite 'juiil -Heiilersoii, Attorney 8, Counselors J: and Solicitors. SALISBURY, N.'C ms. Brown, SALISBURY, K. C. Dealer Sn Tin r i AM low down I )Vare;Coprer Wtrej Stills, -sell STOVES Staves in full " "jiheaier than variety. Par- 1880. y can buy lor,Cokahd : -tfanJw,,ere else ffioe, from j 5- t"in this city. ."'Vtheapest KmST- Will repair to tne. best. s-5fi oiu situs on mi Short Notice. IF YOU WISH Your Walches and f !liMlfa Swiiir l illlilMM&C. iired bv a booA. chesn and resDonsible I vrHtoan-please leave - then with Messrs. la(UA IWudleman, Salisbury, N.G. ljr B. L. BROWN. S-'--:,--:,,, t aortgageDeeds for sale here .1 1 1 i 4 ; - a ' - ! li I M 1 Til Mi .-.. w Also" various other blans." . i . .. . POETRY. BalldlBjoa the 8bI. ;: T well to woo, 'tis well to wed j ; For so the world hath done I Since myrtles grew and roses blew, And morning brought the son. But hare a care, ye young and fair, Be sore ye pledge with truth ; Be certain that your lore will weir j Beyond the days of youth 1 j For if you give not heart for heart, j As well as hand for hand, j TjcmVII find you're played the unwise part, j And built upon the sand." TU well to tare, His well to hare I A goodly store of gold, And hold enough of shining st uffy For charitr iscold. ' . ;l Dut place wt all your liope and trust j j In what the deep mine brings ; L: We'cannot live on yellow dust j Unmixed with purer things; And he who piles up wealth alone j Will often hate to stand Beside his coffer-chest and own ' j Tis built upon the sand." 'TIS good to speak in kindly guise, And soothe wherc'r we can I Fair speech should bind the human mind, ! And love link man to man. But stop not at the gentle words j Iet deeds with language dwell j The one who pities starring bird! ? 1 - Should scatter crumbs as well ; The mercy that is warm and true 3fust lend a helping hand; For those that talk yet fail to. do ; Dut "build upon the sand." j I llomt Lift in Song. POLITICAL. ffhc vote in Person for the House was a tie' between Jas. Holeman, Democrat, and C. S. Winstcad Han- cock Republican. At a meettinsr of the County Commissioners ion tho 6th inst.. was decided in favor of Colonel WinsteadY dtis nowsaiatnat oratio&ey- mbur, Jr., who is thaimly Democrat on tlieotateot canvassers in Kew York, will oliject to the counting of the electoral vote of that State for viaiuviw, uu up.ni in. pruicsi. uie matter will, uinlerga..mvestjgntioh at the hands of Congress. . ' V iWard Bcecher '-orated'" last Sun- danyonthe text, "A good name is rather to be chosen than irreat riclies " Ward knows how it is himself;! Sup- lKscGarlieldhad never denied ,i8 fnfftin withOakPa AniPJ Wlien he dcnicil the forged Morey letter he would have been believed. But as it was his mere denial amounted to noth ing. WiLSlar. " j , ' ' I Tho Congretwlonnl Voti. The following is the majorities of the two canaiuaies ior vonares-j in tins district : Alexander Alleghany ! Frsy th Iredell j Rowan -j Surry -j Watauga 409 222 24 C26 625 387 130 2423 FunciiES i Ashe ! Davie I Wilkes Yadkin ! -..1 .'. -MAJORITIES f Armfield's majority -1 The New York Herald says it con- fideutly expects "to see a vigorous I administration party arise among the intelligent ciasse o wum. Wn not the tictoM among tliose papers that made some such phecy in 1877 about the Hayes "Hnin.stra- Iy accepting tlie situation Ac. That is precisely what the South has done stnee l8G6, and still it is suspected and the bloody shirt flapped yictori- ousiy throughout the isortn a iew The practice of paying contestants of seats in Congress the salary and mile age of members is a custom ("more honored in the breach than iu the ob servance," and ought to be discoutiu tied by all parties. It is a fraud on the people whose money is thus squan dered. No contestant who fails to get the seat claimed ought to be allowed nvihiii(r more than his necessary ex- "-nA that ntr when the com- penses, and thetl only W nen tne com mlttee investigating, shall have re- ported that there was good ground for thc coutcst.- Ex- 5 71 129 274 479 1944 Xaminer .. . The Democratic Party. The following tribute to the Dem ocratic party is from the pen of that staunch Old-Line Whig, C. W. But- ion, jxsqj x . : . '. . ; j "The Democratic party, though out of power for , the last . twenty years, has accomplished much good, in that it has, at least, kept thej Re publican party that is a Federal par ty and nothing less, from running riot over the liberties of the people and the rights of the States. It has kpt alive in the hearts of the people the true doctrines jof the founders of the Government ; and it lias shown a vitality, out of power, U party evcr did or ever will; ioj this ; country. It holds a majority of tlie leop!e of the United States to-day, and but for bad management in some of the States, and the existence of! two factions in the great State of New York, it would have succeeded in se curing a majority of the electoral votes of the States, and Hancock, in- I stead of Garfield, would now be the President elect. "Tliese views, with others that might be presented, forbid, it seems to us, the disbandmcnt of the great Democratic party ; for if it accanip listrno good, it vrill at least keepl the next Uepublican Administration with in due bounds and conserve the best interests of the country. And that is what the party of the Constitution, whether in or out of power, should desire and what every pariotic States IKighto' Democrat should rejoice to 6ee. The llepublicans having obtained a majority at the late election in the city are systematically at work to se cuceJt for the future. The plan is tins: All the wealthy llepublicans Un.l hA 'Mill iirocu irrt il!cl)irr. i,lg white laborers, where skilled (abor U llot required, and filling their places Witu negroes irom Kentucky and the two Virginias.- The whites-who are being discharcetl will Ikj comiiellcd to 6 e,8CW,,ere emplynient, and from 500 to "00negroes will take their ,,aces on l,,e volinS ,,sl8' 1 ne Vme lauorer cannot qiaeu on to vote we ncpuoiican u ; me negro can. This coloniailion is not being carried 0,1 Columbus aloiic, but in a num ber of Democratic cities where a few hundred reliable Republican votes will prevent the election of Democrat ic Senators and Representatives in the Legislature next winter. Here in Ohio colonization of the colored; peo ple of the South is being adopted as a system and . for the purpose of making Ohio solidly Republican for many 1 ycars me' 3Inklng Votes in Ohio. The Method Manufacturers in Cotnm- bus Adopted to Make Democrats Cast Republican Votes. Special Dispatch lo the World. Columbus, Nov. lS.The Colom bia Buggy company of this city is one of the largest in this country,; and over 600 voters are employed by its managers. The large majority of them are Democrats. The company j sells nearly all of its work in the $oiith, and has built up an immense busi ness, and its managers have made for- ' j - tunes. . ' - j . m Before the late election they notifi ed their employees that if Hancock was elected they would shut down the work w,,ilc if Garfietl not only s was elected i able to main- thcm Xheir ,awvcr fisher tcd t,iemhowlonianaged the work- posted men and still not evade the statutes. A census was taken of the voters and printed lists, with name, age and resi dence, were placed at all the polling- places where any of them voted,; and under the eye of the Uepublican ticket-holder and challenger. Byj this means not a single one of them could vote the Democratic ticket without be ing detected, and fejeling that detec tion meant dismtssal, nearly or quite 400 Democrats voted the Republican ticket, and Columbus, instead of j giv ing a Democratic majority, gave a Re publican majority, as man other Re publican employers adopted similar methods. . .--j . Now the employees of the Buggy Company have been informed tha they will get 20 per cent, of their wages in cash and the remainder in "store orders.' Tlie stores, of course put up the prices o the.workingmen and make a heavy discount to the com pany, so that tlie wages of the work ingroen will bej cut down from 20 to 25 per cent, in! addition to being dis franchised at the polls.' , ; . n Because some thousands of the riffj rait voters of New VorlS (so-called Democrats) were purcliased by the Radical millions, some of our South ern exchanges are saying that hereaf ter we can "put but IJttie confidence in the faithfulness ofso-calltnl Demo crats in the rthThw JsJ.liardly (air. ' It is not" right' to judge of anjf party by its jxiorest material. A man who can be bouglit cannot be trusted. We believe the true Democrats of the North are just as reliable as those of the South, and 'we think the past his tory, of our party shows it mot con clusively. New York is cursed 'with. treacherous and dangerous politicians, it is to be regretted. But are all South ern so-called Democrats to be relied upon ? Do they never sell out and betray the party? Is there not talk now of abandoning and scuttling the old Democratic ship f Wit, Star. Went. X. C. ltallroad. Mr. Best & Co. have changed the gauge of the Western N.C. Railroad so us to make it correspond with that of the Richmond and Danville road. Heretofore the gauge was 4 feet 8 inches which corresponded with that of the A. T. fc O. Road from Char- otte to Statesville, aiid with the Car olina Central from Charlotte to-Wil mington. We deeply regret that this change should have leen deemed nec essary by the owners of the road, but it is their properly, and they have he right to. regulate the gauge as the interest of the road may require. They have a herculean task placed on their shoulders by the terms of the contract of sale, involving the building of one hundred and sixty miles of railroad through a rough mountain country. This task the State was itself unable to perform, although under a pledge to i)crform it. To have carried out that pledge would have involved an amount of taxation which the people of North Carolina were unable to -un able to endure. It! was a practical impossibility to carry it out. At. that a juncture Gov. Jarvis saw a method by which the State could be. relieved of this great responsibility, and a rea sonable guaranty afforded that the road vould be built. He laid the proposition of sale before the General Assembly. They approved it by an overwhelming vote of the members of both political partuw, and the road passed into the hands of Best & Co. They take it subject to an enormous burden actual and prbective, and to deny them now the right to manage it according to their own judgment would, not be fair and just. FaycUe- villc Examiner, Jute in tub South. Cotton, New York iournal ! devoted to the great staples says, we make the fol lowing extract from a recent letter from Mr. W. H. Oliver, of Newbern N. C: "I, yesterday,: showed a cotton bagging manufacturer from Patterson N. J., a specimen of jute raised here It is from 15 to 17 feet high. He was much astonished at it, having no idea that such could be raised. In a few years every yard of j cotton haggin used in this country will be manufac tured at the South, from jute raise here. 1 oil can mark tins as a pre diction from me." The Ashcville Citizen appears to think Charlotte ought to be abundantly satisfied with the freight rate to that point, saying "Perishable goods, such as apples, eobliages and onions, are now carried ever tho West ern North Carolina Hail road to Charlotte t is cents oer cwt.: freiffht on the same goods to Salisbury is 18 ecnts per cwt. U don't see that Charlotte has any right to complain at this discrimination. Flour, meal and grain is shipped to Charlotte at 26 cents per cwt. Chestnuts are shipped to Charlotte at 40 cents per cwt, and to Salis bury at 89 cents. Char. Otmerrer. There has been more discrimination to the damage of Salisbury without oiuplaint than to any town in the State, and this too in the face of her' liberal efforts to build Railruacls. MISCELLANEOUS. About Ghosts and Ghost Storizs. X think I had heard n thonsnud nnd one awful ghost stories by the time I was fif tceiryeare old. Indeed iti some families tllflshinlAnfonrnra5iMkn nn lm V!nf I i w-. v"0 nights, was about ghosts and witches and warlicks aud hobgoblins and long uebed things. The negroes indulged iu these things as much if not more than the white people, .when I was a boy. Their stories 1 were always more frightful than those of I ghost experiences had preceded this adren the white people. They were told in the I tureJ'I knew they were airy nothings, and dim light of the fires iu their cabins at I night. Th large white' of a ncgroe's eye behind such a black ground iu a dim light, odds much to the effectiveness of a ghost story. I lave sldvered from head to foot i as tiicse scones iiare uceji uuu wiut an i Lir of tiKrmWlawfar i.s f . ... witlMi rigid exactness of detail, "My hair would stand on end or at least feel like it did, aud the cold cliills would chase ime was the property of Dr. Aslibel Smith, now n-Hnr. f uecomo su .. . . i . . - . : .. . . - . . ' 1 Pcnor readers, any more than it is for nil auouier up aim oown my duck lor hours I at a time. Wheu I sbirted home from the I I. r . -i negro caduns, I would run every jump of tlto way and get into bed and cover up my head until I was almost smothered. I almost hated the negroes for telling me such awful stories and yet I could not rest till I got into their cabins and pro voked them to the recital. To this good day I liavo not been able to understand why I loved to hear a class of stories that gave me so much trouble as ghost stories did when I was a boy. I notice that cliildreu now are just as fond of these . . l taruw as I was and that they are affect- iuj-uicm in uie same way. i nave no- 41 "v" 1 Vl" l"i" - any aneciei oy miuenuiai tneones ami ... .... . . i all that partakes of the mysterious and wonderful iu preachim. ; Anv thins that is shrouded iu mystery or that is to trans- tiro at some future time; has a wonderful fascination for them. This is the class to which clairvoyants,spirii-rappcr8, and for tune-tellers appeal. It is a large class, and the more ignorant they are, the more ready they are ,to swallow down as Gos- el truth that which an angel from hea ven eould not understand. My mother did all she could to unsettle my faith in ghosts and all ghost stories. It was sim- ily wonderful how the best planned sto ries would wither away at her touch. I felt like a fool that I did not see the weak mint in them before mother got hold of story that was hitched together like "finked sweef uess Jonff drawn out." I would detail it to mother with the air of triumph that characterizes a profound ogician, only to see it melt like snow be fore her breath. 1 never saw but one ghost in my life tiiougu i hunted lor them otten. it was in a graveyard about twelve o'clock on a calm, clear, moonlight ni"ht. I was then about fifteen years old. I saw it plainly, It had a body as white as snow and was .. ten feet high. I saw its head. eyes. arms, legs nnd feet with most harrowing dis- ti net uess. I was cold all over and my heart was up iu my throat and choked me. There was aifeawful and most un- earthly groaning in the graveyard, if I had run away as most people do at such times I would have beeu qualified to the facts as detailed, but they were only fan cies, as you will see. My mother had often promised to give mc fifty dollars for a ghost if I would catcu one anu oriug it uoiue. Tins was my first chance to make the money, so after silent prayer to God for help and protection I ventured up to my ghost step by step, but very slowly. It grew bigger aud more ghostlike the nearer 1 got to it. It was one of the greatest ef forts of my life to approach that awful looking object. heu I was alout ten feet from, it the ghost vanished, and there stood before me thcvhitc palings around mv father's grave. My imagination had conjured up the balance, 1 he groaning proceeded from a lot of hogs that had made a lied in the graveyard. This was the first, last and only ghost I ever saw in my life. After that I had no faith iu ghosts nor in ghost stories. Xow, boys, when you see anything you do not understand, go to it aud find .out what it is, and generally you will find it as harmless as the ghost I saw sodistiuct - ly, (Jilderoif in Macon Adcocute. It is a real wonder that Gilderov. after all his 'good training, never saw more than one ghost. I had a very similar training but was more successful than he, 'having seen one ghost I never could account for, and several others which evaded mc, on approaching them, by turning themselves into blazes on trees, white posts, or anishingaway entire ly. I will relate one little scare : It was the day U-fore Eater, I was in the inf f a i;irr ftin barn. seHrchin" -Terv cor V O rf ner where the hay and fodder were stowed fm-iipn m-sra. I had trone in with ea"cr expectation f finding eggs for the holiday, and was as busv as a boy could be whose happiness depended Tn the venture. True, it was broad dav light, but the barn was large and gloomy ; and I was alone. had just comp'eted the search of the darkest corner in the loft and had risen from hands and knees with my face to the walls. It 1 had crawled off as I went with eyes peering into holes in the hav. I should have no story to tell ; but I did not. Just as I rose to my feet, within two feet of my eyes, setting on the wall plate of the eld shell, was thc en tire skull of a man, clean aqd white, and grinning at me with its naked teeth, and peering at me through great empty" eje sockets. It was the first thing of the kind I had ever seen, though I bad heard of Taw head! and blood j bones.' I had the manli ness not to faint, and to make no outcry ; lUt I did VCAt tliA.1 !tirn lrtft with uirnna. I ; tr-.l - (y FfiJ IHW.." vtrc NVU IUC AIICT would hare thought the devil was after ;ac. I got outside of -it quick, pale, and trembling from bead to foot. But I had not seen the sun light and felt its genial rays scarcely a minute before I was re-established. My Terr soon mustercd.courarc to sro back and take a second look to assure myself of what I had see It was still in it. pl, rfmply because it had no power to more. Subse- quent inquiring rerealed the fact that it was 141 .! i I bkuii i man wno some uionins ociore I ieaangja-thiiy of executed criminaTs fell into the hands of the local Doctors. The skulljn questW lexas, inougu u iiau lormcny ueen tne i head piece of a man named Sam Kelly. C. i , . . ucuuiu as s r iue Art i The State census tells us how many peo-1 pie are able to read, but it does not say how many are able to read rc. Good reading is a luxury somewhat rare, but very attractive when it can be had. There are few ways of )iassing a winter evening j more delightful than iu listening to choice extracts from the best exirucis irom tne oess writers, reau ny one who appreciates tho scutimcut of the author, but is also able to render it im- I r pively. There are some poems which cannot be annreciated without the aid of - - a I the Hvinff voice. The music of tlie rlivtliui " 1 " i ,ioes not reacii tho soul through the eve. A composition which is comparatively commonplace may.bo wonderfully trans formed by the huraau voiec. t)auicl Web ster puce came home from church, after hearing the late Dr. II. preach, who had such a musical instrument in his throat that he was able to charm everybody by his exquisite tone and accent, aud remark' ed to a friend that he had just heard the greatest sermon to which he had ever lis ened iu his life. His friend borrowed the manuscript from the author, and asked permission to read the discourse in his own plain way to Mr. Webster, and when he had finished the great American ora tor said that could uot be the same sermon he had heard. With the absence of the speakers tone all the charm had vanished. If good reading is a great luxury, bad reading is a great abomination. Some very ordiuury readers are particularly foud of reading to their families and frieuds. When tho fit seizes them there is no escape, and hour after hour they hob ble along, like a creaking cart drawn by a spavined horse over a; rough pavement, stumbling at all the hard words, nnd nev- er tre ttini? on at a decent nacc. even when .. o -- a 1 - the ways are smoothest. It is very drearv to be obliired to sit still and listen resnect I fullv while the resnccted head of the j household mumbles on, mixing up the consonants and mistaking the emphasis j and inverting the accents ; and it is not much better when the more ambitious paterfamilUi strikes off iu a lofty key, and moves on with slow aud pompous tread, rolling the R's, thundering out all the big words, and overwhelming you with the dull monotony of vociferation. There is also a sing-soug style of reading, not so offensive, but it is as lulling as the racks of a cradle aud works like an ano dyne. Then there are others who have I no striking defects and yot they are unat- tractive ; they read mechanically, with out much light and shade, or auy special feeling or variety of tone and accent, and you ; are always glau when they are through. 1 he best hand -organ wearies one after a while. There are many public men, whose bust nss it is to use their voice, who are very poor readers. This may be owing to some .,t.,ri ,w. f l.i. l. tl.r nrot - scions, and which, at any rate, they have never taken the pains' to correct. Their breathing apparatus is in poor order or badly treated; the mechanism of thc throat does not work freely ; tlie jaws and tongue and lips do not movo flexibly ; the pitch of the voice is unnatural, or the volume 1 is defective, or the tone is artifical ; and j it may be that noue of the organs of speech ee to have fair play. Dthcrs who have no special natural de fects are poor readers from simple indif ference. They never try to read well, aud care very little whether their tones accord with the sentiment or not. They are superior to such trifling considera tions, nnd will toll you that if they can manage to make themselves intelligible they are content to let the grocer of elo- - 1 tion go when, for the want of some of I theso graces, they do not make the cn$e of the sentence intelligible. They look down upon the art of reading with con I tempt, and will leave all that sort of thing I to the stage-players. I There are multitudes of men in the miu 1 1 istry who are bad readers for tho want of early training. If they have never learn- j ed how to read before entering college ojt 1 the seminary, they are not likely to leara I there. There is little done in these insti- tutious to tench men how to handle the I instrument by which they are to get their j living. The result is deplorable. Many - 1 a poor clergyman is left in the cold be ' cause the people cauuot endure the wear- incss of his utterances HU character is pod, ho isxealous and, nuxioas to work, he is falioftlieology, ho'can writ a Try ..... ,..., uuuie canuot arlieuUtr. mere ore souio who fM. iutiui'certam ' manncnsiu, acquire tricks of; speech, or nfTect ai tificial tones. ..... . . .!,. mm la . . k. i t iiii'i'i rikn 1 . . . - v,.i M1CU are fatal. Uf th-y may be simtdy dnll and drearr. with- out auy life, aud spring to the Tvice, any variety of cxpreisious, and. this also is fatal. : . .;.-.;. So far as skill in rcadW U eonrom there is a great diffcrenco In the Inatint --r -r--"' wjwj.iir, m just as some are oorn painters,, so fhere are those who Would tilcv ni7 r cour8 Mrf Ti in mj UC Jn 1 r - rf 7 7 - . IT'Vj , o UCiUvmOS. DDE s i! l ... nronta. TKi - - fS'?tlL- UU tgmt - - fSW. vu.vuiHM juu ineec witu a nerson who. becaiso h nt-- 4 .5,. , a wun uuuo anu uas a Dig trumpet hi his throat, and can explode at intervals as if he had also a set of cartridges there, aud rise and fill like a ship iu a storm,' iraagtner himself to bo a great reader, and inflicts ; himself upon his com wu nity-accord inlr Alas! for the Reading Club of which he becomes a member J To tame hini down aud brier mm anywhere witbiu bounds is imnossi- ble. Rut, iu these clubs it oughtto be uuderarfwiil tl.f k..m i - . . wuu vtiii? DUaumivByB iw ai. lowed the freest and plainest criticism and nrl. - ..n.-nn-.:, ' u w IIUIIU tU HllUiniL III tl.i. .nnld w;Mwlmn. "......,,. With this under standing, a Heading Club may be of in estimable service in correcting defects of winch the members themselves are . un- couscions, and also in elevating thevgen eral standard of reading with all the mem. bcrs. In our smaller towns ami rUln , where there are very few forms of social , amusement, a, Kcndiug Club, well, con- ducted, may prove to bo both edifridff aud agreeable. It will bring out much latent talent, nnd it may not bo a bad thing to give an occasional public read ing for the benefit uf th large. Good reading is more instructive than charades, more satisfactory than ordi nary private theatricals, and much less ex- ; pensive and more wholesome than-dancing parties and balls. WhileTit entertains and amuses, it may be made to elevate the liter ary tons of society. Reading, as one of the fine arts, has not received its nroner share of attention T- I of thc most delightful Intellectual treats that I ever enjoyed were tlie listening to one of Shakespeare's plays as read by Fanny lYcmuic, anu to a rich selection f miscel laneous prose and poetry, as rcadbj the late lamented Charlotte Cushman. Kembles and Cushmans are rare commodities; but they might not be so rear if more interest were manifested in "Reading as a fine art.n liUhop Clarke, of llfoxh Itland, in 2fcu Tori Ledger. So live that when thy summons comes to to join " The innumbcrablc caravan which moves- To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like t herquarry-slavc at night, fecourged to his dudgeon, but sustained and soothed. fl . ' " . By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch . ; About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. William Cullen, Bryant, The Democrats will learn something after awhile. Judge Terry Democratic elector iu California, is beaten while all the rest of the ticUt is elected. Mr. Aek- I leu f Louisiana, is also beaten for Con- 1,1 a inet largely Democratic. unfortunate noTOUiatiomv and only serve to remind us that the day for the triumph of ."machine politics is well nigh "played out." Charlotte Observer, A little fellow, turning over the leaves ef a scrap book, came across the well-known picture of some chickens just out of the shelL He examined the picture carefully, and then, with a crave, sagacious look.- slowly remarked ; "They came out 'cos they was rfraid of being boiled." An Ohio girl sued a man for breach of promise, and proved him such a mean scoundref that the jury deci ded that she ought to pay him some- thing for nut marrying her. A little boy says : "When cats is a swearin' and a blasfemin' and tfyln9 tlie gages, of their steam bilers in the back yard at nite, it makes a feller. , awful frade if he ain't slccpin" with , i.: i.:- K4i. iti wig ut u4 m i . It appears that tle project to establish a high school in Morgan too, undercharge i the Episcopal churcK has I been aban doned. The property donated by citizens is in a bad way . , - - -I " v Don't-spend 'all your- 81a.r what ever it is. ' Don't run iu dcU -T '-I-