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K 'I FrT '" Y " Y Y!Y" Y.;;;Y '' -v'-'.v: :j'.:-vj -r.i;,., ... v i. . ' "1 . , Y " " ' ' ' tr VOL XII. THIRD SERIES SAUSBUEY, Hi C JAHTJAEY 27, 1881. K0.15 i 11 4 Tlie Carolina Watchman, STABLISnED IN THE YEAR 1833. ' PIUCE, $1.50 IN ADYANCK. Y Y- CONTRACT ADVERTISING RATES. 1 month 2 m'a i mla Da's 12 en's Inches ""$l.5D $2.60 $3.W tS.W 3.H 4.60 6.S5 7.6 12.89 4.50 6.00 T.60 ll.W 15.W, . 00 T.50 9.99 13.59 '18.W 7.50 .I5 11. 2i 1 85.S9 11.S5 15.75 1 20.50 25.59 4.W 48.T5 26.25 .48.75' 75 Thrc for irrnir tar !;' ,-column lor V! do, do. do do. -ffroif rrw icao.'A isl T nreCTXTitt At : i Y oiiavnivo axaviaoaA. xraaasHX ' aov 3Hi aaAama iovi isaxvaao m is WtM.j!ftwt.P-IlaiK. 11 i 1 fimiQa sno:uog eoJiao srrwEtfsoii! 4 "Blli-ldlS I xiaos .sauna i I'or Sale by T. F. KXUTTZ, Druggist, d i : lodV SalifsburV, N. C. '".t-"' " -' . i .- i . 1 JAMES M. GRAY, ii ! Attorney and Counsellor at Law, , SAMSBURY, X. C. - . Office in the Court House lot, next doo. to Squire Untighton. Will practice in all the Courts of the State. " ATTORNE Y AT LjI IP, SAtlSliURY, is. c, Practices in the State' and Federal jL' Courts. ss t2:6m 17841 SEEDS X! BEST ! not sold in yonr town, yon li ! tarneuKl Prices. T k OldeM tout muH txtentiv Seed trrofrvr tn tit rnitrd State. 1 PAyiDlANUUETlI&SONS.PHttADA.J'. Blacker M Heiflerson, ; f Attorn" s, Counselors1 i L;f and Solicitors. h- "SALISBURY, N. C. Jnaav22 1879 tt. Wms. Brown, j'f!; SALISBURY, IT. Ci icrinTin AllWdown ! PPerfg-in fa.-tjl will : S? .StlJIs. -m eerecii staves ; .Wwes in full EcticapcrV'w Jior,ookiind "rjr-nvlifrte else H... I. Jrom -3 in thicvty ;i.c.eneanest s.ra wni cpair r me best. S3 3s old stilils on -j Short Xoticc. tf n it- iuu ivisii l O - w - - i Your Waichesfand Kepred by aoo.l, cheap hd resionsiBl gtx-& Readleman, Salisbury,' N. C' Y ijw is the time to sijnscnw r y R.THE WATGHi? AN IB8H1IHSIW ' ia hi Je aar aia -tsEasai l 9 a W. t7 i . i LAWDRETHS' 1001 nun ill-: ! .Xol: : CT9 I! : ff?Z wmZM POETRY. A Darvrinian Rodent. Scientific AnnuaL " There wasa rat who learned to read, and had Y a thoughtful mint! i I To science and philosophy his tastes were T all inclinetl; i " i For novels,4 news, and politics, a like he c moujrnt iiirra vain. pe scorned all tales of scandal, Jbsli Billings, And even the last dispatches from the bloody ! 1 fields of war " I 'f j To him were dull and stupid as the jokes 1 1.. . mother-in-law. - . ; : The books be took delight in were writt on written 1 !i by wise 31 en, sir j j ' -v I or uarwm was his favorite, and next was Herbert SoenceS Of these he read, on these he thought, and !. pondered u'ef the nivsterv now iiuuis ana ci&ws, anu wings andlails, - I by use are slowly gained Races on eich other preying til inaintaind; . balance is The survival of the 'fittest, and, since first ! tlie world becaiii .The gradual development of mohad,monkey ! man. - i i He pondered deep, lis reasoned 1 -.then he plainly saw well, and That rats arid mic are rats and m ice. bat by i - rom youth ! this, simple law : j 'Tiathc cats that prey upon them . ! to hoary -age, That have checked their onward . I the rat-and-mousey-stage : I progreps in And could the cats be rid of, j again their ! race might grow. As the avalanche develops from, the rolling i ball et snow. $o he called a grand convention of the rats X and of the mice. And; having them assembled, t thcui his advice: iqs he cave ! ''Come liitlitr, all ve mice and rats. Whu spend jour livea in fear of oat h, j A nd 1 inten to a plan I've gut, j j. By wfii li we may 'exalt our lot : Just 1ft us get a little bell f" j And tie.it lound each cat's neck well; Then we can heai tliera when the; -'re coining And run into our holtM a-hniuniM). Then arhen eits can't catih rat to eat j They'll soon find out lhat grAsi in weet ; j When they eat grass they'll lose heir claws, And hoofs will grow" out on theii paws; j Their feline teeth will soon droii out, And in their place incisors Rproilt. I And when llwy've eaten it a heaji j They all will turn to Utile sheep. -a ; Then no more eats will be so nide For all ns little rats und mice; . j For, as is well known (o you all, 11 living in hole that keep. its small ; Uul then we all may take our eape And live about jul where we4leape, And 'lis as plain as any finger We all wiH grow a great deal bipger ; In fat(, I think there is no-reason . H e may noi grow a foot eat h ttenson. Thus, fast a-jniriig size and stn nglb, AV'll vat thor iuuttott-cal at h nurti, And, living but on blood and braiiis, As lions ilo, we'll all have mams, And grow fo fierce and carni-vefr-onii i lhat even men tlieni.el ves will (tr us ; ; For if, in sjiie of all the cat, There are so many mice and ra!s, 'Tiff plain we all are fitted for i Great Nature' internecine-win'; And may, if once we turn the ficjale?t Develop to the size of whaKs. j So do not doubt me by a look, S ! For all is proved in D.irwin's book. Ylt only needs to bell the cats ' j The rest will: follow bet your hats." Then roac an old grandfather rai, wh list- ened with attention: j"Let unanimous approval be I this convention. ic sense of ! Heaven bless our fallow-rodent; who, with suoer-rat ambition,. Has solved the problem how wi may exalt . j our low condition, j And circumvent the, feline race, and make it j come to pass That, like Nebuchanezzar, they ; sent to grass. shall all be i Bure our children in his honor raany monu And our sculptors sculp his ima je, and our poets sing his praise; And chihlrtn shall be named for him like i sands along the seas r jilorc numerous than George Wellingtons, j and likewise Robert Lees. jMean while the crowning glory that a mor 'iT till rat can ask, ! . jTp put the bells upon'thc cats, nhall be his I valiant lasR.'J ".Then the learned rat looked thoughtful, bat a wild hurrah arose, I To ratify this pleasant scheme ol' vengeance on their foes; "J" When, midst their loud cejoicin ;s, alas ! it must he told, ' ' A cat sprang in upon them, like n wolf upon the fold. Fast for their holes they scampered, but, ah! slve was too quick; She lit u Don that learned rat, li ke many a hundred brick. Oh, fearful cat astrophe 1 oh, fat al turn of j, luck! -- ; iillis fate was as the June-bug's o I the duck. '."" ertaken by Then the hall was all deserted n thetwink- of an eye. And (he rat and mouse convention stood adjourned sine die. LettcV from Rev. John V L Davis. The following letter was written for Ihe Orphan Friend at Oxford, and published but it will :in that journal some weeks agoi- prove interesting and instructive to such"5f bur little fqends as have-not herctoforeead it: ' ' Soocnovr, CniSA, Sept. 6, t880. Jf aster Jiio WvoleltMy dmr Youhg Friend: I like very much to get letters, and I sup pose that you do too. I knowjnbout the Asvlum, for i read the Orphan? Friend, and I asked Hiss Anderson, who is aj friend of inline; td send me the names of seme of the boys in the Asylumv Among others she sent me yours, and I now write you altter. I am a missionary in the city of Soojhpw, China. ,Thisis a very large city, and there are as many people in Soochow and the villages within ten miles of the city, as there are in the whole State of North Carolina. There are thousands of little boys and girls Jn Soochow. Tlie boys go to sc hoo! , and most of thea study pretty well. JEach boy is a iclass by hiaisclf When he recites hi lesson be stands up with his back to his teacher, . pu mub 12V van VUl DCC illC lW&y nuu s lesson Tery fat. If-he can Hot say it, the teacher takes his hand and strikes him in the palm with a raler. : Sometimes the boys will not study, and then the teacher makes ;tQem ga to a corner and kneel down and study The boys all study aloud, -and it is a wonder to me that they do not wear their throat; out. If they are quiet the teacher raps on-the tabic anT says a few . words to Uietn, and then they all yell out as loud as they can for abont fire minutes. Some of the boyjrare very sensible, andtady with out being whipped. 'The way we mission aries in China do is to employ a teacher for .IT a month to teach the children their les- sons, and we examine them- occasionally to see that they are learning;; I have Jjeveral lysft4'-aferfa'-fiiiriy scboof wlio at wars know their lessons," and when prizes are offered the v always cret them. Thev re eat w'e cbaPteE8 f Matthew or Mark, i ami say ineir carccuism tessons wunouc miss- ing anything. It is a great pleasure for me to hear themYThey have a great many very strange notions. They think that every ipn has three souls and six ghosts. Yesterday one of .the boys in my school said, "My brother is sick." "What is the matter with him?n I asked. "He has ague," he replied. Then he said very emphatically, "He has been frightened. "What F Who frighten ed him!" said I. Then the teacher said, "He means that he was startled a few days ago, and one of his souls jumped out of him." The Chinese often go and call the souls to come back, for if they do not, then the sick person must die. They do not know that each human being has one soul; nor do they know how precious that soul Is, and they know nothing of Jesus and salvation for sinners. I have been here seven years and I am glad that I came. The people call me bad names when I have passed by and they are behind my back. They do not care f r the gospel, because they do not know the need of it, and sometimes I feel badly. It is discouraging in some respects to be the first missionary in a heathen city, for I must labor long before seeing the fruit of my la bors; but I never did regret coming to China. When you growtp to be a man you must do something to send the gospel to the heathen. . Remember this message that I send you from this far-off land if you try to gite the gospel to the heathen you will never regret it. If you waste your time now you will le sorry for it some da; if you do not become a christian you will be sorry for that on the judgment day ; but you will never be sorry for anjrearnest prayerful effort you may make to send the knowledge of Jesus to the heathen. 1 i The little Chine.-e boys like to play just as you do. But they have few games. They fly kites and-roll. cash, play soldier, spin tops, and they often quarrel they jdo not fight very much. "How do they foil cash?" you ask. A cash is a piece of brass :er cop per money. A dollar is worth 1120 cash. The boys set up a brick slanting, and' hold the cash so that it may drop with its sharp edge on the brick and roll off. Ho whose cash rolls farthest "wins the gamej Some times they throw the cash with its flat side against the wall, so as to make it j bounce off. He whose cash bounces farthest has the game. There are all sorts of boys in Soo chow. Some are very clean and nice look ing nearly white; others are ragged and dirty,jind their faces arc yellow, and some of them almost brown. There are many temples in Soochow that have idols in thin, and the people go and bow down before them and knock theirorcheads on the floor. They generally put some sticks of incense or a lighted candle before the idol, and then bow down and pray. Sometimes a rich Chinaman or a rich woman will spend $500 at a time in worshiping idols. Much of this is given to the priests to use in repairing the temples, or Th repairing the idols. Some t the idejsare as big as an elephant; some the size of-your little finger. There are 20 or 30 shops in Soochow where new idols of all sizes arc made. Idolatry has a powerful hold on China. Don't forget that as long as you live. Arc you willing to go through life without trying to do something to make the Iieathen give up their idols and worship the true God f You can pray if you can not do anything else. I send you a cash; the letters on it say that it was made in the time of Emperor Kien Loong, vho ruled from 1736 to 17C9 60 years. The hole in it is to allow it to be strung o;rt a string. That is the way they carry their cash ; they put on 100 and then tie a knot. A full string has ten hundreds. Your unknown friend, John W. Davis. Berlin Iettcr. Regular Correspondence. Beklix, Prussia, Jan. 3rd, 1831. In virtue of the elaborate statistical statement result iug fi-u.u a census to which the German Empire has recently been subjected, Berlin is now entitled to take the third place in the list of Euro pean capitols, as far as the jiu ruber of her iuhabitauts is concerned. The old Prus sian Reside uz, which has become the cap itol of United Germany by the force of circumstances rather than through any special "fitness for that supremely influen tial position, has nearly doubled her pop ulation within fourteen years, and is at the present moment, roughly1 speaking, the dwelling-place ef eleven hundred thousand human beings. In j ninny re spect, however, the moral and.' physical condition of iU designs are sadly in ar rear of the developments which' modem civilization has introduced -Into other great Continental cities. . A - few nights ngo, in the course of an interesting and highly instrnctive letnre delivered at a Social Science Meet in Berlin, Pri vy Councillor Starke ea restly and forcibly: drew his heai-ers' attention to several .... j . - i . . amazing facts relating to the permanent and floating criminal population, as well as to the every da life of the lower, mid4 die, and working classes. Juvenile crime would appear to be terribly prevalent iiM Berlin, for the Plrify Coauciilor stated 1 that ao fewer than te& thousand youthful walefnctors are annually turned into ti e streets of that city i Wm the several State ; prisons, the terms o their entcuce biiYi fagpired,! andmfiIiejiei 'lbrc thousand, h'aviugnc Phonies to.go to ait) absolute and ' hopele sa vairalmnda.- Tlmi Berlin Society Cor the Redemption of Jiii venile offenders is nn iible to snend mero 1 than a hundred a yeaf upon the objects for theachievincut o: which it was found- ed, whereas a similar association iu New York is in a position to devote one mil lion dollars annolly Half the entiro popp to these, purposes. ation of Berlin is lwlged in dwellings ssesiiug only one fire-place ; and no fewerthau three thou sand two hundred and thirty-nine sets of apartments, totally foilorn a-like of fire place and chimney, ailo occupied by fauii lies in humble circutnfetatices. Dr. Starke draws an appalling picture of the immort ality characterizing thje lower classes jof Berlin society, and ucjpi fusing effect upon the public mind, as mirrored iu columns of the German daily ijress. i Ma3encc, one of th0 quietest old forti fied cities in Southernj'Germauy, has sel dom of late 3ears witnessed such a scene of popular excitement us that which took place within its prkjiiicU on Tuesday, when vast crowds of its inhabitants mith cred round the station of the Cologne DiUseldorf Steam locket Company I to watch with eager iutercst an achievement of mechanical ingenjiit3 never before per formed upon the Geruuin soil. This was no less a mai vel thian the removal, by means of an American apparatus, consist ing of screw-jacks, of the entire building containing the Company's local offices j to a spot sotiio hundred ami forty feet from its original site. Tiie station was first raised nearly six feet by the simultaneous action of tho screwsj thru trausfencd to a wheeled platform, and finally rolled : to and .set up upon the new fouudatious pre pared for fft nveptliMrY- T&n hole oper ation was so skilfully and accurately cr- formed that not a single pane of glass; iu any one of the windows was broken, not a casement set swinging on hinges, or a door thrown open The station now stands a3 solidly as though it had been built there, close by jhe broad stone steps leading down to thethiue, just above the bridge of boats, where it is destined to remain until the completion of the new iron bridge about to great German river. be thrown across the C. A. S. MISCELLANEOUS. How our Cities are Growing. We have now the returns of the "popu lation of all our cities which contain ten thousand inhabitants and over. There are 245 such cities, and their total popu lation iu 1880 was U;lOO,201. In 1870 we had 18 cities with a popu lation of ten thousand and oyer, and their aggregate population jwas7,G72,2l3. These cities have therefore increased in- number 61 within the ten ytfars, and they con tain 3,427,908 more inhabitants. Our total gain iu population since 1870 has been 11,594,183, Und nearly a third of this increase has been in the cities, j If we included all the municipalities, those of between eiyht and ten thousand juhnb itauts as well as those of greater size, we should probably! find that our total urban population in 1880 was over eleven and a half millions, land toward three and three-quarters million more than! iu 1870. This would make tho increase iu the cities fully one-third of tho-whole in crease of population iti the. Union. j The cities contained about 8,000,000 in 1870, to 11,500,000 in 1880. They there- fore have been iucrcusiog iu inhabitants far more rapidly than the rest of the country. Whilo the j general gain has been ouly about twenty-five per cent., that iu the cities haslbeeu about forty five per cent. j . I And this growth of 1 lie cities at the ex pense of the country generally has beeu becomiug moiked during tho wholej of the last fifty years' jln 1830 our total urban .population ,vas only about one sixteenth of tho whole. In 1850 it had grown to be ouc-eighth. In 1870 it was one-fifth ; and iu 1880, out of about fifty millions of inhabitants, more than, eleven aud a half millions lived in. tho cities, j If the cities go on increasing during the next ten years at the! same ratio which the last ten years have showu, and the country as a'wbole advances iu popular tiou at tho same rate, jwe shall find more than sixteen mill ioiis in the cities,' to about forty -eight or fjort3'-uine millions, iu the rest of the country. A like tendency jtui b! uild up the tow us at tho expense of J the! country appears in the figures we are? obtaining of the Ger niau census taken late last year. " It is a modern teudency, and shall we not call it a modern evil likely! rhave porteutious - consequences f Sew or khan. . Navigation of the Yadkin. The subject of tho navigation of the Yadkin river has been again brought up bjr the Retdsville 27ir, whose editor has been Interviewing Mr. Frank Brown on the subject. Mr. Brown gives bira this information : v ; 1 "Two years ago through Senator Kan som, Mr. Brown got an appropriation of tweuty thousand dollars from the govern ment to that end, and last session an ap- PP""n twenty thousand more was madev Xow 1 las had one set of work- iins maae, a uerrics boat with a ca- acK of I,rtluS tons, a quarterat frtve feet for Jan ds to stay in, mat wiij rase care or thirty men, stone boats and trausfer boats.. He will begin work eaiiyyt the BpHng iiglit: at the roi,r?al VrltlSe. xf miles from Salisbury, nml ProvuIe can put on three seta of a at points along (lie river fitee." to twcuty ,nil aPart Wwill Jiave "avigauie to bean's Shoals, six- -v,u" 1,1 aouc two years time. Mr. C. B. Philips, of Norfolk Va.L is the engineer in charge. This will ; open up transportation for hundreds of tons of the sweetest hay from the meadows along the river that now are shut out from maikst ! and hay compresses will be put right up. Besides this three cotton factories are al ready iu progress to be built, and there are of iroii, coal, and lime deposits equal to any in Virginia or Georgia. It willst going too a big tiug in the barrel stave busiuess. A Philadelphia party somtime ago bought land on the Yadkin with the view of going into this business, and so soon as the river is navigable the splen did timber will be turned into handsome profit." "The Kise and Fall of the Confederate Government" is the title of the book by Mr. Jell'eron Davis, and on which he has been engaged for the last five years. The work is to be issued by tho Appletous, of New York, in two large volumes, at $5 each, and is expected to bo out in ninety days. The South, aud indeed the world will read with interest a work from so high a source, and it will iudeed be a val uable contribution to history, emanating as it does from one so euiinentlj- connect ed with tho greatest revolution of modern times. But shall the record of North Car- ! oliua in that contest be lost f Shall the heroic deeds of her sous perish T Have wo not enough of State pride to make the effort to preserve and perpetuate them T Are nt thciv surviving:, comrade" strfll- eient!3T interested to engage in the under taking f The unwrittcu history of that war embodies those acts of sacrifice, of suffering and of daring that would illumi- nato tho name of 11113' people with a halo of imperishable gloi'3'. .Shall it be. con signed to the womb of oblivion! Then, can we not devise some method by which a historical organization may be institu ted and established to perforin this great and patriotic work ? We believe it could aud would be done if the movement were inaugurated. Will not tho ex-Coufedcr ates of North Carolina outer into the work heartily? Wo believe thev will. The Xeirs tC Observer would gladly give pub licit3 to their answers. Xetcs d Observe) A 'Stupid Phrase. We find in our esteemed contem porary, the Boston Herald, some talk about "ceasuig to patronize a news paper," and also about "newspaper patronage." It is a stupid phrase. We do not consider that anybody patronizes a newspaper when lie busy it ; or that the newspaper is under any obliga tions toiny one who either purchases a copyor inserts an advertisement. If it is a wise and sound newspaper, the purchaser or the advertiser gets the full value of his money and the account is even between them. The onlv situation in which the word patronage can be properly used in such a case, is where the newspa per is mean and worthless and the man pays fr his copy or for his ad vertisement more than the thing is really worth. In that sort of circuni stances there may be patronage in the base sense of the word the sense in which the Herald employs it. The idea of patronage contains in it something of servility. It has no j place in the American republic. I ought to be repudiated and detested by every self-rei Citing newspaper! , . ... and every self-respecting citizen. 2iew York bun. We subrcribe to. the doctrine laid down by the San. The man who takes our paper must do so on his own motion, and when it suits him to discontinue it, wc consider that we have no riiht to know his resasmns for so doing and never seek to know. It is our business to make the best newspaper we.can for the raony charg ed for it, and we expect no one to buy it on the ground of obliging us. It i a purely business affair wherein there is no recognized favoritism. The French remedy for con sum t tiDij that has beea in practice- Rome time in that country, that is, drinking tliCj warm blood of animals, has come it i practice in this city. One of our la rest slaughter houses pear this p lape is yisited daily by several young meh and youths, who indulge in this somewhat (to us) nauseous prescript tipp. They say there is really noth- to sicken or nouseate a person, k that while drinki ng it is quite pleasant and tastes very much like nfew milk. We shall watch this rem edy as it progresses with a great deal o -fnterest. Nut Shell. :-: ;-fTf.-."-;;;' - Y , Says an ; exchange : There really seems to bo no limit to the multifari ous uses to which paper may be ap plied. The last discovery is the man ufacture of lead pencils from this plas- tic material. The paper is sJeep iu an adhesive liquid, and roll- cd ed around the attenuated core, of lead to the requisit size, and after dry ing is properly colored and closely pmbles the reil cedar pencil of the trade. : . i j Add to this the building of a dwell ing house of paper, from the founda tion to the aoex chimnev. fire-nlaee. dog -irons, tougs and shovel, cook : J 1 J r r stojve, tables, chairs, sofas, curtains, eds, and every other article of fit mi tifte, even including kuives aud forks brj the table. Newbern Nut Shell: We are glad o learn a Canning establishment wil bejput in operation iu Newbern this edson in time to can up the surplus pehs, alsb tomatoes, corn, okra, and Other vegetables. '- j - POLITICAL. t M . A. .a., a' in view ot tue fact tliat tlie average Congressman is continually grumblin at the cost of conducting the affairs o; th6 government, but, wiHi characteristic inconsistency, he never fails to aiigmen that expense without any compunction saie 011 occasions proceeding election, i will not jiroyo wholly uninteresting to note the amount paid for a single item- that of the government priuting office for the tiast year. For the last fiscal vear the expenses of the printing establish ment were $2,000,000. This seems great deal of money to paj' for the print iug and biuding of public documents, Of this amount the Congressional Retoi cost about $130,000, and the arranging of a jparticulafly worthless iudex td the bound volumes of the same has cost $li,000. Each house of Congress orders "additional copies" of pretty much every work which tho Governmeat Printer has been instructed to furnish. That variety o tCong ressicnal literatureknowu as "the picture-book" class is the most expensive to. the Government. It is that which Congress orders with the greatest reck lessness. Hence, the year's lithographing and engraving hs cost $310,000, and much of this sum has been spent in filling orders for additional copies. If the pub lic: documents distributed by Congress men are worth auy thing to anylxwly, the recipients of this species of literature should nav the cost of production. If tiiey are of small value, their expensive and gratuitous circulation should be sitopied. Winston llepHbliean. 1 1 Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, United States Attorney for the District of Co- umbia, in his lecture on "Tho New South,"-in New York, on the 13th, anong other things, said : "As to the laterial resources of the South,,r"i!s tates occupy 960,00) square mile, vyiucii is more man one-iourtii 01 me !! .1 .1 .1. area of the Uuited States. From 1860 to 1880 the South ha3 held its own in regjard to population. Agriculture is the! princpal ooutlieru interest, atfd there were defects iu Southern farm . 1 t iiig, which were caused by the former sys em of slavery and expensive meth- of tillage. Freedom, however, has brought with it a degree of econ omy, and the men of the North will 1 be astonished at the wealth which is gradually being developed in that re 1 The mineral resources of west ehu Virgiuia, a T 1 ' lehnessee, th 11, ' I - eastern Kansas, eastern e western Carol inas, north western Georgia, Arkansas aud ; j j Mississippi will yet equal those of Pennsylvania, the great iron producer. The colored people of the South are gradually becoming farmers, and the small white farmers are increasing in uuliiber. Large estates are being di vi4ed up into a system which cousli tLijea the true strength of the nation. As; to the protection of the negro in his personal rights, this is now secured hiui at the South as much as to any poor man iu the North." TUo Curse of Keren no OiUeers Remedy for the Evil. ' . . "':" ' -' . " .- ' . . .-' . ,V- V' ' ' Cor. of the Newt and Observer. In tho last gnberndtorial- eleetiow (1880) the Democratic jarty JostJoB ne vote ot .1876, in the count of Meckleuburg, 750 votes : ia- the couuty of Lincoln, 343 ; in the cotin- y of Gaston, 651 j total, 1;853 votes. A few more such disasters and the Democratic party will losetho,ma- onty of the popnlar.vote Ja 1882. and thereby put iu ofSce six Repubi lican Superior cortrtt J udges 1 ami if . Al T . ' 1 . . . : , . - w "w S,siaiaT aua, the Voice of Ransom will no more be - heard in". v the Senate; ringing out its clarion fo- quencc. . - - The loss in these counties is due to " he patronage and oppression of the federal revenue service. - in Gastoa there are numerous distilleries,, and Y some in Lincoln and Mecklenburg, J aud atlonl positions for marshals, col lectors, storekeepers, gangers arfdde- -tcctives, paying from 2.00 to $4.00 - per day, and Avith these they Juy. tho young aud active Democcats ofaheso counties.' It wouTd make us blush to name some who have sold out prin ciples and character for this paltry mess of pottage. The distillers; are bought by allowing them to cheat the government in a shameless and out- Y rageous manner. It matters not what they do, so that their influence and whiskey are used for' the Republi can party. . In addition to this, every one of these officers and distillers are assessed from ten to twenty per cent, on their salaries for a campaign fund, ami in western North Carolina they raised in this way about teji thousand- dol lars. Something has to be done to counteract or destroy this great Radi cal power. The remedy, I suppose, is to prohibit the distillation of grain . and this will extirpate the revenue service. "Othello's occupation will begone."- No distilleries, no ''revenue officers; no Radical engine of "cor ruption. TJiose who must have spir its can use brandy, anil- these only run a short while in the summer, and take but few officers. . ' , I don't wish to prolong this ar ticle, but only write a brief sugges- ion, which our legislators can amplify and digest. ! merely add that corn is worth more in Gaston than in'the metropolis of Charlotte, made so by the distilleries. The poor have these high prices to pay, and are ready to join the Democratic party in stopping thescdistilleries. Let our legislators ponder over this matter seriously. Gaston. Theprescnt Legislature may allow r the sixty days they are expected to sit to pass without changing the law which allows a slieriff to sell land fori taxes after having ad vertisedjns pur pose to do so by means of a scrawl on a court house door, which nine times in ten the owner of the property will never see; but if they do they will ne mere receive the endorsement of the people' at home than when they persijs cd in the refusal to protect the sheep from the ravages of dog. But the injustice of such a law does not apply to the land-owner alone. It is alike an injury to him who has money and . wishes to buy. The requirements of a progressive age are such that a man can't lind time to hang around a court hoiiee to protect himself frourthis sort of imposition, nor on the other handr to look out for bargains.-'Let the Legislature meet Ulis question square-j ly, and consider how far North Carojh lina is behind many other Stales ii1 this as well as other matters. Char, " Observer. The dispatch wc-recently printett to the .effect that the United States Supreme Court had ilccided the Flor ida railroad cases, affirming the valid ity of the bunds jssued by the compa ny aud the subje-ctof that litigation, is not void of interest to North Caro linians. The decision ends the con troversy over the" -Florida railroad bond, in which it was supposed, that the Western North Carolina Kailrpacji and the State of North Carolina Wert interested, and cuts us off from all- : hope f realizing anything from thai source.' iVtic & Ota 1 .! .' !-Y;4 : lit!-