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fhe Carolina Watchman,: l isTABLISHED IN THE YEAR 1832. , ' PRICE, $1.60 IN ADVANCE . . cdlTTBACT ADVX XtTIh ING RATES. iBcbet 1 months art 8 en's 6 m IS ms One tor -. Tlor TWe or rntir lor ' Si .SO s.oo 4.50 6.00 T.50 11.25 18.75 i.60 4.60 6.00 7.50 ."5 $3. 50 - 6.25 7.50 V.00 $5.00 T.50 11.00 $H.0O H.O0 15.00 18.C0 , 25.00 40.CO 75.00 13.C0 16.60 leolumnlor 11. S5 u i no. 15,75, 1 i do do. 2G.?5j 34.75 48.75 fefflEMBER THEJEAD! : JOHH 8. HDTCHfflSON, Italian ana American Marble Monuments, lomos auu uia.vBBwuwj .Ttr OF EVENT PKSCKIPTON. fjUintf a practical m.ii Wr-woiker, enibles mof executing any piece of work Irom me nhuneftt to tne iuwi cmuyimv i , . -i - ia ana ram uiai vvi irti nirii.iiv.. u will Se given to the inost exacting patrons. - CH and examine my Stock and prices be- for putch ,re purchasing, as 1 will sell at the very low- wi; prices Designs a InA estimates for any desired work ... i r . u.J nn ontil w;ition. at next door Will DC. liirni""" v.. ..t t - ' t0 J.D.MeNeely'sMore. Salisbury, N. C, March 9, 1881. 11 CRAWFORD & CO. r ARE SELLING b - PORTABLE FAHBT A$TD 5AGT0'R',S'N i- STEAM- MMMi sijio- i Blasting rGarliflges and'Cap. ALSO Klist RIFLE POWDER mk frnnn IIFn rvmiri PflSriapsWufflS, . Oj our own and Foreign make aaa j (IGIES, From tlic Finest to the Cheapest. Belttii Cliaiapli Mower j IjvHorse Hakes, &c, " Salisbury, Jan. 0, 1831, y t !!": ' ' ' '!- 1 ! - , W. II. Taji-ey., Z B. Vaxce. "r j- y,- t VANCE & BAILEY, ATTOaNiYS AND i'ii Hrfe.'$'-v i " COUNSELLORS. 1 I , CHARLOTTE, X. C, pMVii ir r, f .1,. iTnifi Suttv iSiiptenie Court of IXorth t'srolina, IVJeralCourt nnd Coiiiiiifsof MecklenLurji, on.i fl.Otljce. two doora east ui Indepen- Jdenc;e Square. . . S3:tf , 1 1 r . . J. Sli MlTORKTK! Tiini P Kt.PTT. McCORELE & KLTITTZ, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS, it'- . ' 1 1 .: Salisbury, -NC. - . OU Coiiiirrir Slrf.-1. onnoiafc the viiuii i louse. I tUtCJUXOE, .V KH. 'ci.Eaj.KXT, j LCRA1GE & CLEIVSENT, SiUSBCUY. X. C. 13S1. Wl!Xr AT LAW, i ; fcvifiso'uis. Y, IV. 0., : Practices in tTin an,T r.rl wvx V r ViVI k I Court v r?A sr; aii Heiierson, ySjCourifeelois p U J : ;. and Solicitors. - SALISBUllY, N.C Jiitfay22l379 tt. j U'J)BETH tt SONS; PWladcfphla, Pi ; .f ! ' . . - i jmi' While our brother, with heaven b'fo'him, ifmmsMmM (wco ovcr al,out ouo Umrth f mCW fmtmm Carolina, Thin U scarcely nii WMMmmmm ;ti of learinff'- f- miy . .iP wituiti a given raauin ot miles. 41 ',lWMmmMMJ mauy factories, many mine, and I I ; 1 ! T ' , ! 1 - -. 1 i '. r 1 i r- ORDER gM USltS POETRY. ''Rowing Agalnst'the Tide; It it easy to glide with the ripples Adown the stream of time, ' " Ta flow with the course of the rirer, ' f Like music to some old rhyme; Bat ah ! it takes courage and patience 'Against its current t6 ride;i - L v And we must have strength from h eaten When rowing against the tide. We may float oa the river's surface --: .While our oars scarce touch the stream. And visions of early glory - f r ' . . On our dazzling sight they gleam ; . (.- We forget that on before us ? f? A , - The dashing torrents roar, " And, while we are idly dreaming, i - " .Its waters will carry us o'er. I. Bat "a few ah, would there were many! Po upth.Btream of lifo4 . J r They etrujrgle against its jsurjje :? , v ; . And mind neither toil nor strife, i , Though weary ?And faint with tabor, Singing, triumphant, they ride ; For Christ j the hero's captain When rowing agarnst the tide, . .Fur on through the haxy distance, .Like a mist on a distant shore, . Ther see the waJIs of a city, With a banner Heating o'er. , .Seen through a glass so darkly Tliev almost mistake their wsy : But faith throws li-lit on their harbor, When darkness shuts out their day. And .shall' we be one of that number "Who mind not toil nor pain fj Shall wc mourn the loss of earthly jo js When w;e have a crown to gain f ow in North IDStltU- descripdon, Idcn iere are many churches where it is similarly prohibited. 1 There are several counties, many town ships, a:nl a hirgc number of towns and cititfs where it is prohibited, jow rho j ever heard it charged that tho prohibi tion enactments as applied in these in stances jwas any invasion of popular "s'lls'wr ,,ertr' y'", yer l.a'p of any ., I. ' Quietly, withoat contest or excitement the laws have been passed, nrohihitiug the fiale iJ" liqa)r over a large qxtwit of ter itory, and now When' it is proposed to ap;ly tli same law to tlie remaining por tion of the Stale it is dTcovered that it is a fearful outrage and a .'terrible inva sion of our liberties. Ififwas jiight to 'Prohibit itiu one-fourth-of th rrr rohibit it iu one-fourth of the State is it ? If the act Suite : is uo invasion of popular liberty, -rty, Jiow can they make ft appear so in the remainder of this State? Thev areuo ' new thing, and when anti-prohitionistsget np now and decry what they denominate these uiodern innovations they show that they are not. fully conscious of wiat they me talkuigalwiat. - ! . Now, in this con uectidS, we wonld like to ask tlif candid anti-piohibitiouist why, if prohibition u a good .tiling in - ojie- fourth of the State, it will not Hie a good tiling in tho remaining three fourths? That the (teoplo in the one-fourth are satisfied with it is evideucd by the fact that no cnorc nas ueon maac to uave me laws re- pealed, nnd.such a thiug is never thjought 0f. Absolute prohibition also prevails over the rutin; Stare on certain days, 011 Sundays' on elecflon' daysand ho auti prohibitionit will assert tnat it is not, Why is it not good for tho ix'uiainiqg days? Tho same reason that caused the enact ment for thefwT special clays applies as forcibly Jo all tho days of tho week and the year. V ;"" ' : " . ; ; ',' When reduced to 'plain comimm sense all the trumied up arguments so called ag.iiiiHt picihibj tion, are the sheerest sophistry atd iuuseuse.--Cirtiio . Ob server. ' ' ' . ANew York Scexb. The New York Ecpreu gives the following description of what the police found in a B rook lyn tenement-house : 4,The second floor of thij house; was occupied by Bernard McClarey," his wife Ann, and six children. The place was one of the most filthy which imagination could picture, and McClarey and his wife were both stupidly ,drunk. McClarjjy was sifting on the floor and had a two-ytar old child in his arms, which was dying, but he was too" stupidly drunk to realize iti The woman was lying on the . floor helplessly drunk. The other five children were sit ting rouiYd on - the .floor, emaciated and starving. ' Internal revenue collections, in th4 State of North Carolina, for the fiscal yesr end ing June S0th,r 1830, amounted to (2,854, 006.71, The total collections in the United States, from all sourcesof internal revenue for the same period, amounted to $124,516, 614.02. - The cost of collection wss 3.63 per cent. 75. ' ' ' "The Commissioner of internal1: Revenue, in a recent letter, says that the 6th District of .North Carolina noir has the largest num ber of officers of any other district U the United Stat es. Internal Sevenue Guide. ; TnE Beautt nd fcolor of the hair may lie safely regained Jjy ; using Parker's Hair B dsauvwhieh is much admired for its par fume, tleanliness and daudruff eradicating 1 11 1 et that proiubitzon i North Carolina ns a Cotton" State; WTlmlnston Star." ' ' ; ' V The development, and growth of the cotton interest in North Carolina Is not to be overlooked. A little-while (ago -only a few yeiri the crop wa but little morejthan 100,000 bales. - In 13?9 if bad grown to 33u,G76. . The probability is the crop of J 830 exceeded this and more than 400,000 bales were produced With the increase of the cotton crop there is an in crease of; cotton.. lactones. , Bnt the; in crease of .the latter is not by a long .way in proportion to the increase of the form er. , It onght to be. . Every 2 report; ''from the factories South of us. is encouraging; some of the reports arc astonishingly en cournging.' k i -:t j . I But tho strangest. thing to os about the cotton crop in our State iauiie diatribot tion of, prodactirenessJxTher6 are Vonn ties like Cumbevland, Montgomery, Bla den. Onslow and Brunswick ; that ought to produce much more cotton than they do. Yon find coun ties like Wake John ston, Mecklenburg, even Cleveland and Ga6ton,"growing a great deal more cot ton than youTwonld have thought whiist B&ndolph, Rockingham, Forsvth, and other counties. produce but few bales. The statistics show that nearly all tho counties produce the great staple and that most of the couuties are; capable of doing a great deal more if the demand and price should authorize it. Wo cau see no reason for not expecting the ! crop of North' Carolina to reach some time in the future 700,000 bales. This will de peud on simultaneous prices to some ex tent. Wc must believe that planters will not continue to raise cotton at an actual loss. We have given our views at length on the necessity and wisdom bf a varietv of crops and we need not say anything furtner now.. Supposing that the cotton interest of the State continues to'jjrow during the next decade as it has during the last decade, and there i? good rejasou to expect the crop to equal 600,000 or 700,000 by 1890. At any rate the State is capable of producing that an.ount. Utiuzixg Cottok Seed.Ou the 24th of May. last the association of the cotton seed crushers hld a geueral i convention at Ciueiuuatti, at which fifty -fivcj oil mills were represented. There were no statistics presented of the capital invest ed or of tiie value of the products turned oat, but the industry was reported to be iu a flourish tag condition. Tlie j. cotton, seed oil extracted was shown to bo entering largely into consumption as food in the place of lard and olive oil, and the hicnl or residium of the ground cotton seed to enjoy a large and increasing demand for live stock and as a fertilizer. It is also found to bo the bet adultewuit known for-ground mustard, and is extensively used for this purpose.. Iu fact, there is now an uulimited demand for cheap ma terial with which to adulterate standard articles of food, .and whoever cau, supply them will be sure to do an enormous bu siness. The manufacturers of cotton seed oil have an industry in which such arti cles aro produced to great advantage, aud in which everi portion of the rawiina terial is utilized and where is absolutely uothing wasted Something like a quar ter of a century ago this profitable branch of manufacture did not exist and the cot ton seed were- thrown awav to rot Now this refuse is tho basis of an important branch of commerce. Xcic Orleans Times. YESxotts Guesses at August. Mr. Henry G. Veuhor has extended his pre vised", predictions so that they include August in detail as given .below :, Au gust 1 Probably warm and oppressive. 2 and 5 Generally pleasant weather, fairly warm 'days and cool to cold even ings and nights.. - 6-Fair; and pleasant. 7 (Sunday) Heat and storms. 8 aLd 10 Sultry weather, with heavy showers, cooler evening and nights, jll and 11 Heat again iu the United States, With cloudy- and sultry Weather1, storms in Canada. 14 (Sunday Cooler change. 15 Cooler to cold and cloudy aud pleas ant. 6 Storms throughout portions of Virginia. 17 ahd 18. Hailstorms ijind frosts probably in somo portions. ID and 20 Heat and storms. 21 Sultry and showery. 22 Sultry " and ! windy, i 23 antL 24dleat and wind. 23 and 26 Heavy storms ou the lakes, on the St. Lawrence aud around New YorU. 27 and 29 Cooler weather, with rains and frosts in tho northern section. 30 aud 31 Fair and pleasant weather, with cool evenings and nights, with indications of returning heat.' '" " " " "' " ' I . ; Cbossixg the ; British jChasxel). Auothcr schemo for crossing ; the English channel by railway has just appeared. The projector is Mr. Bradford Leslie, the engineer of the East India Railway Com pany, who proposes to travel into Franco through a cylindrical steel tube submerg ed 40 feet below the surface of the water. The tube will be so ballasted as to make! it weigh 1J tons to the foot less than the j water displaced, its buoyaucy being couui l terbalanced by mooring at every 250 fet. 1 At the ; shore ends it woul 6 be lai d !i o i dredged or excavated channels, and would be made to riso froiu - the mid-chanuel deDths bv . eav gradients. The cost of i carrying out r tl is '.scheme is estimated at 8,000,000. v 'A Little Love Story, r - - ,i About two .weeks ago ft young woman, who' had always moved in the best circles in Richmond, Yasociety, chanced -to read in the Hartford. Chvrchmah an advertise ment in which a widower , in Ohio "wished to" secure the services of a governess to take .charge of his little girlj Being : dependent upon her mother, a widow ; in, moderate circumstances, the' young woman, who is a very pretty . blond c, t d pferm 1 oed t o m ako application for the position with, tho hape of assisting her mother. Accordingly, she visited her pastor, a wejll knorn clergyman of Richmond,; J and also . a distinguished jurist, and obtained t from thejpM Jfcteni i.of recommendationwltiich sbs forwarded to the widower with her, application. ,The high character of the gentlemen, as well as the cordial manner in vfhichthiy expressed tlirtulorscmenTol ilify'tigs pabilitiesland. rbeauUes of character, had such welghtwitn the widower that he went on to Richmond,' satisacd he would find the lady he desired. .lie called "upen her, had several satisfactoryjinterviews indeed they were satisfactory to such a degree that upon . the gentleman's North in the early part departure for the of last week the 4 aforementioned clergyman was astonished to receive a note from him announcing that he would not take the lady recommended for governess, but desirea to secure his ser vices in making her his ivife. Last Wednes day afternoon the parties to the novel courtship were married. "The groom is about fifty-five years of ige, a gentleman of means and fine appearance. As a wedding gift he settled upon his newly .made bride the sum of $30,000. Strausc Sensations. Conductor A. S. Parker, of the Grand Trunk Railroad, who j resides in Battle Creek, Mich., by an accident lost a leg and arm at StihvcH Station. The members, severed from the body, were left lying by the side of the track, while the body was immediately conveyed t South Bend for medical assistance. As soon as he recov ered consciousness he began to complain. His attendant, knowing his arm was many miles away by the side of the railroad track, paid no attention to his complaints, thinking him out of his head. He still continued his assertions that the fingers of his right arm were doubled under his hand, and asked his assistants to send and get his arm at'StilVell. By hbl speech". thev saw that lie realized the areijent, and a tele- gram was sent to St.iUyeUjvsemL the mu tilated arm to its owner.!. Thc'request was carried out, and the arm sent to him by ex press. So soon as it wasi taken up otF tho ground, a few moment after the telegram was sent, Parker remarked to his assistants that his arm was all right now, that they had picked it up. Every time a person took hold of it along the route Parker would speak of it, and cry out with pain when it was roughly handled ; and when ever any of his attendants touched it while it lay in the next room to him he .knew it as quickly as though the arm were still at tached to his body. The messenger who got the arm said that he found it just as Parker had said it- was, with the fingers cramped under it. ' This is one of the most singular, yet .well authenticated cases on record, where a man could feel in an arm which had been cut off manv hours. The physicians are baffled to account for it. and can only class it under the head of the nn explainable phenomenal mysteries which are sometimes met with in the study of nature. About Lightning. In a recent article on this subject a well known scientific writer says : illt is never too soon to go in the house when' a storm is rising. When tho clouds are fully charged with electricity they are most dan gerous, and the fluid obeys a subtle attrac tion which acts at great distances and in all directions. A woman told mc of a bolt which came down her mother's chimney from a rising cloud when the sun was shining overhead. - N.W.Willis writes of a young girl who was killed while passing under a telegraph wire,' on the brow of a hill, while she was hurfyiiig home before a storm. The sad accident at Morrisania, when two children were; killed, should warn every mother that itj is not safe to let children stay out doors this last minute bc fere the storm falls. "People. should not be foolhardy about sitting on porches or by open windows, whether the storm is hard or not. 3u"ild showers often carry a single charge, which falls with deadly effect. It may or may not be safe to stay out; it is safer to be in the house with the doors and windows closed. The dry air in a house is a readier conductor than the damp air out side, and any draught of air invites it. A hot fire in a chimney attracts it, so to speak, and it is prudent for those who would be sure of safety to use kerosene or gas 6toves in summer, aud j avoid heating the chimneys-of . houses. iPeople are very ignorant or reckless about - lightning. . I have seen a girl of eighteen crying for fear of lightning, and running every moment to the. window to sec if the jstorm was not abating, unconscious that she was putting herself in danger. - If everyone would hur ry to shelter as soon a storm-cloud was seen coming, and if '-they-, would shut the doors and windows, and keep away from them afterwards, and from; the wires, stove pipes, mantels, heaters audi mirrors with ihoir kilvir baeks which carrv elccfricitr. anu aeep away from lightning : rods and their vicinity, - and from meUl 1 water spouts, with ; good rods on their houses, theylnight dismiss the 'fear of lightning from their minds, so far as it is a thing of rejison and not impressidn.--: C. Fartkir: j Wood -Pulp. Some Plain Statement of Facts Concern- - - ery Costly Monopoly, . f tlcaoteerver. " A reader desires an. explanation of what , wood palp means, and . why its position ! ou. the tariff sheet provokes indignation, 1 .Wood pulp is a leading Ingredient in the manufacture of paper. The paper on which. tlwB Qbterter is printed is from one-quar- ftef to one-half wood palp; its proportion in other kinds of paper raries with the 1 1.; the.article.'jrt ia iua.de by saW FcpBpIr Rsli(ttol blocks and rnnning theip tbroOgU fibre maclunes. , A very. few. men own,- the" patent lipolr this process; , Last year it was asserted that Coagresmeu Warner Miller, of New Y(?rk, and Russell, of Massachusetts, Were the 60I0 owners of this process in the United States. It may be that some oth ers are interested in it, but to all practi cal rutent these two may be regarded as the American proprietors of the monopo ly; Owning this, they i are able to say how much wood pulp shall be sold for, and thus regulate the price of paper. They have grown wealthy by forcing up this price and by preveuting the impor tation of wood pulp uuder heavy duties thii8 levying a direct tax npou the educa tion and intelligence of the country. A Remedy for Lockjaw. In the Sun, some years ago, a receipt was published for the cure of lockjaw, which is simple, and said by subscribers who represented at tho time that they had tried it, to be attended by tho most satisfactory results. -TheSremedy is sim phf to smoke the wound with burning ! wool or woolen cloth. Twentv minutes iu the smoke of burning wool, it is said will take pain out of the worst case of in flammation caused by any wouud or bruise. In the Sun Almanac of 1S77, p.tgo 32,1 this receipt is preserved under the head of "Worth Knowing," to which is added the fact that the reme-dv was tried by a subscriber of the Sun, who had suf fered intensely from a nail wound, and wih the niofit beneficial effect. Physi cians who rely on the pharinacopia for remedies would probably regard a simple agent like the smoke of burning wool as anj"old womau'-s remedy," but in view of so jmany as eleven deaths, recently, of boys from the dreadful malady of lock jaw, in spite of scientific treatment, it would du no harm to try sonic of the "old woman's practice'1 on the next victim of the toy pistol. The Artesian Weu. at Durham. Ta king much interest in this work, both from its scieutific and economic bearings, we pay it frequent visits-, one of which wc made on Friday last. The damage done to the der rick by tin storm having been repaired, work has been actively resumed, progress ingat the rate of from fifteen to twenty feet a day. The depth ou Friday was 1. 072 J feet. The stratum passed through shows little marked change, being white snnd stone, which succeeds the red and other dark colors. The debris brought up by the cleansing tube looks like beach sand It is interesting to watch the descent and ascent of this tube, which is of heavy cop per, about four inches in diameter, and eight feet long, provided with an upward opening valve, which admits tho debris wheu it touches the bottom, and closes when the tube i3 brought up. The engine which lifts the tube moves at the rate of 240 revolutions a minute. At this great speed the tube is forty seconds in descend ing; and one minute in ascending. Mr, DickersOn, iu charge, thinks he win not reach water under 1,800 feet. Durham Recorder. Dry Earth as a Disinfectant. The following is taken from Good Health : Dirt is so cheap that hardly any one appre ciates it worth, at least very few know its value as a disinfectant. Dry earth is really one of the most excellent of all disinfec tants, and possesses another advantage in that it can always be obtained in any quantity, without money and without price. Its veay cheapness is, perhaps, one reason why it is so little esteemed and employed The'character of , the earth used is. how ovrri a matter of conseouence. Coarse tianA ami nToist earth are valueless. To be effective the earth must be fine and dry Dry,! powdered clay is perhaps best of all. Dust from the road is excellent. Dry coal ashei are also very excellent. By the free use of dry earth, sinks, stables and similar sources of foul gasses and disease-produ-cin" germs may be kept in a perfectly wholesome condition. The application of the earth once a week, once a month or two or three times in the course of the summer is not, however, sufficient. To be effective it should be applied daily, and when the matter to be disinfected is large several times a day. Thi babv clenhant. bom in Philadel phia March 13, 1330, weighed 213 pounds at birih, and within the year gained 700 pounds on an exclusively milk diet. It now xteiglis not iar ;rom i,uu pouuua. Spoopcudyke on the Bicycle; - ! . .t . . ; -bCAeAAi..8uui!cisc Ton uns. i" 6POOPEXDYKE AXD ITS CON T'! : " SEQUEXCES. . t''ow, ray dear said Mr. Spoop endyke, Jmrrying up. to his wifeV rooin,if you'll jcome down in the yard I've got a pleasant sururise for vn ' ' -yhatJs it? asked Mrs. 8poopen dyke, 'what haveyou got5-a horse . Guess , again grinned Spocpen dy ke, : It's soriiethiug like a horse.' . 'X know! It's a new parlor carpet : thats what itis!'. - Ko, it isn't, either, I said it's like a h6rse; that is, it,? goes when you make it. Guess again ; -'! Jt paint Ibr thei Ritehen walls V o, ttain't' and it ain't a hogs head of stove blacking, nor it ain't seven gross bfj stationary wash-tubs. 'Now guess- again . - 'ifhea it must-he some lace curtains for the sitting room windows. Isn't that just splendid?' and Mrs. Spoop endykc patted her husband on both cheeks and danced up and down with delight. ; j 'It's a bicycle, that's what it is !' growled Spoopendyke. I bought it for Exercise, and I'm going lo ride it. Gome down and see me.' 'Well, ain't I glad !r ejaculated Mrs. Spoopendyke. ! You ought to have more exerciseJ and if there's ex- ercise iu anything, it's in a bicycle. TV. :. Mr. Spooiendyke conducted his wife! to the yard and descanted at length on the merits of the machine. 'In a few weeks I'll be able to make a mile a minute,' lit eaid. as he steadi cd tfie apparatus against the clothes post ajid prepared to mount. 'Now you watch me go to the end of this path. Jtic got a foot into one treadle and-J went head- first into a flower patch, the machine on lop, wilh a prodigious crash. " : ' 'Hadn't you belter lie it up to the post until you get on'&uggcsicd Mrs. bpoopendvke. 'Leave me alone, will ye ?' demand ed Spoopendyke, struggling to an even kneel. I'm doing most of this myself. Now you hold on and keep your; mouth shut. It takes a little practice, that's all.' lur. opoopenuyKe mounted again and scuttled along four or five feet and flopped over on the grass plat. 'That's splendid !' commented hii wife. 'You've got the idea already. Let me hold it tor you this time.7 'If you ve got any strength just hold your tongue, will ve? growled Spoopendyke. 'The bicycle don't want any holding. It ain't alive. Stand back aud give ine room, now.' The third trial Mr. Spoopendyke ambled to the end of the path and went down all in a heap among the flower pots. 'That's just too lovely for anything!' proclaimed Mrs. Spoopendyke. iou made more'n a mile a minute, that time: 'Come and take it oCT!' he roared 'Help me upl Dod gast the bicycle!' and the worthy-gentleman struggled aud plunged nrouud like a whale in shallow water. Mrs. Spoopendyke assisted in right ing him and brushing him oil. 'I knew where you made your mis take.' said she. 'The little wheel ought to go first, like a buggy. Try it that way going back. 'Maybe you can ride this bicycle better than I can !' howled he. 'You know all about wheels. What you need how is a lantern in -oiir mouth and ten minutes behind time to be the city hall clock. If you had a bucket of water and a handle you'd make a steam grindstone. .'Don't you see the big wheel has got to go first?' 'Yes, dear murmured Mrs. 25., 'hut I thought if you practiced with the little jwhcei at first, you wouldn't have far to fall.' 'Who fell?' demanded Mr. Spoop endyke. 'Didn't you see mc step off? I tripped that's all. Now you just see iho go back.': Once more he i started iu, but the big wheel luruetl around aud looked hii it the face, and then began to stagger. "Loolc out!' squealed Mrs. Spoopeu dyke. Mr. Spoopendyke wrenched away ai.d kicked and struggled, but it was of np a vail. Down he came, and the bicycle was a hopeless wreck. What'd ye want to tell for?' he shrieked. 'Couldn't ye keep your measly mouth shut ? What d'ye think ye are, anyhow, ja fog horn? Dod cast the measly biicvele !' and he hit ! it a kii-k that folded him up like a bolt ofrnU3lin. ! Never mind, my dear counselled Mrs. Spoopendyke. 'I'm afraid, the exercise wa3 to violent anyway, and I'm rather glad you broke it 'I s'spose so snorted Mr. Spoop- endykel 'There's sixty dollars gone.' . . . Douj t worry, love. I'll go with- out tne carpet an j curtains, anu ine pa:nt will do well enough in the lkir?in . r at t Kcnerj. Let me rub you with arni . Utit Mr. Spoopcnilvke was tort deeply grieved ly liis wife's comluet o accept anj. oQiced t hernia ml, referriu to nunisli tier tv ii',n his wounds smart rather than well, and thereby relieve iier'nf anv anxiety she bronht on bcreelf by- acti iuff aa outrageously under thecircumi stances. ' -v -ir, ': .,t ; " Troubled About If. - .' I r The. wine dealers' assoeiat ion ' of New York is so much disturbed ly .iv3jvi. ut, me uesmicuon 01, live liberty of the people of North Carol? na by the adoption of prWibition that wicy ubvb issueu a circulate tolhe vo ters ot this State, bwceehin therh to vote against pwliSbtfJonTaiid preserve their liberties. This is verv ennsid. erate on the part of theSviue'data-s' association.- We like to seclheni tak'e so much interest in us. Btt we wonhl appreciate their concern much, more if we 'were not under the suspicion thai our threatened liberties are synony mous wiin tneir prohts, and thatpro fits- in- tins case inspire solicitude rath er than our liberties do. In all the time that has past, during which" at epochs-our libcrtips were in imminent peril, we do not remember to have ev er received a word or a line from the aioresaul wine sellers, nor do we know that they manifested 4he slightest' alarm at the threatened loss. -It N our candid opinion that wo will be" able to take care of our liberties with1 out any outside ndciri. wnnnnlliA ming from such . a 'questionable source as the wine seller? associatfon or other "spirit" combinations which' have lived, waxed fat and grown rich' by the liberty we enjoy of buying their drugs, paying for them, and keeping ourselves poor while thejr were growing rich. 06$: MISCELLANEOUS. Last year Colorado produced gold nnd RilriT tn tlio 'iiKiuitit nf i'l-i ofkifum rni: forma SH,00D,tX)) aiuT Nevada- 13,000, 000. .'. " . In -Colleton county, .S. C, there has been but little rain sim-c April. Forest' trees !ir l'vin- :itl. m-o iMi.rr .r . .7 O -"- ' " ' and the crops nre h fa ring badly. - In Clarendon county sticams " aud fmndn have drid up, and many rattle and hogs have 'died of thirst. - Vhat luttc Vbnen er. Notwithstanding the warm summer sum mer weather and thi; influence resulting from the agitation pf the prohibitory' law, comparatively few 'grain dittilleries havo suspended in this, district. A larger num ber has operated during the present month than for the corresponding period oMast vear.--.76. . Many pf-rsons iron towels, fold thtm, and place them away before they are thoroughly dry. This is an error, and sometimes leads to results not exected. Tn this damp condition there i mould which forms on them called "odium' one variety of which causes a skiu-dis-casc known as ringworm. The New Jersey S rat Prison, Septem ber 1680, contained ffjD-convicts. - The Maine St;to prison had KM), its average being 2.00. New Jersey has less than double the population of Maiue, aud more than four times as many prisoners. New Jersey licenses the liquor trafiic; Maine has Prohibition. ' It appears from the police reports- that in London alone thcro are no less than 30,000 regular thieves, 1"0,000 habitual gin drinkers and 150,000 people living in systematic debauchery and vice. Out of the four and a half millions of people in London, not more- than 200,000 are regu lar attendants at any place of worship, and not more than 00,000 regular com mnnicauts. There a a new cotton "mill going up at. Comuany Shops in this tate. It is tomnke chain warp yarn, about number 20s. It is to be under Superintendent tafau'ttellolt, who spent three years in the-machinery business in Massachusetts. There are kct erarSouthern younjUieii who are in New England getting a practical knowledge of the cottou milling" business. TJwit is th way to do it. We hopemany "others will do likewise. W'il. .irtur. The members of the las Pennsyl vania Legislature sat longer than the time specified iu the constitution, and concluded they were entitled to 500 extra compensation. The District At torney contested- the matter and the judge of the court before which it was brought set down likera ion of iron on the back-pay grabbers. Statrsville Jjbndnmrk : It is understood that the meetiug of the directors of tho North Carolina Midland, fur the purpose .f locatiug definitely the lino f tho road j will be held at Wiaston one day ext weekA citizen or this p ace who is traveling in Caldwell, Watauga aud Ash . .t.i 1 1 -1 reports uiai lutm i mi .uuuatijr large number of tourists, ia the mountains, The boarding liouses at Blowing Hock are filled to overflowing, aud theproprie- torare compeilcrt to re: use lorgcrs every aj wn ims icjeciva ouj niiwu this season 4 .. ." 1
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Aug. 4, 1881, edition 1
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