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I ' A 1 1 rA i mionlk r Inn Ik nit n r 1 . lnl 1ince in?tweivc uioiiths. r 1 ALLEN BROWN". Aert.. 21.-CW 1 Salisbury, N. C. 4. rs L 8TOMACH 1 : '' ,(- I ; CO pyi I 1 . O b -rO made i education, and the general im fj i. soaa I provement and enterprise manifested in ev i v f , rasa . . 5(tf IS I .?Sf ui LjtvT ci BwJi ZD I i .a U-issrs I r-TlJ r JH ' ;V I LLJ I , I I FtV KJ r I ! ? I I Lf J l B1IEMBER THE DEAD! -1 -; UMEKTS TOMBS, REDUCTION "N THE PEICES OF ttv&Q Mxmints and Grave-Stones cf pverj Description. . I Ctrdkur iiiritA tlm nr.Y.i;n n itw-jastmeain assertinrr thn SfN under first-class workmen in th.Vto nc' and modern styles, and' lfrt- UDtT- not say y jiAu superior to all others. I araSonible, tvilL not exa2Sera!e in or tcFJl accclnUsh a sale. My endeavor is X!aso-,'9Ml givc customer the val ue peVer dollar they leave w ith me. 5 U 50 Per Cent CHEAPER rth1 G?f offered in this town before ! K J! or.fud for P1 ico list anl del Ti at,facton guarant'dornocharce. Df rrl'W marW i8 tU0 la8t Work R. r I SHUTCHINSON. , N. C, Nov. 1, 1881: -' tlB for years from iocretion, will send free to li l rwt inn A LIT t'fii . 1 h . . -4...v4ia IV v-'l'yP'e remedy br which buaerert whing to ,rofit"l.j i. i Vertil.. ' i"""5 to iiront l the ad I ,"'MciiHriiinii)4K'.i . . 4 . . r r 1 .1. , 1..,.,, b JOllN-Ii.-(fiDK Ceikru York 1 ' o O - i... , O J .Jv.- ! Ph (9 '- '1- J S3 . ; i - S if' M . I H ' .3 V -i-j. aiirt fv ii "7fuec ' youthful ind n?v?1, the recme and licrei DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION ! On Saturday, August 5th, -82. . The Denioeralic Conny Convention for . Rowan, will bo Iield at j tho Court House I in Salisbury, , Saturday, August 5th, 1882, at 12 o'clock, 1L, for the pur pose o nominating candidate as follows, via : House of representatives. Clerk, of the Superior Court Court, f Kegister of Deeds,' County Treasurer, Skerif Coro ner and County Surveyor. The Conven tion will also recommend a candidate for Senator for So wan and Davie: Counties. This' Convention is called in pursuance of a resolution passed by the Democratic County Convention beld in Salisbury on tli0 1st day of July. ! CF'All Democratic voters of the County are requested to meet in Convention in their respective Townships at the usual voting precincts, on Saturday, July 2Dth 1832, at 12o'cZoci, M., for the; purpose of eleicting delegates to County Convention, and for electing Township Executive Committees, each committee to consist of fivp active .Democrats. Eacli township shall be entitled to cast in the County Convention one vote for; every twenty -five Democratic votes, and fractions of fifteen, as follows, to wit: Salisbury 16, Franklin q, Unity 4, Scotch Irish G, Mt Ulla 7, Locke C, Atwell 1V Lifakcr 6r Gold Hill 6, Morgan 3, Providence 8. j Each; township may send as many delegates as it may see fit. I ' Ep"Tlie Township Exeeutiyo Commit tees will also meet in Salisbury, August 5tl4 to elect a County Executive Com mittee. . J. W. AlkuvEr. I CVm. G. Ex. Com. Salisbury, July 3d, 1382. PIiATFOltM.i We C4agratulatethepeoTle of North Car- olica on the era of peace,prosperity and good government which has beenun broken since the Incoming of a Democratic State adminis tration; -upon the pure and impartial admin istration of justice and Ihc honest enforce ment of the laws ; upon the efficiency of our common school system And great advance ery ipaixoi me oiaie, ana we;pieage our selves to exert all efforts toadvance the material interests of all sections of the State in the fata re as we have done in the past. Anq we cnaiienge a comparison between a Democratic administration of our State af fairs and the crimes, outrages and scandals that accompanied Republican misrule. Af- nrmin? our aanerence to democratic nnn- CIPJes M annea ,n the piauorm adopted by the National Democratic Convention held at Cincinnati, in 1880 : - Retolaul That we regard a free and fair expression oi tne pumic will at tne baiiot- dox; as tne oniy sure means oi preserving ouriireeiAmencan institutions, and we de nouince the Republican party and the inter r : i.r: r"j 1 c;-ir ii icicuuo i iw icuerai uuicisis ior lueir gross fradda upon the elective franchise, whereby whle districts, States, and the; Union have been deprived of their just political rights: and we elieve the corrupt and corrupting use; oi leaerai patronage, and; of public money drawn by taxation from the people la influencing and controlling elections, to be dangerous to the liberties of the State and; the Union. ' Itetolved, That we are in favor of the en tire abolition of the , internal revenue sys tem!, with its attendant corruptions, and that we denounce the present tariff laws as grossly unequal, unjust and vicious. We favor such a revision of the tariff as will produce a revenue sufficient for the econom ical support of the government,: with such incidental protection as will give to domes- uc wauuiatmics a iair compeiiuon Willi th64e offforeiim production.. That there sbofild be an immediate repeal of all laws imposing a direct tax for the support of theKovernment of the United States, but if it snouia prove impracticable to abolish the internal revenue system with all its at tending demoralization, fraud and corrup tion, tnen we urge upon our Senators and Representatives in Congress the importance oi so amenamg tne .L.aw tnat tne revenue ofnqer8 whonow receive in salaries in North Carolina alone more than $500,000 shall be elected bjTthe people of the localities to which they are assigned. i liesolved, That the course of ithe Demo cratic party since its accession tb power in North Carolina in furtherance of popular ducation is a sufficient guaranty that we earnestly favor the education of all classes of our people, and that we will advocate any legi$latiqn:lookingjto an increase of the fund for that purpose that -will not j materially increase the present burdens of our people. Ifeqlved, That the question of prohibi tion! is not now, and never has been, a par- xy question m iiortii uaronna, ana never beei endorsed by the Democratic party, and jthe people of the State at the general election, in the year 1881, having by ah overwhelming majority-voted against pro hibition, and the Supreme Court having decided that the prohibition act is not and never ha4 been a law, we regardilhe matter as finally settled, and any attempt to re new the agitation is merely a Weak effort of designing persons to divert the minds of the, people from the dangerous f principles and corrupt practices of the Republican party. '. ' A :: ; v.v :C JioZj-That while we are not wedded 4 la i r ' - k . . to anv uanicuiar jorm oi countv eovern " T i . ""6" uri4A Ar 1L4 oi.i. ... z .1 r ucesot the state are paid tor! . ., . i ' 1 1.. the dommon benefit by the white people of t; our fastcw counties, ajjd that we consider it the bounden duty of the white men of j the State to protect these people irora the oppressive domination of ignorant blacks, and pledge ourselves to such legislature as will secure this end.. J -... ' And whereas it is , seriously suggested that vigorous effort; will soon be made to compel the State by judicial proceedings, to pay the fraudulent and Unlawful special tax bonds, amounting to $22,000,000, issue under legislation passed by the Republica Legislature 1868 and 1869 j therefore lietolved, further f That the Democratic party will resist such recovery and the payment of such bonds by every lawful means. : - . - A -: 'p-i , Tbjo above resolutions were read seriatim, and en motion were Adopted as a whole as the platform of the Democratic pariy of North Carolina. CT S ' -r;f ; ' ; f i : l U i ; On motion of Mr. Furraan, the following resolution was adopted: : r A Iieoleed That the present faithful and efficient State Executive Committee of the Democratic party, with CoL-Oct. Coke as chairman,' be and- is hereby continued aa the executive committee of the party, thanking them for the untiring zeal and triumphant results of their past services. Hon. A. S. Merrimon being called on, de livered an address of marked ability, the synopsis of which we regret we cannot print in this issue. ! On his conclusion Mr. Paul B. Means moved that the thanks of the convention be tendered to Judge Merrimon by a rising vote for his able, masterly, eloquent and instructive address. 'I Which motion being carried, all the members of the convention rose' to their feet with a shout of applause a compliment as handsome as it was deserv ed. .1 " . - r J. W. Reid, of Rockingham being called on, made some handsome and eloquent re marks. .Remarks were also made by .Hon. Jos. J. Davis, Capt.1 Swift Galloway, of Greene; Capt. C. M. Cooke, of Franklin ; Andrew Joyner, of Pitt; F. G. Skinner, of Perquimans; J. M. Gudger, of Yancey, and W. Foster French, of Robeson, and after the conclusion of his speech Mr. R. M. Fur man moved to adjourn, s j The Trouble in Egypt. From Cincinnati Enquirer. In so far as Turkey is concerned the origin of the Egyptian trouble is somewhat remote. We will go back no further than 1841, when Mahemet Ali was Viceroy of Egypt. At that time Turkey held such sway that the Sultan was able to impose conditions which made Egypt little more than a Turkish Province. The condition of Egypt changed on the accession of Ismael, who obtained semi-independence, and had conferred upon him the title of Khedive, which signifies less than sovereignty, but more thanx independence. For a money consid eration, Ismael obtained a concession from Turkey placing the right of in heritance in his son, and the old Ot toman law of colateral inheritane was set aside. . The next concession, in 1873, gave Ismael the power "to contract, with out any sanction from the Porte, for eign loans in the name of the Egyp tian Government," and the Khedive was to make all laws and regulations which he might at any time deem necessary. Thereupon he went deep ly into debt, England and France be ing the principal creditors, and his extravagance is the immediate cause of the present trouble. During his sovereignty English and French of ficials, known as Comptrollers-Gen eral, with a great many office-holders under them, administered (he finances of the country. In other words Egypt being in debt, and having no means of keeping herself was run by foreign office-holders, representing the credi tors. . ' On account of his financial troubles rlsmael resigned on the 26th of June, 1879, and was succeeded by his eld est son, Tewfik, the present Khedive. M. Waddington, the French Foreign Minister obtained a firman from the Sultan of Turkey vesting in Tewfik functions of Ismael. In viewof the full powers conferred' on Ismael in 1873,'the necessity for this firman has been doubted, but it was served, probably to keep up the connection of Turkey with Egyptian affairs, and to weaken the Egyptian Government. Turkey seems to be an important fac tor in the Conference of Powers look ing to the adjustment of Egyptian af fairs. v J The financial condition of Egypt has not improved under Tewfik, and the country is still overun by foreign office-holders, who take charge of the pnblic pocket-book. The popular re volt against this state of affairs is led by Arabi Pasha, the Egyptian Minis ter of War, who has suddenly sprung into prominence, and seems to be a much stronger man than the Khedive. A little more than a year ago Arab! was only a Colonel jn the Egyptian army, but he has been so aggressive, and the . Khedive 'correspondingly niAnL" 4 f i at JiA lino awmIav 9rrfv ' tun , iitiub lie uog uivuihi wrt-4 tuau I ...... ' . j ... . 1 . . I auy Other mau iu Egypt. , He is the ' leader of a rebellion which is strong er than the Govern ocent. : He has the army at his back, and is so de termined that nothingbat foreign in tervention, and probibly war, "will restrain him; He is tae head of the party which desires ta'wrest the Gov ernment from the bams of its credi tors, and the EJivwWi; b servient to England and other foreign powers, is almost ' poarerless before him.: :s't r.- r,i :iv No 'material progress toward a peace? able settlement seem id have ' been made by the '"Conference of Powers, and there is vital " objection to any ! arrangement which, would give -Tur- Key renewed uoia oncJbgy pt, Uionga France is said to be urging Germany to use her influence with the Sultan to effect the deposition of Arabi Pasha as Egyptian Minister of War, and the Sultan has disapproved of the military preparations at Alexandria against England and France. These military preparations have placed England in a decidedly hostile alti tude, and a London dispatch of yes terday said that the opening of hostil ities was momentarily expected, j Upon England, as things look now, will devolve the main burden of pun ishing the rebellious Egyptians. She has the largest interest at stake Be sides her direct interest in the finan ces of Egypt, she must maintain her self in the Suez Canal ; already the obstruction of that important water way has' been threatened as an inci dent of the Egyptian complications. WAR IK EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA EVCUATED AND IV FLAMES. Egyptian Troops Demoralized and Re- treating to the Interior-- The Town Fired by Released Convict and turn- i ed over to Blunder -Massacre of ; More Europeans. .London, July 13. The Telegraph ship Chiftern, off Alexandria, July 13, 8:40 a. m. Alexandria has been evacnated and is in flames. The Telegraph ship Chiltero has been or dered to take una position near the neutral fleets. In a telegram sent at 9:20 a. m. Admiral Seymour confirms the report of the evacuation of Alexandria. The entire garrison witnurew under a nag of truce, leaving the Bedouins to fire and pillage the town. The Decoy has gone to Port Said to ascertain the state of affairs there. ne .tteuters leiegrarn company has received the following: ALEXANDRIA, JUly 14. u:45 a. m. The Egyptian army is greatly demoralized and is in fall retreat to ward the interior. The .European quarter of the town, including the Exchange and Telegraph office, is ut terly destroyed. The city was set pn fire by released convicts who commit ted horrible atrocities. , The Egyp tians used a flag of truce to enable the troops to withdraw from the town. The Telegraph ship Chi Item is crowd ed with survivors who fought their way to the beach whence the boats, of the fleet removed them. They report having passed a dreadful! night, de fending themselves desperately. One hundred Europeans and other Chris tians in the Ottoman bank and ad joining building were massacred. A part of the fleet are now leaving for Port Said. The whereabouts of th Khedive is unknown. M London, July 1311:30 a. m. A correspondent of the Standard on board the Invincible, telegrapingr at 8 o'clock this morning, says the whole civil population and troops have been withdrawn. The whole) of Grand Square is burned. The' Helicon, which went to discover the meaning of the last flag of truce last evening, could discover nobody on 1 board 5 the Egyptian vessel, Mahrousa, or in the arsenal.; The correspondent accom panied the officer ; to shore in the steam pinnace, purveyor of the fleet, who wad one of the party and was well acquainted with the town, land ed and proceeded a considerable dis tance. All was perfectly quiet ex cept the roar of the flames. It is be lieved Arabi Pasha has concentrated u rr, maintain order ami on tne Ills luruus UcVUlIU H1C UIIY' IU lIlUC " wuuu tMC V"J . v 1 . the BrittU su auvuucc, wofc o the ships is now over, and any j fur? ther action must be ashore. Full v half of 'the town is burning. There will be a landing in force to 1 investi gate the condition of things and if possible render aid. . . - Kk : London, July 13.r A dispatch to the Daily News, dated Alexandria 8:20 a. mM says the - .Bedouins are looting by tho thousands. !" : ; A dispatch to the Standard, dated 9:32 a. m, gays the , Earopeans, who fonght their way down to the beach, number a hundred. They report all other Europeans and Christians, num bering hundreds, massacred. ; ; i 12:30 p. m, The reserve squadron arrived at Portland at 4 o'clock; this: morning. The Daily. News says it is understood that the conference has decided that the Egyptian army shall be disbanded and replaced by Gen. LVAmerie. , 1 p. m.: The British authorities are chartering a number of vessels to day for the conveyance of munitions to Alexandria. Five thousand mules have been purchased in Spain. Alexandria, July 13. Chiltern has moved into the harbor. The fire in the city is steadily increasing. It is reported that the Arabi Pasha is marching on to Cairo. - London, July-13.-1:30 p. m. Admiral Seymour telegraphs at 10:40 this morning: "The terms were the surrender of the forts as at first de manded. The use made of the flag of truce by the Egyptians is consider ed disgraceful. Northing is -known of the Khedive, but it is believed he is 'still at Ramleh Palace, where his yacht is apparently waiting until the weather will allow his embarkation." . TWO MILES OF HOUSES ON FIRE AND NO WATER. Marines Take Possession of the City aud Slioot Looters Down in tJts Streets The Khedive Issues a Proclamation Two Thousand People Masaered in tie Biots. London, July 14. A dispatch to the Reuters Telegram from Constan tinople says Masdrus Pasha, the Tur kish Embassador at London, has tel- g rap lied to the Porte that Earl Gran ville has informed him that England is compelled to proceed vigorously against the Egyptian rebels, but that the sovereign rights of the Sultan will be in no way prejudiced thereby. A dispatch to the News from Alex andria says the number oi persons massacred by the mob is estimated at 2,000. Admiral Sevmour telegraphs : "I have occupied Ras El Tin palace with Marines and spiked the guns in six batteries opposite. The city is still burning, but I am clearing the streets. The Khedive is safe in the palace which is garrisoned by 700 Marines." Off Alexandria, July 14. The fire ing heard in Alexandria yesterday was by Marines and sailors, who were dispersing the plunderers with Gat; liner gnus. The small detachment Cf a first landed had to wait for reinforce ments before they were able to push to the centre of town. There was some short sharn fighting. No water could be obtained owing to the stop page of the works. There are some French ladies among the fugitives rescued yesterday, also an Egyptian prefect of police, who succeeded the instigator of massacre in Alexandria on the 11th of June. There are not enough sailors and Maries to occupy all ; the streets of the city. -London, July 14. A dispatch to Renter Telegram company from Alexandria says : Some field pieces, were landed with Marines at Ras El Tin fort. The Khedive's Ras Et Tin palace was looted shortly before Ma- rinos arrived. A whole battalion of m m mm nr m - Arabs was blown up in one fort du ring the bombardment." A rlisnatrih to the News dated off Alexandria, July 14th, 4 a. m., says the fire in Alexandria is still nigiug. There are at least two miles of houses burning. More than a tnird ot tne city it appears has been fired. London, July 14, 2 p. m. A dis patch to the Standard, dated Alexan dria 9:30 a. m., says explosions oc casionally occur in the city. A procla mation in Arabic is being prepared in tne .tvneaives uauic ipwi v 1 . ,.,.1 rp, Vt. - m:,i. Dervish Pasha; and some of the min isters, and' the Khedive's harem has arrived aboard a vessel in the harbor. About , 500 loyal troops follow the Khedive. It is stated that Arabi Pasha has only four thousand very much disorganized troops. Two hun dred marines have been ordered to inarch through town ? and shoot all persons rioting, i :.e.! . i - London, 3 p. m. In the Hbnse of Commons this afternoon Gladstone stated thai Consul A CartwrightT had telegraphed that ibe Khedive had se cured the loyalty of the cavalry and infantry ; guards sent to watch him, and would -summon the leading Pashaand endeavor 4to re-establish order in Alexandria. The Dan&rerons Tendencies and Principles of . the Republican Party. (From Judge Morrlmon'a Speech Before Stale ' Convention.) . Raleigh News-ObserTer's Report, A due observance of the organic law and a just and faithful adminis tration of government are matters of the highest moment to the citizen, and yet in times of peace we are for the most part indifferent to their ob- j servance. We feel do pressure en us to regard them, and as long as peace prevails and there is nothing o shock the sense of the country and arouse the people, tnev nut oft the consideration of these questions from time to time. This was wrong. We must always seek to preserve and perpetuate free government. There is no greater . truism than that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. It ought to be inculcated that men should regard it as a sort of religious duty to uphold the fundamental sys tem of their government. Our gov ernment was worthy of being per petuated, of being handed down to the remotest generations. It was a system consistent with the highest liberty and greatest. happiness of the people and permitting the fullest development of individual prosperity. One of the chief reasons why be op posed the Republican party was, the. foundation principles of that party looked to the overthrow of our sys tem of government by concentration of ail governmental powers in one head. It sought to centralize the powers of government in the hands of Federal officers. To the Federal government had been committed cer tain well known functions relating to such affairs as affected the common interest of all the States. The local affairs of the State, more nearly affec ting the happiness of the citizen, were particularly retained in the State governments. But the Republican party sought by gradual approaches to abolish the State governments, to render them useless, to wipe them out of existence, and invest all power, the power of administering our do mestic concerns as well as inter State matters, in the Federal government. This unnatural adsorption of the rights of the States was going on continually. Unless cnecked it would inevitably .result in the absolute an nihilation of the State governments. The result would be the establishment of an empire in America, and an em pire means despotism! The practices of the Republican party all tend to ! that end. They lead to that result, No barrier is sufficient to check their progress. Laws that stand in their way are broken or repealed. The constitution they disregard entirely whenever its provisions are an ob stacle to the attainment of their pur pose. They bend and twist it to meet the exigency of any case, and if need be they ride roughshod over the plainest provisious. ?During the war when there was much excitement and danger, and the pubjic miud was easily influenced to excuse all things because of the. necessities of the case, the .Republican party began this prac- j tice, and since the establishment of j peace they ; have not departed from it. Nothing stands in! the way of the attainment of their J purpose. Asa means to this end they have sought . 1 !i r x to make tne -ueaerai uovernmeni dominating arid 'Controlling, and to , I and l dwarf the State : government, they have created a Y asningiona magnificient government with. a host of officials sustained from the Feder- - - - - "VWWHiBI v al Treasury, administered v with great extravagance and profusion of money, increasing its functions and , extend- ' ) ing its powers and influence' far be- f ' yond - the Jegitmate purposes of its I creation. Their vast outlay of public 7 moneys for pother tha4:,necessa'r)r, uses ! finds no parallel in thVhistory of tho ': world. And to the same end they ! have erected large corporations with ' dominating influences controlling tho . actioo of public men shaping legisla ; tidn, affecting public affairs and guid ng jthe destiny ot liticaj parties.' They have suteidized a j part of the i . press, and b the lavish use of publio , moneys have stifled many voices that ' might otherwise b,raised in behalf of liberty. ' ; ' V--' ''' , , : How different Jiaa been the prac tice of the Democratic party ! In one year, when we had control of the ! House of Representatives, we forced ! a reduction of expenses of $40,000, 000. And the next year of ten more millions, and so on, as long as we had the power. And so it happened that because of the retrenchment which a Democratic Congress secured and maintained, there arose a surplus of funds in the Treasury which has since enabled us to pay off so rapidly our national debt. And yet, when by mal-ad venture the-Rpublicans gain ed possession of the House at the present Congress, and by a corrupt hargain with Mahone obtained con trol of the Senate, they at once began again all manner of schemes to expend the public money for the benefit and welfare of their party, without" regard to the rights of the people. We see, then, where we are drift ing. We see what the course and practice ef the Republican party is; and what is its ultimate aim and ' purpose, and the several means it employs to-debauch public sentimetff! and allay antagonism on the part of the people. But will the people not awake to a realization of the danger ? The question, in, whether we shall, without a struggle,, allow this grad- - ual aarjping oi our institutions, the ' overthrow of ouc State (governments and the enlargement of the Federal ; Government unti) the-spirit of liber ty shall depart and! our free institu tions be merged into a consolidated empire ? Let me rsnund you that one night republican! France slept- in the morning people awoke 'to findi that an empire had been established.. What They Knew FourThousand. Years Ago. The Popular Science 3mfftly for June publishes abstracts from- the ad dress of Chief Justice DalyBcJbre the Geographical Society, in which "ho -says : ' - "From one of these books, compiled after the manner of our modern encyc lopsediasind the compilation of whicfi is shown to have been more than 2, 000 years B. C, it has bsen ascertain ed,' what has long been supposed, that Chaldea was the parent land of as tronomy ; for it was found, from this Compilation and from other bricks, -that the Babylonians catalogued the stars, and distinguised and named the constellations ; that they arranged the twelve constellations that form our present zodiac to show the course' of the sun's path in the heavens; divid ed time into weeks, months and years; that they divided the week, as we how havejt, into seven days, six be ing days of labor and the seventh a : day of rest, to which they gave a I name from which we derived our word "sabbath," and which day as-a day of rest from all labor of every-. the Jew or the Puritan. Ihe motion nauvf s-v vr r m lw4wuos w imj 'of. the heavenly bodies and the phe nomena of the weather were! noted down, and a connection, as I have be- : fore stated, detected, as M. de Per- yille claims to have discovered, be-- tween the weather and the changes of the moon. They invented tie sun dial to mark the movements iof the , heavenly bodies, the water clock to measure time, and they speak in this, work of the spots on the sun, arfact they could only have known py the aid of telescopes, which it is supposed they possessed, from observations that they have noted down of the rising of Venus and the fact that Layard found a crystal lens in the ruinsof Npncvch. These "bricks" contain ah account of the Deluge, substantially the same as the narrative in the Bible, except the j liiu uauics sic iiiucicui. JLiicv uis- close that houses and land were then sold, leased, and morfgaged, that money was loaned at interestjand that the market gardeners, to iuse an American phrase, "worked on shares," that the tarmer, wliii plowing with his oxen, beguiled his labor? with ., , . - . p y . snort autt uomejy.eougs, iwo oii wiii.cu have been found, and coiuitct thia very remote civilization with ti c us- ages of to-day. 01 'A .1. S i s 1 y r - J 4:i.. O'