Carolina Watchman.
THURSDAY. MAY 8, 184.
Jtomfo Cwij Convention
fp Salisbury,
gTTODAY, JUNE 14th, 1884,
A Democratic County Convention will be
e court House in Salisbury. Saturday,
, 1884, at It o'clock. M. lor the purpose of
r delegates to toe State, Congressional
anfjQSatorUl conventions,
an ' Democrats are requested to attend.
j. W. mau.nkv. cum. Ex. com.
i -
fp tobacco trade of Asheville will
proteidy reach 2,000,000 lbs for the sea-
W. W. Pbnrr, D.D., is seriously
ill frosji heart disease. He is at his heme
jn Mallard Creek township, Mecklen
rfJWPnty. A Paper Mill id to be bqilt at Salem.
old mill formerly there waa destroy -
some ten years ago.
Rnrepean stock breeders buy and coq
Mae aearly all the cotton seed meal put
an the market in this country. Our peo
ple are so in the habit of feeding com
(hat Ihey hare not yet learned the value
tfaattao aeed meal.
inventive genius of this country is
without limit. It is announced that a
flow ant West has found a way to
aoljfiify whiskey, so that in can be carried
abjogt loose in year pockets.
The 1st No. of the "Southern Mining
Journal," by T. B. Eldridge &. Co., Lex
ington, N. C, is to hand. It is in eight
page form, pretty well printed and
ontaius a number of carefully wiitten
ffifja) articles.
A Ban in Wihuiugtou in the habit of
faking laudoutu was found in his room a
few days ago so under the influence of
this powerful drug as to be beyond relief.
Jfe died with an empty two ounce bottle
ja kit clenched hand.
gpth May. From present indications
this day will be celebrated in grand style
at Charlotte. Gen. Grant will not attend,
the recent failure of his banking house
interfering.
T0 fast trains between New York and
Atlanta are now in full operation run
ning on a schedule of 40 miles aq houi
sometimes exceeding it it by from two to
tan miles between points to make up for
lost time.
Sixty-five Scotch immigrate recently
arrived at Philadelphia, destined for
Cameron, Moore county, N. C. They are
represented as a very iutejligent and
pleasant people. They have friends iu
tins State alio preceded them. They are
made np mostly of complete families,
father, mother aud children,
The Republicans iu Congress, support
ed by a minority of the Democratic par
ty, defeated the Morrison taaiff bill, aud
naw the Republican! are howling at the
democrats for losing the opportunity of
passing so moderate a measure for the
felisf pf the country from an unnecessary
burden f
Railroad Celehration. The citizens
pf Lenoir, N. C, will celebrate the com
pletion of the Chester & Leuoir Railroad
fft Hint place on the fifth of June, next.
Thanks to the Committee for a ticket of
javitatlon to attend the celebration
The Ashebero Courier nominates Dr. J.
If. Worth for re-election to the office of
State Treasurer. The poctor has served
fwo terms U) the praise of himself and
the interest of the State. We hope he
Wjl) he nominated for a third terra by
acclamation.
Some one has sajd"It is hard to keep
a working man out of a living." Even so.
He is up aud out gathering and saviug
While others linger iu their beds. With
ft sensible and virtuous woman for a wife
to take care of what he briugs in, their
last day b will be their best.
Heavy Ward Beecher eats with his
knife aud cools his coffee iu a saucer. He
aaja. he chooses to do these things be
cause they are sustained by good sense.
People who were raised iu old fashioned
rajs play the fool and the coward when
fbejr put themselves to dieeorufort to
fntyly th the demands of fashion,
Charles 0' Conner, one of the most
learned men of the North, aud ablest
lawysrs, died at his home in Nantucket,
Massachusetts, the 13th instant. His ill
fjese resulted from a deep seated cold. He
M about 70 years of age. His law
practice was estimated at $100,000 a year.
Ife was an unflinching States Rights
Democrat in politics.
The most popular jtem of news hmt
new is the failure of U. S. Grant and his
(two sons, Frederick and Jesse. And next
to that the failure of the republican pat ty
fif North Carolina by makinsr an assign
ment to the liberals. Johnson, Price
and York has bagged all the niggers, but
?fH?te raen f the party in the moun
twns repudiate the game and are
standing out for a new deal.
Gen. Grant hat had bad luck. The
fjmut & Ward failure amounts ro some
thing trke ten millions at dollars. The
Charlotte Observer announces that since
this failure the General has given out his
contemplated tripo that city. Now this
is too bad but would not a mau who
has been through a ten million dollar
i'ltti" & aSjgreat a sight S3 Graut.
A body of fifty highly respectable
manufactures of the north, met in New
York Tlmsdajr lust aud passed resolu
tions in favor of proper tariff revision.
They primarily ask that all duties en
raw materials be abolished, in order that
they may compete iu heme and foreign
markets with oilier manufacturing na
tions. This is reasonable and all that
can be asked. They are not "protection
ists." Mob Law has taken a "new departure"
in Missouri. A negro scandalmonger,
who had defamed nearly all the ladies in
the village uear Haltoti P. O., was taken
out of his bed by a mob ai.d hanged. An
other had also been marked for the hal
ter, for the same offense, but made his
escape.
Mob law will yet Hud the people who
steal, aud refuse to pay their debts. In
deed, nnchecked, there is no puttiug lim
its on the practice.
Geo. Joues, of the New York Times
says: Geu. Grant's fund of $250,000 is
absolutely safe. He can lire on the in
terest of this, which is paid to him here
after quarterly. But his loss by the failure
of the banking firm of which he and his
sous were members, has probably swept
away everything else. For seine days
the real state of the bank has bceu
shrouded iu mystery.
Miss Fannie Everitt, for about a year
occupying Statesville Female College,
during which time she has succeeded in
building up a school of splendid merit,
has recently purchased the College prop
city, and designs to add to her highly
cemmeuded enterprise the advantages of
permanency. She is cheered not only by
the kind words of numerous friends, but
also by a very liberal patronage.
There have beeu an unusual number
of "brilliant marriages" this Spring. A
brilliant marriage is a pretty thing to
look at. It is like a meteor Hashing
through the sky : or f he passage of a gai
ly dressed swiftly flying R. R. train ; or
a flashing steamer turning curve in
the river. We look and listen for a mo
ment in breathless silence aud all is gone.
The meteor or its ashes come to the earth
in silence aud.iu gloom. The holiday
train and the steamer may go through
safe, though not exempt from the risks
and daugers which beset those freighted
with less joyous throngs.
Lord Chief Justice Williams, of Austra
lia, rides into the assize towns upou a
bicycle.
The tricycle will largely superceed the
bicyle if published facts concerning it are
to be relied on. The London Standard
speaks of the tricycle as a luxury, in the
manufacture of which there are no le.s
than 10,000 men constantly engaged, and
yet the demand runs ahead of the supply.
The rider may standi or go just as he
likes, and there is no inconvenience in
mounting or dismounting. He can travel
fast or slow, curry packages, aud enjey
an ease and comfort not possible pn a
bicycle. "Itjs just the vehicle that has
been the dream of meu for a century."
Wall Street in Tumult. Wall street
was a sight to lpok upou yesterday. If
you had been lu front of Triuity church
about 12 o'clock, you could have looked
down on Wall street litterally crammed
and packed with anxious people, cursing,
sweating and crowding. The cause: Sev
en stock firms, one after another, an
nounced their suspension, and the Metro
politan National Bank had closed its
doors. The recent failure of Giant's
Bank prepared the stock gamblers for a"
money scare, and they had it yesterday.
It was a haggard scene beyoud doubt.
"Be independent !" Yes, "be indepen
dent," is good advice iu general, but in
particular cases you can't. For instance,
when you are sloshing about in deep wa
ter aud can't swim. When you owe a
debt and can't pay it. When hungry and
you liave no mouoy to buy food. When
sick and penniless. When homeless and
all doors are closed. These aud a thou
sand other cases preclude the possibility
of independence. Au independence of
all helps when it is possible to take care
of and provide for one's self will do
splendid : aqd an earnest man or woman,
girl or boy, can do that and have plenty
of time to be kind and helpful to the
needy. Den't leau ou anybody while
able to stand alone. Dou't fritter away
meaus or strength ou uiiromunerating
trifles with an uncertain future before
yon, if yon would bo independent. In
dependence implies industry, frugality,
temperance, courage and virtue.
The good people of Winston and Salem
were greatly shocked Monday of last
week, ou hearing that Mrs. Anne Reed,
aged about 54 years, a lady highly es
teemed, living near the town, had been
that moruing murdered by Henry Swain
a young married man occupying a house
ou the Reed farm. His object was to rob
the house, to which place he went just
after Mr. Reed and pthef members of the
family had gone po the fields to work,
leaving Mrs. Reed alone on the premises.
Dy accident Mr. Keed was nearer the
house than the others, and heard the cries
of his wife and made haste to learn the
cause. He met her in a dying condition
with her throat cut. She whispered the
name of her murderer and died. Swain
was soon arrested and put in jail, where
lie remained until 2 o'clock, Thursday
morning last, wheu a large body of mask
ed citizens broke the jail and took him to
near the scer.e of his crime (which he
fully confessed) aud hung him to the
limb uf a tree..
Nothing -will benefit the retail cleric
more than the early closing of the stores
during the heated term. If the business
men want clerks to take an interest in
their business they must show that they
take an interest in the health and pleas
ure of their employees. There is not a
cent lost by closing tire stores early, and
not a cent made by keeping open nntu
midnight. Seven o'clock is a good hour
to close the store, and we hope that the
business men will all decide to close
business at that hour and thus give the
clerks a few minutes rest. Sunday Morn
ing Mad.
Just so! Every clerk in North Carolina
will exclaim Amen to that saying, and
rejoice that such philanthropic views
are occasionally seen iu print.
wwr m m . e . .
e see it intimated that there is a
prospective change in the method of ob
taining means for carrying on farm
business in the South, by which the mort
gage system will be to some extent modi
fied. Money is in groat plently north,
and some northern capitalists have al
ready established offices in Alabama,
Mississippi, Georgia and Sooth Carolina
for the purpose pf loaning money. Of
course tire borrowers have to pav fall
rates on loans aad perhaps a bonus be
sides ; aud they have to secure the debt
by mortgage on the land or growing crops
or both. The main advantage gained is,
ready money iu baud with which to pur
chase supplies, which is ao donbt con
siderable. But under the most favorable
circumstances farming on borrowed capi
tal is a precarious business.
The Ashaville Citizen reports the pro
ceedings of a republican meeting in that
place, called for the purpose of ratifying
the nomination of York for Governor.
Ball and Boyd, two talking men of the
party Mottites and lie veuuers -made
speeches in favor of the nominee and
sought to obtain a ratification. But it
was evident from the start that it was
uot a ratifying meeting, the speakers
themselves talking ia tones which con
veyed the impression that tiiey did not
care how it went. Chaudler, who was
a delegate to the State Convention and
withdrew from it when ha saw how the
republican party bad been sold out to
the liberals, made a speech to the meet
ing iu which he denounced the Conven
tion as utterly unfair and tricky. York's
support in the Mountain district will not
bo worth anything. He was a persistent
opponent to the Western N. C. R. R. on
all occasions while in the legislature, dud
this of itself would rain him in that sec
tion. Bjjt in addition to this, the repub
licans of the mountains look upou him as
a political hypocrite whose political creed,
like that of Johnson and Price, does not
rise above the five loaves and two little
fishes a purely spoils seeking adventu
rer, whose supreme aspiration is person
al advancement and reward.
From Asheville to Roanoke.
The chief engineer of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company, says the Char
lotte Observer, has about completed the
survey of the road between Asheville, N.
C, aud Roanoke, Va., and the first step
in (he proposed new railroad has been
taken, confirming the rumor that the
Central. Railroad of Georgia is endeavor
ing to get a line of its own to the North
aud Northwest. The survey of the new
air line from Staunton, the present ter
minus of the Valley Branch of the Balti
more & Ohio Railroad, to Roanoke,
where the Norfolk & Western Road will
be.crossed, has already been made, aud
steps haye been taken by the couuties
through which the lino will pass to raise
funds to aid the enterprise. From Roau
ke to Asheville, the towns of Floyd,
Hillsville and Gap Civil and Burnsville
will bo touched by the new line, which
will have an easy grade through one con
tinuous valley.. The sixteen mile link
between Asheville and Henderson ville
ill then be built, and the Central Rail
road of Georgia will have a line of its
own to almost every important competi
tion point iu the Southern States, inclu
ding Norfolk. From Asheville the West
ern North Carolina extension, by Waynes-
vile, to Murphy, will be utilized, and
from Murphy to Jasper a new line will
be built, when entrance te Atlanta will
be had via the Marietta & North Georgia
Railway. From Atlanta bv this linn it
would be the same distance to Baltimore
as by the present Piedmont Air Line.
Exclusive of local support it has been est
timated that $6,000,000 will build and
equip the road, which, if bnilr, will open
to the commercial world some of the most
valuable mineral, timber and cotton laud
in the South.
W. N. C. Railroap, Col. A. B. An.
drews, Supt. McBoo and Maj. Wilson
passed up day before yesterday, towards
the head of the road, now within one and
a half miles of the top of Balsam Gap,
the Jackson county line.
All seems well pleased with the pi-ogress
beings made. Capt. Thompson ,
Supt. of Construction, is a live man. He
says he will go to Charleston by the 20th
July or sooner, if the material is placed in
his hands, lie says he can lay from one
to two miles per day if the road bed is
cleared before him. Our Jackson friends
may look out for the cars, for thev will
hear the welcome "toot, toot," before our
next issue. W aynesvUle News.
One-Dollar York has that virtue which
springs from inconsistency, to wit : If he
was not right last year by his somersault,
he is not to be recehs in curia this
Tliere is nothing like turning over to get
right. Once he was the firm supporter
01 wuiiiT government- today be is run
ttiug pn a ptattprm against it. Last year
u.np wj uiaiaui against the "revenue
doodles;' this year he is the nominee of
the revenue doodles." His inconsis
tency has about it a most charming fresh
ness. But all the same, Tyre York will
be tired York long before he has ridden
Htlllt. f,i..ii,rl, 1.
iObsjerver.
Far (he Watchmen.
Mt. Vernok, N. C, May 6, '84.
Dear Watchman:
What is a poet T There are myriads of
poetasters, petty cobblers at the - trade
of rhyme-making. But your true poet
is a rara avis. Tbe; title is strictly ap
plicable to only twos or three men in a
century or in a nation. Well, aud what
is ho f He is oue whose nature, Ossian's
or Byron's, is imagination. He is one
who breathes, talks, acts, ami, sometimes,
writes poetry. He ia one who lives in
the dominions of fancy, and so far above
the world of other men that they seldom
catch a glimpse of him, eveu when they
try to, after adjusting their mental tele
scopes. Nor does ho obtrude his pres
ence upon them, and go nosing about in
their back streets on the hunt of praise
and notoriety. Sympathy he loves ; but
sycophancy he abhors. Often he dies,
like Milton, before they know ht has
lived. Often he perishes in a garret, like
Chatterton, ere the literary astronomers
have discovered and christened his star.
As a rule, he ia happy if he possesses re
ligious faith, aud, rice versa. An on-
sanctified imagination is the profenndest
curse, cue most prolific hot bod of miser
ies indescribable, earth can produce.
But there is no mistaking the geuuine
poet, if you look for him and distinguish
him in the right way. A flash of Byron's
eye, perhaps, conveyed more poetry than
can be found in the columns of all the
newspapers of North Carolina. Shake
speare's every day tlk, no doubt was
better verse than nine-tenths of our mod
ern scribblirigs You'r Bret iHurtes and
Bryants and Lpnglfellows , are to such
men as pretty soaring doves to the sun
defying and cloud piercing eagles. It is
uot antiquity aud prestige, as some fee
bly pretend 10 think, that gives the old
masters of poetry their immortality. It
is genius, sir, pure and uu ad 11 Iterated
genius as high above your so-called
poet as Chiinborazu's summit towers over
the sand lulls by the sea. But are there
no poet g at the present day T Yes ; but
they are so lost and obscured among the
tremendous piles of dust and rubbish
heaped "P on every side by copyists and
imitators it is precious hard to find them.
And your true poet is now hound with a
thrall the fashion of the day. If, like
the old masters, he speaks as the mouth
piece of Nature, he is looked upon aa'an
tiquated ; he is expected te ape the man
ners of the modem artificial laureate, or
he is uothing. Lord deliver us from the
attected drawl, the melodious simper of
modern poetry ! I read it iu the popular
magazines sometimes, till I am compell
ed to stop and wonder if its authors have
not, iu the first place, laboriously picked
opt ail he fine, queer, unusual and stun
ning words in the dictionary ; then swal
lowed them all, like the anaconda hides
a cow ; .and then spun them out iu fiiie
threads, like the silkworm making its
cocoon. It would not surprise me if the
correct solution of the whole matter is
this: modem ntilitaiianism has, as a
rule, swung a rock to your true poet's
neck and suuk him to the bottom of the
sea; while it has worshipped and adored
tho froth that mantle's the breakers. Am
I au old fogy T Call me what yon will,
whenever Burner gets as much truth in
to every column as I have tried to put iu
this, mists aud misapprehensions will be
come less. E. P, H.
Dallas, May 3. The leading white
Republicans of Dallas have become revo
tionary since the outcome of the Fort
Worth State Convention. They have
taken preliminary steps to orgauize a
white man's Republican party. A club
organization was started to-day. The
motto as announced by the starters is :
"The Nigger Mnst Go." The members
of the new organization are mostly busi
ness men and of tic better element of
white Republicans. They say if the negro
can be uu loaded frum the Republican
party and allowed to vote where ho
pleases tho party will be strengthened
within two years by the addition of at
least one hundred thousand white votes
from among the most intelligent wealthy
aud influential people of the State, and
that cattlemen, their employees and
friends can be secured almost bodily.
This movement orgnuized at Dallas
to day will spread. Among the promi
nent Republicans from abroad consulting
with the local leaders to-day were Uui ted
States Marshal J. G. Tracy and Postmas
ter Johnson of Houston, GeiL Mallory,
collector of customs, and Mr. Petrio,
editor of the German Post. Galveston :
George Hazwell, private secretary of
Congressman Tom Ochiltree, and A. W.
Gifford, of the San Autouia Daily Light.
Circular from Auditor Roberts.
State of North Caroliea,
Auditor's Department,
Raleigh, ny 13, 1884.
Tq the Board of Commissioners of the
sepcral Counties of the State:
Your ntteution U called to section 52
of au f'Act to raise revenue," ratified Oih
day of March, 1883, which provides that
"if the State Treasurer shall have receiv
ed the sum of $600,000 from the Weste'rii
North Carolina railroad company, on or
before the first day of May, 1884, the
taxes for State purposes shall not be com
puted ou the tax lists for the year 1884,
upou the subjects embraced iu classes one
aud two of this act."
The said sum of $000,000 having been
paid on the first instant to the treasurer
of the State, there will be no computation
of any tax for.State pu rpuses iu either of
the columns headed "lucerne," "Total
State Tax," or "Total State General and
Special." In other words, uo tax will be
collected this year out of the taxpayers
on the subjects named iu classes I aud II
for State purposes. This, however, does
not affect the collection of taxes under
schedules B aud C, which will lie collec
ted as usual.
As it was not the purpose of the legis
lature to diminish the school fund, the
law does uot suspend either the collection
of the poll tax or the tax of 12i cents on
the one hundred dollars worth of proper
ty, for school purposes j hence the tax
will be computed as usual iu the column
headed "For raisiug additional school
tax."
Revised tax listing blanks would have
been furnished had there beeu sufficient
time after the first day of May, under
the law, in which to prepare and trans
mit them to the counties.
The blanks already printed are, there
fore, furnished, with the usual headings,
to be modified according to the instruc
tions herein given.
Very respectfully, jour obedient ser
t, W. P. Roberts,
Auditor of State.
Hon. 1ft. 15. Yanco on the Internal
Revenue System.
This system of internal revenue was
introduced daring the Tate war. That
war has now been' over, we might say,
for twenty years. Nearly twenty years
have elapsed since the last gun was Bred.
Thank God that the contest was not
longer continued ! No doubt gentle
men on both sides will recall the pleas
ure they felt when gentle peace returned
and "war's wild blast was blown away."
We trust it is hushed forever. The high
tariff laws, the internal revenue taxation,
arose, we may say, out of the necessities
ot the government during the war. The
war is now over and we have a surplus
iu the treasury.
I do not object, my people do uot ob
ject, to a reasonable tax on whisky and
brandy ; but we do object to the present
method of its collection this iniquitous
system that is fastened upou the vitals
of the people. We say that the effect
of this system has been to foster in the
minds of the people iu many places a
spirit of disobedience to law. For sir,
under this system a man is not only tied
up by bond, he is watched by hired spies
and informers a body of officials not
relished by the descendants of the men
who fought at King's Mountain, at Sara
toga, at Yorktowu and other historic
battlefields.
Sir, I am opposed to distilling. In my
very heart I abhor the manufacture aud
sale of intoxicating drink. I have told
my people on every stump that I wished
they would feed their corn to the hogs
rather than manufacture it into whisky.
But at the same time it is bad policy to
have laws upou the statute book which
are so odious that they are objected to
even by good people, by religious people.
I imagine a deputy marshal, with pis
tols buckled all aroaud him, riding
through the couutry preparing to arrest
suspected people, and eveu taking ad
vantage of people by pretendiugThat he
was ill and in need of spirits, going so
far as to leave the price pn the gate-post
and then going away to hare an indict
ment drawn up and the man who from
motives of humanity let hiiu have the
spirits arrested aud carried to ail. There
are plenty of such cases. Now, sir, you
cannot make a law popular that is carried
out by pistols and shotguns, and by ar
resting men aud carrying them off some
times hundreds of miles. I say, sir, it
has been the cause and source of corrup
tion. The following is extracted from a
report made by a man sent down iuto
the western district of North Carolina to
look into these things. This agent says:
15. Of the thirty -oqe deputy marshals
in the district three-fourths of them are
guilty of raude.riug fraudulent accounts,
ranging from 10 to 00 per, cent, fraud
which has beeu a common practice with
them for the last three years.
10. In addition to malfeasance and
fraud the moral conduct of a majority of
tho deputy marshals is intolerable.
Housvs are broken iuto and searched
without warrant, women frightened aud
insulted, the dogs of unoffending citizens
shot down, aud trespasses committted at
will.
Drunkenness, insolence and profanity
mark their course, making them a terror
to peaceable citizens aud a disgrace to the
government they represent.
From the Asheville Citizen.
TIic Killing at Pigeon Iftlver.
Piqeon River, X. C, May 5, '84.
Messrs. Editors : Pray from whom did
you get your information about the kill
ing of the woman on Pigeon River bridge,
May 1st? Much curiosity has been exci
ted as to how you could have gotten it
wrong in every particular.
Iu the first place the woman was not
sitting on the bridge.
Iu the second place the woman ra not
deaf.
In the third place the engineer gave
no signal. In the fourth place the eng
ineer made no effort whatever to stop
his traiu.
Id the fifth place her being killed was
not the result of Jier folly in stopping on
the bridge, but of the carelessness of the
eugiueer in making no effort to stop his
engine aud save the life not only of the
poor woman who was killed, but of the
lives of two other persons who were
crossing at the same time, and who bare
ly esoaped With their lives.
This is a true statement as shown by
the evidence adduced before the jury of
inquest.
'Let justico be done, though the heav-
eusfirtt.
Justice.
Virginia.
Richmond, May 8. The Supreme Court
of Appeals to-day rendered a deeisien de
claring unconstitutional the law paased
bj the last Legislature, providing for the
election of registrars aud judges of elec
tion by boards of tlnee members, chosen
by that body, for each city, town end
county iu the State, because it is requir
ed of members of said beard to be free
holders. This decision makes the elections of
registrars and judges by these boards
illegal and of no ett'ect, and consequently
takes the whole election machinery of
the State out of the hfuida of the Deno
crats and replaces it where it was before
the passage of the law id the hands of
the Coalitionists.
The North Stats is restive under the
continue.! expeqae pf the penitentiary.
We don't blame our con torn perary ex
cept that the penitentiary system is the
gift of its party to the State. It has been
like the old man ef the sea oe the neck
of Siubad. However, the expense of
building the penitentiary is about over
bnt the expense of feediug the inmates
must continue. That they generally be
long to the North State's party is no
reason why they should net have their
rations ; and we are euro that the editor
of that paper will nut take issue with us
ou this point. 2(ews and Observer.
The Philadelphia Press thinks that the
collective failures of Grant Sc Ward firm
"make up a bankruptcv which ought to
land somebody in jail and probably will."
That kind of men are net mush in the
habit of going to jail.
CRAZY PATCHWORZ !
Having a large assortment of remnants ami nieces
of liandhome brocaded silks, satins ana velvets, we
are put ting them In assorted bundles and furnlsblmr
them for "Crazy Patchwork" Cushions. Mats ti
dies. &c . &c. Faokace No l-is
handsome bundle of exquisite ail ks. satins and hm.
caoea velvets (all different). Jum the thing for the
for 56 cents in postal note of 1-eent stamps
Pacliace No. II Cont&lnlne thm
times as much as package No. 1. Sent postpaid for
si mi ThMu oi-o ,11 ,,1.1, . rr"u 'i
cannot be equalled at any other silk works in the
l . 8. at three tim our price. They will please anv
lady. One order always brings a dozen more
Jjadics' IVT ex zi vi 1 ox" JT1 0.1-1.-'
py Worit, with 4w illustrations andtull
Inductions torartthtie fancy work, baadsoiaelv
Two Jokes.
There ia probably no business so uni
formly dry aa not to afford an occasional
opening through which humor may slip
in. Even the undertaker has his jokes
and the gravest digger of graves some
times lets fly a shaft ef wit. And so we
find that even politicians are not entirely
wanting in homer. The Radical con veu
tioa on Friday perpetrated two huge
jokes that will bring many a smile to the
good people of North Carolina before the
melancholy days of November set in.
Without doubt the old Hue Republicans
aredreadfully in earnest iu their opposi
tion to the existing system of couuty gov
ernment. They opposed it from its incipi
cacy and yet preserve an unreasonable
dislike to it. They propose to make a
supreme effort to abolish it and to that
and they seek to give it pre-eminence
among the issues of the coming campaign.
But as if to discredit the whole move
ment and make the wholo movement a
huge joke. Dr. Mott aud the rcrenuers
have captured the convention, forced
down the throats of the old line Republi
cans a Democrat wlto stood sponser for
county government wheu it was a baby
aud who nursed it in infancy and strenu
ously maintained it dining six years ser
vice in tho legislature. That such a warm
and devoted friend to connty government
should be selected to load the assaulting
column upon this wise and beneficent
measure is a joke of such dimensions that
all people can take it in.
But oue good joke deserves another ;
and this has its counterpart iu that other
joke which the revenuers have perpetra
ted in declaring that they favor the re
peal of the internal revenue system ; that
is that they want Congress to legislate
them out of office. They are dying to
get ont of office. They are so eager for
it that lhey find fault with tho Democrats
of the House of Representatives for not
passing a bill repealing these internal
revenue taxes right over the heads of tho
Republican Senate aud President Arthur.
It is their meat aud bread. It supports
a thousand of them, but Cooper and his
whole crowd of revenuers were down to
the convention to pans a resolution de
claring their great desire to be turned
out of office so that they cau go to hon
est, hard work iu the com and tobacco
fields like other young men of the wes
tern section. This we say is joke num
ber two. As the campaign is begun with
such humorous proceedings it bids fair
to become a roaring farce before it is end
ed. Aud uuless we are greatly mistaken
the smiles of to-day will be turned into
uproarious laughter when the result of
the election is announced. Dr. York and
the revenuers will find that the people of
Notth Caroliua while they like good hu
mor do not mix their jokes aud politics
in this way. News d? Observer.
1 j
Macou Telegraph : If the Democratic
party wishes to make the. Have fraud au
issue in the coming campaign, it cau do
so successfully only by nominating W. W.
Eaton, of Connecticut a man who fought
the whole rascally movement, from the
inception of the electoral commission swin
dle of old Edmunds down of the inaugura
tion of the Ohio hypocrite.
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This powder never varies. A marvel of purity,
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1.
DAVIDSON COLLEGE,
MECKLENBURG 00., N. 0.,
1 884.'85.
The next Session opens on THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 11.
For Catalogues annlv to the CLERK" OP
THE FACULTY.
31:3m pd.
DISSOLUTION !
The firm hprpmfnrA svlatliu. i. ....... . .
vA.ioiuR uuun mc lllilllf OI
Blackwkll & Cacblb has been this day dlsbolved
"j kwuucui. jwr. a. u. cauote win continue
the i business at the old stand. All persons indebt
ed to the nrm will comn forward nnri ium .,..-
accounts at once. Blackwxm, cadble
a card;
I take this method to return thanks to
the public for the very liberal patronage
bestowed upon us in the past. A complete
stock of Groceries always ou hand. Kene
bec Ice always on hand from January to
January, at low figures.
Very respectfully
81:!m J. G. OAfjiiLE.
NOTICE !
SPECIAL TERM OF ROWAN SUPE
RIOR COURT.
Notice is hereby given that the Governor
has ordered a special term of the Superior
Court of Rowan County, to begin on the
0th day of June, 1884, for the trial of civil
cases enly, and to continue until the busi
ness is disposed pf. This Mav 5th 1884
HORATIO N. WOODSON
Clerk Board County Commissioners
30:4w
Tin aid Cooper Smith!
WILLIAMS BROWN
.J8 ,ndela buslneniln fits own name His
shop is In the rear of the store formerly iw'nnied
Jl11 OO"". Hisentrance, on FlshTr jltreer
at the sign of the big coffee Pot. is doing lu kinds
of workTn Tin. Sheet Iron, Brass Conner ?w
-Roofing. Guttering. SUlls and PlpesTne lc fcfdEL
Repairing promptly executed. roe
WILL KKBP ON HAND,
.nrtl?firDt(?r heatljtr nd cooking stores
Sheriff's Sale of LandT
uy virtue 01 an execution issued
the Superior Court of Rowan Count,
W A
m of
vor 01 j. r . .aicnean iv to.
m fa.
i'g;ui!st W
Williffinl in in v liiimk t', .. 'n. .
It
sell at public auction, at the Conrt 11 '
door in the town of Salislmrt- . ui
day of June, t884, a
" the right, ut
r the said w. iTftJ:
following tract of i'S
tercst and estate of
ford, in and to the
fnnuKnnir rii iiiti ti'.t' ninv,. .
!..! - r -1 f(
. 1 , ...w.v ,,r (esg .
ated in At well township. Rowan Con
adjoiningjhe lands of John YV. Mel.
A. Hedrick, Gcorirc Smith ami oThergB'J'
Terms Cash. Dated at SalklnH .l
2d day of Mav, 1884. " v' the
C. C. KRIDer, Sh'ffi
30:4w 1-tk
For Dygpepgi
Costivcnei
tck Headache,
ii runic iiW
rhaxL, Jaundice,
Itcpurlly f thm
IHUtod, Fever aa
Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseaseg
';uis d l.v Tv.
raagement of lave.-, Ilowels and Kidney.
SYMPTOMS, OF A DISEAJ3KQ. riVElL
Bad Breath ; Par in the Side, wmetimes tfc
pain is felt under the ShoiUder-blai?, raisuk-irfor
Rheumatism ; general loss of appetite ; rk wek
generally costive, sometimes alterr..;tirg wit'i la,,
the head is troubled with pr in, is dull and heavy'
with considerable loss ( wcm.jrv, accompanied
with a painful sensationof leaving undone sonicHne
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry c "jjh
Md lushed face is sometimes an attendant often
mistaken for consumption: the patient complains
of weariness ami debility; nervous, easily startled
met cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits areJmv and despondent
and, although satisfied that exercise would bo heae
ftcial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude is
J H "oy rcnie-iy several
Ot the above Symplon's attend the disease, but cases
have ccurred when but few of jber.i existed ytt
examination after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
It sboold be used by all pontons, old and
young, whenever any jf the above
yniptoins appear.
Persons Traveling or Living in Tn
healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion,
ally to keen the I.iver in healthy c'.i .n, will avoid
all Malaria, Hllion attacks, Ihwiness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc h
jgLinvigorate lite a gla s of wine, bat is u in.
tOmVatiug beverage.
If Tou have mien anything hard ot
digestion, or feel heavy aflen nicaisTor sleep,
less at night, take a C e and you will be relieved
Time and Doctors' Bills win be saved
by always keeping the -Regulator
in the Ilouse!
For, whatever the ailment may be, a thorcrg' )v
safe purgative, alterative and tonic can
never be out of place. The remedy is harmless
and does not intorfi-re with business or
pleasure.
IT IS PURKLY Vl7r.rTAm.E.
And has all the power andetfic.icy ,.f Odo'me! sr
Quinine, without any of the injurious after elicits.
A Governor's Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in useinffly
family for some time, and I am satisfied it is "a
valuable addition to me medl science.
J. Gill Shor:, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, or r.s.,
says: Have derived some benefit trom the use of
Simmons Liver Regulator, ana wish to give it a
further trial.
"Te only Tiling that never fails to
ReUeve." I have used marv remedies for Dys
pepsia, Liver AJiection and tXbiiity. but never
have found anything to Kn. fa me t,. ;;,e oitent
Simmons I.iver Regulate; li... I sent !Y m Min
nesota te Georgia for it. -nd ,.uld send further for
such a medicine, and .ouK!Jvic all who are sim
ilarly affected to give it a tri.d as ii setmj ;he only
thing that ncier fails to relieve
P. M. jANNtv, Minneapolis, Minn,
Dr. T. W. Mason says : From actual ex
perience in the use of Simni J ivr !.'. ...,' .,. .
-t
my practice I have been au.. ini satisfied toise
and prescribe itts a purgative medicine.
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Denver, Colorado, April 22nd, 1S82,
Dr, B. J. Kendall & Co., Gents : Four
years ago while iu the employ of A. P. PfP
ley & Co., Danvcrs, Mj'.s., we had a horse
that became spavined during the first year
of my stay with them, and remained so for
four years, though we used every remedy
we knew or could hear of but no avail.
Some time during the fifth year, (fori wsu
in their employ between five and six yean7S
we were recommended to try Kendir
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the Horse was cured the enlargement hT
ing beeu entirely removed, and thus belief'
ing it toe a valuable medcine I fully re
commend it to all who have occasion touso
it. Respectfully,
P. II. Lyoks.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE,
Fremont, Ohio, Sept. 24. 1881
Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Gentlemen-
Having had an opportunity of seeing yW
"Treatise on the Horse" this Summer for
the first time I was induced to try your
Kendall's Spavin Cure on a valuable bom
I M r ii mm e mm, m imsi
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weeks ago to-day I commented using Ken-
lolPc Snavm I ' 1 f ..,.'. it tllfWi
v.. ,11 o upui til VUIC UUU llllil llllt iv -
weeks the lameness entirely disappeared.
it nas been worth fbO.OO to me.
H. Ii. Horse.
Mount Prairie. Minn . Sent. '24. 188&
n M T I i. v 1 1 i i t I',. ii..i.t Ii-inMt: i
M.' ... Jr. v. 11L..1IAM, w . , uit""
Last Spring I had a valuable young horse
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about half" way on his shoulder and was
very lame for a lonjj time. 1 had the best
i . . . n.i 1 1
norse uoctors examine her, some caueu
one thing seme another, one said theshoob
der was broken but none could cure it.
After I had tried the cure I went ad
bought one bottle of Kendall's Spavin Cur.
I did not use one half of it before it wssan
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Tawas City, Mich., Sept. 1, 1&8&
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Condition Pm.rilrr T davr used Kendall
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rrnfld
B
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. - .
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man or beast.
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about
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I). Van VbasM
Supt. of S. & Y. D.
Greenbrier, West Virginia
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