North Carolina Newspapers

I Western North Carolina Rail Eoad Co titt&lM PASSENGER OFFICE Salisbury, Nl C, Sept. 5th, 1885. l - . -i . ri!,. ;r, R,.lf.rlnl will Le opcratco Ob and after the otn insi., ure iiwnB v..- - . y this Company : WS8T Arr Lv; Arvj Jl JJ In HO 4.09 4.40 4.4 i.SU 1!! 1.15 5". 16" 1 05 13 8.33 2.59 f.lt 8.49 f.fl 8.01 8.42 8.43 t.M 8.56! Mil K9! 18.12 10.13 S.48 18.49 WEST. .M.29j 84 li.fiSj ti.ti 11.81 11.84t 18.19 12.29 1.49 1.58; 2.28 2.29: . 9.89 1.41 8.81 8.81; . h 4.151 r.M.il . Leav;: .1 EAST. it nd.ii tbaio. siMdin Line- m it II I TaisNo.4 Lenv A. M.J 6. $(? SALISBURY.. 4. . 8 . 14Statesvillb. . 10 .07 Newton 2 25llCARD 1 .23!;Mobgakton. 2.59Marios Ii..-. TTRockd Knob : . 5.17 5. J;Black mountain; 5.881 6. 0! Cooper's .451 .47i&'ARTANBCB JU !-. 57, p. it "AeircvrfeLE i ; a lex anders . . . . Marshall . . . j'BARKARD8 4f ' "Warm Srnraps. lArv. ' II t II . 12 'Sir A.M. i.ov i 11.29U.80 S; 5-30 5.50, 110.33 10.38 it 4.001 4AJ I 2.17 2.19 : i.09j i.so;; 9.38, 9.10 8.12 7.42' 7.07) 6.19! 6.061 -5.41 j 5.22; 4.48 4 11' 3.50; 9.38 9.10 8.12 7.42 7.27 6.22 6.06 5.41 5.32 4.49 4.12 3.50 3.15pm (111.35 11.35 P. M. " 1 5.50', "3 2.19; 1- f .soil ' 20 55 07 8.43 7.55! 7.07; 6.55 A. M. Murphy j - Division. ABBEVILLE . jHoMINT v.. fTnRNPIKE . Pigeon Riyr, . (Clyde . ; Waynesvillb. Hall .... :8yLVA..v. Webster . ii Whittier . . . Charleston . EAST, Train No. 8 4 39 3 59 3 37 3 12 2 45 2 00 12 34 11 11 10 P. M. 4 01 8 89: 3 17' 2 47 2 55 12 35 56; 11 57: 45'tl 46 5410 55 pa A.M.10 09 1 'Round Knob BreakfaBt station for Train No. 1, and Supper tat ion for Train No. 2. Trains Nos. 1, 2, 7 and 8, run daify. Trains Nos. 3 and 4, run daily except Sunday. V. K, McBEE, Supt. - W. A. TURK, A. G. P. A. o 3 r1 o to 13 m m .50 50 NEW YORK OBSERVER, j OLDEST AND BEST EEUGI0US AND SECULAR FAMI LY NEWSPAPER. NATIONAL. AND EVANGELICAL. All the News, Vigorous Editorials. A trustworthy paper for business men. It has pppHal departments for Farmers, Sunday school Teachers and Housekeepers. Kf YORK OBSERVER FOR 1886, -Fourth Volume, TBI Sixty A. CARD. Toi all who are suffering from the errors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak ness, early decay, loss of manhood, &e., I will send a recipe that will cure you, Free of Charge. This great remedy was dis covered by a missionary in South America Send a self -ad dressed envelope to the Rev Joseph T. Inman, Stttthn 1. frew York City. 4:ly j Babies. Atlanta Constitution. Babies! The world is full of babies! Ta are five thousand in Atlanta n -' w " . . .' A one. They are little, but tney are mighty important. Did you ever notice how thev disappear m rainy weatuerr The babies come and go with the sun shine. Let a balmy day happen along and the green lawns are dotted over with babies. Their chubby legs trudge the streets, or they ride, and their wise, thoughtful faces look out from very red hoodi and seem to rebuke the world for beingTso bad. Did you ever see a woman pass a baby without giving it a second glance? Did you ever see an in experienced man try to malce peace with an inoffensive andunoffending baby? ' I. 4 There is no doubt about it, babies are the salt of the earth. A man is not full irrown until he owns one. A being who can lean over his sleeping babv and not be as brave as a lion is nnt. ffood for much this side of the centeterv. nor the other side either for th.it matter. Did you ever notice the little peaked-faced babies that look out nf the dark, damn rooms that tall to the lot of the poor? They breathe the very dust that the rattling drays throw aoainst their low windows.; There is a little child on a back street in the bu siness part of Atlanta who may be taken as a specimen of that class of babies who are without sunshine. There is no vard to the house, no corner where even "frog bouses" can be made No mud pies ever bake on fireless ran ires and no red-painted tovs ever1 tel the passer W that a little child lives there. But a small, pale face, ever so meek, presses against the dust) pane and sad little eves look out on the iuov inc stream of dravs and people. It is a companionless child. It romps with no children, it rides no fiery, untamed tricycle. A well-fed dog dashing by is a diversion, and a hook and ladder truck enroute to a fire amounts a cir The Freat Salt Lake. 0 YOU raw or lint ? -o- wit! contain a new and never before pub lished series of Ireneus Letters ; regular correspondence from Great Britain, France, ' Germany and Italy : Letters from Mission ' Stations in India, China, Japan, Africa and Micronesia; original articles from, men of, influence and knowledge of affairs id dif-! ferent parts of this Coantry, and selected articles from the choicest literary and re ligious publications; in poetry and prose. A New Volume, containing a Second Series of Ihen.ecs Letters, a sketch of the author, and a review. of his lifje and work has been pnblislied. We shall offer this year special and at tractive inducements to subscribers and ) friends. Sample conies froei L- . KEW YORK OBSEBYEB, NEW YORK. Then send to EUGENE L. TTARRIS & CO., Raleigh, N. C. for Price list of Artists' materials. They keep-evpry thing needed and will fill your order lyJ mail or express promptly. .Portraits in Crayon and Oil Oil Landscapes, Western If. C. Scenery 4:im.pa. cus. A BosY-ficed baby, with a happy home, sleeps in the folds of its cradle Hardly a day and tfce little cheeks are as white as the pillow upon which rests. Did you ever notice how ligh a baby looks when it is dead ? There is hardly enough of the little form turn a zephyr. A weeping mother said one day: 'It is hard to leave mv babv awav off in the cemetery. It is so hard to shut the door and know my baby is on the outside. 1 ! T: . I K.BRUNER, Of the Watchman. J. SAM'L MCCUBBINS County Treasurer. tiffins BKUNER & McOTJBBH, REAL ESTATE AGE To the eds or Twe to un-: ach Bitters is peculiarly krlatsed ; TTrinpiT-TTi toe nigetniyc eal eneht ful influences, it removes m i lund it pi own malarial fever, eotwtiuintiota. Uvfw.sii.- 1 lth fully stimulates the k'uiney ml f;ili The undersigned are prepared to do a GENERAL REAL ESTATE BUSINESS, and solicit business of that character, "All ttsi property cntrnsred te us will be lidver- all over the United States, bladder, and enriches as wr'.l as the blood. When overcome by wnether mental or physical, the v.van audi debilitated find it a reliable source ot renewed strength and comfort. For sals oy all Druggists and Dealer generally, FREE OF CHARGE to the owner. Persofls having farm lands forests, mines, or othenreal property should onsult us at once. SpecUl attention giv en mineral lands, f Kepnrta. assays and iiaps lunnshed when desired. BRUNER &. McCUBBINS. Salisbury, N. C. TUTT'S 25 YEARS IN Trinroph Ths Greatest Medical Land for Sale. 1 BY ' J. X- HADEN, REAL ESTATE AGENT, MAIN STREET, SALISBURY, N. 4 Tom lots ftni.Tqafj. BFCall and see his Descriptive Cata logue and Price List Terms to suit. USE of the Age! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVEi Lo of appetite, BoWelpcoatlve, Ffa ia oeaa, wita a anil oer.ration In the Back part, Fain under tbe ahonldcr biade, Fullness after eatinir, with a d!e inclinmtion to exertion nf body or Blind, Irritability of temper, Low spirits, wiU a feel ine of havinanc elected some datr, CTeariaeea, Dizziness, Flntterinat at tta Heart, Dote before the eyes, Headache over the right eve, Reittleesncss, with fitfal dreams Highly colored Urine, and CONSTIPATION. l'U'l"l"8 VIUU are especially adapted to such eases, one dose effects eucti e change of feelingastdastonlhttiosnutrcr They Increase the A ppetltcsnd cr.usc tb' uuuz ra'im on jt cn, Tj'.iTi iuo usitia ! stlar alooisara Cotton-Seed Oil a Substitute for Both Lard and Eggs. Great -Salt Lake is, in fact, not a branch of the sea at all, but a mere shrunken remnant of a very large fresh water lake system, like that of the bt. Lawrence cnain. unce upon a time, American geologists say, a huge sheet of water, for which they have even in vented a definite name, lake Bonne ville, occupied a far larger valley among he outliers ot the itocky Mountains, measuring oW miles in; one direction by 180 miles in the other. Besides this primitive Superior lay a great second sheet an early Huron--(Lake Lahon- tan the geologists call it) almost as big and equally of fresh water. By and bv the precise dates are necessa rily indefinite some change m the rainfall, unregistered by any contem porary, made the waters of these big akes shrink and evaporate Lake La- hontan shrank away like Alice in Won derland, till there was absolutely noth ing left of it; Lake Bonneville shrank till it attained the diminished size of the existing Great Salt Lake. Terrace after terrace, running in long parallel lines on the sides of the Wahsatch Mountains around, mark the various levels at which it rested for a while on its gradual downward course. It is still -falling indeed, and the plain around is being gradually uncovered, forming the white salt encrusted shore with which all visitors to the Mormon city are so familiar. But why should the water become briny ? Why should the evaporation of an old Superior produce at last a Great Salt Lake? Well, there is a small quantity of salt in solution even in the freshest of lakes and ponds, brought down to them by the stream or rivers, and, as the water of the hypothecated Lake Bonneville slowly evaporated, the salt and other mineral constituents re mained behind. Thus the solution grew constantly more and more con centrated, till at the present day it is extremely saline. Professor Geikie ( to whose works the present paper is much indebted) found that he floated on the water in spite of himself; and the un- deV sides of the steps at the bathing places are all encrusted with short stalacites of salt, produced from the drip ofr the bathers as they leave the water. The mineral constituents, how ever differ considerably in their pro portions from those found in the true salt lakes of marine origin, and the point at which the salt is thrown down is still far from having been reached. Great Salt Luke must simmer in the sun for many centuries yet before the point arrives at which (as cooks say) it begins to settle. v On the Sleeping Car. Dover (Del.) Sentinel. "Have you heard about the Seaf ord man who never used a sleeping car until the Norfolk line down the Penin sula was opened?'' asked a railroad conductor of a newspaper man the oth er day. He replied lie hadn't, and the conductor continued: "Well it sounds a good deal like a fish story, but it's true. This Seaf ord man I won't give him away was on h is way home from his first visit to !New.York. He had never been on a sleeping-car before in his life, and he seemed to be considera bly mystified concerning its interior arrangements. He was too proud, how ever, to ask any questions. The berths were, of course, all in order for their occupants, but something seemed to be amiss to our unsophisticated passenger. He was the first to make preparations for bed, but he did it with a great deal of deliberation. He sat down on the lower berth, pulled off one boot . and then glanced anxiously around. It was fully five minutes before the other boot came off, but when it did he had solved the problem. Pushing his boots under the bed he started for the rear platform and nothing was heard of , him for some ten minutes. Then lie put his head in at the door and called out: All you in there look out, for I'm a coming!' And he did, too, with a rush. He had undressed out on the .platform, made a bundle of his coat, pants and vest, and as he shot into his berth after a dash up the aisle he remarked, half aloud, to himself: 'Dod darned, ef twarn t kind of cold out there on that blamed piazur.' " nourished, nnd bv-thv- the Digestive OrauubT! Fails, no8:8m NOTICE TO DRUGGISTS AND STORE KEEPERS. I guarantee Shriner's Indian Vermifuge to destroy and expel worms from the hu man body, where they exist, if used ac cording to directions. You are author ised to sell it upon the above conditions. i via h,. route, Proprietor. Batimore,4 I. 7 If . -1 . TOTilC Cecttlai UT Hath or Whiiseks chanced to n Glossy-Slack bv a sin?!a application ot this Dyb. It imparts a lmtnr-u coior, nz instantaneously. 6c!jl by Sroszji. cv sent by oxprcc cn rbcctTt of 1. - Office, 44 rwurrcy ., Mw York Dec. 20, '84. ly. JxLJ.1j.Li mHE STOKES. UNDERSIGKEP has bought the weU known ROWAN rrmrv irrr t Imvna quarry of K. K. Phillips, deceased, SIM wUl continue to supply the public de. I mand for Mill stones from this celebrated earr so wen known throughout this country r us superiority ior mil stones. Granite blocks tor Ornamental purposes, Ifonumcnts, Ae., c.t can uwob uaa ac mis quarry. Address, J. I. WYATT, Salisbury, K. C Ail mllles Bureau no Spruoe St. asttieete any ba meda for u i HARRIS' A Radical Cure i NERVOUS ERV0USOEBILITY ibgamcWeakness .andnumeroas Ffiingthe skilled phy- result from indiscretion. rionthfi r too free indulgence, or work. Avoid Ithe Organic Weakness, PHYSICAL lnY Tested for over I Years by ust in ma Thousand Cases. m . TBIAL Month. - tns, 7.C brain mtu imposition ot preten a remedies far thm irouotei. tie; our Frca Circular and Trial rack, an. and learn lmMM.1 I facta before tskios treat. iment elsewhere . Take a ISL;KE Rr.MEIYthati3 CUBED thousand, does not interfere with sttta. ition to Duainese, or auw pain or mconvenienc in any way. Founded on scientific medical prind- ispecinc influence Is felt w uncut aeiay. me rat Oral functions of i the ha. iTas One M mas I organism Is restored. aonnaans; eiemen ts which have been uanriitBliuh , j Ith ptoAiiS3wit jfsl sad rapidly gains bote trencrh and sexual Ti... MAKHIS REMEDY CO ERS American Inventor, Cincinnati. Nothing affects the well being man lo quickly as the food he con sumes. luiere are a number of articles of daily consumption which have pro duced an untold amount of misery and have been condemned by hygienists ever since the beginning of history. Lard hasontributed its share, as is well known, and now a substitute has been discovered which is equally as di gestible and nutritious, and can be placed on the market at a cost so low that it is cheaper and much better for most culinary purposes. The follow- jsj a -a r t -w -erWv i mg article, oy Mrs. J. F. Walker, ot St. TjOius, Mo., is self-explanatoiy : "I have been using cotton-seed oil for more than ten years. In view of this long experience, I think I am fully prepared to pass judgment upon its merits, and 1 unhesitatingly say that 1 regard it as far superior to lard for cu linary purposes. When properly used it is imperceptible to the taste, except perhaps in the case of biscuits which are to be eaten cold for lunch; in that case lard or butter is preferable, but for everything which is to be eaten imme diately the oil cannot be detected. "For frying fish and oysters it is less liable to bum than lard, and a much larger quantity can be used without waste or. extravagance, as what is left can always be strained into a jar and kept for repeated use, with the addition of more as needed. It does not become stale or rancid, and does not retain the odor of fish. For frying fish or fritters or baking waffles and batter cake, it should be kept on the stove in a suitable vessel, or they will : absorb too much of the raw cold oil. For corn bread I add it hot the last thing ; this makes the (nicest egg bread without eggs. For j waffles -made with cold boiled rice, pr corn-meal batter cakes, the addition of a little oil in the batter makes it as rich as though two or three eggs were used. 1 have not tried ?!. 1 i O Oi it ior caKes, except ior sort ginger bread, wherej it perfectly supplies the place or both butter and eggs. For brewing chopped onions and flour for stews and gravies, it is not so liable to burn as black as lard, and gives a very rich appearance, as more or less of the oil rises to the surface in veyes.Ifirst began the jjise of i oil from hygienic, not from economical motives, as I could then j procure only the highest priced bottled salad oil. The oil as it comes fresh from the refinery is limpid, pure and sweet, with the color, taste and 0dor?of the bottled salad oil, sup posed to be genuine imported olive oil. T , .... A the most of which is, however, either lard oil or cotton-seed oil the highest price being paid for the bottles and the fancy labels, not for the contents. l.Y , . r s w r rom a nygienie point oi view, l con sider it a most valuable substitute for lard, keeping the blood free from im purity and humors, with which it is so frequently loaded where lard and but ter are freely used m cooking. I think that 1 have said enough to show that in my experience, at least, it proves a most valuable substitute, not only for Uirrl Kilt. fnr larrl anA oorrra Knt-Vi nltA ..v., - - mrm njn in -ggo .svuii, nunc both are usually required, and that its generat use Would be found jprofitable and advantageous on both sanitary and economic grounds. T.rr am fUREO PERSONS' M04 fPrr" iKTor terras of otir AnnUance. Ladies as Commercial Travellers. Chicago Ileral. r "Therejs a new racket on the road," said a commercial traveller. "It's a fe male drummer. I met her the other day M and she is a dandy. Of course she travels for a Chicago house, and she sells goods like a January thaw. She has been out so long now that she is as independent as a hog on ice. She sits in an ordinary railway and charges up sleeping berths in her expenses, just like the rest of us. She walks to the hotels from the stations and charges up the hack fares, just as we do. She beats the landlord down to $1.50 a day and I charges the house $2.50 in the regular old style. She can take care of her self every day in the week, and she knows" how to order up a bottle of wine and work it on the expense ac count, too. Why, when I saw her last she Was a new silk dress ahead of the firm, and by New Year's proposed to have a sealskin sacque out of her ex penses. ; And that isn't all. She has half of the hotel clerks in the North west in ashed on her, and the way the little rascal knocks 'em down on her bill is a caution. She has a regular trick of staying over Sunday where one of her admirers runs the house, and she walks off Monday morning forget- to pay the bill. What does she sell? That's the funniest thing about itl You would think she would handle jewelry or millinery or dry goods, wouldn't you? But she doesn't. She sells gents' furnishing goods, and the young men who usually keep that kind of stores buy of her as if they hadn't seen a commercial traveller for six months. And she is a dandy poker player, too. She handles the cards awkwardly, and acts as if she didn't know a full hand from two pairs, and raises $2 on deuces, and nearly cries when t'other fellow shows up three of a kind, and then gets excited in a big jack pot, and raises the opener and bets the limit and raises back and scares t'other fellow out, and slides into the deck a little pair of sixes or sevens or a bobtail as innocent as you please. Bluff? Why, she has a bluff on her like the Wisconsin River. She's a daisy, and tell you it s mighty lucky for the boys that there ain't any more like her on the road.' " A Note of the Times. Touching the transformation in the South which the war produced, the substitution of one set of social, indus trial and political usages and mstitu tions for another, or, as our friemds of the North prefer to phrase it, the in troduction' here of the "higher civili zation1' that has long obtained: there, several apparently minor but deeply . . a ill- sienmcant tacts should be put on re cord for the philosophic consideration of future students of history. Taking Virginia, of which State only we can speak with certainty, as an illustration of the southern system, we note that before the war there was not in all her borders such a thing as a pawn-broker's shop or a junk shop. Professional de- tectiyes were unknown. Tramps were never seen. Beggars were so rare that you might not meet with one in twelve months. There were thousands of 1 a a f e homesteads where a key was never turned. And divorces were almost un heard of. WThat sort of. society and civilization these facts may denote, and how they will stand comparison with the state of things existing then and now in the North, and hereafter perhaps to exist here, will be for the studious and thoughtful in comir time to determine. We make historic record of the facts, as in our non-partisan and non-sectional way we are en titled to do, but leave comments and deductions to others. Industrial South. old, he determined to leave home and be a midshipman in a colonial navy. After he had sent off his trunk, Ise went to tell his mother good-by. She wept so bitterly, he said to his negro servant, "bring .Wk my trunk, I am not going to make my mother suffer so by my leaving her." He remained at home to please his mother. This decision led to his be coming a surveyor, and afterwards a soldier. His coreer in life turned on this one simple act of trving to make his mother happy, and he never had occasion to shed bitter tears for any act of unkindness to his parents. Let us not forget that God has said. "Honor thv father and mother.1 Youtlts Companion. Senators and Alcohol. V Cleveland Leader. The Senate adopted a rule that no intoxicating liquor shall be Sold hereafter on the Senate side of the Capi tol, and a lively diseussion took place when the subject was up before the Sen ate. Several of the tipplers of the body insinuated their abhorrence of liquor in pecksniffian speeches. Oneortwoavopred themselves teetotalers, and one who is known to always keep a supply oi old Bourbon in his committee room, announc ed himself the supporter of Riddleberers amendment that no liquor shall be per mitted in committee rooms. The diseus sion, however, announces to the people how discretitable and disgraceful has be come the use of whiskey and wine about the halls of Congress. Manv a man is ruined bv comink to Congress, and the instance of BelforL of Colorada, is the most notable of today When Belford was elected he had the brightest prospects before him of any man in public life. He had a memory which could retain Webster's dictionary, af wit which could keep Congress in roars of laughter, a command of generalized knowledge which left him never at a Joss from ignorance of any subject that came before tbe House, and an intellect duick to understand aud take advantage of the moment. He came lie re a sober man and had just begun his bright career when, in addition to tackling' bills in Congress, he commenced a fight with liquor. Liquor beat him in the end, and during the last session his amusing antics under its in fluence on the floor of the House became almost painful. He has now reformed through the lunuence ot his wife, I under siana, ana coioraao men ten me he is building up a big practice in the courts of that State. Returning to the Senate it is interesting to look at tne various beverages. Frye, Blair, Teller, and Joe Brown are aisnong the teetotalers, and crown is one at the first temperance men in Georgia, f loar drinks milk. V est, true Missourian that he is, can stand anything, and Edmunds likes good whisky and old brandy, s Ex Senator Pendleton was very foild of champagne, and his committee room often contained a choice article of alcoholic stimulant. Beck and Blackburn like old Bourbon, but they never get too much of it. JNumerous senators take just a little j . a -la i -w a tor tneir stomachs sake. I have seen few of them atteeted by their drinking. A Timely Sug-gestion. I In a letter to the editor ot the Elizabeth City Eemeinitt ex-Governor JaniCno is now minister to Brazil, suggests that the legislature make a standing appropriation and we hope it will bear fruit. It is a lament of $500 a year, and direct the Governor to have painted in oil, each year, and hang jrj the library! some one of North Carolina's great men. As we are so far behind i ooo a .- i 1- ... , iT 1 W ' ana two paaniings a year ue imnKS w nukl be better. The suggestion is a timelv mut able fact, as Gov. TJarvis says, that our neo- M 1 !i 15. .1 - ..-.. I pie naje gien intfe or no aueniion to Col leering and preserving authentic accounts Of the important events that make uo th nisiory onuejaia. vt e nave ai lowed many precious events to pass out of memory and never having been commited to the "art' preservative," ta be forever lost. Many ol those that have been in a wav reenrdoii ... in dispute, so that while there is no State ncner in sucn precious memories than ours probably none has ever done so little to preserve thjem. ' It is so, also, savs t!fe Gov ernor, with; regard, to the great aijd good men of thelState, whose lives make up her glory. ''The State does not possess even a photograph of one of her distinguished sons, louring my six years stay at the cap- ital, I was Often painiully reminded of this fact. Persons irom other States often visi ted the executive office, and asked to be allowed to, see the pictures of the Gastons the Grahams, the Moreheads, the Badgers' the Braggs, and the like, and I was obliged to tell then) thelState possessed no memo rial of theV great sons who had shed so much lustre and renown upon her name." This state of things certainly c tight not to continue. We are now a great common wealth, materially as otherwise, and the slight outlay suggested by Goys. J&rvis would-be hut a trifle, while the good, it would soon accomplish in rescuing from . oblivion the names and the deeds of North Carolina's statesmen and patriots would be far beyondj estimate in dollars and cents. We cannot afford to postpone t lie matter further. lionger delay will lint increase the shame jot" our situation. We use the wofd shame because it is really . shameful that we should let perish the meinories of- those who gave glory and power to the land, we have inherited. Tl is is a practical age, but noxivijlized community can disregard the matter to whichGov. jaryis refers even now and not suffer in name and in lame as a consequence. We have a history of which any peoptejmight well be proud, illustrated : by deeds of brilliancy wrought by the sons . of the State. We have also always had conspicuous virtues peculair to our people. These shoud be made to stand out in the sight of thj world like "apples of gold in pictures of isilver," and we should take pleasure in ibringin j about thisconsumma- -tion. Netr and Observer. . J, -- . ' A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Worth Knowing. A writer in the Louisville Post says: Few people know how to dress a fowl after killing it. Birds, ducks, and tur keys are usually dipped in hot water, so their feathers may be more easily re moved. These feathers con tain unsavory oil and they penetrate the skin. As soon as the hot water acts upon the oil it is driven through the porous tip of the feather and infused under the skin. For this reason it is very difficult to secure a dressed chick en or other bird in the market that does not taste feathery after eooking. They are dressed hastily and to save time and trouble are soused in hot water. The bird is almost worthless to a oelicate palate after that. Every member of the feathery tribe should be picltea carefully while cold, carefully cleaned and allowed to remain in salty water for twelve hours. The salt draws the excess of blood from the body. When properly cooked after this process they nave the delicious taste which persons enjoy so much at "country dinners'11 and which they cannot explain. It is simply due to the fact that the country cook is usu ally more conscientious and better trained. "! Whitewashed Savages. A missionary stationed at one of the South Sea Islands determined to cilve his residence a eoat of whitewash. To obtain this, in the absence of iime, coral Was re duced to powder by burning. The natives watched the process of burning with) inter est, believing tliHt the coral was i being coked (for them to eat. Next morning i hey beheld the missionary's cottage glittering in the rising sun white as snow. It was so beautiful in their eyes that they djaneed, sang, and screamed with joy. The'; whole island was in a commotion. W Ii i t e wash be came the rage, and happy was the co quette who could enhance her charms by a Sdaub of the whitewash brush. 1 hen con tentious arose; one party urged theil supe rior rank; another obtained possession of the brush and valiantly held it against all comers; a third tried to upset the tub in bis eagerness to get some of the precious cos metic. At last, to quiet the hubbub, more whitewash w as made, and in a week not a hut, a domestic utensil, a war-club, or a garment but was as white as snow; not an inhabitant but had a skin painted with grotesque designs; not a pig that was not whitened; and the mothers might be seen in every direction capering joyously and yelling with delight at the superior beauty of their whitewashed babies. Montreal Gouip. North Carolina, . It is reported that the cdal mines near Egyjpt are to be re-opened next summer. One of these mines has a shaft 480 feet in depth. It iwas this coal that was used on blockade runners at Wilminjgton during the war. A kind word "of cheer frequently smooths and unravels many ia tangled thread inj the skein of life; Make a concession; rather than make a fuss. It is sweetjknd heroic and beautiful to yield wheh there is no principle involv ed. L . L , -' sAgggx SEED HOUSE s1 BALLKINDSOFBHBi SEEDS PLANTS Send for New 111 ust rated Cat alocno for 1 88S, sad prices of Field Sseds. Mailed FKEE. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Who! sis and BstaU Seedsman, Richmond, Vt THE WATCHMAN JOB OFFICE The Way to Save Hen. "Have you lived a good life?" said St. Peter to a trembling female who knocked timidly at the gate of beauty. "I was only good at one thing," said jbhe spirit before him, with a doleful shake of the head. "And what was that?" inquired St. Peter in a voice of blissful sweetness. "Cooking," respond ed the timid one, in woeful tones. "Come right in, then," said the senti nel saint, "you have saved more men from perdition, than a dozen mission aries, and I don't believe yot can find anything around here in the shape ot blessednepw that you're not entitledjto." Farmers' Warehouse, Salisbury. Country Homes. Mess. Beall, Bost and Foard are pro prietors. They deserve much credit for the faithful manner in which they have worked to build up a market in their town, and we are glad to note that they have succeeded well. They have every interest of the farmers of their s, 1 i J 1 '11 ti i a 1 section at neart ana win "not leave a stone unturned" that would be of ad vantage to all the tobacco growers Their house is a brick building 50x210 feet with 42 top lights, part of which are solid glass plates 3x6 feet. They havCpacking and storage rooms con venient, and stables, and all necessary arrangements for the comfort of the farmer and his team. Mr. John Shep pard, who has had twenty years' expe rience in Danville and Winston, is auctioneer at this house, and when the farmer places himself and his tobacco in charge of this veteran tobacconist he will never have occasion to feel that he is in the "hands of the Philistines." Head their advertisement in this issue. Strike at the Boot We have had our popular theories of ed ucation without Christ; but nothing now seems more certain than that they practi cally end in corruption and crime. We ex pend our millions of dollars grudgingly for the continuance and extension of the gos pel, and our hundreds of millions cheerfully tor the repression and punishment of crime, when the expenditure ot hall tbe latter sum for the free dissemination of gospel .princi ples among all classes would save toe other half. We devote our powers with tremen dous energy, too often week day anil Sun- dav alike, with the use of ail the flee for ces of nature to the production and acqui- sition oi weann ami me advancement ot material civilization, with t he inevitable result of over production and periodical depression in which much of thef fancied gam disappears. If one half the energy- were expended in the hmher line of gospel enort we might have steady increase of sol id wealth with permanent prosperity, and all this is a' word of constantly increasing purity and peace. Living on sucii princi ples our souls might grow as rapidly as our fortunes instead ot being blighted . and dwarfed by covetousness. Pretidet Greg ory- - V, IS (THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED ?& ESTgiT MISTY 0? of tinting, FROM POSTERS as big as a barn door down to most dcUeate Listing akds. Lettenaiid Note Heads, Bill Heads and Statements, BUSINESS PAMPHLETS, Parental Honor. The WjOrds, "Honor thy father and thy mother," meant four things al ways do what they bid you, always tell tell them the truth, always treat them lovingly, and take care of them when they are sick or grown old. I never knew a boy who ' trampled on the wishes of his parents who turn ed out well. Clod neyer blesses a will fully disobedient son. The attempt has been made to eliminate the miraculous element from the Scrip tures by accounting on rational principles for occurrences represented as due to the divine agency. Strange to say, these efforts have been encouraged by men who profess to reverence the Bible as an inspired re cord. No motive is desirable but a desire to propitiate the arrogant spirit of carnal reason. For the admission of inspiration commits a man to. the whole catalogue of miraculous events there recorded. The unconqucred pride of inteilccenaf conceit , .... , . i ii.., win never oe sausnea wun a partial con cession. JSothms is gained, but much is lost by all such efforts to limit the area of divine agency. What, tor exam die, could induce any one to suggest that, Whilst the soul of man was miraculously created, bis body was generated by a beast ? J They are both attributed in tbe same sentence to the immediate power of God speaking them Hito being, and the language: expresses miracles in reference to the one a distinct . " ... 7m i ly as to the other. The unbelief that de nies it in one case will of course deny it in PRICE LISTS, Sidofll an Parts programmes, ajst BLANKS OF ALL KINDS Court and Magisterial j3F"Ordersaollctted and satisfaction guaranteed PROFESSIONAL CARDS. L. H. CI.KMKST. KERU CRAIO.E. CRA1GE & CLEMENT, ; Salisbury, N. C. i Feb. 3nt 1881 " 1 s-i'l When WVhington was sixteen years both. Richmond Adzocate. ' . . .