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Carolina Watchman.
LOCAL.
THURSDAY, JAN. 20, 1887.
tooova urrittncr fnr Information OD matters ad
rertlsed in tuts paper wlllplease g "advertised
Delinquent ' "
payers shook! remember
T. K. BK CNJiR EDITOR, RALEIGH, K. C.
Tax payers shook! remember that
Sheriff K rider has made his last round
fi-kr ilia r. llwt win rf fifota onrl nnnntv
dues, ud has taken his seat in his office W ProjrrestiTe Flacer Amalgamator.
and will perform the balance of the work A short time since there appeared in
there. the columns of this paper a notice of the
idleness of the Sam Christian mine, in
Montgomery county. The Southern
of
y Subscription Rates
The subscription rates of the Carolina
Watchman are as follows :
1 year, paid in advance, 1 .50
pay art delayed 3 mo V2.00
" payoi't del'ed I2tno's2.50
uliiui
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Hasten
An early Spring is predicted.
the time.
That business generally is quiet there
is no denying.
Never discourage any one who would
like to make Salisbury his home, espe
cially one with capital . i
Tobacco sales have not been heavy
here this week. The almost impassable
public roads have something to do with
Taking Time by the Forelock.
An old subscriber to the Watchman l01 Mining and Manufacturing Go
sends us the following postal:
Salisbury, N. C.
Mr. J. J. Bruner Sir: Please discon
tinue my paper when my subscription
expires. I will save that to pay my K.
K. tax. ours.
All right. You cannot save money for
a mucn better purpose, tnougn it is
doubtful whether you will ever feel the
r- i I rrol to y onl iiict ar own a a tViA onn.
tractors begin tojeut the dirt, we shall but ? f f
not feel the loss of -one subscription to
Patterson, N. J., who make and operate
the . above-named machine, think that
injustice has been done them in that
notice. Nothing of the sort was intended,
and, as an evidence of that fact, the
benefit of their denial is given to the
public.
They say : " The truth is that opera
tions have been suspended, not because
failed, (it is not a process,
the "process"
the Watchman. Some railroad man is
sure to take your place on our list.
Small Factories.
4 Kind words are the music of the world.
There is hardly a power on earth equal
to them. It is by voice that men mes
merize each ot h er . ' ' Fahcr .
The weather is greatly moderated,
snow gone, and mud enough.
P. 8. Mud frozen as hard as the nether
millstone.
Tuesday was a very cold day made
more keenly sensible to those exposed to
"it by a stiff breeze from morning until
Bight.
The town was full of cavalry last Sat
urday. The country people did their
marketing horseback, as it was next to
impossible to get a wagon through the
mud hence the dragoons.
Knoxville. Mr. John M. Knox has
erected another dwelling on his property
on Ellis street. If he adds one every
year he will have a town of his own after
a while.
There is an Italian stopping with Mr.
Swicegood of this town who understands
trimming vines and trees. We mention
it for benefit of those who have no skill
in that kind of work.
Goldsboro and Greensboro, it is report
ed, will have electric lights. Unless the
gas company of this city shall speedily
improve the quality of the gas furnish
ed, and put it at lower figures, the elec
tric lights will step in here also.
Communication with our neighbor,
Davie county, is somewhat iuterferred
with, on account of the terrible condition
of the roads. Never mind, the day is
not far distant when a run from Salisbury
to Mocksville will consume about forty
minutes.
gold in the material." They further
state that suit has been brought against
the owners of the mine for false repre
sentations and for damages and ma chin
ery. They claim that the tailings from
the machine have been repeatedly tested.
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l ne citizens ot our country jowns, tana a d ld h b f d
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wnBjfB mink vi obusuui j UI,;OUiu The " flour " or float" gold sent as a
give all possible encouragement to the Mm le of what tfte machine will do in
small moustnes wmcn now ana collecting such minute particles was
smuggle ior existence among us. we emptied into a glass of water. More
would mention a broom factory by way i, vir mainaA
of illustration, at this moment. It would Wtt8 beaten down after some little effort,
be an easy thing to build up an estab- but a'few particles remained on the sur-
lishment of this kind. J. B. Watson, face duri the whole examination. If
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raisea up u me ousiness, coum stan, ; the machine 8poken 0f captures this kind
and it will oily require a steady support of material it is worth lookinit . after by
to give it an coveteu success, lei uie n nina. u
I tin jwviii vt
mercnants buy irom no one eise cease
to bring brooms from distant States, and
the thing is done. So; too, might many
other small industries be sustained and
built up here, and the money now sent
abroad never to return kept right here at tni8 -character by virtue of ito pecui
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freedom from impurities.
free gold," miners.
TALC.
Probably the largest known deposits
of talc are to be found in the Western
counties of North Carolina. The talc
fonnd there differs from most masses of
be 70 cents to $1.; Raleigh $1.50 to $1.80;
Greensboro $1 .47 to $1.77; Salisbury 75cts
to $1.; Charlotte and Columbia, S. C. 80
cents to $1.07; Fayetteviile, (N. C.) $2.24
to $2.54.
"These figures are large enough to show
that a very considerable reduction could
be made in the price of coal and yet
leave an ample profit for the operators."
As to the area, it is estimated at 2,160
acres; This may be reaucea to say nearly
one-half, as no allowance were made for
trapdykes or thin spots in the area. This
area is calculated to yield 6,000 tons to
the acre, but a safer estimate would be
5,000 tons to the acre. This would make
the avalable tonage more than six mill
ions.
TO BE WORKED.
At Egypt, in Chatham county, a Penn
sylvania Co. has purchased a large area of
this field and propose to begin operations
there in the near future. They propose
to begin by supplying local demands
along the lines of road most convenient
to them, and to gradually broaden the
business.
There are also parties contracting for
the Ore Hill iron property near, for the
purpose of erecting furnace. The indica
tions tor that particular district are
brightening. When work is once begun
there in earnest a large and permanent
business will result
It is reported that Mr. Truman Coleman
has succeeded in selling the Morris Mt.
property in Montgomery county. The
consideration is said to have been $50,000
Qwing to failure to comply with the
requirements of law on tha nart nf thoctA
holding the election, Montgomery county
"in nave to Hold another election ou
subscription to the Railroad. Vidcttc.
home doing the work so much needed.
lar
Mr. A. G. Kinsey's quarry, on the
Notla river, about five miles from Mur
phy, in Cherokee county, is one of the
most striking masses of talc in the State ;
if anything, it exceeds the famous Nan
tahaleh river deposits. Mr. Kimsay has
been putting this quarry in condition for
rapid handling, and has in this way
thrown on the dumps more than a thou-
He has accomplished
Personal.
Mrs. J. D. Gaskill, who has been quite
ill is now convalescent.
Mrs. Jno. P. Allison is visiting her
brother, Hon. Kerr Craige. Salisbury
still mourns over the loss of this queenly
woman from its circles.
Miss Mary Jones Beall, an accomplish- sand of talc
ed young lady of Lenoir, is visiting her the feat alg0 of reducing quarrying to the
uncie, uapt. Tom Jeau.
Miss Alice Pearson has returned to
Salisbury, and boarding at Mrs. McCor-
kle's.
Miss Sthale of Gettysburg, Pa., is visit-
-m mr t 9 m.'
mg her sister, Mrs. .Linn . on t uiton
Street.
Mr. Will Lindsay, the popular buyer
and salesman at Meroney Bro's, has
Last Suuday was an exceptionally
fine day for this season of the year the
congregations at all the churches here
being large. Several of the aged and
infirm, who have been debarred from at
tendance upon the Sanctuary since Win
ter began, were present Sunday.
Mr. Stephen Clark of Third Creek has
on hand several thousand pounds of supe
rior bright tobacco. The sample exhibit
ed a few days ago by one of our citizens
who had visited Mr. C's barns was of a
quality not seen in this market every day.
The result of his first attempt to cultivate
the weed.
minimum cost. Think of 25 cents per
ton ! Besides talc, both iron and marble
are found on,., this property, and in suffi
cient quantity to work.
There is a large area in Western Caro
lina where talc is encountered by the
explorer; in fact, it may be found there
in any desired quantity enough to sup
ply the demands of the whole world for
severed his connection with that house a numbcr of years-
and goes to Baltimore. We are sorry to
lose such a young man from our midst,
but wish him success in his new business.
Mr. Wm. Overman, Sr., who has been
for several weeks ill, we are glad to learn
is better and was able to attend church
on Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Buckner, a Presbyterian di
vine, was in town last week.
Rev. W. H. Bobbitt, D. D., has return-
inox.
A new find of magnetic iron ore is re
ported near Webster in Jackson county
It was found by a miner named Schre
iber, who has been exploring in that
section of the State. The ore is said to
form a bed covering a large area, and is
claimed to be highly magnetic.
PROGRESS.
r rom all sides come favorable reports
of progress in all branches of mining for
ed to Salisbury and resumed his duties as tne precious metals ; for copper ; for iron;
V . II Til 9 J a - TTv 1 a T I
Presiding Elder of this District. Dr
Bobbitt is greatly beloved, and thorough
ly consecrated to ministerial work.
for useful minerals mica, corundum,
asbestos, chromic oxide ; for gems hid
deuite, beryls, chryso-beryls, emeralds,
garnets, &c
From the Charlotte assay office comes
the cheering report that business with
Notice to the Physicians of Rowan Co.
All regular Physicians of Rowan coun
ty are requested to meet at the Mayor's that office was brisk during December of
oflioe in Salisbury, February oth, at 12 th oUl vir. that tk ,1 f cmiHon
-zL-.iZ " bars were a third greater than for the
u wuuiy uicuiuii oirvtciY.
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There are over twenty physicians in the s51""5 mouiu iasi year ; xuai ine dusiucss
county and we can see no reason why of the year just gone was nearly double
there should not be a telling society, that f thevMr Trvinii Tht wmnv.
The news-boy. on the 11 o'clock train
Saturday, stated that he left Richmond
that morning with one hundred copies of
CI u verms' book, written in prison, and
had sold all but three when - he arrived
here. The price of the book that day, it
being the day after the author's execution,
was fifty cents.
Mr. Wm. Smithdeal has purchased from
Meroney & Bro., the lot lying immediate
ly in rear of their store and adjoining the
Farmers' tobacco warehouse, on which
he has begun the erection of a large ware
house for storing buggies, wagons, agri
cultural implements, &c.
Mr. M. S. Brown's tailoring establish
ment will meet a long felt want here.
Salisbury is in the habit of patronizing
largely merchant tailors of New York,
Baltimore and other cities, who come
around regularly taking orders every
season. This money hereafter will be
spent at home.
A most favorable sign of the future
weal of Salisbury, is the fact that so many
young men are purchasing unimproved
town lots; but which will be built up
as the owners become able. A little
advice left here is pertinent. The first
thing after establishing your line plant
ing corner posts: buy shade trees suffi
cient, when set twenty feet apart to ex
tend along the entire front of the prem
ises. Thus by the time you have com
pleted the buildings you will sooner or
later erect, furnished the house, caught
a nice little bird to put in it, your
poseesions will be handsomely adorned
with shade trees large euough to afford
good shade as well as to serve as an ornament.
When our farmers learn to exercise the
care which is necessary to the produc
tion of higher grades of tobacco, then will
they begin to realize something for their
labor. It will not pay, however, in this
part of the county, to cultivate any one
product to the exclusion- of all others
But the first object should be to make
the farm yield a subsistence for man and
beast, and cultivate tobacco or cotton as
a surplus. Ihc family, with a crop of
tobacco on hand with prices running low
Let all come to the organization a right
start may mean success while a bad start
would undoubtedly mean failure.
Several M. Ds.
Mt. Airy, N. C, Jan. 17th, 1887.
Dear Watchman: Your ancient corres
pondent sends his old-time readers, one
and all, his kindliest greetings from a
land of delightful semi-montane scenery,
of most hospitable and social people, of
health invigorating purity of atmosphere
and water a land of "great expectat ions"
and booms in the railroad and real-estate
line, and a laud which must ere long
join hands with the lower counties of our
State in the great advance-column of in
dustrial progress and improvement.
I heard a gentleman remark this morn
ing, tnat he naa louna tne climate supe
rior to that of California, (or any other
place he had tried) for his pulmonary
complaint, of many years standing. His
cough, which had shown no signs of
abatement, during the many changes of lo
cation he had made in the vain endeavor
to.ameliorate and fortify his health imme
diately ceased on his arrival here. The
water exhibits even now a pristine puri
ty; and I am informed that in summer its
coolness and strengthening qualities are
unexcelled.
The town has a population of 1200 or
1500. It is handsomely situated, and
considerable taste is displayed in build
ings and grounds. Its growth is almost
t f , t " mm m .
pnenominai ana lorunea witn a back
country of unexhaustable resources, it is
destined to become a city of no mean pro
portions.
Lively tobacco-sales began here last
week; and I think will be apt to steadily
continue. lhis is decidedly the best
tobacco region in the western part of our
State. On my way, I saw a field in
Rockford, which was said to have never
failed, no matter bow unfavorable the
season, to produce a good crop of the
finest quality. The past summer there
was not so signal a failure in any of the
serial products as in Rowan. All kinds
of farm produce are astonishingly plenty
the supply from Virginia, by way of
the wagon-train connecting twice a
week this place with the narrow -guage
railroad at Patrick court-house, being
especially varied and copious.
E. P. H.
Fatality of Measles in New York.
New York, Jan. 15. There have been
more deaths from measles in this city du
ring the last weele than ever before, for a
corresponding period in the history of the
city. The Bureau of Cnntageous Diseases
of the Health Department reported to-dav
they are now, who has no corn in the tluit 8'nce ,a8t Saturday 71 persons have
. crib, no wheat in the grainary and no hay ? ,icd rT , 5" 5? r l C8
it T ; - i ronorted. There have 37 deat is frnm din.
m me mow may be denominated a th.rIJU The total number of d.atbs from
poor man. The same applies to cotton. Ull causes reported for the week was 814.
MARRIED.
On the 2d inst.. by A. L. Hall.
Mr. Red wine Barringer and Miss
Nash. All of Franklin townshin.
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Of pneumonia. Jan. 13th '87. Mr.
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Lingle, in the 74tbrear of his age. Mr
Single was for many years arRulmg
Elder in Back Creek church. He was a
man of deep and acknowledged piety,
piety, and one who will be most sorely
usseu mine cnurcn wmcn ne so iaitn-
fully served for so many years. "Help
Lord ; for the goodly man ceaseth: and
the faithful fail from among the children
ot men." J. A. R.
If You Wish a Good Article
Of Ploo Tobacco, ask tour dealer for
"Old Hip."
If you want to keep up with the times
take the Watchman you can't be left.
EXCELSIOR
MECKLENBirar
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CHARLOTTE, N. C.
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Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, Jan. 18, 1887.
The passage of the great Inter State
Commerce bill, which is the result of a
popular movement beginning twenty
years ago, marks the past week m (Jon
gress. 1 here was a good deal of lm
portant legislation besides this, how
ever, such as that given the Agricult
ural Department Jfixecutive importance
and its cluet a seat in the Cabinet
that extirpating the hierarcy at Salt
Lake City, and that doubling the
militia appropriation for the year
1 his last act will, doubtless, be wel
received everywhere; for the time has
come when it is acknowledged that the
citizen soldiery of the land ought to
receive more attention than has ever
vet been shown them.
It was expected that the Senate
would settle the vexed question of
Commerce by Railroad as it did, ubou
the hour of midnight on Friday, but no
one knew how many more Senators
would be found supporting than oppos
ing the bill. It came triumphantly
through by a vote of forty three to
fifteen, although a number of Senators
who voted for the measure were dissat
isfied with it. These decided to se
aside their own views and follow the
dictates of their constituents, saying
in this instance, where legislation is
necessarily experimental, it is safe to
give the people the benefit of the doubt
mi t i r i t "ii
i ne inter mate commerce bill was
framed and pressed forward by men
who were mostly honest in their effort
i
to relieve the people, but there are a
good many legislators who doubt its
efficiency. Some say the railroads wil
put up their through freights instead
of reducing their way freights, and thu
insure the equality which the law de
mands.
Now that the Anti-Mormon bill has
been passed by the House, one hears
a good many comments which indicate
an appreciation of the severity of the
measure. It not only makes polgamv
a felony, but dissolves the financial
corporations known as the Latter Day
Saints, and the Perpetual Emigration
Fund Company, and practically abolish
es all the machinery, religious or politi
cal, that is now employed directly or indi
rectly in the maintainance of the Mor
man Church system. There are differ
ences of opinion as to the wisdom and
justice of the policy, but the friends
of the measure just passed assume that
the malady is ot such a terrible nature
as to require heroic treatment. Its
opponents say it would be better to
wait upon the slow attritions of time
and the pressure of public opinion to
wear the evil out.
The Republicans pledged themselves
to eradicate polgamy in LS56, more
than thirty years ago. They held
power foi nearly a quarter of a century
and as Mormon ism still flourishes it is
left for the Democrats to perform a
duty which the R?publicans neglected
or else could not do. Of course everv-
....
body desires i hat the " twin relic of
barbarismv shall be destroyed, if it can
be done without straining the Consti
tution. Hon. Randolph Tucker of Va.,
who reported the Anti-Mormon bill,
held that there -vas nothing in it that
could hurt the conscience even of a
Mormon. If he thought there was, he
said he would vote against it.
Funeral of Dr. Wiley.
The fuueral scnices of Rev. Calvin n.
Wiley were conducted in the Centenary M.
E. Church yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock
by R'jv. P. H. Johnson, D. D. pastor of the
Presbyterian church at this place, assisted
by Hev. Dr. Rondthalcr, of the Moravian
church. Rev. Dr. L. S. Burkhcad of the
M. E. Church aud Rev. H. A. Brown of the
Baptist church.
TIwj large church was crowded wiflrpcfr
pie and a goodly number ocenpied the
galleries. Dr. Johnson's sermon was a
model of its kind plain, full of truth and
earnestness and consolation for the afflicted
family and friends of the distinguished
Wiley. Accompanied by an immense
throng of attendants the remains were
borne away to the cemetery where they
M-ere committed to the dust amid touching
scenes of grief and sympathy. Thus was
laid away from earthly sitrht a jnstly dis
tinguished son of North Carolina and one
of the m ist popular, beloved and influenti
al citizens of this community. Having lived
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Activity in mining, both in practical
Work and in the transfer of real estate,
is unusual for the season. It points to
far greater results for our new year of '87.
At an early day the results of the past
year will be dealt with in a more statis
tical manner, and the forecast for this
year can be made with more accuracy
thau the information at hand now will
justify.
All newspapers should warn forest
owners in the South against selling for a
song the best timber standing in their
forests, and also against the wantou de
struction of timber in clearing lands. A
gentleman who owns land in Watauga
county sold $50 worth of wild cherry fell
ed five or six years ago and rolled into
heaps on the side of the field. Think of
what has been burned !
DEEP RIVER COAL.
The Deep River coal field, Chatham
county, .North Carolina, has long been
known to be of great value and of sueh
importance as to make one wonder why
it has never been worked and the coal
placed on the market in competition with
coal brought injo the State. The Depart
ment of Agriculture had this field explor
ed a short time ago by a competent man,
and most probably as a result of that
work, the district is now receiving the
attention of some moneyed men from the
State of Penn. The field has advantages
which cannot be despised, especially in
its location with reference to districts
with which it must compete. It is con
venient to all eastern Carolina, and with
in easy reach of the Atlantic Ocean at
Morehead and Wilmington and at Char
leston, S. C; supplying the markets of the
Carol in as. it has advantages over both
Virginia and Tennessee, and these ad
vantages are so apparent that further
reference is unnecessary, though figures
could be given if required, to prove this
position. The cost of mining is placed
by the expert at $1.50 per ton, which is
rather more expensive than such mining
generally costs but is accounted for by
the fact that the work must be done
"below water level and on a moderately
steep dip, the coal mnst be hoisted, the
water raised," &c. But even this disad
vantage does not eat up the calculated
proni,uicn m esumaiea to te ample a life ripe with age and usefulness, l e
when advantage of location is considered; ! passed peaceful!; away to M reward. The
for instance at Weldon the margin would Twin City D.tiltj.
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: In Scotch Irish Township,
Saturday Dec. 18, 1886.
j A tract of land belonging to Julius
. Wilson, consisting of fifty -one acres, more
or less, will be sold at public sale at the
i Courthouse door in Salisbury on Mon
j day the 3d day of January 1S86, to
satisfy the provisions of a mort-
' gage given to Wm. W. Mott, Sept. .4th,
1886, and registered in Book 2, page 891,
Register's office of Rowan county. This
tract adjoins the lands of Burton Mont
gomery, Scott Turner, Isaac Lowery and
Margaret Addie and Polly Wilhelm.
Sale will take place at 12 o'clock. M.
Terms Cash. Wm. W. Mott.
Nov. 18, 1886. 6:lra.
NOTICE!
All persons indebted to me by account,
note or mortgage, that has been standing
some time, will please come forward and
settle the same; Will take cotton and
prodnce at market prices in payment.
R. J. HOLMES.
Nov. 1st, '86. 2:2m.
Hill Stones, WMow & Boor Stones.
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Having determined to go out
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DRY GOODS,
NOTIONS,
rti nTuiiur
Boots and Shoes,
Hats and Caps,
Crockery, and
Glasri Ware.-at N. Y. cost
ronimpnctng on January 1st, 87, aud continuing
to uth February, unlets (Unpolled of sooner. Tbla
The nndcrsijrncd owns and works
rri. nitr cfitn.. nilarrv tiT mftna finntli
Salisbury, and U prepared to fill oiderafor !lfSi? 'U(!,',,,' to
H i 1h a rare opportunity for the people to buy kootm t or
of less Win tney are worth. !p--oiuI tnns wit h .-oun-
anjtuing in his line Mill Stones and all
kinds of Building Stone, a specialty. Will
ive large orders special terms and price.
Jaxes A. Hitch ik.
Nov. 18, '80. 6m: Imp.
one talc tne the whole stock. Come and sse mm.
Tfl t hrtuo u'hAin t li.tfuanniii.kmiul.1 ml .Kawu.M-l . u
Rummer and wUose mortgage., are past dae. I say
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