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r Carolina Watchman LOCAL. THI RSDAY, MARCH 81, 1887. urtvs mtlnsr for Information on matters ad- ' ' III -I.. - . . .. ... 1 I 'l il 111 Mill W tills , l,H-r will pivdsts a;ij nuicuuru Wat.liinan. Subscription Rates rTlH' siiuscniitioii ri .'! 1MB Wl nliiiu J j'rttMH areW tonowa : 1 vearvii'iHl-iti advance, i..tu .-...l i,'afl im 'iiayiu't dol'ed I2iuo'2.50 Davie Court next week. torn planting was in season last week. Business meeting of the Y. M. C. A. to night- The quail season ends, according to is, to-day. i 1 ...... 'iii.m nil thr street was one ot A inrai nun - attractions this week. The rain this week stopped work on the water mains less than a day.. Preparations arc being made for special Wusic, at some of the churches, at toaster. Mr. David Baker and family, of States vjUei were visiting Mr. C. F. Baker first of the week. Mrs Grace! Hullyburton "is visiting friends iu Salisbury. She is the guest of yirs. James Moore. A professional horse trainerentertained the unusually large crowd in town on Saturday, on the public square. Owing to a Child's entertainment at Mrs. A. H. Hoyden's, the S. Cecilia dime leading club will not meet to-nigbt. Thc Watchman building, under the skillfull han of Prof. Medernach, has li. en treated to a new skirt of paint. The exceedingly cold snap, following upon the heels of a heavy rain, has destroyed all hopes of a peach crop this year. f .-. Mr, II. vjr- TjfSOB, oi naiumort is ucre It- - . . . j 1 . . t A n 1 1.. fll tliis week, ills numerous, nuims v would he glad to have him live among them again. Mr. J. S. McCubbins, Sr., has the old est safe in town. It was brought here byJ Mr. John Murphy in 1814; it was bought hy him second hand. Mr.' Stephen Shumaii, whom we an nounced last week as having been badly hurtrat Mefoney & Bro s machine shops, is recovering slowly. Mr. Uurlingamc went to Goldsboro this week. He is making an effort to secure the contract for water works to be putr in- operation in that thriving town. The regular weekly meeting of the St. fwilia Club was held at the residence of Mr. A. IT. Boyden, on Thursday night. The attendance was large, and a very pleasant gathering. Julian & Waispn is the wording of a new sif;u throw n to the breeze this w eek. Thev occupy the store room below the Watchman office, and arc receiving a fresh stock of groceries. Bislrop Lyman's appointments for Row an count v are SundaV May 2t, Salisbury; Suuday May 2! p. m., St. Mary's; Tues day May 31, St. Andrew's; Wednesday June 1st, Christ Church. 'Peck's Bad Boy' combination at Meroney's hall next Monday night. Pecks of fun and bushels of laugh. Go and see if there is anything in the say fug, ''laugh and grow fat." The Carrie Stanley Company will ap- pearSrt Meroney's Opera House to-night in "Monte Cristo." . Miss Stanley comes well recommended by our contemporaries and no doubt she will have a full house. Greensboro voted on the 28th inst. to issue bonds to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars to be applied to town improvements. Over three hundred votes - were cast for, and only twenty against bonds. There, has been a rumor on the streets that the franchise of the South Atlantic & North Western Railroad had been sold -to the Richmond & Danville syndicate. This rumor is utterly without foundation and was started by the enemies of the en terprise, j,., . One Of the amusing features of last week s tire (ifanvthing could be amusing under the circumstances) was to sec some of our gallant lire laddies, both white and colored, come up after the building was nearly consumed with red shirts and nicely tied cravats as if they, were on dress parade. f Mr. Cheatham, train dispatcher for the western road, with headquarters at Asheville, has been removed, ajnd is sue eeeded by a Chicago man, Mr. C. served the road in that capacity for some time, while the railroad offices were here, and no more popular young man ever lived ni Salisbury. A position on a railroad is u uncertain thing. Postponement To avoid a conflict with the Monte Cristo Company for the possession of the Opera House, on Thursday night, the bemocratie Convention Will defer its ses until Tuesday night of next week, (April the 5th.) The Righrwayto Look at It We heard some one remark the other in talking about our coining muni c'pal election, "that he was for the man that the property holders would vote for; eat he would not vote for a man for or that did not have their support, ad would not accept a nomination from " party, even if he knew he tould be -''eetcd, niiless he had the support of a Majority of the bwinew wen." A Special Cora Fertilizer. Lime Phosphate is a special fertilizer for com. It makes better and larger ear. Apply it at the second plowing, it will feed the plant by giving it the food already in the soil and furnishes in addi tion a large quantity of bone matter, over 12 per cent, which it contains. It is the cheapest fertilizer for the money sold in the fckate. See advertisement in this pa- er. N. N. Boyden. The "Macon Daily News," of March 26th, publishes au account of the admira ble performance of a very large railroad engine employed on the East Tennessee tk Georgia railroad. The engine had been completely wrecked about a year ago, and was recently repaired at the shops in Macon, Ga., in which responsible work Mr. N. X. Boyden, of this place, bore a Conspicuous part. The repaired engine is spoken of in glowiug terms, reflecting great praise on Mr. Boyden, as foreman, jaiid as a machinist of superior excellence, which are words his parents and friends here accept with high gratification and pleasure. A Distinguished Kinsman. Mr. F. Breathred, of the firm of Brown & Breathred, of the City Mills, is a brother of Major James Breathred who so often distinguished himself as a Con- j federate soldier in the late war. He was a 1st Lieujtenant in the Stuart Home Ar tillery, when first formed, and afterward rose to Major in that Service. In 44 Pol lard's History of the Lost Cause" he is credited with being the gamiest man of the war, on the testimony of Fitz Lee; and he earned the distinction by his un daunted courage under every trial, of which he had many. More than one defeat was changed to victory by his he roic deeds. . A sketch of Maj. Breathred has re cently appeared in the Baltimore Smh, from which the above is 'gathered, and must be gratifying to the friends of the Major to see his meritorious services thus honorably remembered. What Was It? A very dark cloud came over this city, on Monday last, at 10 A. M., which soon began to rain and hail, during which a singular phenomenon was observed by several persons on Inniss street in the shape of a fire ball near the" ground, which exploded with a bright flash and startling sound. The explosion was not like thunder, but to use the expression of the witnesses, 44like something bust ing." There were,thrce or four eye witnesses to this .-t range phenomenon, from two different points in the ueighberhood. It was first seen by some of them, passing lover Mr. Harvey Bernhardt's residence, and all saw the explosion, and many heard it, but knew not what it was until told about it. Balls of fire are sometimes seen by sailors of a dark night iu a storm at sea, in the rigging of the ship, but we do not remember hearing of their explosion with startling sounds, either like or unlike thunder. Our Water Works. When finished we will have the most complete water worksin existence. The stand pipe will be twenty feet in diame ter and one hundred feet in height, aud when filled will contain about a quarter of a million gallons of water, and will give a pressure of about forty-four pounds to the square inch. The machinery will be at Crane Creek, one and three quarter miles from town, and will consist of two boilers aud two duplex pumps, with a capacity of one million gallons a day each. The engi neer will have connection with town by telephone, and w ill also have connection by an ingenious electric device, of the company's own invention, with the main valve at the tank, and will be able by means of this valve to tuin the water from the pumps into the tank or direct into the street mains at his will. The tank will be pumped full every day. Should a fire occur the engineer will beat once signalled and will have --steam up before the water in the tank is exhausted, he will then shut the water off from the tank, aud will pump into the street mahm direct. Democratic Convention. READ THE NOTICE AND THEN THE MEETINU . ATTEND All Democratic citizens of the town of Salisbury will please take notice that a convention for the purpose of nominating a Democratic municipal ticket will be held at Meroney's Hall on the evening of the fifth day of April, 1887. Every dem oeratie voter is expected there upon this occasion. Come as early as possible iu order that the convention may he organ ized by 7:30 p. m. The house will first go into a conven tion of the whole for the purpose of or ganizing only, ana win men adjourn, pending the deliberations of the several ward meetings, which will be immediate ly held. When the wards have determined their own action they will reassemble into a convention of the whole and proceed to nominate a ticket. It is now the acknowledged custom of our conventions to allow caefi ward to nominate its own commissioners, and we suppose the rule will not be departed from iu this present instance. The various ward. meetings will trans pire in convenient places wherever the citizens of the wards may elect to hold them; but on the same evening of the general convention. Turn out democrats and do your dutv by youselves and your town. By order of the Ex. Committee. A Destructive Fire. Last Thursday night, the 24th, the building occupied by Robertson & Miller as a tobacco manufactory, with a capacity of about 20W, 000 lbs. a year, with every thing in it, and an old frame house ad joining, were burned to the ground. The factory was a comparatively new frame building with brick lined walls, two stories and garret high, and had been occupied by Robertson & Miller about two years. The adjoining building was a frame structure very old, it was moved from the back of where Murphy's row now stands thirty-five years ago, and was occupied sixty-one years ago as a tailor shop by Wade Hampton. Rev. Mr. Murdock and Mr. J. K. Bailey both discovered the fire at about the same time, about 2 a. m.. and gave the alarm. At tjiat time the whole top of the building seemed to be in flames, and it spread to the lower story so quickly that nothing could be saved. Fortunate ly the wind was blowing from the south or it certainly would have been more disastrous, as the wind was strong enough to drive sparks and set a brush heap on tire along side of the railroad at least three blocks away. On the west side of tho factory, about fifty yards off, was a tobacco warehouse in w hich Mr. Tom Beall had 25,000 lbs. of manufactured tobacco, and Messrs. i........ f. T l . l i i. "J , 7 , V8 4w sioreo. ins uiiiiuiug, aim aiso ine nap- tist church on the east side, looked next day as if they had had several coats of varnish in places, by the rosin having been drawn out, so great was the heat. Messrs. Robertson & Miller had a large quantity of manufactured tobacco on hand, and had a n umber of orders all boxed and stain ned and ready to be shipped in the morning, and a larger number to be shipped the first of April. All their books, with the exception of one that Mr. Miller had taken home to work on, were burned. Their loss is : On manufactured tobacco, 13,000; leaf tobacco, $1,000; machinery $2,500. They had $9,000 insurance on stock and $1,000 on machinery. The buildings were own ed by Edwin Shaver, It. J. Holmes and Alex. Parker, and were valued at $2,500, with an insurance of $2,000. The origin of the fireis not known. The last tire that had been in the build in was made out of an old tobacco box in the fire place in the morning, this was put out by water, about nine o'clock, twenty hours previous to the time that the flames were discovered. The rafters on the top floor, and in the second story, were hung with leaf tobacco very dry. On this floor was the office in which was always kept a suia)l amount of money,. and the supposition is that some one had broken into the building for robbery and had set this tobacco on fire by acci dent. We sympathize with the losers, and hope this will not deter them from trying it again. Nomina' ion of Municipal Officers. In the nomination of town officers the Mayor and Commissioners every indus- jtrious, self-sustaining, "law-and-order" loving citizen, in duty to himself and family, should fake a very warm, active interest, and be thoughful in judgment. As one of that chips, I think it pertinent to call the attention of all such to a few vital facts : probably the most important of which is this obvious truth, that, in Salisbury, mere nomination is not au elec tion; while a reckless nomination invites certain defeat. Public offices, especially municipal ones, arc the creation of public necessity, and,, tlierefore, men to fill them should be chosen solely because of their pre-eminent practical fitness in every respect. The mayor of a town is bound by, and should be amenable to law, just as much ss any other citizen is, for, if he is actuat ed by proper respect for himself and the public, he must execute all enacted laws, strictly and impartially. He cannot, or should noty-in a iycase, connive at their infraction, nor assume the functions of an autocrat, or dictator, and so 4ibe a law uuto himself and in himself,"' for then he is, substantially, an outlaw : The present board j of Mayor and Com missioners, has been peerless for efficiency in the best conservation of law and order, town and street improvements, and man agement of public money mutters, &c. Why then should a change be made, if they arc willing to continue at work for the public"? Such important factors arc surely not, to rational, responsible men, what toys are to children. Turning out well proven, tried and true public offi cers, merely to make room for purely self-serving aspirants, is fruitful of mis carriage, and is a chilling backset to the growth of that high impersonal public spirit, iu town officers, which should ani mate them to work ardently for the com mon good of society, even when, at times, clashing with their own heart feelings, personal convenience and material in terests. X. Locke's Townsip Items. 1 am going to tell you how a man of Locke township keeps his cattle in the pasture. He ties -1 of his sheep together and when one wants to jump lie can't do it without they all jump, and you know they won't all jump at the sanne time. Some of the people oftlii neighbor hood are planUiigeorn, and some nrfe not done turniim thcirland for corn. Some think all the peaches are killed, but others say about half of them are living. I saw in your paper that drummers were numerous in Salisbury. We have one or two in our neighborhood. C. II. Chicago, Mareti 28.-Michael G'enm. who was struck by an engine ol" rlie Ilii' oi j Central road while crossint; the track at 30th street and throwu over a cab, lan. linn in the tender with only a siiubt abrasion, was very -mad ! his. morning. He threatens t. sm tin- e.-mnanv nle! it s'.rs for aril has cleaned b next Sunday his test suit of) clothes, soiled v h s descent anions' oil cum; and e ul d ust. MINING DEPARTMENT. T. K. B RUN Kit EDITOR, RALE I (ill, H. C. The Rudisill This property, consisting of sixty-eight ac res, is owned by the Rudisill Gold Mining Company, of Charlotte, and is uuder the care of Thos. C. Dunn, Esq., general manager, and Mr. Win. Jenkins, mine superintendent. The mine contains a vast amount of low grade ore which has 1 hitherto been neglected in the search for the heavy, rich auriferous sulpheret. These richer ores were concentrated and shipped to various smelting establish ments North, and it proved a profitable undertaking. Recently concentrating machinery has been introduced and the plant enlarged so that tho more abundant low grade ores arc now being treated, and, it is said, with profit. The Rudisill is one of the most valuable properties in the State, and is credited with more than a million dollars production. This has resulted from working only about one- tenth of the vein area, the other nine- tentfcs remain uuexploited. These facts warrant a more detailed description of the mine. ,The property is situated a very short distance from the limits of the city of PCharlotte, and is in the Laurenlian for mation of the State. They have slate i and granite walls, with quartz, slate aid biotete granite tilling, he vein is a fissure and the prevailing form of the ore is quartz and ferruginous sulphide. The vein material is worth from $5 to $200 to the ton, but the whole mass will average $10 to the ton. The vein is variable in w idth, running from five to fifty feet. The deepest shaft is 350 feet, in the bot tom of which there is good ore. The nrobabilitv is, as is the case in all true fissures, that good ore will continue in depth far beyond the present means of mining. Besides the shaft alluded to there are three others; one 200 feet deep, another 150 feet, and the third 70 feet deep. There are drifts from all of these, from 50 to 200 feet in length from the shafts. It is estimated that not less than in OI Ml l,,i, . .(' nr.. iu in iirllt The buildings consist of a mill house, shaft house, three dwellings, offices, &c., which are valued at $2,500. The ma chinery consists of a complete plant of pumping, hoisting and reducing maehin erv. which is valued at $13,000. There are thirty-five hands employed now in the work, and the prospects of the property are very good. STEELE MINE. It is reported that a large force of hands are employed at this mine in Mont gomery county, and that their forty- stamp mill is running day and night. The output is placed at eighteen hundred uenuvweiuhts ier week. 11ns is not official information. Those interested iu the success of our State ittraes would be pleased to get reliable information from this quarter. THE APPALACHIAN MINE. Mr. McCoy, the superintendent of this mine, (formerly Coggins) is engaged in buildiug a large, and it is said, expensive mill. The amount to be so expended is reported to be $00,000. It is rather to be deplored, if true, since such a mill as this money would buy is unnecessary in the present development of the mine. Ore eau probably be mined fast enough to supply regularly a forty-stamp mill, but that number of stamps should not cost anything iike the amount named The nronertv is a irood one. and should be supplied with adequate machinery, but pno excesses should be indulged. if it is iu tended to make' the property a profitable investment. The writer hopes that it w ill transpire that this is not a true state ment of the situation. It is also reported that a new and rich 'liud'' has been uncovered. This is quite probable, in fact, from the character of the ground it would be more remarkable if rich pockets were not met with in the progress of the work. dumn'b mountain. Mr. MeCanless, tho superintendent, brings a good report from this property. It is running on ores heretofore consid ered too poor to work with profit, and extracting from them an average of $22 per ton. This result comes, in part, from the addition of some new machinery; but is due, mainly, to careful and systematic attention. Mr. Buckley, the proprietor, of New York, spent two weeks or more at the mine, recently, and made an ac curate account of the operations for ten days on ores w hich had been dumpped out as worthless, with the above average restUt. He has irone home with his pockets full of ingots, for once delighted with his investment. No Chance for a Southern Man' A Washington dispatch ss: Heprcscn tatne Uiu!', of Yet Virion, ml eu at the 1'ostotliee Denaitmeiit Friday to hv one of his constituent promoted. Mr. Smith, a Itepublieuii who lias control of nl such ;ippoinlmrut!, asked whether the man hud been u Union soldier, and. w hn an- s.vered in the negative, told Mr. Gib-on that it could not be done; onlv ex-Union soldiers, he said, could le promote!. 'I h Post -master-Gi-uerul when appealed to ad mitted that su h was the rule Mr. Gilwou tli;'ieon declared that such a rnbs shut out not onlv c. -Confederal s but even S4uthern man I nun promotion, and he asked .Mr. Vi las wlicllier southern people ha I votes The action ot the postmaster General lias a roused the indignation of Southerners, am there is ptomise of a lively v ail are upon l be t ost master-oeneral. Time is Passing Along htsc wishing to avail themselves of the opportunity of getting first class Photographs taken had Itetter do ao at ouce, aa the 30 2afS arc passiu.g along very last, w e guarantee all our work and sKeim in of work, done in Salisburv i. .a rf cini i-c seen ai ine onueiv over ur 11 Browu's tin Bhop, in the Crawford build- I mg. :n LAnl'BKLL & CO. The north bound train oa the R. & D road had a very narrow escape from a ter rible accident, last Saturday night, at Yad kin river bridge. One of the cars ran tiff the track just before the tram reached the bridge, and the car was drained over the bridge with the wheels resting oalj on the cross-ties. Hie train stopped on the other side of the bridge, and bv the aid of jack screws the car was righted. If the car had fallen off the bridge after it left the rails there would hare been another ter rible railroad h error. Qrttn Jbont AVw. LIST OF LETTERS. List of letters remaining in post office at Salisbury, N. C, for the week ending aiarcn zo, iss. Julius Miller Maria Harris Gusstree Hill Richard Harris Ransom Miller Mary Etchison col Mrs M J Brad si iaw J D Duncan R R Keen John Odum J M Frieze G W Payne Thomas Rufty CL Tyson Willie Wright Hat t ie Grant Lidia Grames J L Hazburv J- L Harybury B F Young Please say advertised when the above etters are called for. A. H. Boyden, P. M. MAE. HIED. At the residence of the bride's brother, S. R. Browning, Esq., March 29th, 4.30 p. m., Mr. John M. Fraley, of Rowan county, . C, to Miss Mia K. Browning, of Culpeper, Va. EXCELSIOR (INCORPORATED,) No. 100 Clinton Street, Chica go, Illinois, Manufacturer's of Mining Ma chinerv of all kinds, also Ma chinerv for the treatment of GOLD, SILVER, COPPER and LEAD ORES BY Milling I Smelting or Concentration process. Estimates, plans and specifi cations furnished for Metallur gical Works. Manufacturers of tho celebrated a lor -AN BAKES HORSEPOWER New York Office No. 145 30:tf Broadway. IRON WORKS Dec Coucentra jli Steam, Air and Vacuum Pumps, Vertical and Horizon tal of VERTICAL PISTON. JM M W purposes. Tie 1 MECKLENBURG . .:-. , .. siiisttif " -in 1- . IRON WORKS, r ? -"" ; afff m Hrm-Fl CHARLOTTE, N. C. oL iflFr t ss u sJa? mm A O Correspondence Solicited. JOHN WILKES ELY'S CATARRH CRM BALM Gives Rftllcf at once and Cure ' C OLD in the Head.Kp gvER CATARRH : HAY FEVER. Sot a Litiniil, Snvf or 1'oieiie . Frrr from Inju rious Drug (. itfruitic, -. HAT-FEVER A particle of the B.ilm Is applied into eacii nostril la agreeable to use and Is quickly absorbed, effect u all cleansing the nasal passage-sot calurriml virus causing healthy secrwilons. It allays pun and uitluni:ition, protects the meiu hranal linings ol the head from additional colds, completely heals the sores and restores the sense of taste and smell, licuetlclal results are realized by a few applications. A thoruttgh treatment veil! curt. Price 50 cents at druggists; toy mall, registered, 60 cents, circular sent free. ELY BKOTUEKS, Druggists, uwego, X. y. :.:! f OPIUM and WhUkey IUV 1 1 cured at home with out pain. Book of par ticulars sent FREE. B. M.WOOLLEY. M.D. Office 65 Whitehall 8U MiU Ste, fM3W & Door. Stones. The undersigned owns and works a granite stone quarry six miles South ol Salisburv, and is prepared to till orders for anything in his line Mill Stones and all kinds of Building Stones, a specially. Will Hive large orders special terms and price. Jamks A. Kitc iiik. Nov. 18, 'SG. Gm:lmp. every variety and s Regular Horizontal Piston. VERTICAL PLUNGER. mm m mBBMMM v All Tiio most simple, durable and eflTeclive 111 nip in the niarkt t for Mines, (Juan it s, Its'tiuerios, Breweries, Factories, Artesian w I s. Fire duty ami general manufacturing Send fur Tatal S. CAMERON STiAM POMP WOBKS, Foot k Ea?t 23l:p Ptjiekt. Xfav Yoj;k. - 9 1 'b -HM&l 1-1 :f,. ' Administrator's Notice. j II living qualified as administrator uith the tejll HHueMexl, of the estate of Ann M Net I v. tlec'd , I hereby give indite to all peisona having claims against said estate to rx dibit them to me on or before the 10th da of Febiuarv 188. KERlt CRAlGE,r Administr..tor. Dated 9th Februarv 1887. '20:4 w. Administratrix Notice. The undersigned gives notice to all persona having claims against the estate of H. C, Uillean, tlec'd, to present thtm to her on or before the 10th day of Feb ruary, 1888, or this notice will be plead iu bar of recovery. Feb. 10, '87. .ISABELLA GlLLRAX, 20:4w. Administratrix. DR3ESS WkKZE Mrs. J. P. Boneche. nee Miss M C TAAKPK.) Bes leave io say to her f rti mis and the lady pubHe lliat she is fairly well tacit l d in her now pia-e. east .nU of Main Ktieet, and n a' to m re i In m In If t spcvtuliy Titb best ossiUic at lent ion and skill. IK the faror to call. January c. 1S8T. If Ten Wi-sh a Good Article'"' Of Pi.co Tobacco, ask your dealer for "Old Rip If you want to keep up with the timaa take the Watchman vou can't be left capacity. mm II ' 1 ';t . m ' -l-i P- iH: a i jit ii djf - 4 i 4 ; .jp,W 7 V
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