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The Carolina Watchman. troL SVIII.-THIRD SERIES. SALISBURY N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1887. HO 48 PURELY VEGETABLE. H acta with ex V ordinary efficacy on tha t i ver , kidneys. J and Bowels. AN EFFECTUAL SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Bowel Complaints, Dyapcpalat, Sick Headache, Constipation, JUUouaneaa, Kidney AflTccUons, Juuiuliee, Mental Depression, Colic. No Household Should be Without It, and, by being kept ready for Immediate use, will save many an hour of guttering and many a dollar in time and doctors' bills. "'"THERE is BUT ONE SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR See that yea get the genu in 3 with red "Z" en front of Wrapper. Prepared only by J. H. ZEILIN &. CO., Sola Proprietor., Philadelphia, Pa. I KK K, 1.00. f IEDMONT WAGON 1 MADE AT HICKORY, N, 0. CAN'T BE BEAT! They stand where they to, right square ought AT THE Ft IT! It Tas a Hard Fij.tt i5uL They Have Won It ! Just read wrult people say . - . 1 1 i I , . about tnem ana ir you want a wagon come quickly and buy one, either for cash or on time. Salisbury, N. C. Sept. 1st; 1SS6. Two years agoT bought a very light two horse Piedmont wagon ot the Agent, Jno. A. Boyden; have used it near'y all the time since, have tried it severely in hauling saw loirs and other heavy loads, and have not had to nav one cent for repairs. I look upon the Piedmont wagon as t he best Thim ble Skein wagon in ide in the United States The timber used i:i them is .most excellent and thoroughly well seasoned. TUKNEB P. TUOMASON. Salisbury, N. C. Aug. 27th, 1886 About two yens ago I bought ot Jno. A. Boyden, none horse Piedmont wagon which has done much service and no pait of it has broken or given away and consequent ly it has eost uotlnng lor repairs. Joux D. IIexly. Salisbury, N. C. " Sept. 3d, 1886 Eighteen months ago il bought of John A. Boyden, a 21 inch Thimble Skein Pied mont wagon anjjt have used it pretty mucl all the time am? it has proved to-be a first rate away pairs. Nothing a'.Ktut it has given and therefore 11 nas required no rc- T. A. Walton. Salisbury, N. C. Sept. 8th. 188G. IS months ae;o I bought of the Agent', in Salisbury, a in Thimble.Ske in Piedmont wagon their lightest one-horse wagon I have kt-pt it in almost constant use and during the time h'tye hauled on it jit least 75 loads of. wood aud that without any breakage or repairs."- L. R. Walton. A H0;JE Company. SEEKING HOME Fatronap. AGENTS In all Cities, Towns and Villages in the South. .TOTAL-j&SSTi J. ALLEN BE0WN, Resident Agent, Salisbury, N.,0. pIAPac'haKttf maUed to .!. 4 sjorarattorad tobnauil ly use of W . rriun nioTii irr! .of watom umK a t ull trwa t A Radical Cam f or Nerroo Debility, Ozranic '( r.r '.-n . - j n " ' w),l.nt rwvt. Vmn.rfK1 il A-ed ilea." 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It promptly cures weakness of stomach, indigestion, bloat iujr, weak back, nervous pi-ostration. debility and sleeplessness, in either sex. Favorite Pre scription is sold by druggists under our port fire guarantee. See wrapper around bottle. Prlee S 1.00, or six bottles for Sa.OO. A larjre treatise on Diseases of Women, pro fusely illustrated with colored plates and nu merous wood-cuts, sent for 10 cents in stamps. Address, World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. T. SICK HEADACHE, Bkus Headache, and Constipation, promptly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pellets. 25c. a vial, by druggists. THE STAB. - -:o:- BEDTJOTION IN PBICS. One year Six months Tlicee months One month $6 00 3 00 1 50 50 -:o:- THE WEEKLY STAB. One year Six months Three months $1 00 60 30 Our Telegraph News service has recently nccn largely infea?ed, and it is our determina tioti to keep the Star up to the highest stan- dariLof newspaper excellence. - Address, WM. HBEKNARD- Wilmington. N. C. UAMi T LEGC 1 LEXINGTON, KY. The beat equipped school in the State-, accommodation strictly flnt-elam ; heated by steam and liahted by gtmt only two jroungr ladies to the room; splendid faculty of rinerieneed teachers. Session begins tad Monday In September. For particulars or Catalogues, siidraas if. X. PA TTE RSOS, Pres., Lexington. Kv W. $3 L. DOUGLAS SHOE. Tho only S3 SEAMLESS Shoe in the world. Finest Calf, perfect fit, and warranted. Congress, Button ar..t i.aco, an sty Ma toe. as stvlisti and durable us those, costlwr Sfi or S. w. I.. noroi.As CTi.BO SHUKriW the Shoes adver- firms, nafr woSVW5i l. cii bv other r. - -" -e ' 9" nr. SSSSSSl SSS St ,eh Sh.. Bots all wear the W. 1 DOUGLAS S3 SHOE. If votur dealer does not k.M-r thetn. send yourianieon postal tuW.L. OOUGLAS, Brockton, Man. 32:ly mm 3S Atluntu, On. U! and Wh 1st ey Hab its cured at home with out pain. Book of par ticulars sent FREE. B. M.WOOLLKY. M.r. Office 6&K Whitehall SC VTTTfl T A TUT? ma5 bo found en file tut Goo. AX1XO A dl J2iJX p. howeli & Co s Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St.), where advertising contracts may t naad for it IN NEW VOlIIv. RUIVl'fcVt lIALfiwft &WIA0IS8 ASI A Ldfo Experience. Remarkable and qvJck euros. Trial Pac cages. Send ctainp for sealed particulars. Address Or. WARD A CO. Louisiana, Mo. Danger 1 A neglected cold or cough may 'eaU to FiK'umooia.Consumptinn nr other fatal di-ease. Strone'a Pectoral Pilla will cttie a ooid'aa by iimcie. BmttbittBtnr dyspepsla,ln digebtic v., sick headache us thuusanus testify- WANTED, A good farm, suitable for stock raising g. W. HANEY & SON, 2313 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia Pa. 45:1m. 50 A3RES r ooi 'and- 6 mi! from Salishurv, cn the Concord road terms reasonable for cash. 51: PlNKNLY LCDWICK, nfnif 11T flinTl. ? rmisn carp U!Ltm A ll liMnr laivcorwaaiMB aa; IJUllinil Uaill. quantity, forstocklns ponds. For terras, address W. It. FKA LEY. Sai ls jury, S.C. 4 37:11 ASTHOMCompaiy PROMPT ! Reliable ! Litenl RHODES BBOWXB, llrrsi&rnt. - William C. Coakt Stetutati. i750,000 00. wboaa only aira tatobload their rl e itimj. fBm a SUSERBMZBT that OAS )CL &D Uxwiniiiris, does not tnUrfcr rwhh aiantion to buoaesi, cr casstpaia or inoon vea .encc ia any way Wtmtm l sekntiSe medical crlceinlea. Br ditset (urthfte troubles, and all Onirki. jmlirxtion to the seat ol diacasr Its sprciSa Soer.ee is felt withoct delay. 7 lit luut.I wsaredtnlrnating elements pflife arerireu baek. the patient becomes ceeriuiaad rapidiy gains both strength oaU UtiJlh TBIATHEMT. JCaa trerth.13. ttro Mdj. $t Ite:, 57 HARRIS REMEDY CO , Vrr team Trial of out Appuunss. for To.tnot Ok roa & rm at m-ttf BY J. J. BRCNER. "OLE UNCLE DANS.' Sermon at the Funeral. I was walking in Savannah, past a church decayed and dim, When there slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn; And a sympathy awakened, and a wonder quickly grew. 'Till I found myself environed in a little negro pew. Out at front a colored couple sat in sorrow, nearly wild. On the altar was a coffin, in the coffin was -a child. I could picture htm when living curly hair protruding lip And had seen perhaps a thousand in my hasty Southern trip. But no baby ever rested in the soothing arms ot death That had fanned m ire flames of sorrow with -his little fluttering breath; And no funeral ever glistened with more sympathy profound Than was in the chain of teardrops that enclasped those mourners round. Rose a sad old colored preacher at the lit tle wooden desk With a manner grandly awkward, with a countenance grotesque; With simplicity and shrewdness on his Ethiopian race; With the ignorance and wisdom of a crush ed undying race. And he said : "Now dou dis pretty bit o1 clay be wcepin' for For de little boy-who lived here, gone an' run away. He was doin' very finely, an' he our lovt; he done 'preeiate But his sure 'miff Father want him large house up above. in de 'Now He didn't ive you lnt babj', by a hundred thousair mile! He just think you need-some sunshine, an' He lend it for a while!. An tie let you keen an' love it till your hearts was biirtrer crown; An' dese silver tears your sheddiu's jest de interest on de loan. Here ver oder pretty childrun! don't be jnakin1 it appear . . Dat vour love uot sort o1 'nopolizcd by dis little fellow heie; Don" oile tin too much your sorrow uii deir little mentel shelves, So's to kind o1 set 'eat wonderin' if dey re no account demseives ! . Just you think, yon poor dear monnahs. creepin' 'lon-x o'er sorrow's wav. What a blessed little picnic dis ycre baby s trot to -day ! Your irood faders and rrood raoders crowd de little fellow round tu de ansel tended rrarden of de Bir Plan tation Ui'ound. Au' ley ask him, 'Was your feet sorvT an' take off his little shoes, An dev wash him. an' dey kiss him, an dey say : '.Now what s de news! An' do Lawd done cut his tongue loose; den de little fellow say : All our folks down iu do valley tries to keep de hebbenly way.' 'An' his eyes dey brightly sparkle at de nrettv thimrs in view: Den a tear come, an' he whisper: 'But I want my payrents, to !' But de Angel Chief Musician teach dat boy a little song : Savs 'II on v dev be fait ful doy will soon rf - - be cumin' long. "An' he'll get an education dat will proba bly be worth Seberal times as much as any you could buy for him on earth; He'll be in de Lawd's big school house, widout no contempt or fear; While dere's no end tode bad things mht have happened to him here. "So, my praoah dejected mounahs, let your hearts wid Jesus rest. An' don't go to critereisin' dat ar One w'at knows de best I He have sent us many- comforts Ha have m riaht to take away To de Liwd be nraise and "lory now and ever. Let us pray. Railtcay Guide A wild man is reported to be on Col. Andrews' farm near Raleigh. Three prisoners broke jail at Went- A. ss worth last Fridav and made their es- y cape. Charlotte expects railroad connections by Oct. 1st. to have through with Taylorsville A waterspout on a Moutana creek drowned 1.200 sheep, principally spring lamb3. m . sf i 1 J t L lwenty-nve tnousaua persons at tended the opening of the St. Louis Ex position. dison's latest patent is on a way to illuminate a house with electricity from the cook stove. It is said that Riddleberger has pur chased for $100 the entire control of the liquor traffic at the Shenandoah county agricultural fair next month. The Empress of Japan, who is com ing to this country next month, will travel incog. Two or three of the Im perial Princes will escort her. Michigan has a railroad ticket agent who, although 30 years old, is only four feet high, and docs not weigh over 50 pounds. He is said to be the most po lite ticket agent in this country. A tremendom flood has swept away twenty mites of track of the Southern Pacific Railroad ir, Arizona. Mrs. A. M. Halloway of Buffalo has been awarded the contract for cleaning the streets of that city for fire years. E change. An interesting addition to the popu lation of Calaveras county, Cal., is promised in the shape of a colony of Japanese farmers. Land has been bought for them near Valley Spring, and two pioneer members of the colony are alreadv at work on it. During the past summer the night watchman and the clerk of a hotel at Sugar Hill, in the White Mountains, were both divinity students, , and the scrub girl had been for five years a teacher in a public school, and speaks French and Latin. The uniform telegraph rate of twelve cents a message has been in operation in Great Britain two year, and the cross revenue is now larger than it was at double the present rate. The number of messages has increased one-half, and the average number of words in the messages have consider ably increased. Edison's new Labratory at Orange, N. J., will be one of the wonders of the age. It is to occupy five large buildiugs, the main one being 250 feet long by 50 feet wide, three stories high It will comprise machines for every i ill purpose in iron, wood or stone, ana tne capacity of his shops will range from the making of a watch to the comple tion of a locomotive. He will have in store, when he opens this wonder! ui establishment in November next, a quantity of every known substance in the world, sufficient for five years peri me n tut ion. es- IN AN OLD BLOCK HOUSE. A Visit to 3oonesboro, tha Town Found ed by the Old Pioneer. THE FIRST WHITE WOM VJf IN TflE BLUE GRASS STATE LITZD TTTERK AXD IT WAS THERE THE FIRST WHITE CHILD WAS BORX TRICK8 OF TnE REDSKiN'S. A Boonesboro, (Kv.) correspondent lately favored the Chicago limes with the following : Ihe first white women whoever put foot in this State were domiciled in the old block house here, and, it my mem ory is not at fault, the first white-child born in the btate was born here. It was the rallying point for the early settlers, and withstood numerous as . . a . saults and seiges, but Was never cap hired, either by force or strategy. Had it been overthrown at any time "the dark and blood v ground" would have been for many years the habitation of the savage and the breeding place of wild rw:id.4 Himiip hopMn bnildino his block house here on the 1st dav of April, 1775. One would think it a fit day for the beginning of such a folly, as it must have appeared then to all but the builder. 1 et in a little over mouth from its completion Boone's wife and daughter were with him, and a -a m i. .1 1 in the fall ot that year the wile ana daughter of Colonel Callowav had joined the little colony. As these ladies had to come hundreds ot miles across the Alleghany Mountains and through the unbroken forests, it may be wel understood that they had come to s.ay and brought their knitting with them And truly they did stay, and others of their desirable sex came, and the de scendants of these good dames occupy and eniov the land to this day. The old pioneer chose wisely his location and, with an eye only to its utility choe also one of the loveliest spots in the State. I don't suppose he had much time to go, like Dr. Syntax, in search of the picturesque, but it hap pened in this instance that he found without seeking. You can plainlv sei to this dav the mark's of the old block house on the ground, and a little di ging in the sou earth with a cam wii bring up ashes and bits of old pottery from the spot where the old fireplaces were. So there is no obscurity about the matter. You may stand, if you wish, on the veritable Nebo from which old Boone viewed his promised land and von mav be sure your foot is placed on the verv soil trodden by the brave men and braver women who founded this famous commonwealth more than 100 vears suro. Of course the chief things "consider (h hv those who built block houses were the conviences of water, fuel and orovisions.andalsoan unob trade 1 view on all sides. Standing here on the site of the fort you can see at a glance how all these advantages are combined in this location. iou stand, perhaps 100 yards from the wave of the Ken tucky river, aud, perhap, forty feet above the water's edge, for the bank slopes up from the swift flowing stream to the very walls of the fort. To the east and south the land is level, with not a gully or a ban in ft Urge enough to conceal a man for half a mile in both directions. In this fertile river j bottom Boone had his corn-field, and raised his bread at the very door of his castle. On the west the ground slopes slowly down to the unfailing spring, whence the garrison usually got their supply of water. A well sunk inside the fort to the level of-this spring, say j twenty feet in depth, would and I be-; heve did, furnish a bountiful quantity I of water when besiegers rendered access , has 679 periodicals. There are about to the spring impossible. All around ! 1,300 periodicals of all sorts.which ac are high hills like the rim of a deep cording to the estimate of the editor of plate, hut none of them near enough The Directory, enjoy a circulation of to permit the guns used in former days more than 5,000 copies each. The in to send a bullet into the fort. No foe crease ia the weekly rural press, which can approach except by coming over comprises about two-thirds of the whole the rising ground, where he can be list, nas been most marked in states easily seen from tne upper windows of like Kansas and Nebraska, where the the block house. Just across the river gain has been respectively 24 and 18 rises the nearest "knob," about 400 feet per cent. Kansas also shows the great above the water, and perhaps as many est gain in- daily newspapers. The yards from the fort in a straight line, weekly press is gaining in Massac h u A man on top of it would be outlined setts, while the magazines and other againt the sky like a silhouette, for the monthly publications are losing ground sun rises over it in the morning and there. The tendency of such publica sets against it in the evening. tions toward New York city, as the Altogether this location is just such literary center of the country, is shown as you would expect a man of Boone's by the establishment here of not less great good sense to select. It gives than twenty-three monthly periodicals him every advantage and puts his as- during the year, sailants at the mercy of the garrison. Some of the curiosities of newspaper It is related that once the Indians at- statistics are worth a paragraph. There tempted to undermine the fort by dig- are 700 religious ana denominational ging a tunnel from the : steep offset of newspapers published- in the United the river bank; but the dirt which they States, and nearly one-third of them were compelled to throw into the river are published in New York, Philadel discolored the water, and so betrayed phia, Boston and Chicago. New York their designs. No trick or design could is far ahead in this respect, but Chicago be successfully used against people in leads Boston. Three newspapers are the fort, for the sharp-eyed pioneers devoted to the silkworm, 6 to the hon had the vantage ground. They tell, ey bee and not less than 32 to poultry, however, of one trick: which proved Ihe dentists have 18 Journals, tlie successful for a time. Near the spring, phonographers 9 and the deaf, dumb but just out of rifle range from the and blind have 19. There ore 3 publi fort is an immense sycamore tuee, hoi- cations exclusively devoted to philately low in the center, aud with a large knot hole about thirty feet from the 1 ground. A young Indian buck would liquor dealers' 8. The woman suffra gain a position in this tree during Ythe gists have 7, the candymakers 3; g:is- night, and, putting his rifle through the knot hole, would shoot the first man gas by 2. There are about 600 news who came to the spring in the morning. I papers printed in German and 42 in Then he would quietly slip down and make his escape, keeping the trunk of the tree betweeu him and the fort. For a time this succeeded well, and the whites could not tell whence the shots carao. nut ooonennaiiy suspectea the it.it n ii sii viiot hole, and, getting a good position i ..a -m a. a I himself during the darkness he -Waited for day to break. When it grew light and about the time the water bringer tarted for the spring, the old hunter fired into the knot hole- he knew the Indian would be peeping and the young orave ieii aeaaTit tne oottom or i -. a - a iii r the tree with a bullet in his brain Those who tell the story say that Boone shot him in the eye. I only know that the tree is here yet, and such thing might have happened. I saw a curious little thing the other day. One of the large sycamores has limb branching off about forty feet above the ground, and rising at an angle of 45 degrees from the stem. On the under side ot this l saw some in- . 1 1 1 Oil T tials cut in the smooth rind of the tree ana l couia not conceive now tney r i i it came there. But a young fellow with tne told that he sat in a boat during the great freshet of 1883 and cut them with his knife. As there was no other feasible plan which I could suggest, 1 was bound to believe him. In these i i a a' a modern days, when timber has been so wasteful ly destroved on the head waters of all the mountain streams, floods rise much higher than they did in the days of Boone. In late years water has covered the site of the old fort, aud old people love to tell of the great freshet back in the '40s, when the Boonesboro celebration was held, and it is saia ou,uuu people were camp ing on the ground, ihe greatest ram known to the oldest inhabitant came, the river rose out of its banks and the tenters had to escape to the h Wa grounds to avioa arowning. it is an era in traditional history hereabouts, But to-day everything is peaceful and serene. The range of hills all around stand up distinctly in the sun light, with, just a faint blue haze about their summits, and the same light mist . y ja .1 shows the winding course ot the nver through the deep gorges to the west. Valuable Interest Boles. Basis, Commercial year 360 days, or days per month. 30 4 per cent. Multiply the principal by the required number of days, divide by 9 and point on 5 per cent. Multiply by the number or nays anu uiviuc oy 6 per cent. Multiply by the number of days, divide by 6, and point off three figures from the right. 8 per cent. Multiply by the number of days ana aiviae oy o. 9 per ceut. Multiply by the num ber of days, divide by 4, and point off three figures from the right. 10 per cent. Multiply the number of days and divide bv 30. 12 per cent. Multiply by the num ber of days, divide by 3, anil point off three figures from the right. 15 per cent. Multiply the number of days aud divide bv 24. 18 per cent. Multiply by the num ber of days, divide by 2, anil point off three figures from the right. 20 per cent. Multiply by the num ber of days and divide by 18. The interest in each case will be in dollars ami cents,- Vfi Information. Some Newspaper Statistics. curiosities THAT ARE WELL WORTH A PARAGRAPH AN . INTERESTING LIST. There are now published in the United States 14,160 newspapers and peri odicals of all classes. The net gain of the year has been 600. The daily newspapers 1,216, again of 33. Canada and 1 to the terpsichorean art. The Prohibitionists have 129 organs to the tronomy is represented by d newspapers, French. The towns which have the mo3t French periodicals are New York, New Orleans and Worcester, Mass. 4 apiece. There are more Swedish prints than French. Two daily newspapers -ii-ia - are pnntea in tne nonemian tongue m fa Sb W. ihe toughest names are found among the Polish, Finnish and Welsh press; for instance, The Dzienswiety and The Przjaciel Ludhi, of Chicago; The Y Wawr, of Utica, of N Y., and The Yyhdyswa ta in Sanomat, of Ohio. s is 1 Uaelic publication, 1 He brew, 1 Chinese and 1 in the Chen language. All of these facts have a direct in terest to the philosopher and the stu- dent of sociology. There is no better gauge and register of American civiliza tion than Ihe Newspaper Directory. Printing Press. A Problem for Jockeys. HOW TO REDUCE WEIGHT AND SOT BRING ON GREAT BODILY WEAKNESS. 1 There is always a vast quantity of absurd talk about jockeys being weak and unable to reduce weight without great effort. McLaughlin has been to reduce from 126 to 110 pounds in five days, and feel all the better for it. "I am stronger and healthier when in training' he declared to a reporter the other day, "and enjoy life a great deal more at 110 than at 135 pounds." This is true also of the majority of naturally heavy-weight riders. Tom kins is one of the best known jockeys now at the West Side Driving Park, and he rides ordinarily at 115 pounds. L ist Tuesday he was engaged to ride Emma Man ley in the fourth race at 105 pounds, and in order to lose the necessary amount of avoirdupois, ab stained from food for thirty-six hours, besides sweating and taking a number of Turkish baths. This was reducing in more haste than is usually the case, A . and, in consequence, the jockey was verv weak when he leaped into the saddle, and expressed himself as havin undergone a severe strain on his nerv ous system to no purpose, as his horse could not possibly win the race. In fact, so confident was he of being un a a a a , i . i able to win that he sent his money into the ring to be played upon Hindoo rose, the favorite. Emma Manley was at comfortable odds in the batting, but won her race in the end by a head only, due to Tomkin's masterly fiinish. Meantime the rider had given orders at his stable to have a hearty meal pre pared, as lie wanted to eat immediately after the race. W eighing out after his victory, he tipped the scales at 105 pounds, including the saddle. A ha f hour later he again sauntered toward the weighing room, a toothpick in one hand and a cigarette in the other, hav ing partaken of his much-relished meal. Out of curiosity he requested that his weight be taken, and to the amazement of those in the little room, he balanced Uhe Fairbanks at just 114 pounds. He I at a i . . . ijjxi eaten a nine-pound supper. C fit a go tieraui. The spooks and goblius that delight To fill with terror all the night; That stalk ah roa J in hiadeous dreams With which dyspepsia's fancy teems, Will never trouble with their ills The man who trusts in Pierce's P ls. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Puogative Pellets : vegetable, harmless, puiulcss, sure ! Discipline for a Grapd Luke. The sons of kings and emperors, when in the army or navy, are expect ed to obey orders like common soldiers or sailors. They have no choice be tween obedience and punishment.- The following is u striking case : The Russian emperor's third son, Alexis, who is said to be contemplating a vist to this country during the pres ent year, is in the naval service. Some what more than a year ago , when hold ing the rank of midshipman, the flag" ship in which he was -serving was wrecked on the coast of Denmark. The admiral ordered the life boat to be low ered, and directed Alexis to take charge of the first boat. The royal midship man declined to obey. It was peremp torily repeated. "i, your commanding officer, order you into the boat." "Admiral. I cannot obey yon," re plied the young prince, "it would not become the son of an emperor to be tne nrst to leave the snip. 1 shall re main with you to the last. "But I shall put you under arrest tor disobedience of orders as soon as cir cumstances will allow me to do so." "I mean no disobedience, but I can not obey' rejoined the youthful hero. In due time, almost the entire crew reached the shore in safety, only some four or five having perished in the transit from the ship. Among the last to land were the admiral and the Grand Duke Alexis. Tents were hastily erected from. the sails and spars of the ship saved from the wreck, and the rigid discipline of ship life was promptly resumed. The young prince was placed under arrest for his previous disobedience of orders. As soon as possible, the Russian minister at Copenhagen was informed of the facts, and telegraphed them to the emperor, from whom he received the following reply : "1 approve the act of the admiral in placing the midshipman under ar rest for disobedience of orders, and I bless and kiss my son for disobeying them." Hon "Rebel" Gov. Foraker, the bitter Radical Gov ernor or Ohio, called the Southern soldiers "Rebels" at a Reunion in West Virginia and showed himself a fool. To this iusult of the guest, Gov. Wilson, of West Virginia, spoke from the same platform at Wheeling and "went for1 bloody shirt Foraker, who came very near precipitating a row. Here is an extract from Wilson's reply: "1 have been asked by some one at my side," said Gov. WTilson, whether the confederates were traitors. In re ply I have only to say the man who asks that question at this day and on this occasion is lacking in patriotism and is inspired by the same sentiments that once moved for the destruction of this Union. He is the man who would keep sectionalism alive and fatten on sectional hatred. (Cheers.) Do yon ex pect to feed this countryon a dish of rebellion for the next hundred years to come? The true American soldier did not go to the war for the purpose of saw coming back here and talking about rebels. Let me tell the Governor who- has told what he did in the war that it is not such a grand thing to be con tinually talking about your ownex ploits. I consider myself as much a patnot as any man here this evening. whether he has two legs, one leg or no legs.' 'You had better bear iu mind' he continued, that the soldiers who went into the war were not all Repub licans; Hancock and scores of other officers and thousands of the rank and file were good Democrats and as good patriots as anv here this eveninor. I did not come here to talk politics, but I am not going to see the record of the Democrat ic soldier swallowed up in the vortex of patriotism hatred, without lifting my voice in protest.'" The Minister's Old Thoroughbred. Something over half-a century ago, an intense rivalry existed between the inhabitants of Litchfield and of New Milford, in Connecticut, as to which of those villages had the most speedy horse. It happened that the Rev. Dr. Taylor a f anions preacher of that day and a warm personal friend of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beccher had an old thor oughbred horse that- could outrun everything in that part of Connecticut, The young men of New Milford, being greatly worked up liy the boasts of their Litchfield neighbors, called on Dr. Taylor, and asked him to let them have his horse for a trial of speed. The doctor shook his head, and said: uMy dear young friends, that would never do. It would not do tor a man in, my position to be mixed up in any such affair. You can see for yourselves that it would never do." The young men, however, would not be put off. They argued the case with the doctor at great length, but he was inexorable. lie "would not be mixed up in such an affair." Supposing that the case was hopeless, they at last tnrn ed to go, when the good doctor called out to one of them : uJoftn. you will find the bridle behind the barn doorH The young men took the hint, and also the horse; and the doctor's old thoroughbred beat his Litchfield com petitor out of sights-New Yogk fen der. 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Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Sept. 22, 1887, edition 1
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