North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. XX, THIRD SERIES. SALISBURY, II. C. THURSDAY U1Y 2, 1839. NO. 28.' . s ;: ": - " 4 i ' , '. ' 1':.." '" - ' - p. J. C. McCUBBINS, Salisbury,- - ? - - N. C. Office in Cle b illtnp, ecoml floor, ni-xt to Dr. CHiPl"'1.- iirJwnre store, bii Mreet." D A. Alwell's YBKUCliAIOE. " L. 11. CLKMEX CRAIGE & CLEMENT, ! Salisbury, N. O, Feb .3rd, 1881 PIANOFORTE- TUNING , ' 703 SALISBU3T. Mb. Owtx ll. Bishop (pupiF-or Dr. Marx. Proft'ssor of Music at Berlin University, and Monsieur Benezet of I'arii?) has come from England a.nd settlrtl close to Salisbury, and U prepared (to tune, regulate and repair Piano fortes, Orpans amF Pipe Organs. Having had fifteen years' practical experience in England; Ladies and gentlemen, who wish their musical Instruments carefully and regularly attended ti. m iy rely upon lniving thorough and -cou-fir iintious work done if they will kindly favor 0. U w'it'1 their esteemed patronage. Liv- ing ear town, no traveling expenses will be incurred, fad therefore the terms tir : 1'-Ji0 per j)iauofortc,Jf tune . lv, or r for three tunings in one year. Please -apply fur turther particulars uy postal caru or note left at this office. Sell u man n says: "It "13 the falsest economy to allow any pianoforte to remain un tuned, as it ruins bith instrument and ear." , If aay dealer says h has tbe W. Im Doaelas ghoen without name and price it tamped on th bottom, put nim down hi m fraud. , I DOUGLAS $3 SHOE FOR GENTLEMEN. Ttoat: In Ilia world. TtTxmtim Ilia l.OO (1KNUINK HAND-SKWKO SHOE. S4.00 IIAM-NEWKI WKLT SHOK. -3.50 POLICK AND FARMKKS' KHOE. 'i.50 JCXTKA VAIiUK CALF SHOE. mt.ltS WORKINOM AN'8 SHOK. S.OOand 8Uu liOVH' SCHOOL. SHOES. All made in Conjrre, Button and Lace. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE ladires. Best Material. Best Style. BestTittinc. It not sold br your dealer, write ' W. Li'IK)UGLAS. BKOCKTON, MASS FOII SALE BY S. BROWW, SALISBURY. Forale by JNO. II. ENNISSj Druggist. mi D. A. ATWELL'S "HARDWARE STOEE, : Where a full lineof-poHls ia bi line, may ' always be found. Lit. 4 W. L. HOME CO MP A N Y , jgg$ - Wis. al " C ROYALKSSS Jfc S Absolutely Pure. rhi8;owder never yarleb. A marvelol ur.tjr strength ,and nrholesomeness. More economlcul than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold lu competition with the mnlUlud of low test, short weight, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only In cans. Kotal Baking Powdek Co. ,10c Wall fct. K V will Le lowj For sale bv Binirham & Co. , Young & Bos d occasional-Titian, and N. P. Murphy. Almost everybody wants a "Spring Tonic." Here is a simple testimonial which shows how B. B. B. is regarded. It will knock your mala ria out and restore your appetite: Splendid fYr a Spring Tonic. Arlixotox, Ga., June 30r4S8M. .1 suffered with malarial blood poison more or less all the time, and the only medicine that done ie any good is U. B. B. It is undoubted ly the: best Mood medicine made, . and for this malarial country should be used by every one in the spring of the year, and is good in sum mer, fall and winter as a tonic aad blood purifier. L Gives Bftt.r Satisfaction. Cadiz, Ky., July 6, 1887. Please send me one box Blood Balm Catarrh Snuff by return mail, as one of my customers is taking B. B. B. for catarrl and wants a box of the snuff. B. U. B. gives better satisfaction than any I ever sold. 1 have sold JO dozen in the past 10 weeks, and it gives good satisfac tion. If I don't remit all rightforsnuff write me. Yours, W. II. Brandos. ; It Removed the Pimples. Rorxn Mountain, Tenn., March 29, 1887. A lady friend of mine has for several years been troubled with bumps and 'pimples on her tiice and neck, for which she used various cos metic in order to remove them and beautify and improve her complexion; but these loeaj applications were only temporary and left her skin in a worse condition. L recommend an internal preparation known as Botanic Blood Balm which I have been usiii; und selling, about two years; she used three bottles and nearly all pimples have disappeared, her skin is soft and smooth, and her general hea th much improved. ,fcne ex presses herself much gratified, and can rcconi- i . . .it 1 . 11.... AT.At.J ' menu u 10 an nuu urc mus huciku. ! Mrs. S. M. Wilsos. A BOOK OF WONDERS, FREE. All wao desire full tnformaJon about thecause nn l imii'a of Btool Poisons, Scroiuia ana scroruioua s.vellinsis. Ulcers, sores, - Rheum ulsm. Kidney Complatuis, C itarrh, eic:. can secure by mall, free, aeopv of our 13-page Illustrated Book tr Wonders, filled 'with the most wonderful and startling proof ever 0 foreknown. Address, 4o:ly Bi 000 rfAt.M Co.. Atlanta. Oa tlmnlAtes the. torpid liver, strength-. cum t lie digestive organ, regulates the - bowels, and are unequaled as am ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. In malarial districts tfeelr Tlrtnes are w Idely recognised, as tney possess pee nllar properties in freeing the system from tuat poison. Elegantly sngar coated. Dose small. lrtee, 23ets. Sold Everywhere. Office, 44 Murray St., New York. P. H. THOMPSON & CO. I MANUFACTCItEKS, Sash, Doors, Blinds, &ork Scroll-Sawing, "Wood Turning, ANI CASTINGS OF ALL KINDS i DEALERS IS Steam Engines and Boilers, Steam and ! Water Pipe, Stcaai Fitting", Shafting, Pulley Hangers. ' ; also Mu-bincry of all kinds repaired on V I SUORT NOTICE. Mar. 1588. lj SUBSCRIBE FOR THE "CAROLINA WATCHMAN' Ws fi SEEKING HUME PATRONAGE. A STRONG COMPANY, Prbmb V:Eeliable,Liheral 1 , 1 -. 1 - 1 : . . O Ageut in all cities and towns in the S)utn.-a J EH0DES BEOWKEi President. C. CoiRT, Secretary. iOO. Sowing and Rsapin? Be careful what you sow. boys! For seed will surely grow, boys! The dew will fall, The rain will splash, The cloaJs will darken, And the sunshine flash, And the boy who sows good seed to-day Shall reap the crop to-morrow. Be careful what you sow. girls! For every seed will grow, girls! Though it may fall Where you cannot know, . Yet in summer and shade It will surely grow; And the girl who sows good seed to-day Shall reap the crop to-morrow . Be careful what you sow, boys! For the weeds will surely grow, boys! If you pla:.t tad seed By the wayside high, You must reap the harvest By and by. And the boy who sow) wild oats to-day Must reap the crop to-morrow. Be careful what you sow, girls! For all the bad will grow, girls! And the girl who now, With a careless hand, Is scattering thistles Over the land, Must know that whatever she sows to-day She must reap the same to-morrow. Then let U3 sow good seed, now! And not the briers and weeds, now! That when the harvest For us shall come. We may have good sheaves To carry home. For tne seed we sow in our lives to-day Shall grow and bear fruit to-morrow. Flora McElwill. "Truth is Stranger Than Fiction." The reader has often read the above quotation, but we venture to say he never read under it a more strange, wild and mad story than is presented below. CHAOS IN OKLAHOMA. Chicago, April 2(5. An Arkansas City, Kans;LS special says: Chaos reigns, nut only iii Oklahoma, but i.i the entire tributary country. The railroad is prostrated. Couitiiii'iica tions are entirely cut off. The West ern Union, with its crush of train dis patching, would uot touch a messiij'e ! of any other character in the territory, I though jthe earth swallow a town site. I Guthrie's back seems to lie broken, and there is a furious stampede to get out. The people there are wild from i the deprivations that the lack of shel ter!, water and food impose upon them. lo these distresses are added the mis fortunes of tempest, he.tt and the ab sence of means of flight. When your cornesponuent reached Willow Springs frwm Diamond Bar ranch, he learned from the dispatches that neither north nor south-bound (mssenger-trains shortly due' had been leard from. The hours f waintiug passed when a train of twenty cattle cars crept up from the South. The cars wereJocked. but upon the roof, the tender, on the pilot and gangway of the locomotive, and packed in and up on the caboose, was a dense and miser- . . TUa mit.i, mcu. u-m Guthrie had started with its strange load, at 0 o'clock in the evening. It was useless to attempt' to enforce laws restrictive of railroad travel. The people were fleeing practically for their lives. Thev h id added to lonjr periods of privation the suffering of seventeen hours without food or protection from the cold. No trains had passed them, and none was in sight behind. They had left a howling mob in Guthrie, baffled in its efforts to go in flight. The uselessness of proceeding to Guthrie was apparent, and the correspondent secured a foot ing for one foot and returned to this point with the laggard train. Since dark other freight trains have follow ed, having made the 83 miles from Guthrie 111 from 0 to 14 hours. Ihe The cars are piled with fugitives, thirs ty and famine- stricken, and Arkansas City is crowded as it was before the descent. Some exijeriences are pitiful. A terrible storm last night raised the I m miseries of Guthrie to almost horror. A violent wind arose as the sun sank. and filled the air with the stifling red alkali dust that strews the plain. A deluge of rain succeeded, and through the night it leat. upon thou sands of the shelterless. The railroad is utterly incompetent in an emergen cy, and is delivering baggage and ex press too slowly to be ot use to the un protected. ' The fugitives cheer with. joy as they alieht here, and rush to the hydrants and eating houses. Curses are heaped upon the region and the government marshals, rleetles and Jones, are exe crated without stint for thefts of land, and the railroad denounced for its feeble service. Guthrie is without form. The orig inal streets have disappeared, and new sections are beinsr plowed everv hour. Values have fallen to praetic til v noth ing, and confidence is at a low ebb. Those who are not gome home an nounce their intention of moving upon the Cherokee strip, and report that hundreds of boomers in wagons here already done sol Scores of men sur rendered their claims to lots in Guthrie without an effort to preserve or dispose of them. south-bound passenger train ar rived after time, crowded with pil grims for Guthrie, and few could be tlissanded bv the lamentations of f ugi-' tires. It is impossible to predict what: possible PWn: nian in 10,000 can read aloud without days .will; - develop m eycrjbjJy to death. - the next tew Guthrie. St. Louis, April 25. An Arkansas City special to the Republic, says: A number of claims have been deserted in various parts of the territory, and wagons can be seen frequently on the back trail. Many of the disgruntled threaten to squat on the Indian lands surrounding Oklahoma. Some will fall back on the Cherokee strip; others will! go down into the Chickasaw coun try and lease farms from the India arms irom tne Indians. That country is beinsr ranidlv settled by fanners who pay o pay an auuutl head right or a lease for the privilege of tilling the soil there. 'The.country is as much superior the Oklahoma as is the Cherokee outlet, and there is a great deal of complaint among the boomers that the poorest land ol, land opeui to settlement. Desoite the discour.iMm.mt how...r many contests for are threatened. - o - An interesting case has arisen where f. u i xv& - a&a w h m.hi w www aw m u mm 7n srcbiun uui live mi nines apart. ine first arrival claimed possession by pri -i pi j i i onty. I he second made improvement and claimed that it was tl improve- ment that perfected the right ofW patiou. This ci,,e will doubtless be taken to the land office for settlement. As illustrating ingratitude of there public, it may be mentioned that con tests are already filed against the claim of Captain Couch, an old leader, 011 the curious ground that he disqualified himself from making entry by enter ing the territory years ago on boom expeditions. Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa, one of the most persistent advocates of the opening of Oklahoma in Congress, has also had his claim contested, and has been accused of attempting to take the Ceople by the throat. The old time oomer 1 ad rs have not fared ' we: 1. Any nuinuer of Paynefs men can be found now lying around Furcell, who have been outridden and outrun by men who have taken the fruit of their years of sacrifice. Most of them take it philosopically, ! but a murdered bov of 19, who was shot when found in possession of one of those claims, owes his death to that injustice, whether he was partly re sponsible for it or not. The man who killed him had worked it for his own for a number of years past. It is broadly hinted at Purcell that the old colonists there could point out i the murderer, and that instead of doing so, assisted him to escape into lexas. Twenty claims have been deserted in one neighborhood, and last night, in the depot at Oklahoma City, a broken boniest ader offered to sell his -claim for $23. The contests and excitement, over town sites continues, and much trouble is promised for the future. Oklahoma City, April 23. Three brothers named Williams had a desper ate fight on the streets yesterday with a party of Kansas town-site specula tors. Knives and pistols were freely used. All hands are under arrest. A young woman named Hotchkiss, was arrested for murderously attack ing the street committee, -tier lot lay on the route of the proposed street. The a m woman made a violent resistance. New York, Wil 23. IV Times' special from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says that the mother of George Davy, who came from New York State, near Rochester, was burned to death in a prairie lire, five mile from Guthrie, on Tuesday night. Mr. D ivy is severely burned and will go back to his old home. New York, April 23. A special to the Times from Purcell, I. T., says that reports of fatal encounters between boomers come thick and fast, and a man named Grant reports that his friend Grossman, from Tennessee, was murdered by a stranger as be was about to stake a claim in the rich tim- I ber land near the Santa Fe road. The stranser hurled a hatchet atLrossman. The blade struck him full in the fore head, and he fell dead in his tracks. Grant shot the murderer, but he man aged to get away. Minette Days, the Kentucky news paper woman, left Purcell on Tuesday for Guthrie with the avowed intention of securing a claim, and the advices are she succeeded after riding a race with the soldiers and hiding in the timber between Purcell and Oklahoma City. Arkansas City, April 23. The Cher okee council has "held a meeting and selected a commissioners in the person of John Rappin to go to Washington and lay the Cherokees' Claims before President Harrison. , They fear that the boomers will invade their territory (Cherokee slip.) Rappin told a reporter that he thought that instruction would be is sued to the troops to go slow in the matter of driviniz the boomers off the strip. This would be done, he thought, to comnel the Cherolcees to accept the $1.23 per acre now offered them for the 6.000.000 acres of land in the strip. General Merritt has given the boom ers three dys to get off the Cherokee strip, and will undoubtedly drive them off. It is against the law of Mexico for a man to read a newspaper aloud in nublic. Ic ia a towd law. Not one The Old Worth State. SALISBURY AND HER REMINISCENCES. MANY CLAIMS WORTH LOOKING INTO. M. Quad in Detroit Free Pi ess. Salisbury, N. C. Nineteen out of every . twenty travelers who pass through Salisbury, or change cars here for Asheville. connect t tic town with Ul. r . . . . . " . ",c pnson pn in which so ! ' u rSrTff lives. It is a record for which rh Confederate military authorties alone are responsible. The only citizen of Salisbury whoever saw the inside of that prison was a doctor who was sometimes called in consultation. On U" ?S " - we pnson run srtrr th. . , , n run short the citizens contributed as if :a " . s years since a vestige of the raaa - stockade could be seen. Just whereit stood is now one of the finest residence oiics iii mc luwii, ana it is nara to co u .i, ;- ' w b JU im,o to the days of feuu! f1 C .S? ICr 1S "IT road cut, and there are citizens who remember the excitement caused by seventy-five or a hundred prisoners taking French leave after one dark night. a THE SALISBURY OF OLD. Salisbury was quite a town as far back as the young days of Daniel Boone. He lived only twelve miles away for many years, and his excur sions to Kentucky were I known to all citizen. The old records of tlje cour are proofs that Daniel Boone was neither a hayseed nor an angel. He used to fill up and then paint the town J red, and was fined more than once for assault and battery and disorderly con duct. - Like so many other southern towns before the war, Salisbury had neither Hira nor rtrab,tion. It tmru was a point for cotton-buying and shipping, und it had an excuse for a cotton fac tory. It was not until seven or eight years ago that anything like public ; spirit was aroused, and only within the last three that a boom has advertised the place. From this time out the North Carolina town which gets ahead of Salisbury must do some vigorous hustling. A solid foundation and rapid growth Through the efforts of her own people, and mainly with their own capital. Salisbury has established with in the last few years a nne cotton fac tory, a knitting mill, five tobacco facto ries, two 1 rge tobacco warehouses, two large brick yard, a canning factory employing several hundred hands in season, three planing mills, a foundry and car shop. Two hundred houses have l)een erected within the last year. and there were more in progress ef tinue to vote for radical white candi erection than I saw in any other town dates in the future just as they have in in the btate. H r population is not less fcne pusk He is the ablest man of his than 5,000 and to have accomplished rjlce 'in this country and is a very ad that she has proved her leading men to ro;f nolitician. He warns his oeoole have all the push and energy credited to the "hustlingest" yankee. SCHOOLS, CHURCHES AND MORALS. Here is situated the Livingstone uouege, naving rony acres or lanu ami five large buildings and Salisbury nas a tine graded sschool with the best of teachers. Her church are numerous and well attended and the moral status of the town wouia ue nara to oeai. accord wjrn our eitizenship. The population of the county is about ,,1 we C;mnot afford to draw 25.000, and the average of murder is the;coIor line in politics. A party only one for every two years. Simple actin upon tnat h.Mli wouW bvJ not larceny is a penitentiary offense, and merelj a rajsfortu,,e but a dire calam yet not over eight persons per year are ity tJ the AmerjC;m people." sent from the county. There are three Since the negroe!, wert. enfranchised or four saloons in the place, but if they they hnye uniformiiyi invaribly, per were patronized to anv extent during gently drawn the "coo- line in so my stay it was not observable in the far as awavs voting against the South general demeanor. It is a home-like ern whaes A concerned and always uiace, wiin wc larcrelv nredomiaating. and what vice exists is growing gradually less instead ri - ft - . all of greater. m a AGRICULTURAL. Lands about Salisbury have been well kent up. and the farmers are do- inc well. Not a bale of hay has been imported for several years. un me contrary, Salisbury ships to many other points. There ae large natural meadows in the county wnicn are mowed twice a year and furnish the very choicest hay. 1 hese gntss lanas do not require re-seeding c more man once in half a century. Strawberries, grapes and peaches are grown and aViInnMl in Lm?e Quantities, and at a JUIU ill. mW SS n V narnt ftf thP nne proiiu S " 'a land m the county " this per cent is .constantly decreasing. This is the best of proot tnat tne larra- ers are doing well. m a a, . a a. niKIIfll U LUC ALICl VP A. With a little extra attention, this average could be raised 25 per cent. Cotton, tobacco, corn, wheat, clover and "potatoes are the staple crops, but almost any fruit or vegetable can be grown. It is one of the best points in the whole South for small fruit- irrowera. because they can reasonably C3 " tuu?', w- J " marKet. ioT.n. oaAViTK AND IRON. .... mere are iwo goia nuues w imw few miles of Salisbury, having a com bined eapital of 600,000. The shares of these conipwrtes bring a premium of 25 per cent., and one. must argue from that that handsome dividends are paid to stockholders. . Maganese. iron in large beds exist within ten miles of the city, but are still undeveloped. The next ten years, if this ore proves what is hoped for it, may witness the erection of several great industries in or near the city. There is, also, but a short distance away a solid mountain of the purest and finest granite enough to build all the public buildings of America for a thousand years to come. IN GENERAL. The average price of farming lands is very low not over $12 per acre. All property is assessed at two-thirds of its true value, and-taxes are very mod erate. The city is entirely clear of debt and has a c;tsh balance in hand. The death-rate for the past five years has not been over five in a thou sand, and this is counting white and black. Epidemics, cyclones, droughts, and freshets are unknown, and a healthier, happier community cannot be found south of the Ohio river. No inducement was offered to the present industries to locate, but Salis bury is determined to add to them aud will offer free sites for a handle-factory, bucket factory, wagon factory, woolen mills or any other enterprise which may find the location suitable to its wants. Special inducements will be held out to a shoe factory, an another tannery would find plenty of stock to work on. A town of 5,000 people which can boast of $200,000 worth , of improve ments in an off year must have solid merit behind its" boom. The future prospects are extremely bright and the next five years will more than double the present population. The southern town which comes. to the front must do as the northern towns have done put forth a public spirit aud push which will meet and overcome all dis couragements. They will advertise rwhat they have got and what they want. Milliuus of dollars of capital are poured into the South, to be fol lowed by tens of thousands of home seekers and wage-workers. The local ity which cannot attract and benefit under these circumstances must be poor, indeed, f M. Quad. Fred Douglass Persuades Sambo. Old Ered Douglass is an able hnlf breed, but an o i fraud. We heard him roundly abuse Horace Greeley, and in the same speech declare that fie was the best friend he ever had. He has been speaking to the negroes in Wash ington. Fred has held fat offices un der former Radical Administrations and has a wife who wears a white. skin, ne sees tnat tne negroes who elected Harrison are grumbling at the treatment they are receiving, and he is trying to persuade them that it is . all right, and they must not kick, but con against independence of action. He says it will be fatal to the negroes. They must vote with g. o. p. H( ' -A nation within a nation is anom a, There ca )e but one Allerican niltjon unJer the Americ.m govern- ment and ffe are Americans. The Constitution of the country makes us guch aud our ,;nM of actC?itv 8nouW voting with the Ulack llepublicans ot fi,a x.irth If tk.f. i nnt ".lttino the co,or line; then pr;lv what ,i$ it? V' ' vj as. sw I . Douglass knows that the nejrroes aret-not well treated by their party lead ers. But he is such a troof-Jyed par tisan and so hates the South that he is willing that his nice shall forever play the part of chestnut-pul'er, so that the said wbites may enjoy the refections. Old Fred knows that more than IOO, 000 majority of all the votes was asainst his man Harrison, and that overoie million majority of white volts was arainst him, aud he knows without the negro solid vote for Harrison that he could not possibly be elected again, or anv other Black Itenublican. He. 4,. I...J a - a '"v,r-v' r. r . .. . .. . ages" to rally around the old piratical flag and go again for such -figures" as h b- g fo Qld Fred u a cunnin oU v - j i i,nnws How eredulous and a 1 - - nejjro votes.- Wil.Star. Saved From ConsnmpUon. Several phtViciane predicted that Mr. A'a B. Kow'ley, Druggist, of Chicago, would soon have consumption caused by an ;'rrevaieU case of Catarrh.' . Custo mer finally induced him to try Clarke's I Extract or. Flax (PapUton) Catarbh 1l SP 1 U AaaSftU- I I 111 S ft I ttfaj ! a Mt- Ucedented. I commcnce.Uo uet welUftr I -the first application and am nnw, after I -few week, entirely euM-' It will do the Isame for you. Price $1.00. Try Clarke's i j-ax Soap for the Skin and you will use - 1 norther. 25 rents. All of Clarke's rcme- 1 die are Tor 1c Jno. II. Enuiss. A Yancey County Innocent who Paid $150 for a Block of Wood. - Mr. Robert H. Lewis, of. Dee' Log, Yancey county, came near being taken in by the green goods coufideuce game ' last Monday. Mr. Lewis' veision of the affair is that Le received a let ter from Mr. Townsend to the effect that there awaited him in the express office a package upon which was due the sum of $150. Mr. Taylor cameto Marion, paid the $150, and received a package, and with, it a bill in words and figures as follows: Robert H. Lewit, Dr.T To Charles McDonald, Rah way, N. J, For jewelry per invoice, $150." He stjir ted homeward rejoic ing when for the first time it occurred: to his astute mind that he would ex-' amine the package, and let his eves feast on the glittering prize which had come to him unbeknownst and so un expectedly. Mr. Lewis most energet ically affirms that he had neither knowledge of or previous acquaintance with his benefactor, Mr. Charles Mc Donald. He undid the wrapper which disclosed a handsome jewelry case. Mr. Lewis' eyes enlarged, became dis tended. All eagerness und impatience he could not wait to find the 'key which opens the casket, but forced the lock, raises the top. when lo and t be hold, there neatly wrapped and folded lies a nice, clean, well-shaped, smooth block of wood. A change came over Mr. Lewis in the twinkling of an eye; , hexperienced a revulsion of feelings; his eyes distended yet wider; his lower jaw dropped; his tongue . lolled iu his mouth; a cold striek of big disgust traversed his spinal column; he tum bled all in a heap, realizing that he had a clean, clear title to, and was in pos session of, a big block of dearly bought experience, and felt a goneness in the place where that $150 was wontJo be. . He pulled himself, came to a right about face and countermarched, or rather kicked himself all the way batck to Marion, by which time his senses had returned. He sought out J. C. L. Bird, Esq., placed himself and his bl ck of wood in Mr. Bird's keeping, who ascertained that the money Was still in the hands of the express agent, and as promptly attached the same and it is now in custody of Marshal rtnley. where it will lie until its rightful ownership is determined by the 'slow process-of the law. 1 he express com pany is neutral in the conUst, only so licitous that the proceedings shall be legal. Mr. Chas. McDonald, of Kah w.iy, N. J., will be summoned by pub lication, but he is not likely to answer in person on the 24th of May, when the case will be tned. The result is readily anticipated. TJie court will get its costs. Marshal Finlev his fees, and MrrBird his fee; Mr. lieu is "wilh get the balance of his $150 and a wholesome lesson in the uncertainties incident to monkeying with the green J goods buzz saw, which we hope will make him a wiser and better man. Marion Timcs-Jiegister. Vanderbilt's Magnificent Palace at Asneville. With that sagacity and forethought and reticence which has characterized the business-life of this money king, Mr. Vanderbilt planned and executed his purpose to build up the most at tractive, elegant and charming country-seat to be found, perhaps, in ull jie world. First he secured an emi- lence on which to build, which over- looks the lovely valleys of the Freuch Bratd and the Swamianou rivers, aud from which a sweep of vision in all directions, for mi lei and miles away, i arches scenes oi pictuie que beauty and loveliness, ou which the unwearied eye longingly lingers aud feasts always wonuenng aim never unng. iNext, to carry out his pnncely design, he must have a broad domain, for- drives. summer villas und parks&c-, fcc, ami' he has added, so the ihe Call learns, to the original purchase until now 'he owns about four thousand acres, cost ing him from $50 too $100 per Ticre. extending along the road towards Hen derson ville ou the one side. amT em bracing the valley of the . French Broad for quite a distance on the' other. ' The Call is further HTidvised that his 1 architect has completed the design for. . this grand palatial residence. It is to be three hundred feet in - lenutli. with gorgeous parlors and reception rooms, elegant sleeping apartments. superb suits and baths, delightful promiuades and verandahs, chartmuir observatories, ball-rooms, limpid foun-- tains ana conservatories or rarest and richest flowers in short, all the com forts and appointments that may be had by the expenditure of one million dollars the amount decided upon as necessary to meet his wishes. He is now negotiating for an additional r seven hundred and fifty acres . for which lie will be required to-pay 'one hundred thousand dollars the ' price of the propesty having advanced three. hundred per cent, within the past hun dred days. A princely conception of a pnnceiy nome to oe located in full view of the lovely city of Asheville! Her good people are to be congratulat ed. And now the Asheville Citizen will doubtlesss inquire how the Call a a . s ' got its information If so the answer is, that it is the bu-iuesn of the Cull to get the news scud to publish' it Raleigh Call There are 3,000,000 wotiietr in xthe 1 Uuited btates earning their own living. w-.- a . m.