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SANFORD, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, JUNE 1,1889.
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No. 40,
fiEV.W. F» WATSON AT THE TUMIJJje
POINT IN LIFE. «
. ■JECorr**pbn&e»*o. '
■ There is something about the word
home that wields a strange yet pow
erful influence over hearts not lost to
all the holier eniotloha of the hu
man breast. Nearly eleven years
have elapsed since I first turned my
face toward strange scencee and 8aid
; good-bye to my native town, and
■ yet her 1
s, lanes, streets and
streams are all familiar tojme jtp-day
*nd greet n as old friends when I
; visit the home of my childhood.. I
tom glad that I still love the old
town; that in my heart a chord of
Sympathy vibrates in unison with
i her onward movemeote. I feel the
•sentiment of Scott when he thus
•expresses himself .*
’•‘Breathes there a man,with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
;This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart has ne’er within him bur
. - ned,
■&8 homeward his footsteps he hath
turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
‘ ‘if such there breathe,'go mark, him
well
'■Forhim no minstrel raptures swell; \
' High though his. titles, proud his
name,
: Boundless his wealth as wish can claim'
.Despite those titles, power aud pelf,
The wretch concentred all In self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And; doubly dying, shall go down
To theviledust from whence he sprung.
X'nwept, unhonored ai;d unsnug?' > ■
- l had now arrived at that cntical
juncture ina boy’s history when
.some step must he taken, and upon
'the correctness and discretion with
“ which the step.is made, hinges des?
..tiny, not only in this life but in the
.life which is to come. Alas!, so
'many young men in stnrlingTSut in
‘ life to seek their fortunes, at this
• Aery critical period* make the sad
-mistake, which ultimately leads to
• wrecked character and eternal ruin,
; .«ll owing"*0 a misconception of "the
-true purpose awl end of life. Xet intf
Say' that just at this time* sore trial
’ i :iiu:e ionic, I had accepted a position
. in a store in Fayetteville which dealt
-■ in intoxicants. The opportunity to
-make money seemed very - flattering
• indeed, and for-one whole month: t
fried to convince myself that it
. would not he wrong for me to te
inain in this position and provide for
•my loved one—arguing, you see, to
| myself, that the end sought would
X justify the means employed, an ar
gument of the devil's own get-np,
. fallacious and misleading. At the
expiration of the month I told, my
<?■: employer that I would ha^eto give.
. up the position, which 1 did, and if
„*>.yer a poor hoy looked out ppon ’ a
- author of tMaicrtiele. - ~9han> yim
fiothing that a young man’ could
get to do in, Fayetteville at that
X'time and my mind was turned to othr
f<jtt quarters where witty hands might
Xftnd remunerative employment. - I
thank God that in the fdce of great
r pOverJy and amid the most discouTa
Xgjng circumstances,He gave me ppw-.
r -er to say no, and come out from an
; employment that is ‘calculated to
Xruin the best of our young men if
they engage it it. 1 would rather beg
. to-day than to deal out to any man,
one drop of tbut soul-oestroyiug
, stuff, alcoholic stimulants.
*’-'There' is a hind divinity that
- shapes our ends, we are fold, and to
this agency, more than any other,
suppose 1 am due my first visit to
„ the good old county of Moore,- I
• felt, somehow, that Moore would
"furnish me something to do in this
t, my hour of need, for all I • desired
, was plenty of work >and reasonable
-..payfor it. . The good-bytthad bey
said, and.as 1 beginning looked buck
through the. kaleidoscope ,of my
child-hood and boy-hood pleasures,
vt baselines of Byron, with which' J
.i-wu not.then familiar, fitly describe
- iny feelingi as I commenced the so
lution of my first problem profit
afid .loss-—home .and its loved ties
li*t, a wide du^yjinpathetic world
'gained: , h-’.j
“Ye scenes of my youth,
idBlifi
years;
Heat of frfendflU^ *11^ trtith!
• —n
Whet4© love cbaaCH its fast fleetlug
JWMBt . i • i ■ .ir'-’-'-ij.. >y
to leave thee I mourn, ;r: ■
.•or a last look I turn; ~ ■
-W-tuy -snUSi--, were sparee^sete
through my tears, - •
' No modern Montesnmn Pullman
Palace ears, with every umdern cou
* No light flashed
scrpesroy pathway, ' «
that!
“When Washington was President,
As cold as a any icicle,
Hernever on a railroad went, ,
„ And hevpr rode abyeicle. .
He read by no electric lamp, '
Nor heard about the yellow stone, : :
He never licked a postage stamp,
And never saw a telephone.”
No, gentle reader, mine was the
happy privilege of making a grand
pedestrian railway tqnji, My earthly
store sitfgty pSBkfSJih* tfcite white
pillow cjee tinder my arm- constitu
ted my baggage, and 1 might as
well remark it was not burdensome.
After a day of hard travelling in
the manner above mentioned, weary,
footsore and painfully lonesome,
my tired vision fell upon the little
town of Cameron. I repaired/ at
once to Britton's Hotel, not stopping
to enquire the charges, (though
I had but fifty cents in the World)
feeling sure that they eonld not be
more than my purse contained. Go
ing to my room and shutting . ray
self in from the world, I relieved my
burdened and aching heart in a
guish.'of tears.* Think it not weak
ness oh gentle reader, for [ was on
ly sixteen years* of age and this, was
my first trip from home. I felt
restless and could not remain in
Cameron, as .Carthage was my des
tination. So I started on my pedes
trian tpur, without the railway
feature this time, about 8 p. m. of
that day, and had proceeded about
three miles when a kind spirit over
took me with a fine horse and buggy
.and invited me to ride with hint the
remainder of the direction, which of
course I did.
As the sun was sinking behind
the western hills, giving all nature
a golden hue, my eyes fell fop: the
first tune upon beautiful Carthage.
W. Watsoiu
The Cronin Mystery. ~
VuMurlm fait.
So far the public bn8 u.no clew to
the murderers of Doctor Cronin, un
less Woodruff’s statement and Iris
connection with the Mood-stained
trunk contain one. Three theories
as to the cause of the crime have
been offered, without result: That
of private animosity, that of faction
al conspiracy in one of the Irish so
cieties, and that of a plan on the part
of the enemies of Home Rule in Ire
land for bringing discredit op the
surporters of that cause. The facts
in the case seem to offer little or no
presUmpiidn for the first theory, and
the other two are ‘mere guess work.
Tt is hard to think that the sudden
and violent “removal” of Cronin
should have grown out of any set
tled political purpose, and it will be
necessatr to.receive charges of con
spiracy from either side witn great
caution and to investigate them
with the utmost thoroughness. It
should not be in the power of a
hostile, disposition- anywhere to
turn th^ circumstance of the crime
! into an imputation against any re
putable individual or against a soci
ety that have a legal and long
established standing. The large re
ward . offered by the Clan-na-Gael
society puts the Irish patriotic or
gunizutisns iu the right position'.
An Editor Wtekte frCowbfcto. . •
Xtms a«d (Maerrcr. ' "~'X! ■' ’
News was received here yesterday
evening fwrtn Goldsboro that a lively
encounter occurred there yesterday
between two brethren of the quill.
Bro Joe Robinfcon, editor of the Ar
fl i<3, it seems, executed a lively tat
too upon the corprosity of editor
Roscower,tif the Headlight, with a
horse,. whip. They had hod .a
journalistic misunderstanding of
some kind, in which it seems that
Mr. Roscdwer made allusions which
Mr. Robinson considered too person*
ah ' Mr. Robinson met Mr. Roscow-r
er on the street, and stepping into a
hardware store borrowed a horse
whip, with which he sallied upon
Mr. Rosecower with a vim - which
absolutely took the latter's breath
away. - £
The Ststsville Landmark tells of
a moonshiner In Wilkes county who
la 05 years old. The business has,
not been unhealthy for hie.'. _
^ "WHO FiT HEBE7”
; Baeprwt Correspondence, '
The Farmers* Alliance * has
brought down the price of axle
grease; hard times, and the compe
titive labor of the publishing craft
| have brought down the subscription
price of newspapers. Now, not
withstanding the fact that axle
grease and newspapers are two great
factor*lathe progress Of a people and
are now within easy reach of all; yet
| there are many men who don’t grease
i their wagons, and won’t read a news
paper— either bought o? < borrowed
There seems to be a general uneven
ness and an upsetting unle vein ess
in the eternal fitness of " things that
render all things eternally unfitting.
The biggest,'awk watdest “alt-per
vadingbst”least understandable, most
unapproachable and consequently
most uncontrollable thing now
| afloat or that has been since just
before the discovery of the moun
tains of Ararat by a certain distin
guished navigatorris education and
its varied and various attachments
constituting the means by which it
fliay, can and must be obtained. Gov
ernors, legislators, the whole staff of
school officers, a vast multitude of
teachers which no man can number,
all closely hacked up by the press
and the pulpit ail enlisted for the
war—which theyTtave been’ pushing
into Africa for more than twenty
years, and yet blissful ignorance bids
defiance to all these powers and tri
umphantly sits “upon her ebon
throne” undismayed! ;
I am under obligations to opr very
efficient and vary courteous county
Superintendent of Public Instruction
for a copy of onr school law as amen
ded. - It is the patch-work of abou|
two generations and ought to hare
accomplished something—I reckon
it has, Our legislators get a Bmall
pittance for “patching,’’ and some
of them make a trifle by teaching
and our school officers are benefitted
to the extent of their salaries if no
more. The whole machinery as it
now stands reminds me of Bijah
Brown’s patent clock-faced self-lock
ing alarum beadstead, which was in
tended to throw the sleeper oat at a
given hopr—and lock- him out—but
by an error in Bijah’s calculations,
he, while innocently experimenting
With it got Caught and locked in
side of it, himself—so his wife
thought—jand She smashed the thing
to get him out.—But, Bijah was a
great inventor and he wanted to get
caught—and to be let alone—so he
could invent a way to get out. And
I reckon it is well that our school
authorities are all locked in—near
the coffers—where they can “invent''
more improvements and take pay for
their services. "V:"• - ..
. Put about our school la# I have
to say there is too much of it—too
much complication about it—and it
proposes to do too much. . ’
If “perpetual Wotjon" is ever
achieved it won't have a spring in a
mile of it, and it won't have as many
wheels as a bycicle. And if ever
the poor children of the State receive
enough education to enable them to
transact their own private . business
as farmers and mechanics, a 'gieat
part of the free school machinery
must be eliminated, (and perhaps
some of the children^) thereby re
ducing' the friction—by which we
will be enabled to apply the power
more directly to** the work. Arwt
again: Our free school system pro
poses to do as much as could reason
ably be expected of a common two
horse . academy—everybody knows
that the masses have no Use for and
can never utilize what is offered. The
few that can, ought to pay for It.
And there, it’s only education after
.all,-—not one bit of solid learning
required of teachers or pupils, and
but very few of either will ever
“catch on” to any solid learning
while education per m is so much
boomed.
When a boy has l>een taught to
read well and taught the importance
fof a cultivated memory, he has the
key to the gieat store house of solid
learning—and there is a hope of that
hoy; hut give him an education ac
cording to the popular definition of
the Word—I mean give hfm 4 text
book qualification for teaching tree
schools and you’re; ruined eleven
tenths of all the boys gp qualified.
Education jper sc fe taking hun
dreds and thousands of - firet rate
boys from the farm and pitting
them to strolling over, the country
in search of some way to make^aliv
ing—-and a little surplus cash with
out labor, and if they can’t find it in
fiay-timc their » danger of their find
ing it after iiigbt. My old friend
Solomon used .to say,- “In much
knowledge there is much grief,” and
he was speaking prophetically of our
boys. He could “phancy the phe
links” of these unfortunate educated
chaps who can’t find a free school
to teach nor standing room behind
another man’s counter. >
A friend .writing me recently from
Cabarrus county says: “They are
going to have a celebration on ike
Battle ground of Guilford Court
House on May 4th next. -Well there
will be 1000 people there, who won't
know what they are celebrating.
Like children on Christinas day-r-it’s
Christmas and that’s all they know
about it. I bad the honor to be there.
on auch an occasion last year, and \
happening on a knot of celebrants i
who were aimlessly wondering oyer;
the field I remarked: “It has been
a long time since the battle' was
fought here., "Who fit here?'
queried one of the groupe. *The
armies of Lord Cornwallis' amf.Gen.'
Greene’ said L ‘CornwaHief said
another, who was he, a Yaftkee or a
Southerner?’ I turned away sad and.
sick,
It is horrible to think,—to knoit
that in this age of progress, where
there are villages of sehool houses*
besides colleges and seminaries—
and regiments of teachers—not
ebuntiiig the teachers that teach the
teachers—millions of School hooks
and money thrown broad east over ;
the land, that Stich sooty ignorance;
should be found.”
Let the authorities steam up a lit
tle. We would like to have a little
more “works,”—our “faith” needs
a tonic, . •
Long To*.
BALES AND THEIR COVERING.
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Important Action of the New York
Cotton Exchange] Nl favor of 500
Pound Bales and Cotton Coven.
• New York, May 24.—The Board
of Managers of the : New York Cat
ton Exchange today endorsed the
report of the Comthlttee on Trade,
in a letter of the Partners’ National
Allianqe/of New Orleans, which
recommenned uniform bales for cot
ton, and the use of cotton bagging
for baling. ’ • *
The committee; approve the idea
of uniform bales of 600 pounds each'
The use of cotton bagging for cov
ering, the committee believed, would
use up cheap trade cotton and form
a means of employment for many
hands in the manufacture. It
would be advantageously used in ex
porting. It was considered useless
for the Cotton Exchange to pass any
rule in the matter, and it was re
ferred to a special committee, '
We entirely agree with tlie Wilson
Advance when it pleads with the
pres# of North Carolina$ cultivate
friendly relations one with another,
and no( to disparage .the work of
men of brains, leaders in journal
ism, in bar State. The disparage
ment may never injure them, but it
cam do no good. As decent fellow
mett they are entitled to the treat
ment due gentlemen. If any one pa
per in the State is more ably edited
than any other, there ought to be
enough magnanimity in the brother
hood to accord to him his due and
nobly join in the wofk of placing
upon his brow the crown or honor
which he has so faithfully won -we
can do no less and bejust.—Raleigh
Christian Sun.
The lost relict of the old “Lord
Cornwallis headquarters*' in Char
lotte are gone. Mr. . George Hall’s
barn whmh was built of the old
timbers, has been burned by an in
eendiary.- -
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W. IRVING BISHOP, ‘MIND READER *
Heientlfle American.
W. Irving Bishop, whose feat* in
what ia called “mind reading” have
made him known in this coun
try and Europe, died at a New York
city club house in 'the early morn
ing of May 18th tinder extraordina
ry cireumstanees. There were pres
ent many men of some prominence
in New York Soeiety, ahd the even
ing had been passed Until a late hour
in the' social intercourse among el ub
men, when Bishop, Wfco was an invi
ted guest, was asked to gfte do rr
hibition of his powers, “ He com
menced with what he called an or
dinary trick. On his leaving the
room,1 one of the elnb members took
a small dagger and made the motion
of stabbing another member, after
jwhtcb the dagger was hidden. Bish
op was brought in, blindfolded, and,
with the hand of the man who had
hidden the dagger upon his own
hand, quickly searched out the dag
ger, and made a similar motion of:
stabbing the mune man in the same
way it had been donejvhen he was
Out of the room.
i Bishop then made light of the
difficulty of this trick, and proposed
to do something pore astonishing.
He asked the secretary of the club
to think of some word, in the dub’s
bonks of account or record. The'
secretary, with Dr, J. A., Irwin, of
this city, who was an acquaintance
of Bishop, went down stairs where
the books are kept, and selected the
ntm# of Margaret Townsend, found
ifl SOfhe record, but fixing the word
“Townsend”; in their mind, and
noted just where it appeared; they
uia me doojt ana wen t back up stairs.
Bishop, blindfolded, bad the secre
tary s hand placed upon' his own,
ttnd then led the party down stairs.
He found the book without difficult
ty« turned over the pages rapidly till
he came to the page where the name
appeared, then, skimming his fin
gets over it,1 gradually settled, Upon,
the word itself, although he was not
then told what the word was. All
this had been done while he was
blindfolded, and' Bishop , had* been
getting into 4 very excited state. "
' On being led back up stairs, he
proposed to tell what the word was
was in a manner which would de
monstrate that “muscle reading1’ as
it is called, had nothing to do with
the performance. He asked all to
stand back, and, insisting that the
secretary should think intently of
the word, stood apparently in a state
of half consciousness, the bandage
corering his eyes and parts of his
face. Soon he said, “I think it is a
name.” After 'further apparently
intense mental effort, he exclaimed
nervously, “Give me something to
write with.” Being handed pencil
and paper, without an instant's hes
itation,' he wrote, “Townsend,” not
in, natural form, but as the word
would appear written on paper ' arid,
reflected on a mirror, “that is it," he
exclaimed, and, as the persons about
bust into applause, Bishop Stif
fened out and sank buck unconcious.
Dr. Irwin assured the others that
it was o ly one of tne cataleptic fits
to which Bishop was fiequenly sub
jected and was not dangerous. Bish
op was stretched On. the floor, and
soon, under thecare Of the doctor,
began to show signs of returning
consciousness. When he was able
to sit up, though apparently only
half conscious, the doctor was ex
plaining something of the physical
features of the case to those present,
staring that the peculir backward
fashion in which the name was writ
ten might be accounted for by the
fact* that the original reflection
of everything seen be the eye is in*
verted as.in a mirror, and if reversed
by the optic lens on the way to the
brain. Bishop, who had apparently
heard everything interrupted the
doctor and asked him to make it
clear that was written on the paper
was the exact copy of what appeared
in his eye, and was written by him
without conscious invention of .the
brain. -.. — . ..
Bishop was now so excited that
the doctor ordered him to be taken
to: an upstairs room. His pulse was
frightfully high, bat he so strene
onsly insisted on doing the trick
over again that the doctor 'finally
consented, as affording the best
means'of quieting him, The'book
was brought, and, Bishop, blindfol
ded, set out to find the word again.
He wandered over the book with
great difficulty, but finally hit the
right page, found the word and in
dicated it by a savage stroke of the
pencil acrotaijt.
•The “mind reader” was how more
ejchauated 'flnd ftTr cited "than ever, and
Dr. Erwin, fearing a nervous col
apse, sent for Dr. C. C. lee to help
him. Bishop had frequent spasms
and it was with difficulty that he
could be held stilh About 4o'clock
in the morning he had another: vio
lent cataleptic fit, and Went from it
into a state of coma, front which-he
had only moments of half conscious
ness for two Bouts, hut not a realy
conscious moment from 6 o'clock
in the morning until a few minutes
past noon, when his pnlse and
breathing ceased, and he was appar
ently dead. For fear, that it might
be only a cataleptic trance, powerful
electric Currents were applied, and
jfor half an hour some semblance of
life was maintained, but at last the
current ceased to have any effect,
and the doctor said Bishop was un
mistakably dead. The body was re
moved to an undertaking establish
ment, where, in the afternoon an
autopsy was made by Dr. Irwin end
iDr. Ferguson, the pathologist at the
; New York Hospital. ' ‘r ■ ’ ’
lne suddenness with''which- this
autopsy was made, in the absence of
authority from the friends or rela
atives of the deceased or from the
coronor, has caused great feeling‘in
the community. This is heighten
ed by the fact that Bishop, his wife,
and his mother, were opposed to any
autopsy, and especially desired, that
in the event of his supposed death
at any time the body should he kept
as long as possible, for he had fre
quently beenin a i^te of almost
seeming death for a good many
hours, as a consequence-of these cat
aleptic fits, as had also his mother.
The autopsy is said to hive shown
nothing to indicate any cause of
death, except the result of the great
nervous strain to which Bishop had
subjected himself. The brain was
a little larger than Usual for a man
of his size, weighing 40 ounces.
They matter was unusually dark in
color, but there was no malforma
tion or physiealindicatiqn that the
brain was otherwise than that of an
ordinary man. The case is bnh,
however, that js sure to nttrack
‘wide attention in the medical'fra
ternity, and the controversies about
it cotnmmenced on the very day that
the “iniad reader” died, '* ' ' ’ •
Bishop was horn in r Boston in
1856, and early obtained a, reputa
tion as a “mind, reader,” Some ten
years ago, in England, he attracted
much attention by what he did to
expose the alleged tricks of Slade
and other spiritualists, and did some
surprising feats in telling the ^um
bers upon bank notes which be- bad
not seen. About three years ago, in
Boston, he' discovered a hidden arti
cle, to get at which it was necessary
for him, blindfolded, to drive a'team
of horses to a Carriage a considerable
distance through crowded streets,—
a trick he-afterwards duplicated in
New York city. ■ v
- To accomplish those feats he al«
ways had to be in physical touch of
some sort with the person whose
mind he pretended to read. Others
have pretended to he able'to per
form the same feats, but it is nrit
known that any feat similar to the
one herein described has never before
been performed. Dr. Irwin says he
thinks the feat cannot be accounted
tor upon any known theory of
science or medicine.
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BRECKENB10GE ON THE SOUTH,
The speech of ,Representative
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, deliver- .7. If.
ed at the dedication of the Soldiers’ - v'
Mohument'in Nashville last week, ‘ . I,%
contains a beautiful and truthful
presentation of Southern life before
the war. Mr. Breckenridge is on®
of the finest orators in the ' United, }
State®. Ho has the gift of ( elo
quence in the highest degree. . His ^
lauguage is beautiful aad his delirs -
gry earnesttad-faapassionittft: go
is a goo<t Hunker, too, ax well as a > ■
goad nrK-altpr and what he ■ saVS.
whether in the halls of Congress, in
the lecture room, or oft the stump, *
is always listened to with rppt at
tention rad never fails to elioiti high t;4 | i »•
praise. Silver-haired' as well as | - ’.
silver-tongued, he has a comman
ding presence and his speeches in M|jf
the House of Representatives -readi- 1 ’ f
ly remind one of the superiority; of
the South over the North in prodn
ring the finest specimen of eftntory.
This is what he said of rank in
the South: . .
“In other comminutes wealth or
birth made rank, bat in the gonth
ern land color, not condition, vu
the only rank. Every white man
was the equal of every other whit?
man. Slavery had mnch in it that
must be deplored, disadvantages
that those who knew it heat j knew
most of, but it did have, thif one -
compensation; that it gave to; color
the quality of condition: ‘ Cblor in
and of itself was a tie which bound
all white men together and,'? in a
sense which cannot be onduratood
out of that community, made all
white men eqnal,” i " -
Of wealth and the characteristics
of the Southern people he said:
- “The South was not rich in seen
mutated capital. In all the boun
daries there was scarcely a matt who .
would how be called rich. Beal
poverty, that poverty "which is ac
companied with want, which is the
parent of vice, under whose blithing
influence human nature shrinks and
human courage dwindles, was un-'
•known in all that great beantifnl
region. There wire people who
thought themselves poor, bnt it was
within, the limitspf a well-to-do mh|
reasonable comfort, , ,
, ’‘Physically it was a handsome
and noble race. The climate waa
fenerous, the land sb fertile, the
abitual industries and sports in the
open air, so invigorating, the ordi
nary life so calm and yet so earnest,
the daily comforts so healthful and1
the daily duties so fruitful that the
people within that section bounded
by the Atlantic ocean, the Potomac,
tne Ohio and the Western plains
were, indeed a comely and manly
race of strong men add beautiful
women.
• “Their manners were grave, but
simple and cheerful, much to the
$pen air and. living in a country
sparsely.settled and without good
roads and full of game, the men
wore fearless horsemen, “expert *• in
the use of arms, quick of eye and
ready of-hand, calm - of demeanor,
Self-contained, self-poised, and hab
itual to the habits of command.”
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Of da very and its effects he [also
said: - . ' ~ ...
slavery also made agriculture the
first of vocations, the most profita
ble, delightful and honorable, and.
this required that families should
live apart on their farms," surround
ed by their laborers, and thus waa
developed individuality which .mark
ed the leaders of Southern, opinion*,
who. also become successful officers.
A successful planter had acquired
those habits of daily life ' which
made him at once competent to
command a regiment, to quietly but
firmly enforce discipline, property
care forthe men, understand how to
clothe and feed them end 1 see that
they were taken care of. And the
men of the regiment-were ready sol
diers in the high sense that they
knew how to both obey and com
mand ; were able to take care of him
self if thrown' upon himself—were
expert in the ose of his weapons, and
physically capable of continued
hardship and much exposure."
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Judge Hugh L. Bond, of the
United States Circuit Court lor the
Western distriot of North Caroline
has issued a mandamus ordering the
commissioners and treasurer of the
county of Rutherford, this State, to
show cause on the 17tb day of June
next, why thy should not be jailed
for contempt of bis court in refusing
to turn over to the officers: of the
Ths C’e railroad the stance of the
interest due on the bond* of Ruther
ford county issued to assist in the
building of said roufl. , ,,
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