Of A HER VOL. V. MORGrANTOX, N. C , WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1883. NO; S. 13 AT TATA iPf. i 'TTATrii A TAT"! 1 &-y t a j t fTii ;V;t-T.,fv- - If airily StatcsYiIic, C Sept. 1, 18815. Our Fall ami WIilTEE STOCK is now in store, ready for inspection, and we again take pleasure in invi ting the Merchants of Western North Carolina, and the Trade generally, to visit Everything requsite to the full and complete outfit of the M et au 1 Dealer may be hud under onr rool.lmtsi f . v. . g' ne.vte ci'iitaaioti. Oth- . ., ,.,. A larger or more varied mock m 1 f JP,3 I JB., "8 i A I ot General iirlerchaSdise is not oil- j ered by any House in the South Our traveling salesmen will on the road during the season, we Hope to receive your conn? liberel orders through them. 4fi orders by upon tiie same terms and receive the same attention as buyers inpsr-son. are, very we solicit your lupmeiii l.lried Fruits, Iliackberiies and all hinds ol country produce Having the best laciiifies for conducting this branch of our business, we can as sure you of highest market prices at all times. DEALERS New and seasonable Goods kept constantly on hand LOOK OUT I-OB TUEIR WHAT WILL THE WEATHER BE TO-MORROW 7 Q Pool's Signal OK STOIOT T,ASS ASP TIlMOrej-COMBINED, y--y"a-.-r. TEXiIj YOTJ! It will detect and in.licr correctly any change in theweatherj (2 1 to 48honr in advance. It wiU Ml whr.i kind of st.rm is approaching, from wnat dlracti in-iii valuahlfl to uavisrators. Farmers can plan their wort, aSineto ittl"imrtonB. Saves aO times Its cost m aaingle season t rt if- 3 . combination. TmsKreat JA 1 Httt "nil V Tl II r llin 17 In I i il "3 I vSmots eminent Plij siciaDS. Irolessors D C O T IfJ TUF WORLD 1 Ji SU? r-ta find Srient.no men of the day to be the D CO I . I BJOt. " Si. 3d ! t M ordir. on receipt of I , or fix for $4. Aemsa imjJJ Sells at : ;1 daily sriliag them. A triul uiUonivir.ee you. Order t once. It 1 feu sat li VMiT.tnrf i ho t Innir in :un to farmers, merchants, etc. .Invaluable to nament. We will send yoa . k t - - ( T . Write ymir Post vjft,vvuniittna ytf,''""'?. orler,drafton Jew 1 it- REiO WnAT StyJL M J Pip irunly H lor au .iUt Mop, Snb-Iass and fyt'er, """Jtf i Chapel OreansK3.PipeOr!rans4. OTllXBBABGAJpfSful described in Illastrated Catalfeae which is sent SZZZ wilH lull particular. rt viciTnne ADC aLWaYS WELCOME.! Address or call 090a DAHiei r. BATTY WashUtdtaa. New Jwui. u. 8 S. s 1 ! i 9 i O t J . y ; Ss.&3 i mail will- be fill eel r4 truly youm j 4 j ! iC IN GENERAL service Barometer aometer and Uarometer are put iu .""".'i " ,, "i.ri " plated trimmiDKa. etc.. making t , beautifnl aa weU I as useful or a sample one, uhi f -jrr--arir ., 1 1 in sood oraer, o oror Trv. f ..X.'p'. THE PI BI.IC SAY ABOUT IT. metntTCHAS. B. Kooebs, Ship "TvriliBht.'; San Frar Cisco, on it every iiniB, ,1rl i, -nd must say that the instrnment Rives fBctsathrfacUon in every respect. It is neatly made and wonderfully cheap f twS doUara GF.d. B.absoS8, M. O. R. R.. Office, Detroit, r.Iicn. Pool's Barometor has already saved me many times its cost, in foreteihnB ttE&hcr. Itis.wondeWcnrityadworkMo. tl-RWARE OF WORTTTTXSS IMITATION S. None genuine wtthfnt onJ ! Trade Mark. "no .mature of J. A. Pool, on the back ot mstru. meat, as below: dr 5) S7 TAt3e C&&C&0-friS MARK. Every instmm' nt warranted Perfect and Reliable. Size9 l-2incheslonf 3 wiSe If not satisfied on re. eiving the instrument, return it at once and wewiU retuud your money. Please state where you saw our advertisement fBOITARE or UPRIGHT COSEWOOD piAXOt'OBIK. wila Stool, Book and Music. to I ? I ll U Si I! PROF. OAHBV'S Prophylactic Fluid. The moat Powerful Antiseptio l:nov,n. Vf ILL PRETEXT the CHOLERA. IT BKSTEOVS The most powerful Am iiseptic agent hich chemistry has produced. lis use eithrr mtern;i!!y or externally readers ail it comes in contact with, germs of disevse. s a fact established iecce th'it many riicfiast-H are iu;ro'.iuceU by ii;ti if actiou, which niro. un-.es itself un'ljthc production of dibease- pure, sweet ana clcan,- prup-igats the disease in He-i3 ceases and t le pa tient recovers WHEN USED ON TTL- ever wiucinus circles. Thvse diseases giTier ate contafiiou and liil the Asiaiic CMera. IAN D VKOUOTI1S THE 1 RAPID FORMATION Oi' the Eat cntl aaninglt"V,V:-y .V ion it Mission of death! utALlUi jig toward? our Other diseases IT rUBIFIES THE ATMOSPHERE. ?sVvnl sacic sort are IIP- ITS EXPOSURE IN A SICKROOM. CELLAR, ih'-ch comes from damp-' TAKEN IN l i'.t.N .ALLY -s tar-MnS S A r.T. TH "ESK IMsKAS-lami healthy vigor. It is L IB Hi' ii a:r with death. SUCH IS VuVti- nyv-l iii.il ."-ai ii-atoiijir ST0,,S ALL P UN. A 5151 Tin Hhn P.?3 Iswertexs the parts J EH .'-AN BE CIHCEO ON-;tUas that it cures lndigcs ! I.Y BY HXOPi'iNO TH"!tiOu and Dyspopsut. tj ! pi;o;uo iton o? wires used as a lo- E VSEOUIMS A.ND Dh-: riON :t denroys all SISJOi'iNO TI'or: Vi-Tciw and B.;toa-?r.. liH.5)Y V't 'ii'.'KD.; :iio:tllJ r;u ', ! a .1 g iue V- lh Ui-.f rfn.t "i-' !.-km citar, whito au i A'.'t:or:.l -:ij,, ii'':f;l,iVliva5 !Us t!j..t oi a .. :! '. ' : vL i; i 'a J.J j -i'.'oi'J1 'i-'i i ii J'V.;JlE, .. Nl tI EAJjl'lii". t:vc of its iifa:ijes, or ad'iiees ; .1. II. ZEIEIN is CO., M mui ictnrin; Cu..'ts, PlIit VDLPMIA, 50 ctntB per K iltie. Pint Eoii'its, .10j ! Topic Job Office ! ( T:rn on', stvis'i work aad i? not ! to We 4 xtvih-fl iur goil work aud mm, i o!ire.. Orders left at Tjik !u.tainbi-r o -vU receive proni.A a.te:if ion. Otherwise udiUess THE TOPIC. Lenoir, N. C. B ' Vi'Viil Wit., (inn:! A- I.ilo r.V.i-'.r.-.o V? '.'itf l'- $I t. lVO rr "iaiith. r- .w is.ti...Mji- !. J. McCl!lUY i Co.. f-uiIaUcU'ma. Pa ATTiFS World- liv Medtt al D:te tcr SHII'FKN. lT. S. N. Address J. C. McCliK v Co.. 632 Chestnut St., Fiulatk'lpniu, Pa. 0. A, CILLET, ATTORNEY AT LAW LEUOIK, X. C. WlliSi C. SEHLAXi). Attorney at law, LENOIR, N. C. JXO. T. PEIIKIKS, Attorney at Law, MORGANTON, N. C. iWill ;)raot:cc in the Ktnte and Federal Courts. J. Spinjjour,. (CSbaduate Ualtimoke 1KSTAI. Coj.i-kge. Dentist. LENOIR, H. C. Caca no impure material for filling teeth. Work as low a good work can be done. Patients from a di tauce may avoid delay by informing him at what time they propose .coming. Coffey's Hotel, Maine street, ' Boose. X. J. COFFEY & BRO., Proprietors. This first-clafs ho'.is; has recently been ?efurBi6hed vrith ci and elegant furniture, besidv the rooms areail convenient and conilwital Is . The fare enn uot hi- anr';tsii't! in til State. At'eulive aim pol.-ie servants always in aitti'ndancc. Good Uk'oUh and Uotitiers. ive 11s a call when you are id Eoone. ltatet very moderate. i litr i'iuiieer Library, i fliii'lR, i. O. A or i.i.:.it:i!. J'.urj .1.' n uiitard laisceliaueous !A -. ll - i; r ': t ".r-'i..1. lcnowltg sud $nlr fa'nri , wilain the "e:;ca of all. t'ui :.!--.:? Membership : T.'fe members, 23 ; for in. . :at. s'.r innot! -, J!. ." -!m:: - .n 'Mi" -.. lers'fijj. froiu dona- i liiis cfiin M,:;.:, tHl WO!' !';'. iiUi'L think s. "jl. Si'AIMlviL ll. ;-: G "0::i-k:'-i Ai(!iiis for ihe I ISi'ivif Mac' iiiP. the only mucliine !i;:.t. '!;;- U-v " ii Ht Urai d i ng r.lfach-a-t-fii. t nil t-.! o '. them. Nivlles and ii lei- ;.r. kinds of mnoi.iucs n mimit OROTIIGRS. Bryan's Hotel, BOOXK S. G. This house stil I mainlaius iw reimtatk n as a first-class- liotel. TLei'rOiii'it'tor Hxostrefi.'eeUu'Jy ii-tu'ns thanks to Listrhnds and tb public generally for .'..".. .:!t iwm tl .in ihat lie A'iit i!OU- iiuccto merit tli.ir patrol age by serving n. the very bu; iMc narket affords. A tr.i is all 1 ask. W. U liiii AN, Proprietor. CYPHERS, OR SECRET WRITING. The top of the thriri column in the Times used to contain such adver tisemects as the following, and, doubtless, oftea does now: Uif nbuufs, nvtu cf efgjojujwfmz tfuumfe po xfeoftchz. : :yi A method so easy of detection that les3 notice would;; have been at tracted had the advertisement ap poured in comnion English, the above being plainly, ; "The mstter must be definitely settled on Wed nesday." Here the following letter is subituted for the one it is intend ed to represent as frequently the proceeding letter is vised, and it is odd to find how often people trust to an expedient so easy of detection. A few hours' application will gener ally unlock the hardest cypher, as was notably proved by Wallis, during the civil war in England, when such methods were rauch used for corres pondence. Subjoined is an instance, historically true; here verbal skill is necessary. Sir John Trevan'on was a distinguished royalist officer dur ing the great rebellion; he was a prisoner in Colchester Castle whan Sir ( harks Lucis and Sir George Lible were executed there, by Fair Ihx. On the eveniog of the execution, a letter w;is delivered to him by the goaUr, after it had been examined a d read by the officers, "who deem ed there was no harm therein." The Jttttr read as follows: Wokthie Sir John, Hope, that is ye best coufort of the afflictyd, can not much, I fear me, help you now. That I wolde saye to you, is this oniy; if ever I may be able to requite that I elo owe yon, stand not upon asking me. 'TiS not much I can do;' but what I can, be you very sure I wille. I know that, if dethe conies, if ordi nary men fear it, it frights you net, accounting it for high honour, to have such a rewarde of your loyalty. Pray yet that you may be spared this so bi; ter cup: I fear not that you wills grudge any sufferings: only if by submission you ' -can turn them away, 'tis the part of a wise man. Ttl! me, an if you can, to do for you any things that you would have done. The general goes backe on Wednes elay Kestinge your servant to com mand. R- T. This letter contains all Sir John wants. By a golden key he induces the goaler to lock him up in the chapel, to pray after so sudden death of liis friends and finds by his letter that every third lette? after a stop was all that was to tell; thus he read P,n,r.e,l s,t e,n,s,t, f-,n,d, o,f, c,h,a,pe,l, s,l,i,d,e,s. An hour after, when the go-der went to look for the royalist, he found emptiness and sbilencej there was, f.nd probably still is, a passage from the east side of the castle, and discharging into the river Colne, shown as? tlrst by which Sir John Trevanion escaped. Substitutions are ome times made as irregularly an possible x for 1, a for p, z for g, and so on. The Chevalier de Rohan failed to interpret a message sent him when in the B istiJe, written on a shirt, in ink, invisible until warmed Mg, dvlhxcclgv, ghj, yxvj, , lna, ct vgc, aij. Rohan went and plead guilty be cause he could not read that his accomplice, tried the day bffore, and pnt to the rack, ended thus Le pri5ot!iftr est mart, il n'a rien .lit ( : h-- prisoner is dead, he said Ai-oiiur variety is patching on some particular word of every sen' tence t' bear the meaning. .4. very ingenious cypher of this kind broaght on the battle of Montijo, which se cured the independence of Portugal, 1G44-45 A D. D' Albuquerque commanded the Portugese forces, which in May, IG44, were within two miles of Bad ajoz. Molinghem commanded the Spanish army, which luj about two milea from the Portuguese. D'Albti querque desired to arrange with De Costa Keal, who commanded troops in Elvas, a night attack cn the Span ish forces. ' Their concerted system system of cypher was one in which every twelfth word was to tell the true meaning. Every message had hitherto been stopped by the well formed Spanish lines. D Albnque-rq-ao now prepared a letter in double cypher, the real one for De Costa Real a false one explain ed to the messenger, Joaquim, who was instructed to reveal it, if taken, and his life was in danger. Joaquim was captured and taken before Mob inghem, and under a threat of ' five paces and three balls," the usual Spanish alternative, confessed he knew the cypher of a long verbose epistle, which the Spanish general's senses showed hkn was not worthy of being dispatched by private messen ger between two generals, and must conceal a cypher. By Joaquim's aid De Molinghem read that a night attack was metlitated on his quarters at two in the morning on Wednesday. Joaquim was dismissed by De Mol inghem to take his letter Da Costa Real, with a caution to say nothing of his discovery, or his head would answer for it as a traitor. D 'Albuquerque had counted on all this, and De Costa Real, reading the letter by his true cypher, attacked De Molinghem, on Tuesday morning, with D'Albuquerqe, forced on tho battle of Montijo, and gained the independence of Portugal. The best kind of cypher may pos sibly be guessed, but can never be discovered certainly. The correspondents write on paper of a particular shape. Each has a card of exactly the same size as the sheet of paper; the writer lays his card on the sheet and writes through the holes, His correspondent puts his card op the letter and gets the information, which, but for that, no one cculd procure. Thus the message to be conveyed is, let us say, "All is ready for the wedding, come at once.' One wish ing to communicate this writes thus through his card, All is ready for the wedding, come at once. And then, removing the card, he would thus address his correspon dent DeabSir I believe I have received all the letters which you promised. It is odcl that I cannot get you to give me an account of your own health. Charles has already left for Bath, after residing there for the year. I do not wonder at it. Mary will never be happy till she hears of your wedding. When will you come and pay your promised visit to us, at Dunam? Do settle at once. Twenty-Four O'doeU. Charlotte Journal-Observer. The railroads are moving to have a new standard of time adopted that will soon throw us into the big fig ures, and to see a man pull out his watch at noon and say "it's 24 o'clock," will be no unusual thing. The theory is the establishment of a "time standard," as the railroad men term it, to be put into operation on all the railroads, in the country. The proposed standard would simply add the hours after midnight to 12, so that 1 1 o'clock in the morning would be 28 o'clock and noon would be 24 o'clock. The dials of clocks would be made into twenty four divisions of time, and the trouble some A, M. and P. M. would be avoided. Uniformity and certaioty in the movement of train? in all parts of the country is one of the greatest advantages claimed for the neT standard, and a simplification of time tables that the public would be quick to recognize and appreciate would follow. The originator of the theory of 24 hours for standard time was Mr. W. Dewees, f Philadelphia. Mr. De wees upon expressing his vitws, said recently: Anything more crude, uncertain and insufficient than the style now in use cannot be imagined. It is a relic of the dark ages, adopted centories before a railroad or tele graph was thought of. Modern prog res demands something better adap ted to the wants of our present advanced civilization. If my plan is adopted I think it will gradually extend throughout the world. 1 would taketime from Greenwich Observato ry, for it is the best time that exists. It is exact, constant and known, or ascertainable everywhere. Netting T. J. np as a Sheen Raiser. Baltimore Sun. Gov liutler bought at the New England fair and sent as a present to Gov. Jarvis, of North Carolina, some Lne specimens of Cotswold sheerj. THE SEWS AKB OBSERVER FEDER ITE H03IC" FtTX. Sews aud Observer. It gives us pleasure to see this fund grow. The interest manifested indicates that the hearts of eitr people are in the right place. Yes terday we got in two new eontribu tions for a hundred dollars each. One a Raleigh gentleman of known liberality, who was a soldier in the days that tried men's souls ; aud ths other, one of Edgecombe's honored sons, We annex his letter: Tabbko, N. C, ? ept. 21, 1883 Mil. Editor : A few days . ago I was in the "cash" room of the Treis. ury department, Washington. D. C, and witnessed the paying oat of many thousand dollars to Union soldiers, and it made me feel vry sad to think hot we of the South had neglected in not providing in some way for the maimed and destb tute ex Confederates, their widows and orphans. Put me down for $100 for the endowment fund. Wish I were able to make it $1,000. Very Respectfully, David Pbnder The name of Pender is already embalmed in the memory of our people, and this subscription will only make it still dearer to those soldiers who were so gallantly led to battle by their heroic commander, William D, Pender. The offerings for the Confederate home now are as follows : An Elga combe gentleman, $100; H. C.Eccles, $100; "A Private," Durham, $500; Tarboro Southerner, flQQt; A Raleigh Major, $100; David Pender, $100; This foots np a thousand dollara. We want other subscriptions to come in without delay now that the ball is fairly started. And in this con nection we wish to say thit wnen a sufficient amount has been subscribed a meeting of the subscribers will be called, and they will organize, select directors and take the neaessary steps to carry oat their design. Rut even at this early day it may be well enough "to suggest that inas much as our wounded soldiers will,in the course of years, pass away, the fund can, after its particular purpose has been served, be appropriated by the subscribers to some other noble, charity- What disposition should be made of it when the old soldiers have been cared for the sabscribars must say, but we would suggest that there be a further trust in favor of some charity, to be determined by the donors. A Ktalne loGan Znehary Taylor. Yesterd iy a statue of Gen. Z:icha ry Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, was unveiled at the Taylor burial ground, near Louis ville. His political success was as remarkable as his victories in war. The democrats carried the country for James K. Polk in 1844, and for Franklin Piorce in 1852, but in 1848 Taylor, though a whig, excited the greatest enthusiasm by reason of his laurels and unpretending virtues, and deteacad Lewis Cass, of Michi gan, his democratic opponent. "Gen. Taylor never surrenders!"' told immensely on the street transparen cies of the canvass of 1818. Time, may have perhaps dimmed somewhat the lustre of the Mexican hero's fame as a soldier, in comparison wiih the reputations made during the late civil war, but there was something kindly and of sterling worth in the man that will long keep his name in affectionate remembrance. TERMCT IN THE FRAIET CASS. The trial of David Fraley for the murder of H. F. Walker, a revenue agent in Stanley county, on the 8th of February last, which was com menced at Coneord Thursday week, was concluded Saturday night and resulted in a verdict of manslaughter. The case wag given to the jury in the afternoon and they were out till half past eleven o'clock Saturday night, when they returned with theii verdict. .12 yeara- Fraley waylaid Walker. The Consas. Chicago Times. A Washington correspondent says : "It ia generally understood thataneff ort will be made to have the Census Bureau made a permanent instita lion," There is no dou' of the nec Cos-ty of tbis, if it the intention ever to complete th !$9t ;en&cfo, Tkl too 9f ueb for Graiitol. Bill Arp. " By invitation I made a spaec'i not Ions a at a farmer's barbecue ia a neighboring county, end I spread myselt io encouraging our p:opl to' keep up with the progress of the age, and I pictured the innocence aud honesty and independence of a f armers life in multitudinous language. I was ch?ercd and congratulated of course when I got through, but au oil. grizzly feller with brass-bound spec. taclcs eifoe up and says he tome, 'My fried J, yon talk mighty well; yoa talk like a lawyer; bat I wonU like to knovv if you can tell what kind ofacilfwill make' th8 but miloh co.' "A heifer calf," said I, a id the crowd just yelled. I got the gri i on the old man, and so says I, "So v, let me akyon a question, a-i I yn i may ask me another, and the n. n Who can't answer his own questio-i mus treit k cig-Ar-.'" -'All rili!.," said he. "u go a'lend." s Siid I: '"Hi "! a "ouil Sqr.irrell dig bis hole ti thou' leaving any dft r.rj;i I the toi?" lie studied awhile aid gve u up, and called oa me Ut aaswer. "Vuy," said I, lhe begin at the butio.n." 'Well, but how does he gel to ih bottom?" said the oil uj to, a thtugh he had me. "I don't know," said I ; "I never did know- aid it i your qi-jsii u, you mint answer it or piy." The crod yello I ag lin, an I tlia old man surrendered aud b i.ijjht fio cigars. Well, there are a h-jip ot 'flings that way about farmiu; va ta'io to i much for granted. Ttie gro-jnfl squirrel does leave dirt around tho top. For years we Lave been shell'r.il off the buts and the tips of the corn to get the middle grains to plant, and uow it seems to hn settled by many experiments that the top gravis are the fost. Fo: year) wa bav.a baaa harrowing in our 333d wha-aJ;. nd now it seems ihat it oalit to bs r Vdil in and the surfa.vj vjia 1 nv a i l close. We liv3 bit t pun, iad he lives best who learns nost. loaiti ofa XotiH'iU4 Citf 111.11 ia. Alvi333 from C.1L11 11:1 .i 13d t ie death of a notorious Cainvdam, named Chen Cwj Jin. It wis t this, haaiin fisal ta.it the Tientsin massacre of 1870. was attributable, although the authorities at Pekin sternly refused to ba balieve in his guilt or listen to the demands which the French minister in China mile for his trial. II W-13 wall kn'owa, however, at the time that Chen Cwo Jin had sbirtod oa a cr.i3ilj ia N r thorn China. spmvling hvtrad against foreigaara ia goaaral and Roman Catholic misijairi ;sia par ticular. Thesa litter ha ajsaaoJ. of poisoning tha public wlls a very common bat laliorjaily groua lless complaint against foreigners in Chini and of putting oat tha eyes of the female children attending their schools. Chen CwoJin, however, continued his bloody cireer, and though to Chine33 o.Sii tla would not infers with him as b3ing tha main cause of a massacre of foreign ers, they had to arrest him for the subsequent murder of one of his own people, and he was biaUhed, sis years ago, to the Am::r district. Ciilltl-Stllnaria tli Month. A ravi aa nj I Julia Ogljt,r3 m ere ated cons Id arable exaita nait hi Geor gia and AUbam by his twl I at of kipaappitfg, fiaving stolen 3 m ttis i tst thfee weeks. Ia two cam aj v.a s0 closely pressed so c'ose lit he abaa doned tlta children ii'Viia-niid. J,fl the third casa he stole thaehiU of a f irm er named while, in J3kn u n ity Ala., and being clo3eiy pressed, he dashed through the town of Talhpoi sa with bknod 8taiu3 on his clotiies, but withoat the yhiM. whic'i it is fearad, he ha marddrvl. Ta Ala bama aothorite have o!fred $j03 for Ogle tree's arrest. Ois Bottle im tub Cl wst. Some sly old fell have a habit of keeping tht r brandy bottle where no body but themselves can get at it. They think nobody knows how ften thev go to it, but a red nose sometime tells the Vale loader than worda can speak it. The "bottle ia the clo3et,' bottle in the closet,' if it contain braa dy, ia very mischievous. But a a bottle in the cloaet,' fall of Perry Davis's Pain Killer, is just what no family cau afford, f) be, without