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WIS OT(D Amjl)ILllNA JMS03E)I1IB)o AMID f Oh, Til. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. t W. HARRIS, M. D. rlivsician, Surgeon and Olt-tetrician. , nji'iyh'" pi:cft'h8inal services to the chi ,0I Rntierlrdi'n Hn.i vicinity. 3iii i-ases fciitrustud to Ins care will receive 3 liases ,,01 attention. ; , He may e ',,un at 'ffi-e or Uesidpnce k.n not Droleasionally absent. . I ly "OLIVER HICKS, M. D., RuTHERFORDTOX, N. C. Continues the practice of Medicine, cert and 'Midwifery, in Rutlier fordton, and the surrounding conn - so-iy. r t OAlTII EH. J SO. GRVY BVXUM. GAITIIKU & BYNUM, . ATTORNEYS 'AT-LAV, , Moro wtos, N. C. Practice in the Federal CourlH, Supreme Court of 2fo'i'tli Carolina, and in the Counties alCaUiwba, 'alsl.v-ll, Rutherford, McDowell, flwJeiSon, MUeheil and Yancey. r'lcciious made in any part ot the State. ' . 38: ly Tw- n. cox, SURGEON AND HECJIAyiCAL Dentist. RUTHERFORDTON DR. J. A. II AGUE, Physician aud burgeon, iLviiiJcicatcd at Kutlier'ordron, N. 0., re-Fj-ei'tfnl' Jf-iidrrp in- Proiesioiial Services to llu-tiuzeif I the Yillajre and purioundinir toiititry, aud hope- to merit a pint of their plroua'e. y . .-. 38: 1 y. T)U J. L. RUCTvER, PHYSICIAN AND St'ROKOy, Gntolii! foAtlie li'ieml pitionasre hereto fore roreiverl. hopcf, hy prompl at trillion to jiicaii-, iu uieiii a coiiiiiiuaiu-e oi n.e Hansc. i tt J. V. 'CARPENTER, ATTORN KY AT LAW, RutllF-HFORinOS, N. 0!. Collect tons I'rompi U attended to. 1 if M. II. ,J. " rrpi;;Ji2i. at law, RUTIIERFORDTOX, K C. Will pnictice in the Pnptrior Courts of the flih and 11th Judicial Districts, in the Su preme Court ol Noith Carolina, and in the FnUral Courts, at StatesAlle and Ashevillft. V 6-tf HOTEL CHIMNEY ROCKHOTEL. The undersigned having taken full enn'rol ol tlii old and -lavurahly kiui n House, on il.e-Hickory Nut Gap Turnpike, 17 miles of utherf'-rdtoii and 2. xi ew ea?t . of Axbtvilie, rc.peeilui!y notitieH plWsuie rfoek d the travelhnjr puldic than he ia fully prepared toHccommodate them. Itia umieces iry tos tnte tliaitli'us pl.ice is in thehiidsl of the finest Mtenery in Wesieru North OaSroIiiii, and Jtrwm- dosirinsf cither health or pleasure. find no hctter place to wliile away the un tner mouths My lenns shall reason "'le. and no pains will be sp:trcd to make K'K-Hts coinJoriablo.' ' Give ute a call. JC-tC J. M. JUSICR "CIIAULOTTE HOTEL, Chahlottk, X. C. Matthews & Son. 38:tf THE BURNETT UOUb'E, HUTHERFORDTON, N. C. opeu lor" theV accommodation oflthe Jrvcllinjr public, and with ii'od iare, atteu lve 8ervanta. and ptod stables atid teed tor ruri-H, the proyuclur a share ot patron. illy Prop nctor.l BUSINESS CARDS. 11. XI . It 0 15 fi i S Ort , Fa sh ion a ble t a ! l o r; Main ' SL, Opposite ike Hunieii House, KCTHLltFORDTOX, N. 0. AH work cut and made warranted to Fit. -'eainnjf and repairing done at h.liort iioticre. ."test Siyle Fafehion I'lat cm always on hand. ty Orders Iroui a distance promptly at Jd;d to. 44-ly. Sides hides ! hides ! ! ! hijihegt market "prices pajd for Green Di Dry Uides . WZSTEIIN STAR LODGE No. 9.1, A. F. t MeetB regularly ou the 1st Monday tipht a each month, futsdays of Superior Courts on the Festival ot the Stsl John. u. M. WlllTKSJDK, W il. JrlK JUSTICK, Sec. STAR AND RECORD, . "cLi8aED Weekly at $2 per Year, Clexdknin. & Carpenter, , Buthebfordtox, N. C. , N. G. NTAK & HKCOHI). J'CRLISIIED EVERY SATUUDAV. J. C. Clendenin,") t J. ..B. . Carpenter, f Rmu8nn RTJTHERFORDTON, N. C. Terms ofv Suescriptiox. 1 copy 1 year in advance, 1 copy 6 months Single copy, $2.00 1.00 .05 10.00 1G.00 30.00 b copies l year, 10 " 1 " 20 " 1 tST Specimen copies sent free. 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THE MAN OF BUSINESS, RETURNING TO HIS - ' MANSION, TINDETH HIS WIFE AT THE N GRAND PIANOFORTE. Sing to me, love, I need thy song, I need that thou shouldest cheer r - ma-wnll. , . .- ; . For every thiiig is going wrpng. And life apjietirs an awful sell.. I've overdrawn my banker's book, I'm . teased for leans by brother John ; Last night aur clerk clopecl and took Two thousand pounds sing on -sing on. My partner proves a man of straw, And straw, alas ! I dara not . thrash ; My mortgagee has gone to law, And swears he'll have his pound of. flesh. . My nephew's nose Las just ' been split In some mad student fight at Bonn ; My tailor serves me with a writ For three years' bills sing' on sing on-. , My doctor says I must not think. But go and spend a month at ' Ems ; ' . . X My coachman overcome by drink, . Near Barnes, upset me in the 'Thames. My finest horse is ruined quite, And hath no leg to stand upon ; The other's knees are such a sight He'll ne ver sell sing on sing ' on. My love, no ter.rsf I'll touch thee now : Thy xaiTot in our pond is drowned, - " Thy lap dog met a fiuipus cow, &TP i mo51.I1U8 1heai the merchant calculating Whose horn hath saved thee,- , . , ,' . many a ponied-; Thy BQii frorn, papabridge mvtst retire -For tying cracker's to ft don; Thy country hpuse lst night took v fire ' It's down, sweet love -sing on sing on. lyunch. T His 3f:un. The following colloquy took place at an Eastern post omce : "I say, Mr. postmaster, is there a litther for me ?" jWho are you, my good sir f 4kI'm meself ; that's who I am." 44,Yell, what is your name V 'tAu' what do you want wid the name ? Isn't it on the litther V "I want to find the letter, if there is one." "Well, Pat Byrne, thin, if ye must have it" No, sir, there is none for Pat Byrne." "Is there xo way to get in there but tnrough this pane of glass ?" 4No, sir." 44Its well for ye there isn't lid teach ye better manners than to insist on a gentleman's name. But ye didn't git it, after all, so I'm even wid ye ; sorra ft bit is me name Byrne," BE SI7BE YOU ABE EIGHT AND" BUJTHESiFOMPTOK,1 ' ., AUGUST SS, 184. . , - - From the Raleigh Crescent Autobiography of a Cotton Bale. IX TWO CHAPTERS.. CHAPTER I. I was raised in 'Wake county, Xorth Caroling, by a farmer of moderate means. At an early age I learned from a conversa tion between the farmer and a liHighbor that I and the lund on which I wr s raised were mnrtaej ed to a Baltimore firm, who liad furnished fertilizers for tlie soil, ami also to a Raleigh merchant ho had sold supplies of Western bacon and corn for the support of tne rield hands, and Northern hay and oats for the mules. The far mer Complained that necessity had forced him to pay a very high rate of interest lor the use of the capital invested in the above Men tioned fertilizers and farm supplies and that lie haxdx in addition to 'pay a heavy fee foix drawing and recording the 'mortaise securing: the commission merchants; I noticed that the tnulesxon the farm were poorly fed and that as they passed the lot gate they eaVr ly nipped a few bunches of luxii riant clover which had sprung up fnm seeds dropped out of the. 'Northern-oats.'' The farmer said, as the mules passed on, 4I would sow an acre in clover, but I need all m- best land for cotton." I have nothing very remarka ble to tell you concerning rnv youthful days. I observed tliat the -hands employed in the nold were poorly clad. Most of them wore coarse, cheap Northern made clothes, shoes and hats, and from their rude talk I found that they had very little education. Tho .wluoa- uutl. -eLuhlrtm of. these farm laborers frequently came to field, and I Saw that the women' wore Northern calico dresses and that the 'children were irrowins; up in ignorance. After being picked and packed I vas taken to Raleigh. The commission merchant said to the farmer: ' Cotton is fiat to-dav, hut we expect it will go up soon." The farmer sighed and replied : 14 Well," I guess I went into a large new brick store, and acci dentlv heard the merchant sav to the clerk": " InHiire this bale of cotton,. and charge Mr. A. with insurance and btorae." I re mainedshut up for some time wlier. the farmer came in one day and the merchant said to him : " Cotton is no better, but I am compelled to have some money. 1 will ship your bale to Baltimore and do the best I can with it.", A dray soon came up, and as I was hoisted into it, the merchant said:' 44 Have this bale insured and directed to W. & II., Balti more. T)iey will pay the freight and insurance." I was hurried over the iailroads to Norfolk and thence by steamer to Baltimore. I was then stored for some time, when I was sold to an airent of a Rhode Island manufacture. As I rjassed out I now iniicp was on p. u if ii as sioragu aud commission on my sale. My purchaser was also busy jn get ting out his insurance oil me and arranging to pay freight on me to Khoue Island. Nothing occurred on the route to my destination worthy of re mark. When I arrived at the factory, I found several thousand friends raised in North Carolina. I noticed the women and children seemed cheerful, but none of them wore Southern xniade shoes or Southern made clothes, or ate Southern bacon. The dray I orees were wdl kept, but did not cat Southern, hay or oats. The own ep pf the factcry, they said, was very rich, and had made his tor tune manufacturing cotton cloth for the New York market. I was hurried through the fac tory and camp out a bolt ot ni- e, smootk cloth. I w;is hurried into a bale of cloth for- a Nev York wholesale house, and as I went out over heard a conversation of the owupr of the mill. Jlo said THEN GO AHEAD.-'-Davt Cbockett. be was realizing handsome profits from his lactory, and besides he was giving employment to a hun dred families, and was one of the largest tax-payers in the State. I then went to New York to the establishment of one of-the merchant princes, and was delight ed to hear him say to a clerk, 4 send this bale to Messrs. Tucker, Raleigh." Ae I had passed over, theqoute before, it was not new to me and I arrived sately in Ral eigh in less than a week. By chance was put on the bottom of a large pile of cloth, and having nothing else to do, I entered into a little calculation. It was as follows : I have changed hand? often. First the Raleigh merchant realiz ed his profit mid storage. Then the Insurance agent. Then the Railroads got their freights. Then the steamers got their freight The Baltimore merchant got his storage and commissions. Then the Northern Insurance agent got his per cent. Then the manufac turer got his profits. The New York wholesale merchant got his per cent. . Theii the railroads and steamers got their return freight and the insurance man got anoth er per cent. Messrs. Tucker must have a per cent, and- Ilere a clerk reached down and pulledxme out with a jerk, and lo and behold! my old master, the man wUo'raised me, said he would take me, 4 tat he wanted some norrard' homeepun," and I was bundled 'and aiiMiow at my old home in Wake, expecting shortly to be cut ui). CHAPTER II. 1 believe when Mr. Tucker's clerk broke the thread of my dis course,! was making a calculatiptu I had told how the followinger sons.reahzed profits on me : 1. The Raleigh Cotton Factor. 2. The Railroads and Steam lines. 3. The Insurance Agents. .- 4. The Baltimore Merchant. 5. The Northern Railroads. 6. IheNorthernlnsuranceCom panics. 7. The Manufacturer. 8. The Wholesale Merchant. 0. The railroads on return freight. 10. The insurance .men on re turn risks. 11. The retail dealer. These parties all -show a deep interest in me, and I wish to say I entertain no unkind feelings to wards any ot them. The profits they realized from me were legiti mate "and proper. But, I feel very kindly for the man who raised nie, and wheu I considered that he paid all these accumulated profits, added to the original cost, I did not wonder that he dressed poorly atid was hard pressed, to support his family. 1 have travel ed arounq1 and listened to calcu lating inen talk, and I intend to w 1 ii spc r a wo r d to hi m 1 1 1 ro u gl i the Crescent. What I want to say is: . , Raise your own hogs. Don't buy Western bacon at a high price when cotton is liable to be at a low price! Sow an acre or two in clover. It will save corn and enableyou to iced your teams better, and will cost you less than Northern onts and hay. It will enable you to feed your cows bet ter, and they will give more and better milk. Your calves will grow larger and make finer eattlp. liaise your own corn and wheat. Don't plant all cotton. Don't pi jnt all cotton. If your land is poor, sow peas, and improve it.' Save all your. barn-ard manure, compost your vegn ahlp mould, and don't buy worthless fertili zers. ; And when I get through whis pering to the farmer, I waht to say a word t capitalists. , Cotton must be raised in the South. There will always be a demand for the manufactured article. We have water-powers iu abundance. It Northern man ufacturers can pay transportation aud insurance on' the raw materi al, and manufacture it oxithe frozen streams of New England, and lealize handsome profits, why cannot the Southern manufactur er, who can purchase it at his door without freight and insur ance charges, compete successful ly with the Northern manufac turer? Our water-p'oweis are as good ; streams are seldom frozen ; our climate is better; we can work more dayi in -tho year ; la bor can be had as cheap. Besides making large profits, on tho capi tal invested, you will give em ployment to oii r poor women aud children, and the cost of manu- instead of eiirichinar men a thousand miles away, will i be spent with our own merchants and tradesmen, and thus improve the coudition of our own State. I do pot wish to be misunder stood. I do not -'desire North Carolinians to invest their capital in factories because I entertain any unkind feeling for Northern ptople. I have had enough of sectional. sm. I was once known as King Cotton, but my crown, if not entirely ruined, is badly dam aged by sectional dilhculties. I oniy mention the North because most of our staple is manufactured there. I wish to sae all our peo ple, North and South,, prosper, but I can-see 'nothing- like pros perity for the ISoiUh for North Caroiina until her people 'earn to raise their own food, manufac ture' their own stap!e,uianut'acture their own utensils,"a,id give em ployment to their own mechanics? 14 -4- TIic Scientific Ouliook Wendell Phillips said in a re cent speech that ihe time was coming when we might communi cate instantly with San Francisco w i t Ip u t ei th e r w i re or o p e r a to r. The audience laughed at him. Perhaps Ills siatcuiciit . extravagant as it seemed. Had the ordinarv w$rk how 'donn by themagnetic telegraph been pre dicted forty years. ago it would have been received with the same iiicredulit3r. The truth is that science, like . politics "and love, always develops in unexpected directions. Nbssooner are men fixed in their scientific opinions than some 8tartliiigdiscovcry re- veals their ignoranceXand shows the world that all thingsare pos sible under the sun. Ever since the invention of the use of sseam men have agreed that ouIvxhot vapor had the power but quite recent tv a rhnaueipma m a ch l n i s t e x h i b ije d ai iron - globe no longer tharfl gallon jug, full of could "vap)r, showing a pres sure oi' twenty thousaud pounds to the square inch, and neither time nor temperature diminished its tremendous power. The dis coverv is said to have been acci dental. The inventor was exper imenting Vifh an engine run by compressed air and a vacuum, when to his profound astonish ment he stumbled on the cold vapor secret ; and it was some time before he could make a gauge strong enough to test its pbyerCj Until then he had not imagined such a discovery possible. Nature seems to coquet with the inquiring intellect of man un til ho is sure of some great secret, when she confounds him with dis appointment ; but iii his less in quisitiye moments she reveals ' . . what he never dreamed of. Mod-1 eru science is a paradox. Water which .-was always considered thc most incombustible matter in na ture, -produces" the greatest heat known. Watch springs burn like pitch. The chemist prepares de licate niusliu so that it can be cleansed With tire Arseb; is pre scribed for dangerous diseases. Frozen feet are saved hy plung ing them into snow. Children are told to keep away from iron dur ing thunderstorms, Ter hardware stores are never struck by lightDr ing. Persons suflering with hv dropliobia go iho cQuvulsions a 'the sight of: water. A Fren h physican, however, has cqred fif ty cases of this awful malady '-with' hot baths. An editor of a New York newspaper lost his sight; - ' . J NO. 2, until a surgeon put a kmtc, into ... .... his eyeballs, whereupon one man recovered and weut about his work. The wildest imagination is un- aDie to preoici me aiscoyenes or the future. For all we know i . . 1 . . x . ... 1, A . . . . . . a A M n . lUllllllO 111 IUV llAl VIHUl J lllJ pump fuel from the river and Inminate their houses with ice and electricity. iron vessels, properly magnetized; may sail thuyh.the.airJike balloons, rmd a trip to the Kocky Mountains may be made in an hour. Peis haps within fil1l)r years American grain will be shot into Liverpool and Calcutta through iron pipe3 laid under the sea. "By means ot condensed air and cold vapor en gins excursion parties may travel along the floor of the ocean, sail past ancient wrecks and moun tains ot coral. On land the intel ligent farmer may turn the soil of a thousand acres in a day, while his son cuts wood with a platiu um wire and shells corn by elec tricity. The matter now contain ed in a New York daily may be produced ten thousands times & minute, ou little scraps of paste board, by improved photography; and boys may sell the news of tho world printed on visiting cards, which their customers will read through artificial eyes. Fue hunnred years hence a musician may play a piano in New York connected with instrument in San Francisco, Chicago, Cinema nati, New Orleans and other cU ties, which will be listened to by half a million of people. A speech delivered in New York will be heard instantly in the halls of those cities, and when fashiona hie audiences in San Francisco go to hear some renowned singer sne will be performing in New York or Philadelphia. T;t'h;3,yit19Q0 man. may put OU IllO llll'ttlCU CVClCOilL, MU1 I pair of light steering wings fas tened to his arms, and goto Newark and back in an hour. All the great battles will be fought in the air. Patent thunderbolts will be used instead of cahnou. A bov in Iloboken will tro tov Canada in the family air carriage to see his sweetheart, and the next day his father will chasten him with a magnetic rebuker be caues he did not return before midniirht.,The time is coming u'lmn -tfir TTrnhl will bp rid fi ro v. .. - H porter to see a man reduce one ot the Rocky Mountaius to powder in half a day. Skilful miuers will extract gold f rem quartz easily as cider is sqeezed from apples. A compound telescope will be inven ted on entirely new principles, so that one may see the planets as distinctly as we now see Stateu island. Microscopes win De maao so powerful that a particle of dust on a gnat's back wilf appear lar- L li II x . 4 I O A VII n. . U.. V .MUA vellous progress will be made in psychological and menfal sciences. Two men will sit in baths filled with' chemical liquid?.' One ot them may be in Denver and the other in Montreal. A pipe filled with the same liquid will connect the two vesels, and the fluid will be so sensitive that each man will know the other's thoughts. In these corning days our present mode of telegraphing be classe4 with the wooden ploughs of TS . t . I . I . . I I 1 1 gvpt, ana trie people yiu jooh. back to steamships and locomo- fives as we look back to sailboats aud stae coaches The record of fatal .sunstroke cases iu the largo Northern cities is i ncreasing raphlly. Tt isseldon) a case occurs in any of the Soutljr crn cities. Iiv Louisville a woman claims that her husband dipd of in jure received while being initiated in to the Knight of J'ythias, au4 wants 100,000 damages. In Memphis, TennM on the 1st it s ant, M. D. Wcl.-b, a well? known attorney, was shot by Br B. Barnes. nUo an attorney, an4 probably fatally wounded.