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' '' THECOaHOiHWfiiLIlL Scotland Neck, N.O. 8cotland fleck,' An uncompromising Democratic nal. Published every Thursday morning. .::.; AdTcrtlsiasx Rate J. B. NEA L, Manager. 1 inch 1 week, 1 1 month, i . . ' $1.00. ; - - $2.80. . Subscription ffiates ; E. E. HIIiLIARD, Editor. 'THE LAND VE LOVE.' Terms : $2 00 per yea? in Advance. 1 Copy 1 Year. 1 " 6 Months, 82 00 $1.00 VOL. I. ' SGOTMND-NECK, N.C., THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1883. -NO. 30. X'. inn s I I j lr DAEBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A BMMbold Article to UnlTcrsal family C .- For Scarlet and Tylioid l'"evers, IiiptUeria, Sali vation, Ulcerated Sare Throat, Small Pol, Measles, an J Eradicates HALASIA. all Contcons Iica.se. Persons waiting o the Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has never been known tc spread where th Fluid wal used. Yellow Fever has been cured with it after black vomit had taken place. The wont cases of Diphtheria yiel i to it. FeveredandSickl'er- ! IAIX-POX son refreshed and and Bed Sores prevent- . PITTINO of Small ed by bathing with j pox PREVENTED Durby Fluid Ara mber of my fern- Impure Air made ; ,, was taken with harmless and punned, s'.x. 1 used the For Sore Throat it is a : f , w tf waJ r.nitiiirion destroyed ,utc ."- - - .. ot delirious, was not Jt or Frosted .v -Vet, Chilblains. Fjles, ChafingH. ejfc. Rheumatism cured. Soft White Com plex ions secured by its use. Ship Fever prevented. To purify the llreath, Cleanse the Teeth, it can't be surpassed. Catarrh relieved and cured. Emivelas cured. pitted, and was about the house again in three , weeks, and no others had it. J. W. Park ' ihson, Philadelphia. BurnareUevedinstanUy. The physicians here Scars prevented. i use Darbys Fluid very Dysentery cured. ! successfully in the treat Wounds healed rapidly. m-nt cf Diphtheria. Scurvy cured. I A. Stollf.mwercs:, An Antidote for Animal ' Greensboro, Ala. or Vegetable Poisons, Tetter dried u. I ued the" Fluid durinz ' Cholera prevented. ouroresent affliction with j Mce. P"hed and Scarlet Fever with de cided advantage. It is indispensable to the sick room. Wm. F. Sand rcBD, Eyrie, Ala. healed. In cases of Peat hit should be used abrt the corpse it will prevent any unpleas ant smell. The eminent Phy sleuin.J. MARION S13IS, M. D., New York, says: "I am convinced Prof. Darbys prophylactic Fluid is a valuable disinfectant." Scarlet Pover I Cured. Vanderbilt CnlversitjyaVashvillp, Tenn. 1 testify to the most excet.nt qualities of Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. As a disinfectant and determent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted. N. T. LfFTON, Prof. Chemistry. Darbys Fluid Iz liecommended by Hon. Alexander H. Stephhns, of Georgia ; Rev. Chas. F. Decks, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y.; Jos. LbCoste, Columbia, Prof., University, S.C. Rev. A. J. Battle, Prof, Mercer University; Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, Bishop M. E. Church. INDISPENSABLE TO EVEKY HOME. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for ?.ian or P-east- The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fulle.- information get of your Druggist a pamphlet or fend to the proprietors, J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA, GENERAL DIRECTORY. s4:otla.i) ai:ci:. Mayor W A. Dunn. Coamissioners Noah Biggs, J. R. Bal lardf R. M. Johnson, J. Y. Savage. Meet first Tuesday in each month at 4 o'clock, P M. Chief of Police C W. Dunn. Assistant Policemen A. David. W 1) Shields. C. F. Speed. Sol. Alexander. Treasurer R M Johnson. Clerk J Y Savage. CHURCHES : Baptist J. D. Hufham. D. D.. Pastor. Services every Sunda- at 11 o'clock. A. 31., and at 7. P. M. Also on Saturday before the first Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night. Sunday School on Sabbath morn ing. Primitive Baptist Eld. Andrew Moore. Pastor Services every third Saturday and Sunday morning. Methodist Rev. C. W. Byrd, Pastor Services at 3 o'clock, P. M on the second and fourth Sundays. Sunday School on Sabbath morning. Ppiscopal Rev. H. G, Hilton, Rector Services every first, second and third Sundays at 10J o'clock, A. M. Sunday School every Sabbath morning. Meeting of Bible class on Thursday night at the residence of Mr. P. E. Smith. Baptist (colored.) George Norwood, Pastor. Services every second Sunday at II o'clock, A. M.. and 7, P. M. Sun day School on Sabbath morning. ... -o COUNTY. Superior Court Clerk and Probatt Judge John T. Gregory. Inferior Court--Geo. T. Simmons. Register of Deeds J. M. Grizzard. Solicitor A. J. Burton, . Sheriff R. J. Lewis. Coroner J II Jenkins. Treasurer E. I). Browning. Co. Supt. Pub. Instruction D C Clark. Keeper of the Poor IIouse-John Ponton. Commissioners Chairman, Aaron Pres- cott, Sterling Johnson, Dr. W. R Wood, John A. Morneet, and M. Whitehead. ........ t Superior Court Every third' Monday in iUarcn ana oeptemoer. Inferior Court Every third Monday in r ebruary May, Augus and .November Judge of I uferiorvCourtr4T.r If. Hui. A ClIARLO f TESVIIXE INVENTION The Scientific American says : Mr Charles E. Brennan, of Charlottes ville, Va., has recently . patented an automatic fire-extinguisher, the ob ject of which is to provide an spparat us that shall be brought into opera tion automatically wnen . a ore oc curs in a building or other place con tiguous to the machine. In case a fire occurs in a room, as soon as the temperature reaches high enough to point to fuse metal, a weight and lever will thereby released, and falling, opens avatfftwhic&ojjnecit8 with the pipes for' conveying water from the ; tank or .reserfoin The pipes are provided "Withf IbprmRling attachment and exiend around the rotn. rThe moment the valve ia re? lieved by the fusible metal' be water commences to flow- through: the sprinkler, about thferooxnmL ttuifc the fire is subdued t J '' 'i rl Diphtteria : Prevented. sssssW THREESCORE AND TEN. Threscore and ten ! How the time rolls ". on, - . Nearing the limitless sea ; Bearing the voyager over life's flood , To boundless eternity On through the childhood's sunny hours, On through youth with its golden flowers, On througn maatioou s npenea powers, fill age appears. With its crown of years A nd the time-worn mariner sighing for rest Anchors at last in the port of the blest. Threescore and ten! How the rolling years Are checked with sunshine and shade! The calm chased awtfy by the pitiless storm. Earth's iov into sorrow must fade. Spring with its bloom and perfume spedf t rait-laaen summer quiciviy neaf Autumn came with weary tread, Hent with the load Of treasured food And then stern winter, with frosty breathy Throws ovtvr the lields.the pall of death. Threescore and ten ! And if we shall reach The bound to life that here is set, How few of the comrades of early years Around ns will linger yet! Father and mother, their journey is o'er ; Brothers and sisters, we greet them no more ; Our loved ones stand thronging the far ther shore. . They beckon us on. They point to the crown, And with longing hearts they wait lo lead us through the pearly gate. Threescore and ten ! stand firm in thy lot, Faithful and true to the end ; Bending thine ear to catch every word Of the message the Master doth send ; Wakeful thine eyes, for far spent is the niffhtr Burnished thine1 armor, thou soldier of light; Readv to march, for the day-star is bright; Bold in the fight For truth and right ! Thou a conquerer shalt stand With the exulting blood bought band. Threescore nul ten ! And what shall we add . - . To measure the early strife? ' ilow many sands are left in the glass, Counting the years of life ? One by one they silently fall. One by one till have fallen all, One by one till thy (iod shall call 'Thy race is run, Servant, well done ! Faithful in the Lord's employ. Enter now into his joy Selected. EDUCATION BY NEWSPAPERS. Tf anv disbeliever or doubter of the educative value of newspapers is willing to be convinced of his error, we suggest to him the propriety of studying tne great moral and religi ous movements that Lave recently assumed such interest and import ance in our country. Thus, a few years ago, the patriotic sense of the people was almost utterly blunted to the exactions and wrongs of the -spoils system." As for any hope of reform from the p oliticians, one j miyht as well have expected a hun ;ry wolf, enjoying his midnight feast on a captured lamb, to let go ns delicious victim, as to have look ed fbr any imorovemeat in this iniquitous state of governmental , af fairs First rate statesnien are al ways very rare productions in any country. Such a m.racle as W llber- Ibrce was in England two-thirds of a century ago, or John Bright has recently been, is extremely uncom mon ; and as for statesmen amonsr us men of comprehensive intellects and sound hearts the wonder has made to itself wings and flown away. For the last forty years nearly all our true statesmanship baa been tors and newspaper con tributors, and, notable of late, this fact has become obvious; that the daily and weekly press has shown itself the first power in the land. HOW THE MATTER WORKS. Vho go from many of the States to Cangress ? For the most part. men who represent interests that have . axes to grind. The selfish concern has this or that object to effect and the so called representa tive. so far as the will and welfaie of the people are involved, is what Napoleon said of history "a fable agreed upon." The necessary out come is whisky rings, huge corpora tions, herculean monopolists wield ing 'resistless poer, a government that allows aristocracy of money to put J rlunbus L'nuui in their pock eta, and lias small use for the Amer lean eagle except the use theT eagle has for its prey.? No-man in this country objects, to-Smith t Jones making a fortune . vNo man had word to say when William E. Dodge died worth several millions, for the people knew him as one who said to hjs fellow-directors in a celebrat ed railway : "We break God's Jaw tor a uivmenu, out as lor me, 1 go out." Unfortunate and alarming as tne inequality is, when one man can make $10,000 or $50,000 a day. and iv.uuu or ou.uuu or the people can not make over $1 a day, nobody has any disposition to complain serious ly of- this abnormal condition of democratic society. What the sober and thoughtful-mind e1 in every rank of Americatfsocliety dcvofcjecV to ts. that Government should be particeps crimim? in this -persona Taggr an dtzement of a few to the Immeasura ble harm of millions of citiaens, and ictthe moral degeneration of our soy- Lernment iu all its branc&ea. AGENCY OF NEWSPAPERS. Just now newspapers are the form ers of our best thought in certain "re spects, and, iu fact, the only formers) in somevery . great departments 01 public opinion. V all know that they have their evils and vices, but we know also that they do an im mense amount of invaluable service to the common weal. Thousands of educated men have no time to read much else.thau newspapers, and on their minds the greatest potency of the press is exerted. What though there be some virus iu these newspa pers ? If the sly poison slip into readers from one, they have the quick antidote of another paper to undo the harm. Nor do they read for themselves alone. They read for the breakfast-table, for the fire side, for the street cars, for the counting-room, and fr every place where men "most do congregate." They read to talk, to compare notes, to stimulate debate, and act oh public-sentiment. No such influence, as to its penetrative and wide spread ing operation, is exerted on the pop ular mind. All our pulpits taken together, although acting in a far higher realm and specially endowed 'with posver from on high," have no range like that of the newspaper. Its special vocation is to educate us in current wisdom as to the affairs of the country in politics, morals, business, and society, and thereby quicken and keep alive our patriot ism, morality, and energy. This, at least, is its ideals. Short of it, doubtless, the reality often falls. Short of it, it n av fail and. yet do incalculable good. All we insist on, all that is necessary to our argument, is the fact that the newspaper, daily and weeklj-, is the main power of creating and directing an enlighten ed and co-operative public opinion on the vitstl issues of the day. POWEK'-SFHIND THE POWER. The supreme power is C5:r;;stiani ty. Without it, consciously or un consciously felt, the newspaper amounts to nothiag as amoral force. Whether we know it' or not, 'the ground and reaaon for believing any thing, touching our welfare and interest, is, at heart, a religious ground and reason. Men are never sceptics toward themselves. Human nature is never disbelieved in, nor can it possib'y be ; and hence, the instinctive self, whatever appearance marks the intellect and the passions, has its ineradicable sense of obliga tion to truth and godliness. Now, the pulpit is the pulpit, the standing place of God's messenger, and the messenger is God's word to the con science. Yet God lias manifold and nnmerous messages, not specially riven. and in many cases not given to the pulpit at all, that he intends men to hear and obey. "I here be many voices" none too many room for all, and atmosphere enough to vibrate to a. goodly num ber besides what we have. And among thee ' "voices" editors are to be designated as eutiiled to yery special heeu. Providence has much to say to us a'bout government, about partisanships,and paitnerships about evils in trade and commerce : and, stated roughly, editors are providen tial agents to see after moral inter ests on the humbler plane of daily life, none the less vital, la wevcr, be cause in this lower sphere. If the pulpit has certain things to say which the press cannot say, it is equally true that the press has much to say the pulpit ought not to say. Yet accepting this broad distinction between the two functions, the y do have,, nevertheless, a meeting-point and a coincident and. co-operative re sponsibility in taking care of the moral welfare of the country. Heaven grant that they may see it ! At this juncture there is a most urgent need for a revival of morality ; for a quick ening of conscience in affairs 6f bar ter and sale ; for a Pentecost, and es pecially a sequel to Pentecost as it re gards the uses of money. Richmond Christian Advocate. THE KORTIt AND THE SOUTH We ? have not been anions those who sneeze whenever bur rieishbor north of the line take snuff, or who have the cold chills when the North wrinkles its grim visage and looks sour towards the sunny South. But we have been content to move aloni. doing what seemed to us right, keep ing pace with the times, endeavori ng to build up our State and procure for our people the highest measure of prosperity as the reward fbr their honest toil." We have had neither time nor inclination to bother with Northern sentiment, feeling certain that nothing succeeds so well as suc cess, and that' after the South" had reached vantage ground she would have plenty of friends at the North and abroad. The time was" long in coming for the ruined Confederate States had to begin at the bottom and work under all sorts of disadvantages- but the sunlight breaks now and then through the clouds and the South 'i is measurably on her '""feet again, .with a glorious prospect - that is full of cheer.' Herpeopie are hap- py. and. entuted her field.V fertile and productive, and her capital is not lying idle, but ia being rapidly invested in manufacturing enter prises that are a thorn in the side of the iron men, and threaten the su premacy of the New England cotton mills. The paper up North that used to delight in harrowing the feelings of their susceptible readers with little work of fiction, based on the idea that the "chivalry loafed on the fence rails all day and kukluxed and murdered the darkeys all night." at length are confronted with the brazen fact that we are producing seven million bales of cotton, and more tobacca, corn and small grain than ever, and they are consequently cnanging front rapidly. To be sure we are gratified when we find in a Nc rtherrn paper a truthful account of what the South done and is doing, and it is for this reason' that we note with pleasure a letter writ ten by Henry E. Bowen, in the Independent, a paper of very consid erable consequence. Mr. Bowen says that during a recent trip from New York to Texas, visiting en route the principal cities in Virginia, North Carolina, South Car.dina. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, he was not met every where with the proverbial open heart ed cordiality of the Southern, but was everywhere impressed by the evidences of a new departure m the growth of commerce and those yearn ing and ambitious ideas that are the true harbingers of undoubted pros perity. He remarks that in conver sation with public officials, editors of uews papers, professional men, merchants, and the-traveling public, one is agreeably surprised at tne friendly tone and cheerful sentiment of the people, especially in view of the . utterances of Northern pap r ; and Northern politicians. He asserts that the future of the Southern States is no longer an un solved problem. New life is swel ling her veins, Out GSStoms-and pre judices are dying out; aim stroirg influences are at work, wKch, at no distant, day, wUl bring her to tie front ranks of the producing and manufacturing States of the Union. He says that not one hateful or vengeful word apainst the Northern States did he hear during all his trip. "Those who fought against the Union flag are just as loyal and patriotic to-day as we are." "In conversation with old slave owners, the Northerner is surprised to hear them say they would not buy back their slaves, if they were free to do so." He continues : "io-day the ear nest desire of the residents of every' Southern town and city is that Northern people may settle among them. No shot guns are in waiting. Men and capital are wanted to de velop the great resources of the conn tryT Freedom of speech and politi cal opinions are guaranteed to all aliki? in almost every part of the South. The carpet bag element is gone and majorities rule. Taxpay ers have tueir rights ; and, as the election history of the Haye3-Tilden campaign is gradually coming to light, it is believed that the Southern people willingly surrendered to Hayes whit possibly belonged to Tilden. To-day the peopie of the South control their own States, as it is right they should ; and they do not reiect the counsels of Northern men come among them as actual settlers and not as plundering carpet-baggers. That matter thus satisfactor ily- adjusted, the Southern States are nov rapidly going ahead and get ting out of debt." We cannot make longer quota tions, but must reproduce one more paragtaph. "The Southerners are just now learning that cotton is not the king he was supposed to be, and that a diversity ot crops is necescary iu order to acheive success as planters. There was a time when, possibly, cotton was the great monarch ; but to-day corn is fairly contesting his power and supremacy. The planter, who, heretofore gave all his time and attention to raising cotton, now finds that, to gather wealth, he must raise the other necessaries of life, so that the money received from the sale of his cotton may not all be expend ed in purchasing corn and the other things needful for his subsistence ; and this he is beginning to do now more than ever. When this method becomes universal there the South will rapidly grow rich." We wish, indeed, that this last were even more true and more gen eral than Mr. Bowen found it to be. But still it is true in a great measure ; the Sonth never produced more corn than last year. News and Observer China possesses the longest bridge in the world. It is t Lagang.over an arm of the China ' sea, and is five miles long, built entirely of stone,; is seventy' feet high, with a. roadway seventy feet wide, nd has three hun. dred arches. The parapet is a balus trade, and each of the pillars, -which are seventyfiv fset apart, supports a pedestal on which is placed a lion twenty five ft et lng made of one block of marble. AN ARECDJTE i;F G43I3 TTA S MOTHER. An old acquaintance of Gambetta contributes an anecdotal paper to the Century, containing the following ac count of a rather unscrupulous ruse by which Gambetta mother got the means to send her so i to the law school in Paris. As tiie "Bazar Ge nois" was in the market place, its business lay in a areat degree with rustics. Lfon got si -.k of dealing with haggling rustics, and prayer to be re moved from behind the counter to the desk. As he wis a quick account ant, and wrote in a neat, legible and flowing hand, this was granted. He did his best to give hi& mm I to the business, but failed, and his health sank under the-tedium ot'nncongeni al pursuits. No device to which the watchful and teudt-r mother resorted could get the belt r ot his splenetic state. He had a fixed .umition which, as it appeared to him a clerical one, made him restless. discontented and miserable; it was. to study law and become a teacher to a legal faculty in a provincial city. One day his mother called him to her. She sai i she -hau been unhappy in witnessing his growing depression, a id she hand ed him a bag of money which she had saved unknown to any body enough lo defray the cost, of his journey to Paris and enable him to. study law there lor some time. A truiik full of clothing had been prepared and-was at the olli:e of the stage-coach, where a place was booked for him to the nearest railway. Madame (Iami;;tta instructed him to slip, quietly away, in order to avoi I a paiuiul scone with his father, who was determined that his son should succeed him in the business. Tiiis cominunu-ation was so unexpected and delightiul that for the rest of the day Leon was in a state ol bewil.lerm ut. He rose be times next morning and stole off as instructed. Before Ma lame Gambit la had instructed her son t follow his vocation she had taken steps to keep him out of misery when th ihoard placed in his nan. Is should be e x 1 1 aifsleil .' 1 . i Id.rJTtlie "yearjn which Gambetta loft Cahors M'Emile Menier went there on a business tour. He had just opened a chocolate fac tory at Noisiel.aud tr aded in medicat ed biscuits and sweet stuffs. Calling at the 'Bazar Genois," he was receiv ed by Madame Gamlietta. In answer to hi proposal to sell his goo Is on commission she, with tears in her eves, init it vii,h a.ioiher. It was in t he nat ure of the one enunciated by the unjust steward. "I have a son of great prom se," she saTd, -whom I want to send to Paris, against his father's will, to study law. He is a good lad and no fool. But my hus band, who wants hi in to coijtuiue his business here will, I know, try to starve him into suomitsion. What 1 am alnnit lo propose is that if I i;uy your chocolate at the rate you offer it, and buy it outright insiea l of taking it to sell on commission, you will say nothing if I enter it.it a higher price, and you will pay the difference to my son ?" M. Menier, from whose lips 1 had this anecdote, agreed, and for some years carried out this arrange inent. TRAVELLING BY ELECTRICITY. When steam was first brought into general use as a motor, a great deal of attention was paid by inventors to the problem of making its use universal instead of con tilling it to eerudn conditions that hallo be pre pared expressly for it at great labor and expense. 1 hey felt it was de sirable to make i. a draft force upon common highways, as e)i as upon railway s, hut the weight of the m -chines that would have to be used and the ditflcnlty of making engine?, that would traverse the natural ob structions of ordinary . roads were found to be so great that no satisi'ac tory results WLie ever obtaine I. Hi", steam is looked upon in its turn too cumberson and too .slow, and leaving that to .do its work in the channels where .t is now op "Tiling, the inventors have dashed out upon the plains of science and lassoed that more powerful and fascinating force electricity and they are ' low engaged in taming it and teaching it the tricks titat ire in 'demand in the great- arena of human industries. Fliev train thereby, force, swiftness and tiehca'-y, an I as their under standing of the action of the new servant, broadens and deepens man kind-is to be made the gainer in ways little dreamed of now. The greal value of the new tin'ce jn all its i.o-isitiilit.ies of dtvelotun nt will be its universal application to common tilings. Let it ue known to you, happy and fortunate lad of - the not remote future, that it. will churn the cream, n ek the cradle and turu .the griuds.one, among its more prosiac duties, and it; will utter no complaint of aches iu its UaoU, or w anue-s of its limbs. The 1'U Mall Gazette recently said : "Electricity is now entering the field against the horse as a means of traction, Two emi nent electricians claim to be able to bottle up 12 norse power in a storage battery, weighing. 300 weight, and. thev promise, in a few mouths, a per fectly practical - electric, - tricycle, capable of tunning 15 or 20 miles, without recharging the accumula tors, and able to ascend all such hills as are now possible for the foot tri cycle, an 1 even steeper gradients, if auxiliary foot gearing be used to help the electromotor, when the incline is great." This is no measure of what is coining. It is merely a hint of what science expects to immedi atelv accomplish. But the youth o- to dy will not be an old man befon he can see tin publi ; travelling over suburban, roads, up hill and down hill, drawn by an unseen but not an unknown force. The horse has qualities that will make him a favor ite, no matter to what more capable and tirelesH servant his burdens may be transferred, but he will not long remain the necessity that he is to day. Flectii.-ity is awakening the world and giving an impulse to tin development of a grand civilatioi that has never before been available. Ex. LOUIS JOHN RUDOLPH AGASSIZ. No man has ever lived who ha? st.il lied nature with as much care and thought, and who has contributed more to the solutions of natural prob lems'thari did Louis Agassiz. At ar eariv age In? baian the study of science and his work was laborious, but he labore I in love to solve tn intricases of science and therefor endured an amount of work that would have wrecked the health of an ordinary man. He was a mm of great mental and physical power, intense tenacity of purpose and keen observation. Louis Agassiz was born in the par ish of Motiers, Switz.erland.May 28th 1807, his father being Protestant minister in charge of the Parish. Up to the age of ten years his education wa in charge of his mother who is said to have been an estimable and intelligent wxnt i Ha attended th schools of Bienne, and Lausanne, and the universities of Hetdlburg and Munich. At, the latter place he form ed the acquaiu ance of some of the most intelli nt an 1 prominent m ?n of Europe, and pursued the study of mineralogy and philosophy under competent teachers. Subsequently, he prepared lor publication the ieh- thyological d ip i.'tm jnt of Martin's great work on Brazil, in such a man ler that placed him iu the front ranks of naturalists. His next important work was the "Natural History of the Fresh-Water Fishes of luirope," then came his "Fossil Fishes," which filled five volumes and folio atlas. These pub lications were considered of great value to the scientific world and A gassiz .oun 1 himself justly appreciat ed bv the learned men of Europe. From 1836 to 1845 he studied the glacieis of the Alps, and thegcologi cal phenomena wnijh they produce These reseirches were published in 1847, and established the fact that the imineu.se bowMers seen in so many parts of the woild were con veyed to the places where they are found, by bodies ol floating ice. In 1846 he came to this country and ex plored the Lake Superior region and the Atlantic coast, and,in 1852 accept ed the professorship of anatomy in the medical college of Charleston, S. Afterwavds he went on an expe iition to Braz.l, which was" rich in scientific resu It s.tra versed the Rocky- Mountains, and m 1872 made an ocean, voyage around Cape- Horn, in a coast survey steamer, for deep sea dredging, the result ot which proveu important in the study of oceanic an imals His next great work was the establishment of a science school at a point on the .North Atlantic coast, in which he continued to teach till his death, in 1873. Northern -In dian School Joarn. d. THE TERRIBLE BANG GIRL. Bangs on a girl give her ai unruly- look, like a cow with a board over her face. You take the gentlest cow in the world and put a board over her face, and turn1 her out in a pasture and she gets the reputation of being un ruly, and von would swear that she would j imp fences tnd raise merry hades, an I you would not give so mueh for her by ten dollars, only for beef It is so with a girl. Ifshe wears her hair high on her forehead, or brushed back, -r even half frizzes, and has a good look, you" will go sour bottom dollar on her, and feel that she is as good as gold, and that when she tells her young man that she loves him there is no discount on it, and no giggling back; but take the same giri with her front hair banned, and when she looks at you, youlfeel just as though she would aopk. and y on can't trust her. She has a fence jumping look that makes a young' man feel as " though he wouldn't feel safe : unless she was tied hand and foot : so she couldn't get out of the pasture. A girl with bangs may try to ne goou anu true, but L is awful hard work. When she looks' at herself in'the glass and sees the quarter of forehead; She says to nerself : "I am dangerous : they want to look oiirttiriDK"- StiBtbink8 she is all right. Uit she is constantly do ing that which a girl who wears her hair brushed back would not think of doing. .' ''i . ' ' . Contracts for any space or time may be made at tbe office of The Common wealth. Transient advertisements must be paid - -or m advance. ... ME SOUTH AS A FIELD FOR SPECU- ' LATION. Among the wealthy men of Eng- .. land, and among the wealthy men of the not hern section of this country, 'here is a plethora of capital all the time awaiting opportunities for remu lerative investment. If the men who ol 1 that capital in hand could but be made as familiar with the inviting id vantages offered in the South as ill southerm men are, they would reak up their profitless gold gorges md pour their money into the old dave States in such torrents as would .oon cause the whole southern and to glow with the warmth of '.hril't and cheerfulluess again. In Er.g'and, and in the northern' Stataes of this Union, the fields for speculation have been so long and so veil worked that it is rather excep ional than otherwise for an opportu nity for large ami speedy returns irom any safe investment to present itself so boldly as to coniraapd the lontidence of capital. Iu these south ern States it is very different ; for all through the South, from the Potomac o the Gulf of Mexico, there may be .bund, almost without looking" for ohem, suea occasions for most lucra ive investment as, presenting them elves where the capitalists live, would be caught at with eagerness and improved to the highest ultimate .d vantage. Whether the man with money may prefer to invest with ref erence to agriculture, in any of its varied features, or to manufacturing, or to miuing. there is no other region jf the habitable globe in which he can be made more sure of success than in these old slave States where he lauds are cheap because the own ers, iiupovished by the late war, are unable to cultivate them as in other tays ; wnere tne lacmties lor manu facturing, extraordinarily offered on every hand, are unutilized by the ..alive people because the uative peo ple have not the money to make them .vailable ; and where the mineral re sources, just beginning to be devel oped, represent in themselves coming millions of money and tell too plain ly of the outh's long neglect of the reat riches lying at her feet. In ad- lition to all this, the vast forests of one southern States are entitled to conspicuous claim to high considera tion ; for the woods of the new world are bo longer looked upon as alue iess lncunis.Tunces of tht earth to be jnjoyed only by the wild animals in uaoiling them, but they are attract ing attention as holding the great . reserve supply of timber on which" two continents may draw without fear of exhaustion for many years to come yet. The opportunities and advantages of the South as a field for speculation are the results of the war by which the wuole southern laud was sudden ly brought down from prosperity to poverty. Of course we had the soil, .uid the manufacturing sites, and the .nines and .he forests all here before Jie war came upon us, but if negro slavery had not been destroyed, if .he southern farms aud plantations uad not been laid waste, if the south ern people had not been made poor, ' the reuinauts of fortunes saved in lands- from the wreck could never uave been bought at the low prices at which they are offered now. In tact, if there had been no war the old slave btates would still be going on in the old grooves, and entirely free from all desire for auy such in novations as' have been introduced under the new reyioie. But the war resulted in a general revolution throughout the South; and as a re sult of that revolution there were never such opportunities seen as are uow offered in all parts of her terri tory for the most lucrative specula tions. We have written this article with the hope that in Europe as well, as in the North it will set capitalists tore- , il cting upon the attractions of the South. Industrial South. THE SCHOOLMASTER OF OUR REPUB LIC. ' "When our republic rose, Noah Webster became its schoolmaster. Thfre had never been a great nation with a universal language without lialeets. The Y'orksnire can not now talk with a man from Cornwall. The peasant of the Ligurian Appeni nes, drives ids goats heme at even insr. over hills that look down on six provinces none of whose dialects he can speak. Here, five thousand wiles change not the sound of a word. s Around every fireside, and from everv tribune, in every field of labor . and every factory of' toil, is heard the same to.igue. We owe it to Noah Webster's Spelling Book and Dictionaries. He has done for us more than Alfred did for England, or CaBms "for Greece. His bonks have' educated three generations. They are forever multiplying His in numerable army of thinkers, who will transmit his name jfrom age to age.'-';:-, s - ' '"--::;".-' ' '' . ' Onjv, two men. have .stood on the New World. whoe fame is eo sure , to 'Vast-Colunibus, its discoverer, ' and Wrhingtr.n.' its eavlcr. Web. ; ster is and will be its great teach ar; and -thess -three' make our. trinity; ofv fame' :?-: , - '-a "r i ' - ' t-; ' 4. a ,1 & 1 turn 2 -V4
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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March 29, 1883, edition 1
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