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iff 13 , i . - t , ,t ' : ' " ' : .- .--j-j r; H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor.': " j COITgt-y- q TjIbLe PreSS miXSt fee PreSerxed.-HaaXOOOfc. " TERMS : :f.oo per Year. ' ... ,,. - - 'j : .. !- ,j .- -. 1 j - WU . . ' UOYSAbOIHq SC01 N- V THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1881. o. 4(5. -'-.rcetds The Pee Dee Herald. TM3 :CASH IX ADVAXCK. i for tXQO t- fnfcj 1-00 ifxj'JU. M O t nf;jiTISTSTQ RATJCS. . v ftrt uwrtJ'm, $1.00 ijj.. .-p-rt iiwrttoa, 50 : r1;c-B(i!H, pw line, 10 ,-r , .,.1 ft. ,.in an application for U.n wr -. 'i Jt-t t V5 in lbir O zr The TIMES is the only paper f '4hl in Anson County. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. HI. Tl. Allen, DENTIST, OSSca 8. K. corner of Wad and Mor o jtrU (near the Bant) 2.Vn. A. B. Huntley, M. D., WADESBORO, N. C. 07n hi profional service to the ttiioru of Anson county. OJoe first door above the Bank. WU. A. INGRAM, M. D., Practicing Physician, WADESBORO, N. C. A. J. Blteit, J. D. PIMBIRTOX. DARGAN & PEMBERT0N, ATTORNEY SAT LA W, WADKSBORO, X. C. ' Practice in the State and F-deral Gevtt. JAS. A LOCKHART, Att'y and Counsellorat Law, Tf ADKSBORO, N. C. tF Praticec in all the Court of the Bute. a. B. LITTLE. W. L. FARSOKS. Little & Parsons, ATTORNEYS AT L A TT' WADESBORO, N. C. S Collections promptly attended to. SAMUEL T. ASHE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. Xi 8pecial attention given to the collec Ma of ciaima. GEORGE V. STRONG. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, RALEIGH, X. C. ' Trxiiccm in the State and Federal HOTELS. HUNTLEY'S HOTEL, WADESBORO, N. C. Headquarters for Commercial Trav ellers. JTable Supplied with the oost the ilarkct affords. 1 tf J A.V I L I AN H O T K 1 CHARLESTON, S. C. Ti.'rf, $ rio, 2 50 per day. aecotiiing to th Location of Iiooms. P - iU n .i -n- '-fho le idinnr first-class ; i.i ::!- r.llv !-atxi and .v with the Rail . ; . j- ' i' -.t-ofnV"?. Tit -j tho "st that our - : '! ; ri -hly tvnofated ' X i.U A.T1D. lYoprietor. RAL.EUJH. A". C. rices Reduced to Suit the Times. CALL AND SEE US. pURCELL HOUSE. WIL1IISGTON, X. C. Recently thoronxhly overhauled and reno vated, f'irst-cta.ts in every respect. Loca tion desirable, boinj situated near all busi aewi hotuos, Post-office, Custom Uousef City HaU an-i Court House. Katzs $i 00 and $2 50 per day. Our motto is to please. B. L. PERRY, Proprietor. hiauljEstox hotf:ls e. h. jackson, CHARLESTON, S. C. Ratkb RDrciD. f2 50. $3 00 and $4 00 day, according to location of room. J At. A. Lkak. Presidont. J as. A. Lkak, Jr.. Cashier BANK of NEW HANOVER, WADESBORO, N. C. 'Special attention given to collections, and proceeds remitted on day of payment, at vrent rate of exchange. DIRECTORS: JAS. A. LEAK, J. C. MARSHALL. Charlotte Marble Works, CHARLOTTE, N. C. MONUMENTS and GRAVESTONES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Price-Lists and Drawings famished on ap plication. JAMES A. JOHNSON. (Opposite Postofflce.) TILLMAN & KLUTZ, Barbers and Hair Dressers, (Opposite McLendon's Drug Store.) If you want a nice, dean Share,a latestyle t ar a Shampoo, rail on Tillman & Klutz. SCHEDULES. Carolina Centfarig) CHANGE OFJCliX Owci GryKRAt. Scrxaia turn t, I Wilmington, C, May IJS; ISWL . On and after May 55. 18L tha JoCqfwftg cfaeriole will be operated on tkis Kailwayl Fajmzhger, mail, ajto xz?ksss XKaIK. w I uwve ummgion, f Arrive at Charlotte, Wilmington, ' 9 45 am No. Trains Nos. 1 and 2 stoo at resnilaratations only, ami points designated in the Company's Time Table. 4 V t rASSK5QEB A5D FREIGHT tAt!r. ( Leavo Wilmington at 5.00 f.St vJU. 4 ervej llfffultrt -trSrt AwTappyToni. ( Arrive at Charlotte at 8.10 a. m i Leave Charlotte at 7.) P. M No. o. - Arrive at Hamlet at 1.26 a.,m ( Arrive at Wilmington at 9.30 a. m No. 5 train is daily except Sunday, but makes no connection to Raleigh on Satur day a. No. 6 train is daily excejt Saturdays. Through Sleeping Cars between Raleigh and Charlotte. V. Q. JOHNSON, Genl SupV Raleigh & Augusta' Air-Line R. R. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. SCFERI.HTKXDKJrr'B OfTICK, ) Raleigh, N. C, June 5, 1WTD. ( On and after Friday, June 6, 1879, trains on the Raleigh and Augusta Air-Line Rail road will run" daily (Sundays excepted) an follows No. 1 Leave Raleigh, 8 O0 p. sc Cary, 8 31 P. M. Apex, 8 nil p. it No. 1 Hamlet, Hoffman, Kevser, Blue's, Manly, Cameron, Sanford, Osgood, Moucure, Leave '4 30 a. -u 8 14 a. M 3 37 a. M 3 54 a. u 4 13 a. if 4 56 a. M 5 41 a. if 6 02 A.- If 625 A. If New Hill, U 14 P. Merry Oaks, 9 P. Moncure 9 5G P. OsgoofL 10 17 P. Sanford, 10 44 P. Cameron, 1 1 27 p. Manly, 12 09 A. 12 29 a. 12 48 a. 1 14 a. Merrv Oaks. 6 42 a M If lime s, Keym-r, Hoffman, New "HilL 7 00 a AIXX, 7 'Si A. If Carv, 7 59 a. M Ar. Raleigh, 8 30 a. m Ar. Hamlet. 2 00 a. Train numlier 1 connects at Hamlet with C C. Railway for Charlotte and all points south. Traiu number 2 connects at Ilaloigh with the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad for all points north. JOHN C. WINDER, Superintendent. Cheraw & Darlington Railroad. CILANGE OF SCHEDULE. President's Oftice, I . Society Hill, S. C, Feb. 28, 1S80. ( On and after Monday, the 28th inst., the train on this road will run as follows mak ing connection at Florence with trains to and from Charleston, Columbia and Wilmington both ways: GOING DOWN. Leave Cheraw at 10 30 a. m.' Cash's, 10 50 " Society Hill, 1115 " j " Dove's, 1145 " ". " Darlington, 12 15 p. u. 4 Palmetto. 12 35 " Arrive at Florence, 1 00 " COMING UP. Leave Florence at 2 35 p. M. Palmetto, U " " Darlington, 3 15 " . Dove's, 3 40 " Sxiety Hill, 4 OS " " Ciish's 4 25 " i Arrive at Cheraw, 4 50 " , Close connection made at Florence' with trains to and from Charleston and WUming ton, every dav except Sunday. ' : B". D. TOWNSEND, Prctadent. Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Until further notice, the trains ou this road will run as follows: Leave. Arrive. WadesUro. 8.40 a. M. Cheraw, 10. 05 a. m Cheraw, 10.15 a.m. Wadesboro, 4.15 p.' m Making close connection both ways at Che raw, with Cheraw & Darlington train, and at Florence with the Northeastern train. B. D. TOWNSEND, President. Northeastern Railroad Company. Charleston, S. C, i September 11, ls. ( On and aft or Sunday next, Kth inst.. the mail And .i-ir trains of this road will be rua as fo. .-. j ' Leave (;!:: 10.15 A. M. and a 45 P. M Arrive -.t t : ..-e, 3.15 P. ll- and 2.10 a. w Leave Florei.'f, 1.45 P. M. and 2.35 a.; m Arrive at Charleston, ",.15 P. M. anil 7.00 A.' M Train leaving at 10.45 a. m. connects with Cheraw & Da limrton Road and for Wades i)oro, N. C. P. L. CIABPOR, General Ticket Rjeut. TIME TABLE Cape Fear i Yadkin Valley R. R. TO TAK3 EFFECT MAY 9, 1880. Loaves Fayetteville at Arrives at Gulf at Loaves Gulf at Arrives at Fayetteville, Daily except Sunday. "L. C. 4.00 p. M. 7.35 P. M. 6.0fJ A. M. 10.20. A. x. JONES, Sup't. THE CHARLESTON LINE. FROM THE UPPER CAROLINA S. THE NEW SHORT LINE FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA. Charleston, S. C, Aug. 2nd, 1S80. Commencing August 3rd, the Cheraw & Salisbury Railroad opens from Wadesboro, Charlotte and all adjacent territories via Che raw and Florence, a new line to Charleston and the East, and respectfully invites the at tention of all snipers, and a share of their business. . For rates and all information inquire of . L. Rose, Agent, Wadesboro, or the under- SigmXL A. POPE, General Freight and Passenger Agent. FOR FLOELDA. Via Savannah, Twice a Week. On and after December 1, the palace steam er ST. JOHN'S, Capt. Leo Vogel, will leave Charleston as per Schedule lekw: On the Tuesday trip the St. John s calls in at Savannah going and returning. On the Saturday trip she goes direct to Florida, not stopping at Savannah either way. Tues'y, Nov SO, 13 m Tues'y, Dec 7. lpra Tues'y, Dec 14, 10 a m Tues'y, Dec 21, 12 ni Satd'y, Dec 4, 8 p m Satd'v, Dec 11, 8 p m Satd y, Dec 18. 6 p m SatdY, Dec 25, 8pm SatdV, Jan 1, 7 p m Tues'y, Dec 28, 10 a m Connecting at Fernandina with Transit Road for Cedar Keys and points on the Gulf, also with Boats at Jacksonville and Palatka for Upper St. John's, and Oklawaha Rivers, and with Railroad for St. Augustine at TocoL Freight Received daily. 1 State rooms secured and all information furnished by application to itAVENEL&CO., Agente, . . 20 East Bay, Charleston, S CL Bituminous Coal! j G-ia-ILif Mines, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. . A fine coal for shop steam. Vhen ooke it is exce naces. ljf- AlX ORDERS PROMPTLY FIIXEO. ddress, HAUGHTON, Gulf, N. C. $2 W.tcW IWnrtAnlta Wli H. purposes and Qant for far- I Courtship anil Matrimony. TtT Obj' jeer, ICidnzM waDnu . 1 1 1 1 Skies clear; Inguee hi UlXesn two, fiUotbing siis, Bather blue; Trout gate. Years three, " " Can't agree. Jfmrior scene, yeeJLpg Mean - frr fY court. "Dearest ' J I? 'KDlendid snc Splendid sport. Answer yes," Borrow. Sin, . Jury grin. Divorce given, Fetters riven. Kind Ids, Blind bliaa. Interview Papa, too. NothJnWoUu , Worried wife, lonely life. j Husband roams, Care. Cost, "Love lost." MORAL. Couplo glad, Have it bad. Organ swells, Marriage bells. Honeymoon Ended soon. Double brown, Settled down. When you wed, Look ahead, Might fall, That's alL Xew Orleans Times. FORT FIS CO 5 FXDEKATE ACC0C1TT. Farmer and Mechanic Hkarcquartkrs 3rd Military ) District, January 17, 1865. ( To Lieut. Col. Anderson, A. A. G. : "On the morning of the 13th inst, about 3 o'clock a. m., the enemy opened on the Fort with the "Ironsides," and double and three edngle turretted Monitors, cancentra ting their whole fire on the land face, keeping up a regular fire upon it till 5 p. m. At this hour three frigates, Colejjado, Minnesota and Wabash, (as supposed), came into action and con tinued a terrific fire till six o'clock, p. m. Col. Lamb, anticipating an as sault, made repeated application to Maj. Gen'l Whiting for reinforce ments. The only forcei available were those of the Navy manning Fort Buchanan, sixty in all, which were willingly furnished by Capt. Chap man, C. S. Navy. Six companies were brought from the forts below at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 14th in stant. During the night the gunners and troops of the garrison were man ning the palisades, a general attack being anticipated our guns keeping up a fire covering the land approaches at intervals during the entire night. Maj. Gen'l Whiting, accompanied by myself, were also on the works and beach the greater portion of the night, keeping watch on the enemy's move ments. "On the morning of the 14th instant the enemy again opened on the land face, the rest of the fleet 72 seventy two in all, forming in two lines of bat tle fifteen of these moved into posi tion and joined in the action, keeping up a terrific fire during the whole day and succeeding night, dismantling every gun on the land face, one 8 inch columbiad alone excepted. Our guns replied with great accuracy, but with little effect, the wooden vessels re maining out of range and shot mak ing but slight impression on the iron clads, as far as we could judge, the gunners displaying the greatest gal lantry under the most terrific fire. "The enemy had also advanced a line of sharpshooters who had sunk rifle-pits and annoyed the men serv ing the guns by keeping up a constant fire. The dismounted guns could not be remounted during the night nor could the works be repaired, owing to the constant and heavy firing kept up by the enemy's fleet during the en tire night A telegram having been received from the Commanding Gen eral that Brig. Gen'l Hagood's Brigade had been sent to reinforce U3, I was ordered to await their arrival at Fort Buchanan. About 4:30 on the 15th, the first of these regiments, the 21st, arrived, and shortly afterwards the 25th, under the command of Captains Dubose and Carson respectively. The 2l8t regiment I at once moved up to Fort Fisher, the other was moved to the rear of the Mound Battery for shelter from the enemy's fire, which at the time was awful it moved up to Fort Fisher later in the day. About fifty-two ships having joined the monitors at 8 o'clock, they con centrated their fire without any ces sation, at intervals on different por tions of the works. During the morn ing of the 15th and the preceding night the enemy landed, the assaulting col umn supposed and as confirmed by a prisoner to number 10,000 men. These wera formed in three lines across the neck of land, covered by a heavy line of skirmishers, about 400 yards in front of the main body and at a distance of about 1000 yards from the fort. On this force we brought to bear our one available gun and three mortars which had been mounted du ring the night, and these repeatedly broke their line and temporarily checked the advance. ' As the attacking column advanced apart of the fleet moved in single line, in succession, ahead of the skir mish line, thus enfilading the entire land face of the work, whilst the re mainder of the fleet in their original position kept up a murderous fire on nearly every part of the fort. Under cover of the dense smoke a brigade was moved from the enemy's left along the beach, tide being low, and succeeded in getting within the palisade line before they were seen. but were instantly repulsed twice and J driven from their position with heavy loss. Corresponding with the move ment a, h.eavy force of he enemy un- der cover of the woods moved upon our left to get possession of the first gun chamber. Lieut. Latham o; Capt. Adams' Light Battery was. sta tioned with two guns at a point com manding the causeway leading to the palisade line, (the palisade itself hav mg been destroyed by the enemy s fire) with orders to run his guns into position as soon as the fire of the fleet had slackened. What occurred at that period on the left of the line am unable to state, being myself en gager on the right, and the first inti mation I had of the enemy's approach was by seeing their flag planted on the third traverse. As soon as dis covered all the available force was led b repulse this attack by Maj. Gen'l Whiting in person, but it failed in dislodging the enemy from the posi tion occupied. At this point I have, with much regret, to state that Maj. Gen'l Whiting was seriously wounded and was carried from the field. Major Hill, chief of the General's staff, had dispatched couriers to Battery Buch anan to bring up the three remaining regiments of Hagood's Brigade, which had been ordered to remain there till sent for the fire from the fleet ren dering it impossible for any troops to move when it was discovered that this force had never reached Buchan an, a circumstance much indeed to be regretted. I was then ordered by Maj. Gen'l Waiting to communicate with the General Commanding, which I immediately attempted to do, as he is aware. I have also to add that the Garri son, though in good heart, was sadly worn out by the hard work they were called upon to perform by day and night, but that a feeling of much dis appointment existed, that the long hoped-for co operation from the forces outside the fort, which they expected would have been rendered, failed them in the hour of need." G. I. Gordon, Lieut. Col. and A. I. G. YANKEE ACCOUNT. Before the troops were all landed, small fires of drift wood were crack ling everywhere, coffee was boiling, and oysters roasting. By the middle of the afternoon, every infantryman was on shore, and from basking on the beach we were roused to the serious ousiness or our presence on that coast. Regiments were gather ed out of the chaos, rolls were called and the work began. The fort seem ed close at hand, though really four miles away ; but we were in such full view, and made so much martial with regimental colors and the glitter of burnished musket-barrels in the sunlight, that we wondered at silence of the enemy and his apparent indif ference to our proceedings. The beach was perhaps two hund red yards wiie, then came about two hundred more of the salt-marshy pool, beyond which were the tall pines of the forest, with its under growth of tangled vines and thorny bushes. With as broad a f ront as the beach gave us room for, we finally put the column of General Paine's Division in march towards the fort skirmishers in advance. About a mile of progress brought us to the head of the salt-pool, and to the hour of sunset as well. Here we turned away from the sea and marched to the right, into the darkness of the for est and the coming night. It was a low forest, full of the alternate grassy hammocks and wet places of a marsh, with a tangled mass of vines and bush es. Our column front became strung out to a single file, winding with diffi culty among trees and thickets, turn ing away from the deeper pools and fallen logs. It was hard to keep trace of the leader or to hold on to the points of the compass, but we strug gled on in the darkness, till, exhaust ed with the hard tramp, dripping with perspiration, and torn with thorns, we at lastlelt the sand growing firm er and dryer under our feet. The line of struggling men, too, began to close up somewhat more compactly.' At last a gleam of open water through the trees, and the line soon compacted itself into a halt. We were on the bank of the Cape Fear River. At the point whero we struck it three miles above Fort Fisher it was about a mile across from sea .to river. Our line was made as straight as the swampiness of the ground per mitted and faced toward Wilming ton. A mile farther down, the divi sion under General Ames was facing towards the fort and entrenching. At the order to entrench, we fell to with coffee-cups for shovels, and very soon had a mass of the soft sand put into semblance of an earthwork. But at midnight our left was thrown some what farther back, where a higher part ,pf the river bank gave a more defensible position; and here ah al lowance of shovels landed wisely by some how-to-do it quarter-master-was dealt out, and the new line of earth works soon became really formidable. Logs were gathered and staked into position for a revetment, and the sand was soon banked against it. A buzz of industry all along the line, lasting through the whole night, and by morning we had a line too formi dable and too well protected by abat tis to be rashly attacked. Batteries of artillery were landed in the morn ing, and during' the forenoon were got into position on the ew lines. Next morning it fell to my lot to have charge of the picket line. My instructions from General Terry were to take charge of the pickets from the ocean on tho right over to the river hank, thence down the river 1 ank to the picket-line of General Ames' divi sion, and, in case of an advance by that division, to fill up the gap in the river picket-line. No sigh of any enemy in the Wil mington front ; nothing but the beau ty of the thorn bushes, the brightness of the sunshine, and the peaceful chirrup of the . birds.... But fromba - low came the gradually increasing thunder of the great naval guns open ing their iron shower once more upon the doomed fort. Turning down the river-bank, I passed across the end of the new entrenchments with the gar rison of colored troops, and on down the narrowing peninsula. The river bank was six feet or more above the water, and the soil almost wholly white sea-sand. Strolling down the sandy road, I could see' the masts of the naval fleet, the notched ridge of Fort Fisher, and then the hulls of vessels and squat turrets of the mon itors, rise alternately above the low land; while on the right the placid expanse or river reflected the glare of sunshine. Near the farther shore were several steam-tugs busy mov ing to ana tro between the various defenses of the river's mouth. But most attractive to the eye was the grandeur and beauty of the great naval fleet, her flags lazily flapping in the air, and her black guns putting forth their strength of destruction against the sandy fortress. The uproar of the cannonade kept sea and shore in a tremor, which was fainter or stronger as lighter or heavier guns were discharged. And- occasionally a jar like an earthquake shook the ground as the enormous guns of the iron-clads, lying very near the shore, gave tongue. The huge projectile itself was quite visi ble, leaping from the rolling masses of smoke at the gun's muzzle, through its deliberate rush to the end of its flight an explosion near the fort, or silent burial in the soft sand. The noise of its slow passage through the air was a deep, hoarse roar that drowned the shriller scream of the smaller missiles. From the constant noise and jar of the firing and the screaming of the flying shells, the volumes of gunpow der smoke, the movement of troops on the shore, it was evident, that, for better or worse, the metal of Fort Fisher was to be put to a genuine test. he navy had got to work in terrible earnest, and had apparently extin guished the feeble effort of the fort to eply. But, though silent and sullen, the Rebel flag still fluttered, and the walls loomed huge and formidable through the smoke clouds. Once be fore the impregnable aspect alone of the great sand-pile had driven off her foes, but now a new commander had brought back the same troops, and his reputation depended on his not blenching at a horrid front. On approaching still nearer, I began to pass lines of men in the battle ar ray, but seated on the ground while waiting the order to advance. - They were chatting and laughing indilfer- ently, behaving as troops before a battle always do behave, as far as my observation goes that is, doing any thing except -indulging in the heroics of a grand moment or the prayers of an awful one. Passing down still nearer, and where now and then a wide shot from the ships exploded over their .shore allies, 1 reached a ow line of rifle-pits, where were more soldiers still busy with cards or lunch eon, and indifferent to the coming moment. From near the end of this ine of works, another rifle-pit ran over toward the sea, and at ngnt angles with the road and the first ine. At the angle was a square, in closed redoubt of sand, Rebel built. The nearer end of the hostile fort where it touched the river was per haps eight hundred feet from this re doubt. The peninsula here was very ow merely a beach and less than half a mile from sea to river. In the sand redoubt I found General Terry, the commander of our troops, with his staff, and General Ames the latter just about to push on with his division to the assault. (To be Continued.) Atlanta is making every prepara tion for her Cotton Exposition. It will do her good. It will do the entire country good. Northern men and Southern men will be brought close together. People who have never been south of Mason and Dixon's line will get a better idea of the vast re sources of the cotton States in a brief visit than they could get in years from dry statistics. There is nothing like seeing for yourself. It is barely possible that the Northern man will discover 'that there is really some thing of good in the South after all. It is barely possible that the South erner will find that the Northern man isn't such a terribly bad sort of a fel low in spite of reports to the contrary. The two extremes of the country are about to shake hands over the cotton bales. Let the greeting be hearty one. Phil. Times. Mean souls, like ba4 pictures, are often found in good looking frames. Philadelphia's Grcaistcsa. Mr. irntcnard, who is on a visit North, writes the following interesting letter to the Biblical Recorder. When one from the country or small town visits a large citv, there are peveral things which strike him with wonder. One is the immense aggregation of humanity which he finds there. Philadelphia has nearly nine hundred thousand inhabitants. while New York, with the contiguous cities of Brooklyn, Jersey City, New ark,; Yonkers, Hoboken and Eliza beth," all Within a radius of twenty five or thirty miles, contain several hundred thousand more population thari are to be found in the whole State of North Carolina. The stran ger next wonciers now an these peo ple get a living. Thev do not make a grain of wheat or an ear of corn, and seem in some mysterious way to live upon one another. A third thing which impresses the visitor profoundly is the vast accum ulation of wealth which meets his eye on every side. I can take half a mile of some streets in New York, Phila delphia or Boston, "and find there more wealth than the entire State of North Carolina will represent. Just let me go into details for a moment. There are many private residences in the cities which cost from one hundred to five hundred thousand, and a few a million dollars each. Arch street Methodist church, in Philadelphia, of marhle, cost $250,000 just across the street is Saint John's Lutheran church, of creen stone, which cost $300,000: not far away is the Masonic Temple, on which were expended $1,300,000; while still near is the new City Hall which has already cost $6,000,000, and will probably cost nearly as much more It is to be 470x486 1-2 feet and will cover r.early 4 1-2 acres, the larg est building on the continent. The en tire structure will contain 250 rooms, and will be faced on all sides with white and light-blue marble. The new Post Office, of granite, will cost $6,000,000. The building of Girard College cost $1,733,821.98, and the es tate which Girard left to this college amounts to over $4,000,000; it takes $190,000 to support this institution for a year. The stone wall around the grouiul is worth prnhflhly half tv mil lion. The University buildings, which are of green stone, cost $900,000. ;The Insano Hospital cost $800,000. The Wagner Fee Institute, the gift of one man, cost $400,000. Girard avenue bridge cost $1,500,000. But" perhaps the best way that I can convey an idea of the great wealth of this city is to tell your readers that the average prico per front foot of the land on Chestnut street is three thousand dol lars ! and yet for miles that street is crowded with stores and residences which represent millions and millions of money ; and New York is far rich er than Philadelphia. A fourth thing which strikes a countryman is the tremendous hurry everybody seems to be in men, wo men and children, horses, carriages, --everything is driving ahead, as if the fate of the world depended upon their: getting to a certain place in a given time ; this hurry and bustle is especially true of New York. Thiis far I have been speaking of cities in general, but now I wish to present some peculiar features of Philadelphia features in which it is distinguished from all other American cities. In the first place, it has more houses than any other city in the world ac cording to population. New York has several hundred thousand more peo ple than Philadelphia, but Philadel phia has several hundred houses more than New York. In the proper sense of the term Philadelphia has no tene ment house every family has its own house and rents are very cheap. I called to see Mr. Charles Henry Fos ter, who is one of the editors of the Record, and he told me be paid only $25 per month for the house he occu pieda much better house than you can get in Raleigh for that price. Philadelphia is, on this account, as well because it is the most remarka ble manufacturing city in the world, the mechanics' paradise. Philadelphia has a greater variety of manufactures than any city in this or any other country. It has between nine and ten thousand dif ferent manufacturing establishments, including 178 different kinds, employ ing 197,934 hands, representing $202, 506,644, and producing articles to the value of $322,94S,461 annually. I will mention the number and capital invested in some of these enterprises. The bakers lead as to numbers, there being 858 bakeries in the city; the next in order are the shoemakers, of which there are 604 firms; then come the slaughterers and meat packers, of whom there are 402 different estab lishments; the fourth are the cigar and tobacco manufacturers, of whom there are 473 ; of clothiers there are 416; "carpenters and builders, 320; &c. , !&c. The largest amount of cap ital invested with perhaps the largest profits also, is to be found in cotton, woolen, and mixed goods factories, not including carpets, which employ $21,190,005 and 21,495 hands, and yieli a product of $39,465,330. The next largest amount of capita! is in vested in chemicals, including soap and candles, amounting to $12,570, 71, and yielding a product of $14,945,821. Carpet establishment have a capital of 11,994,383, and yield a profit of still greater magnitude, the value of the annual product being $20,304,826. Iron has done a great deal for Phil adelphia, and I was much struck with tVio mnrrnititfla -f ia Ttnlilwin T ruw. . . . . . T j , . j ' m liiuab every uaj . 1111s usui uusauieiii was founded by Matthias W. Baldwin in 1830. who was the first to make , . ii x - and successfully use a steam engine, ,. . . . T Which fd t mvnc n,.,., ,riT-liwlol in 1fi5' TkJ MX. V- V41 SI 0B JV V 114 A. AJ In these shops 3,000 rnen are-em plcJy- ea and they complete an engine in every eight working hours. I have dwelt on the manufactures of Philadelphia to show your readers the great source of wealth of which I had before spoken here, and in the thousands and thousands of stores, with the hundreds of thousands of people from the country, bringing in the products of the soil and buying what they need for their stores and houses, we see how these immense masses pf humanity get a living." The Sad End of an Ambitious Detroit Politician. When poor old Uncle Silas Patter son went to his grave the other day not a mourner followed, and never will a tear moisten the earth above him. In by-gone days he aspired to be a political leader, and there are plenty of men who remember how he once ran a ward caucus. Knowing: his ambition to become a power in the ward, three or four old jokers put up a plan to make him chairman of the caucus shortly to be held, and they visited him in a body and ex plained: "Everything will depend on how you run this caucus. Be calm. Be dignified. Don't let any one ride over you. One will move this and the other that, but you must refuse to en tertain any motions until you have ascertained the pleasure of the meet ing." Uncle Sile was delighted and puff ed up, and he could hardly wait for the hour which was to witness his triumph. He was called to the chair as planned, and after a few remarks to prove his gratitude he called for order and said: "Now, then, what is the pleasure of the meeting?" A citizen rose in reply and began : "I move, Mr. Chairman, that we now pro "Order! order!" called Uncle Sile. "I am in order." "You are. not! Take your seat or I'll have you put out." The astonished elector dropped back to second fiddle, and Uncle Sile continued: "Now, then, what is the pleasure of the meeting?" "I move that we proceed to bal- " It was another elector, and ho had only got thus far when the chairman cried out: "I call for order. If we can't have order we mierht as well adjourn. I now ask, for the third time: What is the pleasure of the meeting?" The electors were dumfounded for time, but one of them recovered little sooner than the rest and ask ed: "Is this a caucus?" "You bet," answered Uncle Sile. "Are we here to nominate ward officers?'' "We are." "Then, sir, I move that we pro " "Order! order!" yelled the chair- man. "mats tne ttura or iourtn time that trick has been tried here, and the next roan who makes a mo tion before I have found out the pleas ure of the meeting will be put out !" Now, then, is there any pleasure in this meeting? If so, where is it and what is it?" Ho soon discovered. About twenty men rushed for him, at once, and he Went out of the window like a bag of sstid, and, before he had come to, the caucus had transacted its business and adjourned. The incident not on ly cured Uncle Sile's ambition to be a political leader, but it is doubtful if he ever cast another vote.-1 Detroit Free Press. The toy pistol is carrying off almost is many small boys as cigarette-smoking, and the toy pistol takes a more immediate effect. The favorite way is for small boy with the toy pistol to kill himself, but he seems to have got tired of that sort of thing and is now directing his attention to the killing of other people. A toy-pistol murder m New Jersey has been followed by one it St. Louis. Since the small boy has found out that it h as easy to kill somebody else with his toy pistol as it is to kill himself it cannot be told where murder will stop. Phil. Times. The Douglas monument and sar cophagus erected at Chicago at a cost of about $75,000 is now receiving its finishing touches, a bronze tablet medallion being added which repre sents "legislation," and which will have a nlace on one side of the base. -The body of Douglas reposes within the sarcopnagus in an iron casKet. The marble of which the sarcophagus is made carne from Rutland, Vt., Mr. Douglas's n itive county. On its front sides are these inscriptions : 'Stephen A. DbuglAH Born April 23, 1813. Died June a, 1861." "Tell my child ren to obey the laws and. uphold the Ctonstitutioiv urdett Weather Predict. The Burlington Ifotrkeyetrr it :s easy enough to predict th er if you only follow the rigl.1. Here are some of them : An ly I ine sky indicates a tempon sence of clouds. Under other cu. stances, again, an lntenw.h i i8T indicates a tornado. Whtn t f.e" Min rises behind a bank of il and the clouds ' hang low all ni t i the horizon and all ver the sk y. L.: , , , , .J , the air feels damp, and there is v ? W " ' f driazling mist blowing,, the inatcn tionsare there will be a rain some where in the United States or Cana da. When it begins to thunder look out for lightening. To see the head of the family feeling in right hand pocket, then in tho left hand pocket; then in all his vests pocket, then in his hip pocket, then in his coat pock ets, and then at his ceiling, indicates "no change." If he suddenly stops whistling at-the ceiling and expends his face into a broad grimace of .de light, it means "unexpected change.'' If the corn husks are very thick, the winter will be colder than the sum mer. If the corn husks are very thin, the summer will be warmer thart the winter. If the corn husks are neither too thin nor too thick, the, summer will be warm and the win ter will be . cold. If the weather prophet predicts a rainy season and it happens to rain away out in Cal averas county, and is dry as a bone all over the rest of America, this rain must be set down to the credit of the weather breeder, and all the dry time counts for nothing. N. C. Supreme Court. By the late act of the Legislature, the sessions of the Supreme Court will hereafter be held or : ! -t Monday in February ami f :' .a. Monday in October. The r.;r i ; ttC of the Supreme Court, thcre.or i'! be held on the first Monday in Ocu. ber. The first week of the term has heretofore been devoted to the exam ination of applicants to practice, law, and the hearing of appeals from the First Judicial District, two days be ing allotted to the examination of the applicants. The Court, however, having examined applicants, the first Monday in June lant, will not have an examination in October. The next examination will be on the first Mon day in February next. Appeals from the First Judicial District will be called, peremptorily, on Wednes-j day of the first week in October, un les3 counsel on both sides of appeals from that District shall agree to ar gue on appeal on the first" two days,4 in which case tho Court will hear any appeal thus agreed upon. The several Districts will be called-in the following' order: ' . First week, First District; second and tWrd weeks, Second District; fourth week, Third District; fifth week, Fourth District; sixth week, Fifth District; seventh week, Sixth District : eigth week, Seventh District ; ninth week, Eigth District; tenth week; Ninth District. Raleigh Ob server. ! 1 Now every body will be wanting to know all about the parotid glands, the right one of which in the Presi-' dent is reported as in a' state of in- flammation. These glands; derived j their name from two Greek words ! which express the idea of nearness to : the ear. They lie on each cheek, be" low the ear and, of course;, forward of it. The function of these glands is the secretion of saliva and they aro the largest of all the salivary glands. Each is funished with a tube or duct a little over two inches long, which opens on the inneif part of the cheek, j opposite the upper jaw. Each gland weighs about one ounce. The other salivary apparatus is composed of the sub-maxillary gland, and the sub-lingual glands, which lie, as their names indicate, the former un der the lower jaw and the latter un der the tongue. Jn protracted low fevers the parotid 'gland is frequently the seat of fevers, 'and sometimes even of abscesses. Inflammation of this gland, although annoying and pain ful, is not necessarily a serious symp': torn. Phil. Times. Air Excellent Point. The Demo- a , j cratic party, in the semblance of jus tice, held level the scales and allowed both sides to discuss the question within its hospitable ranks, while the Republican party , farrow and bigoted as ever, read out of its allegiance ev-; ery pne favoring! the bill, Prohibi-j tionistsand anti-prohibii vQi-.ibt' w-ir allowed the liberty of tjr.es r opinions- as to this matter 'in tf.n 'Gmoviriitic-par:..- pic party; in the Kepuw.enrt bibition was not tolerable--- JA noiv : Topic. It is interesting, says this U-HL-icr-to compare the cost of some of the most recent buildings of the present; day. The New Grand Opera at Pans cost $8,000,000 ; the new Hotel de Ville, $8,000,000; the new Paris Post Oflice. $6,000,000; extension of the Conserva toire of Music, $1,600,000; the Palais des Beaux-Arts at Brussels. $600,000;' the Palais de Justice at Brussels $8, 000,000. The Houses ot Parliament at Westminister cost 17,5;;CMeO; th new Foreign'Offiee Vhi'ehn.-. Mx 750,000; and the Ivxw Couiis esti mated, exclusive of special fU:ngH,a nearly $4,500,000, s 1: ; 1
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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