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' 11 33333 ii ..911 1" . .Jj:iJ') I III Devoted to tfte Protection of ITome an'& the Interests of ' i 'tie County. t M.t TT ! ' V , '.(Jaston-lv: March 5tli., 1881. No..9; QASTONIA r I r. ""i J. B . BE AL, M:(! ' ' ' i Manufacturer and Dealer in in CO to Brackets, Cornishes, Wagons, Buggies, &c Also Burial Cases on hand of the best mak Send orders and Tor price list to J. B. Beal, Gsatonia, N. C. CENTRAL HOTEL Hpartanbur IS. C, W.S.LIPSCOMB, Pro. New house aad furniture, rorns carpeted, lectrio belli, attentive Mrranta, location central, fare the very Lest. Terms, f s.00 a day. $10.00 a week. 3fi.U0 a Booth. Drummers stopping over Saoday tl.sO, Only a few yards ft pea the Iron Springs. bep25tojanl. L R. Wriston. T. J. Moore, M. D Wholesale and Retail -W. corner Trade r ad Tryon sts., CHARLOTTE, N. C, And Dealers in A ft VARNISHES, DYE STUFFS, DRUGS, $tr4t S E D YOUR ORDERS TO J. R.EDDIN'S -VOIl- BLANK BOOKS SCHOOL BOOKS -AND- STATIONERY", CHARLOTTE. W.C. CliAltLOTTE W. G. ! MANUFACTURER OF FOBEIQN & AMERICAN 1LAELLE, MOXVMJWTa, UJiAVSTOAJZS, . TABLETS, MANTLE Trade Street,Opp. 1 st Presbyterian Church 'charlotte, S. C. Oct tf t. m.pittmanT . ATTORNET-AT-LAW, opposite Court Usui,) Practices m tht Stale and Federal Cwt and pay prompt attention to business. Will nevotttatt loans. Charlotte, N. C, 16 June 5 tf. 'Vr. GEO: TT. GSAIfAM, Charlotte, North Carolioa, Practice limited to the Eye, Ear and Throat. JKOffloe with Dra. Jones Jr. Graham. RO. D. GRAHAM In the State and United States Courts, Record Information, Abstracts of Title, Surveys, Jrc., furnished for compensation . Office, N.-K. cor. Trade and Tryon sts., CHARLOTTE, N. 0. marf-ly WANTED. Twenty Hands to pick cotton at 76 cents per hundred. It has not been picked oyer. Ajpljrto Ci. W. CHALK. fin's II 111 THE NEW SCHOOL BILL, A SYNOPSIS OK lit! PROVISION. Rulcigh News-Observer. The most important bill of 1 lie session wits introduced by Senator Merrill, of Chatham, on Saturday. It whs (lie new public school bill, ad agreed on by l lie committees on educutiou of two boosts, and which was on yesterday printt d and laid on the desks of the nu mbers. We propose to note a few of the new features of this school bill as compared with the luw now in force. The most prom an nt of these are : 1. It gives traveling expenses and cleri cal assiutanoe to the State Superintendent of Fut'lic Instruction. 2. It provides that the State Hoard of Education shall select and prescribe a series ot trxt books which shall be used io our public schools, but that only one book of an author shall be prescribed. 3, It abolishes the office of county exam iner, and substitutes therefor that of coqii. ty superintendent .of instruction. This ofnoer is to be seltctid by toe county board of education ai;d the board of county jus tias. He is required to examine candi dates who d'.-mre to leach : visit and in spect the public schools iu the county adfi-se with teachers asto the best methods of instruction : distribute the r Quired blanks to school committeemen ; coll. ct schocl statistics ; countersign all orders ou the county treasurer for school moneys; hold teachers institutes : and muke liie re ports cow required from the- register of deeds and county fiuminrr to l!ie State superintendent of instruction. For these duties he is to receive a compel. fBtiou of i3 per duy for euch day engugd o be paid out oj the unapportiooed school fusd of tle count" ' , 4. It requires that the school funds of the county t-hall be apportioned on the first Monday in January in each yiar, and shall be based on ti e iictuul aoioent of uowy in the hands of the county treasurer, and uot oo the amount levied on ttte tax list as t'ie iw now standi. S. The county board of education may imuully rDDortionlOfl riul of ttic ncblu. school BtioriifC to delruy the expenses of teachers' institutes, e.sd wltere it ie deemed practicable or advieabie, a number ofcoun- us tiav uiMe in one iustiiute. 6. Tlie Bchool year is chtDged so as to corrospond with the county B.cal year, and I then fore end November 30th io eucb year. 7. Twenty cents is levied on each f 100 valuation of property for school purposes, and if this, with the capitation tax, flues. Ac, shall be' sufficient to maintain one or more schools in ech district of (Iks county for four months in the year, then thecoun- board of education is required to levy a peeial lux to niwjt !xe deficiency 8. Fupile and teachers, during the school terfci, are exempted from public road duly, id school committeemen are likewise ex empted during tlieir trin of office. 9. Additional safeguards are thrown round the collection, handling and dis bursement of school monies, and school committeemen are required to take datds (or all school house sites put chased by them, which must be regularly probated, recorded and deposited with the county treasarer for safe keeping. 10. School commit let men are authorized to pay full cost of school house sites, and Iso full cre of building, repariog and Furnishing school houses. 11. The State board of education "is required to apportion on the first Monday in Aognst all the school monies in the State treasury. : 12. Certificates from the county erwrin- tendent of instruction to teachers wiii Le valed as follows : "To first grade teachers for three yesrs; to second grades for two year?, and to third grades for one year." IS. Ko teachers can be employed who does not produce a certificate from the county superintendent ,and first grade teach ers cannot receive more then f 3 per da? , second grade tieacheri more than f 2 per ay, and third grades cannot receive more than $1 per say. . COUNTY NEWSPAPERS. The following sensible article is from the 'incinnati .Tradc-Lkt : ' VI "A gentleman writes to us that his county paper is so poor that he, 1 stopped it : therefore semis us three dollars for the rmle-List. W repeat that we do uot want subscribers on such terms. A man's county paper is worth more to him than all the papers in the world, if it is not it is his fault. If the county paper is properly encouraged, it may be relied upon for in formation of more value to the people in bose interest it is issued than can be found io all city papers in the United States. No man can afford to be without the paper that publishes the official adver- tinements of his county, the public salts, markets, court news and other local intelli gence. If the paper is poor, the people are more at lault than the publishers for not (fivinj; it a liberal patronage. However puor the county paper may be, it is alwajs worili more more than it costs to those in terested in the afi'.ilrs of the county. COL, PHESION OF SOUTH CARO UNA. The National lb-publican contains union); its reminiscences of old limes in Washington this : 'Colonel Freston of South Carolina, was one of the most brilliuiil Statesmen of the day. His 1 krness( by Fleelcy, in the Cor coran (iallery, gives a poor idea of him. He was one of the handsomest men in the Senate, and tlie wittiest. No man in Congress bore a purer record ; it was without a stuin. An nnecdote of him, which I have never seen in print, occur to me at this moment : He was standing one day in the Congressional Library, pouring over the contests of a volume, r !:fn two lady acquaintances hove in sight.' There is Mr. Preston,' cried one of them, rushing up to the Senator. 'Pear Mi' Freston, you promised to escort me to the Capitol, and here yoa ere reading a book.' ' I will escort yon over,' said the gallant Seuaii r; 'but where do you wish me to tuke yot. 'I think yoa may take me to the rotunda and then Io the crjpt.' ' But the crypt is very dark and lonely,' sucpesfed the modest Senator. ' Never mind,' replied the vivacious lady, 'I am not afraid to go with you.' ' Mr. Preston gascd stea i!y at the lady for a brief second, and then said in his peculiiir sarcastic manner: 'What confi dence! what trust ! Oh, woman, great is thy faith !' ' Colonel Preston hud a great respect for old i ge. One evening, while ulteading an entertainment at Carusi's saloon, then the only public hall in Washington, he observ ed an aged aian, respectably dressed, stand ing in the aisle, while every one else was comfortably seated. The Colonel rose and politely malted on his taking hia place. mr i ren.ou, wmspereu a irieu, ocog.ni. his elbow, -do you know you have given up your sect to one of those d d abo litionists!' I can not help it,' said Colonel Prestom firmly. 'If it were the devil himself it wosldu't make a particle of difference.' A STORY OF STEEL PENS. Few persons who use su-el pens on which is stamped ''Gillot" have any idea of the story of suffering, of indomitable pluck and persistence, which belong to the placing of that name on that article. A long depression in trade in Em-land thitw thoueandrt ef Sheflield mechanics out of work, among themt Joseph Gillot then twenty-otic years of age. He left the city with but a shilling In hie pocket. Keaching Birmingham, he went to an old inn and sat down upon a wooden settle in the tap-room. His lust penny was spent for a roll. He was weak, huugry and ill. He hud not a friend in Birmingham ; and there was little chance that he could Gnd work. In his dispondency he was tempted to give up and turn beggar or tramp Then a sudden fiery energy seized him. He brought his fist down upon the table, declaring to bimeelf that be would try and trust in God, come what would. He found work that day in making buckles, which were then fash' ionable As soon as he had made a pound or two be hired a garret in Broad street, and there carried on work for himself, bringing his tacte and knowledge of tools iuto Constant use, even when working- at hand-made good This was the fcecret ol Gillot's suc cess. Other workmen trudged oo in the old ruts. He was wide awake, eager to improve hii work or to shorten the way of working. He fell io love with a pretty and sen sible girl named Mitchell, who, with her brothers, was making steel pens. Kach pe was then clipped, punched and polished by hand, and pens were sold consequently at enormously high prices. Gillot at once brought his skill in tools to bear upon the matte.", and soon it, vented a machine which turned out the points by thousands la the time that a man would require to make one. lie married Miss M kchel, and they carried on the canufac inre together for years. On the morning of the marriage the! industrions workman made a gross of pens and sold them for thirty-six dollars to pay the wedding fees. Io bis old age, having reaped an immense fortune by his shrewd ness, honesty and industry, Mr. Gillot went again to the old inn, bought .the settle and had the squaru on which be sat that night sawed out and made into a chair, which be left a? au bairloom to bis family, to reniiud them Tf the secret of his success. FROM RALEIGH. Cb.irlotte Observer. Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 25.-The ruilroad question of freights snd passenger fare bos hud the House off the track a couple of days, and very little else was done than a confusion of efforts to decide upon some sort of a bill. Finally, yesterday, the House settled down with three readings on a snb stUute from the committee on internal im provements, which provided that the Leg islature should appoint a commissioner wiih a salary of$2,5l)0 the first year, to have his office in Raleigh, and, on vacancy, his place to be fiiled by appointment from the doveruor, t,d constituting the Attornev General tp legal advisert will) an increase salary of. J200 a year. Mr. Day amended making three commissioners iiiHtead cf one, and Mr. Hicks, colored, tacked an amend nieut to that, providing that each puliti cal p;.tty should be represented on the commission, and both amendments were adopted, and the bill rode through to. die, no doubt a quick death io the Senate ; for ten men can play au accordeon where one can be hiund to legislate a people's tariff for running railroads. Taxing dogs is simpler, DURHAM COt'NTY was the special order in tne benate, vesler day. The discussion began at 12 o'clock and ended at 8, when the Senate adjourned and the county went' over us unfinished busiw, to comeup this morning. Messrs Staples and Glenn spoke for the bill. Both are good Epeakers nd were at their best, The Bpeech of Mr Purrish, who fought the bill alone, I hear on all sides, was applaud ed. This morning it appeared as unfiuish ed business, and was defeated by a vole of 22 to lti. msti.no dogs') A bill passed the House x last night introduced by Mr. Smedes, allowing an annual tax or VI .00 on dogs, to as to make them a subject of larceny. The bill was at the it stance of pariiesVwho owo a Cue breed of dogs, and wi. hby listing tnem, to oe guaranteed the same risrht of action against a thief us for stent- M CJ ------ - -- o - - - ing any other property. Of cou se if any makes no difference, but is alone for those who choose to pay SI, CO to make their dogs property Dim fork5II adowixgs. .' Io the Senate the other day the bill was up providing for the erection of a Gover nor's niandon. Mr. Bernard was decidely for it. He said it might be the honorable President of the Senate the first man to occupy it, or it might be the beloved Senator from Wuyne the favorpd one. He didn't think the present executive cartd or expected to occupy it. Mr, Cunuingham saij he did not know Got. Jar vis1 feelings orrtheubjectliilt te did know that Mrs. Jarvia wjuld be the bappi'dt woman in the world to occupy it Mrs. Jarvis was in the gallery ut the time and smiled at the Seuator's gallant pleas anlry. Mr. Spears, Republican, waa lor build ing a good mansion, for he thought a Republican would be the first to occupy it. CRIMINAL COl'RTS. Bill for establishing criminal courts iu Buncombe, Iredell, Mecklenburg, For "sytlie, Rowan, Davidson, Guilford, Anson Chuthuui, Cumberland, Wake, Graovilk Warren, Northampton, Halifax, Bcrtie Martin.. Pitt, Beaufort, Kdgecombo, Cra ven, Green. Lenoir Wayne, Dup io, Samp son. Kolieson, Wilson and YV,u3uin;ton counties. The House ruined down amendments, different members asking their counties to be strdck from the bill. Mr. Smedes offered as a substitute that the number of Superior Court judges be increased to twelve. Mr. Glenn, of ltockingham, and Mr. Bit dsoe, of Wake, iffed amendments that no member or the present islature should be appointed a jade or Lold office under the bill. Other amendments weic offered le ivin;; it to the qtiuliGcd voters of the countries in which they should be es tablished. Mr. Manning and Mr. Boykin have spoken for the bill, and Mr. Leak, of An son, is now speaking against it he thought if any further privilege us this was extended to the east the Democratic party twoyears hence would shake iu its boots. Cl.AXCV. A soi.rnox of one and one-quarters of a pound of white soap and three-eights of an ounce of spirits of ammonia, dissolved in twelve gallons of soft water will impart a beautiful and lasting whiteness to any flan nels dipped in it, no matter how yellow they have been previodsHto their immer sion. After being well stirred toand for a shortime, the articles should be taken out and well washed to clean cold water. SOUTHERN NEWS- In Tennessee rape and rope go hand in hand. Maryland jocky club races at Baltimore May 24lh. The Nashville, Tennessee, races come off early in May. Nashville, Tenn., has a Domestic gas light company. NorfolK, Va., is receiving machinery for a new cotton factory. Lands in the cotton belt of Alabama are advancing in price. Land in Bullock county, Alabama, sold last week at 20 per acre. The rac s of'tiia Kentucky association begins in Lexing on, May 4th. Father Ryan, the poet pre st, is to deliv' er a lecture iu Memphis Friday. The reckless use of pistol put to death eight men in Alabama last week. New Orleans has the first and only porcelain painting io the United States. Augusta county, Va., is to be restocked with partridges from South Carolina. Union springs, Alabama, is to have a cotton factory and Clement attachment. Beruhuidi's engagement in Memphis amounted to five thousand dollars on the sale of seats. James Abney, of Union.Ky., has a cow that bus within eleven months time drop ped four calves. A man at Ozark, Ala., has been fined $75 and sent to jail for swearing io the presence of ladies. A dwelling and store of J. E. Payne, in Greenville, 8'iuth Caroliuu, was destroyed by fire a few days since. The medical department of the univer sity of Tennessee, at Nashviile, have Just turned out 160 new doctors. Dr. Duncan Eve, of Nashville, Tenn., has the smallest and handsomest dog in that city ; it weighs thiiteen ounces, THE ONLY OSE SAVED. , Thf. fftllnwnrr nfl-pi-tino- inriitent rppnlln what liie Rev. John t,1" the presence of his pious mother's bhssing, that followed him to sea, and brought bim home. In February, 1861, a terrible gale raged along the coast of England. In one bay, Hartlepool, it wrecked eighty-one vessels. While the storrrr was at its height, the Eveuing Sun, a stoutrig, struck on Long reach rock, a reef extending a mile, from one side of the bay. She sunk, leaving only her topmasts abovexthe foaming waves. The life-boats were away rr seuingwreck ed crews. The only means of saviug the men, clinging to the swaying masts.was the rocket apparatus. Before it could be adjusted , one mast fell. Just as the rocket. bearing the life-line, went booming out of the mortar, the other mast toppled over. Sadly the rocketmen began to draw in their fine, wen suddenly they felt that something was attached to it, and in a few minutes hauled on the beach the appar ently lifeless body of a Bailor boy. Trained and tender bunds worked and in a short time he became conscious. With wild amazement he gazed arouud on the crowd ol kind and sympathzing friends. They raised him to his feet. He looked up into the weather-beaten face of the old fisher man rear hi:n and asked : Where am IV 'Thou art here, my lad.' Where's the cap'n?' ' Drowned, my lad V ' The mate, then T" ' He's drowned, too.' The crew V ' They are all lost, my lad ; thou art the only one saved.' The boy stood overwhelmed for a few moments ; then he raised both bands and cried in a loud voice, ' My mother has been praying f-r 'me J' And then he drop ped on hie) knees on the wet sand, and hid his sobling face in his bunds. VoutA' Companion. There are 33 lodges of the Knights of Pythias, in Mississippi. An Alien county, Ky., rabbit had a tape worm 30 inches long. The valuation of the Charleston, South Curolina, brewery as $102,000. The woolen mill at Little Hock, Arkan sas, K running at its full capacity. ' The Matthew cotton mills of Selma, Alabama, are daily shipping large quanti lies of cloth. The colored people io and around Staun ton, Virginia, pay taxes on property as sessed at $100,000. Yearly 40,000 barrels" or 160,000 kegs of beer are sold iu and shipped front Char leston, South Curoliua. RELIGIOUS NEWS- Sundays Raleigh Observer. A Im of Mormon preachers are holding forth inVhe eastern portion of the State. Dr. W. A. Nelson is assisting Elder J. B. Richardson in a meeting at Thomas ville.N.C. ' Rev. S. D. Adams appoints the Raleigh District Conference for the fourth Sunday in July. There are two Conferences of the North ern Methodist Church in North Carolina; one for the whites and one for the colored people. There is to be held a great assembly of the Shioto priests in Japan, to discuss the " Jesus doctrine," and to decide how the tide of missionary success can be stayed. The Baptist mission in Germany reports 134 churcesy 26,656 members, 1,467 sta tions and 11,813 Sunday school scholars. The churches raised $65,000 last year for church purposes. . The American Baptist Missionary Union has received for the past 1 1 months of its financial year 887,641. It requires $117, 359 the present month from the churches to save it from a deGcit. The one hundred and thirty-sixth sea sion of the Presbytery of Fayetteville will beheld at Buffalo church, Moore eonnty, N. C, commencing Wednesday before the second Sabbath in April. ' The trustees ol Richmond, Va., College have accepted the resignation of Dr. Curry, as professor in that school, and he enters enthusiastically npou his Iftbore ai suc cessor to Dr. Sears, as agent of the Pea- body Fund. The address of Dean Church to the Areh jishop of Canterbury favoring such a sola' ion of the ritualistic question as wonld recogoize tbe right or toe ritualists to re main in the church, has received upward of 2,000 signatures of clergyman. The protestant Episcopal Church has had 27 Bishops iu all, of whom 66 are still liv- . .1 . . . . ing. three nave been deposed, three nave resigned, and three have been translated. senotr Bishon. Dr. Smith, of Ken- was COORfCraicu .iu iu&, luaamg tt,a episcopal term as long as that of Bishop White. The committee of tbe Presbyterian Gen- ral Assembly on the revision of the Die- ipline will, it is said, report in favor of a 'judicial commission," to be elected by the General Assembly, and to be a court to which all appeals from the lower church. Courts shall be referred for adjudication This "commission" is to be composed of ine ministers and nine elders, whose de cision will be final. Dr. Augos, one of the English revisers of theJNew Testament, gives some interes-,. ting details of the worst, which occupied ten years. There were ten meetings each year, each meeting extending to four days, a day meaning about seven boors work, so that in all the company, in its collective capacity, spent 2,800 boors in tbe revision. Besides this, however, every member of both tbe English and American committees exhausted his knowledge and critical ability in bis conscientious labors. Tbe eleventh and twelfth sections of the regulations for the observance of Lent in this Catholic diocese and the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, are as follows TLe faithful are reminded that, besides tho the obligation of fasting Imposed by the church, this holy season of Lent should be, v in an especial manner, a time of earnest prayer or sorrow for sin, of seclusion from the world and its amusements, and of gen ous almsgiving. The Paschal time ex tends Irom the first Sunday of Lent till Triuity Sunday, during which time alt Catholics who hare attained the use of reason are bound to prepare themselves to receive worthily the flo!y Communion. The holy season of Lent is a very proper time also for children to go to their first confession, which they ought to do gener ally when about seven years of age. Pa rents should see to this Bishop Green, of Mississippi, is quite feeble. Jacksoo, Mirsissippi, Is troubled by burglars. The coal product of Tennessee is 642,- 02 1 tous. i i Eutaw, Alabama, is to have a cotton " seed mill. 1 Yachts are partly killed in Bowling - Green, Ky. There were 31 deaths in Charleston S. ' C., last week. Quite a large number of visitors at little Rock, Arkansas. In Texas they are paying $ J per day for ordiaary laborers.' Corn sells for SI. 25 per bushel in some , parts cf Alabama,