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Whe (EHcrrloUe -S The Democrat. CHARLOTTE, C. 7 APRIL 2 3, '18 8 0. . N. C. Supreme Court Decisions.- Rcported for Ilale's Weekly by W. P. Batclielor. Badger vs. Daniel, from Halifax motion for certiorari-r-disallowed. Where one loses his right of appeal by not perfecting the same in accordance with the statute he can not have the writ of certiorari as a substi tute therelor without showing excuse for his laches. - "No writ of certiorari will be granted as a substitute for an appeal from the judgment of the Court below on the ground of non-conformity with a former opinion of this Court, unless the petition points out the matter in which such judg ment fails to conform to the opinion. Palmer vs. Love's executors, from Hay wood trior. The scale of depreciation of Confederate currency established in pur suance of the oidinance of 1865 by chap. 39, laws of 18G5-'6G, is the measure of value of Confederate cu n ency. It is not uncon constitutional and applies to all contracts made during the war which were solvable in that currency. Walton vh. IVaoon, fi-im Catawba cer tiorari ordered. In ease t'.e right f appeal is lost by its nut being perfected in apt time and a writ of certiorari is prayed for, if it can be collected from the affidavits of the party resisting the writ that there was an agreement to waive compliance with the statute the writ will be granted evi n though the agreement was oral. The Special Tax Bonds. The following is the decision rendered in the case of Home vs. State, Judge Ashe filing the opinion: Home vs. State, from Wake. At June Term, 1879, of this Court an action was in stituted by the plaintiff against the State of North Carolina for a claim alleged to be due by the State to plaintiff as set forth in his complaint then filed, as the law directs, in the office of .the Clerk of this Court. The complaint alleges substantially that the plaintiff is the owner and holder of a bond of the State, issued under and by vir tue of an act of the General Assembly of said State, ratified on the 3d day of reb., 1869, and entitled an act to amend the charter of the Western Railroad Company ; that the bond is for one thousand dollars, due on the 1st day of April, 1899, and has coupons for interest attached at the rate of six per cent per annum payable on the 1st April and 1st of October in each year, from 1st of April, 1870, to 1st of October, 1899, and that there is now the sum ol nve nun dred and seventy dollars due by the State to the plaintiff by reason of its failure to pay this interest after demand duly made, and for this he brings his action, praying for the recommendatory decision of this Court upon his claim under section 9, article IV of the Constitution, which is as follows: "The Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction to hear claims against the Stale, but its decision shall be merely recom mendatory; no process in the nature of exe cution shall issue thereon, they shall be re ported to the next session of the General Assembly for its action." At the June Term, 1879, this Court deferred taking ac tion on the case until this term, when the Attorney General, in behalf of the State, moved to dismiss the action on the ground that it did not come within the class of claims against the State contemplated by the Constitution to be prosecuted before this tribunal. Jiut after due consideration of the question raised by the motion of the Attorney General, we are of the opinion it cannot be sustained, and the Court is in duty bound to take cognizance of the case. In section 416 of the Code of Civil Pro cedure it is provided that any person hav ing any claim against the State may file his complaint in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, setting forth the nature and grounds of his claim; he shall cause a copy of his complaint to be served on the Governor, and therein request him to ap pear in behalf of the State and answer his claim ; the copy shall be served at least twenty days before such application for such relief shall be made to the Court. The provision of the Code is very broad in its terms, "any person having any claim" and'regarded in the light ol a co-tempora-neous exposition of the Constitution, would seem to embrace all claims against the State; but the Court, in construing the sec tion of the Constitution referred to, held that it was intended to apply only to cases where questions of law were involved and that the jurisdiction of this Court ought not to be exercised in small matters of. small value, particularly when there is no doubt about the law. Sinclair and others vs. State, 69, page 47; Bledsoe vs. State, 64, 392 ; Reynolds vs. State, 64, 466. But in this case the Court must take no tice of the fact from the legislation had in reterence to the class of bonds from which the coupons now sued on were detached, that grave questions of law may arise in the investigation of the case and that it is therefore a proper case to invoke the juris diction of this Court. The Governor having at this term made appearance in behalf of the State, through the Attorney General, he is given until the first day of the next term of this Court to answer or demur to the complaint or take such other course in the premises as he may be advised in behalf of the State. The Supreme Court adjourned on Wednesday of last week. NeGRO IxCENblARIES SENTENCED. During the months of November and De cember the little city of Greenville, S. C, was infested by a band of incendiaries, who, on different occasions, burned public and private buildings, until about one-third of the city was destroyed. The detectives soon discovered that the incendiaries were negro thieves, and five of the band were arrested. They were on trial in Greenville for a week, and were found guilty and sen tenced to be hanged on June 18th. The trial excited great interest, and the sen tencing was a thrilling scene. Two of the prisoners fainted and fell to the floor while the Judge was pronouncing their doom, Dispatch to 2T. x. paper. New Laws and Changed Laws Adopted at ' the Extfa Session of the N. C. i . legislature. From Hale's Ileigh Weekly. The Railroad Law and the Fish Law as passed at the Special Session have been priuted in these columns. All the laws of any importance will be printed in full or in substance as we can get copies. Annexed is the substance of such as are now m nana: By an act ratified March 19, 1880, the County Commissioners of Cabarrus are au thorized to compromise or otherwise settle the claims against the Sheriff for the years 1871-2-3-'4-'5-'6-7. The Sheriff did not settle his accounts for those years and they "are in great confusion." Chapter 95, Acts 1879, made it a misde meanor, puui9hable by fine or imprisonment, for any one living in South Carolina or Georgia, or any North Carolina county East of the Blue Ridge, to drive cattle into any county West of the Ridge. An Act ratified March 19, 1880, excepts Burke county irom the prohibition and its people may drive their cattle West or East as they may please. By an Act ratified March 19, 1880, the Superior Courts of Ashe county are set for the seventh Monday after the fourth Mon day in March and September, instead of the eighth Monday, as by act of 1879. Since March 26, 1880, the sale of spirit uous liquors or any intoxicating drink has been forbidden within one mile of Ellendale Academy, Alexander county, or within two miles of the Methodist Church and High School at Olin, and within two miles of Elm wood Station, Iredell ; within two miles of Holly Springs Church and Academy in Henderson ; within two miles of Old Fort, McDowell; within two miles of Olivet Methodist Church, in Anson : within two miles of Zion Wesley Church, in Iredell ; within one mile of Snow Hill, in Uherokee ; within three-quarters of a mile of Hall's Chapel, in Wake, and within the incorpora ted limits ot Columbia, lyrrell county. Violation of this act is a misdemeanor. Pen alty, fine of $10 to $50, or imprisonment ten to thirty days. March 26, 1880, an Act was ratified giv ing Beaufort county a two weeks' term of the Superior Court, and fixing Martin su perior Court on the eleventh Monday after the fourth Monday in March and beptember The revenue law of 1879 taxed itinerant dealers in lightning rods $50 a county March 26, 1880, this tax was changed to $15. By an Act ratified March 26, 1880, the County Commissioners of Buncombe, Ruth erford, McDowell, Madison, Henderson, Transylvania, Haywood, Macon, Jackson, Swain, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Yancey, Mitchell, Burke, Polk, Wilkes, Alleghany, Ashe, Stokes, Harnett, Watauga and Surry, are required to classify the public roads in their respective counties in respect to the width thereof, designating in a first class such roads as shall be of the width of six teen feet, in a second class such as shall be twelve feet, and in the third class such as shall be ten feet, to be kept in repair, ex cept as to width as modified by this act, as now required by law. If necessary to avoid great labor and expense in anv locality the classification may be modified, but the width of road is never to be less than 10 feet, ex cept when the location is through solid rock The classification is to be made on the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday in May. March 26, 1880, the County Commission ers of Jackson were authorized to levy a special tax on real and personal property sufficient to build a bridge over the lucka 6egee River, near Webster, at the point where the Western Turnpike Road crosses the River. By Act of March 13, 1879, persons whose lands had been sold for taxes were allowed one year for redemption. March 26, 1880, the time was extended to February 1st, 1881, and a deed of reconveyance made un necessary. "The Durham Railroad Company" was incorporated March 26, 1880. Capital, $1,000,000 ; organization, when $50,000 sub scribed and $10,000 paid in; purpose, con necting by Railroad the town of Durham either with the Raleigh and Augusta Air JLine Railroad, or the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad at such point as the Directors may determine. On the 26th day of March, 1880, killing or injuring cattle, horses, mules, sheep or other live stock, by any car or engine run ning on any Railroad in the counties of Col umbus, New Hanover, Brunswick, Bladen, Robeson, Richmond, Anson, Union, Gaston, Lincoln, Cleaveland and Burke, was made a misdemeanor ; for which the President, Receiver and Superintendent of such Road, and also the Engineer and Conductor in charge of the train or engine by which such killing or injury is done, is indictable, and if convicted to be fined $50 or imprisoned 30 days. The killing is prima facie evi dence of negligence. The Railroad folk may avoid indictment by paying or tender ing what the owner of the stock charges, or what three referees may assess. Since March 26, 1880, it has been unlaw ful lor non-residents to do any "shooting afloat in any of the waters of Currituck." By the law of 1874-'75 it was unlawful to sell liquor within two miles of Red's Chapel Baptist Church and Unity Bethle hem Church, Lincoln county. March 26, 1880, these two Churches were amended, or the law was, into Kid's Chapel Baptist Church and Unity Presbyterian Church. March 26, 1880, was ratified "an act to provide for the removal of causes in Courts of Justices of the Peace." The act took ef fect at once and provides "that in all pro ceedings and trials, both criminal and civil, before Justices of the Peace, the Justice be fore whom the writ or summons is return able, shall upon affidavit made by either party to the action that he is unable to ob tain justice before him, move the same to some other Justice residing in the same Township, or to the Justice of some neigh boring Township if there be no other Justice in said Township: Provided, that no cause shall be more than once removed." March 26, 1880, the County Commission ers of Union were authorized to transfer to the common school or general fund, as they may think best, the surplus fund on hand of a special tax for paying off the countv's Railroad debt. March 26. 1880, it was enacted that four of the Directors of the Cape Fear and Yad kin Valley Railroad must be chosen from West of Greensboro two on the line to Patterson and two on the Ore Knob line. The convicts also are to be equally divided between these two lines of the Koad, which is to fork at or near Bean Shoals. March 27, 1880, Beaufort county was au thorized to levy a special tax of $4,000 a year for four years to pay off its debt. March 29, 1880, was ratified an act au thorizing graded schools in Salisbury and Goldsboro, if the citizens so decide at elec tions. Salisbury is authorized to levy a tax for the first year of of 1 per cent on property and 75 cents on polls, and for suc ceeding years of 1-5 of 1 per cent on pro perty and 60 cents on pons; proviaea mat all town taxes shall . not exceed of 1 per cent on property and $1.50 on polls. Golds boro is to hold its election on May 3d; its tax is not to exceed 1-5 of 1 per cent on property and 60 cents on polls. In both towns the taxes from whites go to the white graded school and the taxes from the blacks to the colored graded school. By an act ratified on same day Person is added to the" list of counties in section 1, chapter 135, Laws of 1879, said chapter being an act to prevent live stock from running at large. On the same day L. M. Long, tax col lector of Halifax, was authorized to collect arrears of taxes due for 1878. March 29, 1880, were ratified six local prohibitory acts. One makes $25 fine or 30 days imprisonment the penalty for selling liquor within 5 miles ot Had not, Bethlehem, and Oak Grove Churches, Carteret ; another forbids it within 2 miles of Mann's Chapel, Chatham, and permits it at Nag's Head Hotel in June, July, August and Septem ber; a third exempts the east side of Haw River from the prohibition to sell in 2 miles of Hanks' Chapel, Chatham ; a fourth adds Torrence Chapel, Mecklenburg, to the Omnibus liquor law of 1879, and changes the verbiage of same act so as to apply to the village of Chapel Hill and a distance of 4 miles from corporate limits ; and the fifth does the same for Chowan Female Institute, changing the words to Chowan Baptist Female Institute. Section 23, chapter 69, Battle's Revisal, makes divorced women "free-traders." An act ratified March 29, 1880, confers the same privilege upon the wives of idiots or lunatics during idiocy or lunacy. On the same day were ratified two acts amending the revenue laws. The first act merely amends the verbiage of sundry sec tions of the law of 1879. The second re duces the purchase tax on liquors of what ever kind from 5 to 2 per cent; and the monthly tax on retailers of liquor from $o to $2.50, and that on retailers of malt li quors only from $3 to $2. The act does not take effect until July, and has nothing to do with the present fiscal year. Section 14, chapter 117, Battle's Revisal, gives a widow, in addition to her share in her husband's estate, an allowance for one years support of herself and family. March 29, 1880, it was enacted that "said allowance shall be exempt from any lien, by judgment or execution acquired against the property other said husband." Section 8, chapter 7, Battle's Revisal for bids Justices of the Peace from practicing law in the counties where they hold office. March 29, 1880, Mecklenburg county Jus tices were made free to practice law if they can get clients. Whiskey Distilleries. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is advised that small distilleries in the mountainous regions of the South experi ence great difficulty in understanding the practical application of internal revenue regulations. To facilitate the success of his policy of breaking up illicit distillation by encouraging small distillers to comply with the revenue laws, he has selected twenty-five select gaugers, heretofore con nected with large establishments at Chi cago, Louisville and Peoria, whom he will send into the mountain districts of North Carolina and Georgia to give instruction in the application of revenue regulations In Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee there are a great many of these small distilleries, some of them having only a log cabin for a warehouse, and producing only fifteen or twenty gallons a day. In the Sixth North Carolina District there are two hundred and two, and the Commissioner encourages them because he thinks it helps to break up the production ot crooked whiskey, by making the proprietors of authorized dis tilleries allies of the government in sup pressing law breakers ; and though a dis tillery may produce only twenty gallons a day the tax on that is $18, and is collected at an expense of only $4 per day. It is better to get that amount than to get nolh ing, and as the small distilleries will be worked lawfullv or unlawfully, it is cer- lainiy to tne interest ot the government and ot the large distilleries that they should be run under the law. Exchange. The District Attorneyship. The period for which Mr Virgil S. Lusk, United States District Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, was appointed, expires in June, and it is said there will be a lively scramble for the place. The aspirants are stated to be : Messrs. V. S. Lusk of Ashe- ville. D. M. Furches of Statesville. J. M McCorkle of Salisbury, and W. S. Ball of ureensboro. lhe omce is reported to be worth $b,000 per year, and persons who are in a position to know sav that it has onlv i. ti j failed one year since Mr Lusk has had it, to pay mm this amount, ana that year it pai over $5,000. Statesville Landmark. tT The Giant Powder Works, near ban b rancisco, exploded last week, killing two white men and twelve or fifteen Chinamen. The explosion occurred in the packing room, and all the men at work there were killed. There was about 6,000 pounds of powder in the room. All the victims were blown to atoms. JMr W. J. Best and his Secretary arrived in the city from the West. He has employed competent Engineers to make an examination of the Road for the purpose of ascertaining the necessary amount of equip ment to put the Road in good working or der and they have already entered upon their work. Mr Best has also purchased from the private Stockholders of the Road, the entire private stock of the Western N. C. Railroad Company, for which he is to pay $50,000 in cash. Raleigh News. North Carolina Items. Judge McKoy. The friends of this gen tleman have published a card to the Demo cratic Voters ot the Third Congressional jisinct in wnicn tney say : J udge Mclvoy is not a candidate for Congress; neither he nor his friends are pressing his name for the Gubernatorial nomination ; the Judge has asked no man to vote for him. nor is he 1 lV . 1 T 1 peeKing me nomination; out that Judge McKoy will accept the nomination if ten dered to him by the people. The card con cludes by urging the Judge's friends to rally and secure his nomination, the present condition of the District requiring it to preserve the party intact. Raleigh State Journal. Johx Manning, Esq., and Gen. W. R. Cox. That Manning and Cox will be the most prominent of all the names that will come before the next Congressional nominating convention for this District, there is not the shadow of a doubt. The nomination, and subsequent election, of either to represent us in our National Leg islature would do honor to the country, and secure the greatest harmony to the Demo cratic party. They are both statesmen, tried and true, and while they are strong rivals now, and will be until the 16th of June, on that day either one will lay aside all personal feelings and ennoble and crys talize his spotless character by pledging himself to the support of the nominee, hav ing before him but one great object the perpetuity of Democracy, upon which de pends the success of a Republican govern ment. Oxford Torchlight. Raileoad News. The case of the West ern N. C. Railroad vs. W. W. Rollins, in volving the constitutionality of the repeal ing act, has been taken by writ of error to the Supreme Court "of the United States, which may have the effect of involving the immediate transfer of that part of the property. Raleigh Observer. CdiT" The last regular session of the Gen eral Assembly ordered two Amendments to the Constitution to be submitted to the people for ratification at the approaching election, one of them being in relation to the Insane Asylum, and the other expressly prohibiting any Legislature from levying any tax or paying any money on account of the special tax bonds. Mr Jake Halliburton, Editor of the Morganton Blade, has been appointed by Judge Avery Clerk of the Superior Court of Burke, in place of D. C. Pearson, re signed. ISF Cotton seed is very scarce. Mr W. A. Smith rode about 75 miles this last week, and only succeeded in buying about 200 bushels. Should the young cotton be killed by any accident, it would be impossible to replant without importing seed, as there is scarcely any in the county. Concord Reg ister. The first shipment of strawberries from this section was made Tuesday, the 13th inst. thirty-two quarts, by Mr J. M. Swaringen. They were shipped to New York. Goldsboro Messenger. Sudden Death from too much Water. One afternoon last week, after a negro man, who lived near Holly Springs Church, in Eagle Mills Township, had plowed a fractious horse all day in a piece of new ground, he drank very largely of cold water, his hard labor having induced excessive thirst, and three hours thereafter was a corp se. Statesv ille Landmark. Poplar Tent Fair. At a recent meet ing of the Association at Poplar Tent, Ca barrus county, the following officers were chosen: President, J. Shakespeare Harris ; Vice-Presidents, Thos. H. Robinson and D. S. Caldwell ; Secretary, C. A. Pitts ; Treas urer, J. B. Harris ; Executive Committee, C. A. Barringer,Ervin Harris, P. M. Morris, D. G. Holbrooks and John C. Johnston. SirBThe North Carolina Synod will con vene in Holy Trinity Church, Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus county, N. C, on Wednesday be fore the first Sunday in May, 1880, at 10 o'clock A. M. Persons coming by Railroad will stop at Concord, whence they will be conveyed to the place of meeting. J. S. Heilig, Sec'y. f- Real Estate Investments. There has been for some months a very considerable advance in the price of real estate in New York city. The Tribune of Monday reviews the subject, and remarks that "the rise is due, not only to the return of prosperity and the general rise in prices, but to the desirableness of possessions in real estate to the capitalist, as well for the rate of income as for the security of the in vestment. 1 here is no better investment in the long run than that of real estate. It is certainly the safest, for it is money put where it will stay. In a growing country like this one has only to place his money in this kind of property, and, waiting with patience, he will see it double and treble in value. It is the poor man's best savings bank as it is the rich man s best security. W. M. Smith has sold the Rocky River Factory to W. J. Black of Charlotte. Mr Black will put the Factory into opera tion at once. Relief of Illicit Distillers. Wash ington, April 21. Gen. Vance and Capt. McLeod of North Carolina, succeeded to day in getting Commissioner Raum to sus pend the collection ol costs in the amnesty cases in the Sixth District of North Caro lina. The District Attorney at Statesville was advised by telegram to-day. People who misbehave in Church show a want of good manners and good breeding. 5 The Governor of Maine, in calling a fast-day in observance of a time-honored custom of their fathers, says, "Our sins are as numerous as theirs." What a fearfully sinful set their old fathers must have been, and what a burden the present generation is visiting upon its children, merely in ob servance of "an old custom." Galvanic Batteries. Boyd's celebrated Galvanic Batteries. F. SCARR & CO., March 19, 1880. Agents for Charlotte. sCotton Mills in the South. The New York Times has had much to say concerning the manufacture of cotton in the Southern States. It is doing some good in helping to awaken interest m tne important matter. In a recent issue, re- fernng to the slowness witn wnicn sugye tions as to the advantages of embarking largely in this branch of industry have been received, it says : "But, from one cause or another, sug gestions of the kind indicated seemed to have found but little favor with the capi talists of the Southern States, and even less with the poor white men and women who would in any other community have gladly hailed the opportunity of becoming mill operatives. On the one hand, the principal objection to such establishments seemed to be that they were new, untried, and might prove disastrous speculations, and on the other it was urged against them that the work which they had to offer was fit only for Mow-down Yankees,' not for the white people of the South.' Still, and in spite of these and many other objections equally ridiculous, the true friends of the Southern States continued to urge the importance of establishing cotton factories in them. Per sistent efforts in this direction have not been without effect." It then goes on to show what Georgia and South Carolina have bone, and gives a very encouraging view of the progress made. Of Georgia it says : "The people of Georgia, who are, beyond all comparison, the most enterprising, pro gressive and wide-awake in the South, were among the first to see the profit which must surely follow the manufacture of cotton in the field which grew it, and some years ago extensive mills were erected at Columbus, Atlanta and other points." It gives some interesting figures concern ing cotton manufacturing in South Caro lina. We have already called attention to this recently. It is sufficient to say that in South Carolina there are eighteen mills, having a capital of nearly 83,000,000. These have nearly 100,000 spindles, and 2,000 looms, and produce 100,000 yards of cloth and 18,000 pounds of yarn each full working day. In the same period they consume more than fifty thousand pounds of raw cotton, making an annual consump tion of about seventeen million pounds, or nearly forty thousand bales. They pay $38,159 in wages, give employment to 2,612 operatives, and support nearly 10,000 people. The Times says of the profits: "Heretofore the Southern States have supplied to both Old and New England the raw material upon which their industries largely depended, and then in a manufac tured state have, at high prices and in a manufactured form, bought that material back again. If the industry which has de veloped in Georgia and South Carolina within a comparatively recent date goes on increasing, this state of things must of ne cessity be changed. The pound of raw cotton, which was formerly worth only 10 cents in South Carolina, is now, after hav ing been manufactured into yarn, worth either in the South or North from 22 to 23 cents a pound. In this way, as will appear from a very simple calculation, the eighteen cotton mills now running in South Caro lina keep in that State more than two mil lion dollars which would otherwise go to manufacturers in other parts of the country." The Times does not appear to know any thing of cotton manufacturing in North Carolina. It does not know that lor forty years that industry has been prosecuted in this State, and that to-day it ranks second to Georgia only among all the States of the South in the number of cotton mills and the results of the work. There are 55 cot ton and woolen mills, with over 100,000 spindles. These mills make ginghams, plaids, yarns, ticking, knitting cotton, sheeting, warps, jeans, kerseys, rope, print cloth, seamless bags, &c. As to the cotton prospects in the South, it is certain that a much larger crop will be pitched than in 1879. In some States the crop will be from 25 to 35 per cent larger it is estimated. This is said to be the case in South Carolina. If no disaster happens the increase in bales will be large, possibly over a million bales. It is asserted that in the regular cotton States the profits were greater last year than ever before. It is a cash crop and all can be sold. A planter in South Carolina writes to the New York Commercial Bulletin concerning profits : "The average estimated cost of raising, ginning, baling and delivering the crop at the railroad about $11 per acre, and the average yield of the South is 191 pounds per acre ; that is to say, the cost of raising cotton at 5f cents per pound. The planters have received an average of about 11 cents per pound for it delivered at the railroads, thus making a profit of about 5 cents per pound on at least five million bales of 450 pvuuua eauu z,zou,iuu,uuu pouniis or $124,000,000 clear profit." These figures are no doubt excessive, but it is certain that planters have made money latterly when not whelmed with debt. If 6,000,000 bales are made we will not un dertake to say what will be the effect. The old rule of political economy will assert itself the price will be regulated by the sup ply. Too much cotton will make low prices. Wilmington Star. FERTILIZERS. SCIIIFF& GRIER Are Agents for the sale of first-rate Fertilizers which they offer to the public at as moderate rates' as can be afforded by any house in the City. 'The Planter's Favorite," A fine Fertilizer for Cotton, manufactured at Balti more by John R. Long & Co., has been before the public for several years, and has grown in popular ity. Also, "Long's Prepared Chemicals" For composting, is offered as a supeiior basis for making a manure for Cotton and Corn. Give us a call when you are thinking about pur chasing Fertilizers for the next year's crops. Call and set a Circular. r ,n ,on SCIIIFF & GRIER, Dec. 10, 18,9. Trade Street. The Drug Store On Granite Corner is a busy place, always receiv ing, shipping or preparing goods. Call on them Questions to be Answered. The time is drawing near when the c bus taker will enter upon his duties, and'11 order to expedite business it would 'be for all persons to prepare thtmsclveg t answer all questions promptly. The f i lowing statement in regard to agricult will be found of interest: The census tat will want to know from each farmer l number of acres of land planted and amount raised in 1879, of wheat, corn, r oats, barley, buckwheat, peas and beans' rice, tobacco, cotton, potatoes, orchards' vineyards, small fruit, hay, clover seed' grass seed, hops, hemp, flax seed, bees anj, honey, sugar cane and borghnm. The i,um ber of sheep clipped and pounds of wool in 1880. Yield of the twelve months from June 1879, to June 1880, of butter, cheese and milk sold ; value of animals slaughtered market gardens; forest products and value of home manufactures. Our farmers know how valuable their time is during tjje month of June, and it will be well for them to think this matter over before they are called upon by the enumerator. Wilming. ton Star. SPRING STOCK 188o7 Completed ! Our Spring Stock of BOOTS. SHOES, mT$ and TRUNKS is now complete. We are deter mined to sustain our former reputation for selling THE BEST BRANDS Of Goods, which every sensible person knows is the cheapest in the end. Please call and see us before buying. We will deal fairly and honestly with vou. March 12, 1880. PEGRAM & CO. Notice to Debtors. All persons indebted to the Estate of the late Jesse B. Johnson, deceased, must come forward immediately and make settlement, or their Notes will be put in suit. We have waited patiently, and cannot wait any lomrer. T. C WILSON", S. B. CIIR1STENBURY, April 16, 1880. pd Administrators. Leading Luxuries of Charlotte. PERRY'S Boquet Cigar, (the best 5 cent Cigar in America, the Rich man's Luxury the Poor man's Solace the Traveler's Favorite. Rex Bananas, Triple Size, five cents each. Ordinary Bananas, 3 for 10 cents. PERRY'S Caramels, the greatest luxury in the Candy line. "Walnut Cream Chocolate, something new very nice. Finest Fruits, choicest Candies, cheapest Toys, best Cigars and Tobacco, can always be found At PERRY'S. SPECIAL Try my 10 cents TOBACCO. March 5, 1880. Confectioneries, Groceries, &c. J. M. CROWELL, Opposite tlte Post Office and BurwcU & Spring) Keeps a good assortment of Candies, C ackers, Fruits, Canned Goods, and a Stock of nice Family Groceries, Such as Sugar, Cheese, Flour, Coffee, Tim, Spins, and anything in the way of family supplies. ALSO, Cigars, Smoking Tobacco, Chewing To bacco, Snuff, &c. I hope those needing anything in my line will give me a call, and I will try to please them. J. M. CKOWEL.L, Jan. 23, 1880 tf Opposite Post Office JggT'We keep a supply of pure Wines, Brandys and Whiskeys for medical use. WILSON & BUKWELL, April 16, 1880. Druggists PLEASE READ THIS. Complete Burst of Lhe Great Monopoly. The following is the latest Price List of Zi'glir Bros.' goods, of which a complete line can be found at J. M OYER'S Boot and Shoe Store, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. Best Pebble Goat Button Boots, French heel, $2 73 " Kid Box Toe " " " " 323 ' Ti iv " ' " 3! 3( " Sersre tt Ct tl " High Cut Kid Lace. 300 " " 44 Fox Lace, 44 44 2.50 44 Kid Newport Ties, 44 44 2 50 44 Kid Fox Lace Boots, plain hi el, 2 25 44 Serge 44 4- 44 44 2 23 44 Pebble Goat Congress Boots, 44 " 2 50 44 Serge 44 44 44 41 2.50 44 Kid Crimp Vamp Cong, boots, plain heel, 3 25 Finest French Kid Button Boots, French heel, 4 00 T" My Stock of Gents' goods cannot be sur passed. Call and sec them. April 16, 1880. J. MO YE II CHAS. H. JONES, Commission Merchant, And dealer in Grain, Flour, Meal, Groceries, Cfcirs, Tobacco and all kinds of Country Produce. Also, Agent for the SOLUBLE SEA ISLAND GUANO, which is as good as the brst. Orders and consignments solicik-d and prampUy attended to. Observer Building, Trade Street, Charlotte, N. C. April 9, 1880. J, A. VOGLEK, JOB PRINTER, ( Went Corner of Trade and Tiyon Mred) Charlotte, N. C. Hand Bills, Dodges, Circulars, and all ordinary printing done promptly and at reasonable prices. Commercial printing and Legal Blanks a speci alty. Address J. A. VOGLER, Proprietor,, Aprd 9, 1880. Charlotte, N- v- How "Watches are Made. It will be apparent to any one, who will examine a Solid Gold Watch, that aside from the neces sary thickness for engraving and polishing, a lav proportion of the precious metal used, is neetieu only to stiffen and hold the engraved portions in place, and supply the necessary solodity and stren.t i. The surplus gold is actually needless so far as." v ity and beauty are concerned. In James l Patent Gold Watch Cases, this waste of rreeou metal is overcome, and the same solodity an strength produced at from one-third to 0,ie;baf'rt,ie the usual cost of solid cases. This process is oi w most simple nature, as follows : a plate of nic -composition metal, specially adapted to thepurposr, has two plates of solid gold soldered one , side. The three are then passed between V"f'lej steel rollers, and the result is a strip of IJ, composition, from which the cases, baCfs,iLanJ uezeis, zc, are cut and shaped by suiiaw"-0 tly formers Tim n-M in t li ca ioM IS v .v iun v. an nuiuo vnw . . till- and enamelling; the engraved cases liave ot ried until worn perfectly smooth by tiie au without removing the gold. ,. ,fVt',j This is the only Case made with two vMa J ' Gold and Warranted by Special Certificate f ... j For sale by all Jewelers. Ask for lllur Catalogue, and to see warrant. March 19, 1880 6m