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Home and Democrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Correspondence of the Home and Democrat.
New York, March 6, 1882.
Editor Home and Democrat: The
death of that venerable and excellent lady,
Mrs. Mary J. Lucas, of your city, carries
me back the long period of seventy years,
when I first saw her in Raleigh, the wife
of one of the ablest and most accom
plished Editors the State has ever known,
Alexander H. Lucas, and the daughter of
Mr. Casso, proprietor of the principal hotel
of that period, which stood on the South
ern front of the capitol, where Mr. Mor
decai and Dr. Hogg afterwards put up the
building so long known as the "North
Carolina Book-Store." She was a good
woman, who spent the long period of her
widowhood, more than fifty years I be
lieve, in acts of kindness to her troops of
friends, many of whom preceded her to
the grave.
Another face rises before me as I write,
as it has often done heretofore that of
Miss Mildred Cameron, daughter of the
late Judge Duncan Cameron. When I
saw her in this city a few years ago, she
had been an invalid for about thirty-five
years, yet I do not remember ever to have
looked upon a more cheerful and con
tented face. It might well have been
called angelic. She was an example of
daily and hourly physical suffering that
did not mar the serenity of a christian's
spirit, and which might serve to lighten
the burdens of others' lives, as I think the
remembrance of it has lightened mine.
At a meeting of the Medico-Legal So
ciety, in this city, Dr. Hammond and
others spoke on emotional insanity, and
at the close, Mr. Scoville, Guiteau's
brother-in-law and counsel, made a few
remarks, in the course of which he said,
"My investigation of this subject has led
me to this conclusion, that the Courts,
with some degree of humanity, will find
some mode of modifying the law so that
while they hold to the spirit of the law
they do not hold to the letter of the law
It is to be feared that Mr. Scoville is right,
except that instead of saying that the
Courts will find, he might have said have
found soma mode of modifying the law.
In other words, that the Courts sometimes
dare to make the laws conform to their
own opinions of what the laws should be,
instead of administering the laws as the
Legislatures make them. An eminent
legal gentleman once told me, with great
admiration, of an opinion of Chief Justice
Marshall, than whom there has never been
a higher authority, on this point. Judge
Potter had said, in delivering an opinion
at Raleigh, that in cases like that before
them, "the Court leans to the side of so
and so. "In that opinion," said Chief
Justice Marshall, "I do not concur. This
Court has no leanings, but endeavors to
administer the law as it finds it upon the
statute books."
There is a rather amusing article in the
Philadelphia American on the subject of
prolonged visits "Staying in Friends'
Houses." In England, gentlemen in the
country have their regular successions of
visitors, whose terms of stay are pre
scribed these for a week, those for a
fortnight, fcc. And the host and hostess
find out every morning what each guest
would like to do, or where to go; put
each in the way of doing or going accord
ingly, and then give themselves no fur
ther trouble about the guests till the
evening, when they all assemble for lunch
or dinner. Whereas in this country, peo
pie give one graud entertainment to per
sons who bring letters of introduction,
and then turn them adrift. Always ex
cept in Boston, where, according to Mr,
Lathrop, "hospitality is understood to be
chiefly restricted to the offer of a seat in
church" and a Unitarian church at that,
I suppose. The American next gives ex
amples of fussy hosts, who run after their
guests, to their great annoyance; and of
equally fussy guests who are not satisfied
without monopolizing all the time which
their hosts should devote to their own
daily duties. And finally comes to the
question, "How long will they stay ?"
And some of the various devices are re
cited to get rid of visitors who outstay
their welcome. None of these are equal
to that of Gerritt Smith, of the western
part of New York, whose house was open
to all comers, but who got rid of one after
as long an endurance as he could stand,
by urging a petition at family prayers,
"for the safe arrival at home of our friend
Mr. , who leaves us to-morrow morn-
ing.'''' And Mr.
left accordingly.
A plucky woman in the upper part of
the city has a rather iorcible notion of
woman's rights. Having failed to pay
her rent, her landlord ordered her to va
cate, when she set to work to damage the
property, and when a painter was sent to
do some decorations, she drove him out
tid threw his paint out of the window
An officer was then procured, but she at
tacked him with a hot poker, and not
until he had procured reinforcements did
the woman consent to go to the station
She was sent to "the Island," to be lodged
and fed by the public for three months
All, probably, from having read Scott's
Rob Roy, and seen what an effective in
strument a red-hot poker is in stalwart
hands.
The will of Charles Albert Read of
Newton, Mass., gives 50,000 to the Treas
ury of the United States, to be applied to
the reduction of the war debt. To the
attending physician $500 is given on con
dition "that my head is severed from my
body, as I have a great horror of being
buried alive."
The mortuary statistics of this city
show that 47 per cent, or nearly one-half,
of the deaths are of children under fiv
fie
years of age ; the deaths from scarlatina
being almost unprecedented in number.
The births were one-third less than the
deaths and the list of marriages is alarm
ingly meagre. Furthermore, it appears
that during the week in question ooe man
took his fourth wife, that three women
took their third husbands and that one
fifth of all the couples married were made
up ol widows or widowers. Is marriage
going out of fashion with young New
York ? H.
Wonderful Spectacle said to have been
Seen in Troy.
Troy, March 5. In an alley in the rear
of First street, below Adams street, in
this city, is a one-story wood building, in
which Thomas Jones, a man possessed of
more than average intelligence, and two
aged female relatives reside. The house
is an unpretentious one, but for a few days
past it has possessed wonderful attractions
for persons of a superstitious turn of
mind. It is alleged that at about 5
o'clock every afternoou a picture of the
Virgin Mary, with a child in her arms,
appears on one of the whitewashed walls.
The apparition is at first almost invisible,
but gradually grows plainer until it be
comes distinctly visible.
A correspondent called at the house this
evening, and after a little delay was ush
ered into a scantily furnished sitting
room. On making the object of the visit
known, Mr. Jones was at first inclined to
be reticent, but the correspondent sug
gesting that there could be no reasonable
ground for believing the story of the ap
parition, Mr, Jones lumped to his feet, ex
claiming, "But I know better, sir, I have
seen it with my own eyes several times.
Then pointing to the west wall of the
room, Mr. Jones asserted that tor many
days a well-executed picture of the Virgin
Mary, with a babe in her arras, and with
a cross and the letters "I. H. S." a little
to the right, appeared in figures of fire.
Mr. Jones could give no reason for the ap
parition, and seemed to be alarmed at its
frequent appearance. While admitting
that he was a strict believer in the doc
trines of the Roman Catholic Church, he
denied that he was at all superstitions, and
declared that when his attention was first
called to the apparition by bis relatives,
he tried to laugh away their fears. Taking
a lighted lamp, the correspondent critically
examined the whitewashed wall, and
while he could see nothing resembling a
picture of the Virgin, a rude outline of a
cross and the letters I. H. S. were visible.
As the reporter returned the light to the
table the women in the room suddenly fell
on their knees. In turning his attention
to them his eye fell on the wall. The spot
he had just been examining seemed to be
a blaze of light. He could discern no pic
ture of the Virgin Mary, but the cross
was very plain. 1 he apparation lasted a
few moments only. It is possible that it
is the work of mischievous neighbors, but
a carelul search about the premises re
vealed nothing to warrant such a belief.
A thorough investigation of the alleged
apparition is to be made by persons who
manifest considerable interest in it. The
majority of Trojan9 attribute the phenome
non to phosphorus in the whitewashed
walls.
A Woman under the Bed.
The traditional man under the bed has
been found, and lovelv woman is happv
No, not so; it is quite the reverse. The
woman under the bed has been found, and
it was a man who found her. Hereafter
all who are prone to taunt curious
woman with having an inquiring turn of
mind and being fond of making a voyage
of discovery under the bed, will please be
warned that men sometimes do likewise.
Mr. Northrop, at a Hartford hotel, having
locked and bolted his door, retired. In
the morning he found his door unlocked
and the bolt drawn, and his pockets rifled.
He related the matter at dinner to Mr.
Bradley, who before retiring that night
recalled the incident. What ensued is
best told in Mr. Bradley's own words :
"After bolting the door, I did what I
have never done before in my life, and
that was to look into the closet. As there
was nobody there I looked under the bed.
There seemed to be something crouched
against the wall, and to make sure I got
down on my knees and looked again. This
time the something moved and I started
for the door and called 'police.' I then
turned and comraauded whatever was
under the bed to come out, and in response
a small woman came out."
She proved to be an experienced thief
who was a transient guest at the hotel,
registering .under the name of Mary
Palmer. But that is only an incident;
the important matter is, men sometimes
look in closets and under beds as well as
women, and find there what they are look
ing for.
Interesting to Oyster Eaters. A
matter of importance to oyster eaters has
been disolosed by Mr. C. A. Cameron.
He lately examined some oysters taken
from the beds on the northern shore of the
Bay of Dublin, where the water is very
much polluted at present with excremen
titious and other offensive substances. The
oysters which Mr. Cameron tested were
taken from a place where the tide covered
them to a height of ten feet, and which
was nearly dry at low water. From the
brine of most of the oysters no offensive
ordor was emitted but that of a large pro
portion gave forth a distinctly fetid smell,
and in a few cases the brine gave unmis
takable evidence to the nostrils of sewage
contamination. The microscope revealed
in the fetid liquor of the oysters whole
swarms of micrococci and other low orgar.
isms like those usually present in sewage.
Water taken from the bay at low tide was
found to be highly charged with sewage.
It is not unfairly considered, therefore, that
the illness which so many persons have
experienced after eating oysters be
lieved to have been stale, was really
due to the sewage in the juice of these
shellfish.
Depression in Cotton Goods. A
special dispatch from Fall River says :
"The question of shutting down the mills
for a certain period has been agitated for
some days past. The outlook in the print
cloth market and the general feeling of
depression in all business connected with
the manufacture of cotton goods leads to
this result. Manufacturers claim that at
the present prices and in view of the slack
ening demand for ; goods at a fair profit,
that a general shut down would be the
only legitimate means of giving tone to
the market and placing the mills in a posi
tion where there may be a healthy de
mand for their products. Probably no
action will be taken until the approach of
mild weather, but the matter is under dis
cussion, and if there is no change for the
better in the cotton goods market a shut
down is looked upon here as the course
most advisable."
CitrletU itaa tni Qamacrtt, Cstrlstts,
N. C. NEWS.
The stockholders of the Midland Rail
road, at Alexandria, Va., last week, or
dered aid to be given Col. J. Turner
Morebead, President of the North Caro
lina Division, for the purpose of pushing
the Road on from Danville to Charlotte.
On Tuesday last the diningroom and
kitchen, with its oontents, of Mr. C. A.
Pitts, of Concord, was destroyed by fire.
Damage three hundred dollars.
The town of Burnt Chimney, in Ruther
ford county, has changed its name to
Forest City.
On Wednesday night of last week, in
Poplar Tent neighborhood, Cabarrus
county, Miss Sue Holdbrooks was severe
ly bitten, in the arm, by a strange dog.
The noise of a dog among the geese
caused her to go out in the yard. The
dog was killed before it relinquished its
hold.
Mr. Thos. Morrow was seriously in
jured about a week ago while hoise
racing with another party. I he roads
were very muddy and the horse ran to the
side of the road, threw him and bruised
his head, from the effect of which he died
a few days ago. Hickory Press.
W. G. Bennett doing business as a mer
chant, at Mt. Pisgah, Alexander county,
committed suicide, on Sunday morning of
last week. His habits were not temperate,
and during the preceeding week he had
indulged lreely. He leaves a wile and
three children. Statesville American.
A few weeks since, Benjamin Arey, an
old citizen, departed this life, and last
week his son, W m. Arey, a young and
promising man, was followed to the grave;
meanwhile a daughter lies dangerously ill.
They resided in Chambersburg township.
Statesville American.
r. J. P. Johnston of Rutherford Col
lege, sold his crop of tobacco at the Farm
ers Warehouse last 1 hursday at unusually
fair prices considering the quality of the
tobacco. His crop was set out the 15th
of July and he realized for some grades
of it $24.50 per hundred pounds. Hickory
Press.
Mr. F. H. Heartt by some means took
an overdose of morphine, to alleviate pain
last Friday. Not coming down to break
fast, his room was viited, when he was
found unconscious and in an extremely
critical condition. Two physicians were
immediately summoned, who after some
hours succeeded in "bringing him around."
Jialeioh Observer.
We are pleased to learn that Mr. J. S.
Henderson, upon whom it seems most of
the labor ol codilying the Statute Liw is
imposed by the other two gentlemen of
the Commission, is progressing with his
work very rapidly and satisfactorily. He
is assisted by Wm. C. Black mer, Esq,
the Secretary of the Commission, a young
lawyer of the town. Salisbury Jixaminer.
The barn and contents of Mr. P. D
Weaver, some three miles east of Greens
boro, were entirely destroyed by fire on
Monday night of last week about 12
o'clock. The barn contained Mr. Weaver's
grain, all his feed, horses and a valuable
cow. It is supposed the barn was fired by
an incendiary. If so, the culprit who fired
it opened the door and let the horses out
All the property in the barn, except the
horses, was totally destroyed, and as Mr.
Weaver is a poor man, the loss is a heavy
one. It leaves him in a crippled condi
tion to make his next crop. Greensboro
Patriot.
The North Carolina Midland.
The entire line of the North Carolina Mid
land Railroad, from Mooresville to Back
Creek Church, Rowan county, a distance
of nine miles, is under contract. All of
the contracts are now being worked and
some of them will soon be finished. The
culverts are also being built along the
line and it is thought that by the middle
of Summer the first nine miles will be
ready for the cross-ties. Capt. J. O
Moore, the Chief Engineer of the Road,
has been quite sick of pneumonia, at his
home in Mooresville, but is now able to
be on his feet again. Statesville Land
mark. A Remarkable Recovery of Lost
Property. On the 20th of June, 1860, a
lady of this city had taken from her room
a beautiful gold watch, chain and locket.
Every effort was made at the time to re
cover it, and suspicion rested on several,
but no clue could ever be gotten to it
On yesterday a servant was raking under
a barn on the premises, to get out some
eggs, when to the surprise of all she drew
out the long lost watch. The morocco
case wus rotted at the bottom, but the
watch, chain, fcc, was found to be in per
fect order, and as if its rust had been but
a week, instead of twenty-two years old.
Raleialt Observer, 3d.
The Cost of "Justice." Going to
law is a luxury tor which people have to
pay pretty dearly. We instance the case
of Overcash vs. Ketchie, which was tried
last week in our Superior Court. These
are neighbors, citizens of Coddle Creek
Township. There arose between them a
dispute about the ownership of a little
corner ot land, a quarter of an acre, worth
$2.50. It was considered that to go to
law about it was the correct thing, and to
law they went. Ihe case has been pend
ing since 1879. Last week it was decided
against Ketchie. The amount to be taxed
in the bill of cost is in the immediate
neighborhood of $200. The case is to go
to the supreme Court which will add
about $50 to the cost. There are the
lawyer fees on each side, about $100, cer
tainly not less. Then in addition to this
the county ot Iredell has had to pay a
Judge ana jury tor two days spent in
hearing the case, and so the total cost will
approximate $400, all spent on account of
a quarter of an acre of land, worth two
dollars and fatty cents. Statesville Land
mark.
Thanksgiving Over the Queen's Es
cape. London, March 5. There were
special prayers and thanksgiving services
i n -m i , . . .
in neariy an me cnurcnes ana chapels
England to-day with reference to
of
the
Queen's escape from the attempt upon h
er
life. The Press Association understands
that the Queen was in no way so much
fected by any message as by that from
President Arthur. The radical journals
on the Continent senerallv denlorp th
r
attempt on the Queen's life. A few of the
more extreme type express apprehension
that it will be turned to account as an ar
gument in favor of reaction. Special
prayers were offered in the synagogues
and the Catholic cathedral at Kensington
for the preservation of the Queen.
In the New Jersey Assembly a
provision was inserted in the law calling a
Constitutional Convention, which is novel.
It provides that no Amendment to the
Constitution shall be adopted by the Con
vention unlessit receives a majority of
the votes cast in eleven counties.
NEWS ITEMS.
The southern states had 10,500,000 acre
in cotton last year.
The mills in Pensacola, Fla., and adja
cent points employ 1,000 men.
The Montgomery, Alabama, cotton fac
tory has commenced operations.
Corn, near Gadsden, Ala., planted last
month, is fine and six inches high.
A bed of autbracite coal has been dis
covered in Pickens county, Alabama.
The island of Elba. Napoleon I.'sold
home, is being strongly fortified by Italy.
Necrology. Boston, March 3. Chas.
Hale died yesterday after a long illness.
Report says that the cabbage crop of
Mobile county, Alabama, will amount to
$200,000.
'Tis said that the Gordons will put
$100,000 worth ol machinery into a factory
near Covington, Mississippi.
Mrs. W. K. Beard, of Tallahassee, Fla.,
gathered from her garden in one day seven
hundred pansies.
Attorney-General McLeary, of Texas,
has decided that it is unlawful for boys to
be employed about saloons.
A new coal company has been organized
in Knoxville, Tenn., with Col. G. T. Fore
acre, of Atlanta, as president.
The town of Valley Mills, Teias,
was almost entirely demolished by a re
cent cj'done.
The secret of the snake charmers of
India is said to be sewing up the mouths
of their snakes.
The Hinesviile Gazette says the tur
pentine meu complain that worms are
attacking the newly boxed trees and decay
follows.
Geo. B. Wall, the lawyer who was fatal
ly shot by his wife at their home at New
Utrecht, L. L, is a native of Newbern,
North Carolina.
Mr. H. C. vurry, who lives near Chat
tanooga, Tenn., has seventy-five acres de
voted to the production of sweet potatoes,
and the yield averages 100 bushels to the
acre.
Mrs. Brooks of Idianola, Iowa, sold her
husband's overalls to a rag man, the other
day, and fortunately the rag man was
found in time to recover $100 which had
been put in the cast-off garment.
A horse which was being shipped from
Boston to Chicopee, Mass., slipped its hal
ter, managed to open the car door, and
jumped off the train. The buyer has
learned that the animal returned to Bos
ton. A grown-up resident of Leesburg, Fla.,
laughed as heartily as the boys who tied
a blazing sponge full of kerosene to the
tail of a dog until the brute ran under
his bouse and set a fire, which destroyed
it.
Some time ago Mrs. Brown, of Allen
county, Ky., gave birth to twins. Not
withstanding there is but four minutes
difference in there ages, yet one was born
in 1881 and the other in 1882, one in De
cember and the other in January, one on
Sunday, the other on Monday.
Stung by Bees. A swarm of bees in
Sweetwater Valley, Cal., settled on a
rattlesnake six feet long, twelve inches in
girth, with twenty-two rattles, and stung
it so that it was blinded, and afterward
easily killed with a spade. Han Francisco
Chronicle.
A Colored Episcopal Minister.
Charleston, March 3. Rev. Thaddeus
Salars, the first colored man ever admitted
to the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of South Carolina, wb to-day or
dained a priest in St. Martin's Church by
Bishop Howe.
ST" A half starved vagabond named
Mac Lean, of Southsea England, fired a pis
tol near Queen Victoria's carriage on the
2nd inst. Some think he attempted to
kill the Queen, but he says that he was
starving and wanted to be arrested and
fed. It -is a great pity that all vagabonds,
and lunatics, and tramps, aud cranks, can
not be impnsoued before they murder
some innocent person.
Jewish Refugees in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, March 3. About seventy-
nve Kussian Jewish relugees are now at
work. Most of them are skilled workmen,
but there are many tailors, shoemakers,
hatters and machinists among them who
have not obtained employment.
A new way of punishing children in the
nuftalo Orphan Asylum is letting the sash
ot a heavy window down upon their
hands, and thus confining and torturing
them in spite ot their groans and cries,
We note that the United States Fish
Commissioner, after having had an appro
priation of $108,000 for his department
for the current year, asks for $77,000 ad
ditional. The worst foolishness that any
government, state or national, ever en
gaged in, is the fish foolishness. Instead
of giving him $77,000 more for his experi
ments, Congress would be doing a genuine
service to the people who have just as
good as been robbed already of $198,000
in bis interest, if it were to abolish Mr.
Fish Commissioner entirely. Statesville
landmark.
Gen. Vance introduced an amendment
to the Postoffice bill granting $20,000 to
the Department to furnish countrv post
offices with scales for weighing mail mat
ter. It appears that the smaller offices
have not been allowed letter-scales, yet
i. . -
are cnargea n not enough postage be de
manded. The P. O. Dept. wrote Gen. V
that there were 10,000 such offices, and
that tines to the amount of $200 per month
were charged for deficient postage. The
amendment was adopted ; and the country
postmasters of North Carolina should eive
Gen. Vance good measure in the scales of
approbation.
Senator Sawyer is one of the wealthiest
men in congress. The .Louisville Coune
journal relates that he called his two
daughters to him and said: "My children,
you Know that 1 am a rich man now, bu
you also know that riches are apt to lak
wings to themsel ves and flv awav. so
would feel much happier about your future
u a ieit certain tnat you could take care
yourselves if I should lose my money an
of
d
oe uname to provide tor you. JNow,
to
piease me, won t you learn to make yonr
own clothes and to cook a good dinner ?"
not long atter ward they invited their
parents and a lew friends to an elaborate
dinner which they had cooked unaided,
and on that occasion they wore dresses of
their own making. The delighted father
gave each girl a check for $25,000.
The Dublin Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals have re
solved to ask the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic prelates to appoint a day when a
remonstrance shall be made in the churches
against the mutilation of cattle.
Snaculaiioss in the South.
an. ,.un( Wak in cotton furnishes a
text for several prominent Northern jour
nals in the ventilation of what they know
about speculations in cotton lutures. rvr
haps the weight of information from that
quarter may have some effect upon South
ern speculators. The late collapse gives
the Mew iorK rinaiiuiai vuiumun. .
opportunity of saying that it is disposed
r. , . . ..I ........ i ft
to take a cold view oi tue inn',
regard the collapse as healthful, purely
educational, and as "teaching the severe
lesson that man must live by the sweat of
bis brow.
"It appears," remarks the Chronicle,
"as if nearly every person is required to
na thrnnorh some such exDerience before
he is willing to settle down an I act upon
that conclusion."
A short road to wealth is an early and
a common dream, but not one speculator
in a thousand prohts by his ventures, xie
may for a time, but the end is loss.
A broker said uot long since mat ne
had on the averaore a new crop of cus
tomers every three years, as it took about
that time to exhaust the oi l ones. inis
is predominant reason why the South does
not. anon initiate wealth faster. It always
speculates on the cotton crop, and almost
uuiversally on what is called the "bull
side."
Thp Chronicle misrht have iustlv gone a
step further and sid that it made but lit
tle difference whether the tsonth took tne
bull side or the bear side of the question,
the outcome would be about the same
thing. The game is about on a parity
with "head I win. tails vou lose." and
everybody knows this is a hard game to
beat.
The South is indebted to the Chronicle
for its free admission that speculation in
- - - - i
cotton futures "is a prominent reason
why the south does uot accumulate id
wealth faster."
It most assuredly is one reason, for if a
contemporary of the Chronicle, the New
York Times, is good authority on tne
subject, the South pays dearly for its
whistle.
"There are more Southern than North
ern amateur speculators in futures," says
the Times, "and it is said the South loses
in this way the annual sum of $30,000,000.
A very good rule, so cool-headed opera
tors say, is to find out what the Southern
ers are doing, and then do just the other
thing."
It looks almost incredible, but then the
Times doubtless knows whereof it speaks.
The sum of $30,000,000 annually expended
by the South in cotton speculations is
equal to one-eighth of the value of the
entire cotton crop of the United States.
Surely it is about time for outside victims
to call a halt, and to consider the folly of
placing themselves and their margins en
tirely at the mercy of so-called operators.
The process of milking is about as easy as
lying. Galveston News.
Good-Bye, Cash Boys.
The ingenuity of the American inventor
is daily exemplified at Seas store, on
State street, in the operation of Lamson's
patent automatic cash carrier, an arrange
ment which does away with the cash boys
and girls. Each clerk in the store has a
hollow wooden ball marked with a number.
These balls open in the centre by one
twist, the money and check are put inside
and held by springs, so there will be no
rattling, and the clerk puts the ball in a
little elevator above her head and pulls a
string. This lifts the elevator, and the ball
is thrown off into a sort of elevated rail
way, with an incline toward the cashier's
desk, which is situatad in the middle of the
first floor, about six feet below the ceiling,
When the balls reach the cashier they are
opened,the tickets are taken out, the change
is made, and the balls put on a lower rail
way, which inclines toward the clerks.
The balls are of different sizes, the smal
lest belonging to the clerks at the greatest
distance from the cashier's desk. When
a ball reaches the clerk to whom it belongs
it touches a spring which operates a switch,
and the ball tails into a socket in front ot
the clerk. She opens it, takes out the
change, and the work is done. The small
balls pass under the springs, and are not
dropped until they reach their destination.
Every two clerks have a single elevator,
and their are forty balls and twenty sta
tions on the first floor.
Change is made in about thirty seconds,
and an expense ot $15 per day is saved.
Besides this there is no noise, and the store
is not crowded by yelling cash boys. The
arrangement is not uusightly, but is rath
er an ornament to the store, as the little
railway is constructed by bright brass
wire and ebony. The patent on the ar
rangement was allowed in December last,
and was adopted by Mr. Sea about a month
ago. It is truly a wonderful invention.
and will soon be introduced in a number
of other Chicago stores by the gentlemen
who controls the patent, Z. M. Holbrook,
formerly a Congregational minister in this
city. What is now needed is something
to deal with parcels after a similar fashion,
and it is believed that it will be forthcora
ing. Chicago Tribune.
fc .
tde lhe Mason trial has closed. He
wanted to address the court, but was un
willing for his remarks to go on record
He told a W ashington Star reporter that
he had desired to thank the court for a fair
trial, and to say "if this court wishes to
send me out of the army dishonorably I can
only say that it was tor striking terror and
fright to the heart of that cowardly, sneak
ing, cast-iron-jawed, projected-eyebrowed
assassin Guiteau. Gentlemen, I have no
more to say. I am at your mercy." His
counsel argued that he could not have
struck Guiteau under any circumstances,
and that the bullet was aimed at the jail
and not at Guiteau. When the person who
was the object ot an assault was out ot any
danger from the act, the law did not pre
sume that there was an intent to kill. The
assault must be likely to endanger life
He thought the prisoner was especially
entitled to kind consideration. He was
charged with the crime of attempting to
kill the assassin of the President and com
mander-inchief of the United States
The court sat for half an hour in secret
session, and then coming to a verdict,
adjourned. The finding will not be made
public until reviewed by the department
83f" They say that a general war may
be expected over in Europe, and when it
comes it will be no child's play. The fol
lowing are the armies that might easily
take the held: Austria. 1,220,000: Ger
many, 1,500,000; Russia, 2,252,000; France,
1,230,000. But, then, how soon would the
treasuries become bankrupt with such im
mense hosts to be maintained and kept in
fighting trim. The fight would be short
if not decisive. One result would be the
flocking ol a million emigrants to our hos
pitable and peaceful shores.
Peoole can have some idea where
so much bacon comes lrom when it is un
derstood that during the winter Cincin
nati packed 384,878 hogs.
G.
Startling Assertiww of a Josephit Mor
mon from Salt Lake Uity.
rwnu i March 3. A man from Salt
Lake, visiting in this city, in the coarse
of an animated conversation on the anti-
Mormon movement, said he believed mat
Brigham YoHng is still alive. He said
that he saw the body which was supposed
to be that of the Mormon leader, and
while it might have borne some siignt re
semblance to that of Brigham Young it
was in reality that ot some otner ui.
vi.. ho knew of a hundred Latter Day
Saints who also failed to recognise the
body as that of Young, ae naa uru
Brigham Young often predict that be
should be resurrected from the dead ; and
he firmly believes that when the crisis ar
rives in the affairs of the Mormons, the
resurrection dodge will be played upon
the ignorant, superstitions, and fanatical
people who compose the Mormon Charcb.
This cunning plan will be in keeping with
the various tricks and pretensions that
have characterized the Mormon Church
since its inception. Brigham Young, a
shrewd and far-seeing man, knew that the
day was not far off when a vigorous cru
sade would be made upon the Mormon
Church, and he adopted the resurrection
game, to be put into operation at a time
when the people shall need something in
the shape of a miracle to firmly cement
them together and fight to maintain the
principles of the faith.
The man who made these statements is
a Mormon, but not a polygamist. He is
what is known as a Josephite, or a be
liever in the true Mormon Church founded
by Joseph Smith, and be denies, with all
Josephites, that polygamy was ever a part
of the Mormon faith preached by Smith.
He is extensively engaged in business in
Utah, and is regarded as a man of sound
judgment and veracity. While here he
visited some of the Umaha Josephites, ano
it was to them that he made the revela
tions of the plan by which Brigham Young
is to create the greatest sensation of mod
ern times. He had many business deal
ings with Young, and was intimately ac
quainted with him. He asserts that, with
the complete organization and secret work
ings of the church, it would be an easy
matter to keep Brigham Young concealed
for almost any length of time, and repro
duce him when most needed to revive the
faith of believers by his apparent resurrec
tion. That this resurrection would be
taken asa matter of fact there is no doubt,
and the superstitious people would follow
the prophet's banner with the zeal of fanat
ics, and shed their blood in its defence.
This Josephite's statement is to some
extent confirmed by a retired army officer
who was on the most friendly and inti
mate terms with Brigham Young. This
officer, who viewed the alleged remains of
Young, has, it is said made the assertion
that they did not bear the least resem
blance to Brigham Young.
JT- At the request of Mrs. Garfield,
and under the direction of ex-Postmaster
General James, there has been prepared
for presentation to the Queen of England
a frame containing the first proof of the
new five cent stamps, United States pos
tage, known as the "Garfield stamp."
The portrait of President Garfield upon
the stamp is an approved likeness, en
graved by the American Bank Note Com
pany from photographs selected by Mrs.
Garfield, who also selected the color which
was adopted by the Post Office Depart
ment for the printing of the stamps. The
frame consists of a mat of sterling silver,
upon which is engraved an exqusite border
of fine geometric lathework. This is sur
rounded by a rod of solid gold nearly a
quarter ot an inch in diameter cut in bar
leycorn work of new design, with brilliant
facets by Jacquin. The rod separates the
silver from the royal purple velvet upon
the concave portion of the frame, which is
of fine ebony. A glass plate with beveled
edges covers all except the ebony, and the
whole is enclosed in a cedar wood box
mounted with silver and lined with royal
purple velvet.
Sensible Talk. Mr. A. J. White, a
Pike county (Ga.) merchant miller, an
nounces to the farmers that he will grind
corn at a slight advance on Western
prices and closes with the following per
tinent suggestion: "Farmers ot Pike
county, the planting season will soon be
here and let me beg you to plant corn
enough to support you fully and the bal
ance in cotton make your living at home
and be independent of merchants. If you
will do this and make less cotton, what
you do make will bring you more money
than all you make now, and having your
com crib full of corn, hogs will grow finely
you will be independent and cau give
your wife and children the cotton to buy
nice fine clothes with."
Peg Fotjxd ijt a Teee. Mr. T. B.
Fowler was splitting rails near this place,
one day last week, and, in splitting open
a tree about eighteen inches in diameter,
he found a wooden peg four inches Iqpg
and one in diameter near the centre of the
tree four or five inches from the outside.
The peg must have been driven into the
tree many years ago, as the tree had
grown to such a thickness over it. The
only solution of the mystery that we have
heard suggested is that the peg was pro
bably driven into the tree by an old man,
known as "Governor" Cook, who formerly
lived near where the tree stood, and who,
it is said, was something of a conjurer and
used to drive pegs into trees as a species
of enchantment.
FERTILIZERS.
We are now prepared to furnish at reasonable
prices
The Etiwan
DISSOLVED BONE,
The Atlantic
ACID PHOSPHATE,
The Etiwan Guano
AND
THE STANDARD GUANO.
These are all reliable brands.
SPRINGS & BURWELL.
Jan. 20, 1882.
Buist's Garden Seeds.
We have received a large supply of these Seeds
which we have just opened and invite the atten
tion of both Wholesale and Retail Trade.
WILSON & BURWELL,
Feb. 24, 1882. Druggists.
WANTED,
Turkeys and Oeese, the highest price paid by
S. M. HOWELL.
Feb.10, 1882.
Comparative Cotton Statement.
The following is the cotton statement
for the week ending March 3 :
1882.
1881.
Net receipts at all United
States ports during the
week,
Total receipts to this date,
Exports for the week,
Total exports to this date,
Stock at all U. 8. ports,
Stock at all interior towns,
Stock at Liverpool,
Stock of American afloat for
Great Britain,
51,116
4,021,961
108,722
2,329,756
1,019,162
168,101
731,000
132,483
4.617,005
2,965,600
864,652
l&i263
711,000
217,000 349,000
Cotton in Liverpool.
Liverpool, March 3. This week's circa,
lar of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Asso
ciation says: "Cotton was in good demand
early in the week, but closed with prices
little changed in African. Low middling
and above have been slightly harder.
Sandy cotton was depressed. Sea island
was in moderate demand. Medium quali
ties are reduced d. Futures on Monday
were firm, and advanced and 5-32d.
They close dull, with l-16d of the advance
lost."
Big Bonks. Dr. Wilcox sends us the
complete dimensions of the mastodon re
cently discovered by him in Taylor county
and which he exhibited in this city on the'
14th of January : Length of head 9 feet ;
length of neck, 1 feet ; length of spine, 27
feet; length of fore leg, 7 feet; length of
molar tooth in jaw, 11 inches; width of
molar tooth in jaw, 3 inches; length of
molar from top of tooth to the end of the
root of molar tooth, 8 inches ; length of
under jaw bone, 6 feet; diameter of
spinal marrow, 6 inches. Tallahasse
Floridian.
Administrator's Sale.
On Thursday, the 23d day of March, 1882, at
the late residence of Thos. J. Caldwell, deceased,
in Lemley's Township, I will sell at public auc
tion all the PERSONAL-PROPERTY belong
ing to the estate of the deceased, to-w it : Horses
and Mules, Cattle, Corn, Farming Tools, House
hold and Kitchen Furniture. &c. Terms Cash.
JOS. M. WILSON,
March 3, 1882. 3w Adm'r.
Sale of A., T. & O. R. R. Stock.
On Monday, March 27, 1882, at the Court
House in Charlotte, at 12 M., I will sell at public
auction 15 Shares of Stock in the Atlantic, Tenn.
& Ohio Railroad Company. Terms Cash.
JOS. M. WIL80N,
March 3, 1882. 4w Adm'r.
North Carolina, Mecklenburg County.
In Superior Court.
Pursuant to an order made at the Spring Term,
1882, of the Superior Court cf Mecklenburg
county, North Carolina, in the suit of S. C.
Blanchard, on behalf of himself and others,
against J. M. B. Reynolds, Trustee of Smith St
Forbes, the creditors of the firm of Smith &
Forbes are hereby notified to come, by them
selves or their Attorneys, on or before Monday,
the 27th day of March, 1882, and present and file
their claims with E E. P. Osborne, Referee, at
his Law office in the city of Charlotte, in said
State.
AND Notice is also hereby given that on
said 27th day of March, 1882, at 10 o'clock, A.
M., at my Office in said city of Charlotte, I will
proceed to hear proofs and state an account of
the actings and doings of the said J. M. B. Rey
nolds as Trustee as aforesaid.
Given under my band at Charlotte this March
1st, 1882.
E. K. P. OSBORNE,
March 3, 1882. 4w Referee.
R. H. JORDAN.
DR. JOS. GRAHAM.
NEW DRUG STORE.
We have opened and have now on sale a new
and complete line of Fresh
DRUGS,
Toilet articles, &c, which we respectfully invite
our friends and the public generally to call and
examine at our Store on
TRYON STREET,
Opposite Eli as & Cohen's.
Prescriptions
Carefully Prepared at all Hours, Day and
Night.
R. H. JORDAN & CO.
Feb. 3, 1882.
CONFECTIONERY
AND
Fruit Store,
TRADE STREET, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Not being able to secure a page wbereon to
publish a list of my stock, compels me to con
dense and give only a few items, assuring the
public I can supply everything in the line.
Fruit from the Torrid and Frigid, Nuts from
the Arctic and Antarctic, Candies from the North
and South Temperate, Jellies that sparkle in a
tempting manner, Brandy Peaches that do not
intoxicate, Canned Goods from every clime.
Groceries a full assortment of Plain and
Fancy. I am prepared to furnish the freshest
and nicest Bread and Cakes of all kinds. Parties
and weddings supplied at reasonable rates.
Call at tbe store and finish the list.
C. 8. HOLTON.
Jan. 27, 1882.
Prescriptions
Carefully and accurately compounded of tbe
best materials at all hours.
WILSON & BURWELL,
Feb. 20, 1882. Druggists.
OUR STOCK
OK
Ready-Made Clothing
Is large and cheap, and we want our friends to
call and examine it.
We keep a good line of
PANTS GOODS.
Also, a good line of
Shirts,
Laundried and unlaundried.
The ladies will find a good stock of
Dress Goods,
Dreas Trimmings, Laces, Embroideries, Hosiery,
Gloves,
WHITE GOODS
And everything wanted in our line.
We
Earnestly desire all of onr old friends to continue
with us this year, and we hope to add many new
ones to our list.
ALEXANDER & HARRIS.
Jan. 13. 1882.
FERTILIZERS, GRASS SEEDS,
Agricultural Implements, &c.
We have in Store, Potash Acid Phosphate,
Navassa Acid Phosphate and Kainit.
A full line of tbe Standard Grass Seeds. Agri
cultural Implements of various Kinds from a
Wheat, or Grain, Drill, to a Garden plow. Every
farmer should call around and see for himself.
The Thomas Smoothing Harrow is attracting
great attention among farmers.
3,000
Were sold at Tbe Atlanta Exposition. This
House is Headquarters for Impelments, Seeds,
Wagons, Ac.
J. G. SHANNONHOUBE, ag't
Co-operative Store
Feb. 24, 1882.