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Home and Democrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Correspondence of the Home and Democrat
New York, March 13, 1882.
Editor Home and Democrat: Among
the papers with which I am favored, is a
very haudsome one called The Teacher,
published in Philadelphia, which I often
read with pleasure. In the last No. a
Teacher (it is hardly necessary to say a
Female Teacher, for the sex almost monop
olizes the business iu these parts) reviews
her experience with the "fair girls and
bright earnest boys," with whom
"We've read of Sidney, who, amid war's slaughter,
Though parched with thirst and wounded unto
death,
Himself refused the cup of cooline water
To ease a dying eoldier's parting breath."
And she asks herself:
"Iuall these pleasant task, so near complete
ness, Have I true virtue made the highest aim,
A nd taught that goodness far surpasses greatness,
That Sidney's deed is more than Shakespeare's
fame ?
O'er learning's heights when their young feet
would stumble,
And tLcir impatient spirits chafe at rule,
Have I myself been patient, meek, and humble.
And in my own heart have I first kept school f
Dear boys and girls, so eager in your gladness
To change for life's rough road the school
room floor,
May sorrow never come to dim with sadness,
But happy days surround you evermore."
It strikes me that these lines may touch
many a heart long since passed out of the
school room and withered by age and
troubles in "life's rough road."
In another part of the same paper an
assistant Teacher a man this time gives
his experience in the effort to teach his
boys the various sounds of letters a for
example in reading, when his principal
walked into the school room and stood
by, a listener for as long a time as his
patience held out, when he took the book
and read the paragraph in such a manner
as to give the dullest boy an idea of the
force of the passage and to enable even
him to read it with an approach to due
emphasis and discretion. I can well un
derstand this, for do I not recollect that
some forty years ago I took with me to
St. John's Church in Fayetteville, one
rainy Sunday, when none of the choir was
present to raise the tunes, an English gen
tleman named George Oates, one of the
finest singers I ever heard, and when he
sang at my side and I joined in, it really
seemed to me for the only time in my life
that I could sing. So great is the power
of a good example. And it has always
seemed to me that the magnificent read
ers from Newbern, such as Dr. Hawks
and Mr. Badger, owed their proficiency to
the example and training of some one citi
zen of that ancient "Athens," perhaps the
elder Stanly or Badger. Certain it is that
Newbern of old produced the finest read
ers that I ever heard. Ha9 the breed died
out? I do not know ; but I do know that
to be a good reader is one of the best, as
it is one of the rarest, accomplishments of
education.
The generosity of the Bostonians to Mr.
Webster outlasted his life by thirty years,
i Iu died in 1852. They had subscribed a
fund of $60,000, the interest of which was
paid regularly to his widow during her
life. On her death a few weeks ago the
fund reverts to the original contributors.
They do things handsomely in Boston, as
well as in New York.
IJarnum, the great showman, who has
roused all England by his determination
to get from London the largest known
elephant in the world, though he already
has twenty-one auimals of that species, is
a fellow of unbounded genius in the way
of contrivances for advertising his show
tor humbug, in short. The World tells
the following good story about him :
"Mr. Barnum once owned a lesser but still con
siderable beast of the same species as Jumbo, and
whenever out of the circus season the trains of
t lie New Haven Railroad pissed Mr. Barnmn's
house at Bridgeport, the quadruped in question
was to be seen attached to a mammoth plough
and proudly prodded by a Hibernian mahout in
pink cambric and gold bullion. The animal
aroused practical as well as scientific curiosity,
and various officers of agricultural associations
wrote to Mr. Barnum inquiring how many hours
a day the elephant would work and how much
he would draw. That unfeeling man made an
swer that the elephant would work as long as he
was within sight of an express train, and that it
had been computed that he would draw fifty
thousand people to Mr. Barnmn's show."
On Saturday night last the combined
Barnum and London shows had a grand
parade in this city. I would have been
glad to see it, but was prevented by other
engagements. It was advertised that
there would be a Kris Kringle chariot
drawn by eight small ponies driven by
old Santa Clans himself. Following these
"the old woman who lives in a shoe,"
with her numerous progeny of children,
thirty-three golden chariots, twenty-two
elephants, twenty camels, ten giraffes
(some in harness and others led by hand.)
After these, sixteen open dens of wild ani
mals, then two hundred mounted horse
men, ladies, knights, cavaliers, fcc., with
seventy cages of all kinds with birds, rep
tiles, fcc. There were to be 1,200 torches
in line, besides calcium and other lights,
while the whole line of parade was to be
illuminated with rare fireworks. It was
doubtless a sight worth seeing.
Two little fellows, oue six years of age
and the other eight, ragged but bright
and intelligent, have been arrested forsys
. tetuatic robbing in Washington Market
Oae of them when found was curled up
like a kitten in a soap box. I hey were
not at all abashed. Doubtless their pa
rents have meant to obey the injunction,
as they understand it, to "train up a child
in the way he should go."
An old maiden lady named Burr died
last week within a stone's throw of my
boarding house, worth three millions of
dollars, all of which except abont $225,
000 of personal legacies, she devised to
charitable institutions. She was 80 years
of age, the last ol three maiden sisters
w'aose fortune grew out of land in the
upper part of the city which their father
The
was forced to take for a debt of $3,000.
He thought it a hard case. By good
management, and by penurious living of
the sisters, the $9,000 have become three
millions. There is a long list of the insti
tutions favored, the largest being the
American Bible Society, and the Mission
ary Societies of the Episcopal Church.
She bad no relations nearer than distant
cousins. For some years past she has
lived in her house at 25 University place
almost alone. She saw no one. The win
dows were always closed the door was
rarely opened. Towards the last she lost
her memory. Of an income of nearly
$100,000 a year, she spent not a twentieth
part, and although she bad given away a
good deal in charity for many years, she
ceased before her death to take interest
either in charity or in anything else. Her
will was made 15 years ago and can hard
ly be contested successfully. H.
Analyses of Fertilizers.
C. . Experiment Station, )
N.
ft h, March 10th, 1882. J
The following additional analyses of
official samples of fertilizers have been
completed at the Station this season :
Fine Island Ammoniated Phosphate,
Quinnipiac Fertilizer Co., New London,
Conn., sampled at Wilmington, N. C,
contains water 22.39, available phosphoric
acid 9.39, ammonia 2.75, potash 2.18.
Commercial value per ton (2,000 lbs.)
$39.84.
Acidulated Phosphate, N. J. Chemical
Co., 129 S. Front St , Philadelphia, sam
pled at Wilmington N. C, contains water
11.49, avail, phos. acid 11.67. Commer
cial value per ton $29.17.
Diamond Soluble Bone, W al ton, Whann
& Co., VY ilmington, Del., sampled at
Laurinburg, N. C., contains water 14.20,
avail, phos. acid 11.78. Commercial value
per ton $29.45.
Ashepoo Acid Phosphate, Ashepoo
Phosphate Co., Charleston, S. C., sampled
at Laurinburg, N. U:, contains water
11.40, avail, phos. acid 11.62. Com
mercial value per ton $29.05.
Game Guano, Baltimore Guano Co.,
Baltimore, average of two analyses :
water 12.31, available phos. acid 8.81,
ammonia 2.35, potash 1.95. Commercial
value per ton $36.11.
Whann's Plow Brand Raw Bone Super
phosphate, Walton, Whann fc Co., Wil
mington, Del., sampled at Lumberton,
N. C, contains water 21.79, avail, phos.
acid 9.76, ammonia 2.71, potash 2.13.
Commercial value per ton $40.50.
Special Compound, G. Ober & Sons,
Baltimore, sampled at Laurinburg, N. C,
contaiLS water 13.42, avail, phos. acid
9.11, ammonia 2.77, potash 1.51. Com
mercial value per ton $38.43.
Etiwan Dissolved Bone, W. C. Bee &
Co. agents, Charleston, S. C, sampled at
aunnburg, N. C, contains water 15 34,
avail, phos. acid 13.31. Commercial value
per ton $33.27.
Powell's Prepared Chemicals, Brown
Chemical Co., Baltimore, eampled at Mon
roe, N. C, contains water 14.60, avail,
phos. acid 5.92, ammonia 1.13, potash
7.57. Commercial value per ton $29.53.
Equitable Ammoniated Soluble Phos
phate of Lime, Equitable Fertilizer Co.,
Baltimore, Md., sampled at Shelby, N. C,
contains water 15.78, avail, phos. acid
9.48, ammonia 2.26, potash 0.96. Com
mercial value per ton $36.15.
Zell's Cotton Acid Phosphate, P. Zell
& Sons, Baltimore, sampled at Shelby, N.
C, contains water 15.40 avail, phos. acid
11.91, potash 0.57. Commercial value
per ton $30.45.
Cotton Food, Maryland Fertilizing Co.,
Baltimore, sampled at Charlotte, N. C,
contains water 17.54, avail, phos. acid
10.44, ammonia 1.27, potash 2.28. Com
mercial value per ton $35.18.
Atlantic Phosphate Co's Acid Phos
phate, Peltzer, Rogers & Co., Charleston,
S. C, sampled at Monroe, N. C, contains
water 14.9, avail, phos. acid 10.77, potash
1.17. Commercial value per ton $28.32.
Pacific Guano Co's Compound Acid
Phosphate of Lime, John S. Reese & Co.,
Baltimore, sampled at Shelby, N. C, con
tains water 15.00, avail, phos. acid 12.34.
Commercial value per ton $30.85.
Lee's Prepared Agricultural Lime, A.
S. Lee, Richmond, Va., sampled at Golds-
boro, JN. (J., contained :
Moisture or uncombined water 9.63
Potash 2.33, equiv. to Sul. of Potash 4.33
Sulphate of Lime 17.15
Lime, as Hydrate and Carbonate 29.05
Common Salt 13.20
Combined water, carbolic acid.
sand, fcc, undetermined, 26.64
100.00
Piedmont Special Fertilizer, Piedmont
Guano & Manufacturing Co., Baltimore,
sampled at Shelby, N C, contains water
13.68, avail, phos. acid 10.89, ammonia
1.94, potash 0.96. Commercial value per
ton $38.07. Ciias. W. Dabxey. Jr..
Director.
Last March the community of
Leavenworth, Kansas, was startled and
horrified to Uarn that Eddie HackbuBb,
the eight-year-old son of H. C. F. Hack-
bush, formerly Surveyor General of that
State, had been drowned while playing on
the ice that then covered the Missouri
river. The only eye witness to the drown
ing was Wm. Murley, a thirteen-year-old
colored boy, who, without attempting to
assist the drowning boy, ran to Mr. Hack-
bush's home and told the hired girl that
Eddie bad fallen in the river. When
succor arrived he had disappeared nnder
the ioe, and nothing was to be seen but
the hole through which he fell and the
marks of his hands on the ice, which he
made in his frantic attempts to secure
himself from the remorseless current. The
body was never found, and he being the
youngest child and pet of the household.
the anguish and suffering of the parents
cannot be described. It now turns out
that Murley murdered the child by push
ing him through the ice. On being
charged with the crime he admitted his
guilt, and says that he did it at the request
of one George Perry, colored, who gave
him twenty-five cents to do the horrible
deed, saying he wanted to get even with
the Hackbush iamily for some fancied
wrong.
Fatal Accident. At Bannerman's
Bridge, in Pender county, a son of Mr,
Lewis Savage, abont 14 years of age, in the
employ of Mr. John R. Bannerman, was
riding on a timber cart, which bad a heavy
log attached, when be accidentally fell off,
and one of the wheels of the cart passed
over his chest, which inflicted such serious
injuries that he died before he could be
conveyed to his home.
CktrlitU Eeat til Damocnt, efetlttf, 1.
N. C. NEWS.
Ma.t. Winder Elected General Man
ager. The directors of the Carolina Cen
tral Railroad, at a meeting at Wilmington
last week, elected Vaj. John G. Winder
general manager of the line from Weldon
to Wilmington and Shelby, including the
Raleigh and Gaston, Raleigh and Augus
ta and Carolina Central railroads. Capt.
W. W. Chamberlain of Norfolk, Va., was
made financial agent for the same three
roads.
Catawba Court. Saturday night the
jury returned a verdict of guilty in the
case of State vs. i ullenax, Hedrick and
others for robbing the house of a Mr.
Rhodes. In this case there are eight de
fendants, all of whom will go to the State
prison for a good term. On Wednesday
the trial of Dockery, Davis and Adams, as
parties to the murder of Miss Thompson,
in Alexander, in June last, was begun.
Dockery submitted to a verdict of guilty,
turned State's evidence against Davis and
Adams, who are being tried separately.
Dockery's statement of the horrid crime
is consistent in every particular and will
be corroborated by other evidence.
Sale of the Catawba Factories.
The two factories on the Catawba river in
which Dr. A. VI. Powell, of Catawba,
owned interests, were sold under decree of
court on the 0th. The Powell & Shuford
factory, about 1,000 spindles, was bought
by Mr. J. LT. Long, of Catawba, for $2,850.
Persons who had expected to bid on this
factory did not arrive in time and it sold
low. The factory of the Catawba Manu
facturing Company was bought by Mr. C.
E. Graham, of Asheville, for $14,100. Mr.
W. II. II. Gregory, of this place, had an
order to run this factory up to $14,000, and
did so. Statesville Landmark.
The name of the postoffice at North
Fork, Ashe county, has been chauged to
Chester.
Many of the wheat and oat fields of last
year, are now green with the verdure of
the self sown grain. Mr. David Parish
has run a harrow, twice, over about fifteen
acres of wheat, and will allow it to grow,
as an experiment. He is also trying it on
a few acres of oats. Mr. Solomon Harris,
of Harrisburg, is also trying the experi
ment. Concord Register.
A young M. D. from Lower Creek, (the
same who recently had a farm run out and
conveyed to himself) has just returned
from a visit to Iredell, whither he went on
business, important but not profession
al. One of our merchants tells us that
as compared with twelve months ago Len
oir's trade is nearly doubled.-Lenoir Topic.
Mr. Mike Bollinger hauled a pine tree
cut into four saw stocks which, when
sawed made 1,750 square feet of lumber.
The first cut of ten feet in length and
nearly the same number of feet in circum
ference made 525 feet. This lumber was
sawed at the new steam mill of Messrs.
Mowser & Co., three miles south of Hick-
t . 1 1 .1
ory. Une ot tbe burglars wno recently
entered several business houses in Hickory,
has been captured, and is now in lork-
ville, S. C, jail. His name is Adams.
Hickory Press.
A mile or more of the new track of the
Midland extension was laid down at Golds
boro Thursday morning, and everything
in a good state of organization for going
forward. The line is stretching out toward
Smithfield, at last, aud there is every pros
pect that the cars from Newberne will be
running into that town by the 10th of
April. A stock company is forming ol
parties in this city and Baltimore for the
purpose of establishing a line of steamers
between the two points. Newberne Netos.
A Freak of Nature. On the Lock-
ville road, three miles from this place, are
two trees, a pine and an oak, growing from
the same root, and at the base are united
together. We are pleased to hear that
active steps will be taken to build a bap
tist church in the neighboring town of
Haywood. The Methodists and Presby
terians have had churches there for many
years. Two brothers in this county
married sisters many years ago and lived
all their lives on adjoining plantations,
and now the two sons of one of those
brothers have married two sisters and are
iving at the same places. Our esteem
ed countrymau, Dr. D. H. Albright, has
sent us a curiosity, which for want of a
more appropriate name I will call a hiero
glyphic freak of nature, viz: a sample
piece of a post oak tree growing plain let
ters just under the sap, thereby making a
printing press ot itseU. Mr. William S.
Farrell, a highly respected citizen of this
township, died on the night of the 2d inst,
in nis seventy-nintn year out was re
markably well preserved and enjoyed
unusually good health. Chatham Record.
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About Wages.
The Holyoke (Mass.) Vanufacturer ad
mits that there is an immense amount of
buncombe going on in the protection or
gans about the "superior economic condi
tion of American workingrnen, as compared
with the wretched estate ot the down-trodden
labor of Britain," and asserts that "the
rate of wages has been steadily rising for
years in all of the English manufacturing
districts," and that the Lancashire spinner
receives almost exactly "the same wages
as his M assachusetts rival," while his bread
and meat and clothing are much cheaper
than they are in this country.
1 hese, remarks the Louis vi lie Courier-
Journal, "are facts from an organ of the
protected interests, which demonstrate the
mendacious nature of the current protec
tionist assertions about pauper wases iu
Britain. The fact is, the lowest wages in
Europe are paid in the countries which
have adopted the protective system. In
the iron industry in this country, whose
achievements are the boast of protectionists,
tbe skilled labor employed does not receive
to exceed $1.90 a day, and the unskilled
receives 91.17 a day on an average. In
Pennsylvania the average for skilled labor
is only $1.64 a day, and $1.09 for unskilled
labor. When the high prices these labor
ers have to pay for clothing and other
necessaries of life are considered, it will be
seen that the talk of the protectionists
about the high wages and easy condition
ot the American workingman, as compared
with his brother across the water, is pure
oosn ana tooiishness. An American iron
worker has to pay $9 for a pair of blankets.
for instance, and a British workman gets
the same article for $2.50. And the
American workingman's wages are kept
down by the continual importation of that
same alleged pauper labor from Europe
while the tariff which he is told to worship
as a god makes every article he consumes
high priced. Tbe reduction of tariff duties
would be a supreme blessing to the Ameri
can workman."
HP? The latest arrival from Europe ie
butter. Butter, potatoes and vegetables
generally, all the way from Europe. Who
will say this is not a very wonderful coun
try? Two hundred and twenty-four thou
sand sacks ol potatoes have been imported
since June 1st.
Among the Mormons.
It cannot be denied that the veritable
Vonnons are laboring with a vim on and
around the illustrious King's Mountain
Wttle-grouud. About four weeks ago the
writer, the (razet.t.e ranreaantative. was at
writer, tne gazette representative, wac
Garibaldi, in Gaston county, at the store
r m a a.- ...Li,,,,. a vprv
of Mr. A. Slowe, when aud where a very
well dressed man, apparently about sixty
years old, entered and inquired for raisins.
Noticing small rings in his ears, I asked
him if he was a miner.
"No, sir; I am a physician and a Saint !
I carry in this satchel medicine to heal the
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soul.
I visit the poor and honeatin heart; i
not the high-minded, aristocratic hypo
crites, but those who are willing to hear
the truth and divine teachings."
What is your profession ?
"I am a doctor and a minister, sir."
What church ?
"The Church of Christ, sir."
Tbe next day I heard that the Mormons
had established a church and were preach
ing in the vicinity of King's Mountain
battle-ground ; other rumors came to me
which confirmed the first, and being de
sirous of finding out all the particulars, I
set out on horseback last Saturday to visit
the field of their operations. I was di
rected tor good lodging to Mr. Wm. Oates,
a highly respectable and well-to-do farmer
who lives about three miles from the bat
tle ground. I reached Mr. Oates' resi
dence about 3 p. m., and after having
made arrangements to spend the night, I
set out for Mr. Oates' mill, where it was
believed that the preachers were lodged.
This little mill is about two miles from the
battle-ground, on Clark's Fork Creek. The
keeper of the mill, once a member of
King's Mountain Baptist church, lives at
the mill. I rode up into his yard and
asked him . if the "Latter Day Saints"
(which they call themselves) would preach
in the neighborhood next day !
"No, not in this neighborhood ; they
will preach at J. Ii. Far r is', about six
miles below here. Why do you ask that?"
Well, I heard about them, said I, and
was desirous of hearing them preach and
see them baptize. I heard they were
going to preach at the battle-ground to
morrow. "Yes, you can hear all sorts of tales
about us ; me and my wife joined them
and some folks threaten us, but I am
ready to die at the stake for Christ. I
have faith now and believe what I never
did before."
Then you have joined them, have you ?
"Yes, we were members of King's Moun
tain Baptist church, but since the new dis
pensation has been revealed and the Holy
Ghost poured out upon us, we were re
baptized and re-married under apostolic
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rites ana are now rejoicing over our new
found Saviour."
The ministers were not there, he in
formed me, but were at or in tbe neigh
borhood of Karris'. I also visited another
family the same afternoon, who were once
Baptists but have turned from their ways
and are now following the doctrine of the
Apostles. lhey informed me there
would be preaching next day near Enon
and Hamah, where there is now great re
joicing and new-born saints. Mr. John K.
b arris holds the keys of this now "Holy
Receptacle," once the home of the Baptist
minister, lay lor.
Enon is a Baptist church and Ramah a
mall Presbyterian church. Antioch is
another Baptist church which is being at
tacked. All of these churches are situated
in the wilderness of King's Mountain. 1
reached this spot about ten o'clock ; about
fifty people had already assembled and at
10:30 a. m. the two Elders, W. C. Burton
and J. M. Eastou, as they call themselves,
entered the house, accompanied by a band
of followers, several of whom were unable
to gain entrance on account of the small
dimensions of the room. I presume there
were about seventy-five present. Elder
Burton is fair-skinned, round-taced, light-
haired, sandy-whisktjred, ot medium size,
has white tender hands and is about thirty
years old. He has the appearance ot being
a native bore and raised North Carolinian,
one of those fellows who is bent on getting
a living one way, if he can't another.
Elder Eastou is not so commanding in
looks. He has a down-cast look, dark skin.
round head, black hair and eyes, is heavy
built, wears No. 10 boots and is reluctant
to talk when spokeu to. The exercises
were opened by singing a hymn from their
book, which began thus :
"Do what is right, &c."
After which Burton stood and prayed
with a moderate voice, eyes half closed
and hands uplifted. It is certain they are
not much accustomed to singing those
songs, but probably they were handed
down recently by the "Apostles' or
"Saints." After prayer, Easton arose and
without taking auy text entered into the
subject.
After Easton had spoken about thirty
minutes they sang another hymn, when El
der Burton arose and talked with more
vim, but pretty much with a repetition of
the former except he made some practical
illustrations to convince his hearers of
their apostacy. They labor with a vim,
travel from house to house and pray with
the occupants when called upon. They
give out books and tracts of their faith,
they are kind and obliging to women and
children, look specially after the "poor or
honest in heart." All converts have to
pledge themselves to their doctrines before
receiving the Holy Ghost. They informed
me they were succeeding finely, had made
many converts, but declined to tell how
many. They have captured King's Moun
tain church, the clerk and his wife first
professed, when soon after thirteen other
adults followed. According to the best
information they have between thirty and
sixty converts. Great numbers are flack
ing to them from the regions around and
about the mountain, to receive and hear
their doctrines. The secret of their suc
cess is their quiet and earnest manner of
turning the people. The Apostles, who
are the older and wiser heads, go ahead
and privately look out the fields, then put
Elders in charge to do the work of bring
ing in.
zette.
Gastonia (Gaston Count) Ga
ll. 0. Supreme Court Decisions.
W. J. Sutton and wife vs. J. T. Schon
wald and others, from New Hanover.
Error. Action dismissed.
Robert H. Parker vs. Wilmington and
Weldon Railroad Company, from Halifax.
No error. Judgment affirmed.
State vs. Powell & Edwards, from An
son. Error.
State vs. George Watson, from Rich
mond. Error. Judgment reversed and
further proceedings directed.
State vs. George Copeland, from Anson,
xLrror. Ventre de novo.
State vs. R. S. Nash, from Richmond
No error. Judgment affirmed.
oiciean, tne letlow who attempted to
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assassinate the Queen, has been identified
as the man who last summer frequented
the vicinity of Windsor Castle and acted
in a suspicious manner.
Cotton and Wheat Gambling.
Some days ago, having occasion to call
upon several brokers in cotton and grain
in search of some explanation of the je
ceut uneasy fluctuation of the market and
the reports of the total ruin ot w enu ui
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ma t spectators kn wn ""K
as " ambs." I w-as not a little surprised at
being informed ol two universally ac
knowledged facts : First, that about one
tihieth of the business ot the cotton ex
change and the same proportion of busi
ness of the produce exchange, was legiti
me biivin&r and selling, the rest being
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speculation ox me wuum -y,
. l ..l nIinli nrmn ivoi i'nn M.l. .1 V r V
LI1UL BUCI1 Bucuuianuu v..". . j
unknown ten years ago. Tbe conserva-
tive members ol tne exenange uepimc
this state of affairs, and do not hesitate to
characterize the business as a vast gamble,
worse in its effect than gambling in stocks,
because stocks affect only well-to-do peo
ple, whereas tbe price ot cotton and wheat
affect the coat on a man's back and bis
bread and butter. It will surprise a good
many persous to know that not in the
days of the wildest war speculation did
the operations upon New York's exchange
approach the present figures. When cot
ton was selling at $1.90 a pound in 1862,
and fortunes were to be made in ripping
up old cotton mattresses, when army con
tracts for flour and pork were flying
around as thick as leaves, business of our
exchange was sluggish compared to what
it is now. In New lork at present there
are seven thousand stock brokers, or per
sons calling themselves such, five thou
sand produce brokers, of whom 2,500 be
long to the exchange, and 2,000 cotton
brokers, of whom only 306 belong to the
exchange. Judging by the estimates of
the most careful brokers whom I have
been able to talk to about 350 out of these
14.000 brokers are really engaged in buy
ing and selling actual grain, cotton or
stocks for persons who wih to export, or
weave, or grind, or invest permanently.
The 13,650 other well-dressed gentlemen
who pass their lives with their feet up on
desks watching the stock-ticker through
the smoke of half-dollar cigars, gamble on
their own or some one else's account.
'Do you see that handsome man buy
ing strawberries at $6 a quart?" said a
friend of mine as we were walking past a
fashionable importer of Southern and hot
house fruits yesterday. "Do you know
how he makes a living? Well he has
done nothing for the last five years but
buy and sell a fictitious lot ot 100 bates
of cotton. He passes his life at it. He
buys it aud sells it half a dozen times a
day, when the fluctuations are heavy.
He does not know one grade of cotton
from another: he probably never saw a
cotton field or the inside of a cotton mill,
and it is doubtful whether he ever sees any
cotton even in bale ; but his calculation-
in life, his interests, his very being, are
wrapped up in that lot of cotton which ex
ists only on paper. He is nothing but an
inveterate gambler, engaged in fleecing
foolish people. In reality he is not a
particle better than the faro player, upon
whom the police might pounce but do
not. I he social ditterence, however, is
immense; one is a pillar of the church, a
highly respected member of society, who
cannot find words too severe for the faro
player, while the latter is a social outcast.
Some day, in the chance which comes
to all men once or twice, that man will be
carried out of his depth by some run of
Luck, and will be tempted to extend his
operations beyond the 100 bales ot ficti
tious cotton. He may make a fortune in
week. The chances against his keeping
it are 99 to 1. Unce a gambler always a
gambler. He knows no other pleasure.
Since he was an office-boy he has known
and heard of nothing but buying and sell
ing his 100 bales ol cotton ; he knows
nothing about books, art or music, and of
tbe theatre he knows only the worst side.
His intellectual vision is limited to the
gyrations ot that 100 bales of cotton. He
is elated or depressed according to its be
havior. When ic makes $40 or $50 in a
day for him, he rid. s home in a cab and
buys some strawberries at ?6 a quart.
This is not a pretty picture, but it is a
true one. Une has only to iisten to the
talk of the young raeu who haunt the
neighborhood of our exchange to find
thousands of just such men. They are in
telligent young fellows in appearance,
sprucely dressed, quick iu talk, and always
have their red-leather covered notebook
in hand. If they have got to the supreme
happiness of actually buying and selling
stocks, then they sell certificates anions
themselves. A give to B a paper which
says in substance : "Good for a bale of cot
ton at 12:50 to-day, February 24M a
value of $ 56.25, the standard bale of cotton
being supposed to weigh 450 pounds. At
3 o'clock the transaction is closed. If cot
ton at the exchange has gone down to 12
cents a pound, A makes $2.25. or half a
cent a pound on 450 pounds, which B is
obliged to pay. If cotton closes at 13 cents
a pound, A loses $2.25. This is simply
betting on the price of cotton at a certain
hour, but a suDoosed disrnitv is eriven to
' , I" Z CD
the operation by trading in fictitious bales
of cotton.
After all, what the brokers's boys do in
the streets is precisely what tbe brokers
do in a more systematic fashion. They
are betting on whether cotton or grain
will go up or down, the size of the bet
depending on the amount of the fluctua
tion. N. Y. Correspond. Hartford Times.
The case of the Western Union
Telegraph Company vs. Blanchard, Wil
liams fc Co., which was decided by the
Supreme Court of the State is of consid
erable interest to dealers in cotton futures.
It seems, according to tbe Atlanta Con
stitution, that Blanchard, Williams & Co.,
of Columbus, dealt largely in futures
through agents in New York, and a short
time ago, desiring to cover previous con
tracts, telegraphed their agents to "cover
two hundred August and one hundred
September." The dispatch was transmit
ted improperly, and when received read
"two hundred September," and as a result
the Columbus firm lost $150. They sued
the telegraph company for damages, and
the latter plead, in defense, (I) that ac
cording to printed contracts on their
blanks they were not responsible for errors
unless the message was repeated, and (2)
that dealing in futures being illegal, that
fact alone relieved them of responsibility.
The Supreme Court in the final decision
of the matter held that "a telegraph com
pany cannot by any rule or regulation of
its own protect itself against damages re
sulting from every degree of negligence
except gros negligence or fraud," and
that though a speculation in cotton futures
may be an illegal contract, "the illegality
of the speculation would not relieve the
company from damages resulting from its
negligence in transmitting a telegram, ac
cording to its contract "for a valuable con
sideration." The cancer on the tongue of Senator
Ben Hill is said to have assumed an uncon
trolable tendency, and he is not expected
to survive long.
.
Curious Revelations
Laa week the New York Son printed a
letter writte by Geo. Airfield while at
tached to thecommand oGen. Roseoranz,
in 1863, to Judge Chase, who was then
Secretary of the Treasury. ln.it wen
Garfiehrcriticised Roseeram's inaction
very severely, declared that he had re
monstrated time and again without effect
on Rosecranz's unnecessary delay, and
said that he would rather be subordinate
officer elsewhere than a General under
Rosecranz. He even asked that he might
be transferred if the policy of inaction
wa to-omme. Ttre tetter wtw wrery
severe and harsh criticism of his superior,
who Garfield himself states freely consult
ed with him, and with whom he was very
intimate. Lincoln subsequently removed
Roseoranz. Shortly afterwards Garfield
was elected to Congress, and as Congress
man expressed himself warmly in favor of
his former General. Lincoln when inform
ed of these statements, said it was ebiefly
upon Garfield's representations that Rose
crauz had been removed.
Rosecrauz is now a member of Congress,
and he declares that Garfield's letter is a
mixture of untruths and misrepresenta
tions. He further says that for a man who
held such a position as that filled by Gen.
Garfield to write such a letter "is a piece
of the blackest treachery to one who had
always given the writer the fullest proofs
of his confidence." Gen. Roseoranz then
asserts that Garfield never expressed to
him sentimenU of "impatience or dissatis
faction" with regard to the movements of
the army of the Cumberland, and that
Garfield knew that he (Rosecranz) had
made up his mind as to the conduct of the
opening campaign without respect to what
the generals under him thought. He
shows also that these movements were
made as quickly and expeditiously as it
was possible to make them. Concluding,
Gen. Rosecrauz is quoted as saying: "I
had no idea at the time that I was harbor
ing a person capable of such falseness and
double dealing or there would have been
a court-material at once. I did not look
for such au exhibition of Gen. Garfield's
character as this, and am sorry that the
letter ever saw the light."
Tbe Washington Post contains a letter
from a prominent Republican, bitterly as
sailing Garfield on account of this letter,
declaring that he was a treacherous, a
cowardly, a hypocritical man, selfish to
the extreme and not caring what hap
pened, so it did not happen to himself,
Gen. Roseoranz was and is, says this cor
respondent, worth to this country a thou
sand Garfields.
It is a pretty lively incident, bringing
out very bitter memories, and putting
Garfield in a very unenviable light. Gen.
Rosecranz was an excellent General, and
his removal was a great mistake on the
part of the Federal government.
jJSF The eminent surgeon, Dr. Joseph
Pancoast of Philadelphia, died in that city
on Tuesday morning, aged 77. He was
for years connected with the medical de
partment of the University of Pennsyl
vania. For more than fifty years he had
devoted himself exclusively to surgery.
He left an estate valued at a million of
dollars, the profits of bis labors. He was
ambidexter and could perform operations
of the most delicate intricacy with his left
hand which were beyond the skill of oth
ers using the right hand only. It was, in
part, the extraordinary facility with
which he could employ both hands at one
time which made him so successful in the
department of p.lastic surgery. By the
removal of strips offlesh from the fore
head aud elsewhere he has formed no less
than a dozen noses for persons who, either
through accident or disease, were without
them. He was the first to show that after
the eyebrow has been destroyed a good
lcoking substitute can be made by raising
a flap of the scalp with the soft, drooping
hairs of the temple and giving it what is
termed a "long pedicle" to run into a bed
cut for it in tbe brow. He also furnished
maimed humanity with eyelids and ears.
So far did his fame as an operator extend
that one of the things which visitiug for
eigners marked down as of the greatest
interest in Philadelphia was "to see Dr.
Pancoast operate." His hands looked
clumsy, but he could take up a large
knife, as on the occasion of the visit of the
Japanese party some years ago to see him
perform amputation at the hip joint ; and
the next moment he could take the finest
needle and operate upon an eye. He was
probably the best surgeon yet produced
in America.
A New York dispatch says
that
Wall
been
ever
it was pretty openly declared on
street that Gen. Grant, who has
loaded up with a variety of stocks
since the break of last month prominent
among which are Wabash Pacific and
Denver and Rio Grande "laid down" on
his brokers, being unable or disposed to
make good his dissipated margins. The
steadily accumulating losses which he has
been obliged to submit to is what led him
to deed his Long Branch property to Mrs.
Grant a week or more ago. At present it
is declared the General is without any
personal income worth speaking of. It is
even reported that the $250,000 raised for
him by George Jones was all iuvested in
Wabash securities which have fallen from
par to nearly fifty cents on the dollar.
Reports have been freely circulated that
he has broken, but we see that it is con
tradicted, and one ot his Philadelphia
friends has recently said that if at any
time be needed $100,000 he bad but to
draw on him.
GUANO !
GUANO ! !
We have added to our Stock
Guano, Equitable and Chesapeake.
supply of
Also, genuine Kainit, or German Potash Salts.
Call and see us.
A. J. BEALL & CO.,
College Street.
March 10, 1882.
FERTILIZERS.
T )
We
are now prepared to
furnish at
reasonable
i
hi-i iiliM
The Etiwan
DISSOLVED BONE,
The Atlantic
ACID PHOSPHATE,
The Etiwan Guano
AND
THE STANDARD GUANO.
'),y"rr- ' ,''-
These are all reliable brands.
SPRINGS & BURWELL.
Jan. 20, 1882
finmnarativs f.nttrm u-
" v""uu "wnemfirit
e following is the cotton stat
iot me wees enuing march 10 :
. I 1882
Net receipts at all United
States ports during the
ent
58,538
Total receipts to this date,
Exports for the week,
Total exports to this date,
Stock at all U. S. ports,
Stock at all Interior towns,
Stock at Liverpool,
Stock Of American afloat for
,ue",499 4 7siS
1A1 A. -I'UOJ
965.051
i56.62 as
734,000
in bw xoiiii, aiarcn iu. The moveni
of the crop, as indicated by telegrams
the South is given below. For th
- VIM
ending March 10, the total receipt?
reached 58,747 bales, against 51,98o Sl
last week, 60,160 bales the previous
and 72,031 bales three weeks since -
ing the total receipts since the 1st of S
1881, 4,117,285 bales, againet 4,8lo2,
bales for the same period of 188oUf
showing a decrease since Sept. 1, iggj j
692,977 bales. The exports lor the m
reach a total of 101,211 bales, of Wku
80,647 were to Great Britain, 7 470
Franca, and 13,094 to tbe rest of the Cod.
tinent, while the stocks as made np lh
959,051 bales.
.
Liverpool Cotton Circular.
TiivitKPOoi.. March 10. Thi
. 7 CK
circular of the Liverpool Cotton Tmh 1
Association says : "Cotton has been inet.
tensive demand with a hardening tendency
American was in increased demand ;
ordinary to good middling is-d., andmii.
dling iu fair demand at l-16d. higr
Sea Island was in somewhat improved
quest, but it was freely met. Florida is
d. lower, futures hardened and
are
generally l-16d. higher.
R. H. JORDAN.
NEW
OB. JOS. GHAHiK,
STORE.
DRUG
We have opened and have now on sale ami
and complete line of Fresh
DRUGS,
Toilet articles, &c, which we respectfully jn
our friends and the public generally to call and
examine at our store on
TRYON STREET,
Opposite Elias & Cohen's.
Prescriptions
Carefully Prepared at all Hours, Day mi
R. H. JORDAN & CO.
Feb. 3, 1882.
CONFECTIONERY
AND
Fruit Store,
TRADE STREET, CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Not being able to secure a Dace whereon I
publish a list of my stock, compels me to coi l
dense and give only a few items, assuring the!
puDiic 1 can supply everytning in tne line.
Fruit from the Torrid and Friirid. Nuts froal
the Arctic and Antarctic, Candies from theNortll
J o .i rw . T ill . . . . .
anu ouuvn lemperme, jenies mai sparine mil
tempting manner, Brandy Peaches that do d J
intoxicate, Canned Goods from every clime.
Groceries a full assortment of Plain and!
Fancy. 1 am prepared to furnish the freshes:
and nicest Bread and Cakes of all kinds. Partial
and weddings supplied at reasonable rates.
(Jail at the store ana nnisu tne list.
C. 8. HOLTON.
Jan. 27, 1882.
Prescriptions
Carefully and accurately compounded
of the
uesi materials ai au nours.
WILSON & BURWELL,
Feb. 20, 1882. Druggists
OUR STOCK
OF
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,
Dress Trimmings, Laces, Embroideries, Hosiery,
Gloves
WHITE GOODS
And everything wanted in our line.
We
Earnestly desire all of our old friends to continue
with us this year, and we hope to add many new j
ones to our list.
ALEXANDER & HARRIS.
Jan. 13, 1882.
NEW MILLINERY.
We are now receiving our Fall and Winter Stock
of
Millinery Goods,
Containing all the latest styles and qualities of
Ladies', Misses and Children's
Hats and Bonnets.
Also, all the novelties for trimming : Feathers,
Flowers, Ribbons, Silk, Flashes, Satins, Orna
ments, etc.
Also, our usual large and attractive stock of
White Goods, Laces, Embroideries, Neck Wear,
Gloves and Hosiery, Corsets, Shawls Cloaks,
Skirts, &c. Another large stock of Ladies' Mus
lin Underwear just received, that we are offering
at very low prices.
Oct. H, 1881. MRS. P. QUERY.
North Carolina, Mecklenburg County.
In Superior Court.
Pursuant to an order made at the Spring Term.
1882, of the Superior Court of Mecklenburg
county, North Carolina, in the suit of 8. C
Blanchard, on behalf of himself and others,
against J. M. B. Reynolds, Trustee of Smith
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. K. P. Osborne, Referee, at
his Law office iu the city of Charlotte, in saw
State.
AND Notice is also hereby given that ot
said 27th day of March, 1882, at 10 o'clock, A
M., at my Office in said city of Charlotte, 1 "
proceed to hear proofs and suite an account 01
the actings and doings of the said J. M. B . Rey
nolds as Trustee as aforesaid. .
Given under my hand at Charlotte this Marcn
Ut, 1888.
E. K. P. OSBORNE,
March 3, 1882. 4w Referee
FERTILIZERS, GRASS SEEDS,
Agricultural Implements, &c.
We have In Store, Potash Acid Phosphate
Navassa Acid Phosphate and Kainit. ,
A full line of the Standard Grass Seeds. Agr
cultural Implements of various Kinds from
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 The Atlanta Exposition. This
House is Headquarters for Impelments, oeecwr
Wagons, &c. j gHANNONHOUSE, ag't
Co-operative Store.
Feb. 24, 1882.