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Charlotte Democrat,
CHARLOTTE. N. C.
- Feom the Wilmington papers we learn
that the banquet on Thursday night was
a brilliant affair and a fitting oloseof the
Cape Fear fc Yadkin Valley Railrod
celebration. To the toast "North Caro
lina' in the absence of Gov. Fowle Hon.
It. T. Gray of Italeigh responded. He
taid:
To be required to stand in the place
assigned to the Chief Executive of the
State is embarrassing to me; to disap
point, as I know I must, the expectations
of a feast of oratory which were justly ex
cited when it was announced in the
printed programme that the silver-tongued
Governor of the State would respond to
the sentiment just pronounced. But I
recognize and yield to the fact that "no
son of North Carolina, wherever be may
be or whatever the time, should lail to
lift his hat at the mention of his name,
or however feeble his utterance may be,
should shrink from endorsing and testify
ing the truth of what is said in her praise.
Let this be my excuse, ii aoy is needed,
for my temerity in consenting to-day to
stand where Gov. Fowle was expected to
stand.
To tell how great North Carolina is is
too large a task for an after dinner talk.
To sing of her glorious people, her valiant
men and lovely women, her climate and
her resources, ber riobes possessed and
potential, her history and her future,
would require a psein longer than Judge
Gaston's and a minstrelsy more perfect
than that with which Highland Harper
told the legends of his native hills, or
Jewish captive in far off Babylon sang
the glories of his beloved Jerusalem.
North Carolina! What is it? "A
strip of land between two States," as it
has been sometimes derisively called !
A State whose chief products, according
to some old geographies, and some, I am
sorry to say, now used in the schools, are
tar, pitch and turpentine ! A Hip Van
Winkle, stretching his laggard legs in
sleep, while others are awake, alive, and
forging ahead in moral, social and mate
rial prosperity ? God foibid !
What Commonwealth has the history
she possesses ? At Mecklenburg, declar
ing against tyranny, and at Cowpens,
Moore's Creek, King's Mountain and
Guilford Court House making good her
declaration by her muskets, ber cannon,
her pikes, her swords and ber blood ! and,
.after the battle had been fought and woo,
standing in a Federal Congress and at
the Constitutional Convention in Fay
etteville, holding out to the last and con
tending for a constitution that would pre
serve to posterity the fruits of her vic
tory ! and later, and within the memory
of all of us, you know how, when the
Southern Cross was upheld, the boys of
the Cape Fear joining those of the Pied
mont and Albemarle sections and their
brothers from the hills and mountain
caves, untrained to feats of arms and
gladiatorial sports, rushed to the conse
orated fields of Virginia and all the bat
tle grounds of the Confederacy, and stayed
and stayed and stayed, some of them for
ever, (more than those of any other State,)
and the others until their Chieftain said
"Enough ! go baok !" and whether dying
or surviving, illustrating by their daring,
tbeir heroism and their Boldierly qualities
the noblest type of Southern manhood,
until an allusion to or comparison with
Thermopylae becomes commonplace and
tame.
Such is a short record of North Caro
lina's past, than whioh no commonwealth
or people has a more enviable history."
m
Home-SDun Yarns.
The entrance of W. E. Murchison, Esq.,
into journalism as editor of the Jooesboro
Leader, recalls one of the brightest pieces
of legal wit by Mr Murchison in the an
nals of legal anecdotes, rich with bright
sayings, in the State. It was worthy the
brightest of the English Chancellors, and,
at the risk of making an error in the
verbiage, we shall commit it to oold type
so that Bro. Murchison' fame as a great
wit may go down to posterity. Some
time ago, Mr Murchison appeared in an
aolion of ejeotmeot in Harnett Court. It
was a hot day. The people at Court
were liBtless. The jurymen were sleepy,
and His Honor, Judge Shipp, could not
conceal that be was bored by the hum
drum proceedings of Court. With such
surroundiogs Mr Murchison arose to ad
dress the jury in a dry- action of eject
ment. Pretty soon he saw that to gain
attention, he would be compelled to do
something, so raising bis voice, he said :
"Gentlemen of the jury: lam going to
tell you an aneodote." The effect was
magical. The rt at lees by-standers pricked
their ears and leaned forwaid the jury
woke up and His Honor turned iu bis
chair and paid strict attention. When he
had thus obtained the ears of all, Mr
Murobison proceeded to relate a long rig
marole to the effect that in company with
Judge Sbipp he had traveled through the
oountry lrom Moore, bow they bad been
delightfully eotertained at the home of a
hospitable Scotch farmer, and how his
daughters had entertained them with de
lightful music, and how after beiug thus
regaled they had come on in peace to Lil
lington. Then, when he had epukeu so
much, he stopped and began on his argu
ment. Judge Sbipp interrupted biin
with the remark : "Brother Murchison,
I do not see any point in that anecdote."
Mr Murohieon stopped a moment, and
turning to the jury, said, "And neither do
I, gentlemen of the jury. But Judge
Sbipp told me what I have retailed to you
as a great joke. I oould not see the
point, but I attributed it to my obtuse-ness.-I
then and there determined to
ascertain by jury trial if what Judge
Shipp told me as a joke was funny. And,
gentlemen, I have taken this occasion to
give the joke a fair trial by jury."
"They say" that the bar and spectators
were immensely tickled, but that Judge
Shipp took ocoasion, as he was passing out
of the Court room, to say to the foreman
of the jury : "There's not a word of truth
io it.'' State Chronicle.
It is funny. For the last two
weeks the Boston Republican papers have
been publishing lively appeals to one
members in Congress to stand by New
England industries, as on the matter of
keeping raw bides on the free list, and, as
a matter of fact, every one of these ap
peals, (with the words "free wool" instead
of "free hides") inserted, would have been
called "rabid free trade editorials" had
they appeared in Democratic papers and
this , is - where the laugh comes in, for
every argument for free raw materals fcr
the leather-workers applies with equal
force to the wool manufacturers. Mass
Journal.
A Teacher's Protest.
It is reported that not over one half of
the public school teachers io North Caro
lina take and read a newepapef or news
papers. The following from the Sanford
Express shows conclusively that one
teacher can write for the newspapers if
the majority does not read them :
A teacher should be an expert in the
exercise of patience; and therefore I would
commeud the publio school teachers oi
the State lor the quiet endurance with
which they receive all criticism, just or
unjust, whioh men of position, having
means of information at tbeir command,
and the press of the State may pass upon
them. 1 believe our publio schools will
yet become as popular in the State as the
Tariff and the Negro Problem, and will
be discussed with about as much discre
tion and understanding.
I know that, as a class, toe (let me em
phasize the word) are not so well prepared
for work as we should be; some have had
small opportunity for such preparation;
but what general, leading his forces to
battle, proclaims their Ignorance of mili
lary tactics and unfitness for the ranks ?
It seems to me that thoee who, by tbeir
office, should be our leaders, ought to be
cautious and kind, as well as just, in the
expression of their autocratic opiuione;
and I hold that even the truth may be
wisely withheld when its promulgation
serves no good purpose.
I was amused, rather than hurt, at the
controversy between Prof. Moses and
Maj. Harrell, because I felt that both
were sincere, and that there was some
right on both aides.
The 'straw that broke the camel's back,'
however, has been added by Prof. C. D.
Mclver'd assertion that 'not one half of
the public sohool teachers of the State
read so muoh as a local newspaper,' as
published in your paper last week. I
will frankly say that I believe that Prof.
Mclver started out on bis round of duties
as Institute Instructor with this belief
firmly fixed in his mind, along with the
illiteracy of the State, the infinitude of
ber natural resources, and the very earn
est desire for the better education of her
girls, for which he has been bo muoh and
so justly praised.
And I believe be is sincere. Neverthe
less, in behalf of the much-abused teach
ers, I wish to make a statement which
may qualify bis assertion, or cause an in
vestigation of bis source of information
on the subject; if, indeed, Prof. Mclver
has authorized the declaration.
At the Institute for Moore county held
at Carthage in November last Prof. Mc
lver asked 'bow many teachers subscribed
for paper s in their own names,' and not
bow many read the papers. The re
sponses were few; and it seemed to me
that the reason should have been obvious-;
but, with this as a basis, Prof. Mclver en
tered into a severe censure of the teacherB
for not reading the papers. I, for one,
was indignant; for he bad the matter all
his own way, and bad not put the ques
tion fairly for such an inference. When
his attention was called to the form of his
question by a "note" in the question box,
he put the question again in another
form, asking 'how many teachers read
some newspaper every week.' To this
nearly all the teachers responded; and
those who had felt the injustice of bis
former inference, arose with alacrity.
Then, with a smile, "he censured them be
cause, as be said, they were newspaper
borrowers, and upon the principle that it
was their duty to support the newspapers !
Now, I bold that it is no more my duty
to support the newspapers than it is the
duty of the newspapers to support my
school, if it comes to that.
A great many of our publio school
teachers have never left the family roof
tree; most of them, I suppose, boarding
near tbeir schools for the week and re
turning to spend Saturday and the Sab
bath at home. Under these circum
stances, where the teacher is yet a mem
ber of the home oircle, I see oo reason for
calling one who reads bis father's news
papers a borrower; and the fact that oue
does not contribute to the support of the
newspapers by actual dollars and cents is
no ground for the conclusion that be does
not read, or is a drone in the hive of
workers. I have been engaged io the
publio schools, more or less, for nearly
five years. I know something of-our
teachers and their difficulties; and I be
lieve and hope that Prof. Mclver is mis
taken in his estimate. The writer is a
constant reader of one daily, five weekly
and one monthly paper, including an edu
cational journal, and an occasional reader
of several others.
Now, if Prof. Mclver should happen to
have his attention called to this communi
cation, he will at once recognize the writ
er of the question box "oote;" but be will,
no doubt be surprised to learn that the
same writer, simply for amusement, per
petrated the crime of asking "Who was
Cain's wife," from which he said one
might 'judge the trend of the teacher's
sentiments.' His answer was "Go and
get yourself a wife."
At any rate, I hope Prof. Mclver, in
simple justice, will explain this matter,
and give the ground for such a statement
The fact that North Carolinians area
non-reading people is deplorable; but, in
my opinion, even this - is over-estimated;
and we are all too prone to ask, "Can
there be any good thing come out of
Nazareth ?" N. M.S.
Potatoes without Vines Mr J-ose-pbns
Cox brought us on Saturday two
Irish potatoes, about as large as hickory
nuts, that have attained tbeir growth in
an unusual way. Mr Cox says his pota
toes were planted about the usual time,
but as no vines came up he concluded the
seed potatoes were not good. After wait
ing sometime to see if they would come
up he dug down to. find if the seed had
ever sprouted and much to his surprise
found every hill coctaining a number of
small potatoes like those brought us, but
there was do vine sprout at all. The seed
of these potatoes came from a variety or
dered by Mr M. F. Summerell last year.
They were planted, were prolific and had
luxuriant vines. He saved a quantity lor
seed to plaot this year and Mr Cox pro
cured some of them. He says he is going
to let them grow and see what state of
maturity tbey will reach. The vineless
potatoes are not as prolific as those laBt
year with vines. Greenville Reflector.
Iif The Boston Post says that every
'sensible" Northern man "who goes South
and looks into things for himself comes to
exactly the cocclusion" that hostile legis
lation is not needed and that our people
"are doing the very beet they can under
circumstances of extraordinary difficulty,
which are made ten times more trying by
the unwisdom of Republican statesmen."
1 All those who pass through the
door to success will find it labeled pash,"
N. C. News.
HT" The ex Confederate veterans io
North-western North Carolina and East
Tennessee will have a reunion at Blowing
Rock, Watauga county, in August, in
which ex-Union soldiers are cordially in
vited to participate.
fcT In A. Braswell's flock of sheep
there are forty-nine ewes. A few morn
ings since he found in his pasture forty
nine lambs. Each ewe bad given birth
the night previous to a lamb. Tarboro
Southerner.
t3f A young man from Warren coun
ty started out thirteen years ago to look
at the world. He has been in every State
save one, and says the South is the best
place after all, and North Carolina now
suits bim better than any other Slate.
Mr W. M. Armstrong, of South
Point, informs us that at a certain point
io his neighborhood a person can stand
and overlook three coujties, and see two
States and three watercourses one water
course in each of the different counties.
Mt. Holly News.
We have been presented by Major
John M. Crenshaw, of Wake Forest town
ship, with an egg laid by a common size
pullet of ordinary stock, which measures
7 iuches around lengthwise and 6 inches
iu circumference. It weighed 3f ounces.
Raleigh Visitor.
jg" A pair of curled popular logs
were shipped to Germany from Swain
couuty each twelve feet long and six feet
io diameter at the smaller end. Theft
logs will be hewed and polished for exhi
bition at Berlin this year. The farmer wbo
sold the logs was paid 160 for each.
"!3FA fatted ox weighing over eleven
hundred pounds was sold on the market
yesterday. .It had been fed on nothiog
but cotton seed meal and bulls at the mill
of Maj. A. R. Dennison. It was one of
the finest beeves we have ever seen and
no doubt equal to any from Chicago.
Newbern Journal.
f3F Robert L. Lee is a stoutly-built
man of middle height, with a rotuod face
guiltless of hair, and an elongated white
moustache, tie is one ol the lour eons ot
the great Confederate general, and lives
on a farm not far from Alexandria, where
he leads the life of a quiet-going Virginia
farmer, seldom obtruding himself upon the
publio gaze. AsheviUe Citizen.
IST" The Carolina Central will soon
have a branch railroad, called the Frenoh
Broad galley, running from Rutherford-
ton, via Hendersonville to Brevard N. C,
there to unite with the Tennessee and
Georgia railroad. This and the completion
of the 3 C's to Kentucky will place us on
two grand trunk lines to the West and
open for Shelby grand possibilities. Let
us unite and utilize these advantages.
Shelby Aurora.
Farther ahead than he ever saw
them before. Mr Eli Hopkins, of the
Goose Nest section, was in town Saturday,
and reported that from here to bis home
the people are further ahead with their
work than he ever saw them before.
He says the order of crops has been
reversed. A long time ago it was a corn
field and a cotton patch. Of late years it
has been a ootton field and a corn patob;
but this year goes back to the old rule a
corn field and a cotton patch. Scotland
Neck Democrat.
JEf While a little three year old
daughter of Mr Hamilton Erwin, who lives
on John's River three miles north ot
Morganton, was playing in the yard one
day recently, she was attaoked and knook
ed down by a large rooster and severely
spurred and picked. Fortunately the
child fell face downward, and was struck
by the vicious fowl on the back of the
neck instead of in the face and eyes. Had
not some one witnessed the attack and
driven the rooster away it is believed that
the child would have been killed. Mor
ganton Herald.
Wounded Seven Times. Cleveland
county, has a battle-scarred veteran wbo
acted well bis part on many a battle-field
and has seven souvenirs of the "late un
pleasantness." Mr W. F. Goode has
seven wounds and was a member of Co.
D., 16ih N. C. Troops and went from
Rutherford oounty, in the first company
under Major H. D. Lee, captain. " At the
battle of Seven Pines near Richmond, a
ball struck him in the calf of the leg. His
right arm has a wound, now running, re
ceived around Richmond. His third
wound was at Wilderness battle in bis
right side. A finger remembers a battle
below Richmond. His fifth souvenir
through the right thigh at Hagerstown,
Md., in 1864. He will never forget
Gettysburg baptism of blood, for be
carries now in bis abdomen a ball. The
seventh wound in the shoulder by a grape
shot, while he was laying down iu line of
battle. Yet be receives no pension or aid
from the government and has to help pay
the pension to United States soldiers.
Shelby Aurora.
Alliance Measures.
The national legislative Alliance com
mittee, composed of about a score of
members of Congress, met privately in a
room on Ninth street tonight to discuss
Alliance measures before Congress.
Among the members present were Mr.
Turpin, of Alabama; Colonel Clark Lewis,
ot Mississippi; Messrs. Morgan, of Missis
sippi; MoClammy, of North Carolina;
Feathtrstone, of Arkansas, and Bullock, of
Florida.
The principal matter discussed was the
sub-treasury bill, and it was not finally
decided whether to push it to a vote or
not, but everyone present agreed to push
some measures whioh would provide for
the government to lend money to the
larmer. if not on the products of his
farm, on his laud. The plan which met
with most favor was for the government
to pay' off mortgages on farms, where
they are now mortgage to oompanies or
individuals, and take in return mortgages
on the same at one per cent interest per
annum, also for the government to lend
money to a farmer when the application
is made at one per cent, the government
taking a mortgage for the same on the
lands of farmers. The majority present
thought this would, perhaps, be a better
plan to relieve the farmer than the sub
treasury scheme. However, another
meeting will soon be had, when some plan
will be decided upon, and a bill formulated
and introduced into Congress.
The meeting will perhaps be held next
Tuesday night. President Polk, of the
National Alliance, is to go before the
Senate Committee on agriculture on
Tuesday to argue in favor of the sub
treasury bill. He claims that there are
forty three members of the house who
will support the measure. Atlanta Constitution.
President Jeff. Davis in Charlotte and
Concord in 1865.
published by request
Some controversy has existed as to the
treatment of Mr Davis on 'bis journey
South io April, 1865, and as to bis per
sonal bearing during the dying struggle
of the Confederacy.
It was understood that Mr Davis and
staff had spent a night at the hospitable
residence of V. C. Barringer, Esq., then of
Concord,' now a Judge of the Interna
tional Court of Appeals, Alexandria,
Egypt; and that Mr Barringer had after
wards called on Mr Davis, at Charlotte,
and had quite an interview with him.
A friend has lately asked Judge Bar
ringer to give his recollections ot the in
cidents and personal impressions of the
occasion. This be has kindly done, and
we are permitted to publish the same as
below.
We may add that Gen. Basil Duke was
partly in charge of the cavalry escort of
Mr Davis, and that be has published a
full account of the movement in a late
number of the Southern Bivouac. But
Judge Barringer has not seen Gen. Duke's
article, and the two, therefore, must be
taken separately- each an independent
witness of what occurred.
Statement of Judge Barringer.
I oaonot precise the date of what I am
about to relate; nor is an exact date at all
important to wbatoan never be anything
else than a mere personal reminisoence.
It was, 1 think, about the 18th ot April,
1865, uear nightfall. A gentleman on
horseback checked his horse before my
bouse io Concord, dismounted and walked
in. After a few words apologetically, he
announced himself as CoL William Preston
Johnston, adding that be bad come in the
name of Mr Davis, President of the Con
federate States, to ask a night's lodging
for himself and suite. He said Mr Davis
and suite, with a small escort were some
distance behind on the Salisbury road,
and would await there my answer before
advancing further. The suite, I was in
formed consisted of Mr Mallory, Secretary
of the Navy, and three or four personal
friends. I told Col. Johnston that we
would gladly entertain Mr Davis and his
suite, while the escort oould encamp in a
grove nearly vis a vis my bouse. He
thanked me cordially. It grieved me
when he said further that the President
would be gratified at a hospitality so un
wonted; for in his passage from Richmond
to Concord he bad nowhere shared or
been invited to share the Bhelter of a do
mestic root tree.
Nearly an hour passed before Mr Davis
and suite arrived. Meanwhile happily
time was allowed to make hasty provis
ion for tbeir night's entertainment. The
evening passed in sober-minded gayety.
Everybody bad a good appetite that
sign and seal of inward content. We
were a party of "cheerful yesterdays and
confident to-morrows." A visitant from
the skies could hardly have imagined that
we were amid the dying throes of a great
struggle. The war, thoagb.it must have
been near every heart, was not so muoh
as alluded to.
The next day my household was up
betimes. Mr Davis was not lar behind
us in early rising. He came down stairs
alone, and sat in the piazza, or walked in
the yard, or strolled in the garden among
fruits, roses and vegetables, bappy in the
dewy freshness of the morning.
I bad been careful to advise the citizens
generally ot the President's arrival, and
to request them to call on him between 10
and 11 a. m. A few only if I am not
mistaken, not exceeding half a - dozen,
among whom I recall Mr Allison, Col.
Long and Mr C. Phifer oame into the
bouse and paid tbeir personal respects to
Mr Davis, but on the opposite side of the
street a large crowd gathered to gaze
curiously at the fallen chieftain. He
talked freely and generously with all
comers, but maintained a solicitous silence
about the future of the war. Once only,
I remember, be expressed the hope that
Gen. Johnston would not surrender in
event which was then actually transpir
ing, if it had not already occurred. ' He
alluded vaguely to the possibility of con
tinued hostilities beyond the Mississippi.
I mentioned a rumor that Mr Lincoln bad
been assassinated. He did not credit the
rumor; there could be no motive, he said,
for such a crime. He was entirely indis
posed to bewail or blame the past, but
rather looked forward to the dark and
shadowy future with a manly heart.
At 11 o'olock lunch was served. Soon
after, the whole party, with many ex
pressions of thanks, took leave of us. Mr
Davie mounted his horse with a spring
that is distinctly imprinted on my memo
ry, betokening a man who, despite years,
feeble health and anxieties, seemed still
to have on bim the dew of youth.
The party rode away without a cheer,
a wave of the hand, or any signal ot
respect on the part ol the crowd. I sup
pose none was felt, for men seldom re
spect the fallen. '
Soon confirmation oame of Mr Lincoln's
assassination. Viewing the alterated
situation which this event was likely to
produce, I went immediately to Charlotte,
accompanied by Dr. Logan of Charleston,
an army surgeon, who was staying with
me at Concord. We went in a carriage
by the country road.
I called on Mr Davis. He was lodging
with a Mr Bates, who had, he said, hos
pitably given him shelter. He was occu
pying, however, at the time of my call, a
small room, as a business office, near where
the First National Bank now stands. I
found Mr Benjamin and Mr Breckenridge
with him. He was by no means in a
melancholy humor, but easy and chatty
rather. I fanoied that he saw his path
clearer, that the end bad come and he had
made up his mind to face it. This fancy
became a settled conviction before I left
him. .
Alluding to Mr Lincoln's death, the
thing uppermost in every mind, he de
clared it to be an unmeasured calamity
in every point of view. He had become
convinced that theepirit of the South was
broken. Further resistance by armed
foroe would be criminal. He touched
delicately on the aloofness of the people
in regard to himself, as maoifesfed every
where sinoe the disaster around Rich
mood, but he exoused it oo the ground of
undefined fears in the presence of a proba
ble wreck of the cause. Yet it was proof
that resistance was no longer possible.
He talked at considerable length gently
toward all, with one . exception. He
avowed that he had little or no faith in
President Johnston.
Neither Mr Benjamin nor Mr Brecken
ridge uttered a word. The latter was
busy at a desk, writing something, I
thought, which related to the movements
of the troops. He paused twice or thrice
to ask me a question in respect to the
relative situation and distances of certain
places io. central North Carolina. The
former sat unmoved with a sweet olav
over his handsome features, that left one
io doubt whether it was a smile or a
sarcasm. - Victor C. Barringer.
Alexandria, Nov. 8, 1886."
We publish the above letter taken from
this week's Ballot. A good many of our
town people recollect the circumstance.
We have consulted Mr and Airs Allison
Dr. J. P. Gibson, Col. P. B. Means and
others who called on Mr Davis and his
suite on that occasion and they corrobo
rate the statement made of Mr Barringer,
Concord Register.
Twenty-Fire Tears After Appomatox.
I Twenty-live years ago toe tremendous
liamgs oi Appomatox oarrieu unuueraoie
. J . A. I
despair to every southern home.
Outnumbered but not outdone, the rag
ged heroes in gray, who had charged with
Piokett and marched with Jackson, sur
rendered with their great commander,
In sullen silence they stacked arms in
front of tbeir exultant foeman, and then
turned tbeir sad faces southward.
On tbeir homeward way the confederate
marcbed through a desert. Fair cities
like Columbia and Atlanta, and numerous
towns and villages had been licked up by
the flaming tongue of war, and only ash
heaDS and blackened walls remained.
Great industries and transportation sys
tern had been wrecked, and the plantations
Lad been given up tp weeds. Battle-fields,
fortresses, trenches, graves these met
the eve at every turn, and back ol to era
were millions of women and children on
the verge of starvation, and other millions
of life long slaves rioting in their freedom.
and halt ready for another revolution.
But the soldiers ol Lee, heart-sick and
foot-sore, marched bravely back to their
starving families, and went to work in
their faded jackets of gray All was gone
in the shape of property, except the bare
land and a few old bouses. Three billion
dollars in property bad been destroyed,
and these moneyless men had to buy their
supplies on credit at sixty per cent
interest. lhey were denied even me
privilege of governing themselves. Many
lived io military districts, under bayonet
rules. Negro soldiers swarmed over the
land, and rapacious aliens filled the offices
and plundered the people.
All this was only a quarter of a century
ago. It was well nigh impossible, as the
cheer of this April morning thrills our
pulses and stirs our blood, to reoall the
terror and gloom ot the dark aayB tost
followed the meeting between Urant and
Lee at Appomatox. "
In less than a generation the dauntless
gray veterans have turned the old battle
fields into smilinff farms. Stat.lv cities
rear their turrets and spires where once
stood red redoubts, and the busy bum ot
peaceful industry makes muBio where once
the welkin rang with the clash of steel
and the wild shouts of charging legions
The rising south today greete the world,
and points with honest pride to the results
of her work. No trace of defeat, of deso
lation remains. Prosperity has taken the
place of poverty. New cities and towns
surprises the traveler everywhere. Pro
gress is written all over the map. The
cotton crop has jumped up to an annual
product worth J350.uuu.uuu. imriy
million dollars a year has been paid by
these toiling southerners in pensions to
northern soldier?, to say nothing ot 122,
000,000 for the tree education of all, both
while and black.
Despite the wreck and ruin of twenty
five years ago and the drain upon our
life blood and our bard earnings, the rising
south has struggled up to vantage ground
again. W ith a monopoly in cotton, su
premacy in iron, and the coal and limber
to snpply the republic in future, she now
occupies a commanding position among
the nations. Diversified crops, and great
manufacturing industries have wrought
a revolution. Outside capital is rushing
in. The world has its eyes turned this
way.
The great world supply of cotton, iron
timber, coal, marble and granite must
come from our fields aod mountains, and
the world's great faotoruB must do tbeir
work in our midst.
When we think of the disastrous chap
ter of Appomatox let ns not forget to look
at the shining record unrolled today.
God reigns, and the south lives lives,
regenerated, redeemed and disenthralled,
her brow re-crowned, and the scepter
again within her grasp. Io His own
good time, and in His own mysterious
ways, through the storm of battle and the
humiliation of defeat aod poverty the
Almighty has led the south out of the
darkness into the light, and showered His
blessing upon her.
This anniversary brings no gloom with
it. The south looks forward and not
baokwaid. Henceforth her career will be
one of peaceful conquest, under no more
war-like banner than that of King Cotton.
Atlanta Constitution.
An Enviable Community.
At a certain convention held recently
we heard an educational chief lrom Bos
ton say : "This is the boss of all the evil."
And how about the imperial city of New
York? Well, the children io her schools
pronouooe "murmur," muymuy;" "bird,"
"boy;" "murder," "muyder;" "park,"
"pawk;" and at the convention aforesaid
several New York gentlemen repeatedly
invited attention to the glories of "the
imperial State of New Yolk."
In the Quaker City7 too, there are pecu
liarities of pronunciation, really oharming
peculiarities, depending somewhat, ot
ooare, upon the complexion,, genet al ap
pearance, and vivacity of the speaker, but,
nevertheless, the pronunciation is not ac
cording ta Webster nor Worcester.
"No," is
"go." Row;" "road,"
roud;" boat," "bout;" "day," "dahee;"
"rain," "raheen," &c.
Getting down to Washington, one
would expect to find correct pronuncia
tion flourishing luxuriantly, but the influ
ence of the South is plainly discernible in
the speech of the natives. "Two doilahs,"
"Conah of H. aod Foteenlb streets,"
"Majah Btgstock," "Yes, sab," these
aod similar expressions can be beard at
every street corner.
Upon the whole, the people of the upper
Mississippi valley speak the best English.
But here, too, there are conspiooous de
fects. Such words as 'calf, half, and
laugh are pronounced with an exasperat
ing flatness on the sound of a. School
Journal.
W There is a firm in Cincinnati whioh
each year beats 21,000 gold dollars into
gold leaf, and as each dollar can be beat
into a sheet that will carpet two rooms
16$ feet square, some idea may be formed
of its tenuity. It requires 1,400 of gold
leaf to equal in thickness a sheet of writ
ing paper, and takes 280,000 of them, piled
one upon the other, to equal an inch in
thickness.
13?" Do you know of any better farm
fertilizer than clover and sheep ? It not
why not use these?
Domestic Uses tor Cotton Oil.
New Iberia, La., Aprils, 1890.
I have consulted those of my own
household whose business it is to provide
for the inner man, and find that in almost
every case they use refined cotton-seed oil
instead of lard. The only lard we use is
that made by ourselves. But for all fry
ing' purposes cotton-seed- oil is preferred,
because it is pure, clean and healthy. It
oannot come from diseased sources. Be
cause it is cheaper by far than the cheapest
lard. Two-thirds of a gallon of oil at 85
cents will do more work than one gallon
of lard at 70 cents; nd then, strange to
say, the same oil in wbioh you fry fish is
strained off and used to fry Saratoga chips
and potatoes, then again strained off and
used to fry steak, or beef stew or mutton
stew, yet leaves no taste of one in the
other. Anything cooked with this oil has
a nutty flavor which no other grease will
give.
Some of our lady friends here use the
oil for making bread, biscuit aud pastry,
but my wife don't like it for that purpose,
and therefore don't use it. I have eateo
oake made of it and found it good, but the
ladies say that my taste is blunted by my
interest in my oil mill. However that
may be, the oil is used by our confectioners
here for that purpose, and tbey do a good
busioess.
Now the secret of using this oil is to
have it just as hot as fire can make it with
out burning before you put anything in it
to fry, and, if you wish to replenish, don't
do so until you have taken out of the pan
whatever you are cooking, then put tbe
tresb in and let it get hot. Never put any
thing to cook io cold oil.
Our Jewish iiiends here use tbe oil
altogether. Their mode of preparing it
for cooking purposes aod for salad oil is
to put it on the fire, say a gallon at a time,
let it get pretty hot, just simmering, and
then take a raw onion about the size of a
pigeou's egg, peel it and drop it into tbe
oil. Take the oil off tbe fire, let it cool
with the onion io it.tbeo draw off and bot
tle for use. This process gives the oil
very much tbe flavor of olive oil.
I would like to tell you of a circum
stance that took place at my itAll. It
sounds very much like a fish story, yet on
my word it is true. A physician friend ot
mine living in a town aome 40 miles lrom
here sent a young man io me with a note
requesting that I would give him employ
ment where be oould get as muoh oil as be
wanted. He stated that he bad done all
in bis line for tbe boy without avail, and
as a last resort sent him to me with in
structions to live on cotton-seed oil. Tbe
boy was to my mind pretty far gone with
lung and throat disease. He was feeble,
bad a bad cough, 'aud expeotorated freely.
In fact, be was consumptive, and 1 didn't
thiuk would live six months. I put bim
in tbe mill at some light work, aod told
him to eat all the oil he wanted. In the
course of a few weeks I noticed a great
change in bim. His coogb bad left him.
lie had brightened up wonderfully, and
gained strength enough to begin to do
heavier work. He had increased in weight
so that be began lo fill clothes which were,
when he came to me, hanging on him as
on a pole. In a word, that boy worked
with me tbe season through, and was at
that time to all appearances a well man.
I saw bim about, a year later, strong and
healthy. For over eight months be had
eaten nothing but baker's bread aod cot.
ton-seed oil. This At a fact which Dr.
Taylor, of Opelousas, who sent him to me
will corroborate. Ibis is rather a longer
letter .than I intended to writo, and I have
gone somewhat out of the Irack of your
enquiry. However, if you wUh to make
use of this, and the boy's 6tory is irrele
vant, cut it out to sail yourself. Fred
Gates, in Manufacturers Record.
The "Olirer Chilled Plow,"
The Best in the World.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE are now Agents
for this celebrated Plow, and carry a full stock
ot all extras for same, such as Points, Monld
Boards, .Landsider, Bolts, &a, and are selling
very close.
We also have a large stock of Pittsburg Steel
Plows, Single and Double Iron Foot Plow
Stocks, at Rock Bottom prices.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE.
Oct. 7. 1889.
HARDWARE!!
Hardware.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE
Whol sale and Retail dealers now have a full
stock of all Goods in their line Hardware, Cut-
ery. Iron, Nails, Carriage and Wagon Material.
Merchants of the surrounding country have
only to give them a trial to be convinced that
they are selling Hardware as low as any House
n me state.
Charlotte, Oct. 14. 1889.
Rubber and Leather Belting.
We have a. larce stock and inmniPtn uanri.
ment of sizes of Rubber Beltinir on hand War.
rant every foot we sell and guarantee our prices
against any House south of Baltimore.
HAMMOND & JUSTICE
Oct.14. 1889.
SPRING MILLINERY.
We are now receiving our new Soring Stvlea.
All the Novelties of the season will be found in
oar house as soon as they come out iu Northern
cities.
Miss Houston, our trimmer, who ban been
North for several weeks getting up our styles,
wiiiuBBomeiQ jkw uays wita all tne latest
touches in trimming. Her taste in trimming
and superior work is too well known to need
further comment.
The latest styles alwava on hand in our Atpm
making department. All cutting, fitting and
general supervision of this department by Mrs.
vuery iierseu.
Are now ready for all orders in our line. We
guarantee our patrons latest styles, first class
wor& ana lowest prices. . Kespectiully,
P.UERY & CO.
March 21, 1890.
First National Bank of Charlotte,
UUAKLUTTK, N. U.
Paid Up Capital $300,000.
Surplus $100,000.
Officers.
K. M. Oates, President. M. P. Pegram, Cashier
wouu x. un, xeiier ; a., u ran am and C. I
Hunter, Clerks.
Board or Directors.
R. Y . McAden. J. L. Brown Wm T?
.i.uB, d.d. Aiexanaer. d. a. Cohen.
R. Barringer,
Deals in Bills of Erhnff( Hfoht TWr. n.n
- a f o ) S0 Will
and Silver Coin, and Government and other Se-
Jan. 1. 1890.
tT The Mess. Land ret. Va GOOI
business was established over a century ago. and
their Seed are alwava aii .6
lotteby BURWELL&nnvw
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Hood's SarRAnarilla
And &W. he heading PATENT MEDICINES
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R.H JORDAN & CO
tW The best Readv-Mi a P;f
in the market is sold by.
Comparative Cotton Stateae?"
i ne iouowmg is me oomparatiTt
statement for tbe weekending a. ..
1890.
Net receipts at U. S. ports, 20,883
Total receipts to date, 5,642,784
Exports for the week, 44.809
Total exports to date, 4,541,956
Stock at all U. 8. porta, 292,668
Stock at all interior towns, 2,106
Stock in Liverpool, 1,112,000
Stock of American afloat for
Great Britain, 45,000
Total Visible Supply of Cottoa.
Nkw York, April 19.The tow
ble supply of cotton for the ijfci
2,534,648 bales, of which 1,810 84a ; '
American, against 2,281,814 and 1 fo5
respectively last year; receipts iroP
terior towns, 10,914; receipts from a
tations. 12,228. Urop in sight 6,95
bales.
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We are now showing a stock of SHOSfeTj
are unsurpassed by any house in the Butt
among themanv Oret BargaiM thai '!
be able to show you U73u I Ut
Custom Made Pine Shoes at ta.OO and t?A
pair. These goods are worth 50c. a i,
money, but we bought a large lot of twTl
Snot Cash and are o-ivintr nnr 08 ti
benefit of the low price for which W,
bought. We will always be on the alert
ing the market that we may get the beat nxfe
for the least money, thereby, making our
headquarters for all persons who buy 8hoei 1
have returned but a few weeks agofroaa!
Eastern markets where we placed larm nJz
with the best manufactories in the ennnh.
which are to be cut and made to our orde
With our past experience iu the Shoe buio
we believe that we know what thn
this section want In the way of Shoes. We J
confident that we have got them and at prW
that will interest you. We have a Farme?
High Cut English Tie at $1 50 a pair, whick i'
made from the best Oak Tan Kid and Oak r!
Soles. This Shoe we expect to place on tlooil
every plantation in this county. It is the bt
Plow Shoe for the money ever offered on thi
market We are selling nothing for coitrl
have put a small margin on each piece of goo4
Wf hnv r.lnon anrl ull fnr a amall nmfll
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giviug uui vuswiuuB iuii vaiue i or weir moon
vut uu ks ua. no guarantee 8aU8iaCuOL
GRAY & EARNHARDT,
(Sue. to Gray & Co)
March 28, 1890. 10 E. Trade street
STAR MILLS COMPANY".
1879. ESTABLISHED 187
Eleven years of steady, permanent growth f
We desire to express our thanks to our muj
friends and customers for their liberal patronip
in the past, and shall endeavor to merit a coa
tinuance of their favors in the future.
We manufacture the best CORN, MEAL iai
MILL PEED, and deal in CHOICE WHIT!
CORN, OATS, PEAS and WHEAT BRAN.
We handle nothing but first class goods ul
sell for a small profit. Respectfully,
STAR MILLS CO,
W. M. Crowell, Manag.
March 14, 1890.
BURTON'S PECTORAL.
OR
COUGH SYRUP
For Coughs. Colds. Bronchitis, Nervorum, I
A Hthma flnmn W honnin cr Cnnirh and iff
eases of the Throat and Lungs.
Iu popularity is well deserved on account at
its simplicity and efficiency.-
Its palatablenesa is one of its attractive f
turts, and for children it Is a most accepUbk
remedy.
The large quantity sold is an evidence of to
superior merit.
It is recommended by physicians.
Try it and you will be convinced that it is tin
very best Cough Syrup now before the public.
rrepared by
THE WILSON DRUG CO.,
JSF Sold everywhere. Charlotte, N. C.
Dec. 13, 1889.
C. W. BRANCH & CO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS.
Richmond, Va.
Members Chicago Board of Trade.)
Southern Securities a Specialty.
Stocks and Bonds for Investment. 5or3
Carolina Securities quoted daily en our Boari
Grain, Cotton, Petroleum, Lard and ProTS
ona bought and sold on Commission.
CONNECTED BY PRIVATE WIEB
With Washington, Baltimore, PhiUdelpbfc
New York, Boston and Chicago. New To
correspondents : Messrs Green & Batenua. vA
Messrs. Prince & Whltely Correii "tdenO
solicited. . ,,...- '":"
83J Send for our Dally Circular. '
March 22. 1889.
THIS DRESS GOODS TRIUMFI
Has not been won in, a single year, nor ii
result of any fortunate accident It rL
by growth, slow at first, but steady o4hf
stant; then more rapidly, as the influenj
to tell. These influences are consUntjJ
attention, concentrated in a special dir
aided by facilities quite unusual. witJl
intelligent and skilled service we baTe .
in the building up of this department ''J
oursuives Kepi constant oversigm -reff
for its success, aa we personally select c'
piece of goods that sppear on tbe coanUS$m(1(XA
From tbe first this department of Dresi J
has been the centre of the business, Mtu-j
the department numbers Its patrons all 0TH
Bute. fl-pj
This business and this triumph in I)refA5
are the result of patient and constant P1
effort, and we propose to continue '"-"ffloc
lines which have made our house the Vrj
Emporium of the State.
BPRISG WBAPS AND CAFES JUST AT HAS-
T. L. SEIGLE A cu'
March 21, 1890.
WATERMELON SEED ;.
If you will call at tbe Drug Store
R. H. JORDAN- & COn -
YOU CAN GET FREE A PACKAGE Of
New Variety Of
WATERMELON SB;
w nnld like for every Fanner In
burg county to try the above. , (v)BS"
We will also have "HICKORY KING CO
the finest grown. o Tfmr,Alr & CO. ,
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March 21,1890.