IS avtoil em oc va a to 1 1 The Democrat. CHARLOTTE. N. C. JANUARY IS, 1878 Important Decisions by U.
S. Supreme Court. Washington, Jan. 14. In the case of Benson vs.
DeCuir, from the Supreme Court of Louisiana, the Supreme Court here holds the Civil Rights act of Louisiana to be void, as interfering with commerce be; ween the States, a matter wholly within the jurisdiction of Congress. The Chief Justice delivered the opinion. A full statement of the case is as follows Hall, administrator of Benson, vs. DeCuir. Error to the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
In this case Benson was master ol a steamboat, enrolled and licensed under the laws of the United States, and plying between New Orltans and Vicksburg. He refused passage to the defendant on account of her color, and this suit was brought under the law of the State forbidding discrimination by common carriers within the State on account of race or color. The defence was that the law of the State was a void act, as it had undertaken a regulation of commerce so far as the business of the defendant's vessel was concerned, as it was engaged, in inter-State trade and commerce, a nutter wholly within the jurisdiction and control of Congress. The State Court livid the law valid and the name question was presented here. The statute is regarded in accordance with the decision below as requiring those engnged in inter-State commerce to give all persons traveling in Louisiana upon the public conveyances, employed in their business, equal rights and privileges, without distinction on account of race or color, and it is said that for this reason the Court has nothing to do with it, as a regulation of internal commerce, or as affecting anything else than commerce among the States; and as to this the Court can say that there can be no doubt that the exclusive power has been conferred upm! Congress.
The difficulty has never been as to the existence of this power, but as to wha: is to be deemed an encroachment upon it, and it may be safely said the State legislation which seeks to impose a direct burden upon inter-Stat commerce, or to interfere directly with its freedom, encroaches upon the exclusive power of Congress. The statute in question occupies this position; it does not act upon the business through local instruments to be employed after the vehicle of conveyance comes within the State, but directly upon the business as it comes into the State from without or goes out from within. While it purports only to control the carrier when engaged within the State, it must necessarily influence his conduct to some extent in the management of his business throughout his entire voyage. Reversed. Farmington vs.
Shelby, county and State of Tennessee, reversed. This decision relieves the Union and Planters' Bank from other than its charter taxes. They hold that the exemption of the contract docs not extend to shares of the bank taxed as property against individuals holding them. Four other like cases were" disposed of by this decision. SJdif0 The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad vs.
Houston, executor, is a most wise and Sc-n-sible one. It holds that when parties take unnecessary risks in crossing railroads before advancing trains, they cannot recover. It would be well if we had statutes in all lie States making it pri ma facie evidence of carelessness fur any one to cro-s a railroad track beiore an advancing train. Such an act Avhile it would not perhaps prevent the occasional killing of the fools, who do such things, would at least prevent the Railroad companies and the Courts from being troubled with suits for damages. Disastrous Flood in the Roanoke River.
Much Property Destroyed, and the limners in great distress. A letter from Norfolk says the whole Roanoke river country is laid waste by the recent floods, and presents a startling scene of devastation. Those who have been up and down the river say the farms along its course for one or two miles back are nearly destroyed. Farm houses, barns and stables have been swept away, and fences destroyed, all things portraying the general ruin caused by the waters. The complaints of fanners are heart-rending, as they realize that the floods have ruined them, and left them destitute of means to re-commence life on their barren and wasted laud.
The picture is a piteous one, and must be seen to be realized. The Great Land Fraud. St. Louis, Jan. 1G.
The names of the parties engaged in the famous Texas land frauds, discovered about three mouths ago at Kansas City, together with the signers of the bogus bonds, have come to light. The publication of the names is important for the reason that large quantities of the land were sold or transferred by members of the gang, in most of the Wt stern and Southern States, and it is pretty nearly certain that all the titles which have emanated for the past eight or ten years from any of these parties, are fraudulent and of no value whatever. They are as follows: At-well, Bates, Job Barry, John Bart, George Brown, John Davis, Thos Dal-ton, A Edwards, Goodman, Ham-mil, John Hall, Hughes, II Hazleton, Aaron Hughes, John Jones, Jackson, II Brown, Herman Brandt, Jonas Cheek, Job Davis, Geo Dawson, II Gibbs, Hamilton, John Hail, Bartlett Heck-man, John Hudson, James A Hawes, A Jones, Kelly, Johu Men itt, John Martin, Orlando Kizer, Alex Kelly, John Martin, DA Newberry, Zeva Oaks, Allen Oakey, Luke Banuan, John Ryan, Uriah Smith, Stevens, Geo SruM). Robt Teasdale, Williams, Jacob Bate Geo Ornsby, Ogden, A Oliver Sylvester Oppico, Rockwell Steen, A Smith, Geo A Stevens and Geo II Thompson. mi CST The duel in South Carolina between two brothers-in-law, by which one loses his life, is a fearful commentary upon a "relic of barbarism" that should find no place among Christian people.
Where the Shoe Pinches. From the Washington (D. Post Now that the resolution for general investigation has been adopted by the House, we discover in the Radical organs evidences of a concerted scheme to head off or neutralize the results, by belittling the capacity and impugning the motives of the investigators. Tne Radical organs inform us that the commiitees upon which these resolutions confer power are "insignificant," and that they are about to "constitute themselves into raiding parties upon every Department of the Government." The words which we quote are fiom the columns of one of the most "insignificant" of the Radical organs, it is true, but they refl -ct the spirit of the entire It is assumed by these eminently impartial critics that "the desire to make party capital is what will influence the inquiries," and that "there is no doubt that the Democratic chairmen will make the most of it." Such criticisms generally refute themselves, or may be refuted by quoting the simple couplet "No rogue e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law." But toich criticisms ought not to be taken as reflecting the wisnes ol Mr Hayes and his "Ref. rm Cabinet." Their desire is for the most thorough and searching inquiry into all their own meihods not only, but also into the practices of their predecessors.
There is a belief widely prevailing that, much as has been unearthed of the devilment of Grantism, still more remains to be dragged to light. The inside history of legislation and administration during the last eight or nine years is what the Radicals do not want published. They would prefer to discuss the rebellion and parade the gaping wounds of Elizi Pinkston. But we feel authorized to say 'hat this desire is confined to the Radicals in Congress and such of the relics of Grantism as have survived the "Reformers" of the present administration in the Departments. Neither Mr Hayes himself, nor Dick Thompson, nor Gen.
Dev-ens, nor Key, is distressed at the prospect of an overhaul of the accounts or "a raid" upon the books of his predecessor. Congressional. ax. 14. In the House, a resolution granting the women suffragists a hearing at the bar of the House, on Saturday next, was defeated by 107 nays to 14 yeas.
A bill was introduced by Mr Buckner of Missouri, repealing the restrictions on the sale of leaf tobacco. In the Senate, Mr Davis of Illinois, presented a petition of 400 bankers and business men of Chicago, in favor of retaining gold as a single standard of value, and against the repeal of the specie resumption act. He spoke of the hgh standing of the signers of this petition, but said that in his opinion their views were endorsed by only a very small per centage of the population of that city. He also presented the proceeding- of a meeting held at Bloomington, Illinois, his place of residence, in favor of the remonetization of the silver dollar, and in presenting them said he had no agency in getting uj) this meeting, but he believed that ihe proceedings expressed the opinion of the people of the whole county, which was the fourth in population in that State. Mr Edmunds of Vermont, introduced a lengthy amendment to the preamble of the resolution submitted by Mr Matthews of Ohio, before the recess, declaring the right of the government to pay its bonds in silver, etc.
The amendment sets forth that the silver dollar of the United States had been long obsolete when the existing loan-of the United States were authorized that gold coin had been the only lawful coin, and that Congress should not legislate to make money at the expense of its creditors that it was the highest obligation of the United Siates to pay its debts in such coin as its creditors expected would be paid, and that it would be unjust to compel them or laboring men, either, to receive the silver dollais or any debased mony. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed, the resolution to wnich it is proposed as an amendment now bemg beiore the Senate. The Senate then resumed the consideration of the resolution of Mr Matthews, declaring the right of the government to pay bonds in silver. Mr Bailey of Tennessee, read a lengthy argument as to the constitutional powers of Congress in regulating coinage, etc. Jan.
15. The Vice-President laid before the S'-nate the resolutions adopted by the Union League of New York, at the annual meeting on the 10th opposing any legislation which will tend to postpone the resumption of specie payments, and the coinage of silver to an unlimited extent. In the House, a speech in favor of the remonetization of silver was made by Mr Price of Iowa, in which he ridiculed the pretensions of the Revs. Messrs. Beecherand Fro-thingham to set themselves up a lights and teachers in the path and science of finance.
The Investigation Resolution, known as the Glover Resolution, was adopted by a vote of 111 to 107. This resolution gives to various committees authority to investigate various Bureaus of the government, with power to bend for persons and papers. Jan. 10. The Senate proceeded to vote on the pending question to refer the resolution of Mr Matthews, in regard to paying bonds in silver, to the Judiciary Committee, and it was rejected ayes 19; nays 31.
This action is considered favorable to the Resolution of Mr Matthews. In the Senate there is a prospect of some exciting and even exasperating work. The Republicans will, it is said, begin their onslaught on Senator Butler by presenting the report of the sub-committee on Privileges and Elections on the "Hamburg massacre." This report has been smothered for months, but the bloody shirt leaders think they have at last discovered some use for it. This report is as full of misrepresentations as narrow-minded prejudice and malice could make it, and the Republican leaders hope to fire the Northern heart by its recitals of bloodshed and outrage upon the negro. Such a sentiment in the North, they calculate, will consolidate the Republican vote in the Senate and make it easier to unseat Senator Butler.
They also, no doubt, expect to exasperate the Democrats into expressions that may be used against them in arousing sectional animosity. But the object of this move is so plain that it may recoil upon the men who are calculating to advance themselves at the expense of the whole country. North Carolina. Some Statistical Agricultural Facts, Correspondence of the Raleigh Observer. After recovering from my late illness I availed myself of the opportunity to jeruse the "Report of the Commissioner of Agri culture," Washington, D.
for which I received through the kindness of senator A. fe. Mernmon. A lare number of readers never see these poris, and. I have compiled therefrom kome statistical information bearing upon farm pi oducts iu North Carolina, which may not be altogether uninteresting.
That the reader may know something of North Carolina, and the number its population in comparison with the other thirty-seven States of the Union, I will state that in area of square miles, it is the 24th, or in other words there are 23 States larger than North Carolina and 17 whose population exceed it. It must be remembered that North Carolina, agricub urally speaking, is about the dividing line between Northern and Southern States; that is, in North Carolina the climate is such that ihe products of the Northern, as well as those the Southern States, can be, and are raised; and while it produces largely of corn, it also produces largely of cotton, which faci must be borne in mind when the quantity of corn is considered in comparison with other States. Cereals, Tobacco and Hay. From the report of the statistician, I cull the following facts and figures: In the year 1876, North Carolina produced 23,000,000 bushels corn, 3,000,000 bushels wheat, 360,000 bushels rye and 3,530,000 bushels oats. In comparison with the other States, as to the quantity of corn produced, North Carolina is the fifteenth wheat, the twenty-second; rye, the sixteenth, and oats, the twentieth.
If the acreage in cotton were cultivated in corn, with ihe same average yield as that cultivated in corn, (and the presumption is it wTould be laruer,) then it would stand eighth instead of fifteenth. In tobacco it stands 8, and when tobacco in 1876 was a failure, what would have been its standing with such a crop as 1877 The average of hay, per ton, per acre, is 1.25, being a larger average per acre than Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, and in quality far su-peiior to large quantities brought from some of those States, which fact should stimulate the farmers to turn their attention more to the culture of grasses. Cotton. Of the ten cotton producing States North Carolina is the most Northern, and ranks 8 on the average as to the number of bales produced. Edgecombe and Halifax are the two largest cotton producing counties in the State, the former producing 18,361 bales, the latter 11,716, aggregaiing 30,077.
The average cost of producing the crop of '76, per pound, in North Carolina, was $0.09.3, and the average home prce for which it was sold was 80.09.8, showing an average profit of 5 mills per pound. In Texas the largest average profit was realized, beinsi mills per pound. An extraordinary result upon pine-wood land with high fertilization, is reported from Wayne county: Mr Michael Edger-ton, on five acres average low grounds pine-wood land, raised 15,000 pounds of seed cotton. He put in drills 400 pounds Navassa guano to the acre and broadcasted 75 loads ol barn-yard manure to the acre. The barnyard manure he estimates at one-t hird th value of horse manure.
This is 906 pounds of lint per acre, at 30 pounds per 100, which is a low yield of lint for such cotton 1,000 pounds per acre would probably be the outcome or two large bahs. The counties of which special mention is made are the following In Nash county, 300 pounds per acre on 200 acres, and in Hyde, two bales per acre on two acres are reported. In Greene, 42 acres manured with homemade compost at a c-st of $3.50 per acre produced 42,000 pounds seed cotton. Cultivation profit $20. The sandy loam of Moore subsoiled and well fertilized often produces a bale per acre.
On the farm of Capt. J. J. Davis, of Franklin, 17 bales were made on 10 acres by a colored man. In Beaufort county, Mr Thos.
II. Blount, on a loam with clay and subsoil, got 54 bales of 400 pounds on 52 acres. On gray chinquepin soil, in Gaston, in several cases, a bale per acre has been made by high manuring. A five acre field in Harnett, with clay sub-soil, averaged 750 pounds of lint, giving 50 per cent profit. In Guilfoid 200 pounds is the best yield.
The best average in Iredell is 1,000 pounds seed per acre on 16 acres of loam fertilized, cultivated with a sweep and hand hoe. A farm in Lenoir of 100 acres made 80 bales of 500 pounds. In Hertford, 25 bales of 475 pounds each, were made on 20 acres. A compost of guano and cotton-seed with loam was used. In Lincoln 1,500 pounds seed per acre, planted in rows three feet apart, highly fertilized.
In the gray soil of the pine lands of Pitt farms have avei aged a bale per acre. These farmers also generally raise their needed supplies. A bale per acre has been produced in Pasquotank. The largest yield in Duplin is 40 bales of 500 pounds each on 45 acres; soil a stiff loam, fertilizers 200 pounds acid phosphate, 15 bushels cotton seed per acre. In Cumberland 14 bales on 15 acres.
The Entomologist reports the number and species of insects that infest the crops oi the agriculturist the number must suffice here. Insects, destroying either diiectly or indirectly, the root, stalk, foliage, or fruit of corn, 39 species; wheat, 22 species; cotton, 33 species; potato, 16 species; squashes, melons, 25 species; cabbage, turnips, fec, 2S species grape-vine, or its fruit, 31 species; fruit and fruit trees, 26 -species; eggs or young of fishes, 14 species. Beneficial insects, destroying thosp above mentioned, 70 species removing filth and carrion, 31 species. There is much more that could be culled from the Report before me, but knowing the aversion of most people to long articles, I will stop for the present. These Reports, Messrs.
Editors, are usually taken from the Post Office, thrown aside and never opened they contain much that is valuable and interesting even of our own State. It is with the hop of doing some good as a true North Carolinian, to my grand old State, that I wrise this communication. R. A. Leigh.
The Worlds Grainery. The reports of the correspondents of the Wahington Department of Agriculture, received and now in course of prepaiation for publication, show the enormous aggregate yield of 380,000,000 bushels of wheat for 1877, which is 50.000,000 busheis more than ever before pioduced. The same official authority shws that the com product wTas 1,300,000,000 bushels, with correspondingly large yields of oats and potatoes. The ie-p tit shws that there never was greater abundance in ihe land. Out of the wheat proouct it is estimated, deducting for home consumption in food and seed, that upwards of 110,000,000 buhels of wheat can be spared for export.
The largest export yet made in one year was 91,000,000 bushels, with an average of 63,000,000 bushels. The department is also in receipt of information from wheat-producing sections of Eu'Ope, ft osn which it is ascertained that the wheat crop in Southwestern Europe, which produces the larget of the surplus, is good in Southern Russia, amounting to 25 cent above the average. The crop in Northwestern and Northeastern Europe is poor. It is stated in communications in Southern Russia that if the wrar should stop shortly, there will be a large "shipment, and that shippers are ready to take advantage ol the opportunity, Great Britain offering the low-eft market, which will, it is stat ed, require about 100,000,000 bushels from the present season's yield. The American surplus will give its usual demand in England markets, with an increase subject to the contiugei-cies of the existing struggle in Southwestern Europe b.
ing prolonged to another season. The department is also in receipt of very flattering accounts of the encouragement which ihe great yield of the past eseaon is havini; on every class of enterprise. Tne acreage of Winter Wheat for this year is greater than that ot last. The Pork Packing Outlook. The indications at present are that there will be a greater number of hogs packed in the West this season than that of 1676-'77.
Returns from 311 points, including the six leading cities, show a decrease of 615,000 up to January 3, compared the cones ponding period last season, but, as hogs are plenty, it is estimated that the entire packing up to March 1st will reach fully while thai, for the season of 1876-'77 wa 5,101,308. It is believed that there wdl be an increase in weight as well as number, though to what extent it is as yet impossible to say. The War and Foreign Items. It is stated that the Russian ambassador to the court of St. James is about to vacate and return to St.
Petersburg, the British capital becoming rather warm for an abiding place of a foe to Turkey. This news, if true, is deeply significant. Itisalrtady well known that the feliur in London against the Russians and in favor ot the Turks, is intense; and growing deeper every day. Should the Russian ambassador actually retire, it will constitute the first unmistakable evidence of the existence ot such a state of public sentiment in England as needs but the touch of a bold leader to crysialize it into a great popular demand c-f the government for energetic measures against Russia. The London Times' Vienna correspondent-says that advices from Turkey show that-the works of Adrianople are only partially armed and unfitted to resist an atta- k.
In Constantinople it is believed possible that-Adrianople may be carried by a coup main, and the lortifications of Constantinople are consequently being looked to as the la-t resource, although they seem to be ii even a woise condition. Everything points to complete the confusion and dismay of the Turks. The Times' correspondent from Bucharest says that a new complication seems to have arisen. Roumanians talk of declining submit. to an armistice unlet-s it is separately arranged with them.
It is thought they have privately been instigated by the Russian military p-irty. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent say that the Grand Duke Nicholas, in his telegram to the Porte, very expressly asked that two Turkish delegates be sent to meet him at Kesaulik, and that they should have the fullest possible powers. Constantinople, Jan. 14. Server Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Namvk Pasha will leve here for Kezaulik to-day to rae the Grand Duke Nicholas.
They have been invested by the Ministerial Council with full powers to treat for peace. E3f Russia has given Turkey a very complete thumping, but she has been compelled to pay liberally for her amusem*nt. On the lsi of December her war expindi-tureshad reached $400,000,000, and 75,000 of her citizens have been knocked on the lit ad. The Government has $750,000,000 in paper roubles floating ar-und the country, and the presses are si ill knocking out the seductive currency as rapidly as they can be fed. SSsfThe famine that has been raging so violently in China continues with unabated violence.
The suffering has been awful and the loss of life immense. Entire diss ricts of country have been depopulated. The distressing news comes that there is no possible hope of relief during the next year. Such a siory ot human privation and suffering is sickening. The boring of a channel tunnel between France and England istobedoue by the Freuch Railway company, the Chemin de For du Nord, and the Southern and Chatham Railway companies of England.
The two latter will bore for half the distance from the English side, and the former the same distance, about ten and a half miles, from the French side. The Brinly Plow, BURWELL SPRINGS'. At North Carolina Items. EST Rev. Junius P.
Moore died in "War-renton on the 10th of heart disease. He was one of the most prominent members of the Methodist N. C. Conference. Badly Hurt.
Capt. C. M. T. McCauley had the misfortune to slip on the ice last Wednesday morning, fracturing the thigh bone at the right hip-joint, making quite a painful wound.
We are glad to learn that he is resting asier the last day or two, and wre hope to soon see him out again. Monroe Enquirer, Jan 2th. E5f Some twenty years since a young man fresh from the rural districts began pecking mable under Moses Kellogg at Milton. Wisely he kept on at his work and never neglected it to run for the Legislature, and to day he commands the large Marble yard at Greensboro, N. C.
Read the advertisem*nt of Samuel C. Robertson. Jieidsville Times. JSP" The Literary Societies of the N. C.
Univr-ity have invited Judge Schenck to deliver the Annual Address before them next June. ZW' A couple of drummers from Baltimore, having more ruin than disci etion in them, ran loul of Mr D. F. Caldwell, at Sanford last Saturday, while on his way from the meeting of Directors at Fayette-ville, and they say it was quite interesting to see those two drummers falling down and getting up. It lasted for about ten minutes when ihe aforesaid young men called a truce, sore but wiser men.
They wanted to apologize and said they had mistaken their man, which they evidently did. Greensboro 1 'atriot. We didn't know that our friend Caldwell was such a fighter. C5fThe marriage of the millionaire Thomas Lord of New York, at the age of 86, 10 a widow of 25, has found its match in Alamance county, as we learn from the Gleaner ail but the millionaire feature. Mr James Foster, aged 86, a soldier of the war ol 1812, married Miss Emily Carroll, aged 32.
HiUiboro Jiecorder. Land Grants. Maj. Engelhard, Secretary of State, insued on yesterday sixty land grains, of 28,000 acres of public lands in McDowell county, to Northern parties. From this it would seem that our waste places are soon to filled up.
Haleigh Observer, 2th. Killed. We learn that one day last week, near Locust Level, in Stanly county, a young ma named John Carter killed another max-, whose name our informant had foigott-en. The circ*mstances of the homicide are as follows During last year Carter iived upon a rented place, which the man whom he killed had rented for the present year, and was moving from it to give place to its new tenant ou the day of the killing. It seems that he was in the lot raking up a pile of manure which he intended moving when his ictim approached him and forbid him doing so, when some words passed between them, which result ed in Carter raising his hoe and giving him a blow upon the head with it.
The man immediately turned off from him, got upon his wagon and drove about two miles when he 11 off dead. An examination disclosed the fact that his skull had been broken. Carter was at once arrested, and is now con-tin ed in jail at Albemarle. He made no effort to es. ape but gave himself up, stating that he did not intend to inflict a fatal blow, and only gave it iu the heat of passion.
Monroe Jurpress. 3 Mr R. W. Trezevant, son of Dr. Trezevant, of Columbia, has been appointed Mail Agent on the Charlotte, Columbia Augusta Railroad, in the place of Mr W.
J. Wiley, who succeeded Wm. Mishaw about a month ago. J. C.
BURROUGHS, Dealer in Land Planter, Calcined Plaster, Rosendale Cement, Limo, Acid Phosphates and Fertilizers. Also, GRASS SEEDS of all varieties. College Street, Charlotte, N. C. Sept.
14, 1877. 1878. It is with very ereat pleasure that we again announce beginning of a new year, with better prospects than ever before. We LLauk our many friends for the very liberal patronage in the past, having increased our business nearly thirty per cent over any previous year. We desire to retain all our old customers, and to add many more to our list.
We congratulate all our friends and the country on having an abundance of all the goud things necessary for comfort and pleasure. Don't talk any more about hard times, but let us all put new energy forth in our business, and determine so far as is in our power to make this a more prosperous and glorious country than ever. In the meantime we have started a new firm, under the old stvle and firm name, and we want our friends to call in and settle their old notes and accounts. ALEXANDER, SEIGLE CO. Jan.
11. 1878. YES We can chance a fifty dollar bill if you want a bottle of Globe Flower Cough Sykcp, the trreat-est Cough and Lung liemt-dy in the world or if you want to try it first and see if what the Hon. Alex. 11.
Stephens, Ex-Gov. Smith, Ex-Gov. Brown and Hon. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, say about it is true, you can get a Sample Bottle for ten cents at J. H.
McAden's, T. C. Smith's, Wilson Burwell's and Scarr Co Drug atores, that relieves an or dinary cold. The Globe Flower Cough Sybup never had an equal for Coughs, Colds and Lung Affections. It positively cures Consumption when all other boasted remedies fail.
Sample Bottles, ten cents. Regular size, fifty doses, 1. Jan. 11,1878. NEXT TOWN Ahead where they loan you a dollar and chalk it dowu till to-morrow, for a bottle of AIerkell's Hepatine for the Liver.
The enormous expense of importing the ingredients of this great liver medicine into this country, is why our Druggists. J. H. McAdeD, Wilson Burwell, T. C.
Smith and Scarr fc sell but one sample bottle to the same person for ten cents but as there are fifty doses in the large size bottles, it is cheap enough after all at two cents per dose, for a medicine that has never been known to fail in the cure of dyspepsia and all diseases of the liver. It has never failed in the cure of liver complaint when taken as directed, no matter of how long standing the disease. It cures Chills and Fever, Constipation of the Bowels, Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. Sample Bottles ten cents regular size, fifty doses, $1. Jan.
11, 1878. Lore Among the Old Folks. Apropos of the Lord-Hicks marriage, it may be said that, although the last New York State census records no instance in which a man of Mr Lord's exact age eighty-two year took a wife to himself during the year ending June 1, 1875, yet five marriages are spoken of in which the bridegroom was of still more mature years. One centenarian wedded a blushing bride of fifty-five years old at the age of eighty-eiffht another succeeded in winning a dam sel of sixty-five another "gay Lothario" of eighty-five entered upon the primrose path of dalliance with a beauty over whose fair head but seventy-five bummers bad flown; lady of sixty-seven years pillowed ber throbbing brow upon the bosom of a man of eighty-four, and at eighty-three a gentleman selected as the partner of his joys and sorrows a lady ot fifty-six. lhere was an ancient dame of eighty-six who took a husband of sixty-two, and at the other end of the line a boy of fourteen married a girl of seventeen and a mau of twenty-six wedded a maiden of twelve.
The marriage of Mr Lord to Mrs Hicks is not, then, of so unique a nature as to necessitate the hypothesis of unsoundness of mind to explain if. New York World. Notice to Fence Subscribers. The Committee anDointed to manure the build ing of the County Fence borrowed the money to ay for the balance due on the same, to be paid ast November. The Note being past due, they hereby notify all persons who signed the indemnity bond that they are compelled to have the money this month, and that the assessment must be paid at once, or they will be compelled to bring suit for the same.
8. B. ALEXANDER, D. P. HUTCHISON, Jan.
11, 1878. J. 8. MYERS. THE TRUTH.
W( An NOT nronoae to sell at COST, but if you wish to purchase any Blankets, Flannels, Water proofs, Dress uooas, Khnwlfi Boulevards. Jeans. Caslmeres. Hosiery. Notions, or anything in our liue, all we ask is to COMPARE OUR PRICES With those who propose to sell at Cost.
A choice lot of Calicoes just received. BARRINGER TROTTER. If you have not settled your bills we are anxious see you. B. 1.
Jan. 4, 1878. To the PubHc. On and after Saturday, January 5th, 1878. 1 will occupy the NEW BRICK HOUSE on College Street in rear of Stenhouse Macaulay's corner, and will continue to keep the best Lime, Cement and Plaster also Flour, Grain, Hay, Shingles, which I will sell at lowest prices.
W. W. WARD. Jan. 4, 1878.
NEW GROCERY HOUSE. Williams Finger, CHARLOTTE AND NEWTON, N. (SucceMors to L. J. Walker at Charlotte,) Will keep in Charlotte a full stock of Grain, Flour, Hay, Bran, and all sorts of Country Produce, and Heavy Groceries, at the old Grier Alexander building, just above the old Market House.
Call and see us. W. H. WILLIAMS, 8. M.
FINGER. Jan. 11, 1878. ty I recommend to my customers and friends the above firm. Jan.
11, 1878. L. J. WALKER. Seed Wheat and Oats, At JAMES F.
JOHNSTON'S. Wagons! Another Car Load of the celebrated White Water Wagons, at reduced prices. JAMES F. JOHNSTON. Open and Top Buggies, At reduced prices.
JAMES F. JOHNSTON, Nov. 16, 1877 Second and Last Call. To those who are still in arrears in the settlement of their obligations to me, I will simply say that I must have my money. In consequence of such persistent negligence in the discharge of your debts now over due, I am compelled to reduce my stock and sell ray goods at ruinous prices to meet my own liabilities.
A fore-closure of all mortgages now due me will be the inevitable result of your indifference, and that very speedily, if this last call is not immediately responded to. Those who have come forward and paid up have my sincere thanks for their considerate kindness, and to my customers and friends generally, I return my most grateful acknowledgments for their patronage. JAMES H. HENDERSON. Jan.
11, 1878 2w TOYS AND DOLLS At JPurefoy's. 1 am selling my stock of Toys, Dolls, Ac, at half price for the purpose of quit dealing in such goods. Elegant Dolls at a very low figure. Call and se them. ty All School Books will be furnished at publisher's prices.
Give me your orders. J. K. PUREFOY, Next to Scarr Co's Drug Store. Dec.
21. 1877. At Hales Farrior's. We have received within the last few days a fine assortment of Goods suitable for Christmas Presents, consisting of FINE NECKLACES and LOCKETS, FINE SEAL RINGS. GOLD WATCHES and CHAINS, And other Goods in great variety and of the latest styles, which will be sold very low.
Call and see them at HALES FARRIOR'S. Dec. 21, 1877. J. B.
FRANKLIN'S I have received the best Hams and Breakfast Bacon in the city Dried Beef, Pigs' Feet, Candies, Nuts, Raisins, Currants, Citron, cheaper than any other house Tobacco, Cigars and SnmT, all grades. Candy Toys and Candy Apples. Peaches, Pears, Oranges and Lemons, Sugars, Coffees, Teas, Molasses, Bacon, Floor, Meal, Lard, Butter, Eggs, Grits, Hominy, Rice, Irish and Sweet Potatoes, Apples, Bread, Cakes and Pies, Canned Goods of every description, Candles, Soap, Starch and Blueing, Ground Peas and Chestnuts, Dates and Prunes. I have the above end many other Goods, which I shall sell as low as the lowest I am determined not to be undersold in the city. Come and see.
J. B. FRANKLIN. Dec. 21 1877.
Opposite old Market.
