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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-10-27
5000 Reward.
SCHOOL
Charlotte. N. G..

THIS school will open on the 18th of October
under the superintendent of Rev. r. BUR
WELL and lady, assisted by corps of compe-
tent teachers in all the branches usually augh in
first class female schools.
The scholastic year will be divided into two
sessions, which Immediately succeed each other,
with short recess during the christmas holidays.
Pupils are charged from the time of entering, but
no deduction made for absence except in cases of
protractrd sickness Young ladies from dis
lance will be required to board with the principal,
excppt under peculiar circumstances. Each
boarder will be expected to furnish her own table
napkins and towels, and to have her clothes dis
tinctlv marked.
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MARBLE MANTELs.

MARBLE wORKs.-The Subscriber
lvM begs leave 10 inform his friends and the pub
lie that he has increased bis stock Of Marble Mantels
comprising Sienna, Brockedelia, Spanish Egyptian
plain, of the best quality newest STYLE and superior
finish, which he offers for sale low for cash.
Also, 20 Marble Monume7ts Tombs and Head.
stone Slabs Eastern Marble for windowsilIs lintels
steps, and platforms; Marble tile, counter, and table
tops; Soapstone; Calcined plaster, IS per barrel
Also on hand q large lot of Connecticut Brown
Stone, New York Flags and steps, suitable for build
ing purposes.
He invites the attention Of builders and others to
his stock and will endeavor To give satisfaction 10 all
who may favor him with their orders.
WIN. RUTHERFORD,
On z street, bet. 18th and 18th.
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GALLAGHER'S
A New and Splendid Large Oven, Flat Top
COOKING STOVE.

FOR Wood on Coal. FcitT sizes. Nos. .. z, . y.
EALLAGHER'S SUNRISE Albright,
W beautiful design of new Flat Top Cooking
Stove, just out
1t is only necessary to say, that after very many
years Of experience, and being fully conyersant
with all Of the various kinds of Stoves which have
been invented on the down-draft rinciple that
have taken advantage Of every wells own improve
ment that has from time TO time been made parcu
larry IN reference 10 the formation and construction
Of the ues, which always necessary TO be large,
and / have fully applied every improvement and
combined them all in the Sunrise Alright Cook
ing Stove" This Stove is made very heavy, and is
good substantial article ! have made them extra
heavy in all tbs parts where long experience has
proved il to be important, and can assure my GUS
toners that have spared neither pains expense
in getting itup; and it will not be exceled by any
stove now known of similar character; ! am con.
vInced that il will at once become standard Stove.
have fully tried them in every way, with WOOD
and COAL, and strongly recommend them TO the
public They operate in the most satisfactory man
ner.
Fatentee: A. J. GALLAGHER,
July lst, 1885, Philadelphia.
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IMPORTANT TO GENTLEMEN.

Great Inducements for you to Call and See.
FHyHE undersigned gives notice to his friends and
III the public that he has Just received his stoc
Of Fall and Winter Goods comprising all the latest
styles and coors Of Cloth Cashmere and Vestings;
which goods will be made up to order, in the most
elegant manner, as he has some of the best workmen
in the United States at work for him. Being agent
for Scott the reporter Of fashions you may rely upon
getting the most fashionable clothing
READY-MADE CLOTHING
Of his own make such as Over Garments, frock, dress
and business Coats, Pants, and Vests, from medium
TO very superior quality. 1aL ho f iWs
All the above Goods will be sold at very low prices
70 instance, whole suit Coat Pants, and Vest for
overcoa is beautiful style, from $40 70 $40
l,ants, do do do 10 10
Vests, do do do Q 80 TO 10
I've respectfully solicts cali from all in want OF
FURNISHING GOODS, 461eonf
s u as shirts Drawers Collars Stocks, Handker
cne =, Scarfs, Umbrellas, &C.
5 P.W. BROWNING,
rH Under United States Hotel,
Between Sd and ~ streets. Penn. svsnus
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HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING AND
GRAINING.
NE IT. PARKER HAVING, opened

IvAs branch shop at No. SO Louisiana avenue,
(Yarnum's Buildings) between Sixth and Seventh
streets for House, Sign, Ornamental, and Detrempe
Casually called Fresco,) Painting and Graining, re-
specially announces his readiness TO do and perform
in an artistic manner all work entrusted to him. He
feels confident Of giving perfect satisfaction to all
who give him their patronage
Window Shades Banners, Glass Signs, &c, &c.
painted on reasonable terms, and in workmanlike
manner
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ELyANs ~ THOMPSON, Dealers in
II Hardware, Coach Trimmings, &c.
No. 800 Pennsylvania Avenue, between 9th and 10th
Streets Washington, ID. O.
House Furnishing Hardware,
Brass Britannia, Block Tin and Plated Uandlesticks
Shovel and longs, Waffle Irons, Sad Irons
Masn 4 Bell Metal Kettles, Furnaces, Ovens, Grid
BaiIding Materials,
Rural Cottage, Closet Cupboard, Chest Till, Pad and
Trunk Locks
Shuttle, Door, and Blind Hinges Screws, Bolts, Cut
and Wrought Nails .
Brad's shutter Screws and Stubs, Door Springs,
Handrail Screws, Door Knobs
Bell Pulls, Door Sheaves and Rail- &C., &c, &c.
Cabinet Makers Goods.
Britannia, German Silver, Albata and Silver Plated
Tea Table and Desert Spoons
carvers and Forks, stees, Knives with and without
Hair Cloth, Cured Hair, Moss, Gimps, Sofa and Chair
Springs,
Venetian Blind Hooks, Rack Pulleys, Roller Ends
Brackets Furniture Nails
Glue, Coffin Handles and Screws, Diamond Screw
Carpenters Goods.
Planes, Saws, Drawing Knives Spokeshaves, Chisels
and Gouges, Plane Irons
Augers. Braces and Bits, Boring Machines, Ham
mers, Hatcbets, Levels
Beyils Squares, Gauges, Axes, dc, DC, &c.
Blacksmith and Coach Makers Goods.
Black and Bright Springs, Axles, Felloes, Spokes
Hubs, Bows Shafts, Poles
Sleigh Runners, Silvered and Brass Bands, Stump
joints, Stump Collars, Top Props
Curtain Frames Lamps, Inside Innings, Lining Silks
Damask, Scanning Cords
Tufts, Tassels Buttons Tacks, Fringes Laces, Plain
and Enamelled Canvass t
Russia Duck, Enamelled Leather, Dash Leather, &C..
&C., &c.
ELvANS A THOMPSON,
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ncatonS, ana their remedies -s--'
with Autographs illustrating theanatoy and Physi
elogy and diseases of the reproductive both
sexes, their structure, uses, and functions Apopu-
lar and comprehensive Treatise on the Duties and
Casualties Of Single and Married Life ]; happy and
fruitful alliances; mode of securing them; infelic
tous and infertie ones their DEVIATION and removal
important hints to those contemplating matrimony
that will overcome objections to it; none, however
should take this important step without first consult
ing its pages commentaries on the diseases and med
ical treatment of females from infancy to old age,
each case graphically illustrated by beautiful tho
by process at once SO simple safe, and efectual,
that failure is impossible, rules for daily manage
ment; an essay on spermatorrhoea, with practical
observations OH the safer and more successful mode
Of treatment precautionary hints on the evils result
ing from empirical practices an essay on all diseases
arising from ndiscretion with plain and simple rules
by which all persons can cure themselves without
mercury; remedies for those selfinficted miseries
and disappointed hopes so unfortunately prevalent
in the young. 1t isl truthful adviser to the married
and those contemplating marriage. Its perusal 10
particularly recommended TO persons entertaining
secret doubts Of their physical condition. andwho are
conscious of having hnzarded the health, happiness
and privileges to which every human being is en-.
titled. @
Price TWENTY-FIVE CENTS per copy, or five
copies for One Dollar. Mailed free of postage to oil
parts of the United States. a2a8gi
N. b. Those who prefer, may consult DR.. La Croix
upon any of the diseases upon which this book treats
either personally or by mail.
Medicine sent to any part Of the Union according
to directions, safely packed, and carefully secured
from all observation.
Address DR.. M. b. LA CROIX, No 81, Maiden
Lane, or post Office box $40, Albany, New York.
| r1y- Office open daily, from A. III. to 8 p. M.
| and on Sunday from until P. M.
E1y- Office removed from No. Sc, Beaver street to
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FLEETWOOD CEMETERY.
Office No. 292 Pennsylvania aUsr,ts.
Corner Of 10th street, over the saving

Bank. ~
NHlS cemetery is laid out ON the plan o.
situated on the high ground, distant one and omar
ter miles north Of the Capitol North Caoitol sirae,
leading directly TO The gateway. This Cornpnnv bsv,
received charter from Congress appropriatne thei,
to The purchaser and prohibiting all encroachment.
from Legislation or otherwise which is Of vast impor
lance 70 those who wish their dead 10 repose wher,
they have placed them for ithas becomes custom in al
cities, when the burial ground has become valuable
for other purposes TO sell IL and throw the deed pro
miscaously into one large pit and legal measures can
moi prevent II, as no titles given TO the ground
N. b. Office open from 10 10 ia. 81, where pampb
let's containing the charter, bylaws, and q map o
the grounds. and ell other Information can be 90
tanned. An orders left with Mr.. JAMES +. LIAR
sEY, No. 410 7tb street, or any other Undertaken
win be promptly attended 10.
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FOR TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

THE Recipe for making the Won
IL drGus Panacea, cure for almost every
class Of disease, for only rs cents. II readily sells
for W per bottle, and the recipe alone ia worth
s25. A good family newspaper sent for one wear
extra 7. WILLIAMS,
Albany, New York,
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TO THE LADIES OF WASHINGTON.

To THE LADIES OF WASHINGTON.
MIDWIFEKK.-bt BANGS, Profess
IVh sional Medium, would respectfully inform her
friends and the public, that she has removed from
her late tesidence TO Twelfth between and streets,
next door 10 John ID. Carks Police Office. She here
by tenders her thanks 10 her friends and customers
or the liberal patronage bestowed upon her, and
opes, by her attention aud assduity to business, to
merit continuance OF public patronage
Refers TO Dr. Hogan and DIR. Fairfax Alexandria.
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FINE WATCHES RICH yEWELRY,
STANDARD SILVER WARE, &c. /.

II o. HOOD Is daily receiving and
lie adding to his already very large assortment
every variety u Diamond, Ruby, Opal Coral, Cameo
and other fine Gold-set Jewelry; also very supe-
rior Gold and Silver housekeeping Watches for
Ladies and Gentlemen. He also keeps constantly on
hand every variety Of Gold, Silver, and Steel Spec
tacles, TO suit the most difficult sight Also large
stock of best quality Sver-plated Ware, Of every
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Butter, Cake, Pie and Fruit Knives and every arti
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THE TEN HYDRIAN RECIPEsi

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PRIVATE MEDICAL TREATISE
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gu anu containing nearly
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THE GREATEST

EVER INTRODUCED IN THE UNITED
For Coal or Wood. $4,000 in use. -Four Sizes.
Nos. 6, Z, 8, 9. -
GALA G HERS Celebrated Morning
" STAR Double Oven COOKING STOVE, the
best, the cheapest, most substantial and most per-
feet Cooking Stove in the Union
Thirteen thousand OF these Stoves are now in sue
cessfnl operation.
This splendid Cook Stove has now been thorough
y tested during the last four years. they operate in
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heat the water for washing, all at the same time.
You are respectfully invited to call and examine
the above splendid Cooking Stove "Gallagher's
Morning Star" ,
Patentee: A. j. GALLAGHER,
July LIST, 1856. Philadelphia
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c. WOODWARD 4 SON,

Next door TO @. Woodward's old stand,
Penn avenue, bet 10th and 18th sts., No. 3ls.
N. u. We baye also very large assortment Of the
latest and most approved patterns Of CRATES paror
chamber, dnng-room, Office and store stoves Of all
Sizes for wood and COAL thst the North can furnish
best suited 10 this market.
~ Terms-CASH san 10
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d. R. Hooker, Rogers Store, Wake county, North
Carolina, October "a, 1853, says:
Shaving experienced very great benefit from the
use OF Hooaand's German Bitters in Chronic Dysen-
terry and Functional Derangement of the Liver and
It's concomtant evils, am DESTROYS of obtaining
quantity of it for the benefit of my community. You
,will therefore, please,Gend lot &C."
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DR.. BRoTHERS FEMALE PILLS.

Especially Designed for Female Compldtst,
The constitution always suffers more or less when
any Of the secretons discharges, established by
me laws of nature arrested or retarded but from
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bring on train Of complicated and obstinate dis
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pended is indispensable TO health, and the contnu
ance of life. s~s,,F
The design Of these pills is the restoration of the
natural uterine seoretons, by removing the causes
by which they ere arrested or checked and bv Civ
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sIAnd by all dealers in Alexandra, virginia.
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These Powders are very serviceable in Catarrh
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promote free discharge from the nasal glands, and
diminish the pressure of blood upon the brain,
lieve headache and have often cured polypus in the
nose Colds which affect the head, eyes, and fauoes
and which produce tghtness or structure across
the forehead will be relieved by these Powders.
Price rs cents.
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This Medicine possesses The power, in very re-
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Of the Liver, which tho exciting Of bowel
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from the bowels, at the same time acts as gentle
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tone and natural functions. Among all the nurner-
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strongly recommended this has proved ITSELF in every
instance 70 be the best the sures safest and most
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for children when teething, or as remedy for bowel
complaints. Price 80 cents
ts3 All my medicines are put up under my own
personal supervision, and the public are assured that
they prepared of the best imported vegetable In
gradients and can be obtained only at our Office, No
179 South street opposite Smithsonian Institution,
where they have done large and successful practice
for the last six years. in the treatment of all Chronic
Diseases and those diseases produced by the Old
School Mineral Physicians, by tho indscriminate use
of Mercury, Arsenic, Anthony, &c. Happily for
suffering humanity, their practice is 80 manifestly
iniurous that IL is now gradually on the wane and
must in few years sink into oblivion.
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State of N. Carolina, Union Co.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions-Octo-
Der Term, 1857.
Joel Rushing VS.. Samuel Nj. Pounds
Levy on Land.
1t appearing to the satisfa ction of the
Court, that Samuel VI. Pounds defendant in
this case, resides beyond the limits of this
State; it is therefore ordered by the Court,
that publication be made Cor six successive
weeks in the Western Democrat, a paper
published in the town of CarIote, for the said
defendant to be and app ar before the Justi-
ces of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Ses
sions. for said county, at the Court House in
Monroe, on the lst Monday in January next,
then and there to show cause, if any he has
why an order Of sale shall not be granted to
sell the lands levied upon.
Witness, j. F. Hough, Clerk of our said
court, at office. in Monroe, the first Monday
in October. 1857, and in the eighty-second
year of American independence.
r. RS fee SCI J. F. HOUGH, C. U. C. c..
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GOOD EXCUSE.

We believe the following is not as new
a. a nail. as the Germans say; or as new
a. splinter. as the Danes say; or all-heat-
ing new, as the French say; or bran new, as
We say; but it is a good story and may be
told when all excuse is squeezed up for IA
occasion:
There is society in existence which,
like most other associations of the kind,
has sanding rule that all members who
come late, or absent themselves, shall be
fined certain sum, unless they are able to
give a sufficient excuse for Hardness or alb
sence. On one occasion. a member came
in after hours, and the chairman asked his
excuses for being late.
Really, sir. was not able to get here
before Domestic trouble-perPlexities 81
mind cannot say which will die first. my
wife ar daughter"
All ;" said the chairman. expressing
.orch mmseration for the father sAd
husband. IL was not aware Of that. Re-
NIT tn fine, Mr.. Secretary, the excuse is a
g""d one"
The member consequently took his seat.
The n"Et moTning another member met
him, and, with fr,iing, asked him how his
wife and daughter were!
"In excellent hcalth,'' replied he.
How ! l thought you said you did not
know which one would die first -
Il did; and am still in quandary-
time, however, will decide the question:
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State Of N. Carolina, Union Co.

Court OF Pleas aud Quarter Observation-Disclosures
Term, 1857.
HI Wolfvs jackson c. Lemmond,
Atachment--Levy on Land.
II appearing 10 rhe satisfaction OF the Court, THAI
J. &. Lemm0nd the defendant in this case, resides
beyond The limits of this State; 1t is therefore or
deIed by the Court, that publication be made tor
SIX weeks in the Western Democrat, paper pub
lished in the town OF Charlotte. for Tie sad de-
endant 10 be and aDpear before The Justices Of the
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said coun
~. at the Court House in Monroe, on the first
Monday in January nem, then and there 10 show
eause ifany he has, why an order OF sale shall not
be granted to sell the lands LEVIED upon.
Wunsss, J. +. IIOugh, Clerk OF our said court
at Office N M"nr"e, The LIST Monday in October,
A. d., 1857, ard in the eighty-second year OF
fPr's ice SCI J. F. HOUGH, C. U. c. G.
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State ON. Carolina, Union county.

CCait OF Pleas ard Quarter Sess!Ons-OctoDer
Tenn, 1857.
G.. w. Helms vs. jackson c. hemmond,
Auachmrut-levy on Land.
L. appearmI u the satisfaction OF the Court, that
J. G.. Lemmuud, the defend mi IN this case, resides
beyond me limits OF this State; 1t is therefore or
dered by the Court, that publication be made for
SIN we, ks IN the Western Democrat, paper pub
Ishcd in The town of Charlotte, for the said de-
fcndan to he and appear before the Justices OF the
Court OF Pleas anC Quarter Sessions for SAID c"un-
", at the Court House in Monroe, on the first
Monday in January next, then and there 10 show
cause If any he has why an order of sale shall not
be granted TO sell The lands ltvi' upon.
Witness, ]. F. IIuugh, Clerk OF our SAID court
at office IN MOurrc, the lst MOI dav IN October,
A. ID, 1851, ana IN Tie eighty-second year ot
American iuG"PeI eltnce.
fPT's foe fiY J. +. lIOUGl1, c. U. c. C.