The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-02
SERVANTS AT WATERING PLACES

The Charleston Courier makes some
excellent suggestions in reference to past
management at the White Sulphur Springs,
which are more orless applicable to all larger
watering places and hotels. Proprietors
everywhere should adopt and enforce rules
absolutely prohibiting servants from receiv-
ing brides for favoring some to the neglect
of others. where they owe equal duty to all !;
nor should it be regarded proper to make
them such an offer. s.The system of bril-
berry, says the Courier, lis utterly and
setfshly wrong. 1t renders the servants
neglected. of, and ever insolent to, those
who cannot afford to bride. Invalids throng
to these restorative waters in search of
health, and hundreds, nay thousands of
! them, are in Strengthened circumstances. and
with difficulty, raise the means to bear them
thither, and pay their board, and other nee
essary expenses. These are the persons
who most especially need attention, and
even tender care, and on them fall most
heavily the neglect, rudeness and other
evils, incident to the system of bribery.
The selfish rich man buys from the inso-
lent waiter the most civil attentions and all
the luxuries that the table or the place can
furnish while the poor invalid is denied
comforts, and has to scramble for necessa-
ries No one is found there to say-'Ho,
| every one that thirsteth, come ye, buy and
eat yea, come. buy wine and milk, with
out money and without price," On the
contrary, he that hath little money, is COM
PEELED to put up with scant attention and
with scant fare. Civil and attentive SER
wants should be rewarded after they have
! earned their fee, but should never be bribed
in advance. The one practice leads to at
tenton. civlity and order; the other to
neglect, insoence and disorder-often visit
| ed, too, on those whose condition should
enlist the tenderest sympathy"
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-As the special
train with the Memphis delegates for Char
lesion was passing Raccoon Mountain,
| about twelve miles West of Chattanooga
on Sunday, the axel of the baggage car
broke, which caused that car and one of
the passenger cars to be thrown off the
track. The scene, for few moments, is
described as one of terrible excitement and
confusion. The passenger car was whirlcd
| into the air amid the screams of the pas
7 sengers, the groans of the wounded and
the awful crash of the timbers of the car.
Several persons were slightly injured. One
man by the name of George Moore, mem
| Der of No. Invincible Fire Company of
Memphis, was so severely wounded that he
died after the arrival of the train at Chat
| tanooga. Paul c. Kay, member IF the
Liberty Fire Company of Memphis, had an
arm broken. Another accident happened
to the same train, about one mile and a
| half North of Social Circle, yesterday
morning at l / o'clock, by the breaking of
the truck wheels of the rear car Of the long
| train.
A number of the passengers in the car
jumped out, and one of them, Mr.. G.. Men
del, merchant of Memphis and a member
of the German Rifles was so severely in
iurrd, that his life is de>paired of. One
other had his leg broken and several were
slightly injured.