Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-09-08

North Carolinians and Tennesseans, living
near the State line, running through Polk
county, Tennessee. 1t has deem aggravated
occasionally and kept alive by members of
the two parties, being badly beaten by their
opponents, and the 31st of July last, was
agreed on for a pitch battle. A letter from
the Tennessee Sheriff, says:
TIL day arrived Thirty men of the Ten
nessee side made their appearance at the
place appointed, armed with rifles, muskets,
pistols, bowie knives and clubs. Night came
and still not a Caroiinian was to be seen, on
ly a spy or two at a distance. The Tennessee
boys got inpatient, and unIawfully slipped
over the line, found one of the men they wan
ted, took him out of bed and they started
with him for Tennessee some of his friends
rushed to the rescue, and a general battle
took place. No one was killed, but one had
his thumb shot off, another shot in the hand,
another wounded in the head, whilst several
were badly hurt by sticks and rocks.
The excitement among the people became
furious-the North Carolinians organized a
company to invade the Tennessee frontiers,
and Monday night, the I'd of August, was
set apart for the attack. About % Tennes-
cans lin self-defence) assembled to receive
them.
The Deputy Sheriff, getting notice Of the
anticipated fray, with a sufficient number of
men prepared to arrest the hostile proceed
ings. Night came on, occasionally spies were
seen lurking around, at whom the Tennessee
ans would fire their rifles.
About 2 o'clock, while NEST of the Sheriff" S
company We're sleeping in a house, an alarm
was raised by sentinels outside. who fred
their guns, and the enemy, who were advan-
cling, wheeled and fed.
No arrests were made. There is a bitter
feeling, and some fatal consequences viii yet
ensue, unless the strong arm of the law sue
ceeds in arresting the affair.
This is the statement of the Tennessee
side perhaps the North Carolinians tell a
different story.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.-A friend has furnish
ed us with the following particulars of the
sudden death of a student at New Garden
Boarding School, six miles west of this place.
Greensboro Patriot.
Died.-On the 18th inst, at New Garden
Boarding School, George G. Hunt, aged IS
years; son of Pleasant Hunt, of Yadkin coun-
ty.
This young man was an exemplary stu
dent of the above school. He arose in the
morning earlier than usual. apparently in
good health, and entered vigorously upon the
duties of the day. A short time before 6 A.
M, breakfast hour, he walked out with a fel-
low student he made no complaint whatev-
er, 0 fany kind, but conversed with his COM
panion about the different kind of Grammars.
His companion had occasion to return a little
before he was ready. He said he believed
he would sit down in the shade and study his
lesson awhile. Soon after the bell rang for
breakfast, and all were present except the de-
ceased. In perhaps about ten minutes after
the bell rang for breakfast, he was found w.
ing in the road not far from the place where
his companion left him. He had fallen on
his face while on his way to breakfast, as it
appeared, and had not moved his body or
struggled after falling. In the inquest which
was held over his body, it was decided that
he had come to his death by an appoplectic
stroke.-CoM.
~ We think it is hardly known even to
the most intelligent of our readers, how deep
some of the sciences are looking down into
the mysteries of creation. We knew there
were wonderful discoveries in these times,
and wonderful uses made Of them, but did
net r6trl know 1GTgt the Chemists he We're initiating in
wonderful productions of organic life. Du-
ring our visit to Lowell we were introduced
by one of their prominent citizens to the
laboratory of DR.. Aver, Inventor of Cherry
Pectoral and Cathartic Pills,) where we were
shown with generous frankness, his process
es and his products. This master genius of
his art is manufacturing the subtle essences
of flowers from tar and other vegetable sub
stances. His essence of Pine Apple, Straw
berry, Checkerberry, Ounce, Pear, Canella,
Cinnamon, &c, not only equal but they ex,
ceed in purity of flavor, those vegetables
themselves. His oil of Winter-green is pu-
rer and of better flavor than any that can be
gathered from the plant-and yet is made by
chemical composition from the Hydrogen
bons in tar! His process is, to analyze the
substance and find the exact ultimate atoms
of which it is made, then recompose them in
the same proportions which exist in nature.
Christian Adg0c0te.
The ART OF FLYING.-It is stated tina
Louis Napoleon has just made a present o
five thousand francs to a private in the line
who asserts that he has discovered a solution
for the great problem in @ronautics-the ar
of flying. He has invented a kind of al
ship, consisting of a platform of silk stretch
ed over whalebone, to be propelled by tw,
gigantic wings of the same material places
on each side. The aerial navigator is to b
suspended at a distance of about four fee
from the platform, while his feet rest on pc
dals, by means of which the wings are set il
motion, while his arms rest on a lever whic
imparts to the platform the direction h
chooses to give it. Only a model of this ma
chine has yet been constructed, and it az
pears to work well.
To CURE THE APPETITE FOR ToBACco.-Th
New York Independent gives the following a
the experience of a clergyman who smoke
and chewed tobacco for many years, and use
these means to break himself of the habit :
81 had a deep well of very cool water, an
whenever the evil appetite claimed indu
gence, [ resorted Immediately to fres
drawn water. OF this I drank what / d
sired, and then continued to hold the watt
in mouth, throwing out and taking in succe
sive mouthfuls, until the craving ceased B
afaithful adherence to this practice for abol
a month, / was cured. And from that tin
6 to this have been as free from any appetit
: for tobacco as a nourishing infant. | Loaf
the use of the weed in every form, far mo
: than ever did before | contracted habits