The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-07-02
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Efforts are being made to rebuild William and
Mary College, in Virginia.
Great numbers are leaving New York city for
the sea shore watering places.
There have been quite number Of cases of
cholera in Memphis and its suburbs with in a few
days several of them terminating in death.
A Full jury of negroes was impanelled atNa-
vasoa, Texas, on the 18th Of June, the first ever
known In the county.
Planters in Alabama have been feeding shelled
corn to their mules. The animals swallow it
without mastcation, and die of indigestion in
great numbers.
The Cincinnati express train which left Cleye
land on Saturday morning ran into two-horse
wagon near Gallon station, and killed a nan
named Wilson Sipes and bis wife, and injured
three children.
The first new wheat in Baltimore was exhbi
ted there on the 2lst June. 1t was lot of sixty
bushels ofgood red from Chester, South Carolina
1t brought three dollars and thirty cents per
bushel.
The United States Steamer Winooski arrived
in Hampton Roads with forty odd cases of Vel
low Fever The epidemic developed itself after
leaving Mantanzas. Joseph Cooper. seaman,
died Enthusiastically of black vomit Most of the
cases are considered out of danger.
The entire mail service in the Southern States
will be put into operation on Monday the first
day of July, and the department is using every
effort to have old offices reopened, new offices
established, and appointments made to fill every
| vacancy
A New York national bankin house recently
sent out circulars assessing a.! the national banks
onesixteenth per cent, on their capital to form a
fund to buy up Congress aud defeat the opposition
of the monopoly. Should all the banks respond
the fund will amount to over two millions.
FOURTH OF July IN MIssIssIrP1-The Fourth
of July is to be celebrated in different parts of
Mississippi 10y white and colored people for the
purpose of giving mutual assurance of 3 cordial
good understanding between the races Accor-
| ding to the programme in Perry county, the
whites to furnish the supplies and the blacks
to do the cooking.
| Dispatches from Omaha, Nebraska, mention a
| fight between 60 white men and from one hun
dred to one hundred and fifty Indians, on the 12:h
otJune, at 0 Faons station. in which nine Indians
are supposed to have been killed, while the whites
sustained no loss. One Ter wa:. recently
killed and seventy two horses and mules stolen
by the Indians at Hugo station. Between the
North Platte and Denver City the Indians were
peaeeabe, but between the last mentioned point
| and Fort Laramie continued trouble is reported.
The Danrille Register says that the wheat
harvest has been progressing for several days,
and though the weather has been threatening
and some rain has fallen, it does not think the
crop has suffered any from water as yet In
the neigh boring county of Caswell most of the
| large farmers, We hear, have finished cutting
| wheat.
AN ITEM WHICH EVERY MAN AND Boy
SHOULD READ.-We have probably all of US
net with instances in which word heedlessly
spoken against the reputation of female has
been maenihed by malicious minds until the
cloud has been dark enough to overshadow her
whole existence. TO those Who are accustomed
not necessarily from bad motives, but from
thoushtlessness, to speak lightly of ladies', we
| recommend these hints as worthy of consde-
| ration
| Never use ladys name at an improper time,
or in mixed company. Never make assertions
about her that you think untrue, or illusions
| that you feel she herself would blush to hear
When you meet with men who do not scrnple
to use woman's name in reckless and un-
prineiped manner, shun them, for they the
| Wofst De"ocis VI JoUuuuiCy-men loSG TO
every of honor, every feeling of humanity,
Many good woman's character has been for
ever ruined and her heart broken by lie man.
u!actured by some villain, and repeated where
it should not have been, and in the presence of
those whose little judgment could not deter
them from circulating aud Dragging of the re-
port A SANDER is soon propagated, and the
smallest thing derogatory to . woman's eharac.
ter will fly on the wings of the wind, and mag
nifty it circulates, until its monstrous weight
crushes the poor unconscious victim. Respect
the name of woman, for your mother and sisters
are women, and as you would have their fair
fame untarnished, and their lives unembittered
by the slanderer's biting tongue, heed the i'll
your own words may bring upon the mother, the
sister, or the wife o. some fellow creature.