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Brutal Murder in North Carolina
BUTCHERY OF A WHOLE FAMILY.


Especial Dispatch to the Enquirer
@ RALEIGH, N. c., May 81.
Neil Mcleod an old and prominent citizen
living twenty-five miles west of Fayetteville,
North Carolina, was murdered In his own house
on Wednesday last by four disguised despera-
does.
Daniel Mcleod, brother, also old and infirm,
was shot down at the same time and died in a
few hours 31n.ld7 aa osroo al17,- -
John Mcleod, son of Neil, was at work on
the farm and hearing the attack got his gun
and attempted to defend the premises. but his
gun tailed to fire, when the murderers shot him
down, putting thirty buckshot in his BODY
He was not dead at last accounts .. BIS
A daugher of Neil Mcleod ran up stairs to
get pistol for her brother On her return she
was shot down and badly wounded in the arm.
Another grown daughter escaped after the
shooting TO nelghbors house, not having been
injured. ..o..f.
Their mother was shot in the arm and badly
though not fatally hurt. The wounded daugh-
ter In addition to being shot, was terribly CASH
ed about the head with Bowie knife. The
parties named were all that were on the planta-
ton at the time of the fendish butchery. The
robbers, after being glutted with blood, sacked
the house, taking all the money ($20O,l cloth
ing. Jewery and other valuables they could find,
with which they succeeded in escaping before
the arrival of neighbors. Neil Mcleod was
buried on Friday. AS yet there have been no
arrests. Suspicion rests on certain noted des-
peradoes In the neighborhood, who, if they are
identified as the guilty parties, will be lynched
without mercy or delay.
To say that the people are excited conveys
no idea of the feeling which prevails though the
sheriff and authorities seem remiss in taking
steps to ferrit out the participants in this blood
ly massacre. The McLeods, though Democrats
were moderate in their views, and were peace
able and high-toned citizens. No one suppos-
ed they had an enemy on earth. H.
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INTELLECTUAL CULTURE.-To cultivate the
sensibiities much, and a taste for romance at
an early age, to the neglect of more solid ac-
quirements, is about as wise as to SOW arabic
ground with popples. In Spring all will be
bleak and bare; and there will be but drowsy
residuum, in place of healthfal nourishment, to
be reaped from the fruit of the SOIL
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God has not chosen to fatter our curiosity by
any of his revelations. What he reveals to man
is the end assigned him, and the means of at
tanning that end. Doctrine and morals consti-
tute an essential part of these means.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-06-14

The st. Louis Republican Office was burned
on the Oath ult. Loss 100000.
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Professional Directory.

H. NJ MATHEWS ALEx. F. MATHEWS.
MATHEWS & MATTHEW'S, uzs
I'VE s. ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW W..
- s LEWIsBpRG, West VA,
Practice regularly in the Courts of Greenbrier,
Monroe, Pocahontas and Nicholas counties, w;
Va, the Court of Appeals, and the Federal
Courts for the District of w. Va.
@a- Particular attention paid to Collections
and to special cases anywhere in their State.
n1av17-ly p
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Saddles, Harness. dc,
AND SADDLES u

HARNESS AND SADDLES.-The. un-
IL dersigned, having opened tirst,class har,
ness shop prepared to manufacture harness W; 81
also keep on hand good assortment of Carriage,
Buggy and Riding. whips, Saddle Blankets and
Spurs, Curry Combs, Brushes, &c, and, in fact
will give special attention to repairing.
Don't forget to call at Gruberts n New Building,
Immediately south of the Va. Hotel =.
.l ap5-tf. JAMES M. CARTER.
r ATEST NEWS! war Declared !
IL ANNEXATION OF CURAil
General Grant, or any other man, who wants
SADDLES, z-.ta s r
tc.Fa. BRIDLES, s
saA HARNESS +
new or secondhand AL
WHIPS, BITS, &C.,
must go to Ed. Halls, where he will find the best
assortment of the kind this side of New York,
ell of which can be bought cheap for cash.
ED. HALL,
IN Wharf opposite Smith & Elders law Office.
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VIM H. TERRILL, VIM. M. McALLISTER.
yEvERRILL & McALLISTER.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
= 80 WARM SPRINGS VA,
Will practice in all the Courts of the counties of
Allegheny, Bath and Highland, Va, and Poca-
hontas, W. Va o Hs4s mayl7-3m
NAVED FULTZ & ALEX. HI. FULTZ
COunseIOrs and AttOrneys-at-Law,
Will devote their whole time to the business of
their profession
The Senior Partner will give SPECIAL ATTEN
TIoN TO CASES IN THE COURT OF APPEALS
AND IN THE FEDERAL COURTS. &
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JOHN T. BALTHIs, Capt N. FOUNTAIN, Z. N.
NELSON, Rev. A. PoB BoUpE, JOHN Prison,
jon 6. McVEEGH, CHAs. WITHRow, SOLICI;
TORS. f'
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HOW OFTEN is THE HOUSEHOLD
LOAF buried with the Household Head, and
families that might have been comfortably pro-
vided for, left destitute by the want of proper
foresight in its deceased protector?
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On cold, dark night, when the wind was
blowing hard, and the snow was falling fast.
Conrad, worthy citizen of little town in Ger,
many, sat playing his flute, while Ursula, his
wife, was preparing supper. They heard asweet
voice singing outside
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-06-14

Following Companies have no exhibit as to
number of losses, but show amounts lost
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
CUBA.

Gen. DE Rodas's Mission to Cespedes-
30 be Proposed to the Pat.
riot Lead~r--The again
Refuse TO Fight-VaImaseds's Report
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS near Re
mediOs-W omen ON Trial
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
If COSTS More Than Bread.

A few days ago a policeman remarked
''There ale three glasses Of liquor drank IN
this city for each loaf of bread that is eaten"
Suppose this true; then for each loaf OF
bread, at ten cents, therei is paid for drinks
thirty cents; or three times as much for iqtOT
as for bread!
It is estimated that four barrels of -four
will supply q family of five persons with
bread for a year. A barrel of -four will make
264 pounds of bread and the four barrels
will give 1,056 pounds. At six cents pei
pound this is S15,8 for each barrel OF
-four, or S62, sc for the four barrels. If this
estimate is too low, take five barrels OF
-four for each family of five persons, and
the value of bread at six cents Il pound is
SO. 20 a year.
The 1872, 600 families of five persons each,
constituting the population of the city, con-
sumo at this rate bread to the ya'ue of S14,-
Ala, 400 a year.
There are in this city at least four thou
sand places where intoxicating liquors are
sold. The NUMBER in New York and Brook
Ign. in 1866, was 6, 270.
If these receive on an average $50 a day
each, that is S43, 800, 900 a year. II is true
some of the drinking houses are mere
''holes in the wall, " but others of them are
palaces. Some of them take in only q few
dollars a day, while large numbers of 9th
ers take in hundreds of dollars.
But it is not at the drinking hOsses, at
public bars, where all the Intoxicating
liquors are consumed. At eating houses,
at clubs, and at the hotels, are expended
large sums for wine and strong spirits.
Thus the use of strong drink counts up
very fast, as against bread.-AeO York
Post.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
Curious New Year Customs.

The Germans of Pennsylvania still retain
a very curious custom which isreported by
a vienna paper 10 be IN vogue. ''The most
of the servant girls, says the Presse, 'con-
lure up on the night b-fore New Years
health for the coming year from the invis-
ibIe powers. Exactly at midnight they go
to the well of the third house from that in
which they are serving, where they draw
water and carry it home, without daring
to turn or look back at the call of a living
or dead spirit, else the whole charm of the
thing would be broken. Arriving home,
the enchanted water is poured on a plate.
On the plate some evergreen leaves are
placed, ard each leaf is given the name of
some person, whose future is supposed
to be foretold in it on New Years
day. The examination of the leaves
takes place on the following morning. If
the leaf remains green, the person repre-
scented by it will remain fresh and healthy
during the year; small black streaks upon
the leaf indicate short sicknesses; great
'ack stripes forebode severe diseases; and
Is total black leaf is a sign of death.
Blessed are the poor in intellect, adds
the Presse, ''for theirs is the kingdom OF
Heaven" Many other similar supersti-
tons might BIZ mentioned. In Frankfort it
is the custom to eat white cabbage for sup
per on Sylvester evening, as this ensures
money enough TO the person eating it for
the coming year. Visiting on New Years
day is not carried on to so great an extent
here as in America, and the sending Of
cards with the greetings of the season an
swers just the same purpose. Americans,
nevertheless, keep up the home custom to
q great extent here.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

The PRESBYTERIAN MEMORIAL Fund
1t is proposed by the Presbyterians TO raise
SIS, 5000, 900 as a memorial of their happy
reunion. A committee of five. ministers
and five elders have taken the matter in
hand, and have published a plan of opera
ton. They do not intend to include in the
objects in this fund 'the ordinary contrI-
buttons to the Church's stated work, but
only its permanent institutions at home
and abroad" and "such extraordinary
claims as grow out of our new position.
Such are the endowment of colleges and
theological seminaries, including training
schools in heather lands, institutions for
the freedmen, church buildings newly pro-
jected, hospitals and asylums, and the fund
for the support of disabled ministers and
their families. Donations for any of these
objects will be reckoned a part of the Me.
mortal Fund. Contributions should be
sent to the treasurer, Hon. William E.
Dodge, New York. 1t is a grand enter
prise, to which every good man who loves
the of religion must wish complete
success.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
Snendiup ana Saving.

To earn money is easy compared with
spending it we'll; anybody may dig up
potatoes, but it is not n woman In ten
that can cook them. Men do not become
rich by what they get, but by what they
save. As soon as tue spendthTift gets his
estate, it goes like a lump of butter IN a
g~reyhound's mouth. Ali his days are the
first of April; he would buy an elephant at
A bargain, or thatch his house with pam
cakes, nothing is too foolish to tickle his
fancy: his money burns holes in his pocket,
and he must squander it, always boasting
that his motto is, Spend, and God will
send He never spares at the brim, but
he means, he says, to save at the bottom.
Times never were good to lazy prodigals;
if they were good to them, they would be
bad for all the world besides.
There are more asses than those with
four legs. lam sorry to say they are found
among working men as well as fine gentle
men. Fellows who have no estate but
their labor, and no family arms except
those they work. with, will yet spend their
little earnings at the beer-shop OF in
waste. Drinking water neither makes a
man sick nor in debt, nor his wife a Wild
ow, and vet some men hardly know the
flavor of it; but beer, guzzled down as 1t
is by many a working man, is nothing
better thar brown ruin. Some families
are merry as mice in malt on very small
wages, and others are as wretched as rats
in a trap ON double the amount. Those
who wear the shoe know best where 1t
pinches, but economy is a fine thing, and
makes ninepence go further than a shilling.
Some make soup out of flint, and others
can't get nourishment oHt Of gravy beef
Some go to shop with as much wit as
Sampson had in both his shoulders, but
no more; they do not buy well; they have
not sense to lay out their money to adVant-
age.
Buyers ought to have a hundred eyes,
but these have not even half Of one, and
they do not open that. Well was ii said
that if fools did not go to market, bad
wares would never be sold. They meyer
got a pennyworth for their penny, and
this often because they are on the hunt for
cheap things, and forget that generally
the cheapest is the dearest and n can
not buy a good shilling's worth of a
bad article. When there's five eggs for a
penny, four of them are rotten. People
are often saving at the wrong place, and
spoil the ship for a ha'po'rth of tar; others
look after small savings and forget greater
things; they are penny wise and pound
foolish; they spare at the spigot, and let
all run away at the bunghole. Some buy
things they don't want, because tkey are
great bargains; let me tell them that what
they do not want is dear at a farthing.-
Fine dressing makes a great hole in poor
peoples means. John P~Ioughmdn's talk,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
Our National Di.orders-Dr. RObaek'i


The American stomach is a tOrmenting or
gan. It's generally out Of order. The Tes-
son is obvious. The driving man Of business
has not time, or will not take time properly
to masticate his food. He bolts it, and as
bad habits are catching, ali classes follow his
example. Hence Dyspepsia, With all It's
c. mplIcatiOns-hence Indigestion. Liver
Complaint aud disorders of the bowels in all
their various phases. Against these and a
hundred other complaints, the Scandinavian
Blood Pills and Blood Purifier are wagmg
an exterminating warfare. The success OF
these medicines has been astonishing, even
in an age of seient fc miracles. They do not
dUeUidte = they eLiInguisi a disorder. The
sgony, the fever, the debility, the despon-
dsncy, which characterize Affections Of the
digestive and secretive organs, vanish under
the influence of these Preparations. The
constitution itself seems to acquire new en-
ergy under their operation.
See advertisement.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
What Docs Reason say .

The little mongoose when bitten BY a deadly serpent
resorts to a certain plant, eats Of II, and escapes the
effect o. the poison. That Is instinct Human beings
on the other hand, must depend on reason and eNpe,
rience in selecting the means OF protecting health ana
life against unwholesOme Influences Now, what does
reason say on tins vital subject! Does II not tell US
that to lnvigorate and purify the system Is TIE best way
10 urotect il against the invisible pr'S"1 which genet
ates disease Surely IT does The HsXt question IS
what guide shall we follow IN c1Csin- -nenlcInal safe
guard. Reason replies let our monitor be experience
Nell. the experience Of eighteen years comprised IN
one unbroken series Of satisfactory Testimonials assures
ms that Hostetters StO zach Bitters possess strengthen,
ing. regulating and anrsepuc properties which are not
comkined in the same happy proportions IN any othel
preparation ext2nt This therefore IS the 2n5ldOte y
which reason bids US resort when our health IS mperf
ed either by the malaria which produces epl.emIc ols
orders. or by any ether cause, whether. Inn rent ana
constitutional or connected with our habits, occupA
lions and pursuits
The venom o. a nOziOus reptile Is scarcely more suDue
snd dangerous than tkat which turks IN fonl AR ana
impure water TO escape the tevers, bilious disorders
disfurbauces of the bowels. and other serlODs malaoles
produced by these insalubrIOuse elements, ats absOlutey
necessary that the stomach and althe secrelye organs
should be, so to speak, in a robust condition Upon the
amount of resistance which the vital system can tppose
70 the deleterious influences that assall II, the safety OF
health depends, and 1t is because the GREAT EESE
TABLE uNVIGORANT impaIts energy and regularity 70
the most important functions OF the body, THAT II can De
ommen and guaranteed as an invaluable pre-
ventive medicine
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

ANOTHER VOYAGE TO THE ARCTIC SEAS
CAPT. Halls PLANs.-0ur fellow-eitizen,
Capt. @. f. Hall, proposes to undertake
another voyage to the Arctic seas. He says:
Il now have returned 10 my country deter
mined to devote my har1-earned experience
in the Arctic regions 20 making n more
voyage, and this Tor the social object of
geographical discovery from latitude eighty
degrees moth up TO the North Pole by way
of Jones's Sound, or Smiths Sound, pUr-
posing, however, to make trial first up the
former. My plan, in brief, is to have two
small vessels, of about one hundred and
fifty tons each-1ne a steamer, the same to
be sailing-rigged-the other a sailing yes
sci, and each Offered and manned by
twelve men. My purpose is, on getting
into the Arctic regions, to lose no oppor-
tunity of acquiring the fresh provision of
the country, which course will insure my
command against all possible danger from
that curse to Arctic expeditions, the sour
vey. As a general thing my staple diet
so of my eompany-will be as formerly
raw meat and train oil. 1 confidently be-
lieve 1 will be able to reach the North Pole
and return in three years; but should l
find that it would REQUIRE one or two ad
ditional years to compete the object of the
voyage and travel, ] will continue that
time.-GR. Times.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
A skeleton Found on the PraIries-A
Mother Recognizes the Fleshless
Jaw of Her soma Tooth Fits In In
Jaw.-The Murderer Convicted.

JaW@-T1he murderer convicted
From the Kansas City Times.
The Circuit Court of Nodaway county,
Mo-, has been in session during the past
week, Judge 1. G. Parker presiding. Most
of the time was occupied in the trial OF
Solomon McAlpine for the murder of John
Callicott, developing a most singular case
of circumstantial evidence.
In August, 1866, these two young men
left Hollyville, Iowa, to come to ST Joseph
to buy apples, expecting to load their wag-
ons here and return to Iowa and sell their
fruit. Not long after-some few days, we
believe-NcAlpine returned to Hollyville,
told some plausible story about his partner
having made some other arrangements and
gone on to st. Joseph, and for some time
no further notice was taken of the matter.
The continued absence of Callicott, and
the fact that nothing was heard from him,
finally induced the arrest of McAlpine, but
on his examination nothing was elected
eliminating him, and he was discharged.
A long search for Callicott proved unavail-
ing, and for Is months a profound mystery
enveloped the case.
In March, 1868, q party of railroad en-
gineers, surveying the route of the Mis-
souri, Valley Railroad, some six miles north
east of Marysvllle, found the skeleton of a
man. An investigation aroused the suspi-
cion tkat it was Callicott. The authorities
in Iowa were written to, and witnesses were
brought down. The mother of Callicott
recognized a bony ~protuberanee on the
chin of the skeleton; alse the absence of a
tooth drawn on the day he started on his
fatal trip, and his mother preserved the
tooth. 1t fitted the jaw of the skeleton,
and a dentist testified that 1t had been
drawn from the oriice. Pieces of a blue
coat and several peculiar buttons werefOund
near the skeleton.
These were recognized as resembling
parts of Callicott's dress when heleft home.
There were three bullet holes in the skull.
The identification was so complete that MIR.
McAlpine was arrested, and, after several
con~tinuances, the case came to trial on last
Monday, and resulted in the conviction of
the prisoner. The Judge instructed the
Jury that any want of proof mitigating the
crime from murder in the first degree need
not restrain their renderinga verdict III the
second degree. We learn that neither Nc
Alpine nor his friends nor his friends or
attorneys manifested any dissatisfaction
with the verdict, and the case will not be
appealed.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

The BEST AND OEIGnsAL TONIC or Iron
Phosphorus and Calisaya, known IS Casweli.
Mack & Co.'s FerrO PhOsphorated Elixir OF
Calisaya Bark. Tho Iron restores color to
the blood, the Phosphorus renews waste OF
the nerve tissue, and the Calisaya gives g
natural healtEful tone to the digestive or
gans thereby curing Dyspepsi in in It's vail
ems forms, W~akefulBess, General Debility,
and Depression Of Spirits. Manufactured
only by CASWELL, HAZARD & CO, success
sors to Caswen, Mack & Co, New York. Sold
nv All Druggists.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

DoN'T WHIP A FRIGHTENED HORSE. -Nev-
er whip your horse for becoming frightened
at any object by the roadside; for if he
sees a stump, a log or a heap of tan bark
in the road, and while he is cycling it care
fully and about to pass it, you strike him
with the whip. it is the log, or the stump,
or the tan bark that is hurting him, in his
way of reasoning, and the next time be
will act more frightened. Give him time
to examine and smell Of these objects, and
use the war bride to assist you in bring
ing him carefully to these objects of fear.
Bring all objects, if possible, to his nose,
and let him smell Of them, and then you
can commence 20 gentle him with them
Erchon0e
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

Nervous debility with Its gloomy attend
ants, low spirits, depression, involuntary
emissions, loss of semen, spermattorrhoea,
loss of power, dizzy head, loss of memory,
and threatened impotence and imbecility,
find a sovereign cure in Humphreys HomeO-
pathic Specific, No. twenty-eight. Composed
of the most valuable mild and potent curs-
tives, they strike at once at the root of the
matter, tone up the system, arrest the dis
charges, and impart yigOr and energy, lie
nd vitality, to the entire man. They have
cured thousands of cases. Price S. per pack
age of five boxes and a large vial
of powder, which is very important
in obstinate and old cases, or 81 per
single box. Sold by al druggists, and sent
by mail on receipt of price. Address Hum
phrey's Specific HOMEOPATHIC Medicine Com
panv, 562 Broadway. N. Y.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-18

pain, and you cannot even turn yourself in bed, or sittip
In q chair, you must sit and suffer, in the morning wish
ing it was night, and at night wishing 1t was morning
Hkon %, hana