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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-19
FOREIGN MARKETS.
Financial.
Commercial.

35c.
LONDON, May 16-Noon. Erie rail-
road shares 13g.
Commercial.
LIVERPOOL, May 16-Noon.-Cotton
steady-middling upIands 6!d; mid-
ding Orleans, 6 5-16d; sales 10000
bales, of which 1900 bales were taken
for speculation and export; receipts
1900 bales, of which 1900 are Ameri-
can. Futures opened quiet and I'M
changed.
Sales of middling uplands, of a
low middling clause, deliverable
May, 1-32d.
LIVERPOOL. May 17-Night-Cotton
Sales of middling uplands of low
middIing clause, deliverable August
and September. 6 7-32@74d
Sales of middling uplands, of low
middling clause, deliverable June
and July, 6 Lied.
Sales of middling uplands of a low
middling clause, deliverable July and
August, 6 5-32d.
Futures sales of cotton dull.
Spirits turpentine 23s.
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a Montgomery man closed his tes>
'inony IN his action for divorce from
us wife as follows: 81 don't want to
say anything agin the woman, Judge,
Out wish you could live with her a
while"
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Terrible Hail StOTsll

A CORE pOndent, writing to us from
Old Hundred, i'll Richmond county,
under date of the 18th inst, says:
"Our section wa visited Saturday
eve, abouG p. N by disastrous
wind and hail storm, destroying grow
ing crops of corn, cotton, wheat, gar
dens. &c. The storm WAS less violent
lust here than south and southwest.
AT this point 1T came from the west;
danger would have been incalc liable.
Wheat fields will have to be converted
into pasture. Much cotton will be
replante1. The size of the hail stones
varied from that of a partridge's egg
10 the size of pullet's egg. A fine
time for GLACIERS"
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County commissioners

lhis body met yesterday at II
O'Clock IN adjourned session, and was
occupied during the day in hearing
complaints upon questions of assess
nents for taxation.
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1he Raleigh Meas saws:

Inc Raleigh Meas says:
A., me ut. Rev. Bishop Lyman con
=. n ~ ten candidates Sunday evening
az. .ne Church Of the Good Shepherd;
in ~ fourteen at st. Augustine Chapel
The morning,
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The Carolina Household Magazine

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Wholesale Prices List.
[ooRRECTED WEEKLYl

F g These quotations apply to whole
sale prices. In filling smaller orders,
higher figures Gas a rule) will be
charged. MAY 18th, 1876.
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fLt Carolina Household Migdzlilt.

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IN Literature, will be issUe,I from tn. ;oLDs-
BoKO MESSENGER OFFICE commencing with
January, 1875. The Trst number will b ready
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icai will be published each succeeding month
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Democratic Meeting in Brunswick
county -E'he Democrats Meet at
SnaithyilIe

SnAithVilIe.
A meeting of the Democratic party
of Brunswick county was held at the
Court House in Smithville on the 18th
day of May, 1876. Dr.. L. Frink was
called to the chair and John 81. Mirts,
Esq, appointed Secretary. The object
of the meeting was explained by D..
S. Cowan, Esq. Messrs. NJ. Bellamy
and A. w. Relgar made very effective
and forcIble speeches.
Mr.. A. w. Reigar introduced the
following resolution which was unanl-
mously passed.
= ResOLUed, That we hereby endorse the
action of the Executive Committee of the
Democratic party of Brunswick county
i'll the appointment Of delegates to the
Congressional and State Convent ons,
and we hereby ratify and approve the
appointment of said delegates.
Mr.. Edward r. TAYLOR moved that
it be suggested to the Executive Com
mItJee the propriety of changing the
time and place for holding the County
Convention from Mckethan's on the
10Th OF July to Smithville on the fourth
Monday in August-cOurt week.
No other business being before the
meeting it adjourned.
l. Fink, Chairman.
| J. II. MINIS, Secretary.
| Immed lately after the meeting the
Executive Committee convened and
! HesOIrcd, That the Democrats OF
; Brunswick county are respectfully re-
quested to meet III the court house at
SmithvilIr on the fourth Monday in
August (28th), for the purpose of nom
ninating suitable candidates for the
Legislature and county officers.
/ D. S. CowAN,
/ Chm'n. pro tenn. Elk. Com.
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he Times. Best, Cheap
est and most Successful
Family Paper in the Union.
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STYLE OF THE ART.

Thankful for the past patronage ex-
tended to us, it Will be our aim to merit a
continuance of the same
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The Southern Bishops and General
Vance.

The Bishops Of the NJ. E. Church
South have appointed General Robert
B. Vance, of North Carolina. frater-
nal commissioner in the place of ex-
Governor TrusteD Polk, of Missouri,
who recently died. The commission
comprise the following: Rev. +. K.
Hargrave. d. D.; Rev. E. H. Myers,
D. b; Rev T. NJ. Fluney. d. D. ;
hon. D CIopton. and Genera! r. s.
Vance
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r. T. SANDERS, Secretary.

II Is about an even chance whether
Parson Brownlow will die or go to
Congress this season.
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APPLETON'S
AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIa
New Revised Edition.

new heVlSed EdltlOm.
Entirely rewritten by the ablest writers on
every subject. Printed ffom new type, and
illustrated with several Thousand Engra-
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Parade aud Rifle Match


Met in Newbern yesterday. We
notice from the Raleigh NctCS that its
editor, Colonel Cameron, who Is Press
ident of the Association, had left
Raleigh to be in attendance. We ten
der our thanks for an invitation to be
present at a grand military ball to be
given complimentary to the Association
by the Newbern Greys and the Elm
City Rifemen at Stanly Hail on this
evening. We regret our inability 10
be present, both at the ball and in tie
meetings of the Association.
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WEEKLY STATEMENT

STOCK OF COTTON AND NAVAL STORES
In ward and atioat at the Port of Whining
ton, \. c., May 18th, lSTe, as taken
from the books of the Produce Exchange:
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IDtD- - II = u
Addrasaffha Ruhliehers,

yisYE d. APPLETON & co.,
G49 and 551 BEoadway,tN. Z.
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Total. 5G2 2,969 5.14S 425
STOCK SECOND WEEK IN MAY, 1873

EXPORTS FOR SECOND WEEK IN MAY, 1870.
cotton Sp'ts Resin Tar Crude
Foreign $1,000 l 3,15Q 2.416 900
C'Wise... 397 1,130 S,O76 SiI5 101
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31

tering expedition, whose vessel, the
Gen. Sherman, put into Port Limon
for supplies. The lad, although but II
years of age, had grown to be fine
specimen of adolescent manhood, with
graceful and powerful figure, and a
face singularly like that of his poet an
cestor. In the expedition which the
party with which he had united him
self made against Omoa, he proved
himself lion in courage, and carried
off two bad wounds as his share of the
honors. The steamer, returning to AS
pinwall, was there seized by the United
States an-of-war Kansas, for illegally
flying the American flag, and her crew
and pass engers disbanded. Ockham,
whose illness, in consequence of the
defective treatment of his wounds ne
cessitated his admission into the hos
pital, became, after his recovery, an
employe of the Panama Railroad Com
pany, which post he now holds. His
story is we'll known to his fellow en-
ployes, although he is by no means
prone to speak Of it. Since his meet
ing with the relative from whom the
above information is derived, and who
came upon him in the course of a
journey from San Francisco to New
York, some months ago, he has enter
tanned an idea of laying claim to at
least portion of his fathers lawful
inheritance, at present in possession of
the Earl of LOvelace.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31
Where to Have a Boil.

Boils and circuses appear about the
same time, and it is difficult to deter.
mine which excites the most interest.
A boil that is in sight of the populace
is just as painful as one located else
where, but it is not so unfortunate
You never get such fervent presses.
of the hand as when there is sore on
it, and it is so with hidden boil. The
point of your anatomy it is located on
is constantly coming in contact with
foreign substances, and is invariably
the object of attack from the dem
onstrative affection of friends. Any.
body with boil under the rear hem OF
his jacket can tell you that lath il
the hands of another boy will go for
that spot with as much unnerring pre-:
cision as if it were endowed with hu.
man sagacity. There is no use in try.
ing to get the boil out of the way. The
dreadful shock is inevitable.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31
The Whisky Traders Artifice.

Some stories are told about the means
traders, who carry whisky into the
Northwest Territories, resort to in order
to elude the vigilance of the lynx-eyed
mounted police. 1t is said that French
half breed trader, who had an eight gal
Ion keg of liquor on one of his carts
expected to be searched by the police
man stationed at Shoal lake, and on ar
irving at that point, when within view
of the officer, he removed the keg from
the cart and proceeded with it to the
beach, and there STOPPING down held it
in the lake for about ten minutes, as if
replenishing his supply of water, after
which he leisurely replaced it on the
cart, and with face which appeared
marvel of innocence invited the officer
to inspect his train. Everything was
examined except the water dripping keg,
and the trader was allowed to 60 on his
way rejoicing that he had escaped de-
lection.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31
Instrument to Measure the Velocity of
q PrOiectiIa.

The Boulancer instrument, which
measures the velocity of projection, may
be briefly described as follows: Placed
in front of the gun, at an interval apart,
are two wire screens, SO arranged that
the projectle in it's flight tears through
them one after the other. From two
magnets attached to the instrument
hang two metal rods, and the instant
the first wire screen is torn by the shot
a current of electricity is broken and the
first of these rods falls. AS No. is in
the act of falling, however, the second
wire screen is broken by the shot,
releasing No. 2 rod, and this sets in action
a trigger which strikes No. l rod before
it has yet completed it's fall. II the
shot has been slow in travelling from
one screen to another then rod No. ] has
naturally enough fallen nearly its entire
length before it receives a stroke from
the trigger. The higher the mark is
upon rod No. 1, or the more it has
fallen, the less rapid has been the pas
sage of the shot. After the mark is made
reference is made to sea lie where
velocities have been calculated.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31
A Wonderful Tree.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.


About two miles from the city of
Mexico, at a little place called La Cuba,
is the old tree known in history as
Noche Triste, under the branches Of
which, tradition has it, Cortes gathered
together his little remnant of men
on the sad night he was attacked by
the Aztecs and driven from the city.
It is at least remarkable old tree, and
worth the ride to see for itself. It is a
cypress, of a variety that grows to an
immense size in this part of Mexico.
It is more han thousand years old,
and about ten feet through at the base,
and is gnarled and twisted in wonder
full way. It enlarges above, so at ten
feet from the earth it is fourteen feet
in diam ter. At twenty feet it divides
into two immense trunks. Fire was
put to it few years since, and the
inner portion and larger upper trunk
mostly burned away. The lesser
trunk and shell will, however, live for
ages. Three years ago the Mexican
Government put a handsome stone and
iron fence around it, so that no vandal
hand can now touch it. Perhaps no
object about the city has for the reader
Of Prescott greater charm than the
old tree of Noche Triste.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31
A Story that Ought to Live Forever.
From the London Era

There comes to us from the Western
district, a story on the details of which
q Bret Harte or Colonel John Hay
would found poem. The other day, a
gang of laborers were employed stack
ing blocks of stone on a permanent way
of the Great Western Railroad, between
Kenysham and Bristol. In fact, the
operation of stone-stacking was carried
on within a few yards of the Brisling-
ton Tunnel. 1t was at the time of day
when the most wonderful express
train in the world, called the Flying
Dutchman," was expected, and, by
some unlucky accident, large block
of stone rolled down the embankment,
and lodged on the railway line. At
this instant, the roar of the "Fiying
Dutchman" was heard in the tunnel.
There was not a moment to be lost, so
swiftly down the bank sped one of the
brave navvies, to remove the stone and
save hundreds of innocent lives, or per-
ish in the attempt. He had wife and
family at home, but he never thought
of them. His life was in his hand, but
he never thought of that. Down the
steep embankment sped the brave
fellow, nerved with the combined
strength of Sisyphus and Atlas, to move
the stone and save his fellow-creatures.
On sped the Flying Dutchman 7"
"Quick on your life, Jim p shouted
the companion on the bank. Alas !
it was Just too late the stone was
rolled out of the way, but the hero was
cut to pieces by the fangs of the MUIR
derous train. This is as grand and
noble story as ever was told. It is
finer than the tale of "Jim Bludso,"
the moral of whose story is told with
such impetuous vigor and truth by the
auth or of "Little Breeches::"
Gle know'd his duty dead sure thing,
And he went for it thar and then,
AID Christ amt agoing to be too hard
On man that died for men!"
If there ever was brave fellow who
laid down his life for the sake of his
fellow creatures, it was this hero of the
Brislington Tunnel. His wife and chill
dren ought to be looked after, and no
doubt have come under the considera-
ton of the citizens Of Bristol. But the
story ought to live forever.
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healthy location, has by wise fore
thought, shielded herself almost entire
ly from epidemic scOurpes.
HathOrne at College.

Hathorne Gas the name was spelled in
college, and by himself till later in life)
was shy, morbidly sensitive young
man, who often took dead" in his
recitations, but stood first in the class
as writer. In the preface to g The
Snow Image" "a book dedicated to his
classmate, Horatio Bridge, Hawthorne
recalls the day at a college" when the
two "idle lads" fished in the /" shadowy
little stream wandering riverward
through the Forest" 'sshot gray
squirrels" picked blueberries in study
hours" or watched the logs tumhling
in the Androscoggfn." The authors col
lege life was prophetic of the after years,
when he so dwelt apart from the ma IS
OF men, and yet stirred so deeply the
worlds sensibilites and delighted it's
fancy. His themes were written in the
sustained, finished style that gives to
his nature productions an inimitable
charm. The late professor Newman,
his instructor in rhetoric, was so i'm
pressed with Hawthorne's power as a
writer, that he not infrequently sum
moned the family circle to share in
the enjoyment of reading his compost
tons. The recollection is very distinct of
Hawthorne's reluctant step and averted
look, when he presented himself at the
Professor's-study, and with girlish diff
dence submitted composition which
no man in his class could equal. He
had few intimates among the students.
One Of his special friends was Franklin
Pierce, in the class above him, and this
fellowship lasted till that early morn
ing among the New Hampshire hills,
when the Ex-President saw the fading
moonlight tenderly resting on Haw-
thorne's dead face. When the class
was graduated, Hawthorne could not be
persuaded to join them in having their
profiles cut in paper, the only class pic
ture of the time; nor did he take part in
the commencement exercises. His class
mates understood that he intended to
to be writer of romance, but none antici-
pated his remarkable development and
enduring fame. It seems strange that
among his admirers no one has offered
him a fitting tribute by founding the
Hawthorne Professorship of English
Literature in the college, where, under
the tutelage of the accomplished and
appreciative Professor Newman. he was
stimulated to cultivate his native gift.
-Scrab7aer for M0y.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31
How Advertising Affects Business.

The man who advertises his business,
if what he offers for sale is honestly
what he represents it to be, or what it
ought TO be, is constantly assisted in his
business by those who have been attract
ed to him and tested him. A buyer has
read his advertisement, and gone to his
store, or workshop, Or warehouse, or
whatever the place may be, and tried
what was recommended. If it has salts
fed him, heis pleased, and recommends
it to his neighbor, who is likely to go to
the same place, and tell his neighbors
in turn. And thus little rills started by
his advertisement flow in upon him
from all sides, and the current Of his
business grows stronger and wider, and
more rapid, all because to strict atten-
ten to business he added judicious adj
vertising, But for this be might have
fingered on in the community for years,
and his business would scarcely have
been heard of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31
Chloride of Lead as a Disinfectant.

Chloride of lead is said to be the
most powerful, safe and economical de-
odorizer and disinfectant known. To
prepare it for use, on small scale, for
ordinary purposes, take half drachm
nitrate of lead and mix it with one pint
of hot water; dissolve two drachms CT
common salt in two gallons of water,
and mix. the solutions; this forms So
luton of chloride of lead. A cloth wet
with this, and hung up in room filled
with fetid atmosphere, will sweeten it
instantly; and the solution thrown into
a water-closet, sink or drain, or wherev-
er the sulphite of hydrogen and ammo
mum exists, or is generated, will have
the same effect. It is not carbonic acid,
but the sulphite of hydrogen and am
monium, which are eliminated with the
breath, and through the pores of the
skin of the living body, that makes peo-
pie who are exposed to such an atmo-
sphere so depressed, and which, when
highly concentrated, develops typhus
poison.
Nitrate of lead is in dry crystals, and
is sold according to quantity, at Is to %
cents per pound, which would make
several hundred gallons of the solution
of chloride of lead. And if, after test
ing, it proves to be as effective as rep
resented, let it be published in every
newspaper throughout the land.-Phy-
sician and Pharmacist.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-05-31
A Warming to BatherS.

1t has long been known that it is in
judicious for anyone to 60 into water
to battle just after eating full meal,
but it is not so well known that the
practice may result in death. This lat
ter fact seems to have been demon
strated by the recent death in a bath in
Bristol, Eng, of boy Ii years old.
He had never had fit, and is believed
to have been in perfect health. When
found in the water, the crown Of his,
head was just above the surface, and
he was standing in STOPPING position,
with his face just under water. At
the place where he was, the water was
only feet inches deep, while the
boys height was 4 feet inches. The
temperature of the water was 70 deg.
The medical testimony disclosed the
fact that the deceased had eaten
heartily just before entering the water,
or at least he had not given his food
time to digest. He had vomited
large quantity of food, and when
found his mouth and throat were full.
The opinion was expressed in the med
ical testimony, and Endorsed by the
verdict of the jury, that death result
ed from epilepsy, brought on by the
dangerous practice Of entering the
water Immediately after eating a hearty
meal.