Charlotte home and Democrat., 1882-01-13
Home and Democrat.
corro.nondence of the Home and Democrat
NEW YORK. Jan. 9, 1882.
CHARLOTTE, N. q.


both of which, it is gratifying to know,
maintain their "pre-eminence" among
Southern High Schools. The former num-
bers 258 scholars during the year, and the
latter III. A happy new year to them
both, aud to all good Seminaries of Learn
ing like them.
The catalogue of St. Mary's is beautl-
fully and tastefully printed by Messrs.
Uzzell & Wiley of Raleigh, whose excel
lent work, am glad to see, brings to
them SO much patronage that they have
been obliged to enlarge their establish
ment.
Have you noticed the proposed sale at
auction, on the 9th February, of the Roa-
noke Navigation Company, with its canal
and lands, and water power equal to six
teen thousand horse power? A power
equal to that of Lowell and Lawrence
combined, the two great manufacturing
centres of New England. If the property
were in these parts, it would bring mil
lions of dollars. And when it shall have
been bought for song by some Northern
capitalists and improved, some of your
own moneyed men will reproach them
selves for having allowed such bargain
to slip through their fingers.
The New Years celebration in this city
seemed to me to be very quiet and sober
one. 1t was certainly 50 with me, for |
spent the day in my lodgings, reading
and writing, and therefore unaware ofany
drunkenness or rowdyism. But on open
ing the morning paper on Tuesday, l was
astonished to find that there had been
more than usual amount of dissip patton and
crime. Street fights, and stabbings and
shootings, and deaths from exposure
whilst drunk, were the order of the day.
Among the drunkards committed to the
Tombs, was boy ten years old
Henry Ward Beecher appears to be los
ing somewhat of his popularity. At the
public renting of the pews of his church
last Tuesday evening, the premiums for
choice of pews amounted to $25,492, a
falling off of $3,982 from last year. This
must be discouraging to him. His salary
is $4,000. The years receipts of the
church, for pew rents and all, were $59,-
I72. The expenses $58,22O. Mr. Beecher
has SO conducted himself since the great
trial as to have had no scandals about
him, and it looks as if his congregation
loves him less the lees he sins.
| am glad to find that Southern people
are showing higher appreciation than
heretofore of a History of the United
States--Hon. A. H. Stephens'--which
does justice TO all sections of the country;
not like the Histories written by Northern
authors, to flatter the North and to dis
parage the South, but History which
such Northern man and patriot as the
late President Millard Fillmore COM
mended for its impartiaity as we'll as it's
ability. Its adoption by the State Board
OF North Carolina has added materially to
its use, whilst it's sale in other quarters
has sensbly increased. On one day last
week | received orders for it from St.
Louis for 40 copies, Cincinnati for 25,
Memphis for 20 and Nashville for l2, 81
in all. Four such orders in one day show
the extent of it's use, though orders for
much larger numbers-from 100 to $50
are occasionally received. And it's circu-
lation is not obtained, as is so common, by
either bribery or drumming. The book
stands upon its own me,its-it speaks for
itself
AS a specimen of the stupendous opera
tions of capitalists in this great city,
may mention fact stated to me by lady
boarder in the house where am sojourn-
ing. On one day last week she was in
formed of dividend Of forty-fve per cent,
payable in income bonds, equal to cash.
declared by the Georgia Central Railroad,
in which she owns thousand shares and
her husband six thousand, their joint divi-
dends amounting to three hundred and
fifteen thousand dollars This lady's
wealth is somewhere between twenty-five
and thirty-fve millions of dollars, and her
husbands eight or ten millions. Though
"the richest woman in the world" las I
have heard her described since Miss
Burdett-Coutts gave up so much of her
fortune for the sake of husband,) she is
as plain and unpretending as if she were
as poor as your humble servant.
In his sermon yesterday DR.. Potter of
Grace Church, announced that building
adjoining the church, recently erected
and presented by private individual is
to be opened as a Club Room for young
people of both sexes, for the promotion of
social intercourse and intellectual improve
ment, furnished with books and periodi-
calls. In such hands an establishment of
the sort will be free from all the evils of
the usual club houses, and will be inval-
liable to many of the waits of the great
city.
A correspondent of the World, dating at
Warrenton, N. c., thus describes the burial
place of Mr. Macon:
Not a great distance from the old town of