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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30
Rules for HIGHWAYS.

1. Make the public roads neat and
smooth, and pleasant and profitable to
travellers and in diving to market.
.. Never throw rubbish of any kind
into highways in order to get rid of it,
nor deposit cord wood, logs or timber at
roadsides to brighten passing horses.
3. All owners who build their houses
facing square the public roads should
show at least the same respect to these
roads that they do to their own fields BY
excluding all weeds.
4. Remove all loose stones from the
wheel-track once month, and all fixed
stones which strike and break the wheels,
Jar the loads, rack the harness and tire
the horses, gu
5. Where fixed stones cannot be re.
moved, cover them well with gravel OF
other road material.
G, Remember that a fixed stone may
strike different wheels thousand times
like sledge hammer, and cause hun
dred dollars of damage. To remove it
might cost five cents.
2. Never make a highway of muck,
sods or soft material scraped from the
side bitches, which is worked into deep
mud in wet weather, but draw them into
the barnyard for the compost heap.
s. Where the road bed has not a dry
bottom cut ditch in tho middle three
feet deep, and lengthwisc with it, with
side escape bitches at depressions, and
ill it with gravel or broken stone, coarse
below and finer near the top.
II. l.. 60 ia
apart along the line, to allow air to cir
culate, sun to shine and mud to dry.
10. Keep the roadside emooth, NOV
the grass for hay, and thus secure good
track when the center of the road is en-
numbered with impossible snow-driftt
in winter.
IL. In windy places make the wind.
I ward road fences of barb wire, to pre-.
vent the accumulation OF drifts of snow.
10. Never make the public highway 9
barnyard, nor leave wagons, plows and
machines to cucumber the road.
10. Never cndanger those who travel
by driving unmanageab,e or fractions
horses to brighten and annoy other
hogses. Sell the unruly animsls or put
them to steady home labor with other
horses.
Il. Never drive horses across rail.
way without FIRST looking both ways, or,
If in the dark, without listening. 1t is
better to take this care one hundred
tines than to be crushed by locomotive
once by its neglect.
10. Never keep a noisy, barking dog,
to bark at quiet passengers or passing
teams, to terrify horses and cause them
to run away, upset carriages and break
limbs.
The observance Of these injunctions
will give smooth, hard, satisfactory
roads Tor farmers and travellers to pass
over, bring their farms nearer to market,
increase the value of their farms, make
pleasant neighbor' and attach boys and
young men to the country. = Country
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Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30
The Inventor OF Salt Herring.

At Bierwich, in Holland, honor is
about to be done to the memory of a
great Dutchman whose name and whose
achievements arc probably unknown to
the rest of Europe. This month will
able discovery of William Buckets.
Buckets was iceland fisherman, and his
discovery was simply this, that salt fish
will keep, and that fish that can be kept
can be packed and can be exported. Be-
fore his time herrings had to be consumed
within few days of their capture. Buck
els sailed them. 1t does not sound like
a great discovery. One rather wonders
that the system had not been applied
from the beginning. However, in 1886
William Buckets sailed the first hundred
of behring's, and having sailed them he
packed them in barrels. This exercise
of common sense resulted in singular
development of the resources of the coun-
try. The English fisheries were not as
prominent 500 years ago as they are now,
and Holland had for time almost mo-
nopoly of a market which she was able
to create and to supply. Buckets had
not to wait 500 years to have his claim
to public gratitude recognized Charles
V. had a statue erected to the herring
salter who became the benefactor of his
country. Queen Mary of Hungary, how
ever, paid him even greater honor Dur
ing her residence in Holland she dis
covered his tomb, and, seated upon it,
ate sailed herring. And this month
his fifth centenary is to be duly csle.
brated. PAL Neil Gazette
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30
FARM AND GARDEN.



This is considered one Of the most
dreaded diseases, with single exception
of cholera, that poultry is subject to.
Cause.-It never comes without q
cause, and may be traced to damp, filthy,
ill-ventilated houees, cfowding too many
fowls in one building without paying any
attention to sanitary regulations to keep
them in good health. The disease is
highly contagious, is communicated by
the effiuvia arising from the discharge as
we'll as BY the contaminating Of drinking
water by the sick fowls beak while
drinking.
Treatment. Remove the diseased
fowls as soon as noticed from their we'll
comp MONS, to warm, dry quarters;
give the following: Add to small
teaspoon of lard as much flour Of sui
phur and quarter teaspoonful of black
pepper, make into three pills; insert
them at the back of the throat, so the
chickens will swallow them. Then grease
the head we'll with lard. You will find
this will relieve them, and perhaps cure.
Feed soft cooked food with onion cut up
in it: feed no grain till entirely cured.
And if the nostrils and eyes are closed,
take chlorate of potash solution and
warm water, equal parts, and battle the
head till the nostrils and eyes are re-
lieved.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30
A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.
Elijah Coek's Terrible Experience Given
for the Beneat Of Others--Living Wit

Elijah Coek's Terrible Experience Given
for the Beneat Of Others--Living Witt
nesaes.
The following graphic description, wiz be
head with interest by all:
"DRkR SR-Any one who has ever felt .
hintness 1.-THE pit Of the stomach, loss Of ap-
Petite, nervousness, sleeplessness, dull head
achesor strange pains through the back can I'M
eerstand the condition Twas In two years ago.
I thought 1 could readily throw these
things on. but they kept returning. Conse-
ouently grew worse every day until last
spring, when sent for physician.
He said had fever. told him what con-
Ntion was in with my water. At first he
paid no attention to it, but finally said he
would take some Of my urine home ane an
alyze Il.
continued until my urine was sight to be-
hold.
nounced IL Bright's disease of the kidneys,
and said there was NO cure for it. He did all
he could, but to no effect. then tried every
remedy could hear OF. The PAIN WAS so Sc
newspaper advertisement of DR.. Xii er's
swamp Root, and sent eight miles to get the
medicine. When l had used one bottle, II
in the bottom Of the vessel. | continued
taking the medicine and, kept gain;
ing. have taken eight bottles in all
and consider myself to-day as well as
ever. and can now do as much labor as
any man Of my age. While talking with our
druggists few days ago about my case, he said
he was selling a great deal of Dr.. Kilmer's
swamp Root and that be had never sold q Med
icine that gave as much sa 81 acton.
OH often tank how much suffering.
might have avoided, both nil hit and day. II
had only taken your medicines when first
felt my kidney troubles conf & on,
Yours VITA eSs ect.
tSignel) ELIJAH COOK.
p S.-This will be Of greatbeneft to Others,
and You may publish it. You need not take
my word alone, for can give you the follow
Simeon fipe. II. Clapper, R. 8. Taber,
c. o. Pierce, II. j. Warner, d. d. Pickett.
Ant Charlnt.ville, Schoharie Co., N. Y"
The above testimony is only a fair illustra-
ton Of letters received daily showing the won
aerf1l results attending the use of DR.. Kilmer's
Cur. Sold by Druggists. Price Sl.0o-6
bottles, S. Il your Druggist does not sell 1t
BrweHAMroN. NY.
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Chinese Competitive Examinations.

Students preparing for competitive
examination may like to know the sort
of questions with which the Chinese stu
g apple. The Imperial Gazette is good
enough to publish the subjects for three
prose essays, and verse competition set
in the examinations for the degree of
Metropolitan Graduate: (A) "Tru-
Chang, being asked how a man should
conduct himself so as to be everywhere
appreciated, replied: ''Let his words be
sincere and truthful, and his actions hon.
orable and careful. Such conduct may
be practised even among the ru ie IT hes
of the south OF no! tn. When he is stand
ing let him see these two rules as it were
fronting him. When he is in his car
rage let him see them attached to t1e
yoke, then he may be able to carry them
into practice" tB) 'The course of the
mean cannot be attained to-" &C. "To
take example from others, to practise
virtue is to hold them in the same prac-
tise; therefore, there is no attribute of
the superior man greater than his help
ing men to practise virtue" Cd Sub
ject for verse competition: "The early
morning red is harbinger of rain" It
may be admitted at once that these sub
jects are stiff, and we should especially
like to see what body of English com
petitors would make of ''the course of
the mean cannot be attained to-" The
idea, too, of the two rules attached to
the yoke OF a carriage would form puz-
zler to the majority of English boys
London Standard.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

one,,nontives should use food us nour1snlng
ne can he had, and in shape that VIII pes1
agree with the stomach and taste OF tne Pa-
lent ..,,,Jad
Outdoor exercise is earnestly recommended.
II Won are unable to take such exercise on
boyseback or ON foot, that should furnish no
excuse for shutting yourself in doors. put you
should take exercise in a carriage, or IN some
other way bring yourself in contact Win tne
Medicines which cause expectoration must
be avoided. For five hundred years pnysl-
clans have tried to cure Consumption by uslng
them, and have failed. Where there Is greaU
arrangement of the secretions, WIN ensorso-
ment Of air-cells, there is always profuse ex-
restoration. Now Pisos Cure removes tne
engagement and the arrangement OF the Sc
cretions, and consequently and in this way
only1 diminishes the amount OF matter expec-
torsted. This medicine does not dry up
cough, but removes the cause OF It,.
When it is impossible from debility or
other causes to exercise freely in the open ar,
APARTMENTS occupied by the patient should be
so ventilated as to ensure the constant aces
sion of fresh air in abundance.
The surface of the body should be sponged
as often as every third day with tepid water
and little soft soap. This is preferable to
any other.l After thoroughly drying, use
friction with the hand moistened with oil,
Cod-Liver or Olive is the best. lnls keeps
the pores of the skin in soft, pliahle condi-
ton which contributes materially to the I'M
loading of waste matter from the system
through this organ You will please recoilect
we cure this disease by enabling tire organs OF
the system to perform their functions in
normal way, or, in other words, we remove
distractions. while the recuperative powt Is
of the system cure the disease.
We will here say word in regard 70
cough in the forming stage, when there Is no
constitutional or noticeable disease cough
may or may not fore shadow serious evil:
take it in its miltlest form, to say the least, 1t
is nuisance, and should be abated
A Cough is unlike any other symptom OF
disease. 1t stands conspirator, with threat
ening voice, menacing the health and exis-
tence of a vitd organ. Its first approach is
in whispers uninteligible, and at first too
often unheeded. but in time it never fails to
make itself understood-never fails to claim
the attention Of those on whom it calls.
If you have a cough without disease Of the
the lungs or serious constitutional d;stur-
bance, so much the better, as few doses Of
Pso's Cure will be all you may need, while il
you are far advanced in Consumption, several
bottles may be required to effect permanent
cure.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30
Farrn and Garden Notes.


A little milk and meal will keep the
calf growing.
Cows worth much as mixers are vora-
cious and not dainty.
Cut blighted branches from pear trees,
and remove all dead limbs from fruit
trees.
A light soil, little shady, and made
rich with well-rot;ed stable manuae, is
the place for pansies.
Cotton seed meal is hard to digest,
and ought not to be given to breeding
cows or to young stock Of any kind.
Butter TINTED before it goes to the
churn, no possible after cure can make
good, or keep it IT TO eat until winter.
Green smartweed bri'kly rubbed on
the necks sides and other exposed parts
of COWS or horses will prevent flies from
attacking them
1t is best to cut up corn before the
stalks become hard and dry. Fodder rs
well as hay may be injured by waiting
until it is too ripe. :,
II young pigs are over-fed they sud
denly stop elting, be one eOnvulsed
and squeak and drop dead. It is bad
rule to give pigs all the food they will
eat.
II the clover should have a rank
growth be careful about turning cattle
into fresh fields on account OF hoven.
Hoven may be cured, however, il taken
in time in number Of ways.
Young stock that has been stunted in
their earlier days will never fully regain
tho loss. and become as large and we'll
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30
POetieal Grammar.

The following verses are old, but ar
well worth republication and preserva
tion from oblivion, for they are doubles
the briefeSt grammar of the Englisl
language in existence:
Three little words you often So,
Are articles q, an, aud the.
IL
A nouns the name Of anything,
As school, or garden, hoop. or swing.
III.
Adjectives, the kind Of noun,
As great, small, pretty, white. or brown.
".
Instead Of nouns the pronouns stand
Her head, his face, your arm, my hand.
V.
Verbs tell something to be done
To read, count laugh, sing, jump or run
VI
How things are done the advsrhs tell
AS slowly, quickly, III, or we'll
VII
Conjunctions join the words together
As men and women, wind or weather.
VIII.
The proposition stands before
A noun, as in, or through the door,
lX.
The interjection shows surprise,
As oh, how pretty. Ahihow visa
The whole are called nine parts Of speech
Which reading, writing, speaking teach
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30
Tools and Repairs.

II must be very bungling farmer who
cannot afford to have from $40 to $25
worth of shop tools anG good place to
keep and use them. The in crest on
such an investment will be less than it.
may cost to make single trip to the
village to get some small but very lndis-
pensable re airing done when harvest is
driving, and perhaps several men wait
ing with nothing to do but to figure up
how much they will get for the time
they are idle. Some men have very lit
lie faculty in the use of tools, but if
there are two or three boys in the family
there will probably be at least one that
will learn to use tools, if he can have
them to use. Unle we lived very near
shop we should about as soon think of
trying to get along without pillow or
eIltivator as to get along without good
han mer and monkey wrench, and yet
until moving ma hines came into gen.
eral use and wrenches were put in as a
part of the outfit by the manufacturer
monkey wrenches were quite rarely found
on farms. An old pair of broken-jawed
pincers were frequently the nearest APP
proach to wrench when a nut needed
to be taken off for putting a new point
to the pillow. We know this, for we have
had our fingers pinched many mes try
ing to do Just this thing. before good
wrenches became common. No farm
ont6t is complete without two or three
saws, a claw-hammer, a hatchet, a
square, some planes. a set of bits and a
bit-stock, screw driver, a few gimlets,
avis nunrhea files of diffprent ShaneS
and sizes, two or three chisels, a mallet
and good workbench with wise at
tached.-C uliiuat0r.
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The Wealth or London.

"Carp," the correspondent Of the
Cleveland Leader and Herald, thus
writes of the wealth of London:
The value of the property in London
ovtvies the widest dreams of the wealth
Of Monte Cristo or the Arabian Knights.
The land in the city Of London proper,
which makes only about one section (632
acresl Of the 200 sections, or the ZOO
square miles of the city, has, during the
day, a population of 500, 900 business
men and their employees, and 10000
vehicles enter and leave this territory
daily. The traffic here is one perpetual
jam, and the property is tine most alu-
able in London. A piece sold there the
other day which brought price equal
to $40, 001, 600 an acre. London property
has doubled IN value in twenty years,
and this increase still goes on. There
are 1900 churches in London, and II all
the people wanted to attend, only one
tenth OF them could be accommodated.
The railways Of L ndon have 75J miles
Of track, and the underground railways
alone carry every year more than twice as
many passengers as there are men, women
and children in the n ted States. There
lrc nearly thousand omnibus drivers,
and all OF the omnibuses have seats out
side on top, and in .ide as in America.
Each bus earns on an avera $40 a
week, and tho average fare is i've cents.
There are also 200 tram cars and it is
estimated that each bus driver makes
eighty miles every week, equal TO dis
lance around the world every six years.
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Bee Notes.

In order to ward off disease incident
to bees, recommend trough or some
other wooden vessel, set not far from the
bee stands and partially filed with water
and some good rock salt, say about one
pound to two or three gallons of water.
The vessels should also have few cobs
or sticks placed in them. to serve as
floats for the bees to light on. Foul
brood is 10 be dreaded by all, and should
be strenuously Stunned. l have often
reen bees infected with foul brood, but
have never had it in our own apiary.
We think good plan for the safe
winter ng of bees will be best accom-
plished by spreading the brood combs
SO that greater number of bees can clus-
ter between them, insuring a greater
quantity of heat among the bees.
ALI stocks should be carefully looked
after, to see that each one has suti-
cheney of honey as we'll as good clean
combs and good prolific queen.
Always try to build up good home
market for your surplus honey, which is
much better than shipping to Wholesale
dealers and often getting left out in the
cold.
! have never recommended others nor
have we fed oar own bees on glucose at
any time. But if it becomes necessary
to feed bees prefer feeding good syrup
prepared from granulated sugar, and
this only in such quantities as to supply
each destitute stock in the fall ready for
wintering.
1t requires from fifteen to twenty
pounds of honey to last good stock Of
bees through the winter, yet we have
often wintered on a much less quantity
and had them come out in the spring an
good cond ton.
Those who can do so will do well to
use mats over the brood nest as means
of absorbent, as well to exelude cold air
and retain more even temperature of
heat-one of the greatest essentials in
successful beekeeping.-J N. Hicks, IN
diam.
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may be had by all who are sufficiently intelli-
gent and enterprising to embrace the oppor-
EIallett & Co., Portland, Maine, have some
thing new to offer in the line OF work which
you can do for them, and live at home.
wherever you are located Profits Immense
and every worker is sure Of IS a day: several
have made over $50 In a single day An
ages; both sexes. Capital not required
you are sttrted free; all particulars free.
You had better write to them at once.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

The Chinese have weapon which the
San Francisco papers term a "fan
Knife" The blade is of finely tempered
steel and very thin, and the knife resep-
oles fan when not in use.
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Mr. F. Rentschler, San Francisco - Sa boar oT
S he could not speak He tried 1en na be effort
of two physicians failed to give the p ssPsstt Sta
relief He was induced to 5ry ne entirel
Cough Cong Cure, one bottle Of which en'i'''
cured him.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

The farmers, in their swamps, we're sure RE.
Could find the roots and plants tnao ouie'
If by their knowledge they only rr ane"
For justine disease ea .s, one Err Root try
wo, l,idnav liver aud bladder compialnts)
As on this remedy you can rely
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

Seven hundred and fifty dollars in one
months time. 1t seems like big profit for
one canvnssing agent to make, but Mr. w. +.
Hopkins, of North Carolina, who is working
for the publishing house Of b. f. johnson az
Co, OF Richmond, Va, did it and is still
going bravely ahead. This was done with no
capital worth speaking Of
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

Halls Hair Remover never fails to check
falling of the hair. Gives universal satisfac-
ton.
As a remedy for throat and lung troubles,
we recommend Ayers Cherry Pectoral
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

Ex-senator conkling is one Of the in
corpora,ors Of "Ths Automatic Deliver
Company. which has paid-up capita
Of $500 o. and whn.h int uds to c,ta
li~h Pneumatic tube service al through
New York City.
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Earthquake shocks were felt o., zSh arg lrlss
in washington, D. @ atlanta, oa Aun u an,
Savannah, Ga. Columbia Cna and ot Raj
other places in South Carolina, an although
sg6 n c con nG he since Au
gust 31st.
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Hinta to Uonsumptives.

The King of Austria will soon visit the
King of Italy
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The family Of Hon. "; B. a dl,st J v,sesS
,ha a II Jefferson Verso, County, Ky, Court uSe'
Iscohs Oil with signal success
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The damage at Savannah, Ca, by the
shock on 2lst inst, is estimated at $1,000
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spain ha, COO ccncrals, 1866 Colonies,
) 900 Ma or, 1000 Captains and 1900
ieutcnants.
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Commercial drummers are admitted fre'
to see Myra Goodwin 10 isis"


Mrs Harriet Cummings, OF Cincinnati. Ohio.
writes Farley last winter my daughter attacked
with u severe cold, which settled on her lungs. We
tried several medicines none OF which seemed TO do
her any good. but she continued to get worse. and
finally raised large amounts of blood from her lungs
We called in a family physician. but he failed to do
her any good At this time friend who had been
cured by DIR. WI HALLS BALSAM FOR THE
LUNGS. advised me to give it trial. We got q
bottle. and she began to improve and by the use Of
three bottles was entirely cured.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

Tho 81 Louis exhibition closed S s1iHi.
oa,.d ~ after ~ a successful forty days exnloi''
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

Pennington, Mo, had quarter Of mil
lion fire ON the 23rd inst.
Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1886-10-30

Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is agreeable TO
use. 1t is not liquid or snuff. SOC.
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Snug LIttIe Fortunes

Dublin, Texas, has just had saoo, 600 FIRE