DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—C H Grwyii,
Coiiimissioue.-s—A 6 Click, J S Bell, 0 M
King, G M Bureliam, H G Chatham.
Tax Collector—0 O Eidson.
officers.
Sheriff!—J M Davis.
Clerk of the Couri;—W W Hampton.
Ile'^ister of Deeds—T \V Davis.
Surveyor—Vestal Tavlot'.
Coroner—J S Ariusuong.
Coininissiuuers—J L Worfcli, J J .Wallace, J
illVlcCaiin. ’
Bo.u-d of Educntion—J II T Calloway, W II
WoK, W NeetJIiani.
Jixamiuer—Juo W Williams, Stony Knoll.
TOWNSnrP OFFICERS.
Justices o: the Peace—J F Walsli, T M But
ler, I A KlOridge,^ J M GenLrv, 'A li Lyons, S
TWilbom.JClL.vt,
nepu.y SlierifE—J M Eldriclge.
CHURCHES.
Ba])tist—Rev. W. R. Bradshaw, Pastor.
l^'*eael):ng cveiv fuse Suaday at eleven and
seveu o'clo'‘.k. Ciiiircn meeting and preacti-
in;>’ S;*.i.urday nij'Ut before at seven o-c1ock.
Siimiay S'^uobl cvcvy Sundtly ac 9 A. M. J. W.
BowJcs, SdiK.
Methodist—Rev. F. L. Townsend, pastor.
Preaching every iirst and third Sunday at
11 A. M. and second and loui’Ui Sundays at
7 P. M. Suuduv Sciiool every Sunday at 10 A.
M. A. G. Cliclc, Supt. Prayer mce'^ug every
Wednesday night.
Presbyt^rian—Rcv. C. W. Robinson, pastor.
Prca(;'jiin,ir every second Sunday at 11. A. M.
, an^7 A. M; Sunday school every Sunday at
'9pA. M. V
^\Lu^oc'ttti—Rev. "W. A. Lulz, pasLor.
'Preaching evciy fi.th Sunday in tne Metho
dist churcU inuinidg and evening at the usual
hour.
Episcopal—Rev. Mr. Williams, rector.
Prc aching evcjy lirst Sunday night in the
p. csb> Icrjun f.Jiurch at seven o-clock.
Colored Presbyterian—Rev. C. B. Ward,
pu^lo.-.
Prcjiching every fourth Sunciay at eleven
o’clock. Su-.iday school every Sunday at 9.30
A. M. M. Hiclvcason, Supt.
Coloied Mctnodist—Rev. J. W. Jones, pas-
tO”.
Pi'ea>.) i>)'^-cv’ovy Ih-st Siind.w at llo’clocU.
Sundry SviiOOl eve.y Sunday at 3 P.M. Dan-
ici Koi'c/tS, Supi.
SECRET ORDERS.
Elkin Lodge No. 45i, A. F. & A. M. meets
t>H?lii st Tuesduy nighl in the month befon
till'i nil moon.
J. S. B. ll, W.xM.
J. F. Walbh, Scc’y.
Knights or PyLliias, Piedmont Lodge No. 90
muds cvcvy Thuviiuay u gut. at seven o’elociv.
Visitingi'ri;'iiiren coidially invittjd.
A. G. Click, C. C.
J. F. liendren, K. ox li. & 8.
I. 0. O. F. Lryan Lodge Ko. 57, Indepeivdont
Order Odd Fellows meets the lirst and third
M;;nday nights in Lbe month.
J. W. Davis, N. G.
C. N. Bodeni’ainer, Sec’y.
MAILS, ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE.
Mail trsm Grc-ensboro arrives at Vi: 31 p. m.
Leaves 2: 50 p m.
Wilkesboro arrives 3: 50 p m. Leaves 3: 30
p in.
Sparta arrives 11: 45 a m. Leaves 3: 30 p ni,
Traphili arrives at 13:00 m. Leaves 3:30
p m.
Jonesvillc arrives at 11:80 a m, and 3:30
p m. Leaves 13:30 p m and 3: 00 p m.
All the above mails are daily.
^ E. D. HARRIS, P. M.
Will Not Fix Telepliono .Bates.
Kaleigii, N. 0., Nov. 19.—The rail
way commission to*chiy r'escindjid all
orders fixing rates for rcptal of t«le-
phouea or'exchange service. There was
argument by John W. Daniel and oth
ers against the fixing of rates. Attor
ney General Walser gave the board his
opinion that it had no jurisdiction with
res])ect to telephone rates more than to
make or cause to be made just and rea*
sonable rates of charges for transmission
of messages by any telephone lines do
ing business in JS'orth Carolina, and
that the commission has no authority
to prescribe charges for the rental of
telephone wires, instruments and ex
changes or use thereof.
More Charges Against Robinson.
News and Observer.
Tlie free pass business grows . apace.
With the deuiiils and explanatioos for
Judge Eobinson by his friends, coine
other charges. One is that his family
has been riding on passes—that they
came home from Waynesville the past
summer on a pass. Another is that the
Judge went into the Sonthera Railway
oflice the day after delivering that fa'
moui charge here to the grand jury and
asked for a pass for another man in the
Western part of tVio State, saying that
his presenee here was necessary, and if
he couliln’t gc-t a pass for him he (Rob
inson) would have to pay his fare. He
didn't get the pass.
S.icretary lilisR I’redicts isigger Fensions.
Washington, Nov. 18.—Secretary of
the Interior Bliss in his annual report,
made public to-night, submits estimates
aggregating $156,532,419 for appropria
tions for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1899.
He says that 200,000 pension claims
are awating adjudication, and it is esti
mated that 40 or 50 per cent. o£ these
will be finally admitted. If they are
rapidly adjudicated they will swell the
pension roll from $5,000,000 to $7,000,-
^ B60-. -yWheni hotrever,'ih?se claim?':;re
adjudicated and first payments made
the amount of the pension roll will de
crease rapidly, possibly to $125,000,000
or $130,000,000 the first year.
Mr. Fife Proplicsies a Plague.
Salisbury World,
A Lexington gentleman who was in
the city yesterday tells us that at his
meeting there Thursday Evangelist W.
P. Fife told bis andience that he had a
message from God to the people of Lex
ington. God had revealed to him, he
said, that unless the people got on their
knees and in sackcloth and ashes re
pented, a plague would come upon the
city within the next ninety days. Mr.
Fife, we learn, is not so violent in de
nunciation as he once was.
Adolphus Coker, of Clarendon county
S. C., was whipping a ten- year-old son
last Sunday when Bosey Coker, 18 years
old, the eldest son, to whom the child
appealed, told his father not to hit his
brother again. The elder Coker declared
declared he would whip the boy when
ever ho felt like it and struck him an
other Vilow, whereupon Bosey sprang on
liis father and inflicted sis wounds with
a long-bladed knife, from the effects of
which Coker died Sunday. The son has
been arrested.
STATE SEWS.
The Ealeigh News and Observer says
that by the first of the next year it will
have put In a web perfecting press with
a capacity of 5,000 to 6,500 papers per
hour.
It has been definitely decided that the
first issue of the North Carolina Pres
byterian, w'hich is to be moved from
Wilmington to Charlotte, will be printed
in this city on January 1.
Mr. Eobt. L. Abernethy, of Mountain
Island, Gaston county, hasn’t cut his
hair sincc Bryan was defeated and says
he isn’t going to cut it until Bryan
elected President.
Contrary to previous understanding
it is reported here that it has been de
cided to make a change at once in the
office of marshal of the western district
of North Carolina. The term of Mar
shal Carroll does not expire until J au-
uary 15, 1898.
Mr. A. Brady, a native of Davidson
College and formerly a prominent Ee-
publican politician and business man
of Charlotte, is now traveling auditor
for a Texas and Chicago Eailroad with
headquarters at Chicago.
The opinion is expressed by a number
of papers that Evans, the colored man
convicted of 'outraging Miss Cole at
Eockingham and sentenced to be hanged
on the 2oth, is not guilty. The Gover
nor is expectcd to commute his sen
tence.
Another Kirby Smith case has cropped
out. This time it is at the Halifax
State farm and the old doctor in charge
is accused of undue intimacy with the
female convicts. His resignation was
asked for and handed in in ten minutes
and the doctor has left.
The Scate Auditor announces the
pension allowances for the current year
as follows: First class pensioners$62, a
decrease of $2 from last year: second
class $46.50, decrease $1.50; third class
$31, decrease $1; fourth class and
widows $15.50, decrease 50 cents. The
pension tax yields $2,200 less than last
year. There is also an increase of 49
in the number of pensioners. These
tw’O things combine to cause the reduc
tion. The total of the pension tax for
this year’s use is $102,174.
The St.'ite Superintendent of Public
instruction writes a letter to John C
McMillan, supervisor of public schools
in Duplit:, saying “Your maximum of
$30 is too low. I never heard of any
necessity of a maximum before you
refer to $12.50 as a minimum. This is
a new condition. I will say that
teacher -.\ho is not worth more than
$12.50 per month is not worth employ
ing at all. You can never expect to
make the public schools amount to any
thing with $12.50 teachers. In some
counties the committee will strain at
gnat and Swallow a camel, all at the ex
pense of ttie children. They will grind
down teachers to $15 and 820 (your
county is the first I have heard of at
$12.50) and then sign an order for a
chart for $38 or $40, and think they
have done something smart. Away
with such men to manage our schools!
Gen. Cliiigman’s Keraalus.
Concord Tjmes.
It has already been stated in The
Times that the remains of Gen. Thoinas
L. Clingnian are to be removed to Ashe
ville. . lu conueetioa with the sui-
nbuncement, Geii. James M. Eay has
issued the following address to the Con
federate veterans of Western North
Carolina:
‘ ‘Eemembering his distinguished ser
vices as civilian, legislator, Congress
man,'Senator and scientist, a soldier,
colonel and general, in each and every
position coming up to the full measure
of a great man, and his inordinate love
for his home, we have seen fit, as citi
zens and ex-soldiers, to beg of his rela
tives to allow us to disinter and bring to
beautiful Eiverside Cemetery his body
and give it a last resting place in sight
of the grand mountain scenery that he,
when living, never tired of looking at
and talking about. They have gener
ously consented, and ’tis for us now to
come together ana do our part in mak
ing the occasion one creditable alike to
his memory, ourselves and Western
North Carolina.
“I, therefore, urge you to assemble
in Asheville on Tuesday, the 7th day of
December, and take whatever part may
be assigned you in the ceremonies of the
day.
“I appeal especially to all who were
members of his old regiment, the Twenty-
fifth North Carolina, and also to those
having belonged to his brigade, to be
present on tbe occasion, for you will be
given the post of honor.”
Ambrose for Congress.
Nevrs and Observer*
It is said that Col. Ambrosial Fake
Hileman, Speaker of the House in the
late unlamenied Legislature, has Con
gressional assirations. The Colonel has
been here for several days consulting
with the powers that be with a view to
knocking the pins out from under Con
gressman Shuford, who, he says, is now
only fit for the “scrap pile.”
—Raleigh correspondence of the
Charlotte Observer, 24th: Speaker Hile
man left for home this afternoon. He
says he believes the Pops can beat tbe
Democrats. He admits that all parties
are in a tangle and declines to say
whether ho thought the Populists had
gained any strength. He declares he is
watching the Democrats to see whether
they will “play the fool” or not. When
asked what he meant by this phrase he
said “all of them join the gold men.”
—Ealeigh correspondence Baltimore
Sun: Ambrose F. Hileman, Populist
Speaker of the House, will be in the
race for Congress from the seventh dis
trict. It is conceded that Congressman
Shuford cannot get a renomination in
that district.
—Eowan court is in session this
week, Judge Coble presiding. The
Judge said that no delinquent tax-pay-
ers would be prosecuted until the test
case now before tbe Supreme Court is
decided. The law has already, however,
resulted in Rowan’s treasury being filled
with money for taxes, as all feared that
the law v/ould be enforced at this court.
John A. Eamsay, of Salisbury, has
been elected agent of the State board of
education, which controls all State
swamp lands.
Wft8 ITlgures ITor Show WintloxTfl.
“How long does it take to make one
ef these?” said the manufacturer in re
sponse to an inquiry. “Well, it de
pends entirely upon, circumstances. It
is not a mechanical operation, the fin
ishing off of a wax model as true to life
as this. ” And he pointed to the bust of
a laughing child ^vhos6 rosy neck and
bright eyes were framed by clustering
curls. “To make these one must have
studied anatomy as well as drawing
and modeling. We begin in the same
way as a sculptor would to* make a
statue. After the wax has cooled tho
eyes are put in, the face is ‘made up,’
as theatrical folks say, and the wig is
fastened on, and the wooden body is
shaped. We make all our hands and
feet from life, and they cost about $10.
If we have an order for an entire figure,
we always model it from life. The life
size w^ax figures of infants are among
the finest things we manufacture, and
they add much to the attractiveness of
a show window, as was illustrated last
winter when a Washington street retail
dealer displayed one during the holida,y
season. The head and shoulders, such
as are seen in the milliners’ windows,
cost from $40 to $45. The wig makes
considerable difference in the price, as
we use the best hair, and it is expen
sive, especially the natural blond,
which is scarce. The children’s heads
cost $20 or thereabout.
“Ail the finishing off imaginable/’
he continued, “would^notmake a figure
stand the tost of a season behind the
glare of a glass unless the wax has a
natural pink tinge. The reason some of
the models look so deathly is because
the wax is bad and not properly color
ed. We use beeswax, slightly colored,
and flesh-tints are put on in addition. ”
—Boston Transcript.
-iJACHEK’S FLIGHT.
These doors ^
back a little f
came cl: ‘ f
I pushed'^'^o...
They All Knew That.
“I am quite willing to contribute to
the—er—amusement of the evening, ”
interposed the amateur poet, who W’aS
bursting to read his latest and couldn’t
get anybody to take the hints he con
tinually threw out.
There was a soimd like a groan from
a corner of the room and a guest went
out. The others prepared for the worst,
except one elderly man who pulled
down his waistcoat with an unnecessary
show of determination.
“The title of this littlo effort, ” the
poet went on, drawing a roll from an
unsuspected pocket, “is ‘The Eaindrops
on the Roof. ^ ”
“Well, of course it does,” exclaimed
the elderly man. “Where would you
expect it to drop? When the rain drops
on any well regulated house, it natu
rally chooses the roof. Perhaps you
expect people to take the roof off when
it rains, or you think that we imagine
that it drops on the foundation or in
the umbrella stand? Everybody else
knows that rain drops on the roof,
young man, and they don’t want you
to write a poem to tell ’em. If you can
write one that will explain why it al
ways rains when a man goes out in a
new hat and without an umbrella we’re
open to hear it. ”
The poet did not contribute any fur
ther to the amusement of the evening.
—Strand Al^gazine.
Why Aun Marry—He I/osfc llis
Ureeches-
It’s old it’s good, so we give it:
“Now, t Sally, do please tell us
why you i got married. You re
member y lid once when you were a
girl you w jngaged to a minister and
oromised ->u would tell us about it
sometime. nv, aunt, please tell us.”
“Well, ; see when I was about 17
years old I .living in Utica, in the
State of Nc' 'ork. Though I say it
myself I w: rite a good looking girl
then and h everal beaux. The one
that took n i,poy was a young minis
ter, very pr isihg young man, and he
was very pic and steady. He thought
a good deal ' me and I kind of took a
fancy to hin,.and things went on until
we were engaged. One evening became
to me, put his.irms around me and kind
of hugge<l me, when I got excited and
somewhat fiustrated. Itwasa long time
ago, ana I don’t know but whatl might
have hugged ikck a little. I was like
any other ^irhland pretty soon pretend
ed to be'very iiad about it, and pushed
him away, th(jagh I wasn’t mad a bit.
You must knoA' that the house where 1
lived was on <(ne of the back streets of
the tow'U. 'liit'jj'e w-ere glass doors in
th(j parlor wh UVpened over the street.
iVlrawn to. I stepped
v'yjim and when he
vV(jhmi back again.
1 -^u . - Y I) in tended to;
and don’t yofc'thi , girls, the poor
fellow lost his balance and fell through
one of tbe doors into the street.”
“Ob, Aunty! Was he killed?
“No; he fell head first, and as he was
going I caught him by tiie legs of his
trousers. I held on for a minute and
tried to pull him back, but his suspend
ers gave way, aiid the poor young fellow
fell clear out of his paubxloons in to a
parcel of ladies find gentlemen passing
along the street.”
“Oh, Aunty! Aunty! Lordy!”
“There, that’s right; squall and giggle
as much as yo(» want to. Girls that
can’t hear a little tiling like that with
out tearing around the room and he-he-
ing in such a way, don’t know enough
to come in when it rains. A nice time
the man that marries one of you will
have, won’t he? Catch me telling you
anything again!”
“But, Aunt Sally, vfhat became of
him? Did you ever see him again?”
“No; the moment he touched the
ground be got up and left the place in
a terrible hurry. I tell you it was a
sight to be remembered. How that
man did run! He went out west, and I
belive he is preaching out in Illinois.
But he never married. He was very
modest, and I suppose he was so badly
frighened that time that he dared never
trust himself near a woman «gain.
rhat,girls, is the reason I never married.
I felt very sad about it for a long time
—for he was a real good man. and I
often thought to myself that we should
nave been very iiappy if his suspenders
hadn’t given away.”
Haroun-al-K&echid’s Koran.
For exhibition at the congress
orientalists it is said
minister of public ;
the snltan £3,000 ft
Koran of Hai’cnn-ql-P
at the' reception am i then to have it
copied. He refused. uuiitiiti
mne stands in the tombhouse of the
of
that the French
jistxuclaon ouom
n: the loan of the
'.'ftscMd, to parade
... t
G-'-ine In North. Carolina.
Mr. Campbell Carrington, a promi
nent lawyer of Washington,D. C.,recent
ly returned from a gunning trip cover
ing two days in the- neigVibcjrhood of
High Point, N. C. He reports having
killed sixty-two partridges, six rabbits
' *j(^^^i06sumain two flays. Speak
ing al^biiJsiA,,3Itti3^^
ho had ie^ Korth Caiili-
na fw about tenj^^._ but never behre
sultans at Oonstantiaople at the foot of
Mahmoud II’s cofiim Its margins are
illuminated in the Persian style, and it
is kept with jealous caro by the wearer
of a green turban.
Artists ctirious about decoration
would bo repaid in seeing it for mak
ing a journey to Constantinople. M.
Cambon goes often to feast Kis eyes on
it. He was first authorized to offer
£2,000 for a loan of it for two years,
and then £3,000, the French govern
ment paying a heavy premium of insur
ance, but the sultan holds it to be in
valuable, which it is. He also thought
that, if lent, the faithful would miss it
from the tombhouse, v/here it is treated
as a venerable relic. Had it been brought
-to Paris under the proposed conditions,
a new departure in decorative art might
have been the consequence.—London
Truth.
An Underground City,
In Galicia, in Austrian Poland, there
is a remarkable undergrotmd city, which
has a population of over 1,000 men,
women and children, scores of v/hom
have never seen the light of day, says
the Eoxbury Gazette. It is known as
the City of Salt Mines and is situated
several hundred feet below the earth’s
surface. It has its town hall, theater
and assembly room as well as a beauti
ful church, decorated with statues, all
being fashioned from the pure crystal
lized rock salt. It has well graded
streets and spacious squares, lighted
with electricity. There are numerous
instances in this underground city
where not a single individual in three
or four successive generations has ever
seen the sun or has any idea of how
people live in the light of day.
J- found near ifigh
Icehouses In Kngland.
In England tiiO plan of having ice
houses so built that a large portion is
underground is still the prevalent
method. In America it has long since
been found that the natural warmth of
the earth is a foe to ice preservation.
Nd one, we suppose, in America would
think of having an icehouse built in
any way than wholly above ground.—
Meehan’s Monthly.
year. H
Point a coxorod mai- h^s forty-two
of the finest hunting^dog^in the coun
try, and he thought it would be of in
terest to hunters to know at what little
expense the sport may be enjoyed down
there. This man, he says, gave him
the piciv of the dogs, two in the morn
ing and two in tM‘‘Afternoon, furnished
a good huntm^j and his ov/a service
for $3 a day. High Point is about fif
teen miles from Greensboro.
Lot Them All Come Back.
Chatham llecord.
In order to redeem the State the Demo-
cratic party must attract and welcome
to its ranks those fdrmer members who
have become estr ,)ged and who are in
part responsible for the “Fusion su
premacy.” Let us welcome back to
the Demociatic fold those who, for dif
ferent reasons, refused to vote for our
Presidential candidate in 1892 and
189G. At the c’ ‘'in in 1892, thou
sand i of Democraia refused to vote for
our Presidential cmdidate (Cleveland)
because they consiijlered him a “gold
b'Jg” and agent of
nopolies, and in
Democrats refused
dential candidate (,
considered him a fti
he trusts and mo-
1896 many other
-'ote for our Presi-
n) because they
..tic on the silver
question. Now in i>rder to redeem the
State next year—wb/en there is no Presi
dential election
these classes of bolti
hy cannot both
ng Democrats unite
with the regular straight Democrats?
Why not all unite ii:
strong pull a t
gloriously redeem oi
a long pull and a
lull altogeV-ier, and
ir good o]/i State?
The sounding of the mayor’s horn at
Eipon, England, is one of the most an
cient customs in the kingdom. It for
merly announced the setting of the
watch, but it has no-^v lapsed into the
formality of three blasts given at 9
o’clock every evening at the mayor’s
residence by his official horn blov78r
and three more at the market crosa
Monument to Senator Vance.
ClIATTANOOQA, TeNN., Nov. 19.—A
special to The Times from Asheville, N.
C., says that Grand Master Moore, at
the requestof Masons of North Carolina,
will call a special communication of the
grand lodge to assist in laying the corner
stone of the monument to the late
United States Senator Vance at Ashe
ville. The ceremenles will occur early
in December.
The average man never fully i-ealizes
at midnight liow rery sleepy he is going
to bo at 7 o’clock the next morning.
Latest Nows 1*
Atlanta Conbtitution,
It's a queer cou
- ^1. . T
Jenkins place,- anu,
in the town council
one sewer, and rfpei
As we couldn’t >■
very kindly sold
ture, and we didn’t!
of the transaction t|
tent !
The sheriff has i
bed for 10 days pas^
covering all our prc
The yellow fever 1
deal of money to
come all 1 Refugcil
while they wait.
What is mostly '
is an epidemic of
how it sjneads.
We are expectin
no overcoat.
Would that we
antine and $10.
roni lilXiVllle.
’.-■'lught the'
/iS we moved
{■,6. pavements,
a tan foot alley,
r all this they
jlise and furni-
► enough cash out
ire a second-hand
;n confined to his
but he’s slowly re-
orty now.
as brought a good
ville. Come one,
;heerfully buried
' 3d in our midst
j; and we don’t
'^eavy frost and
raise the quar-
The penitentia.
a contract with
Cohoes, N. Y., to
QUmlier of convicti
shirts inside the
great west wing, wl
pied. Hildebrand
2-1 C'.nts per dozen
He will probably
and next year mir
convicts.
jdirectors have made
P. Hildebrand, of
lirnish him with any
ko 350 to mflke
1^1, utiliiiing the
is now nnoccur
) pay the State
he shirts made,
n January 1st,
■ire over 125
W. N. C. CONFKllENCM.
Some Statistias and the Appointments for
?>'^ext Year.
Asheville Citizen.
The Western Nortli Carolina Confer
ence which met in Central M. E.
Church, South, Wednesday of last week,
was 0)-g:'.tii’/',ed in 1890, and is composed
of the terriiory taken from the old
North Carolina Conference, and from
the Ho'lston conference. The territory
of the conference is all in North Caro
lina, embracing that portion of tbe
State west of Greensboro.
“There 'are in the conference 199
traveling preachers and 19 superan
nuated preachers. There are 652
churches, valued at $113,000. There
are 108 parsonages, valued at $120,000.
The Sunday Schools number 680, with
40,000 scholars. The amount of money
raised in the conference last year for
support of its preachers was $86,000 ;
for missions, 1813,000; for church educa
tion, $2,000. The total amount of
money raised in the conference last
year for all purposes was $192,047.73.
There are 10 districts in the confer
ence and 186 pastoral charges. The
districts are presided over by as
many presiding elders. These eiders
constitute the -cabinet of the Bishop,
and to them he looks for advice and
counsel in stationing the preachers.
Presiding elders are only advisory, how
ever, and the l)ishoi>’s power is absolute
in the making of appointments.
Winston was ^the only place men
tioned for holding the next annual
meeting and it was selected by a rising
vote.
The following were elected delegates
and alternates to the General Conference
which meets in Baltimore in May, 1898;
Clerical—Dr. James Atkins, Dr. J H
Weaver, Dr. J B, Brooks, Dr. Chas. W
Byrd, Dr. P J Carraway ; lay—F Stike-
leather, M 0 Sherrill, W II Odell, F C
Robbins, Dr. B F Dixon ; alternates,
clerical—J E Scroggs, J C Kowe, L W
Crawford; lay—J G Staples, J S Marlin,
G W Hiushaw.
The following are the appointments
for next year :
0IIARI,0TTB DISTRICT.
S. B. Turrentine, P. E.
Charlotte, Tryon Street, II. F. Chreitz^
burg and W. W. Bays.
Charlotte, Trinity, Frank Siler,
Charlotte, Calvary, W. H. Willis,
Charlotte, Brevaird Street, C. M. Camp-
bell.
Charlotte, Epworth, supplied by J. F.
Butt.
Charlotte, Belmont and Dilworth, J. A.
Baldwin.
Charlotte circuit, E S Howie.
Piueville circuit, T. W. Smith,
ilatthews circuit, T. P. Bonner.
Sandy Kidge circuit, J C Mock.
Waxhaw Circuit, M. C. Field.
Clear Creek circuit, K. F. Bryant.
Monroe station, J. J. Renn and W. M.
Bobbins.
iNIqnroe circuit, J H West.
Poikton Circuit, supplied by B. F.
Fincher.
Ansonville circuit, G. D. Hermon.
Wadesboro station, Parker Holmes.
Morven circuit, E. M. Taylor.
Lilesville circuit, D. F. Carver.
ASIIEVIIJ.E DISTRICT.
D. Atkins, P. E.
Asheville, Central church, C. W. I ’
H. C. Moore, supply.
Asheville, jSIorth.Asheyille, B. L. S .i.
Asheville, Haywood street, I^. L. Atk is.
Asheville, Bethel, J.'E. Moose.
i\iijevillj^-Biltmore, R. G. Tuttle.
Toavervilto circuit, L. E. Stacy,
Sulphur Springs circuit, Wilbur LeGette.
Svvannanoa circuit, G. F. Kirby.
Leicester circuit, T. F. Glenn.
Cane Creek circuit, J. A..Shrouce.
Saluda circuit, E. N. Crowder.
Hendersonville station, J. T. Lyon.
Mills River circuit, E. J. Poe.
Brevard circuit, L. A. Falls.
French Broad circuit, D. G. ilcCurdy.
Ivy circuit, W. B. Lyda.
Hot Springs circuit, Harold Turner.
Marshall circuit, J. 1’. Reynolds.
Spring Creek circuit, W. H. Perry.
Jas. x\tkins, Sunday School Editor.
FKANKLIS DISTRICT.
T E Wagg, P. E.
Franklin station, C. F. Sherrill.
Frankli-n circuit, J. J. Edes.
Macon circuit, R. B. Shelton.
Highlands circuit, G. J. Owens.
Waynesville station, J. T. Rodgers.
Clyde circuit, E. B. Joh;ison; J. E.
Long, supernumerary.
Canton circuit, W. G. Alallonee.
Haywood circuit, W. M. B.jring.
West Haywood circuit, A. W. Jacobs.
Webster and Dillsboro station, W. B.
Hunnicutt.
Cullowhee circuit, L- P. Bogle,
Bryson City, J. J. Gray.
Whittier Circuit, P. L. Terrell.
Andrews circuit, J. H- Br dley.
Hiawassa Mission, G.V. Cordell, supply.
Murphy station, J. T'. Abernethy.
Hayesville station, J. T. Stover.
GHEENSnOKO DIST'EIC’T.
P. J. Carraway, P. B.
Greensboro, West Market Street, J. II.
Weaver.
Greensboro, Centenary, J. E. Gay.
Qreensboro mission, Q. E. Rowe.
Greensboro circuit, J. B. Tabov.
Reidsville station, S. U. lUH^iard.
Wentw<iVth circuit, J. i'l. Price.
Rullin circuit, W. S. JIales.
Pleasant Garden circuit, S. T. Barber;
P. L. Groome, J. F. Craven, super
numerary.
Ratnseur circuit, H. W. Jordan.
Randlernan station, J. B. Woolsey.
Ashboro station, A. W. Plyler.
East Uwharrie circuit, E, G. Pusey.
Uwharrie circuit, T. S. Ellington.
Randolph circuit, R. S. Wel)b.
West Randolph Crater, A. A. Crater.
Ilic'h Point station, J. E. Scroggs and
G. H. Crowell.
Jamestown circuit, S. D. Sta:ney.
L. W. Crawford, editor North Carolina
Carolina Christian Advocate.
T. A. Smoot, student in Vanderbilt
University.
V. L. Marsh, student in' Kandolph-
i\Iacou College.
Ml. AIRY DISTRICT
H. M. Blair, P. E.
Mt. 4iry station, H. K. Boyer.
Mt. Airy crrouit, J. P. Rogers; one to
be supplied.
Pilot Mountain circuit, E. H. Pegrara.
Elkin and Jonesville station, F. L.
Townsend. ' ■
Wilkes circuit, J. F. Ingram.
Syarta Circuit, W. S. Brown, supply.
Healing Springs circuit, Seymour
Brown.
Jefferson circuit, T. A. Burrus.
Creston, J. P. Lanning.
Watauga circuit, '\V. L. Daivsou.
Boone circuit, W. L. Nicholson.
MOKGANTON DISTRICT.
J. W. Jones, P. E.
Morganton station, W. H. Leith.
Morganton circuit, J. H. Brendle.
Table Rock circuit, 1,. L. Smith.
Marion station, R D. Sherrill.
Old-Fort circuit, E. i'>iycrs.
McDowell circuit, su;!jjiled by E. H-
Penland.
Rutherfordton circuit, G. H. Detwiler.
Broad Rivor circuit, J. B. Carpenter.
Green liiver circaiit, J. D. Carpenter.
Burnsville circuit, supplied by C. II.
Curtis.
Bald Greek circuit, V/. Y. Scales.
Elk Park and Estaloc, J. H. Moore.
North Cove circuit, supplied by A. G.
Barrimrton.
Silver Creek Mission, supplied by J. C.
Brown.
Connelly Springs circuit, C. G. Little.
Forest City circuit, J. A. Cook.
SALISBURY DISTRICT.
J. R. Brooks, P. E.
Salisbury, Cburen street, T. F. Marr.
Salisbury, Chestnut Street and Spencer,
D P Tate.
Salisbury circuit, J J Brooks.
Woodleaf circuit, R S Abernethy.
China Grove circuit, E M Merritt.
Concord, Central Church, J E Thomp
son.
Concord, Forest Hill, J D Arnold.
ConcoAl, EpvvorlSh Church, W J:* Mc
Gee.
Concord circuit, G G Harley.
Mt. Pleasant circuit, A E Wiley.
Salem circuit, C M Gentry.
Norwood, J A Clark.
Albemarle circuit, L L .Johnson.
Gold Hill circuit, L T Cordell.
Lexingtpn station, R H Parker.
Linwood circuit, S S Gasque.
Thomasvil.'e station, J S Nelson.
SHELBY DISTRICT.
W R Ware, P E.
Shelby station, R M Hoyle.
Shelby circuit, T T S.tlyer,
King’s Mountain, stauon, J 1\I Downuni,
Gastonia station, W it Bagby.
McAdensville circuit, M T Steele.
Stanley Creek, Albert Sherrill.
Mt. Holly circuit, W C Wilson.
Mountain Island station, R L Owenby.
Lincolnton circuit, W F Wor.ible.
Lowesville circuit, D M Litaker.
Cherryville circuit, A G Gantt.
South Fork circuit, D F Gibson.
Belwood circuit, D II Coman; E W
Dixon, supernumerary.
Polkville circuit, F W Bradley.
Henrietta station, J A Bowles.
Bessemer circuit, A E Surratt.
STATESVILLLE DISTRICT.
J C Rowe, P 0,
Statesville station, M A Smith; Jas.
Wilson, supernumerary.
Statesville, West End, E G Barrett.
Statesville circuit, J O Shelly.
Iredell circuit, J T Bowie.
Clarksburg circuit, J A Peeler.
Mooresville station, J W Clegg.
McKendree station, O P Ader.
Troutman circuit, W S Cherry.
Mt, Zion station, Ira Erwin.
Rock Springs circuit, J C Postell.
Cata'Wba circuit, C C brothers.
Newton circuit, M I) Giles.
Hickory station, W L Sherrill.
Lenoir station, T A Boone.
Lenoir circuit, G W Ivy.
Caldwell circuit, T M Brewer.
IIudso^->.‘Mis.^ioa, to be Gupplied.
Alexander circuit, J W Bowman.
T II Triplett, student.
WINSTON DISTRICT,
F H Wood, P E.
Winston, Centenary, W S Greasy.
Winston, Burkhead, G W Callahan,
Winston, Grace, JAB Fry.
Winston circuit, A 8 Raper.
Forsyth circuit, C A M'ood.
Kernersville circuit, B A York.
Madison circuit, Z Paris.
Danbury circuit, T W Mansfield.
Stokes circuit, W H L McLaurin.
Davidson circuit, M^ll lloyle.
Summerfield circuit, P E Parker.
East Bend circ-\it, K P Douglass.
Yadkin Mission, suppjicU by M H Long.
Mocksville station, J A Green.
Mocksville circuit, M H Vestal.
Parmington circuit, R T N Stephenson.
Walkerton station, W M Curtis.
Fracisco circuit, W B Scarboro.
Transferred : J II Fitzgerald to New'
Mexico conference and stationed at
Durango; L T Mann, J W Stricter, J
M Terrell, R D Sprinkle to North Car
olina Conference ; W E Barnett to Hol-
ston Conference, and stationed.
“The lufamotis Cliarge.”
Charlotte Observer.
This is the Columbia Register’s char-
acteriisatjon of the now notorious alle
gation made by Marion Butler in a re
cent speech at Rocky Mount, tbe re
port of which he denied, but the truth
of which has been fixed upon him. It
s.ays “it is the mosi infamous remark
we have ever seen attributed to aSoutli-
esn white man,” and further; “The
decent, respectable people of our sister
State must indeed blush with shame,
and their blood boil with indignation
that one who is supposed to represent
them should bo so devoid of all sense
of truth and honor aa to utter such a
sentiment. It is a villanous libel on
the Dtmoerats of tiie State, and, iridi-
rectly'l of tne Hho'n., . ''' '-
surely reached the deopeji . > ' ol
infamy.” - ^
Concerning tllS three signers ot the
affidavit printed in Friday’s Observer,
who ^wear that IJutler used in substance
the language attfibuled to him, the
R.^leigh News and Observer says;
We happen to know all three of these
gentlemen well. IMr. McKenzie is the
rector of the Episcopal church at Eockv
Mount, and srands deservedly high in
his church. Dr. Tnorpe is one of the
leading physicians of his section, widely
kuo.vu as a gentleman of character and
standing.' ivir. ITa'iigblry is one of the
first citizens of Rocky Mount, a gentle
man of undoubted rejuitation for in
tegrity and voracity. Wherever these
gentlemen are known, there will not be
a suggestion of a doubt that Senator
Butler said substantially what the
Argonaut published.
This is a plain statement of the case,
and clearly establishes the case against
Senator Btftler.
Key. Mr. McKenzie is a native of
Rowan county, and the Salisbury
World says “his word will stand against
Senator Butler’s.”
The case if fully made out.
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Etkiu Mas^
The Largest Woolen Mill in the
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Largest Tailoring Estitblishment
in the frtate.
Largest iShos Factory iu the
fatale.
Roller MiU>
Dejiot.
Telegtapb Office,
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Fo,:(r Graiu aud Giiano Houses.
Nirjis General Stores.
Two Hardware Stores.
Oirej^ Drug Store.
Twi^i Furniture Factories.
Largest Pin and Gross Arm
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L.u'iie Hotel.
Four I^oarding Houses.
Two Phy.-^icians,
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One Attorney.
Two Justices of Peace.
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Oqo Large Job X’llntiug Office,
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Sis Daily Mails.
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T'lvo Piivate Schools.
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Telephone System.
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Miliiaery'Stoce.
Dj'OSS Making Establishment.
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voarsscif,
Xlie Vharge Trug. ' ^
itocl:.v Mount Arsciuaut,
Our esteemed contemorary need not
fear Senator Butler’s denial; he dare
not contradict it; bis shameful remark
was heard by too many for any denial
to hold water. If he should happen to
do so we have the affidavits of some of
our foremost citizens that our c large
w'as true. One ol the li^ost promineti|
Populist leaders in this section acknowb
edges that the man who is now at the
head of that party in this State made
this damnable accusation against bis
fellow citizens. We stood beside this
gentleman when Butler befouled himself
his State and his race, by his utterance
and noticed his look of righteous indig
nation.
' Brave gentleman and soldier of thg
“lost cause” as he was, it was plain tq
be seen that his v;hole soul revolted at
the vileness of his chief. Can anyone
wonder at it?
Ttie most pGpp'ar lady in the Unitett
States is the blonde lady whose face
adoi'ns the twenty-dollar gold piece.