STANDARD. PUBLISHED EVEKT FBIDAY BY D. ANTHONY & J. M. CROSS w TEEMS : ONE YEAR, CASH IN ADVANCE, SIX MONTHS, - $1.25. .73. Friday, Februaby 10, 1888. HON. JOHH. C r 3 ohn Sherman, United States Sen ctor from Ohio, is at present busily engaged in scattering broadcast over the South copies of the speech he recently delivered against President Cleveland's message. Why he should think that anybody in the South would want to read anything that he had ever said, in difficult to un derstand. He has never had a good word for us since the war ; he has persistently maligned and misrep resented us on every possible occa sion ; he has been the leader of the bloody ehirt wavers; and he has never grown tired of taunting us with having once been rebels. Why, then, this sudden change of front on the part of the Hon. John ? He never sent us any speeches before ; indeed they would not have made liim very popular if he had, but this one, perhaps the first one he has delivered in twenty years, contains no violent attack on the South. It is an alleged argument for protection and is an assault on the President, his late message and bis general policy. Of course Hon. John wants pro tection. Under the benign influ ence of Republican protection he has accumulated a fortune of several millions of dollars, although he has been, during all this period, a public servant, drawing a salary generally of $5,000 a year, and never more than $8,000. That's a pretty good sort of protection, and if we could get that variety, it would soon grow very popular. Somehow, though, such results as these seem to be scarce and confined only to men of the Hon. John and Blaine stripe up North : the majority of the people have grown poorer the more they have been "protected." The Hon. John don't care so very much for protection in these days as he would make people believe. But the Hon. John does want to be the Republican candidate for Presi dent, and he is now becoming very considerate of the South. .If he should be the nominee, we will only then begin to realize what a fervent and undying love he has always.had for us. The truth is, the country has had enough of the Shermans. It neither wants nor needs any more. The Hon. John has for years borne the reputation of being one of the most slippery and unreliable politicians in Washinc'ton, and the Hon. Te cump., the General, his brother, has been convicted of falsehood by Sen- tor Hampton, Mr. Davis, Gen. Frye and benator Vance successively. i ne wnole country will get along quite well without the Shermans. and will be exceedingly obliged to the State of Ohio if it will give us a rest this year. it is-useless to dissect the Hon. jonns speecn. it is no answer at all to the message of the President, ana artfully eludes the question of the surplus, which after all, is the issue. It is the speech of an unscru puious demagogue, a bid for favor from a people he has shamefullv abused, and unworthy the notice or consideration of an honest patriot It poorly conceals the knavery and Hypocrisy of the Hon. John, and will hardly accomplish what he in tended it should. xne lion. John may save up four millions in fifteen years on a salary oi &),vw a year, but people will have some doubts as to how it was donp and he may say he loves his country oeiter man the .President, but Mia people will be a little skeptical about tnat, too. LOW TAKIFF. The present condition of business &Lairs is quite favorable to tl m. tion and very creditable to the party iu power. Tim .rv.0: i. tremists that the government would go to pieces under a democratic ad i "ijutw; assertions nr e-v ministration has proved a fallacy. uacKwara step lias been taken in T lln Tlfl.fi ATI o rvs..nnn 1.1 11 . . fiusss, out tne strong utuny conndenceof the people in the present management of public Affairs has dispelled any misgivings tiiut may have lurked in the minds ot commercial men and capitalists. Iho wheels of government are still in motion, and with a balance of trot io greatly in our favor, and our . cecils to foreign countries stead ily increasing each year, we are safe in defying any outside competition even without a high protective tariff, not only are our great staples of ecru, wheat, cotton and tobacco de manded at every port, but such ar ticles of consumption as pork, beef, butter, cheese, eggs, &c, are called for in large -quantities by shippers, and even the product of our 'furna ces, foundries and mills are finding ready sales in the very countries we are protecting ourselves against; and at the same time our imports of foreign goods are decreasing, not because they ar hampered by a high tariff duty, but because the people have learned that anAmeri- nfiVla is Illfit'aS can manuiactuicn . serviceable, neat and stynsn as im portations from older countries ; in fact the preference and demand for mMfin troods is so very great, auu the yearly declared dividends of our manufactories so satisfactory that moniedmen are rapidly investing all their capital in mills and ma chinery, seemingly not fearing the President's alleged ruinous policy ; and we would imagine tnat tnose who have been sagacious enough to amass weaicn m umei. v,.o would not invest in these very en terprises that are now jeopavdized bv the new administrative Toucy of low tariff if they behoved it ruinous. And lastly, the masses, not merely of one party, bat of both, have earned in a twenty year high tariff expenses mat noarued weaitn at the capital does not give active em ployment to them, that it does not diminish their yearly indebtedness to the government, neither does it increase the amount of cash in their pockets. AN AMERICAN ARMY IN 1777. Here is a picture of one of the men at Valley Forge, in the Ameri can army one hundred and eleven years ago: "His bare feet peep through his worn-out shoes, his legs nearly nak ed from the tattered remains of an only pair of stockings, his breeches not enough to over his nakedness, his shirt hanging in strings, his hair disheveled, his face wan and thin, his look hungry, his whole appear ance that of a man forsaken and ne glected." And the suOw was fall ing 1 This was one of the privates. The officers were scarcely better off. One was wrapped "in a sort of dress ing-grown made of an old blanket or woolen bed-cover." The uniforms were torn and ragged ; the guns were rusty ; a few only had bay onets; the soldiers carried their powder in boxes and cow-Horns. The horses died of starvation, and the men harnessed themselves to trucks and sleds, hauling wood and provisions from storehouses to hut. At one time there was not a ration in camp. Washington seized the peril with a strong hand and com pelled the people in the country about, who had been selling to the British army at Philadelphia, to give up their stores' to the patriots at Valley Forge. From "George Washington," by Horace E. Schud- der. UNITED STATES JUSTICES. CHIEF John Jay was chief justice from nan to uvo, ana was succeeded in 1795 by John Rutledge, of South Carolina, who presided for one term only of the court, his appointment not being confirmed ly the Senate. uiiver jMswortn was tne next ap pointment, serving from 1796 to 1800, when he resigned.and was succeeded by John Marshall, of Virginia, who served from 1801 to 1835. Roger B, Taney, of Maryland, was next, and he presided over the court for. twenty-eight years, from 1836 to 1864, and in the latter year gave place to Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio, i - a . who servea lor nine years, ana in turn made way for Morrison R. Waif a nf dhin Vio .tA tU w V"W UUO UGiU tiki Q omce since 1874. A MISSISSIPPI POSTMASTER'S TOUCHING APPEAL. k L A ' -- . 11 .1, a pusimasier in a smau village in Mississippi has written to the Post master-General, asking him to dis continue the office. He explains that his neighbors, who are wool growers, became distrustful of his rabbit dog, and in consequence, he states, "it turned up missing." "So I am left here," continues the post master pathetically, "without the iueiMiB ui sustenance, oo u you ex pect me to sit up nights for the tram, you will have to forward at vuuw tsuiiie porK ana Deans or some otner nourishment, or a new post master will have to be appointed at this place." He adds in a postscript, 'Mr. wanted me to split him some rails if I can get rid of this of fifk MS Vk m... . 'J I 11 iiw, bu nuiiy up wnn tne gruo or the discharge." The office was dis continued in response to this appeal Washington Star." AMERICA'S DEEPEST COAL MINE. The deepest coal mine in America is in Pottsville, Penn. The shaft is 1,578 feet deep. From its bottom, almost a third of a mile down, 200 cars holding four tons each, are lift ed every day. They are run upon a platform and the whole weight is hoisted at a speed that makes the head swim, the time occupied in lifting a full car being only a little over a minute. The hoisting and lowering of men into coal mines is regulated by. law, and only ten can stand on a platform at under penalty of a heavy fine. once, U. S. TREASURY NOTES. Washington, Feb. 3. The United States Treasurer this evening issued a circular to the national banks and other sayings that he is piepared to issue one and two dollar silver cer tificates in redemption of multilated U. S. notes and national banknotes. This will be good news to bank ers and merchants generally who havebeen complaining for some time of scarcity of notes of small denominations. THE CONTRACT IS ENDED.' Harper Bostick, better known as TT.1v TTi.a TiTrona " lioil of "Edgewood" on Thursday last, and wis buried at Macedonia church on the following day. Ha was . the body servant of the late Gov. F. W. Pickens from their boyhood until the death of the governor twenty yeais ago. The funeral was preach ed by George Morgan, another trust ed servant of the great and good man. tfeorge v nis remarks, ana with great feeling, narrated, this : "When the Governor on his death bed, he summoned Uncle Harper and myself to his side, and said : 'Harper, you have been good and true toward me, and I want you to . . . promise to buck to my wtie ana daughter as long as you live, and I want them to stick to you.' Uncle Harper grasped his dying master's hand in both his and gave the promise. This was twenty years ago ; and to-day ends the contract. And' (pointing to Mrs. Pickens, who accompanied by her daughter, sat near the coffin, and who is in deep mourning for a sister) "it hap been faithfully and affectionately kept on both sides." This aged and pious man, who, up to three months back, had been ever helpful and watchful, was in the eighty -ninth year of his age. God rest his faithful soul ! Edgefield Chronicle. HOW GARIBALDI GOT HIS WIFE. That a divinity hedges in great souls we must believe, if we do not question the stories told by Gari baldi in his autobiography. His picture of his wife is delicately beautiful : but the way he found her borders on the marvelous. He in sists that a man eannot do a noble, heroic work without a true woman to help and cheer him. Feeling this, while sailing along the coast of Brazil, in banishment, he concluded to seek a wife. At once he raised his glass to his eyes, and looked landward. His gaze fell on a young girl. He ordered his men to row him ashore. A friend invited him to coffee. Entering the house the first person he saw was this girl, whom a few moments before, for the first time, he spied from his boat. It was love at once on both sides. He said : "You must be mine." It was the famous wife, Anita, his faithful partner, a woman of extra ordinary courage and lofty charac ter. The biography of a great man is a story of great details. No au tobiography since that of Franklin has been so fascinating as this of GaribaidL NEWS ITEMS. The population of Washington city in now set down at 230,000. A $300,000 fire at Pittsburg, Pa , and a 200,000 one at Malone, N. Y., is reported in our exchanges. During the month of January 2, 700,000 pounds of leaf tobacco, was sold from the ware houses in Dan ville. Buffalo is to have a union depot. It willjbe the largest in the world,and will cost from $2,000,000 to $3,000, 000. Steamers arriving at San Francis co from China have been quarantined on account of the small pox cn board. The Central and South American Immigration association has filed its charter at Topeka, Kan. The capi tal is given at $2,000,000. The Senate has passed a bill pen -sioning Mrs. Logan at $2,000 a year. It was opposed by Vance, Reagan, Colquitt, Coke and Harris. 170,000,000 postage stamps were sold at the New York Post office last year. Their weight is estimated at eleven and a half tons' The public debt was reduced $15, 250.000 during December, and a re duction of $117,016,000 was made during 1887. New York has had th9 largest fire on Record in fifteen years. $2,000,- 000 worth of property destroyed in one hour, one fireman killed. Dr. R. J. Gatling, inventor of the famous Gatling gun, has completed a new instrument of destruction which weighs only 149 pounds and is capabl3 of firing one thousand shots a minute. Fifteen prominent citizens of Bain- bridge, O., including a Presbyterian minister, a hotel p- oprietor and the village marshal, have been arrested for stealing coal from the railroad company. Kentucky will vote on prohibition next fall, and some of the people of the State recklessly offer to wager that the majority for whiskey will not be over 150,000. News and Ob server. A bill has passed the Senate fixing October J 5th as the day on which Congress shall assemble, and April 3qth.as the day forjthe inauguration of the President. Mr. Flagler, the Standard Oil mil lionaire, who has been spending a fortune in building magnificant ho tels in Florida, says he did so to amuse himself. He has had lots of fun. News and Observer. Hugh M. Brooks, alias W. II. Maxwell, the novr notorious mur derer of Preller at St. Louis in 1885, will be hung. The U. S. Su preme Court has affirmed the de cision of the lower courts. "TO-DAY STATE NEWS, Mount Holly will have a knitting factory. ; Statesville's cotton factory is an as sured faet. ' Lincolnton has resolved to build a roller flour mill. " Iredell gets a county , tax from railroads of $556.25. W. M. McGee aged 74, and Miss Francis J. Estes aged 21 were mar ried in Ashville last week. It is reported that operations are to be resumed at the Ore Knob Cop per Mines, Ashe county. Congressman Rowland has intro duced a bill in the House of Repre sentatives for the erection of a pub lic building in Charlotte. Work was commenced on the new depot ofithe Richmond and Danville R. R. company at Charlotte last Thursday. It is reported that Mr. Odell, of Concord, and Mr. J. S. Carr, of Durham, will build a large cotton factory on Haw River, in Chatham county. News and Observer. The State Board of Pharmacy will meet in Raleigh Tuesday, 21st inst, for the purpose of examining candi dates for license to practice phar macy. The congressional libarary at Washington is said to contain 525, 000 volumes and 200,000 pamphlets, and it is estimated that about 15, 000 volumes are added each year, The Durham Recorder says : One editor of the Recorder is sick in bed, and one gone to see the other mar ried. This leaves the paper to-day in the hands of the "devil." The Wilmington Board of Alder man have recommended the city to subscribe $150,000 to extend the C. F. & Y. V. to that point. An elec tion will be held at an early day. East Durham is the name of a new Post Office, established at the cotton factory, one and a half miles east of Durham, withW. H. Bran son, as Postmaster. During 1887 the Oxford Orphan Asylum provided for 183 clildren at that institution, now there are 221, and 90 applications for admission. The receipts of the institution was $19,072, expenditures $18,423. Judge Schenck is home from Washington City. He had his bill introduced in Congress providing an appropriation of $20,000 for a monu ment to Gen. Greene on the Guil ford battle ground, and believes this Congress will pass it. North State. Mr. J. S. Jaratt on Monday of this week shipped a car load of fine wal nut and nshe logs to Hamburg, Ger mny. Altogether he will ship ten car loads to that point from this sec tion this week. Sylva Herald. The pig iron crop of North Caro lina is becoming of considerable im portance, aDd it is growing. The increase of last year over the year before was 103 per cent. Sylva, N. C.t Herald. During the year 1887 there have been established in this State twelve caniage and wagon works, twenty seven cigar and tobacco factories, twenty-six cotton and wollen mills, tbirty-one flour and Rrist mills, thiiteen ice factories, thirty-three ini-jes and quarries, thiileen rail roads, nine street railways and sixty seven wood working establishments. North State. A MOONLESS MONTH. From the Golden Day. The month of February, 1866, was in one respect the most i emarkable in the world's history. It had no full moon. January had two full moons, and so had March, but Feb ruary had none. Do you realize what a rare thing in nature that was ? It had not occurred since the time of Washington, nor since the discovery of America, nor since the beginning of Christian era, nor the creation of the world. And it will not occur again, according by the computation of astronomers, for how long do you think? 2,500,000 years. Was not that truly a won derful month ? Bishop Garrett, of Texas, has been telling the Woman's Episcopal Mis sionary Society of Washington that they should quit spending so much money on Sjuth Sea Islanders and send a few missionaries to the Lone Star State. "We want pioneers," he says "men who know how to take care of themselves along the frontiers. Brave, sturdy fellows, not afraid of the open mouth "of a revolver nor the yell of a drunken cowboy. Men with muscles of steel, who can, any of them, throw a yearl ing steer over a wire fence as easily as he can jerk a lawless coyote out of a religious meeting if he attempts to make a disturbance." "Are you superstitious ?" "Not very. Why?" "Do you believe that it is a sign of death when a dog howles under your window at night ?" "Yes. if I can find my gun before the dog gets away." Robert Smalls the last colored con gressman in the Housa of represen tatives now wants a pension for capturing a steamboat in Charleston end turning it over to the Union of ficers. .. ALL SORTS. -SSSEs Farmers living near .Bakersville, Cal., built a jack-rabbit corral shap ed like the letter V., recently, and then scoured the fields on horseback, driving the animals before them in to the trap. Then for two hours a general massacre of the pests took place, in which 5,075 of them were killed. Some scientist in stock raising as serts that a pig's tail is Lis thermom eter. This is a wise dispensation and explains why the pig is never perturbed when the weather gets below zero. One reason is because he don't live beyond December, and the other is, he can't get around to look at his thermometer, and there fore is never shocked by a know! edge of how cold it is. There's as much difference be tween courting a damsel and an at tractive widow as there is in cipher ing in addition and double rule of three. Courting a girl is like eatin fruit all verv nice as far as it ex tends, but doing the agreeable to blue-eyed bereaved comes under the head of preserves rich, pungent syrupy. For delicious courting, we repeat, give us a live widder. At Penfield, Clearfield county, in borinerfor a eras-well a stream of water was struck 280 feet from the suface, sufficient in quantity to furnish motive power for a mill, but the most remarkable thing about the water,according to the local paper.is its medicinal quantity. The water is impregnated with certain minerals and, it is claimed, has already benefited a vast number of invalids The people seem to think a veritable fountain of perpetual youth has been discovered. The construction of a railroad through the mountains of Kentucky has been stopped by a man with a rifle. As is noted by a paper of that State, there is probably no place on the American Continent where this could occur but in the mountains of Kentucky. A man named Asher didn't want the road built through his land, and when the workmen be gan grading on his land he appear ed with a cocked rifle and threaten ed the life to the man that lifted a shovelful of aarth. Nathan Day, Atlanta, Ga., is now visiting relatives in Morris tqwn ship, Washington county, Pa. He was a member of the Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania regiment during the war and was discharged on account of loss of his speech. He contiued unable to talk until about a year af terward, when he was mowing in his field and his horses got into a bumble-bee's nest. In the excitement occasioned by the mishap his voice came back ; he shouted to his horses and ever since has been able to talk as well as other people. A strange accident occurred at police headquarters at Atlanta Wednesday night. A negro was ar rested for being drunk and a quart bottle of corn whiskey was taken from him and placed on the mantel piece, near the desk of the station house keeper. A few minutes be fore 11 o'clock'Statiou-House-keeper Wright,. Mr. Rapp and, Patrolman Parish were sitting around the fire; when a ioud report came from the mantel-piece, followed by a shower of whiskey and broken glass. The noise sounded like the explosion of a cannon-craker, and as bits of the glass bottle were thrown in every direction the men had been in some danger of being hurt. There is at the old iron-works on Chuctty river, eight miles south of Jonesboro', Tenn., a gander of much notoriaty. Something over twelve years ago he took up with Dr. J, K. White, who sells goods and runs a ferry, and has been very intimate with him ever since. He goes to church with him and lemains on the outside till meeting is over and then returns wiib Lim. He also accom panies Dr. White to the post-office, a distance cf a mile and a half. He seldom goes to the water alone, but when Dr. White is ferrying he swims by the side of the boat. Three miles and a half is as far as he was eyer known to accompany him. He doesn't keep the company of any living thing save Dr. White, to whom he seems entirely devoted. " Last week a lady student at Cornell discovered than her name was in correctly given in the list of stu dents, and went to have the error corrected, "Are you engaged just now " was the first question she asked the registrer. "No. replied the gallant official, his face at the same time becoming the very em bodiment of pleasant anticipations of the approaching leap year. "Well, then, I should like to change my name," said the fair visitor. "Oh. you would ?" gasped the young man,his countenanse radiant beyond expression. And then the young lad undertook to explain matters more in detail, much to the discom fiture of the assistant. The story got out, and there is hilarity in col lege circles. One of the chief differences be tween man and woman is that the man .will J carry home a fourteen pound turkey and a woman will have a paper of needles sent home in a big red wagon. TORES & WADSWORTH Hardware Headquarters. SEE HERE, f.lERGH&!irS, r.1CIIANICS, IIGI!TO,L1H1$, Farmers and Everybody Else Cam be suited in Hardware at YORKE & WADS WORTHS at bottom prices for the CASH. Our stock is full and complete. A epleumd line of Cook Stove and cooking utensils in stock. Turning Plows, PloT Stock, Harrows. Belting, Feed Cutters, Cornshellers, Tinware, Guns, Pistols, Knives, Powder, Shot and Lead, Doors, Sash and Blinds, Shingles, Glass, Oils, White Lead, Paints and Patty a specialty ; Wire Screen, Oii Cloths, wroaght, cut and Horse Shoe Nails, and in fact everything usually kept in a hardware store. We will sell all these goods as cheap, quality considered, as aiy house in North Carolina. t Our warehouse is filled with Carriages, Buggies, Wagons, Reapers, Mow ers, Hay Rakes, of the best make Ou the m uket, which must and will be sold at the lowest figures. Be sure to come to see us, whether you buy or not. YORKE & WADSWORTH. P. S. We have always on hand Lister's and Waldo Guano aud Wando Acid, at prices to suit. Y. & W. AT Wl DUG IU Wf bave in stock 10,000 Papers BUIST'S PRIZE T.1EDU Gads n Seeds, The most popu'ar and reliable seeds sold in the South, always giving sa is. faction. Also onion sets, choice va rieties ot corn for garden and field cul ture, Red Clover Lucerne, Orchaid Grass, Keutucky Blue Grass, Bed Top or Herds Grass, German Millet, &c All choice selected seed-, which we offer at low prices. N. D. FETZER, Manager. N. B. We are offering the BIGGEST BARGAINS n chewing tobacco in this rairket Notice. Having qualified as administratior on the estate of John Young, col , deceas. rd, notice is hereby given to all per soii3 having claims against said esiit ' o present them duly authenticated e the undersigned on Or before the 28tn day of January 1889, or this notice will plead in bnr of their recovry. A'l persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment and save cost and trouble This the 23th day of January, 188S. J. F. WILLEFORD, Aden's of John Youog, Col. 4 G-w & J. GROCERS Are fully alive to the people's interest, and are prepared to make things lively in the sale of heavy and fancy GROCERIES, By puttiug them down to prices for bottom Cash or Barter. Their stock duriug 1888 will be of he very choicest and freshest, atid is boui.d to please. Don't forget the place, one door be ovr Canuons & Fetzer. 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